Improved stink bug trapping methods

Jan. 18, 2013 ? Baited black traps in a pyramid shape attract significantly more brown marmorated stink bugs than other traps, according to U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists. Evaluating stink bug responses to different visual stimuli may help manufacturers design better traps for monitoring the bugs.

Entomologist Tracy Leskey at the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) Appalachian Fruit Research Station in Kearneysville, W.V., focused on visual stimuli that can attract the stink bugs to traps that will help farmers monitor the level of infestation in their fields and orchards.

In field trials in 2009 and 2010, Leskey and her colleagues found that significantly more stink bug adults and juvenile bugs, called nymphs, were captured in the baited black pyramid traps than in other traps. The researchers also found that more adults and nymphs were captured in a trap placed on the ground than in a commercially available trap hung from a tree limb.

These prototype pyramid traps may serve as monitoring tools to assess the presence, abundance and seasonal activity of pests and natural enemies to determine the need for insecticide applications.

Leskey and her colleagues also found that in 2010, 2011 and 2012, stink bugs produced two generations in one year in Kearneysville, based on the presence of eggs and newly molted adults in field cage experiments. Although it has been reported that these bugs produce only one brood annually in eastern Pennsylvania, it appears that in more southerly locations within the Mid-Atlantic region, they can produce two generations per year, according to Leskey.

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Above and Beyond: Chamber's theme for 2013 - Ramona Sentinel ...

Choosing the best of the best wasn?t easy, Sally Westbrook admitted before announcing recipients of annual

Surrounded by her family, Kim Lasley beams after receiving the 2012 Citizen of the Year award at Ramona Chamber of Commerce?s Installation Dinner & Awards Banquet at San Vicente Golf Resort on Sunday. From left are Krysta, Jayme, Jim, Kim, and Deanna Lasley. Sentinel photo/Maureen Robertson

awards at the Ramona Chamber of Commerce?s Installation & Awards Dinner in the San Vicente Resort Sunday evening.

?We live in an awesome town with amazing citizens, businesses, non-profits, and volunteers,? said Westbrook, Annual Awards Committee chair.

In coming weeks, Ramona Sentinel will feature each of the recipients: Jennifer Jenkin, owner of Pamo Valley Winery, the Business of the Year; Ramona Rotary Club, Non-Profit Organization of the Year;, Kim Lasley, Citizen of the Year; and the late Ellie Whitcomb, who died Jan. 9, 2012, and whose family accepted her Lifetime Achievement Award.

Among the 165 guests at the dinner were Congressman Duncan Hunter, State Senator Joel

Jennifer Jenkin, right, owner of Pamo Valley Winery, accepts the Business of the Year Award from Sally Westbrook, Annual Awards Committee chair. Sentinel photo/Maureen Robertson

Anderson, State Assemblyman Brian Jones, and County Supervisor Dianne Jacob.

As is tradition at the annual dinner, Jacob administered the oath of office to the chamber?s 2013 board members.

?Above and Beyond? is the chamber?s 2013 theme, Master of Ceremonies David Worden said, adding, ?Tonight we are honoring those who have gone

Carol Kinney accepts Ramona Rotary Club?s Non-Profit Organization of the Year Award from Sally Westbrook. Sentinel photo/Maureen Robertson

above and beyond to make Ramona shine.?

State Senator Joel Anderson presents the late Ellie Whitomb's grandson Will Anderson, daughter Sharon Uran, and granddaughter Jennifer Jenkin with a Lifetime Achievement Award for Whitcomb, who died last year. Sentinel photo/Maureen RobertsonBob Murray, 2013 chamber of commerce president, leads other chamber officers and directors in repeating the oath of office as stated by Supervisor Dianne Jacob. Sentinel photo/Maureen Robertson

Holly Michaelis and Paula and Mark Dumas are among those representing Ramona Rebels Elite Cheer, a nominee for business of the year.

Congressman Duncan Hunter, right, with Bob Murray and Faye Welch.

San Diego Country Estates Association Director Eileen Castberg, left, with SDCEA President Doug Kafka and Secretary Maggie Johnson.

Charlotte Jensen, left, with Danica Mazenko with Assemblyman Brian Jones' office and Sharon Davis, honorary mayor.

Jewelry World's Tom and Kathleen Cole

BeeBee Wilson and John and Becca Vargas

Jill Bacorn, center, Citizen of the Year nominee, with husband Eddie and daughters.

State Sen. Joel Anderson, second from right, with San Diego Country Estates Association General Manager Mario Trejo, SDCEA President Doug Kafka, and Kat McClanahan, incoming chamber director.Jason DeLeo, 2011 and 2012 chamber president, and his wife, Danica.

Cheryl Hotchkiss sells opportunity drawing tickets to John Degenfelder, Citizen of the Year nominee.

Assemblyman Brian Jones with Jaye Matthews, left, president of Mackenzie Aviation at Ramona Airport, and chamber director Carol Fowler.

Kim Lasley accepts Citizen of the Year award from Sally Westbrook.

W.T. "Woody" and Dawn Kirkman of W.T. Kirkman Lanterns Inc., Business of the Year nominee.

Assemblyman Brian Jones talks with Supervisor Dianne Jacob.

County Supervisor Dianne Jacob administers the oath of office to Ramona Chamber of Commerce officers and directors.

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An analysis of pills recovered from a shipwreck off the coast of Italy reveals them to contain zinc compounds that were probably used as eye medication. Sophie Bushwick reports.

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Medicinal tablets are nothing new. Doctors have been dispensing pills for thousands of years. And now archaeologists have turned up some of those ancient medicines, which were preserved in a shipwreck for close to two millennia.

The 2nd-century Pozzino wreck was discovered in 1974 off the coast of Italy in 1974. It?s cargo included medical equipment like a cupping vessel, iron probe, and tin boxes of supplies. And in one of those boxes, researchers recovered five gray tablets. Now, they?ve analyzed the antique medication. The work is in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. [Gianna Giachi et al, Ingredients of a 2,000-y-old medicine revealed by chemical, mineralogical, and botanical investigations]

The pills primarily contained zinc compounds, probably the active medicinal ingredients. But researchers also detected starch, pollen, charcoal, fats and linen fibers. Those fibers helped the tablets hold their round, loaf-like shape, which may be the key to the medication's use: the Greek word meaning ?small round loaves? also inspired the word collyrium, or eye-wash. The pills were probably either dissolved in liquid or ground into a powder and used to treat eye conditions. Who knows, maybe Hippocrates used them on his pupils.

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International study: Where there's smoke or smog, there's climate change

Wednesday, January 16, 2013

In addition to causing smoggy skies and chronic coughs, soot ? or black carbon ? turns out to be the number two contributor to global warming. It's second only to carbon dioxide, according to a four-year assessment by an international panel.

The new study concludes that black carbon, the soot particles in smoke and smog, contributes about twice as much to global warming as previously estimated, even by the 2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

"We were surprised at its potential contribution to climate," said Sarah Doherty, a University of Washington atmospheric scientist and one of four coordinating lead authors.

The silver lining may be that controlling these emissions can deliver more immediate climate benefits than trying to control carbon dioxide, she said.

The paper was made freely available online today (Jan. 15) in the Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres.

Some previous research had hinted that models were underestimating black-carbon emissions, Doherty said, from such things as open burning of forests, crops and grasslands, and from energy-related emissions in Southeast Asia and East Asia.

Black carbon's role in climate is complex. Dark particles in the air work to shade the Earth's surface while warming the atmosphere. Black carbon that settles on the surface of snow and ice darkens the surface to absorb more sunlight and increase melting. Finally, soot particles influence cloud formation in ways that can have either a cooling or warming impact.

The report surveyed past studies and included new research to quantify the sources of black carbon and better understand its overall effect on the climate.

Doherty was executive director of the International Global Atmospheric Chemistry Project in 2009 when policy groups were seeking better information on the benefits of reducing black-carbon emissions. The scientific body undertook a comprehensive assessment, supported by IGAC and the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

"Because of a lack of action to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, the policy community is asking what else we can do, particularly to help places like the Arctic that are melting much more quickly than we had anticipated," Doherty said. "We hope reducing black-carbon emissions buys us some time. But it doesn't replace cutting back on CO2 emissions."

While carbon dioxide has a half-life of 100 years, black carbon stays in the atmosphere for only a few days.

The authors investigated various sources of black carbon to see which reductions might have the most short-term cooling impact. Regulating emissions from diesel engines followed by replacing some wood- and coal-burning household stoves, authors find, would have the greatest immediate cooling impact.

"If you're just thinking about impact on climate, you would want to be strategic about which sources you cut back on," Doherty said. "We looked at the overall impact because some of these sources also emit associated particles that can have counteracting effects."

Black carbon contributes to climate change in the mid to high latitudes, including the northern United States, Canada, northern Europe and northern Asia, as well as affecting rainfall patterns of the Asian Monsoon.

The report incorporates data that Doherty and co-author Stephen Warren, a UW professor of atmospheric sciences, gathered between 2007 and 2009 to measure soot on Arctic snow. Calculating black carbon deposits in the Arctic is difficult, so data are essential for testing and correcting models.

First author Tami Bond, now at the University of Illinois, earned a doctoral degree at the UW in 2000 that combined engineering, chemistry and atmospheric science to measure emissions from burning that have atmospheric importance.

"Mitigating black carbon is good for curbing short-term climate change, but to really solve the long-term climate problem, carbon dioxide emissions must also be reduced," Bond said in a press release.

In related research, Doherty, Warren and UW graduate student Cheng Dang will travel next month to Colorado, Wyoming, the Dakotas, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and elsewhere to collect snow samples and investigate black carbon's effects on North America's Great Plains.

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The Government of Canada Launches Final Stage of RADARSAT Constellation Project

2011 was a busy, focused and successful one for our community. There are a number of reasons to say this and I figured important enough to number.

1. Unemployment numbers in our community dropped each and every month since January.

There are still more jobs to create and the recovery is a fragile one. No question however, that we are on the right track.

2. The Cairns Family Health and Biosciences Research Complex was built and is almost completed.

No longer is Brock the university up on the hill. The facility will boast almost 110,000 sq feet of Bioscience research, second to no other research facility or university in the country. It will in fact, rival the facility in place at the University of Florida. The link with the community and our local economy is through the incubator facility that will house small start up businesses. The true value of this investment is when we see the creation of manufacturing jobs through this facility. My close friend Jeff Cairns' dad Roy passed away in 2011.? One of his last significant commitments to his community was the Cairns' family investment and contribution to Brock. Roy had a feeling this is going to work and it's up to all of us to make sure we prove his feeling true.

3. Majority government on May 2nd of this year.

Yes of course, those who didn't vote Conservative may disagree with this from a partisan perspective, but truly what this country needed was a stable federal government for a number of years. We can all judge the results once we reach re-election time in 2015.

4. Completion of a number of economic stimulus projects in town.

The new parking garage, the Armenian community centre, the children's centre at the YMCA, the football/soccer facility at the 4-pad, a brand new airport, nGen technology and multi-media investments, to name a few, have helped bring our community into the modern era. They also created short and long term jobs that were sorely required.

5. St. Catharines/Niagara is at the forefront of the agenda in our nation's capital.

The direction we take as a government is inspired by and involves our community. In other words, we matter and we play a role. I have to compliment both Dean Allison and Justice Minister Rob Nicholson for being great spokespersons for our communities.

Turning to 2012, the economy and continuing to help create jobs will remain our community's most important focus. It's the responsibility of all of us local politicians at the federal, provincial, regional and municipal jurisdictions to work together and never lose sight of the fact that whatever we do must have a long term economic benefit to our city and our Niagara.

We've spent a ton, yes a ton, of taxpayers money in St. Catharines from all orders (levels) of government. All of those investments were made with the rebuilding of our local economy in mind. In other words, we aren't dreamers or creative folks any longer. We are now project managers who have to ensure that taxpayer's investments will do what we (politicians) said it would. In 2012 I'm focused on the results of these investments to ensure that the investors (taxpayers) get value for their hard earned dollars vis-?-vis property tax, regional tax, provincial tax and federal tax. Every one of us has to focus on providing the actual outcomes from each of these investments that prove they're delivering the results promised.

Heading into my 6th year as the MP for our city, I'm looking forward to playing my part and ensuring we do focus on our economy and continue to bring St. Catharines issues to Ottawa.

city I'm looking forward to playing my part and ensuring we do focus on our economy and continue to bring St. Catharines issues to Ottawa.

Here's to 2012!!?

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Junior dos Santos 'Was Having Personal Problems' Leading into UFC 155

Former UFC heavyweight champ Junior dos Santos doesn't credit his loss at UFC 155 to Cain Velasquez being the better fighter that night.?

In fact, dos Santos offered a litany of reasons as to why he came up short in his second title defense.?

"Really it was my head.?I had some personal things going on, a bit of my attention was lacking because of it," he told Brazilian news outlet Nagradedo MMA.

Aside from his purported psychological impairment heading into the fight, dos Santos had other, more corporeal problems: His creatine levels and his kidneys.?

"Soon after the fight I went to the hospital and had a scan, which showed my creatine level was too high. The normal level is up to 300, mine was in 1400," said dos Santos.?

"I also had trouble in the urine and kidneys,"?he said. "The explanation of the doctors is that I pushed over the line, I overtrained and problems could have happened even before the fight?I was so good that I ended up crossing the line."

However, despite these physical maladies, dos Santos primarily blames the loss on his head being elsewhere.?

"[The kidney and creatine issues] was the explanation of doctors. Mine is that I was not good with my head, was having personal problems and did not go well mentally in the fight."

Angsty fans might be tempted to bash dos Santos for resorting to "excuses." However, let's remember the first fight between JDS and Velasquez.?

Dos Santos knocked Velasquez out in 69 seconds. A Velasquez knee injury was the primary culprit for causing him to lose so decisively. After destroying dos Santos for five rounds in the rematch at UFC 155, everyone who hadn't believed in the knee injury believed in it?Velasquez looked like an animal.

Thus, it's totally possible that the reasons dos Santos offered for his poor performance were totally legitimate. Let's not sacrifice him on the altar of public outrage just yet. After all, it's totally possible that he earns a rubber match with Velasquez and crushes him just as badly as he did in their first fight.

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