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* Oryx and Crake ( 2003 ), a speculative fiction novel by Margaret Atwood, occasionally makes mentions of the protagonist and his friend entertaining themselves by watching reality TV shows of live executions, Noodie News, frog squashing, graphic surgery, and child pornography.
Like cartilaginous fishes, the coelacanth can store urea in its blood, as can the only known amphibians that can live for long periods of time in salt water ( the toad Bufo marinus and the frog Rana cancrivora ).
A large array of amphibian and reptilian species also live in the area, the marbled salamander, tiger salamander, spotted salamander, box turtle, spotted turtle, grey tree frog, eastern newt, black racer snake, hognose snake and rough green snake, to name a few.
Walton did not profess to be an expert with the fly ; the fly fishing in his first edition was contributed by Thomas Barker, a retired cook and humorist, who produced a treatise of his own in 1659 ; but in the use of the live worm, the grasshopper and the frog " Piscator " himself could speak as a master.
The famous passage about the frog, often misquoted as being about the worm —" use him as though you loved him, that is, harm him as little as you may possibly, that he may live the longer "— appears in the original edition.
He also appeared in court dressed as a frogman-this followed his " warm-up " for a world frog swallowing record attempt in 1974 when he swallowed a live frog at a Market Drayton pub and washed it down with a pint of " black and tan ".
Diamagnetism | Diamagnetic levitation of a live frog.
The goliath frog can live up to 15 years in the wild.
Agitated, Parvati curses Madhura and sends her to live in a well as a frog for twelve years.
* Not until a frog develops lungs does it leave the water and live on the land.
The filming was marked by Brando's erratic behavior, which included catching grasshoppers after the day's shooting and taking a bite out of a live frog.
Many species of amphibians live in wet areas, including mining frog ( Dendrobates leucomelas ).
When kept as a pet, the Horned frog is usually fed mainly on large adult locusts, black and brown crickets and mice ; they also enjoy – depending on size – live fish.
Although its legs provide much grip, the frog does not choose to climb trees or live up them to any significant extent.

live and is
The place is inhabited by several hundred warlike women who are anachronisms of the Twentieth Century -- stone age amazons who live in an all-female, matriarchal society which is self-sufficient ''.
For better or for worse, we all now live in welfare states, the organizing principle of which is collective responsibility for individual well-being.
It is the gait of the human who must run to live: arms dangling, legs barely swinging over the ground, head hung down and only occasionally swinging up to see the target, a loose motion that is just short of stumbling and yet is wonderfully graceful.
`` The Moral Creed '' and `` The Will To Risk '' live happily together, if we do not examine where the line is to be drawn.
Although we continue to pay our conversational devotions to `` free private enterprise '', `` individual initiative '', `` the democratic way '', `` government of the people '', `` competition of the marketplace '', etc., we live rather comfortably in a society in which economic competition is diminishing in large areas, bureaucracy is corroding representative government, technology is weakening the citizen's confidence in his own power to make decisions, and the threat of war is driving him economically and physically into the ground ''.
`` This is a horrible way to live '', Wright went on.
He is forced to play for little money, and must often take another job to live.
After all, when one has asked whatever became of old Joe and Charlie when one has inquired who it was Sue Brown married and where it is they now live when questions are asked and answered about families and children, and old professors when the game and its probable outcome has been exhausted that does it.
`` He is aware he will not live for twenty-four hours if he betrays you ''.
The effect of the recording is very open and natural, with the frequency emphasis exactly what you would expect from a live performance.
Even if you live above that line, the FHA will back you, for they have decided that the inclusion of air conditioning in all new homes is a good thing and should be encouraged.
This is especially important if you live in a mild-winter zone.
My advice, if you live long enough to continue your vocation, is that the next time you're attracted by the exotic, pass it up -- it's nothing but a headache.
If this attitude is seriously questioned in the Soviet Union, it does not necessarily follow that the majority of the society in which I live is too aware of the necessity for clarity on this ethical as well as aesthetic point of view.
To many of us, this is a land to which we or our parents fled from totalitarian terror in order to live in dignified freedom.
Its scope is as broad as the question: What does it mean to live in modern society??
The machine is equipped with a pipe for injecting live steam that is capable of raising the temperature of water at an eight-inch level from 110-degrees to 140-degrees-F ( 38*0 to 60*0C. ) in less than two minutes.

live and Magnetic
This has largely influenced the reserved live setup of The Magnetic Fields, which usually consists of acoustic instruments and little to no percussion.
Also on September 19, 2009, " The Shortest Straw " made its way back into the set lists during its World Magnetic Tour after a 12 year absence at the Montreal Bell Center, not being played live since February 9, 1997.
In his book he listed the expedition's main achievements: proof that an expedition could live on Victoria Land over winter ; a year's continuous magnetic and meteorological observations ; an estimate of the current position of the South Magnetic Pole ; discoveries of new species of insects and shallow-water fauna ; coastal mapping and the discovery of new islands ; the first landing on Ross Island and, finally, the scaling of the Great Ice Barrier and the sledging to 78 ° 50 ' S, " the furthest south ever reached by man ".
This line-up would last through their fourth album, A Million Vacations, and a subsequent live album, Live Magnetic Air, both of which were issued in 1979.
The most live tracks are the Equinoxe and Magnetic Fields sets.
Afternoon performances live on the main stage: The New Deal, Liquidfied, The Aponauts, Hibernate, Prine nebula, Rhythm Mercenaries, West Magnetic, The Lou Cypher Project
Acts for EXIT 2011 included Arcade Fire, Pulp, Jamiroquai, Portishead, Grinderman, M. I. A., Editors, House of Pain, Santigold, Bad Religion, Kreator, Beirut ( band ), Big Audio Dynamite, Amadou & Mariam, Go Back to the Zoo, Underworld, Deadmau5, Groove Armada, Fedde Le Grand, Magnetic Man, Tiga, James Zabiela, Digitalism live, DJ Sneak, Paul Kalkbrenner, Joris Voorn, Steve Aoki, Carl Craig, Marco Carola, Hadouken !, Joachim Garraud, Better Lost Than Stupid ( Martin Buttrich, Davide Squillace, Matthias Tanzmann ), Gramophonedzie, Anti-Nowhere League, Kreator, De Staat, Nosaj Thing, Photek.
* " Papa Was A Rodeo ," a song by The Magnetic Fields, asks " What are we doing in this dive bar, how can you live in a place like this?
During the band's World Magnetic Tour, additional live performances were filmed in Mexico City ; Nîmes, France and Sofia, Bulgaria.

live and levitation
" Guru Busters ", the documentary by the British film maker Robert Eagle, features Premanand displaying and teaching the explanation for many supposedly supernatural stunts such as levitation, flesh piercing and live burials.
" In contrast to the use of sama, whirling and devotional prayer in the practice of dhikr, the tariqa orders perform Sufi whirling in addition to playing musical instruments, consuming glowing embers, live scorpions and glass, puncturing body parts with needles and spikes, or practicing clairvoyance and levitation.
In very strong magnetic field, by means of diamagnetic levitation even small live animals have been levitated.

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