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Show Friday, February:3, 2006 “DAILY. HERALD * No reaction is the best reaction time.It is safe to say, though, that she has a few more mouths to feed than most. Lifting the lid off her single white beehive,in the corner of her Silver Spring, Ma. Thereis this girl that always takes the cowboy hat off of my head whenever see her. Either she’ll run up behind meandsteal it off my head, orshe'll just snatchit away from mewhile we're talking. I do appreciate her company; Judith Martin Miss Manners however, I'd like to keep my Dealing withthis behavior male to maleis easy enough; it’s very easy to deflect or deter another guy from taking something from me,but I find it wrong to use physical force ona girl. Secondly, how do! deal with an actual physical assault from girl? Girls that while giggling, poke, pinch, or slap me,evenin the face! This is gratuitous!| can't retaliate in angerorfrustration.I just haveto deal with it and ask them to stop. What's a good wayto get the message across without using physical force? It’s the only way that seems to connect with somepeople. GENTLE READER — If you are an elementary school The sophistication would be in realizing the ididcy of this method of flirtation. The® naivete would be in assuming that anyone who resorts to suchtactics is likely to be mature enoughto be good company. In fifth grade or afterward, this sort of thing only stops whenit fails to produce a reaction. Unfortunately, pleading to stop is a reaction. You must simply look bored andput your hand out for your hat, or,in the case of the poking, moveaway. Fora conflict-free wedding, send a long, self-addressed, stamped envelope and $2 to Newsletter, P.O. Box 167, Wickliffe, OH 44092 and you'll receive “Miss Manners On Proper Wedding Planning.” E-mail your etiquette questions pupil, Miss Manners wishes to compliment you on your ‘Sophistication. If you are any older, she will confine herself to pointing out your naivete. Adrian Hi THE WASHINGTON POST Like many young working moms, Kameha Bell has a lot of on EAR MISS MANNERS |— My question concerns the proper behavior or action a male should take in countering a physical female assault. Mysituation involves two repeated incidents that I'd pee to stop, but don't know hat on my head, and cease the need to repeatedly ask her for myhat back,over and over again, after denying her request to keep it, time and time again. Creating a buzz around beekeeping to Miss Manners (who is distraught that she cannotreply personally) at MissManners@unitedmedia. com. cluster of htmeybees atop the hanging frames of honeycomb. have huddled try to stay warm makeit through the winter. On a bright winter's afternoon, Bell pries up the frames to see if the cluster and the honey are cheek by jowl, because the bees need to feed on the honey through the winter. “Honey right by. them,” she says. “That's the important tl % Nearby, and wearing similar white over- alls, hat and veil, veteran beekeeper Marc Hoffman is happy, too — not just for Bell’s hive,but for all that she represents to the hobby of beekeeping. Honeybees arethe last livestockin city and suburb. But the ranks of beekeepers are dwindling; retiri ist are not iring being replaced as they once were,in part because keeping bees is more demanding than ever.Pests, diseases and diminished areas of foraging habitat have made it difficult for bees to survive without human. intervention. The loss of colonies, in turn, has discouraged fair-weather keepers. “It’s not an automatic situation now where you put the box out like grandpa did in the spring and you still have bees in the fall,” said Billy Davis of the Loudoun (Va.) Beekeepers Association. “Doesn't work anymore.” In an attempt to recruit new beekeeperslike Bell, Washington area beekeeping clubs in suburban Maryland and Northern Virginia have organized courses over the next few weeksthat will show beginners how to build hives and frames, populate themwith bees and harvest summer honey. “Wehaveto keep pushing the envelope to get moreof the 30 to 50 year olds,” said Pat Haskell, who, with Davis, is one of the instructors in Northern Virginia. Of a class of 20 new beekeepers, Haskell said, only a= THE AMERICAN. INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL-DENTAL TECHNOLOGY Health Career Training From Utah’s ae 8 Premier Health Career College Www. : ve Cor T alte: ee americuninsutute.ed a Kameha Bell with her hive in Silver Spring, Md. three will still be active after five years. “It’s devastating for young beekeepers to havetheir colonies die on them.Afterit happens several times they just quit.” ing sure the colony grew strong before the aa The reward forthis effort has been 50 pounds of clear,light honey from the single hive, a healthy winter colony and Bell, on the other hand,is off to a good the deep satisfaction of a textbook success start and seems poised for lifetime after a shakystart. in the c y of bees. Her husband’s Thereis a certain satisfaction in giving family and friends homemade honey. “We grandfather was a longtime beekeeper in gave my grandfather-in-law honey, which w Baltimore until a move to a condominium left him seeking an heir for his hives was a big turnaround,” she said, laughing. and equipment. He chose Bell, 31, who Honey isn't the only way bees help us. jumped at the chance. She is a postdocThey arehighly efficient pollinators and toral researcherat the National Institutes a boon to fruit and vegetable gardeners, who rely on cruss-fertilization for everyof Health and thus well disposed to the scientifically curious world of beekeeping. thing from cucumbersto apples. In the first year, the bees died, prompting Honeybees are not aggressive stingers Bell to enroll last winter in the seven-week like wasps, saving their venom for those beginner’s course organized by the Mont- who raid their hives; hence the suits and gomery County (Md.) Beekeepers Associa- veils for keepers.Still, they are not weltion. She also attends monthly meetings to come in some neighborhoods. glean seasonal advice from experienced Bell said she is looking forwardto introbeekeepers. ducing her 4 1/2-month-old daughter, Elsa, faithful novice, she has been medicat- to the joy and wonderof beekeeping in the ing the bees against twoparasitic mite spe- years ahead.“She doesn’t know it yet,”. cies and feeding them sugar water, makBell said, “but she loves bees.” PRINTS from DIGITAL See a UE ete tele) Maar aN aet VELA Baia eoa Install an Energy Efficient Furnace Today!. 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