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Any one wanting to talk calmly, about AHb and what the new, verified, findings of AHb, in NY, mean for the future of beekeeping, please join in.
Those who only want to beat up the beginner of this thread, need not participate.
Any one wanting to talk calmly, about AHb and what the new, verified, findings of AHb, in NY, mean for the future of beekeeping, please join in.
Those who only want to beat up the beginner of this thread, need not participate.
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"I reject your reality, and substitute my own." Adam Savage
We can only speculate, but I think that hot hives will be requeened and beekeeping will go on as usual.I think that eventually AHBs will get everywhere just like the mites and shb. We might not have as many bareheaded and barehanded beekeepers. Just my opinion.
My hope is that AHb in the Northeast will be diluted/selected out to the point where it is not a big problem. I guess that's what the Texan and the Mexicans before them had also hoped... Still, I understand that 6 agressive african queens were released in the Midwest over a century ago, and they have not taken over yet. The ABC $ XYZ suggests that part of the problem at San Paulo (sp?) was the scale of the importation.
>6 agressive african queens were released in the Midwest over a century ago
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Michael Bush bushfarms.com/bees.htm "Everything works if you let it." ThePracticalBeekeeper.com 42y 40h 39yTF
Please let my comments represent 1. new beekeepers 2. who are uneducated in this field.
I think it means I have a duty to constantly monitor the bees for aggressiveness; to begin an inspection protocol when a marked queen is missing and replaced by a new possibly AHB queen.
I wonder if all we had was africanized bees, after many generations couldn't we breed a gentle honey producer? I think we can manipulate the concept of natural selection even with a AHB. At some point in human history, the wolf was a competitor, possibly a predator of our ancestors, but now we have turned him into a poodle.
Here is some links that cover quite a bit about AHB.
It has a newer map of the spread of AHB. It seems to me with length of time it has taken them to move up from Mexico there would be more detailed info on areas afected. I look at some sites and 1999 was the latest info.
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\"I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree
And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made
nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honey bee
and live alone in the bee-loud glade.\"
-- WB Yeats
HereÂs an ARS Magazine article from a couple of years ago thatÂs been posted on BeeSource a time or two before (the map at the bottom is a little outdated now):
Come join the fun on the thread, "Let's renovate an Apiary Inspection Program". I'll be glad you did. Thanks,mwb
Mark Berninghausen
article from a florida paper
I once again will ask what should be the obvious question, WHERE ARE THESE QUEENS WE ARE USING TO REQUEEN AHB HIVES COMING FROM????!!!
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My thoughts:
1) Educate, educate, educate ourselves and each other.
2) Northern Beeks who are wintering in the South will either find ways to successfully winter bees in the north on a large scale or deal with a constant population percentage of AHB.
3) Northern beeks will need to do nucs and requeening in late summer or early fall to possible access to the soon to be non-existance spring, AHB free queen rearing regions in continental US.
4)Many/Most Northern Beeks will need to maintain thier own breed stock of queens due to shortages.
5) Inspectors will have to ask for hazard pay as one by one they get inexplicaply (Mark-sp correction?) stung to death trying to inspect peggjams hives.
6) after a couple of years of public panic created by the press when a pollintion truck with 1 AHB hive out of 550 flips on I-395 and 300 motorists get stung to death rolling down their windows to yell at the driver for making them late for cocktails, many beeks will go out of the industry and those left will learn to adjust because we are just to opinionated to work pumping gas, our only other qualification.
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"5) Inspectors will have to ask for hazard pay as one by one they get inexplicaply (Mark-sp correction?) stung to death trying to inspect peggjams hives. "
But hey.......I bought them bees from that character named Joel.....you know the one.........hangs out on the Beesource website
"I reject your reality, and substitute my own." Adam Savage
well i live down here where they first cam into the states and have friends who have been keeping bees for over 18 and 50 years each and they say the AHB is getting calmer ever year here...
At one of the links that was posted above, it mentioned this in case of attack:
Why wouldn't you want to jump into water? I would think if a creek was closer than running to my car, why not?Leave the area quickly if you are attacked by bees. The attack could last until the victim leaves the area. Cover your face using your hands and arms to protect your eyes and mouth from the bees. Seek shelter inside enclosures where the bees cannot enter such as a car, house, tent, or other building.Do not jump into water for protection.
Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by...
Most of the fatalities of AHB stinging incidents (and most other stinging incidents for that matter) that I've read about regretably almost always involve very young children or senior citizens. The presumption is they either don't know enough to run for cover, or can't get away fast enough. Fast approaching Senior Citizenship myself, I take this seriously. One incident I read about involved a young man doing yard work who disturbed an AHB nest. He ran off down the street... passing an old man. The young man got away. The old man was stung so many times he died.
Why wouldn't you want to jump into water for protection? I can only guess that you'd be a sitting duck (sorry) when you finally came up for air. They'd probably just setup a holding pattern and wait for you to surface. I once escaped from a seriously riled up colony of white faced hornets by jumping out of the canoe (don't ask) and giving the canoe a push in one direction while I swam under water in the other direction.
This reminds me of the joke about the 2 men on safari in africa, sitting in camp one day when a tiger comes stalking in. One said "Run! A tiger!" The other man calmly sat down and started putting his sneakers on. The first man cried "What are you doing??? Run! You can't outrun a tiger with those shoes on!" to which the first man replied "No, but I can outrun you..."
Somewhere in there is a moral or if not a moral, then a hint as to a means, if not a particularly honorable one, of escaping an AHB attack.
Dulcius ex asperis
>Why wouldn't you want to jump into water? I would think if a creek was closer than running to my car, why not?
As George says they are still there when you come up. Unless you find a way to coast downstream. When I had the psycho buckfasts, I learned one way to get rid of them was run through some brush (not sticker bushes) I have two cedar trees close together but you can get between them. If I ran between them I could loose the ones chasing me. I learned the trick watching the horse get rid of flies in the summer.
Michael Bush bushfarms.com/bees.htm "Everything works if you let it." ThePracticalBeekeeper.com 42y 40h 39yTF
Interesting! Didn't realize they would outwait you...little stinkers.
Michael, what problem did you have with your Buckfasts?
Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by...
For 25 years, none. Then the second year after I got the queens, all four hive swarmed in the same week, in a drought in August and then all four hives went psycho. Would hunt me down several hundred yards away several days after working the hives and sting me. Pour out of the hives when you even got close to the BACK of the hive. Follow you forever. No fun.
Michael Bush bushfarms.com/bees.htm "Everything works if you let it." ThePracticalBeekeeper.com 42y 40h 39yTF
]But hey.......I bought them bees from that character named Joel.....you know the one.........hangs out on the Beesource website]
Hey y'all. My son marshall is on a squirts level hockey team. He plays defense. He scored his first goal today. From the blue line. Unfortunately, I was in a meeting, getting elected President of the bored.
Joel brought up hazard pay. This was something that I thought about last Sept. when our pal ls made his announcement.
In a normal days work as an Apiary Inspector, it is not unusual to get stung many times per hive. No gloves allowed. So, in an apiary of 40 hives, one probably would expect to get stung, at least 40 times. But it's more like 100 times per 40 hive apiary. It is not uncommon, and for some it is habitual, to work 2 or 3 yards like that in a day. With some small apiarys in between.
So it is established that to get stung 100 times in one apiary is probably normal. Times two = 200, plus a couple of small apiaries. So you see, stings are normal for Apiary Inspectors.
So, what happens when an Inspector trys to make a Workers Compensation Claim after getting stung 100 or 200 times at once where the stingers can't be gotten to? He goes to the hospital for treatment and is told not to go back to work again.
Do you suppose that the Workers Compensation Lawyer is going to let the Judge award that inspector anything? Maybe the hospital costs and treatment costs.
Any other State employee taking stings like that on the job would probably get quite a bit. In my opinion.
What do you think?
While I'm on the subject of Workers Comp. If one person knew that someone else was using an illegal and potentially dangerous chemical in the second person's beehives and didn't warn anyone, what would you call that? And let's say that an Apiary Inspector went into the second persons beehives and received a chemical burn from some substance that was contacted in those treated beehives. Is anyone at fault? Who?
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Through the week I've seen Til and Jack, my grandbabies, and of course gone to training.
Today is my Friday off, and also my Shelley's 40th birthday. She has been sick for the last half of the year - nothing life-threatening but it's a juggling thing to try to get medication right so she can actually function
Therefore, her mother and I decided that we would go ahead despite the marked lack of enthusiasm on Shell's part to even acknowledge her birthday, and cook a Thanksgiving dinner.
We both researched what should be on the table and came up with a few favourites-
turkey, dressing, cranberry sauce, chicken, baby carrots with red onions, a green bean casserole, baked potato, yams & pumpkin, elote (Mexican corn), and brussell sprouts.
For dessert we had these delicious individual glasses of mousse/marshmallow/creamy stuff, New Orleans Sour Cream Pecan pie, pumpkin pie, birthday cake and ice-cream.
Wendy (Shelley's mum) came to pick me up at 11am and we began cooking as soon as we got back to Shell's in Carrum Downs. All went well until I became distracted by comparing music collections on our iPods with Shells' son Rian.....I returned to the kitchen to find the egg yolk/butter/sugar/whatever mixture for pie filling that I was meant to be stirring in the top of a double boiler stuck to the pot......particularly the egg yolks.
Yeah...um...they were on the bottom and pretty much cooked. I stirred the hell outta them but it looked like a mess, with hard bits of yolk bobbing around in the mix
At the end of the day these sour cream pecan pies were absolute winners - too sweet for me but yum! The bean casserole - lots of mushrooms in it - was also a favourite.
Once we were organised regarding the food Shelley's partner Richard took his mum, Shell and myself to the pub for a quick birthday drink and a break from the kitchen.
Once back at home family began to arrive; Shell's eldest Ashleigh brought along a reading - Buddhist - that Shell read out before we ate as a kind of grace. Before dessert we played a game where we had to pick paper leaves out of a cup and answer the question written there.
Mine asked about a kind thing that someone had done for me. I shared about Shell telling me once nine years ago that I wasn't crazy.
The night ended quite sedately, unusual when we get together to celebrate - with me bedding down on the couch around 11pm, to get up for work the next morning at 5.15am. Wendy drove me to the station - what a doll.
I caught the train from Seaford, near Frankston.
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ROCHESTER, MINN. (Dec. 29, 2000) -- A phenomenon in golf known as the "yips" -- an acquired problem of sudden tremors, jerking or freezing while putting -- may have both physical and psychological causes, according to a summary of current Mayo Clinic research published this week in Sports Medicine. Aynsley Smith, Ph.D., Director of Sport Psychology and Sports Medicine Research at Mayo Clinic, says preliminary research indicates that more than 25 percent of avid golfers develop the yips, which adds an estimated 4.7 strokes to the average 18-hole score of an affected player.
A problem called dystonia, which is very similar to some cases of the "yips," also affects musicians, stenographers, dentists and others who frequently are forced to repeatedly assume a prolonged, abnormal posture.
The first phase of the Mayo Clinic study consisted of a questionnaire completed by 1,031 under 12 handicap tournament players registered with the Minnesota Golf Association. The 453 yips-affected players retained in the study who had an average handicap of 4.5 said they had experienced the problem for six years, although they had been participating in the sport for an average of 30 years. Fast, downhill and left-to-right breaking putts of two to five feet were most likely to produce symptoms, although long putts caused problems for some golfers. Playing in or leading a tournament, tricky putts and playing against specific competitors were also associated with yips episodes.
"While pressure situations make the problem worse, it is difficult to imagine why good golfers would suddenly begin having the yips after years of successful performance if it was only a matter of anxiety or 'choking,'" says Dr. Smith. "Although performance anxiety may cause the yips in many golfers, muscle and nervous system deterioration caused by prolonged overuse may be at the root of the problem for other players. This may explain why some get relief and play successfully by changing their grip or by switching to a longer putter."
In the second phase of the Mayo research, investigators measured the heart rate, arm muscle activity and grip force while putting of four yips-affected golfers and three non-affected counterparts. Those with the yips had higher average heart rates and demonstrated increased muscle activity, particularly in the wrists. In addition, while non-affected golfers were able to make an average of nine out of 10 consecutive five-foot putts, the yips-affected golfers only made half of theirs.
Mayo Clinic researchers from Rochester (Minn.), Jacksonville (Fla.) and Scottsdale (Ariz.) hope to collaborate with Arizona State University Golf Researcher Debbie Crews, Ph.D., in a study next August that would examine a much larger sample in tournament conditions designed to heighten anxiety. The study will test psychological variables, brain waves, stress hormones, heart rate, muscle activity, grip force and putting performance in both "yips" affected and non-affected golfers under baseline, placebo and beta blocker conditions. The study will also test whether beta blockers are beneficial not only in treating the problem but also in improving putting performance. The Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) is the first organization to pledge financial backing for the new study.
Information on Phase III is available on the web at http://www.mayo.edu/research/yips/.
Dr. Smith says the yips problem is significant to health professionals. "Regular physical activity is important to long-term health. Golf is an international sport that is now enjoyed by over 26 million Americans. It would be unfortunate if frustration caused by the yips leads competent golfers to abandon the game and thereby lose their preferred activity outlet."
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Love that pumpkin!
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Re: Inspiration, Uncaged.
Beautiful design! Love that it is original. Instabuy for sure!
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Just one crit: HATE the t-shirt color. LOVEloveLOVEloveLOVE the graphic.
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This delightfully reminded me of Shim from T. A. Barron's The Lost Years of Merlin. :3
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I think I need this for my collection. o.o
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This just looks freaking epic.
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Love this. Would have loved to see the slightest bit of color, but that can be difficult with different heroes. Great stuff.
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Catch ALL THE MAGICARPS!
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You might be thinking of this by RebelArt.
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It's cream color. Thanks for the support!
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Yay Ocho kitteh!
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Different from your ordinary video game characters, but an epic battle nonetheless.
odysseyroc wrote:Isn't this a Snorg Tees design?
Pretty close:
S.S.E.? I think so.
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I'm not sure why the cow is throwing it a bit off for me, but nice execution. Chocolate sweating is a really nice touch. Still GMV.
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I must find both of these games for my kids now.
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Malcolm made a kitty bed. The little black hole in the middle is where the kitty has been for four hours straight.
Day's finally over. Week, in fact.
Started out panicking a little that I wasn't going to be able to give my kids the Christmas I wanted to. My debit card was on its eleventh day of replacement delivery after some earlier fraud.
A few comments from the kids about disappointment over spending Christmas at dad's house heightened my anxiety, and when my card arrived I went overboard.
In my sudden relief and joy, I let them open several of their "lesser" gifts. Bad reactions and disappointment from the kids brought back dad's bad response. More panicked spending.
Finally talked to mom and a close friend, both of whom adore Christmas and have been doing it forever, and surrendered to their advice. I had nothing to lose at this point.
Mom: Invite your brother over and have him make dinner. Make a Christmas memory and don't focus on the gifts.
Friend: Make interesting and cheap stockings. Everything's going to be discarded and forgotten just as quickly as the expensive gifts, but a grumpy reaction to a single disappointment is easily overshadowed by amused reactions to 20 confusing dollar store gifts.
First thing in the morning I hear screaming: "Dad! Dad! Where are you!" I let them sleep in the living room last night and didn't get to bed until 3 or so, so I was disoriented and still half asleep. I jump out of bed and Malcolm and I startled each other in the dark as we ran into each other. "Santa did come! You have to see these stockings! And oh my gosh! We both have huge presents under the tree!"
Stockings were an amazing hit, though they both LOVED the gift they opened this morning. Still, icing on a successfully baked cake. But they had both expressed some concern over the week that I wasn't going to get any presents and that morning there was nothing stuffed in my stocking. *Lesson learned…put some crap in your own damned stocking if it's hung over the fireplace. So I had also stuffed a microwave popcorn packet into each of their stockings with a note from Santa about how they were to wait for the delayed arrival of the new microwave oven he had ordered for me from Amazon (ours went out in, like, August and I'm replacing it next week). "Hey! Santa brought dad a present but it just didn't get delivered on time!"
The kids weren't so thrilled about dinner, but god damn it was amazing to have another adult there with me after this week. And he's a fantastic cook. Brussels sprouts with uncured bacon and garlic, mashed potatoes with a surprisingly improvised gravy from ramen noodle spice packets (I forgot the gravy mix!), ham steaks with a sweet pepper glaze, and the company of my brother around my dinner table.
Thanks for everything. Not everybody's near, but they're close.
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This guy fascinates me. He seems so self-aware and capable of explaining his understanding of himself to the rest of us. I once read an article written by a neurosurgeon who suffered a stroke and recorded her experience as it was happening. I love it when people can express their own amazing weirdness in a way that makes sense to those of us who haven't been through the same thing. It's the definition of genius to me.
I read one of his books a whole bunch of years ago, "Born on a Blue Day". Afterward I memorized π to 75 digits over the next couple of days. I used telephone area codes I had memorized at one of my first jobs, home phone numbers I remember from my childhood, family members' birthdays, and ZIP codes to find the most memorable patterns, and then when nothing matched I just thought to myself, "oh yeah, the bunch of numbers that don't mean anything…" But it only stuck with me for about 2 weeks. I had to recite it every day, several times to hold the numbers but it was almost completely gone a week later and forgotten 2 weeks later. Well, not completely. I still remember it out to about ten digits.
3.1 easy. 415, San Fransisco area code. 926, kind of like the 976 porn phone numbers from the '80s. 535, 5 seven times. I don't remember any of the rest of it, but I learned about finding meaningful patterns in noisy number trails as part of this exercise.
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The bed time story I told my kids tonight:
"Once upon a time there were two little boys who were going to bed. Their dad said, please turn off your iPad, Malcolm. And Malcolm said, I don't want a story! And dad said just turn it off until the story's over. And Malcolm said it better be short! And then dad said 'the more Malcolm argued with dad, the longer the story was and the longer he had to sit there with his iPad off.' And finally Malcolm turned off his iPad and dad was able to finish his story. All of this made Ian so tired and he was having a hard time keeping his eyes open. And then Malcolm prolonged the story by asking if he could turn on his iPad, to which dad said, 'no! not until the story's over!' Every time Malcolm asked if he could turn on his iPad, the story got longer and longer! It was like magic. And then, Ian was so tired that he just couldn't stay awake any longer and the time when Malcolm got to turn his iPad back on got nearer and nearer. And then, guess what! Malcolm asked if he could turn on his iPad again and the story got even longer!"
Mal: No I didn't!
Story: "Oh, wait, no he didn't. So then the story ended and everybody got to go to bed. Except Malcolm who turned his iPad back on and continued to stay up. The end."
Lord of the Rings
Just watched Lord of the Rings with my boys. Best movie watching experience ever. They were enthralled and Ian started crying when Boromir dies at the end and we all hugged when Sam won't let Frodo go alone and then Frodo almost drowns saving Sam. "It's like they're brothers! Like me and Ian. We would always stay with each other." I choked up a little.
Malcolm: "I usually like the bad guys better in most movies, but I hate these bad guys."
Dad: "me too!" ::pride::
Ian: "I like it when people don't have wars. I hope there's never a real war. I'm never going to be in the army."
Dad: "I can't really talk right now." ::I didn't say that::
We're going to watch Return of the King tomorrow.
The Cat is Boring
The argument that kept my boys awake half an hour past bed time:
Malcolm: "Dad, the cat won't sit in bed with me. Now it's boring."
Ian: "The cat is boring?"
Mal: "No, it's boring. The cat's not boring."
Ian: "Well, the cat's boring to me because she was in your bed."
Mal: "That doesn't make her boring!"
Ian: "She's boring to me."
Mal: "You're boring!"
Ian: "No! The cat's boring."
Mal: "You're boring!"
Ian: "No! You're boring!"
Mal: "No, you!"
Dad: "Would you both stop talking and go to sleep please? It doesn't matter who's boring because it's bed time and boring is a part of going to sleep!"
One of them: "I'm not tired."
The other: "Me either."
A while ago I discovered that the reason Ian starts counting backward from 60 at seemingly random times is that, when I say "just a minute," he takes me literally and counts down the seconds.
The other day I said, "In about 6½ minutes."
He asked, "How many seconds is that?"
He groans, "awww… frown emoticon" and then walks out mournfully counting down, "three hundred and ninety, three hundred and eighty nine, three hundred and eighty eight…"
He seemed more annoyed that he had to count down from 390 than that I needed to work for another 6½ minutes before I could come look at his Minecraft water world that makes Endermen do something twitchy (I don't really understand what was going on with the Endermen and water).
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Oops. A combination of stubbornness and bad time management on parents' parts had Malcolm acting out what could have been seen by his teacher as a lack of respect for her expectations and by Malcolm as a sign from us that this is OK.
So last night I was frantic when I discovered the week+ old homework packet, unfinished, with instructions to finish and return to her in his folder. We finished it up, but since this was less his fault (virtually nil) and more a failure of co-parenting, I encouraged him with a bribe.
"If you can meet some for time-based goals I set as you go along, I will buy you the most expensive Transformer we can find on Amazon, outside of used and/or collectors items. For each goal you don't meet, I'll drop the reward by 25% of the most expensive one."
He failed the first one with tears and obstinance, but after a break he beat the rest with ease.
The most expensive damned Transformer is close to $100. frown emoticon
Dreaming of Sleeping
Woke up this morning to Ian really wanting me to get out of bed. It was early, so I just ushered him into my bed and under the covers to buy myself some time.
He talked to himself a lot and scratched my back and played with my ears for a while, but got pretty fed up with my excuses for lying in bed while he was so awake.
Then I feel this little finger in my ear, digging and reminding me of those childhood warnings about cleaning your ears with Q-Tips. Next I feel him sticking his eye up to my ear, peeking in.
"I'm gonna look in your ear to see what you're dreaming about." He pushes his eyeball tightly up against my ear and rocks his head to the side as though he's honestly looking for something, then pulls back a bit.
"Did you see what I'm dreaming about?" I asked.
"I didn't see nuffing. Just all black. Daddy? Are you dreaming about sleeping?"
Did homework with Ian tonight. He lit up like a christmas tree. He's so eager to learn and so imaginative that it almost seems like he's been filling the intellectual void with his own, fast-paced curriculum.
All day long, every day, he asks these "what if" questions. The last one at the end of the day today was, "daddy, what if the whole universe was the size of me?" When we were buying socks in Victoria last weekend it was, "if everything in the world was made out of fabric, would it be houndstooth?" One time it was, "daddy, if we [all animals] were made out of metal, what would we eat?"
I feel like it's a criminal disservice to him to shove this dynamic and differently paced little boy into a system that doesn't really know how to accommodate him. I just wish I was far enough ahead of the game to know how to get him engaged in a way that could include fitting in at school without squeezing him into (or out of) somebody else's definition of "amazing."


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If this doesn't make you laugh, you are truly humor impaired!
The Navy found they had too many officers and decided to offer an early retirement bonus. They promised any officer who volunteered for Retirement a bonus of $1,000 for every inch measured in a straight line between any Two points in his body.. The officer got to choose what those two points would be.
The first officer who accepted asked that he be measured from the top of His head to the tip of his toes. He was measured at six feet and walked out with a bonus of $72,000.
The second officer who accepted was a little smarter and asked to be measured
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The third one was a non-commissioned officer, a grizzly old Chief who, when
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It was suggested by the pension man that he might want to reconsider, explaining about the nice big checks the previous two Officers had received.
But the old Chief insisted and they decided to go along with him providing the
measurement was taken by a Medical Officer.
The Medical Officer arrived and instructed the Chief to 'drop 'em,' which He did. The medical officer placed the tape measure on the tip of the Chief's weenie and began to work back. Dear Lord!' he suddenly exclaimed, 'Where Are your testicles?'
The old Chief calmly replied, ' Vietnam'.
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That was a good one!!!
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Instead he should look to the longer term and build a team for the 2014 World Cup. Now is the time to look beyond the present players and give the next generation a chance to settle into the team.
If it means we do not do well at the Euros - or even fail to qualify - then so be it. It will be a sacrifice worth making.
It doesn't mean we have to get rid of all the senior players. I would keep the likes of Steven Gerrard, and those from whom the youngsters can learn good habits. But there are certain others whom I will not name that set a bad example and should not be around the England team any more.
Gerrard can maybe play a little deeper, surrounded by quicker, more energetic players - not Gareth Barry who was painfully slow in South Africa. Let Gerrard do what Ballack did before the World Cup to help the present German side come through.
Up front, Emile Heskey has done the decent thing and retired from international football, saving Fabio Capello the job of dropping him.
Heskey is an honest player who never deserved the scorn aimed at him from fans and parts of the media, but his presence in the England team for 11 years shows you that we have not moved forward as a country.
I would have loved to have played in the England team for 11 years but there was competition for places. Lee Dixon came through, then Gary Neville. Better players came in and the team moved forward.
But the fact that Heskey has been part of the furniture for so long tells you that either the fresh talent is not there or it is not being given a chance.
More and more players get picked for England nowadays, but the flip side is they don't get enough time to establish themselves.
Darren Bent scored 24 Premier League goals last season and what did he get? Just 55 minutes against Brazil and 47 minutes against Japan in friendlies. He didn't score, and that was that.
But once you are part of the England setup, it seems hard to get dropped. Capello said he would pick players on form but he went for a player on the fringes at Aston Villa who scored three goals all season.
You need players with confidence and energy, coming into the tournament on a high - like Toto Schillaci at Italia '90.
Above all, England need movement up front. That is what the likes of David Villa, Gonzalo Higuain and Miroslav Klose give their teams. They are always looking for space, while England are very static.
That goes for all the attacking players, not just the strikers. The Germans were frightening on the counter-attack. They knew exactly what they were going to do before the ball got to them. English players wait for the ball, then think about what they can do with it.
There is talent coming through, but players need first-team football instead of clubs constantly going for foreign stars.
Everybody agrees that Jack Wilshere has the potential to become a special player, but he needs regular football with Arsenal.
It is no good farming him out on loan to Bolton. He will get disillusioned, and learn to play a different, containing style of football instead of his natural, expansive game.
Ryan Giggs improved because he was thrown in with top players from a young age. Such is the grip of foreign imports over our game, I fear the days of a local youngster learning his craft like Giggsy are behind us.


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In light of recent events, I'm going to try and cheer myself up with thinking about this tank. I recently did a hard trim on it so its going to take a few weeks to grow back and look 100% pretty again, but its doing well.
Current Fish/Inverts
• Paracheirodon simulans – "Green Neon Tetra" x7
• Brachygobius doriae – "Bumblebee Goby" x6 (might be 4 now though)
• Planorbis arnoldi – "Mini Ramshorn Snail" x#
• Planorbarius corneus ¬– "Ramshorn Snail" x#
• Melanoides tuberculata - "Trumpet Snail" x#
• Eleocharis belem - "Dwarf Hairgrass"
• Hygrophila sp. 'Brown'
• Cryptocoryne becketii petchii
• Nymphaea zenkeri – "Tiger Lotus"
• Rotala rotundifolia var. 'H'ra'
• Persecaria sp. 'Kawagoeanum'
• Rotala sp. 'Nanjenshan'
• Rotala sp. 'Vietnam'
• Ricciocarpus natans – "Purple Root Floater"
• Fissidens fontanus – Fissidens
• Fittonia albivenis
I want to replace the belem since its not doing so hot, and I want to add some RRF and a black background, but otherwise I like how this tank is going. As far as livestock goes, I'd want to add two horned nerites at some point and maybe some more green neons since they are still very shy (which makes the tank a little boring to look at).
Anyways, here are pictures.
Dw, it will grow back.
This is doing very nicely.
Rotala sp. 'Vietnam' may not be working out the best in this tank, but for not its fine. I'll remove it later.
Can't end without a pic of one of these. Easily one of my favorite nano fish.
So, I gave up on the whole shrimp thing, which is fine honestly, I'd rather do a dedicated shrimp tank right from the get go. This tank comes with me to school and more people like looking at fish than at shrimp, and I'm better with fish, so I figure I'll stick with fish.
This is a rebirth, I REFUSE to let this tank sit at my house for weeks at a time with my folks, it is mine and will come with me to school.
Here's what this tank is rocking right now
Current Fish/Inverts
o Paracheirodon simulans – "Green Neon Tetra" x7 (lost one in first day, expected since they were new to the stoer)
o Brachygobius doriae – "Bumblebee Goby" x3 (kinda might get 3 more maybe)
o Planorbis arnoldi – "Mini Ramshorn Snail" x#
o Planorbarius corneus ¬– "Ramshorn Snail" x#
o Melanoides tuberculata - "Trumpet Snail" x#
• Foreground
o Eleocharis belem - " Dwarf Hairgrass"
• Mid-Ground
o Nymphaea zenkeri – "Tiger Lotus"
o Hygrophila sp. 'Brown'
o Cryptocoryne becketii petchii
• Background
o Rotala rotundifolia var. 'H'ra'
o Persecaria sp. 'Kawagoeanum'
o Rotala sp. 'Nanjenshan'
o Rotala sp. 'Vietnam'
• Surface
o Phyllanthus fluitans – "Red Root Floater"
o Ricciocarpus natans – "Purple Root Floater"
o Spirodela polyrrhiza – "Giant Duckweed"
• Hardscape - Fissidens fontanus – Fissidens
• Riparium - Fittonia albivenis
• Dirt capped with Sand
• Some cheap but reliable nano heater
• Ray2 Ultra Slim 16" DS
• Whisper 2 Power Filter
• Fertilizers - PPS-Pro
Surprisingly simple list given my other tanks. And I like it with just these few species…I just want the Hairgrass to spread more and the Nanjenshan and Vietnam to bush out and it will all be good. Might even add some of that Madagascar stem that's a weed in my 10 gallon to this tank. Otherwise I just need the Fissidens to spread, and the floaters to spread. Fun fact, my PAR at the substrate is still like 50+ but I'm not getting algae issues (knocks on wood furiously)
I do like how this tank is shaping up though. It's a cute little piece if I do say so myself.
This was right after I added the plant, it started drooping. Its now completely fine and erect and I'm hoping it bushes up. I might add the pink veined variant as well, my mom has this and the pink one in a little terrarium in the living room so I can always clip a top and see what it does. However I was feeling the white vein for this tank instead of the pink on green.
Surprisingly well behavied. I will eventually regret this I know but on that day, I will replace the lotus with a micranthra. I just figured that the red tiger lotus deserved some love in one of my scapes. It'll be great if it stayed this size for me though, so far its been.
Green neons are one of my favorite nano fish. If I upgrade my high tech 10 ever and make it into like a 20 or a 30 I'd want to put these guys with my embers because I think that would be one SICK looking fish combination. Both school great and are vibrant and hardy.
Ugh, these guys are quickly stealing my heart though. I've done my research and am experimenting with these a little but I'm very confident that this will work. I feed the tank and saw them eat their fill so I'm not concerned about food. Monster Aquarium in Flushing has had these guys for some time now so these guys are sturdy for sure. The green neons also came from that store as well.
Ugh, stop, fish, you cute. I might one day have to do a species only on these guys and breed them since it doesn't seem too hard with a large enough group. I am considering getting 3 more though since they are so small and they provide a bit of extra movement but not quite as much as I was hoping for on their own.
Originally Posted by MadJackal55 View Post
What fish did you end up in this tank? And how far is your travel/how do you travel with the tank normally and how often? I'm doing a moderately planted 5gal for my dorm this fall and setting it up/cycling it now but I'm still unsure of what to stock because there's a lot of competing opinions about what works in a tank so small, hopefully the plants help keep the water quality stable.
I'm thinking I'll just stick to a small school of something, green neons perhaps or something of similar size. Ember tetras would work grey but I got them in my 10 and don't see the point in having them in multiple tanks.
I travel like an hour, what I do is I just take the filter off the tank, drain half the tank, seran wrap the top, and call it a day. Ideally, I just bring the tank there once a semester and bring it back home once a semester, so that it only has to travel twice in a single semester. I don't really get long breaks at my school so it works nicely.
|What fish did you end up in this tank? And how far is your travel/how do you travel with the tank normally and how often? I'm doing a moderately planted 5gal for my dorm this fall and setting it up/cycling it now but I'm still unsure of what to stock because there's a lot of competing opinions about what works in a tank so small, hopefully the plants help keep the water quality stable.
A taste of things to come. I really have to get this tank to stay one way for a longer period of time sigh. Hopefully once it actually stays with me on campus like its supposed to that will happen (didn't have it with me for the "spring" semester because the "spring" didn't happen for like a week….also, ammonia spikes suck).
At least I can still grow floaters like no tomorrow.
Debating what fish I will put in here, and what plants species will end up also calling this home.
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|What is the covering plant I like that! I'm looking for something like this.
I'm getting in some horned nerites and 10 green neons on tuesday...I'm excited :P
Also just realized I haven't updated this thread in longer than I thought. I've added some plants since my last update.
Threw in some blyxa and Ammania sp. Bonsai, as well as some Alternanthera reineckii var. 'Rosaefolia'. The shrimp are breeding, there are three small albino blue eye bristlenose plecos growing out in here, and I have a black mangrove in a riparium planter.
I'm going to be going back to school in week, and I intend on bringing this to school with not this weekend comming up, but in a week or two (when I can come back and the only important item I am bringing back is the tank).
Also going to be applying for a job taking care of zebra danios....would it be tacky if I asked them if they wanted me to show them my tanks so that they know I know fish things? I mean I don't have much of a resume to write about but I'm pretty sure I know how to take care of fish better than the average person lol
Boom, driftwood. Not sure what kind of driftwood mind you, but I like it and its nice. It sticks out a bit though, but that's fine.
And a new plant addition....a very, small addition :P In time, a lot of time, it should spread throughout the wood. This is Fissidens splachnobryoides, bought it from h4n, he always does well by me. From my undersanding, its basically the smallest fissidens possible....seemed like a perfect idea for a 5.5 gallon.
The Fire Reds are doing fine. I'm actually getting more of them tomorrow, which will be sweet because I only have 3 females (eye roll).
As far as other updates....I got a PPS Pro fert package coming in from nilcog tomorrow as well, meaning this tank will have a regular fertilizer schedule from now on. Still have to work on the DIY co2 though, I keep forgetting. Then again, the floaters lower the light intensity. Speaking of floaters, my RRF is now flowering, and doing really well in this tank .....as is the duckweed but whatever. The frogbit is doing nicely as well. I might, maybe, throw in some dwarf water lettuce once I remove most of the duckweed, but then again doing that means less RRF, and I really like this RRF.
I removed some plants as well. Currently, aside from the fissidens, the only plants in here are DJG Belem (which is spreading slowly but surely), the Lysimachia nummularia 'Gold', which is slowly being propegated out, Rotala wallichi, and Rotala colorata. Everything will be looking better once I have ferts though.
Thinking still about fish I want to add. Green neons seem like a neat idea, as well as any other nano schooling fish that exists (except ember tetras since those are rocking it in my 10). Still thinking about doing a badis or dario species but, those are expensive, hard to come by, and a little difficult so I might not bother.
I do want to get 3 nerite snails of some kind though, and maybe an amano shrimp or two, just to be my algae eating team.
Okay, so, I don't have pics yet, but I will soon because I'm getting a few new things.
One thing though, that I can't figure out, is what plants I want to keep in this thing.
I took out the unknown thing (realized it was L. glandulousa and I want it in my 75), the banana plant, and the araguai....and I've been letting the floaters do their thing.
There is a piece of wood I have for this tank that I found at a lfs that is pretty nice, going to cover it in some TRUE mini fissidens....but I'm stumped on what else to keep in here plant wise.
And fish wise as well. So far I have a trio of endlers, and am going to be breeding fire red cherry shrimp in here, as well as my mess of snails. I might want to do chili rasbora in here too, or something.....maybe not little red fish maybe a different color lol.
Ideas guys? My ideas for this tank have been meh as I've been focusing on my 75 more than anything.
Still no hardscape...almost considering not having any hardscape in here at this point.
Full Tank shot...I'm not going to bother with a list of what I have in here until I actually have more things in here lol
I like floaters, especially when they are guarded from the filter and can grow like mad. Its just duckweed, frogbit, and red root floater....going to try and phase out the duckweed so that it is more frogbit and RRF.
Grass is spreading, E. belem. Always fun.
Lone Endler male...he has two female in here though. Really small but the colors started appearing last week.
Not sure if I want to keep the araguai and banana plant here....already have both species in my 75. Might keep the banana plant if it can flower though.
Colorata doesn't like being blood red for me. Probably because I don't actually dose anything in here....should probably start dosing at least trace.
Idk what this is, it isn't doing much though...might just toss it into my grow out tank.
I want an opinion. What kind of hardscape would be cool in here? At first, I thought mopani driftwood would be kind of nice, but now I am not so sure.
Maybe I shouldn't do wood at all and should do rocks of some kind....opinions please?
Oops, I never updated this *fail*
I still need hardscape in this tank, and to do things with my plant selection, and shrimp, and fish.....okay I need to do a lot in retrospect but its starting to head somewhere at least :P
So far the stock is just 3 endler fry, mts, ramshorn snails, and physa snails. All I know aside is that I want some neocardinia variety in this tank, and maybe some horned nerites. I'd love to try some badis badis in here as well. I guess this is going to be a mini and portable version of my 10 gallon lol
Duckweed and Frogbit. There is also RRF in here, but its being over run by the other floaters, which is a shame but perhaps it will bounce back for me.
Wallichi and colorata. I have a lot of Rotala's now it seems, even though I'm more into ludwigia species....go figure :P
Banana plant that I had around along with H. araguai. Not sure if I want either to ultimately be in here, as I already have both in my 75. Thinking about it, an erio might look nice where this banana is...and would be more appropriate for this size tank.
What is this? Its either a ludwigia or alternantha....
Aside from these plants, I also have DHG belem that's slowly spreading. Thinking about mixing marselia in with it as well, but perhaps not. I also have L. nummularia 'gold' that survived the previous incarnation of this tank that is slowly growing in here.
I really need to get some diy co2 or a paintball thing going on in here....probably yeast over paintball though due to yeast probably being easier to move around than a paintball canister...plus not sure how my RA's would feel about that :P
The re-do has begun (actually, I've finished the substrate and have filled with water and added a very very VERY small amount of plants....but for some reason I don't have pics yet...boo).
Going to also try out manzita wood for the first time ever for this tank. Should be cool. No idea what plants and inverts/fish I want for this tank though, although I do know I want at least a single type of shrimp, maybe a nice neocardina variation like blue velvet or something. And maybe some badis badis or some endler guppies or something....literally clueless as to how I want to go about this tank.
Originally Posted by PeterN1986 View Post
How did you get your glosso to grow so lush without CO2, and how long did it take to get that way? I added marsilea minuta from H4N last week to ~75% of the foreground of my Mini-M and it does grow pretty slow so far. I'm going to be trimming/tearing out some of the java moss from the tank too, if you are interested.
Since I'm re-doing this tank, I'm thinking of doing Mini-M in place of glosso, that way it wont get out of control so quickly. The glosso I have left though, I can throw into a grow out tank just to have around, same with the E. belem I have still kicking it.
I might even try and get both established in my 75, idk yet.
Originally Posted by HybridHerp View Post
This tank kind of had a major meltdown, so I think I'm going to re-scape, keep mostly the same plant species, and start fresh over the summer
Thinking of having a moss wall, ACTUALLY getting diy co2 going like I wanted to....and doing better with shrimp and keeping on top of things better.
Also thinking of having some wood come out of the top and using a different carpeting plant, since the glosso was nice but it eventually chocked itself out because I wasn't really sure how to trim it. I'm thinking of switching to UG or HC or just doing DHG Belem by itself, or maybe marsalia since it grows slower and looks similar to glosso. Or just keep glosso and actually keep it trimmed nicely.
I'll link this journal to a new one once I start re-doing things. I want to focus more on doing a nice aquascape instead of just having a nice collection of plants.
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Omo Valley
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I just returned from probably the most unique experience I have ever had. I spent 8 days travelling throuhg the Lower Omo Valley visiting the tribal villages of Ethiopia. Supposedly only 10% of travellers visit this area. This could be because of the long arduous journey of dirt roads that require a 4WD hire, or the expense of the car hire (which luckily I split with three other girls), or it can possibly be the in your face culture shock of the tribal way of life. Whatever their reason, that 90% of people are missing out on an incredible experience and what I consider the most memorable part of Ethiopia.
The first and last days of the trip were long driving days to/from Addis and the Omo Valley. The other days consisted of a lot of driving as well to the various villages and markets but there were many diversions along the way. Other than the incredible scenery, about 10 times a day we'd see kids along the road dancing to hopefully make some money out of us, or selling fruit or handicrafts, or asking for water bottles which we usually always had some empties to hand out. As we would pass, the kids would chase after our car, many of them completely naked. Speaking of naked, I haven't seen so many tits and dicks in such a short span of time in my life. And with the immense heat in the south, us 4 ladies, at times, almost joined the topless tribeswomen.
These remote tribes all practice ancient customs and traditions that have remained almost entirely intact for hundreds even thousands of years. Most of the tribes believe in animism as their religion and each village has a chief that serves as the leader and all conflicts are resolved among the tribe. Tribes are broken down into various clans where each clan consists of one extended family. Marriages stay within a tribe but two members of the same clan cannot marry.
With most of the tribes I noticed body scarification. This is done with a stone, knife, hook, or razor blade and ash or charcoal is rubbed into the open wound so that when it heals a raised, bumpy scar remains. Men scar themselves only after they have killed one foe. Women believe that men find scars on women desirable and sensual.
We had to pay entrance fees to visit each village and hire a local guide to lead us through and explain how the tribes live. In addition we had to pay each person usually one or two birr (10-20 cents) to take his/her photograph. This made the visits more like business transactions since as soon as we would drive up kids would surround the car begging to have their picture taken. And they would continue to follow you around the village repeating "Photo one birr". Other than "hello" this is the only English they knew so it's a shame that this was the only understandable interaction we would have with the tribes people. In every village and in every market little kids would just want to walk around with you and hold your hand. As long as they didn't beg for money I would let them, but as soon as we returned to the car I would use hand sanitizer to wipe off whatever germs may have remained.
I will now do my best to describe the different tribes and what makes each of them unique.
Arbore Tribe
We stopped in front of an Arbore village and were suddenly surrounded by about 20 boys yelling and pushing each other to have their pictures taken. We didn't visit the village because they were asking for a huge amount of birr to visit and we found them very pushy. I was able to take a couple of pictures of a few boys outside of the car with painted faces.
Dasenech Tribe
We crossed the Omo River in a local boat to visit a Dasenech village. They live very close to the Kenya border. Unfortunately our guide didn't have much to say about their way of life. I don't think there's anything that unique that distinguishes them from any other tribe. I found them extremely friendly and welcoming.
Dorze Tribe
The Dorze live in the mountains at an elevation of 2900 meters. They are renown for their tall beehive shaped homes and for being excellent cotton weavers. Their home can be up to 12 meters/36 feet tall and are made from all organic materials such as bamboo, grass, and enset (false banana) leaves. The homes can last up to 60 years. Termites eat away at the base of the huts so over the years their homes shrink. The entire structure can be picked up and moved. The Dorze are subsistent farmers and every home is surrounded by a garden of crops and at least one loom for weaving. We spent the night in the village and in the evening we ate, drank local tej (honey wine), and danced played the drums around a campfire. It was an incredible evening.
Konso Tribe
The Konso people also live in the mountains and build rock terraces on the slope of the mountain to grow their crops, they use animal dung as fertilizer, and utilize crop rotation. Their villages are enclosed by stone walls about 2 meters/6 feet high. Each village consists of 9 clans and each family compound is surrounded by stick walls that create a labyrinth of narrow alleys throughout the village. When a chief dies notice will go out to the village that he is ill. He will then be embalmed and kept in his compound for 9 years after which the village will be informed of his death and his eldest son will become the new chief. Every 18 years a new generation begins and a tree is brought to the common area of the village and planted with the all of the past generation trees. By counting the number of trees one can tell the age of the village. I believe I counted 9 trees, so this village was 162 years old.
About 8 kilometers from the village is Gesergio, a landscape of sand formations. The towering pinnacles resemble skyscrapers so this sight is commonly known as "New York".
Hamer Tribe
The Hamer total about 50,000 people. They are very similar to the Banna tribe and these are the only two tribes where inter-tribal marriage is allowed. The Hamer are recognized by their leather clothing with red and black beads (the Banna wear blue and black beads) with cowrie shells. The women wear copper bracelets and necklaces which indicate the wealth of the family. These must be removed before marriage and given to the husband's family as a gift. Married women then wear thick copper necklaces that have an extra piece jutting out from the neck. The women twist their hair into thin strands and soak them in red clay. The men are more plainly dressed but paint themselves before a special ceremony. You can tell how many wives he has by the number of holes and earrings in his ears. The men wear clay hair buns and an ostrich feather in their hair to indicate that he has killed a person or a dangerous animal in the past year.
One evening we went to a Hamer village to watch a ceremonial dance. Luckily this wasn't a tourist show, but their regular Sunday night ritual of teaching the young boys the traditional dance. Every boy in the village must be present or else he will be beaten. The men stood around a campfire singing, clapping, and hopping up and down. There were about 7 unmarried girls present. A boy would walk up to a girl to proposition her to dance. If she was interested she would step forward and he would dance around her while she ran around and played hard-to-get. If she wasn't interested in dancing she would step backwards to express her disinterest.
The Hamer people are known for their Bull Jumping Ceremony, a 3 day long rite of passage for young boys. Thirty bulls are lined up in a row and the boy, who is completely naked, must stand on the back of the first bull and jump on each and every other bull until he reaches the end. He then turns around and must jump back to the beginning. This is then repeated once more or until he has proved his worth. If the boy falls he's whipped and teased by the women. During the ceremony the boy's young female relatives beg to be whipped. They believe that the deeper their scars, the more love they show for the boy. Unfortunately it is not Bull Jumping season, it starts after the harvest, so I couldn't witness this traditional ceremony.
Mursi Tribe
The Mursi tribe is the most fascinating and shocking people to observe, yet the most aggressive and the most expensive to visit. They are the lip stretchers...well the women are. At the age of 20 a slit is cut between the lower lip and the mouth. In the next year the gap is progressively stretched until it's large enough to hold a small circular clay plate to be inserted between the the lip and the mouth. As the lip stretches the plate is replaced with a larger one. This continues until the gap can hold a disk of about 7-8 inches in diameter. The larger a lip plate a woman can wear the greater her value when she is married. Some believe that the lip plate was traditionally done to make women as unattractive as possible to potential invaders who may have raped the village women.
Men can't marry until he has won a Donga, or a stick fight where two men painted in white fight with heavy poles. Traditionally they fought to the death but now one fighter submits before things go that far. The winner is carried off to a group of eligible unmarried girls who get to decided which will marry him.
I never had problems paying entry fees into villages or paying for photographs, I always knew this was part of the experience. But things are changing fast, especially with the Mursi. They are starting to ask for 5 or 6 birr per picture while other tribes only ask for 1 or 2 birr. I personally don't mind paying whatever it is they are asking. They have every right to ask what they want. I'm sure they know, in some form, that their portraits are hanging on the walls of people's homes around the world and they are being judged and probably criticized for their way of life. I'm just wondering what will happen to the Mursi, as well as the other tribes, in the future. In order to survive you must evolve with changing times, but how far and to what extent will these tribes evolve? Of course electricity, cars, cell phones, and computers are far from being even a remote possibility to these tribes, but what about their clothing? Their hair styles? The lip plates? Wouldn't those be the first things to change?
Remember I told you that one of my photos was going to be featured on Travelpod's home page? Well, we all missed it. It was featured while I was down south in the Omo Valley. Oh well. Maybe they'll want to feature another one in the future.
Tomorrow I leave for Rwanda so the next you hear from me I will be in country #5!!
Happy Birthday Jodi and Orly!!!


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I purchased this after reading lots of reviews and I'm very happy with it. It's light and doesn't make my face break out.5