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"Lake Compounce Holiday Lights", a brand new family event, is now open on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday evenings. The park gates will open at 5 p.m. on Fridays, and at 4 p.m.. on Saturdays and Sundays. The event goes until 9 p.m., and will run Dec. 7-9, 14-16, 21-23.
Compounce press materials said, "'Holiday Lights' will provide full family entertainment for all ages, and include festive activities such as a spectacular light show every half hour at the main gate, which will feature tens of thousands of dancing lights set to holiday music. Kiddeland rides and family themed rides will be in operation. The Train will be transformed into the North Pole Railway, operated by a very special, uniformed train conductor with a magical holiday story to tell."
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"Holiday Lights is a very unique event to this area. Combining amusement park rides with holiday celebrations is not something you typically see in Connecticut" says Randy Fiveash, director of tourism in the release. "The folks at Lake Compounce have been preparing for this for months, and have put together a truly magical family experience that no one should miss."
Admission is $14.99 plus tax per adult, $10.99 plus tax for children 4 thru 10, and free for children 3 and under. Season pass holders may enter for free with their 2012 or 2013 pass.
Tickets may be purchased online now, or at the park gate once the event begins. Nominal fees will be charged for select activities. Season Passes are being offered at the park at a special sale price of $69.99 plus tax. They can be purchased as holiday gifts and will include special holiday wrapping.
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"Lake Compounce Holiday Lights", a brand new family event, is now open on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday evenings. The park gates will open at 5 p.m. on Fridays, and at 4 p.m.. on Saturdays and Sundays. The event goes until 9 p.m., and will run Dec. 7-9, 14-16, 21-23.


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I have twin girls who will be 2 in Jan. One of my babies is constantly taking her clothes and diaper off. It happens mostly when I put her in the crib either for nap or bedtime. I have tried putting the diapers on backwards, jammies backwards, but she continues to " Houdini" her way out. I have finally had to resort to packing tape. I put it around her waist so she can't get her jammies past that point. She figured out how to get out of that. So last night I put tape around the sleeves of her jammies around her wrists. that is how she gets out of her clothes, by pulling her arms out of the sleeves and then through the head opening of the jammies. So far that is the only thing that has worked. Or else I am cleaning her bed every day because she pees and poops after taking her clothes off.
I would try telling them in a very friendly/story sort of way that it is unacceptable to shed her clothes and diapers and maybe take it to the next level(chastisment) if that continued the night after.


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Sometimes it's OK to skip the entree and just have pie for dinner. And in that way it's just fine to indulge guilt-free in the sweet, classical sounds of Valentina Lisitsa.
The Ukrainian-born pianist is what we now call an Internet sensation. She posted a few performance videos on YouTube and, 44 million clicks later, she's classical newest star. You can credit her playing for that; it is skilled. Or you can credit her blond hair and some terrifically romantic lighting; equally skilled.
On her new Decca album "Live at the Royal Albert Hall," Lisitsa performs without the benefit of special effects, and proves it's not just a show. Her playing has personality; it's full of flourishes, but delicate. She has a style, but enough reverence for Rachmaninov, Beethoven and Chopin to do their compositions justice.


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Should TfL allow rebranded Tube Stations?
Although Google Maps thinks that South Ken Tube station is already sponsored by Carluccios, it would appear that TfL aren't exactly keen on having London Underground station names taken over by brands.
TfL were in discussions with a wine brand, Oxford Landing, who wanted to re-name Oxford Circus Tube and run a whole lot of "ambient" branding inside the station turning it into "a virtual vineyard".
Oxford Landing offered TfL a rather large amount of money in order to do this for a three month period over the summer however, TfL knocked back the idea. But, they did offer to allow the project for a fee described as 'unworkable' by Oxford Landing.
"We were offering a shed-load of money but the number they came back with was 20 times the amount," said Negociants' (the wine's UK distributor) managing director Simon Thorpe. "We were going to invest significantly in the network and thought the funds would be a welcome boost."
The powers that be at TfL admitted informal discussions took place over Oxford Landing's plans, but told The Grocer it does not allow companies to rebrand stations.
"Does not allow companies to rebrand stations". Really? Mmm this is very weird. What happened to the statement back in 2008 where TfL announced they were lifting a ban on Tube station sponsorship? I've seen tons of branded station take-overs (in fact there's a section on Station domination on Transport Media's website - "Available in several stations across the network. The brand owns the station with opportunity for a branding exercise. £70,000" h/t IanVisits) - so I think the definition of "rebrand" is negotiable.
If companies are not allowed to rebrand stations, why did TfL even have discussions with them in the first place? Why then come back with the classic negotiation tactic of deliberately offering a sky-figure that you know won't be accepted? We know that TfL usually get worked up about Tube Map Mashups because of intellectual property & customer confusion issues - can you imagine how confusing it might be for tourists to see Oxford Landing station?
You might remember there was a bit of a PR problem for Boris last year, when many people, including MPs and London Assembly members, were offended by online loan company Wonga sponsoring free Tube travel on New Year's Eve.
Which leads to the following questions: Is it right for TfL to not allow rebrands of Tube stations or should they be welcoming additional funds and investment from marketers? Would you welcome more ads if it meant that fares weren't increased every year or there was an improvement to the service? Does it, or should it, depend on the advertiser?
Admittedly TfL have a duty of care to protect vulnerable or young commuters from seeing ads that could cause offence or be upsetting. This wasn't the case with Oxford Landing, but we have seen TfL take sometimes surprisingly puritanical attitude with their position over what ads on the Tube are acceptable (and have taken a number of U-turns & re-working on their initial decisions - see the related posts below).
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On third and goal from the three yard line Robert Griffin scrambled and then took a brutal shot to the head from Sean Weatherspoon near the sideline. Griffin III remained on the turf for a few moments and was eventually helped off the field.
Griffin sat on the bench and appeared to be treated for a bloody lip, and then was taken to an observation area beneath the stands behind Washington's bench.
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Palestinian terrorists operating out of the Gaza Strip fired a short-range missile into southern Israel on Tuesday morning wounding a 14-year-old Israeli girl. The missile landed just outside a kindergarten in a kibbutz not far from the southern coastal town of Ashkelon.
The attack comes less than a day after Gaza-based terrorists fired 10 mortar shells into southern Israel, prompting retaliatory strikes on terrorist positions by the Israeli air force.
In other violence, an Israeli soldier narrowly escaped being stabbed by three Palestinian Arabs just north of Jerusalem on Monday.
The soldier was at a gas station outside the Jewish community of Givat Ze'ev when a car pulled up and three Arab men jumped out, one of them brandishing a large knife. The soldier quickly loaded his M-16 rifle and pointed it at his would-be attackers, who got back in their car and sped off.
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Hi Hungry Girl, Would you please give us the stats on your Simply the Pesto Spaghetti without the tofu shirataki noodles? I'd like to make it with whole-wheat pasta and maybe use the pesto as a sandwich spread. Thank you! Pining for Pesto
Okay, here's the deal. If you use whole-wheat spaghetti instead of Tofu Shirataki in that recipe, each serving (about a cup) will have 335 calories, 11g fat, 465mg sodium, 48.5g carbs, 6.25g fiber, 2g sugars, and 13.5g protein (PointsPlus® value 9*) -- not bad at all, considering the average pesto pasta has more than 550 calories and 30g fat for the same amount! Just prepare 4 ounces of whole-wheat spaghetti according to the package instructions, and then toss with the HG pesto sauce. And I love the idea of using the sauce itself on sandwiches, in wraps, over grilled chicken, and more. For anyone who hasn't tried it, it's creamier than most pesto sauces and super-delicious! Here's the recipe and stats so you can whip up a batch...
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PER SERVING (1/4th of recipe, about 2 tbsp.): 68 calories, 5g fat, 228mg sodium, 3g carbs, 0.25g fiber, 0.5g sugars, 3g protein -- PointsPlus® value 2*
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Enjoy! P.S. If you really love the stuff and plan to use it often, make a double batch -- it'll be easier to blend that way!
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Deploying Business Video: 5 Steps to Success
Have you noticed how the communications and collaboration paradigm has evolved in the last few years? Younger generations use and prefer text messaging (SMS and IM) way more than e-mail. And when given a choice, they will go for a video-enabled, face-to-face interaction, skipping voice-only calls completely. This acceptance of video as a primary vehicle for communication is making a strong presence in the enterprise as a business need. For the emerging workforce, quick, simple video communication is a requirement – not a nice-to-have capability – as they intuitively understand how this form of communication is crucial for their productivity and effectiveness.
Like many other technologies and market trends, such as social networking, video is coming to the business environment from the personal consumer environment. Its effect on the way businesses interact internally and externally with customers, partners and providers is completely changing the game and opening new opportunities to create competitive differentiation and broaden reach and impact.
Deploying video without careful planning can easily turn a great idea into a disappointing mess. From our experience in deploying millions of endpoints for thousands of customers around the world, we've learned a few things that can help ensure your video deployment is smooth and successful. Here are five tips to achieve success:
1) Ensure interoperability
Interoperability means simple, standards-based integration between the communications and conferencing platforms and endpoints. It ensures easy, consistent and enjoyable user experiences. Providing users with a choice of endpoint, location and available bandwidth increases the satisfaction with their experience and creates "stickiness", a higher and more routine usage that leads to better and faster realization of the business benefits.
2) Plan for pervasive
Video is here to stay. Restricting access, making it difficult or expensive to use, or supporting only a limited number of user environments is a recipe for failure. Your business video solution should be able to scale and grow with the business and user needs, both today and in the future. The right architecture for pervasiveness can leverage centralized applications and services and provide support for a wide range of user environments, all while being easy to manage and cost-effective.
3) Select the right endpoints
Video deployment is not a "one-size-fits-all" kind of scenario. By looking at your business needs and user requirements, you can develop the appropriate strategy and usage profiles and pair them with a suitable endpoint. Road warriors may need a software-based endpoint to be delivered across all their mobile devices. For groups that have high intensity meeting requirements, a dedicated personal or room-based endpoint may be the best choice. Desk-less workers (think manufacturing, retail and/or hospitality environments, for example) would be more effective and productive with strategically located hardware-based endpoints that are always on and ready. For most information workers, a combination of a software client on their PC and a hardware video endpoint on their desk (home or office location) will provide the best options for flexibility, convenience, reliability and quality of the experience. In the end, this is not a game between one endpoint OR the other; it is about knowing when to use one endpoint AND when it is better to use another.
4) Maximize collaboration
According to a recent Economist Intelligent Unit (EIU) report, "in-person" video-enabled collaboration experiences can improve business process as much as 20 percent. These new experiences help to flatten organizational hierarchies, and aid in better and faster communication across the organization. Additionally, collaboration features provide a number of additional benefits, including, increased user interaction and productivity, higher trust and understanding across time zones, improved customer responsiveness by facilitating access to remote experts, and reduced travel, real estate costs and greenhouse emissions. For example, with the collaboration features provided by Cisco Pulse Video Analytics users can easily search videos for the content that is most relevant to them. Every video can be easily converted into content that is shareable, searchable, editable, likable, and "tweetable". Now, video is a flexible tool that is integral for a full collaboration environment that supports the complete workflow cycle of every user.
5) Provide appropriate support
Have a clear understanding of all the internal and external support roles, and the source and expertise of each. Does your solution require cooperation and participation from several different vendors or just a few? Do you need to manage the support yourself or will your partner and vendors do it for you? Who takes care of enabling your users and foster adoption and usage? What is the reputation of the vendor and partner you are working with? Most importantly, who do you call if something breaks? Good answers to all these questions will guarantee a long lasting, highly utilized, and successful video deployment.
Virtual, in-person communication and collaboration experiences are key to deliver on the new imperatives for business. Seventy-five percent of global business leaders understand the benefits and are deploying these new tools across user types, locations and devices. What is your plan?
Interoperability, pervasive reach, right endpoint selection, maximizing collaboration, and proper business-grade support are 5 easy steps to a successful video deployment strategy. Cisco knows this road better than anyone in the industry and we're excited to share our experiences with you.
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Thanks for your comments Richard. I actually agree that to be ready to deploy and follow the steps I suggested, a company actually needs to understand clearly the points you outlined above, and then, once they have good answers for all those points, they then can proceed to deploy… and based on our experience, the steps I offered seem to lead to success. Thanks for sharing your perspective. Much appreciated.
Richard Tucker
Ok, your suggestions are a few steps ahead then! thanks for replying(and no shock you agreed with my steps also – fairly consistent with the Cisco PPDIOO methodology!)
hi Robert, sorry, I don't agree that these would be the 5 steps to success. I'd would propose that success is more likely if you, 1 – define your business objectives, 2 – determine your requirements, 3 – understand the market, 4 – get hands on experience, 5 – complete a competitive selection process. These alternatives are: a – actually are steps – you finish one, then move to the next in logical order; b – driven by business objectives, as after all technology is a business enabler, not a result in itself; c – may, or may not, capture the suggestions you provide.


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Well, at least one person in Washington DC is finally taking a sensible approach to the US's massive debt and deficit crisis.
Unfortunately, neither political party is listening to him.
Instead, they're just stuffing their fingers in their ears while the debt-ceiling deadline rolls ever closer (and sucking up to their "bases" to make sure they get re-elected.)
The Republicans, for example, continue to stick to their insistence that we fix our problems by slashing spending immediately and raising no additional revenue. That this position is, as the Economist said last week, "economically illiterate and disgracefully cynical," not to mention hypocritical, doesn't appear to bother them a bit.
The Democrats, meanwhile, insist that Medicare and Social Security are sacrosanct, even though these programs are clearly going to bankrupt the country unless they are modified. The Democrats' "plan" to address the deficit, in other words, appears to be to shove their heads deep in the sand.
Of the two parties, the Republican's position seems the more selfish and obstructionist, especially as the debt ceiling looms: After eight years of massively increasing government spending and the deficit while in control of the White House, the Republicans are now taking such an extreme position that observers can be forgiven for thinking that they are trying to damage the economy, in the hopes of sweeping next year's elections.
(And if that's what they're doing, by the way, they should be fired and charged with treason. For those elected to lead the country, the country's interests should come before any political considerations).
But at least one person in Washington is now talking sense. And, happily, he's the most powerful person in the room.
Here, courtesy of the New York Times, is some of what President Obama had to say yesterday from his "bully pulpit":
To the Republicans, who are suddenly so alarmed by the country's financial situation that they are willing to force default to avoid compromise:
"I've been hearing from my Republican friends for quite some time that it is a moral imperative to tackle our debt and our deficit," Mr. Obama said. "What I've said to them is, 'let's go.'"
(On this score, Obama's White House has proposed a plan with an estimated $4 trillion in long-term savings, one built primarily on spending cuts. The Republicans are refusing to even engage with it because it includes closing some tax loopholes.)
To the members of both parties, who are putting their self-interests ahead of the country's:
"American democracy works when people listen to each other, we are willing to give each other the benefit of the doubt, we assume the patriotism, good intentions of the other side, and we are willing to compromise."
To the Democrats, who are refusing to even consider tinkering with Medicare and Social Security:
Grow up. [Not an exact quote].
To the Republicans, who are fighting compromise by saying that Obama wants to "raise taxes during a recession," Obama points out that no taxes would go up until 2013:
"No one is talking about raising taxes right now... have bent over backwards to work with the Republicans that comes up with a formulation that doesn't require them to vote sometime in the next month to increase taxes."
And so on.
The truth about our financial situation is that it would be damn near impossible to dig ourselves out of our hole with spending cuts alone, even if they were politically feasible. And whatever we do--spending cuts AND tax increases--needs to be phased in slowly, so it doesn't clobber an already weak recovery.
To be clear about this: Over the long haul, spending does need to be cut, but slashing it now, suddenly, will deliver a hammer blow to an already frail economy. The country will plunge back into recession, unemployment will soar, and--importantly from a budget perspective--government revenues will drop. The latter outcome, which we're seeing in Greece, the UK, and other countries that have tried "austerity" as a near-term solution, will defeat the whole purpose of trying to balance the budget by cutting spending. It will lead to a sharp reduction in government revenue, which will exacerbate the situation. (Translation: It sounds sensible and prudent, but it won't work.)
Not that the Democrats' "plan" is any better. The Democrats plan appears to be to ignore the crisis, keep their heads stuffed deep in the sand with respect to Medicare, Social Security, and other spending programs, and jack up taxes only on "the rich." The latter element will have to be part of the solution to our woes, but it won't solve the problem. Spending is going to have to be cut, and taxes are likely going to have to rise for everyone.
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Today we had the incredible opportunity to watch the Tour ride through the Pyrenees. We drove the van near the base of the second last climb and rode our bikes to the top. It was definitely the steepest and hardest climb I've ever done. Our enormous backpacks didn't help either. I can't imagine those guys going up twice our speed after riding already for 4 hours! Kyla and I decided that we are never doing the Tour de France. ever. We did get lots of cheers on our way up though!
We were at the top of the Port de Pailheres. It was definitely worth the climb as we had a great view from the top and could see the riders and team cars winding their way up the mountain.
The coolest part was seeing Lance Armstrong live in person!
Kyla and I got some caught some pretty cool hats that were being thrown from the caravans.
This was definitely the highlight of the camp so far! I can't believe we only have 3 more days here before heading to London. We've done some really good work and my running is feeling better that it has in a long time. It's been a great 3 weeks and I'm really looking forward to racing next weekend!


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SHARON -- The Sharon High School Boosters are running a celebrity basketball game fundraiser with New England Patriots players at 7 p.m. Thursday, April 10 in the high school gym.
The money raised will be used to support all 26 girls and boys high school athletic teams.
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Steven P. Segal and Leah A. Jacobs
The deinstitutionalization policy sought to prevent unnecessary admission and retention in institutions for six populations: elderly people, children, people with mental illness or developmental disabilities, criminal offenders, and, more recently, the homeless. It also sought to develop community alternatives for housing, treating, and habilitating or rehabilitating these groups. U.S. institutional populations, however, have increased since the policy's inception by 212%. As implemented, deinstitutionalization initiated a process that involved a societal shift in the type of institutions and institutional alternatives used to house these groups, often referred to as transinstitutionalization. This entry considers how this shift has affected the care and control of such individuals from political, economic, legal, and social perspectives, as well as suggestions for a truer implementation of deinstitutionalization.
Disability: Overview
Romel W. Mackelprang
Characteristics that we contemporarily define as disabilities have existed in the human population from earliest recorded history. Societal explanations for disability have varied greatly by time and populations in which disabilities have occurred. At various times in history, disability has been viewed as a blessing from deity or the deities, a punishment for sin, or a medical problem. Social workers have worked with persons with disabilities from the inception of the profession, and in recent years, social work has begun to embrace the concept of disability as diversity and to treat disability as diversity and welcome disabled persons as fully participating members of society. Social work has begun welcoming persons with disabilities as fully participating members of society, including valuable members of the profession.
Disability: Neurocognitive Disabilities
Lisa S. Patchner and Kevin L. DeWeaver
The multiplicity of disability definitions can be attributed to the heterogeneity of disability, its multifactoral nature, and its effects across the life span. Of particular concern to the social work profession are those persons with neurocognitive disabilities. Neurocognitive disabilities are ones where a problem with the brain or neural pathways causes a condition (or conditions) that impairs learning or mental/physical functioning or both. Some examples are intellectual disabilities, autism spectrum disorders, and savant syndrome. Neurocognitive disabilities are the most difficult to diagnose often times because of their invisibility. Providing services for people with neurocognitive disabilities is very difficult, and people with these disabilities are among the most vulnerable populations in today's society. This entry discusses neurocognitive disabilities and current and future trends in social work disability practice.
Kendra DeLoach McCutcheon
Social workers have a responsibility to challenge discrimination and promote social and economic justice. To fulfill this responsibility, it must be understood how discrimination exists and the detrimental affect it has on the relationship between individuals who are disenfranchised (targeted groups) and individuals who have privilege, resources, and power (advantaged groups) (Hardiman & Jackson, 2007). This entry will present an overview of discrimination, define the various forms of discrimination, present public policy and legislation regarding discrimination, and discuss implications for social workers and the profession.
David W. Springer and Kathleen A. Casey
Rehabilitation is a complex, multidimensional approach within health care that uses an interdisciplinary model of specialized services. The comprehensive treatment team generally includes medical specialists and therapists who specialize in physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy, cognitive therapy, psychology, and recreational therapy. Social workers play a key role in the treatment team, particularly in care coordination, discharge planning, and community reintegration. Trends in comprehensive medical rehabilitation will continue to be significantly influenced by forces within the larger health-care arena. Technological advancements and the social trend toward health and fitness offer great promise for the improvement and expansion of rehabilitation services.


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NEW YORK — Kim Kardashian topped the 2012 list of the most-searched person on Bing, the Web search engine said on Tuesday, with Canadian teen pop star Justin Bieber coming in second.
Kardashian, the reality television personality from "Keeping Up With The Kardashians," grabbed the No. 1 spot back from Bieber after she topped Bing's annual list in 2010 and Bieber came in first last year.
The 32-year-old first found fame in 2007 due to an Internet sex tape, but it was her deft use of social networking and reality TV that propelled her into a global brand with various clothing lines, diet products and cosmetics.
Bieber, 18, came in second after a successful year capped off by sweeping the American Music Awards with his third studio album, "Believe," which was released in June.
Others who made it in top 10 for the first time included singers Rihanna, Selena Gomez, Nicki Minaj and Taylor Swift, while Jennifer Lopez, Britney Spears, Megan Fox and Lady Gaga dropped out of the top 10.
Pop culture figures easily trumped politics, even in an election year, with Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney coming in 43rd and President Barack Obama landing at 46th on the list.
Among the most popular news stories, the release of Apple's (AAPL) iPhone 5 came in at No. 1, followed by the U.S. election, the Olympics and superstorm Sandy. The "Here Comes Honey Boo Boo" reality TV show landed at No. 5, followed by the "Gangnam Style Dance," popularized by South Korean rap star Psy's music video.
The birth of singer Beyonce and Jay Z's baby topped the most searched celebrity events, followed by Jessica Simpson's baby and then Whitney Houston's death.


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So does the Mahayana undermine the 4 Noble Truths?
The Heart Sutra may be the most commonly chanted Buddhist text. In English, it is less than 300 words long.
Halfway through is the astonishing claim that there is "no truth of suffering, of the cause of suffering, of the cessation of suffering nor of the path" — in effect denying the Four Noble Truths that the Buddha himself taught.
So here is a Buddhist text that seems to undermine the very foundation of Buddhism. I know of no parallel text in any other religion.
But Buddhism, at least in theory, is based on undermining itself. It is an ancient post-modernism, calling into question any description of reality, including its own, because humans crave descriptions of reality more than reality itself.


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Blizzards rage over the Norwegian town of Hammerfest, located around 600 kilometres north of the Arctic Circle. It is hard to think of a more inhospitable setting for a high-tech industrial complex – let alone one of the largest natural gas liquefaction plants in the world. On Melkøya, a small barren island off the coast of Hammerfest, engineering experts from Linde successfully delivered a pioneering natural gas project. Here, natural gas sourced from below the Barents seabed is pre-purified, cooled to minus 160 degrees Celsius – which turns it into liquefied natural gas (LNG) – and loaded onto tankers. Most LNG plants are located in places with hot climates such as Algeria or the Arabian Peninsula, and none of them are exposed to six long months of snow and ice each year. Since no-one had ever designed a plant on this scale for this kind of climate before, the challenge facing the Linde engineers was immense. They began by simulating the local snow and storm conditions and even constructed a test rig of steel girders, pipes and valves on the island of Melkøya. The engineers used a webcam to see where the snow accumulated and whether it affected the rig.
From Norway to the four corners of the globe: Cryogenic LNG from Hammerfest travels around the world in the spherical tanks of the Arctic Princess.
Engineering a plant to withstand high winds and freezing temperatures
Heat exchanger at the heart of it all
Every natural gas field is different – the pressure, composition and temperature of the gas deposits can vary significantly. The process chain, above all cooling and liquefaction, therefore has to be tailored exactly to these variables. On Melkøya, liquefaction takes place in a heat exchanger installed in a coldbox around 62 metres high and as large as a narrow office block. It functions along the same lines as a fridge. A compressed coolant condenses and expands as it is fed past natural gas in huge heat exchangers. This expansion process gradually extracts heat from the natural gas, with the temperature falling from around 40 degrees Celsius to minus 163 degrees, at which point it liquefies. In this state, the gas shrinks to 1/600th of its original volume – making it more suitable for transport by sea. The bundle of tubes that makes up the coil-wound heat exchanger is the heart of the coldbox. These boxes comprise numerous heat exchangers, separation columns and separators together with connecting pipes and instruments. Linde is the only manufacturer that produces both types of cryogenic heat exchanger typically deployed in industrial-scale LNG plants – coil-wound and plate-fin models.
The coldbox for the LNG plant in Hammerfest, Norway, was assembled at the Belgian port of Antwerp.
Harsh conditions for man and machine
Although Linde already had extensive experience with LNG plants when it took on the Hammerfest project, existing references were for smaller liquefaction capacities located in warmer climates. It was a huge step for Linde engineers, therefore, to ramp up to annual capacities of four million tonnes in Arctic conditions. The Melkøya project changed the global market for world-scale LNG plants. Ten years ago, two technologies dominated the international market for plants capable of producing millions of tonnes of LNG per year. Linde engineers raised the game by developing their own highly efficient liquefaction process specially for the Melkøya project, thus sending out a clear signal to the industry. Linde's engineering experts have thus proven their expertise in delivering modular process plants and key components along with their ability to cover the entire spectrum from small terminals to world-scale plants operating under the harshest conditions.
At the heart of the coldbox – which was manufactured in Schalchen, Germany – lies a bundle of tubes that makes up the coil-wound heat exchanger.


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A photo gallery from Saturday's National Championship Game at the Tampa Bay Times Forum between Ferris State and Boston College in the Frozen Four. Photos are courtesy of Scott Whitney, Bill Bitzinger and Matt Yeoman. Photos of the welcome home celebration are courtesy of Scott Randle.


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Mobile water treatment in Asia Pacific increases with rural population's demand for better quality water
Rapid urbanization in the Asia Pacific is prompting the rural population to intensify its demands for access to cleaner and purer water.
SINGAPORE, Jan. 2, 2013 -- Rapid urbanization in the Asia Pacific is prompting the rural population to intensify its demands for a better quality of life, which includes access to cleaner and purer water. This, coupled with demand for high quality water from water-intensive industries, makes a robust case for mobile water treatment in the region.
New analysis from Frost & Sullivan (http://www.environmental.frost.com), Asia-Pacific Mobile Water Treatment Market, finds that the market earned revenues of $48.2 million in 2011 and is expected to reach $298.3 million by 2017.
As the costs of addressing the water needs are high, mobile water treatment systems are fast emerging as the most viable option in countries with budgetary constraints.
Water quality and type varies from location to location, depending on the source and geography, and this has a direct impact on costs. To keep their systems affordable, the biggest players are leveraging their strengths in different technologies to put together the best combination of technologies, which can treat a vast variance of water influents.
"Mobile systems' ease of transport and quality of output are popularizing them at the consumer level; while the increase in investments and the number of water-intensive industries is driving the market at the commercial and industrial level," said Frost & Sullivan Research Associate Prashanth Kay.
Additionally, this market benefits from the need for emergency solutions during disaster relief and the demand from the defense sector for portable water solutions. As technology develops and legislation on water quality strengthens, cost is expected to drop.
However, at present, there is a lack of regulation on both the quality of water and treated industry effluent. Stringent legislation can compel industries to adopt mobile water treatment systems to comply with regulations, as this would be a better option than heavy investments in treatment facilities.
"The market for mobile water treatment systems is being spearheaded by companies that provide the best form of technology at the most reasonable price," noted Kay. "This, and the availability of fleet at any given time, is what drives the sales of the top competitors."
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Robert Tenorio, Santo Domingo, Polychrome dough bowl with bird and floral design inside, geometric design outside
Pueblo: Santo Domingo
Dimensions: 4 3/4 in H by 14 in Dia
Item Number: ccsdg6225
Price: $ 1300
Description: Polychrome dough bowl with bird and floral design inside, geometric design outside
Condition: Very good with small chips on the rimℑs=3
Signature: Robert Tenorio Santo Domingo Pueblo, N.M.
Robert TenorioSanto Domingo
Born in 1950, Robert Tenorio grew up on Santo Domingo Pueblo in northern New Mexico. He began working with clay early in life, learning the basics with his grandmother Andrea Ortiz and his great-aunt Lupe Tenorio. However, when he finished high school and moved on to the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) in Santa Fe he began studying art and jewelry design. Before too long he switched back and began formal training with clay under Otellie Loloma.
When he returned to the Pueblo, though, he had to learn some of the traditional art of potting all over again as he no longer had access to the clays and the kiln available to him at school. He began collecting and processing native clays and learning the traditional firing methods used by his people. Robert began creating pots, canteens and polychrome jars characteristic of the centuries old styles of his Santo Domingo ancestors.
Potting full time since 1970, Robert's work reflects his reverence for his heritage. Santo Domingo is known for its utilitarian ware decorated with birds, fish, flowers and simple geometrics, and that's what Robert says he most enjoys making.
Robert earned his first award at the Heard Museum Guild Indian Art Fair in 1971 and has won enough ribbons since to "make two quilts!" he says. One piece he entered at the SWAIA Santa Fe Indian Market earned a ribbon in the new category it created: Prehistoric Pottery. In 2000 he was awarded the Governor's Award at the Santa Fe Indian Market and earned two more First Place ribbons in 2004. His work can be found in the collections of the Peabody Museum at Harvard University in Cambridge, MA, the Nagoya Museum in Japan and the Royal Family of Great Britain collection. He signs his work "Robert Tenorio, KEWA, N.M."
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Santo Domingo Pueblo
Santo Domingo Pueblo Mission Church
Santo Domingo Pueblo is located on the east bank of the Rio Grande about half-way between Santa Fe and Albuquerque. Historically, the people of Santo Domingo were among the most active of Pueblo traders. The pueblo also has a reputation of being ultra traditional, probably due, at least in part, to the longevity of the pueblo's pottery styles. Some of today's popular designs have changed very little since the 1700's.
In pre-Columbian times, traders from Santo Domingo were trading turquoise (from mines in the Cerrillos Hills) and hand-made heishe beads as far away as central Mexico. Many artisans in the pueblo still work in the old ways and produce wonderful silver and turquoise jewelry and heishe decorations.
Like the people of nearby San Felipe and Cochiti, the people of Santo Domingo speak Keres and trace their ancestry back to villages established in the Pajarito Plateau area in the 1400's. Like the other Rio Grande pueblos, Santo Domingo rose up against the Spanish oppressors in 1680, following Alonzo Catiti as he led the Keres-speaking pueblos and worked with Popé (of San Juan Pueblo) to stop the Spanish atrocities. However, when Spanish Governor Antonio Otermin returned to the area in 1681, he found Santo Domingo deserted and ordered it burned. The pueblo residents had fled to a nearby mountain stronghold and when Don Diego de Vargas returned to Nuevo Mexico in 1692, he attacked that mountain fortress and burned it, too. Catiti died in that battle and Keres opposition to the Spanish crumbled with his death. The survivors of that battle fled, some to Acoma, some to fledgling Laguna, some to the Hopi mesas. Over time most of them returned to Santo Domingo.
In the 1790's Santo Domingo accepted an influx of refugees from the Galisteo Basin area as they fled the near-constant attacks of Apache, Comanche, Ute and Navajo raiders in that area. Today's main Santo Domingo village was founded about 1886.
In 1598 Santo Domingo was the site of the first gathering of 38 pueblo governors by Don Juan de Oñaté to try to force them to swear allegiance to the crown of Spain. Today, the All Indian Pueblo Council (consisting of the nineteen remaining pueblo's governors and an executive staff) gathers at Santo Domingo for their first meeting every year, to continue what is now the oldest annual political gathering in America. During the time of the Spanish occupation Santo Domingo served as the headquarters of the Franciscan missionaries in New Mexico and religious trials were held there during the Spanish Inquisition.
Today, the people of Santo Domingo number around 4,500, with about two-thirds of them living on the reservation. The pottery traditions of the pueblo almost died out after the railroads arrived and many Santo Domingos went to work laying tracks. Even today many Santo Domingo men work as firefighters for the US Forest Service in fire season and ply their artistic talents during the rest of the year.
Potter Robert Tenorio began working to revive the Santo Domingo pottery tradition in the early 1970's. His influence can be found among many of today's Santo Domingo potters, even if they say he stimulated them to learn on their own.
While today's Santo Domingo pottery is known for designs described as simple geometrics, another outstanding feature is boldness: the lines are thick and well-defined.
As religious leaders forbid the representation of human figures as well as other sacred designs on pottery made for commercial purposes, birds, fish and flowers are common design motifs. Depictions of mammals are rarely seen. Another typical Santo Domingo style is to paint in the negative, meaning cover the pot in panels of big swatches of black and red so that only a few lines of the cream slip show through.
Santo Domingo Pueblo at Wikipedia
Santo Domingo Pueblo official site
Pueblos of the Rio Grande, Daniel Gibson, ISBN-13:978-1-887896-26-9, Rio Nuevo Publishers, 2001
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Pottery Care & Consideration
- The most obvious tip: Yes, the pots will break if you drop them!
- Do not expose pottery to water (Inside or outside). Do not wipe with a damp cloth.
- Dust pottery only with a soft, smooth cloth (no terry cloth or textured fabric). A very soft paintbrush (sable or camel) can be used.
- Always use two hands to carry your pot: one on top and one on the bottom, or one hand on each side. Be careful with handles, they can be fragile. Do not grip or lift pots by the rim. Take care when wearing jewelry, rings can scratch the finish.
- Place a piece of felt or cloth between the pot and the shelf to protect the signature.
- Avoid exposing pottery to extreme temperature changes.
For those who live in "earthquake country" (also good for mischievous pets):
- Weigh pots down with a small zip lock bag containing sand, glass marbles, rice, etc. Do not fill the pot more than one third full as you want them bottom heavy. Remember to remove the weight before moving.
- Secure your shelves; make sure they are well attached to the walls. Shelf brackets should be of sufficient length and strength to support the weight of your pottery.
- Prevent pots from sliding. Consider attaching a small wooden molding to the front of shelves. Line shelves with non-slip material (a thin sheet of rubber foam, Styrofoam sheeting, etc.)
- If you need assistance with special problems, major cleaning (your grandchild spills ice cream on your pot), restoration or repair (the cat breaks a pot), or replacement (irreparable damage), please feel free to call us.
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Schools all over Louisiana are ramping up efforts to battle bullying, starting when kids come back to school next month.
Schools all over Louisiana are ramping up efforts to battle bullying, starting when kids come back to school next month.
A law the Legislature passed last spring puts strict requirements on school systems to watch out for and report bullying.
"It's really a massive effort we've had to gone through to comply with this law," said Ray Bernard, child welfare supervisor in Lafourche Parish.
All school staff, from teachers to cafeteria workers to bus drivers, must go through at least four hours of training on how to recognize and address bullying.
The training is mostly administered online through a system of readings, videos and quizzes.
Part of that training includes creating a standard definition of what bullying is.
"Our staff have to recognize the difference between just some general joking or picking and when someone is being more malicious," Bernard said.
Bernard said administrators will be looking out for a "regular pattern" of things like obscene gestures, repeated teasing, spreading rumors, threats and harassing texts, emails, Facebook messages and other communication.
School staff will also be looking out for physical altercations, such as pushing, hitting and kicking.
If a teacher or other worker suspects bullying, the law requires that employee to file a written report with the school principal within two days. The principal then has 10 days to investigate the incident and take appropriate action.
Before the principal's investigation starts, the school must notify the parents of both the bully and the bullied student. Parents have a right to sit in when their child is being interviewed during the investigation.
If a principal concludes a student has been bullying others, that student can face consequences from detention to expulsion, depending on the severity of the offense.
If a school does not report a bullying incident, the bullied child's parents can choose to move him or her to a different school.
Terrebonne Parish School Superintendent Philip Martin said the changes are long overdue.
"Bullying is not a new problem. But it is becoming a more significant problem, and schools all over the country are starting to crack down," Martin said. "Anything that's intended to embarrass, humiliate, belittle — anything like that should not be tolerated."
When students return to school next month, they'll go through bullying orientation in their homeroom classes. Teachers will then hand out forms with the new bullying rules, which both the students and the parents must sign.
"We're looking for a system that gets everybody from the teacher to the parent to the student involved," Bernard said.
Many local parents said they're glad to see schools taking bullying more seriously.
"I'm very sick and tired of our schools not paying more attention to kids who are bullied," wrote Dee Dee Bergeron on Facebook. "It isn't always easy for the child being bullied to run and tell the administration."
Other parents said they hope the new system wouldn't become another bureaucratic headache.
"I do think that as parents and adults we need to decide if what's happening needs intervention," wrote Addie Gibbons.
Gibbons said her daughter had been teased before, but the parents found a way to work things out without any major action by the school.
"I hope the system uses its resources wisely and doesn't over-use its power by punishing kids who don't need it instead of focusing on the real problems," she wrote.
Staff Writer Matthew Albright can be reached at 448-7635 or at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Thanksgiving strikes fear in just about every host.
Preparing a giant bird is a herculean task. Cooking gravy, stuffing, and cranberry sauce is always more complicated than expected. Then there's the anxiety of any family gathering - will politics or off-color jokes derail the dinner?
Add wine to the list of things to worry about, and it's no wonder why so many wonderful at-home chefs dread the holiday.
Keep calm. With wine, at least, there's no need to stress.
First, buy American. While I typically avoid jingoism, purchasing a foreign wine on Thanksgiving just doesn't seem right. So when you head to the store, embrace your patriotism and pick up something domestic. And don't hesitate to buy local. The Pilgrims didn't import their turkey from a faraway land.
Second, follow the strategy of San Francisco Chronicle wine editor Jon Bonné, who advises his readers to select a roster of three wines - one white, one red, and one sparkling.
Anything beyond three wines creates needless confusion. Thanksgiving already causes enough headaches - the last thing you need is a guest asking which red matches the stuffing or which white goes better with the sweet potatoes. So keep it simple and let guests drink whichever wine they prefer.
You'll also want to make sure you select wines with power and finesse. This is easier than it sounds.
A simple Pinot Grigio, for example, isn't a powerful wine - so won't stand up to mashed potatoes and gravy. Equally important, an in-your-face Cabernet Sauvignon lacks finesse, so will smother your food. Look for refreshing wines with body.
For the sparkler, this means avoiding bottles that are too sweet - look for "brut" or "extra brut" on the label. Old standbys like Domaine Chandon are better than ever before, and these days, there are some exciting sparklers coming from states outside California. If you can find them, consider Gruet from New Mexico, Thibaut Janisson from Virginia, or Argyle from Oregon.
For the white wine, remember to look for body.
Bold Chardonnays work well with turkey and can cut through just about every component of your meal - from sweet flavors like cinnamon to the bitterness of green vegetables.
If you're looking for something a bit unusual, consider a Riesling, either dry or slightly sweet. New York has been producing high quality Riesling for more than 30 years, ever since German immigrant Hermann Weimer "discovered that the cool climate and gravelly soils of the Finger Lakes were similar to his family's vineyards in the Mosel Valley." Producers in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and Michigan are also making some stunning Riesling.
White wines inspired by France's Rhone Valley also make for a good match on Thanksgiving. Look for Viognier, Marsanne, Roussanne, or a blend with those grapes.
With reds, think refreshment. This means avoiding wines with lots of tannin, so steer clear of Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, and Malbec. It also means finding a wine with vibrant acidity, so avoid anything described as heavy or full-bodied.
Pinot Noir is the most popular choice on Thanksgiving, but it's difficult to find good one for less than $20. That's why cool-climate Syrah or Grenache is a better bet. Both are fruity enough to satisfy the guests who like big reds, and elegant enough to handle the cornucopia of Thanksgiving. Just be sure to find one from a cool-climate region like Washington or California's coastal regions. Anything from a warm climate could overpower your food.
If you're looking for something a bit unusual, consider a Blaufrankisch, Austria's signature red wine. It's similar in profile to Pinot Noir, but generally a darker and spicier. New York's Red Tail Ridge makes one that's worth finding. Gamay Noir, the grape of Beaujolais, is also a good match. A few producers in Oregon, California, and New York are making delightful wines from this grape.
Finally, and most importantly, have lots of wine on hand!
David White, a wine writer, is the founder and editor of Terroirist.com. His columns are housed at Wines.com, the fastest growing wine portal on the Internet.


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Of last year's 127MW in new offshore capacity, 113MW – or 89% - focused on inter-tidal wind farms, according to data released by the Chinese Wind Energy Association (CWEA). CWEA has tracked the turbine models installed by developers in 2012.
They were:
- 1 United Power 3MW turbine installed by Guodian at Binhai offshore wind farm in Shandong province
- 1 United Power 6MW turbine also installed by Guodian, at Weifang pilot wind farm, Shandong
- 1 XEMC 5MW turbine installed by Fujian Investment & Development at Fuqing, Fujian province
- 2 CSIC Haizhuang 5MW turbines installed by Longyuan Power at the inter-tidal project in Rudong, Jiangsu
- Longyuan Power also installed 20 Goldwind 2.5MW turbines at the 150MW Rudong inter-tidal demonstration project, followed by a further 20 Goldwind 2.5MW turbines. The latter formed an extension to the Rudong project.
- Yangtze New Energies Development installed one Goldwind 3MW turbine at an inter-tidal pilot project in Xiangshui, Jiangsu.


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Rare view of a boxed Kyocera Pro 1000S Portable CD-i player
>> Wednesday, January 9, 2013
Austin found the link on ebay, and he bought a Kyocera CD-i player last year as well. Austin: "Manufactured in Japan during May 1994 from what the bottom of the system says. Built like a rock from what I can tell, and it uses 1/8" jacks for it's audio and video-out. It also has an I/O port, plus the Mic port for the Karaoke stuff (no karaoke options built into the system though, so I guess this was done through external software or on a karaoke CD). It also has a "video-in" port, which is the most-interesting feature. Doing a little more testing, it seems like they dislike CD-R media as well. It is a NTSC player. I decided to hook this up today again to capture some footage. I ran into some issues though. Trying three games, one wouldn't load at all (Pyramid Adventures). The other two games, Lemmings and Zenith, failed to load certain background elements (usually the main part of the playfield, leaving a mostly black screen on both titles asides from your menu/scores).
I don't know if this is a problem with the player itself (faulty, perhaps?), or if maybe there were cost-cutting measures made and it's not capable of playing standard games (clearly it was designed solely for professional use, so that doesn't seem far-off to me). I am most interested in finding whether my system is damaged in some way, or if perhaps it lacks elements that "normal" CD-i players feature, causing certain games to not display properly." There's no Digital Video Cartridge in this unit.


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I have been saying a lot recently that I love a good bow tie. They look classy and make men look sleek and sophisticated. Class, class, class :)
This inspiration shoot by Habitually Haute Events and Sarah McKenzie Photography put together a classic styled shoot using black & white with a hint of pink. I am swooning over the bride's Watters gown by the way! So beautiful.
Photographer: Sarah McKenzie Photography / Event Styling and Design: Jeneba of Habitually Haute Events / Venue: Fifty-Two, Twenty-Six / Wedding Flowers: Something Special in Flowers / Wedding Dress: Watters via Something Blue Bridal Boutique / Hair Accessory: Neakey / Hair and Makeup: Adorne Artistry / Wedding Cake: Whisk It / Paper Flowers: Balushka Paper Floral Artistry / Stationery: Two Elephants Design


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Permanent Midnight: Wolf Diorama Gets New "Moon Shadows" main content.
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The dioramas in the Jill and Lewis Bernard Family Hall of North American Mammals have always been splendid, but after more than a year of painstaking restoration, they look better than ever. A multi-video series, now on amnh.tv and on the Museum's YouTube channel, documents their renovation.
Midnight in winter, near Gunflint Lake, Minnesota. Two wolves chase an unseen deer, as the Northern Lights (aurora borealis) glimmer behind them.
During the recent renovation of the Bernard Family Hall of North American Mammals, all light fixtures were replaced with more energy-efficient alternatives. But the five lights above the wolf diorama created new challenges for the team working to restore it. How did the team re-create the illusion of blue moonlight raking over the snowy landscape? In the video, Museum artist Stephen C. Quinn explains the process.
For more images of the hall's celebrated dioramas, behind-the-scenes videos, archival photos, and more, download the official app, for iOS or Android.
To watch the full video series, visit amnh.tv.


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The Center for the Study of Human Origins (CSHO) in the Department of Anthropology at New York University was inaugurated in 2002. Its mission is to enhance and facilitate research on all fields of biological anthropology and archaeology that are broadly related to the study of human origins and evolution from a biological and cultural perspective. The aim is to foster and support multidisciplinary investigations, with an emphasis on the development of collaborative projects, international fieldwork, and state-of-the-art laboratory research. Faculty members associated with the Center currently work on aspects of primate and human paleontology, skeletal biology and comparative anatomy, molecular primatology, population genetics, primate socioecology and conservation, Paleolithic archaeology, zooarchaeology, and the origins of symbolism, complex societies, and cities and states. In addition to research, the Center also aims to promote a greater understanding and appreciation of the study of human origins among the academic community and the public at large through conferences, workshops, educational programs, and outreach activities.
Check out our News and Events pages for the latest updates on CSHO activities.


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June 18, 2008
By Paul Feinberg and Roey Gilberg
In addition to his duties as the William E. Leonhard Professor of Management at UCLA Anderson, Don Morrison has just completed his 14th year as UCLA's Faculty Athletic Representative. Morrison, a specialist in management science and marketing, has also twice served as President of the Pacific-10 Conference.
An athlete in his own right, Morrison, served as captain of the M.I.T. track team. In 1961, he was the Eastern Conference long jump champion and placed third in the long jump at the New England Championships.
In 2002, Morrison was awarded the highest honor in the American Marketing Association, when he was named the McGraw-Hill/ Irwin Distinguished Educator of the Year. He is the author or co-author of over 90 articles, with a special emphasis on marketing research and applied statistics. He has been an expert witness as a statistician in a number of legal cases and a consultant to industrial firms and government agencies. Morrison's wife Sherie is a professor in UCLA's Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics department.
We sat down with Don to learn more about his role as UCLA's Faculty Athletic Representative.
UCLA ANDERSON: How did you become the faculty representative for the athletic department, and what are your responsibilities?
MORRISON: Professor Doug Hobbs was the faculty athletic representative for 18 years, but he developed liver cancer and had to retire. I think today there might be a more formal process ... but one day Pete (Dalis, athletic director at the time) called me into his office and asked me if I wanted to be the faculty athletic representative. I didn't know what it was, but after he explained I accepted.
UCLA ANDERSON: When was that?
MORRISON: That was March of '94. Doug Hobbs was still around, and I had a couple of lunches with him, the two of us went to the Pac-10 summer meeting in June together, and after that I was on my own.
The official duties of the faculty rep are that we abide by NCAA rules ... it's a big thick rule book. We ensure all the players who compete are academically eligible to do so.
Over the years, I've gotten to know all of the coaches and a lot of the athletes pretty well, and many of them are interested in MBA's, particularly the Anderson school. While it's not part of my official responsibilities, I end up actually mentoring a lot of the students.
UCLA ANDERSON: Are there a certain number of hours per week you devote to this? How do you work it into your Anderson schedule?
MORRISON: I guess I put in as much time as is needed. I do a lot of things as a faculty rep that aren't officially required but I think help the department and the student-athletes. I actually get a lot of satisfaction out of that.
One official responsibility is when we nominate student athletes for awards. If I don't know them well already, I interview them and write letters of recommendation. A fellow I'm really proud of is Parsa Bonderson who was starting goalie on a national championship water polo team. He just received his Ph.D. in theoretical physics from CalTech. I consider it a tremendous privilege and a joy to get to know and interact with these truly outstanding people. In the Anderson school we have quite a few varsity athletes. If you're playing big time sports, and have a rigorous major, and you're able to do well in both, it means that you can manage your time, you're competitive, you've been part of a team, you're high energy -- lots of the things that lead to success in the business world.
UCLA ANDERSON: What are some of the challenges that UCLA coaches face?
MORRISON: At most schools, if you're NCAA eligible, and a good athlete, you're admitted, but that's not true at UCLA. We have what's called a Special Action Admission Committee, and we have to approve the recruitment of all student athletes. We see everybody. The biggest challenge is ... the average student at UCLA has virtually Ivy League level SAT scores and GPA's. Nationally, the academic qualifications of our football and basketball players would be near the top, across all of Division I. But at the same time, these student-athletes face a bigger gap with respect to the regular students than just about any others. Also, we don't have a physical education major, or any such undergraduate majors that hide athletes.
UCLA ANDERSON: Would it be accurate to say that somewhere in the academic side of the university, someone has taken a philosophical stance that athletes who are at the NCAA minimum are unlikely to be able to compete, and therefore the standards need to be higher than what the NCAA says are the minimum standards for eligibility?
MORRISON: I don't know if it's been a conscious decision, or just the way things evolved. We don't have any really easy majors, and the overall student body has gotten better. Our coaches may be frustrated by this, but it's unethical to admit students who you know are going to flunk out.
UCLA ANDERSON: Are there gray areas?
MORRISON: Sure, there are obviously gray areas. My job is relatively easy in that regard, because the chancellors and athletic directors I've worked with have all been on the same page. Overall, we have a fabulous set of coaches, and over half of our head coaches were elite UCLA athletes. They don't just think about their sport -- they think about the institution. We want to do it the right way. There's a culture of compliance within the UCLA athletic department that doesn't exist everywhere. Another huge difference is that the Pac-10 is the only conference that has it's own internal compliance ... if you commit a major violation within the conference, you'll end up with an in-person hearing with the Compliance and Enforcement Committee.
UCLA ANDERSON: Are you a lifelong sports fan?
MORRISON: Oh yeah. I started kindergarten in Detroit in the fall of 1944, and unlike kindergarten today, I don't think we did any homework -- I think we just played. By the first grade, I knew a fair amount about baseball from my dad, and I literally learned to read and do arithmetic from the sports pages of the Detroit Free Press. In essence I've read the whole sports section every day of my life since I was in the first grade. I was an athlete myself -- I played mostly basketball and track in high school, and in college, I ran indoor and outdoor track. (Note: when Morrison graduated from M.I.T. he held the school's second best all time long jump mark, and today it holds up as the fifth best).
UCLA ANDERSON: What are your favorite moments you've been able to witness because you have this position?
MORRISON: I was on the sideline not far from Eric McNeil's interception that sealed the victory over USC (in 2006). And of course (UCLA's victory over Gonzaga in the 2006 basketball tournament) was really exciting. I would also say watching on TV a couple of the national championships that Al Scates won in (men's) volleyball, because I know and respect Al so well. I don't think there are very many places where it would be better to be the faculty athletics representative. We do it the right way, we have great kids, we win more national championships than anyone else, we have this fabulous set of coaches ...
UCLA ANDERSON: Do you know Coach Wooden?
MORRISON: Yes, I do. Even today, at 97, while he's physically somewhat frail, he hasn't lost anything mentally. You can carry on a great conversation with him, and he's still a marvelous speaker. He really is a national treasure.


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PLAINVILLE, Conn. – The seventh annual GE 5k Road Race to benefit the Petit Family Foundation will take place on Sunday, July 13 at 9 a.m.at the GE facility (41 Woodford Ave.) in Plainville, with registration from 7 a.m. to 8:30 a.m. on Sunday morning. The race starting line is located at the Route 10/East Street corner. GE is the title sponsor for the event.
In addition to the 5k road race, there is also a Fitness Walk for non-runners and a Kids Fun Run so the youngest members of the community can be involved. For those 8 years old and younger, the Kids Fun Run (with a special "prize" for all participants) will be held at 8:30 a.m. The 5k and fitness walk will start promptly at 9 a.m. The Fun Run is about a quarter of a mile and the fitness walk is 1.3 miles.
Again this year, the fun will begin on Saturday, July 12 in front of GE's Plainville facility. For those who have registered by noon on July11, pre-registration pickup will be available from 12 to 4:30 p.m. Runners and walkers can come to the race site to pick up their bibs (with B-tags for runners this year) and tee shirts on Saturday to avoid common "race day lines." Participants also can register on Saturday during the pick up hours or beginning at 7 a.m. on Sunday. There is also a pasta dinner from 5 to 8 p.m. on Saturday at the GE grounds. Adult tickets are $8; children 8 to 12 are $5, and those 7 and under are free. The Key West Trio Band will perform live music. A variety of other fun activities will be offered including a photo booth, carnival-style games, a magician and door prizes!
Other events planned for the day of the race include food and beverages, a massage tent, an appearance by the New Britain Rock Cat's mascot "Rocky" and more. There also will be a drawing for six great raffle prizes. Tickets for the raffle are available now for $2 and can be purchased the day before during registration pickup, at the pasta dinner, or on Sunday up until the drawing time of 9 a.m.
The GE Road Race is a fund raiser for the Petit Family Foundation and is made possible thanks to the generosity of many corporate sponsors. Just as importantly, it is an event intended to be one that brings people together for an exceptional weekend of community fun and positive energy to honor the memories and spirits of Jennifer, Hayley, and Michaela Petit.
Visit the race website, www.PetitRoadRace.com, to register and for additional information.