Podcasts about chongming island

Abby, Gracie and Loren get together for a final group podcast for a while to wrap up the final races of the season and chat the latest transfers. They also talk about the placement of Tour of Chongming Island and Tour of Guangxi in the calendar and if an earlier slot in the year would impact public interest in the races.Next week Abby and Matilda Price chat with Tobin Heath about women's sports and her discovery of cycling. You won't want to miss it!Obsessions: Abby - Fall, Loren - Harry has his final treatment this week!, Gracie - Agatha All Along

We pay tribute to the late Melissa Hoskins, a revered figure in Australian cycling. Melissa, who passed away tragically at 32, was a world champion track cyclist and a two-time Olympian, known for her spirited and tenacious presence both on and off the track. We explore her remarkable journey, from her gold medal victory in the team pursuit at the 2015 World Championships to her courageous performances at the London 2012 and Rio 2016 Olympics, overcoming a significant crash in Rio to compete. Melissa's prowess extended to road racing as well, highlighted by her overall victory at the 2012 Tour of Chongming Island. Join us as we reflect on Melissa's career and the indelible mark she left on those who knew her. In this episode, we also preview the upcoming Road Nationals and Tour Down Under.

Ruth Winder joins Dane Cash and Cosmo Catalano to wrap up the 2023 road racing campaign. The crew talks Guangxi and Chongming Island, and ponders some of the broader questions of the season.

Ruth Winder joins Dane Cash and Cosmo Catalano to wrap up the 2023 road racing campaign. The crew talks Guangxi and Chongming Island, and ponders some of the broader questions of the season.

This week Abby, Matt and Loren talk about some exciting up-and-coming riders, as well as the dilemma of Lidl-Trek's five new 18-year-olds, the Tour of Chongming Island, and more.

Esta semana analizamos las carreras que cierran la temporada ciclista 2023, ha habido mucho final al sprint, pero también algunas carreras muy bonitas de ver y de analizar. Vuelta a Turquía, Giro del Veneto, Tour of Guangxi, Chongming Island, Japan Cup, Chrono Des Nations y Veneto Classic. Carrerones. Como todas las semanas llega cargado de humor e información nuestro Notisiario, con toda la actualidad ciclista. Enlaces de interés:

This week Abby, Matt and Loren talk about some exciting up-and-coming riders, as well as the dilemma of Lidl-Trek's five new 18-year-olds, the Tour of Chongming Island, and more. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This is a collection of fairy tales and fables from around the world. In this episode, we learned about a man from morocco who was paired up with his perfect bride and Chongming Island in China.

Lorena Wiebes signs for Team Sunweb. In this exclusive podcast interview, we talk to the Dutch star sprinter about mid-season transfers, what attracted her to Team Sunweb and it's stellar roster of riders, the stress of contract negotiations, and how she has coped in lockdown. Wiebes won 19 races last season including World Tour victories in Ride London, all three stages and the overall classification at the Tour of Chongming Island, and two stages at the Boels Ladies Tour. She also beat Marianne Vos to win the Dutch road race championships.

This week we talk through the events in China at the Tour of Chongming Island. We catch up on Marianne Vos' first win of the season. We take a look at the Women's Tour of California (aka The Breakaway From Heart Disease Women's Race presented by SRAM). We catch up on the latest news from BMX and we take a few minutes to reflect back on the last five years of podcasting. That's right, it's our FIVE YEAR ANNIVERSARY EPISODE!

We go in a different direction this week and chat with UnitedHealthcare Professional Team director, Rachel Heal. Rachel used to be a professional rider and turned director when she was done on the bike. Now she directs the most successful women's team in the United States. Plus, Abby and Loren chat about the Redlands Bicycle Classic, Tour of Chongming Island, California, and more!    Subscribe to our podcast on iTunes and SoundCloud to not miss an episode!

Can you believe it's been four years since we started this crazy adventure of doing a podcast about women's cycling? Sarah and Dan take a moment to celebrate how far women's cycling has come in that time and to reminisce a little about how they got here. From that we launch fully into catching up on the racing from the Tour of ChongMing Island, Vuelta Feminin Costa Rica, Tour of the Gila, BMX World Cup, para-cycling, the latest from the Lotto Cycling Cup and more. It's been an amazing week to witness the growth and globalisation of cycling, and we're putting it all down to the birthday of the podcast. Click through to our website for the videos and links to everything we talked about: https://prowomenscycling.com/2016/05/10/podcast-2016-episode-16-meta-birthdays/

Julie Sze‘s new book opens by bringing readers into the wetlands of Dongtan, introducing us to an ambitious but unrealized project to create the “world’s first great eco-city.” Fantasy Islands: Chinese Dreams and Ecological Fears in an Age of Climate Crisis (University of California Press, 2015) considers Dongtan, the Chongming Island eco-development, suburban real estate developments, and other fantasies of wild and urban lives to explore the nature of eco-desire in contemporary China. Sze suggests that three factors undergird Chinese eco-desire: a technocratic faith in engineering, a reliance on authoritarian political structures to enable environmental improvements, and a discourse of “ecological harmony” between man and nature. The chapters of Fantasy Islands trace these phenomena as they have manifest in the context of the 2008 Olympics, the opening of a Tunnel-Bridge Expressway in 2010, the planning of an eco-city, the marketing of “Thames Town” and other European-oriented novelty towns on the outskirts of Shanghai, and the 2010 World Expo. It’s a fascinating story for readers interested in modern China, urban history, and global studies of ecology and the environment! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Julie Sze‘s new book opens by bringing readers into the wetlands of Dongtan, introducing us to an ambitious but unrealized project to create the “world’s first great eco-city.” Fantasy Islands: Chinese Dreams and Ecological Fears in an Age of Climate Crisis (University of California Press, 2015) considers Dongtan, the Chongming Island eco-development, suburban real estate developments, and other fantasies of wild and urban lives to explore the nature of eco-desire in contemporary China. Sze suggests that three factors undergird Chinese eco-desire: a technocratic faith in engineering, a reliance on authoritarian political structures to enable environmental improvements, and a discourse of “ecological harmony” between man and nature. The chapters of Fantasy Islands trace these phenomena as they have manifest in the context of the 2008 Olympics, the opening of a Tunnel-Bridge Expressway in 2010, the planning of an eco-city, the marketing of “Thames Town” and other European-oriented novelty towns on the outskirts of Shanghai, and the 2010 World Expo. It’s a fascinating story for readers interested in modern China, urban history, and global studies of ecology and the environment! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Julie Sze‘s new book opens by bringing readers into the wetlands of Dongtan, introducing us to an ambitious but unrealized project to create the “world’s first great eco-city.” Fantasy Islands: Chinese Dreams and Ecological Fears in an Age of Climate Crisis (University of California Press, 2015) considers Dongtan, the Chongming Island... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Julie Sze‘s new book opens by bringing readers into the wetlands of Dongtan, introducing us to an ambitious but unrealized project to create the “world’s first great eco-city.” Fantasy Islands: Chinese Dreams and Ecological Fears in an Age of Climate Crisis (University of California Press, 2015) considers Dongtan, the Chongming Island eco-development, suburban real estate developments, and other fantasies of wild and urban lives to explore the nature of eco-desire in contemporary China. Sze suggests that three factors undergird Chinese eco-desire: a technocratic faith in engineering, a reliance on authoritarian political structures to enable environmental improvements, and a discourse of “ecological harmony” between man and nature. The chapters of Fantasy Islands trace these phenomena as they have manifest in the context of the 2008 Olympics, the opening of a Tunnel-Bridge Expressway in 2010, the planning of an eco-city, the marketing of “Thames Town” and other European-oriented novelty towns on the outskirts of Shanghai, and the 2010 World Expo. It’s a fascinating story for readers interested in modern China, urban history, and global studies of ecology and the environment! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

完整文稿请登陆以下网址： http://english.cri.cn/7146/2014/04/14/2582s821859.htm Microsoft has stopped providing technical assistance for Windows XP, a major operating system for Chinese computer users. The move has opened up opportunities for China's IT companies. Since April 8, technical assistance for Windows XP has no longer been available from Microsoft and the company has stopped providing security updates. Microsoft says computers can still run XP but it will become more insecure and prone to viruses. The company advised users to upgrade to Windows 8.1 and get a new PC if necessary. China has about 200 million XP users which account for 70 percent of the entire PC market, and the majority has no plans to switch. According to an online survey, many users think updating the system is too expensive. The price of Windows 8 is almost 1,000 yuan, or about 160 U.S. dollars, and to run the system, one would need to buy a new computer. To protect the 13-year-old operating system and help users continue to use it, Chinese security providers have released specialized XP-protection products. Microsoft China, Tencent and Lenovo jointly launched a Windows XP user support plan last month for security and anti-virus services in China. A group of other Chinese IT companies have joined in the plan and will provide defense solutions for XP users until they upgrade their systems. They will keep "building a hedge" for a transition period expected to last two to three years or even longer. This is NEWS Plus Special English. Global warming makes feeding the world harder and more expensive. That was according to a United Nations scientific panel. The Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change says a warmer world will push food prices higher and trigger "hotspots of hunger" in the world's poorest regions. The panel says the world is facing the specter of reduced yields in some of the key crops that feed humanity. Even though heat and carbon dioxide are often considered good for plants, the overall effect of various aspects of man-made warming is that it will reduce food production compared to a world without global warming. The last time the panel reported on the effects of warming was in 2007. It said it was too early to tell whether climate change would increase or decrease food production. But in the past several years, scientists have been overwhelming in showing that climate change hurts food production. But experts say this doesn't mean in 50 years there will be less food grown. Thanks to improved agricultural techniques, crop production is growing about 10 percent per decade, while climate change is likely to reduce yields by 1 percent a decade. So crop production will still go up, but not as fast. You're listening to NEWS Plus Special English. I'm Yun Feng in Beijing. Tourist attractions across Shanghai reported record visitor numbers over the three-day Qingming Festival holiday as locals took advantage of the warm weather to have fun in the sun. It is a tradition for families to enjoy a spring outing, or ta qing, after paying their respects to their ancestors on tomb-sweeping day. At Shanghai Wildlife Park in the Pudong New Area, the number of visitors in the three day holiday rose 350 percent from last year, to 80,000. It was a similar story at Dongping Forest Park in Chongming Island, where visitor numbers doubled to reach almost 30,000. Likewise, Jinjiang Amusement Park, Happy Valley, Century Park and Shanghai World Financial Center all reported 100 percent increases in visitor numbers. Attractions with a floral theme also drew the crowds, with the Shanghai Peach Blossom Festival, Cherry Blossom Festival and Rape Flower Festival reporting a combined 570,000 visitors. This is NEWS Plus Special English. In a related development, Qingming Festival is also celebrated by various ethnic groups in China. And different groups have different traditions to honor their ancestors. Early in the morning, the Gelao ethnic group in Guizhou Province, southwest China, began their annual sacrificial ceremony. First, the host serves up sacrificial offerings including grains, fruit and home-made fabrics. Then there comes the showcase of folk dance accompanied by the group's traditional music. Thousands of tourists witnessed the ceremony, which is held near the mountain where the god was born. The local people hold this sacrificial ceremony there every year, praying for god's blessings of health and fortune. Qingming Festival is also a time to get close to nature. In Longli County, people of the Buyi ethnic group go to pick a kind of wild herb to make offerings to their ancestors. The herb is very rare and can only be found around the festival. The offering is made from the herb mixed with sticky rice flour. The local people offer the food to their ancestors in a simple ritual held at home. After that, the tasty dish is shared by the family. Qingming Festival is celebrated by many ethnic groups across the country, but in very different ways.