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Going Green, Seeing Red
We're in a recession, but the mosquitoes aren't.
The mortgage meltdown and the resulting green swimming pools are perfect breeding sites for mosquitoes, which can transmit the deadly West Nile virus (WNV). So far this year WNV has sickened 411 Californians, killing 13.
Research just published by UC Davis research entomologist William Reisen and colleagues from Kern County should be required reading. Titled "Delinquent Mortgages, Neglected Swimming Pools and West Nile Virus, California" and published on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Web site, it relates that in 2007, the mortgage crisis caused a 300 percent increase in notices of delinquency in Kern County.
"This led to large numbers of neglected swimming pools, which were associated with a 276 percent increase in the number of human West Nile virus cases during the summer of 2007," the authors wrote.
They concluded "These new larval habitats may have contributed to the unexpected early season increase in WNV cases in Bakersfield during 2007 and subsequently have enabled invasion of urban areas by the highly competent rural vector Culex. tarsalis."
If you check out the California WNV Web site, you'll notice that Kern County tallied 140 of the statewide 380 human cases in 2007. (The second highest WNV-afflicted county was Los Angeles with 36.) Total WNV-related fatatlies in 2007 in California: 21.
Bottom line: unmaintained swimming pools are turning into algae-clogged ponds. It's a public health issue that taxes the mosquito and vector control districts and threatens the health and welfare of the community.
What this means is: We are our brother's keeper. We are our sister's keeper. We are our neighbor's keeper. NIMBYS (Not in My Backyard) need to be replaced by YIMBY (Yes, in My Backyard) and YLGI (Yes, Let's Get Involved).
The tiny female insect that needs a blood meal to develop her eggs is going green and we're seeing red.
Seeing Red
Poster Child
It's a high-flying butterfly--rarely seen and rarely recognized.
Ironically, it's now down-to-earth, frequently seen, and frequently recognized, thanks to the Internet.
Last year the Bohart Museum of Entomology at UC Davis published a poster of the
Visitors to the Bohart Museum, located at 1124 Academic Surge on the UC Davis campus, love it. So does Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who received a framed copy in April.
Today images of the butterfly are posted prominently on the "California State Insect" page hosted by netstate.com, an educational site providing information on state symbols, emblems, mottos, population, geography, government and the news media.
The one-of-a-kind poster is the work of Fran Keller, doctoral student in entomology at UC Davis, and
"We hope the posting on the Web site will continues to spark interest in our state insect and conservation efforts," Keller said. "The dogface butterfly is found only in
Keller described the poster as "a great gift for any
The butterfly, so named because of a poodle-like silhouette on the wings of the male, was adopted as the official
The butterfly is also known as the
In addition to posting the Bohart images of the
In 1972, the fourth-grade classrooms of
The fast, high-flying butterfly is elusive except when it nectars on flowers, said internationally renowned butterfly expert Art Shapiro, a UC Davis professor of evolution and ecology who co-authored Field Guide to Butterflies of the San Francisco Bay and Sacramento Valley Regions with T. R. Manolis (UC
"I'd say only one of every 10,000 Californians has ever seen the butterfly in the wild," Shapiro said.
In April of this year, when the
"Every time I see something like this, I'm even prouder of
The 18x24 poster is available for $18 laminated or $15 non-laminated at the
Poster Child
A Hymn for Her
Did you catch the "The Burns and the Bees" episode on The Simpsons Sunday night?
Dead honey bees take over the otherwise animated TV show.
Bart, on a dare from schoolyard bullies, knocks a bee's nest from a tree and it lands kerplop on the playground. Bart's sister Lisa pounces on it to save the would-be targets--a group of second graders--from painful stings.
But all the bees are dead.
Then Lisa visits a beekeeper and he shows her a carpet of bees.
They're dead. All the bees are dead.
The hymn, "Amazing Grace," plays soulfully in the background.
Next scene: Lisa is determined to save the last remaining colony of bees in Springfield. However, billionaire Mr. Burns is determined to erect a professional basketball stadium at the very site where Lisa's "saved" bees are.
What happens next? If you didn't catch the episode, be sure to watch it on www.hulu.com or You Tube.
We humans rarely see dead bees. The "undertaker bees" quickly and methodically remove them from the hive. I captured this photo last summer as three workers bees prepared to remove their fallen sister.
Where was the hymn for her? Where's Lisa?
Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound...
The Dead Bee
To Bee or Not to Bee
"To bee or not to bee."
That is the question. What is the solution?
The plight of the honey bees has not escaped the UC Davis Entomology Graduate Students' Association (EGSA).
This year's winning t-shirt, the result of a departmental faculty-student-staff-vote, stars the "unsung heroes": the honey bees.
Randall "Randy" Veirs, executive assistant for department chair Lynn Kimsey, and communications specialist Kathy Keatley Garvey (yours truly), came up with the winning shirt--Randy created the intricate drawing, and KKG coined the text, spoofing a line from Shakespeare's Hamlet.
To bee or not to bee, that is the question.
What is the solution?
Randy, who describes himself as more of a musician than an artist, drew a framed portrait of a Shakespearean bee in period clothing, complete with an Elizabethan collar.
Randy, who plays principal trumpet in the UC Davis Symphony, said he spent several days drawing the bee, gathering information online about proper Shakespearean attire. His brother, Russell Veirs, also a musician (saxophone), helped prepare the image in Photoshop.
By the way, each brother has a bachelor's degree in music from UC Davis, while Russell has a master's in saxophone performance from Sacramento State University. Music and art do go together!
The t-shirt ties in with Shakespeare's view that "All the world's a stage." (Just add message.) It also ties in with Shakespeare's fascination for bees. One of the playwright's lines from Henry V: "For so work the honey bees, creatures that by a rule in nature teach the act of order to a peopled kingdom."
Yes, bees are well-organized and we can learn much from these hard-working social insects.
The bee t-shirt is not only raising funds for the graduate student association but raising awareness for the honey bees. Beekeepers throughout the country report they are losing from one-third to 100 percent of their bees due to colony collapse disorder, a mysterious phenomenon in which bees abandon their hives.
The t-shirts are $15 and available in child-through-adult sizes, says t-shirt coordinator Yao Hua Law, a doctoral student who studies with professor Jay Rosenheim. "The funds will be used for EGSA activities, including the monetary prizes for the EGSA-organized Undergraduate Entomology Research Poster Competition," he said. Contact Yao Hua at (530) 752-4481 or e-mail him at email@example.com for more information.
Plans are also under way to sell the T-shirts through the University Bookstore, thus making online payments possible and shipping fluid, he said.
Other UC Davis entomology t-shirts are also available. One of the favorites is "The Beetles." A parody of The Beatles' "Abbey Road" album cover, the t-shirt features four beetles crossing Abbey Road. Doctoral candidate Hillary Thomas, who studies with major professor Frank Zalom, an integrated pest management specialist, designed the shirt.
The Bees. The Beetles.
The take-home message on these shirts is also a take-everywhere message.
To Bee or Not to Bee
Close-up of Drawing
Pollinator Paradise
There's been trouble in paradise far too long.
Now, thanks to a generous donation from Häagen-Dazs, there will be a pollinator paradise--in the way of a bee friendly garden--at the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility at UC Davis.
Häagen-Dazs announced this week it will donate $125,000 to the UC Davis Department of Entomology to launch a nationwide design competition to create a one-half acre honey bee haven garden on Bee Biology Road. Häagen-Dazs has commited $65,000 of the $125,000 to establish the garden.
"The honey bee haven will be a pollinator paradise," said Lynn Kimsey, chair of the UC Davis Department of Entomology and director of the Bohart Museum of Entomology. "It will provide a much needed, year-round food source for our bees at the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility. We anticipate it also will be a gathering place to inform and educate the public about bees. We are grateful to Haagen-Dazs for its continued efforts to ensure bee health."
And you are invited to design it. The nationwide contest is open to anyone who can design a garden, using basic landscape principles. The rules, a list of bee friendly plants, design examples and other information is on the UC Davis Department of Entomology Web site.
Häagen-Dazs is funding the design competition and the
"The garden will be extremely helpful in demonstrating that bees are not a nuisance in the backyard, but instead are obtaining food and water essential for their survival," Eric Mussen, a Cooperative Extension apiculturist and a 32-year member of the UC Davis Department of Entomology faculty, told us.
"Campus visitors," he said. "will be able to see which flowers are most attractive to foraging honey bees and how to space the flowers in order to have bees flying in the most convenient areas of their gardens."
The deadline to submit a design is Jan. 30, 2009. Mail your design to the
More information on the design competition is available from Melissa Borel, program manager at UC Davis'
You should also check out the Häagen-Dazs educational Web site at http://www.helpthehoneybees.com. In February they commited a total of $250,000 in honey bee research to UC Davis and Pennsylvania State. And now: another way to help the honey bees.
The design competition winner will receive recognition on the Häagen-Dazs commemorative plaque at the entrance to the garden. Another gift will be a year's supply of Häagen-Dazs ice cream.
The real winners, however, are the honey bees. The bees at the Laidlaw facility will receive their very own fully-stocked pantry right in their back yard.
The real winners, however, are the honey bees. The bees at the Laidlaw facility will receive their very own fully-stocked pantry right in their back yard.
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Simon Johnson ("The Quiet Coup," May Atlantic) offers a bold and pathbreaking idea for dealing with the present global economic crisis.
Johnson's basic thesis is that "the financial industry has effectively captured" the government of the U.S. and many other countries and that "recovery will fail unless we break the financial oligarchy that is blocking essential reform." His bold agenda for banking reform may come to seem modest when we take into account the tectonic shifts and major transformations that are now developing in the world economy. For one thing, breaking up the banking oligarchy may spur the breakup of other corporate oligopolies and the termination of big federal subsidies. Americans may adopt Teddy Roosevelt's mood of "trust-busting," with the aim of promoting real competition in place of the elaborate pretense of competition that we see in much of our present system. At the extreme, we would perhaps get into the much-debated system of "industrial planning"—or even the virtual nationalization of industry.
Yet this evolution would still have further to go. We must reckon nowadays with the spreading "deindustrialization" of the U.S., Japan, much of western Europe, and other "advanced" nations. In this, the driving force is industrial competition from China and other "emerging" economies. Increasingly equipped with modern technology, supplied with vast labor forces available for a mere fraction of Western wages and benefits, and given open access to international "free trade," emerging nations already undersell and will eventually sweep away the corresponding industries in the West. The American economy will be reduced mainly to a system of services: locally bound and mostly small-scale, but generally high quality, capable of attracting foreign investment and foreign visitors as well as serving its own people.
Is this apocalyptic vision of a metamorphosed U.S. economy just a nightmare? Or is it the probable result of financial restrictions and undersold manufacturing? And would it be a more stable, more democratic, and more egalitarian system than we have today?
Edwin P. Reubens
Emeritus Professor of Economics City University of New York
Weston, Fla.
Jeffrey Goldberg's article ("What Now?," May Atlantic) was an eye-opening and impressive look into our depressive economic state of affairs. His article made me think of a simpler time, when you borrowed money at 6 percent and received 3 percent on your passbook savings account. In 1945 my parents bought the house they lived in for 60 years for $1,500. They had to put 15 percent down, and Dad had to prove he had a stable job working for the railroad. Like my grandfather before him, he planted a huge garden that fed us (and some of the neighbors) all summer long. Mom canned, which got us through the winter. For spending money, us kids would shovel sidewalks in the winter. Believe it or not, these were the happiest times of my life. I now have a lot more money than my father had, but I also have the stress and worry that goes with it. Maybe it's time to take Mr. Goldberg's advice. Take the 3 percent interest down at the local credit union and plant a huge garden. We may not die rich, but we'll be a hell of a lot happier than we are now.
James Caminiti
Altoona, Pa.
"What now?" asks Jeffrey Goldberg. To get an answer, he spoke to economists, hedge-fund managers, survivalists, and one professional adviser—and apparently not one of them had the right answer: get an independent, credentialed, fee-based adviser, preferably someone who was already advising independently before 2008.
Independent advisers have been around for decades, and our ranks are growing. (Though beware, many of those now joining are desperate brokers leaving their desperate employers.) Many independent advisers are fiduciaries, working conflict-free and fully on behalf of their beneficiary clients. In contrast, as Mr. Goldberg discovered the hard way, most brokers are not fiduciaries, and the law requires only that they purchase "suitable" investments for clients, a low hurdle to clear.
We are the ones offering sound financial advice on a foundation of careful, reasoned analysis and empathetic client care, and regardless of the magnitude of a client's net worth, we are there—for Jeffrey Goldberg, the readers of The Atlantic, and the nation.
Leonard M. Golub
Chartered Financial Analyst
New Capital Management LP
Houston, Texas
Jeffrey Goldberg replies:
It is true that fee-based advisers have fewer conflicts of interest than the typical broker, and it is true that fiduciaries are duty-bound to act in more-responsible ways than, say, my ex-brokerage house, Merrill Lynch. On the other hand, these independent advisers still might not know anything about investing. I went to top hedge-fund managers to test my suspicion that there are two classes of professionals on Wall Street: a small group of them who know, and a large group of them who don't know, but act like they know in order to separate the small investor from his money. My conclusion is that very few people in the financial-services industry, including members of the subset of increasingly smug independent advisers, have the access, contacts, and brainpower to match the kings of Wall Street. Unless you can persuade a top dog to manage your money—and to do that, you have to have a large amount of money to begin with—the advice remains the same: pay down debt, keep a healthy supply of cash on hand, look for index funds and general-obligation municipal bonds in which to invest, and be exceedingly happy if you earn more than 3 percent a year on your investments.
If the vastness of the universe is enough to convince Thomas Mallon ("Across the Universe," May Atlantic) that there must be intelligent life elsewhere, would he also agree that identical copies of himself must be out there? By what logic does he conclude that he is so vastly improbable as to occur only once, whereas intelligent life is so probable as to occur more than once? As long as we have only one observed instance of intelligent life (or of Thomas Mallon), whether multiple instances occur is nothing more than conjecture, and any back-of-the-envelope arithmetic is obfuscation.
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James A. Hetley also writes as James A. Burton. He lives in the Maine setting of his Hetley-authored contemporary fantasy novels The Summer Country, The Winter Oak, Dragon's Eye, and Dragon's Teeth. His residence is an 1850s house suitable for a horror movie, with an electrical system installed while Thomas A. Edison still walked the earth, peeling lead-based paint, questionable plumbing, a furnace dating back to Teddy Roosevelt's presidency, a roof perpetually in need of shingling, and windows that rattle in the winter gales. He's a retired renovation architect. And the cobbler's children go barefoot . . .
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Eight years ago, Dennis Carlsson returned from Vietnam with a chest full of medals, a head full of nightmares, and a plastic foot. Now he just wants the world to leave him alone on his isolated point of Maine coast, caring for injured animals and living as simply as he can.
However, both real and spirit worlds have other plans for his guardian strength. His nightmares have followed him home in a face from those memories, wildlife biologist Susan Tranh — prickly as a porcupine and with some strange bond to eagles, stalked by criminals for no reason she can see.


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Jersey Central Power & Light Deploys Workers To Respond To Winter Storm
MORRISTOWN, N.J, March 6, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Jersey Central Power & Light (JCP&L) has positioned more than 1,250 line workers, hazard responders, forestry workers and support personnel to respond to outages resulting from the latest severe storm impacting the region.
Heavy rain and snow, accompanied by strong winds with gusts up to 60 miles per hour, are moving through New Jersey today and tomorrow. High tides also have the potential to increase coastal flooding. Crews and support personnel are working around-the-clock across JCP&L's service territory to restore service from weather-related outages. As of 4 p.m. today, approximately 10,000 customers were experiencing outages due to the high winds. Outage restoration may be slowed initially as crews assess the ability to work safely in elevated buckets during high winds.
To minimize the storm's impact on electrical equipment, crews have placed sandbags around substations that could be threatened by flooding. These include substations in Monmouth, Ocean and Essex counties. In addition, flood gates have been closed at the Morristown substation.
To prepare for the storm JCP&L has also:
- Brought in more than 150 line personnel and hazard responders from FirstEnergy's Ohio utilities and 140 contractor line personnel to support restoration efforts
- Secured 150 tree contractor crews to respond to tree-related conditions
- Communicated with emergency management officials, state officials, regulators and local officials about our storm preparation efforts
- Activated the JCP&L storm information page on the 24/7 Power Center
- Notified well water and life support customers about the potential for power outages.
- Keep a flashlight and extra batteries handy. Use care when burning candles; open flames are a fire hazard.
- Gather extra blankets or a sleeping bag for each person. Do not use gas stoves, kerosene heaters or other open-flame heat sources to prevent deadly carbon monoxide gas from building up in your home.
- If you have a water well and pump, keep an emergency supply of bottled water and/or fill your bathtub with fresh water.
- Stock an emergency supply of convenience foods that do not require cooking.
- Keep a battery-powered radio with extra batteries on hand. Tune to a local station for current storm information.
- Have a hard-wired telephone or a charged cell phone handy in the event you need to report your electricity is out. Mobile phones can be charged in your vehicle using a car charger when the power is out. If you have a smart phone, this will ensure you have access to online information sources.
- Customers should immediately report downed wires to their local utility or local police or fire department. Customers should never go near a downed power line, even if they think it's no longer carrying electricity.
- Don't try to remove trees or tree limbs from power lines. Wait for utility crews to arrive.
- Emergency power generators offer an option for customers needing or wanting uninterrupted service. However, to ensure the safety of the home's occupants as well as that of utility company employees who may be working on power lines in the area, the proper generator should be selected and installed by a qualified electrician. When operating a generator, the power coming into the home should always be disconnected. Otherwise, power from the generator could be sent back onto the utility lines, creating a hazardous situation for utility workers.
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- " Good place to stay at London on a short holiday. Close to underground and to city center. "
- 20 Nov 2014 Monika Poland
- " A nice little cozy hostel. The beds were amazing. However the facilities and kitchen left a lot to be desired and nothing for breakfast. "
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- 22 Oct 2014 Isabella Brazil
- " Christos was amazing. He really cared, and he was interesting to talk to. The facilities weren't great, but the building was old and interesting. The blond woman who was on the morning I left was also pretty interesting and useful. The rest of the staff didn't really care one way or the other. Lots of interesting things to see and do ere walking distance away, the Tube was right there, and a full kitchen and free tea made staying there very economical. "
- 02 Oct 2014 Erin USA
- " Nothing as described and promised. The room was not en suite as booked and paid for. There was no pick up facility and staff were not as helpful with directions and advice in terms of transportation as one may expect. There was cobweb all over the ceiling and the smell of dampness filled up the room. It is a nice location and I nice building and I am sure that with a bit of TLC it can be made to look and feel better. "
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Arrest in vacation home burglary spree
Posted By Sun News On April 16, 2014 @ 11:56 am In News | Comments Disabled
A woman suspected of burglarizing unoccupied Sonoma County vacation homes was arrested after detectives found stolen goods in her Santa Rosa home. Lisa Ann Lopez, 42, is linked to break-ins in the cities of Sonoma, Guerneville, Cloverdale, Bodega Bay and Healdsburg, said Sonoma County sheriff's Sgt. Michael Raasch.
Lopez became the focus of the investigation on March 29 when she was spotted outside a vacation home, the site of an earlier break-in, on Summit Avenue in Guerneville. A neighbor noted suspicious activity, and noted the license plate of Lopez' BMW as she drove away.
A check of the premises revealed the home had been burglarized again, Raasch said.
Two hours later, the wanted BMW was spotted in Santa Rosa. Detectives found a TV stolen from the Summit Avenue home, and Lopez was arrested without incident.
Stolen property linking her to a spree of countywide burglaries was found at her home. Lopez was booked into the county jail for burglary and possession of stolen property. Her bail of $250,000 was set after detectives requested a bail increase.
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Celebrate, ye lovers of bald naked chests and heaving male crotches! A spinoff to "300" awaits, and Warner Bros. has selected a man to captain this sweaty, homoerotic ship. Mr. Noam Murro, who previously helmed an indie called "Smart People" that few saw but all confirmed featured no shirtless men, ...Read More »


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Detroit can't afford expensive consultants who risk racial conflict
By Mark P. Fancher
Special to the Michigan Citizen
One year ago, Detroit Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr signed a $621,578 contract on behalf of the city of Detroit with the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research (TMI) to consult with Detroit police about community policing, traffic control, command accountability and other matters.
After the contract expired, the ACLU of Michigan heard TMI had suggested to residents of certain Detroit neighborhoods that the root of much of the crime in their communities was dirty gas stations.
TMI's position was indifference toward the dirty conditions at these businesses led to indifference toward crimes such as carjacking or drug dealing that might occur at or near business premises. This idea is referred to as the "broken windows theory" and many have debated its value. But the real problem in this case is TMI introduced ethnicity into the discussion, and then proposed tactics that could inflame racial tensions.
TMI Vice-President Michael Allegretti told the ACLU of Michigan: "If it was learned through research that a particular ethnic group or social group owned a majority of service stations in Detroit, we viewed this as an opportunity to meet with such a group(s) to discuss ways in which they could collectively enhance the quality of life in Detroit." He added: "…the Chaldean community has organized itself into the Chaldean American Chamber of Commerce, recognizing that as a (bloc), it can exercise increased influence." He went on to say: "Business interest groups — including I believe this one — regularly meet with the (Detroit Police Department), so I fail to see how developing a strategy to influence such a group is anything less than logical."
To influence gas station owners, Allegretti recommended giving them 30 days to clean up their businesses, and if they failed to meet that deadline, picketing their homes and/or communities. Fortunately, this strategy was not adopted because, given the widely acknowledged long-standing tensions between African and Chaldean communities in Detroit, nothing but disaster could result from busloads of Black picketers descending on Chaldean neighborhoods. More significant is Detroit is unable to afford to squander hundreds of thousands of dollars on consulting services that might lead to social disruption. It is important for contracts of this kind to be considered with the caution, scrutiny and oversight that occurs as part of the conventional democratic process, and which in this case was apparently not provided by the emergency manager.
Because the emergency manager has no "supervisor," the ACLU of Michigan was left to bring its concerns to the attention of the governor. Detroit Police Chief James Craig was also asked to ensure those in the community who were advised by TMI understand how to address crime problems without risking social disruption or racial division. According to a media report, Detroit police have nevertheless recently conducted "Operation Cherry Blossom" which raids businesses where crimes are common. If the idea of pressuring business owners came from TMI, we hope police have rejected any aspects of the concept that might have an ethnic or racial focus.
Mark P. Fancher is the staff attorney for the ACLU of Michigan Racial Justice Project.


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