We've heard strawberry, raspberry and many more common names. How many of you have heard pineberry ?
Some people called it the pineapple strawberry. It has white outer appearance decorated with small red dots. So hoping that i can taste it someday....=)
"The fruit flesh can range from soft white to orange and is very fragrant with a slight pineapple flavor," said Greg Goddard, the co-creator.
The Amazing Race is a reality show that broadcast
races in two as they race around the word for 1 million dollar. The latest
season 21, sees Josh and Brent the Goatfarmer, who nearly escaped elimination
for 7 times ! The most in the amazing race history. However, their sheer perseverance
and determination allow them to surge ahead and grab the grand prize in the
final leg. Kudos..
During the race, Josh and Brent breaks the dominant
force of “final 3 alliances” consisting Trey and Lexi, Jaymes and James, and
the twins, Natalie and Nadiya. They prove that underdogs can have their right
time to shine, and they did it at the last leg where it counts most. They
overcame obstacles and have glimpse of hope every time they falter which seems
to be persistently happening since leg 5. They arrived last in an
non-elimination leg and also edged out :
Rob and Kelly – took the slow transportation and never
make up the time lost
James and Abba: Abba lost his passport
Abbie and Ryan: being U-turned by Jaymes and James
Natalie and Nadiya: bad luck struck upon them at the
right times.
They were deserving winners, as they race with honour
and integrity. Compared to the twins and Trey and lexi, the money stealers. Jaymes
and James betrayed Abbie and Ryan just to prevent a strong winner from getting
into the final, although Abbie and Ryan helped them in leg 3.
All in all, Josh and Brent did the best and I hope
that they can be an inspiring factor to motivate people to do their best with
honour and integrity and eventually, the right moment for victory will come,
and that makes a victory much more meaningful.
It takes bravery and special training to venture into the hydrogen sulfide atmosphere of the Bahama caves known as inland blue holes. Offshore flooded caves, so-called ocean blue holes, are extensions of the sea, subject to the same heavy tides and host to many of the same species found in the surrounding waters. Inland blue holes, however, are unlike any other environment on Earth, thanks largely to their geology and water chemistry. In these flooded caves, such as Stargate on Andros Island, the reduced tidal flow results in a sharp stratification of water chemistry. A thin lens of fresh water—supplied by rainfall—lies atop a denser layer of salt water. The freshwater lens acts as a lid, isolating the salt water from atmospheric oxygen and inhibiting bacteria from causing organic matter to decay. Bacteria in the zone just below the fresh water survive by exploiting sulfate (one of the salts in the water), generating hydrogen sulfide as a by-product. Known on land as swamp or sewer gas, hydrogen sulfide in higher doses can cause delirium and death. http://www.neatorama.com/2010/07/18/cave…
Blue holes are roughly circular, steep-walled depressions, and so named for the dramatic contrast between the dark blue, deep waters of their depths and the lighter blue of the shallows around them. Their water circulation is poor, and they are commonly anoxic below a certain depth; this environment is unfavorable for most sea life, but nonetheless can support large numbers of bacteria. The deep blue color is caused by the high transparency of water and bright white carbonate sand. Blue light is the most enduring part of the spectrum; where other parts of the spectrum - red, yellow, and finally green - are absorbed during their path through water, blue light manages to reach the white sand and return back upon reflection.
The deepest blue hole in the world—at 202 metres (663 ft)—is Dean's Blue Hole, located in a bay west of Clarence Town on Long Island, Bahamas. Blue holes formed during past ice ages, when sea level was as much as 100–120 metres (330–390 ft) lower than at present. At those times, these formations were subjected to the same erosion from rain and chemical weathering common in all limestone-rich terrains; this ended once they were submerged at the end of the ice age. Most blue holes contain both freshwater and saltwater. The halocline is the point in these blue holes where the freshwater meets the saltwater and where a corrosive reaction takes place that eats away at the rock. Over time this can create side passages, or horizontal "arms", that extend from the vertical cave. These side passages can be quite long; e.g., over 600 metres (2,000 ft) in the case of the Sawmill Sink in the Bahamas. Blue holes are typically found on shallow carbonate platforms, exemplified by the Bahama Banks. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_hole
Blue holes can run extremely deep underground, with one Bahamian blue hole exceeding 600 feet (180 meters) below sea level, and contain a series of mazelike passageways going miles in many directions. These cave systems can transition from giant rooms to tiny holes that divers must remove all of their gear in order to squeeze through. To add to the challenge, currents reverse in the ocean caves, making timing of dives critical. In the Bahamas , the inland underground systems serve as aquifers that contain the rain water that percolates down through the porous limestone. In these geologic reservoirs, a thin lens of the lighter freshwater floats above the denser salt water. In addition to its critical role as a source of potable water, this underground world is home to dozens of new species, including a new class of crustaceans. The Bahamian archipelago spans almost 1,000 miles (1,609.3 kilometers), allowing the team to test theories of human and animal migration, and to reconstruct regional climate back hundreds of thousands of years. These reconstructions can help us understand the extent and rates of global sea level rise as well as occurrences of abrupt climate change, both important issues in the face of global warming. http://www.nationalgeographic.com/field/…
Blue holes in the Bahamas are usually classified as one of several types: (1) Sinkholes, which are the large round blue holes usually seen from the air and are the type of formation where the Blue Holes get their name. (2) Fault line or fracture, which arevery deep caves are usually associated with localized faulting. The systems generally run parallel to a deep-water, offshore canyons such as the Tongue of the Ocean east of Andros Island, or the Exuma Sound, east of the Exuma Cays. (3) Lens based blue holes are usually the longest of the blue holes and are often highly decorated with speleothems. They are the result of a well-defined fresh water lens, actively dissolving a vast system of passages into the limestone. These are also known as flooded flank margin caves.
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Each of these different types of caves could be associated with or connected to each other. For example, Angelfish Blue Hole in the Exuma Cays is predominantly a lens-based cave that connects through several passages to a major local fault line cave system. After their initial creation, fault line caves continue to enlarge by the same chemical processes as lens-based caves. Because of its subsurface entrance this cave is also considered a marine or ocean blue hole. Another example is Bottomly's Blue Hole and Mystery Cave on Stocking Island, Exuma. Bottomly's is an inland (Anchialine) blue hole, that is connected by a labyrinth of passages to Mystery cave, which is a very tidally effected marine blue hole. http://www.bahamascaves.com/blueholes.ht…
Unfairness is probably the most
indispensable element in human life. We dealt with it since we were young and
never seem to leave us even when we’re old. Unfairness has brought the best and
worst out of most people. For some, unfairness is a stepping stone while others
just have to dig deep and accept it.
Unfairness in human aspects including social
life, material aspect, happiness, achievements, opportunities, etc has been
drawing lines to throw people high above the clouds and leave people down to
struggle. How life can be for fairness to prevail? We never know because it
will never be achieve in this world. For some anime lovers would know that a
fair world can be achieved in the Naruto Series. Uchiha Madara plans to project
his eye on the moon and cast an illusion to earth so that dreams can take over
the human life and he would be creating a new society where everything is fair.
This is too good to be true but Naruto defies it. This is because the price of
having a fair world would be human would lose their freedom to act as they
please. Under communism, which claim that every citizens would receive equal
sharing also exists. But at the end of the day, there would be someone with too
much power and unfairness would also exist in the eyes of others. There is
always a price for fairness and the degree of tolerance depends on individuals.
Some say it is worth bargaining in exchange for ultimate fairness.
The life is like a balance beam. Sometimes you
may gain high while sometimes is just not your day. If you think you deserve to
earn some gain, then you felt happy for it. However, the human minds are complicated.
It can produce solutions from every permutation and combination from an
unanswered question. In perspective wise, people deemed you do not deserve it
and see it as prejudice, sometimes, you yourself even think that what is being
poured in will receive the right amount of reward and this like you standing
still on the balance beam. However, do not be overjoyed just because of that
gain because people tend to make mistake on a comfortable seat. Also achieving
success with unorthodox means wouldn’t be happy-ing for long.
Being realistically, we will never stop
succumb to the effect of prejudice and it is best to figure up a solution to
negate it. One of the ways is to hold still to your religion and use what is
available to channel your unpleasant feelings into a pleasant vibe. For some
who have a lucky streak, the success wouldn’t stay long. I had watched Survivor
for seasons and those sole survivor who never meant to win, but won the 1
million cash prize are often sidelined when the true tests come. Tina Wesson
who won the Survivor Australian Outcasts was lucky to have been chosen to the
final tribal council was the first to be kicked off at the Survivor All Stars.
Colby Donalson, the true American Hero although lost to Tina, was given the opportunity
to win the Sexist Man Award at the All Stars and also earned places in Survivor
Heroes Vs Villians and All Stars. It doesn’t matter he lost to Tina, because he
has earned the support from the survivor fans. Chris who miraculously won
Survivor Vanuatu was never heard again, same goes to Brian from Survivor Thailand.
Those who played earnestly and whole hearted are recognized. Yau-Man from Survivor
Fiji, Ami from Survivor Vanuatu, Amanda from Survivor China, Stephanie from Survivor
Palau earned respects although they never win.
To
share my personal experience, I felt that the other side of down can give your
more insight of knowledge and experience that will never be learned by those
who somehow sail smooth to success. This can be a good leverage in case you
were on the down side of the balance beam. It gives you opportunity to strengthen
yourself in whichever aspect and turn it into a norm so that when times came
for you to shine after countless times at the down side, you would still remember
the feeling of the down side and drives you to keep maintaining the top spot.
"Help young men and women who are affected by the Israel war"
"Social events, outpouring with happiness"
Child brides are not even mentioned. Happiness can just be another way of expressing a single thoughts that may seem represents the whole. Truth are just being made to subject to people own their desire.
Entering
Quizwise was the perfect chance to obtain the grand prize of RM1000 which we
missed by an inch last year. Last year, Vasco de Gama consisting me, Moctar and
Hussam was so close to taste victory but a close margin due to the unfair and
unjust happenings fall onto us. We were pretty pissed off by the way they
organize the event.
Much
to our surprise, my team this year named Have It Late has the skills to win
that competition but we fell short and landed on 3rd place again which seems
like a magnet to us. Me, Moctar and Mahmoud were called Have It Late because
Mahmoud found a sponser (Have-It-Late) for us to enter the competition. 32
teams battling for 4 places in the final and we managed to top that round and
we only lose 1 point from that round. This feat equaled our fantastic
performance last year which we were top of the qualifying round. With a huge
margin of leading, Mahmoud said we have a good chance of winning.
Unfortunately,
bad luck struck upon us like last year and nothing seems to go in our way. The
questions we received were difficult in comparison to others. The buzzer round
was the most pathetic round ever created as there are no fair means to see who
raised their hand first. At one time, 1 was raising my hand first to obtain the
permission to answer and the invigilator was looking at other teams for no
reason and the moment I want to shout for her attention, the other team she was
looking at raised their hand. Mahmoud raised his hand during the video round
and she noted that we were the first team but when the video was played and
over, she then gave the other team to answer when they raised their hand
immediately. Her reason was we didn’t raise our hand and maintain it the entire
time when the video was played. Pretty deplorable I guess.
I’m
so disappointed with the organizing committee once again! But nevertheless, I
was not disappointed with myself because the competition gave me a new insight
on my path in the life. Knowledge encompassing anything under the sky and
spanning from the birth of the universe to the present day never seems to have
expiry date in our life. They can be used anytime and wherever we need it.
Unlike some of the subjects we learned in educational system in Malaysia. I was
never interested with all that. I was learning the arts and geography of the
world when we were having the history test in school. All that built up
knowledge really bailed out as I know where I stand and I can compete
internationally with people from Asia, Central Asia and Arabic.
I
felt that that momentous night 19 Nov was worth cherish as I will remember the
time we as friends compete together happily and great success was
achieved. Winning is what I enter for but
the process which allows me to bring back great memories and realization was
equally important. The competition shaped the way I think and base a path to
where I want to head to in the future.
The whole atmosphere was stuck by an impact and rumbling
noise woke me up. It was no story and the tense situation puts me in an action
packed scene. It was a road accident and I am a part of it.
A few minutes earlier, I was sitting at the rear left of the
van on the way back from Ipoh. I felt asleep due to fatigue. Then, I was forced
awake and my reptilian brain face myself for the fright of my life. It felt
like riding a downwards on a roller coaster and your body get a forward thrust.
My instinct is to duck to the right for some reason that I was unclear off. I
don’t know but I just did it. In the split seconds, so many random things
happened simultaneously. The impact caused all our belongings to dash forward. Some
people were screaming and people rushed out the van due to oil leakage. I was
the last to follow suit and to realize the front left of the van has been pulverized.
All of my friends were alright. My friend said a car appeared
forward and there was no time to dodge it. Looking behind was a scene of
wreckage. A kancil was badly misshapen, broken glass over the road, chaotic
traffic and crowded people at the scene.
I couldn’t quite shake off the sensation of being in a road
accident, get hit by something from the impact and luckily for me, I’m still conscious.
On the contrary, some misfortunes are struck hard and fell into deep slumber
and never wake up again. It really scary to feel that not knowing what hit you
and your life just end in that way in a split second.
It did strike me that
if life just flies by at that moment, I would have no doubts of leaving that to
destiny. Knowing how much I have did and did it to the fullest, living a life
which I can stand proudly was a good reason for me not to leave any regrets
behind. I didn’t commit any morally wrong actions and life my own life instead
of living in others. Maybe dreams have not achieved but at least I have
achieved the goals which I am capable of doing at this time. It felt like the day my life flash before my
eyes and I say I did the right things in life.
I gain insight of life and also a glimpse of death. That was
rather fruitful for a Wednesday leisure trip. So glad I was a part of it.
Renouncing his own intelligence might
be the cure for Antoine. His intelligence is a disease that seperates him from
his social life. By the age of 25, Antoine was at the end of the rope. Martin Page’s
take us through the satire odyssey to relinquish the burden of his mind by
trying different sorts of method; filling his mind with alcohol, remove the
neuronal dendrite and even venture into suicide course. The 160 pages of novel
take us through the roller coaster ride of his life. Every bits of suspense,
idealogy presented by Antoine and the hilarious moments makes this book an A
grade. Most important, we see how a person changes his life as Antoine find
what defines him at the end. Life is full of challenges but is still important
to accept who you really are. Never lose
sight of that.
“Quoting other people….because there are so many great
writers who’ve said so many great things that no one would ever need to express
their own opinion again”
“Medicine is all powerful, and has no choice but to submit to
it. Going to a doctor force us to abandon any power we may have ourselves; we
offer our body and dsyfunctions to the sorcery of medical science. “
“Sharks are leathally poison, but in their tissues, there are
chemicals that we use to make medicines for saving lives”
“The countryside, the air, the streets, the people,
everything had been affected by the violence of wars, by unemployment, disease
and daily misery of human overpopulation.
“have a brilliant future,accepted into the best, most
sought-after course..follow the path of success..be a CEO, be a president,.. I don’t
want to get to the end of the of my life and realize I’ve never realized my
dream”
“Let the new world carry him along and he even took some
pleasure in it: the pleasure of freedom within a set of framework, of
abandoning yourself to the flow…which obeyed every curve of the river.”
There are
people in this life for whom even the best things don’t work out. They could
wear cashmere suits and still look like tramps; be very rich and badly in debt;
be tall but lousy in basketball. I now realize that I’m one of that species who
can’t get the best from the advantages in life, for whom advantages can be even
a drawback.
They say
“out of the mouths of babes come the truth.” At grade school, it was the most
monstrous insult to be called a brain-box; later on being an intellectual
almost becomes a strength. But it’s a lie; intelligence is a flaw. Just as
every living person knows they’re going to die while the dead knows nothing…
It stays in
Ecclesiates “ he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow:; but I never knew
the joys of going to catechism with the other kids so I was never warned of the
dangers of studying. Christians are really very lucky being put on their guard
like that against the risk of intelligence at such an early age.; they’ll know
to steer clear of it all through life. Happy are the simple mind.
Those who
think there’s some sort of nobility in intelligence clearly do not have enough
to realize it’s a curse. My family and friends, my classmates, my teachers,
everyone’s always said I was intelligent.
I’ve never
been athletic; the last time my muscles were tested by a major competition was
playing marbles in recess at grade school. My skinny arms, my lack of fitness,
and my sluggish legs mean I can’t get together enough force to kick a ball
effectively; the only thing I have the strength to do is to scour this world
with my mind. I was to puny for sport. Intelligence was a fallback option.
Intelligence
is one of evolution’s features. In the days of the first prehistoric humans, I
can just imagine some little tribe where all the kids run through the scrub
chasing lizards and picking berries for dinner. They gradually learn from the
adults how to be perfect men and women; hunters, gatherers, fishermen, tanners.
But if we look more closely at the life of this tribe, we’ll see that some
children don’t join in the group activities; they stay sitting by the fire,
sheltered inside the cave. They’ll never learn to defend themselves against saber-toothed
tiger, or how to hunt; by themselves, they wouldn’t survive a single night. And
it’s not out of laziness, no, they’d like to be capering about with their
friends, but they can’t. When nature brought them into the world, it slipped
up. Within that tribe, there’s a little blind girl, a boy with a limp, another
one who’s clumsy and absent minded… So they’ve got nothing to do and video
games haven’t been invented yet, they just have to think and let their thoughts
do the capering. So they spend all their time trying to think, trying to
decipher the world, dreaming up stories and making inventions. That’s how
civilization was born; because a bunch of “ imperfect kid” had nothing better
to do. If mature never maimed anyone,; if the mold was always flawless, the
human race would have stayed a protohominid secies, quite happy with no
thoughts of progress, living perfectly well without Prozac or condoms or Dolby
digital DVDs.
I have the
curse of reason: I’m poor, single, and depressed. For months now, I’ve been
thinking too much and I’ve established with complete certainty the correct
relation between my unhappiness and the incontinence of my mind. Probing and
pondering and overanalyzing have never given me any advantages; They’ve only
played against me. The process of thought is not a natural one, it hurts; it’s
as if I were uncovering pieces of broken glass and length of barbed wire in the
air. I can’t seem to stop my brain or to slow it down. Probing and pondering
and overanalyzing is a kind of social suicide because it means that you cannot
take part in this life without inadvertently feeling both like a bird of prey
and a vulture picking apart everything it sees. When we try to understand
something, more often than not, we kill it and now I can feel the dangers of
this encroaching on me; cynicism, bitterness, and infinite sadness. You very
quickly become good at being unlucky and unhappy. It’s impossible to live if
you’re to aware, too thoughtful. In nature, awareness is an exception; you
could even postulate that it’s an accident because it gives no guarantee of
superiority or of particular longevity. In the context of the evolution of
species, it does not represent any better form of adaptation. In terms of age,
numbers and occupied territories, insects are actually the masters of planet.
For example, the social structure of an ant colony is far more effective than
ours will be, and there isnt’t a single ant with a chair of Harvard.
Everyone’s
got something to say about women, men, policemen, and murders. We generalize
according to our experience, to suit overselves depending on what we understand
within the slender neuronal networks and in the context of our perception of
things. This faculty enable us to think quickly, judge and take a position. It
has no intrinsic value, it’s just a system of signals, of little flags all
wave. And everyone defends their virtues of their own advantages, their sex,
and their positions.
In a debate,
generalization has the advantages of simplicity and of making arguments more
fluid so that they’re readily understandable, therefore they have greater
impact on listener. To translate that into mathematical terms, discussions
based on generalization are like additions, simple operations that are so
self-evident they seem convincing and relevant. On the other hand, a serious
discussion would seems more like a succession of equations containing several
unknowns, intergral, and reshufflings of complex numbers.
A learned
person taking part in a discussion will think they’re simplifying things, and
all they really want is to make deletions, alterations, sticking asterisks at
the end of words, putting footnotes at the bottom of the page and endnotes at
the end of the book to explain what they’re really thinking, and from where it
stems. But in a casual conversation at the end of a corridor, at a sparkling
dinner party, or in the columns of a newspaper, that can’t really happen:
there’s no room for vigorous accuracy, objectivity, impartiality, or honesty.
Virtue is a rhetorical handicap, completely insufficient in a debate.
Men simplify
the world with words and thought, and that’s how they create their certainties;
and having certainty is the most potent pleasure in the word, far more potent
than money, sex, power all combined. Renouncing true intelligence is the price
we have to pay for having these certainties, and it’s an expenditure that we
never even noticed by the banks of our minds. In this instance, I actually
prefer those who don’t huddle behind the cloak of reason, and come out and
admit the illusory nature of their beliefs. Like a believer admitting his faith
is just his own belief and not preemption on the truths of the world.
There’s a
Chinese proverb that goes something along these lines: a fish never knows when
it’s pissing. The same applies perfectly well to intellectuals. An intellectual
is convinced of his own intelligence because he’s using his brain. A mason uses
his hands, but he too has a brain that can say,”hey ! That wall’s not straight
and anyway, you’ve forgotten to put cements in between the breeze blocks.”
There’s a dialogue between his hand at works and his mind. The intellectual who
works within his mind doesn’t have that dialogue; his hands don’t pipe up and
say,”Come on, man, you’re really goofed up! The Earth is round.” Intellectual
doesn’t have that distance, that discrepancy, so he thinks he has or can have
an enlightened view on every subject
Intellectuals
obviously aren’t the only people infected with intelligence. I’m convinced that
intelligence is a defect shared by the totality of the population, without any
social distinctions: there’s the same percentage of intelligent people amongst
history teachers and Breton sea fishermen, amongst writers and typist.
One thing
that can be conceded is that, even if we get no guarantee of intelligence from
familiarity with great works, using our minds and reading the work of geniuses,
it does not at least increase the risk. Of course, there will be people who’ve
read Freud and Plato, who can juggle with quarks, and tell the difference
between a peregrine falcon and a kestrel, and who’;; still be an idiot. All the
same, by being in contact with a multitude of stimuli and by exposing the mind
to an enriching environment, intelligence can potentially find a breeding
ground just like any diseases.
Page, M. (2004) how I become stupid. Antoine Anyone who can grasp this concept deserves a
clap for yourself =) The highest level of comprehension is to be
able to place yourself within the scene and experience the thoughts of that
person.
