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Justine DeVito Tenney is a Partner at WeiserMazars LLP, one of the largest accounting and consulting firms in the US, and manages WeiserMazars' Private Business Group out of Weiser's Lake Success office.
Justine is a graduate of St. John's University, where she earned a BS in Accounting, minoring in Economics, and later, an MBA in Finance. Justine began her career at a "big eight" accounting firm, at the time as one of the few women who were working in the field of public accounting. She started a family, and was an early pioneer in work life balance. While her three children were young, she worked on a flex-time basis (almost unheard of at that time) for a local CPA firm in New York City. She also was an assistant professor and taught accounting courses at St. Francis College and Wagner College. Eventually, she took on greater responsibilities at the firm, and became its first woman partner in 1987.
At WeiserMazars, Justine draws on her many years of experience to assist professional service firms, not-for-profit organizations, emerging businesses and high-net worth family groups and is proud to be considered a trusted advisor by her clients. She has broad experience in both taxes and accounting, and has developed a specialty practice in providing accounting services to business entities, including acting as CFO and handling the complete accounting function for clients, eliminating their need for an internal accounting department. She also has developed and manages a Family Office practice, where the personal business needs of individual clients and family groups are served.
In addition to being a CPA, Justine has the Personal Financial Specialist (PFS) designation from the AICPA, and is a Certified Financial Planner (CFP). She assists her clients with tax and financial planning, including wealth transfers, charitable gifting strategies and provides guidance on cash and asset management.
Justine is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants, and National Organization of Italian American Women, participates in the St. John's University Executive in Residence Program, has served on the Board of Governors of Bishop Loughlin Memorial High School and is a member of the Bishop McDonnell Memorial High School Alumnae Committee. She was one of the founders of the Weiser Women's Network, which was established to focus on career development for Weiser's talented women professionals.
Justine has written numerous articles for business publications and enjoys speaking to groups of entrepreneurs about accounting tax, and financial issues facing emerging businesses.State: New York


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Oyster Bay 'Newlyweds' couple, Kathryn Bougadis and John Lagoudes, expecting first child
OH, BABY. That's the news Monday night on Bravo's "Newlyweds: The First Year" as Oyster Bay's Kathryn Bougadis and John Lagoudes reveal in previously recorded footage that they're expecting. "We discussed both wanting kids right away" during their courtship, Bougadis, 33, tells Newsday. "I have always loved children and helped raised my sister's three kids -- always yearning for children of my own. John was turning 40 the following year and wanted to hurry up now that he was still able to run around and play with them." Bougadis has continued to run the couple's tanning salon in Nesconset since their child's recent birth. "I make visits to the salon from time to time with the baby and am still heavily involved with the day-to-day management." Does the couple want more children? "We are ready for baby number two," Bougadis says.
MASTERCHEF LONG ISLAND. Christopher Ciccone of Ronkonkoma, one of the season-four contestants on Fox's "MasterChef," premiering Wednesday at 8 p.m., is throwing a viewing party that night at Stony Brook University's Simons Center Café, where he's the chef. Call 631-632-2881 for more information.
FINALES. Soap star Ingo Rademacher and professional partner Kym Johnson were cut, leaving singer Kellie Pickler, actress Zendaya Coleman, football player Jacoby Jones and Olympic gymnast Aly Raisman and their partners on the two-night finale of ABC's "Dancing With the Stars," Monday night at 8 and Tuesday at 9 p.m.
RECAPS. Central Islip's Barret Beyer, sous chef at The Emporium in Patchogue, and Ray Alongi were both eliminated on "Hell's Kitchen"... "Survivor: South Pacific" veteran John Cochran won "Survivor: Caramoan -- Fans vs. Favorites"... and "The Voice" eliminated Garrett Gardner and the monomial Vedo to leave the top 10 finalists.

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Supervisors OK land lease to animal shelter
The Emmet County Board of Supervisors Thursday approved a long-term land lease to the Emmet Animal Shelter.
The lease – for $1 a year and extending to Dec. 31, 2047 – is for a third-acre parcel just west of the south fairgrounds access road on South Seventh Avenue. Use will be limited to parking only. The animal shelter itself is on property Roy Gage donated to the nonprofit.
Under the agreement, the animal shelter will pay for any grading or surfacing and snow removal. The property may not be subletted and the shelter is required to provide liability insurance on the property and indemnify the county from any injuries anyone incurs on the property. The lease would be in default if the property were abandoned or the shelter should close. The county will have right to use the property during the spring youth rodeo, tractor pull and the Emmet County Fair.
In other business Thursday, Alan Madden was reelected chair and Ron Smith was elected vice-chair.
The board designated the Estherville News and Armstrong Journal as official county newspapers. Mileage reimbursement was set at 45 cents a mile and the board approved to again participate in the Iowa Department of Natural Resources Matrix evaluation for approving siting of animal confinements.
The board also held a public hearing and approved a revision to the Booth 228 Matrix.
In the road report, county engineer Roger Patocka said crews had been out on roads Dec. 26 and 27 and Jan. 2. Patocka said broken signs had been replaced and that crews were repairing equipment.
The board approved Patocka as the county designee for Title VI Civil Rights Non Discrimination Agreement and Standard Iowa DOT Assurances.
Patocka presented bids for the A22 and A34 asphalt resurfacing projects. The A22 project is a 1.9-mile project going from Michaelson's Construction west of Armstrong while the A34 project is a 1.1-mile stretch going through Wallingford. Low bidder was Heartland Asphalt, Inc. of Algona which bid $497,580.39 for the A22 project and $357,941.46 for the A34 project, or $855,521.85 total, or 11.2 percent under the engineer's estimate of $963,668.36.
The other bidders were Tri-State Paving at $884,692.69 total, or 8.2 percent under the engineer's estimate, and Blacktop Service Co. at $961,761.06, or .2 percent under the engineer's estimate.
Patocka said he would bring the low bid to the board for approval at its meeting next Tuesday.


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I am ready to go out of my mind. I have a business friend that got detailing done at our dealership. I have a screenshot showing the darn review posting. Minutes later it is gone again and has to be redone. We have spent hours trying to get this post to stay and it just won't!!!
We are definitely not being filtered. A few reviews have showed up in the past five months. However, we don't actively ask customers to leave reviews at all. We now handle the review approach with a dedicated review page that I created on our dealership's website. Also, I designed business cards that we are going to hand out after a sale or service has been completed to leave a review on one of our 7 review sites. On the back, it asks them to become a fan and follow us on FB, Twitter, Linkedin and Pinterest for news, events and specials along with a QR code to download our mobile app from AutomotionTV!
The reason I helped this gal leave a review is because she is in our business group that I run at the dealership. She was very happy with her detailing on her 2009 Jeep Liberty. After a horrible review that someone left a few weeks ago, it was important to have a positive review over that one. The first thing folks see when they type in a dealership's name is the Google map to the right with the latest review. So, of course, she was an active Google user and wanted to leave a review. I was glad to accept it!
Last night, I spent several hours from home trying to figure out what her account was doing when she would leave a review and it would remove within minutes. I left a review with my account for another company and compared. I had no problem and hers would just disappear from the control panel under the local tab.
Brian, anyone can you please help. This is the third customer that I have spent hours walking through the review process and it is just failing to stay on the page.
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I recommend you do what many dealers are doing... stop sending people to Google's reviews! Get certified with DealerRater, set up with PrestoReviews or BusinessRater... But know this, even when you get those reviews to stick on Google, a few months from now they will disappear again!
It is almost as if Google can tell that you are sending people to Google's review system, and that means the reviews get filtered. So, what did the people at Google say or write to you about this issue?
Your right that Google reviews are very important since they show on local and map searches. Google reviews will also play a major role on mobile searches.
Your not the only one experiencing Google Review blues - they have gotten aggressive on there filters so it may block even real reviews while it's trying to weed out fake ones.
I see you mention that you have 7 review sites and a dedicated review page on your site - are your customers clicking thru your site? If that's the case it may leave footprints that Google is picking up on?
I was told by Brian Pasch that they can click from our review page and it shouldn't be a problem. But, no the folks haven't clicked on the review page because I just made it.
When I attended AutoCon 2012 in September, they suggested we make an exclusive review page so it makes it easier on the customers.
Google really shouldn't care how folks get the link to leave a review in my opinion. It makes it easier for the customer. Who knows anymore.
Hopefully this helps http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/business/mPz5bqu7ViM/...
Yes, Google is filtering the heck out of reviews. It's hard to get them to stick these days. I agree many people looking for cars trust Google, but there are other ways to get reviews in front of car buyers.
Here's a few tips we give our clients when submitting reviews for and in behalf of customers:
Here are some tips to improve chances for sticking at Google+
1. Only make it one sentence long, keeping it between 60-200 characters.
2. Don't mention the company name.
3. Don't mention any names period; e.g. "Dr.Smith was great".
4. Don't mention the city or state..basically, don't say anything of value.
5. Here is an example of a review that is sticking almost every time " I love this dentist and when I bring my kids here they really like the staff"
6. Anything more than that seems to be wasting keystrokes.
7. Never submit a review from the same computer or IP address
Google's filters are on high awareness. If you're interested in a collection process that will automatically stream them to your website, visit http://rank-boost.com
Can you explain what you mean by this?
"Here's a few tips we give our clients when submitting reviews for and in behalf of customers"
That statement also caught my eye. So if you go to their website and do some reading, you can see that this company violates the terms of service for most all reputable review sites. Here is what Rank Boost says on this page (http://rank-boost.com/reputation-marketing) :
The difference is that our client's reviews are stored within their Rep Mgr and NOT added directly to an online review site. This process gives our clients the advantage of filtering reviews and we then submit all approved reviews from various local IP addresses.
This is a hornets nest. I think I'll send this page over to Google and Yelp to review. I'm sure that their clients will be shortly filtered.
From Yelp's TOS, for example: Your account is for your personal, non-commercial use only. In creating it, we ask that you provide complete and accurate information about yourself to bolster your credibility as a contributor to the Site. You may not impersonate someone else (e.g., adopt the identity of a celebrity or your next-door neighbor), create or use an account for anyone other than yourself, provide an email address other than your own, or create multiple accounts. If you use a pseudonym, take care to note that others may still be able to identify you if, for example, you include identifying information in your reviews, use the same account information on other sites, or allow other sites to share information about you with Yelp. Please read our Privacy Policy for more information."
I did not create or use an account for anyone else. I am not why folks thing that I did this. I walked the review process through with her over the phone. When, that wasn't helping her since she is not tech savy, I did a remote Join.me. When, I got home, I looked on her site and saw that she wasn't doing anything wrong even though it wouldn't go through and then magically it went through. I know the Google guidelines very well and have read Brian's white paper on it!
Kim, I don't know why you think that we're replying to you. We're all (Ryan, Brian, me) replying to Matt's post inside your thread, not your opening question. Particularly Matt's statement "Google's filters are on high awareness. If you're interested in a collection process that will automatically stream them to your website, visit http://rank-boost.com" and then Ryan's point " Matt, Can you explain what you mean by this? "Here's a few tips we give our clients when submitting reviews for and in behalf of customers.". Thanks.
My apologies. I thought Edwin was wondering if I did it and some of you as well.
I am now taking Ralph's advice and I am going to not only ask but DEMAND that Dealer.com gets me in touch with a Google Ad Word rep because we spent a nice chunk on campaigns and I want answers. I have been submitting reports via the forums and after the 10th time of asking for a duplicate location to be removed, I am ready to just scream!
No worries. Hopefully, they'll get you an answer. I haven't seen a really good one yet, though, so please let us know if they do! :)
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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, making her first major policy speech, urged North Korea Friday not to take any "provocative" actions that could undermine peace efforts.
Amid press reports that North Korea might be preparing a long-range missile test, Clinton pledged to hold the communist regime to its commitments to give up its nuclear programs in return for international aid and political concessions.
"We will need to work together to address the most acute challenge to stability in northeast Asia: North Korea's nuclear program," she said.
Clinton spoke to New York's Asia Society on the eve of a trip to visit China, Indonesia, Japan and South Korea — her first as secretary of state — and noted that their major economies and huge populations will be critical to turning around the global financial crisis.
She declared that President Barack Obama's administration is "ready to work with leaders in Asia to resolve the economic crisis that threatens the Pacific as much as any other region, ready to strengthen our historic partnerships and alliances while developing deeper bonds with all nations."
She also sought to reassure Japan, the top U.S. ally in the region, on one of its top concerns, promising to meet with the families of Japanese citizens kidnapped by North Korea in the 1970s and 1980s.
"I will assure our allies in Japan that we have not forgotten the families of Japanese citizens abducted by North Korea and I will meet with some of those families in Tokyo next week," she said.
Environment also a priority
Climate change will be another diplomatic priority, Clinton said, especially because of China's fast-growing industries. "Climate change is not just an environmental nor an energy issue, but also has implications for our health, our economies and our security," she said.
On North Korea, Clinton said the Obama administration is committed to working with the reclusive country through the framework of six-nation talks that produced the nuclear agreement.
"We believe we have an opportunity to move these discussions forward," she said. "But it is incumbent on North Korea to avoid any provocative action and unhelpful rhetoric toward South Korea."
The United States is willing to "normalize" relations with North Korea, Clinton said, but only if the regime in Pyongyang agrees to abandon its nuclear weapons programs and accept a program of verification.
She suggested the United States could provide energy and economic aid and sign a peace treaty to formally end the Korean War. The 1950-53 conflict ended with a truce, and the two Koreas face each other across one of the world's most heavily armed borders.
"If North Korea is genuinely prepared to completely and verifiably eliminate their nuclear weapons program, the Obama administration will be willing to normalize bilateral relations, replace the peninsula's long-standing armistice agreements with a permanent peace treaty, and assist in meeting the energy and other economic needs of the North Korean people," Clinton said.
High emotions over abduction issue
In a conference call with reporters after her speech, Clinton indicated that she would be taking a stance on the Japanese abduction issue similar to that of former President George W. Bush, who often spoke with emotion of his meeting at the White House with the mother of one of the victims.
"I don't know that I'll be meeting as a secretary of state, any more than I will be meeting with them as a wife, a mother, a daughter, a sister," Clinton said.
"I cannot imagine what it must feel like to have lost family members and, for so many years, never to have heard anything about them or from them," she said. "It's important that their plight not be forgotten. I attach great importance to the abduction issue."
Clinton pledged to continue to press North Korea to immediately address Japan's concerns and to honor a previous commitment to provide more information to Japanese families. "They deserve it," she said.
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It's that time of year again when campus is buzzing with excited (and slightly nervous) students, proud parents, and lecturers dressed as you've never seen them before! Graduation is a time to celebrate all our History of Art students have achieved during their time at Birmingham, not just on their degree programme but also as members of our department, the Barber Institute, UoB and the city itself. As a department we are pleased to be able to give out two prizes each year – the Sam Beighton Prize for the best dissertation, and the Emily Rastall Prize for the best overall contribution to the department. Competition is always stiff and there are more worthy candidates than there are prizes: every year, many of our students give generously of their time and energy in volunteering for various events, helping to run open days, applicant visit days, and workshops, and offering peer support. The department really appreciates this because it helps to make the department what it is – friendly, fun, and a great place to study.
Here we've put together a selection of photos from the ceremony on July 11th when Single and some Joint Honours History of Art Students graduated. You can read about about our prize winners and also see David, one of the department's founding members, being given the by-now traditional 'lift off'!
This year, the Emily Rastall prize, awarded in memory of a student who sadly passed away just after her finals in 2012, was shared by French and History of Art student Holly Wain and History of Art student Caroline Hetherington for their overall contribution to the department.
On receiving the prize, Caroline said: 'Receiving the Emily Rastall prize was a little surprising (and embarrassing!), but I was very pleased to get it. Being recognised for contributing to the department made me think back over the three years of my course and remember the exciting things I was able to accomplish. It definitely reminded me that there was a lot more to my degree than the final mark.'
How did she feel at graduation? 'Graduation was a lovely opportunity for all of us to be excited and proud after all the nerves of results day, although for me the best part of the day was my parents turning up about two minutes before we went on stage to receive our degrees.'
Is there anything she'll miss now she's graduated? 'I will miss actually studying art history the most, as especially in final year I have loved the amount of research and interesting conversations that have taught me so much more about the subject. Alongside this, writing a dissertation about a previously unstudied sculpture probably gave me the most satisfaction.' But, Caroline's not going very far: 'I am not leaving the University yet – I'm now a graduate trainee in Professional Services, working on different placements over the next year. I don't know where I'll go after that, but I'm pretty sure I'm not done studying yet.'
Holly said, 'I feel very honoured to be receiving the Emily Rastall Prize as it means the department can continue to celebrate the commitment and enthusiasm Emily had for Art History at the Barber. It also gave me the chance to reflect on my past four years in the History of Art department and how much I enjoyed contributing to projects like the Golovine Blog.'
How was graduation for her? 'My graduation day was fantastic because I could share all the relief and happiness with my family and friends. My favourite moment was walking out of the Great Hall after the ceremony and feeling proud and excited for the future!'
What is her favourite memory of her degree? 'My best memory of studying art history at the Barber is working with my tutor Liz for my dissertation. I loved researching using primary sources in archives because I felt like I could genuinely contribute something new and different. I enjoyed it so much that I am coming back to the Barber in September to do a research masters in History of Art.'
And now for the most traditional event of the day…
And now for something more sensible (well, depends what you make of the lecturers' outfits):
The Sam Beighton Prize for the best dissertation was this year awarded to Joint Honours History of Art and English student, Sarah Cowie. Here she tells us a bit how she felt receiving the prize about the dissertation that she wrote.
How did she feel getting the prize? 'I am very pleased to have been awarded the Sam Beighton Prize this year, as I know there was much competition! It is a nice recognition of my efforts with the dissertation, and I am extremely grateful to my supervisor for guiding me in the right direction.'
How was graduation? 'My graduation day was lovely, although as a Joint Honours student I graduated on a different day to some of my History of Art peers, but Josh and I did still manage to have a photo shoot in front of the Barber though!'
What was her best memory of studying at Birmingham? 'Aside from the second-year study trip to Rome, I think my best memories are of the Barber. It is such an inspiring environment, with amazing research materials in the library and galleries, and always a great venue for lunch with concert music playing in the background!'
Any plans for the future? 'My plans for the future are yet to be made – I wasn't very good at thinking ahead in final year! At the moment I'm considering doing a law conversion in Bristol, after travelling this year.'
What was it like researching and writing a dissertation? 'In the same way as with any research, my dissertation topic adapted, evolved (and unfortunately considering the word count, expanded!) the more I read around the field of study. What began as an interest in Kurt Schwitters' association with the German Dadaists gradually became a study of exile and anti-nationalism during the Nazi regime; a subject area that complimented my final year special subject, German Modernisms of the Body.
The dissertation explores national identity and the concept of Heimat in Kurt Schwitters' (1887-1948) assemblage, Picture of Spatial Growths/Picture with Two Small Dogs, which was produced in Hanover in 1920 and then reworked by the exiled artist nineteen years later in Oslo. The dramatically different cultural climates of these two completion dates – which bridge together post-World War One Germany and pre-World War Two Europe – have invited interpretations of the work that place special emphasis on Schwitters' increasingly diminished sense of German national identity under the Nazi Regime. However, considering the irreparable damage left following Germany's defeat in 1918 and the anti-nationalist sentiments outlined in the artist's essay 'Nationalitätsgefühl' (National Sentiment) from 1924, the current study questions the extent to which Schwitters had a fixed sense of national identity, or any kind of investment in the Volksgemeinschaft even during these earlier years.
In challenging the reading of Spatial Growths as evidence of German or Norwegian national identity, the central tenet of the dissertation explores how Schwitters' sustained use of found materials (themselves fragments of a disordered reality) is symbolic of a wider process of ordering exile. Indeed, the concept of Merz – a label which encompasses Schwitters' innovative creative practices and a name which he adopted for himself in the 1920s – sheds light on the artist's understanding of a transnational Heimat; signalling Schwitters' desire for a more flexible identity in the midst of political discourses on national purity. Approached thus, the fusion of two nationalities in Spatial Growths cannot be considered a visual enactment of the artist's loss of German national identity. Rather, through its palimpsest qualities and the incorporation of domestic materials, it alludes to Schwitters' prolonged search for a stable Heimat in an unstable existence; contributing to a narrative of homelessness that defined the life of this artist.
Despite moments of panic when I thought I might not be able to actually view the work (it was touring Germany for much of the year), writing the dissertation came to be as rewarding as it was challenging. The opportunity to study one work of art in such depth, whilst drawing on the expertise of my supervisor, Dr Camilla Smith, enabled me to form a research topic that interested me greatly, and that I felt had not been fully explored before.'
Well done again to all our graduates this year – you have done us proud! You can see interviews with some of our students on graduation day here.


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UPDATE: In an Instagram video Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson denies the interview in which he quoted as saying "generation snowflake or, whatever you want to call them, are actually putting us backward" ever took place. He said, "Never said those words. 100% false. If I ever had an issue with someone, a group, community or a generation — I'd seek them out, create dialogue and do my best to understand them."
WASHINGTON (SBG) - Former wrestler turned actor Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson thinks looking for ways to be offended gets in the way of progress, according to an interview with the U.K.'s Daily Star that was published Friday.
"We thankfully now live in a world that has progressed over the last 30 or 40 years," he said. "People can be who they want, be with who they want, and live how they want. That can only be a good thing—but generation snowflake or, whatever you want to call them, are actually putting us backward."
Johnson suggested that part of living in a free country is accepting that not everyone is going to view the world in the same way.
"I don't have to agree with what somebody thinks, who they vote for, what they voted for, what they think, but I will back their right to say or believe it," Johnson told the British tabloid newspaper. "That's democracy."
The host of NBC's "The Titan Games" argued that war heroes didn't fight for the right to be offended.
"So many good people fought for freedom and equality—but this generation are looking for a reason to be offended...If you are not agreeing with them then they are offended—and that is not what so many great men and women fought for," he added.
Johnson has expressed an interest in politics, stating in a 2017 GQ interview that he was considering running for president for the 2020 election. He later told Vanity Fair that he was taking that off the table this time around, citing his schedule and desire to gain more experience.
The former WWE star is a former registered Republican who switched to independent, according to Newsweek.


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The 'fear for their life' is still there, that is why the grasp of theism is so fundamentally strong in the majority of people at present.SpheresOfBalance wrote: ↑Mon Sep 10, 2018 4:19 pm The only thing perfect about mankind's gods, is that they were perfectly fictitious. I mean it's certainly understandable why the ignorant ancient cultures believed such crap. They feared for their life in times of ignorance, barbarism and injustice, I mean, is it any wonder? Imagine that earliest caveman that saw a lightening strike that caught trees on fire, and he had to run for his life... How about it striking a fellow cave man... Oh Boy! Certainly a seed for the concept of gods, right? And it just kept being refined by the fearful, subject to the wrath of the powerful in their time. Thank 'god,' (snicker, snicker), that we've reached a level of civility where the laws of equality serve as gods. Though they need to be tweaked a little here and there. But such is mankind's evolution. It just takes time people. Of course it's nice that the power of the church is behind us now, and fading fast!
Won't it be nice when only intellectuals are left, and all the superstitious are dead and gone.
I believe in the freedom of speech and thought but not when such thoughts inspired SOME believers to commit terrible evil and violence as a divine duty to please God [this is glaringly evident].
This is why we need to defang and where possible replace theism with fool proof alternatives to deal with that 'fear for their life' thing.
The idea of 'perfection' is the most effective term to nullify 'God exists' as an impossibility to the extent the question of 'God exists?' is moot and a non-starter.
But we need to console theists there are fool proof alternatives to deal with the same existential 'fear for life' thoughts.


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First Look: The Izakaya at Daikaya in Washington D.C.
Hot on the heels of its ramen shop downstairs (check out our first look here), Daikaya has recently opened an izakaya, which draws from the flavors of traditional Japanese bar snacks while adding its own unique flair. Daikaya adheres to the philosophy of the izakaya, a very "freestyle" form of dining. Co-owner Daisuke Utagawa emphasizes the concept of grazing and not having to "know the plan" when you sit down. Izakayas are meant to be very democratic and "everyone should feel like they belong." As such, chef Katsuya Fukushima, who worked under José Andrés for years, has created a menu of down-to-earth yet inventive bar food.
Grilled avocado ($6.25), for example, is filled with ponzu, wasabi, and nori salt—scoop out the avocado's innards with a spoon. The pork and brussel sprout skewers ($5.25) are essentially Fukushima's take on okonomiyaki, the popular Japanese street food. Because Okonomiyaki is so labor-intensive, it's not really feasible to make in Daikaya's small kitchen so Fukushima created this dish to preserve its prominent flavors.
The 90-seat space incorporates distinctly Japanese design touches such as copious amounts of natural wood, walls lined with Japanese fabric and Japanese manga, and stacks of Japanese beer crates. Utagawa wanted to "evoke the heart of Japan" and the feel of an authentic izakaya, but didn't want it to feel like a transplant. "It's important to understand the heart of diners here.
The bar program includes a large selection of sakes, shochus, Japanese whiskeys, and cocktails crafted by bar director Eddie Kim (formerly of Room 11). The Rickey-san ($12) is a variation on the classic Gin Rickey with yuzu, which gives it a stronger citrusy acidity. There are a variety of mocktails available too that use green tea soda and yuzu. Kim is even working on a rarefied sake bomb using spherified sake (stay tuned).
The crowd so far? A combination of hipsters, Hill staffers, and people just off the plane from Japan. Check out a sample of the Daikaya izakaya's food in the slideshow!
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The X Factor vs. American Idol: Which Is Better?
The X Factor is finally here!
And after a premiere night that included wild, wacky and wonderful auditions – and an unpopular switcheroo on the judges' panel – the ratings are also in.
More than 12 million viewers tuned in to watch the premiere of The X Factor Wednesday night, which is a lot less than the more than 26 million who tuned into see Steven Tyler and Jennifer Lopez on the season 10 premiere of American Idol in January. Still, Wednesday's debut was Fox's biggest for a fall series in five years, the network said.
It may be unfair to compare a brand new show's first episode to an established ratings giant like Idol, which has been around since Kelly Clarkson and Carrie Underwood were unknowns. However, Simon Cowell himself suggested at Fox's press tour in August that his new show would do better than his old show. And he reportedly told The Hollywood Reporter that anything less than 20 million viewers would be a "disappointment."
But Mike Darnell, Fox's head of alternative programming, isn't disappointed one bit. "We never expected it to be American Idol numbers," he tells PEOPLE. "American Idol is a phenomenon. Those expectations were crazy. Internally, these numbers were very good. I'm relieved this morning … If this was any other show, it would be considered a hit."
But forget the ratings and what Simon and others say – tell us what you think: Does The X Factor, with its $5 million recording contract prize, humongous stage and the return of Paula Abdul, have what it takes to be better than Ryan Seacrest and American Idol? Time will only tell as far as the numbers go, but you can vote now below:
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The U.S. Coast Guard Friday issued the permit required to hold America's Cup racing on San FranciscoBay this summer, clearing one of the final hurdles standing before organizers prior to the start of racing next Sunday.
"This is an important and necessary step for the America's Cup," said Iain Murray, independent Regatta Director for the America's Cup. "I'd like to thank the United States Coast Guard and all of the other organizations and agencies who have helped the America's Cup get to this point where we are ready to conduct racing, starting with the fleet parade and time trials on July 5, and the first race of the Louis Vuitton Cup, America's Cup Challenger Series, on July 7." At one point, the Coast Guard permit was considered a formality in the proceedings leading up to the America's Cup, and its preceding challengers' series, the Louis Vuitton Cup. But ever since the tragic death of sailor Andrew "Bart" Simpson, during a training run with the Swedish syndicate Artemis, the safety of the Cup has been under scrutiny and review.
The Coast Guard's approval leaves only one more significant obstacle in the Cup's path — a legal challenge to some of the safety recommendations issued by race organizer's after Simpson's untimely death. On Thursday, one of the Cup challengers, Emirates Team New Zealand, filed a protest with an international jury appointed to oversee the 37 safety recommendationNew Zealand protest, which questions three of the safety requirements, is expected to be heard in San Francisco on Monday, July 8, after racing in the Louis Vuitton Cup starts, as scheduled, on July 7.
After receiving the Coast Guard approval on Friday, Murray issued a Regatta Notice to the competitors advising them that the 37 safety recommendations now rank as official rules.
"This Regatta Notice has not been made lightly, nor without due consideration of the impact on, and the possible consequences for, each Competitor and the organizer," Murray wrote in the notice. "I have exercised my professional judgment to the best of my ability, and have weighed carefully the unfortunate circumstances thrust upon us including (as a paramount consideration) the need to increase the safety of our crews, the officials and other Bay users, as well as the investment made by Competitors and all other stakeholders in this event.
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First Glimpse of Financials Shows Users Still Growing but No Profit; TWTR Has Yet to Name Exchange
Twitter Inc. TWTR 1.19% on Thursday revealed plans to raise up to $1 billion in a public offering, looking to cash in on a messaging service that has transformed public conversation but is still losing money and facing challenges attracting new users and advertisers.
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Potential buyers for the first time saw the financials behind one of the most anticipated stock-market debuts of the year, which showed the social network's revenue more than doubled to $254 million in the first six months of this year.
But its net loss grew by 40% to $69 million as the company's expenses ballooned. Twitter's user growth is also slowing, and prices for advertisements, which make up the bulk of the company's revenue, are falling.
"They certainly have a lot of work ahead of them to get mainstream America to understand" how Twitter works, said Brian Solis, an analyst at the Altimeter Group.
Twitter had previously shielded the figures by filing its initial IPO documents confidentially in July, under a new federal law.
The amount raised in the filing is an estimate that could change when Twitter launches its investor "roadshow," where it will formally pitch its stock to investors.
The document suggests Twitter recently valued itself at about $9.7 billion, based on the number of shares outstanding, or at about $13 billion when including equity awards.
Twitter chose TWTR as its ticker symbol but hasn't specified whether it will trade on the New York Stock Exchange or Nasdaq Stock Market.
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In seven years, Twitter has grown from a wobbly startup to a social phenomenon where in just 140 characters its 215 million monthly active users tap out more than 500 million messages each day.
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The short-message service serves as a global forum in which users break news, organize protests and gripe about what they ate for lunch. As early as 2008, Twitter turned eyewitnesses into "citizen journalists" who reported on a terrorist attack in Mumbai.
Now, once-elusive public figures including the pope, Warren Buffett and Kanye West "tweet" their thoughts and interact with other users. Twitter CEO Dick Costolo uses the service to answer users' troubleshooting queries. Businesses, stock pickers and politicians alike analyze the sentiments expressed on Twitter as important indicators.
Despite its ubiquity, Twitter remains an immature business. The filing showed Twitter has far fewer users and generates less revenue per user than Facebook.
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When Facebook filed for a public offering, the company revealed sales of $3.7 billion and a profit of $1 billion for 2011. It also had 845 million monthly active users, a huge bragging point as it pitched itself to investors.
Twitter's growth is also a question. The majority of Twitter's revenue, about 75%, is from the U.S., even though three-quarters of monthly users are outside the U.S. Facebook also has a wide gap between its usage and its ad revenue outside the U.S., where advertising businesses typically are less mature.
In the second quarter, Twitter's growth in monthly active users slowed to 7% from three months earlier, compared with 10% to 11% growth in the prior three quarters.
Like Facebook, Twitter makes money mostly by selling advertising based on users' posts. As they compete for advertisers, both companies position themselves as the world's online town square.
Twitter also has as a second business licensing its data companies that analyze user tweets for insights on news events and social trends. That business generated $47.5 million in revenue last year, roughly 15% of the total.
Goldman Sachs Group Inc. is spearheading Twitter's IPO, but its rival Morgan Stanley won a measure of vindication by landing the second-biggest role in the deal.
Morgan Stanley had led Facebook's IPO, and was criticized after Facebook shares fell as much as 50% in their first three months of trading, though the stock has since recovered and is well above its initial price.
J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. also is in the lead group of banks, meaning that the same three banks that led Facebook's IPO will lead Twitter's. Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Deutsche Bank AG are also serving as underwriters.
The largest Twitter shareholder specified in the filing is co-founder Evan Williams, who owns 12% before the offering. He became Twitter's CEO in 2008 before being replaced by Mr. Costolo in 2010. At Twitter's most-recent internal valuation, Mr. Williams' stake would be valued at nearly $1.2 billion.
Other major shareholders listed in the filing include venture-capital firm Benchmark Capital, which owns 6.7% and invested in Twitter early on; co-founder Jack Dorsey, with 4.9%; and Mr. Costolo, who holds 1.6%. Based on the internal valuation, Benchmark's stake would be valued at about $651 million; Mr. Dorsey's stake would be worth roughly $483 million; and Mr. Costolo's shares would be valued at about $155 million.
Four other venture-capital firms, Rizvi Traverse, Spark Capital, Union Square Ventures and DST Global, are listed as owning at least 5% of the shares, but specific share counts aren't listed.
The clock is now ticking on when Twitter can begin its roadshow. The IPO filing must be public for at least 21 days before the company can set a price range and say how many shares it is selling.
Companies typically take at least a week to travel to different cities and meet investors on the roadshow. That means if the process moves at full speed, Twitter could begin trading around the end of the month or the first week of November.
As for the federal government shutdown, a person familiar with the deal said there isn't a big worry right now. But a shutdown extending three weeks or longer could possibly slow the offering if the Securities and Exchange Commission isn't operating at all when Twitter begins the roadshow, this person said.
The deal will be watched by other technology companies looking to go public, such as Box Inc., an online storage company, and Square Inc., the mobile-payments company created by Mr. Dorsey.
Several of those companies delayed potential public offerings after shares of Internet companies such as Facebook, Groupon Inc. and Zynga Inc. sagged after their debuts. But shares in Internet companies have surged this year, amid a broader rally in the U.S. stock market.
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I'm pretty sure that if I ever walked into a restaurant where a knife-throwing maniac had seized control of the kitchen, all you'd see of me is a little cartoon puff of smoke as I fled the premises. Fortunately, what would be a scarring experience chronicled in a horrified Yelp review in real life makes for a terrific game on iOS devices, as Foursaken Media proves in Mad Chef for the iPhone and iPad.
You control the titular Mad Chef in this casual game, and you're not angry—just dangerously unhinged when it comes to practicing proper knife techniques. As patrons order meals at one of your eateries, an array of ingredients flies across the screen. It's your job to hit the right ones by flinging a knife—or an axe or a starfish or whatever other sharp object happens to be at hand—in the general direction of the targeted food.
Aiming your knife is as simple as tapping on the food as it floats by—which is to say, pretty simple, though the ingredients can fly fast and furious as you progress through the game. Mad Chef goes a little easy on you, though: If a head of lettuce, a carrot, a bottle of ketchup, and a baguette are clustered together, and you really need the baguette to complete an order, the game is smart enough to hit the highest priority item in a group. That eliminates a source of potential frustration without making the game too easy to enjoy.
You need to complete orders within a set period of time. Make a wayward toss with one of your knives—and that can happen quite easily in the heat of battle—and you're docked time on your orders. Completing as many orders as possible without wasting ingredients earns you money and tips, not to mention reputation points. You can use the money to upgrade your restaurant, adding new recipes, skills, and power-ups. Reputation points help you expand your restaurant empire.
Because Mad Chef isn't just about flinging knives at the same old ingredients in the same old setting: You can open up to five restaurants in the game, in addition to a survival mode at a take-out restaurant. It's this varied gameplay that will keep you coming back for more.
There's an undeniable gross-out factor with some of the food in Mad Chef. You're preparing dishes in which central ingredients include pigeons, horse meat, roaches, and seagulls; Top Chef wannabes who dream of assembling the perfect Beef Wellington may want to check their expectations at the door. Still, the cartoonish graphics and little touches go a long way to reducing some of the ickiness. Have one of your knives hit a squid for example, and the unlucky cephalopod explodes in a burst of ink. Ketchup, mustard, and hot sauce bottles similarly burst into a rainbow of colors when you make contact. The bulbous, pop-eyed clientele in Mad Chef add to the kooky fun, and their cries of outrage when you toss an errant knife in their direction are more fun than I'm willing to admit in public.
Still, the game has its share of flaws. The survival mode sometimes has a hard time recognizing when you're trying to spear an ingredient and when you're trying to switch between assorted take-out windows. Because of that flawed mechanic, the take-out restaurant is my least favorite element of Mad Chef. The iPhone version of the game vibrates when you miss a target with your knife or botch an order. That can take a toll on battery life, though—certainly more of a hit than I'd expect from a casual game. (You can turn off the vibration feature in the game's settings.)
These are relatively minor, entirely fixable complaints, however. Mad Chef offers an entertaining way to pass the time on your iPhone or iPad. The gameplay is every bit as sharp as the knives the chef is heaving through the air.
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Chief Justice John Roberts has been a victim of credit-card fraud.
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"Curating" is no longer the exclusive tool of connoisseurs and backroom museum staff. Participants in this workshop added exhibitions and curating to their pedagogical and scholarly toolkits with this workshop engaging staff and faculty from across disciplines in practical processes and theoretical constructs. The workshop helped participants to think about developing an exhibition within their discipline, be it global theater, anthropology, or French and Francophone studies. Ultimately, participants learned that exhibitions are a dynamic vehicle for public scholarship, and a great medium for student object-based learning assignments.
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The self-taught artist from Louisville estimates that he has drawn "thousands" of detailed pencil and watercolor images of the ship, and its artifacts.
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In the predawn hours of April 15, 1912, the luxury oceanliner Titanic sliced its hull on an iceberg during its maiden voyage from Southampton, England, to New York City, sinking in the frigid North Atlantic.
The shipwreck claimed the lives of 1,512 people, including several well-known Americans such as Macy's owner Isidor Straus and his wife, Ida, and real estate mogul John Jacob Astor IV.
In the 101 years hence, the doomed ship has continued to fascinate people such as Douglas Girton. The self-taught artist from Louisville estimates that he has drawn "thousands" of detailed pencil and watercolor images of the ship, and its artifacts.
"It's putting the story of the Titanic on paper," he said. "One thousand five-hundred and twelve lives perished that night. There are 1,1523 stories to be told."
Girton said his interest in the Titanic was piqued in the third grade, when he saw a cover of the late Walter Lord's 1955 bestseller, " A Night to Remember."
"I saw it, and that was it," he said laughing. "I have every single book on Titanic ever written."
One said his most treasured volumes, Girton said, is a 1912 book published by the Chicago Bible Co.
"It's under glass," he said.
Girton, who also produces art depicting local landmarks such as the Onesto Hotel, said his artwork has led to friendships around the world with people who share his interest in the Titanic, including Lord, who died in 2002; Titanic researchers Charles Pellegrino and Robert Ballard; and descendants of J. Bruce Ismay, manager of the White Star Line, which owned the Titanic.
Ismay, who escaped on a lifeboat, lived in disgrace until his death in 1937.
Girton said he also sent some of his work to the late Millvina Dean, the last-known survivor of the shipwreck. Dean, who was 9 weeks old at the time of the tragedy, died in 2009.
"We talked on the phone twice a week," he said.
Girton said he draws daily and can produce a drawing in a day, but it can take as long as week to do a piece, which is produced on acid-free paper.
Girton said some of his drawings are on display in the Canton Club; in the "Titanic Quarter" in Southampton; and also in Amsterdam and Belfast, Ireland.
"They all want to know where's Canton and Louisville?" he said with a laugh.
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This evening I took a break from cleaning cages, packing & prepping for tomorrow (including spilling a jug of detergent..) to hang with Leki. His new favorite toy is a ferret toy he found in her stash. Here he is taking a break from doing backflips and tossing the toy across the living room.
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It's not an everyday occurrence, anywhere, to find a prominent, highly respected and much awarded professor accusing an ancient university of scandalously misleading the nation, but it happened here in Scotland last month.
The professor's outburst was prompted by the publication of a study in the publishing arm of the Royal Society, itself a respected institution one would have thought, based on research by an international group of scientists, who suggested that sea lice are responsible for 39 per cent of the mortalities amongst salmon in the Northeast Atlantic Ocean. The press release issued by St Andrews University to accompany publication included
"This high per cent mortality attributable to sea lice was unexpected. The salmon aquaculture industry has long placed a high priority on controlling sea lice on their captive salmon – but these results do emphasise the need for the industry to not only maintain the health of their own stocks, but also to minimise the risk of cross-infection of wild fish."
It can be read in full by clicking here
A response from the aquaculture industry was to be expected, but the ferocity with which it was delivered perhaps wasn't. Professor Phil Thomas, the chair of the Scottish Salmon Producers Organisation said
"This story has now been exposed as a scandal – it is a major blunder by the University of St Andrews. The institution has misled the nation.
"For a prominent Scottish University like St Andrews to behave in this way is inexcusable, whatever its need for publicity. To make these wholly incorrect and unjustifiable claims damages both the scientific reputation of the individuals concerned and the institution.
"But worse, it erodes the already shaky public confidence in science and scientists, and that is ultimately to the detriment of Scotland."
The researchers did not wither under this fire and did not withdraw the study findings. They did clarify that the study did not actually state that fish farms were the sole source of the sea lice that were killing the wild fish. The inference remained that fish farms could be a contributory cause however.
Fast forward a few weeks and we find Professor Thomas giving evidence to the Rural Affairs, Climate Change and Environment Committee of the Scottish Parliament (RACCE) and returning to his theme. The exchange is worth quoting in some detail
"…..One tricky issue that is often lost in the debate is that there seems to be an assumption that sea lice come from fish farms. Sea lice are already there. For many fish farmers, the most problematic issue is when a run of mature wild fish come in, as they bring in sea lice—there is a sea lice strike on farms. In that situation, there can be rapid increases in sea lice numbers….
The difficulty is that, when wild runs of salmon come in from the sea with heavy infestations of lice, the transfer of lice from the wild salmon to the farmed salmon tends to be a mixture of lice of different stages, including lice that are quite close to mature as well as lice that are at the free swimming stage."
Nigel Don: "Up to now, I understood that lice did not transfer except when they were in their first stages, when they are so small that they get out and about—the idea of a bloom was mentioned. However, Phil Thomas is suggesting that mature fish coming back from the sea bring lice at different stages and that lice at later stages in their development might transfer at that point. That is not what I thought that everybody else had told me. I thought that a mature louse would not transfer. Was I wrong?"
Professor Thomas: "Without getting too complicated, there are two different types of sea lice, one of which often comes in not on salmonids but on other fish species. It can transfer in a range of ways. However, you are right in thinking that the predominant route of transfer is through the free swimming stage."
It's a pity that the RACCE Committee didn't explore this further, as a few short sentences are barely enough to explain something obviously complicated.
For those of us like myself, a non-scientist member of the public who wants to understand why our wild salmon are disappearing, this conflict is most unhelpful, falling far short of constructive debate. It cannot be helpful to those, like the MSPs on the RACCE Committee, who have to produce a report to the Scottish Parliament, either.
The ways of nature are of course a mystery to most lay people. At the risk of being accused of anthropomorphism it seems to me inherently improbable for a mature sea louse, firmly attached by suction to a returning salmon, travelling at speed, suddenly to decide to jump ship in the vicinity of a fish farm and make a break for it to another host. For this to happen to such an extent that it would represent a major threat to the farmed fish seems even more unlikely.
Before the recent exchange I had tried to educate myself about sea lice and had learned, as had Nigel Don MSP, that sea lice were a form of tiny marine crustacean that went through a number of changes in their lifecycle, and that only in two or three of these stages were they capable of travelling about. Further reading and discussions with some marine biologists of my acquaintance have only confirmed that this is correct. In their earliest stage as plankton they are propelled by water movements until if successful in finding a host they become anchored to it by a filamentous thread. In later stages they suck onto the surface of the fish only through being dorso-ventrally flattened. Although the pre-adult and adult stages are called "mobiles" that word refers to their grazing activity on the host fish and not their ability to swim around at liberty. They are very weak swimmers and stand more chance of being eaten by big fish than getting aboard them. It has also been shown that mature sea lice only survive in sea water for very brief periods after being separated from the host.
In the final paragraph quoted above Professor Thomas seems to be saying that of the "two types of sea lice" it is the one that infects fish other than salmon that brings in the mature lice. This would rather contradict the earlier statement that the wild salmon rather than those other fish bring them in.
In European waters there are indeed two types of sea louse, Lepeoptheirus salmonis (Leps) and Caligus elongatus (Caligus), the former specific to salmon and the latter usually found on non-salmonids. There seems to be no evidence at all of Leps transferring from wild salmon or salmonids to caged fish. There are apparently some reported instances of Caligus suddenly appearing on caged salmon when
shoals of mackerel, herring, saithe or other shoaling fish swim past (Costello, paper published by the Royal Society B on 8 July 2009). Often these fish are attracted into the area by the presence of food and surround the cages.
A useful information resource is at the University of Prince Edward Island (www.upei.ca) where academics partly funded by Canada's massive fish farming industry are researching how to deal with the threat to caged fish from sea lice. It's instructive that their work concentrates exclusively on Leps rather than Caligus and I found no reference to sea lice strikes.
This suggests both that "sea lice strikes" if they happen at all do not involve wild salmon and that any that do happen are probably rather minor and do not involve Leps.
Most biologists believe that the primary seat of infection of salmon and sea trout with lice is by juvenile infective stages when the smolts leave the rivers in the Spring to enter into the salty coastal waters for the first time. Before the arrival of fish farms on the aquaculture coast of West Scotland there would always have been some wild salmon and sea trout along the coast to ensure supplies of sea lice larvae to infect them.
Arguably the arrival of fish farms on an industrial scale has changed all that, with enormous populations of mature salmon present all year round in coastal areas. It seems logical to infer a connection between these and the high death rate of wild salmon from sea lice infestation identified in the Royal Society B study.
Whatever the cause there is no dispute over the seriousness of the problem. It is made worse by the fact that sea lice are now developing an immunity to the pesticide that has mainly been used to kill them in recent years, Emamectine Benzoate, otherwise known as SLICE. In a recent talk Dr Mark Fast of the University of Prince Edward Island said
"1999 was the year the aquaculture industry gained what would be its most powerful tool in the fight against sea lice. It's called SLICE…. It's an in-feed treatment that, for a time, acted like a silver bullet. It was so effective that as a researcher studying sea lice, I found it difficult to harvest sea lice from salmon in an aquaculture environment. I just couldn't find them. It worked that well….SLICE's effectiveness started to seriously wane around 2008. The sea lice were adapting. The previous two summers had been worse than ever. Sea lice were partying even harder than they were in 1999."
The full talk can be found by clicking here
Dr Fast predicts that the industry will develop effective vaccines to replace SLICE in seven to ten years and cocktails of other less effective solutions before then, but none of this will directly benefit the native fish.
For environmentalists the main worry in all this is for the future of the native salmon and sea trout that are native to Scotland, the wonderful wild creatures that contribute to our national image and that also spearhead the marketing effort of the caged fish industry that may be harming them. There is an urgent need for less invective and more research to find out what is truly going on.
This article is largely the work of two prominent scientists, who prefer not to be named. The image of a sea louse at the top is borrowed from Dr Larry Hammell of UPEI.


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I have a plan to update the forum-software to the latest version.
Unfortunately that will mean we'll have to say goodbye to the shoutbox I've created.
Instead there's a chat-room feature in the new version, that I don't really know how works.
I do know, though, that it's something you actively have to open, whereas the shoutbox is just there.
I also know that the shoutbox isn't very stable, but I don't really have to time to work on it.
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One thing that I liked about this forum over the others is that the software is different. I also like that it is advert free.
We could all chip in and pay to get the upgrade, which probably needs to be done for security reasons as well. My main concern would be that there is an up-to-date back-up so that we never lose any data.
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My biggest complaint with the forum IS the software. It's an odd ball, probably because on the back end it's a little wonky. The SPAM features obviously don't work since I now manually register everyone because we were having so many problems. I do think that the update adds better security. I know moving from one software to another can be tricky, but I think phpBB is the best out there as far as over all functionality, and it's free. I'm admin on forums that use Web Wiz (this forum), Simple Machines, and phpBB and phpBB has been the least troublesome. This forum is slow enough where I'm ok manually registering everyone, but it would be nice to be able to have automatic registration again. In the end, I'm ok with any option, they all have their upsides.
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There are other forums that I am on that use phpBB, vBullentin, and Invision Board........ so, I'm cool with what ever. I'm willing to adapt, an upgrade will insure security of the database.
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I wrote a lot of yadi-daa only to have it deleted when I tried to post it, so here's a short version:
I'll be trying to do a conversion to phpBB sometime soon, to see how many problems it's actually causing - my concern right now, is that all passwords will be invalidated, so it's important that all users e-mail addresses are correct, so they can receive new ones.
I appreciate that you're willing to chip in on the costs. I had actually thought about adding a Google Ad previously but decided not to, as I don't really like the idea. Also, I'm not looking to profit in any way on this forum but it would be nice to cover some of the costs.
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Having URLs automatically convert to hyperlinks would be nice. And having a button in the quick reply for images would be nice also. Just some other things that have always bugged me about this forum.
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We should, at a minimum, update the software here; if not able to convert it to another, and I am more than willing to help pay for the costs rather than have adverts everywhere.
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I don't post a lot but I check the site almost every day, I'd be happy to chip in a yearly "subscription" or whatever. FWIW another forum I go on has just switched to Xenforo and it's pretty good from a user point of view.
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Dr. Karen F Tardrew
Associate Professor
Teaching Learning and Assessment &
Wisconsin Academic Director
Programs/Classes Taught:
Deepening Classroom Practice in M.Ed. in Teaching, Learning and Assessment program
Courses Taught or Developed at NLU
TLA 578 Developing School Cultures.
TLA 541 Assessing Teaching and Learning: Introduction to Assessment.
ESR 531 Exploring Action Research (I).
TLA 588 Constructing Curriculum for Engaging the Whole Learner.
ESR 532 Engaging in Action Research (II).
TLA 591 Meeting Challenges of Contemporary Classrooms: Field Study.
TLA 542 Linking Assessment of Teaching and Learning: Field Study.
TLA 589 Differentiating for Diverse Learners.
ESR 533 Continuing Action Research (III).
TLA 594 Examining Curriculum Perspectives: Independent Study.
TLA 543 Reflecting on Teaching, Learning, and Assessment.
TLA 579 Engaging with Critical Multicultural Perspectives.
ESR 534 Completing Action Research (IV).
FND 509 Educational Foundations.
CIC 528 Curriculum and Instruction I.
EPS 527 Group Theory and Classroom Applications.
ESR 510 Action Research I.
CIC 529 Curriculum and Instruction II.
CIC 591 Field Study/ Curriculum and Instruction.
CIL 531 Cross-Cultural Education.
ESR 511 Action Research II.
EPS 528 Human Development and Learning.
ESR 591 Action Research III.
CIC 594 Independent Study/ Curriculum and Instruction.
EDL 594 Independent Study/ Educational Supervision.
ESR 592 Extending Action Research.
ESR 595 Special Topics in Research.
IDS 560 Integrated Curriculum I.
IDS 561 Integrated Curriculum II.
ELE 200 Practicum I.
ELE 315 History and Philosophy Of Education.
ELE 390 September Field Experiences Supervision/Seminar.
ELE 470 Student Teaching Supervision.
ELE 470 Student Teaching Seminar.
ELE 580 Practicum I.
FND 504 History and Philosophy of Education.
ELE 585 Workshop/Elementary Education Instructional Practices.
ELE 590 Student Teaching Seminar.
CIC 514 Classroom Management.
Areas of Expertise:
She has been with NLU since 1992. Her experience includes teaching in Urban Special Education settings (Middle and Elementary Levels). At NLU she has taught in several departments since 1992 including Elementary Education, Special Education and Master of Arts in Education. Currently, she teaches in the Teaching, Learning and Assessment graduate program and also coordinates its work in Wisconsin. Karen's teaching focuses on collaborative group process, constructivist teaching, action research, teacher wellness, teacher self study, cross cultural education, visual literacy, service learning and alternative assessments.
Karen grew up in the Chicagoland area and always had an interest in education and underserved students. Fun fact: she grew up on a small farmette with sheep in the suburbs. She lives with her family in Madison, Wisconsin. She enjoys amateur photography, travel and an active lifestyle. She loves teaching teachers.
NATIONAL LOUIS UNIVERSITY, Evanston, Illinois Doctor of Education (June 2003) Major: School Leadership/Instructional Leadership Dissertation topic: Uncarting the Complexities of Collaborative Teacher Dialogue Through Portfolio Development NATIONAL LOUIS UNIVERSITY, Evanston, Illinois Master of Education (1988-1989) Thesis title: "If I'm Good Do I Get A Cookie?" INDIANA UNIVERSITY, Bloomington, Indiana Bachelor of Science in Special Education (1983-1987)
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President of the International Visual Literacy Association (IVLA) and active in the American Educational Research Association, Karen is particularly interested in the Holistic Education SIG. Her research includes publications and presentations on: teacher reflection, self-study practices, visual research, holistic education and co-constructing knowledge. Recent publications include: Tardrew, K. (March 2010) Teacher: A Portrait Study. Selected Readings Of International Visual Literacy Association- Spring 2010. Tardrew, Karen. (2010). Book Review: Teacher Action Research: Building Knowledge Democracies. i.e.: inquiry in education: Vol. 1: Iss. 1, Article 4. Retrieved from: http://digitalcommons.nl.edu/ie/vol1/iss1/4. Tardrew, K. (March 2009) Visual Teacher Reflections: What's Teaching? Selected Readings Of International Visual Literacy Association- Engaging Creativity and Critical Thinking 2009.
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Karen F. Tardrew, Ed. D.
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McCann doesn't play, but relishes All-Star experience
CHICAGO -- Brian McCann didn't get into the All-Star Game, but he'll certainly remember it for a long time.
McCann, who filled in for injured Braves teammate Freddie Freeman, said he enjoyed the entire experience -- from socializing with other players to being on the field when Mariano Rivera made his memorable entrance for the American League in the eighth inning.
"I think what makes those games is sitting in the clubhouse talking to the guys you play against every day," McCann said. "[Rivera's entrance was] just another moment that I'll never forget. I think in 20 years I'll look back and when they play that moment over and over, it'll be more special than it is right now, just because his legend will grow. He's by far the best closer of all time and people put him up there as one of the best pitchers to ever pitch, so it was definitely a cool moment."
McCann started to get hot in weeks leading up to the break, hitting .410 with five home runs, six doubles and 15 RBIs in his previous 16 games. He doesn't sound concerned about the break cooling him off.
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Tuesday, 02 August, 2011 - 22:41
Dziga Vertov's Man with a Movie Camera is, according to the first title frame's final parenthesised subtitle, an "excerpt from a camera operator's diary". It is a re-presentation of the records of the man with his camera, an excavation of an naively created archive - authentic and unspun. The film unfolds reflexively in its very name and subtitle, its title sequence, and its opening scenes which present a cinema theatre filling with spectators, gathering to watch the moving images on the screen.
An orchestra is frozen in time, the camera cutting between individual musicians poised and waiting, in tension with their instruments. Vertov stretches the sequence in time, pausing on the horns and the fingers resting on the valves, the double-bass straightening its player through the bow, the timpani, violin and trombone holding their humans taut as they anticipate the still conductor's movement at the prompt of the rolling of the film. The elongated duration in which the inert players remain motionless, braced for the introductory notes, outlasts the sense of natural time elapsing: life is fixed fast and rigid.
The projector's shutter is shown slowly to open and to begin beaming light, whereupon the conductor brings his orchestra to life: the once motionless musicians now burst and flail over their charges. Although when released the film was accompanied by live music in theatres, and subsequent audiences have enjoyed the film with a variety of audio interpretations as its soundtrack, the film artefact itself is silent, and has an extraordinary effect when viewed without sound. In silence, the orchestra works wildly, and the projector swallows its reel of film noiselessly, before finally the cinematic vision appears: a single numeral '1' is erected into view and we begin moving through a window of a house. The eerie silence augments the distances we travel: we are watching a film-maker watching a film-show. The camera watches the audience watching what the camera has seen.
Some minutes into the film within the film, we see the eyes of a mannequin, peering from a store-window, gazing out on the world. Eyes, windows, camera. The lifeless figures in the windows and the dressed busts, the posed dummies at the sewing-machine or astride a bicycle - even a stuffed dog articulated so as to seem expectant and watchful: all look out at the world, whose alienated form reflects on the inanimate almond shaped bumps painted to look like the organs of sight in a facsimile human face. The camera sees for them: their own images, their view of the streets, the paraphernalia of commerce which surrounds them, the sleeping bodies of the otherwise absent human race.
It is a puppet show in a world of matter with a transcendent intervening cinematic machinery providing an occasionalist vision and sense. An outside force runs through the world, causing actions and events, permitting sense to be made, prompting beings into life: mediating. The world's continued existence is brought about by machinery with a roving eye.


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Here you can find information about upcoming buzz-fix parties
- When: May 1st - May 3rd, start will be 09:00
- Where: Braunschweig, Germany (exact location still unknown, most likely somewhere around http://informationfreeway.org/?lat=52.27389186224494&lon=10.524687317867564&zoom=17&layers=B0000F000F)
- What: Please indicate in the list how many devices you will bring. The rework itself will take about 40 minutes. Testing device before and after (including flashing) will take a couple of minutes, but can be parallelised. The day has 24 hours. You do the math. :-)
- How: Back up all your data! There is a possibility that the Freerunner will get damaged during the process (I haven't broken one device yet, but the possibility exists). Openmoko has promised me replacement devices for this case, but they are not here yet. So until further notice I will not guarantee that you will walk away from this with a working Freerunner.
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I'd like to know if people are willing to take my FR to Braunschweig for me (from Eindhoven, The Netherlands) (let me know if you go there and will take my FR with you) or if I will be able to send it to the party by mail, with enough money included to get it mailed back to me. If so:
- Christ van Willegen (1, Eindhoven, The Netherlands)