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So I'm getting ready to take a ficus I've had growing for 2 years and start developing the roots. From what I understand, I need to uncover the topmost roots and lay them out on top of the soil, partially pressed into the surface. Will they harden off and survive like this, or am I missing something? |
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I don't know where you got that info. but it's not quite the thing... What you should have done originally (even before buying the tree), or can do at any time, is uncover any roots that have hardened off, to see what they're like before deciding to buy, and once bought, you can always choose to leave any or none of them exposed to any extent that doesn't affect unhardened off parts. Any time you repot you can very carefully untangle whatever roots you can without breaking them and arrange them (not press!) around the trunk, within reason - better a crooked root (which you may choose to 'sacrifice' if you think the tree can take it) or leave on, than a broken one that may be feeding a major branch. Plus VERY few trees come with perfectly placed roots to begin with, and you can only (be expected to) do so much yourself. Don't leave unhardened roots exposed at any time though. |
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Rwhipple, Every re-pot is an opportunity to improve the arrangement of the nebari. More important than trying to uncover roots at an early age is encouraging their proper radial arrangement. Also roots that are deemed to high or too low are removed (as is the taproot if it has not been already removed) favoring the ones that will become the finished nebari. Also be aware that thick lignified roots do not absorb moisture and nutrients that is done by the fine feeder roots. So root pruning must balance the strong visible roots with the finer root hairs. [IMG]http://img176.imageshack.us/img176/9240/prrp3yu3.jpg[/IMG] Norm |
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In 1993, the Hawaii Winter League launched its inaugural baseball season, but the legacy of the game in the islands stretched back almost to the beginning of baseball time. The founder of organized baseball, Alexander Joy Cartwright, moved to the islands in 1849, only three years after stepping off the 90 feet for the basepaths in a New York meadow and devising such other classic rules of the game as the foul ball and the dropped third strike. The popularity of Cartwright's new game caught on in the islands immediately. The first baseball game in Hawaii to be saved for the record books was played on July 4, 1866 and saw the "natives" beating the "haoles" (Caucasians) 2-1.
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J. Ashman Beaven recognized the growing popularity of the game and sank his entire fortune into building the big wooden Honolulu Stadium in Moiliili in 1926. That led to what may be called Hawaii's first international league with franchises awarded to the Hawaiians, Chinese, Japanese, Portuguese, Filipinos and the Caucasians. Even the great Babe Ruth was coaxed to the islands in 1933 to play in two exhibition games. The following year, baseball greats like J. Foxx and Lou Gehrig joined the Great Bambino for more exhibition games. By the mid-1940's, 26,000 fans would cram the bleachers to watch Major League All-Star games. Rosters of the games played here during WWII included Joe DiMaggio, Phil Rizzuto, Pee Wee Reese, Schoolboy Rowe, and Vernon Olson. The old wooden Honolulu Stadium, by then affectionately called "The Termite Palace," was home to Hawaii's first traveling professional team, the Hawaii Islanders, which launched in 1961 with the advent of regular jet travel between the islands and the mainland. Later, with a move to modern Aloha Stadium and a division title-winning 1970 season in the Pacific Coast League the Hawaii team lead all the mainland Minor League teams in attendance-- with 470,000 paid fans that year. The Islanders played for 27 years, winning three more division titles and two more PCL pennants. In 1993, after a five-year hiatus for professional baseball in the islands, the crack of wooden bats and the beloved professional game returned in the formation of the Hawaii Winter Baseball League. Teams composed of some of the best young prospects from 16 American major league teams, 3 Japanese pro teams, and 4 Korean pro teams took to the fields on four islands and delighted Hawaii's pro baseball fans. Like Beaven, some sixty-seven years earlier, HWB owner Duane Kurisu invested in creating a baseball experience for island fans. Kurisu's dream, however, included the hope and belief that Hawaii's winter league could provide a special experience for up-and-coming stars... from many nations. In the 1993 inaugural season yearbook, league-owner Kurisu wrote: " Baseball is a game for dreamers. where dreams can come true. it's that game-winning homerun at the bottom of the ninth with two men out... it's that first time at bat as a professional ball player.. it's the hope that one day there will be a true professional international world series." The dream of playing in the Major Leagues came true for 130 HWB players who played in the islands from 1993-1997. Hawaii baseball fans recognized the potential of the young pro talent in the league which included...
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Ichiro Suzuki, following a stellar season's performance in the outfield for HWB's Hilo Stars in the inaugural year went on a wild tear in the Pacific League, winning the batting title by hitting .385 and collecting over 200 hits. He later won Major League Baseball Rookie of the Year honors. Suzuki's "Shinkansen Homer" in Kauai first series against Hilo at home is still talked about in the islands. His bullet train homer hit the top of a roofing building behind right field-- a 500-foot home run--the longest ever seen at Vidinha Field. Suzuki later told a local reporter he learned his smooth swing from his father who encouraged him to practice swinging with a coal shovel. Oakland Athletics' Jason Giambi, who in that same inaugural year, was an up-and-coming slugger in the Oakland Athletics organization. Giambi enjoyed the short 315-foot leftfield fence in Kauai's Vidinha stadium. The 6-foot-3 Giambi even loped around the bases fast enough to log an inside the park homerun after smashing one into the wall off Honolulu pitcher Kyle Sebach. Giambi has gone on to become one of MLB's true power hitters. Alex Ochoa went from HWB in 1993 to 9 years in the majors. Back in 1993, no one at the league-opener on Oahu will forget the throw from right field executed by Ochoa. "The best gun in the minor leagues" gunned down Shannon Penn with a 300-foot throw ripped from just short of the right field track to home plate in Rainbow Stadium. Ochoa became a journeyman outfielder for eight seasons in the Major Leagues before signing with the Chunichi Dragons of Japan's Central League in 2003. He was featured in an Inside Sports story titled "The New Arms Race."
Michael Barrett - Sharks
Other HWB players that went on to stellar careers in the Major Leagues include Tadahito Iguchi and A.J. Pierznski of the Chicago White, Todd Helton of the Colorado Rockies, Michael Barrett of the Chicago Cubs, Adam Kennedy of the Lops Angeles Angels, Mark Kotsay of the Oakland A's, Preston Wilson of the Washington Nationals, and Randy Winn of the San Francisco Giants. When HWB opened in 1993, with 16 of the 28 Major League club systems sending players, the Japanese professional teams providing players included the Orix Blue Waves, Daiei Hawks, and Nippon Ham Fighters. The 1993 HWB teams and stadiums were: the Hilo Stars (Vulcan Field, Hilo), the Honolulu Sharks (Rainbow Stadium, Honolulu), Kauai Emeralds (Vidinha Stadium, Lihue, Kauai), and the Maui Stingrays (War Memorial Stadium, Wailuku, Maui). The Hilo Stars was the only team with players from Japan in the U.S.A. In the inaugural year, the Stars won the HWB League Championship. Attendance for the inaugural season was 53,383...exceeding the 50,000 Pro Bowl attendance, Hawaii's only other professional sports. The 1994 season started with eleven local boys, or adopted local boys, in the line-ups, including former Rainbows Matt Apana, Joey Meyer, Todd Takayoshi, and Joey Vierra, former Hawaii Pacific University star Ben Agbayani, and former Baldwin High star Kekoa Dafun. Other isle players included Kahi Villa, Arthur Davis, Josh Halemanu, Keith Luuloa and Randy Montalvo. Teams and three stadiums remained the same. In Hilo, Stars General Manager Clyde Nekoba helped create the "Miracle of Wong Stadium," by turning a city-owned facility, used primarily for Little League, into the home of a professional baseball franchise. Volunteers painted and cleaned. Some 450 bleacher seats were added down the foul lines. The fences were moved back, a new warning track was added, and new lights were installed. Only two seasons old, the league made the history books. In the 1994 season, the Maui Stingrays became the first professional team in the United States to field women players among the men. The league held its first All-Star Game pitting a an all-U.S.A. team against one with international players. The U.S.A. squad won. Hiroki Kokubo, on the international team, was named MVP. That year, the Kauai Emeralds won the League Championship. Attendance jumped in the second year to 69,533. The 1995 season introduced a "home-stay" program where players stayed with a family in Hawaii during the season, making the time in Hawaii even more memorable. Frank Kudo became president of the league, which enjoyed record advance ticket sales, providing proof that fans were enjoying the games. At that point 30% of HWB's alumni had already made it to The Bigs. Promotions like "The Blues Brothers Act" Sam Sato's Saimin Eating Contest, Aloha Poi Eating Contest, Ballpark Bingo! Thirsty Thursdays, and dozens of other colorful fan-friendly promotions made for exciting times at the ballpark. Mascot "Major Mynah's" antics added to the fun. Some 106,787 fans league wide came out to support their home teams and some 50 charities benefited through fund raising ticket sale promotions. The Maui Stingrays won the Championship title. For the 1996 season, the West Oahu CaneFires, homebased at venerable Hans L'Orange Park in Waipahu, joined in place of the Kauai Emeralds. The new club blended the talents of talented top prospects from the Major League organizations, with major leaguers from the Japan Professional Baseball League and the Lotte Giants of the Korea Baseball Organization. The Club directory listed Kel Ide as "Interpreter." In Honolulu, "MegaByte" the Sharks 7'3" mascot roamed Rainbow Stadium to the ominous "Jaws" music on the loudspeakers, while meeting the kids, playing pranks on the adults and teasing umpires. The international look of baseball continued to develop in the league as Korean players also joined the Hilo Stars organization. The Stingrays took the Championship trophy again. Total attendance for the league hit 112,761. In 1997, HWB again fielded four teams for a 54-game season that was held mid-0ctober through mid-December. By that year, 93 alumni from HWB were already playing in the Major Leagues. The experience in Hawaii was unique for all the ball players. While the fans enjoyed Teriyaki plates, Portuguese been soup, and sushi along with traditional hot dogs and pop corn, the pro players competed in the world's only league featuring international players. The Hawaii Winter Baseball league returned for its sixth season in 2006, and the North Shore Honu claimed the league title with a 5-1 victory over the Waikiki BeachBoys. After the nine-year "rain delay," HWB received a warm welcome by fans that frequented Hans L'Orange Park and Les Murakami Stadium. A season total of 42,107 fans poured through stadium turnstiles to enjoy the sights and sounds of professional baseball's return Hawaii. Thus far, HWB's 2006 class has made quite an impact on major league rosters. Rick Vanden Hurk (BeachBoys) is now a starting pitcher for the Florida Marlins. Joba Chamberlain and Ian Kennedy (CaneFires) have pitched for the New York Yankees in pressure-packed starting roles. Joe Thatcher (Honu) made his big league debut with the San Diego Padres as a reliever, and continues to work out of the 'pen. And, Nate Schierholtz (BeachBoys) spent considerable time with the San Francisco Giants as an outfielder, and even delivered a game-winning, walk-off single during his stint. In 2007, the league played all its Oahu games at Hans L'Orange Park while renovations take place at Murakami Stadium. The league also showcased games for the outer island audiences, as series were held at both Francis Wong Stadium in Hilo on the Big Island, and Iron Maehara Stadium in Kahului, Maui. The North Shore Honu went on to win a second consecutive league title by virtue of owning the league's best record after the Championship Game against the Waikiki BeachBoys was rained out. The 2008 HWB campaign will yet again provide baseball fans with the opportunity to watch and interact with some of the best young baseball players in the World. The league returns to the venerable Murakami Stadium which will be ready after a well-deserved facelift. The season kicks off on Saturday, Sept. 27, and runs through the Championship game on Sunday, Nov. 16. Hawaii is in store for another exciting year of HWB action, as players and fans alike Catch the Dream!


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The biggest sports news today: a major trade in the National League, the finals are set Down Under, Manti Te'o's interview airs, and are the New York Jets crazy?
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Spengler was paroled for the crime in 1998.
Police also have not located Spengler's 67-year-old sister, who lived in the house with Spengler.
Authorities also report that a total of seven houses were destroyed in the blaze.
UPDATE 12:40 p.m. EST: Police chief Gerald Pickering says that the gunman, who was killed at the scene, either by police or from a self-inflicted wound, may have set a trap for first responders.
UPDATE 12:15 p.m. EST: The Associated Press is reporting that the gunman who killed the two firefighters is also dead. His body was found at the scene. The names of the two deceased firefighters, according to the Democrat and Chronicle, are Mike Chiapperini, 43, a volunteer firefighter and the Webster Police Department's public information officer, and Tomasz Kaczowka. The names of the wounded firefighters are Joseph Hofsetter and Theodore Scardino.
Early Monday morning two firefighters were shot and killed when responding to a call in Webster, New York, just outside Rochester. After the firefighters arrived at 191 Lake Road, an unknown shooter fired at them as they left their truck, killing two of them and wounding two others. The wounded men are at a nearby hospital; one is in stable condition, the other is in guarded condition.


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On January 16th 2014 the Government of Kenya started burning families' grass-thatch houses (containing all their possessions, including food and clothes) in an effort to illegally evict the Sengwer community from their ancestral lands in the Embobut area of the Cherangany Hills, Western Kenya.
Please help by DONATING and SIGNING PETITION
DONATE: We are raising money to support the Sengwer people through this crisis. We need funds to transport journalists to the forest and to support the legal action. Please send your donation to Sengwer Aid:
Account name: Sengwer Aid.
Account No: 35303258.
Address: Yorkshire Bank, Market Square, Goole DN14 5DS.
Sort code: 05-04-39
SIGN PETITION: We need your help - please sign the petition:
Latest information received from Yator Kiptum, 17th April 2014:
We went to court as expected on 8th April then it was postponed till 10th April. On the latter date the Judge again gave another hearing date to be on 30th May 2014. The National Land Commission made a positive response to letters and petitions raised by organizations on behalf of Sengwer peoples. We are grateful for the continued support of all at Sengwer Aid.
As much positive steps are being taken at national and international level, KFS Rangers have continued to bridge the rule of law. They have threatened people with arrests even some community members have been arrested. They now plan to "arrest all livestock and human beings still in the forest" against court orders.
Lets keep the struggle strong and alive
Much thanks and good wishes, Yator
Sengwer people continue to be harassed by Kenya Forest Service Rangers in Embobut Forest, 1st April, 2014
We received a report from Yator Kiptum, a trusted and respected Sengwer leader well known to us, on 1st April 2014. He told us that, following the burning of their homes, members of the Sengwer community in the Embobut Forest continue to face harassment at the hands of Kenya Forest Service rangers.
Rangers have pulled down the temporary structures made of polythene which people built after their homes had been burnt down. Rangers have also destroyed tents and cattle pens, confiscated food stuff and taken money from the people. Families have been broken up. Most women have left the forest for fear of arrest and they have taken their children with them so that they can still go to school. Most of the men continue to live in the forest.
The situation is getting worse as rains begin and temperatures fall.
Most of the people interviewed recently by journalists who went to Embobut Forest insisted that they want to remain on their ancestral lands in order to avoid extinction as a tribe. They want to protect their culture and traditions and family bonds and live with the spirits of their ancestors buried in the forest.
Under the new constitution the Kenyan government is required to respect the ancestral rights of minority groups. Communities cannot be forced from their homes and land by force. The Kenyan government claims to be taking this action in order to protect the forest environment and the water catchment. However, it is clear that the method they are using to remove Sengwer people from the land is unconstitutional, illegal and extremely cruel.
What is more the Environment and Land Court in Eldoret High Court has twice ordered that the Kenyan Forest Service stop burning the homes of the Sengwer people and stop harassing them. These Court Orders have been ignored and Contempt of Court Proceedings will now he heard in Eldoret on 8 April 2014.
INFO: For more information on this crisis see the link to the 'Kenyan Star' daily newspaper, 2nd April 2014:
INFO: For further background information on the plight of the Sengwer please visit:
Families forced to leave their homes
Armed guards approaching houses to evict the families
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"This was a major change within the Department of Energy," Peña recalls. He summoned the directors of the national laboratories to Washington, where they were briefed on the espionage allegations not only by him, but also by FBI director Louis Freeh and CIA director George Tenet. "We wanted to make sure the message was delivered very clearly," Peña says.
The DOE also provided assistance in the espionage investigation of Peter Lee and implemented numerous other changes. "We did these things in a quiet fashion," Peña adds. "We did not want to alert any suspects."
Peña resigned the DOE post and returned to Denver in mid-1998.
In the spring of 1998, Dr. Lee spent six weeks teaching and consulting at the Chung Shan Institute of Taiwan, a government-owned organization that specializes in national defense technologies and information. He returned to Taiwan again in December 1998 to deliver a speech at the institute and do some more consulting. During one of these trips, he accessed the Los Alamos computer from a remote terminal called "Seagull," removed two unclassified files from one of his classified collections of files, and had the two documents electronically transferred back to Taiwan.
On December 23, 1998, Lee was administered another polygraph examination, officially known as a Psychophysiological Detection of Deception Examination, by the Wackenhut Corporation, a DOE contractor. According to a copy of the examination in the appeals-court files, the test had been requested by Edward J. Curran, director of the DOE's Office of Counterintelligence, in order to "resolve a security concern." The almost-six-hour examination was given in a large conference room at Los Alamos; voices and other workaday sounds could be heard, but they didn't seem to distract Lee.
During the exam, Lee talked about the lie detector test he had taken in the early '80s, relating basically the same story that agent Messemer had told Judge Parker during the closed-door hearing. Lee also told the polygrapher that at about five o'clock one evening in August 1998, while working at his office, he received a strange call from a man he had never met before. The caller said he was from China and was staying in a Santa Fe hotel. "Does the Peter Lee case result in any consequences to the Chinese at the laboratory?" the caller asked.
Taiwanese-born Peter Lee is another scientist who'd worked at Los Alamos and for a contractor to Lawrence Livermore labs. He is not related to Wen Ho Lee, nor is he the Livermore scientist whose phone was tapped in the early '80s. According to a report issued by a select committee chaired by California Republican Christopher Cox, during a 1985 trip to China Peter Lee provided the People's Republic with classified information on how lasers are used to create miniature nuclear fusion explosion; in 1997, he is alleged to have provided them with information about submarine detection research. Peter Lee pleaded guilty in 1997 to wilfully passing classified U.S. defense information to the People's Republic during his 1985 visit and to falsifying reports of contact with PRC nationals in 1997. He was sentenced to twelve months in a halfway house, a $20,000 fine, and 3,000 hours of community service.
Dr. Lee found it strange that the caller was asking him a question about Peter Lee. "Nothing happened," he responded. Then the caller asked Lee to meet him at his hotel; Lee said he would have to obtain approval from the lab first. "That's fine, get your approval," the caller instructed. But Lee thought about it, told the man he was not interested and hung up. The next morning, he said, he told the appropriate lab officials about the conversation.
(The phone call turned out to be a "false flag operation" -- with an intelligence agent pretending to be from another country -- designed by the FBI to get the Wen Ho Lee case off dead center, according to a person familiar with the investigation. But Dr. Lee did not take the bait.)
As the polygraph continued, Wen Ho Lee apparently disclosed for the first time that during one of his trips to China in the late '80s, a "Mr. Chin" had asked him a question that he knew pertained to classified information. A "Mr. Hu" was also present for the interchange but didn't say anything. "Mr. Lee stated that when Mr. Chin asked this question, he responded that he did not know and that the question did not interest him," the examiner noted.
Lee's failure to mention this contact earlier seems like a small detail, but security regulations require Los Alamos scientists to inform their superiors whenever a foreign scientist tries to elicit classified information from them. Dr. Lee initially "inferred" that he had reported the discussion with Mr. Chin on his trip report, the polygraph states, but subsequently admitted that he may not have specifically mentioned it. He also told the examiner that for several years after the conference, he had received requests from "various professionals" requesting information that was previously published or in the public domain. "He said he honored such requests but specifically identified public domain information," the examiner stated. "He never provided any other information, and absolutely no information of a sensitive or classified nature." The examiner then asked Lee four specific questions:


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A "kick-back" day - our last in Texas
A nice Passport America park - full hookups, drive thru sites, and a continental breakfast every morning that includes fresh-made Texas-shaped waffles, as well as biscuits and gravy, bagels, and lots of other good stuff! Laundry was small, but very clean, and only $1/wash/dry. A good place to get all caught ...
God Bless Texas!
I packed up and was on my way to breakfast at McDonald's. I had pancakes again for $2.19 and a water. I gassed up at a Shell for $44.73 and was on my way.
"If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears." - Cesare Pavese
On the 15th, we transitioned to the Gulf Coast RV Resort on the outskirts of Beaumont, TX. This was another nice campground that had nice long and cement pads. While they were a little narrow, it was nice to not have to set up and pack up in the mud. The other nice ammenity was they they serve a free hot breakfast in the mornings. That evening, the rain set in so we ended up driving most of the next day in the ...
Gator Country!
... and grow curious about the gators and other creatures in the park and even got to experience them up close.
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- After hanging with the gators, we were so scared for our lives that we hid in the car the rest of the day, then fell asleep next to the road.
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Bhalotra, Sonia and Heady, Chris (2000) Child farm labour: theory and evidence. DEDPS, 24. Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.
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This paper presents a dynamic model of child labour supply in a farming household. The model clarifies the roles of land, income and household size, allowing labour and credit market imperfections. If labour markets are imperfect, child labour is increasing in farm size and decreasing in household size. The effect of income is shown to depend upon whether the effective choice is between work and school or whether leisure is involved. Credit market constraints tend to dilute the positive impact of farm size and reinforce the negative effect of income. The model is estimated for rural Ghana and Pakistan. A striking finding of the paper is that the effect of farm size at given levels of household income is significantly positive for girls in both countries, but not for boys. This is consistent with the finding, in other contexts, that females exhibit larger substitution effects in labour supply. Increases in household income have a negative impact on work for boys in Pakistan and for girls in Ghana but there is no income effect for the other two groups of children. We find interesting effects of household size and composition, female headship, and mothers' post-secondary education.
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These projects, intended to help stabilize the country by addressing residents' needs, have done anything but.
We'll be withdrawing more than 33,000 U.S. troops this year. What will we leave behind?
We need to understand mistakes made on the non-military side of the war because they're the same ones we've made in the past and will repeat in the future unless we address them. We had great intentions, and most Afghans were thrilled to see us at first. But we made serious mistakes, and the consequences may prove to be tragic.
[Although I] lived independently in Afghan neighborhoods from 2003 to 2011, [I] was forced to move behind international barricades because of increasing threats to foreigners in Afghanistan. In the newest of three books ("Clouded Hopes: 9 Years in Afghanistan"), I am providing an insider's view of the international teams of workers and local Afghans with whom I lived and worked.
Life for Afghans got worse, not better. In a Gallup poll last year, 55 percent rated their lives as ones of "suffering."
Three lessons I feel I have learned from those front lines include:
1. Provide real information and background on what the U.S. mission is about.
Whenever the United States goes to a war-torn country like Afghanistan in a military capacity, that mission often grows to include reconstruction and law and governance programs. But the original purpose of the projects becomes clouded because of a lack of communication that's meaningful to local populations. This opens the door for those who do not want "outsiders" in their country to concoct opposing stories that tarnish U.S. objectives and demonize the U.S. role.
2. Build on existing systems that are already part of the culture.
We wanted to help stabilize Afghanistan, but we didn't try to build on important concepts like family or the ancient system of grassroots democracy already in place. Afghan villages have long relied on councils, called shuras, to resolve disputes and provide governance. The concept of a community coming together to dialogue is one which Afghans know and support. Helping to broaden the ancient Afghan democratic system by encouraging participation of all members of the community would have allowed for a more democratic system to take hold. Former warlords and corrupt officials would have been marginalized.
3. Provide a transparent atmosphere so contracted workers can admit to problems and mistakes that occur.
Americans who went to work in Afghanistan with the best of intentions soon found that their salaries reflected large upticks for danger pay and post differentials that exponentially surpassed salaries back home. The companies they worked for gained lucrative contracts, with often impossible goals.
As money flowed and problems inevitably arose, many contractors didn't want to acknowledge negative things because they didn't want their contracts yanked. They became more interested in pleasing their funders than actually rebuilding the country. The resulting substandard project outcomes didn't benefit local citizens, so regular Afghans became less and less interested in what the U.S. was doing. We ceased being their friends and became part of their problem.
By not focusing on improving the everyday lives of regular Afghans, and effectively encouraging a national identity among them, we've actually left Afghanistan even more vulnerable to the Taliban.
When we failed to be seen as meeting the population's needs, the Afghans' perception of the West became one of "invaders" who had come to fulfill their own agendas. That allowed the Taliban to portray itself as Afghan liberators, not enemies, especially in the rural areas.
(About the writer: Mary Ann Callahan worked in Afghanistan on humanitarian projects from 2003 to 2012, under the protection of the U.S. Agency for International Development, in a variety of capacities, most involving communications. She developed and implemented an independent journalism program that trained Afghans to accurately report on international development efforts in their country, and received recognition from both the U.S. and Afghan governments for her work. She is the author of three books based on her experiences. "Clouded Hopes" is the second in a series that also includes "Clear Differences: Short Stories from Afghanistan." Her children's book, "Little Heroes," is about two cats growing up in Kabul and Paris and helps to acquaint young readers with the world's disparities.)


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Land use plan update to be released Tuesday
Get ready for planning overload — if you're not feeling it already.
Get ready for planning overload — if you're not feeling it already.
Commissioner Steve Novick has finally found a street fee that most Portlanders support — one that only the rich pay.
Trader Joe's is recalling some of its fruit over a potential listeria contamination, CNN is reporting.
A watch worn by her late mother is all one woman is asking thieves to return after her van was raided in broad daylight in Milwaukie.
A spokesperson for Fred Meyer said on Monday that the superstore chain is updating its gun policy following the theft of 22 guns.
Police released the cause of death for nine of the 10 victims of an April crash between a charter bus full of students and a FedEx tractor-t…
The track coach at Madras High School is accused of having an unlawful relationship with a 17-year-old.
Metro is working to find a new solution for managing trash. Part of the reason? Portlanders generate more waste than the average American.
The two-year pilot program has kids in school from now through mid-September, then off for three weeks.
One man was arrested on other charges and then connected to the Fred Meyer gun theft, authorities said.


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In a few months, Red House Painters mastermind Mark Kozelek will return with Among The Leaves, the latest album under his Sun Kil Moon moniker. As Beats Per Minute points out, there's a lengthy description of the new album on the Caldo Verde Records site, which claims that Kozelek mostly recorded the new LP on nylon-string guitar, and that it involves Kozelek "singing playfully." This could be interesting, seeing as how Kozelek is not usually a barrel of laughs. We've got the tracklist below, and a live preview of "Sunshine In Chicago" from the Shiving Songs Festival.
01 "I Know It's Pathetic But That Was The Greatest Night Of My Life"
02 "Sunshine In Chicago"
03 "The Moderately Talented Yet Attractive Young Woman Vs. The Exceptionally Talented Yet Not So Attractive Middle Aged Man"
04 "That Bird Has A Broken Wing"
05 "Elaine"
06 "The Winery"
07 "Young Love"
08 "Song For Richard Collopy"
09 "Among The Leaves"
10 "Red Poison"
11 "Track Number 8″
12 "Not Much Rhymes With Everything's Awesome At All Times"
13 "King Fish"
14 "Lonely Mountain"
15 "UK Blues"
16 "UK Blues 2″
17 "Black Kite"
Among The Leaves is out 5/29 on Caldo Verde.
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Hemiptera Family Characters
Psyllidae: Diagnostic
characters: small (2-5 mm); 2 pairs of wings in both sexes, held roof-like over
body, forewing often thicker than hind wing; resemble miniature cicadas; strong
jumping legs; antennae 10-segmented; tarsi 2-segmented, with 2 claws.
See the Psylloidea
Web Page from the USDA's, Systematic Entomology Laboratory. Psyllids, or
jumping plant lice, feed on phloem sap, and are usually very species specific;
a very few produce galls such as the hackberry nipple gall psyllid, Pachypsylla
celtidismamma, and Psylla
magnicauda. The nymphs live inside the galls. Eggs laid shallowly
in plant tissue and covered with wax. Nymphs do not closely resemble adults
and produce copious powdery wax. Adults resemble miniature cicadas and
are active jumpers and fliers. Two important pest species, both introduced from
Europe, are the pear psylla, Psylla pyricola, and the apple sucker,
Psylla mali. Nymphs feed on axils of leaves and fruit and produce copious
honeydew on which fungus grows; infected trees shed leaves and fruit.
Aleyrodidae: Whiteflies.
Diagnostic characters: minute (2-3 mm); 2 pairs of wings in both sexes; forewings
about equal in size to hind wings; body and wings covered with a white waxy
See the USDA's Systematic Entomology Laboratory Whitefly
Web Page. 1st instar nymphs are active, but later nymphs are sessile and
scale-like. The group is abundant in the tropics. One important
species affects citrus - fungus growing on honeydew interferes with photosynthesis.
Other species are important greenhouse pests.
See the Aphidoidea
World Wide Web Page from the USDA's, Systematic Entomology
Laboratory. Cornicles secrete defensive substance. Some secrete wax. Honeydew
secreted from anus. Often milked by ants. Honeydew "rain."
A good discussion of the complex life cycles (heterogamy) of aphids can be found on the Tree of Life, of which one example is the following:
--Eggs overwinter
--Hatch in spring into parthenogenetic female fundatrix, usually wingless, primary host plant
--Viviparous birth to wingless females, apterae (several generations)
--Birth to winged female, alatae, migrate to secondary host plant
--Parthenogenetic birth to several generations of female apterae on secondary host
--Produce alatae, migrate back to primary host plant
--Birth to male & female (sexuparae), sexual reproduction - oviparous female (ovipara) produce fertilized eggs from which fundatrix hatches.Enormous numbers can build up. Many serve as important vectors of plant viruses, which cause severe economic loss to crops. Important historical collection and research at U of Minn (Oestlund, Granovsky).
Diagnostic characters: winged or apterous; forewings much larger than hind wings, forewing with 4, 5, or 6 veins behind stigma; antennae usually 6 segmented; pair of cornicles usually present near posterior end
of abdomen. Examples: Rhopalosiphum
maidis and Aphis
Diagnostic characters: forewing with only 3 veins behind stigma; antennae 3-5 segmented; cornicles absent. Pine and spruce aphids.
Feed only on conifers. Primary hosts (where galls often formed) and secondary
hosts, both conifers. Complex life cycles. Eastern spruce gall
FYI: Eriosomatidae: Wooly and gall-making aphids. Cornicles reduced or absent, profuse wax producers. Adults lack mouthparts. Female produces only 1 egg. Also with complex life cycles. Primary host plant (tree or shrub), secondary host plant (herbaceous). Often produce gall on primary host. Woolly apple aphid.
FYI: Phylloxeridae: phylloxerans, including the grape phylloxera, an important pest on grapes, especially in Europe. Complex life history. Causes galls on grape leaves and gall-like swellings on roots, with many aphids inside.
Scale insectds and mealybugs, superfamily Coccoidea: See the Coccoidea Web Page from the USDA's, Systematic Entomology Laboratory.
Diagnostic characters: very highly modified; female wingless, usually legless, sessile; male forewing developed, hind wing reduced to style-like processes, long antennae, long style on end of abdomen, lack mouthparts, do not feed. Complex life cycles. 1st instar nymphs active "crawlers", 2nd instar legs and antennae lost, sessile, waxy or scale-like covering over body. Female remains here. Male develops wings.
Some coccoid families:
Coccidae — Diagnostic characters: abdominal spiracles absent; anal opening covered by two plates. Soft scales, wax scales, tortoise scales - many citrus, greenhouse, and house plant pests; Chinese wax scale - males produce pure white wax for making candles.
Diaspididae — Diagnostic characters: beak and antennae on segmented; legs absent or vestigial. Armored scales - Largest family in North America, with very important pest species. Scales from wax as well as cast skins. Very different shapes of scales. Injure plants by sucking sap. San Jose Scale, oystershell scale.
Pseudococcidae — Diagnostic characters: in life covered by white, powderly secretion. Mealybugs - female body segments distinct, with legs. 300 spp. in North America. Citrus, greenhouse, and house plant pests.
FYI: Margarodidae — Giant coccids and ground pearls (large, to 2.5 cm); cottony cushion scale - pest of citrus in West.
FYI: Kerridae — Lac scales - Indian lac insect-source of shellac; others sources of pigments.
FYI: Kermesidae — Gall-like coccids - on twigs and leave of oaks in US. Tamarisk manna scale, Trabutina mannipara, on Tamarix, female produce large amount of honeydew, in arid regions it solidifies and accumulates in thick layers; sweet.
FYI: Dactylopiidae — Cochineal insects - female red in color, occur on cactuses; source of crimson dye; female collected and dried, and pigments extracted.
Diagnostic characters: large insects with large wings; forewing membranous;
3 ocelli.
Cicada immatures live in the ground and feed on plant roots. The immature life
span last for several years in the dog-day cicadas and up to 13 or 17 years
in the periodical
cicadas. Dog-day cicada adults emerge during the "dog days" of
summer in the northern hemisphere - late July to September in Minnesota. There
are 7 species and over a dozen broods of periodical cicads in the US, but none
occur in Minnesota. Some broods emerge in such large numbers as to cause sensational
news stories and public interest, as occured in the mid-Atlantic states during
the summer of 2004. Feeding by the immatures is of little economic importance,
but damage to twigs of trees and shrubs can occur because of female oviposition.
Cicadas are among the most boisterous of the sound producing insects, with species
specific calls.
Examples: A dog-day cicada, Tibicens resh; male T. resh showing operculum of sound producing organ; female showing ovipositor. Size range in cicadas, the giant Pomponia imperitoria from Malaysia and the small Pacarina puella from Texas; Linnaeus' 17-year cicada, Magicicada septendecim; a Costa Rica species, Zammara tympanum, with pronotal flanges.
Diagnostic characters: small jumping insects; hind tibiae with 1 or 2 stout
spines, and usually a circlet of spines at apex.
Spittle bugs or froghoppers are best know for the frothy spittle produced from
the anus and abdominal glands of the immatures, which covers them while they
feed on grasses. These insects are very common, especially in meadows, but only
a few might be considered pests. Examples of cercopid diversity, 1,
showing arrangement of spines.
Diagnostic characters: small jumping insects; pronotum projecting backwards
over abdomen, often highly developed (especially in tropical species).
Tree hoppers feed on trees and shrubs where they display a rather narrow host
range. Tropical species are known for the bizarre ornamentation of their pronota.
The adaptive value of these ornamentations include crytic resemblance to thorns
and twigs, sexual display, and apophysectomy. Some species show a primitive
form of sociality, with the female tending her eggs and offspring while they
mature. Examples of membracids, showing remarkable diversity of pronota: a common
species; Costa
Rican, Mexican,
and Brazilian
examples; other, mostly Neotropical, examples, 1,
Diagnostic characters: hind tibiae with 1 or more rows of small spines.
Leafhoppers comprise a very large, species diverse, and economically important
family. They feed on the leaves of plants, which in crop species causes economic
damage by sapping the plant of nutrients, damaging xylem and phloem cells, damaging
twigs through female oviposition, or by vectoring plant viruses and other diseases.
Like cicadas, they produce sound, but this sound is usually not audible to humans.
The many species have been placed in some 18 subfamilies. A typical cicadellid
from Minnesota;
tibia showing rows of spines; head,
showing position of antenna in relation to eye (on front of head between eyes
and head without a carina). Two colorful species from Costa
Superfamily Fulgoroidea: Diagnostic characters:
antennae arising on sides of head beneath eyes, separated from front of head
by a vertical carina.
The planthoppers constitute a group of about a dozen families in North America,
all recognized by the antennae separated from the front of the head
by a vertical carina and thus arising beneath the eyes. They feed on a rather
wide range of plant types, but few or of any economic importance. A few exemplary
families are listed below:
FYI: Fulgoridae: Diagnostic characters: Anal area of hind with with fine network of crossveins. The family contains many beautiful exotic species: Phrictus ocellatus, a probable lichen mimic, with bright hind wings, Venezuela; Phenax variegatus, Venezuela, notice the wax secretions; Cathedra serratus, Brazil; Fulgora lampetus, Ecuador; F. pyrorhyncha, Malaysia; Zanna terminalis, Malaysia.
Delphacidae: Diagnostic character: Hind tibia showing large, movable apical spur. This is the largest family. Its species are small and often have short wings. One species was a pest on sugarcane in Hawaii.
Flatidae: Diagnostic characters: Forewing with numerous costal crossveins including uniform row of crossveins along front margin; wings held almost vertical at rest, but flatter in some species; clavus (triangular anal area of wing) granular; 2nd segment of hind tarsus with 2 apical spines, one on each side. Very diverse in the tropics. Feed on leaves and and above ground parts of woody/shrubby plants.
FYI: Acanaloniidae: Very similar to Flatidae, but wings are very reticulate, like veins in a leaf, and almost oval, none of the veins line up in even rows; without granules on clavus; hind tibia without spines. All but one North American species are in the genus Acanalonia. Acanalonia bivittata, detail of head showing carina and position of eye, Minnesota.
Issidae: Diagnostic characters: Forewings often shorter than abdomen, if longer, usually oval; without granulation; hind tibiae with spines on apex and on sides.
Derbidae: Diagnostic characters: Terminal segment of beak not more than 1.5 x as long as wide; head often with a projection; often brightly colored, delicate species. Apache dageeri, Minnesota. Derbids feed on woody fungi. Most species are tropical.
Dictyopharidae: Diagnostic characters: Head strongly elongated at front OR frons with 2-3 raised carinae (ridges); terminal segment of beak at least 2x as long as wide. Scolops, Minnesota; two tropical examples, Costa Rica, Venezuela. These feed mainly on grasses. Many have the head produced into a slender process, but some others don't.
Cixiidae: Diagnostic characters: head not extended in front; abdominal terga rectangular; head with median ocellus; terminal segment of beak at least 2x as long as wide. Cixius basalis, Minnesota. Largest family of planthoppers. These are mostly tropical, with some species feeding underground on grass roots.
Mesoveliidae: Diagnostic
characters: small, elongate; greenish or yellowish; wingless or winged (if winged,
clavus of forewing membranous, membrane veinless); antennae long, slender; tarsal
claws apical; ocelli present; legs with conspicuous black spines.
Water treaders, as members of the neustonic fauna, occur on
the surface of standing waters, often among floating or emergent vegetation.
They feed as scavengers on dead and dying insects trapped in the surface film.
Mesovelia mulsanti, winged
and apterous
adults; hind
tibia showing black spines.
Diagnostic characters: small, delicate bugs, with very slender, elongate body;
head long and slender; eyes bulging in the middle.
Water measurers are also neustonic scavengers and predators, but often go unnoticed
because of their very slender bodies. A large adult
from Venezuela; detail of head.
Diagnostic characters: small (less than 5 mm), neustonic bugs; tarsal claws
anteapical; hind femora extending little, if any, beyond apex of abdomen.
Ripple bugs are commonly found just below the riffles of streams, but also in
ponds and lakes. They often occur in large swarms. They prey on other surface
dwelling arthropods, detecting their prey through surface vibrations.
Rhagovelia obesa, Minnesota.
Diagnostic characters: arger than veliids, also inhabiting the water-surface;
tarsal claws anteapical; hind femora extending well beyond apex of abdomen.
Water striders are very common surface bugs in lakes, ponds, and pools. They
move across the surface of the water by "rowing"
and also communicate by tapping the surface with their legs. They prey on insect
trapped or living on the surface. Winged and wingless adults occus in some species.
All are freshwater inhabitants except for species in the genus Halobates
which occur in the open ocean. Limnoporus
dissortis, Minnesota.
Diagnostic characters: small, oval, flattened semiaquatic bugs; forewing membrane
with 4-5 long closed cells.
Shore bugs are active shore inhabiting predatory insects. Saldula
confluenta, Minnesota.
Diagnostic characters: medium to large; brownish, oval, flat, with strong, raptorial
forelegs; short, retractile respiratory appendages at tip of abdomen.
Giant water bugs are very common aquatic bugs found in ponds, pools, and ditches.
They have a short siphon at the tip of the abdomen used for breathing while
they are submerged. They are rapacious predators; the larger species even prey
of small fish and frogs. They are good fliers and are attrated to lights at
night. They can give a fierce bite if not handled properly. All of these characteristics
are captured in their various common names: "fish killers," "toe
biters," and "electric light bugs." Lethocerus
americanus, a large giant water bug from Minnesota; Belostoma
flumineum, Minnesota, male with eggs on dorsum of hemelytra.
Diagnostic characters: slender-elongate or elongate-oval; forelegs slender and
raptorial; long, nonretractable breathing tube at tip of the abdomen.
Water scorpions live in the same habitats as giant water bugs and are as equally
common. They hang from the surface with the tip of their long siphon exposed
and grab passing prey with long raptorial forelegs. Two water scorpions from
Minnesota, Ranatra
kirkaldyi and Nepa
apiculata, representing the two body forms.
Diagnostic characters: small, toad-shaped bugs with bulging eyes.
Toad bugs could not be more aptly named - their resemblance to toads is remarkable.
They also hop and can change color to match the substrate! They live along the
shores of ponds, lakes and rivers where they prey on other shore inhabiting
arthropods. Example: Gelastocoris
oculatus (specimen from Kansas).
Diagnostic characters: front tarsi 1-segmented and scoop-shaped; beak very short
and hidden, appearing 1-segmented.
Water boatman are very common and abundant in ponds, lakes, pools, and ditches;
some species are found in brackish water or in intertidal zones. They use oar-like
hind and mid legs for swimming. The mouthparts are adapted for taking in small
particles of solid food as well as very small aquatic organisms such as diatoms,
protozoans, rotifers and organic material that they sweep into the mouth with
the scoop-shaped fore tarsi; others are herbivorous and puncture the cells of
filamentous algae while a few prey on mosquito larvae. The males have asymmetrical
genitalia and modified pegs on the fore femora for stridulation against the
sharp sides of the head. Hesperocorixa
laevigata, Minnesota. Head
of H. lobata, showing broad, conical beak and modified fore tarsus.
Diagnostic characters: small, oval, with flattened body, somewhat similar to
belostomatids but with front femora greatly enlarged.
Creeping water bugs, or gator fleas, occur in rivers and ponds. Some lotic species
are adapted to fast flowing areas, while the lentic species occur among vegeration.
They can inflict a very painful bite when handled. They breathe under water
by way of a "plastron gill," a region of very dense hairs on the body
surface that traps a layer of air across which oxygen and carbon dioxide diffuse.
A creeping
water bug from Arizona.
Diagnostic characters: similar to corixids but convex and with front tarsi unmodified;
beak more elongate and segmented.
Backswimmers occur in standing waters where they swim upside down in the water
column in search of prey, often by sneaking up on them from below. Males also
stridulate by rubbing the fore legs against the beak. They also bite!
Notonecta insulata, Minnesota.
Diagnostic characters: small (3 mm or less), oval; similar to notonectids, but
much smaller, with much more convex body.
Pygmy backswimmers are very common and abundant in weedy ponds
in Minnesota, but often go unnoticed because of their small size. They carry
a bubble of air on their venral surface for respiration as they crawl around
in vegetation in search of their prey, aquatic microarthropods. A pygmy
backswimmer from Texas.
Diagnostic characters: flat, oval, less than 6 mm, wings vestigial.
This is an annoying pest that has become more commonly encountered in recent
years, especially in hotels, motels, and apartment buildings. The bugs hide
in crack and crevaces during the day. At night they leave their retreats
ato feed on unsuspecting guests. They do not vector disease, but
cause an irritating bite. Adults can live for several months with out a meal.
The common bed bug, Cimex
lectularius, Minnesota.
Diagnostic characters: small, about 3-5 mm, somewhat oval, flattened, black
with white markings; hemelytra with a cuneus; beak 3-segmented.
A minute
pirate bug, Minnesota. These tiny bugs commonly occur on flowers and
fruit where they feed on insect eggs and small insects. One species, the
insidious flower bug, packs a powerful bite for its small size.
Diagnostic characters: body generally elongate oval, rarely greatly elongate;
beak short, 3-segmented, its tip fitting into a stridulatory groove in the prosternum;
head elongate with part behind the eyes necklike; transverse groove between
the eyes.
The assasin bugs constitute a large, diverse family of highly predaceous
bugs; members of the subfamily Triatominae bite humans and other vertebrates
for a blood meal. Species of Triatoma, or "kissing bugs," of the
Neotropics transmit Chagas' disease, caused by the protozoan Trypanosoma
The masked hunter is a species that preys on bedbugs. The wheel bug, Arilus
cristata, ventral view of head, showing beak
and prosternal groove. Several examples of Neotropical species from
Costa Rica 1,
and Peru 3,
Reduviidae, Phymatinae:
Diagnostic characters: front femora greatly thickened; abdomen wider in distal
half, extending laterally beyond wings.
Ambush bugs are common, easily recognized, cryptically colored predators,
now generally included within the Reduviidae as a subfamily. They are common
on goldenrod where the blend in perfectly. They capture other insects, even
larger bees, wasps, and flies, that visit flowers during pollination. Phymata pennsylvanica, Minnesota, dorsal and lateral.
Diagnostic characters: small,10 mm or less, oval or elongate; hemelytra with
cuneus, membrane with 1 or 2 closed cells.
These are very common and abundant bugs found on plants. Most are plant feeders
and many of these are of economic importance; others are predaceous. Coquillettia
mimetica, adult
and ant mimicing nymph,
Minnesota. The four-lined plant bug, Poecilopsus
lineatus, Minnesota.
Diagnostic characters: elongate, oval; ocelli present; prothoracic legs with
femora slightly thickened; membrane of hemelytra with numerous marginal cells.
These predaceous little bugs, the damsel bugs, are important members of the
predator community of natural as well as agricutural ecosystems. Nabis
americoferus, adult
and detail of foreleg.
Diagnostic characters: body and wings with reticulate sculpturing (giving it
a "lacey" look).
Lace bugs are known for the remarkable ornamentation of the
cuticle of the adult. They are plant feeders and when in great abundance their
feeding can can damage plants, especially trees.
Corythuca heidemanni, Minnesota.
Diagnostic characters: small, dark, very flat, oval; wings narrow, abdomen extends
beyond them.
Another remarkble bug because of its extreme flatness. They occur on and
under bark of dead or decaying trees where they feed on fungi. Examples of
flat bugs from Peru
and Minnesota.
Alydidae: Diagnostic characters: similar to coreidae, but buccula not extenidng past base of antennae; head nearly as wide and as long as pronotum. Broad headed bugs are common and notable because of their noxious smell and the nymphs that resemble ants. They feed on plants. Alydus eurinus, Minnesota. Head of Megalotomus quinquespinosus showing length of buccula in relation to base of antenna.
Coreidae: Diagnostic characters: membrane of hemelytra with many veins; head narrower and shorter than pronotum; scent glands present between middle and hind coxae; hind tibiae sometimes dilated and leaflike; buccula extends back past base of antenna. Not all leaf-footed bugs have expanded hind tibiae, but all have well-developed scent glands. They feed on plants. One species, the squash bug, is a common pest on squash and other cucurbits. Two leaf-footed bugs, Acanthocephalus nr. femorata, Mexico, and Anisoscelis flavolineata, Costa Rica. Head of Euthochthus galeator showing length of buccula in relation to base of antenna.
Diagnostic characters: membrane of hemelytra with many veins; usually pale-colored
(most specimens in lab collection are black with red margins); 10 mm or less;
scent glands absent.
The boxelder bug, Boisea
trivittatus, is the most conspicuous member of the family in Minnesota.
They feed on the seeds of box elder and aggregate on the sunny, south
facing sides of houses in the fall, looking for sites to overwinter.
Diagnostic characters: slender, 5-9 mm; legs and antennae long and slender;
last antennal segment short and spindle-shaped.
Stilt bugs are delicate, slender insects. They are largely herbivorous.
A stilt
bug from Minnesota.
Diagnostic characters: scent glands present; membrane of hemelytra with only
4-5 veins.
This is a large and important family of mostly seed feeding bugs. Now, the
family has been divided into no less that 10 separate family (see textbook).
Many species are important pests of crops, especially grains, while a few
others are predaceous. The large milkweed bug, Oncopeltus
fasciatus, Minnesota, and scent gland on the thorax of the small
milkweed bug, Lygaeus
kalmii, Minnesota.
Diagnostic characters: Small, about 3 mm, corium and clavus with an irregular
network of small cells (pits).
A small family of little bugs most noted for the sculpturing of the wings
and thorax. They feed on members of the amaranth plant family. Ash-gray leaf
bug, Piesma
cinerea, Minnesota.
Diagnostic characters: scutellum large and triangular, but not longer than corium
and not reaching apex of abdomen; spines weak or absent on tibiae.
Stink bugs are common and well known. They emit odiferous substances from
the stink glands. Most are herbivorous, and some are pestiferous, including
the harlequin bug on cabbage and the southern green stink bug. A few are
predaceous. A large green stink bug from Minnesota, Acrosternum
hilare. Two additional Minnesota species, Perillus
bioculatus and Brochymena
Diagnostic characters: similar to Pentatomidae but with strong spines
on tibiae. These little bugs burrow in the ground or under rocks and
wood where they feed on plant roots. They are often attracted to lights
at night. A burrower
bug from Texas.
Diagnostic characters: similar to Pentatomidae, but scutellum extending to apex
of abdomen.
These bugs are noteworthy because of the broad extension of the scutellum.
Many tropical species are brightly colored. They are plant feeders. Eurygaster
alternata, a shield-backed bug, Minnesota. Tectocoris
lineola, a striking species from Australia.
Thyreocoridae: Diagnostic characters: similar to Scutelleridae (scutellum covering most of abdomen), but tibiae armed with strong spines and body color shining black. These are intensely black, shiny little bugs. They are common and found on vegetation. Galgupha nitiduloides, Minnesota.


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PATNA: The state election commission ( SEC), on Wednesday, declared 870 booths for Patna Municipal Corporation (PMC) polls as supersensitive and 231 booths as sensitive. Two quick response teams would be stationed at the district control room to tackle any emergency situation. Residents of 70 wards of Patna Municipal Corporation will exercise their franchise on Thursday to elect their representatives.
Deputy development commissioner (DDC) and in charge DM, Patna, Manoj Kumar Singh, and Patna SSP Amrit Raj said no commercial vehicle would be allowed to ply in the city during election period. "We have identified the supersensitive and sensitive booths. Static police force would be deployed accordingly. Vehicular traffic will be controlled and diverted at the important intersections in the city," Singh said.
The candidates would not be allowed to visit the booths or even provide any vehicle to the voters. There will be two control rooms with quick response force, which would reach any place from where any trouble is reported within 15 minutes. Around 10,000 state police personnel including 2,000 homeguards jawans will be deployed to ensure free and fair poll. Each booth would be manned by armed forces on Thursday. The movement of commercial vehicles will be restricted in the city between 7 am and 4 pm. Private vehicles would be stopped half a kilometre away from the polling stations.
The PMC area has been divided into 123 sectors and 31 zones. The candidates will be allowed to move in four-wheelers to be provided by the state election commission. Singh said the arrangements made would help the district administration in deploying the required number of security personnel at different polling booths. There are many wards with high number of voters and contestants. The booths in those wards need vigilance.
Patna SSP Amrit Raj said seven FIRs had been lodged with different police stations in the state capital for violation of model code of conduct. Any candidate found violating the model code would be liable for prosecution under various sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC). Prohibitory orders will be enforced on the booths and adjoining areas.
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