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    I feel your pain mate, scale is a bitch.

    Out of curiosity, is that a particular clone in the picture? I have something similar I'm trying to ID.

    Nope it is just a Pedro with 2 big pups almast as bit qs the original.

    You know the scale only got my Pedros and completely ignore the other cacti (pedros cousins). So strange. ..

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    Hey guys 70%+ of my cacti population has this disease. It looks like a white moist dust stuck to the cacti skin which blocks light absobtion?

    Has anybody dealt with this before? Any advice on what to do?

    I'll really appreciate any help on this one.

    Cheers

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    Just found this one on YouTube and wanted to share it with you guys.

    I think is such a good story

    The Epic of Gilgamesh, an epic poem from Mesopotamia, is amongst the earliest surviving works of literature. The literary history of Gilgamesh begins with five independentSumerian poems about 'Bilgamesh' (Sumerian for Gilgamesh), king of Uruk. Four of these were used as source material for a combined epic in Akkadian. This first, "Old Babylonian" version of the epic dates to the 18th century BC and is titled Shūtur eli sharrī ("Surpassing All Other Kings"). Only a few fragments of it survive. The later, Standard Babylonian version dates from the 13th to the tenth centuries BC and bears the title Sha naqba īmuru ("He who Saw the Deep"). Fragments of approximately two thirds of this longer, twelve-tablet version have been recovered. Some of the best copies were discovered in the library ruins of the 7th-century BC Assyrian king Ashurbanipal.

    The story centers on a friendship between Gilgamesh and Enkidu. Enkidu is a wild man created by the gods as Gilgamesh's equal to distract him from oppressing the people ofUruk. Together, they journey to the Cedar Mountain to defeat Humbaba, its monstrous guardian. Later they kill the Bull of Heaven, which the goddess Ishtar sends to punish Gilgamesh for spurning her advances. As a punishment for these actions, the gods sentence Enkidu to death.

    The later half of the epic focuses on Gilgamesh's distress at Enkidu's death, and his quest for immortality. In order to learn the secret of eternal life, Gilgamesh undertakes a long and perilous journey to find the immortal flood hero, Utnapishtim. He learns that "The life that you are seeking you will never find. When the gods created man they allotted to him death, but life they retained in their own keeping." His fame however lived on after his death, because of his great building projects, and his account of what Utnapishtim told him happened during the flood.

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    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSZg5DTW7Hw

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