<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; "><h5 style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(1, 102, 255); font-size: 1.3em; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; ">Dear Apple folks,</span></h5><div><br></div><div>It gives me great pleasure to point out this evolving story in the <b style="font-size: 21px; ">State of Maine</b>. In Feb - July 2002 I was invited to participate in the first ever roll-out of a massive state-wide Apple laptop and wireless Airport Network initiative in Maine. We had a small team of Apple consultants based in Freeport, Maine that would get daily marching orders to engineer wireless networks in all the 250+ Middle Schools in every single corner of Maine. It was a technical and cultural experience I will never forget. We set up networks on Native American Indian reservations with families that lived in homes no bigger than the sheds in our back yards attending one room schools that could double as a modest home from the 1930's ..... </div><div><br></div><div>.... on up to large coastal school districts with fiber-optic cabling in all buildings. The contrast was stark.</div><div><br></div><div>Seven years later in 2009 they are still reaping the benefits of the bold educational initiative pioneered by then <b style="font-size: 18px; ">Govenor Angus King</b> ( see photo ) and the rest is history in the making.</div><div><br></div><div>Way to go Maine !!!! You guys rock !!!!! Maybe Pennsylvania will follow your lead ?</div><div><br></div><div></div></span></body></html>