PASSION FRUIT

Of the estimated 500 species of Passiflora, in the family Passifloraceae, only one, P. edulis Sims, has the exclusive designation of passionfruit, without qualification. Within this species, there are two distinct forms, the standard purple, and the yellow, distinguished as P. edulis f. flavicarpa Deg., and differing not only in color but in certain other features as will be noted further on.

Source: https://hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/morton/passionfruit.html

THE EFFECT OF THE RAINFALL - AS

Dear Huong,

Here are a few photo's I took during the walk today. All is very green due to the recent rainfall. I thought that the stream would be higher as an effect of the rainfall, but that was not really the case. Off course the stream was a bit higher compared to previous times. As I said there was a lot of green, lots of ferns under the trees. As you see the spring had some results, chicken and goats in the field near to a house. 

xxx

AS

 

 

LUCKY OR NOT LUCKY

- Doãn Quốc Sỹ Tâm: Chị Thư, buy me this wireless headphones, please!
- Doãn Minh Thư:  I can't - too expensive! I can only buy one for me.
- Doãn Quốc Sỹ Tâm: How unlucky I am!
- Doãn Minh Thư:  Nope, on the contrary ...
- Doãn Quốc Sỹ Tâm: Why?
- Doãn Minh Thư: Don't you read what Dalai Lama wrote: "Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck."
 Doãn Quốc Sỹ Tâm: signnn :( 

LIBERATING EFFECT - Dalai Lama

If your shift your focus from yourself to others, and think more about others' well-being and welfare, it has an immediate liberating effect.

Dalai Lama

CHẮT CỤ SỸ'S FINGERS - Tina

Love every finger every inch of her skin (even though these hands can make such big mess sometimes...)

Mẹ Na- Cháu ngoại cụ Sỹ



 

HAI CHÁU NỘI GÁI

Hai cháu nội gái của ông Sỹ bà Thảo: 

Vịt - sắp vào Medical School (Austin- Texas) 

và Vy -đã ra Medical School (Houston - Texas)

[...]

States from coast to coast are using public funds to help their medical schools recruit scientific stars from other states or to prevent their own stars from being lured away by lucrative offers. There have long been recruitment battles among academic institutions, but today we’re in the midst of what The Chronicle of Higher Education calls a “boom in academic poaching.”

Much of the frenzy has been driven by the outsize role of Texas, which has used hundreds of millions of dollars in oil revenue to help its institutions poach talent from other states. That is not necessarily a bad thing. Competition for talent and more money to support research is good for the nation and for the advancement of science.

[...]

Source: 
The Battle for Biomedical Supremacy
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/30/opinion/the-battle-for-biomedical-supremacy.html?rref=collection%2Ftimestopic%2FMedical%20Schools&action=click&contentCollection=health&region=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=8&pgtype=collection

PEACE - Dalai Lama

World peace must develop from inner peace.  Peace is not just mere absence of violence.  Peace is,  I think,  the manifestation of human compassion.

Dalai Lama