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The Cult Anthology 'Burnt Tongues' Has A Publisher!
It's been a long time coming but, as of late last month, we have found a home for our anthology, Burnt Tongues. This project began life on our writers workshop back in 2004. It started as an idea between Chuck and I but soon grew into something more when Chuck announced he wanted to get personally involved in reading and critiquing the best stories from our workshop each month.
Throughout 2004 to 2007 a dedicated team of awesome readers screened all of the stories that flooded into our workshop and sent on the best 15-20 each month. Those were then narrowed down to the best 6 and sent over to Chuck. Chuck would then read and review those stories and his notes would be posted on the website for others to learn and benefit from.
In 2011 we had narrowed the two year's worth of stories down to the 70 best. And from that lot, Chuck selected what he thought were the 20 strongest entries that could make up an anthology.
Today, I'm happy to announce that anthology is called Burnt Tongues (after a popular method of minimalism Chuck employs) and that it will be published by Medallion Press in August 2014.
Read the official press release from here.
Getting this anthology published was a long and difficult journey that often times, felt like pushing a giant boat over a mountain. I want to acknowledge several people who played key roles in that journey:
All of our readers, who plowed through several stories a month for over two years: Kasey Carpenter, Johnathan Kabol, Mark Grover, and Kara Kilgore.
Mirka Hodurova who, along with me, read all the narrowed down semi-finalist stories and helped choose the best to send over to Chuck each month.
Mark Vanderpool, our diligent Workshop administrator, who also helped manage our writers, format stories and helped keep people updated during some of this project's quieter periods.
Richard Thomas, who began life on this anthology as one of our readers, but was later brought on as my co-editor to help get us across the finish line. Richard played a key role in narrowing down the best publishers and then helping to get this acquired by the best home.
And lastly, Chuck Palahniuk, who birthed this idea, kept sincere enthusiasm and encouragement going for it over the long years, and who will be lending his name, his credit as editor, and a beautiful introduction to the finished book which is one of the finest things I think he's ever written.
We will be posting updates about Burnt Tongues over the following months. Until then, we don't want to release too many specific details. A table of contents will come soon, along with all the official story titles. Let me just say that this is happening! And I think you will all find that it was worth the wait. Thank you for your patience and for believing in us.


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Mr Schue isn't gay
That's what he said.
New interview with Elle Magazine. Pretty funny, actually. Asks him point blank about those rumours. No doubt you've all seen that photo of him supposedly kissing some other dude in a club? It was a fake. So he claims he's straight, then he and the journalist bitchslap Tiffani Amber Thiessen, and then he fangirls over Salma Hayek. So why is this pinging my gaydar?
ELLE: So, Matt, you're a musical theater star who's been interviewed by The Advocate and much discussed on Manhunt.com, and you star in Glee, a program that's referred to as "the gayest show on TV." You must feel particularly proud being the first gay man to grace this page.
MATTHEW MORRISON: I'm not gay.
ELLE: I had indeed read in various places that you're straight, but in light of the circumstantial evidence, I wasn't sure.
MM: I grew up singing and dancing, so people have been calling me gay since fifth grade. I've heard everything you could possibly hear about it. But I do love gay people, so I'm not going to act like I was insulted or angry about it.
ELLE: But do you ever do anything to suppress your gayest traits? Like, on a club dance floor, will you keep a lid on your best moves in order not to look too much like Tommy Tune out there?
MM: Oh, yeah. I'll do what I refer to as "the shoulder dance," just, you know, move my shoulders and do a little head bobbing.
ELLE: What was the first moment you realized you were a heterosexual being?
MM: I was really sexual from an early age. My first kiss was actually with two girls at the same time. One girl would be behind the bush with me for a minute and the other girl would be timing us. Then they'd switch.
ELLE: Dirty! Who was your first sexual obsession from popular culture?
MM: Tiffani-Amber Thiessen from Saved by the Bell. I loved her.
ELLE: I heard an interview with Screech recently. He wrote a memoir that said she was easy. I think he referred to her as "Hollywood's pass-around girl." Who knows how reliable a source Screech is, but does hearing this make her more alluring?
MM: No. You actually just killed it for me. Thank you very much for that.
ELLE: Sorry. Now that you've worked on quite a bit of film and TV, has anything particularly embarrassing happened while in the proximity of a famous actress?
MM: Besides constantly having to wipe the drool from my mouth? Not really. Last week, actually, I was in New York doing a workshop for a new musical with Jessica Biel, this beautiful Argentinean actor Mía Maestro, and Salma Hayek. I really like smart women, and [Hayek] is really brilliant. We went out to lunch a couple times. We had great conversations all week, and she, like, cried when she had to say goodbye to me. It was a great romance without having any real romance.
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I was walking my dog Dante and passed by a yard where another dog was tied up. The second dog barked at us. I couldn't approach to say hello, since I knew neither the owners nor the dog.
This agitated Dante. He rushed to and fro for a few moments, then went straight for the nearest tree and marked it.
I wonder what was going through his tiny furry brain.
Perhaps he was asserting dominance by marking territory in reaction to being barked at.
But I'd like to think he was saying hello in the best way he could. "When you're no longer tied up, you can get to know me over here."


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Enough is enough. It's time to put the New York Jets' quarterback competition to rest. Eric Decker JerseysJosh McCown should be declared the winner, albeit by default.
Given a terrific chance to state his case, Christian Hackenberg -- in a surprise start -- failed to generate any semblance of offense in the Jets' 16-6 loss to the Detroit Lions on Saturday night at Ford Field. In five possessions, Leonard Williams Jerseysthe Hackenberg-led Jets crossed midfield only once (barely) and looked utterly lifeless.
This was a great learning experience for Hackenberg, who faced a starting defense, but it has become clear he's not ready to be the starting quarterback. In 13 possessions over two games, he has generated zero points. This week, he couldn't get away with his dinking and dunking. The Lions played tight coverage and pressured Hackenberg, who completed only 2 of 6 passes for 14 yards.
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When it was starters vs. starters, Brandon Marshall Jerseysthe Jets looked ...: Overmatched -- and that's being kind. The starting offense, which played the entire first half, managed only two first downs and 43 total yards. Running back Bilal Powell, in his preseason debut, got the ball on every play except one -- nine rushes, two catches. The defense allowed two long scoring drives, struggling with short passes. The Jets kept it vanilla from a scheme standpoint, which might have been a factor.


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Fourth-tier Italian side Nuovo Campobasso was infuriated with some of the officials' decisions during the match on Sunday. Team president Ferruccio Capone busted into the announcer's booth, and "heavily insulted" the referee over the stadium's public address system. (You can hear him yelling at the 10-second mark of the video—can anyone make out what he said?) The club was fined 10,000 Euros.
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Pengrowth Energy Corporation (TSX:PGF)(NYSE:PGH) today announced that its October 15, 2014 cash dividend will be Cdn $0.04 per common share. The ex-dividend date is September 18, 2014. The dividend will be payable to all shareholders who hold Pengrowth shares at the close of business on the record date of September 22, 2014.
The dividend of Cdn $0.04 per common share is equivalent to approximately U.S. $0.036 per common share using a Canadian/U.S. dollar exchange rate of Cdn $1.00:U.S. $0.9065. The actual U.S. dollar equivalent of the dividend will be based upon the actual Canadian/U.S. dollar exchange rate in effect on the payment date, net of applicable Canadian withholding taxes for U.S. residents who hold their Pengrowth shares in taxable accounts.
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Mother, daughter on mission trip to Haiti
What did Sturgeon Lake resident Thane Sheetz say when Cathy, his wife told him she wanted to go on a missions trip to Haiti?
"I guess the first thing I thought was, well of course you do," said Thane.
When Cathy added that she would like to take Coriella, their 12-year-old daughter, on the trip with her, Thane continued to be encouraging.
"I think it's fantastic," said Thane. "Twelve is not too young to have a life-changing experience."
As participants of a nine-member team from Moose Lake Evangelical Covenant Church (MLECC), last week Cathy and Coriella Sheetz left for Pignon, a village in Haiti's north central plateau, about 85 miles outside Port au Prince at the foot of Haiti's Massif du Nord mountain range.
This will be the 10th year a group from MLECC has made the trip, but the first time for Cathy and Coriella.
"I wanted something that wasn't just a one time thing, going abroad," said Cathy. "I wanted something to build relationships and continuity. This mission trip seemed like the perfect opportunity."
MLECC established a relationship with Pastor Caleb Lucien, a Haitian educated in the United States who, with his brother Jephthe, is instrumental in building Pignon into a hub for refugees, housing many displaced Haitians after the 2010 earthquake in Port au Prince.
"The church has a long-term relationship with this place," said Cathy. "It's been exciting and wonderful to hear about how God's been able to work in their lives and in the lives of the people in Haiti. I wanted to be a part of that."
This is not the first high impact experience for the Sheetz family, who moved here from New York City nearly five years ago. They lived near the World Trade Towers during the attack there.
"We watched the World Trade Towers come down," said Cathy. "Thane's parents were supposed to be on a plane flying out to meet their brand new grandchild the day of 9-11 but they got grounded and couldn't come out."
The couple made the decision to move to Minnesota where Thane grew up.
"It was a bit of a stretch moving here from where we lived before," said Thane. "We had had a very close network of friends but we both felt the kids would benefit from a rural setting as well."
When the subject of potential danger in Haiti came up, Thane and Cathy each responded.
"I have to turn it over to God and say, no matter what happens, we're in God's hands," said Cathy, "even if that means that there is danger. God will be with us, and I mean no matter what.
"We lived in New York where the threat of terrorism was very real and every day present. You're never one hundred percent safe. Anything can happen any time."
Cathy's husband is of the same mind.
"My sister goes to Africa frequently," said Thane. "She says, 'The safest place to be is in the center of God's will.' I think to be outside of that is probably more dangerous than whatever physical danger there may be in the world."
Fundraisers were held to pay for the trip. The missions committee also donated funds.
"The rest of it we made up out of our own personal funds," said Cathy. "Airline tickets alone are over $600."
There are also transportation, interpreter, and other related fees once the group is in Haiti.
"The group also paid for part of the construction cost," said Cathy in reference to construction that will take place during the mission trip. "This time we're bringing hinges, doorknobs and screws. They have the wood there but we'll bring the hardware to help put together doors for the school that we'll be working on."
Another aspect of MLECC's mission is to hold a women's retreat for Haitian women.
"The last couple years there have been 150 to 300 women who come from miles around," said Cathy. "They come with packages or luggage on their heads, walking, many of them."
The Haitian women requested teaching from the book of Revelation. The first four chapters of Revelation were taught during the last trip.
"Now we'll be teaching on chapter five through 12 with the goal of coming back and finishing up in the next year or two," said Cathy.
While Cathy and Coriella are on the 10-day trip, Thane will continue working from his home office.
"I work for a company that provides computer software for performing arts organizations," said Thane. "Those organizations are all over the world so it doesn't really matter where I live. As long as I have an Internet connection I can do my job."
It's not only the job that will be left to Thane. It's the gardens, the chickens, and daily care of the couple's other children, Phillip (10) and Amanina (8). Thane's parents will be assisting with the children during his working hours.
After pausing, Thane did break out in a grin as he shared a thought regarding his duties while his wife and daughter are in Haiti.
"Cathy is a soccer coach," said Thane. "That is the thing I am most concerned about, having to cover her coaching duties on Tuesdays. I am a little nervous about coaching 20 second-graders in soccer."
The couple expects the entire family to benefit from the mission trip.
"One of our goals is that we raise kids that think globally," said Thane. "We want all of our kids to have a broader view of the world and God's work in the world. God is working in amazing ways in a lot of different places."
What is Cathy's personal reason for the trip?
"I just want to be open to experiencing God at work and the Holy Spirit at work in powerful ways," said Cathy. "I experience that here, and have throughout my life. I just want to be open to a different place or opportunity to experience that."
Cathy and Coriella Sheetz will return from Haiti at the end of the week.


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This morning when I thought about breakfast, I knew I had to bake something. But what? I was so turned off by the last batch of pancakes I made using Bob's Red Mill pancake mix that I couldn't quite make myself make pancakes, even if they would be a lot better made from scratch. I considered scones, but doubted Toddler Yum would deign to eat them. Next I thought about quiche. Pie crust sounded really good, and so did a potato hash brown crust. But quiche without dairy just doesn't seem right. So next my thoughts turned to waffles. Toddler Yum has been known to nibble on the occasional waffle. So it was settled. I would make waffles.
Toddler Yum is highly suspicious of bananas, so banana waffles were out. But I did have some frozen persimmon puree left from the harvest from the persimmon tree in our yard, and I thought using it would allow me to use a little less oil and milk. It worked out beautifully. The persimmon flavor is subtle but does add a little mystery to the waffle and the cinnamon and nutmeg round it out nicely. And Toddler Yum's reaction? She wasn't satisfied with the sections of waffle on her plate and ran over to the rack to steal a whole waffle. She clutched it to her chest tightly and said "No, no, I wants it! I wants a whole one not a little one!" She devoured waffle for breakfast, snack at preschool, and even a pre-bedtime snack, which for my little carb-reluctant darling is quite an endorsement. My gluten-eating, dairy-addicted father commented about how good they smelled (And tasted), and even my low-carb mother enjoyed them. As for me, well, I'll be making this recipe again, and not just because Toddler Yum was a fan. I hope you enjoy them!
Now, Toddler Yum loves jam on toast. But the problem is that she will simply lick off the jam and leave the toast behind, so I'm not a fan of spreading her food with jam. She also likes nut butter, but sometimes it takes her a bite or two to remember that she does. So, I made a high protein sweet almond butter sauce to accompany the waffles, sweetened with "honey bear" because the dear toddler loves the honey bear, and thinned so that grown-ups could pour it like syrup. Toddler Yum had hers on the side with a tiny, ornate silver spoon. And the magic of honey bear did convince her to actually eat some.
Just for fun here are some pictures of the dear toddler.
Here's Toddler Yum, miraculously not suffering from a cold, ear infection or stomach bug… at least, for the next five minutes.
Shortly after these photos were taken Toddler Yum got a haircut and I broke her daddy and grandpa's heart by having them cut off her curly locks. Bad mommy!
And this is what happens when a two and a half year old picks out her own outfit and you decide to let her because she's just going on a walk with grandpa to feed the geese and the geese won't care if she clashes. Unfortunately, then she took an uncharacteristic afternoon nap and I had to get a cranky, barely awake child ready to go to school and she was not about to permit any modifications to her stylish ensemble. I did get her to wear different shoes, but the overall effect was not much improved.
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Gluten-free Dairy-free Persimmon Waffle Recipe
3/4 cup brown rice flour
3/4 cup tapioca starch
1/4 cup almond flour (I use honeyville)
2 tablespoons organic sugar
1 tablespoon baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
1/4 tsp ground nutmeg
2 eggs
1 1/2 cup almond milk (or your favorite dairy-free milk)
1/2 cup persimmon puree (or other fruit puree like applesauce)
1/4 cup grapeseed oil
1 teaspoon vanilla
Combine the dry flours, sugar, baking powder, salt and spices in a medium bowl. Stir together until combined. Take another medium-sized bowl and whisk your eggs a little. Then add dairy-free milk, persimmon puree, oil and vanilla in a medium bowl and whisk liquid ingredients until smooth. Pour into bowl with your dry ingredients and mix together using a large spoon (metal or wooden) until barely combined. Don't worry if the batter isn't entirely smooth.
Preheat your waffle iron and pour appropriate amount of batter on when it reaches the correct temperature. My waffle iron takes about 1/2 cup of batter for a full-sized waffle, but check your manual.
The waffles become soft rather quickly. I like my waffles crunchy, so I cool them on a cooling rack, not on a plate where moisture condenses. To re-crisp, just cut your waffle in half (or smaller pieces, depending on the size of your waffle iron) and toast in a toaster OR toast in a toaster oven. To save for another day, you can freeze them in ziploc gallon freezer bags with wax paper between each waffle.
Toddler Yum loved these!
Almond Butter Honey Sauce
1/4 cup almond butter (not raw)
1 tbsp. honey
1/4 tsp cinnamon
2 tbsp hot water
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C-Diddy, The first US World Air Guitar Champion and star of Air Guitar Nation These guys are amazing. They live 'normal' lives but become these larger than life characters on stage just once a year. Following their air guitar careers and photographing them has become an addiction.—Christine Zona.
San Francisco based photographer Christine Zona discovered the world of air guitar when she met contender Cold Steel Renegade on assignment for a local foundation's event. He invited her to the San Francisco Air Guitar Competition, and has since been hooked, making portraits the last two years of air guitarists in San Francisco and LA. The contenders are passionate and creative and take the competitions very seriously; tirelessly searching for the right song to perform, perfecting their outfits, and always trying to top what they did the previous year. The competition is fierce, the camararderie strong. Those who progress in the regionals have a chance at the national competition, the world championship in Finland being the supreme goal. Zona is in the process of self-publishing a book on the series. Stay tuned for an air guitar performance in February at Cafe Royale in San Francisco where Zona's photographs will be on display for the month.


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Professor, Flinders University
Earthwatchers helped protect the iconic Darwin's finches of the Galapagos Islands.
Dr. Sonia Kleindorfer has expertise in animal behavior, biodiversity conservation, ecology and evolutionary biology. She believes that birds are an excellent system to test behavioral response to threat, because birds have a rich vocal repertoire that is both innate and learned. They vocalize in response to threat, and the vocalizations may function in sexual or natural selection contexts.
In part, says Dr. Kleindorfer, they're fascinating to study because, "They are the best-known example for vertebrate evolution in the wild, and they are also the most recent example of adaptive radiation of the vertebrate lineage. So Darwin's finches speciated into 14 species in under 2 million years, which is incredibly rapid. It's the best example that we humans know of now, and they've provided transformative insights about evolutionary processes and oscillating evolutionary dynamics, how evolutionary dynamics change over time, and in relation to what factors."
"For a biologist it's the most inspiring place on the planet to work because it's so young, and you can see all of the evolutionary processes before your eyes. The other thing that's just really amazing about the Galapagos is, because there are no native mammalian predators (there are just a few little rodents), the animals there aren't afraid of mammals. For example, I had this epiphany when I was standing by a lake in the Galapagos. I felt really odd, and then I realized it was because the flamingos were slowly walking towards me. In every other place I've visited, the wildlife would slowly retreat."
You will have the opportunity to collect data from free-living wild finches.
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You already see social media buttons all over websites (including this one) begging for a little boost in their traffic: Facebook, Twitter, Digg, Stumbleupon, oh my! And now one more is on its way to cluttering up the space between blog posts and comments: the Google +1 button.
Google's trying to make their search results smarter via social tools, and the +1 initiative is a big part of that. If you vote a page or search result up with a +1, any of your friends who search on that topic will have your approved page bumped up higher in their search results. It's a way to make things like restaurants that your friends liked easier to find.
Of course, it all hinges on people actually using the thing, so if this sounds like a good idea, start clickin' that +1 button on sites you like.
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Touch-up of damaged wood surfaces
It is important to us that you remain delighted with your cabinetry. As careful as you may be, damage to a cabinet could eventually occur. A scratch or nick could become a permanent distraction in your cherished kitchen or bath. A simple touch-up procedure can often make these blemishes virtually disappear.
For your convenience, we provided (with orders of 10+ cabinets or a sink base) a touch-up kit designed for your specific cabinet color and style. Touch-up kits can also be purchased through a KraftMaid retailer or on our online store.
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- Buff the damaged area, as well as the surrounding area, with the provided Scotch-Brite pad to achieve a blend of surface sheen. Example: Scotch-Brite the entire vertical member. (Be sure to practice first in an inconspicuous area.)
- Shake the touch-up pen vigorously.
- Depress the pen's felt tip on a piece of cardboard or scrap wood until the tip becomes saturated.
- Apply the touch-up liquid with light, even strokes, using your fingertip to blend.
- Allow to dry 1-2 minutes; if desired, spray with Clear Coat (available from your local KraftMaid retailer), or any commercially available clear polyurethane spray. We recommend a semi-gloss (35-40 sheen).
- Evaluate the damaged area-is it repairable? How much touch-up will be required? Is professional help required? Proceed only if confident of skill level.
- Apply the fill with an even back-and-forth motion to completely fill in the damaged area. (Hint: For easier application, you may soften the fill stick by carefully heating the end over a small flame.)
- Gently remove excess fill with a straightedge and dry cloth.
- Apply grain marks if necessary with the touch-up pen.
- If desired, spray with Clear Coat or clear, semi-gloss (35-40 sheen) polyurethane to seal.
- Apply touch-up in gentle, even strokes, not allowing the fluid to accumulate in any single area.
- If required, apply a grain pattern with a thin permanent marker to match the rest of the area.
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I have had Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) since March 2002. Both of my sons also got ME/CFS at ages 6 and 10. Our younger son fully recovered after 10 years of mild illness. Our older son still has ME/CFS and also has Lyme disease plus two other tick infections. This blog is about how our family lives with chronic illness, with a focus on improving our conditions and enjoying our lives in spite of these challenges.
Saturday, September 22, 2012
Mourning Losses
I am generally quite happy and content these days. That is simply my outlook on life. I have always been happy with my life, during each of its unique phases, bearing up fairly well even during that devastating period when I first got CFS in 2002, mourning and then moving on.
But this has been a difficult week for me. Three times this past week, I was out in public and suddenly felt so horrible, so fragile that I had to flee and felt as if I barely made it back home in time before collapsing. This is unusual for me these days, in part because of medications and in large part because I so carefully monitor and restrict my activity level, living a very cautious life. All the caution in the world didn't matter this week, though, and I crashed badly during my book group meeting Wednesday evening, as I wrote here earlier this week.
I have been trying to rest and recover, but it is slow going. Some emotional upsets (probably caused in part from my crash - the emotional and physical effects of CFS are a never-ending cycle!) on Thursday set me back again, then I spent 90 minutes yesterday meeting with my disability lawyer, trying to prepare for my final disability hearing in December. That was, again, both physically and emotionally exhausting, as our discussion focused mainly on how to prove that I am as sick as I claim to be (more on that later).
This morning, I was still feeling pretty crappy but trying to make the best of it - sitting out on the deck with a good book - when that sense of mourning just snuck up on me again.
The weather is gorgeous today. We were supposed to go camping but had to cancel, in part because of how sick I've been this week (another sore point - the Social Security Administration thinks that since I can go camping, I can work). Friends on Facebook are posting about all their fun activities this weekend, and I am feeling isolated and trapped. Our local Oktoberfest is this weekend; we used to go every year with friends, to eat German food, drink beer, and watch the kids play the games and ride the rides. There's no way I could manage a festival today. The weather is perfect. It used to be our family tradition to take a hike every weekend. That's not even in the realm of possibility today! Our house and yard are a mess, but I can't help with those.
Despite the sunshine, I am feeling a bit gloomy, just missing the old, active me. It seems that with CFS, the mourning never really ends - though, of course, it is much rarer these days.
I am feeling a bit better, just writing about it. It is so good to have a place where I can express these feelings, a place where everyone understands, where I don't need to worry about making anyone feel uncomfortable in the face of the realities of my illness. Thanks for listening. I am heading back out to the deck, to my very comfortable lounge chair and my very good book. Hope you are enjoying your weekend!
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It is amazing all the losses we suffer. And initially when it happens, it's really hard, and then as you say, we move on.ReplyDelete
I bet talking about it for disability doesn't help. It puts the focus on everything you can't or haven't been able to do because of this illness. Unearths some of those lost wishes and desires.
I participated in an interview this week as a participant talking about access to care for M.E. patients in Ontario. After the interview I was shaky and I realized part of it, was having to talk about these ten years of absolute struggle with illness and the lack of support (socially, medically). At the same time, a day or two later, I realized it had also been cathardic. Perhaps the disability process can be a bit like that for you too.
Anyways, I hope you are able to mourn these losses again and move past them. I would think something was wrong if we didn't. Sometimes it's a little like mourning a loved one who's passed. You move on, and then something small triggers the loss, and we mourn again.
Treat yourself with care this week. Thinking of you, Gail
I hope you enjoy your good book and the sunshine, Sue. I agree that being able to share openingly and honestly is such a relief. I, too, am grieving. And have been for several days. It just needs time to work through and is part of our lives as you say. I just get so frustrated at how much stress takes from our energy sources. Praying for you Sue....ReplyDelete
((HUGS))) I wish I could express how I feel and going through. I have only a small glimpse into what you are going through via our dd. It breaks my heart watching her have to give up dream after dream. People not living with CFS have no idea really do they!ReplyDelete
It is not fair!
The added stress of having to prove you are sick must be horrible.
Letting you know I care. Wish I could be closer so I could pop in and run the cleaner over for you and cook a meal or two.
Love Leanne
- Anonymous1:23 PM
Know exactly how you feel. Next weekend it'll be 9 years for me. I've had a rough week too where another virus on top of the M.E. has floored me. I hope you feel a little better soon xReplyDelete
oh sue - your post just brought me to tears - i feel all those i have encountered through the blog world with this illness try and try so hard to put on the brave face - fight through "explaining" how sick we are sometimes endlessly - and trying to find hope and appreciation where we can - but the loss of self at times can be crushing - and i think you deserve a bit of grief like we all do - it doesn't have to consume us or define us - but i think we also owe it to ourselves to acknowledge our grief - and with that be so proud of yourself for moving on and living well in spite of the loss - i agree lately i feel just like you - thanks so much for sharing - it matters. with love, heatherReplyDelete
{{hugs}} I know exactly how you feel! You have such an amazing outlook on life, but seriously - one can't help but mourn every now & again. I do think that crashes make the emotional part of it harder, too!ReplyDelete
I'm sending you much love & many (((hugs))) right now because I know all too well how you're feeling; I've been going through a rough time lately too.ReplyDelete
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Hi Sue! I recently came across your blog and I read it nightly now. I have had CFS for 8 years now so I can relate to every one of your posts and I have found that so very refreshing. Your post today really hit home with me. Tonight is my 20 year class reunion but instead of attending with my fiance (who I graduated with) I am sitting at home feeling a bit sorry for myself and wishing I had my old life back. Mourning the loss of who I once was. I am usually an upbeat person and try my best to see the positive in things, I don't like to play the "woe is me" card. But tonight, I can honestly say, I feel a bit "woe is me". And much like you, I have come to accept the fact that I now have to live a more cautious life, and usually I am able to accept that. But it's times like tonight, not being able to attend a social function and visit with old friends, that triggers the mourning of my old life. But reading your post tonight has helped me through this bump in the road, to know that my feelings are normal makes a world of difference. I hope that you start to feel better soon. I too have had a recent crash and have had to flee many public places lately for the respit of my home. I understand what you are going through. Thank you for sharing your life with us who are dealing with this same illness. It takes great courage to put the words to paper. I hope you are feeling better soon and can get beyond this crash. Warm Regards! Krisi L.ReplyDeleteReplies
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Welcome! And thank you so much for taking the time to comment and share your own experiences.
I am so sorry you had to miss your 20-year reunion. I did make it to my 20-yr HS reunion but couldn't drink or stand much or stay very long - it was great to see everyone but I felt separate from everyone around me - that was right at the start of my illness so it was even harder.
I have never been able to make it to a college reunion, and my college friends sometimes get together for fun trips...and I could never manage that, either.
So, I totally understand what you are going through! I hope you had a good, cleansing pity party last night - sometimes it's just what we need.
I hope that you are feeling a bit better today - I'm sure you will feel ready soon to resume your "new normal"and move forward again.
I'm glad you're finding the blog helpful - I hope to see more of you around here!
Like everyone above, I know just how you feel. This is a rough weekend for me. Tony has gone to L.A. to visit our daughter and family. Our granddaughter is about to turn 12. He told me over that phone that she's suddenly acting just like a teenager. It made be very sad. She was born six months before I got sick. And so here she is a teenager and I feel like I missed all of her little girl years. Like you, I'm pretty good at accepting how things are but some days...some days...are just so hard.ReplyDeleteReplies
Oh, Toni...I am so sorry to hear you are missing your granddaughter's birthday celebration. I know how important your family is to you.Delete
Hope you are feeling a bit better about everything today and that Tony shared plenty of pictures with you!
Thinking of you...
Thank you so much for your eloquent sharing. I think periodic re-emergence of grief is something we all go through. I usually find that given free expression and acceptance it soon flows to its conclusion. Unexpected crashes caused by things out of our control (viruses? season change?)are often the hardest to cope with. We get so used to believeing that if we are really careful about our illness management we can keep it under control, but its not always the case. I hope you feel better soon both physically and emotionally!ReplyDelete
Oh Sue, I think all PWME know exactly what you mean: know I do. Grief is never a 'linear' experience..it always takes many twists and turns...like a game of Snakes and Ladders and it only takes a chink of a past memory to have one sliding down the board sometimes :(ReplyDelete
I think the stress of these disability assessments just cannot be under-estimated or understood by people who are well. They are SO demoralising and make you investigate and set down everything you cannot do anymore: make you focus on all the stuff you have to 'put to bed' so you can get on with living the new life.
You cope so wonderfully well with everything normally. Try to take things day by day and give yourself little treats in between.
We're always here to listen and support.
I'm so sorry for all that you are going through. I have fibro/cfs also and was reminded of that yesterday when I tried to do lunch and shopping with some friends. After lunch and about an hour of shopping I was so wiped out that I barely made it home to bed while my friends went on shopping without me. It makes me sad and angry that I can't do more than a couple of hours out of bed each day. I feel like I live in bed now and it is isolating and depressing. I really sick of being so tired all the time and being in pain. :( I hope things work out for you and I will try to follow your blog from now on. Take care.ReplyDelete


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- Get Brave – and Get Wet: Once your fish are used to your feeding routine and race to the pond's edge to greet you, take the plunge! Hold a few pellets loosely in your hand just at the water surface without making any sudden or quick movements. It takes only one fish to act bravely and let the others know it'll be OK. Before you know it, they'll be racing to your hand to be fed!
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Our 'faith' almost completely blinds us to the psychological trauma that our children go through.
I received this email today from my cousins wife about their seven year old child. (I've deleted the names at the astronomical chance that someone might recognize them)
"To all of our family and friends I just wanted to let everyone know that L____ got saved last night.(—:—about 9:40) L____ and I were saying our prayers at bed time (Dad) had left to go lock up the church. L____ has asked questions for some time now but he just wasn't quiet ready until now. He was very worried and upset about (his sister) being sick with the flu. He was afraid she might die. This got him thinking about if he died where he would go. I told L____ that God knew that little kids like him did not understand everything about salvation and if he died he would go to heaven. And he told me that he did understand that he was a sinner and that Jesus died on the cross for his sins and he wanted Jesus in his heart that he would not go to heaven until he was saved. So him and I talked more and we both asked each other allot of questions. Then his dad came home and we talked about it with him. (His dad) and I asked him if he wanted to pray and ask Jesus in his heart or if he wanted to talk to someone else like brother T__ and he wanted to. So they went to the church to talk to T__ in his pj's but T__ was in a meeting so L____ wanted to talk to Mr. S___ so then they went to see S___. S___ talked to L____ and asked the same questions that we did. He asked L____ if he wanted to say the prayer there or if he wanted to go home and pray with mom and dad or do it at church. Logan said he wanted to do it at home with mom and dad so they left S___'s to go home and pray. But the farther they drove L____'s heart was so burden that he ask (Dad) if a car hit us right now and we died where would they go. (Dad) did not want to confuse L____ so he said that He would wake up in heaven looking for L____ and L____ said dad I would not be there would I because I have not said the prayer. He told his dad to pull over right then in the Thunderbird Complex parking lot so he could say his prayer and be saved so they did. (Dad) said it was a Great prayer and he told Jesus that he was a sinner and he knew that he died on the cross for his sins and he wanted him in his heart and asked Jesus to forgive him for his sins. I wanted to share this with everyone and to thank everybody that helps in children's ministry because our children really do understand more than we think. After L____ said his prayer he told his dad that he thought it would be something hard but it wasn't. That is why he wanted to see brother T__ and S___ to confirm it was just that easy."
This isn't the tooth fairy or Santa Claus myth…... This is eternal damnation, burning, fire and torture forever and ever and ever. This is what we brainwash our children with. The fact of the matter is that its already hard enough just being a seven year old….to add on the concepts of being a 'sinner' and facing everlasting fire, torture and suffering is absolutely SICK…...
And we go around 'Congratulating ourselves' for this travesty.
How do we combat this?
In the bible belt a child is surrounded by peers spouting the same stuff at school, daycare, everywhere. Naturally questions are going to come up… How do you teach your children something 'different' than they are going to hear from almost everyone else they talk to?
How do you teach them something they are going to get 'beat up' for believing? Something that they will be ostracized for?
Its very hard to go it alone….or even in small numbers.
The children of the faithful are given the reassurance that they will not suffer Hell if they do as their parents say. Aside from "the rod" i am sure that most children of religious parents will be given a decent upbringing. At all stages in life people are influenced by questionable sources, at least now we have free access to all points of view.
I do not think that the human race will ever completely leave behind religious belief but we are making steady progress. I think it is beneficial to make your own beliefs known when confronted with religious thought. This steady pressure to review a religious persons beliefs will have a beneficial effect.
Not so sure about that.
My Husbands family were raised in a very strict religious household.
Two of his siblings are incorrigible repeat offenders that are spending the majority of their lives in and out of prision.
Every time they go to Prision, they find God, and when they get out, they commit another crime within a year and are caught.
One is 52 years old now, at the end of his most recent imprisionment, and preaching in prision now.


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The Hydrophiinae, also known as coral reef snakes or sea snakes, are a subfamily of venomous elapid snakes that inhabit marine environments for most or all of their lives. Most are extensively adapted to a fully aquatic life and are unable to move on land, except for the genus Laticauda, which has limited land movement. They are found in warm coastal waters from the Indian Ocean to the Pacific and are closely related to venomous terrestrial snakes in Australia.[1]
All have paddle-like tails and many have laterally compressed bodies that give them an eel-like appearance. Unlike fish, they do not have gills and must surface regularly to breathe. They are among the most completely aquatic of all air-breathing vertebrates.[2] Among this group are species with some of the most potent venoms of all snakes. Some have gentle dispositions and bite only when provoked, but others are much more aggressive. Currently, 17 genera are described as sea snakes, comprising 62 species.[3][4]
The majority of adult Hydrophiinae species grow to between 120 and 150 cm (3.9 and 4.9 ft) in length,[5] with the largest, Hydrophis spiralis, reaching a maximum of 3 m (9.8 ft).[6] Their eyes are relatively small with a round pupil[7] and most have nostrils located dorsally.[8] The skulls do not differ significantly from those of terrestrial elapids, although the dentition is relatively primitive with short fangs and (with the exception of Emydocephalus) as many as 18 smaller teeth behind them on the maxilla.[2]
Most Hydrophiinae are completely aquatic and have adapted to their environments in many ways, the most characteristic of which is a paddle-like tail that has improved their swimming ability.[9] To a varying degree, the bodies of many species are laterally compressed, especially in the pelagic species. This has often caused the ventral scales to become reduced in size, even difficult to distinguish from the adjoining scales. Their lack of ventral scales means they have become virtually helpless on land, but as they live out their entire lifecycles at sea, they have no need to leave the water.[5][8]
The only genus that has retained the enlarged ventral scales is the sea kraits, Laticauda, with only five species. These snakes are considered to be more primitive, as they still spend much of their time on land, where their ventral scales afford them the necessary grip.[5][8] Laticauda species are also the only sea snakes with internasal scales, i.e., their nostrils are not located dorsally.[9]
Since it is easier for a snake's tongue to fulfill its olfactory function under water, its action is short compared to that of terrestrial snake species. Only the forked tips protrude from the mouth through a divided notch in the middle of the rostral scale.[2] The nostrils have valves consisting of a specialized spongy tissue to exclude water, and the windpipe can be drawn up to where the short nasal passage opens into the roof of the mouth. This is an important adaptation for an animal that must surface to breathe, but may have its head partially submerged when doing so. The lung has become very large and extends almost the entire length of the body, although the rear portion is thought to have developed to aid buoyancy rather than to exchange gases. The extended lung possibly also serves to store air for dives.[5][8]
Most species of the Hydrophiinae are able to respire through the top of their skin. This is unusual for reptiles, because their skin is thick and scaly, but experiments with the black-and-yellow sea snake, Pelamis platurus (a pelagic species), have shown this species can satisfy about 25% of its oxygen requirements in this manner, which allows for prolonged dives.[10]
Like other land animals that have adapted to life in a marine environment, sea snakes ingest considerably more salt than their terrestrial relatives through their diets, and when seawater is inadvertently swallowed. This meant they had to evolve a more effective means of regulating the salt concentration of their blood. In sea snakes, the posterior sublingual glands, located under and around the tongue sheath, evolved to allow them to expel salt with their tongue action.[2][8]
Scalation among sea snakes is highly variable. As opposed to terrestrial snake species that have imbricate scales to protect against abrasion, the scales of most pelagic sea snakes do not overlap. Reef-dwelling species, such as Aipysurus, do have imbricate scales to protect against the sharp coral. The scales themselves may be smooth, keeled, spiny, or granular, the latter often looking like warts. Pelamis has body scales that are "peg-like", while those on its tail are juxtaposed hexagonal plates.[8]
Aipysurus laevis has been found to have photoreceptors in the skin of its tail, allowing it to detect light and presumably ensuring it is completely hidden, including its tail, inside coral holes during the day. While other species have not been tested, A. laevis possibly is not unique among sea snakes in this respect.[11]
Distribution and habitat
The Hydrophiinae are mostly confined to the warm tropical waters of the Indian Ocean and the western Pacific Ocean,[5] with a few species found well out into Oceania.[12] The geographic range of one species, Pelamis platurus, is wider than that of any other reptile species, except for a few species of sea turtles.[2] It extends from the east coast of Africa, from Djibouti in the north to Cape Town in the south,[13] across the Indian Ocean, the Pacific, south as far as the northern coast of New Zealand,[12][14] all the way to the western coast of the Americas, where it occurs from northern Peru in the south (including the Galápagos Islands) to the Gulf of California in the north. Isolated specimens have been found as far north as San Clemente in the United States.[10]
Sea snakes do not occur in the Atlantic Ocean.[8] It is thought that Pelamis would be found there were it not for the cold currents off Namibia and western South Africa that keep it from crossing into the eastern South Atlantic, or south of 5° latitude along the South American west coast. Sea snakes do not occur in the Red Sea, believed to be due to its increased salinity, so no danger exists of them crossing through the Suez Canal. A lack of salinity is also thought to be the reason why Pelamis has not crossed into the Caribbean via the Panama Canal.[2]
Despite their marine adaptations, most sea snakes prefer shallow waters near land, around islands, and especially somewhat sheltered waters, as well as near estuaries.[5][9] They may swim up rivers and have been reported as far as 160 km (99 mi) from the sea.[9] Others, such as P. platurus, are pelagic and are found in drift lines, slicks of floating debris brought together by surface currents.[15] Some sea snakes inhabit mangrove swamps and similar brackishwater habitats, and two landlocked freshwater forms are found: Hydrophis semperi occurs in Lake Taal in the Philippines, and Laticauda crockeri in Lake Te Nggano on Rennell Island in the Solomon Islands.[8]
Sea snakes are generally reluctant to bite,[5][6] and are usually considered to be mild-tempered, although variation is seen among species and individuals.[12] Some species, such as P. platurus, which feed by simply gulping down their prey, are more likely to bite when provoked because they seem to use their venom more for defense. Others, such as Laticauda, use their venom for prey immobilization; these snakes are often handled without concern by local fishermen, who unravel and toss them back into the water barehanded when the snakes become entangled in fishing nets.[5][8] Species reported as much more aggressive include Aipysurus laevis, Astrotia stokesii, Enhydrina schistosa, Enhydrina zweifeli, and Hydrophis ornatus.[9]
On land, their movements become very erratic. They crawl awkwardly in these situations and can become quite aggressive, striking wildly at anything that moves, although they are unable to coil and strike in the manner of terrestrial snakes.[6][7]
Sea snakes appear to be active both day and night. In the morning, and sometimes late in the afternoon, they can be seen at the surface basking in the sunlight, and they dive when disturbed.[5] They have been reported swimming at depths over 90 m (300 ft), and can remain submerged for as long as a few hours, possibly depending on temperature and degree of activity.[6][12]
Sea snakes have been sighted in huge numbers. For example, in 1932, a steamer in the Strait of Malacca, off the coast of Malaysia, reported sighting "millions" of Astrotia stokesii, a relative of Pelamis; these reportedly formed a line of snakes 3 m (9.8 ft) wide and 100 km (62 mi) long.[15] The cause of this phenomenon is unknown, although it likely has to do with reproduction.[2] They can sometimes be seen swimming in schools of several dozen, and many dead specimens have been found on beaches after typhoons.[7]
They feed on small fish and occasionally young octopodes.
Except for a single genus, all Hydrophiinae species are ovoviviparous; the young are born alive in the water where they live their entire lives.[8] In some species, the young are quite large: up to half as long as the mother.[6] The one exception is the genus Laticauda, which is oviparous; its five species all lay their eggs on land.[8]
Like their relatives in the Elapidae family, the majority of the Hydrophiinae species are highly venomous; however, when bites occur, venom injection is rare, so envenomation symptoms usually seem nonexistent or trivial.[9] For example, P. platurus has a venom more potent than any terrestrial snake species in Costa Rica based on LD50, but despite its abundance in the waters off its western coast, few human fatalities have been reported.[10] Nevertheless, all sea snakes should be handled with great caution.[9]
Bites in which envenomation does occur are usually painless and may not even be noticed when contact is made. Teeth may remain in the wound. Usually, little or no swelling occurs, and rarely are any nearby lymph nodes affected. The most important symptoms are rhabdomyolysis (rapid breakdown of skeletal muscle tissue) and paralysis. Early symptoms include headache, a thick-feeling tongue, thirst, sweating, and vomiting. Symptoms that can occur 30 minutes to several hours after the bite include generalized aching, stiffness, and tenderness of muscles all over the body. Passive stretching of the muscles is also painful, and trismus, which is similar to tetanus, is common. This is followed later on by symptoms typical of other elapid envenomations: a progressive flaccid paralysis, starting with ptosis and paralysis of voluntary muscles. Paralysis of muscles involved in swallowing and respiration can be fatal. After 3–8 hours, myoglobin, as a result of muscle breakdown, may start to show up in the blood plasma, which can cause the urine to turn a dark reddish, brown, or black color, and eventually lead to acute renal failure. After 6-12 hours, severe hyperkalemia, also the result of muscle breakdown, can lead to cardiac arrest.[16]
Sea snakes were at first regarded as a unified and separate family, the Hydrophiidae, that later came to comprise two subfamilies: the Hydrophiinae, or true/aquatic sea snakes (now 16 genera with 57 species), and the more primitive Laticaudinae, or sea kraits (one genus, Laticauda, with five species). Eventually, as it became clear just how closely related the sea snakes are to the elapids, the taxonomic situation became less well-defined. Some taxonomists responded by moving the sea snakes to the Elapidae, thereby creating the subfamilies Elapinae, Hydrophiinae, and Laticaudinae, although the latter may be omitted if Laticauda is included in the Hydrophiinae. No one has yet been able to convincingly work out the phylogenetic relationships between the various elapid subgroups, and the situation is still unclear. Therefore, others opted to either continue to work with the older traditional arrangements, if only for practical reasons, or to lump all of the genera together in the Elapidae, with no taxonomic subdivisions, to reflect the work that remains to be done.[3][4][7][8]
|Taxon authority[3]
|Common name[4]
|Geographic range[4]
|Boulenger, 1895
|spiny-headed sea snake or horned sea snake
|Gulf of Thailand, South China Sea, the Strait of Taiwan, and the coasts of Guangdong, Indonesia, the Philippines, New Guinea, New Caledonia, Australia (Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia)
|Lacépède, 1804
|olive sea snakes
|Timor Sea, South China Sea, Gulf of Thailand, and coasts of Australia (Northern Territory, Queensland, West Australia), New Caledonia, Loyalty Islands, southern New Guinea, Indonesia, western Malaysia and Vietnam
|Fischer, 1855
|Stokes' sea snake
|coastal areas from west India and Sri Lanka through Gulf of Thailand to South China Sea, west Malaysia, Indonesia, east to New Guinea, north and east coasts of Australia, the Philippines
|Krefft, 1869
|turtlehead sea snakes
|the coasts of Timor (Indonesian Sea), New Caledonia, Australia (Northern Territory, Queensland, West Australia), and in the Southeast Asian sea along the coasts of China, Taiwan, Japan, and the Ryukyu Islands
|Enhydrina (Enhydrina schistosa & Enhydrina zweifeli)
|Gray, 1849
|beaked sea snakes
|in the Persian Gulf (Oman, United Arab Emirates, etc.), south to the Seychelles and Madagascar,
Southeast Asia (Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam), Australia (Northern Territory, Queensland), New Guinea and Papua New Guinea
|M.A. Smith, 1931
|Grey's mudsnake
|northwestern Australia
|Boulenger, 1896
|Port Darwin mudsnake
|northern Australia, southern New Guinea
|Latreille in Sonnini & Latreille, 1801
|sea snakes
|Indo-Australian and Southeast Asian waters.[17]
|Gray, 1849
|Jerdon's sea snake
|Southeast Asian waters[17]
|M.A. Smith, 1926
|bighead sea snake
|Indian Ocean[17]
|Gray, 1835
|spine-bellied sea snake, Shaw's sea snake
|Persian Gulf to Indian Ocean, South China Sea, Indo-Australian Archipelago and the western Pacific[17]
|Laurenti, 1768
|sea kraits
|Southeast Asian and Indo-Australian waters
|Burger & Natsuno, 1974
|northern mangrove sea snake
|northern Australia, southern New Guinea
|Roux, 1934
|Hediger's snake
|Bougainville Island, Solomons
|Daudin, 1803
|yellow-bellied sea snake
|Indian and Pacific Oceans
|Wall, 1921
|from the Persian Gulf to the Indian Ocean, the South China Sea, and northeast to the coastal region of Fujian and Strait of Taiwan
|P. Schmidt, 1852
|anomalous sea snake
|South China Sea (Malaysia, Gulf of Thailand), Indian Ocean (Sumatra, Java, Borneo)
*) Not including the nominate subspecies
Molecular studies
Molecular data studies suggest all three monotypic semiaquatic genera (Ephalophis, Parahydrophis and Hydrelaps) are early diverging lineages.[18] The Aipysurus group is monophyletic: the egg-eating specialists form separate, early-diverging lineages. The Hydrophiini last shared a common ancestor about 6 million years ago ago with the majority of extant lineages diversified over the last 3.5 million years ago. The Hydrophis group shared a last common ancestor about 1.5-3 million years ago.
At best, Hydrophiinae make difficult captives. Ditmars (1933) described them as nervous and delicate captives that usually refuse to eat, preferring only to hide in the darkest corner of the tank.[7] Over 50 years later, Mehrtens (1987) wrote, although they were rarely displayed in western zoological parks, some species were regularly on display in Japanese aquariums. Available food supply limits the number of species that can be kept in captivity, since some have diets that are too specialized. Also, some species appear intolerant of handling, or even being removed from the water. Regarding their requirements in captivity, the Laticauda species need to be able to exit the water somewhere at about 29 °C, along with a submerged shelter. Species that have done relatively well in captivity include the ringed sea snake, Hydrophis cyanocinctus, which feeds on fish and eels in particular. Pelamis platurus has done especially well in captivity, accepting small fish, including goldfish. However, care has to be taken to house them in round or oval tanks, or in rectangular tanks with corners that are well-rounded, to prevent the snakes from damaging their snouts by swimming into the sides.[8]
Conservation status
Most sea snakes are not on the CITES protection lists,[9][19] however, one species, Laticauda crockeri, is classified as vulnerable, another, Aipysurus fuscus, classified as endangered, and two, Aipysurus foliosquama and Aipysurus apraefrontalis, are classified as critically endangered according to the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.[20]
See also
- ↑ Hutchings, Pat (2008). The Great Barrier Reef: Biology, Environment and Management. Csiro Publishing. p. 345. ISBN 9780643099975.
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- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 Parker HW, Grandison AGC. 1977. Snakes – a natural history. Second Edition. British Museum (Natural History) and Cornell University Press. 108 pp. 16 plates. LCCCN 76-54625. ISBN 0-8014-1095-9 (cloth), ISBN 0-8014-9164-9 (paper).
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 "Elapidae". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 7 August 2007.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 Elapidae at the New Reptile Database. Accessed 12 August 2007.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6 5.7 5.8 Stidworthy J. 1974. Snakes of the World. Grosset & Dunlap Inc. 160 pp. ISBN 0-448-11856-4.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 Fichter GS. 1982. Poisonous Snakes. A First Book. Franklin Watts. 66 pp. ISBN 0-531-04349-5.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 Ditmars RL. 1933. Reptiles of the World. Revised Edition. The MacMillan Company. 329 pp. 89 plates.
- ↑ 8.00 8.01 8.02 8.03 8.04 8.05 8.06 8.07 8.08 8.09 8.10 8.11 8.12 Mehrtens JM. 1987. Living Snakes of the World in Color. New York: Sterling Publishers. 480 pp. ISBN 0-8069-6460-X.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 9.4 9.5 9.6 9.7 Sea snakes at Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Accessed 7 August 2007.
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 Campbell JA, Lamar WW. 2004. The Venomous Reptiles of the Western Hemisphere. Comstock Publishing Associates, Ithaca and London. 870 pp. 1500 plates. ISBN 0-8014-4141-2.
- ↑ Zimmerman K, Heatwole H. 1990. Cutaneous Photoreception: A New Sensory Mechanism for Reptiles. Copeia, vol. 1990, no. 3 (September 19), pp. 860-862
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 12.3 U.S. Navy. 1991. Poisonous Snakes of the World. US Govt. New York: Dover Publications Inc. 203 pp. ISBN 0-486-26629-X.
- ↑ Spawls S, Branch B. 1995. The Dangerous Snakes of Africa. Ralph Curtis Books. Dubai: Oriental Press. 192 pp. ISBN 0-88359-029-8.
- ↑ Slaughter RJ, Beasley DM, Lambie BS, Schep LJ (2009). "New Zealand's venomous creatures". N. Z. Med. J. 122 (1290): 83–97. PMID 19319171. <templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 The sea snakes are coming at NewScientist. Accessed 13 January 2009.
- ↑ Warrell DA. 2004. Snakebites in Central and South America: Epidemiology, Clinical Features, and Clinical Management. In Campbell JA, Lamar WW. 2004. The Venomous Reptiles of the Western Hemisphere. Comstock Publishing Associates, Ithaca and London. 870 pp. 1500 plates. ISBN 0-8014-4141-2.
- ↑ 17.0 17.1 17.2 17.3 The Hydrophiidae at Cyberlizard's home pages. Accessed 12 August 2007.
- ↑ Sanders KL, Lee MS, Mumpuni, Bertozzi T, Rasmussen AR (2012) Multilocus phylogeny and recent rapid radiation of the viviparous sea snakes (Elapidae: Hydrophiinae). Mol Phylogenet Evol pii: S1055-7903(12)00378-8. doi: 10.1016/j.ympev.2012.09.021
- ↑ Serpentes at CITES. Accessed 11 August 2007.
- ↑ [1]. Accessed 14 May 2011.
Further reading
- Graham JB, Lowell WR, Rubinoff I, Motta J. 1987. Surface and subsurface swimming of the sea snake Pelamis Platurus. J. exp. Biol. 127, 27-44. PDF at the [Journal of Experimental Biology]. Accessed 7 August 2007.
- Rasmussen AR. 1997. Systematics of sea snakes; a critical review. Symp. Zool. Soc. London 70, 15-30.
- Smith MA. 1926. Monograph of the sea snakes (Hydrophiidae). British Museum of Natural History, London.
- Voris HK. 1977. A phylogeny of the sea snakes (Hydrophiidae). Fieldiana Zool. 70, 79-169.
- Whitaker R. 1978. Common Indian Snakes: A Field Guide. Macmillan India Limited.
External links
|Wikispecies has information related to: Hydrophiinae
- Sea Snakes in Qatar
- Sea Snakes at Scubadoc's Diving Medicine Online. Accessed 6 August 2007.
- Diving Gunung Api: Volcano Of The Sea Snakes - first hand account of scuba divers interacting with sea snakes at the Indonesian volcano Gunung Api, June 2009
- Alexis Gillham, Man cheats sea snake, Townsville Bulletin, 8 November 2010. Accessed 8 November 2010


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