亚城捷运Marta自1972年开始营运，目前拥有700辆巴士，150条巴士路线，总共行驶哩程2400公里。另外亦有240辆重型捷运电联车，行驶于36个捷运站之间，总哩程60公里，

捷运之设计重点原是为每日工作来往的人潮。因此捷运行驶间隔亦非常密集，在周一至周五，每八分钟一班，在周六每十分钟一班，周日或国定例假日每十五分钟一班。以至于捷运票价，一般单程美金$1.75，。转换至不同路线捷运或巴士可持转换证免费搭乘，当然转换以一次为限。

论周计算乘车证，无限搭乘次数，票价美金$13+$5(办卡费)，但是办卡费不退只有留作纪念或者给下届学员用。

论月计算乘车证，无限搭乘次数，票价美金$45

 

Historical Overview
In 1952, the first Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) Conference was held as a 2-day event devoted primarily to infectious disease-related topics. Through the 1950s, 1960s, and early 1970s, a small number of non-infectious disease topics, such as family planning, cancer, and birth defects, began to be included. By the mid-1970s, efforts were made to "balance" the presentations by having all components of CDC program areas represented, and by the early 1980s, the poster session became an integral part of the EIS Conference.

The EIS Conference began as a forum for 2nd-year EIS officers (epidemiologists-in-training) to demonstrate the quality of the work they had accomplished during the 2-year training program. Gradually, the conference began to include 1st-year EIS officers, as well as EIS alumni/ae. From the beginning, the primary function of the EIS Conference was to teach and provide presentations on cutting-edge science.

The gunman who killed 32 people at a U.S. university Monday, before killing himself, mailed a chilling video to a U.S. TV network during the massacre. The package was received by the NBC TV network from Virginia Tech student Cho Seung-Hui. VOA's David Dyar reports the package contained a rambling video in which the gunman engaged in an angry tirade about hedonism and rich kids along with several pictures of him holding guns.

NBC played excerpts from the video on its evening newscast. The gunman is seen talking angrily in the video in what the network described as an incoherent manifesto.

Image received by NBC news of Cho Seung-Hui

"You had a hundred billion chances and ways to have avoided today, but you decided to spill my blood. You forced me into a corner and gave me only one option, the decision was yours. Now you have blood on your hands that will never wash off," he said.

Some of the pictures released by NBC showed Cho brandishing guns. One picture showed him holding two guns, one in each hand in a firing pose. In another picture, Cho points the barrel of the gun directly at the camera.

NBC said it received the package Wednesday, but it contained a stamp indicating it was mailed about an hour and 45 minutes after he first opened fire on the university campus, killing two students.

Many of Cho's comments were laced with profanity and were spoken in an angry monotone voice.

"I didn't have to do it. I could have left. I could have fled," he was heard saying. "But now I am no longer running. If not for me, for my children and my brothers and sisters that you (expletive). I did it for them," The pictures and video are the latest in a series of disclosures about the gunman that have sufaced since the killing."

It was reported that he had two stalking complaints filed against him in 2005 and later a magistrate signed an order after an initial evaluation that found probable cause that Cho was a danger to himself or others as a result of mental illness.

NBC said it turned over the package to the FBI. The network released excerpts from the package just before the FBI released a statement about it.

Police said it was not clear when the recordings were made.

(CNN) -- Officials at Virginia Tech said Monday that they thought the situation was under control during the hours between two shootings that claimed 33 lives.

"We concluded first that the incident in Ambler Johnston [dormitory] was domestic in nature. In fact we had some reason to think the shooter had left campus," Virginia Tech President Charles Steger said during a late-afternoon news conference.

Police in Blacksburg, Virginia, were alerted to the shootings at around 7:15 a.m. ET, when they were notified in a 911 call that there were several victims in a dormitory, Steger said. (Watch why SWAT trainer said cops needed to rush in )

At about 9:15 a.m., more than 30 shots were reported in nearby Norris Hall, he said.

One student told CNN that he was upset with the way the university notified students about the shooting.

"I'll say on the record I'm outraged that someone died in a shooting in a dorm at 7 in the morning. The first e-mail about it, no mention of locking down campus, no mention of canceled classes, they just mention they're investigating a shooting a few hours later at 9:26," said student Jason Piatt.

"Meanwhile, while they sent out that e-mail, [more] people got killed."

According to The Associated Press, the e-mail read:

"A shooting incident occurred at West Amber Johnston earlier this morning. Police are on the scene and are investigating. The university community is urged to be cautious and are asked to contact Virginia Tech Police if you observe anything suspicious or with information on the case. Contact Virginia Tech Police at 231-641. Stay attuned to the www.vt.edu. We will post as soon as we have more information."

Other students complained about the timing of warnings.

"We were kept in the dark a lot about exactly what was going on," Andrew Capers Thompson, a 22-year-old graduate student from Walhalla, South Carolina, told the AP.

Steger defended the university's reaction to the first shooting.

Steger said that soon after the dorm shooting the university used a telephone alert system to notify resident assistants of the tragedy and sent out e-mails to help notify the students who lived on- and off-campus. He also said warning sirens went off.

Officials said 9,000 of Virginia Tech's 26,000 students live in residence halls.

Steger said the university will review how it reacted to Monday's events.

"But it's one of these things that no one anticipated and you have to remember that you can only make the decision based on the information that you know at that moment in time," he said. "And you don't have hours to reflect on it, you have to take immediate action."

The school's lockdown system worked very well,Steger said. Students were cooperative and very few people were out after the lockdown, he said.

Virginia Tech Police Chief Wendell Flinchum said his office will investigate to see if the shootings were related to two bomb threats that were called in recently.

In the first, on April 3, university officials closed down Torgersen Hall and a main gateway to the campus after a written note threatened the 100,000-square-foot building, according to the Roanoke Times.

The school canceled classes in the building and sent bomb-sniffing dogs in to check it out. No device was found.

The second incident took place Friday, according to WTVR in Richmond, which reported that a bomb threat forced closures of Torgersen, Durham and Whittimore halls. The buildings were closed over the weekend and reopened only in time for classes Monday morning, according to the New River Valley Times.

The university has offered a $5,000 reward for information about the bomb threats.

"We're looking into that to see if they are or are not connected," he said. "It's certainly a possibility we're exploring. "

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At least 32 people were killed in Blacksburg, Virginia, when a gunman opened fire in a dorm and classroom at Virginia Tech University Monday in the deadliest mass shooting rampage in the United States. The gunman, then took his own life, campus police chief Wendell Flinchum told reporters. VOA's Peter Fedynsky reports.

Susan Hylton (l) hugs her daughter, Mary McFillin - a student at Virginia Tech

A student reporter with a cell phone recorded scenes of police approaching one of the buildings on the campus of Virginia Tech University in Blacksburg where the shootings occurred.

The events unfolded in the morning over two hours in two separate locations. University President Charles Steger says only one gunman seems to have been involved.

"The shooter in Norris Hall is deceased," he said. "There are multiple fatalities. The number of fatalities has not been confirmed."

Virginia Tech President Charles Steger speaks at a news conference after shootings on the school's campus, in Blacksburg, Virginia, 16 Apr 2007

Steger says Virginia Tech University was hit with a tragedy of monumental proportions.

"The university is shocked and indeed horrified that this would befall us and I want to extend my deepest and most sincere and profound sympathies to the families of these victims, which include our students," he said.

White House spokeswoman Dana Perino says President Bush is horrified by the killings and that his thoughts and prayers are with the victims. Asked about gun control policy, Perino says Mr. Bush believes in the people's constitutional right to bear arms, but that all laws must be followed.

SWAT team members head to Norris Hall, the site of a shooting on campus of Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia, 16 Apr 2007

"If there are changes to the president's policy, then we will let you know," she said. "But we've had a consistent policy of ensuring that the Justice Department is enforcing all of the gun laws that we have on the books and making sure that they are prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law."

Perino says state and local authorities are leading the investigation, adding that federal law enforcement assets are available, if Virginia should request them.

Blacksburg, Virginia

America's first encounter with a campus massacre occurred in 1966, when a sniper at the University of Texas shot and killed 16 people. In 1999, 12 students and a teacher were killed by two boys at Columbine High School in the suburban town of Littleton, Colorado. In October 2006, an armed gunman killed six girls in a one room Amish schoolhouse in rural Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.

Virginia Tech President Charles Steger says the university will hold convocation on Tuesday to commemorate victims of the tragedy in Blacksburg.

终于得进实验室看看了！Influenza Branch 的实验室占据了实验室大楼的一整层，Cool，可惜不能拍照。大部分设备是SORVALL的，-70的冰箱大约有二十部左右。H5N1 和H7N7在叫做“BSL3/"的实验室里完成，"BL3"没有见到，还有“BL4”连隔着玻璃看看都不行。从网上找了一张照片，我看到的在生物安全柜前操作的工作人员都穿戴成这样。

 

 

去了我最想去的两个地方：可口可乐的总部和CNN大楼。今天又去了国家公园-石头山:)。先看看照片吧，在两个影集里，分别是八张的和10张的。俺要睡觉去了。Tomorrow is another day。不对，除了Ken， 大家都是星期一上午吧？

生命如此美好

无所畏惧

向前

向前

因为时差的原因，今天一早就收到朋友们的祝福。很开心，老张，引经据典写了一段话，我改写了一部分：

白羊座是个希望生活充满激情的女性。酷爱自由，喜欢争辩，但是并不期待总是占上风。曾经讲话针锋相对伤害过别人，所以学会尽量巧妙的为维护自己的看法而辩解，不喜欢战争，但是不畏惧奋斗。直言不讳，敢于进击，不怕挫折，虽然总是有挫折。知道自己性格中缺少了温柔的成分，所以正在改变。个性很强，不会主动追求自己所钟情的男性，因为知道当激情过去后，没有多少人承载得住平淡的岁月。

白羊座不愿充当家庭主妇的角色，但是正在努力学习烹饪。曾经喜欢发号施令，那是因为他不够聪明。生活的脉搏不能按照我们自己的节奏跳动，不过我们可以努力跟上那节奏。我总是会做一些令人难以置信的事情，非常喜欢在实践中去"折腾"。

“如果她的丈夫在事业上与她携手共进，那她将会表现出非凡的才能。但是，要立足在平等的基础上 '----太对了！！' 

I got the badge today with my pic, but there is no any progress on my data analysis.

I made few progresses on my data,10 April

今天终于见到了CDC 的真面目，也领教了它的戒备森严。一上午的时间就是接受安检。先要填写完整的个人信息，完成一份有关安全措施的问卷，然后和安检官面谈，最后采集双手十个指头的全部指纹。以上的材料必须送往FBI验证通过以后，我们才能获得一张有权限的通行证，实验室和他们的一些特定的办公室是不能去的。FBI 验证的过程要等上两到三天，在没有通行证的情况下，我们必须和正式的CDC 工作人员一起活动。所到的几座大楼里，很少见到工作人员，大部分看见的是荷枪实弹的保安。就连拍照也有明文规定，在不允许拍照的地方，只要相机拿在手上都会有保安走过来提出警告。