No, Seriously. Save the Bananas!!
So i have this obsession with bananas it started out with just a banana .., than next thing i knew i started mixing it with everything.Every morning i wake up and do my famous banana milkshake (which i would be showing soon) .I basically mix bananas with soy milk & ice .I don't know if its just me but the amount of energy this gives me its supreme. i love the taste and its Good for the body ,you can also add it to your Cereal yummy. Anyways i found this Article that i really wanted to share.
A fungus dangerous to the Cavendish was discovered in Asia 13 years ago and has since "wiped out plantations in Indonesia, Malaysia, Australia and Taiwan and is now spreading through much of Southeast Asia," Don Koeppel writes.
It is inevitable, the experts say, that the fungus will eventually wipe out Cavendish bananas worldwide.
That would be a devastating loss of billions of dollars annually for growers, shippers and retailers. Each American consumes 26.2 pounds of bananas a year, making it by far the most popular fruit. (Apples are a distant second at 16.7 pounds.)
To save the banana, two strategies are being employed. Scientists, primarily in Europe, are trying to genetically alter the Cavendish, to make it able to resist the fungus.
The problem, of course, is many consumers are leery of genetically altered food.
Option 2 is to develop another variety that consumers would find acceptable.
As the article points out, growers in Central America are "trying to create a replacement that looks and tastes so similar to the Cavendish that consumers won't notice the difference."
That strategy worked before.
Up until the 1960's, Americans ate Gros Michel bananas, "a banana that was larger and, by all accounts, tastier than the fruit we now eat." Those plants were killed off by a different fungus, and the Cavendish replaced them.
What are someways to help save some of the world's most famous bananas?
A fungus dangerous to the Cavendish was discovered in Asia 13 years ago and has since "wiped out plantations in Indonesia, Malaysia, Australia and Taiwan and is now spreading through much of Southeast Asia," Don Koeppel writes.
It is inevitable, the experts say, that the fungus will eventually wipe out Cavendish bananas worldwide.
That would be a devastating loss of billions of dollars annually for growers, shippers and retailers. Each American consumes 26.2 pounds of bananas a year, making it by far the most popular fruit. (Apples are a distant second at 16.7 pounds.)
To save the banana, two strategies are being employed. Scientists, primarily in Europe, are trying to genetically alter the Cavendish, to make it able to resist the fungus.
The problem, of course, is many consumers are leery of genetically altered food.
Option 2 is to develop another variety that consumers would find acceptable.
As the article points out, growers in Central America are "trying to create a replacement that looks and tastes so similar to the Cavendish that consumers won't notice the difference."
That strategy worked before.
Up until the 1960's, Americans ate Gros Michel bananas, "a banana that was larger and, by all accounts, tastier than the fruit we now eat." Those plants were killed off by a different fungus, and the Cavendish replaced them.
I Hope this doesn't occur because it Would have an impact on my life know matter how silly " it sounds i just couldn't live without bananas .Banana is my type of Redbull" .So hopefully something can be done to save the bananas
full article http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/13/business/media/13offline.ready.html
#imgrateful For...
so this is a little trending topic i was doing on twitter that really gave me a postive vibe !!!
& now i just feel like a better Me so
#imgrateful #imgrateful #imgrateful #imgrateful #imgrateful #imgrateful #imgrateful #imgrateful
- #imgrateful For not dropping out of School
- #imgrateful That i can go to bed every night without hate in my Heart
- #imgrateful for the Fake homies" ,They made me realize The Real homeys
- #imgrateful for my Dad for standing by My mom (I repeat my MOM )
- #imgrateful for My two Advisers @EllyMarie_ & @HersheysKiss22 when am going through my crises :)
- #imgrateful for my only real blk friend @aKIDnamedEZ
- #imgrateful for this rice & chicken am eating right now yum yum #thanksmom
- #imgrateful For my Brother Jeffrey even though we always had are problems he doesn't Know how much i love him
- Who i am today #imgrateful for that
- All my real friends Elly&Chino, ,pinky, Hav ,lisa ,Marena ,liz , Carlos lil john, j.c ,janinarina/Jose lol .. etc so many of you guys but ily all
& now i just feel like a better Me so
#imgrateful #imgrateful #imgrateful #imgrateful #imgrateful #imgrateful #imgrateful #imgrateful
Its Sunday
Well its 12:00 at night but this morning i woke up to go to church (I was late as usual).For the past 18 years of my life I have been going to " 2nd amor porder iglsia with the "Familia".My mother is very religious although i was raise as a child in the church i grew up with my own views and believes of life . Today i can say i do believe in GOD (notice the capitalization idk my mom said is disrespectful to write it lower case) ..anyways i don't believe in religion i just know there someone always up there watching over us, & i believe that everything happens for a reason . Theirs still many thing i don't understand and probably never will understand about Why GOD does whatever he does example .. the wars , diseases and violence . I guess that's why they call him GOD cause he can do whatever he wants because we are not worthy enough to question him were suppose to just have faith and believe him . Am very philosophical and no body seems to Know the answers to my questions ,but I'll probably go crazy trying to think of Why? for every question . so i rather not even bother . what i do know is that We become better people when we have no hate in our hearts. i have also been Blessed even if i have many hard circumstances in my life i am grateful for My family & friends also that i can wake up every morning and breathe and see the beautiful day GOD has given us so Dear GOD, Thank you.....for EVERYTHING even the good and the bad ...
(Click to enlarge photo) Photograph & edit was taken by me & sis jojo
(Click to enlarge photo) Photograph & edit was taken by me & sis jojo
The Road not Taken by : Robert Frost
so i wanted to share this poem & review by one of my favorite poet
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood
and sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveller, long I stood
and looked down one as far as I could
to where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
and having perhaps the better claim
because it was grassy and wanted wear;
though as for that, the passing there
had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
in leaves no feet had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I
I took the one less travelled by,
and that has made all the difference
This is one of my favorites poems because it has to do with Decision ,decisions...In this poem the poet highlights the problem of choice which every person has to face in his or her life at some point or the other. This one of the reviews i found by buta that i really agreed with . "A man comes to a forked road on the way he was traveling upon. He feels sorry he cannot travel both the paths as he has to choose one of them. This decision will prove to be his future. As he thinks about the two roads, he looks down one path and finds that, that path has been much traveled and then he sees the other less traveled path. He decides that the less traveled path would be much rewarding when he reaches its end. He knows that one path leads to another and it is very difficult to return. Years later, he would be telling his future generation with regret what life would have been if he would have walked the other road, the one which was not taken by him. "What ever road one chooses, the regret will remain since at a given time one can walk only one path.
Whats your opinion & what do you think the author its trying to portray in his poem ?
(Click to enlarge photo) Photograph & edit was taken by me at Inwood Hill Park is a city-owned and maintained public park in Inwood, Upper Manhattan, New York City, operated by the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood
and sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveller, long I stood
and looked down one as far as I could
to where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
and having perhaps the better claim
because it was grassy and wanted wear;
though as for that, the passing there
had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
in leaves no feet had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I
I took the one less travelled by,
and that has made all the difference
This is one of my favorites poems because it has to do with Decision ,decisions...In this poem the poet highlights the problem of choice which every person has to face in his or her life at some point or the other. This one of the reviews i found by buta that i really agreed with . "A man comes to a forked road on the way he was traveling upon. He feels sorry he cannot travel both the paths as he has to choose one of them. This decision will prove to be his future. As he thinks about the two roads, he looks down one path and finds that, that path has been much traveled and then he sees the other less traveled path. He decides that the less traveled path would be much rewarding when he reaches its end. He knows that one path leads to another and it is very difficult to return. Years later, he would be telling his future generation with regret what life would have been if he would have walked the other road, the one which was not taken by him. "What ever road one chooses, the regret will remain since at a given time one can walk only one path.
Whats your opinion & what do you think the author its trying to portray in his poem ?
Take a walk down My Neighborhood!
As I walk down my neighborhood street,I look around at the things I meet.I see Luis Martes Grocery ,My bodega" where my mom has been buying her milk & cheeseUp ahead I see the street kids , Grinding to surviveHere in my neighborhood we look out for one another .I guess we got to stick together like a family My friend's , live up the blockOn Fridays we get together & spent it togetherI guess were all misunderstood cause were all raise from the "Ghetto"i think Every place has its Good & evil,But my father always taught me"It's Not Where You Come From, It's Where You Are Going"i like to make the best of both worldsAm proud of where i come from ...its like they say "to get to the top you have to start at the bottom".No one said life is easy but am young so i" can make the Best of it"On a Tuesday night where even The streets get lonelyI watch my shadow as am walking home from school,i pass by John fried chicken, HMmmmm the smell of Fries"I get to my destination...I put my key in the door i have arrived ..I see my momther & my brothers & sisters ..Now i know that I'm truly at home...
(Click to enlarge photo)Photograph & edit was taken by Me"
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