Snake

2022 - 10 - 17

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Why are snakes being seen more? Snake catcher Colin Shoemark ... (Newcastle Herald)

Red-bellied black snakes in combat over a female on a lawn in Fern Bay. · Two red-bellied black snakes were caught in a twisted moment on the lawn of a suburban ...

"If you see a snake or reptile in your backyard, get your dogs and cats inside. They're undetected from birds of prey and dogs and cats because they're not seen in the grass." A 1952 Mickey Mantle card sold for $12.6 million in June. That's what happens, they get really hot after a bite from a red-bellied black. So they're on the move to find new places," he said They're not looking to kill you, they're looking for somewhere to get away from people.

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The definitive instructions on how to treat a snake bite (2GB)

The relentless rain might lead to a spike in snake sightings in new and unusual places. Australian Reptile Park expert Billy Collett told Deborah Knight there's ...

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Dr. Oz Has Always Sold Snake Oil (Belt Magazine)

TV personality turned U.S. Senate candidate Mehmet Oz was once considered a serious doctor. Indeed, in the mid-1990s Dr. Oz was a practicing heart surgeon ...

[energy independence](https://doctoroz.com/issue/energy-independence/),” stopping “ [illegal immigration](https://doctoroz.com/issue/energy-independence/),” and supporting [law enforcement](https://doctoroz.com/issue/energy-independence/). Now, Oz has made quite a shift in his thinking about fracking, tweeting in March that President Biden needed to “back off” and “give us the freedom to frack!” As Brian Schwartz of CNBC pointed out in August, Oz’s has been lucratively [boosted](https://www.cnbc.com/2022/08/26/dr-oz-sides-with-energy-after-he-received-donations-from-heads-of-oil-gas-business.html) by the fossil fuel industry. It is pathetically easy to imagine Senator Oz being anointed by his party and the credulous political press as a national leader on health policy. He has proposed comprehensive policies designed to strengthen union power and de-tilt influence away from employers and is in turn overwhelmingly [backed](https://www.cityandstatepa.com/politics/2022/09/here-are-endorsements-pennsylvanias-us-senate-race/376717/) by Pennsylvanian labor unions. [experienced](https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-thinks-dr-oz-lose-pennsylvania-senate-race-1234577978/) buyer’s remorse, worrying over the summer that Oz was going to “fucking lose.” The National Republican Senatorial Committee is [skeptical](https://www.politico.com/news/2022/07/29/alarm-bell-gop-donors-oz-00048747) of Oz’s chances, according to [Politico](https://www.yahoo.com/video/dr-oz-weirdest-explanation-why-074535612.html), and private GOP Donors have been remarkably reluctant to give to his campaign. It was [reported](https://www.cnbc.com/2022/09/07/dr-oz-has-ties-to-hydroxychloroquine-companies-as-he-backs-covid-treatment.html) in early September that Dr. Oz backed off a bit from that statement in late August [stating](https://twitter.com/retripp/status/1562907451909095426) that, “I’m pro-life with the 3 usual exceptions, especially the health of the mother, but incest and rape as well.” Still, he has [celebrated](https://twitter.com/DrOz/status/1540390818162302976?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1540390818162302976%7Ctwgr%5E8bdc797d6ee604453fa839b1faa069ba74429e80%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.penncapital-star.com%2Fgovernment-politics%2Fheres-how-pa-politicians-reacted-to-the-u-s-supreme-courts-abortion-decision%2F) the Dobbs v. As recently as 2019, Oz [stated](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkw8Du6grzA&feature=emb_title) that as concerns the right to make reproductive healthcare decisions, that he did not “want to interfere with everyone else’s stuff, because it’s hard enough getting through life as it is.” Yet only three years later, while on the campaign trail, Oz has moved towards positions much further to the right than his previous beliefs. Until the latter years of the Trump presidency, he was publicly [pro-choice](https://www.thedailybeast.com/inside-dr-ozs-shameless-flip-flop-on-abortion), [supported](https://reason.com/2022/08/24/senate-candidate-dr-oz-who-once-sang-pots-praises-now-thinks-supporting-legalization-is-clearly-crazy/) marijuana legalization, [supported](https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/13/politics/dr-oz-health-care-policy-mandates-obamacare/index.html) universal health care, [supported](https://www.ocala.com/story/news/2014/07/08/why-gun-violence-is-a-public-health-issue/31940697007/) gun-control measures, and, however tepidly, acknowledged some of the potential [horrors](https://www.onlineathens.com/story/lifestyle/health-fitness/2017/04/03/drs-oz-roizen-climate-change-creating-public-health-issues/15428606007/) to be inflicted from the climate crisis. [Scholarship](https://www.aats.org/about-the-foundation/the-reach-of-our-programs/aats-research-scholarship-awardees), was the author of peer-reviewed papers, [conducted](https://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/18/magazine/18Oz-t.html) complex organ transplants, and even invented medical equipment and developed innovative methodologies. Belluz’s article notes that as early as 1998 some of Oz’s colleagues were disturbed by his propensity for spectacle and his attraction towards the “media circus,” as phrased by Jerry Whitworth, the co-founded the Cardiac Complementary Care Center at Columbia-Presbyterian. During that time Oz was a recipient of the Gross Surgical Research

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Sporting snake oil: Why fans should be wary of NZ Rugby's new ... (New Zealand Herald)

Earlier this month, New Zealand Rugby Commercial (NZRC) – the new entity created with Silver Lake following the confirmation of its controversial private equity ...

How to play the Google Snake game (Fast Company)

The reimagined Google Snake arcade game allows you to explore and eat your way around the world through Google Maps.

The Google Snake Menu Mod was created for users who find the game too simple or seek out something more challenging. The Google Snake game functions on a vertical axis, making it easy and comfortable to play on a smartphone. [play the game via Google Maps](https://snake.googlemaps.com/); exploring and consuming apples around the world, in major cities like London, Sydney, and Cairo. Case in point: the Google Snake game. The premise of the game involves running around and eating as many apples as you can while narrowly avoiding being eaten by snakes. Although some more serious game enthusiasts claim the game can be too simple, Snake is one of those pastimes that’s easy to pick up and put down without having to spend hours invested in advancing or cultivating an open world.

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