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The Last Shadow Puppets have announced four special UK shows for July, following the release of their second album, Everything You've Come To Expect, due for release in April.
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The state legislative session now behind him, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo on Monday touted Albany's accomplishments in 2013 and sought to re-enforce his commitment to an upstate region he said is often forgotten in the Capitol.
But some business groups offered a different view.
During a bill-signing ceremony before several hundred invited guests at the Burchfield Penney Art Gallery at SUNY Buffalo State, Cuomo signed a bill setting up financial advisory panels for distressed upstate cities before authorizing other just-passed legislation later in Rochester and Binghamton.
While acknowledging he was not successful in achieving all of his legislative agenda, Monday's visit to Buffalo gave him the chance to renew his familiar theme of a resurgent upstate region thanks to the efforts of his administration.
He was especially upbeat about Buffalo and its economy.
"The number of cranes, in some ways, is a litmus test of economic health," he said. "For a lot of years, there were not any cranes in the sky above Buffalo. Today the cranes are back."
But as the governor praised the efforts of the Legislature and his administration on behalf of upstate, business groups made it clear they do not share his enthusiasm. Unshackle Upstate called the session a "disappointment" for failing to fix a number of long-standing problems. Fixes are needed to help bring down the cost of running businesses, the group said.
"After two years of real cooperation and progress towards making New York State a better place to do business, the return of the old ways of doing business has caused our optimism to fade. Albany's efforts to fix upstate New York's ailing economy unfortunately stalled during this year's legislative session," the group said.
Meanwhile, the National Federation of Independent Business called the 2013 session a "significant step back" for small businesses, through the minimum wage hike and failure to address state laws that drive up the cost of doing business.
"We acknowledge the efforts to revitalize New York, particularly upstate, through new economic investment, but have failed to see the same focus on sustaining small business. Albany needs to avoid political simplicity and focus both on our economic future and implement pro-growth policies that protect New York's fragile economic reality,'' said Mike Durant, state director of the National Federation of Independent Business.
The governor broke little news during his visit but pointed to new initiatives. He emphasized the bills to address problems of distressed cities, a push for a referendum allowing new gambling facilities in parts of the state, and his Start Up NY program that links mostly upstate SUNY campuses and some private colleges to startup companies in a no-tax zone.
"If you have a tax-free environment plus all the assets of the great State of New York, what would be a better winning combination?" he asked.
Some critics have said Start Up NY ignores the needs of existing businesses struggling to afford New York's high tax levels.
Unshackle Upstate said it will take more than the new program to solve upstate's problems.
"After a budget that included a minimum-wage increase and an extension of an energy surcharge, Unshackle Upstate and others called on both houses to act on important, common- sense initiatives," the group said. "Instead, we're stuck with the status quo."
"While Start Up NY will help their respective communities create jobs in the future, it's going to take much more to turn around the upstate economy," it added. "We expect our elected officials to step up and deliver in 2014."
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Di ko alam pano gumagana ang jamhub pag out sa DAW. Pero kung lalabas ang bawat input sa hiwahiwalay na tracks sa DAW mas ok, pero kung all inputs into single track lang, medyo limited pero ok parin naman depende sa pagmix mo.Di ko alam yung cool edit pero i suggest reaper as DAWAs for pc, you need a decent at least i5 with 4 gb ram, yung guitars ba plug through effects then amp then amp to jamplug? Or guitar straight to jamplug? Kung guitar straight to jumplug, mas powerful na pc kelangan mo since gagamit ka ng vst and cab simulators in real time kasabay yung isa pang guitar and bass using vsts too.
Nopee.. The bedroom does not support usb connection. Pero meron syang recording output.. So it will simply work like a mixer.Yung higher series ata ng jamhub ang meron.It is great for silent rehersal, pero you might wanna reconsider it kung for recording purposes na solid.
Hello po. Good morning. Plano ko po kasi mag setup ng home recording ng banda namim sa bahay preferably sa kwarto ko lang. Pero sobrang tight lang ng budget. OK po ba yung magiging gantong setup kung sakali:Guitars/bass/edrums/vocals -> Jamhub Bedroom -> Cheap but decent laptop/pc (through USB out) -> Cool Edit Pro 2.0.Makakaproduce na po ba kami ng at least demo-worthy na recording dito? May kulang pa po ba? Minimal lang po talaga kasi, tight budget saka making the most out of limited resources lang po talaga. Haha. Salamat po sa tulong. Sent from my S!gma Evo using Tapatalk
kung jamhub bedroom, pwede ka magrecord as multitrack basta bili ka nung jamhub tracker mt16. ikakabit mo sya sa remote port.kaso hindi pwedeng ikabit sa pc yung mt16, bali may sd card yung mt16 tapos ililipat mo yung files sa pc via copy. saka mo import sa daw to edit/mix
Eto mas ok yung ganito TS. Marerecord mo ng multitracks yung tugtog niyo nang di nakakabulahaw.
I googled Jamhub bedroom, watched a couple of videos in Youtube. I think I get what you're aiming for and it looks like it's doable.
Wag ka mag-live recording kung tight ang budget unless nasa indie rock, grindcore or black metal band ka. Just buy a decent audio interface (1-2 channels) and a decent mic (sm57/58 will do) then record every instrument one by one.
I think almost the same ang goal naten TS. What I'm planning to do is to have a bedroom studio but instead of Jamhub, I would use a mixer and headphones amp for silent band practice since we live in a small apartment. I prefer a mixer for flexibility in case we need to use it outside for live gigsBut I want to film our cover songs using a Gopro Hero4 while recording it through the mixer for "Youtube" purposes..(syncing the audio and video later though I still need to learn how to do that later)Setup:Behringer Xenyx Q1202USB or Behringer Xenyx 1202FX + UCA222 soundcard (not sure if I'd get the mixer with built in effects or USB interface..maybe with built in effects)2 guitars, 1 bass and e-drumkit plus 3 dynamic micsOur headphones connect to a Behringer HA400 Your thoughts?
^actually kaya din I don't want to go the Jamhub direction kasi we don't really need the independent controls on the stereo mix. Timplahin na muna namen sa mixer then 1 out to the PC and 1 out to the Headphones amp. Kelangan from mixer pa lang tama na timpla kasi it's the same mix that we will use to sync with the video recording for Youtube. Buti na lang compromise is not an issue sa band namen mababaet naman sila hehe..but the most we can do is adjust the output level of our own headphonesApart from my plan being half the price of a Jamhub bedroom I also want it to be versatile so in case we need to use it for live performances then we have that option to explore.
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Exit Sandman: Mariano's farewell ends more than an era in Yankees history
NEW YORK â€" I was home with my daughter on Thursday afternoon, and put her in her playpen for a moment while I went to the kitchen to get her apple sauce from the refrigerator. When I came back into the living room, she was standing up. She had never done that before.
I'll remember the day for that, and I will remember the night for the last time I will ever see Mariano Rivera pitch in a major league game. If it seems stupid or if it seems like I have my priorities out of whack to put these two things on even close to the same level, well, I'm sorry, but I'm also not sorry, because that's how I feel.
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Rivera arrived in New York when I was 14 years old. It wound up being the first time since the year I was born that the Yankees made the playoffs. They were not a powerhouse back then, not the Evil Empire, not a team full of stars. They were young, and on the rise, and it was big because Don Mattingly finally got to play in October. Along the way, I latched onto this reliever who had begun as an erratic starter, but now was getting everyone out. That was Rivera.
Then there was 1996, when the Yankees won the World Series with this 1-2 punch from the bullpen of the magic kid who got everyone out and the sweat-stained hat of John Wetteland. And then Rivera became the closer, and he was the guy on the mound at the end of three straight World Series -- my first three years in college, a slice of home.
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Derek Jeter will still be around after this year, a first-ballot Hall of Famer and the face of all those teams. But for me, Rivera was always the guy. He was the security blanket, the one sure thing in a game where nothing ever is a sure thing. You went to Yankee Stadium, you heard Metallica, you cheered three outs, and you went home. The times that Rivera lost, it felt like it was by accident. A broken-bat single by Luis Gonzalez. A stolen base by Dave Roberts. That one week every year where Rivera would remind the world that everyone is human by blowing two saves and sparking panic headlines in the tabloids.
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I wasn't quite sure why it didn't hit me this way on Sunday, when the Yankees honored Rivera, but it did on Thursday. I'm never going to see Mariano Rivera pitch again, and it's OK. Life goes on. Sunday was ceremonial. Thursday was a special night. I came to the Bronx mostly to talk to the Rays before the game for stories previewing a playoff season that won't involve the Yankees. I stayed because I knew Rivera was going to pitch regardless of the score -- this was it.
I left the press box for a couple of innings, and sat in the bleachers with one of my best friends from college, the guy I had season tickets with for the last two years of the old Stadium -- the real Stadium, the one I grew up with -- and the first year of the shopping mall they built across the street. The old place was where I fell in love with baseball, and with the feeling that came when the bullpen door swung open and No. 42 came jogging out from behind the retired numbers. Now he is one of those retired numbers, now he's gone. I sat in the bleachers and watched the 4 train, my favorite forever, win the scoreboard subway race. And then I went back to the press box and waited.
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I knew it was going to be weird when Rivera came into a game the Yankees were losing, and it was, but it didn't matter. There were runners on first and second in the eighth inning, and here came Rivera, trying to get out of the jam, which he did as easily as ever. Then he got two outs in the ninth, and then Jeter and Andy Pettitte came out to make the pitching change, and the place went berserk, and Rivera cried, and so did a lot of other people, and I think it was a good thing that I was in the press box, because it didn't quite feel as real at that moment. But it was, and I belong in the press box now anyway, because the part of my life spent screaming in the stands is over. I'll love watching the game, love watching individual players, but the end of Mariano is the end of my childhood. I made it to 32.
Rivera is 43. Thursday night, he got four outs on 13 pitches. On Sunday, he got five outs on 16 pitches. He is 43 years old and still ridiculously good, but he's retiring anyway, and good for him, and good for all of us, because as nice as it would be to pretend for one more year that time doesn't march on, Rivera leaves the Bronx as dominant as he came in, his legend diminished not even in the slightest. I'll miss watching him, and I'll miss watching baseball the way I did when he was a part of it. It's a moment of change in life and I only hope that when my daughter gets old enough to have a favorite player, she can be so lucky as to have one who sticks around as long and brings her as much joy as Mariano Rivera brought to me.
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Footage has been released of a policeman being thrown to the ground as he tries to stop thieves making their getaway in a van.
Pc Gareth Lowe, 34, can be seen clinging on to the passenger side of the van before it speeds off down the road and he is thrown on to the tarmac.
The officer suffered minor injuries and was treated in hospital. He has since made a full recovery and is back on the beat, West Midlands Police said.
Detectives are continuing to investigate the burglary at a tile company in Upper Balsall Heath Road, Birmingham, which took place at around 2am on May 13.
Four men have been arrested in connection with the incident and have been released on police bail.
Detective Constable Michelle Beasley, from Stechford CID, said: "Pc Lowe was extremely lucky on the night in question - the people in the van showed a complete disregard for him and he was left lying in the street.
"His injuries could have been far worse, even life-threatening. Fortunately back-up was on hand and, after receiving treatment at the scene and in hospital, Pc Lowe is back on the beat.
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The weird, wacky weather continued today as the high temperature for Worcester broke the record for the second day in a row, and gusty winds caused property damage and extensive power outages throughout the region.
Wednesday's high temperature of 56 degrees broke the record of 53 degrees set on Jan. 30, 1938, and today's high temperature of 59 also recorded at Worcester Regional Airport, topped the record 57 degrees set on Jan. 31, 1988. Today's high temperature was recorded very early, before dawn.
�Anything in the 50s (for the end of January) is certainly an anomaly,� said National Weather Service Meteorologist Matt L. Doody, at the Taunton office.
The wind gusts and blustery conditions that started Wednesday night caused many trees and tree limbs to fall, including on houses and power lines.
One tree fell on a car traveling in Uxbridge this morning. The extremely windy conditions made highway driving especially tricky during the morning commute.
The maximum wind gusts for the region reported on the National Weather Service's website were 64 mph at 4:58 a.m. in Milford, 47 mph at 5:15 a.m. in Charlton, 46 mph at 8:53 in Fitchburg, 55 mph at 9:13 at the Worcester airport and 46 mph at 8:53 a.m. at the Fitchburg airport.
A 30-foot pine tree crashed through the bedroom of Nancy Buffone at 41 Pleasant St. in Grafton about 4:30 a.m. today. No was injured.
About 6:30 this morning, a 25-year-old Blackstone woman was driving north on Route 146 near Exit 2 in Uxbridge when a felled tree from the median area flew into her 2007 Honda Civic and crushed the roof. The driver, Melissa M. Whiting of Blackstone, suffered head injuries and was taken for treatment to UMass Memorial Medical Center � University Campus in Worcester, according to police.
About 5 a.m., Webster firefighters evacuated adults and children from a two-family building at 4 Snow St. after a tree fell on the roof, according to Fire Chief Brian Hickey. No one was injured.
�The tree hit the roof pretty good,� Chief Hickey said, and also struck the second floor in the back of the building. �Of course, it was pouring rain.�
The town's building inspector is expected to visit the house to assess structural damage. Homes in Grafton and Uxbridge were hit by toppled trees, according to authorities. There were no injuries.
School in Douglas was canceled because of the weather.
Heavy winds, with downed trees, have knocked out power in scattered areas. National Grid reported more than 10,000 customers without service in Worcester County today, with 1,000 outages each in Oxford, Grafton and Millbury. Oxford and Spencer and Hubbardston, once with heavy outages, were close to full power restoration this morning, but 3,800 National Grid customers in Worcester County were still without power early this afternoon.
�Definitely, predominantly weather-related,� said Charlotte McCormack, spokesman for the National Weather Service. �The outages were fairly widespread in eastern and Central Massachusetts.�
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The Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) solution bundles developer tools and a data store, but users who opt to use an infrastructure provider or build a private cloud have to match the data store or database to their application requirements and budget. There are open source and commercial products that have a wide range of capabilities, from scalable simple data stores to robust platforms for complex query and transaction processing.
Databases, data stores, and data access software for cloud computing must be evaluated for suitability for both public and private clouds and for the class of applications supported. For example, Amazon Dynamo was built to operate in a trusted environment, without authentication and authorization requirements. Whether the environment supports multi-tenant or multi-instance applications also influences the database decision.
Databases and Data Stores
Data management options for the cloud include single format data stores, document databases, column data stores, semantic data stores, federated databases and object-relational databases. The latter group includes "Swiss Army Knife" servers from IBM, Microsoft, OpenLink, and Oracle that process SQL tables, XML documents, RDF triples and user-defined types.
Building a petabyte size web search index is a very different problem from processing an order or mapping wireless networks. The requirements of the application and data store for those tasks are quite different. For new applications hosted in the cloud, developers will look primarily to several classes of data store:
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- Tuple spaces variants, in-memory databases, entity-attribute-value stores and other non-SQL databases having features such as filtering, sorting, range queries and transactions.
Because this cornucopia of data stores has diverse capabilities, it's important to understand application requirements for scalability, load balancing, consistency, data integrity, transaction support and security. Some newer data stores are an exercise in minimalism. They avoid joins and don't implement schemas or strong typing, instead storing data as strings or blobs. Scalability with very large data set operations is a requirement for cloud computing, which has contributed to the recent enthusiasm for the DHT and distributed key-value stores.
Associative arrays, dictionaries, hash tables, rings, and tuple spaces have been around for years, as have entity-attribute-value (EAV) stores, database partitions and federated databases. But cloud computing puts an emphasis on scalability and load balancing by distributing data across multiple servers. The need for low-latency data stores has created an Internet buzz about key-value stores, distributed hash tables (DHT), entity-attribute-value stores and data distribution by sharding.
Tuple spaces are a solution for distributed shared memory that originated with the Linda effort at Yale that spawned more than 20 implementations, including Object Spaces, JavaSpaces, GigaSpaces, LinuxTuples, IBM TSpaces, and PyLinda. You can find GigaSpaces eXtreme Application Platform as a pay-per-use service on Amazon EC2. It includes a local and distributed Jini transaction manager, Java Transaction API (JTA), JDBC support, with b-tree and hash-based indexing capabilities. Amazon SimpleDB also provides standard tuple spaces interfaces, but adds secondary indexing and support for additional query operators.
For large data sets and databases, partitioning data has been a facilitator of parallel query processing and load balancing. Horizontal partitioning, referred to as sharding, has caught the attention of developers looking to build multi-terabyte cloud databases because of its success at Amazon, Digg, eBay, Facebook, Flickr, Friendster, Skype, and YouTube.
SQLAlchemy and Hibernate Shards, object-relational mappers for Python and Java, respectively, provide sharding that's useful for cloud database design. Google developed Hibernate Shards for data clusters before donating it to the Hibernate project. You can do manual sharding for a platform such as Google AppEngine, use SQLAlchemy or Hibernate Shards for Python or Java development, or use a cloud data store such as MongoDB that provides administrative commands for creating shards.
Distributed Hash Table, Key-Value Data Stores
Distributed hash tables and key-value stores are tools for building scalable, load balanced applications, not for enforcing rigid data integrity, consistency and Atomic Consistent Isolated Durable (ACID) properties for transactions. They have limited applicability for applications doing ad hoc query and complex analytics processing.
Products in this group include memcached, MemcacheDB, Project Voldemort, Scalaris, and Tokyo Cabinet. Memcached is ubiquitous and a popular solution for caching for database-powered web sites. It's a big associative array that's accessed with a get or put function, using the key that's a unique identifier for data. It's particularly useful for caching information produced by expensive SQL queries, such as counts and aggregate values. MemcacheDB is a distributed key-value data store that conforms to the memcached protocol but uses Berkeley DB for data persistence.
Scalaris is a distributed key-value store, implemented in Erlang, which has a non-blocking commit protocol for transactions. Using the Web interface, you can read or write a key-value pair, with each operation being an atomic transaction. Using Java, you can execute more complex transactions. Scalaris has strong consistency and supports symmetric replication, but does not have persistent storage.
The open source Tokyo Cabinet database library is causing a buzz in online discussions about key-value stores. It's blazingly fast, capable of storing 1 million records in 0.7 seconds using the hash table engine and 1.6 seconds using the b-tree engine. The data model is one value per key and it supports LZW compression. When keys are ordered, it can do prefix and range matching. For handling transactions, it features write ahead logging and shadow paging. Tokyo Tyrant is a database server version of Tokyo Cabinet that's been used to cache large SQL databases for high-volume applications.
Some products of this group support queries over ranges of keys, but ad hoc query operations and aggregate operations (sum, average, grouping) require programming because they are not built-in.
Hadoop MapReduce
Hadoop MapReduce would be a nominee for the Academy Award for parallel processing of very large data sets, if one existed. It's fault-tolerant and has developed a strong following in the grid and cloud computing communities, including developers at Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, and Facebook. Open source Hadoop is available from Apache, a commercial version is available from CloudEra and Amazon offers an Elastic MapReduce service based on Hadoop.
MapReduce operates over the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS), with file splits and data stored as key value pairs. The HDFS enables partitioning data for multiple machines to do parallel processing of batches and reduce processing time. MapReduce is suitable for processing very large data sets for purposes such as building search index engines or data mining, but not for online applications requiring sub-second response times. Frameworks built on top of Hadoop, such as Hive and Pig, are useful for extracting information from databases for Hadoop processing. The eHarmony.com site is an example of the marriage of an Oracle database and Amazon MapReduce, using the latter for analytics involving millions of users.
Entity-Attribute-Value Datastores
EAV stores are derived from data management technology that pre-dates the relational model for data. They do not have the full feature set of an SQL DBMS, such as a rich query model based on a non-procedural, declarative query language. But they are more than a simple key-value data store. EAV data stores from major cloud computing providers include Amazon SimpleDB, Google AppEngine datastore and Microsoft SQL Data Services. And one type, the RDF datastore used for knowledge bases and ontology projects, has been deployed in the cloud.
Google Bigtable uses a distributed file system and it can store very large data sets (petabyte size) on thousands of servers. It's the underlying technology for the Google AppEngine datastore. Google uses it, in combination with MapReduce, for indexing the Web and for applications such as Google Earth. Bigtable is a solution for projects that require analyzing a large collection, for example the one billion web pages and 4.78 billion URLs in the ClueWeb09 data set from Carnegie Mellon University. For those seeking an open source alternative to Bigtable for use with Hadoop, Hypertable, and HBase have developed a following. Hypertable runs on top of a distributed file system, such as HDFS. HBase data is organized by table, row and multi-valued columns and there's an integrator-style interface for scanning a range of rows. Hypertable is implemented in C++, whereas HBase is implemented in Java.
The Google AppEngine includes a schemaless data store that's optimized for reading, supports atomic transactions and consistency, and stores entities with properties. It permits filtering and sorting on keys and properties. It has 21 built-in data types, including list, blob, postal address and geographical point. Applications can define entity groupings as the basis for performing transactional updates and use GQL, a SQL-like query language. Access to the Google AppEngine datastore is programmable using Python interfaces for queries over objects known as entities. The datastore is also programmable using Java Data Objects (JDO) and Java Persistence API. Although AppEngine bundles a data store, the AppScale project provides software for operating with data stores such as HBase, Hypertable, MongoDB and MySQL.


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During the elementary school years a child acquires the skills, attitudes and behaviors which provide the foundation for future learning. A close working relationship between the home and the school helps each child have a meaningful and productive educational experience.
Citizens make many significant contributions to the schools and we invite you to visit your school, confer with teachers and administrators and attend meetings of the Board of Education. Community support is essential to the development of an effective educational program. We welcome your participation and involvement in school activities and organizations.
In the Rochester Community Schools, the term curriculum refers to the alignment of content standards, instructional strategies and assessment practices. Content standards are the "what"; instruction is the "how" and assessment informs us "when" students are ready for the next step.
Rochester's curriculum addresses student growth in the cognitive, physical, social/ emotional and aesthetic domains. From pre-school through adult education, the curriculum focuses on developing the skills and knowledge necessary for life-long learning.
Curriculum is developed based on the District philosophy and mission for K-12 education and in alignment with the Michigan Curriculum Standards, Benchmarks and Grade Level Content Expectations. In the Rochester Community Schools curriculum is modified and adjusted on a regular basis to ensure students receive the instruction necessary to keep pace in today's global society.


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Local small businesses may not have the money to market themselves like the big chain companies, but some are making up for that with creative solutions.
Local small businesses may not have the money to market themselves like the big chain companies, but some are making up for that with creative solutions.
Strategies vary from advertising with different media to just getting the word out through satisfied customers.
Victoria Giglio, owner of Victoria's Indigo Boutique, 112 Old Towne Blvd. Court, Houma, tried all types of advertising before finding a strategy that worked best.
"I tried commercials, the radio, B97 (FM) and 102.5 (WFMF). I've tried billboards," she said.
They gave her some success but not the success she was looking for.
"TV wasn't as successful as billboards. The commercials didn't stay on long. And with billboards, you couldn't change it all the time. It was hard to change every time a new party or outfit came out. You know you want to keep fashion up-to-date," Giglio said.
Giglio also tried putting ads in magazines and concluded she wanted to start her own publication.
"I said hey, if I am going to put ads in stuff and on billboards, why don't I just make my own magazine?" she said. "It was like 2:30 in the morning. I was up thinking, and I was like Houma doesn't have a fashion magazine."
She recalled how she would travel to other cities for business or vacation and those places would have fashion magazines.
"I thought it would be neat to bring to this area," Giglio said. "The next day I called the printing company and got quotes on magazine prices. Pretty much four to six weeks later, I had a magazine."
Giglio began Indigo Magazine in 2010. She launches it quarterly in compliance with the fashion seasons spring, summer, fall and holiday. She said it was very hard to put together, but it has become a success with the help of her vendors and advertisers who thought it would be beneficial to them.
"The magazines fly out of the places we put them in. I have to keep refilling the racks every day. It helps business out tremendously. People come in that never heard of the store before because of the magazine. Nine out of 10 times they buy stuff too, and I've made a new customer," Giglio said.
Since the boutique caters to women, Giglio puts her magazine in Houma restaurants, hair salons, doctors' offices and nail shops to reach her target audience.
Giglio even won the 2011 Entrepreneur of the Year Award from the Board of Retailers for her success.
"I thought that was really neat that they thought it was something good I brought to Houma," she said.
The magazine is one of the most expensive things Giglio does for her boutique but said she is thankful for those who buy ad space because it covers the majority of the cost of publication.
"It doesn't just help me, but all my friends and other businesses that affiliate themselves with me. I want everyone to do well," she said.
Facebook and Instagram are other forms of free advertising Giglio uses that helps her business tremendously, she said.
The Foundry on the Bayou restaurant and bar, 715 W. First St., Thibodaux, is another business that has found a strategy that works.
Kitchen manager David Matherne said The Foundry relies on free advertising and its customers.
"We do Facebook and we have a webpage for ourselves. But our marketing comes from the people that come in," he said.
"If they have a good experience when they come in, they will let their friends know about us. That seems to be more effective in my opinion," he said.
Matherne said word-of-mouth really helped the business for the last-minute "End of the World" party it threw a few weeks ago.
"We had just decided to do the party three weeks in advance and we still got a good turnout. To get 100 people there for only a three-week-planned event was really good for us," he said. "...and this was while all the college kids were out for break and with people home for the holidays. We still got business from that."
Matherne said putting up table tents, signs in the bathrooms and around the business, as well as waiter interaction also helps advertise for different events.
The Foundry has almost sold out of tickets for the New Year's Eve performance by the Good Feelin band because of the combined strategies the business uses to get its message out, Matherne said.
"I am not from Thibodaux. But from what I hear, everybody is going to be stoked up that they are going to be playing here. We are going to be slammed on New Year's Eve. So I am looking forward to that," Matherne said.
Staff Writer Sable LeFrere can be reached at 985-857-2204 or at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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The Global Eyes Study Abroad Photography Competition is an opportunity for study abroad returnees to share their international experiences and insights with the greater campus community.
Photo submissions are entered into one of the following categories:
The photographs are chosen for their technical quality as well as the accompanying student written narratives. Category winners, Best Written Caption, People's Choice Award, and the Best of Show Award are announced at an awards ceremony held in the Durick Library in April, and the exhibit remains on display in the library throughout the year.
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This Date In Royals History – October 14, 1980
If you are a Royals fan, then this date is not a cherished one, but it is memorable in club history. For a city that has had professional baseball every year save one since 1884 (we'll just call 1968 the Finley Gap – Thanks Charlie it was worth the one year hiatus), this date 29 years ago was a true watershed moment.
Tuesday, October 14, 1980 and the Royals were in Philadelphia at Veterans Stadium for Game 1 of the World Series. This was of course the first-ever World Series game for Kansas City and it was a long-time coming. The Royals got started with a bang – literally. In the second inning Darrell Porter led-off with a walk (off Phillies starter Bob Walk – sorry had to include that pun) and Amos Otis followed with a long HR. Then in the third Willie Aikens added to the Royals lead with another two-run shot. Everything seemed to be humming for KC – 4-0 lead and Dennis Leonard had retired the first six Phillies in order.
But Philly rallied for a five-spot in the bottom of the third including a two-out three-run HR by Bake McBride and then followed that with single runs in the fifth and sixth to lead 7-4. Willie Aikens would launch his second two-run HR of the game in the eighth inning, but the Royals scoring ended there and Philadelphia took Game 1 by a score of 7-6. Heartbreaking loss when you recall the circumstances, with a win here the entire series may have ended very differently for the Royals.
Just A Bit More: There was another event that happened on October 14 four years earlier and was much more painful for Royals fans. I'll say this as quickly as possible to minimize the sting you can still feel three and a third decades later, it'll just take two words…Chris Chambliss. I won't go any further it's just to gut wrenching. If you remember it you know what I'm talking about, if not you can find the details here.
(Curt Nelson, Director – Royals Hall of Fame)
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Very exciting night, aside from the outcome. Looking forward to tomorrow?s entry. Couple of possibilities, I know what I?m hoping for!


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NAIS Autopsy Report
Classification Level: Secret, Omega 1
Reporting Physician: Dr. Stephanie May-Duncan
I, Dr. Stephanie May-Duncan, performed an autopsy on Tarxan Specimen 2 (Male) at St. Justinian Medical Complex, New Constantinople, Turkey, Eurasian Alliance on February 16th, 347 CE.
From anatomic findings and investigation I ascribe the death of Specimen 2 to ELECTROCUTION applied to the body. Cause of death indicated in field report listed as discharge from Lightning Rifle. My investigation supports this claim.
Anatomical Survey
The Tarxan species is physiologically very similar to homo sapiens. The body has the same layout and the same general proportions, including a large cranium, mammalian biology and general tolerances. There are significant differences, and the extent of these differences are still to be determined if they are the product of divergent evolution or applied biotechnologies.
Head: The Tarxan demonstrates a reduced level of hair on the cranium, with very little on the skull or face. This appears to be biological in function, and not the product of hair removal grooming. The ears are large, pointed and demonstrate a tattered appearance. There is little cartilage in the ear, making it rather bat-like. The teeth are in line with a carnivorous diet, with only vestigial premolars in the rear of the jaw. The lower jaw is pronounced, and the jaw muscles are large and well developed. The Tarxan likely has an impressive ability to deliver a large and powerful bite. The brain is slightly smaller than human, but this is less than a 5% difference, and the frontal lobe is less developed, while the cerebellum is somewhat larger and more developed than the average human brain.
Specimen 2 demonstrates primitive Bone Lacing, a rudimentary process to increase strength and durability in genetic augments and biomodification augments. There is large amounts of scarring, demonstrating a crude technique and likely a long and painful recovery by Specimen 2. Internal organs are more geared towards a high protein carnivorous diet, with a simple and relatively uncomplicated gastrointestinal tract. The liver, kidneys and other excretory organs are robust, leading to conclude that the Tarxan is able to resist toxic environments and tainted food supplies much better than an average human.
The reproductive system demonstrates a large size to body ratio so either Specimen 2 was a well endowed male of the species, or if Specimen 2 is close to the average, the species would likely demonstrate a high rate of reproduction with very high rates of breeding. More information would be required to make a more educated hypothesis.
Blood chemistry demonstrates the presence of tailored combat hormones and other artificial compounds. A further examination of Specimen 2 revealed a previously overlooked artificial organ. Located behind the Liver, a small gland seems to have been the source of these militarized compounds. There is further scarring to demonstrate that the gland was inserted via crude surgery, and likely was not a product of the Tarxan themselves. The organ demonstrates a very high level of genetic sophistication and has been sent to //redacted// for further study.
The Tarxan is heavily muscled, and the skin is both thick and tough. Specimen 2 demonstrates injuries consistent with being shot with civilian grade firearms that only caused minimal injury and bruising. The arms have ceramic/bone spurs buried between the radius and ulna bones. The musculature of the forearm has been modified to allow for Specimen 2 to extend or retract the spur by flexing the forearm. This is a biomodification, and the scarring around the tendons indicates the implanting procedure was done relatively recently, within the last two years assuming a similar rate of healing and scarification.
Origins of the Tarxan
The Tarxan are believed to be a species that lives parallel to Humans on an alternate Earth. The operation of large bore dimensional probes and engines seems to attract their attention and in the case of several Storm Rifts, small numbers of their race have become displaced into our dimension. It can be logically assumed that the random accounts of missing persons associated with large bore dimensional probes can be attributed to the same phenomenon working in reverse.
The Tarxan are an intelligent species, with their own language but lacking a written version or any oral traditions to pass on their cultural experience. The species is semi-nomadic, barbaric, and very warlike. Encounters with Tarxans invariably end with violence. Given the crude status of their language, and weaponry (unpowered melee weapons) that the Tarxans are a primitive species, on par with Iron age Terran cultures. The presence of modern and advanced biomodification indicates the presence of another higher level culture in the realm Tarxans hail from, or that the specimens encountered thus far are exiles and outcastes. Given the unfamiliarity of Tarxans with basic technology such as firearms, push button electronics and androids and other technology, it is assumed that they are a nomadic species living in a realm with another much more technologically dominant species or culture.
Some Tarxans have been discovered on Earth in the past, through historical records. These individuals served as mercenaries and monks, integrating into the local culture. It is assumed that there were unmodified non-warrior aspected Tarxans and might have been clerical, or labor caste individuals. If the pre-writing era stories bear truth, Tarxans and humans are cross-fertile and can create hybrid offspring.
Behind the DM's Screen
The Tarxan are based on Baraka from Mortal Kombat, and the alternate realm being tapped by Dimensional Bores is effectively Outworld. Rather than being an entire race of Barakas, the Tarxans are a primitive barbaric race with a vicious warrior culture who are alternately the slaves of, and the destroyers of the more humanoid cultures of Outworld. The Tarxan are nomads, and the dimensional bores have a habit of punching through into Outworld in remote locations and function as the Outworld equivalent of haunted places, and monster sightings like Bigfoot, Mothman and the like.
The Outworld elites are technologically on par with Humanity in terms of biomodification and general sciences, but have not discovered arcanotechnology and are still reliant on fossil fuels, slavery, and heavy drug trades. They modify Tarxans to be supersoldiers to fight and kill the enemies of the higher cultures, be it other states within Outworld, rival tribes of Tarxans, or just turning into violent bloodbaths of revolts and rebellions when the Tarxan slaves, soldiers and gladiators rise up against their masters. They do not demonstrate any ability of parapsychic powers, and are superstitious and paranoid in the extreme.


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Why do biopharmaceutical companies sponsor peer speaker programs for health care professionals?
Doctors and other healthcare professionals with real-world clinical experience in specific therapeutic areas are uniquely qualified to educate and inform their peers about the medicines they prescribe. While physicians consult many sources for information, it can be a challenge for them to juggle the demands of clinical practice with the need to stay up-to-date with the latest science and FDA-approved treatment options.
Interactions between physicians, including those participating in speakers bureaus, benefit patient care by facilitating the exchange of the latest FDA-regulated information (see below). This information exchange goes both ways: physicians provide pharmaceutical companies valuable feedback on how medicines are working for patients.
What value do speakers programs provide in improving patient care?
Interactions between healthcare professionals benefit patient care through the exchange of the latest regulated information about the benefits, risks and appropriate uses of medicines. Physicians need to stay up-to-date on information about new medicines, new uses of medicines, the latest clinical data, appropriate dosing and emerging safety issues.
What qualifications do companies look for when selecting speakers?
The PhRMA Code on Interactions with Healthcare Professionals, which was strengthened in 2008, contains detailed provisions specific to the conduct and training of speakers. Under the PhRMA Code, company decisions regarding the selection of healthcare professionals are based on defined criteria such as medical expertise, reputation, knowledge and experiences in a particular therapeutic area, and communication skills.
Companies often look to more specific criteria as well, including experience with the relevant medicine, faculty or medical society affiliations, leadership positions, authorship in the relevant therapeutic area, speaking experience, and participation in clinical trials.
What are companies doing to ensure their speakers meet the necessary criteria?
Companies have policies, procedures, and training in place to foster compliance with provisions of the PhRMA Code governing speaker programs, including conducting periodic reviews of speakers to ensure they still meet the requisite qualifications.
What are companies doing about doctors who have previously worked as peer speakers but have faced disciplinary actions?
Our companies are committed to ensuring that their relationships with healthcare providers reflect the highest possible ethical and professional standards. In all cases, they strive to work with healthcare professionals who embody this commitment. In the rare instance where there is an outlier – a speaker who falls short of the high standards reflected in the Code and company policies – companies take corrective action.
Are biopharmaceutical companies ethical and transparent in their work with healthcare professionals?
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Can pharmaceutical promotion place undue pressure on healthcare professionals to prescribe certain medicines?
Healthcare providers make prescribing decisions in the best interests of their patients. They consider information from a variety of sources in order to provide the best care for their patients; in reality, information that affects prescribing decisions can include peer-reviewed journals, insurance guidelines and formularies, the physician's own experience, and, most importantly, each patient's unique situation. Recent prescribing trends reflect these influences, particularly insurer strategies such as tiered co-pays and prior authorization. Today, 75 percent of all prescriptions are filled by generic drugs, up from 47 percent in 2000.
What is the effect of pharmaceutical marketing on healthcare spending?
Medicines make up only about 10 percent of health care costs. Further, research has shown that many other factors have a greater influence on physician prescribing than pharmaceutical marketing. Public and private insurers and prescription benefit managers (PBMs) apply utilization management techniques to prescription drugs. Formularies, tiered co-pays, and prior authorization and step therapy requirements often steer patients and physicians toward use of some drugs and typically are designed to increase the use of generics over brand medicines. As a result, nearly all medicines used by insured patients are either generic or preferred brand.
Do companies have input into what speakers say?
Companies engaging physicians to lead peer education sessions must comply with federal and state requirements and stringent self-imposed standards to help ensure that the scientific information presented is accurate and up-to-date, with a fair balance of benefits and risks. The companies closely monitor content of these peer education sessions because FDA holds all companies accountable for the presentations of their speakers; materials presented at these forums must be reviewed by FDA and consistent with approved product labeling.
How do companies ensure that materials and presentations are compliant?
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Are there rewards for physicians in exchange for prescribing more of a company's medicine?
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Do physician speakers encourage prescribing drugs for off-label uses?
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Myth: If you've smoked for years, the damage is done
Fact: It's never too late to stop smoking. Quitting has almost immediate benefits, including improved circulation and lung function. Risk of lung cancer begins to decline over time. Ten years after quitting, former smokers cut their risk of developing lung cancer by half.
Myth: Low-Tar or 'Light' Cigarettes Are Safer Than Regular
Fact: Light, ultra-light, and low-tar are just as dangerous as regular cigarettes. And beware of menthol: Some research suggests that menthol cigarettes may be more dangerous and harder to quit. Their cooling sensation can allow smokers to inhale more deeply.
Myth: Antioxidant Supplements Protect You from Cancer
Fact: Based on population studies, a diet rich in fruits and vegetables with antioxidants may help protect against cancer. But when researchers tested antioxidant supplements, they unexpectedly found an increased risk of lung cancer among smokers who took beta-carotene supplements. Talk to your doctor before taking any supplements.
Myth: Pipes and Cigars Don't Cause Lung Cancer
Fact: Smoking pipes or cigars increases not only lung cancer risk but also the risk for cancers of the mouth, throat, and esophagus. Cigar smoking puts you at much greater risk of both heart disease and lung disease. Cigars are just as toxic, maybe more so, than cigarettes.
Myth: Smoking Is the Only Lung Cancer Risk Factor
Fact: The second leading cause of lung cancer, after tobacco smoke, is an odorless radioactive gas called radon. Emitted from rock and soil, it can seep up into homes and other buildings. The only way to know if you're living with dangerous levels is to test your house or office for it. Call your state or county health department for information.
Myth: Talcum Powder Causes Lung Cancer
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During the last ten years Crown Princess Mary has had a lot of different hair styles. How you wear your hair and your choice of hair color signal a lot about your personality and your particular mood on any given occasion.
The princess has changed her hair color on different occasions from her natural dark brown to chocolate brown and copper red. She also changes its style, frequently.
At official functions European royals dress glamorously, complete with sashes and tiaras. The Australia-born princess is seen wearing a short-sleeved silver-hued satin gown and one of her favourite evening hairstyles, in which most of her hair is beautifully gathered up at the nape of her neck.
This particular hairstyle conveys elegance and high-class. It also creates a sharp contrast to the Danish royal's everyday look, with her hair falling straight over her shoulders.
Though Mary is rarely seen with curls, it does occasionally happen.
Curls convey warmth, sweetness and openness.
They can also signal a classic look, as is seen in the picture above right, in which Mary's face is surrounded by Forties-style cascading soft waves, with a side parting.
The Crown Princess's sculpted hair is reminiscent of the favourite hairstyles of Ava Gardner, Lauren Bacall, Deanna Durbin and Marlene Dietrich in the Forties and early Fifties.
Mary's hair, which is naturally straight, is in a perfect starting condition for the sculpted waves of that time period. In the picture above, Mary's mocha-shaded makeup and golden-hued outfit nicely match her chocolate brown hair and fair skin tone.
To avoid frizz, Forties women with natural curls often needed to straighten their hair to achieve this sculpted look. Straightening and sculpting hair was a time consuming job. "I can't go out tonight. I have to wash my hair" used to be a legitimate excuse for not going on a date. Washing and styling one's hair every day would quite simply be too time consuming.
Starting from straight hair, modern women can achieve the crown princess' Forties look with hot rollers and hair spray.
The ponytail is one of the Danish royal's favorite hairstyles for official visits, work and outdoor activities. Mary's ponytails are usually set slightly higher than the traditional Fifties girly ponytail. This is also known as the "half-up, half-down" ponytail.
Ponytails send off a signal of self-composure, grace and serenity. The slightly higher setting conveys energy, youthfulness and fortitude. The higher the setting, the younger the look. A super-high ponytail can literally make you look 10 years younger.
The ponytail is a newer phenomenon. Before the 20th century, it would be rare to see a grown woman outside the house with a straight ponytail. Now, this ponytail is more popular than ever. You can wear it on the treadmill and then later that same day go to a posh restaurant without changing hairstyle.


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Hey everyone
Introduce yourself to the World Cricket Forum community here.
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Hey everyone
I am an Australian follower of the English cricket team and am more than a bit of a cricket tragic, have played competitively for the last 20 years non-stop. Love my cricket but ashamed of the way my countrymen arrogantly lorded over world cricket when they were on top, and equally disappointed at how we dealt with defeat and disappointment since we started sliding. A bit torn over supporting the young bowlers who are coming out of shield cricket, and my disgust at players like Ponting who have been an embarrassment to my country. Have followed England loyally since 2004 when they drew against South Africa at home in one of the greatest test series of all time in my opinion. Hate T20 cricket with a passion but am slightly partial to the odi game. Love two innings cricket of any form. That is me. Not very old, but old enough to remember when the windies fondly when they were in their pomp. Hope to have a good chat with fellow cricket lovers.
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2014 Survivor Winners
We have 3 survivors this season. Corey, McE, and ShannonS all last to the end and will share the 1st and 2nd place prizes.
Corey looked unstoppable this season. He rattled off 15 straight wins. However, he tripped up in Week 16 and opened the door for McE and Shannon to have a chance at that 1st place prize. So close to a perfect season. At the other end of the spectrum, McE's 2014 season looked to be a short one. His first miss happened all the way back in Week 2. However, he hung in there and recorded 15 straight wins to finish off the season.
- Most picked team: Chargers, used 35 times (25 of them being in Week 4)
- Teams never used: Jaguars, Giants, Raiders
- Disappoined most players: Seahawks (caused 13 losses)
- Never lost when picked: Chargers (35), Eagles (34), Packers (26), Colts (16), Ravens (13), Dolphins (11), Texans (6), Vikings (1), Jets (1), Titans (1)
Eagles, Panthers win 33
Week 17 is in the books. No team scored exactly 33 points this week, so the final payout goes to the team(s) that scored the closest. The Eagles and Panthers both scored 34 and that is as close as it gets. Crevie and Corey share the final win. Thanks for playing, everyone.
2014 Fantasy Champs
Crown em!
Sons of Anarchy are our 2014 fantasy league champions. They took down the Darque Warriors with a score of 171-137 in the championship game. This marks the third championship for SOA, with their last one being just 2 years ago. Key free agent pickup, Odell Beckham takes home the Championship Game MVP as he scored 20+ points each of the two weeks. He totaled 44.55 points, which accounted for 26% of Sons Of Anarchy's total points. This proved clutch, especially considering their stud Aaron Rodgers could only total 12.41 points in these games.
As for the Darque Warriors, they certainly go home disappointed. After leading at the half way point, the final week of this championship game quickly unraveled. Andrew Schmuck (Luck) completely lost it and couldn't even post positive numbers. The others just posted average numbers and the rest is history. Game over.
Congrats once again to the Sons of Anarchy. The trophy is yours.
Championship Game – Darque VS SOA
The first round of our championship bracket is now in the books. Our #3 seeded Darque Warriors comfortably took out the #2 Misfits with a score of 176-130. Le'Veon Bell was impressive, to say the least. He led the way with a combined 50.45 points during this 2-week span. Andrew Luck also was a driving force by totaling 55.13 points. This marks the end of the Misfits powerhouse inaugural season. They topped the standings for much of the season, but just fell flat when it counted most. Jimmy Graham completely disappeared in the playoffs and Andre Ellington apparently had a boo boo. His replacement, Bishop Sankey, well….is Bishop Sankey…and that just doesn't cut it!
The other game in this bracket was a beatdown. Sons Of Anarchy left the GB Gamblers bewildered with a score of 242-144. Take your pick, Aaron Rodgers, CJ Anderson, and the Rams Defense. They all are lighting it up and are fighting for postseason MVP. Those 242 points scored, were the most scored in a single round in league history. If they can even somewhat keep this pace going, the trophy will be theirs.
This championship game will surely be a good one. Both are past champions. The Darque Warriors have a title from 2010 and Sons of Anarchy have two (2005, 2012). All eyes on this big game, though, will be on the QB matchup; Andrew Luck VS Aaron Rodgers. These two are currently the top two fantasy scorers in the league. Questions remain though. Will CJ Anderson's recent magic hold up? Can the Rams possibly post crazy numbers? Can Tim's man love of Aaron Rodgers grow any more powerful? Time will tell, as the championship game starts Thursday!
Fantasy Playoffs are here!
Sons of Anarchy leapfrogged their way all the way to the top spot to finish out the regular season. This gives them their their 2nd ever Divisional Title (2011). They will face the #4 seed GB Gamblers in the first round, which lasts from Week 13 to Week 14. The other matchup features the #2 Misfits versus the #3 Darque Warriors. Best of luck!
The Pimps and Irish Pride finished fifth and sixth respectively. This give them the opportunity to play in the "Insignificant Invitational". This meaningless matchup is simply for pride.
Finally, let's talk Toilet Bowl. These 4 schmucks are stuck at the bottom. Jesters, Top Dawgs, Midway Monsters, and Icebay Bashers all had issues. One loser will hold the shameful title of Toilet Bowl Chump for the year. Win one game and this humiliation.
Survivor Week 10 Update
Pittsburgh and Cincinnati knock out 3 more players in our Survivor Pool this week. This brings our number of players remaining to 15. Six of those players are still perfect.
Players who have used all of the powerhouse teams are really going to start feeling the pressure now. It's just not going to get any easier from here on out. Last season, we had 18 players enter week 10 and only 7 of them advanced to Week 11. The pool was then finished by Week 12. So, the lessson here is……don't get too comfortable!
Fantasy Playoff Picture
With 9 weeks in the books, we have just 3 weeks remaining in our fantasy league's regular season. The playoffs are close and only one team is officially eliminated. The Misfits are atop the leaderboard. Will they hang on to take the regular season title in their inaugural year?? Let's take a look at the statistics.
[list icon="undefined" icon_bg="square" ]The minimum number of wins needed to make the playoffs this season is 6, Realistically it will probably take 7.,The Misfits cannot clinch the division title this week.[/list]
Record: 7-2 Points: 766 Division Title odds: Clinch 40% Playoff Spot: Clinch 94%
Upcoming opponents: Top Dawgs, GB Gamblers, Midway Monsters
Record: 6-3 Points: 760 Division Title odds: Clinch 23%. Playoff Spot: Clinch 82%
Upcoming opponents: GB Gamblers, Irish Pride, IcEbAy bAsHeRs
Record: 6-3 Points: 711 Division Title odds: Clinch 21%. Playoff Spot: Clinch 76%
Upcoming opponents: Darque Warriors, Misfits, Jesters
Record: 6-3 Points: 661 Division Title odds: Clinch 9%. Playoff Spot: Clinch 73%
Upcoming opponents: Midway Monsters, IcEbAy bAsHeRs, The Pimps
Record: 5-4 Points: 654 Division Title odds: Clinch 4%. Playoff Spot: Clinch 48%
Upcoming opponents: Irish Pride, Top Dawgs, GB Gamblers
Record: 4-5 Points: 730 Division Title odds: Clinch 0%. Playoff Spot: Clinch 15%
Upcoming opponents: IcEbAy bAsHeRs, Midway Monsters, Sons Of Anarchy
Record: 3-6 Points: 658 Eliminated from Divisional Race. Playoff Spot: Clinch 3%
Upcoming opponents: Jesters, Darque Warriors, Top Dawgs
Record: 3-6 Points: 620 Eliminated from Divisional Race. Playoff Spot: Clinch 3%
Upcoming opponents: The Pimps, Sons Of Anarchy, Darque Warriors
Record: 3-6 Points: 515 Eliminated from Divisional Race. Playoff Spot: Clinch 2%
Upcoming opponents: Misfits, Jesters, Irish Pride
Record: 2-7 Points: 575 Eliminated from playoff contention.
Upcoming opponents: Sons Of Anarchy, The Pimps, Misfits
[box type="info" radius="5″]Darque War CLINCH a Playoff spot this week IF:
Midway Monsters BEAT Sons Of Anarchy AND Darque BEAT GB Gambler AND Irish Pride BEAT Jesters*; OR
IcEbAy bAsHeRs BEAT The Pimps AND Darque BEAT GB Gambler AND Irish Pride BEAT Jesters*[/box]
[box type="note" radius="5″]Misfits CLINCH a Playoff spot this week IF:
Darque Warriors BEAT GB Gamblers AND Misfits BEAT Top Dawgs; OR
Misfits BEAT Top Dawgs AND Irish Pride BEAT Jesters[/box]
Seattle, Cleveland, Chicago disappoint in Week 7 Survivor
Survivor players who chose the reigning champion Seattle Seahawks were surely disappointed this week. The St. Louis Rams topped the Hawks with a score of 28-26 in a game full of trickery.NFL.com Game Recap
The Browns and Bears also gave a few players their first and second losses on the year. The herd is certainly thinning. Here are are latest stats on the pool:
Fantasy Football Midseason Report – Part 2
Continued from Part 1, here's our take on the next six teams.
Darque Warriors (3-3) 473.54 Points
The Darque Warriors are riding quite the roller coaster to start the season. Win, Loss, Win, Loss, Win, Loss. The concerning part is that the last two weeks, they are averaging just 58.15 points. This is down from the 89.31 points that they averaged Weeks 1-4. Perhaps it is just a slight speed bump though.
Andrew Luck has been dominant. Drafted 42nd overall as the Warrior's 5th Round keeper, Luck has proven to be a steal! He is currently ranked as the #1 fantasy player in the league. This hasnt been due to just a few monster weeks either. Luck's numbers have been solid every week, with just one score under 20 points. This has been a real help getting Darque to this 3-3 record. If not for the Misfits beating them in Week 4 in a barn burner (106-104), the Warriors would be just a few points out of 3rd place, with a 4-2 record.
Got a chance: Gronkowski is still healthy. Branden Oliver came out of nowhere and is looking like a madman. Lamar Miller is now the undisputed RB in Miami. Ingram is returning shortly. The stable of WRs have promise. With Luck leading the way, the Darque Warriors have as good a chance as any to make their way into the top 4 for that postseason battle.
Irish Pride (3-3) 441.95 Points
The Irish Pride have been singing Cher songs recently…particularly "If I could turn back time." Just 3 weeks ago the Irish were killing it with a 3-0 record. But then, the skid began. Their current 3 game losing streak now brings them head to head with The Pimps, who's QB (Peyton Manning) is looking to break the all-time TD record. The Irish will need to counter this attack to get back on their winning ways.
Consistency: These guys are the poster child of consistency. Every week, the Irish Pride have scored in the 70 point range. (70.41 80.09 70.66 70.65 74.62 75.52). Ok, so week 2 they scored 80.09, but the point is proven. Currently the Irish are averaging 1.37 points above the league average. So, even if nothing were to change, this team's consistency will keep them in the hunt. Wins and losses would be sprinkled throughout. But, without dipping below that 70 point barrier ever, those wins will certainly return. But, for a true playoff push, they will need someone to step it up.
Their QB combo of Drew Brees and Matt Ryan should prove helpful. Brees hasnt been the superstar that he's been in year's past (yet). But, Matt Ryan has lit it up many weeks. The Irish just have to tune it in and begin starting the right QB each week. Until then, the Irish reap rewards by having 2 top 10 RBs (Bernard and Forsett). Demaryius Thomas (WR5) and Kelvin Benjamin (WR12) look to be putting up stellar seasons as well. The sky is the limit here.
The Pimps (2-4) 427.58 Points
There's just something not right with The Pimps. One thing is for sure though. Other teams know how to light up the scoreboard when they play them. Currently, The Pimps have the most points against (507.71). This is a 84.6 point average, which amounts to 12.3 points higher than the league average (72.3). OUCH!
Manning predictably is this team's driving force. He 's everything as expected and currently is the #2 player in the league (just behind Andrew Luck). What is killing this team though, is their ground game. The Pimps drafted just 3 RBs. ..and Rashad Jennings has a boo boo, Alfred Morris is just mediocre, and Shane Vereen just wasnt getting the carries. With Ridley being out for the year, this could change things dramatically.
Overcome: The Pimps need to overcome a few things. Looking back at their RBs…they dont need to go insane to right this ship, but a bump in play would help. WR will be the key. Victor Cruz's injury hurts. He's a weapon that The Pimps had high hopes on. They have other notable WRs who can have their big games, though. Brandon Marshall has to step it up and perform as a top 10 WR. The addition of Desean Jackson could be big here as well. He's got the top 10 potential, but can he be consistent in this offense? All of these points are moot, though, if teams keep posting their best weeks against The Pimps!
IcEbAy bAsHeRs (2-4) 426.72 Points
The Bashers began the season like a Lion, and have closed out the first half like a lamb. Week 1's performance was impressive! They beat down The Pimps with a score of 120.57-62.78 (a 57.79 point victory). This went down as the 19th biggest blowout in our league's history (for the regular season). Since then, they went Loss, Loss, Win, Loss, Loss.
The Bashers drafted 2 WRs in the first two rounds and a total of 3 in the first six rounds, yet they don't lay claim to a Top 15 WR statistically. This hurts. Injuries are the big reason here (Calvin, AJ Green). Compound this with relying on the combo of Stafford/Calvin, and it's very clear what has gone wrong this far.
The Bashers 120.57 points scored in Week 1 still ranks as the highest score posted this far into the season. But, they also are the owners of the lowest points score in a week (Week 3, 30.72). That mark may be temporary though, looking at way the Dawgs season is going.
Hope: The Bashers are in a tough spot with this 2-4 record. However, this is something that can be overcome. If they can win 4 or 5 out of these next 6 games, playoffs could be a possibility. Calvin Johnson and AJ Green have to return soon. The combo of Stafford to Calvin is game changing. TY Hilton, fast becoming a star in this league, rounds out a steller WR core. They just need to all get on the field.
Midway Monsters (2-4) 388.58 Points
The Midway Monsters can't be happy with what's happened so far. After drawing the #1 pick and having the pick of the litter, their selection of Lesean McCoy has led to 6 weeks of disbelief. 1TD. McCoy has scored just 1 touchdown this far into the season and currently ranks as the 29th RB in the league. The preseason promises of Doug Martin's return to fantasy glory hasn't arrived yet either. This 3rd round draft pick trips over his own shoelaces with his depressing 2.9 ypc. Add the Monster's 3rd RB drafted, Ray Rice, and nothing more needs to be said about these RB woes.
Fortunately the Midway Monsters do have some gems. Philip Rivers is currently the steal of the draft. Selected in the 11th round, he now ranks as the #2 QB in the league. This is just 3.6 points per game less than Andrew Luck. That's value. Ahmad Bradshaw has also been helping things. He went undrafted, but is the clear Colt RB to own, and is the #6 ranked RB in the league.
What now? Lesean McCoy is looking productive again. But can he start finding that endzone? He has to if the Monsters want to try to crawl back into things. There is a supporting cast here. Terrence Williams and Alshon Jeffery can be stars. But is this enough to make a playoff push? Things would really have to start clicking. Otherwise, the Monsters only other hopes would be to finish #5 or #6 to avoid competing in the toilet bowl with the Top Dawgs.
Bottom Dogs (0-6) 276.55 Points
What has become of our reigning champion? Perhaps partying too much this off-season and suffering a championship hangover? These are the darkest days ever for this storied franchise. 0-6? Not counting the X-Factor team from 2002, the only worse starts are 2 teams who started 0-7. Will that record be broken?
This season hasn't just been bad, it's been epically bad. Let's take a look at their points scored by players started:
- Through 6 weeks, the Dawgs have scored a total of 46.1 points at the QB position. That's an average of 7.68 points per game.
- The TE position is even worse. The Dawgs have accrued a TOTAL of just 7.85 points at TE.
- Jumping early on a defense in the draft didnt work. Starting Defenses for the Dawgs come in at a league worst 5.2 points per game.
These numbers just don't lead to wins. But, surely someting will change. If not, the Dawgs could own the record for least points scored in a season, which is currently owned by the 2001 Pocket Rockets (551.43 points).
Any hope? Surely the Dawgs are out of playoff contention. There could be a small hope for avoiding the bottom 4 and being Toilet Bowl Bound. But those chances are slight. The big and most likely question is if they are going to gain that shame of Toilet Bowl Chump. There are studs on the team. Jamal Charles, Dez Bryant, and Julio Jones create a good base. They just need to regain their form and start a QB that can score double digits.


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Business Student Releases Hip-Hop Album by Andrew Nguyen
Local artist and producer hopes to launch independent record label
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Student makes a path to bettering the world through education
Local artist and producer hopes to launch independent record label
By Andrew Nguyen
Mikel Walker wants to fill a gap in Seattle's rap and hip-hop sound. He works toward this goal every day.
Walker grew up with hip-hop in his blood. He found love for words and word associations in grade school. He showed talent during middle school rap battles and wrote lyrics and beats for a high school rap group.
He was always comfortable as the producer in the background. Then Walker realized two years ago he needed to be out front.
"I can't say what I have to say without using my own voice. To put my stamp on something, and deliver my message, I have to craft every portion of the music," says Walker.
For the past eight months Walker released singles in anticipation for the March 5 release of his full album. It's a constant back and forth between production and post-production editing, he is his toughest critic.
Walker explains, "It's like making a movie, it has to deliver a cohesive story. The beginning has to set up the tone and I constantly edit and re-record to get the cadence, tone, rhythm, and soundscape to deliver my message."
Walker studies business administration at UW Bothell to build credibility for launching a Seattle hip-hop record label. As a resident advisor in campus housing, he says the apartment style allows him to find seclusion and space for cultivating his voice. "At the end of a long day I can come home and have a room where I can reflect, and turn that into music with the equipment at my desk."
Walker graduates in June 2013. Mikel's music video can be found here, and his album here.
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Rome academic program
By Marlene Manzo
I still cannot find words to express how I feel. The best way to describe my excitement is through wild gesticulation and bizarre facial expressions. I am going to Rome!
I have this uncontrollable desire to consume the world with my senses. The Rome academic enrichment program is an opportunity that I cannot take for granted. I will admit it's an extensive process. The program is offered through the Office of Diversity and Minority Affairs at UW Seattle. Two UW Bothell students are nominated for the program. Applicants have to submit an essay that addresses why we believe we are the best candidates for the trip. Once the selection process is made, the nominees must apply through UW Seattle for the Rome course (it is a class believe it or not). That requires financial aid documents, transcripts, a letter of recommendation, and ANOTHER essay, with a different prompt. Just the thought of it stresses me out. But the best thing of all is knowing that I will be taking the trip of a lifetime!
I leave March 17 and will be in Rome for 10 wonderful days. My anticipation builds as the day gets closer. I can't believe I am only days away from embarking on the most important trip in my young life. I have never been overseas, and when I moved to Bothell a lot of people were surprised that I didn't have such opportunities growing up. Although I did not have the opportunity to travel when I was younger, it does not mean I cannot travel as an adult. And that's exactly what I intend to do. I do not plan to waste a minute of my life hoping to do something big. I am going to do big things, and I will live them every day of my life. Rome, here I come!
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Student makes a path to bettering the world through education
By Nate Stout
Richie Meyer is beaming from his seat on the second-floor vista of UWB-1.
"My younger brother just played Sound-Off a couple of weeks ago," he smiles proudly. "Nobody was expecting much but as soon as they started everyone was blown away."
Meyer himself has spent some time playing in bands around Seattle while earning his degree in society, ethics, and human behavior. While he enjoyed the opportunity to get together with friends and play, he wanted more for his life than what rock and roll has to offer. "My friends wanted to practice every night and start booking tours on our own, and I just couldn't see putting so much time into that when there is so much more I could be doing in the world."
Coming to UW Bothell after two years at North Seattle Community College, Meyer is using his education to help try to make the world a better place.
"I was raised Buddhist and I'm conscious about actively trying to make people's lives better. The faculty here at UW Bothell has really helped me develop a clear sense of how to make a material impact on the world."
When asked about his favorite courses, Meyer counts "The Ecology of Food" with Rachel Mitchell and "Political Institutions and Processes" with Professor Keith Nitta among the most interesting and important.
"I really got some insight into the environmental and social complexities surrounding what we eat," Meyer explains. "And Professor Nitta helped me get a clear sense of power and how it is used through different political institutions."
Meyer also cites Professor Bruce Kochis as formative in his development as a writer. "He really changed the way that I think about communicating. I think more critically and I'm more deliberate about saying what I mean rather than leaving it up to another person to sort it out."
Meyer is in the process of applying to Policy Studies graduate program and if accepted will continue his studies at UW Bothell in the fall.


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