Perhaps this is also why the spider has been named after the Sorting Hat. The name Eriovixia gryffindori is both a nod to the Harry Potter series that Khalap says everyone on the team loved, and is also an attempt to involve more people in conversations about the eight-legged creatures. “Popular culture has the potential to do this,” she says — even remarking that Pokémon inspired many researchers she knows to enter the field. JK Rowling even tweeted about spider.
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vintage everyday: Titanic Survivor’s Letter Reveals Harrowing New Perspective on the Tragedy of the ‘Unsinkable Ship’
Towards eleven o’clock: Mrs. Stone and I went to bed.Three quarters of an hour later, as the liner was cruising at full speed, a terrifying shock threw us out of bed.We were intending to find out what was happening, when a passing officer told us “It is nothing, return to your cabin.” I answered “Listen to that loud noise, it sounds like water is flowing into the ship.”Upon our return to the cabin I saw that our [female] neighbor from across the passageway had gone back to bed.Her daughter arrived in a panic, yelling “Mommy, quick quick, get up it’s very serious.”I helped Mrs. Stone to dress, she took her lifebelt and told me “come quickly.”I was trembling, and still in my dressing gown, I took a coat, my lifebelt, and followed her on deck.
From IT specialist to guerilla fighter: Estonia’s citizen army gears up to deter Vladimir Putin’s war machine – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
Estonians eye Russia’s annexation of Crimea and United States President-elect Donald Trump’s comments about reining in NATO spending, which provided a bulwark against Russian expansion during and after the Cold War.Now thousands of Estonians, many without previous military experience, have flocked towards the EDL for specialised conflict training.They learn to fire weapons, recognise Russian armoured vehicles, and live in the country’s vast forests.Some of the more experienced recruits are given instructions on how to make roadside bombs. Others learn how to run a field kitchen capable of feeding thousands of people.The EDL chief, Commander Meelis Kiili, puts it simply — “if you want peace prepare for war”.
Two Sex Shop Employees Ward Off Alleged Robber With Dildos: LAist – Tough Dildo Tossers in San Berdo!
A man, seen in surveillance video as wearing a gray hoodie and holding what appears to be a gun, entered Lotions & Lace in San Bernardino on Wednesday night at about 9:45 p.m., just 15 minutes before the shop closed. He was seen striding through the racks of lingerie to the counter where he immediately encountered two female employees and demanded the cash from their till. But, the alleged robber got more than he bargained for when one employee—identified by ABC 7 only as Amy—decided she didn’t have time for his shenanigans.”I just thought he was trying to be funny, to scare us. But then I saw the gun and it was like, really? I don’t have time for this,” she said.Amy suspected that the gun he was carrying was a fake, and was not scared. She instead described herself as “really irritated.” The video depicts the two employees yelling at the man and flinging a variety of sex toys at him until he leaves the shop.
Source: Two Sex Shop Employees Ward Off Alleged Robber With Dildos: LAist
Recipe: How to make Swedish Christmas rice porridge – The Local
With Christmas just around the corner, here is a recipe for traditional Swedish festive rice pudding.Risgrynsgröt (rice porridge) has been an important Swedish dish for centuries. It can be served at any time of the year, and is almost always served at julbord (Christmas buffet).
Summary
Serves 4 large portions
Cooking: 45 minutes
Ingredients
150g pudding (short-grain) rice
300ml water
½ tsp salt
700ml milk
1 cinnamon stick
1 ½ tbsp caster (superfine) sugar
15g butter
ground cinnamon for dusting
Method
1. Put the rice, water and salt in a saucepan and bring to the boil. Cover and simmer for 10 minutes.
2. Add the milk and cinnamon stick. Mix well and heat until the mixture is hot, but don’t let it boil.
3. Cover again and leave the pudding on a very low heat until the rice has absorbed all the milk. This will normally take between 30 and 45 minutes. Don’t stir the rice and keep it covered as much as possible.
4. Once the milk has been absorbed, remove from the heat and leave covered for another 10 minutes. Then stir in the sugar and butter.
5. Serve lukewarm, dusted with ground cinnamon.
At Christmas, hide an almond in the pudding before serving.
Tips- Take care in stage 3 as the pudding will burn very easily.-
This recipe is based on a traditional Swedish recipe which was for 4 people, but I think it could easily serve 8.-
A creamy cold version, called Ris a la Malta, is served with a fruit sauce and is perhaps even more popular.
Recipe courtesy of John Duxbury, founder and editor of Swedish Food.
Source: Recipe: How to make Swedish Christmas rice porridge – The Local
Anti-Black Racism is Still the Fulcrum of White Supremacy | Race Files
“I continue to view anti-black racism as the nut of American racism. Poor black people continue be miner’s canaries and prophets of destruction, their experiences of oppression and exclusion still the tip of the spear of threats to democracy, the security of our citizenship, the stability and security of our economy.The condition of the black community should be viewed as a lens through which we can better understand the state of capitalism as it quickly morphs into something new, something even more threatening. Black lives matter, both as a moral necessity, and as a matter of mutual self-interest.As our great vulnerabilities are being exposed by a regime that will displace many of us, we should remember this. Our survival may depend on this understanding.I refer you to Zora Neale Hurston –“I feel most colored when I am thrown against a sharp white background.”That sharp white background is coming into focus for all of us. But, lest we forget, for some the blinding whiteness of that background has never been beyond view, never anything but the very paper on which the stories of lives of those most targeted by the fulcrum of white supremacy are written.”
Source: Anti-Black Racism is Still the Fulcrum of White Supremacy | Race Files
Violence against women: Mexican senator vows to fight gender violence after vicious attack | In English | EL PAÍS
This is a cowardly act,” said Guevara, unable to hold back tears. “I have always been a simple person, I don’t have a chauffeur or bodyguards. I am always encouraging civic behavior among people. I believe in my country and this is where we have to do our work.”Guevara, known to Mexicans for earning a silver medal at the 2004 Athens Games in the 400-meter dash, said she did not identify herself as a senator while she was being attacked.“It was hard for them to identify me because I was wearing glasses and my helmet… I took every single blow they delivered.”
Women Who Draw – An open directory of female* professional illustrators.
WOMEN WHO DRAWAn open directory of female* professional illustrators.
Source: Women Who Draw – An open directory of female* professional illustrators.
vintage everyday: 40 Beautiful Portrait Postcards of Women of the German Cinema Between 1918 and 1933
Brigitte Helm (1906-1997) was not even 18 when she was discovered by Fritz Lang for the lead in his film Metropolis. Helm played the double role of the noble and chaste Maria and her evil and sensual twin, a robot created to urge the workers in revolting and destroying their own city. Helm was subsequently often cast as the evil but oh so seductive ice queen, as in the two versions of Alraune; Marcel L’Herbier’s late silent film L’Argent; and the multilinguals The Mistress of Atlantis by G.W. Pabst, and Gold, by Karl Hartl.Helm proved, though, to be able to perform also more restrained and emotionally expressive characters such as in Die Liebe der Jeanne Ney, her first film directed by Pabst, and Abwege, a late silent film by the same Pabst. In the latter she resents her neglecting and older husband but hesitates to fall for her cousin, enamoured with her and of her own age.In real life, Helm was a timid, modest and not very ambitious personality. After a short but prolific career of some 32 films, she resented the German film business, controlled by the nazi’s. In 1935 she married, moved to Switzerland and withdrew radically from her film career, refusing any interviews. Till this day, however, she still has fans everywhere. In particular the bad Maria won’t be forgotten. For her the Mae West line is very apt: “When I am good, I am very good; but when I am bad, I am better.”
‘So beautiful’: Mick Fanning goes for midnight surf under the northern lights – video | Sport | The Guardian
Australian pro surfer Mick Fanning pulls on a thick wetsuit and hood to surf under the stars as the northern lights play above him in Norway



















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