【推荐1】Have you ever heard of underwater football? Underwater football has been called one of the world’s least-known sports.     1     . The game can be enjoyed by anyone of any age and can be played under both indoor and outdoor water surfaces. Underwater football shares some common rules and play elements with other underwater sports like underwater hockey. As with those games, it is played in the deep end of a swimming pool with snorkeling(浮潜)equipment.

The goal of the game is to score a point by placing a ball on the opponents’ side of the pool. The ball can only be possessed by players who completely stay underwater holding their breath.     2    

Just like on land, underwater football is a game of control and possession.     3     . When opposing players are in your space, you need to be able to recognize it quickly and take appropriate action.

    4     . Each team tries to get their ball into one end zone by either passing or running through underwater obstacles. The first team to reach the endpoint wins! Just five players are on the court at one time, despite each team having 13 players.

To win the ball back or keep it away from your opponents, you must use all your strength and abilities underwater.     5     .

【推荐2】The film, recording lots of people killed by Japanese troops in Nanjing, was shot secretly by the US priest John Magee (1884-1953).

As pastor at Daosheng Church of Nanjing and later the chairman of the International Commission of Nanking Red Cross Organization, John Magee remained in the city along with another 20 Westerners in December 1937. He helped establish the Nanjing Safety Zone, which is estimated to have sheltered around 200, 000 Chinese and saved many thousands of lives during the Nanjing Massacre (屠杀). While helping Chinese refugges escape Japanese atrocities, Magee also used his 16mm movie camera to record evidence of Japanese war crimes.

The Japanese had banned any street photography or filming, but Magee took a risk and managed to secrectly shoot 105 minutes of videos. He photographed such scenes as women in agony after being raped and beaten by Japanese invaders, severely injured locals being treated in hospitals and the cruel murders in the city. Many scenes in his film have been later edited into related war documentaries.

When Magee passed away in 1953, his 16mm camera and the film were left to his son David Magee, who came to Nanjing in 2002 and donated the camera and related historical materials to the Memorial Hall of the Victims in Nanjing Massacre by Japanese Invaders in Nanjing.

His film recording seven members of Xia Shuqin's family killed later also served as important evidence in the family’s survivor Xia’s decade-long battle to win over the libel suit (诽谤诉讼) in 2009 against Japanese rightist scholar Shudo Higashinakano and author Magsumura Goshio, as well as publisher Tendensha, for books that claimed Xia was a false witness to the massacre.

【推荐3】We all have problems and barriers (障碍) that prevent us from moving into new areas. When someone meets the problem which he can’t get over, he usually turns away and starts walking along a different path. Unluckily, soon he may get into another similar one. In this way, his life stays inside the same old cycles, in which he is unlikely to make progress or keep learning.

While others deal with problems by loving them instead of hating them. The word “love” means accepting your problems. The more we deny (否定) a problem, the stronger it seems to become. Only when we accept the fact can we find the useful ways to deal with it.

Suppose one of your barriers is taking a final exam. You fear that you will forget everything that you have remembered. One way of dealing with it is to pretend (假装) that you are not afraid—tell yourself “I’m not going to be scared ”and then try to force a smile on your face.

But compared with that, loving your fear actually works better. You just need to say to yourself, “I’m scared. But I’m going to take it easy. It is not only a problem, but also a chance for me to make progress.” By doing that, you allow yourself to be afraid and you can have a right understanding to your problem. You welcome your problem and face it in an active way. So there’s no doubt that you are more likely to overcome it completely.

It is impossible to live a life without problems. Loving them doesn’t mean hiding them. Instead, it means admitting the truth about them. This helps us take effective (有效的) actions, which can free us from the problems once and for all.