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So You Want to Be A Principal?
Grad School… Round 2
And so it began. About three weeks ago marked day one of a journey on the academic highway to a second Master of Science degree, this time in Educational Leadership. While I am a teacher, I am first a learner, so these opportunities are intrinsically motivating for me. Learning is something I am most passionate about and never pass up the opportunity to learn more, do well and be better.
For some time, others, including my own superiors, have occasionally commented, "You'd make a good principal. Are you going to get your certification?" I can easily visualize myself in that role as I have teacher-led a number of technology efforts in our districts, I help oversee a variety of programs, and I lead students by example in teaching from a global perspective with many real-life participatory citizenship opportunities. I've affected change somewhat among my students. I get a bit dreamy and euphoric about it, you know. I think, "Heck yes, I can make a difference!"
On the first day of a week-long campus residency, the professor said, "So you want to be principal? Have you considered all of the responsibilities that come along with that and all of the time associated with school activities?" And, especially, "Have you considered that you will be working longer, harder, year-round for sometimes less of a salary than your more experienced teachers?" I needed to sit back for a moment because as these are all given tangibles of the position, it is easy to get lost in the euphoric idea of having a greater ability to be a change-agent. This really made me think. I do well with discipline (but, really I'm not a disciplinarian, I'm a teachable moment kind of person), conflict resolution, forward-thinking instruction, etc. I already put in an obscene amount of hours, but with the principalship, those hours will be much more physical in that principals are regularly present at many, if not all school functions. I can calm the fist-shaking, ACLU-backed parent before they leave the building. I can stave off the parent who is about to run to the local media to tell their story of how they've been wronged by the system… again. I can because I enjoy building relationships. I can because I am genuinely interested in what matters to them and what is best for their children. I may not agree, but I am still interested.
But, as any good principal knows, helping to turn a school around or improve student achievement isn't just about passion or relationship building or hope. They're all necessary, but it certainly can't be done on a wing and a prayer. The data and research are important. There still needs to be a plan. There needs to be an understanding of change theories and a knack for involving all stakeholders in that process.
ABC's and PPT
Don't get me wrong, the instructor was great. She has a plethora of experience as both a principal and superintendent. Her experience transparently spoke for itself. She's a stickler for APA and research and I like it because she challenges me. During our residency, she went on about the real "ABC's" of the principalship – that is Athletics, Band, & Cheerleading. She talked about how much time is spent dealing with issues around these types of activities and did so in a way to bring our heads out of the clouds and back down to reality. Then, the pre-made, course LMS PowerPoint came on the screen. Uh-oh! Here comes the death by PowerPoint lecture.
The discomfort started to set in. Most around me were taking notes diligently and listening attentively. I was trying really hard not to open TweetDeck. Not because I was bored, but because like most of the students we teach today, I can no longer focus on just one thing (no wonder I get my students). It's easier for me to do multiple things simultaneously. I can't explain it, it just is. I need the noise and the busy-ness. I need movement. Then the talk of policy (many of which I don't agree), standards (don't even get me started), data analysis (aka – propagandized misinformation purported by legislators), common core, liability, procedure, etc. Surely you get the picture.
Where is #cpchat?
Discouragement set in. I began to question my resolve in moving in a leadership direction. Maybe I really don't want to be a principal. I love to teach. It doesn't matter whether it's kids or other teachers/adults. I love to watch someone else 'get it'. This is what makes me tick. Sometimes, as I watch from afar, they may not always use what I've taught them for the best, but nonetheless, I've taught them. Maybe I don't belong in this principal role after all. Where is the passion here?
Where are the principals who want to challenge the current system and transform the current model? Where is George Couros (@gcouros)? Chris Lehmann (@chrislehmann)? Chris Wejr (@mrwejr)? Eric Shenninger (@NMHS_Principal)? David Truss (@datruss)? Where are the principals who know how to extend the current learning model despite the challenges of the antiquated system in place? Where is Lyn Hilt (@L_Hilt)? Justin Tarte (@justintarte)? I'm sure I'm sure I'm forgetting a few…
I took a deep breath, opened TweetDeck and BOOM! I found Chris Wejr talking and reflecting about a FedEx Day in his school based on some of Dan Pink's principles from Drive (a must-read, by the way, if you are in education and you want to understand real motivation). Chris Wejr offered to cover teachers' classes for a day for them if they worked on a new, innovative project of their own creation. I thought, yes! That is what I want to learn about in this classroom right now! Those are the stories and examples I want to be shown. Given my state at that moment, reading Chris' post got me through the rest of that day and I responded in kind:
This is a great post, and one I needed to read today more than anything. It is so important to recognize that although only three teachers may have responded, it is, nonetheless a start. This is also a fantastic example of what Lyn Hilt refers to as being not only a leader and a manager, but also an instructional leader in the 21st century.
A few weeks ago, I was helping a former student of mine, now in college, gather resources for an educational leadership paper. As a powerful PLN would have it, you, Lyn, George Couros, Patrick Larkin, David Truss and Chris Lehmann, amongst others were quick to respond with a number of fantastic book recommendations. Of course, Drive was one of them and I can honestly say that book would rank among one of the top ten things that transformed my own teaching practice this year, as I'd read it when it first came out. You modeled a great example of playing out the principles Pink lays forth and successfully so.
I needed to hear this today as I am in day three of an intense, on-campus residency beginning my administrative certification in PA. Don't get me wrong, the program is great and obviously a necessary stepping stone, but after sitting through several days of bland PPT's, hard-core data analysis, liability, procedure, policy, standardization, common core, etc., some discouragement set in. I kept thinking, "Where's the passion? Where's the drive?". We were even asked if we were certain principalship is what we really wanted… long hours, major responsibility, etc. in a manner that almost seemed intent to discourage us from continuing on. There was no remote semblance of #cpchat in the room and I felt, well, kind of lost. I needed to read this today as a solid reminder that there are others out there that 'get' what I get. It makes it a bit easier to trudge onward through the red tape and do best to enjoy the journey along the way. You're reaching many more teachers beyond your school. Thank you for that!
Principals need to find ways to serve as an instructional leader to work hand-in-hand with reluctant teachers to help them/model for them how to develop instruction that is inquiry-based, encourages real problem-solving & critical thinking and incorporates the tools and techniques with which much of the world is operating. Arguably, this is part of the leadership role, but in order to truly model what schools need today, a better label of instructional leader could easily be applied to the role of principal. If teachers are expected to implement technology and new pedagogical approaches to it, it is crucial the principal can lead this effort in the manner of showing, not telling.
Actually, there is so much change occurring right now in education that in some ways, there couldn't be a more exciting time to be a principal. We have the opportunity to shape what the future of education will look like if we take action. I'm fortunate to have great role models in my own school who welcome the opportunity to deal with swift change. I'm even more fortunate to have found this PLN as they have inspired me more than they could know. Please keep teaching me as I've so much to learn. I've had people tell me that I'll never be able to affect change locally because people don't want it. Watching others succeed assures me that I can. For this reason, more than all of the others, yes, I do want to be a principal.
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August 4, 2011 12:11 PM
Suzie… I am so glad that you still want to be a principal IN SPITE of some of the things you have heard. I think that admin and ex-admin often tell people how difficult it is because they want to feel like only a select few can do the job. Here is what I know… with passion, anyone can do any job – some will spend more time with others but many teachers spend more time at the school than some admin. It is not about how MUCH time we spend at the school but what we DO during that time. The system needs reflective, passionate educators like yourself so I am so happy that you have been inspired by others on Connected Principals. I love my job. People often ask me – why are you working during your summer? To me, learning and reflecting is not work – it is my passion.
Thanks for posting your thoughts and I look forward to reading more!
August 5, 2011 3:00 PM
There will always be those that tell you that you cannot…. if we listen, we will stop growing. Seth Godin's talks about the Lizard Brain – we need to acknowledge this and then move past this.
August 6, 2011 10:49 AM
I am very pleased to have discovered that you are beginning your journey toward educational administration. It was also very cool to read your personal reflection of your opening moments in working toward ed admin coursework. Thank you for being so personal and open with all of your readers!
As a current assistant principal, I can promise you the challenges of administration far outweigh the negatives. The duties and responsibilities of administrators often can feel as though they are so distanced from curriculum and instruction, but a truly-dedicated administrator can prioritize the workload and maintain constant emphasis on all things related to learning.
Consider the role you are working toward–school administrator–as "Learning Leader" of your building and you will do amazingly-well in your position. The field of education desperately NEEDS transformative educational leaders.
I am just a few months away from completing my doctorate in education administration and policy studies. I'm hoping to pursue a career in higher education to teach and learn from aspiring school administrators, just like yourself.
I look forward to growing with you…
James Brauer
Assistant Principal
P.S. I'm adding your blog to my "blogroll" now!
August 7, 2011 2:24 PM
First, I am so humbled to be included in your post! More specifically, to be mentioned among the great administrators who I look up to and go to for support.
Secondly, I applaud your efforts to pursue an administrative degree. From what I have seen and read of you, I am sure you will make a great administrator.
Thirdly, I am VERY new to the administrative world, and I too have found a stark reality that wasn't quite what I had expected. We all envision a world of educational leadership…leading and developing professional development activities…having those great philosophical conversations with colleagues about ways to improve schools. Unfortunately, I have found that those things do and can exist, but there are also a lot of other things that I couldn't even of imagined that are consuming my time.
I have thoroughly enjoyed my short time as an administrator, and I am glad I made the leap, but there are definitely some things I will miss as I incorrectly assumed the true role of an administrator. It's then our job to modify and evolve the role of the administrator to do what's best for our students.
It is my goal to set time aside for the things I believe will help students and teachers…set time aside for the things that I want to do. Once I have completed those things, I will take care of the more managerial tasks that also need to be completed. Perhaps I am naive and don't quite understand the pecking order of tasks to be completed, but I totally understand where you are coming from, and it is my hope to be the instructional leader I believe I was hired to be…
Good luck with all your future endeavors and continue utilizing the power of your PLN. We all are better because of our contributions!
August 7, 2011 2:40 PM
Great post Suzie!
I too am on the ledge about moving into administration. My fear is that with the bureaucracy and red tape that administration has become will you lose your focus and your reasons for becoming an administration. I think the number one reason (as you have indicated in your post) is that you want to make a difference on a large scale. Not just with one student or one class but a whole school. Does the new education model (that is becoming to look more and more like a business mode) allow that? I look forward to hearing about your journey and learning with you.
Bob Coniglio permalinkSeptember 19, 2011 10:00 AM
Great post – good luck in your journey. Entering my 11th year as an admin-never regretted the decision to become one. I can safely say – the only thing I am sure of is getting to school – the rest is always up in the air – which you will find, is one of the best parts of the job! Enjoy the day.
Dale Brubaker permalinkSeptember 20, 2011 4:31 PM
Thank you, Suzie, for kicking off this excellent discussion of the realities of moving from the classsroom to the principalship.There is a recent book, Why the Principalship? Making the Leap from the Classroom (Rowman & Littlefield, Education) that takes us backstage on this journey with snapshots of real-life situations in the certification process. The snapshots are similar to the ones described via your first-rate writing that gives fair play to the head and heart.
Dale Brubaker permalinkSeptember 22, 2011 4:34 PM
You are an ideal candidate for a Ph.D. or Ed.D. program given your excellent writing skills and strong background in the social sciences. If interested, see Amazon.com under Advancing Your Career: Getting and Making the Most of Your Doctorate. The chapter titles will take you through all of the stages of this process. If you have any questions, please e-mail me at email@example.com
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- Bill Bonvillian – Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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- Laura Petes – National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
- Alia Schoen – Bloom Energy
- Albert Teich – George Washington University
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Robbie Barbero
From September 2012 to January 2017, Robbie worked in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy where he developed and implemented policy on a wide range of global and national life science issues, including the President's BRAIN Initiative, novel nutrient production platforms, genome editing, reducing the organ transplant waiting list, student agriculture innovation and entrepreneurship, developing world cancer diagnostics, biotechnology regulatory policy, and federal R&D agency budgets. Robbie is now the Chief Business Officer at Ceres Nanosciences, a small, venture-backed biotechnology company focused on the development and commercialization of innovative sample preparation products and diagnostic tests. Robbie has undergraduate and graduate degrees in biological engineering from Dartmouth and MIT. Between undergraduate and graduate school he spent five years working for three biotechnology startup companies in positions in quality control, process design, manufacturing, and customer support. At MIT, he worked in Angela Belcher's Biomolecular Materials Group on projects covering antimicrobial peptides, carbon capture, and industrial biocatalysts.
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Bill Bonvillian
William B. Bonvillian is a Lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in MIT's Science Technology and Society and Political Science Departments. He is an advisor on research projects at MIT's Industrial Performance Center and a senior director at MIT's Office of Digital Learning. Previously, he was Director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Washington, D.C. Office between 2006 and 2017, supporting MIT's historic role on national science and technology policy. He has been writing about advanced manufacturing since 2012, was an advisor to MIT's Production in the Innovation Economy study issued in 2013, and participated for MIT in the industry-university Advanced Manufacturing Partnership and its reports of 2011 and 2014. Prior to MIT, he served for over fifteen years as a senior policy advisor in the U.S. Senate working on innovation issues.
His upcoming book, Advanced Manufacturing – The New American Innovation Policies (with Peter L. Singer), will be released in the fall of 2017 by MIT Press. His 2015 book Technological Innovation in Legacy Sectors, with Charles Weiss of Georgetown, was published by Oxford University Press and takes up the challenge of bringing innovation to complex, established "legacy" economic sectors that constitute most of the economy. Their book Structuring an Energy Technology Revolution, published by MIT Press in 2009, proposed new models for energy technology innovation. He has written extensively on science and technology policy issues in numerous journals, including Science, Issues in Science and Technology, Nature, Science and Public Policy, Innovations, Annals of Science and Technology Policy, Environment, and American Interest.
He has lectured and given speeches before numerous organizations on science, technology and innovation questions, and is on the adjunct faculty at Georgetown and Johns Hopkins, as well as teaching at MIT. He is on the National Academies' standing committee for the Science Policy Forum, and served on five other Academies' committees. He serves on the AAAS Committee on Science Engineering and Public Policy, and on the Board of the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation. He was the recipient of the IEEE Distinguished Public Service Award in 2007 and was elected a Fellow by the AAAS in 2011.
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Meghan Houghton
Information Science and Engineering (CISE). Meghan supports an array of emerging CISE research frontiers, including Smart and Connected Communities, as well as cross-agency, industry, and international partnerships. Meghan is co-chair of the Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) Program's Smart Cities & Communities Task Force and executive secretary for the Computer Science for All Interagency Working Group under National Science and Technology Council's (NSTC) Committee on STEM Education. Meghan joined NSF in September 2015 as a AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellow. She earned her Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering with a Designated Emphasis in Biotechnology at the University of California, Davis, and B.E. Cum Laude at Vanderbilt University also in Biomedical Engineering. Prior to her AAAS Fellowship, Meghan was a Biomedical Engineer at VSP Global, a leading vision care provider.
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Matt Hourihan
Matt Hourihan is the director of the R&D Budget and Policy Program for the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), where he is a regular source of information and analyses on past, present, and future science budgets for policymakers and the science community. He has served in this position since 2011.
Prior to joining AAAS, he served as a clean energy policy analyst at the Information Technology & Innovation Foundation (ITIF). While at ITIF, he tracked federal energy R&D investments and innovation activities, and authored several white papers and policy briefs exploring the role of innovation in solving the nation's energy and climate challenges. He also regularly coordinated Congressional briefings, conferences, and events bringing together leading experts in government, industry, and academia. Previously, he served as Jan Schori Fellow at the Business Council for Sustainable Energy, a coalition of energy firms and utilities working to engage policymakers for market-based solutions to sustainable energy development and climate change.
As a student, he interned with the AAAS Center for Science, Technology and Congress, now the Office of Government Relations. He earned a masters degree in public policy with a focus on science and technology policy at George Mason University, and a B.A. in journalism from Ithaca College. He has also served as a cause communications professional and journalist in a variety of roles.
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Christopher King
Christopher King is the Executive Director of the Office of Congressional and Government Affairs at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine. Prior to joining the National Academies, Chris served as the Acting Assistant Secretary for the Office of Congressional and Intergovernmental Affairs at the U.S. Department of Energy where he advised the DOE Secretary and leadership on engagements with the U.S. Congress, state, tribal, city and county governments, and key external stakeholders. After joining the DOE in 2013, Chris served as a Senior Advisor in the Office of Energy Policy and Systems Analysis (EPSA) and, prior to that, as the Director of Policy Analysis for the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE). Before joining DOE, Chris spent over a decade on Capitol Hill, including as the Staff Director of the Energy and Environment Subcommittee for the U.S. House Science, Space and Technology Committee. During his tenure with the Committee, he was the chief advisor on Department of Energy matters and led a number of successful legislative initiatives, including passage of the America COMPETES Act and the establishment of the Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E). Mr. King is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin.
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Laura Petes
Laura Petes is the Manager of the Coastal Communities Program in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Office for Coastal Management and oversees implementation of the National Coastal Zone Management Program. The Program works with states and territories to address today's most pressing coastal issues and balance the demands of coastal resource use, economic development, and conservation. She previously served as Ecosystem Science Advisor in the NOAA Climate Program Office, where she worked to strengthen partnerships to advance integration of science into coastal decision making and management. Laura also served for three years as the Assistant Director for Climate Adaptation and Ecosystems at the White House Office of Science & Technology Policy (OSTP), where she led the Climate Resilience team and the OSTP resilience portfolio under President Obama's Climate Action Plan. She has been integrally involved in a number of major U.S. climate and ocean initiatives, including the National Ocean Policy and the National Climate Assessment. Laura is a marine ecologist by training, with expertise in the impacts of global change on coastal and marine ecosystems; she received a BA in Biology from Cornell University and a PhD in Zoology from Oregon State University. Her introduction to the policy world was through an American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Science & Technology Policy Fellowship at NOAA.
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Alia Schoen
Dr. Alia Schoen works as a Public Policy Manager on the policy and business development team at Bloom Energy, a stationary fuel cell manufacturer whose vision is to make clean, reliable energy affordable for everyone in the world. Alia received her bachelor's degree in the Integrated Science Program at Northwestern University, her master's degree in Biological Sciences from Stanford University, then worked in the Protein Chemistry department at Genentech for two and a half years. She returned to Stanford for her doctorate in Materials Science and Engineering where she developed protein-based materials to control inorganic nanomaterial synthesis and assembly. While completing her PhD, Alia developed an interest in science communication and volunteered as a science writer for the Materials Research Society. After graduation, she followed this interest further and sought out a Science Policy Fellowship through the California Council on Science and Technology (CCST). As a Science Policy Fellow she had the privilege of working in the California State Assembly for Assemblymember Das Williams, whose key interests included energy and the environment. Alia remains dedicated to the application of interdisciplinary scientific understanding and communication to societal challenges and continues to leverage her interdisciplinary education as well as her time in the CA State Assembly in her career at Bloom.
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Al Teich
Albert H. (Al) Teich is a Research Professor of Science, Technology & International Affairs at the Center for International Science & Technology Policy in the Elliott School of George Washington University in Washington, DC, a position he's held since February 2012. Prior to joining the GW faculty, he was director of Science & Policy Programs at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), where he was responsible for the Association's activities in science and technology policy, managed a staff of 40 people, and served as a key spokesman on science policy issues.
As a research professor, he has no teaching responsibilities and sets his own research agenda within science and technology policy, according to his interests and the availability of funding. Al is currently engaged in an NSF (National Science Foundation) funded study of the evolution of U.S. science policy research from the end of World War II to the present. In 2014, he completed a major project on U.S. visa policy for scientists and engineers, the results of which were published in the National Academies' journal, Issues in Science & Technology and subsequently excerpted in Slate. Other areas in which he is interested include (but are not limited to): globalization and its impacts on science and technology; budgeting and priority-setting in research; and the politics and administration of international "big science" institutions.
Al is a Fellow of AAAS; a member of the Board of Governors of the U.S.-Israel Binational Science Foundation (BSF) and chairman of the Board of the American Friends of the BSF; a member of the advisory committee to the S&T Fellows program of the California Council for Science and Technology; an honorary member of the Washington Science Diplomats Club; and a member of the Technical Advisory Committee to the Maine Space Grant Consortium.
He holds a B.S. in Physics (1964) and a Ph.D. in Political Science (1969), both from MIT.
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Isaah Vincent
Dr. Isaah Vincent joined the Office of Disease Prevention at the NIH as a Health Scientist in August 2016. He was awarded a 2016 Science and Technology Fellowship from the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and chose to serve in the Office of Disease Prevention during his fellowship. Dr. Vincent is interested in international scientific collaboration, and has collaborated with scientists in Dusseldorf, Germany. He is also actively involved in mentorship. He has trained three undergraduate mentees and organized postdoctoral skill and enrichment activities such as scientific and non-scientific audience presentations, as well as career development. His interests lie in fostering intra- and interagency scientific collaborations, performing portfolio analyses, and disseminating scientific communications to various audiences.
Dr. Vincent received a Bachelor of Science in Biology and a concurrent Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy from Iowa State University before going on to the University of Virginia to pursue his Ph.D. in Microbiology/Immunology in the laboratory of Victor Engelhard. In the Engelhard lab, he focused on the function of lymphocytes in the tumor microenvironment and hypoxic regulation of lymphocyte activation. He pursued a postdoctoral fellowship in the laboratory of Dr. Mark Okusa, focusing on regulation of chronic kidney disease and fibrosis by natural killer (NK) cells.

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With New York's Whitney Museum of American Art officially decamped to Lower Manhattan, the encyclopedic Metropolitan Museum of Art is slowly revealing its ambitions for their 8-year lease of the Whitney's former home, the Breuer Building. The Met has labeled this satellite "The Met Breuer" — but what will it be? According to early messaging, the space will house "a new series of exhibitions, performances, artist commissions, residencies, and educational initiatives," relating to contemporary and modern art.
The museum just announced the space's first program: an affiliate version of the technology, entertainment, design lecture series, TED Talks, called TEDxMet: The In-Between. The subtitle and theme refer to the status of the institution itself; per the promotional text, "no longer the Whitney Museum, and not yet open to the public as The Met Breuer, a building in-between." In keeping, its an interdisciplinary affair, with speakers from the visual arts, theater, and literature.
Though a consistently popular platform for "creative class" topics in digital culture, TED is a frequent whipping post of Twitter media people, and the subject of real critical address by the likes of Simon Denny and Daniel Keller and Benjamin Bratton, all of whom have shed important light on TED's uneasy associations with "Silicon Valley Logic." (The TED Talk is often held as the pseudo-messianic start-up founder platform of choice.)
Enxuto & Love, Art Project 2023
With TEDxMet as the inaugural event, moreover, the artist duo João Enxuto and Erica Love's Art Project 2023 is feeling particularly prescient. This is a video and a performative lecture (originally given at the Whitney on the occasion of the Shared Spaces conference the two co-organized) which foretells the fate of the Breuer Building. In its dystopian tale, due to a financial crisis, the Met can't renew its lease, so Google steps in to purchase the building for its Art Project. Not tech-friendly enough for their use, the building is then razed and a state-of-the-art facsimile is built on the site, the Breuer becoming a database and architectural shell for individuated, on-demand VR experiences of art.
We're not there yet, of course, and I'm not here to critique this program—in fact, I'd be thrilled to hear someone like Dawoud Bey speak in the context. Rather, I'm writing to highlight how TEDxMet reflects a shift that is at issue in my current editorial undertaking, The Born-Digital Art Institution, a Rhizome publication to be published next year by Sternberg Press. (I'll be speaking on the project at MuseumNext in late September in Indianapolis, and in London at the Goethe Institut in October.)
With the new space, the Met is in many ways following a well-known playbook—if an institution wants to signal its forward-looking perspective and general audience bona fides, and fill a program vacancy without the resources or the time traditionally afforded to primary museum projects, they often look to education programs, performance, residencies, and, perhaps, social practice artworks.
That the inaugural event is a TEDx event is notable, however, in that it evidences the ongoing transformation of the traditional curator-led art institution (centered on the production of exhibitions) to the more amorphous, admin- and programmer-led art institution, a shift coterminous to institutions thinking through the prism of digital distribution. (Enxuto and Love will be writing about this more in the forthcoming publication.) TEDx is an ideal format for museums looking for options beyond traditional curatorial production, really, in that its production costs can be kept minimal, in that its built for broadcast and circulation, in that it suggests cross-pollination with the sort of bold creativity thought to dwell around San Jose, a bold creativity highly valued by mass culture at the moment (as well as donors, sponsors, executives, etcetera).
The Breuer won't be razed anytime soon, but it's clear that, following the work being done institution-wide under Chief Digital Officer Sree Sreenivasan, the Met is open to a "digital-first," or perhaps really "digital-culture-first," program. We're all born-digital institutions now.


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Burns are among the most dreaded of personal injuries one can experience, and they can happen in many different situations. There might be some type of fire or explosion that occurs during an auto accident. In addition to burns on the skin, internal burning can happen to those who inhale too much smoke. There could be a short in an electric appliance because of faulty manufacturing. Or there could even be a child who suffers a serious burn, including severe sunburn, while under another's care. Burns can also happen in industrial settings, where a person may be exposed to unsafe chemicals.
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Alan Shearer is facing up to the fact that he has kicked his last ball of this season for Newcastle United.
The United skipper has accepted that he is facing further surgery on the knee injury which has plagued him for most of this season.
And this will also mean that Shearer will not play again this season.
Shearer will fly back to America in the next couple of weeks so that Dr Richard Steadman, one of the top specialists in the world, can have another look at his knee.
And the United skipper will not return to training until he gets the go-ahead from the Colorado surgeon.
Says Shearer: "United have sent further scans to Dr Steadman and he claims that while there has been some improvement, the knee is still not right.
"He has told me to start light jogging next week but if there is any pain I would have to stop straightaway.
"I will fly over to see Dr Steadman at his clinic again next month for another examination and I will just have to take it from there.
"I have been clinging to an outside chance that I might play again this season but this is not going to be possible.
"I have been preparing myself for the worst and if I need another operation then so be it."
Meanwhile, Bobby Robson says United's recent bad run is the worst he has ever experienced as a manager.


text: Brand MarketingDirect From Chicago, It's Howard DraftBy Aaron Baar|June 5, 2006 ShareBy Aaron Baar|June 5, 2006 ShareCHICAGO When Howard Draft started out in the advertising business, he applied for jobs at Chicago's two biggest agencies, Leo Burnett and J. Walter Thompson. They turned him down. Dejected, he fell back on his second choice: direct marketing. "When you come out of school, you don't want to be hired by a direct marketing agency," recalled Draft nearly 30 years later. "You wanted to be hired by a general agency."In the wake of last week's confirmation of the merger between his "below-the-line" agency (a term that Draft hates) and the traditional Foote Cone & Belding, Draft, a man not afraid to speak his mind, is precisely where he has wanted to be all along, leading not just a conventional ad agency, but a hybrid he believes is the future of marketing."I've been waiting for this," he said. "There's been a lot of times I felt if we could get a general agency to be part of us that we could change the game."Despite the daunting task in front of him, Draft last week described himself as being "at peace." And though he must merge two entities into one—along the way smoothing out client conflicts and meshing two cultures—as the newly installed CEO of a company with $1.1 billion in combined worldwide revenues, he has the chance to implement a vision he's had for many years.Draft, 52 years old, attended Ripon College in Ripon, Wis., graduating with a degree in art and philosophy. The small liberal arts college, he said, was the ideal place to learn that ideas are best exchanged in intimate, informal settings.I'm a firm believer that if you sit around and talk, that's how knowledge is transferred," he said. To foster conversation, he even shuns the use of a desk, preferring to work at a table with chairs. "A good company is a learning environment," Draft said.Creativity also plays a large role in Draft's approach to life, whether it's in the kitchen (he's known as an excellent cook) or at work, and he has spent a lot of time thinking about and building the ideal company."I think he's a visionary," said IPG CEO Michael Roth. "He's direct, as I am, and he's no-nonsense. … He builds teams, he collaborates."Draft wouldn't divulge figures, but sources estimate that his agency generates about $350 million in annual revenue and has worldwide margins of about 15 percent. As such, it's one of the few jewels in the Interpublic Group crown. Beyond the bottom line, Draft proudly boasts that his agency spends "a fortune" on training on all levels: "We'll spend more next year than I did the previous year." He talks about treating his employees with respect, and says being open and honest about mistakes, whether his or an employee's, is important. He's most proud of the fact that clients come into the agency and praise its collegial environment."He's smart without being pretentious and I think that's reflected in the culture of his agency," said Marta Cyhan, vice president of worldwide promotions for Kellogg Co. "I enjoy his no-nonsense approach to business problems and the fact that he doesn't take himself too seriously." "He has that combination of vision and a not-to-be-denied attitude," said John Dooner, CEO of sibling company McCann Worldgroup, who's known Draft for about 15 years. "He really believes in his product offering as being differentiating, and he delivers that. That's a cornerstone of his success. He's entrepreneurial. And you could have said all of these things about him 20 years ago."Apparently, he also works with what he has. Despite his initial disappointment at taking a job in direct marketing, Draft, who's type A, found that the discipline, with its immediate results and responsibilities, suited his impatient, easily bored personality. "I loved feeling like I was an entrepreneur running my own clients' businesses," he said.That spirit took hold in more ways than one. At 23—a year into his tenure in the marketing world—he and 12 of his colleagues left to form a startup called Kobs & Brady (later Kobs & Draft, then simply Draft). The move, Draft says, was made not because he and his colleagues thought they could do things differently or better. Rather, the need for direct marketers was growing and they were in the right place at the right time."It was a matter of the industry's fast growth," said the Chicago-area native, who was named chairman and CEO of the agency in 1988. "Opening a new agency was growing the distribution [of available DM options] that was out there."Such luck—a term he freely uses—is central to Draft's sense of his success. "I think I'm good. But I think there are hundreds of people who are smarter than me, and better than me," he said. "And I've been in the right place at the right time, and I've been able to take advantage of it."One such moment came in 1996, when Charles and Maurice Saatchi were ousted from Draft's then-parent Cordiant Communication. As soon as he heard the news, Draft, who had grown tired of Cordiant's myriad problems, headed straight to London to negotiate a buyback of his company, which he wound up getting for about $27 million. "I didn't have a clue how to pay for it. But I figured it out," he said.Draft claimed that if he had stuck around, he would have had the chance to become worldwide CEO of Saatchi as Ed Wax's successor. He turned down the opportunity because he didn't feel he knew enough about the agency to run it, and because he felt a sense of loyalty to his co-workers at Draft, who, like him, had had enough of Cordiant."I guess I was like Abraham Lincoln," Draft said. "I was going back and freeing the slaves so we could build our own country." (His mother, an adwoman who worked on the account side at FCB/Leber Katz Partners in Chicago—his father was a watch company executive—thought he was crazy.)Wax noted last week that he understood Draft's choice, and feels that his view of the changing marketing landscape held appeal even 10 years ago. "He didn't understand why he couldn't have [general] market accounts and do the advertising for them," Wax said. "He had a pretty good understanding of all the disciplines. This guy had a bigger view of life."And no one thought he was crazy when, less than a year later, in 1996, Draft sold the agency to Interpublic Group for a little more than $100 million, the highest price the company had ever paid up to that point for a single shop. Though Draft admitted to making money on the deal, he was quick to note that he shared the bounty with 22 of his partners at the agency."His loyalty is amazing," said Laurence Boschetto, whom Draft named worldwide president and COO of Draft (and his eventual successor) earlier this year. "Once you've built your trust with him and you've proven your worth, he's blindingly loyal."It's a trait that Draft prides himself on. He often comments about how important the people around him are to his success. "My feeling is, if you've got good people—they don't have to be great people—but if you've got good people, whose hearts and souls are in the right place, you can build a great company," said Draft. "People will work hard and long if it's an environment they enjoy."One executive who got to know Draft through the merger negotiations praised his style: "He's ridiculously good at making people feel a part of the process … listening to his people, all of his constituents." He added that as news broke about the merger, Draft made a point of calling some senior FCB executives to assure them of their importance.Draft is not without his detractors. Some sources wonder if there hasn't been a ruthlessness to his ascent. "He's trampled on a lot of people in his career," said one executive. "He took all the credit and stole all the thunder." Draft admits that climbing to the top can leave some bruised egos. "I have very little patience for people who don't have the client's best interests first," said Draft, who thinks of himself as more diplomatic than political. "If that's ruthless, then I'm ruthless.""It's not about personal loyalty to him. It's about loyalty to the business," said Draft Chicago managing director Tony Weisman, who has been with the agency for four years. "Do the right thing for the client or the business and you'll be fine." He can also come across as a bit gruff and is comfortable telling tasteless jokes, though some say that demeanor is more a way to test his audience than a true measure of the man, who has made charitable work a cornerstone of the agency and is quick to grant time off for employees to spend time with their families."He's always been respectful of me and the other women that he's worked with," said Yvonne Furth, president of Draft Chicago, who's worked with Draft for 25 years. "He always understands if there's personal life balance issues to deal with."He is also, say many, extremely sharp. "There's more to Howard than meets the eye," said Jerry Judge, former worldwide CEO of Lowe. "He seems kind of relaxed and sometimes disengaged. Actually, he's unbelievably smart."Draft responds to such praise with self deprecation, joking that smarts could be more a negative than a positive. What is important to him, he said, is to be fair. For example, when buying the agency back from Cordiant, he included a provision that allowed the former owner to profit if he ever re-sold the shop. "Fair is a good word for me," Draft said. "Greed is a bad word."And now that he's achieved success equal to (if not a bit beyond) his imagination, the charismatic exec says the reason he gets up in the morning is, in part, because he's comfortable with the people around him. "I'm still working in an environment with people that I love and respect," he said. "When your name's on the door and you've grown up with your management, it's almost like family."—with Andrew McMains and Kathleen Sampey Sharehttp://adweek.it/2kFF94V copy Adweek Adweek


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Thursday, August 21, 2014
Congrats to my friend Marti!
My friend, guild mate and fellow blogger Marti has just reached 600 followers! Woo hoo!
She's giving away a copy of Essential Guide to Modern Quilt Making that I've signed. I'm honored that she chose that for her prize.
Go on over to her blog to enter to win, if you are interested. Especially hop over to check out her blog. She is incredibly generous with a sassy wit and a total quilt-making machine. I can only make that many quilts in my dreams!
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Tuesday, August 5, 2014
Good Vibrations in Quilts and More
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I'm so excited to announce my first ever pattern published in a magazine! The project I designed (and sewed and even quilted myself!) is called Good Vibrations and can be found in the Fall 2014 Quilts and More. It's a little modern, will look fantastic in many different fabrics, and is very easy to piece. The small lap-sized quilt definitely packs a visual punch. The issue should hit the newsstands on August 12.
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I even made the cover, down there on the lower right! You can see the other featured projects from this issue, here: www.allpeoplequilt.com/fall There are some excellent ones. I'm definitely making a Petite Chic quilt (by Emily Herrick of Crazy Old Ladies) for my cousin's yet to be born baby out of a layer cake from my stash.
It is an amazing full-circle moment for me since that magazine division cannot be more responsible for me getting into quilting. I freelanced for them right out of college where the then editor Heidi Kaisand encouraged me to borrow one of their sewing machines, and the rest is history. I wrote about it a bit more, years ago, in another post.
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I have to say a special thank you to Art Gallery for the gorgeous fabrics. If anyone is interested in copying this look, they are Carnaby St. by Pat Bravo along with some of their basics. I know I can still get these prints at one of my LQS, and some of them have been added to their basics lines and coordinate with some of their newer collections, too. I'm a huge Art Gallery fan! Their fabrics sew like butter and they have some of my favorite fabric designs, plus they have a deep selection of lovely basic prints.
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Friday, August 1, 2014
Modern Provence mug rug
|The mug rug in its new home
The very best part is that Lyn loved it! She sent me this photo of her tea wares on it and it is perfect. It helped that she was so descriptive about what she wanted, and it warms my heart to see she enjoys it. Her sugar bowl is gorgeous, too.
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1/2 c butter chilled and sliced
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8 fresh rip peaches peeled, pitted, and sliced
3 tbl lemon juice
1/2 tsp nutmeg
1/4 tsp cinnamon
Preheat oven to 350'. In a small mixing bowl, combine brown sugar & flour. Add butter and mix with a pastry blender until crumbly; stir in oats. In a glass pie dish, toss peaches with lemon juice, nutmeg, and cinnamon. Sprinkle peaches liberally with topping and bake for about 25 minutes. Makes 4 servings.
Serve with warm fresh whipped cream or yummy vanilla ice cream:>
** Things I did differently were: I don't have a pastry blender,so I used a wooden spoon. I also just baked mine in a metal pie pan with high sides. We served it with vanilla ice cream. It was so yummy!


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I am having an issue with my IP 7000's and not see an external mic using a long C-Link cable (Part # 2457-29051-001) 50ft C-Link.
I can not find anything that shows a max distance in regards to the cable lenght and using and IP 7000 and it's external Mic.
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Hello CaptCrunch, welcome to the Polycom Community. Polycom offers the following:
CLink 2 cable, HDX microphone array cable. Walta to Walta. 50 ft. Connects HDX microphone to HDX microphone/SoundStation IP7000 or HDX microphone to HDX System.HDX 9000 CLink input requires Walta to RJ-45 adapter.
As you can see above is the same as you are using and should be working.
You should ensure that the connector is plugged in the right way as using force you can plug it in the incorrect way and damage the connector.
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Date: Jan 24, 2020
Location: TALLAHASSEE, FL, US, 32316
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Requisition No: 2645
Agency: Department of Health
Working Title: OPS HEALTH SUPPORT AIDE - 64937216
Position Number: 64937216
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Posting Closing Date: 05/20/2020
School Health Aide Position:
10 Month Schedule (Aug-May)
35 Hours per week
The School Health Aide, under the supervision of the Senior Community Health Nurse(RN), provides school health services to students, staff, families and school visitors. This school health position will work a 10 month, school year calendar with time off during Winter Break, Spring Break, and the summer. In this position you will assist in the delivery of health services to public school students, for the improvement of their health status with the goal of optimal health so health issues will not interfere with their education at school. After a planned orientation to familiarize the employee with the Leon County Health Department, the employee will be able to function as a paraprofessional in the school health room setting under the close oversight of the (Senior) Community Health Nurse. Responsibilities and duties include maintaining a cooperative, caring relationship with students and their parents/guardians, school staff, and Leon County Health Department staff/supervisors.
Duties are as follows:
- Triages student complaints, observe their health status, provide comfort measures, first aid, and /or CPR to ill or injured children following the regulations and procedures established by the Leon County Public School System, the Leon County Health Department, the Florida State Department of Education.
- Implements federal, state, and local laws, regulations, and procedures related to school health services.
- Implements laws, regulations, policies and procedures to control communicable disease within the school setting.
- Maintains daily, monthly, and yearly statistics on health room services for reporting purposes to code in HMS EARS and Health Master.
- Perform clerical duties regarding health services that include:
- Organize, file, and maintain health information in a confidential manner .
- Documentation of health services provided.
- Maintain the clinic supply inventory.
- Assist the school nurse with students' health record review and follow up, using emergency clinic cards.
- Administers medication to students per policy and procedure, maintaining student medications and records per policy and procedure.
- Assists with blood glucose monitoring, insulin administration, and carbohydrate counting for Diabetic students.
- Identifies and documents students with health problems and refers students to the SCHN (school nurse).
- Enters services provided to each student in their individual health record on Health Master.
- Communicates necessary medical information in a timely manner to parents/guardians, the school nurse, and appropriate school personnel while maintaining confidentiality.
- Maintains emergency procedure information for students and staff.
- Maintains a back-up notebook in the event of absence or technical difficulties.
- Establishes and maintains open communication and a cooperative relationship with students, staff, parents, and community.
- Maintains a clean, safe, and adequately stocked health room.
- Ability to accept supervisory direction.
- Ability to perform specialized medical procedures for students after receiving child specific training and delegation of task by the school nurse. (i.e) Insulin administration, blood glucose monitoring and/or CPR.
- Ability to establish and maintain effective communication, both orally and in writing, with school administrators, central office personnel, faculty, staff, parents and students.
- Ability to provide a supportive atmosphere for students and staff while assuring appropriate health room use.
Service Orientation Actively looking for ways to help people
Social Perceptiveness Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react the way they do
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Speaking Ability to communicate competently with tact and listen effectively
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If you are a retiree of the Florida Retirement System (FRS), please check with the FRS on how your current benefits will be affected if you are re-employed with the State of Florida. Your current retirement benefits may be canceled, suspended, or deemed ineligible depending on the date of your retirement.
Incumbents may be required to perform emergency duty before, during, and/or beyond normal work hours or days.
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Candidates requiring a reasonable accommodation, as defined by the Americans with Disabilities Act, must notify the agency hiring authority and/or People First Service Center (1-866-663-4735). Notification to the hiring authority must be made in advance to allow sufficient time to provide the accommodation.
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1725 Senex Elephant Folio Map of Asia (Sea of Korea and Eastern Sea)AsiaCorrected-senex-1725
An extraordinary and rare elephant folio map of Asia naming boh the Sea of Korea and the Eastern Sea.
1725 (undated) 26.5 x 38.5 in (67.31 x 97.79 cm) 1 : 13000000
Extending northeast from Siberia is a curious peninsular mountain range under which Senex notes
It is not known where this chain of mountain ends or whether they are not joined to some other Continent.This oddity appears on numerous maps dating from the late 17th and early 19th century. It is a legacy of Peter the Great's obsession over the search for a Northeast Passage. Around 1648 the Cossock Semen Ivanovich Dezhnyov (1605 - 1673) put together a rough and ready expedition to explore the region. His company consisted of Fedot Alekseyev traveling with the merchants Andreev and Afstaf'iev (representing the Guselnikov merchant house), who provided their own ship. Gerasim Ankudinov, an experienced sea captain with his own ship and some 30 men. Dezhnev, along with Mikhail Stadukhin recruit some 19 men of his own and procured a traditional kocha ship. Including escort vessels, a total seven ships sailed from the mouth the Kolyma River, along the Siberian Arctic, to the Anadyr River north of Kamchatka, and in doing so became the first Europeans to sail through the Bering Strait some 80 years before Vitus Bering. Dezhnyov described rounding a large mountainous promontory Chukchi, Tschuktschi, or Chukotka Peninsula. Of the seven vessels the multiple leaders, only three ships, and Dezhnev survived the passage. His expedition was mostly forgotten outside of limited cartographic circles until Gerhardt Friedrich Muller discovered Dezhnyov's reports and in 1758 published them. Dezhnyov ultimately proved that there was indeed a nautical route from Russia to Asia, but at the same time confirmed that it was exceedingly impractical for trade. Nonetheless his promontory was subsequently embraced by European cartographers who, lacking serious scientific data from the Dezhnyov expedition, surmised the form. The first of these was Dutchman Nicholaas Witsen, who prepared a map in 1687 based upon Dezhnyov's records that he discovered on a 1665 trip to Moscow. Many cartographers follows suit, though some, like Senex here, even went so far as to suggest that this landmass actually connected to America, and in doing so, both embraced and dismissed Dezhnyov.
Korea or Corea is present, if misshapen and squared off, in roughly the correct location. The sea between Japan and Korea, whose name, the 'Sea of Korea,' 'East Sea,' or the 'Sea of Japan,' is here identified in favor of Korea (The Eastern or Corea Sea). Historically, Korea has used the term 'East Sea' since 59 B.C., and many books published before the Japanese annexed Korea make references to the 'East Sea' or 'Sea of Korea.' Over time, neighboring and western countries have identified Korea's East Sea using various different terms. The St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences referred to the East Sea as 'Koreiskoe Mope' or 'Sea of Korea' in their 1745 map of Asia. Other seventeenth and 18th century Russian maps alternate between 'Sea of Korea' and 'Eastern Ocean.' The 18th century Russian and French explorers Adam Johan von Krusenstern and La Perouse called it the 'Sea of Japan,' a term that became popular worldwide. Nonetheless, the last official map published by the Russians name the East Sea the 'Sea of Korea.' The name is currently still a matter of historical and political dispute between the two countries.
At the northeastern most extreme of the map we can find a large landmass extending eastward towards North America labeled 'Land of Compagnia.' Senex further expounds that
This coast [was] discovered by John de Gama on a voyage made from China to New Spain. This is hopeful at best. What this map actually describes are lands discovered by Maerten de Vries and Cornelis Jansz Coen in 1643. The Vries-Coen expedition was launched in response to an obscure Spanish legend associated with the supposed c. 1590 voyage of Portuguese navigator Juan de Gama (Jao de Gama) which told of gold and silver rich islands somewhere to the east of Japan. These islands were said to be so saturated in precious metals that the tall, friendly, light skinned inhabitants even fashioned their homes out of gold. As improbable as it may seem, the idea inspired at least two expeditions to the region. Anthony Van Diemen, the director of the Dutch East India Company in the Indies, initiated an unsuccessful first expedition under Abel Jansz Tasman and Matthijs Hendricksz Quast in 1639, and a second more interesting expedition under Maerten de Vries and Cornelis Jansz Coen in 1643. It is this latter mission that most influenced the present map. The expedition followed the southeast coast of Hokkaido (here identified correctly as Yedso) in a northeasterly direction where it encountered the westermost Kuril Islands, Kunashir and Iturop, before sailing westward where the navigators correctly identified the fork-like peninsulas of southern Sakhalin, but not the strait that separated them from Hokkaido - here Senex wisely notes
It is not known if the country of Yedso be join'd to Japan or not.From Sakhalin they again sailed south into more known waters. Vries and Coen were the first Europeans to enter these waters, which were in fact little known even to the Japanese. They made early contact with the indigenous Ainu people of Hokkaido, who they noted had silver-hilted daggers. (There is a curious note in Hokkaido (Yedso) which identifies the 'Anthony Pike Mines of Silver,' but we have not been able to identify a source for this curiosity.) They were the first to discover the Kuril Islands, here identified as 'Estates I.' (a variant on Staten Eyland) and 'Land of Compagnia (more commonly Gama). 'Estates I.' is in fact a reasonable approximation of Kunashir, the westernmost of the Kuril Island, while 'Compagnia' is, according to the convention of the period, a grossly overstated speculation on Iturop.
Senex maps the apocryphal Lake of Chiamay roughly in what is today Assam, India. Early cartographers postulated that such a lake must exist to source the four important Southeast Asian river systems: the Irrawaddy, the Dharla, the Chao Phraya, and the Brahmaputra. This lake began to appear in maps of Asia as early as the 16th century and persisted well into the mid-18th century. Its origins are unknown but may originate in a lost 16th century geography prepared by the Portuguese scholar Jao de Barros. It was also heavily discussed in the journals of Sven Hedin, who believed it to be associated with Indian legend that a sacred lake linked several of the holy subcontinent river systems. There are even records that the King of Siam led an invasionary force to take control of the lake in the 16th century. Nonetheless, the theory of Lake Chiamay was ultimately disproved and it disappeared from maps entirely by the 1760s.
This map was drawn and engraved by John Senex in London. It was published by T. Bowles and T. Bowles and Son. The decorative allegorical cartouche in the upper left quadrant was designed and engraved by H. Hulsbergh. It was most likely printed in John Senex's Modern Geography; or, All the Known Countries in the World.
John Senex (1678 - 1740) was an English engraver and map maker active in London during the first half of the 18th century. Senex was born to upper middle class parents in Shropshire, England. As a young man, he was apprenticed to Robert Clavell, a London bookseller and member of the Stationers' Company, under whom he mastered the arts of engraving and printmaking. Around 1702 Senex completed his apprenticeship and established himself as a printer and bookseller in the Strand. A year later Senex partnered with Jeremiah Seller and Charles Prince, the successors to the important mapmaker John Seller, and relocated to Cornhill. This was likely Senex's first introduction to mapmaking though he seems to have taken to it with abandon. In the subsequent years Senex established himself as one of the most prominent cartographers in London, publishing a number of beautiful and important maps that today rank among the finest examples from the Golden Age of British Cartography. In addition to a large corpus of flat maps, Senex also produced a number of important and highly desirable globes. Eventually Senex dissolved his partnership with Seller and Prince and relocated to Fleet Street, where he maintained offices until his death in 1740. Senex was succeeded by his widow, Mary Senex, who continued to publish and update his works until about 1755, when the remaining globe and map plates were sold to James Ferguson.
The Bowles family ( fl. c. 1714 - 1832 ) were publishers and map sellers active in London from c. 1714 to c. 1832. The firm, under Thomas Bowles ( fl. 1714 - 1763), John Bowles (1701-1779), Carrington Bowles (1724 - 1793), and as Bowles and Carver (fl. 1794 - 1832), produced a massive corpus of work that included numerous atlases, pocket maps , and wall maps. The Bowles publishing tradition was kept alive over four generations starting with Thomas Bowles who was a print engraver in the late 17th century. The first maps issued by the firm were actually produced by his son, Thomas Bowles the second, who based in self in St. Paul's Churchyard, London. Thomas's brother, John Bowles (called "Old John Bowles" or "Black Horse Bowles" by those who knew his shop), was also an active publisher and was established at no. 13 Cornhill. It is said that he was one of the first publishers of William Hogarth's works. It was here that John's son, Carrington Bowles, was introduced to the trade. Carrington took over the Cornhill bookshop and eventually merged it with his uncles shop in St. Paul's Churchyard. On Carrington's death in 1793, the business was passed to his son Henry Carrington Bowles, who partnered with Samuel Carver, renaming the firm, Bowles and Carver. Under this imprint the firm continued to publish maps and atlases until the early 1830s.


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"…there are plenty of amazing people talking about intersectional issues in various ways, both within and outside of the vegan community, but my hope is that T.O.F.U. can showcase their voices and concerns in a way that appeals to people who wouldn't normally pick-up a zine, attend a rally, or join a group that tackles issues outside of the person's usual bubble."
Q & A with Ryan Patey
Editor & Co- Founder of T.O.F.U. Magazine
Founded in 2007 and released in Spring that year, Canadian based T.O.F.U. Magazine has a primary focus on various forms of oppression related to veganism. Published digitally since its inception, T.O.F.U. magazine's most recent (tenth) issue was released in print as well, thanks to the support of a Kickstarter campaign. A unique publication in the landscape of magazines about veganism, T.O.F.U. magazine is active across social media platforms, moving towards print as well as digital expansion.
Why was T.O.F.U. Magazine founded? What inspired its establishment?
We founded T.O.F.U. based on the success of two previous cookbooks and a dining guide to Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. The first cookbook had been created to raise money for an outdoor festival that I was organizing in the city to protest the state of the all-ages music scene, and we simply kept publishing things since people were interested.
From there, it seemed appropriate to do something bigger, and a magazine just felt like the logical next step. We were inspired by Herbivore Magazine (R.I.P.), which was being printed out of Portland, Oregon in the United States at the time. Similar to them, we wanted to showcase veganism and demonstrate to the world that vegans did more than eat granola and protest. Of course, we covered that stuff too!
Where was T.O.F.U. Magazine founded?
T.O.F.U. was founded in both Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada and Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada since I was living in Winnipeg and my former partner was living in Halifax at the time.
Where is T.O.F.U. Magazine currently based?
I suspect the fact that T.O.F.U. was founded in two cities is probably part of the reason why it's never really settled in one place. Of course, the fact that its publisher, namely me, has a seemingly endless interest in traveling doesn't help either.
With that in mind, T.O.F.U. is currently based on Vancouver Island in British Columbia for the next few months until I head to Ontario, Newfoundland, and then Ireland by the fall.
Is T.O.F.U. Magazine monthly, bimonthly, quarterly or other?
For a number of reasons, T.O.F.U.'s release schedule has been sporadic, and I battled with this for several years. Eventually, I came to terms with the fact that I was more concerned with the quality of the magazine than its quantity. So, I started to concentrate on releasing issues only when I had a certain focus in mind.
However, as of September 2014, I quit my full-time job to focus on the magazine, so I'm hoping for things to become a little more frequent (assuming I don't have to get a "real" job any time soon). Since then, I've released three issues, including a crowdfunded, printed anthology, and I'm now working on issue #11.
What themes does T.O.F.U. Magazine cover?
Over the years, T.O.F.U. has covered a number of themes, but the current overarching one is a focus on the intersection of various forms of oppression in relation to veganism. Thus, the last few issues have covered such things as sexism, fat shaming, racism, and more in relation to the animal rights movement and the vegan community.
Along with this, each issue typically includes a number of pieces on more general topics such as city or country reviews, do it yourself articles, and pieces showcasing activism around the world. In the past, recipes have also been included, but I suspect future issues will be recipe free since there are more than enough ways to get vegan recipes these days.
T.O.F.U. Magazine is a solely a digital publication correct? What was the motivation in establishing it in digital form?
Up until this year, T.O.F.U. had been released digitally since its fourth issue. Now, thanks to the success of a Kickstarter campaign, the tenth issue of T.O.F.U. was printed and I hope to continue this with the next issue. Of course, there are serious costs to consider with this move, so time will tell what happens.
As for the use of the digital format, one of the key reasons I made the switch was due to cost. However, other things such as my travelling and need to minimize what I carry, and the ability to offer each issue through a pay-what-you-want platform, also made the decision easy.
Another benefit of the switch to digital and the decreased production cost was the creation of the T.O.F.U. Grant. Thanks to its digital format, I was able to provide a small grant to a chosen recipient for half of the advertising revenue upon the release of a new issue. Now, with the tentative move to print, I'm not sure how I'll continue the grant, but I'm hopeful I can figure out a way!
Does T.O.F.U. Magazine utilize social media for any specific reasons? If so, what social media platforms are preferred and why?
Before I even started publishing the magazine, I was involved in the music scene in Atlantic Canada, so I tried to keep an eye on social media. At that point, it was basically just MySpace and something called Facebook had people talking. From there, I tried to keep up with as much of it as possible, and eventually even ended up working in social media with my previous job.
So, for T.O.F.U., I use a majority of the platforms and try to cater to their typical audiences. Outside of the usual things like Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, Google+, YouTube, and tumblr, I've also started using Periscope, Reddit, and even a vegan social media platform called VeganWall.
Personally, I find Instagram to be the most rewarding in terms of people actually seeing and engaging with what I post, but I'm also expecting to find a lot of benefits from YouTube and Periscope as I continue to find new ways to create video content.
Since the magazine showcases vegans from around the world, I love being able to connect with people from all over through social media, and things like Periscope allow that to happen in real time, which is really intriguing.
With rising interest in veganism, the landscape of vegan publications, print and digital is growing as well. Where do you see T.O.F.U. Magazine within this landscape?
I'm pretty happy with where T.O.F.U. is at the moment in terms of the vegan publication landscape, but there's always room for growth. The plan to move back to print is a part of that, but I'm also hoping to find ways to expand on the digital end of things too.
Also, given T.O.F.U.'s focus on more than just veganism itself, I think it covers an interesting aspect of the community that isn't getting enough attention from other major publications, and it certainly isn't being done to this degree.
Sure, there are plenty of amazing people talking about intersectional issues in various ways, both within and outside of the vegan community, but my hope is that T.O.F.U. can showcase their voices and concerns in a way that appeals to people who wouldn't normally pick-up a zine, attend a rally, or join a group that tackles issues outside of the person's usual bubble.
What needs and desires does T.O.F.U. Magazine satisfy for its readers?
At this point, I think the typical T.O.F.U. reader is someone who isn't looking for reasons to become a vegan. They already are, and most likely have been for some time. With this in mind, the magazine aims to address issues beyond veganism that are somehow related and should be considered within a person's activism. Basically, I'm not trying to convince someone about what they should have for dinner, I'm hoping to show them reasons why their activism should go beyond what's already on their plate.
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We do a pretty good job, as parents, teachers and church leaders of teaching our Laurels and Priests about casual dating. We repeatedly instruct pre-missionaries to date in groups and to avoid going steady until after their missions. (See "Is Teenage Romance Harmless? Why do Adults Encourage It?") We also give a great deal of counsel to returned missionaries. Once they return from their missions we encourage them to pair off and date exclusively.
Youth receive very little direction, however, about appropriate boy-girl relationships for 12 to 15 year-olds. Youth from 12 to 14 aren't usually invited to our youth conferences or Especially for Youth activities. They don't hear much about dating. As a result, our 12 to 15-year-olds often flounder, guess, and scramble for direction regarding their boy-girl relationships. Often times they copy older adolescents because they have no other paradigm to copy.


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Equipping and modernizing grids with both software and hardware is monumental to keeping pace with the changing global market. International Energy Outlook reports the energy consumption of the world will increase by 28 percent before 2040. Also, what can raise more concerns is the fact that the prevailing electrical grids across the globe are incompatible with such a drastic change. Thus the only way to keep things going is to modernize the grids in use with technological innovations.
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Very disturbing news from California: A 29-year-old sailor is found dead at Camp Pendleton and a "person of interest", a fellow servicemen, is being held in the homicide of the black gay man, the San Diego Union Tribune reports:
The body of August Provost of Houston was discovered in a guard shack on the western edge of the base sometime during the predawn hours, said Doug Sayers, a spokesman for Navy Region Southwest. An autopsy was scheduled for Wednesday to determine the cause of death. The Naval Criminal Investigative Service, which is looking into the death, has taken a 'person of interest' into custody in connection with the case. Charges have not been filed, Sayers said.
Provost enlisted in the Navy in March 2008, and was a boatswain mate seaman who worked on hovercrafts. Provost's Facebook page confirms he is 29-years-old and interested in "men and women." On his MySpace page, Provost referenced dating men and identified another Houston man as "the love of my life."
The suspect is being held at the nearby Miramar Marine Corps Air Station. At least two reports suggest the deceased was involved in a relationship with a man. San Diego gay activists report having "credible" information Provost had previous run-ins with fellow sailors and want NCIS to investigate this as a possible hate crime, NBC 6 reports.
The homicide of August Provost III came on the same day Defense Secretary Robert Gates claimed the Pentagon hoped to make "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" investigations—and attitudes toward gay and lesbian servicemembers—more "humane."
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Monday, 9 August 2010
Are you creating Road Rage Kids?
Are you creating mini road ragers? As parents of little ones, we often find ourselves trying desperately to get somewhere quickly – whether it's to be on time for a swimming lesson, or just because the kids are bored in the back seat and driving you mad. The too-chirpy children's music is getting on your nerves, the baby is grizzling, and wouldn't you believe it – you're cut off by some Sunday Driver who's not even paying attention to where he's going.
So what do you do?
I'm the least road-ragey person there is and usually just hang out and sing along with the children's CD. I'm not the most confident driver, and I can't parallel park to save my life, but I respect the road and the people on it. It's not the end of the world if I arrive at my destination 30 seconds later because someone cut in front of me. My friend G on the other hand prefers to drive closer and closer to the offending driver until he's nearly on their bumper, and my friend D gets pretty creative with his use of colourful language. My friend S has been known to slam the brakes and get out of her car. With toddlers sitting innocently in the back seat, taking it all in.
It's bad enough that the kids are learning some pretty awful behaviour, but I can't bear the thought of what would happen if the driver in front played the same game and slammed on the brakes, or jumped out of the car too. I'm sure I can't be the only one who thinks road rage is irresponsible and potentially dangerous, especially for those of us with little ones who rely on us for their safety.
With these scenarios in mind, the people over at AXA Car Insurance are running a campaign called AXA Respect on the Road. Have a read of our favourite bits below, and get involved by liking their Facebook fan page (www.facebook.com/irespecttheroad), and sending in your photos or stories.
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ha - funny video! It's true too, adults are crazy...on the road!ReplyDelete
I think people will always be crazy and have road rage though...good idea to fight against it..let's see if it works.ReplyDelete
Yeah by teaching our children bad manners on the road when we act up is prolonging road rage in general. They learn from us so we need to be careful!ReplyDelete
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The colour comes out really bright on my camera for some reason, it should be a bit more subdued than that. It's not all that chromey either TBH but it's a nice enough colour. Not really the sort of colour I have on my nails. Hair, yes, but not the nails.
I needed glitter, lots of glitter.
I'm useless at taking pix of glitter
Saffron Colour 09 was the perfect glitter for the pinky-red base, the colours matched almost perfectly. I put on two coats then started getting a bit twitchy for the Konad. Oh, 'ere we go ...
I initially resisted my newest addiction by sponging the nail tips in the BYS dark pinky-red, and it all looked really, really good. I know this because I kept looking at it, thinking, "ooh, that looks nice". However, the camera disagreed and reluctantly squeezed out the blurry glitter pic on the left.
I Konaded it eventually, using the stars on Bundlemonster plate BM14 and some Stargazer Chrome Silver 232 polish, which is the bollocks for stamping with, the silver comes out beautifully -- it's much better than the Konad Special Silver polish, in fact. It's also very reasonably priced and available from Stargazer or eBay, wahey!
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The last day to enter the US Open field is June 13th and that leaves some big names out. Here are some faces that might be missing from the tournament.
Ian James Poulter: He is down to #85 in world rankings. He has played in 12 consecutive U.S. Opens and is a Ryder Cup giant. Poulter is an English professional golfer who plays the PGA Tour and the European Tour. He has previously been ranked as high as number 5 in the world rankings. He is out for four months to nurse an injury of the foot. The European Talisman for the Ryder Cup has put a question mark on his ability to even play the team event though the final word on that hasn't been spoken.
Luke Donald: He has spent over 200 weeks in the top ten, was world # 1 in 2012 and since has slipped to 77th in rankings. In 2011, he won the PGA Tour money list and European Race to Dubai to complete a historic double, becoming the first player to win both money lists on the PGA and European Tours in the same year
Hunter Mahan: He has slipped in the world rankings to 143rd slicing his chances off. He has won two World Golf Championship events, the 2010 WGC-Bridgestone Invitational and the 2012 WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship.
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