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In other words, the changeover of Pittsburgh, Baltimore and Cleveland didn't happen until 1970. And the AFL was disbanded and its teams joined the NFL in 1970.
And I AM old....but I'm well perserved.
"Typical Morehead!"..................and he didn't even mean that as a compliment..
Doesn't matter what the NFL was to the AFL. The NFL considers the AFL legit. Else the titans wouldn't have banners to the AFL.
And yet most of the expansion teams are in the NFC.
Yes cause 3 teams means the NFL was SOOOOO far ahead. And you still haven't acknowledge the fact that the browns came from the AAFC and dominated the NFL( proving that the NFL wasn't so dominate.
And if you think the niners winning 30 yr later means something( like that playing in the NFL league somehow made them better after coming from the AAFC) then that's sad. The packers were bad for 15 yr and they played in the great NFL league. So were the steelers. The NFL was not high and above everyone else. The niners, colors, and people still descended from the AAFC. So your wrong. There weren't just 6 SB. The steelers people didn't change cause they went to the AFC central to the AFC north.
And while the AAFC was not as stable as the NFL or AFL( you need to have been a stable, American, major league to compete which is why the USFL, UFL, and CFL dont qualify) the AAFC proved that talent isn't just in the NFL.
No kid. The AFL helped make this league therefore the AFL is equal to the NFL in the sense of the SB.
"......merger discussions to unify the older NFL teams and the AFL......."
Doesn't sound like an absorption to me.
The merger paved the way for the combined league, which retained the "National Football League" name and logo, to become one of the most popular sports leagues in the United States. Source Wikipedia.
Obviously it was a diff league. Look up any story of the merger. You'll never hear about one league absorbing into another.
The NFL took players from the AFL DUMBASS! The giants were actually the first to do it. A superior league doesn't ASK for other leagues players. If its a lesser league the players come to them. You don't need to be from the NFL to have the NFL praise you. Ever heard of Walter Camp?
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The niners that won the 5 SB are still the same as the AAFC niners. They didn't just improve cause they were in the NFL. Who cares if it was 30 yr? The packers had a lot of bad old years and they played in the great NFL. So your wrong. It wasn't just 6 SB.
No kid. The AFL helped make this league so the old NFL is equal to the AFL in the sense of championships.
The merger paved the way for the combined league, which retained the "National Football League" name and logo, to become one of the most popular sports leagues in the United States.
Source Wikipedia. Obviously it was a diff league. Look up any story of the merge. It never talks about one league absorbing into another.
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Redskins fans a creeping up there for me. Their team's won one playoff game since the internet started and are tripping over each other to post 'HTTR' related posts wherever the can. As obnoxious as Redskins fans have been since they rediscovered their bravado halfway through last season the crown for worst fans in foot remains where it's been for years and years and years. With Eagles fans. They're the worst by a mile.


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I was just wondering how many full combs you guys overwinter with. Last year I went into the winter with at least 20 combs per hive (16" wide, 11" deep to 6" bottoms). All hives had russian hybrid queens. In the spring there were untouched combs in all the hives. This year I have left only around 15 per hive, I will feed if I have to but was hoping this would be enough and would leave enough room for spring manipulations. Last spring my strongest hive swarmed almost as soon as the flow started, and had brood through the whole hive. It swarmed a couple of more times, and I caught one to start a new TBH. I am hoping that by leaving less comb in I can put empty bars/ or brand new comb into the center of the brood area and keep the honey harvest area brood free.
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While not a total costuming newbie I'm new to the armor and Vader's associates. I met a GREAT Boba in Hawaii a few years ago and got me interested in doing a bounty hunter costume. Anyway while researching my Dengar (currently in progress) I've become even more smitten with Boba and I figure I may one day make a Fett. With that in mind which Fett to do? I realize there are numerous versions but are there versions that receive better reactions than others? I especially like the Holiday Special color scheme but of those who have trooped that, how does it go over? I'd hate to invest the time and $$$ only to have a costume that 99% of the people at an event think you painted wrong.


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David Schneider
According to most experts, global warming will lead to some worrisome
changes in the not-too-distant future. One that is expected to
become quite troubling, at least for coastal residents, is rising
sea level. The latest assessment of the Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change, for example, suggests that the world may see
anywhere from 11 to 77 centimeters' rise in sea level before the
century runs out. One of the several sources for all this water, the
panel's scientists concluded, will be the partial loss of the
Greenland ice sheet. That view seems quite consistent with recent
news reports of Greenland's slushiness, 2002 having been a record
year for summer melting there. But a new study suggests that the
Greenland ice sheet may, in fact, grow as the climate warms over the
next several decades, which would modestly diminish the rate at
which the oceans are expected to rise.
This surprising result was published earlier this year in the
Journal of Geophysical Research. Martin Wild, Pierluigi
Calanca, Simon C. Scherrer and Atsumu Ohmura of the Swiss Federal
Institute of Technology in Zurich evaluated the changes to the
Greenland ice sheet that would ensue in a world where the carbon
dioxide concentration had doubled. (Unless current trends abate,
we'll reach this level in about 70 years.) As with several other
modeling efforts of this sort, they found that the accumulation of
snow and ice will increase over Antarctica. The reason is simply
that the warming of the nearby ocean puts more moisture in the
atmosphere, which then falls as snow over land. Melting over that
frigid continent should remain negligible, even with doubled CO2.
The net growth expected of the Antarctic ice sheet thus acts to slow
the rise of sea level, which is expected to come about primarily
because ocean water expands as it warms. Greenland, being not nearly
so chilly as Antarctica, experiences both accumulation and melting.
So the issue there is which process dominates. Wild and his
colleagues found that doubled CO2 will lead to an
increase in accumulation that more than compensates for the enhanced
melting (by a factor of almost four). Greenland's net contribution
to sea level works out to a lowering of 0.32 millimeter per year, or
3.2 centimeters per century. That is, the magnitude of the
beneficial effect is between 4 and 29 percent of the change in sea
level that was expected to take place over the next century.
"It definitely is an exciting new result," says Konrad
Steffan, an investigator at the University of Colorado at Boulder
who maintains a network of automated weather stations in Greenland.
Steffan says that although he had expected accumulation to increase
somewhat over the interior of the Greenland ice sheet over coming
decades, he was surprised to see the considerable increase that Wild
and his coworkers found with their model. And he was similarly
surprised to see that the melting in this doubled-CO2
simulation was so much smaller than estimated previously. Wild
reports that field workers have generally had such startled
reactions to his new result. "It's a bit counter-intuitive for
them," he says.
Why the big difference from past assessments? The short answer is
resolution. Running global climate models is a computer-intensive
exercise, which limits how fine a grid one can use to divvy up the
Earth for calculation. A coarse mesh fails to capture the key
feature of the topography of Greenland, where elevation rises
abruptly near the coast. Even the best models thus end up
representing Greenland as a gently rounded mound rather than as a
steep-walled mesa. And because melting takes place only at lower
elevations, the area prone to melting gets exaggerated in the models.
Wild and his colleagues managed to overcome this problem by
combining their latest model results for the temperature and
precipitation change over Greenland with a high-resolution
topographic map. This maneuver provided a realistic picture of where
enhanced melting would actually take place—and that zone
covered a far smaller swath than had been determined previously
without taking the detailed topography into account.
One weakness of their procedure, which the Swiss investigators
candidly admit, is that they assume that the rate at which glaciers
near the margins carry ice to the sea will not change. They were
essentially forced to make that simplification because the global
climate model they used could not simulate complex ice dynamics.
"This is one big weakness," says Calanca, who points out
that the meltwater on some spots in western Greenland is known to
percolate down all the way to bedrock, where it lubricates the base
of the glacier, allowing it to flow more easily.
This phenomenon was demonstrated for the first time last year, when
H. Jay Zwally of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and his
coworkers described the motion of a 4-meter pole stuck in the ice of
a Greenland glacier since 1996. Using the Global Positioning System,
they determined that the pole (and presumably the glacier it marks)
moves fastest each year in late summer, when meltwater is available
to, in effect, grease its skids.
But Zwally doesn't make a big deal of Wild's inability to model the
lubricating effect of meltwater: "Just how significant that can
be—we really don't know yet." One aid to finding out may
be circling the Earth now, a probe called ICESat, which contains a
laser altimeter designed to map changes in the Greenland and
Antarctic ice sheets. Unfortunately the slated three-to-five-year
mission of ICESat has gotten off to a rocky start. Zwally, the lead
scientist for ICESat, explains dryly that "it operated for 36
days before the first laser failed." So right now ICESat is out
of commission. But the satellite carries two other laser
transmitters, which might suffice for the remainder of the planned
mission, assuming that controllers can figure out what damaged the
first unit and then correct their procedures. Zwally is guardedly
optimistic that ICESat will yet provide critical ground truth for
climatologists and offers that "we're hoping we can rise to the occasion."
Wild too is guardedly optimistic about the value of ICESat—and
about what his study means for the Earth's rising seas, noting that
"if things stay below two times CO2, it may not be
all that bad." That is, we'll only have to cope with the
thermal expansion of the oceans: Taken together, Greenland,
Antarctica and the Earth's many small mountain glaciers in total
will probably contribute little if anything to rising sea level. But
Wild cautions that this conclusion applies only to a situation in
which CO2 has doubled in concentration. Should
atmospheric CO2 increase further, he believes that that
the margin of Antarctica will begin to experience summer melting. So
we should be thankful that both the Greenland and Antarctic ice
sheets are helping to slow the rise of sea level, for the moment at
least, and not push our luck—or rather, our grandchildren's
luck—too hard.—David Schneider
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[quote user="Sundown"]These 9ers fans are really unoriginal w their screen names and rant.[/quote]
Seriously, I've never understood someone's need to say "Lets talk rationally!!" And then go on to trash the other team. If you're gonna troll, troll hard my friend.
On a serious note, I already stated in my thread, that the 49ers o-line vs. the Giants d-line doesn't scare me, not really. The 49ers handle 4 man rushes very well usually, even very good ones. The Giants WRs however are another story. The SF safeties have been good, but they give up big plays. And Rogers is a very good corner who has been ballin out all year, but our other two corners (Brown and Culliver) are suspect. I predict each of them giving up at least one big play.


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The Inspiration Behind 1000 Kisses Deep
Mark Constantine:
"I always find Mo, my wife, difficult to understand, but that can then be expressed through music. I don't really get her - she always leaves a little bit to be revealed. And you don't actually know how to express yourself, so you're in that bloke-state of mind. That was very well summed up by [Robert] Smith in The Cure when he wrote a love song and called it Untitled because he was trying to explain how he felt, struggling to do it, and there's only so many words you can use to express love. It's very difficult. I wanted a perfume that summed that up. I did call it Untitled for quite a long time. It expressed that rather enigmatic, rather difficult to pin down feeling, when you're involved with someone else, but can't put it into words. So that piece of music really inspired me.
But when I heard Madeleine Peyroux singing Leonard Cohen's Thousand Kisses Deep - there's such wonderful lyrics in that; just a whole series of magical pieces of work - and it summarized the feeling for me for the first time ever. The whole concept of a thousand kisses deep is just such a lovely thought for someone who has been married for however many years."


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What is a literary classic and why are these classic works important to the world?
A literary classic is a work of the highest excellence that has something important to say about life and/or the human condition and says it with great artistry. A classic, through its enduring presence, has withstood the test of time and is not bound by time, place, or customs. It speaks to us today as forcefully as it spoke to people one hundred or more years ago, and as forcefully as it will speak to people of future generations. For this reason, a classic is said to have universality.
François Marie Arouet (Voltaire) was born on November 21, 1694 in Paris, France. He received a Jesuit education, and after writing a satire of the French government, Voltaire was sent to the Bastille in 1717, where he spent eleven months. After his release, he was beaten for insulting a nobleman, and sent to the Bastille again for a few days. Voltaire then left France and lived as an exile in England for a few years, writing philosophical treatises and plays. There, he met Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope, Sir Isaac Newton, and numerous other English intellectual and literary figures.
After returning to France he wrote Philosophical Letters (1734). In it, he compared the English and French governments, and the book was banned. Voltaire left Paris again, and began a long liaison with the wife of an aristocrat, Madame du Châtelet, who lived in Lorraine, France. Through her influence, Voltaire began writing the official history of King Louis XV.
He eventually settled near Geneva, and from there he corresponded with, entertained, and debated many of Europe's greatest scholars.
Voltaire wrote Candide in 1759, the most well known and popular of his eighty works. It, too provoked outrage, and the government ordered that it should be burned. Voltaire spent most of his remaining years in Geneva, but returned to Paris once, in 1778, for a performance of one of his plays, Irene. Voltaire died shortly afterward, probably from a combination of excitement and rich food.


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The PK380 is much easier to rack the slide. That makes it much easier for a woman to operate. It is also smaller and better suited to a woman's hands. I recommend the PK380 for a woman. It is a safe bet. Look for good deals on used PK380's. You can find affordable .380 ammo at USAammo. Watch for deals on Remington UMC at sporting goods stores as well. Check out gun-deals.com for ammunition pricing from various vendors. For self-defense ammo in .380 I think the best is MagTech 85gr HP...one of the best values. Also Federal Premium HST and Winchester T-Series are great rounds. Any of those rounds are very deadly.
Good Luck, and get trained and a lot of practice and by ALL MEANS follow the safety rules. We just had a guy shoot himself in the hip down here in Virginia while removing his seat belt and he died. Never forget that a handgun is a deadly weapon and negligence can lead to death.


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Wow, literally like 30 seconds ago the board is all over Tuck's back and suggesting he should retire.
The only sure deal we have at DE anymore is JPP. Ojomo and Tracy are unknown quantities, Tuck is capable of being great but can also disappear and his better days are behind him. Kiwi has been switched back and forth, what, 4-5 times? And he's not exactly young either.
Osi's out the door, 2003 draft pick. Tuck was selected in 2006 so we'd be lucky to get 2 more years out of him and his production has already declined drastically. Kiwi came in the 2007 draft.
So by law of averages Tuck and Kiwi are already done unless they prove otherwise and we can wring 2 or 3 more years of blood out of their declining stones. So yes, time to draft another DE if there is value.


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Chapter 1 Introduction
Perspectives: The Role of the Traveler in Translocation of Disease
Since people began moving from one place to another, they have offered free passage to microorganisms on themselves, in their belongings, or on their conveyances. The consequences of such microbial hitchhiking have, at times, altered the course of history. Among the more notable examples are the great plagues that swept into Europe from Asia during the Middle Ages, the introduction of smallpox to the Americas by European explorers, and the reverse movement of syphilis into Europe in those same returning explorers.
Although the movement of pathogens by travelers is not a new phenomenon, today's increasing pace and scale of global human movement have enhanced the opportunities and speed for disease spread. HIV infection, which generally takes years for symptoms to develop, spread to every corner of the world less than a decade after it was recognized in the early 1980s. In the 21st century, no place on earth is more than a day from any other location. Even diseases with short incubation periods have unprecedented opportunities for rapid spread through human movement. What follows are vivid examples of this phenomenon from the last several years that demonstrate how crucial travel has become to the spread of emerging diseases. They also remind us that all travelers, regardless of the purpose, duration, or distance of the journey, should take steps to prevent bringing more than luggage to and from their destinations.
MERS was first identified in September 2012 by Dutch researchers who analyzed specimens from a Saudi Arabian patient who had died of severe pneumonia. The same month, a second case of this disease was diagnosed in a Qatari citizen with pneumonia. Thus after only 2 cases, it became clear that MERS could spread through international travelers. This phenomenon has since been seen repeatedly. Even though all known cases of MERS have been linked to exposure in countries on or near the Arabian Peninsula, through mid-2014 MERS has been diagnosed among travelers in other parts of the Middle East, Europe, North Africa, Asia, and North America (Map 1-01). Some of these travel-associated cases have resulted in limited person-to-person transmission.
MERS is caused by a newly recognized coronavirus; the earliest confirmed human cases occurred in a cluster of respiratory illnesses at a hospital in Zarga, Jordan, in April 2012. MERS represents the second coronavirus to cause a major global health concern in the last 10 years. In 2003, the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) coronavirus produced a transcontinental outbreak that resulted in 8,098 illnesses with a case-fatality ratio of 9.5% before ending later that year. In one of the most astonishing examples of how travel can promote disease spread, the global dissemination of SARS occurred through just 10 guests of a Hong Kong hotel whose stay overlapped with that of a Chinese physician who was ill during his stay and quickly died of the disease. After their exposure but before illness onset, the 10 hotel guests boarded planes bound for different countries, igniting major chains of transmission at destinations as far away as Toronto, Canada.
SARS and MERS both may cause an acute respiratory illness characterized by severe pneumonia (although milder infections have been described), both have been transmitted in hospital settings (including to health care workers), and both have overlapping age distributions in adults with few infections found in children. However, MERS has proven to be more lethal. Among the first 837 laboratory-confirmed cases of MERS, a total of 291 (34.8%) have died from the illness.
Efforts are underway to understand the source and mode of transmission of MERS to humans. Serologic investigations have found the MERS coronavirus and similar coronaviruses are widely distributed in camels. Some people who later developed MERS had exposure to camels that had detectable MERS virus, which suggests that camels may play a role in spreading the virus or may even be an animal reservoir. Understanding risk factors for exposure is critical to developing preventive and therapeutic strategies, especially given that the Middle East is a hub for global travel, including tourism, a substantial foreign workforce, and the pilgrimage to Mecca and other religious events that bring millions of visitors to Saudi Arabia annually. Travel to areas affected by MERS offers major opportunities for ongoing international spread of this disease.
The last few years have been notable for a steady stream of newly recognized influenza A viruses causing human disease. This trend has implications for all international travelers. The most high-profile example is the 2009 variant of influenza A (H1N1) that produced the first flu pandemic of the 21st century. This virus initially appeared in early 2009 in central Mexico, where it caused a sizeable outbreak of respiratory disease. But it was not recognized as a new flu variant until it crossed over the US border in April 2009 and the first cases appeared in southern California. The virus proved to be easily transmissible, especially among children, affording rapid spread. After recognition, travelers with pandemic H1N1 who had visited Mexican tourist destinations were quickly detected elsewhere in the world, and an analysis of air traffic patterns found a strong correlation between the volume of air travel from Mexico and the likelihood that H1N1 was identified in a destination during the early stages of the pandemic. Through travelers, the virus quickly spread globally, and within only 2 months the outbreak was designated a pandemic by the World Health Organization. Although the pandemic has come and gone, the virus remains in circulation as the seasonal influenza A (H1N1) subtype and was the predominant influenza strain in the United States in 2013–2014.
Avian influenza A (H5N1) has also been a major global concern, although its epidemiologic features have been considerably different than the pandemic virus and less affected by travel. This virus first produced a limited-scale outbreak in Hong Kong in 1997, and then no human illness from H5N1 was seen for several years. The virus resurfaced in Vietnam and Thailand in 2003 and has been in continuous circulation in poultry and wild birds ever since. Since 2003, human disease has been relatively infrequent, with only 650 confirmed cases reported through the end of 2013. However, people in whom there is a recognized case of H5N1 infection almost always have severe pneumonia, and the disease has an overall case-fatality ratio of 59%. This figure is even more remarkable in light of the fact that most cases have been in children and young adults (median age 18 years). Most deaths from seasonal influenza occur in the elderly.
The virus has been found in birds in >60 countries encompassing parts of Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, and international movement in conveyances and animals has been documented and may explain some of its geographic spread. The 3 countries with the most human illnesses (Indonesia, Vietnam, and Egypt) account for 76% of all cases and are all major tourist destinations, although to date no tourism-associated illnesses have been identified in international visitors to these countries. This is because close contact with infected poultry is generally considered necessary for exposure; sustained human-to-human transmission has not been observed. In January 2014, the first H5N1 illness was documented in North America in a Canadian citizen who had traveled to Beijing for a 3-week visit and became ill with pneumonia and encephalitis on the way home. The patient, who died, had no known history of poultry exposure while in Beijing and the source of infection is unknown. This case demonstrates that H5N1 can be a risk for travelers, reinforcing the recommendation to avoid contact with live poultry in areas affected by this virus.
The third major influenza virus to recently emerge is avian influenza A (H7N9). This virus was first detected as a cause of human illness in March 2013 in eastern China, with cases seen in Shanghai and adjacent provinces. The number of identified cases rose sharply over the spring of 2013, then diminished until a second wave of infections occurred during the winter and spring of 2014. Through early April 2014 a total of 418 confirmed cases had been identified, with a 30% case-fatality ratio. People reported to have H7N9 infection have been considerably older (mean age of 55 years) than those reported to have H5N1.
Most avian influenza viruses that have been linked to human disease have also produced large-scale die-offs in poultry (they are highly pathogenic viruses). Therefore, poultry outbreaks allow the identification of locations where humans are at risk of exposure and infection. In contrast, H7N9 does not exhibit this characteristic, making it very difficult to know where and when it is circulating. To date, almost all cases have occurred in people in eastern and southern China, with illness often linked to exposure to live poultry in wet markets. Cases have been identified in Hong Kong and Taiwan among travelers to and from affected areas of mainland China. In addition, a Chinese traveler was diagnosed with the disease while on a visit to Malaysia.
Exotic mosquito-transmitted infections, particularly malaria and dengue fever, have long been major travel health concerns. Compounding the challenges of vectorborne diseases to travelers, a number of mosquito-transmitted viruses have recently expanded their geographic range through movement in infected mosquitoes, infected reservoir hosts such as birds, or infected people. The most notable contemporary example is the translocation of West Nile virus into the Western Hemisphere in 1999. Since an apparent single introduction into New York City, the virus has relentlessly spread throughout most of the Western Hemisphere and now produces disease annually throughout the mainland United States.
Chikungunya is a less well-known virus that, like West Nile virus before it, has recently become established in the Western Hemisphere. First identified in Tanzania in the 1950s, chikungunya causes fever accompanied by severe muscle and joint pain. Until the 21st century, chikungunya virus was largely confined to east Africa and Asia, where it produced small, localized outbreaks of disease. Beginning in 2005, it began to spread across the islands of the Indian Ocean to the Indian subcontinent, producing massive outbreaks involving hundreds of thousands of people in locations such as Réunion, Mauritius, and southern India. The transmission cycle of this virus includes only mosquitoes and humans, and infected travelers likely contribute to the movement of this virus. This was confirmed when the virus was introduced to Italy in 2007 through an infected traveler from India, resulting in 205 locally acquired cases in several adjacent towns near Ravenna on the Adriatic Coast. Local transmission of chikungunya also occurred in southeast France in 2010 but did not persist in either of the European locations. Chikungunya also spread eastward into other parts of Asia and even the western Pacific Islands, where locally acquired human disease has occurred.
Over the last few decades, cases of chikungunya have been occasionally diagnosed in the Western Hemisphere among travelers to or from affected areas (especially south Asia). But until late 2013, there was no evidence of local acquisition in the Western Hemisphere until disease suddenly appeared on the French side of the island of Saint Martin in the Caribbean, a major tourist destination, in people with no travel history. From what appears to be a single introduction, chikungunya has hopscotched across the islands of the Caribbean and even to the mainland of South and Central America, producing local outbreaks of disease. As of August 2014, locally acquired human illness has been detected in the Caribbean as far north as the Bahamas, and travel-associated cases have been detected elsewhere, including >600 in the United States (mainly Florida). Less than a year after its introduction, almost 600,000 confirmed and suspected cases of chikungunya have been reported from the Caribbean, with the largest number of cases in the Dominican Republic, Haiti, and on the French islands of Guadeloupe and Martinique. As of August 2014, 6 locally acquired cases of chikungunya have been reported in the United States, all in south Florida. These findings illustrate the potential for chikungunya to become established in some areas of the North American mainland.
In October 2010, cholera unexpectedly appeared in Haiti for the first time in recorded history. The cholera outbreak struck 10 months after the devastating January 2010 Haiti earthquake, which killed an estimated 316,000 people. The Vibrio cholerae strain (toxigenic serogroup O1, serotype Ogawa, biotype El Tor) responsible for the outbreak did not genetically resemble the Latin American outbreak strain that appeared in the early 1990s or strains occasionally found along the coast of the Gulf of Mexico. Instead, it closely resembled strains that had been recently circulating in south Asia and Africa. Among the hypotheses to explain how the organism arrived in Haiti included the potential inadvertent introduction of cholera by Nepalese troops serving as part of the United Nations peacekeeping force housed upstream of the area where the first cases were recognized. Given Haiti's widespread poverty, poor sanitation, and population displacement in the aftermath of the earthquake, cholera spread rapidly. In just weeks, thousands of cases were occurring throughout the country, and the outbreak has persisted with gradually decreasing intensity despite efforts to improve sanitary measures. As of August 2014, >700,000 cases of cholera, including almost 400,000 hospitalizations and 8,579 (1.2%) deaths, had been reported from Haiti, which has a population of only about 10 million people. Cholera has also spread to other countries in the region, in particular the Dominican Republic, which shares the island of Hispaniola with Haiti and saw its first cases in November 2010. Since then, more than 31,000 cases have been reported by the Dominican Republic. In 2012, cholera was recognized in Cuba, where >700 cases have been seen, and in the fall of 2013 it was reported in Mexico along the coastal Gulf of Mexico, where 187 cases were identified. Cholera has been detected in other countries in travelers to or from Haiti, including in the United States, but these other locations generally have good sanitation infrastructure and the risk of local spread is considered low.
Vaccination programs are considered among the most cost effective of public health interventions and have substantially reduced the global prevalence of childhood infectious diseases. In the United States, year-round indigenous measles and rubella transmission were declared eliminated in 2000 and 2004, respectively, and the incidence of diseases such as mumps and rubella is dramatically decreased compared with their incidence in the prevaccine era. The region of the Americas is certifying regional elimination of measles and rubella. Poliomyelitis is the second vaccine-preventable disease (after smallpox) targeted to be intentionally eradicated; in early 2014 India was certified as polio-free by the World Health Organization. However, most vaccine-preventable diseases are highly transmissible and can easily spread in unvaccinated travelers who become infected. The importance of travelers in the spread of vaccine-preventable diseases is evidenced by importations and associated outbreaks of measles in the United States every year and importations of wild poliovirus into Equatorial Guinea and Brazil.
Outside the Western Hemisphere, measles continues to circulate because of low vaccination coverage. In the United States, measles cases and outbreaks continue to be reported, despite measles being declared eliminated. Unvaccinated US residents traveling abroad, international visitors, and overseas adoptees have become infected while abroad and have brought the virus to the United States. These importations have ignited domestic outbreaks at the local level because of suboptimal levels of population immunity in some US communities, particularly in areas where parents elect not to vaccinate their children for religious, philosophical, or personal reasons. From 2001 through 2008, the reported median number of measles cases identified in the United States (56 cases per year) was low, but the number of cases has since risen sharply. In 2011, a total of 220 cases of measles were reported. Among these cases, 90% were linked to importation (the source for the remaining 10% could not be established). During 2014, the United States has had the highest number of reported measles cases since 1994; by August 22, 592 measles cases had been reported. In 2014, 99% of cases were associated with importation (the remainder had unknown source) from at least 18 countries. Among 49 instances of direct importation (the source case for an outbreak), 45 (92%) involved US residents returning from abroad (49% from the Philippines), while the other 5 (8%) were foreign visitors to the United States. The largest outbreak (378 cases) started when members of an Amish community were infected while visiting the Philippines (where a large outbreak of measles was occurring at the time), returned to Ohio, and introduced measles into Amish communities with low vaccination coverage.
In February 2014, an outbreak of measles occurred in Europe on a cruise ship sailing the western Mediterranean. A total of 27 cases (22 confirmed and 5 probable cases) of measles were identified, mostly among the crew. However, 4 passengers, including 2 infants, also contracted the disease. The virus strain responsible for the cruise ship outbreak is similar to measles viruses circulating in the Philippines.
In 1988, the World Health Assembly targeted poliomyelitis for eradication. Through the use of large-scale vaccination campaigns, by 2012 this goal appeared to be in sight, as only 223 cases of wild-type polio were reported from 5 countries, and the disease was endemic in only 3 countries (Afghanistan, Nigeria, and Pakistan). However, in 2013, the number of cases rose by 86% (to 414 cases), mostly in Pakistan. Polio was also identified in 5 countries in the Middle East and Africa, where it had not recently circulated. These countries include Syria and Somalia, locations marked by civil and humanitarian crises. The appearance of polio in these locations most likely represents importation through travel from an endemic country. In the early part of 2014, the number of identified cases had more than doubled (from 34 to 82) compared with the same period of 2013, and disease was identified in 2 additional countries (Iraq and Equatorial Guinea). As a result, on May 5, 2014, the World Health Organization declared polio to represent a public health emergency of international concern under the International Health Regulations and recommended that countries known to be exporting polio (Pakistan, Syria, and Cameroon) ensure departing residents and long-term visitors receive a dose of polio vaccine before travel and encouraged countries where the virus was present but there was no evidence of exportation to implement similar policies.
These examples highlight the diversity of opportunities for microbial movement afforded by travel, and the pivotal role travel has played in many of today's major emerging disease threats. No amount of vigilance is likely to eliminate such opportunities, especially since microbes can be silent travelers. However, all travelers should be knowledgeable about the risks at their destinations and take precautions to prevent the spread of disease.
Map 1-01. Distribution of confirmed cases of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome by reporting country1
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text: Received/installed my new LED interior dome lights thought I'd share some pics and quick tips. LED Bulbs Used: Size 212-2, 2 Front/2 Rear, 6-SMD 5050 type 1.72" 42mm Festoon LED bulbs, Xenon-White Install Time: 15 min (including gathering tools) Cost of Project: $30 1st image shows the difference between LED and incandescent, although in person the LED is whiter than how it appears in the picture. To take the lens cover off take a flat head screw driver and gently pry on the side closest to the windshield. My screwdriver was sharp so I wrapped the tip in some electrical tape to minimize damage to the lens cover and plastic. The second image is of the rear dome light assembly. Note that if you are looking toward the backseat you will want to gently pry against the left side. Each LED is polar sensitive so if it does not light up simply switch the bulb around. When I inserted the first LED the light seemed weak and was flashing. If this happens simply remove the LED and squeeze the front/rear metal bulb holders to ensure the LED has a good connection then try the LED again. Also shout out to @Drake_Korthos for his helpful tips and pictures that gave me the idea to do mine.


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[quote user="bandwgn86"][quote user="ShakeNBake"][quote user="bansaw"]how these countries think they can survive without raising taxes is beyond me
even the U.S fighting TWO wars and when is the last time they had a tax hike, its just bizarre.
people always lol at Canada for our taxes but we came through this world mess pretty damn good.* Thank god Paul Martin built up that surplus so the Conservatyives could squander it...we'd be in the same mess as everyone else
but the time for the rich paying squat is coming to an and
*I lol at Canada because of Quebec,[/quote]so does the rest of Canada.. just not to their faces, they are tough sob's [/quote]

I agree... I've been to Ontario and Quebec several times.* I have 2 rotten occurences/stories about how I was dissed by Montrealers because they knew I was American (with a Brooklyn accent). One was on a business visit to Molson, a customer,*where I gave a presentation to 7 Molson Engineers. We communicated through my Dealer, who translated into French for them, and back to English for me. Made for a long meeting.* After the meeting I found out that all the Engineers spoke English (which I suspected, and wondered why they would insist on the tedious translation back and forth).
[/quote]as i was reading that i was thinking they were making you jump through hoops, Montreal and immeditate surrondings speak english.
i'm now very curious about the business dealings with Molson and if there was a way my new best freind Zim can get me free beer?


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I've been running around the net looking for actual information on AFB. I'm trying to find out what temp the spores actually die at. I keep finding info that they are resistant to very high temperatures, but being a carbon based life form, there has to be a threshold where the spores die. Does anyone know these actually numbers? ie XX degrees Celsius or Fahrenheit for X hours?


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Conservatively Speaking
State Senator Mary Lazich (R-New Berlin) represents parts of four counties: Milwaukee, Waukesha, Racine, and Walworth. Her Senate District 28 includes New Berlin, Franklin, Greendale, Hales Corners, Muskego, Waterford, Big Bend, the town of Vernon and parts of Greenfield, East Troy, and Mukwonago. Senator Lazich has been in the Legislature for more than a decade. She considers herself a tireless crusader for lower taxes, reduced spending and smaller government.
Governor's Weekly Radio Address: "Investing in Wisconsin's Communities - Combating Heroin Addiction"
This week, I signed into law the H.O.P.E. legislative package – which stands for Heroin Opiate Prevention and Education. Heroin use has spiked in Wisconsin and across the country in recent years, devastating families and putting loved ones at risk – regardless of gender, age, race, income, or zip code.
I want to personally thank Representative John Nygren for his dedication and hard work on this important legislation. This is a deeply personal issue for Representative Nygren and an important step in helping our families, our friends, and neighbors who are struggling with heroin addictions.
These bills draw attention to the very serious problem of opiate abuse in Wisconsin. In 2012, for example, heroin overdose deaths rose by almost 50 percent. The H.O.P.E. legislative package invests in Wisconsin's communities by giving law enforcement and first responders the tools they need to be more effectively able to address opiate abuse across the state, while also helping those who are struggling with addiction by providing alternatives to incarceration.
We want to make sure our citizens and our communities have access to the resources they need to combat this deadly addiction. The H.O.P.E. legislative package lays the foundation for reversing the dangerous trend of heroin addiction.
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text: Juiced: Should Your Clients Be Drinking More of Their Nutrients? By Karen Asp If you've always subscribed to the notion that you should eat your fruits and veggies, it's time to get with the times. Many people now prefer getting their produce from a bottle, and we're not just talking about good old orange juice. Today's juices include "exotic" ingredients like kale, Swiss chard, ginger, dandelion and lemon juice, to name a few, and they're hot—so hot, in fact, that you almost wonder if fruits and veggies will one day go the route of typewriters and pay phones, becoming so obsolete that kids in the future won't even know they once existed. Granted, that might be a slight exaggeration, but there's little doubt that juicing has reached a fever pitch. It seems like everybody and their Aunt Sally are juicing these days, perhaps following in the footsteps of Hollywood celebrities who have touted juice fasts— not just juicing—as a surefire way to detox and slim down. Why eat your food, after all, when you can just sip your way to better health? That, of course, is the burning question. Yet while juicing might be beneficial for people who are not eating all—if any—of their fruits and veggies, it's not the magic bullet many people think it is. Done correctly, however, juicing can be a healthy complement to any diet. How Juicing Can Boost Fruits and Veggie Consumption When it comes to getting their fill of fruits and veggies, Americans are falling significantly short. A new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) describes Americans' consumption of fruits and vegetables as low. The majority of Americans eat fruit only 1.1 times per day and vegetables about 1.6 times per day. Do you have clients who want to juice at home? Pass along these tips to maximize their juicing efforts: 1 Go organic whenever possible, especially if you're juicing items that appear on the "dirty dozen" list from the Environmental Working Group (EWG). Calbom says. This list includes produce with the highest level of pesticides, and while it traditionally included 12 items, the EWG expanded it in 2013. The complete list includes apples, celery, cherry tomatoes, cucumbers, grapes, hot peppers, imported nectarines, peaches, potatoes, spinach, strawberries, sweet bell peppers, kale and collard greens, and summer squash. 2 Always wash produce. While you know you should wash fruits and veggies before eating them, this becomes even more important when juicing them. "You're often putting the entire fruit or vegetable in the machine, including parts you wouldn't normally eat like the skin, which could increase your risk of being contaminated," Mills says. Plus, once a product is broken down into its smallest possible form, it's prone to growing bacteria more easily, and if there is bacteria already on the skin, you're only adding to the risk. Cold water and in some cases, a little soap will do the trick. 3 Drink the juice immediately after making it so exposure to oxygen doesn't deplete its nutrients. At the very least, store the juice in an airtight container in the fridge for up to 24 hours or freeze it, Calbom says. 4 Find good recipes. "Many people start off juicing anything they have in the house, and it tastes so bad they never juice again," Calbom says. Rather than using the anything-goes approach, find good recipes online or in books. Yet ChooseMyPlate, a food-guidance system from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, recommends that Americans fill half their plates with fruits and vegetables to manage weight and reduce the risk of diseases like cancer and heart disease. How many servings people need, though, varies by age, gender and activity level (for specifics, check out this fruit and vegetable calculator), but the five-a-day mantra that people once used as a guideline is really just a starting point, and there's every indication that more is better. In fact, the American Heart Association recommends that adults eat eight or more servings of produce a day. (An adult on a 2,000-calorie diet, for example, would need to eat 4.5 cups of produce each day.) Getting people to eat more fruits and veggies is a challenge, though, which is where juicing comes into play. "Juicing is a relatively easy way to get more produce in your diet," says Cherie Calbom, M.S., C.N., a nutritionist in Santa Fe, N.M., who is the author of The Juice Lady's Big Book of Juices & Green Smoothies (Siloam, 2013). Calbom points to a recent morning when she juiced a cucumber, five carrots, half a bag of chard, a chunk of ginger root and lemon, all of which she split with her husband. "I would never eat that many vegetables in a day," she says "because it would be too time-consuming." Libby Mills, M.S., R.D.N., a spokesperson for the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics and nutrition and cooking coach in West Chester, Penn., has seen juicing work with many of her clients. "The majority of my clients, especially those who are on the go or eating out a lot, have trouble eating five to nine servings of fruits and veggies a day," she says. "Juicing offers a solution to help them fulfill minimum requirements." Weighing the Nutritional Benefits of Juices Whether juicing can deliver the full nutritional punch of fruits and vegetables, however, is more questionable. While Calbom argues that juices provide as much nutrition as their whole forms, not everybody agrees. The biggest problem? Loss of fiber. "Whole fruits and vegetables contain significantly more fiber than their juices, and by leaving behind the fiber, you're losing one of the most beneficial parts of those whole foods," says Joan Salge Blake, M.S., R.D., clinical associate professor at Boston University in Massachusetts and author of Nutrition and You (Benjamin Cummings, 2011). Take, for instance, a cup of apple juice versus one large apple. While they contain about the same amount of calories—114 in the juice and 116 in the apple—their fiber content is vastly different. The apple provides 5.5 grams of fiber versus only .5 grams of fiber in the juice. Yet fiber helps people fill up without filling out, so by eliminating fiber, you lose that weight-management benefit. Plus, "it's easier to drink more calories in a shorter amount of time than to eat whole foods," Mills says, which could mean adding excess calories to the diet. Are Juice Fasts Safe? Want to lose weight in a snap? Even clean out that system? Then a juice fast is the way to go, so goes the word on the street, especially Hollywood Boulevard. Yet not so fast. Juice fasting, as rewarding as it sounds in the end, could do people more harm than good. For starters, when you consume only juice for a day, you're depriving yourself of protein. "Without that protein, your body tissue will start breaking down muscle tissue, which will slow your metabolism and do the opposite of what you're hoping it will do," Salge Blake says. You'll also miss out on fat-soluble vitamins like D and E, essential fatty acids and B vitamins. As a result, you won't have the ability to focus—which could be detrimental if you have a busy day ahead, Mills says—or to exercise. In fact, you'll have so much trouble maintaining normal activity levels, especially if you do a juice fast for several days, that you could slip backward in your fitness program. Even worse, "your body won't act like it normally does," Mills says. You could experience gastrointestinal changes like increased flatulence and diarrhea. And what about those claims of juice fasts detoxing the body? Your body already does that on its own. "Your body rids itself of toxins via the liver and kidneys so juice fasts aren't necessary," Salge Blake says. When you strip away the fiber, you also lose valuable nutrients like phytochemicals, explains Salge Blake. And, according to Mills, juicing also exposes the produce to high temperatures or oxygen, which then damages the nutrients. On the other hand, when you eat a whole fruit or vegetable, the food goes directly into your digestive system where the nutrients get utilized by your body without having been harmed by oxygen or hot temperatures from a machine. How to Make Juicing Fit Into a Healthy Diet So what do you tell clients who want to join the juicing trend? It's simple really: "Whole fruits and vegetables are still the best way to get all of the nutrients you need," Salge Blake says. Yet if juices will help people eat more produce and possibly replace zero-nutrition foods with loads of empty calories (like chips, candy or cookies), then juicing could be a good option for them. Time is also a consideration, as making your own juices may be a little more cumbersome for some individuals. While some people like to drink juices as snacks, others use them as a replacement for a meal. Experts, though, caution against doing juice fasts where you consume nothing but juice for a day. (See the accompanying sidebar for more about juice fasts.) Instead, Salge Blake suggests enjoying one juice a day, either as a meal or snack, but then getting the rest of your produce needs from whole foods. Calbom actually recommends juicing only vegetables and eating whole fruit. "Fruit juices contain too much sugar for most people," she says, adding that if you do want to sweeten that juice, however, you can add a small amount of fruit like half an apple or pear. Her favorite vegetables to juice include dark green leafy veggies, cucumbers and carrots. Whether juices serve as a snack or a meal, one important point needs to be made. "Liquid meals and snacks typically contain fewer calories than whole foods," explains Mills, "and without fiber to slow your digestion, you'll be hungry a few hours later." One cup of juice with three parts vegetables and one part fruit is about 70 calories, she explains. If you're aware of that, you can then plan accordingly. For instance, if you're drinking a juice as your breakfast, have a small snack handy so you can quell a grumbling tummy a few hours later. The take-home message from all of this? Americans need to cut the junk and eat more fruits and veggies, and if juicing helps them do that, you can't help but say, "bottoms up!"—in moderation, of course. Karen Asp is a journalist, ACE-certified Fitness Professional, contributing editor for Woman's Day and co-author of Understanding Your Food Allergies and Intolerances (St. Martin's, 2012). She also writes for numerous other publications, including Self, Glamour, Whole Living, O, Family Circle, Redbook, Real Simple, Prevention, Redbook and Men's Fitness. Follow her on Twitter (@karenaspwriter).


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When and why did you start training for fighting? I started fighting after I got bored of just grappling. I started fighting late 2007
What ranks and titles have you held? No rank. Held local AFO title
Do you have any heroes? No
What is your favorite technique? Flying heelhook
Did you go to college and if so what degree did you earn? Yes, I have a bachelor's degree in Physical Education.
What was your job before you started fighting? Fixing computers.
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Rated PG
Release Date: May 24, 2013 (in theaters and 3-D)
Directed by Chris Wedge
Starring Josh Hutcherson, Amanda Seyfriend, Beyoncé, Aziz Ansari
Are you ready for something Epic? The new 3-D animated film from the creators of Ice Age and Rio has a star-studded cast and a larger-than-life story. Josh Hutcherson, 20, known for playing Peeta Mellark in The Hunger Games, voices Nod, a brave warrior.
The film tells of a teenage girl named Mary Katherine, voiced by Amanda Seyfried, who lives in a cabin in the woods with her father, Professor Bomba, voiced by actor Jason Sudeikis. When the professor does not return from the forest one day, Katherine sets out to look for him and lands in a secret world. Katherine teams up with Nod and other tiny Leafmen to protect the forest from their enemies, the Boggans, who spread decay and destroy nature. The band of warriors must defeat the Boggans to save the forest and the real world.
Hutcherson told TFK that he hopes the film inspires kids to go outside and explore nature, like he did growing up in Kentucky. "Epic reminds me of being a kid and letting your imagination run wild," he told TFK.
Epic arrive in theaters May 24.
Could you talk a little bit about Epic?
Epic is a pretty Epic story. It's basically about the battle between good and evil happening within Mother Nature. It's kind of this sub-world that could exist in your own backyard. You have two sides—the side of rot and decay, called the Boggans, and the side that's protecting Mother Nature, called the Leafmen. The story takes place over the course of a transitional period where they are birthing a new queen of Mother Nature. The Leafmen have to protect (the egg) while the Boggans try to destroy it.
How did you feel when you were asked to voice Nod?
I was really excited. The director, Chris Wedge, showed me this amazing 3-D test run of this cool new 3-D animation they were doing. They gave me a rundown of the story and showed me the character. I was hooked right away. I haven't really done anything like this, animation wise. It had a really cool story, a cool character, new technology and a very successful studio. They know what they're doing so it was a no-brainer for me to become a part of it.
Do you relate to Nod?
To a certain extent, yes. I'm definitely one to go to the beat of my own drum, so I think in that respect we are similar. But Nod is a little more frivolous with his actions. I like to consider others and what kind of repercussions will happen because of what I do. Nod kind of just goes for it and deals with the negatives afterwards. He learns how to handle that better throughout the movie.
How do you think you would fare as a warrior?
Honestly, I would like to say pretty well. I play a lot of sports and I love being outdoors, so I feel like being part of that world would actually work.
What scene are you most looking forward to seeing?
There's this final sequence with birds flying around in an aerial battle. On paper it's one thing, but seeing it actually come to life in 3D? I think that's going to be incredible.
Why do you think kids will enjoy Epic?
It will really open up their imagination. I think it'll get them looking out in their backyard and wondering if there is anything there. I think they'll be intrigued by something they would want to fight for too. When I was a kid I loved being outside, I loved Mother Nature. Hopefully kids will get that same kind of feeling.
What was your favorite animated film as a kid?
I was a huge Lion King fan as a kid. I still am. Pocahontas is another one I love. I loved all the Disney classics and Toy Story.
Epic has a star-filled cast—Amanda Seyfried, Colin Farrell, Aziz Ansari, Beyoncé —to name a few. Did you get to work with any of them in the recording studio?
Not once. I literally just met Amanda today for the first time because we had a couple of interviews together. It was cool to meet her. It's weird (that) you have been working on a movie for a year and half and you never met the other people in it with you. Thankfully, our director Chris is also a very talented actor. Having him there to read lines with definitely helped a lot. But it was weird not having the actual cast there. That was a challenge for sure.
Catching Fire is set to release in November. How was filming?
It was a very big movie. I'm excited for people to see it. The stuff in the arena was a lot of fun (to shoot) because we have the whole new cast together. It was a really fun experience.
How does Nod compare to your Hunger Games character, Peeta?
They're both in the woods, fighting for something bigger than themselves. I think Nod is much more free than Peeta. Peeta lives in this society where people don't have freedom and Nod is all about his freedom. They have some similarities and some differences.
What do you think our readers should know about Epic?
I think Epic is just so great because it reminds me of being a kid and letting my imagination run wild. I hope this kind of movie will get kids to go outside and experience the world around them.


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Parents in Mesa, located in the Greater Phoenix area of Arizona, experience many forms of choice in a state that was rated first of 50 on the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research 2001 Educational Freedom Index. With a strong charter school law enacted in 1994, Arizona had 492 charter schools by fall 2003, sponsored by either the state or a local school district. Low-income students may apply for the privately funded scholarships supported by the state's education tax credit. Both intradistrict and interdistrict open enrollment are mandatory.
In this environment, Mesa Public Schools actively seeks input from its stakeholders and pays close attention to what it learns. The open enrollment program allows parents to choose a variety of specialty, magnet, or alternative schools, with about 5 percent of students choosing schools outside their neighborhood. Specialized schools include the district's alternative schools and the East Valley Academy, which draws on strong community partnerships to prepare students who plan to become health care workers, attend technical school or community college, or enter the military.
Especially popular are the four Benjamin Franklin campuses that provide highly structured, traditional education. An initial Benjamin Franklin school, established in 1978 through the efforts of parents who wanted a more traditional program, drew such long waiting lines for registration that the district moved to set up three more campuses in other parts of the city. To compete with similar charter schools, the district added regular bus service to the Benjamin Franklin schools. Now both parents and students at these schools give especially high satisfaction ratings on the annual district surveys.
More recently, an International Baccalaureate program was established at a high school with a decreasing population, to better support student learning and to draw students from across the district to fill the campus.
These examples illustrate Mesa's deliberate approach to planning. The district studies data, listens to parents, and acts to meet the needs of the diverse population. When 19 of the district's 89 schools failed to meet AYP in 2002, the district stepped up its efforts to improve the programs in these schools, in keeping with NCLB requirements. District staff met with principals, aand provided resources, curriculum specialists developed improved instructional programs, and faculties developed action plans for individual students. The superintendent also hired an analyst to identify promising practices in successful schools that could be shared across the district. Only two schools failed to make AYP the following year.
The district also actively helped schools in need of improvement communicate with parents about NCLB and the choice options. A newsletter template in English and Spanish was provided to staff at all the schools, who then customized it with their own content. This newsletter explained the school's status, improvement efforts, and parents' option to transfer their child to a school that was already making AYP.
Achievement data are regularly used to guide the district planning and the creation of school programs. Principals receive a "data book" and meet with research and evaluation staff during the summer to review their data. With NCLB, the district is conducting additionalnal analyses to determine which students are achieving, and also sharing data more fully with teachers and helping them understand how to use the data to guide instruction.
Parents are recognized as an important resource. At each school they are encouraged to become ambassadors to other parents and to act as advisers to the district. For example, Mesa's universal homework standards are the result of parent activism.
Regular parent and student surveys make the parent feedback a formal, quantitative element of the data book used to guide planning. During the spring of each year, the district sends a survey home with every student and collects survey information from selected fifth-graders and secondary school students. Five-year trend data on these measures show both areas of progress and areas for improvement.
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Too late for city broadband investment
Original post made by Sue Kemp, Old Palo Alto, on Mar 3, 2007
They missed their opportunity. Five years ago, even three years ago, there were many more people who were still using dial-up. Now even I, a totally non-techie person, finally went broadband a couple of years ago.
Why would I want to change? What inducement would there be? Why would the thousands of others who already have broadband want to change?
Unless the city could count on massive business use, I think they'll end up losing their shirts, I mean our shirts. After having wasted (what is it projected to cost now?) some $50,000,000 desperately needed for other areas of the budget.
If it were left up to me, I wouldn't even consider it.
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Mar 3, 2007 at 10:38 pm
I would be interested to hear from the techie community about their thoughts on this project. It also seems to be a "white elephant" concocted by government bureaucrats with a penchant for big projects they can take credit for. Given that the Palo Alto process has kept this project going for years, is it reasonable to assume that it would take another several years to build out at which point faster, better, cheaper will make the project's value obsolete. I would like to understand better why only one vendor completed the RFP. Either the city's reputation for completing projects like this is weak, or firms don't really believe the project will happen. Any feedback from techies, who will have much better understanding of a project like this?
a resident of Midtown
on Mar 4, 2007 at 10:36 am
Perhaps you can update us on the city's current plan for Municipal broadband. At one point it was fiber to the house for billionaires. Last time I called the city, they were asking for proposals for ultra-wide-band wireless connectivity. Both approaches are a waste of time and money. The former because of the cost and investment and because it has be superseded by wireless. And the later because the proposed customer base isn't using it and won't buy it.
a resident of Midtown
on Mar 4, 2007 at 11:23 pm
I love the idea of fiber optic to the home and believe it should be a city utility - provided to all residents. Though its getting late, Palo Alto can still be a model community for the nation in terms of the structure of its service, providing a city owned utility as a utility to ALL parties without commercialization.
Many countries have surpassed the US and what we call "broadband" is comparatively slow. As rich media including video moves online, the difference between DSL and fiber will be extremely noticeable - Non-techie, most people would switch if the cost to consumer was nearly the same as the great quality will be immediately apparent.
A second point to fully appreciate is that this is high-speed in both directions not just to the home. DSL and cable modems are much faster sending to the home with a slower connection back. This is ok for a traditional broadcast model which locks in major corporations as providers of information. A utlity that provides true two way bandwidth enables us all to broadcast - whether its remote band members jamming online or broadcasting home movies to remote family members.
PA has a proud legacy running its own utilities - and served us well during the height of the Enron scandal. I'm not saying Comcast is Enron - but I'd still rather have my lifeline to the online world provided by Palo Alto than almost any other entity.
a resident of Midtown
on Mar 5, 2007 at 12:21 pm
I hope the Weekly prints this letter:
Dear Editor,
I disagree with Sue Kemp's view (in the Mar 2nd PA Weekly) that Palo Alto missed its chance implement citywide fiber-to-the-home (FTTH), and now it no longer makes sense.
According to FTTH industry analyst Michael Render, "... those who have FTTH believe that it will add just over $4,000 to their home's value. Those who don't have FTTH guess that it will add $2,500. Developers (not surprisingly) believe that FTTH in their developments will boost home prices by $5,500."
<Web Link>
Real estate agents should know this.
FTTH's broadband is head-and-shoulders better than the so-called broadband the incumbents now offer, and that's why Palo Altans would switch to it.
Jeff Hoel
Colorado Avenue, Palo Alto
Here's what I didn't say in the letter, due to the word-count limit.
If Kemp is still upset about some costly mistakes the city made in the past, let her start a new Town Square Forum topic (or write a letter to the editor) for each mistake, naming the mistake, how much she thinks it cost, why she's still upset about it, and what we should learn from it.
Does Kemp think that there is anything else that the city shouldn't do "because" she thinks it made "$50 million" worth of mistakes in the past? Libraries? Public safety building?
a resident of Midtown
on Mar 5, 2007 at 12:41 pm
"Non-techie, a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood" is mistaken. Citywide municipal FTTH in Palo Alto was originally proposed by citizen advocates, not government bureaucrats. If the city hires a private company to build out such a system, that company would not be limited by "Palo Alto process" delays, and could built out the system in a couple of years. The FTTH01 RFP got two bids (not one); it did not attract more bids because potential bidders thought that the city was asking them to take all or most of the risk and then give the city all or most of the rewards.
a resident of Midtown
on Mar 5, 2007 at 12:52 pm
"Anonymous, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood" is mistaken. At no point was citywide municipal FTTH in Palo Alto (or indeed FTTH anywhere) intended exclusively for billionaires. Wireless Silicon Valley (not the city of Palo Alto) issued an RFP for a wireless system that would serve a large part of Silicon Valley, including all of Palo Alto; that system was never intended to be "ultra-wide-band". Both proposed systems do no yet exist, so it is no surprise that nobody is using them. FTTH will not be superseded by wireless because FTTH offers far superior bandwidth, quality of service (QoS) and security.
a resident of Midtown
on Mar 5, 2007 at 1:38 pm
Palo Altans should know that in the past the telecom incumbents hired a public relations firm to sabotage citywide municipal FTTH in Palo Alto.
Opponents of citywide municipal FTTH in Palo Alto who are motivated by the good of the city, not the good of the telecom incumbents, should so state. I would appreciate it if opponents would identify themselves by their real names when making posts to Town Square. (So would Town Square.) It would give readers the opportunity to know whom they are being asked to take seriously. It might also encourage posters to take responsibility for what they post.
I wish to state that my motivation is the good of the city. I have no financial interest. (I would benefit by being able to subscribe to services offered by a citywide municipal FTTH system, as would lots of people. But I don't own stock in any companies that would benefit from building the system, and nobody is paying me for my advocacy.)
a resident of Duveneck/St. Francis
on Mar 6, 2007 at 7:15 am
Althought fourteen of sixteen companies polled wanted nothing to do with this project, the
Council voted last night 5:1 to direct staff to start negotiating a contract with a marginal company!! What is this going to cost us? This council is beyond help.
a resident of Midtown
on Mar 7, 2007 at 1:21 pm
"Jeff Hoel, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood",
There needs to be a business case for "Fiber to the house." If there were, companies would pay the city for the right to install it and run it for a profit, or at least not require Palo Alto to invest any funds toward it. FTTH sounded wonderful 10 years ago but it is expensive to bury those fibers and connect them to the boxes of transceivers. Plus the fiber doesn't do you any good unless there is something at the other end with a big pipe to the Internet backbone. By the time all of the streets and front yards are dug up, the entire system will be obsolete. Even UWB is more reasonable now because the infrastructure investment is smaller. WiMax is even more reasonable because many people already own compatible equipment. Maybe the performance is worse, but it will work and the provider won't go out of business like another Palo Alto broadband project, ISPChannel.
a resident of Midtown
on Mar 8, 2007 at 3:47 pm
"Anonymous, a resident of the Midtown neighborhood on Mar 7,"
Palo Alto commissioned both a "FTTH Business Case" (feasibility study) and a two-part "FTTH Business Plan." For pointers to these documents, see:
<Web Link>
These days, I think it would be more instructive to look at munis that are successfully implementing citywide FTTH, such as Provo and the 14 cities of UTOPIA. They are in effect learn-by-example business plans. They are grounded in reality. They are paying for the system themselves, rather than expecting a private company to pay for it.
If Palo Alto wants to be world-class, wireless is no substitute for FTTH. What's the cost of not being world-class -- or not even wanting to be world-class?
At a recent meeting of Palo Altans for Government Effectiveness (PAGE) about transforming residents into citizens, the subject of anonymous posts to Town Square came up, and one speaker said, "You'll never form community anonymously." Are you interested in forming community?
a resident of Old Palo Alto
on Mar 8, 2007 at 3:56 pm
With respect, you didn't answer Anonymous.
I took him to inquire why, if private companies don't think there's a business case for FTTH, the city should risk it's own money.
Off the top of one's head, it seems like a reasonable question. It seems obviously true that private companies are better at evaluating profitable opportunities than governments are. I take their failure to rise to the bait as evidence that it's not a good idea for the city to do so with its own funds.
Right or Wrong?
a resident of Midtown
on Mar 14, 2007 at 1:19 pm
Thanks for using your real name.
Since you didn't like my previous answer to Anonymous (note that Anonymous hasn't yet accepted my invitation to become unanonymous), let me try again.
Municipalities exist to serve their residents. Private companies exist to serve their owners. Municipalities and private companies have different charters, different goals, and different responsibilities. It's a mistake to assume that what's inappropriate for one is also inappropriate for the other.
Municipalities provide many services for free. You wouldn't expect private companies to do that, but for municipalities it can be appropriate. Palo Alto provides electric, gas, and water services to residents according to the principle that residents should be charged what it costs the city, plus a little for the General Fund. You wouldn't expect private companies to do that, but it's appropriate for the city. I think it's appropriate to implement FTTH as a utility, so that it's available to all and paid for by the people who use it. Others may not agree.
Anonymous said there needed to be a business case for FTTH, implying there wasn't one. But Palo Alto (and consultants) did in fact write both a business case and a business plan. We can argue about whether it was a good case and plan. I think we could get a better business case simply by obeserving what munis like Provo and the 14 UTOPIA cities are doing. Provo and UTOPIA found that when they specified the FTTH systems they wanted, private industry wasn't willing to build them, so they're building them themselves. (I think it's unreasonable of Anonymous to assume that private industry would be willing to build what we want.)
(With its FTTH01 RFP, the city asked private industry if it was willing to build a citywide FTTH system for Palo Alto, pay for most of it, make it a success, and eventually turn it over to the city. The city got only two bids. One bid said no, but they'd be happy to build a citywide FTTH system and show the city how to pay for it and own it. I regret to say that the city rejected that bid. The city is currently considering doing business with the other bidder, who has proposed turning the system over to the city in 30 years. Some FTTH opponents think 30 years is a long time. So do some FTTH advocates.)
Anonymous is correct that the FTTH infrastructure would be expensive, but not having FTTH infrastructure is expensive too. So I think the FTTH infrastructure would be worth it.
Anonymous thinks FTTH would do no good if the rest of the country doesn't have it. But it's already doing good in Provo and UTOPIA and the other 40 or so municipalities where it has been implemented. (FTTH doesn't have to run as fast initially as it's capable of running to do good.)
Anonymous thinks that by the time all our streets and front yards are dug up the FTTH system will already be obsolete. This source ( <Web Link> ) thinks no new digging would be necessary. I don't understand how Anonymous can think that the system would be both obsolete AND much faster than the national infrastructure could support at the same time. The fiber infrastructure would be capable of supporting speeds orders of magnitude higher than provided by the initial optronics, so the fiber insfrastructure would not be obsolete. If you think that required speeds are going to increase exponentially over the years, as I do, then you have to be committed to replacing the optronics when it becomes obsolete, but that's a manageable cost. North Kansas City has decided to start with 1-Gb/s links to homes, because they're not much more expensive than 100-Mb/s links, and they'll last longer. When does Anonymous think they'll be obsolete?
Anonymous thinks UWB (ultra-wideband wireless) might be a better choice. This source ( <Web Link> ) says, "UWB systems tend to be short-range and indoors," i.e., not appropriate for "first-mile" applications. This source ( <Web Link> ) thinks the range is 30 feet.
Anonymous thinks WiMAX might be a better choice. But it's not nearly fast enough, and would require the provider to purchase licensed spectrum, and security would be an issue, as it is for all wireless.
Anonymous doesn't mention that Wireless Silicon Valley plans to blanket 1500 square miles of Silicon Valley, including Palo Alto, with wireless (initially 802.11b/g). Did Anonymous know about this? Is he/she saying that Palo Alto should be thinking about doing UWB or WiMAX in addition to whatever Wireless Silicon Valley does? That doesn't make any sense to me.
When Cable Co-op sold its cable system to AT&T, who then sold it to Comcast, the new owners weren't interested in supporting Internet services on an all-coax infrastructure, which is what Cable Co-op had been paying ISPChannel to do. So ISPChannel (a private company, not a "broadband project") was adversely affected. The people who had been getting Internet service through Cable Co-op were annoyed that the new owners weren't interested in providing Internet services (until they could do so with an updated hybrid fiber coax infrastructure) but that didn't make any difference to the new owners. So what is Anonymous' point? Private companies go out of business all the time. Privately owned cable companies sell out to other privately owned cable companies all the time.


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