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The Burmese python (Python bivittatus) is one of the five largest species of snakes in the world (about the third-largest as measured either by length
or weight). It is native to a large variation of tropic and subtropic areas
of South and Southeast Asia.
They are often found near water and are sometimes semi-aquatic,
but can also be found in trees. Wild individuals average 3.7 m long,
but have been known to reach 5.74 m .
Burmese pythons are mainly nocturnal rainforest dwellers. When young, they are equally at home on the ground and in trees, but as they gain girth, they tend to restrict most of their movements to the ground. They are also excellent swimmers, being able to stay submerged for up to half an hour. Burmese pythons spend the majority of their time hidden in the underbrush.
Like all snakes, the Burmese python is carnivorous. Its diet consists
primarily of appropriately sized birds and mammals. The snake uses its
sharp rearward-pointing teeth to seize its prey, then wraps its body
around the prey, at the same time contracting its muscles, killing
the prey by constriction. It is often found near human habitation due
to the presence of rats, mice, and other vermin as a food source.
Burmese pythons are often sold as pets Although this species has a reputation for docility, they are very powerful animals, capable of inflicting severe bites or even killing a keeper by constriction.
My two big burmese pythons shortly before I took them to my brother to take care of...last time I saw them alive. I was in the Navy at the time and was getting deployed and he agreed to watch them while I was gone, it didn't work out very well.
A little about the two snakes, the larger one I bought from a pet store very cheap since they got it from someone who caught it 'wild' in San Diego and it had bit several store employees. It was already eight feet long at this time so it was leaving 1/4inch teeth embedded when it was pried off. I took it home and it took about a year to get it tame enough to hold safely as long as it was nowhere near it's cage. I used to leave it in the living room where it would crawl under the cushions on the back of the couch leading to a scaley surprise when one sat down. It never once tried to bite me or anyone else while out of the cage, while in it's cage however it was mean and nasty, trying to bite even through the screen on the side.
The smaller snake was only a year old when I took this photo and was already eight feet long. I found they will eat far more than once a week or so, like every day. Both of them ate five pigeons and many rats a week and got testy if I slacked off on that routine.
Images from SummerFest 2013 at Black Pines Animal Sanctuary. www.blackpine.org/
One of the world's six largest snakes. The Burmese Python is native to a region spanning from Southeast Asia to northeastern India, and into southern China, as well as some islands in the East Indies.
Pythons are constrictors, not poisonous. They kill their prey by striking first, then coiling up tight around it to suffocate it. Burmese pythons have a hinged jaw that enables them to swallow large prey whole, eating about once a week in the wild. In captivity, they typically eat rodents or rabbits, and feeding is less frequent.
My first attempt at custom minifigs. Yes, I know its been done before, but wanted to make my own. Designed in the style of the classic castle themes, I hand-drew all of the designs and am happy with the way they turned out.
This python had been been rescued from the home of a person who was a hoarder. It had scars from being burned while in the home.
Florida Python Challenge™ 2020 Python Bowl Kickoff Event 1/10/20 at Bayfront Park, Miami, Florida. The competition runs Jan. 10-19 and supports the delicate Greater Everglades Ecosystem.
The event includes:
•Sponsor Bass Pro Shops on site with one of two grand prize 570 Tracker Off Road ATVs.
•State experts on nonnative fish and wildlife available for media interviews.
•Live Burmese pythons and a live catching demonstration
•Pre-registered members of the public take part in a training to gain first-hand experience capturing a wild Burmese Python.
•A limited number of field bags free to participants registered for the Python Bowl who are present at the event.
FWC Photo by Avery Bristol
Florida Python Challenge™ 2020 Python Bowl Kickoff Event 1/10/20. The competition runs Jan. 10-19 and supports the delicate Greater Everglades Ecosystem.
The event includes:
•Sponsor Bass Pro Shops on site with one of two grand prize 570 Tracker Off Road ATVs.
•State experts on nonnative fish and wildlife available for media interviews.
•Live Burmese pythons and a live catching demonstration
•Pre-registered members of the public take part in a training to gain first-hand experience capturing a wild Burmese Python.
•A limited number of field bags free to participants registered for the Python Bowl who are present at the event.
FWC Photo by Carli Segelson
Reticulated python (Python reticulatus). This snake had been rescued by Bali reptile rescue centre. It had been held overnight and then released back into the wild, were it belongs :-)
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On my left is my RL daughter Rochelle (yes she is the funny Alien) AKA missbitch93. Please head over to her profile for more info. Thank you guys. <3
Visit this location at [BluShock Unleashed] SteelStrand City - Planet Serados in Second Life
Fossil was kind enough to give me a MetaWatch prototype, and my Python client library is now correctly sending images over Bluetooth.
The Postcard
A postcard published by Hartmann which shows the road leading up to Richmond Park. There is a milestone out of shot to the right which is in the same position to this day, even though the tree and the greenery of the triangle have long gone.
The card was posted in Mortlake on Friday the 10th. July 1908 to:
Miss Lucy Wright,
The Fort,
Bristol.
The message on the divided back of the card was as follows:
"The Gables.
I was so pleased to get
your card, dear. I have
often wondered if you
were at Bristol.
I hope you are both
well.
I am quite myself again
now & glad to say I hope
to go to Somerset early
in September. I wonder
if we can meet.
Love to both.
Yours as ever,
E. E."
Notable People Associated With East Sheen
Notable residents include:
-- Sir Tim Berners-Lee (born 1955), computer scientist and inventor of the World Wide Web, grew up in East Sheen and attended Sheen Mount Primary School. A mosaic was placed at Sheen Lane Centre in June 2013 to commemorate his association with East Sheen.
-- Carol Cleveland (born 1942), actress and comedian, who worked with Monty Python, was born in East Sheen.
-- Abigail Cruttenden (born 1968), actress, lives in East Sheen.
-- Tom Hardy (born 1977), actor, lives in East Sheen.
-- Carrie Johnson (born 1988), conservationist and wife of Prime Minister Boris Johnson, was brought up in East Sheen.
-- Sir Trevor McDonald (born 1939), broadcaster, lives in East Sheen.
-- The novelist Mary Anne Evans, better known as George Eliot (1819–1880), took rooms at 7 Clarence Row, East Sheen (now demolished) from May to September 1855.
-- Sir Arthur Blomfield (1829–1899), architect, one of whose early works was Christ Church, East Sheen, designed and lived in The Cottage, now divided into two as 53 and 55 Christ Church Road.
-- Ralph Knott (1879–1929), architect of County Hall, the former London County Council building on the South Bank, Westminster, lived and died in East Sheen.
-- Richard Dimbleby (1913–1965), radio broadcaster, was born in the borough and lived in a flat at Cedar Court, East Sheen. This has been commemorated by an English Heritage blue plaque.
-- Marc Bolan (1947–1977), musician, died at what is now the site of Bolan's Rock Shrine, a few miles from his home at 142 Upper Richmond Road West in East Sheen.
Reto Badrutt
So what else happened on the day that the card was posted?
Well, the 10th. July 1908 marked the birth of the Swiss ski jumper Reto Badrutt. He competed in the individual event at the 1936 Winter Olympics.
Reto died in Arosa, Switzerland at the age of 65 in April 1974.
Donald Peers
The day also marked the birth in Ammanford, Wales of Donald Peers.
Donald Rhys Hubert Peers was a popular Welsh singer. His best remembered rendition and signature song was "In a Shady Nook by a Babbling Brook".
Donald Peers - The Early Years
Donald Peers was born in the Welsh mining town of Ammanford, Carmarthenshire. His father was a colliery worker, and a prominent member of the Plymouth Brethren who disapproved of the variety theatre, and never heard or saw his son work.
Peers' family were hoping that he would become a schoolteacher, but he had other ambitions, and left home at the age of sixteen.
Peers travelled around the country working as a house painter and, for a time, went to sea as a mess steward on ships. He met Gertrude Thomson whom he married in June 1930, and they had a daughter, Sheila, in 1931.
Donald joined a dance band as a singer and continued his day job as a painter. His first BBC Radio broadcast took place on the 17th. December 1927, with the London Radio Dance Band. One of the songs he sang was, "In a Shady Nook by a Babbling Brook", which became his most requested song and, later, his signature tune. The song had been written by E. G. Nelson and Harry Pease in 1927.
Donald's London debut took place in a revue at the Bedford Theatre in 1929. He struggled on until 1933 when, after an appearance on the BBC Music Hall programme booked as The Laughing Cavalier of Song, he got a recording contract with HMV Records. During that year he made two television broadcasts.
Donald Peers in WWII and After
In 1940 Peers enlisted in the Royal Army Service Corps as a clerk, where he served until D-Day in 1944, when he was invalided out. When in service, he entertained his fellow troops in shows.
In 1944 he recorded "In a Shady Nook by a Babbling Brook." Other 1940's recordings included "I Can't Begin To Tell You", "Bow Bells", "Far Away Places", "On The 5.45" (a vocal version of "Twelfth Street Rag", with lyrics by Andy Razaf), "Powder Your Face With Sunshine" (one of his biggest successes), "Lavender Blue (Dilly Dilly)", "A Strawberry Moon (In A Blueberry Sky)", "Everywhere You Go", "Clancy Lowered the Boom", "It Happened in Adano", "A Rose in a Garden of Weeds", "I'll String Along with You" and "Down in the Glen".
Peers found a favourable audience in Australia. In 1950 alone he placed the following 12 songs into Australia's Top 20: "Music! Music! Music! (Put Another Nickel In)", "I Told Them All About You", "(If I Knew You Were Comin') I'd Have Baked a Cake", "Harry Lime Theme", "Twenty Four Hours of Sunshine", "Dearie", "Tennessee Waltz", "Enjoy Yourself (It's Later Than You Think)", "Oh, You Sweet One", "Rolling 'Round the World", "My Golden Baby", and "Daddy's Little Girl".
Donald Peers' Touring and TV Appearances
Donald toured in variety, building up quite a following in the provinces, and, in 1948, after a big break on BBC Radio, became a West End star. Henry Hall booked him with Billy Russell and Norman Wisdom for a new show called Buttons & Bows in 1949 and, in the same year, he performed his one-man show at the Royal Albert Hall and the London Palladium.
Peers appeared in the 1950 Royal Variety Performance. He was given his own radio show, Cavalier of Song, and had hits with, "On a Slow Boat to China". In the early 1960's Peers was given his own television programme, Donald Peers Presents, and, in that programme, he introduced Tom Jones and also scientist and writer Brian J. Ford, this time playing boogie piano.
Donald Peers in Film
Donald appeared in several films including, The Balloon Goes Up (1942) and Sing Along with Me (1952), and continued recording with songs such as, "The Last Mile Home", "Dear Hearts and Gentle People", "Out of a Clear Blue Sky", "Music! Music! Music!", "Dearie", "I Remember the Cornfields", "Beloved, Be Faithful", "Me and My Imagination", "Mistakes", "In a Golden Coach" (a celebratory number for the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II), "Is It Any Wonder" and "Changing Partners".
Donald Peers' Later Hits
After several years at the top, Peers left for Australia, where he stayed for two years. When he returned to the UK in 1968, his fans had all but forgotten him, and he had to work back to stardom via the club circuit, which had taken over from the variety theatres.
He made a comeback with "Please Don't Go" (a ballad set to the tune of Offenbach's "Barcarolle" from The Tales of Hoffmann), which reached No. 3 in the UK Singles Chart in 1969. This was followed by a string of singles and albums by Peers, but it was not until 1972 that he had another hit record with "Give Me One More Chance", which reached the UK Top 40.
Donald Peers - The Later Years
Donald Peers often sat in the garden of his Surrey home playing ukulele and singing while his wife and daughter worked on the plants in the garden.
Peers died at the age of 65 in a Hove nursing home on the 9th. August 1973. The Brighton & Hove Gazette and Herald announced his demise.
Donald was cremated in the Downs Crematorium, Brighton. His memorial tablet in the Garden of Remembrance, now weather-beaten, reads:
'Donald Peers, August 1973,
Loved by Kates, "In a Shady
Nook by a Babbling Brook"'.
Drugo srečanje Python uporabnikov 22. marca v Kiberpipi.
19:00 Uvod
19:15 Gamedev with pygame (Anže Pečar)
19:30 Speeding up algorithms in python (Miha Zidar)
19:45 Binary deployment of your Python projects, NOW! (Rok Garbas)
20:00 Finding similar images with Python (Jernej Virag)
20:15 Load testing with FunkLoad (Andraž Brodnik)
This python was over 5 meters long. It was in the rain season and, cause the heavy rain it was quite cold that day. The snake was a bit torpid but it acted very aggressively when I approached.
Questo pitone superava i 5 metri. Era la stagione delle piogge e, quel giorno, la temperatura era più bassa della media ed il serpente era un pò intorpidito. Tuttavia reagì aggressivamente quando mi avvicinai di più.
A Burmese Python sleeps in his enclosure. The Burmese python (Python bivittatus) is one of the five largest snakes in the world, native to a large variation of tropic and subtropic areas of Southern- and Southeast Asia. They are often found near water and are sometimes semi-aquatic, but can also be found in trees. Wild individuals average about 12 ft in length but have been known to reach even 19 ft and more. Like all snakes, Burmese pythons are carnivorous. Their diet consists primarily of appropriately sized birds and mammals. The snake uses its sharp rearward-pointing teeth to seize its prey, then wraps its body around the prey, at the same time contracting its muscles, killing the prey by constriction. They are often found near human habitation due to the presence of rats, mice and other vermin as a food source. However, their equal affinity for domesticated birds and mammals means that they are often treated as pests. Exceptionally large specimenss even eat larger prey such as antelope, pigs or goats, and are known to have attacked and eaten alligators and adult deer in Florida, where they are an invasive species. (Emirates Park Zoo, Samha, Abu Dhabi, Jan. 2015)
A great talk about Python iCamp, an indepedent, agile Python education program in China. The subject matter was interesting, the slides and content was clear and the talk was given in Chinese with an excellent simultaneous translation by Wong Jiang Fung (sitting on the right of the desk).
Unfortunately, I don't know the speaker's name.
Florida Python Challenge™ 2020 Python Bowl Kickoff Event 1/10/20 at Bayfront Park, Miami, Florida. The competition runs Jan. 10-19 and supports the delicate Greater Everglades Ecosystem.
The event includes:
•Sponsor Bass Pro Shops on site with one of two grand prize 570 Tracker Off Road ATVs.
•State experts on nonnative fish and wildlife available for media interviews.
•Live Burmese pythons and a live catching demonstration
•Pre-registered members of the public take part in a training to gain first-hand experience capturing a wild Burmese Python.
•A limited number of field bags free to participants registered for the Python Bowl who are present at the event.
FWC photo by Carli Segelson