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The League of American Orchestras board of directors has elected Angelo M. Fatta as chairman-elect. Fatta will assume this position in June and will hold it until June 2014, when his election to succeed Lowell J. Noteboom as chairman will take place.
Brent Assink, executive direct of the San Francisco Symphony, chairs the league's governance committee.
"We are delighted to be putting such a strong succession plan in place a full year in advance," he said. "Ange Fatta has proven to be a strong and collaborative leader on our board, and we are already benefitting from his deep knowledge of orchestras and their needs."
Added league President and CEO Jesse Rosen: "Ange Fatta's leadership of the Buffalo Philharmonic (Orchestra) board was instrumental in ushering in a new level of fiscal stability and community support, and he has been a great partner to the BPO's music director, executive director and musicians. The league is fortunate to have found such a gifted successor to Lowell Noteboom, whose continued leadership over the coming year will ensure a smooth handover in 2014."
A passionate orchestra supporter, Fatta has been a member of the league board since October 2011, and serves as chair of its marketing and membership development committee. A former chair of the BPO's board of trustees, he guided the orchestra through a successful turnaround after 9/11. As chair of the orchestra's "Secure the Future" endowment campaign, he was instrumental in galvanizing community support so that the campaign not only met but surpassed its $30 million goal.
Fatta is co-founder and CEO of ACTS Testing Labs, a global consumer products testing company specializing in toy safety. He led ACTS from a small start-up operation in 1973 to an organization of more than 700 employees in six countries in 1998, when he sold the company.
In 2009, he founded ANSECO Group, a consumer products testing laboratory specializing in toys, children's products, and simple hardlines. Fatta now oversees the company's Buffalo and Hong Kong laboratories, providing strategic direction to the company. He is globally recognized for his expertise in toy and consumer products safety.
Fatta is immediate past chair of the University at Buffalo Foundation, and was honored with UB's President's Medal in 2012 for his service to the university and community. Gov. Andrew Cuomo appointed him to the State University of New York Board of Trustees in 2012. He has served on the boards of Canisius College, Ronald McDonald Children's Charities, Cradle Beach Camp, and the Buffalo Transportation/Pierce Arrow Museum. Fatta and his family support the welfare and development of children in western New York through their philanthropic organization, the Fatta Foundation. He has been a major force in the promotion of life sciences discoveries and technology commercialization in Western New York through numerous volunteer leadership roles.
Fatta holds a B.S. in chemistry from Canisius College and a Ph.D. in inorganic chemistry from Wayne State University, and was a post-doctoral fellow at The Pennsylvania State University.


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Family & General Practitioners
Also called: Family Physician, Family Practice Physician, Medical Doctor (MD), Physician
In the military: see titles from the Air Force, Army, or Navy.
In the Air Force: Family Physician; Family Physician, Obstetrics; Family Physician, Pain Management; Family Physician, Sports Medicine; General Practice Physician
In the Army: Family Medicine
In the Navy: Family Medicine, General; Family Medicine, Subspecialty; Family Physician; General Medicine; General Practice Medical Officer
What they do:Physicians who diagnose, treat, and help prevent diseases and injuries that commonly occur in the general population. May refer patients to specialists when needed for further diagnosis or treatment.
On the job, you would:
- Prescribe or administer treatment, therapy, medication, vaccination, and other specialized medical care to treat or prevent illness, disease, or injury.
- Order, perform, and interpret tests and analyze records, reports, and examination information to diagnose patients' condition.
- Collect, record, and maintain patient information, such as medical history, reports, or examination results.
Math and Science
Arts and Humanities
Basic Skills
Problem Solving
People and Technology Systems
Ideas and Logic
People interested in this work like activities that include ideas, thinking, and figuring things out.
They do well at jobs that need:
You might like a career in one of these industries:
See more details at O*NET OnLine about family and general practitioners.

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The Phantom Menace wrote:The AT-AT was pictured on the door. I can only hope that the AT-AT has been swapped with the set underneath.
I had an empty compartment one day, but reached into an adjacent apartment and fortunately pulled out the correct baggy. Knowing how solid Lego's quality control is, I'd be willing to bet $20 that one day you're gonna get "double baggy" day when the AT AT turns up.


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Gallery: Lindsay Lohan's Worst Tans & Bronzer Abuses
Yesterday, Lindsay Lohan went to court. Also yesterday, Lindsay Lohan left court. In handcuffs. The former actress was taken into custody for missing nine (count em, nine) of her scheduled community service obligations. This seems like a perfect opportunity for Lohan to publically bitch about how unfair people are being to her because she's famous, how's she's doing fine, totally not doing drugs and those weren't her pants. Consequently, it's an even better opportunity for Dina Lohan to whine ad nauseam about the media's treatment of "[her] child." And Ali Lohan is off somewhere, too, but no one recognizes her.
Anyway, this isn't a law blog so we're not going to delve any deeper into Lohan's legal troubles (we are also lazy). This is a fashion and beauty blog, though, so we are going to address her bronzer problems. Lohan appeared in court with a pretty intense attempt at contouring but at least she didn't write "fuck u" on her nails this time, or something similarly infantile. What were you thinking, Lohan?
…If this gallery is to be believed, Linsday Lohan is never thinking. Only bronzing.


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Animal Species:White-banded bees
White-banded bees are members of the family Halictidae, which contains around 25% of Australia's native bee species and are (discounting the commercial Honey Bee) the most abundant bees around the world.
Standard Common Name
White-banded bees
White-banded bees are generally medium-sized black or dark brown bees with broad white bands of hair across their abdomen. Lasioglossum lanarium is one of the larger species of white-banded bee (about 1 cm).
Size range
1 cm
White-banded bees are found throughout Australia.
White-banded bees live in urban areas, forests and woodlands, heath. Most species nest in the ground and a number of females use the entrance and main shaft but dig their own tunnel off to the side.
Danger to humans and first aid
The sting of the white-banded bee may cause anaphylactic shock in people sensitive to bee stings. One case resulted in the death of the person stung.
Bee stings cause intense local pain and swelling but a severe reaction may occur in some people with allergies to bee stings. This reaction can include difficulty breathing and even collapse. The sting should be removed, pressure/immobilisation first aid should be applied immediately, and medical attention sought.
- Genus:
- Lasioglossum
- Subfamily:
- Halictinae
- Family:
- Halictidae
- Superfamily:
- Apoidea
- Suborder:
- Apocrita
- Order:
- Hymenoptera
- Class:
- Insecta
- Subphylum:
- Uniramia
- Phylum:
- Arthopoda
- Kingdom:
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On Thursday, Aug. 1, from 6:30 to 9 a.m., the Buffalo Fire Department will hold its annual "Fill the Boot" program, with this year's proceeds going to the Spinal Muscular Atrophy Research Team, or SMART. The firefighters will be joined by Sabres forward Patrick Kaleta, former Sabres players Andrew Peters, Darryl Shannon and other Sabres alumni on eight separate corners throughout the City of Buffalo to collect funds for the program.
The B.F.D. will collect on the following corner sites:
1. Seneca and Bailey
2. Main and 198
3. End of the Skyway - Patrick Kaleta will arrive at 7:30 a.m.
4. Niagara St exit of the 190 - Andrew Peters will arrive at 7:30 a.m.
5. Elmwood and Hertel
6. Delaware and Hertel - Darryl Shannon will arrive at 7:30 a.m.
7. Elm and Swan
8. Oak and Genesee
Spinal muscular atrophy is a motor neuron disease. The motor neurons affect the voluntary muscles that are used for activities such as crawling, walking, head and neck control, and swallowing. Spinal muscular atrophy, or SMA, is the leading genetic cause of death among children less than 2 years old, affecting nearly 1 in 6,000 new births. One in approximately 35 people carries a copy of the gene that causes SMA.
SMART is a grass-roots organization working to raise awareness and financial support for targeted research aimed at finding treatments and ultimately cures for SMA and related neuromuscular diseases. Currently, SMART is funding the laboratory of a world-renowned physician-scientist at Johns Hopkins Medical Center who is working on novel research avenues that may lead to life-altering therapies for SMA.
SMART will hold its fifth annual SMART Celebration at First Niagara Center Saturday, Aug. 3, from 1-6 p.m.
For more information, visit www.smarthope.com.


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Futures dip as US hurtles toward fiscal cliff
NEW YORK (AP) — Stock futures are moving lower ahead of a last-ditch effort by the White House and GOP congressional leaders to hash out a budget deal before a year-end deadline strikes.
Dow Jones industrial futures are down 50 points to 12,953. The broader S&P futures have lost 6.3 points to 1,404.40. Nasdaq futures are down 9.25 points to 2,613.25.
Though many lawmakers say they are open to last-minute offers, few expect any offers of substance this late.
Top congressional leaders are meeting Friday afternoon for the first time since Nov. 16 and the House convenes Sunday evening, with one day remaining in 2012.
If no deal is reached, a slate of simultaneous tax hikes and spending cuts will automatically be set in motion and threaten to push the economy back into recession.


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"In his public appearances, Bill Gates often appears to be so heavily sedated that the the private, peevish Bill we know and love from his internal emails rarely erupts. So it's with some relief we learn that normal service has been resumed, after Newsweek magazine's Steven Levy, an Apple acolyte, solicited chairman Bill's opinion of its latest TV advertising campaign, 'I'm a Mac - I'm a PC'." The Guardian is also hosting a piece on the 'Get a Mac' campaign.


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Our most beloved sovereignty in the middle of the Irish Sea, the Isle of Man is of course most well known for the race that bears its name, the Isle of Man TT. Traditionally taking place in the first weeks of June, the road race attracts tens of thousands of spectators to the small island, for a fortnight of racing on closed public roads. Words don't do the Isle of Man TT justice, so honestly you are just better off booking the trip and experiencing this two-wheeled bucket-list carnival first-hand for yourself.
Not as well known as the TT, the Isle of Man plays host to a second road race on the famous Mountain Course, the Manx Grand Prix. Traditionally held in late-August or early-September, the Manx, as it is known, uses the same course as the TT, but only features non-professional racers in its classes (except for the classic class). Changing the Manx's format to better promote and differentiate it from the more popular TT, the Isle of Man has decided to do away with modern machinery all together in the festival, and the Manx Grand Prix is to become a "Classic TT" according to its organizers, as was the rumor during the 2012 Isle of Man TT.


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With Windows Vista nearing its first release candidate in preparation for a final launch early next year, Microsoft is providing more details about possible upgrade paths. Of note: Windows 2000 cannot be upgraded to Vista. While Windows 2000 Professional customers may purchase a cheaper "upgrade" copy of Microsoft next-generation operating system, Windows Vista must be "clean installed", which means users will need to back up their files and data manually and then copy everything into place. Applications will also need to be re-installed.


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A pair of hikers made it down one of Colorado's highest peaks on their own Friday after being stranded by an ice storm for two days, the National Park Service said.
The Park Service had been trying to organize its latest effort to rescue the Maine women from 14,200-foot Longs Peak after bad weather defeated a helicopter rescue, said Patrick O'Driscoll, a Park Service spokesman. He said rangers in an all-terrain vehicle later traveled through floodwaters to shuttle them to safety.
"They are in fine condition. They were not injured," said Mark Pita, a ranger inside Rocky Mountain National Park.
The same storm system that blasted Colorado with rain caused the ice storm at higher elevations that pinned down Connie Yang, 32, and Suzanne Turell, 33. They were hunkered down inside a tent in whiteout conditions about 800 feet below the summit.
"The mountain was socked in, no visibility, 12 inches of rain, flash flooding all over the place," O'Driscoll said.
Employers and family members said the two set out a week ago on a backpacking trip in Rocky Mountain National Park, with summer gear including a flyweight tent.
Before their phone battery died, the women used text messages to inform a sister of Yang's in New York City of their situation.
"We need help," Turell said in one of her last texts around 9 a.m. Thursday. "No injuries. Iced over. Risk of hypothermia. On south ridge."
They provided coordinates of their location off a trail.
An earlier text message read: "Can't move because of ice storm, don't know how long it will last. Been here for 1 day trying to wait it out."
The women, from York, Maine, work for New Hampshire-based outdoor gear manufacturer NEMO Equipment Inc. Turell is the company's director of product design. Yang is director of engineering.
"I knew they're smart and tough and had technical skills," David Turell, a brother of Suzanne Turell, said from his home in Durham, N.H. "The question was whether their gear was going to keep them dry and warm enough, for long enough."
Park rangers said they were taking the hikers from a trailhead in the Wild Basin area of Rocky Mountain National Park to Grand Lake, Colo. — the only way out of the park Friday.
Three roads on the park's east side remained impassable Friday because of mud slides, said Rick Frost, a spokesman for the Park Service's Intermountain Region in Denver.
Associated Press correspondent David Sharp contributed to this report from Portland, Maine.


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What to Bring
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In planning what to take, remember that closet and other storage space at international schools is often limited so only pack essentials.
- Luggage Procedures
Currently, transoceanic flights allow two bags to be checked through to the ultimate international destination. Students checking their bags to an intermediate international city and then rechecking the bags on another flight may be informed of weight limitations of 20 kilograms (44 pounds) or less, or of restrictions of fewer checked or carry-on items. Be prepared to pay an extra fee if necessary. If in doubt, check with the travel agency as to what limits apply to both checked baggage and carry-ons. And whenever possible check bags through to final destinations to avoid hassles.
- Additional Shipping Procedures
Other items, such as additional clothing or books, may be sent parcel post. Allow six to eight weeks for delivery if sent by surface mail (three months to Spain). All packages will be charged customs fees when they arrive at international destinations. For customs information be sure that used clothing is clearly indicated—even then there may be a customs charge. It may be worth airline surcharges to take these items as extra baggage so you have them when you need them. Use suitcases, not boxes, because they are much easier to carry. You may send these items air or air freight, but it will be expensive. Shop around for non-postal airmail services. They may be less expensive than regular postal services. Ski equipment, if packed separately and checked as such, can sometimes be sent at no cost or for a very minimal charge.
- Other Necessities
Have an official copy of any eyeglass prescriptions. Possession of drugs can lead to serious problems. To prevent arrest, carry required medication in clearly labeled containers with copies of any applicable prescriptions. Medications may be much more expensive and difficult to find in other countries. Students taking regular prescription medications are advised to take a supply for the whole time abroad. Such medications should be clearly labeled as to contents and use. Some students make similar comments about toiletry items. A year's supply will mean you have items of a quality you value at a much lower cost. In packing your carry-on bag, be sure to include personal toiletry items (carry-on size) and a change of clothing. Students have been separated from their luggage. Be sure, however, to stay within size and weight limits for carry-on bags to avoid paying an extra fee and be sure they are easy to carry and manage. It is wise to have a packing list with your travel documents not only for packing purposes, but also for insurance purposes in case your bags are lost or stolen.
In addition to the various things that will make up your baggage, be sure to include some common sense. As a stranger in a foreign land, you may exhibit a sense of bewilderment, making yourself a good target for con artists or thieves. DO NOT TRUST YOUR BAGGAGE OR PERSONAL EFFECTS WITH ANY STRANGER other than an agent authorized to do so. Guard your carry-on baggage and other luggage whenever you travel, especially on trains and buses, and in bus and train stations. Do Not Leave Home Without Your Passport!
Current and former ACA students are essentially unanimous in suggesting the following:
- Be prepared to do hand laundering and/or coin-operated machine laundering—this goes for men also. The limits on amounts of clothing that can be sent to the free laundry service as well as the turnaround time make this a must for much of your laundering. Be sure all clothes have sewed-on name labels if you wish to use the free laundry service in Argentina, France, Italy, Germany or Spain. Remember it takes one week to get back laundered clothing. Budget sufficient funds for washing machines if you plan to use them, as they are not cheap.
- Bring warm clothes for school days as well as travel. School buildings are not heated to the level that most North Americans may be accustomed to—usually not above 65°F. Think in terms of clothes that can be layered. It can be chilly in the morning, warm by midday and cold again at night. This is true at all campuses.
- Explore which bus passes or rail passes (Eurail, Interail) work best in the countries you plan to visit. Most of these passes can only be purchased in North America. Contact Council Travel at 1-800-2-COUNCIL, or a local travel agent, for the most up-to-date information on air tickets or rail passes for Europe.
- Take $50 worth of local currency before entering the country, including coins or bills of small denominations for renting luggage carts.
- Take adapter plugs for any electrical appliances being transported. Include a converter if the appliance is not for 220 volts. Be sure voltage and wattage ratings of the converter are adequate for the appliance(s) taken. Adapter plugs and converters are not the same, bring both.
- Take a backpack (internal frame type) as one "suitcase." It will be handy for independent traveling and is not as easily damaged.
- Take a sleeping bag. This is not for bedding at the campus—sheets, pillow cases and blankets are provided and laundered as part of your boarding fee—but a sleeping bag is especially useful for stays in youth hostels during independent travel.
- Take a youth hostel card. Phone (202) 783-6161 for details including beginning and ending dates. American Youth Hostels, Dept. 804, PO Box 37613, Washington, D.C. 20013-7613. The card is also available in Europe. Any hostel can provide directions on obtaining one.
- Take an International Driver's License and state or provincial driver's license, if you are planning any international driving. Contact American or Canadian Automobile Association offices for details.
- Take an International Student Identity Card (ISIC). Visit www.myisic.com for information about card benefits and how to apply for one. Students attending the ACA program in Austria may be able to obtain an International Student ID Card for only 10 Euros, which may be less than the cost in the USA or Canada.
- Take extra passport photos (4-6) for various I.D. purposes. It is important to have extras and carry them with you as they are expensive to have made at passport photo booths.
- Postage is especially costly compared to North American rates. Be prepared to spend as much as $1 per letter. Even postage for post cards will be 75 cents to $1.
Because needs and priorities differ so markedly among individuals, it is impossible to produce a list of "must" items to take for a summer abroad. It is only possible to indicate some of the items that previous students have indicated as being a high priority. Talk with as many former ACA students as possible to help establish the relative importance of the items listed.
This information has be complied primarly from the following website: www.aca-noborders.com


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PGP Whole Disk Encryption software (or FileVault for Macs) is designed to provide an additional layer of security for your data. Encryption is required for laptops used for UAB Business, and it is highly recommended for desktops in theft-prone areas. PGP software essentially "locks down" your hard drive, making the data accessible only to you and those you authorize. The disk encryption, in conjunction with logon and screensaver passwords, protects UAB data if the computer is lost or stolen.
Encryption Methods:
- Encrypting with Mac OS X FileVault 10.7 (Lion)
- Encrypting with Mac OS X FileVault 10.6 or Below
- PGP Whole Disk Encryption: Windows Installation Instructions
- PGP Whole Disk Encryption: Mac OS Installation Instructions
- Linux Encrypted File System: Fedora
- Linux Encrypted File System: Ubuntu
- Linux Encrypted File System: Ubuntu (advanced configuration)
- Microsoft BitLocker on Windows 8
Additional PGP Documentation:
- PGP Client License Troubleshooting
- Adding and Removing Users in PGP Desktop
- Portable Drives
- Virtual Disks
- Zip Encrypted Archives
- Shredder
- Reporting Issues
- Drive Recovery
- PGP Guide for Campus Administrators
- Windows XP Preinstallation Environment (PE) for PGP Whole Disk Encryption
- Devices Incompatible with PGP


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A funky and mean big-beat song with a driving main guitar riff and big drums. Dynamic and bold for use in presentations and videos that need some punch!
The track includes multiple sections to give the song different flavours that can be used and comes as WAV and MP3 versions.


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House Intelligence chairman to hold FBI director, deputy AG in 'contempt of Congress'
There's been yet another development in the Russia investigation; this one, involving the investigators themselves.
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, R-Calif., said Tuesday he is moving forward with a "Contempt of Congress" resolution against FBI Director Christopher Wray and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.
He accuses them of hiding a former FBI agent's alleged political bias against President Donald Trump, in what he calls an attempt to "thwart Congress' oversight responsibility."
The move comes after reports detailed private text messages from former Russia Investigation FBI agent Peter Strzok seeming to mock Trump and favor Hillary Clinton.
"We issued a statement on Saturday and then on Sunday that they had until last night to provide us with the documentation. That documentation hasn't arrived yet," Nunes said in a brief hallway interview.
One question in these politically charged times centers on people's private opinions, and what, if any, impact those opinions play in their public roles.
"So far as I can tell, these views were privately expressed. There's no indication they biased the investigation in any way" said Mike Seidman, a professor at Georgetown School of Law.
He said Nunes' actions are simply an attempt to try changing the subject in an otherwise thorough investigation.
"I wonder if Chairman Nunes thinks that there were no FBI agents who voted for Donald Trump in the election and favor him," Seidman said. "Of course agents have political views."
How those views factor in the equation of justice is now being called into question.


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NREC designed and developed the Crusher vehicle to support the UPI program's rigorous field experimentation schedule.
The UPI program features quarterly field experiments that assess the capabilities of large scale, unmanned ground vehicles (UGV) operating autonomously in a wide range of complex, off-road terrains. UPI's aggressive mobility, autonomy and mission performance objectives required two additional test platforms that could accommodate a variety of mission payloads and state of the art autonomy technology.
Crusher represents the next generation of the original Spinner platform, the world's first greater-than-6-ton, cross-country UGV designed from the ground up. Crusher offers more mobility, reliability, maintainability and flexibility than Spinner, at 29 percent less weight.


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About Greg Murr
Greg Murr combines painting and drawing in airy compositions that function as philosophical inquiries into the flux of the natural world. In a series of work about bodies of water, Murr abstracts cartographic and satellite images of rivers into watercolor streaks that create a sense of dynamism and produce what he sees as an environmentally specific vocabulary for each body of water. In a series of work titled "The Usual Politics," Murr depicts dogs amidst strands of pearls. The seemingly discordant imagery deals in metaphor, juxtaposing the animalistic tendencies of humans with the consumer-driven impulses that govern contemporary society.
American, b. 1971, Columbus, Ohio, based in New York, New York
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Box is an online file sharing and cloud content management service recently introduced to the UIS campus community. It allows users to sync directly to their desktop using Sync similar to Dropbox. In this workshop we will discuss:
Security controls
Online collaboration
Mobile access
Version history
User management
GoToMeeting link: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/join/352476136


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The sky isn't falling: Choice won't kill public schoolsEDITORIAL
December 10. 2017 3:32AM
Giving New Hampshire parents some control over the money the state spends to educate their children will not devastate local public schools.
You knew this already, but last week new studies from groups for and against expanding school choice backed it up.
SB 193 would use state education funds to establish Education Savings Accounts, which parents could put toward alternatives to local public schools.
The Josiah Bartlett Center for Public Policy, a free market think tank, strongly supporting SB 193, crunched the numbers. It found that even if 5 percent of students statewide take advantage of the new program, local school districts would retain 98.7 percent of their current operating budgets to educate fewer students.
New Hampshire school districts have already handled a 7 percent drop in student enrollment since 2010.
Reaching Higher New Hampshire, a group opposed to using state dollars outside of the public school monopoly, tried to make the case that SB 193 would devastate local school district budgets. But its numbers added up to a modest impact.
If 50 students from the Concord School District were to take advantage of the new program by enrolling in private schools, the district would lose just $500,000 in state aid over five years. It would have 50 fewer students to educate, and 50 students would have a chance to receive a better education.
SB 193 would mean more money, not less, going to New Hampshire education. Opponents of SB 193 seem far more concerned with the fate of local schools than with the actual students. Choice and competition will make New Hampshire's schools stronger.


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STOCKTON - Men's water polo coach James Graham is pleased how his team performed during the 2012 season, but he doesn't have much time to reflect.
STOCKTON - Men's water polo coach James Graham is pleased how his team performed during the 2012 season, but he doesn't have much time to reflect.
The Tigers finished sixth at the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation tournament last week and No. 6 in the final CWPA poll released Wednesday. Junior Balazs Erdelyi was named the MPSF player of the year on Tuesday, and Graham hopes he'll be named the NCAA player of the year in June. Erdelyi became the first player to win the award from a non-Pac-12 school since 2007.
"Returning just three starters, it was a really strong year for us," Graham said. "And Balazs getting that honor is an enormous accomplishment. He put in so much hard work and made a jump on both ends of the pool."
Graham will now transition to his first season as the women's coach, taking over for Megan Thomson, who resigned in May. The Tigers have started individual workouts and will gather Dec. 31 for their first practice under Graham. Pacific begins the season Jan. 26 at the UC Santa Barbara tournament.
The women's team went 11-18 and 1-4 in the Big West last season, and Graham said his primary goal for the first season is to make "significant progress."
Coach Ed Sprague announced five signings for the 2014 season, including right-hander John Jaeger from Tracy High and right-hander Will Lydon of Tokay.
They will be joined by outfielder Jimmy Boras of Carmichael-Jesuit, right-hander Jordon Gonzalez of Turlock-Pitman and right-hander Danny Mayer from Downers Grove, Ill.
All five will begin their freshman season when Pacific re-enters the West Coast Conference in February 2014.
Coach Brandon Goethals signed Anthony Infante of Miami, who will join the Pacific golf program after four stellar seasons at Gulliver Prep in Florida.
The Tigers will resume the season Feb. 11 at the Farms Collegiate Invitational in San Diego. The Tigers finished second at the Pacific Invitational last month at Brookside Country Club.
Contact reporter Jagdip Dhillon at (209) 546-8292 or email@example.com.


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Christopher Thompson's Closing the Deal: Why I Quit FacebookCHRISTOPHER THOMPSON
April 27. 2013 11:03PM
Three months ago, I made a decision that drastically changed things in my personal and professional life. I quit Facebook. Since I shut my Facebook account down, I've had a lot of friends and colleagues ask me why I defriended them. I had to explain that I didn't delete them as a friend; I deleted my entire Facebook account.
I tend to be a late adopter when it comes to the latest social media tools. I was late to the world of Facebook and LinkedIn, and although I have a Twitter account, I have never posted anything. I suppose some may call me a dinosaur, but I have my reasons.
Facebook and other social media tools have a lot of benefits. LinkedIn is probably one of the most powerful tools for sales professionals and others in the business world. It allows you to identify business contacts, see their profiles and get introduced to new people and companies. I still have my LinkedIn account and plan on keeping it. And the main reason is that it's a professional networking tool. People keep it focused strictly on business, and that's what it's designed for.
But Facebook is another story. While salespeople and businesses benefit from exposure on Facebook, I just got tired of it. First and foremost, I rarely posted status updates. I wasn't the most active Facebook user. However, I did frequently scroll through the news feed to see what other people were up to. I enjoyed seeing new things happening in people's lives, especially those that I don't stay in touch with on a regular basis. It's a great way to stay connected.
I also enjoyed staying in touch with my large, extended family. I have family all over the world, and it can be challenging to stay close with them. Facebook was a great way to stay connected through messages, pictures and simply seeing what people were up to.
But I also realized that a lot of the people I was connected to on Facebook were people that I don't talk to regularly for a reason. While they are acquaintances, they really aren't true friends. But yet here I was, seeing their status updates, pictures and day-to-day life.
I realized it was really a complete waste of my time. I found myself checking Facebook often, and it was really providing no value to my personal or professional life. I got tired of reading about people complaining and spreading negativity. And what put me over the edge was when I read a status update from someone that was nothing but lyrics from a rap song.
I realized the time I was spending on Facebook was time I was wasting. And it truly was. At that point, I made the decision to quit Facebook.
Sure, I'm not as connected with people as I was prior to deleting my Facebook account. I don't get to see updates from my friends and family. But I am spending my time and energy on other things and not letting useless chatter take away the most precious and valuable asset we all have: time.
I still stay in touch with people. There are other tools - email, phones and texts - that accomplish the same thing. But the difference is that I get to choose whom I communicate with and when. I don't have useless noise flooding my computer or iPhone.
I've also found it interesting that many people feel the same way. While completely stopping Facebook is extreme, when I tell people I did it, they often tell me they have considered doing the same. And I haven't regretted it once.
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John Kerry laid out on Sunday what he called overwhelming evidence of Russian complicity in the downing of MH17 jet and called rebels' behaviour 'grotesque'. 'Time for Russia to get out of Ukraine' | Full coverageworld Updated: Jul 21, 2014 14:19 IST
US secretary of state John Kerry laid out on Sunday what he called overwhelming evidence of Russian complicity in the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 and called rebels' behaviour "grotesque".
Kerry expressed horror at how pro-Moscow separatists at the crash sites in eastern Ukraine treated the remains of victims from Thursday's disaster, criticised Russian President Vladimir Putin, and threatened "additional steps" against Moscow.
"Drunken separatists have been piling bodies into trucks and removing them from the site," Kerry said on NBC television.
"What's happening is really grotesque and it is contrary to everything President Putin and Russia said they would do."
British foreign secretary Philip Hammond echoed the criticism, urging Moscow to ensure international investigators had access to the crash sites. "Russia risks becoming a pariah state if it does not behave properly," he told Sky television.
At the biggest crash site, where emergency workers had bagged dozens of bodies on Saturday, all had been removed on Sunday morning. Bloodstained military stretchers that had carried them lay empty by the road, and rescue workers used a crane to move wreckage to reach human remains trapped beneath.
Read:Rebels to 'guarantee safety' of MH17 crash site monitors if Ukraine argees truce
Read:Time for Russia to 'get out' of Ukraine, say Britain
As Ukraine accused the rebels of hiding evidence relating to the shooting down of the airliner with the loss of 298 lives, a pro-Russian separatist leader said items thought to be the stricken Boeing's "black boxes" were now in rebel hands. With Western anger rising at the apparently disrespectful treatment of the bodies by the rebels controlling the widely spread crash sites, nearly 200 corpses were taken to be stored on a refrigerated train at Torez, 15 km (9 miles) away.
"It's corpses. They brought the bodies overnight," a duty officer at the town's station told Reuters. Officials from the Organization of Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) were able to inspect some railway wagons.
Kerry presents US evidence
Moscow denies any involvement in shooting down the airliner and has blamed the Ukrainian military. While stopping short of direct blame on Moscow, Kerry put forward the most detailed US accusations so far that Russia provided the insurgents with the sophisticated anti-aircraft systems used to down the aircraft.
The United States had seen supplies moving into Ukraine from Russia in the last month, including a 150-vehicle convoy of armoured personnel carriers, tanks and rocket launchers given to the separatists, he said.
It had also had intercepted conversations about the transfer to separatists of the Russian radar-guided SA-11 missile system which it blames for the Boeing 777's destruction. "It's pretty clear that this is a system that was transferred from Russia," Kerry said in an interview on CNN.
"There's enormous amount of evidence, even more evidence that I just documented, that points to the involvement of Russia in providing these systems, training the people on them," Kerry said on CBS.
The disaster has sharply deepened the Ukrainian crisis in which the separatists in the Russian-speaking east have been fighting government forces since protesters in Kiev forced out a pro-Moscow president and Russia annexed Crimea in March.
Read:Australia circulates draft UN resolution on MH17 disaster
The United States has already imposed sanctions on individuals and businesses close to Putin but Kerry indicated that President Barack Obama might go further. "The president is prepared to take additional steps," he told Fox News, although he ruled out sending in US troops.
European Union ministers should be ready to announce a fresh round of sanctions at a meeting of the EU's Foreign Affairs Council this week, said a statement from British Prime Minister David Cameron's office, issued after telephone calls with French President Francois Hollande and German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
"They ... agreed that the EU must reconsider its approach to Russia and that foreign ministers should be ready to impose further sanctions on Russia when they meet on Tuesday," it said. The leaders also agreed to press Putin to ensure investigators had free access to the crash site.
Netherlands 'furious'
While Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko issued a renewed appeal for backing from the international community, some European nations, with an eye to their trade links with Russia, have been less enthusiastic about confronting Moscow.
Kerry challenged the Europeans to be more assertive. "It would help enormously if some countries in Europe that have been a little reluctant to move would now recognise this wakeup call and join the United States and President Obama in taking the lead, and also stepping up," he said.
The United Nations Security Council was considering a draft resolution to condemn the attack, demand armed groups allow access to the crash sites and call on states in the region to cooperate with an international investigation. It could be put to a vote as early as Monday.
The Netherlands, whose citizens made up two-thirds of the 298 on the flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, said it was "furious" about the manhandling of corpses strewn over open country and asked Ukraine for help to bring "our people" home.
A spokesman for Ukraine's Security Council, Andriy Lysenko, accused the rebels of a cover-up. "The terrorists are doing everything to hide the evidence of the involvement of Russian missiles in the shooting down of that airliner," he told a news conference in Kiev.
He said the rebels had taken debris and bodies from the crash site in trucks, tampering with a scene that investigators need to be secure to have a chance of determining what and who caused the plane to plunge into the steppe.
A separatist leader said items thought to be the "black box" voice and data recorders from the airliner had been found.
"They are under our control," Aleksander Borodai, prime minister of the self-styled Donetsk People's Republic, told a news conference.
Memorial and prayers
OSCE observers visited part of the crash site for a third day on Sunday. Just before their arrival, emergency workers found parts of three more bodies and put them in black body bags on the side of a road.
At the site where the cockpit fell, in a field of sunflowers near the village of Razsypnoye, residents had made a small memorial shrine of flowers, candles in tiny jars and brightly coloured teddy bears.
Read:Dutch cyclist escapes death twice on Malaysian jetliners
Photocopied pictures of children and families killed in the disaster, apparently from news coverage of the victims, had been set out on the grass.
All bodies, including that of a woman who had lain naked under a tarp about 50 metres away, had been removed.
"There were five or six over here, and two or three over there," said a young man with a rifle guarding the site, who declined to give his name. "They took the bodies away to the morgue. Firstly, they were decomposing. And secondly, the smell was horrible."
In the Netherlands, prayers were said for the dead. Priests lit a candle for each of the 298 victims at St Bavo's Cathedral in Haarlem.
Fighting, meanwhile, continued. Ukrainian positions were fired on twice from across the border with Russia overnight, the Ukrainian armed forces said on Sunday.
Read:MH17 retired
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To my knowledge, no New York crime drama has ever contained more patty-cake than "Violet & Daisy."
Three times characters play the child's game in this appalling effort from writer-director Geoffrey Fletcher, who won an Oscar for writing "Precious." His cutesy premise features young, innocent-looking hitwomen who both fawn over a pop star's new clothing line and jump on the chests of recently wounded enemies, calling it "the internal bleeding dance."
Pals and partners in murder-for-hire Violet (Alexis Bledel) and Daisy (Saoirse Ronan) hesitate to take a supposedly "easy gig" until they realize the earnings will allow them to buy the new Barbie Sunday dresses, which will, like, totally change their lives in unexplained ways. So they go to kill Michael (James Gandolfini) at his apartment, except he's not there and the girls fall asleep on the couch. When they wake up, Michael's covered them with a blanket. Even after the pair pummels his chair with bullets, thinking he was sitting there, the guy comes out of the kitchen with fresh-baked cookies (and a death wish) and wants to chat. In screenwriting, they call this, "Things that would never happen ever and thus lead to a movie that's not even in the same hemisphere as convincing."
Presenting the film in chapters (such as "4: Violet's Odyssey") as if that automatically makes the overstylized "Violet & Daisy" a fable, Fletcher mistakes flippant smugness for cool and awkwardly lunges for meaning without developing the characters. Bledel's arch and sarcastic instead of complicated, while Ronan, who made a much better teenage killer in "Hannah," is having the worst year of her professional life with "V&D;" and the pathetic misfire "The Host."
The girls wear numbers that indicate their assassin rankings, which seem like foolish, easy ways for witnesses to identify them. They unload bullets without silencers and then half-heartedly worry about forensics while, somehow, no one sounds the alarm after all that gunfire. If the film's meant to be a genre-bending take on the loss of innocence—I much prefer the unjustly maligned "Sucker Punch"--Fletcher should have done more than applauding himself after writing "Diablo Cody" on one hand and "Quentin Tarantino" on the other.
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TOKYO (AP) — Japan marked the 68th anniversary of its surrender in World War II with somber ceremonies Thursday and visits by senior politicians to a shrine honoring 2.5 million war dead that remains a galling reminder of its colonial and wartime aggression.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, whose hawkish views have raised concerns in neighboring China and South Korea, appeared unlikely to visit Yasukuni Shrine, but asked an aide to present an ornamental offering bought with his own money. Two of his Cabinet members, decked out in morning suits, did pay their respects at the shrine Thursday morning.
Instead, Abe joined Emperor Akihito at a ceremony at a nearby indoor arena where they bowed deeply before a backdrop of white and yellow chrysanthemums in paying respects for the war dead.
"I pray for world peace and our country's all-round development," Akihito said.
In the steamy heat of mid-August, the cherry-tree shaded grounds of the Yasukuni Shrine, just to the north of the Imperial Palace in downtown Tokyo, seem an unlikely hotbed of provocation.
A shrine of Japan's indigenous Shinto religion, Yasukuni honors 2.5 million Japanese war dead, including Class A war criminals such as Hideki Tojo, the wartime prime minister who was executed in 1948, and evokes bitter memories across Asia. The grounds also house a war museum glorifying Japan's wartime past.
Visits by past prime ministers to the shrine have angered Beijing and Seoul. Japan has repeatedly apologized for its wartime actions, but resentments linger, nearly 70 years after Akihito's father, Emperor Hirohito, issued his proclamation surrendering to Allied forces.
Today, Yasukuni remains a focus of nationalist pride and is closely associated with the monarchy. Akihito visited the shrine in 1975 before he became emperor in 1989.
North and South Korea marked the surrender anniversary Thursday with ceremonies of their own celebrating their independence from Japanese colonization. South Korean President Park Geun-hye urged Japanese leaders to "show brave leadership in healing wounds of the past."
Abe, who took office in December, has said he regrets not visiting Yasukuni on the surrender anniversary during his first, one-year term in 2006-2007.
When asked if he would go this year, he told reporters, "Since it would become a political and diplomatic problem, I cannot tell you that."
Abe's support for revising Japan's pacifist constitution and raising the profile of its military are compounding the unease at a time of rising tensions over a cluster of uninhabited islands in the East China Sea claimed by both Japan and China.
Hackles were also raised by the unveiling, earlier this month, of Japan's biggest warship since the end of the war. The Izumo, a flat-top destroyer, shares the same name as a warship in the Imperial Navy that was sunk in an American attack in 1945.
"We call upon the Japanese side to honor their commitment to admit and reflect upon their history of invasion, act with care on relevant questions, and through concrete actions, win the trust of the people of Asian victim nations and international society," the official Xinhua News Agency quoted Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei as saying.
In Seoul, South Korea, women who had been forced to work in wartime brothels of the Japanese army, and their supporters, rallied outside the Japanese Embassy, demanding apologies and compensation.
Abe said he would not order members of his own Cabinet to stay away from Yasukuni on Aug. 15, deeming it "natural to pay respects to the spirits who fought for the people of Japan."
"I think each cabinet member should make their own decision in accordance with their beliefs," he said.


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It's one thing to believe that Amazon's Alexa is constantly listening to us, but quite another to worry that she's laughing at what she hears.
Users of Alexa-enabled devices such as the Echo and the Dot have reported hearing the tech giant's ubiquitous voice emit a very real-sounding and unprompted laugh of late. Tweets and reports about the artificial intelligence gone rogue have labeled it creepy and scary, and we can see why.
Short of little Carol Anne speaking from inside the TV in the 1982 classic "Poltergeist," it's tough to imagine something we'd rather hear less than Alexa just chuckling out of nowhere on the kitchen counter.
"Ha ha ha," she says, in a voice that sounds like Alexa + four glasses of wine.
"We're aware of this and working to fix it," Amazon said in reply to a GeekWire inquiry.
How about, "We're aware of this and a team is headed your way with a baseball bat"? as a more comforting response. Or, "We're aware of this and you should really get out of the house"?
Some users even asked Alexa why she laughed, and her reply to that question indicated that she was aware that she was doing it. No one told us machine learning would lead to machine laughing. "Humans. Ha, ha, ha."
The Daily Dot reported that it's likely a "rogue third-party app is running in the background and purposely creeping people out" or that it's possible the devices "are infected with malware."
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Summary: Was 0-1, 1.59 (1 ER/5.2 IP) in 6 appearances in April...held opposing batters to a .125 (2-16) average before being placed on the disabled list on April 22...activated from the DL on July 26, and tossed 1.0 scoreless inning that night vs. Pittsburgh, lowering ERA to 1.35...allowed 2 ER in 3.2 innings (4.91 ERA) over next 4 appearances, from July 27-August 1, raising ERA to 2.61...tossed 2.0 scoreless innings over next 4 outings, from August 3-10, to lower ERA to 2.19...posted a 7.71 ERA (12 ER/14.0 IP) over next 14 appearances, through September 26, to raise ERA to season-high 5.13...tossed 1.0 scoreless inning in final appearance of the season, on September 28 vs. Washington to finish at 4.94...allowed runs in 10 of 33 outings...permitted 10 of 23 (43.5%) inherited runners to score...was 0-2 in save opportunites...allowed just 2 home runs in 33 outings and 27.1 innings pitched...opposing batters hit .299 (29-97), .244 (11-45) against left-handers and .346 (18-52) against right-handers...first batters hit .250 (7-28)...earned lone win of the season on August 25 at Milwaukee, tossing 1.0 scoreless inning...took only loss on April 9 vs. Washington, allowing game-winning homer to Jose Guillen in the 10th...recorded season-high 2 strikeouts on 2 occasions, July 27 vs. Pittsburgh and September 20 at New York (NL)...tossed season-high 1.1 scoreless innings in first appearance of the season on April 6 vs. Atlanta...was 0-1, 1.59 (1 ER/5.2 IP) in 6 appearances before going on the DL and 1-0, 5.82 (14 ER/21.2 IP) in 27 outings after being activated...held batters to .200 (4-20) average in 8 appearances during the day...posted a 2.25 ERA (1 ER/4.0 IP) in 4 outings in July...was ejected on April 17 at New York (NL) after arguing a fair/foul ball from the bullpen...also ejected in 7th inning on August 28 at Chicago (NL) for arguing balls and strikes.
Injury/Rehab: Tossed scoreless 6th inning on April 21 vs. New York (NL)...came out for 7th inning, but threw just 3 pitches, leaving the game with a 2-1 count on Victor Diaz...left game with right elbow soreness...placed on the 15-day disabled list on April 22 with a stress fracture in his right elbow...transferred to the 60-day disabled list on June 24...made rehab assignment with Jupiter from July 21-26...recorded a 3.00 ERA (1 ER/3.0 IP) in 3 outings with the Hammerheads, all against Palm Beach.2004 Set career-bests with a 2.57 ERA, .255 opponent batting average, .322 opponent on-base percentage, and .349 opponent slugging percentage....retired 54 of 79 first batters and had 15 holds...Set a career-high when he posted his sixth win on August 14 vs. St. Louis...Took three of his four losses to Philadelphia, against whom he posted a 2.89 ERA in 9.1 innings...Pitched in a career-high 79 games, topping his previous high of 73, set in 1999 with Florida...ranked 10th in the NL in games pitched, working in one more game than Todd Jones and Guillermo Mota, who tied for 11th...At Turner Field, went 4-1 with a 1.30 ERA, while he had a 4.22 ERA on the road...Posted a 1.64 ERA after the All-Star Break, holding opposing hitters to a .220 batting average...Did not allow a run from May 1-25, going 3-0 in 12 games, covering 12.0 innings...also threw shutout ball from June 16 - July 4, a 12-game, 11.0-inning stretch...longest scoreless streak of the season was from August 28 - September 23, a 14-game span when he allowed six hits in 13.1 innings, lowering his season ERA from 3.23 to 2.61...In his final 25 games beginning on August 17, allowed just four runs and had a 1.19 ERA (3 ER, 22.2 IP, 5 BB, 14 SO)...Took his fourth loss on July 20 vs. Philadelphia after allowing a hit and run in the 10th inning without retiring a batter...First loss came at Philadelphia on Tomas Perez's 10th-inning homer on May 18...Picked up his fifth win on May 15 at Milwaukee, coming in with the bases loaded in the second inning and getting a double play to retire the side...Notched his second straight win on April 18 vs. Florida, throwing a scoreless 10th inning...Had a season-long five-game winning streak from April 10 - May 15, working in 15 games over the stretch. 2003 Appeared in 60 games for the Cubs and went 3-1 with 9 holds and a 5.83 ERA...Over his final 19 games (dating back to August 7), he surrendered 31 hits and 19 runs in 22.2 innings...Picked up victories in back-to-back outings September 12 and 13 vs. Cincinnati; it was the first time he earned wins in consecutive appearances since June 6 and 8, 1999...Earned his first win of the year August 1 vs. Arizona, hurling 3.0 shutout innings in the Cubs' 14-inning 4-3 win; also laid down his first major league sacrifice bunt in the contest...Had another 3.0-inning appearance August 16 vs. Los Angeles...Was activated from the disabled list May 5 after beginning the year on the DL with a strained right hamstring; suffered the injury in a March 18 exhibition game against Seattle...Before rejoining the Cubs, he made 3 injury rehab appearances for Iowa (AAA) - allowing 2 runs in 3.2 innings of work...From May 5-May 13, he pitched in 7 consecutive contests...Was on Major League Baseball's suspended list for 5 games September 7-11 for bumping umpire Justin Klemm September 2. 2002 Antonio pitched in 66 games in his first season with the Cubs, going 2-5 with 19 saves and a 4.00 ERA...His 55 games finished ranked 10th among National League relievers...Went 19-for-28 in his save opportunities...Was successful in each of his first 7 save chances...Pitched at least 1.1 innings 16 times - including a season-high 2.0 innings in 5 appearances...On April 15 at Montreal, he worked 2.0 innings in a 6-4 victory over the Expos; it was the third 2.0-inning save of his career - and his first since July 12, 1998, vs. Atlanta...Helped clinch the game with a 2-run bases-loaded single in the top of the 9th off Matt Herges - his first major league hit...Had 5 consecutive outings of at least 1.1 innings from May 19-May 27...Earned his first win as a Cub June 18 vs. Texas (4-3), throwing a scoreless 9th inning. 2001 Saw action in 58 games in his final season for Florida and went 4-4 with 28 saves, a career-best 3.06 ERA and a ground ball-to-fly ball ratio of better than 2.0-to-1 (115 ground outs, 57 fly outs)...Went 28-for-34 in his save opportunities, becoming just the second Marlin to surpass the 25-saves mark in back-to-back years (Robb Nen in 1996-1997)...Became the Marlins' all-time appearances leader September 22 at Philadelphia, pitching in his 270th game (to surpass Nen)...Recorded his 100th career save September 18 at Montreal (3-1)...An October 1 MRI revealed a herniated disk in the lumbar 4-5 area; underwent surgery October 6 (Dr. Gary Gieske). 2000 Became the first Marlin to win the Rolaids Relief Man Award, finishing with a Major League-high 45 saves and five wins for 125 points... topped the Mets' Armando Benitez (116 points) and the Giants Robb Nen (115 points)... earned the Rolaids Relief Award for June, recording 26 points...Named the 2000 National League Fireman of the Year by The Sporting News...Equaled the Marlins single-season saves record, matching the 45 saves recorded by Bryan Harvey during the team's inaugural season in 1993...Saved a Major League-best 57 percent of the Marlins victories, saving 45 of the team's 79 wins...Led the National League and finished second in the Majors with a .918 save percentage (45 saves in 49 opportunities), behind only Kazuhiro Sasaki's .925 (37 of 40)... was one of only three pitchers in the Majors with a better than 90% save percentage, along with Detroit's Todd Jones (.913)...Finished second in the Majors with 49 save opportunities, behind only San Diego's Trevor Hoffman (50)... was one of 12 pitchers in the Majors with 40 or more save opportunities...Ranked fourth in the National League and tied for fifth in the Majors with 62 games finished, tied for 15th in the NL with five relief victories and tied for 19th in the NL with 68 games pitched...Has converted 66 of 72 save opportunities since assuming the full-time closer role on July 9, 1999... overall, has 74 career saves, second on the club's career saves list behind Robb Nen's 108...Tied for third in the Majors with 23 home saves... led the National League and tied for second in the Majors with 22 road saves...Had more saves than 23 of the other 29 clubs and more saves than the 1994 (30), 1995 (29), 1996 (41), 1997 (39), 1998 (24) and 1999 (33) Marlins clubs...Set a Marlins record with 28 saves at the All-Star Break, surpassing the record of 27 set in the team's inaugural season in 1993...Registered a 2.42 ERA in the 45 games in which he recorded a save and a 3.60 ERA in the 49 games with a save opportunity. ..Tied a franchise record by recording his 45th save on the season's final day, in a 7-5 victory vs. Philadelphia on October 1, allowing one hit with two strikeouts. ..Concluded the season by converting on 14 straight save opportunities, dating back to August 9 at St. Louis. ..Earned his career-high sixth victory on September 26, in a 5-4 win vs. Montreal, retiring Andy Tracy, Vladimir Guerrero and Jose Vidro on fly balls in the 10th. ..Recorded saves in a season-high seven consecutive outings from June 30 to July 13. ..Opened the season with 15 saves in his first 16 opportunities, including 14 straight saves from April 7 through May 28. ..Converted 26 of his last 27 save opportunities dating back to June 30 at Montreal, with his only blown save in that span coming in a 10-5 win on August 5 at Cincinnati, a game in which he earned the victory. ..Equaled his career high with his 21st save and notched his 50th career save on June 21 vs. Milwaukee... allowed one run on three hits and stranded the potential game-tying and game-winning runs on base in a 5-4 Marlins victory. ..Set his new career benchmark three days later, on June 24 vs. the Cubs... ended the game with a strikeout of Sammy Sosa before a crowd of 35,140, the Marlins' largest crowd of the season. ..Became the third Marlin with 30 saves in game 103, when he closed out the Arizona Diamondbacks with a perfect ninth inning on July 29. ..Became the second Marlin with 40 saves in the Club's 143rd game, when he slammed the door on a Braves comeback attempt on September 12 in Atlanta... allowed one run on three hits and then ended the game by inducing Andres Galarraga to ground into a bases-loaded double play. ..Tossed more than one inning in seven games, including a season-high 2.0 innings four times... allowed a total of one run in the 8.0 innings, on April 20 at Pittsburgh, May 27 at Cincinnati, June 17 at Pittsburgh and September 10 vs. Arizona. ..Recorded his first save of the season on Opening Night, April 3, preserving a 6-4 victory for Alex Fernandez over the Giants... allowed two hits in the game, including a solo homer by Ellis Burks. ..Had a 2-0 record with a 1.63 ERA (4 ER in 22.0 IP) and 16 saves in 17 opportunities in 21 games pitched in June and July... was 1-0 with a 2.31 ERA and eight saves in eight opportunities in 11 games pitched in September and October. ..Allowed a career-high seven earned runs on eight hits in one inning vs. the Dodgers on May 21, including a grand slam by Shawn Green and a homer by Gary Sheffield. ..Lost his first three decisions of the year, on April 5 vs. San Francisco, and was defeated in consecutive appearances, on April 26 vs. the Giants and April 29 at LA. ..Won three straight decisions, on June 17 at Pittsburgh, June 25 vs. Chicago and August 5 at Cincinnati, following a 1-4 start. 1999 Selected as the Most Improved Marlin by the South Florida chapter of the Baseball Writers Association of America at the end of the season... appeared in 7.0 more innings and made 15 more appearances than in 1998, while allowing eight fewer runs, four fewer walks, dropping ERA from 4.08 to 3.24 and earning 13 more saves. ..Established career highs with 73 appearances and 21 saves... both totals led club... finished tied for eighth in the National League in appearances. ..Was successful in 21 of 23 save opportunities after assuming the closer role on July 11... was a perfect 10-for-10 in his first 10 save opportunities as the closer. ..Finished seventh in the National League by converting 84.0% (21 of 25) of his save opportunities over the entire season. ..Notched first win of the b99 season May 20 vs. Pittsburgh with 3.0 hitless innings in a 14-inning contest. ..Won four consecutive decisions May 20-June 30, while registering a 4-0 record and a 1.46 ERA (4 ER in 24.2 IP) from May 19-July 3. ..Made first 1999 appearance on Opening Day with 0.2 IP vs. Mets... entered game with bases loaded and one out and worked out of the inning without allowing a run. ..Tied career high with eighth save of the season July 30 at Pittsburgh to close out a stretch where he saved eight games in eight appearances 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Chances are that you or someone you know has been chained to the bed recently with fever, fatigue, sore throat and muscle aches.
Thats because the current flu season is turning out to be a bad one, affecting more people than usual, starting earlier and covering a broader geographical area. Government health experts say 18 children, younger than 18, have died because of the seasonal flu and 2,257 people had been hospitalized with flu symptoms through the end of 2012.
In La Plata and Archuleta counties there has been one case of flu requiring hospitalization, Bari Wagner, an epidemiologist at the San Juan Basin Health Department, said Tuesday.
Cases requiring a hospital stay are the only ones reported to her, Wagner said.
There is flu in the community, however, Wagner said.
The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment has reported 373 cases statewide, Wagner said.
The sense that everybody has is that theres been an extremely rapid increase in influenza, says Trish Perl, co-leader of a flu study encompassing about 100 clinics in several cities. She is also an epidemiologist for the Johns Hopkins Health System in Baltimore. It has been relatively widespread across the United States.
The public should be concerned, says Gregory Poland, professor of medicine and infectious disease at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn.
A decade ago, when we had widespread circulation (of the seasonal flu), we had 70,000 deaths in the U.S., says Poland, who directs Mayos Vaccine Research Group.
For the fourth week in a row, the proportion of people seeing health-care providers for flulike illness is above the national baseline, and jumped from 2.8 percent to 5.6 percent in that time, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. Last seasons proportion peaked at 2.2 percent, the CDC reports.
Twenty-nine states plus New York City are now reporting high flulike activity, up from 16 states the week before, the CDC says. Forty-one states reported in the last week of December that flulike activity was widespread geographically, with that number up from 31 states the week before, according to the CDC.
During the last week of 2012, 7 percent of all deaths reported in 122 U.S. cities were attributable to pneumonia and the flu, according to the CDC. That figure is just below the epidemic threshold of 7.1 percent for the last week of the year.
The medical industry is concerned because this is the earliest flu season the U.S. has seen in the last 10 to 12 years, says Michael Jhung, an epidemiologist and influenza expert at the CDC.
Flu season usually peaks in January and February, according to the Flu.gov website maintained by the Department of Health and Human Services.
The predominant type of flu that is circulating is H3N2 Influenza A virus, which is making up 76 percent of the viruses reported, according to the CDC.
The outbreak has strongly affected the East and the South and is spreading westward, Poland says.
Perl reports from her studies that initially health professionals were seeing a lot of Influenza B, but now they are seeing mostly A as well as other respiratory illnesses, including respiratory syncytial virus or RSV.
H3N2 flu seasons tend to be more severe, Poland of the Mayo Clinic says.
On the ground, the outbreak has sent more people to doctors and hospitals with flu symptoms.
For instance, in Minnesota, 600 people were hospitalized because of the flu, and four people died, Poland says. Among those who died was an otherwise healthy 17-year-old boy who was visiting the Twin Cities area from Texas, according to Poland.
The professor said hes hearing similar stories from colleagues around the country of people who are generally healthy being hit hard.
In Indiana, seven deaths have been associated with influenza, two in people younger than 18.
Its not too late to get vaccinated, and the CDC encourages everyone who hasnt been to do so soon, Jhung says.
Enough vaccine has been produced and distributed so that everyone who wants a shot should be able to get one. He urges, though, that if people run into delays because of a run on vaccine, not to be discouraged.
Herald Staff Writer Dale Rodebaugh contributed to this report.
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