若要皮膚好，粥裏放紅棗。
> 若要不失眠，粥裏添白蓮。
> 腰酸腎氣虛，煮粥放板栗。
> 心虛氣不足，粥加桂圓肉。
> 頭昏多汗症，粥里加薏仁。
> 潤肺又止咳，粥里加百合。
> 消暑解熱毒，常飲綠豆粥。
> 烏髮又補腎，粥加核桃仁。
> 若要降血壓，煮粥加荷葉。
> 滋陰潤肺好，煮粥加銀耳。
> 春季防流腦，薺菜煮粥好。
> 健脾助消化，煮粥添山楂。
> 夢多又健忘，粥里加蛋黃。
>
> 利尿消腫治腳氣，赤豆粥裏勝補劑。
> 消熱生津又和胃，甘蔗做粥來補胃。
> 傷風感冒又腹痛，生薑上場來做粥。
> 滋腎補肝又明目，枸杞加上粥裏香。
>
> 生梨潤肺化痰好，
> 蘋果止瀉營養高。
> 黃瓜減肥有成效，
> 抑制癌症獼猴桃。
> 番茄補血助容顏，
> 蓮藕除煩解酒妙。
> 橘子理氣好化痰，
> 韭菜補腎暖膝腰。
> 蘿蔔消食除脹氣，
> 芹菜能治血壓高。
> 白菜利尿排毒素，
> 菜花常吃癌症少。
> 冬瓜消腫有利尿，
> 綠豆解毒療效高。
> 木耳搞癌散血淤，
> 山藥益腎浮腫消。
> 海帶含碘散淤結，
> 蘑菇抑制癌細胞。
> 胡椒驅寒兼除濕，
> 蔥辣姜湯治感冒。
> 魚蝦豬蹄補乳汁，
> 豬肝明目非常好。
> 益腎強腰吃核桃，
> 健腎補脾吃紅棗
Friday, May 20, 2011
Thursday, May 19, 2011
Friday, May 13, 2011
Who owns the future?
Who Owns the Future?
By Patrick J. Buchanan
That speaks about who is going to be leading tomorrow.”
So said Angel Gurria, secretary-general of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.
Every three years, the Paris-based OECD holds its Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) tests of the reading, math and science skills of 15-year-olds in developing and developed countries. Gurria was talking of the results of the 2009 tests.
Sixty-five nations competed. The Chinese swept the board.
The schools of Shanghai-China finished first in math, reading and science. Hong Kong-China was third in math and science. Singapore, a city-state dominated by overseas Chinese, was second in math, fourth in science.
Only Korea, Japan and Finland were in the hunt.
And the U.S.A.? America ranked 14th in reading, 17th in science and 25th in math, producing the familiar quack-quack.
“This is an absolute wake-up call for America,” said Education Secretary Arne Duncan. “We have to face the brutal truth. We have to get much more serious about investment in education.”
But the “brutal truth” is that we invest more per pupil than any other country save Luxembourg, and we are broke. And a closer look at the PISA scores reveals some unacknowledged truths.
True, East Asians — Chinese, Koreans, Japanese — are turning in the top scores in all three categories, followed by the Europeans, Canadians, Australians and New Zealanders.
But, looking down the New York Times list of the top 30 nations, one finds not a single Latin American nation, not a single African nation, not a single Muslim nation, not a single South or Southeast Asian nation (save Singapore), not a single nation of the old Soviet Union except Latvia and Estonia.
And in Europe as in Asia, the northern countries (Finland, Norway, Belgium, Iceland, Austria, Germany) outscore the southern (Greece, Italy, Portugal). Slovenia and Croatia, formerly of the Habsburg Empire, outperformed Albania and Serbia, which spent centuries under Turkish rule.
Among the OECD members, the most developed 34 nations on earth, Mexico, principal feeder nation for U.S. schools, came in dead last in reading.
Steve Sailer of VDARE.com got the full list of 65 nations, broke down U.S. reading scores by race, then measured Americans with the countries and continents whence their families originated. What he found was surprising.
Asian-Americans outperform all Asian students except for Shanghai-Chinese. White Americans outperform students from all 37 predominantly white nations except Finns, and U.S. Hispanics outperformed the students of all eight Latin American countries that participated in the tests.
African-American kids would have outscored the students of any sub-Saharan African country that took the test (none did) and did outperform the only black country to participate, Trinidad and Tobago, by 25 points.
America’s public schools, then, are not abject failures.
They are educating immigrants and their descendants to outperform the kinfolk their parents or ancestors left behind when they came to America. America’s schools are improving the academic performance of all Americans above what it would have been had they not come to America.
What American schools are failing at, despite the trillions poured into schools since the 1965 Elementary and Secondary Education Act, is closing the racial divide.
We do not know how to close the gap in reading, science and math between Anglo and Asian students and black and Hispanic students.
And from the PISA tests, neither does any other country on earth.
The gap between the test scores of East Asian and European nations and those of Latin America and African nations mirrors the gap between Asian and white students in the U.S. and black and Hispanic students in the U.S.
Which brings us to “Bad Students, Not Bad Schools,” a new book in which Dr. Robert Weissberg contends that U.S. educational experts deliberately “refuse to confront the obvious truth.”
“America’s educational woes reflect our demographic mix of students. Today’s schools are filled with millions of youngsters, many of whom are Hispanic immigrants struggling with English plus millions of others of mediocre intellectual ability disdaining academic achievement.”
In the public and parochial schools of the 1940s and 1950s, kids were pushed to the limits of their ability, then pushed harder. And when they stopped learning, they were pushed out the door.
Writes Weissberg: “To be grossly politically incorrect, most of America’s educational woes vanish if these indifferent, troublesome students left when they had absorbed as much as they were going to learn and were replaced by learning-hungry students from Korea, Japan, India, Russia, Africa and the Caribbean.”
Weissberg contends that 80 percent of a school’s success depends on two factors: the cognitive ability of the child and the disposition he brings to class — not on texts, teachers or classroom size.
If the brains and the will to learn are absent, no amount of spending on schools, teacher salaries, educational consultants or new texts will matter.
A nation weary of wasting billions on unctuous educators who never deliver what they promise may be ready to hear some hard truths.
By Patrick J. Buchanan
That speaks about who is going to be leading tomorrow.”
So said Angel Gurria, secretary-general of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.
Every three years, the Paris-based OECD holds its Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) tests of the reading, math and science skills of 15-year-olds in developing and developed countries. Gurria was talking of the results of the 2009 tests.
Sixty-five nations competed. The Chinese swept the board.
The schools of Shanghai-China finished first in math, reading and science. Hong Kong-China was third in math and science. Singapore, a city-state dominated by overseas Chinese, was second in math, fourth in science.
Only Korea, Japan and Finland were in the hunt.
And the U.S.A.? America ranked 14th in reading, 17th in science and 25th in math, producing the familiar quack-quack.
“This is an absolute wake-up call for America,” said Education Secretary Arne Duncan. “We have to face the brutal truth. We have to get much more serious about investment in education.”
But the “brutal truth” is that we invest more per pupil than any other country save Luxembourg, and we are broke. And a closer look at the PISA scores reveals some unacknowledged truths.
True, East Asians — Chinese, Koreans, Japanese — are turning in the top scores in all three categories, followed by the Europeans, Canadians, Australians and New Zealanders.
But, looking down the New York Times list of the top 30 nations, one finds not a single Latin American nation, not a single African nation, not a single Muslim nation, not a single South or Southeast Asian nation (save Singapore), not a single nation of the old Soviet Union except Latvia and Estonia.
And in Europe as in Asia, the northern countries (Finland, Norway, Belgium, Iceland, Austria, Germany) outscore the southern (Greece, Italy, Portugal). Slovenia and Croatia, formerly of the Habsburg Empire, outperformed Albania and Serbia, which spent centuries under Turkish rule.
Among the OECD members, the most developed 34 nations on earth, Mexico, principal feeder nation for U.S. schools, came in dead last in reading.
Steve Sailer of VDARE.com got the full list of 65 nations, broke down U.S. reading scores by race, then measured Americans with the countries and continents whence their families originated. What he found was surprising.
Asian-Americans outperform all Asian students except for Shanghai-Chinese. White Americans outperform students from all 37 predominantly white nations except Finns, and U.S. Hispanics outperformed the students of all eight Latin American countries that participated in the tests.
African-American kids would have outscored the students of any sub-Saharan African country that took the test (none did) and did outperform the only black country to participate, Trinidad and Tobago, by 25 points.
America’s public schools, then, are not abject failures.
They are educating immigrants and their descendants to outperform the kinfolk their parents or ancestors left behind when they came to America. America’s schools are improving the academic performance of all Americans above what it would have been had they not come to America.
What American schools are failing at, despite the trillions poured into schools since the 1965 Elementary and Secondary Education Act, is closing the racial divide.
We do not know how to close the gap in reading, science and math between Anglo and Asian students and black and Hispanic students.
And from the PISA tests, neither does any other country on earth.
The gap between the test scores of East Asian and European nations and those of Latin America and African nations mirrors the gap between Asian and white students in the U.S. and black and Hispanic students in the U.S.
Which brings us to “Bad Students, Not Bad Schools,” a new book in which Dr. Robert Weissberg contends that U.S. educational experts deliberately “refuse to confront the obvious truth.”
“America’s educational woes reflect our demographic mix of students. Today’s schools are filled with millions of youngsters, many of whom are Hispanic immigrants struggling with English plus millions of others of mediocre intellectual ability disdaining academic achievement.”
In the public and parochial schools of the 1940s and 1950s, kids were pushed to the limits of their ability, then pushed harder. And when they stopped learning, they were pushed out the door.
Writes Weissberg: “To be grossly politically incorrect, most of America’s educational woes vanish if these indifferent, troublesome students left when they had absorbed as much as they were going to learn and were replaced by learning-hungry students from Korea, Japan, India, Russia, Africa and the Caribbean.”
Weissberg contends that 80 percent of a school’s success depends on two factors: the cognitive ability of the child and the disposition he brings to class — not on texts, teachers or classroom size.
If the brains and the will to learn are absent, no amount of spending on schools, teacher salaries, educational consultants or new texts will matter.
A nation weary of wasting billions on unctuous educators who never deliver what they promise may be ready to hear some hard truths.
鹽核對聯與笑話
日本爆發核危機，中國各地掀起搶鹽潮，激發大陸網民的創意，寫出一些對聯和笑話。對聯不講究工整，只求有趣。謹錄數個以饗讀友們。
上聯：日本謂大核民族（大和民族）；下聯：中國乃鹽荒子孫（炎黃子孫）；橫批：有碘意思（有點意思）
上聯：大核民族五十七座核電密佈，意欲核威（意欲何為）；下聯：鹽荒子孫五十六個民族搶鹽，鹽面安在（顏面何在）；橫批：核出此鹽（何出此言）
上聯：日本人在核輻射中等待碘鹽；下聯：中國人搶碘鹽以等待核輻射；橫批：無鹽以對（無顏以對）
一男一女相親。女：你有房嗎？男：沒有！女：你有車嗎？男：沒有！女：你有存款嗎？男：沒有……女：你什麼都沒有，還來相親！男：我有鹽……。女：啊，老公……。
世上最痛苦的是什麼？輻射來了，鹽沒了；世上最最痛苦的是什麼？輻射來了，吃鹽沒用；世上最最最痛苦的是什麼？輻射沒來，鹽買太多了；世上最最最最痛苦是什麼？人都死了，鹽還沒用完。
叫外賣：麻煩你給送一份鹵肉飯。飯店：您要哪一款鹵肉飯？不放鹽的 15，放鹽的 30，雙份加鹽的 50，我們最近還非凡推出「鹹死你」超值碘鹽防輻射皇家尊貴鹵肉飯套餐，只需 98喲，送一瓶碘酒呢。
上聯：日本謂大核民族（大和民族）；下聯：中國乃鹽荒子孫（炎黃子孫）；橫批：有碘意思（有點意思）
上聯：大核民族五十七座核電密佈，意欲核威（意欲何為）；下聯：鹽荒子孫五十六個民族搶鹽，鹽面安在（顏面何在）；橫批：核出此鹽（何出此言）
上聯：日本人在核輻射中等待碘鹽；下聯：中國人搶碘鹽以等待核輻射；橫批：無鹽以對（無顏以對）
一男一女相親。女：你有房嗎？男：沒有！女：你有車嗎？男：沒有！女：你有存款嗎？男：沒有……女：你什麼都沒有，還來相親！男：我有鹽……。女：啊，老公……。
世上最痛苦的是什麼？輻射來了，鹽沒了；世上最最痛苦的是什麼？輻射來了，吃鹽沒用；世上最最最痛苦的是什麼？輻射沒來，鹽買太多了；世上最最最最痛苦是什麼？人都死了，鹽還沒用完。
叫外賣：麻煩你給送一份鹵肉飯。飯店：您要哪一款鹵肉飯？不放鹽的 15，放鹽的 30，雙份加鹽的 50，我們最近還非凡推出「鹹死你」超值碘鹽防輻射皇家尊貴鹵肉飯套餐，只需 98喲，送一瓶碘酒呢。
香港人
港人愛投訴 比災民更可悲！
撰文:三十會 莊綺雯精算師
欄名:中產階級心聲
日本大地震發生後，在本港電視新聞中看到兩則訪問：一位準備隨旅行團到日本的男士，被問有否考慮取消旅遊，他回答：「沒有，因錢已付，假已請。」記者遂問他會否擔心人身安全，他回答：「不擔心，香港政府會照顧我們的。」記者再追問他照顧我們是甚麼意思，他回答：「政府會包（飛）機來接我們。」
另一對滯留仙台的自駕遊夫婦則埋怨香港入境處沒有提供協助，只叫他們到東京找已到該處的入境處職員幫忙，其在港的弟弟再向入境處查詢，他略有微言地說，入境處連當地的道路情況也提供不到。
地震照旅行 「政府會包機」
可悲！我們香港人比日本的災民更可悲！將金錢和假期放在一個比自己生命更重要的地位上。可悲！將對生命的責任推卸到政府身上。可悲！遇到突發事故，自救的能力只局限於打電話回港到政府部門求救、埋怨和投訴。可悲！愚昧無知到認為香港政府是神仙，料事如神，萬事皆能。可悲！而最可悲的是，他們認為自己是對的。
60、70年代的香港經濟遠不及現在繁榮，科技遠不及現在發達，人民的教育水平也遠不及現在高。但當時的香港人卻安份守己，默默耕耘，不但沒有怨天尤人，反而更懂得珍惜身邊的人和事，或許大家經歷過戰亂，所以深明很多東西都得來不易。那個年頭，停電制水不時發生，街頭巷尾點上蠟燭照明，一家老少拿着水桶到街上拿水，互相打個招呼，無奈地說句：「又無電無水了！」便各自回家洗澡做飯。即使生活上不是風調雨順，也不會自怨自艾，更不會怨天尤人，埋怨政府、憎恨社會。
喜小事化大 每抗議鬥爭
現在的香港在各方面都比以往繁榮進步，但人民素質卻大大倒退。現今的香港人以「投訴、包機、退錢」聞名，終日生活在不滿和埋怨當中，習慣將個人責任推卸到別人身上，將投訴變成解決問題的唯一方法。傳媒喜歡將小事化大，事情愈負面，報道便愈有價值。議員和政黨為了爭取票數，做事以取易不取難為原則，多處理投訴，少處理政策，還經常帶領市民抗議鬥爭。
社會的風氣和價值觀被不斷扭曲，人民的責任感沒有了，生活的和諧也沒有了，社會的凝聚力也沒有。
香港——這個可悲的城市！
讀後感:
我這個從五十年代走過來的"耆嬰"，曾喜看香港由荒原發展成高樓林立，社會住民自發性自律性强素質高，躍身亞洲四小龍的先追都市，以此亦以己輩為傲。情何以堪，瞬間廿年
，無核變衝擊，此也却已變成悲情之都。
這個轉變，才真令人可悲!! 民何以牧?!
撰文:三十會 莊綺雯精算師
欄名:中產階級心聲
日本大地震發生後，在本港電視新聞中看到兩則訪問：一位準備隨旅行團到日本的男士，被問有否考慮取消旅遊，他回答：「沒有，因錢已付，假已請。」記者遂問他會否擔心人身安全，他回答：「不擔心，香港政府會照顧我們的。」記者再追問他照顧我們是甚麼意思，他回答：「政府會包（飛）機來接我們。」
另一對滯留仙台的自駕遊夫婦則埋怨香港入境處沒有提供協助，只叫他們到東京找已到該處的入境處職員幫忙，其在港的弟弟再向入境處查詢，他略有微言地說，入境處連當地的道路情況也提供不到。
地震照旅行 「政府會包機」
可悲！我們香港人比日本的災民更可悲！將金錢和假期放在一個比自己生命更重要的地位上。可悲！將對生命的責任推卸到政府身上。可悲！遇到突發事故，自救的能力只局限於打電話回港到政府部門求救、埋怨和投訴。可悲！愚昧無知到認為香港政府是神仙，料事如神，萬事皆能。可悲！而最可悲的是，他們認為自己是對的。
60、70年代的香港經濟遠不及現在繁榮，科技遠不及現在發達，人民的教育水平也遠不及現在高。但當時的香港人卻安份守己，默默耕耘，不但沒有怨天尤人，反而更懂得珍惜身邊的人和事，或許大家經歷過戰亂，所以深明很多東西都得來不易。那個年頭，停電制水不時發生，街頭巷尾點上蠟燭照明，一家老少拿着水桶到街上拿水，互相打個招呼，無奈地說句：「又無電無水了！」便各自回家洗澡做飯。即使生活上不是風調雨順，也不會自怨自艾，更不會怨天尤人，埋怨政府、憎恨社會。
喜小事化大 每抗議鬥爭
現在的香港在各方面都比以往繁榮進步，但人民素質卻大大倒退。現今的香港人以「投訴、包機、退錢」聞名，終日生活在不滿和埋怨當中，習慣將個人責任推卸到別人身上，將投訴變成解決問題的唯一方法。傳媒喜歡將小事化大，事情愈負面，報道便愈有價值。議員和政黨為了爭取票數，做事以取易不取難為原則，多處理投訴，少處理政策，還經常帶領市民抗議鬥爭。
社會的風氣和價值觀被不斷扭曲，人民的責任感沒有了，生活的和諧也沒有了，社會的凝聚力也沒有。
香港——這個可悲的城市！
讀後感:
我這個從五十年代走過來的"耆嬰"，曾喜看香港由荒原發展成高樓林立，社會住民自發性自律性强素質高，躍身亞洲四小龍的先追都市，以此亦以己輩為傲。情何以堪，瞬間廿年
，無核變衝擊，此也却已變成悲情之都。
這個轉變，才真令人可悲!! 民何以牧?!
Putting the 'news' in perspective
1. The Wall Street Journal is read by the people who run the country.
2. The Washington Post is read by people who think they run the country.
3. The New York Times is read by people who think they should run the country and who are very good at crossword puzzles.
4. USA Today is read by people who think they ought to run the country but don't really understand The New York Times. They do, however, like their statistics shown in pie charts.
5. The Los Angeles Times is read by people who wouldn't mind running the country, if they could find the time -- and if they didn't have to leave Southern California to do it.
6. The Bosto n Globe is read by people whose parents used to run the country.
7. The New York Post is read by people who don't care who is running the country as long as they do something really scandalous, preferably while intoxicated.
8. The Miami Herald is read by people who are running another country, but need the baseball scores.
9. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch is read by people who want only the score of the Cardinals game. They drink Budweiser, Budweiser, and -- wait a minute -- what was the question?
10. The San Francisco Chronicle is read by people who aren't sure if there is a country or that anyone is running it; but if so, they oppose all that they stand for. There are occasional exceptions if the leaders are handicapped minority feminist atheist dwarfs who also happen to be illegal aliens from any other country or galaxy, provided of course, that they are not Republicans.
11. The National Enquirer is read by people trapped in line at the grocery store.
12. The Seattle Times is read by people who have recently caught a fish and need something to wrap it in.
2. The Washington Post is read by people who think they run the country.
3. The New York Times is read by people who think they should run the country and who are very good at crossword puzzles.
4. USA Today is read by people who think they ought to run the country but don't really understand The New York Times. They do, however, like their statistics shown in pie charts.
5. The Los Angeles Times is read by people who wouldn't mind running the country, if they could find the time -- and if they didn't have to leave Southern California to do it.
6. The Bosto n Globe is read by people whose parents used to run the country.
7. The New York Post is read by people who don't care who is running the country as long as they do something really scandalous, preferably while intoxicated.
8. The Miami Herald is read by people who are running another country, but need the baseball scores.
9. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch is read by people who want only the score of the Cardinals game. They drink Budweiser, Budweiser, and -- wait a minute -- what was the question?
10. The San Francisco Chronicle is read by people who aren't sure if there is a country or that anyone is running it; but if so, they oppose all that they stand for. There are occasional exceptions if the leaders are handicapped minority feminist atheist dwarfs who also happen to be illegal aliens from any other country or galaxy, provided of course, that they are not Republicans.
11. The National Enquirer is read by people trapped in line at the grocery store.
12. The Seattle Times is read by people who have recently caught a fish and need something to wrap it in.
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