Coca Cola

Coca-Cola is a carbonated soft drink sold in the stores, restaurants, and vending machines of more than 200 countries. It is produced by The Coca-Cola Company ofAtlanta, Georgia, and is often referred to simply as Coke (a registered trademark of The Coca-Cola Company in the United States since March 27, 1944). Originally intended as a patent medicine when it was invented in the late 19th century by John Pemberton, Coca-Cola was bought out by businessman Asa Griggs Candler, whose marketing tactics led Coke to its dominance of the world soft-drink market throughout the 20th century.

There are also collectors all over the world have been collecting all kinds of valuable Coca Cola items. I saw a series in one of the restaurant at Cameron Highlands last weekend. The collection is so cool!

And not surprise that prices for the oldest Coca-Cola memorabilia can be unreasonable high, and even items made during the '40s and '50s are usually quite popular and pricey as new Coke collectors enter the marketplace and demand increases.

Precious Resource

Cherish every drop of water!

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Limited clean water access is a big global problem.

People need to drink about a gallon of clean water every day, just to survive.

Basic needs such as washing and cooking add more than another 3 gallons or so per person each day.

Most people do not have the resources to get this much water.

People who are forced to drink dirty water are prone to many diseases.

Quick Facts:

Number of people in the world: 6.8 billion
Number of people without clean water access: 1 billion (14.7%)

Number of people with inadequate sanitation: 3.4 billion (50%) 

Number of countries in the world: 164

Number of countries without clean water access: 25 (15.2%)

Number of countries with inadequate sanitation: 63 (38.4%) 

This problem is worsened by global warming.

Global warming is causing more droughts, and hurricanes.

Droughts are periods of great dryness in an area, and the reason this worsens the problem is obvious.

Hurricanes are worsening this problem because they hit the areas that already have this problem.

When they hit these areas, they destroy the water system that the area has, so that the people can not get clean water. 

Think Green, Act Green

Since ancient times, people believe that human activity could affect the environment, and the truth is not only affecting, it’s destroying. If we want to help lessen global warming, change must start among ourselves. To help the earth, just 3 simple rules: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle.

Reduce your waste, your consumption, and reduce energy and water consumption. Let’s start with buy less small packages, although individually wrapped packages are more convenient, but they are wasteful. If you would like individual packaging, simply use small containers to divide up the bulk product.

The ways in which to reuse things are unlimited. One thing I wanna emphasize is the recycle bag, please don’t buy and keep so many recycle bags. The shopping bags are reusable, maximize it usage instead of buying it every time, this is not the idea of it. Bring a recycle bag from your house with you, or put a few in your car from now on, no more unnecessary purchase.

Starting a recycling program at your own home and do it continuously. There is no doubt that we have been wasting too many things that should have been recycled. Place different bins and label it, so that can remind your family member to discard things in a right way. Actually bathrooms can generate a fair amount of recyclable waste, shampoo bottles, toilet paper tubes etc. Get ready to recycle, start from now!

Sleeping Position

Professor Chris Idzikowski, director of the UK Sleep Assessment and Advisory Service analysed six common sleeping positions - and found that each is linked to a particular personality type.

What your sleeping position says about you ...

Foetus

Those who curl up in the foetus position are described as tough on the outside but sensitive at heart. They may be shy when they first meet somebody, but soon relax. This is the most common sleeping position, adopted by 41% of the 1,000 people who took part in the survey. More than twice as many women as men tend to adopt this position. 

Log

Lying on your side with both arms down by your side. These sleepers are easy going, social people who like being part of the in-crowd, and who are trusting of strangers. However, they may be gullible.

Yearner

People who sleep on their side with both arms out in front are said to have an open nature, but can be suspicious, cynical. They are slow to make up their minds, but once they have taken a decision, they are unlikely ever to change it. 

Soldier

Lying on your back with both arms pinned to your sides. People who sleep in this position are generally quiet and reserved. They don't like a fuss, but set themselves and others high standards. 

Freefall

Lying on your front with your hands around the pillow, and your head turned to one side. Often gregarious and brash people, but can be nervy and thin-skinned underneath, and don't like criticism, or extreme situations. 

Starfish

Lying on your back with both arms up around the pillow. These sleepers make good friends because they are always ready to listen to others, and offer help when needed. They generally don't like to be the centre of attention. 

The remainder of those in the poll said the position they fell asleep varied or did not know. 

Professor Idzikowski also examined the effect of various sleeping positions on health. He concluded that the freefall position was good for digestion, while the starfish and soldier positions were more likely to lead to snoring and a bad night's sleep. 

Professor Idzikowski said "Lying down flat means that stomach contents can more readily be worked back up into the mouth, while those who lie on their back may end up snoring and breathing less well during the night. "Both these postures may not necessarily awaken the sleeper but could cause a less refreshing night's sleep." 

The research also found that most people are unlikely to change their sleeping position. Just 5% said they sleep in a different position every night.

Poke the Penguin

Mammal

Mammals in general are the warm-blooded, hairy and air-breathing animals.

They all produce milk.

Almost all the mammals live on land. Bats are the only mammals that can fly. Dolphins and whales are the aquatic mammals. 

With a couple of exceptions, mammals give birth to live young. Platypus and Echidna are the two mammals that lay eggs.

Elephants have huge feet and can weigh more than five tons. But their feet are big, soft and spongy that spread their weight out so well they barely even leave footprints.

Do you know why bats hang upside-down? They hang upside-down because they can't stand right-side up. Their leg bones are too thin to hold up their bodies.

A polar bear looks white, but he isn't really white. His long, shaggy hairs are colorless and hollow. Beneath his hair, the skin is black.

Hippopotamuses give birth and breastfeed under water - despite the fact almost all their predators live in the water.

Kangaroos need very little water to survive and are capable of going for months without drinking at all. 

The kangaroo's young one lives in its mother's pouch till its quite large. Even when its quite large it still drinks milk from a teat in its mother's pouch.

An adult koala eats about 1/2 to 1 kg of leaves each night, but the nutrition they get from these leaves is poor. This leaves them with a little energy, so they spend most of their lives sleeping.

All mammals are able to maintain a constant body temperature, irrespective of the environmental temperature. An average body temperature of mammals ranges from 90-104F.