How boredom can become productive and deliver 50K income !!!

Here’s a way...
Buy and enjoy the dragon fruit and 
leave some seeds to propagate.

 

Own work by: Maria Azzurra Mugnai

Common names in different countries:
English	Night Blooming Cereus, Strawberry Pear, Belle of the Night, Conderella plant, Mood Flower
France	Cierce-Lezard, Poire de Cahrdon
Germany	Distelbirm, Echte Stachnelbirn, Distelbirm, Drachenfrucht
Hawaii	Pa-nani-oka, Pa-ni-ni, Kapunahou
Portugal	Catobarse, Cardo-Ananaz
Colombia	Mexico Venezuela: Flor de Caliz
Puerto Rico	Pitajaya
Mexico	Junco, Pitahaya Orejona, Reina de la Noche, Tasajo
Sweden	Skogkaktus, Rud Pitahaya
Vietnam	Thanh long
China	Long Gou, For Lung Kor

POSTED BY MOONRAT42 AUG 12, 2009
YELLOW PITAYA

Here are 5 different ways to enjoy the dragon fruit.

Take it as fresh fruit as you do with mango, kiwi and others.

Place at the blender with some sugar, cubed ice, process and take as a cold juice.

Place at the blender with some sugar, add milk and place it at the freezer and take it as a sorbet or homemade ice cream.

Use the fresh fruit as toppings or part of any fresh salad mix.

Cook the fresh fruit in sugar until syrup is thick enough and take as a dessert or soft candy.

How to plant dragon fruit.  

Easy to grow from seeds

Dragonfruit (Hylocereus undatus)

Pitaya, Pitahaya, Strawberry Pear,

Uploaded by willemvcot on Feb 18, 2011

The next obvious thing to do is to transplant seedlings at plastic bags or pot them and sell at 5 or 10 Dollars each while still young.  

With 5,000 seedlings that could mean 50K. 

Best as gift items for all season, birthdays, anniversaries, Christmas, valentines, thanksgiving, thank you occasions or for what others may have in mind.  

Don't forget to place ribbons on the pots :)

For first timers, here’s how to deal with this fruit which I downloaded from about.com

Step #1: Choose Your Dragon Fruit.

PITAYA BY Paulo Godoy from Brasília, Brasil

Choosing a Ripe Dragon Fruit

D.Schmidt

Step #1 - To choose a ripe dragon fruit: look for bright, even-colored skin. If the fruit has a lot of blotches, it may be over-ripe (a few is normal). Another sign of over-ripe dragon fruit is a very dry, brittle brown stem, or brown on the tips of the "leaves". Hold the dragon fruit in your palm and try pressing the skin with your thumb or fingers - it should give a little (like a ripe kiwi), but shouldn't be too soft or mushy. If it's very firm, it will need to ripen for a few days.

Step #2: Cut the Dragon Fruit

Placing the dragon fruit over a cutting board or other clean surface, cut the fruit straight down the middle with a sharp knife. It will cut quite easily.

Step #3: Open the Dragon Fruit

Opening the Dragon Fruit

D.Schmidt

Cut through to the other side, so that you can separate the fruit into 2 sections. Inside the flesh may be white or red - both will have tiny black edible seeds, just like kiwi fruit.

Step #4: Separate the Flesh from the Skin.

Separating the Flesh from the Skin
D.Schmidt

There are various ways to prepare dragon fruit for eating - this is just one way. Run a tablespoon around the circumference of the first section to separate the flesh from the skin.

Step #5: Lift Flesh out of the Skin.

Scooping the Flesh out of the Skin

D.Schmidt

Now lift the flesh out of the skin and place it on the cutting board. Reserve the skin for serving (as in step 8), if desired. Note that the skin is NOT edible. Do the same for the other half.

Step #6: Remove Skin from Flesh.

Removing any residual Skin      D.Schmidt

Turn the mound of flesh over, checking for any residual pink skin. Slice this off.

Step #7: Slice up the Dragon Fruit.

Slicing the Fruit into Cubes

D.Schmidt

Now you can slice up the flesh. 
Cubes work well for eating the fruit fresh.

Step #8: Enjoy Your Fresh 
Dragon Fruit a Variety of Ways!

Eating the Dragon Fruit!
D.Schmidt


If desired, return the cubes of fruit to the skin to serve.  Leftovers can be refrigerated, like any other fruit, in a covered container.

Health Benefits: By len7288 of Hub Pages	Nutritional Value: per 100 g
Help to lower blood glucose levels in type 2 diabetes.	Carotene	0.012 g.
Prevent formation of cancer causing free radicals.	Vitamin C	9.0 mg.
Helps moisturize and smoothen skin and decrease bad cholesterol level.	Thiamine (Vitamin B1)	traces
	Riboflavin (Vitamin B2)	0.045 mg.
Helps improve appetite.	Niacin (Vitamin B3)	0.430 mg.
Helps improve digestion and reduce fat.	Calcium	6 -10 mg
	Iron	0.3 - 0.7 mg
Can enhance the body metabolism because of its protein content.	Phosphorus	16 - 36 mg.
	Carbohydrates	9-14 g
Helps maintain the health of the eyes.	Protein	0.15 - 0.5 g
Helps strengthen the bones and teeth.	Fiber	0.3 - 0.9 g
Helps in tissue development.	Water	80-90g
Promotes healing of cuts and bruise.	Fat	0.1 - 0.6 g
Helps improve memory.	Calories	35 - 50

Here's a nice downloaded youtube video on 

Dragon Fruit Flower Blooming - Bong Thanh Long 

    

Uploaded by VietTomCrew on Aug 21, 2009

Dragon Fruit blooming in the morning

So till next blog topic then!!!


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Wishful Festivity for a Peaceful March # Abbas/Hamas in #Palestine

Palestinians win de facto U.N. recognition of sovereign state

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters)

A speech to be remembered . . .

"Sixty-five years ago on this day, the United Nations General Assembly adopted resolution 181, which partitioned the land of historic Palestine into two states and became the birth certificate for Israel," Abbas told the assembly after receiving a standing ovation.

"The General Assembly is called upon today to issue a birth certificate of the reality of the State of Palestine," he said."

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The 193-nation U.N. General Assembly on Thursday overwhelmingly approved the de facto recognition of the sovereign state of Palestine after Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas called on the world body to issue its long overdue "birth certificate."

The U.N. victory for the Palestinians was a diplomatic setback for the United States and Israel, which were joined by only a handful of countries in voting against the move to upgrade the Palestinian Authority's observer status at the United Nations to "non-member state" from "entity," like the Vatican.

There were 138 votes in favor, nine against and 41 abstentions. Three countries did not take part in the vote, held on the 65th anniversary of the adoption of U.N. resolution 181 that partitioned Palestine into separate Jewish and Arab states.

Thousands of flag-waving Palestinians in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip set off fireworks and danced in the streets to celebrate the vote.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, attends Christmas Midnight Mass at Saint Catherine's Church in the West Bank town of Bethlehem, early Tuesday, Dec. 25, 2012. (AP Photo/Abed Al Hashlamoun, Pool)

Below is the post I made over a year ago.

 

Palestinian children stand to form Pablo Picasso's Dove of Peace as part of a project by British aerial artist John Quigley and the United Nations Relief Works Agency (UNRWA), at the foot of the Mount of Temptation in the West Bank city of Jericho November 25, 2011. It took some 1000 children from United Nations schools to create the project produced as part of the "Peace on Earth" project, a global musical prayer for peace which will be broadcast globally from Bethlehem's Manger Square on Christmas day, a U.N. press release said. REUTERS/Ammar Awad (WEST BANK - Tags: ENTERTAINMENT)

A peaceful march is highlighted with music, traditional songs/dances/attires and colorful banners containing slogans with peaceful and tactful political statements and or praises. On the sidewalks are food and drinks for free or for a fee. Unarmed human shield and participants are interlocked with one another with watchful eyes on their left, right, front and rear for any suspicious infiltrators aimed in maligning and destroying the purpose of a peaceful demonstration.

A Palestinian man works on Bethlehem's Christmas tree in Manger Square, outside the Church of Nativity, traditionally believed by Christians to be the birthplace of Jesus Christ, in the West Bank city of Bethlehem. (AP Photo/Nasser Shiyoukhi)

Media are invited to record the events, videos and cameras are placed on focal points on the ground and on the roofs to document the occasion and celfon's cameras/video are readily available for family memoirs.

25,000 peacefully demonstrate against
G20 policies in Toronto

     

Uploaded by TVACdotCA on Jun 27, 2010

What the media ignored: 25,000 peacefully demonstrate against G20 policies and the Harper government in Toronto. Unlike what you have likely seen on CBC or CTV, this is what the majority of activists were doing on Saturday in Toronto.Copyright © 2010 Toronto Video Activist Collective

However a mass movement can’t guarantee a peaceful march from any untoward repercussion. It is open to infiltrators and provocateurs including uncontrolled passion of grudges and resentments from both sides.

Careful and exact measures have to be taken to ensure a non violent expression of freedom of speech and rights for this intended march. 

If Palestine gets the numbers for the Statehood, Hamas leaders and Abbas will surely find countless common grounds to meet halfway for the benefit of the Palestinian people as a whole.

1889 Arabe de Jaffa
 

 Bethlehem girls around 1918. On their heads a saffeh can be seen. The girl on the left is wearing a saba 'arwah or 'seven spirits' chin ornament

 

Old Bedouin woman from southern Palestine 

at the grinding stone, ca. 1930

Mounted Arabian Knight - Palestine

Palestinian refugees (British Mandate of Palestine - 1948). 

"Making their way from Galilee in October-November 1948".

Front cover of The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem by Benny Morris

Author: Fred Csasznik

 

All above photos are sourced from public domain - Wiki Commons

Sands of Sorrow (1950)

Producer: Council for the Relief of 

Palestine Arab Refugees; 

Creative Commons license: Public Domain

Faith and Charity overcome difficulties and 

Hope is its pillar that fortifies everything!!! 

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