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Authors will be able to print articles and clarity . at www.californiaagriculture.anr.org by clicking on demand for distribution to target audiences . â?? Current Issue â?? and scrolling down to E - Edition . Like all published articles , E - Edition articles Similarly , research on why California rice growers will benefit from California Agricultureâ??s augmented protect their harvests from contamination by trans - electronic presence ( see â?? Indexing , â?? page 100 ) . genic rice appears on the website alone . The journal also appears in full on the California â?? Initially , E - Edition is being offered to authors Digital Library and in the ANR Repository . It ranks who have been waiting for publication due to our high in Google and Google Scholar searches . backlog , â?? says Janet White , executive editor . â?? The In addition , California Agriculture recently began statewide budget crisis has led to a 48 - page cap on accepting submissions via Thomsonâ??s ScholarOne our journal . Some articles have waited a year or peer - review management system . The new system more for publication , an unacceptable delay . â?? allows authors and reviewers expanded access to E - Edition also means that , with this issue , Thomsonâ??s Web of Science ( for ease of research and the journal will change from print to electronic documentation ) as well as other features . California â?? version of record , â?? the online version becoming Agriculture welcomes new research submissions . the authoritative version to be indexed by data - Go to : http : / / californiaagriculture.ucanr.org / bases and repositories . Readers can preview the submit.cfm . abstracts and introductory comments of these Share your comments and suggestions : Janet articles at â?? E - Edition : Online â?? ( page 159 ) . Such White , jlwhite @ ucdavis.edu or ( 510 ) 665 - 2201 or â?? thumbnail â?? descriptions will appear in the print Janet Byron , jlbyron @ ucdavis.edu or ( 510 ) 665 - 2194 . journal concurrent with each E - Edition . Space â?? Editors Clarification : Olive fruit fly in Mariposa County Smart sprayers pay in Australia After our article â?? Understanding the seasonal and I just read â?? Smart sprayer technology provides reproductive biology of olive fruit fly is critical to its environmental and economic benefits in Cali - management , â?? was published in the January â?? March fornia orchards , â?? April â?? June 2011 . We retrofitted 2011 issue of California Ag - this system to our almond orchard sprayers for riculture , Cathi Boze , the $ 5,000 Australian dollars ( $ 5,218 U.S . ) each , 4 agricultural commissioner years ago . If anything , the predicted estimates of in Mariposa County , noted savings are conservative . In addition to the tree that her county was not sensors on our foliar sprayers , we have set up included as infested on â?? Weed Seeker â?? heads on our herbicide sprayers . the map of California on While these cost four times more than the tree page 15 . Mariposa County sensors , the payback period has been similar . was not listed as trapping Tim Orr April â?? June 2011 for olive fruit flies in the Lake Cullulleraine Almonds California Agriculture Cullulleraine , Australia California Department of Food and Agricultureâ??s list Redwoods regenerate on 7,000 - plus acres of counties that we used to January â?? March 2011 The Mendocino Land Trust congratulates California make the map . However , California Agriculture Agriculture on the recent article about the remark - Boze did indeed run traps able regrowth of redwoods at Big River ( â?? Scientists in the county , and olive fruit flies were first detected discover redwoods â?? resiliency in Fritzâ??s Wonder Plot , â?? there in 2003 . April â?? June 2011 ) . The Fritz Wonder Plot is part of 7,334 Frank Zalom acres of former industrial timberland that now make Professor , CE Specialist and Entomologist up the Big River unit of the Mendocino Headlands UC Agricultural Experiment Station continued on page 101 http : / / californiaagriculture.ucanr.org â?¢ JULY â?? SEPTEMBER 2011 99Letters Financial . I am not a health services research profes - continued from page 99 sional , but I would like a more rigorous peer review State Park . The Mendocino Land Trust , with the sup - from objective scientific references using original port of individual and institutional donors , raised the sources , not newsletters that reference a government $ 28 million needed to acquire the Big River Unit in summary that has no sources . 2002 . Former Big River program manager Matt Ger - Bob Whitney hart ( now with the state Coastal Conservancy ) , work - Willits , CA ing with UC , organized the Fritz Plot resurvey and compiled and composed the historical and current Patti C . Wooten Swanson , Nutrition , Family and data . To read the Fritz report or learn more about Big Consumer Science Advisor , UC Cooperative Extension , San River , visit http : / / mendocinolandtrust.org . Diego County , and Karen P . Varcoe , Consumer Economics Specialist , UC Riverside , respond : Matt Coleman Mendocino , CA The widely quoted and generally accepted projection that at least 70 % of U.S . residents ages 65 and older will need Greg Giusti , UC cooperative forest and wildlands ecology long - term care services can be traced back to analysis of advisor , responds : data from the 1986 National Mortality Followback For more than 70 years , scores of people and organiza - Survey ( NMFS ) conducted by the Centers for tions worked to keep the Fritz Wonder Plot operational . Disease Controlâ??s National Center for Health Scientists and researchers , many unnamed in the article , Statistics . The figure appears to have originated in spent large portions of their careers protecting and col - a 2001 Journal of Risk and Insurance article . lecting data from the site . The focus of the article was not Included from the NMFS data was the finding on all the players involved , but rather on the unique char - that persons age 65 and older in 1995 had a 68.5 % acteristics , history and story the plot tells . Thanks to the probability of needing assistance with two or more Mendocino Land Trust , the Conservation Fund and the activities of daily living ( ADLs ) during their life - Save the Redwoods League , the activities started in 1923 times , including eating , toileting and dressing . continue today . The property was transferred from private â?? Needing assistance with two or more ADLs â?? is to public ownership in 2002 , and California State Parks is generally the criteria for receiving benefits from a the official land steward . long - term care insurance policy sold in California . October â?? december 2010 California Agriculture The California HealthCare Foundation data Long - term care and financial - planning data cited have limitations . For example , it includes only those who utilize long - term care â?? services â?? and not Editorâ??s note : The following letter and response have been the estimated 70 % of elders who get most or all of their care edited substantially for space . To read the entire exchange , from ( unpaid ) family members and friends . with references , go to : http : / / ucanr.org / u.cfm ? id = 8 . Genworth Financialâ??s annual cost - of - care surveys are commonly quoted in educational materials to help consum - I greatly enjoy reading California Agriculture , and I es - ers estimate and plan for potential future costs of long - term pecially liked the October â?? December 2010 issue , since care . The surveys collect data from a random sample of I was born in 1941 and am experiencing the privilege nursing homes , assisted living and adult day health facili - of aging . However , the brief article â?? Long - term care ties , and home care providers . Genworthâ??s 2011 survey is an important consideration in financial planning contacted more than 53,000 long - term care providers to for later life â?? ( page 206 ) lacks an original source refer - complete nearly 15,500 surveys . Results cover the four ma - ence regarding the claim , â?? While not all Californians jor categories of long - term care in all 50 states , the District will need expensive long - term care , 70 % of those over of Columbia and Puerto Rico . age 65 will need some during their lifetimes . â?? The Private long - term care insurance is only one of several reference given is : California HealthCare Foundation , ways families afford the long - term care they may need . Survey : Many Californians Not Ready for Health Care In addition to unpaid care from family and friends , se - Costs , California Healthline ( April 22 , 2010 ) . niors may qualify for Medi - Cal by spending down their The California HealthCare Foundation published assets . Seniors with more resources may choose to access a more definitive report in November 2009 . In 2007 , their home equity . Others pay for care from personal sav - there were 1,391,281 California residents in some type ings and assets , funds generated from cash - value life in - of long - term care . I used the higher 2010 U.S . census surance or viatical settlements from companies that buy estimate of 4,640,000 residents to divide into the 2007 insurance policies from terminally ill patients . For more total of 1,391,281 residents in some type of long - term information , see the UC ANR publication â?? Planning and care . The result was 30 % . Paying for Long - Term Care â?? ( http : / / anrcatalog.ucdavis.edu / Three of the seven references in this article were Items / 8383 . aspx ) . from a long - term care insurance company , Genworth http : / / californiaagriculture.ucanr.org â?¢ JULY â?? SEPTEMBER 2011 101