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So, spring has sprung and you're thinking of making the leap to a more enthralling backyard. What with the economy tottering, you figure that the home turf may be seeing a lot more of you this year. Might as well invest in the scene and create a space that you won't want to leave.
The best way to choose a garden designer might be to follow him or her home. After all, at home, garden designers have free reign and can strut their stuff without inhibitions. Most garden designers experiment in their personal domains and use them as laboratories to test plants that are new to the market. They use them as extensions of their businesses, but they also stretch their limits. They live and they learn. We took a peek at the home front of four of Westchester's well-known garden designers and came away with ideas that might help, whether you go the professional route or do it yourself.
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"May We Graft Chicken Wings
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James P. Coyle and Mal Sharpe hit the streets of San Francisco on local radio in the fall of 1963 as two clean cut guys looking like IBM executives dressed in suits and ties carrying one of those big old fashioned reel to reel--in those days called "portable"--tape players out doing man-on-the-streets interviews. Looking really straight, they would pull in unwitting and unsuspecting passers-bye to answer their ultimately absurd questions, often convincing the victim to do something as outrageous as agreeing to kill someone or rob a bank.
It's incredible now to hear the gullibility of these people--you think, it just couldn't happen today--people are too weary and paranoid. But it was a different time in America--the post-Eisenhower-pre-Vietnam-Cold War period. The only really alternative thing that the media was picking up on at the time was the Beats; the hippies were still several years away. Coyle and Sharpe were not hanging on the Beat Scene, rather they lived in a residence house on Russian Hill, which is where they met in 1960, and spent their days doing recorded put-on's that really verged on conceptual performance art. In a sense, what they were doing was an audio version of Candid Camera, although with a real dark and underground twist. It was not uncommon for them to propose then-morally repugnant or culturally oppositional ideas to their victims. While always presented in the interest of humor, many of these ideas found full bloom in the counterculture years later. Mal Sharpe claims that this was all coincidental; their works were done with only humor in mind--political or artistic considerations were not part of their agenda. As a matter of fact, both Coyle and Sharpe have claimed to have no interest in the "pretension" of high art. It's eerie to listen to the work 30 years later and discover how right on they were in their humor--they called for nothing short of a complete overhaul of society as it was then known and commonly agreed to.
James Coyle was a professional con-man who, according to Mal Sharpe, had conned his way into 160 jobs by the time he was 24 and took none of them--the simple act of getting the job was enough. Mal Sharpe had arrived in San Francisco from Boston, a communications major bumming around the Bay Area when he fell under the persuasive spell of Jim. Soon enough, they were out on the streets with a hidden microphone honing what was to become a paying gig. In 1963 they were contracted by radio station KGO to come up with three hours of material five days a week to be broadcast that very same night. The result was spontaneous radio, the likes of which is unknown today. Each morning they would meet at a coffee shop and brainstorm the day's ideas. They would look at everyday objects around them and invent absurd situations--a lamp post would become "human lamp post", a chicken wing on a plate would become something to be grafted on to the head of a person "in the interest of aviation"--and so on until they were ready to go out on the streets seeking their "victims" (Jim's widow, Naomi has told me that their victims were carefully selected, usually by their shoes). At the end of the day, they would turn their tapes into the station where they would be broadcast that evening up and down the West Coast.
Admittedly, lot of what they did was sheer hassle for hassle's sake. They spent their days roaming the city, looking for people to bother wherever they went. There is one interview in which they approach a gentleman sitting leisurely under the shade of a tree on a lovely fall afternoon. As the leaves begin to fall from the tree, they accuse the man of being anti-arboreal and an enemy of nature, a claim which he adamantly denies. More arguing ensues and in his characteristically brilliant manner, sophist James Coyle forces the conversation to the point where the man has been accused, tried, and found guilty of arboricide. His sentence is to have to endure the abrasiveness of Coyle and Sharpe. In another situation, they walked on to a construction site and with no idea in mind found a carpenter eating a sandwich for lunch whereupon they insisted that the man give them a bite of his sandwich. Surprisingly enough, the confrontations rarely came to blows as Coyle and Sharpe would defuse the interview by saying, "May we tell you something? This is all in the interest of humor!", whereupon all would laugh and recall what was going through their minds during the interview as if they were old friends.
Sometimes, the work is chilling. In one scene, they try to convince a passer-by to make a phone call for them and say "We have little Jimmy Jones here with us and we'd like to arrange a meeting..." There is a lot of work involving cults, conspiracy theory and political revolution that all too unfortunately came to pass in the following quarter of a century.
In addition to street interviews, Coyle and Sharpe also did several "studio" pieces--small bits of Dadaist/Surrealist humor that went over everybody's heads (Listening to them today, they strike me like Sound-Poems/Zen koans. I can't imagine what the average AM listener made of them 30 years ago!). Over the course of time, they developed threads running through the work that evolved into elaborate political conspiracy theories and included a cast of characters such as: Mayor Harry Kodiak, his arch nemesis Chancellor Eric Argyle, Repugno and his child the filthy Baby Rasputin. These fictitious beings were involved in a series of kidnapping, murders, political upheavals and power struggles centering around the L.A. Invasion (a fictitious war between San Francisco and Los Angeles led by Field Marshall Coyle and Field Marshall Sharpe). Of course, the average citizen on the streets of San Francisco became involved in the struggle and was asked to take sides and to perform absurd tasks for the cause. Much of this work predated and influenced Bay Area artists like Negativland and Survival Research Laboratories, as well as The Firesign Theater. It is also possible to see their influence in David Letterman's humor as well as (for better or worse) the Jerky Boys.
Things started to pick up for Coyle and Sharpe around 1964. Their radio show was gaining national attention to the point where they were featured in a Time Magazine article. Then came the recording offers--they released two albums for Warner Bros., "The Absurd Impostors" and "The Insane But Hilarious Minds of Coyle and Sharpe." Following a move to Los Angeles, the duo made a television pilot called "The Impostors"--a series of street interviews and set-up situations where they bust people's balls (tennis great Poncho Gonzalez being one of them). However, these guys were essentially artists and they resented the influence and control that the "Hollywood Mafia" wanted to assert on their work--and to be honest, Hollywood wasn't exactly crazy for them either--they were too "weird." One day Jim Coyle just up and split. No one knew where he went and even Mal Sharpe was not to find out what happened until 15 years later when they finally spoke. Hollywood was nauseating him, so he and his wife moved to New York where they waited for Jim's father to die so they could inherit some money. After this happened, they moved to Austria and finally settled in Cambridge, England where they lived quietly for years reading the classics and listening to Wagner, Mahler, and Bach. Jim died in 1992 of complications arising from Diabetes. Mal Sharpe stayed in Los Angeles and began a career in radio, which he continues to this day. He moved back to San Francisco and found an interest in Tibetan Buddhism. Mal has continued his man-on-the-street work often with a more humorous, philosophical, and gentle bent.
Listening to Coyle and Sharpe is a bit like traveling to a foreign land--suddenly "everything you know is wrong"--and it's up to you to question and reinvent attitudes you have complacently long taken for granted. A mirror is held up to our seemingly random and absurd societal conventions; they make us question what we call "common sense" and "everydayness" in a way that "high" art, cinema, and literature are capable of. In their unsuspecting victims we squirm in sympathy as we see more than a bit of ourselves reflected, uncomfortably laughing along, of course, "all in the interest of humor."
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We can debate whether BioWare's ending for Mass Effect 3 is good, bad, or breaks promises made in the game's marketing or whatever. There's no denying the game's face importation glitch is a straight-up botch job and a total disappointment to the series' longest-tenured fans.
This will finally be addressed in the game's next patch, says BioWare's Chris Priestly, but still, he can't say exactly when that will be released, as the patch has to go through multiple layers of certification before it is released.
"Until we know that the patch has passed certification testing, I don't want to give even a rough idea of the date, to prevent disappointment should it need further testing," Priestly said in an update on the BioWare forums.
The glitch affected faces of custom Shepards created in Mass Effect and then imported into Mass Effect 2 — in other words, the faces of those probably most attached to their Sheps. BioWare at first suggested players simply try to recreate their faces from scratch in Mass Effect 3 but many found that whatever they ended up with, he or she just didn't look right.
As the dumb jock around these parts, I sympathise greatly. Nothing sucks worse in a sports title, for example, than getting very far into a season mode when a patch releases that effectively requires a reset. It boggles my mind that there could be diehard fans out there waiting for this to be fixed before they begin ME3, but I am sure that there are. And for those who went ahead anyway without their custom Shep, or with a jury-rigged approximation of their custom Shep, you have my sympathies. It does break the immersion you'd worked hard to build.
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Biological Information Standards
Chulin Meng is a doctoral student in the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 501 E. Daniel St., Champaign, IL 61820. He may be reached at 217-333-6298 or by email at email@example.com.
The revolutions caused by advanced computing power, advanced informatics and the Internet have changed the way scientific data are stored, located and disseminated. Today almost every scientist uses the Internet to share data, sometimes just with a close colleague, other times through large-scale databases. The volume, complexity and heterogeneity of biological data make data sharing a daunting task. Standards are clearly required to allow smooth and coherent data sharing.
Biological informatics already has established some standards for sharing data, from nomenclature to exchange protocols. In this paper we will give a brief introduction of those data standards. Library and information science has a long tradition of developing standards for sharing bibliographic data. Traditionally libraries have used technology to facilitate cooperation and collaboration in the creation of catalogue records for bibliographic materials. Library and information science has developed a set of well-established standards for sharing data, such as Anglo-American cataloguing rules, MARC format, Dublin core, and Z39.50. Resulting expertise from this experience could help to further improve the standards for biological data.
Natural history museums are the major holding agency for biodiversity data. Specimen data in the museums are often maintained in a form of catalogs similar to bibliographic catalogues in the libraries. Although the nature of the books in a library and specimens in the museum differ, the techniques for managing bibliographic data and specimen data are similar. The biological science community has conducted research into adopting standards developed by information scientists. For example, the Consortium for the Computer Interchange of Museum Information (CIMI) published the "CIMI's Guide to Best Practice: The Dublin Core" as the guide for use of the Dublin Core for sharing data among museum collections. We can expect that information scientists, who have developed the standards for sharing bibliographic data, surely could play an important role in sharing biological information.
Biological Data Standards
Stanley Blum (see For Further Reading) roughly categorizes biological data standards into three types: vocabulary or authority standards, which specify sets of values to make the data in different systems directly comparable; semantic standards, which specify the meanings of data elements or structures; and data exchange standards, which specify both syntactic and semantic components of a data stream enabling data to be shared between systems
A vocabulary standard specifies a set of values that are mutually understood among a group of people. That is, it specifies the valid values of an attribute. Most vocabulary standards also include supplementary information, such as an abbreviation, code or definition for each term or value in the set. Examples of vocabulary standards may include lists of scientific names, author names and abbreviations.
Vocabulary standards enable users of two or more independently developed information systems to apply the values uniformly as descriptors of related data objects. If the values are applied consistently, the participating databases can inter-operate at the value level, making the data in different systems directly comparable.
An example is the Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). ITIS is a database of North American species names and their hierarchical classification, which has been developed by an international partnership of agencies and taxonomic specialists. For each scientific name, ITIS includes the authority (author and date), taxonomic rank, associated synonyms and vernacular names where available, a unique taxonomic serial number, data source information (publications, experts, etc.) and data quality indicators. An even more ambitious project is Species 2000, established by the International Union of Biological Sciences (IUBS), in cooperation with the Committee on Data for Science and Technology (CODATA) and the International Union of Microbiological Societies (IUMS) in September 1994. Species 2000 has the objective of enumerating all known species of organisms on Earth by forming a federation of interoperable species databases, including ITIS. Thus, Species 2000 will deliver a standard set of data for every known species.
A semantic data standard specifies definitions, context and assembly rules that enable combinations of simple data values (character strings, numbers, etc.) to convey information (meaningful messages) between people or information systems. It specifies the meanings of data elements or more complex data structures. Such a standard can be expressed as a data dictionary, a conceptual schema or a natural language description of data structure and integrity rules. Darwin Core is an example of semantic standard and one of a series of tools developed for the Species Analyst (a research project developing standards and software tools for access to the world's natural history collection and observation databases). It is a profile describing the minimum set of rules for search and retrieval of natural history collections and observation databases.
Other examples of semantic data standards include Access to Biological Collections Data (ABCD) and Structure of Descriptive Data (SDD), being developed by subgroups of the Taxonomic Databases Working Group (TDWG). The Darwin Core forms a subset of ABCD standard. ABCD Task Group is developing an XML schema as a data interchange standard for item-level data. An item may be a specimen, culture, living organism or observation of an organism. The schema provides a comprehensive basic structure and is consequently quite large and highly structured. It will be used as the standard format in which the results of a distributed query will be returned. It is to be used as a result-schema, that is, for data returned from collection databases as the result of a request. A non-hierarchical access schema with a reduced number of elements (such as the Darwin Core) will be used for these data requests. The current draft of the profile, labeled version 1.04, can be found at the schema subgroup's website at www.bgbm.org/TDWG/CODATA/Schema/default.htm.
ABCD structures the interchange of information about the holdings of museums or observations. It does not, however, address the issue of descriptions of what is being held or observed. DELTA and SDD are designed to handle the morphological and other descriptive information about a species.
One more example is the Ecological Metadata Language (EML), a metadata standard developed to represent ecological rather than taxonomic data. The purpose of EML is to provide the ecological community with an extensible and flexible metadata standard for use in data analysis and archiving. This will support automated machine processing, searching and retrieval. EML is implemented as a series of XML document types that can be used in a modular and extensible manner. Each EML module is designed to describe one logical part of the total metadata that should be included with any ecological data set.
A data exchange standard typically includes both semantic and syntactic components. The semantic component provides the meanings for a data structure, which saves users from having to negotiate the semantics with every exchange event. The syntactic component specifies the data structure itself, as well as how it should be encoded in a data stream or file. Any exchange minimally involves two software systems the source and target. Export and import routines are required at either end of the exchange to create and read the data file. The most commonly supported file formats, such as fixed-length and delimited, have their limitations. A tremendous amount of effort is now being invested in developing XML related standards, and integrating this markup language into network-based interoperability tools.
The Herbarium Information Standards and Protocols for Interchange of Data (HISPID) is a standard format for the interchange of electronic herbarium specimen information. Published in 1993, HISPID is concerned primarily with data interchange standards. The interchange of taxonomic, nomenclature, bibliographic, rare and endangered plant conservation, and other related information is not dealt with in this standard, unless it specifically refers to a particular accession.
Another example requiring attention is Z39.50, a computer protocol that defines a standard way for two computers to communicate for the purpose of information retrieval. Z39.50 is an ANSI standard and has also been adopted as an ISO standard (ISO23950). In practice, Z39.50 supports information retrieval in a distributed client and server environment where a computer operating as a client submits a search request (i.e., a query) to another computer acting as an information server. Software on the server performs a search on one or more databases and creates a result set of records that meets the criteria of the search request. The server returns records from the result set to the client for processing. The power of Z39.50 is that it separates the user interface on the client side from the information servers, search engines and databases. Z39.50 provides a consistent view of information from a wide variety of sources, and it offers client implementers the capability to integrate information from a range of databases and servers. The biological science community has adopted the Z39.50 standard. For example, the Consortium for the Computer Interchange of Museum Information (CIMI) has implemented the Z39.50 specifications to support the search and retrieval of museum information among multiple museums. The Z39.50 Biology Implementers Group (ZBIG) developed a Z39.50 profile that provides a common language for data exchange by sending a single query to multiple biological collections.
The Distributed Generic Info Retrieval (DiGIR) is a commonly accepted protocol for exchanging biological data. DiGIR provides the infrastructure for performing distributed information retrieval. The purpose of DiGIR is to provide a single point of access to distributed information resources, so that location and technical characteristics of native resource are transparent to users. As a client/server protocol, DiGIR uses HTTP as the transport mechanism and XML for encoding messages sent between client and server. It was originally developed to replace the Z39.50 protocol used in the Species Analyst project, but is also designed to work with any type of information, not just natural history collections. A major contributor to DiGIR is the Mammal Networked Information System (MaNIS) project (http://elib.cs.berkeley.edu/manis/).
Although data sharing has been adopted in areas such as biodiversity and genomics, the issue remains controversial in neuroscience. There are negative reactions to sharing neuroscience data, such as primary data is too complex for anyone other than the producer of the data to understand or someone else might find something new from the data that the producer worked hard to collect. Neuroscientists are working on these sociological issues of sharing data now.
However, there is a significant and growing need among neuroscientists to exchange experimental data. Several efforts have been developed to facilitate the sharing of primary data in the neuroscience community. In 2000, considerable debate emerged over the new policy of the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, which required that the primary data of papers published in the journal be made freely available. A new database has also been established specifically for the storage and sharing of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data from cognitive studies. To share data effectively, it will be necessary to create sharing rules and guidelines. The involvement of the neuroscience and computer science community is essential to creating these new rules for data sharing. As a component of the Human Brain Project, Gardner proposed the Common Data Model (CDM) as a framework for federation of a broad spectrum of disparate neuroscience information resources. However, universal data sharing has not been fully adopted in the field of neuroscience, and there are no well-established and commonly accepted standards for sharing neuroscience data.
Although the complexity and heterogeneity of biological data make the establishment of widespread collaboration a daunting task, the advantages of sharing data would be enormous. With more and more information scientists joining the bioinformatics field, bringing in the expertise and experiences of developing standards for sharing bibliographic data, the biological community will obtain the huge benefit of sharing data through well-established data standards.
For Further Reading
Blum, S. A. (2000). Call to revise the TDWG standards development process. Available at www.tdwg.org/process/tdwg99_blum.html.
DiGIR website. Available at http://sourceforge.net/projects/digir
Ecological Metadata Language (EML).Available at http://knb.ecoinformatics.org/software/eml
Gardener, D. et al. (2001). Common data model for neuroscience data and data model exchange. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 8(1), 17-33. Abstract available online without subscription at www.jamia.org/content/vol8/issue1/index.shtml.
Heidorn, P. B. (2001). Building a global biology digital library: Progress toward taxonomic data standards: The 2001 Taxonomic Data Working Group. Presented to the Illinois Natural History society, December 7, 2001. (Slides). Available at www.isrl.uiuc.edu/~pheidorn/papers/TDWG2001INHS.PDF
Hobern, D. (2002). Integrating biodiversity data standards and interoperability. Available at www.cria.org.br/eventos/tdbi/bis/presentations/bis_dhobern.ppt
ITIS website. Available at http://www.itis.usda.gov/
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|2.0 - 2.4 = Poor
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|Release: April 22, 2008
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|Players: 1-3
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If you're the kind of family that can easily spent hours in front of the tube watching strange nature shows on the National Geographic or Discovery Channel - where wild animals are either mating, eating one another other or roaming around aimlessly to an extremely over-enthusiastic narrator prattling along about said activities - then delving into Wild Earth: African Safari on the Wii will be a familiar, if somewhat toned-down, experience.
Originally released on PC in late 2006, Wild Earth: African Safari has been dusted off the shelf by Majesco and given a few updates in the transition to the Wii. It was a wise choice considering the system's popularity among families and younger gamers. The game is an overall good fit for Nintendo's console and general audience. It's a family-oriented title geared toward players of all ages (at least in most respects) that seamlessly mixes nature education and photo safari gameplay in such a way that they'll be having fun without realizing they're learning something new in the process.
Though there are goals to meet and objectives to attain, playing Wild Earth is less like playing a game per se and more like being immersed in a simulation. Armed with a high-powered camera, some courage, and two wacky narrators, players will venture out into the untamed plains of Africa to observe wildlife and score top-notch photographs of a wide range of exotic animals across 11 different excursions. You'll be hoofing it on foot, riding in a helicopter, and bumping along the dusty roads in a run-down jeep to meet your quota and fill your magazine spreads with glossy gems.
The controls take some getting accustomed to. Movement is handled with the Nunchuk, while turning and camera controls are executed by pointing the Wii Remote. The camera can be zoomed in or out easily, and snapping a picture is done with a quick button press. Unlockable mini-games offer short distractions for younger players. The problem with these short diversions is that in most cases the controls are practically broken. A co-op multiplayer mode lets you work together with a friend on your photo assignments, but the main fun is through the solo missions themselves.
In each mission, you'll be given an assignment list of different pictures to take in order to succeed. Primary picture objectives must be completed to progress, while secondary picture goals can be snapped to increase your numbers in order to meet the quota for the assignment; three-quarters of all of your shots must be made successfully or you'll be forced to re-play the mission. Every time you take a picture it will pop up on the upper right portion of the screen for a few seconds, so you can instantly see how it came out. A limited number of shots from each mission can be saved to view later as a slideshow. Also at the end of each mission you can view an informative article about the different creatures you encountered, which features the images you took in the wild. It's a cool addition.


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As we bid farewell to the 2011 International CES, we close with some general observations from the ETC reporting team…
Las Vegas was crowded – really crowded. If the national economy is slow to recover, there was little evidence of it in the Nevada desert. CEA estimates that about 140,000 people attended the show (more than last year and on par with pre-recession levels), and the state of the industry is showing strength. CEA's Gary Shapiro estimates that consumer electronics spending will show a 6% increase for 2010, to $180 billion, and will rise an additional 3% this year, to more than $186 billion.
If we had to sum up this year's show in 10 words, they would be: smart, connected, apps, 3D, 4G, gestural interfaces, tablets, tablets, and tablets.
The word that appeared around every corner of this year's show floor was 'smart' – from banners and new product lines to marketing slogans and more. There was no escaping it, as it seems manufacturers now recognize the need to simplify consumer control over the dizzying array of available devices and services.
'Connected' everything was another star of the show, especially in regards to television and related services: search, discovery, VOD, and way too many apps to fathom. In fact, it was a challenge to spot a TV that wasn't connected to Hulu, Netflix, Skype, Facebook, Twitter, Pandora, Yahoo! – you get the idea.
CES presented the connected TV as the center for our new multimedia-driven homes. We saw Hubs, Dashboards, Media Links – all designed to address these needs.
This CE connectivity is reliant upon high-speed networks and we heard a lot in terms of 4G and LTE. Verizon, T-Mobile, and others showcased their recently launched networks and collection of tablets and smartphones designed to leverage new speed and efficiency. We found the Motorola Atrix 4G compelling, an Android-based phone featuring NVIDIA's dual-core Tegra 2 chipset, support for AT&T's 4G network, and a very interesting laptop dock.
We saw 3D in record abundance – from 3D mobile and 3D gaming to new autostereo displays and a wide selection of prototype and market-ready 3DTVs and laptops.
Sony and Panasonic are sticking with active-shutter, while others – including LG, Toshiba, and Vizio – are touting the benefits of new passive 3D models. Passive displays are being produced at a more reasonable cost and many find passive polarized to be more comfortable. Additionally, the weight of the glasses is an improvement, and they work better over eyeglasses.
For those who believe donning plastic glasses may become the primary obstacle to consumer adoption, a number of autostereo displays were on hand, some that showed real promise and others that were less than impressive.
In terms of gestural interfaces, Microsoft Kinect is already breaking sales records, but the real story here is how gesture technologies will be used beyond video games. PrimeSense showed a system that wirelessly links the PC and TV, enabling access to content from a controller-free 3D system. Imagine what 'connected' TV will be like with set-top boxes featuring gesture recognition.
If there was a single breakout star this year, however, it would be tablets.
The Motorola XOOM turned a lot of heads in Vegas. The Android-based device (CNET's 'Best of Show' winner) is one in a growing number of tablets targeting the burgeoning iPad market. Reactions were also positive for the 4G BlackBerry PlayBook which, unlike most of the iPad competitors, does not use Android, but will run on the BlackBerry Tablet OS.
Another tablet not using Android is Samsung's Sliding PC 7. It runs on Windows, and is a touch-screen device with its own slide-out keyboard. Larger than an iPad but smaller than many Netbooks, it could be the hybrid that many have been hoping for.
We have much more to discuss, especially in regards to cloud-based content hosting and delivery services (i.e. UltraViolet), connected TVs and Blu-ray players with 2D-to-3D conversion capabilities, and more – but we'll save those thoughts for our post show report which should be available within the next week.
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Let me start by saying I was never going to vote trump. I'm firmly against his immigration policies, and his isolationist and protectionist tendencies.
I read an article in the WSJ today: Conservative Christian Women Turn Away From Trump.
I can't link it because Tapatalk isn't allowing- I'll attempt to at home.
The primary reason is that they, the ones leaving, feel he is sexist.
Not an unfair, and possibly not an untrue point. But what boggles my mind is the hypocrisy. Is it acceptable to insult Mexicans or Muslims but not women?
I can understand "I don't want to be discriminated against " and even to some degree that you want to discriminate without being discriminated against yourself. But you're a hypocrite just the same, though logically it makes sense.
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Whoa, is it really Valentine's Day already? If you're one of the many, many people out there who woke up in a panic because today, this very day, is February 14 (even though you could've sworn it was next week or even the week after), well, this Foolproof Flourless Chocolate Torte just might save your holiday. Seriously. Not only does this amazing cake have Valentine's Day written all over it (in the form of chocolate, chocolate, and more chocolate), it's super easy to make -- even though it looks super fancy. Tada! Valentine's Day dessert = done.
Foolproof Flourless Chocolate Torte
Unsweetened cocoa
2 (8-ounce) packages semisweet chocolate squares, coarsely chopped
1/2 cup butter
5 large eggs, separated
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
1/4 cup sugar
Grease a 9-inch springform pan, and dust with unsweetened cocoa; set aside.
Melt chopped chocolate and butter in a heavy saucepan over low heat, stirring until smooth.
Whisk together egg yolks and vanilla in a large bowl. Gradually stir in chocolate mixture; whisk until well blended.
Beat egg whites at high speed with an electric mixer until soft peaks form. Gradually add sugar, beating until sugar dissolves and stiff peaks form. Fold one-third beaten egg white mixture into chocolate mixture; gently fold in remaining egg white mixture just until blended. Spoon batter into prepared pan, spreading evenly.
Bake at 375° for 25 minutes. (Do not overbake.) Let stand in pan on a wire rack 10 minutes before removing sides of pan.
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5 Weird Things Beauty Editors Always Keep In Their Fridge
A fridge is a sacred place—just one glance behind its doors can tell you so much about the owner (which is probably why Lea Michele's is clean, bright, and full of healthy things). Our fridge, on the other hand? Let's just say there are things in there that definitely need some explaining. Keep flipping for the five weird things we keep in our fridge—and how they make our skin clearer, eyes brighter, and more!
Faith: "There is a silver spoon in my freezer at all times for one reason alone—my puffy a.m. eyes. Pressing a cold spoon against them helps get rid of swollenness and leaves me looking more like a human being, rather than a panda."
Deven: "Greek yogurt might not be a strange thing to find in a fridge on its own, but I'm actually not a fan of the taste. No, I keep Greek yogurt in the fridge for my face—or rather, to fix my face when it's looking dull. The lactic acid in it acts as a mild exfoliator and leaves my skin bright and clean."
Faith: "Celebrity manicurist Kait Mosh told me that heat and light are the two main reasons why polish thickens and gets sticky over time. With that in mind, I've started storing my top coats (my current favorite which happens to be the one by Formula X for Sephora) in the outer shelves of my fridge—it keeps them in prime condition (read: a bubble-free application)."
Deven: "I store my Arcona Tea Tree Mask ($30) in the fridge—it extends the life of the product, since it's formulated with natural ingredients. Plus, it feel amazing when you put it on. One note: this is not recommended for all natural masks. I put an aloe vera mask in my fridge once, thinking it would be extra cooling, but it just solidified in the tube."
Faith: "I make the long and arduous journey from my bathroom to my fridge every night for one reason: my eye cream. It not only feels super cooling when you apply, but I swear the cooling effect make the formula more effective, too. I go to sleep with cool, moisturized, happy eyelids every night, thanks to my fridge."
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Leading human rights advocates, led by the Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect, have written an open letter calling on the U.N. Security Council to take immediate action to prevent atrocities in Sri Lanka. A rebel force fighting the Sri Lankan government, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, is refusing to let noncombatants leave the combat zone and is using the noncombatants as human shields. The Sri Lankan army has begun a final assault on the rebels that could lead to the deaths of thousands of civilians.
John Holmes, the U.N. Emergency Relief Coordinator, has said that "a bloodbath...seems an increasingly real possibility." Navi Pillay, the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, has stated that casualties may reach "catastrophic levels" if the fighting is not stopped. "At the core [of the responsibility to protect] is the obligation to act preventively to protect peoples from genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity and ethnic cleansing, rather than waiting until atrocities have already occurred, as states have too often done in the past," said the letter's signatories.


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Forza Horizon Rally Expansion Drifts Onto Xbox Live Tomorrow
If your racing heart is in the mood for some more Forza Horizon, then hold tight because the Rally Expansion Pack drops in the Xbox Live Marketplace tomorrow.
For the cool price of 1,600 Microsoft Points (or $20.00), you can get your hands on all of the new rally content, which includes five new cars to drive around Colorado's off-road stages. Or, if you've purchased the Forza Horizon Season Pass, you'll get the content for free!
The five cars you'll receive are the 2005 Subaru Impreza WRX Sti, the 1982 Lancia 037 Stradale, the 1992 Ford Escort RS Cosworth, the 1992 Toyota Celica GT-Four RC ST185, and the 2004 Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution VIII MR. If that wasn't enough to rev up your excitement, Season Pass owners will also get the 2003 Ford SVT Focus as a bonus!
You can take all of these beauts out for a spin in the new multiplayer rally racing events, rival challenges, and career events complete with leaderboards. According to the Microsoft press release, the stages will feature "sudden elevation changes, massive jumps, and more surface variety than has ever been seen in 'Forza Horizon,' providing an intense and varied off-road driving experience."
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Clarkson University Researchers Study Link Between Pollutants, Health Issues in Detroit Neighborhoods
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Clarkson University researchers are helping the University of Michigan's School of Public Health to study the link between air pollutants and health problems in children in Detroit.
"The overall project is designed to examine the relationship between asthma in children and exposures within 150 yards of major highways," said Philip K. Hopke, director of Clarkson's Center for the Environment and professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering.
To conduct the study, Clarkson is using its Mobile Air Pollution Laboratory (MAPL) to measure the distribution of air pollution near Detroit's highways. The MAPL can monitor a number of pollutants, including black carbon, ultrafine particles, nitrogen oxides, carbon monoxide and sulfur dioxide.
Suresh Raja, research assistant professor, said measurements were taken close to several highways, with additional measurements taken at several intervals moving away from the highways. "We did this in about eight areas and each area had about 12 stops," he said.
The first set of data was collected in October 2009 with a second set scheduled for April 2010, Raja said. Between the two collections, "we can estimate what kind of exposures would be there year-round."
"What we see is most of the black carbon in very high concentrations in areas closer to the highway as you would expect," he said, but, "it doesn't mean you wouldn't get those kind of exposures if you live far away from the highway, because we have meteorology playing a role in picking up these pollutants and transporting it to other places."
The two-year study also includes monitoring the indoor and outdoor environments of 210 asthmatic Detroit children living near highways. Researchers expect to find that pollution from cars and trucks will be a larger factor in the children's asthma than any other source of pollution. Allergies and the presence of cigarette smokers in the household are expected to make the effects of pollution from the highways even worse.
Hopke said Clarkson has conducted similar tests in other cities. In Syracuse, he said, officials are discussing moving Interstate 81 instead of replacing it as it nears the end of its useful life. "Our results will help inform the decision by better quantifying the impact of the highway on local air quality." The MAPL has also been used to measure the distribution of pollutants near I-490 and I-590 in Rochester.
The research, Hopke said, will help strengthen Clarkson's role as a leader in aerosol and atmospheric science and exposure assessment. "The results of these studies will provide valuable insights into the heterogeneity of exposure in urban areas where there are major highways," he said.
Clarkson University launches leaders into the global economy. One in six alumni already leads as a CEO, VP or equivalent senior executive of a company. Located just outside the Adirondack Park in Potsdam, N.Y., Clarkson is a nationally recognized research university for undergraduates with select graduate programs in signature areas of academic excellence directed toward the world's pressing issues. Through 50 rigorous programs of study in engineering, business, arts, sciences and health sciences, the entire learning-living community spans boundaries across disciplines, nations and cultures to build powers of observation, challenge the status quo, and connect discovery and engineering innovation with enterprise.
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OK, I was wrong, the Mets should play in 30-degree weather all time, where their record in those conditions is probably better than that of the Jets.
It was a wild game last night and I wouldn't be surprised if SNY's ratings spiked for those who tuned in to watch the train wreck of playing in Antarctica, where the only things missing were penguins and Kate Upton frolicking on top of the dugouts between innings.
I admit, the weather made me curious, but that went away when it became apparent they weren't going to call it. Most likely they played on because the forecast for Sunday is rain all day.
Several things caught my attention last night, among them:
* How does Jon Niese feel today? When it is hard to grip the ball pitchers tend to compensate by overthrowing which taxes the arm. He said he didn't have a good grip and his command was off. We'll see.
* The Mets played well because they were warmed by the fire that is John Buck. He's on a historic start. He will catch Matt Harvey this afternoon, count on it. However, if they play Sunday he should DH as to rest him while keeping his bat in the lineup.
* Speaking of lineups, Jordany Valdespin needs to play until he cools off. Never mind the left-hander today, keep him in there and give him a chance to stay in a groove. Valdespin has never been a full-time player. It's time to find out.
* Ike Davis doesn't have to look any further than Lucas Duda for an example of what he should be doing at the plate. Duda hasn't been Ted Williams, but lately he's about patience and waiting for his pitch. Take the walks, cut the strikeouts, and you'll make the pitcher come to you. If it was easy, everybody could do it. Duda is and Davis isn't.
* Ruben Tejada had a few gems in the field, and a play, well, not so good. However, he's a talented glove who'll eventually settle into a good fielding zone.
* Scott Atchison, who had a bad elbow, never should have pitched last night. He didn't need that kind of work. Let's keep an eye on him, too.
* David Wright entered the game in a slump and ended it hot. Still no homers, but he drove the ball and came through with runners on base. That had been missing.
* Bad news about Jose Reyes, who severely sprained his ankle and could be out for up to three months. The karma hasn't been kind to Reyes since leaving the Mets.
The Mets played a terrific game under horrible conditions. The best sign is they kept focus and didn't allow the conditions to beat them. It definitely was something they can build off of.
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11. 'The Dark Knight Rises' (2012)
At some point every genre seeks social relevance, a potentially ham-fisted folly that could leave fans feeling lectured and the higher-minded talked down to. Filmmakers often plead the Brothers Grimm Defense -- fairy tales conveyed larger meaning through seemingly childish trappings all the time. Indeed, great genre film often unearths the national mood -- "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" (1956) and Cold War paranoia, a familiar example -- without addressing it directly. I'm not sure anyone would accuse Nolan of such a light touch. His Batman films addressed global warming, loss of privacy, jihad, financial meltdown. But this isn't a statement movie either. It's about one lone man tentatively standing up, not against an army but an amorphous dread. What's so metaphorical about that?
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MATLAB bench() on 11" MacBook Air Part II
It was reccomended that I run bench() five times to get a better picture of of the Air's ability to run MATLAB. Apparently, there's a bit of overhead involved in loading the bench code that is included in the score, but only for the first run.
MATLAB Bechmark on 11" MacBook Air from Jay Kickliter on Vimeo.


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Forget getting your vitamin E from an uninspiring supplement you wash down with a glass of water each morning. Thanks to work by USDA scientists you may soon be able to get the same amount of vitamin E offered by that tasteless pill from a much tastier, buttered ear of corn.
Edgar Cahoon, a research molecular biologist with the USDA-ARS Plant Genetics Research Unit, and his colleagues from DuPont Crop Genetics have produced corn with six times the vitamin E content of regular corn.
"Most of the biotechnology we hear about — Roundup-Ready soybeans, Bt corn — has been directed toward reducing the farmer's input costs," Cahoon says. "Our research, however, involves the development of a trait that improves the dietary quality of food."
Vitamin E positively affects human health because it is a powerful antioxidant that protects cells from oxidation damage caused by "free radicals." These radicals attack the cells' membranes, proteins and DNA, contributing to the development of health problems such as heart disease, diabetes, cataracts and cancer.
Beyond human health benefits, the antioxidant qualities of vitamin E will help corn resist spoilage caused by free radical-mediated oxidation, lengthening the shelf life of vegetable oils, which contain Vitamin E, and processed foods produced from those vegetable oils. Cahoon says the increase of vitamin E in leaves and other tissues may also increase the productivity of corn plants in the field.
Although vitamin E corn does have many other benefits, it was originally produced for a Pioneer Hi-Bred study aimed to improve the quality of corn for livestock feed applications. After studying how vitamin E is made in cereal grains such as barley, wheat and rice, researchers identified a key gene responsible for the production of the vitamin in barley seeds and introduced that gene into corn seeds.
"The combination of the gene and where it is expressed gives the high level of this type of vitamin E," William Hitz, a Research Fellow with Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc., who was also involved in the project, says.
This discovery, which could not have been accomplished by traditional plant breeding, shows biotechnology can benefit the consumer directly, Cahoon says.
Vitamin E corn must be tested extensively before it is available for consumers. First, it must be evaluated on its agronomic performance and its value in livestock feed applications. If these tests are successful, vitamin E corn will be tested for regulatory approval, which can be time-consuming.
"My best guess is five to seven years before this product is available, if it is decided that the trait will be commercially viable," Cahoon says.
He says a new market for corn could be created with the commercial availability of vitamin E corn since the antioxidant is isolated from vegetable oils for use in dietary supplements.
"By increasing the vitamin E content six-fold, it is more likely that processors can use corn oil for the production of vitamin E for nutraceutical applications," Cahoon says.


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Dresden's Shrove Tuesday
Deep with one savior's death, how many more?
In observance of which, the Dresden burghers
as usual held Shrove Tuesday circuses
around Our Lady's Church, the Frauenkirche,
eating pancakes before their fast for Easter.
At midnight, Allies drew ash from their firestorm
on a hundred-thousand heads. Remember,
the Good War's firesticks on Dresden's timbers
in revenge for Coventry, where in embers
Ash Wednesday passion plays were once performed,
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Michael Cobbins blocked a shot then Markel Brown converted a fast-break layup with two-tenths of a second left in overtime, lifting No. 22 Oklahoma State over Baylor 69-67 on Wednesday night.
Marcus Smart scored 14 points and Brown added 13 for Oklahoma State (16-5, 6-3 Big 12 Conference), which blew a 14-point lead in the final 7:40 of regulation and twice trailed by three points in overtime before extending its winning streak to four games.
Baylor (14-8, 5-4) had a chance to win in the final seconds of overtime, but Cobbins blocked a shot attempt by A.J. Walton under the basket, then raced to the other end and made the winning layup. Brown intercepted a desperation inbound pass by Baylor's Jacob Neubert to end the game.


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It's so important to have a good reason to get out of bed in the morning and mine is I'm really excited to look at my blog. This is a little embarrassing but true. This morning I found a brisk discussion going on in Ravelry about whether yarnbombing is good or bad, whether yarnbombers should ask permission before they install and if people should yarnbomb statues, specifically sculpture at museums. I was very interested.
Another remark I read was that yarnbombing is not going to go away. I felt a surge of happiness when I read this. As yarnbombing sweeps into our culture we talk and think about it more and more deeply. What does it mean?
I believe in yarnbombing public space and common public objects like street poles, parking meters, bike racks, telephone poles, bus shelters, telephone booths and public transit. We are all in this public space which exists to benefit us all but is sort of invisible to us and we wander through it feeling detached. It's our space but is created by local government. To decorate it with yarnbombing makes it personal again, domestic, playful, colorful and a space for art. I don't ask permission because then it would never happen. Any one can take it down- I ask everyone's permission for it to be there. It' very democratic.
I love the big permitted installation that Magda Sayeg does-thrilling, beautiful-that's another aspect of this sphere of yarnbombing.
I love to yarnbomb near museums to create discussion but I don't yarnbomb their collections. That's private space and property. I do love how it looks though.
So here's my personal code-
1. Yarnbomb public space and objects.
2. Accept that everyone gets to decide if it stays up.
3. I don't yarnbomb on private property, on museum's collections and on other people art work.
Continue contemplating!
Some great pictures of yarnbombs in a Dublin paper here
A yarnbomb I put up in Asheville, N.C. near but not on The Flat Iron sculpture.


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Entering his 8th season with the Flames, Associate Coach Jeff Boettger brings an extensive hockey background to LU's coaching staff. After playing collegiate hockey at Bethel University from 1993-97, the defenseman spent two seasons (97-98, 98-99) with the ECHL's Chesapeake Ice Breakers. The following year, Boettger continued his minor league career in the Central Hockey League as a member of the San Antonio Iguanas.
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Your generous support of CBU is what helps make the dreams of amazing students like Samantha come true. Please send your best gift to the CBU Scholarship Fund so we can help students like Samantha come to CBU. Read Samantha's story and her note of thanks below.
Samantha's Story
"Mom was out of prison when my grandparents took me bowling on my eleventh birthday. She'd promised to come. I kept looking at the clock all day, but mom never showed up."
Those are the recollections of Samantha. She explained: "My mother has been in-and-out
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That afternoon in the bowling alley when Samantha was broken-hearted because mom had failed her again, her grandpa said: "You can either choose to let this affect you, or you can make your birthday fun in-spite-of-it."
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Saturday, February 25, 2012
Slip-n-Slide: The Last of the Top-Down Socks
With the completion of this pair, I have worked through all of the top-down socks in Sock Knitting Master Class and I have ten (10!) outstanding pairs of socks to prove it. I've been reluctant to wear most of them because I keep thinking they'd make nice gifts. But, I wonder, will anyone appreciate all the nuances of technique and design as much as me?
14 comments:
- Kathy said...
No. Keep them! ;)
- February 25, 2012 at 1:00 PM
- Bonnie said...
Slip-n-Slide is one of my favorites in the book. That's a great color!
- February 25, 2012 at 4:19 PM
- Paul & Carla said...
What great socks! I love green and these just call to me.
- February 25, 2012 at 4:45 PM
- eboston said...
They're all so beautiful, I don't know which ones I like the best.
- February 25, 2012 at 7:21 PM
- Natalie Graniela said...
I agree with Kathy...keep 'em!....all. I love the green socks. The color & the pattern are a perfect match.
- February 26, 2012 at 4:51 AM
- Pat said...
I'm having the same problem. I thought I had Christmas presents for next year completed but I don't know if I can part with them. I started wearing the Up Down Entrelac immediately.
But do I need 17 pairs of socks. I'm on the last pair now, the Toe Up travelers and just like all the rest - It is my favorite so far. Some don't fit me very well so I guess I'll part with those.
Pat - Alicesmom on Ravelry
- February 26, 2012 at 5:47 AM
- harriet said...
All the socks are lovely! I know I'd have a really difficult time giving any of them away. Guess I'm selfish that way.
- February 26, 2012 at 8:23 AM
- Kathy at Knitting Off The Grid said...
Oh gosh, they're all amazing! I never knit for myself and should. So, I say keep them! Just think how happy you'll be everytime you open your sock drawer!
- February 26, 2012 at 10:01 AM
- Jen said...
What a lovely rainbow of socks! They will make anyone happy!
- February 26, 2012 at 10:44 AM
What a wonderful collection of socks! My friends who've been the recipients of hand knitted objects have appreciated the time and care that it took to knit the gift. One caveat, I only give knitted gifts to those who I know appreciate the craft. Others get store-bought ;).
- February 26, 2012 at 10:53 AM
- Nicole said...
What a great collection! you should definitely keep them for yourself!
Knit, Nicole, Knit!
- February 26, 2012 at 12:16 PM
- Maaike said...
Gorgeous collection of socks. A true inspiration. How long did it take to knit up all 10 pairs? Or...do I want to know?
Truly stunning.
Are handspun and handknit socks next?
- February 26, 2012 at 8:37 PM
No one else will appreciate the nuances. But you will have the satisfaction of knowing that you have given a superior gift. And there is no one more deserving of such a gift than you!
- February 27, 2012 at 9:22 AM
- Donna said...
In the past have given socks as gifts, but I have been hurt so many times the grateful recipients have told me how much they enjoy wearing the the as slippers. I'm sure you can understand how I cringe and want to say: No-no-no.....you CAN'T be wear them as slippers.....they will wear out and do you "appreciate all the nuances of technique and design?".
So until I "grow up" and learn to give sock gifts freely, they are sitting pretty on the shelf. I'm okay with that at the moment.
- February 29, 2012 at 7:56 AM


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LONDON (Reuters) - There is no evidence at this stage that a fire that broke out on a Boeing Dreamliner at London's Heathrow Airport on Friday was linked to the aircraft's batteries, Britain's Air Accident Investigation Branch (AAIB) said on Saturday.
"There has been extensive heat damage in the upper portion of the rear fuselage, a complex part of the aircraft, and the initial investigation is likely to take several days," the AAIB said in a statement.
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Baseball Goes on the Road for Blowout Win, 19-10
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LAKE CHARLES, La. - First baseman Mason Katz collected four hits and four RBI Wednesday night to lead LSU to a 19-10 victory over McNeese State at Cowboy Diamond.
The Tigers improved to 7-2 with the victory, while McNeese dropped to 2-6. LSU opens a three-game series with Dartmouth at 7 p.m. Friday in Alex Box Stadium. Sophomore right-hander Kevin Gausman will start the game on the mound for the Tigers.
Katz, who has reached base in 12 consecutive plate appearances, produced a three-run homer and a double to pace the Tigers' 16-hit attack.
Third baseman Tyler Hanover added three hits, including two doubles, and drove in four runs for the Tigers while rightfielder Raph Rhymes was 2-for-2 with two RBI.
"Obviously, I like the way we're swinging the bats right now," said LSU coach Paul Mainieri. "Mason Katz is on fire right now, and we're getting good at-bats throughout the lineup."
Freshman right-hander Aaron Nola (1-0) earned the win in his first collegiate start, working five innings and limiting the Cowboys to three runs on six hits with one walk and six strikeouts.
"I was very proud of the way Aaron pitched tonight in a new environment," Mainieri said. "He showed a lot of poise and gave us the outing we needed to win this game."
McNeese State starter Caleb Miller (1-2), the first of eight Cowboy pitchers, was charged with the loss as he allowed nine runs on eight hits in 6.1 innings with four walks and three strikeouts.
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The Cowboys added a run in the sixth to narrow the deficit to 5-4 before LSU exploded for five runs in the seventh to take control of the game. Hanover's two-RBI double highlighted the rally, which gave the Tigers a comfortable 10-4 lead.
LSU added eight runs in the ninth inning against five different McNeese pitchers. Hanover and pinch hitter Evan Powell each ripped two-run doubles to pace the uprising.
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Pitchers: LSU - Aaron Nola; Chris Cotton(6); Brent Bonvillain(7); Joey Bourgeois(7);
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McNeese State - Miller,Caleb; Ware,Blake(7); Sampere,Ryan(8); Parke,Tyler(9); Rowland,Ross(9); Clemens,Michael(9);
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HR MCN - Guillotee,Andrew (1); Drake,Taylor (2).
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