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BRISTOL — Bristol students are not doing as well as their counterparts across the state in reading, writing and math on the critical SAT test that is used by many colleges to help determine whom they admit.

“We have work to do,” school Superintendent Philip Streifer said Wednesday.

The scores generally show that students in Bristol whose parents are low-income or lacking a college education do better than expected, but those from higher- income families whose parents are well-educated fall well short of expected results.

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Few other stand-up comedians have made a dent on the national comedy scene as big as the one John Mulaney has– and at such a young age. A near perfect debut album for Comedy Central and a scribe gig at Saturday Night Live leaves little question as to why that is.

In just a few short years, comedian John Mulaney has accomplished more than most comedians twice his age. At 26, he’s already headlined the country’s top comedy clubs, been a regular talking head on VH1’s Best Week Ever, scored a plum gig as a writer on Saturday Night Live — and on March 24, Comedy Central Records is releasing a collection of his distinctive storytelling on everything from drag queens and childhood pranks to his favorite TV shows.

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Cleavagefield on Cinemax - Cleavagefield is as the name implies, a movie with lots of cleavage! Basically it is an erotic parody of cloverfield where scared naked women run away from the Cleavagefield monster.

Cleavagefield premiered on April 1 on Cinemax. The Cleavagefield monster looks more like a possessed inflatable dinosaur but no one is really watching the monster in this movie.

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American Idol on Tuesday night was rocking. There were contestants singing their favorites from iTune downloads. There was elimination….and there was Lady GaGa at the piano with her latest hit “Poker Face” that has topped the Billboard Hot 100 chart. It is the second week for “Poker Face” at the top. On the AI stage, she was dynamic.

The pop singer from New York has beat US rapper Flo Rida’s “Right Round” which ruled the chart for six weeks. And, before “Poker Face“, it was “Just Dance“. It was no 1 in the list in January, reigning for three weeks. With these phenomenal success of these two songs one after the other, Lady GaGa has become the first artist in almost ten years to rule the Hot 100 chart with two entries. The last performer to reign the Hot 100 list with her pair of songs ["Genie in a Bottle" (1999) and "What a Girl Wants" (2000)] was….yes you guessed it right. Christina Aguilera. The only other women to have reached the top of the list with two songs in the last 25 years were Mariah Carey in 1990 and Tiffany in 1987.

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Within two weeks of implementing new technology that makes it easier for search engines to index customer product reviews on its site, natural search drove 33% more sales at Diapers.com. Josh Himwich, director of e-commerce operations and customer experience for the retailer, says a new feature from ratings and reviews vendor PowerReviews spurred the sales. The In-Line SEO feature generated a 49% increase in natural search traffic and a 59% rise in the number of keywords driving traffic to the site’s product pages.

In-Line SEO routes organic search traffic directly to Diapers.com’s product pages that feature customer reviews. PowerReviews says eliminating the interim landing pages and sending consumers directly to ratings and reviews pages helps retailers avoid the drop-off in traffic that typically occurs between a landing page and a product page.

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The founder of LegiStorm.com — a searchable database of Capitol Hill staff’s salaries — may want to run for the Hill.

A former Capitol Hill investigative reporter, Jock Friedly, just launched a website that allows users to look up the annual salaries of congressional staffers. The site also makes it simple to track a person’s trips, financial disclosures, the gifts they received and the explosive growth of legislative earmarks.

“Earmarks have been at the center of several congressional scandals in the past few years, and openness in the process can help combat potential abuses of the earmark system,” said Friedly, founder and president of LegiStorm. “LegiStorm is proud to integrate earmarks data with our other data sets in order to bring deeper insight and increased transparency to congressional and executive spending.”

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The rift between Jay Cutler and the Broncos just got a little more interesting after the quarterback recently put his Denver house up for sale. Cutler’s parents got into the act too, putting their Denver house up for sale as well.

On Thursday, Broncos disgruntled quarterback Jay Cutler put his primary residence in Parker up for sale, with a listing price of $2 million.

This decision for a lifestyle change comes amid the soap opera that has been dubbed, McJaygate.
Cutler has been upset since learning Feb. 28 he was part of trade talks that never materialized. Cutler believes he has information that his new coach Josh McDaniels aggressively tried to shop him, despite the coach’s statements to the contrary. Since then, Cutler has refused to come in and meet the coach. This Monday morning, McDaniels, the primary target of Cutler’s discontent, is meeting with the full team, at least as it stands now. All players have been told to attend.

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New York City’s Topshop store will be opening in SoHo tomorrow, after several months of construction delays. The four-story store, which closely resembles the Flagship store on Oxford Street in London, is the first Topshop location in the United States, though the retailer has hundreds of other stores around the world.

One of the biggest appeals of Topshop opening in New York is that the store will carry Kate Moss’ fashion line for the store, making the clothing available to American shoppers for the first time in a retail location. Also coinciding with the opening of Topshop NYC is the global launch of the new Spring collection of the Kate Moss Hearts Topshop line.

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Producers promised that all questions would be answered on the series finale of Life on Mars. The show definitely delivered, but it wasn’t in the most exciting way. It was definitely a happy ending for Sam though.
Life on Mars, “Life is a Rock”

Sam has been having dreams of the future. In the dreams he is in his apartment in 2008, but he is watching himself as a child and his father.

At the station Sam received another phone call from the male voice. The voice told him if he wants to go back to 2008 he needs to do three things. He told him the first thing is to save himself, then hung up. Seconds later Rose ran in to tell Sam that Vic had stolen little Sammy.

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