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Carl Lorenzini, owner of Home Watch Services, Etc., performs a routine inspection of a client's home on Friday, May 9, 2014. Lorenzini inspects each of his client's home every week to make sure everything is working properly as well as look for anything out of the ordinary, among other duties. (Scott McIntyre/Staff)
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Carl Lorenzini, owner of Home Watch Services Etc., holds the keys of the various properties that he watches over while his clients are away. Lorenzini inspects each of his clients homes every week to make sure everything is working properly as well as looking for anything out of the ordinary, among other duties. (Scott McIntyre/Staff)
NAPLES Its that time of year again: Winter residents are departing Southwest Florida for cooler climes, many leaving vacant homes behind.
Home watch services are a popular option for people who want to keep tabs on their properties from afar.
These companies visit their clients empty homes regularly to check for signs of problems and to help residences look more lived in. Companies typically provide reports to customers about their visits.
Professional home watchers also notify homeowners of urgent issues, bring in vendors to fix problems, alert law enforcement if there are signs of a break-in or vandalism and respond when an alarm goes off on a clients property.
Because customers entrust so much to the home watch companies they hire, deciding which one to choose shouldnt be done lightly, said Lt. John Barkley, public information officer for the Naples Police Department.
Homeowners should do as much research on the companies as possible, he said. You just shouldnt invite anybody into your house.
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Nairobi Wire fences booby-trapped with beehives are being built in five African countries to prevent elephants from raiding farms, while also providing local people with honey.
'Beehive fences' are now being put up in Botswana, Mozambique, Tanzania and Uganda by UK charity Save the Elephant, says Lucy King, leader of the Elephants and Bees Project in Kenya - and they are already in use at three communities in Kenya.
The project, which is a collaboration between Save the Elephants, the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom and the Disney Worldwide Conservation Fund, studies how to use the African bush elephants' instinctive avoidance of African honey bees to avoid crop losses.
King says conflicts between farmers and elephants are a growing problem, with the animals' encroachment onto farms causing massive crop losses.
But she tells SciDev.Net that it is easy to construct simple beehive fences using local materials.
"Hives are hung every 30 feet and linked together," says King. "If an elephant touches one of the hives or the interconnecting wires, the beehives all along the fence swing and release the stinging insects."
She says that a pilot study she led involving 34 farms on the edge of two farming communities in northern Kenya found beehive fences to be an effective elephant deterrent compared with traditional thorn bush barriers.
King says that in the study, which was published in 2011 in the African Journal of Ecology, elephants made 14 attempts to enter farmland and 13 of these were unsuccessful. In each case the elephants were forced to turn away from the area after confronting a beehive fence or walk the length of the fence to choose an easier entry point through a thorn bush.
Only once did elephants break through a beehive fence to eat crops, according to the paper.
More than a decade ago, research found that elephants avoid feeding on acacia trees with beehives in them, says King. "This was followed by behavioural experiments demonstrating that not only do elephants run from bee sounds, but they also have an alarm call that alerts family members to retreat from a possible bee threat," she says.
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Local H frontman Scott Lucas and former Smashing Pumpkins drummer Jimmy Chamberlin had never played together before last summer's Hot Stove Cool Music fundraiser, yet there they were again early this month performing their own soundtrack to Sergei Eisenstein's landmark 1925 silent film "Battleship Potemkin" at the Chicago International Movies & Music Festival.
A little cross-pollination can go a long way, particularly when you merge the worlds of music, baseball and charity.
The date and lineup for Chicago's third annual Hot Stove Cool Music concert are being announced Tuesday with even more emphasis on finding new lineups on the city's deep musical bench. Imported from Boston by Cubs President Theo Epstein and scheduled for June 20 at the Wrigleyville club Metro, the show will feature an "all-star" lineup including returning players Chamberlin and Lucas as well as Rage Against the Machine/Bruce Springsteen guitarist Tom Morello, Wilco/The Autumn Defense bassist John Stirratt, Urge Overkill guitarist/bassist Eddie "King" Roeser, Shoes singer/guitarist Gary Klebe, the Ponys frontman Jered Gummere, Tributosaurus singer (and The Score 670-AM sports-talk co-host) Matt Spiegel and other veteran local musicians (Gerald Dowd, Phil Angotti, Jennifer Hall, Curt Morrison, Jon Paul, Max Crawford ...).
You can expect Epstein, a big Pearl Jam fan, to strap on his guitar as well, and Cubs TV play-by-play announcer Len Kasper will be playing bass, primarily on the power-pop tunes that are in his wheelhouse, he said. Sports writer (and guitarist) Peter Gammons co-founded the Hot Stove event in Boston in 2000, and Epstein got involved upon becoming the Boston Red Sox's general manager in late 2002. After the Red Sox won the World Series in 2004, Epstein said, he and his twin brother, Paul Epstein, established the Foundation To Be Named Later as a way to channel enthusiasm for the team into support for children and families in need.
"The original thought, and the thought that has sustained it from my perspective, was if there are people who have resources, who are that passionate about baseball and music, then you can put together an event in which you could transfer some of that wealth to nonprofits that really need it," Theo Epstein said.
The Hot Stove events still take place each January in Boston, and since the Cubs hired Epstein in fall 2011, Chicago has hosted a summer version, which includes the show and, the following afternoon, the Urban Baseball Classic game between Boston and Chicago youth teams.
The two cities' concerts are somewhat different animals: Taking place in the offseason, the Boston one attracts more players and has more of a "family reunion" feel, Epstein said. He recalled one year in which then-Red Sox outfielder Johnny Damon removed his shirt onstage, auctioned it to an audience member for charity and then dove into the crowd.
"I can't approve of this," Epstein said, "but it sure makes this a hell of an event."
Smashing Pumpkins headlined the inaugural Chicago Hot Stove concert in 2012, and Poi Dog Pondering filled that bill last year. But the 2013 show also featured Epstein, Gammons and Kasper playing with local musicians, billed as the Hot Stove All Stars, and they played so long that Poi Dog didn't hit the stage till about 11 p.m.
"The All Stars took a bigger chunk of the night," Metro owner Joe Shanahan recalled, "and we said, 'Next year, let's just do this. This is the meat of the matter. This could be totally great.'"
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In an ongoing conflict over water rights in the Lincoln National Forest, the Otero County Commission adopted a resolution requesting the county sheriff remove or open United States Forest Service fences.
On Monday, the commission approved a resolution that requests Sheriff Benny House take measures to remove or open gates on fences placed by the Forest Service in the Lincoln National Forest.
The resolution was read by District 1 Commissioner Tommie Herrell, "Whereas, it has come to the Otero County Board of Commissioner's attention that the USFS has fenced around water sources to exclude cattle of which the USFS possess no right to act in such a manner.
"Whereas, the USFS has openly stated that they will not open the gates to grant access to the privately owned water rights," Herrell read. "Now therefore, be it resolved by the governing body that the county is entreating the Sheriff of Otero County to immediately take steps to remove or open gates that are unlawfully denying citizens access to their private property rights."
District 3 Commissioner Ronny Rardin, said he felt the commission was taking the necessary actions to defend the rights of its citizens.
Rardin said the issues about property rights and that he was intent on defending those rights.
"That constitution is in breach right now and it is our civil duty if we want to keep our nation free and keep our country as it was intended to be by our four fathers to stand up and take this kind of action," Rardin said. "So this is the next step we feel that is proper to take and I'm sad I have to take it and I'm proud I will take it because it's the right thing for this commission to do."
Lincoln National Forest Supervisor Travis Moseley said the Forest Service is currently seeking ongoing legal council from the U.S. Department of Agriculture on how to handle the situation.
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The family of deceased insulation installer Mitchell Sweeney are "very interested" to hear how much Peter Garrett and Kevin Rudd knew about the botched scheme.
Former Labor senator Mark Arbib says federal governments should leave service delivery to the states and shy away from rolling out programs such as the home insulation scheme.
Mr Arbib returned to the witness box for the royal commission investigating the Rudd government's controversial $2.8 billion Home Insulation Program, for the second consecutive day on Tuesday.
He conceded he was shocked by the lack of training and supervision of a teen who died while installing insulation.
And the former parliamentary secretary admitted the program may have been rolled out too quickly, but blamed public servants for failing to warn him and other ministers about the risks to installers working in roof cavities.
Former Labor senator Mark Arbib said he did not have decision-making authority in relation to the program. Photo: Andrew Meares
Under heated cross-examination from Gold Coast-based lawyer Bill Potts, Mr Arbib conceded service delivery was best handled by state governments.
"My view, from being involved and seeing it first hand, [is] federal government is not a government service delivery agency," Mr Arbib said.
"State governments work day in, day out in service delivery and wherever possible, programs of this kind should be left to them."
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