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I felt a nervous energy buzzing around the periphery of my senses, and I smiled excitedly as I drove along. I trailed behind my husband as we drove out of town to trade in our two vehicles for a single one that would more readily serve our upcoming needs. I was happy, anxious, joyful, and jittery, all at the same time. Being a grown-up was crazy, right?
As we motored along my eyes drifted to the left side of the road, and I smiled at a familiar outdoor mall. And by familiar I mean I had visited there in the last decade. Maybe. Any outings beyond family ones were rare, and I realized I hadn't visited this particular shopping spot in eleven years, actually! I then fondly recalled my husband taking me there for a date on my thirtieth Birthday.
It had been early August, a blazing hot end of summer, and after walking around outside we had stopped at a restaurant's bar for a cool drink. If I thought about it I could still remember the pale ale we had, complete with an orange slice on the rim.
I could use a drink right now, I thought.
Having a cold beer on a hot day was almost as American as apple pie. It was a common accompaniment to Super Bowl, and I enjoyed many an outdoor, professional baseball game with a cool brew in hand.
Tired, overworked medical professionals would unwind after a difficult shift with a nice, stiff drink, and some physicians and nurses I worked alongside had recently joked about just that.
How many moms called wine their "Mommy Juice?" And if I had a dollar for every exasperated mom with wine meme on Facebook I'd be a rich lady.
So while I had made the decision not to drink alcohol anymore, and I didn't want it to boot, sometimes I wished that I could partake without consequence like so many others seemed to be able to do. After a long day a glass of red wine sounded nice, and in moments of celebration and nerves like today, a cold beer sounded amazing! But then it didn't too. And that's what made me different.
I thought about the last time I had drunk. It was a bottle of wine on our wedding anniversary, an overnight celebration away from home. I had proven to myself over the proceeding five years or so that I could control my alcohol consumption. I had successfully gone from having an overindulgence/drinking problem to being able to just have a drink or two on special occasions about once every six months. I had proven to myself that I was stronger than my addictions, and I could stay within the limits I set for myself.
Yet there I was in our room, having drunk most of the bottle of wine by myself, searching the minibar of the bed and breakfast for a beer or something to keep that good buzz going. Even in my happy tinglies, I realized the feeling was familiar. It was a feeling that liked the effects of alcohol. A lot. It was the feeling of weakness, of lack of control, and it reminded me of my old self. The woman who couldn't control her drinking. I didn't want to be her anymore.
So, I didn't drink anymore. I had to admit I couldn't drink anymore, or rather, I shouldn't drink anymore. Somewhere inside me was an alcoholic, and I didn't want my children to see that woman. I was proud she was gone. I was disappointed that I was weak, but I was also proud that I could admit my lack of control that dwelt below the surface.
I think many of us have problems others don't see. Some people keep sadness hid behind a smile. Others keep addiction under a rug. The fact is we're all weak in one way or another. It's admitting that truth that brings freedom. I wish I could celebrate with a drink sometimes, but I can't. I am weak, I am human, and that's okay. Seeing weakness in yourself is often times where real strength lies.


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Ústav zdravotnických informací a statistiky ČR
Institute of Health Information and Statistics of the Czech Republic
Institute of Health Information and Statistics of the Czech Republic
59 194 persons were admitted to hospitals in the Czech Republic for Ischaemic heart diseases (I20–I25) in 75 199 cases of hospitalization in 2010. 3 104 people died during the hospitalization. A total of 25 178 people died for these diseases in the Czech Republic. The average length of hospitalization was 6.5 days. The number of hospitalizations decreased by approximately one third between years 2003 and 2010, death rates slightly incerased.
Corrections in the number of persons for groups of diagnoses I20–I25 and I21–I22 were made in this topical information on 7th December 2012.
Keywords: Heart; Ischaemic Heart Disease; Myocardial Infarction; Angina Pectoris; Cause of Death; Hospitalization.

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Fancy Tea in the Tower at Bradgate Park, or a gourmet evening in a secret woodland location? Then don't miss this year's Edible Forest festival!
The festival, which takes place in Charnwood Forest from September 15 to 17, will celebrate the area's food and drink offering, in spectacular fashion.
Here's the events that you could be taking part in...
Tea in the Tower - Friday 15, Saturday 16, Sunday 17
This is a traditional tea, full of the finest local produce, served inside Old John in the heart of Bradgate Park.
Sittings are taking place on the Friday, Saturday and Sunday, but there is limited availability - so early booking is advised!
Choose between premium seats upstairs for £28.50, and downstairs seats for £27.50.
Cocktails and Canapes - Friday 15
Don't miss this opportunity to dance the night away in a secret garden, hidden away in an ancient woodland.
Ticket price is £27.50 and includes entry, one cocktail on arrival and local food canapes.
A bar will be available with locally produced alcohol for purchase, and there will be live music throughout the event.
The venue will be revealed closer to the festival.
This event, which runs from 7pm until midnight, is for over 18s only.
Family Forest Food Adventure - Saturday 16
Here's a chance to for your family to enjoy a wonderful woodland experience.
There's jam-making sessions, which involve you foraging for fruit and berries, then making your own jam and damper bread.
There's woodland forage sessions, led by local bushcraft trainer and forager Dave Watson, and there's pizza activity sessions, where you can make your own flat bread pizzas to cook on the open fire.
Also available to those attending sessions will be the 'forest glade', where family activities will include spoon-making, den-building, face painting, and a muddy kitchen.
The venue will be revealed closer to the event.
Tickets are £5 each and are required for those 2+ years.
Edible Forest breakfast - Saturday 16
This event begins with a ranger-led, food inspired walk around Bradgate Park, followed by a hearty breakfast made up of tasty local produce at The Bradgate.
The Bradgate Breakfast is £13.00 per person, a vegetarian breakfast is also £13.00, while the Child's Bradgate Breakfast is £7.50 each. The event begins at the park's Newton Linford entrance at 8.30am.
A Celebration of Venison - Saturday 16
Enjoy a banquet of locally-sourced venison at Abbots Oak, a Grade II listed manor in the heart of Charnwood Forest.
The menu has been especially devised for the Edible Forest Festival and consists of four courses, celebrating produce unique to Charnwood Forest.
A wine list and cash bar will be available for purchase on the night. Tickets £45 per person
Forest Funk - Saturday 16
Dance to a live DJ set whilst enjoying tasty local Charnwood cider and more!
Ticket are £10, which includes entry. There will be local food and drink to purchase on the night.
The event is for over 18s only and runs from 7pm until midnight.
The venue for this event will be announced a few days before and a map will be e-mailed to you.
Burleighs Gin and Jazz - Saturday 16
Enjoy a forest-inspired Burleighs Gin cocktail whilst listening to the smooth sounds of a live jazz band in the grounds of the beautiful manor house Abbots Oak.
Tickets are £27.50 and include one cocktail, gin tasting and cream tea. A pay bar will also be available. The event runs from 2pm until 5pm.
Secret Gourmet - Sunday 17
How do you fancy a gourmet banquet in a secret forest location, with Charnwood Forest-inspired produce brought to you, exclusively for Edible Forest, by leading chefs Paul Leary andJohn Duffin?
Tickets are £60 per person, including a five-course banquet. A wine flight can be pre-ordered for £30 per person.
Dress code is formal, with black tie optional.
The secret location will be revealed nearer to the festival.
Edible Forest Garden Party - Sunday 17
This quintessentially English afternoon will enable you to relax in the beautiful surroundings at Abbots Oak, enjoy Edible Forest cocktails and mocktails made up of foraged fruits, as well as a barbecue and music.
Tickets are £27.50 and include entry to the party, one cocktail or mocktail, a locally sourced pulled pork roll from the barbecue and a full concert of mellow live swing and jazz music from a live band. A pay bar will be available. It will run from 2pm until 5pm.
Forage, Find, Feast! - Sunday 17
Take part in a walk and talk, led by bushcraft trainer and forager Dave Watson, around the ancient grounds of Abbots Oak, and find out about the many plants, trees and fungi that are around in the early autumn. Later on, gather around the fire to cook up some trout, along with other things you may have found.
The event runs from 10.30am until noon and tickets are £10.
The Edible Forest is developed and promoted by Leicestershire Promotions and supported by Charnwood Borough Council, The National Forest Company and Everards.
For more details on the Edible Forest Festival and to book tickets for the various events.


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Duracoat Spray for Change created an exciting art installation that was exhibited during UNEP's Global South-South Conference in October 2013 in Nairobi. The conference hosted over 1,200 delegates from around the world. Duracoat Spray for Change was selected to be part of the activities organised during the International Week of Lead Poisoning Awareness as an innovative way of showcasing a key message – working towards a lead free environment.
In August 2013, Basco Paints was the first local company to make the transfer to lead and chrome free paints for their decorative range. This move by the company is similar to the Eco-friendly concerns it adopted two years ago, well ahead of other paint manufacturers in the region.
Graffiti artists Wise Two, Bankslave, Swift9 and Uhuru B created a custom art installation for the prestigious event. The piece evoked a sense of hope and optimism about a future free of lead poisoning, something easily achievable with collective effort.


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Quote:So either Tiger God is more powerful than Galactus or Panther's will is?
Quote:Lose-lose for Galactus anyway.
Quote:You're making conclusions when the premises of the fight are ambiguous. First, the entire battle is happening in a metaphorical realm, not a physical one and so evaluating it as if it were a physical one is suspect. Second, insofar as this fight aligns with a real one, Black Panther blindsides Logos. It's the equivalent of a sucker punch. Panther grabs Logos' face and never lets go until he pries Order, Chaos, and the In-Betweener free through Logos' mouth.
That's not what happened. And its as much physical as metaphysical considering Galactus was physically poisoned by Logos.
Quote:Logos never even gets a chance to attack Panther, so I'm not sure how much of a fight this even is. Third, in a battle of pure will, not power, I can see Black Panther's exceeding Galactus'. There aren't many characters with the strength of will that T'Challa has. It's not a disgrace for Galactus. Don't let your anti-Galactus agenda blind you to the specifics of the story.
This is a laughable excuse for Galactus poor showing.
Keep trying though.
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If Apple's MobileMe is "Exchange for the rest of us," what New York-based startup Peek is attempting is the hardware equivalent for original Blackberry. Today, of course, RIM is scrambling to play the convergence game as well as anyone, tacking on touch screens, pitching development dollars, and beefing up media support., but for a long time it was not so. The Blackberry already had momentum when it operated on a two-way paging service and couldn't even make phone calls. It was a mobile e-mail appliance.
And that will the exact tack taken by Peek, which seeks to simplify the way smartphone abstainers access e-mail on the go. A main target is what the company calls "family commanders" (sorry, no camouflage version among its three colors) — generally style-conscious moms trying to keep up with the latest missives sent throughout the day. For example, the sealed rubbery keyboard is designed to be fingernail-friendly. While Peek, which is the name of the company, service and the sub-$100 device, will use GSM, it won't be distributed through carrier stores. It will require a flat monthly fee and a credit card but no contract.
Among its differentiators, the company sees its retail distribution, easy setup and single-purpose focus. SMS and instant messaging won't be supported, at least not at first. Peek will seek greater success than previous attempts into the mobile consumer e-mail device space such as Ogo and the strange PocketMail Composer, a personal organizer-like product that used acoustic coupling to send and receive email using an analog telephone. (PocketMail's site and even order form remain active, but the device is listed as out of stock. The company began in 1995 under the pun-embracing name PocketScience.)


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(2017) (Dacre Montgomery, Naomi Scott) (PG-13)
- Sci-Fi: A disparate group of teens unexpectedly find themselves with superpowers they'll need to use to save the world from a power-hungry villain.
- In the California town of Angel Grove, Jason (DACRE MONTGOMERY) is the star high school quarterback, but he hates the pressure of that and thus tries to pull off a wrong-headed prank that gets him in trouble with the police. It also lands him in school detention where he meets Kimberly (NAOMI SCOTT), a former cheerleader whose mean-spirited actions have resulted in her friends dumping her. He also saves tech nerd Billy (RJ CYLER) from a bully, and when Billy manages to circumvent Jason's home detention ankle bracelet, the jock agrees to drive him out to an active gold mine where Billy's father used to work.
There, they run into Kimberly and also meet Zack (LUDI LIN) whose brashness masks the fact that the only person he has in the world is his terminally ill mother, as well as Trini (BECKY G), whose tomboyish ways don't sit well with her high-strung mom. When Billy's latest experiment brings down part of a rock wall, the five are exposed to odd power coins that accidentally give all of them superpowers.
Trying to figure out what's happened, they return to the gold mine and end up in a cave system where they come across a long-buried spaceship that contains a sentient robot named Alpha 5 (voice of BILL HADER) who managed to place the essence of his master, Zordon (BRYAN CRANSTON), into the ship's computer system before his physical body died.
That was sixty-five million years ago when Zordon was one of several Power Rangers who were trying to thwart the efforts of one of their former team members, Rita Repulsa (ELIZABETH BANKS), who turned evil and simply wanted more power. The teens learn that due to them possessing those power coins they're to become the new Power Rangers. From that point on, they train in ways to battle Rita who's recently been resurrected and is amassing gold and created monstrous creatures to help her destroy the world in her quest to obtain a special power crystal.
- They probably will if they're into the Power Rangers universe.
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Almost 200 inmates of a northern Haitian prison escaped after attacking the guards on 23 October.
174 inmates of Arcahaie prison - near capital Port-au-Prince - killed a guard and stole firearms, Reuters reported. The police have set up checkpoints on the roads near the prison and have detained several people without id cards.
However, it may be difficult to nab the escapees as the inmates of the prison do not wear uniforms.
The prison break occurred when some of the prisoners were bathing. The inmates broke into the area used by guards and stole at least five rifles and other weapons.
Haiti's Minister Of Justice, Camille Edouard Junior, told Reuters that one prisoner died after falling off a wall and hitting his head during the escape from the prison. "One guard was killed during the incident. Three prisoner were wounded, including one who died as a consequence of his wounds," he was quoted as saying.
The US embassy in Haiti issued a security message about "a violent prison break in Arcahaie," and advised its citizens to avoid the area.


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This article outlines the rise and development of popular science periodicals in Poland from the 18th century until 1939. Their history begins in 1758 with the publication of Nowe Wiadomości Ekonomiczne i Uczone [Latest Economic and Learned News]. Our corpus includes 128 periodicals representing a great diversity of formats and content.
Until 1914 editors of Gazeta Gdańska were taken to court on thirty occasions and were sentenced to a total of RM 2,430 in fines and eight months and three weeks of imprisonment. Of the fifteen editors taken to court, Józef Konstanty Palędzki i Stanisław Wentowski came out with most convictions.
Marta Hirschprung (born in Cracow in 1903, died 1942?) was a journalist, translator, editor of the children's magazine Okienko na Świat (A Little Window on the World) and author of countless articles for the press. This article is an attempt at finding out the forgotten facts from her life and reconstructing her biography. While analyzing her contributions to the Gazeta Żydowska (The Jewish Newspaper) in 1940–1942, special attention is paid to her editorial work on its children's supplements Nasza Gazetka/Gazetka dla Dzieci i Młodzieży (Our Little Paper/The Little Paper for Children and the Young People, 1940–1941).
This article examines the coverage of German themes in Polish local press by focusing on a number of newspapers and periodicals published at Siedlce in the 1930s, i.e. Gazeta Podlaska, Nowa Gazeta Podlaska, Głos Podlaski, Ziemia Siedlecka, Wiadomości Diecezjalne Podlaskie and Życie Podlasia.
This is an analysis of the commentaries published in the Polish press in the wake of the celebrations of the 60th Anniversary of the World War II Victory Day in Moscow in 2005. In Poland these commemorations triggered a live debate which focused on the future of Polish-Russian relations, Russia's strategic goals on the international scene, the Polish Eastern policy and the uses of history as a tool of state policy.
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Video - Bitcoin - Cryptographic Hash Functions
Saying that a cryptographic hash function need be Computationally Efficient seems confusing to me. In fact, the more efficient it is, it opens the door to brute force reversal of the function. Wouldn't it be more precise to say that the ratio of the difficulty of computing the reverse function, is as great as possible?
For example, BCrypt and SCrypt are specifically designed to be inefficient to compute in some way to thwart brute force attacks (as is the PBKDF2 protocol for wrapping an efficient hash function in a way to make it less efficient to compute).
Cryptographic hash functions are basically fundamental building blocks that are used within many cryptographic algorithms and protocols. They have a number of very important applications in the context of information security as a whole. Some of them were common algorithms in this category that are known as cryptographic hash functions include things like MD5 and also it has some predecessors like MD4 and others. As well as algorithms like SHA-256 and actually SHA-256 is preceded by other algorithms like SHA-1 and so on. And also, there are some algorithms that maybe you've heard of or maybe that are a little bit lesser known but things like RIPEMD and BLAKE and Skein and others.
Now, cryptographic hash functions are basically used as critical building blocks in many applications. And really the first motivating application, the first historical application of these types of hash functions was in the context of what's known as a digital signature. Digital signature are used in so many different cryptographic applications today. They are the cornerstone of many e-commerce protocols, they're used in doing things like Bitcoin generation and so on. Cryptographic hash functions are also used in things like messages indication protocols, in pseudo and a number generation in password security, even inscription to some degree. And in fact, aside from that are used in digital signatures, these hash functions are also used in other places in the Bitcoin protocol as well.
So, first of all, let me talk about what a cryptographic hash function actually is. And, of course, as the name implies the first thing is, it's a hash function. And by hash function I basically mean that it will take input, it's a mathematical function or transformation, if you will. That takes a particular input and we call those input a message. Okay, and a message can be of arbitrary length. And the hash function basically applies a mathematical transformation, maybe a set of mathematical transformations to this input to produce a single output and we typically call this output a digest. Although sometimes you will see the output referred to as a tag or as a hash or as a fingerprint, but digest is sort of the most common nomenclature. In fact, MD5 which was one of the earlier hash function stands for Message Digest 5, okay, and MD4 Massage Digest 4 so on and so forth. Okay.
Now, the message as I mentioned briefly can be of arbitrary size. They can be as long as you want or as short as you want. But the output, the size of the digest or the size of the tag is going to be fixed in length. And, for example, in the contact of a hash function like let's say SHA-256 the digest will actually be exactly 256 bits in length. Okay. So, it's kind of a fixed length output but an arbitrary length input. Okay. And the other thing I want to point out about these cryptographic hash functions is that the function here is a deterministic function. And by that, I mean that the output will always be the same for a given input. So, if you have a given input you're going to see the exact same output. You won't have a situation in which may be a given input will have two different possible output, it's going to be consistent. Okay.
Now traditional hash functions are -- had been used in computer science for quite some time and they are used in many computing applications. So, for example, you may have heard of something like a hash function used and they called the hash table. But the kinds of hash functions that are used in hash tables, and I want to stress this, they aren't necessarily the same as cryptographic hash functions. Okay. The qualifier cryptographic here is very very important and it usually means or implies that hash function has to have a certain set of critical design goals and maybe some particular properties in mind. That make it suitable for use in applications that use cryptography or in cryptographic applications areas where perhaps security or privacy or confidentiality authentication is a serious concern. Okay.
So first and foremost, and maybe in describing somebody's properties is that and maybe this almost goes without saying one of the first properties you want at a cryptographic hash function is that it should be computationally efficient. And by that I mean that it shouldn't take a lot of time to compute the output from a given input if you're given a message and you want to apply the set of transformations to that message to get a digest that set of transformation should not take a long time to implement on a computer. It should be very fast, relatively fast. And it almost goes without saying but I think it is important to stress and point it out because I've seen people come up with grossly inefficient hash functions sometimes and those would not be considered suitable in the context of when typical cryptographic hash functions are used for cryptographic applications. Okay.
And the second property you typically need in the context, and this is especially in the context of digital signing, is that you wanted to be the case that it's hard to find two inputs that actually map to the same output. I mean, two distinct inputs whose corresponding digest is identical. And this property is typically referred to as collision resistance. Okay, and that means it's hard to find a colliding pair of input. So in other words, if you have two inputs and let's say you have some message M1 and you have a massage M2 okay. There are output under the application of the hash function should not be the same. You won't never have to be the same that the -- you wouldn't ever have be the case rather that the output of M1 and M2 under an application of the hash function is the same. They should be never be the same, should always be different. Okay.
Now, I should take a step back here and point out that of course in practice given that massages can be of arbitrary size and given at the input or the output rather is a fixed size, it's not mathematically possible to guarantee that the output will always be different for two distinct messages. But what you typically want is not that the outputs are necessarily different but that it's hard to find two distinct messages that produced the same output. We know that they exist by virtue of the fact that there are many messages that can be hashed and only a finite and small number, or relatively small number compared with the number of messages. A smaller number of possible digest values, but aside from that consideration it should be hard, it should take a long time. And by long, I mean an astronomically long time to find two distinct messages that would result in the same output under the application of the hash function. Okay.
Now, the third thing I want to point out is that in many cases you might want also in the context of a hash function. For the hash function, you are able to hide information about the input. In other words, given the output it should be hard to glean anything useful or interesting about the input. Okay. Anything, any relevant detail and I don't just mean the whole input but maybe even something as simple as you know what's the input and even number or an odd number. I mean, that should be the kind of thing that should be hard to infer when you see the output. Even something as simple as the even is the oddness of the input. Okay.
Now, a fourth property I want to point out is that you typically want the output to be well-distributed. In other words, the output should look random. In other words, it should look like a set of coin flips took place not that there was a predictable way in which the output was created. Okay. And really what that means is that and you can think of it maybe more conceptually as it's almost as if you flipped a bunch of coin to get to the upward. It should look just that random. Okay. And so, what you can really think of cryptographic hash functions as is perhaps maybe the mathematical equivalent or mathematical analog of a meet finder of sort, they can take inputs and apply these mathematical transformations to them such that the output looks for all intense and purposes completely random and unrelated to the original input. Okay.
I do want to make a few quick remarks about these particular properties. And first of all, they are interrelated. For example, if you have a situation where the outputs, let's say really appear to bear no relationship to the input and the outputs also look random then that will in fact give you to a large that we allotted the collision resistance properties. Because just the fact that you can't predict the output and the fact that it hides all this information implies that it's going to be hard to find two inputs that are distinct that match with the same output. And so sometimes you get one property in exchange for the others.
And the second thing I want to point out is that typically these properties in practice or maybe even in the underlying mathematics are things that you hope for but you can't always guarantee that they'll always hold it and it may be entirely possible that you could design a hash function that you think is completely collision resistant, but someone might come along a year from now and come up with the more clever way for finding a collision. Maybe, they will find a clever shortcut that does not involve doing a brute force search of any sort. Okay, and it turns out that cryptographers, for better or worse, currently do not have any mathematical technique. They haven't developed techniques for being able to work around some of these limitations. And so we often do take it on face value that these schemes are secured based on how long they have been around. Okay.
Now, I also want to point out and the last thing I want to point out is that this treatment that I've given is not meant to be mathematically rigorous by any stretch of the imagination. There are far more precise ways to describe these underlying properties. But my hope instead is that this video gives you may be a bit of a flavor for what is required of a cryptographic hash function without maybe getting bogged down in some of the mathematical minutiae and formalism.


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I still remember the smell of the sea from La Viga market in Mexico City, where our dad used to take us every Sunday, very early, almost at dawn, to buy Sierra fish or Calamari fillet. Since then my love of seafood continued to develop, until it became a true pleasure for me.
Nowadays, anywhere I travel I try to learn new recipes with seafood and this is my very personal version of salpicón de mariscos veracruzano (seafood cocktail from Veracruz) and the Colombian and Venezuelan cazuela de mariscos (seafood casserole). Enjoy!
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Micros Set 2
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While still on the small side and generally larger than Micros Set 1, these babies have lots of incut edges for technical finger moves or for way-hard boulder problems. Try these on a 45° wall and watch the progress.
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Review by: scubasnyder, 2005-02-14
these holds are pretty awsome, good friction, my favorite is the 2 finger pocket but also the one crimp is nice.
Review by: gecko_girl, 2004-08-16
I've bolted a few holds in my hallway wall, and these holds are perfect!
Review by: okie_redneck, 2004-06-21
I have large holds near these things that I'm not even using anymore. The texture and shape are very friendly. I've stopped using my hangboard lately because I've finally found small holds that I can use everyday.


text: Hi Neils, Any news? (We're close to next libatomic_ops release, so it would be good to fix this issue if you know the proper solution.) 07 03 2012, 14:00 Niels de Vos <reply+i-3489920-a6264862991435ec2c55a219c5150534b26c055f-460469 at reply.github.com>: > Many thanks for looking into this, Ivan! > > I'll have to dig a little further what causes this build to fail. Maybe defining AO_USE_PTHREAD_DEFS triggers some side effect somewhere... > > When I have found an acceptable solution, I'll inform you again. > > --- > Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: > https://github.com/ivmai/libatomic_ops/issues/3#issuecomment-4365357 >


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Program of Studies For New Muslims
Author name: Mohammed Moinuddin Siddiqui | 3 views
Introduction to Program, 'In 1974, the Planning Committee of the Muslim Students' ssociation of the U. S. and Canada sparked the idea of designing a comprehensive curriculum for American Muslims who have recently embraced Islam. Such curriculum is greatly needed by a large population of Muslims in North America to help them understand Islam as a complete way of life, practice it and live up to its ideals. To satisfy this need, the task of producing the curriculum and its supportive material was entrusted to the Department of Education, Publication and Information. Through the efforts of that Department and the Islamic Teaching Center, Dr. Mohammad Moinuddin Siddiqui undertook to work out" A Program of Studies for New Muslims." His deep commitment to Islam and conviction of the significance of education as a crucial vehicle for social change prompted him to devote his time and finish the first stage of this tremendous and challenging work. The second stage is the writing of text books which are specifically tailored to the sequential level series of this program of studies.


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Brown, white, cream, gray and black colors can help tone down or liven up brighter colors. White, light gray and cream wall colors will not particularly stimulate employees on their own. Brown walls can create a warm feeling, but can make a room seem dark, which will de-energize employees. Black and dark gray are good accent colors that can add an interesting depth to a room, but can evoke feelings of sadness or depression in employees.
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After their best week since November, stocks are looking to extend their current winning streak to five days. Asia jumped 2 percent overnight, while European markets remain fairly flat today.
China's markets, which reopened following a weeklong break for the Lunar New Year holiday, fell a muted 0.5%. Recall, this was the first day of trading in Shanghai since the Chinese government raised its reserve rate requirements again.
Schlumberger formally announced it is acquiring competitor Smith International for $11.3 billion after reports of the deal surfaced Friday morning. Expected to close by the second half of the year, the all-stock deal gives Smith shareholders a 38 percent premium from Thursday's close.
The merger creates a giant to contend with in the oil services industry. Upon completion of the deal, the new company would have double the revenues of the second biggest company, Halliburton.
On the official announcement, Smith jumps another 9 percent after rising 13 percent on Friday, and Schlumberger falls 5 percent in pre-market trading.
Lowe's rises 2 percent after its Q4 earnings topped forecasts ($0.14 vs. $0.12 consensus). Same-store sales fell 1.6 percent, but that decline was smaller than expected. CEO Robert Niblock was encouraged by a greater number of "bigger-ticket" purchases.
The home improvement retailer also announced a $5 billion buyback program.
Looking ahead, Q1 guidance falls below estimates ($0.27-$0.29 vs. $0.33 consensus) as comps are seen flat to down 2 percent. However, improvements later in the year allow the firm to raise full-year guidance (inline with Street forecasts) on positive same-store sales for the first time in 4 years.
After lowering its full-year earnings outlook last week, Campbell reported Q2 earnings inline with estimates helped by continue cost cuts and improved margins. The foodmaker saw discouraging declines in soup sales (down 8 percent).
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GlaxoSmithKline is 2 percent lower on safety concerns of its widely-used diabetes drug, Avandia. A Senate report over the weekend raises concerns that the drug may lead to an elevated heart attack risk, a claim the drugmaker vehemently disputes.
Bank of Ireland falls 6 percent after the Irish government took another 15.7 percent stake (184 million shares) in the bank. The government took control of the additional shares in lieu of a 250 million Euro dividend payment that was due. The Irish government already had a 25 percent stake in the bank via its preferred share holdings.
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Surprise!!!!… We Have ADOPTED… I really meant to keep this a secret until our Kemah Boardwalk Camaro show next weekend and just roll up there, but I am absolutely about to bust open… so here's number Twenty Three… and YES, that's VIN #23!!! The second Summit White built. :happyanim:
The doctor called last Thursday (DSOP day 19th) and notified us that our bun in the oven would not be born until 2013MY. At first this was fine because waiting is just part of the process and the possibility of BRM and Nav, if not on constraint, would be cool too.
A couple days after I found out my allocation got passed over… I started doing the math and realized no Camaro for C5Fest (Not Cool). So I went on line to check plane flights and possible Camaro rentals, but switched gears to stop in at AutoTrader and see if any White cars were available within 300 miles. As some know I'm totally on the fence as far as Auto v Manual. (In fact, I've change my order twice and it was sitting on auto last I checked) So I eliminated that factor, made a list of Summit White ZL1's, and started calling. Over MSRP was not an option, so the phone calls were quick as most were sold or way over.
Then I called James Woods Chevrolet in Decatur TX 250 mile away and they said "we don't charge over MSRP"(my kind of dealer). After a quick rundown of options it was done deal. Called Sue to see how she felt about manual and all she could talk about was CFI which was on constraint when Twenty Three was built. She never mentioned manual and just asked "why are you calling me. You've never done that before". So manual it is, with black stripe and suede package and black wheels. Hope to swap to exposed CFI later…
This was all on Saturday the 21st. I booked a flight to Dallas on Tuesday afternoon and they picked me up at the airport. Spent about 45 minutes at the dealership then drove back across Texas and got pounded by bugs and butterflies due to blooming Blue Bonnet fields everywhere. The car was trashed by the time I got home, but I did keep it under 80 the whole way.
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Congrats mlee!!!
Can't wait for Camaro journey #3. :popcorn:
That is so freaking Sweet... Congrats, Kudos, Can't wait to see it in person etc... etc... Can I ride with you when I come to Houston for the three amigos dinner....
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Congrats to #23!!!
I love the color...
WOOHOO!! :happyanim: Good number, that's the day I was born :happyanim: Congrats on the Most Badass Ride this side of the planet.:D
sucks about the bugs tho...extra work to get that clean :(
But..you got the Z :happyanim:
Congrats!!!!! Loved the SS Pace Car..can't wait to see what you do with this!
Wow! Congratulations,by far the best looking combination yet.
Now I get to be the older brother of your car...:paddle::wub:
aren't you glad I told you to get a White ZL1 :D
Congrats............ and super low VIN..............!!!
I had him go back and read it twice...
Great story. Congrats. Absolutely love the black stripe on that car!
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All of the animals in this post are the top (or apex) predator in their territory, and nothing preys on them. Sometimes, one of the top predators may meet another top predator. Occasionally, one apex predator might be big and hungry enough to take on another, but usually (and with a lot of growling, hissing or snarling) they back away from each other and move on. A good example of this is when tigers meet dholes (Indian wild dogs). Normally, they leave each other alone, but every so often, if prey is scarce, they clash, and it very much depends on the individual animals involved as to which of them comes out on top.
Some predators share the same habitat, such as lions and spotted hyenas, or brown bears and gray wolves. One side of these match ups dominates the other and will often steal their kills, but they rarely attempt to kill the other and are even less likely to eat them. Well find out more about this when we look at the animals in the post.
There is one top animal predator that utterly dominates wherever they go. They are the apex predator in every place in the world they visit, and nothing ever tries to eat them. There is even video footage of one of them taking on and eating a great white shark. That animal is first in our list of top predators…
01. The Killer Whale
Killer whales are one of the most beautiful creatures in the sea, and also one of the most deadly. These magnificent creatures use a combination of their incredible size (6-8 meters, or 20-26 feet long), power, and amazing intelligence to rule over the oceans they roam. They are not prey to any other animal on Earth.
Killer whales are known for hunting as a group, earning them the nickname "Wolves of the Sea." They have to do an awful lot of hunting, because killer whales eat about 227 kilograms (500 pounds) per day! They have different methods of killing their prey, depending on what they are hunting – a number of ways are especially interesting. Norwegian killer whales round up herring by forcing them into a ball using bursts of bubbles. They then slap these balls with their tails, killing as many as fifteen fish at a time before eating them. This is known as carousel feeding.
Another unique method is to induce what is known as tonic immobility in rays and sharks. The killer whales do this by holding the prey upside down with its powerful jaw, making them both helpless and unable to injure the whales. Since some sharks have to move to breathe, they generally suffocate within fifteen minutes from the whale holding them still. Killer whales have even been videoed doing this to great white sharks.
The killer whales use a few different methods to catch seals. Here are just a couple of them. The first is used when a seal is on top of an ice flow, drifting in the polar seas. Two or more killer whales approach the ice quickly, then dive down, slapping the water with their tails as they go. The wave they create knocks the seal into the water, where the killer whales are now waiting for it. The second method is called beaching. It involves a killer whale swimming quickly toward the shore, deliberately beaching itself and grabbing the slowest or least aware seal, and dragging it back into the sea.
The killer whale's strength, size, and intelligence make it the top predator in the entire world.
02. Tiger
Tigers are one of the most beautiful animals in the world. They are also extremely large, the third largest land-based meat eater on the planet, behind polar bears and brown bears. They also have the largest teeth of any living cat, with a length of 7-9 cm (2.5-3.5 inches).
Tigers are solitary nocturnal hunters – meaning they like to hunt alone and at night. Like all cats, tigers are accomplished ambush predators – lying in wait to surprise their prey. This is because they need to be close. Tigers can reach speeds of 49-65 km/h (35-40 mph), but their size means they tire easily, so they are only fast for short periods of time. They kill their prey by leaping onto them, knocking them off balance, wrapping their powerful front legs around them, and grabbing them by the throat. Then they hold the prey down and strangle it with their powerful jaws. When they have to take smaller prey, such as monkeys, they either break the animal's neck with their jaws, or use their teeth to cut the main arteries in its neck.
Tigers sometimes feed on other predators, such as leopards, crocodiles, sloth bears, and pythons. Unfortunately, older, ill, or wounded tigers sometimes have to go for weaker prey – humans! In the Sundarbans, a mangrove forest covering parts of India and Bangladesh, even healthy tigers prey on humans, viewing them as an occasional part of their diet!
However, humans are a much greater threat to tigers. The destruction of their habitat and illegal hunting for their fur and body parts has brought the number of tigers in the wild today down to just over 3,000. A small town probably has more people in it than there are wild tigers in the entire world!
03. Saltwater Crocodile
The saltwater crocodile is the largest living reptile in the world. They are large and powerful animals, as well as excellent swimmers. They can swim at speeds of up to 8 meters per second (18 miles per hour,) which is about triple the speed of humans. They have one of the highest recorded bite forces of any animal ever recorded, and are capable of crushing an adult cow's skull with their jaws.
Due to their size and power, salt water crocodiles can take any animal that comes into their territory as a meal. They often hunt by waiting for their prey at the water's edge. Once the animal is close enough, the crocodile uses its powerful body and tail to launch itself out of the water and grab a hold of its target with its powerful jaws. It will then drag the animal back into the water, and either roll around repeatedly – known as the death roll – or sling it back and forth in the air. Both methods accomplish the same thing – ripping the prey into smaller pieces that the crocodile can swallow.
Saltwater crocodiles have no natural predators, although humans do kill them for their skin. Salt water crocodiles pose a definite threat to humans. A human in a crocodile's territory will be viewed as prey, and the chance of surviving an attack if the crocodile is able to grab hold is low. In Australia, areas where saltwater crocodiles are known to live are signposted, and humans simply stay away from them. This human and crocodile separation has kept the number of humans taken by crocs very low in Australia. Nile crocodiles are much more of a problem for humans than saltwater crocodiles because people come into contact with them so much more.
04. Polar Bear
The polar bear is the largest carnivore – meat eater – in the world. It is actually the most carnivorous of all bears, and has 42 teeth to help with tearing up the meaty flesh that they dine on. They live throughout the Arctic Circle spending most of their time on sea ice, though they also spend a lot of time both in the water and on land.
Polar bears have a couple of different methods they use to hunt seals – their favorite prey. The most common way is known as still-hunting. The polar bear will use its keen sense of smell to detect the breath of seals in a hole in the ice. When it smells the seal breathing, it reaches into the hole with its paw and drags the seal onto the ice. Then it bites the seals head, crushing its skull.
The other method has the polar bear relying on its natural camouflage (snow) for stalking the seals when they are on the ice. Once the seal is spotted, the polar bear crouches down and creeps to around 9-12 meters (30-40 feet) from the seal before rushing forward to kill the seal by biting its skull.
The greatest threat to the polar bear is the loss of its habitat by the shrinking of the polar ice cap, due to global warming.
05. Jaguar
The jaguar is the third largest cat in the world, behind only the tiger and the lion. It looks a lot like a leopard, although the jaguar is both bigger and stronger. They spend most of their time alone, and are one of only a few types of cats that enjoy swimming. They also have a very powerful jaw. Its bite is twice as strong as a lion, and the second strongest of all mammals – with only the spotted hyena's jaw being more powerful.
Jaguars like to stalk and ambush their prey. They hide in the undergrowth before suddenly pouncing from their target's blind spot and making the kill. How they kill varies, depending on the prey. For smaller prey, such as dogs, they kill with a quick swipe of their paw to the skull. For larger prey, they tend to use the same method as many other big cats, where they leap onto the animal, bite its throat, and pull it down before suffocating it.
There are two unique ways that jaguars kill. In the case of caiman and other reptiles, the jaguar will leap on to the back of the animal and sever its spine, leaving it unable to move. With most mammals, the jaguar uses its incredibly powerful jaw to bite through its prey's skull, piercing its brain for an instant kill.
As the largest cat in the western hemisphere, jaguars are utterly dominant. The only real threat to them lies in the loss of their habitat, leading to a decline in their overall numbers in the wild.
06. Nile Crocodile
The Nile crocodile is the second largest crocodilian (meaning – member of the crocodile family) in the world, behind only the saltwater crocodile. They are known for their powerful bite, which is arguably the most powerful in the animal kingdom (some sources believe larger saltwater crocodiles may have an even stronger bite). Like most crocodilians, they like to hunt from the water, but they are also willing to hunt on land, occasionally.
When hunting from the water, the Nile crocodile waits to ambush an animal when it comes to the water's edge to drink. The crocodile leaps partially out of the water and grabs a hold of its prey, using its powerful bite to full effect. Its teeth are made to sink in deep, giving the crocodile a good grip on its victim. It then drags the meal back into the water, and kills it in one of two ways: it will either hold the prey under water until it drowns, or simply rip it to pieces.
The largest threat to the Nile crocodiles comes from being hunted by humans. They are poached for their hides, as well as hunted because of their reputation as "man-eaters". Unfortunately, there is a reason for them being called man-eaters. Nile crocodiles kill hundreds of people every year, more than the number killed by all other crocodilian species combined. This happens because their habitat is so close to human populations, making encounters far more frequent.
07. Brown Bear
There are several subspecies of brown bear, but the two most predatory are the grizzly and the Kodiak bears. The Kodiak, along with polar bears, are the largest species of bears living today. They are known for their big, razor sharp claws, which can be as long as 5-10 cm (2-4 inches) and are curved to help dig for roots – or to help kill their prey.
The brown bears of Alaska mostly eat salmon. They catch the fish in two different ways. The first is to wait patiently at places where they know the salmon will have to jump out of the water – catching them when they are in mid-air. The other way is simply by wading into the water, pinning the salmon down, and then eating it.
Some brown bears prefer bigger prey than salmon. They will hunt for large mammals like deer, elk, and moose. Their killing method is fairly simple – they creep to a distance from which they can ambush their prey and just use their size and strength to pin the animal to the ground and eat it alive.
Brown bears of all types don't see humans as prey, and if they hear us tramping through the forest, they will avoid us. Unfortunately, walkers will occasionally surprise an aggressive male or a female protecting her cubs, and they will defend themselves or their young the only way they know – with an attack they would normally use on a large elk or moose. The state of Alaska's Fish and Game Department website offers up-to-date advice on, what to do if you meet a brown bear.
08. Great White Shark
The fearsome great white shark is probably the most well-known of all fish in the ocean. Its rows of razor-sharp teeth bite down with an estimated force of over 4000 pounds per square inch, which is one of the highest bite forces in the animal kingdom.
The great white lives up to its menacing reputation as a deadly predator. They use the element of surprise to ambush their prey from below and hunt early in the morning, when the water is still dark and murky, to help their sneak attack.
How they attack varies by prey. The most famous and exciting method is the method they use on seals. They charge the seals at a very high speed from beneath, hitting them with such force that the shark actually bursts out of the water!
Great white sharks are occasionally a threat to us – however, they don't actually target humans. Great white shark attacks on humans usually occur in poor visibility – when the water is difficult to see through. It is thought that we may be mistaken for seals or similar prey. Great whites are also known to use test bites before attempting to eating unfamiliar items. Unfortunately for us, a great white's test bite is so strong, and its teeth so sharp, that it is sometimes fatal.
09. African Lion
African lions are the tallest of all cats. Only tigers are larger overall, being longer and heavier. The lion's large teeth, razor sharp claws, and powerful bite make it a highly effective predator.
These African animals like to hunt as a group, working together to successfully bring down a meal for their entire pride. Since their large size means that they can only run quickly in short bursts, lions stalk their prey before attacking. To help them sneak up on their target, lions prefer to hunt at night, using bushes and other cover to hide behind. They sneak to within about 30 meters (100 feet) of their intended victim, then rush forward, with one of the lions leaping onto the prey gripping its throat with powerful jaws and strangling it.
African lions share their range with spotted hyenas, both preying on the same animals. However, the lions are much more powerful and dominate the hyenas – often stealing their kills. This is also true with cheetahs and leopards. The only real competition to African lions comes from Nile crocodiles. They are very wary of each other, and a battle between the two can go either way, depending on the sizes of the individuals involved.
10. Sperm Whale
The sperm whale is the largest of all toothed whales. They are also the deepest diving mammal alive, diving to depths of 3 km (1.86 miles) when hunting. It has the largest brain of any animal – it is five times heavier than a human's brain. It is also the loudest of all animals, making clicking sounds that reach up to 230 decibels. According to Magnus Wahlberg, the researcher who found this out, that is "about as loud as a rifle shot three feet from your ear.
Sperm whales prefer eating giant and colossal squid, but will also feed on octopuses and rays. They dive to great depths to find the squid, and actually hunt by swimming upside down once they have reached the bottom of their dive. This allows them to see the shadow of the squid above them as they swim through the dim light that reaches these great depths.
Sperm whales were hunted by whalers for many years. The hunting took quite a toll – they were an endangered species for a long time. Fortunately, whaling has been outlawed practically worldwide, and they have recovered to the status of vulnerable, but they still have a long way to go before they can recover fully from the damage whaling did to their numbers.
11. American Alligator
The American alligator is one of only two living types of alligator in the world (the other being the Chinese alligator.) They are crocodilians, but differ from crocodiles because they have a wider snout, overlapping jaws, are less tolerant of salt water, and are more able to live in colder weather.
The American alligator hunts in a similar fashion as both the Nile and saltwater crocodiles: it waits in murky waters to surprise its target. When its prey comes to the water's edge to drink, the alligator will leap partially out, grab the animal with its powerful jaws, and drag it into the water. Once in the water, the alligator will either hold its prey under the water to drown it, or with larger prey, will go into the classic "death-roll". This rips parts off the animal, causing it to die from blood loss or heart failure.
Hunting of the American alligator by humans in the 19th and much of the 20th century meant it was high on the endangered species list, and was close to being hunted out of existence. However, after 20 years, conservation efforts have brought their numbers back up, and they are no longer considered endangered.
Saltwater and Nile crocodiles treat humans as prey, but American alligators are much more cautious of humans. As a result, fatal attacks on humans by the American alligator are very rare, with only 17 confirmed deaths since 1948 (all in Florida). That's about one fatality every four years.
12. Tiger Shark
Tiger sharks are one of the largest species of sharks alive today. They are also one of the most aggressive sharks in the world, and have a reputation for eating anything. Their size and aggressive nature make them one of the most feared predators in the sea. But what makes them so successful?
Tiger sharks' ranking as a top predator comes thanks to a combination of many factors. They have excellent senses of smell and sight, allowing them to locate prey at great distances. They generally swim rather slowly, but this combined with their natural camouflage, makes it hard for their intended victim to spot them – until it is too late. Despite their usual slow swimming style, these sharks can use a sudden burst of speed to grab their meal. Depending on the size of the animal, the tiger shark will either swallow their prey whole, or simply tear off bite sized chunks, following the trail of blood to keep up with the victim, which eventually bleeds to death.
Shark attacks on humans are a rare occurrence. Of fatal shark attacks that occur on humans, a very large percentage are by tiger sharks, probably due to their aggressive nature and their preference for hunting in shallow waters. This is why tiger sharks are considered one of the most dangerous species of sharks in the world.
13. Golden Eagle
The golden eagle is one of the most powerful avian predators (meaning a bird that is a predator). They are large, strong, and very fast, making them exceptionally effective hunters. Although they are capable of living in almost any habitat, golden eagles prefer forests because that is where they can find the most prey.
This raptor (bird of prey) hunts by gliding around, searching for prey. Once its target is spotted, the golden eagle will dive at speeds of up to 240 kilometers (150 miles) per hour towards its victim, grabbing it with powerful talons. A large golden eagle can exert massive pressure with its talons. Its grip can be up to fifteen times more powerful than a human hand. The speed of the approach and the power of the talons kill the animal almost instantly. The eagle can fly back to its nest with prey that weighs as much as itself. Larger prey must be eaten where it has been killed.
Recent YouTube footage demonstrates their incredible strength and intelligence. It has shown them being trained to take down gray wolves, kill adult coyotes, and even dragging a goat off of a cliff.
Worldwide golden eagle numbers are okay, but they have fallen rapidly in Europe. In North America, their numbers are still good, but have gone down overall. This is mostly due to habitat destruction, and that is the only real threat to their existence. The golden eagle is prey to nothing but man and the habitat loss that man is responsible for.
14. Gray Wolf
A relative of the dog, the gray wolf has long been a feared predator. They are fast, able to reach speeds of 50-60 kilometers per hour, and have razor sharp (although rather short) teeth. What is not widely known about the gray wolf is just how powerful its bite is. They can crush with a force twice that of a German shepherd.
Gray wolves are known for hunting in packs, but they actually do better hunting alone or in pairs. They use their powerful sense of smell to track their prey. Once found, they stalk their intended meal until they are next to it. The wolves will then try to force the animal to run, and chase it until it is too exhausted to fight. They then leap at the rear and sides of their prey and tear out chunks of flesh – the more the animal bleeds the weaker it becomes. Once the animal is down, the gray wolf bites its throat for the kill.
Gray wolves don't have natural predators in most areas of the world. They do, however, share their range in far-east Russia, where they are very occasionally preyed upon by tigers. In the range that they share with brown bears, they are not preyed upon, but they are dominated by brown bears when it comes to competing for food.
15. Dhole
The dhole is an animal closely related to the dog. They are very social animals and live in large packs. They are different from other types of canids – that's the family dogs come from – in that they have less teeth. Another big difference between dholes and most canids is that they allow their pups to eat first after a kill.
Dholes hunt as a pack in the early morning. They rely on their stamina to be successful, as they chase their prey, sometimes for many hours, tiring them out. Once their target becomes exhausted, one of the dholes will grab it by the nose while the rest of the pack pulls it down by the legs. Once on the ground, they rip open its stomach and begin feeding on the heart, liver, lungs, and intestines.
Dholes are rarely preyed on by other top predators. A pack of dholes can take down a tiger, but tigers are strong enough to kill a dhole with one swipe of their paw, so killing a tiger results in many deaths to the pack. That is why they generally share the same territory without fights.
16. King Cobra
The king cobra is the longest venomous snake in the world. They are also one of the most dangerous snakes in the world, due to their venom. The venom of a king cobra can kill in as little as 30 minutes, and is fatal in 50-60% of bites on humans. Their venom shuts down both the nervous system and the heart, causing paralysis, then coma, followed by death.
King cobras prefer to eat snakes. Their scientific name, Ophiphagus, actually comes from the Geek word for "snake-eater". Their favorite prey is ratsnake, although they also eat small pythons and other types of cobras. If food is scarce, they will eat lizards, birds, and small mammals. They generally kill by locating their prey with their tongue, then sneaking up on it. Their great length is used to full effect when lunging forward and injecting venom into the victim with needle-like fangs. In the case of some mammals and birds, they sometimes kill by constricting their target, but this only happens occasionally and with smaller animals. Once the prey is dead, the king cobra unhinges its jaw and slowly swallows its meal whole. Depending on the size of its meal, it may not need to eat again for months.
There is one animal that is occasionally willing to take on king cobras – the mongoose. The mongoose is immune to the king cobra's venom, but the cobra can intimidate a mongoose into leaving it alone by posturing up, expanding its hood, and hissing. This makes it appear even bigger, and usually the mongoose just moves on to a smaller more manageable meal.
17. Bull Shark
The bull shark is different to most sharks. It has the ability to thrive in both the ocean and freshwater. Lots of sharks swim up rivers out of the ocean, but none can tolerate freshwater like the bull shark. They have been seen as far inland as Kentucky and Illinois in the United States. The Brisbane River in Australia is known to be home to more than 500 bull sharks, with some even seen swimming in the streets during the Brisbane floods of late 2010.
Bull sharks usually hunt alone, cruising through shallow waters of the coastline and rivers. They are known for being aggressive and very territorial – which means that they will attack animals that come into their area. They prefer to hunt in murky waters, so their prey has difficulty seeing their approach. When they find a meal, they will either eat it whole or, if it is a larger animal, bite off chunks with their powerful jaws. They will follow the trail of blood left by the bitten prey and continue feeding on it as the animal gradually bleeds to death.
Since bull sharks prefer shallow waters, they are quite dangerous to humans, perhaps more so than any other species of shark. An encounter with a bull shark can be particularly deadly, thanks to their 1,300 lb. bite force – the most powerful yet confirmed of any fish.
18. Black Mamba
Black mambas are one of the most deadly snakes in the world, with its venom always being fatal without quick administration of anti-venom. They are the longest venomous snake in Africa, and are the fastest snake in the world – moving at speeds of up to 20 km/h (12 mph.)
A black mamba will often travel with the front third of its body elevated above ground, most likely to help it spot and sense prey more easily. Once it finds its target, the mamba will pause for a moment to assess the situation before rushing toward the animal with tremendous speed and delivering repeated, rapid bites. This results in a quick death for the prey. This dangerous creature holds smaller animals in its mouth until they die, while releasing larger ones and waiting for the venom to take effect. Once it has died, the black mamba simply swallows its meal whole.
Black mambas are a danger to humans in Africa. Their venom is very deadly, and the lack of proper medical care and remote locations has the rate of death at 100% for black mamba bites in many parts of the continent. If it feels threatened, it will attack aggressively with a succession of quick strikes. However, black mambas are less likely to strike humans than other snakes. We are too large for it to eat, and it will usually attempt to escape unless it feels threatened.
19. Spotted Hyena
Spotted hyenas are a very social animal, travelling in large groups. They have a hierarchy – or pecking order of rank – based on their ability to dominate others in the group. This determines feeding order for the group. They are a very successful animal because they are both great hunters and great scavengers.
Depending on the size of their intended victim, hyenas will hunt alone or in groups of two or three. However, when hunting zebras, spotted hyenas will hunt in groups of 10-25, as zebras are aggressive defenders. Hyenas use their senses of sight, hearing, and smell to locate their meals. They seem to rely on sight the most when hunting, while using their hearing more when scavenging – listening for other animals making a kill.
When hunting, spotted hyenas target either young or old animals because they are the easiest to take down. They will chase the animal for distances of up to 5 km (3 miles.) Once they have exhausted their prey, the hyenas snatch up smaller prey with their mouth and shake them to death. Larger prey are attacked at the legs, taken to the ground, and eaten alive!
Hyenas avoid waters where crocodiles lurk, as crocodiles take them if the opportunity- arose. However, they are not actively preyed upon by any other animals. Spotted hyenas, for the most part, are tolerated by lions. There is an occasional case of a lion attacking and killing a hyena for no apparent reason, but that's rare. Lions, however, often steal from hyenas. Many of the lions of the Ngorongoro crater feed mostly on the kills of hyenas. Leopards occasionally prey on solitary hyenas, but this is not believed to happen very often.
20. Komodo Dragon
Komodo dragons are the largest living lizards in the world. They live exclusively on the Indonesian islands of Komodo, Rinca, Flores, Gili Motang, and Padar. Although they feed mostly on carrion – that's dead animals – they are predators, and will regularly hunt other animals.
The Komodo's favorite prey is deer, but they also eat other mammals, birds, and even smaller Komodo dragons! They use their sense of smell to track animals and stealth to ambush their target. Their large tail, which is equal to the size of their body, is their main attack weapon when dealing with large prey like deer or pigs. The animals are knocked over and bitten. A Komodo's bite is usually enough to kill the victim, although it may take a day or two.
The Komodo's mouth contains many forms of lethal bacteria that infect the wounds of its prey.
For many years, it was thought that this alone killed Komodo dragon victims; however, scientists have recently found that the dragon uses venom, as well.
Komodo dragons eat in one of two ways. They either rip off chunks of flesh while holding the animal's body down, or in the case of smaller prey, such as goats, they will swallow their meal whole. Komodos have been observed speeding up the "swallowing" process by ramming their victim into a tree to shove it down their throats. The force they use has even been known to knock the trees down!
21. Green Anaconda
The green anaconda has the distinction of being the heaviest snake in the world. Their maximum size is a matter of debate, as there haven't been enough captured and examined to determine just how big they can grow. However, researchers currently believe their usual size is anywhere from 3-8 meters (10-26 feet) in length.
Green anacondas spend most of their lives in water, hence their other name, the water boa. Their size means that they move quite slowly on land, but they are surprisingly fast swimmers. The holes they breathe through and their eyes are on top of their heads allow them to stay almost completely under water, unseen by potential prey. Once they are close enough to their target, the green anaconda grabs and grips it with their teeth, then wraps around the animal, constricting it, forcing all of the air out of it leaving it unable to breathe. Once the prey dies of suffocation, the snake then unhinges its jaw and swallows it whole.
There are many local legends of anacondas being man-eaters, but there is no evidence to support this claim. One odd thing about the green anaconda's feeding habits is that a female will sometimes eat a male after mating. This is thought to be just a case of the female needing additional nutrition after mating, and the male happens to be an unlucky but handy nearby source of food.
22. Harpy Eagle
The harpy eagle is the largest and most powerful raptor in the Americas, and one of the largest living eagles in the world. They feed mostly on sloths, but monkeys make up about a third of their diet, while smaller animals such as porcupines, squirrels, opossums, and anteaters are also taken from time to time.
Harpy eagles use the hunting method known as "perch hunting". This means that they fly from tree to tree, and perch for a moment to look for a potential meal. They take their prey by swooping in and snatching it. Their talons, the largest of any eagles – and actually larger than a grizzly bear's claws – lead to almost instant death to any animal they grab. Harpy Eagles can take prey equal to their own body weight while still in flight.
Harpy eagles have no natural predators. Their numbers are, however, dropping due to habitat loss from logging, ranching, and prospecting. Additionally, they are often killed by humans who fear that they may attack their livestock, as well as old, inaccurate, beliefs that they will attack humans.
23. Dingo
Dingoes are wild dogs that roam the continent of Australia. These aren't your friendly family pet, by any means – they are wild animals that are proven killers.
Dingoes hunt in a variety of ways, usually depending on how large their victim is. For smaller prey such as rabbits, they will hunt alone and use their speed and skill at turning corners to catch the animal. They will bite the animals throat to kill it.
When it comes to larger animals, for their own safety, dingoes like to hunt in groups. They use teamwork and intelligence to catch their prey. Most commonly, one or two dingoes will chase the target and run it toward a group of waiting dingoes, who then leap on to the animal and finish it off with the usual bite to the throat. Dingoes have actually been seen using man-made structures to help them. They will chase their prey toward fences, cutting off escape routes.
Although rare, there have been attacks on humans by dingoes, with some being fatal. Dingoes are generally wary of humans, and only those who have become used to being fed by humans will be brave enough to approach and possibly attack. We are far more dangerous to the dingo than they are to us. Despite their vulnerable conservation status, in some areas farmers can legally kill dingoes to protect their livestock.
24. Giant Otter
The giant otter is appropriately named, being the largest species of otter at 1.7 meters (5.6 feet) long from head to tail. This large size also helps explain their other names, the river wolf or river dog. They can hunt either alone or in groups, although they generally hunt alone.
These predators prefer small fish that are relatively immobile or still on the bottom of rivers, such as characins and catfish. The giant otter swims after its prey when necessary, usually attacking from above or below. They rely mostly on sight to find prey, and generally grab the prey with their powerful forepaws before devouring it immediately with their razor-sharp teeth. They are, however, opportunistic predators – meaning they will kill whatever animal is available – when fish aren't abundant. They have even been known to hunt in packs in order to take down larger prey, such as black caiman, and even anacondas!
The giant otter isn't a threat to humans, but humans are the main threat to them. They are hunted illegally for their beautiful pelts, and the destruction of their habitat by humans has played a large part in them becoming an endangered species.
25. Electric Eel
The first thing you should know about electric eels is that they aren't eels at all, they're actually fish. They are knifefish. which are related to catfish. They just look so much like an eel that that's what they were called. Their ability to produce and use electricity helps them both with hunting and self- defense.
Electric eels have three different organs that generate electricity: the main organ, the Hunter's organ, and the Sach's organ. The Sach's organ is used for electro-location. The fish uses it to send out little jolts of electricity to help find its prey. The other two organs are used for generating the electricity that is used for hunting and self-defense.
Once the electric eel has located its prey, it sends out a powerful charge that either stuns or kills the target, depending on how the electricity travels through the victim's body. Once the animal is rendered helpless, the fish simply swallows it.
Electric eels can be dangerous to humans. They don't prey upon humans – we are too big for an electric eel to eat – but if frightened, they will use their electric currents for defense. Depending on how the electricity travels through the body, it can cause the human heart to stop, killing the unfortunate victim.


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