Vanuatu Land Diving as A rite of Passage and more

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-GTmb9jImiuY/U5sNMhdTUkI/AAAAAAAABC8/gtQULrNqExU/s1600/jum.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-GTmb9jImiuY/U5sNMhdTUkI/AAAAAAAABC8/gtQULrNqExU/s1600/jum.PNG" /></a></div> <br /> Vanuatu is a small island in the middle of the South Pacific.<br /> <br /> Before land diving become a traditional ritual for men 15 centuries ago, there was a legend about a woman running away from her sexually aggressive husband. She was upset and she ran away to the forest to hide but her husband followed her. She climbed to a Banian/Banyan tree. Her husband climbed after her. She tied her ankles with the tree vines and then jumped. Her husband jumped too but he died after jumping because he did not tie his ankles with vines before jumping off the tree. Men jump from high towers with the belief that they will not be tricked again.<br /> <br /> The men believe that the said husband of the story will avenge his death. So, part of the preparation of the land diving is that women are prohibited to be near the tower before the ritual. The divers also avoid sex and a night before the ritual divers have to sleep underneath the tower to ward off the bad spirit.<br /> <br /> <br /> <span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Land Dive for Yam Crop</b>:</span><br /> Land Diving is associated with a good yam harvest. Men land dive as a sacrifice to make the gods happy and give them bountiful harvest of yam crop. The higher they jump the better the harvest. <br /> <br /> <br /> <span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Land Dive as a rite of passage of young boys:</b></span><br /> Once a young boy is circumcised he is now allowed to wear braided fibres over his genitals. Then he is now allowed to land dive. The boy will start jumping low then to a higher land dive.<br /> The boy will jump with the elders and their mothers watching him. A mother will be holding his favourite object or anything the boy likes while the boy will do the land dive. Once a boy accomplishes the land dive, his object will be thrown away as a symbol of manhood.<br /> <br /> <br /> <span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Land Dive for other reasons:</b></span><br /> <div style="font-weight: normal;"> They said that land diving removes some illnesses as it give strength to the men diving and it also an expression of masculinity in the ritual. The higher a man can dive the manlier he can be regarded in the community.</div> <div style="font-weight: normal;"> <br /></div> <span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Months for land Diving:</b></span><br /> Around the months of April, May and June people build towers up to 100 feet, probably more. The men tie vines on the platform on the tower and also around their ankles. Then men have to dive from the platform headfirst. It is said that these divers can reach the speed of 45 miles an hour as they fall to the ground.<br /> <br /> The diver has to aim to land very close to the ground or shoulders may even touch the ground. If you miss calculate your landing then that would mean serious injury or even death. The safety, depends upon many things for example, the elasticity of the vines, your weight and how the elders calculated the strength of the wood used in making towers for land dive. <br /> <br /> <br /> <span style="font-size: medium;"><b>The Land Dive:</b></span><br /> <div style="font-weight: normal;"> Early morning before the divers land dive, divers have to anoint themselves with coconut oil. They can also decorate themselves with boar tusks. The men also wear nambas or cloth that they wrap around their penises (penis sheaths). Women  have a part in the ritual as they dance with their grass dresses but bare-breasted.</div> <div style="font-weight: normal;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-8CXERxK8wBQ/U5sNMiE6PWI/AAAAAAAABC4/sg9WEESL0no/s1600/da.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-8CXERxK8wBQ/U5sNMiE6PWI/AAAAAAAABC4/sg9WEESL0no/s1600/da.PNG" /></a></div> <br /> <span style="font-weight: normal;">When the diver is </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">o</span><span style="font-weight: normal;">n the platform. He can </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">show off his talent just like at the X factor or Got talent show</span><span style="font-weight: normal;">s. </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">Up the tower he can sing a song, dance, give speeches, or do pantomimes. Then with vines tied to his ankles, arms crossed, head tucked between arms then he is now ready to land dive. </span> <br /> <br /> <br /> <b>Do not try this ritual</b>. It is very dangerous. It is said that before jumping the divers are advised to bring closure to any disputes or ill feelings in case this will be their last jump. <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="Preparation"></a><br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />

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Poaching in the Philippine Sea

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MUsj0bunSFo/U5sJrJfC2lI/AAAAAAAABCk/ysSXbEEoxBs/s1600/3turtle.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="197" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MUsj0bunSFo/U5sJrJfC2lI/AAAAAAAABCk/ysSXbEEoxBs/s1600/3turtle.PNG" width="320" /></a></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <br /></div> <div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <span style="font-size: medium;">E</span><span style="font-size: medium;">arlier </span><span style="font-size: medium;">i</span><span style="font-size: medium;">n the</span><span style="font-size: medium;"> month of May, t</span><span style="font-size: medium;">h</span><span style="font-size: medium;">ere were 11 </span><span style="font-size: medium;">C</span><span style="font-size: medium;">hinese fisherm</span><span style="font-size: medium;">e</span><span style="font-size: medium;">n caught </span><span style="font-size: medium;">with 5</span><span style="font-size: medium;">5</span><span style="font-size: medium;">5</span><span style="font-size: medium;"> turtles on their boats. </span><span style="font-size: medium;">3</span><span style="font-size: medium;">78 </span><span style="font-size: medium;">turtles </span><span style="font-size: medium;">where </span><span style="font-size: medium;">found dead </span><span style="font-size: medium;">and </span><span style="font-size: medium;">1</span><span style="font-size: medium;">77</span><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">turtles</span><span style="font-size: medium;"> found alive </span><span style="font-size: medium;">were</span><span style="font-size: medium;"> put back </span><span style="font-size: medium;">in</span><span style="font-size: medium;">to the sea.</span></div> <div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <br /></div> <div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <span style="font-size: medium;">Two of the </span><span style="font-size: medium;">11</span><span style="font-size: medium;"> fishermen are minors so they were set free. </span> </div> <div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <br /></div> <div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <span style="font-size: medium;">Poaching turtles in the Philippine </span><span style="font-size: medium;">S</span><span style="font-size: medium;">ea </span><span style="font-size: medium;">by Chinese </span><span style="font-size: medium;">is no</span><span style="font-size: medium;">t </span><span style="font-size: medium;">a </span><span style="font-size: medium;">new </span><span style="font-size: medium;">thing, </span><span style="font-size: medium;">there were </span><span style="font-size: medium;">r</span><span style="font-size: medium;">eports in the </span><span style="font-size: medium;">past that </span><span style="font-size: medium;">C</span><span style="font-size: medium;">hinese fishermen were also caught taking turtles </span><span style="font-size: medium;">and giant clams</span><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">from the disputed water</span><span style="font-size: medium;">s</span><span style="font-size: medium;">. </span> </div> <div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <br /></div> <div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <span style="font-size: medium;">Every time this happened, China always demands the immediate release of the fishermen because...</span></div> <div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <br /></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <b><span style="font-size: medium;">China a</span><span style="font-size: medium;">rgu</span><span style="font-size: medium;">e</span><span style="font-size: medium;">s</span><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">that</span><span style="font-size: medium;">:</span></b></div> <div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <span style="font-size: medium;">The</span><span style="font-size: medium;"> action of the Philippines was “provocative”. </span><span style="font-size: medium;">They believed the fishermen are in</span><span style="font-size: medium;"> Chinese</span><span style="font-size: medium;"> territory.</span></div> <div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <br /></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <b><span style="font-size: medium;">Philippine</span><span style="font-size: medium;">s Argues:</span></b></div> <div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <span style="font-size: medium;">T</span><span style="font-size: medium;">hose fishermen </span><span style="font-size: medium;">are</span><span style="font-size: medium;"> within 60 miles</span><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">of</span><span style="font-size: medium;">f </span><span style="font-size: medium;">the </span><span style="font-size: medium;">coast of </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Palawan </span><span style="font-size: medium;">within Philippine territory. A</span><span style="font-size: medium;">lso, they are </span><span style="font-size: medium;">only </span><span style="font-size: medium;">protect</span><span style="font-size: medium;">ing</span><span style="font-size: medium;"> those turtles that </span><span style="font-size: medium;">are </span><span style="font-size: medium;">vulnerable and critically endangered </span><span style="font-size: medium;">speci</span><span style="font-size: medium;">es.</span></div> <div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <br /></div> <div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <span style="font-size: medium;">Philippines s</span><span style="font-size: medium;">igned the </span><span style="font-size: medium;">i</span><span style="font-size: medium;">nternational law to protect the endangered species and China signed it too. </span> </div> <div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <br /></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <span style="font-size: medium;"><b>The turtles:</b></span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">T</span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">he turtles are very valuable creatures.</span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Chinese believe turtles </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">are</span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">magical </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">and</span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> symbolize</span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"> strength, endurance, and longevity</span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">. </span></span> </div> <div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <br /></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">The turtles are very useful for medicinal value, food and </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">the things that </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">can be made </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">from the shells </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">for </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">example,</span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> guitar picks </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">and </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">handbag</span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">s. </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">In ancient times the shells were used as divination or to predict the future. The eggs are </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">believe </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">to have an aphrodisiac </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">qualities.</span></span></div> <div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <br /></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <br /></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <b><span style="font-size: medium;">Clam Incident</span><span style="font-size: medium;">:</span></b></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">There</span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">was </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">another </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">report from ABSCBN</span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">on May 23, 2014</span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">about </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">a </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">dozen of fishing boats </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">seen harvesting clams kilometres away from the Philippine Island. </span></span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-mwWT0NJUi3E/U5sJq196h6I/AAAAAAAABCo/g8ZFcDiWCXY/s1600/cl.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="134" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-mwWT0NJUi3E/U5sJq196h6I/AAAAAAAABCo/g8ZFcDiWCXY/s1600/cl.PNG" width="320" /></a></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <br /></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-dR7QrNnEjvk/U5sJq9woFLI/AAAAAAAABCc/Jwxr_VZGlEQ/s1600/clams.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="125" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-dR7QrNnEjvk/U5sJq9woFLI/AAAAAAAABCc/Jwxr_VZGlEQ/s1600/clams.PNG" width="320" /></a></div> <div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <br /></div> <div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <span style="font-size: medium;">The giant clams some experts said will grow that big within 50 yrs.</span></div> <div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <br /></div> <div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <span style="font-size: medium;">The water for sure turns murky and giant calms shells were sure broken when they took them out of the water. </span> </div> <div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <br /></div> <div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <span style="font-size: medium;">These giant clams, are also considered an endangered species. Some of them are already extinct in some places where they were once common.</span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <br /></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <span style="font-size: medium;"><b>The Clams:</b></span></div> <div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Chinese </span><span style="text-decoration: none;">people</span> believe that giant clams have aphrodisiac powers. Some scientists say that the bivalves of the clams are rich in amino acid that trigger and increased levels of sex hormones. The high zinc content also aids the production of testosterone. Chinese also use the clam shells for house decorations.</span></div> <div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <br /></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <span style="font-size: medium;"><b>The UNCLOS:</b></span></div> <div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <span style="font-size: medium;">The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) prohibits the exploitation or destruction of natural resources while the disputes over who owns a certain territory still going on.</span></div> <div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <br /></div> <div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <span style="font-size: medium;">Also the law prohibits the exploitation and selling of endangered species. </span> </div> <div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <br /></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">T</span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">he Philippines asked the </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">UN's Permanent Court of Arbitration to consider its case in January 2014. </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">But China answered back by saying that they will not accept the arbitration. </span></span> </div> <div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <br /></div> <div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <span style="font-size: medium;">Clearly the actions of these Chinese fishermen are defiant of the law of the sea. </span> </div> <div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <br /></div> <div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <span style="font-size: medium;">All of those species have special part </span><span style="font-size: medium;">in</span><span style="font-size: medium;"> the ecosystem. </span><span style="font-size: medium;">So it would be nice if those fishermen will learn some kind of discipline not to over exploit the marine life in that area. </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Also, it would be awesome if the next generation w</span><span style="font-size: medium;">ould</span><span style="font-size: medium;"> still be able to enjoy them just like we do.</span></div> <div style="font-weight: normal;"> <br /> <br /></div> <br /> <br /> <br /> <div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <br /></div> <div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <br /></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <br /></div>

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Safety Pin: The Accidental Invention of Walter Hunt

<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <br /></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <br /></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> </div> <div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <span style="font-size: medium;">Do you know what a safety pin is?</span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <span style="font-size: medium;">If you do not know here is a picture of a safety pin which is also called baby pin.</span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-E4jtzUW7tXE/U5H2EaMT3cI/AAAAAAAABA4/zdiKT2DvLwQ/s1600/pins+pic.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-E4jtzUW7tXE/U5H2EaMT3cI/AAAAAAAABA4/zdiKT2DvLwQ/s1600/pins+pic.PNG" /></a></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <br /></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <span style="font-size: medium;">There are many uses for safety pins. Safety pins can be used to fasten baby’s nappies, or to fasten your own underwear if loose. If your pants are a bit loose you can also tighten them with safety pins. Other uses for safety pins are for jewelry (bracelets, necklace) or just fasten pins on your clothing for style...</span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <br /></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Who invented the pin:</b></span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <span style="font-size: medium;">American <a href="http://www.tesdaguides.com/automotive-electrical-assembly-nc-iii-tesda-short-courses/" target="_blank">mechanic</a> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Walter </span><span style="font-size: medium;">H</span><span style="font-size: medium;">unt (July 29, 1796 – June 8, 1859) </span><span style="font-size: medium;">is regarded as the inventor of the safety pin</span><span style="font-size: medium;">s</span><span style="font-size: medium;">. </span><span style="font-size: medium;">The story was in 1</span><span style="font-size: medium;">8</span><span style="font-size: medium;">49 he owed $15 </span><span style="font-size: medium;">to </span><span style="font-size: medium;">the Richardson brother</span><span style="font-size: medium;">s</span><span style="font-size: medium;"> and he needed to pay </span><span style="font-size: medium;">them. They probably </span><span style="font-size: medium;">bother</span><span style="font-size: medium;">ed</span><span style="font-size: medium;"> him all the time to pay the said amount of $15, </span><span style="font-size: medium;">so </span><span style="font-size: medium;">to </span><span style="font-size: medium;">keep his sanity, </span><span style="font-size: medium;">he decided to </span><span style="font-size: medium;">invent something to pay them off.</span><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span> </div> <div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <br /></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <span style="font-size: medium;">With a single wire he tried to twist it and twist it for 3 hours until it </span><span style="font-size: medium;">formed</span><span style="font-size: medium;"> into a pin. </span> </div> <div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <br /></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <span style="font-size: medium;">He patented it but he did not thi</span><span style="font-size: medium;">nk hi</span><span style="font-size: medium;">ghly of his invention. He sold </span><span style="font-size: medium;">it </span><span style="font-size: medium;">later to W.R.Grace and company for $400. He used the money to pay his debt of $15, and </span><span style="font-size: medium;">the </span><span style="font-size: medium;">remaining amount of 385</span><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">was left for himself. </span> </div> <div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <br /></div> <span style="font-size: medium;">Selling the patents was a wrong move for Hunt, because i</span><span style="font-size: medium;">n the following years, </span><span style="font-size: medium;">W.R. Grace and Company </span><span style="font-size: medium;">made </span><span style="font-size: medium;">millions of dollars in profits from </span><span style="font-size: medium;">his safety pin </span><span style="font-size: medium;">invention. </span> <br /> <br /> <br /> <span style="font-size: medium;">It was not the first time that he made a wrong decision about his invention. In 1833 before he made the pin, he invented a sewing machine. He did not patent it for fear that his invention would create unemployment for the seamstresses. Walter Hunt did not realized that if he will not patent it, others will. The sewing machine was re-invented by Elias Howe. </span> <br /> <br /> <br /> <span style="font-size: medium;">In 1</span><span style="font-size: medium;">8</span><span style="font-size: medium;">58, Isaac Singer </span><span style="font-size: medium;">decided </span><span style="font-size: medium;">to pay Walter Hunt $50,000 to clear up the patent </span><span style="font-size: medium;">and </span><span style="font-size: medium;">the</span><span style="font-size: medium;"> design </span><span style="font-size: medium;">about </span><span style="font-size: medium;">the </span><span style="font-size: medium;">sewing machine. </span><span style="font-size: medium;">However, </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Hunt died before Singer was able to pay </span><span style="font-size: medium;">him.</span><br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />

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The Rite of Passage: Hamar Tribe in Ethiopia

<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <br /></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <br /></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> The Hamar also called the Hamer tribe from Africa do their own unique rite of passage. They inhabit the territory east of the Omo River and have villages in Turmi and Dimeka.<span style="font-size: x-small;"></span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <br /></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <br /></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> The timing of their ritual usually is done after the harvest and parents of the young man determine at what age the young man will do the rite of passage which is cow jumping.</div> <div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <br /></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <br /></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> If a young man is disabled he will be helped by others in completing the traditional ceremony.</div> <div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> </div> <div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <br /></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <br /></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> For the young man, the ceremony means a lot. It means he can finally have control of his life. He can get married and have children and can own goats and also cattle. </div> <div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hRNvy0SImyU/U3S6kq6ZwcI/AAAAAAAABAM/LY9V0pAszGg/s1600/cowa.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="203" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hRNvy0SImyU/U3S6kq6ZwcI/AAAAAAAABAM/LY9V0pAszGg/s1600/cowa.PNG" width="320" /></a></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <br /></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> The preparation of a young man involves half shaving his head and cleansing himself from impurity. The young man has to scrub sand on his body then splatter it on his body with poop supposedly to give him strength. Then the bulls have their backs splattered with poop making the tasks almost impossible to do because of its slippery texture. If a young man will fail in cow jumping, he is considered shamed, but he can try to jump again until he can complete the task of jumping four times of the line between 10 to 30 bulls.</div> <div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <br /></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <br /></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> Once the cow jumping is completed by the young man, he can now go with maza (men that already did their ritual) and they have to shave his head completely. </div> <div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <br /></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <br /></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> The sisters of the young man undergoing the ritual have to subject themselves to whipping with cane and thorns by the maza. This way, the young man is considered indebted to them. He is required to help them if ever his sisters face difficulties in the future. For women, whipping is a way of showing their strength, maturity and devotion to men in the tribe.</div> <div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-k-rQKO6FCMM/U3S6knOCEeI/AAAAAAAABAI/Vopgw8fNnr8/s1600/snip.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="301" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-k-rQKO6FCMM/U3S6knOCEeI/AAAAAAAABAI/Vopgw8fNnr8/s1600/snip.PNG" width="320" /></a></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <br /></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <br /></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> Drinking and dancing (evangadi) will also follow in the night time and girls can now flirt with men they like by kicking his knee. </div> <div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <br /></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> </div> <div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Note:</b></span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> </div> <div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> </div> <div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> In marriage, the man has to give 30 goats, 20 heads of cattle and guns as a dowry to the bride’s family. A married man can beat his wife whenever he wants to and he does not have to explain the reason behind the beatings. Neighbours are allowed to intervene only when they think the beating is too much. Once the wife has 3 children the man must stop beating his wife. </div> <div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <br /></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <br /></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <br /></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <br /></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <br /></div>

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Happy Mother's Day, If you would...

<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> </div> <div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <span style="font-size: medium;">Do you love your mom? Most of us will probably answer yes of course. </span><span style="font-size: medium;">The truth is...it</span><span style="font-size: medium;"> is easy to say “</span><span style="font-size: medium;">I</span><span style="font-size: medium;"> love my </span><span style="font-size: medium;">M</span><span style="font-size: medium;">om” in words but </span><span style="font-size: medium;">not</span><span style="font-size: medium;"> in action.</span></div> <div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <br /></div> <div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <span style="font-size: medium;">When your mom is too old to care for herself will you </span><span style="font-size: medium;">still </span><span style="font-size: medium;">love your mom enough to care for her? </span> </div> <div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <br /></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Or</b></span></div> <div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <span style="font-size: medium;"><b>b</b></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>ecause mom is old would you...</b></span></div> <ul> <li><div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"> “<span style="font-size: medium;"><b>T</b><b>hrow Momma from the train?” </b>just like this movie? </span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-yhSK5EBuhb0/U3AEnn9EmjI/AAAAAAAAA_o/TLNo2BEgFLs/s1600/train.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-yhSK5EBuhb0/U3AEnn9EmjI/AAAAAAAAA_o/TLNo2BEgFLs/s1600/train.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> <div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <span style="font-size: medium;"> </span> </div> <div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <span style="font-size: medium;">In this movie mom is old, so crabby, impatient and always put Owen (son) down all the time until he wanted mama dead. </span></div> <div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <span style="font-size: medium;"> </span> </div> </li> <li><div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <span style="font-size: medium;"><b>B</b></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>ring your mom to the woods hoping she can't find her way back to your house?</b></span></div> <div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: medium;"><b><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-bEFt3zYFZlU/U3ABzFxME3I/AAAAAAAAA_A/ewis4UnwHH0/s1600/forest.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="212" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-bEFt3zYFZlU/U3ABzFxME3I/AAAAAAAAA_A/ewis4UnwHH0/s1600/forest.jpg" width="320" /></a></b></span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <span style="font-size: medium;"> </span> <br /> </li> <li><div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <span style="font-size: medium;"><b>P</b></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>ut your mom </b></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>o</b></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>n </b></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>an</b></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b> iceberg and let her float away to die? </b></span></div> <div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: medium;"><b><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-eXdxgtRYMvM/U3ABAoZqpbI/AAAAAAAAA-0/AiK9tmUd5EY/s1600/ice.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="267" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-eXdxgtRYMvM/U3ABAoZqpbI/AAAAAAAAA-0/AiK9tmUd5EY/s1600/ice.jpg" width="320" /></a></b></span></div> <br /> </li> <li><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <b><span style="font-size: medium;">E</span><span style="font-size: medium;">ncourage your mom to sign a paper for euth</span><span style="font-size: medium;">a</span><span style="font-size: medium;">n</span><span style="font-size: medium;">a</span><span style="font-size: medium;">sia </span><span style="font-size: medium;">or overdose her medication</span><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">to end her </span><span style="font-size: medium;">life as soon as possible</span><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="font-size: medium;">because mom is intolerable and burdensome?</span></b></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-sR2yydYAYhM/U3ACcWqA7eI/AAAAAAAAA_I/IK8NBch-1sg/s1600/med.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-sR2yydYAYhM/U3ACcWqA7eI/AAAAAAAAA_I/IK8NBch-1sg/s1600/med.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <br /></div> </li> </ul> <div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> </div> <ul> <li><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <b><span style="font-size: medium;">P</span><span style="font-size: medium;">ut your mom in a cage with your pets?</span></b></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-3ul1nMA6arI/U3AEhH-xiuI/AAAAAAAAA_g/DViEaedDhXg/s1600/fenc.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-3ul1nMA6arI/U3AEhH-xiuI/AAAAAAAAA_g/DViEaedDhXg/s1600/fenc.jpg" width="196" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <br /></div> </li> </ul> <div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">          <span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Some family from the third world whose </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">mother has alzheimer </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">would </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">put their</span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> mom</span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> in  cage so she will not wander away.</span></span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> </div> <ul> <li><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <b><span style="font-size: medium;">T</span><span style="font-size: medium;">ake care of your mom but would wash her once a year or change her diaper </span><span style="font-size: medium;">once in a while?</span></b></div> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-WYs7dl8fHYs/U2_9pFcxwiI/AAAAAAAAA-Y/zGQ2hCiFljo/s1600/tara.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="180" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-WYs7dl8fHYs/U2_9pFcxwiI/AAAAAAAAA-Y/zGQ2hCiFljo/s1600/tara.PNG" width="320" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tara Dawn Smith </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <br /></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">A woman from Georgia </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">was jailed for neglecting her mom's needs. Police say </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">she </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">hadn’t bathed her mother for months and forced her to lay in bed while her diaper was soiled. </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Her mom was packed with feces </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">and as a result</span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> ha</span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">d</span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> 2 bedsores on her hips and ha</span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">d</span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> infect</span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">ed down to </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">her bones.</span></span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <br /></div> </li> <li><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <b><span style="font-size: medium;">P</span><span style="font-size: medium;">ut her in </span><span style="font-size: medium;">an</span><span style="font-size: medium;"> institution a</span><span style="font-size: medium;">nd visit her again </span><span style="font-size: medium;">if you can remember?</span></b></div> </li> </ul> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-OY6mWyqoCcU/U3AHWtHudPI/AAAAAAAAA_0/1juAJziFt4Q/s1600/pic.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-OY6mWyqoCcU/U3AHWtHudPI/AAAAAAAAA_0/1juAJziFt4Q/s1600/pic.jpg" /></a></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <br /></div> <ul> <li><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <b><span style="font-size: medium;">O</span><span style="font-size: medium;">ffer mama to your god (cult)?</span></b></div> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-f3T_q5T6Hrc/U2_9pA29eeI/AAAAAAAAA-U/xV5Ovfb0R74/s1600/p.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="187" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-f3T_q5T6Hrc/U2_9pA29eeI/AAAAAAAAA-U/xV5Ovfb0R74/s1600/p.PNG" width="320" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The brothers that killed their mom</td></tr> </tbody></table> <div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <br /></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <i><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Th</span></span></span></i><i><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">is h</span></span></span></i><i><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">appened in Ampatuan, Philippines, t</span></span></span></i><i><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">hree sons </span></span></span></i><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">butchered their </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">own</span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">mom or </span></span><i><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">nanay</span></span></span></i><i><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> (na.nigh) </span></span></span></i><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">with </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">a </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">machete and </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">feasted</span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">on </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">he</span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">r ...</span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">in an apparent ritualistic </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">killing. They said their mom was po</span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">s</span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">ses</span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">s</span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">ed and they </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">were </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">just  trying to </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">drive away </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">the bad spirit that possessed </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">her</span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">. </span></span> </div> </li> </ul> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"> </div> <div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <b><span style="font-size: medium;">A mom's love:</span></b></div> <div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"> </div> <div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">You can do a lot of bad things to your mom when they are helpless but one thing I am sure, </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">a</span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">s long as your mom is able, she will care for you until she can no longer.</span></span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-N-wWy0fTbxQ/U2_9pLHoAmI/AAAAAAAAA-c/8v8_YYpGrsw/s1600/mom+97.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="195" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-N-wWy0fTbxQ/U2_9pLHoAmI/AAAAAAAAA-c/8v8_YYpGrsw/s1600/mom+97.PNG" width="320" /></a></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <br /></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">This is Zhang </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">in 2011</span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">(97 </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">yo</span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">) </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">feeding her invalid son in their home in Bozhou, Anhui province, </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">China.</span></span></div> <div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <br /></div> <dl><dd style="font-weight: normal;"></dd><dd><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>A song for every mom:</b></span></dd> <iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="380" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/tap90z44WR8" width="550"></iframe> <dd></dd><dd style="font-weight: normal;"></dd><dd style="font-weight: normal;"></dd></dl> <span style="font-size: medium;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">To all Maa, mami, Māma, Maman, Mamai, Em, Ima, Mā̃,Nanay, Mẹ, Mom, Mum Happy mother’s day!</span></i></span><br /> <ul><div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <b>Thank you for everything mom...</b></div> </ul>

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The Rite of Passage, Madudjara Aborigines in Australia

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-58_ZgNHjQpc/U2zG6C26mRI/AAAAAAAAA9w/W42Gm9-GM6Q/s1600/aust1.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="195" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-58_ZgNHjQpc/U2zG6C26mRI/AAAAAAAAA9w/W42Gm9-GM6Q/s1600/aust1.PNG" width="320" /></a></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <br /> </div> <div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <span style="font-size: medium;">The traditional rite of passage from boyhood to manhood of the Mardudjara aborigines (Australia) consists of two parts: circumcision and sub-incision. </span> </div> <div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <br /> </div> <span style="font-size: medium;">The aborigine boy will have to learn the ceremonial language <i>dami</i><i>n or </i><span style="font-style: normal;">d</span><span style="font-style: normal;">e</span><span style="font-style: normal;">miin</span><i> </i><i>(</i><span style="font-style: normal;">not dammit</span><span style="font-style: normal;">)</span><span style="font-style: normal;"> </span><span style="font-style: normal;">before the </span><span style="font-style: normal;">ritual</span><span style="font-style: normal;">. </span></span> <br /> <div style="font-style: normal;"> <br /><br /> </div> <span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-style: normal;">W</span><span style="font-style: normal;">omen will </span><span style="font-style: normal;">not </span><span style="font-style: normal;">be allowed near the holy spot. Any wom</span><span style="font-style: normal;">a</span><span style="font-style: normal;">n found eavesdropping will be killed at once.</span></span><br /> <div style="font-style: normal;"> <br /><br /> </div> <span style="font-size: medium;"><b>The Circumcision:</b></span><br /> <span style="font-size: medium;">When an aborigine boy is between 15 or 16, the tribal elders will bring the boy to the holy spot to be circumcised. The boy has to lie down near a fire while members sing and danced for him. There will be another group of men called the mourners that wail and cry while the this ritual is performed. While the boy lays down for the circumcision, they have to put a boomerang between his teeth and he has to keep it there while undergoing the operation. The tribal elder sits on top of the boy's chest. The elder facing the boy’s penis will pull up the foreskin and then twists it to make sure it can be cut off. Two men take turns cutting away the foreskin with knives and will keep the foreskin for later use.</span><br /> <br /> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-HY3UCezNvrs/U2zG9vfBW6I/AAAAAAAAA94/G1YbtR1z2kI/s1600/aust8.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="196" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-HY3UCezNvrs/U2zG9vfBW6I/AAAAAAAAA94/G1YbtR1z2kI/s1600/aust8.PNG" width="320" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The mourners</td></tr> </tbody></table> <br /><br /> <br /> <span style="font-size: medium;">When the circumcision is complete the boy kneels on a shield that’s put over the fire to purify his wound.</span><br /> <br /><br /> <br /> <span style="font-size: medium;">Then here comes the yucky part... </span><span style="font-size: medium;">While the boy sits </span><span style="font-size: medium;">with of course intense</span><span style="font-size: medium;"> pain the tribal elders tell him to open his mouth and swallow some “good meat” without chewing it. </span><span style="font-size: medium;">The good meat they will be referring </span><span style="font-size: medium;">to</span><span style="font-size: medium;"> is the boy's own foreskin</span><strong><span style="font-size: medium;">. </span></strong><strong><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">He will be told he has eaten 'his own boy’, </span></span></strong><span style="font-size: medium;">it will now grow inside him and make him </span><span style="font-size: medium;">a</span><span style="font-size: medium;"> strong </span><span style="font-size: medium;">man</span><span style="font-size: medium;">.</span><br /> <br /><br /> <br /> <span style="font-size: medium;"><b>The sub-incision:</b></span><br /> <span style="font-size: medium;">A few months after the circumcision the sub-incision will follow. The tribal elders again will take the young man in the holy spot. The young man has to lie down near a fire. There will be singers and men mourning at the ceremony. Then the elder sits on the boy’s chest and this time he will take hold of the boy’s penis not the foreskin. The small wooden rod will be inserted into the urethra to act as a backing for the knife. An elder with the use of a knife will make a split on the underside of the penis from the frenulum to near the scrotum.</span><br /> <br /> <br /> <span style="font-size: medium;">After the sub-incision the young man will stand above the fire and will let his blood to drip into the fire. It is said that the blood letting will be repeated through out adult life.</span><br /> <br /> <br /> <span style="font-size: medium;">With the sub-incision the young man will have to squat when he urinates just like a woman.</span><br /> <br /><br /> <br /> <span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Note:</b></span><br /> <span style="font-size: medium;">Some anthropologists believe that the sub-incision ceremony is done to simulate menstruation of a woman and by doing so the male can sympathize with the women in the group. </span> <br /> <br /><br /> <br /> <span style="font-size: medium;">However, others believe that the sub-incision was done as a form of birth control as it is difficult to sustain large number of people in the group with minimal subsistence. </span><br /> <span style="font-size: medium;"> </span> <br /> <span style="font-size: medium;">With sub-incision, the ability to impregnate will be decreased. </span> <br /> <br /><br /> <br /> <span style="font-size: medium;">This ritual is no longer practiced. Do not attempt!</span><br />

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A Rite of Passage, Becoming a Man in the Philippines

<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <br /></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <span style="font-size: medium;">For most boys summer is the fun time but not for many boys from the Philippines. Every summer, young boys have to do the traditional rite of passage called "pukpok". Not being circumcised is maddening as they will be teased forever by their peers as  “supot”, a paper bag. So boys will choose to suffer the pain of circumcision this way rather than be called paper bag. Sometimes, boys are also called "pisot" or "pakang" when not circumcised.</span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <br /></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <br /></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <span style="font-size: medium;">The rite of passage which is circumcision is scary and looks painful but since this signifies manliness boys have to endure the pain. </span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <span style="font-size: medium;"> </span> </div> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-k-zk3pTBpFQ/U2KaKdXWQHI/AAAAAAAAA9I/JI20lnCAKn8/s1600/pain.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="202" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-k-zk3pTBpFQ/U2KaKdXWQHI/AAAAAAAAA9I/JI20lnCAKn8/s1600/pain.PNG" width="320" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ouch!</td></tr> </tbody></table> <div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <br /></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <span style="font-size: medium;">At the age of eight years old the boys can participate in this ritual.</span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <br /></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <span style="font-size: medium;">The ritual has to be done near the river so before and after the ritual the boys can jump in the river to clean themselves. The man that will do the circumcision will prepare a piece of wood and a machete. </span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <span style="font-size: medium;"> </span> </div> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-aseNAvu6UnM/U2KaKmUGz2I/AAAAAAAAA9g/tuo2jT3SeyQ/s1600/wood.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="187" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-aseNAvu6UnM/U2KaKmUGz2I/AAAAAAAAA9g/tuo2jT3SeyQ/s1600/wood.PNG" width="320" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Insert foreskin here!</td></tr> </tbody></table> <div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <br /></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <span style="font-size: medium;">The boys will be required to chew some kind of leaves (guava leaves) which have healing properties and will stop wounds from bleeding and being infected. The quack doctor that perform the ritual will require the boy to chew the guava leaves before the circumcision. </span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <br /></div> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Ffwci2cEyNE/U2KaJzdmRZI/AAAAAAAAA9A/Ow5UIXS4UTI/s1600/guava+leaves.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="235" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Ffwci2cEyNE/U2KaJzdmRZI/AAAAAAAAA9A/Ow5UIXS4UTI/s1600/guava+leaves.PNG" width="320" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Guava leaves to prevent infection</td></tr> </tbody></table> <div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <span style="font-size: medium;"> </span> </div> <div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <br /></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <span style="font-size: medium;"><b>The procedure:</b></span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <br /></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <span style="font-size: medium;">The boys have to swim in the water first to help not feel the pain then the piece of wood will be inserted to the foreskin. The quack doctor then partially slices the foreskin with his knife or machete. Then when the foreskin is cut the boy has to spit out the chewed leaves and the quack doctor is going to spread it on the wound. </span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <br /></div> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-dvPabrJbVzQ/U2KaLNM-O2I/AAAAAAAAA9U/uTCumvbaZe0/s1600/LEAF.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="197" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-dvPabrJbVzQ/U2KaLNM-O2I/AAAAAAAAA9U/uTCumvbaZe0/s1600/LEAF.PNG" width="320" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Chewed leaves for the surgery</td></tr> </tbody></table> <div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <br /></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <span style="font-size: medium;">The quack doctor is going to use cloth to wrap around the wound to keep the leaves there. Later the boy will soak himself again in the river to clean and help stop the bleeding. The boys will be required to use a loose shirt or better yet his mom’s dress for the thing to heal faster. </span><br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-7stNRdmdyYA/U6Q0TNsRFNI/AAAAAAAABDk/_qmi8BRnhLw/s1600/tuli.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-7stNRdmdyYA/U6Q0TNsRFNI/AAAAAAAABDk/_qmi8BRnhLw/s1600/tuli.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div> <span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span> <span style="font-size: medium;">Sometimes boys will just keep the guava leaves from the surgery without soaking again in the river.</span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <br /></div> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody> <tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-sUiq_3fHA8M/U2KaJ3uOEOI/AAAAAAAAA9E/81GtFxJyR48/s1600/SOAK.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="216" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-sUiq_3fHA8M/U2KaJ3uOEOI/AAAAAAAAA9E/81GtFxJyR48/s1600/SOAK.PNG" width="320" /></a></td></tr> <tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The boys soaking cleaning themselves in the river</td></tr> </tbody></table> <div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <br /></div> <span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Note:</b></span> <br /> <div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <span style="font-size: medium;">If you are a cross dresser or gay with no plan to be circumcised, do not pass near where they do the ritual, some will taunt and tease and drag you to the piece of wood to be circumcised. </span> </div> <div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <br /></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <span style="font-size: medium;"><b>The Belief:</b></span></div> <div style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"> <span style="font-size: medium;">People believe that when you are not circumcised you will not grow properly and you have stinkiness. When you make love with your partner you will pass your stinkiness to her. Also, when you have a child your child’s’ eyes will always have eye weeds and your child will be stinky and short just like you.</span></div>

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Zenshintaitsu, ( a full body suit) for a New Sensation

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></div> <h1 align="LEFT" class="western"> <span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Do you know who you are? If you </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">have </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">been struggling to know your identity maybe you would like to try zentai </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">or</span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> zenshintaitsu, (full body suit</span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">). </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Something like the picture below. </span></span></h1> <h1 align="LEFT" class="western"> <span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></h1> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-6CDYPsPLEx8/U1rDQEqReLI/AAAAAAAAA8k/4YVGcaDGlm4/s1600/afp-1397758887-6360.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="179" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-6CDYPsPLEx8/U1rDQEqReLI/AAAAAAAAA8k/4YVGcaDGlm4/s1600/afp-1397758887-6360.JPG" width="320" /></a></div> <h1 align="LEFT" class="western"> <span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></h1> <div align="LEFT"> <span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Some women and men </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">who </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">belong </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">to </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">the </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">zentai sub</span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">group </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">in Japan </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">find </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">the practice </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">exciting. You can do things without showing your face. </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">You</span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> don’t</span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">care what other people think of you </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">for you are totally covered from </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">head-to-toe</span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">.</span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Your identity is hidden underneath the </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">skin tight </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">suit </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">away from judging eyeballs.</span></span></div> <div align="LEFT" style="font-weight: normal;"> <br /><br /> </div> <div align="LEFT"> <span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Z</span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">entai </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">offers a </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">different way </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">expressing</span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">someone’s</span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> identity. </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Some</span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">one said that </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> “In Japan, many people feel lost; they feel unable to find their role in society. They have too many role models and cannot choose which one to follow.”</span></span></div> <div align="LEFT" style="font-weight: normal;"> <br /><br /> </div> <div align="LEFT" style="font-weight: normal;"> <span style="font-size: medium;">Most people that wear zentai thinks it’s liberating as some find a complete different way of self expression including the sexual expression, as one member said, </span> </div> <div align="LEFT" style="font-weight: normal;"> “<span style="font-size: medium;">I like to touch and stroke others and to be touched and stroked like this.”</span></div> <div align="LEFT" style="font-weight: normal;"> <br /><br /> </div> <div align="LEFT" style="font-weight: normal;"> <span style="font-size: medium;">In zentai, the wearer feels it is a completely different kind of sensation experience. So if you have identity conflict maybe you would like to try zentai. See you in Japan.</span></div> <div align="LEFT" style="font-weight: normal;"> <br /><br /> </div> <div align="LEFT" style="font-weight: normal;"> <span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><br /><br /> </div>

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The Sinking of the Sewol, South Korea

<i><b>According to the Article 10 of Seafarers’ Act, a captain has to remain on board until all the passengers have disembarked.</b></i><br /> <br /> But,<br /> <br /> The<b> captain Lee Joon-seok of the Sewol</b> was the<b> first one to abandon the ship</b> before the passengers. He abandoned the ship 30-40 minutes after it started listing. <b>The captain, 69</b>, is probably not the best suited for the job because he is no longer agile and can't think fast or logically except to save his own skin. For the past 20 years he has been navigating the sea labelled as “expert” in navigation. Now? People might label him expert in escaping a sinking ship. <br /> <div style="text-align: center;"> <a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-7FUJI45BR6k/U1fNrzGEzJI/AAAAAAAAA8Q/m4M4myr8ilA/s1600/captain.jpg"><img border="0" src="https://images-blogger-opensocial.googleusercontent.com/gadgets/proxy?url=http%3A%2F%2F3.bp.blogspot.com%2F-7FUJI45BR6k%2FU1fNrzGEzJI%2FAAAAAAAAA8Q%2Fm4M4myr8ilA%2Fs1600%2Fcaptain.jpg&container=blogger&gadget=a&rewriteMime=image%2F*" /></a></div> <br /> During the initial interview with the captain, according to the report, was drying his wet banknotes -that’s good for him but for the passengers trapped inside the boat---it’s really tragic! <br /> <br /> Out of 30 crew, 20 survived. Other crew that died reportedly tried to give up life jackets for other passengers and two of the crew Kim Ki-wong and fiancee Jeong Hyun-seon refused to leave the ship while trying to assist other passengers. <br /> <br /> The <b>Sewol ferry was carrying 476 passengers and crew</b> on a trip from the western port of Incheon to the resort island of Jeju. There were 339 students and teachers from Danwon school in Ansan on board. Only between 174-179 have been rescued. Among the early rescued was the assistant principal Kang Min-gyu who later took his own life in the pine tree using his own belt on <b>Thursday April 17, 2014</b>. On Monday April 21, 2014 the chief engineer was trying to end his life. Now the authorities are trying to keep an eye on him for further questioning.<br /> <br /> <b>As far as we know the 6,835-tonne ferry sank about two hours after issuing a distress signal </b>shortly before 9:00am on Wednesday April 16, 2014. If you think about it two hours will give everybody time to abandon ship or stay on the high level of the boat where the rescue teams can see them. The captain said that the current and the temperature of the water (12 C) would make survival difficult. However abandoning the boat would probably give the passengers a greater chance of survival rather than being trapped inside their cabins. <br /> <br /> The boat was thought to hit a rock as it made a sudden turn but officials are still investigating facts. <br /> <br /> There are <b>555 divers sent for the recovery of the bodies trapped inside the boat</b>. There are 3 cranes, vessels and also helicopters to help speed up the retrieval operation.<br /> <br /> <b>The death toll has now reached 156.</b><br /> <br /> Hope the captain can bear all the shame and the guilt as he was not on the bridge as this happened and he was first among those who escaped. <br /> <br />

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