We have a wide variety of small group training programmes. Check out what we offer below.
•Reformer Pilates(普拉提)
Description: Reformer Pilates will improve your balance and stability. You are guaranteed a challenging fullbody workout. We will get your heart rate up through exercises that have a low effect on your joints. Reformer Pilates is for everyone.
Session: Tuesday 4: 15 pm/Thursday 1: 30 pm/Friday 5: 30 pm
All classes are 45 minutes in our Mind Body Studio.
Price: $130 (6 weeks)
•Self Defense
Description: This is a womenonly programme that covers the basics of selfdefense. Selfdefense classes can offer exercise benefits such as muscle firming and strengthening, and improved balance and coordination(协调). Such classes also help you improve your physical condition in every part of your body, your mental approach to health and fitness and your chances of escaping from an attack.
Session: Monday 6: 30 pm—8: 30 pm
Price: $79 (4 weeks)
•BoxFit
Description: BoxFit is a fitness class that uses the training principles from a number of martial arts disciplines. Punching bag(沙袋) exercises and focused pad work create a timeeffective and dynamic workout. No body contact, perfect for both males and females of all fitness levels.
Session: Monday, Wednesday and Friday 6: 45 am—7: 45 am
Price: $140 (8 weeks)
•Women's Fitness
Description: We are here to provide you with a unique 4week programme to help refresh your energy and encourage a deeper understanding of setting and achieving health and fitness goals. Different from other fitness programmes, this programme is given online.
Session: Monday and Wednesday 1: 00 pm—2: 00 pm
Price: $125 (4 weeks)
How does a brilliant teacher get that way? The question of how they developed has as many answers as there are inspired instructors. One example is an original and charming woman who has become one of the best ever at taking disadvantaged students to a new level.
Jackson was born in Altoona. Her father was a construction worker. When she was in the eighth grade, her father died. Her principal, Mrs Brown, said not to worry about schoolwork for a while. That upset her. Her father would not have wanted her to do anything but her best. He always said, "Don't let your first failure be the reason for your next one."
Jackson was an accomplished shooting guard in basketball and a star sprinter on the track team, running the quartermile in 57 seconds. She thought she might become a sports broadcaster. She gave no thought to teaching until a friend took her to an introduction to a programme, which placed novice instructors in schools full of lowincome children. Jackson liked the idea of giving back, as well as the chance to have some of her student loans forgiven.
She is a big sports person, and that is how she connects with lots of children. She couldn't motivate children until she knew what was bothering or pleasing them. "Students learn from people who love them," she said. "They will be motivated and inspired to learn if they know deep down that you care about them." In class she gave basketball tickets to students who were doing their work. At weekly drawings they could win sticky notes, pencils or other small prizes.
She helped create afterschool clubs. A tall student said to her, "I'm a baller. I heard you play ball." There was a basketball league in Paterson, but the school didn't have a team. Jackson started one with support from local business executives. The student, Essence Carson, who went to Rutgers University, was a firstround draft(运动员选拔制) selection for the WNBA's New York Liberty and now plays for the Connecticut Sun.
There are many ways to travel within a city. We can walk, cycle or take a bus. But no matter which way we travel, we have to follow the route the city planners made for us.
Parkour(跑酷) practitioners, however, see the city in a completely different way. To them, there are no fixed routes. There are no walls and no stairs—since they jump, climb, roll and crawl to move across, through, over and under anything that they find in their path. The city is their playground.
The International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) has noticed that this activity is attracting more and more people to it—there are 100,000 people taking part in parkour today in the UK alone, according to The Guardian—and how it is helpful for people to be much stronger: It trains coordination and balance. So, the organisation is thinking about recognising parkour as a new sport and adding it to the 2024 Olympics.
However, parkour practitioners themselves don't seem to be happy with the idea. They see parkour as "a lifestyle", wrote the website Next Sport Star. "It's a competition against the conditions rather than just a sport."
Indeed, many do parkour just to "escape the daily routine and experience the city in different ways", wrote reporter Oli Mould on The Conversation. They see parkour as a way to express themselves through relaxing moves and creative routes while freeing themselves from the pressure.
It's great that the FIG wants to develop a new sport and stay close to a new cultural form. But it would be greater if they knew that not everything in life is a competition.
I am thrilled to welcome you to the 20th annual Roger Ebert's Film Festival, a special event in partnership with the University of Illinois College of Media, the greater UrbanaChampaign community, and movie lovers everywhere. Little did we think, back in 1999, that our experiment in reinventing the film festival—to make a festival that celebrated overlooked films and the women and men who made those films—would become a landmark annual event in the life of our community and contribute to the repairs of the remarkable Virginia Theatre.
In selecting the films for this year, Chaz Ebert and I looked to women filmmakers for our inspiration. Fully half of our films are either directed or codirected by women, and several others have women in powerful producing roles. Films directed or codirected by women include 13th, directed by Ava DuVernay, Belle, directed by Amma Asante, and American Splendor, directed by Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini. And women producers include Lynda Obst and Emma Thomas (Interstellar) and Ruth Ann Harnisch and Danielle Renfrew Behrens (Columbus).
Our opening night film is The Fugitive, directed by Andrew Davis, a graduate from University of Illinois. Our Saturday night film is the classic The Big Lebowski. Our guest will be the Hollywood master Jeff Dowd. And of course The Alloy Orchestra will be back, this year with A Page of Madness, the classic Japanese silent film.
We would like to thank our sponsors, volunteers, festival pass holders, and individual ticket holders for their welcome participation. We look forward to your unwavering support to make our festival more successful each spring in central Illinois. We especially want to thank the University of Illinois for their loyal support year after year.
How to Cope When Life Does
Things We Can't Control
Stuff happens in life. We neither see the difficulties coming, nor have control to stop them. The result, of course, is more anxiety and stress than we know. Here are approaches that can help us move through what life throws us.
Throw our inner victim a life jacket. When life becomes messy, it often feels easier to just throw up our hands and assume we can't do anything. Being a victim often allows us to pretend we are fine and choose to feel sorry for ourselves. While we can't change what has happened, none of us are powerless. Consider finding a stress support group or calling a hotline. We all have the power to choose our next step in life.
When we are under stress, the natural tendency is to "talk things through" with our friends and loved ones. Writing things down on paper can be an amazing way to make the facts clear and keep them straight. The process of moving thoughts to hands makes it harder for us to lie to ourselves. The more we get about the truth of our situation, the more ways we can source to deal with it. We might also benefit from writing down our ideas for managing our situation.
Switch our perspectives(思考方法). It rarely is. Instead, it's a perspective. Imagine life is a statue, and that many people surround the statue, how many more angles are there to see things from besides the one you are standing at? Sometimes a new perspective can put us into a better mindset.
A. Be honest on paper.
B. It does work, but not always.
C. This is a form of victim mode.
D. And often, difficult stuff happens.
E. Therefore, life may throw us a curve ball.
F. Get support from our friends and loved ones.
G. Many of us believe what we think is the whole truth.
There is much we can learn from dogs. In 1 , they are our best companions, seeming to understand our every emotion. They accept us when we feel 2 , waiting hours for us to return from school. And for adults, they remain our 3 friends. It's no wonder we have such 4 for them.
Capitan, a lovely dog, always 5 his master Miguel. But when Miguel passed away, Capitan disappeared - only to 6 later at the graveyard(墓地), lying on Miguel's grave, Despite many 7 to bring him home, Capitan always ran away, back to the graveyard 15 miles from the house. Such 8 touched Miguel's family and the graveyard caretakers. Capitan didn't 9 himself to new friends. He just stayed close to the gravesite , sleeping there every night and sitting 10 during the day.
Capitan became a symbol of faithfulness. But it still remaing 11 how he found the grave in the first place. Miguel died in a different town and was 12 directly to the site. There was no clue for Capitan follow, yet he 13 the man he loved. For us humans, we can more easily find those we love. Capitan reminds us that despite the difficulties that 14 us, there is always a way to get back to 15 love.
The Book of Songs, also known as Shi Jing, is the oldest existing (collect) of Chinese poetry. Three years ago, when Chinese musician Fang Jinlong read Shi Jing, he was interested the stories told through the poems. Because he couldn't (full) understand the ancient Chinese language used in the poems, he turned to experts whose elaboration further attracted him to explore the poems.
Then he decided to portray the poems with musical language by inviting composer Ma Jiuyue (create) an album. Titled Music and the Book of Songs, the album was released on Jan 18, (feature) 10 original songs composed by Ma. They (perform) by Fang and won great popularity.
The 10 songs are based on 10 poems from Shi Jing, including Qiong Yao, which conveys gratitude to people who are eager to help others; Swallows, which (send) farewell messages to friends and Jia Yu, which portrays the scenes of a joyful banquet.
"Young people gave warm feedback about traditional Chinese music they had watched my performance. It inspired me to create more works for them, which helps popularise traditional Chinese music," says Fang.
"The 10 pieces sound (enjoy) and easy. For the listeners, it's a fresh way to comprehend poems from Shi Jing," says Ma. "We spent three years working on project. There are so many meanings in the poems and we want to display them as deep as possible with music," Ma says. "It's our mutual goal to have traditional Chinese music reach a wider audience."
注意：
1. 词数 80 左右；
2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
When I was in middle school, my social studies teacher asked me to enter a writing contest. I said no without thinking. I did not love writing. My family came from Brazil, so English was only my second language. Writing was so difficult and painful for me that my teacher had allowed me to present my paper on the sinking of the Titanic by acting out a play, where I played all the parts. No one laughed harder than he did.
So, why did he suddenly force me to do something at which I was sure to fail? His reply: "Because I love your stories. If you're willing to apply yourself, I think you have a good shot at this." Encouraged by his words, I agreed to give it a try.
I chose Paul Revere's horse as my subject. Paul Revere was a silversmith (银匠) in Boston who rode a horse at night on April 18, 1775 to Lexington to warn people that British soldiers were coming. My story would come straight from the horse's mouth. Not a brilliant idea, but funny; and unlikely to be anyone else's choice.
What did the horse think, as he sped through the night? Did he get tired? Have doubts? Did he want to quit? I sympathized immediately. I got tired. I had doubts. I wanted to quit. But, like Revere's horse, I kept going. I worked hard. I checked my spelling. I asked my older sister to correct my grammar. I checked out a half-dozen books on Paul Revere from the library. I even read a few of them.
When I handed in the essay to my teacher, he read it, laughed out loud, and said, "Great. Now, write it again." I wrote it again, and again and again. When I finally finished it, the thought of winning had given way to the enjoyment of writing. If I didn't win, I wouldn't care.
注意：
1. 续写词数应为150个左右；
2. 请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
|
A few weeks later, when I almost forgot the contest, there came the news. …… I went to my teacher's office after the award presentation. |
