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NextGen 2016 is a blended-learning experience for the field's emerging top talent. The 2016 Executive Education Program for the Next Generation of Museum Leaders is designed for mid-level managers with three to five years of museum management experience and extraordinary leadership potential as recognized by senior-level executives. The program blends one-week of online learning and three days of residency in a collegial environment at CGU. The curriculum is intensive, while also offering time for self-reflection and practical application of materials and concepts. Participants examine their individual leadership styles, team dynamics, institutional needs and perspectives, and the future of the museum field. Course modules focus on self-assessment, leadership development, strategy, negotiation, and innovation.
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Ongoing activities of GLI include co-sponsored events featuring innovators in the art, cultural, and museum sectors. For the past three years, GLI has collaborated with the Center for Curatorial Leadership (CCL) based in New York to produce a week-long program offering formal coursework and practicum assignments to the CCL fellows at Los Angeles museums.
GLI also works closely with the Instituto de Liderazgo en Museos' PADEM in Mexico, sharing programmatic materials and developing programs that can be offered to institutions throughout Latin America.
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Every good museum leader can listen to the input of others and synthesize opinions to gain support for moving forward. Great museum leaders can diagnose the culture of various groups that influence the success or failure of their organization, and can identify the levers that move those groups to the next level of performance. In this video, longtime GLI faculty member Dave Logan, author of Tribal Leadership and professor at the USC Marshall School of Business, explains the 5 stages of organizational tribes and provides insight into the values that motivate each group.
What stage is your museum tribe in? How might you lead that tribe to the next level? How do you balance movement between the tribes in a complex museum environment? Are there tribes within your organization that tend to slide backward? If so, why? As a museum leader, what actions can you take to diagnose your museum's culture, recognize a set of shared values, articulate aspirations and create wow moments in fulfilling your mission?
The Getty Leadership Institute alumni network is worldwide. Close to 1500 professionals have participated in GLI programs since its inception in 1979.
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The Getty Leadership Institute at Claremont Graduate University (GLI at CGU) is dedicated to advancing thoughtful leadership in the museum field. GLI offers executive education programs, special events, and an online forum to help forward-thinking museum professionals develop their knowledge and skills in order to manage change and forge success.
GLI is part of an active center of arts management and leadership programs at Claremont Graduate University. Learn about the Arts Management Program, Sotheby's Institute of Art-Los Angeles, the Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management.
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Major funding for the GLI at CGU is provided by the Getty Foundation.
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Melody Kanschat is an energetic arts professional with broad experience in management, communications, fundraising and master plan development. In April 2013, Melody was appointed Executive Director of the Getty Leadership Institute at Claremont Graduate University. She had recently concluded a 22-year career with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), where she served in a variety of executive capacities. In her final six years at LACMA, she was the Museum's President and Chief Operating Officer.
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Toni Guglielmo brings an impressive background in museums and academia to GLI. In 2011-2012, she was the Sylvan C. Coleman and Pamela Coleman Memorial Fund Fellow in the Department of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Prior to her fellowship, she developed and managed an award-winning distance learning program at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and served as the Assistant Director for the Museum of Creativity Project as well as a Project Associate at the Getty Education Institute for the Arts.
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Faculty and speakers come from the top ranking institutions including the USC Marshall School of Business and the Claremont Graduate University's Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management. Faculty members incorporate case studies and exercises in their curricula that draw upon current events and trends, and blend theory with best practices in the museum field.
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I'm not spoiling anything by summarizing Charles Dickens' beloved Christmas parable because every time we read it — and everybody should read it — or see a movie, TV or stage version, the story's as fresh, touching and relevant as ever.
View From the Stage, Crestview's community theatre troupe, brings the story to Warriors Hall's equivalent of Cinemascope, taking full advantage of that wide, wide stage to pack an eye-pleasing cast of 48 thespians into the Michael Demaio musical based on Dickens' timeless story.
Director Sandra Peters wrung an enjoyable opening night performance Friday from her four dozen actors, who ranged in age from elementary school kids to retirees.
A few ear-shattering audio glitches marred Act I, suggesting the show might have benefited from an extra tech rehearsal or two, but knowing the financial challenges of having to rent that hall, I sympathized more than cringed.
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Several standouts carried along a cheerful, enthusiastic cast, headed by Nick Trolian, who had the unenviable task of transforming his Scrooge from a surly old poop into crippled Tiny Tim's avuncular benefactor after his night of ghostly revelation.
I have a strict criterion for judging tellings of "A Christmas Carol." If I don't get moist-eyed when Scrooge declares his conversion and starts dispensing goodwill, I consider the production a flop.
View From a Stage had me sniffing and surreptitiously wiping my cheeks to such a degree my spectacles fogged up.
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Kent State senior Brooke Jackson is a second year Physical Therapist Assistant (PTA) student president of the PTA club, and most recently, an organ donor. Over the summer Jackson made the life changing decision to donate one of her kidneys to a longtime friend.
Jackson chose not to mention the name of her friend for privacy concerns. "I never even knew she was sick," Jackson said. "We remained close during college and during a visit home my friend disclosed her kidneys were only functioning at 20%"
Without hesitation Jackson offered to undergo testing to see if she was a possible match. "As a very independent and a bit stubborn person, she refused to allow me to be tested," Jackson said. "A few months later she found out her kidney function had dropped to about 10% and she was going to have to go on dialysis."
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Jackson inquired about the decision and was informed that at the age of 21 the committee believed she was too young to make a decision of that magnitude.
Not willing to give up, Jackson and her friend decided to contact Ohio State's Medical University. "We contacted their kidney donor coordinator and told her I had already had a full work up from the Cleveland Clinic and mailed her all of my results. They liked what they saw in my chart and told me they prefer to have younger donors for many reasons, but mainly younger people bounce back faster.
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For the second consecutive year, Roper St. Francis has been recognized by U.S. News and World Report as one of the best hospitals in South Carolina. Roper and Bon Secours St. Francis were included in the annual U.S. News and World Report's 2013-2014 Best Hospitals rankings.
"We're committed to raising the bar in healthcare and ensuring our patients get the best quality of care," said Roper St. Francis CEO David Dunlap. "This recognition is encouraging as we push for the best patient outcome, every time. We're humbled and pleased to be included in the list again this year."
Now in its 24th year, the U.S. News Best Hospital list recognizes hospitals that excel in treating the most challenging patients. Hospitals are evaluated in 16 adult specialties.
In most specialties, the list ranks the nation's top 50 hospitals and recognizes other high-performing hospitals that provide care at nearly the level of their nationally ranked peers.
Roper Hospital is ranked no. 4 in South Carolina and is high-performing in the following specialties: cancer, gastroenterology and GI surgery, geriatrics, gynecology, nephrology, neurology and neurosurgery, orthopedics and urology.
Bon Secours St. Francis Hospital is ranked no. 6 in South Carolina and is high-performing in the following specialties: gastroenterology and GI surgery, nephrology, orthopedics and pulmonology.
"A hospital that emerges from our analysis as one of the best has much to be proud of," said Avery Comarow, U.S. News Health Rankings Editor. "Only about 15 percent of hospitals are recognized for their high performance as among their region's best. Just three percent of all hospitals earn a national ranking in any specialty."
The specialty rankings and data were produced for U.S. News by RTI International, a leading research organization based in Research Triangle Park, N.C. Using the same data, U.S. News produced the rankings.
The rankings will appear in print in the U.S. News Best Hospitals 2014 guidebook, available in bookstores and on newsstands Aug. 27.
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He is survived by his daughter, Suzann Smith and his sweet puppy, Cupid. Bobby was married to Eary Smith for 46 years who passed in 2003. Bobby graduated from Jonesville High School and still enjoyed breakfast get togethers with his classmates in Elkin. He was VP of Operations of Bank of America for 25 years.
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We have not decided on a memorial service date yet, but will post it as soon as the date is determined. Johnson Funeral home is handling his arrangements. He was the most brilliant, handsome, caring, loving person on this earth and unfortunately had to leave us this past Sunday. He was the best father any daughter could ask for and I will miss him so much, but I know I'll see him again and until I do he will be the best guardian angel anyone could ask for.
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At Google, Anna Patterson designed TeraGoogle, a system that is able to index a large number of documents, while Russell Power worked on web ranking and automatic spam detection.
"Cuil's goal is to solve the two great problems of search: how to index the whole Internet - not just part of it - and how to analyze and sort out its pages so you get relevant results." Cuil thinks that today's search engines can't index all the information that is available on the web (more than one trillion pages, according to Google). Even Google admits that it's selective: "many [web pages] are similar to each other, or represent auto-generated content that isn't very useful to searchers".
Regarding ranking, Cuil combines metrics that measure popularity with information about the context of each web page. "Cuil prefers to find all the pages with your keyword or phrase and then analyze the rest of the content on those pages. During this analysis we discover that your keywords have different meanings in different contexts. Once we've established the context of the pages, we're in a much better position to help you in your search."
The most striking new idea is the way search results are formatted. Instead of the ten blue links displayed linearly, Cuil makes better use of the space by using columns. The search engine also shows thumbnails next to some of the results, but they don't always represent images included in the adjacent web page. Another interesting idea is the explorative category section that shows related Wikipedia categories and topics. Cuil has an excellent auto-complete feature and it displays a list of related searches using an design pattern that suggests exploration.
It's probably not fair to compare Cuil with Google, but when Google was launched, users could see substantially better results. Cuil returns results that are either similar to Google's results or substantially worse. In some cases, the site doesn't return any result for your queries, probably because of the huge traffic from the launch day.
Cuil has problems with relevancy, spam, robots.txt (the site indexes albums from Picasa Web) and the number of search results for almost every query is smaller than the number of Google results. This is especially obvious for queries that return a small number of results:
[louis monier altavista research labs]:
- Google: 609 results
- Cuil: 8 results
- Google: 634 results
- Cuil: 42 results
All in all, Cuil is the best search engine launched this year, but it doesn't offer convincing reasons to switch from Google. If Cuil focuses on developing technologies that allow faster indexing of web pages, it's probably the perfect match for existing search engines with less frequently updated indexes like Live Search or Ask.com.
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CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. – The Chattanooga Mocs volleyball team is just over a week away from its first match of the 2013 season as the Georgia Tech Invitational begins August 30 in Atlanta, Ga. UTC faces a familiar with foe in the College of Charleston before squaring off against the hosting Yellow Jackets and Florida A&M.
With seven newcomers to the team, plenty of questions surround Chattanooga's fresh rotation. The answers begin first on the defensive side of the ball with liberos and defensive specialists.
"We have a lot of great defensive players," Head Coach Travis Filar said. "We have great depth in the defensive specialist and libero role with returners Melissa Green, Catherine Chason and newcomer Hannah Merkle."
Green returns as one of the two most tenured Mocs on roster, along with fellow junior Kasey Talley (Boiling Springs, S.C.). The Boca Raton, Fla., native has seen action in 32 matches in each of her two seasons. Green logged 399 digs and 3.53 digs per set in 2011 and 338 digs with 2.84 digs per set in 2012.
Each season, Green served as a like-jersey defensive specialist while then-starting libero Paula Passmore snagged the majority of the digs. This season, Filar looks for the junior to step in and take the reigns as a team leader and defensive captain.
Catherine Chason is also listed as a defensive specialist and is extremely capable of playing libero for the Mocs. Despite her youth, the Alpharetta, Ga., sophomore has shown her skill and created competition for a starting spot in the rotation.
"There can be only one libero on the court and that has created some great competition between Catherine and Melissa," Filar said. "Both are great with getting us in system with their digging. It will be interesting to see how they preform throughout camp."
Chason played in 32 matches last season and started nine of the competitions. As a freshman, Chason recorded 247 digs and was solid as a server with 13 service aces. Her 13 aces ranked her third among Mocs servers while ranking fourth in digs.
Also thrown into the mix this season is Hannah Merkle. A freshman from Parker, Colo., Merkle has adjusted to the college level very quickly. It is very likely the freshman will compete for a starting spot on the court, but will most certainly see regular playing time in 2013.
"Each of the three do something different and have their own strengths," Filar said. "All three really elevate our level of first-contacts on the gym. Serving, passing and digging – they are all so solid and very steady in their play."
Despite having depth at libero, the Mocs only have one setter on roster – freshman Anne Bachmann – but a highly touted setter, at that.
"Anne is our only true setter," Filar said. "I think most coaches would be concerned with that, but throughout recruiting and getting to know Anne – watching her play and compete at the club lever – that is not a concern of mine."
Transitioning seamlessly into the college game, Bachmann gets the starting nod for the Mocs. Filar said the setter is picking up the Chattanooga system well and he expects her to perform as a seasoned veteran would.
"We are asking a lot of her. We wanted her to quarterback our offense and be an extension of the coaching staff on the floor. We have challenged her to do different things, like speeding up the offense, and she has done it in the snap of a finger."
But while having Bachmann anchor down the starting spot, backups are always needed. Filar and his coaching staff are looking to the three defensive specialists to fill that role.
"Our defensive specialists are the ones we look to for that second contact and to better the ball when they need to and that goes hand-in-hand with the setter's position. We have confidence that if we ever needed to call on Catherine, Hannah or Melissa to step up and fill that role that any one of them could make that transition without hesitation."


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Baseball Suffers High-Scoring Loss at Altoona
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ALTOONA, PA – Playing in their first Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference double header on the road, the Hilbert College men's baseball team lost 5-2 to Altoona before the Hawks surrendered a big lead in the second game to drop a 17-16 contest and go 0-2. Chris Hoak led the Hawks with five RBIs for the day as Hilbert moves to 4-12 overall and 1-5 in conference. Altoona improves to 8-13, 4-2.
The second game of the day was the exciting, high scoring bill as Altoona opened with a 7-0 lead through the first two innings. Hilbert responded over the course of the next three innings, taking a 15-7 lead into the top of the sixth.
Joe Pernick lead off with a single RBI to get Hilbert on the board in the 3rd and Hoak followed up with his first RBI, in an inning that was filled with Altoona fielding and throwing errors along with wild pitches that allowed the Hawks to score runs. Both Pernick and Hoak were credited again with RBI's in the 4th and 5th as well as Chris Parrott (2 RBI) and Matt Staub (1RBI) which gave the Hawks the big lead heading into the top of the sixth inning. Jim Pernick's single through the right side sent Matt Militello home and gave Hilbert a 16-7 advantage before Altoona had their turn at the plate.
Altoona went on a wild rally in the bottom of the inning scoring nine runs to tie the game at 16 all. Hilbert committed only one fielding error, but were credited with several wild pitches, a balk and made two pitching changes in the inning. The Lions finished with eight hits and seven RBIs.
The Hawks went three up and three down in the top of the 7th only to watch Altoona's second batter hit a double to center field and advance to third base on a pass ball. Altoona won the game when the next batter hit a single to right field sending the winning run home.
Hilbert was 17 for 42 at the plate with 10 RBI's and only three strike outs. Altoona was 16 for 35, also had only two walks with only one strike out. Militello was three for four, and Joe Pernick and Hoak each went three for five. Tim Staub and Curt Macysyn each were credited with a stolen base during the afternoon session.
The day started with Altoona slowly building a 3-0 lead after three innings, before Joe Pernick scored off a Hoak single RBI in the top of the fourth. Hilbert held Altoona defensively in the bottom of the inning and then tacked another run in the 5th when Hoak's sacrifice fly drove Derek Mort home, cutting the lead to 3-2.
Altoona had three hits and scored twice in the fifth inning and then held the Hawks scoreless their next two at bats to close the game out at 5-2.
Joe Pernick finished the morning game going two for four to lead the Hawks hitting.
Hilbert gets back at it April 1 when they travel to Fredonia (8-10) for a 1pm non-conference contest.
Hilbert College, located in suburban Hamburg, N.Y., south of Buffalo, is a private four-year college founded in 1957 in the Catholic Franciscan tradition. With nearly 1,100 students, Hilbert is a dynamic Western New York college that offers career-focused majors, including one of the top criminal justice programs in the region, and more than 50 minors and concentrations. The college's engaging, student-centered campus community offers numerous leadership, internship, and service learning opportunities from which students launch successful careers while making positive changes in their communities. The Hilbert Blueprint promotes a well-rounded student experience over four years – starting with the Foundations Seminar in the freshman year, followed by Sophomore Service, Junior Symposium, and culminating with the Senior Capstone. Hilbert has expanded its academic offerings with the college's first graduate programs and new Accelerated Degree Programs geared to adult learners.
Upcoming Events
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text: Julie Ann Ogle, 52, of Austinville, passed away on Monday, February 18, 2013 at her home. Born in Fauquier County, Virginia, Mrs. Ogle was preceded in death by her father, Walter Lewis Sadler and her sister, Lucille Gravely. Survivors include her husband, Roger E. Ogle of Austinville; children and spouses, Christopher A. Ogle and Caitlin Jones of Austinville, Jonathan L. and Lorrie (Beanie) Woodyard of Pulaski, Steven A. and Cammie Woodyard of Bluefield, WV, Randy L. Ogle of Austinville, and Dana Puckett of Laurel Fork; mother, Sylvia H. Sadler of Dublin; brother, Walter David Sadler and wife, Ethelene, and sisters Mary Stephens, Gloria Lovern, Lona Harrell, and Clesta Riddle and husband, James all of Dublin; nine grandchildren; and one great-granddaughter. Funeral services will be held on Thursday, February 21, 2013 at 11:00 AM at Vaughan-Guynn-McGrady Chapel with Pastor Kenneth Alley officiating. Burial will follow in the Pine Grove Cemetery. The family will receive friends at the funeral home on Wednesday, February 20, 2013 from 6:00 until 8:00 PM. A guestbook is available online by visiting www.vaughanguynnandmcgrady.com. Vaughan-Guynn-McGrady Chapel is serving the family.