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In the model of community-based transformational learning, representatives from the entire campus community are collaborating on a unique project to help pre-teen girls develop self-respect and a healthy lifestyle through running. The project involves a partnership with Girls on the Run of Northeast Florida, a non-profit dedicated to educating and preparing girls for a lifetime of self-respect and healthy living. Faculty and students from the Sport Management program, along with staff from across campus, are dedicating countless hours in preparation for the organization's WonderGirl 5K, which will take place Saturday, Dec. 13, on the UNF track. More than 500 girls and 500 running buddies are expected to participate in the run, which will begin at the track, loop around part of the UNF campus and end up back at the track. The College of Educations and Human Services' Sport Management program is known for its strong partnerships with the Jacksonville community and the region's sport organizations. These connections provide students completing the program with a minimum of 420 hours of hands-on, real-world experience as well as established professional relationships. This collaborative approach provides win-win scenarios for both students and the community. "Sport is an important vehicle for bringing about community change ... and it's important for our students to be actively involved in the sport organizations in the community," said Dr. Jennifer Kane, associate professor and program coordinator for Sport Management. "There is such a richness that is added to the curriculum when students are able to take what we are teaching and apply it into a sport organization. We want our curriculum to reflect that practice." UNF folks are involved in the WonderGirl 5K in various capacities, according to Kane. "The track and field coach [Mark VanAlstyne] has helped set up the course, other UNF employees have worked on the facility logistics, Dr. Lucy Croft [assistant vice president for Student Affairs] secured the UNF site, and my Intro to Sport Marketing class is volunteering the day of the race in various capacities, along with other students they have recruited to be running buddies," she said. In addition to VanAlstyne, Croft and Kane, other UNF people involved in putting on the WonderGirl 5K include: Julie Stackhouse – assistant track coach; Shelly Purser – director of Health Promotion; Becky Purser – director of Campus Recreation; Michelle Bronner – director of Academic Support Services for Athletics-University Compliance; Lauriane Byll-Cataria – director of the Student Government Volunteer Center; and Sarah Dufresne – assistant director Media Relations and Events. "Partnering with Girls on the Run of Northeast Florida to present the inaugural WonderGirl 5K is a great opportunity to support community initiatives, encourage transformational learning experiences for all age levels and expose the community to the new track facilities and campus environment," Croft said. "Additionally, it is a great way to build community relations and provide volunteer opportunities for our UNF students, faculty and staff." Sport Management students secured donations for goody bags and stuffed the bags, which will be given to the runners; solicited sponsorship donations, in-kind gifts and food, and donations for T-shirts for all running buddies; recruited and handled communication with running buddies; and signed up to volunteer as running buddies themselves. Kane said no matter what area of sport management students end up in — professional, collegiate, community, etc. — they will benefit from having experience organizing an event like the WonderGirl 5K. "Planning, marketing, [obtaining] sponsorships, volunteer recruitment, and logistics of running an event are valuable skill sets that we can discuss in class, but until you actually engage in the actual process, you can't fully appreciate and understand it," she said.
Fine Arts Center offers 50 percent discount to faculty/staff in December
In the model of community-based transformational learning, representatives from the entire campus community are collaborating on a unique project to help pre-teen girls develop self-respect and a healthy lifestyle through running. The project involves a partnership with Girls on the Run of Northeast Florida, a non-profit dedicated to educating and preparing girls for a lifetime of self-respect and healthy living. Faculty and students from the Sport Management program, along with staff from across campus, are dedicating countless hours in preparation for the organization's WonderGirl 5K, which will take place Saturday, Dec. 13, on the UNF track. More than 500 girls and 500 running buddies are expected to participate in the run, which will begin at the track, loop around part of the UNF campus and end up back at the track. The College of Educations and Human Services' Sport Management program is known for its strong partnerships with the Jacksonville community and the region's sport organizations. These connections provide students completing the program with a minimum of 420 hours of hands-on, real-world experience as well as established professional relationships. This collaborative approach provides win-win scenarios for both students and the community. "Sport is an important vehicle for bringing about community change ... and it's important for our students to be actively involved in the sport organizations in the community," said Dr. Jennifer Kane, associate professor and program coordinator for Sport Management. "There is such a richness that is added to the curriculum when students are able to take what we are teaching and apply it into a sport organization. We want our curriculum to reflect that practice." UNF folks are involved in the WonderGirl 5K in various capacities, according to Kane. "The track and field coach [Mark VanAlstyne] has helped set up the course, other UNF employees have worked on the facility logistics, Dr. Lucy Croft [assistant vice president for Student Affairs] secured the UNF site, and my Intro to Sport Marketing class is volunteering the day of the race in various capacities, along with other students they have recruited to be running buddies," she said. In addition to VanAlstyne, Croft and Kane, other UNF people involved in putting on the WonderGirl 5K include: Julie Stackhouse – assistant track coach; Shelly Purser – director of Health Promotion; Becky Purser – director of Campus Recreation; Michelle Bronner – director of Academic Support Services for Athletics-University Compliance; Lauriane Byll-Cataria – director of the Student Government Volunteer Center; and Sarah Dufresne – assistant director Media Relations and Events. "Partnering with Girls on the Run of Northeast Florida to present the inaugural WonderGirl 5K is a great opportunity to support community initiatives, encourage transformational learning experiences for all age levels and expose the community to the new track facilities and campus environment," Croft said. "Additionally, it is a great way to build community relations and provide volunteer opportunities for our UNF students, faculty and staff." Sport Management students secured donations for goody bags and stuffed the bags, which will be given to the runners; solicited sponsorship donations, in-kind gifts and food, and donations for T-shirts for all running buddies; recruited and handled communication with running buddies; and signed up to volunteer as running buddies themselves. Kane said no matter what area of sport management students end up in — professional, collegiate, community, etc. — they will benefit from having experience organizing an event like the WonderGirl 5K. "Planning, marketing, [obtaining] sponsorships, volunteer recruitment, and logistics of running an event are valuable skill sets that we can discuss in class, but until you actually engage in the actual process, you can't fully appreciate and understand it," she said.
L. R. "Bob" Jacob, director of UNF's Institute of Police Technology and Management (IPTM), recently received the prestigious J. Stannard Baker Award recognizing his lifetime achievement in the field of traffic safety. Jacob was recognized for his 35 years of work as an innovator and a leader in highway safety at both the state and national levels during a November ceremony at the annual conference of the International Association of Chiefs of Police in San Diego. "I am deeply honored to have had the opportunity to work on so many programs and with so many dedicated professionals over the years," Jacob said. "This award really means a lot to me." The J. Stannard Baker Award annually recognizes individual lifetime contributions to highway safety. Law enforcement officers of state, county or municipal agencies as well as private and public sector representatives are selected for their sustained, continuous, career-spanning and innovative contributions to highway safety. The award recipient is selected by the Highway Safety Committee of the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) and is presented in collaboration with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and Northwestern University's Center for Public Policy. Jacob's work in traffic safety began in 1973, when he became a trooper and later an academy instructor with the Virginia State Police. There he had an opportunity to use some of the earliest versions of traffic enforcement equipment at a time when the skyrocketing number of highway deaths was gaining national attention. In 1984, he moved to Jacksonville, became an instructor at IPTM and, over the next 20 years, trained thousands of law enforcement officers from across the United States and several foreign countries in a variety of traffic safety topics. Jacob was appointed director of IPTM in 2005, remaining heavily involved in highway safety programs/training and makes it a priority to mentor today's young professionals into traffic safety leaders of tomorrow. The award honors the late J. Stannard Baker who made significant contributions to highway safety as the director of Research and Development at the Northwestern University Traffic Institute—now the Center for Public Safety—for more than 30 years. Known as the "father of accident investigation," Baker focused on the causes of traffic crashes and helped develop modern techniques of collision investigation and reconstruction. IPTM was established at UNF in 1980 for the purpose of providing quality and professional training programs to municipal, county, state and federal law enforcement officers. Each year, approximately 15,000 civilian and military law enforcement personnel from around the world are trained at the Institute. IPTM offers a wide variety of courses in several fields of interest, including crash investigations and reconstruction, traffic and DUI/DWI enforcement, supervision and management, crime scene procedures, criminal investigations, drug and gang enforcement, tactical operations and more.
Members of UNF's Spirit Advisory Board have some novel ideas for changing the perception of those who think of UNF as a commuter school lacking tradition and school spirit. The board has started to implement plans that include everything from Spirit Spotters on Blue/Gray Fridays to talon prints on sidewalks all over campus as a "game-walk" to the Arena. Last year, about 30 Osprey talon prints were painted on the sidewalk next to the parking garage across from the Arena. The talon prints are fashioned after the paw prints the Jacksonville Jaguars have on Bay Street leading to Jacksonville Municipal Stadium. This year the Spirit Advisory Board partnered with the Interfaith Center as part of the 2nd Annual Religious Awareness Week to work on extending the talon prints from North Parking Lot 18 to the Aquatic Center. Once the base prints are complete, UNF clubs and organizations will be able to "adopt" a talon print area and decorate it according to their affiliation as part of Homecoming week. Eventually the main walkways on campus will be named and branded after UNF traditions (i.e. "Talon Trail", "Osprey Way", etc.) The board members' primary function is to come up with ideas to promote school spirit and pride, which in turn could develop into UNF traditions. "As we are bucking the image of a commuter school and becoming more of a traditional state university, it is crucial that as a campus community we stay connected," said Elliot Darkatsh, director of marketing for UNF Athletics and an adviser for the Spirit Advisory Board. "Traditions and school pride are what a student will remember upon graduation. This Advisory Board is challenging the apathy bug and providing avenues for traditions to develop." The idea for a Spirit Advisory Board came from the 2006/07 LeadershipUNF class. Faculty, staff, students and alumni are welcome to join the Spirit Advisory Board. The board's next meeting is at 4 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 28, in Alumni Hall.
The Intercultural Center for PEACE will present the 28th Annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Scholarship Luncheon from 11:30 to 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 18, in the University Center's Banquet Hall. This year's speaker, Dr. Benjamin Solomon Carson Sr., will advise listeners to "Take the risk – a rational approach to taking risks." Carson, a full professor of neurosurgery, oncology, plastic surgery and pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, was named by CNN and TIME Magazine as one of the nation's 20 foremost physicians and scientists and he was selected by the Library of Congress as one of 89 "Living Legends" on the occasion of its 200th anniversary. Tickets for the luncheon are available online at http://capricorn.anf.unf.edu/unftbo3/shopdisplaycategories.asp or at the UNF Ticket Box Office at ext. 2878. Free tickets are also available to 100 UNF students with ID (on a first-come, first-served basis). Tickets are $30 for individuals; $500 for silver-level corporate tables (including a table for eight and table signage); $1,000 for gold-level corporate tables (including a table for eight, table signage, preferred seating, recognition in the program and a thank you from the podium during the luncheon). For more information, contact Lorna Bautista or any ICP staff person at ext. 2475.
Any person of any age, non-swimmer or swimmer, at any fitness level from sedentary to active, can benefit from aquatic exercise. Exercising in the water is a fun, safe way to achieve or maintain fitness. Here's what Cath Lee McKiniry, water exercise supervisor at the UNF Aquatic Center, has to say about the benefits of exercising in the water. What are the benefits?There are numerous benefits to performing exercise in the water. The buoyancy or floating effect of water serves to greatly reduce pressure and impact, thus movements are gentle and easy on the joints, notably ankles, knees, hips, back and shoulders. Because water supports the body while exercising, the muscles and joints are allowed a much fuller range of comfortable movements. Hydrostatic pressure refers to the pressure exerted by water on the immersed body; this factor can decrease swelling in joints and tissues and have a positive effect on blood pressure during and after exercise. Better circulation, a healthier heart and increased energy are also additional benefits. What is the advantage of water exercise compared to land exercise? Water weighs 8.5 pounds per gallon. As we move against the weight of the water, our arms, legs and body experience resistance in every direction and every movement. In water, even walking with simple arm movements provides greater benefit versus walking on land due to the water weight/resistance factor. Using the resistance of the water is an excellent way to promote and maintain muscular endurance. Doctors and therapists often recommend aqua exercise for overall health and fitness, as well as for conditions such as rehabilitation of the knee, back, hip, shoulder injury, joint replacement, blood pressure concerns and recovery from a heart attack, plus posture and balance issues related to fall prevention. Please note that before beginning any new exercise activity, all individuals should consult their physician. Is aqua exercise helpful for weight control and weight loss? All exercise is beneficial in these areas; however, overweight individual will experience fewer restrictions in the water, allowing more vigorous movement and more calories burned. A person may have very limited ability to move through exercise movements on land; water reduces the gravity effect, supports the body and allows the individual to move quite freely. What types of exercises are done in the water? You don't have to be a swimmer to enjoy aquatic exercise; most movements are in a standing position with feet placed on the pool bottom. At UNF classes are multi-level, meaning a person new to aqua exercise can participate with more advanced class members. Low and high intensity land-based exercise modes such as yoga, Pilates, cardio-aerobics and resistance training with equipment are adapted to the water. What can senior citizens expect to gain from water exercise? Daily activities related to independent living are enhanced by re-establishing and maintaining good muscle balance. Water pressure reduces swelling of inflamed joints, and exercise increases energy and an overall sense of well-being. The national Arthritis Foundation has had an aquatic exercise program for many years and is offered at UNF. Every month, the column "Ask UNF" runs in Inside and The Florida Times-Union, promoting the expertise of UNF faculty and staff.
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Accounting and Finance: In October, Dr. Charles Calhoun attended the first Forum of International Accountancy Regulators in Boston where he presented a paper, "Efforts to Improve International Mobility." The forum was sponsored by the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy. Dr. Lynn Jones' co-authored article, "Master Limited Partnership Investments: Characteristics, Tax Issues, and Choices," will appear in the December CPA Journal. Marketing and Logistics: Dr. David Cantor's paper titled "Decision Making in the Supply Chain: Examining Problem Solving Approaches and Information Availability" (with John Macdonald) has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Operations Management. The paper will appear next year in Issue No. 3 or 4. Dr. Adel El-Ansary was invited to speak at the Jagdish N. Seth Symposium at Emory University in November. El-Ansary and Dr. Greg Gundlach's invited commentary "Contributions of Professor Jagdish Seth to the Field of Relationship Marketing: An Integrative and Illustrative Framework" was published in Relationship Marketing Research, Legends in Marketing Series: Jagdish N. Seth, by Encore Publishing, 2008. Gundlach also was an expert witness for the plaintiff in last year's Supreme Court case, Pereira, Joseph "Price-Fixing Makes Comeback After Supreme Court Ruling," Wall Street Journal, published Aug. 18, p. A1. In addition, Gundlach contributed five articles to the marketing literature in 2008: "Introduction to the American Antitrust Institute's Symposium on Buyer Power" (with Albert Foer), in a forthcoming special issue of the Antitrust Bulletin; "AMA's New Definition of Marketing, Perspective and Commentary on the 2007 Revision" (with William L. Wilkie), Journal of Public Policy & Marketing, forthcoming; "The American Marketing Association's New Definition of Marketing: Perspectives on its Implications for Scholarship and the Role and Responsibility of Marketing in Society," Journal of Public Policy & Marketing, Vol. 26, No. 3, 2008; "Buyer Power, The Next Antitrust Agenda: The American Antitrust Institute's Transition Report on Competition Policy to the 44th President of the United States," by Vandeplas Publishing. Sharing the credit with Gundlach for an article published in the leading journal of the field, Journal of Business Logistics, are Drs. Robert Frankel, Yemisi Bolumole and Reham Eltantawy in Marketing and Logistics and Antony Paulraj in Management for their article "The Domain and Scope of Supply Chain Management's Foundational Disciplines" in Insights and Issues to Advance Research, Vol. 29, No. 1, 2008.
Communication: Bobbi Reid Doggett gave a presentation titled "Transforming the Classroom into a Real-Life Public Relations/Advertising Agency" at the Communication Across the Disciplines Convention, sponsored by the Florida Communication Association in Gainesville. At the same convention, Christine K. Holland gave a presentation titled "Engaging Students Beyond the Classroom Walls: Transformational Service Learning in a Small Group Communication Class." Drs. Judith J. Sayre and Reetu Grewal gave a presentation titled "Starting the talk: An exploration of electronic chart prompts to initiate physician/patient palliative care discussions" at American Academy on Communication in Healthcare and the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences College of Medicine in Madison, Wis. Criminology and Criminal Justice: Dr. Daniel Pontzer submitted four encyclopedia articles titled "Amphetamines," "Bombings," "Drug Paraphernalia" and "Innocence Projects," which were in the "Forensic Science Encyclopedia" published by Salem Press in October 2008. Dr. Christine E. Rasche received the 2008 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Division of Women and Crime of the American Society of Criminology. English: Dr. Marnie Jones presented a paper "Translating Prince Caspian and The Golden Compass from Fiction to Film: Negotiating Theological Issues in a Secular Medium" at the Popular Culture Association in the South/American Culture Association in the South Conference in Louisville in October. Dr. Tru Leverette published "Guess Who's Welcome to Dinner: Contemporary Interracial Romance and the New Racism" in Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture, Vol. 8, No. 4, fall 2008 (online). Dr. Clark Lunberry, published his poem "Words Away: A Poem in 125 Parts," in E•ratio online at www.eratiopostmodernpoetry.com . Dr. Betsy Nies presented a paper "Exploring the Works of Northeast Florida with Duval County's Public School Teachers" at the Florida College English Association in Ybor City, Fla., in October. History: Dr. Elizabeth Furdell published "Fatal Thirst: Diabetes in Britain Until Insulin," by Brill Academic Press. She also presented a paper titled "The Family Physician: A Victorian Manual for Health" at the International Conference on the Book in Washington, D.C. Dr. Aaron Sheehan-Dean published "The Concise Historical Atlas of the U.S. Civil War" with Oxford University Press. He was also named series editor for "A Nation Divided: The Civil War Era" at the University of Virginia Press. Mathematics and Statistics: Dr. Beyza Aslan presented a talk titled "The Change in Electric Potential Due to Lightning" at the American Mathematical Society 2008 Fall Southeastern meeting at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. Music: In October, Dr. Krzysztof Biernacki performed a solo voice recital at Carnegie Hall including works by Mozart, Donizetti, Puccini, Moniuszko, Tchaikovsky and Wagner. Dr. Nick Curry performed at the College Music Society National Conference; and with Trio Florida (with pianist Gary Smart and violinist Simon Shiao) on the UNF campus, in Amelia Island and on the EMMA music masters-lectures and recital series at Flagler College. He was also the continuo cellist for the Jacksonville premiere of the Monteverdi's "Vespers of 1610." Dr. Marc Dickman was a featured artist at the 2008 Amelia Island Jazz Festival. Dennis Marks performed in October at the club Snug Harbor, considered the top jazz club in New Orleans. He also performed with Grammy Award winning trumpeter Arturo Sandoval at Dartmouth College and at the club Iridium in New York City. Dr. Cara Tasher brought the UNF Chorale, Chamber Singers and Women's Chorus to perform in the Jacksonville Intercollegiate Choral Festival. She conducted the Jacksonville premiere of Monteverdi's "Vespers of 1610" with the UNF Chamber Singers in November. The UNF Women's Chorus participated in the American Choral Director's Association state conference in Lake Mary, Fla. Dr. Randy Tinnin published George Frideric Handel's "'Let the Bright Seraphim: Thoughts on Modern Performance" in the International Journal of the Arts in Society, Vol. 3, No. 1, 2008. Philosophy: Dr. Mitchell Haney published "On the Need for Theory in Business Ethics" in Normative Theory and Business Ethics, Rowman and Littlefield. Dr. Rico Vitz presented his paper "Lies, Captivating Lies, and Religious Belief: Hume on the Learned Elite and the Christian Superstition" at the Western Regional meeting of the Society of Christian Philosophers. Political Science and Public Administration: Dr. Hyunsun Choi published an article, "Minneapolis with Arts and Lakes", in the Korean journal Kook To (Planning and Policy), Vol. 324, October 2008. Dr. David Schwam-Baird delivered a paper titled "The Real Meaning of the 'Shia Crescent' for U.S. Foreign Policy: America's Middle East Policy as a Victim of its Own Success" at the 26th Annual Meeting of the Association for Third World Studies held at Millersville University in Lancaster, Pa. In November, Dr. Pamela Zeiser served on the National Screening Committee for Fulbright Awards, specifically the committee for graduate study in Ireland. Psychology: Dr. Adam C. Carle and Stephen J. Blumberg of the National Center for Health Statistics presented a keynote address at the Alfred I DuPont Hospital for Children, Pediatrics, titled "The Impact of Complex Needs on the Well-Being of Children with Special Health Care Needs and their Families." With Lauren Levine and Dr. Julia A. Watkins from Nutrition and Dietetics, he also presented "Disparities in Barriers to Substance Abuse Treatment Across Native Hawaiians/Pacific Islanders and Asians" at the 136th Annual Meeting and Exposition of the American Public Health Association in San Diego. Drs. Dominik Gűss and Tes Tuason published a chapter titled "A Cultural-Psychological Theory of Suicide Terrorism and What to Do about Suicide Terrorism" in Global Community: Global Security, Rodopi Publishers. Dr. Iver Iversen was guest lecturer and gave several presentations about his research on communication learning in paralyzed people and motor-skill learning in chimpanzees at the University of Oslo and Akershus University in Oslo in October. Dr. Christopher Leone gave a symposium presentation at the 30th Annual Meeting of the Society of Southeastern Social Psychologists. His presentation was titled "Social Psychology and Mentoring: Cultivating Today's Students and Tomorrow's Scholars." He also chaired a symposium on "Thriving and Surviving: Graduate Training and Careers in Social Psychology." Dr. Michael Toglia received the Distinguished Service Award from Phi Eta Sigma, the national freshman honor society, at their National Convention held in Louisville in October. Sociology and Anthropology: Drs. Melissa D. Hargrove and JeffriAnne Wilder organized and participated in the inaugural forum for their collaborative series, Deconstructing "Race" in the 21st Century, titled "Examining the Intersections of Race, Class and Gender in the Presidential Election." Among the invited forum panelists was UNF anthropologist Dr. Ron Kephart and Dr. Henry Thomas of Political Science and Public Administration. Dr. Rick Phillips published an article titled "De Facto Congregationalism and Mormon Missionary Outreach: An Ethnographic Case Study" in the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion.
Construction Management: Dr. John Dryden was recently appointed to the Advisory Committee of the Florida Department of Health Bureau of Onsite Sewage Programs Research Review. School of Engineering: Dr. Adel El Safty (with Russell Coby, Upul Attanayake and Khalid Yousri) presented and published their paper "Shear Strengthening of Reinforced Concrete Bridge Girders with FRP Laminates" at the Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute – Federal Highway Administration National Bridge Conference, in October. El Safty also taught Professional Engineering exam review sessions for 50 engineers in Orlando on steel design, concrete design, structural analysis, strength of materials and seismic events. Dr. Thobias Sando (with Geophrey Mbatta and Ren Moses) published their paper "Developing Transit Station Design Criteria with a Focus on Intermodal Connectivity" in the Journal of Transportation Research Forum, Vol. 47, No. 3. Dr. Pat Welsh participated in the board of directors meeting of the Southeast Coastal Ocean Observing Regional Association (SECOORA) and was selected as the chairman of the SECOORA Science Committee in October. Welsh also participated in the Board of Governors meeting of the IBM Research LA Grid Summit meeting and presented UNF's research activities on hurricane mitigation in October. School of Computing: Drs. Albert Ritzhaupt and Karthikeyan Umapathy, and Lisa Jamba presented and published their paper "An Investigation of the AITP Membership Using the Ideal Computing Association Survey" at the Association of Information Technology Professionals (AITP) meeting in October. Academic Research Technology Services: Donald Cowart, Terry Smith and Michael Weeks presented a seminar on high-performance computing, "Building a Beowulf Cluster Using Ubuntu Linux," at the Jacksonville Linux Users Group meeting in October. Dean's Office: Dr. Jerry Merckel gave two invited presentations, "Keys to Success" to the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers student chapter and "How to Secure Research Funding," in a faculty forum sponsored by Office of Research and Sponsored Programs.
Foundations and Secondary Education: Dr. Richard Chant and his wife, Antonia, a first-grade teacher at Chets Creek Elementary, presented a session at the National Council for the Social Studies Conference in November in Houston. The session, "Everything Comes from Something, A Literacy-based Lesson on Natural Resources," demonstrated teaching activities that integrate geography concepts, children's literature and critical thought. Dr. Cassandra Etgeton presented a session titled "Teaching Algebra to People Who Don't Think Like Me" at the Florida Council of Teachers of Mathematics Annual Convention in downtown Jacksonville in October. Drs. Marianne and Lehman Barnes presented a session titled "Action Research for Better Science Teaching" at the first annual Southwestern New Mexico Science Teachers Association meeting at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces, N.M., in November. Childhood Education: Dr. Wanda Hedrick presented a paper to the College Reading Association in Sarasota (with co-authors, Drs. Janis Harmon and Karen Wood). The title of the presentation was "An Investigation of Word Walls: Perceptions of Middle School Students and Instructional Potential." Hedrick also presented research findings at the National Reading Conference in Orlando, again with co-authors Harmon and Wood. The title of the presentation was "An Investigation of Current Reading Programs for Middle and High School Students." The trio also recently published an article titled "Prominent Content Vocabulary Strategies and What Secondary Pre-service Teachers Think About Them" in Reading Psychology, Vol. 29, Issue 5, 2008. Dr. Christine Weber presented a session with a colleague on "Working on Gifted Issues: The WOGI Project" and another session "The Working on Gifted Issues Parent Workshops" with Dr. Laurel Stanley at the National Association for Gifted Children Annual Convention in Tampa in October. Weber also co-authored a white paper with a colleague from Volusia County titled "Rising to the Challenge: Supporting Gifted Education in Florida," which was disseminated to educational leaders in Florida at the conference. Office of Educational Field Experiences: Crystal Timmons and Maria Ramdas conducted two days of Clinical Educator Training at the Discovery School in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, in November. The workshop is a follow-up of an earlier trip to Honduras this year by Drs. Otilia Salmon and John Kemppainen to establish international sites in Central America where College of Education and Human Service's interns are able to gain valuable experience in working with learners of other cultures. Office of the Dean: Dr. Marsha Lupi co-presented "Connecting Special Education Pedagogy to Leadership" at the Annual Conference of the Teacher Education Division of the Council for Exceptional Children in Dallas in November. Lupi also participated on a panel on Legal Advocacy and the Role of the Special Education Professor presenting to doctoral students during their annual one-day meeting at the TED conference.
Intercultural Center for PEACE: Dr. Oupa Seane published "Overthrowing Robert Mugabe" in Global Peace, an international journal of philosophy, peace, education, culture and civilization, Vol. 8, No. 1, September 2008.
Department: Student Medical Services Job: Medical Director Years at UNF: Seven What is the best thing you ever won?That would probably be a signed limited-edition print of Brett Favre I won with a $3 raffle ticket. Or actually, I might say the jersey Morton Anderson was wearing when he missed the field goal to allow the Jaguars to make it into the playoffs for the first time ever (but that one did cost me several dollars through Coach Coughlin's charity auction, so maybe I didn't technically win it). If you won the lottery, what would you do with the money? In all honesty, I've never really had a desire to win the lottery. I've always tried to be financially conservative and not incur debt and in the words of the immortal Nacho Libre, "My life is good." However, with the financial meltdown and my 410K becoming a 101B, I probably could find a few things to do with the money. What was the best money you ever spent? It was probably when I bought a cabin on the Altamaha River 10 years ago. I was working like a dog in those days and being able to retreat into the middle of nowhere clearly protected my sanity, if not also preventing me from having a heart attack or stroke. What was the proudest/happiest moment in your life?That would clearly be when I married my wife and when my children were born. Being a parent gives one a completely different perspective on life, and I truly believe you've not experienced all life has to offer until you have children. Tell us about your family: My wife Julie and I have been married for 19 years. She was my cashier at Publix and after going through her line many times, I asked her out. I thought she was 25, she thought I was about 25, and we were both surprised when we realized there was an 11-year age difference. Our kids are: Lauren, age 15, and Logan, age 10. We relish our time together as a family. What would you like to do when you retire? I'm a very active person, and I would like to spend much of my time bike riding, hiking, kayaking, golfing and fishing. I've had the collecting bug (records and CDs, sports memorabilia, baseball cards, etc.) for years and I'd like to spend more time listening to some of the music I've acquired. Of course, I'd like to go to places I've never been and one particular fantasy would be to take a very leisurely trip around the United States going to various minor league baseball parks. I would like to stay active in my field, and retirement would give me time to engage in more volunteer medicine. What is your favorite thing about working at UNF? As a physician, I treasure the opportunity to be able to practice medicine without drowning in paperwork. Sadly, primary care physicians in our country have experienced a major erosion in their collective morale brought on by third-party intrusions and the increasing need to devote more time to medication overrides, pre-authorizations for referrals or procedures, etc. I am able to focus on making a proper diagnosis and giving detailed instructions to my patients without these encumbrances. I've had the pleasure of periodically giving guest lectures, which is a nice change of pace. Additionally, this year we've formed a new liaison with the Mayo Clinic Family Medicine Residency program and every month Student Health Services hosts one of their residents for 20-30 hours per week. This has proven to be incredibly intellectually stimulating and has reinvigorated our entire staff as we've engaged in more clinical discussions regarding vexing problems, and we've routinely reviewed pertinent clinical reviews from publications such as the New England Journal of Medicine. The Mayo residents have uniformly expressed the benefit they've received from this, as it gives them an opportunity to be on the front lines of medicine and take an appropriate history from truly ambulatory patients who don't come already armed with an extensive medical history. If you were not working at UNF what would you be doing?I'd likely be back in a traditional practice, or perhaps doing urgent care type medical work, which does provide predictable hours and less paperwork. What is your favorite way to blow an hour? When I have a free lunch hour, there's nothing I enjoy more than walking our beautiful UNF nature trails. We're fortunate to have this much nature around us. What person had the greatest impact on your life?I would have to say Jesus Christ has provided the template for me to try to conduct my activities. I truly believe if more people followed the Golden Rule and treated others as they would like to be treated, we would have a far better world. I fall short but I do keep trying. Who is the most famous person you ever met? I'd have to say one of the most gracious famous people I ever met was jazz legend Dizzy Gillespie in 1990. He chatted with my wife and me for quite a while and we shared stories about our common origins in the Carolinas. When we go to see my mother in Wadesboro, N.C., we pass a 7-foot bronze statue of him in Cheraw, S.C. That's probably the only time I'll ever see a statue of someone I've met. What was the first concert you attended, and what was the most recent?
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WINNIPEG, Manitoba — When young Ukrainian Catholics asked the church's major archbishop to name his favorite book of the Bible, he did not hesitate: the Gospel of St. John.
"First — shortest one," laughed 42-year-old Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk of Kiev-Halych, Ukraine. Then, he added more seriously, "With those few words, he speaks so profoundly."
"Favorites" was among question topics that young people from Manitoba submitted for the head of the Ukrainian Catholic Church to answer during a visit to St. Nicholas Parish Sept. 7. Posed in the form of Tweets and projected onto a screen in front of the church, the questions followed a service to honor Blessed Nykyta Budka, the first Ukrainian Catholic bishop who arrived in Canada 100 years ago.
The Q and A was sprinkled with theology, personal stories and laughter. The Eastern church's youngest bishop — and elected leader — has made a commitment to meet with young people every chance he gets.
"It's not so easy to be young," he told those present with a laugh, but later, he told them, "I promise that I will hear you."
One question reflected a young person's concern about where he fit into the church, since he did not speak Ukrainian and neither did his parents.
"This is not a church of Ukrainians, it's a church of Christ," Archbishop Shevchuk said. "We are a global church. We are a church of the Ukrainian tradition."
Asked how he felt in March 2011 when, as a 40-year-old he was elected head of the largest Eastern church in communion with Rome, he told the young people, "I was scared to death.
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Recent test results have confirmed that use of the company's upper 10 MHz block of spectrum — not the lower block, which LightSquared now proposes to use for initial rollout of its network — interfered with GPS receivers used by the Coast Guard, NASA and the Federal Aviation Administration, and caused GPS receivers used by state police, fire, and ambulance crews to lose reception.
"This alarmed many small businesses as they could be required to replace or retrofit their current GPS device," said Rep. Graves (R-Mo.), the committee's chairman, in his opening statement at the hearing. "This will be an enormous cost to small businesses. Even though LightSquared has committed to spend $50 million to retrofit federal GPS devices, this does nothing for the nearly one million small businesses that are left to pay the bill that will easily cost billions of dollars."
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Industry Insider: NetJets Chairman and CEO Jordan Hansell
Jordan Hansell became chairman and CEO of NetJets in 2011, just two years after coming onboard as chief administrative officer and general counsel. Under his direction, the fractional-share provider launched Signature Series, a program whose goal is to refresh and unify the fleet with custom-designed cabins. The company is also putting a footprint in Asia with NetJets China Business Aviation, which will initially focus on providing aircraft management services.
NetJets is a subsidiary of the publicly owned Berkshire Hathaway, and Hansell considers that a major advantage. Thanks to the parent company, he told me, "we have patient capital and a relatively low cost of capital. So we can make decisions that nobody else can make. We can take a much longer-term view. We can weather the natural fluctuation of the private aviation market in ways that nobody else can."
I had never met Hansell before I sat down with him in the NetJets-dedicated boardroom at New Jersey's Teterboro Airport to conduct this interview. I found him to be punctual (he arrived an hour early for our meeting and also for a subsequent photo session), straightforward, focused and exceedingly bright. I'd been warned to not ask many personal questions since "Jordan is very humble and likes to keep the focus on NetJets," and I was prepared for guarded responses. On the contrary, his answers to my questions were often personal and revealing of character.
Though he's a youthful 43, Hansell comes across as wise beyond his years with distinctly old-school values and a strong focus on the importance of family and personal integrity. As a high-achieving law student, he fully intended to run for public office but wound up applying his abilities to the corporate world. He was profoundly affected by the 1998 loss to cancer of his brother John and you get the sense that he conducts his life purposefully and does not take one minute of his time for granted.
When you look back on your career, do you see a linear path that brought you to where you are now?
No, no. I always laugh if anybody asks me that. There is virtually nothing I am doing now that I would have anticipated. I would not have known I was going to live where I live or have the number of children that I have. I would not have known I would be in a business like this or that I would hold a position like I do. So much of life is serendipity.
Since I was a little kid, I wanted to be a politician. So I got a political science degree. I went to law school. I got a master's in public policy. I thought I wanted to run [for political office], but I ultimately decided that it was probably not a fair thing to do to my family—nor was I convinced that I had the patience required. I also discovered that I have a fascination for building the proverbial mousetrap—for trying to create something and improve upon it. So the idea of getting into business started to appeal to me more and more while I was practicing law.
Did your training as an attorney help prepare you for the role of CEO?
First and foremost, the concept of legal training is that you are never going to know everything, so they don't try to teach you everything. They try to teach you how to think—how to learn something in rapid order and understand it, discard what is unimportant and focus on what is important. I don't think you get that in any other professional training, to the same degree.
But it doesn't teach us squat about how to manage anybody. So that ends up being a different game altogether. How to motivate a team is a constant focus for us—to make sure the team is pulling together and operating effectively.
When you hire, how do you decide whether someone will be effective on that team?
One of the things I do when I hire [high-level] people is ask what makes them uncomfortable with a boss. One gentleman said, "Well, he would go around me and talk to my team instead." And I thought: you are not going to fit [in at NetJets]. We have got to go around sometimes, because [managers] have a lot going on and they may not know certain information. My promise to them is that I will not ever do anything or form an opinion until I talk to them about it. If all I do is come back and give you the information, we are all better off. You want people who are trying to solve the problems that we are facing and are not distracted by things of a personal nature that are specific to them.
When you interview prospective employees, what else do you look for?
One: Do you have the intellectual horsepower to do what we need you to do? Because it is not an uncomplicated business. Two: Do you have the integrity to do what we need you to do? As my boss [Warren Buffett] says, intellect with lack of integrity is a bad combination. So, are you honest and straightforward? Are you going to think about the good of the entity before thinking about the good of yourself? Are you willing to try and make the overall project succeed?
How do you determine whether an interviewee has those qualities?
I'll ask them to define corporate politics for me. [I'll say], "Give me an example of when you have had to play them, how you did it, and when you have had to stop it." Then you let people talk. They will either make their case, or they will end up burying themselves. I also will ask them to give me an example of a boss they did not like and why.
NetJets is known for its emphasis on safety.
We have spent over $100 million a year training our pilots. We design protocols hand in hand with FlightSafety, with training programs specific to certain airfields and conditions.
Occasionally we have owners who get frustrated if everybody else is taking off—Aspen is a classic example—and we tell them we can't go. If we can't get you out on one engine, we are not going. And we say to our crew, "We will back you up in those circumstances." We are here to serve the owners, to provide service they can't get anywhere else, and that means that if it is a safety issue, the pilot decides. We may inconvenience [customers] on occasion but we are only going to do it for their safety.
Have you seen a big change in attitude toward business aviation since the recession?
What I am hearing [people] say is that they want to get back to [flying privately]. And they will say, "I am trying to get to all of these places to do all of these things and I can't." Frankly, the thing that is somewhat disheartening is denigration of the industry. Customers will say that if the politicians would quit beating them up, they would do what they think is best for their businesses and their families.
We hear that a lot too, but I have always wondered whether someone who uses business aviation really cares what Washington thinks of them.
Of course they do. That is human nature. So it is important that people are careful of what they say in the public arena.
Some people speculate that market conditions have permanently changed since 2008.
I don't like the phrase "the new normal." It doesn't make any sense. Do I think there is a different cultural tendency between those who went through the Great Depression in the 1930s and those who came after? Sure. And there are some remarkable statistics coming out of the 2008–2009 financial crisis and I am not trying to downplay those. But it is not a lost decade. We have safety nets we did not have [in the 1930s]. We have not seen the long-standing global contagion that they saw then. I am not seeing people saying, "I am a different person than I was before and I think about the world materially differently than I did."
You seem to take your time at NetJets when moving into new markets.
There are competitors of ours who are just trying to place planes on somebody else's certificate. I mean, good luck. That's fine for them, but we want to control what we are providing. We have worked very hard at perfecting it. It's a risky business. We are not comfortable letting someone use our brand—which we think stands for very high levels of safety and service—and do it their way, [just so we can] take whatever incremental revenue we can get from that. It is not remotely worth it.
I have noticed you don't put a huge emphasis on celebrity endorsements.
Well, we have a public relationship with Roger Federer. He is terrific. But most of our flyers want anonymity from the outside world. I can think of a lot of famous people who fly with us who don't want to be part of a campaign of any kind.
Who were your early influences?
My father and mother. Everyone in my family is a lawyer. My brother was a lawyer, my wife is a lawyer, my father is a lawyer and my mother is a psychologist—so she keeps the rest of us sane. I had kind of this sickeningly sweet upbringing. My parents cared about their kids. They wanted to give us what we were willing to try to earn. It was this Midwestern sensibility. They didn't have expectations for us and there was never any pressure for us to do anything.
Do you put a lot of pressure on yourself?
Yeah, mostly. My parents in my eyes were successful people. They had strong personal lives, they had a strong relationship—they still do. They had succeeded in their areas of professional endeavor and so I wanted to be like them.
Were you intimidated at first by Warren Buffet?
Yes, of course. I have worked for presidents of the United States, I have worked for Supreme Court justices, I have worked for Warren, I have worked for my father. They are all intimidating but not to the point where you can't perform your obligations.
How do you plan for interactions with Buffett?
You want to be thoughtful and prepared and helpful. The goal is that he feels comfortable with my judgment, the judgment of the team and the operations of the company. [I ask myself], "What would I want to know if I were him? How can I convey it to him as efficiently as possible?"
You have said he wants to be the first to know if there is bad news.
He has a rule that he wants to know first. And he's usually quite sanguine about it. Not that he thinks bad news is good, but he has 86 subsidiaries, some which are just enormous. He has been at this for years, and there is not a thing Warren hasn't seen, so I am not usually coming in with something that is unique.
So you don't dance around the issue if the news is bad?
I never do that. I cut to the chase. I try to take as little of his time [as I can] and make sure he understands exactly what he needs to know. I would give that advice about [having a difficult conversation with] anybody. Never beat around the bush, and if you made a mistake, start with: "I made a mistake." Most people aren't going to be mad at you because you made a mistake, unless you make the same one over and over. They are going to appreciate that you went in and said, "I think I made a mistake, and here is what I am going to do to fix it."
I have that same rule with anyone who is working with me. We have plenty of challenges—what we need are solutions. If you come in with something you think we should know about, [you should] have also thought about how you would fix it. It may not be that we take your advice exactly, but it is sure going to help us to start getting to the right answer.
How do you balance your intense work travel with having a young family?
First, I have a terrific spouse. Before I took this job I discussed it with her, and if she had said, "this isn't a good fit," I wouldn't have done it. She is hyper-competent and runs everything in our personal lives, including our finances. She is smarter than I am by a long shot.
Do you have any downtime?
I try to. I used to run triathlons. And I would like to do more, but that is really not reasonable on this schedule. That sort of thing goes by the wayside in place of more important things like [my kids'] recitals and concerts.
Is a good work/life balance even possible for big-company executives in today's world?
If you are rising in an organization and taking on greater responsibility, there is no cardinal sin in saying you are not capable of spending or willing to spend the time doing [that job]. The problem is if you take it on and then shirk it. True balance, especially as you get more and more responsibility in the workplace, is very hard to come by, because there are a whole lot of people relying on you. I view the 6,000 NetJets employees—their livelihoods, their professional development—as my responsibility. So that drives a balance that is out of balance. I would love to coach my kids' athletics but that is an example of something I had to give up [to be CEO of NetJets]. I try to make it up to them in other ways.
What have you learned about life?
When I lost my brother, I realized how impermanent all of this is. You focus on the things that matter as best as you can. And even then you don't get the balance right. There are lots of things that are out of your control. Focus on what is in your control. Try to satisfy yourself and your family. It is not a question of material gain. It is a question of looking back at the end of the day and saying, "Am I satisfied with what I have contributed and with what we have done?" That infuses everything I do now. I think I am fairly straightforward and unadorned; I am competitive as all get-out, but I don't have much of an ego. What makes me interested is, collectively, are we succeeding, and is everybody pitching in, trying to get something accomplished that is extraordinary?
Résumé: Jordan Hansell
BIRTHDATE: Oct. 20, 1970 (Age 43)
POSITION: Chairman and CEO, NetJets Inc.
PREVIOUS POSITIONS: President, NetJets. Chief administrative officer and general counsel, NetJets. Ten years at Iowa-based law firm Nyemaster Goode.
EDUCATION: B.A. in political science (summa cum laude), Duke University. Master's in public policy, University of Michigan. J.D., University of Michigan Law School (magna cum laude).
PERSONAL: Lives in Canal Winchester, Ohio, with wife Silvia and three children.
CHARITIES: John J. Hansell Memorial Scholarship (for high school students), Duke University Scholarship Fund and Columbus Metropolitan Library.
Jennifer Leach English is editorial director of Business Jet Traveler.


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TimberTrek is divided into 5 separate courses. Start off with the yellow course, which even out most adventurous guests will love. Move into either of our two green courses for step up in difficulty and height, and then test your mettle on the blue, which includes the terrifying Tarzan Swing. If you have any juice left after that, try your best on the black course, which comes out swinging for the fences right off the platform!
What's an Adventure Park?
Covering 4 wooded acres at Adventures On the Gorge, TimberTrek is an aerial forest ropes course consisting of more than 60 platforms installed in the trees and connected by various configurations of cable, wood, rope to form bridges, swings and zip lines. Groups of bridges link together to form separate courses. Although each course has at least one zip line on it, you'll need to climb to get to them—there's much more fun than just zip lining to be had! There are 5 courses in total for ages 7—adult.
TimberTrek is all about active participation—there are no motorized rides in the park. The courses are designed for everyone to enjoy, and assigned the difficulty rating of Yellow, Green, Blue and Black similar to ski trails. As one progresses through the difficulty levels, the bridges become less stable under your feet, requiring more balance, agility, focus and arm strength. Each course is self-guided, allowing you to move at your own pace.
As the courses become more difficult, they also get higher off the ground. The highest platform is 50 above the forest floor.
We have staff positioned throughout the course to answer questions and provide assistance.
How does the trip work?
Trips are available by reservation or walk-up. You'll get rigged up and will receive a safety briefing to learn how to use your equipment. Then it's off to the trees. During your time, you can do as many courses, as many times as you like. You are able to take breaks in between, but if your time expires you will not be able to start another course.
How long does the trip take?
Most trips are 3-3.5 hours long, however, shorter trips may be available.
What are the restrictions on TimberTrek participation?
- You must be at least 7 years old with sound body and mind capable of performing specific safety tasks independently.
- There are supervision restrictions on all courses for participants under 14 years old. (See chart below.)
- The maximum weight allowed on TimberTrek is 265lbs/person.
- You must be able to fit in our harnesses.
- If you are pregnant or have certain disabilities that hinder you from being able to traverse the course, you will not be permitted to participate.
- You must be able to read and understand all instructions in English.
There are also some age restrictions:
- Ages 6-9 can do yellow with an adult supervising from the ground and green with an adult accompanying on the course (1 adult per 2 children max).
- Ages 10-11 can do yellow and green with an adult supervising from the ground and blue with an adult accompanying on the course (1 adult per 2 children max).
- Ages 12-13 can do yellow, green and blue with an adult supervising from the ground and black with an adult accompanying on the course (1 adult per 2 children max).
- Ages 14 and up can use any course unsupervised.
What are the Park Rules?
TimberTrek rules must be followed at all times to insure your safety. You will get specific training in using all safety equipment and permanently installed components of the park. Management reserves the right to ask anyone in breach of these rules to leave the Adventure Park.
- You must wear a ticket at all times while on the course.
- No sandals or flip-flops. Wear closed toed shoes, such as sneakers.
- Never be under the influence of alcohol or drugs.
- Use all equipment safely and as directed.
- Wear a properly adjusted harness at all times while on the course.
- Always have at least one carabiner attached to a marked attachment point.
- Start with a yellow or green course before attempting blue. You must also attempt a blue course before trying black.
- Never use an element when another person is on it—one person at a time.
- Never have more than 3 people on a platform.
- Never switch from your current course to another.
- Do not carry phones or any other objects that could fall or distract you or others.
- Do not use any ropes course with loose hair, clothing, or objects that can get caught in ropes or zip lines.
- Do not smoke in the park or while wearing a harness.
- If you remove your harness, a staff member must check it before returning to the course.
- Carry out all objects that you bring into the park, including trash.
- When in doubt, ask the staff for assistance.
- Obey all instructions given by the staff.
What kind of physical shape do I need to be in?
The better shape you are in, the more courses you will be able to complete. The elements on our courses require some lower body strength and an increasing amount of upper body strength as you progress to the more difficult courses. There are elements with moving footholds, swings, ladders and crawling sections. Certain physical limitations such as the inability to reach overhead or to duck under cables will make the courses unrunnable.
What should I wear?
TimberTrek provides each participant with a harness, helmet and gloves. All participants must wear closed-toed shoes. Please wear comfortable clothing that allows you to move freely and is appropriate for the day's weather. Either shorts or pants are required (no skirts or dresses). You may bring your own gloves but they must have leather palms.
Are spectators welcome?
Tickets are only required for guests who are climbing. TimberTrek is located within view of Buffler's, Rendezvous Lodge and the general Mill Creek campus, and a trail system extends underneath the course, so it's actually perfect for spectating. We do ask everyone to stay on the designated trails but there are plenty of photo opportunities from below.
When does TimberTrek operate?
TimberTrek will be open April 1st through Thanksgiving weekend. Reservations are highly recommended and minimum group sizes may apply. Our hours of operation vary by season but generally begin at 8am.
Does the park operate in bad weather?
TimberTrek will operate rain or shine unless there is lightning, high winds or ice. In the event of a storm the park will close temporarily and reopen once the weather allows. Time spent on the ground due to inclement weather will not count against your purchase.
Are reservations necessary?
We require reservations in April, May, October and November and recommend them throughout our peak season. We can only accommodate a certain number of guests each day during the season.
How large of a group can TimberTrek accommodate?
TimberTrek can accommodate groups up to 40, but if your group is larger special arrangements can be made.
How is TimberTrek different from TreeTops and Gravity?
Both TreeTops and Gravity are guided tours with zip lines, bridges and hikes. On both of these tours, participants are always with at least 2 guides—one leading and one following. The guides handle all clipping-in of guests. Gravity Zipline and TreeTops Canopy Tour cover more distance than TimberTrek. TimberTrek is self guided, which means you do your own clipping, move at your own pace and try as many courses as you want as many times as you want while your ticket is valid. TimberTrek's components are more varied on each course than Gravity or TreeTops. TimberTrek is also more physically demanding than TreeTops or Gravity because of the various obstacles throughout the courses.


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Email marketing is growing more popular every day. To help track its progress, the GetResponse Team has performed a study to determine which industries are using it and what kind of results they are getting from their newsletters and campaigns.
Some of the results may surprise you. For example, e-commerce companies don't always have the highest email marketing scores. So take a look at the stats to see how your industry performed!
Study Findings
Open Rates
Initially, we calculated the Total Open Rate as the number of email "opens", divided by the total number of emails sent. This time, we calculated only the Average Open Rate of HTML messages as the number of email "opens", divided by the total number of HTML emails sent.
Associations again came in first among all analyzed industries with a 72%-plus open rate! Travel came in a close second with 70.7%; and Spa/Health took third place with an open rate of a little over 52%.
All open rate rankings are shown below:
Click-Through Rates
The Click-Through Rate (CTR) is the number of clicks on links in an email message, divided by the number of messages sent in any campaign.
This time around, the Art sector came in first with an 8%-plus CTR, a tremendous result when compared to the lowest group, Technology, at 0.77%. In second place was Education with 6.66%; and Travel remained on the stage with a respectable 6.43%.
Check the chart to see how your industry scored:
List Churn Metrics
Bounce Rate
The Bounce Rate measures how many emails were returned to the sender because they were undeliverable for some reason, e.g. the address was invalid, mailbox was full, mail server temporarily unavailable, etc.
This is the metric we all want to be as low as possible. However, the Real Estate industry returned a 1.63% bounce rate - the highest score among all industries by more than 50%! In second place was Financial Services at only 0.70%; and just after that, Network Marketing, with a 0.68% bounce rate.
Complaint Rate
The Complaint Rate is the percentage of delivered email messages that generate spam complaints. It means that when a recipient reports your email as spam, his/her email address will be immediately removed and blacklisted from your account.
In this category, low is definitely better, but Technology scored the highest complaint rate at 0.74%. At half the Technology score, Network Marketing returned a 0.44% complaint rate for second position. All industries together averaged 0.31%
Unsubscribe Rate
Unsubscribe Rates measure reader disengagement. They show how many subscribers opted out of receiving further messages by clicking the unsubscribe links automatically added to every email sent out from GetResponse.
Once again, Associations scored well with an unsubscribe rate of only 0.11% - almost 83% lower than Network Marketing, with the highest average unsubscribe rate - 0.64%. In a strong second position was Art with 0.14%; and following closely behind, Sports at 0.19%.
To summarize the results across all categories, each industry was ranked against the others in the study, with 100 points being the highest possible score. The industry with the highest score by far was Associations with 93 points! In second place at 77 points was Travel; and close behind was Art with a score of 72.
To provide some background to the strong showing made by Associations, it's a very broad industry, and includes industry groups, foundations, non-profit organizations, and a wide range of non-government charitable associations (NGAs). Associations typically have members who join for long-standing personal or professional reasons, and who appreciate receiving messages from them. Usually, the emails Associations send are not marketing (fund-raising) messages, but purely informative and relevant. Members know what to expect and open the updates willingly. This may help to explain why this industry has the highest Open Rate - 72.3%, and the lowest Unsubscribe Rate - 0.11%, Complaint Rate - 0.07%, and Bounce Rate - 0.23%, of all industries studied.
The Travel industry also did well with the second-highest Open Rate - 70.7%, third-highest Click Rate - 6.43%, and third-lowest Complaint Rate - 0.12%. Email marketing in this sector has long been a popular medium for communicating with clients. Travel professionals are quite proficient is designing and sending eye-catching, personalized email messages, with links to online reservation and destination sites. The Art industry also scored well, returning the highest Click-Through Rate of all analyzed industries at 8.75%, and the second-lowest Unsubscribe Rate at 0.14%. Similar to Associations.
Art customers and subscribers are usually extremely interested in the latest art news, reviews, shows, and profiles in support of their interest or hobby - not to mention the visual feast on every page.
Research Methodology
This international email marketing study examined 161, 667, 904 emails sent by GetResponse users from 10 industries between 2009-07-01 and 2009-12-31.
Industry-wide and individual results may differ slightly from those obtained in the report, due to the fact that the results were based solely on GetResponse clients.


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Upgrading is but one important part of staying on top of technology.
Keeping up with software upgrades has changed a great deal over the years. Early on, the biggest challenge was learning how to do things in a digital environment. That took a few years before it became the accepted adopted way of doing things. Then, every year, pretty much like clockwork, we would get a new version release. The decision to upgrade really wasn't much of a decision because the improvements were so big and so significant that the choice was pretty much mandatory.
By the early to mid 2000s, the big technical improvements were reduced to incremental improvements and the shift became one from production prepress to Web-content-creation tools. Adobe, in particular, has taken the position that print is either dying or dead and the big improvements have been aimed at digital photography and image creation.
At the same time, the cost to upgrade when a new version is released has increased substantially to the point where the trade-off between upgrade and incremental feature improvement has not been enough to justify the cost. It was common for most companies to upgrade as each new release came out. Now I see companies who are four, five, and even six full versions behind. This creates a significant problem for everyone.
Upgrade disruptions
Another reason to upgrade besides functionality has to do with processing power. Most companies that haven't upgraded for several years are using software based on a 32-bit processing stream. The newest operating systems on both the PC and Mac side are 64 bit. Consequently, the software and the newest features are designed around a 64-bit computation engine.
On the surface, this creates a minor problem. From a productivity perspective, a higher data path means you can process more complex files faster. This is always a good thing. On the downside, many third-party plug-ins are not compatible with the 64-bit depth. I have seen it take more than two years for some of these plug-ins to be updated. Some of my all-time favorite standbys haven't been upgraded—and may never be. This is another example of how an upgrade can be disruptive to your overall productivity and results.
Content created in the latest version often has functionality that cannot be saved to an earlier version. Good examples of this in the past have been Gradient Warping and transparency.
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A Data Deluge, Driven by Tablets and Mobile Video, Is Disrupting Mobile Carriers
Only a few years ago, the challenges facing mobile providers seemed well within the realm of their traditional expertise. Their vast and complex infrastructures, built around towers, antennas, core networks, and the like, focused on providing the bandwidth and signal quality necessary for providing clear voice signals. Early mobile Internet applications were limited to services like weather, news, and stock quotes. As video entered the picture, it was mostly limited to a quick, manageable snack here and there on YouTube. After all, on a tiny, phone-sized screen, the prospects for a sumptuous two-hour movie feast were limited.
The situation, however, is being radically transformed. And at this years' Mobile World Congress, which I attended last week in Barcelona, a clear focus was on a prime disruptor: the tablet and vast, media-rich applications. For with the sudden and phenomenal growth of the iPad—along with its Android-based counterparts—end users who had been limited to quick bites on YouTube are ready to indulge in long-form video buffets, anytime and anywhere. And while those game-changing tablets don't quite provide an IMAX experience, their larger screens nevertheless offer the perfect mix of visual quality, mobility, and convenience.
For mobile service carriers, however, this has created a certain amount of havoc. Somewhat unexpectedly, all of that video traffic has opened the floodgates for a huge upsurge in data traversing the network. Concurrently, a vast and ever-expanding ocean of apps for smartphones and tablets continues to pull down an additional and staggering amount of data from the network at all times.
Nevertheless, there are great opportunities for service providers to meet these challenges and, in the process, become faster, more agile, and more cost effective.
At Mobile World Congress, I met with representatives of 26 mobile carriers from around the world. The bottom line for them is how to manage this huge influx of data, prevent slowdowns on their networks, and create new revenue streams.
Two core themes emerged:
1. Optimization. A key question for providers is how to optimize network operations and cost structures to meet this tsunami of data traffic. Given that video dominates mobile traffic and our own research has shown that greater than 85 percent of that mobile video consumption occurs around fixed locations, a key opportunity is to offload this traffic onto more cost-effective Wi-Fi solutions.
Wi-Fi is two-plus magnitude more cost effective than mobile's radio-access spectrum. So, carriers are looking for efficient ways to allow end users to move seamlessly between Wi-Fi and mobile, lessening the burden on the mobile networks. Cisco is at the forefront in developing technology to drive that seamless handoff. In short, carriers are moving toward innovation on Wi-Fi offloading, along with business-model innovation that encourages end users to align to this cost optimization.
2. Monetization. The challenge for mobile providers is that they may be delivering vast amounts of apps, but they are not receiving direct revenue from them. So how do they enter into that application ecosystem and partake in the monetization? From my perspective, there are two ways for them to do this. They are probably not going to jump into the business of creating apps, but they can offer value-added services and enhancements within the network to those who do (for example, Netflix and Zynga). This could include content management, app acceleration, and many other services. Thus, the app provider would pay for services that basically create an enhanced level of experience filtering down to the end user.
There is also a great opportunity for mobile providers through data and analytics. The carriers have a tremendous amount of data on their users that is underutilized today. Even considering privacy restrictions, SPs are more trusted in surveys than the government or any of the big web companies. As a more trusted intermediary, they have an opportunity to monetize their wealth of consumer data.
The way I see it, the overarching drive should be for much more collaboration—among service providers themselves, and also with app providers. I'm certainly optimistic, and I believe that things are moving forward in a constructive way. Indeed, it is best for everyone if the industry is healthy as a whole, so that rather than looking at a win-lose proposition for one area, we collaborate to create a win-win for all: service providers, app providers, and end users.
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Sad To See It Go
This legendary Valley establishment served all kinds of people over the years. I even had some poached eggs there in 1973. Many of the regulars knew the place was owned and operated by the sons of "June Cleaver," actress Barbara Billingsley.
The last few years this place has been harrassed by the city including almost going under due to that damn living wage ordinance. Further batterment by all the damn onerous regulations government puts on honest businesspeople and you just can't make it work if you're a mom and pop business.
What the socialists that run this city don't understand is the best way to get a "living wage" is to get a job, work hard and continue to educate/improve yourself so you become more and more valuable to employers. As well, the surest way out of poverty is to allow people to start small businesses and work their way up. As the owner of Billingsley's - Drew Billingsley - noted in the Daily News article, only the large corporations can afford to run individual restaurants with all the restrictions these days. Imagine a Larry Cano of El Torito trying to start his chain in this environment - you just can't do it. I guess if you want to start some Melrose, crap, small portion, shi shi restaurant where half a twig costs $45, you can afford to do that - but if you want to feed middle class families - forget it!
It's a real shame how things are going in this country these days.


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RootsTech is hosted by FamilySearch and focuses on the combination of Technology and Genealogy. It is being held 10–12 February 2011 at the Salt Palace Convention Center in Salt Lake City, Utah
Quoting from the RootsTech website
The first annual RootsTech Conference will be a gathering of both family history enthusiasts and technologists from around the world. Genealogy hobbyists and professionals alike will discover new and emerging technologies that will improve and simplify their activities. At the same time, technology providers will enjoy a rare, face‐to‐face opportunity to interact with family history enthusiasts to better understand their needs.
As well as blogging about this event while I'm there, I'll be attending some of the dozens of wonderful workshops being offered. I'm especially thrilled to attend one of Thomas MacEntee's workshops "Genealogy Blogs: Impact and Influence in the Genealogy Community"
Not only is Thomas a newly discovered "cousin" through our Van Slyke ancestry, he's an innovator in the field of technology and genealogy combined, so meeting him in person has long been a wish of mine.
There are many many workshops and exciting events to attend and I'll be sharing more about these over the next few months. Hope to see you there too!


text: The first time I rocked a pleated garment was at the age of five. The fabric was a heavy cotton-polyester blend; the style, overalls; and the place, primary school in Trinidad and Tobago. I rocked the pleats for about seven years straight after my first time, so my relationship with the folds wasn't one that I have fond memories of. Time heals all wounds, scars and my love hate history with extra fabric. I've found some ways to help me bring pleats back into my life so the second time around, pleats can give me happy memories. Let's see if these ideas might help.


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Digital Impact Group: Persistent Digital Divide Among Low-Income Individuals
PHILADELPHIA, Penn., March 8, 2010 - There is a persistent digital divide among low-income individuals, households, and communities throughout the US, as it relates to "always on" high-speed Internet access in homes. Over 100 million individuals representing over 40 million households do not use broadband because they cannot access it, cannot afford it, do not know how to use it, or are not aware of its benefits. Keep Reading


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32 wrote:The Jazz got career nights out of Carlos Boozer and Deron Williams, a gift-wrapped game from the ref's, and off-nights from Baron, Jackson, and Richardson... and still only won by 4.
Agree on everything... except Boozer having a career night. Actually, I think he played a poor game, (17 points, but only 6-15 shooting and several turnovers). His only saving grace were the 20 boards, and he got them because that's our weakest point. I don't think it was a career night by any means.
And that's a good thing, as it's proof enough that we can contain him (within certain limits), other than rebounding. We have to work on that, as we only lost by 4 points after being clearly beaten on the boards.


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Beyond Reason?
Although science with all of its power cannot address some of the fundamental questions that we ask, nevertheless the universe contains certain clues as to our relationship to it, clues that are scientifically accessible. The rational intelligibility of the universe …Read More
John Lennox
Dr. John C. Lennox is a professor of mathematics and philosophy of science at the University of Oxford. He is the author of God's Undertaker: Has Science Buried God?