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Two days later, I was ready to learn more chords. I found Guitar Lessons from Howcast. There are over 140 video lessons. I spent most of the day learning chords. Every day, I added a new chord and then reviewed the ones I had learned. By the end of the first week I had learned about ten chords. By the end of the second week, I had learned about fifteen chords. The app also taught me how to play scales (音阶). I learned the Pentatonic scale and the Blues scale. At that time, I felt like I was ready to dive into some music.

I also enjoyed GuitarJamz where I found more lessons from Marty Schwartz. Besides, I downloaded Blues Guitar Licks Lessons and Solo Guitar Lessons. Marty had hundreds of lessons for free on his YouTube channel. I watched, learned and experimented to see what I could do.

Then, I felt that some of my favourite classic rock songs were pretty easy. As I expected, now I can play America's A Horse with No Name — two chords, The Beatles's Let it Be — four chords, and Cat Stevens's Peace Train — four chords.

Over the next few weeks I still watched YouTube videos and used chromatic Tuner. I also downloaded guitar sheet music through Songsterr Plus. This guitar learning app showed me how to read guitar tablature (奏法乐谱) and chord diagrams.

"When I was a kid, I'd lie on the floor above our garage so that I could feel the vibrations (震动) from my brother's band rocking out below my body. That was one of the first times I began building a relationship with music," said Burton.

In 2016, his ability to experience music changed completely, thanks to the California – based technology company Not Impossible Labs. It designed a vibrating suit that enables deaf people to "feel" music through their skin. The suit can translate audio (声音) into a range of vibrating pulses (脉冲) that are felt at 24 contact points. Burton has been wearing the suit for four years. "The sounddrubs different parts of my body," said Burton. "Maybe it will strike me in my ankles first. And then I'll start to feel the vibrations in my back and wrists."

The creators want to extend the musical experience beyond the deaf community. In 2018, they gave out 150 vibrating suits at a rock concert where half the audience members were deaf and half could hear. Since then, the creators have been working to improve the technology and want the suit to become a consumer product accessible to all, which will be used in live sports broadcasts, or video games.

As a writer and director, Burton has been working to make the movie world more inclusive. For his latest movie he hired all-deaf staff and actors. Burton hopes that the vibrating suits will be available to his film audiences in the future. He believes that the suits can improve emotions while people are watching a movie for normal people as well as the deaf. "I see the tech as a real opportunity to help people understand that music or movies don't always need to be enjoyed through the ears," said Burton.

Generally, animals that live in cities tend to be bolder and more aggressive — both characteristics that enable them to survive in such complex habitats. "Individuals that can't deal with constant disturbance, such as noise, people, cars, etc., would be unlikely to thrive in an urban habitat," says Jeremy Hyman, a professor and department chair of biology at Western Carolina University.

Some birds may become more aggressive because cities are rich in food sources — and so there's strong competition to establish a foothold. "Only the most aggressive males can manage to hold a territory in this place where lots and lots of birds would like to have a territory," says Hyman.

But food scarcity may also make some urban species more aggressive, and so birds have to fight an awful lot in order to maintain a large enough territory to get the resources that they need. High levels of stress caused by noise and other factors might also play a role in making birds more aggressive, notes Hyman.

In some cases, aggression seems to be "a worthwhile cost," says Sarah Foltz, a behavioral ecologist at Radford University. However, a big unanswered question is whether birds learn to be aggressive during their lifetime. But what scientists do know is that some birds can be highly adaptable. "Aggression definitely has a genetic component to it," says Foltz. "But also, we know that when we change environmental factors, birds change their aggression."

Overall, Foltz says scientists are still trying to understand just how much urban density (密度) different species can tolerate and which characteristics of an urban environment influence aggressiveness the most. "We've got all these little pieces," she says, "But it's still coming to gather to make a bigger picture, so it's sort of an unfinished puzzle."

Email is a form of communication that is changing, for the worse, the way we write and use language, say some communication researchers. It is also changing the way we communicate and build relationship. These are a few of the recently recognised features of email, say experts, which should cause individuals and organizations to rethink the way they use email.

"Email has increased the spread of careless writing habits," says Naomi Baron, a professor of linguistics (语言学) at an American university. She says the poor spelling, grammar, punctuation and sentence structure of email reflect a growing unconcern about the way we write.

Baron argues that we shouldn't forgive and forget the poor writing often shown in email. "The more we use email and its tasteless writing, the more it becomes the normal way of writing," the professor says.

Others say that despite its poor writing, email has finished what several generations of English teachers couldn't: it has made writing fashionable again.

"Email is a critical new communication technology." says Ian Lancashire, a professor of English at Toronto University. "It fills the gap between spoken language and the formal methods of writing that existed before email. It is the purest form of written speech."

Lancashire says email has the mysterious ability to get people who are usually scared by writing to get their thoughts flowing easily onto a blank screen. He says this is because of email's close similarity to speech. "It's like a circle of four or five people around a campfire," he says.

Still, he accepts that this new-found freedom to express themselves often gets people into trouble. Emails sent in a day almost exceed (超过) the number of letters mailed in a year. But more people are recognising the content of a typical email message is not often exact.

As a foreign student, Phan finds the TCM basic theory course to be the most challenging one in its system. It requires years of learning and practice to truly understand the ideas of yin and yang, harmony between human and nature, and the five elements of wood, fire, earth, metal, and water. Sometimes she even translates the TCM vocabulary into Vietnamese so she can remember and understand them better.

According to a report, the total number of international students studying TCM in China was 8, 187 last year, with the largest population of 6, 441 coming from Asian countries, followed by 832 from Africa and 432 from Europe. Also, many Chinese medical universities had projects that sent professors abroad to teach TCM.

The popular situation of TCM is not limited to schools and hospitals. It has also become a lifestyle choice for many young people. There is a trend among young people to pay more attention to health conditioning and maintenance. However, experts remind that TCM stresses the importance of diagnosing (诊断) and treating based on determining symptoms (症状) . It is impossible to offer a one-size-fits-all approach to all patients.

​​​​​​​A. They highly recognized the effectiveness of TCM, especially its use in pain treatment.

B. Even when drinking herbal milk tea, it's best to make choices according to it.

C. Being broad and far-reaching, TCM is deeply connected with Chinese philosophy.

D. Overseas students of TCM, like Phan, are not uncommon.

E. This led her to major in TCM at a traditional medical school in China.

F. Many other Chinese medicine organizations have adopted similar strategic methods.

G. For example, some students find it difficult to master the philosophical ideas behind TCM.

Both are1 in which bystander intervention could affect the outcome.2 however, when being faced with the realities of a given situation, we may not be sure at that moment how it would be best for us to react.

The good news is, there is a "popular myth" that when people are standing in a crowd and something bad happens, they are3 to react, says Alan Berkowitz, an expert on the bystander effect. However, the latest research shows that most people feel compelled (必须)   to help when they can. When they do not help, it is because they either do not feel they have the4 to do so or are unsure about safety.

Actually, you can prepare yourself to be an active bystander by5 the "Five D's" : distract, delegate (委托),document, delay or direct, says Thomas Vance, a certified counselor. "The key is to move from a ‘bystander' to an ‘active bystander' who chooses to challenge6 behavior."

Distraction is a good place to start. Take the example of the man who is verbally abusing his mother in the grocery store. An active bystander can7 intervene by asking the man how to choose a ripe watermelon. This can help to change the8, which may be able to significantly reduce the temperature of the encounter.

As another9, you can delegate, or ask someone else in the group to act. In a situation in which you are a witness to an act of violence, you can tell someone else to10 the authorities. Asking someone in the situation whether there is anything that you can do to help can also delay and therefore11 a situation.

Furthermore, you can videotape the behavior on your cellphone. Just being12 is another form of documentation, a way of showing a would-be perpetrator (作恶者) that you are there and are watching the situation unfold. In certain situations, however, giving direct feedback about how a given behavior makes you feel can also be helpful. But you have to be13 not to intervene in a way that could cause harm to you or the victim.

To sum things up, it is about14 the circumstances, because in the end, no two situations are alike. Anyway, it is best not to depend on others to be the active bystander, especially when you yourself have the toolsavailable in your bystander toolbox to15.

The Hongkou District Sports Festival, aiming to establish Shanghai's Ruihong Tiandi as an integrated sports and( consume) centre, kicked off on July 5.( span )58 days through August 31, the event capitalizes on its peak summer season to engage all age groups with 13 major competitions and 45 sporting disciplines.

( structure) around three main activity pillars — competitive sports events, community competitions and recreational sports activities — the festival featured national, city, and district-level sporting events. These included a national Go championship hosted by the Chinese Weiqi Association, a Shanghai amateur fencing open organized by the China Sport School Federation, a youth jump rope competition talented students demonstrated their athletic abilities.

Since its launch, more than 200 experiential activities, followed by a tech-integrated sports zone added in mid-August,( develop) for the festival through its partnership with Decathlon.

To boost commercial cooperation, organizers team up 100 local restaurants and 39 sports venues, launching discount packages with parking privileges. A cutting-edge virtual carnival demonstratesenhanced reality technology transforms athletic experiences, operating daily from 7:00 am until 2:00 am( serve) diverse schedules.

This extended framework of the Hongkou Hazhajin Sports Festival promotes sports-retail integration and stimulates district-wide economic vitality, with each goal (respective) in place.

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Dear Peter,

I'm glad to receive your letter asking about our school's "Campus Life Skills Competition".

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Looking forward to hearing about your school activities.

Yours,

Li Hua

One sunny day in Mixenden, Rose, the little dog, was having fun with her young owner, Jack, near Dudley Crescent. They were playing fetch with her favorite ball. Rose loved chasing it! But this time, the ball bounced too close to some big, jagged rocks. Rose, excited and focused on getting her ball, didn't see the danger. She ran after it and vanished straight down a very narrow crack between the rocks. She fell a scary 40 feet deep into the dark hole below. Jack was horrified.

Rescue teams quickly arrived: firefighters, animal rescuers, and even experts who know about deep holes. They looked down the dark, tight space. It looked very dangerous. They sadly decided that trying to rescue Rose was too risky. They didn't think anyone could safely get her out. They gave the terrible news: Rose probably wouldn't survive and they could do nothing for her. Hope seemed very small.

Jack's heart was breaking. He couldn't believe his little dog was trapped deep underground and everyone said there was no hope. He wouldn't accept it. While the rescue teams sadly packed up, Jack stayed. He found a shovel and started digging near the rocks where Rose had fallen. It was back-breaking work. The ground was hard as stone. Sweat poured down his face, and his hands became sore and blistered. He dug fiercely, calling Rose's name down the dark hole. He had to get to her.

After hours of exhausting work alone, Jack had an idea. He pulled out his phone. With shaking, dirty hands, he took pictures of the deep crack and the spot where he was desperately digging. He wrote a heartfelt message: "This is my dog, Rose. She fell down this hole. They say it's too dangerous to save her. I'm her owner, and I can't leave her. I'm digging her out, but I need help. Please, can anyone help us? Share this!" He posted this plea on social media such as Facebook and Twitter.

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Jack didn't know if anyone would even notice his post.

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Jack's post didn't just bring messages; it brought people.

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