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Jackie, sorry to hear of your situation. For keeping invertebrates, one must be aware of tds, ph,gh,kh as well as temp. If not of the tank to be transitioned but for the temporary holding tank.
As it reads, seems as though you were sent a collection of caridina and neocaridinas of which would appreciate different water parameters. Caridinas feel much more comfortable in low gh/kh water and more neutral to acidic ph.
If your source water parameters were a wild swing in a different direction to what is their ideal, it would necessitate a serious drip acclimation over several hours while heavily oxygenating the water to ease the transition. I've managed to have minimal to no losses practicing this for all newly acquired shrimp. Infact my last batch of crs arrived in a punctured bag where the water had leaked out the box having 9 out of 10 survive. Credit goes to the cold weather which slowed their metabolism to a crawl.
As the events which has come to pass make most of what is said moot now, I hope the advice proves useful for new shrimp taking up future residence In your tank. I wish you the best of luck.
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Ph is 7.4
Kh is 3 drops
Gh is 4 drops
Using API drop tests. Unfortunately I don't have a TDS meter yet.
Based on the photo and description, I thought I was buying orange (as in pumpkin) shrimp. What I received were natural/wild type bee shrimp. No idea if it was a mixup or substitution. I tried contacting the vendor with no luck. I have since read reviews that this is typical for them, and that DOA's aren't covered even after paying $38 for shipping
Anyhow, lost all bee shrimp last night and I've only seen one lone rili. The others might be hiding, hopefully. Is there anything else I can test the tank for besides TDS? I will get one of those meters. Shrimp are so cute, want to make sure the next batch don't have the same fate.
One thing I've noticed is that a couple shrimp pellets or moldy in there really quick. Long white fuzz growing on them. Not sure if that is from the nite out II or not.
Thanks so much for helping! I feel so bad for these little guys
|that is another big issue. make sure pH is stable from day to night over the course of a couple of days. fluctuations can kill shrimp.
I haven't changed the water for 8 days... I tested the water about 5 days ago and the readings were 0/0/0.
I might give it until the end of the weekend & test again before I drop them in there. I have 2 juvenile SAE's in there now, they are doing fine at least. Not sure if Ph is stable, right now it is at 7.4, but was at 6.5 at one point.
watch them for another 2 weeks. if anything is going to happen, its going to happen during the first period of introduction to a new tank. hopefully your amazonia tank is cycled, but to me it sounds like it might not be completely done. have you tried to not do water changes for a period of time and the test the water for ammonia? if there is no ammonia or nitrite and low nitrates after you have NOT done water changes, then it might be ready. but even then more sensitive shrimp might die. i dont see sensitive shrimp in the ones you listed though.
Hopefully they'll live!
I was surprised that it was! I guess either the bacteria in the filter didn't all die or the Nite out II worked or a little of both.
I have 2 rilis and 1 bee left, they were happily snacking on some bottom feeder wafers this morning so my guess is they'll be just fine from here on out.
Thanks for all the help!
|glad to hear your tank is finally cycled! add the shrimps! how are they? how many are left?
In the tank with the amazonia: 0ppm Ammonia, 0 Nitrites and 10ppm Nitrates. Tested it just right now.
I did 90% water changes every day for 3 days in the beginning, and then dumped the Microbe-lift Special Blend & Nite Out II in on the 4th day.
|what are your nitrite/ ammonia levels in the tank with the amazonia? also you probably dont need very high light for your tank with the shrimp so you can cut it back if its causing the moss to die. also how often are you changing out the water in the tank with the ADA soil?
Thanks so much for all the words of encouragement and advice! I'm glad to see many people find these little guys as fun and cute as I do
The Amazonia has been in the 20L tank for 11 days now. It still has not stabilized, and I got it from a local LFS that advised I use it because our local tap water was bad for shrimp. My PH is 8.2 out of the tap, but then again, I read the rili's and natural bees can tolerate that Ph? Last I checked my ph was 6.5 in that tank with the amazonia.
I use Prime as a water conditioner. Still waiting on a TDS meter, DWP's water report says TDS is 242-311.
The last remaining shrimp in the 10G are looking quite flat/skinny? Does that make sense? They do not seem to acknowledge any of the shrimp food in the tank & the moss in there looks like it is dying. I wonder if that is because too much light? I have the tank under a suspended shop light with 2 T8 fluorescent bulbs. It sits about 5-6" above the water level. The planted 20L has the typical hood with a single fluorescent bulb and moss does fine in that.
Thanks for all the help, I so appreciate it! It's so frustrating & sad to see these little guys die
When did you put the anazonia in that tank
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|Ya hang in there. I dropped my first 10 rilis into my tank with 10 tetras in it. Came out with maybe 5 rilis left that made me dozens more. My advise just slow things down, its not a big transition between fish and shrimp keeping but lots of patience is needed. Rilis and Bees are pretty hardy too, maybe you got from a bung vendor. Stick with the people on this forum and youll fall in love with these little buggers just as much as the rest of us. And consider buying a few of the shrimp your lfs has to test before comiting to 10+ order of shrimp. If a simple 50cent ghost shrimp cant live in your tank than a 2 dollar rili probably cant either.
|Definitely, look for shrimp from members here. The red cherries I bought from a member here three years ago are still breeding and doing great. They were cheap too.
|did you buy the ada soil from your LFS? if so always be weary of upsellers.
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Sounds like you got bad advice from the local fish store too.
Orange and Rili don't need aquasoil to thrive. They are the tanks of the shrimp world. Low ph is not necessary, and they actually do better in 7-8ph- although some people keep them with crystal shrimp at a lower ph.
Are you using tap water? Do you have a water conditioner like "Prime" or API?
It's nice you have a buddy like Ravensgate who is able to help you out. I hope you try again and stick around the forum.
Hey Ravensgate!!
Yes I've been ignoring the ph/gh/kh/TDS per your suggestion. They're still in the 10 gallon holding tank because the 20L is not cycled at all. I threw out the old sand substrate so that's unfortunately not an option to add back in. There is no substrate in the 10 now, only driftwood and moss. I was hoping frequent water changes would keep them alive until the 20L cycled.
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This is a friend of mine She bought the orange shrimp but they sent her wild bee shrimp and basically told her 'oh well' when she called to complain. And I also told her its pointless to be testing pH, GH, KH, and TDS on a tank that's in the middle of a cycle. The numbers are going to swing around until it stabilizes and cycles AFAIK. This is just info I've gathered along the way, so if I'm wrong somebody feel free to correct me
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Renegade Chef: Can Santa save us from Armageddon?
Dear Santa:
I am writing this letter to thank you for the wonderful gifts you left under the tree for me last Christmas. It never ceases to amaze me how year after year you bring everything on my wish list.
The Happy Feet Penguin socks, Spiderman underwear and the fake arrow-through-the-head prop were certainly well used in 2012! "365 Rutabaga Recipes for Every Day of the Year" has a permanent home on my coffee table — primarily because it's glued on with spilled root beer — but by gosh, we tried every recipe!
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You and your elves must outsmart them, St. Nic. Right now I think their technical skills are superior to ours. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if they were watching us at this very moment on their own My-pods, mocking us for our bulky cell phones and our passion for being liked on Facebook. They could be injecting viruses into cyberspace, poisoning our antiquated and crude technology.
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Just imagine what could happen if we used those snappy new smart phones to mass-text "Your shoes are untied" or "There's a wad of toilet paper caught in your zipper" to all the Mayans headed to the north woods to fulfill their prophecy, or maybe just go ice fishing. They would all become distracted and swerve into the ditch, thus missing their deadline and sending Armageddon into overtime.
Hey, it's all we've got left, people! Anyone have any better ideas?
On second thought, Santa, maybe the gift of a Mayan-eating pet isn't such a good idea after all. How about we just stick to a new pair of slippers and a big jar of jelly beans and call it a year.

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Writes Yin, who actually raised his price target on Sprint to $7 from $6.50, where the shares go from here depends on "we believe further upside depends on "how this chess match progresses from here" between Dish CEO Charlie Ergen and Softbank CEO Masayoshi Son. Softbank has bid $7.30 per share for Sprint, while Dish has bid $7.14, though Dish emphasizes a greater portion of its offer is in cash than is the case with Softbank's bid.
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So does Softbank want the Clearwire vote to succeed? Perhaps not, in our view. We think Softbank's next move in this chess game may be to let the Clearwire vote fail on May 21. Why? Because if the Clearwire vote succeeds, that would arguably make Sprint more attractive to DISH, and we think it could cause DISH to pursue Sprint even more aggressively. That could raise the odds of a Softbank-vs.-DISH bidding war over Sprint [...] In our view, DISH may be more reluctant to pursue Sprint aggressively if there is not a clear resolution to the Clearwire situation.
Yin thinks any Softbank obstruction of the Clearwire bid might return Egen to his original focus on Cleawire:
If we are right that DISH's real target is Clearwire, we think Mr. Ergen may decide to focus on Clearwire instead – since Clearwire would then be "in play." In effect, by letting the Clearwire vote fail, Softbank could shift the bidding war over to Clearwire, and away from Sprint. In the end, a bidding war over Clearwire would likely be less costly than a bidding war over Sprint; and between Softbank and DISH, we still believe Softbank is likely to eventually prevail.
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Immigration reform's chances in the House are looking bleaker after one of the top Republicans tasked with shepherding a bill to passage ruled out a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants.
Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-VA), chair of the Judiciary Committee that will mark up any House legislation on the issue, told NPR this week that he will not support a bill that eventually grants citizenship for the estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants in America.
"People have a pathway to citizenship right now: It's to abide by the immigration laws, and if they have a family relationship, if they have a job skill that allows them to do that, they can obtain citizenship," Goodlatte said. "But simply someone who broke the law, came here, [to] say, 'I'll give you citizenship now,' that I don't think is going to happen."
Key senators are exploring an immigration bill that would force every U.S. worker—citizen or not—to carry a high-tech identity card that could use fingerprints or other personal markers to prove a person's legal eligibility to work…
"I subscribe to the 'if you build it, they will come' school of regulation," said Chris Calabrese of the American Civil Liberties Union, who said he worried that the card would be required to board airplanes, to vote or perhaps purchase a firearm. "It becomes in essence a permission slip to do all of the ordinary things that are your rights as an American," he said.
Alex Nowrasteh, an immigration-policy expert at the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank, said: "It's not only a gross violation of individual privacy, it's an enormously high-cost policy that will have an incredibly low to negligible benefit."
"I'm not optimistic about common sense immigration reform passing this Congress," Cruz said during a speech at the Dallas Texas Tool & Die company. "I don't believe President Obama wants an immigration bill to pass, instead I think he wants a political issue. His objective is to push so much on the table that he forces Republicans walk away from the table because then he wants to use that issue in 2014 and 2016 as a divisive wedge issue."…
"The president has been focusing on amnesty, a path to citizenship that skips ahead of the line," Cruz said. "That, he knows, is a position not supported by a great many Americans and not a position that will achieve bi-partisan cooperation. It's designed to scuttle the bill."
[O]n the single most important issue — instant amnesty — there is no real difference between the proposals.
Rubio calls it "probationary legal status." Obama uses the term "lawful prospective immigrant." But both would instantly legalize the 11 million illegal immigrants living here today. The moment either bill is signed, the 11 million become eligible for legal residence, the right to work, and relief from the prospect of deportation.
Their life in the shadows is over, which is what matters to them above all. Call the status probationary or prospective, but, in reality, it is permanent. There is no conceivable circumstance (short of criminality) under which the instant legalization would be revoked.
This is bad policy. It repeats the 1986 immigration reform that legalized (the then) 3 million while promising border enforcement — which was never carried out. Which opened the door to today's 11 million. And to the next 11 million as soon as the ink is dry on this reform…
Regrettably, there appears to be zero political will to undertake this kind of definitive solution. Democrats have little real interest in border enforcement. They see a rising Hispanic population as the key to a permanent Democratic majority. And Republicans are so panicked by last year's loss of the Hispanic vote by 44 points that they have conceded instant legalization, as in the Rubio proposal.
Amnesty never shows up in polls as a top concern of Hispanics. It's a top concern of employers, not workers — which isn't going to do much to help Republicans shed that "Party of the Rich" image. After Reagan signed an amnesty bill in 1986, unemployment among Hispanics skyrocketed when, suddenly, there was increased competition for low-skill jobs. That's precisely why businesses want amnesty, not because of their deep concern for the plight of the underclass…
So why do Hispanics vote Democratic? Like most legal immigrants since Teddy Kennedy's 1965 Immigration Act, Hispanic immigrants are poor. The poverty rate of second-generation Hispanics is lower than the first — but the third generation's poverty rate is higher than the second…
If Republicans think we can have mass amnesty for millions of government-dependent immigrants and become a more libertarian country, they're crazy.
This isn't because of a failure to "reach out." Republicans can't beat Democrats at the government assistance game. From single mothers to corporate subsidy-takers, they want your money and the Democrats promise to give it to them.
Understanding English is supposedly a precondition for gaining U.S. citizenship. Why, then, is it even necessary for politicians to address voters in Spanish? Either their English skills are not what we have been led to believe, or they simply prefer to use Spanish. Neither possibility is reassuring.
There appears to be no similar stampede of candidates, including Hispanic politicians, beating down the doors of Chinese or Korean Berlitz schools to communicate better with their Asian constituents. The assumption is: Asians and other immigrants will learn English; Hispanics, on the other hand, need to be reached in Spanish. The relative size of the various populations is no excuse: if using someone's native or legacy language is appropriate and respectful for one language group, why shouldn't the practice extend to all groups?…
Pro-amnesty conservatives regularly assert that assimilation is proceeding wonderfully, because most second- and third-generation Hispanics allegedly understand English. Is Spanish spreading, then, because the arrival of even more immigrants speaking only Spanish overwhelms this progress, or because Hispanic-Americans themselves prefer Spanish? Again, neither possibility is reassuring…
Conservatives have traditionally stressed the unum rather than the pluribus in our national motto (which originally referred to the unification of the states into a single nation, not to our contemporary notion of "diversity"). If the reality on the ground looks more and more like "E pluribus duo," shouldn't we care?
Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, one of a handful of Senators who have been working on bipartisan legislation on immigration, has already floated the possibility of walking away from the negotiating table if the terms of a deal aren't acceptable. The political risks of leaving the issue unresolved are significant for a party that won just one in four Hispanic voters in 2012. If the negotiations broke off permanently, Republicans would have to quickly embark on a public relations campaign blaming Obama for making unreasonable demands and playing politics with the issue. (And, yes, that sound a lot like what Cruz is doing right now.) Winning a message battle on immigration could be complicated by some of the louder voices — Iowa Rep. Steve King, for example — who are long time opponents of any sort of immigration compromise…
Rubio — and other smart party strategists — know that if a deal can't be reached on immigration, Republicans' chances of winning the White House in 2016 decrease…
Given the stakes, Republicans — Cruz included — had better hope that Obama's eye is more on building his legacy than on positioning his party politically for when he leaves office. Otherwise, the GOP could be faced with nothing but bad choices on the issue heading into the 2014 midterms and 2016 presidential election.
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GOT KILLED BY CAM CHANCLER ON THE SEAHAWKS, best hit I've seen all year..
GOT KILLED BY CAM CHANCLER ON THE SEAHAWKS, best hit I've seen all year..
God I would love to have Seattle's defense they are deadly...
Seatlle got a blocked chip-shot FG returned for a TD by Pro-Bowl elected CB Richard Sherman. lol 21-0. Seahawks are playing like a team that wants to get into the playoffs. They're well on their way to clinching a wildcard spot.
I expect the 49ers to release Jacobs after the Giants get eliminated with a classic picture of Nelson Munz to the Giants. Ouch! Manningham just got his knee taken out after I mentioned Jacobs. Ain't looking good for the former Giants players.
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Hopefully it is GB.
" both Mannings played their worst games of the season in that dome of theirs."
Difference being Peyton rallied them & they almost came back to win their game. Eli & the G-men crumpled up like a snot filled napkin.
Congrats to the Ravens on beating the Patriots at Foxborough in the AFC championship game. That was a one heck of a KO hit on Patriots RB Stevan Ridley.


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Have plenty of room or am willing to travel. I relocated to the south Bay area 15 months ago and still have few friends. *sad panda
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The old Democratic political bosses like former Mayor Daley of Chicago are turning over in their graves at news of how Iranian political bosses really know how to get the votes in and in. They just don't worry about having dead people vote, heck, they even vote for those yet to be born! The centrist Ayandeh website, which was neutral during the Iranian election, reports that in 26 provinces across the nation, participation figures for voters exceeded any norm known in history. The town of Kouhrang recorded a 132% turnout but Chadegan in Isfahan province only had 120%. Ayandeh's source claims that in at least 200 polling stations in Iran, the participation rate was 95% or above which is a statistical impossibility due to the fact people die after registering to vote or are ill on election day.
These claims are impossible to verify but are consistent with statements made by former Iranian interior minister, Ali Akbart Mohtashamipour who said on Tuesday that 70 polling stations returned more completed ballots than the number of eligible voters. There are also reports that some polling stations ran out of ballots as early as 10:00 a.m. even though sent more than sufficient ballots for eligible voters.
The ball is in the court of supreme leader Ali Khamenei. Does he allow the farce or does he insist on a fair election?


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Oops: IRS's rationale for scrutinizing tea partiers debunked by nonprofit application data
posted at 11:21 am on May 16, 2013 by Allahpundit
Good work by the Chronicle of Philanthropy, although we could have guessed that this was the case. Here's what Lois Lerner said in her initial statement last week copping to the agency's malfeasance:
"We get about 60,000 applications for tax exemption every year, most of them are 501(c)(3) organizations. But between 2010 and 2012 we started seeing a very big uptick in the number of 501(c)(4) applications we were receiving and many of these organizations applying more than doubled, about 1500 in 2010 and over 3400 in 2012. So we saw a big increase in these kind of applications, many of which indicated that they were going to be involved in advocacy work.
That kinda sorta made sense the day she said it, because at the time we thought the IRS hadn't started scrutinizing tea partiers until 2012. Then we found out they were doing it in 2011, and then we found out they were doing it in 2010. The further back you push the timeline, the less coherent the "big application surge between 2010 and 2012" defense becomes. The Chronicle administers the coup de grace:
Both Steven Miller, the agency's acting commissioner until he stepped down Wednesday, and Lois Lerner, director of the agency's exempt-organization division, have said over the past week that IRS officials started the scrutiny after observing a surge in applications for status as 501(c)(4) "social welfare" groups. Both officials cited an increase from about 1,500 applications in 2010 and to nearly 3,500 in 2012. President Obama ask Mr. Miller to resign on Wednesday.
The scrutiny began, however, in March 2010, before an uptick could have been observed, according to data contained in the audit released Tuesday from the Treasury Department's inspector general for tax administration…
According to the audit, 1,735 groups applied for 501(c)(4) exemption for the federal fiscal year that ended September 30, 2010—six months after the IRS began its scrutiny. That was down slightly from 1,751 the prior year…
IRS officials did not return requests for comment about the discrepancy in how they accounted for their actions.
A former IRS employee interviewed by the Chronicle theorizes that it wasn't the volume that gave the IRS headaches but the complexity involved in learning on the fly how to scrutinize a new grassroots network like the tea party for 501(c)(4) compliance. I can sort of buy that as an explanation for delays on the first few applications, but most of these groups look alike. The learning curve for IRS analysts should have been sudden and steep. Why did the delays and extra attention persist for years?
By the way, in case you're updating your scandal meme scorecard, we've now moved on from "Obama's passive and disinterested, but certainly not culpable" to out-and-out assertions that the IRS was completely in the right here, despite their (and O's) acknowledgment of their wrongdoing. MKH was on that last night, but here's Scary Larry from Wednesday evening's MSNBC broadcast proving he's the most progressive progressive of them all. I'll leave you with this from HuffPo's business editor, who felt moved to opine in favor of these fine, hard-working public servants:
The Tea Party stands for many things, but a big part of its message is that sending money to Washington amounts to the perpetuation of a dangerous welfare state that's intent on turning America into a helpless land where our lone skill is filling out the forms to go on the dole.
Isn't it reasonable to assume that people who hold such beliefs might feel additional motivation to pursue grey areas and loopholes at tax time? Wouldn't the people who oversee federal coffers have been derelict had they not at least had a good look?
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Peter Høeg 1957-
Danish novelist and short story writer.
The following entry presents an overview of Høeg's career through 1998. For further information on his life and works, see CLC, Volume 95.
Høeg is a critically acclaimed and award-winning Danish novelist. Frøken Smillas fornemmelse for sne (1992; Smilla's Sense of Snow), Høeg's most internationally recognized work, has been sold in more than thirty countries. Critics have likened Høeg's works to those of such authors as Jules Verne, Jorge Luis Borges, and Italo Calvino.
Biographical Information
Høeg was born May 17, 1957, in Copenhagen, Denmark. His father, a lawyer, and his mother, a Latin teacher, raised Høeg and his siblings in an intellectual, middle-class environment. Høeg graduated from Frederiksberg Gymnasium in 1976 and then attended the University of Copenhagen. In 1984 he earned a Master's Degree in Comparative Literature. Høeg then embarked on a series of career choices that moved him away from the intellectual world and academia. He spent time as a mountaineer, a professional dancer for the Royal Danish Ballet, and as a crew member on pleasure boats. It was during a boating trip that Høeg developed an idea which would become Forestilling om det tyvende århundrede (1988). In 1995 this work was translated into English as The History of Danish Dreams. Høeg's penchant for travel and adventure is often highlighted during his rare public performances, where he has been known to entertain audiences with tales of mountain climbing and visits to Kenya. Høeg met his wife, Akinyi, who is a member of the Kenyan Luo tribe, while visiting in Kenya. In 1996 Høeg established the Lolwe Foundation to provide aid to women and children from the Third World. The word "lolwe" is from the language of the Luo tribe (called Dhu-luo) and is used to describe the infinite space where lake meets the sky to the west. Høeg donated all the proceeds from his novel Kvinden og aben (1996; The Woman and the Ape) to the Lolwe foundation.
Major Works
The History of Danish Dreams, narrated by the central character named Mads, begins near the year 1520 and progresses through four centuries and four generations. Mads is a member of the last generation and the novel focuses on Mads's recounting of dreams he receives from his ancestors. The novel is written in the style of magical realism and includes themes that are also examined in many of Høeg's later works. These themes include the representation of time, both physical and symbolic, social class, the battle between the individual and society, and the mistreatment of children. The book is divided into three sections, with each section covering the lives of one generation. The narrative examines the history of four families who intermarry as the sections progress, until all four families are joined as one. The four families represent four different social classes of Danish society; the main character from each class is a thief, an aristocrat, a priest, and a newspaper publisher, respectively. Covering such widely varying characters and economic backgrounds enabled Høeg to provide social commentary and criticism of Danish culture. Høeg published a collection of short stories, Fortœllinger om natten, in 1990. This work was translated into English in 1998 as Tales of the Night. The stories are set during the year 1929 and focus on a particular day, March 19. Each deals with a different character who is undergoing a traumatic change in life. Smilla's Sense of Snow marked a departure for Høeg in that it is a mystery, but the book retained many common themes that mark much of Høeg's work—magical realism, a focus on child welfare, and a critical look at Danish society. The narrator, Smilla, exhibits traits unusual for a character in a detective genre book: she is most at ease alone or when discussing mathematics, and she is an expert on glacial morphology. It is this skill which leads her to believe that her neighbor and closest friend, an Inuit boy named Isaiah, has been murdered. Isaiah's death has been attributed to an accidental fall from a rooftop, but Smilla suspects foul play. As the novel progresses, Høeg discusses ethnic tensions present within Danish society (Smilla is half Danish, half Inuit, and never feels comfortable within the Danish culture), as well as the exploitation of Greenland and its native population by Danes. De måske egnede was published in 1993 and translated into English as Borderliners in 1994. The novel is told through the eyes of Peter, an orphan who recounts his childhood experiences at a boarding school engaged in an experiment in Social Darwinism. Failure to conform to the headmaster's standards equates to a failure to conform in Danish society and to being banished to the lower rung of the class system. Peter is joined at the Academy by Katarina and August, each from a different social background, and the three characters ally themselves in an effort to destroy the rigid hierarchy that the Academy enforces. The narrator of The Woman and the Ape, Madeline, who has been compared to Smilla in Smilla's Sense of Snow, as both characters are solitary scientists, embarks on a love affair with a highly intelligent talking ape named Erasmus. She frees Erasmus from his bonds as the subject of scientific experimentation, and in turn Erasmus frees Madeline from her unhappy marriage and addiction to alcohol.
Critical Reception
The History of Danish Dreams received a largely positive European critical response. Many Danish critics labeled the book a "significant novel debut of the 1980s," but reviews of the English translation were mixed: reviewers either felt that Høeg's social commentary was too clever or faulted the author for using characters who were too one-dimensional. Tales of the Night received praise for its clever descriptions of the passage of time and its effective character development. Nader Mousavizadeh asserted: "Høeg illuminates the political and the cultural through the prism of small, intimate lives of no apparent consequence, simultaneously elevating and denigrating, mocking the grand and dignifying the petty." Smilla's Sense of Snow generally received positive reviews from both European and American critics. Many reviewers characterized the book as an "anti-colonial thriller" and praised Høeg's reinventing the mystery genre with his unique prose, rendering of Smilla, and introduction of magical realism. Negative comments focused on the conclusion, which left many questions unanswered and which critics felt drifted into the realm of science fiction and away from the murder mystery genre. Borderliners received generally unfavorable response from American critics. Some reviewers were disappointed with Høeg's return to the passage of time as a theme, feeling it detracted from the plot line. European reaction to the book was also mixed, with initial reviews being generally positive but later comments turning negative. Erik Skyum-Nielsen referred to the novel's treatment of human rationality as "pompous" and called the novel overrated. The negative European reviews of Borderliners also initiated debate about Høeg's political aims. The Woman and the Ape was faulted by critics as a simple recycling of Edgar Rice Burroughs's Tarzan stories. Danish critics argued that the novel was too preachy and that the examination of the animal rights issue within the book overrode the plotline. Constant comparison to Smilla's Sense of Snow diminished further positive American reviews for The Woman and the Ape, which was also labeled a mystery. The negative criticism for The Woman and the Ape helped to create a backlash against Høeg with some critics concluding that the author had reached his creative peak with Smilla's Sense of Snow.
Principal Works
Forestilling om det tyvende århundrede [The History of Danish Dreams] (novel) 1988
Fortœllinger om natten [Tales of the Night] (short stories) 1990
*Frøken Smillas fornemmelse for sne [Smilla's Sense of Snow] (novel) 1992
De måske egnede [Borderliners] (novel) 1993
Kvinden og aben [The Woman and the Ape] (novel) 1996
*This work was published under the title Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow in the United Kingdom.
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Jane Smiley (review date 24 October 1993)
SOURCE: Smiley, Jane. "In Distant Lands of Ice and Sun." Washington Post Book World 23, no. 43 (24 October 1993): 1, 11.
[In the following positive review, Smiley applauds Høeg's redevelopment of the mystery genre in Smilla's Sense of Snow.]
It's not hard to tell that Peter Høeg, the Danish author of Smilla's Sense of Snow, has been, among other things, a mountaineer, an actor and a sailor. The novel, his first to be translated into English, is bursting with hows—how arctic ice is formed; how to get to Greenland from Denmark by ship; how the Inuit world view, i.e., that of the Eskimos of North America and Greenland, differs from the European; how to swim...
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Brad Leithauser (review date 1 November 1993)
SOURCE: Leithauser, Brad. "Thrills and Chills." New Republic 209, no. 4111 (1 November 1993): 39–41.
[In the following review, Leithhauser offers a generally positive assessment of Smilla's Sense of Snow, despite the protagonist's "professorial" narration style.]
So many other puzzles beset the reader of Smilla's Sense of Snow that, adrift in its mazes, you almost forget to ask, What type of novel is this? It is a mystery? A techno-thriller? Some mutant species of science fiction? The publishers bill it as a simple thriller, albeit with an exotic setting; they compare it to Gorky Park. If a thriller is what it is, it's the best one I've...
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Peter Høeg and Karina Porcelli (interview date spring 1994)
SOURCE: Høeg, Peter and Karina Porcelli. "Overnight Success: Peter's Sense of Fiction." Scandinavian Review 82, no. 1 (spring 1994): 19–22.
[In the following interview, Høeg discusses his career and the popular success of Smilla's Sense of Snow.]
Peter Høeg is not a man of appearances. The 36-year-old Danish author arrives at an appointment via bicycle—not a mountain bike, not a racing bike—but an old, black bike with a plastic bag wrapped around the seat. The number of gears is inconsequential. This is what is important: to spin through the streets of Copenhagen.
For the most popular Danish novelist since Isak Dinesen, discriminating...
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Jeffrey Frank (review date 11 December 1994)
SOURCE: Frank, Jeffrey. "Prisoners of Time and Chance." Washington Post Book World 24, no. 50 (11 December 1994): 9.
[In the following review, Frank offers a mixed assessment of Borderliners, lamenting the novel's poor translation into English.]
The narrator of Peter Høeg's puzzling and artful Borderliners is someone named Peter Høeg. This Peter Høeg may or may not be the same person as the author, but both are drawn to the mysteries of time—linear time and circular, from the apparent simplicities of childhood to the physics of Newton, Einstein and Hawking. Both Høegs also try to understand the meaning of a "special" Danish private school...
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Julia Glass (review date 1 January 1995)
SOURCE: Glass, Julia. "Peter Høeg's New Tale of Time, Trauma and Character." Chicago Tribune Books 148, no. 1 (1 January 1995): 3, 7.
[In the following positive review of Borderliners, Glass explores Høeg's recurring themes of time, child neglect, and parenthood.]
The narrator of Borderliners, Peter Høeg's new novel, is a man whose lifelong obsession with time—its history, physics and meaning—frames his account of a childhood trauma that nearly destroyed his life. In this brooding, austere tale, set in a state-run orphanage and a prosperous private school, we witness the subtle tyranny of adults and its consequences, both real and imagined,...
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Tina Lund Andersen (review date April 1995)
SOURCE: Andersen, Tina Lund. Review of Borderliners, by Peter Høeg. Europe, no. 345 (April 1995): 27.
[In the following review, Andersen compares Smilla's Sense of Snow to Borderliners, noting Høeg's use of time as a plot device.]
As a follow-up to the internationally successful Smilla's Sense of Snow, Peter Høeg shows us his sense of time, irony, and brutal detail in his newest work, Borderliners.
The Danish author first broke into the American consciousness with the hugely successful Smilla, published in 1993 and now being made into a movie by fellow Dane Bille August. At age 37, Høeg has been around the...
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Nader Mousavizadeh (review date 3 April 1995)
SOURCE: Mousavizadeh, Nader. Review of Borderliners, by Peter Høeg. New Republic 212, no. 14 (3 April 1995): 39–41.
[In the following review, Mousavizadeh offers a positive assessment of Borderliners.]
"With the knife of light they would scrape the darkness clean," observes the young narrator of Borderliners, who languishes in the private boarding school that is the setting for Peter Høeg's new novel. Barely a teenager, barely sane, he speaks of the zealotry of his superiors, of the cruelty of best intentions, with the weariness of an old man. Høeg's novel is the story of three children whose shattered lives merge at the center of an educational...
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John R. Bradley (review date 14 April 1995)
SOURCE: Bradley, John R. "Time and Time Again." Times Literary Supplement, no. 4802 (14 April 1995): 20.
[In the following review of Borderliners, Bradley examines the influences of Charles Darwin, Samuel Beckett, and Marcel Proust on the novel.]
Borderliners is published in the wake of the huge success of Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow (1993). The first book was a whodunit, while Borderliners is an intense psychological study of the self, but there are similarities between the two novels which point to Peter Høeg's central, recurring themes. Both narrators are social outsiders; both have an inveterate hatred of all forms of authority;...
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Barry Unsworth (review date 15 April 1995)
SOURCE: Unsworth, Barry. "School of Thought." Spectator 274, no. 8701 (15 April 1995): 36–37.
[In the following review, Unsworth offers a negative assessment of Borderliners, and accuses Høeg of sacrificing the novel's plot in order to make a political statement.]
I don't know if there are many people who really think, when they look back at things, that schooldays are the happiest of one's life. Certainly [Borderliners] deals a lethal blow to the adage. The school in question here is an experimental private one called Biehl's Academy and among the pupils are three emotionally damaged children, the borderliners of the title, who have been sent...
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Robert Irwin (review date 1 October 1995)
SOURCE: Irwin, Robert. "Northern Exposure." Washington Post Book World 25, no. 40 (1 October 1995): 4.
[In the following review, Irwin discusses the qualities of magical realism in The History of Danish Dreams, drawing comparisons to Latino-American novelists Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Isabel Allende.]
The History of Danish Dreams is a novel in the international weird genre—or magical realism, as that sort of thing is better known. Høeg's first novel to have been published in English, in 1993, was Smilla's Sense of Snow. This was a splendidly unusual, if rather chilly, thriller, which richly deserved the best-seller status it achieved....
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John Leonard (review date 20 November 1995)
SOURCE: Leonard, John. "Children of the Panopticon." Nation 261, no. 17 (20 November 1995): 642–45.
[In the following review, Leonard explores the theme of child abuse in The History of Danish Dreams and Borderliners.]
You have to work hard to find Kierkegaard in the city where he died, of fear and trembling, at age 42. There's a single room devoted to his memory (letters, snapshots, book jackets, pipe), upstairs at the Kobenhavns Bymuseum. Whereas they will haul you by air-conditioned bus all over Copenhagen on a daylong tour of the habitats and artifacts of Kierkegaard's contemporary, Hans Christian Andersen, ending with a visit to a statue of the Little...
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Peter Whittaker (review date 5 January 1996)
SOURCE: Whittaker, Peter. "Scintillating Sage." New Statesman & Society 9, no. 384 (5 January 1996): 41.
[In the following review, Whittaker examines Høeg's use of dream imagery and portrayal of children in The History of Danish Dreams.]
Following the surprise success of his meditative thriller Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow and the critical acclaim for Borderliners, the word was that Peter Høeg's first novel—published in Denmark in 1988—was something special. With Harvill's new translation, we have a chance to see if the rumours were correct. The History of Danish Dreams is indeed an astonishingly mature debut. Tracing 400 years of...
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Claus Von Bülow (review date 6 January 1996)
SOURCE: Von Bülow, Claus. "Before the Snow Came." Spectator 275, no. 8738 (6 January 1996): 32.
[In the following review of The History of Danish Dreams, Von Bülow compares Høeg to Hans Christian Andersen.]
Students of the best-seller lists will recognise Peter Høeg as the author of Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow, a brilliant Arctic murder story with a strong dose of philosophical meditation. Høeg followed this with Borderliners, a story about three children, who have been judged mentally incompetent by the State, and their attempts to escape the regimentation of an experimental school. More gloomy Northern philosophy.
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Paul Binding (review date 19 January 1996)
SOURCE: Binding, Paul. "Family Failings." Times Literary Supplement, no. 4842 (19 January 1996): 26.
[In the following review, Binding discusses the narrator of The History of Danish Dreams and the familial bonds that are prevalent throughout the novel.]
Only on the very last page of Peter Høeg's first novel, The History of Danish Dreams (which was originally published in 1988), do readers learn the identity of the "I" who has periodically made authorial intrusions into the narrative—explaining the difficulties of assembling material, pointing out the general significance of the particular people and events. This "I" is Mads, the descendant...
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Irving Malin (review date summer 1996)
SOURCE: Malin, Irving. Review of The History of Danish Dreams, by Peter Høeg. Review of Contemporary Fiction 16, no. 2 (summer 1996): 159–60.
[In the following review, Malin discusses time, the use of dreams, and the concept of history in The History of Danish Dreams.]
I admire this intriguing novel. [The History of Danish Dreams] is a challenging text because it apparently questions the very notion of its form. If we look closely at the title we are startled by the concepts of "history" and "dreams." Some of the questions the title suggests are the following: Is "history"—or the past—a "dream"? How can one write a "history of...
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Hans Henrik Möller (essay date winter 1997)
SOURCE: Möller, Hans Henrik. "Peter Høeg or the Sense of Writing." Scandinavian Studies 69, no. 1 (winter 1997): 29–51.
[In the following essay, Möller examines Høeg's career, focusing on how his works relate to society and how society relates back to Høeg.]
The word "Pastiche" is derived from the Italian "pasticcio," meaning "pie" made originally of the left-overs from the day before. In a culinary as well as a literary context, pastiche is a radical illustration of the precept that there is nothing new under the sun. Pastiche is the postmodern reflection of lost aspirations for originality—the vanishing savor of what was served for dinner...
(The entire section is 9420 words.)
Mary Kay Norseng (essay date winter 1997)
SOURCE: Norseng, Mary Kay. "A House of Mourning." Scandinavian Studies 69, no. 1 (winter 1997): 52–83.
[In the following essay, Norseng discusses the presence of children in Smilla's Sense of Snow.]
"Our house was the house of mourning. … Elizabeth was sad and desponding. … The first of these sorrows which are sent to wean us from the earth, had visited her, and its dimming influences quenched her dearest smiles."
"Who can follow an animal which can traverse the sea of ice, and inhabit caves and dens where no man would venture to intrude?"
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Carolyn Alessio (review date 5 January 1997)
SOURCE: Alessio, Carolyn. "Simian Savior." Chicago Tribune Books (5 January 1997): 2.
[In the following review, Alessio explores the theme of colonialism in The Woman and the Ape.]
To paraphrase Jane Austen, a man in possession of an ape must keep an eye on his wife. In Peter Høeg's wry new novel. The Woman and the Ape. the wife of a British behavioral scientist runs off with his prized subject, an ape named Erasmus.
At once a satire and cautionary tale, The Woman and the Ape examines the reckless ambition that sometimes accompanies modern behavioral science and animal-rights activism. At the center of the novel lurks Erasmus, an...
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Jerry Fodor (review date 19 June 1997)
SOURCE: Fodor, Jerry. "Bottoms Again." London Review of Books 19, no. 12 (19 June 1997): 21.
[In the following negative review, Fodor compares The Woman and the Ape to Will Self's Great Apes, discussing the elements of allegory and the animal imagery in each.]
Archimedes thought that he could move the world if only he could get outside of it, and the same idea inspires writers in the transcendental genre of fiction. Find some place sufficiently far out and put your fulcrum there. The leverage you achieve will lend authority to your voice. Both these books hope that higher primates will supply the required pivot. The Woman and the Ape looks up...
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D. Quentin Miller (review date summer 1997)
SOURCE: Miller, D. Quentin. "The Woman and the Ape." Review of Contemporary Fiction 17, no. 2 (summer 1997): 273–74.
[In the following review, Miller focuses on the interchangeability of Madeline and Erasmus in The Woman and the Ape.]
Peter Høeg's fourth novel defies easy categorization. It is at once a tale of personal strength, a love story, and an ecological morality tale. To choose one of these or any other conventional label to describe The Woman and the Ape is to ignore its obvious unconventionality; for the personal strength comes from a woman so severely alcoholic that she seems beyond repair, the love story is between a woman and a...
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Stephen Knight (review date 28 November 1997)
SOURCE: Knight, Stephen. "In Tales within Tales." Times Literary Supplement, no. 4939 (28 November 1997): 23.
[In the following review, Knight discusses Høeg's attention to detail in Tales of the Night but finds that the level of detail detracts from the flow of the storyline.]
In "The Verdict of the Right Honourable Ignatio Landstad Rasker, Lord Chief Justice," Peter Høeg patiently uncovers the secret that has riven an eminent Danish family. On his son's wedding day, the homophobic, lugubrious Hektor recounts the events of twenty-two years earlier, when the family's ordered world was wrecked by the decision of his father, Ignatio, to abscond with a...
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Katherine Dunn (review date 26 April 1998)
SOURCE: Dunn, Katherine. "In the Gothic Mode." Washington Post Book World 28, no. 17 (26 April 1998): 4.
[In the following review, Dunn explores Høeg's use of historical characters and attention to time as a motif in Tales of the Night.]
The Danish writer Peter Høeg made an explosive American debut in 1993 with his suspenseful literary thriller Smilla's Sense of Snow. The title character, Smilla Jasperson, is a remarkable female protagonist whose complex power is revealed in a lush layering of action, dialogue, image and flashback. The book's core gravity is her passionate intelligence as a scientific expert on the subject of ice and snow. The peculiar...
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Further Reading
Eberstadt, Fernanda. "Northern Light." New Yorker 69, no. 30 (20 September 1993): 118–19.
Eberstadt discusses the role of paternity in Smilla's Sense of Snow.
Eder, Richard. "They Have Twenty-Three Words for It." Los Angeles Times Book Review (26 September 1993): 3.
Eder compares Høeg's Smilla's Sense of Snow to the works of John le Carré.
———. "Time Never Stops." Los Angeles Times Book Review (6 November 1994): 3.
Eder discusses Høeg's theme of child abuse in Borderliners.
Koenig, Rhoda. "In Very Cold...
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Humanities and Language students were invited to take part in a 'Culture Vulture' evening on Friday 17th June that showcased what's to come in the autumn term.
Guests were treated to a selection of performances by Tutors and students, including: a theatrical poetry reading, improvised jazz, a talk on Greek Archaeology and some poetry reading. Guests even got a live origami demonstration and were given their own bit of paper to have a go themselves!
The evening was a great hit among the students. Here are some of the comments the Centre has received:
- "Thank you very much for a most entertaining evening." Ann Wallington, Humanities student.
- "Thanks for the evening last night. It was great and fascinating. We both managed to make it and we were both very impressed with the food." Jeremy Badcock, Spanish student and his partner.
- "It was a great night! Thank you!" Panagiotis Tziogkidis, Russian student.
Terumi Blackmore and Noriko Whitelock, the two Japanese Tutors that performed the live origami demonstrations said: "Thank you to everyone that donated money for Japan Earthquake-Tsunami sufferers on Friday." Terumi said: "We raised £85.73. The donation will be sent to Groundwork Japan via Groundwork Merthyr & Rhondda Cynon Taff."
Amanda Rackstraw, a Creative Writing Tutor that read out some of her own poetry during the event said: "Events like these give students an opportunity to see the human face of learning. I certainly think it's something to repeat next year."
You can find more photos of the Culture Vultures event on the Centre's Facebook page.
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Student follows the live origami demonstration and successfully makes a swan.
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When the author is David Lindsay-Abaire, what you expect from a play called Rabbit Hole is Alice, not astrophysics. So this carefully calibrated, painfully funny domestic drama — in which slim comfort arrives in contemplation of the cosmos — comes as a surprise on the heels of the wildly whimsical Fuddy Meers, whose heroine awakes every day with amnesia, and Kimberly Akimbo, in which a teenager has a disease that causes her to age at the rate of ripe Stilton. In contrast to the wacky, dysfunctional fantasias on which South Boston native Lindsay-Abaire has made his name, Rabbit Hole (presented by the Huntington Theatre Company at the Boston University Theatre through December 3) is, for all its allusion to parallel universes, solidly set on planet Earth — Larchmont, to be precise. And it represents both a step forward and a step back for the playwright, whose imaginative earlier works are more theatrical but also more arbitrary. It's as if Craig Lucas had gone to bed and awakened as Donald Margulies.
Rabbit Hole, Lindsay-Abaire's first play to be presented on Broadway, was nominated for a 2006 Tony; the poignantly acted, nicely manicured Huntington staging marks its area premiere. At the center of the drama are affluent, intelligent suburban couple Howie and Becca, whose marriage is under strain in the wake of unspeakable loss, information about which is reeled out like fishing line. In the first scene, we meet Becca in her grand-scale kitchen crisply folding laundry as freewheeling sister Izzy recounts a bar fight. Inch by inch, Izzy's tale of decking a woman who harassed her in a tavern turns into the revelation that Izzy is pregnant by her musician boyfriend. And inch by further inch, we learn that the tiny clothes Becca is boxing used to belong to her four-year-old son, who eight months earlier was killed by a teenage driver after chasing the family dog into the street.
The most wrenching thing for Becca and Howie, obviously, is the loss of their child. But second is the couple's inability to comfort each other. Manhattan broker Howie clings to his memories like a lifeboat, waking up in the night to watch home movies in the dark, whereas Becca sets out to erase every painful reminder from the surface of their life. He is painfully, even lugubriously in touch with his sorrow; hers is spikier and easily turned to anger. They aren't even sinking in the same ocean, and Becca's relatives — the kooky sister whose egotism is a good-natured elephant in the room and a blunt mom whose attempt at advice turns into a tangential rant on the curse of the Kennedys — are no rescue team. Throw in the awkward, hurting teenager who ran over the kid and sends Emily Post–polite pleas for absolution and the bereaved couple have their hands full.
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this was pulled from a conversation Randy Oliver is having on Bee-L
>>RNAi treatment for viruses is much like getting a
vaccination. For varroa or nosema, perhaps more like a systemic dog
treatment to kill fleas, but without any toxins involved.<<
this was pulled from a conversation Randy Oliver is having on Bee-L
>>RNAi treatment for viruses is much like getting a
vaccination. For varroa or nosema, perhaps more like a systemic dog
treatment to kill fleas, but without any toxins involved.<<
yes and no, you would need it refreshed often unless you're producing the RNAi fragments yourself. I do not know how quickly it's degraded once ingested.
From what little I understand at this point, I think you've got the principals of spread about right, though I don't know how persistent the 'treatment' would be... whether there is a certain required 'density' of RNA that might need topping up to continue to be effective... or indeed what the mode of action in the mite would be, and how persistent that might be.
In terms of what it's going to be worth.. this technology is absolutely invaluable in all sorts of fields - think human medicine - and I'm darn sure Monsanto or any other party would have that in their minds as well. But it's going to take a pretty strong proof of concept and safety, etc, to ever get close to that field. Bees could be a valuable testing ground. Not saying you're going to get the tech for free, but there could be a strong incentive in terms of the larger market to get this working in our market.
I don't think this is an instance of kicking the can further down the road either. If the efficacy was higher I'd be more excited, but 60% effectiveness is really lack luster to me for this kind of technology. If it were in the high 90's I'd be more excited, just think, you could treat with capped brood and still get good kill. There's other applications for this approach as well.
As of now the price is really high, because producing the RNA is not cheap.
would the rna get incorporated in the bee genome and be transmitted to bee offspring? my take from the paper was that it is mite rna, that the bee eats, and then the mite takes it in when it sucks on the bee. once in the mite, it gets incorporated into the mite genome, and the next generation of mite dies of a serious birth defect.
i'm thinking that if the birth defect kills the mite offspring, that birth defect would not be transmitted to any future generations of mites. if so, the only way for the mites to get the killer rna in the first place would be if it was always available in the bees. if newly emerging bees weren't getting it in the food supply, and the bees that had eaten the killer rna are lost by attrition, the killer rna wouldn't be in the new bees for the mites to suck out.
that would suggest that the rna would have to avaible in the bee food at least for every turnover of the bee colonies' population.
the 'trick' is that the bees are vectoring the killer mite rna to the mites, i don't believe it is intended to change the bee's genetics. (altough some have suggested in could, and in unpredictable ways.....)
journaling the growth of a treatment free apiary started in 2010. 20+/- hives
The paper cited is clear that dsRNA taken up in feed by bees can be passed by mites into other bees. Just how far that cycle can go, I'm not sure. However, the paper seems to me as if the genes coded in the dsRNA are being transferred into the bees' genomes.
In short, it seems as if these are transgenic (or GMO) bees.
The simplest explanation I can think of for how a mite picks up genes feed to a bee involves incorporation of those genes into the bee's cells. After all, the mites are not tapping into the gut contents of the bees. Mites feed on haemolymph, not fluids in the digestive tract. So the dsRNA has to somehow cross barriers to get out of the digestive system.
kieck, yes once the mite contracts the rna sequence by sucking the hemolymph from a bee that has eaten the sequence, (the sequence could be thought of as a synthetic 'virus' deadly to mites but not bees), it indeed can be transferred to other bees via the mites. hence the title 'bidirectional transfer'.
the study shows that the sequence is transferred from the bee gut to its hemolymph.
i am going to reread the paper, but i'm still thinking the bee genome is not being targeted.
journaling the growth of a treatment free apiary started in 2010. 20+/- hives
the rna sequence also ended up in brood that were feed by nurse bees who had eaten the sequence, and transferred to mites via sucking on brood.
journaling the growth of a treatment free apiary started in 2010. 20+/- hives
after rereading, i'm convinced the bee genome is not the target for the rna sequence. (with the disclaimor that my background is neurophysiology and not genetics).
affecting the bee genome, or the physiology of the bee in any way, would be considered an 'off target effect', and the authors claim they did not observe any.
journaling the growth of a treatment free apiary started in 2010. 20+/- hives
for what it's worth, randy oliver responded about this technology on another forum, and his take was that these findings are very preliminary, and suggested no one hold their breath waiting to see this hit the market. apparantly there are a lot of regulatory hurdles to overcome before anything like this can be made available to the public.
journaling the growth of a treatment free apiary started in 2010. 20+/- hives
Simple version of a viral infection: a virus inserts its genetic material into a cell, and the cell produces proteins and genetic molecules (DNA or RNA) bases on the genes of the virus.
"Transgenic" involves transfer of genes from one organism to another.
Seems to me that putting genes into an organism via a virus qualifies as transgenic. Some of the genes moved from one organism into a crop by humans were (and may still be at times) transferred by using a virus. These organisms are termed "GMOs" by many folks.
I'm not seeing where the distinction lies.
The authors of the paper cited in this thread imply that the dsRNA is analogous to a human-created virus.
There's no gene transfer. GMO bees would have to have the sequence inserted and then could produce the dsRna's themselves w/o being fed. It's a little similar to virus, but not quite. The Rna simply shuts down expression of targeted genes, in this case a gene the mite needs to survive. The Rna does not self replicate as virus either, once it binds to the analogous rna of the expressing gene, it's essentially used up.
That was well said JRG13
I have been reading some of Randy Oliver's posts to this same topic on another forum
He is actively involved with one of the groups developing this technology
Got a long way to go before anythought of providing it for commercial use
Im really not that serious
its got to go through the regulatory processes ,
that is where the big tickets come into play, very expensive
After studying up on exactly how dsRNA works and is used in this sort of application, I think JRG13's post is clear and accurate, and squarepeg was right on target, too. I let my ignorance show pretty clearly. The dsRNA is not replicated by any of the organisms, and it apparently degrades quite quickly even outside cells. It seems that it might only be intact for a few days after it has been created and fed to bees.The Rna does not self replicate as virus either, once it binds to the analogous rna of the expressing gene, it's essentially used up. -JRG13
Good work by all who posted on a subject that is difficult for many of us to grasp. This is Beesource at its best. Incredibly it almost seems as though a consensus has been reached and all of this without any guidance from New York City.
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I have had 4 sightings of a bear within 100 yards of my small bee yard. Any tips on what might keep him/her away?
I have had 4 sightings of a bear within 100 yards of my small bee yard. Any tips on what might keep him/her away?
Baited electrical fence. He needs to touch his nose to it one time.
First post nailed it.
Do you have an electric fence?
I recently installed one, yes. We've been seeing bear in the neighborhood.
I spoke with a lot of folks (internet, local bear expert game warden, other beeks) including someone locally who had a bear tear up some hives, then mess with the hives AFTER electric was installed. Per game warden's recommendations, he baited the wire with bacon, and that was the last of his bear problems.
Note that I'm talking about Mid-Atlantic region and Black Bear...
A good electric fence is a good deterrent, but not always 100%.
If you can't afford a fence #1 coil spring traps (for trapping mink) Staked around the hives will pinch a bears toes if they get too close and is very effective at teaching them to stay away. They only cost about 5.00 each.
I wish there was a better option than electric fence or shooting the bear. Electric fences are fairly expensive for someone just starting and most people can't sit around and wait to shoot a bear.
See my progress at http://bpapiaries.blogspot.com!
On another thread recently, someone was also suggesting upturned boards with a good sprinkling of sharp nails. Yikes!
I hear ya' on the cost. I'm down for around $350 to fence mine. I had to use solar. If you can plug charger into 110AC, then you can get away cheaper. Metal stakes are pretty cheap and the wire is not too bad either.
Bears are moving in where I am too, so I've had to do a lot of research of fencing. Some of the points I've read so far:
1- You MUST smack that bear HARD! Min recommended charge is 6000V. It's also suggested that you should be pushing at least 0.6 joules, but since you would be using a high voltage controller, and I've never heard of an apiary that needed miles of fencing, you should be fine with any controller in the high voltage range.
A horse, pig,or even bull fencing is not strong enough for a bear to be affected by it. Those only run about 3000V and less from what I can find.
2- Avoid baiting the fence. I say that for other people reading this. If you are concerned with bears, adding bacon or peanut butter baits might help bring in a bear that was just going to pass by. However, since you (the OP) have seen one within 100 yards, baiting would be the best option. (edit: I was mixing OP with other posts, but info is still applicable.)
3- Wire: Don't use the poly-wire, use plain, heavy gauge wire. Old-fashioned stuff still works best.
4- Get an A/C unit over a battery/solar one if at all possible. We're talking about a big, thick skinned animal here. They will drain out a battery pretty fast if you end up with a rather persistent bear.
Even with all that, some bears still waltz through your fence. I've talked with former BKs that were driven out of the hobby thanks to bears. Widow-walks built on the roof to hold hives seems to be the only sure-fire bear-proofing.
What about having the bear trapped and moved by the warden? It seems that you have been in contact with them. Do you know what qualifies a bear as a "nuisance bear?" Some states will trap and move just for proximity to homes.
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That sounds like a great way to get a nail through your own foot when the grass grows up around them heh. How many feet are your fences? The outyards I planned to set up were going to need 72 feet of fencing.
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Calcasieu Coroner Terry Welke testified in 14th Judicial District Court that Darrell Schaub died from cuts to his neck and shoulder.
Welke was testifying in the second-degree murder trial of Jon Talbert Dickerson, 31, who is accused of killing Schaub in March 2009.
Welke said he could not determine what kind of instrument was used to kill Schaub, 51.
A significant amount of blood found on Schaub's arms indicated his carotid artery was cut, Welke said.
Schaub's body was found March 16, 2009, beneath two mattresses behind the now-demolished Parkway motel in DeQuincy.
Prosecutors said he was killed on either March 9 or 10, 2009.
The trial will continue into the weekend — testimony is expected to resume at 8:30 a.m. Saturday.
Welke was one of four people to testify Friday — the second day of testimony.
Roxanne Baumgarten, with the Calcasieu Parish Sheriff's Office, also testified, as did Lynn Miller and Rhalie Austin, both with the Southwest Louisiana Crime Lab.
Thirteen people have now testified for the prosecution, which is expected to turn the case over to the defense today.
Austin, who has since left the local crime lab for the state crime lab, testified that DNA from Schaub's blood was found on the outside of Dickerson's shoes and on the inside of his blue jeans.
DNA from Schaub's blood was not found on the inside of his truck or at Dawn Vercher's house, Austin said.
Vercher testified Thursday that a bloody Dickerson showed up at her house around 6:30 a.m. March 10, 2009, driving the truck.
Video taken by police the day Schaub's body was found showed his disheveled room and his heavily decomposed body. Empty alcohol bottles were found in the room.
Schaub had a blood-alcohol level of 0.26 percent, Welke said, but that may not have been accurate because bacteria in his deceased body may have also released alcohol."At the time of death, I imagine it was less than that," the coroner said.