...Chinchilla Guide Chinchillas are native to Chile and Peru. In the wild they live in groups so whilst in captivity they are best to be kept with other chinchillas. They weigh around 1 to 1.5 pounds and can be up to a foot long. They have rounded ears and eyes on either side of a broad head. Their fur is very dense, soft, and pleasant to touch. The fur is often grey, but can be beige, tan, black or white. Chinchillas can live as long as 20 years. Chinchillas can make wonderful pets for the right family. They are smart, inquisitive, and loving animals. They are active, vocal, and entertaining to watch. Since they can live up to 20 years they can be long time companions. They are not recommended for young children. Children are often overzealous with affection and could frighten or injure a chinchilla. A chinchilla could possibly bite a child out of fear. Although loving animals, they do require gentle and careful handling. What Chinchillas need:- Fresh water daily Pelleted food (Chinchillas may pick out favourite parts and miss out on nutrition) Alfalfa or timothy hay. Hay is essential as it keeps the digestive system going and also helps to keep their teeth at a healthy size as they constantly grow throughout their lives! A chew proof cage. Pelleted or shredded paper bedding material. A stoppered water bottle, food bowl or feeder, and a hay rack. Hide areas and tunnels for playing and sleeping. A large exercise wheel with a solid floor. ...
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...Institution Report from Interview Work at an airline calls for undivided attention, focus and stamina. Top executives find themselves torn between balancing work and family. While work is important in ensuring employees meet their family needs, it has become increasing important for senior executives to try to strike a balance between the two (Masuda & Chinchilla, 2010). Ability to ensure both sides are well catered for requires careful examination of ones conduct and building a clear time frame. Success may be achieved at workplace through putting more efforts and time. This means less time and personal touch with family members, which may be harmful to the wellbeing of all parties. In the long run, it does more harm than good. Maintaining a balance between work and family is crucial as it will ensure support from family members as one pursues their goals at the working place. Undergoing a thorough self transformation to achieve a win-win situation will entail time adjustment, more efforts to complete task within given time frame so that time to see ones family is available and is not disrupted (Masuda & Chinchilla, 2010). Not only will the top executive ensure strict adherence to the schedule but will also need to ensure the entire labor force is moving in the same direction, since failure to do so will mean their family time will be consumed solving institutional problems. An interview with the Chief executive officer of Alaska airline revealed that the...
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...Biography Laura Chinchilla Miranda was born on March 28, 1959. Today she is fifty eight years old. She was born in Carmen district, San José. Carmen district is a small, lightly populated area in San José, Costa Rica. It is also the capital city of Costa Rica. San José has an estimated population of 1.97 million. Laura Chinchilla Miranda was born to her father Rafael Ángel Castillo, and mother Emilce Miranda Castillo. She is the oldest child and has four siblings. All of which are men. They were a middle class Roman Catholic family. She was raised around a very politically engulfed family. Her parents have been into politics since she was a young child. Her father, Rafael Ángel Castillo was one of the people in her life that...
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...People hear about animal abuse and do nothing about it, and it needs to stop soon. Parents need to teach the kid how to take care of an animal because the people that don't have an animal are most likely the ones not to take proper care of the animal. There are many problems in the world, but one of the biggest ones is animal abuse. Help!! Animals are dying and being abused right now, Such as your favorite animal like dogs, cats and even pigs and cattle. Dogs are the most common animal to abuse. 4 64.4 % dogs are abused and 25% of them were different kinds of pit bulls. 18% are cat abused and 25% other animals being abused. People kill animals for their fur. Such as chinchillas, minks , opossums, raccoons, rabbits, otters and many more animals. 5 It takes 30 to 300 chinchillas, 60 mink, 45 opossums, 40 raccoons to make a 40 inch fur coat. Australia loses 1,000 sheep die a year and in another state they chop off hooves while they are still...
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...kilometers from Cabo Blanco in the Pacific Ocean and consists of 2,400 hectares of land and 73,100 hectares of sea. The official language is Spanish. The second language for a large portion of the population is English. The official religion is Catholic but freedom of religious choice is respected and the official currency is known as Colons. The country is surrounded by 800 miles of coastline, by the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Costa Rica is proven to be smaller than Lake Michigan United States. “Pura Vida” is commonly heard phrase in the country Costa Rica, it means “pure life” and is often used as a greeting such as “hello” and “goodbye”. Costa Rica is one of a few countries with a female president; the presidents’ name is Laura Chinchilla and has held the position since 2010. The best time to visit Costa Rica is during its summer dry season which runs from December to April. Costa Rican men refer to themselves as “Ticos” and women refer to themselves as “Ticas”. Costa Rica is a common retirement choice for most Americans, many own bars and restaurants there. Costa Ricans playfully refer to their partners as “media naranja,” which means “the other half of my orange.” Blowing your nose in public will make people frustrated at you, in fact in Costa Rica it’s seen as downright impolite and disgusting. Children that are too poor to go to school take classes in Costa Rica’s national radio station. Less than 1% of Costa Ricans are originally from other...
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...Outdoor Education remains my favorite field trip of all time due to all of the memorable activities we experienced. For instance, I was able to touch and hold a wide variety of animals that I had never seen until I visited their science center. One animal was a blue tongue skink that reminded me of leather because it was dry and smooth. The chinchilla was also smooth, yet its fur was also the softest that I had ever felt. This goes to show that one can find similarities in unusual places. I would have never guessed that a reptile and a mammal would have anything in common, but their bodies were pleasing to the touch in different ways! In addition, I also was able to scale to great heights when I visited the high ropes course deep in the forest. Once I had my safety harness and helmet, I surged upward on ladders and nets. The nets were not as challenging as the balance beam which turned out to be my favorite because of the patience and determination that were needed. I realize now that even something difficult can be fun. I hope to use this thought in other areas of my life because now I might achieve even more than before. Finally, I loved splashing around Lake Peters in the canoe with my partner. The direction on how to hold the paddle and how to steer were not that hard, but actually doing it on the lake was difficult. It became less difficult with the help of my partner because we had to work together to be successful. This means that...
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...Nathan Story 13 September, 2012 History 262 Section 14 Columbian Exchange Amerindian peoples were dying from new disease such as the smallpox, yellow fever and malaria as the uninvited Europeans invaded their land. The isolation of the Indians from the rest of the world made their immunity to new diseases very weak. The invasion known as the beginning of the Columbian Exchange brought an epidemic upon Native Americans along with new species of plants, animals and technologies. Christopher Columbus arrived in the main land of America in 1492 by mistake. He planned to find a route to India, but has mistakenly arrived to the shore of America, and as a result, he called the people of the new land “Indians” as we still know them today. This was just one many voyages that tied the New world of America to the rest of the world. As the epidemic swept the new world, so did vast exchanges of plants that altered the diets Amerindians and the rest of the world, especially Europe. The Indians were introduced to olives, grapes, rice, sugar, onions and many other crops. Pigs, cattle sheep and rabbits were introduced; however, the horse had the greatest positive impact on the Native peoples. The...
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...easy for me to overheat causing death. While bath time is my favorite time, my gorgeous fur will retain the water, mat together and become moldy. A bath for me typically consists of rolling and flipping around in fine pumice dust for 15-20 minutes. My baths keep my thick fur silky smooth and are very entertaining to watch. Herbivore would be an accurate work when describing my eating habits. I enjoy eating grass, roots, seeds and fruits. As much as I love fruit, I have to limit myself when eating it because the natural sugars upset my stomach causing me to get sick if I eat too much. However, as a house pet, I am sometimes unable to get all the nutrients I require, and am forced to eat rabbit or guinea pig pellets as a substitute. A chinchilla is what I am. I enjoy cooler climates and eating my alfalfa grass. I am most relaxed in my weekly dust bath. With fur as soft and thick as mine, humans love to make coats and things out of my friends and I. However, to some I make a loving and adorable pet. ...
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...Ian McPherson 11, 16, 2012 Violence Surrounding Marijuana The violence that surrounds marijuana is a major concern for a lot of people, some people believe that it can be changed by legalizing it and therefore taking away the drug cartels number one source of income. The U.S. Office of National Drug Control Policy ... says that more than 60 percent of the profits reaped by Mexican drug lords are derived from the exportation and sale of cannabis to the American market (Armentano2). It is ridiculous to think that the United States can put out a statistic like this and ignore the fact that if they legalized the drug there would be less violence because there would be no point for Mexican drug cartels to try and smuggle the drug into the U.S. In the article “Blame Prohibition, Not Pot Smokers for Violence in Mexico”, published by AlterNet.org, Tony Newman tells us how the people who run the “Just Say No” campaign against drugs have a new scheme in which they plan to blame people who smoke pot for the violence in Mexico. They are hoping to stop younger people from smoking marijuana if they associate it with the murder of people by the drug cartels in Mexico. There are a few problems with these campaigns: They are inaccurate in some cases, and downright dishonest in others.Office of National Drug Control Policy It is disingenuous to connect the average American's marijuana consumption to the horrific violence of Mexico's drug war. The average pot smoker's growing and...
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...honey, a shelter!” she remarked in a cheery tone as we drove. “Didn’t you say the other day that you wanted to get in some volunteering time?” “Mmmerph.” It was too hot for coherent sentences. “We should check it out; we have time.” “Hmng,” I grunted back. The shelter was small, but the chilled gush of wind that greeted us as we first entered the building made the place as welcoming as home. My mom made a bee-line toward the receptionist desk; however, my gaze was detoured to the left where the sounds of muffled squeaking instantly caught my attention. While my mom was getting updated on the infinite list of complications that accompanied the process of applying at a shelter, I inspected the room. To my shock, it was full of cages of chinchillas, guinea pigs, a ferret, and a few birds. I didn’t even know that shelters had these kinds of animals. “...we have this room dedicated to rodents and other pocket-pets,” the receptionist was explaining to my mom. She was probably talking to me too, but my attention had left her and resided upon a familiar-looking cage on the far end. In it, I recognized a long, pink tail dangling from a tiny hammock at the top. “... although most people usually come for the dogs or cats. Anyways, was there anything in particular you wanted to look at?” I pointed at the cage, “um, could I see that one? P-please.” The woman nodded and she led us toward it, picking up a file of paper resting on the top. “This is Lily,” she explained, sorting through the...
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...With the rapid development of modern industry, the demand of energy is constantly ascending. It is urgent to explore new energies to meet the requirement. Coal seam gas which has widely been used in industry is considered as an new energy. Therefore, coal seam gas is playing a vital role in many countries. For instance, coal seam gas industry can provide outstanding economic revenue for Australia (Hamawand , Yusaf, & Hamawand, 2013, p. 552). However, the extraction of coal seam gas encounters opposition because it would bring serious contamination to farmland and environment . This essay will outline the merits of exploiting the coal seam gas which may replace the conventional energy and to reduce contamination. It will also discuss the negative effects of developing the coal seam gas industry on farming and the environment. Coal seam gas is the substaintial energy that can substitute the traditional energy and decrease environmental pollution. First of all, the refining of coal seam gas can lower the environmental pollution. For example, the new Kenya water treatment plant can help changing coal seam gas water to recycle, and thus could reduce the water pollution (GE; advanced technology to produce beneficial water from booming coal seam gas industry in Australia, 2011). Furthermore, the development of coal seam gas can decrease the air pollution. If the discharge of greenhouse gases were limited from burning fossil fuel, the extensive disposal of coal seam gas for coal...
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...AMERICAN PAULOWNIA ASSOCIATION VOL. 15 NO. 2 SEPTEMBER 2006 PAULOWNIA IS NATIVE TO NORTH AMERICA "A Record of Paulownia in the Tertiary of North America" American Journal of Botany 48(2); 175-179 Illus. 1961 Charles J. Smiley Macalester College; St. Paul, Minnesota Reviewed by Ralph Donaldson First, the writer is incompetent as a reviewer of a juried paper on paleobotany in a scientific journal. He is neither paleontologist nor botanist. He is a farmer. The language of the paper being reviewed is alien to him. This attempt is to extract some bits of information that may be of use to growers, promoters, and protectors of Paulownia. First, some definitions. Pre-history has been divided into periods for convenience of study. Often the divisions used correspond to geologic changes-changes being a relative term since many of the "changes" occurred over many millions of years. There have been several such schemes of dividing up the past. As a matter of fact, the Tertiary Period referred to in this 1961 article is part of an obsolete scheme. The Tertiary Period in this article went from about 66 million years ago to about 26 million years ago. Fossils attributed to this time are found in rock strata that are associated with geologic events that can be tied to this period of pre-history. Fossils themselves are rocks; rocks whose formation was influenced by the remains of living matter that was present during their formation. Animal bones buried under sediment eventually-over...
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...El aceso de las mujeres al poder Si los feminicidios son caracteristicas del machismo de la sociedad, cabe tambien subrayar que el ejercicio del poder se ha concentrado mayoritariamente en el género masculino. La mujer a cambio, queda confinada a la esfera domestica y privada. En efecto en 1990, la presencia femenina en los cargos del poder fue solamente de 9 por ciento. Si persiste siempre desigualdad de genero en lo que se refiere al aceso al poder, hoy en dia la presencia femenina representa mas de 20 por ciento. Como explicar la aumentacion del aceso al poder por las mujeres ? Se debe a una combinacion de factores como las transformaciones del capital humano de las mujeres, de las normas culturales y la consolidacion de la democracia ademas de la politica de discriminacion positiva o las cuotas. Las mejoras del capital humano conciernen la adquisition de mas capacidades para asumir liderazgo, en relacion directa con los grados escolares. En efecto, la escolaridad de las mujeres en los años noventa se incrementa a un ritmo superior a la de los hombres. Luego, la apertura cultural a la participacion de las mujeres en la vida publica que resulta de las luchas historicas de las mujeres. Por fin, se explica por la democratizacion de la region y sobre todo gracias a los cuotas. Las cuotas son mecanismos que permiten garantizar que las mujeres conformen al menos un porcentaje minimo (entre el 20 y el 40 %) en un organo de gobierno o de toma de decisiones. Esta legislacion...
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...leadership role and major portfolio in politics has increased worldwide. Take the example of Chancellor of Germany, Angela D. Merkel, now running her third term in office. Since elected on 22nd November 2005, she is the first female elected chancellor for Germany. She has helped Germany weathered the financial woes, which has crippled some of her neighboring countries. There is clear evidence that feminism has led to a positive change as her presence involvement and contribution are now widely accepted and appreciated in the political arena encompassing many nations not just in Europe but also the rest of the world. Other prominent women of huge nations with sizeable populations include President Dilma Rousseff of Brazil and President Laura Chinchilla of Costa Rica, all democratically elected. While it may seems that all three women are predominantly from the western culture, however in 2013, Park Geun-hye became the eleventh and the first female...
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...Gender Equality Women have faced major discrimination when it comes to work and sometimes in education. Women decades ago had a wide range of opportunities denied to them due to their sex. Women have always been looked upon as the weaker sex and men as stronger and as the rulers. Women years ago were not seen as individuals, they were basically their husband’s slaves. Women were the ones to stay home, make dinner for their cranky and tired husband, look after their children, clean the house and answer to their husband. It was pretty safe to say that women were never the ones that over ruled this society, but “there have been huge changes…” (182) in gender equality. Gender equality has changed dramatically over the years and the shift toward gender equality will continue over the next years to come. It all started in the 19th century something important was born and it was the birth of the women's rights movement. Women were tired of being the “caregiver[s]” (Gender Roles Within American Marriage) while the men were the “breadwinners” (Gender Roles Within American Marriage). Women had to do change things around because they could not live the same life they were living. Many of the “women were suffering under the dominance of men in their lives” (Gender Roles Within American Marriage). It was time for women to fight for “gender equality in family and society economics, social, cultural, and educational fields” (Gender Roles Within American Marriage). It was not easy for...
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