The entrance to the underground river in Palawan.
Sunday, December 28, 2008
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
Secret Islands
Caribbean Islands
Secret Island is a pretty little island for sale. At 2.5 acres, it is ideal for a personal estate. The island is located on the southwestern side of the Cat Cayes range, just a quarter mile north of Alarm Caye. It's less than 7 miles east of Riversdale. Like all the Cat Cayes area, the water is beautifully clear with fantastic snorkeling from virtually every point on the island. The island has has been cleared of smaller trees through most of the center with the thick mangroves left around the edges. This was done a few years ago so new growth is starting to retake the island. Secret Island is almost perfectly round in shape with a little cove that is ideal for landing the boat. The water surrounding the island is fairly shallow, but has a steep drop off about 100 feet from shore. Although this island is almost completely dry, it would benefit from filling in the cleared areas. To fill this island completely would cost roughly $70-80K US. Officially the island is surveyed at 1.03 aces but the lines were drawn well within the waterline of the island. The actual size of this island was measured by walking around the perimeter of the island with a handheld gps unit.
Secret Island is a pretty little island for sale. At 2.5 acres, it is ideal for a personal estate. The island is located on the southwestern side of the Cat Cayes range, just a quarter mile north of Alarm Caye. It's less than 7 miles east of Riversdale. Like all the Cat Cayes area, the water is beautifully clear with fantastic snorkeling from virtually every point on the island. The island has has been cleared of smaller trees through most of the center with the thick mangroves left around the edges. This was done a few years ago so new growth is starting to retake the island. Secret Island is almost perfectly round in shape with a little cove that is ideal for landing the boat. The water surrounding the island is fairly shallow, but has a steep drop off about 100 feet from shore. Although this island is almost completely dry, it would benefit from filling in the cleared areas. To fill this island completely would cost roughly $70-80K US. Officially the island is surveyed at 1.03 aces but the lines were drawn well within the waterline of the island. The actual size of this island was measured by walking around the perimeter of the island with a handheld gps unit.
All about LOVE
I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for their religion - I have shudder'd at it. I shudder no more. I could be martyr'd for my religion Love is my religion And I could die for that. I could die for you. ~ by John Keats ~
You'll discover that real love is millions of miles past falling in love with anyone or anything. When you make that one effort to feel compassion instead of blame or self-blame, the heart opens again and continues opening. --Sara Paddison
To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be. --Anna Louise Strong
Sooner or later we begin to understand that love is more than verses on valentines and romance in the movies. We begin to know that love is here and now, real and true, the most important thing in our lives. For love is the creator of our favourite memories and the foundation of our fondest dreams. Love is a promise that is always kept, a fortune that can never be spent, a seed that can flourish in even the most unlikely of places. And this radiance that never fades, this mysterious and magical joy, is the greatest treasure of all - one known only by those who love.
Love is the passionate and abiding desire on the part of two or more people to produce together conditions under which each can be and spontaneously express, his real self; to produce together an intellectual soil and an emotional climate in which each can flourish, far superior to what either could achieve alone.
You'll discover that real love is millions of miles past falling in love with anyone or anything. When you make that one effort to feel compassion instead of blame or self-blame, the heart opens again and continues opening. --Sara Paddison
To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be. --Anna Louise Strong
Sooner or later we begin to understand that love is more than verses on valentines and romance in the movies. We begin to know that love is here and now, real and true, the most important thing in our lives. For love is the creator of our favourite memories and the foundation of our fondest dreams. Love is a promise that is always kept, a fortune that can never be spent, a seed that can flourish in even the most unlikely of places. And this radiance that never fades, this mysterious and magical joy, is the greatest treasure of all - one known only by those who love.
Love is the passionate and abiding desire on the part of two or more people to produce together conditions under which each can be and spontaneously express, his real self; to produce together an intellectual soil and an emotional climate in which each can flourish, far superior to what either could achieve alone.
Software
Intel's Small Wonder Gives You More Reason to Love Pockets
Stuff we might find in our pockets at any given time: Let's see... cash, cards, keys, a couple scraps of important paper, a piece of candy (save that) ... oh, and 47 million transistors. Huh? The new 45nm Intel® Atom™ Processor brings outstanding Internet experiences to the increasingly ubiquitous pocket pals: mobile Internet devices (MIDs) and ultra-mobile PCs (UMPCs). Built on an entirely new design, the Intel Atom gives you Internet connectivity, flexibility, and yes, 47 million transistors on one teeny tiny chip.
Intel® Software Insight 13 - the Virtuosos of Virtual Reality
Issue 13 of Intel® Software Insight pays tribute to the transcendence of games and the brilliant minds that make them. From pixels and parallelism, to rock n' roll, one thing's for sure: this is not your grandfather's gaming technology.
Globetrotting Air Guitarists. Thrash your virtual 6-string on the go - and without an external gaming console because Guitar Hero III can now be played on the laptop.
Simulate this. Find out how flying the Cessna 182 is richer, faster, and more visually accurate with the help of Intel expertise, multi-core processing, and Intel® threading tools.
Realistic replication in virtual reality. The resurgence of ray tracing, made amazingly powerful thanks to parallel computing, can now render the complexity of our 3-D world.
The business benefits of modding. Read how Crytek produced a game with modders top-of-mind, simultaneously expanding the game's possibilities...and increasing their market share.
Stuff we might find in our pockets at any given time: Let's see... cash, cards, keys, a couple scraps of important paper, a piece of candy (save that) ... oh, and 47 million transistors. Huh? The new 45nm Intel® Atom™ Processor brings outstanding Internet experiences to the increasingly ubiquitous pocket pals: mobile Internet devices (MIDs) and ultra-mobile PCs (UMPCs). Built on an entirely new design, the Intel Atom gives you Internet connectivity, flexibility, and yes, 47 million transistors on one teeny tiny chip.
Intel® Software Insight 13 - the Virtuosos of Virtual Reality
Issue 13 of Intel® Software Insight pays tribute to the transcendence of games and the brilliant minds that make them. From pixels and parallelism, to rock n' roll, one thing's for sure: this is not your grandfather's gaming technology.
Globetrotting Air Guitarists. Thrash your virtual 6-string on the go - and without an external gaming console because Guitar Hero III can now be played on the laptop.
Simulate this. Find out how flying the Cessna 182 is richer, faster, and more visually accurate with the help of Intel expertise, multi-core processing, and Intel® threading tools.
Realistic replication in virtual reality. The resurgence of ray tracing, made amazingly powerful thanks to parallel computing, can now render the complexity of our 3-D world.
The business benefits of modding. Read how Crytek produced a game with modders top-of-mind, simultaneously expanding the game's possibilities...and increasing their market share.
Happy MOments
“" Life is filled with so many exciting twists and turns. Hop off the straight and narrow whenever you can and take the winding paths. Experience the exhilaration of the view from the edge. Because the moments spent there, that take your breath away, are what make you feel truly alive."
“One of the strange things about living in the world is that it is only now and then one is quite sure one is going to live forever and ever and ever. One knows it sometimes when one gets up at the tender solemn dawn-time and goes out and stands alone and throws one's head far back and looks up and up and watches the pale sky slowly changing and flushing and marvelous unknown things happening until the East almost makes one cry out and one's heart stands still at the strange unchanging majesty of the rising of the sun—which has been happening every morning for thousands and thousands and thousands of years. One knows it then for a moment or so...”
“The closest to being in control we will ever be is in that moment that we realize we're not.”
“God puts rainbows in the clouds so that each of us- in the dreariest and most dreaded moments- can see a possibility of hope.”
“Sometimes at the best moments a single word or a look is enough.”
“One of the strange things about living in the world is that it is only now and then one is quite sure one is going to live forever and ever and ever. One knows it sometimes when one gets up at the tender solemn dawn-time and goes out and stands alone and throws one's head far back and looks up and up and watches the pale sky slowly changing and flushing and marvelous unknown things happening until the East almost makes one cry out and one's heart stands still at the strange unchanging majesty of the rising of the sun—which has been happening every morning for thousands and thousands and thousands of years. One knows it then for a moment or so...”
“The closest to being in control we will ever be is in that moment that we realize we're not.”
“God puts rainbows in the clouds so that each of us- in the dreariest and most dreaded moments- can see a possibility of hope.”
“Sometimes at the best moments a single word or a look is enough.”
All about Foods
Brown Sugar Meatloaf
INGREDIENTS (Nutrition)
1/2 cup packed brown sugar
1/2 cup ketchup
1 1/2 pounds lean ground beef
3/4 cup milk
2 eggs
1 1/2 teaspoons salt
1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper
1 small onion, chopped
1/4 teaspoon ground ginger
3/4 cup finely crushed saltine cracker crumbs
DIRECTIONS
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Lightly grease a 5x9 inch loaf pan.
Press the brown sugar in the bottom of the prepared loaf pan and spread the ketchup over the sugar.
In a mixing bowl, mix thoroughly all remaining ingredients and shape into a loaf. Place on top of the ketchup.
Bake in preheated oven for 1 hour or until juices are clear.
INGREDIENTS (Nutrition)
1/2 cup packed brown sugar
1/2 cup ketchup
1 1/2 pounds lean ground beef
3/4 cup milk
2 eggs
1 1/2 teaspoons salt
1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper
1 small onion, chopped
1/4 teaspoon ground ginger
3/4 cup finely crushed saltine cracker crumbs
DIRECTIONS
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Lightly grease a 5x9 inch loaf pan.
Press the brown sugar in the bottom of the prepared loaf pan and spread the ketchup over the sugar.
In a mixing bowl, mix thoroughly all remaining ingredients and shape into a loaf. Place on top of the ketchup.
Bake in preheated oven for 1 hour or until juices are clear.
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