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US Lynchings, Citizen Engagement, Walt Whitman, More: Saturday Buzz, January 28, 2017
By ResearchBuzz on January 28, 2017 • ( Leave a comment )
A new Web site maps lynching victims in the United States. "In total, in the century after the Civil War, as many as 5,000 people of color were lynched by mobs in the United States. In the 1890s, on average, nine people were lynched each month. A new website documents each known death on a map, often along with gruesome details about the killing and the size of the crowd."
A new Web site makes it easier for citizens to contact their representatives. "5 Calls streamlines the calling process to make it user friendly and convenient. Simply enter your zipcode at the top left and you'll be given a personalized list of numbers to call about the most pressing issues of the day. Click through topics on the left hand column to access a brief overview of each issue, a script to use when placing the call, and an explanation of why you're calling a particular office (i.e. it's one of your Senators or the Army Corps of Engineers is conducting an environmental impact report on the Dakota Access Pipeline)." Please note that the helper content here is liberal-oriented; if you're in favor of a border wall or support the repeal of ACA, you will not find any resources here.
An addition collection of Walt Whitman papers at the Library of Congress has gone online. "The Manuscript Division has already made available online the Thomas Biggs Harned Collection of Walt Whitman Papers and the Walt Whitman Papers (Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection). Now joining these online is the Library's most extensive collection of Whitman primary documents, the Walt Whitman Papers in the Charles E. Feinberg Collection."
A new online tool lets researchers learn more about marijuana use by analyzing tweets. "The website, created by public health researchers and data scientists at RTI International, is a social media analytics tool that uses real-time information gathered from tweets to explore the impact of increased marijuana usage, motivating factors behind usage, and the effects of usage over time. This information helps identify emerging trends and paint a richer picture of the online conversation, which can help inform policy decisions, public awareness, and research agendas."
Digital Trends: Lock Down Your Facebook Profile Security with the Social Network's New Tool. "The interactive tool, dubbed Privacy Basics, is helpful for both newcomers and ardent users interested in maintaining their online safety. Instead of simply rehashing information already available on its help center, Privacy Basics is an interactive tool that offers both a quick profile clean-up (just three easy steps) and a breakdown of the elements of Facebook you can control."
Mashable: How to get the most out of Snapchat's new search bar.
New York Times: Google, in Post-Obama Era, Aggressively Woos Republicans. "The shift was evident a day after Congress began its new session this month. That evening, about 70 lawmakers, a majority of them Republicans, were feted at the stately Smithsonian Arts and Industries Building, where they clinked champagne and bourbon glasses and posed for selfies with the 600 guests assembled in their honor. The event's main host was not from the Republican establishment. Instead, the party was primarily financed and anchored by Google."
Reuters: Social media battle lines drawn ahead of Turkish vote. "Campaigning has not officially started, but a string of video 'selfies' by the likes of sports stars, actors and cabinet ministers has already launched a divisive debate on plans that would hand Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan sweeping new powers."
Walt Mossberg: What's up with Firefox, the browser that time forgot? "Until about five years ago, techies and others who wanted a speedier, extensible, more privacy-oriented web browser on their desktops often immediately downloaded Mozilla's Firefox to use instead of Internet Explorer on Windows or Safari on the Mac. But those days seem long ago." I'm rooting for Firefox too. The more browser choices, the better.
SECURITY/LEGAL ISSUES
Pinterest has released a rather skinny transparency report. (Skinny as in there weren't many requests.) "In the second half of 2016, Pinterest received 46 government requests for user data."
RESEARCH AND OPINION
University at Buffalo: Twitter data could improve subway operations during big events . "In a preliminary study, University at Buffalo engineers found that as subway use swells during events that draw big crowds, so too does the number of tweets at these events. The results suggest that data from Twitter, and possibly other social media platforms, can be used to improve event planning, route scheduling, crowd regulations and other subway operations."
Phys.org: Millions of tweets analyzed to measure perceived trustworthiness. "By scanning 66 million tweets linked to nearly 1,400 real-world events, Georgia Institute of Technology researchers have built a language model that identifies words and phrases that lead to strong or weak perceived levels of credibility on Twitter. Their findings suggest that the words of millions of people on social media have considerable information about an event's credibility – even when an event is still ongoing." Good morning, Internet…
Categories: morningbuzz
"Alt" Twitter Accounts, Supreme Court of Canada, Ohio National Guard, More: Friday Afternoon Buzz, January 27, 2017
Lunar New Year, King George III, Twitter, More: Sunday Buzz, January 29, 2017


CSV is launching a volunteer taskforce to help deal with the destruction caused by the South Yorkshire floods.
The volunteering charity will be assembling a team of full time young volunteers already working on projects in the region to join staff at CSV Action to help co-ordinate the rescue efforts.
The project, which will be known as the Good Neighbour Volunteer Campaign and is based at BBC Radio Sheffield, will also seek hundreds of South Yorkshire and North Derbyshire residents to help with the clear up operation.
CSV said it decided to help after it was contacted by David Blunkett, MP for Sheffield Brightside and a former CSV trustee. The operation follows CSV's response to other emergencies including the Birmingham tornado in 2005.


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Cambodian National Assembly Opens Its First Session in Early August - 2004-07-28
The acting President of the National Assembly said the new parliament will open its first regular session in early August.
Mr. Heng Samrin said the parliament will form the nine parliamentary committees soon. Five committees will be headed by the Cambodian People's Party, while the remaining four will be given to the FUNCINPEC party.
Mr. Heng Samrin said the elected members of the parliament who have a position in the executive branch have to give up their seats in the parliament.
The new national assembly will also be expected to take up two issues: the WTO membership and the Khmer Rouge tribunal.

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Tròpic prové del grec tropos, que significa volta, i correspon a cadascun dels paral·lels terrestres situats a una distància de 23° 27′ de l'equador.

L'existència de paral·lels, així com de meridians, ve marcada per la necessitat de situar un punt concret de la superfície terrestre, i d'assignar-li les coordenades de latitud i longitud (ex. 32° N, 27° 15′ E).

Els paral·lels són les interseccions produïdes sobre l'esfera terrestre per uns plans imaginaris, paral·lels entre ells, i alhora perpendiculars a l'eix de gir de la Terra. Sobre aquestes línies es mesura la latitud, que pot variar entre els 90° N i els 90° S.

La Terra realitza el seu moviment de translació seguint una òrbita el·líptica al voltant del Sol, que és en un dels focus de l'el·lipse. Aquesta òrbita, el centre de la Terra i el centre del Sol són tots en un pla imaginari anomenat eclíptica. Com que l'eix de gir de la Terra no és perpendicular al pla de l'eclíptica amb la qual manté un angle de 23,5º, la intersecció d'aquest pla amb l'esfera no coincideix amb un pla paral·lel, sinó que ho fa amb aquest mateix angle.

La latitud màxima amb què aquest pla talla l'esfera terrestre és de 23° 27′ N i 23° 27′ S; per això els paral·lels que passen per aquestes latituds tenen una rellevància especial i s'anomenen Tròpic de Càncer (en l'hemisferi Nord) i Tròpic de Capricorn (en l'hemisferi Sud). Coincideixen amb la latitud en què en el moment del solstici d'estiu del respectiu hemisferi el sol es troba al migdia al zenit de l'observador.

Vegeu també
 Línia equatorial
 Zona climàtica
 Zona tropical

Línies de latitud

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Credit: 358661Robert Laberge/Getty Images Joey Logano, driver of the #22 Shell Pennzoil Ford, celebrates in victory lane after winning the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Ford EcoBoost 400 and the MENCS Championship at Homestead-Miami Speedway on November 18, 2018 in Homestead, Fl.
You could not of asked for a better end then they the Final Championship 4 starting at the last re-start. It was exciting with 1st Car 18 Kyle Busch M&M's Toyota, 2nd place Car 78 Martin Truex Jr. Bass Pro Shops/5-hour ENERGY Toyota, 3rd place Car 22 Joey Logano Shell Pennzoil Ford & in 4th place Car 4 Kevin Harvick Jimmy John's Ford. Car 78 Martin Truex Jr. Bass Pro Shops/5-hour ENERGY Toyota grabbed the lead from Car 18 Kyle Busch M&M's Toyota until Car 22 Joey Logano Shell Pennzoil Ford took the lead from him to the checkered flag. Starting from 5th place Car 22 Joey Logano Shell Pennzoil Ford won the 20th Annual Ford EcoBoost 400, his 21st win in 363 NASCAR Monster Energy Cup Series races. This is his 3rd win & 26th Top 10 finish in 2018. This is his 1st win & 5th Top 10 finish in 10 races at Homestead-Miami Speedway. Joey Logano has won the 2018 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series driver championship. Team Penske has won the 2018 Monster Energy NASCR Cup Series owners championship.
Credit: 358654Sean Gardner/Getty Images Joey Logano, driver of the #22 Shell Pennzoil Ford, takes the checkered flag to win the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Ford EcoBoost 400 and the MENCS Championship at Homestead-Miami Speedway on November 18, 2018 in Homestead, Florida.
Credit: 358660Sean Gardner/Getty Images Denny Hamlin, driver of the #11 FedEx Express Toyota, leads the field past the green flag to start the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Ford EcoBoost 400 at Homestead-Miami Speedway on November 18, 2018 in Homestead, Florida.
Ford, started from 10th place. Lastly in the Top 10 Car 41 Kurt Busch Haas Automation/Monster Energy Ford, in 10th place, started from 6th place. William Byron has won the 2018 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Sunoco Rookie of the Year honors. Ford has won the 2018 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series manufacturers championship.
All 3 NASCAR Series the driver that won the final race also won the championship, Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series, NASCAR XFINITY Series & NASCAR Camping World Truck Series.
Joey Logano has won his first Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series championship, becoming the 33rd different series champion. Logano is the fifth different driver to win the series championship in the elimination-style Playoff format joining Kevin Harvick, 2014; Kyle Busch, 2015; Jimmie Johnson, 2016 and Martin Truex Jr., 2017. Logano won the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series season finale to claim the 2018 title. Logano finished the 2018 season with three wins, 13 top fives, 22 top 10s and a pole. During the Playoffs this season, Logano has produced two wins, six top fives, eight top 10s a pole. Joey Logano (Middletown) is the first driver from the state of Connecticut to win a Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series championship.
This is Team Penske's second Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series driver and owner championship – previous title: 2012 with driver Brad Keselowski. This is Team Penske's sixth NASCAR national series owner championship (two in the MENCS; four in the NXS). Team Penske has won 111 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup races.
Todd Gordon has won his first Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series championship. Gordon's previous best standings finish was runner-up in 2016 with Joey Logano. Gordon is the 42nd different Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series crew chief to win a championship. Gordon has 19 career Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series wins, all with Joey Logano.
Credit: 358670Chris Trotman/Getty Images Joey Logano, driver of the #22 Shell Pennzoil Ford, celebrates with his wife, Brittany, and son, Hudson, after winning the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Ford EcoBoost 400 at Homestead-Miami Speedway on November 18, 2018 in Homestead, Florida.
The race had 5 Cautions for 26 Laps: 1st Caution on lap 82 for Stage 1 Conclusion. 2nd Caution on lap 140 for Debris Frontstretch. 3rd Caution on lap 162 for Stage 2 Conclusion. 4th Caution on lap 194 for #42 Crash in Turn 4. 5th Caution on lap 248 for #2, 19 Crash in Turn 1.
Credit: 358657Sean Gardner/Getty Images Joey Logano, driver of the #22 Shell Pennzoil Ford, Martin Truex Jr., driver of the #78 Bass Pro Shops/5-hour ENERGY Toyota, and Kevin Harvick, driver of the #4 Jimmy John's Ford, race during the MENCS Ford EcoBoost 400 at Homestead-Miami Speedway.
The race had 22 Lead Changes among 7 drivers: D. Hamlin 1-36; M. Truex Jr. (P) 37-39; M. McDowell 40-41; D. Hamlin 42; K. Harvick (P) 43-82; K. Larson 83; K. Harvick (P) 84-86; K. Larson 87-90; J.Logano (P) 91-104; K. Larson 105-117; K. Harvick (P) 118-119; M. Truex Jr. (P) 120; D. Hamlin 121-124; K. Larson 125-147; K. Harvick (P) 148-159; K. Larson 160-163; J. Logano (P) 164-166; K.
Harvick (P) 167; J. Logano (P) 168-218; M. Truex Jr. (P) 219-230; K. Busch (P) 231-251; M. Truex Jr. (P) 252-255; J. Logano (P) 256-267.
Credit: 358658Jared C. Tilton/Getty Images Martin Truex Jr., driver of the #78 Bass Pro Shops/5-hour ENERGY Toyota, and Kevin Harvick, driver of the #4 Jimmy John's Ford, race during the MENCS Ford EcoBoost 400 at Homestead-Miami Speedway on November 18, 2018 in Homestead, FL.
Credit: 358659Jared C. Tilton/Getty Images Joey Logano, driver of the #22 Shell Pennzoil Ford, pits during the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Ford EcoBoost 400 at Homestead-Miami Speedway on November 18, 2018 in Homestead, Florida.
Race Comments: Prior to the start of the race, no cars dropped to the rear of the field under penalty. Failed to Qualify: N/A. Time of Race: 3 Hrs, 00 Mins, 36 Secs. Average Speed: 133.056 MPH. Margin of Victory: 1.725 Seconds. Caution Flags: 5 for 26 laps: Laps. Lead Changes: 22 among 7 drivers.


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Effect of food intake on 92 neurological biomarkers in plasma.
Dencker M, Björgell O, Hlebowicz J
Brain Behav 7 (9) e00747 [2017-09-00; online 2017-08-01]
This study evaluates the effect of food intake on 92 neurological biomarkers in plasma. Moreover, it investigated if any of the biomarkers were correlated with body mass index. Twenty-two healthy subjects (11 male and 11 female aged 25.9 ± 4.2 years) were investigated. A total of 92 biomarkers were measured before a standardized meal as well as 30 and 120 min afterward with the Proseek Multiplex Neurology I kit. The levels for 13 biomarkers decreased significantly (p < .001) 30 min after food intake. The levels for four biomarkers remained significantly decreased (p < .001) 120 min after food intake. One biomarker increased significantly (p < .001) 30 min after food intake. The changes were between 1% and 12%, with an average difference of about 5%. Only one biomarker showed a difference over 10% due to food intake. The biggest difference was observed for Plexin-B3 120 min after food intake (12%). Of all the 92 neurological biomarkers, only one was correlated with BMI, Kynureninase r = .46, p < .05. This study shows that food intake has a very modest effect on 92 different neurological biomarkers. Timing of blood sampling in relation to food intake, therefore, appears not to be a major concern. Only Kynureninase was correlated with BMI. Further studies are warranted in older healthy subjects and in patients with various neurological diseases to determine whether the findings are reproducible in such populations.
DOI 10.1002/brb3.747
Crossref 10.1002/brb3.747
pii: BRB3747


I get it, using a travel professional takes away the control in vacation planning. If you are anything like me, you like to know exactly what's going on in your vacation plans. In my last Walt Disney World Vacation I considered booking with a travel professional but was scared to let go. After several weeks of research on my own, I reached out to a nationally known authorized Disney vacation planner. It was suggested to me to slightly alter my travel dates for both cost effectiveness and volume of travelers. What an AMAZING suggestion and decision! We we able to extend our vacation an extra day and got through almost every single attraction at Magic Kingdom on the first half day we arrived!
Did you know that some of the most popular Disney Restaurants can be completely booked 180 days in advance? Your best bet is to wake up at 6 am EST and get advanced dining reservations online. For you west coasters, that means 3 AM! Unless you have a newborn that's already awake, that's no fun for anyone. As part of my Disney Travel Experience, I take care of all of your planning needs, not only resort and ticket reservations, but also Dining and Fast Pass + reservations (full roll out scheduled in 2014).
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Mission Eye & Ear is a live cinema series I program in collaboration with the venerable Mission District arts organization, Artists' Television Access (ATA). The series began in 2010 at the Red Poppy Art House, moved to ATA in 2011, and has since been remounted with local musicians in Europe (Naples and Turin, Italy; Berlin, Germany) and at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts as part of the San Francisco Friends of Chamber Music's annual Chamber Music Day.
Mission Eye & Ear 2014 is supported by the Zellerbach Family Foundation.
Mission Eye & Ear 2011 was supported by the Alternative Exposures grant program of Southern Exposure, and the Subito grant program of the American Composers Forum, Norther California.
Artists respond to the theme "I SPY" - surveillance, espionage, eavesdropping, diary-snooping, private eyes, and other subversive activities, from the sinister to the benign.


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Company Results & Forecasts
JJB shares plunge onloan breach fear
Sports retailer under pressure as sales come in below expectations
Scott McCulloch
JJBSports is the latest company to fall into crisis as a result of lending levels agreed before the recession with Bank of Scotland.
The sporting goods retailer said it expected to breach a £25million loan covenant in January as a result of sales coming in far below expectations.
The group's loan facility is tied to it meeting certain operational targets, though JJB said falling sales are being further compounded by the heavy snowfall and freezing temperatures currently sweeping the country.
The retailer, which operates 42 Scottish outlets employing 840 staff, said it was exploring further restructuring options and considering alternative sources of finance.
Jjb only managed to stay afloat last year as a result of an emergency restructuring deal brokered by former executive chairman David Jones. At that time it had to close 140 stores, offload its fitness division for £83m and raise £94m in new capital from investors.
The company had come close to bankruptcy last year after reporting losses of £70m. Last month it warned of weaker sales, despite posting like-for-like growth of more than 13 per cent although this was largely driven by promotions.
This meant gross margins actually fell to 33.8 per cent from 42.2 per cent in the first half.
JJB's recent updates contrast with like-for-like sales growth of more than 20 per cent in the run-up to the World Cup, when margins hit 44 per cent.
City analysts expect JJB will be forced to turn to shareholders in a further fundraising drive, though the company's share price dropped sharply on Thursday.
Jjb said trading conditions had remained challenging and added: "The company believes this will be further exacerbated by current adverse weather conditions.
"The company is actively engaged in constructive discussions with Bank of Scotland and their advisers in relation to the testing of these financial covenants and more generally in relation to the future financing of the business.
"In light of continued difficult trading conditions, the company now believes that it is likely that it will breach certain financial covenants in the £25m revolving facility provided by Bank of Scotland when they are next tested at the end of January 2011."
Retail & ConsumerGlasgow online fashion house bucks retail gloomThe figures released by Oh Polly – which are not its annual figures – suggest that the company will achieve £21 million in turnover by the end of this financial year
Retail & ConsumerPets at Home sees sales boost as locked down families get petsSales were boosted over the Christmas period, with December like-for-like sales up 19.3%
WH Smith warns of worst month, despite strong Christmas
Retail & ConsumerSo far in January, sales are down by 46% on those this time last year
Craneware posts healthy earnings and revenue figures
Science & TechnologyUS healthcare-focused tech firm reports growth above 5%, despite pandemic and exchange rate challenges
Primark owner warns of £1bn sales hit if lockdown is extended
Retail & ConsumerThe company has been forced to close more than 300 stores around the world
Covid-19 project delays cause 20% fall in revenue for Wood Group
Wood GroupChief executive hails resilient financial performance against a challenging backdrop of the pandemic and oil price volatility


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237265 Golobokov este un asteroid din centura principală de asteroizi.

Descriere
237265 Golobokov este un asteroid din centura principală de asteroizi. A fost descoperit pe  la Zelenchukskaya Station de Timur V. Kryachko. Asteroidul prezintă o orbită caracterizată de o semiaxă mare de 2,57 ua, o excentricitate de 0,14 și o înclinație de 14,8° în raport cu ecliptica.

Vezi și
 Lista planetelor minore: 237001-238000
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This makes me feel bad as I have a girlfriend of 7 years back home. She's not keen on how my job has taken me out of state but understands we need the money. My fear is that at some point I'm gonna be feeling lonely and after a few drinks be very susceptible to one of these ladies advances. How can I stop myself? Obvious answer would be not to drink but when you're hundreds of miles from home, alone, and nothing to do kinda makes it difficult.


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Q: How to serve mixed static and dynamic ads from a database? I'm building an application in Django that needs to integrate advertising into the site. I need to serve ads based on "ad priority" as determined by tho following:

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*If the page "owner" has an ad that they have paid for in the system, serve that/those ad(s) first.

*If not, serve Google AdWords ads or some other type of ads in their place.

I'm somewhat new to working with ads in a dynamic site like this one, so what should I do? Obviously, all of this should be backed by a database, but how should I model it? It seems like there will be 3 types of ads: image/hyperlink custom ads, flash custom ads, and Google AdWords ads. Is this pretty accurate? Do I need to worry about XSS (cross-site-scripting) if I do this?
If you were me, how would you go about doing this in Django? I know it's somewhat subjective, but I'm pretty much in the dark and would love to hear some good ideas. It would be nice to simply go exclusively with Google AdWords or a similar service, but serving custom paid ads is pivotal in the business model.

A: I'd go with Google Ad Manager. You can serve custom campaigns, and if there're none, you can set it up to show AdSense.

A: I don't use Django but I've done this not too long ago. I simply stored the HTML as one of the database columns. After some simple logic to decide which ad to place, I just put the ad HTML onto the page.
The logic to decide which ad to serve can get extremely complex. I tried a few different approaches and expect I'll need others to handle all advertising scenarios. But your requirements sound like they are pretty straight forward.

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This paper develops a coordination perspective on the firm. The basic idea is to combine insights in the division of labor with insights into the allocation of property rights. Thus, a basic argument is that use rights over productive assets are necessary in order to accumulate the experience needed to perform improvements in production. Specialization in production accelerates the accumulation of skills from learning by doing in production. However, specialization introduces greater complexity and new kinds of tools and equipment and this in turn create uncertainty about the best way of coordinating the specialized and interdependent activities. The result may be bottlenecks in production and uneven development of components. Experimenting with the coordination of tasks is necessary in order to eliminate these problems. However, such experimentation is best facilitated by a certain structure of property rights. Coordination by direction provides a cheap way of conducting the experiments needed to collect information on how best to coordinate interdependent activities.
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I've decided that I like this dahlia after all.
This year's sunflowers have the same fade.
I like all these verticals.
I got a bunch of Acer circinatum saplings from Raintree Nursery a few years ago. They are much beloved by leafcutter bees. I wish they loved them a little bit less, frankly.
The Montanoa grandiflora's getting really big. The flowers might be way over my head this winter.
Grow little 'Moonlight' rose, grow!
I have coneflower, just like everybody else.
Keckiella cordifolia is the result of a seed-sowing rampage that happened a few years ago.
And this towering Echium pininana.
I collected some seeds today.
My recent rampage included the sowing of more leeks.
And more dahlias. Because they're fun.
Salvia uliginosa really takes its own sweet time making flowers. Kind of annoying.
Artichoke flower, with syrphid fly.
I am immensely grateful to Annie and Elayne at Annie's Annuals & Perennials for giving me the opportunity to accompany their crew on a guided tour of The Melissa Garden today with its designer, Kate Frey.
About Mrs. Frey: link, link, and link. She has also written a number of articles and book reviews for Pacific Horticulture. Articles since 2004 can be read online here (type her name in the search field), including this 2009 article about the Melissa.
"We chose the name "Melissa" because Melissa officinalis, or Lemon Balm, is an herbaceous plant that has been considered a favorite bee plant for a very long time. Also, in Greek mythology, Melissa is the name of one of the nymphs that fed Zeus honey as an infant while hiding him from his father, Cronus. When Cronus discovered this, he turned her into a worm. After Zeus came into power, he changed her into a queen bee, not being able to change her from an insect form. Melissa is a Greek word meaning honeybee."
"The Melissa Garden is a honeybee sanctuary in Healdsburg, California, at the western side of the Russian River Valley. Two acres of gardens planted with honeybee forage are situated in the center of a pristine 40-acre ranch that is lush with native vegetation. The Melissa Garden is a new project that began in the fall of 2007. It is being created to provide honeybees with a place to live natural lives, insulated from known stressors, and nourished in a beautiful setting."
The Melissa is open to the public one day a month for tours and education. Kate gave us a nice lesson on honeybees, a subject about which I know relatively little. You will not be surprised to learn that Wikipedia has a good page on beehives, but did you know certain types of beehives are illegal in the United States? Illegal beehives!
However, according to Kate, people in many places outside the US still keep honeybees in fixed-frame hives.
This visit today was especially poignant in the aftermath of a recent mass killing of bees at a community garden here in San Francisco. Very sad.
The tour starts in the parking lot, with a sculpture by Sebastopol husband-and-wife team Patrick Amiot and Brigitte Laurent.
And from here we move in to the first garden.
We saw beehives distributed throughout the gardens. I think there were at least ten of them.
I love fountain-ponds like this.
Let pieces of cork-board (or wine corks!) float in your pond for your honeybee's drinking comfort.
Also let wildflowers volunteer in your garden's gravel paths. I love that.
There's a rebar pergola supporting apples and pears behind the fountain. I firmly believe garden fruit trees should be kept small enough to reach the tree's highest-hanging fruit with an outstretched arm. Okay, you can have a step-ladder if you're petite.
Xris said pollinators, especially small native bees, "swarm it" in his Brooklyn garden. I must have some. The calamint enhanced everything it grew with.
My other new plant is the tall, slender, vertical just left of the phormium below, Helianthus giganteus.
This perennial sunflower comes from the eastern US. Do you grow it? Tell me about it in the comments. We don't have a lot of perennial sunflowers in the trade, but those that we do have all come from you know who.
By this point we've moved away from the boisterous bee garden and into the more formal (but still very bee-friendly) California-style gardens Kate designed for the areas around the house.
There were some more fountains and a stunning pool.
Elayne and I went a little camera crazy here.
A bed behind the pool house--white yarrow, more Calamintha, California coast buckwheat (Eriogonum latifolium)--held all of our attention for a good half an hour.
The light food offering held our interest too... Offer your garden visitors a tahini and honey spread for crackers and lemon balm, lemon verbena, chocolate mint tea. You will hold people's interest too.
I hope it's okay to show a few pictures of the pool house...I don't know if this would be part of the Melissa Garden's public tour. I'm generally unmoved by the whole lifestyle design thing, but the pool house was so lovely, even I was swooning.
Yeah, I could relax here.
Who can resist a path into the woods.
Well, we knew it was a labyrinth. I didn't want to give it away.
while the ubiquitous Hemizonia congesta ssp. sparkled in sun and shade.
It was a suitably magical place to end our tour.