Just For Laughs - Reality TV

Just For Laughs - Reality TV

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZS8YBnklLW8&feature=player_embedded

Largest flower in the world; born in Estado Veracruz , México

Largest flower in the world; born in Estado Veracruz , México

Amorphophallus titanum, also called cadaverous flower, grown in Río Blanco, Veracruz, México,
is the largest flower in the world, towering two meters high and weighing 75 kilos. It blooms for only three days every 40 years.

I love nature

Warning from the British Ministry of health regarding Energy Saving Bulb

英國衛生部關於節能燈泡作出警告/ Warning from the British Ministry of health regarding Energy

Warning from the British Ministry of health about Energy Saving bulbs
These type of bulbs which are called Energy Saving or low Energy bulbs, if it broken i t causes serious danger! As much that everybody will have to leave the room for at least 15 minutes.

Because it contains Mercury (poisonous) which cause migraine, disorientation, imbalances and different other health problems while inhalation.

And many people with allergies, causes them severe skin condition and other diseases just by touching this substance or inhaling it.

Also the ministry! warned by NOT cleaning the debris of the broken bulb with the vacuum cleaner, because it would spread the contamination to other rooms in the house while using the vacuum cleaner again.
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It must be cleaned through normal broom or brush and be kept in a sealed bag and thrown right away from the house in the ban for hazardous materials.


Notice: Mercury is dangerous, more poisonous than lead or arsenic!!!!

英國衛生部關於節 能燈泡作出警告


這種類型的燈泡被稱為節能燈泡或省電 燈泡，如果打破後，它會導致嚴重的危險！盡可能每個人都必須離 開房間至少15分鐘。
因為它含有汞（毒），若吸入體內會造成偏頭痛， 定向障礙，不平衡和不同的其他健康問題。
僅僅通過觸摸或吸入這種物質，有許多人有過敏反 應，導致他們患上嚴重的皮膚病和其他疾病。
該部還警告！不要用真空吸塵器清 理碎片及破碎的燈泡，因為它會蔓延到其他房間，污染家裡的環境。

必須通過正常的清潔刷和掃帚及保存在密封袋，馬 上扔到禁止危險材料的收集處。

Tiger Wood

More Carrefour stores caught overcharging

More Carrefour stores caught overcharging
(China Daily)
Updated: 2011-02-09 10:17

BEIJING - Two more Carrefour stores were found to have overcharged customers, after 11 of the French retailer's stores in China were fined 500,000 yuan ($76,000) each in a government campaign to crack down on price manipulation during the Spring Festival holiday.

Guangzhou-based New Express Daily reported on Sunday that during a Spring Festival inspection, the Guangzhou price bureau found that Carrefour's Xinshi and Tianheyuancun stores were selling goods for more than the tag prices.

"An investigation is under way but the illegal pricing practices have been confirmed," Wu Linbo, deputy director of the Guangzhou price bureau, was quoted by the newspaper as saying. According to the newspaper, the local government will soon publicize the penalty it decides upon.

The National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) announced on Jan 26 that 11 Carrefour stores and three Wal-Mart stores were found to be overcharging customers and urged local authorities to act.

The practices included referring to normal prices as sales prices, charging more than what was listed on price tags, and misleading customers with price figures typed in different sizes.

Following the statement, the 11 Carrefour stores in six cities were fined 500,000 yuan each.

While China is combating inflation, overcharging practices during Spring Festival have become a focus of price regulators.

New Express reported Carrefour's Guangzhou branch did not respond to a telephone request for comment but said in a text message that it would cooperate with investigators and take appropriate action.

Carrefour released a statement in late January, after the NDRC announcement, saying it "sincerely apologizes".

The NDRC said in a statement before the Spring Festival that all supermarkets in China must avoid overcharging customers, and it added that it would step up price monitoring over the Lunar New Year.

Carrefour China has promised customers it would refund five times the difference between the advertised prices and incorrect prices charged.

The refund policy will be permanently implemented at Carrefour's 182 outlets in China. However, China Central Television reported that many customers cannot clearly remember how much they were overcharged in the supermarket or find it not worth the effort to collect refunds of less than 100 yuan.

Chen Bo, a spokesperson with Carrefour China, said in an interview with Xinhua News Agency on Jan 30 that the company has established short-term and long-term measures addressing the issue, including setting up a group to conduct internal price inspections "widely and frequently".

Wu Gaohan, former vice-secretary general of the China Consumers' Association, said multinationals, such as Carrefour and Wal-Mart that have been found to have intentionally overcharged customers, should face stiffer penalties, according to the People's Daily.

The newspaper also quoted Liu Junhai, a commercial-law professor at Renmin University of China, as saying that overcharging scandals will seriously harm the stores' reputations.

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/business/2011-02/09/content_11968076.htm

Thousands of sky lanterns released in search of good luck

Thousands of sky lanterns released in search of good luck
February 13, 2011

TAIPEI--Chilly rain did not dampen the enthusiasm of 2011 Pingsi Sky Lantern Festival-goers yesterday, as thousands of sky lanterns in search of good luck for the coming year filled the skies over New Taipei City's Pingsi district in northern Taiwan.

total of 2,000 gift lanterns were distributed within just 90 minutes of the noon opening to people in the huge crowds attracted to the annual extravaganza held in the grounds of Pingsi Junior High School.

To celebrate the Republic of China's centennial, a gigantic sky lantern bearing 16 Chinese characters written by President Ma Ying-jeou wishing the country a prosperous, harmonious and lucky 2011, took the lead, soaring into the heavens at 6 p.m.

Like the president, 28-year-old Przemek Jura from Poland was among the 200 people who lit and released the first wave of lanterns.

“Letting off a sky lantern is a very unusual cultural experience for a Catholic like me,” said Jura, who has lived in Taiwan for two-and-a-half years.

“I usually watch the festival on TV, but decided to experience it in person this year,” he said, pointing at the words in Polish he had written on his lantern: “May I have good health.”

As the lanterns rose gently into the sky, the crowds burst into exclamations of encouragement, as according to tradition, the higher the miniature hot-air balloons rise, the more good luck they will bring to their releasers.

By 8 p.m., according to the New Taipei City Tourism Bureau, which organized the event, at least 100,000 people were estimated to have visited the mountain district.

The sky lantern, also known as the Kongming lantern, is said to have been invented by Zhuge Kongming during the Three Kingdoms period of 220-280 A.D.

A noted sage and military strategist, Zhuge used the lanterns, which work by trapping hot air produced by a burning wick — like a modern-day hot-air balloon — to deliver military information when his troops were trapped by the enemy.