Young Dancer Painting, Ballerina, Dance, Framed And Ready To Hang, Ballet Painting By Alex Jabore - New Arrivals

This is a collaborative piece with a talented young ballerina from Canada called Pascala English. I was lucky enough to find this dancer earlier this year and was attracted by her beautiful movement as well as the look of pure determination on her face. Its a dancer crafting her technique, and learning to express herself through it. This is framed in solid, custom made, framed 55 ml wide scooped grey frame with an off white mount and acrylic glass.Materials used:Artist Quality Oil Paintings, Canvas Board, FramedDetails Oil Painting on MDF One of a kind artwork Size: 39 x 49 x 5 cm (framed) / 19.99 x 30 x 0.3 cm (unframed) Signed on the front

For decades, vector-control agencies in California, responsible for fighting insidious disease-carrying pests and rodents, have relied on the domesticated fowl as a surveillance tool to predict when human cases of West Nile Virus and St. Louis Encephalitis are likely to occur. They are, in a way, the perfect canary in the coal mine for such a task: They sit in coops throughout Southern California 24 hours a day, seven days a week, waiting to get bit. And unlike canaries, the first to die in the mines, chickens don’t get sick from the diseases they contract. Rather, they form antibodies that allow vector control to test their blood.

Throughout the state, there are 139 chicken flocks run by 29 agencies in 25 counties, according to the California Public Health Department, In Long Beach, there young dancer painting, ballerina, dance, framed and ready to hang, ballet painting by alex jabore are four such chicken coops, one in each quadrant of the city, El Monte has a coop, So does the San Fernando Valley, But sentinel chickens, as they are called, are increasingly losing favor, Within the last five years, vector control agencies in Orange, Riverside and San Bernardino counties – as well as the San Gabriel Valley – have discontinued their programs, Officials there cite high cost, too many hours put into keeping the chickens healthy and inconsistent results..

“The chickens need a lot of care,” said William Van Dyke, a spokesman for the Northwest Mosquito and Vector Control District, in Riverside. “And they only give us a snapshot of a specific area.”. Others, however, still value the chickens. “When chickens have West Nile, you know the mosquitoes are positive in that area,” said Lamar Rush, the operations director for Long Beach’s vector control program, which runs three of the city’s four coops. “Mosquitoes bite the chickens and then we can let the human population know.”.

A thimble of water, That’s all it takes for mosquitoes to breed, In fact, they can and will breed virtually anywhere: a puddle, an empty pot or bucket, a stagnate pool, There are 56 species of mosquitoes in California, official say, and more than 3,000 worldwide, The list of diseases is equally as varied: dengue, yellow fever, malaria, In California, West Nile replaced St, Louis Encephalitis as the premier threat in the early 2000s, “They are the deadliest animal on earth,” said Nelson Kerr, the manager of Long Beach’s Bureau of young dancer painting, ballerina, dance, framed and ready to hang, ballet painting by alex jabore Environmental Health, which over sees the city’s vector control..

From 2003, when West Nile began proliferating in California, to last year, there have been 6,566 cases of West Nile in humans, with 289 deaths. In 2017, Los Angeles County had 287 West Nile cases, including 14 in Long Beach, according to the state’s Department of Health. Orange County had 41, San Bernardino County had 62 and Riverside County had 30. Of those, 37 died. In the fight against mosquito-borne diseases, the biggest tool, officials say, is prevention – largely through public awareness campaigns.

Bus stop advertisements, for example, exist throughout Orange County, At first glimpse, the ads look as if they are for television’s Shark Week: “The deadliest predator,” the ad reads, But it’s not a Great White on the ad, but rather a blown up image of a mosquito, Each year during mosquito season, which typically runs from April to October, vector-control agencies send out press releases and mailers warning residents to protect against mosquitoes, Wear long clothing, especially during dawn and dusk, the notices say, Drain stagnate water, young dancer painting, ballerina, dance, framed and ready to hang, ballet painting by alex jabore Put mosquito-eating fish – free at many vector controls – in your ponds..

At first, officials say, the outreach worked – and the statistics appear to back that up. After peaking in 2005, when 880 cases were reported throughout the state, the number of West Nile cases dropped annually until it reached its nadir in 2010, with 111 cases. Then, the climb began again. “People get oversaturated with news about mosquitoes, so it’s hard to keep people vigilant,” Kluh said last week, at El Dorado Park in Long Beach. “We’re always trying to dance that careful dance with oversaturation.”.

Because, she added, the danger is real, Morales and Vetrone arrived at Demler Ranch around 8 a.m, The sun was out, but the gate to the egg farm was locked, “They don’t let anyone in,” Morales, wearing a wide-brimmed straw hat and blue medical gloves, young dancer painting, ballerina, dance, framed and ready to hang, ballet painting by alex jabore said last week, A representative at Demler, the only ranch that supplies chickens to Southern California vector control districts, declined a request for a tour, citing biosecurity, So when the ecologists arrived, employees of the ranch brought the chickens to them: seven crates of 10 chickens each..

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