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LIKE THE SHOE BETTER FINISH I LOVE THE WAVE WALK SHOES, HOWEVER WOULD LIKE TO SEE A LITTLE MORE STYLE. I WORK IN AN OFFICE BUT THERE ARE DAYS I'M ON MY FEET ALOT I WOULD LIKE TO HAVE A LITTLE MORE STYLE IN A FLAT SHOE SO WHEN I HAVE TO DRESS UP A LITTLE MORE COULD STILL HAVE THE COMFORT. I OWN SEVERAL CLARKS BUT I STILL LIKE THE WAVE WALK FOR COMFORT OF THIS STYLE.. August 15, 2014
Quite possibly the best casual shoe I have ever owned! These shoes are now my house shoes, my Capri shoes, my skirt shoes, my going to the gym shoes, etc. They look sharp with any outfit I may be wearing day or night. My only concern is that I only bought one pair! June 18, 2014
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Good shoe, but too tight Shoe should have been comfortable, but too tight. This shoe is well-made, but fit too tightly on my foot. April 9, 2014


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Fantasy Football: The Scout Team's Week 15 fantasy adviceScott Burton
Insider's Scout Team has covered a number of great fantasy football topics this season. As you enter your league's final weeks, here's a refresher on Scott Burton's and Fantasy Scout's wisdom, plus a number of useful projections for Week 15 and beyond.Story | Conversation | December 16, 2009
Fantasy Football: The Scout Team's advice for underdogs in the fa...Scott Burton
Do you own one of those teams that had no business reaching the fantasy playoffs, yet are preparing for a big matchup anyway? Well, the Scout Team has a special strategy to make you a title contender. Plus, unbiased gems from Insider's Fantasy Scout tool.Story | Conversation | December 09, 2009
Fantasy Football: The Scout Team - Debunking the backup QB mythScott Burton
Fear not, Larry Fitzgerald owners, starting QB injuries don't necessarily spell doom for elite fantasy wideouts. Scott Burton explains why before figuring firing up Insider's Fantasy Scout tool for some unapologetic analysis of Week 13 and beyond.Story | Conversation | December 02, 2009
Scout Team: Exploiting availability bias - Scott BurtonScott Burton
Conventional fantasy wisdom often can be distorted for your gain, thanks to a phenomenon known as the availability bias. Scott Burton shows you how before consulting Insider's Fantasy Scout tool for nine bits of unbiased advice for your team.Story | Conversation | November 18, 2009
Fantasy Football: The Scout Team on quarterbacks to buy and sellScott Burton
Scott Burton uses the history of human narratives -- seriously -- to explain why you should be trying to sell Donovan McNabb and other QBs who have thrived in the red zone. Plus, he uses the Fantasy Scout tool to offer advice at RB and WR.Story | Conversation | November 11, 2009
The perfect fantasy football trade offer -- Scott BurtonScott Burton
In harnessing the power of hyperbolic discounting, ESPN The Magazine's Scott Burton provides the framework for the perfect fantasy football trade offer. Plus eight useful projections from Burton's old pal, the Insider Fantasy Scout tool.Story | Conversation | November 04, 2009
Fantasy Football - Take trade offers to extremes - The Scout Team...Scott Burton
If your first salvo in fantasy football trade negotiations is a bit inflated, you'll benefit in the end. It's science. Plus, nine bits of Fantasy Scout's cold, mathematical analysis for Week 8 and beyond.Story | Conversation | October 28, 2009
Fantasy Football: The Scout Team -- Make the first offer when tra...Scott Burton
Scott Burton explains the psychological advantage to be gained by making the first offer in fantasy trade negotiations, then consults with the Fantasy Scout tool for the latest group of players to add, drop, bench or deal.Story | Conversation | October 21, 2009
Fantasy Football: The Scout Team offers Week 6 add/drop/trade adv...Scott Burton
Scott Burton explores ways to manipulate trade partners with some visual help from the animal kingdom and statistical help from his favorite machine, Fantasy Scout. Oh yeah, and Michael Turner is about to unleash the fury.Story | Conversation | October 14, 2009
Fantasy Football: The Scout Team offers Week 5 add/drop adviceScott Burton
Scott Burton consults the icy cold, oraclelike robo-logic of Insider's Fantasy Scout to plan a course of action for Week 5 of the NFL fantasy football season. Among the discoveries: Adrian Peterson won't be the top RB the rest of the way.Story | Conversation | October 07, 2009
Fantasy Football: The Scout Team offers Week 4 add/drop adviceScott Burton
With some help from Insider's Fantasy Scout -- and the rational third of his brain -- Scott Burton helps you sort out fantasy fact from fiction for Week 4. Among other revelations: Joe Flacco's hot start is likely too good to be true.Story | Conversation | September 30, 2009
Fantasy Football: The Scout Team looks at the players Fantasy Sco...Scott Burton
ESPN The Magazine's Scott Burton works with Insider's Fantasy Scout tool to bring you sound, emotionless fantasy advice on when to give up on a high draft pick. If you're a Derrick Ward owner, you're not going to like what you see.Story | Conversation | September 23, 2009
Fantasy Football: AccuScore's projections for Greg Olsen, LaDaini...Scott Burton
What happens when man meets machine? You get the Scout Team. Scott Burton uses AccuScore's Fantasy Scout tool to find top pickups, prime trade targets and busts-in-the-making. On tap heading into Week 2: LaDainian Tomlinson, Greg Olsen and more.Story | Conversation | September 17, 2009
Playing HurtScott Burton
What started as the best year of Jermaine O'Neal's life ended up the worst. And losing was only part of it.Story | Conversation | June 23, 2003
Far From HeavenScott Burton
He's playing in paradise. But Carl English still calls the unforgiving shores of Newfoundland home.Story | Conversation | February 18, 2003

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Four-Links – Frank Sinatra's Zebra car, honeymoon Toyopet, XJ13 wreck and rebuild, fun-size Radio Flyer
* This week, Clasp Garage took a look at the zebra-styled Mustang that George Barris built for Frank Sinatra – specifically for his movie "Marriage on the Rocks."
* One of the many vehicles that was sold at the Lee Hartung collection auction a couple years back, this 1962 Toyopet pickup truck seemed too far gone and was headed for the scrapper, but a curious enthusiast saved it and discovered its remarkable round-the-world history. Japanese Nostalgic Car has more of the story.
* We noted earlier this week that Jaguar's getting into the business of restoring its classic cars, but Jaguar had already rebuilt at least one of its cars – the one-of-one XJ13 – decades earlier, after it took a little 140 MPH tumble, as Car Build Index related the story.
* You've probably seen photos of this giant-sized driveable Radio Flyer somewhere on the Internet. The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner has a little more on why and how Alaskans Judy and Fred Keller built it.
* Finally, Torchinsky over at Jalopnik believes he's found the first car to be sold, advertised, and taken on a road trip: Thomas Rickett's steam carriage of 1858.
Working replica of oldest vehicle in the world to appear at Stan Hywet Concours
Photo courtesy Tampa Bay Auto Museum.
Though it has no seatbelts, headlamps, windshield or taillamps, can only muster about 3.5 miles per hour, and relies on a wooden block for a brake, the Tampa Bay Automobile Museum's replica of Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot's fardier a vapeur – the oldest self-propelled vehicle ever built – nevertheless carries a Florida VIN and license plate, which is good, because it'll hit the road later this year to participate in the inaugural Stan Hywet Concours d'Elegance.
While some debate that it holds the title of first self-propelled vehicle ever built – citing a number of examples including Ferdinand Verbiest's 17th century steam carriage and even designs by Leonardo da Vinci – Cugnot's fardier, which dates to 1769, still exists at the Musée des Arts et Métiers in Paris, as does an original model built to test the idea and the vehicle's original plans. The latter proved useful when Tampa Bay Automobile Museum founder Alain Cerf decided to build a replica of the Cugnot about 10 years ago.
"(Alain) was born and raised in France, and every French child is raised with the knowledge that the French built the world's first car," said Susan Cerf, a spokesperson for the museum and Alain's daughter-in-law. "But he was still curious about the Cugnot. He wasn't sure if it ever really ran, so he wanted to build one for himself to test it out."
To do so, he couldn't very well ask the Musée des Arts et Métiers to take the original Cugnot for a spin. A few years after Cugnot built the fardier, when he and the French military finished testing the steam-powered three-wheeler and found it unsuitable for their needs (likely because it maxed out at two to three MPH and the fire in the boiler needed to be re-lit every 15 minutes or so), it went into storage in the French army's arsenal, then in 1800 went to the museum, which has had it ever since. However, another replica existed that Cerf could get his hands on – a non-operational one in a museum in Germany – and in 2005, that museum agreed to let Cerf borrow it and experiment on it. After fitting pistons to it and getting it to run on compressed air, Cerf figured he could go ahead with his own replica project.
The Musée des Arts et Métiers did allow Cerf and his son Olivier to study and measure the original Cugnot as well as the plans, so for the next six years they pieced together as authentic a replica as possible. The frame and wheels came from France, Susan Cerf said – specifically using the same type of wood from the same region that provided the wood for the original – the giant steam boiler came from Connecticut, and the Cerf father-and-son team took on the rest of the vehicle's engineering and fabrication. They finished in December 2010, just in time to ship the replica over to France for the 2011 Retromobile show.
And yes, the replica does run, as the above video shows. Fed a supply of oak, it'll take about 45 minutes to build up enough steam to reach the 30 to 35 PSI working pressure necessary for about 3 to 4 MPH. "It only needs one person to drive," Susan Cerf said. "But it's pretty slow and cumbersome. It'll go about 100 yards before it needs to be recharged, and the steam and smoke all blow back in the driver's face."
The Cerfs did fit a wooden manual brake to their fardier like the original, but made just one alteration to the design: a water reservoir and manual pump located underneath the driver's seat to keep the boiler supplied with water. Susan said that getting the replica licensed for the road wasn't too difficult – one of the frequent visitors to the museum also happens to work at the Florida Department of Motor Vehicles. Susan also said that she believes her husband and father-in-law's efforts inspired the Musée des Arts et Métiers to build their own working replica of the Cugnot.
David Schultz, executive director of the Stan Hywet Concours d'Elegance, said he anticipates seeing the Cugnot run at the concours. It will appear as part of the concours's Vehicles that Defy Description class, one of several featured classes at the show alongside American woodies, Cords, pre-1929 motorcycles, Pierce-Arrows, and Packard Darrins.
The Stan Hywet Concours d'Elegance will take place September 19-21 at the Stan Hywet Hall and Gardens in Akron, Ohio. For more information, visit Concours.StanHywet.org.
Hemmings Find of the Day – 1924 Stanley Steamer Model 750
By 1924, steam-powered automobiles were outpaced by internal combustion vehicles in terms of price, convenience and performance. Even Stanley's efforts to exploit the car-buying public's fear of the "internal explosion engine" proved fruitless, and by the end of 1924 the Stanley Motor Carriage Company had ceased operations. That makes this 1924 Stanley Steamer Model 750 five-passenger touring car for sale on Hemmings.com one of the last of its external-combustion kind. Restored in 2007, this Steamer is reported to be in mint condition and in "excellent running order," complete with an updated Cruban burner, installed in 1930. Though entirely suitable for an automotive history museum, we hope this example finds a home with a collector who will use the car as it was originally intended, as few things produce grins of amazement from curious onlookers quite like steam-powered automobiles. From the seller's description:
The Stanley Motor Carriage Co. produced several thousand steam automobiles culminating in the 1924 design. This Stanley was acquired in April 1973, by Bob Noble, as he has wonderfully described in his article, "Picking Up a Stanley" to be found in The Steam Automobile, Vol. 15, No. 4 (1973). The first owner was M.D. Hopper, who sold it to George Gleichweit in 1966, from whom Bob Noble acquired it. There is documentation of some service work by Pacific Steam Motors Corp., San Francisco, in 1927. A Cruban Burner was installed in 1930.
On Bob Noble's death in 2007, restoration was completed by his family. The car is in mint condition and excellent running order.
Status: No Longer Available
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Upcoming: Talkin' alternative-power cars with Jay Leno
We've decided to dedicate the October issue of Hemmings Classic Car to the alternative-power cars of yesteryear, so we figured who best to talk to regarding electric cars, steam cars, and even turbine cars than a collector who owns one of just about every alternative-power cars out there: Jay Leno. In fact, he had more such non-gasoline, non-internal combustion cars than we had room in the magazine, so we thought we'd share some of those we didn't print here.
We'll start with Jay's 1909 Baker Electric, above. In Jay's words:
Electric cars were quite popular in the first ten years of the 20th century. New York City had charging stations everywhere. The Baker, like my 1909, could go 80 miles on a charge; they used electric lights and interior lighting when everyone else was using gas to illuminate. It has leather fenders – the carbon-fiber of a century ago. And there's no maintenance on it; even today, all I do is charge it and drive it. This one uses original Edison alkaline batteries–I just wash 'em out, refill them and go.
Women loved electric cars: they were easy to drive, they weren't smoky or greasy, they were quiet, you didn't have to crank them to get started – you just twist a key and go. (Editor's note – Inside, Baker provided a makeup kit and a flower vase; all windows, front and rear, went fully up or down. Comfort, not mechanical prowess, was the order of the day with the Baker.) Rich men bought them for their wives, not for themselves. Even Henry Ford's wife, Clara, had one. But the electric car had the same problem as the Mazda Miata had when it came out – you can't sell a man a woman's car.
Its range is between 80 and 110 miles without needing a recharge – not so different than the pure electric cars of today – but with a top speed of 25 MPH. As time went on, gas-powered cars evolved to become easier to operate – the self-starter came along in 1912, and electric lighting in cars proliferated in the mid-Teens – forcing Baker to cease production of its electric car in 1916.
Apart from its electric power, Jay Leno's 1909 Baker Electric features a reverse-facing jump seat. Electric or not, it seems like a strange option. Today it might be, but it reflected the times. Leno explains:
In the Teens, Christian groups protested two-seater cars; men could take women out unescorted and have their way, or leave them in the woods, or who knows. Back when cars were still new, one of the magazines in my library did an article asking whether a Christian would drive an automobile. To prove you were a good Christian car dealer, you'd install a chaperone seat, or a mother-in-law seat. This way, they could go on a date with you.
It was such a different mindset then. Sometimes you see those seats outside the car on the running board, or hanging off the back; that was the car dealers being wise guys and saying [f-u].
Jay's Owen Magnetic dates to 1916, the first year for the marque (and, curiously, starting the same year that the Baker Electric died). Many consider it to be the first mechanical hybrid, outdating their more contemporary arrival on American streets by more than eight decades.
The Owen Magnetic solved the age-old problem that electric cars have always had: what do you do when the battery runs out? The Owen Magnetic uses a six-cylinder gasoline engine, which turns a 24-volt dynamo which powers the electric motor. There is no mechanical connection between the gas engine and the driveline. It carries its own generator; it's kinda like the Chevy Volt, except the engine has to be running. Start the engine, the flywheel spins and creates a magnetic field. A sophisticated system of relays gets power to the 24-volt dynamo, which turns the rear wheels. Instead of a transmission, it has rheostats, like a transformer on a train – just click into a different quadrant and you go faster. This is pre-transistors, but it goes pretty good. No clutch, no transmission, just tons of torque 'cause it's electric – an electric car driven by a gasoline engine.
Yet servicing was an issue: the relay box came with a strict warning label not to let anyone but an authorized Owen Magnetic dealer open up, which discouraged fiddling shade-tree mechanics. It may have been genius, but at $9,000 (or the cost of nearly four Cadillac roadsters of the same era) there were few takers, and Owen Magnetic was gone by the early 1920s.
Finally, while we profiled a couple of Jay's White steam cars in the article, Jay also shared with us the process behind starting a White steamer:
Steam cars have so much rigamarole to go through to get 'em started. First, you make sure there's air pressure in your pilot and your fuel tank. An air pump runs with engine once you're going; it'll pump air into the gas tank, which will force the fuel forward. This car has no electricity, so everything is mechanical; there's a hand pump in the interior floor. Or, you can attach an air hose to the open bung under the hood, and you can do it quickly with a powered air hose.
Once the interior air-pressure gauge registers sufficient pressure, open the pilot fuel under the car – you can hear the air go through. Then you use a key to open your gas tank pressure. Make sure you have water in the boiler. Force water into the coils – you can hand-pump from water tank, or just use a hose. Once you see water coming out the drip valve, there's enough in the boiler and it's safe to fire up. To preheat the pilot, open the door and introduce a little gasoline by opening the valve that connects to the pilot, then light it. I'm just heating the surface area where the liquid gas comes through, hits the hot metal, becomes a gas and ignites my pilot higher up. I need to transfer all the fire up to there. Fiddle with it. Then open the firing-up valve; this just shoots raw fuel in, and doesn't regulate. Once everything is hot, you can shut the firing-up valve, then open up another valve that will automatically regulate fuel through the flow motor. Once the temperature reaches 700 degrees, then I know I have superheated steam.
The process takes the better part of a quarter-hour or more, so suddenly, we see why gasoline-burning engines found favor. "With a gas engine, you just turn the key and go," Jay said.
For the full story on Jay's alternative-power cars, check out the October 2012 issue of Hemmings Classic Car, on newsstands now.
Connecticut Antique Machinery Association Power-Up to feature antique steam and stationary engines
The Connecticut Antique Machinery Association's 8th Annual Spring Power-Up is planned for May 5. Featuring antique steam engines – both stationary and powering small locomotives – as well as gasoline and diesel combustion engines and plenty of antique tractors, the Power-Up is a visual and aural feast for fans of vintage machinery and engineering at CAMA's Kent, Connecticut, location.
An all-volunteer organization, CAMA is dedicated to the "preservation, restoration and demonstration of antique machinery from our rich industrial and agricultural past." Their collection features industrial steam engines – including one with a 12-foot flywheel, a narrow gauge railway and a five-cylinder Wolverine diesel that was manufactured in 1935 in Bridgeport, Connecticut. Just 150hp doesn't sound like a lot, but the engine is 10 feet tall and hits that 150hp mark at just 300 RPM.
Among other items that are often started for the power-ups are a variety of "hit and miss" single-cylinder internal combustion engines that do not fire on every revolution but only when the engine drops below a certain RPM. CAMA also maintains a collection of antique road-building and earth-moving equipment.
Admission is $5 for adults, $2 for children ages six to 12, and free for kids five and under. Directions to CAMA can be found here.
Ancient 1894 Roper steam cycle to cross the block in Las Vegas
Hey cable TV chopper builders: Think your bikes are edgy and dangerous? How about having a steam boiler mounted to a bicycle chassis between your legs and taking it on a 40 MPH blast through Boston?
That's exactly what pioneering car and motorcycle builder Sylvester Roper did at the dawn of the 20th century. The last effort of his life was the bike you see here – not exactly by choice, however.
According to an account in a June 1896 edition of the Boston Daily Globe, Roper died racing his steam propelled bicycle against a cyclist named Nat Butler at the Charles River track in Boston. Bystanders, "observed a strange pallor in the face of the aged rider before he appeared to lose control of the machine." Apparently Roper was stricken by a heart attack but managed to shut down the steam machine safely as his final act on Earth.
The hot rod bike uses a Columbia bicycle frame with a boiler, burner and steam engine on the right side that drives the rear wheel. A water tank sits over the boiler and a water pump was driven off the rear axle.
Roper is said to have used the bike to make the seven-mile trip from his home to the Boston Yacht Club where he would take the burning coals out of the motorcycle's burner and use them in his steamboat. Upon returning from a voyage, he'd transfer some coal back into the bike and head home again.
If any of this turn-of-the-last century daredevil steam motoring appeals to you, you'll want to keep an eye on the 1894 Roper Steam Motorcycle at Auctions America's Las Vegas Premier Motorcycle Auction January 12-14, 2012, at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino.
The bike is reportedly one of two Roper steamer bikes, the other is in the Smithsonian. For more about Roper and his machines check out the AMA Hall of Fame's web site.
The return of family albums 'n four-speeds
A couple years ago, we put out the request for your car-related family album photos to share here on the Hemmings Blog as part of the Family albums 'n four-speeds series. We've kinda neglected that series in recent months, but – and don't look now – the holidays are soon approaching and with them ample opportunity to rummage through the family albums for cool car photos.
That doesn't mean we haven't received a few in the meantime. Take, for instance, the photo above, sent to us via Paul Francis by Angela Burke, depicting Angela's father, Dennis Dale Moore, and a 1963 Chevrolet in Lancaster, Wisconsin. Paul and Angela sent the photo in for our Chevrolet issue, and while it unfortunately didn't make the magazine for lack of space, it's still a great shot. "I find the photo exceptional not only because of its clarity, but also due to the fact that it is set up like a factory photo from GM," Paul said. "I mean it's just perfect! But as we all know GM would have never allowed a 1961 Ford Country Sedan to be so strategically placed in the background!"
Another photo we've been hanging on to for some time is this one sent in by Whit McFarlin of Lakeland, Florida. According to Whit, the steam-powered 1899 Locomobile in the photo was not just the first automobile in Hot Springs, Arkansas, it was also owned by the lass on the left, Emoline Whittington Wooton, Whit's wife's grandmother. Whit informed us the photo was taken in 1905. "Shortly afterward the car was destroyed in a fire caused by leaving the boiler on unattended," he said.
Got great car photos lurking in your family albums? We'd love to see them. You can share your photos one of several ways: Through the Hemmings Nation Flickr pool, on the My Hemmings pages, by emailing them directly to us, or by snail mailing them to 222 Main Street, Bennington, VT 05201.
1963 Ford Falcon: Steam Power Edition
In a perfect automotive world, history reveals that most of the technology we think of as new is quite old. Electric cars? Ask Detroit Electric (1907-1939) how that worked out. Hybrid cars? Dr. Porsche (1875-1951) himself could have expounded at length. Steam powered the Aeolipile, or Hero engine, 2,000 or so years ago in Greece, the industrial revolution few years later, a few automobiles along the way, and speeding locomotives up until not even that long ago. Only Superman could fly faster. Modern locomotives are series hybrids: a diesel engine powers a dynamo, which generates electricity to turn the wheels.
As combustion is better controlled at constant engine speed, the locomotive churns economically across great distances. Taking a series hybrid and a steam engine into a car was Australian engineer Edward Pritchard, who built a steam-powered 1963 Ford Falcon in the early '70s. The Green Stripe Pritchard Steam Car efficiently burned most any combustible liquid, and drove about just like any other 1963 Falcon. While the Hemmings wood pellet fired 1977 Mercury Bobcat steam wagon is still in the developmental stage, this video reveals a steam powered Falcon that actually worked.
Four-Links – NYC cars, Cycolac, Coronado Speed Festival, first auto race revisited
* Christopher Benton emailed us this week to let us know about his new website, comprised of photos of older cars shot on the streets in and around New York City. He said he likes to hit up industrial areas and neighborhoods off the beaten path – Williamsburg, Red Hook, Long Island City – so expect to see more driveable dreams than six-figure exotics.
* I could have sworn we've previously written about the Cycolac Research Vehicle here on the blog, but I guess we haven't. However, Geoff Hacker, over at ForgottenFiberglass, did write about the CRV this week and included scans of a CRV brochure in his story on the unique clamshell automobile.
* Jesse, the justacarguy guy, headed down to the Coronado Speed Festival last month and came back with a great selection of photos.
* Finally, regular readers may recall our mention of Jonathan Klinger's 365 Days of A project, which he kicked off last year and just wrapped up this week. Looks like he was successful in his goal of driving a Model A every day for a year, and sharing his experiences through his blog. (via)
* One of the selling points for "La Marquise," the world's oldest operating vehicle, was the claim that it participated in the world's first automobile race, though as Steve at Serviside pointed out this week in a detailed and well-written post, that claim is dubious, considering that the race took place many years after the 1878 Wisconsin steam buggy race we wrote about back in June.
"La Marquise" sells for $4.62 million
Images courtesy RM Auctions.
In a way, it's surprising that RM Auctions even bothered at all to put a pre-auction estimate on "La Marquise," the 1884 De Dion Bouton Et Trepardoux Dos-a-Dos steam runabout that currently holds the title of world's oldest operating motor vehicle. As a unique specimen that attracted attention from beyond the bounds of the collector car hobby, any such estimate was bound to be more speculation than educated guess. What's not surprising, then, is that "La Marquise" far surpassed that estimate, ultimately selling for $4.62 million Friday night.
Bidding for the De Dion at RM's Hershey auction started at $500,000, quickly jumped to the seven-figure mark, and steadily increased between two in-attendance bidders until about the $4 million mark, when one dropped out. The winning bid of $4.2 million (the sale price includes a 10 percent buyer's premium), however, appeared to have come from a proxy bidder for a buyer whose identity has so far eluded even the most knowledgeable sources.
As RM Auctions noted in its press release, the buyer will be just the fifth owner of "La Marquise" in the De Dion's 127-year history. It came to the auction from the estate of the late John O'Quinn with a pre-auction estimate of $2 million to $2.5 million.
While no other cars at the Hershey auction sold for seven figures, nearly a dozen sold for more than six figures, helping push the total sale amount at Hershey to $10,065,200. Rounding out the top five sales of the auction:
1912 Mercedes 28/50 PS Town Car – $253,000
1938 Lincoln Model K Convertible Victoria – $203,500
1935 Packard Twelve Coupe Roadster – $181,500
1930 Cord L-29 Boattail Speedster – $165,000
For results from the Hershey sale, visit RMAuctions.com.
UPDATE: The History Blog found this clip from Great Cars TV showing "La Marquise" running:
And Howard Kroplick over at his blog on the Vanderbilt Cup Races recorded some video of "La Marquise" entering the RM stage and the subsequent bidding:


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A mysterious Asus device called the Qube with Google TV Dongle has just been spotted making its way through the FCC, and a close look at the documentation reveals that it is designed to be paired with a separate set-top box named the Qube. There are already several products using Google's fledgling smart TV operating system, but the Qube may be much more than that. A source of ours suggests that the Qube is a Nexus device that Google will launch this upcoming January, and that it is the reason why the company's Nexus Q streamer has vanished from the face of the earth.
It's hard to know too much about the Qube, as the FCC filing is not about the device, but rather a wireless dongle that connects to it over USB. There aren't even any pictures of what this dongle looks like — there are only photos of the internals (above) — and it's possible that it will only interface with the Qube internally. However, it's clear from the imagery that the dongle does not have a processor, and therefore could not simply be plugged into a television and run Google TV. It does, however, have Wi-Fi and RF connectivity, the latter being for a wireless keyboard and touchpad which would presumably be used to control the Qube.
Aside from the dongle, two apps designed for the Qube have made it onto the Google Play store, called O!Mobile Remote and O!Mobile Control Center. The remote app appears to simply be part of the Control Center, which also offers a "cloud media streaming service." The two apps aren't particularly attractive, and have a decidedly prototype look to them. It's not clear why or how both of them have been published to Google Play so soon, but we suspect that they'll be removed shortly.
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Rented this property for my group of friend's annual fishing trip. What caught us was the enormous deck (two-tier with around 2000 sq ft) with the large hot tub. From the deck you can see most of the mountain side and the lake. It's a particularly great view at sunrise/sunset. In addition the property had a good amount of common area and plenty of sleeping room (one very large master bedroom upstairs and three good sized bedrooms down stairs). I also found the owners to be very responsive and considerate. When we first checked in we noticed that the hot tub water was discolored so I gave the owner a call. He was very apologetic and was able to get some folks over to the house within 45 minutes. The only things that kept me from giving them the full five stars was the upstairs AC seemed to be under-powered as the living room stayed pretty hot and the freezer wasn't able to get too cold as we had some ice cream that we stored in the freezer melt on us over the course of the weekend. All in all, nothing that we couldn't live through and happy with the overall experience.
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So is the official clock of the nation, set from the time from when kids get shot to when we can have gun tv shows again, 4 months?...
I'm just curious, so I can plan to ship out or go on vacation after the next mass shooting, avoid the BS drama next time.
America has fought wars across the globe, because we kept our firearms while others let dictators take theirs...
I live in KY and go to Knob Creek Range 2-3 times a month. The show is very poorly done. Cheap feeling to the acting. The range is the best outdoor range to shoot at in the area. The family are very nice people. I agree that this only stands to drive up prices.
If guns kill people, mine are defective.
It's on CMT. Interesting show if you like to see thing blow up!!!
ok this the first time I've heard about this show. I've been to the range a few times over the years usually when i can't find a gun at keenes, but I missed the last shoot.
Is the show any good?
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If you go CMT.com you can see two full episodes and some other clips.http://www.cmt.com/show/guntucky/series.jhtml
Shows ok but it's to rehearsed. If you like to see stuff blown up then this shows for you
Thanks for informing us of the tv series. Been wanting to go there myself for some time. I wish we had one in Florida. Below is a video of what is showcased twice a year at Knob Creek.
Been a couple times, it's about an hour or so away, it's a great range, the show however... Is horrendous, the acting is poor and it makes us all look like hillbillies.
I also agree that all it will do is drive prices up. We'll see, I'm heading down for the day next month.
What's a membership run there? Ill be wanting to have an outdoor range when I move to Jefferson county. Hopefully bullit county.
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A junior high school class led by teacher Autrijus Tang worked together to make a Perl clone of the bot-battling game "A.I. Wars", now available on CPAN as the Games::AIBots module.
Forgive me for filing this under "education" rather than "games", but as a firm believer that the latter can lead to the former, seeing projects like this pleases me very much. I haven't knowingly run into a CPAN module attributed to a classful of students before this, either.
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Payments provider Square is in the process of raising capital at a $6 billion valuation, according to sources familiar with the matter.
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Eliminate the Witnesses: Committee to Protect Journalists Criticizes Mubarak's Policy of Attacking and Silencing Journalists in EgyptThe Mubarak regime's violent crackdown has included deliberate targeting of journalists covering the protests across Egypt. News outlets including Al Jazeera, CBS News, ABC News, Fox News, CNN, BBC, the Washington Post, the New York Times, Australian Broadcasting, Danish TV2 News and Swiss television have reported assaults, intimidation or arrests of their workers. We speak to Frank Smyth with the Committee to Protect Journalists, who reports...Feb 04, 2011 | Story
Video Report on the Battle for Tahrir: An Inside Look at How Pro-Democracy Activists Reclaimed Tahrir Square After Attacks by Mubarak ForcesOn Thursday, pro-democracy activists ventured back to Tahrir Square, to reclaim the downtown Cairo public space, which had become a battleground in the effort to oust President Hosni Mubarak. Democracy Now! producers Sharif Abdel Kouddous and Hany Massoud walked through the streets, talking with Cairo residents—many who were injured from the attacks the day before—and witnessed the efforts to clean up the trash and rock-filled square while...Feb 04, 2011 | Story
Day of Departure: Massive Demonstrations Across Egypt Aim to Oust Mubarak. Sharif Abdel Kouddous Reports Live from CairoHundreds of thousands of Egyptian pro-democracy protesters have returned to Cairo's Tahrir Square in defiance of violent attacks from supporters of President Hosni Mubarak in the last two days. The New York Times reports the Obama administration has opened talks with Egyptian officials on Mubarak's immediate resignation. The proposal under discussion would see Vice President Omar Suleiman lead a transitional government before elections...Feb 04, 2011 | Story
Eyewitnesses to a Massacre: Reports from Inside Tahrir Square as Pro-Mubarak Forces Open Fire on ProtestersJust before dawn in Cairo today pro-government forces opened fire at Tahrir Square, the site of anti-Mubarak protests for the past 10 days. Minutes after the attack began, Democracy Now! spoke with Egyptian protesters Mona El Seif and Selma Tarzi inside Tahrir Square. [includes rush transcript]Feb 03, 2011 | Story
A Battle for Democracy: Sharif Abdel Kouddous Reports on How Anti-Government Protesters Are Resisting the Mubarak's Regime CrackdownEgyptians vowing to oust President Hosni Mubarak continue to occupy the streets in Cairo today as pro-democracy crowds stand up to violent Mubarak forces. Reporting from a rooftop, Democracy Now! senior producer Sharif Abdel Kouddous describes the scene on the 6th October Bridge, where he reports pro-democracy activists are standing their ground on the "frontline of the struggle" for democracy. [includes rush transcript]Feb 03, 2011 | Story
On Wednesday, University of California-Davis Professor Noha Radwan joined Democracy Now! for an interview from a studio in downtown Cairo. Just after finishing the interview, she was attacked in the streets. "I got attacked by the mob and beaten half to death by the Mubarak thugs, who were happy to snatch my necklaces off my neck and to rip my shirt open," Radwan said. We speak to her again today by telephone, asking her to describe what happened....Feb 03, 2011 | Story
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"The True Face of Hosni Mubarak" is Now Being Televised Across the World: Democracy Now! Reports Live from Downtown CairoViolent clashes continue in Egypt. The most recent reports out of Cairo show that seven demonstrators have been killed and more than a thousand injured. Many of the pro-Mubarak agitators have been shown to be undercover security forces. In Tahrir Square, the epicenter of the uprising, thousands of Egyptians remain peaceful and defiant. We get a live report from Democracy Now! senior producer Sharif Abdel Kouddous, who is on a rooftop near the...Feb 03, 2011 | Story
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Portraits of the kindest people I have ever met whilst living in Tanzania, serving in the Peace Corps.
Peace Corps Volunteers John Hart and Caroline Lucas helped launch a women-owned small business in Armenia selling and producing handmade stuffed bears. Since the Berd Bear project started in March 2011, the women have sold 230 bears, and generated thousands of dollars.
"The women of Berd are incredibly talented and hardworking. They put a lot of pride into their craft, which is evident in each carefully and lovingly handmade bear," said Lucas. "As sales of the Berd Bear increase, more local Armenian women are able to work in full-time positions with the BWRCF."
Additional income generated by sales of the Berd Bear is used to provide members of the foundation with training classes in basic computer skills, business development and other topics.
"Aside from the financial benefits generated by bear sales, the women are also gaining business and leadership skills," continued Lucas. "Now, these women can help support their families."
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I slept under a bed net every night for over a decade. And, actually, they were a pain in the neck to sleep under.
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I took this photo in August, 2011, in Moldova, at my Romanian tutor's home. My tutor, her husband (pictured), and I spent the day in the garden collecting fresh fruits and veggies to prepare for an afternoon feast that we would all help prepare. Gheorghe made me try every vegetable and fruit their garden had to offer. Here, he just tasted a cucumber and was giving it to me for an official taste test. It was delicious!
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In honor of Black History Month, we wanted to recognize African American leaders who exemplify City Year's refreshed organizational values.
1) Service to a Cause Greater than Self: We dedicate ourselves to addressing shared civic challenges through unified action.
Aaron S. Williams, Director of the Peace Corps, is a perfect example of this City Year value. Williams served in the Peace Corps from 1967-1970 and then became the coordinator of minority recruitment and project evaluation officer for the Peace Corps in his hometown of Chicago from 1970-1971. Williams has also done a lot of work supporting international development all over the world outside of the Peace Corps as well.
To learn more about Aaron Williams, click here.
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We received 29 computers from a donor in Australia for the computer lab at one of our primary schools. Woody got a few of them set up in time to have an "impromptu" opening of the new computer lab after school just to allow the kids to check out the computers.
Unfortunately due to a wiring mismatch with the electrical sockets, we only had enough working outlets to be able to get two computers running. But, after letting a few kids into the lab to try out the computers, we soon realized that they were very excited to use the computers. We let them play typing tutor games and demonstrated to them where to hold their fingers on the keyboard.
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While walking in Jozani Forest, Zanzibar in April 2011, I was able to capture many photos of these Old World monkeys, yet this was the only one who did not seem frightened as I approached.
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Well were officially in the second trimester! Were 14 weeks and 2 days! Everything is going great went to the dr at 12 weeks and heard the heartbeat again, im showing more and more each week! This 3rd baby thing is crazy, how big you get so fast =) My official due date is May 4th! Hope everyone is doing well and sticky baby vibes to you all!
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How exciting! I'm glad to hear everything is going so well for you. Thanks for the update.
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Awesome news Amanda! Thanks for checking in and letting us know how you are. Come back again soon and share again please :)
Big hugs, Jasmine
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gosh that seems to have come round quick! well done so far xx


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The Quinta de Boa Vista park is far away from the celebrations in Copacabana Beach, where thousands gathered Saturday to hear Pope Francis speak. But the park is attracting a crowd of young people.
Kiosks for religious orders like the Carmelites, the Franciscans and the Legion of Mary line the park. It looks like a job fair, and in a way, it is.
Nuns from the Imacculate Conception of Our Lady of Lourdes dance around in front of their stand, to the banging of drums and the strumming of a guitars.
The point of all this? To recruit new members to their orders.
Fewer and fewer young people are willing to give up their worldy lives these days to become monks, nuns and priests. Recent Vatican figures show a dramatic decline: There are 300,000 fewer nuns and priests in religious orders than there were 40 years ago. Nuns in particular have been hard hit, but so has the pope's own order, the Jesuits, whose numbers have halved since the 1970s.
More than 130 orders and groups are represented at the park event. Everyone is trying to capatilize on the new pope's popularity. With over one million young Catholics from all over the world in town for World Youth Day celebrations, the various orders are pulling out all the stops to get young Catholics interested in working for the church.
The priests of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, for example, are trying to get an edge by distributing free cake. Their stall is being mobbed.
Like any good sales event, The tactic is to lure them in and keep them talking.
Brother Jose Manuel has his pitch down pat. "We have a big operation here in Brazil," he says in Portuguese. "We are known as communications specialists, but we do eduation, charity work social work. We run orphanages for street children, also."
Russell Abdullah, 22, from Orange County, California, looks like a surfer, but in a few months he'll join the Norbatine order. He says his friends wonder why.
"Some people are attracted to becoming a lawyer or a doctor or something like that," says Abdullah. "I'm kind of attracted to becoming a priest. You see what they do — they help people, they council people, they bring the sacrements to people, they bring people closer to a higher good. which is god and is love."
His friend, Kevin Griego, is also considering joining an order. Griego, 23, says the way it works is kind of like an internship, although thats not what its called.
"They way they might intern you is you might spend a week at monostary or at the abby and live their life for like a week or a weekend," Griego says. "Just pray with them, work with them and serve the poor with them, do whatever they do, and then that's how you get an idea if it's something you are fit for or not."
So he's making the rounds here, talking to people. The different groups are getting his details and then later they will follow up with an email or a phone call. Griego says he's more attracted by the contemplative orders.
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Suelani Martins was among them. When asked if it made her any more likely to join the order she replied, diplomatically, "No. I'm just looking around trying to understand, but god hasn't touched my heart for that. No."


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Chicken Kiev time. Holli and Autumn bring the dishes up, although Autumn is decidedly worried about whether the chicken is cooked. She puts on a pretty convincing smile, though. The blue dish is a pair of chicken meatballs, which Autumn claims is an inside-out Chicken Kiev. Gordon is not impressed with the concept and asks whose idea it was. Salvatore admits that it was his. And one of the balls is pink (oh, grow up!) so obviously they lose. Holli's is fine and they win, tying the challenge.
Trout Almondine. Benjamin vs. Jay. Benjamin's is deemed "mild" and "very good". Jay's gets no description. The two diners split between the dishes. So Gordon will break the tie, which seems like sort of an obvious move. After a million hours of stalling, he gives the edge to the red team. Because he wants to pretend that his brilliant idea of sticking Benjamin on the team fixed their leadership problem.
There's yet another costume involved as the red team receives bowling shirts for their '50s-themed reward. The blue team will be blowing up balloons and putting up decorations. Nilka claims that having Benjamin means that they now have LeBron James on their team. Okay, first of all, Benjamin is a little too scrawny to pull that off. And second, LeBron hasn't won anything yet.
Up in the patio, Jay tells Salvatore that he cost the team the win, and that he shouldn't propose chicken meatballs if he doesn't know how to make them. Then it's time to start decorating the dining room, Ed takes charge of the dance floor assembly. He does appear to know what he's doing. As the red scene walks through the dining room, Nilka brags about how great the red team is. Yeah, they won a narrow victory because Salvatore undercooked some chicken. Whoopee. Then they get in convertibles and go out to a carhop of some sort. The sort with rollerskating, miniskirted waitresses. It's kind of awful. Then the waitresses make the chefs dance in a line with them and it gets a real Hooters vibe.
Back at the dining room, Autumn is bossing everyone around, telling them how to tie off balloons and do various other simple tasks. Then it's cake time! Ed and Jay both claim they don't know how to cut cakes. Just shut up and do it already. Meanwhile, the red team is trying to enjoy their novelty oversized margaritas when they're interrupted by the waitresses insisting that they have a hula hoop contest. Siobhan is the only one who's any good at it, and I cannot believe I have to tell you which chef is good at hula-hooping. This is stupid. As is the terrible makeup on the waitresses. What an awful reward. "You win! Um... there's a theme restaurant down the street. Gordon won't be there. Enjoy!"


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In England, several recent campylobacter outbreaks have been associated with poultry liver consumption. Following a lunch event in a hotel in Surrey in November 2013 where chicken liver parfait was served, guests reported having gastrointestinal symptoms. A retrospective cohort study showed 46 of 138 guests became unwell, with a median incubation period of two days and for 11 cases campylobacter infection was laboratory confirmed. Food item analysis identified an association between illness and consumption of roast turkey (aOR=3.02 p=0.041) or jus (aOR=3.55 p=0.045), but not with chicken liver parfait (OR=0.39 p=0.405). The environmental risk assessment did not identify non-compliance with standard food practice guidelines. This study presents a point-source outbreak of campylobacter with a high attack rate and epidemiological analysis results show that the jus or roast turkey was the likely source of infection although this could not be confirmed by the environmental assessment. Consuming the chicken liver dish was not a risk factor for developing symptoms as was initially hypothesised. Prior knowledge on the association between poultry liver food items and campylobacter outbreaks should not overly influence an outbreak investigation to ensure the true aetiology is identified and on-going public health risk is minimised.
Background. A seroprevalence survey carried out in four counties in the Tampa Bay area of Florida provided an estimate of cumulative incidence of infection due to the 2009 influenza A (H1N1) as of the end of that year's pandemic in the four counties from which seroprevalence data were obtained
Methods. Excess emergency department (ED) visits for influenza-like illness (ILI) during the pandemic period (compared to four non-pandemic years) were estimated using the ESSENCE-FL syndromic surveillance system for the four-county area.
Results. There were an estimated 44 infections for every ILI ED visit. Age-specific ratios rose from 19.7 to 1 for children aged <5 years to 143.8 to 1 for persons aged >64 years.
Conclusions. These ratios provide a way to estimate cumulative incidence. These estimated ratios can be used in real time for planning and forecasting, when carrying out timely seroprevalence surveys is not practical. Syndromic surveillance data allow age and geographic breakdowns, including for children.
Foodborne diseases cause an estimated 48 million illnesses each year in the United States, including 9.4 million caused by known pathogens. Real time detection of cases and outbreak sources are important epidemic intelligence services that can decrease morbidity and mortality of foodborne illnesses, and allow optimal response to identify the causal pathways leading to contamination. For most outbreaks associated with fresh produce items, outbreak source detection typically occurs after the contaminated produce items have been consumed and are no longer in the marketplace.
We developed a probabilistic model for real time outbreak source detection, prediction of outbreaks, and contamination-prone area mapping with the aim of developing a cyber-infrastructure to support this activity. The model's inputs include environmental, trade and epidemiological dynamics. Because effective distance reliably predicts disease arrival times we estimate the distance of outbreak sources from spatio-temporal patterns of foodborne outbreaks. As a case study we consider the 2013 Cyclospora outbreaks in the USA that were related to contaminated fresh produce (cilantro and fresh salad mix) from Mexico. We are able to match case distributions related to both food commodities and determine their outbreak sources with an average accuracy of 0.93. Assuming a similar pattern of contamination for 2014, with predictions of rainfall and temperature for the 2014 summer we predict a prevalence 15% higher than 2013.
The study aims to provide a methodological framework to evaluate environmentally sensitive food contamination and assess interdependencies of socio-environmental factors causing contamination. We emphasize the linkage of patterns and processes, the positive role of uncertainty, and challenge the belief that information about the whole food supply chain is needed for traceback analysis to be useful for identifying likely sources. Our specific prediction for 2014 strongly emphasizes the need for real-time surveillance to identify and respond to this pending outbreak.
While initial phylogenetic analyses concluded to Guinea 2014 EBOV falling outside the Zaïre lineage (ZEBOV), a recent re-analysis of the same dataset by Dudas and Rambaut (2014) suggested that Guinea 2014 EBOV actually is ZEBOV. Under the same hypothesis as used by these authors (the molecular clock hypothesis), we reinforce their conclusion by providing a statistical assessment of the location of the root of the Zaïre lineage. Our analysis unambiguously supports Guinea 2014 EBOV as a member of the Zaïre lineage. In addition, we also show that some uncertainty exists so as to the location of the root of the genus Ebolavirus. We release the software we used for these re-analyses. RootAnnotator allows for the easy determination of branch root posterior probability from any posterior sample of clocked trees and is freely available at http://sourceforge.net/projects/rootannotator/.
In June-July 2013, six counties notified the Swedish Institute for Communicable Disease Control of enterohaemorrhagic E.coli (EHEC) infections among attendees at a hotel in Dalarna, Sweden. An outbreak control team investigated to identify the source and implement control measures.
We included individuals who attended the hotel between June 19th-25th in a cohort. We asked them about animal contact, swimming, and consumption of food items during this time using a questionnaire. A confirmed case was an EHEC O157:H7 outbreak strain positive individual who developed abdominal pain or diarrhoea between June 20th-July 2nd. We described the outbreak in time, place and person, calculated risk ratios (RR) and 95% confidence intervals (CI). We investigated the kitchen, tested and traced back implicated food items.
172 individuals responded. We identified 19 confirmed cases (Median age: 17 years, 64% female) with symptom onset between June 22nd-27th. Eating green salad on June 20th was associated with illness (RR:3.7;CI:1.3–11). The kitchen mixed green salads without records and destroyed leftovers immediately. Hence we could not conduct trace-back or obtain microbiological confirmation.
Green salad contaminated before entering the kitchen was the likely outbreak source. We recommended early collaboration with food agencies and better restaurant records to facilitate future investigations.
Background: For the first time, an outbreak of chikungunya has been reported in the Americas. Locally acquired infections have been confirmed in fourteen Caribbean countries and dependent territories, Guyana and French Guiana, in which a large number of North American travelers vacation. Should some travelers become infected with chikungunya virus, they could potentially introduce it into the United States, where there are competent Aedes mosquito vectors, with the possibility of local transmission.
Methods: We analyzed historical data on airline travelers departing areas of the Caribbean and South America, where locally acquired cases of chikungunya have been confirmed as of May 12th, 2014. The final destinations of travelers departing these areas between May and July 2012 were determined and overlaid on maps of the reported distribution of Aedes aeygpti and albopictus mosquitoes in the United States, to identify potential areas at risk of autochthonous transmission.
Results: The United States alone accounted for 52.1% of the final destinations of all international travelers departing chikungunya indigenous areas of the Caribbean between May and July 2012. Cities in the United States with the highest volume of air travelers were New York City, Miami and San Juan (Puerto Rico). Miami and San Juan were high travel-volume cities where Aedes aeygpti or albopictus are reported and where climatic conditions could be suitable for autochthonous transmission.
Conclusion: The rapidly evolving outbreak of chikungunya in the Caribbean poses a growing risk to countries and areas linked by air travel, including the United States where competent Aedes mosquitoes exist. The risk of chikungunya importation into the United States may be elevated following key travel periods in the spring, when large numbers of North American travelers typically vacation in the Caribbean.
A female resident of Townsville, Queensland, Australia has been diagnosed with Zika virus infection following a recent trip to the Cook Islands. An initial serum sample collected in March, 2014 was positive by two separate Zika virus TaqMan real-time RT-PCRs and a pan-Flavivirus RT-PCR. Nucleotide sequencing and phylogenetics of the complete Cook Islands Zika virus envelope gene revealed 99.1% homology with a previous Cambodia 2010 sequence within the Asian lineage. In addition, IgG and IgM antibody seroconversions were detected between paired acute and convalescent phase sera using recombinant Zika virus serology assays. This is the first known imported case of Zika virus infection into northern Queensland where the potential mosquito vector Aedes aegypti is present and only the second such reported case diagnosed within Australia.
We have identified environmental and demographic variables, available in January, that predict the relative magnitude and spatial distribution of West Nile virus (WNV) for the following summer. The yearly magnitude and spatial distribution for WNV incidence in humans in the United States (US) have varied wildly in the past decade. Mosquito control measures are expensive and having better estimates of the expected relative size of a future WNV outbreak can help in planning for the mitigation efforts and costs. West Nile virus is spread primarily between mosquitoes and birds; humans are an incidental host. Previous efforts have demonstrated a strong correlation between environmental factors and the incidence of WNV. A predictive model for human cases must include both the environmental factors for the mosquito-bird epidemic and an anthropological model for the risk of humans being bitten by a mosquito. Using weather data and demographic data available in January for every county in the US, we use logistic regression analysis to predict the probability that the county will have at least one WNV case the following summer. We validate our approach and the spatial and temporal WNV incidence in the US from 2005 to 2013. The methodology was applied to forecast the 2014 WNV incidence in late January 2014. We find the most significant predictors for a county to have a case of WNV to be the mean minimum temperature in January, the deviation of this minimum temperature from the expected minimum temperature, the total population of the county, publicly available samples of local bird populations, and if the county had a case of WNV the previous year.
Public health risk communication during emergencies should be rapid and accurate in order to allow the audience to take steps to prevent adverse outcomes. Delays to official communications may cause unnecessary anxiety due to uncertainty or inaccurate information circulating within the at-risk group. Modern electronic communications present opportunities for rapid, targeted public health risk communication. We present a case report of a cluster of invasive meningococcal disease in a primary school in which we used the school's mass short message service (SMS) text message system to inform parents and guardians of pupils about the incident, to tell them that chemoprophylaxis would be offered to all pupils and staff, and to advise them when to attend the school to obtain further information and antibiotics. Following notification to public health on a Saturday, an incident team met on Sunday, sent the SMS messages that afternoon, and administered chemoprophyaxis to 93% of 404 pupils on Monday. The use of mass SMS messages enabled rapid communication from an official source and greatly aided the public health response to the cluster.
Members of the genus Ebolavirus have caused outbreaks of haemorrhagic fever in humans in Africa. The most recent outbreak in Guinea, which began in February of 2014, is still ongoing. Recently published analyses of sequences from this outbreak suggest that the outbreak in Guinea is caused by a divergent lineage of Zaire ebolavirus. We report evidence that points to the same Zaire ebolavirus lineage that has previously caused outbreaks in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Republic of Congo and Gabon as the culprit behind the outbreak in Guinea.


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