Press the key and it pops up like a trapdoor.
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Because what if the trapdoor creaks and closes behind him?
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Trapdoor spider may have dispersed across the ocean from Africa to Australia.
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The lifespan of a trapdoor spider is between five and 20 years.
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It was an old coal cellar and you entered through a trapdoor.
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The shower and that trapdoor: That's where I have my best ideas.
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But that "trapdoor" did not materialize, and the Dow bounced off those lows.
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They had a guest chair at the dinner table with a trapdoor underneath.
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Shades, who stumbled upon the kitchen's trapdoor, is captured by Misty and Claire.
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The quantum computer implements the circuit, but without knowing anything about the trapdoor.
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Ask a bartender, emerging from a trapdoor behind the bar, what's in it.
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Trapdoor spiders are called such because they don't spin webs like many others.
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Dr. Mason's doctoral thesis focused on the conservation threats faced by trapdoor spiders.
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Somewhat ironically, the trapdoor spider's stationary lifestyle is probably what made its epic journey possible.
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It uses an existing mathematical technique with a forbidding name: a trapdoor claw-free function.
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Today, as that generation ages and dies, a demographic trapdoor opens under the religious population.
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In her memoir, we learn there was a trapdoor into which she could surreptitiously urinate.
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With Johnson, the House effectively created a trapdoor crime and he knowingly jumped through it.
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The agent who wants to install a trapdoor of excuses in case the player can't return?
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The old trapdoor in the dining area opens to a 163-bottle wine and food cellar.
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If the sensor indicates it has found the right kind of mosquito, a tiny trapdoor snaps shut.
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Access to the hole was created through a trapdoor that still exists today, Bruce told the paper.
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Over the island, there's a skylight; next to it, there's a trapdoor that leads to the basement.
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The cosmetics section looked like it had a trapdoor waiting for me in case I dared sneeze.
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He felt as if a trapdoor were opening under his feet, and then he disappeared into darkness.
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A trapdoor leads to a subterranean space that could be used as a wine cellar, he said.
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Velvet worms, trapdoor spiders: Scientists worry about the fate of the nation's many remarkable, overlooked endemic creatures.
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"Adams wants the city to adopt this rat trapdoor," Gothamist reporter Jake Offenhartz tweeted from the scene.
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Then the guest's throat would be slit and the body dumped through a trapdoor into the cellar.
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He called it a "minor trapdoor sell-off" that turned around after equities didn't cross the lower low.
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Known as "tree trapdoor spiders," they are unapologetic homebodies, spending nearly their entire lives chilling in a single burrow.
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But it was the reason that Trump pulled the trapdoor under Comey that made it so difficult to believe.
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People look for a new power, an escape through a "trapdoor" to a better situation or a new life.
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Trapdoor spiders take several years to reach sexual maturity, and because they hardly disperse, their colonies are fairly confined.
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The only way you could get at the claw is if you had some inside information, the so-called trapdoor.
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What makes her story remarkable is that until her death, this trapdoor spider was the oldest known spider in the world.
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As a post on Weiming Space noted, President Obama has had a Californian trapdoor spider named after him, the Aptostichus barackobamai.
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The intrepid arachnid in question is Moggridgea rainbowi, a tree trapdoor spider found only in the woodlands of South Australia's Kangaroo Island.
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Instead, they live underground and build a cork-like trapdoor out of soil, vegetation, and silk, which they use to trap insects.
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The face Griffin wears inside the ring suggests an impartiality of character, but it is merely the trapdoor that conceals a well.
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A cousin prepared food in the back kitchen, where a trapdoor leads to the oven room once used for roasting whole pigs.
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Once again, Guzman tried to run, this time through a trapdoor in a closet that led to a sewage tunnel underneath the safe house.
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Trapdoor spiders are intensely solitary creatures; a female digs a burrow, creates a lid for it and can live there for years, hardly moving.
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Another video, this one on a small, flat-screen monitor, awaits on the other side of a trapdoor-like opening in the plywood wall.
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Unlike their close, but much more famous relatives the tarantulas, tree trapdoor spiders are teeny, with most species small enough to fit on a fingernail.
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"With each day there seems to be yet another trapdoor lying beneath oil prices," Louise Dickson, analyst at Rystad Energy, wrote in an emailed comment.
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And then the ringing stopped as the two holes coalesced into a single black hole, a trapdoor in space with the equivalent mass of 62 suns.
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Two million years ago, the most logical way for a trapdoor spider to get from Africa to Australia was by going right across the Indian Ocean.
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Unlike some other spiders, which can use their silk to "balloon" and even direct their aerial path over huge ocean distances, trapdoor spiders are firmly grounded.
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Then a classical computer sends over a description of a quantum circuit specifying the function to be applied to the superposition—a trapdoor claw-free function.
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Though relegation from the Premier League came as something of a surprise for the club, their financial problems predate their tumble through the top-flight trapdoor.
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The cause of its longevity No. 16 lived in Western Australia, where trapdoor spiders were the subject of a decades-long study that began in 1974.
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The Ukraine trapdoor, through which he might dodge Mueller, was the kind of escape mechanism Trump has used in the past to get out of trouble.
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A sedentary creature, the female Gaius villosus trapdoor spider builds itself a tunnel in the ground and stays there, seldom wandering too far from its hidey-hole.
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According to TIME, the world's oldest spider, a 43-year-old, female trapdoor tarantula (Gaius villosus) known as Number 16, died recently because of a wasp sting.
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Their procedure relies on what's called a "trapdoor" function — one that is easy to carry out, but hard to reverse unless you possess a secret cryptographic key.
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Trapdoor spiders never re-use the disused burrow of another spider, so the researchers can be fairly confident that they were monitoring the same spider for 43 years.
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"These taxi medallions were marketed as a pathway to the American Dream, but instead became a trapdoor of despair for medallion owners harmed by the TLCs unlawful practices."
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"There was almost an audible gasp down here on the floor, and everybody wanted to see if that was opening a trapdoor" to a major sell-off, Cashin said.
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To see The Monterey Abalone Company's product, you must crawl down a trapdoor ladder in their tiny office at the end of Municipal Wharf No. 2 on Monterey Bay.
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"Make some noise for the greatest rapper to ever get on a motherfucking microphone," said Drake, shortly after Eminem very dramatically rose onto the stage from a hidden trapdoor.
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But when the trapdoor spiders' food supply — typically smaller insects and arthropods — was affected, perhaps by an invasive species of grass, the spiders tended to die within a year.
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When she went to his home to confront his widow Jane Crawford (Frances Fisher), she sent Blake through a trapdoor and into the basement, which houses the Cyclops' headquarters.
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In 2017, Mahadev figured out how to build the trapdoor functions at the core of the secret-state method by using a type of cryptography called Learning With Errors (LWE).
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That was the case last season when Norwich beat Newcastle in early April, only to go on a four-match losing run and fall through the Premier League trapdoor regardless.
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There's also some fun stuff that happens with verticality and space, as every frame seemingly contains a trapdoor that could, at any moment, plunge the action into the space below.
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Image Credit: Nick BirksThe research team took DNA samples from several species of African Moggridgea spiders, the Australian oddball spider (Moggridgea rainbowi), and some other close, Australian trapdoor spider relatives (Bertmainius).
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With a clever trapdoor mechanism to catch insects and a built-in magnifying glass, it encourages young scientists to explore the outdoors by and safely observe bugs and other little creatures.
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Swansea remain two points behind Hull while Crystal Palace, who battled back from two down to draw 2-2 at home to champions Leicester City, are seven points above the relegation trapdoor.
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And then they see economically that this trapdoor that used to only affect black people and people one class below them is now opening and gobbling up them and their children too.
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Vazirani and colleagues have shown that if the device gives the correct answer to the special measurement without using collapsing qubits, that's equivalent to figuring out the claw without using the trapdoor.
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"These taxi medallions were marketed as a pathway to the American dream, but instead became a trapdoor of despair for medallion owners harmed by the T.L.C.'s unlawful practices," Ms. James said.
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It wasn't long before Drake burst out of a trapdoor onto the NBA stage to announce the All-Star lineups, with exploding fireworks signaling the pinnacle of his life as a public figure.
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"Every Sculpture Needs a Trapdoor" doubles down: A mishmash of ecru plates is impaled by a cylinder, then suffixed with a photocopied page from an essay on Sandback by the artist Andrea Fraser.
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To get through airport customs, smugglers had stuffed the chimpanzees into the center of a giant trapdoor crate, surrounding them with cages containing dozens of parrots, pheasants and monkeys to disguise their presence.
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"The saddest thing I've ever seen is an image of a trapdoor spider that was obviously trying to hold its lid shut and the fire came through and it was burned alive," she said.
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Luckily, modern genetic techniques can allow scientists to estimate just how long ago different species diverged from one another, and this is exactly what a team of Australian scientists did with these tree trapdoor spiders.
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This can be done by loosening leverage and asset sale covenants, or manipulating Ebitda figures higher, and is commonly referred to as the "J Crew trapdoor" after the US clothing retailer first used the clause.
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An arcane microbial defense system has created a trapdoor to the transformative technology that geneticists had sought so longingly for decades, a method to achieve directed, efficient, and sequence-specific modification of the human genome.
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The measurement and its outcome are designed so that the classical computer, with the help of the trapdoor that only it has access to, can ensure that the device answering its queries is indeed quantum.
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Once inside a network, hackers can pick up passwords, map networks and gain knowledge that could "provide for trapdoor access to be able to get back in at times of their own choosing," Stockton added.
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To get through customs at Nepal's international airport, the smugglers had stuffed the baby chimpanzees in the center of a trapdoor crate, surrounding them with dozens of parrots, pheasants and monkeys to disguise their presence.
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To get through customs at Nepal's international airport, the smugglers had stuffed the baby chimpanzees in the center of a trapdoor crate, surrounding them with dozens of parrots, pheasants and monkeys to disguise their presence.
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In Benjamin's intellectual style, or her rather idiosyncratic understanding of it, she had found a trapdoor in the roaring malevolence of history, the chance to be blistering but vulnerable—the chance, that is, to dissent differently.
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The proposal would be solidified if future genetics research on the other island spiders also shows an evolutionary timeline that doesn't match up with geologic events, or if trapdoor spiders are discovered in a vegetation raft at sea.
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Using these trapdoor functions, she was able to create a quantum version of "blind" computation, by which cloud-computing users can mask their data so the cloud computer can't read it, even while it is computing on it.
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"The S&P 500 broke below 1,900 and that triggered a kind of trapdoor effect," Art Cashin, director of floor operations at the NYSE for UBS Financial Services, said on CNBC in reference to the market's drop late Wednesday.
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Think of the chases in the cartoon "Scooby Doo", where characters constantly spring in and out of apparently-intersecting rooms, or of John Cleese's ruthless merchant banker sending a charity worker down a trapdoor in "Monty Python's Flying Circus".
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The line about a power dynamic only served to cheapen actual remorse, Hal thought, made the apology into a box trick with a trapdoor, the power caveat an escape hatch out of the basic decencies we owe one another.
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The arachnid matriarch, who lasted long after the previous record holder for World's Oldest Spider — a 28-year old tarantula from Mexico — and the information she unknowingly shared, will continue to help researchers unlock the secrets of the trapdoor tarantula's longevity.
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Avi Armoza, the boss of a firm that has sold over 60 Israeli television formats abroad, says his biggest hit is "Still Standing", a general-knowledge quiz show in which unsuccessful contestants are dropped through a trapdoor in the studio floor.
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For the two months of his residency, he developed a ritual: Rising at dawn, he would climb a few flights of spiral stairs and a ladder, through a trapdoor into a tiny room at the top of the church tower.
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The kickstand on the back of the tablet is also much larger than that of the Nintendo Switch's, and it opens downward like a trapdoor, giving it a bit more stability than the Switch when being used in tabletop mode.
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But the fact of their proximity to big-city populations — close enough to be a trapdoor, a way to drop out of the present day and into another, grander scale of time — is one of the best reasons for their existence.
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You know that dream you have where you're trying to get somewhere, but every time you think you've arrived, a trapdoor flies open or something slips from your hands or you're a split second too late to catch the train?
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The lead researcher, Leanda Mason, said of the spider in question, "to our knowledge this is the oldest spider ever recorded, and her significant life has allowed us to further investigate the trapdoor spider's behaviour and population dynamics," according to a press release.
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And yet, despite the simple, sedentary habits of the tree trapdoor spider, findings in a newly published paper in the journal PLOS ONE suggest that one variety of these humble hermits has accomplished a seemingly impossible feat—voyaging across an entire ocean.
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"To our knowledge this is the oldest spider ever recorded, and her significant life has allowed us to further investigate the trapdoor spider's behavior and population dynamics," said Leanda Mason, the lead author of the study that documented No. 16's life.
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Thanks to the detailed and long-term research, scientists determined why No. 16 lived so long: It lived in uncleared, native bushland It was sedentary It had low metabolism Trapdoor spiders may look a bit intimidating but they pose no danger to humans.
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BERLIN, Feb 28 (Reuters) - Heshmat is a loving father and supportive husband who delights local children by rescuing a trapped cat - but also the man who operates the trapdoor through which a row of the condemned plunge from the scaffold to their deaths.
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In 2018, Dr. Mason, of Curtin University, published a paper noting the death of a 43-year-old trapdoor spider — the world's oldest known spider — that had been studied in the wild for four decades by Barbara York Main, Dr. Mason's mentor.
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Dr. Mason worried that, because trapdoors take so long to mature and don't reproduce often, an increase in the frequency of wildfires — which is what climate scientists predict for Australia — could wipe out trapdoor spiders that had not had the chance to reproduce.
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"The answer to every question is a trapdoor to 10 more questions, and those 10 answers can lead to 10 more questions, which grows exponentially with each answer," said Paul Pelletier, a former federal prosecutor who is a Democratic candidate for Virginia's 10th Congressional District.
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"To our knowledge this is the oldest spider ever recorded, and her significant life has allowed us to further investigate the trapdoor spider's behavior and population dynamics," the lead author of the recent study, Curtin University PhD student Leanda Mason, told the school in a statement.
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When the older sister still declines, the spirited little sister embellishes the offer, with the text and illustrations building to show the fort with a water balloon launcher, a second floor with a trapdoor in the roof for stargazing and a basket for snacks and other emergencies.
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And shortly after that, Mahadev, Vazirani and Christiano teamed up with Vidick and Zvika Brakerski (of the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel) to refine these trapdoor functions still further, using the secret-state method to develop a foolproof way for a quantum computer to generate provably random numbers.
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Harry's need for empire and Mooney's racism come from the same place: a love of the only power they can recognize—the old male power that builds and destroys lives and kingdoms with a laugh and little real feeling for the lesser body falling through that trapdoor. ♦
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You can find a trapdoor spider (Aptostichus barackobamai) inching across certain parts of Northern California, or see a bright orange spangled darter (Etheostoma obama) swimming in a Tennessee river, or come upon a lichen (Caloplaca obamae) the color of gold on Santa Rosa Island, off the California coast.
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I can see the turmoil of early adulthood, when so much seems possible and yet while you're trying to figure out which life door to approach and how to pry it open, a trapdoor appears under your feet and you end up in a future you didn't plan for.
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Though he worked on many different projects ranging from trip hop to ambient during this time, it was bass-driven dance music he produced under the name Howie Lee that got the most attention from international record labels and artists—leading to an official remix of Snoop Lion in 2012, and support for his releases in subsequent years on labels like the UK's Trapdoor Records from the likes of Plastician, Scratcha DVA, and BBC's Gilles Peterson.
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For many years, Freud was written about as an intrepid scientist who dared to descend into the foul rag-and-bone shop of the mind, and who emerged as the embodiment of a tragic wisdom—a man who could face up to the terrible fact that a narcissus is never just a narcissus, that underneath the mind's trapdoor is a snake pit of desire and aggression, and, knowing all this, was still able to take tea with his guests.
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These works, which include a series of "soft guitars" rendered by Rogers in fabric and droopingly wall-mounted, a shelf filled with "Vinyl"-scented Yankee Candles, a trio of withered sausages on a long fork, representing the trio of "maybe-cops" watching an MMA fight at the bar, a kind of impossible sex-bike furnished with a dildo (represented in simulacra by a naughty cookie), a set of "family photos" hanging on Marty's wall that were redrawn by McCloughan, and a mysterious ladder to an attic trapdoor — into which Rogers was invited, but declined, understanding this to be a place of no escape.
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