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Soy or whey? That is the question.
With the help of 48 rats housed in a campus
lab, Shawna Jenkins, a research assistant in the Department of Nutrition and
Dietetics, and several other recent nutrition graduates may soon have an
The research, funded through a grant within
the Brooks College of Health, seeks to determine the impact of two different
types of proteins on physiological and metabolic functions. The practical purpose
of the research is twofold: to determine if the effects of an obesogenic diet
which promotes obesity and its comorbidities including diabetes, hypertension,
dyslipidemia and some types of cancer can be reversed through a protein-based
diet mixed with exercise and, if so, to find out which protein - soy protein
(plant-based) or whey protein (animal-based) - has a more profound effect on correcting
metabolic dysfunctions.
The research group works with Dr. Alireza
Jahan-mihan, a Nutrition and Dietetics assistant professor with an extensive
background in both clinical and animal studies. Though different proteins may
share certain characteristics, Jahan-mihan says the compositions may vary and
could yield different effects and benefits.
"We are saying that the role of the
protein is beyond the traditional role as only a source of essential amino acids
and energy," Jahan-mihan said.
The researchers believe that because of
their complexity, different proteins could affect physiological and metabolic
functions differently. Pregnant Wistar rats, called dams, were purchased in
January for the research, and the offspring of those rats have served as study
subjects. For 12 weeks, the rats' obesogenic diets mirrored that of a typical American diet
- high in fat and loaded with sugar.
The rats were divided into 4 groups for the second portion of the experiment. Two groups will receive a soy-based diet - one
with exercise and one without. The remaining two are on a whey-based diet - again,
one group with exercise and one without. As for the type of exercise - the rats
are running daily on a mini-treadmill.
While most would theorize that the
exercising rats will likely have improved weight, blood pressure and glucose
levels, the real uncertainty lies in the effects of the different proteins.
"The interactive effect of the source of
protein and exercise is still unclear and needs further research," Jenkins
She said the group chose soy and whey
because they are among the most common sources of proteins consumed in a
western diet.
"The results of this study will help us
formulate an optimal combination of dietary proteins and exercise to improve
body weight, body composition and glucose metabolism," Jenkins said.
In addition to Jenkins, who will begin
her graduate work at UNF in the spring, the research group includes two other soon-to-be
UNF graduate students, Valeria Palamidy and Lindsay Pappas, as well as Diana
Maier, who is currently a dietetic intern at Mayo Rochester. Though all the
researchers have received their bachelor's degrees since the project began,
finishing the study is a priority. Those who are in town still share the daily responsibilities
of tending to the rats and taking measurements. And there's a lot of tending.
In addition to cleaning cages, the
rodents' body weight and food intake are recorded, as well as fasting blood
glucose levels and blood pressure. Oral glucose tolerance (OGT) and insulin
tolerance tests are also taken to test the efficiency in which the body
metabolizes glucose.
Three interns from the University of
Poitiers in France are also involved in this study and assisting with many of
the daily tasks.
The research methods used were submitted
and approved by UNF's Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee, a group that
reviews research protocols and evaluates the institution's animal care and use
in research.
Dr. Jahan-mihan currently is working on
three research studies, including two animal studies and a clinical study
involving more than 25 undergraduate and graduate students. One of his studies
focuses on how a mother's diet during pregnancy and lactation affects her
offspring, both in the short- and long-term.
"My current study is examining the role
of characteristics of proteins fed during pregnancy and lactation on the risk
of development of obesity and chronic diseases in offspring," he said.
Researchers hope the studies will provide
critical insight into the effects of certain proteins
-information that is relevant to humans. It is the first animal research ever conducted
in the Department of Nutrition and Dietetics at UNF.
A core focal point for
the University of North Florida's new Chief Information Officer is on
connecting the dots.
Reggie Brinson, the
University's new associate vice president and CIO, came on in April to replace
Lance Taylor, who dedicated more than 40 years of his professional career to
the UNF community. Brinson said during an interview in May that Taylor built a
strong framework for the Information Technology Services department. Widespread
changes aren't needed, he said. The goal is to offer up a new vantage point and
a pair of fresh eyes to help identify areas for technological collaboration and
increased efficiency between units.
"Connecting the dots is what technology is all about," Brinson said.
"That's why I invite faculty, staff and students to discuss their ideas for
campus technology with me any time. I've already spoken to something
in the neighborhood of about 20-25 campus leaders and probably 100 different
staff members. I enjoy sitting back, listening to their thoughts and hopefully
noticing when another unit is working on a solution to someone's tech problem
and linking those two together."
Brinson brings a wealth of IT experience
gained from a more than 20-year career spent working in New Jersey, Boston and
Atlanta. He also has deep roots in Jacksonville. A Sandalwood High School
graduate, Brinson attended UNF as a post-baccalaureate student in the music
department and studied under Dr. William Brown, a distinguished professor of voice
and founding faculty member. He even met his wife on campus while she was
studying for her master's degree in English literature.
"UNF is like home to me," he said. "It's
a place that I've watched grow, and I wanted to help add to that legacy of
His plans to take
ITS forward involve a review of the University's Project Management Office and
instituting a program to help promote a renewed focus
on academic technology. He said he's worked with Dr. Gordon Rakita, the director
of Academic Technology, on a grant program for professors to purchase
high-level software for the classroom. Students come to class with an average of
2.7 electronic devices, so he said he wants to help leverage available tech to
establish deeper student connections with classroom learning.
Brinson said his predecessor, Taylor, has
been a tremendous resource in helping him transition into the new position. He credits him as being a mentor and said he feel like he's established
a deep friendship with Taylor in just a few short weeks. With that foundation,
and a calendar loaded with meetings with different campus stakeholders, Brinson
said he's ready to offer up his fresh set of eyes to determine different ways
in which the campus can improve the services delivered by ITS.
The lazy days of summer are
the perfect time to pick up a new hobby or develop your skills in an area of
interest. The University of North Florida's Division of Continuing Education
is making that easy for faculty, staff and students by cutting the regular
registration fee for most classes, workshops and courses in half - starting now.
The division's courses take place both in the
office - screenwriting, social media training, professional development - and
in the great outdoors - gardening, nature photography, kayaking. That's just a
taste of what Continuing Education offers. The only limit is nearly one's
imagination, said Director Tim Giles. The cost reduction move was undertaken to
ensure UNF staff, faculty and students have access to all of these
mind-expanding seminars.
"Traditionally, so much of
our focus has been advertising outwardly into the community, and over time,
we've discussed strategies of how to more effectively promote the programs
internally," Giles said. "The programs are developed, the work is done and we
feel strongly about their high quality. Why would we not want to make them as
accessible as possible to the internal UNF community?"
From Continuing Education's
standpoint, Giles said there is a real benefit to having more people in the
program, especially UNF-affiliated participants. They might become advocates
for the division, spreading the word about Continuing Education's dynamic suite
of educational seminars.
"If they bring more family
and friends on campus, that helps in increasing the net of exposure," he said.
Campus units can also utilize
the division's assortment of soft skill, management, and supervisory courses to
help employees who want to flesh out their career portfolios. This opens the
door for something of a symbiotic relationship between UNF's Center for
Professional Development and Training and Continuing Education, Giles said.
As for students, Giles said
they are the demographic market that hasn't been a big part of Continuing
Education over the years. He said he hopes the cost-reduction move will help
change that fact.
"We consider ourselves to be
a lifelong learning provider, and we'd like there to be a lifetime of
engagement with our students, Giles said. "Having them become acclimated to CE
while they're still students and opening their eyes to what we offer, that's
the first step on the path to helping them become lifelong customers."
There are a few exclusions
to the discount deal. That includes online programs, Osher Lifelong Learning
Institute (OLLI) courses and exam prep workshops. A full list of available
courses is on the Continuing Education website.
If you
haven't visited the Thomas G. Carpenter Library lately, you might not be able
to recognize it. The Library's first and
second floors have been renovated to
create a vibrant and flexible academic environment and promote positive student
learning outcomes. Dubbed the Library Commons initiative, the makeover started
last year and was completed recently. There are more collaborative
learning spaces and an upgraded wi-fi and electrical infrastructure.
Carmichael, the Library's director of public services and Library Commons
project manager, and Maria Atilano, marketing and outreach librarian, walked us
through the changes and highlighted 10 of the coolest new features.
Rachel Butterfield is eager to begin her
new position as an outpatient pediatric physical therapist. The recent graduate
of the University of North Florida Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT) program
said she feels well equipped to begin this new chapter in her life thanks to
the skills she developed on campus.
"I think the UNF program has prepared me
for the professional world in many ways," Butterfield said.
Many others share that sentiment,
according to a recent online survey of students. UNF's physical therapy graduate
program ranked No. 1 in the nation in the survey conducted by
GraduatePrograms.com. Rankings were based on data compiled from online review
submissions from more than 70,000 students in more than 1,600 programs
throughout the United States from Sept. 1, 2012 through the end of March this
In scoring the programs, data was
compiled in fifteen categories, including academic competiveness, career support,
quality of network and more. UNF's highest rankings were in graduate program
value and education quality.
Donni Welch-Rawls, director of clinical
education at UNF, said with practicum experience and four internships woven
into the curriculum, graduate students obtain real-world clinical experience in
physical therapy settings such as acute care hospitals, outpatient clinics, school
systems, pediatric facilities and rehabilitation hospitals.
"Not only are they [students] able to
perform examinations and interventions with actual patients, they also improve
their ability to develop a plan of care, to refer as needed to other providers
and to make discharge recommendations," Welch-Rawls said.
She said that students get valuable
experience working in a health care team environment and have many
opportunities to build leadership and communication skills.
The goal of the program is to develop
graduate students into capable, experienced physical therapists ready for the
next step in their professional evolution.
"The faculty really cared about our
successes and helped in any way possible during our failures," Butterfield
"They encouraged us to pursue our
specific interests, whether through involvement in our professional
organization, community volunteering or research."
The Doctor of Physical Therapy is a
professional clinical doctorate that prepares the graduate to practice physical
therapy. The three-year program at UNF gives students in-depth knowledge of
basic and clinical sciences relevant to physical therapy while preparing
students to effectively apply their knowledge in practice.
Butterfield is confident in both her
abilities and what she's learned in UNF's program.
"It taught me not only the knowledge
required to be a good physical therapist but also instilled in me the intrinsic
qualities that make someone an excellent PT."
Welcome to the Swoop Summary. Every issue of Inside, we'll
be bringing you a recap of all the UNF Athletics accomplishments you need to
know from the past month. Read on for more Osprey Athletics news:
Osprey men's closes out historic season run - The Osprey men's baseball team finished out one of its best seasons in program history by playing for the Atlantic Sun Conference Championship against Lipscomb University. The Ospreys excelled
during the tournament despite coming up just short with a 8-7 loss in the final game. Four players were named to
the All-Tournament team: Kyle Brooks, Donnie Dewees, Evan Incinelli and Ryan
Roberson. Dewees, a UNF outfielder, was named a semifinalist for the 2015 Dick
Howser Trophy, which is given out to the top player in collegiate baseball. The
finalists will be announced on Wednesday, June 10. Dewees, a four-time Atlantic
Sun Player of the Week this season, owns single season program records in hits (99),
runs (80), total bases (173) and triples (7). This year's team also set a D-1
era record for wins in a season.
Fantastic Four! Ospreys claim 4
straight River City Rumble title - For the fourth consecutive season and sixth
time in 10 years, the UNF Ospreys claimed the Old Wooden Barrel as the winners
of the annual River City Rumble competition with crosstown rival Jacksonville
University. The 2014-15 season concluded the first decade that the two rivals
have competed against each other in an all-sport challenge that awards points
each time the pair face each other in scheduled regular season competitions.
For sports that don't have head-to-head meetings, such as golf or track and
field, the sport point is awarded to the team with the higher finish at the
Atlantic Sun Conference championship in that sport. North Florida captured the
Barrel by a final score of 14-8, which is the second largest margin of victory
in the competition's history. UNF's four-peat marks the longest stretch of
success in the series with JU having claimed three straight barrels prior to
UNF's current run. Osprey points this season were earned by men's cross
country, women's cross country, men's soccer, indoor volleyball, men's
basketball (two), sand volleyball, baseball (two), softball (three), men's golf
and women's golf.
Osprey men's golf team finishes 11th at
NCAA Regional -The No. 23-ranked UNF men's golf team wrapped up the 2014-15
campaign with an 11th place finish at the NCAA Lubbock Regional. The Ospreys
finished the 54-hole event with a total of 870. Junior Taylor Hancock was the
squad's top performer at the event, finishing in a tie for 39th at 216
highlighted by his final round 1-under 70. "The week didn't go how we
wanted but hopefully we can learn something from it," said head coach
Scott Schroeder, who has guided the Ospreys to six straight NCAA Regionals and
seven in his 10 year tenure. "We just never got comfortable putting and
didn't do a good enough job adjusting to a different climate. Overall it was
still a great season with the team winning four tournaments including the
Atlantic Sun championship, it just didn't end the way we wanted."
The University of North
Florida Surf Team dominated the National Scholastic Surfing Association (NSSA)
East Coast Championships in New Smyrna Beach in April, winning all three
divisions and earning a first-place team finish. Next up is a bid for a
national championship.
During UNF's huge victory
in April, Corey Howell won the men's division, followed by Hunter Roland
finishing in second place. Ospreys also placed high in the women's division,
with Emily Ruppert and Kayla Durden coming in first and second. Pat Nichols
took home the win in the men's longboard category, cementing the overall
victory for the Ospreys and making history.
"Not only did we take our
first East Coast Championship Title, but we are also the first school in
history to sweep every division in competition," said Adam Bartoshesky, surf
team coach and adviser.
The Ospreys will enter
the National Scholastic Surfing Association in California this month with a
powerful wave of momentum behind them.
Given the fact that the
group is a student organization, travel funds aren't provided by UNF Athletics.
The team created a GoFundMe account to help pay the way to the championship.
"This competition is a
major deal," Howell said. "We all hold
high expectations in our abilities to be the first East Coast College to bring
home gold for Jacksonville and UNF!"
recently interviewed three team members about the season.
Department: Controller's Office
Job title: Assistant Controller
What do you do? I oversee the payroll and property operations of the University and have great staff support from these unique areas.
Years at UNF: 11 years and 8 months
Tell us about your family. I have an awesome family and am very proud to be a grandfather of six beautiful grandchildren ages 1 to 11 years old.
If you could choose any other career, what would it be and why? I'd be a chef! I love to cook, especially for family and friends, for special occasions - or even just those lazy weekends.
What would you like to do when you retire? Hopefully by then I'll have decided where I would like to settle down. Right now, I think I'd like to travel - not for the places and scenery but to reacquaint myself with relatives and old friends who I have not seen in so many years. They live in many places here in the U.S. and in the Asia/Pacific region.
What is your favorite thing about working at UNF? Providing great customer service and working with the available technology at the University. It is a challenge that also creates opportunities to strive to do better. Also, I am amazed at how much the University has grown. Witnessing and being a part of it is a great experience.
What is the best thing you ever won? The most important is love from my family. At work, I appreciate the respect and credibility I've won from co-workers and peers.
What band(s)/musician(s) would perform the soundtrack to your life? The Eagles. They have their up and down beats, which I enjoy listening to.
Who is your favorite fictional character? What makes them your favorite? Jack Tripper ("Three's Company"), a goofball who has an utmost respect for women. The character's job is also a chef - what a coincidence.
If you won the lottery, what would you do with the money? Setup educational reserves for my grandchildren, pay off bills, travel and contribute to reputable charities
If you were not working at UNF, what would you be doing? Perhaps working in the private sector for a financial company, working as a payroll service provider or running a small family business.
Describe your favorite UNF-related memory? I remember after the first year of being on the Banner ERP system and producing our first W2 statements staying back late nights and weekends in the office to ensure that our W2s balance and were printed and stuffed properly in the envelopes. That was a lot of hard work, but it created a bond and respect within the payroll staff.
Who is the most famous person you ever met? President Bill Clinton. I lived in Guam in the mid-'90s. His return trip from Asia allowed him to make a short stopover on the island. He was there to meet with local leaders and deliver a short speech. I was able to get to the front of the stage and shake his hand.
What is your favorite way to blow an hour? Play with my grandsons, catch up with the news online, watch sport highlights or simply take a nap
If you were asked to paint a picture about anything you wanted, what would you paint? I would paint a picture of my father, mother, children and grandchildren having a picnic on Waikiki or North Shore Beaches of Oahu.
What was the best money you ever spent? A vacation trip from Guam for the whole family to a cousin's wedding in Pacific Palisades, Calif. After that, it was a reunion trip with my mother and two sisters and their families in Las Vegas.
Is there a piece of technology that you just couldn't live without? My smartphone. I recently came back from a conference, and at one of the breaks, I went to lunch not knowing my phone fell out of my pocket. Walking away and then discovering my phone was missing, my thoughts were of things that I will not be able to do, like check and respond to my e-mails.
What is the proudest/happiest moment of your life? Any time I'm surrounded by my children and grandchildren, hanging out in the backyard or at the beach listening to them having fun and laughing
Tell us something that would surprise people to know about you: I'm a grandfather, and I don't look the part. Perhaps the gray hair fits.
What was the first concert you ever attended, and what was the most recent concert you attended? The first was a Styx concert in Valdosta, Ga. in the early 2000s. The most recent was a Hootie and the Blowfish concert in Las Vegas several years ago.
What person had the greatest impact on your life? My mother. After our father's death in the mid-'70s, she was there guiding us, making sure my two sisters and I had the best education available and ensuring we finished college.
What do you hope to accomplish that you have not done yet? I'd like to visit every state.
Last book read: Bobby Flay's "Boy Meets Grill."
Where are you from?
Southern Orange County, California
What is your major?
When will you graduate?
August 2015
What attracted you to UNF?
The nursing program's stellar reputation drew me to UNF. I heard
from multiple sources that the nursing program was challenging and well-respected
on a national level.
Why did you decide to
attend the University?
I loved the fact that the nursing program was community-based. I
had all of the requirements, so it seemed like a great fit.
What do you do for fun on
My on-campus activities include yoga, swimming, going to
basketball games and having lunch with my nursing friends at the Boathouse.
What's your favorite UNF
What is the best thing
about UNF's faculty and staff?
The nursing faculty and staff are simply amazing. They genuinely
care about each student's success and well-being. Additionally, they challenge
us so we can be the best nurses possible. They are excellent role models and
incredible mentors.
Do you have a favorite
My favorite professors include: Dr. Loriz, Dr. Bloom, Dr.
Connelly, Mr. Ahrens, Dr. Comeaux, Dr. Radjenovic, Dr. Roush, Dr. Pope, Dr.
Foster, Dr. Sander - basically the entire nursing faculty! They are incredible
people, and we are lucky to have them.
What has been your favorite
My favorite class so far has been perioperative (operating room) nursing.
Being in the OR for the first time was an incredible experience I will never
Have you gotten the chance
to work on any hands-on learning projects, internships or Transformational
Learning Opportunities during your time at UNF?
I participated in the nursing study abroad in Thailand last year
with Dr. Roush and Dr. Loriz. It was a life-changing experience and really
helped me gain a new perspective on health care on a global level.
When you're looking to
de-stress and relax a bit, where do you go on campus? Why do you like that
This may be a tie between yoga at the gym and the Military and
Veterans Resource Center. That all depends on what I have left for the day - yoga
makes me sleepy! The MVRC is a fun and genuine environment. It's always great
to connect with others outside your circle.
What makes UNF unique?
The campus is gorgeous and not too big. Also, you can tell UNF
truly cares about its students. There are always fun events going on and many
resources to help you be successful.
Is there anything you've
learned about UNF during your time on campus that you think incoming freshmen
should know?
Take advantage of the resources that UNF offers. The Student
Wellness Complex is a great way to decompress, and the new Clubhouse looks
amazing! Study hard, but find a healthy work/life balance. Ask for help when
you need it - we've all been there before. Lastly, practice servant leadership
and get involved in your school and community.
What do you think of the
campus' natural environment?
I absolutely love it! It's simply gorgeous.
What's been your biggest
challenge so far as a UNF student?
The nursing program is very demanding. Sometimes I've struggled
with finding work/life balance.
When you look back at your
UNF experience years down the road, what do you think you'll most remember?
My amazing classmates, professors, my Osprey pride, and attending
events on campus (Oktoberfest, Back to School party, etc).
What do you like most about
Jacksonville? Any favorite places around town?
I love how close the beaches are. Some of my favorite places
around town are: Taco Lu, Sweet by Holly and all of St. Augustine.
What are your plans for the
I plan to complete my master's degree and obtain my doctorate as a
family nurse practitioner.
What does being an Osprey
mean to you?
It means having pride, being involved in my community, being there
for other students and having the experience of attending an innovative and
student-focused university.
What is your favorite item
at the Boathouse?
The pulled-pork sandwich.
How do you take your
Grande, half-caff, cinnamon dolce latte, substitute two pumps of
white mocha and two pumps of cinnamon dolce, non-fat, light whip.
What is your favorite thing
to do on the Green?
Study and people watch.
All your studying is done.
Your homework assignments are turned in and you have an hour free. What do you
This rarely happens, but if it did, I'd probably take a nap.
What are your tips for finding time to study?
I create a study schedule and
stick with it. Sometimes that means having a date with my medical surgery book
on a Friday night.
Do you have any tips you want to share for working with professors
outside of class?
Be professional, be on time,
be respectful and be genuine.
Do you have any tips you want to share for
getting good grades?
Find out
which study methods work for you. I like to stay ahead, make flash cards and
visual aids, participate in study groups and do practice problems. I also ask
my professors for help if I'm struggling with something. They truly do care and
want you to be successful.
Brooks College of Health
Nursing: Drs. Michele Bednarzyk,
Kathy Bloom, Judy Comeaux, John McDonough and Jonathan Pabalate presented an
international nursing symposium on advanced practice nursing and patient safety
at the Paracelsus Medical University in Salzburg, Austria in May.
Coggin College of Business
Marketing: Dr. Gregory
T. Gundlach's work "Resale Price Maintenance after Leegin: Marketing Literatures for Future Research" will
soon be published in the "Handbook of Research on Distribution Channels."
Dr. Reham Eltantawy had her paper "Towards Sustainable Supply Management: Requisite
Governance and Resilience Capabilities" accepted in the Journal of Strategic
Marketing for publication.
College of
Arts and Sciences
Chemistry: Dr. Stuart Chalk was awarded a $15,045 grant by the
Springer-Verlag GmbH for his proposal "PDF Extraction of Chemical Property Data
from the Landolt-Börnstein Database." He also presented four talks: (i) "Towards Big Data in the Chemical
Sciences" at the UNF Interdisciplinary Program for Big-data Analytics meeting;
(ii) "Building a Framework for Chemical Analysis Standards: The Chemical
Analysis Metadata Platform (ChAMP) Project"; (iii) an
online report on the "Data Standards for Representation and Annotation of
Analysis Information" grant funded by the Royal Society of Chemistry; and (v)
with Justin Lemmons "The UNF Preserve Digital Archive" at the State of the
Preserve meeting.
Dr. Christos Lampropoulos
presented an invited seminar, "Molecule-Based Magnetic Materials: Molecular
Magnets, Magnetic Polymers, Magnetic Oligomers," at Florida State University.
He was also awarded a travel fellowship from the University of Illinois, Urbana
Champaign, to attend a summer school in Berlin, Germany. Finally, with his
student, Sergio Corrales, he published "Mercury (II) Coordination Complexes
Bearing Schiff Base Ligands: What Affects Their Nuclearity and/or
Dimensionality" in Polyhedron.
Dr. Amy L. Lane, with her students
Elle James and Dana Bis, and her colleague Dr. Rajesh Viswanathan, published "Synergism between Genome Sequencing, Tandem Mass
Spectrometry and Bio-Inspired Synthesis Reveals Insights into Nocardioazine B
Biogenesis" in Organic and
Biomolecular Chemistry. She also presented
the seminar "Diving for drugs: Novel Molecules and Unique
Biosynthetic Pathways from Marine Microorganisms" at Florida State College
Science and Public Administration: Dr. G.G. Candler
and John Randle presented "Market Failure as Ignored Determinant of the Choice
Between Public and Business Administration: A Preliminary Statement" at the V
Colloquio Internacional de Epistemologia e Sociologia da Ciência da
Administração in Florianopolis, Brazil in March.
At the same colloquium, Candler was a discussant on the panel "Alternativas ao
produtivismo na carreira do pesquisador: perspectivas internacionais," He
also gave the invited talk, "Estudoes e pesquisas nos Estados Unidos," at
the Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina in Florianopolis, Brazil.
Dr. Josh Gellers
presented "Crowdsourcing Sustainable Development Goals from Global Civil
Society: A Content Analysis" at the UF CAIRES Social Media and Sustainability
Conference in Gainesville in April. He was also named book review editor
of the Journal on Human Rights and the Environment. Finally, he discussed
Nepal's political situation in light of the recent earthquake on Action News
Psychology: Dr. Elizabeth R.
Brown, with her colleagues Jessi L. Smith, Dustin B. Thoman, Jill M. Allen
and Gregg Muragishi, published "From Bench to Bedside: A Communal Utility Value
Intervention to Enhance Students' Biomedical Science Motivation" in the Journal
of Educational Psychology in April. With Jessi L. Smith, Dustin B. Thoman, and
Eric Deemer, she also published "Losing its Expected Value: How Stereotype
Threat Undermines Women's Identity as Research Scientists" in the Social
Psychology of Education in April.
Sociology, Anthropology and Social
Work: Dr.
Rosa De Jorio presented
"Controversies around Mortuary Practices and Grave Sites in Post-Conflict Mali"
at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for the Anthropology of Religion in San
Diego in April.
Dr. Gordon F.M. Rakita, with his colleague Rafael Cruz Antillon, published
"Organization of Production at Paquimé" in the
edited volume Ancient Paquimé and the
Casas Grandes World. He also published a review of the book "Tracing Childhood: Bioarchaeological
Investigations of Early Lives in Antiquity"
in "The Journal of Anthropological
Research." In addition, he gave two presentations at the Society for American Archaeology meeting:
one with Michele Pierson, "Plainware Ceramics from the Surface of the 76 Draw
Site, Luna County, New Mexico," and one with Kyle Waller, "New Perspectives on
Casas Grandes Mortuary Practices." Rakita was also a discussant for the
forum "Building Archaeological Research
Communities with Cyberinfrastructure."
Dr. Suzanne Simon was selected to
participate in the National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute,
"Development Ethics and Global Justice: Gender, Economics and the Environment."
College of
Computing, Engineering and Construction
Dr. Kenneth Martin has
been appointed by the Computing Accreditation Commission of ABET as a team
Engineering: Dr. Daniel Cox and alumna Chelsea Partridge presented the paper
"Robotics and Automation Hands-on Implementation Club Projects" at the 2015
Florida Conference on Recent Advances in Robotics on the Florida Institute of
Technology campus in Melbourne, Fla. in May. Alum Eric Rutherford also
contributed to the paper.
of Education and Human Services
Leadership, School Counseling and Sport Management:
Dr. Rebecca Schumacher
was nominated as a finalist in the 2015 Times-Union EVE Awards. The EVE Award luncheon is scheduled this month.
Congratulations to the
following employees who will celebrate a milestone anniversary at UNF in June:
Mason, Maintenance Support Worker, Physical Facilities
Malec, Associate Director, Counseling Center
Noreen Eberhardt, Senior Applications Programmer, Enterprise
Dee Robertson-Lee, Library Services Specialist, Library
Robert Boyle, Director of Housing and Residence Life,
University Housing
Nichelle Flannory, Assistant Director of
Business and Finance/Auxiliary Services, MOCA
Joan Lehmann, University Budgets Coordinator, Budget Office
Ruth Lopez, Associate Director, Center For International
Joanna Norris, Director, Public Relations
Jamie Spruell, Interim Coordinator of Academic Support
Services, Office of Academic Testing
Gregory Spurgeon, Locksmith, Physical
Paul Yeoman, Assistant Director, Physical Facilities
Allard, Associate Director of Residence Life, University Housing
Frank, Academic Support Services Coordinator, Taylor Leadership
Fulton, IT Support Coordinator, User Services
"Smoke" Laval, Head Athletic Coach, Baseball
Reid, Auto Equipment Mechanic, Physical Facilities
Samant, Professor, Coggin College of Business
Simms, Director, Student Union
The following employees were either hired by
UNF or were promoted from OPS positions recently:
Laurel Cline, Groundskeeper, Grounds
Christopher Danielek, Maintenance
Mechanic, Maintenance and Energy Management
Lindsay DiAngelo, Coordinator,
Student Affairs
Ryan Duzon, Admissions
Processing Coordinator, Enrollment Services Processing Office
Nastacha Farley, Senior Accountant,
Training and Services Institute
Amy Fistler, Director of
Development, MOCA
Alexander Gillis, Accounts Payable
Receiving Associate, The Flats
Angela Johnson, Executive
Secretary, Facilities Planning
David Lowery, Assistant Athletic
Coach, Women's Basketball
Robert Parnell, Accounts Payable
Receivable Assistant, Controller
Jennifer Perkins, Associate
Director, Alumni Services
MaryLynne Schaefer, Assistant Athletic
Coach, Women's Basketball
The following employee was promoted recently:
Mailey, Assistant Maintenance Support, Physical Facilities
Heartfelt well wishes in their new endeavors
for the following employees, who left UNF recently:
Berry, Mental Health Counselor, Counseling Center
Choisser, Office Manager, Child Development Center
Clancy, Senior Accountant, Controller
Edwards, Senior Custodial Supervisor, Custodial Services
Heidelberg, Office Manager, English
Jones, Coordinator, Facilities Planning
Jurgens, Student Affairs Coordinator, English Language Program
Korolev, Applications Systems Analyst, Enterprise Systems
Lee, Administrative Secretary, Communication
Lumpiesz, Law Enforcement Officer, University Police Department
McPherson, Instructional Design Coordinator, Distance Learning Fee
Miles, Assistant Athletic Coach, Basketball
Ramsdell, Marketing Publications Coordinator, Promotions,
Schermann, Maintenance Mechanic, Physical Facilities
Stedham, Program Assistant, Graduate School
Steinbrecher, Office Manager, Political Science and Public
Washington, Assistant Coach, Women's Basketball
Weaver, Coordinator, Florida Institute of Education
Database Administrator, Florida Institute of Education
Myth: Avocado oil is made from the seeds of avocados.
The avocado seed is actually only about 2 percent fat. Oil is extracted from
the avocado flesh, which is about 3 percent fat, making it unique from many
other oils.
Myth: Avocado oil is an unhealthy source of fats.
Avocado oil has a similar profile to olive oil in that it's high in
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UNF's campus home, along with 164 birds, 229 insects/invertebrates, 61
retiles/amphibians, 46 mammals, 16 fish and 15 lichens! With more than 1,300
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All of our schools offer a package of a renovated and updated facility and classrooms, curriculum supplies and materials, the best teachers, best programs, quality meals, and also includes Music and Movement Classes, Spanish Classes, Sign Language Classes, Mini Monet Art Classes, and Story Telling as part of our base tuition. Most facilities do not do this or they charge extra.
The following is a brief look at those special programs:
Music and Movement
Music and Movement is a unique program that is based on Early Childhood Education precepts. The instructor, Mr. Ray, has 28 years of experience teaching all ages. Mr. Ray uses things such as drums, parachutes, streamers, puppets, masks, and balls to teach basic concepts and skills, and enhance confidence, self esteem and working with others.
Storybook Time
During this time our special Story Time Guest Reader will read and act out the story with class participation. The children learn a story using not only their listening skills but also through their imagination, dramatic skills and role playing.
Sign Language
The curriculum for our Sign Language Class is based on Babies First 100 Words, which is a list of words/signs for beginners to American Sign Language. The children expand their communication skills through learning a new language and expressing themselves by promoting their visual memory skills.
Spanish Class
The curriculum for our Spanish Class is based on the curriculum that public schools use. The children learn to develop their vocabulary by using their auditory skills and enhancing their verbal abilities through learning a new language.
This class is named after the famous Impressionist 19th Century French painter, Claude Monet. This class is designed to encourage children to express themselves through art. Our Mini Monet Class helps initiate interest in art and promotes self-confidence through creative representation of their world.

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This self-contained monograph explores a new theory centered around boolean representations of simplicial complexes leading to a new class of complexes featuring matroids as central to the theory. The book illustrates these new tools to study the classical theory of matroids as well as their important geometric connections. Moreover, many geometric and topological features of the theory of matroids find their counterparts in this extended context.
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Is there a connection between Sasquatch/Bigfoot and ET? A "crazy notion" to some and to others it may be closer to reality than most would ever expect.
I had always laughed at such thoughts of ET and Sasquatch being connected. Never in my life would I consider such a thing, before.
Having always thought Bigfoot's existence as likely, I had never seen anything with my own eyes.
I did think it very possible but it was nothing that I would ever expect to see locally.
Bigfoot sightings have been ongoing throughout man's history around the world.
Something smart enough could be able to exist on earth and avoid human contact.
It does not take intelligence to see..that we (humans) seem to kill almost everything that we touch.
What creature of intelligence would like to be the subject of humans?
For most of my life I have known ET as being very real, from my abductions. I also know that much of the alien greys being here has to do with us (humans).
Until two summers ago..I had not a clue to this "slap in the face and wake up" truth about Sasquatch.
I used to always give a quick nervous chuckle under my breath.."To think that people connect Bigfoot and ET/ UFOs".
I honestly thought that anyone that connects the two...is only disrupting truth of UFO and ET. In actual fact...that is not true at all...
There may very well be a connection.
I am no longer laughing. I am an eye witness to what most will never see, in person.
Side note:
As I write this, I hear helicopters (I now live in the parkland region in Manitoba just a mile from Riding Mountain National Park, the same place as all my close encounters have happened).
It is rare for military to be here..but they are. Three military helicopters passing by with one breaking off to the south.
If I see such happen here, then they are likely in the area looking for UFO and ET.
My last 13 years experience here in the region..and I know how it goes.
Now... Back to Bigfoot and my sighting.
Let's set up the scene as it was..
I had been coming up to the parkland region of Manitoba on a constant basis since the summer of 2002.
I have seen hundreds of black bears...and many deer as well. Wildlife is abundant here with many moose, elk, wolf, cougar, bobcat, lynx, eagles, owls and so on.
I am very use to the wildlife presence, as I am very much in their territory.
Being just south of Riding Mountain National Park (one mile) puts me in an area that is frequent by animals, that come from the park.
Where I go and stay is tranquil..and good energy. It is a place that is truly good for the "spirit". (Perhaps this why we are frequented by UFOs and ET (the greys) so often here).
There is an actual energy here..it can be physically felt as one comes into this area.
The Bigfoot / Sasquatch Encounter:
I was in the Parkland Region of Manitoba, on the fringe (south) of Riding Mountain National Park, in 2013.
This being same area where a close encounter began with a white glowing disc craft that ended up following me for miles down the back roads. (refer to my close encounters on the right hand column of this page.)
This also being the same location where I saw a white X shaped UFO the year before, in the summer of 2012.
The entire area here is where I have seen crafts ..and it is close to my greys abductions location.. only 30 miles from my men in black abduction location.
This place has always been a hot spot for activity, since I started coming out.
A good friend of mine owns a gravel pit and I was helping him out for a little while during the summer.
I was staying in a bus at a small lake, not far from the gravel pit and still in the heart of the active area.
It was a hot, sunny July afternoon in 2013 at around 2 pm.
I was standing on a machine called a "crusher". It is a rock/gravel crusher.
My job was to watch the rocks, the crusher and all the belts and moving parts...and so I did. I stood on the machine for hours a day, watching all the belts and bearings and the rocks being crushed and the gravel..and constantly watching that things did not get plugged up.
It was a job that required attention. I could not leave (get off the machine) while the machine was running and so I was stuck on it..until we needed to shut it down.
My time was "well wasted" as I could not go anywhere else while on the machine, until we took a break.
I always notice anything out of the ordinary (my perception is somewhat heightened being in the area of the greys).
With heat of summer comes dragonflies. They have always been my most favorite of insects.
On that afternoon..I saw two dragonflies in a dog fight in mid-air. One dragonfly attacked with a hit. He bit the head off the other dragonfly, as its body fell from the sky to the ground.
I thought it a very interesting moment, as I realized that they (dragonflies) are a very deadly insect to more than just mosquitoes.
I was pondering what I has seen with the dragonflies while I did a "walk about" on the catwalks that encircle the crusher. I was making sure things were flowing smoothly.
As I went back to the spot where I usually stand, I suddenly had a feeling that I was being watched.
I looked around..and saw no one.
I could definitely feel the pressure of eyes on me, watching.
Looking around more from where I was at the bottom of a hill and in the gravel pit, I looked upward toward the north. There was a smaller pile of gravel that had been dumped there the week before. It was small and only 7 feet high.
I immediately noticed a dark figure that was standing there, right beside that gravel pile.
For a moment I was kind of confused by what I was looking at. The figure standing there was black. If it had been winter, I would have almost wrote it off as someone in a black snow suit with a black balaclava. They were covered.
That was not the case though, it was hot outside. It felt like 27 Celsius and the sun was at its peak of the day for heat.
I knew it was not some one in a snow suit standing there.
The creature stood there. It was not moving but just standing there, watching me...staring at me.
As you would likely guess, the crusher is a very loud machine. It can be heard for some distance.
It is just a feeling but I am sure that the crushers sound may have been what attracted this creature to begin with. The sound is very hard to miss.
Whatever the case, it was curious enough to stand there and watch me for several (long) minutes.
It stood there barely moving and it remained erect. It was always facing me for the entire time, until it turned around and started to walk away.
As it did turn I could see very clearly that this creature was very large.
-It was approximately 10 feet tall.
-It size was massive. I would guess it to be a minimum of 500 pounds in weight.
-Shoulder width was about 4 foot wide.
"Yep" it was very large. It would make most bears in the area seem small in comparison.
I can estimate the size of it..as it stood beside the gravel pile and turned and walked away. I could see on its departure from the gravel pile, that it really was as big as it appeared. It hadn't been standing on anything else to appear that large.
This was not a black bear or any other known (to me) creature. It was bipedal and had no problem walking.
As I have stated, I have seen hundreds of bears up close and at a distance through my many years here.
I had no choice but to wait until we were done on the crusher hours later before I could go up and investigate.
It was a few hours after the sighting, that I went up the hill to the gravel pile where I saw him standing beside.
I looked around but found no trace of him/her/it.
The ground is hard packed dirt, gravel and rocks. That makes it tough to find prints or indents.
I did a small walk in the direction it had left in. I walked for about 50 feet. I was looking to see if any broken branches or trail that could be followed..and didn't see anything.
I did take a couple pictures of the area but lost them along the past two years.
I did start asking friends and others that I know in the area if they had ever seen anything...and none had.
|1967 Female Sasquatch (stablized)
As I stood there with "it" looking at me, a realization came over me as to what it was I was looking at and what was looking very hard at me.
It was like seeing a UFO or an ET up close for the first time. It will forever be etched in my mind as will the feelings of the "moment of realization". It is a hard hitting feeling.
Never in my life did I ever imagine that I would see such a thing. I have since learned..again "Never say never." ;)
There is so much more going on here in this area..and on this entire planet. We are not alone..nor are we the only intelligence that does exist.
I have kept this sighting/encounter quiet, simply because I have no proof. BUT simple prodding from friends convinced me to share what I encountered.
I have done some research and found that UFO and ET are far more common among the locals. No one in this area that I have talked to thus far, knows of any Bigfoot encounters here.
There was one report of a Sasquatch on the west side of Riding Mountain National Park and it was around 70 years ago. I do not have details on that one.
There was one other sighting a few years before mine.
This one was closer and pretty much in the middle between my MIBs location and my Greys abductions. With knowing this area, it seems almost ideal for such to exist here. The park is dense with forest and easy to hide. This is one of the highest altitude areas in Manitoba.
It is only a 15 minute drive down the back roads to the location of the Sasquatch sighting, other than mine.
According to the witness, the sighting occurred May 2009.
It is a protected area, near the Lake Audy Bison Enclosure of Riding Mountain National Park. ( I am very familiar with this location and have passed through it several times.
The witness saw two dark and very tall figures walking through one of the clearings where the bison are.
This area is not an area where you "just go for a walk". Bison are not domesticated in anyway..and just as dangerous as any other wild animal.
I am forced to try even harder, to locate these caves that exist in the area. There is more than one cave.
The people that are aware of the locations of these caves are very secretive and it has been an on going attempt for years for me to convince them to take me to the dwellings (caves).
I am still trying to locate other people here that may be able to lead me to the caves. It seems that the secrecy of the locations is very tough to overcome ..so far.
The caves are close enough to be a part of all this...as well as a part of ET being here.
I am only sharing this and making it "for the record", just in case I have some video proof or evidence in the future.
I cannot say what the connection is to the greys with Sasquatch. I do know that for as much as the alien greys have been in this area and the many UFOs seen by locals (myself included), the greys would have to be very aware of what else exists here.
A creature the size of what I saw would have to be an obvious thing to any advanced beings. (Honestly, there is very high alien / UFO activity in this area and the greys are likely the only ones (ET) here).
Are Bigfoot and ET connected? Yes. I would bet on it being true.
If you are interested in my UFO encounters and abductions that have taken place in this same area as my Sasquatch sighting, then start here...with part one to my encounters.
ET/UFO/MIBs My Close Encounters Part 1
It was just after I had seen Bigfoot/Sasquatch, that I had a craft come by where I was camped.
The small lake is a couple miles as the crow flies from the Bigfoot location.
I was sleeping in the bus which was parked on shore. there is no other road just the one road that led right to the camp site.
There is no one around for at least one mile, just my guests and I being the only ones at that lake.
When I look out the door of the bus I saw this view..normally.
It was late at night/ early in the morning at 3AM, when I was awoken by a sound.
The sound was very loud and definite. It sounded as a water drop would sound but it was VERY amplified. It could not have been any kind of drop.
I sat up immediately and saw the dog sitting there too. He had woke to it as well.
Suddenly things started to get brighter within the bus as something bright started to approach outside, from the south.
A white glowing object approached the bus and things became more bright.
The bus canopy poles were now moving shadows across the window curtains. whatever it was...was now just outside on the west side of the bus facing the lake.
I sat there silent and holding my breath at the entire side of the bus was lit up in the white light. I could see a bright white light through the curtains. It was about five and a half feet off the ground.
I didn't move. I didn't want to disturb anything and draw more attention than there already was.
I really didn't want anything to happen to my guests and I was on the edge of my seat. I know how things can go..and how nothing can be done..if things are set into motion with the greys.
I could see the dog almost having the same sort of reaction as me. He looked rather worried.
I couldn't see the shape of the white lit object through the window curtains on the bus. I really had no desire to interrupt their passing by and knew if I did move the curtain..It would definitely draw more attention.
The white glowing object finally and silently passed.
It took a while to relax a bit..I sat there for about half an hour and waited for it's return., but it never did.
I did eventually fall asleep again.
Between the two encounters, it opened me up the reality of the very good chance of Bigfoot and ET being connected.
I really didn't want to share any of the Bigfoot sighting before. I honestly felt that it may take away from any credibility that I may have.
I have now moved on..past that. People will accept whatever they want.. and that is life.
It seems that the further you go from populations, the more you may actually see.
All I can hope for at the most..is some sort of proof of everything, for others... Proof of ALL that I already know as real in this world, from my personal experiences.
These are a couple videos of "Bigfoot / Sasquatch" from Manitoba and they are worth a look at.
Manitoba Bigfoot Videos
- Bigfoot /Sasquatch - Peguis Manitoba Canada
- A More in-depth look at Peguis Bigfoot Video
- Video Of Sasquatch 2007 - Manitoba
There have been crafts (UFOs) seen by locals out here this year..some have recordings.
I have had two sightings of crafts but they were not close encounters. Perhaps I will soon update my blog with those , if I can find more time.
Peace all.


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The US for profit healthcare industry rests upon a vast ocean of uncompensated volunteerism:
Heavy toll endured by 'invisible' unpaid caregivers. A study published yesterday in the JAMA Network medical journal seems to state the obvious. Family members and friends who step up to help elderly or disabled adults sacrifice their own well-being.
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In 2009, about 42.1 million family caregivers in the United States provided care to an adult with limitations in daily activities at any given point in time, and about 61.6 million provided care at some time during the year. The estimated economic value of their unpaid contributions was approximately $450 billion in 2009, up from an estimated $375 billion in 2007.
Valuing the Invaluable: 2011 Update
The Growing Contributions and Costs of Family Caregiving
Lynn Feinberg, Susan C. Reinhard, Ari Houser, and Rita Choula
AARP Public Policy Institute
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Family caregivers in the U.S. spend an estimated 30 billion hours per year caring for older family and friends. That's about $522 billion in care, according to a new Rand Corp. study, as measured by valuing the time caregivers have sacrificed in order to be able to provide care. – See more at: http://states.aarp.org/family-caregivers-provide-522-billion-in-uncompensated-care-per-year/#sthash.DUlY2pNi.dpuf
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Latest Estimated Value of Volunteer Time via Independent Sector
National Value of Volunteer Time: $23.07 per hour
The estimate helps acknowledge the millions of individuals who dedicate their time, talents, and energy to making a difference. Charitable organizations can use this estimate to quantify the enormous value volunteers provide.
According to the Corporation for National and Community Service, about 62.6 million Americans, or 25.4 percent of the adult population, gave 7.7 billion hours of volunteer service worth $173 billion in 2013.2 For the latest information, please see www.volunteeringinamerica.gov.
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The volunteer rate was little changed at 25.3 percent for the year ending in September 2014, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. About 62.8 million people volunteered through or for an organization at least once between September 2013 and September 2014. The volunteer rate in 2013 was 25.4 percent.
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In economics, a time-based currency is an alternative currency or exchange system where the unit of account/value is the person-hour or some other time unit. Some time-based currencies value everyone's contributions equally: one hour equals one service credit. In these systems, one person volunteers to work for an hour for another person; thus, they are credited with one hour, which they can redeem for an hour of service from another volunteer. Others use time units that might be fractions of an hour (e.g. minutes, ten minutes – 6 units/hour, or 15 minutes – 4 units/hour). While most time-based exchange systems are service exchanges in that most exchange involves the provision of services that can be measured in a time unit, it is also possible to exchange goods by 'pricing' them in terms of the average national hourly wage rate (e.g. if the average hourly rate is $20/hour, then a commodity valued at $20 in the national currency would be equivalent to 1 hour).


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Time to do some exploring! Monsterrat is a "must see" in Barcelona. I chose it as it combined breathtaking scenery of the mountain beaks of Mount Monsterrat, as well as wanting a cultural experience and to learn more about the history of the Royal Basilica and Monastery of Monsterrat, a popular pilgrim destination, famous for its vast Royal Basilica, "Black Madonna" statue of the Virgin Mary and spectacular mountain views. I booked a half day tour with Viator, which departed Barcelona at 2pm, giving me the morning to do more sightseeing around Barcelona.
As I was after a cultural experience, I decided to go to the Cathedral of Barcelona, situated in Spain's Gothic quarter, about a 15 minute walk from Placa Catalunya,where the Archbishop of Barcelona is seated. It was constructed in the 13th-15th centuries, with the bulk of the construction taking place in the 14th century. Its roof features gargoyles; a mixture of domestic and mythical animals. The church is dedicated to Eulalia, the co patron Saint of Barcelona.
It houses tombs of several saints, including Saint Raymond of Penyafort, Court Ramon Berenguer 1 and this third wife Almodis de la marche. The church underwent cleaning and restoration between 1968-1972. The intricate detail around the outdoor construction, in particular the gargoyles on the roof reflected the Gothic style of architecture and was just as impressive as the interior; hall style with high ceilings and laid out over five aisles with ornate stained glass windows. The choir stalls retained the Coat of Arms from the knights from the Order of the Golden Fleece and there was a side chapel of the Holy Sacrament and Holy Christ of Lepanto. Outside, there was a small courtyard with a little garden, including a small fountain.
After exploring the church and taking in as much of the amazing architecture as possible, I stopped off at a small cafe in the Gothic quarter for a quick lunch of empanadas; a pastry filled with meat for vegetables such as spinach and cheese, before heading over to the Hard Rock cafe in Placa Catalunya to meet the tour group for our tour to Monsterrat.
Our tour guide, Anna, met us at the Hard Rock Cafe and our group of seven boarded the air-conditioned Viator coach for a 2.5 hour drive to Monsterrat through the mountainside, past pretty villages on the way. Anna, our tour guide was very knowledgeable and provided us with in-depth commentary along the way; about Monsterrat's history and the two key landmarks; the Monastery of Monsterrat and the Royal Basilica. As our coach ascended the mountains, we gazed out the windows and enjoyed the breathtaking views of the landscapes.
Upon arrival, we briefly stopped by small stalls selling farmers produce such as handmade soaps, cheeses and local honeys, where I bought some small jars of local honey. We were then given free time to explore all of the imposing landmarks. At the entrance, there were a series of small personal items such as baby's clothes, books and even a wedding dress, which Anna explained that people had donated as offerings as part of their prayers of thanks-for example, if they prayed that they could give birth to a child and then they did, they might donate an article of their child's clothing in thanks.
Inside the Basilica was phenomenal-with ornate candles,marbles, stained glass windows, mosaic tiles and lattice work on the ceilings, chapels and decorations and also a museum, displaying artworks by many famous artists including Picasso, El Greco and Dali and Anna, our very informative tour-guide explained the significance of each of the monuments inside.
Monsterrat is also famous for the Black Madonna statue; a statue of the Virgin Mary, which has made Monsterrat a famous pilgrim destination and it has been there since 718. It is a small wooden statue housed in a small room. As I exited the Black Madonna chamber and hallways and headed down the path, there were many brightly coloured devotional candles lit in her honour.
The Benedictine Monastery is also there, where I learned about the daily life of the Benedictine monks. There was also a large gift shop where you could buy souvenirs, including wild honey, handmade soaps and candles. Our tour ended as the sun was setting and enabled us to take beautiful photographs of the shades of dusty pink, orange, purple, grey and eventually midnight blue, as the sun set behind the mountainside.
The famous Escalonia boys choir also performs recitals there, however, unfortunately we had missed the time that they performed, however, Anna did play us a CD of their performance in the coach trip back to Barcelona and it was glorious gazing at the sunset and listening to the choir as our coach wound its way down the mountainside on the way back to Barcelona.
By the time we arrived back in Barcelona, it was dark, chilly and I was starving and rationalized that after eating salads and doing a fair bit of walking, it was acceptable for me to have the paella I was craving.I entered a restaurant in Plaza Catalunya and ordered the deep fried squid and a vegetarian paella. The squid was fresh, crispy and delicious and the paella, which arrived, sizzling in a cast iron pan, was hot and flavoursome. It had been an incredible day; learning and absorbing the religious and cultural aspects of Catalonia, along with the breathtaking scenery of Monsterrat. Looking forward to more adventures tomorrow! xoxo.


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By Jennifer Battisti
Between the neon lights of the Strip and the 300 days of sun in Las Vegas, there is no shortage of brilliance in our city, but because of the harsh temperatures and dry climate, your skin might not feel quite as luminous.
Get glowing this summer with these five desert-proof tips to sporting radiant skin, even in the triple-digits. We've compiled the most effective techniques and rituals to keep you feeling like a Mojave goddess, in any season.
Rejuvenate: No number of pricey products will work to hydrate and nourish if there is a build-up of dead skin cells. Exfoliation is the middle child of the skin care routine, often skipped in favor of a cleanser or moisturizer; however, it is the single most effective way to improve the texture, color, and absorption of other products. Try June Jacobs Perfect Pumpkin Peeling Enzyme Mask three times a week to keep skin fresh and soft.
Hydrate: Not all moisturizes are created equal. Scientifically speaking, it's all about the molecules. The smaller the molecules, the more potent the moisturizer. Look for serums and oils to layer beneath a day cream containing long- wearing humectants like hyaluronic acid.
Internalize: Your skin is the body's largest organ. By incorporating anti-inflammatory and anti-aging supplements, such as fish oil and collagen protein powder, you're reversing the signs of aging from the inside out. Don't forget to drink plenty of water throughout the day. Liven up your H2O by infusing it with cucumbers, ginger and lemon to de-puff and detox.
Don't splurge on the sunshine: While summer packs a calendar full of pool parties, BBQs and vacations, your skin doesn't have to RSVP to the lackluster and dehydrated after effects of a robust social life. The connection between sun exposure and skin cancer is well-known, however an aversion to the texture of sunscreen remains. Swapping a cream for a powder or a mousse formula will keep the rays at bay without weighing the skin down. Try Eminence Sun Defense Mineral sunscreen or TIZO foam sunscreen, SPF 30.
Nocturnal Nourishment: While we sleep, the entire body is renewing cells. Logging between seven to nine hours of quality rest will do wonders for a fatigued complexion. Ask any new mother how their skin looked during the first months of having a baby and they will confirm there is something to the old adage of beauty sleep.Jennifer Battisti is an aesthetician, writer and educator for a resort spa in Las Vegas.


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Privacy Policy
dplay Privacy Policy
Revised 22 October 2019
A. Who we are:
We are Dplay Entertainment Limited. We provide a range of free and paid-for content services, such as dplay, which is available through our website (www.dplay.co.uk) or our mobile application in the United Kingdom and Ireland (the "Services").
We are based in the United Kingdom. Our company details are in section 1 below.
If you have any questions or need any help in relation to our privacy policy, please contact our Data Protection Officer at firstname.lastname@example.com.
B. Our values and what this privacy policy is for:
We value your privacy and want to be accountable and fair to you as well as transparent with you in the way that we collect and use your personal information. Our overall aim is to ensure that our collection and use of personal information is appropriate to the provision of the Services to you, and is in accordance with applicable data protection laws. We also want you to know your rights in relation to your information which you can find in section 10.
In line with these values, this privacy policy tells you what to expect when we collect and use personal information about you. We have tried to make it easy for you to navigate so you can find the information that is most relevant to you and our relationship with you.
We are always looking to improve the information we provide to our customers and contacts so if you have any feedback on this privacy policy, please let us know using our contact details in section 13.
C. Who this privacy policy applies to:
This privacy policy applies to all users of our Services.
What this privacy policy contains: This privacy policy describes the following important topics relating to your information.
- Who we are
- Children
- The personal information we collect about you
- How we store and use your personal information
- How we share your personal information and who we share it with
- International transfers
- Cookies and similar technologies
- Security
- Data Retention
- Your rights
- Third party sites
- Changes to this privacy policy
- Complaints, questions and suggestions
D. Your rights to object:
You have various rights in respect of our use of your personal information as set out in section 10. One of the fundamental rights to be aware of is that you may ask us to consider any valid objections which you have to our use of your personal information where we process your personal information on the basis of our, or another person's, legitimate interest.
You can find out more information in section 10.
E. What you need to do and your confirmation to us
Please read this privacy policy carefully to understand how we handle your personal information.
1. Who we are
We are Dplay Entertainment Limited, registered in England with company number 09615785 whose registered office is at Chiswick Park Building 2, 566 Chiswick High Road, London W4 5YB, United Kingdom ("dplay") and we are the data controller of the personal information that we collect from you.
You can contact us in relation to this privacy policy by e-mail to our Data Protection Officer at firstname.lastname@example.com.
2. Children
We do not and will not knowingly collect information from any unsupervised child under the age of 13. If you are under the age of 13, you may not use the Services unless your parent or guardian has provided us with their consent for your use of the Services.
3. The personal information we collect about you
Information from your online interactions
We collect the following information from your interaction with the Services:
- how you access our Services and the devices that you use to access our Services. This includes collecting unique online identifiers such as IP address and your login data, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform and other technology on the devices you use to access this Services;
- information about how you use the Services, including but not limited to your video consumption and playback, sign-in and sign-out, playback error and browsing information; and
- any e-mail communications, including attachments, which you send to us.
Third parties or publicly available sources
We may receive personal information about you from various third parties as set out below:
technical data from the following parties:
- analytics providers based inside and outside the EU, such as Adobe Analytics;
- advertising networks based inside and outside the EU, such as Facebook Audience Network and FreeWheel; and
- search information providers based inside and outside the EU, such as Google and Adobe Audience Manager.
For further information about how each of these parties collect and use your data, please see the 'Third-Party advertising companies' section below;
- identity and contact data from data brokers, aggregators and publicly available sources; and
- third parties that provide certain services to us within the Services, for example, facilitating and administering customer feedback forms, newsletter subscriptions and competitions.
4. How we store and use your personal information
We store and use your personal information for the following reasons:
- it is necessary in order for us to fulfil a contract that we have with you;
- it is required in our legitimate interests;
- it is required in order for us to comply with our legal obligations; or
- it is permitted because you have provided your consent to us.
Where we need to collect personal information by law, or under the terms of a contract we have with you and you fail to provide that data when requested, we may not be able to perform the contract we have or are trying to enter into with you (in this case, to provide you with the Services). In this case, we may have to cancel the Services but we will notify you if this is the case at the time.
Necessary for us to fulfil our contract with you
We collect, store and use your personal information including your name, e-mail address and information about how you use and access the Services because it is necessary in order to provide the Services requested by you pursuant to the contract made between you and us when you agreed to our Terms of Use (). This includes:
- making the Services available to you;
- providing any Services that you request;
- administering the Services; and
- service and account administration requirements such as where we need to contact you for reasons related to the Services (for example, where we need to send you a password reminder, to notify you about Services updates or amendments to our Terms of Use, Cookie Policy or this privacy policy).
If you have entered into a competition on the Services, then, pursuant to the competition terms and conditions provided to you at the time of entry, we will use your contact details (such as e-mail address or postal address) to administer your entry and inform you if you have won a prize.
Our legitimate interests
Sometimes, our use of your personal information is for purposes which are ancillary to the provision of the Services. In those circumstances, we believe we have a legitimate interest in handling your personal information, and believe that the benefits of this storage and use of your personal information will outweigh any potential impact on you and not unduly prejudice your rights or freedoms. The relevant circumstances are:
- detecting and preventing fraud;
- keeping our Services, products and IT systems secure;
- ensuring that our own processes, procedures and systems are as efficient as possible;
- analysing and enhancing the information that we collect;
- analysing your video consumption, playback and general viewing habits in order to understand viewership and update and improve our Services, including but not limited to our content, features, scheduling, technology and products;
- determining the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns and advertising;
- to use IP addresses and device identifiers to identify the location of users and block any unauthorised users;
- deal with your enquiries and requests (for example if you were to call customer services to ask for help and assistance then we would need to process your contact details);
- suggest similar products to you that you may be interested in and to understand which products appeal to our customers; and
- where you have opted out of our marketing or objected to receiving e-mails from us, then we need to keep records of your preferences to ensure that we do not contact you if you have asked us not to.
If we rely on our (or another person's) legitimate interests for using your personal information, we will undertake a balancing test to ensure that our (or the other person's) legitimate interests are not outweighed by your interests or fundamental rights and freedoms which require protection of the personal information. You can ask us for information on this balancing test by using the contact details at section 13.
When you have provided consent to us
Where you have given us your consent, we will contact you by e-mail with products and Services which we think may interest you.
If we rely on your consent for us to use your personal information in a particular way, but you later change your mind, you may withdraw your consent by contacting our Data Protection Officer at firstname.lastname@example.com and we will stop doing so.
For legal reasons
We will use your personal information in order to comply with our legal obligations. These obligations include:
- us complying with our legal obligations; and
- if we are asked by regulatory bodies or law enforcement agencies to share your personal information with them.
Anonymous data
We collect anonymised details about visitors to our website for the purposes of aggregating statistics or reporting purposes. However, no single individual will be identifiable from the anonymised details we collect for these purposes.
Third-party advertising companies
We want to make sure that our advertising and marketing is relevant and interesting to you and our other users. To achieve this, we use third-party advertising and technology companies to serve ads and/or provide aggregated data to assist in serving ads when you visit or use our Services. This includes third party technology companies which collect data about you in order to build a profile of your preferences based on your activities when you visit or use our Services. We also use these companies to automatically collect data from you when you use our Services in order to help us identify the ads that are served to you and what you do after seeing those ads. In addition, we also share data with providers of web analytics tools, such as Google Analytics, which we use to analyse your use of the Services.
These third party advertising companies collect, store and use data by integrating cookies and other tracking software on our Services. Please see our Cookies Policy at for further information. In some cases these third parties will also use the data that they collect for their own purposes, for example they may aggregate your data with other data they hold and use this to inform advertising related services provided to other clients and work with other advertising companies and share your personal information with such companies as part of the process.
Please see our Cookie Policy () for more information on the third party advertising companies which collect, use and store data about you, and the use of cookies and other tracking technologies on our Services. From our Cookie Policy you can also find out how to exercise control over this collection and use of data. If you choose to restrict or prevent tracking for these purposes then the advertising you see when you visit or use our Services will no longer be tailored to your preferences.
We might also share your data with social media or other similar platforms, so that you and other people can see relevant content on that platform. For example, we may use the Facebook Custom Audiences service and share your e-mail address in a protected format with Facebook so that we can: include you in a custom audience that we will serve relevant advertising content to on Facebook; or create an audience of other Facebook users based on the information in your Facebook profile.
5. How we share your personal information and who we share it with
We disclose information under the following circumstances:
● Third-party service providers:
When we share information with third-party service companies to facilitate or to provide certain services on our behalf. This will include:
- IT infrastructure companies that facilitate our provision of the Services to you;
- IT support service providers; and
- other third-party service providers, for the purpose of providing or tracking our customers' use of the Services.
These companies are authorised to use your personal information only as necessary to provide these Services to us.
● Group companies: We may provide your personal information to our subsidiaries or affiliated companies for the purpose of processing personal information on our behalf to provide the Services to you. These parties are required to process such information based on our instructions and in accordance with this privacy policy. They do not have any independent right to share this information.
● Compliance with laws and legal proceedings: When we respond to court orders, or legal process, or to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims. When we believe in our sole discretion it is necessary to share information in order to investigate, prevent or take actions against illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of our Terms of Use, or as otherwise required by law.
● Merger or acquisition: When we need to transfer information about you if we are acquired by or merged with another company. If we are involved in a merger, acquisition, or sale of all or a portion of its assets, you will be notified afterwards via e-mail and/or a prominent notice on our Services of any change in ownership or uses of your personal information, as well as any choices you may have regarding your personal information.
6. International transfers
If you are located in the EU then we may transfer personal information that we collect from you to third party data processors located in countries that are outside of the European Economic Area ("EEA") (including to the United States) or to members of our group of companies in connection with the above purposes. Please be aware that countries which are outside the EEA may not offer the same level of data protection as the EEA, although our collection, storage and use of your personal information will continue to be governed by this privacy policy.
When transferring personal information outside the EEA, we will:
- include the standard contractual data protection clauses approved by the European Commission for transferring personal information outside the EEA into our contracts with those third parties (these are the clauses approved under Article 46.2 of the General Data Protection Regulation ("GDPR"); or
- ensure that the country in which your personal information will be handled has been deemed "adequate" by the European Commission under Article 45 of the GDPR; or
- (where appropriate when we are transferring your personal information to a recipient in the US) ensure that the recipient is part of the Privacy Shield which requires them to provide similar protection to any personal information shared between Europe and the US.
- You can find out further information about the rules on data transfers outside the EEA, including the mechanisms that we rely upon, on the European Commission website .
7. Cookies and similar technologies
Technologies such as cookies, beacons, tags and scripts are used by us and our partners, affiliates, or analytics or service providers. These technologies are used in analysing trends, administering the Services, tracking users' movements around the Services and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole. We receive reports based on the use of these technologies by these companies on an individual as well as aggregated basis.
We use cookies, for example, to remember users' settings (e.g. language preference) and for authentication. Users can control the use of cookies at the individual browser level. If you reject cookies, you may still use our Services, but your ability to use some features or areas of our Services may be limited.
Please read more about how we use cookies and what information is collected using cookies in our Cookie Policy ().
8. Security
Whilst we take appropriate technical and organisational measures to safeguard the personal information that you provide to us, no transmission over the Internet can ever be guaranteed secure. Consequently, please note that we cannot guarantee the security of any personal information that you transfer over the Internet to us.
We are committed to protecting your personal information using appropriate technical and operational measures such as access controls that restrict and manage the ways in which your personal information is stored and handled.
9. Data Retention
We will retain information (including personal information) for as long as we need to use it for the reasons set out in the privacy policy and will delete it five years after your last activity on the Services except where we need to keep any personal information to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, or enforce our agreements.
We may delete your personal information (including any account that you set up to use on the Services) if you do not use the Services in five years.
In some circumstances, we may anonymise your personal information (so that it can no longer be associated with you) for research or statistical purposes in which case we may use this information indefinitely without further notice to you.
10. Your rights
You have certain rights in relation to your personal information. If you would like further information in relation to these or would like to exercise any of them, please contact our Data Protection Officer at firstname.lastname@example.com at any time. You have the right to request that we:
- provide access to any personal information we hold about you;
- update any of your personal information which is out of date or incorrect;
- delete any personal information which we are holding about you;
- restrict the way that we process your personal information;
- prevent the processing of your personal information for direct-marketing purposes;
- provide your personal information to a third party provider of services;
- provide you with a copy of any personal information which we hold about you; or
- consider any valid objections which you have to our use of your personal information.
We will consider all such requests and provide our response within a reasonable period (and in any event within any time period required by applicable law). Please note, however, that certain personal information may be exempt from such requests in certain circumstances. If an exception applies, we will tell you this when responding to your request. We may request you provide us with information necessary to confirm your identity before responding to any request you make.
If we delete any personal information which are holding about you, this deletion may only relate to the Services and not any other service provided by us in other jurisdictions. You should make requests for each account that you may have set up to access the Services or any other service provided by us.
11. Third party sites
The Services contains links and pages to other websites operated by third parties. Please note that this privacy policy applies only to the personal information that we collect through the Services and we cannot be responsible for personal information that third parties may collect, store and use through their website. You should always read the privacy policy of each website you visit carefully.
12. Changes to this privacy policy
This privacy policy was last updated on 22 October 2019.
Please check back regularly to keep informed of updates to this privacy policy. Where we make significant changes to this privacy policy, and we have your e-mail address, we will send you notification of the changes.
13. Complaints, questions and suggestions
We have a Data Protection Officer that can assist with all queries regarding our processing of personal information. Our Data Protection Officer can be contacted by e-mailing email@example.com.
In the EEA, you may also make a complaint to our supervisory body for data protection matters (the Information Commissioner's Office in the UK) or seek a remedy through local courts if you believe your rights have been breached.
You have the right to lodge a complaint with local data protection authorities in the EEA if you believe we have not complied with applicable data protection laws. The local authority differs depending on the country. Please see the Annex for your local data protection authority.
List of data protection authorities (EEA countries)
You have the right to lodge a complaint with local data protection authorities in the EEA if you believe we have not complied with applicable data protection laws.
The local authority differs depending on the country. Please see below for details of the local data protection authorities in the EEA countries in which we operate.
Borgergade 28, 5
1300 Copenhagen K
Tel. +45 33 1932 00
Fax +45 33 19 32 18
e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
Office of the Data Protection Ombudsman
P.O. Box 315
FIN-00181 Helsinki
Tel. +358 10 3666 700
Fax +358 10 3666 735
e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
Die Bundesbeauftragte für den Datenschutz und die Informationsfreiheit
Husarenstraße 30
53117 Bonn
Tel. +49 228 997799 0; +49 228 81995 0
Fax +49 228 997799 550; +49 228 81995 550
e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
The competence for complaints is split among different data protection supervisory authorities in Germany.
Competent authorities can be identified according to the list provided under here
Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens
Prins Clauslaan 60
P.O. Box 93374
2509 AJ Den Haag/The Hague
Tel. +31 70 888 8500
Fax +31 70 888 8501
e-mail: email@example.com
Postboks 8177 Dep.
0034 Oslo
Tel: +47 22 39 69 00
e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
Agencia de Protección de Datos
C/Jorge Juan, 6
28001 Madrid
Tel. +34 91399 6200
Fax +34 91455 5699
e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
Drottninggatan 29
5th Floor
Box 8114
104 20 Stockholm
Tel. +46 8 657 6100
Fax +46 8 652 8652
e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
The Information Commissioner's Office
Water Lane
Wycliffe House
Tel. +44 1625 545 745
e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com


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I can no longer edit my own posts for spelling, clarity or updated information. I now only have the option to delete them.
Unless the edit option was being abused in some way, please bring it back!
(I also cannot paste text into my posts (message field) on this website although I can copy and paste into the title field or the link fields or any text fields on virtually any other website.)
Sometimes we lock topics if we suggest that opening a support ticket is the best method to get an issue resolved. Are you able to edit the post here?
Hi Matthew,
As of approximately 2-3 days ago, I can no longer see the option to edit
any of my replies. Where there used to be an edit or delete option, now I only see the trash can icon to delete the reply. I
also can no longer see the "edit this topic" button (which used to
appear at the top of the thread) to edit threads that I create.
-Mike (videoscribe user)
Hi Mike,
Nothing has changed from our end, I have logged a ticket with Freshdesk, the hosts of our forum, to enquire why this might have happened. We will reinstate the ability for users to edit their forum posts if it is possible.
I have received the following from Freshdesk:
Hi Matt,
Thanks for writing to Freshdesk.
The edit button was disabled in forums from this week and this change is made to the product to reduce spam. I'm afraid, The edit button is not going to be available for now.
However, The delete option should be available, So they can delete the post and post again if needed.
Hope this helps.


text: "Unfortunately, the Israeli health system does not interest the average politician," Israel Medical Association chairman Dr. Leonid Eidelman wrote on Monday in a position paper three weeks before the 19th Knesset election."The old lady [now lying in a bed in the hospital corridor] is not the same old lady, but the corridor is the same. The number of hospital beds per capita still puts Israel way behind the developed world; the health basket [of medicines and technologies] cries out for proper expansion and the medical staff are overwhelmed by the burden," Eidelman said.He added that by comparison, the health system is a prime public issue in the US."Despite its great importance, the health field has not been prominent or even explicitly mentioned in any election campaign since the establishment of the state," he said.In fact, the head of the Knesset's Health Lobby, Dr. Rachel Adatto – a Kadima MK, joined The Tzipi Livni Party but was placed No. 16 on the candidates list, probably too low for her to enter the next Knesset.The IMA sent a 12-page document explaining the critical issues facing the health system to all the parties running in the election.They include the need to increase the number of medical (and nursing) students; continuing to invest in medical infrastructure in the periphery; properly budgeting the four public health funds with more Treasury money in addition to health taxes; annually increasing the health basket by an automatic 2 percent; strengthening public medicine, with supplementary health insurance policies allowed for use in public hospitals as well as private ones; reforming the psychiatric system; and promoting reform in geriatric nursing care.The IMA document also called on the government to more vigorously discourage violence against medical staffers, and to promote prevention of disease, and health education.