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Welcome to INTERNATIONAL CAPS LOCK DAY!!!
EVERYONE IS TO PUT THE CAPS LOCK ON BEFORE TYPING ON INTERNATIONAL CAPS LOCK DAY, A DAY THOUGHT UP BY DEREK ARNOLD OF IOWA IN 2000. HE STARTED THE DAY AS A PARODY, TO TAKE A JAB AT THOSE WHO WRITE IN CAPS WHEN IT IS NOT NECESSARY. WRITING IN ALL CAPS IS OFTEN USED TO INDICATE THAT THE PERSON TYPING IS SHOUTING, AND ITS USE IS OFTEN SEEN AS BEING RUDE OR ANNOYING. BEING THAT CAPS LETTERS ARE ALL THE SAME HEIGHT, THEY ARE HARDER TO READ THAN LOWER CASE LETTERS. THIS GIVES ONE INDICATION OF WHY THEY MAY BE SEEN AS BEING ANNOYING. THE DAY WAS ORIGINALLY JUST CELEBRATED ON OCTOBER 22, BUT AFTER "INFOMERCIAL KING" BILLY MAYS PASSED AWAY ON JUNE 28 IN 2009, THE DAY BEGAN BEING CELEBRATED ON THAT DATE AS WELL. THIS IS BECAUSE THE CAPS LOCK KEY STARTED BEING CALLED THE BILLY MAYS KEY BECAUSE BILLY MAYS SEEMED LIKE HE WAS ALWAYS YELLING WHEN HE TALKED ABOUT A PRODUCT.
KEYBOARDS HAVE NOT ALWAYS HAD A CAPS LOCK KEY. UPPER AND LOWER CASE LETTERS WERE ADDED TO THE REMINGTON NO.2 TYPEWRITER IN 1878. A SHIFT KEY WAS ALSO ADDED, WHICH HAD TO BE PRESSED DOWN TO SWITCH BETWEEN THE CASES. THE SHIFT LOCK, INTRODUCED IN 1914 ON THE REMINGTON JUNIOR TYPEWRITER, MADE IT EASIER TO TYPE MULTIPLE CAPITAL LETTERS AT A TIME. THE FIRST COMPUTER WITH A CAPS LOCK KEY WAS THE XEROX ALTO, RELEASED IN 1973. IBM INTRODUCED THE MODEL M KEYBOARD IN 1984; IT STANDARDIZED MANY KEYS, INCLUDING THE CAPS LOCK KEY. MOST KEYBOARDS STILL USE THIS LAYOUT, AND ALMOST ALL KEYBOARDS HAVE CAPS LOCK KEYS.
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What will Syracuse’s starting lineup look like? (Mike’s Mailbox) (PS; $; Waters)
The leaves are changing colors, everything is pumpkin-flavored and college basketball season is right around the corner.
I’m hearing from a lot of Syracuse fans these days. Everyone seems to be excited about the upcoming season despite the uncertainty due to the coronavirus. We don’t even have a schedule out yet and the season is slated to begin on Nov. 25.
But it’s always good to hear from readers. You’ve been sending in a lot of questions recently, so let’s get to them.
Q: Who do you project as the starting five and who do you think will have an impact off the bench?
Michael S.
Mike: This question comes up every year around this time and it’s rarely an easy one to answer.
It’s even harder this year because reporters haven’t been able to watch any of the team’s workouts at the Melo Center due to coronavirus restrictions.
I think we can pencil in the four returning starters into the starting lineup again. That would put Buddy Boeheim and Joe Girard in the backcourt, Marek Dolezaj at forward and Bourama Sidibe at center.
That leaves Elijah Hughes' spot at the small forward position as the lone opening in the starting lineup.
It would safe to predict that the two top candidates for the job are sophomore Quincy Guerrier and Illinois transfer Alan Griffin. The interesting thing is that Guerrier and Griffin are two completely different players with two distinct skill sets.
Guerrier is a powerfully-built 6-foot-7, 220-pound forward. He’s a rugged rebounder; an area in which Syracuse struggled last year. He struggled a bit defensively last year and only made three of his 24 shots from 3-point range.
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Michael Carter-Williams on NBA staying power and untold Syracuse stories (theathletic.com; $; Gutierrez)
As a Syracuse freshman, Michael Carter-Williams didn’t just have fleeting thoughts about transferring. He endured days in which frustration came over him. More than once, he walked into coach Jim Boeheim’s office with bad news.
“I had terrible days,” he says. “I had days I told him I was gonna leave the team.”
Boeheim told Carter-Williams, known as MCW, he could go. But mostly, the coach encouraged him to exercise patience and wait for his chance. The five-star recruit arrived expecting to play early, so he became antsy as he rode the bench behind Brandon Triche, a four-year starter at point guard. Carter-Williams nearly transferred out, but he says now he’s glad he didn’t. The opportunity challenged him, forced him to push harder and prepared him for life as an NBA role player fighting for minutes.
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Growing concern around Syracuse basketball's top prospect, Dior Johnson - The Juice Online (the juice; Gustin)
It was the biggest news that Syracuse basketball had seen in a long time.
In the beginning of February, 2022 five-star prospect Dior Johnson verbally committed to Syracuse. The flashy 6-foot-2 guard became the biggest prospect for the Orange since Carmelo Anthony.
But in recent times since the commitment, there has been growing concern over whether Johnson will actually ever suit up for the Orange given the long time between the commitment his arrival on campus.
Originally when he committed, Johnson came out with a powerful statement: “I’ll bring in more recruits.”
And for a while it seemed that this would be the case. In the summer of 2020, Johnson announced that he would team up with 2022 five-star guard Zion Cruz at Oak Hill Academy, who is also a high-priority target for SU.
Since then, Johnson suffered a stress fracture in his right foot, and reportedly left Oak Hill. But in the past few weeks there was still a possibility that Johnson could return to the prep school for the season if his recovery went well.
That door is shut.
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Syracuse Basketball: How is Alan Griffin not a top-80 impact newcomer? (itlh; Adler)
ESPN.com published a list of newcomers to watch in 2020-21, and oddly Syracuse basketball wing Alan Griffin didn’t make the cut of the top 80.
Since Alan Griffin announced in early April that he would transfer for his junior and senior seasons from Illinois to Syracuse basketball, the talented wing has gotten included on countless rankings of the top transfers across the country from a variety of national media outlets.
The 6-foot-5 Griffin, who will contend for a starting role with the Orange in the 2020-21 stanza and should receive extended minutes in head coach Jim Boeheim’s rotation, averaged nearly 9 points and 4.5 rebounds last year for Illinois in just 18.1 minutes per contest, while connecting on 48 percent from the field and nearly 42 percent from downtown.
He’s an extremely efficient scorer and rebounder, to say the least, and Griffin recently landing a waiver from the NCAA for immediate eligibility provides a significant boost to the Syracuse basketball outlook in the upcoming term.
Nonetheless, Jeff Borzello has published an article on ESPN.com where he rates the top-80 newcomers, both incoming freshmen and transfers, based on the impact that he thinks they will have on their respective teams in 2020-21.
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Syracuse Basketball: Jim Boeheim coach longer due to recruiting success? (itlh; Adler)
Syracuse basketball has some strong momentum for its next few classes, and some Orange fans wonder if that could extend the coaching tenure of Jim Boeheim.
Syracuse basketball head coach Jim Boeheim hasn’t given any indication of when he might retire after a Hall of Fame career on the Hill.
Orange athletic-department officials and school administrators also haven’t provided any information about when Boeheim could call it quits, and whom might replace him – although let’s face it, no other coach out there can fully replace JB.
Boeheim’s son, Buddy Boeheim, is a junior shooting guard on the ‘Cuse roster, and a lot of reasonable folks out there speculate that perhaps Jim Boeheim could ride off into the sunset once his son graduates from Syracuse University.
The elder Boeheim is in his 70s, that’s true, but he’s said more than once that he’s in great health and loves coaching, with no near-term plans to retire.
What I find fascinating is that Buddy Boeheim will likely exhaust his eligibility in two years, unless he takes advantage of the extra season of competition that winter-sport athletes are allowed by the NCAA amid the novel coronavirus pandemic, and coming in the stanza after that is the Syracuse basketball 2022 class, led by five-star point guard Dior Johnson.
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Syracuse University graduate Josh Aviv, left, and Onondaga Community College graduate Christopher Ellis, right, pitch their company SparkCharge on "Shark Tank."ABC video still
‘Shark Tank’: SU, OCC grads get $1 million investment for company (PS; $; Herbert)
A Syracuse University alumnus has scored a $1 million investment on TV’s “Shark Tank.”
The Buffalo News reports Joshua Aviv pitched his company, SparkCharge, to celebrity investors on the season premiere of the ABC show Friday. Two “sharks,” Lori Greiner and Mark Cuban, struck a deal to help the company scale up its operations.
“With the power of Lori and Mark, SparkCharge is now fully charged to take over the world,” Aviv said.
Aviv started SparkCharge, which makes portable charging units for electric cars, while he was attending Syracuse University in 2014. Aviv, the company’s CEO, graduated from SU’s Maxwell School in 2015 with a degree in economics and then earned a certificate of advance study in data science and a master’s degree in information management at SU’s iSchool in 2017.
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