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Welcome to National Joy Germ Day!
On January 8, 1981, Joan E. White of Syracuse, New York, was reading the newspaper when she came across a story about a California couple who offered to worry for others in exchange for a fee. White believed this approach to facing the world's problems was flawed and decided to create an organization to counteract the worriers. She founded Joygerms Unlimited and designated January 8 as Joygerm Day, on what also happened to be her late mother Nora's birthday.
Shortly after forming Joygerms Unlimited, White began responding to requests from people asking to join the group; she allowed people to join free of charge, as long as they sent her a self-addressed, stamped envelope. Although Joygerms Day was unofficially first held on January 8, 1981, when the idea for it and Joygerms Unlimited came about, it didn't become a "national" day until 1985.
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Hokie Choky: Syracuse loses to Va. Tech 67-63 (Brent Axe recap) (PS; Axe)
As the night went on at the Carrier Dome on Tuesday, you couldn’t shake it.
If you were a “Star Wars” character, you’d be right to blurt out “I’ve got a bad feeling about this.”
Virginia Tech kept missing shots. The Hokies, one of the best 3-point shooting teams in the ACC, went into halftime against Syracuse with a 5-of-18 mark from beyond the arc. Syracuse led the Hokies at the break by a score of 33-27.
The nagging feeling that the 16,504 in attendance and those watching on the ACC Network couldn’t shake was that Syracuse should have a bigger lead than it did with the Hokies so off their game for much of the night.
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Syracuse Basketball is Consistently Inconsistent – Orange Fizz – Free Syracuse Recruiting News (orangefizz.net; Bonaparte)
What started as a promising offensive showing nearly turned into a total disappointment. Syracuse dropped a second straight, this time to Virginia Tech 67-63. The silver lining for the Orange was defense. SU held the Hokies to 27.8% from behind the arc. After giving up 88 points to Notre Dame just a few days ago, that’s one thing Orange fans can hang their hats on. It seems that this team has the pieces to string wins together, it just never fires on all cylinders. When the offense plays well, the defense struggles and when the offense can’t get it going the defense does its job. Last time out against the Fighting Irish, both Joe Girard and Buddy Boeheim eclipsed 20 points, tonight, against a small team without an exceptional defense they combined for just 24. As a team, the Orange shot just 43.4% from the field.
Elijah Hughes, this team’s go-to scorer, shot just 6-16 (37.5%). In most games the Orange lost this season, Hughes has struggled. In the season opener against Virginia, he put just 14 points, against Penn State and Notre Dame he only mustered 19 and against Iowa, the redshirt Junior had 10. In three of SU’s losses this year, Hughes has shot under 30% from the field. When a team’s star is this inconsistent, losses are bound to pile up.
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Virginia Tech rallies to prevail over Syracuse at Carrier Dome (roanoke.com; Burman)
Thanks to a second-half comeback, the Virginia Tech men’s basketball team has finally beaten Syracuse at the Carrier Dome.
The Hokies rallied to beat Syracuse 67-63 on Tuesday night.
Virginia Tech had been 0-6 all-time against Syracuse at the Carrier Dome.
Tech won at Syracuse for the first time since February 1976, back when the Orange played in Manley Field House and before Jim Boeheim became the Syracuse coach.
Tech's only previous win at the Carrier Dome had been against Fairfield in Syracuse's Carrier Classic tournament in 2000.
The Hokies (11-4, 2-2 ACC) trailed by nine points with 12:08 to go before mounting a comeback.
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Developer for ‘national logistics company’ proposes large distribution center in DeWitt (PS; Doran)
A Buffalo-based developer representing a “national logistics company” is proposing a 112,000-square-foot warehouse and distribution center in DeWitt.
The center would be built on a 42-acre parcel at 6834 Kirkville Road next to Interstate 481, according to plans submitted to the town of DeWitt. The site, owned by Magnum Properties, a division of the Widewaters Group, also has access to railroad service and isn’t far from the state Thruway.
The center, which would employ about 200 people, would operate 24 hours a day and have about 30 semi-trailer truck trips daily, according to the plans and a local official.
It is not known if the center is linked to a huge five-story, nearly 3.8-million-square-foot distribution center that has been proposed in Clay. That project has received approval from the town of Clay, and is expected to create 1,000 jobs.
Logistics experts and many people in the community believe the tenant in Clay will be Amazon, the world’s largest online retailer, because of the tremendous size of the building. The developer - Trammell Crow - has said only that it’s designed to fit the needs of e-commerce companies and retailers.
The proposed center in DeWitt would be 13 miles from the Clay distribution center.
Andrew Worden, director of planning and zoning for the town of DeWitt, said it makes sense that the proposed center could complement the Clay center. He said he’d expect there to be other spin-offs hoping to work with the Clay center, but added that he has no knowledge if that’s the case here.
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