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Nonnative, invasive ants, and especially the red imported fire ant, Solenopsis invicta, are a widespread threat to ground‐nesting wildlife. In this paper I describe a method of controlling fire ants using hot water. The hot water approach was applied to reduce fire ant impacts on sea turtles and ground‐nesting songbirds and to demonstrate its utility in protection of different ground‐nesting species in different habitats. Fire ant controls using hot water provided 90% or greater control, significantly improving survival of both turtle and bird hatchlings, without the use of pesticides. The success of the method and the availability of necessary equipment shows that hot water control of fire ant populations should be considered as a tool for wildlife affected by fire ants and is useful for a wide variety of scenarios where fire ant controls are desirable or necessary. The method does require that 1) wildlife nest locations are known and that 2) nearby fire ant colonies can be found and treated with hot water. The method can be used as a complement to broadcast or bait‐station baiting strategies or as a stand‐alone method for managing fire ants. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the report "The State of Nursing in Florida and Proposed Solutions" written by Quality and Unity in Nursing (QUIN) Council members for a target audience of state regulatory bodies, health care leaders, nurses, nursing leadership and policymakers. Topics include the confirmation that Florida is faced with a worsening crisis in the nursing workforce, impact of the COVID-19 global pandemic on the nursing shortage, and implication of the projected shortages of nurses by 2035.

Features Florida-based watercolor painter Taylor Ikin. Materials that she uses in painting; Experiments made on the Yupo, a synthetic paper; Subjects of her paintings.

The article reports that Florida election commissioner Ion Sancho has become a target of the state's Republicans as he disputes their election practices. Sancho favors optically scanned paper ballots and careful machine auditing in favor of electronic machines, which have been proven to be unreliable and susceptible to tampering.

Reports on efforts to create digital voting terminals that produce reliable election results. Report that the Florida presidential election debacle in 2000 prompted U.S. election officials to push for more reliable methods of voting; Report that electronic terminals will be used by about 28 percent of the country in the November elections; Report that concerns over the possibility that electronic voting systems could be hacked have led computer scientists and cryptographers to develop systems to let people know their votes have been counted without violating confidentiality; Description of Rebecca Mercuri's verified voting scheme, which uses paper printouts; Report that a voter-verification bills have been introduced in Congress; Description of the frog method of verified voting; Description of the Votegrity system by David Chaum; Description of the VoteHere system, which will be used in some counties in California; Details of effort to create a secure Internet voting system.

This article reports on Luminaire's PaperLove, an auction of objects de papier, to be held at the Luminaire Lab in the Design District in Miami Beach, Florida, in December 2008. More than 40 designers, architects and artists have signed on to supply two- or three-dimensional objets de papier, including Michele Oka Doner, Kengo Kuma and Patricia Urquiola. All proceeds go to benefit the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Miami.

Announces that the 19th Biennial International Oil Spill Conference (IOSC) will be held on May 15-19, 2004 at the Miami Beach Convention Center in Miami Beach, Florida. Theme of the conference; Information on the four general topics of abstracts that the IOSC is seeking for platform and poster presentations; Contact information.

The author recalls memories of enjoying low-country cooking as a child and discusses different ways to prepare and serve dishes. It is recommended to serve low-country boils on paper plates or newspapers. She relates a story of driving with her family during summer vacation to Daytona Beach, Florida, in her parents' station wagon. She also presents a recipe for low-country boil.

The article reviews the exhibition "Guillermo Kuitca: Everything, Paintings and Works on Paper, 1980-2008," at the Miami Art Museum in Miami, Florida from October 9, 2009 to January 17, 2010.

Focuses on a collection of Afro-American abolitionist papers received by the John G. Riley Center/Museum of African American History and Culture at Tallahassee Community College Library in Florida in September 2004. Documents contained in the collection; Statement of Riley House director Althemese Barnes on the role of Afro-Americans in the anti-slavery crusade in the U.S.; Establishment of the partnership between the John Gilmore Riley African American Museum and Archives and Tallahassee Community College; Reason for donating the collection at TCC.

Reports on the donation of the literary papers of American author, Jack Rudloe to the University of Florida.

Abstract: This paper describes and analyzes a series of nearly 90 CFD test cases performed as a contribution to the second Drag Prediction Workshop, held in Orlando, Florida in June 2003. Two configurations are included: DLR-F6 wing-body and wing-body-nacelle-pylon. The ability of CFD to predict the drag, lift, and pitching moment from experiment––including the “delta” arising from the addition of the nacelle and pylon––is assessed. In general, at a fixed angle of attack CFD overpredicts lift, but predicts the ΔCL reasonably well. At low lift levels (CL<0.3), ΔCD is 20–30 drag counts (30–45%) high. At the target lift coefficient of CL=0.5, ΔCD is overpredicted by between 11 and 16 counts. However, the primary contribution of this paper is not so much the assessment of CFD against experiment, but rather a detailed assessment and analysis of CFD variation. The series of test cases are designed to determine the sensitivity/variability of CFD to a variety of factors, including grid, turbulence model, transition, code, and viscous model. Using medium-level grids (6–11 million points) at the target lift coefficient, the maximum variation in drag due to different grids is 5–11 drag counts, due to code is 5–10 counts, due to turbulence model is 7–15 counts, due to transition is 10–11 counts, and due to viscous model is 4–5 counts. Other specific variations are described in the paper. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

Presents information on the participation of author Lilian Gewirtzman in a writing workshop led by poet Veronica Golos for Holocaust survivors at the Holocaust Memorial and Educational Center in Nassau County, Florida. Career background of Gewirtzman; Features of the workshop; Goal of the workshop.

Focuses on Florida attorney Norwood Wilner's assault on the cigarette industry. His victory in an August 1996 lawsuit against Brown & Williamson, maker of Lucky Strike cigarettes; The number of tobacco lawsuits he has filed in Florida; His strategy; Advertisements he has put in Florida newspapers; Comments from tobacco-industry analyst Gary Black and lawyer Stanley Rosenblatt.

ABSTRACT Camera traps have increased our knowledge of animal distribution, activity, and behavior, but they are rarely used for small mammal research. This is likely because there are few techniques to that allow for species identification, reduce disturbance of bait from non-target animals (e.g., raccoon [ Procyon lotor]), and that can be used in all environments. In this paper we present a small mammal camera-trapping methodology, the Hunt trap, which was designed to 1) work in tidal environments, 2) eliminate capture myopathy, 3) allow for successful identification of small mammal species, and 4) allow for continued trapping after disturbance by non-target species. We tested the Hunt trap in the Lower Suwannee National Wildlife Refuge, Florida, USA, during February 2012 to February 2013. Live traps are still the best option when individuals must be physically captured for marking, radiotagging, demographic studies, or physiological assessments. However, if such data are not required, the Hunt trap design is an excellent technique to monitor species diversity, community composition, habitat selection, and distribution with efficiency and minimal effort. Published 2014. This article is a U.S. Government work and is in the public domain in the USA. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Presents news briefs on developments around the U.S. as of November 1941. Decision of the General Hospital in Los Angeles, California to replace its dishes with fiber plates; Type of sign erected along the highway of Salt Lake City, Utah; Law passed in Tallahassee, Florida about car accidents caused by cows.

Presents news briefs on politics, science and social issues as of March 1940. Estimated number of divorces conducted in Miami, Florida; Amount of Washington relief apples shipped by the Federal Surplus Commodities Corporation to Bentonville, Arkansas; Research conducted in London, England on the effects of radium exposure on the human body.

Maintaining water quality in the Florida Keys is vital to the area's economy. However, the lack of sewage infrastructure has degraded nearshore water quality. The Monroe County Year 2010 Comprehensive Plan outlines strategies to improve sewage infrastructure to meet the State of Florida's 2010 effluent standards. This paper assesses the progress of the Monroe County Year 2010 Comprehensive Plan in the context of Integrated Coastal Management (ICM) by means of surveys, semi-structured interviews, and secondary data. Monroe County's plan included aspects of ICM and emphasized a community-based approach for incorporated and unincorporated areas to meet effluent standards. However, areas throughout the Florida Keys faced financial constraints and lack of resources in executing public work initiatives. Variability in management plans developed by municipalities demonstrated the need for a top down approach. The State of Florida and Monroe County could have provided more guidance and resources, and facilitated communication between the various entities to help complete objectives by the 2010 deadline. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A biography of Morgan Pressel, an American professional golfer and the youngest woman ever to win a major golf championship, is presented. Pressel was born in Tampa, Florida on May 23, 1988. She attended Saint Andrew's High School of Boca Raton, Florida. The paper also provides information about his career highlights, hobbies, current address and Web sites.

The article highlights the parade, titled Skywalkers, which was held as part of Art Basel Miami in Florida in December 2006. The parade included blimps designed by David Choe, Paper Pad, Mumbleboy, Devilrobots, Ara Peterson and Misaki Kawai. But the real stars of the show were Tury Sandoval and Sam Borkson, partners in the art and design entity known as Friends With You. The duo have been blurring the line between art and design with a frenzy of toys, balloon parades and epic installations.

The article focuses on the Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation and Education Conference held in Orlando, Florida. The 2005 exhibition was abut 20 percent larger than in 2004. The event attracted 16,000 visitors from 43 countries. A total of 141 papers were presented at the conference in six subject streams.

Presents a paper on the completion and opening of the new Aquarium and Biological Laboratory at Miami, Florida, in the 1920s. Interest of humans in fish; Economic aspects of marine fauna; Details on exceptional equipment at the Miami Aquarium; Plans of Miami Aquarium to study the food value of warm-water fishes; Discovery of a flamingo colony by the Aquarium expedition in the Bahama islands.

The article reports on the growing problem of patient medical record breaches in the U.S. Since 2009, 499 major breaches of medical records have been reported to the Office for Civil Rights at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Paper records are involved in 117 major breaches and affected almost 709,000 people. Pam Dixon of the World Privacy Forum cites a stray laptop as the commmon cause of breaches. She expresses concern over breaches caused by hackers and inside jobs.

Information about several papers discussed at the 46th annual meeting of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology held in Boca Raton, Florida is presented. Topics include the recent studies on autism in infants, the development of antidepressants, genetic links between cancer and schizophrenia, and bipolar disorder. The meeting featured several researchers including Joseph Piven, Daniel R. Weinberger, and Ellen Frank.

Information about several papers discussed at the summit of the religious right leaders on September 20-22, 2007 in Florida is presented. Topics include the involvement of the religious conservatives in politics, the anti-gay marriage bill and the strategy to be used for the coming 2008 elections. It is featured by local, state and national Religious Right groups, activists and politicians.

The article comments on the need for examination, reform, and oversight of the national voting complex, and concern of irregularities in the November 2 vote. Two minor presidential candidates, David Cobb of the Green Party and Michael Badnarik of the Libertarian Party, requested a recount in Ohio. E-voting--particularly with machines made by Diebold, a firm headed by a GOP fundraiser that refuses to disclose its source code--stir skepticism. But suspicion needs reality checks. Stolen election proponents point to Warren County, Ohio, where Bush bagged a net gain of 41,000 votes and where local officials barred reporters from the counting room on election night, claiming the Feds had warned of a terrorist attack. Steven Freeman of the University of Pennsylvania wrote a paper claiming that discrepancies between the media consortium exit polls and the vote count in Ohio, Florida and Pennsylvania were a "250 million to one" shot. But "systematic fraud or mistabulation," he wrote, "is a premature conclusion." He urged investigation. On the other hand, pollster John Zogby says his exit polls had Bush leading in Ohio and Florida. A recount in Ohio is well and good. But it probably won't change the results, and it surely won't fix the deep flaws of a system that does provoke justifiable suspicion.

The author presents reflections on his first winter spent in South Florida. I hate to gloat, but I missed winter this year. I moved from Washington, D.C., to Miami Beach in late fall, and it has been sunny and 75 degrees just about every day since. I never thought I cared that much about weather, but it turns out that I do. I've gotten less grumpy and less Type A. Before I moved down here--it's only for a year, unless I can convince my employers at The Washington Post to move the paper to Florida--my friends warned that I'd miss all the smart people that surrounded me in Washington and New York and Boston. And I suppose it's true that South Beach is a bit more Scarface and Birdcage than "Masterpiece Theatre" or Annie Hall. But, if all those people up north are so damned smart, how come they're not living where it's sunny and 75 degrees every day? My book is supposed to be a history of the Everglades, a kind of morality play about man's relationship with nature. I was going to make the point that South Florida is now inhospitable not only to the vermin, reptiles, and other wildlife that used to thrive in the Everglades, it has become unsustainable for human beings, too. The economy is a Ponzi scheme, where everyone sells houses or lays tile or finances mortgages or does some other kind of work that requires attracting an endless parade of additional house-sellers and tile-layers and so on. In other words, life in paradise has started to suck. But now that I'm here, I've recognized a slight problem with my argument: Life in paradise doesn't actually suck.

The scandal of the hanging chads in Florida that decided the 2000 presidential election sparked an electronic revolution, as of February 14, 2004. For this year's race between U.S. President George W. Bush and his challenger, whoever he may be, the hope is that touch-screen voting machines will ensure a fair election and restore confidence in the U.S. democracy. At the heart of the Florida controversy was the issue of voter intent. Election officials spent hours peering at ballot papers trying to decide if hanging chads were real votes. It is time to ensure that e-voting machines are viable before they are adopted by democracies around the world.

Presents a mini-profile of posh Naturalis, located in Palm Beach, Florida. The 4,200-square-foot store offers everything from home-delivered recycled-paper toilet tissue to a $132,000 Mercedes-Benz, replete with a chlorofluoro-carbon-free air conditioner.

Focuses on the resignation of 'Sarasota Herald-Tribune' managing editor Rosemary Armao from the newspaper in Florida in June 2002, resulting from an e-mail reply she sent to a reader, wherein she cited her personal views on Katherine Harris, a Republican candidate for the U.S. Congress. Reason for replying to the reader's reaction to the story published by the paper about Harris; Comment from the paper's executive editor Jane Weaver, on the clash with Armao regarding the e-mail.

Presents photographs of several printed advertisements from Florida. Park 66 bingo postcards by Sarah Petti; Poster for Beat Science by Eye Noise; Stationery for Todd Anderson by FHB Advertising.

The article reports on an election in Sarasota County, Florida, which illustrates the perils of malfunctioning electronic voting machines. After the chad controversy of the U.S. presidential election in 2000, Florida replaced paper ballots with millions of dollars worth of touch-screen voting machines. A close congressional race between Vern Buchanan and Christine Jennings has been contested, but the machines, with no paper record, cannot help to resolve the issue.

The article presents some of the highlights of the white paper report "Wisdom at Work: The Importance of the Older and Experienced Nurse in the Workplace," commissioned by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in Florida. The paper published in June 2006 was developed to identify strategies and opportunities for retaining experienced nurses in the workplace. Several recommendations that need to be looked at from a national perspective are also cited.

The article reports on the release of court papers to news organizations showing that Florida Republican gubernatorial candidate Charlie Crist has signed a consent form allowing the adoption of a baby after denying being the father in 1989. Crist claims that he never had sex with the mother of the child. Crist states his reasons for signing the adoption papers. Republican candidate Tom Gallagher denied any involvement in the leak.

People are finding out the difference between muck and ooze and why moving water matters. The jolt comes in a paper issued this week by Nick Aumen, an aquatic ecologist at the Everglades National Park, and colleagues at the South Florida ecosystem restoration working group. Mr Aumen argues that flowing water maintained, and possibly created, the landscape of the Everglades, the largest swamp in the Americas. The implication is that unless more attention is paid to restoring the current, the landscape may not recover. Tree islands were good for nesting and foraging, sloughs provided open water for fish and ducks, sawgrass ridges gave fish a chance to hide from predators and birds a place to nest. The paper raises a public-policy question about the Everglades restoration plan. This plan, approved in 2000, will build vast reservoirs and store up to 15 billion gallons of water underground so that more water can be pumped into the ecosystem to undo the damage wrought in the 1940s, when the Army Corps of Engineers blocked the swamp's natural current to improve flood control and bring land into productive use.

The article focuses on the announcement of the officials of the U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM) at MacDill Air Force Base in Florida soliciting a tactical assault light operator suit (TALOS) to protect Special Operations warfighters. It says that the suit must include advanced armor, powered or unpowered robotic exoskeletons, and wearable computers, radios, and antennas. It mentions that interested companies should submit their white papers at www.socom.mil/sordac/Pages/BAAST-13-TALOS.

The article profiles Doctor Narendra Kini, 50-year-old president and chief executive officer (CEO) of Mimia Children's Hospital in Florida and recipient of the 2013 CEO IT Achievement Awards. He implemented a digitalization strategy that includes initiatives in telemedicine, mobile technology and patient engagement and revenue-cycle management. He successfully implemented the 67 million U.S. dollars health-record system to replace the system's paper process.

The article examines the white paper "A Chance for Every Child: Mitt Romney's Plan for Restoring the Promise of American Education," by the Romney campaign. It states that Romney plan's core themes include a rehash of Republican education ideas from the past 30 years such as subsidizing parents who want to send their children to a private or religious school. It notes that Romney proposes to use more taxpayer money to the priorities including vouchers, charter schools, and online schools.

Information about several papers discussed at the Key West Literary Seminar on the rise of historical fiction is presented. Topics include the impact of history on fiction and the role of imagination in the writing of history. The symposium featured historian Eric Foner giving the keynote address and novelist Sena Jeter Naslund reading from her novel "Abundance." Foner is quoted as saying history is a work of the imagination, in that a historian has to weave numerous details into a narrative.

The article discusses the details prosecutors have discovered about Caylee Anthony's death. Caylee's mother, Casey, is in jail awaiting trial for allegedly murdering her. According to the article, on February 18, 2009 Florida officials released more than 400 pages of evidence. Caylee's body was found December 11, 2008 in Florida. Other items officials found were a heart-shaped sticker, similar to those found in Casey's home, a faded Winnie the Pooh blanket, and duct tape. INSETS: DUCT TAPE AND STICKERS;ANOTHER FLORIDA GIRL VANISHES.

The article provides information about a recent multicenter study that provides some justification for the increasing popularity of transobturator slings in the treatment of stress urinary incontinence in patients with and without concurrent pelvic organ prolapse. With this, researchers found that the use of transobturator tape in these patients worked. This paper was presented at the American Urogynecologic Society annual scientific meeting in Hollywood, Florida.

The article reports on the new governor of Florida, Charlie Crist. Embraced by Republicans and Democrats alike, Crist is fighting against global warming, for expanding stem cell research, and introducing paper ballots to deal with Florida's now perennial election scandals. He also support reenfranchising former inmates.

The article examines voting practices in the United States in light of the 2006 midterm elections. The Democratic Party claimed that malfunctioning electronic voting machines denied a Democratic candidate a clear majority in House race in Florida. While the article finds no merit in the Democratic position, the author states that electronic ballots are not as secure as paper ones.

The article presents experiences of Florida resident and former United Ostomy Association Inc.'s president Ann Favreau, who survived hurricane Charley by seeking safety in a high school gymnasium with her husband. Favreau and her husband Raymond live in Venice, Florida. On August 12, they were notified that their area was under mandatory evacuation. They packed their emergency suitcases with clothes for three days, all their medications, toiletries, insurance papers, passports, checkbooks, first-aid kit, ponchos, emergency blankets, flashlights and a water purification kit. Since she wore a precut ostomy pouching system that is a special-order product, she packed two months worth in the event that they could not get back into their house.

The article discussed whether electronic voting machines will solve the kinds of problems that occurred in the U.S. 2000 election. The 2000 presidential election brought nationwide attention to the difficulty of counting every vote in an election. Florida's controversial election spurred many states to replace their old punch-card ballots with new voting technology: touch-screen voting machines. In the upcoming election, nearly one-third of all voters will use electronic voting machines. Half of all voters in this election will still use some form of paper ballot.

The article presents the call for proposals by the Research and Training Center for Children's Mental Health (RTC). RTC will hold its 18th annual research conference, "A System of Care for Children's Mental Health: Expanding the Research Base," from March 6 to 9 in Tampa, Florida. RTC is accepting applications for presentations and is especially interested in proposals that address research and evaluation related to system transformation; federally supported initiatives. The center is also interested in projects representing strong partnerships with family members. Presentation formats include symposia, paper presentations, topical discussions and poster presentations.

This article focuses on the difficulty of implementing the use of high-tech electronic voting mechanisms in elections. Another election year, another recount fiasco in Florida. On January 6th, a local election was held for a seat covering parts of Broward and Palm Beach Counties. A total of 10,844 votes were cast, and Ellyn Bogdanoff won by a margin of just 12 votes. There were also 137 undervotes, in which voters' choices failed to register. Under state law, there must be a manual recount of all undervotes and overvotes (ballots marked more than once) in any election where the winning margin is less than 0.25%. But no recount is possible, because the votes were cast using touch-screen voting machines whose only paper output is the final tally. This case has highlighted a growing debate about the merits of high-tech voting machines.

Reports that the 'Saint Petersburg Times' newspaper will have its name on the ice hockey arena in Tampa Bay, Florida and dozens of surrounding street signs. Value of the naming rights deal the paper acquired; Expected spending of corporations in 2002 to attach their names to sporting events, festivals and arenas; Media companies with investments in business of sports.

Focuses on the sketchbooks of artist Jerry Cutler in Gainesville, Florida. Types of his sketches; Purpose of sketches; Importance of sketchbooks to Cutler.