UC Berkeley Youth Recreation Summer Camps
UC Berkeley Youth Recreation will provide a wide variety of one-week outdoor experiences and activities for the youth on summer camps 2024. Here are four best summer camps.
Windsurfing Camp
This camp is designed to teach students the basics of windsurfing, including balance and self-rescue. Through a combination of classroom instruction, demonstration and water time, campers are able to master the basics of the sport. A comfort with wind and water is strongly encouraged. Campers must be ages 10~17 to register. All campers must be able to swim and weigh 100 pounds or more to safely use public windsurfing equipment.
Price:$330. Those who have participated before can receive 10% off.
Sailing Camp
Campers learn and review the essentials of sailing at their experience level on the beautiful San Francisco Bay! 2024 brings exciting updates to the camp and helps sailors master new skills. Previous sailing experience is required. Campers must be ages 12~18to register. All campers must have basic swimming skills.
Price:$255.
Skateboarding Camp
In this camp, skateboarders will learn mechanics and basic riding skills such as balance, riding switches, and dropping-in. Skaters will be assessed on the first day of the session and the lessons will be adapted to their ability. All participants are educated in skateboard safety. Campers must be ages 8~16 to register. Participants must bring their own skateboard, helmet(头盔) and knee & elbow pads(护具).
Price:$300.$240 per person for group registration.
Rock Climbing Camp
Learn climbing skills, knot(结)-tying, top-rope climbing and equipment care. Sites include Strawberry Canyon, Remillard, Indian Rock and Cragmon t Parks. Campers must be ages 9~15 to register. All campers can enjoy the bus service to and from the campsites.
Price:$275.
Parenting styles have changed over the years in response to the rapid changes in the world. Whether it is tapping technology or applying the best parenting practices to meet a parenting need, parents nowadays generally invest more time in finding out how best to raise their children.
Modern parents often look to the Internet and social media for parenting advice. The availability of resources has helped modern parents engage more in their children's development, both academically and emotionally. Modern parents are also more eager to find out effective parenting methods to help them raise disciplined and confident children.
A modern parenting style that has emerged is helicopter parenting, where parents are much too focused on their children. They help children with tasks they're capable of doing on their own, like selecting activities and friends for them, or calling their teachers about homework matters. Such a parenting style can hold back the development of the children's ability to handle responsibilities independently. Children might be ill-equipped with life skills such as doing laundry, clearing their plates or coping with their schoolwork. Always protecting children from failures may also prevent them developing adaptability and acquiring skills like problem-solving.
On the other hand, parents in the past tended to monitor less. Children were given more control over how to manage their schoolwork and choose their friends. Domestic helpers were also not the norm then, hence children of the past were often expected to shoulder the responsibilities of caring for younger brothers and sisters and managing housework. Living in the pre-Internet age, parents were less informed about different parenting methods, and their parenting styles were guided more by their personalities, common sense and friendly advice from the extended family and neighbors, rather than by social media influences or parenting websites.
There is no one right way to raise a child. Each child is unique and should be raised differently by parents who are present but not wandering, who are supportive but not controlling, and who protect but not care too much.
While it throws out about 90 pounds of food per person every year, Japan doesn't rank at the top of the world's list of wasteful nations. Still, what's thrown away represents a serious problem for an island nation with limited landfill space and a goal of greater sustainability. Reinvention can offer an alternative. A Japanese company is taking vegetable peels, cooking oil and other used foodstuffs and making entirely different products.
Concrete is the most widely used construction material in the world, and its key element, cement(水泥), is a major polluter of greenhouse emissions. So what if a more sustainable alterative were possible by making cement with food waste, which also would help reduce greenhouse emissions from landfills where that waste would otherwise be thrown away? That's the idea behind Fabula, a Tokyo-based start-up.
Researchers at Fabula created a recipe to make food concrete by drying leftovers and pressing them into a mold(模具) at a high temperature. The company, founded by researchers at the University of Tokyo, began with items commonly thrown away like cabbage and orange peels but found that almost any food item can be used. It now takes mostly coffee grounds and tea leaves to make its cement. The product's durability depends on the components.
Fabula is currently producing made-to-order household items, such as coasters and dishes, while awaiting its patent. The goal is to make furniture and larger structures once the technology is able to make the cement more durable. Food production companies that can't avoid generating waste during their processes have reached out to work with the company. "We hope to become a matching service between companies that have food waste and companies who want to build things out of such materials," said Takuma Oishi, Fabula's chief commercial officer.
Since the cement is 100 percent catable, it could create opportunities during disaster response when temporary structures need to be built quickly. The people inside might even turn to them for food. If the technology advances enough, Oishi suggested, someday we may be able "to eat the homes or furniture when necessary".
A good conversation should proceed like a tennis match: players each take turns responding, knowing instinctively(本能) when to speak and when to listen. This kind of complicated and back-and-forth talk is often considered to be possessed only by humans. However, according to a recent study, animals also seem to know when to speak and when to listen.
The study involved over 300 animals including birds, mammals(哺乳动物), insects, and frogs which practice turn-taking behavior. These animals alternate their call and response in a similar way humans communicate. Monkeys, for example, often exchange calls to locate each other in the wild and figure out whether they know one another.
While forms of communication are mostly sound-based, several species have more creative forms of viewable communication. Baby monkeys let their parents know they want to be carried with arm gestures, while birds, insects and frogs can get their messages across through colorful displays.
Kobin Kendrick, the main co-author on the study, says that making comparisons among animals that take turns when communicating can give us a better understanding of how this feature evolved in humans and our ancestors. "We know very little about the evolution and origin of the human language, so any possibility of gaining insight into it is worth going after," he says.
Additionally, while the idea of turn-taking might bring to mind a picture of orderly, well-mannered animals, Kendrick stresses that this isn't always the case. Owl(猫头鹰)chicks may try to outdo each other by making louder sounds in an effort to attract favor from their mothers during feeding. "This can be seen as an exception to the rule, highlighting the importance of turn-taking in general." says Kendrick.
One problem with the study is that researchers themselves don't know how to communicate with others outside their particular species of interest. Kendrick stresses another goal of the study is to create a wider framework that can bring together all the different researches on turn-taking, allowing scientists to conduct more cross-species comparisons. "We all believe strongly these fields can benefit from each other, and we hope the study will drive more crosstalk between humans and animals in the future, " says Kendrick.
Settling down with a great novel enables you to consider ideas that might have never crossed your mind had you not chosen it in the first place. . If you have the urge and are curious about how to start a book club, it's easier than you might think.
First, find members. Reach out to your existing reading-loving friends and post a notice in your local library or bookstore. If you're open to a more digital-friendly approach, put the word out about your new club via Twitter or Facebook. .
Then set group guidelines. To guarantee your new group is all on the same page, take time to discuss what you want to get out of regular club gatherings before your first official meeting. Will your time together be spent largely focusing on the novel at hand?. While enjoying stimulating non-book conversation over coffee and snacks is in no way ill-advised, not everyone who signs up for a book club is willing to reject their novel for a cup.
. Books that work really well are the ones that help you reflect on self. They have lots of entry points for people so they probably have a good setting. Also, there's great character development. Select something with the criteria, and you can please all kinds of readers.
As far as how often you meet, that schedule is up to your members to determine what's realistic—plus how long it will take to complete the book. As for location, meeting up at your home is always an option. .Meeting at a public space like a bar can ease the pressure of entertaining.
A. Don't feel bound to act as host, though.
B. Which scene has stuck with you the most?
C. Picking books may seem like the trickiest part.
D. You'll gain a sense of community from book clubs.
E. Will refreshments ultimately be the most important?
F. You may get people beyond your daily contact to join your circle.
G. And sometimes you just want to discuss what you've read with others.
Some years ago, I was stuck on a crosstown bus during rush hour. The bus was filled with cold, tired people 1 with one another. Two men 2 at each other for an unintentional push. An elderly woman got on, and nobody offered her a 3 . Anger was in the air; no 4 could be found here.
As the bus approached Seventh Avenue, the driver's words came from the speaker. "Folks," he said. "I know you've had a(n)5 day and that you are depressed, but I will 6 . When each of you walks by before getting off, drop your 7 into my palm(手掌). My route goes right by the Hudson River, into which I'll 8 them."
It seemed as if a spell had lifted. Everyone burst out laughing, their faces shining with 9 . The passengers who had been 10 each other's existence were suddenly grinning(咧嘴笑) at each other—is this guy serious?
At the next stop, just as 11 , the driver held out his hand, palm up, and waited. All the 12 passengers performed the gesture of dropping something into his palm. The driver 13 the same action at every stop that followed.
Occasionally we may sink into a grey world, but someone can 14 it like a ray of light, showing us hope. What if we are the light?15 , anyone possesses the power to shine on others' dark days.
China's new hit TV show To the Wonder has made Altay in the Xinjiang Uygur (autonomy) region a new trendy tourism destination among young people, who are attracted by the breathtaking views and the simple lives of the (local).
Adapted My Altay, a collection of prose by Li Juan, the drama tells the story of Li Wenxiu, a young woman (return) to her hometown of Altay after failing in her dream and having setbacks at work. She then found the (mean) of life and her love in Altay.
The grassland views and free and easy lives (show) in the teleplay soon made Altay one of the top-tier tourism destinations. "It's like a place is out of this world. I'm planning a trip to Altay this summer," said Zhang Chen, a 31-year-old from Beijing.
The travel portal Qunar said that from May 7, flight ticket bookings to Altay rose 20percent compared with the same period in the previous month, and hotel bookings (double) at that time on its platform.
It is not the first time that a hit show (help) turn its location into a popular tourism destination. In January 2023, the TV drama Meet Yourself made Dali a trendy tourism destination. Xiao Peng, researcher from Qunar, said that it's common to see a TV drama boosting its location's potential as a tourist destination in recent years.
In my childhood, under the influence of my elder brother and my peers in the neighborhood, I tried a number of outdoor activities. Of course, I was not so taken by all of them, whether I was doing them for the first time or continuously. However, fate had its own plans in store. You never know when an outdoor activity will change my life.
The name of this activity is "fishing". About ten years ago, I didn't really like the idea of sitting on the bank of a lake or river, spending long hours under the sun's ultraviolet rays, which can cause sunburns and skin damage, and anxiously anticipating some fish to be kind to take my bait(诱饵). In fact, I used to think of this outdoor activity as some kind of "hide-and-seek-game" that is popular with most young kids, except that it was much harder because I could see my "prey(猎物)"only after catching it.
However, all that changed when I paid a visit to my aunt in the countryside during a summer holiday. I was finally convinced by one of my cousins to accompany him to a nearby lake in order to do some fishing practice with him. In fact, he even assured me that fish would eat my baits. So I agreed and went to the lake expecting to catch some fish. Before throwing my fishing line into the water, my cousin did some tricks attaching some sort of food to my fishing pole.
Learning to fish in a river or lake can be challenging for the beginners like me. The act of dropping a line is easy, but being a successful fisher is hard. That's why they call it fishing but not catching. But with practice and patience, it can become easier over time. Patience is essential in lake fishing. It may take some time to find the right spot or lure(鱼饵) that will attract fish.
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My cousin had to repeatedly remind me to keep patient.
When we finally left the lake, I had caught three fish!
