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Annual Urban Pest Management Conference set for March 26Public release date: 14-Mar-2013 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Iqbal Pittalwala iqbal@ucr.edu 951-827-6050 University of California - Riverside
Supervisors, managers and technicians in the structural pest control industry to attend one-day conference at UC Riverside
RIVERSIDE, Calif. How can termites, bed bugs and Argentine ants be effectively controlled? What are some of the new invasive cockroach pests in California? And what are some ways to address the rodent problem in suburban structures and landscapes?
A one-day conference for both the public interested in these questions and professionals in the pest control industry will take place at the University of California, Riverside on March 26, from 7:15 a.m. until 5 p.m. at the University Extension Center (UNEX), 1200 University Ave., Riverside, Calif.
Registration for the 22nd Annual UC Riverside Urban Pest Management Conference costs $110 per person (includes parking fees). This fee is waived for reporters interested in covering all or part of the conference.
The keynote speech will be given at 8:30 a.m. by Nan-Yao Su, a professor of entomology at the University of Florida. The title of his talk is "Almost Eighty Years After 'Termites and Termite Control' by Kofoid (1934)."
Sponsored by the UCR Department of Entomology, the conference is especially popular with supervisors, managers and technicians in the structural pest control industry. Approximately 150-200 attendees are expected to attend this year's conference.
"This conference will provide the industry and public with the most up-to-date information on the biology and control of insect pests in and around urban structures," said Dong-Hwan Choe, an assistant professor of entomology at UCR and the lead organizer of the conference. "We have attendees from throughout Southern California and the adjacent states. By attending the conference, they can get their continuing education units for maintaining their professional licenses."
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More information about the conference, including the agenda and registration information, can be found here or by calling Kathleen Campbell, the conference coordinator, at (951) 827-5729.
The University of California, Riverside is a doctoral research university, a living laboratory for groundbreaking exploration of issues critical to Inland Southern California, the state and communities around the world. Reflecting California's diverse culture, UCR's enrollment has exceeded 21,000 students. The campus will open a medical school in 2013 and has reached the heart of the Coachella Valley by way of the UCR Palm Desert Center. The campus has an annual statewide economic impact of more than $1 billion. A broadcast studio with fiber cable to the AT&T Hollywood hub is available for live or taped interviews. UCR also has ISDN for radio interviews. To learn more, call (951) UCR-NEWS.
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Annual Urban Pest Management Conference set for March 26Public release date: 14-Mar-2013 [ | E-mail | Share ]
Contact: Iqbal Pittalwala iqbal@ucr.edu 951-827-6050 University of California - Riverside
Supervisors, managers and technicians in the structural pest control industry to attend one-day conference at UC Riverside
RIVERSIDE, Calif. How can termites, bed bugs and Argentine ants be effectively controlled? What are some of the new invasive cockroach pests in California? And what are some ways to address the rodent problem in suburban structures and landscapes?
A one-day conference for both the public interested in these questions and professionals in the pest control industry will take place at the University of California, Riverside on March 26, from 7:15 a.m. until 5 p.m. at the University Extension Center (UNEX), 1200 University Ave., Riverside, Calif.
Registration for the 22nd Annual UC Riverside Urban Pest Management Conference costs $110 per person (includes parking fees). This fee is waived for reporters interested in covering all or part of the conference.
The keynote speech will be given at 8:30 a.m. by Nan-Yao Su, a professor of entomology at the University of Florida. The title of his talk is "Almost Eighty Years After 'Termites and Termite Control' by Kofoid (1934)."
Sponsored by the UCR Department of Entomology, the conference is especially popular with supervisors, managers and technicians in the structural pest control industry. Approximately 150-200 attendees are expected to attend this year's conference.
"This conference will provide the industry and public with the most up-to-date information on the biology and control of insect pests in and around urban structures," said Dong-Hwan Choe, an assistant professor of entomology at UCR and the lead organizer of the conference. "We have attendees from throughout Southern California and the adjacent states. By attending the conference, they can get their continuing education units for maintaining their professional licenses."
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More information about the conference, including the agenda and registration information, can be found here or by calling Kathleen Campbell, the conference coordinator, at (951) 827-5729.
The University of California, Riverside is a doctoral research university, a living laboratory for groundbreaking exploration of issues critical to Inland Southern California, the state and communities around the world. Reflecting California's diverse culture, UCR's enrollment has exceeded 21,000 students. The campus will open a medical school in 2013 and has reached the heart of the Coachella Valley by way of the UCR Palm Desert Center. The campus has an annual statewide economic impact of more than $1 billion. A broadcast studio with fiber cable to the AT&T Hollywood hub is available for live or taped interviews. UCR also has ISDN for radio interviews. To learn more, call (951) UCR-NEWS.
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Mar. 13, 2013 ? Bad news again for the Monarch butterfly: Drought conditions and historic wildfires the past few years continue to decrease their numbers as they wing across Texas this spring. Worse news: milkweed plants -- the only kind they need to survive -- are also not in plentiful supply, says a Texas A&M University Monarch watcher.
Craig Wilson, a senior research associate in the Center for Mathematics and Science Education and a longtime butterfly enthusiast, says reports coming from Mexico where the Monarchs have their breeding grounds show their numbers are significantly down, a disturbing trend during much of the past decade.
"The severe drought in Texas and much of the Southwest continues to wreak havoc with the number of Monarchs," Wilson explains.
"The conditions have been dry both here and in Mexico in recent years. It takes four generations of the insects to make it all of the way up to Canada, and because of lack of milkweed along the way, a lot of them just don't make it."
The dry conditions and changing farming practices are hampering the growth of milkweed, the only type of plant the Monarch will digest as it makes its trip north. Texas has had dozens of wildfires in the past few years that have hampered milkweed growth, and even though there are more than 30 types of milkweed (Asclepiadaceae) in the state, the numbers are not there to sustain the Monarchs as they start their 2,000-mile migration trip to Canada. Increased use of pesticides is also adversely affecting milkweed production, he notes.
"But if people want to help, they can pick up some milkweed plants right now at local farmer's cooperative stores," he says, "and this would no doubt be a big boost to help in their migration journey."
The Monarch reserves are in the Mexican state of Michoacan. It's an area where tens of millions of Monarchs spend the winter and mate before heading north, Wilson points out.
"On a recent visit to the Monarch overwintering sites in Michoacan, former President Jimmy Carter said: 'The Monarch butterfly unites the three countries of North America in peace.
It is an ambassador of peace which requires protected areas and ecosystems that are preserved through sustainable agricultural and forestry practices. We need to work together to maintain a healthy and balanced ecosystem for all North America," Wilson adds.
"It is important to have a national priority of planting milkweed to assure there will be Monarchs in the future," Wilson believes. "If we could get several states to collaborate, we might be able to provide a 'feeding' corridor right up to Canada for the Monarchs."
Wilson is currently adding a variety of milkweed plants to the existing Cynthia Woods Mitchell Garden on the Texas A&M campus. He recommends the following sites for Monarch followers: Journey North, Texas Monarch Watch and Monarch Watch.
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Eyes are one of the most important parts of the body. Like any other part of the body, eyes are silently and constantly at work throughout the day, be it working in front of the?computer screen, studying, reading or simply watching television or doing any other activity, it is our eyes that bear the brunt and at the end of the day you feel that your eyes are tired. Proper eye care and exercises for tired eyes are very much recommended for keeping your eyes healthy and stress free and relieve them of tiredness.
Eye Exercises Help The Eyes In Two Important Ways:
Eye exercises help to improve the mechanical stability of the eye by coordinating and strengthening the eye muscles. The eye exercises strengthen the convergence power of the eye and balance its function with that of accommodation.
Eye exercises improve the optical image coordination between the two eyes, thereby permitting a proper three dimensional accurate picture to be received and subsequently evaluated by the brain.
Though there are numerous benefits of eye exercises for the health and fitness of your eyes, but it would be futile if you think they would lower your spectacle number, cure?glaucoma?or cataract or any other organic disability in the eye. Eye exercises can also not cure high degrees of squint for which surgery is only recourse.
Eye Exercises Help Improve The Mechanical Stability Of The Eye In Following Ways ?
Allowing eye movement, especially in people who have their eyes fixed at a particular position for long periods, or people who wear spectacles, by relieving congestion and permitting a more comfortable vision.
Exercising a particular group of muscles can cure or radically improve a lower degree squint. Even if?squint?is surgically operated, exercises can build up the capacity of the eye to virtually normal limits.
Exercising a weak muscle can increase the range of movement of an eye.
Eye exercises reduce an imbalance between the convergence and accommodation, if done correctly, thus reducing tiredness and strain of the eyes and headaches.
Eye exercises also improve the power of the eye to maintain convergence in depressed position, and therefore permit long comfortable application to near work.
Eye Care Tips To Relieve Tired Eyes: ??
To relieve tired eyes, apply a cupped palm on your eyes to make them feel relaxed, these comforts and soothes your eyes.
Make horizontal and vertical movements of the eyes to the maximum extreme every thirty minutes if you are reading, studying or working on compute for long hours.
Another good eye relaxing technique is to look far and then at a point close to you rapidly a few times.
Avoid reading while sleeping and maintain a distance of about one to one and a half feet between the eyes and your book.
Relax your eyes with warm compresses by dipping a napkin in luke warm water, squeezing the water and place the napkin on your eyes.
Use of a moisturizing or lubricating eye drops also relieves tired eyes.
Tips For Eye Exercises: ??
Keep your thumb at an arms distance in the line of your nose and focus with both eyes on it. Slowly move the thumb towards the nose with your gaze fixated on the thumb.
Roll your eyes up and down and then side to side. Now move your eyes in a circular motion. Repeat this exercise five to ten times.
Rub your fingers for about fifteen to twenty times until they feel warm. Close your eyes and cup them with warm hands. Let your fingers overlap and rest on the centre of your forehead for about a minute.
To improve eye flexibility, hold your thumb six inches from your nose and focus with both eyes. Now shift your focus on any other object, which is ten feet away. Repeat this back and forth about fifteen times.
Take a bowl of luke warm water and a bowl of cold water. Dip a clean napkin in each bowl. Place the napkin from the warm water on closed eyes for 30 seconds and then alternate with the napkin from cold water. Repeat this for three to four times.
Stand at one end of the room and let your eyes scan around the edges of objects in the room such as doors, clock, television etc. This makes your eyes move in a loose and fluid way. Do this for about two minutes.
Let?s Debate And Discuss: ??
You must have often experienced tired eyes, hope the above mentioned eye care tips and exercises give you some relief to relieve and comfort your tired eyes.
What are your ways of comforting your tired eyes, your comments and views on the subject would be much appreciated.
Many Utah cities are trying to clamp down on electronic billboards. Here?s the part of the story you probably didn?t hear: This new advertising option is great for small advertisers.
Say there are 10 northbound billboards on Interstate 15 in the Salt Lake Valley. In any given month, 10 businesses would contract with a billboard company and pay from $5,000 to $10,000 per month for that space.
Since companies aren?t allowed to build any more billboards, that limited supply means the price just keeps going up. In the future only big advertisers like Coca-Cola or Larry H. Miller will be able to afford billboards.
But with digital billboards, many smaller advertisers can afford to share that space because nobody has to climb up and hang a new ad. The messages on the electronic screen change every eight seconds. There?s no animation, just static ads electronically sent to the billboard from a computer somewhere. It?s hard to tell the billboard is even digital.
In an era when small business is under attack, the little guy needs a break. Digital billboards are just what we need.
Greg Jarrard Owner, Atomic Advertising Agency, Inc.
South Jordan
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(Reuters) - McDonald's Corp said on Friday that February sales at established restaurants fell less than expected in the United States and around the globe as customers continued to grapple with economic uncertainty.
U.S. sales at restaurants open at least 13 months fell 3.3 percent, less than the 3.55 percent drop analysts estimated, according to Consensus Metrix.
Investors paid extra attention to results from the United States, because the January 1 payroll tax hike, higher gas prices and delayed federal tax returns have hurt sales at restaurant chains and retailers ranging from Darden Restaurants Inc, the parent of Olive Garden, to Wal-Mart Stores Inc.
The United States is McDonald's second-largest market for revenue, just behind Europe.
Global same-restaurant sales at the world's biggest hamburger chain were down 1.5 percent, less than the 1.63 percent decline expected by analysts polled by Consensus Metrix.
Excluding the impact of an extra day in February 2012 due to the leap year, comparable sales were up 1.7 percent globally and rose everywhere except the United States, where sales were flat.
Shares of McDonald's rose nearly 2 percent to $98.91 in early trade.
FUNDAMENTAL STRENGTH
In Europe, comparable sales fell 0.5 percent, roughly in line with the analysts' target of a 0.46 percent decline.
Asia/Pacific, Middle East and Africa (APMEA) reported a drop of 1.6 percent, slightly better than the 1.69 percent fall that analysts estimated.
McDonald's remained confident in the "fundamental strength" of its business, President and Chief Executive Don Thompson said in a statement.
"We have the operating experience to manage through the current challenging environment and the right strategies in place to grow the business for the long term," he said.
The company is shaking up its menu in the United States, where resurgent rivals such as Burger King Worldwide Inc and Wendy's Co have lured away diners with fast-changing menus.
McDonald's plans to cut its Fruit & Walnut Salad and Chicken Selects from domestic menus and is weighing whether to keep its "premium" Angus burgers. Removing them will clear space for new items and more limited-time offers.
Cracks in McDonald's business first appeared in October, when the company reported its first global monthly restaurant sales decline in nine years.
Results have been lackluster since, as weak economies around the world make it difficult for McDonald's to post growth on top of strong results last year.
McDonald's recently warned it expects sales and profit growth to be under pressure as customers spend cautiously due to a lackluster economic performance in most of its major markets.
(Reporting by Lisa Baertlein in Los Angeles; Additional reporting by Jessica Wohl in Chicago; Editing by Jeffrey Benkoe)
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