Jaguars hire Seahawks DC Bradley as new coach

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By Josh Katzowitz | Blogger

08:23 AM ET January 17, 2013

A couple days after reports surfaced that Gus Bradley would be the next Eagles coach, CBS Sports' Jason La Canfora and Mike Freeman reported Thursday morning that Bradley and the Jaguars will finalize a deal to make him Jacksonville's next coach.

ESPN first reported the hire, and the Jaguars officially announced it later Thursday morning.

"I am very proud to accept the offer to be the next head coach of the Jacksonville Jaguars," Bradley said in a statement. "Shad Khan and Dave Caldwell expect to win, and that's what I wanted to hear. That's why I am coming to Jacksonville -- to win a Super Bowl. I can't wait to meet everyone in Jacksonville on Friday and get this going."

Bradley, formerly the Seahawks' defensive coordinator, became a hot name this offseason by leading Seattle's defense to the No. 1 NFL ranking in points allowed this season (15.3) and to the No. 4 ranking in yards allowed (306.2) as the Seahawks surprisingly made it to the divisional playoff round.

Bradley is the first defensive-minded coach to be hired as a head coach this season. Though the Jaguars were woeful on offense this season, there's little question that Jacksonville's defense, the 30th-ranked squad in the league, also needs major help.

Bradley had two interviews with the Eagles and, on Tuesday, the Internet seemed to believe his hiring in Philadelphia was nearly a done deal. The the Eagles surprised just about everybody by hiring Oregon coach Chip Kelly.

The Chargers also had shown interest in Bradley, but he ultimately decided to go with Jacksonville. That also was a bit of a surprise. The conventional wisdom said that when the Jaguars hired Dave Caldwell to be their next general manager, he would pursue his former college roommate and the 49ers' offensive coordinator, Greg Roman.

Of course, Roman's team is still in the playoffs while Bradley's team is out.

"[Bradley] has got a brilliant football mind," Seahawks coach Pete Carroll said last week, via ESPN.com. "He's got a way of reaching people and touching people and getting the best out of them, coaches and players alike. He's got everything that you're looking for."

Said Caldwell in a statement released Thursday: "It was just a matter of time before Gus Bradley became a head coach in the NFL, and the Jacksonville Jaguars are extremely fortunate that Gus will be on our sidelines for many years to come. Gus more than met every criteria we insisted on from our new head coach, and his intangibles and leadership abilities are exceptional. Gus is who the Jaguars need now and in the future.?

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How To Increase Your Lead Generation | MTD Sales Training Blog

There isn?t much in sales that?s more important than your pipeline generation. Without leads, you?re dead in the water, and in order to take control of the quality of leads coming through, and manage them effectively, you need a quality system that will back you up and keep those leads coming to you.

Here are some tips on how to generate and increase your lead generation:

Quality Referral Systems. These must be robust and offer both you and the customer opportunities for more business

Guaranteeing Orders Through Risk-Reversal. This means there is no-risk on behalf of the client actually agreeing to your proposal. You should offer a money-back promise if the product or service doesn?t do what you say it will. You should be baring the risks, so the customer feels they can trust you and not worry about consequences if there are discrepancies in performance

Long-Term Relationship Benefits. There should be a system in place that recognises when a client gives repeat and long-term orders. The longer they sign up to you, the better the results for them and the easier it is for you to manage.

Proper Use Of Directed Direct Mail. This means your list has to be well-defined and that you have a really good chance of hitting the prospects who are in the market for your products. A one in a thousand response rate is a waste of your and their time

Effective Telemarketing. Your marketing approach should offer real, tangible benefits to the companies you are approaching, rather than just being a cold-call approach that undermines the morale of those making the approaches

Hold Special Events Or Information Sessions. These free-of-charge events should add extra value to all prospects. It allows them to see what you can offer and makes it a no-brainer to deal with you. It also gives you a great list of prospects that you can nurture

Develop A Unique Selling Proposition. You have to differentiate yourself in ways that will be beneficial to your prospects. These do not include quality, warranties, speed of delivery and such-like. All your competitors will offer the same. No, these are tangible benefits that the client will get from you that they can?t get from anyone else

Increase The Perceived Value Of What You Offer. You do this by showing the results you will bring to the client. The more they see how their business will thrive and grow by using you, the better your chances of doing business. Perceived value is what they get as a result over the long-term, not the cheapness of your product up-front

Better Client Education. Here, you become the partner to your client by showing your knowledge of their market and guiding them on how to exploit opportunities that you, with your wider experience and research, have found lurking in the undergrowth. They may be too close to the ground to see the opportunities that you can see from your higher position

Increase Your Sales Skills. You do this by researching the new ideas of what works and what doesn?t in today?s market-place. If you?re still selling in the same way as you did five years ago, you are being left behind by those sales professionals who have adapted to the new markets and what is now required to drive businesses forward

Qualify Leads Up-Front. Not every lead will be worth the time and effort to pursue.? Be aware of which clients will benefit most from spending time working on, and utilise that time efficiently

Deliver More Than You Promise. Your clients will expect the level of service that?s in your SLA. It?s only by going beyond that level that you will create excellent ?moments of truth?, situations that will ?wow? them and make them delighted they chose you as a partner

Nurture The Relationships Through Quality Communications. This means sending them articles you find that will benefit them, referring them to customers you find on your travels, expanding the contacts within your company and theirs, and making them aware of new opportunities in new markets. This will prove that you?re not contacting them simply to sell more of your stuff?you genuinely are interested in their business success and want them to make more profits

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Colorado town asks judge to lift gag order in movie theater rampage

DENVER (Reuters) - The Colorado city of Aurora has asked a judge presiding over the criminal case of last summer's movie theater massacre to lift a gag order barring police and emergency personnel from publicly discussing the rampage, a court filing made public on Wednesday showed.

Days after the July 20 shooting in which 12 died and dozens wounded, Arapahoe County District Judge William Sylvester imposed a court order prohibiting any party involved in the case, including law enforcement, from talking about it in the media.

Former graduate student James Holmes is charged with multiple counts of first-degree murder and attempted murder stemming from the shooting spree at a midnight screening of the Batman film "The Dark Knight Rises."

After a three-day preliminary hearing last week, Sylvester ruled the prosecution had presented sufficient evidence for Holmes to stand trial.

The city's motion said that because details of the crime were aired in open court, "the evidence has already been revealed to millions of people worldwide." It asked the judge to consider allowing the town's police officers and firefighters to talk about their response to the tragedy.

Holmes, 25, is scheduled to enter a plea to the charges in March. If he enters a not guilty plea, prosecutors have 60 days to decide whether to seek the death penalty.

Movie exhibitor Cinemark planned to formally reopen the multiplex to the public this coming weekend. It has said it is offering free movie passes to survivors, families of the victims and police and emergency personnel who were involved.

(Reporting and writing by Keith Coffman; Editing by Steve Gorman and Philip Barbara)

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Rental properties for $1500 across the U.S.

If you could live anywhere in the United States, where would you choose?

If you?re reading Money Under 30 and you are in fact 20-or 30-something, you probably can?t afford a mansion, and that?s okay! Part of starting off right is living in a place that you can truly afford and saving up money.

Let?s take a look at what $1,500 a month (actually $1,400) can get you throughout the country. You may be thinking, ?I could never afford that!? or ?What? My rent is $2,600!? Keep in mind, this is simply an average we picked to show you how apartment rentals vary widely across the country.

Note that in this analysis of rental properties available, ?rent to own? or ?lease option? listings are not included. If you see an ad for a rent to own property that seems like an amazing deal compared to other rentals in the area, you probably aren?t getting the whole picture.

A Snapshot from Realtor.com

I?ve chosen to use the public syndicated listings and photographs from Realtor.com for the following rental properties. I used Realtor.com because in my opinion, it is much more accurate when it comes to details and is more frequently updated than some of the other real estate websites out there. As examples, however, keep in mind that these properties may not still be available.

New Orleans, Louisiana

For $1,400 per month, you could live in the boisterous and entertaining town of New Orleans, Louisiana, on St. Charles Avenue in the Garden district.

This two bedroom, two bath apartment is approximately 1200 square feet. It comes with basic appliances and although the apartment complex is 50 years old, it is in walking distance to a variety of places to see, shopping stores as well as several elementary and middle schools.

Each apartment has a wall unit for air conditioning, plus the complex features a community swimming pool for those hot days when you need to cool down.

Charlotte, North Carolina

In Charlotte, North Carolina, you can rent a 3 bedroom, 4 bath family home for only $1,375 a month.

With just under 1,700 square feet, you?ll have plenty of room to start a family or create the man cave you?ve always dreamed of. This property also comes with over a quarter of an acre and a two-car garage.

Charlotte is a popular place to work for those in the financial industry, as it is home to Bank of America and divisions of Wells Fargo. If you can get through the chilly winter weather, you?ll find it to be an affordable living place, with a University nearby as well as landmarks such as the Billy Graham library and the NASCAR Hall of Fame.

Boston, Massachusetts

Attention baseball fans, marathon runners and genius college students: Boston, Massachusetts, can become your new home if you can swing $1,500 a month.

At 1,100 square feet, 3 bedrooms and one bath, this apartment in the Dorchester neighborhood isn?t huge, but it?s a historic 1912 building in an undeniably popular location.

Boston is home to a number of medical and research facilities and Harvard University is nearby, in Cambridge. This apartment is not far from public transportation (You?ll be thankful each winter!) and though it has no air conditioning it does have a porch and community laundry facilities. Not a bad place to start your career.

Denver, Colorado

In the iconic town of Denver, Colorado, you can rent a place right on Market Street with all the amenities and both a mountain and downtown view for only $1,440 a month.

?The Martini? at TwentyOne apartments includes a kitchen with an island, a living room and a walk in closet. There is also a parking garage and a fitness center, plus the whole apartment structure is only 3 years old.

The drawback of downtown Colorado living? As with downtown living in most states, the square footage is not so great. This apartment is a one bedroom, one bath and a whopping 784 square feet. Not bad for a bachelor pad, and it?s close to all the nightclubs, stores and restaurants you need, but not exactly an affordable family dwelling.

Riverside, California

If you love the beautiful California coast but can?t afford some of the higher priced areas, consider Riverside.

You can rent a 3 bedroom, 3 bath, 1247 square foot single family home for only $1250 a month. This house was built in 1984, has central air and a two-car garage. There are two stories and a fireplace in the living room.

Although it needs a little TLC (think carpet cleaners), sometimes putting a little money into making a rental property how you want it to be (within the confines of the lease, of course) means you?ll be saving money in the long term by not going with the more expensive property.

How do these properties compare to the one you?re renting right now? How much do decent rentals go for in your area?

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Cook: China will become Apple's biggest market

Apple currently runs 11 Apple Stores in the Greater China region along with a big number of distributors. The company will continue to expand and see the number of outlets in China surpass 25 in the near future, Cook told Sina News in an exclusive interview in Beijing during his visit on Thursday.

The company has been localizing the products in the Chinese market to cater to the needs of local customers, according to Cook, who added he was convinced China would become Apple's largest market in the future.

Cook said Apple launched new products belatedly in China as the approval procedures in the country take longer compared with others.

"We've been trying to coordinate with the approval process and tried to shorten the gap between the launch date in China with other countries as much as possible, which, has also become one of our primary task today," according to the CEO.

He also revealed his deep affection for the country, indicating he had been to China at least 20 times--his first visit being in 1996 before he joined Apple.

Cook said it was Steve Jobs' innovative idea on the iMac, which fascinated him and influenced his decision to join Apple.

He also denied Apple had hit a slump in innovating new products, adding the newly launched iPhone 5, iPad mini, iPad 4, Macbook Pro and iMac in 2012, had all been received warmly.

Cook pointed out he was satisfied with the achievements so far. He noted Apple was the only company that integrated software, hardware and services, and continually pushed up consumer expectations. However, the CEO added Apple had even higher expectations on future products.

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Money Never Sleeps

Zosia Mamet and Alex Karpovsky in Girls

Photograph by Jessica Miglio/HBO.

When last I saw Hannah Horvath, she was killing me softly in her sleep.* It was the end of the first-season finale of Girls (HBO, Sundays at 9 p.m.), and our heroine had drifted off on a Coney Island-bound subway, passing out perchance to screen her own coming-of-age story. Hannah was a young writer in old New York. She was trying to be a personal essayist and trying to be a fully formed person. She was hapless and half-empty, eager to find her place in the world and desperate for esteem, self- and otherwise. You could call her adventures serio-comic if you were willing to let that hyphen do the tricky work of linking the gutting immediacy of screaming matches with freak instances of wry absurdist satire.

The project of Girls is to explore intimacy intimately, and so it often leads the audience to bed and through the dream states created by young love and other street drugs. The pilot introduced the idea that Hannah?s journey involves playing hide-and-seek with herself in the sheets, through sex-play power games with her guy and nutritive spooning with her best friend, and it ended with her pushed from the queen-sized womb of her parents? hotel room, where she woke to a cut cord. Hannah is a fantastic sleeper?an 11-hour-a-night gal ever since she got mono at Oberlin, she says, in a pirouette of self-pity?and series creator Lena Dunham, playing her, choreographs many expressive mattress flops and weary headboard hang-outs.

All of which built toward the end of the first-season finale?one of those conclusions that is especially gratifying for seeming unpredictable before the fact and retrospectively inevitable. Hannah boarded the subway after an evening that had been exhausting and volatile but exhilarating even in its sadness and confusion. She had watched her best friend, Jessa, impetuously marry a probable jerk, and though she had seen her other best friend, Marnie, at the surprise ceremony, it was through the invisible partition of their recent estrangement. Hannah?s last conversation with her love interest, Adam (played by Adam Driver), ended with her unthinkingly hurting him and a passing driver randomly hurting him physically and then him deliberately hurting her?a little chain of vast carelessness.

She boarded the F?and then the sight of it elevating inexorably over what Hannah calls ?grown-up Brooklyn? set us on track to understand that she had nodded off. We have all been there, metaphorically, in our 20s?personally out of service while the system rumbles on indifferent to our vulnerability. When she awoke at the end of line, her purse was gone. When she stepped onto the elevated platform and asked the homegirls in distance where she was, they told her ?heaven.? Her drive to shape the mess of her life into a compelling narrative?to make her mistakes into essays?led her to walk to the beach, to the edge of the city and everything, where the melancholy sand glittered as in Stardust Memories. Hannah had in the immediate moment nothing but a piece of a cake from a wedding celebrating a marriage that was doomed to fail, and she ate it. Hannah licked icing from her fingers with certain satisfaction, digesting material. Dunham?completing the season?s pattern of delicious food scenes, satisfying for a moment her radical creative appetite?presented a portrait of the artist as the girl with the most cake.

Hannah?s adventures continue, at the start of the second season, at a confident pace. It feels as if Dunham has decided that, having gotten your attention, she wants to test it a bit. She has hurried to make waiting a theme, directing shadowed scenes of should-I-stay-or-go suspense and writing the phrase ?blue balls? into anticlimactic nonsex scenes. The conflicts simmer in long scenes of recrimination and rejection. The fast nights of youthful indulgence crawl in a way that may make your skin wriggle as decisions made badly and quickly linger like unwanted guests. Tellingly, teasingly, Girls takes forever to reintroduce the electromagnet of actress Jemima Kirke, who plays Jessa. (But when it does, it?s with the symmetry that is a mark of its style, showing her in a taxi cab, just as we originally saw her, an international hobo dreaming of a stable home.) All of this happens (or doesn?t happen) with the action slack but the atmosphere tense. The early episodes of this season are in a minor key.

But we begin with a return to home, to Hannah?s apartment, where the camera slides up two legs, four legs, three arms?locating two people cuddling like puppies. Hannah used to cuddle with Marnie, before they fell out and/or grew apart and Marnie moved out and on. This is a new leg of Hannah?s race to succeed, belonging to her new roommate, Elijah (Andrew Rannells), who is her gay ex-boyfriend, and this patient examination of intimacy launches with his apology. ?I?m sorry I have a boner,? he says. ?It?s not for you.?

But whose bell does Hannah toll? Adam is still in the picture. She nurses his injuries; he licks his wounds and at the start of things is still giving her something emotionally, in his complicated way, which looks artfully or exploitive seductive, depending on the light. Simultaneously, she is romping around on the rebound, you might say, with a young Republican named Sandy (Donald Glover). Or you might not say rebound, because it might touch off one of the charged discussions that constitute the most interesting part of their relationship: a booty-call alliance between a white liberal and a black conservative.

There is a good bit at the end of the second-season opener?one of the show?s many dance scenes, really?where Hannah, having earned a small measure of self-assurance, goes to one of these guys? apartments and colorfully announces her intent to get it on. She approaches his empty bed steadily, shedding layers on the way, strutting a striptease not for his eyes but for herself and reclining in a foxy posture that is not a pose.

And meanwhile Shoshanna bobbed her hair. I am loving the new haircut of the youngest and girliest Girls girl, a new look indicating instantly that she has become a real woman, in the you-know-what-I-mean sense. Shoshanna (Zosia Mamet) lost her virginity to sarcastic Ray (Alex Karpovsky), as the wedding episode suggested she would.* Back then, they connected after she?distraught by cousin Jessa?s matrimonial leap into the arms of a venture capitalist tool?fumed, ?Everyone?s a dumb whore.? Right now, it looks like that exclamation has implications for the questions Girls asks this season. Hannah?s quest for life experience and literary material leads her to conduct a bad-judgment hookup ?for work?; Elijah likes the way that his rich older boyfriend pays for things and maybe sees a future for himself as a trophy (?Maybe I want to be Wendi Murdoch, maybe that?s the new me?); Jessa looks like woman kept her in own home.

And then there is the interesting case of Allison Williams? Marnie Michaels who, laid off from her position as a gallery-assistant, takes a ?pretty-person job? waiting tables in short-shorts.* In combination with Girls? tightly organized loose chatter about money?Jessa lecturing on the Glass-Steagall Act with the assurance that comes only to the ignorant, Hannah coming on to supply-side Sandy by asking to see not his etchings but his Fountainhead?these conversions of flesh into treasure look like a theme coming into view.

Something about self-worth and commodity fetishism? Or how money never sleeps but moneymakers must? Maybe? I will be among the people thinking it over, just a bit obsessively, as the season goes on. When this show first appeared, I went quite off my head for it in these pages, struck by its emotional rawness and stunned by its artistic composure. When I read that Dunham had bought an apartment across from my shrink?s office, for a delusional moment the purchase struck me as wasteful: Hadn?t she already bugged the place? And when I see the second season of Girls playing its scene of post-collegiate train wreck in slow motion, I am eager to hurry up and wait.

Correction, Jan. 11, 2013: This review misspelled basically everyone?s name. It?s Hannah Horvath, not Hannah Hovrath; Marnie is played by Allison Williams, not Alison Williams; and Ray is played by Alex Karpovsky, not Zosia Mamet.

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Family resets clocks after living on Mars time

Since its historic landing on Mars, the Curiosity rover's mission has been followed by the whole world. One of the mission's team members took a creative approach to balancing work and family by living on "Mars time."

By Alan Boyle

A California family's journey on Mars time had its ups and downs, but NASA flight director David Oh says he's glad he took his wife and kids on the ride.

"My kids loved it, I loved it, and I think it served to bring the family together," Oh told NBC News on Friday.

Oh is one of the flight directors for NASA's $2.5 billion Mars Science Laboratory mission, which sent the Curiosity rover on a two-year quest to determine whether the Red Planet ever had the chemical ingredients required for life as we know it. Each Martian day, or sol, is 39 minutes and 35 seconds longer than an Earth day. So, to stay in sync with the mission's initial phase, the team at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., was put on a Martian schedule for the first 90 sols.

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That meant that Oh's workday quickly fell out of sync with Earth time. To make it easier on himself, and on his wife and three children, the Oh family decided to spend 30 sols on Mars time.

"The kids weren't going to get to see Daddy for long periods of time," Oh's wife, Bryn, said. "It just seemed like the right thing to do,"?

The time warp meant that the family dinner could take place at 4 p.m. PT, or 4 a.m., depending on how the Martian day meshed with their earthly schedule. But it also meant the Oh children?? 13-year-old Braden, 10-year-old Ashlyn and 8-year-old Devyn?? had lots of quality time to learn about what Dad is doing.

"Curiosity's mission is to go try and find life on another planet, which is totally cool," Ashlyn Oh said.

David Oh said the rest of the family switched back to Earth time in September, a month after Curiosity's landing, to get into sync with the school schedule. "It really felt like we all had gone off on a journey, and we came back," he recalled. But the tough part of Oh's journey was just beginning: He had to stay on Mars time for an additional 60 sols, and during that period he struggled to juggle his work duties and family time. He remembered some days when he got just four hours of sleep at a time.

"I was in a state of continual jet lag for the last couple of months," he said.

Finally, in November, Curiosity's mission team shifted back en masse to an Earth-day schedule. It took Oh a couple of days to adjust, but now he's firmly back on an earthly schedule. The kids are clamoring to live on Mars time again?? but that's one trip Oh doesn't plan to repeat anytime soon.

"It's a once-in-a-lifetime experience," he said.

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WOW! Women On Writing Blog: Friday Speak Out!: Reduce. Re-use ...

That 3-R?ed mantra that works so well for aluminum cans and paper also works for writing. I?ll bet you didn?t know that, huh?

Reduce. With my plan you can reduce the number of topics you need to come up with. The number of submissions you can churn out increases exponentially if you simply follow my advice. (Okay, exponentially is a bit of an exaggeration. But the amount of stuff you send out will increase.)

Re-use. Take one writing idea and use it in a completely different way for another market. If you originally wrote it as a piece of nonfiction, put a twist to it and transform it into a fictional piece. If it started out as a humorous piece but there?s a call for a romance anthology, throw in some heaving bosoms and a chiseled Fabio-esque chest, and voila! You?ve got another submission to send out.

Recycle. Send your piece back into the submission cycle. Just because it was not accepted by a particular editor doesn?t mean it?s without merit. Perhaps the tone of your story was not right for that publication. That doesn?t mean it wouldn?t work for a different magazine or collection.

A couple of years ago I got my head stuck in a sink. It happened after my workday was over, in a staff bathroom with a tiny sink equipped with an overly-large faucet. I had a haircutting appointment right after work and was trying to wash my hair so I could save the $5 shampooing fee my stylist regularly tried to trap me with. Writing a creative nonfiction story about the experience ended exactly how that afternoon ended: a scraped scalp and a valuable lesson learned. (Stop being so darned cheap!) It ended up getting published in Not Your Mother?s Book?On Being a Woman.

Later, a different anthology was being developed, and in the proposed title was ?bad hair day? so I figured my stuck-in-the-sink story would be a perfect fit. Unfortunately, these were supposed to be fictional stories. I deliberately did not have my original story in front of me as I crafted a fabricated tale about that experience, nor did I even skim it to reacquaint myself with the experience, because I wanted this new piece to sound fresh and new, instead of becoming a mere rehashing. In the end of this story, a fire truck was called. Hunky firefighters broke down the door and smashed the sink. I got my picture taken with them. My little slice-of-life story became transformed into a totally new fictional story and ended up being published in that anthology by Mozark Press.

So with a new year beginning, banish that much-hated R word (rejection). Take what you might consider your writing ?trash??it?s been published already or it was rejected?and turn it into published treasure by reducing?reusing?and recycling.

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Flu Season By the Numbers: How Bad Is It?

This flu season seems especially bad this year now that Boston has declared a public health emergency and a Pennsylvania hospital was forced to construct a tent to handle flu cases. But doctors - backed up by the numbers - say that this season is a shock partly because we had so little flu last year.

Click here to read Dr. Richard Besser's blog on the flu so far this year.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has reported 22,048 flu cases from Sept. 30 through the end of 2012. By the same time last year, only 849 flu cases had been reported nationwide. That's 26 times more flu cases by the last week of this year than by the last week of 2011.

"In an immediate sense; we were a little spoiled last year," said Dr. William Schaffner, chair of preventive medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tenn. "Last year, we had fewer influenza cases than had ever been recorded before.

Schaffner, a former president of the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases, explained that the dominant virus from 2009 through last year was the H1N1 flu strain, nicknamed swine flu. Although many people came down with it in 2009, most of them had been vaccinated against it by last year, resulting in fewer infected people.

But this year, the flu season started early with a different dominant strain: H3N2.

"This year, we're seeing a lot of H3N2, which you see in the past tends to affect young kids and the elderly more," said CDC spokesman Tom Skinner. "That may be some of the explanation for why we're having more of a severe flu season this year."

Schaffner said children and the elderly are always the most vulnerable to the flu, because they have weaker immune systems than everyone else. Children actually exhale more flu virus than adults when they get sick, and they exhale it longer, making them the "great distributors of influenza virus," he said.

Click here to read our story about why the weather has little to do with the flu.

Seniors are the most at-risk for coming down with flu complications, such as pneumonia, which could turn deadly, Schaffner said. In Boston, the mayor declared a public health emergency after four seniors died after coming down with the virus. It's not clear whether they had pneumonia.

Other at-risk populations include people with underlying heart disease, those who have compromised immune systems or those who are severely obese, Schaffner said.

The best way to protect yourself against the flu is to get vaccinated, Schaffner said, adding that it's not too late.

"This season is stacking up to be a moderate to severe flu season," Skinner said. "How severe, only time will tell."

Despite the 26-fold increase over last year, this flu season is still mild compared to 2009's swine flu epidemic, the numbers show.

When the flu season was first dominated by H1N1, there were almost four times as many flu cases by the last week of December 2009 compared to the last week of December 2012: 80,724 cases in all. Of those, 60,847 were H1N1. There were also 229 pediatric deaths by that time last year compared with 18 so far this year.

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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/flu-season-bad-173208667--abc-news-health.html

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