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The Butcher's Daughter Nolita / West Village
Little gems in the city
Don't let the name fool you; The Butcher's Daughter just treats fruits and vegetables as a butcher would meat. And that's the only tie they have with carnivores. They chop, fillet and carve fresh produce into vegetarian dishes and press them into pretty juices. Meaning you can have a long weekend brunch or a quick morning elixir during the week. If you are around Nolita or West Village and fancying some edgy cocktails, The Butcher's Daughter has you covered in that field as well. Yes, that means cold-pressed cocktails made with full liquor… "May we have some hibiscus margarita popsicles please?" And if the night ends later than expected, because it might, you can always go back in the morning to have your morning fix. Virtually the healthiest "vicious circle" possible.


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Eastleigh have signed Bradley Hudson-Odoi on a two-month loan from fellow National League side Sutton United.The 28-year-old striker featured in Sutton's run to the FA Cup fifth round last season, playing against AFC Wimbledon and Arsenal.He has recently completed a loan spell at National League South Hampton and Richmond Borough.
Hudson-Odoi will go straight into the Eastleigh squad to face Maidenhead United in the league on Tuesday.Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.
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What is the backbone of the Apple OS?
I am just wondering what is the backbone programming language that the Apple OS is made of.
I am fascinated on how their OS look. I know that creating and Operating System is done by using, I think, C languages?
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Here is a convenient guide for those wishing to live in Australia detailing the rent that is charged and how much is spent on a cup of coffee. It seems that costs for which we have no control over electricity, water and gas are going through the roof. What is more, there was a survey that revealed that the average Australian needs as much as A$2.17 million to cover expenses (housing, education, medical care, etc.) over a lifetime.
Regarding utilities, basic electricity, heating, water and garbage for an 85m2 apartment(85 square meters) is around A$200 per month. The range is typically between $150 and $300. Monthly energy costs (gas and electricity) are A$500 for a 200 square meter home.
As for telephone services, the monthly charge for a single line Is ~A$30. Several plans/options are available.
As for internet, a 6 Mbps unlimited data plan will set you back 60 Aussie dollars for a month.
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In the city center, a 1-bedroom apartment can be rented out for A$1,800 on average. The starting price for a 3-bedroom apartment rental is A$2,200. But if you want a nicer place, expect to shell out between A$3,000 to A$3,500.
If you happen to rent outside the city center, you will have to pay A$1,355 per month. For a 3-bedroom apartment, it can cost as little as A$1,600 to as much as A$2,600.
Those looking for health insurance in Australia should take advantage of the universal medical cover called Medicare. Also, there are about 36 insurance providers to choose from.
The best-known insurance companies are Medibank Australian Unity, HCF, NIB and Bupa. Bupa Australia is pretty renowned. These are structured for-profit. There are also several non-profit insurers with the largest non-profit provider HCF insurance and GMHBA being among them.
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In between study sessions or work breaks, it's always nice to grab some peanuts or potato chips. 150 grams of each cost A$1.57 and A$4.99 respectively. After a good meal, there is nothing like ice cream with a liter being priced at A$9.24 on average. Additionally, a box of 'After Eight' chocolates will cost $A15.16 for 250 grams.
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Just Dance is an interactive video game for Wii that allows you to follow choreographed dance routines for fun, exercise or in competition with other players. I got turned on to it at a party and bought it for myself shortly afterward. It's great fun in groups, but more than that, it can be a fabulous teaching tool if you just know what to look for.
So, how can a teacher use this improve her classes?
Dance Structure
All the routines in Just Dance 2 were created by professional choreographers who created their dances knowing that players would be following along. This makes a big difference in what is choreographed. If you compare the game play dances to the dances by the contest winners, you will see what I mean. While the contest winner dances are good, you aren't going to get someone to follow along very easily without a lot of breakdown and stopping and starting. So, if you are choreographing for beginners, a Follow-the-Leader type class or to teach specific skills, you may want to emulate the game play style when creating your class choreographies.
Dance Follow Musical Structure
All the Just Dance 2 routines follow the musical structure. The songs are broken up into blocks. The dance moves repeat when the musical blocks repeat. For example, in Rasputin, the blocks EFG show up three times. Each time they show up, the same moves are repeated. If your class choreography is also done this way, your students may learn to "see" musical blocking without ever having a lesson on music theory.
Another interesting musical construction strategy in Rasputin that could be highlighted in class is how the blocks ABC show up later in the song in reverse order of CBA. This piece could be taken out to use as an example of retrograde (performing things in reverse order). Allowing students to make up their own combinations then do them in reverse order could make for a fun class, but more than that, it can open up creativity.
Using What is Different
Any time you learn someone else's choreography, you are exposed to how the choreographer uses his body. This is often quite different than how you habitually move. Since there are really only a handful of movements in belly dance, keeping it interesting has a lot to do with how moves are combined, framed, and how you transition in and out of them. To increase your own repertoire and spark creativity, it could be interesting to pick out what's different from what you normally do in someone else's choreography and either drill those parts or create variations on them.
You can (and probably should) do these types of exercises in class without Just Dance 2 as they teach students how to think about dance so that they can grow on their own. However, using Just Dance 2 as a framework adds something fun and unexpected to the dance experience. The routines are fun and doable. The songs are easily recognized so that you don't have to spend a lot of time learning the song just to talk about one piece of it. Even if you don't want to use it in the classroom, I highly recommend watching or playing it to get great classroom exercise ideas as the songs and choreographies are fun and imaginative.
Just Dance 2 and wii are widely available at department stores, online, and video game stores.


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Romanian startups have an immense potential that we are now acknowledging and promoting.
Now, this is not just a statement we hear more and more of in the media or discussing the trends; it's the conclusion we came to after attending the DLD Conference in the last few days. How did we reach this conclusion? Here it is!


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Friday, December 25, 2009
The Best Cuts of Music Christmas Special
Welcome to The Best Cuts of Music Christmas Special! If you were wondering how Santa got all those presents to you last night it was thanks to the help of show hosts Robe Flax and Sam Houser! We hope you are all having a Happy Holidays and as a gift we have made this Christmas Special just for you. Enjoy!
download mp3: TBCOM Christmas Special
note we're having some trouble uploading to the server so for now you can download it at the above link.
1. Jim Gaerhart - Clarence The Geoduck
2. Jerry Lewis - I've Had A Very Merry Christmas
3. Joan Tomaini - Christmas Cheer
4. Freddie Davies - Give Us A Kiss For Christmas
5. Anna Maria Del Maestro - Santa Lucia
6. Kelly Jeri - Poor Ole Santa Claus
7. Jim & Tammy And Their Friends - The Joy Of The Lord/We're Going To A Mansion
On The Happy Day Express/Isn't It Grand To Be A Christian/Jingle Bells
8. Hanley Johnson - CottonTail Boogie/Yep-Py-Ki-Yo Christmas
9. Jada with the Vise Squad - Jada's Christmas Song (Santa Claus's Helper)
10. Dudley Dogg Jr. - The Christmas Puppy
Sunday, December 20, 2009
The Best Cuts of Music Edition 55
The Best Cuts of Music is wrapping up its 1 year anniversary special extravaganza blow out! Hosts Robe Flax and Sam Houser play more music from days gone by and this episode includes more snippets from our celebratory gala. Come and join us once again as we give more toasts to what has been a truly fantastic year!
download mp3: The Best Cuts of Music: Edition 55
1. Sam Most - The Eyes Have It
2. Grupo Manifesto - Brasil De Samba
3. Tim Maia - É Necessário
4. DJ Day - A Place To Go
5. Elis Regina - Casa Forte
6. Joao Donato - Chorou, Chorou
7. Leyode - Isabelle
8. Daedelus - Girls (Nstrmntl)
9. Tipsy - See The Beauty, Touch The Magic
10. Weekend - The View From Her Room
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Tuesday, December 15, 2009
The Best Cuts of Music Edition 54
The Best Cuts of Music is having its 1 year anniversary special extravaganza blow out! Hosts Robe Flax and Sam Houser had a good time this week at a fantastic gala event for this special event. So much so that we had to break it up into two amazing episodes! We revisit songs of shows past and feature excerpts from the celebration festivities. Come and join us as we give a toast to what has been a truly fantastic year!
download mp3: The Best Cuts of Music: Edition 54
1. James Blake - Air & Lack Thereof
2. Nosaj Thing - Coat of Arms
3. 16 Bit - In The Death Car (Vocal Mix)
4. Dooley O & Lark Chillout - Watch My Move 2006
5. Cirlce Research - I'm Your Density (Extended 12" Mix)
6. Loleatta Hollaway - Catch Me On The Rebound (Album remix)
7. Alfredo De La Fe - Hot To Trot
8. Charanga 76 - Ain't No Stopping Us Now
9. Morten Sorensen - Start Something
10. Nebraska - The Other Side
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Sunday, December 13, 2009
Alma Faye - Don't Fall In Love (Robe Flax edit)
Hello gorgeous friends and neighbors!
It has been a while since I popped through and offered a non-Best Cuts message.
In fact, it's been never. That is quite some time.
Despite the title of the tune, I have recently fallen head over heels in love with Alma Faye's "Don't Fall In Love".
Here is an edit I did of the song, extending parts I liked and cutting out parts I didn't. Hope you enjoy!
Alma Faye - "Don't Fall In Love" (Robe Flax edit)
Robe Flax.
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Wednesday, December 9, 2009
The Best Cuts of Music Edition 53
Welcome one and all to another exciting adventure with The Best Cuts of Music! Hosts Robe Flax and Sam Houser travel into the depths of Machu Picchu and make some startling discoveries about themselves and the show. Finally after many episodes the hosts come face to face with their mysterious benefactor Mr. M.! What do they find out, what is the future of the show, and just who is this Mr. M anyway?! Set your browsers to download and find out!
download mp3: The Best Cuts of Music: Edition 53
1. Omodaka - Asadoya Yunta
2. Visit Venus - First Man On The Moog
3. Sdp - Nice Guy (Nice Guitar Dub) [Hiroshi Fujiwara Mix]
4. Tony Aiken & Future 2000 - Better Days
5. Hifana - Uchi-nan-champroo ft. Kotobuki
6. Harold Alexander - Mama Soul
7. Fantastic Plastic Machine - Different Colors
8. Peter Jacques Band - Walking On Music (Disco Edit)
9. The Nick Straker Band - A Little Bit of Jazz
10. Towa Tei - Contact
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
The Best Cuts of Music Edition 52
Hola oyentes de Los Mejores Cortes de la Música! Hosts Robe Flax and Sam Houser have found a clue that just might lead them regaining their solvency and getting back their prior glory as hosts of The Best Cuts of Music. A clue is sent to them in the mail and they find themselves on a trip to South America. The trip turns into a real trip and the hosts find themselves having an unexpected spiritual journey. Tune in to find out what happens on another exciting episode of The Best Cuts of Music!
download mp3: The Best Cuts of Music: Edition 52
1. Le Disco - Baby's Band (Leo Zero Edit)
2. Organized Crime - Downtown Brown
3. Hack the Tab - I Am Not Machine (Original Hack the Tab Mix)
4. Hardwire - Dope Jam
5. Geraldine Hunt - Can't Fake The Feeling
6. Fingers, Inc - Can You Feel It
7. Eddy Grant - California Style (Edit)
8. Handsomeboy Technique - Guiding Lights (Far Calls Coming Far)
9. Backini - Dreamer
10. Jose Barrense-Dias - A Tonga Da Mironga Do Kabulete
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The Conexim DNS API
The Conexim DNS API uses a familiar REST interface that enables application developers to build powerful integration tools that work with DNS.
Potential use cases for the API include provisioning automation, integration with monitoring systems – from simple health checks to full business process monitoring and reporting.
Combining the feature rich interface of the DNS management console with the flexibility of the Conexim DNS API provides a sophisticated DNS platform that meets virtually any requirement around DNS.
The API documentation covers the secure key-based authentication mechanism, making basic calls and includes examples for popular languages such as PHP, Python and Ruby which can be easily adapted to support other languages such as Perl and C#.
Conexim encourages and welcomes feedback to ensure we're delivering the best services possible. If you have ideas for a new feature, or if there's an aspect of Conexim DNS you feel we could improve, please let us know – we'd love to hear from you.


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A Beginner's Guide to Affairs Your Aboriginal Accommodation Investment
One of the best means to accretion an affordable admission point into the acreage bazaar abode is to advance in an apartment. Though this may be the best way to admission the market, we animate you to aboriginal yield time to do your analysis afore authoritative any big-ticket investments. After all, a acute investment is a able-bodied researched investment. We accept created this commodity to advice accomplish the action of purchasing your aboriginal accommodation a lot easier, by absorption on the top factors you should be searching into afore you put money down on an apartment.
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The afterward agency to focus on is your banknote flow, and how abundant money you plan on authoritative off your accommodation investment already you advertise it or while you own it. Ask yourself if you plan to hire it out or if you plan to accumulate it for yourself to renovate. Figuring out how you plan to accomplish money off the accommodation you buy is a abundant way of compassionate which acreage is the appropriate investment for you. Here are a few things to yield into annual if you are affairs an accommodation for the account of renting it out: how abundant do you wish your mortgage transaction to be, what admeasurement do you wish your down transaction to be, and what blazon of absorption amount are you aiming for. Knowing the answers to all of these questions helps point you in the appropriate direction, ultimately ensuring that you acquisition the absolute accommodation for auction for you. For those who are still disturbing to accept which avenue is the best avenue to take, we admonish you seek out the advice of an able who deals with accommodation buying.


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What I'm reading with my afternoon tea.
The image is composed of avatars of Tunisian Twitter users.
The joyful stories about Tunisia "throw[ing] off the censor's shackles" have largely been replaced by stories warning of religiously motivated book bans. Tunisia Live's report quotes Al Kitab bookstore worker Adel Hajji as saying, "Now, it is a religion-based type of censorship."
[Source: Nawaat.org via Arabic Literature (in English) and Global Voices.
M.I.A 's Bad Girls video
The song, which portrays women doing Saudi-style driving stunts, has been making waves in Saudi. Filmed in Morocco. The YouTube is here.
German protest against 25,000 Euro Saudi tank deal
The weapons producer Krauss-Maffei Wegmann was contracted to deliver 270 of its Leopard 2 A7+ tanks. This model is specifically designed for use in urban areas. The Center for Political Beauty produced a video which illustrates the use of this tank to suppress protests [de]….
Some haunting photos, taken by Hend AbduAllah in Yemen.


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If the Netsso Login Pilot is installed on the computer/tablet which you are working from, then you can make a fast link to any webpage, or image, or other link which you might want to revisit by either clicking the Netsso icon which you should find on the page or by right-clicking on the desired object and choosing "Copy Link for Netsso". Then you right-click again in your Netsso, where you want to place the link, and choose "Paste from page" Then you can give it a Description and icon if you wish or shorten the title. It all takes only seconds. (Tablets use a method other than right-click..It should still work)
You can Import your favourites from most popular browsers and centralise them in Netsso. That way, you have access to them from any PC. Also, you can enhance them with icons, colours, memorable titles, etc. You will find instructions under the "Desktops" menu, upper right side. (The total number of favourites you can import is limited by your links quota, which should be indicated in the member Welcome box, left side here)


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NYSL Promotions on Making Your Brand Stand Out
If you're attending a networking conference or an industry meeting, you want to be memorable upon introduction to others. Our NYSL Promotions experts understand the importance of this opportunity to shine. Therefore, we'd like to offer a few of our favorite tips to help you stand out (in a good way).
Before you arrive, one practice our NYSL Promotions experts advocate is to imagine a more creative way to describe what you do. If you're a sales agent, you might describe yourself as the conduit between brands and customers. One IT person, tired of trying to explain his position, describes his rather technical back-end role as, "The Great Oz behind the curtain (but with real magical abilities)." While you don't want to go for the cheap laugh, do find an amusing or anecdotal description of your work that others will remember.
A signature look will make you memorable as well, according to our NYSL Promotions professionals. If you're a guy, you could consider wearing bow ties rather than long ties for impact. Women might consider neutral outfits with colorful scarves. Conversation starter pieces, such as jewelery that has stories attached, are often good options too.
Of course, the most powerful way in which to be remembered is as a good listener. People remember those who take sincere interest in them. Ask questions and then follow up with something later that shows you paid attention. You'll be an instant star.
Now go forth and be remembered for how amazing you are.


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David Washington and Paul Gusmorino demonstrate the key enhancements in Windows 7 to finding and organizing your files. David and Paul show off the ways that the team has simplified the Windows Explorer, the new libraries feature, which is a virtual collection of your music, photos, and video, wherever they may be, including on multiple machines. You'll also see how to use the Library pane to easily find and filter your data.
You'll also see the new advanced search filter that provides a visual way to filter your files based on the files metadata.
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Sciphone, after the G2 and N12, is planning four Android mobile phones, the N16, N17, N19 and N21. All these phones run Android OS and supports Google Mobile Service and Android Market.
Sciphone's N16 looks exactly like HTC's Magic. It supports 3G WCDMA/HSDPA network, GPS, Bluetooth and WiFi. The phone has a 3.2-inch screen, a 3 Megapixel camera and is equipped with a 624MHz processor.
The N17 is an Android device with touch-sensitive buttons. It gets a 3.2-ninch display, a 3.2 Megapixel camera, GPS/A-GPS support but lacks 3G support.
Sciphone's N19 supports just dual-band GSM network. It has a 2.8-inch LCD touchscreen, a 2 Megapixel camera and WiFi connectivity.
Lastly, the Sciphone N21 is basically a rebranded General Mobile DSTL1, which offers dual SIM support. It is powered by Marvell PXA 310 624MHz processor, 256MB ROM and 128MB RAM. The N21 features a 3-inch touchscreen, a 5 Megapixel camera, Bluetooth, WiFi, and Dual SIM support. It supports quad-band GSM/EDGE networks.


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Can you believe tomorrow is Halloween? I certainly can't. It seems like summer just ended, and yet it is already almost time to start getting ready for the winter holidays. Yikes!!
If you are having a last minute Halloween get together, check out some of these adorable, super easy decorations. Like I always say, the decorations really help make the party...so make it a memorable night!
Half a pumpkin filled with ice...perfect festive way to keep drinks cold.
I've seen this pumpkin idea a few times this year, and it is so darn cute! Cut a whole and insert plastic vampire teeth...thats the easiest pumpkin carving you'll ever do!
Glue some black face cutouts on orange balloons. Simple but very festive.
This would be so fun for an adult Halloween party! Black lights around the bar make for a spooky, fun atmosphere.
Fill hard with colored water and creepy things you find around the house. Spooky specimen jars for your guests to wonder over.
Dip mini pumpkins in glitter. Cute and sparkly way to decorate any room.
Tape a ghost cutout over a mirror for a surprise reflection!
Use goggly eyes to make some fun, goofy pumpkins!
I hope you have a safe and fun Halloween!!
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I am a software developer with most professional experience in the Windows .Net realm and I'm currently a WPF developer with Starkey Labs. However, I have wanted for some time to start the mobile developer journey properly and being an N900 owner, this was to be in the realm of QT. Job hunting, moving to Minnesota and changing jobs put my plans on hold 6-12 months but things are starting to settle now, just as I'm getting sorted to start some things, Microsoft and Nokia merge. This blog is about my novice mobile development experiences and what i've learned on my way to developing Windows Phone apps.
In other stuff, I am English, I support Everton FC, I have visited Glastonbury music festival 5 times and recommend it to anyone. I am married and my wife and I have a two dog's; an Italian greyhound/whippet mix called Friday and a chihuahua/Italian greyhound/terrier (we think) mix called Duke.
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Scream queens get all "SOCIOPATHIA" on usMovies/TV,News Michael Gingold
A bevy of East Coast horror starlets are joining forces for SOCIOPATHIA, a visceral horror movie described as "MANIAC meets AMERICAN MARY" that rolls next month.
Ruby LaRocca (pictured above), who has appeared in FLESH FOR THE BEAST, THE LOST, THE SUPER and many other features, and Rich Mallery wrote and will make their directorial debuts on SOCIOPATHIA, which will lens on Philadelphia locations. The synopsis: "Introverted and peculiar, Mara [Tammy Jean, pictured below left] spends her days fabricating props for movies. But her reclusive persona conceals an internal wrath. Terrified of being alone, Mara refuses to let her lovers leave, sadistically murdering them and keeping their corpses as living dolls. When she's hired by Kat [Asta Paredes, below right], a fledgling producer, the two instantly hit it off. As their relationship grows more intense, Mara begins to lose her already fragile grip on reality. When her 'dolls' begin demanding all of her attention, and Kat threatens to break her heart, Mara spirals into psychosis, leaving her no choice but to kill again."
In addition to Jean and RETURN TO NUKE 'EM HIGH's Paredes, the SOCIOPATHIA cast also includes Nicola Fiore (who appeared opposite LaRocca in SLAUGHTER DAUGHTER and SHE WOLF RISING), Nicolette Le Faye from PRESIDENT'S DAY and CALL GIRL OF CTHULHU, THE CEMETERY's Tabetha Ray, BLOOD SLAUGHTER MASSACRE's Tiffany Loretta Carroll, Shelby Lyn Vogel of ToeTag Pictures and up-and-comer Brandy Noir. Jason M. Koch and Kaleigh Brown, who contributed the creatures and carnage to CALL GIRL, are creating the makeup FX. Stay tuned for more as SOCIOPATHIA gets rolling…


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22-Year-Old English major from Delaware takes home coveted award
CHESTERTOWN, MD—At a time when many college graduates must worry about limited job prospects in a recession-stalled economy, one talented senior at Washington College walked off the commencement stage with her diploma and a check worth $64,243. Hailey Reissman, a 22-year-old English major from Wilmington, DE, was named the winner of the Sophie Kerr Prize at the College's 227th commencement ceremony Sunday morning, May 16.
The largest undergraduate literary prize in the nation, the Sophie Kerr is awarded annually to the Washington College senior who demonstrates the greatest "ability and promise for future fulfillment in the field of literary endeavor."
Reissman had impressed faculty from the day she arrived on campus from Thomas McKean High School in Wilmington. She produced everything from critical essays and scholarly work to poetry and non-fiction with an ease and elegance unusual for her age. "She doesn't have a weak area," sums up English Department Chair Kate Moncrief, who heads the 12-member committee that selects the prizewinner. "She writes with a sophisticated voice but also with great humor."
For four decades, the announcement of the prizewinner—whose name is a closely guarded secret until that moment—has been a highlight of commencement at Washington College. This year it followed an address by broadcast and print journalist John Harwood and the awarding of honorary degrees to Harwood and Richard Meserve, chair of the Carnegie Institution and former chair of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Reissman's was one of 24 portfolios submitted to the prize committee. Moncrief, whose committee consists of the English faculty and the college president, says this year saw an "incredibly strong top tier, with a handful of students who definitely could have won it in any other year."
Reissman, a member of Phi Beta Kappa who minored in Creative Writing, submitted a diverse portfolio that included academic writing, poems, fiction and creative non-fiction. The subjects of her creative work include family scenes, the literary life, and the frustrations of dealing with physical disability. In her introductory remarks to the Committee, she summed up her growth as a writer during her years at Washington College this way: "I have had the chance to explore and tackle and then tackle again the subjects that accost me over and again: writing, language, transformation, youth, the disabled body, the 'other,' nature, the mind vs. the body, sense, and perception."
Poet Jehanne Dubrow, the professor who advised Reissman on her "Senior Capstone" examination and paper, describes the Sophie Kerr winner as "a voracious reader, the kind of aspiring writer who understands that finding her own voice begins with reading, reading, and reading. In the classroom, she is the student whose quirky, imaginative observations always lead to ah-ha moments." She is extremely modest and "her own harshest critic," Dubrow adds. "She is constantly questioning her own writing, asking her poems and essays, 'Are you good enough?' "
Mark Nowak, the director of the Rose O'Neill Literary House at Washington College, was struck by the "fully developed voice" in such a young writer. "She is wildly creative," he says, "and an exceptional talent whose writing electrifies everyone who reads it. She's destined for great things."
The Sophie Kerr Prize is the namesake of an Eastern Shore woman who made her fortune in New York writing women's fiction during the 1930s and 1940s. Her generosity has provided the nucleus for a thriving community of writers on the Washington College campus. In accordance with the terms of Kerr's will, one-half of the annual income from her bequest is awarded each year to the graduating senior demonstrating the best potential for literary achievement.
The other half funds scholarships, buys books, supports student publications and brings an array of visiting writers and editors to campus to read, visit classes, and discuss student work. Past Sophie Kerr guests have included Katherine Anne Porter, James Dickey, Edward Albee, William Styron, Mary Karr, Ted Kooser, Jane Smiley, and, most recently, Daniel Handler, a.k.a Lemony Snicket.
Washington College is a private, independent college of liberal arts and sciences located in the heart of historic Chestertown, near the Chester River on Maryland's Eastern Shore. Founded in 1782, it was the first college chartered in the new nation. For more information, visit www.washcoll.edu.
Photos by Matthew Spangler, top to bottom:
Hailey Reissman, winner of the 2010 Sophie Kerr Prize; all smiles after learning the news; posing with adviser Jehanne Dubrow; receiving the Prize from President Tipson; showing her surprise at winning the largest literary prize in the nation.


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"The Bureau is facing nothing less than a budgetary 'crisis'," its director, Charles Kincannon, told a House Oversight and Government Reform Information Policy Subcommittee hearing.
The Commerce Department filed the request with Congress Monday for approval as the agency continues to struggle with a financial shortfall as it prepares to conduct the 2010 census. Funding from the Commerce Department, however, depends on approval from the House and the Senate, and while the head of the Census Bureau told lawmakers Tuesday that he hoped it will be approved by Friday, there is no clear indication whether that will be possible.
Kincannon, who tendered his resignation from the Census Bureau nearly a year ago but has stayed on as the Senate has yet to confirm Texan demographer Steve Murdock to replace him, pointed out that the bureau will have to scale back its so-called dress rehearsal of the census, planned for next year.
The actual census must be conducted on April 1, 2010, with results being submitted to the White House by December of that year. The constitutionally mandated program is expected to cost around $11.5 billion. Unable to secure funding for fiscal 2008 which started Oct. 1, the Bureau is running on a continuing resolution that provides a budget at the fiscal 2007 level until Nov. 16, even though it had actually requested a 40 percent increase from a year ago and had secured presidential approval for it in February.
A major reason for the increase in budgetary demand is the Census Bureau's plan to make more use of technology, most notably the first-time use of hand-held computers to collect data from residents. Kincannon said under current financial constraints, the bureau will be downscaling its practice run next year in several ways, for instance by not counting people living in group quarters such as in dormitories, military barracks, and prisons.
Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y., expressed her concern about not counting military group housing in particular, pointing out that those at the Fort Bragg military base were already worried about how the budget cuts would affect them.


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text: Slack IRC GatewayOct 7, 2015The company that I currently work for is trying to migrate from HipChat to Slack. Nothing is certain yet, but a move seems likely, and at the minimum I can say that we're evaluating Slack and I've gotten to check it out and play with it a bit.The thing that is awesome about Slack is that it has a native IRC gateway. If you use the IRC gateway you don't get all of the whiz-bang features that the native client has, but at least the IRC gateway basically works and is supported by the company. This is a huge contrast to HipChat where the only way to get it working with IRC is using BitlBee which uses the XMPP gateway that HipChat supports and BitlBee itself acts as a bizarre XMPP/IRC bridge that maps the weird HipChat XMPP extensions into things that are sort of like IRC. The BitlBee HipChat stuff mostly works and has been pretty solid for me for about a year now, but it definitely has some quirks and is really strange to use in a lot of ways.I live and die by IRC, so for me the native gateway is a huge, huge win. There are already a few quirks I've found (e.g. no scrollback when joining a new room), but all in all the experience is miles ahead of using BitlBee with HipChat.Here's why the IRC gateway is a huge win for me. Most of the same is true with HipChat + BitlBee; this is more a commentary on using an IRC client to connect to these newfangled chat systems than anything else.First of all, like most serious IRC users I have an IRC session connected using WeeChat running in an always-running tmux session that's on a remote server that I very rarely power cycle (every few months to make sure I stay on top of kernel updates). This isn't the only way to do it, Irssi is another great terminal-based IRC client, and GNU Screen is getting a bit long in the tooth but there's nothing wrong with it at all. There are numerous other IRC clients worthy of praise, WeeChat is just the one I prefer.The reason this is cool is that I'm always connected to the chat system, so I get chats from people all the time and can respond to them at my leisure. It can be a bit annoying to other people who can't tell if I'm actually on or am just idling, but if anything I'll chalk that up as a plus. If anyone really needs to contact me, I have my phone number in a million places including in PagerDuty so I'm not too concerned about that.Second of all, WeeChat (and most other IRC clients) is incredibly customizable, and it's easy to filter our messages I don't care about, get highlights on arbitrary words, and a number of other features that are must-have for me. Buffer management in WeeChat is really amazing and incredibly fast once you take the time to learn how it works. I can easily handle really busy times on chat better than my coworkers using the native clients. There are a million plugins (and actually I'm not using any of them), but if you really want to get down that rabbithole it's an option. WeeChat is also scriptable in a bunch of different languages including Python (my main day job programming language). I have dabbled in WeeChat scripting a bit and while I'm by no means a pro, it's pretty easy to get started and do cool things. I might write a blog post about this once I've written a more substantial WeeChat plugin.Being able to keep client-side logs is also a godsend. There are a million times where I've wanted to find something from my chat history—potentially months (or even years) old, and being able to simply grep the chat logs is awesome. In the same way that it's common to quote from emails when replying, from time to time I've found it incredibly useful to be able to quote from chat conversations e.g. to substantiate timelines that were discussed or the division of responsibility for projects. I've also had a lot of fun doing statistical analyses of my conversations (e.g. what proportion of the messages come from me v.s. from person X) and training Markov chain bots on chat logs.There is one serious downside which is that given someone's real name I don't know how to look up their nick/alias. For instance, suppose someone tells me I need to talk to Aubrey Graham about a project, but he cleverly set his nick to be drizzy. I can use /whois drizzy to figure out that drizzy is Aubrey Graham, but just given the name Aubrey Graham I'm not sure how to figure out that his nick is drizzy.One more thing. If you want to use the Slack IRC gateway, I highly recommend Calle Erlandsson's excellent article on the topic where he goes into a lot more details about various configuration things and the plugins available.


text: DigitalParamount/DreamWorks Divorce In Settlement StageBy Meghan|October 31, 2008 ShareBy Meghan|October 31, 2008 ShareFurther details in the Paramount/DreamWorks split are coming to light in what appears to be an amicable divorce (if such a thing exists in Hollywood), the Hollywood Reporter says .As part of the studios' separation agreement, projects remaining on Melrose Avenue that the new DreamWorks will have an option to co-finance and co-distribute (through its deal with Universal) include "No Man's Land"; the Demetri Martin-penned comedy "Will"; "Love Me or Leave Me"; "Blood and Thunder," about 19th century adventurer Kit Carson; "Follies"; "Little Britain"; "The Rivals," with a screenplay by Robin Swicord; "Dominion," produced by Nina Jacobson; "Spydust"; and an untitled Diablo Cody-scripted comedy from an original Steven Spielberg idea.Previously reported in this batch were "Matt Helm," "Imaginary Friends," "Children of the Lamp" and a President Lincoln biopic scripted by Tony Kushner that was in the Paramount development fold before Spielberg showed an interest.Paramount plans to distribute 20 films in 2009.Meanwhile, former DW production president Adam Goodman, now a production chief along with Brad Weston at Paramount, has acquired rights to the graphic novel "Agnes Quill: An Anthology of Mystery" for Thor Freudenthal to direct. Evan Spiliotopoulos is adapting the Dave Roman work.Goodman also will oversee all DreamWorks-developed projects remaining in active development at Paramount. Those number about 100.For its part, DreamWorks likely will keep new acquisitions rare and focus on ready-to-go, well-packaged projects in the next few months as the company staffs up and finalizes financing. Development will continue on the 17 projects DreamWorks took with it after the split that Paramount will have the option to co-finance and co-distribute.Those projects include "Button Man," "Escape Artist," "Ghost in the Shell," "Motorcade," "Hereafter," "St. Agnes' Stand," "The Damned," "Rainbow Bridge," "Real Steel," "The Kidnapping of Eduardo Mortado," "Atlantis Rising," "Cowboys & Aliens," "Dinner With Schmucks," "Deep Sea Cowboys," "The 39 Clues," "Quartermain" and "The Trial of the Chicago 7," which the studio is in talks with Ben Stiller, among others, to direct.Several of these have been floated to one degree or another since the studio acquired them as potential Spielberg directing gigs. But the director is casting his net wider for an outside project that he can helm while the new studio retools.Additionally, Spielberg will remain an executive producer on four wholly owned Paramount properties, including "Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen" and "When Worlds Collide." Sharehttp://adweek.it/2l2xqQO copy Adweek Adweek


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As per Bhavishya Purana, Mahamada (Incarnaion of Demon Tripurasura) = Dharmadushika (Polluter of Righteousness)
Religion founded by Mahamada = Paisachyadharma ( Demoniac Religion)
Original Sanskrit Version
Bhavishya Puran : Prati Sarg: Part III 3.3.5-27
Shri Suta Gosvami said: In the dynasty of King Shalivahana, there were ten kings who went to the heavenly planet after ruling for over 500 years. Then gradually the morality declined on the earth. At that time Bhojaraja was the tenth of the kings on the earth. When he saw that the moral law of conduct was declining he went to conquer all the directions of his country with ten-thousand soldiers commanded by Kalidasa. He crossed the river Sindhu and conquered over the gandharas, mlecchas, shakas, kasmiris, naravas and sathas. He punished them and collected a large ammount of wealth. Then the king went along with Mahamada (Muhammad), the preceptor of mleccha-dharma, and his followers to the great god, Lord Shiva, situated in the desert. He bathed Lord Shiva with Ganges water and worshipped him in his mind with pancagavya (milk, ghee, yoghurt, cow dung, and cow urine) and sandalwood paste, etc. After he offered some prayers and pleased him.
Suta Goswami said: After hearing the king's prayers, Lord Shiva said: O king Bhojaraja, you should go to the place called Mahakakshvara, that land is called Vahika and now is being contaminated by the mlecchas. In that terrible country there no longer exists dharma. There was a mystic demon named Tripura(Tripurasura), whom I have already burnt to ashes, he has come again by the order of Bali. He has no origin but he achieved a benediction from me. His name is Mahamada(Muhammad) and his deeds are like that of a ghost. Therefore, O king, you should not go to this land of the evil ghost. By my mercy your intelligence will be purified.Hearing this the king came back to his country and Mahamada(Muhammad) came with them to the bank of the river Sindhu. He was expert in expanding illusion, so he said to the king very pleasingly: O great king, your god has become my servant. Just see, as he eats my remnants, so I will show you. The king became surprised when he saw this just before them. Then in anger Kalidasa rebuked Mahamada(Muhammad) "O rascal, you have created an illusion to bewilder the king, I will kill you, you are the lowest…"
That city is known as their site of pilgrimage, a place which was Madina or free from intoxication. Having a form of a ghost (Bhuta), the expert illusionist Mahamada(Muhammad) appeared at night in front of king Bhojaraja and said: O king, your religion is of course known as the best religion among all. Still I am going to establish a terrible and demoniac religion by the order of the Lord . The symptoms of my followers will be that they first of all will cut their genitals, have no shikha, but having beard, be wicked, make noise loudly and eat everything. They should eat animals without performing any rituals. This is my opinion. They will perform purificatory act with the musala or a pestle as you purify your things with kusha. Therefore, they will be known as musalman, the corrupters of religion. Thus the demoniac religion will be founded by me. After having heard all this the king came back to his palace and that ghost(Muhammad) went back to his place.
The intelligent king, Bhojaraj established the language of Sanskrit in three varnas – the brahmanas, kshatriyas and vaisyas – and for the shudras he established prakrita-bhasha, the ordinary language spoken by common men. After ruling his kingdom for 50 years, he went to the heavenly planet. The moral laws established by him were honored even by the demigods. The arya-varta, the pious land is situated between Vindhyacala and Himacala or the mountains known as Vindhya and Himalaya. The Aryans reside there, but varna-sankaras reside on the lower part of Vindhya. The musalman people were kept on the other side of the river Sindhu.
On the island of Barbara, Tusha and many others also the followers of Isamsiha were also situated as they were managed by a king or demigods.
Note This
Tripurasura's Past life (Mythology[not from bhavishya purana])
Lord Shiva too realized that he was unable to destroy Tripurasur because he had not paid his respects to Lord Ganesh. He recited the Shadaakshar Mantra to invoke Ganesh. On doing so from his mouth emerged Gajanan to grant Shiva a boon. Shiva continued his invocation of Ganesh who ultimately directed him on how Tripurasur could be killed. Lord Shiva was asked to recite the Sahastranam and then direct an arrow at the three pura-s of Tripurasur. Lord Shiva followed these instructions and finally vanquished Tripurasur.
sabahin kripa kari leen bachayi.
You forgave everybody and saved the Gods.
(from Sanskrit dictionary)
म्लेच्छ mleccha 1 A barbarian,a non Aryan ( One not speaking the Sanskrit Language or not conform in to Hindu or Aryan institutions),a foreigner in general
gomAmsakhAdako yastu viruddhaM bahubhAshhate | sarvAchAravihInashcha mlechchha ityabhidhiiyate |
He who eats cow's meat, and speaks a lot against shastras and he, who is also devoid of all forms of spiritual practice, is called a mlechha.
3 A sinner, A wicked person, A savage or barbarian race
Paisachya (meaning) (from Sanskrit dictionary)
Paisachya : Demonical, Infernal
Tripurasura : Asura meaning (from Sanskrit dictionary)


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The Pagoda taken by Sei-Him Cheong
Last week, Cheong & I had gone to Kew Gardens in London.
Student price is £11, not cheap but a coupon given to get discount for the next visit.
The annual fee is quite cheap, it's about £35.
The 1st photo features the iconic building, The Pagoda.
To be honest, it's neither pretty nor special.
I thought the tower is opened for sightseeing but it's not, very disappointed.
Yellow Roses taken by Cheong.
Pink Roses taken by Sei-Him Cheong.
As Kew is celebrating 250th anniversary, different species of roses have planted.
I have never seen so many roses in my life before.
The roses are mainly white, pink & yellow.
In the green houses, there are plants that I'm familiar with because I've seen them in Malaysia.
Including banana trees & the national flower, hibiscus.
The national flower of Malaysia is in red instead of the pink shown in the photo.
But it reminds me the days in Malaysia.
Hibiscus taken by Sei-Him Cheong.
I have also seen Pitcher plants in Kew.
Although it's a typical plant in Malaysia, I had never seen this there, so I was quite surprised to see it here.
Pitcher plant taken by Sei-Him Cheong.
Although I'm not passionate in plants & gardening, I think it's worth visiting.
We didn't have enough time to walk around the whole garden.
We'd been to International Garden Photographer of the Year Exhibition.
My cousin, Voon Wah in Hong Kong is great at taking photographs of birds & wildlife.
I think he'll win if he submitted his works.
I'll definitely tell him to submit for the competition in 2010.
We leaved at 6.30 p.m.
There are many restaurants & cafe that are nicely decorated.
We had a dinner at Pizza Express before heading back to Basildon.


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Update from Busch Gardens…
Here is the eagerly awaited update on two of the most adorable residents living in Curiosity Caverns at Busch Gardens Tampa, our Mongoose lemur twins…..
Born on April 6, to mom, Rosalita, and dad, Guillermo, the twins are now over 2 months old.
Mom, dad and both babies are doing fantastic. While their favorite parent to catch a ride on is still dear, sweet mom, dad does his part in raising the twins and can often be seen carrying one of the babies on his side, just like mom does.
The babies already have two distinct personalities. One is a lot more bold and adventurous, while the other is more careful and stays close to Rosalita or Guillermo at all times. By the picture, can you guess which is the more cautious and watchful one and which one is more confident?
While we do have our guesses, keepers still aren't certain of the sex of the twins. They stay very close to mom and dad and when they do get off and approach keepers, they are really fast. They bound around quickly to practice their jumping and climbing skills and then they are soon back with one of the parents.
Both babies already have very sharp teeth and are starting to experiment with solid foods, even going as far as trying to steal pieces of food out of mom's hands. You can see one is thinking about it right now.
In an effort to begin a training program with the twins, the keepers have begun offering the babies small pieces of fruit. This helps by getting the babies comfortable with approaching us and taking food from us. After a short time, we will be able to start weighing them and teaching them to crate comfortably, just like their parents do.
Stay tuned for more mongoo


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Just stumbled upon another avoidable pedestrian traffic mishap. Luckily, it appears that everyone is going to be okay, hopefully they were only just a bit shaken. There seems to be an endless amount of these videos turning up lately with the advent of dash-cams in more and more vehicles. This might be good for video based media sites, but when I see this happen to unsuspecting innocent children, I have to admit, it makes me cringe.
Is it still possible in this day and age, an apparent loving guardian might possibly be the cause of serious injury or even the death of a loved one? I can't totally fault the lady for walking into moving traffic, she did look down the street in the direction traffic would be approaching, but there is no excuse for not looking both ways before crossing the street. As I've said before, you have to take full responsibility for your personal safety, and are risking it if you think all drivers are paying attention to you.
Children are our greatest asset and we should do everything to protect and arm them with the knowledge they will need as they traverse the auto populated landscape. I am tired of preaching about these obvious dangers. You know what to do!


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As battle against jihadists winds down, the government is grappling with another enemy
ByOmar al-Jaffal
- February 28, 2019


text: Union Minister Jitendra Singh today tried to play down the "Kashmiri militants are martyrs" remarks of a PDP MLA, calling it a "stray comment" and said the government was firm on its stand against terrorism. Aijaz Ahmed Mir stoked a controversy yesterday when he described Kashmiri militants shot dead in encounters with security forces as "martyrs" and "brothers" and also cautioned against glorifying their killings. "If a stray comment is made by a stray person, it is not to be given any importance. But as far as we are concerned, a terrorist is a terrorist and a terrorist only," Singh told reporters here in reply to a question seeking his reaction over the remarks. "Terrorism is to be dealt in the way terrorism is dealt. We have zero tolerance against terrorism and government is clear on this stand and will continue to follow this stand," he said. The union minister said such comments amount to disrespecting the nation's security forces. "By saying anything, terrorist cannot be a martyr and by making such an apologetic statement about terrorists, who engineer terrorist acts, amounts to disrespecting security forces," said Singh. The PDP MLA's remarks came as an embarrassment for his party as its alliance partner the BJP decried the comments saying these were "absolutely intolerable" and demanded an FIR against him. Singh said he was proud of India's successful launch of its 100th satellite along with 30 other spacecraft including weather observation Cartosat 2 series onboard the Polar rocket from Sriharikota today. "This is a matter of pride for each one of us," said Singh. "Having been associated with a the department for last four years, it is a very pleasant coincidence that I am associated with this department when ISRO is scaling new heights," he said. Singh said the launch was significant since 28 of the 31 satellites were foreign and belonged to developed countries like the USA, the UK, Finland, Canada, and France. "It is a reflection that those countries, which started space research much earlier, are today reposing faith on India for launching their satellites. This shows that India has, in a short period of time, risen to the front-ranking nation as far as this technology is concern," he said. Singh said the satellites would enhance India's navigational capacity and add tremendous value to various schemes of the government. "These satellites will be an addition to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's 'Make in India' mission," he said.


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We know a nice, comfortable pair of dress slacks does wonders for your look and helps you navigate through the office with your head held high. Different guys like different styles. And Perry Ellis appreciates the value in differentiation. After all, taking an unconventional approach to fashion is kind of our thing. Whether you go for the classic pleated or double-pleated pant, or you prefer a more traditional style like a permanent crease or flat front, we've got trousers that will be the difference maker in your wardrobe. With sizes ranging from slim fit to big & tall, you'll be sure to find the perfect style and fit that takes your confidence to another level. And creative fabrication designs take your suit game to new heights.
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It all started with a passion for web technology and internet marketing, as you would expect from an environment that has heavily embraced modern technology. From helping friends to design their websites, providing website maintenance, offering website audits, writing and editing website contents, Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) of websites, planning photo shoots for websites, brochures, and organisation, a career was born.
Services were improved and monetised. Landed a major project for an eCommerce client providing logo design and branding, creative/graphics design, website design, eCommerce website, product photography, product upload, copywriting and content management, Search Engine Optimisation (SEO), Pay Per Click Advertising, and social media management. It became evident from the experience that we had the full package.
Our first major project was a huge success with almost every visit converting into sales for our client. We carried on with a monthly maintenance of the client's website while ensuring top security, page speed optimisation, abandoned cart reduction, increased engagement on all channels and targeted social media advertising. We were showered with praises from our clients, and they subsequently referred us to other clients. Undoubtedly, we were up to something great.
TopYouGo Digital Marketing Agency was born. The website domain name was registered, and the initial business plan was set for business to take off. TopYouGo continued to provide consultancy services on Search Engine Optimisation (SEO), Branding, Website Design, Online Store Setup, Content Marketing, Market Research and Competitor Analysis, Social Media Marketing, and Photography. Progressively, TopYoGo Digital Marketing Agency became the go-to company for digital and internet marketing advice.
TopYouGo is a Lagos based full-service digital marketing agency providing a wide range of digital services across Lagos, Abuja, Port Harcourt, and other cities in Nigeria, Ghana and overseas. As a very ambitious company, who has a strong desire for success, we utilise a unique and bespoke digital marketing techniques to deliver outstanding results for our clients.
We have a 'winning' team of digital experts, who are focused on delivering long-term results for our clients. Our forward-thinking approach, coupled with the adoption of new technology and processes, has proved to be a winning formula and has helped businesses to build a successful online presence through digital marketing.
At TopYouGo Digital Marketing Agency, we do not go the easy way through shortcuts and cutting corners, but we go the extra mile in building a solution that is long-lasting and future-proofed. If you are looking to work with a digital marketing agency who is obsessed with results, with an eye to the future, get in touch now to speak to one of our experts.
We are everything that you would expect from a digital marketing agency; result-oriented, technology-driven, experienced, transparent, accountable, flexible and creative. We have built a team of digital experts around our core values, which has helped us to work together and more effectively. Here are the core values of TopYouGo Digital Marketing Agency:
These are the core values we live and work by, which encompasses the most important facets of our vision.
Our major focus is to deliver exceptional and impactful results to our clients, which are achieved through our unique and bespoke processes. Our processes are shaped and customised around each client's requirements. We spend the time to understand our client's business, the marketplace in which they operate, their competitors, and how best we can tailor our services to help achieve their business objectives.
We have the ethos of using modern technology to facilitate strong communication and maintaining transparency with our clients, delivering state-of-the-art digital techniques, and constantly delivering new digital solutions that meet your ever-changing digital requirements. We are committed to educating our clients on what we are doing, why we are doing it, and how we are doing it. We do keep our clients informed and updated at every stage of the process.
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We like to brag about our results. Our portfolio showcases our works and solutions. All our services are strategically put together to help our clients achieve their objectives. Our results are sustainable and future-proof.
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Is there anything more damaging to a floundering political campaign than being bitten by a penguin?
In a week that has already seen the candidate's mounting financial woes and recent walk out of an interview with a student journalist at the University of North Carolina, Newt Gingrich has also failed to gain the support of at least one flightless bird.
The former house speaker's beaking incident occurred during a recent visit to the St. Louis Zoo, and he has been sporting a bandage ever since. Maybe it was a message delivered on behalf of the animal kingdom? After all, Gingrich was in Missouri to speak at the National Rifle Association's annual meeting.
Lucky for Newt, it was a mere scratch, but with the GOP establishment lining up behind Mitt Romney, Gingrich's campaign can't afford to lose much more blood.
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text: Rarely do we get to see the creation of a professional Supercross or Motocross team. The quite hours in the shop, the team meetings, the late-night bike pick-ups, building test tracks, building camaraderie, troubleshooting mechanical issues. It's a part of the sport we love that's generally reserved for the fortunate individuals on or associated with the squad, but Motorcycle Superstore is helping to break down that wall with its recent video charting the creation of the Motorcycle Superstore/Suzuki Racing team. It was quick, 60 days in fact, and no small task. Riders Josh Osby, Kyle Cunningham, Mark Worth and Jimmy Albertson came together along with a host of mechanics, managers and sponsors to build a team ready to tackle the 250 class with Suzuki's RM-Z250. Get a look at the development of the Motorcycle Superstore/Suzuki Racing team in the video below.


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City education officials revealed this month that they would begin searching for a new gifted admissions test in response to complaints about low minority representation in gifted programs and concerns that professional test preparation services skew the results.
But any new test is unlikely to alleviate what many parents consider the most anxiety-producing part of the process — sending 4-year-olds into an exam that could decide their schooling for the next six years. In fact, the city may begin testing even earlier.
While the city says it is open to considering other options, it will most likely continue to rely on standardized tests for prekindergarteners as the central admissions criteria for the elite programs, and under the new protocol, which would begin for the 2012-13 school year, it could begin testing 3-year-olds born late in the year.
The current test is valid only for children 4 and older, but a new test could work for even younger children, allowing the city to speed up the admissions calendar to make it simpler for parents who are balancing private school deposits and kindergarten wait lists, education officials said in interviews and public testimony over the past several weeks.
Over all, the search for a new gifted test is not an easy one, as the city faces a series of constraints that make selecting gifted students in a million-student system more complicated and political than in the suburbs, city officials said. A look at what happened with the current testing contract helps explain why.Continue reading the main story
In 2006, the city awarded a five-year, $5.3 million contract to Harcourt Assessment to standardize the hodgepodge of admissions standards for the more than 130 gifted programs in the city.
In the first year that test was administered, teachers were also asked to fill out a qualitative rating sheet for students that would be considered along with the results on the standardized test, known as the Otis-Lennon School Ability Test, or Olsat. The sheet, known as the Gifted Rating Scales, measured intellectual, academic, motivational, creative, leadership and artistic talent.
The city was praised for using multiple criteria to assess giftedness, in keeping with national recommended practice for gifted assessment. But the city's use of the rating scales also led to an administrative disaster, education officials recalled this week. Teachers failed to turn in the rating sheets for 3,000 students on time, and some teachers said they did not feel comfortable filling out the forms, because parents could request to see them and question them.
The city ended up dropping the rating scales after one year in favor of a second test, the Bracken School Readiness Assessment, which judges early childhood knowledge like shapes and colors, and is easy to prepare students for. But arguably, it is not a gifted measure, but rather a measure of school readiness, as its name indicates.
The difficulty of using a qualitative measure weighs on city officials' minds as they prepare the outlines of a new testing contract that will go out for competitive bidding to the nation's testing publishers in the fall. Cost is another key factor.
Because the city wants to keep the testing process free, the tests are administered by teachers, a much cheaper method than the psychologist-administered intelligence tests of the sort used for private schools, which cost hundreds of dollars per student.
Early testing is something else the city wants to maintain. A number of the city's most treasured schools for the gifted — like Anderson, NEST+m and Lower Lab — begin in kindergarten, and the city said it did not want to tinker with those programs, which are popular with middle-class parents. Waiting until later grades to start gifted classes and schools, city officials said, would also present a daunting logistical challenge, with children moving from school to school in the middle of their elementary years.
This despite the fact that many experts say preschool intelligence testing is less accurate than testing once school is under way, in part due to the strong impact of nurture on the early acquisition of skills. On the other hand, the city's lower-than-average cut-off scores for gifted programs — the equivalent of 120 I.Q., or the 90th national percentile, rather than the 130 I.Q. used by most gifted programs — helps ameliorate this variability, some experts said. (The city tried using a higher standard, but amended it in 2008 after fewer students qualified, causing an outcry among parents in some districts.)
City officials said they hoped that advances in psychometrics since the last testing contract could lead to a fairer test.
And in fact, there have been advances in the last decade, particularly in two aspects of testing — new nonverbal aptitude tests, in which test examiners use pantomime instead of verbal directions to take students through the patterns and logic questions on the exam; and in item-response theory, which determines test validity question by question, instead of for the test as a whole, testing experts said.
But even with the advances, staying with a testing-only model would be unlikely to correct for the problem of low minority representation in the gifted program, some experts said, drawing on evidence from around the country. Currently 44 percent of children in New York City's gifted programs are white, compared with 15 percent in the overall school population.
"By using standardized tests, you are going to get predominantly white kids, that come from middle-class or upper-middle-class backgrounds," said Tonya R. Moon, a professor at the University of Virginia and principal investigator for the National Research Center on the Gifted.
"There is no process that is perfect, and tests can be biased, so you have to put in mechanisms to control for them," she said.
Susan K. Johnsen, a professor at Baylor University who has developed a nonverbal gifted test, was one of several experts who said the city should use multiple measures to assess giftedness, such as student work and teacher observation, even if it was more expensive or difficult to do so.
"There is no single test that can do it all," Dr. Johnsen said. "You might be able to find an array of assessments that might be able to do a good job of recognizing children's talents, but I don't think there is a test that is a magic bullet, or even a combination of quantitative tests that are."
While increasing diversity in the programs is an issue, education officials have been eager to dispel any suggestion that the gifted admissions process would somehow be diluted to promote it.
"We are not looking for a test that identifies qualities other than giftedness in young children," said David Cantor, press secretary for the city's Department of Education. "Our responsibility remains ensuring that gifted students are properly identified and placed in programs they need to learn best."Continue reading the main story


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Every day follows the other like a faithful follower. The almanac torn page after page for months to breeze past. Seasons expire, yet... life never comes to a standstill.
Walking through some narrow lanes left alone with the trail of a once beckoning history dilutes time. The towering Gothic structures admittedly evoke awe.
A lonely hand outstretched disturbed the meditative admiration. The rag picker had a haunting look overlooking an expectant coin to be dropped. The tobacco chewed and darkened teeth shone with a brownish red tinge. The lips widened making the teeth conspicuous. Another shuffle and the coins rubbed each other creating a sonorous harmony, music ensemble of a deprived lot. The left hand hit her belly involuntary, portraying hunger or a silent request to help her survive!!! The bubbly young kid with the hands on her hips swayed left and right. A look at her and she hid behind the shade of the polyester saree. The piece of cloth hung in tatters, a part of the mounds exposed. On the left hung a sack burdened with an uncared soul. The tiny future obliterated in the burgeoning populace of the emaciated. Snuggling in the race of survival!!! Nothing earned, nothing lost.
Unexpectedly, in split second amazement a smaller palm came outstretched. The shy little champion had become bolder in the enquiry. A look at the tiny palms evoked sympathy. The lines of fate callously double-crossed the lines of luck in those little requests. Pity squeezed the better out from the principled male ego and a rupee coin involuntarily tossed into the stretched out little fingers. The fingers folded, making a safe niche for the worthy coin. She looked at the begging guardian with a feel of achievement, who by then had turned to the next passer by. A sense of earning enveloped her twinkling eyes. So did a sagacious illumination in the darkest corridors in the donor. He had unknowingly directed those little hands to follow the murkier world of easy money.
Shanties as a home and occasionally with streets as a cushion, lamppost bases to recline, unaware of how life has to be indulged, they survive struggling, digging the same hands at times to empty some pockets of cash, sometimes to search for the crumbs of left out and decaying food in the dumping yards, ending in a rage.
The rag picker prepared to move. A coin fell and she stooped to pick. A shameless streak of sindhoor faintly decorated the scalp, splitting her hair into two equivalents. Value of the maroon stood demeaned. Any worth for her vermilion marks?? I stopped wondering and went ahead to enjoy the simplicities life offered at a discount.


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I'm an learning technologist at Jisc Netskills. I research emerging technologies to help people working in education make effective use of them.
My interests include WordPress, digital storytelling, augmented reality and online learning. I also manage and support the Jisc Involve blogging platform.
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This is my personal blog about the things work on – a new technology I've tried out, some training resources I've developed, a conference I've been to or just something I've seen that interests me. The main aim is to clarify my own thoughts and help me understand them better. I hope that helps someone, somewhere and that if you can help me with it, that you'll comment.
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6 bedrooms each with table, safe, 2 single beds and own shower/toilet. Living-/dining room and kitchen for common use. TV/video and W-Lan.
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What are vaccines and how do they work?
Vaccines, vaccinations, immunizations, or shots; no matter what you may call them, they are a critical part of your travel preparations and health wellness.
Your immune system keeps you healthy and fights off infectious diseases. Antibodies are an important part of the immune system. They recognize and help destroy invaders, such as viruses or bacteria. If you have antibodies for an infectious disease, it means your body can often defend itself against that disease or infection.
Antibodies are produced in two ways: by being exposed to the disease itself, or by getting a vaccine. A vaccine triggers the immune system to make antibodies to help protect against disease. Vaccinating against certain diseases helps protect more than just yourself. It is important to note that some adults are not fully vaccinated. Also the protection provided by some childhood vaccines fades over time. (Resource ACP)
Types of Diseases and their Vaccines
- Influenza (The Flu)
- Human Papillomavirus (HPV)
- Hepatitis A
- Hepatitis B
- Pertussis (Whooping Cough)
- Pneumococcus (Pneumonia)
- Meningococcal (Meningitis)
- Shingles
- Typhoid (Typhoid Fever)
- Chickenpox (Varicella)
- Yellow Fever
- Polio
- Rabies
- Japanese Encephalitis (JE)
- MMR (Measles, Mumps, and Rubella)
Other Diseases and Prevention Measures


text: TheatreWorks of SoIN Announces Fundraising for "Phase One" 01/17/2017 We have been overwhelmed by the excitement and support for this new community arts center in Downtown New Albany. We have heard from multiple organizations representing arts groups who would love to make use of the facility. There has also been a great deal of excitement about our production schedule, and we can't wait to get started. However, there is a great deal of work to do to get the space ready, and this is where we need your help. The Bank Building is a historic treasure, and it is


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Jian Zhu, a native of China, has resided in Albuquerque, New Mexico for approximately 30 years. During this time he has co-founded dozens of successful organizations, institutions, and project initiatives. Mr. Zhu possesses over 15 years of experience in Christian faith-based community outreach, civic organizational development, and US-China cross-cultural services. His work has encouraged peaceful relations between both countries in the areas of education, business, health, medical services, public affairs, and the arts.
Mr. Zhu attended Wuhan University in China, where he earned a Bachelor's of Arts in English and Literature. Mr. Zhu completed his Masters and Doctoral studies at the University of New Mexico (UNM) where he majored in socio-educational thought with a concentration in cross-cultural anthropology and communication. His teaching experience includes three years at Wuhan University, seven years in the Albuquerque Public Schools, and ten years in UNM's Department of Foreign Language and Literature. His class was voted the third best class at UNM by the UNM student body for two consecutive years.
Mr. Zhu currently serves as the Director of the China Institute at Lincoln Christian University, the First Representative to China at Albuquerque Sister Cities' Economic Friendship Program, and as the senior pastor of the Albuquerque Chinese Christian Church.
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Wednesday, 22 August 2018 09:11
Following an increase in this specific Scam, Action Fraud have posted the following advice.
Pension Scammers promise to convert pension funds into cash before retirement, or in some cases they may suggest people can take more than 25% of their pension pot as cash. Pension fraudsters promise to convert the pension benefits into cash before age 55.
Criminals are believed to be fraudulently exploiting the pension liberation process in a number of ways. These include failing to advise members of the tax implications of receiving cash from their pension; failing to advise members of the full extent of fees to be paid in relation to any onward investment; falsely representing anticipated levels of returns when investments are either non - exsistent or incapable of providing such a return.
The scammers have a variety of tricks to catch you out. They may:
- claim that you can access your pension pot before age 55
- approach you out of the blue over the phone, via text message or in person door to door
- entice you with upfront cash
- offer a free 'pension review' or try to lure you in with so-called 'one-off' investment opportunities
Check for facts before you make an irreversible decision. A lifetime's savings can be lost in a moment.
The Pension Regulator's five steps to avoid becoming a victim of a pension scam:
- Cold called about your pension - just hang up!
- Check the credentials of the compant and any advisers - who should be registered with the Financial Conduct Authority
- Ask for a statement showing how your pension will be paid at retirement, and question who will look after your money until then
- Speak to an adviser that is not associated with the deal you've been offered, for unbiased advice
- Never be rushed into agreeing to a pension transfer
For more information about pension scams visit The Pensions Regulator website.
Before you sign anything call The Pensions Advisory Service on 0300 123 1047
The HM Revenue & Customs website highlights the tax consequences of pension liberation to individuals.
If you have been a victim of this type of fraud, report it to Action Fraud by calling them on 0300 123 2040 or by using the online reporting tool.


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A charm bracelet is a very unique piece of jewelry, because each wearer can customize the piece as she sees fit. It's possible to tell a lot about a woman based solely upon the charms found on her bracelet so it's important to keep them clean. Cleaning a charm bracelet is more difficult than cleaning other types of jewelry, because the bracelets contain so many different charms composed from a number of different materials.
Different Cleaners for Different Materials
There are charmed bracelets composed from gold and diamonds and these are the most expensive variety. However, there are also charmed bracelets composed of copper and even stainless steel. Some women can even make the charm bracelets at home. Obviously, a stainless steel bracelet is easier to clan, because harsh chemicals hardly bear a negative effect upon the bracelet. However, it's important to always remove the charms prior to cleaning the bracelet. One charm may be made from resilient stainless steel while another is composed from more delicate gold. Bleach, ammonia and even sink cleanser can be used to clean stainless steel, but other materials require a more delicate touch.


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Scholarly investigation of the quintessentially Italian carbohydrate.
Quintessentially, but not originally. Food historian Serventi and French social scientist Sabban cannot precisely pinpoint the inventor(s) of pasta and take perhaps overmuch time at the outset laying out reasons why. Shards of linguistic evidence point to an Arabic origin, as does the fact that Sicily was a center of Islamic culture and commerce in antiquity. The idea of Marco Polo returning from China with a bowl of spaghetti is once again debunked with finality, but the roots of bing (ancient Chinese for wheat flour dough) in that part of the world are also plumbed. The authors aim to reveal pasta as a cultural hallmark that spawned a major industry, not to deliver new recipes; however, an extensive section on gastronomy over the ages reveals much. For instance, Italians spent nearly a millennium eating pasta, whether in the form of capelli di pagliacci (clowns' hats) or strozzaprieti (priest stranglers), cooked until it nearly fell apart and served without any tomato sauce. Available since the 16th century, the tomato was largely ignored in favor of sugar, cinnamon, and things like rendered lard until Neapolitans perfected salsa di pomodoro 300 years later; the term al dente was unheard of until after WWI. Emigration to America brought new phenomena: there were over 300 industrial-sized pasta factories in the States by the '20s, and after WWII, bureaucrats knew the Marshall Plan was working when pasta exports to war-torn Europe, boosted almost a hundredfold from prewar levels, suddenly plummeted. In the 1960s, inhabitants of the immigrant-founded town of Roseto, Pennsylvania, were found strangely hale and hearty while vascular diseases ravaged the surrounding countryside, causing doctors en masse to endorse the "Mediterranean Diet" of olive oil, wine, and, of course, pasta.
Sometimes endlessly informative (for instance, on pasta-making machinery) as it offers more in the way of pasta history than most readers have even begun to imagine.


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Just as quickly as I found him again he's walking out of my life. I watch him weave around the tables and then he's out the door, leaving me. I need do to something. I need to make him understand that I understand him. I need to make him see that he deserves to be happy and that he doesn't ruin me. I get up and hurry around the tables, not caring that everyone is looking at me like I'm crazy. I slam my hand against the glass door and throw myself out into the cold, completely vulnerable without my jacket on.
"I sometimes make myself throw up," I stammer as I run up to the bike with my feet slipping against the snow.
He freezes with one foot on the ground on one foot off and turns his head. His eyes scroll across my body and I feel naked and exposed. "You what?"
I press my fingertips to my eyes and shake my head because I can't look at him when I say it again. "I sometimes make myself throw up." I give him a moment and then I drop my hands to my side. "And not because I think I'm fat. It's because…" I take a step toward him and angle my head back, looking up into his emerald eyes. I can see the reflection of myself in them and I look as terrified as I feel. "It's because I'm trying to get rid of all the vile foul feeling inside me. The ones I can't deal with."
He's looking at me and I mean really looking at me and there's this connection, this understanding that we are two people who have been fractured, not by ourselves, but by someone else and we're doing everything we can not to shatter to pieces.
I wait for him to react and when he doesn't move I decide to do it for him. I walk up to him, getting close enough that I can feel the heat emitting off his body. Then I throw my arms around his neck, and hug him, praying to God he'll hug me back, because even though it's a simple gesture in theory, sometimes hugging is complex.
His arms stay slack to his side as his chest rises and falls. I'm about to give up, back away, and allow myself to cry, when his arms wrap around my waist. He grips me tightly and it gives me hope that maybe there might be some hope left.
He holds me forever with his face nuzzled into my hair. Somewhere along the line it starts to snow, but we don't move. We are frozen in a moment neither of us wants to leave.
"For how long?" he finally asks, his breath warm against my cheek.
I shut my eyes and bask in the feel of him. "Since it happened."
His arms tighten around me and he presses my body against his. "I'm sorry."
"It's not your fault." I run my fingertips up and down his back, working up the courage to ask. "Kayden?"
"Since I was twelve." He reads my mind and trusts me enough to answer.
I constrict my arms around him, sealing us together in every way possible. Maybe if I try hard enough, we'll fall into each other and become one single person and we can share our pain instead of caring it ourselves.
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