ISC's sport camps are the only residential camps in Spain that focus on sport-specific development with 3 hours of training every afteroon, watersports activities every morning at the Mediterranean Sea and leisure activities during the evenings. With coaching from professional staff, you are sure to leave the camp with an experience you'll never forget.
We offer port camps for school trips throughout the year. During the months of July and August, our sport summer camps are aimed towards young students of 13 to 18 years of age. During the rest of the year, our camps are aimed at sport schools in order to develop and nurture (培养) young talents. .
Where does it take place?
This summer camp package takes place in Alicante, Spain. With an average of 300 sunny days a year, and an average temperature of 18 degrees, this coastal city is one of the most desired Mediterranean tourist destinations. During the leisure time, campers will be able to join in activities such as visiting the castle of Alicante, visiting the MARQ museum, walking around the fishing town of Campello and etc.
Accommodation
All of our students will be staying at ISC Campus next to the University of Alicante. The campus' facilities and rooms provide all the homely comforts eager campers will need. Here at ISC Spain we take care of all the little details, so that each and every one of our students can feel at home.
About a decade ago, Lawson was at a beach in Virginia watching his kids build castles right next to the waves.
" I kept trying to get them to come back because I thought it was a terrible idea, " he remarked. He wanted them to build their sandcastles closer to the dunes (沙丘). But they found it more exciting to build right where the waves hit, seeing their sandcastles get destroyed, and then rebuilding them with whatever debris (残骸) washed up from the ocean. "It seemed so symbolic, somehow, of how life works more than just building your perfect sandcastles, " said Lawson. When he decided to turn that sunny day into a children's book, the idea came to just use pictures. "It seemed like it would work beautifully without words," he said.
A Day for Sandcastles is illustrated (加插图) by Qin Leng. It's the second wordless picture book for Lawson and Leng since 2021's Over the Shop. Leng's illustrations stay pretty true to real life. Three siblings spend the day building sandcastles and watching them get destroyed by a flying hat. "To me it's a celebration of childhood and the simple joys of life. These are the things I like to capture (捕捉)," said Leng.
Leng spent part of her childhood in France, and she was inspired by European comic books "What I love to do when I illustrate a picture book is add side stories to the main storyline. I always think about the readers and the longevity（持久） of the book, and I want them to be able to discover something new every time they revisit the book, " Leng explained.
At the end of the day, the sleepy-eyed kids pile into the bus that will take them home. "Those last pages are some of my favorite. They capture that feeling like at the end of the day on the beach, when it's getting dark and you feel completely exhausted," Lawson said. It must be a universal childhood feeling: happy with sand, sticky from the salt, hot from the sun, and ready to fall asleep the moment you get into the car.
Humans have always assumed that there is a huge gulf between animal behavior and human development. However, recent research into animals shows that animals are continuously designing innovative methods to finish their tasks. Examining the nature and results of their creativity can help us understand evolution.
Research shows that animals too can be creative. By inventing new behavioral patterns and adapting their behavior to new contexts, as well as to changes in social and ecological environments, researchers show that animal innovation too can be diverse. For instance, chimpanzees (猩猩) use tools such as sharp spines and stalks to remove the hearts of palm vegetables from trees. Herring gulls (鲜鱼海码) found out quite a cruel way of killing rabbits - drowning them in the sea.
Innovative species tend to survive when they enter new places, but behavior cannot be recognized unless "normal" behavior is studied. Researchers can now count and document the innovations that have been created by species, which would help them to quantify their creativity. Studies also show us that all animals are not equally inventive, with primates (灵长目动物) tending to be more innovative due to their bigger brains.
The greatest scientific significance has been the innovation shown by animals such as apes, capuchins and macaques among primates. These species of primates possess the biggest brains in proportion to their body sizes. They are also heavy tool users. Their broad diets and complex forms of learning are also insightful. They indicate an evolutionary strategy that gave them new solutions to life's challenges.
However, even if these animals show innovativeness, they do not have the ability to improve upon solutions of others. Unless they share information accurately and copy each other's inventions, their creative inventions are likely to disappeat before they can be innovated further. This ability can be managed only by humans, for we are able to build on shared knowledge.
With the development of artificial intelligence, writers are increasingly wrestling with a hard truth: It appears robots are coming for their jobs. Little more than a plaything of researchers a decade ago, Al and automated (自动化的) robots are regularly producing countless articles on a daily basis.
Observes Mayur Bhatt, marketing head, SEO Services Guru: "It is only a matter of time before algorithms (算法) are able to write articles on any topic and for any target group. " Adds noted author Stephen Marche: "Whatever field you are in, if it uses language, it is about to be transformed. " People of writing driven by AI insist the robots are simply here ‘to serve humanity'. Robots will do the hard labor work, they say. Writers will be freed-up to engage in more interesting, more in-depth and more creative work.
But for the many writers and editors who have already lost their jobs to Al, that pleasant future is a tough sell. Consider Radar, a hyper-local news service that has been generating (生成) AI-written articles in the UK since 2017. Instead of using reporters to cover news beats, Radar relies on robots. Those machines mine government databases on crime, health, environment and similar--and then auto-write stories from that data with an extremely local hook. For example: Radar's AI software can ingest a new government report on crime across the UK, and then auto-generate hundreds of customized (订制的）stories from the study, based on localized data. Each story is hyper-localized to a town or even a smaller community by including data from the government report. The resulting micro-focused stories are sold to news companies throughout Britain--as well as to any other news companies that might be interested. Gary Rogers, editor-in-chief, Radar: "There is open data across all the main beats of news-health, crime, transport, etc. --filled with stories waiting to be told. "
So far, many writers are aware of the adoption of Al-generated writing via a few,
well-publicized stories about the tech's use at major news organizations like Bloomberg, the BBC and The New York Times. But it turns out those above represent only smattering of what's really going on. A 2021 study found that 15% of news stories are now automatically generated at leading news companies using AI. Moreover, the adoption of Al-generated writing has gone far beyond news-reporting, cropping-up across a wide range of writing jobs.
To date, human beings still best their robot competitors in writing of the highest quality. Even so, the hard fact remains that AI will be producing an increasing number of automated writing in coming years that competes in a world often entrapped in the icy hold of ‘good enough'.
If you could have any job in the orld, what would it be? Children have been asked this question for generations, but it seems their answer are changing.
Twenty-five years ago, the most common ambition of American children was to be a teacher, followed by working in banking and finance, and then medicine. Today's younger generation most commonly say they want to be a sport star, a pop star or an actor. Others feel that this trend will ultimately lead to dissatisfaction as more and more people are unable to reach their goals.
According to a survey, children desire these jobs largely because of the wealth associated with them. If people link hapiness to wealth and status, they are more likely to work hard to achieve them. But the satisfaction is short-lived. This then creates a pressure for the person to keep pushing to achieve more targets, which places the individual under greater stress.
Many careers in the spotlight are short-lived. For example, many athletes' physical peak only lasts a few years and singers can have a very limited career.
Despite the drawbacks of being rich and famous, there is greater ambition than ever among young people to attain that status. People unrealistically believe that a celebrity (名人) lifestyle is easily attainable. Unfortunately, it takes talent, skill, and hard work to be good at a sport or at singing. As a result, many won't fulfill their childhood dreams, and this could have a negative effect on their hapiness.
A. As a result , they have a feeling of worthlessness.
B. This has been caused by today's celebrity culture.
C. Many agree that people should set the goals at an early age.
D. However, such ambitions may put pressure on the individual.
E. A recently study has highlighted a dramatic shift in children's ambitions.
F. Some people would argue that there is nothing wrong with such ambitions.
G. Moreover, fame and fortune do not always have a positive impact on an
individual's life.
How can you tell if someone's lying? The answer is, they're probably not.
Traditional economics says that people make reasonable choices and will lie if it's to their 1 . A recent university study has shown that, actually, we're pretty 2 —especially when we're at home.
Researchers in Germany 3 people at home and asked them to toss（投掷）a coin. There was a strong 4 incentive（刺激） to lie about the result: if the coin landed tails-up, the participants would receive money, while if the coin landed heads-up, they would get nothing. Because they were on the phone, they knew there was no5 of getting caught if they lied.
And yet people told the6 . Over hundreds of tosses, a coin will land tails-up about 50% of the time. In this 7 over half the people asked （55. 6%） said that the coin landed heads-up, which meant they would receive nothing.
Previous studies had found that people were more 8 . In those laboratory studies, 75% of people reported a 9 coin and asked for a reward. So the research team thinks it's being in our own homes which makes us play fair, although it's not yet clear why.
In fact both types of study show people are surprisingly 10 . Even in the laboratory, 25% of people 11 down a reward by telling the truth. The researchers say this is because honesty is 12 valued in human society. We care about our 13 and our sense of ourselves as decent (体面的) people. So lying has a psychological 14 and it seems this cost is more important than the financial benefits of 15 .
Once a poor traveller stopped under a tree. From his bag he took out a bowl of (boil) rice and started to eat. Next to the tree was a small shop. In the shop there was a woman (sell) fried fish to travellers able to pay for it. When the man finished eating and got up to leave, she shouted, "You have not paid (I) for your meal!"
"But I ordered nothing from you!" he said.
"Everyone can see that you (enjoy) the smell of my fried fish with your rice just now," argued the woman. "If you hadn't smelt the fish, your meal would not have been so (please)!"
Soon a crowd gathered. they supported the traveller, they also agreed that the wind was blowing from the shop to the place he had eaten, carrying the smell of the fried fish to him.
At last, the woman took him to a judge and after (tell) the judge the story, she insisted that the man had enjoyed her fish smell and that he should pay 25 cents. After hearing the evidence, the judge asked the man to drop 25-cent coin on the ground. "Here is your payment, the sound of 25 cents the smell of the fried fish. "
