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How to speak pirate, or as the pirates would say how t’ speak gentleman o’ fortune
down – Oh my god
Avast ye – Look at this
Heave Ho – Put your back into to it
Pillage – Rob or plunder
Savvy? – Do you understand or do you agree?
Thar she blows! – When you see a whale
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What ACC basketball schedules can tell you about the strengths, weaknesses of your favorite team (newsobserver.com; Jacobs)
A handful of leaves have fallen or given up on green. Hummingbirds still dash about the yard chittering like playful children. Daytime temperatures ratify the calendar’s insistence summer isn’t entirely gone. Yet the release of ACC men’s basketball schedules earlier this month had some minds racing to chilly days thankfully far ahead, savoring possibilities that take us nearly to spring.
To some extent the optional, nonconference phase of schedules reflects the changed nature of this decade’s post-expansion ACC. In the three seasons since the bloated league traded Maryland for Louisville, it sent four teams to the Final Four, won a pair of national titles (Duke in 2015 and North Carolina in 2017), had 22 NCAA entrants and posted a combined 47-20 record in NCAA play. For good measure, conference clubs reached the NIT finals in both 2015 (Miami) and 2017 (Georgia Tech).
That showing returned the ACC to a status not seen since last century, when a breakeven record within the league almost assured NCAA inclusion. Last season 10 teams finished 9-9 or better in conference play; all but Syracuse at 10-8 got an NCAA bid. Such internal strength gives coaches leeway in crafting non-league schedules to fit their squad’s perceived developmental needs or their job security concerns.
The ACC office (and TV) dictate the league schedule; how it unfolds has a major effect on a team’s prospects. Every team is ordained to play twice in a three-day span sometime during the season, a taxing and gripe-inducing turnaround. When consecutive games come over five days, but are against heavyweights like Duke and North Carolina, as Louisville faces in mid-February, that’s trouble too. Three straight road games in ACC competition, Virginia Tech’s fate in February, is sure to sting, although the Hokies follow with an equally rare, compensatory three-straight home games.
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Pastabilities in Syracuse starts selling dried campanelle pasta (PS; Weaver)
Pastabilities's Spicy Hot Tomato Oil now has a dried pasta partner for sale.
The Armory Square restaurant has started selling Pasta's Daily Pasta as a retail product. The dried pasta is based on the restaurant's recipe and comes in the shape of little bells, or campanelle.
"It's the perfect amount to put with a jar of oil," said Pastabilities' owner Karyn Korteling.
Korteling says she's wanted to make a dried pasta for years, both to serve diners at the restaurant and to sell retail. But preparing, drying and boxing up dried pasta takes more room than Korteling currently has.
So she started looking for a pasta-making partner. She says she found a small-batch manufacturer in Brooklyn; she declined to provide the company's name.
"These people make quality artisan pasta," she said. "I'm really happy with the partnership."
Korteling said she picked campanelle because its unique shape holds many types of sauces.
"It has a lighter mouth feel than a ridged penne," she said. And it holds up in broth, a thick ragu or even a cheesy bake like mac and cheese, she added.
The new product could be the beginning of more dried pastas by Pastabilities, both for the restaurant and for retail sales, Korteling said. For now, it's available online through the restaurant's website or at Pasta's Daily Bread, the restaurant's bakery that is also in Armory Square.
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