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Welcome to National LED Light Day!
October 7th may be an unusually illuminating day considering it is National LED Light Day.
We are all born as incredible detectors of light. We intuitively notice differences in color and brightness. And lighting professionals know that much of human sensation is visual. People respond emotionally to light and color, using its consistency to draw us in, like moths to a glowing light. The power of LED lighting affects all of us in emotional, economic, and environmental ways, too.
Emotion
Unlike other light sources, LEDs can create a more appealing display for a variety of environments. Let’s say you drive by two gas stations. Station A is illuminated throughout by bright white LED lights, while Station B’s illumination varies from yellow to white and one panel is dim. You will likely go to Station A because its color consistency feels comforting, clean, secure, and high-quality. You may not even be conscious of that decision.
Economy
LED lights help save on our energy costs. The low power consumption, high reliability, and long lifespan allow us to realize significant energy savings. They also reduce maintenance over the lifetime of an LED fixture.Environment
The fewer LED bulbs changed means there are fewer bulbs thrown away. LED bulbs also have a much smaller impact on the environment than other light sources. Furthermore, because LEDs use electricity very efficiently, greenhouse gas emissions are reduced.SU News
Life Center's Quadir Copeland (23) gets past St. Thomas Aquinas' Jaquan Harris (3) during the boys basketball game at St. Thomas Aquinas High School on 2/4/21.Tom Horak | For NJ Advance Media
Two Syracuse basketball recruits will take official visits to campus this weekend (PS; Waters)
Two recruits in the Class of 2022 will take official visits to the Syracuse University campus this weekend, but these visits are of a different sort.
Justin Taylor and Quadir Copeland will both take their official campus visits to Syracuse this weekend even though have already committed to the Orange.
Copeland, a 6-6 guard from Gettysburg, Pennsylvania; and Taylor, a 6-6 wing from Charlottesville, Virginia; both currently attend IMG Academy in Bradenton, Florida.
The NCAA allows high school basketball recruits to take up to five official visits during their junior year and five more in their senior year.
Taylor and Copeland each visited the SU campus last June and announced their decisions to attend Syracuse shortly afterward. Now, both are taking advantage of the NCAA’s rule permitting visits during the senior year to come see the campus again.
On this trip, Taylor and Copeland will be able to see the school with students on campus. They will sit in on classes, meet professors and watch the basketball team practice.
In addition to Taylor and Copeland, the Syracuse coaches also have a commitment from Peter Carey, a 6-11 center from Northfield Mount Hermon School in Massachusetts.
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What’s on menu and who cooks when Jim Boeheim hosts recruits at his house? (Mike’s Mailbox) (PS; $; Waters)
The Syracuse basketball coaches have hosted a number of high school recruits on official visits over the past few weeks.
A few of the recruits have summarized their visits for reporters and mentioned having dinner at the home of Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim.
That sparked a very intriguing question from a reader who wanted to know more about those dinners at the Boeheim’s.
That’s where we start with this week’s Mike’s Mailbox.
Q: When Coach Boeheim entertains recruits and their families at his home for dinner, who does the cooking?
Marc S.
Mike: When the Syracuse coaches are hosting a recruit on an official campus visit, they usually take the recruit and his family out to a local restaurant for dinner. When possible, they will also invite the recruit and his family to a dinner at the Boeheim household. The entire team usually attends these get-togethers.
I asked Juli Boeheim about the dinners at the family’s home and this was her response:
“Good question! Wish I could say I cooked everything, but it’s more than I can handle! It’s a large group of 40-plus, so we have it catered without servers.
“The food is dropped off and we set it all up, etc. That keeps it all in the family!
“We have had a food truck as well, which is fun and super easy for me! The (coaches’) wives help with homemade desserts and I make a few sides! Always so fun to welcome the recruits here into our home and have the team over!’’
As far as the menu, Juli said she uses several different local restaurants and a variety of meals.
“Barbeque is very popular,’’ she said. “We have done Italian as well. We try to offer a large variety of options, including salmon and lamb chops. I make a side dish – spoon bread. It’s a Southern cornbread that the guys love.
“Desserts are usually brownies, cookies, cupcakes and Katie McNamara makes a popular Oreo and pudding dessert.’’
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Syracuse basketball ‘made me feel like I was at home,’ big-man target says (itlh; Adler)
Syracuse basketball 2022 target Maliq Brown from Virginia recently took an official visit to the Hill, and he had a lot of encouraging things to say about his trip in an interview.
The 6-foot-9 Brown is a senior at the Blue Ridge School in St. George, Va. He is good friends with Orange 2022 four-star commit Justin Taylor, and I’m hopeful that relationship will prove an advantage for the ‘Cuse in Brown’s recruitment.
In February of this year, Syracuse basketball coaches offered a scholarship to Brown, although things had appeared pretty quiet in the public sphere for a while as it pertains to this talented 2022 power forward and the ‘Cuse program.
However, Brown traveling to Central New York not too long ago is certainly a positive sign, at least to me anyway, that the Orange is firmly in the mix for the three-star Brown.
Maliq Brown, a 2022 big man, enjoyed his official visit to Syracuse basketball.
In a recent interview with Mike McAllister, the publisher of SyracuseOnSI, Brown discussed his official visit to the Orange, and the trip did seem to go well.
Brown told McAllister that some of his favorite components to the ‘Cuse visit were connecting with Orange coaches and the rest of the team’s staff, as well as players on the Syracuse basketball roster. “It was a really good atmosphere and was fun to be around,” Brown said.
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Syracuse legend Gene Waldron joins Devo on the show this week. He talks about the time he dropped 40 in the dome, what it was like playing with Pearl Washington, some hilarious stories on getting coached and recruited by Jim Boeheim, the tradition of Syracuse basketball, what he thinks of this year’s team and much more. Gene was awesome. Subscribe now for FREE wherever you get your podcasts and subscribe to the Field of 68 YouTube channel!
Syracuse Basketball: More blue-bloods enter recruiting fray for 5-star target (itlh; Adler)
Taylor Bowen, a five-star wing and a consensus top-30 prospect in the 2023 class who has interest from Syracuse basketball, is seeing his recruitment expand, with scholarship offers and interest from a range of blue-blood teams and recruiting heavyweights.
The 6-foot-8 Bowen, a junior at the powerhouse Brewster Academy in Wolfeboro, N.H., recently said on Twitter that Kansas has offered him a scholarship.
That’s on top of the already intense competition that the Orange faces if it wants to pick up a commitment from Bowen down the road.
His offer sheet is extensive and growing. Those that have offered Bowen include Dayton, Marquette, Southern California, Maryland, Penn State, Connecticut, LSU, Arkansas, Providence, Rutgers, Iowa, Vermont and George Mason, according to media reports and recruiting services.
Syracuse basketball will have to beat out blue-blood squads for five-star Taylor Bowen.
In addition to Bowen’s current offers, media reports and recruiting services suggest that he holds interest from juggernauts such as Duke, Kentucky, Michigan State and Florida State, among others.
To that end, as we noted in a recent column, Bowen has detailed in a couple of interviews of late which college teams are reaching out to him the most, at least for the time being anyway.
Those groups include Kansas, Kentucky, UConn and Arkansas. Kentucky has absolutely crushed things on the recruiting trail in recent months.
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2021 ACC Basketball Tipoff Attendees Announced (theacc.com)
GREENSBORO, N.C. (theACC.com) – The Atlantic Coast Conference announced Wednesday the 59 basketball student-athletes selected by its 15 league schools to attend the 2021 ACC Basketball Tipoff, October 12-13, at the Charlotte Marriott City Center in Charlotte, North Carolina. For the first time, the men’s and women’s events will be held on consecutive days with the men on Tuesday, October 12 and the women on Wednesday, October 13.
ACC Network will be live from the ACC Tipoff in Charlotte, for two days of expansive coverage. The 24/7 national network dedicated to ACC sports will provide the event’s most robust television coverage to date.
The attendees to the 2021 ACC Tipoff are:
Men’s (October 12)
Boston College
Head Coach Earl Grant
Makai Ashton-Langford
Brevin Galloway
Clemson
Head Coach Brad Brownell
Naz Bohannon
Hunter Tyson
Duke
Head Coach Mike Krzyzewski
Joey Baker
Wendell Moore Jr.
Florida State
Head Coach Leonard Hamilton
Malik Osborne
Anthony Polite
Georgia Tech
Head Coach Josh Pastner
Michael Devoe
Jordan Usher
Louisville
Head Coach Chris Mack
Jarrod West
Malik Williams
Miami
Head Coach Jim Larrañaga
Kameron McGusty
Isaiah Wong
North Carolina
Head Coach Hubert Davis
Armando Bacot
Caleb Love
NC State
Head Coach Kevin Keatts
Manny Bates
Jericole Hellems
Notre Dame
Head Coach Mike Brey
Prentiss Hubb
Nate Laszewski
Other
First Look: This new Lyncourt cafe serves the heaviest pastry you’ll ever devour (PS; $; Miller)
For the past 22 years, Mike Bolognone has been delivering premium coffee to hundreds of businesses throughout Central New York for his father’s distribution company. It only makes sense that his first go at the restaurant business would be to serve the perfect pastry to dunk into that coffee.
The Koffee King Cafe opened a few weeks ago at 3712 New Court Ave. in Lyncourt, in the building that once housed Bob’s Barkers brick-and-mortar hot dog stand. Mike and his wife, Rebekah, had talked for years about opening a cafe that serves her baked goods, sandwiches and soups. Earlier this year, he was on his way to the office on Townline Road and noticed the building was for sale.
Mike and Rebekah closed on the property in April. They painted the entrance, built a food counter using discarded wine barrels and scraped years of grease off the kitchen equipment. As they restored the inside for the cafe, they opened an ice cream stand in the front lefthand side of the store on July 2. They serve milkshakes, floats and cones, using locally made Byrne Dairy hard ice cream.
The building is now fully open with five tables inside for up to 18 dine-in customers. They also have picnic tables in the outdoor patio and a drive-through window.
Koffee King Cafe in Lyncourt. Charlie Miller | cmiller@syracuse.com
Throughout the summer, Rebekah worked on perfecting her recipes for the cafe. She developed a breakfast pizza, a chocolate peanut butter banana bread, grilled sandwiches and belly-filling soups.
The signature dish here, though, is the Gooey Buns.
Mike grew up in Syracuse eating the sticky buns his grandmother made each weekend. Rebekah’s side of the family in southern New Jersey had its own cinnamon bun recipe handed down from her great-grandmother. Rebekah spent months blending the two recipes until she figured out the ideal blend.
“I’m in love with the product,” Mike said. “Seriously, these are special. They do take so long to make, but it’s so worth it in the end.”
You’d think making sticky buns is nothing more than mixing up some flour, sugar, cinnamon and water and tossing it into an oven.
Think again.
It takes Samantha Kelly, their general manager and head baker, three hours to make a batch of 30-48 buns each morning. “That’s why other people don’t make these,” Rebekah said. “It takes so long for the dough to rise that most people just give up.”
The homemade dough recipe comes from Rebekah’s side of the family. Mike’s great-grandmother, Malvina, would put melted butter on top of the dough, under the cinnamon and sugar.
You must try ...
Gooey Buns ($3.19): A typical sticky bun from a bakery or supermarket weighs 2 or 3 ounces. The ones at Koffee King Cafe are anything BUT typical. I think I figured out why they call them Gooey Buns here: The think syrupy glaze serves as a binder for the five rings of cinnamon dough rather than a thin hardened sugar icing.One of these 6-inch breakfast pastries weighs 9½ ounces, more if you order one with nuts and/or cream cheese frosting. This baked yeast pastry is heavier than five scrambled eggs, and it’s a hell of a lot tastier.
You will need a large cup of their medium-roast Paul de Lima coffee to wash it down. The coffee is fresh and complements the bun nicely without getting in the way of its flavor.
TIP: Be sure you have a knife. These buns are so dense that without a fork, it’ll be like eating an extra-long Pizza Frite at the State Fair. That’s a good thing.
