Jatropha curcas, is a perennial poisonous shrub, Barbados nut or Physic nut with a height of up to 5 meters.
The plant originating in Central America, and it has been spreead to other countries in tropical ang sub-tropical countries as well and is widely grown in Asia and Africa. It is an uncultivated wild species, a non-food plants. In the Philippines it is widely use as a living fence to protect the gardens and any other fields from animals, it is also use believed as a deterent to snakes, it grows in desert and even grow with less water and as such does not compete with food crops, the animals don't like to eat the leaves so they can grow well.
The seeds contains 30% oil that can be process to produced high quality bio-diesel fuel, usable for a standard diesel engine.
We try to plant Jatropha curcas, but the problem is the market. There is no known market yet in the Philippines, so we stop planting Jatropha, in the bakyard of our house Jatropha is a common plant.
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Friday, January 23, 2009
Monday, January 5, 2009
World's Oldest Woman dies at 115
The world'soldest woman who lived to see five of her great-great grandchildren born, has dies at 115.
Maria se Jesus died in an ambulance near the central Portuguese town of Tomar, town council officials said.
She is a Guiness Book of World Records as the World's oldest woman. That Title now falls to American,114 years old Gertrude Baines, who live in Los Angeles Nursing Home.
Maria de Jesus was born in September 10, 1893, and wedowed at 57, outlived three of her six children, had 11 grandchildren, and 16 great-grandchildren.
On friday she was taken to hospital because of swelling, after she ate her breakfast normally according to her daughter Maria Madalena. De Jesus was 115 years and 144 days old.
According to Dr. Stephen Coles a gerontologist of the Gerontology Research Group at the University of California, Los Angeles, there are 82 women and 9 men verified being 110 or older. But he said there could be hundreds more in places like China, India, or Africa where they would not have caught the attention of the Gerontology Research Group, a small volunteer that tracks supercentenarians and verifies their birth dates through birth certificates and other documents.
Coles said the supercentenarians appear to share one trait that might account for their longevity- they come from families whose members are longlived.
"Whether they drink alcohol or not, it doesn't matter. Whether they smoke cigarettes or not, doesn't seem to matter," he said. "The thing that does seem to matter is that they chose their parents wisely." "It's in the genes. It's in the DNA," he said.
The new title holder of the World's oldest woman was Baines, born in Georgia on April 6, 1894. Her only daughter died at age 18. She spent most of her life in Ohio, worked as a housekeeper at Ohio State University in Columbus, Coles said. Coles asked the staff at Western Convalescent Hospital to tell Baines she is now the oldest living documented woman in the world.
"She is very healthy. Her only complaint, is arthritis in her left knee," She uses wheel chair, he said. "Baines was mentally sharp, saying " she doesn't forget anything."
Baines voted her last November Presidential Election, the Los Angeles Times reported.
Maria se Jesus died in an ambulance near the central Portuguese town of Tomar, town council officials said.
She is a Guiness Book of World Records as the World's oldest woman. That Title now falls to American,114 years old Gertrude Baines, who live in Los Angeles Nursing Home.
Maria de Jesus was born in September 10, 1893, and wedowed at 57, outlived three of her six children, had 11 grandchildren, and 16 great-grandchildren.
On friday she was taken to hospital because of swelling, after she ate her breakfast normally according to her daughter Maria Madalena. De Jesus was 115 years and 144 days old.
According to Dr. Stephen Coles a gerontologist of the Gerontology Research Group at the University of California, Los Angeles, there are 82 women and 9 men verified being 110 or older. But he said there could be hundreds more in places like China, India, or Africa where they would not have caught the attention of the Gerontology Research Group, a small volunteer that tracks supercentenarians and verifies their birth dates through birth certificates and other documents.
Coles said the supercentenarians appear to share one trait that might account for their longevity- they come from families whose members are longlived.
"Whether they drink alcohol or not, it doesn't matter. Whether they smoke cigarettes or not, doesn't seem to matter," he said. "The thing that does seem to matter is that they chose their parents wisely." "It's in the genes. It's in the DNA," he said.
The new title holder of the World's oldest woman was Baines, born in Georgia on April 6, 1894. Her only daughter died at age 18. She spent most of her life in Ohio, worked as a housekeeper at Ohio State University in Columbus, Coles said. Coles asked the staff at Western Convalescent Hospital to tell Baines she is now the oldest living documented woman in the world.
"She is very healthy. Her only complaint, is arthritis in her left knee," She uses wheel chair, he said. "Baines was mentally sharp, saying " she doesn't forget anything."
Baines voted her last November Presidential Election, the Los Angeles Times reported.
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