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The Event of Loss as the External Cause of Thought
At the inception of philosophy there is a loss, but not all philosophers begin with this loss. While some of them start from before the loss, some others begin after the loss. One way or the other philosophy proper begins with the inscription of this loss and aims at causing a loss of loss. That which is lost is nothing but the sense of reality as it has been; things turn out not to be the way they seemed to be. Immediately following the inscription of loss there emerges the question of "how can that which has happened be justified?" It's not for nothing that philosophy has come to be considered a proposition of justice in response to a loss of the sense of reality embodied by the subject and in which the subject is embedded. Whether or not one begins by asking "why is there nothing rather than something?" as opposed to "why is there something rather than nothing?" makes a lot of difference. For at stake here in these initial questions is a primary decision concerning what matters the most, what makes one thing matter more than the other. Philosophy, after all, is a matter of deciding what matters and what not.
What matters now is how the question of beginning is put in terms of the event. From Plato to Zeno of Citium, passing through Kant and Hegel, onwards to Heidegger and Deleuze, and culminating in Zizek and Badiou, philosophers have come to determine the cause of subjective thought to be the objective circumstances surrounding the subject. Accordingly, an external factor, a traumatic incident, a banal accident of life, or the experience of an act of violence have all been considered necessary for the emergence of thought. Thought is immanent to the subject but its conditions transcend it. The event is such a transcendent contingency that it has come to mark the beginning of something new and necessary.
Homer had once said that "the gods send us catastrophes so that we can write about them." What to do when faced with catastrophic incidents has been a recurring theme throughout the histories of literature and philosophy since then. We know, for instance, that Zeno of Citium's temporary turn towards cynicism and eventual creation of Stoicism as a philosophical position is a result of a huge loss he had undergone during his journey from Cyprus to Greece. His ship sinks with all the silk and linen Zeno was exporting to Athens. Reduced from a rich merchant to the level of a tramp who has nothing, Zeno initially embraces the Cynic stance, but he is not exactly keen on remaining a Cynic who is not engaged in any positive projects content with merely turning his back on society. In a fashion similar to the Cynics, Zeno also develops a profound dislike for material possessions upon the financial loss he experiences. But instead of turning his back on society he moves on to invent a new model of society which is not driven by an obsession with material wealth. His philosophy now known as Stoicism would later on be turned into a tool for coping with the difficulties of life by Epictetus among others.
Another famous statement on this issue of lack and negativity is Nietzsche's "that which doesn't kill me renders me stronger." In Hegel the same theme is worked through in this passage from the Philosophy of Right.
Many diverse details have a bearing on the preservation of life, and when we have our eyes on the future we have to engage ourselves in these details. But the only thing that is necessary is to live now, the future is not absolute but ever exposed to accident. Hence it is only the necessity of the immediate present which can justify a wrong action, because not to do the action would in turn be to commit an offence, indeed the most wrong of all offences, namely the complete destruction of the embodiment of freedom.[1]
As for Kant, his whole project is to situate the traumatic incident at the heart of enlightened subjectivity itself. Isn't Kant's whole edifice an attempt at introducing a split between reason and the madness inherent to its constitution?
I have doubts whether there is a distinction between general lunacy (delirium generale) and that which is fixed upon a definite object (delirium circa objectum). Unreason (which is something positive and not just a lack of reason) is like reason, a mere form to which objects can be adapted; and both reason and unreason, therefore, concern themselves with the general. However, what first comes into the mind at the (usually sudden) outbreak of a crazy disposition (the accidentally encountered subject matter about which the person will rave later) will be from then on the insane person's chief concern, since it is, because of the novelty of the impression, more firmly fixed in his mind than anything else occurring afterward.[2]
And Deleuze, probably the most innovative philosopher of the event, situates the encounter with the event at the heart of his Difference and Repetition.
Something in the world forces us to think. This something is an object not of recognition but of a fundamental encounter. What is encountered may be Socrates, a temple or a demon. It may be grasped in a range of affective tones: wonder, love, hatred, suffering. In whichever tone, its primary characteristic is that it can only be sensed. In this sense it is opposed to recognition. In recognition, the sensible is not at all that which can only be sensed, but that which bears directly upon the senses in an object which can be recalled, imagined or conceived. The sensible is referred to an object which may not only be experienced other than by sense, but may itself be attained by other faculties. It therefore presupposes the exercise of the senses and the exercise of the other faculties in a common sense. The object of encounter, on the other hand, really gives rise to sensibility with regard to a given sense.[3]
Badiou goes even further and proclaims, "better a disaster than an unbeing [desêtre]…."
A Philosophical Manual for Coping with Loss Before and After Its Occurrence
One doesn't have to love one's own fate to be able to produce something good, beautiful and true out of it. Our lives are full of big and small, good and bad things happening to us all the time. Even the loss of money while on long or short term vacation can cause immense ruptures in our lives. Imagine a specific situation wherein you have just lost a considerable amount of your little wealth and your modest accommodation. You have also lost time, since you had to give your time in exchange for that money and you will have to give more of it in order to regain what you have lost. You are deep into a vicious circle to say the least. In order to be able to recover the lost time and money, you have to spend less in more time and do more in less time.
Your situation requires reconfiguring the foundations of your being, you are confronted with a profoundly ontological problem. So as to become capable of changing your very mode of being in accordance with the change that occurred in your situation, it is time for you to return to dialectical modes of thinking, being, and acting. Now that you have made the decision not to run after the money you have lost and opted for the more rational route of reconfiguring your relation to time, perhaps it is indeed time to reconsider your life in its relation to capital. The dialectical modality of life is a rigorous creative process intervening in the structure of time itself. Striking at the heart of what constitutes time as an open procedure of constituting a framework for a new life, dialectical theory turns death into life, nothing into something, negativity into positivity by way of exposing that it is how we use time, what we do, how we act in the face of traumatic events that matters the most in determining the sense of what happened, is happening, and is yet to happen. In and through the course of a dialectical process the bad thing turns out to be a good thing after all. But it wasn't always like that. The bad thing was bad at the time of its occurrence, our actions after the event, however, determined the significance of this event. Dialectical thought thinks of time as that which is continually re-split and re-synthesized by the living subject of theory and practice in one simultaneous movement in two directions at once.
The orientation of your existence towards singular change requires going beyond the co-ordinates of ordinary life of capitalist axiomatics. For a singular change necessitates making a choice to go in the direction of the world as an open multiplicity of possibilities. Unlike a human-animal you would rather take it upon yourself to transform affects in such a way as to move from existence to being. Of course you are anxious beyond measure, that's because you have to know something you don't know, create a future that doesn't yet exist as a possibility. To do this you have to approach the event of loss as an opening of new possibilities. The event itself is never fully constituted, the significance of the loss is ever yet to be fully determined. Deleuze has this to say concerning the object of encounter: "It is not a quality but a sign. It is not a sensible being but the being of the sensible. It is not the given but that by which the given is given. It is therefore in a certain sense the imperceptible [insensible]."[5]
The loss is not given, the subject gives its own loss to itself. The way in which the subject handles the loss before giving it to itself determines the future effects of this loss. The subject henceforth takes it upon itself to shape the loss in such a way as to reduce its negative effects. The consequences of the loss as the event which initiates a rupture in the ordinary flow of things in the subject's life are yet to be determined by the subject as its own founding act. The being of the subject is itself affected by loss. In the case of a financial loss, for instance, our mode of being in time is affected since it is our time which we give in exchange of money when we are employed under wage labour. Is it even worth mentioning that in today's world time is money and money is time?
Not only in the mathematical formulae of modern physics but in general in all human comportment towards time, time becomes a "factor," i.e. a "worker," that "works" either "against" or "for" man, namely "against" or in "favor" of the calculation by means of which man makes plans to master beings and secure himself in them. In modern terms, time is something man takes into account precisely as the empty frame of the progression of occurrences one after the other. Everywhere, not only in physics, time is the "parameter," i.e., the coordinates along which runs all measurement and calculation. Man uses and consumes time like a "factor."[6]
The Time of Capital, the Time of Being, and the Time of the Dialectical Subject
The situation depicted in the film In Time (Dir. Andrew Niccol, 2011) is very similar to contemporary capitalism in which the rich survive death forever, while the poor run out of time and die. Capitalism is a mega death-drive, an ever regressive process of production and consumption in and through which time becomes capital. The value of your life is measured by how much money you have in the bank, higher the number all the more immune to death you feel you are. In capitalism the future has succumbed to retrospection locked in an eternal present, but still there are signs all around for the possibility of a progressive move towards a new future, one only needs to have the eyes to see them in this time.
If, as Benjamin Franklin has once put it, time is money and money is time, does this mean that the more money you have the more time you have as a living being? Yes and no… Already at the beginning of Marx's Capital we come across this problematic relationship between time and capital. A quantitative increase in capital causes a qualitative increase in the time of life and inversely.
The economic paradox that the most powerful instrument for reducing labour-time suffers a dialectical inversion and becomes the most unfailing means for turning the whole lifetime of the worker and his family into labor-time at capital's disposal for its own valorization.[7]
We live in such times and spaces wherein time and space have themselves become rare commodities. If we keep in mind that scarcity is that which determines the value of a commodity, we can understand why and how the interruption of the ordinary run of things and socially accepted forms of using time and space can open the gates to a new mode of being and thinking in a new space and time. In a world where time is used as the currency, wherein you can earn more time at work to sell it for goods, foods and other services, you are caught in an ever regressive process of production and consumption in and through which time becomes capital and capital becomes life. Once your time as capital runs out, you die.
Catastrophe as the Future History of Utopia
If there is a movement of thought which has stamped the significance of dialectics upon contemporary climate of theory and made this significance manifest for the present state of political affairs in the world, it can be found in Fredric Jameson's books. It's all a matter of knowing what to do with time, and Jameson knows what to do with it to say the least. In his remarkable book entitled Valences of the Dialectic, which is itself a performance of dialectical thought in action, Jameson takes it upon himself to point out the increasing relevance of the dialectic in relation to temporality. Using Paul Ricoeur's Time and Narrative as well as Aristotle's Poetics in conjunction with the Hegelian system of thought driven by and driving the dialectical process, Jameson constructs a temporal narrative of how time and history are made to appear in the sixth and final part of his book devoted to The Valences of History. By way of introducing an epistemological difference beyond the ontological difference between ecstatic and enstatic conceptualisations of ontic time, Jameson also achieves positing a new difference between time and temporality themselves. History now requires a subject to make it appear anew and thereby become the cause of a new future.
As a philosophical enterprise, Valences of the Dialectic, and especially its final part The Valences of History, signify a difference from Heidegger in understanding the transcendence and the transcendent, noesis and noema. This difference is the difference of Hegel's dialectical process of infinity from Heidegger's ontological horizon of possibility. The "transcending towards" of Heidegger is situated in a dialectical relation with Hegel's identity of immanence and transcendence.[40] In the two quotations below, Heidegger and Deleuze point out the shift from an understanding of time as quantity to time as quality.
As a consequence of this disposition, which consumes and uses up, man constantly has less and less time in spite of all his time-saving, and that is why the saving and economy of time are necessary in even the tiniest procedures of technology. Modern man, the subject to whom the "world" has become a uniquely uniform "object," consumes even time. Modern man therefore always "has" less and less time, because he has taken possession of time in advance only as calculable and has made time something of which he is obsessed, though he is presumably the ruler whose rule masters time. For primordial Greek thinking, on the contrary, time, always as dispensing and dispensed time, takes man and all beings essentially into its ordering and in every case orders the appearance and disappearance of beings. Time discloses and conceals.[41]
Time is out of joint, time is unhinged. The hinges are the axis around which the door turns. Cardo, in Latin, designates the subordination of time to the cardinal points through which the periodic movements that it measures pass. As long as time remains on its hinges, it is subordinate to movement: it is the measure of movement, interval or number. This was the view of ancient philosophy. But time out of joint signifies the reversal of the movement-time relationship. It is now movement which is subordinate to time. Everything changes, including movement. . . Time is no longer related to the movement which it measures, but movement is related to the time which conditions it: this is the first great Kantian reversal in the Critique of Pure Reason. Time is no longer defined by succession because succession concerns only things and movements which are in time. If time itself were succession, it would need to succeed in another time, and on to infinity.[42]
Following Heidegger's proclamation that "the dreadful has already happened, and only a god can save us now," as well as Deleuze's well known quote from Bosquet which goes as "my wound existed before me, I was born to embody it," it is still increasingly fashionable today to say that "the catastrophe has already occurred." Yes, it did indeed, many times during the course of history as a matter of fact. And yet the question still remains: "what if there is not just one big catastrophe in the past alone, but many catastrophes happening all the time?" Yes, many catastrophes have already occurred, are still occurring, and will keep doing so in the future to come. There is no guarantee that the worst is over yet, or that there is no worse to come. As the poets would put it, "when we fall we fall hard, the troubles don't singly come." Perhaps we haven't seen anything yet, and the catastrophe which is claimed to have already occurred is nothing but the beginning of a new sequence of catastrophes. Considering we are floating in a sea of catastrophes, it would surely be convenient to say that the best way of handling our catastrophic situation is to employ dialectics of time and event in the service of overcoming, reversing, or at least slowing down the worsening. The initial question to be asked in the way of achieving a transcendental approach to the concept of catastrophe is simply this: "what if the catastrophe occurred to prevent an even bigger catastrophe?" This question immediately empowers one who wishes to reconfigure the significance of a catastrophic event within a broader sequence of events. One therefore has to think and imagine what would have happened if the catastrophe had not occurred in its time. Now, of course this operation requires a writing of that which is not known in such a way as to effectuate a less bad future. It's all a matter of minimizing the effects of the presumed major catastrophe which is itself the outcome of many minor catastrophes leading to that unfortunate sequence of events the consequences of which are yet to be determined. The best way of carrying out this minimization is to make up an alternative sequence of events in the past which would change the meaning of the present itself, thereby causing a new future to emerge.
In this case the past and the future appear to be qualitatively identical in the sense that they are both unknown. We know neither what exactly has happened in the past nor what will happen in the future for sure. We are at a perpetual present whose presence itself is dubious in that it never really is, since as soon as we say "I am in the present now" the present which we say we are in becomes past. At this point we may either opt for constructing a fictional past in such a way as to slow down worsening, or disregarding the past altogether and focusing on the effects of the unknown past manifest in the present. At hand there are pieces of information concerning our situation as well as some sense-data such as mental and physical pain, a mass of misery which we have to put in the service of a less bad future than the one awaiting us if either nothing or something wrong is done.
It is here that Lacan's definition of the Real as "the impasse of formalization" becomes relevant, for it is there that the Real appears as its own disappearance, and hence as a void-in-process in the symbolic order. The imaginary enters the scene to fill in this gap opened by the forever vanishing objective dimension within the subjective process itself. For Badiou it is precisely at this point of impossibility of knowing that the Real emerges as the eternity in time which goes beyond mere subjective experience and objective reality alike.
In a paper on Jameson's Making History Appear presented at a conference entitled Thinking About Time: Temporalities of Capitalism and the Time of Revolution[43], Brassier touches upon this same issue of the problematic relation between formalisation, the Real, and making the impossible possible. Following Badiou's footsteps in the field of formalism, Brassier asserts that a forcing of transformation in the structure of formalisation itself is required to go beyond the impasse of capitalist mode of production under which the subject itself is subsumed. Referring to Jameson's definition of capitalism as "totalization-in-process" rather than an all-encompassing structure, Brassier points out that "time is what propels capital and drives capitalism on." Since "capital configures the way in which time is experienced", it is up to the subject to formalize a new time for itself in such a way as to reconfigure the subject of capital's relation to time, and hence cause a transformation in the structure of capitalism itself. Here again it's all a matter of turning catastrophe into a positive investment in the future. Quoting Jameson at length, Brassier underlines the role of catastrophe in the process of progressive transformations of the existing social and political world of history.
In the phenomenon that interests us here, the sudden flash of a sense of history, we must somehow account for the evidence that History in that sense can be experienced either as nightmare or as a sudden opening and possibility that is lived in enthusiasm. It is an alternation which suggests the existence of some deeper duality in the thing itself: the way in which, for example, the appearing of History, its phainesthai, entails a new opening up of past and future alike, which can conceivably be marked antithetically: a somber past of violence and slaughter giving way to a new sense of collective production, or on the contrary a glimpse of promise in the past which is shut down by a closing of horizons in universal catastrophe. Better still, both these dimensions can be experienced at one and the same time, in an undecidable situation in which the reemergence of History is unrelated to its content and dependent above all on that form in which after a long reduction to the lowered visibility of the present, past and future once again open up in the full transparency of their distances.[44]
This returns us to the issue of the causes and effects of unfortunate incidents, those banal accidents of life which may have varying degrees of traumatic consequences. Related to this issue are the concepts such as causality, contingency, and necessity. Is it possible to know the absolute cause of an event? How are we to know whether an event was contingent or necessary?
One should thus invert the existentialist commonplace according to which, when we are engaged in a present historical process, we perceive it as full of possibilities, and ourselves as agents free to choose among them; while, to a retrospective view, the same process appears as fully determined and necessary, with no room for alternatives: on the contrary, it is the engaged agents who perceive themselves as caught in a Destiny, merely reacting to it, while, retrospectively, from the standpoint of later observation, we can discern alternatives in the past, possibilities of events taking a different path. (And is not the attitude of Predestination—the fact that the theology of predestination legitimized the frantic activity of capitalism— the ultimate confirmation of this paradox?) This is how Dupuy suggests that we should confront the catastrophe: we should first perceive it as our fate, as unavoidable, and then, projecting ourselves into it, adopting its standpoint, we should retroactively insert into its past (the past of the future) counterfactual possibilities ("If we had done such and such a thing, the catastrophe we are in now would not have happened!") upon which we then act today.[45]
What went wrong might in fact turn out to be the turning point in the course of happenings which sets things in the right course. Perhaps it was all already going wrong for a quite a while now, and what seemed to be a negativity in this process of wrongoing was actually a contingent necessity for the conditions of rightgoing.
The initial question the subjects asks to itself in the face of aggravating situations of loss should better be this if the subject wishes to overcome the anguish it feels in the face of loss, and with sufficient effort even sublate its state of being in agony perhaps: "what have I gained with this apparent loss?" This question aims at initiating a thought process which would actualize a change at the level of perception. Viewed from a timeless nowhere, a nowhen from beyond a supposedly predestined future which doesn't yet exist and may never do so, from the realm of an a-temporal Utopia, the Real, that is, the event as the spark of an open ended story the significance of which is never fully determined becomes possible to handle in such a way as to situate it as a void in time, a gap between the past and the present out of which a new future emerges. Beginning with this void in time, this nothing which is now at hand, the subject can become an active constituent of time rather than being passively constituted by it.
Now, which one is the question to be asked, then?
- Why is there something rather than nothing?
- Why is there nothing rather than something?
The second one is indeed the question a dispossessed person would ask, rather than someone who still has something at hand. Yes, here we begin with nothing, because it's all there is. Jack Kerouac had once asked, "what's in store for me in the direction I don't take?" The question still begs to be answered, with or without the recent developments in science and technology in mind, although needless to say it would help to use them in our investigation in search of a true answer. Perhaps time would tell indeed, if only time had a voice to say the least. When one of Beckett's nameless voices in Texts for Nothing asks "where would I go if I could go, who would I be if I could be, what would I say if I had a voice?" one should listen to this voice without reserve and act accordingly without determination, that is, introject the lost object and project it as the subject without incorporating it. The introjected object of loss does not become a part of the subject at work here. What's at stake is rather that a new sense of time is created and embodied as void within the subject itself. Out of this void emerges new modes of being and thought which deliver a third question: "how come there is both something and nothing at the same time?"
And here is Karl Marx's 1858 Fragment on Machines (Grundrisse)
Reference Matter
[1] Hegel, G.W.F., Philosophy of Right, trans. T.M.Knox (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1978), p. 252-3 / Pr. 127
[2] Kant, Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View, 1978, p. 116.
[3] Deleuze, Difference and Repetition, p. 139.
[4] Alain Badiou, The Subject of Art, transcript by Lydia Kerr. The Symptom, Issue 6, Spring 2005. http://www.lacan.com/symptom6_articles/badiou.html
[5] Deleuze, Difference and Repetition, p. 139.
[6] Martin Heidegger, Parmenides, trans. Andre Schuwer and Richard Rojcewicz (Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2002), p. 141.
[11] Karl Marx, Capital, vol. 1, trans. Ben Fowkes, London: Penguin, 1976, p. 532.
[12] Hegel, G.W.F. Phenomenology of Spirit, trans. A.V.Miller (Oxford: O.U.P, 1977), p.492.
[13] Deleuze, Kant's Critical Philosophy: The Doctrine of the Faculties. Translated by Hugh Tomlinson and Barbara Habberjam. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1984, ix
[14] Heidegger, Kant and the Problem of Metaphysics. Trans. Richard Taft (Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1990), p. 132.
[15] Badiou, Logics of Worlds, pp. 143-4.
[16] Bergson, Time and Free Will, trans. F. L. Pogson (New York: Dover Publications, 2001), p. 104-5.
[17] Badiou, Theory of the Subject, p. 118-9.
[18] Badiou, Theory of the Subject, p. 119.
[19] Badiou, Logics of Worlds, p. 231.
[20] Heidegger, Martin. Kant and the Problem of Metaphysics, 5th edn. (Indiana, 1997), p. 22.
[21] G. W. F Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit, trans. A. V. Miller (Oxford: Oxford University
Press 1977), p. 89·
[22] G. W. F. Hegel, The Science of Logic. trans. A. V. Miller, Atlantic Highlands: Humanities Press 1969. p. 400.
[23] Zizek, Less Than Nothing, p. 37.
[24] Badiou, Logics of Worlds, p. 141.
[25] Badiou, Logics of Worlds, p. 141.
[26] Badiou, Logics of Worlds, p. 233.
[28] Slavoj Zizek, The Puppet and the Dwarf: The Perverse Core of Christianity, (MIT: Cambridge and London, 2003), p. 134-5.
[29] Walter Benjamin, "Theses on the Philosophy of History," Illuminations, ed. Hannah Arendt, trans. Harry Zohn (Glasgow: Fontana Press, 1973), p. 257.
[30] Walter Benjamin, "Theses on the Philosophy of History", in Illuminations, ed. Hannah Arendt, trans. Harry Zohn (Glasgow: Fontana Press, 1973), p. 257.
[31] Slavoj Zizek, The Puppet and the Dwarf: The Perverse Core of Christianity, (MIT: Cambridge and London, 2003), p. 134-5.
[32] Aristotle, Physics, p. 291b1.
[33] Slavoj Žižek, Melancholy and the Act, Critical Inquiry, Vol. 26, No. 4 (The University of Chicago Press: Summer, 2000), pp. 657-681. URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1344326
[34] Sigmund Freud, 'Mourning and Melancholy', in James Strackey, ed., The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, vol. XIV, (London: The Hogarth Press 1957), p. 245.
[35] Giorgio Agamben, Stanzas, (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1993), chs 3-5.
[36] Slavoj Žižek, Did Somebody Say Totalitarianism. Five Interventions in the (Mis)Use of a Notion, (London/New York: Verso, 2001), p. 143.
[37] Brassier, Nihil Unbound, p. 178.
[38] Ibid, p. 178.
[39] Gilles Deleuze, Difference and Repetition, trans. Paul Patton (New York: Columbia University Press, 1994), p. 36.
[40] Brassier, Nihil Unbound, p. 158.
[41] Martin Heidegger, Parmenides, trans. Andre Schuwer and Richard Rojcewicz (Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2002), p. 141-2.
[42] Deleuze, Kant's Critical Philosophy: The Doctrine of the Faculties, trans. Hugh Tomlinson and Barbara Habberjam (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1984), p. vii.
[43] Ray Brassier, Jameson on Making History Appear, Thinking About Time Conference, American University of Beirut, 27 March 2015.
[44] Jameson, Valences of the Dialectic, p. 598.
[45] Zizek, The Puppet and the Dwarf, p. 164.


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There are times when I haven't any ideas about what to write, and then, out of the blue, it comes to me in a whisper. I would have been quite content for this whisper to never have passed my ears, but that is not how life works. Our extended family has had another sudden loss. You are never ready for life's twists and turns that are completely unexpected. I am filling this blog with images of roses. I believe they were a favorite. The poem was written for the passing of a friend's mother a few years ago. It fits this situation. My final thought is one that we should all consider daily…..
Dear Mother of Mine
We started together
Heart to heart
But over the years
Grew discretely apart
Me, I was head-strong
And wanted to fly
You were so sweet
But refused to try
I wished you would want
To give life a fight
Yet you only wanted
To reach toward the light
Now you have gone
Away on a wing
To play only songs
That angels do sing
So hold, me a place
Dear mother of mine
For I'll be along
But in my sweet time
We'll touch once again
For our love always knew
The life that we shared
Induced spirits that grew
written by: Bonnie DiMichele
Here is my final thought for today; reach out to someone today. Someone where you have left something undone or unsaid. Be honest, swallow your pride, and let them know how very special they are to you. Do today, what you should have done long ago. None of us knows how much time we have.
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Sep 1 Uranium Stocks Update: International Uranium Corporation (TSE:IUC)
The company released a MD&A in mid-August so let's see what they have to say in their outlook:
In June 2006, the Company announced the re-opening of a number of its U.S. uranium/vanadium mines. Mining is scheduled to begin during the fourth quarter of 2006 with mined ore stockpiled at the Mill. The Company plans to begin development activities on one mine and commence mining operations at three other mines, all on the Colorado Plateau.
Basically, IUC and Paladin Resources are both going to be producing U3O8 at roughly the same time. Uranium oxide is trading close to the $50/lb mark and vanadium, exclusive to IUC, is around $8-9/lb.
The Mill is continuing to process alternate feed material and is expected to produce approximately 500,000 pounds of U3O8 from the processing of a high-grade alternate feed material, of which approximately 210,000 pounds are scheduled to be produced during 2006. The current mill run began in March 2005 and is anticipated to last through to the second quarter of 2007. The Company does not have any fixed contracts for this material and will evaluate commercial opportunities for sale of the material throughout the year.
Even without the restart of uranium mining, IUC has half a million pounds of U3O8, which at current market price represents roughly $25 million US.
The Company's exploration programs continue through 2006, both in Canada and Mongolia. Currently, the Company has two drilling programs underway at the Moore Lake Joint Venture and Park Creek project. In addition to the drilling programs, the Company has significant field programs on a number of its properties.
Just today, IUC announced the starting of drilling on Consolidated Abaddon's (CVE:ABN) Sims Lake uranium project in western Labrador. IUC has the right and initial option to acquire a 51% interest in the uranium rights to the Sims Lake property over a period of two years.
With prospects continuing to look bright for IUC, insider buying has also picked up:
Ellegrove Capital Ltd., a Barbados resident company, through its joint actor, has acquired 1,985,500 common shares of International Uranium Corp. As a result of this acquisition, Ellegrove, together with its joint actors, holds as at the date hereof, a total of 12,982,000 common shares, which total holdings represent approximately 14.67 per cent of the issued and outstanding shares of IUC.
Ellegrove is owned by a trust, of which trust's settlor is Adolf H. Lundin.
Lundin is part of IUC's board.
Of all the uranium stocks I have recommended, IUC to me seems to have the greatest disparity between intrinsic and actual value. At $550 million, it behooves me to find it beneath the market cap of a company like Aurora Energy TSE:AXU, who admittedly has great uranium properties but will not mine a lick of it for years.


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Propel Camp
Kent Innovation High Presents Propel Camp
Propel Camp is a four day long experience for 6-8th graders to explore and DO science, technology, engineering, art, and math in real life. For 4 days, students will work in teams to build the ultimate catapult, and use their machine to compete against other teams at the end of the week in a variety of competitions.
S.T.E.A.M. Focused
Science: Grapple with the physics of projectile motion
Technology: Use historic and modern tools to design and build
Engineering: Draft and refine your ideas using computer software
Art: Use graphic design to make banners to represent your team
Math: Figure out how to make it all work
Who: 2014/2015 6th-8th Grade StudentsDates: June 22-25, 2015
Time: 9am-3pm
Where: Kent Innovation High School, 1655 E Beltline Ave NE Grand Rapids, MI LOT #3
Cost: $125
What to bring: Sack lunch (Snacks provided), Closed-toe shoes
Register Online for 15KIH0622 Propel Camp
For more information, please contact Kent Innovation High: 616-363-8010
or email Danee Lucas @ email@example.com


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The Greatest Play in the History of the World... Theatre Tickets
We do not curently have theatre tickets available for The Greatest Play in the History of the World.... This could be because we have simply sold out or it could be that this show is no longer running. The information on this page remains purely for historical and informational purposes.
A man wakes in the middle of the night to discover that the world has stopped.
Through the crack in his bedroom curtains he can see no signs of life at all other than a light in the house opposite where a woman in an over-sized Bowie T-shirt stands, looking back at him.
Starring 2018 BAFTA nominee Julie Hesmondhalgh (Coronation Street, Broadchurch), The Greatest Play is squashed full of exquisite observations and heartbreaking beauty.
Show Information
Booking from: 2020-01-04
Booking until: 2020-01-04
Theatre Information
Theatre: Trafalgar Studio Two
Address: 14 Whitehall, London, SW1A 2DY
(5mins) Head left on the main road Strand. Follow Trafalgar Square around onto Whitehall and the theatre's on your right.
Location Map
Please note: the location shown on the map is an approximate location of the theatre. In the majority of cases the theatre will be marked on the map so please make sure you locate the exact location yourself. If the theatre is not shown on the map please make sure you locate the correct road name and take account of the directions.


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He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche -
It is such a pleasure to officially present 'The Boy' in BLITZWAY, which was the first character of BHEADworks' original design figures, 'Hunters: Day after WWIII'. The boy is the leader of Hunters, who is the master of performing underground and sniping, and dreaming about the utopia.
These popular designed figures bring a sense of pride from anywhere, for the fans who love dystopia arts, and for the people who love military. Don't miss the chance to add this valuable Artist character to your collection!
- BHEADworks' illustration
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text: keeping my cool and my emotions in check is never easy, but it's something i ask of myself. there are days like this when i am unsure about everything including the purpose of my existence. it's a dull day sitting in silence thinking of my imperfections, and then i would get mad at myself for the imperfections that i have. i would question and question time over time, but would have no answers to any of them. i just want to be better, but i can't. i feel like a strange child that's not comfortable with myself


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We love it when Benjamin pulls out big words that we wouldn't normally think three year olds would know.
Bed swap
bribe encourage our children to sleep in, we instituted a system where they get a ticket for sleeping in past 7 am, and the last person to get up gets two tickets. (You get two tickets automatically if you happen to sleep in past 8 am.) The boys will sometimes game the system where they wait for each other to wake up wake each other up so that they can all get two tickets, but we don't mind as long as they sleep in past 7! However: If they sneak into our bed at night, they do not get any tickets.
Benjamin really loves sleeping in our bed, so he'll often willingly sacrifice the possibility of getting tickets in order to snuggle with us.
Ben's stuffies
Ben has misplaced his beloved black beeear – it's probably been a month since we last saw it — so for his birthday, I ordered a look-alike bear from Amazon. Unfortunately, when it arrived, it was a teeny tiny bear!! So I ordered a larger black bear from Amazon and saved it for his birthday. During his early birthday party, one of our good friends got Benjamin a small stuffed black-and-brown dog. On his actual birthday, he got the new black bear, and yesterday, I found the small black bear and gave it to him, too. I'll have to draw a new comic later depicting "Small Black Bear" – or as Ben says, "Mall Black Bear" – as this comic only reflects two of the three new stuffies ("New Bear" is the newer stuffed bear that Benjamin had last time he misplaced his black bear). Below are pictures of Bear Doggy, New Black Bear, and Small Black Bear.


text: Strilers 1945 Plus review. http://www.ClassicGameRoom.com Shop CGR shirts, mugs & gear! http://www.CGRstore.com Classic Game Room reviews STRIKERS 1945 PLUS for Neo-Geo MVS from 1999! Blow things up with airplanes in this "historically accurate" depiction of World War 2 air combat on your NeoGeo MVS arcade machine! Srikers 1945 Plus is an excellent shoot 'em up or SHMUP for Neo Geo with loads of airplanes to choose from, each with their own attack pattern and special charged-up weapons.


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So 2 days ago, a dear friend of mine said "You know, you haven't blogged in forever. I checked." It struck me as a super sweet sentiment that she cares. I promised her I would blog last night.
Promise broken.
I'm blogging now, before I head to bed.
So, I started this blog 2 months ago. It originally was titled "Heartbreak and Lullabies".
Originally, I started out talking about how I really love cruising the streets at night… on my bike that is. And when I say bike, I don't mean a motorcycle, I mean a bicycle. I'm a real biker.
The best thing about cruising the streets at night is that the city slowly settles into itself. All the hustle and bustle dies down into the nightlife, and there' s a lot you can tell about a city, or in Chicago's case, a neighborhood, by its nightlife.
I especially enjoy rolling through the bar districts of the city, and watching the people. I'm talking grade-A, 100% s**t show a good portion of the time. Sometimes it's funny, sometimes it's sad. If you've ever been in a Bourbon Street-esque atmosphere, you know what I'm talking about.
One thing I especially don't like about cruising the night streets however, is seeing all of the homeless people.
It astounds me that in the land of plenty, in this great big country full of decadence, and advantage, we have so many people who have fallen to the wayside…simply discarded. It's disheartening.
As I move down the streets, it just profoundly saddens me to see people sleeping in alleyways, and doorways, or sitting on benches, in parks.
Most profoundly, I am saddened when the homeless people in question are elderly. Nothing breaks my heart more than to see someone who should be enjoying retirment…relaxing with their feet up, if they so chose, letting the years simply melt away.
But they're not. They're scrounging for food, and money…and lest we not talk about all of the other things, like healthcare, warmth, safety.
These thoughts often cross my mind when riding at night because it is pretty much in your face.
So, from there, I planned on talking about a special encounter I had.
About a half mile from my job, there is a woman who sleeps on a bench, under a bus shelter.
She sleeps upright. The bench isn't big enough to lie down on. The woman rests her head down on her chest, and sleeps.
I'm not exactly sure when I first noticed her, although I'm assuming it was once I began riding my bike in the city, which would've been about April. As I began biking in that area at night, I noticed that once it got dark she would pop up on the bench. She'd have a few bags with her, and her belongings sitting next to her on the bench.
Her name is Idella. I know this because the night after I started this original post, I was able to meet and briefly talk with Idella.
I was down in the Loop with a friend. We'd been walking around and out and about, and it was a hot night. Like super humid hot. Like the air was thick, and it just felt like it was pulling moisture out of your body by the moment. After parting ways with my friend, I was biking through the city back to my car.
As I got to the West Loop, I rode by, and there was the old woman, as she always was, on the bench. Resting I suppose. Though I don't think I could ever put an exact age on her, I would definitely say late 60's or 70's. Whenever I would see her, I would always wonder things like "does she have a family? Where are they? Do they know she's on the street?"
So as I rode past her, I decided to make a stop. I stopped at the 7-Eleven down the street. I went in, and grabbed a couple of Gatorades, a big bottle of water, 2 oranges and 2 bananas. After that, I headed back to the bus stop I parked my bike a bit away, and walked on over. I made sure to make a wide berth so I was approaching the lady from the front.
"Excuse me ma'am. I don't want to disturb you. It's pretty hot tonight, so I thought I would grab you some drinks and some fruit. Is that alright?"
"Oh…yes. That's alright with me if it's alright with you."
"Of course it is", and I handed her the bag of refreshments. I then introduced myself. She responded by introducing herself, and we shook hands.
I asked her how she was doing this evening.
She went on to say she was doing fine. She was having some pain in her neck and back. I asked her if she'd seen a doctor about that, and she said yes. She mentioned the doctors name, and said that he was a very nice man.
As we talked, I got teary eyed. She had that grandmotherly voice. She was as I mentioned an older woman, black, upon my first guess I would say she'd been homeless for a while. I could just as easily pictured her sitting in a rocking chair in a retirement home, in front of a TV, smiling at me and telling me about her neck and back, and about the nice doctor that was helping her.
Sometimes you don't know what to say. After telling her that I hope she feels better soon, I mentioned that I often ride through the area, and that I would hopefully see her again soon. She said that would be nice, and she thanked me again for the drinks. I hoped that meeting would lead to some future dialogue. Unfortunately in this world, I can't help everyone. I don't have a cape, I'm not omnipotent or all powerful…but I really wanted to, in some way, help Ms. Idella. Our paths had crossed, and reaching out to help someone else, if possible…isn't that what we should be doing in this life?
I didn't ride my bike the next few nights, or the following week or weekend. So, 2 weeks later, I'm back on the streets, riding my bike. Friday evening, in the West Loop…and no Ms. Idella.
I remember thinking "that's strange," but I didn't really give it much thought at that moment.
That night, with the drinks and conversation, was the last time I saw Ms. Idella. I'd like to believe that maybe something happened that changed Ms. Idella's fortune, and that she's receiving the medical care she needed, and sleeping in a comfortable bed every night, and is around people who will offer her the comfort, and companionship, and sense of dignity that we all should enjoy in life. But, my heart tells me otherwise. My heart tells me that it's very peculiar that she would suddenly stop sleeping on this bench. My heart tells me that perhaps the hot weather got to her, or her failing health bested her. My heart even tells me that she was living a long, hard life, and that maybe, bowing out is for the best. I hate that the thought enters my mind. It's cold. Cynical. I don't like being either.
Ms. Idella told me her full name that night. I did google search it, looking for an obituary…but nothing came up. I checked it with multiple spellings. But would a news article even have her name in it? Would she be identified? Or would she simply be an indigent woman found dead. That thought…that's the one that bothers me most of all. That's the one that tears me up most easily…that in this world of plenty, someone of unfortunate circumstances could literally die nameless. That is the worth that we lay on some peoples heads…worthless. Who needs a movie…there's the real "Purge". Every time I drive by the bench, which is daily, for a few seconds, I wonder "Where are you Ms. Idella?"
So this is for you Ms. Idella, wherever you may be. You are not forgotten. You are in my mind, and thus in my heart, and regardless of if these words ever cross your ears or eyes, hopefully your spirit can feel, can sense that someone else cares about you, is thinking about you. As Buddhists say, the light inside of me recognizes the light inside of you.


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Prof. Phillip W. Rudd
Prof. Phillip W. Rudd from Pittsburg State University, Kansas, USA is visiting as a Fulbright scholar at the Institute of African Studies where he share and explore his research interest covering Second Language Acquisition; Pragmatics; English linguistics; Ecolinguistics; Contact Linguistics; and African Linguistics.
Prof. Rudd earned his PhD from Ball State University, Indiana and his dissertation focused on determining what kind of language Sheng (Nairobi's urban vernacular) is and its linguistic features. SHENG: THE MIXED LANGUAGE OF NAIROBI, he received a distinguished dissertation award and has gone ahead and written articles and done several conferences presentation on Sheng
During his stay research will focus on Modern Citizenship in Kenya which examines the construction of identity in Kenya. The research is a buildup on Schneider's dynamic model of how an underlying process of identity reconstruction occurs in postcolonial contexts around the globe which will be applied to the basic developmental scenario of Kenya.
This model proposes that postcolonial identity is a parameter of negotiation, a social construct in which sociopsychological identity reconfigurations reflect sociolinguistic realities that have linguistic ramifications, such as language variability and dialect birth.
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Bethpage State Golf Course Pollinator Garden
I am a Beekeeper
Next Club Meeting on Sunday, November 24, 1:00
Guest Speaker: Victor Azzaretto, Bethpage State Park Head Horticulturist
He will be discussing what homeowners can do to attract native pollinators using Bethpage State Park as a template.
Starting at 1:00 PM: Our Education Director, Grace Mehl, will be discussing Winter Feeding
Coffee and snacks will be served from 1:30 to 2:00
Club meeting will start promptly at 2:00
Our meeting will be at the Smithtown Historical Society Frank Brush Barn, 211 East Main Street (Route 25), Smithtown.
President's Message: Steve Chen, LIBC President
― Rainbow Rowell, Attachments
It's October! The weather is getting colder, the blooms of goldenrod and aster are quickly diminishing, and the Hollowing is just around the corner. This is the right time to think about readying your beehives for the upcoming winter. Diseases from mite infestation, starvation, and moisture could all cause the demise of your colonies during the winter, but you can take action to give your bees the best chance possible.
For example: Have you treated your hive for Varroa? Are you leaving sufficient (60+ lb.) honey for your bees? I like upper hive entrances for the winter, but not everyone does. Regardless, be sure you don't bundle up your hive too tight! Bees, like us, need to breathe too. It's a great idea to also use an entrance reducer to keep mice out of your hives. The bottom line is - take care of your bees so they'll be ready, happy, and alive in the spring to make honey and liven up your garden!
If you're not sure what to do, simply come to the club with these and other tough beekeeping questions for our many experienced members. You'll be amazed by how happy they are to share their experience and knowledge with you.
As we approach the holiday season, I want to remind you that our club's 2019 holiday party will be on Sunday, December 8th, 2019. We always have a terrific time with delicious food, wonderful company, and great music – this year will be no exception. Come join us!
Steve Chen
Club President, LIBC
Next Club Meeting on Sunday, October 27, 2:00
Long Island Beekeepers Annual
Honey, Wax, and Mead Judging Contest
Honey Cookery and Gadget Contest
Bring your best Extracted Honey, Comb Honey, Creamed Honey, Beeswax, Mead, Baked Goods, Honey Spreads, Arts and Crafts, Photographs, and Gadgets to this year's contest and you might win a ribbon!
Contest rules can be found here.
All entrants must be paid-up members in good standing as of October of the current calendar year. Section 6 of the Bylaws states that, "only members in good standing and members of their immediate families who are present can enter contests if a member is absent, a member of his family may represent him in case of extenuating circumstances can enter items for him."
Our meeting will be at the Smithtown Historical Society Frank Brush Barn, 211 East Main Street (Route 25), Smithtown. The meeting starts promptly at 2:00.
December 8: LIBC Holiday Party
The LONG ISLAND BEEKEEPERS CLUB
Cordially Invites You to Our
December 8, 2019
At 1:00 p.m.
Smithtown Elks Club
120 Edgewood Avenue, Smithtown
Cost is $30.00 per person
Please pay by November 23rd
(no walk-ins)
You can pay at the November 24th meeting,
or Paypal below,
or mail a check made out to LIBC to
Joan Mahoney
24 Ventura Drive
North Babylon NY 11703
Questions?: saw_whet @hotmail.com
Next Club Meeting on Sunday, September 22, 2:00
Guest Speaker: Jon Zawislak, EAS Master Beekeeper and Apiculture Instructor from the Division of Agriculture at the University of Arkansas.He will be giving a presentation on "Common Beekeeping Mistakes" (but you'll only know how to avoid them if you attend the meeting).
Our meeting will be at the Sisters of St Joseph Conference Center, 1725 Brentwood Road, Brentwood NY. There will be a presentation on Winter Management at 1:00. The meeting starts promptly at 2:00.
From the Editor's Desk: September 2019
I guess this editor will have to write a letter to Dear A-Bee to find out how come my bees spent the whole spring and summer flying back and forth and all I harvested is maybe fifteen pounds of honey. Of four honey supers there was one empty, one partly full and two combined with brood above the queen excluder. The honey was great but can't extract it and lose all that brood. What a puzzle. I was so disappointed because this was my first harvest from my Bee Bee tree and I'm anxious to see if the flavor is going to be significantly different. Perhaps I should wrap a copy of The Hive and the Honey Bee into each hive over the winter and let the girls chew over that!
Apparently the media coverage for the bee school has brought some new beekeepers. We have new members to welcome: Catherine Crofts, William Rogel, Erin Fagerland, Rosaura Moralesa, and Joseph Bertoni.
Annual dues are $35. Please send a check payable to LIBC to Conni Still at 82 Stephen Road, Bayport, NY 11705, or go to the club website
Longislandbeekeepers.org and use PAYPAL, or pay directly at the next meeting.
Revised Judging Rules for Annual Contests
The judging rules for the Long Island Beekeepers Annual Honey, Wax, and Mead Contest, and the Honey Cookery, Crafts, Arts and Gadget Contest have been updated. Please read them and be prepared for next month's meeting.
The revised contest rules can be found here.
Next Club Meeting on Sunday, August 25, 2:00
Our September Meeting has something for everyone!1:00 Open Inspection of Hives with Donal Peterson. Veils Required.
2:00 Meeting starts
2:30 Varroa and how to treat and Preparing for Winter with Grace Mehl
3:00 How to prepare for Honey Judging Contest with Moira Alexander
Our meeting will be at the Smithtown Historical Society Frank Brush Barn, 211 East Main Street (Route 25), Smithtown. The meeting starts promptly at 2:00.
President's Message: Steve Chen, LIBC President
― Karl Von Frisch, "Bees: Their Vision, Chemical Senses and Language"
Ah, it's mid-August! This is one of the busiest (and most rewarding) month for beekeepers – as well as for our busy bees. For most beekeepers, except a few of us, honey supers are off the hives and this is the perfect time for checking mite levels and apply treatments if necessary. If you are lucky, your bees are still busily bringing home nectar. Wise beekeeper that you are, you will be reserving this late season's golden honey bounty for your colony's own winter use.
Overwintering and mite treatments are critical for the well-being of our bees. That is why Grace will be sharing best practices and tips on the topic of "Varroa Treatment and Preparing for winter" in her monthly What's Happening in the Hive This Month talk. Weather permitting, and it sure looks that way, Don will be opening the hives at the apiary behind the Barn, too. Please bring your veil. These two educational presentations, one indoor and one outdoor, will both start at 1 PM. You want to be there. Of course, any help setting up the room earlier are appreciated. Thanks!
Lastly, I'm happy to report that we've "applied what we preached" at the apiary atop the famed Javits Center. Our team have expertly managed the five roof-top hives there. We have recently collected honey and applied mite treatments. Because of the care and attention that we have given them, I believe these hives will overwinter very well. As a reminder, if you wish to visit these NYC hives, please contact Rick, Grace, or myself. The Center welcomes our members there, especially accompanied by our club's managing team leaders. It's a really good learning opportunity watching, and perhaps working alongside, some of the most experienced beekeepers in our club and on multiple hives. Please take advantage of it.
Bee well, and enjoy the beautiful summer days with your bees.
Steve Chen
President, LIBC
From the Editor's Desk: August 2019
What a wonderful picnic we had. Many thanks to Moira, Grace and all the helpers that moved tables and chairs and organized the fun day for many, many beekeepers and their families. The food was excellent, lots of different salads and I got to scrape up the last of the rhubarb pie that Grace made, delicious!
Thanks to John Most for helping me check my hives and apply my varroa treatment. I have lots of brood and capped honey in the brood chamber, honey in the supers but not much of that was capped yet. John came back today and I have some capped honey in the first hive and we added the second treatment. Then to our great surprise hive two had brood and some capped honey in the honey supers above the queen excluder and brood and capped honey in the brood chambers! So I either have two queens or one skinny queen or a laying worker or who knows what. We removed the excluder and will see what happens next. Will keep you posted.
Please welcome new members this month: Fergus Sloan and Norma Pardo.
Annual dues are $35. Please send a check payable to LIBC to Conni Still at 82 Stephen Road, Bayport, NY 11705, or go to the club website
Longislandbeekeepers.org and use PAYPAL, or pay directly at the next meeting.
President's Message: Steve Chen, LIBC President
― Leo Tolstoy
We beekeepers are lucky to have the pleasure of working closely with and caring for these wonderful creatures. During these hot days of summer, I hope that your bees are staying healthy, enjoying the warmth, and otherwise doing what they do best: busily buzzing everywhere. As we admire them work, we have work of our own too: including hive inspections and mite monitoring, as their pantry grows and the colony continues to grow as well.
Although swarms are less of an issue in the summer, they will still occur if we're not careful. Therefore, you'll need to be on the lookout for them, as well as robbing as the summer dearth approaches. Of course, this is also the perfect time to start harvesting honey.
Please be reminded that July's meeting will be our annual picnic, and you don't want to miss it! We have so much fun every year. So come join us for a day of talking bees and socializing.
Lastly, if you're interested in visiting Jacob Javits Convention Center's rooftop apiary with our team of experienced beekeepers - or volunteering at our outreach events at farms, schools, fairs, etc. - please contact our outreach director, Rick.
Bee well, stay cool, and see you soon.
Steve Chen
President, LIBC
From the Editor's Desk: July 2019
I really miss our dear Frank Kiss today! About four years ago Frank gave me a two foot sapling of the Evodia daniellii (Korean Evodia) also known as the Bee Bee Tree. I planted it in my front yard and tended it carefully and patiently watch it grow. It is now about 7-8 feet tall and this morning it BLOOMED! The girls discovered it and despite the heat they were checking out this new source of pollen and nectar. This tree is a wonderful one because it is blooming during a nectar and pollen dearth. I can't wait to taste this year's honey and see if I can detect a difference in the flavor. Thanks again Frank Kiss!
I added another honey super last week, not as much honey capped as I had hoped but I needed to add the box when I had a helper. My friend gave me a hand, her father kept bees and this was her first time helping me. She did well, the bees were very calm so I hope she can be another person I can count on to help me with the lifting when needed.
An excellent meeting again last month, 73 members signed in, did you remember to sign the attendance list, we are keeping record of the number of attendees!
Please welcome new members this month: Paul Wunderlich, Mark Sauer, Gerard Knox, Catherine Muller, John Ree, and Barbara Strinweis.
Don't forget to wear your Club Tee Shirts for the Annual Club Photo!!!
Annual dues are $35. Please send a check payable to LIBC to Conni Still at 82 Stephen Road, Bayport, NY 11705, or go to the club website
Longislandbeekeepers.org and use PAYPAL, or pay directly at the next meeting.
Pollinator Day at Hoyt Farm, Saturday, July 13th
Outreach Opportunities
It is a great chance to show off your honeybee knowledge to the general public... plus your family/friends will be happy you talk to someone else for a day. ;)
We have an opportunity to set up a table or two at REI in Carle Place
Available dates are July 10, 17, 19 & 31
Anytime 10am-9pm (the heaviest store traffic is between 6pm-8pm)
You can set up indoors or outdoors and can even show off some of your bees by bringing an observation hive.
Country Glen Center Address:
144 Glen Cove Rd, Carle Place, NY 11514
August 3rd
Long Island's first mead festival, in Lindenhurst, presented by WA Meadwerks & LI Beer and Malt Enthusiasts
132 N Wellwood Ave, Lindenhurst, NY 11757
August 24th & 25th
39th Hallockville Country Fair
An outdoor event that attracts over 4000 visitors. It's a great way to get the word out about our bees and to promote LIBC.
6038 Sound Avenue • Riverhead, New York 11901
Next Club Meeting on Sunday, July 28, 2:00
Club Picnic
Our meeting will be at the Smithtown Historical Society Frank Brush Barn, 211 East Main Street (Route 25), Smithtown. The meeting starts promptly at 2:00.
LIBC Observer Request Information
For those interested in observing on-site hive manipulation and maintenance activity please note the following, THERE ARE NO EXCEPTIONS.
- Must be a current member of LIBC
- There is a maximum of 2 guest observers (the member, plus 1 other individual)
- Sign up is required (see additional guidance below) and is on a first-come, first serve basis
- Observers are responsible for getting to and from the Javits Center on their own
- Absolutely NO outside bee equipment may be brought to the rooftop
- Beekeeping suits are available on-site
TO SIGN UP: Send a request email to firstname.lastname@example.com and Rick Cannone will assist with coordinating a date and time for the observation. Please note that maintenance may be done on either a weekday or weekend depending on the availability of the responsible LIBC designees.
Once the observation date and time is set, observers (and as applicable their guest), MUST ARRIVE ON TIME. Once the caretaking LIBC team member goes up to the roof, they are UNABLE to come down to sign observers and guests in. Those who are not on time will not be permitted to experience the observation.
Picture-taking of the observation experience is acceptable, however ALL POSTINGS TO SOCIAL MEDIA MUST BE AUTHORIZED AND APPROVED IN WRITING by the appropriate Javits Center personnel. Rick Cannone can assist in obtaining this approval.
From the Editor's Desk: June 2019
Bees are buzzing. Did a full hive inspection last weekend thanks to help from John Most. My new nuc built a lot of burr comb, bringing in tons of pollen, a fairly nice pattern of brood, nectar and some capped honey.
The over wintered hive must have thrown a swarm and took off for Girl Scout Camp Edey right behind my apiary. Or maybe to one of our own members who lives on the other side of the camp. I called Don to replace the queen but when he came to put her in they had finally done the job themselves and he found larvae the workers bringing lots of pollen. Thanks for checking it out Don, hopefully they will behave now. My son and family are coming for a visit next week and they are all anxious to get another lesson in beekeeping so we can check things out and put another super on.
Last months meeting was a little smaller since it was a holiday weekend, only 72 members attended. We welcome new member Judy Callaway and thanks to those who renewed their membership.
Annual dues are $35. Please send a check payable to LIBC to Conni Still at 82 Stephen Road, Bayport, NY 11705, or go to the club website
Longislandbeekeepers.org and use PAYPAL, or pay directly at the next meeting.
Next Club Meeting on Sunday, June 23, 2:00
Guest Speaker: Kirsten Traynor - National Honey Bee Disease Survey & Pesticide Results
Kirsten received the prestigious German Chancellor Scholarship from the Humboldt Foundation in 2006-2007, annually awarded to ten American leaders in their field. She drove over 50,000 miles throughout Western Europe to study the differences between European and American beekeeping, reporting her findings through 50+ published articles in national and international magazines. At the same time she interviewed scientists and medical doctors, gathering information for her book: Two Million Blossoms: Discovering the Medicinal Benefits of Honey.
Fascinated with the social complexity of a honey bee hive, Kirsten earned her PhD in biology from Arizona State University. While a grad student, she spent almost a year in Avignon, France in the lab of Dr. Yves Le Conte as a Fulbright Fellow. She then investigated how pesticides impact honey bee health as a post doc at the University of Maryland in the lab of Dr. vanEngelsdorp. From 2015-2017 she edited Bee World, published by the International Bee Research Association. She edited American Bee Journal, a monthly magazine published since 1861 that is devoted to educating beekeepers. She's currently a fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin, Germany.
Our meeting will be at the Smithtown Historical Society Frank Brush Barn, 211 East Main Street (Route 25), Smithtown. The meeting starts promptly at 2:00.
Next Club Meeting on Sunday, May 26, 2:00
Guest Speaker: Rich Blohm, Master Beekeeper on Hiving a Swarm
Our meeting will be at the Smithtown Historical Society Frank Brush Barn, 211 East Main Street (Route 25), Smithtown. The meeting starts promptly at 2:00.
President's Message: Steve Chen, LIBC President
One clover, and a bee,
And revery.
The revery alone will do,
If bees are few. "
- Emily Dickinson
Although the weather could be a bit warmer and a lot dryer, the bees are flying and that's a wonderful sight to see. They are building up in strength in numbers, too, soon we'll need to add honey supers! Strong hives is a good thing, and necessary for a good honey harvest. But finding a dozen or so queen cells, as I did yesterday, in one of the hives could be disastrous. You know what seeing queen cells everywhere means: The swarming season is upon us!
For us here on the Island, the swarm season starts about now through June. We beekeepers may not like to lose bees to swarming, but that is nature's way of honey bee reproduction. Managing swarming tendencies of our hives is, therefore, an important aspect of spring time beekeeping – and the focus of our meeting this month.
We have a special meeting program for May. I'm pleased that past club president, and Master Beekeeper, Rich Blohm will be talking to us about "swarming and beekeeper induced artificial swarms." Rich's presentation will include both an indoor lecture as well as an outdoor demonstration on creating an artificial swarm – with real bees. You don't want to miss this hands-on and information-packed presentation.
The other special thing we will be doing at the May meeting is to pay attention to you and discuss your questions, one-on-one. There are so many beekeeping questions by our members this time of the year that it makes sense for us to focus on you this month. We will pair our dozen or so Meeting Mentors with members in small groups to answer and talk about questions that anyone have. It has been several weeks since the package bees and Nucs were installed into hives, so bring all your questions and observations.
Our Education Director Grace's "What's happening in the hive this month", by the way, will also touch up swarming (and more, of course). The topic will be: "Methods of Supering , Taking Honey and Extracting and Hiving a Swarm". Her presentation will start at 1 PM as usual, but if you can arrive around 12:30 PM and help us set up the room, that will be greatly appreciated.
Finally, as a reminder, our next month's speaker will be Dr. Kirsten Traynor, and the club's popular annual July BBQ will be just around the corner. Please mark your calendar, you won't want to miss them.
Bee well and see you all soon.
Steve Chen
President, LIBC
From the Editor's Desk: May 2019
Did everyone get their new bees? Mine came,( thanks Donal,) and they went right into their new home very nicely with some help from Lorraine (thanks Lorraine) and seemed very happy with their new home. They have been flying around on the few days that the sun has been shining! What crazy rainy weather we have been having. I supered my hive that overwintered, they were not happy to be disturbed, so I did a very quick open and close since I was really not supposed to be lifting the box but needed to get it on. Hoping to get the new hive supered Sunday and with luck go through the hive and make sure Royal Highness the Queen is doing her job. They also discovered the hummingbird feeder. At least somebody is using it.
Another great meeting last month: 109 members signed in! And ELEVEN new members joined the club. Let us welcome Judith Treible, Kevin McAllister, Kevin Creamer, Adam Mick, Cassandra Trimaraco, Linda Baldwin & Adolfo Carrion, Steven Mockler, Peter Bielecky, Julie Doetsch, and Jaclyn Waxon.
Annual dues are $35. Please send a check payable to LIBC to Conni Still at 82 Stephen Road, Bayport, NY 11705, or go to the club website
Longislandbeekeepers.org and use PAYPAL, or pay directly at the next meeting.
Next Club Meeting on Sunday, April 28, 2:00
Guest Speaker: Christopher Logue, NY Department of Agriculture - What is Happening in New York?
Our meeting will be at the Smithtown Historical Society Frank Brush Barn, 211 East Main Street (Route 25), Smithtown. The meeting starts promptly at 2:00.
From the Editor's Desk: April 2019
Another fantastic meeting with 108 members in attendance. Fortunately some had extra chairs in their cars and brought them in so everyone had a place to sit. It might be a good idea to continue to do this if we keep up with everyone coming to the Beekeeping 101 and then staying for the regular meeting.
We are all waiting for our bees, the bad weather in the south and Midwest delayed the deliveries but hopefully they will have been delivered by the meeting. Make sure you have a supply of syrup ready to feed those new bees and check to see if the queen gets out of her cage.
We welcome more new members: Amanda Nadeau, Eric Hwang, Joseph Giordano, Joseph Affrunti, Vicki & Rich Pardo, Theresa Dilworth, Stacey Ries, Randal Wolfer, Jim Sheehy, Eileen Sheehy, Carlo Annese, and Timothy Scott.
Annual dues are $35. Please send a check payable to LIBC to Conni Still at 82 Stephen Road, Bayport, NY 11705, or go to the club website
Longislandbeekeepers.org and use PAYPAL, or pay directly at the next meeting.
President's Message: Steve Chen, LIBC President
- Leonardo da Vinci
Thinking of da Vinci's words and picturing the bees in our gardens, I can't wait for the weather to stay warm enough for our bees to gather nectar and transform it into honey!!
Although the temperature hit 70 degrees just recently, it has dropped down to the 40's in the past few days. We beekeepers know that this is a critical time for our overwintering bees – a time when our queens are beginning to lay eggs in earnest, anticipating the steady spring weather to come in a few weeks. The workers will then be sent out to forage flowers and trees in full force. Many of us are eagerly awaiting our flying bees to make their sustained appearance, while others are equally anxiously awaiting the arrivals of their package bees or nucs. In short, this is the season of anticipation before the frantic activities of spring! It is the perfect time, too, to ready yourselves by getting your equipment in order and beefing up your beekeeping knowledge.
To help you with beekeeping knowledge, at our upcoming club meeting, the "What's Happening This Month" presentation featuring Education Director Grace will be: How To Do An Inspection and What's Blooming. The talk will start at 1PM at our club meeting on March 24. If weather permits, VP Donald will be opening the hives at the Barn at 1 PM too; bring your veil. As always, bring your questions for Grace, Don, and our Meeting Mentors.
We are especially excited to welcome Dr. Juliana Rangel, Professor of Apiculture at Texas A&M University to be our speaker this month. Dr. Rangel will be speaking about "Factors That Affect the Reproductive Quality of Honey Bee Queens and Drones". An exciting topic as we anticipate colonies rearing new queens in the spring for swarm preparation, and we performing hive splits with these new queens.
Lastly, I'm pleased to announce a new and unique educational opportunity for our membership – in the city! Thanks to Rick, our Outreach Director, who helped us secured an outreach project to manage several bee colonies atop the famed Javits Center. We also appreciate the team of experienced members (including Rick, Carl, Bill, Andrew, Moira, Roy, Joan, Marianne, Don, and Grace) who volunteered to share the workload of maintaining those colonies as well as serve as instructors during our club members' visits. I anticipate Rick will have a sign-up sheet available later in the spring for those interested in experiencing rooftop beekeeping in the city while overlooking the Hudson River.
See you at the club meeting on Sunday, March 24!
Steve Chen
President, LIBC
From the Editor's Desk: March 2019
Last months meeting was another amazing spectacle! With about 100 members attending and carefully removing their shoes and walking on the paper so well laid on the newly sanded floor thanks to Moira and Grace we had two great presentations, one by Grace and the other byTim McMahon. We had good Q&A and the refreshments break gave lots of people a chance to mingle and get acquainted with some of the new beekeepers. Don't forget to look for the "Mentor" badges if you have questions, they can help you find the answers.
My bees have been flying on these fifty degree days, but looking at some pictures in my phone I realized that one year ago next week we had a foot of that "White Stuff". So check and see if you need to feed your bees!
We had another great number of new beekeepers sign up this month. Please welcome: David Ulrich, Chad Gallant, Phillip Linbrunner,Christina Avallone, Elizabeth Oberhausen, Arlene Rawls, Roger Kamm, Karen & Stephen Giordano, Isabel Fernandez, Lorrie Koelbet, Kristin Fox, K, John Rowan, Joe & Tina Kovolisky, Amy Hirsch, Rosie Lee, Cathy Hassell, Milos Vucovich, and Lily Schwartz
Annual dues are $35. Please send a check payable to LIBC to Conni Still at 82 Stephen Road, Bayport, NY 11705, or go to the club website
Longislandbeekeepers.org and use PAYPAL, or pay directly at the next meeting.
Next Club Meeting on Sunday, March 24, 2:00
Guest Speaker: Juliana Rangel - Factors That Affect the Reproductive Quality of Honeybee Queens and Drones
Our meeting will be at the Smithtown Historical Society Frank Brush Barn, 211 East Main Street (Route 25), Smithtown. The meeting starts promptly at 2:00.
From the Editor's Desk: February 2019
I was greatly relieved today. Yesterday when I came home from work I went out to the apiary and saw John Holden's bees flying and a lot of bees
on my hive #1 near the fence. John keeps one hive in my yard since he can't have them at his home. It was almost swarm like, very frantic and all
I could think was my hives were dead and Johns bees were robbing the hive. I saw nothing in hive #2 and #3 had been dead since fall. I was really
nervous when I went out today all suited up. Everyone was out except the dead hive, but still not sure if it could be robbing.
I opened # 2 and the bees poured out of the hole in the inner cover. They still had a lot of fondant and I lifted one frame that had honey, brood and
nectar. I went to hive #1 and it had even more bees which was probably why they were out the other day. Very little fondant and no honey on the frame
I pulled. I will slice some up later and throw it on quickly tomorrow. Feeling much happier. Now just hope the ground hog is right about that early spring.
I will order one nuc to replace the dead one and hope for a good year.
I think we have had a record number of new members join the club since the end of December to the present. Please extend a warm welcome to the following new
beekeepers: Carolyn Adamo, Sotiria Amigdalos, Carole Bennett, Regina Buck, Liza & Michael Clarke, Lynn Contursi, Chris Fairbairn, Daeiliasz Furmanik,
Linda Gibbons, Haydee Gomez, Deborah & Bridget Hanley, Esther Hou, Joe Ianucci, Kim Kittredge, Holly Klokis, Karen LaSorsa, Donna & Lucas Lee,
Richard Lee, Nicholas, Mazard, Anna McCarroll, John Most, Maggie Murphy, Deborah Pangallo, Daniel Pickney, Corey Pickney, Althanasios Plakas,
Georgine Podhorszky, Rev. James Rea, Katia Read, Milienos Savvas, Lori Schultz, Justin Schwartz, Arthur Schwartz, Bridget Siegel, Kari Stirnweis,
Thomas Stirnweis, Melissa Taylor, Senna Washington, Spencer Whittaker, Charles G. diPierro, Matthew Claeson, Alex Hardie, Archimedes &
Michael Perdios, Brad Learmonth, Joseph Taglieri, AFC-Express, Robert Vila, Lilia Orlova, Andrea O'Keeffe and Katherine Luberto.
We had a large number of renewals as well, by check, cash and Paypal, BUT only 1/3 of last years members have renewed so far. Please send your dues as
soon as possible so we will have the money for the exciting programs we have planned for you!
Annual dues are $35. Please send a check payable to LIBC to Conni Still at 82 Stephen Road, Bayport, NY 11705, or go to the club website
Longislandbeekeepers.org and use PAYPAL, or pay directly at the next meeting.
President's Message: Steve Chen, LIBC President
Great news! Phil the groundhog emerged recently in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania and didn't see his shadow! Closer to home, Staten Island's own groundhog, Chuck, agreed too. Those two weather predictors are as reliable as it comes - according to some. I'm just happy that they're here to assure us that spring will be here early!
With spring comes busy bee activities. Are you ready? Besides getting your bee equipment and bees in order, the next few week of "down time" are also the right time to keep up and beef up on your beekeeping knowledge. To start, I urge you to check out our club website. There are other excellent online resources too, such as the Bee Informed Partnership (https://beeinformed.org/) and New York Bee Wellness Workshops (http://nybeewellness.org/). You may also want to read a beekeeping magazine such as Bee Culture Magazine or the American Bee Journal. They are full of the latest beekeeping news and information. Reading a new beekeeping book or reviewing a favorite are good ideas too.
If you prefer YouTube videos, University of Florida's Honey Bee Research & Extension Lab http://entnemdept.ufl.edu/honey-bee/extension/, Honey Bee Research Centre at the University of Guelph https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3mjpM6Av4bxbxps_Gh5YPw/videos, and Cornell's Dyce Bee Lab https://pollinator.cals.cornell.edu/resources/, for example, are great places for outstanding videos. Keep in mind that what you see working in Florida or Canada may not work quite the same for us here on Long Island. Besides understanding where the information is coming from, please also keep in mind the experience and background of the presenters. I recommend you read and watch videos with a healthy bit of skepticism. Remember that local knowledge is most relevant to our local beekeeping conditions, which is a great reason for you to connect with members of our own club.
Our club is doing its part to help educate new beekeepers through our meetings and our annual spring beekeeping classes. Thanks to Grace and Moira's hard work these past two months, over a hundred new beekeepers are now more prepared and equipped to take on the challenges and rewards of beekeeping. We also want to thank our instructors, Tom, Marianne, Andrew, Moira, Grace, Joan, Roy, and Pete, among others. Learning from experienced members, some of them with over 50 years of beekeeping experience right here on Long Island, is the best way possible to improve your beekeeping ability. Please take advantage of that and seek out these mentors at our club meetings.
Thank to our Program Director, Moira, we have the best meeting program anywhere. Looking ahead, we have scheduled several outstanding speakers to present at our meetings. Please keep these dates in mind:
- February 24 - Tim McMahon, "How Honeybees Differ From Native Bees"
- March 24 - Dr. Juliana Rangel, "Factors That Affect the Reproductive Quality of Honeybee Queens and Drones"
- April 28 - Christopher A. Logue, "NY Department of Agriculture - What is Happening in NY?"
- May 26 - Tech Team Information, "Ask a Master Beekeeper"
- June 23 - Dr. Kirsten Traynor, "National Honey Bee Disease Survey & Pesticide Results"
- July 28 - Club's Annual Club Picnic
Bee well, and we'll see you at the club meeting on Sunday, Feb. 24!
Next Club Meeting on Sunday, February 24, 2:00
Guest Speaker: Tim McMahon - How Honeybees Differ From Native Bees?
Tim McMahon is and EAS Master Beekeeper and a Georgia Master Beekeeper. Mr. McMahon has been keeping bees for over 12 years and has been involved in beekeeping with local, state and regional clubs. He has also spent countless hours in the field collecting native bees for the USGS Native Bee Lab and for the Smithsonian Institution. In February, Mr. McMahon will take part in his fifth trip to Costa Rica with a group from the University of California Berkeley to study native bees of Central America. In his spare time, Mr. McMahon is a Chemical Engineer for the US Patent Office and has two sons who think their father is completely nuts for keeping bees.
Our meeting will be at the Smithtown Historical Society Frank Brush Barn, 211 East Main Street (Route 25), Smithtown. The meeting starts promptly at 2:00.
From the Editor's Desk: January 2019
| I apologize for the problem that AOL has caused by not allowing me to send bulk mail, preventing me from sending the email newsletters. Grace Mehl is hopefully going to send this month's edition until I get my computer set up properly with help from Rick Cannone. I have included some of the material from November and December that was important, the rest I will forward to George to add to the Website when he can. Thank you for your patience.
President's Message: Steve Chen, LIBC President
On behalf of the Long Island Beekeepers Club's Board of Directors, I want to wish everyone a Happy New Year! May 2019 be an exceptional year for you and your honey bees.
The Board has been busy at work planning another exciting year for our members. Under our First Responders' Program, for example, several of our most experienced members expect to visit at least 20 members' bee yards by July, to provide one-on-one education and to inspect for early signs of disease or pests. Please contact Donal, our Vice President, with questions or to sign up to participate.
We have a wonderful speakers' program planned for the year. Thanks to Moira, our Program Director, we will be seeing Dr. Juliana Rangel of Texas A&M in March and Dr. Kristen Traynor from the University of Maryland in June, along with many other notable speakers at our monthly meetings.
Education and information are critical in keeping our bees healthy and thriving. This year, we'll continue to hold 30-minute lectures before our meetings, starting at 1:00 PM. Grace, our Education Director, is now calling these presentations "What's Happening in the Hive This Month". Additionally, as weather permits (definitely not this week!), Donal will hold his "Open Hives" outdoor sessions at the beehives behind the Barn, also at 1:00 PM.
Thanks to Conni, our Membership Director, our monthly newsletter, "The BEELINE", continues to be packed full of outstanding materials and information for us. If you have bee-related questions, please send them to Conni. She will find the answers for you, and your letter might just appear in her "Dear A-Bee" column!
If you're interested in being involved with the club's outreach activities, please contact Rick, our Outreach Director. He'll be happy to send you to fairs and schools. Rick is currently spearheading a potential project that will expose our members to interesting hand-on beekeeping experiences and publicity!
As you know, the club is run by volunteers and we could use many more. If you're interested in participating during the club meetings or being on the Board, please contact George, our Immediate Past President and Webmaster, or our club Secretary, Marianne. We will put your talents to good use for our members.
Lastly, please mark down the 2019 club meeting dates on your calendar and be prepared to join us at the club on these Sunday afternoons:
January 27, February 24, March 24, April 28, May 26, June 23,
July 28 (annual club picnic), August 25, September 29, October 27 (Honey Judging Contest),November 24, and December 8 (Annual Holiday Party).
With your participation, I know 2019 will be a sweet and golden year for us all. Happy beekeeping!!
Next Club Meeting on Sunday, January 27, 2:00
Guest Speaker: Brenna Taver - How Does Nosema Impact Your Bees?Brenna Traver received her PhD in Entomology from Virginia Tech in 2011. She continued on at Virginia Tech following the receipt of a USDA NIFA Postdoctoral Fellowship to investigate the impact of different in-hive pesticides on pathogens and immunity in honey bees. In 2014 she accepted an Assistant Professor of Biology position at Penn State Schuylkill, where she teaches various molecular and genetics courses. She continues to focus on how pathogens, specifically Nosema ceranae, are impacting honey bee colonies. She has given over 40 presentations at both scientific meetings and at extension events, is co-author on more than 35 additional presentations, has 13 conference proceedings, published 12 peer-reviewed articles, 5 extension articles, and one book chapter. She works closely with undergraduates, working with over 20 students on research projects during the past few years, and is currently the Theta Chi Theta Chapter advisor of the national biological honor society, Beta Beta Beta.
Our meeting will be at the Smithtown Historical Society Frank Brush Barn, 211 East Main Street (Route 25), Smithtown. The meeting starts promptly at 2:00.
LIBC Meeting Schedule for 2019
February 24th: Tim McMahon - How Honeybees Differ From Native Bees?
March 24th: Juliana Rangel - Factors That Affect the Reproductive Quality of Honeybee Queens and Drones
April 28th: Christopher Logue, NY Department of Agriculture - What is Happening in New York?
May 26th: Ask a Master Beekeeper
June 23rd: Kirsten Traynor - National Honey Bee Disease Survey & Pesticide Results
July 28th: Club Picnic
August 25th: TBA
September 22th: Jon Zawislak
October 27th: Honey Judging Contest
November 24th: Honey Tasting Contest
December 8th: Holiday Party


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OH* Chemiluminescence: Pressure Dependence of O + H + M = OH* + M
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The measure of chemiluminescence from the transition of the hydroxyl radical from its electronically excited state (A^2 Sigma^positive) to its ground state (X^2 Pi) is used in many combustion applications for diagnostic purposes due to the non-intrusive nature of the chemiluminescence measurement. The presence of the ultraviolet emission at 307nm is often used as an indicator of the flame zone in practical combustion systems, and its intensity may be correlated to the temperature distribution or other parameters of interest. To date, the measurement of the excited state OH, OH*, is mostly qualitative. With the use of an accurate chemical kinetics model, however, it is possible to obtain quantitative measurements. Shock-tube experiments have been performed in highly diluted mixtures of H2/O2/Ar at a wide range of pressures to evaluate the pressure-dependent rate coefficient of the title reaction. In such mixtures the main contributing reaction to the formation of OH* is, O H M = OH* M. R1 Previous work has determined the reaction rate of R1 at atmospheric conditions and accurately predicts the amount of OH* experimentally produced. At elevated pressures up to 15 atm, which are of interest to the gas turbine community, the currently used reaction rate of R1 (i.e., without any pressure dependence) significantly over predicts the amount of OH* formed. This work provides the pressure dependence of R1. The new reaction rate is able to reproduce the experimental data over the range of conditions studied and enables quantitative measurements applicable to practical combustion environments.
Donato, Nicole (2009). OH* Chemiluminescence: Pressure Dependence of O + H + M = OH* + M. Master's thesis, Texas A&M University. Available electronically from http : / /hdl .handle .net /1969 .1 /ETD -TAMU -2009 -12 -7564.


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I have an Apple Mac 17' portable but need both Mac and PC for my work. I need to be able to carry they both to meetings and I don't want to lug too much around with me! I'm too old! I am in the UK and want therefore a lightweight, slim good spec. laptop that is preferably about 15 inch screen without spending TOO much. (I don't need a large hard disk).
Can anyone recommend please?
Thanks, Victoria.
If you can live within the specs get a 10 inch netbook. Small enough, Light, adequate for most software.
You do not state any more than it is a laptop, Apple make various models, both PPC and Intel.
Virtual PC like VMware Fusion 3 is for Intel Macs and may be a solution:


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A leading contender for the Palme d'Or, Carol, starring Cate Blanchett in a lesbian love story, gets its world premiere at Cannes on May 17.
Early reviews for the film, set in New York in the 1950s and directed by American film-maker Todd Haynes, have been so glowing that it is already generating Oscar buzz - at the very least for Australian actress Cate Blanchett, 46.
Cate, who has already won two acting Oscars, for The Aviator and Blue Jasmine, is "incandescent" in the role of a socialite who begins a relationship with a shopgirl (played by Rooney Mara) despite the personal and societal hazards that poses, according to Variety magazine.
It has "supreme intelligence, breathtaking poise and filmmaking craft of the most sophisticated yet accessible order," Variety said. Reviewers were nearly unanimous over Todd Haynes's "masterful" restraint, which drew the audience along until the end, when a stately yet powerful climax brought tears to the eyes of even hardened film critics.
Movie website Indiewire called it 'a love story that starts at a trickle, swells gradually to a torrent, and finally bursts the banks of your heart.'
The movie is based on a book by Patricia Highsmith, who wrote crime thrillers including The Talented Mr Ripley. Here, there is no "crime" committed - although the women's relationship is viewed as such in the reproving period in which it is set.
"The almost-pathological paranoia that is usually defined as criminal is, in this case, romantic," Tod Haynes, who is gay, explained to The Hollywood Reporter.
"Even before it became a story about lesbian love - which was, of course, criminal, as defined by the world at that time - it was just about love itself as something criminal, he said."
Ultimately, though, it seeks to tell a universal love story built around themes of sacrifice and defiance, and pursuing love with dignity.
That it is filmed with superlative costumes, intricate attention to detail, and irreproachable performances heightens the impact.
Mr Haynes and Cate had worked together before, on I'm Not There, in which Cate is one of a cast of actors who play Bob Dylan.
If Carol ends up winning Cannes's Palme d'Or trophy in a week's time, it won't be the first time a sensitive picture about a lesbian couple has won over the jury.
Blue is the Warmest Colour, a French lesbian drama, picked up the top prize in 2013. In an unusual step, the award was given not just to the director but also to the two female leads, in order to bypass a Cannes rule that the Palme d'Or and acting trophies cannot go to the same film.
Carol, which has been financed by British and American companies, is scheduled to be released in the United States in December - a key point in the calendar for films seen with Oscar potential. The rest of the world will likely only get to see it in 2016.


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Year: 2019
Synopsis: A Demon and an Angel, who have developed a distinct relationship over the past 6,000 years, set out to prevent Armageddon.
• A divinely, devilishly fun story fully driven by characters driven by a mad plot.
• Crowly (David Tennant) and Aziraphale (Michael Sheen) are a perfect odd couple, as the overall plot revolved around seemingly opposite sets of beings. Everyone had a great time in this.
• Only grew more hilarious and engrossing as the series progressed.
• Unique in its own right, while not only refusing to shy away from what it parodies, but also highlights how the original story likely inspired other series like Supernatural.
• The equal parts dark and light visuals perhaps stays with the viewer as much as the parodic story.
• Perhaps related to the story likely inspiring others, the overall plot was not wholly unpredictable.
• Might leave the viewer wanting more when, like the original novel, there probably won't be. Indeed, much of the purportedly outlined sequel was incorporated into the series.
Good Omens was all about the fallacy of seeing everything in black and white, good and evil. In the beginning, quite literally, both Crowly and Aziraphale do the wrong thing for the right reasons. And even before that, it was clear the sides they chose were what felt right, when both secretly wonder about even that choice. Perhaps Agnes Nutter manipulated future events with knowledge of past wonderings, or perhaps she merely ushered things along. Perhaps only time itself will tell, as the Antichrist had the power to chose something beyond good and evil as it was known. In the end, it was all about the inevitable and unsuspecting choices they all needed to make. Maybe all that really matters is a good apple and the miracle of a good table opening up at the favorite restaurant at the other side of our universe.
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Created: November 15, 2019 07:26 PM
ALBANY - ESports is a growing, high grossing industry that isn't going anywhere.
The University at Albany is doing its part to keep up with the Joneses. The school held a grand opening for its new eSports arena on Friday.
This year, the industry surpassed $1 billion in revenue. That's up more than 26 percent from last year.
The global eSports audience is now up to 453 million people.
The discipline is headed up by Head Coach Michael Lexzinsky, who is a professor in the College of Emergency Preparedness, Homeland Security, and Cybersecurity.
He says there is a misconception that eSports are anti-social activities.
To the contrary, Lexzinsky says they build team building and communication skills, just as well as traditional physical sports.
Meet some of the arena's first players by watching the video of Emily Burkhard's story.
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