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Welcome to National Peanut Brittle Day!
It’s National Peanut Brittle Day! Brittle was one of the first types of candy ever made. Many ancient cultures that had access to molasses, honey, or sugar, produced some form of it.
The first peanut brittle recipe appeared in an American cookbook, but the exact origin of the confection is uncertain. According to one account, peanut brittle was a Celtic dessert. The Celts covered peanuts in sugar and baked them, and this eventually evolved into a caramel bark.
Peanut brittle can be a little tricky to make. Most recipes call for a candy thermometer to allow the baker to regulate the exact temperature, and the results can be affected by weather! If brittle is made on a humid day it will not hold its shape.
To celebrate National Peanut Brittle Day, try making your own brittle or pick some up at your favorite candy shop!
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http://www.elkharttruth.com/sports/...on-out-vs-Syracuse-with-hamstring-injury.html
Notre Dame's Jackson Likely Out vs Syracuse with Hamstring Injury (ndinsider.com; AP)
He covered the short walk from the locker room to the trainer’s room, and then back some 25 minutes later, with no noticeable limp or pronounced problem.
Working out later in Purcell Pavilion, he did a few light sprints at seemingly full speed. He also attacked the other leg exercises prior to Monday afternoon’s practice with the same energy and focus with which he approaches every opportunity to be on the basketball court.
All looked fine with Notre Dame junior captain Demetrius Jackson just over 48 hours after he was helped off the floor following a right hamstring injury.
Coach Mike Brey doesn’t plan on having the former Marian High School standout available for Thursday’s key Atlantic Coast Conference game at Syracuse.
“It would be a miracle to come back,” Brey said.
But….
“I guess miracles happen, especially at Notre Dame I heard,” Brey said.
A Magnetic Resonance Image (MRI) performed Monday afternoon on Jackson’s right leg revealed what Brey expected - a moderate hamstring pull. There is no muscle tear, which likely would have kept the point guard out for weeks.
Brey prefers to take zero chances. Jackson still will make the trip Wednesday to central New York.
“You don’t want to bring him back too soon,” Brey said. “We can’t count on him Thursday. We’re not going to rush it.”
Brey prefers Jackson to sit and reevaluate the leg Friday in advance of Sunday’s home game against Wake Forest. For now, that’s the plan. But plans sometimes can change, especially in the 72-window between Monday’s practice and Thursday’s game. Jackson, who was not made available to the media, sure looked ready. But Brey’s not budging.
“We’ve got to be really, really careful with this,” he said.
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In Search of Kaleb Joseph (TNIAAM; Cassillo)
Going into the 2015-16 season, some signs pointed to Kaleb Joseph making some sort of improvement for the Syracuse Orange. The sophomore point guard struggled in his first season as a starter. But some solid work in the offseason, and apromising preseason created partial optimism that perhaps he'd turned a corner to be a reliable contributor for SU.
Since? Quite the opposite.
He's hit double-digit minutes just four times all season, but just once (Montana State) over the last month and a half. He's record zero minutes in five of the last nine games, and just 17 combined in those other four. Joseph, the touted incoming freshman and one-time starter is now completely gone from Syracuse's plans.
It's not a Jim Boeheim thing -- he played very sparingly through Mike Hopkins's tenure too. And it's not an available minutes thing, because the Orange already have a short rotation and several plays average over 30 minutes. It has nothing to do with experience either, as freshman Frank Howard is averaging nearly three more minutes per game than him as a guard. So, what then?
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Weird Weekend Only Start of Strange ACC Scheduling Ahead (TNIAAM; Keeley)
This weekend was dominated by snow and the effect it wreaked on schedules, timing and travel. For once, the Syracuse Orange were the visiting team affected by snow instead of the home team totally used to it.
The Orange lost to the Cavs on Sunday but certainly can't blame the travel plans for that. While it was the first time ever (according to Jim Boeheim, King of Hyperbole) that his team traveled to a road game on gameday, it was still just business as usual.
Per Mike Waters, the team met and had breakfast at the Melo Center at 9:30 a.m., took off from Hancock Airport around 11:30 a.m., landed in Charlottesville around 12:30 p.m., hung out at the hotel for a bit and then headed over to the arena.
"As soon as we got situated in Charlottesville, we had our minds set on the game,'' Gbinije said. "We felt like we were ready to go out and compete.''
Perhaps the curveball in travel was good for the Orange as it helps to prepare them for a wonky schedule set-up to come.
Now that the three-game road-trip is over, SU gets ready to host four ACC games between Thursday, January 28 and Thursday, February 11 against Notre Dame, Georgia Tech, Virginia Tech and Florida State. Include in that the realization that SU will have played four games in eight days by the time the Virginia Tech game is over on February 2. Between that game and the FSU game is an eight-day stretch with nothing to do but practice.
Boeheim's not complaining. Yet.
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It's Time to Merge Syracuse and Onondaga County, High-Powered Group Says (PS; Baker)
A group of high-profile citizens is ready to revolutionize government in Onondaga County by merging city and county operations.
The group -- called Consensus – will release areport today detailing 51 recommendations for streamlining operations countywide. The basic message is simple: We can do better.
Consensus will propose a centralized city-county government that would consolidate overlapping services in Syracuse and Onondaga County. Over time, towns and villages would be able to "opt-in" to the unified system by popular vote.
The primary goal, the Consensus co-chairs said, is not tax savings but rather economic development and improved public services.
The 80-page report bemoans the over-sized, outdated and inefficient structure of government in Central New York. A city-county merger, it says, could save $20 million a year in governmental administrative costs alone.
The report opens and closes with a call to action to citizens, asking for help to reverse the downward trajectory of our struggling region. Former U.S. Representative James Walsh -- one of the Consensus co-chairs -- called the report an option for "hopeful people."
"We can do better," the report says. "And we can start by creating a local government structure in the Syracuse-Onondaga community worthy of our people. A globally-competitive future depends on the modernization of each and every one of our governmental structures."
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