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If you want to see the latest in robot technology, check out these videos from the Robots Dreams YouTube channel, which recently posted a bunch of quick-hit videos from RobotWorld 2013, held recently in Seoul, South Korea.
We get to see a stage performance by two robot actors, an expressive female robot with eyebrows and lips, as well as some robot football players and of course, battle bots.
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Like the perfect chord progression, one glowing review flows seamlessly into the next. From Pitchfork to Rolling Stone, critics are raving about Native Speaker, the debut album from indie rockers Braids. And three of the four musicians who make up the newest "it" band are McGill students.
But a symphony of praise can quickly become a disorienting cacophony when you're barely 20 years old and have just released your first record, explains Braids drummer and Schulich School of Music jazz student Austin Tufts.
"I hope we don't become one of those buzz bands that people recycle in three weeks," he says. "I hope the press is written in such a way that people can look past the fact that we're playing 'hip' music, and instead understand and appreciate the depth of what we're trying to do."
In addition to Tufts, Braids is comprised of architecture student Katie Lee (keyboard, vocals) and philosophy student Taylor Smith (bass, samples), as well as lead vocalist Raphaelle Standell-Preston (the only non-McGillian in the bunch).
Originally from Calgary, the quartet moved to Montreal in 2008 when 75 per cent of the ensemble was accepted to McGill. They looked at several universities, Tufts notes, but only McGill offered each of them a stellar program. It didn't hurt that the University was in a city that has produced Arcade Fire, Wolf Parade, Malajube and so many other influential bands.
"After we finished high school, we made the decision that this band was really something we wanted to do, so McGill and Montreal created the perfect opportunity. They gave us the ability to study what we wanted in a fantastic city where we can also pursue the band further."
The move accelerated the group's maturation process. Leaving behind their families and hometown, fending for themselves, and studying at McGill has translated into a new sound that's distinct from the band's previous incarnation, called Neighbourhood Council, which also garnered some media attention back in the day.
In terms of his drumming, Tufts says his work with McGill instructor and jazz drummer Chris McCann and other students in the Schulich School of Music has helped him achieve a new level of proficiency as a songwriter and performer.
"Moving away for university really lets you grow up, and McGill is such a great place to do that because you're surrounded by so many people who are constantly using their brains and inspiring you in different ways," he explains.
While the critics seem unanimous in their conclusion that everyone who is anyone will have Native Speaker in steady rotation on their iPod this spring, that's about all they agree on. Contradictions abound in the descriptions of the band's lengthy compositions and multilayered sound. Writers tie themselves into knots detailing how Braids is artsy but poppy, dreamy but gritty, roots-oriented but progressive. The confusion probably just means that they have a unique sound.
Even Tufts hesitates to name any specific groups or musicians who have influenced their music. Instead he returns time and again to the strong personal relationships between the members as their source of inspiration – which feels appropriate since Native Speaker seems destined to be the soundtrack for countless late-night philosophical discussions.
It's those friendships that keep Braids grounded. Despite all the accolades, Tufts and company remain a tight-knit group of college kids faced with a future full of unknowns: Will they return to McGill next fall or will they stay away longer and have to reapply? What will the road hold for them as they embark on a two-month North American tour? Will they still be critical darlings in the morning? Does it even matter?
"The thing that resounds most strongly through all of it is that I'm making music with my three best friends," Tufts says. "It seems so true and honest. We're just four people hashing it out and expressing our feelings and trying to have some fun while we're doing it. That gives us the ability to let go and not be afraid. I feel like nothing can stop us."
To listen to some tracks from Native Speaker, visit Braids on MySpace.


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Hemsworth is pictured showing a flustered face, while The Rock is seen sporting what seems to be a police medal in the first two stills for the Dito Montiel-directed crime drama.
Lionsgate Films has unleashed the first two stills of "Empire State" which give a first look at Liam Hemsworth and Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson. Being released via Deadline, the two official images offer close-up shots of the two actors.
Sporting a lighter hair, a flustered-looking Hemsworth is pictured donning a patterned white shirt. Johnsown, meanwhile, is featured rocking what looks like a police medal. He stands in a room which wall is pinned with maps and papers.
"Empire State" is based on true events that happened back in 1982. The story follows two childhood friends from Astoria, New York, who plan to rob an armored car depository. Hemsworth stars as one of the two buddies, while Johnson plays an NYPD detective who is tasked to bust the felon pair.
Also supporting the movie is Emma Roberts, who plays the waitress girlfriend of Hemsworth's character. Serving as the helmer is "The Son of No One" director Dito Montiel with Adam Mazer penning the screenplay. Lionsgate hasn't fixed a U.S. release date for the movie.


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Talk:Great Pirate-Ninja conflict
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This article contains far too much pro-ninja bias! As a Pirate-American retard, I feel that the global media has concentrated far too much on the ninja culture. I ask that this article be re-written with either less bias, or with pro-Pirate bias.
Also, ninja should always be lower-case. The are no capital "N" ninjas. Because they suck.
Aren't Nazis the third way?
I saw this bias too when I came in to edit the article; I meant to get rid of it but it looks like it didn't work, while I'm not a "Pirate-American" I favor pirates over ninjas, so the pro-pirate bias is fine with me. And now whats this about Nazis? I believe it was decided that the third leg of the trinity of pirates and ninjas is lumberjacks. --MrJimmy Journal talk 16:41, 24 February 2006 (UTC)
nah ninjas are better next to them pirates are fail.
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How can pirates and ninjas be polar opposites if they both use stealth tactics? Pirates rarely use stealth. They have no need. They are such BAMFers, there is no need to hide in the shadows and wear masks. How gay is that? They just take what they want. Its more about brute force than "stealth". Who needs stealth when you really dont give a #^@&?


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text: That's odd. I've never seen a EC 1000 in vintage black with a Floyd Rose bridge. Which doesn't mean that it never exsisted. I would contact that shop and ask from which year that modell is supposed to be and/or where this was manufactured. In parallel, contact ESP and ask them whether they had this modell and where is was usually produced (I would assume in Indonesia but not sure, though).


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Sri Lanka Tourism arrivals domain has been changed by the emerging new markets occupying the place of long held traditional dominant markets according to the arrival statistics issued for January 2014. This can be seen as an effective result of the strategic promotional campaigns executed in year 2013, giving much focus on the identified emerging markets than totally relying on the traditional European markets for growth.
The growth factors of the emerging markets compared with 2013 January vs. 2014 January, recorded extremely high levels of improvement. According to the latest arrival figures, the highly focused emerging markets such as China has gained 3rd place, Russia move up to 4th place while India remaining at 01st followed by Ukraine, Australia as graphically illustrated .
Arrivals from East Asia increased to 95.6% with arrivals from China recording a significant 224% growth. South Asia recorded 14.6% growth with India contributing the highest number of arrivals 17,886 up from 16,938 with 5.6% rise. The arrivals from traditional Western European market though relatively low to emerging markets recorded 17.9% growth while UK recording 13.6% increase. However Eastern Europe arrivals have increased by 63.6% as a result of effective, targeted, well designed promotional campaigns executed in those countries. Russia leads the arrivals board from East Europe recording 91.6% growth . Other regions also scored high levels of growth namely Australasia scoring 15.1% ,USA recording 31.5% and North America with 22.4% growth levels.
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• The BillBoard campaign is the first ever promotion of its kind ever to be executed in Chinese market at this scale. The LED backlit hoarding screens will be displayed in over 21 strategic locations in Beijing , These bill locations showcasing major tourism attractions in Sri Lanka including history and culture, beaches, wildlife, festivals, ayurveda and spa, gem & jewellery that are of interest to the Chinese travelers. Meanwhile Prominent places in 18 subway railway stations in Beijing have been identified to promote high spots of tourism attractions in Sri Lanka through this campaign.
• A major Bus branding Campaign has also been launched parallel to the advertising promotions for a 06 months period which is active in china to this date. The Bus Advertising Campaign which was conducted with the branding of 300 buses among the Chinese public living and visiting cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, Chendu and Guangzhou.
• Sri Lanka Tourism also launched a major advertising campaign in Shanghai city covering outdoor hoardings, Radio , print media, websites which is on going in the Shanghai city currently, multiplying the effect generated by Beijing campaign.
• Some of the policy decisions made with the support of Chinese government such as removing exist permit, agreement to promote 100,000 tourists to Sri Lanka etc. have contributed to increase the travelers from China. Further the two governments signed agreements to promote Sri Lanka through major Chinese Travel Media , as a result some of the leading Chinese TV channels such as China Travel Channel , Outlook Traveller China, CCTV 6 and Print media visited Sri Lanka totaling up to 56 media personalities during 2013. Sri Lanka Tourism also brought down many Chinese Travel Agents and tour operators from various cities to create awareness on the destination aimed at attracting prospective travelers.
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From: "L. R. Mills" <>
Subject: Re: [LIN] BATTLE OF ancaster heath
Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2003 17:33:10 -0700
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Thanks, Lynda,
I'm going to guess that Ancaster Heath is not the battle where
Grantham was seized - that appears to have been in March, 1643.
The website for St. Sebastian's church in Great Gonerby refers to
"Marston Moor", but I think that name is in error. I do know that
there is land described as a moor between Gt. Gonerby and Marston.
The Great North Road website gets confused because it talks about
the battle as Gonerby Moor near the beginning, but if you page down a
bit, it starts refering to Marston Moor and 1644, so they've got the
wrong place and year. Several of the Directories I have on CD refer
in their Grantham section about the taking of the town by Cromwell,
but don't mention a battlefield. Here's what White's 1842 Directory
tells us under "Grantham" in Lovedon Wapentake:
"On the 22nd of March, 1643, this place was taken, for King Charles
I, by the forces under Colonel Charles Cavendish, who made 360
prisoners, with all the captains and officers, together with three
loads of arms and ammunition, and afterwards demolished the works;
but it was, shortly afterwards, re-taken by the Parliamentarians,
under the command of Cromwell..."
There may not have been a battlefield. Cromwell's troops may
have attacked from the Moor and seized the town. I could speculate
several other possibilities. But I was hoping that some local
historian would be able to put Cromwell on his horse, exactly 1.2
miles NNE of the present site of St. Sebastian's, etc... I am SUCH
an optomist. Sigh.
But it was brought to my attention that Marston Moor in 1644 it
weren't. That was a tad north.
On 7 Sep 2003 at 22:49, lynda hall wrote:
> A battle was fought at Ancaster Heath. the Earl of Lincoln and Lord
> Willoughby of Parham. sent 800 horse and 200 dragoons commanded by
> Young Hotham. after the defeat Cormwell move into area.
> This seems to have happened after march 1643 and before may 1643 when
> cromwell was planing to attack newark. an attack took place at belton
> park the dead where buried . and record in Belton PR MAY 1643. 3
> Soldiers slain.
> hope these name may help to fix a date LYNDA.
> same book as before.
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MythBusters/Buried in Concrete, Daddy-Longlegs, Jet Taxi
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Buried in Concrete, Daddy-Longlegs, Jet Taxi is the thirteenth episode of the first season of MythBusters, and the sixteenth episode overall.
Jamie and Adam make a brave attempt to solve a legendary mafia mystery by searching for the decomposed body of Jimmy Hoffa, allegedly buried in the concrete under Giants Stadium. Will they meet the same fate as Geraldo Rivera at the tomb of Al Capone? The mythbusters then fire up a jet engine and find out if the power and force of a 737 could launch a taxicab 75 feet in the air. Finally, will Adam's arachnophobia prevent him from finding out if the daddy—longlegs is the most venomous spider? Brave indeed.
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Buried in Concrete
The Myth
Jimmy Hoffa is buried in Giant Stadium.
The Test
The Mythbusters want to see if it is possible to detect things that are buried, so they bury two pigs outside the shop and leave them there for a month. They then use a ground-penetrating device to test to see if it possible to see through concrete. The Mythbusters are not sure if it will work properly, so they open the buried pigs to see what is going on down there. They determine that a decomposing body will form. They go to Giants Stadium to test to see if Jimmy Hoffa is buried there. They try some of the most common areas: the 10-yard line, section 107, the endzones, and the 50-yard line.
The Result
Busted. The Mythbusters have shown that Jimmy Hoffa is not burried anywhere in Giant Stadium.
Jet Taxi
The Myth
Jet wash from an airliner can overturn a taxi if the vehicle passes behind the jet as it goes to full throttle.
The Test
Firstly, the Mythbusters need to modify a taxi so that they can drive it remotely into the wake of a 737. However, due to concerns with the insurance company they are not able to use a 737 so instead they will use two portable jet engines. They will drive the taxi about 20 feet away from the engines which can generate about 7000 PSI. The first test fails to produce any results other then a few minor parts falling off. They drive again by moving the enginges close and the car stationary. This time the two fenders and the taxi sign are blown off the car. However this causes the fuel lines to break and starts leaking gas. They try again by making it easier for it to flip. All they are able to do is move the car a little.
The Result
Confirmed. Though the Mythbusters were not able to reproduce the test, it did happen in Rio de Janeiro
The Myth
The Daddy-Longlegs is the most deadly spider, however their fangs are too small to harm humans.
The Test
The Mythbusters head to Jamie's house to collect some Daddy-Longlegs. Firstly, they have to extract some venom from the spider. They then test to see which is more powerful, Daddy-Longlegs or Black Widow venom and they learn that the Black Widow spider is much more powerful. Under a microscope, they learn that the fangs of a Daddy-Longlengs are long enough to bite through human skin. To test to see if Daddy-Longlegs will bite humans, Adam puts his arm into a container full of Daddy-Longlegs and is bitten once; he only feels a small burning pain for a few seconds.
The Result
Busted. Based on their tests, Daddy-Longlegs are not the most deadly spider in the world. However, it is possible for Daddy-Longlegs to bite humans.


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Nature bites back
Wild places continue to harbour secrets.
A LOST world has been discovered in the south-east African nation of Mozambique after explorers spotted an unexpected patch of green on Google Earth and mounted an expedition.
While most people follow a session on Google Earth with hours of head scratching, trying to work out whose car was parked in their driveway on the day the pictures were taken, the conservationists from London's Kew Garden dusted off their pith helmets and prepared for an adventure.
Mount Mabu didn't even appear on maps. The intrepid team, eventually comprising 28 scientists from Britain, Mozambique, Malawi, Switzerland and Tanzania, found it to be a 70-square-kilometre forest full of amazing biodiversity, including rare birds, small antelopes, monkeys and pygmy chameleons, The Daily Mail reported. No doubt there were chameleon pygmies, too, but they blended in too well to be seen.
Three types of butterfly and an adder were among the new species discovered. At one point the team emerged from the canopy on the peak of Mount Mabu, at an altitude of 1700 metres, where hundreds upon hundreds of male butterflies had gathered in the sunlight to attract mates by flying as high as possible.
There were swifts flying in and peregrines in the air above: it was phenomenal, expedition leader Jonathan Timberlake told The Observer.
The phenomenon may not last long: Mozambiqueans are returning to the area, long cut off by civil war. Pressure to log the forest for wood or clear it for people to grow food will be great, the scientists fear.
No one would begrudge the people their food. More than 350,000 Mozambiqueans are in desperate need of food aid because of world food prices and the onset of the cyclone and flood season, the World Food Program said on Boxing Day, only for its message to be drowned out by the sound of tills kerchinging at the post-Christmas sales. Surely there are better places to grow it.
In South-East Asia, human development threatens another bastion of biodiversity on the Mekong River, says the World Wildlife Fund (WWF). In the past decade more than 1000 new species of plants and animals have been discovered in the Greater Mekong region, which spans six countries.
They include the world's largest huntsman spider, with a leg span of 30 centimetres, and the shocking-pink dragon millipede, which defends itself with cyanide.
Researchers found the Laotian rock rat - thought to have been extinct for 11 million years - for sale as meat in a food market. Either it was well past its use-by date or reports of its demise had been exaggerated.
About 150 large hydroelectric dams are planned along the river to provide electricity for the millions who live without it. The WWF is pushing for governments to take up solar, wind and gas options instead.
Wild places continue to harbour secrets. New species are found and described in their thousands each and every year. An ingenious parasite was among the most exciting new species to have been described last year, science website wired.com reports.
Myrmeconema neotropicum makes the abdomens of infected ants swell and turn bright red. Birds mistake the ants for berries, gobble them up and spread the parasite's eggs in their droppings.
Scientists say it is the world's only parasite that takes something that tastes horrible and successfully passes it off as fruit, apart from, of course, the Australian species Woolworths thefreshfood-homosapiens and Coles expressii.
Infected ants become sluggish and hold their abdomens high in the air, making them easy targets for birds that would normally avoid them, entomologists found. It's the equivalent of a red-dot special.
Other species in the wired top 10 include Leptotyphlops carlae - the world's smallest snake. Found in a patch of forest on the eastern side of Barbados, the snake is as thin as a spaghetti noodle and small enough to curl up on a 10-cent coin.
Barbadian snake catchers have been issued with tweezers and tiny little hessian sacks just in case someone calls and says they've got one under the house.
Householders worried about the snake have been warned not to leave piles of matchsticks lying around, or 10-cent pieces for that matter.
The first new elephant shrew to be discovered in 126 years, Rhynchocyon udzungwensis, turned up in Tanzania.
Also known as the grey-faced sengi, it is a giant among elephant shrews and apparently more closely related to elephants than shrews, though at 500 grams its a bit lighter on its feet.
Meanwhile, the WWF website continues to log the progress of Ana, a green turtle tagged in Indonesia at the end of November.
By Christmas Day she was just off Western Australia's Kimberley coast, one of the few near-pristine coastal areas left on Earth and the destination for migrating humpback whales as well as turtles. It's also one of the sites under consideration for a liquid natural gas processing facility and port.
Of all the wacky species out there, there's no doubt which one is the weirdest.
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People who do a lot of business travel find themselves killing time by watching a lot of airline movies. Since the flying public includes a lot of children, the movie studios courteously provide the airlines with the movies edited for sex, language, ultra violence, and the like. And here's the curious thing: I've never watched one of these movies and concluded at the end that it was cheapened by a lack of "gritty" (and I'm being kind here) material. Never in my life have I met a fellow passenger who suggested as much.
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Earth to David Brooks: Where in Conservative Talk Radio Do They Oppose Any Changes to Medicare?
When PBS and NPR "conservative" commentator David Brooks appears on both networks on Fridays, he often repeats his lines. On Friday, on both networks, he repeated his trashing of Newt Gingrich as unqualified to run a 7-Eleven. But he also insisted that conservative talk-radio hosts (which ones?) don't want to touch Medicare and hate the Paul Ryan budget. He named no names. Here's how it came out on the PBS NewsHour:
I happen to think one of the important things Ryan did was, he said, if we're going to be serious, we have to be serious about entitlements. We can't just be for expanding Medicare coverage forever. But there are people in the party on talk radio and also people like Gingrich who have said, we should never, never touch this.
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This is actually a real debate on the Republican Party. A lot of people are saying that politically it's insane to do what Ryan's doing. I happen to think it's semi-insane but also semi-necessary. But Gingrich didn't come out of nowhere. There's a large talk radio segment saying we should never cut Medicare, we should never cut Medicare, and he was really speaking for that. It's got to be heard in the Republican Party.
That sounds more like his NPR partner, liberal Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne, than it sounds like conservative talk radio. Brooks sounded his usual centrist tones on NPR when they discussed Sen. Tom Coburn dropping out of the "Gang of Six" senate budget negotiators: "You know, we have to raise taxes, we have to cut Medicare - or at least tax revenues - and this Gang of Six was the best way to do that. Now, it's hopeless. There's a possibility we'll have a complete meltdown with the debt ceiling this summer. "


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What Speaker Boehner is so angry about is the fact that the Obama administration won't screw over people who begin the enrollment process by March 31. According to the HHS blog, "We are ready for consumers. It's now time for you to check out your options and signup by March 31. And don't worry, for those consumers who are in line by the March 31st deadline to complete enrollment—either online or over the phone – we'll make sure you get covered. Just like Election Day, if you are in line when the polls close, you get to vote. We won't close the door on those who tried to get covered and were unable to do so through no fault of their own. So, those who were in line or had technical problems with the website can quickly come back and sign up as soon as possible."
What is really ticking Republicans off is that Obama administration is allowing people weren't able to sign up due to the website issues an extra few weeks to finish the enrollment process.
Boehner and his House Republicans thought that they had it all figured out. They were getting ready for another round of Obamacare "horror stories" based on the people who may have not been able to complete their ACA signups high consumer demand around the deadline, or the previous website issues in October of 2013.
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The Pythonidae, commonly known simply as pythons, from the Greek word python (πυθων), are a family of nonvenomous snakes found in Africa, Asia, and Australia. Among its members are some of the largest snakes in the world. Eight genera and 31 species are currently recognized.[2]
Distribution and habitat[edit]
Pythons are found in sub-Saharan Africa, Nepal, India, Sri Lanka, Burma, southern China, Southeast Asia, and from the Philippines southeast through Indonesia to New Guinea and Australia.[1]
In the United States, an introduced population of Burmese pythons, Python molurus bivittatus, has existed as an invasive species in the Everglades National Park since the late 1990s.[3]
Many species have been hunted aggressively, which has decimated some, such as the Indian python, Python molurus.
Most members of this family are ambush predators, in that they typically remain motionless in a camouflaged position, and then strike suddenly at passing prey. They will generally not attack humans unless startled or provoked, although females protecting their eggs can be aggressive. Reports of attacks on human beings were once more common in South and Southeast Asia, but are now quite rare.
Pythons use their sharp, backward-curving teeth, four rows in the upper jaw, two in the lower, to grasp prey which is then killed by constriction; after an animal has been grasped to restrain it, the python quickly wraps a number of coils around it. Death occurs primarily by asphyxiation; some research has suggested that pressures produced during constriction may cause cardiac arrest by interfering with blood flow,[4] but this hypothesis has not been confirmed.
Larger specimens usually eat animals about the size of a house cat, but larger food items are known; some large Asian species have been known to take down adult deer, and the African rock python, Python sebae, has been known to eat antelope. In 2017, there was a recorded case of a human devoured by a python in Sulawesi, Indonesia.[5] All prey is swallowed whole, and may take several days or even weeks to fully digest.
Contrary to popular belief, even the larger species, such as the reticulated python, P. reticulatus, do not crush their prey to death; in fact, prey is not even noticeably deformed before it is swallowed. The speed with which the coils are applied is impressive and the force they exert may be significant, but death is caused by suffocation, with the victim not being able to move its ribs to breathe while it is being constricted.[6][7][8]
All snakes, including pythons, are descended from a venomous ancestor.[9] Although the mandibular and maxillary glands of pythonids are primarily mucus-secreting, they also produce small quantities of toxins that are also known from venomous lizards and caenophidian snakes, including three-finger toxins (3FTx), lectin toxins, and veficolin toxins. The presence of not only these, but also other toxins in the snake Cylindrophis ruffus, as well as iguanians and monitor lizards, indicates that the production of small amounts of toxins by pythonids is a relic of once better-developed venom system that pythonids and boids have down-regulated, presumably because they developed powerful constriction as an alternative means of killing their prey, leaving them with little need for a venom.[10]
Females lay eggs (oviparous). This sets them apart from the family Boidae (boas), most of which bear live young (ovoviviparous). After they lay their eggs, females typically incubate them until they hatch. This is achieved by causing the muscles to "shiver", which raises the temperature of the body to a certain degree, and thus that of the eggs. Keeping the eggs at a constant temperature is essential for healthy embryo development.During the incubation period, females will not eat and only leave to bask to raise their body temperature.
Most species in this family are available in the exotic pet trade. However, caution must be exercised with the larger species, as they can be dangerous; rare cases of large specimens killing their owners have been documented.[11]
|Taxon author[2]
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|Wells & Wellington, 1984
|Children's Pythons
|Australia in arid and tropical regions
|Kluge, 1993
|Papuan Pythons
|Most of New Guinea, from Misool to Fergusson Island
|Peters, 1877
|Shield Pythons
|Australia except in the south of the country
|Fitzinger, 1843
|Bismarck Ringed Pythons
|The islands of the Bismarck Archipelago, including Umboi, New Britain, Gasmata (off the southern coast), Duke of York and nearby Mioko, New Ireland and nearby Tatau (off the east coast), the New Hanover Islands and Nissan Island
|Hubrecht, 1879
|White-Lipped Pythons
|Most of New Guinea (below 1200 m), including the islands of Salawati and Biak, Normanby, Mussau, as well as a few islands in the Torres Strait
|Gray, 1842
|Water Pythons
|Indonesia in the Lesser Sunda Islands, east through New Guinea and in northern and western Australia
|Gray, 1842
|Tree Pythons
|From Indonesia in the Maluku Islands, east through New Guinea, including the Bismarck Archipelago and in Australia
|Daudin, 1803
|True Pythons
|Africa in the tropics south of the Sahara (not including southern and extreme southwestern Madagascar), Bangladesh, Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, the Nicobar Islands, Burma, Indochina, southern China, Hong Kong, Hainan, the Malayan region of Indonesia and the Philippines
*) Not including the nominate subspecies.
T) Type genus.[1]
Pythons are more closely related to boas than to any other snake family. Boulenger (1890) considered this group to be a subfamily (Pythoninae) of the family Boidae (boas).[1]
- ^ a b c d e McDiarmid RW, Campbell JA, Touré T. 1999. Snake Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference, vol. 1. Herpetologists' League. 511 pp. ISBN 1-893777-00-6 (series). ISBN 1-893777-01-4 (volume).
- ^ a b c d e "Pythonidae". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 13 April 2016.
- ^ "Huge, Freed Pet Pythons Invade Florida Everglades", National Geographic News. Accessed 16 September 2007.
- ^ Hardy, David L (1994). "A re-evaluation of suffocation as the cause of death during constriction by snakes". Herpetological Review. 229: 45–47.
- ^ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/mar/29/giant-python-swallows-indonesian-farmer-in-one-go
- ^ Mehrtens JM. 1987. Living Snakes of the World in Color. New York: Sterling Publishers. 480 pp. ISBN 0-8069-6460-X.
- ^ Stidworthy J. 1974. Snakes of the World. Grosset & Dunlap Inc. 160 pp. ISBN 0-448-11856-4.
- ^ Carr A. 1963. The Reptiles. Life Nature Library. Time-Life Books, New York. 192 pp. LCCCN 63-12781.
- ^ Bryan G. Fry; Nicolas Vidal; Janette A. Norman; Freek J. Vonk; Holger Scheib; S. F. Ryan Ramjan; Sanjaya Kuruppu; Kim Fung; S. Blair Hedges; Michael K. Richardson; Wayne. C. Hodgson; Vera Ignjatovic; Robyn Summerhayes; Elazar Kochva (2006). "Early evolution of the venom system in lizards and snakes". Nature. 439 (7076): 584–588. PMID 16292255. doi:10.1038/nature04328.
- ^ Bryan G. Fry; Eivind A. B. Undheim; Syed A. Ali; Jordan Debono; Holger Scheib; Tim Ruder; Timothy N. W. Jackson; David Morgenstern; Luke Cadwallader; Darryl Whitehead; Rob Nabuurs; Louise van der Weerd; Nicolas Vidal; Kim Roelants; Iwan Hendrikx; Sandy Pineda Gonzalez; Alun Jones; Glenn F. King; Agostinho Antunes; Kartik Sunagar (2013). "Squeezers and leaf-cutters: differential diversification and degeneration of the venom system in toxicoferan reptiles". Molecular & Cellular Proteomics. 12 (7): 1881–1899. PMC 3708173 . PMID 23547263. doi:10.1074/mcp.M112.023143.
- ^ "The Keeping of Large Pythons" at Anapsid. Accessed 16 September 2007.
External links[edit]
|Wikispecies has information related to: Pythonidae
|Wikimedia Commons has media related to Pythonidae.
- Pythonidae at the Reptarium.cz Reptile Database. Accessed 3 November 2008.
- Pythons (Pythonidae) at Answers.com. Accessed 3 November 2008.


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|Fully Phosphated Anti-Corrosion Protection
|Construction Material (Access)
|1.25mm Sheet Steel
|Fitting Type
|Multiple Fitting Points
|Locking System Type
|2 x 70mm disc locks
|Manufacturer Guarantee
|1 Year Guarantee
|Model No
|Pack Size
|Pieces in Pack/Case
|Product Depth
|1000 mm
|Product Height
|200 mm
|Product Type
|Slim Slider Storage Box
|Product Width
|1201 mm
|Total Product Weight
|60 kg
2 x 70mm disc locks. External H x W x D: 200 x 1201 x 1000mm. Internal H x W x D: x x . Weight 60kg.
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Warranty Service and Repair
Your Soleus product is warranted to be free of defects in materials or workmanship, under normal use, for a period of one year from the date of purchase. Warranty coverage is valid only with proof of purchase from an authorized Soleus dealer. Certain restrictions apply and this warranty excludes cosmetic issues or damage resulting from normal wear, accidents, improper care, modification, unauthorized repairs, or other causes that are not defects in materials and workmanship.
For a full copy of the Soleus One-Year Limited Warranty click here.
If your Soleus product requires repair:
If you live in the US the Soleus authorized service center is
Parsec Enterprises
7501 North Harker Dr.
Peoria, IL 61615
To request service use the repair send-in form or visit Parsec's website: www.parsecent.com
The service center will evaluate your product and contact you with warranty coverage status or a repair estimate. No repairs will be performed without your authorization.
If you live outside the US
Check our Global Distributor List to find the authorized Soleus dealer for your country.


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Stocks Hitting 52-Week Highs
PHI (NASDAQ: PHII) shares jumped 3.16% to create a new 52-week high of $32.65. PHI's trailing-twelve-month revenue is $582.61 million.
MHI Hospitality (NASDAQ: MDH) shares gained 1.23% to touch a new 52-week high of $4.10. MHI Hospitality has a dividend yield of 3.10%.
MGE Energy (NASDAQ: MGEE) shares rose 1.53% to create a new 52-week high of $55.15. MGE Energy's trailing-twelve-month operating margin is 20.85%.
Integra LifeSciences Holdings Corporation (NASDAQ: IART) shares gained 0.51% to create a new 52-week high of $42.98. Integra LifeSciences is scheduled to host an Investor Meeting on October 24, 2012.
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When it came time to start his own company, all Gabe Critchfield needed was to get hungry. Literally.
In 2009, the native Torontonian worked "odd hours" at TD Bank in New York City, and was having a hard time finding restaurant hours and menus online. So, with help from his older brother Ben — a tech startup veteran living in Kelowna, B.C. — the duo partnered and created a website called Takeoutcity to fill what they saw as a hole in the market.
They hired teams of photographers to take exterior and interior shots of restaurants and their menus. But there was a problem. Many restaurants would change their hours and menus between seasons, meaning that, by the time the pictures were uploaded and the data processed, they were already outdated.
So, in an effort to enhance their site, Gabe moved to San Francisco to participate in the Canadian Technology Accelerator initiative — a program sponsored by Industry Canada to help the country's startups make connections and break into the Silicon Valley ecosystem. Ben stayed in Kelowna, making the trip down for important meetings.
The experience led the duo switch gears. They decided to increase the relevance of their data by crowdsourcing the project and getting users to upload their tips and pictures using smartphones. But as a "bootstrapping" startup with no outside investment, they found it hard to attract a good programmer to build an app.
The solution was born from Facebook. While on the site, the younger Critchfield found Jake Orr, an old highschool friend who was working as a programmer. The brothers brought him on as the startup's technical lead.
Critchfield then returned to Toronto in March 2012 and rebranded the company as CitySeed. Headquarters were set up in the MaRS Discovery District offices, and the fresh start enabled the company to pivot and take on its current form.
Rebuilt from scratch by Orr, the app's reach has been expanded to include laundromats, fashion boutiques, walk-in-clinics, and any other public space where, in Critchfield's words, "offline information can be brought online."
There are two sides to Cityseed: consumers looking for information, and producers providing that data. The app starts by building a foundation of details aggregated from pre-available sources, such as Twitter accounts or Yelp reviews, and builds out the information by having users upload "seeds" — photos or written descriptions.
Cityseed differs from other location-based phone apps because it seeks to provide a complete guide, and lets the community keep its information accurate by voting seeds up or down. Not only will it host online reviews, the app is designed to fill in the gaps by relying on users' feedback.
"Only a certain percentage of restaurants have the budget for an online presence," points out Critchfield. "So from the user's perspective, they're not getting all the results that are out there, they're only getting the ones that have paid the most to be there."
While the app is still in beta mode – only select family members and friends have received test invites – Cityseed is gearing up for a soft launch at this year's South by Southwest Interactive Festival in Austin, Texas. Running March 8-12, SXSW Interactive has grown to become one of the largest conferences in North America for emerging technology, with thousands of entrepreneurs, startups, industry leaders and journalists in attendance.
"I like to call it 'Spring Break for nerds'," says Critchfield, who describes the trip as a "proof of concept" mission.
"South By Southwest provides the perfect audience for a solid test run because there's a ton of people who aren't from Austin looking where to go, eat, stay," he says.
So, to tap that audience, his company put together a database of information on the city to help the visiting "nerds" enjoy their stay, and hope to garner plenty of user feedback to smooth out any rough edges before the app's formal launch. They're arriving in Austin early and attending pre-SXSW meet-ups in Toronto to get the word out.
Russ Martin, a contributing writer at Marketing Magazine , says festivals like SXSW Interactive can be a double-edged sword.
"Do conferences provide a lot of hype to companies that will crash and burn within a year or two? Sure," he says, "But SXSW is where brands debut their most forward-thinking initiatives. The best digital agencies and marketers are all there. Successful presentations at SXSW lead to trends."
Plus Orr and the Critchfield's are already looking past SXSW. They're working on updating their website to complement the app so that users can also access the same information online and have plans to work with organizations such as the Canadian Diabetes Association to provide information to users with specific dietary and health requirements.
And while Critchfield admits a new location-based review app premieres almost every day, he's confident that Cityseed stands out from the pack.
"I don't want to have an app on my phone for just restaurants, for just bars, for just hotels, etc., we want to be the one source for all this information," he says. "We've got the winning solution."