text: The President's Smoker Right now is the time of year where you really can't do too much with your colonies. It's just to bloody hot out, the bees can get cranky, there is no nectar flow going which means no activity and worst of all, we just have to convince our busy August 2009 Volume 29 No. 3 little minds to accept these facts. Published Bi-Monthly since 1980 by the That is unless you have a multitude of experiments going Bowie-Upper Marlboro Beekeepers Association on in your apiary; like new nucs trying to build, queenless www.BUMBAbees.com http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/BUMBABEE/ colonies trying to turn the corner before fall arrives, colonies that you robbed frames from to build nucs that need feeding for comb production and stores, etc. The work still continues and feeding can get real interesting this time of the year with robbing! Our Next Meeting If you started out with good, problem free packages or nucs this year and you did your part, the outside of your August Doldrums: colonies should be covered with bees right about now. This is exactly the population you want in your colonies come late A Beekeeping Catch-All Month and Meeting March and early April of next year so they can capitalize on Thursday, August 6, 7:30 PM! next year's short spring/summer nectar flow and produce the golden bounty we seek. The preparation for getting your Watkins Park Nature Center colonies to this populous state begins now and ends 30 days before the cold nights set in. Most of the preparation this At our next meeting we will talking about nectar flows time of year is more mental than physical. Although you will fall management procedures, robbing, judging honey occasionally be going into your colonies over the next few entries, the club display, you name it! This will be a fairly months checking for Varroa loads, food stores, queen health, loose meeting so anyone who wants to talk or share their brood and disease, you should also be researching and methods or what they have done that works can share, and determining what mite management technique, if any, you ask and answer questions during the "Q & A" session as well. feel comfortable with and how and when you will employ it. Hope to see everyone at the meeting, Many people, myself included, don't treat for mites and as a Scott Seccomb result we loose colonies. Those that do manage to over winter and survive mite loads and other issues we term ―survivor colonies.‖ ―Survivor colonies‖ have somehow figured out how to manage their mite load and other issues, they usually don't require any assistance from us. These colonies are the 1 best you can get, need to be preserved at all costs and need top off their stores. If you do this, make sure the queen to used for propagation purposes in the future. excluder comes off no later than the middle of September. A lot can happen between now and when we have to walk away from them for the winter months. The fall flow, which CLUB DISPLAY really IS NOT a decent food source for honeybees, is still to come. On occasion this can cause a late swarm to issue, One thing that has been on my plate for the last few years causing your colony to re-queen itself late in the year. By this is the BUMBA Club Display; this thing has been eating at me time most of the drones are gone, so guess what? No drones, like a piranha! This is the year that it will be done, even if I no bred queen, no more colony! What should you do now? have to do it all myself. We have numerous backboards Long before the fall flow, robbers can strip colonies of all their available for it and I have hundreds of good quality, high- stores in a matter of a few hours. Will you be able to tell if resolution pictures taken over the years. We have to have this has happened? What will you do late in the season if you something together and delivered to the fair by the end of witness robbing or discover a colony is void of stores? All this August for judging. If you have any beekeeping related while assessing the overall health of your colonies for the pictures depicting how much fun beekeeping is, bee shots, survival for the cold months ahead ads up to a pretty full group shots, funny shots, artistic shots, please forward them mental plate, wouldn't you say? Here's some food for thought, to me for consideration. Over the next week I will come up 10,000 bees need 25 pounds of stores to winter on for 30 with the layout. What I really, really need most is for days, and 30.000 bees need 26 pounds of stores for 30 days. someone to design and create club and title plaques briefly So it would seem a good size cluster going into winter is a explaining the pictures. This display will depict beekeeping in definite advantage. A large cluster is much more efficient and Maryland with the underlying theme of how much fun and requires less caloric intake to produce or more importantly, how interesting beekeeping really is. The end goal of the ‖maintain‖, the necessary amount of warmth to stay mobile display is to get the viewer so fascinated by it, they can't wait within the colony while they slowly move up through the food to sign up! stores during the winter months. Courtesy of Dr. Richard Fell LOW STAKE MISTAKES PhD. The first and most important step has hopefully been Some of the best education in beekeeping stems from completed, building your colonies to 20 frames and having mistakes we either made knowingly (after the fact) or around 70 pounds of stored nectar/sugar syrup/bee- procedures we performed that were anticipated to produce a bread/pollen between those two boxes. Ideally you want most predicted and desired outcome. One thing is certain, you can of the stores in the top box so the bees can move up through never count on any colony(s) to do the same thing twice just it over the cold months ahead. Some colonies will ―pre because what you did seems like common sense and the bees arrange‖ it this way and some won't. A little later when it should respond accordingly to your way of thinking. This is cools down, you can help them out and re-arrange it for nature we are talking about; they have their own schedule. them. Or you could use the 'move the queen down' trick now For the low maintenance beekeeper, the best we can expect and let them finish filling those new empty brood cells in the to do is to try and figure out what phase of their schedule top box with the minor fall flow and additional sugar syrup to they are in, keep them healthy and assist them if needed 2 along the way. For those of us who prefer to ―test‖ our bees Fortunately and with the effort of many BUMBA Members, and see just how far we can push them, the possibilities are our club has grown into an organization that can probably about endless. This is where you really learn all the nuances get most of its members out of any situation that may arise associated with beekeeping. After all, how much can you with your colonies. This is what clubs are all about, pulling expect to learn from a book and a colony that rarely gets together, helping each other out of tight spots, sharing all we opened? know about beekeeping and never forgetting about the basics There is just so much to know about beekeeping. of the common good. Unexpected outcomes are what drive Remembering all you have learned over the last few months innovation, new discoveries and your success. or years, storing it for future retrieval and applying it when GREEN CRAFT FAIR AT WATKINS PARK, NOV 14TH you're in there, is usually more difficult than anything else we do. The art of beekeeping could be described as the ―art of Watkins Park will be holding a ―Trash to Treasure‖ craft information retrieval and proper application‖; this is where day in November. This should be pretty interesting, as all the the big payoff takes place. It doesn't matter how many years gifts for sale will be made from recycled materials. Emphasis of experience you have keeping bees, that does not make will be on ecology, environment and nature. This is another anyone a perfect beekeeper, for no such person exists. Plain perfect opportunity for the BUMBA presence, continuing to as the big fat nose on my face, when a beekeeper with many, extol the virtues on beekeeping to the public. We need a some many years of experience goes into a colony, they still make members to man the tables for this one, so get back to me if mistakes. It doesn't matter whether they are accidental or you can help out! forgetful in nature or derived from some new trick they FALL BEEKEEPING INTRODUCTORY CLASS? thought up over the past few years or months. These mistakes or ‖oversights‖ serve to reinforce their knowledge BUMBA has been considering an introductory beekeeping and ingrain it deeply into their memory banks. It also causes class in the fall, in an attempt to engage those potential you to slow down and think harder in advance before doing beekeepers who heard too late about this year's class, for something. The big bonus is, it moves their expertise along at next year's class (what a mouthful). This would be a one a much faster pace than being a ―static‖ beekeeper. night, two-hour presentation in addition to (and at additional cost) our regular current schedule. We would be touching Some of our new members made some mistakes this year, briefly on the more interesting aspects and facts of honeybees some big, some small. All I can say is CONGRATULATIONS! and beekeeping to keep potential new beekeepers interested You are further along in your career than those who sat by until next year's class is offered. We need a volunteer to head the wayside and let them have their way. Not that passivity in this up, call the papers for marketing, gauge potential beekeeping is a bad thing at all, I guess you could drive interest, and determine if it is a worthwhile cause. I have a without auto insurance or a license too. Aside from keeping few names of people who missed out on the last class and I your bees healthy, the next most important thing is making am sure other members have some names as well. This your own bees, yet another scary thing for new beekeepers would be a free introductory class at BUMBA'S expense and I that they must do to maintain their apiary long term with any would imagine 5 or 10 people would be required to be kind of quality. I have said this in the past and I will say it enrolled before scheduling an additional night for the room until they nail the lid down. Nucs! Nucs! Nucs! 3 with the park. We will discuss this at the meeting and see how it goes. Honey Shows and Fair Entries BUMBA at the State Fair MARYLAND STATE FAIR As a Maryland Beekeeping Club, it behooves BUMBA and BUMBA has been chosen to man the beekeeping exhibits beekeeping as a whole to have entries in the show, whether it and honey sales table on Wednesday, September 2nd, be a simple gift basket, candles, three jars of honey, a 2009. Working the table and the exhibits is a great display, comb honey, beekeeping gadgets or whatever. The opportunity to build you honey customer sales base and list of possible entries for entry, judging and prize money is recruit new beekeepers. Make sure you bring a business card pretty extensive Entries need to be configured, packaged or something that you can pass out to purchasers as they and/or assembled correctly for a chance to place. come through, ideally your information should be left there This isn't just about placing your best entry in the show all week just in case a person comes through and needs some and trying to win a ribbon and cash prize for your efforts. local honey from a specific area, like your area. This is what Over the years, the number of entries in the honey and wax marketing is all about; after all we produce a custom section of the fair has sadly been decreasing. As a result, the product, not some junk, imported store stuff that little is entire beekeeping community stands to loose table space at known about. We need to extol the virtues of what real honey the fair and more importantly funding from the state could be is all about. I am being nice! decreased causing yet an even greater loss of visibility I would like to thank everyone who signed up to work the regarding the importance of beekeeping that the Maryland sales table this year, it's sure to be a blast for all of us! Below State Fair provides to it's many visitors. Needless to say, the are this years esteemed volunteers! Maryland State Fair is probably the most important, and the Below are this year's workerbees! most highly visible, venue available for keeping the importance of honeybees and beekeeping in the forefront of 12:00 - 4:00: David and Jutta Dunaway, Chris Berry and Collene the public mind. The fair is our best opportunity we have to Johnson, Margie Krietzer, Harold Stone educate, dispel myths, basically WOW the public with all the little known tidbits of information on the marvelous honeybee, recruit new beekeepers and to establish sales 4:00 - 7:00: Lori Brown, Therese Ostazeski, Jim Henry, Nikki leads for our products. Thompson, Tom and Heather Vogeley I am probably the biggest slacker when it comes to entries in the fair and so are BUMBA Members, we all just 7:00 - 10:00: Therese Ostazeski, Leigh Walton, Philip Hazen, Toni get so busy this time of year. Over the past 5 years, I can Burnham, Veronica Radder, Scott Seccomb count the number of BUMBA Members who have actually Thank You to all who signed up! entered beekeeping-related products in the state fair Scott Seccomb competition on one hand. 4 BUMBA will also be entering a display in this year's fair, All entries must be physically delivered to the Farm and the theme will be "Beekeeping in Maryland" and I would like Garden Building, at the Fairgrounds in Timonium, on the a few members to pony up some time to help me make this days listed above. happen. We will discuss this briefly at the next meeting as The Fair has an on-line registration, however the deadline well as many other timely topics. expired on July 31st at 11:59 PM.. Entering Exhibits at the State Fair Maryland State Beekeepers Assoc Below is more information on entering in the fair. Annual Honey Show http://www.entrigate.com/msffg/default.asp The entry deadline for beekeeping products almost slipped Sept. 26, 9:00 AM my mind (if I even have a mind anymore). You can still enter exhibits in person at the door on either Tuesday, August Oregon Ridge Nature Center, Cockeysville, MD 25th from 1PM to 8PM, OR, Wednesday August 26th from 9AM to 8PM. If you want to save time, I've been told you can www.msbeea.org use the online form, print it out and turn it in with your entry MSBA will hold its annual Honey Show earlier this year, at the door. A person can enter exhibits for someone else as in late September instead of late October or early November. long as they have the other person's name, address and The venue also is changing from the usual site at the MDA telephone number. We will discuss arrangements for a HQ in Annapolis, to Oregon Ridge Nature Center, north of volunteer(s) to carpool the entries to the State Fair. If you Baltimore. have entries ready by Thursday's meeting, bring them, with a MSBA sponsors a "Best Club Showing" contest. The local completed entry form, and we will arrange to get them to the association that earns the most points for their 1st, 2nd and Fair. If you still haven' extracted yet, there's still time and we 3rd place exhibits win recognition on a permanent plaque. can arrange later pick-up dates. There also is a "Best in Show" trophy with a long list of Please note that the State Fair has a different set of honey distinguished winners waiting for your name to be added! classes for beekeepers with fewer than 11 hives, that is pretty Look for exhibit information and entry forms on the MSBA much most of BUMBA, so you won't be competing against web page by the end of August. side-line and semi-commercial beekeepers. Enter exhibits Please note that MSBA has a different set of honey classes accordingly. for beekeepers with fewer than 11 hives, that is pretty much www.marylandstatefair.com/uploads/file/2009_Farm_Ga most of BUMBA, so you won't be competing against side-line rden_Entry_Form.pdf and semi-commercial beekeepers. Enter exhibits accordingly. Here is a link to the many different beekeeping related products that you can enter and exhibit rules. QUEEN CELLS ANYONE? www.marylandstatefair.com/marylandstatefair/uploads/ Believe it or not, these two frames came from the same File/2009_SECTION_D.pdf colony. This was nuc that Sarah Brozena started from one of 5 Leigh Walton's queen cells. All told, and if I remember correctly, I counted 36 cells total in this colony. 2009 Honeybee Scavenger Hunt By Christina Manucy and Jeff Colburn Saturday, June 13 was a beautiful day for the scavenger hunt at Greg Ferris' apiary in Indian Head, MD. Jeff Colburn and I attended the event representing BUMBA. 6 Six pairs of beekeeper teams assembled to search for a list Next to his workshop, Greg has a large metal trough filled of items associated with beekeeping, such as ―things found in with sugar water which attracts thousands of bees. Cork the hive‖, ―bee predators‖, things found around the apiary‖, sheets float on the sugar water, allowing bees to land and and ―nectar sources‖. Jeff and I have only had our hive for a feed. When we entered the workshop, we discovered a swarm month, so we were uncertain whether we would be able to of bees hanging from a wooden beam (150 points). Back at identify and locate many items on the list. However, there the hives, we rejoined the other teams and were very were others with shiny new hive tools and smokers that by surprised to find we had taken a small lead over the other the end of the day had a slight patina of creosote and sticky teams. The clincher was the giant hornet ―bee predator‖ propolis. The apiary was shady and the bees were calm. After found on the ground near the workshop (100 points). For our inspecting several hives and suffering a few stings, we began efforts we were awarded a pair of lovely walnut trophies that to check items off the list. We quickly learned who were the Greg made, each topped by a small glass bee, resting on a experienced beekeepers and followed their lead, learning to carved wooden flower. The day was a great learning identify list items such as a virgin queen (worth 150 points), experience enjoyed by all; Greg plans to follow-up in the fall bees festooning (75 points), a Crown Board (what the British with a ―hive-side‖ chat, focusing on fall nectar sources, bee call the inner lid—25 points), and even saw bees balling a predators, and answering questions. He does not use his queen (250 points). Karen Cooksey, of the Association of hives to harvest honey; instead he supplies live bees for Southern Maryland Beekeepers, tried to stage a queen fight apitherapy to people suffering from MS and other maladies. (a whopping 450 points), but the queens knew better and Greg has over 20 years of beekeeping experience and was crawled in opposite directions toward their respective hives. happy to share his knowledge. As the afternoon warmed, we decided to take a break from the hives and wandered the apiary. We came across several FREE STATE Bee Supply more items from the list including local nectar sources: Your local bee supply dealer poplar, holly, Russian olive trees, and Devil's walking stick Please be sure to call ahead to set up a time to visit! Contact (25 points each). Dave or Laura Polk at 301-580-9313. As always, thanks for your continued support! Dave and Laura Polk CLUB PROGRAMS BUMBA currently has a host of club programs that we have initiated over the years and we are always looking for members to get involved not only for assistance, but to better your knowledge as well. 7 Nuc Production/Queen Rearing Program BUMBA Queen Rearing and Nuc Production Program Mentoring Program Educational Programs Please get in touch with any club officer if you would like Lessons Learned more information on any of the above. Program participation The Honey Bee as a Teacher always makes you a much better beekeeper. Programs are like additional classes for free and it goes to serve the By Leigh Walton beekeeping community in so many important ways. In late July, Margie Krietzer (our treasurer) and I made arrangements to transfer a two frame NUC from my Electronic Newsletter equipment to her transport box. Her goal was to revive a As with all organizations cost cutting is always on the colony that was queenless and the worker bees were table. One area where we can reduce our expenses is by dwindling due to old age. On this night storms were forecast, eliminating the hard copy news letter we mail out 6 times a as had been every other night that week; we needed the rain year at a cost of roughly $1 per newsletter. I am sure some of but each night passed with no storms. As luck would have it us use it as a reminder to come to the meetings. People who this night they got it right. No sooner than Margie arrived, the don't have email, nor believe in computers, of course, would sky darkened and a light rain started along with an continue to receive it. If you are willing to depend on email occasional clap of thunder. We decided to do the transfer delivery, please inform our editor, David Morris, via email. anyway. Help keep club $$'s in the bank for club activities. Always, in the past I was able to quickly find the queen to assure the customer that they were receiving a viable unit. BUMBA Web Site! This time was an exception; I scanned the two frames Check out the club web site maintained by Toni multiple times but could not find her. As the rain and Burnham, www.bumbabees.com. You will find meeting thunder intensified I decided to hope for the best (she must schedules, newsletters, and short course information. We be hiding somewhere, or she is such an energetic queen that need content, pictures, ideas, suggestions and help with she was constantly laying eggs with her hind quarters in the administration.. Send ideas and content to Toni Burnham cells, making her difficult to see) and put the frames in the and Scott Seccomb. transport box and closed it up. I told Margie to check in a YAHOO News Group couple of days to see if the bees were building supercedure cells (sign of queenlessness). Another clue; generally in the http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/BUMBABEE/ past when a nucleus was removed from the mating NUC the This is a fantastic tool and has unlimited uses for our bees that remained hanging on the side would move on to club. Sign up, check it out, see how much help it can really other homes. This time they didn't. After three days they were be. Make it better. Add materials. Post questions, photos, still there; not a good sign. links to web pages or files you would like to share with your The compartment in the mating NUC is only about 4 fellow beekeepers. Members receive automatic email notices of meeting and the BUMBA newsletter. inches wide. I looked several times for the queen but with 8 such a narrow opening it was difficult to get a clear view. She thought it might be in the garden cart so she went back After three days, I got the bright idea (it actually was) to put a to the bee yard, I stayed by the car. Within a few minutes, frame in the compartment to see if the bees would move from Margie came hurriedly up the path saying she had found the the sides onto the frame. The next day I checked and sure queen; she had landed on a screened frame, where her enough they had, and as I had suspected a queen was there attendants found her and started caring for her. The mass of also. I put the frame in my transport box and called Margie to bees made it easy to see her. Margie took the screen, gently give her the good news. We agreed to meet in 30 minutes to turned it over and placed it on top of the NUC. Margie reports put the queen in her NUC. When I arrived, Margie offered a that things are going well now. garden cart to carry the NUC to her apiary. I had thought this Now, for the lessons learned: might not be a good idea as it can give a rough ride and Work the bees in favorable weather; avoid being cause the bees to scramble. Well, this was the case, when I rushed or having your activities hampered by bad opened the box she was on the side of the box. If she had weather. remained on the frame it would have been a simple process of moving the frame into the NUC. The transfer was now going Use your knowledge of honey bee to be more of a challenge. behavior/sensitivities (vibration, etc) and respect them. I decided to position my NUC on its side just above hers, and encourage the queen to do the right thing by walking out Be careful when working with queens, if she's and reuniting with her colony. Since nothing else had gone agitated and physically capable she may take as planned with this project I don't know why I should think flight. this would! She didn't want to cooperate, she kept moving When a queen takes flight, don't assume you've deeper in the box, the more I tried to move her towards the lost her. If she has a loyal colony in the area, opening the more agitated she got, eventually she started when she lands her daughters will find her. This flapping her wing, I knew that wasn't good! Margie gave me a most likely would not work for a new queen jar lid to put over her so we could slide her over to the edge introduction, as there are no bees that are loyal to and hopefully have her reunite with her colony. I didn't see it her. happen, but Margie shouted that the queen was in the air! I August Queen Rearing Report: never did see her, but Margie said she could see her for about I started the queen rearing process again in mid-June. 30 seconds and then she was gone. We left the hive open for This go-round yielded 36 queen cells; 20 cells were placed in maybe 15 minutes giving her an opportunity to come back. I my mating Nucs, and 3 cells were banked. Of the 20 cells again checked the frames, but no queen. Margie agreed to placed in mating Nucs, 17 emerged and were successfully check the next day, but I was pretty sure I was going to be mated, of the three banked cells, 1 survived and was mated. giving her a replacement queen. Scott distributed some of the remaining cells to new club With discouragement lingering, we left the bee yard. members in need. He also started some Nucs for Margie told me she had my duct tape in her car; we had used overwintering in hopes of having them available for short it to secure her transport box. She wanted to give it back to course participants next year. I also plan to build up some of me so we went to her car; she checked it, but it wasn't there. the Nucs to overwinter. 9 At last count I have 16 two-frame Nucs; this is more than Scott Seccomb welcomed me with many an interesting I can build to overwinter so would like to sell some as Nucs and interested phone calls over the following months. or queens. I sell the Nucs for $40, and the queens for $20. All was well until……………. at probably my third BUMBA This time of year is an excellent time to re-queen declining meeting he said ―Colin, would you chair the swarm colonies. Another benefit of these queens is that they have committee?‖ not gone through the heavy laying period of a spring build Without blinking an eye, and not wanting to appear up. These queens should yield a good population of ‗unwilling' or ignorant or, heaven forbid, admit that I had no overwintering bees as well as being well prepared for a strong idea what was expected of a swarm collector, I said ―Sure!, spring buildup. If interested please see me on Thursday, or Why not?‖ contact me at 301-577-3088, or email@example.com. Well, the two years since my five-second inauguration Leigh Walton, BUMBA, VP have been interesting, to say the least. I've been ‗out' probably 10 times. Tidbits from an idiot beekeeper turned The first year I went out to calls for ‗honey bee swarms' that turned out to be: novice swarm collector. a Yellow Jacket wasp infestation in North Beach. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellowjacket ; (an example of the 'peter' principle). a Miner Bee ‗swarm' in Suitland www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/ent/notes/Other/note11 By Colin Wood 4/note114.html ; For decades I thought it would be fun to be a bee keeper, but had no idea how to get started. a false alarm in College Park (2 bees found dead in a porch); Well, one day in 2005 I saw an offer in the daily digest of the local chapter of Freecycle: ―Offer beekeeping equipment a beautiful but inaccessible colony in an attic in S. in Londontowne, MD‖. As there were no other takers, I got a Baltimore; free hive tool, gloves, veil and helmet, a complete hive and an inaccessible3rd story infestation behind a brick extra deeps and shallows frames etc. for a second. wall north of the beltway; All this came with an abundant supply of incumbent wax and a swarm sans queen in Hyattsville. moth caterpillars and caterpillar-grooved woodenware. After this I learned to ask callers a few pointed questions: A couple of weeks after bringing the ‗colony' home and Is the swarm/infestation in the ground (Miner bees draining hints and tips from ‗Beekeeping for Dummies‖, I or Yellow jackets)? decided that the 27 remaining bees in my ‗new' hive were What color are the ‗bee's legs' (Yellow Jackets have probably not a viable colony, so ordered two queens and yellow legs, whereas honey bee's are black)? packages. How long have they been there? (longer than a The installations went well, and so I joined BUMBA. couple of weeks means an ‗infestation'). 10 How high from the ground is the ‗swarm'? (having of drops of swarm pheromone lure, that Jerry Fisher had broken my back in a ladder fall, I don't ‗do' ladders) sent to those who requested it. What is the siding made of? (if brick can you get at Putting on the top and sealing for travel, it was all over in them from the inside - remove sheetrock etc.? less than ½ hour. Are you prepared to take down the inside Of course there were many bees that we could not collect sheetrock? as they were out foraging and refused to stay put in the deep. And so on. They are the unfortunate ones that will probably not survive, or at best find another colony to adopt. Well, I did have one really interesting call in July 2007. A chap near John Hopkins University called to say he had One hour later I had driven home and transferred the hundreds of bees in his detached garage. After several trips swarm of 2-3000 bees, and a couple of their combs, hopefully up to the second floor of his garage I had removed more than with the queen, to a new hive with 8 frames of fresh 1000 square inches of comb, acquired 120 pounds of honey foundation. and probably more stings than the collected fingers and toes After a half hour, many had clustered on the outside of of the combined BUMBA membership. Unfortunately I never the hive above the entrance, in what I've heard called saw, let alone could get, the queen. ‗bearding'. My fall put me out of action last year, but 2009 swarm However a couple of hours later, they were mostly inside season has started off extremely well. and seemed to be happy with their new home. A fascinating Dave Morris emailed with a request from David Rader, a success, that makes up for the several ‗wild goose chases' new BUMBA member and beekeeper, to help get a recent I've been on. What is even more outstanding is that not one swarm from inside a wooden column on the deck of a single sting was received by either Dave or I. story house in Mt Ranier. Fingers crossed that the queen is in there, and that the Dave R. said he would dismantle the column which was workers build-out sufficient comb for her to start laying in on the front porch of his ‗allergic to stings' neighbor Peter time to generate a strong colony for over-wintering. Of course Burrows. I'm feeding them with 1:1 sugar water and have reduced the entrance to a bee-wide opening to help give then some So, with smoker set at 8:15 on Saturday morning Dave R. protection from robbing. levered the deck-side panel off the column. There were ~40 square inches of very new comb, which we alternately cut More news as the swarm season heats up. from the top of the inside of the column and gently One little note: If you are tempted to become a swarm transported with their attendant bees to my carrying ‗deep', collector, you should first of all learn to ask if the ‗bees' are and then scooped up as many of the remaining clusters of furry and have black legs, and that they are not coming out workers and foragers from the inside of the column as we of holes in the ground. could and ‗threw' them into the deep. You should also distinguish between an ‗infestation' and a To help keep the swarm interested in the carrying deep, I ‗swarm'. An ‗infestation' is an established colony and usually had wet the plywood base of my carrying deep with a couple involves some dismantling of siding or sheetrock and is 11 usually messy and time consuming. It is also usually difficult curiosity. It was thriving and even produced a full super of to get the queen. In addition you will have to deal with honey! irregular comb shapes of uncapped, capped brood and After another 3 weeks or so (early- August), I went in! To pollen. my surprise and delight, BOTH colonies had produced A swarm on the other hand is bunch of bees that has queens who were laying. Not wanting to disrupt anything, I followed a swarming queen from an established, and waited a few weeks (late August, early September) before probably over congested colony/hive looking for a new abode. visiting the girls again. Again, I found the donor colony, They will be gentle and moveable without too much hassle – queenless. I'm not sure how long it had been but I'm pretty if you can reach them. sure there was a laying worker (triple eggs placed in pollen Cecw 5/4/09 cells and other obscurities). Again, consulting with a pal, I transferred the bees from Package SNAFU + TLC = AOK: Encouragement for any the 2nd deep of the donor colony to the 1st deep and placed a Bee Keeper who has Ever had a Bad Package. layer of newspaper over it. Next, I placed the frames from the By Veronica Rader nuc box into the 2nd deep and set it on top of the newspaper I am not a very good record keeper so please disregard my and closed her up. I waited a week at most (early-mid vagueness with time frames. Last spring, I acquired a "nuc" September) before looking in. The queen was busting out colony which was actually a package started by someone eggs everywhere and everyone appeared to get along well. else. I installed the 5 frame "nuc" into a l0-frame deep in mid- Fortunately, the girls had stored plenty of food during the May. Being a new bee keeper, I probably checked on the girls ordeal. They went into fall as a seemingly weak colony but too often but I couldn't help myself ☺. They filled out that came out this past spring as a strong, bustling brood (with box in very little time and shortly thereafter filled out a lots o' brood)! second deep. The moral of the story here, take notes and don't let a bad About 3-5 weeks (mid -late June) after installation into package get the best of you. Learn, consult with others and the brood box, I noticed the queen dead, lying on the ground experiment! You just may 'save' a colony ..... just outside of the hive. I immediately opened the hive and inspected it frame by frame only to find 8 queen cells. One frame held 4, 2 on another and the last 2 were singles. With Wanted the advice from a fellow BUMBA member, I transferred half of Good beekeeping articles! the cells to a nuc box along with a frame of brood and a frame of food and left the remaining cells in the donor colony. 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'Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame' Critic Reviews
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Rotten Tomatoes: 49 reviews
A.O. Scott New York Times (Top Critic)80Witty but not campy, grand without being unduly somber, it is a crazy, almost-coherent riot of intrigue, color and kineticism anchored by the charisma of its cast.Full Review » 4 years ago
John DeFore Washington Post (Top Critic)50"Dee" doesn't shoot for the gravitas of Zhang Yimou's "Hero." It doesn't approach that film's magnificent sensory impact, either, or the artistic romanticism that made "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" such a success here.Full Review » 3 years ago
Mark Feeney Boston Globe (Top Critic)63It's slambang in pacing, bald in exposition, and offers cast-of-hundreds spectacle.Full Review » 3 years ago
J. Hoberman Village Voice (Top Critic)Magnificent and cheesy, the latest and most proudly absurd of Chinese historical spectaculars, Detective Dee is a cinematic comic book for people who are sick of the mode.Full Review » 4 years ago
Elizabeth Weitzman New York Daily News (Top Critic)60Director Tsui Hark sets expansive melodrama against flamboyant sets, and the all-star cast is up for even the most outlandish of Sammo Hung's action choreography.Full Review » 4 years ago
John Anderson Wall Street Journal (Top Critic)Some of the action in "Detective Dee" is computer-generated hallucination, some is just good-old life-threatening stunt work, but it is almost always a thrill.Full Review » 4 years ago
Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times (Top Critic)88A bewitching fantasy.Full Review » 3 years ago
Ben Sachs Chicago Reader (Top Critic)Three decades into his career, Tsui Hark stands as one of the movies' great entertainers, displaying a dancer's sense of rhythm and movement and manipulating physical space with an abandon worthy of Chuck Jones.Full Review » 3 years ago
Steven Rea Philadelphia Inquirer (Top Critic)88Is it possible for Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame to be any more riotously over-the-top than it is?Full Review » 3 years ago
Richard Nilsen Arizona Republic (Top Critic)60It is a peculiar conflation of history -- there really was an Empress Wu -- and pure cinematic fantasy.Full Review » 3 years ago
Justin Chang Variety (Top Critic)An inventive marriage of ancient China and Agatha Christie.Full Review » 4 years ago
V.A. Musetto New York Post (Top Critic)50All this is loads of fun, but after a while sensory overload sets in, dulling the mind. Even in a kung-fu flick, more isn't always better.Full Review » 4 years ago
Linda Barnard Toronto Star (Top Critic)75A colourful carnival of relentless action and artful images.Full Review » 3 years ago
Eric Kohn indieWIRE (Top Critic)67Hark delivers a highly enjoyable alternative to Western blockbusters by simply keeping the narrative in flux with a series of well-executed sequences -- a cinema of distraction, if you will.Full Review » 4 years ago
Stephen Cole Globe and Mail (Top Critic)100Detective Dee is the action flick of the year, a two-hour epic that blows the Pirates of the Caribbean to the Bermuda Triangle.Full Review » 3 years ago
Neil Young Hollywood Reporter (Top Critic)Full Review » 3 years ago
Deborah Young Hollywood Reporter (Top Critic)Breathtaking sets and effects give this youthful martial arts film a modern air.Full Review » 4 years ago
Richard Corliss TIME Magazine (Top Critic)We'd call it Crouching Tiger, Freakin' Masterpiece.Full Review » 4 years ago
Kevin Thomas Los Angeles Times (Top Critic)80Chang Chia-lu's intricate script bristles with wit and suspense; the film from start to finish is a terrific entertainment.Full Review » 4 years ago
Mike Goodridge Screen InternationalFull Review » 3 years ago
John Beifuss Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)75The game's afoot, and the foot knows kung fu.Full Review » 3 years ago
Duane Dudek Milwaukee Journal Sentinel63There is nothing wrong with its reach, but its grasp of genre elements is random.Full Review » 3 years ago
Mike Russell Oregonian67In their best moments, Hark's action movies have a what-did-I-just-see giddiness, as if their choreography were springing straight from a cartoon id.Full Review » 3 years ago
Chris Chang Film Comment MagazineThe film's visual style is at times so dense it simply overwhelms (ditto the plot).Full Review » 3 years ago
Kelly Vance East Bay ExpressThe huge budget fails to hide a certain poverty of imagination.Full Review » 3 years ago
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A 2,500 km long line of
volcanoes, with 80 volcanic mountains and 41 historically
active (since 1760 AD) volcanoes produce an arc stretching
along the southern edge of the Bering Sea and onto the
Alaska Peninsula. This volcanic arc delineates the boundary
between the Pacific and North American tectonic plates. A
subduction zone, composed of the deep Aleutian Trench
coupled with a landward line of volcanoes, creates a series
of offshore islands (the Aleutians) as well as a line of
volcanoes along the edge of the continent (the Aleutian
Range on the Alaska Peninsula). This zone marks the
interface where the denser Pacific oceanic plate subducts
beneath the less dense continental North American plate. As
the subducted plate descends, the heat from the earth's
interior causes the plate to begin melting, and buoyant
liquid magma rises to the surface forming a line of
volcanoes. Augustine
Volcano showing the typical cone shape, erupting
ash cloud, and pyroclastic flows on the snow
covered slopes (Photo by U.S. Geological
Survey). Along the northern and central
portion of the arc, the subduction rate is 6-8 cm/yr where
the two plates have opposing relative motion. But along the
extreme southern end of the arc, the two plates slip past
each other and volcanic activity is reduced. Eastward from
the current arc, and separated from it by several hundred
miles, lie the Wrangell Mountains. This currently inactive
volcanic area, stretching to the Canadian border, was
produced when the Yakutat terrane (a sliver of crust) was
subducted and accreted to southern Alaska between 22 million
and 1 million years ago. Subduction of
the Pacific Plate beneath the North American Plate
creating the Aleutian trench and volcanic island
arc (Credit: Alaska Volcano Observatory). Subduction zone volcanoes
commonly exhibit a symmetric shape with steeper slopes near
the vent and a broad gentle base. These stratovolcanoes
produce a wide range of volcanic products including numerous
andesitic rocks, gray to green to red in color, that often
contain visible white feldspar crystals. The magma generated
by subduction zone volcanoes is less fluid than that of
Hawaiian or Icelandic volcanoes, so it does not flow easily
from the vent. Instead, this sticky lava clogs the volcano's
throat and causes explosive eruptions when magma again tries
to move to the surface. Spectacular ash clouds and
pyroclastic flows of hot ash and gases race down the slopes
when an eruption occurs. If this hot debris is deposited on
snow and ice, it causes melting and generates lahars
(volcanic mudflows) that may deposit debris miles away from
the volcanic vents. The largest eruption in the last
100 years was the 1911 Mount Katmai event. The Valley of
10,000 Smokes was formed when a 35 cubic km pyroclastic flow
filled a former river valley. A two hundred foot thick
deposit of hot ash heated the stream and ground water under
the pyroclastic flow, changing the water to steam, and
producing the "smokes". These have since died out. The event
emptied the magma chamber beneath Mt. Katmai, causing its
summit to collapse and forming a caldera, now filled with a
warm blue crater lake. Katami
Caldera with crater lake, formed after the 1911
eruption (Photo by K. Crossen). Aleutian volcanoes erupt
sporatically, and have not been studied long enough to
predict a recurrence rate. Pavlov, Akutan, and Shishaldin
volcanoes are the most active in the arc. Augustine Volcano,
near Homer, is the most active Cook Inlet volcano, with
eruptions approximately every 11 years. Valley of
10,00 Smokes filled with pyroclastic flow material
with Novarupta vent on extreme bottom right (Photo
by Alaska Volcano Observatory). Most Aleutian volcanoes are
located in remote areas, and their eruptions thus affect few
inhabitants living on their slopes (unlike volcanoes in the
Phillipines, Italy or Central America). However, the
greatest hazards are generated by ash clouds. A KLM jet
sustained millions of dollars of damage when it unknowingly
flew through an undetected ash cloud from the 1989 Mt. Spurr
eruption. The Alaska Volcano Observatory closely monitors
Aleutian volcanic activity and to help assess current
eruptions and predict future ones. Pyroclasitic
flow form Aniakchak Cauldera, showing the white
pumice pebbles mixed with gray sand. (Photo by K.
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text: In Memoriam Peter Dolphin: A Remembrance Peter Dolphin, a great friend and supporter of MRC/CIHR, as well as from the the CSBMCB, died suddenly on Friday, June 22, Heart and Stroke Foundation. 2001 at the age of 54. His mother died of a heart He was very involved in peer attack on the same day 10 years earlier. Peter had review and in research policy been feeling unwell for about a week but refused development for these and other to consider that it could be anything serious. Barb organizations. Bigelow, the departmental secretary, didn't agree Peter had many honours and persuaded him to go to the Emergency Clinic undergraduate and graduate stu- on Monday. He was admitted to the hospital right dents in his laboratory over the away and was told that he had already had a mild years and was a true mentor to heart attack. By Thursday, he seemed much better them. One student in particular and complained that he was bored, asked for visi- was a quiet young Malaysian tors and especially wanted to see data from the lab. woman who did her honours Then suddenly on Friday morning he suffered car- project in my lab. Eve Teh was diac arrest and couldn't be revived. Word spread terrific at the bench but hesitated quickly. His daughter Fiona and his sister Alex about graduate school. Peter flew over from England and the funeral, in beau- could see that she had a real tal- tiful old St. Paul's Church, was packed with col- ent for research and persuaded her to join his lab. In Peter Dolphin leagues and friends from many walks of life. the following four years, Peter taught Eve lipopro- We are all finding it difficult to fully imagine tein metabolism in all its arcane detail and Eve in- life without Peter. He had been at Dalhousie since troduced molecular biology into Peter's lab and 1978 and was very active in all aspects of life in cloned a novel mutant gene for cholesteryl ester biochemistry, in our department, in the university, transfer protein (CETP). Her work won a number of in Canada and indeed in the world. At the time of prizes and she is now a CIHR fellow at UBC in his death he was Secretary General of PABMB and Ross McGillvary's lab, doing beautiful structure- treasurer of the IUBMB. He loved to travel and function studies on transferrin. had been to Chile and Brazil several times in con- Eve won the Patrick Prize, given by retired nection with PABMB business. One of his goals faculty member Syd Patrick, for a Ph.D. thesis was to increase interactions between Canadian and judged to have had the most impact in the previous South American biochemists and students. Peter two years. She flew here last March for a seminar was instrumental in securing the huge IUBMB and presentation of the prize. Peter put on a wonder- meeting for Toronto in 2003. He went to Tokyo for ful party for her. He cooked for days, then donned a meeting of the IUBMB executive and made all a French Chef's outfit and served delicious interna- of the right arguments. Recently, he was involved tional cuisine to all of us! in several planning functions for the IUBMB Peter liked teaching and often referred to his meeting, including the Scientific Program Com- role model for the ideal biochemistry teacher, Prof. mittee. Peter was active in the former Canadian Muhammad Akhtar at the University of Southamp- Biochemical Society in various capacities in the ton in England. Peter did his undergraduate work in 1980s and early 90s, and in 1996 was president of honours physiology and biochemistry at Southamp- its expanded successor, the CSBMCB. Later he ton followed by his Ph.D. in Akhtar's lab, finishing served as president of the CFBS. He also was Re- in 1971. I was a postdoctoral fellow in Akhtar's lab gional Director for the MRC/CIHR in the Mari- at the same time, along with 13 students from all time Provinces (1998-2001). In this role, he helped over the world. It was a great place. Akhtar was so many local applicants and grantees with funding dynamic, and full of ideas. He was basically a ster- issues. For his own research in the area of lipopro- oid chemist, but already in 1968 he was intrigued by tein metabolism, Peter always held grants from the notion of using molecular biology to sort out CSBMCB/SCBBMC Bulletin 2001 / 35 steroid hormone action. Akhtar particularly well was the CBS annual dinner in talked to every one of his students 1988 in Quebec City. The Nobel Laureate, Dorothy every day and loved a good argu- Hodgkin, had given the first Jeanne Manery Fisher ment. But he was always encour- award lecture and was the guest of honour. Peter aging and helpful. I could see had always admired Dorothy's many accomplish- many of Akhtar's mentoring ments in biochemistry and was delighted to have a qualities emerge in Peter over the good long conversation with her about science and years. Peter really was interested politics. I know he especially liked the attached in students, and not just his own photo of Dorothy and himself. students either. After his funeral, I have mentioned Peter's generosity with stu- several graduate students from dents but I also remember many examples of kind- other labs told me stories about ness with his colleagues. He could be generous how he had helped them in im- with his time, ideas, practical technical help and Peter and Eve Teh at portant ways in scientific as well as personal mat- money. A young female colleague has told me that the party celebrating ters. He always took part in student-sponsored ac- Peter's advice and encouragement were often help- the awarding of the tivities, and, as an excellent pool-player himself, he ful and that he seemed to have special empathy for Patrick Prize (March organized a popular annual pool tournament for younger researchers with family responsibilities. 2001) graduate students. He pushed for more protected research time for Peter was very pleased to receive a D.Sc. in young faculty members. And he was kind to older recognition of his research from the University of colleagues as well: when I lost grant funding for a Southampton in 1989, and looked splendid at con- while in the mid 90s, Peter found some travel vocations here wearing the red and blue D.Sc. money for me to attend an important conference. robes. He always enjoyed celebrations, such as a Peter liked to fix things and especially to build special dinner at Southampton in Akhtar's honour small instruments, models for the lab and for home on his retirement in 1998 with about sixty of and beautifully finished wooden toys for his chil- Akhtar's former students and fellows in attendance. dren. When Carl Breckenridge moved from depart- Another special occasion for Peter that I remember ment head to the associate deanship, Peter built a very funny model commemorating Carl's early days. He also was an accomplished tailor and made silk-lined ties and vests of every hue and pattern. Waiters at a local restaurant wore his splendid vests and many of us bought his ties for Christmas presents. My son has one with flying cats on it. Peter's own wardrobe often elicited comment, es- pecially the bright pink shirt worn with an equally bright tie and matching handkerchief. Peter was a very loyal person and was quick to defend colleagues, institutions and programs that he valued. When graduate programs at Dalhousie were threatened, with what many of us in biochem- istry considered an ill-considered proposal for re- organization, Peter's response was classic. I can't quote it here, but he said what he thought and it was certainly colourful, as well as effective. He could always be counted on for an honest, forthright opin- ion. Although he had a lot of opinions, he wasn't doctrinaire and, like Akhtar, loved a good argu- ment. And he loved to laugh. It was obvious at Peter's funeral that he had Dorothy Hodgkin and Peter at the CBS banquet in June, 1988, Quebec City friends from many diverse communities in Halifax. In addition to many academics, there also were friends from the world of theatre and costume de- 36 / CSBMCB/SCBBMC Bulletin 2001 sign, fellow kite enthusiasts, associates from the The department has established a Peter Dol- Liberal party, pool-players and golfers and many of phin Memorial Fund to provide a graduate student his son Michael's school friends. award. Donations may be made payable to Dalhou- Fiona and Michael buried their father's ashes sie University and sent to the Department of Bio- next to his mother's grave in Sutton Coldfield in chemistry & Molecular Biology, Dalhousie Univer- England last month. They had a gathering at a lo- sity, Halifax, NS, B3H 4H7. cal golf club with family and Peter's long term col- – Catherine Lazier laborator and good friend from Paris, John Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Chapman. Some champagne was drunk: Fiona Dalhousie University says that Peter would have approved. Kenneth Percy Strickland (August 19, 1927 - August 28, 2000) Dr. H. B. Stewart and E.R. Tustanoff It is with sadness we relate to our membership search, Australia National Uni- that one of our Society's devoted and long standing versity and later returned for members passed away after suffering from Alzhe- five months in 1976. The Uni- imer's. Dr. Ken Strickland served our Society well. versity of Western Ontario He was a member of the Board as a Councillor granted him tenure in 1989 and from 1972 to 1975, and then took on the onerous he remained on staff until 1993 task as Society Treasurer from 1978 to 1981. when he was awarded Emeritus Kenneth (Ken) enrolled in Honours Chemis- status. try at the University of Western Ontario in 1945, Ken willingly accepted completed his degree in 1949, and proceeded in various academic responsibili- graduate study in the Chemistry Department to ties outside his research activi- complete his Master's degree in 1950. He then ties. He contributed substan- joined Roger Rossiter in the Department of Bio- tially to the Medical Pro- chemistry and, with some innovative research in- gramme and, when the Hon- volving the incorporation of radioactive phospho- ours Biochemistry programme rus into neurological tissues and tissue fractions, he was established, played a major finished his Ph.D. in 1953. He then gained two role in the first survey course of years experience in the laboratories of R.H.S. the discipline as well as supervision of senior stu- Thompson in Guy's Hospital Medical School in dents in various projects. He was eagerly sought London, England. He returned to his London after as a supervisor in the Graduate Faculty. Seven (Canada) department as Assistant Professor, sup- Doctoral and six Masters candidates successfully ported for two years by a Lederle Medical Faculty completed their degree programmes under his su- award. This support was followed by a National pervision. Beyond these activities he acted as an Research Council and later a Medical Research external examiner of doctoral students, was a ref- Council Research Associateship as an Associate eree on various publications and served as a site Professor (1962) and Full Professor (1966). This visitor on several occasions. support continued until 1979 when the Medical Ken's service to his University was distin- Research Council created the Career Investigator guished. As an undergraduate he was interested in post, which he held until 1990. In 1971-72 he spent athletics and as a faculty member he became a a year at the John Curtin School of Medical Re- member of the Athletic Directorate for eight years CSBMCB/SCBBMC Bulletin 2001 / 37 (President for two years). He served on the Senate graduate students and five post-doctoral fellows, and on committees including the Library Council Ken produced a total of 84 refereed journal articles and the Advisory Committee on the Health Aspects and seven chapters in books. in the use of lonizing Radiation. Within the Faculty, In private 1ife, Ken married Isabel and they he served on the Admissions Committee, the Long had four children (three girls and one boy). After Range Planning Committee and in his own Depart- the death of Isabel, Ken married Mary with whom ment he served as Acting Chairman for two years he remained until his death. He was a very devoted as well as on the Promotion and Tenure Commit- family man and deeply involved with his children. tee, the onerous Graduate Studies Committee and Every summer an extended camping trip to some others. remote part of Canada or to the States was intri- From the mid-fifties until he retired, his re- cately planned and of course the family summer search was supported by the National Research cottage was a stated venue. Council and the Medical Research Council. Fol- Ken was a warm and compassionate person – lowing the pioneering work with the incorporation he will be missed by all his student colleagues and of radioactive phosphorus into phospholipids he friends. He was always ready to pitch in and help expanded his investigations into an examination of and at times was taken advantage of because of his the steps in the biosynthesis and degradation of empathy for people. He was a very religious person individual phospholipids containing glycerol and and very much involved in his parish. He served as inositol. Coupled with these studies was an exami- a lay preacher and was instrumental in planning nation of the metabolic consequences of muscle and building a new church. He was not evangelis- denervation. This aspect of the work led to studies tic and if you did not have access to his private life, in normal and myopathic (UM-X7.1) hamsters and you would never know he was so deeply involved L-6 rats. In medical terms these observations pro- with his religion. As a quiet and unassuming person vided models for the investigation of demyelinat- Ken Strickland has made his mark on Biochemis- ing diseases and the abnormalities observed in try at Western. muscular dystrophy. In all, with the help of 13 38 / CSBMCB/SCBBMC Bulletin 2001


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The current studies were conducted in order to investigate the phenomenon of copulatory vocalizations and their relationship to orgasm in women. Data were collected from 71 sexually active heterosexual women (M age = 21.68 years ± .52) recruited from the local community through opportunity sampling. The studies revealed that orgasm was most frequently reported by women following self-manipulation of the clitoris, manipulation by the partner, oral sex delivered to the woman by a man, and least frequently during vaginal penetration. More detailed examination of responses during intercourse revealed that, while female orgasms were most commonly experienced during foreplay, copulatory vocalizations were reported to be made most often before and simultaneously with male ejaculation. These data together clearly demonstrate a dissociation of the timing of women experiencing orgasm and making copulatory vocalizations and indicate that there is at least an element of these responses that are under conscious control, providing women with an opportunity to manipulate male behavior to their advantage.
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- Title
- Evidence to Suggest that Copulatory Vocalizations in Women Are Not a Reflexive Consequence of Orgasm
- Journal
Archives of Sexual Behavior
Volume 40, Issue 3 , pp 559-564
- Cover Date
- 2011-06-01
- 10.1007/s10508-010-9632-1
- Print ISSN
- 0004-0002
- Online ISSN
- 1573-2800
- Publisher
- Springer US
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- Topics
- Keywords
- Orgasm
- Copulatory vocalization
- Sexual behavior
- Evolution
- Industry Sectors
- Authors
- Gayle Brewer (1)
- Colin A. Hendrie (2)
- Author Affiliations
- 1. School of Psychology, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, Lancashire, PR1 2HE, England
- 2. Institute of Psychological Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England


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I want to say thank you to the 32 individuals who volunteered to donate blood at the Hodgenville Woman's Club this past week. Many thanks to the volunteers who worked: Cecil Druen, Lois Whelen and Rob Brown. Also, thanks to Lawson's Florist for the support of the blood drive. The Community Blood Drive will return Dec. 8.
Faye Puyear
Fellow Christians: Please join us in one hour of prayer, Oct. 24, for nursing homes, various types of care centers and their residents around the world. This is the hour we can all come together as a like-minded body of believers. Though we are far apart in location, we can become united in spirit.
The time for this prayer will be at 7 p.m. Other locales around the country and world will be different in time, but will coincide with our time.
Pray, also, for people to feel the desire to volunteer services.
Chances are each of us reading this article grew up with some interaction with a grandparent. The grandparents from our childhoods or memories probably are similar; we tend to know them as older or elderly, gentle but hard working, perhaps not in good health, maybe retired with leisure time, probably "spoilers," people you visited after church on Sunday or on special days.
The 2009 Lincoln Days Parade was easily the largest since I have been working on the parade and perhaps the largest in Lincoln Days' history, with an almost 50 percent increase in participation. With such growth, I was anxious that the volunteers might be overwhelmed. Instead, this parade was the best I have experienced as a worker anywhere.
When President Obama recently mentioned that one big insurer controlled 96 percent of the market in just one state, a collective (and very loud) gulp went down the throats of insurance industry executives. You see, this domination of the small group market, where small businesses are forced to buy insurance, drives costs up at an unsustainable rate.
The basket committee of the Hodgenville Woman's Club thank all club members who contributed and worked for the Club's Lincoln Day project "Basket Full of LaRue County."
Thank you to the businesses and individuals listed for the donations to the basket and their continued support of Hodgenville Woman's Club: Lincoln Days, James Ard, The LaRue County Herald News, Lincoln National Bank, LaRue County Extension Service, Lincoln Loft Books, Bault Oil Company, LaHa's Red Castle and The Lincoln Museum.
The theme of Lincoln Days 2009 was "Lincoln, The Man." But it may be remembered as "The Year of the Strollers."
Wherever you turned, you saw young mothers and fathers or grandparents maneuvering strollers through the crowd.
Others carried toddlers on their shoulders or held the hands of older children as they lined the street for the parade.
When I was a young student I wrote a significant paper that dealt with human response to change. I no longer have the paper on hand, but I remember its bottom line and have tried to heed its wisdom over the decades.
That bottom line: most people generally resist change (granted that some among us seem to thrive on it).
Given that many of us like change in moderation as we live through a period of history heavy with changes, stress is evident in many sectors of society.
If there are still any BRAC doubters out there, you should have seen the turn out for the Fort Knox Job Information Sessions at the Urban League Economic Empowerment Tour and Career Fair in Louisville earlier this month. We had hundreds of folks show up to learn more about the employment opportunities coming to the installation. Believe me, most were plenty interested in finding out how to qualify and apply for these future positions.
A recent story about Winnie Read and her 45-year service to LaRue County's 4-H program caught the attention of Anna Mae McCubbin.
While she has lived 52 years in her Elizabethtown home, Mrs. McCubbin takes The LaRue County Herald News to keep up with events in and around the area where she was raised.
She asked for a couple extra copies of the Sept. 9 edition to share with far away friends.
My daughter Amanda is growing tomatoes in a small backyard in Lexington. She is having some luck – but I told her she needs fertilizer. I promised to bring her a bucket of chicken poop for side dressing the next time we visit.
I'm not sure how that will go over with the neighbors in her subdivision. On the other hand, what they don't know won't hurt them.
My granddaughter Claire, who is not yet 2, is enthralled with the cherry tomatoes – they are "hers," she says. She eats them right off the vine.
My husband Bud can't distinguish black from navy.
Every Sunday morning before church, he asks me whether his suit jacket matches his pants. Since my eyes are nearly as bad as his, I have him take the ensemble to the sun porch where the light is better.
I'll spend several minutes trying to figure out whether the navy is actually dark blue or a faded black. And if both the pants and the jacket are navy, are they the same navy?
Finally, Sunday, I gave up and shared one of my grandmother Vada's tidbits of wisdom with him.
It has been my pleasure to serve as Lincoln Days president for these last two years.
It is always a big job, but working with a good board makes it fun. The officers are Jeff Hughes, vice president; Rob Barnhill, treasurer; and Carolyn Mather, secretary. Members at large are Jimmy Curle, Philip Setters and Hollie Sexton. We are all dedicated to making our festival better each year.
Just what is a Christian nation? A long list of past American leaders admonish us not to abandon the Good Book – a warning I believe Christians, including me, should take seriously. But when we claim to be a Christian nation, I begin to wonder if we're not engaged in a bit of selective reading of the sacred scriptures.
Someone recently sent me an e-mail about the Washington Monument. It said that one detail that is never mentioned is that in Washington, D.C.; there can never be a building of greater height than the Washington Monument. With all the crazies wanting to remove "In God We Trust" it's interesting to note that the founders of this country didn't share those views. Atop the Washington monument are the two Latin words Laus Deo. These words are a mere 5.125 inches high atop the 555 feet high monument.
This weekend, Oct. 3-4, LaRue County once again has an opportunity to showcase our community and hopefully the streets will be full of people, our own, returning guests and visitors. Of vital concern is the safety of each one.
Get out of the office and get to know what makes LaRue County click.
The more we know about our community — and each other — the better we can do our jobs. That applies to newspapers, of course, but also to bankers, educators, insurance sales representatives, utility workers, store clerks and most everyone else.
Have you ever wondered "why me?"
This question is a cry from deep within the suffering human heart most of the time. (Sometimes a grateful heart speaks thus, too.)
Persons and families, friends and acquaintances who suddenly come upon tragedy struggle with this question. Especially wrenching developments include grave illness or death of precious children and other loved ones, suicides, drastically changed relationships and situations.
4-H celebrates its 100th birthday this year.
In October, The LaRue County Herald News will publish a special section in honor of our county's 4-H program.
Please share photos and stories of your experience in 4-H with our readers.
Contact editor Linda Ireland at 358-3118 for more information.
Sunrise Manor Nursing Home has been a big part of my life.
I spent 10 years there as an employee. Several friends and family members including my grandmothers and father have been residents there.
I still count many of the employees among my friends although I haven't worked there in eight years.
I was pleased to be part of their big day July 22 when the staff, board of directors and contractor held a groundbreaking ceremony for a new nursing home.


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Wow, it sort of sounds like 50 Shades of Gray meets Play Misty For Me!
Okay -- NOW this selfie craze is out of control.
I checked the local hardware stores, and none of them have any dragon repellant, so...
Going back to school usually elicits groans from kids, but students who got this teacher may have burst out in cheers.
Now, there's a defense that sounds like it could come in handy to justify lots of stupid stuff.
We've seen people spew racist comments before, but it never gets less shocking.
Hey, forget the world's largest ball of twine! And that big hole in the Arizona ground will always be there.
The days of Fido and Kitty appear to be long gone.
Oh, mercy! I see years of bad karma for the thieves who did this.
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Yumeko of beauty and travel blog Bittenbefore sent me a lovely little package in June, as thanks for the Watsons mystery bag that I'd custom-purchased for her. She helped me cp*: A LeSportsac Medium Tribeca in the limited […]
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