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29 Wednesday Apr 2009

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cricketdiane - fantasy sword hilt design by Cricket Diane C Phillips 2004, 1997 - by collage

cricketdiane - fantasy sword hilt design by Cricket Diane C Phillips 2004, 1997 - by collage

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cricketdiane - Stone Hallway - the Dragon's Lair - digital collage using two of my original art works to make a new one - 2007

cricketdiane - Stone Hallway - the Dragon's Lair - digital collage using two of my original art works to make a new one - 2007

This has an image from one part of an oil painting I did of a sorcerer and a dragon’s lair, then it was place in a digital mat with a double faced gold gilt design from another of my paintings as embellishment.

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cricketdiane - Castle in the Sky - 2006 - computer art using Bryce and digital collage

cricketdiane - Castle in the Sky - 2006 - computer art using Bryce and digital collage

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CricketDiane - 2006 - surrealism - computer art - digital collage - "Waters of Life"

CricketDiane - 2006 - surrealism - computer art - digital collage - "Waters of Life"

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cricketdiane - Marble flooring design - and letterhead corner - digital collage computer art / design - 2006

cricketdiane - Marble flooring design - and letterhead corner - digital collage computer art / design - 2006

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cricketdiane - 2006 - marble flooring design 2 - created using digital collage - computer art

cricketdiane - 2006 - marble flooring design 2 - created using digital collage - computer art

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cricketdiane - original artwork - "Woman's Thoughts" - 2004

cricketdiane - original artwork - "Woman's Thoughts" - 2004

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Cricketdiane - original artwork retitled: "The Artist" - 2000

Cricketdiane - original artwork retitled: "The Artist" - 2000

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the above picture was created by hand using professional design markers on 18″ x 24″ vellum in 2000. It is part of a series which has bright hues juxtaposed with direct contrasting colors to give a sense of drama and sparkle. Designs are simple but eye-catching and unusual.

cricketdiane – fantasy sword hilt design by Cricket Diane C Phillips 2004, 1997 – by collage
cricketdiane – Stone Hallway – the Dragon’s Lair – digital collage using two of my original art works to make a new one

cricketdiane – Castle in the Sky – 2006 – computer art using Bryce and digital collage
CricketDiane – 2006 – surrealism – computer art – digital collage – “Waters of Life”
cricketdiane – Marble flooring design – and letterhead corner – digital collage computer art / design – 2006

cricketdiane – 2006 – marble flooring design 2 – created using digital collage – computer art
cricketdiane – original artwork – “Woman’s Thoughts” – 2004
Cricketdiane – original artwork retitled: “The Artist” – 2000

Cricket Diane C Phillips original design artwork – “In the Halls of the Summer Princess” – 2004
cricketdiane – original art – 18″ x 24″ ink on vellum – “In The Halls of the Summer Princess” 2004
cricketdiane – “Metallica – Floating Holograms” – a collaged design intended for a lobby-sized sculptural art piece

cricketdiane – “Fox” – pastels on silk 16″ x 20″ from 1988
cricketdiane – original acrylic painting – collectible art card 2.5″ x 3.5″ – 2007
cricketdiane – fantasy sword hilt design by Cricket Diane C Phillips 2004, 1997 – by collage

cricketdiane – Stone Hallway – the Dragon’s Lair – digital collage using two of my original art works to make a new one – 2007
cricketdiane – Castle in the Sky – 2006 – computer art using Bryce and digital collage
CricketDiane – 2006 – surrealism – computer art – digital collage – “Waters of Life”

cricketdiane – Marble flooring design – and letterhead corner – digital collage computer art / design – 2006
cricketdiane – 2006 – marble flooring design 2 – created using digital collage – computer art
cricketdiane – original artwork – “Woman’s Thoughts” – 2004

Cricketdiane – original artwork retitled: “The Artist” – 2000
cricketdiane – original art – 18″ x 24″ ink on vellum – “In The Halls of the Summer Princess” 2004
cricketdiane – “Metallica – Floating Holograms” – a collaged design intended for a lobby-sized sculptural art piece

cricketdiane – “Fox” – pastels on silk 16″ x 20″ from 1988
cricketdiane – original acrylic painting – collectible art card 2.5″ x 3.5″ – 2007

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cricketdiane - original art - 18" x 24" ink on vellum - "In The Halls of the Summer Princess" 2004

cricketdiane - original art - 18" x 24" ink on vellum - "In The Halls of the Summer Princess" 2004

It just seems to me that these artworks and unusual distinctive images could be used by businesses of some kind to help bring attention to their products, services and businesses. The one above is very “clean air” originality – but is a different way to draw attention to air quality issues.

Or it could be used to awaken the sparkle of ads or information concerning a business or business product, advertisements of a new world, twenty-first century look. It could get free or nearly free publicity for your business.

Or as a set of promotional items such as trading card giveaways for conventions where a lot of information taken home is usually set aside or thrown away. maybe this would be kept and information on the back would be around for a long time.

Interested? Let me know . . .

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cricketdiane - "Metallica - Floating Holograms" - a collaged design intended for a lobby-sized sculptural art piece

cricketdiane - "Metallica - Floating Holograms" - a collaged design intended for a lobby-sized sculptural art piece

cricketdiane - "Fox" - pastels on silk 16" x 20" from 1988

cricketdiane - "Fox" - pastels on silk 16" x 20" from 1988

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Above, this is one of the art cards I painted in 2007 – 2008 – there are a whole series of ocean scenes which would be perfect for a number of oceanographic oriented non-profits to apply to promote their efforts. Or, for tourist businesses, hotels or aquarium gift shops / beach gift shops, scuba toys dealers and other businesses that equate their business to relaxation.

Contact me about using these and any of the other images I’ve created that are on this blog or other posts I’ve made of them and let’s get them to work promoting and building your business for you.

– “Cricket” Diane C Phillips

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cricketdiane - original acrylic painting - collectible art card 2.5" x 3.5" - 2007

cricketdiane - original acrylic painting - collectible art card 2.5" x 3.5" - 2007

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Trading Cards that could be used to Promote your business – for specialty coffee producers, boutique coffee shops and lifestyle coffees / teas or other businesses interested?

29 Wednesday Apr 2009

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cricketdiane - Seasons coffee themed art trading card - original watercolor - "Summer" - 2007

cricketdiane - Seasons coffee themed art trading card - original watercolor - "Summer" - 2007

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cricketdiane - original watercolor 2.5" x 3.5" - coffee themed art trading cards - by Cricket Diane C Phillips 2007 - months of the year - October Coffee

cricketdiane - original watercolor 2.5" x 3.5" - coffee themed art trading cards - by Cricket Diane C Phillips 2007 - months of the year - October Coffee

cricketdiane - original watercolor 2.5" x 3.5" - 2007 coffee themed art trading cards by Cricket Diane C Phillips - November Coffee

cricketdiane - original watercolor 2.5" x 3.5" - 2007 coffee themed art trading cards by Cricket Diane C Phillips - November Coffee

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cricketdiane - original watercolor collectible art trading cards 2.5" x 3.5" - coffee themed art trading cards 2007 by Cricket Diane C Phillips - "Building Snow Bear With My Morning Coffee"

cricketdiane - original watercolor collectible art trading cards 2.5" x 3.5" - coffee themed art trading cards 2007 by Cricket Diane C Phillips - "Building Snow Bear With My Morning Coffee"

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And, the days of the week –

cricketdiane - coffee themed days of the week art trading cards - 2007 - Sunday -

cricketdiane - coffee themed days of the week art trading cards - 2007 - Sunday -

cricketdiane - original watercolor 2.5" x 3.5" coffee themed art trading cards by Cricket Diane C Phillips - 2007 - days of the week - Saturday

cricketdiane - original watercolor 2.5" x 3.5" coffee themed art trading cards by Cricket Diane C Phillips - 2007 - days of the week - Saturday

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And these with a folksy look to them –

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cricketdiane - original watercolor 2.5" x 3.5" - coffee themed art trading cards - folksy - "Ye Olde Coffee Grinder" - 2007

cricketdiane - original watercolor 2.5" x 3.5" - coffee themed art trading cards - folksy - "Ye Olde Coffee Grinder" - 2007

from the folksy coffee card set by Cricketdiane

and – (there are a bunch of all these different groups but here are a few)

cricketdiane - original watercolor 2.5" x 3.5" coffee themed collectible art cards by Cricket Diane C Phillips - "Coffee To Go" - 2007 -

cricketdiane - original watercolor 2.5" x 3.5" coffee themed collectible art cards by Cricket Diane C Phillips - "Coffee To Go" - 2007 -

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This one is called: “Fishing Gear” – I need to make one called, Gone Fishin’ –

cricketdiane - original watercolor 2.5" x 3.5" coffee themed collectible art cards by Cricket Diane C Phillips - "Fishing Gear" - 2007 -

cricketdiane - original watercolor 2.5" x 3.5" coffee themed collectible art cards by Cricket Diane C Phillips - "Fishing Gear" - 2007 -

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cricketdiane - original watercolor 2.5" x 3.5" - coffee themed collectible art cards - 2007 - "Coffee Set" by Cricket Diane C Phillips

cricketdiane - original watercolor 2.5" x 3.5" - coffee themed collectible art cards - 2007 - "Coffee Set" by Cricket Diane C Phillips

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cricketdiane - original watercolor collectible coffee themed art card by Cricket Diane C Phillips - 2007 - folksy folk art - "Percolatin' Some Coffee"

cricketdiane - original watercolor collectible coffee themed art card by Cricket Diane C Phillips - 2007 - folksy folk art - "Percolatin' Some Coffee"

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cricketdiane - collectible art cards - original watercolor by Cricket Diane C Phillips - 2007 - "Having A Little Coffee With My Goldfish" - folksy -

cricketdiane - collectible art cards - original watercolor by Cricket Diane C Phillips - 2007 - "Having A Little Coffee With My Goldfish" - folksy -

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cricketdiane - original watercolor 2.5" x 3.5" - coffee themed collectible art trading cards - "Coffee Snack" - 2007 by Cricket Diane C Phillips

cricketdiane - original watercolor 2.5" x 3.5" - coffee themed collectible art trading cards - "Coffee Snack" - 2007 by Cricket Diane C Phillips

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cricketdiane - original watercolor 2.5" x 3.5" - coffee themed art trading card - "The Morning After"

cricketdiane - original watercolor 2.5" x 3.5" - coffee themed art trading card - "The Morning After"

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cricketdiane - coffee themed original watercolor collectible art trading cards - 2007 - "Coffee and Jelly Beans Breakfast"

cricketdiane - coffee themed original watercolor collectible art trading cards - 2007 - "Coffee and Jelly Beans Breakfast"

That ought to be “Breakfast on the Way Out the Door”

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cricketdiane - collectible original watercolors 2.5" x 3.5" - original coffee themed collectible art trading cards - 2007 by Cricket Diane C Phillips - "Farmhouse Morning"

cricketdiane - collectible original watercolors 2.5" x 3.5" - original coffee themed collectible art trading cards - 2007 by Cricket Diane C Phillips - "Farmhouse Morning"

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And then I noticed that some really neat effects could be done which made a bunch of the art cards into something else entirely – but I like them . . .

cricketdiane - original watercolor collectible coffee cards with effects filters to shift designs - 2007 - by Cricket Diane C Phillips - "Kaffee Klatsch 3"

cricketdiane - original watercolor collectible coffee cards with effects filters to shift designs - 2007 - by Cricket Diane C Phillips - "Kaffee Klatsch 3"

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And this one that I really liked although to be honest – I did a whole bunch like this including the days of the week cards which made some very pop art looking cards that I like –

cricketdiane - original watercolors with digital manipulations 2.5" x 3.5" by Cricket Diane C Phillips - coffee themed art trading cards - collectibles - 2007 - pop art - "Morning Coffee"

cricketdiane - original watercolors with digital manipulations 2.5" x 3.5" by Cricket Diane C Phillips - coffee themed art trading cards - collectibles - 2007 - pop art - "Morning Coffee"

And this one –

cricketdiane - original watercolor with digital manipulation - 2.5" x 3.5" original coffee themed art cards by Cricket Diane C Phillips - collectible - pop art - "Coffee Wind Effects"

cricketdiane - original watercolor with digital manipulation - 2.5" x 3.5" original coffee themed art cards by Cricket Diane C Phillips - collectible - pop art - "Coffee Wind Effects"

And there’s more –

My idea is that these could help some businesses by promoting their products, their services, their retail business and boutique coffees / coffee bar. It is powerful, interesting and noteworthy, could be used for publicity and promotions and as a takeaway for conferences and conventions which would be a reminder of that business for a long time.

Let me know.

This would be a great way to promote a business. They are interesting. They are collectible. They draw attention to the business and they are saved and shared with others, each time bringing attention to whatever businesses are using them.

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Could your business use this Lego playhouse to help publicize your business and draw customers to your business? A Lego playhouse for rent to promote your business and get free or nearly free publicity to increase your business opportunities –

29 Wednesday Apr 2009

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Could your business use this Lego playhouse to help publicize your business and draw customers to your business?

give people something to talk about?

Would it make a good excuse to publicize your business and get free or nearly free publicity for your business to increase customer traffic and sales?

How much would that be worth to your business?

Wouldn’t it more than make back the effort and money to do it? Even make the difference between profits and nothing over the next six months?

Wouldn’t it increase sales for you?

Contact me, if you are interested – or I could build something specifically for your business but it will have the same design sense with repeating elements. It is distinctive, visually appealing and worth looking at twice. This little playhouse is large enough for an 18 month old – two year old child to go inside, look out the windows and play. It would make an interesting store window display, could offer the opportunity for publicity and promotions of a store or product, pictures of it could be used to get the public attention that your business seeks without costing a fortune to do it.

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cricketdiane - Lego playhouse built Christmas 2008

cricketdiane - Lego playhouse built Christmas 2008

cricketdiane – Jasmine in the Lego playhouse built Christmas 2008 – art of Cricket Diane C Phillips

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cricketdiane - Jasmine in the Lego playhouse built Christmas 2008 - art of Cricket Diane C Phillips

cricketdiane - Jasmine in the Lego playhouse built Christmas 2008 - art of Cricket Diane C Phillips

cricketdiane - Lego playhouse as I was building it last Christmas - an art thing by Cricket Diane C Phillips

cricketdiane - Lego playhouse as I was building it last Christmas - an art thing by Cricket Diane C Phillips

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The above picture was taken last Christmas as the Lego playhouse was being built. It is 33″ tall.

Below, these are some of the Lego projects that had to be taken apart to create the playhouse. As you can see, there is a distinctive design sense to them which is visually appealing and offers something interesting to talk about. It is worth taking a second look and the designs are fun, upbeat and unique.

cricketdiane - Lego castle built by Cricket Diane C Phillips - 2006 - taken apart for Lego playhouse

cricketdiane - Lego castle built by Cricket Diane C Phillips - 2006 - taken apart for Lego playhouse

Well, that one was taken apart but you can see the repeating design work and intricate, distinctive design style.

And, this one was taken apart, too for the Lego playhouse –

cricketdiane - Lego cannon bay - taken apart for Lego playhouse

cricketdiane - Lego cannon bay - taken apart for Lego playhouse

cricketdiane - Lego cannon bay created by Cricket Diane C Phillips - 2008 - project back

cricketdiane - Lego cannon bay created by Cricket Diane C Phillips - 2008 - project back

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And this one –

cricketdiane and Amanda built this Lego amphitheater - taken apart for Lego Playhouse - 2008

cricketdiane and Amanda built this Lego amphitheater - taken apart for Lego Playhouse - 2008

cricketdiane - joint Lego amphitheater project by Amanda and Diane in 2008 - taken apart for Lego playhouse

cricketdiane - joint Lego amphitheater project by Amanda and Diane in 2008 - taken apart for Lego playhouse

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The design below was intended to be part of a four – six baffle system for generating electricity using ocean waves – it worked good made from Legos – below is another view of it.

cricketdiane - ocean baffle design for possible ocean wave electricity generating by Cricket Diane C Phillips 2008 - taken apart for Lego house

cricketdiane - ocean baffle design for possible ocean wave electricity generating by Cricket Diane C Phillips 2008 - taken apart for Lego house

cricketdiane - ocean baffle Lego design for electricity generating using ocean waves - early 2008 / 2007

cricketdiane - ocean baffle Lego design for electricity generating using ocean waves - early 2008 / 2007

cricketdiane - ocean baffle design for possible ocean wave electricity generating by Cricket Diane C Phillips 2008 - taken apart for Lego house

cricketdiane - ocean baffle design for possible ocean wave electricity generating by Cricket Diane C Phillips 2008 - taken apart for Lego house

And this one of Amanda’s miniature buildings that practices a new building application style, we kept – (which I think is a really nifty design, but I think the ones we took apart were very nifty, too – we just needed the Legos for the playhouse.)

Amanda's little Lego house - interesting building methods using Legos - 2006

Amanda's little Lego house - interesting building methods using Legos - 2006

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One more look at the Lego Playhouse –

cricketdiane - one half of the Lego Playhouse I built at Christmas 2008

cricketdiane - one half of the Lego Playhouse I built at Christmas 2008

cricketdiane – Lego playhouse built Christmas 2008
cricketdiane – Lego playhouse built Christmas 2008 – art of Cricket Diane C Phillips
cricketdiane – Lego playhouse as I was building it last Christmas – an art thing by Cricket Diane C Phillips

cricketdiane – Lego castle built by Cricket Diane C Phillips – 2006 – taken apart for Lego playhouse
cricketdiane – Lego cannon bay – taken apart for Lego playhouse
cricketdiane – Lego cannon bay created by Cricket Diane C Phillips – 2008 – project back

cricketdiane and Amanda built this Lego amphitheater – taken apart for Lego Playhouse – 2008
cricketdiane – joint Lego amphitheater project by Amanda and Diane in 2008 – taken apart for Lego playhouse

cricketdiane – ocean baffle design for possible ocean wave electricity generating by Cricket Diane C Phillips 2008 – taken apart for Lego house
cricketdiane – ocean baffle design using Legos for ocean wave generating electricity project – early 2008
cricketdiane – ocean baffle Lego design for electricity generating using ocean waves – early 2008 / 2007

Amanda’s little Lego house – interesting building methods using Legos – 2006
Amanda’s little Lego house – interesting building methods using Legos – 2006
cricketdiane – ocean baffle design for possible ocean wave electricity generating by Cricket Diane C Phillips 2008 – taken apart for Lego house

cricketdiane – ocean baffle design for possible ocean wave electricity generating by Cricket Diane C Phillips 2008 – taken apart for Lego house
cricketdiane – ocean baffle Lego design for electricity generating using ocean waves – early 2008 / 2007
cricketdiane – joint Lego amphitheater project by Amanda and Diane in 2008 – taken apart for Lego playhouse

cricketdiane and Amanda built this Lego amphitheater – taken apart for Lego Playhouse – 2008
cricketdiane – Lego castle built by Cricket Diane C Phillips – 2006 – taken apart for Lego playhouse
cricketdiane – Lego playhouse as I was building it last Christmas – an art thing by Cricket Diane C Phillips

cricketdiane – Jasmine in the Lego playhouse built Christmas 2008 – art of Cricket Diane C Phillips
cricketdiane – Lego playhouse built Christmas 2008
cricketdiane – one half of the Lego Playhouse I built at Christmas 2008

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Seeking a publisher – and no I don’t have seven dollars a piece to send it in the mail to every publisher in America so I can wallpaper my bathroom with rejection letters . . . the Got No Money Guides I’ve written are needed in America right now – what business wants to use this publication to help their business make money today?

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Dear _ _ –

This is a request for submission to have a book of humor published. It screams redneck – it screams recession – it screams lighten up.

There is a group of writings called, “The Got No Money Guides To Good Living Anyway.” It includes the Got No Money Guide to Home Security, The Got No Money Guide to Home Decorating, The Got No Money Guide to Good Living, and others.

During this time of economic recession, there are a lot of people having the experiences described by this light hearted look at living with no money. It is funny. It is based on true experiences during my personal recession some years ago.

I would be interested in submitting these materials to you for publication. There is enough already written to produce a small coffee table or gift book. More could certainly be created by me to fill several hundred pages or several books with a matching title for a series. Are you interested in seeing this material and negotiating the opportunity to publish?

Thankyou,

“Cricket” Diane C Phillips
1525 Terrell Mill Place, Apt. H
Marietta, GA  30067

(770) 933-9467

dianecphillips@comcast.net
https://cricketdiane.wordpress.com/
http://cricketdianecphillips.wordpress.com/
Excerpt from the “Got No Money Guide to Home Decorating”

Got No Money Guide to Home Decorating

Copyright 2008, 2007, 1992 Cricket Diane C Phillips
Genius is to be Resourceful, ingenious, daring, creative and let go of the confounded limitations in propriety cricket quote from 1999

*When you got no money it’s not the same as being poor. Poor is a state of mind. Got no money is a fact.

*A trail of stars:
Camping under the stars – Glow in the dark stars on every ceiling is easier than camping –
no bugs, no rain, real beds and the keys don’t get locked in the car.

* With a nature sounds recording – you’ll think you’re in the woods till your ex-mother-in-law comes over.

*The best way to approach decorating when there is no money is to choose a color scheme and really stick with it. One of our favorites is cardboard brown, grey and glow in the dark.

* You know houseplants are just fast growing weeds with a pot stuck under them.

* Houseplants are easier to hang than bankers but not near as much fun to watch.

* For 99 cents , you can glo-in-the-dark anything. Who needs fancy emergency lights and a generator for a storm? Put enough glo-in-the-dark paint around and you can’t tell the difference.

* We glo-in-the-dark everything. We can find our shoes in the dark, our stove in the dark, my husband’s privates in the dark.

* Don’t say anything to my husband about the glo-in-the-dark privates thing. He never looks down at himself and I haven’t told him.

* Plastic flowers in the window boxes were a great idea from a friend of mine, but we couldn’t afford them. So, we put that idea with another problem we kept having and now our windows have really great dirty socks on a stick in the boxes. From the street, you can’t tell anyway.

*No, they don’t glo-in-the-dark. But, we could do that . . .

*My husband keeps asking what happened to all his socks. So you think I should tell him? He can’t divorce me. We don’t have any money.

* I started to wallpaper the bathroom with legal papers. The government is the only one that can afford paper. They sent a tone of it to our house. Surely it could be a decorating element. You can’t wipe with it.

(There’s more on this topic.)

Excerpt from the Got No Money Guide to Home Security –

Got No Money Guide to Home and Personal Security
Copyright 2008, 2007, 1991 by Cricket Diane C Phillips
Got No Money Guide to Home Security

Most people get a sticker for their window that says,  Protected by xx Security and Alarm  or something like that. Then, of course, every month there is a fee for the company to protect the property by manning the alarms.

When you got no money, that isn’t realistic. So, to help the world of folks with no money, these are anti-theft suggestions and crime deterrents as stickers for the home, car and personal property:

*Already pawned everything of value.

*There’s a reason I drive a beat-up Ford.

*We were the 223 millionth American family to file for bankruptcy. What they didn’t take isn’t worth stealing.

*Ex air traffic controller – Ex postal carrier – go for it – make my day.

*The credit cards in my wallet were maxed out three months ago. I was arrested at an atm for trying to withdraw my own money. The bankruptcy will be final eventually after my ex-wife’s lawyers are done screwing up my life. Have it all – your luck has to be better than mine.

*If you steal my checks or atm card – you’ll have to beat the checks to the bank just like I do.

*We couldn’t afford our car insurance and this vehicle is registered with the State Office of No Insurance. Take it at your own risk. Oh yeah – and I’ve been meaning to get the brakes fixed – use the parking brake if you’re going to want to stop at all. Just tug real hard.

*Unemployed Taxpayer.

*Our house is in foreclosure. Please feel free to take the rest so we don’t have to pay movers.
*Everything here came from the thrift store. Help yourself.

*We are justifiably poor. We follow a religious order. Apparently you need to join. We can save you. Come back when we’re here and we will.

*Do you know how many ways you can make macaroni and cheese into different meals? We do. We aren’t doing that because we can afford to go out to eat. Our children think happy meals are days we can eat rice and bologna. Don’t tell ‘em.

*Unemployed long enough to hate everybody. Come on in.

*We own a black and white tv. The children put rocks in our cassette player. We have two lamps that don’t work and the telephone’s ringer don’t ring since I threw it at the wall. If you really want it – go for it.

(There’s more . . . )

Excerpt from:

More Got No Money Home and Personal Security

More stickers for the protection of home, self and property:

Got No Money Guide 2007 Anti-Theft Bumper Stickers – More from 2007

It’s easy to understand that a little sticker on the car or home windows could deter criminals from desiring an end prize that isn’t worth it. Security company logos are used on property all the time to let the bad guys know the risk involved. But, if the thieves only knew . . .

* Before stealing this car – check the gas gauge. Yes, it is on E isn’t it?

* And how much money did you bring with you to stop by the Quicky Mart for gas? If things are bad enough to be stealing this car, you are in for a shock when you stop for gas . . . You know, it doesn’t go without gas, right?

* Apparently “D” doesn’t stand for “Daring to Believe”. I wish I had known that before I bought it and spent all my money to drive it. If you want to steal it, let me know and I’ll send you the payment book, the insurance forms and the maintenance schedule. You can have it all.

* The only air conditioning on this car is rolling down the windows. You might want to know what that rattling sound is under the car. Never mind – go ahead and steal it.

* Isn’t this just the perfect car you’ve always wanted? I felt that way, too. Would you like to know why I don’t feel that way anymore?

* If you knew what the auto mechanic wanted to fix this car – you’d get out of the business of stealing and be a mechanic.

* You just made my day. Thanks so much for wanting something I have. And my mom said this car was a worthless piece of – well, never mind what she said.

* I have a bank account I can’t keep a hundred dollars in and you think I have bank cards, credit cards and cash? What drugs are you on – that must be some good stuff. Just off in your own happy little la-la land, aren’t you?

* I have a daughter who is just your type. Leave your name and phone number – we’ll get back to you.

* Don’t worry about stealing the car – our daughter will find it when she’s ready to go somewhere and bring it back to you with no gas in it.

* Just because I look like I’ve got money – it doesn’t make it so. Just ask my mother-in-law.

* Let’s look at this. Stealing isn’t efficient. Hacking is efficient. But neither is efficient compared to being an attorney. Boy, do you need guidance.

(Yep, there’s more . . . )

And one last note from the Got No Money Guide to Home Decorating (and Interior Design) –

* Butt is not a fashion decorating word but it is a priority element of decorating. What you do with butts makes all the difference in decorating. Cheap seats are hard seats. Can’t afford them anyway. And no money butts are hard, scrawny, boney butts. Hard seats won’t do. You’ll have to keep a crowbar on the wall to pry the seats from the butts. Isn’t that special? Early American . . .

Excerpt from:

Got No Money Guide To Good Living – 2
Written by Cricket Diane C Phillips 2008

* I have an active living environment. This means a got no money good living environment dedicated to actively living in it. Things to do, workspaces for doing them and living by doing.

* You’ve got to ask yourself what you’d be doing if you had all the money in the world anyway.

* If its sitting around reading books – get some books. If its cooking special meals for people you love – get some recipes and do it.

* This isn’t a hard concept to grasp. I found it in a book once. Then I bought seeds for gardening and planted them.

* It was during a bad drought and only one marigold and five tomato plants grew out of thousands of seeds – about $8 worth of seed packets.
* But the seeds from those six plants have grown tomatoes and marigolds everywhere I’ve lived since. They’ve provided flowers and tomatoes in my friends’ and neighbors’ yards, at my parents’ house and I still have some today from them.

* If I don’t have a yard to garden – I just go and garden somebody else’s yard or plant them in the window inside the house. Its all the same to me because if I were rich its what I would do. So, I do it. Why wait?

* Between books from the library, books on sale, books online and books at the thrift store, yard sales and friends of the library sales – there are whole libraries available to own when you got no money and want good living.

* Be aware that what you have in your hand may be a library book before you stick it under the couch where the leg used to be. And, as soon as you use the dictionary for that you’ll need to look up a word. Better go find a brick instead.

* May as well not sit around thinking about what you haven’t got. Build it, create it, do it with what is around you.

* There is always something – some way to do it – somewhere to find it – some way to acquire it even with no money.

* In fact, with money is one of the most inefficient ways to go about it for most things most of the time.

* By the time I’ve shopped for what doesn’t really suit the purpose I have for it, I could’ve built, acquired or reclaimed four things (at least) to solve the problem that suits the purpose.

Got No Money Guide To Good Living 2

* Most good living is going to happen whether or not you got any money. Trashy living will happen too whether you got any money or not. The trick is to do more of the good living than letting it slide into trashy regardless of your economic reality.

* I’ve got to say, though, there is some comfort in trashy living – nobody expects much and its easy enough to accomplish that.

* If you wanna do good living when you got no money – its really easy. Satin pillowcases for your head and day-old cakes, donuts and collecting stuff everybody else is done using.

* We had do it later mentality for a long time until one day I realized we were going to be poor for probably ever and ever so that day we started good living anyway.

* We bought fancy napkins that cost fifty cents each at the clearance aisle one week which isn’t too bad if you don’t mind that they won’t match each other or anything else either.

* Those napkins were a one-time investment for years of imagining the fine dining of a fancy restaurant without leaving home.

(And, there’s more . . . )

http://cricketdianecphillips.wordpress.com/

The parts of these guides that are posted here online are only a small part of the total that are already written – some by hand and some on the computer. There is also a Got No Money Guide to Starting a Business, and Got No Money Guide to Getting Around Town (transportation, kinda)
and ones about entertainment, creating stuff and although I haven’t written it yet, I swear that I have enough information to write a SPAM cookbook of 5000 ways to fix spam, or turkey, or whatever that meat was we were eating – might have been squirrel or deer meat, never asked.

People are experiencing these things now and they need to be able to laugh about it and to get a real look at it with a sense of humor. This book can do that and so much of the material is already written, that I hope you will consider it and put it into publication right now where it can help.

Thanks so much,

Diane.

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Who I am and why I am the most qualified person to write this book –

Diane C. Phillips – (cricketdiane)
50 years old
Ph.D. in living without money and surviving it.

I was born in Ohio, lived in Florida, Georgia, California, Georgia, California, South Carolina, North Carolina and now, in Georgia for what seems like forever in poverty and got no money living. I grew up in California.

Attended several colleges, learned something and went on. Married twice, taken hostage once by a man I had two children with – overall, I have seven children, none of which live with me.

I have real world experience with this long enough to have a sense of humor about it. I can do more with less than most people would consider trying but now they are having to do just that.

And, people are killing themselves over this stuff, over losing their homes to foreclosure, losing jobs to layoffs and businesses going bankrupt. It isn’t necessary. It’s only money and as long as we stay in the alive column, we can always get money.

It would be better if I were the one available to advise those who are about to be living in their cars or having financial impossibilities, compared to watching people with two college degrees as experts on cable news make suggestions to them. I know what to do. The lessons I’ve learned have come from living with the reality of having no money.

How does someone with money on the ATM card and nineteen credit cards to their name, know what to tell a person whose house is in foreclosure, just lost their job and doesn’t have a clue what to do next? One thing, first of all, that I do know is how to think about it such that opportunities can be created, options can be generated and a creative thinking process can be awakened to deal with the situation. I have paid the price to know that. It is why I can write the humorous materials about it.

I’ve lived it. I am an expert.

What am I selling? Who am I selling it to? Who is going to buy it?

The Got No Money Guides to Good Living are – A distinctive way to look at options when there is no money to throw at problems.

People who want to enhance their creativity and problem solving in the midst of difficult economic times, those who need a good laugh and to not despair are in need of this book.

People will buy it as a gift for family members who are worried and afraid or who are going through financial hardships. They will also buy it for friends at work and at church who are having difficulties and hopefully, it will perk them up a bit. This is also applicable to those who are 30 – 90 years old and have lived through financial difficulties already or who are now. They will pick this book up out of all the stacks of books and do something to help themselves. And, they will gain a sense of humor about where they stand in all of this. It will spark the creativity, imagination, innovative spirit and hope that will carry them through this crisis by creating their own viable solutions to this economic crisis.

It will also give them a good belly laugh which heals beyond all else when things are truly important and seem truly impossible.

These are good reasons to publish this material. It is timely. It is appropriate. It is helpful and it is funny. And, it is fun and creative, awakens innovative thinking and inspires. It is what people need right now, not sitting on a shelf somewhere but available to them in print for purchase.

The Got No Money Guides to Good Living
by Cricket Diane C Phillips, 2009

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Seeking a publisher – and no I don’t have seven dollars a piece to send it in the mail to every publisher in America so I can wallpaper my bathroom with rejection letters . . . the Got No Money Guides I’ve written are needed in America right now – what business wants to use this publication to help their business make money today?

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Air passenger travel to and from Mexico over the past three weeks has been how many people – The Swine Flu Outbreak and the Kent State students’ response from the weekend “riot”

28 Tuesday Apr 2009

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this is from the Kent State students with eye-witness accounts – weekend riot –

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Questions burn after riots
4 fires, 53 arrests trigger big batch of court visits
Kristine Gill
Issue date: 4/27/09 Section: News

Contact public affairs reporter Kristine Gill at kgill2@kent.edu.

Regina Garcia Cano, Ted Hamilton, Nicole Stempak, Christina Thomas, Caitlyn Wachovec and Ben Wolford contributed to this story.

http://media.www.kentnewsnet.com/media/storage/paper867/news/2009/04/27/News/Questions.Burn.After.Riots-3726964.shtml

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• Kent County health officials investigating possible swine flu case
MLive.com – ?10 hours ago?
Kent County health officials are sending a nasal swab to the state health department to determine if the person tested may be the county’s first case of …

Kent County health officials investigating possible swine flu case
by Pat Shellenbarger | The Grand Rapids Press
Monday April 27, 2009, 3:43 PM

http://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2009/04/kent_county_health_officials_i.html

large_mexico-airport.jpg
Passengers, wearing surgical masks as a precaution against infection, arrive at the airport in Mexico City on Sunday. A Kent County resident who recently returned from Mexico has come down with some of the symptoms associated with swine flu.

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RELATED STORIES

• Swine flu fears fuel mask orders for Grandville medical supply company

• Travel agencies report customers canceling trips to Mexico, help others return sooner

• University of Michigan expert: Many specifics about swine flu strain lacking

• Livingston County officials reveal more details of suspected swine flu case during press conference

• President Obama: Swine flu not a reason for ‘alarm’

• Livingston County woman may have swine flu, state health officials say

• World governments race to contain swine flu outbreak

A person who went to Mexico within the past 10 days and returned to Kent County came down with some of the symptoms associated with swine flu, according to Dr. Mark Hall, medical director for the Kent County Health Department.

“I think it would be naive — when there are cases in Ohio, a suspected case in Michigan (in Livingston County) — to think we’re not going to get a case,” Hall said. “We are expecting cases.”

http://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2009/04/kent_county_health_officials_i.html

HAS DIFFERENT MAP – google map with possible and confirmed cases including midwest

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General Mariano Escobedo International Airport (IATA: MTY, ICAO: MMMY) is an international airport located in Apodaca, Nuevo León, Mexico. Together with Del Norte International Airport, General Mariano Escobedo International Airport handles domestic and international operations for the city of Monterrey and its metropolitan area.

The airport is considered one of the most modern airports in North America serving up to 8 million passengers per year. Eighty percent of passenger traffic is domestic, primarily from the cities of Mexico City, Guadalajara, Chihuahua, and Tijuana, and twenty percent of passenger traffic is international, primarily from the American cities of Dallas, Houston, Atlanta, Chicago, and Los Angeles. There are almost 300 daily flights to more than 35 destinations in Mexico, North America, and Europe. It is considered as the country’s fourth most important airport in terms of passengers handled and operations per year, after Mexico City International Airport, Cancún International Airport, and Guadalajara International Airport.

The airport serves as a hub for Aviacsa, Aeroméxico, Aeroméxico Connect and Viva Aerobus. Airport terminals were renovated and expanded in 2003 and again in 2007. The airport handled 5.25 million passengers in 2006, representing a 12.7% increase over 2005 [1].

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Mariano_Escobedo_International_Airport

Traffic Statistics
Busiest International Routes out of Monterrey International Airport (2008) [2] Rank     City     Passengers
1     Houston, Texas     119,967
2     Dallas, Texas     113,357
3     Las Vegas, Nevada     32,871
4     Chicago, Illinois     22,556
5     Los Angeles, California     18,191
6     Detroit, Michigan     17,752
7     San Antonio, Texas     12,867
8     New York, New York (JFK)     12,779
9     Austin, Texas     10,650
10     Madrid, Spain     6,501

[edit] Terminals, Airlines and Destinations

[edit] Terminal A

[edit] North Concourse: Domestic Flights (Gates A1-A15)
Airlines  ?     Destinations
Aeroméxico     Cancún, Mexico City
Aeroméxico Connect     Aguascalientes, Chihuahua, Ciudad del Carmen, Ciudad Juárez, Ciudad Obregón, Culiacán, Guadalajara, Hermosillo, La Paz, León, Los Mochis, Mazatlán, Mérida, Mexicali, Mexico City, Morelia, Puebla, Puerto Vallarta, Querétaro, Tampico, Tijuana, Toluca, Veracruz, Villahermosa
Aviacsa     Cancún, Ciudad Juárez, Guadalajara, Mexico City
Interjet     Cancún, Guadalajara, Mexico City, Toluca
Magnicharters     Acapulco, Cancún, Ixtapa-Zihuatanejo, Los Cabos, Mazatlán, Puerto Vallarta
Mexicana     León, Mexico City
MexicanaLink     Guadalajara, Puebla [Begins May 11]
Volaris     Tijuana, Toluca

[edit] South Concourse: International Flights (Gates B3-B8)
Airlines  ?     Destinations
Aeroméxico     Las Vegas, Rome-Fiumicino
American Airlines     Dallas/Fort Worth
Aviacsa     Las Vegas
Continental Airlines     Houston-Intercontinental
Continental Express operated by ExpressJet Airlines     Houston-Intercontinental
Delta Connection operated by Shuttle America     Atlanta
Mexicana     Chicago-O’Hare, Los Angeles, New York-JFK
Northwest Airlink operated by Compass Airlines     Detroit

[edit] Terminal B

Under construction

[edit] Terminal C
Airlines  ?     Destinations
Viva Aerobus     Acapulco, Cancún, Chihuahua, Ciudad Juárez, Culiacán, Guadalajara, Hermosillo, La Paz, León, Los Cabos, Mazatlán, Oaxaca, Mérida, Puerto Vallarta, Tijuana, Veracruz, Villahermosa

Coordinates: [show location on an interactive map] 25̊46?36?N 100̊06?23?W? / ?25.77667̊N 100.10639̊W? / 25.77667; -100.10639

[edit] References

1. ^ Passenger statistics for 2006 http://www.oma.bz/EN/BoletinesDePrensa.asp?idAeropuerto=mty
2. ^ http://dgac.sct.gob.mx/index.php?id=467

[edit] External links

* Monterrey International Airport location
* Grupo Aeroportuario Centro Norte (OMA)
* Airport information for MMMY at World Aero Data. Data current as of October 2006.

Retrieved from “http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Mariano_Escobedo_International_Airport”
Categories: Transportation in Monterrey | Airports in Mexico

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Mariano_Escobedo_International_Airport

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World’s busiest passenger air routes
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The busiest air routes in the world appear to involve pairs of large cities in close proximity, but which rely more on air transport due to a lack of viable transport infrastructure for other modes, and the distance is large enough to discourage car driving.
Contents
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* 1 By air movements
* 2 Asia-Pacific
* 3 Europe
o 3.1 By total volume of passengers
* 4 See also
* 5 References

[edit] By air movements
Top 21 busiest passenger air routes in terms of air momements, September 2007

Based on data provided by airline statistics consultancy OAG (Official Airline Guide), in September 2007 the world’s ten busiest air routes, in terms of flight operations per week, are listed below [1].

Note that these statistics do not consider the number of passengers carried, nor do they aggregate air movements made at other airports in the same city. The data is based on flights made in September 2007, and is not seasonally adjusted.

Rank  ?     Airport 1  ?     Airport 2  ?     Flights per week  ?
1.     Barcelona International Airport     Madrid Barajas International Airport     971
2.     Congonhas-São Paulo International Airport     Santos Dumont Airport (Rio de Janeiro)     894
3.     Jeju International Airport     Gimpo International Airport     858
4.     Melbourne Airport     Sydney Airport     851
5.     Cape Town International Airport     Johannesburg OR Tambo International Airport     831
6.     Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport (Mumbai)     Indira Gandhi International Airport (New Delhi)     742
7.     New Chitose Airport     Tokyo International Airport
8.     Soekarno-Hatta International Airport     Juanda International Airport     700
9.     Honolulu International Airport     Kahului Airport     639
10.     Fukuoka Airport     Tokyo International Airport
11.     Brisbane Airport     Sydney Airport     c600
12.     Hong Kong International Airport     Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport
13.     Rome Leonardo da Vinci Airport     Milan Linate Airport
14.     Durban International Airport     Johannesburg OR Tambo International Airport     558
15.     Los Angeles International Airport     Las Vegas McCarran International Airport     553
16.     Mexico City International Airport     Monterrey General Mariano Escobedo International Airport
17.     Beijing Capital International Airport     Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport
18.     Los Angeles International Airport     San Diego International Airport     514
19.     Portland International Airport     Seattle-Tacoma International Airport
20.     Los Angeles International Airport     San Francisco International Airport
21.     Hong Kong International Airport     Shanghai Pudong International Airport

[edit] Asia-Pacific

In the Asia-Pacific, the top ten busiest routes are:
Rank  ?     Airport 1  ?     Airport 2  ?     Flights per week  ?
1.     Jeju International Airport     Gimpo International Airport     858
2.     Melbourne Airport     Sydney Airport     851
3.     Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport     Indira Gandhi International Airport     742
4.     New Chitose Airport     Tokyo International Airport
5.     Soekarno-Hatta International Airport     Juanda International Airport
6.     Fukuoka Airport     Tokyo International Airport
7.     Brisbane Airport     Sydney Airport
8.     Hong Kong International Airport     Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport
9.     Beijing Capital International Airport     Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport
10.     Hong Kong International Airport     Shanghai Pudong International Airport

[edit] Europe

In Europe, the top ten busiest routes are:
Rank  ?     Airport 1  ?     Airport 2  ?     Flights per week  ?
1.     Barcelona International Airport     Madrid Barajas International Airport     971
2.     Rome Leonardo da Vinci Airport     Milan Linate Airport
3.     Paris-Orly     Toulouse
4.     Oslo-Gardermoen     Bergen     175
5.     Las Palmas     Tenerife
6.     Oslo-Gardermoen     Trondheim
7.     Paris-Orly     Nice
8.     Amsterdam     London HR
9.     Hamburg     Munich
10.     Guernsey     Jersey International Airport

[edit] By total volume of passengers

The Globalization and World Cities (GaWC) Research Network at Loughborough University compiled statistics on the total volume of passengers who flew in the first eight months of 2001, utilising a reservation system database [2]. Note on reliability: This data is based on reservations through GDS reservation system databases. Direct booking at the airline itself over internet/telephone is not included. Some heavy domestic routes like Madrid—Barcelona have many unbooked passengers. In some cases it is off by a factor of three, the study finds Melbourne—Sydney carries 2.3 million passengers annually (1.5 in 8 months) while the Australian Government reports over seven million passengers are carried.[3]
Rank  ?     City 1  ?     City 2  ?     Passengers (Jan-Aug 2001)  ?
1.     Hong Kong     Taipei     2,138,484
2.     New York City     Los Angeles     1,697,593
3.     New York City     London     1,609,337
4.     Melbourne     Sydney     1,563,106
5.     Rome     Milan     1,518,767
6.     Johannesburg     Cape Town     1,406,897
7.     San Francisco     Los Angeles     1,375,660
8.     Amsterdam     London     1,242,550
9.     New York City     Chicago     1,182,326
10.     Bangkok     Hong Kong     1,141,062
11.     London     Paris     1,060,999
12.     London     Dublin     1,050,940
13.     Paris     Marseilles     1,044,128
14.     Bangkok     Singapore     1,024,818
15.     Rio de Janeiro     Sao Paulo     992,775
16.     New York City     Boston     988,976
17.     New York City     Miami     955,838
18.     New York City     Atlanta     935,265
19.     Los Angeles     Las Vegas     924,732
20.     New York City     San Francisco     909,514

[edit] See also

* World’s busiest airport
* World’s busiest airports by traffic movements
* World’s busiest airports by passenger traffic
* Busiest airports in Europe by passenger traffic
* List of the largest airports in the Nordic countries

[edit] References

1. ^ OAG reveals latest industry intelligence on the busiest routes 21 September 2007
2. ^ An Appraisal of the Use of Airline Data in Assessing the World City Network: A Research Note on Data, Urban Studies, 42 (13), (2005). See chapter IV.
3. ^ “Australian Domestic Airline Activity” (PDF). Aviation Statistics. Bureau of Transport and Regional Economics. February 2009. p. 4. http://www.bitre.gov.au/publications/23/Files/Domestic%20Monthly%20Airline%20Activity%20publication%20December%2008.pdf. Retrieved on 2009-02-18.

Retrieved from “http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%27s_busiest_passenger_air_routes”
Categories: Aviation statistics | Aviation-related lists

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World’s_busiest_passenger_air_routes

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www.oag.com

http://www.oag.com/oag/website/com/en/PopUps/Print/Press+Releases/OAG+reveals+latest+industry+intelligence+on+the+busiest+routes+2109072

2007 numbers – but still, how many people have traveled to or from Mexico over the past three weeks?

Mexico City is apparently the 16th busiest route in the world.

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When swine flu was found – the travel should have been stopped for a few days or a couple weeks and those already exposed could have been quarantined. But, no.


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Answers and Solutions to Business Scarcity – US Resources for Businesses, for StartUps and for Starting Your Own Business Ideas / Tools

28 Tuesday Apr 2009

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• Community Colleges: The Economic Developer’s Workforce Partner
• Using a Balanced Scorecard to Measure Your Economic Development Strategy
• Comprehensive Economic Development Strategies (CEDS) Summary of Requirements

Summer 2006: EDA’s Excellence in Economic Development 2006 Award Winners Excellence in:
• Economic Adjustment Strategies: The City of Pueblo Rebuilds Its Economic Base
• Technology-Led Economic Development: North Dakota State University Research & Technology Park
• Enhancing Regional Competitiveness: Yielding Positive Results in Southwestern Pennsylvania
• Community and Faith-based Social Entrepreneurship: St. Patrick Center Programs Build Permanent, Positive Change
• Rural Economic Development: Yuba-Sutter EDC
• Innovation: Kentucky’s Technology Transformation
• Urban or Suburban Econoic Development: Tinley Park Builds on 35-Year Plan for Success

Spring 2006: Global Gateways• Helping States Encourage Exporting
• Building Businesses on the Border: The Bi-National Sustainability Laboratory As an Engine of Economic Change
• Trade Adjustment Assistance: Helping Firms Compete in the Global Economy
• World Trade Centers: Gateways to the Global Marketplace
• The U.S. – Mexico Border: Integrated Economies
• A Sea Change in Ocean Shipping
• Intermodal Opportunities in Appalachia
• America’s Dependence on Flight-by-Night Operators: The Underappreciated Role of Air Cargo in the U.S. Economy
• Making Charlotte an International City

Winter 2006: Rural Entrepreneurship and Innovative Leadership
• President Bush’s 2007 Budget Request for EDA: Good News for Rural America
• A Framework for Developing Rural Entrepreneurship
• Supporting Rural Entrepreneurship: What Can States Do? What Should They Do?
• Jack Schultz: A Man with 7 1/2 Keys to Small Town Success
• The HomeTown Competitiveness Initiative
• Incorporating Entrepreneurship into North Carolina’s Economic Development Infrastructure
• Entrepreneurship on Tribal Lands
• Innovation Commercialization in a Rural Region: The Case of Greater Johnstown, Pennsylvania
• Kentucky Leadership Program Coaches Entrepreneurs
• Wyoming Business Camp Encourages Youth to Make Their Own Jobs

Fall 2005: Building a 21st Century World-Class Workforce
• Talent Development Is a Key Ingredient for Economic Development
• What Economic Developers Should Know About Workforce Development and Community Colleges
• Workforce Development: A Region’s Key Business Retention and Expansion Tool
• New Governance Structures for Aligning Local Economic and Workforce Development
• Putting Inner Cities To Work
• The Career Readiness Certificate – An Idea Whose Time Has Come
• Manufacturing Skills Certification: A New Fast Track for Regional Innovation
• Preparing Middle and High School Students for Careers in Science and Health
• Help Wanted: Smyth County, Virginia

Summer 2005: Report of the Strengthening America’s Communities Advisory Committee
• EDA Responds to the Gulf Coast
• Rising to the Challenge
• Executive Summary
• The Committee’s Charge and Process
• A Challenge for the 21st Century
• Findings, Guiding Principles, and Recommendations
• Leadership in Action
• Advisory Committee Members

Spring 2005: Communities in Transition
• BRAC – The Denver Experience
• Rural Sourcing, Inc.: Bringing High Tech Jobs to Rural America
• Revitalizing Brownfields: New Benefits from Old Sites
• Kalamazoo’s Economic Revitalization
• Broadband Access in Rural Areas
• Georgia Communities Bounce Back
• National Leadership Through Regional Cooperation: Tennessee Valley Comes Together to Create Jobs of the Future
• Using Department of Energy Assets for Community Benefit
• Enterprise Facilitation: Growing Entrepreneurs One Contact at a Time

Winter 2005: The Marriage of Innovation and Entrepreneurship
• Building Innovation-Driven Regional Economies in Small and Mid-Sized Metro Centers
• Creating Systems for Entrepreneur Support
• Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Rural America
• Kentucky’s Rural Innovation and Entrepreneurship Program: An In-Depth Look at How It Works
• The Importance of Networks and Capacity Building in Technology Transfer and Commercialization
• Best Practices in University Technology Transfer
• A 21st Century Model for Engineering Education
• Turning the Corner: Trends in Angel Investing
• Growing Ohio’s High Performance Economy
• Replanting the Economic Forest in Northeast Ohio


http://www.eda.gov/NewsEvents/Edevinfocoalition.xml
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May 3–5, 2009
Southeast Workforce and Economic
Development Conference; Atlanta,
GA [Website]
May 3–5, 2009
National Conference on Corporate
Community Investment (BCLC),
Chicago, IL [Website]
May 5–7, 2009
CDFA’s Annual Development
Finance Summit, Pittsburgh, PA
[Website]
June 1-4, 2009
2009 IEDC Technology-Led
Economic Development Conference
and IASP World Conference on
Science and Technology Parks; The
Research Triangle Park, NC
[Website]
June 1–3, 2009
NARC 43nd Annual Conference and
Exhibition, Denver, CO [Website]
June 2–5, 2009
Council for Community and
Economic Research (C2ER) 49th
Annual Conference, Kansas City,
MO [Website]
August 29–September 01,
2009
NADO’s 2009 Annual Training
Conference, Chicago, IL [Website]

http://www.eda.gov/PDF/EDA%20Update%20April%202009_%20Buil…pdf

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The problem small- and mid-sized regions face is not
simply a lack of venture capital – equity financing once a
firm has a product and is near going public or other otherwise
exiting – but a paucity of risk equity capital needed
prior to when more traditional venture capital is available.
Smart regions are finding solutions to this private sector
funding gap, generally referred to as pre-seed to seed funding,
through angel funds, private placement expertise, tax
credits and other approaches. Angel networks are an important
way to build private-public partnerships. In other cases,
attracting a fund focused on small- to medium-sized regions
is an avenue in which to focus, as Peoria has done. In other
instances, the formation of a regional fund focused at this
early stage has made a significant difference, as happened in
Alabama.
Innovation-driven economies increasingly will need to
help create privately managed risk pools that build on a track
record of successful entrepreneurs – pools with sufficient
funds to syndicate deals with the national venture funds that
are still focused predominantly on investments on the coasts.
Adjusting their economic tool kits to make equity investments,
for example, to address leasehold improvement
financing for wet labs, some states and regions purchase
insurance, others offer tax credits, and some take equity for
the improvements.
Getting Started: Lessons for Smaller Metro Regions
in Building Innovation Economies
What finally makes a difference in a region or community’s
success is having local champions and leaders with a plan for
the implementation tasks of catalyzing, brokering and connecting
– day-to-day hard work.

[ . . . ]

Small- and mid-sized metropolitan regions can take
advantage of their technology, talent and capital resources to
build innovation-driven regional economies for the future.
Leadership, a hard-nosed willingness to identify and address
gaps, and an implementation plan are critical to these
regions’ success in encouraging entrepreneurship, technology
commercialization, talent retention and attraction, and
wealth generation. In contrast to the history of American
regions of the past – built on what they were given in terms
of natural resources, waterways, and related factors – future
regional development can be positively affected by what a
community does to create its own innovation base. ★ ★ ★

http://www.eda.gov/PDF/EDAmericaWinter2005MarriageInnovation.pdf

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(also covers making technology transfers from university research – there are some better sources and avenues for this information – will post it later.)

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Two Deaths Reported from Earthquake in Mexico – Swine Flu cases increase in California – credit crunch still impacting malls and jobs and unemployment / layoffs continuing – and US made flight veer around US airspace because revolution writer onboard – its all nuts – some damages listed from Mexico Acapulco earthquake today

28 Tuesday Apr 2009

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Air France Plane With ‘No-Fly’ Passenger Barred From U.S. Airspace

Monday, April 27, 2009

U.S. authorities stopped an Air France flight on its way to Mexico from entering U.S. airspace after learning one of the passengers was on the terrorist watch list, the U.K.’s Telegraph newspaper reported.

The April 18 flight from Paris to Mexico was carrying journalist Gernando Calvo Ospina, who has written about revolutionary movements in Cuba and Colombia, and is currently researching a book about the CIA, the Telegraph reported.

Ospina was told of the incident by the plane’s co-pilot.

“I was speechless and my first reaction was to ask, ‘Do you think I’m a terrorist?’,” Ospina told the Telegraph. “He replied ‘no’ and said that was why he told me about it, adding that it was extraordinary and the first time it had happened on an Air France plane.”

There were no scheduled stops in the U.S., and the passenger list was only given to Mexican authorities, the Telegraph reported.

The flight was forced to divert to the French Caribbean island of Martinique before continuing on, the Telegraph reported.

Ospina was on his way to Nicaragua to research a report, a spokesman for Ospina’s French publisher told the paper.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,518083,00.html

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Monday, April 27, 2009 at 6:15 p.m.

A private school in Newberry, South Carolina, canceled classes Monday for fear of Swine Flu.

Some students at the school, which is about 40 miles northwest of Columbia, returned from a trip to Mexico with flu-like symptoms.

School officials say they’re not too concerned about swine flu, and believe a student who was sick before boarding the plane infected other students.


Swine Flu scare at South Carolina school

http://www.carolinalive.com/news/news_story.aspx?id=292505

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Page last updated at 04:07 GMT, Tuesday, 28 April 2009 05:07 UK

‘Too late’ to contain swine flu

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/8021384.stm

{above – BBC video clip about the swine flu from 6 hours ago, more or less}

WHO flu expert Dr Keiji Fukuda: “Containment is not a feasible operation”

A deadly swine flu virus first detected in Mexico can no longer be contained, a World Health Organization (WHO) official has said.

WHO Assistant Director General Keiji Fukuda said countries should now focus on mitigating the effects of the virus.

The WHO has raised its alert level from three to four, two steps short of declaring a full pandemic.

Mexico earlier said it believed 149 people had now died from the swine flu, though only 20 cases are confirmed.

The US, Canada, Spain and Britain have confirmed milder versions.

‘Not inevitable’

The WHO’s decision to raise the alert level to four came after an emergency meeting of experts, brought forward by a day because of concerns over the outbreak.

WHO PANDEMIC ALERT PHASES
Phase 1: No viruses circulating among animals causing infections in humans
Phase 2: Animal influenza virus causes infection in humans, and is considered potential pandemic threat
Phase 3: Influenza causes sporadic cases in people, but no significant human-to-human transmission
Phase 4: Verified human-to-human transmission able to cause community-level outbreaks. Significant increase in risk of a pandemic
Phase 5: Human-to-human transmission in at least two countries. Strong signal pandemic imminent
Phase 6: Virus spreads to another country in a different region. Global pandemic under way

Life at centre of the outbreak

Swine flu: Your experiences

In pictures: Swine flu

Level four means the virus is showing a sustained ability to pass from human to human, and is able to cause community-level outbreaks.

[ . . . ]

He said the virus had become too widespread to make containment a feasible option, and said countries must focus on trying to put measures in place to protect the population.

He also stressed that the experts did not recommend closing borders or restricting travel. “With the virus being widespread… closing borders or restricting travel really has very little effects in stopping the movement of this virus,” he said.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8021827.stm

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In Canada, six cases have been recorded at opposite ends of the country, in British Columbia and in Nova Scotia.

Swine flu officially arrived in Europe on Monday, when tests confirmed that a young man in Spain and two people in Scotland – all of whom had recently returned from Mexico – had the virus. They were said to be recovering well.

SPREAD OF VIRUS
Mexico: 20 confirmed cases (149 suspected deaths)
United States: 40 confirmed cases
Canada: 6 confirmed cases
UK: 2 confirmed cases
Spain: 1 confirmed case
Israel, Brazil, Guatemala, Peru, Australia, New Zealand, and South Korea: Suspected cases being tested

Tests are also being carried out on individuals or groups in New Zealand, Australia, Brazil, Israel and South Korea who fell ill following travel to Mexico.

A number of countries in Asia, Latin America and Europe have begun screening airport passengers for symptoms, while Germany’s biggest tour operator has suspended trips to Mexico.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8021827.stm

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How swine flu has spread

Fears of a flu pandemic are growing as the number of confirmed cases around the world continues to rise.

In Mexico – where the outbreak began – there are now 26 confirmed cases. Some reports say as many as 149 people may have died from swine flu, but WHO officials put the figure much lower and said only about 20 of the deaths could be definitely attributed to swine flu.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8021547.stm

[Map with confirmed cases listed – this is the officially confirmed cases]

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HOW SWINE FLU OUTBREAK EMERGED

Flu viruses mutate over time causing small changes to proteins on their surface called antigens. If the immune system has met particular strain of the virus before it is likely to have some immunity; but if the antigens are new to the immune system, it will be weakened. The flu currently making headlines is a strain of H1N1 influenza A virus, which affects birds, some mammals and humans.

The influenza A virus can mutate in two different ways; antigenic drift, in which existing antigens are subtly altered, and antigenic shift, in which two or more strains combine. Antigenic drift causes the slight mutations year on year in the flu strains that normally affect humans. As a result humans have partial, but not complete, immunity. By contrast, the new strain of H1N1 appears to have originated via antigenic shift in Mexican pigs.

[Go to this page and see the slide show explanation excerpted above]

What is swine flu?

Swine flu is a respiratory disease, caused by influenza type A which infects pigs.

There are many types, and the infection is constantly changing.

Until now it has not normally infected humans, but the latest form clearly does, and can be spread from person to person – probably through coughing and sneezing.

What is new about this type of swine flu?

The World Health Organization has confirmed that at least some of the human cases are a never-before-seen version of the H1N1 strain of influenza type A.

H1N1 is the same strain which causes seasonal outbreaks of flu in humans on a regular basis.

But this latest version of H1N1 is different: it contains genetic material that is typically found in strains of the virus that affect humans, birds and swine.

Current treatments do work, but there is no vaccine.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8020125.stm

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FLU PANDEMICS
1918: The Spanish flu pandemic remains the most devastating outbreak of modern times. Caused by a form of the H1N1 strain of flu, it is estimated that up to 40% of the world’s population were infected, and more than 50 million people died, with young adults particularly badly affected
1957: Asian flu killed two million people. Caused by a human form of the virus, H2N2, combining with a mutated strain found in wild ducks. The impact of the pandemic was minimised by rapid action by health authorities, who identified the virus, and made vaccine available speedily. The elderly were particularly vulnerable
1968: An outbreak first detected in Hong Kong, and caused by a strain known as H3N2, killed up to one million people globally, with those over 65 most likely to die

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8020125.stm

What about bird flu?

The strain of bird flu which has caused scores of human deaths in South East Asia in recent years is a different strain to that responsible for the current outbreak of swine flu.

The latest form of swine flu is a new type of the H1N1 strain, while bird, or avian flu, is H5N1.

[from above question and answer page about swine flu]

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Where can I get further advice?

Further information and advice on swine flu can be found at websites of leading health and research organisations around the world. The World Health Organisation gives background information on the virus. The UK’s Health Protection Agency advises the public about what to do if returning from an affected area. NHS Choices outlines how swine flu is different from other flu. The US government’s Centre for Disease Control is counting the number of cases in the US.

You can also track the spread of swine flu reports using unofficial sources. Healthmaps maps viruses using news reports. Social media guide Mashable lists some ways to track the virus . Links to useful websites are being shared on Twitter , the micro-blogging service.

***

Life at centre of the outbreak
Map: How the flu has spread
Is the world ready for a pandemic?
Economy braced for impact
UK lab ready to analyse swine flu
Lessons from Asia
‘I couldn’t get out of bed’
In pictures

Swine flu confirmed in Scotland

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Sacramento has 2 more swine flu cases, California’s count rises to 13

Jill Tucker, Chronicle Staff Writer

Monday, April 27, 2009

(04-27) 21:15 PDT Sacramento — Two more California children were added to the list of confirmed cases of swine flu, Sacramento County health officials said this evening.

The additional children were students at St. Mel School, classmates of a third child who was diagnosed with the flu strain earlier.

A teenage student from the same school, who officials initially thought had contracted the virus during a trip to Mexico, tested negative for the flu virus. That student had become ill and then recovered after returning from his trip.

The two new cases in Sacramento County bring the total to 13 cases of swine flu statewide and 42 in other U.S. states as of Monday evening.

Other children at the school have also exhibited illness in the last few days and medical personnel were evaluating the cases.

[etc.]

“From now on when we are unable to sub-type Influenza-A virus, we have been directed to conclude the test has, in fact, detected swine flu,” the statement reads.

In addition to the three cases in Sacramento County, there were five confirmed cases of swine flu in San Diego and five in Imperial County.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/04/27/MN0O17A8Q5.DTL&tsp=1

San Francisco Chronicle –‎15 minutes ago

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And from the continuing saga of commercial real estate going in the toilet –

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Credit crunch hits the malls

Terry Pristin, New York Times

Sunday, April 26, 2009

Though it came as no surprise to investors, the collapse of General Growth Properties, the nation’s second-largest mall owner, has stirred new fears about a coming debacle in commercial real estate. The company, which owns 200 shopping centers encompassing 200 million square feet and 24,000 tenants, filed for bankruptcy protection last week.

With the credit markets virtually shut down, General Growth said it was unable to refinance the $3.3 billion in debt that had already matured or would be due this year. These included loans totaling $900 million on two malls in Las Vegas – Fashion Show and the Shoppes at the Palazzo – that were due to be repaid in November. An additional $6.4 billion in debt matures next year.

[ . . . ]

Two-thirds of the delinquency, in dollar volume, comes from loans issued in 2005 to 2007, a period when competition among lenders led to overly optimistic projections about rent growth. Delinquencies are expected to rise as borrowers exhaust reserve funds intended to cover their debt service while they waited for rents to go up.

General Growth’s problems have highlighted the difficulties for borrowers in modifying loans that have been securitized. In a filing with the Bankruptcy Court, Adam Metz, the chief executive of General Growth since John Bucksbaum, a member of the company’s founding family, stepped down in October, said the company faced “steep logistical challenges” in trying to negotiate extensions.

Restrictions stemming from tax considerations make it extremely difficult to change the terms of a securitized loan, said Thomas Humphreys, a partner New York at law firm Morrison & Foerster.

[ . . . ]

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/04/26/RECK176UBH.DTL&type=realestate

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L.L. Bean to lay off more than 200 employees

Hospitals cutting services, staff amid recession

[links from above page sidebar]

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http://www2.esmas.com/noticierostelevisa/mexico/estados/059008/dos-muertos-sismo-guerrero

Fuente: NOTIMEX

Autoridades de Guerrero confirman que 2 personas murieron tras el sismo de 5.7 grados que se registró esta mañana; reportan escuelas y casas con cuarteaduras

En video

    • Tiembla en México

INFOGRÁFICO: QUÉ ES UN SISMO

ACAPULCO, México, abr. 27, 2009.- Dos personas muertas, una lesionada con la caída de un plafón, casas y escuelas con cuarteaduras, fue el saldo del sismo que se registró esta mañana en el estado de Guerrero.

El secretario general del Ayuntamiento de Acapulco, Guillermo Ramírez Ramos, confirmó que ningún hotel resultó dañado en su estructura, sin embargo si hay daños en casas y escuelas del puerto.

En el poblado de Kilómetro 30, en el Acapulco rural, la señora Sabina Vidal murió a causa de un infarto al momento del sismo; otra persona resultó lesionada al caerse un plafón de una tienda en la avenida Cuauhtémoc y un número no determinado fue atendido por crisis nerviosas.

En la comunidad de Zoyacatlán, municipio de Marquelia, la señora Dominga Bahena Vázquez, de 75 años de edad, también falleció de un infarto al miocardio.

[ . . . ]

Nueve casas resultaron dañadas en la calle Plan de Ayala y en decenas de casas se rompieron vidrios; el edificio CABE, en la colonia El Roble, también registró cuarteaduras, al igual que la
recién remodelada Clínica Avanzada de Apoyo Primario a la Salud (CAAPS).

En la colonia Pozo de la Nación, un techo se desprendió y en el fraccionamiento Colosio un tanque de agua se fracturó sobre un edificio.

[ . . . ]

Aproximadamente las 11:46 horas del día de hoy, se registró un sismo de 5.7 grados, el cual tuvo su epicentro a 31 kilómetros sur-sureste de Tixtla, 35 kilómetros de Chilapa y a 82 kilómetros de
Acapulco.

http://www2.esmas.com/noticierostelevisa/mexico/estados/059008/dos-muertos-sismo-guerrero

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Contenido relacionado
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Sismo de 5.7 grados en el DF
Anciana muere por sismo en Guerrero
Se registra sismo de 4.6 grados en Guerrero
Reportan saldo blanco en DF tras sismo de 5.3 …
Se registra sismo de 5.3 grados en el DF
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About the swine flu outbreak:
“LA EPIDEMIA DEL VIRUS PORCINO: PREGUNTAS Y RESPUESTAS”

Mande todas sus dudas sobre la epidemia de la influenza porcina a este blog. Hoy las responderemos en el programa especial “La epidemia del Virus Porcino: Preguntas y Respuestas”. Canal 2, después de El Noticiero.

**

Virus de la influenza

El virus de la influenza que es el responsable de muertes en México, aparentemente es un virus proveniente de los cerdos. El virus de la gripe o influenza tiene una gran capacidad de sufrir cambios a nivel de las proteínas que lo recubren, haciendolo más agresivo y capáz de ocasionar síntomas más severos de los que se presentan en el catarro común…

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noticieros televisa mexico

Fotogalerías del mundo

Fotos

http://www2.esmas.com/noticierostelevisa/mexico/estados/059008/dos-muertos-sismo-guerrero

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Start Your Own Business – Inventiveness – Information – Resources – Grants – Loans and Recovery Act Opportunities –

28 Tuesday Apr 2009

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http://www.alertnet.org/index.htm

Reuters AlertNet – Alerting Humanitarians to Emergencies

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Upcoming Events and News from the US Commerce Department – 2009

Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Economic Development and Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for External Affairs and Communications Dennis Alvord to Testify Before the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee: Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Economic Development and Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for External Affairs and Communications Dennis Alvord will testify before the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee on the status of the implementation of EDA’s funding under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Open press. (April 29, 2009)

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The Economic Development Administration and the Department of Labor’s Employment & Training Administration Present the Southeast Workforce and Economic Development Conference “Navigating Through the Storm” in Atlanta, Georgia: EDA and the Department of Labor’s Employment & Training Administration will present the Southeast Workforce and Economic Development Conference “Navigating Through the Storm” in Atlanta, Georgia. The conference is designed to present trends, strategies, and best practices in workforce and economic development. It is being structured as a positive, forward-looking event designed to promote collaborations between public and private-sector workforce and economic development leadership and promote regional, cross-cutting engagements supporting economic recovery efforts in the aftermath of sudden and severe job losses due to natural disasters, corporate restructuring and economic downturns. Open press. (May 4, 2009)

http://www.eda.gov/NewsEvents/EventsMain.xml

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Implementing the Recovery Act

The overall funding level for State Department Operations in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act is $602 million (which includes up to $38 million for USAID), $20.5 million above the Senate passed level, and $64 million above the House passed level, but $563 million below the Department’s original request. The bill provides funding for the enhancement of Department facilities.

The funding includes:

  • Diplomatic & Consular Programs (D&CP) ($90 million): Conference report language references the Diplomatic Security training facility, Consular Affairs passport facilities, and training facilities, but no specific funding levels are provided for individual projects in this account.
  • D&CP/Capital Investment Fund (CIF): $290 million is provided for the CIF, of which “up to $38 million shall be transferred, and merged with, funds” for USAID for immediate information technology investments.
  • Office of Inspector General (OIG): $2 million is provided to OIG for oversight requirements.
  • International Commissions/International Boundary and Water Commission (IBWC) Construction: $220 million is provided for the U.S. Section of IBWC for repair and rehabilitation of deficient infrastructure along 506 miles of flood control levees. Note: The U.S. Section of the IBWC is a quasi-independent federal agency, operating under the foreign policy guidance of and funded through the Department of State.

Department Plans and Reports

– April 20, 2009 Weekly Update [PDF]
– April 13, 2009 Weekly Update [PDF]

Department of State Recovery Plans, Recovery Program Reports, and other agency- and program-specific reports required by the Recovery Act will be posted on this site as soon as they are available.

The Recovery Act Legislation

  • Summary
  • Full Text
  • Frequently asked questions about the Act

http://www.state.gov/recovery/

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For information about Commerce agencies’ efforts, visit Commerce.gov/Recovery.

For information about the entire government’s effort, visit Recovery.gov.

Commerce Bureaus
  • Bureau of Industry and Security
  • Economics and Statistics Administration
    • Bureau of the Census
    • Bureau of Economic Analysis
  • Economic Development Administration
  • International Trade Administration
  • Minority Business Development Agency
  • National Institute of Standards and Technology
  • National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration
  • National Technical Information Service
  • National Telecommunications and Information Administration
  • Patent and Trademark Office

http://www.commerce.gov/

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Trade Opportunities

Programs & Services

U.S. Commercial Service – Offers valuable assistance to help your business export goods and services to markets worldwide. From this site you can access a global listing of trade events, international market research, and practical tools to help with every step of the export process.

Export.gov – Export.gov is the U.S. Government’s online entrypoint for U.S. exporters. The site organizes export-related programs, services and market research information from across 19 federal agencies and provides a sophisticated cross-agency search capability.

Manufacturing and Services – Offers a well-coordinated, economical, and accessible array of services to help small businesses increase their export potential.

International Trade Update Newsletter – Published monthly by the Office of Public Affairsof the International Trade Administration.

China Business Information Center – China is a region of great opportunity for all types of companies–not just large multinationals. Doing business in China can still be challenging. The China Business Information Center site will help open the China market for your company.

Middle East and North Africa Business Information Center – The Middle East and North Africa is a region of great opportunity got sll types of for all types of companies – not just large multinationals, but business in the region can be challenging as well as rewarding. Find out whether doing business in the Middle East and North Africa is for you. What are the opportunities? What does it take to succeed? Let us help you assess your possible risks vs. potential rewards.

Business Information Services for the Newly Independent States – The U.S. Government’s primary market information center for U.S. companies exploring business opportunities in Russia and other Newly Independent States.

Platinum Key Service – The platinum Key Service allows U.S. companies to take advantage of longer term, customized U.S. Commerce Service assistance including, but not limited to, identifying markets, launching products, developing major project opportunities, resolving commercial disputes and providing assistance on regulatory or technical standards matters in overseas markets.

Market Access and Compliance – MAC’s overall objectives are to obtain market access for American firms and workers and to achieve full compliance by foreign nations with trade agreements they sign with our country.

Other Access & Compliance Resources

Trade Compliance Center – Helps American exporters overcome foreign trade barriers and works to ensure that foreign countries comply with their commitments to the United States.

Trade Advocacy Center – Acts as a unique, central coordinating point marshaling the resources of 19 US government agencies in the Trade Promotion Coordinating Committee to ensure that sales of US products and services have the best possible chance abroad.

Filing Requirements in AD/CVD Proceedings

Import Administration

Safe Harbor

http://www.commerce.gov/TradeOpportunities/index.htm

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http://trade.gov/cs/

U.S. Commercial Service

The U.S. Commercial Service is the trade promotion unit of the International Trade Administration.

U.S. Commercial Service trade specialists in 107 U.S. cities and in more than 80 countries work with your company to help you get started in exporting or increase your sales to new global markets. Our services include:

  • World class market research
  • Trade events that promote your product or service to qualified buyers
  • Introductions to qualified buyers and distributors
  • Counseling and advocacy through every step of the export process

To learn more about how the U.S. Commercial Service can help your company export, contact a U.S. Export Assistance Center near your or call 1-800-USA-TRAD(E).

The U.S. Commercial Service uses Export.gov, the U.S. Government’s export portal, as its main online resource for exporting clients. For market research, trade events, trade leads, and information on how to export, please visit Export.gov.


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http://trade.gov/cs/

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Manufacturing and Services

The Manufacturing and Services (MAS) unit of the International Trade Administration (ITA) is dedicated to enhancing the global competitiveness of U.S. industry, expanding its market access, and increasing its exports. (more) (MAS Overview at a Glance)

http://www.trade.gov/mas/

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International Trade Update

International Trade Update Masthead

  • April 2009 (Download complete issue in PDF format.)
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  • November-December 2008 (Download complete issue in PDF format.)
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Platinum Key Service

Expanding your business to international markets?

The Platinum Key Service allows U.S. companies to take advantage of longer term, sustained and customized U.S. Commercial Service assistance on a range of issues.

The service is solution-oriented and tailored to the client’s needs through a mutually agreed upon scope of work. The service can include a range of issues including, but not limited to, identifying markets, launching products, developing major project opportunities, resolving commercial disputes and providing assistance on regulatory or technical standards matters.

Ongoing service is available for six months, one year, or a specified timeframe based on the mutually agreed-upon scope of work. Our overseas specialists will work closely with clients to identify and outline specific needs, provide progress reports and ensure timely delivery of service.

The Platinum Key helps you:

Identify the best export markets

Locate valuable market research

Develop the most appropriate market entry strategy

Identify prospective agents, distributors, licensees, and other business partners

Develop marketing and selling strategies

Understand the regulatory and product standards in your target markets

Our overseas specialists will:

Work closely with your company to identify and outline your specific needs

Provide progress reports

Ensure timely delivery of the service

The service is fee-based and can last as long as a year, based on your company’s requirements.

To request this service, contact an Export Assistance Center near you.

http://www.export.gov/salesandmarketing/platinum_key.asp

1-800 USA TRAD(E)
  • Find a Local U.S. Office
  • Find an Overseas Office
Find Solutions
  • International Sales-Marketing
  • International Finance
  • International Logistics
  • Regulations & Licenses
  • Trade Data & Analysis
  • Trade Problems
Find Opportunities
  • By Industry
  • Market Research
  • Trade Events
  • Trade Leads

  • Basics: Marketing Plan
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  • Information and Counseling
  • Strategy and Planning
  • Market Research and Due Diligence
  • Advertising and Promotional Events
  • Market Entry and Expansion
  • Advocacy and Dispute Resolution
  • http://www.export.gov/salesandmarketing/platinum_key.asp

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    Export.gov’s Partner Agencies

    Export.gov is the U.S. Government’s export promotion and finance portal. We designed this portal to deliver critical export information and services from across the U.S. Government to small and medium-sized U.S. companies to begin or expand their exporting business.

    Federal export assistance is delivered by many U.S. Government Agencies. To learn more about these various agencies, we have provided you the following list.

    International Trade Administration

    Department of Energy

    Export-Import Bank

    Foreign Agriculture Service (FAS)

    Agency for International Development (USAID)

    Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC)

    Small Business Administration

    Department of State

    U.S. Trade and Development Agency (USTDA)

    Office of Foreign Assets Control

    United States Trade Representative

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    International Trade Administration

    The International Trade Administration (ITA) of the Department of Commerce, provides the leadership and funding for this website.

    ITA’s lead business unit for trade promotion is the U.S. Commercial Service which supports U.S. businesses through its global network of offices. The U.S. Commercial Service offers four ways to grow your international sales:

    world-class market research

    trade events that promote your product or service to qualified buyers

    introductions to qualified buyers and distributors

    counseling through every step of the export process

    For more information about how our worldwide network can help your company, call 1-800-USA-TRADE or contact our Export Assistance Centers.

    ITA’s other business units include: Market Access and Compliance which resolves market access issues, identifies and reduces trade barriers and ensures that foreign countries are in compliance with trade agreements; Manufacturing and Services which advocates policies to help U.S. companies be competitive at home and around the world and ensures industry’s voice is reflected in policy development; and Import Administration which administers various trade laws, monitors subsidies and promotes textile exports.

    Export-Import Bank

    The Export-Import Bank of the United States (Ex-Im Bank) is the official export credit agency of the United States. Ex-Im Bank’s mission is to assist in financing the export of U.S. goods and services to international markets.

    Ex-Im Bank enables U.S. companies — large and small — to turn export opportunities into real sales that help to maintain and create U.S. jobs and contribute to a stronger national economy.

    Ex-Im Bank does not compete with private sector lenders but provides export financing products that fill gaps in trade financing. We assume credit and country risks that the private sector is unable or unwilling to accept. We also help to level the playing field for U.S. exporters by matching the financing that other governments provide to their exporters.

    Foreign Agriculture Service (FAS)

    The Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) works to improve foreign market access for U.S. products, build new markets, improve the competitive position of U.S. agriculture in the global marketplace, and provide food aid and technical assistance to foreign countries.

    FAS has the primary responsibility for USDA’s international activities—market development, trade agreements and negotiations, and the collection and analysis of statistics and market information. It also administers USDA’s export credit guarantee and food aid programs, and helps increase income and food availability in developing nations by mobilizing expertise for agriculturally led economic growth.

    FAS also enhances U.S. agriculture’s competitiveness by providing linkages to global resources and international organizations.

    Agency for International Development (USAID)

    Agency for International Development (USAID) is an independent federal government agency that receives overall foreign policy guidance from the Secretary of State. Our work supports long-term and equitable economic growth and advances U.S. foreign policy objectives by supporting:

    economic growth, agriculture and trade;

    global health; and,

    democracy, conflict prevention and humanitarian assistance.

    Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC)

    Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) helps U.S. businesses invest overseas, fosters economic development in new and emerging markets, complements the private sector in managing risks associated with foreign direct investment, and supports U.S. foreign policy. Because OPIC charges market-based fees for its products, it operates on a self-sustaining basis at no net cost to taxpayers.

    U.S. Trade and Development Agency (USTDA)

    The U.S. Trade and Development Agency (USTDA)’s mission is to advance economic development and U.S. commercial interests in developing and middle-income countries. To this end, the agency funds various forms of technical assistance, investment analysis, training, orientation visits and business workshops that support the development of a modern infrastructure and a fair and open trading environment. In carrying out its mission, USTDA gives emphasis to economic sectors that may benefit from U.S. exports of goods and services.

    United States Trade Representative

    The Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) is an agency of over 200 people, a highly committed group of professionals who have decades of specialized experience in trade issues and regions of the world. They negotiate directly with foreign governments to create trade agreements, resolve disputes and participate in global trade policy organizations. They also meet with governments, business groups, legislators and public interest groups to gather input on trade issues and explain the president’s trade policy positions.

    Office of Foreign Assets Control

    The Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) of the US Department of the Treasury administers and enforces economic and trade sanctions based on US foreign policy and national security goals against targeted foreign countries, terrorists, international narcotics traffickers, and those engaged in activities related to the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. OFAC acts under Presidential wartime and national emergency powers, as well as authority granted by specific legislation, to impose controls on transactions and freeze foreign assets under US jurisdiction.

    Department of State

    The Department of State is the lead US foreign affairs agency, and the Secretary of State is the President’s principal foreign policy adviser. The Department advances US objectives and interests in shaping a freer, more secure, and more prosperous world through its primary role in developing and implementing the President’s foreign policy.

    The Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs (EB) formulates and carries out U.S. foreign economic policy, integrating U.S. economic interests with our foreign policy goals so that U.S. firms and investors can compete on an equal basis with their counterparts overseas. It implements American economic policy in cooperation with U.S. companies, U.S. Government agencies, and other organizations.

    Department of Energy

    The Department of Energy’s overarching mission is to advance the national, economic, and energy security of the United States; to promote scientific and technological innovation in support of that mission; and to ensure the environmental cleanup of the national nuclear weapons complex.

    Small Business Administration

    The Small Business Administration (SBA), created in 1953, is the only independent agency of the federal government with the sole mission of assisting small businesses to start, grow and prosper. SBA offers loan guaranty programs that enable the small business exporter to obtain working capital to finance pre- and post- shipment needs, increase global competitiveness, enhance their ability to export a product or service and financing for acquisition of long term fixed assets.

    SBA delivers its export loan programs through a network of SBA Regional Managers located in U.S. Export Assistance Centers throughout the country. More information on SBA’s assistance to U.S. small business exporters can be found on the International Trade section of their web site.

    http://www.export.gov/about/exp_000874.asp

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    International Trade Administration (ITA)

    • Market Development Cooperator Program
    • Special American Business Internship Training Program (SABIT). A technical assistance initiative of the International Trade Administration of the U.S. Department of Commerce, SABIT offers organizations competitive grants and an opportunity to host industry-specific delegations. SABIT serves as an initial entry point for U.S. businesses seeking funding to establish long-term relationships with potential customers, distributors, or partners in the former Soviet Union. The program trains Eurasian managers and scientists in commonly accepted business practices as a means of facilitating cross border relationships. In turn, these personal relationships serve as a basis for business development and reduce market access barriers for U.S. businesses

    National Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST)

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    • Grants Management Division
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    • National Sea Grant
    • Office of Global Programs

    http://www.commerce.gov/Grants/index.htm

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    Make-Up Conference Call Tuesday, May 5 at 2:00 Eastern
    We’ll have one last conference call to discuss the program. We will not cover the basic description of the program during this call. We covered this in the April 22, call. Those unfamiliar with MDCP should study the contents of the “About MDCP” pages on this website prior to the May 5, call. To participate, dial: 888-282-0357, passcode: 10147. The call leader is LaTonya Milstead.

    MDCP Applications Due June 2
    All applicants should plan on submitting their applications online via grants.gov well before the deadline, 5:00 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time on June 2. It often takes several days to secure all the registration information needed by grants.gov. All applicants should access grants.gov to set up an account as soon as possible.

    Funding Opportunity Notice Was Published on April 7
    April 7 marks the date that notice for federal MDCP funding is published in the Federal Register and on grants.gov. It also means that April 6 was the last day for applicants to freely pitch their ideas to federal employees and get their feedback. Applicants can still talk to ITA officials. However, ITA officials are not allowed to comment on the merits of MDCP project ideas. See FAQs 6 and 7 for more about restrictions on comments from ITA. (Although we focus on comments from ITA, the restriction applies to all federal employees.)

    Online Discussion Group
    Potential applicants and others interested in MDCP can stay in touch with each other via a new list serve. The group may be found on Google Groups. Use “MDCP” as your search term. Once you sign up or log in to Google Groups and find the MDCP group, follow the instructions to request to become a member of this group. The group is not an official federal government website. Parties interested in MDCP use this group to communicate and share information with others interested in MDCP.

    Four New MDCP Awards Made in 2008
    Click on “Award Recipients” above to see a brief description of the latest MDCP awards.

    http://www.ita.doc.gov/td/mdcp/

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    About the Market Development Cooperator Program (MDCP)

    The Basics

    Program Essentials

    Information Sheet

    MDCP Projects Help ITA Fulfill Its Mission

    Eligibility

    Evaluation Criteria

    ITA Priorities (most recent published)

    Other

    Results/Notes

    Policies/Procedures

    Project Examples (Presentation April 2007)

    Descriptive Table (Presentation April 2007)

    Program Funding

    http://ita.doc.gov/td/mdcp/about.html

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    CSTARS – Automated Procurement System CSTARS Logo
    The Commerce Standard Acquisition and Reporting System (CSTARS) is an enterprise-wide procurement system supporting the underlying standard acquisition business process for the Department of Commerce. CSTARS is an IT-enabled tool that DoC acquisition professionals use to provide the highest level of customer service for acquiring products and services. CSTARS is currently in production at the Office of the Secretary (OS), National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the Bureau of the Census (BOC).

    CSTARS can be used to create requisitions, review and approve documents, create purchase requests, build procurement plans, manage vendors – utilizing the Central Contractor Registry, create solicitiations, create awards, provide reports, and monitor workload. The program maintains strong sponsorship and support from the Deputy Chief Financial Officer (CFO), Deputy Chief Information Officer (CIO), and the Department’s Procurement Executive. The CSTARS Tri-fold was developed in order to provide a quick overview of the program. Monthly user group meetings are held at the various user locations to resolve outstanding issues, and maintain user participation and ownership.

    http://oamweb.osec.doc.gov/CASD_automatedProcSystem.html

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    Grants Management Division

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    • NOAA Grants Online
    Improving Grants.gov
    • Environmental Compliance and Guidance for Reporting NEPA Status and Progress for Recovery Act Activities and Projects
    • Updated Implemented Guidance for the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
    • American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, Grants-Associated Deliverables
    • 2009 CFDA Data Call and Recovery Act Guidance
    • Risk Management and Oversight Plan for American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009

    http://oamweb.osec.doc.gov/aboutOAM_organization_GMD.html

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    Grant-making bureaus within DOC

    • Economic Development Administration (EDA)
    • National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
    • National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
    The Points of Contact for each bureau

        •  ITA Special American Business Internship Training
        •  ITA Minority Development Cooperator Program
        •  Minority Business Development Agency
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    • FAADS • DOC Grants Policy
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    This section provides current information on EDA’s Programs, Investment Policies and Funding Opportunities.
    The section also provides easy access to Laws and Regulations that apply to EDA’s Programs, and guidance for those who may be interested in applying for EDA’s Investment Awards.

    The Programs page provides descriptions of EDA’s different investment programs: Public Works and Economic Development, Economic Adjustment Assistance, Research and National Technical Assistance, Local Technical Assistance, Planning Program, University Center Economic Development, and Trade Adjustment Assistance for Firms.

    The Investment Policy Guidelines page outlines what EDA is looking for in potential applicants and what it believes will truly lead to economic development.

    The Federal Funding Opportunity and Other Notices page provides links to FY 2006 Economic Development Assistance Programs, Technical Assistance Program, and Research and Evaluation Program.

    The Laws and Regulations page outlines the rules and regulations that apply directly to EDA related activities.

    The Comprehensive Economic Development Strategies (CEDS) Summary of Requirements PDF, provides a synopsis of the requirements for comprehensive economic development strategies.

    Click HERE for a plain background version for printing.

    The Application Requirements page provides a detailed explanation of what is expected from applicants throughout the application process including links to application forms.

    The Post-Award Requirements page outlines Revolving Loan Fund (RLF) Grant Reporting Requirements, Financial Reporting Requirements and Performance Reporting Requirements with GPRA Forms and Instructions.

    http://www.eda.gov/InvestmentsGrants/Investments.xml

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    SUMMARY OF EDA INVESTMENTS

    March 30-April 3, 2009EDA announced two investments greater than $100,000 during the period March 30-April 3, 2009 totaling $1,050,000. These investments are part of projects totaling $1,238,130.
    $750,000 to the Downtown Development District of New Orleans, Louisiana, to fund the development of an economic development strategy to increase the competitiveness of downtown New Orleans. The study will identify the issues hampering the city’s competitiveness and facilitate the physical improvements, amenity development, social networks, and place branding that will attract diverse worker populations and new entrepreneurial growth companies. (The Second Supplemental Appropriations Disaster Relief Opportunity funds this investment for New Orleans to address the impact of Hurricanes Katrina and Gustav.) This investment is part of a $938,130 project.
    $300,000 to the South East Texas Economic Development District, Beaumont, Texas, to support development of an economic recovery strategy focusing on damage assessment and speeding economic recovery efforts to the Golden Triangle Region, the counties of Hardin, Jefferson, and Orange, severely impacted by Hurricanes Gustav and Ike. This investment is part of a $300,000 project.
    March 23-27, 2009EDA announced two investments greater than $100,000 during the period March 23-27, 2009 totaling $3 million. These investments are part of projects totaling $5 million, creating 518 jobs and generating more than $6 million in private investment.
    $1.5 million to West Texas A&M University, Canyon, Texas, to construct four research laboratories at West Texas A&M’s Palo Duro Research Center in Canyon. The laboratories will support agricultural, business, and wind/alternative energy research. The associated office space will house two economic development organizations. The research will assist local manufacturers with product development and increase and diversify the region’s agricultural productivity. This investment is part of a $3 million project that will help create 500 jobs and generate $6 million in private investment.
    $1.5 million to the White River Health System, Inc., Batesville, Arkansas, to construct new clinical space for the Stone County Medical Center in Mountain View. In 2008 the hospital was devastated by an F4 tornado, and the Stone County, FEMA-designated region suffered from two major floods. This investment is part of a $2 million investment that will help create 18 jobs.
    March 16-20, 2009EDA announced three investments greater than $100,000 during the period March 16-20, 2009 totaling $2,426,640. These investments are part of projects totaling $4,193,592, creating 300 jobs and generating more than $9 million in private investment.
    $1.676 million to the Hillsborough Community College in Tampa, Florida, to fund renovation of a workforce training center at the Ybor City campus of Hillsborough College to train students in auto collision repair and auto mechanics. Florida has a critical need for skilled auto mechanics and the Ybor City center will be one of only thirteen in the state to offer this training. This investment is part of a $3,352,952 project that will help create 300 jobs and generate private investment in excess of $9 million.
    $405,640 to the Etowah Utilities Board and the city of Etowah, Tennessee for a joint investment funded by the Appalachian Regional Commission and administered by the Economic Development Administration (EDA). In 2008 EDA awarded a grant for $1 million to support an earlier phase of this project. The improvements to the waste water treatment plan will allow industrial expansion and benefit all customers in the service area. This investment is part of a $405,640 project.
    $345,000 to the Big Pine Paiute Tribe, Big Pine, California, to fund the final design for a travel plaza on Highway 395 south of the town of Big Pine. The construction of the tourist-friendly truck stop would offer services to the many tourist and business travelers passing through the area and create much needed jobs for the community. The design will include green technology for long-term, cost-effective maintenance and operation. This investment is part of a $435,000 project.
    March 9-13, 2009EDA announced eight investments greater than $100,000 during the period March 9-13, 2009 totaling $4,239,171. These investments are part of projects totaling $13,359,958, creating 1,620 jobs, saving 250 jobs, and generating more than $214.9 million in private investment.
    $1.2 million to the city of Fairfield, Illinois, to fund construction of a new water treatment plant for the city of Fairfield. The enhanced facility will help meet the increasing water demand as existing businesses expand and permit businesses to locate in the city-owned Highway 45 South Industrial Park. This investment is part of a $9.314 million project that will help create 235 jobs, save 40 jobs and generate $172 million in private investment.
    $900,000 to the Southeast Iowa Regional Planning Commission, Burlington, Iowa, to recapitalize a Revolving Loan Fund (RLF) that serves southeastern Iowa. The recapitalized funds will assist businesses that were severely impacted by the Midwest Floods of 2008. This investment is part of a $1 million project that will help create 1,000 jobs and generate $6 million in private investment.
    $529,171 to the Economic Development Catalyst Organization, Austin, Texas, to fund a high tech business incubator program. The Economic Development Catalyst Organization (EDCO) is a non-profit organization that provides technical assistance to entrepreneurs to facilitate the creation of high-growth, high-potential enterprises in economically distressed areas. EDCO expects to launch three or more companies in the border region over the next two years. This investment is part of a $755,958 project.
    $500,000 to the East Central Intergovernmental Association, Dubuque, Iowa, to recapitalize a Revolving Loan Fund (RLF) that serves eastern Iowa. The recapitalized funds will assist businesses that were severely impacted by the Midwest Floods of 2008. This investment is part of a $650,000 project that will help create 75 jobs, save 75 jobs and generate $3.9 million in private investment.
    $400,000 to the city of Williamston, Michigan, to fund infrastructure improvements, including roadway and water and sewer lines, to accommodate expansion of the city of Williamston’s industrial park and will support rapid industrial and commercial development along the Interstate 96 Lansing to Detroit corridor. This investment is part of an $800,000 project that will help create 170 jobs and generate $3.2 million in private investment.
    $400,000 to the North Iowa Area Council of Governments, Mason City, Iowa, to establish a Revolving Loan Fund to serve northern Iowa. The funds will assist businesses that were severely impacted by the Midwest Floods of 2008. This investment is part of a $460,000 project that will help create 140 jobs, save 135 jobs, and generate $2.8 million in private investment.
    $200,000 to the Columbia Pacific Economic Development District, St. Helens, Oregon, to support development of an economic recovery strategy focusing on damage assessment and speeding economic recovery efforts to the northwest Oregon communities severely impacted by recent floods. This investment is part of a $270,000 project.
    $110,000 to the Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands Saipan/Northern Mariana Islands, to support development and implementation of a comprehensive economic development strategy (CEDS) in the Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands for the islands of Saipan, Rota, and Tinian. The CEDS process is designed to bring together the public and private sectors in the creation of an economic development roadmap to diversify and strengthen the regional economy. This investment is part of a $110,000 project.
    February 9-13, 2009EDA announced one investment greater than $100,000 during the period February 9-13, 2009 totaling $225,000. This investment is part of a project totaling $300,000 that will help create 130 jobs and generate more than $4 million in private investment.
    $225,000 to the South Eastern Development Foundation, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, to recapitalize a revolving loan fund that serves southeastern South Dakota. The recapitalized funds will assist businesses that were severely impacted by the Midwest Floods of 2008. This investment is part of a $300,000 project that will help create 130 jobs and generate private investment in excess of $4 million.
    February 2-6, 2009EDA announced four investments greater than $100,000 during the period February 2-6, 2009 totaling $1.564 million. These investments are part of projects totaling $1.731 million, creating 548 jobs, saving 547 jobs, and generating more than $9.6 million in private investment.
    $750,000 to the Iowa Northland Regional Economic Development Commission, Waterloo, Iowa, to establish a Revolving Loan Fund (RLF) that will serve northeastern Iowa. The RLF will assist businesses that were severely impacted by the Midwest Floods of 2008. This investment is part of a $775,000 project that will help create 233 jobs, save 232 jobs and generate more than $4.7 million in private investment.
    $375,000 to the Southern Iowa Council of Governments, Inc., Creston, Iowa, to recapitalize a Revolving Loan Fund to serve south central Iowa. The recapitalized funds will assist businesses that were severely impacted by the Midwest Floods of 2008. This investment is part of a $417,000 project that will help create 240 jobs, retain 240 jobs and generate $2.5 million in private investment.
    $300,000 to the Boonslick Regional Planning Commission, Warrenton, Missouri, to recapitalize a Revolving Loan Fund that serves east central Missouri. The recapitalized funds will assist businesses that were severely impacted by the Midwest Floods of 2008. This investment is part of a $400,000 project that will help create 75 jobs, save 75 jobs, and generate private investment in excess of $2.4 million.
    $139,000 to the Upper Explorerland Regional Planning Commission, Postville, Iowa, to support development of an economic recovery strategy focusing on damage assessment and speeding economic recovery efforts to the northeast Iowa communities severely impacted by the Midwest Floods of 2008. This investment is part of a $139,000 project.
    January 26-30, 2009EDA announced three investments greater than $100,000 during the period January 26-30, 2009 totaling $4.125 million. These investments are part of projects totaling $8.2 million, creating 104 jobs, saving 505 jobs, and generating more than $33 million in private investment.
    $2 million to Keokuk Municipal Waterworks, Keokuk, Iowa, to fund construction of an improved water distribution system and storage facility for the city of Keokuk. These improvements will help meet the increasing water demand from the city’s manufacturing sector and enable business expansion and the location of new industries to the area. This investment is part of a $5.4 million project that will help create 44 jobs, retain 445 jobs and generate $30 million in private investment.
    $1.725 million to the St. Louis County Economic Council, Clayton, Missouri, for development of a strategic plan to speed economic recovery to Missouri communities severely impacted by the recent Midwest floods. This plan will determine the viability of a commercial hub for foreign trade at Lambert Airfield in St. Louis. The proposed hub will provide enhanced trade and export opportunities for agricultural products, high-tech equipment and other manufactured goods produced in the Midwest. This investment is part of a $2.3 million project that will help minimize economic dislocations resulting from natural and other disasters, improving responsiveness and effectiveness in the recovery process.
    $400,000 to the Southwest Iowa Planning Council, Atlantic, Iowa, for recapitalization of a Revolving Loan Fund that serves south western Iowa. Once the recapitalized funds are in place, business will be able to apply to the grant recipient for loans. These loans will provide needed capital to businesses and communities severely impacted by the Midwest Floods of 2008. This investment is part of a $500,000 project that will help create 60 jobs, retain 60 jobs and generate more than $3 million in private investment.
    January 16-23, 2009EDA announced 2 investments greater than $100,000 during the period January 16-23, 2009, totaling $848,000. These investments are part of projects totaling $865,368.
    $518,000 to the Ciunerkiurvik Corporation, St. Mary’s Alaska, to complete the renovation of an existing educational facility in St. Mary’s. The training opportunities including mechanics, office skills, and construction trades. The introduction of internet access will also increase employment opportunities. This investment is part of a $518,000 project.
    $330,000 to the Association of Village Council Presidents, Bethel, Alaska, to support construction of an airplane hanger in Bethel. The facility will be used to train pilots and aircraft mechanics. Those professions are in consistent demand by the airline industry in rural Alaska. This investment is part of a $347,368 project.
    December 15-19, 2008EDA announced 10 investments greater than $100,000 during the period December 15-19, 2008, totaling $11,660,434. These investments are part of projects totaling $19,849,079, creating 2,402 jobs, saving 100 jobs, and generating $188.1 million in private investment.
    $3 million to the Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Palmer, Alaska, to fund construction of Alaska’s first Regional Resource Recovery and Training Park, which will expand the Valley Community for Recycling Solutions in Matanuska-Susitna Borough. The LEED-certified facility will serve as a regional recovery center for recyclable materials, encourage exploratory industries that manufacture recycled products, and support recycling technology training programs. The economic development benefits of recycling in the region are already striking and will increase with the expansion of this facility. This investment is part of a $5.5 million project that will help create 177 jobs and generate $25 million in private investment.
    $2.8 million to Sun Valley Care Development, Inc., Sun Valley, California, to fund construction of a nursing and medical technology training facility in Sun Valley, on a site shared with a campus of Christian Community College. The new facility will train at-risk young adults in the Los Angeles area for vocational positions in the health care industry and help meet the region’s long term health care needs. This investment is part of a $4.05 million project that will help create 765 jobs and generate $11.5 million in private investment.
    $2.3 million to the Eastern Shore of Virginia Broadband Authority, Accomac, for construction of 66 miles of fiber optic broadband network lines from the NASA Wallops Island Flight Facility to Cape Charles, Virginia. The network will provide high-speed broadband access to support the naval facility and expansion of existing financial, manufacturing, and research and development businesses in the region. This investment is part of a $4.75 million project that will help create 760 jobs and generate $109 million in private investment.
    $970,000 to the Blackfeet Tribal Business Council, Browning, Montana, to fund the renovation and modernization of an existing industrial building owned by the Blackfeet Tribe. The state-of-the-art improvements will allow the Tribe to take advantage of new manufacturing opportunities in both the military and commercial sectors. This investment is part of a $1,247,500 project that will help create 100 jobs and generate $3.1 million in private investment.
    $850,000 for a joint investment to the Northeastern Technical College and the Northeastern Technical College Area Commission, Cheraw, South Carolina, to fund construction of one new classroom building on the Dillon campus and the renovation of an existing building on the Cheraw campus. Both sites will offer the Associate Degree in Nursing to address the critical need for qualified healthcare workers in the rural counties of Chesterfield, Marlboro, and Dillon. This investment is part of a $1.423 million project that will help create 206 jobs and generate $27.3 million in private investment.
    $750,000 to the Planning and Development District III, Yankton, South Dakota, to recapitalize a Revolving Loan Fund that serves southeast South Dakota. The recapitalized funds will assist businesses that were severely impacted by the recent Midwest Floods. This investment is part of a $1 million project that will help create 100 jobs, save 100 jobs and generate $6 million in private investment.
    $450,000 to the Region XII Council of Governments, Carroll, Iowa, to recapitalize a Revolving Loan Fund (RLF) that serves western central Iowa. The recapitalized funds will assist businesses that were severely impacted by the Midwest Floods of 2008. This investment is part of a $600,000 project that will help create 261 jobs and generate $3.6 million in private investment.
    $300,000 to the Goodwill Industries of Kentucky, Louisville, to fund construction of a Goodwill Industries of Kentucky training and collection center facility in the city of Columbia. The center will provide counseling, on-the-job training and employment for people with disabilities, benefitting them and their community. This investment is part of a $958,000 project that will help create 33 jobs and generate 2.6 million in private investment.
    $129,434 to the River Hills Economic Development District and Regional Planning Commission, Jeffersonville, Indiana, to support development of an economic recovery strategy focusing on damage assessment and speeding economic recovery efforts to the south central Indiana communities severely impacted by the recent Midwest floods. This investment is part of a $172,579 project.
    $111,000 to the Southern Indiana Development Commission, Loogootee, Indiana, to support development of an economic recovery strategy focusing on damage assessment and speeding economic recovery efforts to the southern Indiana communities severely impacted by the recent Midwest floods. This investment is part of a $148,000 project.
    December 1-5, 2008EDA announced one investment greater than $100,000 during the period December 1-5, 2008 totaling $574,800. This investment will help create 28 jobs, save 44 jobs, and generate more than $1.7 million in private investment.
    $574,800 to the Sitka Tribe of Alaska for construction of a new building for the Sitka Tribal Tannery. The facility will increase the production capacity of the existing fur industry, expand the number of higher wage jobs in the area, and support the growing collaboration with tourism and tribal arts industries in southeast Alaska. This investment is part of a $574,800 project that will help create 28 jobs, save 44 jobs and generate more than $1.7 million in private investment.
    November 17-21, 2008EDA announced 5 investments greater than $100,000 during the period November 17-21 totaling $3.861 million. These investments are part of projects totaling $9,346,667, creating 1,115 jobs, and generating more than $153.1 million in private investment.
    $1.6 million to the city of Jonesboro, Arkansas, to fund the construction of a rail spur and road improvements necessary to expand the Craighead Technology Industrial Park in Jonesboro. This investment is part of a $3.2 million project that will help create 700 jobs and generate $100 million in private investment.
    $1 million to the city of Newberry, South Carolina, to fund expansion of Newberry’s existing wastewater treatment plant to accommodate industrial expansion that will bring much needed jobs to the region. This investment is part of a $3.845 million project that will help create 180 jobs and generate $30 million in private investment.
    $600,000 to the Science and Technology Park Development Corporation, Albuquerque, New Mexico, to fund infrastructure and equipment improvements needed to build a fiber-optic security network at the Sandia Science and Technology Park in Albuquerque. This investment is part of a $1.2 million project that will help create 200 jobs and generate $10.1 million in private investment.
    $400,000 to the New Mexico Community Capital, Bernalillo, New Mexico, to fund IMPACT-New Mexico, the state’s only community development venture capital organization, for another year and allows it to expand its activities of making equity investments in small businesses that promise rapid growth and greater benefits for the communities’ economic growth. This investment is part of a $666,667 project.

    $261,000 to Polk Township, Maryville, Missouri, to fund roadway improvements that will provide improved access to the Maryville Industrial Development Corporation Industrial Park and allow new industries to locate there. This investment is part of a $435,000 project that will help create 35 jobs and generate $13 million in private investment.

    http://www.eda.gov/NewsEvents/NewInvestments.xml

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    Swine Flu Information – How the World is reacting to the swine flu outbreak – measures that are being taken – health organizations / cdc links about swine flu – and stuff I don’t understand why they did or didn’t do –

    28 Tuesday Apr 2009

    Posted by CricketDiane in Cricket Diane C Sparky Phillips

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    OMS tiene dosis de antiviral para 5 millones de personas
    Noticias en linea | Novedades Acapulco

    Ginebra (AP).- La empresa farmacéutica suiza Roche Holding AG informó el lunes que la Organización Mundial de la Salud cuenta con suficientes dosis de la droga antigripal Tamiflu como para tratar a cinco millones de personas, en caso de que la nueva cepa de gripe porcina que se inició en México se convierta en pandemia.

    “Es un estado de alerta de 24 horas”, dijo Martina Rupp, vocera de Roche.

    Rupp dijo a The Associated Press que además de las reservas controladas por la OMS, hay millones de dosis más en poder de 85 a 90 gobiernos.

    Tres quintas partes de las reservas de Tamiflu de la OMS se hallan en depósitos de Roche en Estados Unidos y en Suiza. El resto ha sido almacenado por la OMS en diferentes partes del mundo, informó Rupp.

    Las reservas que guarda Roche han sido donadas a la OMS y pueden ser despachadas a cualquier punto del planeta, apenas la OMS emita una orden, dijo Rupp.

    La firma, con sede en Basilea, Suiza, también puede acrecentar la producción para hacer 400 millones de dosis de Tamiflu al año. Roche ha firmado acuerdos con empresas farmacéuticas en Sudáfrica, India y China con el propósito de aumentar aún más la producción.

    Roche comenzó a incrementar la producción de Tamiflu en el 2005 luego de la epidemia de gripe aviar en Asia.

    La compañía está en capacidad de fabricar 4.000 millones de cápsulas de Tamiflu al año, para tratar a 400 millones de personas, informó Rupp.

    Gran Bretaña y Japón han formulado recientemente nuevos pedidos de Tamiflu pues se proponen duplicar sus reservas de la droga, dijo Rupp.

    Tamiflu es un profármaco antiviral selectivo contra el virus de la influenza. Su acción se basa en la inhibición de las neuraminidasas presentes en el virus de la gripe.

    http://www.aca-novenet.com.mx/notasonline/once.php

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    My note –

    First of all, I don’t understand why the United States who didn’t mind having a woman remove body jewelry from her boob at an airport security checkpoint while denying her basic human and civil rights, is the same country that doesn’t want to have non-invasive body temperature / fever reading at airport security because of “civil rights.” Do they know what civil and human rights are? Can’t they tell the difference?

    Second, I don’t understand why anyone would send their children to holiday in Acapulco or Cancun considering the recent drug violence anyway – including nine murders here and five there and three others a week ago plus no telling how many that aren’t reported and kidnappings, robbery, violence and illicit drug trade instabilities.

    Third, I also don’t understand why the United States security details and State Department sent our President into an area that had cases of swine flu occur that were known as of April 2 this year and maybe as long ago as two months ago now. How is that security? Who screwed the pooch on that one?

    And, fourth, I don’t understand why anyone in the news and health community would think people in the US would stay home, if they are sick or if their children or someone in their household is sick. If they don’t go to work – they’ll go shopping. They aren’t going to stay home. Are they kidding?

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    Officials unaware of outbreak before trip

    Published: April 27, 2009 at 7:52 PM

    WASHINGTON, April 27 (UPI) — Mexican officials did not warn U.S. officials about the swine flu breakout before President Barack Obama‘s visit in early April, the White House said.

    In addition, the man who escorted Obama and Mexican President Felipe Calderon on a tour of a museum did not die of swine flu, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said during a news briefing Monday.

    [ . . . ]

    Mexico is considered the epicenter for the swine flu outbreak, which Mexican health officials blame for at least 149 deaths.

    “We did not learn about the swine flu cases in Mexico until late last week,” Gibbs said. White House medical personnel asked Mexican health officials and U.S. embassy staff about any concerns on infectious disease, “and were informed that there were none,” Gibbs said.

    [ . . . ]

    http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2009/04/27/Officials-unaware-of-outbreak-before-trip/UPI-71511240876352/

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    U.S. braces for swine flu pandemic

    The U.S. government has declared a state of emergency because of the swine flu that has now killed more than 100 people in Mexico.

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    http://www.upi.com/

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    MEXICO CITY, April 27 (UPI) — The death toll in Mexico blamed on the contagious swine-flu virus has reached at least 149, Mexican officials said Monday.

    Nearly 2,000 people reportedly have been hospitalized with flu-like symptoms in and around Mexico City, the epicenter of the growing outbreak.

    http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2009/04/27/Mexico-Swine-flu-death-toll-reaches-149/UPI-10011240847055/

    A spokesman for the city government, Marcel Ebrard, said many business would be closed and public events canceled in hopes of containing the virus that is spread through human contact, El Universal reported online.

    [etc.]

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    Published: April 27, 2009 at 2:58 PM

    ATLANTA, April 27 (UPI) — Worldwide, the number of confirmed cases of swine flu was 73 as of Monday, the World Health Organization, based in Geneva, said.

    A WHO representative offer the breakdown by country as 40 in the United States, 26 in Mexico, six in Canada and one in Spain, CNN reported.

    http://www.upi.com/Health_News/2009/04/27/WHO-confirms-73-swine-flu-cases-worldwide/UPI-77831240812145/

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    Hugh Jackman pospone visita a México ante influenza

    http://www.sipse.com/home.php

    Ninguno de los 10 muertos en Edomex fueron por influenza porcina: Peña Nieto

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    Milenio.com. TOLUCA, Edo. de Méx.- El gobernador del Estado de México, Enrique Peña Nieto, informó que las cuatro personas que han fallecido en la entidad fue por influenza humana (tipo B) y de los 94 hospitalizados sólo 10 tienen influenza porcina.

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    27 de Abril del 2009 | 17:05

    Milenio.com
    TOLUCA, Edo. de Méx.- El gobernador del Estado de México, Enrique Peña Nieto, informó que las cuatro personas que han fallecido en la entidad fue por influenza humana –tipo B- y de los 94 hospitalizados sólo 10 tienen influenza porcina.

    De acuerdo con el portal de Milenio.com, en conferencia de prensa, el ejecutivo estatal dio a conocer que esta semana llegan a la entidad 15 mil pruebas rápidas que en 15 minutos podrán diagnosticar a las personas que tengan los síntomas para no tener que esperar las 48 horas que tardan las pruebas convencionales.

    Esto aunado a que dispondrán de 106 unidades móviles para recorrer los125 municipios, sobre todo la zona conurbada y los lugares sin suficiente infraestructura hospitalaria para que no se abarroten los hospitales y acercar el servicio a la gente.

    También dio a conocer que el plazo para tramitar licencias y permisos de conducir se extiende del 27 de abril hasta el 30 de junio para que no se vean obligadas a acudir a estos lugares donde acuden 5 mil solicitantes al día.

    http://www.sipse.com/nota.php?id=34659
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    Sospechan España y EU contagio de influenza en Cancún

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    Por: Redacción/SIPSE. CANCÚN, Q. Roo.- España y Estados Unidos reportaron este domingo casos de posibles infecciones provenientes de Cancún. En España se trata de dos casos, en tanto que en Estados Unidos serían un centenar de ‘springbreakers’.

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    27 de Abril del 2009 | 09:56

    Por: Redacción/SIPSE
    CANCÚN, Q. Roo.- España y Estados Unidos reportaron este domingo casos de posibles infecciones provenientes de Cancún. En España se trata de dos casos, en tanto que en Estados Unidos serían un centenar de ‘springbreakers’.

    En su edición electrónica, el diario español El País indicó que una mujer que acababa de regresar del destino turístico en México, es el octavo caso sospechoso de padecer gripe porcina en España.

    En España, la mujer, de 22 años, oriunda de Algeciras, permanece ingresada en el Hospital Punta de Europa “con síntomas de gripe leve y su estado general no reviste gravedad”, señaló en su nota El País.

    La Consejería de Salud de la Junta de Andalucía informó que la joven volvió de su viaje el 21 de abril, comenzó a sentir los primeros síntomas y para el 23 de abril acudió a un centro de salud, en Algeciras, donde le diagnosticaron un cuadro leve de gripe.

    Horas antes, cita El País, la Consejería de de Sanidad de Aragón informaba de otro paciente sospechoso en Teruel. Se trata de un joven de 22 años que regresó el pasado lunes de México, y fue internado en el Hospital Obispo Polanco de Teruel.

    El paciente no presenta fiebre alta ni un cuadro respiratorio severo, dos de los síntomas de la enfermedad, aunque las autoridades sanitarias prefirieron extremar las precauciones y mantenerlo aislado mientras se le practican las pruebas pertinentes.

    Estos casos se suman a otros seis registrados en el país ibérico.

    Las autoridades españolas señalaron que no están en situación de emergencia. La ministra Trinidad Jiménez indicó que se recopila información de todos los pasajeros procedentes de México y Estados Unidos para tenerlos localizados, por si se llega a presentar alguna situación de posible contagio.

    En los aeropuertos españoles que tienen vuelos procedentes de México y Estados Unidos hay médicos especialistas en sanidad exterior para informar y atender a los pasajeros que requieran información. De momento, España no tiene previsto suspender los viajes a estos dos países porque se sigue la recomendación de la Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS), que no ha indicado nada al respecto.

    [etc.]

    http://www.sipse.com/nota.php?id=34576

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    http://www.sipse.com/nota.php?id=34576
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    Primer caso positivo en España

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    Notimex. MADRID, España.- La ministra de Sanidad de España, Trinidad Jiménez, reportó hoy como positivo uno de los 18 casos que se estudian de influenza en este país, aunque aclaró que la persona que tiene el virus A H1N1 se encuentra fuera de gravedad.

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    27 de Abril del 2009 | 08:34

    Notimex
    MADRID, España.- La ministra de Sanidad de España, Trinidad Jiménez, reportó hoy como positivo uno de los 18 casos que se estudian de influenza en este país, aunque aclaró que la persona que tiene el virus A-H1N1 se encuentra fuera de gravedad.

    De acuerdo con la agencia Notimex, en rueda de prensa en la sede del Ministerio, indicó que se trata de un joven de 23 años que regresó el pasado 22 de abril de un viaje de estudios en México, y que desde la víspera se encuentra internado en Almansa, provincia de Albacete, Castilla La Mancha.

    (and more)

    http://www.sipse.com/nota.php?id=34549

    First Confirmed case of swine flu in Spain

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    JPost.com » International » Article

    Apr 26, 2009 23:32

    US health officials: Seasonal vaccine no help against swine flu

    By ASSOCIATED PRESS
    ATLANTA

    US health officials say they are “very pessimistic” that the seasonal flu vaccine protects against the unique swine flu infecting people in the United States, Mexico and Canada so far.

    It’s possible that people who have been exposed to flu viruses every year – especially older people, with a greater exposure history – may have some natural immunity, the CDC official said in a call with reporters.

    http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1239710795122

    International. Jerusalem Post

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    Philippine Airports To Screen Incoming U.S. Passengers For Swine Flu

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    Manila, Philippines (AHN) – Americans entering Philippine airports will be checked for symptoms of swine flu, the national health department ordered on Saturday in reaction to the outbreak of the disease in Mexico and the United States.

    Health Secretary Francisco T. Duque III issued the order to screen U.S. plane passengers for fever, body pain, runny nose, cough, sore throat, and diarrhea to prevent the spread of the H1N1 virus in the country.

    “We have a thermal screening system at the airport. This will be used by the Bureau of Quarantine to check passengers coming from the US if they have flu,” National Epidemiology Center director Dr. Eric Tayag told the Manila Bulletin.

    http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7014935305

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    British passengers screened for swine flu amid fears that disease has spread worldwide

    British passengers returning from Mexico are being screened for signs of swine flu amid fears that the disease has spread across the world.

    By Caroline Gammell and Auslan Cramb
    Last Updated: 10:28AM BST 27 Apr 2009

    Two travellers were admitted to a hospital in Scotland when they complained of flu-like symptoms after returning from holiday in the country.

    Alan Johnson, the Health Secretary, said Britain was on “constant alert” after the previously unknown influenza spread from Mexico to America and cases were reported as far afield as New Zealand, France, Spain, Israel and Canada.

    He said he had no doubt that there would be more cases of travellers coming into Britain with flu-like symptoms and promised that they will be examined “very, very quickly” by the NHS.

    More than 100 people in Mexico have died from pneumonia and respiratory illness linked to the virus. At least 20 cases have been confirmed as swine flu, also known as H1N1.

    In Britain, Mr Johnson advised all returning Britons who felt feverish not to go to their GPs or hospitals, but to stay at home and contact NHS Direct instead.

    Last night, the Foreign Office updated its travel advice, warning visitors to Mexico to avoid large crowds, kissing and to maintain a distance of at least 6ft from other people.

    As travellers arrived back at London’s Heathrow airport yesterday, many were seen wearing face masks before being questioned by officials.

    In America, The White House declared a state of public health emergency as they confirmed 20 cases of swine flu across five states.

    In addition, six cases were confirmed in Canada, 10 reported in New Zealand, four reported in France, six reported in Spain, one reported in Israel and two reported in Britain.

    Virologists in Britain agreed that in the worst case scenario, an outbreak of the virus could lead to as many as 120 million deaths worldwide.

    [ . . . ]

    But Professor Nigel Dimmock, a virologist and Emeritus professor of Warwick University, said it was unclear how much drug resistance this new strain may have.

    “There is reason to be worried,” he said. “The virus will travel and if it is, as seems, a new virus and people have no resistance to it, then there’s nothing to stop it spreading from person to person and by various means around the world.

    “It’s poised on a knife edge. It could either burn itself out or it could get very nasty indeed – only time will tell.

    “So far it has killed 2 per cent of those infected. In the worst case scenario it could kill 2 per cent of the world’s population. “There have been three big pandemics of flu, one in 1918, one in 1957 and one in 1968. Fifty million died in 1918 and from the other pandemics, maybe a million. This flu has the potential to be bigger than Spanish influenza.

    “You don’t want to panic too much – it may go away. We have to hope for the best and plan for the worst.”

    Dr John McCauley, virologist at the National Institute for Medical Research, said the figure of 120 million was “not unreasonable”.

    Mr Johnson said Britain had been planning for potential flu pandemics for several years because of the threat of bird flu. The WHO rated Britain as one of the two countries best prepared for an outbreak, alongside France.

    “We’ve got a whole range of measures in place. If you have flu-like symptoms, don’t go to your GP but stay at home and call NHS Direct.

    “The whole point about these kinds of epidemics is you don’t want to spread them and you spread them by going out and mixing with other people.”

    The H1N1 swine influenza has combined – or “re assorted” – features of the pig, avian and human viruses.

    As a new strain of influenza, it will take several months to create a suitable vaccine, but anti-virals will help control the symptoms, scientists said.

    Symptoms include feverish illness accompanied by one or more of a cough, sore throat, headache and muscle aches, according to the Health Protection Agency.
    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/5226252/British-passengers-screened-for-swine-flu-amid-fears-that-disease-has-spread-worldwide.html

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    A British Airways cabin crew member was taken to the hospital after developing flu-like symptoms. -Reuters –>
    Sun, Apr 26, 2009
    Reuters

    UNITED KINGDOM: A British Airways cabin crew member was taken to a London hospital as a precaution after developing flu-like symptoms on a flight from Mexico City, the airline said on Saturday.

    [ . . . ]

    ‘He has flu-like symptoms and is responding well to treatment,’ a hospital spokesman said in a statement.

    ‘The patient was admitted directly to a side room and the hospital is scrupulously following infection control procedures to ensure there is no risk to any other individual in the hospital.’

    [ etc. ]

    http://news.asiaone.com/News/AsiaOne%2BNews/World/Story/A1Story20090426-137559.html

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    Texas raises confirmed swine flu cases to six
    28 Apr 2009 00:34:32 GMT

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    Source: Reuters

    (Adds confirmed Dallas cases) By Jim Forsyth SAN ANTONIO, April 27

    (Reuters) – Texas state health authorities on Monday confirmed four more cases of swine flu that is threatening to become a pandemic, bringing the state’s total to six.

    To contain the outbreak, Texas officials closed 14 schools near San Antonio and one in Dallas.

    In North Texas, Dallas health officials are tracking three more “probable” swine flu infections that could be confirmed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in coming days.

    In Guadalupe County near San Antonio, all three confirmed cases involve students at Byron Steele High School, the Texas Department of State Health Services said.

    The cases in Dallas affect a wider age group — a 24-year-old, a 7-year-old and a 3-month-old, according to Dallas County Health and Human Services officials.

    Elsewhere in Texas, local officials said they were tracking four possible cases in Nueces County near Corpus Christi.

    In Schertz, Texas, two high school students have recovered and the third is recovering under voluntary isolation at his home, officials said.

    In the middle class suburb outside San Antonio where the three confirmed swine flu cases live, residents did not show any alarm.

    “It doesn’t make me nervous, it’s only three cases so far,” said Yvette Sosa, whose daughter attends Byron Steele, one of 14 area schools that authorities closed indefinitely as a precaution. “I’m not scared yet.”

    http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N27167715.htm

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    Americas AmeriCares Sends Emergency Relief for Swine Flu Outbreak
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    EC Reacts Swiftly to Swine Flu Outbreak in Mexico

    Bulgaria in EU | April 27, 2009, Monday

    A passenger who has just arrived from Mexico City wears a protective mask at the airport in Frankfurt Main, Germany, 27 April 2009.

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    The President of the European Commission, José Manuel Barroso, made Monday a statement on the EC reaction to the Swine flu outbreak in Mexico.

    “The Commission is following the situation concerning the swine influenza very closely, internally together with the Member States, and internationally in cooperation with the World Health Organization,” President Barroso said.

    Barosso pointed out that currently the public health emergency situation is limited to the American continent.

    Nevertheless the EC is taking swift measures to deal with the issue.

    EC Health Commissioner, Androulla Vassiliou, is discussing the issue Monday with the Ministers of Foreign Affairs in the General Affairs Council.

    The EC, together with the Czech Presidency plans to convene an emergency meeting of the Health Council as soon as possible.

    “We will continue to assess the information we are getting from the experts, evaluate the potential danger and decide together with Member States on the measures to take,” Barroso said.

    Health Commissioner Vassiliou issued a statement Monday on the EC’s Reaction to the novel flu virus outbreak in Mexico .

    Full text of the statement read here: http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=103142

    [From:]

    http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=103137

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    • Sofia Airport Equipped with Thermal Scanners over Swine Flu Fears
    • US Declares Emergency over Swine Flu, Mexico Death Toll Rising
    http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=103137
    ***

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    Google Map of swine flu cases

    ***

    CDC Responds to Swine Flu Outbreak Among Humans
    Emergency Operations Center activated to augment ongoing investigation
    • All CDC In The News
    • Press Room

    Data & Statistics

    Chart: U.S. Human Cases of Swine Flu Infection as of 4/27/2009, 1:00 PM ET. Number of confirmed laboratory cases by state. California: 7; Kansas: 2; New York City: 28; Ohio: 1; Texas: 2. Total Case Count: 40 cases.

    More Data & Statistics

    http://www.cdc.gov/

    Swine Flu

    General Info on Swine Flu

    • Swine Flu & You Apr 26, 2009
    • Key Facts Apr 24, 2009
    • Swine Flu Video Apr 25, 2009
    • Brochure: Swine Influenza in Pigs and People Apr 24, 2009
    • Antiviral Drugs Apr 27, 2009

    Related Links

    • PandemicFlu.govExternal Web Site Policy.
    • WHO – Influenza-Like Illness in the United States and MexicoExternal Web Site Policy.
    http://www.cdc.gov/
    ***
    Video Intentan en Europa frenar epidemia de influenza
    Confirman el primer caso en España; Francia en alerta por dos casos; en Nueva Zelanda 10 jóvenes presentan los síntomas

    Todo el país sin clases por la influenza

    OMS eleva alerta de nivel 3 a 4 en México

    Prevén detener toda la actividad en el DF

    Influenza Enfermedad enviada desde el Universo

    El virus mutó en mujer de Oaxaca

    Todo el país sin clases hasta el 6 de mayo por influenza

    GDF implementa plan de alerta máxima

    [from:]

    http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/notas/593983.html

    ***

    What You Can Do to Stay Healthy

    There are everyday actions people can take to stay healthy.

    • Cover your nose and mouth with a tissue when you cough or sneeze. Throw the tissue in the trash after you use it.
    • Wash your hands often with soap and water, especially after you cough or sneeze. Alcohol-based hands cleaners are also effective.
    • Avoid touching your eyes, nose or mouth. Germs spread that way.

    Try to avoid close contact with sick people.

    • Influenza is thought to spread mainly person-to-person through coughing or sneezing of infected people.
    • If you get sick, CDC recommends that you stay home from work or school and limit contact with others to keep from infecting them.
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    UPDATE 4-U.S. lawmakers to examine swine flu response

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    By Susan Heavey WASHINGTON, April 27 (Reuters) – U.S. lawmakers plan to take a closer look this week at the federal government’s response to the swine ……

    http://www.finanznachrichten.de/nachrichten-2009-04/13745450-update-4-u-s-lawmakers-to-examine-swine-flu-response-020.htm

    28.04.2009 02:29

    UPDATE 4-U.S. lawmakers to examine swine flu response

    By Susan Heavey

    WASHINGTON, April 27 (Reuters) – U.S. lawmakers plan to

    take a closer look this week at the federal government’s

    response to the swine flu outbreak that has sickened people in

    five states and killed dozens in Mexico.

    At least three hearings are planned, beginning with a U.S.

    Senate hearing on Tuesday on steps to protect public health in

    the wake of the discovery of the disease in the United States.

    Anthony Fauci, an expert on prevention and treatment of

    infectious diseases and director of the National Institute for

    Allergy and Infectious Diseases, was among witnesses scheduled

    to testify at the ’emergency’ Agriculture Committee hearing.

    Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and Richard

    Besser, acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and

    Prevention, were due to discuss ‘coordinating the federal

    response’ to swine flu before the Senate Homeland Security on

    Wednesday.

    The House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Health

    Subcommittee slated a hearing for Thursday to discuss the

    outbreak ‘and the next steps for a federal response.’ The

    hearing aims to ‘ensure that all the agencies responsible for

    protecting the public’s health are coordinating appropriately

    with all due diligence to avert a potential disaster,’ said

    subcommittee chairman Frank Pallone, a Democrat.

    The swine flu virus has so far killed 149 people in Mexico,

    but has not caused deaths elsewhere despite spreading to the

    United States, Canada and parts of Europe, health officials

    have said. Cases have been confirmed in California, Kansas,

    Ohio, New York and Texas.

    PANDEMIC FUNDING DROPPED FROM STIMULUS BILL

    Efforts to prepare for a possible pandemic have been under

    way for years. Some health experts, however, have been critical

    of the federal government’s work long-term to prepare for

    possible pandemics.

    Trust for America’s Health, a nonprofit group that

    advocates for emergency preparedness, said officials had made

    progress but called on Congress to fully fund a $7.1 billion

    flu strategy proposed by President George W. Bush.

    The group said $870 million of that sum was included in the

    government’s fiscal 2008 budget and in the 2009 economic

    stimulus bill but removed in both cases before passage.

    ‘It certainly wouldn’t have made a difference in terms of

    the response to what’s happening today, (but) it will slow down

    the level of preparedness that we could have at a later date,’

    said Jeff Levi, the group’s executive director.

    Democratic Rep. Dave Obey, chairman of the House

    Appropriations Committee, said he included $420 million for

    pandemic flu preparedness in the stimulus bill but the money

    was removed ‘after a number of senators objected.’ Obey said he

    would request more funds in an upcoming spending measure.

    {Etc.}

    http://www.finanznachrichten.de/nachrichten-2009-04/13745450-update-4-u-s-lawmakers-to-examine-swine-flu-response-020.htm

    *My note –

    – very interesting information here – we look like a bunch of idiots.

    ***

    Also – this site has way more information than anybody might ever wish to have known – check it out –

    http://www.finanznachrichten.de/

    ***

    FACTBOXWHO’s pandemic alert phases

    HEALTH EMERGENCYDeaths rise, WHO increases alert level

    DRUG SHORTAGES Developing nations could face flu drug shortages
    Americas Flu kills 149 in Mexico, world closer to pandemic
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    http://www.alertnet.org/index.htm

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    Swine influenza
    27 April 2009 — The Emergency Committee, established in compliance with the International Health Regulations (2005), held its second meeting on 27 April 2009. The Committee considered available data on confirmed outbreaks of A/H1N1 swine influenza in the United States of America, Mexico, and Canada. The Committee also considered reports of possible spread to additional countries. On the advice of the Committee, the WHO Director-General has raised the level of influenza pandemic alert from the current phase 3 to phase 4.
    Read the Director-General’s statement
    Current WHO phase of pandemic alert

    More on swine influenza

    Swine influenza frequently asked questions [pdf 57kb]

    http://www.who.int/en/

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    They’re handing out instructions to wash hands and stay home if you get sick – plus some really questionable face masks in Mexico and at ports of entry in the US and Mexico – to prevent swine flu spread – I don’t think medicines / vaccines necessarily help but surely the flow of people could be slowed or stopped for a couple weeks –

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    U.S. Embassy in Mexico Suspends Services April 27-30
    Apr. 26: U.S. and Mexican Governments are working together to contain the current outbreak of a new strain of “swine flu.” In accordance with measures announced by the City of Mexico to limit the congregation of large crowds, the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City will suspend all non-essential consular services from April 27-30. –Warden Message –CDC Swine Flu Page – Travel Alert

    http://www.state.gov/

    ***

    http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&t=p&msa=0&ll=38.272689,-83.847656&spn=14.544125,28.300781&z=5&msid=106484775090296685271.0004681a37b713f6b5950

    Google Map with markers for known and suspected cases of swine flu

    ***

    Mexico City clubs expect to keep fans away

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    AP Sports Writer
    MEXICO CITY — Mexico City’s football clubs are expected to keep playing behind closed doors, a measure designed to help stem the outbreak of the swine flu epidemic in the Mexican capital.

    Three games were played in fanless stadiums over the weekend, with other sports taking similar preventive measures. A top baseball team is moving its games this week to northern Mexico, and a weekend diving tournament — headed by leading Chinese divers — was held without any fans at all.

    [ . . . ]

    The Mexico City club Cruz Azul has already said it will play behind closed doors again on Saturday in a match against Indios of Ciudad Juarez. On Saturday, Cruz Azul played in an empty stadium at Pachuca, located about 55 kilometers (35 miles) from the capital.

    [ . . . ]

    http://www.usatoday.com/sports/soccer/2009-04-27-2634995925_x.htm

    ***

    My note –

    they just showed the pictures of the game in an empty stadium on CNN because the fans were kept out while the teams played. Really strange.

    ***

    Swine influenza
    27 April 2009 — The Emergency Committee, established in compliance with the International Health Regulations (2005), held its second meeting on 27 April 2009. The Committee considered available data on confirmed outbreaks of A/H1N1 swine influenza in the United States of America, Mexico, and Canada. The Committee also considered reports of possible spread to additional countries. On the advice of the Committee, the WHO Director-General has raised the level of influenza pandemic alert from the current phase 3 to phase 4.
    Read the Director-General’s statement
    Current WHO phase of pandemic alert

    More on swine influenza

    Swine influenza frequently asked questions [pdf 57kb]

    DISEASE OUTBREAKS

    Swine influenza – update 3
    27 April 2009

    Swine flu illness in the United States and Mexico – update 2
    26 April 2009

    [From:]

    http://www.who.int/en/

    World Health Organization

    ***

    This page has a good video clip – take a look –

    El Universal – news Mexico

    http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/noticias.html

    Video Intentan en Europa frenar epidemia de influenza
    Confirman el primer caso en España; Francia en alerta por dos casos; en Nueva Zelanda 10 jóvenes presentan los síntomas


    Influenza OMS confirma 40 casos en EU
    Por su parte, el alcalde de Nueva York, Michael Bloomberg, informara de que se habían constatado otros 20 casos más de personas infectadas por el virus

    EFE
    El Universal
    Ginebra Lunes 27 de abril de 2009
    12:26 La Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS) elevó hoy a 40 los casos confirmados de gripe porcina en Estados Unidos, poco antes de que el alcalde de Nueva York, Michael Bloomberg, informara de que se habían constatado otros 20 casos más de personas infectadas por el virus en la ciudad.El portavoz de la OMS Gregory Hartl señaló que la OMS recibió la pasada madrugada información de 20 casos nuevos en Estados Unidos, lo que elevaba el total a 40, pero agregó que todos los casos, excepto uno de una mujer que fue hospitalizada, eran “leves” .

    En México, donde surgió el virus y donde pueden haber muerto por esta causa unas 150 personas, la OMS sólo confirma oficialmente 26 casos.

    http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/notas/593983.html

    ***

    Influenza Inglaterra investiga a canadiense por virus 09:13
    Influenza Suiza investiga posible virus en 5 personas 09:06
    Influenza Obama asegura que no hay alarma 08:56
    Influenza Gripe porcina en Israel recibe apelativo de “mexicana” 07:28
    Influenza Operador alemán TUI suspende viajes a México 06:22
    Influenza China prohíbe importación de productos porcinos de México y EU 06:18
    Influenza Enfermedad enviada desde el Universo 00:45
    Venden antivirales sin receta; ya se agotaron 00:45
    Ordenan cierre de guarderías del IMSS 00:45
    OMS analiza elevar nivel de alerta mundial 00:45
    EU declara “estado de emergencia” 00:45

    http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/notas/593983.html

    ***

    EU declara “estado de emergencia”
    Las 10 acciones ciudadanas contra la influenza

    EU declara “estado de emergencia”
    Confirma 20 casos de influenza porcina en cinco estados; refuerza vigilancia en frontera con México

    J. Jaime Hernández Corresponsal
    El Universal
    Lunes 27 de abril de 2009
    WASHINGTON.— Estados Unidos declaró ayer “estado de emergencia de salud pública” para tratar de contener el avance del brote de influenza porcina que ya se ha extendido a cinco estados, con un total de 20 casos, y confirmó el reforzamiento de su seguridad fronteriza con México y la práctica de una “vigilancia pasiva” en puertos de entrada y terminales aéreas para controlar el flujo de personas procedentes de ese país.

    “La declaración de este estado de emergencia tiene como fin liberar recursos médicos y sanitarios para hacer frente a este brote”, aseguró la secretaria del Departamento de Seguridad Interna de EU, Janet Napolitano, a quien el presidente Barack Obama ha puesto al frente del gabinete de crisis que lidiará con la amenaza de una pandemia de influenza.

    “Tenemos que contar con todos los recursos para hacer frente a una crisis de salud que se convertirá en un maratón”, dijo Napolitano mientras el gobierno de Canadá confirmaba, por primera vez, la aparición de seis casos de contagio entre estudiantes de Nueva Escocia que viajaron a México, y que se recuperan satisfactoriamente.

    Los brotes están apareciendo en los cuatro puntos cardinales de EU: ocho casos en Nueva York; siete en California; dos en Texas; dos en Kansas, y uno en Ohio.

    (and a pleasant picture of Homeland Security Director Napolitano)

    En un acto en el que la palabra “bioterrorismo” salió por primera vez, Brennan aseguró que, aunque “aún es muy temprano” para hablar de una acción premeditada en el brote de influenza porcina, se estudian todas las opciones posibles.

    [etc.]

    http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/primera/32885.html

    ***

    Alerta epidemiológica no detuvo el turismo en las playas de México 2009-04-27
    Instalan en aeropuerto2 módulos de revisión 2009-04-27

    ****

    Las 15 acciones ciudadanas contra la influenza
    Ante la epidemia de influencia por un virus, las autoridades y expertos han recomendado a la población algunas medidas preventivas que ayudarán a evitar la propagación de la gripe porcina

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    Redacción El Universal Ciudad de México Domingo 26 de abril de 2009 02:21 Ante la epidemia de influencia por un virus, las autoridades y expertos han recomendado a la población algunas medidas preventivas que son fáciles y ayudarán a evitar la propagación de la gripe porcina:

  • Usar cubrebocas cuando salga a la calle, acuda al trabajo, o regrese del mismo. Explicar a compañeros de trabajo, vecinos o amigos el uso correcto del cubrebocas: en nariz y boca para mayor efectividad.
  • No propagar el pánico, ni exagerar las indicaciones de las autoridades, ya que son medidas preventivas.
  • No saludar de beso, ni de mano. Sobre este punto, poner especial cuidado con enfermos o en lugares donde haya enfermos confirmados.
  • No acudir a centros de salud a menos de que sea estrictamente necesario, pues hay cercos sanitarios en los hospitales.
  • Lavarse las manos constantemente con jabón antibacterial o utilizar gel antibacterial. Debido a que esa simple acción puede matar al virus de la gripe porcina.
  • Mantenerse alejado de las multitudes. Evitar acudir a conciertos, partidos, obras de teatro y parques.
  • Evitar fumar o fumar lo menos posible para evitar enfermedades respiratorias.
  • Comer frutas o alimentos ricos en vitamina C para subir las defensas del organismo.
  • Mantener las ventanas abiertas o ventilar los espacios de hogares y trabajos para permitir una correcta ventilación.
  • Lavar correctamente los trastes y enseres domésticos y en lo posible, no compartir los mismos.
  • Procurar que los niños jueguen al interior de la casa y no en parques.
  • Postergar reuniones, o invitaciones a bares, cines o fiestas.
  • Acudir a la Iglesia con cubrebocas y, por el momento, no dar la mano durante el saludo de paz.
  • Evitar practicar ejercicio al aire libre o en centros deportivos muy concurridos.
  • Estar atento a los medios de comunicación ante posibles alertas, anuncios o disposiciones sanitarias que las autoridades dispongan. cgb
  • http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/notas/593688.html *** Swine Flu – I don’t know that medications and vaccines really help much in this but couldn’t the flow of people interacting, flying, moving back and forth across these countries be slowed or stopped for a couple weeks to stop the spread of swine flu? What is the point of all the preparations for this type of event when here we are and people continue spreading this quickly across the world? – my note *** http://www.elfinanciero.com.mx/ElFinanciero/Portal/

    Abre Armada hospitales navales en el DF para atender influenza

    • El secretario de Marina, Francisco Saynez Mendoza, asegura que este nosocomio militar cuenta con equipo suficiente
    • Además, en caso de requerirse, se tiene un grupo extra de médicos

    Notas relacionadas

    Acelera UE el desarrollo de una vacuna contra gripe porcina
    No hay motivo para alarma, dice Obama
    Hospitalizan en Alemania a tres personas
    Plantea OMS elevar el nivel de alerta por gripe porcina a fase 4 ó 5

    Alerta por influenza – Lunes 27 de abril (14:22 hrs.)

    http://www.elfinanciero.com.mx/ElFinanciero/Portal/

    ***

    Eleva OMS el nivel de alerta pandémica por influenza

    • La Organización Mundial de la Salud revela que el virus A/H1N1 se transmite fácilmente de persona a persona
    • Sube al grado 4 en una escala de seis

    Alerta por influenza – Lunes 27 de abril (15:49 hrs.)

    1. Mensaje de la Secretaría de Salud sobre la influenza
    2. Afecta a filmes mexicanos cierre de cines
    3. Acude Ismael Rodríguez a revisión médica
    4. Firman convenio Casa de la Ciudad de México y ex alumnos de la UNAM
    5. Declaran lista a California para enfrentar influenza porcina

    http://www.elfinanciero.com.mx/ElFinanciero/Portal/

    ***

    US swine flu victims visited Cancun (Cyber Diver News Network)
    NEW YORK, New York (26 Apr 2009) ? New York City health officials confirmed that at least 15 students at a school where about many students are suffering from swine flu symptoms visited Cancun during spring break two weeks ago., 2009-04-26, 18:10:58

    Swine flu confirmed in NYC high school students (AP via Yahoo! News)
    New York City was dealing with a growing public health threat Sunday after tests confirmed that eight students at a private Catholic high school had contracted the same strain of the swine flu that has ravaged Mexico. Some of the school’s students had…, 2009-04-26, 13:55:34

    Sky Harbor passengers taking precautions against Swine Flu (ABC 15 Phoenix)
    Uvaldo and Alma Martinez of Tucson received some strange looks aboard their flight from Cancun to Phoenix Sunday. The couple wore painter’s masks on the plane to protect themselves against the deadly Swine Flu outbreak., 2009-04-26, 17:12:02

    Swine flu confirmed in NYC high school students (Rockford Register Star)
    New York City was dealing with a growing public health threat today after tests confirmed that eight students at a private Catholic high school had contracted the same strain of the swine flu that has ravaged Mexico. Some of the school?s students had…, 2009-04-26, 15:34:46

    Travel precautions after swine flu outbreak (New England Cable News)
    (NECN: Josh Brogadir, Boston, Mass.) – Massport officials say there was no extensive screening or quarantining of passengers here at Logan who arrived safely tonight from Cancun and Cozumel. Amy Klodzinski, of Portland, Maine had a great vacation in…, 2009-04-26, 18:30:06

    QNS. SCHOOL FEAR (New York Post)
    A group of Queens high school students likely brought Mexico’s deadly swine flu epidemic to the city after they went on a wild spring-break party to Cancun earlier this month. Some seniors from St. Francis Prep in Fresh Meadows took the…, 2009-04-26, 3:25:43

    ACAPULCO

    MEXICO CITY, Mexico (CNN) — A moderate quake measuring 5.6 in magnitude struck southwestern Mexico near the resort city of Acapulco on Monday, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

    USGS measured the quake’s epicenter in the state of Guerrero about 43 miles northeast of Acapulco.

    Authorities in Acapulco evacuated hotels there, although there were no reports of damage, according to CNN affiliate TV Azteca.

    The temblor was felt about 145 miles (230 km) to the north in Mexico City.

    http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/04/27/mexico.quake/

    ***

    Posted on Sat, Apr. 25, 2009

    9 found dead near Acapulco resort

    Associated Press

    ACAPULCO, Mexico – The bullet-riddled bodies of nine men were found yesterday in and around the Mexican resort of Acapulco.Guerrero state police said in a statement that the bodies of five men were found in an SUV parked near a highway connecting Acapulco and Zihuatenejo. The men’s hands and feet were bound.In Acapulco, another man was found shot twice in the head. Three other bodies were found outside the city. *
    http://www.philly.com/dailynews/national/20090425_9_found_dead_near_Acapulco_resort.html
    ***
    ****
    More about the swine flu – from news – Acapulco

    http://www.aca-novenet.com.mx/principal/270409/aca-principal.php

    US swine flu victims visited Cancun

    by CARMEN SANCHEZ @ CDNN – CYBER DIVER News Network
    NEW YORK, New York (26 Apr 2009) — New York City health officials confirmed that at least 15 students at a school where many students are suffering from swine flu symptoms visited Cancun during spring break two weeks ago.The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention told CDNN that eight students have been confirmed to be suffering from the same strain of swine flu that has killed at least 90 people in Mexico and infected nearly 2,000 more.

    Some 100 students at St. Francis Preparatory School in Fresh Meadows, Queens, are suffering flu symptoms and may also be infected.

    Pat Hornek, 18, a senior, said that during spring break “some kids went to Cancun” and one of his friends came back sick.

    According to another student, at least 15 students visited Cancún. a popular resort destination in Mexico.

    New York City’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene said the sick students are suffering high fevers, headaches, dizziness, upset stomachs and coughs.

    Tour operators that sell trips to Cancun, Cozumel and other popular holiday destinations in Mexico said they have been flooded with cancellations.

    [and more]

    http://www.cdnn.info/news/travel/t090426.html

    Cyber Diver News Network

    ***

    http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=es&u=http://www.novenet.com.mx/&ei=xy72ScKBM8vHtgfc4JC6Dw&sa=X&oi=translate&resnum=6&ct=result&prev=/search%3Fq%3DCancun%2Bnewspaper%26hl%3Den%26rlz%3D1B3GGGL_enUS258US258

    Translated newspaper – Cancun Mexico – about the swine flu epidemic – April 2009

    http://www.sipse.com/home.php

    Eleva OMS alerta de pandemia a nivel 4 La Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS) anunció su decisión de elevar la alerta de pandemia al nivel cuatro, de una escala del uno al seis, por el brote de influenza porcina que afecta a Canadá, Estados Unidos, México y España.
    Notas relacionadas:

    • Bancos darán servicio hasta las 18:00 horas, por contingencia
    • Agotan medicamento contra influenza en farmacias de Mérida
    • Pospone final de Concacaf entre Atlante y Cruz Azul
    • Descarta Ebrard cerco en la ciudad de México
    • Afecta virus imagen de México en el mundo: IMEF

    Los senadores del PRD, Silvano Aureoles, Graco Ramírez, Carlos Navarrete, Javier Castellón y Jesús Garibay anunciaron que sesionarán a puerta cerrada y ni siquiera la prensa podrá ingresar. (Notimex).

    My note – now, that is a picture you don’t see everyday. It seems very unlikely that this will be stopped the way it is been handled. The video that I watched on a page listed above in this post showed police and officials handing out notes and masks to people on buses, in cars, coming off planes, etc. – that can’t be right.

    This site actually had an emergency number buried in a photo in the center of the page – but it probably isn’t for information.

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