The Pink Toed Tarantula

The Pink Toed Tarantula also known as Pink-toed Tree Spider and they are found in Guyana, French Guiana, Suriname, Venezuela, Brazil, Trinidad, Martinique, and throughout the Amazon Basin.Guyana also exports pink toed spiders.
They are small size tarantula with long dense hairs. Females reach about 13 cm but male reaches only 9 cm. They are beautiful and furry species and they are available in dark black to metallic gray. Their most distinguishing feature is that they have beautiful pink tip to each foot. They live between 4 to 8 years but it will take 2 to 3 years to become fully mature. They are aggressive feeder and they eat variety of insect. Their most favorite insects are grasshoppers, roaches, crickets and wax moths. They can easily survive in human make environment. Temperature should be between 78° to 82° F with a humidity level of 65 to 75%. It’s fun to keep them as a pet. They are funny and they like to stay in groups. They don’t strike like other tarantula species. They lay 45 to 200 eggs and eggs hatches in six to eight weeks.
Pink Toed Tarantula can easily jump from your hand so whenever you keep them in hands handle them with care. Humidity level is important for their growth and adjusting in the human made environment. You can spray water after 5 to 10 days to maintain Humidity level. Put some plants in the cage to give them a natural environment.

Google Wave is coming up

Google is set to begin the first trials of its new Wave collaboration tool.

The company said that 30 September would be the first day for the invite-only trial of the tool. Wave has been in a closed developer trial since its introduction on May.

Google first introduced Wave in May. The online collaboration service aims to allow users to share text and media files in a single online space. When the service was first previewed, Google said that the aim of Wave was to create a new medium for communication online.
Among the first to use the service will be select developers, Google Apps customers and members of the public who volunteered to take part in the trial. The company noted that while the service was in a closed trial, users will be asked to recommend others for the service.
"We'll ask some of these early users to nominate people they know also to receive early invitations, Google Wave is a lot more useful if your friends, family and colleagues have it too," wrote Google engineering manager Lars Rasmussen and group product manager Stephanie Hannon in a company blog posting.
"If all goes well we will soon be inviting many more to try out Google Wave. "
Developers were said to have approached creation of Wave as a project to rethink and update current communication methods such as instant messaging and email.

DETROIT –

The AL Central race got even wilder. Orlando Cabrera hit a go-ahead single in the 10th inning after a pair of wild pitches and the Minnesota Twins closed within one game of first-place Detroit, beating the Tigers 3-2 Tuesday in the opener of a day-night doubleheader.
The Twins trailed Detroit by seven games only two weeks ago. But Minnesota would pull even with a sweep — Tigers ace Justin Verlander was set to pitch against Brian Duensing in the nightcap.
Minnesota clinched the season series 10-5 against Detroit, meaning a division tiebreaker would be at the Metrodome. Because Brett Favre and the Vikings host Green Bay on Monday night at the stadium, a baseball playoff would likely be pushed back until Tuesday.
A rainout Monday night delayed the start of this four-game series and forced a doubleheader. Each team has six games left.
It was tight throughout at Comerica Park. Scrapping for a run, the teams combined for five sacrifice bunts and used three pinch-runners.
The Twins missed a chance to take the lead in the ninth when Nick Punto popped up a suicide-squeeze bunt, resulting in a double play. Speedy Minnesota right fielder Denard Span made a fine running catch on Ramon Santiago's deep drive toward the line with a runners on second and two outs in the bottom half, leaving it tied at 1-all.
Span led off the 10th with a single. He advanced on consecutive wild pitches by Brandon Lyon (6-5), who had thrown just one wild pitch all season.
Cabrera followed with a single and Delmon Young added a bases-loaded sacrifice fly for a 3-1 lead.
Curtis Granderson hit a leadoff homer against Joe Nathan in the Tigers 10th. Nathan retired the next three batters for his 45th save — he is 30-for-30 in career save tries against Detroit.
Jon Rauch (4-1) walked Carlos Guillen to start the bottom of the ninth, and Gerald Laird bunted pinch-runner Wilkin Ramirez to second. Brandon Inge hit a shallow flyout and Span ran down Santiago's liner on the warning track.
Both starters finished with no-decisions. Tigers rookie Rick Porcello allowed one run in 6 1-3 innings, while Nick Blackburn gave up one run in seven innings.
The Tigers stranded seven runners in the first four innings, getting their only run on Santiago's single in the second off first baseman Michael Cuddyer's glove.
Minnesota tied the game in the fifth when Matt Tolbert led off with a double, took third on one of the Twins' four sacrifice bunts and scored on Span's sacrifice fly.
By that point, Blackburn had settled down, retiring the Tigers in order in the fifth, sixth and seventh innings.
Minnesota had another chance as Porcello tired in the seventh. Jose Morales led off with a single under second baseman Placido Polanco's glove and Tolbert bunted him to second.
The 20-year Porcello left to a standing ovation after walking Punto on his 111th pitch — seven more than his previous career high. Zach Miner got Span to pop out to shallow right, then struck out Cabrera to end the inning with Joe Mauer on deck.
NOTES: The announced attendance for the first game was 35,243, which reflected the tickets sold for Monday night. Tuesday's actual crowd appeared to be closer to 25,000. ... The teams played through drizzle during the early innings, but there was no rain close to that which caused Monday's postponement. ... No major league team has remained in first place from May 10 — or sooner — until losing the division title in the last week of a season, according to STATS.

NEW YORK –
More than a man he tried his best but it was not enough.
Look what happend right here..
Former Democratic fundraiser Norman Hsu was sentenced to more than 24 years in prison Tuesday by a judge who accused him of funding his fraud by manipulating the political process in a way that "strikes at the very core of our democracy."
U.S. District Judge Victor Marrero sentenced the 58-year-old Hsu to 20 years in prison for his guilty plea to fraud charges and another four years and four months in prison for his conviction at trial for breaking campaign finance laws.
In a lengthy criticism of Hsu's fraud, the judge said the former fundraiser used political contributions to win respect and impress investors as he committed a campaign finance fraud that "strikes at the very core of our democracy."
The judge said Hsu stole more than $50 million from hundreds of investors in a 10-year Ponzi scheme by winning their confidence with his pristine reputation and friendly nature, a two-faced quality the judge noted was common among certain white collar criminals.
He called Hsu a "wolf in sheep's clothing."
He said his "conniving use of the political process to fund his fraud" made his crimes "much more sinister and reprehensible."
Before he was sentenced, Hsu apologized to "your honor and everybody else."
His donations became an embarrassment for Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential campaign. His arrest led Clinton to return more than $800,000 to donors linked to Hsu.
Prosecutors say Hsu obtained millions of dollars from investors by claiming clothing or high-technology ventures would pay returns of 14 and 20 percent. Instead, he spent the money on himself or made charitable contributions to enhance his image, they said.
Hsu's decade-long Ponzi scheme collapsed in September 2007. In addition to the 24 year and four month sentence he received Tuesday, Hsu must separately serve three years in prison for a conviction in California.
Outside court, Hsu lawyer Bernard Seidler said his client told him goodbye before returning to prison, where he has been for the last two years. The lawyer said Hsu reacted calmly to the sentence, which was less than the 30-years-to-life term prosecutors had sought.
"I think he was expecting it. I really do," Seidler said.
Seidler has said Hsu donated about $850,000 of his own money to political candidates and helped raise $1 million for Democratic candidates through about 75 people he knew who also made contributions. He said Hsu gave $3.5 million to charitable causes.
Prior to sentencing, Seidler told the judge that his client had helped educate fellow inmates over the last two years. Some of the inmates even wrote letters to the judge on his behalf. The judge cited letters he received from victims as well.
The judge, though, said benevolence was a common characteristic of a subset of white-collar criminals who live a double life as they carry out irrational, greedy acts "totally out of character with their otherwise law abiding life."
He accused Hsu of using a "stunningly elaborate system of fraud and deceit" to steal from clients who believed they were among his closest friends.
Marrero said he could not be lenient with someone who had performed "dozens, if not hundreds, of acts of dishonesty and fraud."
When he spoke, Hsu asked the judge to appoint a trustee that he could work with to help recover money for victims. Assistant U.S. Attorney Rua M. Kelly said Hsu's offer should be ignored because he had not helped victims earlier. "Frankly, it's ludicrous," she said.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Alexander J. Willscher portrayed the Democratic candidates Hsu had helped as innocent victims of his devious ways, saying Hsu "lied to some of the pre-eminent politicians in the country."
The government said at trial that Hsu used clients of his fraudulent investment business, including actors and other political novices, as straw donors to make thousands of dollars in campaign donations. The scheme bypassed rules limiting what any individual or group can donate.
During the May trial, prosecutors played a voicemail recording of Clinton, then a senator, effusively praising Hsu for his support.
"I've never seen anybody who has been more loyal and more effective and really just having greater success supporting someone than you," she told him. "Everywhere I go, you're there. If you're not, you're sending people to be part of my events. You know, we're going to win this campaign, Norman, because you single-handedly are going to make that happen."

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