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Debating Dracula's Roots, and Other News
February 9, 2016 | by Dan Piepenbring
- Breaking news: Bram Stoker's great-grand-nephew has rejected a scholar's recent claim that Dracula hailed not from Transylvania but from Exeter. "People will be surprised and sometimes shocked by my findings, as most of what they now hold true will be proven to be false," the scholar said humbly. "It's a bit like finding out who Father Christmas really is." Dacre Stoker retorts: "Everyone tries to find something a little bit new or different about Dracula, even now, 118 years after it was published, which is wonderful ... But to me it is a bit of a stretch to argue that Dracula came from Exeter."
- Maurice White died last week, prompting Sam Lipsyte to remember "some odd family history": "In 1975, when I was eight, a film called That's the Way of the World was released in America. Harvey Keitel starred in the story of a hotshot record producer's struggles with art and mammon. The screenplay was written by my father, the sports journalist and fiction writer Robert Lipsyte, and the soundtrack was by Earth, Wind and Fire, who also appear in the movie as the Group, a band with a groundbreaking sound but not enough commercial appeal … White called my father a few years ago and asked him to write the liner notes for a reissue of That's the Way of the World. They had some long conversations my father cherished."
- Today in improbable connections between Oscar contenders and classic American lit: Mark Mangini, the sound designer for Mad Max: Fury Road, says he put together the film's aural palette with Melville in mind: "I had this notion that the truck itself was an allegory for Moby Dick … We wanted to personify it as this giant, growling, breathing, roaring beast … It had to be grounded in reality, but we wanted it to be more than that, so we designed whale sounds to play underneath all those truck sounds to embody the real sounds and to personify it … We go into a beautiful ballet-like slow motion sequence as the War Rig upends and turns on its side and crashes. All those sounds, there are no realistic sounds there. Those are all whale sounds and actually slowed-down bear sounds," He said. "What we wanted to say to the audience was, 'This is a death. This is the death of the great white whale.' All you hear as it rolls over in slow motion is the final death rattle of a dying creature. It just felt like the right sound to use."
- A. O. Scott's new book Better Living Through Criticism provides critics with an unprecedented, mouth-watering opportunity to review criticism itself. Christian Lorentzen is up to the task, so much so that he went on a road trip with A. O. Scott just to talk about it: " 'To the extent that there's a polemical thrust that this book has,' Scott told me, 'it's a fairly simple one: in favor of thinking. It's against the notion that we're just supposed to have fun. Turn off your brain and eat your popcorn. I'm offended by that. If someone is spending $200 million to make and market a movie, there's no way you can say, "That's just nothing." Plus, it's two hours of your own life, $15 of your own money, and all the dreams and emotions you bring into the theater with you. Why empty out your own experience? Why be passive about it? Why accept it on the terms that it's given to you? The book is a plea to be more active, more engaged, and more thoughtful.' "
- Remember when Malcolm McLaren released an opera record? I don't either, but Stephen Akey does, and he remains really fond of the thing: "If on the radio that day I hadn't heard Malcolm McLaren's gleefully debased six-minute version [of Madame Butterfly]—identified by the disc jockey as the first of six workings of Puccini on an album by McLaren called Fans—I might never have known grand opera at all … Fans survives McLaren's brazen talentlessness because the concept animating it is so ingenious and because McLaren was smart enough to hire accomplished musicians to execute the concept … It may be that Fans is little more than a clever novelty item with classical pretensions, but I think that McLaren's cleverness points to a profound intuition about opera, namely, that it is (or at least can be) a music of the masses."
The Most Mysterious Hyphen in Literature, and Other News
December 14, 2015 | by Dan Piepenbring
- Punctuation was once the stuff of radical experimentation; today it tends to be the site of tired grammatical debates, the kind that feel antiquated a mere decade or so after they first got people riled up. David Crystal's book Making a Point hopes to assuage our punctuation anxiety: "In Old English manuscripts, punctuation is idiosyncratic; to denote word divisions, writers tried a variety of strategies: dots, spaces, 'camel case' (that is, using capital letters rather than spaces ToMarkTheBeginningsOfNewWords). Then the rise of printing created the demand for a standardized system … A 2007 Daily Mail article titled 'I h8 txt msgs' had declared that 'SMS vandals' were 'pillaging our punctuation; savaging our sentences; raping our vocabulary. And they must be stopped.' Crystal rebuffed these drastic claims: the supposed 'innovations' of texting, he notes—abbreviations, omitted letters, ideograms, nonstandard spellings—have been features of the language for centuries."
- Melville must've been an intimate of punctuation anxiety; Moby-Dick has a hyphen that seems to disappear and reappear at will. Where did it come from? What does it mean? Did he intend to put it there at all? "Thomas Tanselle writes that Melville's brother, Allan, made a last-minute change to the title of the American edition. '[Melville] has determined upon a new title,' his brother wrote. 'It is thought here that the new title will be a better selling title … Moby-Dick is a legitimate title for the book.' The American edition went to press, hyphen intact, despite the fact that the whale within was only referred to with a hyphen one time … It's still unclear whether Melville, who didn't use a hyphen inside the book, chose a hyphen for the book's title or whether his brother punctuated the title incorrectly. Whether you chalk it up to typographical error, long-obsolete custom or authorial intention, the hunt for the true story behind Moby-Dick's hyphen continues."
- Living life on the Gregorian calendar is okay—the days go by, the weeks go by, the months go by, the years go by. Break up the tedium by overlaying some other markers on your worldly existence: by reading fiction, say. "Memorable novels have a way of affixing a secondary story to themselves, a plot that touches tangentially, if at all, upon the plot of the book. Sometimes you recall a novel chiefly for the circumstances under which it was absorbed … It's one of the keenest and least replaceable pleasures I know—the sense, native to a capacious novel, of existing simultaneously inside two calendars. One plot steadily proceeds and it is called Your Life; it's the old, ongoing, errand-filled business of your datebook. The other plot is new; it's called The Novel You're Reading, and it unfolds with its own errands, its own weather and its own zodiac."
- Today in cover judging: hats off to our art editor, Charlotte Strick, whose design for the reissue of Flannery O'Connor's Everything That Rises Must Converge is among the New York Times' twelve best covers of the year.
- China's approach to film ratings (it doesn't have them) and censorship (plenty of that, though) reflects a nervous ideological tension—and it results in some programming choices that feel frankly bizarre to a Western audience. "Its constraints on what may appear on screen represent a laundry list of the state's anxieties. Content must not 'endanger' China's unity, security or honor. It also should not 'twist' history, feature explicit sex or gambling, advocate 'the supremacy of religion' or 'meticulously describe fortune-telling.' Playing up violence is prohibited, in theory … A Chinese film released in 2006, Curse of the Golden Flower, was given a rating in America that required those under seventeen to be accompanied by an adult because of its violent scenes. But these scenes were left uncut when it was screened in China. Viewers were given no warning about them. On TV The Patriot (Yue Fei), a popular historical drama, commonly features long fights with bloody swords, arrows through the heart and dripping corpses. It currently airs on one channel in the early afternoon."
Tumefied and Syphilitic, and Other News
November 16, 2015 | by Dan Piepenbring
- Houellebecq's Submission features many an excursus on Joris-Karl Huysmans, the nineteenth-century French writer of whom Houllebecq himself has said, "I think he could've been a real friend to me." What was Huysmans's MO? His novel À rebours, which tells of "a nature-hating aesthete named Jean des Esseintes," has an approach to desire and spiritual malady that feels strikingly on point, even in 2015: "Subtitled 'A Novel Without a Plot,' the narrative concerns des Esseintes's attempts to furnish and decorate a country home where he will be able to live without ever again having to deal with the outside world … He gets turned on by locomotive engines: their steaming, sweating loins girdled in glittering copper corsets; their disheveled manes of black smoke; their horns' muffled, impassioned cries … Huysmans's prose isn't just purple: it's ultraviolet. Everything in À Rebours is tumefied and syphilitic, damasked with ennui, liver-spotted with arcane longings."
- In which Gay Talese slips on a pair of virtual-reality goggles, and balks: "But this doesn't interest me in the least! … You know why? You know why? It's the sort of stuff you see in a documentary, but there's no insight into the situation, into the characters … It's just a bunch of scenes … Television is driven by imagery … There will be a lead on a slow night, the networks will lead with a forest fire in Topanga California—great visual scenes—or a bombing of Baghdad. Anything that shows you color, smoke, fire, bullets, dodging gets on because it's visual, but you don't get anything … There has to be face to face confrontation between the writer and the subject, and the writer has to be able to cultivate something from the subject to get something approximate to the truth of the subject."
- What does a debate about the abridgment of Moby-Dick tell us about reading on the Internet? Oh, nothing terribly encouraging: "Countless readers have run aground on Melville's mountain of details on the art of whaling, or have been left behind as he plunges, like his Catskill eagle, into philosophical realms, but it is precisely in these passages where his real appeal resides … It is rather quaint to locate the manifestation of our collective ruin in a British publisher of abridgments, which have been around nearly as long as novels themselves … Thanks to the oceanic expanses of the web, there is no need to condense or abridge anything anymore, at least not for want of space … This would appear to be a problem. And it is one that is likely to get worse."
- Today in techno prophesy: a bunch of smart interdisciplinary types got together and decreed that by the year 2100, "libraries will be both highly distributed and deeply connected, sharing a single collection as they work to meet the emerging demands of their individual communities." As for the physical books in the libraries, they'll probably disappear, but only a fuddy-duddy would mourn their loss. "Library isn't etymologically related to books at all, deriving instead from a Latin word for the smooth inner bark of a tree. It was, in this sense, a thing on which one might write rather than a storehouse of what had already been written. Whatever they become … libraries will retain that original implication, always 'spaces for creation or curiosity,' even if they leave the books behind."
- Meanwhile, in a concrete bunker seventeen feet underground, the New York Public Library is preparing to store vast, high-density reserves of print: "a new retrieval system [will] ferry the volumes and other materials from their eighty-four miles of subterranean shelving, loaded into little motorized carts … Books will be stacked by height and tracked by bar code rather than by a subject-based system, making for some odd bookfellows … The climate-controlled repository encompasses more than 110,000 square feet … It stretches from beneath the back wall of the main building, which fronts Fifth Avenue, a full block west to Sixth Avenue, and from 42nd Street to 40th Street."
All Writers Have a Corpse in Their Closet: An Interview with Andrés Barba
November 3, 2015 | by Jonathan Lee
Andrés Barba's August, October, now translated from the Spanish by Lisa Dillman, should bring him the wide Anglophone readership he's long deserved. The novel follows the fourteen-year-old Tomás as he travels to the coast with his affluent family on their summer vacation. He's at a point in his life when everything feels distant and strange: friendships, sex, the alluringly lawless behavior of the lower-class kids he meets. Tomás ends up becoming complicit in the sexual assault of a local girl, the central event from which the narrative unspools, and back in Madrid, assailed by guilt, he tries to plot a path toward atonement—one that shines at times with an uneasy air of self-interest. The reader becomes trapped in a story of immaturity and transgression that leaves no room for the usual reassuring tropes of coming-of-age novels. The prose moves on constant commas, swaying between arousal and revulsion, and in its subject matter August, October brings to mind the early work that earned Ian McEwan the nickname "Ian Macabre": First Love, Last Rites; The Cement Garden.
Barba is the author of twelve books in Spanish. Besides literary fiction he has written essays, poems, books of photography, books for children, and translations of De Quincey and Melville. We discussed his obsession with aloneness, the difficulties of capturing Moby-Dick in Spanish, and why certain "pompous utterances" in literature are "only useful insomuch as Justin Bieber can get them tattooed across his ass." Barba is fluent in English, but felt more natural discussing his craft in Spanish. Cecilia Ross kindly translated his answers. Read More »
A Corporation for Every Artist, and Other News
October 21, 2015 | by Dan Piepenbring
- Fact: there are men still walking the earth who have shared a meal at Denny's with Orson Welles. "One day in 1974, Orson Welles, John Huston, and the comedian Rich Little were sitting in a Denny's near Carefree, Arizona, about to order a meal … A waitress approached the table where the three men sat. She recognized Little right away. After bantering with the impressionist for a bit, she nodded toward Welles and asked Little, 'Who's your fat friend?' Huston, saving the day, answered for Little with a straight face. 'You know, we don't actually know this man,' he said, indicating Welles. 'We picked him up on the highway and he seemed undernourished. We're going to feed him and then send him on his way.'"
- Today in the sex lives of whalers: few things speak to the hardships of a whaler's life than dildos, which were ubiquitous (or, okay, maybe just not uncommon) in the New England homes such men abandoned for the seas. At least one such dildo survives to this day, all plaster and memories. "By 1830, the average length of a whaling voyage was thirty months, but they were often longer—Nantucket wives were dubbed 'Cape Horn widows,' because their husbands might be gone for eight years. In Moby-Dick, Captain Ahab tells his first mate, Starbuck, that of the past forty years of 'making war on the horrors of the deep' he'd only been ashore three, leaving only 'one dent in [his] marriage pillow.' '[W]ife?' Ahab rages, 'wife?—rather a widow with her husband alive!' The dildos, called 'he's-at-homes' in some books on the history of the Yankee whale fishery, were meant to be some insurance of fidelity for a husband who was rarely present."
- Halloween is coming, which means it's time to practice an age-old ritual: reading online essays about books bound in human skin. Bonus points if you go on to give them to trick-or-treaters. "The earliest examples of books bound in human skin date from the seventeenth century and were produced in Europe and the United States … Many of the earliest examples relate to punishment. England's Murder Act of 1751 stipulated that those convicted of murder would not only be executed but, as an additional deterrent, could not be buried … making items out of criminals' skins provided yet another way to ensure the body stayed aboveground. A famous example of such punishment was the body of William Burke, who, with his accomplice William Hare, killed sixteen people in a ten-month period in 1828 in Edinburgh, Scotland, and then sold the bodies to medical schools. After being caught, executed, and dissected, some of Burke's skin was used to make a pocketbook as a final—and lasting—humiliation."
- Back in the sixties, Kaiser Steel, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, RAND, and Lockheed Aircraft started a program to match artists with corporations—a kind of late-model patronage system. "Some of the collaborations resulted in successful projects. Working with the magazine publisher Cowles Communication Inc., Andy Warhol created holographic photographs of daisies … Claes Oldenburg's Giant Ice Bag (1969) was produced in collaboration with WED Enterprises, the design and development branch of Disney. The pink sculpture was designed to undulate and twist as it deflated and inflated, in accordance with Oldenburg's interest in objects that broke and then reconstituted themselves … Richard Serra, who was matched with the Kaiser Steel Corporation, created stacked sculptures that did not differ radically from his usual output. In contrast, Robert Rauschenberg, who collaborated with the industrial company Teledyne, created an installation that split from his best-known assemblage work but was consistent with his later interest in viewer-activated spaces."
- Andrew DeGraff's Plotted: A Literary Atlas makes maps from great literature, allowing you at last to visualize, say, every nook and cranny of the bleak terrain in Waiting for Godot. Hours of fun await. "DeGraff's book … raises the question of the way we tenuously hold fictional universes in our minds. Absent anything concretely visual to latch onto, we create messy, complex maps to maintain a grip on the disorienting profusion of information coming at us. If we could transcribe these mental representations, they would probably look less like DeGraff's thorough, well-executed images and more like those medieval maps, with small pockets of knowledge surrounded by huge swaths of emptiness. In literature, as in life, we can't see everything. We can't keep track of all the details, nor can we truly envision specific geographies, even ones we've visited before."
A Polar Wind: Robert Kloss and Matt Kish in Conversation
September 29, 2015 | by Robert Kloss and Matt Kish
On the relatively short list of authors and artists who have collaborated on multiple books, there are few who so perfectly mirror one another's sensibilities that it becomes difficult to imagine art and word as separate entities. I'd place Aleksei Kruchenykh and Olga Rozanova, A. A. Milne and E. H. Shepard, Roald Dahl and Quentin Blake in that select group. And now I'd add author Robert Kloss and artist Matt Kish. The pair have, to date, worked together on two novels (Alligators of Abraham and The Revelator), a hybrid novel written with Amber Sparks (The Desert Places), and an ongoing project they call the "Bestiary."
The two have published work independently—Kish, notably, has illustrated every page of Moby-Dick and Heart of Darkness—but their joint efforts are of a different order, primarily because, being of like minds, one's work influences the other's in the course of making. The Revelator, which was just published this month, is a psychologically brutal tale about an itinerant zealot in nineteenth-century America. In the opening paragraphs, a group of forlorn sailors, "their faces blistered and their minds bleached and weary," espies a mountain: "some named it the 'Finger of the Evil One,' and some called it a tower of soot, dreamed it an ancient citadel misshapen by flame, the horror of all trapped within." Kish's illustrations, sprinkled throughout, are correspondingly prophetic, alien, and apocalyptic.
Kloss recently moved from Boston to Boulder, Colorado; Kish lives in Ohio. The two have never met. Earlier this month, they conducted a conversation via online chat about the nature of collaboration and working in the shadow of Melville.
—Nicole Rudick
Kish: I've been thinking about this conversation for some time, alternately veering between excitement and intimidation. Aside from our numerous e-mails, this will probably be the most in-depth communication we've shared, at least on a sustained level.
Kloss: Let's start with Melville then, since I don't think we would be having this conversation without his work. Read More »


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Diagnosis and treatment decisions for a recently recognized type of children's brain tumor should be improved by the discovery of the genetic mechanism that causes it, say researchers at Harvard Medical School and Dana-Farber/Boston Children's Cancer and Blood Disorders Center who identified the unusual DNA abnormality in angiocentric gliomas.
Currently there is no definitive pathological test to help identify this rare type of low-grade glioma. Named for their curious behavior of "hugging" blood vessels in the brain, angiocentric gliomas are usually cured with surgery and don't need further treatment with radiation or chemotherapy. But given their recent description and difficulties in identifying them confidently, some patients receive the additional therapy, which often is damaging to the growing brain, in an effort to prevent a recurrence.
"Now we know these angiocentric gliomas have a different biology, and we have an exact way of identifying them so that patients can avoid this additional therapy that has life-long consequences," said Rameen Beroukhim, HMS assistant professor of medicine at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and a senior author of the report in Nature Genetics. Co-authors of the report include Keith Ligon, HMS associate professor of pathology at Dana-Farber/Boston Children's, and Adam Resnick, an investigator at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.
Angiocentric gliomas were recognized as distinct entities less than 10 years ago. Their name reflects the tumor cells' tendency to line up around blood vessels. Fewer than 30 cases have been described in medical literature. Seizures are typically the first symptom leading to diagnosis. Although they are classified as a tumor, they are not malignant and don't spread to other parts of the body.
These rare tumors fall under the umbrella of pediatric low-grade gliomas (PLGG), which collectively are the most common pediatric brain tumor. Until now, no specific genetic abnormality had been identified as a "driver" of angiocentric gliomas.
In the current study, the researchers analyzed data from 249 PLGG tumors, including 19 angiocentric gliomas, and discovered an unusual genetic accident as the fundamental cause of the angiocentric gliomas. The culprit event is a shuffling of DNA segments that brings together two separate genes, MYB and QKI, which become joined, or fused. MYB is a "proto-oncogene," a normal gene that can become a cancer-causing oncogene. QKI is a tumor-suppressor gene that normally functions to prevent cells from becoming malignant.
When these two genes are abnormally joined, the researchers found, it triggers not one but the following three different mechanisms that converge to produce a tumor.
- Epigenetic control elements called enhancers are "hijacked" and brought closer to the MYB gene, which increases MYB activity.
- The MYB-QKI fusion gene causes cells to make a protein that binds to another control element—a promoter—that also revs up MYB activity, prodding the cells into runaway growth.
- The rearrangement also knocks out one of the two copies of the QPI tumor suppressor gene, enabling cancer-related genes to escape control and contribute to tumor formation.
"This represents the first example of a single driver rearrangement simultaneously transforming cells via three genetic and epigenetic mechanisms in a cancer," the authors wrote. They identified this specific abnormality as "a defining event" found only in the angiocentric gliomas—it was not present in any of the other pediatric low-grade gliomas examined in the study.
Because of these findings, the researchers said, angiocentric glioma should be classified as a separate biologic entity, with the presence of the gene fusion confirming the diagnosis. "This could aid in distinguishing angiocentric glioma from tumors with higher potential for recurrence that could require further treatment," they said. The authors have developed the first genetic test now available for these patients through collaboration with cytogeneticist Azra Ligon, HMS associate professor of pathology at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Dana-Farber.
The research was supported by A Kids' Brain Tumor Cure Foundation (PLGA Foundation) and National Institutes of Health grants R01NS085336 and PO1CA142536.
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Meat, Fire, Bobbleheads, Silence, and Announcers
As a hardened veteran of the anthropomorphic pork beat, I'm rarely phased by any of the news which emanates from this durable sub-genre of the Minor League Baseball experience.
But the Lehigh Valley IronPigs are really taking things to the next level. First came the announcement that "Barbie Q" had been added to the team's stable of meat racers:
Barbie-Q will be racing against Hambone, Chris P. Bacon, and Diggity this season, and despite her newness on the scene she has already been granted a rare form of immortality:
This mammoth installation is called — what else? — Mt. Porkmore. On Tuesday the team asked fans to come up with a caption for the above image, and while many of the respondents didn't quite seem to grasp the concept of "making a joke", there sure were some good ones.
I think my favorite was "Do you smell what the rock is cooking?", but one Dave Johnson deserves special mention for his submission of "We should give Dave Johnson from Bethlehem, PA some free Iron Pigs tickets."
UPDATE: The team has since chosen a winning caption. One that is, in my mind, thoroughly "meaty"-ocre:
"Don't take them for granite."
But Pork isn't the only thing cooking in the Keystone State. On Tuesday, the State College Spikes announced that Ted Batchelor would be making a Friday (July) the 13th appearance at the inimitably named "Medlar Field at Lubrano Park." I've written about Ted Batchelor quite a bit on these virtual pages, but in case you need a visual refresher:
I have always been and always will be an advocate of the quixotic endeavor, and greatly appreciate that Minor League Baseball as an industry supports them as well. Batchelor's goal is to be lit on fire in all 50 states — why not help him out?
Moving on to that which is only metaphorically incendiary, the Wisconsin Timber Rattlers have released the first in a series of videos promoting their Opening Day bobbleheads. I believe this is the first time that "Kill Bill" has been parodied within the Minor League landscape:
I also believe that, with this, the Omaha Storm Chasers have become the first team to make an online video stylistically inspired by the classic film era.
I'll close with this random bit of uber-impressive information:
You may recall that way back in April I wrote about a post which mentioned the four Pacific Coast League announcers that had called at least 2500 games. Eight months after the fact, Toledo Mud Hens director of public relations/broadcaster Jason Griffin wrote in with this:
Jim Weber has been calling Mud Hens games since 1975…he has called 4,720 Toledo games in a row without missing a SINGLE broadcast…if you assume a game of 2:40 that is 45,312,000 seconds of play-by-play.
Whoa! Has any active Minor League broadcaster been able to log that many seconds? Please write to me in September with your answers!
What Goes Around Comes Around
This time around, the "again" that is "happening" are two staples of the Minor League Baseball winter time news cycle: Valentine's Day mascot delivery and snow-covered field photos.
My days of exhaustively documenting all mascot delivery offers throughout the Minors have long since passed, as I need to maintain a facade of professional growth and momentum. Nonetheless, it remains my duty to note some of the more intriguing developments in the field. For instance, the Lehigh Valley IronPigs remain the only team that offers "Pork-o-Grams" to their fan base.
Two Pork-O-Grams packages are offered, but I would opt for "Package B" as it includes both a dozen roses and a pair of pig noses. Also, I can't help but wonder if Diggity (pictured above) is related to the self-cannibalizing fellow who has long served as the logo for Lehigh Valley-based Yocco's Hot Dogs.
Meanwhile, I've got to give the proverbial head nod to the Trenton Thunder. So far as I can discern, they are the first club to include a charitable component along with their mascot Valentine's Day delivery package.
The $150 package includes a dozen roses, a night in a luxury suite, and "as an added "heartfelt" bonus, a 25 ticket donation will be made in your name to the Trenton Thunder Charities Tickets For Kids Program."
And now we must move on the snow-covered field photo, an enduring staple of the Minor League Baseball offseason experience. These pictures of vast white expanse are meant to convey a sense of longing, for what has been and, yes, what will be.
The current kings of this subgenre are the Wisconsin Timber Rattlers, with announcer/media relations man Chris Mehring leading the charge. Last week, as Appleton WI was blanketed by snow, his Rattler Radio blog was updated by the hour with new snow-covered pics. Here's a 4 p.m. specimen.
If there's snow on the ground you can't play ball, so alternate forms of recreation are needed. Fort Wayne TinCaps mascot Johnny overcame his feelings of cold-infused melancholy by dusting off the ol' American Flyer.
And speaking of melancholy, this is certainly the feeling pervading the city of Denver after the Broncos lost to the Patriots this past weekend. The loss also scuttled the JetHawks' planned "Tebow Tuesday" promotion, detailed in Friday's post. That's a disappointing turn of events, to be sure, but at least it's the first Tebow promotion to NOT result in a cease-and-desist letter.
For example:
And that's going to be it for today — stay tuned tomorrow for the eagerly anticipated (?) third installment of "A Quarter Century After the Cardboard."
A Compelling Compendium
It's the first Friday of 2012, and what better way to celebrate than by doing the same sort of thing I've always done? That's right — it's time for another rollicking blog bouillabaisse! This particular bouillabaisse will take the form of the third edition of the Ben's Biz Twitter Top 10!
The purpose of such an endeavor is to provide a compendium of the most intriguing @BensBiz tweets and re-tweets of the past week (or three weeks, in this case). The tweets, as they appeared on Twitter, are italicized. Let's do this!
10. Gum included
For those living in NYC, let it be known that
@EconomyCandy in Lower East Side sells wax packs of '87 and '89 Topps for .75 cents.
My '87 Topps-themed post from earlier this week was met with much enthusiasm, and I was very gratified to read the various emails, Tweets, and Facebook and blog comments that were issued in response. If the post got you feeling nostalgic for that era of baseball cards AND you live in NYC, then head over to Economy Candy in the Lower East Side. It is a truly wonderful establishment.
9. And speaking of '87 Topps and how it relates to Minor League Baseball…
@blueclaws: @bensbiz did feature on '87 Topps set (25th anniversary) – Claws gave out these replicas in 2010: http://twitpic.com/83hxkk
8. Offseason drama
One of my favorite Tweets from a Minor League player, ever.
@murraywatts: Hey lady down the street yelling at me to get out of her yard…it's cool, I brought a bag for the dog poop
7. They've got the Clapp!
Fans of Canadian baseball icons with hilarious names rejoice: Stubby Clapp returns as
@ValleyCats mgr in 2012 http://bit.ly/AwtqiT
Hopefully, Stubby will find something to get riled up about during the 2012 season. This, from last year, was classic:
6. Dance Dance Revolution
Overlooked logo sub-genre! RT
@shorebirds: Check out the new Shorebirds Dance Team Logo! http://twitpic.com/832cga
Yes, check it out:
@RPhils Opening Day bobblehead features Ryan Howard and his best friend the Crazy Hot Dog Vendor: http://bit.ly/vZPr7y
4. What to wear while Googling "Santorum"
Tis the Season! NH
@FisherCats offering "New Hampshire Primaries" merch http://bit.ly/zyUNnQ ("Primaries" was team's original name)
3. A Most A-peel-ing Individual
This year's best Hot Stove Banquet guest?
@Crosscutters welcoming Dave "The Great Potato Caper" Bresnahan http://bit.ly/Ar5Ult
If you don't know anything about the "Great Potato Caper," then it's really time to educate yourself. Click on the above link to start…
2. Christmas in July, in January
On 7/27,
@LCCaptains staging 3rd annual "Christmas Story"-themed giveaway. Meet "The Pink Nightmare" http://yfrog.com/h4vd4cdj
Operation Shutdown
This post, the 748th in the the history of this blog, will be the last you ever hear from me…
But, of course, I will be back. For if there is someone out there who can resist the siren call of writing about the same subject in perpetuity at levels of increasing stagnation, that person is not I. With that being the case, let's end the year on a high note….
It's time for the second edition of the Ben's Biz Twitter Top Ten! The purpose of such an endeavor is to provide a compendium of the most intriguing @BensBiz tweets and re-tweets of the past week (or three weeks, in this case). The tweets, as they appeared on Twitter, are italicized. Let's get to it!
10. Please re-frame in the form of a question
Indeed, the
@AbqTopes were referenced on Jeopardy! last night http://youtu.be/Bz2iho2ggVE
Here's how it went down:
9. You be the judge
Harry Potter's "Ministry of Magic" and
@MemphisRedbirds — separated at birth? http://yfrog.com/ntczkhuj
8. Just sayin' is all
Mike Cameron signs w/
@Nationals, but he's no stranger to the area. Spent '94 w/Prince William Cannons, where 17 of 116 hits were triples!
If he had maintained that triples rate in his Major League career, he'd currently have amassed 250 (good enough for fourth all time, just two behind Honus Wagner).
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@EverettAquaSox: Check out this awesome holiday drawing we just got! http://twitpic.com/7vxc29
6. This was in response to the question of "What MiLB theme nights would you like to see?"
Lehigh Valley IronWarPigs! RT
@andyshal: Black Sabbath night in Allentown! Bill Ward as home plate ump. Ozzy on PA. Concert after the game.
"IronManPigs" would also be acceptable.
5. Another One
Rides Waits For the Bus
Great idea: seats from Indianapolis' Bush Stadium installed at city bus stops: http://indy.st/selEY9
4. Someone out there needs to stage "Free Eye Pad" night, advertising it heavily on the radio.
That's the MiLB spirit! RT
@WSDashBaseball: A team could do [Free iPad Night] if they were creative enough: http://twitpic.com/7shvkc
3. Use your doppel radar
Received an email from
@GreatLakesLoons alleging that fan on left is a mulleted @BensBiz doppelganger http://yfrog.com/h465jscj Agree?
Well, do you?
2. What does it mean?
Magic in Rancho Cucamonga RT
@Quakes_Baseball: Check out the Double Rainbow over the Quakes Epicenter Stadium! http://bit.ly/uxsLAa
1. Effect and Cause
This picture of
@TulsaDrillers Tim Wheeler is on MiLB.com: http://yfrog.com/nxrugktj Here's why he's so scared: http://yfrog.com/h41s4hzj
I hope you enjoyed this most recent edition of the @BensBiz Twitter Top 10. I'm almost out of 2011 material, but not quite yet….
For what better way would there be to end the year than with a video of a mascot tackling a Christmas tree?
Actually, there's one better way. For nothing says "holiday season" like a team-produced "Twas the Night Before Christmas" parody.
And that, as they say, will be that. Thanks for sticking with me throughout a (generally) action-packed 2011, and here's to an ennui-free 2012!
Rabble Rousing for Ryno
Have you ever read an old hardcover book in which the first word of each chapter is capitalized with an oversized and ornately furbished letter? Such an approach always appealed to me aesthetically; let's see if it works well on the blog.
llentown, PA is just one of many American burgs in which populist discontent is on the rise, with average citizens banding together in order to fight for the causes they believe in. And what cause is more vital to a healthy society than Triple-A managerial intrigue?
In 2011, the Lehigh Valley IronPigs enjoyed their first winning season in franchise history while playing under the watchful eye of Hall of Fame Chicago Cubs second baseman Ryne Sandberg. But Sandberg's name is currently being bandied about as a Major League managerial candidate (including St. Louis, of all places), leading to fears that he will soon abandon the Lehigh Valley faithful.
Therefore, mascots Ferrous and FeFe have launched the "Occupy Ryno" campaign:
In an effort to retain Ryne Sandberg as manager of the Lehigh Valley IronPigs in 2012, IronPigs mascots FeRROUS and FeFe are offering a year's supply of free pork to Sandberg should he return for a second season as the IronPigs' skipper. The mascots also launched an "Occupy Ryno" campaign on Facebook and Twitter issuing fans with the following question: What would you give up to keep Ryne Sandberg as IronPigs manager?
The IronPigs Facebook page is awash in fan comments regarding what they would give up in order to keep Ryno, and the level of self-sacrifice on display is truly stunning. My favorite:
I would give up my coupon for a free roast beef and cheese that I received 2 years ago when Andy Tracy was the RBI guy of the game.
But even better than the fan comments are the (possibly photoshopped) "Occupy Ryno" protest posters. A smattering, which in this case means "two."
It will be interesting to see if this allegedly mascot-created uprising influences Sandberg's decision-making process. A year's supply of pork is a pretty tough thing to turn down, even if it's a bit disconcerting that pigs are the one making the offer.
But outside of this bit of willing self-cannibalization, things remain pretty slow on the Minor League news front. This is a time of year to recharge and then GET MOTIVATED, making this recent offering from Ballpark Rob and the Round Rock Express especially apropos.
Finally, we are rapidly approaching that magical time of year known as Hot Stove Banquet Season! The RiverDogs announced yesterday that John Smoltz would be their guest of honor. Any teams out there that can match (or top) that level of baseball celebrity?
And keep in mind that yours truly is available for any and all engagements, so long as I am paid in pork.
All Hallow's Eve, All the Time
This post is being composed during the afternoon of 10/31/11 — what else can I write about but Halloween? This commemoration of the macabre is being celebrated throughout America, so ipso facto its being celebrated throughout the Minors as well.
The usual array of teams (Williamsport, Lake Elsinore, Bowie, et al) have turned their ballparks into haunted houses, but in some cases such an extensive effort isn't necessary. As the Great Lakes Loons prove with this video, sometimes all you need is a mascot dressed as a ghost, holding an air gun.
But Halloween isn't just about cheap thrills. In Lehigh Valley, the IronPigs held their fourth annual "Suites and Treats" event for underprivileged and special needs children. This is a cool concept, and to my knowledge the IronPigs are the only ones who do it. From the team's website:
The event took place on the Club Level with the support of the IronPigs' suite holders, who took advantage of the opportunity to decorate their suite so the children could go "door-to-door" for a unique "trick-or-treating" experience. In total, all 20 suites along with the outdoor PenTeleData party porches were decorated for Suites-n-Treats.
A few examples, from the team's Facebook photo gallery:
One of the benefits of staging in-season promotions dedicated to offseason holidays is that said promotion can result in content that can then be used during the holiday in question. Make sense? No?
That's okay. All I'm really trying to say is that the Fort Wayne TinCaps staged a Halfway to Halloween promotion and aired the following video during the game. And — bonus! — the video is once again fit for public consumption.
Meanwhile, in Trenton, the team's concern regarding the dangers of trick-or-treating has manifested itself in a somewhat ridiculous public awareness campaign.
These guys have made a video. Click HERE to watch it.
The Wisconsin Timber Rattlers have made a new video as well. It's not related to Halloween in any way, really, but notable nonetheless. Like life itself, this effort is an interactive game of skill:
Nice work on that one by the T-Rattlers. Similar efforts will help prevent offseason mental atrophy, the effects of which have already begun to be felt.
Bone-In Pork Ribs and Other Delights
Yesterday's post began with a look at the Memphis Redbirds' highly-touted "Organ Donor" jersey, but it's important to note that they're not the only Triple-A club taking an inside-out approach to the theme jersey.
During last week's "Halloween Night" promotion, the Lehigh Valley IronPigs took the field in these:
That's manager Ryne Sandberg, who might have had a bone to pick with fans who gave him a good ribbing about his new look.
Ryan Feierabend took the loss, but nonetheless showed a lot of backbone out there on the mound.
Don't worry, Ryan — to-marrow is a new day!
But we're here to talk about that greatest era of American history — the exceedingly recent past. For instance, on Wednesday the Jamestown Jammers took the field in these.
Lucille Ball was a native of Jamestown, and this week marks the centennial anniversary of her birth. The town is in the midst of a multi-day "Lucyfest" celebration, with the Jammers' "Lucy-Desi Night" kicking things off. The Jammers won 6-3; although perhaps it would have been more appropriate if they had been in the midst of a "Lucy" streak. (And taking a look at the box score — it appears tht Brian McConkey had the honor of serving as the team's "Desi-nated Hitter.")
The Toledo Mud Hens are another team to have recently honored a hometown hero at the ballpark. On Monday, the team gave away 1000 bobbleheads honoring this man. Guess whose back?
Any idea? Feel feel to argue amongst yourselves, I'm not above taking sides:
Okay — one can discern the surname "Walker" in the first shot and the first name "Moses" in the above.
But there the appellation trail goes cold, for this man has a middle name as well. It's Fleetwood, mac!
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What can I say? I'm a big fan of Walker's. Not only was he the first black player in MLB history, but he was also an inventor, newspaper publisher, social theorist, and entrepreneur. He also had a thirst for the drink, and in 1891 was acquitted of a second-degree murder charge.
Now that's a life.
Also, this marked the first time a team sent me six high-quality shots of one bobblehead. I figured I may as well do something with it.
Who's gonna be the first to send me seven?
One Thing, Led, Another
My recent post on the Lake Elsinore Storm experience included many photos, including shots of the team kitchen as well as the easily-angered Grounds Crew Gorilla. But never did it occur to me that I'd soon be posting a photo of the Gorilla in the team kitchen.
And yet here we are:
For reasons unknown and perhaps best left unexplained, the Grounds Crew Gorilla has gotten into the international youth fad known as "planking." The Storm have posted a photo set on Facebook entitled "Gorilla Planks the Diamond." Here's a few more:
The word plank brings to mind nautical discipline which brings to mind John Paul Jones, the "father of the American Navy" but also the name of the bass player in Led Zeppelin.
And here we are. Yesterday was the West Michigan Whitecaps' second annual "Led Zeppelin Night", Led Zeppelin II as it were.
And when it came to theme jerseys, the song remained the same. Once again, the team took the field in these:
The Whitecaps have also done "Pink Floyd Night", and other bands that have been celebrated in such a fashion around the Minors include the Grateful Dead, Beatles, and Rolling Stones.
This leads me to make the following demand, which like all my demands will be aggressively ignored.
Nonetheless: Do a Creedence Clearwater Revival Night! CCR are easily one of the greatest rock bands of all time and deserve Minor League Ballpark immortalization.
Abbreviations such as "CCR" are prevalent on Twitter, a mode of communication that encourages extreme brevity. And as part of the Lehigh Valley IronPigs "Social Media Night", the team will be wearing the first Twitter-themed jerseys in Minor League Baseball history.
As part of the promotion, the team is asking fans to change their Twitter and/or Facebook profile pics to the following image:
Those who do so will be eligible to win game tickets and an autographed Ryne Sandberg baseball.
Let me close with a final demand — Read Crooked Numbers!!!
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Skip to comments.Breaking: Bridge Collapse in Minneapolis
Posted on 08/01/2007 4:28:27 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo
Just turned on the news. 35W bridge collapsed in the Mississippi River. Cars, trucks, semis.....
Fires burning, tanker trucks, at least one school bus, more than ten cars......
Just now breaking.......
Nix on the "reckon", too. That would be more Southern. :^D
Somewhat disagree. Every bridge I am aware of (I used to inspect them and supervised other inspectors afterward) has bad expansion joints. Every one of them is rusted and most are totally locked up. It sometimes causes localized failures, particularly on the deck if it is concrete, however, I have never heard of that being a primary cause of failure.
My bet is a fatigue crack that was hidden or missed during inspection. The combination of bumper-to-bumper traffic and the construction machinery was more than the remaining tension (the uncracked area) could take.
I agree. I have seen a lot of fatigue failures (most not on bridges, thankfully), and every one of them has been in a tension member or in a tension area.
I have never seen a fatigue failure in a compression member. I have seen buckling in compression and seen all kinds of different joint failures (weld cracks, poor fusion, rivet shear, bolt shear — but more often shear failure in the plate the rivet or bolt goes through — bad metal, bad repairs, bad initial welding, but I have never seen a fatigue failure in compression.
Frighteningly, I live in the land of PennDOT.
My understanding was it is a riveted connection not bolted..but nonetheless, something failed.
Over at
there is a good diagram.
The center span over water is 468' (if I recall correctly) of the 1900' total.
The whole bridge was limited to one lane each direction where there is normally four lanes of heavy traffic each direction.
Cannot find links to a terrific TV documentary on The World's most celebrated bridges - but did find this interesting site.
Has that been confirmed? Even 2 days later i've heard conflicting accounts, 1/2 those saying 2 lanes were open per direction (4 total), and the other half saying only 1 lane per side(2 total). Could it be the reason for the confusion was that while parts of the collapsed section was down to 2 lanes, others were still at 4?
Actually the bridge next to it is the 3rd avenue bridge. Not a freeway.
The 35W bridge carried traffic in both directions.
Very interesting analysis. Thank you.
Great pics with notes. Thanks.
There were two lanes going in both directions. It would be quite rare for a major freeway to be down to one lane only in each direction during rush hour. (Sometimes they do it on the weekends.)
Road or bridge construction control varies hour by hour, I would think - and at Rush Hour usually they make necessary adjustments. Probably not a conflict - just a time difference.
OK, thanks for the information. It helps to know the facts.
Thanks for the information.
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There will allways be gas for those willing to pay for it - but the more people taking light rail, and driving the ity-bitty electric cars, the more gas left at a more reasonable price for you.
Actually I made a mistake. It's the 10th avenue bridge.
The 3rd avenue bridge is on the other side of the stone arch bridge. :)
Interesting article here about the inspections and decisions made:
"According to a source with knowledge of the state and federal investigations, MnDOT is focused on the east side of the northbound section of the bridge past the Washington Avenue entrance as the likely spot where the bridge first gave way."
You make several very good points.
Until I see an actual picture, I'll file that one under "myth".
All I remember is Bush hugging Brown and saying "Helluva job, Brownie" while hundreds of people slowly drowned in their attics.
You're welcome.
I already read that. I just didn't want to admit to reading the Trib.
Click on the graphic of the bridge halfway down the page. Very informative view of where the investigation will probably focus.
I just watched a blurb about the MNDoT Bridge List, and they showed some pictures of the structure of this one from (I believe) the 2005 report. [ It runs as "Bridge History" under KARE-11 OnLive ^ ] They showed missing bolts, severe corrosion, and misaligned members in the steelwork support structures.
I'm sure there are probably more than a single cause to the failure, just as there is a multiple cause for the dearth of maintenance to the infrastructures -- self-aggrandizing politicians, money-grubbing lobbyists, and an uninterested public.
Thanks for the article. The existence and practical effects and consequences of metal fatigue's been known and understood since the 30s and that was definitely so post WWII. This bridge was built in '67. They're still passing the BS about how they didn't know.
It's interesting, how in the same article, the folks that know and are responsible for spending the money, say that there was plenty to spend on fixing dangerous faults. The others say flat out in the face of that, that there was none. The fact is that the engineers didn't appreciate and know what they had in front of them and froze. IOWs, it was over their heads. MNDOT designed and built the bridge in the first place. Now they're doing a song and dance over the poor results.
I can't see a politician, rep, or rat that would turn down $s after a warning that their bridge is a jalopy that's threatening to fall in the water. The reason's are obvious. Regardless of credentials, they're inept bureaucrats frozen in the state of ignorance, confusion and indecision. I doubt many will be entertained by their song and dance. They may be taken in by it. The Gov is probably fuming and the rats are certainly over joyed that this occurred in a rep admin.
"it's not a simple truss either. There's an arch to contend with"
I know, I was just giving a simple explanation. The bottom chord is an approximation of a parabola. That allows all the triangular elements in the span to be reduced in size, as they occur in the truss away from the simple support. It simply reduces the overall weight of the truss, while maintaining the support capability in each element. The bending moments are the same for each element ina parabolic truss.
At the support post, the truss element(triangles) is large, because it supports half the weight out to the center. The next element can be smaller, because it supports less weight to the center. ect...
"On the good side, from the article posted above, MnDOT is looking at the same general area we are, southeast side of the bridge."
Right. I think they knew about this before, but froze.
You're welcome.
Oh heavens. I am so very sorry...
> "The existence and practical effects and consequences of metal fatigue's been known and understood since the 30s and that was definitely so post WWII. This bridge was built in '67. They're still passing the BS about how they didn't know."
Yes and No. Fatigue was not really known until metal airplanes. It was not well known in the aviation industry until after WWII — after several fatigue failures. It was not used elsewhere because it was expensive to design for that (mostly, it could not be designed for — parts were made and tested to failure) and most things were heavier than airplanes and did not need to worry about fatigue.
The information on fatigue was filtering down to the highway industry in the mid to late 1960's. I had some of the early articles written on it at the start of my engineering career. A lot of it was VooDoo. I saw a newer article on it a while back that is much more usable. Over-the-road highway trailers were just starting to get light enough back then that fatigue started to be a problem — particularly in gasoline tankers (they went from a tank on a frame to a monocoque structure with the shell actually carrying the load and they also became totally welded at about that time).
Fatique information had not made it to the bridge industry even then. They had a bridge at Sioux City over the Missouri river that was built sometime in the 1970's or so that started fatigue cracking within a year of its completion. It had to be replaced in just a few years.
Back then, the engineers thought that bridges would never see enough cycles to cause fatigue cracking (at least, that is what they are teaching in bridge inspection courses). Obviously, they were wrong. A combination of using calculators and computers to pare down the weight to the absolute minimum and the increased use of welding was the major causes (note that riveting and bolting structures, which is rarely used now, means fatigue cracks are less likely to start and will end at the next joint instead of cracking completely through the structure).
As far as you statement that politicians would NEVER fail to correct a problem — you have obviously never dealt with politicians. Unless you can give them and EXACT date and time when it will fail, they are not interested. Sometime soon is not good enough. Read my "All About" page here if you want to read about my experiences on that.
"Reckonin" and "cypherin" are my favorite words.
I see that there is a navigable canal and lock near the end of the bridge that seemd to drop first - wonder if there were any collisions over the year - a dent in the steel tube could drastically reduce its compressive strength - the lower chord is in compression, right?
Gotcha....yew betcha!
Interesting map of USA showing percentage of deficient or obsolete bridges by state
apologies if this has already been posted.
Short... Yes, one of the first engineering studies was done by a Boing engineer regarding airframes. It was shown dramatically that even mild steel does that, when a 30 y/o ship slit i half. ~ in the 40s.(CRS) The process itself though is a solid state phenominon that was studied in physics, but for different reasons. I just gave the WWII date, because the subject occurs in 50s era metallurgy and engineering books. I realize that there are different quality and levels of texts and that more detailed knowledge doesn't spread far.
Yes, I have dealt with politicians. I can't say much now, except they are just people. It's like advising on critical car work. The car owner has to make a decision regarding the mechanic's claims. The mechanic may not be able to say when the wheel will fall off, but he can make the case as best he can that it will in fact do so. The pol must make the decision for the community regarding public property. Something like a bridge is simple. If the engineer sees somehting like a bridge containing fatigue cracks, or even unsafe stress levels, his duty is to inform both the exec and the public, because it's public property and safety involved. The public certainly understands bridges and "public" buildings collapsing, and anyone that is a pol certainly should.
Kiran is a lib, but a few corrections to your post-
Kiran didn't start working at FNC until March of 2001, and didn't start as a fill-in co-host for Fox and Friends until about a year later. Yes, she did remark that Edwards was "dreamy", but I'm lead to believe that she was saying it as a joke at the time.
I figured that Gretchen was a Republican, but didn't have any proof. She is just who Roger Ailes is looking for in a co-host for his morning show. Chetry is way too far to the left for any kind of mainstream weekday program, at least for anything that would have been on FNC. I think she's on cloud nine at CNN! You can tell she's taking great pleasure in clobbering the heck out of the Bush Administration and his Iraq War policy! I wonder if she's having fun hanging out with Christianne, Wolf and John Roberts? Somehow, they seem so intellectually above her!
The lower chord is in tension. It's unlikely anything hit the bridge. That's a major incident that would have been reported and repaired if there was any damage.
Just a sample of a chart of the 245 bridges in the District of Columbia - which has the worst rating in the US.
Keys to using the data below:
Status of "D" means the bridge has been rated structurally deficient; "O" means it has been rated functionally obsolete.
Sufficiency rating is a value obtained by calculating four separate factors (structural adequacy and safety, serviceability and functional obsolescence, essentiality for public use, and special reductions) that is indicative of a bridge's sufficiency to remain in service. A value of 100 represents an entirely sufficient bridge and a zero represents a deficient bridge.
The raw dataset of the National Bridge Inventory, which is compiled by the U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Highway Administration from state reports, used for analysis was provided to MSNBC.com by the National Institute for Computer-Assisted Reporting at the University of Missouri. The most recent data includes inspections through December 2006.
Status Rating Road Place County Feature Location
forgot... The parabola comes from the thickness squared dependence of the bending moment of a cantilever as the distance from the support increases. The beam will remain flat if the thickness decreases parabolically as the distance from the support increases.
LOL! Here's a link to the bridge sufficiency list from MNDOT:
Another article with a few more details:
We'll see. The "bedrock" layer can be pretty far down.
You're right, it was the primaries where he was running vs Kerry not in 2000. My mistake, thanks.
It sure didn't sound like a joke to me. She got picked on for it and came back with an affirmation of her opinion.
No doubt she's missing Paula Zahn over there lol! Two peas in a pod. Gorgeous without four brain cells between them.
You're kidding right? No, we haven't gone around the bend that far. Heck, it was only about 2 years ago that JC Penney's here even put the hours and welcome sign on their doors in Spanish as well as English.
Do you know where are these photos supposedly from? Just curious. That is a crazy photo, if not photoshopped.
The above photo comes from a DEAD PELICAN reader who claims that there are several areas under the twin bridges that have jacks placed between the support column and the roadway under-section. We are told that some of these jacks cannot reach as far as they need to contact the cement. In order to make contact with the cement 4X4 pieces of lumber are inserted between the jacks and the bridge under-sections. Our source claims that these photos were taken while fishing.
Those are screw jacks(new). Those 2 can't hold up ALL that concrete above. They can be put there and tightened temporarily to support only what's intended for that support alone. Those screws can never be tightened to lift the weight above it. They're too amall. As they are being used, it's unsafe. There shold be plates there to distribute the load. Otherwise, if the concrete sits on that, it will get broken up. That's an expansion joint and they might be there to HOLD it in place while work is being done on a bearing, but there's still no heavy plates there to distribute the stress and the screw can't be used to adjust the concrete so a bearing fix ends up in the right place. hydraulic jacks should be used to do that. They just won't keep the position stable, because they creep. Screw jacks are used to hold, or to lift something withinn their capacity. THose are too small. It's also 1/2 of an expansion joint, so they'll tip, or break concrete when the slab moves. Concretebob might be able to elaborate. I don't know what's inside, or what they're up to.
Again—yikes! :^O
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