![]() So much of the zoo felt “off” that I wonder if anyone has the scoop about what’s going on there. In my experience, when employees act so completely “over it” it’s often because they’re being unappreciated, underpaid, un-listened to and mismanaged. The whole place seemed so overwhelmingly geared at selling: food, t-shirts, estate planning (I’m not kidding, they have a booth for that), time shares, etc. The workers seemed to have that classic, jaded, “DMV” attitude. We went to the LA Zoo yesterday (my first time in about 20 years) and the vibe was Rough. Usually they involve drinking heavily, but sometimes we get more creative. Socials are sporadic special events promoted by /r/LosAngeles. Content that would normally be removed for self-promotion is allowed within reason. Comments with proper formatting will appear in the Events Table. Posting about a meet-up or event? Use the stickied Meet-up and Events Thread. "What should I do?" (link broken here, too. Please visit the Rules Page for all rules & guidelines. Hit the "edit" link by your username in the sidebar above ⬆️️ to pick a neighborhood. It took about 2-3 hours to go through, for some of the exhibits were closed.WARNING: /r/LosAngeles contains rules and users known to the State of California to cause cancer. So after all this mess, it was still worth it for the zoo was very nice to go through with the plants, animals and statues. We then took our tickets to this lady and she asked what time were our tickets and I let her know, no time was mentioned, so she stated go on in. It was 41.00 for 1 senior and 1 adult, not a bad price. We got to the other window and the lady stated they were not honoring memberships from other zoos, if I wanted to go in I would have to pay, so we did. We got in line and waited our turn, when we were told, if we had member tickets we had to go to a different line, so we did, then that man stated we had to go to a window and talk to that person, for we were not LA Zoo members, so we did and then that person referred us to another person, who stated he could not sell tickets and we had to go to another window. We got lost a couple of times trying to get there, but made it with about 15 minutes to spare. It told me all were free, just order them on line, with your date and time, so I did. We are AZA members, so I asked it's A I chat about the price of tickets and how to get them. I got online to find out where and how we get tickets to it. We like to visit zoos in other states and cities, so we decided to visit this one. If they feel like that, they will leave reviews like this one. Yes, the park need to find ways to get money to support the operation.but not in a way that has its customers leaving feeling they had been cheated. The soft serve ice cream in a plastic cup was a single golf ball size scoop which was some how scooped to be hollow but appearing to be a soild scoop. A pint can of water should not cost $5.49. ![]() ![]() BUT the prices for the limited "refreshments" make the prices at the airport seem cheap. I know that fiscal challenges must be VERY difficult and that management is looking for income sources. Careful examination of the maps did appear to have glue residue in spots leading me to think that perhaps "You are here" stickers may have been peeled off.Īll of the above, to me, just leads to a need to do some re-imagining to tired ideas. Unfortunately, the maps did not have the "You are here" markers which was clearly recognized by people trying to find out where to go. ![]() Site maps are strategically placed throughout the park. Most were either alone or accompanied by one equally unhappy specimen. Most of the animals looked like I guess I would if I was in their environment. Few, how ever, actually had any indication that any work was in progress. Although I did not actually count, it appeared that upwards of 1/3 of the animal areas were closed or reportedly under renovation. We (2 adults, 2 teen boys and a 3 year old boy) spent about 4 hours on Sunday(10/9/22). The zoo has potential, but also needs help. ![]()
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In this chapter, we’ll cover how researchers can use Zotero to capture the metadata from Pressbooks webbooks: You may add as much text as you like and as many notecards to a source as you wish.Zotero is a popular open-source reference management tool that allows researchers to collect all the information they need from all the digital resources they’re using in one central place (for more information, check out ).You can open this up in a separate window if you want a larger space. This allows you to put in quotes, external links, and other formatting that will help you with your research. However, you will also see a blank line and off to the right is a space to record your notes, using html. These are "notes" from the original digital bibliographic record. Reference Manager, Procite): Use RIS export/import. 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The tracker then updates for the final time-though, you should already know that the order’s been completed based on the pizza in your hands. Once the order is delivered and the driver returns, the driver signs back in to indicate that his run is complete. But that makes sense: if you take away the neo-Nazis and lunatics, Twitter would just be eight journalists and three standup comedians from New York.įinally, although we recognize that a number of right-wing pizza lovers will be disappointed in the removal of Infowars from the Domino’s website, don’t worry - we are in the process of creating a ‘Mainstream Republican Party’ theme, which is getting closer and closer to Infowars every day.What does complete mean on Dominos tracker? Not all websites need follow our lead - Twitter, for example, has remained steadfast in allowing Jones and Infowars free reign on their platform. As George Orwell once said, “The Pizza Tracker is the last great bastion of human expression to lose it would be to lose freedom itself.” This quote, like any quote that contains a semicolon, is one we believe wholeheartedly. We will always encourage the free exchange of ideas. With the Infowars extension, you could see when your pizza is being radicalized - when it is doughy, white, and impressionable - and this, we now realize, has no place on our website.įurthermore, we would like to apologize for our selection of white nationalist and conspiracy-themed pizzas, which included: White, Pepe-aroni, QAnonion, Deep State Dish, (Chemicals Are Turning The Frogs Into) Meat Lovers, and New York Style, which was a pizza that has descended into criminal anarchy under Democrats. The Domino’s Pizza Tracker allows you to see when your pizza is being prepped, baked, boxed, and out for delivery. Hate and pizza do not coexist at Domino’s - we’re not Papa John’s. The Pizza Tracker is a place for discourse for people from all political stripes, where anyone can discuss ideas while they wait to see what their delivery driver’s name is. We believe in free speech on our platform, as displayed by our broad range of themes for the Pizza Tracker - basketball, baseball, romance, and heavy metal. Here at Domino’s, we have also decided it’s time to stop giving Infowars a mouthpiece, and have decided to remove them from our Online Pizza Tracker. Finally, yesterday Apple, Facebook, and Spotify have removed Infowars for good. 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Watch the full movie online 5.6 million: Gridlock’d is a 1997 American black comedy crime film written and directed by Vondie Curtis-Hall and starring Tupac Shakur, Tim Roth, Lucy Liu, and Thandie Newton. Meanwhile traffic going outbound in the afternoon on weekdays between 3pm and 7pm are bumper to bumper – driving at an even slower rate of 26 km per hour. Pacific Motorway has climbed the ranks from third place in 2021, to first position with the road branded this year’s most congested road.Īccording to the RACQ Average Travel Speed on Motorways and Other Major Corridors March report, vehicles driving inbound on the Pacific Motorway between Okeefe street and North Quay between 6am and 10am on weekdays tend to travel at a speed of 33km per hour. With Jeff Houkal, Brighid Fleming, Wolfgang Bodison, Laura Coover. Rage filled, and trampled by life, David Martin drives through a series of phone calls which crush him further into a confined space. Heat map showing areas with most congestion in South-East Queensland, with yellow areas the most congested. With Jeff Houkal, Brighid Fleming, Wolfgang Bodison, Laura Coover. ![]() ![]() Then on 5 September 1988, the rancher Kathy Wankel inadvertently stumbled across a strange protrusion emerging from the earth near Fort Peck Lake in Montana – it was like the corner of an envelope, she later told the Washington Post. ![]() Many were based on its cousin Gorgosaurus, another tyrannosaur which also roamed North America during the Late Cretaceous, around 66 to 101 million years ago. But this one also didn't have its arms.įor most of the following century, scientists could only make educated guesses about what T rex's forearms might have looked like. This was an unusually perfect specimen, and its towering figure inhabits the American Museum of Natural History to this day. Six years later, the fossil hunter uncovered another individual some way to the south, at Big Dry Creek in Colorado. The initial skeleton included little more than a sparse assortment of jumbled bones – among them were the pelvis, a single shoulder blade, a single upper arm bone, and part of its skull. rex was unearthed in 1902, it would be some time before scientists first gazed on its strange arms. With arms that might measure just 3ft (0.9m) long on a 45-ft (13.7m) individual, this formidable carnivore's hilariously small appendages have been a source of intense speculation ever since they were discovered – despite decades of studying them, to this day no one has any idea what they're for. They're so different than anything around today, what is the point," says L J Krumenacker, a palaeontologist at Idaho State University. "You can look at his arms and say, well, these are ridiculous. rex is almost as famous for its withered little arms as for its enormous teeth – they're so totally out of proportion, they almost look like they've been plucked from another species and simply stuck on, in a throwback to the hilarious blunders of bone assembly from the 19th Century (such as the time Stegosaurus' signature diamond-shaped back plates were added to its tail instead). What could have been their purpose? And how did they end up being so small?īizarrely, they were. rex skeleton was missing all its fingers and both its forearms, which were drawn on early portraits using surprisingly accurate guesswork – prompting speculation that they surely couldn't really be that stumpy. " Little did he know, it was more like the find of a century – a discovery that would transform our understanding of dinosaurs and galvanise public interest in this previously obscure group of ancient creatures well into the modern era.īut right from the beginning, one aspect of these kings of the "tyrant lizards" was deeply mysterious: their puny arms. In a letter to Osborn, Brown wrote: "There is no question but what this is the find of the season so far for scientific importance. ![]() This was Tyrannosaurus rex – the first ever discovered. Its hip bone was 5ft (1.5m) long, let alone the rest. ![]() Brown had uncovered a number of bones from a promising large carnivorous dinosaur that was entirely new to science. The specimen was banished to the museum basement, but he felt that it might as well have been thrown away.īut now things were looking up. Only then did Osborn discover that hidden within its stony tomb, the fossil had been a crumpled, misshapen mess all along. It had been tenderly carted all 2,100 miles (3,379km) from the dig site – a labourious, risky journey involving horses, railway lines and lots of heavy lifting. Henry Fairfield Osborn had recently taken delivery of their latest prize, a vast hunk of rock containing the skull of a kind of early duck-billed dinosaur. They urgently needed something good to send back to the American Museum of Natural History.įrom his office in New York, Brown's boss was just as anxious as his distant employees. Amid soaring temperatures and caking dust, they searched for fossils – hacking away at the golden-brown earth with chisels and pickaxes, carving out mini quarries at scattered locations, sometimes uncovering half-decent finds only to abandon them. It was August 1902 and Barnum Brown had taken a team of palaeontologists deep into the strange, undulating landscape of banded hills in the Badlands of Montana. The end of the season was approaching rapidly – the last shot at success in what had been a very expensive expedition. ![]() ![]() ![]() Solitude lets you prioritize and think creatively about possible solutions. Sometimes when we have a problem, we kick it down the road because we don’t believe we have the time or mental energy to address the issue. It creates a centering and regulating of emotions, fostering a sense of peace.Īlone time also gives you a chance to problem solve without interruption. ![]() Self-reflection gives you a chance to listen to your thoughts and feelings without distraction.Īdditionally, the review found that time spent alone reduces high emotional states, both positive and negative. In a 2019 literature review, it was found that when people are alone without a specific task or choose a sedentary task like reading, they tend to self-reflect. The solitude you find, whether it’s physical or mental distance, lets you relax and relieve tension. Alone time encourages independence and helps build confidence in your ability to be alone, act alone, and find enjoyment alone. It’s a time to let down your guard and be less self-conscious. When you’re alone, there’s no social pressure to conform or expectations of others to fulfill. You, no matter your occupation, gender, or social status, need time to do the things that are important to you. Like many aspects of life, creativity relies on a balance of social interaction, where you’re inspired by others, and time alone to reflect and develop your sense of artistic identity. Lack of alone time can also affect your performance, particularly if you rely on creativity. As your mental health declines, your physical health can follow, with stress linked to everything from heart disease to skin disorders. Lack of alone time opens the door for the effects of long-term stress to chip away at your health. What happens when you don’t get enough alone time? Chronic stress contributes to premature aging, insulin resistance, poor mental health, and many other conditions. The demands on your time and attention may not give your adrenaline a chance to simmer to a slow boil. Your stress levels never seem to go down.Whether you’re trying to meet someone else’s expectations or unrealistic ones of your own, your brain and body need time to slow down. If you’re rushing from one place or project to the next, your brain isn’t getting enough downtime. Is everything feeling boring or too much to handle? You could be giving too much of yourself to others, leaving you no room to enjoy where you are and what you’re doing. Things don’t seem as fun to you anymore.Alone time can quiet your mind, give you time for introspection, and separate you from things that are zapping your energy. ![]() Even if you’re getting a full night of sleep, you might not be mentally or physically resting as much as you need. If you’re losing your temper over most things or find yourself irritated at everything your boss, partner, bartender, or anyone else says, you could use time to yourself. |
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