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Welcome to National Chocolate Day!
There is no better way to celebrate Halloween’s approaching than with a piece of chocolate. But just in case you need another excuse to try your favorite treat, it’s national chocolate day.
Chocolate can be used in almost any dessert. It can be enjoyed plain, mixed into your favorite cookie dough or glazed on top of a cake. While I always enjoy the way chocolate tastes, I never really think about how it’s made. Here are a few insights into how your chocolate bar makes it into your grocery store.
Chocolate 101:
- Cacao trees grow around the world in tropical areas. They grow pods, which contain about 20 to 40 cacao beans.
- The beans are removed from the pods, and then fermented in piles for about one week. This process allows for the beans to dry out and develop their color and flavor.
- The beans are then taken to the factory and roasted. Next, they are “hulled” by removing the outside shell from the inside of the bean called the “nib.”
- The nibs are then ground into a chocolate liquor. Then, the liquor (it’s not alcoholic) is pressed to remove the fat, called “cocoa butter,” and the residual powder is what is mixed in to create different kinds of chocolate.
- Depending on the kind of chocolate (milk, bittersweet, semisweet, etc.) cocoa butter, milk and sugar are added to the chocolate powder.
- White chocolate does not contain the chocolate powder that regular chocolate contains. It just contains cocoa butter, milk and sugar.
Will Marcus Paige Lead the Tarheels to an ACC Championship?
ACC Media Day: Mike Waters Gives His Predictions and Picks for 2015-16 (PS; Waters)
The ACC media day, with its cluster of interviews and wall-to-wall crush of reporters and cameras, will conclude around 5 p.m. on Wednesday at the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Charlotte, N.C.
Right near the end of the proceedings, ACC officials will release the results of the conference's annual preseason media poll.
Each registered media member is invited to make his or her predictions for the league's final standings, a five-player all-league team, the Player of the Year and the Rookie of the Year.
In an effort to achieve full disclosure, here are my picks:
Order of Finish
1. North Carolina (Marcus Paige is terrific, Justin Jackson is a budding star)
2. Virginia (Justin Anderson left, but Malcolm Brogdon and London Perrantes are back)
3. Duke (Coach K will rely on a terrific freshman class led by Brandon Ingram)
4. Miami (Sheldon McClellan, Tonye Jekiri. Why aren't the Canes getting more love?)
5. FSU (The Seminoles return all five starters and add frosh Dwayne Bacon)
6. Syracuse (The key is whether Dajuan Coleman stays healthy)
7. Pitt (People are sleeping on the Panthers. Bad idea)
8. Notre Dame (Grant and Connaughton gone, but Auguste and Jackson return)
9. N.C. State (Trevor Lacey's decision reall hurts the Wolfpack)
10. Louisville (I think the scandal is going to impact the program all year)
11. Georgia Tech (Va. Tech transfer Adam Smith will help the perimeter offense)
12. Wake Forest (There's Devin Thomas and Codi Miller-McIntyre and ??)
13. Clemson (I'd have Tigers higher, but they won't be at Littlejohn all year)
14. Va. Tech (Buzz Williams needs one more year to get things going)
15. Boston College (Eagles suffered major personnel losses, including Olivier Hanlan)
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Live Coverage of JB, TC and Silent G Starring in 'Operation Basketball' Today in Charlotte (cuse.com)
Syracuse men's basketball head coach Jim Boeheim and senior guards Trevor Cooney and Michael Gbinije are taking part in "Operation Basketball," the ACC's men's basketball media day in Charlotte on Wednesday. Follow here for live coverage throughout the day as we bring you behind the scenes access via the team's social media accounts (@Cuse_MBB on Twitter & Instagram) as well as live video of their press conferences.
Press Conference Schedule
Cooney & Gbinije - 10:12-10:23 a.m.
Coach Boeheim - 3:18-3:30 p.m.
2015 SU Basketball Preview: The Guards (TNIAAM; Szuba)
This is the first of a three part series where we preview the Syracuse men's basketball team according to guards, forwards and centers. Can we witness a renaissance in the Syracuse backcourt this season?
Strong guard play is the lifeblood of basketball success at any level, but it's especially emphasized in the college game. At Syracuse, solid guard play has paved the program's rich history.
Jim Boeheim has experienced a golden age of guard play in the last half decade or so with names like Andy Rautins, Michael Carter-Williams, Dion Waiters and Tyler Ennis but last year's backcourt stumbled. When the backcourt struggled -- and it did often -- Boeheim elected to go with his upperclassmen Michael Gbinije and Trevor Cooney. With those two fifth-year seniors back in the fold, Kaleb Joseph another year wiser, and an exciting new freshman in Frank Howard, the Syracuse Orange backcourt could be a phoenix lying in the ashes.
Michael Gbinije
Gbinije is a point-forward by all accounts. He'll see time at both the guard and forward spots in the zone, but for all intents and purposes we'll solely talk about him at the guard spot in this preview. Gbinije possesses extreme length and athleticism atop the 2-3 zone. This will help him get in passing lanes with his quickness and long reach. He'll have to lead by example, especially on the defensive end.
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7'2 Paschal Chukwu Will Help Syracuse Basketball, Even in His Redshirt Year (DO; Dougherty)
During a five-on-five drill on Oct. 21, Tyler Roberson spun off the left block and leaned into a jump hook in the middle of the paint.
Right as he did, 7-foot-2 center Paschal Chukwu moved into position and jumped with two hands outstretched above his head. Roberson’s hook barely left his hand before Chukwu swatted it down. The shot never had a chance of reaching the rim.
“Tyler, Tyler,” Syracuse assistant coach Adrian Autry said to Roberson. “Jump stop, pump fake, then go up.”
Chukwu — originally from Nigeria and attended Fairfield College (Connecticut) Preparatory School — came the Orange after one year at Providence and will sit out the upcoming 2015–16 season due to NCAA transfer rules. He averaged 2.6 points and 2.4 rebounds per game as a freshman with the Friars, playing just 9.9 minutes a contest. SU head coach Jim Boeheim said at media day that Chukwu, with a 226-pound frame and unrefined offensive skills, will “benefit more from a redshirt year I think more than any player that we’ve ever had.”
And while a year of practice could set Chukwu’s career on a brighter path, it will also prepare Syracuse’s active big men for the rim protectors they’ll face this season.
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