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One half of Historic SKID is leaving Telluride for someplace called "Boulder." I will be covering cycling for Velo magazine and Velonews.com (which, really, is still insane to think about). Boulder, decidedly, doesn't party like Telluride, so I came to the hard decision that, yes, I should sell my Pugsley. Dammit. It stings. I'd rather get a bikini wax.
So I set about selling the bike. I had a buyer, in spite of my friend/mechanic putting one of his RISD paint jobs on it. (A series of spots that look like bike Herpes). Things were looking up. And then, I got a litany of questions from the would-be buyer. Testing the bike's Karma. Wanting to Know Things. Shit.
Honestly, this happened two hours ago. Enjoy the Q and A.
1. What is its name?
The bike has no name worth noting but has commonly been referred to as "Pugz," or "Fatbike," though mostly I just yell for it and it makes its way, at its own pace, back to me.
2. Why did you ask this bike into your life?
The bike was asked into my life because it snows here, and I didn't want to stop riding due to that snow. I had the intention of bike touring on the Pugz as well, though that hasn't come to fruition yet.
3. Has it lived up to your expectations?
Yes. I fear, however, I've not lived up to its expectations for me.
4. Has your bike been a part of any conflicts?
The only conflict the bicycle has been part of is a simple joke gone wrong. I asked a fellow cyclist if the woman he was dating's daughter had begun calling him "dad." He then hit the brakes and I went careening fabulously through the air. The bike was unharmed
5. Has it ever been in a BUI?
Not yet.
6. Does it have any weaknesses?
Its only true weakness is the rider.
7. Will the red pocks it's experiencing spread? Are they contagious to others? Any other known afflictions?
There is no reason to think the red pocks will spread. It seems most other bikes (and people) have been vaccinated against the mechanic/artist responsible for its distress.
8. Has it had any serious operations?
The Pugz has no record of surgery. I changed a tire a few times. All this went smoothly and required no pain management.
9. What is its favorite pit stop?
Preferred pit stops: Bar, any; coffee shop, any; donut shops; the valley between the East Fork and Wasatch trails, Eider Creek meadows.
10. What music suits it for hill climbs? Long descents? Meandering paths?
Musical inclinations: Tiffany, "I think we're alone now"; Michael Jackson, "Beat It" and "The Way You Make Me Feel"; any song by Jewel; "Shorty Wanna Be a Thug," 2PAC.
11. Does it brag about being picked over other bikes?
The Puggle does not brag or boast. The only thing it ever did say, come to think if it, was an obscure Rumi passage in the middle of the night during a 24-hour race: "What you seek is seeking you."
12. What are its hopes and dreams? What are your hopes and dreams for it?
The bicycle's dreams, I believe, are to beautifully channel the dreams of its cyclist. Therefore, the dreams of the machine itself change as yours change. Today, if I had to guess, it just wants to be ridden.
13. Have you saved for its education?
I spent its college fund on a Thomson seat post. I will not apologize for that.
14. On a scale of 1-10, how sad are you to pass on this bike? How excited are you to pass it on to me?
I am not saddened to pass on this bike. It deserves to be among its people, which I highly doubt live in Boulder, Colo., where I am soon to move for professional reasons. I am, therefore, excited to bequeath it to you for a reasonable fee.
15. Will you take $1,000 for your beauty?
If you throw in a six-pack of your choosing, so I can drink to the bike, that's a deal. I'd rather sell it to you than some bro who asks me all sorts of inane questions online. The bottle cages must come off, along with the flaskholder. These things are dear to me. The money must be unmarked bills. I plan on using it for EPO.
[The good people at Rapha think this is what winter training looks like, cycling around on the ski resort's dry roads, or, in this case, riding what appears to be the moon.]
It seems like everywhere the Skid looks, we see websites, blogs, assorted bullshit, devoted to something called Winter Training. I read somewhere recently that "races are won in the winter." Wait. We were supposed to train for this
racing biking thing? In the winter?
HistoricSKID is based at like 14,000 for all intents and purposes related to cycling; winter training here is called "skiing," a word true cyclists seem allergic to. They'd be shocked to know all the mountains the skinny punks ride up in Le Tour are actually for Le Ski. But I'm one for a fad. So I decided I'd put together a Winter Training Bible. Behold.
• Think about coffee. Make coffee. Drink coffee. Ride townie to gondola station to commute to work. Cadence: Survival in the icy alleys. Duration: 2 minutes, three if holding said coffee.
• Drink more coffee. Look at Velo News again.
• Ride home, often stopping at liquor store on corner. Four minutes at about 3 rpm, heart not to exceed 70 bpm.
• Open beer, think about riding trainer.
• Open another beer.
• Make coffee. Repeat Monday.
• Adorn something called "skis" if lucky. Google new Chris King line of bikes, stare at steel framed roadie for at least one hour
[More often than not, winter training actually looks like this]
•Weekly Pugz ride to the Brewery. Ride home is much more difficult than ride out. Not training at all.
• Repeat Monday. Surely out of beer by now. Buy more. Drink beer. Skim assorted "cycling" publications. Contemplate Rouleur subscription but decide to pay power bill instead.
• Sit on couch. Think about riding. Read about winter training, think about ordering warmer clothes and a new road bike. Wish dog could take herself out. Miss Iron Horse registration
thank god again. Settle on cross country skiing but at least think about cycling.
• Drink coffee. Drink beer. Talk about cycling with anyone who will listen.
• If temperature is above 35, toy with driving to Paradox Valley to ride but ultimately decide to stay in bed and drink coffee. If temperature is below 35, wander around the house lost. Drink coffee, contemplate new Tour route silently, while staring out window at snow.
• Repeat Monday, but watch the Denver Broncos and scream at TV, not thinking about cycling at all and eating ice cream instead.
—Matthew Beaudin
[A winter training bundle]
Hey, what's the only thing more fun than riding your bike through mud and hail? Paying money to do it. That's right: Bleeding U.S., American dollars to ride a bicycle through a thunderstorm even Norse gods would be afraid of. Here at Historic Skid, we're serious men. Serious about not working. Serious about bikes. Serious about drinking two too many before race day. Serious men with serious futures. So serious, in fact, about bike racing that one of us missed his start for his most recent race. By at least five minutes. But perhaps closer to ten.
To make matters worse, it was a hometown race and one he — that would be me, Matthew — has competed in before. I was, inappropriately, taking a piss near the start/finish of the Full Tilt in Telluride Race course and noticed that everyone below, aside from my two other teammates, had gears on their bicycles. I felt a distinct tinge of whatthefuck pulse through my veins. Being the sharp young man — is 28 still young? — that I am, I remembered seeing at least a few other idiots on one-gear bikes hovering around the race course start. One had tattoos and looked super tough. I, however, had on a fancy new race kit thanks to the local shop Paragon Bootdoctors that makes me look like a banana, as it's mostly yellow.
I meekly asked about the status of the singlespeed start. I was informed it had happened "a while ago." When you're dealing with the breed of cyclist known as a "racer," "a while" can mean 37 seconds. I'm guessing we were five and change removed from the action. Still, I thought I could do well. I always think I can do well, and I think this is part of my gift and curse. But note: it's hard to do well when one misses the start of the race. Not to be cheated of my $75 entry fee — No, seriously, why don't you just take a goddamn kidney from me? — myself and two others, Max and Dave, also looking like bananas, parted the sea of cross-country dorks lining up for their starts — on time! — and took to the course.
Off we rode together and in hot pursuit of the more punctual
(lame?) riders. For a few glorious moments we were racing together, the three best friends that anyone could have. Then Dave, who has appeared on this blog before as "Don't Worry about Dave" shredded the road climb and was not to be seen again. Max drifted away from me like smoke from a cigarette. Road suffering. Singletrack suffering. Fire road suffering. Descending too fast suffering. Lap one in the books. I see Max in the distance on the climb above. I muster a throaty "Maaaaaaax!" as if I am a child left behind his mother on a crowded beach. Shortly after this, I almost went ass over teakettle on an uphill.
Singletrack climbing. No strength. Pro woman catches me. Wants to chat. People always say how "amazing" it is to ride a singlespeed and wonder just how I do it. I don't, really, I think, choose this. I'm cheap and can't part with the 4k for a fast hardtail. I usually just smile, which is more accurately a grimace, and say they're just behind the next person in the race, even if they're 10 minutes out.
It is this moment that lightning creases the sky and illuminates the horrid fire-road climb ahead. It hails. Then rains. The trail is now an awful mudhole tangled with slippery wet roots. Atop the climb, I breathe. I've only caught one of the singlespeeders. I haven't even heard the singlespeed mating call, which is an AHHHHHGHHHH! scream through the woods. I'm toast. Again.
[Editor's note. I was debating if I should include the following paragraph. Clearly, you can see where I fell on that: the realness. This isn't a blog trying to pick up chicks.]
And then, something goes bad. My stomach is all kinds of wrong. We're talking don't-hit-that-bump-too-hard wrong. I weigh my options; I'm in unknown territory. I come to a switchback and Carl-Lewis-sprint from my bike into the woods. People in the Tour de France have been calling this moment a natural break. It happens. Deal with it. I know I had to. I jump back on the bike and hammer to the finish line. "Hammer," in this case, means pedaling my 22-tooth-spinning brains out — Imagine a gerbil on a wheel but with better teeth. I see people who finished like an hour before me, smile and skid. I yelled at the racer next to me to sprint me to the line and FINISH THIS! And then let him knick me on the line. He was annoyed at the moment but later had the look of a little boy who'd just sprinted home for dinner.
And that, as they say, was that.


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In the spirit of GLTrace comes GLSurveyor, a new interceptor library providing run-time instrumentation of OpenGL API usage for windows applications. When running your application with the GLSurveyor dll, you can capture log files of all OpenGL API method invocations (continuous or single frame snapshots), see a frame rate counter displayed over the application 3D window, and control the behavior of many aspects of your applications use of the OpenGL. The free version everything a typical developer would ever need in a diagnostic library, but the commercial version allows even more robust instrumentation, such as logging OpenGL state changes as each method is invoked, etc.
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I'm not dead. Just been busy with life. Wanna start this up again full swing. Expect more after I get back from Fest!
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My darling friend (apotinwhichtopiss) has been added to this blog as another admin because that helps and stuff when I have to work a lot. It also means there will hopefully be more cool pictures. That rules.
Also I wanted to post to say thanks for all the positive feedback and likes and shit. I'm glad I'm not the only person amused by it.
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This is the only shortcake recipe that surpassed my all-time favorite Old Fashioned Shortcake recipe from The Farmhouse Cookbook. I love the less sweet biscuity style. It's also a great 4th of July recipe done with a red, white and blue mix of blueberries and strawberries with whipped cream.
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Renee86 Posted: 04/15/09
I made this for my boyfriend & company & it was a huge hit! Instead of making one large one, I split the dough into 4 & made individual ones. Also, I drizzled juice from the strawberries on the bottom layer of the cookie before starting the layers. It turned out really good & I will be making it a lot this summer!!
lovetocookinky Posted: 05/23/10
This recipe is wonderful. The shortcake has the perfet texture, alittle crunch on the outside and light fluffy inside, with fresh picked/homegrown (not store bought) strawberries...yum!!
heathergrll Posted: 06/04/11
Absolutely 5 stars! Instead of splitting the cake in half, I simply served it in wedges with the strawberries and whipped cream (as I remember from my childhood)... one note though- I had to bake an additional 5 minutes to get the perfect golden brown top. Enjoy!
quinns16 Posted: 08/14/12
So, so yummy! They were tender and flakey and the lemon zest adds the perfect brightness and freshness to the biscuit. I made 8 individual biscuits and baked them for about 12 minutes instead of 15. The egg wash on top really adds a perfectly crunchy crust on the outside! This is a keeper!
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This shortcake is amazing. The yummiest biscuit I've ever made - fluffy and light in the middle, and the wonderful crunch of turbinado on top, and a filling of heaps of whipped cream and fresh strawberries. Even my husband - who has no sweet tooth - loved this!
Wickerpuds Posted: 06/09/12
Considering that the only shortcakes I've ever eaten were the little sponges you can buy in the produce section of nearly any store it didn't take much to top that. But, this was absolutely delicious! I can't wait to eat this again...even considering trying it as a biscuit using less sugar. The texture is so light!
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Loved this shortcake! Had to use up a half flat of strawberries and found this recipe. I couldn't be more pleased with the outcome. It was a breeze to make. I did alter it a tad...I subbed a 1/2 c. Almond meal for the flour to to boost the nutrient value. It didn't come out crumbly but more like a cake, which was ok. Plan on making it again this weekend.


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Our research focuses on the physics of explosives and high strain-rate deformation of materials. We pursue both experimental and computational work in our group, ranging from high-velocity impact testing to atomistic scale simulations of new explosives.
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Thermobaric warhead materials:
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Updated Feb. 2014. Students interested in the above or in other topics related to conventional weapons are encouraged to email email@example.com or stop by Spanagel 102B.
Thermo- and mechanochromic sensors for high strain-rate loading:
In collaboration with NSWC Indian Head and UCSB, we are developing molecular scale sensors that aid in mapping out local stresses and hot spots following dynamic loading. Thesis topics including high strain-rate testing of mock explosive composites on our Hopkinson bar, and mapping out mesoscale hot spots in our in-situ Raman spectrometer.


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On 9 November 1999, Sally Clark was left facing life imprisonment after being found guilty of murdering her two baby sons. Only on 29 January this year did her nightmare end when the Court of Appeal, at the second attempt, quashed her conviction and set her free. John Batt fervently believes that cases such as Sally Clark's should no longer be dealt with by the criminal justice system.
With legal bills already totalling £2m and the prospect of an expensive compensation claim to come, just what went wrong with the judicial process, and how did the defence team overcome what, at times, seemed like insurmountable hurdles?
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"For the first 20 months after the second baby died, Sally faced apparently uncontradictable evidence that she had shaken Harry to death," says John Batt, a 73-year-old consultant and founding member of London firm Batt Holden, and an old friend of Clark's father. Batt has spent the last three and a half years working five to six hours a day as part of Clark's defence team.
The initial prognosis did not look good. Dr Alan Williams, the Home Office forensic pathologist, and Michael Green, professor of forensic pathology at Sheffield University, both concluded that Harry had suffered widespread retinal haemorrhages, meaning there could be no doubt that he had been shaken to death.
As a result, Green also changed his original cause of death for Clark's first baby, Christopher, from natural causes to death by smothering. "Sally was in the seemingly hopeless position of telling everybody she had never, ever shaken her adored son Harry; and yet there was this apparently damning evidence that she had," says Batt.
It was not until three weeks before the trial began that Professor Luthert from Moorfields Eye Hospital looked at the slides and declared that there were no retinal haemorrhages, but Green strenuously disagreed with him and insisted that he could not have seen all the slides.
Clark's solicitor Michael Mackey, a partner at Manchester-based Burton Copeland, spent virtually the whole of the last two weeks before the trial trudging up and down the country trying to discover what had happened to each slide. Only on the very last day before the trial began did Green sign a statement that he was wrong about the retinal haemorrhages.
"At that point Julian Bevan QC [lead counsel for Clark] thought the prosecution would offer no evidence and the case wouldn't carry on. But Robin Spencer QC [lead counsel for the prosecution] wouldn't have it," says Batt.
It was then that the statistic, that the chances of two cases of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (Sids) occurring in a comfortably off family were one in 73 million, began to assume its vital significance.
The prosecution's star witness, Professor Sir Roy Meadow, produced the statistic from a draft report, 'Confidential Enquiries into Stillbirths and Infant Deaths' (Cesdi), the largest single study of cot deaths ever undertaken anywhere in the world, which studied 470,000 live births in five different areas of England over a three-year period.
"There's no doubt that the statistic [one in 73 million] appeared in that report in its draft form," says Batt. "What Meadow didn't disclose was that further on in the report was the statement that, among the 350-odd cot deaths there had been, there were five that were second deaths in the same family. This gave odds of about 1:70, not 1:73m, as the chance of having a second cot death if you've had one. The chance of winning £10 on the lottery is one in 50 and it happens to 100,000 people every week," he says.
In addition to the expert evidence, Williams continued to provide some assistance to the prosecution. Throughout the trial he insisted that there were retinal haemorrhages, although he changed his opinion to Harry having been smothered and/or shaken to death. It was not until after the trial, explains Batt, that the defence team discovered that Williams had got the retina muddled up with the choroid. "It's next door to the retina and is a very vascular vessel, and what he [Williams] was looking at were not the haemorrhages," says Batt.
Coupled with this, the prosecution put forward certain inconsistencies that it argued pointed to Clark's guilt. "The point was made by Robin Spencer QC that everyone knew where they were when Kennedy was assassinated, but that, in my opinion, was the wrong question. Jackie Kennedy should have been asked what time her husband got up in the morning and what time he had breakfast, and if she gave the wrong answer some of today's child abuse experts would say that was a sign that she was implicated in his death," argues Batt.
So by a majority verdict the jury convicted Clark. Belief that the verdict was the right one was heightened at sentencing, when Clark's alcohol problem was introduced by the prosecution. This, says Batt, is one of a number of deplorable tactics employed by the prosecution.
"Alcohol played no role in Sally Clark's trial because the judge ruled that there was no evidence that it played any part in the death of either Christopher or Harry," insists Batt. "Nobody would have known that Sally Clark had an alcohol problem, mainly following the deaths of her babies and being charged with their murder, unless Robin Spencer QC at sentence had introduced it in order to maximise the bad publicity."
Batt's argument is emphasised by Clare Montgomery QC in her skeleton argument for the second appeal: "The prosecution chose to introduce and emphasise at sentencing and at the first appeal the suggestion that Sally Clark was abusing alcohol. Not only was the evidence introduced without any defence opportunity to challenge it, but it also served no purpose other than ensuring maximum publicity (Judge Harrison having ruled that alcohol had played no part in the death of the children)."
Certainly, sections of the media leapt on the opportunity. On 10 November 1999, the Daily Mail ran with the headline: 'Driven by drink and despair the solicitor who killed her babies'. Incidentally, on 30 January 2003, the day after Clark's acquittal, its coverage was rather more measured: "In the aftermath of the trial Sally was portrayed as a 'lonely drunk' who missed her well-paid job as a solicitor and resented her children for keeping her at home."
Court of Appeal, part one: what went wrong?
In July 2000, after a five-day hearing before Lord Justice Henry and Justices Bracewell and Richards, the Court of Appeal threw out Clark's appeal. Batt says now that, as soon as the first appeal hearing got underway, there were signs that things would not go their way, but that the defence team refused to see the signs.
"When we applied for leave [to appeal] we had a differently constituted court, and they gave Spencer a hard time and gave Bevan an easy ride," Batt explains. "But by the time it got to the definitive hearing, those roles were reversed. They smiled on Spencer and gave Bevan a very hard time.
"They were hugely critical of Bevan for not having objected to the [one in 73 million] statistic. They said, as did in fact the court [at the second appeal], that it was incredible that it was ever allowed in evidence - it was clearly inadmissable. But Spencer said quite rightly last week that it was never objected to and, of course, the credibility of it as a ground of appeal issue is diminished if no objection is taken to it in the first instance."
So if this was the case, then why didn't Bevan raise it? Batt will only say that Bevan did not object because he must have thought the figure was too ridiculous to be taken seriously. "The problem is the person who gave evidence," he says. "If given by a schoolboy it wouldn't have mattered, but it was given by one of most experienced professional witnesses in the business. Meadow is amazingly convincing because he remained so reluctant to condemn."
What the appeal judges were provided with was a report from two defence-appointed statisticians, which said that if 1:73m was right for two cot deaths, then the figure for two murders was 1:2.2bn. Unfortunately for the defence, the Court of Appeal chose to focus on the fact that the principle of rarity was accepted by both sides and allowed that to govern the court's determination that the statistics must have been a "sideshow".
"The Court of Appeal in the first hearing was misled into believing that although 1:73m was wrong, the issue of rarity had been accepted by the defence. So exactly how many numbers there were in front of six noughts didn't really matter," says Batt.
It was only at the second appeal hearing that the court accepted that rarity itself is a live issue and that, in fact, two cot deaths are not rare. "The court was told and accepted that the chance of two cot deaths are probably somewhere between one in a hundred and one in 400," says Batt.
It was not until May 2001 that Clark, and her family and defence team, had some good news to shout about. Batt, who had never previously appeared before the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal, was tasked with making the case not to strike Clark, a convicted double murderer, off the solicitors' roll. The tribunal, in an unprecedented move, agreed and merely suspended her.
"That decision alone was the turning point in the entire case. Certainly in the media history of the event, that will be seen as the turning point," says Batt. "The following day was a slow news day, so we got on the front page of The Daily Telegraph."
Grounds for a second appeal
Another year passed before, in July 2002, the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) referred Clark's case back to the Court of Appeal.
Clark's husband Steven said at the time: "We're confident that compelling new evidence, which reveals a natural cause of death but which was withheld from the defence at the trial, will overturn the earlier false convictions, clear Sally's name and secure her release from prison."
This new medical evidence was a laboratory report, not disclosed to the defence at the time of the original trial. It showed that Harry, the second baby to die, had lethal levels of bacterial infection in his body and died of natural causes, casting doubt on both convictions.
This medical report had taken two years of discovery and owed much to the perserverance of Marilyn Stowe, a partner with Leeds-based Graham Stowe Bateson, who had offered her services pro bono following Clark's conviction. She was tasked with getting Harry's medical notes out of Macclesfield Hospital - not a simple proposition.
"First of all, the hospital referred to the police to see whether it was obliged to hand them over, then to leading counsel to see if it was obliged to hand them over; and at one point Steve [Clark] was told that the two babies were dead and the mother was in prison for murdering them, so what possible reason could he have for wanting the notes," recalls Batt.
The defence team had sought the reports because evidence emerged that carbon monoxide from a gas log fire could have played a role in the deaths of both babies.
Eventually Stowe's persistence paid off. On examination of the notes the crucial evidence that a microbiology report existed was discovered. In fact, the evidence had been there all along as had the microbiology report itself.
"On a photostat of one document that went to the Crown Court during the trial, there's clearly the top of the microbiology report, because the words microbiology report appear, partially masked by the documents on top of it. So we can say, beyond any question of doubt really, that that report that was not disclosed was actually present at the trial and should undoubtedly have been referred to," says Batt triumphantly.
Before the second appeal, the defence team made one final significant change - they dropped lead counsel Bevan. "You can't back a loser more than twice," says Batt on the team's decision to replace Bevan with Clare Montgomery QC. "It's not really a reflection on Julian Bevan QC, for whom I have a high regard, but I was surprised at his selection because he's best known as a prosecutor. There's no doubt that when the first appeal failed we needed some new thinking.
"Obviously we thought about all the lawyers involved, but had to have continuity and the huge reservoir of knowledge that there was in Mike Mackey - the decision to keep him was the right one. If we'd gone to somebody else we might not have got the result we did."
Batt is quite happy to claim the credit for Montgomery's selection - not that you can go wrong with the real first lady of Matrix Chambers. "I used every friend I knew in the law to persuade her to do it, although I had no idea if I was pushing at an open or shut door," admits Batt.
Despite Montgomery being only 10 minutes into her submissions and being asked by the Court of Appeal to present her case in an entirely different way, the second appeal was concluded successfully in half the allotted time.
"The Court of Appeal had to decide one central issue," says Batt. "Was the cause of death now propounded by our experts a credible theory or entirely off the wall? Only if it was entirely off the wall would there be any doubt about quashing the conviction.
"The appeal was about half an hour or so old when one of the judges said to Clare Montgomery, 'Am I right in thinking that the jury at the trial asked two questions about whether any tests had been done for natural disease?' Yes. And he said, 'Am I right in thinking that the jury was given the wrong answer in both questions?' Yes. And then he said, 'Well, isn't that an end to the matter?' And Clare said yes," explains Batt.
So the appeal could have been concluded after just 30 minutes. Again Batt condemns the prosecution's tactics, blaming it for dragging the case out for a further two days. "The case would have lasted four days if Robin Spencer QC had had his way," argues Batt. "I am hugely critical of the way leading counsel for the Crown responded to this appeal. It must have been clear to him and to his junior, and to those instructing him, that two reports on which the CCRC had referred the case back were from respectable and eminent pathologists. They certified not only that an overwhelming bacterial infection was the cause of death of the second baby, but in the case of Dr Morris, he went so far as to say that 'no other cause of death is sustainable'."
Batt's criticism is less a personal attack on Spencer than a fundamental objection to any involvement of the criminal justice system in cases such as Clark's.
In any event, after three and a half years in prison, Clark will not have been unduly put out by the two extra days it took Justices Kay, Holland and Hallett to quash her conviction and finally set her free.
Taking the law out of the equation
The miscarriage aspect of such cases is much more likely, he argues, because of their inherent characteristics. "Every mother who suffers a cot death believes she is responsible for it," he says. "The sense of guilt is overpowering. At the slightest suggestion by police, doctors, health visitors or anybody else, she will put up her hands and say, 'Of course it's my fault'. Ambitious prosecutors can turn that very swiftly into damning circumstantial evidence of guilt, and exactly that happened in Sally's case. Everything she said that could possibly be construed as a sign of guilt was."
The strong likelihood of a conviction also means that the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) and prosecuting counsel are keen to pursue such cases.
"[The CPS] has an incentive to bring a case because they can justify resources," says Batt. "Leading and junior counsel know that securing a conviction for a double murder - and they're nearly all doubles, some are trebles, and there's one quadruple in the pipeline - will immensely enhance their career prospects, so there will be competition to take these cases.
"A leading silk many years ago said to me, 'Convicting the guilty is easy, but convicting the innocent takes real talent'. It's absolute rubbish in these cases; it's the other way around. You never get a chance to convict the guilty, because they plead guilty to infanticide and they don't even go to prison. The only ones that get to trial are the ones that deny it."
Batt's solution is to follow Sweden's lead, where such cases are not dealt with by the criminal courts at all but by a panel of doctors from every possibly relevant discipline, who decide whether the mother did anything to harm the baby, and if so what her appropriate treatment is. "But also they decide if there's no evidence that the mother has harmed the baby, and they decide it empirically and not in an adversarial situation," adds Batt.
He then points to a UK initiative by Professor Peter Fleming, which brings together all the relevant professionals - social services, police, coroner, doctors, pathologists - for case conferences to brainstorm what the real evidence in the case is, in the hope that they can eliminate cases such as Clark's.
"In my view, that should be universally adopted throughout the country," he says. "It might even become the law of the land, because however much it costs, it's a fraction of the cost of prosecuting an innocent mother and a minute fraction of the cost of keeping her in prison for the rest of her life. It's the cheapest and most cost-effective way of avoiding future miscarriages of justice."
John Batt fervently believes that cases such as Sally Clark's should no longer be dealt with by the criminal justice system.
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WILLIAMSBURG, VA – The Rutgers men's golf team finished eighth out of 22 teams at the William & Mary Invitational on Tuesday with a combined score of 612 (307-305) in the two-round tournament.
The two-day event, held at the par-71 Kingsmill Resort River Golf Course, saw Georgetown take home team honors with a 589 (298-291). Navy's Billy Hurley won the individual crown with a 141 (75-66).
Junior Brent Pittman (Montvale, NJ) paced the Scarlet Knights, tying for seventh overall. He shot a six-over-par, 148 (75-73) for two rounds. Finishing two strokes back was senior Brian Whitman (Blairstown, NJ) with an eight-over-par, 150 (74-76) for the event to tie for 16th.
Sophomore Erick Morales (Bayamon, Puerto Rico) tied for 46th with a 156 (77-79). Despite finishing in a tie for 60th overall with a score of 158 (81-77), freshman Seth Hirschhorn (Willingboro, NJ) provided the biggest shot of the tournament for RU. Hirschhorn recorded a hole-in-one on the 179-yard par-3, 13th hole on the tournament's first day. It was the only hole-in-one of the day and one of just two during the tournament.
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From Broadway to Chinatown to Harlem and the nation's capital, Nebraska Wesleyan students and faculty are foregoing rest and relaxation for special opportunities to learn and serve during spring break.
Nebraska Wesleyan's Theatre Department is in New York City to perform a student showcase and participate in networking and workshops with professionals. Thirty students and four faculty members made the trip.
"We called on friends and alumni in the business out in New York to assist with the workshops," said Joan Korte, associate professor of theatre. "And they're bringing their friends – actors, choreographers, agents."
The Theatre Department previously participated in a workshop with Ron LaRosa, a casting director for Disney and musical director for the successful Broadway show The Drowsy Chaperone. This time around students and faculty will have the opportunity to work with Lindsay Levine, who works for a casting directing office for famous shows such as Les Miserables, Mamma Mia, Aladdin, Jersey Boys, and The Phantom of the Opera.
"Professors Jack Parkhurst, Dan Hays, and Eric Little have invited quite a few of their friends who are big name people in the business to come not only to watch us in the showcase, but for the workshop," said junior acting major Megan Ghorashy. "Just having these connections with these professionals will help us in our future because by knowing them will let us have one big foot in the door above others who come to New York knowing no one."
Students are looking forward to the professional feedback and experience involved in the showcase performance and workshops.
"No matter what is said, whatever they say will only make us stronger actors and create even better performances," said Ghorashy.
The showcase will feature scenes, songs, duets, and group numbers all performed by Nebraska Wesleyan theatre students.
"This is an experience where all of us are doing pieces that we feel are our strongest and show off our talents. Just getting to perform for a lot of people in the business is super exciting," she said.
A session about living and working in New York will be particularly helpful for the NWU students who plan to move to New York City after earning their theatre degrees, she said.
Students like Ghorashy are also looking forward to the opportunity to see Broadway shows. The group will see Spiderman the Musical, and individually various students and faculty will see newly opening shows such as Cinderella, Breakfast at Tiffany's, and Hands on a Hardbody.
"Seeing the shows and being in New York itself just causes anyone with a passion to feel inspired," Ghorashy said.
Nebraska Wesleyan's Alumni Office will host New York City area alumni during the trip. Alumni have been invited to attend the theatre showcase and a reception following.
Beyond the Big Apple, eight other NWU students, two faculty and a pastor traveled to Washington, D.C. to study the intersection of faith and politics.
"We chose Washington D.C. because it seemed like an exciting place to explore this topic after this past year's presidential elections," said campus minister Mara Bailey. "Faith played an important role in all sides of the election, and will continue to do so."
The group is touring famous museums and landmarks as well as meeting with Sojourners, a progressive Christian voice in politics, and the Faith and Politics Institute.
"Daily reflection will encourage participants to think about how they see the values of faith affecting how politics get played out on a daily basis in our nation's capital, and also help them to debrief the things they are experiencing," said Bailey.
A service project with Street Sense, a newspaper that spreads awareness about homelessness issues in D.C. and helps homeless individuals work their way out of poverty will also be part of the experience.
Yet another group of 10 students is in New York City as part of NWU's New York Urban Cultural Immersion Trip. The group is exploring various neighborhoods of the city such as the Lower East Side, Harlem, and Chinatown. They are also participating in a service project with Interoccupy of NYC, helping in cleanup efforts left from the devastating Super Storm Sandy.
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"Hitting the ball is the fun part of it, but the fewer times you hit the ball the more fun you have." – Lou Graham
By Ian Hardie
I was talking to a golfer a while back, who had made a decision that I suppose almost all golfers make at some point in time during their golfing career
This golfer had decided that they were going to work on their golf game – to improve their skills at it and at the same time they were
Expecting to lower the average score that they had each game as a result
You may have had this thought yourself at some point in your golf career, have been thinking about doing the same thing or are possibly in the middle of doing that right now
If that's the case – I have a simple question for you before I go on;
Did you, do you or are you expecting to get constant improvement in your skills at the game and as a result a lower average score in your golf simply by spending more time on it?
Take a minute to really think about that question and answer it as honestly as you can
If you aren't exactly sure about what I mean there – take a good look at the image at the top of this post
As it illustrates the basic 'path' that most golfer's think their golf will take, once they make the decision to work on improving their golf game
That's an important part to remember for later in the post by the way!
This path is represented by the two arrows in the image, the top one is the time that the golfer spends 'working on their game' and the bottom one is the golfers 'average score'
The point that they both start from is whatever skill level at the game and average score the golfer has when they decide 'to work on their game'
You will note that both arrows are effectively going in a constant direction driven by the 'time' spent by the golfer looking for improvement and in actual fact could be represented like this
Constant Improvement in Skill + a Lower Average Score = Time Spent working on golf
Wouldn't that be great if it was the case?
Simply spend more time on your golf game and you will get better at the game as well ending up with a lower average score
Do you think that's really what happens or is the reality somewhat different?
Having had 30 years or so of playing the game of golf, being focussed for most of that time on improving my skills at the game and constantly looking for a lower average score
I'm not so sure that you should you expect constant improvement in your golf
In fact, the reality is about as far away from that as you could get
Something that I have observed from a combination of my own personal experience – as well as spending a significant amount of time during that 30 years or so assisting all types of golfers to improve their skills at the game and lower their average score
You might be wondering why that's something I would be writing about and the answer to that is quite simple – I have seen many golfers over the years make the decision to improve their skills at the game and look to lower their average score – who start full of enthusiasm but don't get the constant improvement that they expect will happen
As a result, they generally end up worse off than when they first started
Does that seem familiar to you?
If it hasn't happened to you personally – you probably know another golfer who has experienced just that and let me point out that the reason a golfer generally ends up worse off than when they first started when they make the decision to improve their skills at the game and look to lower their average score
Isn't in the effort that the golfer puts in to working on their game
That's right, the physical effort that the golfer puts in and the time that they spend are nothing to do with the fact that a lot generally end up worse off than when they started
Most golfers are in fact pretty good at doing just that – the problem comes from the three highlighted words below – which the golfer will have in their mind when they make the decision to improve
They will have an Expectation of Constant and Linear improvement
In simple terms they expect to get constant improvement in their skills at the game and as a result a lower average score in their golf simply by spending more time on it
With the actual reality being about as far away from that as you could get
Something I'm going to talk more about in 'Should you expect constant improvement in your golf – part two?'
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Serving as a follow-up to May's food planet-based Utopia update, today's add-on delivers 20 brand-new levels packed full of cookie-crushing, donut-destroying carnage.
Rovio has also sent the inflatable Orange Bird into space (complete with rather fetching space braces) to help his feathered companions reclaim their captured eggs.
Speaking of which, the dev has introduced a brand-new oval-shaped playable character into the game. With this newbie warrior - referred to only as "space egg" - up your sleeve, you can now punish those thieving piggies with some hard-boiled artillery.
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"He said to Lin Yu-Tang, 'I love Lao Tzu.' Lin Yu-Tang looked at the poet, puzzled, and said, 'But the source of Lao Tzu is in the Upanishads!'
"And Lin Yu-Tang is right, sincerely right: the whole mysticism of the East, wherever it has happened – in India, in China, in Japan – has its source in the Upanishads. And this Upanishad, the Mandukya Upanishad, is one of the most fundamental, because in a very essential way it describes the innermost core and also the ultimate reach of human consciousness
"The ordinary mind is dual; it thinks in terms of twoness: light and dark, day and night, summer and winter, life and death, good and bad, moral and immoral, extrovert and introvert, the real and the unreal, the momentary and the permanent. The duality is always there; it has entered into the very fabric of our languages.
"But the moment you become really awakened…and remember the word really, because we think that every morning we are awake when we come out of sleep. That is only pseudo awakening, that is only so-called awakening. The real awakening is when one becomes a Jesus, a Buddha, a Mahavira, a Lao Tzu. When one has come to see the merger of the within and the without, when one has come to see the oneness of life and death, when there is no division left, that state is awakening. Before that everybody is a little bit schizophrenic because the divided mind divides you. Then you are divided into the lower and the higher, then you are divided into the conscious and the unconscious, the body and the soul, and so on and so forth.
"Carl Gustav Jung is not right at all in saying that Eastern mysticism is introvert. That is a condemnation, because in psychology the word introversion is ugly. It means somebody is morbid, it means somebody is closed to the outside reality, it means that one is not open.
"Jung had come to India while a great seer was alive, Sri Ramana Maharshi, and many people told him to go and see him – but he didn't go there. He traveled all over India, he went to see the Taj Mahal and Khajuraho Ajanta and Ellora, but he didn't go to see Ramana Maharshi."
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He is enrolled in University for a degree in film at the UNIVERSITY CENTER FOR FILM STUDIES (CUEC), which is part of UNAM the National University of Mexico, in Mexico City.
In 2002 two he went to Vancouver for a full time course of Film Production at Vancouver Film School (vfs.com).
His work has participated in the Third Public Art forum of The SAPS in Mexico City, The Havana Biennale 03, The Image Festival of Toronto 2002 , The Contemporary Art Fair MACO 04 and 06 in Mexico City, The Contemporary Art Fair of Spain ARCO 05 (During this year Mexico was the invited country) The VII International Call for Young Artists of the Luis Adelantado Gallery in Valencia, Spain. The FRIEZE 06 Art Fair in London, UK, The International Contemporary Film Festival of Mexico City 2007 & The Second SIVAM Visual Arts Contest in Mexico City.
He obtained on 2004 the 'Young Creators" Grant of the Mexican Savings Department to Promote Art and Culture (FONCA), in the New Media Division.
He obtained the 2006 Arts & Media Grant from the Mexican National Center of the Arts, Cenart.
His Work has also exhibited individually in the Ramis Barquet Gallery, as well as in different collective shows in museums & galleries of Canada, U.S., Poland, Spain, Cuba, Argentina & Mexico, some of the highlight are: Art Museum Carrillo Gil, Mexico City, The Contemporary Art Museum of Poland, "Zamek Ujazdowski", The National Museum of Art "Reina Sofia" in Madrid Spain, The New Media Art Space "La Casa Encendida" also in Madrid Spain, The Art Space "Fundacion Telefonica" in Buenos Aires Argentina. He has also participated in projects of Net art with greylands.com and The Canadian Art collective Instant Coffee, instantcoffee.org


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Friday, October 7, 2011
Gluten Free Peanut Butter, Chocolate Chip, Party Cookies
I mean soft baked, peanut butter, chocolate chip, gluten free, party cookies? She had me at cookie. Okay, meet Liz:
Michelle is the nicest friend EVER for letting me show off my party cookies on her blog!
I fell in love with the Betty Crocker gluten free chocolate chip cookie mix when I recreated Michelle's bacon-chocolate-chip cookies a few months ago. I also learned that if you follow the recipe on the box you get a fairly good traditional chocolate chip cookie, BUT if you use egg whites instead of a whole egg you get SOFT BAKED cookies, which are my favorite!
Now since my blog, Reston Style, is all about adding a touch of style to your daily life, I decided that these cookies would look (and taste) better with a splash of color! I mean, sprinkles make everything better, right?! And trust me, you will not be able to tell that these cookies are gluten free. My friend (and cookie connoisseur), Reid, thought they were amazing!
Shopping List: (makes 2 dozen cookies)
Betty Crocker gluten free chocolate chip cookie mix
real vanilla (it's already GF)
Reeses peanut butter chips (variations - any other extra candy chips)
1 stick of room temperature butter
Carton egg whites (or the whites of 2 eggs)
Colored jimmy sprinkles
Follow the recipe on the back of the box and mix everything together, replacing the egg with 3 tbs of egg whites (or the whites of 2 eggs), add 1/3 of the bag of peanut butter chips and 1/2 the small jar of sprinkles and mix it with your hands in a large bowl (it's too gooey for a spoon).
Once it's really mixed, wash your hands and form the cookies into 1/2 inch thick circles. Because of all the butter, they shouldn't stick to your hands at this point. The smoother you make the dough circles, the prettier your cookies will be since they don't spread as much as traditional chocolate chip cookies.
Bake for 9-11 minutes. Remove them from the baking sheet right from the oven with a spatula and place them on a cookie rack to cool for at least 5 minutes, then enjoy your super soft baked, gluten free cookies! Store extras in a ziplock for up to a week!
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Wow..that looks really delicious...Thanks for the recipe dear..ReplyDelete
American Classic Carrot Cake is my post today...
These are adorable and I bet they are delicious! Great idea to spruce them up with sprinkles!ReplyDelete
My kind of cookie!ReplyDelete
Omgoodness! These look amazing. I just want to reach in and grab one or four.ReplyDelete
Wow, these look soooo yummy! Great pictures, and I love the sprinkles!ReplyDelete
These look delicious Liz!! Thanks for sharing Michelle!ReplyDelete
Love the egg whites trick for a soft cookie!ReplyDelete
Yummy deliciousness!!ReplyDelete
Talk about some yummy goodness! I love that you added the sprinkles... so festive! Have a great weekend!ReplyDelete
Those look amazing! I am such a sucker for sprinkles. i will have to try these out!ReplyDelete
These do look delicious and definitely party ready! Love the sprinkles in there, thanks for sharing. You two have a wonderful weekend.ReplyDelete
Those. Are. Awesome. Cookies! Buzzed!ReplyDelete
Thanks for sharing these aww-some cookies.ReplyDelete
I recently gave in at a wedding to the posh-looking chocolate cake. It had a majestic texture and was consistent throughout and nice to eat. Not to mention the fact that nearly 4 hours afterwards I was thinking I would need the hospital and could hardly walk due to severe joint pain. Sick for 2 weeks afterward (I'm coeliac)
I found a mix from sun flour mills that I plan to order and try soon – their award winning chocolate cake mix. They're based in Idaho in the USA and the product won first prize in two independent competitions.
The Almost Bourdain blog recently featured a flourless chinese five spice cake recipe which really looked perfect in terms of texture – extremely cake for being flourless and looked fairly easy to make – just need to find the time…
Meanwhile, on the other hand, I recently found a potential cure for those with gluten intolerance and celiac disease – Dr. Wise's Gluten Relief – I blogged about it at http://wp.me/p1244N-6k
Sprinkles TOTALLY make everything better :) Great guest post! BuzzedReplyDelete
I cannot wait to try this! These look perfect for any party or for any occasion - like just wanting to eat it. :)ReplyDelete
Love all the color & flavor in these!!ReplyDelete
Congrats on Foodbuzz top 9!ReplyDelete
- ElizabethOctober 12, 2011 at 5:47 PM
I want those cookies. I want them right now.ReplyDelete
Thank you so much for this recipe! I made these tonight (we're having a gluten free super bowl party tomorrow)... and they came out sooo good, I was just going to make the Betty Crocker box, but your tips and additions made them PERFECT!ReplyDelete


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My family prefers stews so I doubled the amount of squash (diced, not sliced) and omitted the water - all other amounts remained much the same. I also pureed about 1/2 the soup. I used acini di pepe (no.78) pasta which is little pasta 'dots', cooked in its own water and added to the soup when we were ready to eat. Yummy! Will make more to freeze for winter.
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Lego towers and the Menai Straits Bridge
December 7th, 2012 at 11:02 pm by Dr. Drang
You've probably seen this BBC News Magazine article on the maximum height of a tower of Lego bricks. I read it yesterday through a link from the indispensable Seth Brown (@DrBunsen), and was immediately reminded of this 1826 paper on suspension bridges by Davies Gilbert.
That Gilbert paper is my white whale. I first saw it three years ago when the Royal Society put up its Trailblazing site of historical papers to commemorate its 350th anniversary. It was a paper I knew about from Timoshenko's History of Strength of Materials1 but had never read. When I did read it, I wanted to write one or two blog posts about it, but I never figured out the right approach. It's been haunting me ever since.
Gilbert wrote the paper as Thomas Telford was building the Menai Straits Suspension Bridge, and he shared his analysis with Telford. It's an excellent mix of mechanics theory and practical engineering. But what made it fascinating to me was the state of analysis and structural engineering in the early 1800s, especially in England. Had that paper been written a couple of decades later, it would've been very different.
First, there's the math. Gilbert sets up and solves the differential equation for the catenary shape of the suspension chains. But instead of using the standard differential notation we all use today, he uses Newton's fluxion notation. Seeing a space derivative, like the slope of the chain, expressed as the ratio of two time derivatives just seems really weird today. I assume Gilbert did this because he was a proper Englishman and had been taught Newton's calculus instead of the calculus of that horrid Continental thief, Leibniz.
It's sometimes argued that mathematical analysis in the 18th century flourished in Europe and languished in England because the English stubbornly held on to fluxions, while the Bernoullis, Euler, Lagrange, etc. happily adopted differentials. If you fight through the math in Gilbert's paper, you'll appreciate that argument. I knew that England was late to change but was surprised to see fluxions still being used as late as 1826. It didn't last much longer.
As for the engineering, here's how Gilbert describes the strength of the wrought iron used for the suspension chains:
Let the span proposed for a suspension bridge be 800 feet, and let the adjunct weight of the suspension rods, road-way, &c. be taken at one-half of the weight of the chains; then, if the full tenacity of iron is represented by the modulus of 14800 feet, the virtual modulus for the whole weight must be reduced in the proportion of 2+1:2, or to 9867 feet; and let it be determined to load the chains at the point of their greatest strain, that is at the points of suspensions, with one-sixth part of the weight they are theoretically capable of sustaining.
A lot of this makes perfect sense to the modern reader. He's assuming that the weight of the chains themselves makes up ⅔ of the total suspended weight, and he wants to use a factor of safety of 6. But what the hell is this "full tenacity of iron is represented by the modulus of 14800 feet" stuff? He's obviously talking about the strength of the iron, but how and why is he expressing it in feet?
The answer lies in the fact that our modern ideas of stress and strain were in their infancy. They were defined by Augustin-Louis Cauchy in a paper written in 1822, just four years before Gilbert's paper. It's unlikely that Cauchy's ideas were in common currency yet, especially among practitioners. (You may have noticed that Gilbert refers to strain in the above passage. I think he's just using the term colloquially; there's no evidence in the paper that he understands strain as we do today.)
OK, so that explains why Gilbert didn't express the strength of the iron in pounds per square inch (psi) as we would today. But how can a strength be expressed in feet? For that, we return to the article about the maximum height of a Lego tower (you thought I'd forgotten, didn't you?).
In the Lego article, Ian Johnston, a lecturer at the Open University, loads a 2×2 Lego brick to failure in compression. He then takes that information, along with the height and weight of the brick, to calculate the height of a tower of bricks whose own weight would squash the one at the bottom. He gets a height of 3500 meters.2
This is, more or less, what Gilbert means when he says the tenacity of the iron has a modulus of 14,800 feet. The only difference is that instead of expressing the compressive strength as the maximum height of a tower, he's expressing the tensile strength as the maximum length of a vertical bar suspended from its top. 14,800 feet, he's saying, is the length of wrought iron bar that would fail under the pull of its own weight.
We can express this strength in modern terms with a little algebra. The weight of a bar of length [L], cross-sectional area [A], and unit weight [\gamma] is[W = \gamma L A]
If this bar is hung vertically, the tensile stress on the cross-section at the top is[\sigma = \frac{W}{A} = \frac{\gamma L A}{A} = \gamma L]
Wrought iron has a unit weight of about 480 pounds per cubic foot. A bar 14,800 feet long would have a stress of[480\;\mathrm{\frac{lb}{\;\;ft^3}} \cdot 14{,}800\; \mathrm{ft} = 7{,}104{,}000\;\mathrm{psf} = 49{,}300\;\mathrm{psi}]
This is in the ballpark for the strength of wrought iron, but it's a little optimistic, especially for the early 1800s. Good thing Gilbert was using a factor of safety of six.
By the way, through the magic of Google Maps, you can visit the Menai Straits Bridge without leaving the warmth of your computer. It is a beautiful bridge.
The wrought iron links of the suspension chain have been replaced with steel, but the towers and the roadway layout are basically the same as they were nearly two hundred years ago. Follow the link and take a virtual drive across the bridge. Be careful—the archways through the towers are a tight squeeze.
I don't know why I bother linking—I'm sure you all have that book. But maybe you want a second copy for the office? ↩
Two things about this calculation: first, some of the numbers look suspicious to me, but I haven't had the time to check them out; second, Dr. Johnston knows perfectly well that a tower of 2×2 bricks would buckle long before it reaches 3.5 km—he's calculating a theoretical maximum based on the strength only. ↩
6 Responses to "Lego towers and the Menai Straits Bridge"
Eric says:
Hi, Dr. Drang,
A minor typographical point: the digit-separating commas in your wrought iron stress equation all have trailing spaces, which looks strange, at least to my eye. Wrapping each of them in curly braces (e.g., 14{,}800) should suppress that spacing.
Thanks for the fun article! I always look forward to your posts. And I'm glad the snowman lives on here: I miss his serene presence on Twitter.
Best, Eric
Graham says:
Just in case you are interested: http://geotopoi.wordpress.com/2012/10/11/menai-bridge/
Michael says:
"…pounds per square inch (psi) as we would today." "…because the English stubbornly held on to fluxions…"
Seems nothing changed in the past 200 years on the island :-)
Greetings from the continent.
Vertuas says:
Seems nothing changed in the past 200 years on the island :-)
Why change something that is already awesome :-)
Dr. Drang says:
Well, Michael, my use of psi shouldn't be blamed on the islanders. I suspect the Brits would be happy to use MPa, but I'm over here in the States, where we have a death grip on our Customary Units.
Dr. Drang says:
Thanks, Eric, for the LaTeX tip. That may have been the first time I used a comma in an equation, and I was disturbed by the extra spacing.


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omykinksandcurls answered to your post "How Long Have You Been Natural?"
I don't bother with my BC date, I just tell everyone [blank] years post relaxer.
I honestly think that is the best way to answer!
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I just tagged you in a post lol
You did? I thought it would have shown up in my notifications but it didn't. What post did you tag me in?
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Since I BC on new yrs,I state that I transitioned for 2 yrs so ppl don't think I grew this in 2 wks
Congrats on your BC! I always mentioned the fact that I had hair when I started out. I didn't want them to think I grew all of that hair in a short space of time.
Since I stopped relaxing my hair, other women that I work with stopped relaxing their hair also. Some did the big chop after a month of growing their hair and others transitioned for two years before making the plunge. Yesterday I waked into a conversation about 'How long have you been natural?' and it was a big debate on how you answer that question.
Whenever anyone asks me how long I have been natural I tell them one of two things. I either tell them when I stopped relaxing my hair OR I tell them when I cut off my straight ends and I tell them how much hair I started out with. Why? Because I find it confuses people. Like my one of my coworkers tells people she has been natural for one year BUT she has over 10 inches of hair. So people say to her 'You grew all that hair in a year?', when in fact she transitioned for one year.
So to avoid the confusion, I say I BC'd on 20th May 2011 and I had roughly two inches of hair at that time. So at least they don't think I grew my hair from a bald head. At the end of the day it doesn't matter to some people how you answer, but to others it does.
The whole discussion at my job started because someone asked my coworker (who just cut off her ends this past Saturday after two years of transitioning) how long she has been natural and she said three days. Now my coworker has about nine inches of hair, so the person that asked her the question was confused. That is why I answer the way I do.
How do you girls answer that question?
Who am I fooling? Every year I promise to do things that I know I am never going to do so why bother? I promised myself that in 2013 I was going to comb my hair more and try new styles, and I failed at that miserably. So this year I am not going to make any hair promises to myself. I am just going to keep doing what I do and make changes wherever I see necessary.
I am hoping to continue to retain my length, I feel that I have been doing very well at this. Most of the naturals around me said they have reached their 'plateau' with hair growth but I find my hair still continues to grow, I just think it grows very SLOWLY.
Oh! Let me not forget to mention that I am four months away from my three year mark! I am so excited about that. I love comparing where I came from to where I am now.
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Last week, Facebook announced a new employee stock policy:
The policy says employees who sell their shares could face disciplinary action or be fired, one of these people said. The new rule also leaves room for the company to open a trading window during which employees would be allowed to sell shares in the future.
Facebook spokesman Larry Yu said the company implemented the "insider trading policy to better comply with insider trading laws and to protect the interests of the company and its employees and shareholders."
Not many of Facebook's 1200 employees actually own stock options or shares—the WSJ says that many actually hold restricted stock units, which "don't convert into stock until the company goes public, giving those employees no holdings to trade at this time."
Naturally, Facebook probably wants to keep the major interests and stockholders close. But Facebook also dislikes the secondary market sales because they allow individuals to influence the overall value of the company. However, they're obviously not always averse to employees selling stock. Last year, Facebook garnered $200M from Russian company Digital Sky Technologies partially by allowing employees to sell portions of their stock.
However, that may not be the only reason. As the WSJ says,
Adam Oliveri, managing director of SecondMarket's private company market, . . . says that he thinks Facebook's purported goal of trying to combat insider trading is a "chimera" for it trying to stay under the 500 shareholder threshold at which the Securities and Exchange Commission requires companies to disclose more financial information, often spurring them to go public.
The WSJ notes that "sources" say Facebook's nowhere near the 500 mark.
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