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Welcome to the Cherry Blossom Gift Shop in Washington, D.C. Live Yoshino Cherry Blossom Trees $ 24.00
PRODUCT ID: 9813108
The Japanese Yoshino Cherry tree is a hybrid cherry of unknown origin. It occurs as a natural hybrid in Japan and is now one of the most popular flowering cherries worldwide.
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$25.00
PRODUCT ID: 2271405
The National Cherry Blossom Festival, the nation's greatest springtime celebration, entertains more than one million people each year, commemorating the gift of trees and the enduring friendship between the people of the United States and Japan.
2019 National Cherry Blossom Festival Glass Ornament design was created by famous Hawaiian artist, Jing Jing Tsong. Hand painted, comes in a very pretty box.
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$30,00
PRODUCT ID: 9813020
The hand-made ornament is simply beautiful and no two balls are alike. It comes in a set of three. These ornamental glass balls are suitable for any occasion as a gift, and can be displayed indoors or outdoors, on a desk or shelf.
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$10.00
PRODUCT ID: 1218138
The 2019 Cherry Blossom Festival Lapel Pin showcases the beautiful budding of these magnificent trees and celebrates the 107th year since these trees were given to our country. The pin is presented on a card which reads: Celebrating 107 Years of the Gift of Trees.
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Nicole Ihus's son John Henry was born last month with a life-threatening disease. Nicole and her husband, who live in Kansas City, contacted doctors from Minnesota and Missouri in hopes of finding a doctor who could treat John Henry for the condition, but to no avail. Luckily, Nicole managed to get in contact with the "best doctor in the world for this condition" at Johns Hopkins All Children's in St. Petersburg, Florida, so she traveled all the way to the Sunshine State to give her newborn son a fighting chance.
After John Henry was into the ICU, Nicole felt alone in the new state, although she knew that she had to leave her son's side in order to buy him some new clothes. Upon ordering an Uber ride to the nearby Rhea Lana children's clothing store, she was picked up by a woman named Belinda.
Shortly after Nicole got into Belinda's car, the new mother couldn't help talking about her heartbreaking circumstances.
"She told me her story," Belinda said. "She was in tears a couple of times and I really felt for her." Rather than simply dropping Nicole off at the store, however, Belinda parked the car and insisted on accompanying her passenger into the store so she could treat John Henry to new clothes. Needless to say, Nicole was filled with gratitude.
Nicole said, "For this stranger to go completely out of her way — stop what she was doing and stop making money— to come be with me for a couple of hours while we shopped together, that was just incredible." As Nicole cares for her newborn son and raises money for his medical conditions, she hopes to introduce the Uber driver to her son as a thank you for her compassionate gesture.
Professor Ashok Goel of Georgia Tech developed an artificially intelligent teaching assistant to help handle the enormous number of student questions in the online class, Knowledge-Based Artificial Intelligence. Professor Goel already had eight teaching assistants, but that wasn't enough to deal with the overwhelming number of daily questions from students.
Many students drop out of online courses because of the lack of teaching support. When students feel ignored or confused and reach out with questions that go unanswered, their motivation to continue begins to taper off. Professor Goel decided to do something to improve this situation and his solution was to create a virtual assistant named Jill Watson.
Goel and his team developed several versions of Jill Watson before releasing her to the online forums. At first, the virtual assistant wasn't too great. But Goel and his team sourced the online discussion forum to find all the 40,000 questions that had ever been asked since the class was launched. Then they began to feed Jill with the questions and answers. After some adjustments and sufficient time, Jill was able to answer the students' questions correctly 97% of the time. The virtual assistant became so advanced and realistic that the students didn't know she was a computer. The students, who were studying artificial intelligence, were interacting with the virtual assistant and couldn't tell it apart from a real human being. Goel didn't inform them about Jill's true identity until April 26. The students were actually very positive about the experience.
The goal of Professor Goel's virtual assistant next year is to take over answering 40% of all the questions posed by students on the online forum. Professor Goel has a much rosier outlook on the future of artificial intelligence.
Humans really do have a sixth sense that lets us detect magnetic fields (磁场), but we're not aware we have it. It has long been known as ESP, Spider Sense, or the ability to see things before they happen. But now scientists have proved that humans really do have a sixth sense—that lets them detect magnetic fields. Tests have shown that mankind may have the same inborn sense of Earth's magnetic field that has long been proved to exist in animals.
By putting a protein from the human retina ( 视网膜) into fruit flies, researchers noticed that the insect adjusted its flight path just as if its eye had not been changed. This suggests that the "sixth sense" does exist in humans but we might not be aware of it. Animals use such sight to navigate long distances during migration or, in the case of birds, to "see" where they are going. The complex tests involved examining the process by which light goes through a bird's eye, which has interested the scientific community for more than 30 years. In the late 1970s, the physicist Klaus Schulten concluded that birds fly by relying on geomagnetically (地磁) sensitive biochemical reactions in their eyes.
Tests have shown that the special cells in the eye carry out this function using the protein cryptochrome (蛋白隐色素). Professor Reppert's team used wild fruit flies, replacing their version of cryptochrome with the human equivalent (等价物), and then put them in a maze (迷宫) with each wing wrapped in a metal coil (金属圈). They then sent electricity through it so that the coil was magnetised in a way which is just like Earth's electromagnetic field (电磁场). The flies responded in exactly the same way as if they had their own cryptochrome, by either avoiding the magnetic fields or moving towards them if the researchers had placed sugar nearby.
The new study was published in the journal Nature Communications.
Music makes you more creative, they come up with more creative solutions, according to researchers. It may be because music improves your brain's flexibility. Another reason may be that it relaxes you enough for the creative juices to flow. But don't play music too loudly.
Music can help during surgery. . After surgery, it helps reduce pain. An analysis of 73 studies confirmed that listening to music before, during or after surgery reduces anxiety and pain levels, which in turn means less pain medication.
. Studies have found that when you're running, biking or walking, you'll go farther with music on. Music relieves your discomfort and motivates you to stay on. The effect is so obviously great that the author of a review examining the psychological effects of music on exercise called music "a type of legal performance-improvement drug".
Music aids sleep. Listening to music before bed can help you fall asleep faster and wake up less often during the night. . In one study, seniors with sleep problems who listened to 45 minutes of soft slow music before bed reported a 35 percent improvement in their sleep.
Music gets you to ignore the passing of time. Scientists have shown repeatedly that people judge a period of waiting shorter when music is playing. Businessmen use that to their advantage, playing music so you stay longer and spend more. For instance, more drinks and food are sold in bars and restaurants when music is played. , grocery sales increase by 38 percent.
A. In this case, you'll feel more relaxed in the morning
B. And if the background music is slow
C. Then you play a piece of brief music
D. When people listen to happy music than when they sit in silence
E. When music is played varying from a tune to another
F. Music makes you get rid of the idea of quitting a workout
G. Listening to music before surgery has been shown to ease anxiety
The residents of Ashwaubenon, Wisconsin are no strangers to wild turkeys. However, Smoke, a turkey that has been living in the town since spring this year, is1. The bird runs after2vehicles, and "controls"3flow by parking himself in the middle of the road. He is also known to boldly4residents and shout at them, as though saying5to them.
Though the bird can be somewhat annoying at times, the6have grown to love their resident wild turkey. Those who commonly kept to themselves are forming7after Smoke's arrival, using the new common pet as an ice breaker to start a8.
To show their9, the residents recently named Smoke the town's honorary mayor, and10a Facebook page "Smoked Turkey—Mayor of Ashwaubenon" to11the growing fans to keep up with the bird's antics(滑稽动作).
Randy Tews is well aware of Smoke's12. He says, "I think some residents will be 13to see him go. He's brought so many smiles to people's faces here. And this turkey is 14traffic for people on their way to work, and it gives them something to cheer about."
However, people are15that Smoke's rising popularity will result in road accidents as distracted drivers try to take a16or two. There is also the danger of a traffic jam caused by drivers17stepping on their brakes to avoid hitting the bird, which regularly18 around on busy roads.
Despite months of trying, all19to catch and take Smoke to a nearby wildlife rescue station have proved20. The turkey seems to love the residents, unwilling to leave the town.
Looking out of the window of his Ford truck, Bob Fitzgerald sees large, undesirable plants growing in the fields. (visitor) to his neighborhood in Princess Anne, Maryland (main) see dying forests and empty farmland.
Fitzgerald says the land(be) in his family for over 3 centuries. "I'd say in the next 20 years. You're going to losevery high percentage of that land."
The land around the Chesapeake Bay has been sinking for hundreds of years. But climate change is making things(bad). As sea level rises, salt water is entering rivers and other waterways. As a result, the ground is becoming too salty for crops(grow) on.
Maryland's Eastern Shore is home to some of the oldest farms in North America.
Fitzgerald says he has seen big changes during his life.
"You just can't believeit's been taking things over in the last 15 or 20 years. I can show you land around here that people raised tomatoes on when I was a little boy. And now it's gone."
Around the world, scientists warn that coastal farms are under(threaten) from rising seas and salt water. A World Bank report estimates rice production in coastal areas of Bangladesh may fall15 percent by the year 2050. Another study found hundreds of millions of people will(force) to move inland because of rising waters.
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Plogging, that is a new way to exercise, is becoming popular with runner worldwide. Many of them are posting photos of themselves and friends hold bags of litter on social media. A Swedish man called Erik start the movement. He became terrible worried about the amount of litter on the road but decided not to go to work by bike any more. Instead, he began to run to work and pick them up at the same time. To his happy, more and more people joined in him and soon plogging became popular. Many people choose plogging because they think plogging not just benefits earth; it is also a good way to exercise.
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