Friday, February 28, 2014
Thoughts From the 'Ugly Friend'
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From the minute we are born, we are shoved full of contradicting notions that our bodies are both beautiful and not good enough. We see the images of gorgeous models and wonder why we are not more like them, but then hear campaigns telling us that this is all Photoshopped nonsense and that "real women" are beautiful.
I find that these "think pieces" about real beauty and body image are great for a confidence booster, but they carry very little weight in the real world. I've found that there is something that works for me and carries me through because it is the only, sometimes heart-crushing, reality I have. I have accepted the fact that I am the ugly friend.
I Didn't Have Sex for a Year, and I'm Still Married
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Married parents have been under attack lately, from all angles. This month, we've heard that longtime married couples in the kind of egalitarian and committed partnerships that the women of my generation -- raised under the '80s roof of divorce and disappointment -- strived for don't have sex as often as, well, anyone else. If we'remarried with kids, we might as well just forget romance: Maybe we brush each other's dishpan hands as we complaisantly pass the peas from freezer to microwave or fold endless, laundered sock pairs into balls, or once in a blue moon slam together to breed. But that's it.
We're miserable parents, too, it seems, all joy and no fun (though we wouldn't change it for a million childless, 20-something, tipsy, heart-racing, very-definition-of-freedom nights).
Sunday, October 6, 2013
Tim Cook tưởng nhớ Steve Jobs qua Twitter
06/10/2013 08:45:10
| Steve Jobs qua đời vì bệnh ung thư. Ảnh: Internet |
ICTnews - Hôm nay (6/10) là tròn 2 năm ngày giỗ cố Tổng Giám đốc Apple, Steve Jobs. Tim Cook - người kế nhiệm ông đã chọn tiểu blog Twitter làm nơi tưởng niệm ông.
>> Ngôi nhà thời thơ ấu của Steve Jobs đi vào lịch sử/ Ảnh hiếm về “ngày trở về lịch sử” của Steve Jobs/Steve Jobs mơ ước sản xuất xe hơi iCar
Ngày 6/10 (giờ Việt Nam), Tổng Giám đốc Tim Cook viết lên Twitter, đại ý: “2 năm ngày Steve ra đi. Sẽ đi bộ một chặng dài và nghĩ về tình bạn với ông cũng như tất cả những dấu ấn ông đã tạo ra cho nhân loại”.
Cách đây 2 năm, ngày 6/10/2011, Steve Jobs - trí tuệ đứng sau iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac - qua đời ở tuổi 56 sau một thời gian dài chống chọi với căn bệnh ung thư quái ác. Hai năm qua đi, dường như khoảng trống thiên tài để lại cho Apple cũng như toàn giới công nghệ vẫn không thể lấp đầy.
Saturday, October 5, 2013
OPINION: Great Betrayals
OPINION
Great Betrayals
Anthony Russo
By ANNA FELS
Published: October 5, 2013 242 Comments
AS a psychiatrist I find that friends frequently seek me out to discuss problematic events in their lives; it comes with the territory and I’m usually happy to do it. But I was surprised and shaken to hear from an old friend that her husband of nearly 25 years had long been accruing and hiding from her a huge credit card debt (in the six figures). Even after divulging his secret, the husband had lied about the amount, with the sum increasing every time it was discussed. And right from the start, he refused to document where the money was spent. He left it for his wife to ruminate on, trying to puzzle it out. The disclosure wreaked financial and emotional havoc on their family.
Legendary Vietnamese general Vo Nguyen Giap dies at 102
By CNN Staff
October 5, 2013 -- Updated 0352 GMT (1152 HKT)
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
- Man who helped form Ho Chi Minh's rebels into an army reportedly dies
- Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap was 102
- Giap masterminded siege of Dien Bien Phu, which led to French withdrawal
- Giap also commanded North Vietnam's communist forces against South, U.S.
(CNN) -- Vietnamese Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap, who helped communist forces push French and later U.S. troops to withdraw after decades of war in the southeast Asian country, has died, according to local media reports.
He was 102.
Giap helped form Ho Chi Minh's communist rebels into an army while France tried to hold onto colonial rule in French Indochina after World War II -- and he eventually led the rebels in a key 1954 battle that led to France's withdrawal.
Bored with Europe? Try the 'new Europe'
Move over jaded European hotspots, there are some new towns in town
Brno: the new Prague, don't you know?
When helmet-haired 18th-century diarist Samuel Johnson was asked if he could ever become bored with Britain's bustling capital, his conclusion was grim:
"When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life," he said.
Friday, October 4, 2013
China's first tourism law comes into effect, tourists issued manners guides
By Karla Cripps, CNN
October 4, 2013 -- Updated 0024 GMT (0824 HKT)
China's National Tourism Administration publicized a 64-page "Guidebook for Civilized Tourism" on its website ahead of the Golden Week public holiday that started on October 1, the same day the country's new tourism law came into effect. Golden Week is one of the most popular times of year for the Chinese to travel. Here, tourists visit a waterfront promenade in Hong Kong.
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
- China's first tourism law came into effect October 1
- Law covers tourist safety, unfair competition, price hikes and forced goods purchases
- Guidebook released in September aims to educate Chinese tourists on overseas etiquette
(CNN) -- Travel operators in China have a huge new set of rules to follow now that the country's first tourism law is in place.
Approved in April, the 112-article law came into effect October 1 and aims to promote sustained industry growth.
It includes measures to address issues -- mostly in the domestic industry -- such as tourist safety, unfair competition and forced shopping trips, in which agencies offer cheap tours but recoup their costs from commissions in partner shops.
Frail Muhammad Ali appears at event to honor humanitarian work
By Stan Wilson, CNN
October 4, 2013 -- Updated 1412 GMT (2212 HKT)
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
- Jimmy Carter and Christina Aguilera are among those recognized
- Ali appears at the event in his hometown along with his wife and daughter
- It was the inaugural Muhammad Ali Humanitarian Awards
- "This is really about his legacy and extending that legacy to others," Ali's wife says
Louisville, Kentucky (CNN) -- Appearing very frail, boxing legend Muhammad Ali made a rare public appearance Thursday at an event in his hometown to pay homage to others for their humanitarian work.
Wednesday, October 2, 2013
Why sex is better in hotels -- and other confessions of a constant traveler
By Susie Crane, for CNN
October 2, 2013 -- Updated 1403 GMT (2203 HKT)
Domesticated but exotic, banal but never boring. Hotels are more "homely" than home, says the author.
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
- In a hotel everything is touched with novelty
- Hotels offer a great sleep, unlike noisy, light-polluted homes
- Hotel breakfasts are sublimely elegant, arriving on silver trays with china
Editor's note: CNN has changed the original byline on this story to a pseudonym and removed an image of the author at her request, after careful consideration.
(CNN) -- Hotels have been a large part of my domestic life.
I met my husband, who travels constantly for work, in the lobby of a hotel -- the Chateau Marmont, in LA.
Tuesday, October 1, 2013
Phnom Penh: Asia's next cosmopolitan star?
By Karla Cripps, CNN
October 1, 2013 -- Updated 1025 GMT (1825 HKT)
Phnom Penh is gaining a reputation for fine dining. The menu at popular Tepui at China House is influenced by Mediterranean and South American cuisine. Head chef Gisela Salazar Golding is Venezuelan. Pictured: duck breast in a bed of mushrooms with baby potatoes.
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
- UPDATE: The U.S. Embassy in Phnom Penh issued a statement on October 1 alerting travelers to an increase in armed robberies in the city
- Offspring of those who left during Khmer Rouge era bringing back expertise from abroad
- Phnom Penh's growing sophistication making it an enticing urban getaway, though it's not for everyone
(CNN) -- Unlike the A-list star of Cambodia's tourism show -- Siem Reap -- Phnom Penh doesn't have an ancient UNESC0-listed temple complex filled with beautiful archeological wonders to seduce global tourists.
Most visitors hit the riverside capital as a quick stopover on the way to or from Angkor Wat -- the real reason they flew across the globe to visit Cambodia.
It's to be expected, really.
Saturday, September 21, 2013
Các giám đốc Apple đua nhau nói xấu Android, Nokia
21/09/2013 08:00:10
| Tim Cook, Tổng Giám đốc Apple chê bai Android và Nokia. Ảnh: Internet |
ICTnews – Tổng Giám đốc Tim Cook cùng một số nhân vật “chóp bu” khác của Apple đã lên tiếng chê bai Google Android, hệ điều hành di động số 1 thế giới hiện nay.
>> Cận cảnh iPhone 5S vừa hạ cánh sân bay Nội Bài/ Người Việt xếp hàng mua iPhone 5S, 5C tại Singapore/ iPhone 5C được bán tại Hà Nội với giá 18 triệu đồng
Nền tảng di động phổ biến nhất thế giới là Android của Google. Nhiều người tin rằng, sự phổ biến của Android cuối cùng sẽ khiến các lập trình viên quay lưng hay chí ít giảm bớt sự quan tâm tới iPhone, làm iPhone bị lu mờ. Họ tin Android đủ sức đưa Apple vào vị trí bất lợi của chính mình khi bị máy tính Windows lấn át những năm 1990.
Thursday, September 12, 2013
Hành trình đưa iPhone từ Trung Quốc đến các Apple Store
12/09/2013 15:00:35
| Các hộp đựng iPhone trên kệ cửa hàng tại Luân Đôn, Anh. Ảnh: Bloomberg |
ICTnews – Trong khi Tổng Giám đốc Tim Cook đang đứng trên sân khấu giới thiệu iPhone mới, thì những thiết bị này đã trên đường từ nơi sản xuất Trung Quốc đến với các cửa hàng bán lẻ khắp thế giới.
>> Hành trình về Việt Nam "lòng vòng" của iPhone cũ/ Apple trở thành “siêu nhân” bán lẻ như thế nào?
Quá trình vận chuyển bắt đầu ở Trung Quốc, nơi những chiếc iPhone hoàn thiện được chuyển từ nhà máy trong các công-ten-nơ, chất lên xe tải và chuyển đi bằng đường hàng không. Hành trình kết thúc tại các cửa hàng, nơi hãng công nghệ lớn nhất thế giới liên tục có những sự điều chỉnh dựa theo nhu cầu của khách hàng.
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