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Welcome to National Cappuccino Day!
National Cappuccino Day is observed annually on November 8. A nice hot cup of cappuccino is perfect on a frosty morning, meeting with friends or just to enjoy a creamy cuppa.
Traditionally prepared with espresso, hot milk, and steamed-milk foam, a cappuccino is an Italian coffee drink.
The word cappuccino comes from the Capuchin friars and is the diminutive form of cappuccio in Italian, meaning hood or something that covers the head. This popular coffee beverage got its name not from the hood on their habits but from the color of the hooded robes that the friars wore. (The Capuchin friars is an Order of friars in the Catholic Church, among the chief offshoots of the Franciscans.)
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Syracuse Basketball Recruiting: 2018 Commits To Sign NLIs This Week (itlh.com; Adler)
Happy times on the recruiting front for the Syracuse basketball squad, as Darius Bazley and Jalen Carey will ink their NLIs.
Even as the 2017-18 regular season gets set to start this Friday night, we’ve got some fun recruiting news as it pertains to the SU hoops outfit.
Darius Bazley, a five-star forward in the 2018 class, plans to sign his national letter of intent this Wednesday, per a tweet from Vince Baldassano, who writes for .com.
The next day, 2018 four-star guard Jalen Carey expects to do the same, according to Adam Zagoria of Zagsblog.
This is extremely encouraging stuff, because, from my perspective, there is a big difference between a verbal commitment and executing a NLI.
Given the plethora of high-quality targets that head coach Jim Boeheim and his staff have missed
out on over the past year, that Bazley and Carey are making things official allows me to breathe a huge sigh of relief.
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Syracuse Basketball Player Preview: Marek Dolezaj – Orange Fizz – Free Syracuse Recruiting News (orangefizz.net; Aki)
There is so little known about Syracuse freshman Marek Dolezaj. The Fizz has detailed this in a recent piece. However, we will learn more and more about the forward as the season moves along.
So here’s what we do know about Dolezaj: he’s a 6-foot-9, super lanky player out of Slovakia, a country that only had players on one percent of NCAA rosters last season. His scouting report labeled him as a shooter.
In the preseason games, we got a glimpse of what Dolezaj can do on the floor. In his first 20 minutes off the bench, he didn’t showcase his sniper abilities. He missed his only attempt. In fact, his only bucket was a layup. But where the Slovak did shine was on defense. He used his lanky frame to pick up five steals and looked very active on that end of the floor. Game two was a lot of the same. He still has not connected from long range, but then again, the Dome brings a strange shooting disadvantage that Dolezaj might still be getting used to.
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Orange Hoopsters Think Positive As Season Begins - Syracuse New Times (syracusenewtimes.com; Michael)
Quick, when was the last time we entered November with the Syracuse University football team having a better chance of making a bowl game than the Orange basketball team of making the NCAA Tournament?
If you said a long time ago, you’re probably right. Despite its heartbreaking 27-24 loss at Florida State Nov. 4, the football team still has a fighting chance to qualify for its first bowl game since 2013 and only its fifth bowl game in the past 16 years. The Orange (4-5) needs to win two of its final three games, starting with the contest against Wake Forest at the Carrier Dome on Saturday, Nov. 11, 3 p.m.
The basketball team, meanwhile, looks from the outside like it’s headed for a second consecutive National Invitation Tournament (NIT) appearance. The Orange lost six key players from last year’s team: Tyler Lydon, Andrew White, John Gillon, Taurean Thompson, DaJuan Coleman and Tyler Roberson. Those players accounted for 81 percent of SU’s points, 82 percent of the rebounds and 66 percent of the assists.
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Twitter doubles character limit to 280 for (nearly) everyone (wbal.com; AP)
Twitter says it's ending its iconic 140-character limit - and giving nearly everyone 280 characters.
Users tweeting in Chinese, Japanese and Korean will still have the original limit. That's because writing in those languages uses fewer characters.
The company says 9 percent of tweets written in English hit the 140-character limit. People end up spending more time editing tweets or don't send them out at all. Twitter hopes that the expanded limit will get more people tweeting more, helping its lackluster user growth. Twitter has been testing the new limit for weeks and is starting to roll it out Tuesday.
The company has been slowly easing restrictions to let people cram more characters into a tweet. It stopped counting polls, photos, videos and other things toward the limit. Even before it did so, users found creative ways to get around the limit. This includes multi-part tweets and screenshots of blocks of text.
Twitter's character limit was created so that tweets could fit into a single text message, back when many people were using texts to receive tweets. But now, most people use Twitter through its mobile app; the 140-character limit is no longer a technical constraint but nostalgia.
