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• Helping Covenant Soup Kitchen

  
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  On Saturday I helped UConn student Aseel Eid, who directs the SOS Food Recovery Program in Towers Dining Hall, her friend Brian Thomas, Dennis Pierce (Director of Dining Services), and several UConn Dining Services Staff in making a food delivery to the Covenant Soup Kitchen in Willimantic , and then helping serve ...
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• David Barton Gym

  
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  David Barton Gym wants you to feel the burn. So much so, they’re inviting you to burn calories for free at its 60-minute outdoor boot camp every Saturday from 10 to 11 a.m. now through November 15. A drill sergeant will be barking out orders to keep you in line and looking fine. There’s also a Thursday class ...
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• Southwest Airlines Goes Green…in a Way

  
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  Southwest Airlines has always attempted to do their part in maintaining our environment from recycling and waste reduction to water conservation to noise reduction. Now they are adding to their fleet a “Green Plane”. The Boeing 737-700 will serve as a test for the airline offering new environmentally responsible ...
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• Sammy Sosa Skin Photo - Disease? Michael Jackson Complexion

  
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  Sammy Sosa ’s complexion is raising some rumors on the internet today. It’s seems Sosa looked very noticeably paler than just a year ago. Sosa has gone from looking dark to looking similar to the way Michael Jackson did.It is unknown currently if Sosa has some sort of condition or underwent a treatment to make ...
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• The New Orbitz

  
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  Orbitz has a brand new look! Sometime in August Chrissy and I received an invitation from Orbitz to be apart of their ‘Blogger Day’ I may have the wrong name) at the headquarters in Chicago to talk about new, great and exciting changes they would be rolling out in the near future, dynamics of the company, and ...
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• You could be dancing…

  
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  Husky Headliners kicked off at the Jorgensen on October 23 with “Dancing with the UConn Stars.”  Our UConn Ballroom Dance Club and Team teamed up with the Club’s advisor George Gibson (who professors Physics when he’s not dancing) and his wife Zoe Strickler: The Photon Bolero and also with Pharmacy ...
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• Governor’s Connecticut Day of Caring & Compassion

  
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  Governor M. Jodi Rell and Connecticut’s Firefighters have asked UConn to join all residents of Connecticut to participate in A Day of Caring & Compassion on Saturday, November 7:  a one-day push to fully restock the shelves of local food pantries, Foodshare and Connecticut Food Bank to assist families in ...
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• Pink is “in”

  
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  October was Breast Cancer Awareness Month and I didn’t get a chance to say anything about it here in my blog.  This photo from our School of Dental Medicine shows the University Dentists team dressed in pink as part of their promotion – they wore pink one day a week to raise awareness of breast-cancer issues ...
  6 days ago

• Sesame Street celebrates 40th anniversary

  
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  Hei, It’s Big Birds birthday! ‘Sesame Street’ has made an impact on all most all of us, the show has been educating children in more than 120 countries for generations. Big Bird and the crew on ‘Sesame Street’ are about to embark on their 40th season on November 10. To celebrate this momentous event ...
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• Candy

  
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  I gained 10 pounds last Friday as I passed out candy at my annual Gulley Hall trick-or-treat.  In this photo by Jessica Tommaselli, sophomore Amy Holland is “lightening my load.”  We had to hire a ghostbuster team to protect the premises during the event – you can see one of them in the background, and also ...
  1 week ago

• Using a Lightmeter and “Placing” the Photographic Exposure

  
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  Meters. Some people hate ‘em. Some people love ‘em. But a lot of people don’t know what they do or why they should have one. Well the gloves come off on this one. At Lighting Essentials, we LOVE light meters… they give us control that no chimpin’ can… and we can use the knowledge they give us to tame even ...
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• Futurescape

  
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  Barry Rosenberg, who directs the Contemporary Art Galleries in the School of Fine Arts building, sent me an email about the new exhibition just opened in CAG: Futurescape.  Here’s an excerpt from the exhibition press release: A century after Cubism and Futurism, a time when painting was the predominant visual ...
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• Congenital Myasthenic Syndromes (CMS)

  
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  Definition - One of many types of inherited disease that affect the function of processes at the junction of nerve and muscle cells; “presynaptic” syndromes affect nerve cells; “postsynaptic” syndromes affect muscle cells, and “synaptic” diseases affect the space between nerve and muscle cells. Cause - ...
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• Whew…that was close.

  
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  source: AP Royal Caribbean’s newest ‘cruise ship on steroids’, Oasis of the Seas, departed Denmark on its maiden voyage to Florida on Saturday. However, its journey along the Baltic Sea got a little more ‘exciting’ when the ship barely squeezed under a bridge in Denmark . The largest ship in history, ...
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• Edgar Arriola’s Vertex Lang 350Z

  
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  *NEW PIX* Team Nextstage APS Single Turbo 350z Exterior Vertex Lang Body Kit with Canards Blitz Rear Spoiler S2000 Antenna Fairlady Z Emblem Vertex Emblem Underground Graphics Decal Package Wheels/Brakes/Suspension Volk RE30 Formula Silver F 19×10 et +30 R 19×11 et +25 Project Mu Front ...
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• Saturday at the Rent

  
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  The University of Connecticut and its Division of Athletics will honor the memory of Jasper Howard as the Huskies football team returns to Rentschler Field on Saturday for the first time since Howard passed away on October 18. UConn plays Rutgers at noon in a BIG EAST Conference game. All fans who attend ...
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• Ghost notes

  
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  3d floor Gulley Hall On what must have been my third day on the job here at UConn back in 2007, Senior Vice Provost Suman Singha quietly took me aside and explained – in calm, measured tones – that my office, and in fact the entire Gulley Hall administration building, is haunted. Being from the no-nonsense ...
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• New senators

  
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  Congratulations to our newly-elected members of the University Senate : their terms begin July 1, 2010 and continue for 3 years.  They have between now and July 1 to prepare. Faculty At Large Thomas Bontly, Philosophy Manisha Desai, Sociology/Women’s Studies Andrea Hubbard, Pharmacy Rachel O’Neill ** ...
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• H1N1 Vaccine Dangers: A Big Concern About H1N1 Vaccine Safety

  
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  The H1N1 vaccine dangers are a concern of many seeking out the H1N1 vaccine . H1N1 vaccine dangers could influence someone’s decision whether or not to take the H1N1 vaccine. We all know that the H1N1 virus is potentially deadly. We also know that there is a severe shortage of the H1N1 vaccine. While ...
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• H1N1 Vaccine Deaths Cause

  
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  There are some unconfirmed reports (the CDC has not verified the data) that people have died from the H1N1 vaccine .  In any given year, roughly 35% of the population receives the flu shot, and this year 50% anticipate getting the H1N1 vaccine , according to a CBS News poll.  The Early Show also conducted a random ...
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