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Today we celebrate tequila, a liquor distilled from the Mexican blue agave plant. A sweet sap from the plant's heart called "aquamiel"—meaning "honey water"—is used to make it. Tequila is actually a mezcal, although not all mezcals are tequila. Any spirit made from an agave plant is a mescal, but in order for it to be considered tequila, it has to come from the blue variation of the plant. The Mexican government allows labeling something as tequila if it has at least 51 percent agave-derived sugar—the rest can be cane or corn sugar. Mexican law says that for a spirit to be considered to be tequila, it also must be manufactured in one of five Mexican states: Jalisco, Michoacán, Nayarit, Guanajuato, or Tamaulipas.
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Make Your Syracuse Basketball All-Time Starting Five – Orange Fizz – Free Syracuse Recruiting News (orangefizz.net; Leonard)
Watching Boeheim’s Army got me thinking. If we could combine all eras what would be the best Syracuse basketball starting five ever. To make it more interesting, lets throw a budget on it.
You have $15. Go ahead and make your Syracuse basketball All-Time starting lineup.
Guard #1 Guard #2 Wing/Forward
$5: Pearl Washington $5
ave Bing $5: Carmelo Anthony$4: Sherman Douglas $4:Gerry McNamara $4: Billy Owens
$3: Lawrence Moten $3: Stevie Thompson $3: C.J. Fair
$2: Jason Hart $2: Preston Shumpert $2: Eric Devendorf
$1: Jonny Flynn $1: Dennis DuVal $1: Wes Johnson
Forward Center
$5: Derrick Coleman $5: Roosevelt Bouie
$4: John Wallace $4: Hakim Warrick
$3: Louis Orr $3: Rony Seikaly
$2: Leo Rautins $2: Bill Smith
$1: Rafael Addison $1: Etan Thomas
My lineup: G Mac, Moten, Wes Johnson, Melo, Bill Smith
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Kris Joseph's impact on Syracuse extends past Boeheim’s Army (DO; Edelman)
It felt like 2008 all over again.
Kris Joseph was living on Syracuse’s campus and taking a shuttle to the Carmelo K. Anthony Basketball Center. He recreated pick up games with former college teammates DaShonte Riley and James Southerland, and he took guilty-pleasure trips to Insomnia Cookies after workouts. On Wednesday night, he won a free Woodchuck hard cider during flip cup at Faegan’s.
“It was like I was back there all over again,” Joseph said, “And to be honest, I realized I didn’t fully take advantage of it when I was in school.”
Visiting SU was not new for Joseph, who spends the bulk of his summers working out in Manley Field House. But unlike the short three- to four-day visits he was accustomed to, this time, one of his longest stays at SU since playing for the Orange, was different.
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Jim & Juli Boeheim Foundation has donated a brand new basketball court to The Salvation Army. | 570 WSYR (wsyr.iheart.com; Allen)
Listen to Kathryn Guglielmo, Special Events and Public Relations Manager at The Salvation Army Syracuse Area Services, as she talks about the Boeheim Foundation donation to the Family Place Program.
The Salvation Army says that the Jim & Juli Boeheim Foundation has donated a brand new basketball court to The Salvation Army’s Family Place Program. Century Heating & Air Conditioning also contributed to the project. The Family Place program is a parenting time site where children who have been removed from the care of their biological parents and placed in foster care can come and spend quality time with their parents and siblings. Family Place staff have worked hard to create a natural environment for families to spend time with one another. “Families with teens and older children have consistently reported that our facility although warm and welcoming is limited in its ability to provide a natural environment for teens, particularly in regards to outdoor recreational activities,” says Sidney Germinio, Director of Child Welfare for The Salvation Army. “Recreational activities such as basketball provide an opportunity for families to not only spend time with one another but to also bond through the creation of new memories and to build trust and safety after disruption and trauma. We are so grateful to our donors for allowing these families the opportunity to make new memories together.”An official ribbon cutting ceremony and court unveiling with the Boeheim’s and Rick Iorio, CEO of Century Heating & Air Conditioning and Salvation Army Board President, is scheduled for Wednesday, July 25th at 10:00am at The Salvation Army’s Family Place, located at 350 Rich Street in Syracuse.
ACC Basketball Schedule: League considers early-season conference games - ACCSports.com (accsports.com; Geisinger)
According to a report from David Teel (the league’s preeminent insider) of the Daily Press, the ACC basketball schedule could change soon. In a one-on-one interview with ACC commissioner John Swofford, it was discussed that the league is considering starting the 2019-20 basketball season conference matchups.
The genesis of this idea: the August 2019 launch of the ESPN-backed ACC Network.
Swofford said the ACC is seriously considering playing seven conference men’s basketball games, spread over multiple days, to start the 2019-20 season, and beyond. One of the league’s 15 teams would have a bye, perhaps Duke — which, along with Kentucky, Kansas and Michigan State, competes in November’s annual Champions Classic.
With the 2019 football season set to kickoff, literally, just after the arrival of the network, the ACC will feature multiple conference games during the first week. According to Teel, the most likely matchups for that would be: Georgia Tech at Clemson, Virginia Tech at Boston College and Pittsburgh against Syracuse/Virginia.
For basketball, though, most of the ACC’s conference games take place between January and the first week of March — with a smattering of late-December games. This new proposal/thought, however, would be a major deviation.
It would also be a shinny, high-profile way for the league and ESPN — its television partner — bring attention to the start of college basketball season, which is generally overshadowed by football’s popularity. According to Swofford:
It would be exciting in terms of a new network, and would bring people to the network right at the beginning of the season. … I think fans would be into it both from a network standpoint as well as from a competition standpoint.
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Restaurant equipment company seeks tax breaks for move from DeWitt to Syracuse (PS; Moriarty)
A family-owned restaurant supply company is seeking tax breaks for its move from DeWitt to bigger quarters in Syracuse, where it says it will expand.
Gerharz Equipment Inc., which recently bought Central Restaurant Supply Inc. in Syracuse, said it plans to move both businesses and their combined staffs of 40 people to 222 Teall Ave.
The company has applied to the Syracuse Industrial Development Agency for exemptions from the state mortgage recording tax and sales taxes on construction materials, and 10 years of exemptions from property tax assessment increases attributable to renovations planned for the new location.
It estimated the value of the mortgage recording tax exemption at $96,000 and the value of the sales tax exemption at $37,500.
The company did not estimate the value of the payment-in-lieu-of-tax agreement it has applied for. Honora Spillane, deputy commissioner of the city's Department of Neighborhood and Business Development, said the agency will calculate the value of the property tax exemptions before a public hearing is held on the application at the agency's meeting in August.
Gerharz's offices, showroom and warehouse are in a 30,000-square-foot building at 6146 E. Molloy Road in DeWitt, and Central Restaurant Supply operates from a storefront at 642 N. Salina St. The company said it is buying an 85,000-square-foot building at 222 Teall Ave. and the combined companies will occupy 65,000 square feet.
The remaining 20,000 square feet of space will be leased to other companies serving the food industry, such as an interior designer, general contractor, food importer, or service and maintenance company, it said.
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