...closer the men. Many were armed with video recording devices which they used to capture the details of the match. A crowd gathered around as the police arrived and the paramedics attempted to reach the injured and treat their wounds after one of the person involved in the fight shot the other one. My husband and I ran away when we heard the gun shot but we could still see how the crowd reacted to the event in the distance. The police officers and the paramedics tried to keep the people away from the scene but a lot of people remained close to the site and tried to tape the events with their electronic devices. We felt very worried and scared after this event and even tried to change the dates of our trip to return earlier. 2- Founding out that my grandfather had passed away. Discovering that my Grandfather had passed away was a tragic and heartbreaking realization. It brought sad emotions to me and a large number of people in my family. These emotions prevailed for several months. The way in which I learned of his passing was an example of spontaneous collective behavior. Those that learned first of the news were quick to spread it to others via social media rather than traditional means. In the past most people would...
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...good, and survived unpleasant times. Everyone has experienced both expected and unforeseen events that have made profound impacts on them. On April 19, 2013, I underwent the most profound imprint of my life, giving birth to my daughter, Sydney Lillian Diggs. I remember the day I found out I was pregnant. It was one of the happiest and scariest days of my life due to a previous miscarriage just a few months before. I took two home pregnancy tests, then another at my doctor’s office to make sure I was not dreaming. The doctor confirmed I was pregnant! My fiancé and I listened to the baby's heart beating. It was the most absolutely amazing experience. My emotions went from laughter to crying tears of joy. A few weeks later we went for the ultrasound. We were on our wonderful journey to become parents. I had my delivery plan all mapped out. Since my fiancé works two hours away, I had contingency hospital plan. My sister who lives a mile from me, was my back up plan. In addition, I have a close friend Akilah that lives two blocks away has a flexible schedule during the day. All of Sydney's clothes and bedding were washed and organized. My bags were packed. I anxiously waited for the big day anticipating everything was under control. On April 18 2013, my fiancé was at work. I started having contractions, but they were not close, they were about 20 minutes apart. I called my fiancé, as well as my sister, to advise them. Believing there was plenty of time because...
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...The Market / Customer Situation * customer description: The main target market for big day out is people aged 18 to late 20’s, who have an interest in mainstream, contemporary rock and electronic music (such as kanye West, Soundgarden, Muse and Foo Fighters). Most of the people targeted will live in the major cities where big day out is held (Sydney, Melbourne, Perth, Adelaide, the Gold Coast and Auckland new Zealand) however people from country locations who have access to social media sites such as facebook and twitter are also targeted. Big Day Out also has a large amount of loyal fans that attend yearly. There is a different type of festival on offer with 3 or more main stages which allows different genres to play at once meaning there is always something happening to cater for all clientele. As a result of the more diverse product range different markets can be targeted allowing Big Day Out to target a much larger market than other festivals. * The size of your market and growth trends: The festival has grown significantly since it began with 700 musicians and crew travelling with the festival in 2010 compared with 70 in 1993 (e-tainment news, 2012) however in the last year there has been a massive decline in ticket sales, taking the Adelaide festival as a sample only 1200 ticked holders attended the show this year being 2012 this is less than half the amount of ticket holders from last year’s show 2011 which had a turnout of 30000 ticket holders this...
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...Xrace adventure competition There are 5 stages – Jelgava, Mazsalaca, Ventspils, Rīga, Jūrmala. Competition | Description | Chats and forums | August 17, the action takes place at Riga, during Riga Festival. Competition is based on orienteering, cycling, rowing, and other fascinating mind and little extreme special tasks that require team cooperation. Also in teams need to be at least one female. | Sports course time spent is 5-8h, 15 km on foot, by bicycle 50 km, 3 km by boat. Distance more suitable for professional athletes, but it can be done and at the same time a challenge to those who regularly do sports every day 500 Triatel xRace adventure racers | Andris“We needed to wait for boats and also find spot for bike. That was frustrating”Pi“It would be a great step if you had brown bread at the boat point as white bread definitely did not help. Now it is just almost perfect :)”rukiitis„What about car parking? Is there a special place for free, or place along the streets or under the park for a fee?” | 6-7. July Ventspils was hosting another such competition. This was the night phase, which is exciting in that the participants take the race in the dark. | Although the distance at night requires more physical strength, sharpen the mind and ability to hold the attention in spite of sleep, the participants, in particular, waiting and assess those steps. more than 100 teams | AndrisAnsabergs, team captain Ebike"The stage was exciting from start to finish line. The need to...
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...The biggest orangutan in the captivity was a 265 pound male that can get up to 300 pounds since its still growing, the zookeeper informed me. Then I asked “who are bigger males or females?”, the zookeeper told me that makes were much heavier in weight and were taller. In this orangutan captivity I saw six orangutans, two of them were a mom and her 1 year old baby orangutan, I was told by the zookeeper. This baby was beautiful and would only be around her mother, there was not a second she would separate from her. From my observation I saw them sleep together and when mama orangutan woke up she stretched out just like a human would right after waking up. After she stretched she swinged on the ropes, and one minute later the baby orangutan woke up brachiating to her mother. The zookeeper notified me, saying that the baby orangutan learned to brachiate when he was 7 months old. After the baby swinged to her mom they started playing with each other, but mom soon looked like she got tired and picked up her baby and nicely throw her on her back, like a piggy back ride. Mama orangutan starting walking on all fours with her feet curled to the side and her fist acting like feet to get food...
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...they are dispersed by ocean currents. * One female lionfish can lay over 2 million eggs a year. * Also, lionfish reproduction occurs throughout the year and as frequently as 4 days (whereas Native Indo-Pacific lionfish breed once a year) Slide #4 * With no known predators -- except human beings -- they can wipe out 90% of a reef. The venomous, fast reproducing fish are aggressive eaters and will consume anything and everything, gorging so much they are actually getting liver disease. * This lack of instinct by native fish allows lionfish to reduce juvenile fish populations by 80% and sometimes even more. * Ecologist James Morris with the National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science said that, “the lionfish has brought a big change in biodiversity, and it is what he called the most abundant top-level predator on some coral reefs (in the Atlantic).” Slide #5 * However, the lionfish are destroying the reefs and killing the biodiversity, which is reducing Bermuda income on the reefs each year. Slide #7 * The zookeeper was invented by a guy down in Curacao. The zookeeper is a plastic tube that allows divers to store lionfish in while they are hunting. And the Magnus scooters allow divers to cover larger areas of water quicker to capture more lionfish. * Now a days it is so easy to get a spear fishing license for lionfish that many people go and get it so they can go spearfishing in their free time. * Across Bermuda, residents are also doing...
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...Last year on my cousin's birthday I went to the zoo. When I walked in I seen a zookeeper carrying a bucket of food . I had to see the monkeys first but it was my cousin's birthday so she wanted to see zebras When we seen them they were in a small cage and when a zookeeper came out with food the zebra seemed very happy. I thought it was just for the food but it was because of the human. I was reading the story of “let people own exotic animals” and Zuzana Kukol the author was really saying stuff that supports my claim. She was saying that 3.25 of people died each year from exotic animals and that more people die of car accidents per day! Also, that she would say that many people know how to take of animals. I think this story was best for...
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...The first time Fu Manchu broke out, zookeepers chalked it up to human error. On a balmy day, the orangutans at the Omaha Zoo had been playing in their big outdoor enclosure. Not long thereafter, shocked keepers looked up and saw Fu and his family hanging out in some trees near the elephant barn. Later investigation revealed that the door that connects the furnace room to the orangutan enclosure was open. Head keeper Jerry Stones chewed out his staff, and the incident was forgotten. But the next time the weather was nice, Fu Manchu escaped again. Fuming, Stones recalls, "I was getting ready to fire someone." The next nice day, alerted by keepers desperate to keep their jobs, Stones finally managed to catch Fu Manchu in the act. First, the young ape climbed down some air-vent louvers into a dry moat. Then, taking hold of the bottom of the furnace door, he used brute force to pull it back just far enough to slide a wire into the gap, slip a latch and pop the door open. The next day, Stones noticed something shiny sticking out of Fu's mouth. It was the wire lock pick, bent to fit between his lip and gum and stowed there between escapes. Fu Manchu's jailbreaks made headlines in 1968, but his clever tricks didn't make a big impression on the scientists who specialize in looking for signs of higher mental processes in animals. At the time, much of the action in animal intelligence was focused on efforts to teach apes to use human languages. No researcher cared much about ape...
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...Like the Cross River Gorillas are critically endangered there’s only 250 of them left in the world. Only 4% are in captivity so if zoos are supposedly helping endangered animals where are they helping the Cross river gorillas. If only 4% are in zoos that’s 10 out of 250. “ Most animals confined in zoos are not endangered, nor are they being prepared for release into natural habitats. In fact, it is nearly impossible to release captive-bred animals, including threatened species like elephants, polar bears, gorillas, tigers and chimpanzees into the wild.” “Zoos aren’t breeding animals with the intent of replenishing threatened populations: Babies bring visitors through the gates, and captive breeding gives the public a false sense of security about a species’ survival.” (Don’t Zoos help..,...
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...Cisco IT Case Study – August 2013 Big Data Analytics How Cisco IT Built Big Data Platform to Transform Data Management EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CHALLENGE ● Unlock the business value of large data sets, including structured and unstructured information ● Provide service-level agreements (SLAs) for internal customers using big data analytics services ● Support multiple internal users on same platform SOLUTION ● Implemented enterprise Hadoop platform on Cisco UCS CPA for Big Data - a complete infrastructure solution including compute, storage, connectivity and unified management ● Automated job scheduling and process orchestration using Cisco Tidal Enterprise Scheduler as alternative to Oozie RESULTS ● Analyzed service sales opportunities in one-tenth the time, at one-tenth the cost ● $40 million in incremental service bookings in the current fiscal year as a result of this initiative ● Implemented a multi-tenant enterprise platform while delivering immediate business value LESSONS LEARNED ● Cisco UCS can reduce complexity, improves agility, and radically improves cost of ownership for Hadoop based applications ● Library of Hive and Pig user-defined functions (UDF) increases developer productivity. ● Cisco TES simplifies job scheduling and process orchestration ● Build internal Hadoop skills ● Educate internal users about opportunities to use big data analytics to improve data processing and decision making NEXT STEPS ● Enable NoSQL Database and advanced...
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...Cat Tales Zoological Park & Training Center COURSE CATALOG Update - PUBLISHED - May 2012, Updated - May 2012 The Zoological Training Center (ZTC) is solely owned and operated by the Cat Tales Zoological Park. All operations and aspects of the school and the Park itself are determined by the Board of Directors and its management committee. Board officers are elected for a one year term. The current list of Officers and Board Members are as follows: PRESIDENT Kristine Birdsell VICE PRESIDENT Bob Holman SECRETARY Jennifer Schaub TREASURER Debbie Wyche OTHER BOARD MEMBERS Steve Corker Mike Wyche Location of Cat Tales Zoological Training Center The administration offices of the school are located on the Park grounds: Cat Tales - Zoological Training Center N. 17020 Newport Hwy Mead, WA 99021 (509) 238-4126 Faculty ___________________________________________________________________ Deborah (Debbie) J. Wyche Zoo Director, Zoological Training Center Director/Training Supervisor Experience and Education • Intensive study of felidae since 1985 • Construction and implementation of Cat Tales Zoological Park in 1990 • Extensive research and practical implementation of feline husbandry, management, reproduction and neonatal care. • Extensive knowledge of feline reproduction and artificial insemination. • Extensive study and instruction in feline anatomy, physiology, husbandry and management, enrichment, exhibit building, zoo management, retail personality...
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...principles while dealing with its own kind. Whenever ethics were encroached upon, man stood up against it, questioned it and regained it. But unfortunately, lacking advanced communication like humans, animals are unable to. Human intervention in wildlife has bereaved animals of total control over their own lives. Man may reason out his intrusion, yet, the animals in captivity, being deprived of their natural habitats and having bred in man-made enclosures for generations, tend to misperceive their animality. It is indispensable to have an insight into what causes the bereavement of animals and how it is caused, before looking into its moral principles. Among the contrastive places that I came across in which animal captivity is proceeded, wildlife preservation zoos are the most popular, and least considered as a confinement of animal freedom. Thousands of people visit zoos daily but rarely give a thought to the miserable lives that animals have to spend stagnating and sleeping, due to the less spacious and artificial residences provided. Some present enclosures in zoos have been changed to natural barriers, instead of iron bars. Yet the space that the zookeepers can provide is limited and barely sufficient when in comparison with their natural habitats. Animals in zoos are not only bereaved of natural setting, but also of natural behavior. It is pathetic that animals like zebras, elephants and stags who by nature live in herds, have to live alone, at the most with one other partner...
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...well maintained, since Copeland originally planned on becoming a zookeeper. In addition to the pets, the family maintains good health and no long-term health problems. Overall, the McClain family gets along quite well; arguments and disagreements are rare in their home. All her life, Siren has always wanted to work in the medical field, so being a pediatric surgeon is perfect for her. She values positive changes and kindness; throughout her life, she has always completed small deeds to brighten people’s days. Additionally, teamwork, dedication, and determination are important to her. She’s interested in completing challenging tasks and doing things to help others, especially children. Working in teams is very fun for her, too. Siren is especially talented at observing subtle changes. Also, her ability to steadily make intricate steps and tasks is outstanding. Copeland has always had a strong urge to become a photographer. Her values and interests, which include nature, peace, and adventure, clearly show that her job suits her. She’s always been interested in savoring moments, animals, and camera technology, so her job is extremely interesting to her. Additionally, she’s able to easily find details and observe subtle things, similar to Siren. Copeland, who can easily work a camera, can also adjust photos and find proper angles with ease, therefore making her job quite simple. At first, Copeland wanted to be a zookeeper, but that was set aside and she became a photographer. Mainly...
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...The habitats that many animals in captivity live in are inadequate in size. Because of this small space, many of the animals become lazy, which results in them becoming over weight. These cramped spaces also cause stress in certain animals. For example, the tanks for the killer whales in SeaWorld are about 350 feet long and 50 feet deep. For one killer whale to swim as much as it would in the wild per day, it would have to swim about 1,210 laps around the pool. Then add up how many killer whales are in one tank. Many get very stressed and often fight each other. With this stress, their lifespan also decreases. Some animals have shorter lifespans than others in captivity. In the wild, a killer whale can live up to 30 to 50 years old on average. In captivity, the average age is 13 years old. Another example is a certain Western Lowland gorilla. They can live up to 40 to 60 years in captivity, but Harambe, a gorilla that lived in the Cincinnati zoo, was shot and killed at the age of 17. It was a result of human interference and he would still be alive today if he was in the...
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...Growing up, I was always changing what I wanted to be. My dream jobs as a child consisted of training service dogs, teaching, and even being a zookeeper. Although I had never settled on any one career, I knew I wanted to help people and make a difference. This is the reason why I joined the Special Olympics Unified Sports program at my school. This program was created to give handicapped and disabled children the opportunity to participate in sports such as basketball and soccer. My job is to guide the kids and offer any assistance that I can. However, my most important task is to motivate them. I yell as loud as I can and make jokes to get them to crack a smile. This program is my world. I love hearing their screams of joy when they see me; whether it’s in practice or in the hallway at school. My favorite part is watching them succeed. For these kids, this program is their life and their favorite part about school; I want to make this as fun for them as possible. I love seeing their faces light up as the score a goal or shoot a basket, and it makes me so happy...
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