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Looking for somewhere to celebrate the end of 2012? Dances and concerts are planned for Midpeninsula revelers who want to stay close to home this year.
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CD Review: Jeff Beck — Emotion and Commotion; Playing Chastain Park Amphitheatre, June 11
Jeff Beck
Emotion and Commotion
By Al Kaufman
Jeff Beck loves and respects the guitar too much to just hack out albums when he does not feel inspired. While other guitar legends, such as Eric Clapton or B.B. King, are content to rehash old material or team up with upstarts to put out new product, Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Beck just goes out and works on cars until inspiration strikes. Thus Emotion and Commotion comes seven years after Beck's last studio album, Jeff. It is well worth the wait.
Emotion and Commotion brings a more mature Jeff Beck, but in this case "mature" is not a synonym for "boring." As he writes on his liner notes, he is now content to let "other people be a part of the music rather than have full-shred guitar on every track." Beck understands that a bend of a note here or a staccato blast there can be just as effective as an all out wail. The reason he often does not include a vocalist on his songs is because his guitar does the singing.
Case in point: Emotion and Commotion opens with "Corpus Christi Carol," a song perfectly suited for Jeff Buckley's beautifully romantic vocals. With his Stratocaster, Beck achieves the same simplicity and beauty, making words unnecessary. Of course, Beck then follows that with "Hammerhead," an all out wah-wah fest that he wrote with keyboardist Jason Rebello as a sort of homage to his friend, keyboardist and "Miami Vice Theme" songwriter, Jan Hammer.
Then there's Puccini's operatic "Nessun Dorma," which Beck recorded with a full orchestra. This time, his guitar takes on the role of tenor Luciano Pavarotti. Or how about "Over the Rainbow," where he captures Judy Garland's trembling vibrato with his six strings? While not a technically difficult song, Beck understands just how to make the simple melody sound stunning.
For those who worry that Beck is slipping into adult contemporary mode with his choice of covers, he offers some choice nuggets in addition to "Hammerhead." "There's No Other Me" offers up some nice riffs, and Joss Stone sings her bluesy little heart out on it. She fares less well on "I Put a Spell on You." Try as she might, she cannot elicit the passion of a Screamin' Jay Hawkins. Imelda May, the vocalist on another Jeff Buckley cover, "Lilac Wine," should appeal to people who like the sensual jazz stylings of Dianna Krall. Beck and orchestra stay in the shadows and let May shimmer and shine.
Beck also incorporates English sensation Olivia Safe, who is as comfortable singing electronica as she is singing opera, on two tracks. Her dynamic, wordless performance on the closing cut, "Elegy for Dunkirk," is haunting. In her, Beck has found a kindred spirit; a person who appreciates good music and wants to perform it, no matter the genre.
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Accolades for an insightful, laudable and erudite review of Jeff Beck's new CD. His eclecticism and virtuosity are peerless. He's an iconic guitar master.
Excellent review, my friend.
I always thought — virtuoso guitarist that he is — Beck lacked passion. Then I saw him live in concert. The man is certainly one with his instrument, makes it look easy and can generate myriad sounds from his Strat. At the Chastain show last night he rarely spoke into the microphone, but spoke through his guitar. I guess I never understood that. There's a reason the man is in the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame.
On stage, he looked like an alien superhero in his black and white sleeveless jumpsuit and space boots; maybe like all genius musicians and artists, he's not from this world. Oh, and Imelda May just kicked ass! Beck admitted that she made him cry when she sang "Lilac Wine." There was a palpable rapport between Beck and us, the audience. Lovely.
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Using new factors supplied by Beanjapan, I did another standing 1/4 mile. HP figure is very close to advertised number. The app I'm using isn't 100% accurate, but it's darn close. However, the dyno numbers aren't really the main thing for me, I'm more interested in my data logging figures above. Those values were recorded from the ECM, real time, using my scanning equipment. It's very accurate. I will have hard data as to exactly how much timing is added when I do apply the tune.
The dyno app thingy is just for fun, and is surprisingly accurate.
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That is a really cool app - I can see that it would be useful for skid pad and autocross.
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Yep... Dynolicious is a great little app. But just FYI (as someone with a little experience with it), a critical component of making it give useful/accurate results is figuring out how to mount your iPhone or iPod touch so it doesn't move around on its own. Even though it doesn't look great, a quick and practical solution might be industrial strength velcro tape to stick on the back of the phone and on a flat, level surface in the car like inside the center console glovebox. You need to be sure it doesn't slide forwards or backwards at all from the car accelerating or braking, or results will be off.
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But the dyno app is just for fun. I don't put an awful lot of stock into those numbers, it's just cool. I'm a born/bred drag racer, so my cars go to the track. Hell, a bunch of us rented out Maryland International Raceway on Saturday, for our private use. 1/4 mile MPH will tell me more about the tune than any dyno or smart phone app ever could. However, my timing logs on the previous page are very useful. I can tell exactly what he's doing with the tune, as far as spark advance. Since I have no plans of installing a wideband in this car, I'll never be able to read AFR, but not very worried about it on a non-boosted engine. They've got this tune running on tons of 3.6 Camaro's so I bet they've got the AFR dialed in pretty well.
I'll try to get it flashed in the next couple of days, and we'll see what's what.
Tuning the car, as I type this. Yea!
We decided to just start with their basic "off the shelf" ECM/TCM tune and work from there.
I'll see how she runs/shifts with the basic calibrations first, then we'll tailor it as needed.
Just flashed it and reset tranny adaptation as well but did not enable the ghost cam.
Prior to flashing it, I pulled and saved the stock ECM and TCM files, just in case. It took about 20 minutes total to read both files. Flashing it took 10 minutes, and I enabled the transparency option.
Guys, first impression is it's worth every penny. The car feels totally different. It feels MUCH zippier and throttle tip-in is aggressive. The tranny shifts crisp in A6 mode at WOT and throttle blipping on auto downshifts is a nice touch. Driving at part throttle still gives you nice, comfy, lazy shifts, just like stock. You throw it into sport mode and not much changes at part throttle, but at WOT the car shifts like a '69 Chevelle with a hurst shift kit. Smiles.
So far so good, however, the car's fan is running a bit loudly at idle. It didn't do that initially after tune, so not sure what that's all about. I did beat on the car a little, but it had about 2 miles of very light throttle before I pulled back into my driveway. Maybe the car was just cooling itself down, but ambient temp right now is about 45*. I've sent a note to BNR already to see what they think. I'll drive it like I've got some sense tomorrow.
Happy customer at this point.
Ok, so according to my little dyno app, I dropped about 2 tenths off my 1/4 time. Take that with a grain of salt. But, if you look at the little graph, you can definitely see how firm she was shifting. Below is my pre-tune graph and post tune. Look at the difference in shift firmness. That's hard data fellas, not placebo.
I'll keep updating this for the next week or two with my opinion. I talked the wife into letting me take the car golfing tomorrow, so I'll have some seat time in her.
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Forgive any grammatical errors, as I'm typing this from my iPhone.
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Very very exciting and awesome write up! Interested in seeing what else you can do.
Let us know if you get the ghost cam feature working. Would be cool to hear a before and after.
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Interesting. Keep the data flowing.
I'll try to shoot a short little video. Not really sure if the increase will translate to video, but it's worth a shot. I'll try to get you guys something by the end of the day. I'm sitting in a golf cart right now, waiting for my 4some to arrive. Fore!
Awesome work good sir! Followed from start to end of your thread and i am very interested in doing the tune as well only problem is I have a Mac will the flash work?
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I'm a Mac user myself. I can answer this one!
The software is written only for Microsoft Windows. But I didn't let that stop me. My Macbook Pro has a copy of VMware Fusion installed on it, with a Windows 7 image it runs. I was able to use their ez-flash software in the virtual environment to re-tune my CTS. You just have to make sure you tell it it give Windows control of your USB device(s), so it can talk to the OBDII programming cable properly.
Nice will definitely look into that how is the tune treating you? Any issues?
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I got an answer from Vince on the fan. He stated that they tune the car for the fan to come on at a lower temp, since the car is running a spicy file, now. They do it for safety, and if it becomes an annoyance, it can be written out of the tune, if I wish. As of now, I'm not messing with anything. The car is more exciting to drive, and I'm having some fun with her. It's my wife's car, so I'm going to toss her the keys back tonight, and we'll see if it passes the dreaded 'mommy test'. As we know, most of our wives/girlfriends will probably just put the thing in "D" and have at it. So, if she's happy with the way it's running in 'mommy mode', I'll leave it alone.
However, it looks like I'll be tinkering with it some more. Ported throttle body and intake manifold phenolic spacer is next up. With possibly a CAI to follow. Not sure if the CAI passes the 'mommy test', since it makes a little bit of noise, but we'll see.
So I took a quick little video to try and demonstrate the new shifting characteristics. It's a crude video, taken at the spur of the moment, so please ignore the amateur hour.
Filmed in 720P, for your pleasure.
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Vince was releasing a updated tune today....he writes the ones for our 3.6 twin turbo and super charged builds. Very talented.
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thanks solomon, and likewise if you find yourself down this way.
regarding the queen castles, did you make your own?
journaling the growth of a treatment free apiary started in 2010. 20+/- hives
I did make my own queen castles using the design found at my website: http://parkerfarms.biz/queens.html#Mating_Nucs
They can be made using only a table saw or a radial arm saw with some creativity. Having a dado set really helps but is not absolutely necessary.
i see you prefer the three by three in the ten frame box. that's what i'm leaning toward too.
if one of the three fails, can you simply pull a divider and let them combine?
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Yes. In fact. in my most recent batch of mating nucs, I ran out of queen cells so I pulled two dividers and made two six frame mating nucs in two separate boxes.
I'll do the same thing when I find that one of the queens didn't return from her mating flights.
cool. i'm guessing that about when the first round or so of brood starts emerging they get moved into a bigger box.
i'm liking the idea of them ending up in five frame nuc boxes, mainly to have spare queens, brood, ect. to keep my my twelve production hives optimized and to have replacements for losses.
have you tried overwintering any nucs?
journaling the growth of a treatment free apiary started in 2010. 20+/- hives
I think the long hives I've been experimenting with would make first class nuc batteries and queen castles. I'm using top entrances routed into the covering boards. It would be pretty easy to make up covering boards and dividers in the sizes you planned to use, and the system would be very flexible.
I imagine you could paint stripes of different colors, and have entrances on opposite sides, to cut down on confusion.
yep, i think that would work fine ray, and easier on the back too.
and there would be less heat loss if you tried to overwinter more than one in a box.
journaling the growth of a treatment free apiary started in 2010. 20+/- hives
SOlomon, I do not have time to read yoru entire post much less this entire thread right now.
I will say it has captured my attention though. Right at this moment my apiary has expended from5 colonies to 10 in a little over a weeks time. I also found two of my hives queenless. I also desire to have a nuc for each of my hives. which I have none at this moment and not enough equipment for all of them. You comments on queen castles looks good to me at this moment.
I also believe that your Expansion model beekeping would fit into my inclination well. It is my base thinking on keeping of anything that thriving healthy and vibrant is the first order of business. For me it is like this. if you cannot take an average colony and build it to a healthy thriving colony. what makes you think you can take an ailing one and make it healthy. In general is see the effort is producing sick colonies form healthy ones. For me the whole thinking just does not fit. If you cannot keep a healthy colony healthy. you might as well exterminate them as they get sick. Bringing a sick animal back to health is a whole different level of skill.
I wish you well with your development of this method.
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Plenty of natural light and a nice decor feature throughout the studio. It includes a comfortable single bed and a high-quality sofa bed fit to sleep 2. Cooking appliances are placed in the fitted kitchenette. Also provided is a dining table and flat-screen TV.
Pelleport Metro Station is only 100 metres away. Walk for 20 minutes to reach the beautiful Parc des Buttes Chaumont Park. Bus lines which stop in the area serve the Eiffel Tower, Gare St Lazare and Place d'Italie Square.
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Anna is a lovely host, who speaks fluent English. She very kindly offered a luggage drop off at her place because we travelled at quite crazy times. The Studio is perfect for a few nights, I could have stayed longer. the Metro is right around the Corner, there are also a few Restaurants, boulangeries and supermarkets. The kitchen is well equipped and everything was very clean. as it is with parisian streets you have to be aware that ist not going to be dead silent at night but it didn't bother us. If you don't like purple, maybe this place isn't for you. The price is amazing, really really fair! We will definetly stay here again at our next Paris trip!
Wonderful experience!
A clean true parisian apartment indeed.
The apartment is located a small distant from the city, but it*s only 10-15 minutes by metro there. And they have a nice market street very close. Anna is a real charm as well. She gave us all kinds of tips and tricks to make the most out of our trip there.
Being rather squeamish about cleanliness I was very happy and relieved to see upon my arrival that the apartment was just like the pictures promised: very neat, cozy and with a bright, impeccably clean bathroom. The studio is located very conveniently and in a pleasant area, easy to reach by metro or bus and surrounded by a large number of shops and supermarkets - ideal for everyone who wants to live like a local during their stay in Paris.
Anna and Fares were very warm and uncomplicated hosts, with plenty of good council and a helpful hand when needed. Should I revisit Paris I will go for this place again!
Anna has organized everything very well and communication with her was very pleasant.
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Very nice and clean apartment in a typical parisienne neighborhood
Easy to reach – close to metro.
Warm and friendly welcome at Anna's place. She enjoyed explaining things to us and gave us some good ideas for restaurants in the area. Could also park our car in a parking nearby (although that was a bit hard to find, but we could walk there in 15 minutes) for a fair price.
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More states fight marriage discrimination
Oregon officials notified a federal court Feb. 20 that the state will no longer defend a ban on same-sex marriage. Similar switches in Nevada and Virginia were announced recently.
Pennsylvania is still officially defending its ban, but some officials see it as unconstitutional.
The Oregon filing came in one of two consolidated cases challenging the 2004 voter-approved ban that passed by 57% to 43%.
Scotusblog.com reported 17 states and Washington, D.C., now allow same-sex marriage. Federal judges have struck down bans in Oklahoma, Utah and Virginia, but those rulings are on hold pending appeals.
A lawsuit, Wolf v. Walker, was filed Feb. 3 in U.S. District Court in Madison by lawyers for the American Civil Liberties Union of Wisconsin and the law firm Mayer Brown on behalf of four same-sex couples from Milwaukee, Eau Claire and Madison.
"These families simply want the security and recognition that only marriage provides," said Larry Dupuis, ACLU of Wisconsin legal director.
The suit also seeks a permanent injunction to block a state law that makes it a criminal offense for a Wisconsin resident to leave the state to obtain a marriage that would be prohibited in Wisconsin. Maximum punishment is nine months in jail and a $10,000 fine.
Also in Wisconsin, Democrats have introduced a bill to repeal the state's constitutional gay marriage ban. Republican Assembly Speaker Robin Vos told WISN that he doesn't expect it to even get a hearing.
"Unfortunately, I think at the end of the session, people are doing this much more based on a political answer than trying to find anything else," Vos said.
Wisconsin Family Action, a socially conservative evangelical group, is vigorously lobbying against the bill as an assault on "religious freedom."
FFRF compiles state/church victories
Wash. school benches praying 'All Pro Dad'
FFRF stopped White Bluffs Elementary School in Richland, Wash., from promoting religion. Meetings in the school sponsored by All Pro Dad, a private group focusing on religious programming, were advertised in fliers sent home with students.
The fliers failed to indicate the event was not school-sponsored. The meetings were also noted in the calendar along with official school events.
"The circumstances surrounding 'All Pro Dad' events would lead a reasonable observer to view it as school-sponsored," wrote Staff Attorney Andrew Seidel in his Jan. 14 letter to Superintendent Rich Schulte. "Because of the religious aspects of the programming, Richland School District must take measures to address parental concerns regarding school involvement in this event."
The district responded in late January, calling the promotion a clerical error and saying it would be removed from the school calendar. Staff will also be informed on the policy barring distribution of religious materials and announcements.
Teachers' religious symbols removed
FFRF was informed that a teacher at Southside Elementary School in Pulaski, Tenn., prominently displayed several religious images in her classroom. Staff Attorney Andrew Seidel sent a letter Dec. 17 to Giles County Schools Superintendent Timothy Webb:
"When a teacher puts up crosses and images of Jesus, they have unconstitutionally entangled the school itself with a religious message, specifically a Christian message. To avoid continuing to violate the Establishment Clause, we ask the teacher to remove the crosses and images of Jesus from her classroom."
Webb responded two days later with a copy of the memo he sent to principals and supervisors: "The situation mentioned in the complaint has been addressed. Please remind your staff of the federal requirements in matters such as this."
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A teacher in Rusk, Texas, will no longer be displaying religious iconography after FFRF was contacted by a concerned parent of a Rusk High School student. A classroom poster read, "I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God the salvation of everyone who believes. Romans 1:16." At the bottom it said, "This poster is illegal in 51 countries."
Staff Attorney Elizabeth Cavell wrote the district Dec. 13 to note the constitutional violation while adding that a public school teacher has no free speech or free exercise right to proselytize.
Superintendent Scott David replied Jan. 9: "All campus principals and department directors will be reminded of our constitutional duties as public school employees with regard to the separation of state and church."
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A local complainant alerted FFRF that a classroom in Bernard Campbell Middle School in Lee's Summit, Mo., displayed a religious poster prominently on the wall facing students. The poster read, "Blessed are the people who know the joyful Sound! They walk, O Lord, in the light of your countenance. Psalm 89:15."
Staff Attorney Patrick Elliott sent a letter Feb. 20 to Superintendent David McGehee about the egregious, obvious violation. "When a school teacher places religious posters in the classroom, she unconstitutionally entangles the school with a religious message. It is also a usurpation of parental authority — parents have the right to direct the religious, or nonreligious, upbringing of their children."
McGehee called FFRF the next day to say he agreed that the poster shouldn't be allowed in the classroom and that it had been permanently removed.
School Good News Club gets bad reviews
After Staff Attorney Andrew Seidel's Jan. 24 letter of complaint, FFRF was informed that an elementary school secretary in Sanford, Fla., will no long-er be involved with Good News Club permission slips.
Child Evangelism Fellowship of Central Florida had distributed registration forms to Geneva Elementary students to promote the club. The form told students to return forms to the secretary.
Seidel said, "Despite the appropriate disclaimer, students might presume that Good News Club is sponsored by the school because of the apparent role of school personnel in facilitating the club's activities by collecting registration forms. While the Child Evangelism Fellowship of Central Florida is entitled to host meetings, there are limitations on adult involvement."
The Seminole County School Board's attorney responded Jan. 28 that the district agreed that the club, not public school employees. was responsible for collecting forms,
Charter school's church graduations end
The Academy for Academic Excellence in Apple Valley, Calif., will no longer hold its graduation ceremony in a church. According to the complainant, AAE, a K-12 public charter school operated by the Lewis Center for Educational Research, held graduation in churches where crosses, bible verses and other religious symbols were displayed.
AAE reportedly held a baccalaureate at a second church, advertising it on AAE's calendar and listing the school's vice principal as "coordinator." Many school officials, including the principal, attended.
Staff Attorney Andrew Seidel sent a November letter to Superintendent Thomas Hoegerman: "Religious faith and worship are an intensely personal choice. The government cannot make attendance at a secular school's graduation ceremony contingent on entering the holy ground of a particular religion." He also lodged objections to mandatory baccalaureate attendance.
Gordon Soholt, chief academic officer, responded Nov. 20: "It is anticipated that both ceremonies will be held in the new gymnasium in the future, thus removing any potential First Amendment issues. The previously named 'baccalaureate' has been renamed to reflect its intent, which is issuance of senior awards and scholarships."
No more forced pledge for Florida student
A student at Southwest Middle School in Orlando, Fla., will no longer be coerced into reciting the Pledge of Allegiance.
After refusing to stand for the pledge, the student was taken aside by a teacher and was told by the school's attendance dean to stand and recite it or face reprimand.
Staff Attorney Andrew Seidel wrote a letter Nov. 20 to object: "Faced with the choice of either reciting the pledge or being punished by the school, this student has relented, but now only recites the pledge out of fear of being punished. Students should not be singled out, rebuked, told they must stand, or otherwise penalized for following their freedom of conscience. It is illegal to reprimand a student for choosing not to stand during the recitation of the pledge."
The student sent an email response on Jan. 25, "I am so thankful for your help. Thanks to you, I'm now able to sit during the pledge without punishment!"
FFRF has a lawsuit against the Orange County School District regarding literature discrimination.
To make things worse, the accuser claims Burrell used anointment oils during the act. After the incident, they then worked on [installing bathroom] tiles for a few hours before Burrell took him back to the home, saying, "What happens at the church stays at the church."
Teen's testimony at the trial of Pastor Bobby Burrell, whom he accused of masturbating in front of him in Lawton, Okla.
I am facing my imminent death. [Why are people in other states] able to die with dignity and I am not? This should be a basic human right.
Robert Mitton, 58, a Denver man with a terminal cardiac condition, favoring a proposal to authorize prescriptions for lethal doses if two doctors agree a patient will die within six months
New York Times, 2-8-14
At present the Religious Right has a tremendous amount of power, but they are getting older. Surveys show young Americans are rejecting institutional religion because they identify it with the Religious Right and values that they find off-putting, and frankly, immoral.
Dan Linford, Virginia Tech Freethinkers president and graduate student in the philosophy of religion
The Telegraph, 2-10-14
An ordained psychotherapist who has treated many pedophile priests in Britain wrote to me: "In all those cases of clerical abuse I dealt with, the sacrament of confession was used by the molester to discover vulnerability and groom candidates for abuse."
John Cornwell, author of The Dark Box: A Secret History of Confession
The Daily Mail, 2-8-14
Not all prisoners are religious, and I wanted them to know that to turn your life around and be a good and productive member of society does not require a belief in God.
Leslie Zukor, Seattle, founder of the Freethought Books Project, which distributes reading material to inmates across the U.S.
USA Today, 1-25-14
Just as gay marriage is not a threat to straight marriage, atheism is not a threat to religion.
Column by atheist journalist Cindy Hoedel, "Let 2014 be the year we start accepting atheists"
Kansas City Star, 1-18-14
Just as there are laws guaranteeing the division between church and state, there must be national guidelines to separate education and religion.
Op-ed by Veronica An, sophomore narrative studies major, "Prayer should be left out of public schools"
USC Daily Trojan, 1-27-14
I feel very sorry for teachers when the children who come here start guessing if what they're being taught is wrong.
Phil Jardine, a paleobiology graduate student touring the Creation Museum, Petersburg, Ky.
phys.org, 1-30-14
This is exactly what I was concerned about. Maybe the only thing that hasn't happened yet is any particular group saying, "We haven't been represented here and now we want to sue you." That's the only thing that hasn't gone wrong yet.
Mark Senmartin, Marathon [Fla.] City Council, refusing to stand for pre-meeting prayer and objecting to a pastor's "creationist" invocation
Florida Keys Keynoter, 2-5-14
The new generation of Iraqis are tired of religious extremists and politicians, who are responsible for the ongoing sectarian divide in the country.
Nawaf Al-Kaabi, 23, Basra, on how violence is turning young Iraqis away from religion
Al Bawaba, 2-5-14
Megachurch will settle with FFRF plaintiffs
Holly Huber and Mitch Kahle at the 2011 FFRF annual convention in Hartford, Conn., where Kahle received the Freethinker of the Year Award.
New Hope Church agreed to pay $775,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by Hawaii FFRF members Holly Huber and Mitch Kahle. Three branches of the international megachurch apparently were getting sweetheart deals for years on rentals of school space from the state.
The suit was filed under the state's False Claims Act, which rewards whistle-blowers for exposing fraudulent billing.
The payments were disclosed in court filings by New Hope's parent organization, the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel, Hawaii News Now reported in early February.
Most of the money will go to the state Department of Education, but as much as $200,000 will go to the plaintiffs, who allege that New Hope shortchanged the state $4.6 million over six years.
Kahle noted that state rules setting rent amounts were undermined by Board of Education Chairman Donald Horner.
Honolulu Civil Beat reported Feb. 14 that Horner declined to comment except to say the board was not a party to the case. Horner is a licensed pastor with ties to New Hope, the paper reported.
The plaintiffs' attorneys plan to file an amended suit against One Love Ministries and Calvary Chapel Oahu, alleging that the two churches' underpayments total about $1.1 million. An earlier claim was dismissed in January.
FFRF'er in talks to settle prayer suit
Attorneys representing the city of Eureka, Calif., and Eureka resident Carole Beaton (an FFRF Lifetime Member) are working on a settlement of Beaton's prayer lawsuit against the city.
At a case management conference Feb. 18 at the Humboldt County Courthouse, City Attorney Cyndy Day-Wilson told Judge Bruce Watson that she and Beaton's attorney Peter Martin are "currently negotiating a settlement," which is expected in about 60 days, the Times-Standard reported.
Martin filed the suit on behalf of Beaton in January 2013, asking the council to stop holding invocations before meetings and for Mayor Frank Jager to stop promoting the annual Mayor's Prayer Breakfast.
Watson ruled Dec. 24 that nonsectarian invocations at council meetings are legal but said Beaton can still pursue her claim against Jager's prayer breakfast.
Neither party is discussing potential settlement details. "I want to say that the lawsuit was not against prayer and was not against religion," Beaton told a reporter. "It was against the mixing of church and state. A city or any other government entity should not be sponsoring a religious event."
The suit alleges use of city resour-ces in promoting the breakfast. Jager downplayed the city clerk's involvement.
The next case management conference is set for April 30.
FFRF appeals Montana mountain Jesus to 9th Circuit
The Freedom From Religion Foundation has asked the 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals to overturn a federal district court decision approving a shrine to Jesus on public land near Whitefish, Mont.
"A permanent Catholic shrine on public land is prohibited by the Establishment Clause, every bit as much as a Catholic church would be," asserts FFRF's appeal brief, filed Jan. 28.
The 6-foot-tall shrine sits on a 7-foot pedestal on Big Mountain in the Flathead National Forest, which is owned by the U.S. Forest Service. Since 1953, the Forest Service has issued a permit at no cost allowing the Knights of Columbus, a conservative Catholic men's group, to place a "Shrine overlooking the Big Mountain ski run," whose purpose is "to erect a Statue of our Lord Jesus Christ."
In response to initial objections to the shrine, the Knights of Columbus claimed "that our Lord himself selected this site."
FFRF wrote the Forest Service in 2011 to object to permit renewal. When Chip Weber, forest supervisor, agreed, determining it was "an inappropriate use of public land," he faced blistering criticism and renewed the permit in January 2012.
FFRF is suing on behalf of its 100 Montana members, including three who have come into unwelcome contact with the shrine. William Cox, who has long been personally opposed to the shrine, has frequent and unwanted exposure to it when he skis on Big Mountain many times each winter. FFRF member Doug Bonham found the shrine "grossly out of place" when first encountering it, and his 15-year-old daughter, who often skis on the mountain, considers it "ridiculously out of place."
Likewise, FFRF member Pamela Morris, a third-generation Montanan, first encountered the shrine as a teenager in 1957 at age 15 as part of a ski team, when she found the statue "intrusive" and "startlingly out of place." She has since avoided the area, choosing to backpack, fish and camp where nature has not been violated.
The record shows a decision by the Forest Service to emphasize the shrine's "historic" ties to development of the ski hill over its religious nature. The government argues that because the violation is longstanding, the shrine has become "historic." FFRF counters that if courts followed such logic, segregated public schools and bans on interracial marriage would still prevail.
"The Government's argument, reduced to its essence, otherwise would mean that religious iconography on public land is acceptable if supported by popular interest groups. The Establishment Clause, in other words, would be subject to majoritarian or popular demand. That, however, is not the lesson of our Constitution — nor a paradigm for historical success, as worldwide religious conflict attests. Religious icons on public land cannot be constitutionally salvaged by local celebrity status."
Richard L. Bolton, of Boardman and Clark, Madison, Wis., is litigation attorney, with Martin S. King and Reid Perkins of Worden Thane, Missoula, serving as local counsel.
Church intervenes in FFRF pulpit politicking suit
A court decision allowing an obscure Milwaukee-area church to intervene in FFRF's nationally significant lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service over church politicking has placed the litigation "on the front line," said FFRF's litigation attorney, Richard L. Bolton.
"This will put everything in play, including the churches' argument that the politicking restriction violates the First Amendment — using the Citizens United argument," he added.
Although FFRF and the government defendants opposed the intervention, U.S. District Judge Lynn Adelman in Milwaukee ruled Feb. 3 that Fr. Patrick Malone and the Holy Cross Anglican Church of Wauwatosa, Wis., could intervene. (The congregation left the Episcopal Church in 2008 in reaction to a series of decisions, most prominently the ordination of a gay bishop, and joined the more conservative Convocation of Anglicans of North America.)
"The intervention by the clergyman and church, which openly admit in their brief that they don't obey the electioneering restrictions applying to tax-exempt organizations, puts all the cards on the table," said FFRF Co-President Dan Barker.
The church argues it has a "legal right to participate in political campaigns without forfeiting their tax-exempt status," and cites the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, as well as the free speech, free exercise and establishment clauses of the First Amendment. Incidentally, FFRF calls RFRA unconstitutional in its amicus brief, written by attorney Marci Hamilton, in the Sebelius v. Hobby Lobby case before the U.S. Supreme Court.
FFRF filed its suit in November 2012, taking the IRS to court over its failure to enforce electioneering restrictions that require 501(c) tax-exempt entities to refrain from endorsing political candidates.
FFRF recently prevailed in its federal challenge to an IRS policy that benefits clergy. The government has appealed that ruling on the parish exemption to the 7th Circuit.
FFRF has a third challenge of the IRS in federal court over the fact that churches are exempt from filing the same financial accountability reports, the Form 990, required of all other 501(c)(3) nonprofits.
FFRF ousts bibles at 2nd public university hotel
Building on its success removing bibles from University of Wisconsin hotel rooms in December in Madison, the Freedom From Religion Foundation scored another victory for secularism on an Iowa public college campus.
The Memorial Union at Iowa State University in Ames agreed to remove Gideon bibles from its hotel rooms on March 1.
FFRF received a complaint about the religious propaganda on state property. "If a state-run university has a policy of providing a Christian religious text to guests, that policy facilitates illegal endorsement of Christianity over other religions and over nonreligion," said Staff Attorney Patrick Elliott in a Jan. 29 letter to the university. "Permitting members of outside religious groups the privilege of placing their religious literature in public university guest rooms also constitutes state endorsement and advancement of religion."
Elliott added, "Individuals, not the state, must determine what religious texts are worth reading."
Union Director Richard Reynolds responded Feb. 13: "The concern you raised about the availability of bibles in the guest rooms of the Memorial Union has been taken under advisement and, effective March 1, 2014, the bibles will be removed from the hotel rooms."
"We're delighted to see reason and the Constitution prevailing. We can all sleep easier knowing secularism is being honored at our public universities," said FFRF Co-President Annie Laurie Gaylor.
"Many nonbelievers greatly object to its primitive and dangerous instructions to beat children, kill homosexuals, atheists and infidels and that it sanctions the subjugation of women, who are scapegoated for bringing sin and death into the world," Gaylor added.
"Imagine the uproar if someone found a Quran or atheistic literature such as Richard Dawkins' The God Delusion in their state-supported hotel room. Government can't take sides on the religious debate."
FFRF's victory received widespread Iowa and national coverage. Elliott appeared on national Fox News coverage and Gaylor was invited to debate Sean Hannity on Fox. (View the video on YouTube with the search terms "Gaylor FFRF Hannity.")
John McCarroll, executive director of university relations, told WCCI News 8 in Des Moines: "It's a public institution and we do have certainly responsibilities on the separation of church and state. We thought it was appropriate to put the bibles in the browsing library."
Gaylor noted that as long as there are a variety of books of varying views, and the library is not solely religious, that is a satisfactory resolution. FFRF, which has more than 20,000 members, represents nearly 150 in Iowa.
Illegal crosses rise again for Easter
The Freedom From Religion Foundation is once again calling out an Ohio town for the constitutional violation of putting Christian crosses on public property.
FFRF, a state-church watchdog based in Madison, Wis., complained April 8 in a letter to village of Stratton attorney Frank Bruzzese about crosses on the Municipal Building.
FFRF, which has 20,000 nationwide members and about 560 in Ohio, successfully got the village to earlier remove crosses from the building and the water tower, but had to threaten to sue to accomplish that.
Mayor John Abdalla recently ordered crosses to be put back on the Municipal Building, which has happened, according to a photo and story in the Steubenville Herald-Star and a local complainant.
In FFRF's April 8 letter, Senior Staff Attorney Rebecca Markert cited legal precedent and took on Abdalla's false claim that it was constitutional to display religious imagery during holidays such as Easter: "While the permanent display of these crosses by the village is indisputably unconstitutional, the seasonal display of the crosses in recognition of Easter, the Christian celebration of Jesus' resurrection, is no less illegal."
FFRF wants immediate removal of the crosses from the front of the building and for village officials to "be reminded of their constitutional obligation to remain neutral toward religion."
Stratton, an Ohio River town with a population of about 300, already has its name on one U.S. Supreme Court case, Watchtower Society v. Village of Stratton. In 2002, the court ruled 8-1 that the village couldn't make door-to-door canvassers or solicitors get a permit. The ruling applied to religious proselytizing, anonymous political speech and handbill distribution.
Allen Korbel, 1931–2013
Allen Korbel, 82, a Wisconsin member of FFRF since 1991 and later a Lifetime Member, died Dec. 17, 2013.
Born in Milwaukee on April 16, 1931, he was an accomplished race car driver and downhill skier with "a passion for life," noted his friend Paul Wild. "He was a rare individual, a longtime libertarian, secular humanist and freethinker."
He is survived by two daughters who have carried on his tradition of independent thought.
Allen most generously included a $5,000 bequest to FFRF in his estate.
His daughter, Mary Plautz, noted that he once told her, "if anything has to be written about me, I'd like it to be this" — "his creed," which was part of a picture frame hanging on the wall. He felt this exemplifies a moral and cultural attitude not only about entrepreneurship, but about the self determining, fulfilling values in human life":
My Creed
I do not choose to be a common man
It is my right to be uncommon. . . if I can.
I seek opportunity . . . not security.
I do not wish to be a kept citizen,
humbled and dulled by having the state look after me.
I want to take the calculated risk,
to dream and build, to fail and succeed.
I refuse to barter incentive for a dole.
I prefer the challenges of life to the guaranteed existence;
the thrill of fulfillment to the stale calm of Utopia.
I will not trade freedom for beneficence
or my dignity for a handout.
I will try to never cower before any master
nor bend to any threat.
It is my heritage to stand erect, proud, and unafraid;
to think and act for myself;
enjoy the benefits of my creations;
and face the world boldly and say;
"This I have done."
— Dean Alfange (1897-1989)


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Second assault reported in downtown Palo Alto
Original post made on Dec 4, 2012
• [Web Link Woman fights off purse snatcher downtown]
Read the full story here Web Link posted Tuesday, December 4, 2012, 4:27 PM
a resident of Palo Verde
on Dec 4, 2012 at 5:21 pm
So sad to hear this! I think this is the older homeless lady I have given food to (croissants and breakfast from Crepvine) a few times. She always graciously thanked me for the food. I don't understand why she is not in a shelter at her age. In this wealthy community it is shocking to see old people sleeping in shop doorways.
a resident of Crescent Park
on Dec 4, 2012 at 5:24 pm
Probably time for some Palo Alto version of Guardian Angels walking the streets of downtown PA to augment what the police are able to provide.
a resident of Palo Verde
on Dec 4, 2012 at 5:57 pm
That's a good idea. These incidents seem to be increasing.
a resident of Old Palo Alto
on Dec 4, 2012 at 6:33 pm
If this is the elderly woman I am thinking of, she is also very, very arthritic--hands are gnarled from untreated, probably rheumatoid arthritis. She should not be sleeping outside, period.
Why don't the police guide her to a shelter, especially after the attack???
a resident of Downtown North
on Dec 4, 2012 at 7:13 pm
I know for a fact that the police department has 2 officers that work with the homeless. Any homeless person downtown is given the opportunity to have shelter. The ones that you see are the ones who have refused help.
a resident of Community Center
on Dec 4, 2012 at 8:42 pm
shelters are full and have waiting lists. one cannot just getting in by walking, and most likely they are too far to walk. sad situation .
a resident of Community Center
on Dec 4, 2012 at 9:32 pm
too many of us here; around bay area est. 35 000.
a resident of Downtown North
on Dec 4, 2012 at 10:00 pm
homeless, if you want permanent housing (I misspoke and said shelter, when I meant permanent housing) please go to the Palo Alto police station and ask to speak to the SED team. I did and it was an eye opener. They WILL get you housing, but people refuse due to drug or mental issues.
a resident of East Palo Alto
on Dec 5, 2012 at 11:19 am
Sleep in a doorway at your own risk. Police can't even protect the law abiding, taxpayers; let alone everyone sleeping on the street.
a resident of Charleston Gardens
on Dec 5, 2012 at 11:43 am
I heard a news report from San Francisco saying that there's homes, vs. shelter, available for the homeless. Not to deny housing to the homeless, but it's fascinating that the very rich and the very poor can get housing, while the rest in-between can't get squat. Some of us NEED to live in this area, don't make that lovely dot.com money, and don't have children to qualify for section 8. It would be nice if pure greed wasn't the motivating factor in setting rents. I've been looking for three years! Rent is ridiculously overpriced.
a resident of Old Palo Alto
on Dec 5, 2012 at 12:07 pm
What kind of creature would try to rob and beat up an elderly, obviously homeless person? What did they think they would get?
We need to find these animals and get them out of our city; a nice bus ride out of town OR prosecute them and give them free room and board, in jail.
a resident of Community Center
on Dec 5, 2012 at 12:15 pm
i was the 'rest -in- between ' and still here. what is SED? never heard of that. Police would be the last person I would go ask for help,, though Palo Alto police seems very kind and loving ; spoke with 2 of them and they said to call anytime if I had trouble. That editorial broke my heart; homeless senior citizen and so vulnerable; be beaten and robbed. In SF they have waiting lists for re-furbished housing.. they have long lines and long application process. there is something wrong in the system... ' the very rich and very poor' yes have a chance. the ones in between 50/50 chance. You are welcome to join soup kitchens for food if you struggle with bills, mortgage, rent.. unexpected financial strains. Everyone is welcome and shouldn't feel embarrassed.System is broke.Please help the disfranchised... ask what they need.. shoes, blanket , jacket? They don't have to be new and must not be thought as 'handouts'.. make a new friend from someone who needs support
a resident of Menlo Park
on Dec 5, 2012 at 7:35 pm
Pearl is a registered user.
What is a woman in her 70s doing sleeping on the sidewalk at one in the morning?!? Or, any time, for that matter?!? I certainly hope by now that Santa Clara County Adult Protective Services is involved.


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BATON ROUGE, LA (WAFB) - Walking up to the TSA checkpoint in the Baton Rouge Metropolitan Airport, there is a sign that reads "3 Simple Steps to Security" which explains to passengers about getting their ID ready, removing liquids, and taking off their shoes. However, a new federal law could make step one, showing your ID, a little trickier for Louisiana residents. "If nothing changes then a passport is required and travelers will have to get a passport to travel on that day and beyond," said Baton Rouge Metro Airport representative Jim Caldwell. The day Caldwell is referring to is January 15, the day the Real ID Act goes into effect. The federal law creates federal standards for the state identification process, including putting a seal of approval on the driver's license to make it apparent that it is in compliance. Other stipulations of the Real ID Act include sharing the ID information in a kind of national data base.
Louisiana is one of seven states that passed a law prohibiting its agencies from implementing the Real ID Act.
Not true at all?
Not true at all. There is no way you are going to need a passport for ANY domestic flights this coming January.
Is there a pending lawsuit? Because the federal law was passed in 2005 I believe. From the above article, seven states opted out forcing its citizens to provide a passport when boarding.
Identification is not required to pass through security
From the above article, seven states opted out forcing its citizens to provide a passport when boarding.
So if I print my ticket at home, I'll get through security with no issues?
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In my case I am shooting for 2-5 hives, so building the frames shouldn't be too bad.
In my case I am shooting for 2-5 hives, so building the frames shouldn't be too bad.
Frame Equivalents Medium to Deep...
Assuming that a medium frame has 2/3 the surface area of a deep- a commonly stated conversion factor
Then 1 Medium Frame = 2/3 Deep Frame
Rearranging this 3/2 Medium Frame = 1 Deep Frame
For 10 frame boxes 10 X 3/2 Medium Frames = 10 Deep Frames
then 15 Medium Frames = 10 Deep Frames
Comparing an 8 frame Medium box to 10 frame Deep
If a Medium Frame is 2/3 the area of a Deep Frame
then 8 Medium Frames = 8 X 2/3 Deep Frames
8 Medium Frames = 16/3 Deep Frames
8 Medium Frames = 5-1/3 Deep Frames
Compare 10 Frame Deep to the equivalent number of 8 frame boxes
1 Deep Frame = 3/2 Medium Frame
10 Deep Frames = 10 X (3/2) Medium Frames = 15 Medium Frames
15 Medium Frames / 8 Frames per box = 1.875 8 frame Medium boxes
This means that one 10 frame Deep box is equal to 1.88 8 frame Medium boxes ( you would need one less medium frame for the 2 Mediums 8 frame boxes to be equal to the Deep).
(edited the last statement for math error)
by math challenged TooFarGone- Hope it helps
Last edited by TooFarGone; 10-16-2012 at 10:26 AM.
My bad appologies to the group, I learned from this.
I checked the usable foundation dimensions from the Foundation Form Board from the build it your self section and used the following dimensions:
Both are 16.9375" long (16 15/16").
Deep is 7.875" tall (7 7/8")
Med. is 5.0625" tall (5 1/16")
20 deeps (2 sides) is 5335.3 sq. inches
16 med. (2 sides) is 4115.8 sq. inches or 77% of 2 deeps
24 med. (2 sides) is 5469 sq. inches or 102% of 2 deeps
My math may not be exact but I think the ratios are valid.
Thank you all for the help and advice, lesson learned
Last edited by mmmooretx; 10-16-2012 at 09:51 AM. Reason: typo
N5RWH - 7a
If we are going to need a degree in Math to be successful in Beekeeping, I am out of luck. (HA)
I would start with a standard, 8 or 10 frame set up. ( I'm cutting several of my 10 down to 8 frame deeps now ) But I wouldn't mix them just yet. I had several calls this year from beginning beekeepers looking to combine hives or hive swarms and they had mixed hives.. 1 lang, and 1 warre or 1 kenyan... it makes it much more difficult to move bees from one type to the other... I started with 2 langs and after 4 years built a kenyan and a lang long.... 90 percent of my bees are still in the langs..
I'm not tense, Just terribly, terribly alert!
I was precisely where you are in terms of trying to get everything perfectly planned and decided, and while Michael Bush's advice on 8 frame mediums sounded (and IS) wonderful, the fact of the matter was that where I am, nobody has 8 frame equipment --- when I bought my bees, I bought the whole hive and it was 10 frame and so that settled that. Thats what everybody had and thats the size of the screened bottom boards with oil trays are that everyone is building here are too. So...I started with one full deep hive full of bees, and an extra 10 frame deep, and quickly purchased a few 10 frame mediums.
From there I just continued with deeps as the brood chamber and keep worked up to 10 deeps and 20 mediums, and 5 nucs; ensuring I had enough equipment on hand for swarm calls, splits, etc. I was able to lend and borrow frames, boxes etc. (unused to hold people over till their orders arrived from the mainland and they could replace my equipment). Same size equipment is important where I live and is probably not as much of an issue for you.
Also, I dont have a cold winter, so the overwintering is also not an issue.
My boxes and my frames are now all assembled; the frames are now half with wax foundation, half without, so that in a pinch I can slide a foundationless frame between two drawn out frames and not have any problems. It is much easier to assemble all the frames you would need in a year and store them hanging in stacked empty painted boxes than to have to have an assembly party mid season when you are busy with other things....
I know you are probably in information overload, and I dont want to add overly to that, but wanted to share a couple of things.
1. Whatever you chose, be sure you have enough on hand, ready to carry into the bee yard when you start on day one. And have extra on hand. Why? Because day two might bring a swarm call! I have had to cobble together three mediums to house a swarm when I didnt have my deeps ready to go. Just be prepared....Thats still my strongest hive, BTW.
2. buying frames is much easier than building them. Spend your time making a nice jig that will enable you to staple together 10 frames at a time if you are handy...but the unassembled frames are cheap enough and no reason to re-invent the wheel to make them when they are so reasonably priced.
3. my bees have expressed a clear preference for no foundation or wax foundation over plastic. For ME, a hobbyist, there is no reason to try to make them use plastic, they would rather build little wax shims and build 3/8 inch off the plastic than draw it out.
4. sometimes you need to just jump in the water. I was paralyzed with information overload till my mentor just told me...."Get the Bees, you ARE ready." I am glad I did, because I can still learn here and from reading and working with other folks in their beeyards; but the bees are teaching me too.
5. Get the big smoker. I thought I would only have two hives. Now I have 9, Including a TBH that I happened to be able to get as a trade for some graphic arts work I did. I put a swarm in it and it stayed. Now I have another waiting for bees...The point of that story is--you never know, you might end up with more bees than you thought
Good luck....
"usable foundation" depends on if you have fat wood top bars and wood bottom bars and wood end bars, or you have plastic frames with narrow top, end and bottoms. But volume is the main thing for a winter cluster. Three ten frame mediums is the equivalent of two ten frame deeps for most purposes.
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I am currently keeping bees in 8 frame deeps, 8 frame mediums, 10 frame deeps, 10 frame western (7 5/8") and 8 frame Jumbo. I will switch all my hives to 8 frame and 12 frame Jumbo, I like the single brood chamber.
Here are pictures of a foundationless Jumbo frame and hive.
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It seems like all the options here can cause indecision as we overanalyze these choices. I think you should flip a coin to decide between 8 frame or 10. Then, flip again to decide between deep or mediums. Done.
I like 8 frame deeps. I'm older than most of you and have an unjured back from flying helicopters in the 1970's. If I can handle the 8 frame deep, most anyone can.
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My nuc supplier, Broke-T, will supply my two ordered nucs for next spring on medium frames, so it never hurts to ask!
I have 10 frame langs and a top bar. I prefer the lang, it is more intuitive for me and information regarding the management is far more common. I have never tried a Warre and don't know that I ever plan to. For now the main reason for this is the following issue surrounding adequate brood space. I also use the 10 frame lang rather than an 8 frame due to these same issues. I can't really say I am right. All I can say is I have looked at the issue and made my choice.
I have been aware that a single deep 10 frame lang is not large enough for a queen to make a brood nest in a single box since I first started looking into keeping bees. This at first did not make much since to me. We make a box to keep bees in. Shouldn't that box be designed to be adequate for the bees? Looking further I found that the actual size of the box has more to do with consistency in equipment and portability than function. SO much so that it actually causes the size to come into question as to functionality. The simple answer is ad another box. Which of course is the standard answer. This of course causes the queen to have to move upward to find new places to lay. This moving up thing has some issues of it's own.
With 8 frame equipment this upward direction of the brood nest is increased. Th 13 frame lang is actually a good complete answer that allows a queen to lay in a single brood box. The Dadant hive design is also an answer and they actually went a long way in promoting it just for that reason. Btu when you roll it all together. the 10 frame lang is my favorite compromise between what others use, standard size equipment, it can still be handled and the queen has plenty of room without going to a third level. I have also witnessed at least to date that the queen will move back down as honey fills the upper box in a 10 frame. The 10 frame has some conservation of materials and labor. I can put 10 frames in a box for just a few more inches of wood and the exact same cutting and assembly time as I can an 8 frame. And it reduces the number of boxes needed overall. I woudl have to actually use 8 frame equipment side by side with 10 frame to really know if there is really that much difference though. All I can say is that for now I looked at the issue as I understand it and made my choice.
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What are the issues?This of course causes the queen to have to move upward to find new places to lay. This moving up thing has some issues of it's own.
It's my understanding that mediums enable the cluster to move through the hive more easily in the winter.
I have been tempted to try a couple of 8 frame deeps but I would regret doing so the first time I wanted to move a frame with queen cells to a "queen castle" or nuc box.
Trying to think inside the box...
What are the issues?
Most of this comes from "The Dadant Method of Beekeeping" And the entire issue is rather complicated. So for the entire explanation I would direct you to that book.
As far as the moving up. when the queen runs out of room in the second frame she again tends to look upward for more empty space rather than going back down. The entire issue is somewhat just a portion of the overall progression of events as the queen moves from cell to cell laying eggs.
It's my understanding that mediums enable the cluster to move through the hive more easily in the winter.
I have heard this mentioned before but don't understand just what is supposed to be making such a difference. I imagine that on the shorter frames the cluster may always be bridging from one frame to the next rather than avoiding the gap as I have seen people comment can be a problem.
I have been tempted to try a couple of 8 frame deeps but I would regret doing so the first time I wanted to move a frame with queen cells to a "queen castle" or nuc box.
I started with both deeps and med but I tend to be drifting toward all deeps after one summer. Mainly my brood boxes are deeps. so my nucs also tend to be deeps. this makes any med frames I have useless for anything but honey. This at times is a problem such as the last couple of weeks when I needed My big hive to fill frames of honey for two 5 frame nucs. I only had med frames. So a deep nuc box got cut down to a med. I have not yet gotten the whole deep or med issue settled with myself. I know for a fact I don't like lifting deeps of honey. I am probably going to a deep brood box and everything else med everything else at the very least. I may end up on the all med side of the fence. [/QUOTE]
Everything gets darker, as it goes to where there is less light. Darrel Tank (5PM drawing instructor)
Daniel Y,
I believe you meant "The Dadant System of Beekeeping".
There's a lot of people who like having one size of box.Originally Posted by Daniel Y
I had a discussion about "all mediums" with Dewey Caron several years ago and while he didn't have any objections to using all 8-frame mediums, he did say that the swirled brood pattern on a deep frame has a nice, natural look to it. I agree.
Trying to think inside the box...
If you measure the distance between the bottom of the frames and bottom of the box on mediums and shallows, it is not as great as deeps. That is how my equipment has measured from vendors. Could explain the ease of movement of the cluster.
Queens do different things; some queens will move between boxes of deeps or mediums and some will not. I have tried the unlimited brood nest of mediums and it is not for my keeping practice.
My main reason for switching to 8 frame "Jumbos" is the singular brood chamber, it has the same area as the 10 frame deep. Also keeping control of those nasty "small hive beetles", I cannot stand to chase those pest between chambers!!!
I still use 10 frame shallows for comb honey, the brood chamber is a shallow with 9 frames. This compresses the bees to work the supers. There are many different ways bees will provide what you want, so try it and make your own decisions.


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Both the ordinary Boolean NOT gate and the probabilistic versions of it are still constructions of classical physics. A quantum-mechanical gate is far stranger. The strangeness goes to the very root of the quantum-computational process, to the bits themselves, which to emphasize their unconventional nature are sometimes called qubits. Whereas classical bits have the value 0 or 1 at all moments, qubits can occupy a "superposition" of the 0 and 1 states during certain stages of a computation. This is not to say that the qubit has some intermediate value between 0 and 1. Rather, the qubit is in both the 0 state and the 1 state at the same time, to varying extents. When the state of the qubit is eventually observed or measured, it is invariably either 0 or 1.
Quantum states and their superpositions are represented by means of a notational device called a ket, written "|." The state of a qubit is given as a|0 + ß|1, where the coefficients a and ß are the "amplitudes" of each state. In general the amplitudes are complex numbers (with both a real and an imaginary part), but the examples considered here will be confined to positive and negative real numbers. The amplitude associated with a state determines the probability that the qubit will be found in that state; specifically, the probability is equal to the square of the absolute value of the corresponding amplitude.
The relation between amplitude and probability can be made clearer with an example. A quantum gate that Brassard designates QCF (for "quantum coin flip") has the following matrix of amplitudes:
To find the probability of each of these transitions, take the absolute value of the corresponding amplitude and square it: |1/v2|2 is equal to 1/2, and so is |-1/v2|2. Thus all the entries in the probability matrix are 1/2, and the quantum-mechanical QCF gate appears on first examination to be identical to the classical CF gate. Either a 0 or a 1 signal passing through the QCF gate has an equal chance of coming out a 0 or a 1.
Under the surface, however, the CF and QCF gates are not at all alike. A way to see the difference is to link two gates in series. As noted above, two NOT gates in sequence compose the identity function. Two CF gates are also easy to analyze. Whatever the value of the initial input, the first CF gate produces a 0 or a 1 at random, and the second gate randomizes this value again. Hence any number of CF gates in sequence are equivalent in function to a single CF gate.
Two QCF gates in series work very differently. In a quantum-mechanical system it is not possible to assign a definite value to the unobserved intermediate signal between the two gates. The output of the first QCF gate is not a 0 or a 1 but a superposition of |0 and |1 states. Specifically, if the input to the first gate is a 1, the output of that gate is the superposition 1/v2|0 + 1/v2|1, as indicated by the matrix of amplitudes. Now this superposition of states becomes the input to the second QCF gate, which acts on it according to the same amplitude matrix. The 0 part of the superposition gets transformed into 1/v2(1/v2|0 - 1/v2|1), while the 1 part becomes 1/v2(1/v2|0 + 1/v2|1). Thus the entire state of the system becomes
1/v2(1/v2|0 - 1/v2|1) + 1/v2(1/v2|0 + 1/v2|1)
Multiplying out the various factors of 1/v2 yields 1/2(|0 - |1 + |0 + |1); now the +|1 and -|1 components cancel, leaving 1/2(|0 + |0), or simply |0. A similar analysis shows that when the input to the first gate is a 0, the output observed at the second gate is a 1. The two gates implement the NOT function: (QCF)2 = NOT. Accordingly, a single QCF gate is said to calculate "the square root of NOT."
There is something decidedly counterintuitive about these results. Passing a signal through one QCF gate randomizes it, yet putting two QCF gates in a row yields a deterministic result. It is as if we had invented a machine that first scrambles eggs and then unscrambles them. There is no analogue of this machine in the more familiar world of classical physics.
The source of these odd effects is the phenomenon of quantum interference. The superposition of states can be thought of as a superposition of waves, which either reinforce or cancel depending on their amplitude and phase. Just as two coherent light sources combine to produce a pattern of light and dark "fringes," two quantum states interfere either constructively or destructively according to the sign of their amplitudes.
Consider again what happens when two CF gates or two QCF gates are wired in series. In the classical case, there are four possible sequences of events, which can be imagined as paths through the branches of a tree. Suppose the initial state, at the root of the tree, is a 1, and the first CF gate happens to produce a 0; the probability of this event is 1/2. Now if the second CF gate also emits a 0, again with probability 1/2, the overall probability of the entire 1 0 0 path is 1/2 X 1/2, or 1/4. The other three paths, 1 0 1, 1 1 0 and 1 1 1, have the same probability of 1/4. Since two paths yield a 0 as the final state and two paths end in a 1, each of these outcomes has probability 1/2.
For QCF gates the analysis is framed in terms of amplitudes instead of probabilities. The first QCF gate transforms the initial |1 state into a |0 state with an amplitude of 1/v2, then the second QCF gate produces a final |0 state with a further amplitude of 1/v2. Multiplying these component amplitudes (just as one would multiply probabilities) yields an overall amplitude of 1/2 for the computational path |1 |0 |0. The amplitude is the same for the paths |1 |1 |0 and |1 |1 |1. In the case of the path |1 |0 |1, however, the result is different; because the transition from |0 to |1 has an amplitude of -1/v2, the total amplitude for this path is -1/2. In the absence of interference, this change of sign would still have no effect on the outcome of an experiment: Squaring the absolute value of each amplitude would yield four path probabilities of 1/4, which would sum to a probability of 1/2 for the |0 final state and 1/2 for the |1 final state. Because of interference, however, the two paths leading to the |1 state, with amplitudes of 1/2 and -1/2, cancel each other out, whereas the |0 paths, both with amplitudes of 1/2, sum to yield a total amplitude (and also a total probability) of 1.
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|Definitely numero 3. The second one is my least favorite I have to say.
|definately No. 2. Great look.
Wowzers, what did I get myself into, hah! Feels like I'm back in graphic design class for constructive crit hour.
Just stopping into to feed some fish and grab another tank, not much time to talk (sorry Special, pretty anticlimactic ). FWIW, I'm digging 4 and 9 the most, nothing else was really tripping my trigger. I'm definfitely into 9 more than 4, and I have to thank everyone here for that, if I hadn't made this thread I would'a stopped at 4 and never knew that 9 was possible. Will still mess around before I decide to plant it, to see what else is hiding in there, so many possibilities just have to find them. Or... I might just leave it at 9, who knows, I've been waiting for this move for months so I can finally setup a 110gl, so that gets priority over this.
Oh and thanks to whoever invited me to the group! TNT -J
|we're waiting for jaidexl to finish his move and set this baby up. i for one expect his next post to more climactic than barry obama's opening pitch last night.
|kid creole
modern man has 44 chromosomes and 2 sex chromosomes while prehistoric man has 42 chromosomes plus 2 sex chromosomes. 46+2 is the next state of being. its from a song on tool's aenema. thought maybe someone would get it.
But, let's get back to planted tanks.
|modern man has 44 chromosomes and 2 sex chromosomes while prehistoric man has 42 chromosomes plus 2 sex chromosomes. 46+2 is the next state of being. its from a song on tool's aenema. thought maybe someone would get it.
|kid creole
! 46 and 2
|WOW... whats the saying again.....
my point was to try to push all this subjectivity to the next level. voting on a best scheme without clarifying the criteria is useless. even still, the vast majority of your comments are about affect or how the arrangement makes someone feel. that is all well and good, but your prescribing a result to a design yet to be determined. all that gives somebody is a recommendation as to what feeling they need to have when they observe the stones in the right position.
instead, i'm saying some kind of vocabulary has to be used to evaluate these layouts. intention, horizons, depth of field, intensity of light/shade, spatial relationship, gestalt theory, etcetera. if i come off as hostile, its my hostility for the ADA judging panels and all the gypsy rederick they use to hide the fact that they know little about actual design, sculpture, and space, when in actuality they simply have the most experience fooling around with this wonderful hobby. so my argument is, stop trying to be like those guys, following their rules; and instead, understand why they have these rules, know how to manipulate them to your own intention, and have fun with it! 46 and 2, right on through, ride the spiral to the end. let go, let go, let go!
|Francis Xavier
As a short addendum it warrants adding that ultimately - the design should give the impression and feeling that the creator wants it to display. This is why I worked mostly with what the author was trying to achieve with his layout as he posted. As a viewer or designer having a different favorite or the like doesn't make them any less of a credible aquascaper, Malawibiswas enjoys aquascape #1 - perhaps a reflection of his taste for a more gentle/serene approach, clwatkins enjoys #2 and #3, maybe because he enjoys dynamism. The contrast here in no way shape or form makes one right or the other wrong, and neither opinions makes them a less credible aquascaper (indeed, they're quite good at it!).
So, essentially, I should say that when I am critiquing an aquascape, it's only the aquascape - never the designer or people who like A vs. B or C. So I apologize if it ever seemed like I was criticizing the people who like oranges instead of apples.
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i'd like to see your definition of "curiously mysterious feel" or explain how something "extends far beyond the confines of the aquarium." maybe you'd realize design is not always about being definitive, but rather its about being entertaining as the viewer discovers and makes conjectures as to what matters. the artist's design comes to life through this active engagement with the composition. your hinting at that at best with your lucid terms and lack of clarity. why don't you offer something of real substance that isnt so subjective. the solution you gave before about the lion pride was much better over this formula based method your describing now.
You make a very good point in that design isn't about being definitive - I would argue that it almost assuredly should not be past a certain point. Additionally, you're also correct in that the ultimate goal of this or any art is to create impressions or invoke emotions in the eye of the beholder - indeed Iwagumi is Impressionistic. Hence the relevence to emotional terms used to describe layouts or how you want to design a layout.
The most common question in regards to Iwagumi that I hear, is "what is Iwagumi" or "what makes an Iwagumi an Iwagumi." What distinguishes this art from the cleverly placed stone hardscapes prevelant in items like Malawi tanks?
Well, unfortunately (or fortunately) the distinguishing marks are a set of a few rules that at best are unclear, and oftentimes 'unspoken' rules, aside from the obvious (like putting wood in your tank instantly makes it not an Iwagumi) these aren't always easy to follow. For example, there should be only one main stone (although it is not impossible to pull off a scape with 3 main stones, but in these cases very little, if any support stones are used), and the rest of them should be in a sense, bowing to the awesome greatness that is the main stone. The main stone and main focal point acts as the conductor of the symphony - guiding how the orchestra will play and tying everything together to create harmony on what would otherwise be a random mishmash of sound.
As previously stated, Iwagumi is impressionistic - the impression of the layout going beyond the boundaries of it's glass cage is of importance - by using open space and keeping rock positions "open" (that is to say they aren't all pointed inward), it creates the impression that the scape was simply cut out of a scene in nature and you're only seeing a part of it, the rest extends past the glass box. Another way of achieving this, such as in mountainscapes is by having the edges of the mountains go up to the sides of the glass, planted in such a way that contributes to this feeling. A curiously mysterious feel is just the impression that you don't get to see the entirety of the rocks presented - that there is something more to them just around the bend if you could catch a peak, this subtly invokes interest to the design.
Iwagumi's main layout principles and simplicity and clean upkeep of plants is a direct evolution from Iwagumi as seen in Karesansui (or "Zen Rock Garden"), in which sand is used to give the impression of water, as just one example. So, I suppose you could go as far to say that by 'flow' what's really meant is to give the impression that the scape is in liquid motion figuratively and literally. The rules are important to follow - as in any art, but at the same time this doesn't prevent creative twists and turns (for example, mountainscapes can also be classified on Iwagumi if they meet fundamental rules). Iwagumi is -ALMOST- completely contradictory in it's setup, or maybe that's just because we don't fully understand this eastern art form. I realize there is more I could elaborate on, but as is this has gotten fairly long-winded.
Geez... this is turning into a battlefield. Special Plans, it isn't exactly a "lucid term" by describing something that "extends far beyond the confines of an aquarium". Simply put that translates using vocabulary only a notch less complex; "your rock arrangement could provide an easy method of continuation" or "your rock arrangement could appear to be a small part of a greater whole". Stop trying to downplay people when you know well what they mean. This forum is here to provide helpful and positive collaboration, not the later.
A "curious and mysterious feel" I would agree is perhaps a bit vague, but that is the idea. If that phrase was more descriptive it would loose its mysterious intent . Basically, when you look at the tank you should feel something powerful... the same sensation you get when viewing Stone Henge or the Grand Canyon (a synthetic and natural example provided for your benefit). Its creation, form, method of existence is dumbfounding. We have an understanding of how it came into being or reasons for its current position, but we still feel dwarfed by such a feat/scale/evolution.
I for one think his contribution was great and what he had to say will help this tank (if the aquascaper chooses to acknowledge it) on its way to fruition.
We get the fact that you are passionate about design, but ease up... no need for hostility.
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Iwagumi is simply the idea of creating beauty out of simplicity through elegance and flow of all elements involved. One primary focal point, and 1 or 2 additional supporting focal points are fine. The next big principle is to design in such a way that certain aspects of the layout are hidden from view to give the rock a curiously mysterious feel, and have it flow in such a way that it appears the scape could very well extend far beyond the confines of the aquarium. However a disorganized mismash of rock with excess amounts of focal points only achieves tension from not knowing where to look, that is too overt.
|I'll probably be the odd man out but I really liked #1. #2 & #3 were actually too overpowering for me.
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disregard everything i said. apparently overtness and instant closure are what matter in an iwagumi tank. personally i'd want my tank to resonate as my eye constantly jumps around the composition. domination and easy answers would move the design into the mundane.
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The Parisian Jacket
Jackets, I think, are my favorite thing to add embroidery to. This might be a fairly obvious statement, given that we've done a fair share of embroidered jackets like the ones here, here, and here. For me, it's the perfect canvas; the best example of a wearable, durable surface that really lets you showcase your favorite stuff. It's thicker than a tee, which lets you add more and varied designs, and it's also a heck of a lot easier to show off and wear around than a quilt or a wall hanging. Yeah, people might look at you a little odd for wearing your wall hanging. Best just leave that one at home.
It should come as no surprise, then, that we've seen our own share of amazing stitched jacket examples from customers, and it was only a matter of time before a gorgeous Parisian version came along after the very popular Parisian Love Letter collection was released. Urban Threadster Gail created this jacket from a pattern, and it ended up winning her an award! You just never know where your next creation might go.
Gail joins us to talk about what went into this embroidered creation…
What started this project?
I wanted to enter a project into a "wearable art" challenge at a local quilt show. I had never entered anything before and thought this would be a fun project.
Did embroidery inspire the jacket or did the jacket inspire the embroidery you chose?
I always wanted to make a jacket that was unique. When I saw your "postcard pillow" for the Parisian Love Letter design pack I got inspired to make a jacket using the same designs.
Where did the jacket design come from?
I used Vogue Pattern V2827. It has been sitting in my pattern collection for a few years and I always dreamed of making it. I did a sample jacket out of similar material (but less expensive) first to make sure it fit me properly. Once I was happy with the results I then cut the material I wanted to use for the final project.
Talk us through the embroidery… which designs did you use? How long did it take to embroider it all?
I used all the designs in the design pack. I duplicated 1 design 3 times on the jacket – once on the back waist and then again on the cuff of each sleeve. I thought that would give it some balance. I stitched out 21 designs and it took a week to complete the embroidery. I took time to print out the designs off my computer and printer then I cut the paper down to just outside the embroidery design area. I then placed those paper designs onto the jacket pieces – prior to construction – so that I could visualize what the jacket would look like.
I started with the sleeves first, and I loved the results so I continued with the rest of the jacket. This pattern has multiple front and back sections so I sewed those together first and then I sewed the shoulder seams together but left the side pieces un-sewn. This way I could embroider the front, back and shoulder areas with ease. When all the embroidery was complete on the front, back and shoulder I then sewed the side seam together then embroidered the side embroidery designs.
Any challenges along the way?
I had some challenges with the lining of the jacket. I had never done a lined jacket before. I did an OK job but I know I could do better.
What advice would you give someone trying to create something like this?
I would recommend doing a sample of the embroidery on the same fabric that you are using for you project. I did that and I was happy with the results. Just cut a piece of your fabric before you do any cutting of pattern pieces. It would not be fun if you weren't happy with the results once you had spent some hours stitching seams together!
I would also say, personalize a label on the things you create. I embroidered my name onto a piece of fabric and just sewed it onto the back of my jacket. I think it looks nice and really, you should be proud to show off the things you create.
I hear you won an award with this jacket, congrats! Did you start this project with the contest in mind? How did people react to it and all the embroidery?
Thank you!
I actually had a different contest in mind. The original contest was for a "quilted wearable art jacket". After I was almost done the jacket it occurred to me that I had no traditional quilting in this jacket, and I was trying to think of how I could add quilting to the jacket somehow. I thought of maybe quilting the collar or somehow quilting the sleeves but then decided to not add any quilting at all as I was afraid it would take away from the embroidery and stylishness of the jacket.
I entered the jacket anyway to the contest and won an "honorable mention" ribbon. I was ecstatic about winning a ribbon – it was the first time I won anything. A few ladies from an embroidery group that I was a part of mentioned entering the jacket into the "Calgary Stampede" contest. I was glad I did. They did a great job displaying the jacket and I was so happy that I received a 2nd place blue ribbon. I have had many compliments on the jacket and all the embroidery. I love it.
What's your next project going to be?
I have three young daughters and have a list of things I would like to make for them. I have been thinking of what I could do with the Dark Fairytales design pack; I am trying to come up with something creative for that.
Thanks so much for sharing this jacket and your process with us, Gail! I know you must just look fabulous in that jacket wherever you go, and your skill with sewing and design is really an inspiration. I can't wait to see what you do for your lucky daughters. Perhaps more prizes are in your future!
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Looking to build a 10-12 team competitive F&E league for this season. If you are someone that likes to play the entire season (vs. having a bad first weekend and forgetting about it), please join. With a league of this size we would be eligible for all prizes and likely most teams can remain in the hunt for most of the season. Don't get bogged down in some 30 team F&E league…this one will be fun and competitive!


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hotel Blue's Therapy PartyLocation: hotel Blue's Pool Deck
Come to the hottest party on the Grand Strand every Sunday! Get your favorite drink at MIXX, South Carolina's first swim up pool bar! 18 and up to party 21 to drink! So grab your friends and come grab a beach chair on our sun decks!Next Date:
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