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Garlands, 2010–2012
Amelia Johnson Contemporary is pleased to present the latest project by Hong Kong-Australian artist
Hiram To, marking the twenty-fifth anniversary of his first one person-exhibition.
Garlands is an unique project for the artist in every
sense, as it is the first time that To is collaborating
with his mother Helen Lai, and a side step from the
artist's oeuvre of politically infused-conceptual art.
Garlands follows from the themes of Garden
District, To's last one person exhibition at the
Goethe-Institut Hong Kong in 2009 where a cast of
real life characters with multiple names and
dubious identities, plans of magic props and
poisonous plant life are merged into mappings
that chart the course of one's life and desires.
In To's Garlands, the artist uncharacteristically
takes on his own family history and the process of
understanding oneself through the earliest
memories of his mother's Doris Day records, and
later, through the character Esther Blodgett / Vicki
Lester as played by the legendary actress Judy
Garland in A Star Is Born.
Building a fictional narrative that crosses into To's
own family experience, he invites his mother to
pose in a series of portraits based on vintage
studio shots of Judy Garland. The completed
work, rendered on a glittered ground, flirts
dangerously with sentimentality. Yet, the images
are beyond the easy definitions of 'drag, ' 'camp,' or 'kitsch'. If sentimentality can be summarized as the
expression of uncomplicated emotions at the expense of reason, these works are the opposite as they
deal with conflicting feelings and memories on a shimmering surface.
A second series, Vessel, presents photographic images of floral arrangements also created by Lai in the
Ikebana style. The images draw upon the artist's childhood visits to his mother's flower arranging class at
the YWCA. To's mother belonged to the first generation of cheongsam wearing-office ladies in Central, a
generation of new 'feminist' women in Hong Kong. Flower arrangements at home would be a feature of
all the festival occasions of To's early years. At the same time, these temporal displays would serve as
totems of time, underpinning the cultural values and psyche of the era. Later on, flowers would become
a business and life career for Lai.
Vessels refers not only to the vases and basins in varying forms and shapes that contained the floral
arrangements; it is also a reference to ourselves as receptacles of learning, where much of the content is
often short-lived or changing, like the plant life they hold. The floral arrangements in the images are not in
full views— cropped to be seen from a particular vantage point— the diffused, Kodakchrome-coloured
photographs have been printed on mirror, effectively masking the silver's reflective ability.
Hiram To is an artist who works in conceptual-based installations. He is also a writer in the visual arts,
popular culture, film and fashion. Currently, he holds a full-time position in corporate communications and splits
his time in art making and writing in fashion and the visual arts. Born in Hong Kong to Chinese parents, Hiram To
lived in Scotland and Australia. He has widely exhibited in Australian public galleries and internationally, with
works acquired by institutions such as the National Gallery of Australia, Powerhouse Museum and the
Queensland Art Gallery. Hiram was invited by Camden Arts Centre in London to exhibit a one-person
exhibition in 1994. The invitation was the first Chinese artist solo show at a British contemporary art museum. The
Winnipeg Art Gallery, the State Gallery of Manitoba in Canada also presented a selected projects survey of
the artist in 2002. He was one of three artists representing Hong Kong at the 52nd Venice Biennale in 2007.
As a curator, he has collaborated with Institute of Modern Art Brisbane, Artspace Sydney, Ipswich Art Gallery
and Next Wave Festival in Australia, and Hong Kongs Goethe-Institut. Since 1995, he has resided in Hong Kong
and worked in communications and journalism. His writings have appeared in South China Morning Post,
Harpers Bazaar Hong Kong, C for Culture, City Magazine, The Standard and many other English and Chinese
language publications.
In 2011, Hiram collaborated with Australian artist Scott Redford on the project For Your Pleasure (Remake /
Remodel). He created Canto 6, a magazine project with Harper's Bazaar Hong Kong with the participation of
Hong Kong vocalist Sandy Lam and other Hong Kong artists, and One Suitcase Per Person, a project with David
Diao and Ken Lum, two of the most important international Chinese artists in the world today.
Founded in 2005 by Amelia Johnson, Amelia Johnson Contemporary has built up an enviable reputation for
presenting carefully curated exhibitions. The gallery is dedicated to exhibiting groundbreaking international
contemporary art in Hong Kong and to promoting young Hong Kong artists through spotlight exhibitions both in
Hong Kong and overseas. The gallery has grown to such an extent that Gallery 2 of Amelia Johnson
Contemporary was established at the start of 2011. Based in an old potter's studio across the street from the
main gallery space, Gallery 2 is an exciting new venue for showcasing site-specific installations and large scale
single works. The gallery has participated in many international art fairs, including CIGE (Beijing), Arco
(Madrid), ShContemporary (Shanghai), The Asian Art Fair (New York) Pulse (Miami) and ART HK (Hong Kong).
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U.S. News & World Report Ranks the SMU Cox MBA Programs Among the Nation's Best
Working Professionals and Full-Time Programs All Receive High Marks
Dallas (SMU) — U.S. News & World Report released today (March 27, 2008) its annual ranking of the nations top graduate programs. SMU Cox is pleased to announce its Professional MBA program (PMBA) moved up three slots from last year to #9 the highest ranked program in Texas.
The Cox Executive MBA program (EMBA) ranked #15. And the Cox full-time MBA ranked #44 tied with Vanderbilt, and the school that moved up on the list more than any other ranked.
"While these rankings support the overall quality of our programs for full-time students and working professionals, we continue to remain focused on academic excellence," said Albert W. Niemi, Jr., dean of the Cox School of Business. "Year after year the bar continues to rise in terms of the quality of a Cox education, and we will stay true to the schools mission by continuing our emphasis on the overall excellence of the program and providing an outstanding experience for our students.
U.S. News conducts its rankings for working professionals through a survey of business school deans and MBA program directors. The full time program is calculated through weighted categories including quality assessment, placement success and student selectivity. Additional information on methodology can be found at http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/grad/rankings/about/faq_meth_brief.php.
Consistently Ranked Among the Best
The U.S. News rankings come on the heels of a fall BusinessWeek release that named the Cox EMBA program #11 worldwide, with students raving about talented faculty, experienced students, cohort system similar to full-time program, and new learning facility. The PMBA program was ranked #13. In addition to its graduate programs, the Cox School prides itself on its prestigious undergraduate BBA program, which was ranked #23 in the nation by BusinessWeek earlier this spring. Cox ranked #4 for highest SAT scores, #2 for ACT, #7 for student satisfaction, #15 for academic quality (the highest in Texas), #19 for sending the most undergraduates to top MBA programs, and #22 for return on investment.
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SMU's Cox School of Business offers a full range of business education programs, including BBA, full-time MBA, Professional MBA (PMBA), Executive MBA (EMBA), Master of Science in Management (MSM), Master of Science in Entrepreneurship, and Executive Education. The school also offers a number of unique resources and activities for students, ranging from its Business Leadership Center (BLC), Caruth Institute for Entrepreneurship, Maguire Energy Institute, and American Airlines Global Leadership Program (AAGLP) to its Associate Board executive mentoring program and an international alumni network with chapters in more than 20 countries. SMU Cox is ranked among the top business schools nationally and internationally by major publications, including BusinessWeek, The Economist, Financial Times, Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, and U.S. News & World Report. For more information on the Cox School, go to www.smucox.com
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human muscle system, the muscles of the human body that work the skeletal system, that are under voluntary control, and that are concerned with movement, posture, and balance. Broadly considered, human muscle—like the muscles of all vertebrates—is often divided into striated muscle (or skeletal muscle), smooth muscle, and cardiac muscle. Smooth muscle is under involuntary control and is found in the walls of blood vessels and of structures such as the urinary bladder, the intestines, and the stomach. Cardiac muscle makes up the mass of the heart and is responsible for the rhythmic contractions of that vital pumping organ; it too is under involuntary control. With very few exceptions, the arrangement of smooth muscle and cardiac muscle in humans is identical to the arrangement found in other vertebrate animals. This article is concerned with those changes that have occurred in the skeletal muscle of human beings as a result of the long evolutionary process that involved the assumption of upright posture. Smooth muscle and cardiac muscle and the physiology of muscle contraction are treated at great length in the article muscle. For descriptions of disorders that affect the human muscle system, see muscle disease.
Evolutionary context
The arrangement of striated muscle in modern humans conforms to the basic plan seen in all pronograde quadrupedal vertebrates and mammals (that is, all vertebrates and mammals that assume a horizontal and four-legged posture). The primates (the order of mammals to which human beings belong) inherited the primitive quadrupedal stance and locomotion, but since their appearance in the Late Cretaceous Period some 65 million years ago, several groups have modified their locomotor system to concentrate on the use of the arms for propulsion through the trees. The most extreme expression of this skeletal adaptation in living primates is seen in the modern gibbon family. Their forelimbs are relatively elongated, they hold their trunk erect, and, for the short periods that they spend on the ground, they walk only on their hind limbs (in a bipedal fashion).
Modern humans are most closely related to the living great apes: the chimpanzee, the gorilla, and the orangutan. The human's most distant relative in the group, the orangutan, has a locomotor system that is adapted for moving among the vertical tree trunks of the Asian rainforests. It grips these trunks equally well with both fore and hind limbs and was at one time aptly called quadrumanal, or "four-handed."
There is little direct fossil evidence about the common ancestor of modern humans, chimpanzees, and gorillas, so inferences about its habitat and locomotion must be made. The ancestor was most likely a relatively generalized tree-dwelling animal that could walk quadrupedally along branches as well as climb between them. From such an ancestor, two locomotor trends were apparently derived. In one, which led to the gorillas and the chimpanzees, the forelimbs became elongated, so, when these modern animals come to the ground, they support their trunks by placing the knuckles of their outstretched forelimbs on the ground. The second trend involved shortening the trunk, relocating the shoulder blades, and, most important, steadily increasing the emphasis on hind limb support and truncal erectness. In other words, this trend saw the achievement of an upright bipedal, or orthograde, posture instead of a quadrupedal, or pronograde, one. The upright posture probably was quite well established by 3 million to 3.5 million years ago, as evidenced both by the form of the limb bones and by the preserved footprints of early hominins found from this time.
Muscles of the lower limb
The major muscular changes directly associated with the shift to bipedal locomotion are seen in the lower limb. The obvious skeletal changes are in the length of the hind limb, the development of the heel, and the change in the shape of the knee joint so that its surface is flat and not evenly rounded. The hind limbs of apes are relatively short for their body size, compared with modern human proportions.
The changes that occurred in the bones of the pelvis are not all directly related to the shift in locomotion, but they are a consequence of it. Bipedality, by freeing the hands from primary involvement with support and locomotion, enabled the development of manual dexterity and thus the manufacture and use of tools, which has been linked to the development in human ancestors of language and other intellectual capacities. The result is a substantially enlarged brain. Large brains clearly affect the form of the skull and thus the musculature of the head and neck. A larger brain also has a direct effect on the pelvis because of the need for a wide pelvic inlet and outlet for the birth of relatively large-brained young. A larger pelvic cavity means that the hip joints have to be farther apart. Consequently, the hip joints are subjected to considerable forces when weight is taken on one leg, as it has to be in walking and running.
To counteract this, the muscles (gluteus minimus and gluteus medius) that are used by the chimpanzee to push the leg back (hip extensors) have shifted in modern humans in relation to the hip joint, so that they now act as abductors to balance the trunk on the weight-bearing leg during walking. Part of a third climbing muscle (gluteus maximus) also assists in abduction as well as in maintaining the knee in extension during weight bearing. The gluteal muscles are also responsible for much of the rotation of the hip that has to accompany walking. When the right leg is swung forward and the right foot touches the ground, the hip joint of the same side externally rotates, whereas that of the opposite side undergoes a similar amount of internal rotation. Both these movements are made possible by rearrangements of the muscles crossing the hip.
The bones of the trunk and the lower limb are so arranged in modern humans that to stand upright requires a minimum of muscle activity. Some muscles, however, are essential to maintaining balance, and the extensors of the knee have been rearranged and realigned, as have the muscles of the calf.
The foot is often but erroneously considered to be a poor relation of the hand. Although the toes in modern humans are normally incapable of useful independent movement, the flexor muscles of the big toe (hallux) are developed to provide the final push off in the walking cycle. Muscles of all three compartments of the modern human lower leg contribute to making the foot a stable platform, which nonetheless can adapt to walking over rough and sloping ground.
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NORMAN — Bill G. Tadlock, 86, of Norman, passed away March 6, 2013. Bill was born Oct. 24, 1926, to Bennett and Emma (Williams) Tadlock in Bokchito.
Services will be 10 a.m. Friday in the First Baptist Church, 211 E. Comanche St. in Norman, with interment at Norman IOOF Cemetery.
He left high school to serve his country in the Pacific Theatre during WWII. He became a platoon leader in the United States Army and was on Okinawa when we bombed Japan and the war ended.
He returned to Norman, where he finished high school. Bill then met and married his wife, Jerry Anne Claxton, with whom he shared 50 wonderful years, raising two sons, Phillip and Mark.
He began his career in the retail grocery business and, after 37 years, retired in 1984. Bill spent quality time with his son, Mark, traveling the country and working on various jobs together. Bill could not sit still after retirement, so he took a job at the University of Oklahoma, where he worked for 10 years in the microbiology lab.
On Aug. 28, 2005, in Norman, Bill remarried Beverly Spears. Bill twice served as the Sooner Lion's Club president and was instrumental in the success of the concessions at the OU football games. Bill loved spending time with his family. Bill was known as being kind and nice to everyone he came in contact with. Even during his illness, Bill's family remembers him never complaining. He never wanted to "put anyone out."
Bill was preceded in death by his parents; former wife, Jerry Anne (Claxton) Tadlock; one son, Phillip Tadlock; brother, Hershel Tadlock; two sisters, JoAnn Lynn and Inez Bowman; and one daughter-in-law, Marcia Lynne Tadlock.
Bill is survived by his wife, Beverly Tadlock; son, Mark Tadlock of Norman; three stepdaughters, Gwen Gough and Don of Moore, Patsy Farrar of Norman and Becky Heeney and Neil of Norman; brother, J.B. Tadlock of Norman; sister, Francille DeBerry of Norman; three grandchildren, Chloe Tadlock, Tyler Tadlock and Jake Tadlock; six stepgrandchildren, Jake Gough and Dawn, Emily Pitchford and Drew, Melissa Marsh, Tiffany Kerley and Jordan, Christain Heeney and Braden Heeney; and a host of other nieces and nephews, family and friends.
Arrangements for Bill Tadlock and his family were placed in the care of the Vice family at Havenbrook Funeral Home in Norman.
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The Southern Stars Symphonic Brass are coordinating two free concerts which will be hosted by the Fairfield Glade United Methodist Church on Friday, Oct. 18. The church is located at 231 Westchester Drive in Fairfield Glade, TN. The USA Southern Territorial Band of the Salvation Army will be performing for these concerts as part of a tour throughout Georgia and Tennessee. The first concert will be at 3:30 p.m. and the second at 7 p.m. and each will be about one hour in duration. While these concerts are free to the public, the coordinator and host expect that the audience for the concerts could exceed the 385 seat capacity of the church. Therefore, the Salvation Army Band has agreed to provide two concerts (similar music selections at each concert) in order to allow as many people as possible to attend and hear this stellar brass band.
The USA Southern Territorial Band has been in existence for 86 years and is a 30-piece brass band, similar to the Southern Stars Symphonic Brass in its instrumentation with all brass instrumentalists and 3-4 percussionists. The Salvation Army has been key in spreading the growth of this unique type of ensemble around the world from its initial birth in the United Kingdom. A review of the band's photographs over the years is a reliable "Who's Who" of prominent Salvationist musicians including many who rose to territorial and national leadership within The Salvation Army. Bandmaster Nick Simmons-Smith (Territorial Music Secretary) began his leadership of the band in January 2009 and is himself from the UK.
The Southern Territorial Band unites a geographically diverse territory made up of 15 states, from Florida, north to Maryland and West Virginia, and west to Texas, Arkansas, and Oklahoma. Members, who travel hundreds of miles to meet together for rehearsals and territorial events only three or four times per year, are Salvation Army officers and soldiers currently serving each week as music and arts ministry leaders in their own local Salvation Army churches. A high caliber of musicianship and a strong motivation for an effective music and arts ministry of worship are hallmarks of these men and women.
Because of the expected audience, a free ticket voucher will need to be obtained in order to guarantee a seat at the concert and to maximize seating utilization. These ticket vouchers can only be obtained by the general public at the following locations: Cumberland Eye Care (Dr. Stuart Galloway offices) on Peavine Road in Fairfield Glade, at the Fairfield Glade United Methodist Church office at 231 Westchester Dr., and at the Palace Theatre on Main Street in Crossville. Tickets will be available for pickup beginning on Monday, Oct. 7.
To ensure that the seating is maximized and available to as many as whom would like to hear this brass band, the following procedure will be in place: (1) a maximum of 4 ticket vouchers can be picked up by a single person, (2) Only take tickets for a single concert, so make a decision on which you want to attend, (3) If you take tickets, please use them. If you later find you can not use them, contact the church office at 484-3473, to inform them so the seats can be released to others who want to attend, and (4) You need to be in your seats 10 minutes prior to the concert. At that time, they will allow people without vouchers to take any open seats.
Dwight Wages, artistic director and founder of the Southern Stars, had this to say about the USA Southern Territorial Salvation Army Band. "The SSSB are pleased to team up with the Fairfield Glade United Methodist Church to bring this outstanding instrumental ensemble to our Crossville/Fairfield Glade area community for these free concerts. This territorial band from the Salvation Army is comprised of the highest caliber musicians from the southern states, and they present 'music for everyone.' Not only will you be impressed with their professionalism and quality of performance, but you will receive the benefit of some inspirational sacred music as well as marches, swing style and soloists from within the band." Dwight added, "This is a unique opportunity to hear one of the top brass bands in North America. If you have heard the Southern Stars in concert, then you can expect the same high quality in these concerts. I highly recommend you take this opportunity to attend one of these free ticketed concerts."
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Rev. Keith E. Terry, of Sanborn, NY, went home to be with the Lord that he loved on Sunday, November 4, 2012, at his residence, under the loving care of his family and Niagara Hospice.
He was born in Sayre, PA, on March 7, 1933, the son of the late Delbert V. and Ruth B. (Romans) Terry.
Mr. Terry graduated from Vestal High School and from the Eastern Bible Institute (now known as Valley Forge Christian College).
He was the founding pastor of what is now called the New Life Worship Center in Barrie, VT, the Assemblies of God Church in both Keene and Claremont, NH, before coming to the Lewiston Assembly of God Church in 1977.
Mr. Terry became the Administrative Assistant with the New York District Assemblies of God from 1989 until 1999. He also served as the Youth and Christian Education Director for the Northern New England District of Assemblies of God.
Mr. Terry enjoyed camping, spending time with his family, especially his grandchildren and great- grandchildren, gardening, and was an avid reader.
He is survived by his wife of 58 years, Jeannette K. (VanValkenburg) Terry; they were married on June 19, 1954; two sons, Keith R. (Danielle) Terry of Carthage, NY; and Kevin D. (Brad White) Terry of Buffalo, NY; two daughters. Linda R.H. (late Charles) Chaney of Carthage, NY; and Melody Joy (Joel) Wilkins of Youngstown, NY; seven grandchildren, Jeremy, John, Amy, Andrew, Alison, Rebecca and Patricia; five great-grandchildren, Abby, Ethan, Raiden, MacKenzie and Roman; also one brother, Stephen E. Terry; two sisters, Olive E. Ray and Barbara R. Terry; a sister-in-law, Susan Terry; and many nieces and nephews. He was the brother of the late Delbert V. Terry, Jr.
The family will be present on Wednesday from 2-4 & 7-9 PM at the RHONEY FUNERAL HOME, 5893 Hoover Road, SANBORN, NY. Funeral services will be held on Thursday, at 11:00 AM at First Assembly of God, 9750 Niagara Falls Blvd., Niagara Falls, NY, with the Rev. Jim Armpriester officiating. Flowers are gratefully declined. Memorials may be made in his name to the First Assembly of God, Missions Funds, 9750 Niagara Falls Blvd., Niagara Falls, NY 14304. Interment in Plainmont Cemetery, East Montpelier, VT.
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Rev. Keith E. Terry, of Sanborn, NY, went home to be with the Lord that he loved on Sunday, November 4, 2012, at his residence, under the loving care of his family and Niagara Hospice.


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MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Gov. Scott Walker has authorized state agriculture officials to amend meat inspection rules and allow Wisconsin's specialty meat plants to sell their products across state lines for the first time.
Currently, only meat from plants inspected by the U.S. Department of Agriculture can be sold across state lines. Amending the state rules will incorporate new federal regulations and allow meat from state-inspected plants to be sold across the border.
The rule changes are subject to a public hearing and need final approval from the Legislature. Wisconsin has about 275 state-inspected meat plants and about 145 federally-inspected plants.
Larger meat producers have been able to ship across state lines for years. Their plants are reviewed by federal inspectors, unlike the smaller plants that are checked by state inspectors.
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3:01pm Wednesday 5th December 2012 in News By Jill Harding
A FAMILY of reindeer, festive Punch and Judy show, seasonal music and storytelling are some of the attractions at Salisbury and South Wilts Museum on Saturday, December 15.
In addition to the reindeer and their red sleigh, there will be handbell ringers from Salisbury Methodist Church, a recorder ensemble, roving entertainers and a Christmas trail with prizes.
"We're really excited about the day. This is the first time we have done a special Christmas event," said museum director Adrian Green. "We want people to experience the fun of the museum and to get into the festive spirit. There's a great line-up of activities that will appeal to all ages.
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Same here. I've been a Chargers fan since the Murph; however, with California in a budget crisis there is no way we're going to put in for a new stadium. If the Chargers move, it'll be a shame, but San Diego will recover quickly. The franchise needs to remember that the team has no dynasty. They have loyal supporters in SD, but without a dynasty, they're a take it or leave it team. And with possible game blackouts, it makes it more frustrating for fans to care after a while. I don't care for the Padres but will root for them as the home team, and it wouldn't hurt my feelings if THEY left. The same holds for the Chargers--we won't beg you to stay, but will remind you that you have a loyal home here.
Robert Germann September 20, 2012 at 05:53 PM
Charger Stadiun at Gillespie Field that is the logicial solution but nobody at the county is progressive enough to think of that..The city and the rock quarries built qualcom 40 yrs ago and they still have a stadiun for everyone to use. I know lets expand the airport with taxpayers money to train communists and people who burn our flag, That makes sense if you are the 5% that make money at the airport.
Kevin George September 20, 2012 at 07:30 PM
It would be good to use the land adjacent to Gillespe Field( formerly Cajon Speedway) for SOMETHING!! Cajon Speedway was leveled under the bogus theory that companies would immediately flood in there because of the business generated by Gillespe Field....What happened? That land has been sitting there vacant for how long? Three years? Not so much as surveyors stake has been put there since. East County was robbed of that wonderful venue for one reason: The well healed in Fletcher Hills did not like the noise, clear and simple. The noise, I might add, that was there before 90% of them moved there. Cajon Speedway was a famous race track since the Fifties, offering entertainment and a wholesome outlet for the youth of East County. It cost the City nothing, it generated revenue and provided jobs. Not just jobs at the track, but dozens of racing oriented manufacturing and retail jobs. Those businesses closed or cut back because the local racing community had no place to race. The added cost of traveling to Irvine or changing vehicles to race at Barona simply killed the enthusiasm in East County. Most people over the age of Forty in East County have many pleasant memories of Saturaday night stock car racing, but that's all now, memories. Oh and an open useless field of weeds.
Chris September 20, 2012 at 08:04 PM
"Cajon Speedway was leveled under the bogus theory that companies would immediately flood in there because of the business generated by Gillespe Field....What happened? " Pissy, bitchy, whining people that had just moved into the area got their way...and hallmark land was "put to better use". Know nothing people should be ashamed of themselves. We never learn to not trust outsiders in our community.
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Sandhya Bathija
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Sandhya Bathija joined Legal Progress in September 2012 as the Campaign Manager. Previously, Sandhya worked in the national communications department of the American Civil Liberties Union, where she led media and communications campaigns on the organization's federal policy work, with a specific focus on immigrant rights, voting rights, racial justice, and criminal justice.
Prior to working with the American Civil Liberties Union, Sandhya was part of the communications team at Americans United for Separation of Church and State, where she handled media inquiries, spoke to chapters on religious freedom issues, wrote for the organization's blog, "The Wall of Separation," and researched and reported for its monthly magazine. Sandhya has also worked as a reporter for The National Law Journal, the nation's leading legal trade publication, and practiced law for a small civil rights firm in Detroit, Michigan, where she represented clients in police misconduct cases. Sandhya holds a law degree from The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law and a bachelor of arts in magazine journalism from Syracuse University's S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications.


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Lockport Union-Sun & Journal
Lockport Union-Sun & Journal — Cheers: The Washburn Street Meat Market has been a Lockport staple since before any of us can remember — over 100 years. For the first time in 40 years, it will have a new owner. It's great to see that is served Don Kaufmann so well for so long. And better to see that Gabe Szell and Gabe Szell Jr. will be taking it over and keeping it going. Family businesses are one of the things that make a community like ours great.
Jeers: Based on last week's state test score announcements, we're not sure what's going on in our schools' classrooms, but it sounds dire. We've complained before about "teaching to the tests," and we're doing so again. Let's go back to the good ol' days where teachers were allowed to teach. And let the state bureaucracy go back to whatever they do best — obviously not education. Different kids learn differently. And the state system doesn't really allow for that. Teachers, parents and adminitrators all need to be part of the process. Albany, on the other hand ... not so much.
Cheers: So you're out for a jog and a woman is yelling that her house is on fire and her husband is trapped in the basement. First thing you do? If you're LPD Lt. Todd Chenez and Officer Michael Stover, you run into the basement to help. Then when officers Anthony Pittman and Heather Rhode get there, you pull the guy out and get him on his way to the hospital. Hawley Street resident Harold Storms thanked the foursome last week during a much-deserved award ceremony at City Hall. We thought we should thank them, too.
Jeers: Pretend you're a quasi-governmental agency charged with providing low cost power to New Yorkers. You'd think the easiest way to do that would be to keep costs down. Instead the New York Power Authority pays one third of its 1,630 employees more than $100,00 a year, gives employees Cadillac health benefits and retirement, owns its own plane so the big wigs can travel and offers and offers New Yorkers some of the highest electric rates in the country. State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli called them out for it. And rightly so.
Duh: When the police tell you to stop, you should stop. A Lockport man learned that the hard way last week when Niagara County Sheriff's deputies asked him several times to put his hands behind his back but 26-year-old Brandon Howard refused. So NCSO subdued him with a Taser. NCSO - 1, uncooperative suspect - 0.


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Address to Campus Community
Remarks at a University-wide Meeting from Chancellor Gary L. Miller
Good morning.
Thank you all for taking time from your day during this important and very busy time of year to attend this event.
Welcome to the beginning of a new academic year!
I am particularly grateful to see representation from so many of the different important constituents of the university–faculty, staff, students, friends–in attendance.
It is a great honor for me to be here today as Chancellor of the University of North Carolina Wilmington.
I have been on many university campuses in my life. Every campus has its own energy, its own dynamic, but few universities are as special as UNCW.
There's not another place quite like it – the combination of top-notch academic programs and world-class research at a campus, so obviously centered on student success, is unusual among public universities of our size. I congratulate you for your inspiring work.
As I will emphasize today and in the future, the energy and sense of purpose that we all feel in this place is what will sustain us in these challenging times.
I asked for this time with you today for two reasons.
First, it is important in this time of transition to create opportunities for Georgia and me to meet and get to know as many of you as possible.
Georgia is with me this morning and after my remarks we look forward to meeting or reacquainting ourselves with all of you who can stay.
The second reason is related to a promise I made to you when I accepted the position of Chancellor.
That promise was that our vision for the future of this great university would emerge this fall from a conversation about our most sacred values and our most important dreams.
This is not a conversation that is just beginning today. You have been actively involved with it for years in the planning from which so many important initiative and programs have emerged.
But, this is a time of campus transition. A natural opportunity to reflect on and reshape accepted practice and test new ideas.
It is also a time of great transition in higher education in North Carolina and the rest of the country.
The transition in leadership on campus offers us an opportunity to reflect; the broader transition in higher education requires us to respond.
In that spirit, I will use my remarks today to renew the conversation and to add my voice to it.
My hope is that when we assemble again in the spring to celebrate the achievements of our faculty and staff and students that we will have agreed on the essential elements of our vision of the future.
I believe our conversation should include at least three important elements.
- The Celebration of the important values that have shaped this university for nearly 65 years.
- A deep understanding of the realities of the new environment in which we find ourselves today.
- The embrace of new ideas and innovations that will place us in the position both to preserve values that make UNCW a special place and prosper in the new environment.
To begin my part of the campus conversation, I wish to comment on each of these elements this morning.
The Celebration of the important values that have shaped this university for nearly 65 years.
UNCW's deepest and most sustaining value is its fundamental commitment to the belief that the real power of learning and discovery emanates from the magical interaction between students and exceptional faculty and staff and in the extension of that interaction into the world.
Any discussion about UNCW and its future must begin with the affirmation of this essential institutional value.
Your collaboration with our students takes place across campus, throughout our larger community and, increasingly, around the world.
These experiences take many forms, including course assignments, research, honors projects, internships, civic engagement projects and study abroad programs. They also include the countless interactions students have each day with non-teaching staff at the university. Each of these interactions is a learning opportunity and essential to the UNCW experience.
This summer, three UNCW students from the department of anthropology and the department of philosophy and religion participated in an archaeological dig in Jordan with Associate Professor Teddy Burgh.
A number of business students landed internships with New York firms.
Two students interested in computer animation careers attended an international conference, held in Vancouver that focused on digital design and production. Conference presenters included industry leaders like Pixar, DreamWorks and Industrial Light and Magic.
Recent graduates Jeff Raynor and David Macurak are good examples of the value of the UNCW experience.
Jeff and David obtained these highly competitive internships at Oak Ridge National Laboratories as a result of their undergraduate research with Associate Professor Karl Ricanek and UNCW's Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies in Identity Sciences.
There are many, many other examples.
UNCW also values civic engagement.
We are a Carnegie highly engaged university.
This year, we were placed on the President's Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll with Distinction. We've been on that list for five straight years, since it was first published, but UNCW earned the "with distinction" recognition this year after our students boosted their service learning and volunteerism to more than 70,000 hours – that's 20,000 more than the year before.
I am deeply proud of this designation because it demonstrates the power of service as an institutional value. There is no question that the desire of our students to volunteer and to provide service to the community can be realized only because of the extraordinary commitment to service of the staff and faculty at UNCW and their determination to find opportunities for student service and encourage them to serve.
The service of our students is an institutional triumph. Congratulations!
UNCW values partnerships as important both to providing educational experiences and to nurturing communities.
Our innovative outreach programs include extensive partnerships with regional schools and healthcare agencies, a comprehensive effort to promote local, sustainable farming practices and healthy dining options, a number of public service programs for youth and adult learners and UNCW's innovative collaboration with Coastal Carolina Community College and Camp Lejeune and the U. S. Marine Corps, one of the most productive and effective such partnerships in the country.
We also value research and discovery.
We have a great deal of strength in research on which to build.
In June, UNCW marine biology professors, two doctoral students and three graduate students teamed up to use the underwater habitat Aquarius for the latest segment of a long-term sea sponge study.
Just this week, at our request, visiting scientists on board Aquarius broadcast a live update of their research mission to scientists around the country.
In July, the Star-News published an article about nursing lecturer Brandy Mechling's research for her doctoral dissertation in psychiatric nursing. She's studying the effects of parental depression on children; very little current research documents and explores the experience of young caregivers.
In August, several faculty members earned positive press for their latest publications, including Laurie Patterson and Phil Furia for The Songs of Hollywood, David Gessner for My Green Manifesto and The Tarball Chronicles, and Clyde Edgerton for The Night Train.
In fact, during the past academic year, UNCW faculty produced 17 books and 650 chapters, articles, research findings, short stories and other writings that were published or accepted for publication.
Research and scholarship is critical to our success as I will emphasize again in a moment.
It is very important in my view that we place a high value on place.
We are North Carolina's coastal university.
The coastal metaphor is powerful. In many important ways, the demographic, economic and social dynamics of a coastal city reflect the forces of the global economy and the dramatic changes in human movement and demography.
Few questions of human health, nutrition and economic prosperity are not connected in some way to the world's oceans. There is no complete understanding of human history, the human condition or literature and music and art in the absence of the sea.
What an extraordinary laboratory our place by the sea offers us!
What a great advantage that we have that many students (and faculty and staff) really like the beach!
I am proud to lead North Carolina's Coastal University.
I would like to celebrate another very important value that is evident at UNCW: A deep commitment to each other.
This is important in these very challenging times. We must take care of one another, respect one another and celebrate one another's work no matter what that work may be. I have seen this everywhere on campus. I am most grateful for it.
Let me now turn to a more sobering theme: the features of our current environment.
The environment in which higher education operates has changed substantially in the last half decade.
It is very important for all of us to have deep understanding of the realities of the new environment in which we find ourselves today.
You are well aware of the effects of the global economic recession on state budgets.
This year, the UNC system, one of the finest in the world, was cut over $400 million dollars.
UNCW's portion of those cuts amounts to $16.5 million dollars, which, when added to previous cuts during the past four years, totals more than $47 million dollars.
In the past, through good planning, UNCW was able to preserve the academic core in much the same way it has always operated.
But things have changed.
The latest cuts were deeper than expected, and we had no choice but to make some very painful decisions. Our mission remains the same, but going forward we will have fewer faculty and staff, fewer course sections, larger class sizes and less money for financial aid.
But, it is important to appreciate that higher education is facing other challenges, many of which inform the views of policy makers. I want to mention five of these.
- The concept of higher education as a social good is eroding in this country in favor of the view that a college degree as is primarily a personal good. This has important implications in policy discussions about who should pay for the degree.
- There are emerging strong voices that even question the value of the university degree as a pathway to individual prosperity. We cannot simply discount these voices.
- Universities are being held to much higher standards of accountability particularly with respect to student learning. The Assessment movement has transformed into the accountability movement.
- Funding for university research in public universities, especially comprehensive universities like UNCW, is dwindling.
- Despite reductions in state funding, universities are expected to play a much more active role in community economic development and community engagement.
These are not remote influences. They have direct consequences on our campus. They are part of our environment we must understand and respond to.
I know your patience has been tested to the limits by the continued economic downturn and its effects on your personal income, your departmental budgets and, therefore, on the options and opportunities you feel you can offer our students. We can, and will, get through this, but we must develop a new vision that empowers UNCW to adapt effectively to this new environment we face.
Let me turn now to some ideas about how we might face the future. How will we prosper in the new environment while preserving the values that make the UNCW experience so special?
This is where I add my voice to conversation I am asking us to have.
Before I do that I want to go back to another promise I made to you when I accepted this position. That promise was that we would build the future on the firm foundation already present at UNCW.
It is not my desire to restart the strategic planning processes of this university. I support the strategic vision of the university as documented in the Soaring to Greatness and Vision 2020 strategic framework.
It is my desire to build our future on the great work you have already done. Let's reaffirm and embrace our strategic vision and move forward from there.
There are five themes I suggest we must consider if we are to respond to the current environment.
1. I believe we must transform our promise of the "Most Powerful Learning Experience" into action. The power of learning is the power to understand, to be tolerant, to question, to analyze and most importantly to serve. Let our conversation about the power of learning be about those things. Let our programs have those as outcomes.
We have already begun this part of the conversation with an important initiative.
The SACS QEP initiative in applied learning is, in my view, an excellent foundation for a new vision of learning at UNCW. I believe this for several reasons:
- It affords us the opportunity to shape the demand for relevance in higher education in a way that preserves our most important values.
- It offers avenues for new ways to deliver learning in the digital age, one of the preeminent challenges in American higher education today.
- It leverages one of our most important values, the student-faculty interaction and undergraduate research.
- And, it offers the opportunity to reaffirm our commitment to core benefits of the liberal arts and sciences, particularly the arts and humanities, in the context of the new accountability in higher education.
I strongly support this initiative. I have authorized funding for the pilot projects of the QEP. I urge us to make it a cornerstone of the UNCW experience.
2. I believe we must fully embrace innovation and entrepreneurship.
Despite the complexity of the challenges we face, I see many opportunities for UNCW to soar.
But we cannot plan our way to greatness. We must invent our way there.
In the coming weeks I will engage the faculty, staff and student leadership in a discussion of how we can organize ourselves to create a vibrant culture of innovation and how we will reward innovation.
I will be proposing some changes in the current university planning structure to focus it on innovation.
We will also talk about what leadership means and how to be adaptive leaders in these times.
At the Board of Trustees meeting later this month, I will outline some division-level organizational changes. One of the most important of these has to do with organizing ourselves for innovation.
We must always have good plans. But, to seize the opportunities before us today, we must overlay the sometimes disquieting force of innovation on top of our planning foundation.
3. I believe we must recommit ourselves to nurturing scholarship and research among our faculty. This includes providing the required staff expertise and support that are essential for a vibrant research environment.
UNCW must continue to grow its reputation in research and scholarship. To do this, we must encourage and support scholarship in all disciplines while we very intentionally expand signature research and signature graduate programs.
I believe this important not only to sustain our national reputation in research but, also, to provide avenues for revenue generation through partnerships with government and business.
This is an area that will require considerable faculty discussion and resource management.
4. I believe we must invest in even more vigorous community engagement.
Our students have shown us the way with their 70,000 hours of volunteer service in this community. And, I have already mentioned a number of the many ways in which we partner in the community.
But, in the new environment, this university has an obligation to be an even more important contributing partner in Wilmington and beyond.
We must do this by building partnerships with business, education, government, and non-profits that create educational opportunity, provide service and promote the welfare of all communities in this region.
In addition, we must be willing to let these partnerships be measured, in part, in real economic terms such as value and job creation.
We must continue to seek private investment in UNCW.
We already have a successful campaign well underway; we've raised more than $60 million dollars, which means we've raised 92 percent of our goal. Seeing the Campaign for UNCW – Soaring to Greatness—through to a successful conclusion is essential for UNCW's future success. We will complete this campaign soon and move quickly into planning for a future campaign.
I want to demonstrate my commitment to working with our advancement staff to generate support for this university. Georgia and I will make a gift to the Soaring to Greatness campaign in the near future. I would ask each of you to consider the same.
All this will require an investment of real money. It may seem counterintuitive to make such an investment at a time of retrenchment. I will argue strongly, based on my experience, that our success in weathering these times and growing in the future is directly related to our engagement with the City of Wilmington, the region, the state and beyond.
Let me conclude my list of ideas with one that is very important to me and Georgia.
5. I believe deeply that one of the most sacred obligations we have to our students is to instill in them a deep and abiding knowledge and understanding of the great diversity of culture and race of humankind.
I do not believe this is matter of curriculum. I do not believe it is a matter of administrative structure. It is, in my view, a matter of the heart, of commitment, of action and, ultimately, of citizenship.
In the coming months I will be asking all university leaders to recommit to our diversity goals and, importantly, to find ways to use diversity to inform our programs of learning and our strategies of engagement.
I ask each of you to think about how you, individually, can find ways to embrace the importance of inclusion on our campus to ensure that this university is viewed as a warm, welcoming environment for all people and cultures.
We look forward to the beginning of classes in a few short days.
This weekend we will begin to welcome over 13,000 students to this campus. Some 2000 freshmen will move in tomorrow. I hope you will join Georgia and me as we help these new students move onto campus beginning at 6:30 am tomorrow morning with a volunteer breakfast in Wagoner Dining Hall.
You won't be alone. At last count over 1800 university and community members have volunteered to welcome these students and their parents to campus. What a testament to the spirit of this campus and this community.
Each student comes to us with dreams of their future, of their family, of their country.
There is no enterprise in the world having this responsibility, this opportunity. We, very simply, give people the tools to make their dreams come true.
Each of you is important in making these dreams come true. Each of you has ideas about how we can do it better.
I will do my best in the coming months and years to build the resources we need for you to succeed.
In the meantime, let's take care of one another.
Thank you and Go Seahawks!


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CasE said 295 weeks agoNot a huge fan of this color combination :(
thejakeyl88 said 295 weeks agoWhy say first? Why? Anyways, this is a really sweet design, love the vintage look. No money for me still, darn it. Been missing out on some good shirts here lately. Keep em coming!
bahbahbah said 295 weeks agoYeah the design is cool, but I don't know if I like it on brown. Maybe a real dark navy blue would make me consider buying this.
Gimmik said 295 weeks agoEveryone is always all excited to be the 1st to post. I think it's kind of annoying. Waste of a post. Anyways
I like this design. Clean and simple. I don't see me wearing this though.
fightabunny said 295 weeks agoAmazing work on the portfolio link.
jimiyo said 295 weeks agoI saw this under the submissions. Very delicious.
jecrt said 295 weeks agoNice! I think the colors are great!
cdoty said 295 weeks agoI like the hi-lights, but the design fails to 'grab' me.
cbass99 said 295 weeks agonice design, refreshing! cool work APNEAFIX!
if you guys want to know who's eighth, it's me! because i'm the eighth one on the list.
cbass99 said 295 weeks agosmurf, as i was typing, i became the 10th! sheit.
Kenon said 295 weeks agobuyying! first one in about a week I really like
curb1510 said 295 weeks agoSo tempted, but like bahbahbah (never expected that that would come into a sentece)I think a nice navy for the blank who have been great.
Still, lovely work.
jindc said 295 weeks agokind of looks forced or incomplete because it's just on the top - might work as a whole-front design, or just centered lower.
biotwist said 295 weeks agohey at least both shirts are the same color
cls62 said 295 weeks agoI agree, put it on navy.
AGrant311 said 295 weeks agoNot first. I always wanted to do that.
thejakeyl88 said 295 weeks agoI think the look of it, how its faded at the top, really works well with the limits of printing. Instead of a defined cutoff point its pretty well faded and blended.
addsteve said 295 weeks agoThis design is a bit uninspired.
The white lines around the curves make it look shiny, which seems to be in direct conflict with the vintage feel.
I also agree with others that the color combo is not quite working either.
Hope I am not being too harsh but I assume other artists want constructive criticism.
These critiques are merely my opinion, so please consider them as such only.
Congrats on your win.
addsteve said 295 weeks agoOn a more positive note, I really like a lot of the work on your portfolio site.
verilens said 295 weeks agoCheese IS fantastic, isn't it???
I'm torn on this one :/ I actually like the brown. I agree that the design ends at the top a bit abruptly. Uuuuunnggghhh...can't decide...oh well, I suppose I've got all day :)
eludingsun said 295 weeks agoi actually like the colour combo, in a way.
but still no buy, looks like a design i could pick up anywhere.
YutFree said 295 weeks agoLayne: It's possible to set up your board to delete any post whose content is "first" or any iteration thereof ("Gargamel," etc.).
eludingsun said 295 weeks agoi agree with yutfree, something along the lines of at least attempting to stop the "first" post.
they're are such a waste.
even better yet, people could just stop doing them on their own, wouldn't that be even easier?
Arrow said 295 weeks agonice distressed feel
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