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After walking home in a dangerous part of town, he finally arrived home...
peace and quiet
trial and error
safe and sound
flesh and blood
Don't fight with your siblings! After all they are your own..
up and down
flesh and blood
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After walking home in a dangerous part of town, he finally arrived home...
Don't fight with your siblings! After all they are your own..
When I feel stressed out, I go to the beach for some...
How's business been this year? Well, I've been doing a lot commuting to work! A lot of ...
My car is my ................... I have had it for 3 years and it was a gift from my parents for graduating.
How was your trip to Europe. ................., I only stayed for 3 days.
My new shoes are much better than the old ones. The difference is.....
You need to lose those shoes. They look terrible! They have so much ..........
She isn't rich, but her children are her ............
Many diseases are researched by doctors who do a lot of ................... before they are able to find a cure.
Food and Talk Top 10 Table Manners for Kids Wait for your turn. Avoid interrupting when someone else is talking. At the dinner table, you should wait your turn to speak when talking about news, friends, how school was, and other interesting subjects. Use please and thank you If you ask for seconds or ask someone to pass something, you should make your request with 'please'. You should also say 'thank you' to the person who prepares the meal, as well as those who serve you or pass you things. Chew with your mouth closed Take "just right" bites Chewing with your mouth closed and not talking when your mouth is full are two cardinal (基本的) rules of good table manners. You should also avoid stuffing your mouth. Remember to take small bites and never wolf down(狼吞虎咽) the food. One way you can develop this habit is to put your fork down between bites. You can even put your hands on your lap while you chew.
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Types of Marinades Pineapple Marinade - http://bbq.about.com/od/marinaderecipes/tp/Top-10- Pork-Marinade-Recipes.htm This sweet, fruity marinade works great on any cut of pork or chicken. What you get with this marinade is a great Hawaiian Teriyaki flavor. Try this marinade when you are simply placing cut strips of pork or chicken over rice. You can make extra marinade to use as a sauce as long as you keep it separate from the meat LM-Cookery Grade 10 Pork Chop Marinade This is a great Asian style marinade that works well on all cuts of pork, particularly pork chops, reminiscent of a Teriyaki marinade with a hint of heat from the chili sauce. You can, if you like, heat this up with some extra chili sauce or perhaps a pinch of cayenne. Jamaican Jerk Marinade You've heard of Jerk seasonings and Jerk rubs, well this is a jerk marinade that gets that jerk flavor deep into the meat. You can use this marinade on all kinds of meat and poultry. Pork Rib Marinade BBQ Guru posted this marinade recipe to the forum. It uses a pork rub for the seasoning with vinegar and water to turn it into a marinade. Teriyaki Marinade Want to get that great Teriyaki flavor into your favorite dish? This marinade will surely add flavor to whatever you're grilling. This marinade works particularly well with pork and poultry. Pork Chop and Tenderloin Marinade Doug Freeman sent in this marinade recipe for grilled pork. You may leave out the liquid smoke if you are so inclined. Bourbon Marinade This is a great, sweet bourbon marinade that works perfectly on any food. This is a mild marinade so you will want several hours marinating time with it before you grill. Mustard-Vinegar Marinade This is a simple mustard marinade that tenderizes and adds flavor. It works well on pork or poultry.
Revolutionising Education: Unleash AI to Spark Joy in the Classroom. What is Artificial Intelligence (AI)? • Definition: AI involves creating computer systems that can perform tasks typically requiring human intelligence. These include learning, reasoning, problem-solving, perception, and language understanding. • Examples in Everyday Life: From personal assistants like Siri and Alexa to more complex applications like predictive analytics in healthcare and autonomous driving. Two Types Artificial Intelligence (AI) • Generative AI: refers to a type of artificial intelligence technology that can generate new content, such as text, images, music, and videos. It leverages advanced algorithms to understand and replicate patterns from existing data, allowing it to create original outputs that mimic human-like creativity. Examples include models that can write like a human, generate realistic images from textual descriptions, or compose music. • Large Language Models: are a subset of Generative AI specifically designed to understand and generate human language. These models are trained on vast amounts of text data, which enable them to perform a variety of language-based tasks such as translation, summarization, answering questions, and even engaging in conversation. Notable examples include OpenAI's ChatGPT, Google Bard, and Microsoft Bing. AI in Education? • Enhancing Learning: AI can personalise learning based on individual student needs by adapting materials and pacing. • Automating Tasks: AI can automate administrative tasks like lesson planning and scheduling, allowing educators more time to focus on teaching and building relationships. Ethical Considerations? • Privacy and Security: Ensuring student data is protected and not misused. • Bias and Fairness: Developing AI systems that provide equal opportunities for all students and do not inherit or amplify biases. • Transparency and Accountability: Making AI decisions in education understandable and subject to checks and balances. Our Top 10 AI For Educators • Classroom conductor – ChatGPT - A versatile AI that assists teachers with emails, lesson plans, generating quiz questions, and example student pieces. • Digital Design Dynamo – Canva - With its AI Magic Media app, Canva helps create engaging visuals and videos, making digital design accessible. • Maetstro of Music – Suno - Instantly generates songs on any lesson topic or converts your lyrics into music, enhancing learning with tunes. • Teacher’s AI Ally – School AI - Focused on educator needs, it features tools for creating interactive exit tickets and engaging chat bots. • Differentiator – Diffit - Transforms PDFs and YouTube videos into differentiated worksheets and activities across languages and reading levels. • Quiz Master – Quizalize - Turns any content into quizzes or games, engaging students with interactive challenges based on lesson material. • Presentation Pro – Gamma - Helps create stunning presentations quickly, ideal for classroom use or professional meetings. • Interactive Lesson Launcher – Cruipod - Quickly generates interactive presentations for classroom use, integrating activities seamlessly into lessons. • Note-Taking Ninja – LLava - Produces study notes and quiz questions from any photo or image, simplifying study material generation. • Creative Story Spinner – StroyWizard - Enables teachers to create custom stories incorporating elements from their own classrooms, linking imagination with academic achievement.
Cohesion and Adhesion Water molecules stick to each other as a result of hydrogen bond- ing. An attractive force that holds molecules of a single substance together is known as cohesion. Cohesion due to hydrogen bonding between water molecules contributes to the upward movement of water from plant roots to their leaves. Related to cohesion is the surface tension of water. The cohe- sive forces in water resulting from hydrogen bonds cause the mol- ecules at the surface of water to be pulled downward into the liquid. As a result, water acts as if it has a thin “skin” on its sur- face. You can observe water’s surface tension by slightly overfill- ing a drinking glass with water. The water will appear to bulge above the rim of the glass. Surface tension also enables small crea- tures such as spiders and water-striders to run on water without breaking the surface. Adhesion is the attractive force between two particles of differ- ent substances, such as water molecules and glass molecules. A related property is capillarity (KAP-uh-LER-i-tee), which is the attrac- tion between molecules that results in the rise of the surface of a liquid when in contact with a solid. Together, the forces of adhe- sion, cohesion, and capillarity help water rise through narrow tubes against the force of gravity. Figure 2-11 shows cohesion and adhesion in the water-conducting tubes in the stem of a flower. Temperature Moderation Water has a high heat capacity, which means that water can absorb or release relatively large amounts of energy in the form of heat with only a slight change in temperature. This property of water is related to hydrogen bonding. Energy must be absorbed to break hydrogen bonds, and energy is released as heat when hydrogen bonds form. The energy that water initially absorbs breaks hydro- gen bonds between molecules. Only after these hydrogen bonds are broken does the energy begin to increase the motion of the water molecules, which raises the temperature of the water. When the temperature of water drops, hydrogen bonds reform, which releases a large amount of energy in the form of heat. Therefore, during a hot summer day, water can absorb a large quantity of energy from the sun and can cool the air without a large increase in the water’s temperature. At night, the gradually cooling water warms the air. In this way, the Earth’s oceans stabilize global temperatures enough to allow life to exist. Water’s high heat capac- ity also allows organisms to keep cells at an even temperature despite temperature changes in the environment. As a liquid evaporates, the surface of the liquid that remains behind cools down. A relatively large amount of energy is absorbed by water during evaporation, which significantly cools the surface of the remaining liquid. Evaporative cooling prevents organisms that live on land from overheating. For example, the evaporation of sweat from a person’s skin releases body heat and prevents over- heating on a hot day or during strenuous activity. Adhesion Cohesion Hydrogen bonds Cohesion, adhesion, and capillarity contribute to the upward movement of water from the roots of plants. FIGURE 2–11 www.scilinks.org Topic: Hydrogen Bonding Keyword: HM60777 mb06se_cols03.qxd 5/18/07 10:47 AM Page 41 42 CHAPTER 2 Density of Ice Unlike most solids, which are denser than their liquids, solid water is less dense than liquid water. This property is due to the shape of the water molecule and hydrogen bonding. The angle between the hydrogen atoms is quite wide. So, when water forms solid ice, the angles in the molecules cause ice crystals to have large amounts of open space, as shown in Figure 2-12. This open space lattice structure causes ice to have a low density. Because ice floats on water, bodies of water such as ponds and lakes freeze from the top down and not the bottom up. Ice insulates the water below from the cold air, which allows fish and other aquatic crea- tures to survive under the icy surface.
Hello Chuxing, one of China’s top bike-sharing platforms backed by ecommerce giant Alibaba Group Holding, has applied to go public on the Nasdaq stock exchange. Launched in 2016, Hello Chuxing gained traction quickly as the first bikesharing operator to focus its business within China’s smaller cities and towns. It managed to survive China’s bike-sharing bubble between 2017 and 2018 when Ofo went into bankruptcy and Mobike was acquired by Meituan. The “survivor” had more than 10 million bicycles operating in over 400 Chinese cities as of December 2020. Hello Chuxing is developing its new business aggressively. In 2019, it took on sector leader Didi Chuxing with a new business Hello Dache that provides car-sharing and carpooling services. It has also been following industry giant Meituan into the life services field with new “intra-city logistics” and “bulk buying” services. The service, Hello Dache, features instant communication that enables passengers to keep in touch with drivers online once ride requests have been accepted. It also features a one-click button to call the police as part of efforts to boost safety. It is now looking into travel, with the aim of being a travel-based platform that provides daily life services, a person familiar with the matter said. “The market was too lavish when capital players and consumers were optimistic about the sector,” founder Yang Lei said back in 2019. “Firms would burn through cash subsidies to keep up with rivals and maintain a rapid pace of expansion. Hello Chuxing, however, has been careful to watch every penny and use money wisely while planning for the future,” he said.
Adverbs of Degree – Multiple Choice Questions 1. The polar regions are at the top and bottom of the Earth and are ______ dry. A. a little B. very C. extremely D. hardly ✅ Correct Answer: C. extremely 2. Be prepared for ______ cold weather if you visit Antarctica. A. a little B. quite C. extremely D. too ✅ Correct Answer: B. quite 3. The temperature in Antarctica is ______ low, often reaching -40°C. A. very B. a little C. slightly D. nearly ✅ Correct Answer: A. very 4. Summer in the polar regions is ______ long – about six months! A. too B. quite C. very D. almost ✅ Correct Answer: B. quite 5. It’s not hot, but it’s ______ warm for animals to leave their snow holes. A. too B. extremely C. a little D. quite ✅ Correct Answer: C. a little 6. The weather in the Arctic is ______ colder than most people expect. A. a little B. too C. very D. much ✅ Correct Answer: C. very 7. There is ______ rain in the polar regions. A. extremely B. a little C. very D. hardly ✅ Correct Answer: B. a little 8. Penguins are ______ good at surviving freezing temperatures. A. quite B. extremely C. very D. all of the above ✅ Correct Answer: D. all of the above (All are acceptable degrees of emphasis) 9. In winter, it’s ______ dark in the polar regions for months. A. quite B. completely C. extremely D. very ✅ Correct Answer: B. completely 10. The Arctic is ______ different from the Antarctic in terms of wildlife. A. very B. too C. enough D. hardly ✅ Correct Answer: A. very
Chapter 8: The Worlds of North and South Geography Geography refers to the seasons, climate, soil, and physical features of a region (mountains, rivers, etc.) The differences in geography b/t the N and S is one of the major reasons slavery b/c entrenched in the S while it died out in the N. Geography of the North The N has diverse geography and experiences four distinct seasons including long, harsh winters. The Great Plains region has some of the best farmland in the country. New England has rocky, hilly wilderness, not well suited for farming. It has hundreds of bays and harbors along its coastline. States farther S had rich soil and coastal access through rivers. The N also experienced mass deforestation b/c of the need for lumber and to make room for farms. Geography of the South Climate: the S had mild winters, and a long, hot, humid growing season. It has fertile lowlands, marshes and swamps. It's ideal for growing tobacco, sugar, rice, indigo, and cotton (cash crops). B/c of the geography of the S, their whole way of life was based on agriculture and geography is one of the major reasons why slavery took off in the S. Economies Economy basically refers to the way people make and spend money. The Northern economy was far more diversified than the Southern. Economy of the North The North experienced the Industrial Revolution—the shift from handmade goods to machine-made goods. This resulted in new jobs, increased production, and improved efficiency in agriculture. IOW, you can make things faster, easier, and cheaper. More ppl get more stuff. Factories were almost always located next to rivers. The Reaper The Indust. Rev. changed northern agriculture with Cyrus McCormick’s reaper. It could cut 28xs more grain than a single man. The Sewing Machine Elias Howe's sewing machine; At 250 stitches a minute, Howe's lockstitch mechanism out-stitched the output of five hand seamstresses with a reputation for speed, completing in one hour what took the sewers 14.5 hours. The Textile Mill Francis Cabot Lowell's textile mill: essentially the first factory in the US, Lowell set the model for all future factories. Interchangeable Parts Eli Whitney's interchangeable parts; considered the "dawning of a new age" of machinery. This concept was applied to pretty much all manufacturing. Economy of the South The South's economy was based on AGRICULTURE. Most southerners were agrarians. Most had small farms, some owned plantations. Slavery beginning to decline in late 1700s; prices went down (tobacco, indigo) and cotton was difficult. King Cotton Cotton was South’s most important crop. Earned more money than all other exports combined. The S would go on to supply 75% of the world's cotton demand. Cotton Gin Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin in 1794 and forever changed the US. The gin made cotton incredibly profitable. We start to see the effects of the cotton gin around 1820. Slavery and Cotton Southerners put all their money into slaves and land, and almost none into building factories. With the spread of cotton, demand for slaves increased. 1790 to 1850, number of slaves rose 600%. Transportation Again, the N was far more inventive in their approach to transportation than the S. Transportation in the North National Road National Road stretched from the East (the Potomac), over the Appalachians, to the West (Illinois), over 620 miles. Steamboat In 1807, Robert Fulton invented the steamboat. It traveled 150 miles UP the Hudson River at a speed of 5 mph. Erie Canal Built b/t 1817 and 1825, the canal spanned 363 miles and connected Lake Erie to the Hudson River. This connected farms in the W to cities in the E and the Atlantic Ocean. Clipper Ship Clippers were narrow w massive sails that were built for speed. They cut the time it took to cross the Atlantic in half. Locomotive The fastest and cheapest way to move goods was by steam-powered trains. The first RR was the B&O which was built in 1827. Transportation in the South Most people and goods in the South traveled by rivers in steamboats. The South had trains, but less than half the amount of railroad track than the North had. Society (The People) The people who made up the N and S could not have been more different. The S was primarily agrarian while the N was b/c urbanized. The S was holding on to the past, while the N was embracing change. Society in the South Society was organized into 3 distinct classes of people: rich plantation owners at the top; then white farmers and workers; slaves on the bottom. This rigid social class system was the result of a slave-based agricultural system. Power Structure Only 1 in 4 whites owned a slave. Plantation owners, who owned more than 20 slaves, dominated politics and the economy. Society in the North 7 of 10 Northerners still lived on farms by the 1840s (6 of 10 by 1860), but urbanization was growing fast in the N. The N relied on wage labor as opposed to slave labor, so most blacks in the N were free. N blacks were not treated equally and the N was about as racist as the S. Immigration Compared to the S, the N population was exploding, in large part bc of immigration. Between 1845 and 1860, 4 million immigrants came to the North. Most were German and Irish. Irish--a potato famine; German--a failed revolution. Ethnic neighborhoods developed as a result.