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Meanwhile, Jim Fetzer's Ceago Vinegarden, a biodynamic vineyard in Northern California, raises chickens as part of its viticulture system, with the birds playing a key role in keeping the vines healthy and pest-free. And Fetzer has a nice side business selling certified humane eggs...
...Harvard pest expert Gary Alpert has his way, students will be able to cross cockroach elimination off of their reading period to-do lists. It was Alpert’s suggestion that spurred the circulation of pest surveys to Lowell House residents last Tuesday. The results of the survey will be used to help direct pest prevention measures in Lowell over winter break. Such measures, Alpert said, will include inspection of areas in the House where students have reported pest encounters. The survey asks students to identify locations where they have sighted cockroaches, ants, or mice, as well...
...health-care organizations, lotteries, retail companies and government offices. TraceSecurity offers traditional risk, compliance and IT assessments, but the part that Stickley loves best is what he calls a "social-engineering engagement." That's a polite term for a break-in. TraceSecurity engineers infiltrate a target organization posing as pest controllers, fire officials, OSHA inspectors and even foreign diplomats; once in, they trick employees into allowing them access to sensitive data. A one-off engagement costs anywhere from $5,000 to $25,000. There are dozens of outfits around the country engaged in some form of social-engineering work, from...
VERIFY IDS Take the time to ensure that a stranger is whom he claims to be, even at the risk of giving insult. Check the name on a badge against a driver's license, then call the purported employer--fire department, pest control--to make sure the person is legit...
...Bearden, a former CIA spy in Moscow, as well as other experienced intelligence hands, agrees it would be nuts for Putin--who has had good relations with British Prime Minister Tony Blair--to order an assassination on British soil of a British citizen who was no more than a pest. Says Bearden: "Take a deep breath and take a look at Putin and say, 'Is he stupid or insane...