A Wife's Duty
A woman accompanied her husband to the doctor's office. After his checkup , the doctor called the wife into his office alone. He told her, "Your husband is suffering from a very severe disease, combined with horrible stress . If you don't do the following , your husband will surely die...Each morning, fix him a healthy breakfast. Be pleasant , and make sure he is in a good mood . For lunch make him a nutritious meal. For dinner prepare an especially nice meal for him. Don't burden him with chores , as he probably had a hard day. Don't discuss your problems with him, it will only make his stress worse . And most importantly, make love with your husband several times a week and satisfy his every whim . If you can do this for the next 10 months to a year, I think your husband will regain his health completely." On the way home, the husband asked his wife. "What did the doctor say?" She replied, "You're going to die"!
2007年8月4日 星期六
The detail information of Maldives
Location
Southwest of Sri Lanka, on the equator.
Geography
1,190 coral islands, forming an archipelago of 26 major atolls. Stretches 820 kilometres north to south and 120 kilometres east to west. 202 are inhabited, 87 are exclusive resort islands.
Climate
Generally warm and humid. Sun shines all year through. Average temperature around 29 - 32 degrees Celsius.
What to wear
Dress is generally casual. T-shirts and cotton clothing are most suitable. In Male’, the capital island and other inhabited islands it is recommended that women wear modest clothing without baring too much.
Population
About 270,000 according to 1998 estimates. Origin of the Maldivians are lost in antiquity, but history reveals that the islands have been populated for over 3,000 years ago. Early settlers were travellers on the Silk Route and from the Indus Valley Civilisation. Inherently warm, friendly and hospitable by nature, it is easy to feel comfortable and relaxed with a Maldivian.
Culture
A proud history and rich culture evolved from the first settlers who were from various parts of the world travelling the seas in ancient times. The Maldives has been a melting pot of different cultures as people from different parts of the world came here and settled down. Some of the local music and dance for instance resemble African influences, with handbeating of drums and songs in a language that is not known to any but certainly represents that of East African countries. As one would expect there is a great South Asian influence in some of the music and dancing and especially in the traditional food of the Maldivians. However many of the South Asian customs especially with regard to women - for instance the Sub Continent’s tradition of secluding women from public view - are not tenets of life here. In fact women play a major role in society - not surprising considering the fact men spend the whole day out at sea fishing. Many of the traditions are strongly related to the seas and the fact that life is dependent on the seas around us.
Local Time
GMT + 5 hours
(from http://www.visitmaldives.com/Maldives/fast-facts.php)
English comunication skill class
We know many students from different countries and learn their cultures in this class. It's interesting!
An unforgettable trip~~Maldives
Sun, sand and sea, a thousand "Robinson Crusoe" islands, massive lagoons with different depths and infinite shades of blue and turquoise, dazzling underwater coral gardens; a perfect natural combination for the ideal tropical holiday destination. However there is more to the Maldives than just that. ABC's Robin Roberts Has Breast Surgery
Good Morning America" anchor Robin Roberts had "very successful" surgery for breast cancer Friday and has left the hospital for home, ABC said.
Roberts, 46, revealed her diagnosis to viewers Tuesday. She said doctors believed they had caught the cancer early.
"The tests following her surgery take some time to process, so when we have more information we will update you," said ABC News spokeswoman Bridgette Maney. "Thank you for your thoughts and prayers for Robin."
Roberts' mother and sisters traveled from the Mississippi Gulf Coast and New Orleans to be with her for the surgery. The former college basketball star and sportscaster grew up in Pass Christian, Miss.
The family has asked Roberts' friends and the public to respect her need for a private, quiet recovery time.
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"I'm blessed with the medical care I am getting," Roberts told the Sun Herald newspaper of Mississippi this week.
"I work for a company that says 'Just whatever you need,' and I'm grateful. But that just is not the way it is for everyone. It shouldn't be a privilege I have; it should be everyone's right."
In mid-July, before she knew she had cancer, Roberts agreed to be keynote speaker at an Aug. 29 Pink Heart fundraiser in Biloxi, Miss. Roberts, who has been actively helping with Hurricane Katrina recovery efforts, had planned to be on the coast that day for the "GMA" broadcast of the hurricane's second anniversary.
The nonprofit Pink Heart Fund was conceived when JoAn Niceley, a hair stylist and cancer survivor, realized that cancer patients who had already lost much because of Katrina were having difficulty getting wigs and breast prostheses.
Roberts has said she will still be the Pink Heart keynoter.
She has been an anchor at "GMA" since 2005.
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ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Co.
Roberts, 46, revealed her diagnosis to viewers Tuesday. She said doctors believed they had caught the cancer early.
"The tests following her surgery take some time to process, so when we have more information we will update you," said ABC News spokeswoman Bridgette Maney. "Thank you for your thoughts and prayers for Robin."
Roberts' mother and sisters traveled from the Mississippi Gulf Coast and New Orleans to be with her for the surgery. The former college basketball star and sportscaster grew up in Pass Christian, Miss.
The family has asked Roberts' friends and the public to respect her need for a private, quiet recovery time.
ADVERTISEMENT
"I'm blessed with the medical care I am getting," Roberts told the Sun Herald newspaper of Mississippi this week.
"I work for a company that says 'Just whatever you need,' and I'm grateful. But that just is not the way it is for everyone. It shouldn't be a privilege I have; it should be everyone's right."
In mid-July, before she knew she had cancer, Roberts agreed to be keynote speaker at an Aug. 29 Pink Heart fundraiser in Biloxi, Miss. Roberts, who has been actively helping with Hurricane Katrina recovery efforts, had planned to be on the coast that day for the "GMA" broadcast of the hurricane's second anniversary.
The nonprofit Pink Heart Fund was conceived when JoAn Niceley, a hair stylist and cancer survivor, realized that cancer patients who had already lost much because of Katrina were having difficulty getting wigs and breast prostheses.
Roberts has said she will still be the Pink Heart keynoter.
She has been an anchor at "GMA" since 2005.
___
ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Co.
'Bourne' a thrill-a-minute powerhouse
Review: 'Bourne' a thrill-a-minute powerhouse
By Tom Charity
Special to CNN
(CNN) -- It's not easy, being Bourne again. It means a lot of miles, a lot of challenges, and all for uncertain ends. And you never know what you'll have to explain: "My fight is not with you," Matt Damon's amnesiac rogue CIA agent, evading capture in Moscow, says to a local cop in Russian before beating a nonviolent retreat.
Matt Damon's Jason Bourne remains on the run in "The Bourne Ultimatum."
1 of 2 Thus begins "The Bourne Ultimatum," the series' third and final installment.
Despite a marked limp in this early running, Bourne remains on the run, globe-hopping to Paris, London, Madrid, Tangiers and finally home to New York.
He's also getting closer to connecting the dots and discovering his true identity. But it's not just the "who" that drives him, it's also the "why": why was he brainwashed into an implacable, impervious -- and it seems, just about impregnable -- killing machine?
The Bourne series gets a lot of credit for a supposedly more hard-nosed, contemporary take on espionage than other spy movies we could mention. This is largely a function of style. Bourne travels light and adopts a pragmatic, hands-on approach to problem solving. He has no truck with the CGI that's got the better of "Die Hard" cop John McClane.
But when the bullets fly he's as Teflon as the next superagent. One minute he's floored by a bomb blast, the next he's sprinting across rooftops like he's trying out for a triathlon. He's one-man surge.
This being a Paul Greengrass movie -- he directed "The Bourne Supremacy" and "United 93" -- the shock absorbers are off, the framing is epileptic and it's a rare shot that lasts more than a millisecond. The effect is purposely disorienting, but even in the midst of this breathless visual bombardment Greengrass, his cinematographer Oliver Wood and editor Christopher Rouse have a knack for homing in on the vital dynamic element in the frame, even if we're only able to process the information a beat or two later, when that blurry gun, or book, or voice recorder comes in to play.
Indeed, the action pounds so thick and fast, it's a relief when hard-working composer John Powell grants us a brief reprieve for a brutal hand-to-hand scrap scored only to thumps, bumps and grunts.
Still, much to Greengrass and Co.'s credit, they want to get to the "why," too. It takes awhile: that's not a question CIA headquarters is ready to address, and certainly not in public. CIA deputy director Noah Vosen (David Strathairn) is aghast when the agency picks up a British journalist's reference to the top-secret codename "Blackbriar" in a cell phone conversation with his editor. (Forget the Patriot Act; these guys are eavesdropping across the Atlantic now.)
In the first of the film's dizzyingly orchestrated cat-and-mouse sequences, Bourne steals the reporter out from under a thousand virtual Agency eyes and ears in London's Waterloo Station. (Tip for the terrorists: to avoid detection, when all else fails, tie your shoelaces.) The hack doesn't make it, but Bourne is nothing if not elusive, and it's on to the next stage in his whirlwind European tour. Along the way, he has a suspiciously serendipitous encounter with old acquaintance Nicky Parsons (Julia Stiles), before executing another adept variation on an escapist theme.
Bourne -- or whatever his name really is -- is such a resourceful and reckless agent of chaos, we thrill to him despite the fact that he's officially a non-entity. Matt Damon makes enough of his scarce, terse exchanges with Nicky and Pamela Landy (Joan Allen) to suggest remorse spurs him more than revenge.
Landy in particular comes to figure as a mother-confessor. She's the only one who understands Bourne's true nature: blowback.
Which turns "The Bourne Ultimatum" into a thinking-man's action film. Reflecting a growing apprehension that counterintelligence agencies have overstepped legal and ethical boundaries, "The Bourne Ultimatum" smartly affects kick-ass with a conscience by implying we've become our own worst enemy. Who knew guilt could be such a trip?
"The Bourne Ultimatum" runs 111 minutes and is rated PG-13. For Entertainment Weekly's take, click here. E-mail to a friend
All About David Strathairn • Paul Greengrass • Matt Damon
By Tom Charity
Special to CNN
(CNN) -- It's not easy, being Bourne again. It means a lot of miles, a lot of challenges, and all for uncertain ends. And you never know what you'll have to explain: "My fight is not with you," Matt Damon's amnesiac rogue CIA agent, evading capture in Moscow, says to a local cop in Russian before beating a nonviolent retreat.
Matt Damon's Jason Bourne remains on the run in "The Bourne Ultimatum."
1 of 2 Thus begins "The Bourne Ultimatum," the series' third and final installment.
Despite a marked limp in this early running, Bourne remains on the run, globe-hopping to Paris, London, Madrid, Tangiers and finally home to New York.
He's also getting closer to connecting the dots and discovering his true identity. But it's not just the "who" that drives him, it's also the "why": why was he brainwashed into an implacable, impervious -- and it seems, just about impregnable -- killing machine?
The Bourne series gets a lot of credit for a supposedly more hard-nosed, contemporary take on espionage than other spy movies we could mention. This is largely a function of style. Bourne travels light and adopts a pragmatic, hands-on approach to problem solving. He has no truck with the CGI that's got the better of "Die Hard" cop John McClane.
But when the bullets fly he's as Teflon as the next superagent. One minute he's floored by a bomb blast, the next he's sprinting across rooftops like he's trying out for a triathlon. He's one-man surge.
This being a Paul Greengrass movie -- he directed "The Bourne Supremacy" and "United 93" -- the shock absorbers are off, the framing is epileptic and it's a rare shot that lasts more than a millisecond. The effect is purposely disorienting, but even in the midst of this breathless visual bombardment Greengrass, his cinematographer Oliver Wood and editor Christopher Rouse have a knack for homing in on the vital dynamic element in the frame, even if we're only able to process the information a beat or two later, when that blurry gun, or book, or voice recorder comes in to play.
Indeed, the action pounds so thick and fast, it's a relief when hard-working composer John Powell grants us a brief reprieve for a brutal hand-to-hand scrap scored only to thumps, bumps and grunts.
Still, much to Greengrass and Co.'s credit, they want to get to the "why," too. It takes awhile: that's not a question CIA headquarters is ready to address, and certainly not in public. CIA deputy director Noah Vosen (David Strathairn) is aghast when the agency picks up a British journalist's reference to the top-secret codename "Blackbriar" in a cell phone conversation with his editor. (Forget the Patriot Act; these guys are eavesdropping across the Atlantic now.)
In the first of the film's dizzyingly orchestrated cat-and-mouse sequences, Bourne steals the reporter out from under a thousand virtual Agency eyes and ears in London's Waterloo Station. (Tip for the terrorists: to avoid detection, when all else fails, tie your shoelaces.) The hack doesn't make it, but Bourne is nothing if not elusive, and it's on to the next stage in his whirlwind European tour. Along the way, he has a suspiciously serendipitous encounter with old acquaintance Nicky Parsons (Julia Stiles), before executing another adept variation on an escapist theme.
Bourne -- or whatever his name really is -- is such a resourceful and reckless agent of chaos, we thrill to him despite the fact that he's officially a non-entity. Matt Damon makes enough of his scarce, terse exchanges with Nicky and Pamela Landy (Joan Allen) to suggest remorse spurs him more than revenge.
Landy in particular comes to figure as a mother-confessor. She's the only one who understands Bourne's true nature: blowback.
Which turns "The Bourne Ultimatum" into a thinking-man's action film. Reflecting a growing apprehension that counterintelligence agencies have overstepped legal and ethical boundaries, "The Bourne Ultimatum" smartly affects kick-ass with a conscience by implying we've become our own worst enemy. Who knew guilt could be such a trip?
"The Bourne Ultimatum" runs 111 minutes and is rated PG-13. For Entertainment Weekly's take, click here. E-mail to a friend
All About David Strathairn • Paul Greengrass • Matt Damon
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