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The Miracle Blanket is the only true swaddling blanket successfully designed to mimic the womb in a way that nearly always triggers a dream-like serenity in a restless, crying baby almost immediately. It truly has a miraculous effect.
The Miracle Blanket is designed to eliminate excess fabric which traps heat leading to overheating. Additionally, the fabric selected is a very breathable 100% cotton soft knit that actually becomes even more breathable when stretched. This is in stark contrast to other products on the market that are made of flannel/combed cotton and micro fleece. The unique shape of the Miracle Blanket also provides gentle lateral pressure across the mid-section easing symptoms associated with colic. Patented arm flaps inside the Miracle Blanket loosely hold baby's arms on the side preventing movement across the chest which can wake a baby or allow for facial scratching.
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Katy Perry 'Dark Horse' video edited following internet outcry
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(Yahoo!) - Apparently signing an Internet petition can actually achieve a desired result.
Katy Perry's video for her chart-topping song "Dark Horse" has been edited to remove an Arabic reference deemed blasphemous by a Change.org petition.
Shazad Iqbal, 22, posted the complaint, demanding that the video be removed from YouTube. "At 01:15 into the video Dark Horse; a man is shown being burned, whilst wearing a pendant (also burned) forming the word 'Allah,' which is the Arabic word for God," he wrote.
Iqbal describes Perry's Cleopatra-inspired persona as an opposition to God that "engulfs the believer and the word God in flames."
Perry's video went online a week ago. The petition followed a few days later and has received more than 60,000 supporters. On Wednesday, Iqbal and his supporters declared victory: A new version of Perry's video uploaded to her YouTube and Vevo channels has digitally scrubbed the offending pendant.
Iqbal credits the petition with prompting the change.
"We couldn't have done it without everyone's support so I thank each and every one of your deeply, our voices have been heard!" Iqbal wrote.
Perry dismissed any ill intent in a statement, saying she was "just trying to give a beautiful performance about a place I have so much love for … with no other thought besides it."


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The Beauty of Nature in Segal's Wine
To this day, Segal's Wine is grown in the Galilee region of northeast Israel. With its low rainfall, mineral-rich volcanic basalt, and famed terra rossa soil, the region's elevated terrain is ideal for producing both ripe, acidic whites like Segal's Fusion White Blend, and full-bodied reds like Segal's Special Reserve Cabernet Sauvignon. For a spicier, more tannic version of the varietal, Segal's unapologetic Unfiltered Cabernet Sauvignon, aged 18 months in oak barrels to fully develop its berry notes and generous finish, is not to be missed. A wildly buzzed-about favorite in kosher wine circles since its original vintage nearly a decade ago, the solid-spined, avant garde red floods the palate with semi-sweet chocolate and currant complexities, and refuses to be ignored.
Creating New Traditions with Segal's Wine
Constantly revolutionizing the company's products while keeping true to kosher traditions, Segal's resident poet-cum-pioneer winemaker Avi Feldstein strives daily to shake up narrow views on the bottle. Feldstein's out-of-the-box Argaman (a grape normally resigned to low-quality jug wines) varietal won a gold medal at the 2010 Les Citadelles du Vins competition in Bordeaux, France. Feldstein hopes to impart a thrill in his vintages—to turn the reputation of a previously-unfashionable grape on its head, set a new precedent, or signal "game on" to other winemakers. When you uncork a bottle of Segal's Wine, you join its very creator in subverting outdated ideas about what wine ought to be.


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Delaware Senate Approves Gay Marriage
(Dover, DE) -- Delaware is close to becoming the next state to legalize same-sex marriage. The state senate approved the bill today, following the lead of the state's lower house which had already approved the measure. Delaware Governor Jack Markell has said he will sign the bill into law. Delaware will become the eleventh state state to approve gay marriage.


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WATCH: Darrell Issa angrily adjourns Oversight hearing after Lois Lerner pleads the Fifth
California Rep. Darrell Issa adjourned a divisive House Oversight hearing Wednesday after IRS official Lois Lerner pleaded the Fifth Amendment and refused to answer his questions.
"Seeking the truth is the obligation of this committee," Issa said before announcing that he had no expectation that Lerner would answer his questions and adjourning the hearing.
Lerner invoked the Fifth Amendment on each question Issa asked about the agency's targeting of conservative groups. The hearing lasted approximately fifteen minutes before Issa released Lerner.
Issa began the hearing by explaining that Lerner previously waived her Fifth Amendment rights in a May 2013 hearing and that "the committee may proceed to consider whether she be held in contempt.


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Southwest Plane Lands at Wrong Airport
(NEWSER) – "The landing was uneventful, and all customers and crew are safe," says a Southwest Airlines rep of Flight 4013. So why is it making headlines? Because the flight, with 124 passengers and another five crew, was supposed to travel from Chicago's Midway to Branson Airport in southwest Missouri yesterday. Instead it landed at another airport about seven miles away ... that only had about half as much runway. CNN reports that the pilot had to "do a lot of heavy braking," but managed to stop the plane about 300 feet before the end of the 3,738-foot runway; Branson's runway is 7,140 feet. A passenger tells the network the pilot then said, "Welcome to Branson."


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Package Installation and Updates
Apt and Package Basics
Most new users will use the Synaptic Package Manager to install packages. These instructions are for installing packages from the command-line Terminal. Terminal can be started:
- Menu -> Applications -> Accessories -> Terminal
- Install packages:
sudo apt-get install packagename
- Example:
sudo apt-get install mpd sbackup
- Remove packages:
sudo apt-get remove packagename
- To remove all dependencies:
sudo apt-get autoremove
- Example:
sudo apt-get remove mpd sbackup
- Search for packages:
apt-cache search <keywords>
- Examples:
apt-cache search Music MP3 apt-cache search "Text Editor"
- Update the apt package database after adding/removing repositories:
sudo apt-get update
- Upgrade packages:
sudo apt-get upgrade
- Upgrade the entire distribution (e.g. from Maverick to Natty):
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
Installing .deb packages
Debian (.deb) packages are the packages that are used in Ubuntu. You can install any .deb package in your system. .deb files can generally be installed from your file manager (Nautilus) merely by clicking on them, since file associations with the default installer is already set in Ubuntu. These instructions are for those who wish to install packages from the command-line terminal (Terminal).
- Install a downloaded Debian (Ubuntu) package (.deb):
sudo dpkg -i packagename.deb
- Remove a Debian (Ubuntu) package (.deb):
sudo dpkg -r packagename
- Reconfigure/Repair an installed Debian (Ubuntu) package (.deb):
sudo dpkg-reconfigure packagename
- *Example:
sudo dpkg-reconfigure mpd
Handling (Tar/GZip) and (Tar/Bzip2) archives
(Tar/GZip) archives end in ".tar.gz" and (Tar/Bzip2) archives end in ".tar.bz2". Bzip2 is the newer, more efficient compression method. These files can generally be automatically extracted by merely clicking on them from your file manager (Nautilus), since file associations with the appropriate archival utilities are set by default in Ubuntu. These instructions are for those who wish to use the command line Terminal.
- To extract:
tar xvf packagename.tar.gz
Note: tar is an application which can extract files from an archive, decompressing if necessary.
- -x means extract.
- -v means verbose (list what it is extracting).
- -f specifies the file to use.
- Decompressing ".gz" files
gunzip file.gz
- Decompressing ".bz2" files
bunzip2 file.bz2
- Note: You can also decompress a package first by using the command gunzip (for .gz) or bunzip2 (for .bz2), leaving the .tar file. You would then use tar to extract it.
- To create a .gz archive:
tar cvfz packagename.tar.gz folder
- To create a .bz2 archive:
tar cvfj packagename.tar.bz2 folder
Installing a package from source
- Make sure you have all the necessary development tools (i.e. libraries, compilers, headers):
sudo apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-$(uname -r)
- Note: "uname -r" lists the current kernel you are using
- Extract the archive that contains the source files:
tar xvf sourcefilesarchive.tar.gz
- Build the package using the package's script (in this case the configure script), compile the package (make), and install the compiled package into your system (make install):
cd /path/to/extracted/sourcefiles ./configure sudo make sudo make install
- Note: typing ./ before a filename in the current folder allows the Linux shell to try and execute the file as an application even if it is not in the path (the set of folders which it searches when you type a command name). If you get a "permission denied" error, the file is not marked as being executable. To fix this:
sudo chmod +x filename
- Example: In the above instructions, configure is the shell script to build the package from source. To be sure the configure script is executable:
sudo chmod +x configure
Create a .deb package from source files
If your build from source is successful, you can make a Debian (Ubuntu) package (.deb) for future use:
- Install package tools:
sudo apt-get install checkinstall
- Rebuild package using "checkinstall":
cd /path/to/extracted/package ./configure sudo make sudo checkinstall
- Keep the resulting ".deb" file for future use. It can later be installed using:
sudo dpkg -i packagename.deb
Note: These are basic instructions that may not always work. Some packages require additional dependencies and optional parameters to be specified in order to build them successfully. Also see these Ubuntu wiki instructions. More info about .deb package structure can be found here.
Aptitude is a terminal-based package manager that can be used instead of apt-get. Aptitude marks packages that are automatically installed and removes them when no packages depend on them. This makes it easy to remove applications completely. To use Aptitude, replace apt-get with aptitude in the command line. Example:
sudo aptitude install packagename sudo aptitude remove packagename sudo aptitude update sudo aptitude upgrade
For an ncurses-based graphical user interface, type
sudo aptitude
For more information, see the aptitude documentation.
Synaptic Package Manager
While "apt-get" and "aptitude" are fast ways of installing programs/packages, you can also use the Synaptic Package Manager (Menu -> System -> Administration -> Synaptic Manager), a GUI method for installing programs/packages. Most (but not all) programs/packages available with apt-get install will also be available from the Synaptic Package Manager. This is the preferred method for most desktop users. In this guide, when you see
sudo apt-get install package
you can simply search for package in Synaptic and install it that way.
- Menu -> System -> Administration -> Synaptic Package Manager
- Search for the name of the program/package. You can also search for a word in its description.
-> Mark for Installation -> Apply
- The selected program(s) will be automatically installed, along with its dependencies.
Ubuntu Software Center (Add/Remove Programs)
Not all packages available from apt-get, aptitude, and Synaptic Package Manager are available in the Ubuntu Software Center. However, it is the easiest interface for new users of Ubuntu and directs them to preferred packages.
- Menu -> Applications -> Ubuntu Software Center
- Search for the sort of program you want to add. Example: type MP3 to see a list of mp3 software.
-> Mark for Installation -> Apply
- The selected program(s) will be automatically installed.
Manual Updates
- Read General Notes
- Read Add Extra Repositories
- Manually, from Terminal (command line interface):
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade
- or
- Use Synaptic Package Manager:
- Menu -> System -> Administration -> Synaptic Package Manager -> "Reload" then "Mark all upgrades"
- If there are packages available for updating, you will be prompted whether to install them.
Automated Updates
- Use Synaptic Package Manager:
- Menu -> System -> Administration -> Synaptic Manager -> Settings -> Preferences -> General -> Reloading Outdated Package Information -> Automatic
Repair broken packages
If a package installation fails (which can cause a Package Manager to freeze or become locked), or if a package has unsatisfied dependencies causing a similar condition, then run one (or both) of the following commands from the command-line terminal:
sudo apt-get install -f sudo dpkg --configure -a
- If a problem occurs with MergeList (appearing as a missing "Package: header" error):
E: Encountered a section with no Package: header E: Problem with MergeList... E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
- then repair by recreating the package lists:
sudo rm /var/lib/apt/lists/* -vf sudo apt-get update
- If a problem occurs with a lock on the apt cache, for example:
E: Could not get lock /var/cache/apt/archives/lock - open (11: Resource temporarily unavailable)
- then run:
sudo fuser -cuk /var/lib/dpkg/lock; sudo rm -f /var/lib/dpkg/lock sudo fuser -cuk /var/cache/apt/archives/lock; sudo rm -f /var/cache/apt/archives/lock
File Managers
- For FTP (online File Transfer Protocol):
- See this section on FTP clients for information about FileZilla.
- See this section on FTP servers for information about vsftp and proftp.
- Also see these FTP tips.
- For WebDAV (online folders):
- See this section on WebDAV for information about both WebDAV servers and clients.
- For MTP (Media Transport Protocol), used for transferring data (by USB) to some storage devices:
- See this section.
- Nautilus is the default file manager in Ubuntu (Gnome).


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OJ Simpson Testifies in Bid to Win Freedom
(Las Vegas, NV) -- O.J. Simpson admits there was some pushing and shoving the night he left a crowded Las Vegas hotel room after retrieving his sports memorabilia. Testifying at a court hearing in Las Vegas today, the "Juice" said he never saw any weapons displayed nor was anyone threatened. The former football great is asking to be granted a new trial for his 2008 convictions for kidnapping and armed robbery.
Simpson claims he decided to get his "stuff" back based on advice from his former attorney Yale Galanter. He was convicted of robbing two sports memorabilia dealers at the Palace Station in Las Vegas in 2007. The 65-year-old Simpson is currently serving a 33-year prison sentence. He'll be eligible for parole in 2017.


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Wall Street's Latest Gambit Might Re-Wreck the Economy
(NEWSER) – Remember the phrase "mortgage-backed securities" and stories about how they helped send the economy into a tailspin? Well, Wall Street has a new and not-so-improved version, this time involving rental homes, writes David Dayen at Salon. Private equity firms such as Blackstone have been buying as many single-family homes around the country as they can (many of them foreclosures), doing superficial upgrades, then renting them out to families. Some nuts and bolts:
- "In order for this to work, firms need cash to outbid the competition," Dayen explains. "So Blackstone teamed with Deutsche Bank, Credit Suisse and JPMorgan Chase to put together the first-ever rental revenue bond, named 'Invitation Homes 2013-SFR1.' Basically, Blackstone took out mortgages with the banks on 3,207 of its rental properties, in exchange for $479 million in cash, and they will forward rental payments to the bondholders to pay back the loan."


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Taylor Swift's Worldwide Live Stream on Yahoo: Where To Watch/Listen TODAY!
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Last week, Taylor Swift announced that she'd be hosting a worldwide live stream on Yahoo on Monday, August 18th at 5pm ET. She didn't give any more details about what's been deemed Taylor Swift's Worldwide Live Stream on Yahoo, but the world immediately took notice.
Now, we're thrilled to announce that we will be carrying the event live as a simulcast on our radio stations across the country! Clear Channel CHR and HOT AC stations will be the exclusive radio partners, airing the livestream at 5pm ET/2pm PT TODAY!
Fans can GO HERE to find their local Clear Channel CHR/Top 40 and Hot AC radio stations. Fans can also listen to the event live on iHeartRadio's digital station, Hit Nation.
Fans can also tune in to watch the event go down on Yahoo Screen at www.yahoo.com/TaylorSwift or GMA at www.gma.yahoo.com.
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PHOTO: Beyonce channels Marilyn Monroe for 'Out' magazine cover
Beyonce appears in a platinum blonde wig on the cover of Out magazine's "Power Issue," in which she discusses the work and secrets behind the surprise album that took over the music world last December — and more.
When her interviewer points out that Beyonce is her "most sexually liberated project," the performer explains, "I'd like to believe that my music opened up that conversation. There is unbelievable power in ownership, and women should own their sexuality."
"There is a double standard when it comes to sexuality that still persists," says Beyonce. "Men are free and women are not. That is crazy. The old lessons of submissiveness and fragility made us victims. Women are so much more than that."
She adds, "You can be a businesswoman, a mother, an artist, and a feminist — whatever you want to be — and still be a sexual being. It's not mutually exclusive."
While Beyonce has perfectionist tendencies, she was also forced to change course at certain points in the process.
"When I recorded 'XO' I was sick with a bad sinus infection," reveals the star. "I recorded it in a few minutes just as a demo and decided to keep the vocals. I lived with most of the songs for a year and never rerecorded the demo vocals."
She explains, "I really loved the imperfections, so I kept the original demos. I spent the time I'd normally spend on backgrounds and vocal production on getting the music perfect. There were days I spent solely on getting the perfect mix of sounds for the snare alone."
"Discipline, patience, control, truth, risk, and effortlessness were all things I thought about while I was putting this album together," continues the singer.
Out asks whether Beyonce had "different groups in mind" as she wrote her lyrics, many of which have struck a chord not just with feminists, but also with members of the LGBT community.
"While I am definitely conscious of all the different types of people who listen to my music, I really set out to make the most personal, honest, and best album I could make," she says. "I needed to free myself from the pressures and expectations of what I thought I should say or be, and just speak from the heart."
Beyonce continues, "Being that I am a woman in a male-dominated society, the feminist mentality rang true to me and became a way to personalize that struggle… But what I'm really referring to, and hoping for, is human rights and equality, not just that between a woman and a man."
"So I'm very happy if my words can ever inspire or empower someone who considers themselves an oppressed minority," she adds. "We are all the same and we all want the same things: the right to be happy, to be just who we want to be and to love who we want to love."


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How Season 2 of 'House of Cards' Murders the 25th Amendment
As the nation binges on Season 2 of "House of Cards," we have witnessed ruthless House Majority Whip Frank Underwood (Kevin Spacey) maneuver for the vice president to resign and for him to be appointed to the position. It's no spoiler to say that Underwood clearly won't be content to remain a heartbeat away from the presidency.
But the biggest casualty of "House of Cards" might well turn out to be the 25th Amendment, which governs vice presidential succession. Once again, the amendment has, at least in popular fiction, been transformed from a pragmatic constitutional provision into a Machiavellian route to power. And that's a shame, because in a real-world time of crisis it could be incredibly valuable -- but only if an ongoing stream of fictional portrayals hasn't distorted its public image beyond recognition.
The 25th Amendment was enacted in 1967 during the height of the Cold War, at time of hair-trigger tensions and nuclear missiles mounted on fast-flying intercontinental ballistic missiles. The need for near-instantaneous decision making and continuity of the command authority during the Cold War was clear, yet the nation had twice found itself with a vacancy in the vice presidency, for nearly 4 years after Truman succeeded to the top job 1945 and again for over a year after the Kennedy assassination.
This problem was rooted in an oversight of the founders. They had crafted a vice presidency to assume executive authority in the case of the death, resignation, or removal of a president, but had not provided a way to fill the ensuing vice presidential vacancy before the next regularly scheduled general election. As a result, between 1789 and 1967, through a combination of presidential and vice presidential deaths and resignations, the VP slot had been vacant 16 times for some 40 years in total, or nearly 20 percent of American history.
Depending upon the Law of Presidential Succession at the time, the secretary of state or the speaker of the House were bumped up to next in line to the Oval Office. But the former lacked democratic validation, while the latter was not part of the sitting administration, and might even be its vehement political enemy. The 25th Amendment was thus enacted to enable the president to fill a vacancy in the vice president position, subject only to confirmation by simple majorities of both houses of Congress.
On "House of Cards," Underwood's machinations have arranged for the unhappy sitting Vice President to step down and for him to be named in his stead, with various types of murder and mayhem enacted along the way. This is a far cry, however, from how the mild-mannered and upstanding Gerald Ford actually found his way to the Oval Office via the 25th Amendment in 1974.
After VP Spiro Agnew was pressured to resign due to bribery charges, Nixon looked around for a harmless placeholder until the 1976 election. Neither he nor his designee,Ford imagined that Nixon would himself likewise be forced from office, following what Ford termed the "long national nightmare" of the Watergate crisis. A longtime member of the House, Ford had never been elected by any constituency larger than the area around Grand Rapids, Michigan, yet he assumed full executive authority, more in sadness than in triumph. Now though, thanks to "House of Cards," what was then a constitutional lifeline is now best known as a vaguely illegitimate back route to power.
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Who inspired Keith Urban on his new album?
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Keith Urban is preparing to release his brand new album on September 10th, and guess who inspired him while making FUSE? Here's a hint: It's not another country artist.
Keith found inspiration in Irish rockers U2. He tells Rolling Stone, "I really love what U2 did with Achtung Baby." Explaining that the album is different from anything that he's ever done before, he goes on to say, "Bono said, [Achtung Baby] had to be the sound of [U2] chopping down The Joshua Tree,' which I thought was great."
It sounds like fans will hear something they've never heard from Keith Urban before. So what can fans expect from FUSE? Keith explains that he worked with a number of different musicians on his new album including Dr. Dre's protege Mike Elizondo, Butch Walker who has collaborated with P!nk, and more.
Sounds like a real fusion! Fans can pre-order Keith's new album FUSE right now on his official website.
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Demi Lovato invites great-grandmother & celeb pals to hometown concert
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Demi Lovato had some special guests in the audience at her hometown concert in Dallas on Monday night.
The star took to Twitter after performing her "Neon Lights" show at the Verizon Theatre in Grand Prairie. She posted a photo of her 90-year-old great-grandmother, who posed backstage for a silly shot holding up a peace sign and wearing a tilted, bright pink hat.
For those of you who were wondering... Yes, this is my incredible 90 y/o GREAT Grandmother... http://t.co/2wQhrPpfnM pic.twitter.com/0HqksjGj2y
— demetria lovato (@ddlovato) February 18, 2014
She also had the support of her longtime friend and rumored boyfriend actor Wilmer Valderrama. Demi posted a shot with Wilmer, as well as his castmates from the TV series "From Dusk Till Dawn," who all flew out to Dallas to watch Demi perform.
Thank you SO much to my #FromDuskTillDawn family for flying to Dallas for the night to see the #NEONLIGHTSTOUR!!! 💗 pic.twitter.com/TKTAA6bzdk
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How DOMA Ruling Helps Immigration Reform Odds
When the Supreme Court struck down a key portion of the Defense of Marriage Act Wednesday, it also solved one of the thorniest dilemmas facing Congress: whether and how to give same-sex couples access to immigration benefits.
Before the Supreme Court acted, roughly 36,000 American citizens were specifically barred from applying for green cards for their same-sex spouses. But following the ruling, Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano confirmed that any legally valid marriage of a U.S. citizen would be recognized for immigration benefits. If immigration reform passes Congress, same-sex couples will automatically be covered by the new law without any extra debate or amendments.
"I think there is bipartisan relief today that the court resolved the issue," says Steve Ralls, the spokesman for Immigration Equality, a group advocating for binational same-sex couples. "I have no doubt that both Democratic and Republican senators are glad the court fixed this issue before the Senate had to take another vote on it."
The issue had pitted two of the Democratic Party's most important constituencies against each other, with LGBT advocates seeing the immigration debate as a crucial vehicle to move marriage equality forward, but immigration advocates seeing gay marriage as someone else's battle, or at least a fight for another day.
The debate was becoming so volatile that an amendment from Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) to give same-sex couples immigration benefits nearly torpedoed the entire bill in the Judiciary Committee this year. As Leahy moved to vote in the committee, the most liberal Democrats on the panel implored him not to bring more controversy to the immigration debate than it could bear.
"We know this is going to blow the agreement apart and I don't want to blow this bill apart," Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) said at the time. Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) called the choice between marriage equality and immigration reform "excruciating," but told Leahy he could not be with him in the fight this time. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) said the Leahy amendment was the "wrong moment and the wrong bill." Leahy pulled his amendment at the time, but brought it back to the Senate as the immigration-reform debate heated up.
Moments after the Supreme Court's DOMA ruling Wednesday, Leahy went to the Senate floor to say his considers the matter closed.
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WATCH: Musicians belt out 'Don't Stop Believin' with kids battling illness
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(Yahoo!) - A young leukemia survivor recently made headlines when his dream to fight crime on the streets of San Francisco as Batkid came true thanks to the Make-A-Wish Foundation. Meanwhile, another group has been brightening the lives of sick children around the country all year long in a different way – through music.
Musicians Josh Rifkind and Sanjay Kothari have been traveling across the country on their Songs for Kids tour, visiting an impressive 236 children's hospitals in as many days in 180 different cities. Armed with guitars and tambourines, the jovial musicians encourage the kids to sing and perform with them, making the youngsters the stars of the show.
"My father is a doctor and has always been my idol," explains Rifkind, who co-founded the Songs for Kids Foundation, which works to enrich the lives of children suffering from illness or hardships by bringing music to hospitals and special needs camps. "I wanted to do something that had a piece of him in there and showed my appreciation for the life he gave me, and also combine that with the fact that I'm a musician and I've been in the music business for a long time. But mostly I wanted to do it for kids who couldn't do it for themselves."
While on their epic journey, Rifkind and Kothari filmed the children performing the uplifting Journey classic, "Don't Stop Believin'." They put together a video montage of the performances featuring young children, babies and adolescents battling countless illnesses. Some of them are hooked up to oxygen masks and other hospital machines, but this doesn't stop them from belting out the lyrics with huge smiles on their faces.


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Hugh Aynesworth Has Spent His Career Debunking JFK Conspiracy Theories
Hugh Aynesworth has the strange distinction of being the only person present at the assassination of John F. Kennedy, the apprehension of Lee Harvey Oswald by Dallas police at the Texas Theater, and the murder of Oswald by Jack Ruby two days later.
On Nov. 22, 1963, Aynesworth was a 32-year-old reporter for the Dallas Morning News. His beat was science and aviation, and he had no assignment that day. So on his lunch hour he wandered over to Dealey Plaza to see if he could see the presidential motorcade. When gunshots rattled across the plaza, Aynesworth went to work, interviewing bystanders and trying, like everyone else, to figure out what had just happened. He stayed close to a motorcycle cop and listened in on the police radio broadcasts. Hearing that a policeman had been shot and assuming that it might have something to do with the assassination, he headed off to hunt down that crime scene, winding up at the movie theater where he witnessed the police arrest Oswald. On Sunday morning, he got to the city jail shortly before Ruby shot Oswald.
In his latest book, November 22, 1963: Witness to History, Aynesworth vividly recreates that chaotic weekend and its ever more baroque outcome, and he does it so well that we forget we've been through this a thousand times. Not many of the 40,000 books published about the assassination can be called indispensable. This one can.
That weekend in 1963 irrevocably changed Aynesworth's life. He would go on to become a Newsweek bureau chief and write books about serial killers, but after 1963,the assassination became the story to which he would return again and again. He has spent, by his own reckoning, almost half his career tracking down and debunking conspiracy theories.
Aynesworth's legwork has led him to one conclusion. As he writes in his book, "Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone, and Jack Ruby was in no way connected with him. Moreover, and contrary to what you have heard or read or believe, there is nothing anywhere—no assertion, no alleged proof—that conclusively indicates otherwise."
He goes on: "I have never disputed the possibility of a conspiracy, or conspiracies, behind the Kennedy assassination. Do not doubt that's a story I would love to break. However the proof of such a plot continues to elude us. Like it or not, that leaves us with the record as it stands."
The Daily Beast caught up with Aynesworth, who still lives in Dallas, by phone this week.
What percentage of your life have you spent chasing down conspiracy theories and rumors about the Kennedy administration?
God, I'm afraid to say, but I'd have to guess 30 to 40 percent. Far too much.
And in all that time, you never came across any conspiracies theories that you thought were valid?
Really, I have not. I've seen all kinds of mistakes made by officials, and I've seen all kinds of really weird claims that were nothing more than imagination. I did worry a little bit at first about how Oswald got back from the Soviet Union so easily and who paid for it. And after a few days, maybe two weeks, I found out he didn't get out very easily. He had to go to Moscow several times. He wrote many, many letters trying to get out. And his brother, Robert, paid $600 of his fare back, and the American Red Cross paid the rest. So then I wasn't too leery of the whole deal. But all these others, my God, you wouldn't believe—five people have told me they killed the president.
No kidding?
Really. One was in a mental institution at the time, and another claimed his dad did it, and it just goes on. There's a guy in prison in Illinois who says he did it. He was in prison then. It's just amazing. We love a mystery, don't we?
Do you have a favorite conspiracy?
I don't really, no. You know, I say honestly about these conspiracy people, some of their own husbands and wives wouldn't pick 'em up at the airport. But they come up with a conspiracy theory and suddenly they are somebody. They get on television, they get in the newspaper. I've seen it so many times. And of course you look at our society today—every week or so you see somebody that wants to be somebody, and they kill somebody, they maim somebody, they bomb somebody. And our society's like that, everybody's a wannabe. Not everybody, but many losers who can't make it otherwise, I guess.
Somebody actually came to you on Saturday, Nov. 23, with a conspiracy theory explaining the assassination?
No, that Friday! As I came home that night, he was sitting on the steps. He thought that H.L. Hunt and some of the big companies there had been involved. He showed me a bunch of crap that was just ridiculous, and all crumpled up. He'd obviously been carrying it around for a long time. And I sent him to a friend of mine at the rival paper, the Times Herald. Because I told him I can't do this, and he said, 'Well, you obviously don't know what you're doing, I need someone more experienced.' So I thought, OK, and I sent him to Bob Finley at the Times Herald.
Some friend you were.
Oh, we always played tricks on each other. That's one thing I miss about journalism today. I think people are more serious and don't get together as much. It isn't quite as much fun as it used to be, I don't think.
In the long run, was the Warren Commission a help, a hindrance, or some of both?
There were several mistakes made. One, Lyndon Johnson wanted it out, wanted to be sure that nobody thought there was a Russian threat before the [1964] election. So they hurried it out too fast. Second, he named old cronies of his to the Warren Commission, some of whom didn't want to serve, so they'd only show up half the time. They didn't want to be there. These old senators, and these old retired guys, like Allen Dulles, they'd put in their years, they'd been working 50 years for the government, they didn't want to spend another full year hearing all this. And then they didn't go into certain things. They found out things that I and certain other reporters had already broken in the dailies here. Like the fact that Marina [Oswald] said that Lee had once threatened to kill Richard Nixon. They had asked her, did he threaten any other public officials or anybody famous? She said no. So they were pretty pissed when I wrote the story, and they called her back. This happened on many cases. The big conspiracy guy at that time was Mark Lane. They gave him a free ride. They did not question him, or the ridiculous things he was telling them. They just didn't do their homework on things like that. I accept 90 percent of what's in the report, but a lot of them didn't do a very good job for a lot of reasons. They should have taken some time. They should have been given some more time.
What made you want to write this book now?
I just wanted to get it all down. I thought there were some important things that people should know. And I thought readers would enjoy the people in the story and how they acted. There's a lot of that in the book.
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Huntsman spiders are commonly encountered in all sorts of situations – gardens, houses, and even under the sun visor of your car! The reason you tend to find a huntsman rather than a Red-back spider walking around inside your car can be explained by how they catch their prey.
Generally, the ways spiders catch their prey divides them into two categories: web-builders and vagrant hunters. A web-builder spins a web, then sits in or near the web and waits for the prey to come to them. A vagrant hunter such as a hunstman does not use a web to catch its prey; instead it roams, stalks and runs down its prey. The wandering habit of hunting spiders is the reason you are more likely to find them indoors.
There are three groups of huntsman spiders in Victoria. They all have the following characteristic, which distinguishes them from other spiders: the front two pairs of legs are noticeably longer than the back or hind two pairs of legs.
The front two pairs of legs of a huntsman spider are much longer the rear two pairs.Artist: Graham Milledge / Source: Museum Victoria
This is not something you would need to measure. The difference in leg lengths is very obvious.
These brown or grey huntsmen are the ones most commonly found in houses, where they hunt at night on walls and ceilings. They also occasionally enter vehicles, causing much alarm. In the bush, Holconia species can be found sheltering during the day beneath the loose bark of eucalypts. They are large spiders and, when alarmed, are capable of moving sideways very rapidly. Food consists of insects and other invertebrates.
Huntsman spider, Holconia montanaPhotographer: Alan Henderson / Source: Museum Victoria
Their flat, oval egg sac is constructed of white papery silk. It is most commonly deposited beneath the bark of trees. The lifespan of these spiders is about two years.
These spiders are usually orange or pink, and have a distinct dark mark on their abdomen. They are active at night and occasionally come into houses, but less frequently than other huntsman spiders. Outside they can be found hunting for prey on the trunks of trees or in foliage. During the day they shelter beneath the bark of trees, where they may build a silken retreat for moulting and egg laying. Some species of Neosparassus build a silken retreat in foliage by gluing several leaves together, and others construct shallow burrows.
Badge Huntsman Spider, Neosparassus dianaPhotographer: Alan Henderson / Source: Museum Victoria
Their flattened circular egg sac is guarded by the female. During this period she can be quite aggressive and will rear up in a defensive display if provoked. Young Neosparassus are often green in colour.
This huntsman is the largest of the huntsman spiders, measuring 35 mm or more in body length. It is a very flat spider with a dark orange head and black fangs. It is not often found indoors, but it is common under pieces of flat metal sheets, fibro-cement or roof tiles left lying around in the backyard. In the bush, it can be found if you peel back loose bark on eucalypt trees. Sometimes hundreds of individuals of this species may be found living together under the loose bark of trees and within logs. They feed on insects and other invertebrates.
The female lays the eggs in a flattened circular egg sac constructed of papery white silk. Once the young hatch, they do not disperse as with other species of huntsmen, but remain and grow within the colony. Communal huntsmen usually live for one or two seasons.
Social Huntsman Spider, Delena canceridesPhotographer: Alan Henderson / Source: Museum Victoria
Huntsman spiders are timid spiders and bites are infrequent. Symptoms are usually minor, including local pain and swelling. Some Neosparassus species can give a painful bite.
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Hi Vicky and thanks for your question. Your bright orange huntsmans sound to me like what are commonly called badge huntsmans. These spiders are mentioned in the information sheet that you have commented on however I have also seen badge huntsmans much more orange in colour than the image we have on our information sheet.
Hi George,
There are a number of different species of huntsman spiders and some of them do have a white patterning on their legs. If you still have the image the Museum offers a free identification service. You are welcome to e-mail the picture to firstname.lastname@example.com and we can confirm if it is a huntsman and try and put a species name to it.
Hi thanks for your enquiry. Normally we do need an image or the specimen itself to do an identification. But we have passed this on to our entomology team for their opinion. We'll get back to you as soon as possible
Hi again Nicholas. As suspected our entomologists are unable to provide an identification without the specimen or an image. There are a number of species that are similar so it's hard without an image. Meanwhile, our Victorian Huntsman infosheet and Victorian Spiders website may possibly help you out.
Hi Julianne,
The 'badge' on badge huntsmans is located on the underside, (or ventral surface) of the abdomen and so can be hard to see unless the spider is sitting on glass. Please feel free to take some images of the spider and e-mail them to firstname.lastname@example.com and we will attempt to identify the spider for you.
Hi Trish, our Live Exhibits team are interested in seeing your photograph to help explain this interesting behaviour.
Hi Trish. The response from Live Exhibits is as follows: What you have witnessed is huntsman courtship (and possibly) mating. The male must firstly introduce himself as a mate (not food) through a series of bodily shudders and vibrations, which culminate in him tapping and caressing her. If successful, he will then proceed to mate by leaning underneath her abdomen and engaging his feelers (palps). The bulbs at the end of his palps are where he stores his sperm. He may mate for quite some time, swapping sides intermittently.
Prepare for the pitter patter of many little feet!
Please feel free to take some digital images of the spider and e-mail them to email@example.com and we will try and confirm for you if you have a badge huntsman or a different species.
Hi Kirsten,
I would be surprised if the same huntsman keeps climbing from the ground back to your appartment each time, but it is possible. The important thing to remember is that whether the spider is the same one or whether your appartment block has a few that the spiders are not at all interested in you or biting you. They do not make webs and sit in them waiting for food but actively hunt for their food, which on occasion brings them into our homes. It is very hard to keep spiders out, but making sure fly wire on windows is well fitted and any obvious gaps under doors and windows are blocked will help a bit. Good on you for trying your best to continue to put the spiders outside. Just make sure you are very careful doing this as the spiders don't know your good intentions and may be alarmed at being trapped.
Hi Ardie,
if the spider is still around please feel free to take an image of the spider and e-mail it to firstname.lastname@example.com and we will try and identify it for you.
Hi Sandi,
If you have access to a digital camera please feel free to try and safely take some images of the spider and e-mail them to email@example.com and we will try and identify them for you. In terms of risk to the baby, no spiders feed on people and bites usually occur when people try to kill the spiders or if they accidentally stand or lie on one. As far as I know for Tasmania the only spider considered highly dangerous is the Redback which most people can identify. You may want to contact the Tasmanian Museum as well to see if they have any information.
Our Live Exhibits staff are not aware of any particular scent that repels these spiders, Julie, although it's likely that such scents exist as they are very sensitive animals. It may be that the only option for your car is to utilise a surface spray around possible entry points? We'd hate for you to have an accident. Hope this helps.
Hi Janet, we have asked our Live Exhibits Team and they have suggested that the spiderlings will disperse fairly quickly. If you do chose to relocate them, chose somewhere with some shelter, but rest assured, they can survive in the rain!
Razza - no, these spiders do not come in groups of threes. In fact, the vast majority of huntsman spiders are solitary animals, and keep to themselves. The exception to this is the Social Huntsman. They will breed up into large groups which shelter together under the loose bark of acacia and eucalypt trees. Although they shelter together, they still tend to wander around individually.
Hi Cath, we think it would take about 3 or 4 months, depending on how much food it gets. Their development is reasonably slow over cooler months, particularly if food is scarce.
Hi John. See some of the comments above for general advice about keeping spiders away from lived-in areas. Also bear in mind that spiderlings tend to disperse quite quickly. However, if you need to remove them immediately, you might need to vacuum them up!
Hi Stacey, if you can safely collect one of the spiders, place it in the freezer overnight to humanely kill it, put it in a container such as a pill jar and post it to Discovery Centre PO Box 666 Melbourne 3001, we will happily look at it for you and let you know if it is a juvenile huntsman. No spiders feed on people or seek them out to bite but if you step on a spider or if one is trapped in your clothing and being squashed it may bite.
Hi Greg, the Museum does have a free identification service. If you can safely obtain some images of the spiders please feel free to e-mail them to email@example.com and we will try and have them identified for you.
Hi Rebecca, huntsman spiders usually come inside looking for food. They do not build a web and wait for their prey to come to them, but rather hunt for it as their name suggests. Try not to be too alarmed at their presence, they have no interest in people. It is likely that they are also in other peoples' units, but you could try to minimise their numbers in your unit by making sure no vegetation is touching your windows or walls and try to find and block any gaps around windows and doors.
Hi Nerissa, I'm glad you and the kids are getting along well with your lodger. To be able to sex your spider you really need to be able to get quite close to the spider. Please see our information click here on how to determine if the spider is a boy or girl. Your spider may be quite mobile during the night searching for food and is probably helping keep your household insects under control while you sleep. If the spider is female and she has an egg sac the majority of these spiders upon hatching would leave the house as there is likely to be more food outside than inside.
Hi Kate, from your description the spiders are most likely what are commonly called huntsmans. This term applies to a large number of species ranging in colour from orange to grey. These spiders are not considered highly dangerous and are unlikely to bite unless you step on one or handle one and they feel threatened.
Hi Laura, huntsmans are common in most houses throughout Spring and become more common in Summer, when young ones start to appear. Huntsmans don't build a nest – instead a female will produce an egg sac, generally wait until the eggs have hatched, then abandon the young spiders to their own devices. You can rest assured that 99% of these young spiders will die of natural causes before reaching adulthood. So the appearance of young spiders is a natural occurrence at this time of year and may or may not have anything to do with the adult spider you removed.
If you don't mind living with huntsmans, the best thing to do is let the majority of them disperse and enjoy the company of the few that remain. Alternatively, you can catch them as you find them to be taken outside (like the original spider), but you don't need to worry about being overrun with huntsmans if you leave them in place.
Hi Terri, the young huntsmans will begin leaving the female over the next few weeks, it is quite common for young spiders to stay close to the egg sac for the first little while. They have energy reserves in their bodies already so they don't start getting hungry for a while. Once those energy reserves are used up they will disperse away from one another and catch small invertebrates like flies to feed on.
Hi Sacha, Lots of questions about your spider. Let's see how many we can answer! It is quite common for Huntsman to return to the same resting place during the day, especially if it is a protected private spot like a disused letter box. Spiders have fine hairs all over their body that can detect the slightest movement around them. They are very good at keeping out of each other's way and if they do 'stumble' across one another it is normally a big run to escape from each other – unless it is for mating purposes in which case they will caress each other to make their intentions known.
Once huntsmen emerge from their egg sac they will disperse away from one another (unless they are social huntmen). If they find a position that is suitable – plenty of food and shelter it is quite likely that they will choose to stay there until their food supply runs out. If huntsman spiders roam, what distance do they typically travel. Do they stay in a general area or move continually? This is a question that I can't answer. I'm sure some spiders roam widely – some even hitch rides in cars!
It is quite common for people to mention a spider that has been hanging around in a certain place of an extended period of time. When the spider moults it is very soft and a cream colour. The process to moult does not take all that long as spiders are very vulnerable while they are hanging and removing their old exoskeleton. For the next day or two the spider sits quietly and allows its new exoskeleton to harden. When they are young, spiders moult quite often. If there is lots of food around then the spider eats rapidly and grows out of its old exoskeleton. As they get older the rate of moulting decreases.
Hi Rebecca - huntsmans live under bark and have flattened bodies, they are able to squeeze throughcracks and get into your house. They do this nocturnally. There are a number of traditional remedies to keep them out, including lemon oil – I've never known them to work but there's no harm trying.
Huntsman populations vary from place to place and year to year. In bushy suburbs they will be more common and during warm wet summers their populations will also increase. This summer is a particularly good one, as the rain has brought out flushes of new growth on plants, which has boosted the insect numbers, which in turn has meant a massive increase in spiders, including huntsmans.
Huntsmans have adapted well to living inside houses. Without sealing all external cracks, removing foliage from around eaves and sealing all doors and windows, I'm afraid there's not much else you can do but to live with them. They will treat you when stationary as part of the furniture, so there is a chance they will crawl on you. Huntsmans also have the bad habit of dropping on people's heads who walk underneath them, which I suspect is part of their evolutionary adaptation to spreading the species around (they are just hitchhiking in this case).
The good news is that huntsmans generally are very reluctant to bite (I've inadvertently walked around all day with one inside my boot and was not bitten, for example) and the bite is no worse than a bee sting.
One reason huntsmans are so at home in our homes is their ability to squeeze through the smallest gaps with their flat legs and bodies, and this also enables them to hide away in places where airborne insecticides can't reach them. The other option is a more residual, more penetrating insecticide but these are considered more harmful to the human inhabitants than the spiders are. And when the insecticides wear off, the huntsmans will just reinvade. The other type, the 'electric repellent' you mentioned, has no effect on spiders at all.
Some people use natural remedies such as lemon oil but these generally don't do a sufficient job for most people's satisfaction, if they work at all. The best way is to block the spiders' entry points (around doors and windows, and particularly from foliage touching the house's eaves), learn to love them even more, and things might return to normal next year.
Hi Hal, hunstmans, like all spiders, do indeed produce threads which they lay down at regular intervals as a safety line in case they lose their footing. When this happens, the spider will dangle from the thread and climb back up to safety. Similar to the way rock climbers attach ropes to the cliff face, so that if they fall it is not too far.
Additionally, huntsmans moult out of their old skins by hanging from a thread, and these empty skins are often seen dangling from these threads for months afterwards, usually under the roof of a shed or empty cupboard. Because huntsmans don't build a web to catch prey, their silk is not so obvious, but for all the other reasons spiders use silk (mating, producing an egg sac, safety line etc), huntsmans use it too.
Hi Karra, huntsmen dropping legs is not generally a sign of starvation, more commonly a sign of old age or aggression from other animals in the house. Here at the Museum we keep lots of huntsmen in captivity and one of the first things for them to do before dying of old age is to lose all the fine delicate hairs on their backs and then drop a leg or two.
Hi Jordan, it is possible that the huntsman you keep on finding is the same specimen. There is an even greater likelihood if the only shelter in the paddock is the shed. It will head towards somewhere it can hide away – it certainly does not want to be caught out exposed to predators in the open space. To get rid of it from the shed the best thing you can do is find it a place that provides the same type of shelter that the shed does – under the bark of a tree is often a good place to leave him.
Hi Victoria, I have spoken with the Entomologist and he has advised that there are a few things you can do to deter spiders from coming in, but unfortunately, you cannot spider proof your home! Go outside and make sure there is no foliage coming into contact with the house, and block up any visible holes around windows and doors. You should also remember that they are not interested in you, they are coming inside looking for food and shelter.
Hi Audrey! The number of eggs produced by Huntsmans depends on which Huntsman species you have, but the more common species will produce 150-200 eggs. The good news for you, but not for the Huntsmans, is that they have a 99% mortality rate before reaching adulthood. So out of the 200 (at most) that emerge from the egg sac, only about 2 will survive and reproduce. These 2 replace their parents, which keeps the population relatively stable over time.
There are many nooks and crannies around the average house into which huntsman spiderlings can disappear. With holes in the wood panelling there are even more escape routes and there's probably not much benefit in trying to track them all down. The best thing is to let them be and let nature remove the great majority of spiderlings.
Hi John, Huntsman spiders tend to mate in the warmer months of the year when they themselves are more active. There is very little evidence to know if spiders have mated. Generally they will join together for a few minutes to up to an hour while the male transfers a sperm package into the female. Once that is completed you often only know that it was successful by the female putting on condition and her abdomen enlarging. You often find females sitting with egg sacs this time of the year – or earlier.
Hi Natasha, your female spider has chosen to lay her egg sac within your bedroom. She must think that it is fairly good conditions to incubate those eggs. As long as you stop any chemicals such as pesticides from being sprayed near her she should quite happily sit and do her thing. If you do feel you need to relocate her to a place away from the house. You need to carefully disconnect the silk threads connecting her egg sac to the wall and transfer her and her eggs to a dry secluded spot. Good luck.
Hello Astrid! Our entomologist says that this is most likely to be a Pseudoscorpion, which are often found under bark or in leaf litter. They eat even smaller invertebrates (see Melbourne's Wildlife for more information). They're not normally found inside, but might have been brought in on another larger invertebrate, as they hitch rides, or perhaps on some plant material.
Hi Lucy,
Female huntsmans mature at about eight months of age and then mate with a male, generally a couple of weeks after maturing. She will then produce a flat, oval egg sac containing up to 200 eggs, and stand guard continually over it for about three weeks. When the eggs hatch, depending on the species of huntsman, she will often continue to guard them until they disperse.
Females produce egg sacs during summer and, although the records are not readily available, there appears to be a maximum of two egg sacs per summer. The timing of the egg sacs is determined by when she mates (depending on availability of suitable males), how long the eggs take to develop, and whether she gets the opportunity to produce a second egg sac (both of which depend on environmental conditions).
As females can live for two years, they have the potential to produce another two eggs in the second year.
So to summarise, our experience suggests that a female huntsman can produce up to four egg sacs, mainly during the summer months, but the timing is dependent on a number of environmental factors.
Hi Anthony, you can send images to the Discovery Centre, email@example.com
Hi Courtney, Museum Victoria offers a free identification service, but in order for the entomologist to make an accurate identification, a clear image is required You can send images to the Discovery Centre via the Ask the Experts page.
Hi Joe, All Australian spiders are venomous - that is, all Australian spiders produce venom to assist them to kill and digest their prey. Only a small proportion of spiders have venom that is strong enough to make a human sick. No spiders prey on humans; their first response is to run away from you. People are only bitten when a spider feels threatened. If you wear gloves while gardening and moving items outside, it's highly unlikely that you will be bitten.
Museum Victoria has a free identification service. We would be very happy to identify your spiders for you.
Hi Kim,
The answer to your question depends on the species of huntsman. Some species lay their eggs into a silken egg sac that is either attached to a rock or tree root inside a brood chamber. Some species carry or attach the egg sac beneath their body when moving about. When the spiderlings emerge from the egg sac, they may swarm over the female huntsman's body, but she does not carry them around on or in its body.
Hi Olena,
Museum Victoria does not provide eradication advice. Although keeping an area free of spiders is difficult; there are many precautions that can be taken to avoid bites. Avoid walking outside with bare feet, especially at night. When gardening, wear shoes, long trousers and thick gloves to guard against any spiders.
This link from the Australian Museum will provide you with some tips to minimise spider numbers in the home and garden.
Charlie - it isn't possible for an identification to be made from you description - we would need to see the specimen itself, or at least a clear photograph of it. You can find out more about our identification services here, or you might want to try to identify what you saw using our Victorian Spiders website here.
Hope this helps
Hi Terise,
Huntsman spiders can indeed produce silk thread, in order to move around, however they do not create an actual web. So it is quite plausible that they are creating the silk threads in your car. If what is on your steering wheel and windscreen is in a distinct web formation, a different spider may be creating these.
Hi Andy, Before we can advise you about the eggs on your clothes line, we would need to identify them. Museum Victoria has a free Identification Service. You can either send us some photos of the eggs via our Ask the Experts form, or bring them into the Melbourne Museum Discovery Centre.
Hi Michael,Museum Victoria's Live Exhibits team provided us with the following information that may assist you:
Like many insects and spiders, huntsmans can store enough sperm from a single mating to last them the rest of their lives. Most insects and spiders that do this tend to mate with multiple partners so they have a mixture of genes in the stored sperm, but queen termites, for example, may mate once and have enough sperm to produce tens of millions of offspring over the next 20 years.
Your female ate tonnes of crickets in between because she was building up sufficient protein to produce further egg sacs, and will continue to do this until she dies.
Hi Lucy,
Thanks for your comment. We have received your email with a photograph of the huntsman you wish to identify, which we will forward to Museum Victoria's entomologists for assistance.
Hello Natasha,
Yes the Huntsman spider will eat other insects including invertebrates and Daddy long-leg spiders (Pholcus phalangioides). I guess it just depends on how hungry he is! Further information on Daddy long legs can be found here
Hi, Hello (25th of February)!We forwarded your enquiry to Museum Victoria's Live Exhibits team, our animal keepers, who responded with the following information:
Huntsmans can move considerable distances when they feel the urge, particularly if they find themselves in an unsuitable location. Your bedroom appears to be a suitable location so when taken outside a huntsman will have no hesitation returning inside via the same route it originally used. Another possible explanation is that when you remove a huntsman, another takes its place. They are at their largest size at this time of year, and often look very similar to each other. The only way to be sure is to place a small spot of non-toxic paint on its abdomen when you capture it. If a painted huntsman reappears, you'll know it's the same one.
Hi Michele, The Huntsman has moved inside the house to seek food and the fact that it's still around suggests there is a sufficient supply of food there. If food runs short, the huntsman will move to a different location, most likely outside, and you probably won't see it again.
So it doesn't need to be fed, but if you were to feed it then crickets and moths would be the most suitable diet (and there are plenty of both around at the moment, but not for too much longer). Huntsmans respond to movement so your spider is most likely to take living specimens.
Hello Sean,
If you want to use a Museum Victoria image you will need to locate the image you want to use from our website and then submit your image request here. When submitting your request please provide a link to the image you wish to use. Please read through our image request guidelines prior to submitting your request.
It is impossible for us to tell if you have killed the spider. The important thing to remember is that they have no interest in people and do not seek us out and they have no interest in you or biting you. To deter the spiders from your car you could try making sure any obvious gaps under doors, windows etc are blocked and minimise the amount of vegetation in your car. If your fear reaches the level where it is impacting on your quality of life you may want to chat to your doctor about attending some sort of desensitisation course to manage the fear, Melbourne Zoo used to run these, you can contact them here.
Hi Selina, There are several reasons why huntsmans drop or lose their legs. They may be pulled off by predators, or self-amputated (autotomised) by the huntsman itself to allow it to escape from a predator. Perhaps your spider is having regular near misses with a predator of some kind.
Legs may also be lost during the moulting process, particularly if the environment is too dry, and the legs fail to emerge from the old skin properly. Loss of legs may also be a sign of old age or extremely poor health.
Your spider may be ok - we've seen huntsmans in the wild that have lost all their legs from one side of the body and these individuals can often move almost as fast as they would with the full complement of legs using the palp (a small appendage near the mouth) as a substitute.
Hi Allie, thanks for the question. We have contacted the Live Exhibits Team with the details of your enquiry, and they have advised that in most cases when an insect or spider is found in a package sent from overseas, it turns out the creature entered the package after it arrived in the country of destination, and so is not a cause for concern! We have sent you come further information and details via email.
Hi David,
Spiders usually lose strength and condition towards the end of their lives and may not be able to reach the heights they did earlier in life. Orbweavers will die at the edge of the web or, more commonly, hanging from a thread in the middle of the web. The behaviour you observed is typical of a spider nearing the end of its life. In both cases it sounds like your spiders had fulfilling lives and you should be pleased with your care of them.
Hi Laurence, there are a couple of thousand different types of spiders in Australia and without a photo it's difficult to determine what it would be. But here are some options.
There is a family of spiders called Jumping Spiders but these tend to be small (the largest are less than 1cm long). Some huntsmans will jump when being chased and can move with remarkable speed, but they are usually flat-bodied and unmistakenly huntsman-like. A subgroup of huntsmans called Badge Spiders are not particularly flat but are usually coloured yellow or orange.
Wolf Spider are a ground-dwelling family that also move with speed but they are not known to jump. Wolf spiders are round-bodied and do superficially resemble small mice.
There is also a spider species called the Mouse Spider (Missulena bradleyi), which is very mouse-like but is large and black and also does not jump. Trapdoor spiders sometimes enter houses and fit the physical description but again do not jump.
You can search the Museum's website for the common names of the spiders listed above and see if any match the physical description, but your description of the spider's behaviour does not match any species we're aware of.
Hi Tanya, check out the answers above, particularly the comment from the Discovery Centre dated March 13th 2011.
Hi Sarah, it is possible to have more than one species of huntsman in your home. You have been unlucky in terms of bites, we get large numbers of enquiries regarding these spiders and very few bites are reported to us. Spiders do not seek us out to bite so unless you grab one or stand on one they generally move out of the way. They can be hard to keep out of the house as they can flatten themselves and get through some quite small cracks and crevices.
Try to make sure that there are no obvious cracks around your windows and doors; also that flywire on windows isn't loose or doesn't have any holes in it. Having said that if the spiders do want to come inside looking for insects to eat they can usually find a way, the best you can hope for is to minimise their numbers. The Australian Museum has some information on how to minimise spider numbers in the home and garden.
Six to eight badge huntsmans per night does sound like quite a lot, if you can safely get some good quality images feel free to send them to firstname.lastname@example.com we can have a look and just confirm that is what you are getting.
There is no record of male huntsmans physically fighting over females. Many male spiders will have showdowns with other males that don't involve physical combat, rather it's a competition over size or strength or the best display. However, huntsmans have a wide range of prey that includes any moving animal within a certain size range, and when other huntsmans fit that criteria they become potential prey themselves. So the spiders with missing limbs may have had close calls with larger huntsmans, both males and females.
The dried-up spiderlings are in fact, as you suggested, empty skins. Spiderlings moult as soon as they leave the egg sac and generally disperse by ballooning on a thread of silk. They naturally have a survival rate of less than one percent, so don't expect too many to be present for too long. If there are enough insects to enable the larger huntsmans to live long term inside your house, there will also be plenty of tiny insects to feed the spiderlings.
Hi Nerissa,
Hunstman venom can only be injected through a bite from the fangs, not ingested through the stomach. Even then, the bite is generally no worse than a bee sting. Eating a huntsman is no different in this case than eating any other small creature, such as an insect.
Hi Amy, huntsmans don't appear to produce trophic eggs like other spider groups do (infertile eggs that the spiderlings feed on within the egg sac), and in many species the spiderlings can't emerge from the egg sac unless it's opened by the mother's fangs. If kept in a group, huntsman spiderlings very quickly become cannibalistic and so can survive for a considerable time on this diet, albeit with a dwindling population.
Given the propensity of spiders in general to go long periods without food, I'd hazard a guess at a minimum of 1-2 weeks as long as humidity is sufficient. The other tip is to park your car in the full sun with the windows wound up when we get some hot days. As the temperature inside increases rapdily this can encourage any spiderlings still present to move out.
Immediately after moulting, the exoskeleton of the spider is very soft and pale, and it darkens as it hardens which may explain the change in colour. Also, juvenile spiders sometimes have a different pattern or colour scheme to the adults, so this slowly changes with each moult.
Huntsmans will eat White-tailed Spiders but both species are relatively harmless. The bite of a huntsman is generally no worse than a bee sting, and that of a White-tailed Spider not much worse than that.
Huntsmans are common in all parts of a house, including the bedroom and even the bed. Like it or not, spiders will walk across all surfaces in the house searching for prey, and this may on very rare occasions include a sleeping human. So it's no surprise that they end up in the bed occasionally, and there's nothing we can do about this.
Spiders don't have an internal skeleton so their legs are operated by hydrostatic pressure - when the spider dies it cannot maintain that pressure and the legs curl up. This happens when a spider dies of any cause, and in your case the spider may have died for any number of reasons, including old age.
Huntsmans are excellent jumpers, both up, down and sideways. We've seen them actively drop vertically at least 2m, and jump sideways from walls at least 50cm. Whenever they leap, they leave behind a silken safety line which they anchor onto the original surface.
Huntsmans don't have particularly good eyesight but they are sensitive to shapes and movement, so a passing moth would be irresistible to a waiting spider.
There is no evidence that huntsmans are attracted to CO2, and no reason for them to be attracted. Huntsmans are one of the few spiders that do well inside the dry environment of a house, and they like to hide in small dark spaces, which include bedclothes and other things found around the bedroom, so this is the more probable reason that huntsmans quite often occur in and around the bed. Mosquitoes would be a poor substitute for all the moths, cockroaches, crickets and other items of prey that inhabit the average home.
Harry is probably the most common name for huntmans because of its iterative nature (repetition of the first letter).
Hi Zoe - we checked with our Live Exhibits team, and their reply is as follows:
Spiders generally have poor eyesight, but that of huntsmans is better than most as they rely on their vision to capture prey and avoid predators (most spiders rely on their webs to catch prey). Their eyesight and mental capacity is nowhere near the ability to recognise individual humans, but there may be something about the room mate that triggers a response in the spider. Some huntsmans seem to unexpectedly leap onto passing humans, possibly as an adaptation to travel from one place to another as 'hitch-hikers'. This may have worked well throughout their evolutionary history when a large spider leaping onto a passing mammal went unnoticed by the host, but most humans don't react well to the event. Huntsmans would only see passing a passing human as a dark amorphous mass, but other than this possibility we are unsure how to explain the phenomenon you describe.
Hi Tina,
Some spiders are able to hiss loudly using 'stridulatory organs'. These are usually associated with the legs and fangs and are scraped against each other to make a loud hissing noise. Australian Tarantulas are also called Barking Spiders or Whistling Spiders due to their sound-making abilities. Other spiders make percussive sounds by tapping their legs or pedipalps against the substrate (often a leaf), and there is some evidence that certain huntsman species can make a low-frequency noise by vibrating their legs. However, there is no evidence that Australian huntsman species are able to make a hissing noise, especially a noise that can be heard some distance away. Although some people swear that huntsmans hiss when provoked, as yet there is no conclusive evidence that they have the ability to do so.
Dear Sacha,
The event you witnessed may have been Bruce moulting. Huntsmans shed their skins to allow room for growth, and do so at night by attaching themselves to a ceiling or other horizontal surface, dropping down on a short strand of silk, and slowly emerging from the old skin. This process can take more than an hour and appear like two spiders attached to each other. When the new skin is dry, the huntsman departs leaving behind the empty skin. If this is not the case here, then it could be an example of cannibalism – huntsmans will catch and consume any prey of appropriate size, which definitely includes other huntsmans. But the most likely explanation is that Bruce was moulting.
Female huntsmans protect the egg sac until the spiderlings are ready to emerge and can become very defensive when approached, so it's not a good idea to try to take the egg sac away. In many species the spiderlings cannot emerge from the sac without the female tearing an opening for them, and if she's not there they'll die inside the sac. So it's best to leave them with her until the spiderlings are ready to disperse on their own.
Hi Leanne,
The spiderlings will eat each other if they are hungry or if they aren't able to avoid each other. You could feed them sufficient food to keep them from cannibalising, and give them plenty of hiding places, but inevitably huntsman spiderlings will eat each other if they aren't able to disperse. The only way to guarantee the right number of spiderlings is to separate them early on in individual enclosures. They will eat both fruit flies and pinhead crickets.
Hi Samantha,Huntsmans are one of the few spiders that do well inside human dwellings. They are protected from extremes of weather and from predators, and there is a surprisingly wide range of insect prey available inside the average home. This time of year huntsmans are at their largest and most common, and therefore most noticeable. There's no such thing as an infestation, just favourable circumstances that might attract them inside. As the weather starts to cool you should notice the number decreasing significantly.
Hi Tessa,
An injured huntsman may or may not recover depending on the extent of the injuries. A damaged or severed leg will generally heal as the nearest joint closes over and the bleeding edge naturally seals. A more severe injury to the abdomen (the back half of the spider) or cephalothorax (the front half of the spider) may heal in time, but is more likely to lead to the death of the spider than an injury to one of its appendages. People who keep spiders as pets have been able to successfully seal puncture wounds on the body with superglue or other similar adhesives, preventing the loss of too much haemolymph (blood). Like all spiders, huntsmans need moisture regularly but don't drink free water – a water-soaked cotton bud is usually enough for them. Spiders are adapted to unpredictable availability of prey, and so can go many weeks without food. Daddy Longlegs (Pholcus phalangioides) do prey on huntsmans, but they will only take the smallest specimens in the first couple of instars.
Hi Darren, for most huntsman species the female is required to be present when the eggs hatch, so she can let them out of the tough egg sac. She opens the egg sac with her fangs, and without her present they will generally die within the silken sac. So the mother may have opened the egg sac before being dispatched, with the young now old enough to disperse, or she may still be around as the second huntsman. Huntsmans are pre-adapted to living inside houses, so the young should have no problem feeding on the many small insects present inside the average house. If there is not enough prey available they will simply move outside.
Hi Carly,
Most Hunstman species live naturally in and around trees, particularly under bark. So if you're able to catch the spider it would be best to release it into the nearest park or area of natural bushland where there are normally plenty of available niches. There are many nooks and crannies in cars where huntsmans like to hide, as well as plenty of insect prey, which is what attracts huntsmans in the first place. Good luck and well done for thinking of the huntsman's welfare.
The incubation period for Holconia huntsmans is probably around three weeks, but it varies so much between species and depending on climatic conditions that no-one is really sure. The mother becomes extremely protective of her egg sac during this period and will bite much more readily than at other times. The spiderlings hatch from the eggs but remain inside the egg sac for some time, absorbing their own egg yolk and occasionally feeding on each other, until the mother tears open the sac to let them out. The female chose the letterbox as her incubation space (this is very common) so you can assume there's plenty of food already in there. Once the spiderlings emerge, they will stay with the mother for some time then disperse to feed on all the millions of tiny insects found around shrubs and long grass. Of the 200 or so that may emerge, on average only two will make it to adulthood and breed, so the individual success rate is not great.
Hi Molly,
Huntsmans are so named becuase they wander about hunting for their food, rather than web-spinning spiders which wait for their prey. It is likely that the huntsman will wander off looking for food elsewhere if it find none in your bathroom. Be assured that the hunstman wants nothing to do with you, and poses you no harm. If it has not left soon, you could always ask someone to help you place a jar or glass over the spider and slip cardboard underneath it. Once contained, you can release the spider outside.
Hi Bonnie,We're guessing you have a Grey Huntsman as they are the most common in Eastern Victoria. Unlike many other spiders, the larger females are not aggressive to males, and they live together in a shared territory. They will aggressively defend their eggs and their young and some species can be very territorial.
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