知恩識報的"雪地鳳凰" ( 中國夢想秀 ）

一個無私大愛的父親, 用盡一生，培育一名沒有血緣關係的，全醫學院第一名的女兒，一個懂事又孝順的女兒...就在這麼窮困又艱難的生活環境下, 滋生了如此感人的故事~真是讓人感動流淚!! 

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Doctors & Hospital Alert !

Mr Varun, an IT professional working in Technopark, was finding himself with an upset stomach every night.

While normal medical checks revealed nothing wrong in him, deeper probes revealed the reason – his stomach was collecting significant amounts of wax.

And doctors identified the villian – the ordinary disposable paper cups he used for drinking his tea at his office pantry.

Disposable paper cups have become quite popular in office pantries due to the convenience it offers.

What many overlook is the fact that these paper cups are coated with a tiny layer of wax, which is essential to prevent water from seeping into the paper.

When very hot liquids are pour over this cup, the paper cups wax may disintegrate and a little may come off, which will promptly be sent along with the drink into our stomachs!

While our body can discard minor amounts, over the long-term, it does become a problem.

So what can be done about it?

You can try to bring your own glass cups.

Glass is one of the least reactive materials in the world (remember acids are stored in glass vessels, blood samples are collected in glass plates – these are for a good reason).

But glass does have the problem of breaking easily, so it requires good care.

Ceramic cups are probably the best bet.

Of course, you can also use your ordinary stainless steel glass, but never use plastic ones 

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                                 Photo: Vending Machine Cups

So brother & sister, try not to buy hot drink from the vending machines that are using this type of cups as shown in the photos attached .

來世不動產

§ 好文分享：來世不動產 算算人生最後積分是多少文/ 董憓陵

       

     近日看了一部關於死後轉生載體的微電影《來世不動產》，這是一部非常有趣的日本短片，拍攝手法詼諧幽默而又深富教育意涵！

       

   在人世的一言一行、起心動念，或許瞬間即逝，許多人不以為意，以為船過水無痕，其實人生中所有的思想與行為在我們的「人生日記簿」上，每天都詳盡地被逐筆紀錄下來。

     生、老、病、死之後，輪迴轉生之際，這一世的「人生日記簿」將會決定來世的「載體」去向，此片主要意涵其實就是中國人自古以來「善有善報、惡有惡報、積德行善、輪迴轉生」的概念，改用「不動產」創意方式重新包裝。 

劇情大概是這樣，有一臥病在床的男子(高橋克實飾)，生前所看到的最後一幕，是醫院外樹上夏蟬鳴唱的景象，往生之後，發現自己躺在一望無際的大草原上，眼前只有一棟建築，上面寫著「不動產」。 

     《來世不動產》辦事人員向男子解釋，這裡是選擇「來世」之仲介不動產公司，電腦裡巨細靡遺的詳細紀錄了這一世所有「善行、 惡行、不做為」的分類屬性與累積次數，最後依這一世所累積的功過加減值計算出分數，選擇靈魂來世的住宅不動產「載體」。

     選擇「載體」的項目大致可分為：富人、窮人、殘障、乳牛、龍蝦、熊貓、小狗、昆蟲...等，每一個「載體」都有具體的分數等級，能否如願選擇想要的「載體」，取決於自己生前所做一切功過加減最後所得的「分數」。

      

     因為中年男子這一世所累積的「分數」不夠，無法選擇「第一志願」成為人類，在「不動產」主人三寸不爛之舌的遊說下，男子最後選擇了一出生「載體」形式--藏土七年、只鳴七天的蟬」。 

「人生功過」在起心動念的那一刻其實就已拍板定案，常言道「舉頭三尺有神明」。

「不是不報，只是時機未到」，在這個社會大洪流中，許多人抱持著

「人不為己，天誅地滅」，

「人生苦短，及時行樂」，

「大錯不犯，小惡不斷」等思想，導致

「人生分數」常趨近低分組 。

此影片極富有人生教育意義，看過後會讓人做事更謹慎，隨時存好心，說好話，作好事，從而積德行善、眾善奉行！推薦給大家好好自我檢視一番囉！

《來世不動產》微電影 http://youtu.be/noy8R7QLA54 

小小心得: 若真的有此產業,對於現在社會的風氣, 應該馬上會有警示之用。

《青藏高原》 韩红 Han Hong - Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau

Ten Things That Will Disappear In Our Lifetime .

This is USA oriented, but Canada & the rest will not be far behind. Whether these changes are good or bad depends in part on how we adapt to them. But, ready or not, here they come.   1. The Post Office Get ready to imagine a world without the post office. They are so deeply in financial trouble that there is probably no way to sustain it long term. Email, Fed Ex, and UPS have just about wiped out the minimum revenue needed to keep the post office alive. Most of your mail every day is junk mail and bills. 2. The Cheque Britain is already laying the groundwork to do away with cheques by 2018. It costs the financial system billions of dollars a year to process checks. Plastic cards and online transactions will lead to the eventual demise of the check. This plays right into the death of the post office. If you never paid your bills by mail and never received them by mail, the post office would absolutely go out of business.   3. The Newspaper  The younger generation simply doesn't read the newspaper. They certainly don't subscribe to a daily delivered print edition. That may go the way of the milkman and the laundry man. As for reading the paper online, get ready to pay for it. The rise in mobile Internet devices and e-readers has caused all the newspaper and magazine publishers to form an alliance. They have met with Apple, Amazon, and the major cell phone companies to develop a model for paid subscription services.   4. The Book  You say you will never give up the physical book that you hold in your hand and turn the literal pages. I said the same thing about downloading music from iTunes. I wanted my hard copy CD. But I quickly changed my mind when I discovered that I could get albums for half the price without ever leaving home to get the latest music. The same thing will happen with books. You can browse a bookstore online and even read a preview chapter before you buy. And the price is less than half that of a real book. And think of the convenience! Once you start flicking your fingers on the screen instead of the book, you find that you are lost in the story, can't wait to see what happens next, and you forget that you're holding a gadget instead of a book.   5. The Land Line Telephone  Unless you have a large family and make a lot of local calls, you don't need it anymore. Most people keep it simply because they've always had it. But you are paying double charges for that extra service. All the cell phone companies will let you call customers using the same cell provider for no charge against your minutes. 6. Music  This is one of the saddest parts of the change story. The music industry is dying a slow death. Not just because of illegal downloading. It's the lack of innovative new music being given a chance to get to the people who would like to hear it. Greed and corruption is the problem. The record labels and the radio conglomerates are simply self-destructing. Over 40% of the music purchased today is "catalogue items," meaning traditional music that the public is familiar with. Older established artists. This is also true on the live concert circuit. To explore this fascinating and disturbing topic further, check out the book, "Appetite for Self-Destruction" by Steve Knopper, and the video documentary, "Before the Music Dies."   7. Television Revenues to the networks are down dramatically. Not just because of the economy. People are watching TV and movies streamed from their computers. And they're playing games and doing lots of other things that take up the time that used to be spent watching TV. Prime time shows have degenerated down to lower than the lowest common denominator. Cable rates are skyrocketing andcommercials run about every 4 minutes and 30 seconds. I say good riddance to most of it.  It's time for the cable companies to be put out of our misery. Let the people choose what they want to watch online and through Netflix.   8. The "Things" That You Own  Many of the very possessions that we used to own are still in our lives, but we may not actually own them in the future. They may simply reside in "the cloud." Today your computer has a hard drive and you store your pictures, music, movies, and documents. Your software is on a CD or DVD, and you can always re-install it if need be. But all of that is changing. Apple, Microsoft, and Google are all finishing up their latest "cloud services." That means that when you turn on a computer, the Internet will be built into the operating system. So, Windows, Google, and the Mac OS will be tied straight into the Internet. If you click an icon, it will open something in the Internet cloud. If you save something, it will be saved to the cloud. And you may pay a monthly subscription fee to the cloud provider. In this virtual world, you can access your music or your books, or your whatever from any laptop or handheld device. That's the good news. But, will you actually own any of this "stuff" or will it all be able to disappear at any moment in a big "Poof?" Will most of the things in our lives be disposable and whimsical? It makes you want to run to the closet and pull out that photo album, grab a book from the shelf, or open up a CD case and pull out the insert. 9. Joined Handwriting (Most schools no longer teaches cursive) Already gone in some schools who no longer teach "joined handwriting" because nearly everything is done now on computers or keyboards of some type (pun not intended) 10. Privacy  If there ever was a concept that we can look back on nostalgically, it would be privacy. That's gone. It's been gone for a long time anyway.. There are cameras on the street, in most of the buildings, and even built into your computer and cell phone. But you can be sure that 24/7, "They" know who you are and where you are, right down to the GPS coordinates, and the Google Street View. If you buy something, your habit is put into a zillion profiles, and your ads will change to reflect those habits.."They" will try to get you to buy something else. Again and again.   All we will have left that can't be changed are "Memories".

有意思的生活中的經濟學

1、【送茶葉的小故事】

張三一直喜歡喝20塊錢的茶葉。新開茶店裡每次張三去買茶葉,老闆都送他半兩好茶。張三將好茶攢著待客。一天閒來無事泡壺好茶，竟喝上癮。喝完免費的好茶，張三便不願喝20塊的了。不管他買多貴的茶葉，老闆總送他半兩更好的。半年下來，張三花在茶葉上的錢是原來的十倍！

2、【坐飛機的一個現象】

觀察30到40這個年紀的旅客，頭等艙的旅客往往是在看書，商務艙的旅客大多看雜誌用筆記本辦公，經濟艙則看報紙電影玩遊戲和聊天的較多。在機場，貴賓廳裡面的人大多在閱讀，而普通候機區全都在玩手機。那麼，到底是人的位置影響了行為呢，還是行為影響了位置呢？

3、【奪取先機】

商人帶兩袋大蒜到某地，當地人沒見過大蒜，極為喜愛，於是贈商人兩袋金子。另一商人聽說，便帶兩袋大蔥去，當地人覺得大蔥更美味，金子不足表達感情，於是把兩袋大蒜給了他。雖是故事，但生活往往如此，得先機者得金子，步後塵者就可能得大蒜！善於走自己的路，才可能走別人沒走過的路。

4、【不許偷酒】

某人買了一壇好酒，放在小院，第二天，酒少了1/5，便在酒桶上貼了不 許偷酒四個字。第三天酒又少了2/5，又貼了偷酒者重罰。第四天，酒還是被偷，於是貼尿桶二字，看誰還喝。第五天他哭了。桶滿了。……故事還沒完，第六天，他再次在酒桶上貼了不許偷酒四字。那一天很多人都哭了。

5、【換位思維】

一富豪到華爾街銀行借5000元貸款，借期兩週，銀行貸款須有抵押，富豪用停在門口的勞斯萊斯做抵押。銀行職員將他的勞斯萊斯停在地下車庫裡，然後借給富豪5000元，兩週後富豪來還錢，利息僅15元，銀行職員發現富豪帳上有幾百萬，問為啥還要借錢，富豪說："15元兩週的停車場，在華爾街是永遠找不到的。”（就是這樣精打細算才會富的吧！？）

6、【成功只有兩點】

一是做事成功，二是做人成功。做人不成功，成功是暫時的；做人成功，不成功也是暫時的。要做事，先做人。邱吉爾說，成功根本沒有秘訣，如果有的話，就只有兩個：一是堅持到底，永不放棄；二是當你想放棄的時候，請回過頭來再照著第一個秘訣去做。萬事只怕有心人。

7、【保齡球效應】

保齡球投擲對像是10個 瓶子，你如果每次砸倒9個瓶子，最終得分90分；而你如果每次能砸倒10個 瓶子，最終得分240分。社會記分規則就是這樣：只要你比 別人稍微優秀一點，能再多堅持一會，就贏得更多機會。這種 機會疊加就是人生效應的逐級放大，最終造成人與人之間巨大的落差。

8、【冰淇淋哲學】

賣冰淇淋必須從冬天開始，因為冬天顧客少，逼迫你降低成本改善服務。如果能在冬天中生存，就再也不會害怕夏天的競爭；同樣只有吃過苦才知道享受生活美好。想在順境中事業能蒸蒸日上，就必須在逆境中經過一番錘煉，這就是台灣著名企業家王永慶提出的“冰淇淋哲學”。

9、【名牌效應】

成本大概400——600元的愛馬仕，賣價6萬！富豪們依然趨之若鶩。啥叫名牌？成本價後面加一個0的，就叫名牌。成本價後面加兩個0的，就叫奢侈品。成本價後面隨便想加幾個0就加幾個0的，就叫文物！