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Welcome to Julliene Fries Day!
Each year, National Julienne Fries Day is observed on August 12th.
To julienne fries is to cut the potatoes into long thin strips, similar to matchsticks. Julienne fries are also sometimes called “shoestring fries”.
Although the origin of the julienne cut is uncertain, the oldest known print is in the 1722 edition of Francois Massialot’s Le Cuisinier Royal et Bourgeois.
CELEBRATE
Grab some julienne fries and use #JulienneFriesDay to post on social media.
HISTORY
Within our research, we were unable to find the creator of National Julienne Fries Day, an “unofficial” national holiday.
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2015 SU Football Opponent Preview: NC State Wolfpack (thejuice; Cheng)
NEW POWER RISING?: There is plenty of excitement around NC State these days. Head coach Dave Doeren followed a woeful 3-9 rookie season with a remarkable 8-5 record in 2014. The Wolfpack even went toe-to-toe with ACC royalty Florida State, holding a lead late into the third quarter before ultimately losing 56-41. It was a glimpse into the potential of Doeren’s squad, and perhaps a warning shot to the upper echelon of the conference that there may be a new power rising in North Carolina. “Well, you can’t beat teams if you don’t believe you can beat ’em, that’s for sure. I think at the end of the season we were playing very confident team football,” Doeren said at ACC Kickoff. “I think our guys believed they could beat anybody in the country. We started to play like it. Now we’ve got to go out there and do it.”
» Related: Previewing SU’s game against Clemson
SCOUTING THE WOLFPACK: Look no further than quarterback Jacoby Brissett as the reason for the Wolfpack’s turnaround. The Florida transfer was brilliant in Doeren’s system, throwing for 2606 yards and 23 touchdowns to just five interceptions. “The quarterback’s the CEO of your football team,” Doeren said. “You can have a lot of other things, but if you don’t have (a quarterback)… it’s hard to reach the goals you have as a program.” The dual-threat quarterback also rushed for 529 yards and three touchdowns, aiding a devastating rushing attack that that was 39th overall in the country at 204.5 yards per game. The Wolfpack also return their leading rushers from last season, Shadrach Thornton (907 yards, nine TDs) and Matt Dayes (573 yards, eight TDs).
PREDICTION: If the Wolfpack wants to joint the ACC elite, this would be the season to do it. They’re returning an experienced secondary and a workhorse backfield with a stellar quarterback under center. Circle Oct. 3’s game against Louisville as a barometer of how far NC State has come. NC STATE 31, SYRACUSE 28.
2015 SU Football Primer (thestudentsection.com; Manganiello)
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5 QUESTIONS ON SYRACUSE FOOTBALL
The Student Section: From 1949 through 2004, Syracuse had only four head football coaches. Since 2005, the Orange have had three. Yet, Scott Shafer has made some odd comments to the press during his short tenure. Are the university and the fan base comfortable with Shafer, realizing they need stability, or is Shafer in a situation where he needs to prove himself to the community a little more?
Joe Manganiello: What Orange fans want more than anything is stability. However far removed Syracuse gets from the Greg Robinson era (10-37, 2005-2008), the program has nonetheless had only two winning seasons since 2002. Whatever fuzzy feelings Doug Marrone had built up after a pair of 8-win campaigns and bowl game victories were eviscerated when he fled, in rapid succession, to the Buffalo Bills and Jacksonville Jaguars — the world is your dream job, Doug.
Scott Shafer enters the 2015 season with a flawed roster — a terribly young defense, thin trenches, and a largely unproven, brand new offense. Syracuse fans must be patient — Shafer has secured quite a haul for his 2016 recruiting class, and running him out of town subject to bowl eligibility only starts the clock all over again.
TSS: What is the most realistic fix — be it a player, a unit of the offense, or a play-selection approach — for the team’s red-zone woes?
JM: Remember this name: Jamal Custis. The 6-foot-5 sophomore turned heads at the spring game, and Terrel Hunt sees Custis developing into a first round pick before his time is up in Orange. Syracuse has decent height at wide receiver and tight end this fall — Josh Parris (6-4), Cam MacPherson (6-4), Trey Dunkelberger (6-4), Adly Enoicy (6-5) — including No. 1 receiver Steve Ishmael (6-2). However, Custis has special potential, the kind that has the Syracuse basketball team asking him to walk on and the Sporting News predicting a leap to the professional basketball someday. Custis needs to play in the red zone.
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SU Professor to Launch Free 'Star Trek' Class This Fall (PS; Tulloch)
Trekkies across the galaxy, rejoice! Syracuse University professorAnthony Rotolo plans to take his "Star Trek" class where no professor has gone before.
For the first time, Rotolo will offer a free and open#TrekClass to the public, independent from the university.
Fans across the globe canregister for the online course which runs from September to December 2015. Live class sessions will also take place in Syracuse, with dates and locations to be announced at a later time.
Rotolo first launched #TrekClass at Syracuse University in 2010 for enrolled students, with special sessions of the class at the NASA Johnson Space Center, South by Southwest and on stage at the Official Star Trek Convention in Las Vegas.
"This is a combination of everything the class has covered in its five-year history," said Rotolo. "We will focus on media history and the real-world implications of technologies 'Star Trek' started or inspired."
Rotolo remembers the 1988 "Next Generation" episode "The Arsenal of Freedom," in which an automated weapons system conducts war for a civilization. In 2015, that's not science fiction anymore.
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