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Welcome to 'Black Cow' Root Beer Float Day!
The first root beer float - so the story goes - was served on August 19th, 1893, by Frank J. Wisner, owner of Cripple Creek Brewing, in Cripple Creek, Colorado. He called his creation the "Black Cow Mountain," and it soon became a hit with the kiddos, who began referring to the tasty treat as simply, the "Black Cow."
Nowadays, a root beer float means different things to different folks. For some, it's not a root beer float unless you use plain vanilla ice cream dolloped into your root beer. Others put a little spin on things: plopping some chocolate ice cream into their root beer and calling it a "chocolate cow" or a "brown cow." Still others insist it's only a "brown cow" or a "black cow" if you use regular cola and ice cream. Then there's folks in places such as northeastern Wisconsin, who only call it a "black cow" if the root beer and ice cream are all mixed together, instead of leaving the ice cream floating on top. And would you believe, there's also a such thing as a "purple cow?" Yup, a "purple cow," created when you put a scoop of vanilla ice cream in a mug of purple grape soda.
But what do you call a black-and-white cow in a hot pink bikini, floating in a giant mug of root beer and melting vanilla ice cream?
Blissfully content
SU News
It is Official: SU to Play Defending National Champion* in the Carrier Dome November 8th (TNIAAM; Keeley)
*=Division II
Who says Syracuse Orange basketball schedules soft in November? We're playing a defending National Champion!
Okay, so it's 2015 NCAA Division II champion Florida Southern and it's an exhibition game in the Carrier Dome on November 8, but you really should have been more specific about your demands...
The Moccasins went 36-1 last season, winning their final 25 games, including the National Title game over Indiana of Pennsylvania (which is not, incidentally, IUPUI. Go figure). It was their second National Title and first since 1981. They're also Sunshine State Conference royalty, having won the regular season crown and the tournament 22 times each since 1975.
Mike Donnelly enters his debut season as head coach at Florida Southern after running Southern Connecticut State for five years.
This will be the second of two exhibition games for the Orange this season. They'll play pesky Le Moyne on November 2 before the regular season begins. We know that SU will host St. Bonaventure on November 17 but we're not sure if that's the start of the regular season or nor.
ACC Related
Predicting the 2015-16 ACC College Basketball Standings (BR; Miller)
Hands down, the ACC is the place to be for 2015-16 men's college basketball.
Most of the major conferences have just one or two legitimate threats to win the national championship and at least three or four teams with no chance of even dancing. It's the opposite in the ACC where at least five teams have a realistic shot at cutting down the nets in April, and there's really only one team that has no hope of making the tournament.
Sorry, Boston College.
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10. Syracuse Orange (Last Season: 9-9, eighth place)
If Trevor Cooney shoots it well, DaJuan Coleman plays a moderately healthy season and Kaleb Joseph makes a positive impact, watch out for Syracuse. Factoring in their four talented freshmen, the Orange would have a nine-man rotation that can do some serious damage en route to a top-six finish in the ACC.
If we instead get a repeat of last season with Cooney shooting 31 percent from three-point range, Coleman failing to appear in a single game and Joseph serving as the least valuable player on the roster, it won't take a self-imposed ban to keep this team out of the tournament again.
Michael Gbinije had a great breakout season, and Tyler Roberson was very impressive at power forward after Chris McCullough suffered a torn ACL, but it's going to take more than that to get to .500 in this conference.
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Video: Boston Dynamics's Humanoid Atlas Robot Can Now Run Through the Woods (PS; Axelson)
The machines are getting closer and closer to walking among us.
A new video from robotics developer Boston Dynamics shows Google's humanoid Atlas robot going for a stroll in the woods.
Atlas had previously shown off its ability to traverse rugged environments in videos from the lab, but this is the first time the 6 ft.-tall, 344-pound robot has ventured outside, Computer World reported.
The Google-owned Boston Dynamics designed Atlas with Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) funding to be a bipedal rescue machine.
"We're interested in getting this robot out in the world," company founder Marc Raibert said during a robotics panel at a conference earlier in August. "All kinds of stuff happens out there. You can't predict what it's going to be like."
Atlas is on a power tether in the video, but Raibert said Boston Dynamics is working on upgrades to allow it to walk without the tether.
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