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Gutierrez Energy Management Institute
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The Gutierrez Energy Management Institute (GEMI) was developed as a resource specifically for the energy industry through the University of Houston C. T. Bauer College of Business.
The journey began in 2001 when Arthur Warga was appointed dean of Bauer College. A part of his vision was to engage the energy industry, an important part of the Houston and world economies. The center evolved to offer innovative offerings, including certificate programs focused on energy, as well as numerous symposia and roundtable discussions held yearly.
Now under the leadership of Dean Latha Ramchand, Bauer College is Houston's resource for education, business solutions and resources related to energy. GEMI has grown to include public policy and law components in addition to its focus on business.
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Eric Marlon Bishop (born December 13, 1967), professionally known as Jamie Foxx, is an American actor, singer-songwriter, stand-up comedian, and talk radio host. As an actor, his work in the film Ray earned him the Academy Award and BAFTA Award for Best Actor as well as the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a musical/comedy. He is also a Grammy Award winning musician, producing three albums which have charted highly on the Billboard 200: Unpredictable, which topped the chart, Best Night of My Life and Intuition.
Born in Terrell, Texas, Foxx was raised by his mother's adoptive parents. He performed in high school and was awarded with a scholarship to United States International University. In his twenties, Foxx began performing stand-up at comedy clubs, and eventually joined the cast of In Living Color in 1991; this exposure helped him land film roles and star in his own sitcom, The Jamie Foxx Show. He released his debut album, Peep This, in 1994, but he did not gain significant musical success until 2004 when he was featured in Twista's song "Slow Jamz". Also in 2004, Foxx played critically acclaimed roles in the films Collateral and Ray. He released his second album, Unpredictable, in 2005, which was helped by his collaboration on Kanye West's number-one single "Gold Digger". His third album Intuition was released in 2008 and was anchored by the single "Blame It". Foxx released his fourth studio album, Best Night of My Life, in 2010.
Foxx was born as Eric Marlon Bishop on December 13, 1967, in Terrell, Texas. He is the son of Louise Annette Talley Dixon and Darrell Bishop. Foxx was abandoned seven months after birth, and was subsequently adopted and raised in Terrell by his mother's adoptive parents, Estelle and Mark Talley. Terrell was a racially segregated community at the time. Foxx had a strict Baptist upbringing and began piano lessons at the age of five by his grandmother's orders. As a teenager, he was a part-time pianist and choir leader in Terrell's New Hope Baptist Church. Jamie also was a good dancer.


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Maine State Police say one man was killed and a woman wounded in a shooting Monday morning at this home on Route 220 in Waldoboro.
WALDOBORO — Detectives returned with a search warrant to a home at 2177 Friendship Road on Tuesday morning, which was the scene of a deadly shooting over the weekend.
One man died and his girlfriend was recovering from a gunshot wound to the face Tuesday.
Maine Department of Public Safety spokesman Stephen McCausland said Tuesday that investigators believe one of the two victims was the shooter. No one has been arrested or charged in connection with the shooting, which was reported about 9:30 a.m. Monday.
"There was no one else involved in the shooting," McCausland said.
McCausland said other than the search of the home, investigators are counting on an interview with the surviving shooting victim, 25-year-old Arlene Lawless, who is at Maine Medical Center in Portland. Lawless had not yet been able to talk with investigators by midday Tuesday, McCausland said.
Norman P. Benner, 34, of Waldoboro was found dead in the home by his family members Monday morning. He and Lawless, who also was found Monday, rented the home and lived there with its owner. McCausland said investigators believe the shooting happened sometime over the weekend and that no one other than Benner and Lawless, who were dating, was involved.
Authorities said Monday that they expect Lawless to survive her injuries.
Police have interviewed homeowner Jeremy McPhee, who lived there with the two victims but was not home over the weekend, McCausland said. McPhee is not a suspect, he said.
McCausland said the autopsy of Benner's body was under way, but that no results were expected Tuesday. State police are working with Waldoboro police and Lincoln County sheriff's departments to investigate the circumstances surrounding the incident.


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Brad Paisley and Carrie Underwood Preview Lots of Laughs in 2013 CMA Awards Commercial
There's nothing like a good promo for the 2013 CMA Awards to get us psyched up for country music's biggest night! And hosts Carrie Underwood and Brad Paisley already have us laughing in a new promo commercial for the event.
The spot begins with some of the most hilarious bits from their previous five years of hosting the event, and a lot of them consist of Paisley interrupting Underwood and hamming it up for the camera with his top-notch sense of humor -- which he does so well.
Then, the stars are seen tirelessly preparing for the CMA Awards, rehearsing, standing in front of green screens and bickering like a brother and sister. At one point, the 'I Can't Change the World' singer looks at Underwood and says, "We're like weird twins."
We'd definitely agree. It's almost uncanny how they play off of each other flawlessly, evoking lots of laughs in this short video and having tons of fun in the process.
"I can't wait, it's going to be so much fun," says Paisley, as his partner in crime adds, "How are we going to beat last year's monologue?"
In addition to rehearsing, fans get a glimpse of the wardrobe. Paisley's outfits in the promo consist mostly of black suits and a white cowboy hat, but the 'Blown Away' hitmaker stuns in a slew of gorgeous dresses. It wouldn't be a country music show without lots of outfit changes, would it?
If you weren't already counting down the days to the 2013 CMAs, you'll probably start after watching the video. With their sixth year of hosting these awards coming up, we're hoping the 47th annual country music party will be the best one yet!
The 2013 CMA Awards air Nov. 6 on ABC.


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Just last week, a former train station connecting Berlin to Dresden found itself converted into a neon-lit space for Nike's aptly titled "Flyknit Experience" – a 1-night only event inviting both industry people and locals alike to lace up a fresh pair of Flyknit Lunar1s and run along an indoor track lined with giant disco balls. As if that weren't enough, the Swoosh shipped over Jenny Sabin's dynamic installation consisting of data from Nike's Fuelband arranged in a distinctly expressive and modern way.
After running a few laps and devouring one too many burgers, we sat down with Ben Shaffer, the man who with his team is largely responsible for Nike's latest innovation, to discuss everything involved in bringing the revolutionary idea from inception to completion. Take a look below for the full interview.
You went from Head of Innovation at Nike Sportswear to Studio Director at the Innovation Kitchen, what were the two different roles like?
Within the Innovation Kitchen we at different times connect into other categories so for a while I was innovation leader for Sportswear which was pretty much acting as the liaison between the Kitchen on a number of projects. I worked on the Hyperfuse and getting that to Sportswear and about 2 years ago I switched over to Studio Director.
There's a number of different directors in the Kitchen so I'm not running the entirety of the Kitchen, but basically it's allowed me to focus on the design side of directing – creative directing – as well as still getting my hands dirty and working on projects such as Flyknit.
Were there any unexpected challenges when you first started working on Flyknit?
Yeah, plenty of challenges. Initially the whole focus was around trying to utilize knitting techniques to mimic what a sock would do for an athlete so the focus was around fit. We chatted it up with different athletes who described what was essentially using a sock in place of a shoe. It got a number of us thinking about ways within the industry we could actually start to mimic that and try to create the structure and durability that we would need in order to make an actual shoe out of it. That's of course where we hit huge challenges because there wasn't anything set up to do that for footwear.
So here we have an inherently dynamic material because it's a bunch of loops of fabric/yarn that come together and we wanted to have areas where it didn't stretch at all. So one of the huge hurdles was getting that structure in. At the time we were developing Flywire (which debuted back at the Beijing Olympics), and while we were developing that one we said well, we're using yarn here, why can't we just do some thicker braided cables with stronger yarn and find a way to have it channeled through the knit and have that knitted out?
We had a lot of play in that area about how we could embed and get cables throughout a knit fabric. Once we had that then all of a sudden we transitioned from having something that's not just a nice knitted pattern, but something that's really dynamic. This is because you've got static areas that don't stretch at all but in-between you've got areas that can move. Having that really allowed us to dramatically adjust the function from one area of the shoe to another.
Flyknit is often referred to as a technology as opposed to just a new line of footwear, where else do you see the technology being used in the future? Can you imagine other practical uses for it?
Yeah absolutely. As a technology it's an enabler for us to go after that unique fit, that unique experience within "right-now" running. Outside of just running product, we're able to engineer at a much more detailed level and see which areas have various functionalities. There's tons of benefits not only in other sports, but in other pieces.
Knitting in itself is a very simple thing, it's been around for hundreds of thousands of years, and basically it's going back and looking at it from the core of the material. By using knitting methods there's a lot of opportunity out there to see what we can do.
It's interesting too. Even at Nike, some of the things we're doing within footwear is helping inspire apparel to rethink things. So there's a fun back and forth which is one beautiful thing about just moving the needle anywhere. In any industry, when you start to pull knowledge from elsewhere and try to match things that aren't necessarily meant to be together – a sock shoe for instance! It's not something that you'd normally put together but the results are something really intriguing that have definitely changed how we've approached footwear. Of course you'll be seeing a lot of interesting things coming out in the next few years.
Flyknit went through 195 major reiterations before arriving at the final product, do most new models go through that rigorous of a process?
Most new ones don't, but we were developing so many different entities so as we went through round after round, we were learning what we could do, what type of yarns we needed, and what type of fabrics did certain things for us. Certain things didn't feel right so we'd go back to the drawing board, or maybe tweak what we had, but all those different iterations were to gain knowledge.
Also, I think it's important in design or for anything you're doing that's new to be iteration after iteration because in the end you'll always make a much better product.
How did the construction method affect the color design process?
It dramatically affected it! You're now playing with yarn that has one color and then you intertwine it with a different colored yarn and the textures are different in one area versus another so the visual starts to morph and do some amazing things. It certainly had us rethink what that means. When we think about all the things that can be done in the sweater world for instance, or just knitting in general, there's so much potential, so it's dramatically changed how we look at and do color, and it continues to amaze us the more we play with it.
Flyknits have made their way from the track and have become hot on the streets, is there anything in particular you attribute that to?
I think the uniqueness about Nike is that we make products for the athlete, for high-level performance; people often appreciate that and start to sport what is high performance in different contexts. A really good example of that is when you look at the car industry for instance, the one car you're probably most aspirational towards, whatever that is, more than likely was designed to be a high-level performance product. So if we are smart to the core of that, some of these things will end up filtering through to street culture.
The Flyknit was named one of Time's Best Inventions of 2012 in large part due to its innovative construction method, is there still room for improvement at this point?
There's always plenty of room for improvement; we're always very critical of ourselves and trying to move the needle at every point. There's plenty of things I think we would do a little bit differently, now that we've had another year or two to dig deeper into the process. Building on this is what we do and that's been Nike all along. We keep building, building, and building on our innovations and always assume there's something we can improve on since nothing is ever perfect.
There's a saying at Nike that there's never a finish line and that saying really holds true. With innovation we're constantly looking to do it better and bring out better products.
What's been your favorite project to work on at Nike?
You know I have to admit I really liked working with Flyknit. It's been a blast because it was just a couple of us a number of years back playing around and hoping this would turn into something unique. It's been able to blossom and grow, and the uptake has been equally exciting from those that are elite-level runners to those that are a part of street culture. It's really complementary to that and it makes all the burdens and challenges so much more rewarding when we're able to overcome them. So it's definitely Flyknit for now.
When do you decide to pursue an idea that may at first seem far-fetched and when do you decide to scrap it?
Well there are plenty of ideas sitting around because it's not the right time or the technology isn't there yet. Whenever we start to get somewhere interesting, like putting a new shoe on a runner's foot and hearing "this feels amazing," then we know, we've got to go all in and make this happen.
It's a tough moment because we are constantly debating that with a number of projects – is it right, is it relevant, is this the right time? Sometimes I'm sure we haven't made the best decisions and things came out too early, but time will tell for us. We bring out stuff a lot of times that didn't make it six years ago but now actually seem a lot more relevant. It's amazing how things are constantly evolving depending on the manufacturing processes or just the culture or expectations and desires of runners and athletes. It's a funny one, you never know exactly when it's perfectly right.


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Two Penn State lacrosse student-athletes -- junior goalie Austin Kaut (Morton, Pa.) and sophomore attack Maggie McCormick (Eldersburg, Md.) -- were named Tewaaraton Award Nominees Friday (April 26) evening. Each student-athlete is one of 25 members on the respective men's and women's lists, which recognize the best players in college lacrosse. Penn State is one of just eight schools to feature a men's and women's candidate on the two lists.
Kaut finds himself among the distinguished elite for the second straight season, helping to form the second-best defense in the nation. He has posted a 7.08 goals-against average, second in the nation, and a .624 save percentage, good for third in the country. Kaut has saved 10 or more shots nine times this season with three games of 16 saves. In those games with 10 or more saves, Penn State is 8-1.
Kaut has helped guide the Nittany Lions to 10-game winning streak, 12-3 overall record and 7-0 in the Colonial Athletic Association. Kaut has been especially effective in the past six weeks, posting a 5.32 GAA and .714 save percentage in the past eight games. During his three years in Happy Valley, Kaut has won 26 games, saved 511 shots and has a lifetime goals-against average of 7.75. His career save percentage is .614.
One of 25 women's lacrosse players nominated for the award, McCormick has helped lead the sixth-ranked Nittany Lion women's lacrosse team to an 11-5 overall record and 4-2 conference mark as Penn State clinched a share of its first ALC regular-season championship.
During McCormick's breakout 2013 campaign, the Eldersburg, Md., native leads Penn State in goals (39), assists (30) and points (69) and ranks 12th in the country in points per game (4.6), 13th in points (69) and 19th in assists (30). McCormick has recorded at least one point in all 15 games and has led or tied for the team lead in scoring in all but three games.
The attacker has set numerous career highs during the season, including goals, points, caused turnovers, goals in a game and assists in a game. The sophomore netted a personal-best six goals in a 13-12 victory against James Madison and notched a career-high five assists in a 16-9 triumph against Duquesne. McCormick also collected her 100th career point against Drexel March 22.
The second-year player is the fourth Nittany Lion women's lacrosse player to be nominated for the award since 2003 and the second in as many years (Dana Cahill).
Penn State, Maryland, Syraucse, North Carolina, Johns Hopkins, Duke, Loyola and Notre Dame are the other programs that have a male and female nominee. The two lists of 25 candidates will be pared down to a finalists' list of five on May 9. The 13th annual Tewaaraton Award will be presented on May 30 at the Smithsonian Institute's National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C.


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It was after reading that quote last year, that I had a light bulb moment about my role as a working mother. This is what I wrote at the time on my other blog:
For so long, I've prayed and anguished over not being a stay at home mom. It's what I feel called to do. I didn't understand why God would place this yearning on my heart to mother a large family but not see fit for me to serve them at home. Why do I have to live with one foot in both worlds? How would I ever reach my true calling?
But this morning, I realized my calling isn't necessarily some future event in which through God's grace I will become united with later. It's not out there, it's not when the money is right or when I find the right job. My calling is RIGHT NOW! Where I am right now - as a working wife and mother - is where God has called me to be. I'm releasing the guilt I've felt in the past. I'm releasing the anger over not being able to change my situation. I'm going forth embracing my life as it is and praising God all the while.
It's not giving up on a dream or passively letting life happen to me. It's accepting God's current will for my life. Where he wants me TODAY.
For those of you who are wrestling with feeling like you are not the wife or mother you should be because your current situation finds you working outside of your home, BLOOM WHERE YOU ARE! Take on your role as working home keeper and forget all those voices that say you can't just because you earn a paycheck outside of the home. And when balancing both gets rough, stand firm in the promise that we can do all things through Christ who strengthens us. I choose to believe that includes both keeping my house clean and working full-time :)


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Is it time to admit that Rilo Kiley is never, ever getting back together?
Sure seems that way. Nearly six years after the release of its last studio album, the L.A. band announced Monday that it's preparing a disc of rarities for release through bassist Pierre de Reeder's label, Little Record Co. "RKives," due April 2, will contain previously unreleased songs along with demos, B-sides and remixes, including a version of "Dejalo" that reportedly features the rapper Too $hort.
In a statement, Rilo Kiley said the 16-track set will also feature "artwork lovingly designed by the band with a rich mix of personal photos, collages and hand-written lyrics."
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Sounds an awful lot like a swan song, right?
Led by singer (and former child actor) Jenny Lewis, Rilo Kiley made a string of excellent records throughout the first half of the 2000s, culminating in "Under the Blacklight" in 2007. (Watch the video for that album's "Silver Lining" below.)
Yet guitarist Blake Sennett has spoken in recent years about fraying relationships within the group, and none of the members has lacked for outside activity of late: Sennett fronts the Elected; De Reeder put out a solo album; drummer Jason Boesel plays in JJAMZ; and Lewis formed the duo Jenny & Johnny with her boyfriend, Johnathan Rice.
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She'll also serve as a member of the Postal Service on that group's upcoming reunion tour, which launches April 9 in Reno and will include performances at both weekends of Coachella.
Still, Lewis told BuzzFeed last month that "you can never shut the door on anything," adding, "There are so many songs that I didn't want to play for so many years, but then they kind of come back around and they become relevant again."
We look forward to the inevitable it's-not-a-reunion reunion to come.
Fall Out Boy back in action with new single, album, tour
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Make SK-II the must-have "brand for me" for young working women who love all things cool and exciting.
€ 7,500
To young working women today, skincare is not just a product; it's a lifestyle choice and they pay close attention to what they choose because it is an extension of their personality. They love cool and exciting new products in 'gotta-have-it' designs that stand out among other products on shelf. SK-II wants to revamp their Limited Edition packs with even cooler and more exciting designs that young working women will love
Can you reinvent SK-II Limited Edition packaging that's interesting and surprising, that will stop young working women in their tracks and get them excited about making a purchase?
Format: Presentation of your Packaging Ideas in a PDF Format (4 pages).


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Name: Mary
Department: Enrollment
title: Events Coordinator/Orientation and Campus Events;
formerly, I was the Jacksonville Commitment College Adviser at Terry Parker
High School
do you do?
Plan and coordinate events for
prospective and admitted UNF students
at UNF: Two
is your favorite thing about working at UNF?
I would have to say the enthusiasm
of UNF students, especially the Swoop Squad! They are amazing in welcoming and
conducting tours for prospective and admitted students and their parents.
your favorite UNF-related memory?
Presenting the Jacksonville
Commitment scholarships to Terry Parker seniors at the senior awards night. I
was so proud of each student!
are you most passionate about?
I am most passionate about teaching
and counseling students.
person had the greatest impact on your life?
My dad was a high school teacher
and summer entrepreneur. The restaurant business in Ocean City, N.J. gave our
family the opportunity to be at the shore while my brother and I worked in the
business and saved our money for college. I am grateful to my dad for
developing in me a work ethic at an early age and establishing a "college-going
culture" in our home.
us about your family.
My husband, Chris, and I have been
married for 25 years. We have two sons: Paul recently graduated from Stanton
and will attend Georgetown and row for the Hoyas, and David will be a
sixth-grader at Landon Middle School.
you could choose any other career, what would it be and why?
I'd love a career in the fashion
industry, designing and creating.
would you like to do when you retire?
Travel and spend all my summers in
Ocean City, N.J. and enjoy time with friends and family.
is the best thing you ever won?
The approval of my third grade
students when I taught elementary school. They would make me feel like a
celebrity every day!
band(s)/musician(s) would perform the soundtrack to your life?
The Eagles — very '70s.
is your favorite fictional character? What makes them your favorite?
Elizabeth Bennett in Pride and Prejudice; she is true to her
values and is a woman ahead of her time.
you won the lottery, what would do with the money?
I would take my family and friends
on a fabulous trip, donate to my church, establish a local college scholarship
fund for high school students and fund a community rowing program for at-risk
you were not working at UNF, what would you be doing?
I would be volunteering in our
Duval County schools and mentoring students.
is your favorite way to blow an hour?
I'd like to sit in my beach chair with
my toes in the water on a summer day at Atlantic Beach.
you were asked to paint a picture about anything you wanted, what would you
I would paint a field of flowers in
the south of France.
was the best money you ever spent? My collection of Italian pottery. The colors
are so vibrant!
there a piece of technology that you just couldn't live without?
Probably my new iPhone 4 that my
boys selected for me when we recently had to upgrade our phones. I'm having fun
with it!
is the proudest/happiest moment of your life?
When our sons, Paul and David were
us something that would surprise people to know about you:
I cheered for the Jacksonville
University Dolphins basketball team and was a coxswain for the crew team during
my freshman year at JU.
was the first concert you ever attended, and what was the most recent concert
you attended?
It was Billy Joel on campus at JU
in the Swisher Gym. The most recent was the Fourth of July concert at my
church, Riverside Presbyterian.
is the most famous person you ever met?
Donald Trump and Marla Maples (in
church, believe it or not).
us something about you that even your friends don't know:
As a child, I was painfully shy. When
I was eight years old, my dad gave me the job of hostess and cashier at our
summer business so that I would begin talking to people. It worked!
do you hope to accomplish that you have not done yet?
I'd like to continue learning in my
field of education and counseling. That might include a doctoral degree.
Last book read: The Help
Brooks College of Health
Cynthia Cummings recently spoke at the
International Nurse Educator Conference in Baltimore, Md. on "From simulation
to practice, what nurse educators are looking for in practice readiness."
Cummings also gave a presentation of "What can be learned from clinical simulation" at
the International Association of Clinical Simulation in San Antonio, Tex.
Coggin College of Business
Accounting and Finance: Dr. John B. MacArthur, Harriet
Stranahan and Robert E. Houmes' paper
titled,"The operating leverage
impact on systematic risk within a context of choice: An analysis of the
U.S. trucking industry," has been accepted for publication in Managerial Finance.
Management: Drs. Jay
Coleman, Robb Frankel and Yemisi Bolumole's paper titled
"Benchmarking Individual Publication Productivity in Logistics" was published
in Transportation Journal.
Dr. Jay Coleman's paper titled
"Identifying the 'Players' in Sports Analytics Research," was published in Sports Analytics Research.
International Business: Drs. Jeff Michelman, Bobby Waldrup and Melanie GIlman
published "Internal Control and Accounting Systems Documentation: A Case Study"
in The Journal of Business Case Studies.
College of Arts & Sciences
José A. Jiménez and colleagues
published an article entitled "Real-time Optical
Microspectroscopy and Activation Energy of AgNanoparticle Growth in Thin SiO2 Films" in the online
journal Physics Procedia. The research was completed at New College of
Florida and published after he joined the chemistry faculty at UNF.
and Criminal Justice: Dr. Jeremy G. Carter had a report
published by the National Institute of Justice within the U.S. Department of
Justice. The title is "Understanding the Intelligence Practices of State,
Local, and Tribal Law Enforcement Agencies."
and Anthropology: Dr. Jenny M. Stuber gave an invited talk
at the University of Iceland in June. The title of her talk was "Inside the
College Gates: Education as a Social and Cultural Process."
Dr. David Jaffee presented "General Education in
Hong Kong: Contradictions, Tensions and Strategies of Implementation" and
"Developing a General Education Curriculum for Vocational-oriented
Undergraduate Programmes" with Catherine Chiu at the International Conference
on General Education and University Curriculum Reform in Hong Kong in June.
College of Computing, Engineering &
Management: Dr. Mag Malek served as an
Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) competition judge for all American
contractors in our regional area. Project competition categories were
commercial, industrial, renovations, green construction and project of the
year. Projects ranged from less than $5 million to more than $250 million
and included overseas construction.
Engineering: Jeffrey Lam, Dr. Susan Y. Vasana and Dr. Zornitza Prodanoff published their
paper, "Preserving Useful Info While Reducing Noise of Physiological Signals
Using Wavelet Analysis," in the Proceedings of the 6th International Conference
on Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering in May. Also, Vasana served as the
session chair on bio-signal processing and analysis at the 6th International
Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering (iCBBE2012).
Asai Asaithambi completed ABET Program Evaluator Accreditation training for
Computer Science in May and Asaithambi presented a talk, "Teaching Computing in
a Cultural Context to Native Americans," at the International Journal of Arts
and Sciences' Multidisciplinary Conference at Harvard University in late May.
Dr. Bob
Roggio participated in the 2012 International Intercollegiate Programming
Contest World Finals in Warsaw, Poland in early June where 112 three-person
programming teams from colleges and universities around the world pitted their
skills in an intense five-hour programming contest. The 2012 contest was hosted
by the University of Warsaw and sponsored by IBM.
Karthikeyan Umapathy presented his findings from the Digging into Human
Rights Violations research project in a panel presentation to faculties and
students of Faculty of Information and Media Studies at Western University in
London, Canada in June. Umapathy also took part in series of meetings with
experts from Western University on the topic of natural language processing,
computational linguistics, machine learning, visual analytics and user-centered
systems design.
College of Education & Human
Leadership, School Counseling and Sport Management:
Dr. Rebecca A.
Schumacher was elected President-Elect of the Florida School Counselor
Association. On the national level, she was recently selected as a School
Counselor Educator Coalition Fellow to participate in The National School
Counselor Educator Coalition supported by the National Centerfor
Transforming School Counseling and MetLife. The focus of the Coalition's work
is educational equity issues for all students and the critical advocacy role of
school counselors and school counselor educators as agents of change. The
coalition's first work meeting took place as a Pre-Conference at the American
School Counselor Association's Annual Convention in Minneapolis, June 23.
Additionally, July 1, she began her term as President of the national
organization, Association for Specialists in Group Work, a division of the
American Counseling Association.
Dr. Luke Cornelius published
and article in the Spring 2012 journal of Educational Considerations, titled,
"English Language Learners and Judicial Oversight: The Progeny of Castaneda."
This article was written with Dr. Lenford Sutton, Alabama State University, and
Robyn McDonald-Gordon, Princeton City Schools, Ohio. Dr. Cornelius recently
attended and presented at the 2012 National Education Finance Conference (NEFC)
in San Antonio, Texas, May 1-4. He presented with UNF doctoral candidate
Richard Birdsall, a paper titled "The Attempt and Failure to Create Multiple
Charter School Authorizers in Georgia." He also presented papers on Trends in
School Finance Adequacy Litigation and on the Impact of the Recent Fiscal
Crisis on Funding for Assistive Technology under IDEA, the latter with former
Georgia student Jennifer Corbett, now a candidate at the University of Alabama.
(The adequacy paper was presented with Spencer Weiler and Ted Brooks of
University of Northern Colorado.)
Student Affairs
Institute for Values,
Community & Leadership: The Institute for Values, Community &
Leadership recently administered UNF's participation in data collection for the
2012 cycle of the Multi-Institutional
Study of Leadership. The MSL is a project of the National Clearinghouse for Leadership Programs and is considered
the pre-eminent study on leadership development in higher education,
incorporating the best of theory and practice in leadership. Dr. John W. Frank of the IVCL is serving as
UNF's co-principle investigator in the study. UNF was one of 83 schools
participating in data collection this past spring. The forthcoming report
will provide an important baseline to chart future assessment of IVCL programs
and the impact it has on student leadership development.
Milestone anniversaries
Congratulations to the following employees who will celebrate a milestone
anniversary at UNF in August:
25 years
Paul Mosley,
Associate University
Librarian, Library
Huel Baker
, Chair, Management
Mary Baron
, Professor, English
20 years
David Fenner, Associate Dean/Professor, Arts and Sciences
15 years
Lynne Carroll, Professor, Public
Rosa De Jorio, Associate Professor, Sociology and Anthropology
Francis, Associate Professor, History
Koegler, Chair/Professor, Philosophy
& Religious Studies
John Sharp, Assistant Director of Systems Engineering, Networking
Reynolds, Administrative Assistant, President's
10 years
Parvez Ahmed, Associate Professor,
Accounting and Finance
England, Coordinator, Florida
Institute Education
Jeffrey Harrison, Associate Professor, Public Health
Nick Hudyma, Associate Professor, Civil Engineering
Karen Patterson, Chair/Associate Professor, Exceptional, Deaf and
Interpreter Education
Chun-Ye Vasana, Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering
Lashawn Smith, Coordinator of Contracts, Grants and Accounting, Office of
Research and Sponsored Programs
Mary Payne, Office Manager, Management
Richard Conte, Instructor, Electrical Engineering
Karene Fabian, Coordinator of Accounting, Controller
Heather Strayer, Law Enforcement Officer, University Police Department
Five years
David Goff, Chair/Professor,
Roberta Neilly, Child Development Teacher, Child Development Resource Center
Troendle, Laboratory Lecturer, Chemistry
Alison Bruey, Assistant Professor, History
Hetrick, Dean, Arts and Sciences
Heuer, Assistant Professor, Art and
Clarence Hines, Assistant Professor, Music
Kate Learch, Coordinator of Academic Support Services, Undergraduate and
International Programming
Brenda Maxey-Billings, Instructor English
Donald Moores, Professor, Exceptional, Deaf and Interpreter Education
Alanna Pharr, Office Manager, Foundations and Secondary Education
Cliff Ross, Associate Professor, Biology
Sherry Shaw, Associate Professor, Exceptional, Deaf and Interpreter Education
Michael Stultz, Instructor, Exceptional, Deaf and Interpreter Education
Brian Thornton, Associate Professor, Communication
Erin Pauls, Coordinator of Marketing and Publications, University
Latasha Scott, Program Assistant, Student Health Services
Christian Orengo, Groundskeeper, Physical Facilities
Justin Cato, Coordinator, Recreation
Kevin McCluney, Coordinator of Academic Support Services, One-Stop Student
K.D. White, Senior Buyer, PurchasingWelcome
The following employees were either hired by UNF or were promoted from OPS
positions since mid-June:Sarah Friswold, Assistant Director,
Residence Life Programming
Holsey, Custodial Worker, Custodial
Choisser, Coordinator of IT Support, Student
Government Business and Accounting Office
William Morgan, Law Enforcement Officer, University Police Department
Pilar Stewart, Office Assistant, Parking
Dawn Wessling, Staff Interpreter, Exceptional, Deaf and Interpreter Education
Brown, Custodial Worker, Custodial
Buzogany, Assistant Volleyball Coach,
Scott Kidd, Law Enforcement Officer, University Police Department
David King, Library Services Specialist, Library
Kelly Harrison, Director, Professional Development and Training
Monteagudo, Director, University
Counseling Center
Bornemeier, Police Communications
Operator, University Police Department
Morrell, Custodial Worker, Custodial
George Toomer, Custodial Supervisor, Custodial Services
Great job
The following employees were promoted in late June and early July.
Atkinson, Assistant Director, Fine Arts
Cintron, Office Manager, University
Crabtree, Assistant Director of
Development, Intercollegiate Athletics
LeGros, Office Manager, Nutrition and
Whitney Meyer, Coordinator, Alumni Services
McLeland, Associate Librarian, Library
The following faculty members were either approved for
tenure and promoted to associate professor or promoted to full professor during
the recent Board of Trustees meeting.
Approved for
tenure and promoted to associate professor
Vanessa Cruz, Art and Design, Arts and Sciences
Jennifer Hager, Art and Design, Arts and Sciences
Paul Karabinis, Art and Design, Arts and Sciences
Donovan, English, Arts and Sciences
Alina Raluca
Dumitru, Mathematics and Statistics,
Arts and Sciences
Kening Wang, Mathematics and Statistics, Arts and Sciences
Brian Fisak, Psychology, Arts and Sciences
Lian An, Economics and Geography, Coggin College of Business
John White, Foundations and Secondary Education, Education and Human
Chris Janson, Leadership, School Counseling and Sport Management, Education and Human ServicesPeter Magyari, CAMS, Brooks College of HealthConnie Roush, Nursing, Brooks College of Health
Promoted to
full professor
Christie, Nutrition and Dietetics,
Brooks College of Health
Michele Moore, Public Health, Brooks College of Health
Anthony Rossi, Biology, Arts and Sciences
Brian Thorton, Communication, Arts and Sciences
Adel Boules, Mathematics and Statistics, Arts and Sciences
Andes Gallo, Economics and Geography, Coggin College of Business
Dag Naslund, Management, Coggin College of Business
Schnusenberg, Accounting and
Finance, Coggin College of Business
Bobby Waldrup, Accounting and Finance, Coggin College of Business
The University would also like to congratulate the following
employees who were promoted to department chairs for the 2012-2013 year.
Daniel Moon, Biology, Arts and Sciences
Closmann, History, Arts and Sciences
Randy Tinnin, Music, Arts and Sciences
Heartfelt well wishes in their new endeavors for the following employees, who
left UNF in late June and early July:
Nakul Datre, Coordinator of Research Program Services, Civil
Dinuzzo, Director, Counseling Center
Idania Gropper, Director, Professional Development Training,
Lisa Haggerty, Assistant Director, Small Business Development Center
LaVel Heintz, Coordinator for Residence Life, Residence Life Programming
Lindsay McKim, Mental Health Counselor, Counseling Center
Paul Riel, Director of Housing for Residence Life University Housing
Robin Rutledge, Laboratory Manager, Biology
Wells, Residence Life Coordinator,
University Housing
John Belanger, Police Communications Operator, University Police
Mary Bowen, Admissions Evaluator, Enrollment Services Processing Office
Alecia Kanaby, Police Communications Operator, University Police
Jessica Soto, Program Assistant, University Housing
Congratulations to...
Sandie Loach, who was recently married to Gary Clayton Miller in a private
wedding ceremony at the Ft. Caroline Baptist Church with Pastor Ricky Powell
Saturday, June 23.


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Back to the Grind: 5 Great Coffee Grinders
If there's one obstacle between you and your coffee it's how to get beans dissolved into water, and without a coffee grinder on your side, you're going to lose the battle. Though there are a lot of lazy-man's-beliefs about what's suitable for home coffee brewing, there's one essential truth: grinding fresh, and grinding in a good coffee grinder, is perhaps the single most important thing you can do to make your good coffee taste great.
"Ground coffee is not just coffee ground up," says barista and grinder engineer Michael Elvin of Olympia Coffee Roasters. "You need to have the right fineness/coarseness to get a good extraction. If it's too fine for the method of brewing, your coffee will be harsh and medicinal. Too coarse, your coffee will be thin and more like tea than coffee."
So whether you're still wed to the idea of months-ago-ground coffee in vacuum-tight tins, or if you proudly grind at home with a blade grinder, or run it through the giant machine at the supermarket (you know, the oily behemoth that smells like Irish Cream blend?), you'll benefit from at least a little of the science behind why grinding fresh and grinding evenly are so critical. You've heard the preaching, but it's true: a conical burr grinder is the only real way to ensure even particle size, and any other whirly-blade mechanism will offer uneven results at best.
And though there are certainly those times for all of us (tropical vacation, sleeping roommates) we'll feel the need to grind ahead (Elvin suggests that when traveling, you buy small amounts of coffee at shops en route and have them grind it for your brewer) your coffee will never have as much flavor than it does when grinding right before you brew. Alright, the basics dispensed with, let's look at some of the best choices on the market for you to start dropping holiday hints about before it's too late.
1. Baratza Virtuoso I frequently recommend Baratza's wide range of reliable, durable home grinders. The Virtuoso falls in the middle of their spectrum of "best you can afford" to "whoa, that's a lot of money". With a sturdy, weighted base, this machine feels like the powerful device a grinder should, and its variety of grind settings (from espresso to super-coarse for French Press) make it versatile enough for most home needs. Burrs are easy to clean (and also cheap and easy to replace, when the time comes) and customer service is excellent. An all around no-nonsense grinder that does a great job with small countertop footprint. Can be adapted (with extra items to purchase) to take a portafilter for home espresso baristas.
2. Hario Skerton What's that you say? Living off the grid? Even with easy access to alternating current, the Hario's iconic Skerton hand-mill is a fantastic way to get your coffee beans into smaller pieces. As hand grinders go, it's one of the best—small but with a good capacity in the grinds chamber, reasonably priced, and its durable ceramic burr set produces consistent and evenly-sized coffee grounds at a variety of settings. Adjusting the size of your grind will take a moment of getting-to-know-your-grinder time, but it's an easy machine to learn and love. The jar is designed to be held between the knees while grinding, for maximum ergonomics, and the bottom glass receptacle doubles as a storage jar that you can keep any excess grounds in for later if you need to.
3. Hario Ceramic Slim Doing the Skerton one better—or smaller anyway—is Hario's other manual grinder, the ceramic slim. This taller, skinnier model is easier to hold in your hand, but can only retain a smaller amount of grinds in its plastic chamber. That said, the chamber's got premeasured doses on it to make your repeated use while on the go that much easier. It's so small and light it makes the ideal travel grinder, fitting harmoniously into an overnight bag next to your Aeropress. This model is also slightly more intuitive to adjust grind size with than the Skerton. With fresh ground coffee this easy to make on the go, finding hot water is suddenly your only obstacle.
4. Baratza Vario A meeting of the supergrinderpowers, this high-end home grinder uses Baratza's ease of use and domestic footprint combined with German grinder pro Mahlkönig's superior ceramic burr set to offer a truly fine prosumer grinder that's as good for espresso as French press—or the more than 200 settings in between. It's portafilter-ready (but has a standard grounds-collecting chamber if you need it) and offers the ability to grind only exactly as much coffee as you want through digital dosing. Unfortunately, you can't remove the whole hopper from the top and swap it out (like in a real coffee shop), but it does almost everything else.
5. Breville Smart Grinder This recent entry into the home or very-slow-cafe marketplace is a real charmer, essentially attacking the Vario market at a more approachable price. Though it offers a much narrower range of grind sizes, it adds technology that automatically recalibrates the amount of a needed coffee dose as you surf for the ideal grind setting. Intuitive and clever, this may be a problem-solver for many geekier home baristas and a sturdy, attractive machine for the casual aficionado set. Hopper comes off for easy swapping, and the little guy also comes portafilter-ready with extra grounds storage containers to boot.
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Going high-tech on the PGA tour
On the first hole of the Travelers Championship, my first PGA Tour event, I have a case of the rookie jitters. I've gone through the training and a practice round.india Updated: Jul 13, 2010 14:22 IST
On the first hole of the Travelers Championship, my first PGA Tour event, I have a case of the rookie jitters. I've gone through the training and a practice round. I feel confident that I'm lined up perfectly on the tee. But I know that if my first stroke goes awry, my entire tournament could be in peril. I need to get off to a perfect start.
And I do. As soon as PGA Tour player John Merrick smashes his drive down the middle of the fairway of the first hole on the TPC River Highlands in Cromwell, Conn., I enter his stroke into my handheld Symbol device. I do the same when Garrett Willis, then Mark Brooks, also find the fairway with their drives. I follow them as they stroll off the tee to scattered applause from fans gathered on the outside of the ropes.
It's not exactly what I pictured as a 10 year-old in my backyard pretending to hit wedges into the 18th green at Augusta. But walking behind three professional golfers at a tournament and recording their every stroke as a ShotLink volunteer is pretty cool nonetheless.
ShotLink, the PGA Tour's statistical system, was launched 10 years ago, and put into full-time use on the tour in 2003. In the past, recording players' scoring metrics was a seriously low-tech affair. Plus, there were only a few metrics scored (like driving distance, greens in regulation and putts). "The walkers used to mark a sheet of paper and hand it to a little old lady by the green of each hole," says Scott Ross, ShotLink's operations head.
In Pictures: High-Tech Golf Gadgets
But no more, thanks to a command center armed with networked computers, 36 lasers strategically placed on tripods throughout the course, and walking scorers who manually input the number of strokes and the type of lies (fairway, green, bunker, rough) into a handheld device. Instead of five or six basic stats, ShotLink provides more than 600. Years after the Bill Jamesian statistical revolution took hold in baseball, it has begun in professional golf, thanks to ShotLink.
Want to know if Tiger is more likely to spray his drives to the right or the left? (Answer: the right.) Or what Phil's scoring average is on par 5 holes? (4.54, second on the tour.) Or how about the number of feet Kenny Perry converted in his putts en route to winning last year's Travelers Championship? (98 feet.) ShotLink will tell you all of that and a lot more.
All of the real-time statistics and scoring generated are piped into PGATour.com and used by Jim Nantz, Nick Faldo and Johnny Miller on TV broadcasts. ShotLink partners with CDW, which provided hardware and software. ShotLink is wholly owned by the tour.
ShotLink is used at every PGA Tour stop, at all World Golf events and at the PGA Championship. (It's not used at the US or British Opens or on the LPGA or Champions Tours.) The tour employs a full-time ShotLink staff of 14 who travel to tour courses a few weeks ahead of an event. There they do GPS surveys of the courses, set up networks, position the lasers and find volunteers to operate them, as well as to walk the courses as scorers.
ShotLink has become a part of the fan and player experience on the course. I watched John Daly overcook an approach shot into the greenside rough on the ninth hole. As he puffed on a smoke, he glanced at the huge LED scoreboard by the green (one of a handful at every PGA Tour event), where he saw that he had a 57% chance of scrambling for a par. Daly seemed pretty nonchalant about that fact as he sauntered to the green. But other pros have begun to use the technology to hone their games. Ian Poulter, J.B. Holmes, Camilo Villegas, Kevin Na and Geoff Ogilvy have all requested their ShotLink data from the tour.
Big-time universities have also gotten involved. MIT has sifted through the stats to devise a new putting metric; Northwestern did a study of the effect superstar players, like Tiger and Phil, have on any given golf field; Wharton demonstrated that pro golfers are more risk-avoidant than the average population.
The Buddy System
All of the stats are fun and useful, but for the average golf fan, ShotLink provides another great opportunity: volunteering to work as a scorer. To prep me for my day on the links, Ross gave me an overview of the system and took me through a practice round. I was outfitted with a Symbol handheld device, a headset (to relay any mishaps to the command center) and a red Travelers volunteer shirt. Then I was off to the first tee.
Luckily I had Buddy Buder there by my side. Buder has been a volunteer for this tournament for the past few decades. He's a tall, garrulous fellow who helped me figure out where to stand (out of the player's sight lines) and when to walk down the fairway (only after the players and their caddies have passed by). After the first few holes, I calmed down a bit and felt at ease. But it helped to know I was in good hands if anything went awry.
I marked every shot and from where on the course it was hit: tee, rough (first cut and deep), bunkers and the green. Life for a ShotLink walker gets a bit more exciting when a player hits a ball out of bounds and re-tees with a provisional ball. After the round, the ShotLink walker enters the scorer's tent with his players and is sometimes asked to read off the scores.
Volunteering for ShotLink's walking duty is a fun and illuminating experience (for volunteering info, go to shotlink.com). You can't help but silently cheer for the players in your group to do well and you get a great feel for each of their personalities--like Mark Brooks, 49, who has had a middle-of-the-pack career highlighted by victory in the 1996 PGA Championship.
He's become sort of the Crash Davis-in-Bull Durham-type now. He spent time walking down the fairway with Willis, 36, and regaled him with tales of rain delays in the early 1980s. Brooks' neck is a dark leathery brown from the years spent walking in the sun, and he sucked on a cigarette on nearly very hole. He was a bit shorter off the tee than the youngsters were, but for the most part he was cannier on and around the greens.
As a volunteer you are right there with the player and his caddy, close enough to see the subtle nods and hear the encouraging murmurs that play a part in that symbiotic relationship (you miss a lot of this interaction during TV coverage, because the announcers often talk right over it). John Merrick, 28, leaned on his caddy for some serious advice on putts and yardage and the slope of the greens. Brooks didn't ask his caddy many questions, but seemed very happy just to have someone carry his bag as he took his walk.
The player's pace is slow enough that recording their shots is fairly easy. In fact, fighting the desire to let your mind wander--you are, after all, walking a beautiful golf course--is the far harder task. All of these guys hit the ball a country mile. All pretty much reached the green in regulation. On regular tour events the tournaments seem to come down to a putting contest. The ability to consistently sink putts from 10 to 15 feet seems to be the magic range for making birdies and avoiding bogeys. By the way, according to ShotLink, the tour pros make 30% of those.
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Iris's Warm Whimsical Space
Name: Iris (4 months)
Location: Park Slope, Brooklyn NY
This room started with the Dasara Curtain I found on sale at Anthropologie before I was even pregnant. The print appealed to my sense of whimsy and my love of bright colors. I knew it would be perfect for a boy or a girl.
We didn't move into our place until a month before I was due, so everything had to come together in the frenzied last weeks leading up to Iris's birth. Thanks to the tireless efforts of my mom who flew across the country to help (and basically unpacked everything!) it got finished in time.
My main goal for this room was to create a mood that was playful and spunky. I figure most new parents make a lot of mistakes in choosing functional furniture, so I didn't stress too much about that part. As long as I got the feel right, the rest of the room could evolve.
For furniture in this small (8'x13') room, I chose a mini crib to start. That way we could see how our family's sleep patterns would develop without a full-scale commitment. I picked a changing table from JC Penney with a removable top so that Iris could use it as a small bookshelf later. The temporary window seating is a cast-off IKEA cabinet. The side table was a cheap (and great looking!) Urban Outfitters find. The one big splurge was the La-Z Boy rocker/recliner, which some may argue is ugly, but I say comfort wins the day! The room was too small for the daybed I originally envisioned here, so I figured a really comfy recliner would work for tired parents who are taking the night shift with a sick or teething baby. It will be a great size for story time for years to come, and eventually it can transition downstairs into our den.
To echo the curtains, I wanted the walls to have the feel of old parchment without being brown or beige. Benjamin Moore's Whispering Peach had the right warmth I was looking for.
I loved that the curtains allowed me to play with color without being too sweet. The black and white animal prints came from Society6. To frame them, I wrapped the mats of some cheap IKEA frames with fancy, jewel-toned wrapping paper from The Paper Source - one of the few DIY projects I could manage while nine months pregnant. My aunt Debra made a gorgeous orange quilt that fit perfectly with the color scheme. (That with the beautiful animal-themed quilt that my mom made ensures that this girl will never be cold!) My in-laws gave us the flower artwork from an artist in Maine. The rhino and hippo prints are 18th century illustrations I found in a print shop while on vacation this summer. Oh, and you probably recognize the newspaper animal heads, a gift from my mother and also from Anthropologie. They were just too perfect to resist.
While the room is in for lots of changes in the months to come, I feel like it evokes many of the wishes I have for my daughter - that she live a strong, fearless life full of lots of color and adventure.
Thanks, Heather!
(Images: reader Heather)