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Mallary Jean Tenore / Poynter:
Deadspin's editor-in-chief explains editing, reporting behind Manti Te'o story — Deadspin Editor-in-Chief Tommy Craggs says Timothy Burke and Jack Dickey were faced with a tough question when reporting their now famous Manti Te'o story: "What lengths do we go to to try and prove a negative?"
Discussion: The Dan Patrick Show and Poynter
Steve Buttry / The Buttry Diary:
Linking and checklists could have prevented journalists from Manti Te'O 'girlfriend' hoax embarrassment — Last year I blogged about four reasons linking is good journalism. Make it five. — Journalists who practice thorough linking to provide context and attribution for their stories …
Discussion: BBC, ABCNEWS, The Week, CBSSports.com Sports News …, Deadspin, Erik Wemple and BuzzFeed
Barry Petchesky / Deadspin: Cardinals Player Says He Met Manti Te'o's Fake Dead Girlfriend
Mallary Jean Tenore / Poynter:
Deadspin's Burke: Te'o story shows 'diminished role' of investigative journalism — Deadspin's widely circulated report on Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te'o's began with a tip. Timothy Burke and Jack Dickey got an anonymous email last week saying: "Hey, you know, something is fishy …
Discussion: TVNewser, Tampa Bay Times, Globe and Mail, Los Angeles Times, Take Two, PopWatch, South Bend Tribune, BuzzFeed, @amzam, @nicknotned and msnbc.com
Amanda Zamora / @amzam: Ummm. Is Manti Te'o story evidence of "diminished role investigative journalism" or just decline of BASIC REPORTING? http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/ mediawire/200950/deadspins-burke-teo- story-shows-diminished-role-of- investigative-journalism/ ...
Nick Denton / @nicknotned: How did media credit @Deadspin for Te'o scoop? @nytimes: no link @ABCWorldNews: barely mentioned @nprnews: generous @espn: decent
Jane C. Timm / msnbc.com: No Such Dame: Football star's girlfriend hoax unravels
Jeff Sonderman / Poynter:
Notre Dame football player Te'o girlfriend hoax 'became truth through the media" — The sports editor at The South Bend (Ind.) Tribune was, not suprisingly, in a meeting when we called Wednesday to ask about the Deadspin bombshell that the widely reported stories about Notre Dame linebacker …
Deadspin: Manti Te'o's Dead Girlfriend, The Most Heartbreaking And Inspirational Story Of The College Football Season, Is A Hoax
Andrew Beaujon / Poynter: Reactions to Deadspin's Manti Te'o story
Jason Belzer / Forbes: Notre Dame's Manti Te'o May Lose Millions On NFL Draft Day Due To Girlfriend Hoax
Anthony Castellano / Yahoo! News: Manti Te'o Hoax Exposes 'Catfish' Internet Scams
Josh Levin / Slate: The Fake Girlfriend Experience
Chris Ariens / TVNewser: Chip Reid on Te'o Hoax: 'We Were All Duped'
Chris O'Shea / FishbowlNY: Deadspin Out-Reports Major Media with Manti Te'o Scoop
Nina Mandell / Fast Company: Manti Te'o's Fake Dead Girlfriend Takes To Twitter Again. Maybe. Got That?
Lateef Mungin / CNN: New tweet twist in football hoax
Eric Hansen / South Bend Tribune: From October 12, 2012: What dreams may come
Shelby Grad / L.A. NOW: Manti Te'o hoax: Family of accused man asks for privacy
Seth Meyers / Speakeasy: What Stars Are Saying About Manti Te'o and His Fake Dead Girlfriend on Twitter
Tom Coyne / Christian Science Monitor: Manti Te'o at Notre Dame: Who knew the girlfriend was a hoax?
Jim McBride / The Boston Globe: Girlfriend of Notre Dame's Manti Te'o was a hoax
Spencer Hall / SBNation.com:
The List: People who never looked up Lennay Kekua
The List: People who never looked up Lennay Kekua
Discussion: New York Times, Erik Wemple, Fast Company, Yahoo! News, The Huffington Post, Chickaboomer, Change of Subject, The Verge, Deadspin and South Bend Tribune
Nina Mandell / Fast Company: The Story Of Manti Te'o's Fake Girlfriend: Inside Deadspin's Monster Hit
Michael Calderone / The Huffington Post: Media Played Role In Notre Dame Star's Hoax
Russell Brandom / The Verge: How Twitter made Manti Te'o's fake girlfriend look real
John Koblin / Deadspin: ESPN Reporter On Te'o Story: "Short Of Asking To See A Death Certificate, I'm Not Sure …
Jeff Sonderman / Poynter:
Knight News Challenge funds photography app with built-in verification data — A mobile app that will help amateur journalists send photos to news organizations securely and with embedded verification data is among eight projects funded by the latest Knight News Challenge grants.
Discussion: Nieman Journalism Lab, Knight Foundation, NetNewsCheck Latest, AllThingsD, Betabeat and PandoDaily
Joshua Benton / Nieman Journalism Lab: A new class of Knight News Challenge winners focuses on mobile in the developing world
Eric Johnson / AllThingsD: Meet the Mobile Media Projects That Just Won $2.4 Million
Patrick Clark / Betabeat: Wikimedia, New York Organizations Share in Knight Foundation Mobile Contest Riches
Hamish McKenzie / PandoDaily: The Reverse McAfee: Why Witness won $320k from the Knight Foundation
Byron Tau / Politico:
Survey: Users trust social media as news source — Voter trust in political information from Facebook, Twitter and other social media services is now on par with that in traditional news sources, according to a new survey shared with POLITICO. — Recent years have seen candidates increasingly devoting …
Discussion: @michaelroston
Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:
Rolling Stone finally comes to iPad, with buy links to iTunes — In a May 2011 interview with AdAge, Rolling Stone founder and publisher Jann Wenner memorably described magazine publishers' embrace of the iPad as "premature" and spurred by "sheer insanity and insecurity and fear."
Discussion: Engadget, NetNewsCheck Latest and Good E-Reader
Daniel Cooper / Engadget: Rolling Stone comes to Newsstand
Michael Kozlowski / Good E-Reader: Rolling Stone Launches New iPad App
Jeff Blagdon / The Verge:
Aaron Swartz's embattled prosecuting attorney releases first statement, says conduct was 'appropriate' — US Attorney Carmen M. Ortiz is breaking the silence on her office's prosecution of Aaron Swartz. After extending her sympathy to those affected by Swartz's death …
Discussion: The Atlantic Online, Guardian, bizjournals, Techdirt, SlashGear and TechCrunch
Lawrence Lessig / The Atlantic Online: Aaron's Law
Charles Arthur / Guardian: Aaron Swartz: US attorney says she only sought six-month jail term
Mike Masnick / Techdirt: Carmen Ortiz Releases Totally Bogus Statement Concerning The Aaron Swartz Prosecution
Gregory Ferenstein / TechCrunch: Congresswoman Proposes "Aaron's Law" In Honor Of Late Internet Activist
Joe Coscarelli / New York Magazine:
Congresswoman Proposes 'Aaron's Law' Directly to Reddit After Aaron Swartz Suicide
Congresswoman Proposes 'Aaron's Law' Directly to Reddit After Aaron Swartz Suicide
Discussion: The Next Web, Hit & Run and nbcnews.com
Jon Russell / The Next Web: Under fire US Attorney breaks her silence to defend prosecution of Aaron Swartz
Scott Shackford / Hit & Run: Congresswoman Names Law After Dead Guy, But Wait! This One Might Be Good!
Suzanne Choney / nbcnews.com: 'Aaron's Law' to honor Internet activist, redefine computer fraud
The Huffington Post:
Darrell Issa Probing Prosecution Of Aaron Swartz, Internet Pioneer Who Killed Himself
Darrell Issa Probing Prosecution Of Aaron Swartz, Internet Pioneer Who Killed Himself
Discussion: The Daily Dish, Mashable!, CNET, TIME, The Verge, Guardian, Stanford CIS Blog, TechPresident, Techdirt, Chicago Sun Times, The Atlantic Wire, Associated Press and Hillicon Valley
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish: Fighting Back Against The DOJ
Alex Fitzpatrick / Mashable!: Aaron Swartz's Prosecutor: I Wasn't Seeking Maximum Sentence
Steven Musil / CNET: U.S. Attorney defends office's conduct in Aaron Swartz case
Adi Robertson / The Verge: Rep. Darrell Issa investigating whether prosecutors 'threw the book' at Aaron Swartz
Jennifer Granick / Stanford CIS Blog: Thoughts on Zoe Lofgren's CFAA Bill: A Great First Step
Miranda Neubauer / TechPresident: First POST: "We the People" … WEGOV — TIMELINE — ONLINE ORGANIZING
Mike Masnick / Techdirt: Rep. Zoe Lofgren Plans To Introduce 'Aaron's Law' To Stop Bogus Prosecutions Under The CFAA
Alexander Abad-Santos / The Atlantic Wire: How Anonymous Got Westboro to Back Off Aaron Swartz's Funeral
Aaron Swartz / Associated Press: Internet activist Aaron Swartz's father tells funeral his son was 'killed by the government'
Jennifer Martinez / Hillicon Valley: Lofgren to introduce bill amending hacking law in honor of Swartz
Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
YouTube Is Ready to Invest in Vevo, but the Deal Isn't Done — YouTube is set to make another big investment in a content partner. This time around it's Vevo, the music video site. — YouTube and its owner Google have agreed to buy a minority stake in Vevo, according to people familiar with the deal, which hasn't been finalized.
Discussion: Guardian, Fast Company, The Next Web, Softpedia News and CNET
Mark Sweney / Guardian: YouTube owner Google poised to take stake in Vevo
Addy Dugdale / Fast Company: Google Buys Minority Stake In Vevo, And Refutes Donkey-Killing Allegations
Dara Kerr / CNET: YouTube said to be investing more cash in Vevo
Alexander C. Kaufman / The Wrap:
BuzzFeed Story on Gun-Toting Journalists Infuriates Reporters (Updated) — BuzzFeed political editor McKay Coppins has a target on his back after posting a story Thursday that turned a sardonic eye on the shooting range trips of a cadre of well-known New York journalists.
Discussion: BuzzFeed, Soup, Capital New York, The Wrap, @antderosa, @weareyourfek and @antderosa
Joe Pompeo / Capital New York: 'Hipster hunters' get mad at BuzzFeed; we all get mad at Manti Te'o hoax (but at whom?)
Alexander C. Kaufman / The Wrap: BuzzFeed Story on Gun-Toting Journalists Infuriates Reporters
Anthony De Rosa / @antderosa: . @mckaycoppins why let the truth get in the way of a sensational bulls**t story
Foster Kamer / @weareyourfek: Enterprising media reporters: Want to know how your Buzzfeed bulls**t sausage gets made? You can have the emails.
Mobutu Sese Seko / Gawker:
Journalism, Scientology, and Manti Te'o: Finding the Leper with the Most Fingers — This has been a fantastic week for media outrage, especially on Twitter. On Monday, a pro-Scientology ad in the Atlantic that was mocked up to faintly resemble an article generated hours of castigating tweets and countless op-eds.
Discussion: HyperVocal, The New Yorker Blog and Guardian
Reeves Wiedeman / The New Yorker Blog: The Mythmaking of Manti Te'o
Michael Learmonth / AdAge:
Advance Publications Buys Digital Agency Pop To Assist Transition to Digital — Agency Will Continue to Operate Independently — Advance Publications, parent company of Conde Nast and magazines like Wired, Vogue and Vanity Fair, has acquired Pop, a digital ad agency based in Seattle.
Discussion: GeekWire
Jeff John Roberts / paidContent:
Amazon opens music store for Apple devices, songs start at 69 cents — Amazon is making another major push to chip away at Apple's dominance in online music with the launch of an MP3 store specifically optimized for devices like the iPhone and the iPod touch.
Discussion: TechCrunch, VentureBeat, CNET and GeekWire
Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: Amazon Optimizes MP3 Store For iPhone And iPod Touch As It Looks To Chip Away At iTunes Lead
Shara Tibken / CNET: iPhone, iPod Touch users can now buy music from Amazon
Todd Bishop / GeekWire: Amazon MP3 courts iPhone and iPod users, sidesteps Apple
Eric Ostermeier / Smart Politics:
FOX Still Shunned at Obama Press Conferences — The favorite news outlet of conservatives ranks just ninth in presser questions in Obama's first term, getting to ask questions at only half the rate of the Big 3 broadcast networks — During Barack Obama's news conference on Monday the president called on seven reporters.
Discussion: The Huffington Post, Washington Examiner, Washington Times, Politico, The Daily Caller and TVNewser
Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner: Study: Obama shuns Fox, favors ABC, CBS
Jennifer Harper / Washington Times: FOX News shunned at Obama press conferences
Mackenzie Weinger / Politico: Study: Obama 'shuns' Fox News at pressers
Jeff Poor / The Daily Caller: Study: Fox News shunned at Obama press conferences, 9th among news outlets
Alex Weprin / TVNewser: Analyzing The White House Press Conference Analysis
Will Sommer / Washington City Paper:
Washington Post Mexico Bureau Chief Admits Plagiarizing Academic Journal in Panama Story — What is it with the Washington Post's bureau chiefs and lifting copy? Just months after the paper's India bureau chief admitted to paraphrasing quotes from an Indian magazine, William Booth …
Discussion: Politico, Poynter, @wapoombudsman, @wapoombudsman, @wapoombudsman and mediabistro.com
Breanna Edwards / Politico: WaPo admits plagiarism in story
Julie Moos / Poynter: Washington Post apologizes for plagiarism
Patrick Pexton / @wapoombudsman: 4. "The Post will be taking severe and appropriate action with regard to Mr. Booth." Newsroom sources say he will not, however, be fired.
Patrick Pexton / @wapoombudsman: 7. I'll probably write about this for my Sunday column.
Patrick Pexton / @wapoombudsman: 6. Booth was slated to be Post Jerusalem correspondent. Speculation in newsroom is that he will not go there now. I can't confirm this.
Craig Silverman / Poynter:
Washington Post clarifies practices and standards for corrections
Washington Post clarifies practices and standards for corrections
Discussion: JIMROMENESKO.COM and The Public Editor's Journal
Chris Hughes / The New Republic:
Chris Hughes Introduces The New New Republic — Home News: On January 28th we're relaunching our magazine, website, and tablet app. As we bridge the new and old, I wanted to take a step back and reflect on where we've come in nine short months. — Since our founding in 1914 …
Discussion: @alexismadrigal
Jeff John Roberts / paidContent:
News companies must pay for swiping Twitter pics (but our photo laws are still a mess) — News agencies can't simply help themselves to the photos they find on Twitter. That's the upshot of a closely watched court case involving a freelance photographer who sued the Washington Post …
John Herrman / BuzzFeed:
Want To Publish A Twitter Image Legally? Just Embed It.
Want To Publish A Twitter Image Legally? Just Embed It.
Discussion: @tone_def, VentureBeat and Plagiarism Today
Tone Def / @tone_def: @jwherrman actually, it's weirder: not infringing if you <img> link a photo, only if you copy it and serve it yourself. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_ 10,_Inc._v._Google_Inc.#Framing ...
Jonathan Bailey / Plagiarism Today: 3 Count: On a Wire
Lisa O'Carroll / Guardian: Twitter pictures put in spotlight following London helicopter crash


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Storage Solutions at the IBM and I.R.I.S.-ICT Booth for the Belgium IT Security and Storage Expo
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Continuing my coverage of the IT Security and Storage Expo in Brussels, Belgium, we had some great storage solutions on display at the IBM and I.R.I.S-ICT booth.
Here my IBM colleague Tom Provost is showing the front of the "Smarter Office" solution. The second photo gives the view from behind. While I always explained the solution from the front of the box, many of the more technical attendees at this conference wanted to inspect the ports in the back.
This sound-isolated 11U solution combines the following:
In this next example, the IBM team combined a BladeCenter S chassis that can hold six blade servers, with a Storwize V7000 Unified which offers FCP, iSCSI, FCoE, NFS, CIFS, HTTPS, SCP and FTP block and file protocols.
If those configurations are too small for your needs, consider the Flex System chassis or full PureFlex system frame. The rack-mountable 10U chassis can hold the Flex System V7000 and 10 compute notes. The PureFlex frame can hold up to four of these chasses.
IBM and I.R.I.S-ICT also had an IBM XIV Gen3 and a TS3500 Tape library on display.
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Anna Fox: Photographs 1983-2007
The work of Anna Fox may be off your radar but she is an important figure in British color photography that arose from the West Surrey College of Art and Design in the mid 1980s. Her highly charged photographs, lit by flash, are a mix of social observation and personal diaristic projects which placed her apart from the male crowd of Paul Reas Martin Parr, and Paul Graham who were forming the 'second wave' of color photography. A recent mid-career retrospective book Anna Fox: Photographs 1983-2007 published from Photoworks covers 25 years of her work.
Her earlier projects - Work Stations (1986-88), Friendly Fire (1988-91) and The Village (1991-93) - are concerned with rural places and cultures, gatherings of people and the physical dramas which are played out in each situation. In Work Stations she describes the work spaces and offices of mid-80s Britian with a flare for agitation. Her photographs and the accompanying captions taken from articles in business magazines reveal (or create) a sense of an internal warzone where worker comraderie is left to the weak and the corporate climb is a matter of survival of the fittest. Quotes such as, "Should a competitor threaten to kill a sale, the modem would provide a lifeline back to base computer" and "Fortunes are being made that are in line with the dreams of avarice" sit under images of workers seemingly absorbed in newly adopted attitudes inspired by Thatcher's free market policies.
It is fitting that Fox follows this project with Friendly Fire, a series where she plays 'war photographer' among corporate sales teams as they foster team spirit by blasting away at one another with paint-ball guns in abandoned army bases and on de-commissioned farmland. Their macho role playing is overlooked in one image by a blood-splattered cardboard cutout of Margaret Thatcher, flashing a friendly and encouraging smile on a job well done - perhaps mistaking the corporate workplace with the Falklands.
The Village, the third in this trilogy, explores a picture postcard English village. The underlying violence behind its creation alluded to in the adopted values of the business market in the first two bodies of work, extends into this series with its attitude of privilege and goals obtained. Shot both in black and white and color the pictures have the frenzy of the the former but her camera moves in for claustrophobic details which reveal anything but delicate nature and sophistication of its citizens. A chatting elderly couple seem to be attacking one another, while at a social event, a young woman's hand-turned-claw is grasped and highlighted by Fox's moody flash.
A switch in her work towards ideas of 'home' comes with the series Afterwards in which she photographed the aftermath of rave parties in rural Hampshire, her hometown. Amongst the detritus of broken bottles, cigarette buts and trash, ravers sleep off the previous night's event in a series of pictures which create a portrait of broken home life and make-shift families. After the splurge of immediate gratification, the country sleeps off its hangover.
In 41 Hewitt Road, Fox turns her camera on her own domestic scene which, considering the chaos and run down atmosphere of this North London flat, seems to be an extension of the Afterwards party pictures. Children's scribbles on the peeled paint walls and the grim of dirty hands evident on every surface presents a crumbled foundation for family. A dead mouse on a stretch of green carpet, a dead worm on a tile floor, a note penciled onto a door-jam that 'Martin Parr Called' and a violently scratched out child's drawing on the wall, point to a reality that violently undermines the national values and bourgeois spirit of the upper class. It seems to be a household where the children have taken over and all rules have been thrown to the wind resulting in a cross between a drug den and an artistic playground.
One of my personal favorite series came from Fox in 1999 with an artist book called My Mother's Cupboard and My Father's Words which interrogates family relationships through text and photos. She introduces the series with, 'My father was ill for many years and as his illness developed, his frustrations grew. I kept a notebook recording his outbursts, mainly directed at the women in the family, and at the same time photographed my mother's incredibly ordered cupboards.' Next to an image of a cupboard full of wine glasses sits the caption, 'She's bloody rattling again. Can you stop your bloody fucking rattling.' Next to a stack of plates, 'I'm going to tear your mother to shreds with an oyster knife.' And opposite a pink decorative plate and crystal, 'Bloody bitches. Filthy cows.' Though deeply disturbing, these pairings of 14 photographs with 14 outbursts, have an underlying twist of humor through the extreme violence of his wordings in the face of the defiance perceived from the order of the mostly fragile objects.
A large part of Fox's work comes in the way of confrontational portraiture. Her Zwarte Piet series which are straight forward portraits of Dutch citizens painted in blackface and dressed as the assistant to Sinterklaas. Neither descriptive of the larger tradition as a whole nor an endorsement of this complicated masquerade with its racial overtones, Fox opens the dialogue to a host of questions concerning gender and race, values and perceptions, and cultural change. Photographically these portrait works hold less power for me than the aforementioned series on work places and village life. Certainly they are subjects worthy of notice and loaded with content but formally the individual photographs suppress my full attention for her concerns.
A few of her other portrait series - In Pursuit (1989), Back to the Village (1999- ) - explore the festivities, cultural events and customs woven into the fabric of the surrounding villages in Hampshire. Theatrical and overtly absurd she often photographs children as they dress for Halloween or as participants in nativity scenes continuing ritual and acting out arcane activities. Macabre in tenor, she portrays both the old and young as citizens in a community lost in their own performance and spectacle.
Featuring tastes of all of her projects to date, including many not mentioned here, Anna Fox: Photographs 1983-2007 is a fine volume which has me asking how work this interesting hasn't found its way to my shelves before. At almost 400 pages and with essays from Val Williams, Jason Evans, David Chandler and Micke Bal, this full evaluation of Fox's oeuvre is a pleasant discovery which demands an immediate searching out of her previous books that somehow slipped my attention. Might I suggest you do the same.


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UPTET will be conducted in first week of November 2011 for filling up more than 80,000 teacher vacancy in Uttar Pradesh. The Syllabus, exam pattern, Sample Papers, and detailed notification for UPTET 2011 will be made available by third week of September 2011 in all leading news papers and UP education website.
Last Date :- 18th October, 2011
UPTET 2011 will be organized on 13th November, 2011.
Application Form PNB : Click Here
Office of the Secretary, Secondary Education Council, Uttar Pradesh, and Allahabad issued a notification regarding conduct of Teacher Eligibility Test – Uttar Pradesh (UP-TET). The candidates are required to fill OMR which can be taken from designated branches of Punjab National Bank.
Uttar Pradesh Teacher Eligibility Test – The candidates passed with the required minimum percentage shall be entitled to sit in this exam –
At primary level:
(i) All such schools, which are operated under state government.
(ii) The State Government / Basic Education by the Council from time to time recognition / affiliation has been provided.
(iii)Schools assisted by the State Government.
(iv) All schools to whom the NOC has been issued by the State Government from time to time, whether they are associated with any National Board.
At Upper Primary level –
(i) All such schools, which are operated under state government.
(ii) The State Government / Basic Education by the Council from time to time recognition / affiliation has been provided.
(iii) Schools assisted by the State Government.
(iv) All schools to whom the NOC has been issued by the State Government from time to time, whether they are associated with any National Board.
Examination – fees and receipt of application:
Fee for Uttar Pradesh Teacher Eligibility Test is as below:
General and Backward class candidates: Rs. 500/-
SC / ST candidates: Rs.250/ –
Disabled candidates: NIL
Amount of examination fee will be included in the price of the application. The application form and instruction manual may be obtained by paying the prescribed fee at the regional headquarters of Punjab National Bank branch. Applications form for candidates with disabilities can be obtained from the office of the district school Inspector. Free on the guidelines manual (only for the disabled) will be printed on these forms.
The last date for receipt and submission of application –
(A) Last date of receipt of applications from the branches of Bank of Punjab National Bank is 26-09-2011.
(B) The last date of submission of application form via registered post / speed post to the concerned Divisional Joint Education Director is 18-10-2011 till 5-00 pm. Applications received after the above prescribed last date will not be considered.
Date of Examination:
|Date of Examination
|Question Paper
|Time of Exam
|Paper – (primary level Class-1 5)
|10-30am to 12-00 pm
|01 hour 30 minutes
|Paper – (Upper Primary level class 6 to 8 )
|02-00pm to 03-30 pm
|01 hour 30 minutes
Teacher Eligibility Test – Uttar Pradesh Minimum Qualifications:
(1) Class I to V (Primary)
Graduate and NCTE approved two years course in BTC/CT (Nur)/ NTT
Graduate and NCTE approved BTC training from UP
Graduate with 50 % marks and B Ed or NCTE approved B Ed/ D Ed (special Education)/ B Ed (special Education) and graducation with 45 % marks is also eligible to be appointed as teacher in primary classes. In this case the candidate have to pass an NCTE approved six months course in Primary education before January 2012.
Graduate with Moallim – e – Urdu completed before 11-8-97 (for Urdu Teachers)
Graduate and Diploma in Teaching from the Aligarh Muslim University (for Urdu Teachers)
(2) Class VI to VIII (Elementary)
Graduate and NCTE approved two years course in BTC/CT (Nur)/ NTT
Graduate and NCTE approved BTC training from UP
Graduate with minimum 50 percent marks and one-year B. Ed
Graduate with minimum 45 percent marks and one-year B. Ed as per NCTE guidelines.
Graduate with minimum 50 percent marks and one-year-old B Ed (Special Education)
Reservation policy – as reserved categories – SC / ST / OBC / Handicapped / freedom fighters / Ex-Servicemen, etc. candidates will be given 05 percent relaxation in the qualifying marks.
Important Note: The applicants are instructed to apply as per qualification provided in this advertisement. The forms being issued by the branches of Punjab National Bank from September 26, 2011 has been updated now as per fresh guidelines issued by NCTE vide latest notification No. 2029/15-11 -2011 dated September 24, 2011. The latest changes may not be there in these forms but these are provided here in this advertisement. So follow this advertisement strictly.
Format of Exam –
Education Eligibility Test – Uttar Pradesh (UP-TET) will have two levels –
Primary level (Class 1-5)
Upper primary level (Class 6-8)
- Candidate can take part in both or any one examination. Both examinations will be held the same day in two shifts. If a candidate want to sit in both the examinations (primary and upper primary), he/she has to submit two application forms separately.
- Exam period will be total 90 minutes.
- There will be total 150 questions. All questions will be multiple choice. Each question has four options.
- Each question will carry one mark.
- There will be no Negative marking. No marks will be deducted for wrong answers.
- Questions will be in Hindi and English respectively.
- Qualifying percentage to pass the exam is 60%.
- For SC / ST and disabled candidates it is 55 %.
- The validity of the certificate is 5 years.
- The eligibility certificate will be valid for 05 years.
- Admit cards will be sent through speed post 15 days before the exam. Candidates can download them from http://uptet2011.com too.
- The Test will be conducted on 13 November, 2011.
UPTET 2011 Syllabus : There will be five Subjects / Sections in Paper I. There will be 30 objective multiple choice type questions in each section and they will carry one mark each. Duration of the exam is 90 minutes for each paper. Following are the subjects in Paper I:
- Child development and pedagogy
- Language I
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Modern Decor for Living room
Bring out the beauty of your home and turn it into an exhibit that reflects your personality. At west elm, our collection of pillows, throws, poufs and accessories make it easy for you find and create a collection of beautiful decor pieces that suit your taste and fit your lifestyle. Choose items that increase your comfort level, like luxuriously soft pillows and throws, trinkets and decor that add beauty, organization aids and thoughtful gifts for loved ones and friends.
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When most people argue about Pontiac, they argue about how it was killed in the best years of its life. How in 2008, everything was getting better. Everything was going great. Pontiac had never done it better. Well, except for its advertising.
Pontiac's golden era of advertising, at least for me, came in the late 1990s. Mostly because it had that certain je ne sais quoi of being so late 1990s. Whether it was the font that looked like it had been ripped from the Jurassic Park logo, which was still going strong as a franchise, or the music vaguely reminiscent of The Bangles' Walk Like An Egyptian, this ad for the Pontiac "Wide Track" Grand Prix had it all.
The sixth-generation Grand Prix itself didn't really have it all. The father of my girlfriend in high school had one, and I recall the interior being fairly dingy, but it had a sweet exhaust note. How they managed to get only 240 horses from a supercharged 3.8L V6 in the top-of-the-line GTP version I'll never know, but it had a wider track, I suppose, so that's something.
But then again, was the "wide-track" that wide, really? The Hummer H1 was a contemporary, and I don't recall the Pontiac being wider than one of those. If you're going to call it a "wide-track" Grand Prix, I want to be hogging 12 lanes of traffic with my one ridiculously-proportioned Pontiac.
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These games teach valuable skills and have a high fun and educational rating.
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Your child will develop computer literacy and counting skills by kicking the ball into the soccer goal.
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I've been a record store junkie since I was a young kid and I still get a charge out of searching through stacks of CDs and racks of vinyl. I learned about music in the record store and I entered the culture of Heavy Metal and of the collector. Record Store Day is one of my favorite days of the year. The discounts, the comraderie, the crowds! Hit the right store on Record Store Day and you can walk out with a bunch of great music at a great price, some free stuff, and the feeling that the death of physical music shopping is alive and well.
My plan for record store day was to hit four local shops and buy up whatever I could. Of course there are always things at the last minute that impede progress and my physical health (allergies!) and work schedule meant I only had a couple of hours. I decided to hit the two closest stores to home and see what damage I could inflict on my wallet! First I hit my usual haunt: Newbury Comics in North Attleboro, MA. My initial plan was to go to the Warwick, RI location because I planned on a bigger selection but time was the overall problem and the extra 30 minutes drive time roundtrip didn't compute. Second stop would be Luke's Record Exchange in Pawtucket, RI: 5 minutes from home and one of the stores I grew up in. I was outside the door of Newbury Comics at 9:45am and I was in first when they opened at 10…..first stop was the Used Metal section and then a proper focused search through the general Used section followed by DVDs. the sale at Newburys was "30% off all used CDs & DVDs" so the plan was to blow $100 and get $30 off for a grand total of $70. Of course, everything is subject to change!
Used DVDs
West Wing (Seasons 4 & 7) – $19.25 each: I cannot tell a lie…..I bought these for my wife. Here's a tip: if you plan on spending big $$$ at the record stores, make sure you bring something good home for the wife! Never fails! My wife's birthday was last Thursday and I bought her Seasons 2 & 3 of West Wing (she has the 1st season) and I figured I'd get these for her to fill holes in the collection. At $19.25 each for used copies I saved more than half the regular price on each.
Ratt – Videos From The Cellar: The Atlantic Years (2007) – $6.30: I searched the used Music DVD section for 20 mins trying to find something I really wanted and/or didn't have. The only one I could find was this Ratt compilation and the price was right at $8.99 used, then take off the 30% off! This DVD is a combination of 2 VHS releases: RATT – The Video (1985) and RATT – Detonator Videoaction (1991) plus two bonus features: a commentary from Stephen Pearcy & Warren DeMartini and unreleased videos from the INVASION OF YOUR PRIVACY and DANCING UNDERCOVER albums……13 videos total.
Used CDs
Battlelore – Third Age Of The Sun (2005) – $4.90: A band I've been wanting to check out for a while, this was the only Battlelore disc in the store.
Cheap Trick – Lap Of Luxury (1988) – $2.80: I got nostalgic for 'The Flame' and this was a cool 3 bucks!
Deep Purple – Perfect Strangers (1984) – $6.30: A major oversight in my collection! I'm not sure how I accomplished going without PERFECT STRANGERS on CD but I seem to have done it. I had to call home to make sure I was missing the album, give my wife credit for going up to the music room to check.
Dream Evil – United (2006) – $4.20: I got bored with Dream Evil after 2004's THE BOOK OF HEAVY METAL so I never got around to grabbing this. I've been keeping an eye on this used copy for a couple months but I kept passing on it. This is a 2 CD set with a second disc of 5 bonus tracks…..great value!
Flotsam & Jetsam – When The Storm Comes Down (1990) – $4.20: Not a big Flotsam fan but I didn't have this one and it's from 1990 so I fugure the music has to be decent given the year. Good price too.
Heart – s/t (1985) – $2.80: Big time '80s AOR from Heart with catchy singles like 'What About Love' and 'These Dreams'. This was a big MTV/radio album back in '85 and I always dug Heart.
Iron Savior – Condition Red (2002) – $5.60: Iron Savior are in the same boat as Dream Evil, after the first couple of albums I got bored with them. Actually, I stopped buying new Iron Savior after DARK ASSAULT (2001). Another used disc I've been passing over for a couple of months.
Hell Bent For Metal 2: A Tribute To Judas Priest (2000) – $2.80: I know, I know…..I am the guy who hates cover songs…..but I'm also the guy who likes tribute albums. It's a vicious circle. Some good bands here: Cage, Seven Witches, Tyrant. A good tracklisting too: 'Rapid Fire', 'Tyrant' (by Tyrant!), 'Grinder' and more. I bought this and I have no idea if I have it already because my compilations/tributes/soundtracks are still packed away in boxes!
Journey – Generations (2005) – $2.80: Always been a Journey fan but I passed on this record (and the tour) when I read all the bad reviews. The good news for me is that there have been at least ten used copies of this albums floating between my two usual Newbury Comics locations all for $3.99! I figured the 30% off sale was a good time to fill a hole in the Journey collection.
King Diamond – The Eye (1990) – $4.90: Filling the holes in the King Diamond collection and I knew I didn't have this one. This is the 1997 Roadrunner remaster.
King Diamond – The Puppet Master (2003) – $7: I had to call home and get my wife to go upstairs to the music room again. Turns out I skipped this one too along with DEADLY LULLABYES LIVE (2004). Not sure why but I'll bet the price in 2003 was too much, especially for the digipak version with the bonus DVD.
Kreator – Renewal (1992) – $3.50: Bought solely on the price and that I know I don't have it. I've been slowly filling the holes in my Kreator collection since they released the excellent HORDES OF CHAOS this year.
Operator – Soulcrusher (2007) – $2.80: I kept meaning to pick this up since it came out but I passed even though I read good reviews online. Plenty of used copies available but getting it for under three bucks is a steal.
Slayer – Show No Mercy (1983) – $9.10: How does a self-professed Metal maniac not have Slayer's first album in his collection? I couldn't believe it either so I called the wife a third time and made her go upstairs again! This time she was doing laundry in the basement so she reluctantly went up two floors and reported the album missing!
Spinal Tap – Break Like The Wind (1992) – $3.50: Tap is Tap and Tap is great! I just never got around to picking this up! This is the 2000 reissue.
Destiny's End – Breathe Deep The Dark (1998) – $1.40: Did you notice that I listed all my CDs in alphabetical order? I'm breaking the order with the debut from Destiny's End because I already own it! I grabbed it when I saw it because the price was $1.40 but I kept looking at it in my basket and I couldn't remember if I owned it or not. By the time I was ready to check out I had already called home 3 times…..the wife wasn't going to be happy if call #4 came so I decided to risk the $1.40 and wait to check when I got home. Looks like Destiny's End will be returned when I head to the store Tuesday and I'll get a small credit.
Total = $119
I ended up running into Luke's really quick because there were a few KISS bootlegs I wanted but I passed because I think I can get them through trades. I didn't buy anything at Luke's but I think I will be ordering a few things online this week that just came out…..I wish everything came to the record stores like they used to!


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Mexico's Drug War and U.S. Policy: New Cato Video
Since President Felipe Calderon took office six years ago and decided to aggressively fight Mexican drug cartels, Mexico has seen some 60,000 drug‐war‐related deaths. That's "more than the number of Americans who died in Vietnam, but in a country with one third the U.S. population," says former Mexican Foreign Minister Jorge Castañeda.
In a new Cato video released during President‐elect Enrique Peña Nieto's visit to Washington this week, Ted Carpenter explains why the U.S.-backed drug war has been a disaster and urges an end to prohibition. For an in‐depth look at the issue, read Ted's new book, The Fire Next Door: Mexico's Drug Violence and the Danger to America.
You can read more Cato scholars' writings on the War on Drugs here.


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A collection I am resisting
True confession: I am attracted to chickens. There's nothing kinky about it. I simply admire their handsome appearance.
I've been admiring the currently-popular chicken knick-knacks ever since the fad started. At Clarksville yesterday, I saw some nice tributes to chickens at Hobby Lobby, but I resisted buying any of them. I didn't even look at their prices. I just took their pictures.
I've only had real chickens once in my life, about 32 years ago or so. I was working at Empire Gas of Hermitage, MO, and I rented a little mobile home near there from a lady who wanted to move back to Kansas City.
My landlady had about a dozen chickens, which I inherited when she moved out and I moved in. My favorites were the black-and-white speckled ones. I think they were Barred Plymouth Rocks.
My boss liked my black and white chickens, too. He was always wanting me to bring in some of their little speckled fuzz-feathers so he could make them into fishing flies. He had a spell of good luck catching crappies with them, and he always hoped to repeat that success.
You can see a couple of good drawings of Barred Plymouth Rock chickens at the Oklahoma State University Animal Science website. Another good photo has been uploaded to Mother Earth News by Robin Arnold of Port Clinton, Ohio.
At the blog, "Thoughts from the Middle of Nowhere," Sarpy Sam sometimes posts some good photos of his Darling Wife's chickens. You can find them by visiting the Sarpy Sam's photo archives and typing "chickens" into the archives. (You'll find many beautiful photos of Montana ranch country there, as well.)
The family got me a nice large rooster with metal tail feathers last Christmas. Unfortunately the cats knocked him off his perch, and his body, which wasn't metal, shattered.
I do have a set of rooster salt and pepper shakers which Keely gave me, and a hen-on-a-nestegg bank that my friend Cynthia gave me a couple of years ago. However, I refuse to start a serious chicken collection. I have plenty of collections already.


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(I was encouraged to ask this question here.)
In C, we say:
GCC compiles
For interpreters (such as Lua), what is the equivalent verb?
The Lua interpreter ____________
When I write instructions for users of my Lua script, I often say:
Run the interpreter on
I think this can be said more succinctly:
Interpret (or Translate)
but that sounds awkward for some reason (perhaps because I'm unsure of its correctness). I can't really say compile because users may confuse it with the usage of the Lua compiler when I actually mean the Lua interpreter.


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Inside EW's Brave New Warriors Comic-Con panel
You have to be a pretty brave guy to battle a headless horsemen, or a bike gang, or Nazi Germany and the crazy crowds at Comic-Con. But on Friday afternoon at EW's Brave New Warriors panel, hosted by our very own Darren Franich, actors Freddie Highmore (Bates Motel), Jon Bernthal (Fury), Tom Mison (Sleepy Hollow), Theo Rossi (Sons of Anarchy) and Brenton Thwaites (The Giver) showed how tough it can be to be the tough guy in the spotlight. Here are the highlights:
• Highmore, Mison, and Thwaites are all playing characters with a storied history already documented in previous movies, TV and books, but had different opinions about how to approach the men they play. Thwaites, who took on the iconic role of Jonas in the film adaptation of Lois Lowry's The Giver, had never read the book when he first received the script. As for the significant age difference between Thwaites himself and Jonas as written in the book: "I have to explain to people why I'm 25 and the kid is 12 and I can't, I don't know why!" Mison originally thought adapting the American literary classic Sleepy Hollow in a modern TV world was a terrible idea, while Highmore's only concern was not messing up the Norman Bates legacy left by Anthony Perkins' original performance in Psycho.
• Though they are all new warriors, the five actors have all shared their time with some real screen legends. Bernthal confessed that it was always his dream to work with Robert De Niro, which came true when he played his son in Grudge Match. On the last day of filming, Bernthal tried to get up the nerve to tell De Niro how influential he was to him as an actor, and now as a man. De Niro's response? "We do these things… and then they're over." Thwaites said that Jeff Bridges was just as nervous when filming for The Giver started, and Highmore said when he worked with Johnny Depp on Finding Neverland and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, he was too young to even realize he was working alongside anyone special outside of those fantasy worlds.
• As for the much darker world he plays in now on Bates Motel, Highmore joked that he was happy he knew his character couldn't get killed off the show and that he had a stable future. Conversely, he's the one responsible for getting rid of other characters each week. "I don't do it with glee though, they are all very lovely people," he said, referring to his former cast mates.
• Mison must have been trying to prove his range as he consistently brought down the Comic-Con crowd with his jokes and English charm. "It's nice after 10 years to finally be new," Mison said, referring to working in America after years of success in the U.K. However, his anonymity has also given him a few laughs, like when in North Carolina (where Sleepy Hollow films), he overheard a couple of guys at a bar talking about the show, oblivious to the fact that the lead actor was sitting nearby listening. Luckily, they were saying positive things about the show. It wasn't until Mison ordered a gin that they recognized his accent… and naturally paid for the drink. He also shared a story about getting cast in a French film after lying to the director, saying he was a fluent speaker. The sound guy quickly figured out the truth once filming started, and would whisper lines to Mison while pretending to fix his mic to help him out.
• Bernthal got to punch Jonah Hill in The Wolf of Wall Street, and though he would like the chance to sock him again, he doesn't feel the need to fight anyone else onscreen. Maybe the fact that he has broken his nose 14 times in his career has something to do with it.
• Rossi said that Ron Perlman was the most intimidating person on set for Sons of Anarchy because "that's Hellboy! No one else in the world looks like Ron Perlman." Perlman was cast after the first pilot was shot and filmed, but once he and Rossi realized that they had similar upbringings in New York, the two became good friends.
• For the first time, Thwaites talked about his upcoming film with Ewan McGregor, called Son of a Gun, about "a guy who goes to jail and meets this mentor [there]. My character gets out and runs a bunch of illegal errands for this guy and breaks him out for a gold heist." Thwaites was cast exactly one year after he had watched McGregor in The Beginners and told a friend that he wanted to work with the actor within the next year.
• All of the men on the panel admitted their love for Game of Thrones, another Comic-Con staple that unfortunately had its panel going on at the same time. Mison jokingly apologized to the audience for attending their panel because they weren't able to get into the other. Other TV loves? If Bernthal could be any other TV character, he's choose Clare Danes in Homeland.
Stay tuned for EW's all-access coverage of Comic-Con at EW.com/ComicCon.


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accompany ltd necesitaba un nuevo diseño de papelería y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 227 diseños de 64 diseñadores freelance.
Accompany (company name) "Handbags & Accessories" (tag line)
Accompany Limited is New Zealand's leading designer and supplier of handbags and accessories (e.g. belts, wallets). The business has been established for over 15 years and is a well respected and trusted supplier to the retail trade (we do not sell direct to the public or online).
The business has 4 collections (Milano, Pronta Moda, Firenze, Fascino) each with their own brand collateral (e.g. product labelling, hang tags, merchandising visuals). Consumers are familiar with these brands but the trading name of the business is Accompany Limited – and this is the name used for all the commercial buying arrangements with suppliers and retail stores.
The business has a simple website that represents our design and supply capability (as opposed to being a full retail catalogue or ecommerce site) http://www.accompany.co.nz/
In this instance the logo we require (Accompany - Handbags & Accessories) is for the trading company itself and will not be used with the public. Therefore the target audience for this branding exercise are the major retail chains and customers who we supply product to (not the public).
This project aims to freshen up the current "Accompany" logo to convey the right image for our company. The logo will be a font only and will just feature the name of the company plus the tag line:
"Accompany – Handbags & Accessories".
And then we need that logo extended to a layout for our letterhead and business cards.
Some brief points to note:
Design to be a font only (no actual logo/image)
We want to communicate the essence of our business – fashion, professional, reliable, strong, credible, contemporary
The new logo should be suitable for use on the website (refer to existing application), as well as on business cards, letterhead, and print media. (i.e. suitable for digital and print)
Not looking to appear like a big corporate giant (we're not that big)
Not aiming at teenyboppers, tech heads or geeks (we're not like that)
Colours - We like the simplicity of black, white and gunmetal - however, open to creative suggestions.
The final designs are to include full colour and font specifications.
Letterhead with following information:
Address, city,
Email details
Business cards with following information:
Location for name and title
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HNBR, commonly called Hydrogenated Nitrile or Highly-Saturated-Nitrile is a special Nitrile material formulated to increase strength and reduce fluid attack. The process eliminates double-carbon chemical bonds that allow chemical attack in conventional NBR materials. The resulting compounds have much higher strength, abrasion resistance and chemical resistance. HNBR materials may be substituted for NBR in all applications but are superior in aliphatic hydrocarbons and water or steam up to +300°F. HNBR is not recommended for use with strong acids or chlorinated hydrocarbons. C-7021 is formulated to have a wider temperature range, making is suitable for use in both mobile fluid power applications and many conditions requiring resistance to fuel, fluids and oxidation. A 70 shore A category material; it is commonly used for T-seals, Z Seal lips and other compression seal applications. The recommended application range is -40°C to +149°C (-40°F to +300°F).
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jcm's Top 10 SF Performances of '11
It's time for my third annual Top 10 round-up. These don't attempt to be comprehensive reviews…but rather an Amuse-bouche of the most stellar performances I witnessed by the Bay, in '11. How in the world can I compare a Pop Star to a Handel opera, you ask? Well…I warm up the jcm-ulator, and out come the tabulated results. It doesn't lie. I seem to be trending towards opera, with musicals taking a back seat. Why? They sing louder, higher and without mics?
1) RING Cycle, SF Opera details
With the carefully crafted characterizations of a stage play, this Cycle was a well-deserved hit and had the city abuzz with Wagner. Nina Stemme's Brünnhilde was an utter triumph, equal parts true Wagnerian and singing actress. Stunning SFO leading role debuts were offered by Heidi Melton as Sieglinde, and Daveda Karanas as Waltraute. There wasn't a weak link in the cast. Francesca Zambello's concept was fortunately not too heavy-handed, largely staying out of the way of the story and score…more often informing it, and only periodically misstepping. I found the Industrial Revolution concepts throughout Das Rheingold to be the most iconic and potent. However, the mythic Die Walküre was the emotional highpoint, featuring the burnished, virile tenor of Brandon Jovanovich's Siegmund. Siegfried was also surprisingly engaging. I had the good fortune of serving as Super Captain and Supernumerary in Walküre and Götterdämmerung.
2) Stacey Kent, Venetian Room, Fairmont Hotel details
I fell in love with her voice three years ago. After stalking her tour schedule for a Bay Area performance, I got to experience her art live at last. She's a real pixie…a gentle spirit, with a frail flutter to her vibrato. She completely transported me and her audience, casting a convincing spell. Her palpable, loving connection to her band leader, sax player and husband Jim Tomlinson added to the glow. She embodied "less is more," drawing us in, rather than overworking her numbers in a too extroverted manner. Her set included lots of brazilian and french songs unfamiliar to me, some off her just released album. Come back soon Stacey!


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Pint-sized street dancer Perri Kiely flipped his way into the Splash! finals after a sensational double-dive on the ITV reality show.
The 18-year-old, best known for being thrown through the air during performances with urban dance troupe Diversity, soared to the top of the judges' leader board after a couple of textbook manoeuvres.
He posted the best score of the series - 27.5 out of 30 - for his first dive from 7.5m, and compounded the achievement with a technically fiendish running twist from 5m as all four contestants were instructed to complete two descents.
The dancer was joined in the last round by pop star Keith Duffy who triumphed over wildlife presenter Michaela Strachan in a splash-off. Glamour model Danielle Lloyd completed the quartet but left judges and the voting public uninspired as she exited the competition.
Perri, described by Olympic bronze medallist and co-host Tom Daley as the "stand out" diver in the competition, said he found it difficult diving without his high-strength spectacles.
But he was described as "courageous" and "fearless" by judges, with Andy Banks commending his backwards somersault from 7.5m as "nearly as professional as the European gold medallist".
Fellow panellist Leon Taylor said the teenager was "a few lessons away from being a professional".
Perri, cheered on by his Diversity colleagues at the poolside in Luton, said: "I have put so much hard work in to this, so to get a comment like that means the world."
He said he would tackle the hardest dive ever attempted on Splash! when he competes in the final in two weeks' time, where he will be joined by Irishman Keith, who progressed ahead of Michaela despite battling back spasms.
And the 39-year-old singer repeatedly gave viewers a sneaky peak at his own boy-zone after a wardrobe malfunction as his emerald green trunks sagged loose upon entry.
Really Wild Show host Michaela, who at 47 was the oldest diver left in the competition, conceded the better athlete was put through.
Former glamour model Daniella, 30, was commended for facing her fears by jumping form the higher 7.5m board after a taking to the water from a lower level for the first dive.
But the ex-Miss Great Britain, married to Wolves midfielder Jamie O'Hara, was twice guilty of over-rotation and missed out on the competition finale.
Perri and Keith will be joined in the final by two further contestants, drawn from next weekend's second semi-final.


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WASHINGTON, June 11 (UPI) -- The U.S. Supreme Court Monday ruled federal employees cannot sue in the courts for dismissal from their jobs for failing to comply with a law.
The court held 6-3 the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978 limits redress to the Merit Systems Protection Board.
The decision stemmed from a suit filed by Michael B. Elgin, who had been dismissed from a Civil Service job at the U.S. Department of Treasury for failing to register for the draft. He had argued the Military Selective Service Act was unconstitutional because the law requires only that men register.
The court said, however, in a decision written by Justice Clarence Thomas, "Congress intended [CSRA]'s review scheme to provide the exclusive avenue to judicial review for covered employees who challenge covered adverse employment actions, even when those employees argue that a federal statute is unconstitutional."
In his dissent, Justice Samuel Alito argued the courts' right to review administrative decisions is well established.
"In this case, however, the majority relies on a very weak set of inferences to strip the courts of their original jurisdiction over petitioners' claims," Alito said, joined by Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Elena Kagan.


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Forbes Travel Guide names new five-star hotels
For the first time, Forbes Travel Guide is crowning a second batch of five-star hotels, restaurants and spas mid-year, offering travelers more up-to-date ratings.
Forbes had named new five-star properties earlier this year. But today, it is adding three hotels, four restaurants, and one spa.
The new five-star hotels include the first ever for Seattle and Vancouver and a new five-star hotel in London.
Michael Cascone, president of Forbes Travel Guide, said the company decided to add the mid-year update "to provide even more, and more timely, information in a rapidly changing marketplace — to benefit travelers as well as the hotel community."
"This enables us to rate and review hotels which were not available for inspection in the previous cycle — such as new properties or those under renovation, or those who have worked to improve their service levels since the previous ratings cycle," he said. "In a fast-paced, information-intensive environment, it's important that consumers have the most up-to-date information when making travel decisions, and its our goal to provide them with the most comprehensive and authoritative information in the market."
Forbes will continue to name new five-star properties at the beginning of each year as well.
Rosewood Hotels' Rosewood Hotel Georgia in Vancouver received five stars after an extensive renovation, making it the first hotel in Canada to receive the highest rating.
The Sense Spa inside the Hotel Georgia also received five stars.
The Four Seasons Hotel Seattle received a five-star designation, the first to get one in that city.
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Overseas, Forbes Travel Guide gave London's The Connaught a five-star rating.
London also received four new four-star hotels: Dorset Square Hotel, Dukes, St. Ermins and The Halkin.
The new five-restaurants include:
- The Restaurant at Meadowood, Napa Valley
- Plume Restaurant at The Jefferson Hotel in Washington, D.C.
- The Fearrington Restaurant in Fearrington Village, N.C.
- Manresa Restaurant in Los Gatos, Calif.
The latest installments bring the total number of Forbes Travel Guide five-star hotels to 83. California has the most of any state with 12.
London and Hong Kong each has seven five-star hotels, making them the international destinations with the highest tally.
Hotels get five-star status for "their virtually flawless service and the finest of amenities," Forbes said.
"Staff is intuitive, engaging and passionate, and eagerly goes beyond expectations," the company said.
At four-star properties "attention to detail is prominent throughout the property, from design concept to quality of products provided," the company said. "Staff is accommodating and takes pride in catering to your specific needs throughout your stay."
Alan Campey, regional vice president of Rosewood Hotels and Resorts, credited the Rosewood Hotel Georgia's five-star status on the property's " amazing team who have made our guest experience their ultimate goal by being committed to the highest standards, engaging our guests and delivering intuitive and refined service."
"With this prestigious award, which marks the first hotel in Canada to receive the highest rating, Rosewood Hotel Georgia has set a benchmark as a global industry leader," Campey said.