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Welcome to National Boston Cream Pie Day!
Celebrate National Boston Cream Pie Day! A French chef named Sanzian invented Boston cream pie in 1856. He worked at the Parker House Hotel in Boston, Massachusetts, which is also where the Parker House roll originated.
In 1996, Boston cream pie became the official dessert of Massachusetts in a bill sponsored by Norton High School. This bill defeated both Indian Pudding and Toll House cookies as the state's official dessert. Boston cream pie is now also a popular doughnut, coffee, and ice cream flavor.
Although it is called a pie, Boston cream pie is actually a cake. It consists of two round layers of sponge cake with a thick vanilla custard filling. It is usually frosted with a chocolate glaze but it can also be topped with confectionary sugar. The dessert is served in wedges just like a pie. Enjoy a big slice today to celebrate National Boston Cream Pie Day!
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SU Basketball Preview: The Orange Can Compete By Shooting Threes (TNIAAM; Burke)
There's no guarantee that this year's Syracuse team is going to be much better than last year's, which went just 18-13 and 9-9 in Atlantic Coast Conference play. But there does seem to be a guarantee that this one will at least be more exciting -- and probably more frustrating too.
That's because the 2015-16 Orange will take a lot of 3-point shots. Head coach Jim Boeheim told CBS Sports' Jon Rothstein that he expects his team to take between 25 and 30 of them per game. That's not typical for Syracuse, but Boeheim seems to know he'll have to adapt for the Orange to compete in what's sure to be a very competitive ACC.
"You have to look at your team and say, ‘How can we beat somebody?'" he said at SU's annual media day on Oct. 16. "Supposedly these teams are all better than us."
From a pure talent perspective, you could make the case that SU is worse now than it was a year ago. The Orange added three new freshmen -- Franklin Howard, Tyler Lydon and Malachi Richardson -- and a healthyDaJuan Coleman, but lost talented big men Rakeem Christmas and Chris McCullough to the NBA.
But if there's a reason to feel more optimistic going into this season, it's that this team should have a pretty clear offensive identity. Last year's didn't, other than giving the ball to Christmas and getting out of the way. And the 3 surely wasn't a strength; the Orange shot just 30 percent from beyond the arc, 324th among all Division I teams. They were especially bad in transition, making just 24.4 percent of those 3-pointers.
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ACC Basketball: A Home for Scandal? (isportsweb.com; Beissner)
The ACC boasts some of the most elite teams in college basketball. Aside from its high caliber teams, the conference has also been the home of NCAA investigations over recent seasons. How much do these scandals affect the renown of the ACC?
Most recently, the Louisville basketball program has faced unsavory allegations regarding a former assistant coach. Andre McGee, who was an active coach at the university from 2010 to 2014 – including the year the Cardinals won the national championship, reportedly paid for strippers to attend parties for basketball players and recruits.
Meanwhile Louisville’s head coach, Rick Pitino denies any knowledge of McGee’s activities. In the wake of the scandal Pitino has refused to step down as head coach and instead has urged McGee to own up should the allegations be true.
This scandal comes on the heels of Syracuse’s eight year investigation by the NCAA that culminated last year. The results of the investigation were severe penalties including the nine-game suspension of head coach Jim Boeheim, 108 docked victories and the loss of 12 scholarships over the next four years.
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Yellow line shows route proposed by developer Eckardt Beck for new road to take truck traffic from the Interstate 481 interchange on the top left to the CSX rail yard in Manlius. The white line is an alternative route, no longer under consideration, that would use Kirkville and Girden roads.
Developer: New Road Would Solve Opposition to Proposed Manlius Inland Port (PS; Moriarty)
The man behind a proposed inland port in Manlius said Thursday he has a solution to avoid neighborhood opposition to the project.
Eckardt Beck, chairman and CEO of 3Gi CNYIP Inc., proposed building a road off Kirkville Road to carry truck traffic from Interstate 481 directly to the CSX rail yard to the south.
Currently, trucks going in and out of the rail yard use Kirkville and Fremont roads to get to the rail yard. Beck said the new road would eliminate much of the truck traffic that now goes past residential properties on those two roads.
He has proposed using a 100-acre site on the north side of the rail yard for an intermodal cargo transfer facility, or inland port, a project first proposed by another developer 10 years ago and taken over by Beck nearly four years ago. However, opposition from neighbors, particularly along Fremont Road, has long posed a problem for the project.
Beck said a new, mile-long road off Kirkville Road near the I-481 exit would solve the neighborhood problem. His proposal is far from becoming a reality, however.
Beck estimated that building the road would cost $25 million. He said he would need state or federal transportation grants to pay for it, and so far he has not been successful at getting any.
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