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American Ethnographic Film and Personal Documentary is a critical history of American filmmakers crucial to the development of ethnographic film and personal documentary. The Boston and Cambridge area is notable for nurturing these approaches to documentary film via institutions such as the MIT Film Section and the Film Study Center, the Carpenter Center and the Visual and Environmental Studies Department at Harvard. Scott MacDonald uses pragmatism's focus on empirical experience as a basis for measuring the groundbreaking achievements of such influential filmmakers as John Marshall, Robert Gardner, Timothy Asch, Ed Pincus, Miriam Weinstein, Alfred Guzzetti, Ross McElwee, Robb Moss, Nina Davenport, Steve Ascher and Jeanne Jordan, Michel Negroponte, John Gianvito, Alexander Olch, Amie Siegel, Ilisa Barbash, and Lucien Castaing-Taylor. By exploring the cinematic, personal, and professional relationships between these accomplished filmmakers, MacDonald shows how a pioneering, engaged, and uniquely cosmopolitan approach to documentary developed over the past half century.

The geographical distribution of carpenter moths (Lepidoptera: Cossidae) in the Old World has been studied. Cossid faunas of different zoogeographical zones of the earth are characterized. Zoogeographical borders; centers of species diversity and generic diversity; and centers of endemism in the Palaearctic part of the Holarctic Kingdom, as well as in the Afrotropical, Indo-Malayan, and Australian zoogeographical regions, are specified. The Papuan horon is proposed to be regarded as a subregion of the Indo-Malayan region of the Paleotropical Kingdom. The Australian and New Zealand horons are also suggested to be included into the Paleotropical Kingdom as the Australian region. Finally, it is proposed that the border between the Holarctic Kingdom and the Indo-Malayan region should be rectified and that the eastern Gobi horon should be considered a separate zoogeographical superprovince.

Production of biofuel feedstocks in agricultural landscapes will result in land use changes that may have major implications for arthropod-mediated ecosystem services such as pollination and pest suppression. By comparing the abundance and diversity of insect pollinators and generalist natural enemies in three model biofuel crops: corn, switchgrass, and mixed prairie, we tested the hypothesis that biofuel crops comprised of more diverse plant communities would support increased levels of beneficial insects. These three biofuel crops contained a diverse bee community comprised of 75 species. Overall, bees were three to four times more abundant in switchgrass and prairie than in corn, with members of the sweat bee (Halictidae) and small carpenter bee ( Ceratina spp.) groups the most abundant. Switchgrass and prairie had significantly greater bee species richness than corn during the July sampling period. The natural enemy community at these sites was dominated by lady beetles (Coccinellidae), long-legged flies (Dolichopodidae), and hover flies (Syrphidae) which varied in their response to crop type. Coccinellids were generally most abundant in prairie and switchgrass, with the exception of the pollen feeding Coleomegilla maculata that was most abundant in corn. Several rare or declining coccinellid species were detected in prairie and switchgrass sites. Dolichopodidae were more abundant in prairie and switchgrass while Syrphidae showed no significant response to crop type. Our results indicate that beneficial insects generally responded positively to the increased vegetational diversity of prairie and switchgrass sites; however, when managed as a dedicated biofuel crop, plant and arthropod diversity in switchgrass may decrease. Our findings support the hypothesis that vegetationally diverse biofuel crops support higher abundance and diversity of beneficial insects. Future policy regarding the production of biofuel feedstocks should consider the ecosystem services that different biofuel crops may support in agricultural landscapes.

Sept. 19--Is there a possible settlement in the nasty dispute between the Pennsylvania Convention Center and the carpenters' union? \"They're talking,\" said Martin O'Rourke, spokesman for the carpenters, declining to say anything more.

July 21--With their loudspeakers playing the jaunty 1961 Marvelettes Motown hit, \"Please Mr. Postman,\" union carpenters and Teamsters picketed outside the Pennsylvania Convention Center during a gathering of the National Association of Letter Carriers Union.

[...]he said, with 12,000 letter carriers and family members expected to attend the convention, arrangements were made long before the carpenters' troubles with the Convention Center came to a head when they did not sign a new customer satisfaction agreement by a May 4 deadline.