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Nebline, March 1997

NEBLINE Newsletter Archive from Nebraska Extension in Lancaster County

Character Counts!
Dave Varner to Dodge County
Shamrocks for St. Patrick's Day
Over the garden fence
Outdoor gardening begins
Starter solutions?
Fungus gnats
Farmers along the Platte help feed sandhill cranes!
The Poison Center Hotline saves lives!
earth wellness festival opportunities are endless!
Coloring eggs with natural dyes
Fence ornamentals to prevent rabbit damage
Living Green!
Start today to make quality hay
Planning conservation work
Preparing CRP for pasture and hay use
Feeding high quality hay after calving
Record-keeping emphasis of swine program
Acreage/Small Farm Owner Workshop
Pesticide certification
Nebraska resources ideal for aquaculture
Protecting drinking water
Food, nutrition and …

Proceedings Of The 24th Annual Meeting, Southern Soybean Disease Workers (March 15-16, 1997, Fort Walton Beach, Florida), Robert P. Mulrooney, Gabe Sciumbato, Steve Koenning, John Russin, Glenn G. Hammes

Southern Soybean Disease Workers: Conference Proceedings

Contents

Business session

Soybean Disease Loss Estimate for the Southern United States during 1996. Compiled by PW Pratt

Treasurer report. GG Hammes

SSDW Committee chairmen for 1996-1997

Graduate student papers

Characterization of Races of Phytophthora sojae in Arkansas and Their Effects on Commonly Grown Cultivars. TA Jackson, TL Kirkpatrick, and JC Rupe

Induction of Defense Related Proteins During Compatible and Incompatible Soybean-Cercospora sojina Interactions. WA Baker, J Qiu, CB Lawrence, S Tuzun, and DB Weaver

Contributed papers

Performance and Cyst Nematode Resistance of Selected Soybean Cultivars in North Carolina Production Fields. SR Koenning and KR Barker

Distribution and Diversity …

The Probe, Issue 174 – March 1997

The Probe: Newsletter of the National Animal Damage Control Association

Outwitting Urban Beaver, by C. E. "Ki" Faulkner, Regional Director, Region 0, NADCA
Bear Gets Attention in Southeast
Chinese disease Threatens Rabbits
Product Announcements: BEAR BE GONE™ -- a device designed to deter bears from foraging in trash cans.
Booklet: "Using Guard Animals to Protect Livestock"

Abstracts Published at the 3rd Annual Conference of The Wildlife Society:
A case study of black bear movements and survival after landfill closure in the central Adirondacks, by Ann M. Russell and S.L. Simek
Ecology of coyotes in a sheep ranching environment, by Ben N. Sacks, J.C.C. Neale, M. Jaeger, and D. R. McCullough …

Immune Suppression In Calves With Bovine Immunodeficiency Virus, Shucheng Zhang, Charles Wood, Wenzhi Xue, Samuel Krukenberg, Qimin Chen, Harish Minocha

Nebraska Center for Virology: Faculty Publications

The present study was designed to evaluate the effect of bovine immunodeficiency virus (BIV) infection on immune functions and possible interactions between BIV and other bovine viruses in calves. Ten calves were inoculated intravenously with BIV, and five served as controls. An increased lymphocyte proliferation to BIV gag protein was demonstrated 2 to 6 weeks after BIV inoculation (P < 0.05). Lymphocyte subset differentiation revealed a decreased CD4/CD8 ratio (P < 0.05) during weeks 2 to 7, suggesting a possible immune dysfunction in BIV-infected calves. When the calves were inoculated with bovine herpesvirus type 1 (BHV-1), the antibody response to BHV-1 in BIV-infected calves was delayed and the antibody titers were significantly lower (P < 0.05). Injection of bovine viral diarrhea virus vaccine also elicited a lower neutralizing antibody response in BIV-infected calves. The results indicated that immune suppression occurred in BIV-infected calves.

Dealing With The Media, Stuart Mcdonald

Great Plains Wildlife Damage Control Workshop Proceedings

You have to ask yourself, why would you start a technical session dealing with communications. You know we are all here to learn various aspects of our trade. Why start it out with a session on communications? Well, let me give you the answer to that one. The success of every enterprise depends on public goodwill. When I first read that I thought, yes, in a free society the success of every enterprise depends on public goodwill. But then the Berlin wall came down, communism collapsed and you realize that even tyranny cannot withstand the pressure of public goodwill. So, …

Livestock Protection Collar Use In California, Robert M. Timm, Gary D. Simmons, John R. Hays

Great Plains Wildlife Damage Control Workshop Proceedings

Use of the Livestock Protection Collar (LP Collar) containing sodium fluoroacetate began on a research basis in October 1995 at the UC Hopland Research and Extension Center. Registration for use in California only by certified ADC specialists was granted in early 1996, and operational use in three north coast counties began in early 1997. Preparation for beginning operational use dealt with concerns regarding user certification, hazardous waste disposal, and public relations. We report on the success to date of using LP Collars to remove sheep-killing coyotes. Incidents in which non-target predators including mountain lions have attacked LP-Collared sheep are also …

Dealing With Different Audiences: Special Interest Groups, Guy R. Hodge

Great Plains Wildlife Damage Control Workshop Proceedings

One of the classic cases of clashing special interests can be found in Brownsville, Texas, just a few miles from the border with Mexico. On the outskirts of town is a location that has become as much a gathering place for bird watchers as it is for birds. The site, referred to informally as the Mexican Crow Sanctuary, is the only reliable location in the United States to observe this species. Each year, visiting birders pump millions of dollars into the local economy while pursuing the Mexican crow. But not everyone looks with favor at the presence of the birds. …

Dealing With Wildlife Professionals, Scott E. Hygnstrom

Great Plains Wildlife Damage Control Workshop Proceedings

A relatively small, but highly influential audience that we need to address includes all professional wildlife biologists. But wildlife biologists come in all shapes and sizes. To be an effective educator, you need to properly identify your audience and a proper medium in which to deliver your message.

Dealing With The Policy Makers, Herb Manig

Great Plains Wildlife Damage Control Workshop Proceedings

First, “Why would policy makers be interested in wildlife damage control in the first place?” In response, I would have to say that the problems with wildlife are increasing in number, diversity and complexity. Policy makers cannot afford to ignore controversies caused by them. We have problems in transportation with deer/automobiles collisions. We have airplane engines ingesting birds. We have health problems with respect to disease. Wildlife damage costs money. We also have problems with aesthetics. Some of the homeowners may not lose a lot of money when deer nibble their shrubs but they certainly don't like the looks of …

Gifford Point/Fontenelle Forest Urban Deer Survival And Case Study, Jason D. Ekstein, Scott E. Hygnstrom

Great Plains Wildlife Damage Control Workshop Proceedings

From 1995-1996, we radio collared and/or ear tagged 98 white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) in an urban area of Bellevue, Nebraska. We determined the density to be 44 deer/km² and observed the movements of 52 collared does. The managed hunt and harvest results are discussed.

Water Current, Volume 29, No. 1, February 1997

Water Current Newsletter

Innovative Groundwater Cleanup Technique Being Featured in EPA's Technology Profiles
From the Director: Funding Sources Explored; Award Recognizes Stewardship
Prevention Helps Safeguard Drinking Water
Health and Human Services Department Certifies Nebraska Water Operators
"Splash" Is Interactive Intro to Nonpoint Source Pollution Through CD-ROM Game
Water Brief News
Register for Groundwater University
Expedition Planned for Children's Groundwater Festival
Comfort, Morrison Earn Research Awards
Volk Presented Water Guardian Award
Conference Deadline March 4
Unit Library A Little Known Resource

Announcements: February 1997

Drought Network News (1994–2001)

Contents:

Local Authorities Confronting Disasters and Emergencies-Third International Conference

1997 National Conference on Delivering Health and Medical Services in Catastrophic Disasters

Book: Policy Making in an Era of Global Environmental Change

When Portfolios Become Part Of The Grading Process: A Case Study In A Junior High Setting, Loukia K. Sarroub, P. David Pearson, Carmen Dykema, Randy Lloyd

Department of Teaching, Learning, and Teacher Education: Faculty Publications

Formal assessments have long served as our society's most privileged indices of student learning and school accountability. Hence, both learning and school effectiveness have often been equated with standardized test scores and/or grades. The privilege accorded to external assessment has tended to minimize the role of teachers and, even more dramatically, students in the assessment process. Assessments are external tools that are administered to teachers and students. For teachers, this often leads to a tension between their curricular goals and the assessment measures they must use in the classroom (Mitchell, 1992; Pearson, DeStefano, & Garcia, in press). Students are rarely …

Optical And Magneto-Optical Constants Of Mnpt3, K. W. Wierman, J. N. Hilfiker, R. F. Sabiryanov, Sitaram S. Jaswal, Roger D. Kirby, John A. Woollam

Department of Physics and Astronomy: Faculty Publications

Optically thick films of MnPt₃ were deposited on quartz using dc magnetron sputtering. The films were covered with an SiO_x protective overcoat and annealed in vacuum at 850 °C for 1 h to form the crystalline L1₂ (Cu₃Au) cubic structure. These films have a high degree of long-range order and are highly textured with the (111) axis along the film normal. Variable angle spectroscopic ellipsometry measurements were taken over the spectral range of 1.2–4.2 eV to determine the optical constants of both MnPt₃ and the SiO_x overcoat. Spectroscopic magneto-optic Kerr rotation and …

Selective Guide To Literature On Aerospace Engineering, Thomas G. De Petro, Ted Naylor

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries: Faculty Publications

The term "aerospace" incorporates all aspects of flight including aviation, aeronautics, and astronautics. This ASEE Selective Guide to Literature on Aerospace Engineering identifies essential sources of information according to their function and format. The Guide will be useful for practicing engineers, engineering faculty, and engineering students and all who need to know where to look for information on a variety of topics in aerospace engineering. Librarians, library and information science students, and other information professionals will find it useful for planning access services and for collection development. From the launching of balloons in the 19th century to the airplane and …

Journal Of Telecommunications In Higher Education

ACUTA Journal

This Issue: Strategic Planning

A Nudge Toward the Promised Land

Finding a Voice for Campus Technology

Planning for Tomorrow at BYU

Strategic Technology Planning

Planning for Push Technology Interview: Don Norris

Wigstock And The Kulturkampf: Supreme Court Storytelling, The Culture War, And Romer V. Evans, Richard F. Duncan

Nebraska College of Law: Faculty Publications

It bears repeating that the Supreme Court's decision in Romer is of trivial doctrinal import. The Court did not recognize homosexuals as a suspect or quasi-suspect class, nor did it reverse or undermine its landmark decision in Bowers v. Hardwick. Moreover, the narrow holding of Romer suggests quite strongly that typical laws disadvantaging homosexuals--the military exclusion, the heterosexual paradigm of civil marriage, and perhaps even better-crafted and more narrow versions of Amendment 2--do not offend the Equal Protection Clause. These laws rationally advance legitimate government interests and should easily pass scrutiny under the rational basis test applied by the …

Challenges In Using Technology For The Improvement Of Undergraduate Education, G. Roger Sell

Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: Archives

We may believe that access to more information will improve undergraduate education, but students conceptual foundations and critical thinking skills are essential for using information technologies and constructing knowledge.

Editorial: The Whipple Bacillus Lives (Ex Vivo)!, David A. Relman

United States Department of Veterans Affairs: Publications

Cultivation of the bacillus associated with Whipple's disease, Tropheryma whippelii, has been an elusive goal for many generations of clinicians and microbiologists familiar with this disease. The desire to identify this enigmatic organism has motivated many of these efforts. Many purported successes have later proven erroneous, and many more unsuccessful attempts have never been reported [1]. Cell-free media, animal cells, and animals themselves have all been used, resulting in recovery of a wide range of bacterial species, including members of the Corynebacterium, Streptococcus, Propionibacterium, and Haemophilus genera. The rough resemblance of Rhodococcus equi- , Mycobacterium …

Annual Review Of The World Pheasant Association 1996/1997, World Pheasant Association

Galliformes Specialist Group and Affiliated Societies: Reports and Other Materials

Chairman's report, Richard P. Howard

Annual report of Council 1995/96

Chapter and Affiliate reports

Pheasant Specialist Group, Peter J. Garson

Partridge, Quail and Francolin Specialist Group, John P. Carroll

Grouse Specialist Group, Ilse Storch

Megapode Specialist Group, René Dekker

Cracid Specialist Group, Daniel M. Brooks and Stuart D. Strahl

Captive Breeding Advisory Committee, Han Assink

On the systematic status Crossoptilon harmani, Tso-hsin Cheng

Distribution of western tragopan, Surender S. Katoch, J. S. Jandrotia, and M. K. Seth

The rediscovery of Edwards 's pheasant, Roland Eve

Egg laying and incubation of the Polynesian megapode, Ann Goth and Uwe Vogel

The Probe, Issue 173 – January/February 1997

The Probe: Newsletter of the National Animal Damage Control Association

From The President... -- Gene LeBoeuf
James E. (Jim) Forbes retifed on December 31 as ADC State Director in New York.
Donald Hawthorne returned to the state of Oklahoma as State Director of USD A-APHIS-ADC, effective December 8.
A strain of rabies carried primarily by raccoons has spread to the Midwest from the mid-Atlantic states.
A Colorado woman was killed by two wolf hybrids in December, according to the El Paso Co. sheriffs office.
According to Range magazine, half of the 40 endangered black-footed ferrets transplanted into Montana to establish a new colony have been killed by coyotes.
It has …

Vertebrate Pests Of Agriculture, Forestry And Public Lands: 1997 Annual Meeting

Western Region Coordinating Committee for Vertebrate Pests of Agriculture, Forestry, and Public Lands (WCC-95)

New approaches to reducing gnawing and digging behaviors in the northern pocket gopher, Monty Sullins

A comparison of zinc phosphide and strychnine oat baits for the control of the northern pocket gopher, Leonard Askham

Efficacy of Turf Shield® Repellent to reduce goose and duck use of grass areas adjacent to ponds, lakes and rivers, Dale Nolte

Efficacy of selected commercial repellents to inhibit deer browsing, Gary Witmer and Brian Moser

The effects of wild and domestic ungulate grazing on the vegetation, birds, and small mammals on Bridge Creek Wildlife Area, northeastern Oregon, Timothy Van Deelen

Deer-northern white cedar interactions and …

Responding To Drought: Common Threads From The Past, Visions For The Future, Donald A. Wilhite

National Drought Mitigation Center: Faculty Publications

A number of studies conducted since the late 1970s have evaluated state and federal responses to drought in the United States. Each of these studies identified a number of key issues and impedi-ments that needed to be addressed to improve the nation’s ability to cope with and prepare for future episodes of drought. A content analysis of these studies was performed to identify common threads in their recommendations. The premise of this analysis was that the series of drought years that oc-curred between 1986 and 1992 and recurred between 1994 and 1996 increased awareness of our na-tion’s continuing and apparent …

Quantitation Reference Compounds And Voc Recoveries From Soils By Purge-And-Trap Gc/Ms, Brian Schumacher, Steven Ward

United States Environmental Protection Agency: Publications

Unquantified volatile organic compound (VOC) losses occur in every phase of VOC determination including sample collection, transport, storage, preparation, and analysis. Current quality assurance/quality control measures, such as surrogate spikes and internal standards, do not account for losses that occur during sample handling nor do they account for soil matrix effects. An alternate approach, the quantitation reference compound (QRC) approach, is presented that involves direction injection of the QRCs onto the soil matrix to account for any matrix effects and losses during subsequent processing steps prior to sample analysis. Final VOC quantitation is based on the QRC instead of the …

Hydroxylation Of Saccharomyces Cerevisiae Ceramides Requires Sur2p And Scs7p, Dale Haak, Ken Gable, Troy Beeler, Teresa Dunn

Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences

The Saccharomyces cerevisiae SCS7 and SUR2 genes are members of a gene family that encodes enzymes that desaturate or hydroxylate lipids. Sur2p is required for the hydroxylation of C-4 of the sphingoid moiety of ceramide, and Scs7p is required for the hydroxylation of the very long chain fatty acid. Neither SCS7 nor SUR2 are essential for growth, and lack of the Scs7p- or Sur2p- dependent hydroxylation does not prevent the synthesis of mannosyldiinositolphosphorylceramide, the mature sphingolipid found in yeast. Deletion of either gene suppresses the Ca²⁺-sensitive phenotype of csg2Δ mutants, which arises from overaccumulation of inositolphosphorylceramide due to …

22nd Annual Conference Program

Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: Conference Materials

Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education: Mission Statement

Welcome

1997-98 Core Committee

Executive Directors/Presidents

Acknowledgments

Conference Overview

Sessions

Resort Conference Center

“Sisters Of The Skillet”: Radio Homemakers In Shenandoah, Iowa, 1920-1960, Lori Lynn Rohlk

Open Access Master's Theses (through 2010)

Radio homemaking shows were the mainstay of two radio stations in small-town Shenandoah, Iowa. These stations were founded in the 1920s by competitive seed and nursery moguls Earl May and Henry Field to promote their businesses. Both saw the benefit of programming that catered to female listeners. The format, “radio homemaking,” consisted of informal talks by local homemakers - often broadcast out of their own kitchens – on everything from cooking to raising families. The radio homemakers were immensely popular, receiving as many as 700 letters a day. Listeners not only wrote, but visited Shenandoah in droves for formal events …

Sacrificing Legislative Integrity At The Altar Of Appropriations Riders: A Constitutional Crisis, Sandi Zellmer

Nebraska College of Law: Faculty Publications

The technique of appending substantive provisions to appropriations bills has become a favorite tool of the legislative trade in recent years. Congress has employed appropriations riders to dictate the outcome of public policy issues ranging from abortion to oil development in pristine wilderness areas. Riders have been used with particularly destructive effect to circumvent long-standing environmental policies, especially those involving the use of natural resources and public lands. In many cases, the policies affected were the result of decades of activity in Congress and in the courts, and retain broad public and legislative support. Appropriations riders have also allowed these …

Fredrick Brown:The Jazz Paintings, Daniel A. Siedell

Sheldon Museum of Art: Catalogs and Publications

I n addition to featuring a selection of recently completed paintings of jazz performers, Frederick Brown: The Jazz Paintings offers a broad cross section of the work of one of the most eclectic and aesthetically diverse African-American painters working today.

Born in Greensboro, Georgia in 1945 and reared in a working class neighborhood in Chicago, Frederick Brown graduated with a degree in painting from the University of Southern Illinois at Carbondale in 1968 and two years later, moved to New York, where he became intimately involved with a community of jazz musicians that included Ornette Coleman and Anthony Braxton. In …

The Hergenrader Collection Of Contemporary Art, Daniel A. Siedell

Sheldon Museum of Art: Catalogs and Publications

The success of an art museum is often in proportion to the energy of its patrons who willingly commit themselves to its mission and who, by donating their time and resources, insure its continued success. The Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery and Sculpture Garden is no different. And the Sheldon Gallery not only has a local group of committed patrons and donors, but it also boasts an ever increasing number of patrons and donors across the nation who have, for many reasons, recognized the significance of the Sheldon Gallery's collection of American art and are willing to participate in its continued …