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Welcome to National Cotton Candy Day!
Five Food Finds about Cotton Candy
- Cotton candy was originally called fairy floss.
- Cotton candy contains only one ingredient: sugar.
- The process by which cotton candy is made has been around for over 100 years so chances are you could ask your grandparents about their first encounter with cotton candy and they’ll tell you at great length how much it cost and how neat it was back in the day.
- It was forgotten for a while several decades ago, but cotton candy became an instant hit when suddenly it was mass produced and became readily accessible to everyone – not just the ones going to a fair or circus.
- Cotton candy doesn’t contain all that much sugar – merely as much sugar as one would get drinking a can of an average soft drink.
Looking Back on Lucious Jackson (TNIAAM; Szuba)
Lucious "Luke" Jackson came to Syracuse in 1991 from Beaumont, Texas, itself roughly the same size as Syracuse in terms of population. Jackson didn't turn to basketball until age 11, but basketball was always in his blood as his father, Luke Jackson, played multiple seasons in the NBA and won the 1967 NBA Finals with the Philadelphia 76ers. He came in as part of a talented Syracuse Orange freshman class that featured Anthony Harris, Glenn Sekunda and the eventual all-time leading scorer in the Big East, Lawrence Moten.
While Harris transferred due to his academic struggles as a freshman and Sekunda transferred to Penn State after his sophomore year, Jackson stuck around with Moten and continued to work himself into a good player. In his sophomore year, Jackson would play a key role off the bench for Syracuse as the team's sixth man.
As a junior, Jackson turned himself into a starter and averaged double-figures in scoring while shooting 45.6% from the floor. He helped lead the team to the 1994 Sweet 16 before falling to No. 1 seed Missouri in overtime.
Jackson would continue to improve in his senior season and would prove to be the team's best defender. In each of his seasons in orange & blue, Syracuse won at least 20 games. Jackson was able to play in his home state for his final NCAA Tournament as a senior. After dropping 22 points in Syracuse's first round win as a No. 7 seed, Boeheim joked...
"Lukie likes the air down here. We should have played down here more often."
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Boeheim's Army Has Not Yet Begun to Fight, Will Return Next Year (thejuice; Cheng)
Boeheim’s Army general manager Kevin Belbey calls in to chat about The Basketball Tournament with host Wesley Cheng on the Juice on the Cuse podcast hosted by SNY.tv. Editor in Chief Brad Bierman also checks in to talk about ACC kickoff and a busy week with the football team.
Here are the highlights from the show:
Wes Cheng: Do you see Boeheim’s Army returning in 2016?
Kevin Belbey: Hopefully we can come back and win it next year. I think that’s the plan. Everyone had a really great time. We played well and it’s a brotherhood with all of those guys having played at Syracuse. A lot of those guys never played together, but immediately upon seeing each other, it was like they were part of the fraternity. Competing for a million dollars was great, but they had a great time being together and being around each other. It wouldn’t be difficult to get guys interested and to bring everyone back for a second go around.
WC: Do you already have commitments lined up for next year?
KB: I didn’t want to talk about it right after the loss. It was tough for guys. But I know everyone had such a great time being together. Baye Moussa Keita already has said I want to do this next year. I didn’t ask too many guys because they’re still sulking about the loss, but hopefully sooner rather than later we can have a discussion.
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Toxic Graveyard: Onondaga Lake Muck Being Buried Forever in Camillus (PS; Coin)
For three years, barges visible from I-690 dredged up enough contaminated muck from the bottom of Onondaga Lake to fill the Carrier Dome.
That dredging ended in November, but the disposal of that 2.2 million cubic yards of lake muck continues out of sight on top a former wastebed in Camillus.
The final resting place for the lake bottom – laden with mercury, benzene and other chemicals from industrial dumping – is a landfill built on Honeywell property about four miles from the lake. The sediment from the lake will be sealed in plastic, covered with soil and planted over with about 50 acres of native grasslands.
The lake bottom graveyard, known officially as the "sediment containment area," contains multiple layers of backup systems designed to keep the chemicals encased forever.
"It's going to be totally sealed off," said John McAuliffe, program manager for Honeywell's $451 million cleanup of the lake.
The lawyer for residents suing Honeywell over the dredging doesn't buy it.
"They're always going to assure us that everything's OK," said Kristian Larsen, who represents the Camillus Clean Air Association.
Larsen said he has yet to see a final plan on how the landfill will be monitored for the long term, and whether it will be properly vented. Camillus residents contend that chemical vapors leaking from the site made them sick.
The case is before a federal judge now.
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