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- QueenB May 9, 2007 09:55 AM
For those of you who have been lucky enough to try this cheese, what is it like? Texture? Taste? What does the inside look like?
I ask this question because I purchased a burrata the other day that isn't like what I imagined it to be.
re: monavano
Yeah, it needs to be fresh. You need to ask the cheese store when it was delivered. You want it that day. Where was it from .. local or imported?
This SF link talks quite a bit about burrata but my favorite post was this ...
"There's a scene in the "Sopranos" where the wives are eating lunch at Vesuvio and Artie, the owner who's always annoyingly shmoozing the customers, insists on giving the ladies burrata instead of the "hot antipaste" which was what they really wanted to eat. When he's out of earshot one of the women whispers, "What's the big deal, it just tastes like mozzarella. I want my hot antipaste!"
re: rworange
Please see this topic for my comments about where I got it, etc.
It's a local cheese company. My burrata was made with mascarpone and butter.
re: QueenB
I saw your pictures and what you have there is is not burrata. What a shame to lable it that way. Mascarpone and butter is not mozzarella and cream. I wonder why a cheesemonger would do this?
re: monavano
Yeah, picture-wise maybe ... maybe not, but those ingrediants don't sound right.
For those that don't want to scroll to the bottom of that post ... direct link to your pictures.
Most of the burrata I've seen is ball-shaped like in this wiki article.
More pics and info
My one and only forray into burrata didn't leave me impressed, but it wasn't as fresh as it should be and not one of the burratas that a lot of people rave about in SF.
Interesting in that wiki article that the leaves it was originally wrapped in were an indicator of freshness. If the leaves were still green, the cheese was still good.
re: rworange
Yes, I thought that information about the leaves from wiki was interesting as well.
I linked to the entire post because it has explanation of what all the ingredients are, where I bought, etc.
I guess I'm just confused. I did email the company, but as of yet haven't heard anything.
re: QueenB
It sounds like an interesting product but it is not burrata. Burrata has nothing to do with butter and marscapone. I find it very irritating that someone would market such a cheese as burrata. Burrata is filled with shreds of mozzarella and fresh cream. Depending on its age, it may or may not truly ooze.
In my experience, the imported version are always too old to enjoy but our local producer goia is quite good (and the first American producer).
re: JudiAU
I didn't think it was either. That's why I came to ask you guys. I've had zero experience with it with the exception of what I've read. Thank you.
Whenever I've purchased burrata, the cheese has come wrapped in some sort of wide, green leaf, which in turn, is wrapped in paper. Also, the shape of the ball has a little "knob" on the top. It's very much like soft mozzarella, but, as others have said, the inside is quite creamy and so soft as to be "runny." Burrata and mascarpone are two very different products.
I do know that freshness is mandatory, which is why so few places (at least in my area) carry it.
re: CindyJ
I ate at a restaurant on Melrose (in LA) over the weekend & they described their burrata as buffalo mozzarella that they stuffed with mascarpone cheese?! Is that something that restaurants are doing nowadays instead of getting the "real thing" or are they confused about how burrata is made. I did order the appetizer and it was very tasty. The only other place I've eaten burrata was in Glendale (CA) & the two were quite different from each other ( I liked both). I have yet to find one wrapped in a leaf. That will be my new "quest".
re: socalqtpi
Plain and simple, burrata is NOT mascarpone-stuffed mozzarella. I'm not saying that what you were served wasn't good; only that it wasn't burrata.
When I shop for burrata, I go a well-known cheese market in the Italian Market in south Philly; to buy it anywhere else is to risk disappointment.
re: socalqtpi
The leaf-wrapped burrata is the imported version. I've tried it several times while in New York and it is vastly inferior to the local versions in LA. It is simply too old.
My guess is that the server came up with a creative description because none of the local version are made that way.
re: JudiAU
Yeah, I bought some when I was visiting in Philly (at a place in Italian market, yet), and it was too old. Burrata, like fresh mozzerella, should be stored in whey and it very soft. If you can tie a string around it and/or wrap it in something, it's too old.
I had burrata for the first time in Paris last fall. Ours was bought that morning, and we were told to finish it off because it would not keep. It was, as others have described, like fresh mozzerella with a thick cream inside. I've never eaten anything like it.
yes there is burrata then there are all of the pretenders... the key is freshness
It should be indescribably luscious in texture and sweet with a very yummy creamy center. It should not flake apart. If it does you know it has been frozen. This is a crime and should be punished. Forget buying it at Whole Foods or Trader Joes. Not even close.
Here are my favorite sources...i am known as the burrata fiend by the way! So, go to Maket Gourmet in Venice on Saturdays they have it brought in FRESH on Friday night or Sat morning.
Try Joans on Third ( not the best but still pretty good)
Try ordering it when you dine at Capo Restaurant. mmmclapclap!
Try Beverly Hills Cheese market.
Burrata Apetite!
Anyone know where it can be found wrapped in the leaf in OC? We only get the domestically made kind at Bristol Farms or Gelsons in plastic tubs :( Still... pretty damm good. I've got the wrapped kind on backorder with igourmet, but am worried about the time it will take to get from production to my door.
re: torta basilica
unless you receive it within 24 hours of being produced, essentially it is too old.
Bay Cities Deli in Santa Monica is a great place to get it too...the day it's made! I am obsessed with this cheese. I live in Nashville, and when I go out to LA I go CRAZY with it! I order it at all the restaurants. Most of the places I've been serve TRUE burrata...I haven't had any of the mascarpone-stuffed crap!
re: rebekkas
Not sure why this old thread was revived, but mozzarella stuffed with mascarpone & butter doesn't sound like crap to me, it sounds like heaven. It just doesn't sound like that other heaven that is burrata.
re: tatamagouche
Ha! Ancient thread, indeed. I recently got burrata at Di Bruno's in Philly -- with pesto cream inside. It was the only one available that day, sometimes they also have white truffle and honey, or black truffle.
It was creamy, yes, and "light" -- but I'd say overall I was kinda underwhelmed, esp. for $9.99 a pop. I would like to try the other flavas some time. The white truffle & honey sounds interesting.
re: tatamagouche
Oddly enough, I read this today and in the market what catches my eye but Cantaré's Burrata stuffed with marscapone
I was a little surprised to see a commercial brand of burrata. They have the shelf life as 14 days. Next time I'm going to have a closer look at the ingrediant list which they don't have on the website.
It's almost two years later and I've now experienced another burrata.
What a difference between the two. While the first was almost overpoweringly rich (from the butter and mascarpone, I'm sure) this was luxurious, creamy and everything I ever expected burrata to be.
The interior was a liquidy soft cream with strings of curd inside. It was fairly mild and slightly sweet. The exterior was a thin ball of slightly salty mozzarella. When I picked it up by the neck, it sagged, not unlike a water balloon.
I have to say that while it is very tough to find around here, it was so very worth it and was amazing served with fresh tomato.
re: QueenB
Now THAT'S burrata!!! I'm curious as to where you found it. It really does need to be served very fresh, which is why it can be hard to find. It sounds like you finally found the real deal.
re: CindyJ
Murray's Cheese Shop in New York. Believe it or not, I actually ordered it online and they shipped it overnight. I was amazed at how fresh it was and I'm embarrassed (or is it proud?) to say that we ate the whole thing in one sitting.
I admit that I was worried about the freshness, due to the fact that it needed to be shipped, but I was pleasantly surprised.
It was my first experience getting a box of cheese in the mail. I'm looking forward to trying the rest of the goodies I got!
I bought burrata from Trader Joe's once to see how it was and it was nothing like any of the burrata I had previously had from other sources. I haven't bought another to see if perhaps I had just gotten a bad one or something.

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According to the indictment, a trust was established by Gockel's father, Francis Gockel, who owned a grocery store he started in 1949 in St. Marys. When Francis Gockel died in 2002, his trust was changed to a trust for his wife, Wilma Gockel, and a separate family trust for their three children. After Francis Gockel's death, Kent Joseph Gockel began taking care of Wilma Gockel's finances.
In July 2007, Wilma Gockel learned that her trust account at Silver Lake Bank was overdrawn. Bank records showed Kent Joseph Gockel had been writing checks to himself or cash from Wilma Gockel's account without her knowledge. In January 2009, Wilma Gockel learned that another account she had at Kaw Valley State Bank had been almost emptied. Bank records showed that Kent Joseph Gockel had wired money or written checks from the account totaling more than $500,000 without his mother's knowledge or consent. He made wire transfers to accounts in San Jose, Costa Rica, and St. John's, Antigua, West Indies.
Investigators also determined that Kent Joseph Gockel made cash withdrawals from Wilma Gockel's trust account at the First National Bank in St. Marys, totaling more than $391,000 without her knowledge or consent.
If convicted, Kent Joseph Gockel faces a maximum penalty of 30 years and a fine up to $1 million on each count.
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InnoTrans might have been and gone for another two years but Alcatel-Lucent's highlights from the world's largest railway exhibition live on in three videos which are now available to view at any time online.
Hall 4.1 was entirely dedicated to Train Control and Communications for railway networks and Alcatel-Lucent's expertise in this critical field was shown in four key demonstrations: Converged IP/MPLS Network for Railways, Agile Optical Network for Railways, Long Term Evolution (LTE) ground-to-train communications, and Cloud Connected Passenger. A short overview of all of these solutions and their specific applications is now available to view here.
As the video shows, Alcatel-Lucent's LTE Ground-to-Train solutions will be deployed in the Grand Paris project's Telecom System for Future Urban Transport (Systuf). This new communications system is based on LTE, and to demonstrate the capabilities of LTE at InnoTrans, Alcatel-Lucent set up a live LTE network which hosted multiple mission-critical and non mission-critical applications. This included on-board CCTV, emergency communications, live driver view footage feeds, platform video feeds, train location services, and Tetra/PMR voice.
This live LTE network was also the foundation of Alcatel-Lucent's Cloud Connection demonstration, which offered a vision of what the passenger train of the future might look like. The next generation of on-board infotainment services which leverage ultra-broadband connectivity were shown in a multimedia table. As the video shows, the table incorporates on board IPTV, video on-demand services, and online shopping, while passengers can use the service to book a table in the train restaurant, or check to see whether the toilet is occupied.
Perhaps the highlight exhibit for Alcatel-Lucent's was the world-premiere presentation of its Converged IP/MPLS Network for Railways. The demonstration showed how Alcatel-Lucent's IP/MPLS service routers and switches can build a single converged communications network infrastructure that supports all railways services and applications including signalling, as well as provide a smooth migration of existing legacy systems like analogue CCTV and GSM-R base stations to the new network. A brief overview is available in the first video, but for a detailed demonstration of IP/MPLS and its capabilities click here.
An in-depth look at Alcatel-Lucent's agile optical networks for railways is also available in the overview and a third video. This technology is intended to counter cyber security threats to mission-critical applications, with Alcatel-Lucent's latest solutions, Wavelength Tracker, and the 1830 Phototonic Service Switch (PSS), which constantly monitors optical losses and detects any intrusions, on display. PSS can also be fitted with the AES-256 layer 1 encryption module to preserve the integrity of the network, providing network operators with added peace of mind that their networks are protected from even the most sophisticated security threats.
With over 130,000 visitors from more than 100 countries in attendance, the 10th anniversary edition of InnoTrans was the largest exhibition yet. It was also a big success for Alcatel-Lucent. We hope you enjoy our round up of the highlights from our exhibit.]]>
Ethernet services delivery based on the control plane approach hasn't changed for proven solutions such as MPLS/VPLS and PBB. Layer 2 flooding and learning as an approach to build the forwarding database is still necessary, but this has inherent limitations.
A new approach has emerged that brings many benefits over the control plane approach in the form of Ethernet VPN (EVPN). With EVPN, the control plane and data planes are abstracted and separated. A multiprotocol BGP (MP-BGP) control plane protocol carries MAC/IP routing information, and there are several data plane encapsulation choices.
EVPN provides several benefits over the control plane approach. These include integrated services, allowing operators to deliver Layer 2 and Layer 3 services over the same interface, and networking efficiency since EVPN allows for multi-homing with all-active forwarding and load balancing between provider edge routers.
As a recent TechZine article by Greg Hankins and Jorge Rabadan, Senior Product Line Managers at Alcatel-Lucent, Ethernet VPN (EVPN) for integrated layer 2-3 services, noted, EVPN also brings greater control and design flexibility.
"Since the control plane and data plane are separated, several MPLS or IP data plane encapsulation choices are available to meet core network requirements," explained the authors. "Provisioning and management using a single VPN technology rather than both Layer 2 and Layer 3 is simpler."
There is greater control because MAC/IP provisioning from a network management system database enables programmatic network control, whole control plane signaling maintains a consistent signaled forwarding database instead of flooding and learning in the data plane.
EVPN technology helps with data center interconnect, cloud and virtualization services, integrated Layer 2 and Layer 3 VPN services, and overlay technologies that simplify topologies and tunnels services over IP infrastructure.
"With EVPN, service providers can meet evolving demands for higher speeds, sophisticated QoS and guaranteed SLAs," the authors noted. "EVPN can support the requirements driven by new applications in a way that existing technologies can't."
The days of using a control plane approach and a flooding technique are numbered.
The emergence of cloud computing and mobility, not to mention bring-your-own-device trend (BYOD), has introduced a strong need for mobile virtual private networks (VPNs). Yet, most operators are only able to offer mobile VPNs to larger customers since their fixed-line VPN infrastructure is often separate from their cellular infrastructure.
One solution to this problem, outlined in a recent TechZine article, Mobile VPNs for Enterprises of All Sizes, by Jan Vandehoudt, Principal Consulting Engineer and Patrick McCabe, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Alcatel-Lucent, is for mobile network operators to use an enterprise services gateway (ESG).
"The ESG approach simplifies the network and ultimately streamlines the operational and provisioning model," noted the authors. "This makes it feasible to extend the mobile VPN service to small- and mid-sized enterprises for the first time."
An IP/MPLS router that has massive scalability, high performance and carrier-grade resiliency for VPN services is at the heart of the ESG model. This router not only handles IP/MPLS but also functions as a mobile gateway. By mixing functions, the ESG is able to replace the mobile gateway (PGW, GGSN), PE router and border gateway.
The benefits of combining functions into one ESG include massive scalability and resiliency, a simplified network and streamlined operational and provisioning model, and automated service provisioning.
Using such architecture also dramatically reduces both capital expense and operational expense for mobile network operators. A recent Bell Labs study found that over a five-year timeline the new approach is two times less expensive in terms of CAPEX and 10 times less expensive in terms of OPEX.
Further, the study found that deploying an ESG allowed the mobile network operator to offer services more quickly and with greater reliability.
"This approach not only provides cost and revenue advantages for the MNO, but it also opens new markets to include small- and mid-sized enterprises that may not have been candidates for this service in the past," noted the TechZine article.
The use of an ESG is a win-win both for operators and their customers. Customers get high speed access to key business applications with high availability, as well as persistency of connection without constant re-authentication and log-ins and multi-device flexibility. At the same time, mobile network operators get flexible service definition within existing framework and a simple implementation model that scales from small to large enterprises. Operators also get simplified operations including end-to-end service assurance, SLA monitoring, and traffic engineering.
In short, the case for enterprise service gateways is strong.]]>
In EVPN the control plane and data plane are separated. Instead of using Layer 2 flooding and learning to build the forwarding database, the control plane uses MP-BGP to distribute MAC/IP routing information in the same way that we've been using BGP to distribute IP routing information for many years. Multiple data planes are available, EVPN can use MPLS or IP as its data plane encapsulation.
EVPN has several key benefits that enable you to offer advanced Ethernet services over an existing MPLS or IP network.
I just gave an overview presentation about EVPN at the NANOG 61 conference earlier this week. You can download the presentation for more details on how EVPN works and the type of services that you can provide.
For Vodafone Company Kabel Deutschland (KD), Germany's largest cable operator, it was no question whether the move to IPv6 would be a bolt-on solution or something more integrated. A bolt-on solution would not do for KD, according to a recent Alcatel-Lucent case study on KD. The company needed to address the issue of flexibility to accommodate long-term growth and next generation service delivery without compromising its reputation for high-performance and high-value service.
For KD, the IP edge solution was the Alcatel-Lucent 7750 Service Router (SR), which provides dual-stack IPv4 and IPv6 to end customers. The dual-stack deployment is based on IPv6-only transport in the access domain to ensure future-proof, native IPv6 connectivity. Backward IPv4 connectivity is provided by using IPv4inIPv6 tunneling, with the customer residential gateway representing the B4 (Basic Bridging BroadBand element). At the edge of the cable network the 7750 SR performs the function of an Address Family Transition Router (AFTR) to encapsulate/ de-encapsulate IPv4 traffic in/from IPv6 and provides CG-NAT using the IPv6 source prefix as the subscriber key.
The 7750 SR Flexible Edge capabilities enable KD to separate the IP service routing from the access technology and simplify the cable hub.
"Not only does this enable the delivery of common personalized and differentiated services consistently across multiple access technologies, it enables migration from the existing network architecture to a future mode of operation, as demonstrated in this case from IPv4 to IPv6," noted the Alcatel-Lucent paper.
The Alcatel-Lucent 5620 Service Aware Manager (SAM) is a key component for KD. It increases service deployment agility through automation, proactively monitors and manages across the multiple layers in the flexible edge, and integrates with KD's existing BSS/OSS through open APIs.
At the time of the case study, KD had deployed high-redundant clusters based on the Alcatel-Lucent solution in the biggest cities of Germany, each one supporting 16 Million NAT flows. They were integrated step-by-step in sub networks with DOCSIS 3.0 IPv6 rollouts.
The transition from IPv4 to IPv6 can be a problem. But it doesn't have to be.
This is the third in the three part series looking at how IP, which has been playing an important role in business transformation for some time, now has become critical to the utilities industry as it is leveraging the transformation of communications networks to IP to maximize smart grid deployments. In short, taking full advantage of things like smart metering and big data means to improve usage, real-time information and improved interoperability.
The future of the smart grid has unfolded slowly partially because adoption is more than a technology issue, and because while businesses want reliability, utilities demand it; a cautious IP migration is almost a given. In fact, part of the path to adoption goes through social challenges, not just technology investment.
As a GridTalk posting on managing the IP evolution inside and outside the organization, by Raul Katz, Ph.D., Director of Business Strategy Research, Columbia Institute for Tele-Information noted, assimilating the new technology on a social level is as significant as making the capital expenditures.
"Changing the business processes, training employees, adapting your organization and operations to the benefit you can derive from technology – in economics this is called the accumulation of intangible capital – means that once you purchase the systems it will take you some time to get to that point, especially in large companies," noted Raul Katz, director of business strategy research at the Columbia Institute for Tele-Information at Columbia Business School. "It's called the lag effect. We've typically seen this take three to five years, because you're dealing with human beings and social systems."
Source: To download GridTalk click here.
He also explained that utilities will have the most success with their IP migration if they focus on change management programs and training.
"In many cases, the programs need to be combined with incentives – not necessarily material – to adopt the new modes of operation," he noted. "These could range from recognition to additional training activities."
There also is the need to get it right from the beginning. This need to combine programs with incentives was a big focus for Creos Luxembourg S.A. when it embarked on an ambitious, multi-faceted IP/MPLS project for its national electricity and gas network to replace its existing TDM-based communications system. "With latencies of 5ms-6ms between connecting nodes, you have to have a very high level of control to guarantee service and performance," noted Patrick Colling, Creos communications expert.
When Creos rolled out its MPLS network, it consulted numerous vendors and had them analyze the situation and test four current differential protections talking together over four high voltage stations to ensure teleprotection.
This methodical process took time, but it has paid off for Creos.
"Since the beginning of 2013, teleprotection has worked throughout our network without any incidents, and we can say that for us there is no difference in teleprotection between the classical interconnection and IP/MPLS," he said.
Cyber security also requires caution.
"IP is the best-known protocol around the world, so there is absolutely the need to dedicate a lot of time to analyzing how best to bring cybersecurity into the transmission system," Colling noted. "That took us a complete year. We analyzed it and have now finalized our design assisted by Alcatel-Lucent. It includes things like encryption, firewalls and new security features for routers. You need to analyze your services and how to secure them from beginning to end, and we are convinced that through our investments we have done just that."
But the benefits of migrating to IP have been worth the time for Creos and others. The future of the smart grid, after all, is going to be heavily reliant on the underlying communications infrastructure transformation to all IP.
A few years ago, the idea of a smart grid and things such as smart metering was the stuff of science fiction. But thanks to recent innovations, a utility that is not working on a migration to IP is behind the curve.
In this second of a three-part series on the value of the migration utility infrastructure to IP as the means to enable and enhance the value of smart grids, we look at an expert's view of the challenges as highlighted in a recent GridTalk posting by Bart Vrancken, utilities solutions architect at Alcatel-Lucent, who noted, "Utilities telecom used to be very simple, handled in the background with a very small team…The explosive growth in intelligent grid devices with communication capabilities was not foreseen at all several years back. But now we see numerous examples of customers deploying these technologies."
That's partially because the idea of a single, converged IP architecture has been shown to work at this point, and IP/MPLS is both reliable and efficient enough for utilities that cannot afford anything less than mission-critical reliability.
Source: To download GridTalk click here.
As Vrancken explains, a 99.999 percent reliable IP/MPLS infrastructure and intelligent sensors throughout the distribution layer and at consumer end points yields:
It does all of this while allowing more seamless integration of distributed renewable energy sources. That's a nifty trick, and a good reason why an increasing number of utilities have started to make the IP migration.
"Of course, with IP protocol reaching to all corners of the network, cybersecurity becomes an important issue that utilities must address," he said. "We're pushing very hard to have IP/MPLS deeper in the network, so security is integrated throughout our solutions – all included from the beginning in the design."
One of the reasons MPLS is favored among utilities is that it works both with modern IP services as well as older technologies. This seamless integration is essential for utilities, which need in most cases to make a gradual transition and keep some of the older infrastructure while the migration occurs.
IP/MPLS also is necessary to support the great volume of devices that are expected to emerge as part of the overall move to IP. According to GridTalk, there will be 50 billion connected devices by 2015. Of that total, 12 percent will be related to the utilities space. That's a lot of devices!
"Once you're talking about the low-voltage side of your network it means a factor of 100 more nodes than on your high-voltage transmission network," noted Vrancken. "By the time you move to a different focus level deeper in the network, you have another device expansion factor of 100. So, if you have 100 high-voltage substations in a small country such as Belgium, for example, the low-voltage distribution sites will grow by a factor of 1,000."
The flexibility and automation needed for such volume is well accommodated by IP/MPLS. Indeed, it is becoming increasingly clear that the path to optimized smart grids is going to rest on leveraging IP/MPLS migration.
In short, the networking piece of smart grid deployments is critical, as the migration of utility infrastructure to meet the needs to remotely monitor and manage their grids grows in complexity. "The new IP/MPLS technologies offer a great deal of benefits within the utility in cost savings, operational efficiency and cost savings, and they also mandate a new way to operate, bridging those traditional organizational silos," noted Mark Burke, VP of Intelligent Networks and Communications for DNV – GL, in a recent GridTalk posting.
In the first of what will be a three-part series on smart grids and the value that can be created the economic perspective provided by Burke, who outlined a number of ways that smart grid projects can maximize their technology investment, is instructive.
Source: To download GridTalk click here.
Burke provided a number of recommendations that will resonate with utilities as they evaluate how to move forward, and here are five of particular significance.
First, embrace standards.
"Standards drive innovation while maintaining security and reliability", noted Burke. "They encourage mass production, driving the cost of equipment down, while also enabling the development of an ecosystem of value-added products and solutions. They reduce the total cost of ownership for the systems they procure, but also encourage the development of devices that may leverage communications protocols to provide additional value to customers and the society at large."
Second, monetize excess capacity.
Adding high-bandwidth fiber is a big investment, but it also can create new profit centers that can help projects recoup the investment. One way to monetize excess capacity is through establishing an unregulated subsidiary tasked with taking advantage of the newly-created infrastructure.
Third, prepare for distributed power generation.
One side benefit of deploying a converged IP/MPLS system is readiness for distributed generation and renewable energy sources such as wind power and photovoltaics.
"With IP/MPLS you can accommodate these in a common architecture and in a standards-based environment so that the unit costs are low over time," noted Burke. "As the smart grid environment matures and gets more diverse with renewables and other new challenges, the total cost of implementation will go down as well."
Fourth, consider public-private partnerships, especially where investment in energy infrastructure is traditionally lacking. In some markets, demand response can't be exploited by governmental entities or utilities but third-party, commercial concerns can capture that value instead of leaving it on the table.
Finally, it is worth the effort to help shape public regulation.
"Power providers should really get involved with educating both consumers and regulators, which may have very small staffs and are overburdened," Burke suggested. "Only through that level of engagement will help maximize the value of moving to a more sophisticated energy system including IP/MPLS-based smart grid. The regulators are quite sensitive to the needs of the customers."
There are other ways to maximize investment on the Alcatel-Lucent blog post, but these are ones that clearly should be top of mind.
This is the third in a series of blogs that have taken a look at natural disaster communications and how public safety organizations around the world a leveraging next generation communications to better prepare and respond to emergencies.
In this final installment, the focus is on the Canadian city of Calgary which had catastrophic flooding in June. But it also got lucky.
That's because just as the worst flooding in the history of the city was overflowing the riverbanks and flooding downtown, taking down infrastructure as it went, Calgary was testing its new, next-generation IP/MPLS-based network infrastructure.
As its infrastructure was endangered by the flooding, the city's IT team was able to move over to this new system and start the migration of 50 remote locations in a matter of hours, preserving its essential communications needed to deal with the flooding and preserve business continuity.
"The new network was in the testing phase," noted a recent Alcatel-Lucent LifeTalk blog posting by the team that worked with Calgary. "The transition for getting everyone on it was supposed to take a year and a half. But in this case, the effort started happening immediately."
The new network, while untested until the crisis, helped the city stay operational when it probably would not have otherwise, according to post.
"It validated that what we had planned, what we had received, what we had put in place – the redundancy and the resiliency," noted the authors. .
Natural disasters are inherently chaotic an unpredictable. To enable natural disaster communications that can withstand such unpredictability takes a resilient network that's secure, fluid and flexible – characteristics that are strongly supported by IP/MPLS.
Source: Alcatel-Lucent LifeTalk
"IP/MPLS immediately gives you the capabilities to integrate data, video and voice," noted Steven Jennings, executive director of public safety for Alcatel-Lucent, in another recent LifeTalk posting on the subject. "It lets you load-balance all of your resources because it's agnostic to the underlying transport technologies."
He added: "It doesn't really care about your network topology, whether you're star or point-to-point, you can provision services rapidly no matter what is thrown at you, and it gives you common operational management and administration tools that work across the whole network."
Emergency response personnel need to focus on the disaster at hand, not their equipment. And that requires a network that is robust enough.
The City of Calgary was lucky enough to have such a network in place when the flooding struck, aiding its natural disaster communications and ensuring that while it may have been the worst flooding in the city's history, it didn't need to be the most damaging.
The demand for oil and gas capabilities has never been greater and continues to grow. In fact, world energy needs are expected to increase by roughly 40 percent by 2030, according to the International Energy Agency, with the fast-developing China and India leading the way in energy consumption growth. The demand for oil is expected to grow by 20 percent, and gas needs should expand during this time by 50 percent. As much as dependency on fossil fuels is seen as needing to be reigned in, clearly oil and gas demand is going to go up despite greater reliance on alternatives. .
With that said, meeting energy needs is getting more complex. Hydrocarbon delivery is challenged by the fact that so much of the relatively low-hanging fruit has been plucked. The energy reserves of the future will increasingly come from deep-sea drilling, tar sands mining and other more challenging methods. Hydrocarbon delivery also will have to travel farther distances.
To effectuate cost-effective and efficient exploration and fuel deliveries in more challenging environments, it has become paramount that gas and oil communications be upgraded to next generation capabilities.
"Maximizing production in these settings has become essential, yet the greater the geological barriers to easy extraction, the greater price, security and safety risks any given project faces," noted a recent paper by Alcatel-Lucent, DYNAMIC COMMUNICATIONS for Oil & Gas.
Alcatel-Lucent has worked with energy customers for decades and as stated in the headline has focused on three key areas to help oil and gas companies reach hydrocarbons faster, farther, and safer.
"Clearly, the need to minimize risk, ensure the safety of personnel and protect the integrity of plant, pipeline, platform and wellhead projects, plus deal with highly dynamic market factors, has increased the need for new business and operational models," noted the company in the paper. "This is where technology serves as the cornerstone for innovative and winning solutions."
Communications speed is needed to help connect distant sites with the energy company central offices, and to deliver real-time and highly resilient communications solutions to deal with the changing conditions on the ground.
Being able to go farther with gas and oil communications means there can be better supervision and more cost-effective operations.
"Challenges include monitoring and troubleshooting remote and hard to access wellheads, pipelines and collection points," noted the paper. "Just as important is the ongoing comfort, and productivity of one of the most valuable assets of any company — its workforce." Workers cut off in an oil rig far out at sea need as many creature-comforts as they can get. That means good communication with family and the outside world.
Cutting edge communications also can help with safety.
A flexible network ensures that there is end-to-end safety of physical assets, personnel and data. The network must support a wide variety of standards, work across both legacy and IP-based networks, and have good uptime to deliver on this safety need.
Alcatel-Lucent helps the industry get there with its end-to-end oil and gas solutions. It offers a converged, multiservice, mission-critical Wide Area Network (WAN) composed of: microwave; optical and IP/MPLS products; mobile/wireless networks that include WiFi, WiMAX, 3G, 4G/LTE, TETRA/P25; analogue UHF/VHF, dispatchers and applications; integrated SCADA and CCTV; and integrated navigational aids, meteorological instruments, entertainment systems and operations control center systems.
The thirst for energy resources is seemingly unquenchable, and the fact that increasingly hard to reach places need to be explored and brought online, is putting a premium on having next generation dynamic communications to assure operational excellence regardless of where location or climate.
"The necessity of an IP network transformation is due to the increasing need to host more services and its ability to converge these onto a single piece of infrastructure to provide a truly multi-service network," Stefano Pasetti, director of mobile and telecommunications for Milan's metro rail service provider, Azienda Trasporti Milanese (ATM), said recently in a blog post by Alcatel-Lucent.
"The introduction of VoIP systems and the necessity to guarantee different 'Quality of Service' parameters led to a review of what we could do to improve the architecture and technology in use," noted Pasetti, referring to the rail communications upgrade the firm made in 2010. ATM upgraded to an IP/MPLS infrastructure.
This migration included an upgrade of teleoperation systems, of remote control of signaling system and electrification plants, and the rollout of a digital TETRA for train-to-wayside communications. The upgrade also extended its video surveillance and video recording systems based on IP protocol. The solution now delivers broadband links for office information and Local Area Network (LAN) systems at the company's offices and depots.
"This communication network is designed to be resilient and to guarantee high reliability for critical services like the new SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) system of underground metro Line 3," he noted. "The surveillance system is now in operation on Lines 1 and 2 and has enabled ATM to install more cameras at more locations, providing better coverage and improving passenger security."
Upgrading from separated service networks to a converged IP/MPLS multi-service network that provides dynamic communications offers a step-change in operational flexibility and efficiency while reducing the total cost of ownership, according to a blog post by Alcatel-Lucent.
"IP networks, and particularly IP/MPLS, bring safety-related train control communications and operational applications under a single unified infrastructure, which also has the flexibility and capacity to bear new railway applications," noted the blog.
Portugal's REFER Telecom also has benefited from a move to a converged IP network.
REFER deployed an IP native technology in 2004 through Alcatel-Lucent, and in 2008 it moved to IP/MPLS technology.
"The signaling team has acknowledged the improvements," noted João Figueiras, head of data networks for REFER Telecom.
"In Europe it is common to have completely separate legacy communication infrastructures dedicated to railway signaling, but we wanted to be able to run everything on IP," Figueiras explained. "This meant we needed our IP network to meet certain communication requirements and be robust against inter-traffic impact while offering a flexible configuration, which is provided by the IP/MPLS technology."
For rail communications, the future is IP/MPLS. For some railway operations, that future is already here today.
When it comes to first responder communications, network quality matters a lot. Public safety organizations need reliable, secure communications networks.
Traditionally, public safety networks have used plesiochronous digital hierarchy (PDH), synchronous digital hierarchy (SDH) or synchronous optical network (SONET) TDM technologies for their networks. But as communications have evolved, TDM is proving insufficient for IP-based voice, video and data systems.
"Many public safety communications networks are evolving to broadband solutions which utilize an IP WAN for first responder radio networks, video surveillance, LTE, improved interoperability, and better integration with growing IT applications, noted a recent white paper on the topic by Alcatel-Lucent, "Mission-Critical Communications Networks for Public Safety."
That's because many of these applications are resource-intensive and need more bandwidth than existing mission-critical voice and sensor traffic.
For many, the solution to better optimize operations for public safety is a converged IP/MPLS-based network.
An IP/MPLS-based network offers several advantages to public safety organizations. First, it optimizes the available bandwidth in the network to make possible the introduction of new applications. It also reduces the dependency on leased lines, adds bandwidth, enables LTE backhaul for mobile broadband and both reduces network complexity and improves efficiency.
Such benefits not only enhance the safety of the general public, but also expand the use of the network and the investment of the agencies, according to the Alcatel-Lucent paper.
Using a solution such as that offered by Alcatel-Lucent, an upgrade to a converged IP/MPLS network can help deliver high network availability, network virtualization, quality of service guarantees for priority traffic, support for existing mission-critical TDM services and new IP and Ethernet applications, and flexible synchronization options.
It also can reduce operating and maintenance costs, improve first responder safety through always-on communications, and deliver readiness for LTE deployment.
"Alcatel-Lucent has state-of-the-art, highly reliable and secure, IP-MPLS-based communications equipment that can form a single converged network, with integrated optical and microwave packet transport, providing a reliable infrastructure to support mission critical voice, video, and data communications," noted the paper.
It added: "This approach expands broadband to first responders while transforming traditional backhaul and site-to-site communications to a converged network that enables true multi-agency interoperability with enhanced safety and efficiency."
Rail communications have not been immune from the information technology revolution, but any new rail solutions need to be rock-solid since safety is on the line. Rail communications failure is just not an option.
Moving from separate network services to a converged IP/MPLS multi-service network is helping railway operations make a step-change in flexibility and efficiency while reducing total cost of ownership.
IP convergence--and IP/MPLS in particular—bring safety-related train control communications under a single unified architecture while delivering new railway communications flexibility.
One railway operations pioneer, Portugal's REFER Telecom (the telecommunications subsidiary of Portuguese railway infrastructure manager, REFER E.P.E), has been using a fixed IP communications network since 2004. Since 2008 it has been running on IP/MPLS technology provided by Alcatel-Lucent.
"The evolution of technology and the obsolescence of some of our existing technologies was a driver," explained João Figueiras, head of data networks for REFER Telecom, in a recent Alcatel-Lucent TrackTalk article. "We understood that the TDM technology was becoming inadequate for new deployments, and that copper cables had to be deactivated. The deployed fiber network and the increased copper thefts have also accelerated the migration process to IP technology."
IP convergence has meant has helped REFER reach its goal of failure recovery in less than 50ms, shortened time delay, and clear traffic separation.
IP/MPLS has enabled it to have path restoration and network reconvergence through the MPLS Fast Reroute (FRR) feature, according to the blog post, which secures the network against failure by provisioning standby end-to-end MPLS paths which protect the active path. Further, different traffic types are segregated using MPLS pseudo wire emulation edge-to-edge (PWE3) and virtual private networks (VPNs), which deliver user groups or applications with an environment that is unaffected by other traffic.
Milan's Azienda Trasporti Milanese (ATM) also has seen the benefits of moving its rail communications to a converged IP network.
"The necessity to upgrade to an IP network is due to the increasing need to host more services and its ability to converge these onto a single piece of infrastructure to provide a truly multi-service network," explained Stefano Pasetti, director of mobile and telecommunications for ATM, in a separate TrackTalk posting.
TrackTalk October 2013
The introduction of VoIP systems and the necessity to guarantee different quality of service specifications led ATM to IP/MPLS.
"This communication network is designed to be resilient and to guarantee high reliability for critical services like the new SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) system of underground metro Line 3," he noted of ATM's IP system, which was launched in 2010. "The surveillance system is now in operation on Lines 1 and 2 and has enabled ATM to install more cameras at more locations, providing better coverage and improving passenger security. The migration was carried out while the legacy network continued to operate which reduced disruptions during the installation."
Railway communications chugs ahead since, after all, the trains must run on time.
New Zealand is on the brink of a new era in communications. Two major initiatives will significantly help improve the speed and capacity of the country's high-speed broadband network, as outlined in a recent Alcatel-Lucent (ALU) white paper, "How New Zealand can increase the social & economic impacts of high-speed broadband."
The Ultra-Fast Broadband (UFB) project and Rural Broadband Initiative (RBI) are set to improve the network speed and capacity available to nearly 98 percent of New Zealanders, based on a study conducted by Bell Labs, the research arm of Alcatel-Lucent. The goal is, as ALU likes to say about its broadband portfolio, "Get to Fast, Faster."
The study explored the social and economic impacts for New Zealand of UFB and RBI, and the high-speed broadband applications that these networks will enable, ultimately showing the incremental growth in GDP stemming from the network builds will be $5.5 billion over 20 years, significantly larger than the government's $1.5 billion capital contribution to these projects.
The study offers ideas on how New Zealand can positively impact three key variables, therefore increasing the economic benefits stemming from the UFB and RBI networks, and the broadband applications that will be delivered across them. The key variables are:
While video is one of the key drivers behind the surge, demands go beyond entertainment. Governments worldwide recognize the socio-economic benefits that broadband can bring, and have set targets for universal broadband, according to ALU, which provides high-capacity fiber, copper access and 4G LTE solutions aimed to help service providers, utility companies and governments accelerate delivery of ultra-fast broadband in the most cost-effective way possible.
In fact, Alcatel-Lucent has been in New Zealand since the 1920s, building and maintaining the country's telecommunications infrastructure. Alcatel-Lucent says that ICT innovation can be a powerful catalyst for social and economic development.
Alcatel-Lucent's ng Connect Program aims to bring together infrastructure, device, application and content companies to create an end-to-end ecosystem to rapidly develop new services and applications. The company launched the ng Connect Program in New Zealand in late 2011 to help local companies, universities and research institutions collaborate with global leaders on high-speed broadband applications, for use by New Zealand end-users and to generate export earnings.
Under the UFB and RBI initiatives, 75 percent of New Zealanders will have access to ultra-fast broadband. Schools, hospitals and 90 percent of businesses will be connected by 2015. In addition, residences and the remaining 10 percent of businesses will be connected by 2019.
Businesses with large employee bases can help accelerate application adoption and create a so-called bow-wave of high-speed broadband uptake by using UFB and RBI as the basis for large-scale teleworking initiatives. To drive this aggressive level of uptake, the CXOs of large organizations need to champion this massive-scale teleworking and communication effort in New Zealand.
Compensating for the ever-increasing demand for high-bandwidth connectivity is every service provider's number one concern. This is for good reason. Next generation services can help mobile operators limit churn and enable them to tap into new revenue streams and improve their bottom lines.
Unfortunately, completely rebuilding a network is cost-prohibitive for most service providers. This creates a quandary over what to do. One viable option for forward-thinking service providers is IP/MPLS backhaul solutions. These enable carriers to leverage their existing broadband access infrastructure – whether it be microwave, copper (DSL) or fiber-based (GPON). In the process they serve as the foundation for a flexible high-performance network, all without major capital expenditures or increased operating expenses.
Several broadband access solutions currently exist, but most all of them fail to successfully address broadband infrastructure backhaul requirements while leveraging DSL or GPON.
According to Alcatel-Lucent (ALU) in a recent application note, Leveraging Broadband Access Infrastructure for IP/MPLS Backhaul, these requirements include:
Reality is that until recently, no broadband access solution was capable of supporting these requirements, making the technology rather unappealing to operators. That all changed when Alcatel-Lucent-Lucent launched the 7705 Services Aggregation Router (SAR) family of products, which provides an integrated set of DSL and GPON backhaul capabilities that can help service providers quickly and efficiently accommodate for business traffic growth.
With the SAR line of products, operators can add more bandwidth to compete with 4G network providers without having to tear down their own network or make any major capital expenditures. 7705 SARs provide automated bring-up and template provisioning capabilities – making management a snap – as well as comprehensive hierarchical traffic conditioning and management functionality for controlling network QoS while maintaining strict SLA enforcement.
Alcatel-Lucent's success in the space has been well documented. The company was recently recognized as the leading global vendor in the Ethernet cell site gateway and Ethernet mobile backhaul router market for the first six months of 2011. Since being recognized last year, Alcatel-Lucent added to the family by unveiling new power-efficient, small footprint, high-performance 7705 SAR-M models, which they say provide additional network flexibility by supporting a variety of cell site access options.
With backhaul constituting in many cases the largest expense of mobile services operations, finding a solution that can accommodate today's requirement while providing a cost-effective glide path to the future is critical. That is why looking at all of the elements that go into the creation of an end-to-end next generation IP-based mobile network is key, and why the backhaul component is getting so much attention these days.


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Photos and Description of this 3 bedroom holiday villa in Almirida - Villa Selene
PRIVATE GATED POOL to help with child safety
This villa is designed with a Gated Swimming Pool to help restrict access for young children. Parents can sit on the shaded patio and easily keep an eye on the kids. The villa sleeps 6+ in 3 double/twin bedrooms. Located in our St Basil Olive Grove, only 3 minutes drive from the beach at Almirida (sometimes spelled Almyrida), on the Apokoronas Peninsular in North West Crete (30 minute drive from Chania Airport). Only a 12 minute walk is the 1000-year old Greek village of Gavalochori with tavernas & shops. The villa is NOT built on a cramped housing development! It shares the olive grove with only 4 other villas (all owned by us) and is not directly overlooked. The road to Almyrida has only light traffic during the day and occasional vehicles at night, yet you are never far from civilization and the cafe culture and nightlife of nearby villages. Suitable for wheelchair users. CAR NOT ESSENTIAL - beach and villages within walking distance.
Swimming in nearby sandy beach of Almirida. Scuba/Snorkelling in Chania/Almirida. Windsurfing school in Almirida. Walking galore! Easy tracks straight from the door. Spectacular countryside with breathtaking views of White Mountains from villa & all bedroom terraces. Sea Fishing - tackle shop in nearby Kalives. The White Mountains dominate the area and provide a dramatic backdrop to the sandy beaches at Almirida, Kalives and Georgeoupolis. The Apokoronas area is also well known for its traditional inland villages such as Vamos, Kefalas, Plaka and Kokkino Chorio - location for the film 'Zorba The Greek'.
The large bay that makes up the seaside resorts of Almirida and Kalives has many separate, safe, sandy beaches, usually with full facilities. Almirida, is a thriving seaside resort with a windsurfing school and tavernas and bars lining the sea front. There are a couple of mini-markets, a bakery, patisserie, a wine shop and newsagents.
Mountain bikes can be hired and there is also a small taxi rank. There is a bus service to Kalives & Chania.
Kalives is a working village as well as being a tourist destination. So in addition to the beaches, tavernas, bars & tourist shops there are local shops plus a good-sized supermarket. Banking, post office and petrol station are available. Chania - a cosmopolitan city voted the most beautiful on Crete. With the White Mountains as a backdrop, its Venetian harbour, museums, fascinating indoor market & an old quarter of narrow streets packed with interesting shops, Chania offers something for most visitors.
It is a vibrant place steeped in Byzantine, Venetian and Turkish history. The harbour area is a great place to sit & watch the world go by at one of the sea-front tavernas. Charter Flight time 4 hours from UK airports to Chania (1/2 hour drive) or Heraklion (2 hour drive). We can also advise on reliable local car hire at reasonable cost with good English speaking staff.
- Suitability:
- Events Allowed
- Long-term Renters Welcome
- children welcome
- pets not allowed
- suitable for elderly or infirm
- wheelchair accessible
About John Dunn
Hi there We are owners Marcus Milton and John Dunn. Together with our two families, we co-own and manage our estate of 5.5 acres of olive grove in North West Crete. On this land we have built 4 spacious rental villas, each with private pools. With 200 trees olive trees on site we also harvest the oil and bring back to the UK the best fresh olive oil you are likely to have tasted.
John Dunn purchased this villa in 2005
Why John Dunn chose Almirida
As we own the whole plot, we have been able to control the building of these houses so that they are completely detached and not immediately overlooked. We feel this is very important to the comfort and ambiance of our guests who do not want to feel as though they are living on top of other villas!
Guestbook comments from the manager
Many thanks for letting out your villa to us. We had a fantastic holiday. The villa is beautifully situated, and we enjoyed staying there. Really beautiful setting, great villa, very helpful assistance from Mark when needed, gorgeous pool, THE most wonderful taverna in nearby Gavalochori, and we genuinely hope to go there again - probably not next year, but almost certainly 2013!
Alison, Aug 2011


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Book your room at La Quinta Inn Nacogdoches
Standard Room, 2 Double Beds, Refrigerator & MicrowaveMax Occupancy: 4 guests (up to 3 children, 3 infants)
Standard Room, 1 King Bed, Refrigerator & MicrowaveMax Occupancy: 3 guests (up to 2 children, 1 infant)
Nacogdoches hotel with an outdoor pool
Situated in Nacogdoches, this hotel is close to Woodland Hills Golf Club. Area attractions also include Stone Fort Museum and Stephen F. Austin State University.
Hotel Features
La Quinta Inn Nacogdoches provides complimentary wireless Internet access, complimentary high-speed (wired) Internet access, free self parking, and a 24-hour front desk.
Room Amenities
Flat-screen televisions come with premium cable channels. Guestrooms also feature complimentary wireless Internet access, refrigerators, and microwaves.Information missing or incorrect? Tell us!
La Quinta Inn Nacogdoches
Hotel Amenities
A complimentary breakfast is offered. High-speed wired and wireless Internet access is complimentary. This Nacogdoches hotel also offers an outdoor pool, multilingual staff, and complimentary newspapers in the lobby. Onsite self parking is complimentary.
- Free Wi-Fi
- Outdoor pool
- 24-hour front desk
- Complimentary newspapers in lobby
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Total number of rooms - 106
- Number of floors - 2
- Multilingual staff
- Free self parking
- Free breakfast
- Free wired high-speed Internet
Family Friendly Amenities
- Outdoor pool
- Free Wi-Fi
- Refrigerator
- Microwave
Available in all rooms: Free Wi-Fi
Available in some public areas: Free Wi-Fi , Free wired high-speed Internet
Room Amenities
- Air conditioning
- Premium TV channels
- Video-game console
- Desk
- Free local calls
- Complimentary toiletries
- Coffee/tea maker
- Hair dryer
- Iron/ironing board
- Access via exterior corridors
- Microwave
- Refrigerator
- Cable TV service
- Cribs/infant beds available
- Flat-panel TV
- Free Wi-Fi
Where to Eat
Guests are offered a complimentary continental breakfast.
To make requests for specific accessibility needs, complete the "Special or Accessibility Requests" section of "Trip Preferences" when you book your hotel.
- Accessible bathroom
- Accessible parking
Hotel Policies
Check-in time starts at 3 PM
Check-out time is noon
Payment types
Pets allowed
You need to know
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on hotel policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.


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Garnet Way Campaign
Since the summer of 2006, the University of South Carolina Athletics Department has benefited from over $192 million given to the Garnet Way Campaign. The Athletics Department has been able to improve athletics facilities for current and future student-athletes through the generosity of our campaign donors.
How To Give
To donate to South Carolina Athletics, please contact us at 803.777.4276. Visit https://giving.sc.edu/areastosupport/athletics.aspx to give a gift to the campaign.
The Athletics Department has formed the Garnet Society to recognize those who have contributed philanthropic gifts to South Carolina Athletics: The Garnet Society is comprised of the following levels:
|Palmetto Society
|All-American Society
|Legends Society
|In the Huddle
The Palmetto Society is comprised of 128 members who have donated $25,000-$99,999 to South Carolina Athletics above and beyond Gamecock Club contributions and seat premium donations. Palmetto Society members have contributed approximately $5.2 million to Gamecock Athletics. This society embodies an essential part of the Garnet Way Campaign, representing an important group of individuals who have made significant philanthropic investments and whose participation in the campaign will greatly enhance the future of South Carolina Athletics and our Gamecock student-athletes. Palmetto Society members receive their names in a game day program as well as a special event invitation each year.
The All-American Society consists of those who have contributed $100,000-$249,999 in philanthropic support to South Carolina Athletics above and beyond Gamecock Club contributions and seat premium donations. The 37 members who make up this society have given approximately $4.7 million to South Carolina Athletics. Members of this group have made substantial contributions to the Garnet Way Campaign and send a strong message in their support of the Gamecocks through their leadership gifts. All-American Society members' names are listed in a game day program and are eligible for a for a special event invitation from the athletics director.
The Legends Society was created to recognize donors who have given between $250,000-$999,999 in philanthropic support to South Carolina Athletics above and beyond Gamecock Club contributions and seat premium donations. This prominent society includes 33 members who have given a total of approximately $13.4 million to Gamecock Athletics. Many donors find themselves enjoying the benefits of the Legend Society after having reinvested in a second or third gift to the Garnet Way Campaign having realized the impact of their support toward the betterment of the lives of our student-athletes. Legend Society members are listed on the "Legends Wall" in the Athletics Village. These members are also eligible for a special event invitation from the athletics director.
In the Huddle is the most prestigious of the societies. In the Huddle members have given $1 million or more to South Carolina Athletics above and beyond Gamecock Club contributions and seat premium donations. Fifteen donors make up this elite society who have given a total of approximately $37.4 million to Gamecock Athletics. The gifts donated by these generous donors provide Gamecock Athletics with unprecedented levels of support, making a series of drastic impacts on the landscape of South Carolina Athletics and the levels of success our programs are currently experiencing. In the Huddle members are also recognized on the "Legends Wall" and in the South Carolina Athletics Annual Report.
Upcoming Projects
Football Practice Fields
Projected Completion: Summer 2014
Tennis Locker Rooms
Projected Completion: November 2014
Football Indoor Practice Facility
Projected Completion: March 2015
Springs-Brooks Plaza at Williams-Brice Stadium
Projected Completion: August 2015
Outdoor Track Facility
Projected Completion: October 2015
Indoor Track Facility
Projected Completion: January 2016
Soccer Building
Projected Completion: January 2016
Completed Projects
Carolina Stadium
Completed: February 2009
Carolina Tennis Center
Completed: January 2012
Colonial Life Arena Basketball Locker Rooms
Completed: February 2012
The Dodie Anderson Academic Enrichment Center
Completed: January 2010
Equestrian Locker Rooms
Completed: January 2014
Football Locker Room
Completed: October 2009
Gamecock Park (Former Farmers Market)
Completed: September 2012
Football Recruiting Lounge
Completed: October 2009
Football Video Board
Completed: September 2012
Rice Athletics Center
Completed: July 2012
Williams-Brice Stadium Training Room
Completed: October 2008
Carolina Softball Stadium
Completed: September 2013
Sand Volleyball Complex
Completed: Fall 2013
Naming Opportunities
South Carolina Athletics offers donors a wide variety of naming opportunities. A limited list is provided below. For more detailed information, please contact Kendall Belk, Stewardship Coordinator, at email@example.com or 803.777.2272
Carolina Stadium
Carolina Tennis Center
The Dodie Anderson Academic Enrichment Center
Gamecock Park (Former Farmers Market Site)
Rice Athletics Center
Williams-Brice Stadium
The Garnet Way Cabinet
Tommy Suggs, Cabinet Chairman, South Carolina, '71, Former Gamecock football student-athlete
Jimmy Addison, South Carolina, '82, '83
Luther Battiste, South Carolina, '71
Mark Buyck, South Carolina, '88
Harris DeLoach, South Carolina, '66
Stan Juk, South Carolina, '67, Former Gamecock football student-athlete
Lou Kennedy, South Carolina, '84
Glen Lott, South Carolina, '59
Doyle McBride
Joe Rice, South Carolina, '76, '79
Michael Roth, South Carolina, '12, Former Gamecock baseball student-athlete
Member of Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim organization
Darius Rucker, South Carolina, '87
Jim Schaper, South Carolina, '74, Former Gamecock track student-athlete
Bill Stern
Susie VanHuss
Former Professor & Head of Management Department, University of South Carolina


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