—____? I have just received the offer of Sydney University.
—_________. Opposites sometimes do attract.
—______ it is not your style, that doesn't mean it is bad.
British Cycling had recently hired Dave Brailsford as its new director. At the time, professional cyclists in Great Britain had 1 nearly one hundred years of mediocrity(平庸). In fact, their 2 had been so poor that one of the top bike companies in Europe 3 to sell bikes to the team because they were afraid that it would hurt sales if other professionals saw the British people using their bikes.
What made Brailsford different from previous coaches was his 4 of searching for a tiny improvement in everything they do. The whole principle came from the idea that if you 5 everything you could think of that goes into riding a bike, improve it by 1 percent and you will get a 6 increase when you put them all together.
Brailsford and his coaches began by making small 7 . They redesigned the bike seats to make them more 8 . They asked riders to wear electrically heated over-shorts to 9 ideal muscle temperature while riding and used biofeedback sensors to 10 how each athlete responded to a particular workout.
But they didn' t stop there. They 11 to find 1 percent improvements in overlooked areas. They hired a(n) 12 to teach each rider the best way to wash their hands to reduce the 13 of catching a cold. They even painted the 14 of the team truck white, which helped them 15 little bits of dust that would normally slip by 16 but could affect the performance of the 17 tuned bikes.
As these and hundreds of other small improvements were 18 , the results came faster than anyone could have 19 . Just five years after Brailsford took over, they 20 the road and track cycling events in all the important Games.
University summer school courses
Welcome to our university summer school. Summer is a good time to start a course, pursue a degree, participate in a professional development program, or prepare for your future. This summer, we' ll be offering hundreds of undergraduate and graduate courses available online. These include special professional development classes and programs. Take a look at some of our courses below.
Title: Africana Philosophy |
Instructor: Ted Karson, PhD |
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Session: seven-week session |
Time: Tues. , Thurs. , 8:30-11:30 a. m. , or on demand |
Start Date: June 22, 2020 |
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Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time. |
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Description: This class carries out a research of Africana philosophy as a subject studied by professional philosophers of African background and non-African scholars. Students enrolled will be exploring related issues in a classroom environment mediated by dialogued, debates, and presentations. |
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Title: Space Law and Policy |
Instructor: A. J. Harrison, PhD |
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Session: four-week session |
Time: Tues. , Thurs. , noon-3:00 p. m. |
Start Date: June 23, 2020 |
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Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time. |
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Description: This course shows students the practice of space law and policy in the United States and around the world. Students start by exploring the basics of both fields. Then they take a detailed look at the roles of governance, addressing ongoing debates challenging the space sector. |
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Title: Introduction to Social Anthropology |
Instructor: Adam Mackay, PhD |
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Session: six-week session |
Time: Tues. , Thurs. , 3:15-6:15 p. m. |
Start Date: June 22, 2020 |
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Notes: Open to admitted Secondary School Program students. Required sections for graduate students and optional sections for undergraduate students to be arranged. |
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Description: The course explores anthropological approaches to society, culture, history, and current events. Students will conduct in-depth studies on a series of themes and try their best to deal with the intellectual and ethical challenges of anthropologists both in the past and at present. |
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Title: African and African American Religions |
Instructor: Danile Evans, PhD |
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Session: seven-week session |
Time: Tues. , Thurs. , 8:30-11:30 a. m. , or on demand |
Start Date: June 21, 2020 |
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Notes: This course meets via live web conference. Students must attend and participate at the scheduled meeting time. |
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Description: This course provides an overview of West African and African American religions from a comparative, transatlantic aspect. Based on up-to-date research, the course explores the historical process by which African religions have become world religions — a trend that is speeding up in the 21st century. |
Ojok Okello' s dream to build a city in his father' s home village began with a small house. When he set foot there in Northern Uganda for the first time in 2013, he wanted to build a small mud brick house where he could spend time with his extended family in Okere. But the poverty of his dad' s village nagged at him.
So in 2018 he returned. By that time, he' d earned a master' s degree in rural development, where he studied up on various kinds of aid projects. International projects often didn' t work in places like Northern Uganda, he' d begun to realize, because they saw locals as recipients, not cooperators. So when he decided to help rebuild Okere, he believed it had to be done differently.
He began asking locals what their most pressing challenges were. At the time, the nearest school was 2. 5 miles away, and had few teachers and books.
So Mr. Okello took out his savings and in 2019 began building a small kindergarten. Later, he began another program to help adults learn to read and write. This fall, after Okere residents said they needed a way to make money, Mr. Okello began to experiment with processing small nuts, which residents mostly women—collect and turn into butter for cooking and cosmetics.
But his project has run into some of the same challenges as other development projects in the region. It needs money. To date, almost all of the project has been funded by Mr. Okello' s savings. He' s open to donor support, as long as donors are willing to back what the community says it needs rather than impose their own agenda. And so far, he' s had some donors. But the question of funding remains a lasting one. Mr. Okello says he plans to keep using his own money until he has none left to give. " New York City was built by someone. Okere will also be built. " he says. " The most important thing is that its foundation has already been laid. "
Nearly one year after the arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic, students across Chicago and the suburbs in the US say when it comes to high school, the thrill is gone. Simple pleasures such as getting together with friends in the hallways and catching up over lunch in the cafeteria are displaced by a dystopian (反乌托邦的) landscape of remote learning and virtual extracurricular.
After 11 months of remote learning, and what many teens describe as the soul-crushing disappointment of canceled after school activities, experts say a growing number of teens are now struggling with anxiety and depression due to heightened levels of stress and social isolation.
Still, the following stories shared by high school students from Chicago and the suburbs provide a glimmer of hope that for some, the pandemic-era heartbreak might develop a generation of resilient (有韧性的) young adults who will be better equipped to deal with life' s twists and turns.
Students who participate in speech, an activity that combines drama and public speaking, have been able to continue this school year, albeit (尽管) over the internet. Instead of delivering emotional monologues (独白) and duets (二重唱) to a live panel of judges, they must summon their best performances while looking into a webcam.
" Dueting is so frustrating when it comes to online, " said Jaylah Hogg, 17, a junior at Thornton Township High School in Harvey. " Wi-Fi at my house is pretty good but my partner' s isn' t. So it' s like I' m trying to time her lines in my head because she' s blanking out when she' s talking. Sometimes the judges do hold that against us. "
But it hasn' t been all bad. After nearly a year of remote learning, Deerfield High School freshman Ben Segall, 15, said he was excited that the school was expected to finally welcome students back into the building for a hybrid program later this month.
The pandemic has also crushed the athletic seasons for sports at many high schools including Senn High School in the Edgewater neighborhood. There, Davion Holmes is staying focused on applying to Wilberforce, Ohio-based Central State University.
And with some of the recent updates to the Illinois High School Association' s COVID-19 guidelines, Holmes said he remained hopeful, albeit realistic, about finally resuming his high school athletic career in the months ahead.
" I didn' t want to have to live through a pandemic, but I worked through it, and that' s something I' ll be able to tell my kids and grandkids someday, " he added.
We are all born social and company to live happy and fruitful life. Healthy and supportive mutual relationships help reduce stress and promote the, physical, mental and emotional well-being by building skills like time management, assertiveness( 坚定自信), sociability and empathy.
Making friends has made me feel secure. However, I have to be cautious to pick up friends sharing similar tastes and values. In addition, having added to one' s circle of friends helps one feel supported.
It is true that finding time to cultivate relationships is all about effective time management. My busy uncle finds time to catch up with family and friends during his tea and lunch breaks. Similarly my friend Somya uses her time on her way back home from work in her chauffeur-driven car to catch up with people. The modern inventions of SMS and e-mail help send wishes for birthdays and anniversaries to show your love and care.
Assertiveness is as much applicable to relationships. My friend Mohana emphasizes that neither being a passive observer nor being aggressive helps relationships. It is assertiveness in our relationships that opens the lines of effective communication. It emphasizes helping friends in need and also strengthens mutually supportive relationships.
It is also true that assertiveness by intuition promotes discretion(自行决定权) of friends and helps Lalitha distinguish positive people from drains of energy. She can easily figure this out by the flow of the conversation, the way each feels understood, accepted and supported, and by how I feel, happy, bored or energized in the relationship. It also helps to know whether all benefit from each other' s positive aspects.
Handling stress in life is all about cultivating mutually supportive relationships and working on them. Manisha always says she feels great when sharing her feelings after a hard day with people who share similar ideas. Actually we all need someone who would not just hear us, but listen to us, and we need to cultivate the art of listening and understanding people.
Eleven-year-old Ruby Kate has long been close to older folks. Her mother, Amanda Chitsey, works at nursing homes in northwest Arkansas, and Ruby Kate often goes with her in the summer. " I' ve never found them scary at all, so I' m able to just go up to them and ask if they need anything, " she says.
Last May, Ruby Kate noticed a resident named Pearl staring out a window. She seemed sad. " What are you looking at?" Ruby Kate asked. Pearl said she was watching her dog being led away by his new owner after a visit. Pearl didn' t know when she would see her dog again.
Ruby Kate and Amanda asked around and discovered that the nursing home didn' t allow residents to have dogs and Pearl couldn' t afford to pay anyone to look after hers. The Chitseys also learned that many nursing home residents are unable to afford even the smallest luxuries. So Ruby Kate decided to do something about it.
She started by asking residents what three things they wanted most in the world. " That' s a lot simpler than going, ‘Hey, what do you want?' " she explains. " They can understand you better. " Amanda worried that people would ask for cars and other things an 11-year-old wouldn' t be able to provide. Instead, they asked for chocolate bars, McDonald' s fries, pants that fit properly, and even just a prayer.
" It broke me as a human, " Amanda says. " We left the nursing home that day and went straight to a store and bought as many items as we could. " Using their own money, the Chitseys granted the wishes of about 100 people in three months.
Then they started asking for donations, set up a GoFundMe page, Three Wishes for Ruby' s Residents, and raised more than $250, 000 in five months. One of their new goals is to set up a communal laptop in one nursing home in each state. Ruby Kate doesn't plan to stop there. " I consider kindness to be my hobby, " she says, " and I' m very good at it. "
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Growing up along with Olympic Champions
Many teenage champions have stood out in the Beijing Winter Olympics.