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Wild Palms is a five-hour miniseries which was produced by Greengrass Productions and first aired in May 1993 on the ABC network in the United States. The sci-fi drama, announced as an "event series", deals with the dangers of politically motivated abuse of mass media technology and virtual realities in particular. It was based on a comic strip written by Bruce Wagner and illustrated by Julian Allen first published in 1990 in Details magazine. Wagner, who also wrote the screenplay, served as executive producer together with Oliver Stone. The series stars James Belushi, Dana Delany, Robert Loggia, Kim Cattrall, Bebe Neuwirth, David Warner, and Angie Dickinson. The episodes were directed by Kathryn Bigelow, Keith Gordon, Peter Hewitt and Phil Joanou.

Plot synopsis
In the United States in the near future of 2007, a right-wing political group called the Fathers dominate large sections of American politics and the media. A libertarian movement called the Friends opposes the government, often making use of underground guerrilla tactics. The Fathers' leader is California Senator Tony Kreutzer, who is also the leader of the Scientology-like Church of Synthiotics and the owner of the Wild Palms media group. Kreutzer's Channel 3 TV station is about to launch its first VR program Church Windows, a sitcom that projects characters into viewers' homes as holograms using a system called Mimecom.

Harry Wyckoff is a successful patent attorney living in Beverly Hills, California on the brink of becoming a partner in the law firm where he works. He has two children with his wife Grace, a perfect housewife who also moonlights as a boutique owner. His 11-year-old son Coty is a precocious child actor who has just been cast for Church Windows while Deirdre, his 4-year-old daughter, has been mute since birth. His mother-in-law is the impossibly chic socialite and artist Josie Ito, a woman of strong will and numerous social and political connections. At night, Harry is plagued by strange dreams of a rhinoceros and a faceless woman who has palm trees tattooed on her body.

One day, Harry is visited by a former lover of his college days - the alluring Paige Katz. Paige asks for his help in tracking down her 12-year-old son Peter, who disappeared five years earlier. Paige is closely associated with the Wild Palms media group, which Harry's firm is going up against in court. Harry is passed over for a promotion due to the seeming conflict of interest when it is revealed that Paige works as the public relations director at Wild Palms. After this, Harry quits his job and gladly accepts when Kreutzer offers him a job at Channel 3 with a much higher salary.

Harry's wife Grace becomes alienated by his lingering interest in Paige and attempts suicide. To his dismay, Harry learns that Coty is actually the son of Kreutzer and Paige, and that her search request was a plot to bring him and the Senator together. After Church Windows is aired, Coty becomes not only a TV star but also — due to his privileged upbringing and personal ruthlessness — a high-ranking member of the Church of Synthiotics. Josie turns out to be the Senator's sister who disposes of potential rivals with the same violently brutal means as her brother. Her only weak point is her affection for her estranged husband Eli Levitt, leader of the Friends and Grace's father who is currently in prison.

Kreutzer plans to marry Paige and tries to get hold of the Go chip, an advanced microchip which would enable him to become an immortal living hologram. He uses all means possible to acquire the chip, but Paige is disgusted by his methods and gives information to the Friends. Meanwhile, Harry finally finds Paige's son Peter, who is living on the streets having run away from home. Harry discovers that Peter, who has connections to the Friends, is his real son who was taken away by the Fathers shortly after his birth. Kreutzer, who suspects Harry of collaborating with his opponents, has him tortured, and kidnaps Deirdre, while Josie strangles Grace.

Harry joins the Friends and uses his access to Channel 3 to broadcast a Mimecom recording of Grace's murder that causes a social uproar in order to bring down the Fathers. Synthiotics facilities and the campaign offices of Kreutzer (who is now running for president) are attacked. The Fathers try unsuccessfully to defuse the situation by killing Eli and broadcasting a fake video that depicts Harry as Grace's killer. Josie ends up being brutally killed by a former victim, Tully Woiwode. Kreutzer finally manages to get hold of the Go chip and has it implanted, but not before it is secretly altered by Harry and Peter. Kreutzer reveals to Harry that he is his biological father, then loses cohesion and dissolves into nothingness. Harry and Paige rescue Dierdre from Coty who has now taken Kreutzer's place as the leader of the Fathers and the Church of Synthiotics. In the end, Harry, Paige, Peter and Dierdre pack up and flee from the civil unrest happening all over Los Angeles and they safely drive away into the sunset on a nearby beach.

Episodes
ABC aired the miniseries over five consecutive nights:
 1993-05-16: Everything Must Go (approx. 90 minutes) - directed by Peter Hewitt
 1993-05-17: The Floating World (approx. 45 minutes) - directed by Keith Gordon
 1993-05-18: Rising Sons (approx. 45 minutes) - directed by Kathryn Bigelow
 1993-05-19: Hungry Ghosts (approx. 45 minutes) - directed by Keith Gordon
 1993-05-20: Hello, I Must Be Going (approx. 45 minutes) - directed by Phil Joanou

Cast
 James Belushi as Harry Wyckoff, a Beverly Hills based patent attorney and later, CEO of the Wild Palms group.
 Dana Delany as Grace Wyckoff, his wife, suburban housewife and owner of Hiroshima, a retro fashion boutique.
 Ben Savage as Coty Wyckoff, their 11-year-old son, a child actor on the verge of a breakthrough to stardom.
 Robert Loggia as Senator Tony Kreutzer, former sci-fi author, founder of the Wild Palms group and the Synthiotics cult.
 Angie Dickinson as Josie Ito, Grace's mother, a celebrated interior decorator with numerous connections and secrets.
 David Warner as Eli Levitt, Grace's father, former history professor imprisoned for terrorism. Founder of the Friends.
 Kim Cattrall as Paige Katz, PR director of the Wild Palms group, Harry's former love and Kreutzer's fiancée.
 Ernie Hudson as Tommy Laszlo, Harry Wyckoff's childhood friend, an eccentric entrepreneur.
 Nick Mancuso as Tully Woiwode, infamous and popular painter and toast-of-the-town, Tommy's secret lover.
 Bebe Neuwirth as Tabba Schwartzkopf, Academy Award-winning actress who befriends Grace, and is part of the Wild Palms group.
 Aaron Michael Metchik as Peter, a street urchin with mysterious connections to Harry, Grace and the Fathers.
 Brad Dourif as Chickie Levitt, Eli Levitt's son from another relationship. Virtual reality boy genius and technology wizard.
 Charles Hallahan as Gavin Whitehope, Harry's associate at the Wild Palms group. Reformed alcoholic and Synthiotics devotee.
 Robert Morse as Chap Starfall, erstwhile pop star reduced to lounge singer status until the Wild Palms group revives him.
 Beata Pozniak as Tambor, the Wyckoffs' dutiful au-pair.
 Bob Gunton as Dr. Tobias Schenkl, Harry's psychiatrist.
 Rondi Reed as Eileen Whitehope, Gavin's wife, a "Lady-who-lunches" who also alerts Grace to a danger in her own home.
 Charles Rocket as Stitch Walken, a stand-up comedian who is also a surreptitious agent of the Friends.
 Eugene Lee as Lt. Bob Grindrod, a corrupt LAPD detective under contract to the Wild Palms group.
 François Chau as Hiro, Grace's childhood sweetheart from her years spent in Japan, and an enemy of Kreutzer.
 Monica Mikala as Deirdre Wyckoff, Harry and Grace's silent four-year-old daughter, who gets kidnapped and used as a pawn later on.

Cameos
 Cyberpunk author William Gibson has a cameo appearance as himself. When the author is introduced as the man who invented the term Cyberspace, he remarks, "and they won't let me forget it".
 Wild Palms producer and film director Oliver Stone also has a cameo. In a fictitious interview he appears as himself and comments on the release of files pertinent to the assassination of John F. Kennedy, revealing that the theories in his film JFK were right.
 Wild Palms director Kathryn Bigelow has an uncredited cameo. She plays the character Maisy Woiwode.

Production
Oliver Stone had originally planned to film Bruce Wagner's novel Force Majeure, but then decided to film Wagner's comic strip Wild Palms, published in Details magazine, instead: "It was so syncretic.  It was such a fractured view of the world. Everything and anything could happen. Maybe your wife isn't your wife, maybe your kids aren't your kids. It really appealed to me." Wagner referred to his creation as "a sort of surreal diary […] a tone poem", set in an "Orwellian Los Angeles". ABC agreed to finance the project on a budget of $11 million, but, remembering the eventual decline of David Lynch's Twin Peaks, insisted that the series had "a complete story, with a beginning, a middle, and an end".

Actor James Belushi compared the series (among others) to the British TV serial The Prisoner, and stated: "It's very tough, very challenging—a lot of viewers probably won't dig it." Dana Delany suggested that viewers should "let it wash over you, enjoy each scene, and by the end it'll make sense". Robert Loggia compared it to the Elizabethan play The Duchess of Malfi and the ancient Greek tragedy Medea. ABC, bound to make sure that viewers wouldn't lose attention, had a supplemental book, The Wild Palms Reader, published and offered a telephone hotline with the show's initial run. These measures notwithstanding, Stone considered the atmosphere to be more important than the storyline.

William Gibson later stated that "while the mini-series fell drastically short of the serial, it did produce one admirably peculiar literary artifact, The Wild Palms Reader" (to which he contributed). Both Stone and Gibson called Wagner the creative force behind the series.

Production design
The United States of the year 2007 as depicted in the series shows a strong influence of Japanese culture, such as in dress and interior and exterior design. Holograms of Miss Alabama and girl group The Supremes even bear Japanese facial features.

Other interior details show the influence of Scottish designer and architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868–1928). Deliberately anachronistic elements include 1960s cars (like Studebaker police vehicles) and Edwardian fashion. Cerruti 1881 provided costumes.

Supplements

Soundtrack album
In addition to Ryuichi Sakamoto's music score, a number of 1960s rock and pop songs and classical compositions could be heard in the series. On the 1993 released soundtrack album, the following songs were included besides Sakamoto's music:
 The Zombies: She's Not There
 Don Gardner & Dee Dee Ford: I Need Your Lovin'
 Frankie Valli: Can't Take My Eyes Off You
 Lou Christie: Lightnin' Strikes
 Mason Williams: Classical Gas

The following songs and compositions can be heard in the series but are not featured on the album:
 The Animals: The House of the Rising Sun
 Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92, Second Movement
 The 5th Dimension: Wedding Bell Blues
 The Rolling Stones: Gimme Shelter
 The Rolling Stones: No Expectations
 The Supremes: Love Child
 Richard Wagner: Parsifal, Prelude

Books
A book, The Wild Palms Reader, was published by St. Martin's Press before the series aired. It included time lines, secret letters, and character biographies. ABC, concerned that viewers might get "hopelessly lost in the tangled story line", arranged for the primer to be published. It also included writing supposedly from the "world of the series".  Contributors included:
 Norman Spinrad – sci-fi writer (Bug Jack Barron, The Iron Dream)
 Genesis P. Orridge (anonymous) – musician (Psychic TV, Throbbing Gristle)
 E. Howard Hunt – CIA officer involved in the Watergate Scandal, writer of spy/sci-fi novels
 William Gibson – sci-fi writer
 Brenda Laurel – virtual reality consultant on the mini-series
 Spain Rodriguez – 1960s underground comic artist (Trashman)
 Hans Moravec – scientist and writer in the artificial intelligence field
While the comic series was published in book form in Germany, the Wild Palms Reader was not. Instead, a novelization, written by German dime novel author Horst Friedrichs, was published under the title Wild Palms.

Reception
Reviews of the series were mixed.

The New York Times critic John J. O'Connor called Wild Palms a "truly wild six-hour mini-series" resembling "nothing so much as an acid freak's fantasy, drenched in paranoia and more pop-culture allusions than a Dennis Miller monologue."  He described it as "rich and insinuating as a good theatrical film, albeit harder to follow" and concluded, "You wanted something different? Here it is. And Wild Palms also happens to be terrific."

Ken Tucker in Entertainment Weekly stated that "in its length, scope, sweeping visual tableaux, and over-the-top passion, Wild Palms is more like an opera than a TV show." Comparing it to David Lynch's Twin Peaks, he decided that "unlike Peaks, which started out brilliantly lucid and then rambled into incoherence, Palms sustains its length and adds layers of complexity to its characters. It also has something crucial that Peaks did not: a sense of humor about itself."

Mary Harron of the British Independent suggested that viewers "forget about the message, and about what the rhino means. Wild Palms should be watched like opera; for its gorgeous images, its emotional set-pieces and its high style."

Readers of the British trade weekly Broadcast were much more negative, calling it one of the worst television shows ever exported by the U.S. to the U.K.  It placed fourth on their list, exceeded only by Baywatch, The Anna Nicole Show and The Dukes of Hazzard. TV Guide also blasted it, offering the interpretation that Oliver Stone was condemning television while covertly lauding cinematic films.

Home media
 Wild Palms was released on VHS cassette in the UK by BBC in 1993, where it aired between November 15 and December 7 the same year.
 It was first released on CLV laserdisc in the U.S. in March 1995. The series was released on VHS on February 8, 2000 on two separate VHS tapes.
 It was released as a Region 4 DVD in Australia in 2004, a Region 1 DVD in the U.S. on October 4, 2005 by MGM Home Entertainment, and a Region 2 DVD in the UK in 2008.
 It was re-released as a two-disk DVD special edition and on blu-ray for the first time by Kino International on June 30, 2020.

References

External links

1990s American science fiction television series
1993 American television series debuts
1993 American television series endings
American Broadcasting Company original programming
Television shows based on comic strips
Television shows about virtual reality
Television series set in 2007
Television shows set in Los Angeles

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By Bihar Research Society
Miscellaneous Contributions.
I. Ins cription of Udayasri (Patna Museum)
By N. G. Majumdar, B. A.
II. The Janibigha Inscription and Bisapi Grant
By H. Panday, B.A.
III. Purushottama Deva, King of Orissa
By Tarini Charan Rath, B.A.
IV. Copper Smelting Apparatus at Rakha
By C. Olden, Superintendent, Cape Copper Com-
pany, Limited.
Notes of the Quarter.
I. Proceedings of a Meeting of the Council held on the 152-153 25th January 1919.
II. Proceedings of a Meeting of the Council held on the 154-156 25th March 1919.
III. Annual Report of the Council... 157-164 IV. Minutes of the Annnal General Meeting held on the 165-170
29th March 1919.
VOL. V.]
BIHAR AND ORISSA
RESEARCH SOCIETY.
Progress the Society.
[PART J.
Annual Address.
By His Honour Sir E. A. Gait, K.C.S.I., C.I.E., President of the Society.
It is a great pleasure to meet you again at the end of the fourth year of our Society's existence and to be able to congratulate you once
its continued progress and prosperity and on the tangible results which have been achieved in various directions. The number of members of all kinds is now only 257 against 367 a year ago, but the falling off is nominal rather than real. It is due to the removal from the roll of a number of members who, though they had joined the Society and received the Journal regularly, never paid their subscriptions and were therefore a source of loss to us rather than gain. On the other hand 28 new members have joined the society. Our library now contains nearly 1,400 volumes. It has been enriched during the year by the purchase inter alia of 200 volumes of well-known editions of Sanskrit texts.
B.S
The Society's
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The Journal has continued to appear with fair regularity. It has maintained the reputation which it had already ained, and I have more than once received gratifying letters from England telling me of the interest which some of the papers published in it have aroused amongst European savants. This is specially the case in regard to several papers by our talented Honorary Secretary, Mr. K. P. Jayaswal, who is rapidly making a name for himself as an investigator and epigraphist.
The March number of the Journal contains a paper by him on the chronology of the Brihadratha dynasty of Magadha. From a close examination of the Matsya, Vayu and other Purānas, Mr. Jayaswal concludes that there were fifteen kings of this line before the Mahabharata (in which great war Sahadeva of that line fought and fell) and twenty-seven after, the whole dynasty reigning for one thousand years and the last twenty-seven for seven hundred (or more accurately 697) years until 727 B.C., when they were succeeded by the Saiśunaka dynasty.
Under the heading "Revised Notes on the Brahman Empire" Mr. Jayaswal deals with various questions concerning the Sunga dynasty, which Pushya-Mitra founded about 187 B.C. after another Brihadratha, the last of the Mauryas, whose general he was, had been assassinated in the sight of the whole army. Mr. Jayaswal supports, and gives evidence to confirm, Mahamahopadhyaya Hara Prashad Shastri's view that the Sungas were Brahmans. He thinks that the revolution was the result of a Hindu reaction against Buddhism and of dissatisfaction with Brihadratha's inaction in the face of Menander's GræcoBactrian invasion. The rise to power of the Sunga dynasty was followed by a general persecution of the Buddhists and the revival of orthodox Hinduism. It was a period of great literary activity, and to it is to be ascribed the compilation of the Mahabhashya and the Manava-Dharma-Sastra and the Brahmanical redactions of the great epics of the Mahabharata and the Rāmāyaṇa. The overweening claims put forward in these works
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on behalf of the Brahmans, and the hostility therein displayed to the Sūdras, are explained by the fact that a Brahman dynasty was in power and that it had displaced a line of Sūdra kings.
Mr. Panna Lall has discussed the chronology of the Gupta Emperors on the basis of the dates assigned to two of them in two inscriptions on images of Buddha discovered recently at Sarnath near Benares in the course of excavations made by the Archæological Survey of India. He comments on the paucity of coins of Buddha Gupta, who is now known to have ruled over the whole country from Malwa to Bengal from 477 to 491 A.D. and urges that the members of our Society should make a systematic search in the bazars for such coins.
Mr. Jadunath Sarkar who, in the first volume of our Journal, gave an account of Mir Jumla's invasion of Assam based on that contained in the Fathiyya-i-ibriyya of Shihabuddin Talish, has contributed some notes on the Topography of Garhgaon which was then the Assam Capital. These notes should be very useful to local antiquarians. The same gentleman has compiled from the old factory records and original correspondence preserved in the In lia Office a narrative of the relations between Sivaji and the English of the Rajapur factory in the Ratnagiri district of Bombay during the period from 1659 to Sivaji's death in 1680. The Rajapur factory was closed about two years later.
Mahāmahopadhyaya Pandit Hara Prashad Shastri, on whose election as President of the Asiatic Society of Bengal I take this opportunity to offer him publicly, as I have already done privately, my most hearty congratulations, has continued to send valuable contributions to our Journal. The March number contains an instructive paper by him on Gazetteer Literature in Sanskrit. He reviews the information of this nature contained in (1) the Brahmakhanda of the Bbaviṣya Purana; (2) Vidyapati's account written in the fifteenth century of the countries visited by Balarama, Śri Kriṣṇa's elder brother, in the course of his expiatory tour; (3) and (4) the Vikramasagara, by some member of the Vaija la family, and the Pandava
digvijaya by Ramakavi, both more than three centuries old, and finally (5) the Desavali vivṛili, written by a learned Brahman named Jagamohan, whose patron Deva Vijala, a Chauhan Jagirdar of four parganas round Patna, died in the year 1650 A.D. The last mentioned, which is by far the least incomplete, purports to give an account of the fifty-six countries (almost all in India) which comprised the world as then known to the Hindus. Unfortunately no complete copy of the manuscript has yet been found.
The same learned Pandit contributed to the June number papers on three more Orissa copper-plates. The
Epigraphy. first, of unknown provenance, is now in the possession of the Yuvarajā of Tekkali. It dates probably from the eleventh century but the record is incomplete, as at least two plates are missing. The name of the donor is on a missing plate, but he seems to have been a member of the Sailodbhava family of Kōngada in Kalinga. The princes of this family were not always independent rulers; and in the seventh century they owed allegiance to Śusānkā, king of West Bengal.
The second plate is a grant of Ranastambhadeva of the Sulki family, whose land grants are already well known, no less than five having been published by the Fandit in the third volume of our Journal. The present inscription does not add materially to our knowledge of the dynasty, which ruled about the tenth century, but an interesting question is suggested by the fact that the land granted was in the village of Jara in the Radha country. There is a village of this name in the Hooghly district on the border of Midnapore. The latter district contains an influential agricultural community krown as Sukli, who trace their origin to a place called Kodālaka, and the question is whether there is any connection between these names and the Sulki kings whose capital was at Kodālaka.
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"Moreover, he employs a unique combination of advanced biochemical, genetic, and molecular approaches to conduct his valuable studies, which distinguishes him as a top researcher in his field. Therefore, it is vital that he continue his necessary work, which in turn supports the production of staple crops like maize in the United States."
"His diverse approach to studying plant interactions with insect and pathogen pests has enabled him to develop comprehensive intervention recommendations that benefit the scientific community as well as the agricultural industry. Therefore, I strongly support [the client's] case on the basis of the importance of his exceptional research to the United States."
These are three excerpts taken from the letters of support that our client, an Indian postdoctoral research associate in agricultural science, was able to obtain at our request to corroborate his claim to the EB1-A (Alien of Extraordinary Ability) request. These also came in handy while making supporting arguments for his NIW (National Interest Waiver) case. It was clear to us from the beginning that the case had merit as our team had done a background check and discovered that he is one of the few leading experts in agricultural science focused on vector-borne diseases, sustainable pest management, and ecology, and he has achieved a consistent and notable record of success and influence in these areas of study. He has spent years investigating issues related to vector-borne diseases, sustainable pest management, and complex species interactions in food web ecosystems, and he is regarded as an authority in the field. The field has recognized his authority by inviting him to review and evaluate the work of his peers no fewer than 50 times.
In addition to directly advancing strategies to tackle vector-borne diseases, sustainable pest management, and methodologies to study ecosystem dynamics and complex species interaction through his original research and peer review service, he has actively engaged his peers in the field of agricultural science by authoring and co-authoring 22 peer-reviewed articles and one accepted article that have been published in international journals, and one book chapter. Moreover, these papers have been published in some of the most discerning, high-impact journals in his field.
The researchers who cited his works hail from well-known international institutions such as National Institute for Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering (Pakistan), World Vegetable Center (Taiwan), La Mayora Experimental Station (Spain), and Jawaharlal Nehru University (India), etc. That is, his publications have been cited by researchers in at least 39 countries. And due to its great applicability in the field, his research in agricultural science has been cited 427 times in other peer-reviewed journal articles. These citations come from independent and leading researchers from well-regarded institutions and organizations around the world, indicating the major significance of his work. Furthermore, his study has received funding from the Department of Science and Technology in India. This funding supports projects that advance Indian science and technology, specifically those that relate to national needs.
Soon after his EB1-A case approval, we were also able to aid him in getting an NIW (National Interest Waiver) approval. We are very pleased to have had this opportunity of helping him with his EB1-A and NIW cases. We thank him for continuing to trust us with his NIW case preparation, and we wish him the very best in all future endeavors.
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An older world is still around
The grace of invertebrates
We live by the grace of invertebrates. They work around the clock, collect and dispose of our waste, replenish the soil, feed animals above them on the food chain and allow plants to return each spring. Most importantly, perhaps, bees, butterflies and other insects deliver valentines between plants, which must procreate but cannot move, and so rely on couriers. Flowers grow for the benefit of these pollinators, not us, and bloom in more colours than we can see – only insects' superior eyes can see all their shades and patterns.
Now, of course, humans have changed the face of the world; we have levelled forests, eliminated thousands of species in a field in favour of a single crop, and sprayed those crops with a cocktail of exotic poisons never before seen on Earth. After several decades of this, bee populations are collapsing around the world, and while we do not know the specific causes, we know that areas that have been heavily hit with pesticides have also seen serious collapses. In a few areas of China, farmers have begun laboriously pollinating cash crops like pears by hand, taking brushes from flower to flower – a method that would not be feasible for most survival crops should the problem spread.
This time of year, as those of us in the northern hemisphere plan our gardens and sow our first seeds, we must remember to invest part of our garden to reimburse the armies that work for us. What sorts of armies you have, and what payment they accept, will vary depending on where you live: our forest here has bluebells and my Missouri hometown had mimosas, but the principles should remain the same.
You could bring pollinators in by the box-load if you keep bees, and you get honey and wax from the arrangement. Bee hives can be kept easily on a small plot of land, a backyard, a balcony or even a rooftop, so long as the bees' flight path to and from their headquarters is located away from humans' personal space. They tend to like simple flowers with an easy landing pad, like poached-egg flower, daisies or dandelions, and our local beekeepers recommend putting out water for them as well.
Honeybees, however, are only one of 20,000 species of bee in the world, and we can encourage the rest of them as well. They don't give us honey or wax but they do pollinate our gardens – sometimes more effectively, according to some experts – and many are stingless. Dozens of species are bumblebees, which live in small colonies, but most are solitary, often named according to where they make their hole – miners, carpenters, masons and plasterers.
Depending on the type of bees in your area, you might want to leave a rim of unmown weeds around your property, or plant or maintain a hedgerow that can give ground bees a place to shelter. Some gardeners give bees a pre-made home --boring holes in wood or stacking reeds or bamboo for carpenter or orchard bees, stacking adobe bricks for mason bees or building a small, cotton-lined box with a large entrance hole for bumblebees.
If you want to plant for bees and other pollinators, you need to plant foods that bloom in early spring and late autumn, the off-season months when bees struggle to find enough food. Snowdrops, crocuses and daffodils are emerging now in our gardens, giving bees their first taste of nectar for the year as honey stores run low. Ling heather, the plant used to make thick heather honey, does the opposite, blooming after everything else has gone. Ivy, similarly, grows up every tree and building here, and blooms as late as Halloween.
One of the champion bee flowers, in our experience, is borrage – our bees go nuts for it. It also makes a great herb to add to salad, with a tangy melony flavour. We find that verbena draws legions of bees and butterflies--- my wife and mother-in-law bought some from a garden store after seeing one covered with them last spring. Almost all herbs, in fact, make great bee fodder – thyme, rosemary, oregano, marjoram, sage and mint.
Hedgerows, the ubiquitous borders here, often provide the best source of bee flowers. Blackberry brambles, in hundreds of varieties, grow widely here and make another flower beloved of bees, and of course they grow in the margins where their thorns and the bees are out of your way. Sally or pussy willows seem to be a particular favourite of bumblebees in our observation – at times we have seen dozens of bumblebees on a single tree near our house. They also love hawthorn, which grows rampant here and usually starts flowering in May – it's sometimes called the May bush.
Come summer, whole fields here erupt with red and white clover, which have many uses -- bees love them, we and animals can eat them, and they actually put nitrogen back into the soil. They like moist earth and warm days, and beekeepers say that, once the flowers emerge, their beehives start filling up with honey. Oilseed Rape, which Americans call canola, has been widely introduced as a biofuel crop here, and turns some fields a brilliant yellow every spring.
Bees and other bugs use many other flowers common to our area, and which our local beekeeping society recommends – poppies, cornflowers, forget-me-nots, zinnias, wallflowers, bellflowers, dahlias, hellebores and roses. In exchange they service many vegetables, including artichokes, lamb's ears, asparagus, brassicas, broad beans, cucumbers, cherries, apples, currants, gooseberries and courgettes.
You can draw insects other than bees to your garden, of course, but you want to be choosy about which ones. We all love butterflies, but they spend most of their lives as the caterpillars that we spend picking off our crops, so you want to encourage only those species that eat the plants you don't want anyway.
Few words sound less appealing than "parasite" and "wasp," yet parasitic wasps can be very useful in the garden, preying on the bugs that would eat your plants and doing no harm to humans. Sally Jean Cunningham, author of Great Garden Companions, cite herbs like caraway, anise, mint, chamomile, dill, fennel, yarrow and cicely for drawing wasps, along with wildflowers like cornspurrey, lamb's quarters, wild mustards, oxeyes, red sorrel and clover. Similarly, some gardeners buy ladybirds (ladybugs to Americans) to unleash on their aphids, or even recommend planting nettles to attract aphids to attract ladybirds.
Finally, you can plant species designed to repel certain insects you don't want – many gardeners recommend hyssop and thyme for cabbage moths, or marigolds for nematodes. Such recommendations often carry a high folklore-to-evidence ratio, though, so experiment in your own garden and take notes on what seems to work.
As David Attenborough once pointed out, if we and other large animals were to disappear, the vast majority of the world that remained would get along just fine. But if they were to disappear, the soil would become sterile, the lands desert, and almost all life would perish. As you walk through your garden, thousands of them are labouring like elves around your feet, unthanked and occasionally swatted. As you plant your garden this year, make sure to give something back.
Posted by Brian Kaller at 17:51
Perhaps most important to understand when considering the collapse of pollinator species around the world are the effects of the most widely used new systemic pesticides, and the methods by which they are used and how they work: the neonicotinoids. 'Neonics' are chlorinated synthetics versions of nicotinoids, the alkaloid in tobacco. Without the chlorine and extra molecules, the nicotine alkaloid is a natural contact insecticide already, and was extracted from tobacco and made into water-soluble salts, like sulphates, in the pre-WWII era before synthetic poisons. With the recent production of the chorinated 'juiced-up' version, a potent neurotoxin, the poisons are found at parts per billion concentrations in foods now, such as sugar beets, hops, and many grains and beans. Insects are in a die-off, as bees die from brief exposure at this level, even single pollen exposures. Since the effects are cumulative and irreversible, concentrations below detection have been show to kill bees over time. This colony-collapse inducing neurotoxin is banned in Germany, France, Italy, and MP Martin Caton called for a British ban. The US, under Bayer Crop Science control, deregulated the most widely used neonicotinoid, Imidacloprid, so we can buy and use as much as we wish in any fashion here.
The neurotoxin is a systemic poison--seed are treated, and the whole plant is toxic, with the sap and pollen killing feeding insects. Just the coating on a corn kernel, or rape seed, or canola or soybean makes the whole plant toxic. Non-target insects die, and die-offs of species dependent on insects such as birds and fish are being documented. See farmlandbirds.net or search the UK's Buglife for neonicotinoids for more. In the US, almost all of the corn, soybean, and other grain seeds are imidacloprid coated. The real experiment is what this will do to the ecosystem and human health. Insect die-offs are just the first effect of this disaster. And to add to the effects, many so-called environmental groups are promoting widespread use of these poisons to save trees from non-native invasive speices by making them toxic, through-and-through. The disruption to the ecosystem isn't considered in these efforts, as it's about favoring a chosen species--the elm or hemlock for instance, while many, many other species after a soil injection. See also: www.kokumin-kaigi.org/pdf/Neonicotinoid_e.pdf and MP Catons speech: http://www.britishbee.org.uk/forum/attachment.php?s=2c4d7bd39fc8f6e443072f154750299b&attachmentid=820&d=1296049655
We'll miss the insect world, and since we are the Alzheimer's generation, and the young are the autism generation, it's time we wake up to the effects of all these pesticides. Just look at the links betwen pesticides and Parkinsons. Now we have systemic poisons--foods soaked through and through, from the seed on to the table.
brierrabbit said...
Great post. I help a local farmer occasionally here, and working out in the pastures, would just be amazed at the vast array of wildflowers and the tiny creatures that swarmed among them. Lovely glittering bright blue damselflies, various bees and wasps, lots of butterflies, grasshoppers, etc, on up to the scissor tailed flycatchers, Eastern bluebirds, etc to the critters like tree-frogs living in the hedgerows, of like Ireland, we have a lot of in the Ozarks. I'll bet most people never even notice them. How lonely and desolate our world would seem, without them. So much loveliness, if one just looks down around his feet.
Brian Kaller said...
Any studies on how long these chemicals linger in the environment before breaking down?
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Fireplaces tend to be among the best 3 functions individuals search for inside a house, at the rear of trendy kitchen areas as well as outside porches, based on the Nationwide Organization associated with House Contractors. Whilst brand new houses are often designed with gasoline fireplaces which create much less air pollution within the atmosphere and therefore are glassed into avoid connection with the actual fireplace in addition to decreasing the danger associated with embers as well as wooden moving away on to flooring, you may still find numerous locations that provide wooden burning up ovens. Many people are conscious which fireplace flues ought to be washed one per year to be able to avoid creosote through accumulating within the actual fireplace. Creosote is really a by-product associated with burning up wooden and may capture burning. Creosote that will fire happen to be accountable for whole houses burning up lower.
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Doug BonjourMay 23, 2019
BRANFORD — Christyn Williams flashed her potential in her seventh collegiate game, pouring in 28 points in a victory over Notre Dame on the road. Then, somewhere around midseason, she struck the dreaded freshman wall.
"I got overwhelmed," Williams admitted in February.
Williams emerged from that rut, though, at an opportune time. The 5-foot-11 guard was one of UConn's most effective playmakers in the postseason, averaging 16.3 points over a nine-game stretch. That included a 19-point effort in a Final Four loss to the Fighting Irish.
"Most freshmen, they need to go through highs and lows. She certainly went through all that. But, you look at the very last game we played, she was one of the best players on the floor," Geno Auriemma recalled Wednesday from the UConn Coaches Roadshow at Stony Creek Brewery.
The Huskies will need Williams to be that same player this fall, as they search for ways to replace two of the top five scorers in program history — Napheesa Collier and Katie Lou Samuelson.
"She's going to get even more opportunities to do that this coming year," Auriemma said. "She's going to touch the ball more, she's going to be involved more, as is Megan (Walker). The two of them are going to have to take up a lot of the scoring that Pheesea and Lou had, and rightfully so."
Collier and Samuelson weren't primary scorers as freshmen, but both evolved into All-Americans as sophomores. Auriemma said "there's no reason" why Williams — and even Walker, as she enters her junior year — can't make that same seismic leap.
Williams scored 443 points last year — eighth-most for a freshman at UConn — and averaged 2.3 assists. Meanwhile, Walker, a fellow former No. 1 overall recruit, averaged 12.1 points and 6.7 rebounds.
Earlier this month, the duo competed alongside Olivia Nelson-Ododa and South Florida guard Sydni Harvey in the USA Basketball 3x3 National Championship in Las Vegas. They went 3-2 at the tournament, falling in the quarterfinals to a team comprised of players from four different schools.
Auriemma believes his players learned valuable lessons by playing a faster-paced game, where every possession is so vital.
"Every possession means something," he said. "I think Megan did a great job of trying to be a leader for the younger guys. I think Olivia saw playing against some kids who were bigger and stronger how much work she has to do in the offseason. It's one thing to see it in practice every day at Werth (Center), but to then step out and then look around and not have anybody bail you out, I think that's when the real lessons are learned."
Welcome aboard: Samuelson has signed a deal to play professionally in France with Flammes Carolo, the club announced Thursday on Twitter. The former UConn star will make her WNBA debut Saturday when the Chicago Sky visits Collier and the Minnesota Lynx.
dbonjour@ctpost.com; @DougBonjour


In this section, you will find useful information on how to select a travel provider, decide which guidebook is right for you, learn how to tune–in your favorite Cuban radio station, and find out what documents are necessary for study abroad in Cuba. Before you buy anything, research your choices, select a travel provider, and find out what documents are necessary for study abroad in Cuba.
Proper documentation and identification is required for entry to Cuba and for re–entry into the United States. Cuba has its own special requirements for entry based on your citizenship, purpose of visit and length of stay. Find out which requirements pertain to your situation, and plan in advance; obtaining documents from embassies or consulates can take from one hour up to three months. Getting a new passport may take up to six weeks.
Visa: A visa is a document, provided by Cuba or another country to which you will be traveling, which confirms your legitimate status as a foreign student. Not all countries require a visa. A visa is generally attached to a passport, so having a passport is necessary before you can apply for a visa. Some visas are free and easy to acquire, while others may cost over $100 and require a lot of documentation and planning ahead. Check with the U.S. State Department – or the Cuban embassy or consulate – to determine if you will need a visa, and for information on how to apply for a visa if you do need one. Your study abroad advisor can also help provide information on obtaining a visa. Cuban officials may require you to have a letter of acceptance, proof of insurance, and proof of sufficient funds before they will issue you a visa. A letter from your program provider confirming all of the above may be sufficient in some cases.
Tickets: As most students will fly to Cuba, your plane ticket will serve as your primary travel document. For others, a train or bus ticket may suffice. Some countries will require you to show that you have a return or ongoing flight scheduled within the allotted time for your visa. Student visas can last from one month to one year depending on the country where you will be studying or traveling. If you plan to stay longer, you will need to extend your visa.
Proof of Sufficient Funds: Cuba may also require proof of self–sufficiency while abroad. You may be asked to provide a bank statement with your current balance to show that you have enough money to pay for your needs while in Cuba without having to ask the country to provide you with monetary assistance.
Letter of Acceptance: You may be required to show an official letter of acceptance or invitation to study abroad in Cuba.
Proof of Insurance: You should have an insurance card or other document verifying that you have travel and health insurance to cover you for the entire time you will be in Cuba.
Prescriptions (Translated): If you require prescription medications while in Cuba, you will very likely need to verify this requirement with a doctor's note. You may need a specially notarized prescription, translated into Spanish, if the Cuban pharmacy you go to does not recognize U.S. prescriptions.
Confirmation of Good Health: Cuban officials, or your program administrators, may require that a health form or letter of good health (confirmation that you are free from certain diseases, etc.) be provided to obtain a visa.
Copies of Travel Documents:Along with your originals, bring a copy of all travel documents and leave copies of your travel documents with a contact in the United States and in Cuba. Remember to keep copies in a safe place, separate from where you keep your original documents.
Voting: You may want to register to vote in U.S. elections while you are abroad in Cuba. You can obtain absentee ballots abroad through your consulate or embassy. You can also contact your local board of elections officials.
Paying Bills: There are several ways to pay your outstanding U.S. bills while in Cuba. Credit card bills, cell phone bills, and some debt payments can be paid on–line through a personal Internet account. Check to see whether or not your credit card company or cell phone carrier offers this billing option. If you can't pay your bills on–line, consider paying them in advance before you go abroad. You could also leave payments with a trusted, close friend or family member if he or she is willing to send in your payments for you.


Purpose: Requires that an application for a driver's license submitted by a person under the age of eighteen must include declarations by the person and the person's parent, guardian, or employer that they have read and understand the intermediate license restrictions.
Citation of Existing Rules Affected by this Order: Amending WAC 308-104-014.
Statutory Authority for Adoption: RCW 46.20.091 (1)(g) and 46.01.110.
Adopted under notice filed as WSR 05-12-117 on May 31, 2005.
Date Adopted: July 11, 2005.
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Frederick "Fred" Howard Hovey (* 7. Oktober 1868 in Newton, Massachusetts; † 18. Oktober 1945 in Miami Beach) war ein US-amerikanischer Tennisspieler und Einzelsieger der US-Meisterschaften 1895.

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Hovey, ein Student der Harvard University, siegte 1890 und 1891 bei den Intercollegiate Championships im Einzel und auch im Doppel an der Seite von Robert Wrenn. 1893 gewann er das Tennisturnier, das während der World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago ausgetragen wurde.

1895 besiegte er Wrenn im Finale der US-amerikanischen Meisterschaften in Newport und errang seinen größten Erfolg, nachdem er bereits 1892 und 1893 ins Finale eingezogen war. Im folgenden Jahr schlug Wrenn ihn jedoch in der Challenge Round.

Im Doppel war er bei den US-Meisterschaften 1893 und 1894 an der Seite von Clarence Hobart erfolgreich.

Er starb 1945, nur elf Tage nach seinem 77. Geburtstag, in Miami Beach.

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 Bud Collins: History of Tennis. 2. Auflage. New Chapter Press, New York 2010. ISBN 978-0-942257-70-0, S. 590

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What Can You Do to Empower Your Child At School?
We found this interesting article on www.howtolearn.com about ways to empower children and wanted to share it.
As an elementary school teacher, one of the biggest concerns parents bring up is whether their child feels confident enough to speak up, both in class and during recess. Parents want to make sure their child is contributing to lessons and discussions. They also want to feel secure that their child is thriving socially. Students who are soft spoken and tend to let others dominate recess activities could be at risk for becoming a metaphorical doormat.
Ten Ways to Empower Your Child At School.
Having spent my childhood and teen years being told to speak up, and acquiescing to what others wanted instead of putting in my own two cents, I empathize with the students who are often labeled as shy. I also know that, given support, these children can develop a voice that is as strong and effective as any other.
While these tips were written for children and teens in a school setting, they can be adapted to be used by adults who would like to approach life in a bolder, more self-assured way.
1. Give them the words. Teach and model the use of vocabulary to clearly express opinions, wants, and needs. This could be as simple telling your child it's okay to say "No, thank you." Or "I would like to do ____ but not ___." Focusing on words to use with peers, such as "I'd like a turn to pick the game since you picked yesterday," can help your child maneuver social situations at school and builds the foundation for setting boundaries.
2. Role-play. Language comes into play a little differently at recess versus in the classroom. It's important for your child to develop versatility so she can be comfortable in various settings, whether sharing her thoughts in a class discussion or asking to join a game at recess. Set up scenarios in a safe environment. You can take turns trying out different roles, so your child can pretend to be the teacher or the friend on the playground while you model what it sounds like to contribute an idea or join a game.
3. Be strategic with play dates. Play dates are an essential part of helping your child find a sense of community with his peers. If you're not familiar with the students in your child's class, ask his teacher for suggestions about which students might be a good fit for play dates. To begin with, keep play dates brief (one to two hours at the most) and keep them small. Being able to engage with just one friend at a time should help your child feel at ease. Structure play dates by setting up a specific activity at home or in a public setting such as a local park.
moonlight hunting4. Provide opportunities to have an audience. Whether it's show and tell or a class play, there will likely be many times when your child will be called upon to face an audience. Speaking up in front of a group can be nerve-wracking, so it's important to practice. If your child has a presentation coming up, for example, she can rehearse with the family. If your child is especially reluctant to speak in front of others, even an audience of stuffies and toys is a good start.
5. Teach eye contact. Eye contact can feel awkward or uncomfortable, so games are a great way to ease your child into it. The staring contest is an oldie but a goodie. This can start with your child looking at her own eyes in the mirror, then connecting with your eyes through your reflections. Zip, Zap, Zop, which can be played with as few as three people, requires one person to verbally pass the zip, zap, or zop to another player while making eye contact and gesturing towards that person with one hand.
6. Practice greeting and good-bye rituals. Just saying hello instead of staying quiet can open the door to a fun conversation or even a friendship. Greeting a peer should be casual, but your child should still get into the habit of using others' names. If names are tricky for your child to remember, you can use a class photo from Picture Day to practice them. This should help your child build the confidence she needs to actively engage with and open up to others – with eye contact, of course!
8. Help your child choose a courage cue. A courage cue is like a secret weapon against self-doubt and fear of the unknown. Possible courage cues include songs, quotes, pictures, symbols – anything that your child can call to mind when he needs some extra courage to speak up, join a group of peers, or face another social challenge. With the support of a courage cue, your child can reach for goals that might have felt too scary before.
9. Set goals and track your child's progress. Start small, such as planning to speak up once in class that day or suggesting a new game to a friend. The goal should feel challenging but doable. Keep your child's teacher informed so she can offer support as well. Remind your child to use her courage cue if needed. Gradually, goals can increase. After even just a few weeks, she can look back and see the progress she has made.
10. Celebrate successes. Hard work deserves a reward, and your child needs to know you're rooting for her. Give a high-five. Do a happy dance. Share a hug. Let your child enjoy those moments of accomplishment with pride. She'll learn school is a place where she can take risks, build friendships, and be a valued member of a community."