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This short documentary addresses the issue of pesticide overuse on the island of Samos and around Greece. This has knock on effects in the environment as chameleons and other wildlife enter the fields after spraying and get pesticide poisoning. The chemicals can also leach and run off into aquatic environments — to which they are extremely harmful. This documentary looks at the difference between chemical and organic farming with interviews from organic practicing farmers on Samos giving arguments for why they use such methods. It also takes a brief look into the manipulation and monopolisation which large agricultural companies bring to farming.
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Magical Pest Control Offers Property Owners a Safer and Healthier Method of Fighting the War Against Bed Bugs with Non-chemical ThermaPureHeat Treatments

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Magical Pest Control Offers Property Owners a Safer and Healthier Method of Fighting the War Against Bed Bugs with Non-chemical ThermaPureHeat Treatments










Toronto, ON (PRWEB) April 03, 2012

Over the last few years, the bed bug epidemic has gained momentum in the city of Toronto and surrounding areas. There are ongoing reports of bed bugs infestations in hospitals, hotels, homes, offices, and even the TTC.

“The bed bug epidemic is definitely getting worse,” says Alex Dayan, manager of Magical Pest Control, one of Toronto’s leaders in pest control. “We do about 150 bed bug jobs a day in the GTA, mostly in Toronto. A few years ago, it was half that.”

Traditionally, bed bug exterminators have been using chemical treatments to kill bed bugs. Although chemical pesticides are effective, reports of human harm are increasing. The Center for Disease Control (CDC) in the U.S. have reported that chemical bed bug treatments are causing illness in humans, and recommends an alternative method of killing bed bugs. That method is the ThermaPureHeat process.

ThermaPureHeat technology is a patent pending system that offers a non-chemical, heat treatments that is guaranteed to kill bed bugs. Until recently, ThermaPureHeat was only available in the U.S., however, Magical Pest Control was the first trained and fully-licensed Pest Control company in Ontario to offer this eco-friendly method of fighting bed bug infestations.

The ThermaPureHeat process involves heating single rooms to the minimum temperature of 118 degrees Fahrenheit. The heat penetrates deep into a walls, floors, furniture, bedding and clothes to kill bed bugs and their eggs, even in hard to reach areas. This process requires one treatment while chemical pesticides often require multiple treatments to be effective.

While chemical treatments require property owners to bag and wash all clothes and bedding in an infected area, ThermaPureHeat treatments enables all clothes and bedding to be left within the treated area. The heating process has also been known to clean the air inside infected rooms, leaving a fresh, odorless scent.

With research showing that chemical bed bug treatments can be detrimental to people’s health and the environment, ThermaPureHeat available through the Bed Bug Removal division of Magical Pest Control has proven to be the safest and most eco-friendly method of fighting the war against bed bugs in Ontario.

Magical Pest Control

Magical Pest Control is an esteemed pest extermination company based in Toronto, Ontario. Canadian owned and operated, Magical Pest Control has been in business since 1997, and is now one of the largest pest control providers to the property management sector. While specializing in pest control for apartments, condos and commercial accounts, Magical also services residential homes. Magical is composed of a large team of government licensed technicians. Our service areas currently range from Sarnia, London, St. Catharines, Kingston, Toronto and Ottawa, including all points in between.






















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Bee Population Collapse Might Be Due to Common Pesticide

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As bee populations decline throughout the world, new research may have found the answer in an old culprit: common pesticides. Two separate European studies have pointed to the use of pesticides known as neonicotinoids as the possible cause of the global collapse of apian colonies. French scientists ran experiments with bees dosed on the bug killer and carrying miniature radio transmitters. Results indicate the insecticide affects the bee’s brain, preventing it from returning home—an essential skill for the insect. A separate British study showed the neonicotinoids prevented bumblebees from supplying their hives enough food to produce new queens. Fewer flowers and the insect’s vulnerability to pathogens are also contributing factors, say outside experts. And Bayer CropScience, a leading maker of neonicotinoids, claims the studies used dosages that were too high. Authors of the study say the pesticide shouldn’t be used on crops that bees interact with until more research is conducted. Alternatives like pyrethroids do exist, but aren’t as commonly used. In the meantime, the pesticide industry could suffer a sting—but it might be well deserved.
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Social Media in Business Tutorial Webinar Featuring Pinterest by Social Media Management Firm Maximize Social Media LLC

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Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) April 05, 2012

Social media management firm Maximize Social Media LLC is pleased to announce that it will host its “Social Media in Business Tutorial Webinar” this week with a focus on Pinterest. Arguably among the fastest growing social media platforms (it is estimated that its traffic increased 866% from September 2011 to February 2012), Pinterest has quickly captivated the minds of marketers–many of whom have the same question: how can this drive sales for a business?

The Maximize team will tackle that question and more in its upcoming webinar. The tutorial will be held this coming Wednesday, April 11, 2012 at 2 PM ET, 11 AM PST to provide insight into Pinterest. Social media mangers and business owners are encouraged to attend the no cost webinar by registering at http://www.PinterestWebinarTraining.com.

Among the many discussion topics will be:

Demographics: Pinterest appeals to college-educated females between the ages of 25 to 44.    Maximize will review how brands can tap into these powerful demographics to boost sales.

Crowdsourcing: Crowdsourcing, which occurs when a business outsources a task to the public as opposed to outsourcing to a certain contractor, can be extremely effective with Pinterest. Maximize will review the benefits of crowdsourcing and how to best utilize it within the Pinterest ecosystem.

Traffic & SEO: Does Pinterest offer “do follow” links or have spammers closed the window to this major traffic source for improved results with search engine optimization (SEO)? The Maximize team will put that issue to rest while also offering tips on how to increase traffic to a brand’s own website from Pinterest.

Brand Type: Without a doubt brands that offer products that are easily visualized and photographed have an edge with Pinterest, but the Maximize team will review other businesses that can benefit from Pinterest that don’t necessarily have a strong visual image.

“We’re excited to offer this free webinar to share best practices in our industry with business owners and social media managers. Without a doubt Pinterest has captured the hearts of millions of users – we hope that by explaining this incredible application others can see its profound impact on social media,” said Chris McLaughlin, CEO of Maximize Social Media.

About Maximize Social Media LLC

Maximize Social Media (http://www.maximizesocialmedia.com) is a social media agency that provides management services for clients in over 40 different verticals. With offices in Florida and Los Angeles, Maximize offers social media consulting and Facebook advertising management for clients in English speaking countries such as the US, Canada, and Australia. The company also features social media management outsourcing for busy social media mangers looking for additional assistance on a white label basis.





















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Scientific Certification Systems Announces Expansion of Marketing Communications Team

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SCS Certification Mark

Emeryville, CA (PRWEB) June 23, 2011

Scientific Certification Systems (SCS), a third party verifier of agricultural and environmental product claims and the certifier of choice for greener products from Safeway, The Home Depot, Kelly-Moore Paints, and others, is proud to announce the expansion of its marketing communications services team. SCS, an Inc. Magazine “Fastest Growing Company”, is hiring two new marketing communications team members and promoting a current staff member.

Joining the team this week is Chip Wood, former Sr. Director of Marketing at Sustainable Life Media, and recently the V.P. of Conferences at Justmeans, where he helped build the product set, brand penetration and corporate relationships with sustainability leaders like Johnson & Johnson, Mars, Del Monte, and Coca-Cola for these two leading voices in the B2B sustainability media, education, training and events sector.

In a newly created role of Marketing Specialist for the company’s Food and Agriculture Division, Chip will lead marketing and communications for SCS’ 15+ food, fisheries, agriculture, floriculture, horticulture and sustainability related certification products, food safety and handling trainings, and numerous auditing and testing services supporting food producers’, manufacturers’, and retailers’ efforts to produce and supply the market with healthy and safe, tasty and nutritious, and in some cases organic food and agriculture products.

Chip brings 15 years’ B2B business development and marketing experience to the job, most recently with a sustainability focus. He co-founded Next Steps Marketing, a San Francisco marketing services firm in 2002 and co-launched Greenlight Magazine, an early entry green consumer products and lifestyle magazine in 2005.

In more recent years he has worked with West Coast Green, Clean Tech Open, Sustainable Industries, Discovery Communications, and O’Reilly Media on new product launches and brand marketing. Chip graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and is continuing graduate work at The University of California, Berkeley.

About Scientific Certification Systems (SCS):

SCS has been providing global leadership in third-party sustainability and environmental certification, auditing, testing and standards development since 1984. SCS programs span a wide range of product and industries, including green building, consumer and business product manufacturing, food and agriculture, forestry, fishery management, energy production and more.

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e-con Systems Launches Capella, the World’s first Embedded Stereo Vision Camera Reference Design for TI OMAP/DM37x processors

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Capella – Stereo Vision Camera Reference Design


St. Louis, USA / Chennai, India (PRWEB UK) 21 March 2012

March 21th, 2012, e-con Systems Inc., a leading embedded design services company specializing in development of advanced camera solutions announces the world’s first Stereo Vision camera reference design based on Texas Instruments’ OMAP/DM37x family of processors and Gumstix® Overo® computer-on-module (COM) series. The Stereo Camera Reference design, code-named Capella, includes a DM3730-based Gumstix® Overo® WaterStorm COM, a Gumstix® Tobi expansion board and e-con’s camera daughter board e-CAM_9V024_STEREO.

The Capella reference design comes with a Software Development Kit with full source code for application development on top of V4L2 or OpenCV, enabling customers to develop their own Stereo Vision Camera based applications. e-con Systems also provides sample applications with source, for applications such as synchronous stereo image capture, depth measurement etc.

“TI is excited to see innovative solutions for the emerging Stereo Vision market from its valued ecosystem partners like e-con Systems. With increasing, and more complex, demands for image processing applications like e-con Systems’ Capella, there is a need for highly efficient processors that can deliver advanced user interface, improved graphics and video processing capabilities,” said Praveen K Ganapathy, Director, Business Development, Texas Instruments. “Texas Instruments’ OMAPTM/DM37x family of processors is designed to provide a scalable, high-performance ultra-low power platform that absolutely delivers the experience users expect.”

The Capella reference design targets product companies keen to integrate Stereo Vision in their product design featuring

3D analytical applications such as machine vision, mobile robotics (obstacle detection) and automotive applications including computer aided navigation and driver guidance.
3D object reconstruction applications such as reconstructing 3D details of sculptures, monuments, human faces etc.
3D video recording and playback
2D synchronous dual-camera applications where, two simultaneously captured images of same (or different) objects are required.

“Being one of the leading suppliers of embedded camera solutions, we have many requests from customers who want to integrate pixel synchronous stereo vision into their products. These customers have a variety of application requirements other than showing the traditional disparity map and many of them use Gumstix® Overo® COMs as their processing system. With the Capella reference design, e-con Systems precisely addresses these requirements and also allows customers to implement traditional stereo camera applications such as disparity mapping, human tracking and gesture detection by implementing their own algorithms on top of our Stereo Camera reference design,” said Mr.Ashok Babu, President, e-con Systems.

“The Stereo Camera reference design can also be customized to interface with other TI OMAP35x/DM37x implementations. Baseline, lens can also be customized to suit customer’s specific requirements,” added Mr. Ashok Babu.

Capella runs Linux 2.6.35 and has Ethernet, HDMI Video port, USB OTG port, and a serial interface for Linux console. The Stereo Camera Engine driver is V4L2 compatible and is available with an OpenCV interface patch allowing customers to develop applications based on plain V4L2 API or the OpenCV stack. The Stereo Engine driver exposes three V4L2 interfaces to the application developers to capture the left, right and combined left+right video streams. The SDK contains sample applications using both the V4L2 interface and also OpenCV stack.

The e-CAM_9V024_STEREO is powered by a pair of 1/3” Global Shutter Monochrome Aptina CMOS image sensor MT9V024, with an active area of WVGA 752(H) x 480(V) (360690 pixels) and capability of delivering Synchronous Parallel 736(H)x480(V) Monochrome video of 8-bpp gray scale images at 30fps.The cameras come with pre-aligned and pre-calibrated M12 lenses on an S-mount lens holder and customers can select and calibrate the lens for specific requirements. The two cameras are separated by a distance of 100mm (the baseline). This baseline allows accurate measurement to a depth of three meters. Customers interested in increasing the baseline or changing the lenses can approach e-con Systems’ for customization.

To evaluate the Capella reference design, please contact sales(at)e-consystems(dot)com.

For more information, please visit the Capella product page and video demo.

ESC Tradeshow, San Jose

e-con Systems will demonstrate Capella at the ESC Tradeshow, San Jose (March 26 – 29th, 2012) – Board Zone, Booth No:#1624.

About e-CAM

e-CAM is e-con Systems’ reference design featuring a camera board with a camera module interfaced to a processor on its high speed CMOS interface. e-con Systems also provides sample drivers for WinCE, Linux and Android. For processors that don’t have the Camera ISP pipeline, e-con Systems provides the complete software stack for raw image sensors.

In addition to ‘off-the-shelf’ solutions, e-con Systems also offers individually crafted custom designs for customers interested in camera modules.

For more information,

please visit http://www.e-consystems.com/cameramodule.asp and

http://www.e-consystems.com/cameraboard.asp.

About e-con Systems

e-con Systems is an embedded product development services company focused on concept to product solutions with a strong technology leadership in camera solutions.

e-con Systems has expertise in mobile application processors including PXA320, Freescale i.MX53x, TI OMAP35x, TI AM/DM37x and Digital Media Processors DM355/DM365 and has been using its product engineering services to help customers develop products based mainly on camera-like Stereo vision systems, video surveillance equipment, IP cameras, Low vision aid equipment and document visualizers.

For more information please contact:

Harishankkar

sales(at)e-consystems(dot)com

e-con Systems Inc., +1 314 732 1152

e-con Systems India Pvt. Ltd., +91 44 42033600

Website: http://www.e-consystems.com

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EurekaMag.com Publishes New Insights Into Anthurium, Camelia and Heifers

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Anthurium


Mannheim, Germany (PRWEB) February 22, 2012

The Biota Sciences Magazine EurekaMag.com publishes insights into subjects in all areas of natural sciences including biology, agriculture, horticulture, forestry, geography, environment and health. Drawing from this pool of scientific disciplines, it provides articles, reviews and insights on natural sciences topics. While the Biota Sciences Research Category contains over 36 million references, most of the insights are included in the Biota Sciences Keyword Category of the online magazine. The latter category now includes three newly published insights into Anthurium, Camelia and Heifers.

The EurekaMag.com insight into Anthurium covers a large genus of about 600–1,000 species belonging to the arum family (Araceae). The species has neotropical distribution mostly in the wet tropical mountain forest environments of Central and South America. The EurekaMag.com insight covers larger-scale commercial production of Anthurium and associated problems. Low cost greenhouse structures with UV stabilized shade net to divert 75% light intensity and UV stabilized polyethylene film to provide protection from rainfall on top and sides covered with 25% of shade nets and with irrigation facilities was found suitable for growing anthurium in tropical areas of India. In this environment temperature showed positive correlation with plant characters, except for leaf number. An increase in plant height, spread, leaf length and breadth was observed with an increase in temperature. In a study on the introduction, establishment, and spread of Xanthomonas campestris pv. Dieffenbachiae Dye into anthurium and other ornamentals fields the distribution of serologically distinct strains recovered from propagation benches and production fields were examined. The highest incidence of contamination in explants with microorganisms was found in Dieffenbachia, followed by Anthurium, while only 30% of Spathiphyllum explants were contaminated. Of the isolated microorganisms, 73% were Gram-negative and 27% Gram-positive.

EurekaMag.com presents an insight into Camelia, which is is a genus of flowering plants in the family Theaceae. Camelia are found in eastern and southern Asia, from the Himalaya east to Japan and Indonesia. The most famous member is the tea plant Camelia sinensis. Among the ornamental species, the Japanese Camellia Camelia japonica is the most widely known. The EurekaMag.com insight covers well-known phytochemicals such as Camelia sinensis extracts and their antitoxic potential. It also demonstrates that graft transmission between Camelia japonica and Camelia sasanqua as a most important prophylactic measure for the protection of greenhouse plants.

Eurekamag.com presents a review on Heifers, which are which are young female cows under three years of age and before they have had a calf of their own. The article features an experiment where different doses of PGF2 alpha were luteolytic in 10 of 12 heifers before and after hysterectomy. While 5 mg PGF2 alpha was not luteolytic in intact heifers, it caused luteolysis in 3 of 4 heifers after hysterectomy. The experimental results indicate that with beginning within 18 h of treatment, elevated oestrogen secretion may participate in the luteolysis begun by exogenous PGF2 alpha. Other experimentation with Heifers serum resulted in greater head-to-head agglutination than did bull serum for all incubation durations regardless of the time of serum addition. The head-to-head agglutination observed with heifers serum involved the acrosomal region predominantly while bull serum involved the acrosomal and post-nuclear cap regions. Heifers serum also caused spermatozoa to agglutinate in much larger groups than bull serum. There was no consistent difference in intact acrosomes between bull and heifers serum. Neither the time of serum addition nor the type of serum influenced motility. When heifers serum was added to spermatozoa, the correlation between the percentages of head-to-head agglutination and intact acrosomes was 82 percent. Head-to-head agglutination was not related to intact acrosomes when bull serum was added.

The Science Magazine EurekaMag.com was launched in November 1998 as the online version of the French science magazine “Eurêka – Le magazine des sciences” published since 1995. During the past decade, it has emerged as a comprehensive aggregator of information on biology, on the applied life sciences agriculture, horticulture and forestry, on the earth sciences, on the environmental sciences and on the health sciences.

The Science Magazine has recently been accredited by the Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology with the Internet Content Provider (ICP) Number 10204677. The site delivers its content through a number of RSS feeds including an EurekaMag.com “Most Shared Content” RSS Feed, an EurekaMag.com “Life Traffic Feed”, and an @EurekaMag Twitter account. The @EurekaMag Twitter account currently features 51,102 tweets and 1,055 followers. The site also provides an EurekaMag.com portal for mobile viewing at m.eurekamag.com. The site accepts advertisements through the Google AdWords system.

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