Football: Designing the Beautiful Game
Whether you are a crazy fan or sideline supporter, visitors to this exhibition will enjoy discovering the remarkable design stories behind the world's beautiful game.
What to expect
The exhibition explores the story behind football, showing how design has been used to push the game to new limits. Take a journey through over 500 objects, films and interviews in sporting performance, equipment development and stadium design, and involve yourself in the stories of clubs and game legends(传奇人物)including Messi, Pelé, George Best and Diego Maradona.
Held by the Design Museum and the National Football Museum in Manchester, the show reveals the master planning of the world's most significant football stadiums, the design innovation used in today's equipment, how the graphic design of team badges(徽章) and posters shapes a club's identity and how grassroots' efforts are pushing the sport's commercialization.
Ticket information
※Online booking is advised but tickets will also be available in the booking office. Last entry to the exhibition is 90 minutes before the museum closes.
※Adult tickets are charged from £ 16 and student tickets from £ 12. Meanwhile, you can save 25% on family and group tickets.
※Present your exhibition entry ticket for 10% off food and drink at London Grade Coffee on the ground floor.
"Beauty isn't about having a pretty face," begins a motivational quote. "It's about having a pretty mind, a pretty heart, and a pretty soul. Oh, and pretty nails!"
That may be Angela Peters' motto. Last July, Peters, rolled her wheelchair into a nail salon (沙龙) at the Walmart shopping center in Burton to have her nails done. But Peters, who has cerebral palsy (脑瘫), was turned away. The salon told her that they were afraid it would be too difficult to properly paint her nails given that her hands kept shaking. What was meant to be a day of beauty for Peters was now a disappointment.
A Walmart cashier about to go on her break happened to see this. Ebony Harris recognized Peters as a Walmart regular. "She's just like everyone else. She wants to look pretty. So why can't she?" Harris said.
Harris approached Peters. "Do you want me to do your nails?" she asked.
A smile spread across Peters' face. "Yeah!" Harris led Peters into the supermarket, where they shopped for nail polish. They settled on a color that would catch every eye. They then made their way into a neighboring Subway, found a table for two, and started. Harris gently took Peters' hand into hers and carefully began painting her nails. "She moved her hands a little bit, and she kept saying she was sorry," Harris said. "I told her, ‘Don't say that. You're fine.' She makes me look at life and appreciate it much more than I have."
Watching it all with surprise and admiration was Subway employee Tasia Smith. Smith was so taken by the scene that she wrote about it on Facebook. "She was so patient with her," she wrote. "Thanks to the Walmart worker for making this beautiful girl's day!"
The other day I was doing some shopping and a homeless man, who was untidy and spent most of the time talking to no one, walked toward a group of us at the checkout stand. I overheard him say to the man in front of me, "I don't want to steal from this store... would you buy me some food?"
The man in front of me pretended not to hear him; it was as if he were not there. I waited patiently for my turn to be questioned, but it never came. So I asked him, "Can I buy you something to eat?" He gladly accepted. The man got a bag and began putting cupcakes in the bag. As my things were being rung up I watched the man put the cupcakes into the bag; 1, 2, 3... He finally stopped and I asked him how many he had got and he replied 6.
The cashier looked at me in surprise and then added them to my order. After I was through, the man was walking around the store; he said he wanted something to drink, too. The cashier seemed to be keeping a close eye on him. I admit I was too, as I didn't want him to steal anything either! I told the cashier that if he got a drink I'd just pay for it.
In the end, we both ended up leaving the store, but he stood right outside holding the cupcakes and talking to himself. Or maybe he was talking with someone who he thought was there.
This man's circumstances (处境) made me sad. How many of our homeless also suffer from a mental illness? Maybe that's even what led him to be homeless. I also thought about the watchful eye the cashier and I kept over him. Maybe for different reasons, I still hope to run into him again someday, and maybe we can sit down and have lunch together.
A small group of paleontologists (古生物学家) recently discovered 10 species of ancient mammals previously unknown to science with the help of an enormous number of helpers at their dig site: ants.
The study of ancient mammals sheds new light on the diversity of mammals that existed in North America around 33 million to 35 million years ago, when the climate was changing drastically. It also pays attention to the harvester ants, with which researchers have long had a love-hate relationship. "The ants are not fantastic when they're biting you," said Samantha Hopkins, a professor of Earth Sciences at the University of Oregon. "But I've got to appreciate them because they make my job a whole lot easier."
Most species of harvester ants live in subterranean caves that sit beneath a small hill of dirt. They strengthen the dirt by covering it with bits of rock and other tough materials. The ants have been known to travel over a hundred feet from their caves and to dig six feet deep in pursuit of materials that help secure their caves. The materials include fossils. Harvester ants can carry materials 10 times to 50 times the weight of their body, although they do not weigh very much, so the heaviest fossil they can collect weighs less than the average pill.
Given the size, harvester ant hills are hot spots for what scientists call microvertebrate (微型脊椎动物) fossils, which are animal fossils too small to see without a microscope. For over a century, scientists like Dr. Hopkins have found sediment (沉积物) off the sides of harvester ant hills in search of these fossils, making it easier to find large numbers of fossilized mammal teeth without spending hours in the field sifting through sand and dirt.
Everyone at some time feels that their life is going nowhere - and fast. then it is time to do something to increase the quality of your life. So, don't waste time. Follow the list of things now to make your life better and more enjoyable.
Treat yourself
It doesn't matter if it's a meal out, a visit to a theater, or a pampering visit to a spa. Make the first thing you do a treat that you have been expecting for some time.
Take up a hobby
Hobbies are brilliant for giving you something different to do that you enjoy. devote time to just sitting with a book. The whole point of a hobby is that it is something for you, so it doesn't matter what it is as long as you enjoy it and can be absorbed by it.
Learn a skill
You will feel a sense of achievement that will boost your self-image. A great way to learn a skill is to join a class. Not only will you learn, but you will make new friends.
Whether it's learning a foreign language or playing a musical instrument, there will be a class near your home.
If you are lucky enough to have a loved one in your life who brightens your day when you speak to them, give them a call. It is easy to let days and weeks go by without making contact. You will feel better for making communication, and then feel much more positive after talking to them.
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A. If you do feel that, B. If you love to read, C. Save up for something special. D. Communicate with a loved one E. It's hard to organize some time in your day. F. Don't make excuses about not having time or money. G. Learning a new skill is one of the most satisfying things you can do. |
My two-year-old and I were on the train from Carlisle to Manchester. It was a spring 1. Then along came an older lady, with a 2 look on her face. She asked other 3 if they had seen her case (箱子). She was going from compartment (车厢) to compartment, looking for it. A lad (young man) sitting close to us 4, put a hand on her shoulder and said, "Don't worry. I'll help you find it. "
The pair set about 5. About half an hour later, her station came, and went, and still it wasn't found. She started to 6. He gave her a soft hug (拥抱) and 7 he would stay with her till the case was found and until she got to where she was going, 8 it took another day. She asked him about his 9 and said she was worried about his trip. He said it didn't matter. He wouldn't 10 her. Then they went off to find the 11.
Over the next hour, we 12 as the case was found, and the two worked out a plan for how to get her back to her 13. The lad had found a double seat in front of us. 14 they told me with the help of the conductor (列车长), the case was finally discovered in another compartment. Then the two spent the rest of the night having the 15 chat about interesting things they had both done in their lives. It was the sweetest thing I have ever experienced.
For many people of Asian descent(血统) living overseas, a Facebook group called Subtle Asian Traits has become one of the popular cultural (phenomenon). Its jokes and memes — about life as a first-generation migrant — have made the page (wild) popular. Almost a million people (join) the group since it began. The posts, can be made by anyone, have had conversations about cultural identity. It was founded by nine
Chinese-Australian high school students living in Melbourne. Anne Gu, 18, one of the (found), said they were delighted when the group hit 1,000 members but now it's gone crazily. "We didn't think at all that it would get this big, or so serious," she said, (refer) to its growth into online community for people of Asian descent.
The posts span a range of topics, but they often focus on Asian culture (experience) by the children of migrants. That's most members are young people from Australia, the US, Canada and the UK, rather than those living in Asia.
Anne Gu believes that the page is so popular because it identifies just little things in our lives no one talked about before.
内容包括：
1）妈妈一天的工作；
2）你的感想。
注意：1）词数80左右；
2）可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
I was in Walt Disney World with my son, Daniel, who is autistic (患自闭症的), and at that time he was 7 years old. My wife and our three other sons were with us too. He was having one of his melt down screaming tantrums (发怒), only God knows why. So my wife and I decided I would take the bus back to the hotel, and she would stay in the park with the other three children.
After we got on the bus, the screaming continued. My son looks "normal". To the many people on the bus, he appeared to just be a kid screaming — or a spoiled child who did not get his special toy that day. It did not take long — less than a minute — before the screaming brought about stares, then glares from the other passengers.
注意：
1）所续写短文的词数应为150左右；
2）续写部分分为两段，每段的开头语已为你写好。
To my shame, I found myself losing my temper at my own son
He said calmly, "Is he alright?" I said, "He's autistic."
