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Abstraction, not just mathematics, has its place in science as it does in art
Roald Hoffmann
Is there an analogue in science to abstract art? A riposte might be, "Why should there be? Why ask science, so strongly tied to reality, to mimic the aesthetic games of the world of art?" Well, both art and science are created by human beings, and both are creative endeavors. So it might be interesting to look at any correspondences. No one-to-one mappings will be found, but let's relax that criterion and search for non-literal, imaginative analogies.
It is not easy to define abstraction. Is the incised design in a 3,500-year-old Japanese Jomon jar (below) abstract art? Are the colored shapes of pre-Colombian Huari textiles abstract? Yes and no. Their imaginative power over us derives from form, color, texture, juxtaposition—all certainly elements of abstraction. Although we may not be privy to the layers of meaning from different cultures that are implicit in these objects, they do not appear to have been made in willed opposition to representation.
Although abstract art has been with us for only about 100 years, sometimes it seems that there are more abstract-art movements than there are scientific "-ologies." The list begins with cubism, and will not end with postmodern painting. Recognizing that there are degrees of the abstract, my perception of the essence of this artistic direction involves several factors.
First of all, abstraction is oppositional, wanting to be seen as alternative to such ideals as naturalistic representation and the figurative. I will not say "alternative to reality," for (to paraphrase Magritte) the two-dimensional surface of the most photorealist painting still is not its subject. Not unexpectedly, much theory of the abstract disclaims a definition by opposition. Art desires a broader conception of what stirs the imagination.
Abstraction is also reductive. By that I mean that abstract art often takes some element of the artistic universe and explores all the tensions that it can get out of that element. Mondrian's squares create visual jazz, Rothko's broad color swaths can evoke joy or destructive tension. And Calder's mobiles move, ever so slowly, around inner peace. The element abstracted may be a force, as in Elizabeth Murray's works that break out from a shaped canvas.
Here is a spirited early statement on abstraction by one of its founders, Kazimir Malevich. In his From Cubism to Futurism to Suprematism: The New Realism in Painting, published in 1915, he writes: "I have destroyed the ring of the horizon and left the circle of things … in which the artist and the forms of nature are confined … [The new art] moves to its own goal—creation." Like all reductive philosophies, abstraction from time to time lays claim to "purity." Such a claim is risky, as one might reflect where else in history such claims have been made, and for what purpose.
To be abstract, chemistry might thus have to be oppositional. But opposed to what? Nature, of course. Much good chemistry comes from imitating nature, because this ultimate tinkerer has been at it for a long time. At a chemical level in the biological universe, there is an almost bizarre seizing upon anything that works, and subsequent perfection of it by evolution: Here oxygen is carried by a red blood cell's heme group with iron (as in mammals), there it's a binuclear copper complex (as in mollusks and arthropods). So nature, among other things a chemist with lots of time on its hands, has found some effective strategies for making molecules and using their properties. It provides a "literature" that's worth reading, not exterminating.
Chemists in the laboratory are torn between emulating nature and doing things their own way. A protein, through its own curling and its tool kit of sidechain options, shapes a pocket where, say, a molecule with only right-handed symmetry fits. But it not only fits, it has something done to it—a specific bond in that molecule is cleaved, or an atom is delivered to it. The chemist's fun, much like abstract art, is in achieving the same (why not better?) degree of shape control that nature does, but doing it differently, perchance better, in the laboratory.
Here's an example, in the form of effective and specific delivery of hydrogen to an organic molecule. Nature does it, but Thomas R. Ward at the University of Basel in Switzerland and his coworkers have done it as well. As shown below, they attached a reactive inorganic piece (that's the Rh with its ligands) through a binding link (biotin, a type of B-vitamin) to a small "handed" protein (streptavidin). The latter is the equivalent of a baseball glove; the Rh piece a very lively deliverer of hydrogen, firmly ensconced inside. The close bond leads to a strongly "handed" chemical reactivity.
Through synthesis, contemporary chemistry makes the objects of its own contemplation. In this way it comes close to art. For many molecules, utility is a distinguishing feature and a source of value, so that this science is poised between art and engineering. A kind of abstract-art movement within chemistry is the effort expended on the synthesis of molecules with (chemical) formal elements that are prominent, but without apparent utility. A cube made out of DNA, a C20H20 molecule dodecahedral in shape, an amine that is not basic at all, a molecule whose overall oxidation (or loss of electrons) paradoxically causes reduction (or gain of electrons) of one piece of it—these curiosities carry the elements of surprise, of violation of the given. But are such molecules not more like surrealist art? Surrealism works off transgressions of normal conventions—Dali's wilted watch, Magritte's play with reality.
A characteristic modus operandi in abstract art, from Russian constructivist times, has been the concentration on one or another component of the artistic whole. Issues of form—the center or the periphery, inclusion or exclusion, see-through or opaque, balance, color—are isolated. Ad Reinhardt's beautiful all-red and all-black paintings are a fine example of this concentration. The contemplative process here can lead to an exploration of the emotional possibilities of just that formal element. One sees this motif at work in Klee's abstract paintings, or in Rothko's color fields (right). Roberto Bertoia, a colleague at Cornell, works out beautifully in small wood constructions the feelings of confinement, protection and communication (below right).
Of course, science, from its Cartesian roots, has operated in just this way. If you want to understand something, take it apart, see how the pieces work, put it together (although too few people like to put things together …). Change only one variable at a time, if you can. If you want to see how a chemical reaction proceeds, write a mechanism, a sequence of elementary steps. Once the mechanism is recognized, have research programs develop on the pieces and extend the work. Taking things apart, as science does, is a move shared with abstract art.
Just as in abstract art, what emerges in science after things are taken apart ranges from Hermann Hesse's The Glass Bead Game (where the rules are only alluded to) to real understanding. In chemistry, there are many examples of paring away to get at the essence of an idea (rather than a molecule). One can see this in stereochemistry, which intently explores all the ways in which a molecule can be distinguished from its mirror image.
As another example, consider the synthesis of the two interlocked rings of catenanes, or the three of Borromean rings (right). The structures are real, and models of the molecules do look like physical rope knots or the Olympic symbol. But within chemistry I think there is a beautiful feeling of abstraction to them.
In another way, the small theoretical industry spawned by the work Charles Wilcox, Roger Alder and I did on stabilizing square-planar carbon also has an abstract feel to it. That molecule's geometry is about as far as possible from that of a normal carbon atom with four atoms bonded to it at the corners of a tetrahedron. Our transgressive whim could be seen as playing games with high-energy structures. However we, and others, immediately had therapeutic designs—for the molecules, not humans—to ameliorate the energetic suffering of such preposterous bonding configurations.
One recurring theme in 20th-century abstract art is the tension generated by seeming chance at work, seen famously in Jackson Pollock's action paintings, but also apparent in conceptual art. And randomness exists in another way in ceramics, for instance, in the studied interplay of clay with plant, wood material or interposed objects controlling reduction or oxidation in wood-kiln firing in Bizen and Shigaraki Japanese ceramics (right).
An interesting counterpart in chemistry is the recent growth of combinatorial chemistry or diversity-based organic synthesis. The idea is to come up with a set of facile reactions that generate not one, but millions of diverse molecules within one beaker. In part, but only in part, this work has a biomimetic motivation. For at some stages nature introduces steps that are dispersed, to populate niche-seeking molecules. Most do nothing, but a few succeed. The workings of the immune system and the diverse structures resulting out of terpene synthesis are examples. But the laboratory generation of vast "libraries" of potential enzyme inhibitors or fuel-cell catalysts has a feeling of seeing the aesthetic value in chance.
Music is the most abstract art form. Programmatic tone-poems and birdsong or burbling-brook mimicry aside, music is more than imitation. As Igor Stravinsky said, "For at the root of all [musical] creation one discovers an appetite that is not an appetite for the fruits of the earth."
On one level, music is a patterned sequence in time of audible tones varying in frequency and volume, with overtones and harmonics. What makes music so much more than this dry definition is the strong psychobiological resonance that sound sequences have for humans. No art form is more abstract, I think, and no art form has an easier way into the psyche.
If time is the critical variable of music—in that for both melody and rhythm, the moment before and the moment after matter deeply—then perhaps organic synthesis proffers a rough scientific analogue. Take a sketch of the synthesis of penicillin by John C. Sheehan of MIT, made in the World War II era (facing page). Note that an RNCNR (it's called DCC, for dicyclohexylcarbodiimide) piece is added in, in the center of the scheme, and then at the lower left of the reaction, the piece comes off again, carrying along the elements of water. DCC (now widely used in laboratory synthesis of peptides) is an "activator"; it makes possible the formation of the crucial four-membered ring in penicillin. The process is firmly embedded in time. If the steps were reversed at any stage, one would have a different reaction, a different melody. Or even a failed synthesis, a discordant descent into chaos, black gunk in the flask.
What makes a chemical synthesis, arguably the most intellectually developed part of chemistry, very different from a musical work is that the synthesis is motivated by its aim—to make one type of molecule, and no other. A movement of a Beethoven quartet will have its crescendo and coda. But in the end there is silence again; the emotionally wrenching, contrapuntal path in time to that silence is what remains, to be experienced only when the piece is played again.
Abstract art is cold. And so is science. I put it this provocatively so as ultimately to work against this caricature, a prevalent one, I am afraid, of both abstract art and science. How can they both be "cold?" The way into emotion in abstraction (and the appreciation of science) is not direct. It has to be learned. Figurative portrayal, or even just the slightest evocation of the figurative gesture, may signal grief, tension, fear or love most directly. Sometimes it's done in just a few lines; this is how cartoons work. I've seen people cry in the Rothko chapel in Houston, but they came with some appreciation of abstract art, and a contemplative mood.
Science's cross is our insistence on depersonalizing experience, if it is to be crowned as reliable knowledge. The dehumanizing process has been enhanced in the past 200 years by the third- person, neutered language of that ossified ritual format of our stock-in-trade, the scientific article. What violence that dull language, that rigid format, does to the scientific imagination! How it dissipates in jargon the underlying thrill of feeling, say, the reactivity of a molecule turned upside down by clever substitution! Here science and abstract art have shared the consequences of dealing out the figurative and emotional.
Immanuel Kant understood that the artistic response is stirred by paired responses in us. These replies are both the instinctive emotional reaction to an object or a process, and the cognitive play with what we see or hear. One way to characterize the problem of perception that abstract art and science share is that when the figurative, natural or personal are pushed aside, the cognitive is emphasized. And thinking seems less warm. Oh, beauty comes back, no way of keeping its subversive pleasures out of the soul. But the initial impression of a shift in emphasis from the emotional to the cognitive is … coldness. Once again, music is the (magical) exception.
To restore emotion is harder for science than for abstract art. Form and color combine to make Kandinsky's compositions kinetic and joyful. The formal tensions at work in Bertoia's enclosures and Reinhardt's paintings reward the viewer with the feeling that something is at stake. We are drawn in to look intently and the thought emerging out of that contemplation carries emotional import, as the abstraction shapes a passage to the soul. As Reinhardt wrote, "May not one side of me speak up for the side of the angels?"
In science, we distance reality by representing it, in molecular models or mathematical equations. There is risk in that distancing, but also tremendous power—for instance, the calculus, along with a mathematical technique called perturbation theory, allows us to calculate the path of a Mars lander to a few meters.
The representations of science are both iconic and symbolic—they look like the thing and they are arbitrary. The lines in the ball-and-stick model of a molecule do give one a rough idea of the relative microscopic distances; the atom labels are just a convention. The representations are then manipulated on paper, on computer screens and in our minds with all the conventions of art—and that includes abstract art. So we focus in a cubist way on one part of a molecule, distorting it, and we indicate forces with Klee arrows. And when we need to represent essences, to focus in on what matters, we simplify, often in the way artists did in the beginning of abstract art in the 20th century.
Consider the problem of representing the essential backbone of proteins—biopolymers whose chains are sometimes helical, or sometimes stretched out with a pleated appearance. Its similarities and differences from protein to protein must be perceived. In the early 1980s Jane Richardson of Duke University invented a "ribbon" representation that is based on the reality of molecular structure obtained from experiment (above right). The ribbon representation, an abstraction I would say, was a genial idea. First done by hand, now computerized, this way of seeing has shaped the way we imagine proteins in our mind's eye.
Abstraction, both through equations and simplified representations of molecular structure, is an essential mechanism of science. But analogies to abstract art and music also enter in other ways—in the opposition to the natural, in playful and purposeful pursuit of essences, in the way time and chance are given their due. In science and art both, we create and discover meaning.
I am grateful to Bruce Ganem for discussions.
You can find this online at http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/num2/abstract-science/3
© 2016 Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society


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Folate is needed to make red blood cells. It is also used to repair cells and to make DNA.
It also helps prevent cellular changes that may lead to cancer. Folate is also needed to help a baby's cells multiply during pregnancy. Low levels of folate during pregnancy can lead to brain or spine defects in the fetus. It can also lead to a type of anemia marked by fewer, but larger, red blood cells.
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Shortness of breath
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Many things may affect your lab test results. These include the method each lab uses to do the test. Even if your test results are different from the normal value, you may not have a problem. To learn what the results mean for you, talk with your health care provider.
For blood plasma or serum, a normal result ranges from 2 to 10 nanograms per milliliter (ng/mL) or 4 to 22 nanomoles per liter (nmol/L).
For red blood cells, a normal result ranges from 140 to 960 ng/mL or 550 to 2,200 nmol/L.
A test result that's lower than normal means you have a folate deficiency, and your doctor may recommend folic acid supplements. Once you begin taking supplements, the folate deficiency will go away within a few months. Your health care provider determines how much of a folic acid supplement you need based on your age and whether you are pregnant or breastfeeding.
Folate is water soluble, so any extra folate leaves your body in urine. But a buildup can sometimes happen during folic acid therapy.
The test requires a blood sample, which is drawn through a needle from a vein in your arm.
Taking a blood sample with a needle carries risks that include bleeding, infection, bruising, or feeling dizzy. When the needle pricks your arm, you may feel a slight stinging sensation or pain. Afterward, the site may be slightly sore.
Many factors can contribute to a folate deficiency, including:
Poor nutrition
Being a vegetarian
Drinking too much alcohol
Advanced age
Anti-convulsion drugs
Recent surgery
Nutrition absorption problems (Crohn's or celiac disease)
Kidney dialysis
You don't need to prepare for this test. Be sure your doctor knows about all medicines, herbs, vitamins, and supplements you are taking. This includes medicines that don't need a prescription and any illicit drugs you may use.

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Last night, my pal Brad from MuuMuse invited me to tag along to a showcase from Swedish chanteuse, Agnes. The Idol 2005 winner, the Scandinavian country's equivalent to our own American Idol, sauntered on stage wearing a sparkling smock and chatted up the crowd a bit before she let the vocals soar.
Due to a busy past week and even more hectic upcoming set of days, Agnes was only able to perform one song. Selecting her most notable smash, Release Me, the singer went acoustic with a solo guitar accompaniment/male backup vocalist.
From the one song sang, it's evident that Agnes has a striking live and recorded voice, worthy of the best eurohouse backing tracks. We'd have liked to see her perform another cut or two (frankly, we're fond of On and On), but hey, this beast does not pass up free music and food! Agnes' third studio album, Dance Love Pop, was released in 2008, and will see a proper Stateside release later this year. (more pictures can be viewed here)
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NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has used its aptly named Dust Removal Tool for the first time, clearing the Red Planet's ubiquitous dust from a patch of a flat rock.
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The rover team is also evaluating rocks in the area for potential targets for the first use of the rover's hammering drill in coming weeks.


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Echo Publishing mourns loss of Ron Foss
Ron Foss, an Echo Publishing employee for 36 years, passed away Aug. 20 after a 17-month battle with cancer.
Foss, an advertising manager for the Lake Country Echo and Echoland-Piper Shopper, was the Shopper's first, and for some time only, advertising salesperson.
He took strong ownership over the publication, and former Echo editor Craig Nagel said Foss contributed largely to the Shopper's success.
"The guy just was a professional," Nagel said. "He just made things work well."
When Foss came on board, Nagel said, he had very little sales experience, but did well even his first day on the job. The Shopper was brand new to everyone at Echo Publishing.
"We were inventing things along the way. None of us knew exactly what we were doing with the Shopper," Nagel said. "As we got the hang of it, it became more and more clear that he was the go-to guy, and if you went to him you could count on it being done.
"From then on it was a matter of 30-some years of Ron being Mr. Shopper," Nagel said.
Foss became well known amongst the business community, working with merchants year after year.
Judy Cotten, owner of Judy's House of Gifts in Crosslake, said Foss sold her advertising from the very start of her business, 26 years ago.
"He always had the time to make you feel like you were important. He was just a very social person," Cotten said, adding that Foss would often hang around just to visit with her.
Brad Nelson, owner of C & C Boat Works, said he and Foss knew each other well.
"He had a great sense of humor, always a great man to work with," Nelson said. Nelson had worked with Foss since 1985.
Pete Mohs, Echo Publishing publisher, worked with Foss up until his retirement.
"Ron took a lot of pride working for Echo Publishing, especially his role in starting the Echoland-Piper Shopper in 1975," Mohs said. "Ron was also very dedicated to his advertising customers and went the extra mile to help them.
"He worked long hours, especially on Tuesdays when he would often see more than 30 customers in the Crosslake area. I think some of those customers set their watches by Ron's consistent visits."
In addition to his work at Echo Publishing, Foss enjoyed spending time outdoors, cutting firewood, relaxing at the lake out on the boat, playing sports and fishing. He met his wife, Debbie, at Echo Publishing where she was also employed. The couple has a daughter, Kara, and son, Andrew.
Foss was a mainstay at the Whitefish Chain Antique and Classic Wood Boat Rendezvous. He was a dock boy every year since its inception except one, the weekend his daughter was married. He was also a volunteer on the Crosslake Fire Department for 12 years, was president of the Crosslake Chamber of Commerce for two years, and was involved in numerous other community groups and committees.


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UTSA hosts MacArturos gathering Oct. 4-6
By James Benavides
Public Affairs Specialist
(Oct. 2, 2007)--UTSA will co-sponsor "Latino/Latina Genius: Locos, Dreamers and Visionaries," an Oct. 4-6 gathering of San Antonio area recipients of grants from the renowned John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
Drawing on the diverse backgrounds and talents of local MacArthur grant recipients and local community leaders, the visionaries will cast their imaginations 10 years into San Antonio's future in search of a vision to fundamentally improve the state of human affairs.
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An opening ceremony for the series of special presentations is 6 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 4 in the Buena Vista Street Building Aula Canaria (1.326) followed by a reception in the Buena Vista Street Building Assembly Room (1.338) at the UTSA Downtown Campus. The events are free and open to the public.
Presentations over the three-day event will be hosted at the UTSA Downtown Campus, Jump-Start Theater, University of the Incarnate Word, Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center, San Antonio College, Esperanza Peace and Justice Center, San Fernando Cathedral, Trinity University, Our Lady of the Lake University, Texas Diabetes Institute and St. Mary's University.
Download the "Latino/Latino Genius" event schedule (pdf document).
From the ranks of 756 scientists, historians, poets, novelists, artists, composers and public servants named MacArthur Fellows, 18 will participate in the San Antonio reunion. The 18 MacArthur Fellows, also known as "Los MacArturos," are Latinos who come from fields as diverse as politics, labor, performance, literacy, housing, history, the visual arts and health care, among others. San Antonio's contribution to the think tank is poet and novelist Sandra Cisneros, a MacArturo since 1995 who initiated San Antonio's first "Latino Genius" gathering.
Visit the UTSA MacArturos Reunion blog.
Presentation and discussion topics will include art in a time of crisis; San Antonio's vision for human rights, education and politics; testimonies and songs of the spirit; housing and community planning; and voting. Additionally, there will be a performance of the play, "The Mexorcist 2: America's Most Wanted Inner Demon."
Since 1981, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation has awarded grants to individuals of exceptional creativity and with significant achievement. Each year, the MacArthur Foundation Fellowship Grant of $500,000 is presented with no strings attached and no expectations. The awards allow exceptional individuals to dream big and accomplish even greater things, knowing that creativity is often stifled in its infancy because of the lack of funding.
"Ten years ago, UTSA hosted the MacArturos' first San Antonio reunion downtown and we welcomed 12 Latino geniuses," said Ellen Riojas Clark, UTSA professor of bicultural-bilingual studies and event co-organizer. "We are glad that UTSA is sponsoring this major event again and this time, bringing 18 geniuses onto our campus."
Clark, Cisneros and Michele Brinkley organized this MacArturo reunion. Over the three days of the reunion, the MacArturos invite the public to share in their vision through "dream circle" discussions presented at area universities, galleries and cultural centers. Eduardo Jimenez, UTSA lecturer of English, classics, philosophy and interdisciplinary learning and teaching; Patricia Jaramillo, UTSA assistant professor of political science and geography; and Belinda Flores, UTSA Faculty Fellow and associate professor of interdisciplinary learning and teaching, will attend the dream circles as local geniuses.
"Our city will be profoundly impacted by the discussions generated by the geniuses and the dream circles," said Clark. "To have visionaries, problem solvers, dreamers and out-of-the-box thinkers addressing issues will serve to articulate possible frameworks for addressing our future as a vital, dynamic and multicultural city."
Read a Sept. 30 San Antonio Express-News story about Los MacArturos.
Listen to a Texas Public Radio story about the MacArturos reunion.


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The Next Generation of camera top monitors have arrived with the advent of the new Marshall Electronics Modular design Camera Top Series including the V-LCD56MD 5.6", V-LCD70MD 7" and V-LCD90MD 9" monitors. Each of these models comes in a choice of three configurations.
The V-LCD90MD-3G includes the base unit with a preinstalled MD-3GE module providing an additional 3G/HD/SD-SDI input with loop-through. The V-LCD90MD-O** version includes the base unit with a preinstalled MDO-3G module providing a 3G-SDI output converted from the HDMI input. Finally the V-LCD90MD base unit comes with no preinstalled module. Modules can be added at anytime in the field by you the user. The new modular design allows you the user to determine what I/O combinations you want.
Building on the features that made the V-LCD70 series famous these models add even more user friendly features. New Icon driven Menu System, Waveform Display with dual Audio Bars, Front Panel Headphone output, Variable Pixel-to-Pixel function plus Marshall's industry leading PEAKING Filter now in four colors for easier focus assist make these monitors a must have appliance for serious photographers and videographers producers and directors alike.
This 9" monitor offers a high resolution 1280 x 768 LED Backlit IPS panel and standard features including a wide variety of formats and markers, 4 user-configurable front panel function buttons, RGB Check Field / Field Detect, RGB gain and bias control, polycarbonate screen protection. New features include multiple DSLR presets, six User Presets, Adjustable IRE Clip Guide, and Backlight control just to name a few.
All of these new MD series monitors come equipped with an HDCP compliant HDMI input with pass-through, a selection of 10 available battery adapters and a choice of one Input or Output module.
- High Resolution 1280 x 768 White LED Backlit IPS panel
- High Brightness 600-nit with Adjustable Backlight
- Available in three Configurations:
- V-LCD90MD (No Module)
- V-LCD90MD-O** (3G Output Module with two 3G-HDSDI outputs converted from the HDMI input. HDCP Compliant)
- V-LCD90MD-3G (3G Input Module with loop-through)
- DSLR Ratio Adjustment with 4 DSLR Ratio Presets
- On Screen Waveform / Stereo Audio Bar Display
- Manual Gamma Adjustment
- Adjustable IRE Clip Guide (Zebra Filter)
- 1/4"-20 mounts on all sides
- Stereo Headphone Output (select a L+R Pair from the available channels)
- 6 Monitor Configuration User Presets
- Custom Screen Markers (choice of four colors and variable lines widths)
- HDMI Pass-Through (HDCP Compliant)
- HDMI Auto Color Space and Ratio detect
- New Peaking Filter (Choice of four color highlights and variable sensitivity)
- False Color Filter
- Four User Assigned Function Buttons with 32 possible uses
- Pixel-to-Pixel Panning (Custom Pixel-to-Pixel Mode)
- 15:9, 16:9, 4:3, Pixel-to-Pixel modes
- Input Crop with automatic scaling
- RGB Check Field with Monochrome
- Scratch Resistant Protective Screen
- Variety of Optional User-Replaceable Battery Adapters available
- Icon assisted Menu System
Marshall's new DSLR RATIO ADJUSTMENT feature allows users to scale video that does not completely fill the monitor's screen when connected via HDMI in "Record" mode on certain Canon DSLRs. This new feature allows the user to scale their DSLR video output, fill the screen, and eliminate black pillar bars with a variety of options to choose from. The user has the option of choosing between NORMAL, 3:2, 16:9, and FULL SCREEN. The DSLR RATIO ADJUSTMENT feature can be programmed to one of the front panel's four-button presets for quick and easy access.
Waveform, Audio and Clip Guide displays
The new V-LCD56MD incorporates both a Waveform display and Stereo Audio bars. These may be displayed separately or together in any one of the four corners of the monitor. The Stereo Audio is de-embedded from either the HDMI input (8 channels) or from the optional 3GSDI input (16 channels). Any pair of the available channels may be selected for both the display and the Headphone Output.
The Zebra function (Clip Guide) is used to visually filter data on the screen that is under a Lower Threshold or over an Upper Threshold. Data on either side of the filters can be displayed with a custom color.
In the image above on the Right, the Lower Threshold has been set to 20 IRE (Red). This means that any part of the image UNDER 20 IRE will be "colored" in RED. Also, the Upper Threshold has been set to 90 IRE (Yellow). This means that any part of the image OVER 90 IRE will be "colored" in YELLOW.
The Zebra function can also be inverted to filter the area between the Upper and Lower Threshold. The color selected for the Lower Threshold acts as the color for all inverted Zebra data. In the image on the Left, the Lower Threshold is set to 20 IRE and the Upper Threshold is set to 90 IRE. The Zebra Invert will filter all data in between 20 IRE and 90 IRE and display it in RED.
Custom Pixel-to-Pixel Panning:
To select a Custom Pixel-to-Pixel zone, enter the Adjust function:
Custom Pixel-to-Pixel Panning
The outer square represents the entire image and the inner grey box represents your current Pixel-to-Pixel selection. Use the COLOR knob to move your selection LEFT and RIGHT. Use the CONTRASEnable the Input Crop function to select the area of active video that you would like shown on the image display. Select the desired Input by accessing the Adjust option below the main function:T knob to move your selection UP or DOWN. Press the SELECT button or the ROTOMENU knob to lock in your selection.
Input Crop with auto Scaling:
Use the BRIGHT knob to move the selection box UP and DOWN
Use the COLOR knob to move the selection box LEFT and RIGHT
Use the CONTRAST knob to move the right border LEFT and RIGHT
Use the USER knob to move the bottom border UP and DOWN
When you are satisfied with the position, press the SELECT button or press the BRIGHT knob to confirm your selection. The new cropped selection will be displayed on the screen. If your Aspect Ratio is set to AUTO, the monitor will select the closest aspect ratio to the dimensions of your customized Input.
User-Definable Function Buttons:
Four user-definable function buttons on the front-panel allow quick access to numerous settings and features including focus-assist, false color filter, aspect ratio, screen markers, monochrome mode, color temperature, delay mode, and more.
Adjustable Screen Markers:
A variety of screen markers in 4:3, 16:9, and full screen modes allow accurate monitoring of the different aspect ratios used in broadcast environments. User Markers allow for custom aspect ratio, cropping framing, now with a choice of four colors and variable width lines.
Stereo Headphone Output:
8 channels of audio from the HDMI input or 16 channels of audio from the HDSDI input are available for monitoring. The headphones can monitor any pair from the available channels.
6 Custom Configuration Presets:
Six User Setting Presets allow the user to save six system configuration files for later recall when needed. These configuration files will save 38 different parameters that can be adjusted by the user.
False Color Filter
The False Color filter is used to aid in the setting of camera exposure. As the camera Iris is adjusted, elements of the image will change color based on the luminance or brightness values. This enables proper exposure to be achieved without the use of costly, complicated external test equipment.
To best utilize this feature, you must understand the color chart and have a basic understanding of camera exposure. Normally, when shooting subjects like people, it is common practice to set exposure of faces to the equivalent of approximately 56 IRE. The False Color filter will show this area as the color PINK on the monitor. Therefore, as you increase exposure (open the IRIS), your subject will change color as indicated on the chart: PINK, then GREY, then a few shades of YELLOW. Overexposed subjects (above 101 IRE) on the monitor will be shown as RED. In addition, underexposed subjects will show as DEEP-BLUE to DARK-BLUE, with clipped-blacks indicated with a FUCHSIA-like color. Lastly, the color GREEN is used to indicate elements of the image that are approximately 45 IRE. This represents a "neutral" or "mid-level" exposure commonly used for objects (not people).
Peaking Filter
The Peaking Filter is used to aid the camera operator in obtaining the sharpest possible picture. When activated, the internal processor will display a colored highlight on the screen where sharp edges appear. When the camera operator adjusts (or "racks") the focus control (on the camera lens), different parts of the image will have these colored highlights. This indicates that this portion of the image is sharp or in focus. Final focus is achieved by racking the camera lens focus control back and forth until the desired portion of the image has the colored highlights.
The original version of the peaking filter removed the color from the image leaving a black and white picture with Red highlights. This new version not only keeps the original color but adds a choice of four colors, Red, Green, Yellow and Pink to choose from for the highlights as well as adjustable sensitivity for even finer control of focus.
Please note that this feature is most effective when the subject is properly exposed and contains enough contrast to be processed.
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Sitting in front of the television may be relaxing, but spending too much time in front of the tube may take years off your life.
That's what Australian researchers found when they collected TV viewing information from more than 11,000 people older than 25 years. The study found that people who watched an average six hours of TV a day lived an average 4.8 years less than those who didn't watch any television. Also, every hour of TV that participants watched after age 25 was associated with a 22-minute reduction in their life expectancy.
What's Going On?
It's no mystery that sitting in front of the tube isn't exactly healthy. The more TV you watch, the less physically active you are. And the less exercise you get, the more likely you are to develop diseases such as diabetes or heart problems.
Lennert Veerman is the lead author of the study, which was published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine. Veerman works at the University of Queensland. He acknowledges that it may not just be the sedentary nature of watching TV that lowers life expectancy, but also the poor diet that onscreen junk-food advertising can promote. But Veerman says that the association between watching too much TV and lower life expectancy persisted, even after adjusting for diet.
Veerman says that it might make sense for doctors to start asking their patients about how much time they spend in front of the TV, and to treat TV time as they would other risk factors for poor health, such as lack of exercise and an unhealthy diet.
Veerman points out that people who are concerned can simply turn off the TV and gett off the couch. "Exercise is good," he says, "but even light physical activity also improves health."


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RIT Men's Hockey
During this time of year I have a crazy amount of applications to read, spring travel planning, amongst other responsibilities. However, I always have some time to get everyone up to date on the RIT Men's Hockey team. There is quite a bit going on right now, like a seriously long winning streak, two new additions to the Atlantic Hockey Association next year, and Hobey Baker updates. Let's get started!
I began my blog year in pretty bold fashion; claiming that the hockey team would win at least 20 games and make their first NCAA appearance. I have to admit, after a 5-9-1 start to the season I was beginning to wonder if I even knew anything about hockey anymore! Thankfully, I do apparently know what I am talking about when it comes to pucks, skates, and ice. The RIT Men's Hockey Team has rattled off 11 straight wins to push their record to 16-9-1. They are 15-4-1 in league play, putting them on top of the conference, and are ranked 23rd in the nation. Air Force does have one less loss and two games in hand on the Tigers though. The good news; Air Force has to come out to the Ritter Arena for the last two conference games of the season. Another bold prediction, that weekend will decide the conference regular season title. The Tigers will try to push their win streak to 12 games tonight when they face off against the US Under 18 Team at Blue Cross Arena.
In other news, the Atlantic Hockey Association will add two teams to the conference in
After losing a Hobey Baker Finalist from last season in Simon Lambert and the teams leading goal scorer in Matt Smith, the team has progressed greatly since early season. Coach Wayne Wilson has the guys clicking at just the right time, further proving that he has an uncanny ability to put a group of guys together that are going to work as a team, while putting aside personal aspirations for the good of the whole program. Those folks reading this within the
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Emily OkeyMen's hockey lost last night =(
I'm glad I went though, Blue Cross Arena is awesome (I'd never been there before) and it'll be interesting to see what NHL teams the u18 players end up on.. I read somewhere that one of them is going to be a first draft pick next season?? It's hard to believe that they're all a year or so younger than I am!
With the additions to the AHA, does this mean the season will be longer?
Matthew GarverHi Emily:
Unfortuantely I was unable to go to the game, stomach bug had me laid up friday and saturday. From the box score it looks like Coach Wilson played our 3rd goalie. It is an exhibition game, so it was a great time to get him a game in the net. The game does not count against our record either. I am not saying that is why we lost, but I think it certainly played a factor considering they scored 6 goals. The US Under 18 team is littered with top college and NHL prospects. These are the best 17 year old players in the country, so they are very talented. There are all sorts of tryouts for this team that start with state wide tryouts, then regional selections, then national selections. Back when I was playing the NY state tryouts were in Utica, then onto Lake Placid for the regional and if you made it past that it was off to Colorado Springs for the final selection. The final selection consisted of the top 36 forwards in the nation, i do not know the numbers for the other positions, yes I was a forward so that is why I know that piece. But it is something like the top 100 players out in Co. Springs. That is how it went back in 1992. I was fortunate enough to make it out to Colorado Springs, but never made the team. Making it that far was an honor. Anyway, here is a link to the US Under 18 Team roster and where they have committed to play college hockey. Many very storied college hockey programs on the list! http://www.usahockey.com/USANTDP/default.aspx?NAV=AF_01_02&ID=233682. Have a great day! As you can tell I like to talk hockey....
Matthew GarverThe AHA expansion will not lengthen the season. It will just change the amount of teams we would play four times in a season, I would guess. There are many ways they could adjust the schedule though.
Mike JonesI live in Pensacola, Florida and was a fan of the Pensacola Ice Pilots while they were in the ECHL. I've been trying to remember the name of the asst coach in the 2000-2001 season but all I remember about him is that he was a coach at RIT before coming to Pensacola. It seems like he brought some players with him and the one I remember is Pat Staerker. Do you have any idea what that coach's name is?


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We surveyed 2,310 adults on their coital habits, and the results are in. Find out how your fellow Americans are getting off.
The mechanics of sex haven't changed for a long while—insert A into B, C or D, wiggle around, have an orgasm (or not). But the way we come together is faster, less discerning and, many would argue, less intimate since the arrival of the internet. Last year a polling firm asked 1,074 adults, "If you had to choose, would you give up sex or the internet?" Thirty-five percent couldn't decide. It's come to this?
We wanted our own figures. Not since the pill has a cultural force as powerful as the internet had such an effect on the way humans copulate. In 1983, over the course of five issues, Playboy reported the results of the most sweeping sex poll in history, after surveying 65,396 male and 14,928 female readers about their habits. The timing is important: Just months after that survey was on newsstands, Apple unveiled the Macintosh—a seminal moment in digital media.
This year we repeated the survey so we could compare sex today with sex at the dawn of the digital age. With the help of Harris Interactive, we collected responses from 8,002 male and 2,001 female visitors to Playboy.com, the results of which were weighted to reflect the demographic of the average Playboy reader.
Next, to avoid being myopic, we asked Harris to present the survey to a sample of American adults (not just Playboy readers) to learn more about how men and women are having sex in 2011, and particularly the role of technology. The firm interviewed 1,210 men and 1,100 women online and weighted the results to reflect the race, gender, sexual orientation, age, education and other attributes of the U.S. adult population—all 232 million of us.
Certainly a number of factors have changed how we view and practice sex since 1983—AIDS and Viagra come to mind. But a great amount of the new data we collected points to the influence of internet porn. This includes a huge leap in the number of people who report watching adult movies (78 percent today, 40 percent in 1983). Both men and women masturbate more while having less intercourse. In 1983 we didn't ask if people shaved their pubic hair—who would do that? Now more than half the respondents in our survey are trimming. We also noticed a boost in the incidence of reverse cowgirl—woman on top, facing away—a position popularized by porn.
Need more evidence? The security cam and gonzo porn genres are phenoms supported by the huge increase in readers who say they have had sex in public or other risky places (up to 76 percent from about 35 percent). And what's one to make of the fact that 70 percent of female respondents have been photographed nude and nearly 50 percent while having sex? Thanks to digital cameras and smartphones, you no longer need to develop the film. That's progress.
You'll find highlights from both polls in the June 2011 issue of Playboy magazine, including comparisons between the results of the 2011 and 1983 Playboy reader surveys.
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Oddly enough, my bees in New Mexico don't seem to be terribly upset about it.
Oddly enough, my bees in New Mexico don't seem to be terribly upset about it.
In New Hampshire we are powered!
Dave Verville
Fremont, NH USA
They'll have to watch out for the population boom 9 mos. from now!
We just got our power back at about 3:30 Am. Sure was hot last night
Clinton Bemrose
just South of Lansing Michigan
I only caught the tail end of the news that said there was a major blackout. A few years ago almost everyone in Omaha and Lincoln (around here) was without power for two weeks. It probably didn't make national news. But then we never have looters or anything and since we aren't on one of the coasts, the News media do not know that there are actually cities and people out here. I notice my bees were as undisturbed by that one as this current blackout.


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When a person spends a big majority of their time just daydreaming. A person will actively move around daydreaming and music is a big trigger for it. There is no certain medication for it because doctors have just recently been studying it and are looking for a medication that would suit it best. People with Maladaptive daydreaming are often lazy because they would rather daydream. The daydreams are usually them in different situations with different people. They will daydream about what they wish they had in life such as maybe a girlfriend, a new friend, or just doing something cool in general. People with maladaptive daydreaming are often shy and don't have much of a social life.
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This statue of Zachariah Chandler was given to the National Statuary Hall Collection by Michigan in 1913. In 2011 it was replaced by a statue of President Gerald Ford. This statue now currently resides in Michigan.
Given by Michigan in 1913
Replaced in 2011 by statue of President Gerald Ford
Zachariah T. Chandler was born in Bedford, New Hampshire, on December 10, 1813. Following his formal education Chandler went west. He settled in Detroit, opened a successful general store, and soon became quite wealthy. In 1851 he was elected the Whig Mayor of Detroit, but he was defeated in his election bid for governor in 1852.
Chandler was one of the founders of the Republican Party at the mass convention "under the oaks" at Jackson in the summer of 1854. He eventually became the undisputed leader of the Republican Party in Michigan. In 1856 Michigan suffered from a lack of sound currency, but Chandler supplied his customers with all the goods they required. This action averted countless bankruptcies and certainly aided Chandler's successful bid for the United States Senate in 1857. Chandler was outspoken in his support of the anti-slavery movement. He was also capable of taking a broad view of situations. Chandler served as the chairman of the Committee on Commerce from 1861 to 1875, and he was responsible for the funneling of large amounts of federal funding into the developing Midwest.
Defeated in the Senate election in 1875, Chandler was appointed secretary of the interior by President Grant, but be was removed from office by the succeeding president, Rutherford B. Hayes, in 1876. Chandler, a popular figure, was reelected to the United States Senate in 1879. He died soon thereafter on November 1, 1879.


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It seems that there are 20,000 overseas Chinese in Calcutta, and an actual century-old Chinatown, with Cantonese restaurants, as one might expect, and Hakka-style restaurants, which are not so common outside China. The Hakka ethnic group, speaking a northern dialect in the mountains of South China, have a reputation for simple dishes with exquisite texture and balance. So there has developed a fusion cuisine with Indian spices and Chinese techniques. Mumbai Chopstix aspires to the historical karma (beyond the similarity of tools), although it also does some more conventional Pacific-rim fusion food. And some dishes I tried leaned too heavily on a sweet-sour-hot sauce that reminded me of inferior Szechuan.
Not the new fried bhindi (okra) appetizer ($6), which is barely batter-fried, and comes out as a new and delicious green vegetable, with no slimy texture, and a scallion drizzle. "Salt and pepper squid" ($9.95) is supposed to be "tempura battered" but blessedly it is not. The frying is great, but the use of Chinese five-spice powder as the equivalent of garam masala is too much sweet spice for mild seafood. Peking duck samosas ($6) sounds like a possible idea, but only the chopped duck meat comes from the classic Chinese dish, leaving behind the flavors of hoisin, crispy skin, and scallions. The result is a vaguely pyramidal pasty filled with bland chopped meat, but covered with that sweet-sour-hot sauce as if it were a side project at the General Gau's chicken factory.
Testing the Hakka/Calcutta story, I went for Hakka Style Lamb ($17.95), and when asked about spicy, I said, "It's a hot night, I want it spicy." I got the same sauce, but with enough dried red chilies and little fresh green chilies to earn two or three silhouettes in a Thai restaurant. And the Hakka story is true about the little boneless pieces of lamb in this dish, done to a tender turn. The vegetable filler, plain onions and red and green bell peppers, was like Chinese-American food of the old days. But I did like those little green chilies. I was picking them out with chopsticks — by the way, they only give you chopsticks at Mumbai Chopstix if you ask — because the green bird peppers had a great flavor before the sheer heat came on.
The standard sauce is very edible on the excellent rice, which looks like large bowl of Chinese rice, but it is in fact basmati and strongly aromatic.
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Video: New golden age on "The View" begins with defense of Michael Vick
posted at 4:13 pm on September 4, 2007 by Allahpundit
You didn't think her first day on the job was going to pass here without comment, did you? It's the only way we're going to get over Rosie, people. Face the new reality, whatever the cost in heart-ache.
Her "defense" of Vick is a qualified defense: she's not saying what he did was right, merely that he didn't know it was wrong because of the "deep south" culture he comes from. Really? Then how come he used an alias — "Ookie" — when pursuing this very innocent hobby? I recall reading somewhere that his pals once got upset when someone addressed him during a dogfight by his real name instead of his nickname, which, if true, would prove their awareness of their culpability. A link and a mention here to anyone who can find that article. It was either in his plea agreement or somewhere in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
As for DeVito's crap at the end, that's just dessert.
Update: Reader "bacadog" answers the bell. The incident I was thinking of appears in paragraph 68 of the indictment against Vick.
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March 28, 2014
An UNDEF-funded project in Costa Rica works to promote leadership and citizenship skills among disadvantaged youth. In March 2014, the project held a train-the-trainers camp for 50 adolescents, with skills to be implemented as part of a cascading process in their communities. more >>
March 21, 2014
An UNDEF-funded project in Tunisia has produced an irresistibly motivational video for the empowerment of girls, as part of a vast programme of civic outreach and electoral education. The project addresses the need for women's rights, participation and political education in all regions. more >>
March 13, 2014
An UNDEF Nepal project works to increase participation of women in local governance at the most basic level of the ward, through Ward Citizen Forums. It educates women in democratic rights and gender-responsive budgeting, making them more vocal in their demands in the decision-making process. more >>
February 18, 2014
Serbia is host to some 300,000 people displaced through the conflicts in former Yugoslavia, most of whom are from Kosovo. Despite a range of efforts in the past decade, these internally displaced people remain one of the most vulnerable groups in Serbia. more >>
February 10, 2014
An UNDEF Cambodia project to strengthen ethics in journalism organized the country's first awards in this area in December 2013. Awards were distributed to 13 Cambodian media organizations -- TV stations Bayon, Apsara, Hang Meas, SEATV, TV 5, TV 3, TV 9 and CTN. more >>
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Rasmussen: Majority of Latinos in Arizona support letting cops check for immigration status?
posted at 10:34 pm on April 27, 2010 by Allahpundit
I've got a question mark in the headline because, insanely, Rasmussen didn't refine his sample to isolate the data from Latinos. The racial demographics polled are white, black, and "other," which presumably encompasses Latinos (30.1 percent of the state's population as of 2008), Native Americans (4.9 percent), and Asians (2.5 percent). Here's what he got when he asked respondents if they favor or oppose legislation that would let cops stop suspected illegals to check their immigration status. Click the image to enlarge.
Fully 70 percent overall support this part of the law, and given the fact that Latinos compose most of the "other" category, a majority of their demographic must be in favor too. A few caveats, though. One: Rasmussen polls likely voters, so this is obviously a sample of citizens. Other polls that use "adults" as their sample are bound to show sharply lower numbers since they'll include some illegals too. Two: Notwithstanding the support for letting cops inquire, 53 percent overall say they're either very or somewhat concerned that the law will lead to civil-rights violations. Among the "other" group, it's 54 percent — but of that number, 40 percent say they're very concerned and just 14 percent say somewhat. (Among all likely voters, that split is 23/30.) So yeah, it's an issue, and if it starts happening, expect support to start crumbling.
Exit question: Why didn't Rasmussen emphasize this in his write-up of the data? Is he saving that for tomorrow?
Update: Another worthy caveat from the comments: The sub-sample of Latino likely voters must be relatively small, which would mean a large margin of error. That might explain why Rasmussen didn't flag it. Just flag this result now for comparison purposes, as there'll be plenty of more extensive polling in the days ahead.
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There is no longer a viable excuse for the rich not to play a nine-game conference schedule. The SEC mansion needs quality competitive furnishings, not knock-offs from the FCS thrift store.
The Pac-12 is doing it now. So is the 10-team Big 12, which doesn't have a title game and doesn't need one with everyone playing every opponent in the regular season. The Big Ten formally announced last month that it is headed to nine games in 2016.
I want to know if this guy has always been a retard, or if he caught it when he went to yahoo sports.
nine-game schedule.
quote:I believe any true and secure SEC fan (or LSU fan) would have to be absolutely in favor a 9 game SEC schedule. Not because the other leagues are doing it (we're not a "me-too" league). But because our fans deserve better games than a small annual handful of Cream Puff U games of the week. Plus, IMO, increased SEC exposure puts more pressure on the whole league to improve. That can only be a win/win for all of us.
I'm for it.
I believe any true and secure SEC fan (or LSU fan) would have to be absolutely in favor a 9 game SEC schedule.
You realize the only possible reason they would decide to go to 9 games is to protect the permanent opponents, right?
quote:On the surface, this appears to make sense to me. Can someone retort?
As it stands now, top SEC teams schedule good games outside of the conference. A 9 game SEC schedule will incentivize scheduling worse OOC teams. The less good teams the SEC plays OOC, the easier for idiots like Pat Forde to claim that the SEC is not the premier conference.
I've read about scenarios in which a team could choose to play one permanent cross-divisional opponant while rotating two opponants, and everyone else could rotate three. Don't know what the logistics would be, but it might work.
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...we must raise an even bigger question: has the Grand Theft Auto franchise peaked? Given the strength of GTA IV in 2008, the question may seem misplaced, but our concern is that the very highly rated new GTA content for Xbox as well as PSP and DS did not perform up to expectations in 2009. Now, we very clearly understand that these do not represent 'true' new GTA titles. However, the fact is that these were compelling titles, attractively priced, and reasonably well-promoted, yet they fell relatively flat
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When splitting a TBH, how far apart should the 2 hives be set from one another?
When splitting a TBH, how far apart should the 2 hives be set from one another?
I plan on making a split some time this coming Spring as well. After quite a bit of reading, I don't believe the distance is that important, meaning even 5 or 10 feet is sufficient as the pheromones given off by the queen will attract the workers back to their respective hive.
Good luck,
Yes, a split on a TBH is the same as a Lang. Distance shouldn't be an issue.
Couple of points, when you make the split many of the bees in the hive you move away will drift back to the origional site and leave the other one weak. To help with this, you can move both hives an equal distance away in opposite directions. But if you don't want to move one of the hives, dump into the one that gets moved away, twice as many bees as what you want to end up with, taken mostly from the brood area where the most young bees are. Bees under around 2 weeks old will not have flown and learned their location yet so will stay in the hive you've moved, but the older bees will return to the other hive. So shoot for double the number of bees you need, and it will roughly work out, provided the hive has a normal brood nest with hatching and young bees.
The other dilema is the bees will be more inclined to stay in the hive you move, if that one has the origional queen. But the opposing problem is that young bees accept a new queen better than old bees, and the origional hive will have more old bees. So there is an argument to move the queen and introduce the new one to the origional hive, but also an argument to introduce the new queen to the hive that's been moved, where they are mostly young bees.
So what to do is a judgement call. But all things considered, in my opinion it's usually best to move the origional queen with the hive that gets moved, to hold as many bees as possible, and introduce the new queen to the other hive. If there is no nectar coming in, feed the bees sugar syrup during the queen introduction it puts them in a better mood and increases chances of success. Don't spray them with any perfumes or whatever, they don't help and can actually make things worse. Just straight sugar syrup.
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I think Oldtimer has some good tips.
I did a split last year and actually did it a little opposite of what Oldtimer suggested, but still had great results. Either way, I dont think the distance matters too much in the long run. My hives were only 3-4 feet aparts and it went well.
I like the sound of Oldtimer's suggestions though. I would probably try that way if I were to split again.
I think you have to accept that most of the flying bees will drift back to the original hive so Oldtimer's idea is good. Distance does not matter as the nurse bees in the new hive will orientate to it when they start foraging. Some TBH people split into the other end of their long box successfully and that is 4' max distance!
Ha Ha well it's good that someone can do the OPPOSITE of what I said and still get good results!
That's the thing about beekeeping there's many ways to skin a cat LOL.
Which should still not be taken as license that EVERY way is a good way, some arent.
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When splitting your hive you could consider which brood combs going where. The split with the old queen should be made up with all the open brood with all or mostly capped brood going to the new half. If you make sure that the queenless half has the resources to produce a queen cell you can use the cell as your new queen or if you prefer, on day ten you can pinch all queen cells and introduce a caged mated queen.
This can be helpful in reducing each splits mite loads to a degree.