Mangroves

Mangroves grow in saline habitats. The plant generally belongs to the family Rhizophoraceae, or specifically in Rhizophora.



By Christolakis, some rights reserved.

New Zealand mangroves are called manawa. They can be found as far as 38 degrees south, that is, Raglan harbour to the west and ends at Ohiwa harbour near Opotiki. There are many benefits of having mangroves around.

Original Article from physorg.com.

Yuletide Showdown

Is that kitty comfortable? People are shopping for gifts all over the consumer world. This year my dad told me not to put up the tree so I am making do with pictures of others. For example, I stumbled across some geeky ones at walyou.com.

Another is Wondermark by David Malki ! is a graphical blog in a nineteenth century theme. His 19 December comic installment [here] gave warning about Christmas cards.

Goodies for you:

• Crappy wrapping service provided by firebox.com. The retailer provides additional service to wrap the present in haste so it looks shop bought. You will have to confirm this for me. I do not shop online. It's the lack of though that counts.
  
• A gift for your computer desktop. [Christmas Wallpapers]
• Buying exotic gifts could spell disaster. This is a take on Taiwanese attempts to master English. [Products in Translation]
• My dad is NOT a grinch. His gift to me this year was to tell me about an article on experts needing 10,000 hours of practice to become elite in their field. [New York Times article] I should keep trying to become an engineer since I have spent half a decade to train so far. Here to the rest of my life...

Merry Christmas!