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He's not tellin the whole story.... His mother is readin this thread too.:huh.
I couldn't say it on my thread, because I didn't want to offended her, and there is almost no chance she'll see this. She was 45ish, and had some medical condition that made her look like a crack addict. Maybe she was... idk. I almost didn't go over, but I didn't have much an option. I slept with my revolver in my hand that night.
No shinnanigans happened that night.
"4-wheels move the body, 2-wheels move the soul"
Nice ride, Welcome to the Asylum!
Eggy at Thunder Tower for a Shaw AFB mentor ride a thon of such put on by the Green Knights.
Tons o 2 wheels..
Drop coming soon sorry for the delay.
Thunder Tower....otherwise known as that place I stop to pee on the way to Augusta.
Seymour Johnson AFB is a good place to pee.
Does eggy need to go?
Or maybe Western GA. or SC. hint...
I gotta move a kid home from college in a couple of weeks.
Just sayin.
The first time I passed by that AFB it was the middle of the night and the rest of the band was asleep. I thought I'd imagined it, until I looked it up. I bet the Army, Navy, and Marine boys have a field day with that one.
We all know if it's south of mid-SC, its out of the NC taggers range
"4-wheels move the body, 2-wheels move the soul"
That ain't so, JR. Us old married, workin, bills-to-pay
Riders have to save up our browny points to take a ride of more than
an hr. Not to mention limited vacation time.
Enjoy your freedom and stay away from GIRLS. :eek1
I quit girls after I figured out the one I had dated for 1 1/2 years, supported, and almost took with me to TX had been going behind my back for a good minute.
Devils with pretty eyes! The whole lot of them! They weigh my supersport down anyway. :
"4-wheels move the body, 2-wheels move the soul"
Finally added my dad.
Drop by Saturday.
USA TOR is dropped btw. I didn't go to San Diego for Nutsy to be forgotten over here too!
"4-wheels move the body, 2-wheels move the soul"
KG, that's me ! ^^
Gimpy, you drop it and maybe I'll end up with "The Egg Part Deux" and Nutsy at the same time!
Well I know that nutsy is only 39 miles north of the SC line on the hwy it is on.
Go get it.
So do I .
Tag.... Drop....
Watch out for these guys and gals.
Bush on my right next to the wall.
That ought to last about ten or fifteen minutes.
Nice swap gimpy.
"4-wheels move the body, 2-wheels move the soul"
Thats where nutsy was. I will leave it alone....maybe.
So has eggy been on a firetruck yet??
I passed all thru SC and NC and GA and TN and MO and AR and now TX the past few days. Didn't check a single tag thread tho. I've found ya gotta plan an extra half day to research, ride to, take pics, drop, take more pics. This trip has been a lot more about getting ther and back again...
I'll play again tho. In the meantime, don't let Eggy languish.

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NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- A resignation letter from a former corrections officer at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution has led to new questions about the death of a mentally ill inmate.
NewsChannel 5 Investigates first reported the case of Charles Jason Toll, 33, and showed disturbing video of the cell extraction in which he died.
This week, Toll's story was highlighted by the New York Times.
The front-page article raised new questions about the Department of Corrections internal affairs investigation.
A federal jury reviewed the internal affairs report before finding the officers did nothing wrong in the cell extraction.
Officer William Amonette had the job of video taping the final moments of Jason Toll's life.
He was also one of the officers sued by Toll's mother in the death of her son.
But the New York Times reported this week that Amonette resigned his job at the prison, in part, because he didn't think the incident was fully investigated.
In August 2010, Jason Toll barricaded himself inside his cell at Riverbend.
Toll had a long history of mental illness and dared guards to remove him.
Dressed in riot gear and armed with tasers and shock shields, a cell extraction team forcibly removed Toll from his cell.
They handcuffed Toll's hands and feet and carried him -- face down -- to an unlit prison yard.
Toll said over and over that he could not breathe.
After arriving the prison yard, Toll stopped breathing and was later pronounced dead.
The medical examiner ruled his death a homicide, writing that Toll died from "suffocation."
In a deposition obtained by NewsChannel 5 Investigates, Amonette claimed he wrote an eight-page resignation letter.
The New York Times reported Amonette questioned why certain officers weren't interviewed in the internal affairs investigation and that he later quit because he believed he was "punished" for questioning the investigation and "trying to do what was right."
Toll's mother, Jane Luna, sued the officers involved in the extraction, but jurors in federal court said officers did nothing wrong.
They depended in part on that internal affairs investigation which vindicated the officers.
Four years later, she is still fighting for justice for her son.
The Department of Correction said in an e-mail, "We stand by the investigation and the jury's decision." It had no further comment.
The department has not yet released the resignation letter to NewsChannel 5 or to Toll's attorney.
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This one gets my Least Informative Abstract award - it crossed my RSS feed recently, and while it may be a very interesting paper, there's no way to tell from this illustration. The text below it, which shows up on the actual ACS abstract page (but not on the RSS feed) is somewhat more informative, and Zewail's name alone is enough to make me take a look at the full paper. But that illustration. . .to think that I was complaining about a bunch of colored dots and the way Nicolaou colors the inside of his aromatic rings. . .ah, those were simpler times.
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1. milkshake on December 8, 2009 6:03 PM writes...
I saw a gala lecture from Nicolaou just few weeks ago and there was only handful slides with the greek statues and colors which make eyeballs bleed. Maybe he is mellowing up
2. InfMP on December 8, 2009 6:12 PM writes...
What is the easist way to see Nicolaou live?
I am no longer in Academia.
does he go to ACS conferences?
I have to do it before he retires.
I assume he is not as active in travelling as baran in his older age.
3. Hap on December 8, 2009 6:42 PM writes...
I saw him at ACS in DC in 2005. I stopped trying to take notes after, like, the second slide, and his colors were sort of annoying, but his groups' work was neat (I don't remember the names, but he was making polycyclic natural products based on lots of inter/intramolecular cyclizations of aromatic/cyclic multicarbonyl compounds.) I would still figure he's giving ACS talks, as well as maybe the big organic symposium every two years. I don't know if he still teaches at UCSD, but if he is, maybe you could sneak into a lecture there?
4. Tot. Syn. on December 9, 2009 3:45 AM writes...
How about an award for simply the most insane abstract image:
5. Fungus on December 9, 2009 9:03 AM writes...
[4] Suddenly the Nanoputians don't seem so bad.
6. Sili on December 9, 2009 9:41 AM writes...
Personally, I have to approve of the manga chemistry. Makes me think I should try to make good with my artistic friends, if I ever publish again.
The trefoil propellers are beyond me, though.
7. flip on December 9, 2009 9:42 AM writes...
8. anon on December 9, 2009 4:02 PM writes...
someone is into boating thats all, how many propellers are in this abstract image....
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Posted 24 June 2008 - 03:35 AM
So I just went and got a used Xbox from GS, a 1.6 (verified by the Xcalibur chip on the mobo) and installed it using the pinheader and the provided recovery board. No problems in soldering these, the joints all look good, etc etc. Very clean.
Followed the SmartXX V3 manual for 1.6 boxes, connected the adaptors and plugged in the chip.
When I power up the box, I get nothing. I mean nothing. No sound and no picture and no flashing ring of any color. I just get power to the board (fan is running) and the light holds green just like it should.
If I had to guess, it appears as though the chip is just not getting power - isn't there an LCD on it that should light up if it is?
Ive gone back over all my soldering and the cables and whatnot and I can't find a problem anywhere. Anybody know what the hell this is/could be?
Posted 24 June 2008 - 03:45 AM
Also, if I remove the chip itself (leaving the recovery board and everything still attached) and connect the drives back up she works like normal. Flubber screen loads, audio is fine, etc etc.
Posted 24 June 2008 - 04:06 AM
Alright, this can be closed out.
Don't know how or why, but I went back over all my solder points again, just basically gave em all a quick tap with the iron to smooth em out, so to speak, and she works.
Don't know how or why, but I went back over all my solder points again, just basically gave em all a quick tap with the iron to smooth em out, so to speak, and she works.
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This is the first of a two-part series on the new Modern Wing. This installment focuses on the wonderful exterior of the building. The second will deal with the highly problematic Nichols Bridgeway and the building's street level engagement (click through for part 2). I may follow-up with a third segment on the interior at a future date.
The Modern Wing is a new $294 million, 264,000 square feet addition to the Art Institute of Chicago designed by Pritzker Prize winning architect Renzo Piano. It is done in a clean, bright, modern form of glass, steel, and Indiana limestone. Here's a view from the Nichols Bridgeway, a skybridge leading to it from the center of Millennium Park:
Not only is this simply a very beautiful building, something not to be underestimated, it is particularly successful for the way it mediates between the classical formalism of Grant Park and the main Art Institute building on Michigan Ave., and the contemporary Millennium Park.
Think for a moment of some elements of classicism: axis and symmetry, scale and proportion, restraint and good manners, beauty. All of these are brought to bear by Piano in his Modern Wing design. Some have criticized this building for not making enough of an architectural statement. But that's exactly the point.
So much of today's architecture is about "making a statement" without much regard for what it is we are actually saying. And it is but a short step from an "architectural statement" to an "architect's statement", one too often taken. Today's "starchitecture" is as much about hiring one of about a half dozen big names to stamp their imprimatur on a city as it is about actual architecture. Their buildings too often say more about the architect in question than they do about the city where they are located. Often that's considered a good thing by those commissioning them. We are building monuments to the self-indulgence of their architects. It is fitting that, for example, the Calatrava addition to the Milwaukee Art Museum is known locally simply as "the Calatrava". As beautiful as that building may be, it is above all a Calatrava. That's why they paid for it. That's why it is there. Any other function is superfluous to that raison d'etre.
Worst of all is the civic mindset this has engendered. Cities seek after the "Bilbao Effect", believing that with a handful of splashy grands projets they can turn around decline and create a dynamic, attractive city. It puts the focus on the monumental instead of the commonplace. But the mark of a great city is not in how it treats its special places, but its ordinary ones. Creating an inspiring, livable environment in the ordinary urban spaces in which people spend their days is what is really important. Cultivating the opposite focus is possibly the most pernicious effect of starchitecture.
Chicago, sadly, has not proven immune to the siren call. The Frank Gehry band shell in Millennium Park is right down the rails of the genre. It's a lavish, gorgeous structure to be sure, but also one that suffers from its membership in the "because we can" school of architecture. And of course it goes without saying that it isn't even very original. And again, the fact that it looks much like the Bilbao Guggenheim – and the Weisman Art Center and the Disney concert hall – isn't a bug, it's a feature. Chicago wanted architecture straight out of the Frank Gehry extruder. This type of structure will likely be judged by the future as emblematic of the fin de siècle decadence of our age, and as much period pieces as the 1970's era Netsch addition to the Art Institute on Columbus.
Once cities turned to classicism to anchor themselves firmly in the 2,500 year tradition of Western culture and its highest ideals. Today, cities turn to a new international style to proclaim their lack of anchor, to repudiate their past to prove their bona fides as card carrying members in a homogenized, globalized league of world cities. Fortunately, I think the wave has crested here in the wake of the finance bubble crash. True worth and identity isn't to be found on the outside, but on the inside. We need to welcome outsiders and outside ideas to be sure. But we can't lose our own sense of self-confidence in what we have to offer. We have to know who we are, where we've come from, and what we stand for.
I for one don't want a world city of Chicago. I want a Chicago that shows the rest of the world's cities how it's done. A city that can be true to its roots as a provincial capital in the best sense of the word. Once the architecture of Chicago changed the face of the world. Now the architecture of the world is changing the face of Chicago. For all its prosperity and urban core boom, that's a curious and sad reversal.
Out of towner he may be, but Renzo piano is starting to point the way forward here. First, how does he manage to square the circle and mediate between the Beaux Arts Art Institute and Frank Gehry's Bilbao Mark V? He does it by channeling modernism through a humanizing classical lens. Here's a closer look at the front facade:
You see here the front glass curtain wall that recalls Mies van der Rohe – but this is no Miesian monolith. You see the front facade broken up into sections and even columns in front. No, this is not a perfectly symmetrical design, but one that nevertheless feels balanced, proportioned, and ordered.
To me Mies is too perfect. Like Stanley Kubrick, he brings a certain coldness and detachment to his work. You get the impression he's on a quest for rigorous mathematical perfection. No so Piano. While clearly this is a modernist structure, the human element is present here. It's that human quality known as taste, one that seeks to find simple elegance and beauty in a structure.
At the risk of sounding like I'm throwing too many names around, I'm reminded of what Hayden famously told Mozart's father, "Before God and as an honest man I tell you that your son is the greatest composer known to me in person or by name. He has taste, and what is more, the most profound knowledge of composition." I've long thought about that. Why bracket compositional knowledge with of all things "taste"? But more than anything, taste is probably what defined Mozart as a composer. He didn't let his techniques run wild for the sake them. Rather, he used and restrained them in a manner in the service of greater beauty.
While I'm not calling Piano the Mozart of architects, there's a certain similar dynamic at work here. This isn't "less is more" and it isn't "because my computer lets me". Rather, it is "Only as many notes as necessary, Your Majesty."
Moving along, the overhanging roof is similar to other Piano works, but in this case strongly recalls to me McCormick Place. Only again, a more elegant and refined one. And also while the flat roof is a modernist signature, it's also a Beaux-Arts one.
As the grade of Monroe St. rises here east to west to pass over the railroad tracks, we see that Piano made the choice to build the base of the building at the top of the grade. He set the building back a bit off the street and created a subtle raised first floor effect again not dissimilar from a Beaux Arts building. This also helps keep a sense of the monumental for what is, after all, a major civic structure deserving of some dignity and standoffishness. But we see that this is not done to an excessive degree.
You'll note the above photos were taken from the far side of the street. Which highlights one of the problems with the Modern Wing. It is a building best seen at some remove. It's far less inviting when you are standing in front if it and it has major street level engagement issues. The treatment of Monroe St. generally a major opportunity lost for the city, and one I'll cover in some depth in the next installment. In the meantime, here's another closer up view, though still taken from an elevated, detached perspective:
Again, what an elegant, beautiful building. Architecture writers like to talk about buildings engaging in conversation. Well, if this building is in conversation with the Gehry band shell, then what it is saying is a rebuke. But not the harsh rebuke of the Hebrew prophets. Rather, it's the more gentle reproof of the zen master in serene contemplation.
The vast majority of the exterior photos in the press show this Monroe St. facade. But that's not the entire building. The main west facade is more or less a blank masonry wall:
As this overlooks a railroad line, that might seem acceptable. But I've got better plans for that rail line, so stay tuned. Also, keep in mind that this is the view from the top of the Nichols Bridgeway. So this is a wall set back off from the street and not what the building looks like seen from Monroe to the west. See below for a shot of that approach.
Here's the building seen from the northeast corner of Monroe and Columbus.
Again, looks great. And isn't that a gratuitously decorative projection sticking out of the side of the building? I believe it is. And thank goodness. A blank wall on this side would have been a clear no-no. But the necessities of the space probably would have made putting windows difficult. This is a nice way to solve the problem. Also, the red in the sign is wonderfully complementary to the CNA building you see peeking up over the roof. A very thoughtful detail.
You might be wondering what that arch is doing sitting there on the corner. If you look at the other side of it, you see what appears to be a salvaged piece of the old Louis Sullivan Chicago Stock Exchange building.
Driving under the new one on Congress, one can't help but notice the huge arched windows in the portion of the building built over the street. This earns the trifecta of paying homage to Sullivan, simulating an exchange trading floor, and recalling classic Romanesque Revival train stations. (That area is actually the entrance to LaSalle St. station).
Having this highly decorated piece of traditional architecture on one side with a modern version on the other again shows the fusion – in this case literally – of old and new. It's a nice touch. This arch appears to be the entrance to an under construction park or garden. Imagine someone walking through it from the Monroe St. side to be surprised and delighted when they turn around – maybe after several minutes already on the other side – and find what is waiting for them.
We'll have to see what this looks like when it is done.
Here's a direct view from the east:
This gives a very dominant appearance of a roof projecting much further off the back than the front. Personally, I don't like it. To me it looks like the roof slid out of place. I'm not sure what's going on in the back since the area is under construction and I could not get access to it. This picture can give you sense of it, however. It also shows the Modern Wing in context next to the utterly forgettable – meaning that we'd like to be able to forget – 70's era annex.
Beyond architecturally mediating between classical and contemporary, the Modern Wing also helps reinforce the formalistic layout of Grant Park and put Millennium Park in context with it. I don't know the whole history of this building, but it would be interesting to know to what extent its presence was anticipated during the park's design. It appears to me that the park was laid out on the assumption a major building would be on that spot. Indeed, it's almost as if all road's lead to the Modern Wing. It acts as the perfect pivot between the two sides of Monroe St.
Piano does two very great things in my view. The first is that he makes sure that the Modern Wing engages properly with the viewer from almost any spot in Millennium Park. The series of pictures below will make this very clear. The other is that he introduced a very strong sense of axis in his Modern Wing that links through to the park. The quote above shows that Piano likes to work in a constrained environment. But this park setting is actually rather unconstrained as these things go. What appears to have happened is that he not only took the constraints of the site as they were, but also created artificial constraints for himself to live with, such as respecting the axial layout of Grant Park. He uses this constraint to good effect.
Here is the Modern Wing seen from the front of the lawn in the Pritzker Pavillion.
The Modern Wing isn't centered on this axis, but is grid aligned, and also with the tower behind it which is at Roosevelt Rd. This trellis, by the way, is my absolute favorite part of Millennium Park.
The interior of the building features a main north-south corridor-atrium. The ceiling lights recall the trellis and also create another powerful, reinforcing axis for the building.
If you stand directly outside the revolving doors this leads to and look north, this is the view you'll see:
This isn't really lined up with a park axis, but since you can't see anything, it doesn't matter. The edge of the parking garage entrance and our good friend 2 Pru reassure us anyway, the building edge aligned similarly to the one to the south.
And here are some views of the Modern Wing from different vantage points. I'll let these mostly pass without comment, except to say that they are certainly well considered.
From the foot of the Nichols Bridgeway:
From the central corridor of Lurie Garden:
From the east corridor of Lurie Garden:
Looking east down Monroe St.:
Peeking through the trees from Crown Fountain. There will certainly be more of a view of the building in the winter time.
From the BP Bridge over the center of Columbus Drive.:
On the whole, this is a wonderful building at a "macro" level. The "micro" level street engagement has problems, as I'll document in the next installment. I really admire the restraint, taste, and inclusion of classical elements into the Modern Wing. Unfortunately, I don't think this building points the way to the type of modern day Chicago architecture I would like to see. In a sense, it is actually too graceful. Grace is a feminine quality, one at odds with the rough and tumble commercial-industrial center and hustler's city that is Chicago. Big Shoulders it is not. But that's ok in the park. The Beaux Arts City Beautiful legacy of Burnham was in a sense always a bit of lipstick on a pig, a bit of aspirational slather and pretense for a city that was always too busy making money to care about much else. It works perfectly here, but this isn't the main context of the city.
I may come back and write more on the interior later after I've had a view more visits and the opportunity to study it further. I only saw it during the member preview, and, like most Art Institute events, it was a mixture of spectacular art with uncomfortably large crowds. But I can make a few comments now based on my experience.
One the things that technology has really allowed us to do in the modern area is to have much more glass and transparency in settings like libraries and museums where they were once off limits or of much more limited use. Piano takes full advantage of this to have both allow indirect light in through the roof, and to have windows out into the city in parts of the building. What's more, at night this works the other way and the building lights up nicely like a lantern for the city.
As for the skylights, I couldn't see what the big deal was, frankly. And as for the windows, there were floor to ceiling shades in place that made it impossible to see anything. What's the point of these windows if you can't look out of them? Supposedly the shades can open at times, but if they aren't open most of the time, this will be a big disappointment. It is maddening to only get to see glimpses of the city through gaps at the edges of the shades.
The third floor has the modern art everyone will want to see. The second floor is home to most contemporary art. Unlike an old school museum, there is basically only one serpentine path through the galleries, so your flow through the building is fairly controlled. You don't have to worry about missing anything, but also there is much less sense of chance and discovery. Your journey is in a sense programmed.
Also, only 60,000 square feet of space is devoted to galleries. That's a shockingly small percentage of the building. The rest of it is made up of classrooms, public spaces, of course multiple shops and restaurants (of course), and who knows what else. In an era where sustainability is paramount, does it really make sense to have such inefficient use of space? It's a question to ponder.
I can say this, the art is spectacular. The Art Institute has a very impressive collection of modern art. Regardless of what one thinks of the building, that art is what really justifies a trip to check out this new wing.
Review Roundup of the Modern Wing
Temple of Light (Blair Kamin @ Chicago Tribune)
Renzo Piano Embraces Chicago (Nicolai Ouroussof @ New York Times)
A Grand and Intimate Modern Art Trove (Roberta Smith @ New York Times)
Is Chicago's Art Institute Showing Signs of 'Star-chitecture'? (Morgan Falconer @ The Times of London)
Hitting the Right Notes (David D'Arcy @ The National – United Arab Emirates)
A Modern Wing Takes Flight (Lee Rosenbaum @ The Wall Street Journal)
Piano's Flying Carpet Lands at Chicago Art Institute (James S. Russell @ Bloomberg)
Interview with Renzo Piano (Edward Lifson @ The Architect's Newspaper)
Edward Lifson blog archive on the Modern Wing (lots of great writing and photos)
Renzo Piano's Modern Wing at the Art Institute (Mary Louise Schumacher @ Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel)
Renzo Piano Adds Onto Art Institute of Chicago (Kenneth Baker @ San Francisco Chronicle)
Art Institute's Massive Expansion Opens (The Art Newspaper)
Art Institute Expands, with Elegance (Time)
There are also a lot of thoughtful reader comments over at Blair Kamin's blog.
Part Two of this Review: The Nichols Bridgeway, or Re-Imagining Monroe St.


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Elementary School Principal Ginger Arbuckle addressed the Kennard School Board Thursday, Dec. 9 regarding benchmark tests and the importance of them. "By giving the benchmark tests we can find out how the teachers are teaching and how well the students are learning," said Arbuckle. Benchmarks are given to act as a guide to show where the student is mastering a certain objective. Arbuckle told the board that there are several things that the school is doing in order to bring up TAKS scores. Teachers will be monitored to make sure they are using the programs correctly. Students will be pulled out of certain elective classes in order for them to receive additional help as well. It will give them time to be academically successful. High School Principal Jason Crow said, "They are facing the same problems and will be implementing the same things as the elementary in order to bring up scores." "Math benchmarks are not good and you can see that some objectives have not been covered yet," said Crow. When asked about the seniors and if all of them had passed the TAKS, Crow said there is one student that has not passed any section of the test. The student will be given two more times in the school year and one in the summer to try to pass. Amendments to facility guidelines were also discussed. Superintendent David Baxter told the board that he wanted to add a few more clarifying details to the agreement. Baxter said, "I want to make sure that the lessee knows the policy regarding the no alcohol or tobacco on school grounds." He also said that he wants to make sure that the lessee knows that the facility leased must be cleaned after its use. Also, the only furniture that can be provided by the school will be tables and chairs from the cafeteria. "As far as security, they will have to provide that, but before they are able to use the facility they must meet with me so that I can make sure proper security is in place," said Baxter. The board also discussed and approved handing over the summer lunch program to Crockett ISD. Students up to age 18, during the summer, are eligible to come up to the school cafeteria and is provided lunch. The meal must be consumed on school premises. The main reason to waive the program for this summer is the high cost of fuel. Because of the geographically large district that Kennard serves, it would not be feasible to transport all of the students to and from the school. Terry Stubblefield was appointed to be the school board representative to the Site-Based Decision-Making Committee. The first meeting will be Tuesday, Dec. 14 at 3:30 p.m. The committee will be discussing a mission plan. A closed session was called provided by Texas Government Code Section 551.074 of the Texas Open Meetings Act. Results from the executive session were the approval of new substitute teachers, approval of the superintendent's goals and approval of the discipline report.
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NACOGDOCHES, Texas – In a battle to the wire that saw both the Stephen F. Austin Ladyjacks and Louisiana Tech Lady Techsters struggle to produce much offense until late in the game the Ladyjacks fell 3-2 after taking a 2-1 lead in the sixth.
SFA (17-22) tied the game at 1-1 in the bottom of the third when Elizabeth Arana was hit by a pitch to start the inning then advanced on a wild pitch. After advancing on a groundout, Brittany Lewis drove her in with a single up the middle.
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"It is a game of rugby, everyone wears rugby boots. It was just unfortunate the grass was a bit loose under the feet. I don't think it will be any different this week," said Beale.
"There are no excuses, that's just rugby. I have played on rugby fields all over the world, and Suncorp Stadium was no different. It was just unlucky.
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After a wonderful break from Will Genia handed Israel Folau the first try of the match, George North hit back with a superb score of his own and despite a second score from Folau, Leigh Halfpenny's boot ensured the Lions a slender advantage at half-time.
Indeed Halfpenny's accuracy and Australia's kickers' lack of it was a key theme of the first Test.
In the second half, Alex Cuthbert's excellent try on 48 minutes gave the Lions some breathing space but back came Australia with one penalty from O'Connor and two from Beale.
Fortunately for the Lions, Halfpenny had also added another, ensuring that with 15 minutes left on the clock, they still had a two-point lead - even if they were to present Australia with two shots at victory.
The first was far from easy but Beale's effort never looked like threatening the posts, although the second seemed harder to miss - only for the replacement, who in fairness had an outstanding match, to lose his footing at the crucial moment.
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"It has happened way too many times before. When it is taken out of your hands with a kick, all you can do is watch.
"We gave away cheap penalties so there's plenty to work on, but it's a massive achievement to come out here and get the win."
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