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CHULA VISTA, California (Reuters) - Thousands of spectators turned out along San Diego Bay on Saturday to watch as demolition crews consigned an aging and decommissioned Dynegy Inc power plant to the dustbin of history.
Forty rapid-fire blasts from strategically placed explosives toppled the 165-foot structure, as onlookers cheered and shock waves set off car alarms across a widespread area.
Most of the estimated 5,000 spectators gathered in Marina View Park in Chula Vista, about 1,000-feet north of the plant, for the early morning spectacle.
Often criticized by environmentalists as an eyesore, the plant was built in the late 1950s at the edge of an expanse of wetlands adjacent to the bay.
Like other plants along the California Coast, it burned oil when it was first fired up in 1960. It later converted to natural gas, according to Laura Hunter of the Environmental Health Coalition.
"This is a symbol of the past way of generating power which we know now is not sustainable," Hunter said. "There's no better symbol for what we're learning about how to live on this planet than that where a power plant stood, a park and open space will be built," she said.
It took several years of planning before officials could move ahead with the final demolition of the plant, according to Kristine Zortman, of the Unified Port of San Diego.
Apart from a slow-going permit process, the facility had to be stripped of asbestos and metal that could be recycled. Engineers also needed to weaken the structure to ensure that it would fall easily, Zortman said.
The demolition crew placed 200 pounds of detonating explosives and 300 pounds of dynamite throughout the structure. Before the blasts, eight water cannons filled the air with mist so dust would be trapped in condensation and fall to the ground, she said.
The detonations sent shock waves as far as half a mile away as the four towers toppled, leaving smokestacks sticking up at a rakish angle.
The city of Chula Vista has big plans for the site - including a hotel and convention center, with an adjoining site for campers and recreational vehicles, said Mayor Cheryl Cox.
"It wasn't always an ugly, useless object," Cox said. "It employed thousands of good people and delivered important energy to our communities. But it's good to see it go and make way for the future of our bayfront."
Reporting by Marty Graham; Editing by Tom Brown and Gunna Dickson

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After a weekend of calling fellow horse owners "cowards" and "cheaters" for running fresh entrants in the Belmont Stakes, California Chrome co-owner Steve Coburn said Monday that he needed to apologize "to the world," including the connections of winner Tonalist.
Appearing on "Good Morning America" with his wife, Carolyn, Coburn told host Robin Roberts that "I'm very ashamed of myself."
California Chrome was trying to become the 12th Triple Crown winner in Saturday's Belmont, but he finished tied for fourth. Tonalist, a horse who skipped the Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes because he spiked a fever before the Derby, won a close race over Commissioner, another horse who didn't run in the first two legs of the Triple Crown.
Tonalist was the ninth straight Belmont winner not to have run in the Preakness.
Immediately after the Belmont, Coburn called it "coward's way out" to run fresh horses in the third leg of the Triple Crown. He even used the word "cheaters" in later interviews. He didn't back off on his comments Sunday.
But Monday morning he sounded contrite and appeared close to tears, saying "I sincerely apologize" and "I'm going to do better."


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Courtesy of IDW Publishing, here's an exclusive seven-page preview of the next issue of the Snake Eyes ongoing series. This issue — which hits stores next Wednesday, February 8 — features such Joe characters as Snake Eyes, Storm Shadow, Iceberg, Helix, and more ninjas than you can shake a bō staff at. Here's the plot synopsis:
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Talk about a hard act to follow! Coming awfully soon after Meryl Streep's Oscar-nominated turn as Julia Child in "Julie & Julia," rising Chicago theater company TimeLine presents a new play covering much the same historical timeframe (sans the contempo Julie Powell storyline) and the same leading characters. And yet, without the assistance that comes with film – multiple takes and makeup, not to mention padding – actress Karen Janes Woditsch nobly embodies the famed chef, author and television personality in an exceedingly likable and convincing performance.
The play, "To Master the Art," is the theater's first commission, which was given prior to the release of the film. But it puts its focus on the very same period of time, when Julia Child arrived in post-war Paris with her husband, Paul, an artist working as a government information officer, and discovered food as both passion and vocation. Set mostly in Julia's home kitchen, the play by William Brown and Doug Frew is a bit talky and workmanlike, but it combines the right ingredients to depict the story of a genuinely interesting but initially insecure middle-aged woman coming fully into her own.
And, to the credit of all, the play seems like it was really written for Woditsch, a tall actress who tones down Child's eccentricities and makes her feel remarkably real. The performance doesn't have quite the same joie-de-vivre as Streep's but it's terrific work: Woditsch makes Child both someone people are drawn to and someone who seems intrinsically American to the French and slightly different to Americans.
As Paul, Craig Spidle is also excellent, capturing the age difference with his wife more effectively than the film did, and depicting with sensitivity both the weight of McCarthyism on his shoulders and his support for Julia's endeavors.
The ensemble plays a host of roles – the teachers and fellow chefs and friends who played such an important part in the early makings of an icon, and they're all good, with particular credit due to Jeannie Affelder as writing partner Simone Beck.
Directed by Brown, the production touches on the one element that could probably make this a break-out hit, but doesn't go far enough. There are a couple of moments when we smell real onions on that stove. Incorporating more live cooking into the show would make it a far more sensual experience. As is, we have to make due with cliche moments of Woditsch tasting food as music swells in the background to signal revelation. The fact that Woditsch pulls this off makes the performance Streep-ian.


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Potassium (K) is a cation, or positively charged mineral, required for many physiological functions: acid-base balance, osmotic balance, muscle contraction and carbo-hydrate and protein metabolism.
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The daily K requirement of dairy cows is about 1% of the diet dry matter (DM). This concentration is easy to achieve in dry or lactating cow diets, as most forages are high in K.
In fact, most forages are 20% to 50% higher in K than the requirement, making a K deficiency quite unlikely. A more likely problem is feeding too much K.
The effects of feeding excess K to dry cows have been known for several years. But until recently, no one suspected a deficiency in lactating cows, except maybe during periods of heat stress.
For dry cows, the problem is that most diets contain too much K. High intakes of K near the time of calving compromise calcium metabolism, leading to milk fever and
other metabolic problems. The nutrition strategy to prevent these problems has been to feed low K forages (diets) and/or negate the effects of high K by feeding a negative dietary cation-anion difference (DCAD) diet three or more weeks before calving.
Finding low K forages and feeds for dry cow rations has generally been difficult. Therefore, most nutritionists resort to feeding high amounts of chloride and sulfur (both anionic minerals) in diets to achieve a very low or negative DCAD ration precalving.
Whether you're feeding anionic salts or not, keeping K levels below 1.2% of the dry matter makes good sense in dry cow rations.
Diets with 1.8% K may be needed in the first couple of weeks after calving to achieve a positive K balance
Because most lactation diets are in excess of the 1% K requirement, it has been assumed that supplemental K is not needed in diets except perhaps under heat stress. Current research indicates this assumption may be correct for mid- and late-lactation cows, but not for early-lactation cows.
A summary of K balance studies by Joe Harrison of Washington State University (WSU) found that cows less than 75 days in milk were almost always excreting more K (an average of 66 grams per day) through milk, urine and feces than the amount consumed. This negative K balance may not be readily apparent in lost milk production or lower DM intake.
Detecting a K deficiency might be difficult, but German researchers indicate that it might show up through a displaced abomasum. How much K is required in the diet of early-lactation cows? Recent research from Virginia Tech and WSU indicate that a diet with less than 1.4% K (DM basis) in early
lactation is inadequate.
The Virginia Tech research showed that cows fed diets of 1.37% K or less were in negative K balance from calving through 20 weeks of lactation. Based on the DM intake from the Virginia Tech study and the negative balances reported in that and other studies, diets with 1.8% K may be needed in the first couple of weeks after calving to achieve a positive K balance.
Jim Linn is a dairy nutrition consultant and retired Extension nutrition specialist at the University of Minnesota–St. Paul. Contact him at [email protected].
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Chapter 1: China, India, and the New World Order
Christopher Flavin and Gary Gardner
China and India are on the verge of becoming far more than economic powers. (See Table 1-1, p. 7.) These two countries are now also planetary powers that are shaping the global biosphere and are therefore central to whether the world succeeds in building a healthy, prosperous, and environmentally sustainable future for the next generation. As China and India become world-class economies, they are set to join already industrialized nations as major consumers of resources and polluters of local and global ecosystems. And while the largest burden of these developments will fall on China and India themselves, the global impact is clear. (See Table 1-4, p. 16.)
The rise of China and India illustrates more clearly than any development in recent memory that the western, resource-intensive economic model is simply not capable of meeting the growing needs of more than 8 billion people in the twenty-first century. Major shifts in resource use, technologies, policies, and even basic values are needed. The political ambivalence toward today's development models that now characterizes China, India, the United States, and most other countries will need to give way to a full-fledged commitment to prosper within the limits imposed by nature.
With their growing economies, expanding ecological footprints, and rising political influence, China and India will need to be a part of any plausible global effort to build a sustainable world economy. But the call for wholesale change in policies needs to sound just as loudly in the United States, whose footprint is the largest of all. Indeed, the prospects for success in this venture are greatest if these three planetary powers pull together to forge a new vision for sustainable economic development in the twenty-first century.
Christopher Flavin is President of the Worldwatch Institute. Gary Gardner is Director of Research at the Institute.


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New Mexico bets future on promiscuous supercomputer
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Can a supercomputer save a state? Former Presidential candidate Bill Richardson sure seems to think so.
Richardson has been championing a massive Xeon-based system dubbed Encanto. The supercomputer currently holds the third slot on the Top500 list, which tracks the performance of large computers, and sits at the center of the New Mexico Computing Applications Center project.
New Mexico's bureaucrats want to turn this supercomputer into a for rent system that educational organizations and businesses will pay to use. In so doing, they believe that scientists will flock to New Mexico to access world-class hardware.
"It is not simply a high-tech toy for elite scientists," governor Richardson said during an event last month. "This project invests in our future."
Universities and others have looked for ways to rent space on large computers for decades now. We, however, can't rememberer too many instances when a state bet part of its future on the idea.
New Mexico dished out $11m for the Ecanto system, which actually resides at an Intel facility. The supercomputer consists of more than 3,500 of Intel's four-core Xeon (Clovertown) processors, 28TB of memory and 172TB of storage. Did New Mexico - "the Land of Enchantment" - get a sweet, sweet discount from SGI and Intel for all this hardware? We're thinking so.
An appropriation pushed through in 2007 cleared the way for the supercomputer. The state put forward the $11m for hardware and another $3m to cover so-called gateways that will allow different groups of researchers to tap into the box. Initially, The University of New Mexico, New Mexico Tech and New Mexico State University will use Encanto with other academic bodies receiving access over time.
(How can "gateways" cost about 25 per cent of the entire supercomputer? Your guess is as good as ours. Apparently, we're talking about some really, really big workstations.)
Now the New Mexico Computing Applications Center (NMCAC) wants $6m more for other gateways and staff. Oh yeah, it needs about $2m a year to power and cool the supercomputer beast a year as well.
Despite relying on so many handouts to get this project going, some bureaucrats believe they're sitting on a goldmine - one that can provide jobs in a depressed New Mexico.
According to New Mexico Tech computer science professor and NMCAC education director Lorie Liebrock, the new supercomputer could become self-sufficient within five years by renting cycles. Government bodies and consultants could use the system for water modeling, city planning and forest fire simulations, while businesses could pay a bit to tap into a world-class supercomputer for large jobs.
"Other supercomputers like this in other states are all paid for by those states," Liebrock told a local paper. "This one is unique; it will be self-sustaining. Other states can't say that."
This all seems a tad far-fetched though given the high annual cost of running a system like Encanto and the fact that it will be a very average supercomputer - if there is such a thing - in five years' time.
But we'll give these New Mexicans plenty of credit if they can turn a profit on the Encanto giant.
The state thinks that having an open supercomputer will not only bring in business but encourage science-related jobs in the state.
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CHANNEL SHIFT: A future for public sector comms in 2013?Posted: January 14, 2013 Filed under: local government, Public Relations | Tags: channel shift, local government, PR, public sector 3 Comments
It's always been tricky working out the impact of good communications.
Back in the day, you'd get a big ruler, a sheaf of cuttings and work out column inches.
Then maybe work out who could have read them.
Proudly, you'd boast of how 500,000 would have seen your campaign.
Then everyone would pat themselves on the back.
Only thing is, that nice as that is that just doesn't prove a hill of beans.
How many turned a page and ignored it?
Add social media into the landscape and things get even more complicated. That niche Facebook page with 200 liking it? A waste of time? Not at all. Not if its the right number for that niche activity.
How do you measure success?
What counts? Likes? Retweets? Twitter followers?
Maybe the number of press releases you wrote or the tweets you sent?
The impact of communications – traditional or digital – must be not the passive audience who glanced at it but what people did as a result of it.
So, in other words, it's how many people signed up for that course or how many used a web form instead of calling a help desk.
Frustratingly, that means it's not a universal measurement. Getting 12 people signed-up for basket making session could well be just as much a success as getting 100 to join a library.
But it's more than that.
One thing that's always irritated me about measurement – particularly social media measurement – is a the vagueness of the results.
Take Klout. Break the news to your chief executive your organisations' score is 55 and they'll more than likely look at you strangely.
Other monitoring that produces a notional number also leaves me cold.
Your rating has gone up by 2.2. So what?
But it could well be that comms people already have the answer to all this right under their noses.
The cost of things counts
A few years ago, web standards organisation SOCITM did some research into the cost to local government of doing things for residents when they got in contact.
Doing something face-to-face costs £8.62, by telephone £2.83 and the web 15p.
Accountants PWC apparently also did some similar work calculating the cost of local government replying to a letter was around £10.
So maybe one way to evaluate some comms activity was to look at the situation before you got involved and then look at it after.
In other words, helping channel shift, that act of going from the expensive offline to the cost effective online.
Did the number of phonecalls dip? Did the letters fall? Did more people use the web to report it?
Using a compare and contrast you can come up with a notional sum of money saved.
That's a figure that really start to pass the chief executive credibility test.
That's also a language that officers can understand too.
That could well be the beginnings of an argument not just to better evaluate but critically to help explain and justify the role of communications in the public sector in 2013.
That's quite a powerful idea.
Further reading
Dr Gerald Power's white paper for Govdelivery on channel shift which is here.
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3 Comments on "CHANNEL SHIFT: A future for public sector comms in 2013?"
Measuring outcomes in social care is even more difficult – we want to be able to empower people to use information resources to manage their own care and support, so we're actually trying to reduce demand for our services. If is it possible to plot expected increases in demand for social care (based on an aging population) can we relate any reduction in demand to communication activity? If we know the average cost of a care package, then we can calculate the reduction from expected spending that our work has achieved. I'm not sure if anyone is doing this – love to find out…
Great post Dan. I've been saying and blogging about this for a while but I'd suggest that comms people need to be involved in channel shift even deeper and at a very early stage. Channel shift should always involve some business process re-engineering or a process being built from scratch around the customer for a change instead of internal processes and systems. Your web team needs a place at that table if any of it is going anywhere near the web and the chances are they're already doing user testing so know their customers' frustrations. PR people also need to be round that table because they will know how best to persuade people to make the shift and, if they're using demographics for campaign planning, whether the timing is right or the shift is even likely.
Don't leave channel shift planning to IT and/or customer services or you might have an impossible campaign on your hands further down the line.
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We drive our cars on it, we build skyscrapers with it.
But concrete, one of the most common building materials in the world, has an ugly secret: It's a major source of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, which contribute to global warming.
Roughly 5 to 10 percent of global CO2 emissions are related to the manufacture and transportation of cement, a major ingredient of concrete.
With cement production expected to grow exponentially in coming decades, the industry is trying to address its environmental challenges.
"There is not one single cement company on this planet that is not thinking about how to [reduce emissions]," says Franz-Josef Ulm, a professor of civil engineering who researches concrete at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Mass.
The manufacture of cement is relatively efficient when compared with other building materials, such as steel and wood. The problem is the scale at which it's produced – roughly 2.4 billion tons in 2006 and growing, Professor Ulm calculates.
"But there is also a great advantage to the mass production," Ulm says. "Any small change you make to it has a big impact [on CO2 emissions]."
Worldwide, manufacturers are experimenting with using organic waste materials as a substitute for some of the cement used in concrete. These materials can replace up to 25 percent of the cement in the mix. Less cement means less greenhouse gas produced.
A few coal-rich nations use fly ash, a residue created when coal is burned, as a supplementary cementing material. Brazil's excess of bagasse, the dry pulpy residue left after the extraction of juice from sugar cane, has proved a reliable composite in concrete. Likewise, the fine gray-white ash of rice husks, chemically similar to cement, is increasingly used as a substitute ingredient in Asia.
Despite these regional successes, some industry researchers doubt they are the answer.
"Rice husks are really not available worldwide in amounts that will make a difference," says Claus Pade, senior consultant at the nonprofit Concrete Centre at the Danish Technological Institute in Copenhagen.
Italy's Italcemente is the world's fifth-largest cement producer. It is looking beyond reducing CO2 emissions by creating a cement that actually breaks down airborne pollutants.
While Italcemente's smog-eating cement has been used in Europe for several years, it was released in the United States only in 2007 under the name TX Active. It contains titanium dioxide, which, in the presence of sunlight, acts as a photocatalyer, hastening the decomposition of such pollutants as nitrogen oxides, sulfur oxides, and ozone. TX Active also keeps a building shiny white – a quality admired by architects – by preventing the buildup of pollutants on the surface.
Research suggests that if 15 percent of the surface area of Milan, Italy, were covered in TX Active, air pollutants there could be reduced by 50 percent.
When weighing the environmental effects of concrete, some other benefits need to be included, says Rick Bohan of the Portland Cement Association (PCA), a nonprofit trade group based in Skokie, Ill. For example, the insulation provided by concrete walls combats greenhouse-gas emissions by reducing the energy needed for heating and cooling a building by up to 40 percent compared with wood- and steel-frame structures, according to PCA research.
"As people begin to recognize just how much more sustainable concrete is in terms of saving energy, we're going to see cement demand and production go up," Mr. Bohan says.
No easy replacement for cement is on the horizon. No other known material is as abundant, accessible, and effective as limestone, the key ingredient in cement.
The vast majority of CO2 created during cement production is from the energy needed to incinerate limestone in order to change its chemical structure, a procedure called calcination. Scientists now are studying the structure of concrete molecules to try to find ways to create the same strong concrete, but at a much lower temperature.
Ulm points out that the structure of human bones, at the molecular level, is similar to that of concrete. While cement must be heated to 1,200 degrees C (2,200 degrees F.) before it achieves strength and structure, bone is formed at 37 degrees C (98.6 degrees F.).
"That makes one think that nature can create at 37 Celsius a material that has similar properties as cement," Ulm says. "Can we mimic that?"


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This Mega Drop Down Menu is a flexible and easy to integrate solution to build your custom menus. The drop down relies only on CSS/XHTML and comes with a fully working contact form.
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For one kindergarten class at Quincy's Bernazzani Elementary School, school wasn't as much fun last week. Most of the students were out sick, and the few who showed up couldn't play with the Play-Doh and the toys that were being disinfected.
At South Shore Hospital in Weymouth, state public health officials allowed medical staff to open 10 newly constructed patient rooms on Jan. 3, weeks before schedule, to accommodate a sudden influx of flu patients.
In Easton, health officials are almost certain they will deplete the town's remaining 70 doses of flu vaccine at a clinic scheduled for Thursday.
An aggressive and deadly virus, compounded by an early start to the flu season, has led to a spike in hospitalizations in communities south of Boston and sent a bevy of alarmed vaccine holdouts flocking to their nearest clinic as some communities are running short of vaccine.
"Certainly this is the most active flu season that I can remember in about 10 years," said Dr. Mark DeMatteo, chief of emergency medicine at Jordan Hospital in Plymouth. "I hope we're seeing the worst of it now, but I can't guarantee that. I think it's likely to continue to get worse."
Although recent state and federal data indicate the worst of the season might be over, some area health agents say they're still seeing a large number of cases.
"In November, we had about six admissions for flu-like symptoms," DeMatteo said. "In December we had almost 400. That's a colossal increase."
As of late last week, Jordan Hospital had already had 171 patients hospitalized with flu-like symptoms for the month of January, "so we're certainly seeing an enormous amount of traffic," DeMatteo said.
Flu season usually kicks off in late fall and peaks in February or March, area health officials said, but this season came early, and features a more virulent flu strand. Early last week, the state reported a total of 18 flu-related deaths so far this season. Since then, Boston reported two additional deaths, including a child under 6. Mayor Thomas M. Menino of Boston declared a public health emergency in the city on Jan 9.
Several hospitals, including Jordan and South Shore Hospital in Weymouth, have responded to the flu by scheduling extra shifts for staff and opening up rooms in other areas to relieve the emergency room overflow.
At South Shore Hospital, where a $43 million expansion was recently completed, administrators requested and received permission from the state Department of Public Health to expedite the opening of 10 of the new rooms to admit the rising number of flu patients, said spokeswoman Sarah Darcy. The hospital's emergency room was so busy the last week of December, staff turned to affiliate Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston to take some of the patients, she said.
"Beginning on Dec. 28, we had record numbers of patients here, and the flu was the direct cause of that," Darcy said. "We're 318 beds, and everything was full, and then some. . . . We don't really know exactly why, but it did explode all at once."
The number of confirmed flu patients admitted at South Shore Hospital went from one the first week of December to 43 in the last week of that month, said Dr. Todd Ellerin, director of infectious diseases. From Dec. 30 to Jan. 5, there were 29 confirmed flu cases out of 189 patients experiencing flu-like symptoms.
"That's the tip of the iceberg. It doesn't mean there are only 29 flu cases," he said. "These numbers are emergency room only, for patients already admitted, and don't include outpatient patients that happened to be sent home. The volumes have been unprecedented."
As word of rising flu-related hospitalizations spread, cities and towns organized last-minute vaccination clinics for residents, including those in Quincy, where a kindergarten classroom at Bernazzani was so hard hit, school officials closed it down to disinfect it.
Out of 19 kindergartners in that class, 12 showed up last Thursday, and eight last Friday, said Jane Kisielius, the district's coordinator of health services. She could not confirm whether all the absences were due to the flu. By Monday, only two students were out.
An e-mail sent by a parent last Thursday to the other parents stated that the state Public Health Department recommended the classroom be closed and disinfected, said Kate Campbell, whose 5-year-old daughter, Maisie Lee, was among the few students in that classroom who wasn't sick. The family got flu shots in September. The eight students who showed up last Friday, including Maisie, were moved to another classroom.
In the meantime, Quincy health officials issued an alert last week that flu clinics would be open to residents during evening hours, but by Monday they were discontinued because of a flu vaccine shortage.
In Marion, about 75 people showed up at a vaccine clinic Monday, including several first-timers, said Kathy Downey, public health nurse. Since October, Downey has held weekly flu clinics that attracted an average of four people.
"So this was a bit of an increase," she said, adding that news reports about the flu, including the death of the Boston child, may have changed the minds of people who planned to forgo inoculation.
"That was very scary to parents," Downey said.
With flu vaccine supply running low in several communities, Downey said she ordered an additional 100 doses late last week. Another clinic is scheduled for Friday in neighboring Rochester Town Hall Annex for residents of Marion and Rochester. Downey said she plans to hold another clinic Jan. 28, "if I have vaccine left."
Easton health agent Mark Taylor said that since September, the town has received 615 doses of the vaccine, and currently has 70 left. He expects most, if not all, will be gone after a scheduled flu clinic starting at 11 a.m. Thursday in Town Hall.
The clinic is for Easton residents by appointment, said Taylor, adding that among those planning to come is a woman who is about to start a new job, but will have no health insurance for the first 90 days. Hard hit by the recession, the woman and her husband lost their home and now live in an apartment with their son.
"She called us up and we said, 'Come anyway.' She's been unemployed for a while," Taylor said. "She wanted to protect herself and her family [from the flu]. She can't afford to get sick. She was so thankful for'' the vaccine.
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MARTINEZ — The Contra Costa County Fire District will study the feasibility of bidding to become the county's ambulance service provider, a role currently fulfilled by a private contractor, American Medical Response.
The agency will select a consultant to prepare the study, ConFire Chief Jeff Carman said Monday. Three bids have been received so far, and a choice could be made by the end of the week, Carman said.
The district's move parallels a recommendation for the fire district's emergency medical services by consultant Fitch and Associates LLC. The recommendation is contained in an EMS report, which will be presented to the county Board of Supervisors on Tuesday.
ConFire covers much of Central County and parts of East County and West County in a 304-square-mile territory, with 23 stations and 23 three-person crews. Two other fire agencies in the county, the Moraga-Orinda and San Ramon Valley fire districts, are ambulance service providers.
Under the current arrangement in ConFire territory, the fire department and AMR respond to the same emergencies within minutes of each other. The fire department arrives first about 70 percent of the time, Carman said.
Critics describe that response model as redundant, but proponents defend it as necessary to assure quick lifesaving interventions. The Fitch EMS study notes that the volume of emergency medical calls is increasing, even as revenue growth slows and will likely decline amid changes in insurance reimbursement rates.
ConFire's fiscal 2014-15 budget is projected at about $110 million, with a $10.2 million deficit.
Carman noted that there are other changes brewing in the industry, including an interest in "community paramedicine" and other models that could involve treatment at the scene by paramedics, nurse-practitioners or physician's assistants without the necessity of transport to a hospital.
Contact Tom Lochner at 510-262-2760. Follow him at Twitter.com/tomlochner.
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Special thanks goes to Hanna Spiegel, the editor of the Hebrew publication, for making the effort to record what happened in Győr and for permitting this translation. I also want to acknowledge the help provided by Shlomo Shamir and Avigdor Bar-hai, both originally from Győr, for their help in making documents available and for reviewing the translation.
This book gives a brief account of life in Győr before and during the Holocaust. Prior to the Holocaust the Győr Jewish community lived in relative peace for over 200 years and this came to a tragic end during June 1944. The Nazis were intent on completing their Final Solution, even when they were facing imminent defeat in both the West and the East. There were over 6,000 Jews living in Győr and the surrounding region and except for the few who escaped before the Nazis entered Hungary and the young men who were drafted into work battalions, the majority were taken to Auschwitz in two transports. The majority of the people were lead directly to the gas chambers and of the over 6,000 residents, probably less than 1,000 survived the war. Today the Jewish community of Győr is a mere shadow of its glorious past, with less than 100 members, but regular synagogue services are still held, the cemetery is well cared for and each year in June commemorative services are held for the Martyrs.
Thanks to the seven people who contributed to this Yizkor book we can gain a small insight into what life was like in pre-war Győr. However, it does mean that there are over 6,000 untold stories from the babies born on the transport trains who lived merely days to elderly people who may have had fulfilling lives, but suffered equally tragic deaths. Then there are the survivors who overcame adversity to start new lives in Győr and in far away lands. Time is rapidly running out to tell their stories, but if there are people out there who have recorded their lives, or would like to do so, we would be thrilled to hear from them.
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Pastor Ruben Bautista has no particular fondness for the exquisite image of a pastoral Jesus streaming in from the giant stained-glass window in his Salt Lake City church's sanctuary.
Nor does he notice the sloped seating arranged in a kind of oval, purposely designed to produce an intimate feeling.
The Victorian Romanesque building where his band of believers now meets three times a day is suitable for worship services, Bautista says, but the "decorations," as he calls the historic church's interior details, are irrelevant.
Indeed, the only item the Iglesia La Luz del Mundo (or Light of the World Church) at 352 E. 300 South added to the space which began as a First Church of Christ, Scientist (Christian Science) is a large, gold chair.
It symbolizes authority for these Spanish-speaking believers.
The newcomers do, however, like the large white columns, holding up the gallery. The columns' sturdiness represents Christ's apostles, upon which the Christian church was built.
"The household of God … [is] built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief cornerstone," Bautista says, quoting from the Bible's Book of Ephesians.
Indeed, the notion of apostle is central to the Light of the World Church. Everything else flows from that.
Apostasy and restoration • The church Jesus created was lost after the death of the original apostles, Light of the World believes, and wasn't recovered until a charismatic Mexican, Aaron Joaquin Gonzalez, and his son, Samuel Joaquin Flores, were chosen by God to restore it in Guadalajara, Jalisco, in 1926.
Gonzalez died in 1964, but 76-year-old Samuel Joaquin Flores remains the church's leader and only apostle.
"It is not the people who elect the apostle," Bautista says in Spanish, with his sons, Ruben Jr., 19, and Abdi, 18, as translators. "They are chosen directly by God like St. Paul."
The faith's teachings all come from the Bible, he says, quoting verses from memory.
Light of the World, which claims about 5 million adherents, preaches that there is only one God, and Jesus is his son and savior of this world, rather than part of a Trinity. Jesus will return and promises eternal life to all who believe in him.
Potential converts must believe in Christ and the Bible as the only word of God, Bautista says, then "leave behind the world" and "be baptized [by immersion] in water and in the Holy Spirit."
Members also eschew alcohol and tobacco, he says, because "our body is a temple of God.
(They do "drink lots of coffee," he quipped, unlike Mormons who give up all three, plus tea.)
Though Light of the World members "rejoice in the birth and death of Jesus Christ," Bautista says, they do not celebrate Christmas or Easter, because the traditional commemorations go beyond the Bible.
Their only ritual is a version of Communion, or the Holy Supper, which they celebrate once a year.
On that occasion, thousands gather in Guadalajara for the supper, an event beamed around the world via the Internet for others to participate. Those appointed to officiate are dressed in white to signify holiness and then distribute unleavened bread and unfermented grape juice.
For day-to-day worship, though, members mostly read the Bible and pray.
Pray always • The historic Salt Lake City church opens its doors every morning at 5 for the first of three daily prayer sessions.
The second, at 9 a.m., mostly attracts women, who cover their heads, as the Bible directs, and sit separately from men. It is considered a family prayer time, when talk is mostly of caring for kids and being good. Sometimes women can be heard crying quietly, Bautista says, because of their "deep anguish" as described in 1 Samuel 1:10 ("And she was in bitterness of soul, and prayed unto the Lord, and wept sore").
But men are known to sob as well, he adds, "because the soul has no gender."
The day's third prayer service occurs at 6:30 p.m. and opens with songs of gratitude by two men and then two women. The two groups sing separately and unaccompanied.
"The only instrument we need is our heart," Bautista says, "and the spirit of God that reigns in our heart."
On Sundays, Bautista gives a sermon; Tuesday, he leads Bible study and, on Thursdays, he counsels youths. The first Saturday of the month is designated for a kids service, aimed at passing on the faith to the next generation.
At least in the pastor's family of 10 three boys and five girls it seems to be working.
When Ruben Jr. was 14, he professed his desire to commit to the church.
"I did it of my own free will," he says. "It was not because of my parents' pressure or anything."
Another congregant, Elisa Meneses, says the church is a "big, big part of my life."
Meneses, a mother of two originally from Chicago, grew up in Light of the World even met her husband there and has never thought of leaving.
"We dedicate our whole life around our faith," she says. "It teaches us to be better Christians, better citizens and better people in general."
She finds peace in prayers, grateful to live another day and confident that she can conquer life's challenges.
These are her thoughts each morning as Meneses takes her place in the red-hued church next to the YWCA a place that once housed another group of Bible-believing Christians.
Suits the sanctuary • The Salt Lake City church was designed for Christian Scientists in 1898 by architect Walter Ware, who came to Utah from Denver during a building boom and also drew the plans for the First Presbyterian Church on South Temple.
The style of the former Christian Science church is a combination of Victorian and Romanesque, says Utah architect Allen Roberts, president of Cooper-Roberts-Simonsen Architects in Salt Lake City. "It has a big, arched entry, stone lintels over the windows, strong columns and very delicately carved pieces of sandstone trim all of that is Romanesque."
But the walls are brick, not stone, says Roberts, an expert in historic preservation, which makes it more Victorian. And the seating is designed for intimacy, he says, so "everyone sees everyone else, and it allows for a sense of spiritual community."
The Christian Scientists moved out in 2002, and for a while it was the home of Anthony's Fine Art and Antiques, which bought and sold high-end furniture.
The Light of the World Church bought it seven years ago, Bautista says, and also the house next door, which became the pastor's residence.
Roberts is pleased to see the space used again for worship, honoring the purpose for which it was created.
It's been a good "temple" or "house of prayer" for the 350 members of the Spanish-speaking Light of the World congregation, Bautista says, but the design is of little consequence.
These believers don't worship "decorations," he says, only God and Jesus.
'Where We Worship' series
The Salt Lake Tribune is featuring Utah's sacred spaces this year. To read previous stories in this monthly series, go to http://www.sltrib.com
Today • Salt Lake City's Iglesia La Luz del Mundo (or Light of the World Church)
About Salt Lake City's Light of the World Church
Location • 352 E. 300 South, Salt Lake City
Built • 1898
Architect Walter E. Ware
Style • Victorian Romanesque
Features • Arched entry, carved pieces of sandstone trim, red brick exterior, curved pews, white columns supporting the gallery


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text: Chemotherapy With an earlier diagnosis of breast cancer some patients do not need chemotherapy because of their excellent prognosis. These patients may need only local therapy, such as mastectomy or lumpectomy and radiotherapy or may need local therapy plus hormone therapy. In patients who need chemotherapy, that chemotherapy will clearly increase the time they are free from cancer and decrease their chance of recurrence. The need for chemotherapy is based on multiple tumor and patient factors. These factors include age, menopausal status, nodal status, hormone receptors and the HER2-neu gene analysis of the tumor. Most node positive patients will benefit from the addition of chemotherapy and many higher risk node negative patients will also benefit from chemotherapy. Newer tests in node negative patients, such has the gene based Oncotype DX assay, help select which node negative patients are higher risk and may benefit from chemotherapy. After all of these factors have been considered, some patients will have a great benefit with the addition of chemotherapy and some will have only a modest benefit. At that point, discussion between the patient and the physician will help to determine what risk and toxicity the patient is willing to accept for what level of benefit. Neo Adjuvant A current concept in the chemotherapy of breast cancer at the time of diagnosis is called neoadjuvant chemotherapy. This is a treatment regimen that involves giving chemotherapy prior to surgery. There are two goals: 1) converting those patients who would initially need a mastectomy to being able to have breast conserving treatment with lumpectomy and radiation therapy, and 2) evaluating the effect of chemotherapy on reducing or eliminating the cancer. Chemotherapy may be given either before or after surgical treatment with identical cure rates. Adjuvant This treatment chemotherapy is given after surgery. Most drug combinations in the adjuvant therapy of breast cancer include such drugs as Adriamycin, Cytoxan, Taxol, and Taxotere. These chemotherapy regimens in general, over the past several years, have become more aggressive and shorter in length and have less toxicity compared to older regimens. This is because better anti-nausea drugs are available and drugs such as Neulasta are given to maintain normal blood count and thus greatly decrease the chance of infectious complications, which used to be a major problem with chemotherapy. In the special circumstance of tumors that over-express the HER2-neu gene, the addition of Herceptin has greatly improved the cure rate in these more aggressive tumors. The addition of Herceptin in the adjuvant treatment of breast cancer has been one of the major advances in breast cancer therapy in the last five years. Metastatic Disease Breast cancer is said to have metastasized if it has spread beyond the area of the breast, either to the axillary lymph nodes or into other parts of the body (liver, lung, bowel). In patients whose tumors are hormone receptor positive, multiple hormonal modalities of therapy should be exhausted before proceeding to chemotherapy. There are a multitude of drugs that are used in metastatic breast cancer with the goal to prolong life with minimal toxicity.


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In a study of analyst recommendations at the major brokerages, for the underlying components of the S&P 500, Philip Morris International Inc (PM - Get Report) has taken over the #78 spot from EOG Resources, Inc. (EOG), according to ETF Channel. Below is a chart of Philip Morris International Inc versus EOG Resources, Inc. plotting their respective rank within the S&P 500 over time (PM plotted in blue; EOG plotted in green):In forming the rank, the analyst opinions from the major brokerage houses were tallied, and averaged; then, the underlying components were ranked according to those averages. Investors often interpret analyst opinions from different angles — a popular analyst pick could mean that many sharp minds individually came to the same bullish conclusion, and therefore the stock should do well... but it could also mean that if the company makes any slight stumble, that would come as a negative surprise and cause a downward impact on the stock.
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My novels have been translated into many languages, none of which I can read. I always wonder if meaning gets mangled in the process. I'll probably never know for sure, but a look at what translating has done to some of my book titles might provide a clue. Here are some of my books with the titles they were given by my foreign publishers. What a hoot!
Blood Hollow…..The Girl Who Died Twice (Japan)
Boundary Waters…..The Snows of Death (French)
Boundary Waters…..Night Trembling Wolf (Japanese)
Heaven's Keep…..The Devil's Mountain (Italian)
Heaven's Keep…..The Citadel of God (Portugese)
(Two different approaches suggesting, it seems to me, two entirely different books!)
Iron Lake…..Native American Winter (German)
Iron Lake…..The Whisper of the Wendigo (Spanish)
Iron Lake…..The Forest of Ice (Italian)
Thunder Bay…..The Spirit of the Beast (Finnish)
Thunder Bay…..Roar of Blood (Japanese)
One of the titles that most mystified me at first, and then pleased me immensely is from the French edition of Purgatory Ridge. It's sold under the title À L'Heure où Blanchit la Campagne. The Google translator gives me this: At the Time When the Countryside Whitens. Suggesting snow, maybe? "But"—my first thought was—"this story takes place in one of the hottest summers on record in northern Minnesota." Then my really brilliant media maven Sue Trowbridge enlightened me. The title is a quote taken from a rather famous passage by Victor Hugo. I'm quite happy to have one of my own pieces associated, even in a small way, with the work of such a literary giant.
If anyone has read any of my books in a translated language, oh would I love to hear from you and get your take on how well the story came through the process.


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The colleges and universities that are finalists for the 2012 Second Nature Climate Leadership Awards have been invited to create videos, which are now part of a voting contest, hosted by Planet Forward. To be eligible, institutions must be a part of the ACUPCC network, and up to date with their public reporting. The winner of the voting contest won't necessarily win one of the Climate Leadership Awards, but will have their video publicized in national media outlets.
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How do you get someone to leave you alone without causing a scene? Here's something that worked for me once. I can't guarantee it will work for you.
36th District Court is in downtown Detroit and the Michigan Rules of Professional Conduct prohibit me from really telling you my opinion of it. Just suffice it to say that it is one of the most inefficient operations of any sort in the Western world. The court routinely loses documents and files, and judges sometimes don't bother showing up for work. Before 9/11, homeless people would come in from the cold to sleep in the hallways.
One day I had a case set to be heard at 8:30 a.m. and the judge didn't unlock the doors to her courtroom until 11:30. Luckily, mine was one of the three cases she called before noon – telling everyone else to come back "later." This made me late for an important meeting a few miles north in Oakland County so I hurried toward the elevators. As I was rushing down the hall, I saw a man out of the corner of my eye attempt to make eye contact with me. It was not uncommon to be hit up for handouts here at the time, but something told me this was different. The man fell in beside me and matched his pace to mine.
"Let me ask you something," he said, rather curtly, putting his hand in front of me to stop me.
I waved my hand as if to indicate I was in too much of a hurry to talk. I was, and I had no idea what he was going to ask. I don't think he was homeless. He was looking for some free legal advice. I kept walking, around his outstretched hand.
I made it to the elevator and a door opened. It was empty, I stepped in and punched the button for the ground floor. He stepped in and stood too close to me.
"I got a legal problem." He said it as if that explained why I could smell his breath.
I did my best to remain stone-faced. It's something I am actually pretty good at. I've been accused of having the male-equivalent of bitchy resting face. (Contemporaneous photo above for reference.)
The elevator inched down, floot-to-floor, not stopping at any.
He pointed at my tie. "Ain't you an attorney?" He leaned forward, as if he was going to touch it.
I ran through my options.
What would get this guy to leave me alone? What other excuse might I have to be in this building wearing an expensive suit?
I looked him in the eye and said as authoritatively as possible, "No, I am a drug lord."
His eyes widened as the doors to the elevator opened. He took a quick step back and then scurried into the mass of humanity on the ground floor. I never saw him again.
I made it to my meeting, albeit a bit late. And don't get me wrong. I have helped strangers before. I was approached in this same court by a crying woman who wanted her grandson to have an attorney and he hadn't hired one. After talking to her for a few minutes I agreed to help. She put a small wad of cash in my hand and said she'd pay me more later. I told her not to bother. When I counted the crumpled bills they added up to a hundred dollars. I wasn't even expecting that. A couple of times, I have also told people to skip sending me anything.
If the guy in the hall had at least approached me politely, I would have talked to him briefly. But, "Let me ask you something," with a hand in the face is not a proper greeting. Not even in Detroit.
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Read about the new iPad Air and iPad mini 2
The new iPad 4 has reportedly been benchmarked and the results back up the maker's claim that it's twice as fast as the previous model.
This latest iPad was a surprise extra announcement at the recent launch of the Apple iPad mini. The iPad 4, officially described as "iPad with Retina Display" replaces the third-gen model and goes on sale from 2 November.
On Monday John Poole of Primate Labs posted his thoughts on the early test results that popped up on the Geekbench browser database over weekend.
Poole suggests that the benchmark result is real: "There's nothing in the result that indicates it's a fake," he writes.
The posting appears to confirm that the iPad 4 has a dual-core A6X processor running at 1.4GHz. It goes on to list that it has 1GB RAM, the same amount as the third-gen iPad and the iPhone 5, but twice that of the iPad 2.
It does seems to have a had a significant performance boost, however. The results suggest the new iPad is 10 percent faster than the iPhone 5. It is based on the same dual-core A6 processor but may be clocked at 1.4GHz (instead of around 1.3GHz for the iPhone 5). Importantly, it is about twice as fast as the iPad 2 and iPad 3.
Although the upgraded iPad 4 comes just a few months after the third-gen 'New' iPad, Poole concludes that, "If you have an iPad and you are looking for more performance then you will find the new iPad a compelling upgrade."
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As you climb toward the mountains, you'll find the sweet spot of nature – just above the fog and below the snow, a respite from the heat of the valley. Winchester Country Club, an exclusive, semi-private golf and residential community, sits in one of these prime Sierra foothill locations.
Testimonials of recent homebuyers tout its proximity to open space and scenic landscapes, as opposed to the encroachment and over-development of some resort communities. Though located just two minutes from Interstate 80 and a short drive to the many shops and amenities of Auburn and Roseville, Winchester seemingly sits in a world of its own.
The 35,000-square foot clubhouse offers an onsite oasis, featuring lunch, full bar, fine dining, weekend brunch and special events, such as the popular Family Night (parents enjoy a gourmet meal while kids watch a movie and have popcorn with sitters down the hall). A state-of-the-art fitness center, swim and tennis center (with junior Olympic-sized pool), and miles of wooded hiking and biking trails are also available.
Luxury homes seem organically, yet perfectly nestled among the natural surroundings and championship Robert-Trent-Jones Jr. and Sr. co-designed golf course, but the course is not the only reason people make Winchester their home. The quality of schools in nearby Meadow Vista and a non-pretentious atmosphere balance the ethereal beauty and luxury lifestyle found here.
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Expo '09: Winching and everything else
Surf Expo is winding down. The beers are almost gone and everyone has set off on the quest to get the stuff brands don't want to bring home for free. We've reported on as much of the important stuff as we could so far but there are a few things we've failed to mention.
The first is the Step Up rail set up, which featured demos all show long. Though not many wakeskaters stepped up to the monster, we have to give props to Joe Phillips for hitting it pretty much every time the winch was fired up. He landed a sick kickflip on,kickflip off, which is even more impressive if you've seen the set up!
In other winching news, Distortion boarding had a booth this year as well. For 2010, they are producing two basic winches. The Grinch, with a 7hp engine and an optional wheel kit, and then the pro edition. The latter is a bit more compact and houses a 10HP engine so it can get up even the biggest fat ass. They also have a line of organic, high end T-shirts available. Owner Adam Hart said Distortion winches are available at some 60 dealers, though lately they've been doing a lot of international sales. In fact, they've just set up distribution in Germany and Japan. "We ship to crazy places I've never even heard of," he said. "Winching is really starting to get big." Another community which is just starting to embrace winching is snowboarding, and Adam was excited that they'd just added JP Walker and Seth Huot to the team. For wakeskaters, Aaron Reed and Scott Byerly are both the proud owners of Distortion Winches.
Tonight is the much-anticipated premiere of Nike 6.0's Aquafrolics so check back for all the coverage. For now, more images in the gallery.


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Ode to Spring
With apologies to Peter, Paul, and Mary.
Where have all the flowers gone?
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Where have all the flowers gone?
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Where have all the flowers gone?
Bakers have wrecked them every one!
Oh when will we ever learn?
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Does anything here strike you wrong?
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COACH BARLOW SAYS: "Thomas was one of the most feared hitters in the NEWMAC and concluded his career as arguably the greatest MIT offensive player in the program's history. He was a top run producing hitter for us since his freshman year and received recognition around the region by being named both 2nd Team All-New England as well as NEWMAC Player of the Year."
2009: earned NEWMAC "Player of the Year" honors...selected to the CoSIDA/ESPN the Magazine Academic All-America Second Team...named Second Team All-New England at the First Base position and was invited to play in the University vs. College All-Star Game in Brockton, Mass...received NEWMAC First Team All-Conference recognition...honored as National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association (NCBWA) National Hitter of the Week (3/23-29)...named NEWMAC "Player of the Week" (3/23-29)...named CoSIDA/ESPN the Magazine Academic First-Team All-District...earned NEWMAC Academic All-Conference honors...voted MIT's "Most Valuable Player" by his teammates...appeared and started in each of the team's 39 games...posted a .430 batting average...ranked 24th in the country in slugging percentage (.800), 32nd in home runs per game (.31), 35th in on base percentage (.534), and 87th in batting average...ranked first in the NEWMAC in batting average, slugging percentage, on base percentage, home runs (12), and walks (32)...led the conference defensively in both putouts (344) and chances (359)...ranked second in the conference in RBI (50), total bases (108), and sacrifice flies (5)...led MIT or ranked highly in nearly every major offensive statistic...combined to go 2-for-6 (2 R, 2B, 3B, 2 RBI, 2 BB, SF) in a doubleheader vs. Vassar (3/15)...went 2-for-5 (2B, 2 RBI, BB) vs. RIC (3/17)...2-for-3 (3 R, 2 HR, 2 RBI, BB) vs. Roger Williams (3/20)...combined to go 3-for-7 (R, 2 2B, 5 RBI, BB, SF) in a doubleheader vs. Oberlin (3/21)...2-for-4 (2 R, 2B, BB) vs. Hamline (3/22)...combined to go 6-for-6 (4 R, 3 HR, 7 RBI, 3 BB) in a doubleheader vs. Chicago (3/23)...went 2-for-5 (R, 2B, RBI) vs. Colby (3/24)...combined to go 6-for-7 (3 R, 2 HR, 4 RBI, HPB) in a conference doubleheader vs. Wheaton (3/28)...went 2-for-4 (R, 2 RBI, SF) in a conference game vs. Springfield (4/10)...combined to go 4-for-7 (5 R, 2 HR, 7 RBI, BB, SF) in a conference doubleheader vs. Coast Guard (4/13)...3-for-5 (2B, 2 RBI, SB) vs. Eastern Nazarene (4/15)...combined to go 2-for-5 (4 R, HR, 2 RBI, 4 BB, SB) in a conference doubleheader vs. Clark (4/18)...combined to go 5-for-5 (2 R, 4 RBI, BB, SF, 2 SB) in a doubleheader vs. Newbury (4/19)...2-for-5 in a NEWMAC playoff game vs. Babson (4/23)...went 4-for-5 (4 R, 2 2B, HR, 3 RBI, BB) in a NEWMAC playoff game vs. Clark (4/25)...2-for-2 (2 R, 2B, 3 RBI, 2 BB, HBP, SB) vs. Fisher (4/29)...went 1-for-1 (2 R, 2 BB, HBP) in the first game of a doubleheader vs. Williams (5/1)...1-for-3 (R, 2B, RBI, BB) vs. Fitchburg State (5/4)...earned a win in relief (3 IP, H, R, ER, 2 K, 0 BB) in his only pitching appearance of the season vs. Minot State (3/20).
2008: named to the NEWMAC Academic All-Conference team...started in each of the team's 37 games and batted a team-best .326...led team in batting average, hits (42), RBI (34), doubles (15), total bases (65), on base percentage (.418), and slugging percentage (.504)...2nd on the team in home runs (2) and walks (18)...went 3-for-5 (3 R, 2 2B, 5 RBI, HBP) in the second game of a doubleheader vs. Gustavus Adolphus (3/25)...3-for-4 (R, 2B, 3B, 2 RBI, BB) vs. Middlebury (3/26)...1-for-3 with 2 RBI and a walk vs. Castleton State (3/28)...combined to go 3-for-6 (3 R, 2 2B, HR, 3 RBI) in a doubleheader vs. Newbury (3/30)...3-for-5 with an RBI and a walk in a conference game vs. Coast Guard (4/3)...2-for-3 (2B, 2 RBI, BB) in a conference game vs. Clark (4/8)...went 2-for-3 with a run and a walk vs. Fisher (4/9)...2-for-5 with an RBI vs. conference opponent Clark (4/17)...combined to go 3-for-6 (2 R, 2 2B, RBI, BB, HBP) in a conference doubleheader vs. Springfield (4/19)...went 2-for-4 (R, 2B, RBI, BB) in a doubleheader vs. Wesleyan (4/20)...1-for-2 (R, 2 RBI, 2 BB, SF) in a NEWMAC Tournament game vs. Springfield (4/23)...went 2-for-4 in a NEWMAC Tournament game vs. Wheaton (4/24)...went 1-for-3 with an RBI and a walk in NEWMAC Tournament Semifinal game vs. Wheaton (4/26)...2-for-4 (R, 2B, RBI) vs. Williams (5/3)...threw a perfect scoreless inning of relief in his only action on the mound vs. Southern Maine (3/24).
2007: appeared and started in all of the team's 34 games as a hitter...batted .303...tied for 2nd in the NEWMAC in homeruns (5), 3rd in homeruns/game (0.15), 6th in RBI's/game (0.85) and tied for 6th in RBI's (29)...led team in homeruns, slugging percentage (.496), and sacrifice flies (5)...tied for team lead in games and games started...second on the team in RBI's and total bases (59)...3rd on the team in walks (15) and plate appearances (140)...tied for 3rd on the team in triples (1)...enjoyed 10 multiple hit games...recorded a team best 11 multiple RBI games...combined to go 3-for-5 (R, 2B, 3B, 3 RBI, BB) in a doubleheader vs. Oberlin (3/26)...3-for-4 (2 R, 2B, 2 RBI, SF) vs. Middlebury (3/27)...2-for-3 with two RBI's and a sacrifice fly in the first game of a doubleheader vs. Colby (3/29)...combined to go 3-for-7 (4 R, 2 2B, HR, 3 RBI, BB, SF) in a conference doubleheader vs. Babson (4/1)...1-for-3 with a run in the second game of a conference doubleheader vs. Wheaton (4/7)...went 2-for-5 with a double and 2 RBI's in the second game of a conference doubleheader vs. WPI (4/14)...2-for-5 with two RBI's and sacrifice fly in the second game of a conference doubleheader vs. Springfield (4/21)...2-for-3 with two key RBI's and a walk in the first round of the NEWMAC Tournament vs. Springfield (4/26)...3-for-5 with two runs in a NEWMAC Tournament Semifinal match-up vs. Coast Guard (4/28)...1-for-2 (3 R, HR, 3 RBI, BB) vs. Newbury (5/4)...combined to go 3-for-6 (2 R, RBI, 2 BB) in a doubleheader vs. Williams (5/5)...went 2-for-4 with a run and double vs. Suffolk (5/6)...1-for-3 (2 R, HR, 2 RBI, BB) vs. Fitchburg State (5/8)...appeared in 8 games, all in relief as a pitcher...posted a 1-0 record and an E.R.A. of 7.07 over 14.0 innings of work...tied for team lead in winning percentage (1.000)...tied for 3rd on the team in games in relief...threw 1.1 innings of scoreless and hitless ball in the second game of a doubleheader vs. Oberlin (3/26)...was excellent in relief (2.1 IP, 3 H, R, 0 ER, BB, 2 K) to pick up the win in the first game of a doubleheader vs. Colby (3/29)...picked up a key out and gave up no runs in the second game of a conference doubleheader vs. Babson (4/1)...was effective (2.1 IP, 3 H, 2 R, ER, 0 BB, 0 K) in a NEWMAC Semifinal game vs. Wheaton (4/28)...threw 2.2 innings (3 H, R, ER, 0 BB, 3 K) vs. Worcester State (5/1).
2006: received NEWMAC Player of the Week honors (3/27-4/2)...had an excellent rookie campaign starting in each of the team's 35 games batting .379...led team in hit by pitches (6)...2nd on the team in on base percentage (.464), walks (14) and triples (2)...3rd on the team in batting average, runs (23), hits (44), total bases (56), and slugging (.483)...3-for-4 (R, 4 RBI, HBP) vs. Wentworth Institute (3/23)...combined to go 4-for-6 (2 R, 2 3B, 4 RBI) in a doubleheader split with defending national champion Wisconsin-Whitewater (3/27)...4-for-5 (3 R, 2B, 2 RBI) vs. Hartwick (3/28)...combined to go 2-for-4 (2 R, 2 RBI, 2 BB) in a doubleheader vs. Thomas (3/30)...combined to go 4-for-6 (2B, 2B, 4 RBI, BB) in a doubleheader vs. Elms (4/1)...2-for-3 with a walk vs. Brandeis (4/3)...1-for-2 with a walk and a hit by pitch vs. conference opponent Wheaton (4/5)...2-for-3 with a run scored and walk in the first game of a conference doubleheader vs. Worcester Polytechnic (4/15)...2-for-4 with an RBI vs. conference opponent Wheaton (4/18)...3-for-4 with a run and a double in the first round of the NEWMAC Tournament vs. Coast Guard (4/27)...combined to go 3-for-7 with a run and an RBI in two vs. Wheaton in the NEWMAC Tournament (4/29 and 4/30)...hit his first career homerun, a two run shot, vs. UMass-Boston (5/4)...combined to go 2-for-5 (2 R, RBI, BB) in a doubleheader vs. Williams (5/6)...made four appearances, three of them starts, on the mound...0-0 record with a 5.54 ERA over 13.0 innings of work...got the start vs. Hartwick (3/28) and went 4 innings (3 H, 2 R, ER, 3 BB, K) in a no-decision...started vs. Plymouth State (4/12) and received a no-decision going 4 innings and giving up 2 runs, both of them earned.
PERSONAL: son of Jane and Harry Phillips...majoring in economics...born on 3/4/87...hobbies include lifting weights, golf, and intramural sports...favorite sports team is the Carolina Panthers...lists The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro and Monty Python and the Holy Grail as his favorite book and movie.HITTING