Help Save the King of Sushi!!!

I'm not blogging much anymore and I didn't expect any new posts this year but I just had to put this post down even if no bloggers are actually going to see it. I just think it is really important to express this.

The King of Sushi is also know very well as Blue Fin Tuna.
Tuna is considered very yummy amongst people who like Sushi or eating Mediterranean seafood. But most people don't know that the Blue Fin Tuna is classified as Critically Endangered. Something (usually an animal) becomes critically endangered when it is facing an extremely high risk of extinction in the wild in the immediate future.

Blue Fin Tuna are very large fishies that can be found in the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans in both temperate and cold seas. They are (or probably were) a very large species commonly caught by Indonesian and Japanese commercial long-liners in many of their spawning grounds.

Some people have tuna ranches where they keep tuna in many netted pens the size of football fields! The main goal is not to breed them but to fatten then up by feeding them mackerel and sardines. The goal is to get the tuna to gain 20% in weight. There is also a very special event in the Mediterranean which begins with a small armada of boats. They sail off to the spawning ground where the boats assemble in a very large circle. They surround the circular area with nets. When two hours pass by they start to slowly close in on their prey, bringing the boats and nets closer to each other. When they are close enough the fishermen wrestle the smaller tuna on board, while the bigger ones have to be winched. The water and decks become really red from the blood. This event is called "la mattanza" which literally means "the slaughter." This is done all in the service of sushi.

"Southern bluefin tuna are a highly migratory species. If the current exploitation continues, the population will be below 500 mature individuals within the next century, which is a number far too low to be sustainable."

GO THE KING OF SUSHI!!! :)

Um Hi?...

I was bored so I did this post.
I don't think anyone is gonna go on here anyway :0})
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P.S.
Owly Rules!!!!!!!
P.P.S.
If by chance anyone sees this, look at the funny phobias, they are funni :P
P.P.P.S. Don't mind the date on the top, it is always wrong.

Funny Phobias

I've always been interested in phobias, especially when I hear really funny ones. I've made a list of some funny phobias that you probably would never have heard about.
But remember, phobias are no laughing matter, and it isn't right to tease, mock, scare or annoy somebody by using their fear.

A
Alektorophobia- Fear of chickens.
Alliumphobia- Fear of garlic.
Anatidaephobia: Fear of somewhere, somehow a duck is watching you
Arachibutyrophobia- Fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth.
Aulophobia- Fear of flutes

B
Basophobia or Basiphobia- Inability to stand. Fear of walking or falling.
Bathmophobia- Fear of stairs or steep slopes.
Blennophobia- Fear of slime.
Bogyphobia- Fear of bogeys or the bogeyman.
Botanophobia- Fear of plants.

C
Caligynephobia- Fear of beautiful women.
Chorophobia- Fear of dancing.
Consecotaleophobia- Fear of chopsticks.
Coulrophobia- Fear of clowns
Cyclophobia- Fear of bicycles.

D
Deipnophobia- Fear of dining or dinner conversations.
Dementophobia- Fear of being an idiot
Dextrophobia- Fear of objects at the right side of the body.
Dikephobia- Fear of justice.
Dromophobia- Fear of crossing streets

E
Eleutherophobia- Fear of freedom.
Ephebiphobia- Fear of teenagers.
Epistaxiophobia- Fear of nosebleeds.
Epistemophobia- Fear of knowledge.
Euphobia- Fear of hearing good news

F
Febriphobia or Fibriphobia or Fibriophobia- Fear of fever.
Felinophobia- Fear of cats.
Francophobia- Fear of France or French culture
Frigophobia- Fear of cold or cold things

G
Gamophobia- Fear of marriage.
Geniophobia- Fear of chins
Genuphobia- Fear of knees
Gerontophobia- Fear of old people or of growing old.
Glossophobia- Fear of speaking in public or of trying to speak

H
Hagiophobia- Fear of saints or holy things.
Heliophobia- Fear of the sun.
Hellenologophobia- Fear of Greek terms or complex scientific terminology.
Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia- Fear of the number 666.
Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia- Fear of long words.

I
Iatrophobia- Fear of going to the doctor or of doctors.
Ichthyophobia- Fear of fish.
Ideophobia- Fear of ideas.
Illyngophobia- Fear of vertigo or feeling dizzy when looking down.
Isopterophobia- Fear of termites, insects that eat wood

K
Kakorrhaphiophobia- Fear of failure or defeat.
Kathisophobia- Fear of sitting down.
Kenophobia- Fear of voids or empty spaces
Koinoniphobia- Fear of rooms
Kynophobia- Fear of rabies

L
Lachanophobia- Fear of vegetables.
Levophobia- Fear of things to the left side of the body
Linonophobia- Fear of string.
Logizomechanophobia- Fear of computers.
Lutraphobia- Fear of otters

M
Melophobia- Fear or hatred of music
Metrophobia- Fear or hatred of poetry
Mnemophobia- Fear of memories
Mythophobia- Fear of myths or stories or false statements.
Myxophobia- Fear of slime

N
Neophobia- Fear of anything new.
Nephophobia- Fear of clouds.
Nomatophobia- Fear of names
Nosocomephobia- Fear of hospitals
Nucleomituphobia- Fear of nuclear weapons

O
Octophobia - Fear of the figure 8
Onomatophobia- Fear of hearing a certain word or of names
Ouranophobia - Fear of heaven

P
Paraskavedekatriaphobia- Fear of Friday the 13th
Pediophobia- Fear of dolls.
Pedophobia- Fear of children
Phobophobia- Fear of phobias
Porphyrophobia- Fear of the color purple

R
Radiophobia- Fear of radiation, x-rays.
Ranidaphobia- Fear of frogs.
Rhabdophobia- Fear of being severely punished or beaten by a rod, or of being severely criticized. Also fear of magic.(wand)
Rhytiphobia- Fear of getting wrinkles.

S
Scriptophobia- Fear of writing in public
Soceraphobia- Fear of parents-in-law.
Social Phobia- Fear of being evaluated negatively in social situations
Symmetrophobia- Fear of symmetry.
Syngenesophobia- Fear of relatives

T
Telephonophobia- Fear of telephones.
Teratophobia- Fear of bearing a deformed child or fear of monsters or deformed people
Testophobia- Fear of taking tests
Textophobia- Fear of certain fabrics
Triskaidekaphobia- Fear of the number 13

W
Walloonphobia- Fear of the Walloons.
Wiccaphobia: Fear of witches and witchcraft.

X
Xanthophobia- Fear of the color yellow or the word yellow.
Xenoglossophobia- Fear of foreign languages.
Xenophobia- Fear of strangers or foreigners.
Xylophobia- 1) Fear of wooden objects. 2) Forests.
Xyrophobia-Fear of razors

Z
Zelophobia- Fear of jealousy.
Zeusophobia- Fear of God or gods.
Zemmiphobia- Fear of the great mole rat.
Zoophobia- Fear of animals

The new Einstein!!!

Yes we all know Einstein as the genius with the weird hair-do.
But a new Einstein has risen and proved to be a superstar! No, the new Einstein isn't a guy with a wacky do. The new Einstein isn't human, in fact, she a girl!
Einstein is an african grey parrot.
African grey parrots are one of the smartest parrots in the world. There are heaps of other famous African Greys, but Einstein would be the most remarkable! To see Einstein during one of her shows, go to this site:
\http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBJmIhT3mgY

Gymstrada 4ever!!!!!!!!

As some of you may have heard, Maniac me, Miss Candy, Spud, Kittykat and I have started a gymstrada rouine. We will be representing Peachgrove at the Waikato Inter-Intermediate Gymnastics competition next year.
What is Gymstrada? Well it is a kinda gym-dance thingy performed by a group of gymnast with background music. It is a challenging and fun sport in which teamwork, timing and synchronized-gym/dancing is the key.

The video I reccomend you to watch is a video about rhythmic gymnastics. The people in the video have probably trained for so many hours each day to be that good!!!
Gymstrada people:
We don't have to do everything you see in the video, but we should watch the parts in the middle where they show you groups doing rhythmic together. This could make us even better and we could win the competition again like we have for 3 or so years!

The Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Viu7U8_IhD4

Some long words!!!

I've put up some long words on my blog before, but this post is much better and tells you the definition to the word too!!!

The longest English word is acually too long too put up, but you can view it at my new blog (beware it has 189,819 letters!):


This next word is also one of the longest english words:

acetylseryltyrosylserylisoleucylthreonylserylprolylserylglutaminyl-
phenylalanylvalylphenylalanylleucylserylserylvalyltryptophylalanyl-
aspartylprolylisoleucylglutamylleucylleucylasparaginylvalylcysteinyl-
threonylserylserylleucylglycylasparaginylglutaminylphenylalanyl-
glutaminylthreonylglutaminylglutaminylalanylarginylthreonylthreonyl-
glutaminylvalylglutaminylglutaminylphenylalanylserylglutaminylvalyl-
tryptophyllysylprolylphenylalanylprolylglutaminylserylthreonylvalyl-
arginylphenylalanylprolylglycylaspartylvalyltyrosyllysylvalyltyrosyl-
arginyltyrosylasparaginylalanylvalylleucylaspartylprolylleucylisoleucyl-
threonylalanylleucylleucylglycylthreonylphenylalanylaspartylthreonyl-
arginylasparaginylarginylisoleucylisoleucylglutamylvalylglutamyl-
asparaginylglutaminylglutaminylserylprolylthreonylthreonylalanylglutamyl-
threonylleucylaspartylalanylthreonylarginylarginylvalylaspartylaspartyl-
alanylthreonylvalylalanylisoleucylarginylserylalanylasparaginylisoleucyl-
asparaginylleucylvalylasparaginylglutamylleucylvalylarginylglycyl-
threonylglycylleucyltyrosylasparaginylglutaminylasparaginylthreonyl-
phenylalanylglutamylserylmethionylserylglycylleucylvalyltryptophyl-
threonylserylalanylprolylalanylserine:

Yes, it is loooooonnnnnnngggggg. About as long as a paragraph, possibly.
This 1185-letter word is the third name for "Coat protein, Tobacco Mosaic Virus,
Dahlamense Strain". It uses the letter combination yl 166 times!

Here are some other long words:

Lopadotemachoselachogaleokranioleipsanodrimhypotrimmatosilphio -
paraomelitokatakechymenokichlepikossyphophattoperisteralektryon -
optekephalliokinklopeleiolagoiosiraiobaphetraganopterygon:

This word is 183 letters long. It is a fiction name for a greek dish.
The original Greek spelling had 171 letters.
The dish was a fricassee, with 17 sweet and sour ingredients,
including brains, honey, vinegar, fish, pickles, and the following:
*Fish slices
*Fish of the Elasmobranchii subclass (a shark or ray)
*Rotted dogfish or small shark's head
generally sharp-tasting dish of several ingredients grated and pounded
together
*Silphion "laserwort," apparently a kind of giant fennel
*A kind of crab, beetle, or crayfish
*Eagle
*Cheese
*Honey poured down
*Wrasse (or thrush)
*On top of a kind of sea fish or Blackbird
*Wood pigeon
*Domestic pigeon
*Chicken
*Roasted head of dabchick
*Hare, which could be a kind of bird or a kind of sea-hare
*New wine boiled down
*Dessert fruit or thing eaten raw
*Wing, fin

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis:

A 45 letter word alleged to mean 'a lung disease caused by the inhalation of very fine silica dust found in volcanoes.'

Pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism:

This 30 letter word is and inherited disorder that closely simulates the symptoms, but not the consequences of pseudohypoparathyroidism (a completely different word).

Floccinaucinihilipilification:

this 29 letter word means "the act or habit of estimating or describing something as worthless, or making something to be worthless by deprecation".

Mermaids

Ever since watching The Little Mermaid a few weeks ago, I've had a fantasy about mermaids, and whether they really exist.
The Mermaid is a legendary aquatic creature with the head and torso of a female and the tail of a fish.
Mermaids would sometimes sing to sailors and distract them until they eventually walk off deck or cause shipwrecks.
In some cases it is said that they drown the men while trying to rescue them. They are also said to take them down to their underwater kingdoms.