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The Tech, now in its third year, appeared first in a cover designed by one of its student architects. At first brown, it has now appeared in a cover of cardinal and gray, the M. I. T. colors. The Princeton Tiger, the Yale Courant, and Michigan Argonaut were not long in following suit. But it has remained for this year to see the greatest number added to the list. The Yale Record, then the Cornell Era, Michigan Chronicle and even the staid and sober Amherst Student, with a number of lesser journals, have all become giddy in their new dresses. They may well be proud, for their appearance is much improved and a certain individuality now attaches to each paper where before they were but one from a throng of plain, scarcely distinguishable exchanges. Meanwhile the Lampoon and several of those mentioned above have changed their colors, but the designs have remained the same.
Of those which are still content with more simple covers, the Princetonian and Trinity Tablet have plain black and white covers with ornamental heads and no advertisements in front, while some, like the Williams Argo and the Dartmouth, have simple colored covers with plain type. Even these are an improvement over the old styles. Of the dailies, both the Yale News and Cornell Era have ornamental headings. The HERALD-CRIMSON, being in a transition state as to its name must await the time with patience before it can again appear with an artistic capping. The Advocate although neat in its appearance would look much more attractive in a cover of some delicate shade pleasing to the eye. It seems strange that with so many fine arts' students our fortnightly should be behind those of other colleges in this respect. Its appearance in a new cover would make an important addition to the newly fledged brood of artistic-looking papers.
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Prime Minister Majali: Well, Ladies and Gentlemen, due the short time, we are not going to make speeches, rather than because of the short of time, it's not going to be more than fifteen minutes, because there is another appointment which His Excellency has to keep and so please be precise with your questions and I'm sure His Excellency and myself will try to answer as quickly and as precisely as possible. Do you want to say something?
Secretary Cohen: Thank you very much Mr. Prime Minister. Let me make a speech.
Majali: Just for both of us.
Cohen: I want first of all to thank you very much for hosting this visit. Jordan and the United States are partners for peace and stability in the Middle East. This visit is an opportunity for our countries to reaffirm our shared goals and plans for the future. And we both agree that the key to stability in the Middle East is a just and lasting peace agreement between Israel and it's neighbors, and Jordan has taken a bold step in that direction and is reaping the rewards of peace. The United States is doing all that it can do to broaden that peace process. We also both agree that it's important to prevent Iraq from attacking its neighbors again and from continuing to work on its program to build deadly chemical and biological weapons, and that's the reason why the United States has worked so hard to make sure that the United Nations inspectors had the freedom that they need to do their jobs. Unfortunately the UN's Special Commission on Iraq said yesterday that Iraq still is not complying with the U.N. requirement that it prove that it has ended its program of weapons of mass destruction and abolished stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons, and the United States has also sponsored and supported the oil for food program, the United Nations program that channels food to the people of Iraq in order to ease their suffering while Saddam Hussein squanders money on opulent palaces rather than helping his own people, and we think of that is a policy that certainly should change. Finally, the United States and Jordan are united in our opposition to terrorism, and Jordan has taken a stand for peace and I'm glad to be here to discuss ways in which we can promote peace together. With that we'll be happy to answer your questions.
Q: I have mainly one question, Sir. It is about modernizing the armed forces in Jordan. We've heard several promises and I think it's practically taking place, but it's very slow compared with other countries and the aid to other countries, it's actually nothing compared to other countries. This is what we notice as journalists and also as specialized people. How can you prove that you are taking it seriously and that you will go ahead with that. Also about the A-10, we have heard that Jordan asked for A-10s – I wonder if this is going to be accepted from the American side or not.
A: (Cohen): I am sorry, your second question?
Q: The A-10?
A: (Cohen): You want to know…
Q: Whether these were accepted from the American side or not. Thank You.
A: (Cohen): Well, first of all, I think that the Prime Minister would be the first to indicate that the cooperation between the United States and Jordan is very strong and productive, and that we have worked very hard to provide Jordan with its defense requirements. The F-16 request has been completed as far as the delivery of the F-16 aircraft are concerned. There are some components and supplies and others that have to be completed in the next year, but that is moving forward as planned. And so we have tried to be very responsive to the security needs of Jordan. I believe the Prime Minister would indicate that that is the case. With respect to what Jordan's requirements are, we evaluate that based upon the request made by the Jordanian military experts. They make a request for their needs; there was an indication that perhaps the A-10 might be required as an anti-armor mechanism as such. We have had the commander of our Central Command, General Zinni, to make a thorough evaluation in terms of what Jordan might require in the way of new systems and equipment, and that is currently being reviewed by the Jordanian authorities. But we have indicated a willingness to cooperate in whatever fashion we can, taking into account Jordan's needs and our own assessment of what would be required and the most cost effective and efficient way of meeting those requirements.
A: (Majali): Well, I assure you what His Excellency has said about the cooperation with the armed forces and last year we were given 75 million dollars in military assistance, and this year the same. We hope that it will continue next year and will possibly increase according to our needs. I think the cooperation is great and continuous, and the trust between both sides is very high.
Q: I'd like to ask both of you gentlemen. You both stated your support for the peace process and yet the peace process is stalled; and there is a feeling among Arab leaders – correct me if I'm wrong – that Israel is dragging it's feet on withdrawal from occupied territories and settlements on the West Bank with the support of the United States. I'd like both of you gentlemen to address that.
A: (Majali): Yes, I think the peace process, I won' t say that it is bad and I think it's still is alive. There are obstructions, it's halting at the moment, especially on the Palestinian track which was supposed to move. Unfortunately, the new administration, which is no longer new, has not kept the signed agreement with the Palestinians so it can go further. All the efforts now from everywhere to try to remove the obstruction from the way of the peace. His Majesty, the King, the day before yesterday, visited Eilat and met with Prime Minister Netanyahu and explained the dangers of obstructing the peace and what are the consequences coming out of this. We felt there is movement; and as you heard or knew, Mr. Ross will be coming at the end of the coming week to restart talking about this and planning for, hopefully, a breakthrough by having an American initiative to be presented to both sides officially. Hopefully, now after the Palestinians have accepted it, the Israelis will accept it so that the peace process can resume. Again, we have indication that on both the other tracks, the Syrian and Lebanese in particular, there is movement; certainly there are some obstacles, but it seems that the decision is there to make the peace move.
Q: Do you feel that the United States is favoring Israel in the process and do you plan to twist arms when you get to Israel on that.
A: (Majali): I think that the Americans are pressing the Israelis quite well to get on board with the peace process.
A: (Cohen): With respect to twisting arms, my goal in traveling to Israel is to meet with my counterpart, Minister Mordechai, to meet with other officials to discuss ways in which we can continue our relationship with Israel. We are committed to Israel's security and to helping them maintain a qualitative edge in their capabilities, but at the same time, also indicate that we are interested in, as President Clinton has indicated, he is interested in moving the peace process forward, and I will look for ways in which I can certainly express the President's interest. As the Prime Minister has just indicated Dennis Ross will be visiting Israel at the end of next week. I know that Secretary Albright is very committed to energizing the peace process. But let me also indicate that just as the Prime Minister has indicated that terrorism is something that Jordanians are concerned about, Israel is also concerned about acts of terrorism. So, to the extent that there is to be progress made on the peace process itself, there must be restraint exercised by both sides, and that means that acts of terrorism do not contribute to progress being made. So, I think that that has to be taken into account as well. We are all interested in seeing the peace process move forward and that is going to require the exercise of restraint and the measuring of commitments on both sides.
Q: Sir, the last crisis between the United Nations and Iraq, was amplified by comments of Richard Butler that Iraq has enough weapons to hit Israel and chaos broke out in this region because of that.
Recently a U.N. official with UNSCOM made comments that Iraq is not cooperating with UNSCOM but the report by the special commission set up by the Secretary General after the signing two months ago made it clear that they were cooperating. Where does the U.S. stand on that and what will be the next move if Iraq does not work with the U.N. on opening their sites for inspection.
A: (Cohen): Let me respond to the issue of UNSCOM inspectors. First of all, it would be very difficult if not impossible for me to comment since the report has not yet been officially filed, with the United Nations Security Council. There have been reports expressed in the press that perhaps the UNSCOM inspectors have been less successful than one might judge. So far, there appears to be compliance in the sense that inspectors have been allowed access to the presidential palaces, and that is only one part of the obligation that Saddam Hussein and his government have under the United Nations resolutions. They must not only allow unfettered access to all areas in Iraq, but there can be no limitation upon how many inspections are conducted, and certainly that is an issue that should be clear from the Memorandum of Agreement that was signed by Saddam Hussein and by Kofi Annan, the Secretary General of the United Nations. Secondly, it is imperative that Saddam Hussein produce proof that he has in fact destroyed those chemicals and biological weapons and missiles that he claims have been destroyed, and in that respect teams and evaluators have been requested by Saddam Hussein through Tariq Aziz to come to Baghdad to make an evaluation. And according to reports that I have seen those teams that came at the request of Tariq Aziz, was not satisfied, that the Iraqi government has measured up to its responsibility to produce evidence of its destruction of those systems as required and the U.N resolutions and so there is an affirmative obligation on the part of Saddam Hussein and that he must fully comply by producing evidence that their systems have been in fact destroyed, and that called on my understanding of the inspectors as yet to be done. With respect to what the United States will do, we intend to maintain, obviously, a presence in the Gulf region as we had prior to the crisis being escalated by Saddam's actions, that we would continue to insist that he fully comply with the U.N. resolutions as the United Nations requires, that sanctions will remain in place until such time as there is full compliance, that should he hinder or obstruct the inspectors contrary to the agreement that he signed that obviously that would be a matter that would be taken up by the United States in consultation with its allies, but we would maintain a presence in any event throughout the forseeable future to make sure that there is full compliance with U.N. resolutions.
Q: Iraq is said to be looking for the light at the end of the tunnel. Do you think that Iraq deserves any credit at all for providing access to the sensitive sites?
A: (Cohen): First of all, Iraq was required from the very beginning to open up all of its sites, from the end of the Gulf War as such, it on its own decided that there were certain sites that would be off limits. Under the U.N. resolutions that were passed at the end of the Gulf War there were no such limitations on the access to any place in Iraq, and so by erecting barriers to the inspectors to carry out their obligations they were already in violation of the agreement that was agreed back in 1991, and so, yes, there should be light at the end of the tunnel, provided there is compliance. This is only one small part to say that the inspectors have been allowed into 8 presidential palaces, is by no means any indication, certainly not a satisfactory indication that they intend to fully comply, by producing the kind of evidence that I mentioned before, the documentation that they have destroyed all of their scud missiles that have been weaponized with anthrax that they have destroyed all of their chemical weapons and biological weapons that they have in fact done with they claim they have done, and until such evidence is produced then there can be no easing of the sanctions and so the best way for there to be light at the end of the tunnel is for the doors to remain open to all areas and for Saddam Hussein to produce the evidence that is required.
Q: You just said that the sanctions will be lifted if Iraq complies fully with U.N. resolutions, but a few months ago, the Secretary Albright, Secretary of State said that Sanctions on Iraq will never be lifted as long as the current regime is in power in Baghdad.
A: (Cohen): I don't believe that Secretary Albright said that said that a few months ago, I think Secretary Albright has indicated that once that she and we and I suspect many in the region, would welcome the opportunity to deal with a different regime, but that if Saddam Hussein does in fact fully comply with all the U.N. resolutions then it would be the end of the sanctions, so that is our policy and will remains our policy today.
Q: There seems to be a perception, in the region, that the United States is not even handed in dealing with U.N. sanctions; that it is working very hard to get Saddam Hussein to comply with the sanctions, and its seems to work less hard to get Israel to do that?
A: (Majali): I think through most of the visits, when we talk, we do mention this. I think what you said is the feeling among most of the people in the Arab World. They are asking this question. Certainly, the literature says that sanctions (imposed) according to article seven of the U.N. charter are one thing and that the others are something else, we do understand this, and most of the people do not ask even the same treatment or same level of same treatment, but certainly they are watching and they are looking (to see that) that the United Nations with regard to all its resolutions about the Palestinian question will see the light properly to be done. As you know the whole of the peace process which has been now for nearly nine years or eight years is based on Security Council Resolutions 242, 338, 425 and 426, all these resolutions are now in process. Now does that require real force? The dependence of reference to the article that (authorizes) the use of force is not in this. But I don't think this is enough of an excuse not to implement what the security council has said, especially on 242, and 338 and 425. Certainly the United States policy has been since the peace process is to implement 242, and the idea now is that we are negotiating at least the four tracks on how to implement it. It is the manner of implementation, not the 242 itself. Certainly it's not the same level. It is the policy of the United States to have a secure Israel. It's most important, most favored and (it wants) that edge of capabilities to be there because of certain relations between the two countries. We understand this, but at the same time we hope that took the other side will take action to resolve the problem and have the peace carry on.
Q: We were talking about the double standards in the dealing between Israel and Iraq. While with Iraq and Kuwait, and you still punishing Iraq and the Iraqi people. Israel is occupying Golan Heights and South of Lebanon and still some parts of the Palestinian lands, but you have done nothing, don't you agree there is a double standard in dealing with the Middle East issues? My other question. When you go to Israel, are you going to discuss the third stage of arrow missile development?
A: (Cohen): First of all, in respect to the arrow missile, that is a program the United States has contributed to in terms of the research and development project with Israel. If you look at the threat that is now being posed by the proliferation of missile technology, that the State of Israel does in fact have legitimate concerns about scud missiles having been launched against it in the past with the threat of other types of missiles of being launched in the future, so they have a legitimate concern and interest in providing protection against these types of missiles being launched against their territory. So I see that is not being inconsistent with pursuing the Middle East peace process to extent that one is able to enhance its defensive capabilities that doesn't undermine the peace process and that in fact can strengthen the peace process to the extent that another country believes that it is unable to intimidate another country such as Israel or to attack it successfully. That doesn't undermine the peace process I think it would enhance it. With respect to Israel and to Iraq. First of all it's not the United States who is punishing Iraq. It is the United Nations which has imposed the sanctions regime upon Iraq by virtue of what it had done by invading Kuwait, and many people have forgotten the kind of destruction that was reaped upon the people of Kuwait. I have not forgotten the images that still are seared in my mind, not only of the raping and the pillaging and the destruction that took place but the threat to indulge and I would call eco-terrorism, environmental terrorism by setting oil wells on fire, and those fires raging for days until we could help get experts to put them out. All of that was produced by Saddam Hussein and that's the reason why the United Nations imposed the sanctions. But it is the United Nations who has taken this particular action and it is the U.N. that would insist upon compliance. United States is part of that, obviously. We also want to see a peace process proceed as the Prime Minister have said. There are initiatives under way, but we should not equate the kind of threat posed by Saddam Hussein in terms of what he actually did, in the use of chemical weapons against his own people, against the Iranian people, and a threat that he caused by possession of these deadly weapons. So, we think that he should comply with the UN resolution, we're pushing and as best as we can to re-energize the peace process. Thank you.


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When my children were younger, the strange questions that popped into their little cranial containers constantly stumped and amused me.
Their childish curiosity produced such interesting queries as, "How does the moon hang in the sky?";"Why do we burp?"; "Do dogs go to heaven?"; and "Why do you have so many little lines under your eyes?"
Ah, kids.
As they grew, the questions decreased in frequency but increased in complexity. Sometimes, Mom would have to hit Google to find the answers. Our parents had Encyclopedia Britannica; we have the Internet.
But the recent spate of all things zombie related – movies, TV shows, websites – has led to a new, truly strange round of Q-and-A in our household.
It all started when our oldest began watching the AMC series "The Walking Dead," which features a small band of healthy humans living in a post-apocalyptic world dominated by flesh-eating "walkers." The hardy crew struggles to maintain their humanity while surviving sudden attacks from the dangerous undead.
Since I'm more of a rom-com kind of gal, I've not seen the show. I'd rather laugh or have a good chick-flick cry than watch bloody corpses salivate over human flesh. No thanks.
But the scenario got my kids seriously thinking about the best places to hole up in the event some infectious virus starts turning the neighbors into zombies.
"Where would you go in case of a zombie attack?" they asked me one day.
"Hmm," I replied. (That's international parental code for "Geez, I have no idea. Let me stall for a little while.")
"I would just want to stay here with all of you and Daddy and our pets," I said with a loving smile.
"Really, mom? You'd be dead in an instant. The zombies could get in through the windows, the doors and the roof. And besides, we wouldn't have enough food, water and supplies to last very long."
"Alright," I countered. "Then let's go to church and pray that everything will turn out OK."
One of them made the sound of a losing game-show buzzer.
"The church? You are hopeless. Again, too many windows and no supplies."
So the bottom line in this little exercise is that my children will likely abandon my husband and me if zombies attack. They now believe we would be more hindrance than help in their escape. Thanks, kids.
My only comfort is that even though I will quickly join the ranks of the undead, my cunning children will survive.
They've thought of everything. They will find a place stocked with food, water and lots of weaponry. Also, the building can't have too many windows or doors and should be strongly reinforced with plenty of concrete and metal.
When I asked my youngest to clarify the location of their anti-zombie camp because I was writing a column about it, she looked at me with horror.
"Mom! Please! You can't write about it, because then everyone else will go there, too!"
So I promised her I wouldn't say it specifically, but you can probably guess: a warehouse-like, members-only box store. I was impressed with their ingenuity and resourcefulness.
Thankfully, there also is an online resource for all of you who have not yet planned your zombie escape. "Map of the Dead, Zombie Apocalypse Survival," will tell you the best places to hunker down. Just put in your hometown or zip code and voila! Instant results.
The map shows the locations of gun stores where you can stock up on firearms and ammo, grocery stores for canned goods, pharmacies for antibiotics and morphine, and of course, liquor stores to help ease the stress.
The site warns about going to hospitals, doctors' offices, police departments and military installments, which would all likely already be overrun with the undead. They recommend malls and strangely, cemeteries, where the dead are trapped underground. Who knew?
Recently officials from the Centers for Disease Control, Homeland Security, the military and law enforcement also took part in training exercises against a possible zombie attack. Wow. Maybe there really is something to all this zombie talk.
But my children are way ahead of the government. They're already ready. I guess my husband and I did something right during all those years of child raising, after all. Yes, they will survive.
Unfortunately, I will not. But I'll spend my last hours laughing and crying over "Love, Actually," "Sense and Sensibility" or "Sixteen Candles." There are worse ways to go.


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The Greater Lehigh Valley Auto Dealers Association announces the return of the Lehigh Valley Auto Show to Lehigh University's Goodman Campus. This year's auto show will begin with a public preview gala benefiting St. Luke's University Health Network's HealthStar community health vans, providing medical, dental and vision services to medically underserved children at schools, group homes and community agencies.
Dr. Bonnie Coyle, director of Community Health, St. Luke's University Health Network, said, "St. Luke's Mobile Health vans serve more than twenty school sites and nearly twenty community agencies in the greater Lehigh Valley, with visits reaching 3,500 in 2013. Fifty percent of the children receiving dental care on St. Luke's dental vans have no dental insurance. Nearly one-third of the children and adolescents seen on the vans have no health insurance, and for many, these visits are the only medical and dental care they receive." "Without these programs, the health and well-being of our youngest and most vulnerable populations would be at risk," Coyle continued. "St. Luke's mobile health programs are invaluable to helping to improve these children's lives."
The preview gala, chaired by Lynn Rothrock, will take place on Wednesday, March 19, beginning at 6 p.m. Gala attendees will be among the first to see the newest car makes and models from more than 25 different manufacturers while experiencing a taste of the world's best racetracks. This moveable feast with entertainment will travel through three venues – starting with appetizers with an international flair to celebrate Grand Prix racing at Le Mans (Stabler Arena) … moving to entrees that show off the finest of Southern hospitality to please any NASCAR fan at Talladega Superspeedway (Rausch Fieldhouse) and culminating with a with a dessert competition by SkillsUSA students at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway (West Pavilion).
The 2014 Greater Lehigh Valley Auto Show runs from Thursday, March 20, through Sunday, March 23.
This four-day extravaganza features over 110,000 square feet of some of the best cars, trucks, SUVs, vans, motorcycles, ATVs and RVs. This year's show will feature over 300 vehicles including new 2014 models with a variety of new technologies, safety and environmental features.
"With new car sales expected to top $16 million for the first time since 2007, and increase at least 6% over last year, this is a must-attend event for everyone considering a new vehicle lease or purchase" said Tom Kwiatek, Executive Director of the Greater Lehigh Valley Auto Dealers Association." "We expect this year to be a great year as so many consumers deferred sales during the recession. In addition, over 300,000 more leased cars will be returned for new lease or purchase than in 2013. Dealers will have the highest level of inventory available in eight years and there will be terrific sales incentives available benefiting the consumer. The 2014 Show will be the most exciting we've put on in terms of the variety of vehicles, scope of activities in three venues, and demonstrations outside highlighted by several manufacturers' Ride and Drive programs."
The show will be open from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Thursday through Saturday, and from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Sunday. Tickets to the 2014 Lehigh Valley Auto Show are available on online at www.glvautoshow.org or at the door. Regular ticket costs are $10 for adults, $8 for Senior Citizens (55 +) and $7 for children (ages 6-14). Children five and under receive free admission. Parking at the Auto Show is free. For more information including directions, visit glvautoshow.org.
Highlights of this year's show include:
Ride and Drive Programs: Onsite Ride and Drive Programs including Lincoln, Ford and Nissan.
Pocono Speedway: Pocono Speedway will have a significant presence at the show including a display, a "Pit Crew Challenge," ticket giveaways, and the opportunity to purchase tickets and season passes.
Muscle Beach Revisited: In conjunction with America on Wheels Museum, the show will feature six classic vehicles normally referred to a "muscle cars," including a '64 Mustang, a '66 Camaro, Challenger and GTO.
Harley-Davidson Exhibit: 2014 brings a lot of news to the Harley-Davidson model line-up. The Harley-Davidson touring family has been redesigned from the ground up.
Blackman Cycle: Exhibit will feature ATVs, including trikes, quads and bikes.
Luxury Pavilion: Last year the show premiered a Luxury Pavilion that will return to this year's show in Stabler Arena.
HealthStar Vans: St. Luke's HealthStar community health vans will be onsite and will be the beneficiary of the opening night Preview Gala.
Van Diemen Formula SCCA (Mazda) Racing Car belonging to Dr. William Burfeind, thoracic surgeon at St. Luke's.
Expanded Dining Options: The show will feature new and expanded food options inside and out.
Show opening by Donley Awards of Excellence Winners: at 10 a.m., Thursday, March 20, the Donley Award winning students chosen by area high schools will open the show at the show entrance tent. The Donley Awards recognize students for academic excellence, leadership and service to community.
WFMZ TV: WFMZ will broadcast their 6 p.m. news live from the auto show preview gala on Wednesday night, beginning its total coverage of the show including expanded large screen TVs outside and inside the show venues.
Community Days: On Thursday and Friday, the auto show will feature displays by local nonprofit agencies providing programs and services within our communities. Participating agencies will have discounted auto show tickets available prior to the show, with proceeds benefitting the organization. Participating nonprofits include: America on Wheels; Muscular Dystrophy Association; Community Services for Children; Good Shepherd Rehabilitation Hospital; Cancer Support Community; Volunteer Center of the Lehigh Valley; Project Child, a program of Valley Youth House; Bethlehem Special Olympics; Communities In Schools of the Lehigh Valley, Easter Seals of Eastern Pennsylvania; Via of the Lehigh Valley; Children's Home of Easton; Greater Valley YMCA; Boys and Girls Club of Easton; Pinebrook Family Services; Meals on Wheels of Lehigh and Northampton Counties; and Mercy Special Learning Center.


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Thursday, June 6, 2013
An email to Mount Pleasant Town Council members from Mount Pleasant Police Chief Carl Ritchie indicates that at 12:22 a.m. Thursday morning an individual was making a deposit at Bank of America ATM on the Isle Of Palms Connector. He was approached by an armed subject who robbed him of $671.
Mount Pleasant officers responded to the area and began patrolling for the suspect, according to a news release by Maj. Stan Gragg Thursday afternoon. Within 10 minutes an officer came upon two suspects matching the description near Rifle Range Road and Long Grove. He and another officer got out with the pair and began talking with them about the incident. One of the suspects fled on foot and after a brief foot chase he was apprehended.
The memo states that the suspect is a 17-year-old boy who lives in the general area. In his possession was a stolen gun and $671 in cash. They were later recovered by deputies. He has been charged with two counts of armed robbery, unlawful possession of a pistol and possession of a stolen pistol.
A bond hearing was set for Thursday.
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Control and visual media has received significant critical attention in recent years, but is concerned mostly with recent technological developments (such as digital and new media, wireless network and image distribution). This volume will provide a unique and valuable contribution to critical scholarship on control and the media by considering some of the conclusions offered by recent literature in the context of visual culture in the late nineteenth century (roughly 1882-1915, although I am happy to receive relevant papers from outside this period).
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Natalie Tennant speaks about business growth, minimum wage
August 30, 2014
WELLSBURG — Small business growth and earning a livable wage are important to moving West Virginia and the nation forward, explains West Virginia Secretary of State Natalie Tennant....
Tennant is a good little socialist democrat----TAX TAX TAX; LIE LIE LIE!
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Often, the agendas of today's politicians are completely built upon misguided premises and outright misconceptions. Although this is nothing new historically, someone's got to poke a hot stick in the eyes of these wan-a-bes because when they get their way (which is more often than not in this political climate), we all lose some of our freedom.
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Yeah Tennant just like all democrats' ideas of "growth" is to TAX the h, e, double L out of all the working poor!
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It seems to me that our past is manifesting in our present, which leads me to ask, how do we change the past?
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If you've have followed any of my other post you already know the answer, you can't change the past. It is not the past that needs to change; it is us who need to change. You can't change the words that were spoken, the inappropriate contact, your past environment, or anything from the past so all that is left is you.
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God allowed you to make it through that past and he did so for a reason and that reason was not so your past could consume you. A man who loses his wife after 50 years of marriage can't go back and undo the wedding, the marriage, or even his wife's death. He finds that change has to happen but he also discovers that change is not easy. I understand the changes we need to make are not easy but we need to understand the necessity of the change or our hurts, habits, and hang-ups will continue to consume us.
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We must stop dealing with our past by fretting, guilt, self-pity, discouragement, and regrets. Would of; could of; should of's" lead to despair and hopelessness. In short, to deal with our past we must enter into repentance.
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We have to do what Paul talked about in Romans 12:2, be transformed by the renewing of our minds. A change of mind leads to a changed life.
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When is a door not a door? When it's ajar. Now rethink that simple question. When is a door not a door? When it's something else. Change does not take place when certain changes take place but only when there is actual change.
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You know what I like about being 66 and not 26 or 36? I actually feel that I've gained some wisdom about life, the universe, and everything. I feel comfortable in my own skin. I don't need to prove anything to anyone, or earn other persons approval. Life is not a competition where you're supposed to beat others to the finish line.
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There's nothing wrong about being an aging man. I haven't lost my love for life, the passion, or the vitality. I still have all my wits intact. I enjoy the simple things like a cold beer, a good meal, a thoughtful conversation, and a good looking hat.
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I hope the voter's memories last at LEAST until November. She is DESPARATELY trying to distance herself from OBAMA. Her hero, FOR WHOM SHE CAMPAIGNED, is doing everything he can to destroy West Virginia. He HATES people like us who "cling to our guns and our Bibles", so I assume Natalie does too. He swore he would destroy coal before he ever got elected, and in his second term it looks like he's making good on his promise, and the traitors of West Virginia, the environmental NUTS, are cheering him on. Natalie has to be tarred and feathered with OBAMA. She worked for him, knowing what he was, and what he believed in.
If we can't see that and respond accordingly, we are in deeper trouble than she and OBAMA can heap upon us!
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I was a proud democrat, till obamy ran the first time! what a bunch of sheep!!! How's that hope and change working?? Liar and chief golfer! Moochelle flying and taking more vacation's? I voted republican twice, and have lost all faith in politicians, especially Joe flip flop He's done Nobody with any prospective would vote for Joe for Dogcatcher!!
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Secretary of State Natalie Tennant's office scrapped plans to charge fees for some business and nonprofit licensing documents.
IT was 'free' online at first. Until some 'incompetence' in the SOS office allowed a business person's social security to be on one of the papers online.
And by the way, she decided also to give a free pass on the fees to media. Isn't that discrimination? Charge the rest of us but not media? Kind of sounds Obama-ish eh? Obamacare has all sorts of democrat 'freebies' for certain folks. Oh yeah, they like to pick and choose who gets special treatment.
Didn't take long for her 'feedback' to get her to turn around her decision to charge fees. Dems like fees because most citizens who want to take advantage of right to information cannot afford it.
So much for democrats' 'transparency.' Fees/taxes is how to ensure Non-transparency. If you want transparency, I guess you must 'pay' for it.
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Tennant also doesn't like Voter ID! As a democrat, they don't want our voting laws to be 'working' so well that no fraud can be comitted at election time.
VOTER ID works. And democrats don't want it. There is only ONE reason someone wouldn't want stricter laws against comitting fraud at elections---so THIS says a lot about those who do not want it.
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Tennant is PRO Obama. Which proves she knows NOTHING about business much less GROWTH!
Tennant agrees with Obama on the "War on Coal" and the EPA and causing poor WV citizens to end up with "Qudadruple" utility rates through Obama's Cap and Trade!
So Tennant, after you and dems kill our coal plants and this winter WV experiences a lot of blackouts due to LOWER coal plants supplying electricity to our homes...how WILL you explain yourself then???
Pretending to be something you're not only because you want to be part of the oppressive govt leech club, isn't working here. WV citizens are too smart to not recognize 'fake' when they see or hear it. You can't run or hide from your clearly held position on Obama's war on coal. And your dismal record of doing your job as Sec. of state in WV is appalling yet not surprising. FAILING to mail out papers to county clerks to clean up voting rolls of dead folks, folks who've moved away is a 'clear indication' that you're just a
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My favorite song from them is Knights of Cydonia. The music video is pretty weird.....cowboys and lazers?
Well, this trio has been around for awhile now and I will presume that people who have heard of them will love them (unless you are an enemy to me D:<) and people who haven't heard of them literally haven't ever heard of them.
They have 5 albums out and roughly 85 songs in total.
(All of the below links lead to lyrics, see bottom for videos)
1. Sunburn
2. Muscle Museum
3. Fillip
4. Falling Down
5. Cave
6. Showbiz
7. Unintended
8. Uno
9. Sober
10. Escape
11. Overdue
12. Hate this & I'll love you
13. Spiral static*
Origin of Symmetry
1. New Born
2. Bliss
3. Space Dementia
4. Hypermusic
5. Plug In baby
6. Citizen Erased
7. Micro Cuts
8. Screenager
9. Dark Shines
10. Feeling Good
11. Megalomania
12. Futurism*
1. Intro To Apocalypse Please (Instrumental)
2. Apocalypse Please
3. Time is Running Out
4. Sing for Absolution
5. Stockholm Syndrome
6. Falling away with you
7. Interlude Out Falling Away
8. Hysteria
9. Blackout
10. Butterflies and Hurricanes
11. The Small Print
12. Endlessly
13. Thoughts Of A Dying Atheist
14. Rule By Secrecy
15. Fury*
1. Forced In
2. Shrinking Universe
3. Recess
4. Yes Please
5. Map of Your Head
6. Nature 1
7. Shine Acoustic
8. Ashamed
9. The Gallery
10. Hyper Chondriac Music
Black Holes and Revelations
1. Take A Bow
2. Starlight
3. Supermassive Black Hole
4. Map Of The Problematique
5. A Soldier's Poem
6. Invincible
7. Assassin
8. Exo politics
9. City of Delusion
10. Hoodoo
11. Knights of Cydonia
12. Glorious*
* marks a Japanese ONLY released bonus track.
MUSE B-Sides (released on singles or as special tracks)
Bedroom Acoustics
Can't Take My Eyes Off You
Crying Shame
Dead Star
Do We Need This?
Eternally Missed
Execution Commentary
House of the Rising Sun
Improvisation on Piano
Instant Messenger
Innocent Voices
In Your World
Jimmy Kane
Pink Ego Box
Please, Let Me Get What I Want
The Groove
Twin / Balloonatic
(These links lead to YouTube videos)
New Born Live
New Born live @ "Summer Sonic 06" in Tokyo
Plug In Baby live @ "Tokyo Bay Nk Hall '04"
Starlight live @ "Reading Festival 2006"
Butterflies and Hurricanes @ "Rock am ring 04"
Bliss live (GUITAR version)
Bliss live @ "Live 8" (GUITAR version)
Micro Cuts live @ "Montreux Jazz Festival 2002"
Citizen Erased live @ "Milan 10th Jan 03" (Featuring Bellamy's Seven String Guitar)
Citizen Erased live @ "Pinkpop 2004" (Featuring Bellamy's Seven String Guitar)
Stockholm Syndrome live @ "Glasto 2004"
Hysteria live
Knights of Cydonia live @ "Reading 2006"
Time Is Running Out live @ "Glastonbury 2004"
In Your World live (from Hullabaloo DVD)
Dark Shines live
Dead Star live @ "Fuji 2002"
Muscle Museum live (from Hullabaloo)
Agitated live @ "Le Zenith"
Invincible live @ "Reading Festival 2006"
Take A Bow live @ "Reading Festival 2006"
Ruled by Secrecy live @ "Pinkpop 2004"
Apocalypse Please live @ "Glastonbury 2004"
Sunburn live @ "Glastonbury 2004"
Unintended live
The Small Print - TSP live @ "Rock am Ring 2004"
Assassin live @ "KROQ Inland Invasion"
Uno live @ "Nulle Part Ailleurs"
Space Dementia live @ "The Montreux Jazz Festival 2002"
New Born Music Video
Starlight Music Video
Butterflies and Hurricanes Music Video
Bliss Music Video
Plug In Baby Music Video
Stockholm Syndrome Music Video
Sing For Absolution Music Video
Hysteria Music Video
Sunburn Music Video
Supermassive Black Hole Music Video
Unintended Music Video
Knights of Cydonia Music Video
You can listen to the tracks on their albums (not including b-sides) at www.muse.mu (go to Media or Discography).
A lot of this stuff was already compiled for me, so don't hesitate to let me know if there's something missing.
Now that I'm done with my freakishly large post, let the Muse discussion commence.
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Spoiler Alert!Tyly says:
I love DD!
My favorite song from them is Knights of Cydonia. The music video is pretty weird.....cowboys and lazers?
^Thanks Monsteroids^
Meh, I never thought any music videos at all were supposed to make sense.
For all those who happen to view this thread, which is your favorite album?
(And if you've never heard Muse before, you can listen in at www.muse.mu to see if you like them.)
Spoiler Alert!Tyly says:
I love DD!
Showbiz, Origin of Symmetry, or Absolution for sure. BH&R was crazy amazing, but not quite there. Hullabaloo wasn't supposed to be near as outstanding as their others, but some of my favorites still come off of it. I've listened to every album 48 times, BH&R 58, but Hullabaloo falling short at 28 (don't ask me what's up with the 8's).
Favorite songs:
- Apocalypse Please
- Stockholm Syndrome
- Butterflies And Hurricanes
- Thoughts Of A Dying Atheist
- Take A Bow
- Showbiz
- Escape
- Time Is Running Out
- Supermassive Black Hole
- City of Delusion
- Starlight
- Shrinking Universe
- Map of Your Head
- Hate This & I'll Love You
- Ashamed
- Hyper Chondriac Music
- New Born
- Hoodoo
- Bliss
- Space Dementia
- Hyper Music
- Plug In Baby
- Darkshines
- Sunburn
- Map of the Problematique
- Assassin
- Muscle Museum
- Cave
- Knights of Cydonia
- Recess
>.< okay then.. *still has no idea what muse is*
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Spoiler Alert!Originally Posted by Song in my head
Black Holes and Revelations was my first that I...bought...and I still find myself going back there when I need a muse fix.
He has 5 album pictures up there, lists of all their songs, links to all their lyrics...take an educated guess.Originally Posted by wii_girliefairie
BH&R is good, but not the best. Definitely more "mainstream" stuff with songs like Starlight and Invincible. Not that that's bad, just not their best.
Well a certain somebody on here got me into Muse, won't drop any names
Have to buy a CD though, as downloading doesn't do it justice.
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Must have been one cool kid.Originally Posted by CantGetAWii
I like this guy. Brandon gets to be in the Musegasm club.Have to buy a CD though, as downloading doesn't do it justice.
i know muse is like a trio but... meh, whatever. >.< EDIT:music, i know. im not an idiot. i was mostly replying to me and m@gic's msn convo >.<Originally Posted by ssbb_lover
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Situated on land that once held the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893; the golf course opened six years later in 1899. The only eighteen hole golf course in the CPD Golf portfolio, the course meanders through the overall footprint of the 500 acre Jackson Park site. This includes mature trees, some newly renovated tee boxes, and large greens that all offer a challenging golf experience.
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SEO: To Buy Links, or Not to Buy Links?
If Google engineer Matt Cutts had his druthers, buying links would become an extinct SEO practice.
Cutts has addressed the topic of link-buying on a number of occasions on his blog and in blog comments elsewhere. He's admonished webmasters who buy links for PageRank and encouraged webmasters instead to buy only links that have been "nofollowed" — in other words, where the rel=nofollow attribute has been added to the link so that the search engines do not count that link as a vote. He has stated in no uncertain terms that Google considers "buying text links for PageRank purposes to be outside our quality guidelines."
Cutts outed the Berkeley college newspaper on his blog as a link seller. Cutts then warned that sites such as Dailycal.org that sell links may "lose their ability to give reputation."
In other words, Google may revoke the site's voting power — its ability to pass PageRank. That is of course disastrous for the link seller, but it is also bad news for the link buyer, who is unwittingly wasting money every month for that link.
In a comment on the O'Reilly Radar blog, Cutts revealed that "parts of Perl.com, Xml.com, etc., have not been trusted in terms of linkage for months and months." His comments were significant: Google admitted it decreased the voting power of such excellent and useful sites as Perl.com and XML.com and downgraded the reputation value of some of the sites' outbound links.
Beware of links?
The implication for the rest of us is clear: if you don't want your site to suffer the same fate, you'd better tag your link ads as rel=nofollow so your advertisers won't gain any PageRank.
How do you detect if a site has lost its ability to pass PageRank? Unfortunately, it's not easy.
Cutts cautioned: "Remember that just because a site shows up for a link: command on Google, [that] does not mean it passes PageRank, reputation or anchortext." There is, in fact, no way to know for sure — unless you work for Google on its Webspam team.
A link buyer can surmise the loss of the link seller's voting power by a drop in his/her rankings commensurate with a drop in the rest of the link buyers' rankings. Consider the case of link-selling California newspaper The Fresno Bee. At some point in time between 2004 and 2005, its reputation was rescinded by Google, as indicated by the hurried exit of nearly all the link-buying advertisers (which you can verify through the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine).
When diagnosing whether a link seller still has his/her voting power, one tool I find helpful is the SEO-Links extension for Firefox. Simply hovering over the paid links allows me to quickly obtain rankings for the keywords targeted in the anchor text. The inference is that a site stacked with successful link advertisers is probably contributing to the rankings. If it weren't, all those SEO-savvy advertisers probably wouldn't be there.
What do SEO pros think?
Not surprisingly, search engine optimizers have a different view from Google on the issue of link-buying.
Christine Churchill, president of SEO consultancy KeyRelevance, describes the situation thus: "Search engines like to take the hard line and categorize things as either black or white. In some cases, they are actually grey. Taken to the extreme, your link from the local Chamber of Commerce could be considered link-buying."
Indeed, a $300 annual directory submission to Yahoo! is, in effect, a paid link. But Google allows that one since there's an editorial review process involved.
Personally, I think link-buying can be done legitimately, just like in the case of a Yahoo! directory submission. I don't see the difference between a banner ad and a text-link ad — as long as you're not intentionally trying to game the search engines and you expect to get traffic and brand visibility from the ads you place on websites.
To me, it seems unreasonable for Google to expect website owners to ensure that no PageRank is transferred in all the online advertising it facilitates. It is however, up to you, the advertiser, to ensure that all ads are placed on relevant websites and are not misleading, whether text-link ad or banner ad. It is then the publisher's responsibility to screen all advertisers for relevance and ethical SEO behavior.
A site with paid links that span the spectrum of relevance — from casinos to mortgage brokers to pharmacies to jewelers to electronics merchants and all places in between — is certainly an obvious red flag to the search engines. Reputation should be passed only when the publisher can confidently vouch for the link ads and the sites to which they point (and to the sites to which they, in turn, point).
This is where a reputable and highly selective text-link broker, such as LinkExperts, can be invaluable, as you vet both the publishers and the advertisers.
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Stephan, I think you've hit the nail right on the head. In my opinion, there are different ways to approach "buying links" all with different outcomes. Some of the ways are black hat, some are white, and some are grey; gambling sites on dailycal.org that is black. A fortune 500 enterprise technology company promoting servers on the enterprise technology page/section of a major publication that has been approved by the publication – that is white…and much falls in the middle.
At LinkExperts, we ask ourselves with each and every transaction we help facilitate –does this help Google? Does this help the publisher? Does this help users of search engines? Does this create value in the Internet? If the answer is not yes to every question, we cannot move forward with this link partnership.
Advertisers and publishers need to approach this topic with the same level of sensitively and dimensional analysis. The quick buck is not worth it to do it any other way.
Like all markets, this will work itself out with Google's invisible handle – the ability to determine and weight relevancy and trust – which over time leave the companies that ask the four questions in the clear and others left behind.
— *Seth Besmertnik*
I agree completely about the Yahoo Directory comparison, it is in effect buying a link, even if its reviewed, its done to influence the search engine results!
— *omar*
All right link buying is really a worthless excercise. It do not add any value to the end user experience. What about Google Adsense Publishing unrelated ads on websites?
How can Google be so biased? webmaster – http://www.seotrends.in
— *Sagar Kumar*
The rating of a websites importance based on the amount of inbound links is patently ridiculous. It is a system that is primed to be defrauded IE: Link Buying.
So much for quality content being the main ranking criteria….links > content = poor relevant results.
I know Google holds 49+% of the search market, but lets be honest most of that is due to press hype. If you compare the current results of Google, Yahoo and MSN "Windows Live" both MSN and Yahoo return much better relevant results than Google currently returns.
— *Rover*
I am scratching my head…regarding this statement:
"LinkExperts, can be invaluable, as you vet both the publishers and the advertisers"
Do you recommend this company(linkExpert) when it their network is very small. I am under the impression that it is very small because when I visited their site(after reading this article) I didnt really get many link options to come up in my search. Keywords: "gifts," "flowers," "gift baskets," "food," "chocolate," "candy," ect…
Those are very popular keywords. Infact flowers is the biggest gift giving niche in the gift industry. Chocolate and candy revealed no results.
Also, I dont think you would be able to get more than a handful of targeted links for any of them.
Maybe I am missing something…I dont think so but would be very happy to be shown a different light.
I think it is a great service idea and would have loved it if they were bigger.
— *ScratchingMyHead*
What it REALLY come down to is how can Google detect a paid link? Unless Google have direct access to my PayPal account, all they can do is make educated guesses, based on things like:
– trigger words within the site suggesting they sell links.
– page layout, paid links tend to reside in the margins.
– links not relevant to the sites topic.
Even if Google get really good at detecting paid links, itll just mean that SEOs and webmasters will need to mask what they do.
This will always work:
– No detectable mention of the fact you sell links anywhere on your site. You could use an image that says "want linkage, email me".
– Place the link within the normal content of your page, exactly where you would place a non-paid-for-link.
– Limit the practice to one unique link per page, and to sites that have content related to yours.
The above would be un-detectable by Google unless they have staff manually checking sites, and they actually email you and ask about paying for a link.
— *Rob Skelton*
I got some answers to my questions(spoke with linkexperts).
Benefits of going with link exchange:
1) Sites that will be linked to you are screened.
2) One way links are better
3) Better Link Quality(page rank)
4) Easier to find links
Definitely interested in their services…hope their network GROWS.
— *ScratchingMyHead*
Hi ScratchingMyHead, we have several flower related clients currently using our services, I can definitely help you find a few sites within our network that would be relevant to your niche. If you like please email me at jeremy at linkexperts dot com.
— *Jeremy Duboys*
Great discussion here folks, which is exactly what I was hoping to spur on with my article. Personally, I favor link baiting over link building, and I favor link building over link buying. But thats just me. And your mileage may vary.
— *Stephan Spencer*
This is Agape blog site – Interesting blog.
— *Agape blogs*
The rating of a websites importance based on the amount of inbound links is patently ridiculous. It is a system that is primed to be defrauded IE: Link Buying. So much for quality content being the main ranking criteria….links > content = poor relevant results. I know Google holds 49+% of the search market, but lets be honest most of that is due to press hype. If you compare the current results of Google, Yahoo and MSN "Windows Live" both MSN and Yahoo return much better relevant results than Google currently returns.
I am working for a SEO company, thesearchenginepros.com. I am also looking for similar services but not yet decided what I should have to…Looking forward to more about these tips.


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The Panhandle and South Plains region is on pace to have its busiest season for rabies since 2005.
In the 26 counties of the Panhandle, state health officials have already found 12 positive tests.
Positive Rabies Cases
*2009: 12
2008: 24
2007: 9
2006: 8
2005: 79
2004: 16
2003: 21
*The running total in 2009 for just the 26 counties of the Panhandle. All other numbers are for the 41-county region of the Panhandle and South Plains.
Source: Department of State Health Services
This year, Panhandle counties from Parmer to Hansford and animals from skunks to raccoons have tested positive for rabies, said James Alexander, regional zoonotic control veterinarian with the Department of State Health Services.
A horse in Donley County tested positive last week.
The state collected just nine positive rabies test by this time last year. The number was six in 2006 and seven in 2004.
In 2005, rabies was high with 61 positive rabies tests for the Panhandle.
Alexander said the 2006 wildfires killed much of the skunk population, but skunks are currently repopulating.
Rabies, a virus that affects the central nervous system, is transmitted from the saliva of an infected animal.
Alexander stressed that the public make sure pets are properly vaccinated and don't have contact with wild animals.
See a doctor if you are bitten by animal suspected of having rabies, Alexander said.
There's no good indication of rabies other than an odd acting animal.
"The key term is abnormal behavior," Alexander said. "Any animal that starts acting different than normal could be infected with rabies."
Last year presented some problems with public health officials as two vaccine suppliers had cutbacks.
"We were dealing with a shortage of the medications that are used for post-exposure treatment," Doug McBride, spokesman for the Department of State Health Services, said.
Supply is pretty much back to normal this year, he said.
Still, "Nobody went without treatment last year," Alexander said.
He said peak rabies season lasts from February to mid May.
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Community Spotlight: Luis Ibanez
Contributing to open source projects from 9 to 5, and beyond
Luis Ibanez was recently awarded a People's Choice Award by our readers for his contributions to the site. It's no wonder he has so much to say and impart on open source projects—he works on them fulltime!
In this Community Spotlight, Luis sheds light on what projects he contributes to, why he believes it is important we all give back at some point, and what open source tools he can't live without.
Plus, learn where developers are desperately needed and can make a huge difference in society.
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- Name: Luis Ibanez
- Opensource.com username: Luis Ibanez
- Location: Albany, NY
- Occupation/Employer/Position: Software Developer / Kitware Inc. / Technical Leader
- Open source connection: Contributor to ITK, Director of Science and IP at OSEHRA, Professor of Open Source Software Practices class at RPI, Professor of Open Source Databases and Web Development at SUNY-Albany.
- Favorite open source tool or application: Vim
- Favorite opensource.com channel: Education
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Open up to us.
I am a Technical Leader at Kitware Inc., where I have been working full time in open source projects since 2002. Kitware is a dream company for anyone who wants to make a living contributing to open source projects.
I started working on open source with the Image Segmentation and Registration Toolkit (ITK) back in 1999 while I was working at UNC-Chapel Hill, and contributed to it for 10 years, both by developing software, and by helping build the community around it. As part of the activities in ITK, I also contributed to the National Alliance for Medical Image Computing (NAMIC), an NIH-funded open source community focused on medical image analysis, and to IGSTK an open source community dedicated to Image Guided Surgery.
In 2011, I started contributing to the Open Source EHR Agent (OSEHRA) as Director of Science and IP. This is the organization set by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to build an open source environment for VistA, the EHR developed at the VA using the M language and database.
Since 2007, in collaboration with other instructors, I have been teaching a course on Open Source Software Practices at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY. More recently I started teaching Open Source databases (particularly NoSQL) and Open Source Web Development at the State University of New York in Albany, with the goal of bringing more young developers to the space of open source in healthcare.
What open tools and data help you get things done, and how do they help you?
The tools I use every day are: Vim, git, CMake, GNU Compiler Collection, GNU Project Debugger, LaTeX—all of them on Linux.
Vim is the most productive software for editing files of all types, it is almost a way of life. Working at the level of the command line is very helpful in keeping close to where the real stuff happens, and better understand the software we use. It is concerning that many college students are not being exposed to the Command Line and learning how to be productive with it. Git has been a revolutionary tool, and complemented with hosting at Github, it has completely changed the way I can get things done today, while collaborating with other people. CMake has made possible, not only to simplify the configuration of software for multiple-platforms, but also to implement test-driven environments and to enforce verification of reproducibility. GNU Compiler (GCC) and GNU Project Debugger (GDB) are the most powerful tools we have and make possible all our other layers of open source software, we can never be grateful enough to all the people who develop and maintain GCC and GDB. LaTeX is still my preferred method for generating documents, although lately, the combination of RST and Sphinx has proven to be very productive way of generating nice-looking, maintainable documentation with rather small effort.
What do you wish were more open?
I wish that Electronic Health Records (EHR) systems were open. The U.S. spends 18% of GDP on healthcare ($2.8 Trillion a year), and it is an industry that by and large has not adopted computerized systems. The large majority of health records are managed and stored on paper, in folders and cabinets. They are not accessible to patients themselves, and they can not be easily shared across doctors either. They are locked away from medical researchers as well. The standard mechanism for transmitting healthcare information is still the fax machine. Under incentives from the government, many U.S. hospitals have started to adopt EHR systems, but the large majority are closed-source and are so expensive that many hospitals go bankrupt in the process of paying for them. These closed-source EHRs are commercialized under a veil of secrecy, by which the hospitals that adopt them are forbidden from taking screenshots or even talking in public about their EHR.
In the meantime, there are open systems such as VistA, which has been a proven success in hundreds of clinical facilities at the Department of Veterans affairs for four decades. By building on the open source way, VistA could easily be the answer to deploying a rock solid EHR to hospitals, in a form that makes perfect economic sense, by simply distributing the cost of software maintenance across the thousands of hospitals that could adopt it.
The main obstacle in the way of VistA flourishing in the open source space, is the fact that not enough young developers are joining the ecosystem. The large majority of EHRs, both closed-source and open-source are built on top of M, a language that has a NoSQL hierarchical database integrated with it. Both the language and the database have been ignored for decades by academia and the larger IT industry.
Today, there is an opportunity to bring open source to healthcare by taking advantage of combining a popular language, Javascript (through the use of Node.js) with the powerful and proven M database. This is an issue of great social and economic significance, where open source developers can have a dramatic effect on the way our society functions.
What are the biggest challenges to openness that you encounter, either at work or in your life?
Ignorance of basic concepts of economics. It is paradoxical that although we live in a capitalistic society, very few people learn about the basics of economics. As our class on Open Source Software Practices at RPI has evolved over the years, we have come to explain open source simply in terms of economic efficiency, and it is very straightforward.
Many people resist openness based on instinctive notions that if they share, they are losing something. We need to provide better education on the concept of "enlightened self-interest," by which we should share simply because it is good for us in the long term. Economics is not a zero-sum game; what openness does in general is creates value, and it does on a very large scale.
Why choose the open source way?
Because it empowers us to drive change. It is disruptive. It is available to everyone. It allows us to start from nothing and build at higher and higher levels in a constructive way. The open source way makes possible for each and everyone of us to reach full potential by removing barriers to the dissemination of information. It makes available with minimal limitations all the information and resources that we need to innovate and to create robust infrastructures.
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Great interview, thank you Jen and Luis. Personally I contribute from 5 to 9, having a 'day job' outside of open source. I one day hope to change this, and work in open source from 9 to 5 also. Why? I like sharing, the culture and openness that comes with the open source way.
Great interview, I really enjoyed reading it and learning more about a work colleague and peer. It is great to work with so many people pushing open source, open science and reproducibility forward! I think Luis works on open source outside of 9 to 5, and honestly wonder where he finds the time to fit so much in!
I definitely agree that using open source in the health eco-system is the way to go. Proprietary systems are so expensive and prohibitive, this becomes even more apparent in low resource settings (or countries) where basic medicinal supplies are lacking.
EDC systems like clincapture http://www.clinovo.com/clincapture *should* be supported by government so that more hospitals, institutions and academics know about them. The official adoption and usage of such open source applications will encourage junior developers to follow suit and develop within these communities.
Building a community is not easy especially in open source. You need to get a right formula for accepting contributions while maintaining quality. This is something that has been perfected in apache products, something that open source communities like clincapture are adopting.
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A ladder is a handy tool to have if you need to clean a ceiling fan, repair a gutter or paint your ceiling. But storing a ladder can be a challenge. Most ladders fold up, so at least you can store them flat – but the bigger they are, the harder they are to store, even when folded. If the ladder is not too long, you can stand it up against a wall and secure it.
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Destination: Dinor
When people drive miles out of their way to a restaurant, you know there's something special going on inside.
For the past three years, that's just what has been happening at the Lawrence Park Dinor.
The tiny Silk City Dining Car, a staple on Main Street since 1948, is currently the top-rated restaurant in Erie on Trip Advisor, inspiring nearly 200 reviews by travelers from New York to Chicago and places in between.
Reviewers remark on the diner's authenticity and nostalgia -- it is on the National Register of Historic Places -- and the friendly atmosphere where owner Becky Standley and longtime employees like Heather Zuber and Hailey MacDonald greet regulars by name.
Old-fashioned milkshakes, homemade pies and the diner's famous spicy Greek sauce earned rave reviews.
After my own trip to the diner, I concur.
During lunch, my dad and I were made to feel at home along with several regulars and a Buffalo couple who stopped on their way to Cleveland based on Trip Advisor.
While the diner is small, the menu is large, offering more than two dozen sandwiches and burgers, including the tuna melt, triple decker smoked turkey club and Western egg (two eggs with mixed peppers, onions and ham on toast with lettuce, tomato and mayo).
We watched my dad's Reuben sizzle on the grill. The result was perfectly grilled rye with lots of lean corned beef and gooey cheese that held the sauerkraut in place.
My gyro was filled with moist, thick slices of meat, a homemade tzatziki sauce and fresh, crispy lettuce, tomato and onion.
While the home fries looked delicious, we opted for homemade soup -- a creamy mushroom barley for my dad and slightly spicy chili topped with cheese and onion for me.
Because portions and prices are just right, we were able to splurge on dessert -- a piece of homemade blueberry crumble pie a la mode.