...First discovered in 1900, little was known about the happy-face spider until 1972. The obviously named happy-face spider is a small spider found in the native rainforests of the islands Maui, The Big Island of Hawaii, Oahu and Molokai at elevations of 1000 to 6000 feet. Typically around a quarter of an inch long, its diet consists of small insects that it hunts mainly during the night for small insects. They spin their webs on the undersides of leaves of specific plants and usually avoid contact with humans or other potentially danger animals, although only birds present a natural threat. Humans present a possible danger due to loss of habitat to agriculture, but the population is apparently healthy. The happy-face spider’s most admired feature is its bright yellow coloring and a strange pattern of red and black spots on the abdomen. These spots vary widely from spider to spider, making them of interest to scientists who have hypothesized that the different spots provide camouflage against birds and other predators. Strangely enough, the red and black spots, combined with the yellow body, tend to make the spider's abdomen look like the widely known yellow smiley face. The expressions on the abdomen of the spider can range from sad, happy, and excited, to bored or angry. Though individuals differ extremely in their color patterns, these differences are evenly distributed, with the same ratio of Yellow forms to Red front forms in every population, regardless of its separation...
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...Battle of The Arachnids Fighting spiders is one of the all-time favourite pastimes of the boys and male adults in the past. This was shown in a television series on Channel 5 local television channel in the recent years called “Fighting Spider”. The trend started in the early 1960s within the rural times of Singapore. Boys would go around looking for male fighting spiders (Thiania Bhamoens is called fighting spiders within the Southeast Asia) which hide in the hedges inside long leaves ideally in cool quiet locations with very little human activities or traffic. The boys can catch these spiders and place it into matchboxes and produce it to contend with their friend’s spiders. But, before that they are going to make sure the gender of the spiders, as feminine spiders are not smart for fighting, the males are far more aggressive and territorial that in scientific terms agnostic behaviour. So, in physical comparison, females have larger abdomens, shorter legs and the look is duller. little items of leaves and a drop of water square measure placed into the matchboxes furthermore to form the spiders comfy and their natural home atmosphere. To train smart fighting spiders, the boys tend to follow some ‘champion training’ guide which range from their diet. As for the ‘champion training’ diet, the spiders are fed with smaller specimens of comparable species to ignite their cannibalistic behaviours creating the spiders extra aggressive and improved fighters. Also, a couple of droplets...
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...ESTUDO DE CASO: O PROJETO DE BLUE SPIDER "Isso é impossível! Não dá para acreditar! Dez meses atrás, que eu estava sentado no topo do mundo. A alta administração considerava-me um dos melhores, se não o melhor engenheiro desta fábrica. Agora olhe para mim! Eu estou cheio de olheiras, depois de seis meses sem uma noite de sono decente, e não consigo acreditar que só me resta limpar a minha mesa e ir-me embora. Congratulo-me, com certeza, por voltar para o meu antigo emprego em engenharia. O problema é que nada disso teria aconteciddo se não fosse a promoção a gerente de projeto." História Gary Anderson tinha aceitado trabalhar na Park Corporation recémsaído da faculdade. Com um PhD em engenharia mecânica, Gary estava pronto e decidido para enfrentar e resolver todos os problemas do mundo. Em primeiro lugar, a Park Corporation não ofereceu a Gary muitas oportunidades para fazer pesquisa pura, que este queria, ansiosamente, desenvolver. No entanto, as coisas mudaram rapidamente. A Parks cresceu e tornou-se uma das principais empresas em um projetos estruturais e electrónicos durante o grande "Boom" do final da década de 50 e início da década de 60 quando os contratos do departamento de defesa (DoD) eram abundantes. A Parks cresceu de pouco mais de meia dúzia de engenheiros para se transformar num dos maiores provedores do DoD, empregando cerca de 6.500 pessoas. Entretanto, durante a recessão que marcou o final dos anos sessenta, o dinheiro tornou-se escasso e houve demissões...
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...“Orb Spider” by Judith Beveridge Summary Judith Beveridge’s “Orbs Spider” is about a typical garden spider outside her home that she observes during the day. The poet describes the spider’s activity in detail and the spider’s own perspective on the world that she lives in compared to the human world. The poet gives a subject matter, reveals emotions and does this through tone, technique structure, language structure, and imagery. One of the main ideas of “Orb Spider” is the comparison of nature to humans. Judith Beveridge notes that as humans, we are so caught up in life such as work and schooling that we have not yet appreciated the small details and the “little things” of natural beauty that we tend to ignore these on a daily basis. We fail to recognise them too. Judith Beveridge sees beauty in nature and she believes that the miniature structure of the spider is didactic and the poet learns to draw attention to the intricacies and small details that life provides her. The poet incorporates the philosophy of mere existence into the poem. “Orb Spider” shows a garden spider and a microcosmically ordered and perfectly structured spider’s web that the spider created. The natural ability of the spider to create such a faultless design in its web is used as a symbol for the innate order existing in the universe. A small detail in nature is chosen, which shows readers an overwhelming truth. It is that despite how small the spider’s world actually is (relating the spider with...
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...write. Spider-Man is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics existing in itsshared universe. The character was created by writer-editor Stan Lee and writer-artist Steve Ditko, and first appeared in the anthology comic book Amazing Fantasy #15 This is some new stuff that I am now writing. When Comic boOks were accused of causing crime, many, many people wanted to ban comic books, comic books are not the reason kids are mean and violent. Or breaking the law. Or just being all around jerks. That’s whats inside, tnot what is from comci books . First, when Spider-Man originally appeared in the 1960s, adolescents in superhero comics were usually relegated to sidekick...
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...Dylan Gardner Gardner Mrs. Finkenbinder page1 7th English 12 May, 2017 Spiders The first thing that comes to your mind about spiders, that they are nasty! But people think that insects are cool. I am going to talk about where they live, what they do for a living, how spiders can disappear and how bad do spider bites hurt. Which spiders live in South Florida? There are jumping spiders that are smarter than other spiders, there are crab spiders that got there name from there legs like fashion like crabs. There are black widow spiders that can use there invisible webs to trick their prey. There are lots of spiders in Florida that I can't name. Which spiders live in North Canada? There are wolf spiders that can use electric lights...
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...Six New Species of Jumping Spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) from Hui- Sun Experimental Forest Station, Taiwan You-Hui Bao1 and Xian-Jin Peng2,* 1Department of Zoology, Hunan Normal University, Changsha 410081, China 2Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100080, China (Accepted July 16, 2002) You-Hui Bao and Xian-Jin Peng (2002) Six new species of jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) from Hui- Sun Experimental Forest Station, Taiwan. Zoological Studies 41(4): 403-411. The present paper reports on 6 new species of jumping spiders (Chinattus taiwanensis, Euophrys albopalpalis, Euophrys bulbus, Pancorius tai- wanensis, Neon zonatus, and Spartaeus ellipticus) collected from pitfall traps established in Hui-Sun Experimental Forest Station, Taiwan. Detailed morphological characteristics are given. Except for Pancorius, all other genera are reported from Taiwan for the 1st time. http://www.sinica.edu.tw/zool/zoolstud/41.4/403.pdf Key words: Chinattus, Euophrys, Pancorius, Neon, Spartaeus. Jumping spiders of the family Salticidae are the most specious taxa in the Araneae, and cur- rently a total of 510 genera and more than 4600 species have been documented (Platnick 1998). However, the diversity of jumping spiders in Taiwan is poorly understood. Until very recently, only 18 species from 10 genera had been described, almost all of which were published in the 19th century (Chen 1996). Despite the fact that the diversity of jumping spiders is the highest globally among...
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...Communication & Marketing High Velocity Edge The High Velocity Edge was a very hard read for me. I found reading it almost a chore. I do however, from sitting on the sidelines wanting to learn by observing my administrators, understand the basic idea of the book. High Velocity companies lead the way. They have basically worked out all the kinks and foreseen the possibilities of what may or may not occur. They develop a means of communication paired with teamwork, and accountability. One of my favorite comparisons in the book was: “A more appropriate image is the spider web, a complex intertwining of strands. One or another may snap, and the web may hold, but if just the right combination fails, the web snaps. No wonder then that spiders repair rips and tears as they occur, not waiting for the failures to accumulate.” (Spear 15%) I feel this analogy should be the foundation of any business. If you arrive at a wrinkle, you just can’t push it to the side and forget about it. It will eventually resurface and might even be a larger concern. From my experience working in health care, I noticed when there was problem staff, meaning, staff that wouldn’t follow the job description or disguarded the basics of customer service. The administration would overlook the problem instead of writing them up or in servicing them on the proper protocols. However, when new staff came in they would get the proper in-services. The administration would clearly explain to the new...
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...Good morning ladies and gentlemen, I’ve been chosen by the ‘young Australian women association’ to deliver a speech. I’ll be talking to you about the poem ‘orb spider’ by Judith Beveridge, and the film ‘not without my daughter’ directed by Brian Gilbert and produced by Harry J Ufland, through a variety of techniques these composers have represented women in many ways, and I’ll be talking about it to all of you present here today. The poem ‘orb spider’ by Judith Beveridge, she connects her own feelings through watching the spider, usually spiders are associated with being scary/hairy etc. The spider goes about being un-noticed, like many mothers and emphasising the importance of every day female energy, in reminding us of the balance sense of order in the world. “I saw her, pegging out her web” the metaphoric or symbolic representation, she refers to the spiders to every day representation of women like pegging out the washing, “this as pressed flowers in the bleaching light”, the simile used as pressing flowers in a relation to women’s everyday life by ironing or pressing the clothes or by organising meals. “She taught me to love the smallest transit”. The poet has learnt from the spider to love and appreciate the small things in life. As we can see in this poem the domestic settings (housewife duties) portrays the stereotype of representation of women as housewives in our society today. Over the centuries or since the beginning of time, women have been oppressed and...
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...Lisa C. Litz Ramona Brockman Environmental Science February 18, 2014 Benchmark Part 1 Nature Observation ~ Pond and Surrounding Woods, West Pointe, CA Our favorite place for taking nature walks is in the woods surrounding my parent’s cabin in West Pointe, Ca. My daughter and I have been taking walks in the woods up there for over six years. We have seen a variety of different animals up there on our various outings depending on the time of year we’re up there and the time of day we take our walks. All of the plants and animals we’ve seen up there make up the biotic factors for this environment. There are a number of different species of trees and flowering plants around my parent’s cabin and the outlying trails we go exploring on. Even though there are a number of cabins up here, they haven’t really disturbed the environment to the point that it’s affected the number of different creatures that still wander through the woods. Besides all of the wonderful biotic factors we so enjoy up here there are also a few abiotic factors that interact with the wildlife. There is a slow running stream that runs between a few of the cabins, and then a couple of miles down the road there’s a large standing pond just off to the side of the road. The main abiotic factor is the sun, which is where all the living organisms derive their energy from. Energy is another abiotic factor. The plants derive energy directly from the sun, whereas the animals get their energy indirectly from the sun by...
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...Blue Spider OM761 Zhiyun(Kevin) Kuang Problem: Gary was given the opportunity to be the Project Manager because of his R&D background, but he doesn’t have the experience or skills to manage a project. Technical background itself will not make an efficient project manager. Major Issues: 1. Gary focused too much on R&D works or administrative paper works without a balance. 2. Error on financial planning. 3. No standby schedule when the formal one was interrupted by predictably possible changes. 4. Lack of communication with the Lord since the beginning which leaded to cost more than double time on communication after that. 5. Gary can not find Gable when he needed support. And Gable intervene the project several times without noticing Gary, which makes the project management works more chaos, it leaded to reschedule or re-do works at the last minute. Recommendations: 1. Paul’s job is to take most responsibility for the R&D works. Additional staff can take responsibility for additional administrative paper works. Gary can spend most of his time on managing the whole project through managing other people. 2. Discussion with Elliot will be useful before submitting any plan to top managers. 3. Make a standby schedule for different stages and hand out to every department with the formal schedules. Standby schedule can be made based on slack time or different time for specific task. 4. Meet with Lord at every stage of the project. Can use electronic detailed schedule and task sheets...
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...Menageries Owning an unusual pet was a way to show wealth and power to others. These were known as Menageries. A menagerie is a private collection of animals, which is not open to the public as a zoo is in our times now. When a family decides to buy a family pet, generally they look at fancy fish, sweet little kittens or even a high-spirited puppy. They would not think about going out and buying a lion for their young child to play with. However, many people get unusual pets. Yet, it does affect society in a way because of the effects owning an unusual animal as a pet has on the community as well as to the animal. Exotic animals do not belong as a personal pet. Examples of this are Madagascar hissing cockroach, Sugar gliders and Tarantula. Selecting a cockroach as a pet may seem a stretch, but many people like it as a pet. Madagascar hissing cockroach is no ordinary roach. It can grow up to 3 inches long and over an inch wide. Well it’s not something you would hit with a rolled-up magazine for sure. This type of cockroach is clean, odorless, sanitary, docile and harmless. Besides size and personal hygiene, the hissing cockroach is unique for the sound it makes. The hissing noise can be heard during mating rituals, aggression between males or when an adult males, adult female or nymph are handled or disturbed in some way. Studies have shown that males can tell each other apart by hissing, which also tells them something of size of their potential opponents. Also, females are...
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...draw:frame} Blue Spider Project Compiled By: Dirk Bottinger Student Number: 6907025308081 Dirk Bottinger DOCUMENT INDEX Executive Summary This document examines the following case: An organization called Parks Corporation for the purpose of this document they are a sub contractor to a larger firm called Lord Industries Current Organizational situation Parks Corporation is in low cost production facility that had to retrench 4300 employees when the defense contract market that they had penetrated went through a bad financial patch. This forced the company to return to low cost production as this is where they made their money and as a survival tack tike. As markets improved the company grew again and they landed a sub contract deal through Lord Industry for redesign of the Spartan missile through research and development that could ultimately be worth $500 million to Parks Corporation Current Organizational Problems Parks Corporation’s top management has neglected to secure highly skilled personnel as they are not willing to pay for them and has thus used a method of promoting from within the company but neglected to provide sufficient training. They also hired engineer’s strait out of college to save on wage costs. Parks Corporation management has no company policies or procedures that are followed and make decision on matters without discussions with project leaders. This miss management is leading to employee dissatisfaction. Their attitude towards training or...
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