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This three-pronged program will enable firefighters to access water to fight fires, even if the water system is damaged by an earthquake; provide emergency power at community centers designated as shelters; and establish stores of emergency supplies located at four separate areas of the city.
Following the 1995 earthquake in Kobe, Japan, breaks in the water distribution system made it impossible to fight the 300 fires that broke out throughout the city. At the time of the levy proposal, Seattle firefighters would have faced similar challenges in a disaster.
Existing fireboats stationed in Elliott Bay and Lake Union can pump water from a maximum of about 400 feet from the water's edge. Two hose wagons enable firefighters to provide an above-ground water main of approximately one mile in length. The city's drinking water reservoirs provide another resource; but pumping water directly from those sources would contaminate the water for drinking purposes — a significant concern in the aftermath of an earthquake or other disaster.
This program included three projects to improve firefighters' ability to get water to where it is most needed. First, hardened hydrants were installed at the City's nine reservoirs and the Queen Anne water storage tank to provide easier access to water supplies and allow water to be drawn from a reservoir without contamination.
Second, all engines have now been equipped with light-weight hard suction hoses and floating strainers, so they can draw water from lakes and Puget Sound.
Third, new large diameter hose has been placed on every fire engine in the city. These actions increase firefighters' range when using water from reservoirs, lakes or saltwater.
Project Schedule
Start Date: 2004
End Date: 2006
Estimated Cost:
Approximately $820,000.
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This project is complete.
- Late December 2005: Installations at all eight reservoirs have been completed.
- Early December 2005: Beacon, Myrtle, Lincoln, Magnolia and West Seattle Reservoir sites are complete, and Roosevelt, Maple Leaf and Bitter Lake are scheduled to be completed by Seattle Public Utilities crews in December.
- October 2005: Fire Department equipment and water connections at eight reservoirs will be complete by the end of the year. The hydrants at Beacon, Myrtle, and West Seattle are now in place. The first drafting port installation (Lincoln Reservoir) is substantially complete. The valve installation for the hydrant connection at the Roosevelt Reservoir was completed several months ago. The drafting port installation at that site and the other remaining three sites are planned for 4th quarter 2005.
The Seattle Department of Parks and Recreation is charged with providing shelter space in the event of a disaster. The City has designated six of the City's community centers as shelter facilities: the Bitter Lake and Meadowbrook community centers in North Seattle, the Queen Anne and Garfield community centers in Central Seattle, and the Delridge and Rainier Beach community centers in South Seattle.
The City has purchased six generators that can power the internal lighting systems and a number of specially wired outlets in these community centers.
Project Schedule
Start Date: 2004
End Date: 2006
Estimated Cost
Approximately $480,000
This project is complete.
- August 2006: All six generators have been installed. The project is complete.
- May 2006: Parks has now installed generators at five of the six community centers. Final siting location details have been reached with the Seattle School District for the Rainier Beach community center. Parks will install the generator after completing a property agreement with the School District later this month.
- April 2006: Installation of the generator at the Delridge Community Center is complete. The Parks Department hopes to install one generator a week, and met recently with the School District to obtain approval for placing the generator at Rainier Beach Community Center.
- Early December 2005: All generators have been delivered to the Parks Department. Testing is being completed by Parks crew.
- October 2005: This project is on schedule to be completed by the end of this year. The Parks Department has now received three of the six generators.
The project consists of emergency caches strategically located in four different quadrants of the city: Magnolia, North Seattle, South Seattle, West Seattle. The caches contain basic supplies including cots, blankets, shelter kits and nurse kits for distribution by emergency workers following a major earthquake or other disaster.
Current Status
The emergency caches are stocked and operational. The project was completed in 2007.
- March 2007: Cache buildings stocked with emergency supplies.
- February 2007: Construction completed.
- December 2006: Construction began.
- Summer 2006: Omega Baha Industrial Contractors and Danneko Construction were awarded the construction contracts.
- December 2005: The site was selected for the cache in Magnolia.
- October 2005: Sites were selected for cache locations in North Seattle, South Seattle, and West Seattle.


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Sturm Ruger shares suffer steepest dip in 5 months as gun sales waneBy CAELAINN BARR
Bloomberg News
July 30. 2014 7:39PM
Sturm, Ruger & Co. shares fell the most in five months after reporting a drop in second-quarter earnings, missing analysts' estimates as demand for guns wane.
The largest publicly traded U.S. firearms maker said earnings per share fell 31 percent to $1.12 in the three months ending June 28, compared with projections of $1.23 a share. Sales fell 14 percent to $153.7 million, lagging behind forecasts.
The shares tumbled as much as 11 percent, their biggest intraday decline since February. They were trading at $52.17 at 9:45 a.m. in New York on Wednesday and have declined 21 percent this year through Tuesday.
Gun sales are declining after enthusiasts stockpiled weapons following the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., in 2012, fearing broad federal curbs on arms sales.
While nationwide legislation has failed to pass, some states are enacting their own restrictions, leading Sturm Ruger and others to move production to friendlier locales.
"Black rifles had a huge surge due to fear of federal legislation and a lot of it has subsided," said Brian Ruttenbur, an analyst at CRT Capital Group, in a phone call before the results. Handgun sales are still on the rise, he said.
Layoffs were announced this month at the Newington, N.H., facility of firearms manufacturer SigSauer, which it had "instituted a series of workforce adjustments" amid declining sales after "record highs experienced over the past couple of years."
A SigSauer spokesman declined to cite a specific number of workers that could be affected, but comments by the state official and an education administrator involved in workforce training indicate that more than 180 employees could be out of work as a result of recent cuts by the company.
Sturm Ruger, based in Southport, Conn., reported background checks for gun purchases, as measured by the National Instant Criminal Background Check System, fell 12 percent in the quarter and 18 percent in the first half of the year, hurting producers across the industry.
The NICS records the number of people seeking screening in order to buy a gun. Although the figures aren't a complete picture of the number of people purchasing firearms, they are an indicator of interest in the industry.
Ruger announced it will expand its share buyback program from $25 million to $100 million and declared a dividend of 45 cents a share for the second quarter.
Smith & Wesson, based in Springfield, Mass., surprised investors last month with a sales and profit outlook for fiscal 2015 that was lower than what analysts estimated.
Sturm Ruger and other manufacturers will have to come up with different models in order to mitigate the decline in demand, said Brian Rafn, director at Morgan Dempsey Capital Management and a Sturm Ruger investor.
"They're just going to bury the industry in new products," Rafn said in a phone interview before the results.
Sturm Ruger said new products accounted for 18 percent of firearm sales in the first half. The company plans to invest $40 million in research to develop new product lines this year and has set up a $26 million facility in Mayodan, N.C., dedicated to the production of new lines of rifles.
The Mayodan facility, which Sturm Ruger announced last year, is its first major expansion in more than 25 years. Production at the plant was scheduled to start during the first quarter.

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Round 1 Team of the Week
Fullback: Wade McKinnon (Warriors) - The Warriors new fullback was a standout against his former club and looks to have become stronger and faster. His running was a highlight of the game and looks to be a major upgrade over Brent Webb.
Wing: Mat Rogers (Titans) - Had a good, solid debut in his first game back in league. Looked very comfortable and was very involved. Has lost none of his skills.
Centre: Shannon Hegarty(Rabbitohs) - Had his best game in Souths colours and looks rejuvenated and should make an impact if he can remain injury free.
Centre: Jamie Lyon (Sea Eagles) - Scored two tries on debut for Manly and got better as the game went on. Had a dusty start but will get better by the week for the Sea Eagles. Is a better centre than five eighth.
Wing: Israel Folau (Storm) - Strapping youngster from the Storm scored a try on debut and will be a handful in his first year of first grade.
Five eighth: Jarrod Mullen (Knights) - Played superbly without Johns and the Knights fans will breathe a sigh of relief as the Knights actually won a game without Johns and Buderus. Mullen is the future of the Knights.
Halfback: Joe Williams (Rabbitohs) - The energizer bunny was everywhere last night and will enjoy having an improved forward pack to play behind. His goal kicking has improved as well.
Lock: Ben Creagh (Dragons) - Best player on the field for the Dragons and is bound for much higher honours this year.
Second row: Simon Mannering (Warriors) - Came on strong late last year and has taken significant strides on the back of his representative honours. A player to keep an eye on.
Second Row: Steve Simpson (Knights) - In the absence of Andrew Johns and Danny Buderus, he showed great leadership to rally the Knights and get them home in a one point thriller.
Front Row: Roy Asotasi (Rabbitohs) - His signature is already starting to pay off with a robust display against the Roosters. Arguably the best front rower in the game today.
Hooker: Simon Woolford (Dragons) - Great debut for his new club and was very involved against the Titans. He will provide a steadying influence to a young side.
Front Row: Steve Price (Warriors) - Was outstanding for the Warriors and always leads from the front. His pairing with Ruben Wiki gives the Warriors the best front row in the NRL.
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HADDONFIELD, N.J. — A four-day traffic hell that trapped cars headed to one of the nation's busiest bridges, supposedly engineered by gleeful political operatives as payback: Deeply stupid, for sure. Unbelievably vindictive and petty. And, in its way, so quintessentially New Jersey.
The George Washington Bridge scandal that has engulfed Gov. Chris Christie, bizarre as it is, also somehow stands as an example of the state's hardball political traditions.
In the Garden State, political bosses have never gone out of style, corruption cases pile up more victims than the Sopranos, and elbow-to-the-face tactics are shrugged off by voters — as much a part of Jersey culture as boardwalk custard and stainless-steel diners.
The state has an outsized history of sleaze and outright public thievery. Frank Hague, boss of Hudson County for three decades, had a desk with a specially designed drawer that could be pushed out toward a visitor, the better to receive a discreetly dropped envelope full of cash. There were a lot of envelopes: When he retired, he was said to be worth $10 million.
Other ethically challenged New Jersey politicians have become enshrined in popular culture: cable TV's popular "Boardwalk Empire" features a bloodier version of Atlantic City boss Enoch "Nucky" Johnson, and the new movie "American Hustle" is based on the Abscam sting that took down a U.S senator from New Jersey, the mayor of Camden and six congressmen.
READ: Controversial Christie staffer emails
"If you look at the big-city mayors of the state, it's usually the express lane to the penitentiary," said Republican political consultant Steve Schmidt, who suggested that the bridge scandal fell somewhere near the state's norms. "As stupid as this is, it's not necessarily going to make someone familiar with New Jersey politics fall out of their chair."
And the cases keep coming, as colorful as ever. Even as Christie was at the gold-domed State House on Thursday, blaming the Fort Lee mess on his aides, the mayor of Trenton was going on trial down the street at the federal courthouse as a result of an FBI bribery sting.
Mayor Tony Mack is accused of working with Joseph "JoJo" Giorgianni, a rotund sandwich shop owner and convicted sex offender, to take bribes from an informant to smooth the way for a parking garage project that never really existed. Giorgianni referred to himself as "St. Joseph," prosecutors told jurors, as in: "St. Joseph always provides."
By New Jersey standards, the Trenton case is pretty ho-hum; the FBI here has been using that same crooked-businessman ploy to bring down mayors and other officials for decades. In 2009, a money-laundering and corruption investigation ensnared 44 people, including several mayors, as well as a rabbi who pleaded guilty to running an illegal operation to sell kidneys to people needing transplants.
"I guess that's evidence of the culture," said Brigid Callahan Harrison, a professor at Montclair State University who has studied New Jersey political corruption. "When politicians are approached with this, they don't automatically think, 'sting operation.' They think, 'business as usual.'"
The bridge mess, which emails from Christie aides suggest was political retaliation, perhaps for the Fort Lee mayor's failure to endorse Christie's reelection, "underscores the already held perception of seediness and thuggery in New Jersey — and particularly New Jersey politicians," she said.
Christie, a Republican, came into office in 2009, vowing to wipe out that low-rent reputation. When he served as United States attorney in New Jersey, Christie made a reputation as a corruption buster, prosecuting 130 corruption cases involving both Republicans and Democrats; on his office website, he says he never lost one.
Since taking office, Christie has reveled in a tough-guy political style. "I am who I am," he said Thursday. "But I am not a bully."
Yet former Gov. Thomas Kean, a Republican who met Christie when he was a 14-year-old volunteer on Kean's campaign, said the incident would play into Christie's reputation as a man with an "enemies list." (The duo's relationship has itself fallen to a Jerseyesque move: Christie angered Kean recently when he teamed up with Democrats to try to unseat Kean's son as minority leader in the state Senate. The attempt failed.)
"Nobody around Christie is going to say no to him," Kean said.
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Kean called the epic traffic jam baffling, particularly since the New Jersey governor's office, considered the most powerful in the country, offers any number of more artful opportunities to take revenge. The governor has sweeping powers over ostensibly independent agencies (such as the one that runs the bridges), the power to appoint nearly all statewide officials, including judges and the attorney general, and a line-item veto.
"You can fool around with the projects of every mayor in the state, if that's what you want to do," Kean said. "If I wanted to do something like that, that's the way I would do it. There's no fingerprints."
There are other things that make New Jersey unusual: This smallish state has 565 municipalities and 590 school districts, each one an opportunity to award contracts and jobs to political insiders. A patronage tradition is still alive and kicking; Christie, like governors before him, stuffed the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey with dozens of supporters, including an old high-school classmate on the receiving end of the now-infamous email: "Time for some traffic problems in Fort Lee."
And the state still has influential unelected power brokers such as South Jersey Democrat George Norcross, who has formed an alliance with Christie on some issues.
"Normally one party is a check on the other party," said Republican political consultant Roger Stone, a veteran of New Jersey campaigns. "In New Jersey, they get together and figure out a way they all can benefit."
Some say New Jersey's reputation as a haven for scandal is overblown. One study found that measured by convictions per capita, the state ranked as only the seventh-most corrupt in the U.S. And a 2012 study by Washington good-government groups found that New Jersey, judged by its strong ethics codes and public records laws, actually ranked as the least corrupt and most transparent state in the nation — at least on paper. Some here may have found that amusing, but not Ben Dworkin, director of the Rebovich Institute for New Jersey Politics at Rider University.
Convinced the state gets a bad rap, he says he has to work every year to persuade his students that New Jersey government is more than just a punch line.
"New Jersey politics is a full-contact sport," Dworkin said. "That doesn't mean it's corrupt. It just means people are aggressive."
Bob Ingle, a political columnist for Gannett newspapers in Trenton, said he noticed the difference right away when he moved from Sacramento. "There's an aggression in the culture here," he said. "There's also a higher tolerance for people involved in corrupt activities in public life."
When Ingle co-wrote a history of New Jersey corruption called "The Soprano State," he said his challenge was that many real-life stories were almost too weird to be true.
"The publisher made me go back in and put in: 'We're not making this stuff up,'" said Ingle. "There is just something about New Jersey that's hard to put your finger on. You just see some incredible things."
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BAKER —In a forum that lasted longer than 21/2 hours, more than 120 people listened Monday to panelists and audience members discuss problems of the Baker school system.
Skip Smart, director of community competitiveness for Louisiana Economic Development, said his organization called the meeting as part of Baker's involvement in the Louisiana's Development Ready Community Program.
The goal of the program, Smart said, is to help communities improve their economic development prospects. He said five issues are central to the process — leadership, infrastructure, marketing, labor and education.
Smart told the audience that 196 people and 30 businesses took surveys on the issues facing Baker. He said 68 percent of the individuals surveyed and that 87 percent of businesses cited secondary education as a severe weakness in the community.
Baker School Board members Dana Carpenter, Troy Watson and Doris Alexander attended the forum, as did Baker city council member Robert Young and Baker mayor Harold Rideau. Warren Drake, former Zachary superintendent who is now network leader for the state Department of Education, also participated.
Panelists Ulysses Joseph, superintendent of Baker schools; Joyce Burges, Baker city council member and founder of National Black Home Educators; Eric Lewis, state director of Black Alliance for Educational Options and John White, Louisiana state superintendent of education, spoke about the problems with the schools and ways to solve them.
Joseph said he believes the school district is on the right track.
"I hope in the future we will be looking at a school district that's tops in the Baker area," Joseph said.
He said that he is working to provide incentives for students and do repairs to school facilities.
Burgess and Lewis told the audience that their organizations provided support to parents looking for alternatives to public schools.
White said that he was willing to do "whatever it takes" to provide quality education for children in Louisiana. He said it is a "moral issue" to provide every child access to a good school where he or she has an opportunity to learn and to become successful.
To achieve that goal, White said, the state needs to start before pre-K to make sure children are ready to learn. It also has to support teachers and allow parents school choice in the form of vouchers and charter schools, he said.
During the audience comment part of the discussion, BESE board member Carolyn Hill (8th district) said that Baker's problem is a lack of money.
"Baker can't run off the MFP alone," Hill said, referring to the money the system gets from the state Minimum Foundation Program. "You don't have the tax base. It will take people in this community coming together."
She said Baker lost $500,000 of state Minimum Foundation Program money this year.
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In 1980, ALA began its highly successful Celebrity READ poster series, showcasing some of the most recognizable faces in the nation. Those READ posters still continue today, featuring familiar people from literature, music, television, music, sports and politics, each holding a book they love. The popularity of those posters has grown over the years, providing libraries of all sizes with the distinction of being associated with someone whose image lends a special status to the library that nothing else quite equals.
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Blair House Inn continues to be involved in our wonderful hill country community of Wimberley, TX. Many of our friends have some exciting events coming up in the next few months. Emily Ann Theatre and The Wimberley Players put together great plays that bring in many from the surrounding area. Linda's Fine Foods is a local favorite serving handmade food with a skilled touch. Look through some of our local events and book a room at the Blair House Inn to enjoy a night of fun and entertainment.
Emily Ann Theatre and Gardens presents Cymbeline through September 28th on Friday and Saturday nights at 8:00pm. Cymbeline, one of Shakespeare's last plays is rarely done and much loved. Performances will be on the outdoor Patti S. Harrison main stage. Tickets available online at emilyann.org or at the gate. $15 adults, $10 students. 1101 FM 2325. Please call (512)847-6969 for additional information.
Linda's Fine Foods invites you to Linda's Fat Tuesday every second Tuesday of each month. Linda's gumbo is world renown. The crawfish pies, crawfish nachos, beans and rice are all delicious and made from scratch. The regular menu is served with the Cajun menu. The fun starts at 6:30pm with live music. Linda's also provides live music on Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights each week. Linda's Fine Foods is located at 500 FM 2325. Call (512)847-5464 for more information or visit lindaallencatering.com
The Wimberley Players present the Texas premier of a domestic thriller, Stay. This is a story of love and letting go, as a marriage on the brink of unraveling takes a dark turn. Author talk-back after September 14th performance. Stay runs September 13th through October 6th on Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30pm and on Sundays at 2:30pm. $18 reserved seating, $20 opening night, $9 student with ID except opening night. We also invite you to "Cruisin' with the Coasters" a concert and dinner on Sunday, October 6th at 5pm. Dinner will be catered by Gennaro's Trattoria. Great food, live music, dancing and a live auction at the 7 Star Ranch on the Blanco River, 228 Flite Acres Road, Wimberley, TX. This is The Wimberley Players' annual fundraiser. General admission tickets are $75 per person. Call (512)847-1873 to sponsor a table. Please call (512)971-4047 or visit wimberleyplayers.org for ticket information.
Old Oaks Ranch offers guided tours of their sculpture garden, alpaca and fiber arts center every Saturday 11am and 1pm. Call Sue Ellen Stavrand for more information at (512)847-8784.
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MANCHESTER — A senior city public works official on Monday expressed doubts about whether a new traffic signal was warranted at an intersection where a fatal motorcycle accident occurred last month.
Todd Connors, the engineering manager for the Department of Public Works, told the committee on Public Safety that the intersection of Goffstown Road and Montgomery Street was not on the list of roughly 115 city intersections the state Department of Transportation determined had the highest accident rates."With respect to this intersection, any fatality is a concern, and you'll want to take a look at it. But Manchester has quite a few other intersections that are priorities," said Connors, who specializes in roadway matters.
The intersection was ranked 206 on a list of the 229 high-accident intersections compiled by the Southern New Hampshire Planning Commission.
However, Connors said his agency paid more attention to the state list, which was weighted based on traffic volume.Connors added that there are situations where "a signal or sign will do more harm than good."The request to add a signal at the intersection was made by Alderman Keith Hirschmann, who represents Ward 12, where the junction is located.
Hirschmann insisted that the intersection needed a signal, even if it was the last on the waiting list to get one."I tried to get this done in '98, and another alderman blocked me," he said. "Maybe if something was done, these people would not have perished ... I think I'm a pretty good driver, and I have a hard time (at the intersection)."
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Cameron Diaz meets up with George Clooney on Tuesday (December 21) in Los Cabos, Mexico.
The two actors greeted each other with a hug while Cameron, 38, was lounging outside with her boyfriend, New York Yankees slugger Alex Rodriguez.
The day before, Cam spent time sunbathing and hanging with Alex's two daughters, Ella and Natasha.
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Video: Hurricane Irma evacuees crowd Orlando International Airport
WASHINGTON (Sinclair Broadcast Group) -- Long lines, long waits and traffic crowded Orlando International Airport on Friday ahead of Hurricane Irma.
Storm chaser Mike Prendergast captured footage of Floridians looking to vacate and also spoke with a father looking to reunite with his family.
Irma is expected to hit the Florida Keys on Sunday morning. The storm is about 225 miles south of Miami according to the National Hurricane Center.


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When building your perfect sandwich, what's your perfect bread? Whether it's still warm squishy white bread or a crusty baguette, it's hard to beat homemade. Where to start? This morning we gave you 5 good tips for making better sandwich bread at home. But before you put those in practice you need a recipe, right? Right! Here are recipes from our archives for fine sandwich breads, from a basic whole wheat loaf and pita pockets, to cinnamon raisin bread and potato dough rolls (sooo good with ham!).
• 1 How to Make Your Own Hamburger Buns - Soft and fluffy hamburger buns make a great base for nearly any sandwich.
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Some might think there's nothing a 75-year-old Jesuit priest can teach a bunch of college kids when it comes to technology. They haven't met James Reites, S.J., MST '71.
Watch a video about Fr. Reites on NBC Bay Area.
To SCU's 2007 Solar Decathlon team, he was affectionately known as "Papa." The 2009 team compared him to a church around which a town is built. And he's spent countless days and weeks working alongside the 2013 team as they designed and constructed this year's entry, Radiant House. Some may think there's nothing a 75-year-old Jesuit priest can teach a bunch of college kids when it comes to technology, but they clearly haven't met James Reites, S.J., MST '71.
In a speech at this year's Solar Decathlon in Irvine, Calif., Reites spoke about why he continues to be involved in the event. "Never have we worked so closely with our students. Never have we had the opportunity to experience their passion, dedicated work, and drive to meet and exceed the goals that have been set for them," he said. "Why do I work for the Solar Decathlon? It is because it is a delight."
Read the epic stories of the 2007 team ("Let the sun shine in") and the 2009 team ("Bending light") from Santa Clara Magazine. And find out more about Fr. Reites in a profile by Garvin Thomas that first appeared on NBC Bay Area on July 25, 2013, reprinted below. Learn more about the U.S. Department of Energy's Solar Decathlon competition on its website. Clay Hamilton
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Jim Reites was hoping that God would say no.
It was the 1950s and Reites was an engineering student at Loyola University in Los Angeles. He was also "informally" engaged to a young woman at the time. His path in life seemed pretty clear to him, until a group of young Jesuits came through campus the summer of his senior year.
"I got to know some of them," Reites says. "Terrific people."
The notion of becoming one of them entered Reites' mind and refused to exit. "I decided I wouldn't be happy unless I applied," Reites says. "I went through the whole application process. I was hoping it would come back negative and unfortunately they accepted me."
Father Jim Reites gave up on an engineering career path to spend years studying philosophy and theology, eventually rising to chair of the religious studies department at Santa Clara University. Still, the tinker in him never went away.
"The first personal computer in a department on campus, I built that out of a kit," Fr. Reites says.
That do-it-yourself spirit was one big reason why, in 2007, he was asked to advise Santa Clara's first Solar Decathlon team.
The United States Department of Energy's Solar Decathlon is a biannual competition where teams from schools around the world compete to build the most efficient, livable, beautiful home they can. Santa Clara's entries in 2007 and 2009 fared very well.
Both teams finished in third place, besting many bigger, better-funded universities. Students say Fr. Reites is a big reason for their success.
Members of the 2013 team, [who built their home this summer] on the Santa Clara campus, say Fr. Reites is an inspiration to them, in more ways than one.
"I've never seen him down in spirits or tired," says Santa Clara junior Brian Grau. "He's always ready to work whether it's actually doing physical labor all day long or helping us with the design."
"Obviously, I enjoy it," says Fr. Reites, "It's fun. It's exciting."
It is also breaking stereotypes. First, the notion that a 75-year-old Jesuit priest can't teach 20-somethings a thing or two about technology. Second, the belief some might have that religion and science don't mix.
Father Reites says the building of a solar house is right in line with the Jesuits' mission. "It's engineering with a mission," Fr. Reites says, "a real mission to make the world a better place."


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The contract is for the conversion of a very large crude carrier (VLCC) into an FPSO, which will be deployed to the Liza field, about 193km offshore Guyana in the Stabroek block.
In June this year, ExxonMobil and partner Hess have made a final investment decision to proceed with a US$4.4 billion first phase of development of the Liza field.
Exxon said that the Liza Phase 1 development will include a subsea production system and an FPSO designed to produce up to 120,000 b/d. Production is expected to begin by 2020, less than five years after discovery of the field.
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It is Keppel's 25th major contract from SBM Offshore since the firms starting working together in 1981.
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Even as his team built an early 16-point lead, even as it limited the opposition to three points over the first 13:54 of the game, Pittsburgh coach Jamie Dixon was feeling anything but content.
He couldn't have imagined what followed.
Jerian Grant and Jack Cooley scored 13 points each and No. 25 Notre Dame overcome a horrendous shooting start and beat No. 20 Pitt 51-42 on Monday night.
The Irish missed 18 of their first 19 shots and trailed 19-3 after the Panthers' Tray Woodall sunk a pair of free throws resulting from a technical called on Notre Dame coach Mike Brey technical.
But the Irish fed off the momentum their coach's technical gave them, closing out the first half on a 16-3 run and continuing to ride the wave in the second half to win going away.
"I thought even with the lead, I didn't feel like our offense was very good," said Dixon, who saw his team finish with the second-lowest scoring total in his 10-year career as a head coach.
"I didn't think we played well even when we had the lead, to be honest," he added . "Our guys are extremely disappointed and I'm disappointed."
A self-professed "raving lunatic" while watching his team fall behind 17-3, Brey wasn't considering the potential consequences when he gave referee John Gaffney an earful.
"I was just so frustrated," Brey said. "He probably could have thrown me out because I stayed after him and he looked away, so I thank him for that.
"I don't know, how much is it premeditated? ... Sometimes, that does change the vibe."
Eric Atkins added 10 points and seven assists for Notre Dame (21-6, 9-5 Big East), which has won five in a row over Pittsburgh (20-7, 8-6) and snapped a tie with the Panthers for fourth place in the conference. The top four teams get a double-bye in next month's league tournament.
Woodall had 11 points to lead the Panthers, who lost for the second time in three days since winning seven of eight.
They appeared to be cruising — especially defensively — until the entire game swung following Brey's technical.
"I definitely think so — there were seven or eight straight fouls called after that," Woodall said. "I'm not sure if the refs eased up or put on binoculars or I don't know, but after that, the game just changed.
"We should have kept our composure and still played our same style, but I guess whew you hear the whistle a couple times, you tend to back off a little bit. But that's just the way the game goes."
Notre Dame shot 60.7 percent (17 for 28) after missing 18 of its first 19 shots and limited Pitt to 30-percent shooting (9 for 30) over the final 27 minutes of the game. The Irish improved to 4-1 against ranked teams.
Cooley had three of Notre Dame's 13 offensive rebounds, and the Irish held a 40-25 advantage on the boards overall. The minus-15 was the worst rebounding margin of the season for Pitt, which entered as the Big East's second-best team in rebounding margin but has been out-rebounded in each of its losses.
"To get out-rebounded by 15 is just an unbelievable number," Dixon said.
Playing without freshman forward Durand Johnson, who had a stomach virus, the Panthers were held without a 3-pointer for the second time this season.
"We just never got in that rhythm here today," Dixon said.
The Irish — who, like Pitt, lost on Saturday — didn't find their rhythm until late in the first half. Notre Dame missed its first 12 shots and did not have a field goal until 9:14 had elapsed in the game and it was trailing 11-1.
Their spurt began five minutes later with Pat Connaughton's 3-pointer from the left corner with 6:06 left in the first half. Thirty-five seconds later on the Irish's next possession, Connaughton hit another 3, drawing a timeout from Dixon and an enthusiastic fist pump from Brey as he sprinted onto the court.
"I was just trying to keep our guys fired up because you know what? That felt like we tied it, quite frankly," Brey said. "And the climate changed in the building, the vibe changed, our body language changed."
Notre Dame made five of its final eight shots of the first half to trim the deficit to 22-19.
"(Brey's technical) was kind of a culmination of how our team was playing," said Cooley, who had nine rebounds to snap his streak of double-doubles at six. "We were all extremely frustrated, and then Coach Brey comes out with that and then gets the technical.
"It just showed how we were feeling and kind of let everything loose. If that happens, what are we going to do? We're going to go out and play — and that's just what we did. We went out and played and we came back and were down three at the half and just put it away in the second half."
Panthers forward Lamar Patterson — the team's scoring leader during Big East play — had the first basket after halftime, his only points of the game. Steven Adams' layup followed to give Pitt a 26-19 lead.
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Baskets by Cameron Wright and James Robinson gave Pitt a 32-31 lead with 12 minutes remaining, but Robinson missed a 3 nearly a minute later. Atkins' layup on the ensuing possession put Notre back ahead — and started a 12-2 run that put the Irish ahead 43-34 with 4:48 to go — and they never trailed again.
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Flame, the recently identified malware that appears to date back to 2007 or earlier, was being actively updated as recently as March of 2012, and its targeted attacks apparently were being controlled by individuals rather than being automated, according to research by security company Bit9.
Flame, formally identified as W32.Flamer, is a cyber weapon developed by the United States and Israel targeting Iran and is part of the same program that developed Stuxnet, the Washington Post reported.
Bit9 CTO Harry Sverdlove said his company, which provides whitelisting and reputation-based blocking services, blocked repeated attacks by Flame against a customer in the Middle East. When event logs were analyzed it was found that the same attack dropping the same files, identified as Flame, occurred repeatedly from October 2011 through March. The attacks always came during the morning, local time, about the same time each day but not at exactly the same time.
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"That is a high indication that it was a human operator," Sverdlove said. "It was not an opportunistic attack. There was a person behind it. It was his job," to periodically attempt to install the files on the targeted computer.
The files used in the attack evolved over that time, he said. "Flame was being actively updated."
Although Flame was blocked from executing on the customer's server, it was not recognized as a malicious attack until logs were examined months later, after the discovery and public disclosure of Flame in May.
The incident highlights a weak spot of whitelisting as a security tool. It enforces a list of authorized files, activities or users for a computer, and routinely blocks everything that is not on the list. Although the technique can block previously unknown exploits and malware, it also can obscure attacks because a large amount of otherwise benign activity also might be blocked. The Flame incident was not discovered until specific queries were made after the fact, Sverdlove said.
"We can't look at everything," he said. "It sat below the radar for several years. It never rose to the level of 'oh my gosh, it's an outbreak.' It's a problem throughout the security industry, how to prioritize," and examine information once the initial attack is over.
He said that Bit9 has a project under way to allow automated identification of suspicious activity that merits additional attention. "There is no technical reason we can't do it," he said.
Flame, also known as Flamer and sKyWIper, was identified in May and quickly gained notoriety as the largest and one of the most sophisticated pieces of malware yet found. It also is one of the stealthiest, and despite its size of 20 megabits it apparently survived for years before it was detected. Researchers at CrySyS Lab at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics have identified elements of the code that date as far back as 2007.
One reason for its stealth is that it appears to be dedicated to quiet information gathering against a small group of individuals, most in the Middle East. Comparisons with the Stuxnet worm, which targeted and damaged uranium processing equipment in Iran, immediately were made. Most researchers agree that they are not the work of the same individuals, but similarities suggested they were part of the same program.
The Washington Post, citing unnamed government officials, has reported that Flame was developed by the National Security Agency and the CIA, in cooperation with the Israeli government, as part of the same program as Stuxnet. Flame apparently predates Stuxnet and was an intelligence gathering tool used to lay the groundwork for the Stuxnet attack.
Sverdlove did not identify the Middle East customer targeted by Flame, but said it was in a geographical area in which other attacks had been identified. He said he believes that the customer was most likely being used as a stepping stone in an attempt to reach others.
"The system in question is not an interesting system," he said. He said Flame is a multistage attack capable of targeting resources through relationships. It is able to do this without detection because it takes no action on an infected system without human direction, spreading quietly.
Sverdlove said he believed Stuxnet spread much farther and was discovered more quickly because it was designed to target an isolated system that would not allow remote control of the worm through a command and control network. "It really had to choice but to propagate" on its own, he said.
The result was that there have been more than 60,000 reported infections by Stuxnet around the world, although no other reported instances of damage by the worm.
The spread and discovery of Stuxnet and Flame illustrate an inherent danger in cyber weapons: Once deployed, they become available to researchers and other nations for possible reuse.
How easily such complex pieces of software can be repurposed remains to be seen. Sverdlove believes that "the barrier to entry is now almost nothing."
But adapting even individual modules from the programs for new targets and uses could prove to be a challenge requiring a high level of technical expertise not available everywhere.
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It STILL amazes me how casually all this is discussed and reported. Why not tell us, Mr. Sverdlove who your Middle East client is ????? No one seems to have any problem blabbing all of OUR cyber-secrets to the world? Idiots.!!!......
"Fed" is correct, but I'd have to add the coming bumpy ride was inevitable. Which kids are dumb enough to smack a bull on the rump is kind of a random choice of history; that from time to time some will - and the gamut of outcomes implied - is a given.
"Bit9 CTO Harry Sverdlove said his company, which provides whitelisting and reputation-based blocking services, blocked repeated attacks by Flame against a customer in the Middle East.Source: GCN (http://s.tt/1feGE)" What name of country is missing in this article? Probably because people would not be happy if he stated who they performed the work for.
Well written article. This is the stuff of sci/fi technothrillers just a few years ago. It was inevitable that intelligence agencies of the major powers would be engaged in cyber based espionage (and sabotage) and it could have been considered criminal negligence on the part of the U.S. intel community if they had not been on the forefront of exploiting cyber espionage opportunities. It's the dirty little secret no one wants to admit. What interests me is the leak and the exposure of the program. I see two possibilities to the media stories: 1) the InfoSec community was so convincing in their assertion that this could only be done by a major power that the media jumped to conclusions and created the 'unnamed sources' to bolster their credibility in blaming the US and Israel, or, b)there is a nasty leak in the NSA/CIA and the leaker has disclosed information that would be grounds for charges of treason in another time. WikiLeaks was embarassing to the State Dept, leaks regarding espinage techniques and capabilities goes way beyond embarassment. Disclosing this information is tantamount to telling Vlad (the impaler) Putin the names of members and home addresses of his staff that are on our payroll. What the leaker(s) and the media have also done is posted a great big target on the U.S. and given a green light in the court of public oppinion for any future cyber attack on U.S. interests. The loose lips on this one have sown the seeds for a massive payback in the not too distant future. Tighten up your firewalls everyone, it's going to be a bumpy ride.
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This might very well be a C question. I am posting it here because it refers to some code in Bruce Eckels's 'Thinking in C++'. Apologies if this causes any inconvenience.
There is a struct definition, and use thereof, on p.248-250 that confuses me.
Within struct Stack, he defines the nested struct:
Then, in the associated function Stack:ush(void* dat);Code:struct Link { void* data; Link* next; void intialize(void* dat, Link* nxt); }* head;
he creates a Link like this:
There are a couple of things that I don't follow here.Code:Link* newLink = new Link; newLink->initialize(dat, head); head = newLink;
Firstly, he has not needed to call Link like this:
I was sure that a struct had to be initialized with an explicit struct definition unless it was typedeffed into the word between } and ; at the end of the struct. Was I completely wrong?Code:struct Link newLink......
Does he say on p.230-231 that this is a difference between C and C++ ? (I am not confident enough at either to tell for sure).
Secondly, the word between } and ; here is * head. But * head is not a type definition in this case. Rather it is a particular instance of Link, namely the access point to the single-linked list for the container class. He says this is a legacy from C.
*head in this case, seems to be just a particular instance of a Link. Is this what is taking place?
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Over last weekend, reports emerged about a US coalition airstrike in Afghanistan that killed a two-year-old boy. I read about it in the Washington Post (11/29/13), but couldn't help but find some of the language in the report puzzling.
Right in the lead, the boy's death was called "the latest crisis to confront American officials" who are trying to finalize a security deal with the Afghan government. The Post's Tim Craig went on to say that the "civilian casualties could not have come at a worse time for US diplomats," and that the "death of the child further complicates the already strained relationship" between the US and Afghan governments.
Yes, poorly timed kid-killing really complicates things.
Much of the journalism about Afghanistan right now is about the "strain" between Afghan President Hamid Karzai and the United States, expressing bafflement and irritation at Karzai's criticism of US military attacks that kill civilians. The New York Times got into the act on December 1, when reporter Rod Nordland wrote a piece on this topic.
Under the headline "Afghans Assail Karzai's Disparate Views on Killings," Nordland explained that Karzai was getting outraged by US attacks on civilians, but staying mum when the attackers are the Taliban: "The attack he complained about was carried out by the American-led coalition and used a drone. The attack he ignored was by the Taliban and used a suicide bomber."
Nordland explains that the "disparity in the Afghan president's reaction has been rued by American officials here"–no surprise there–but that it also "has started to draw criticism among many Afghans." Given that this is the message of the headline, you have to assume it's the most important point of the article. Nordland writes:
In short, many Afghans have begun asking, Who exactly are our enemies here? The Americans, who underwrite our government and military but now say they will be forced to withdraw in 2015 without a security deal? Or the Taliban, who have a history of killing officials even remotely connected with the government–a policy that has apparently begun to claim the lives even of some independent relief workers?
That's a New York Times reporter's criticism of Karzai; which Afghans are saying this? That's hard to say, because Nordland quotes just one person saying this: Atiqullah Baryalai, who used to work for Karzai. There are plenty of other Afghans in the piece, but they're mostly concerned with the debate over signing the security arrangement with the United States.
It's not unheard of for journalists to express strong opinions about how the United States should conduct its wars. ABC Pentagon correspondent Martha Raddatz (FAIR Blog, 6/6/11) once declared this about the US war in Afghanistan: "The airstrikes and these night raids just simply have to continue if they're going to go after the enemy." That's the kind of opinion you're allowed to express.
But sometimes reporters express their opinions by attributing them to others–New York Times reporter John Burns (Extra!, 11/08) did this when he would say things like, "In my experience, the great majority of Iraqis are…very loathe to see those American troops leave now." Actually, surveys showed most Iraqis wanted US troops to leave their country.
It's not clear what Afghans think about how long US troops should stay. But it seems clear that it's more the case that a New York Times reporter–and not "many Afghans"–are mad at Karzai for being mad at US attacks on civilians. The headline "US Government, Reporters Assail Karzai's Disparate Views on Killings" would have been more accurate.


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10:10-10:50 a.m. — Water Conservation in 2006, Ken Morris, Agri-Valley Irrigation Inc.
11-11:40 a.m. — The Economics of Irrigation Uniformity, Inge Bisconer, Rain Bird Corp. Agri-Products Division.
11:50-12:30 p.m. — Water Applications Solutions for Row Crops and Tree & Vine Crops, John Rowley and Reid Nelson, Nelson Irrigation Co.
12:40-1:20 p.m. — So Many Filters — So Many Choices, Randy Delenikos, Lakos Separators and Filters.
1:30-2:10 p.m. — Low Volume Irrigation versus Surface Irrigation: Pro's and Con's, Erick Hopkins and Keegan O'Bannon, Fresno Valves & Casting.
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10:10-10:50 a.m. — Drip System Troubleshooting, Paul McFadden, Roberts Irrigation.
11-11:40 a.m. — Choosing the Right Filter to do the Job, Ken Morrill, Morrill Industries.
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11-11:40 a.m. — Uniformity Matters, Perry Continente, Toro Ag.
11:50-12:30 p.m. — Soil Moisture Scheduling, Tom Penning, Irrometer.
12:40-1:20 p.m. — Ag Irrigation Consumer Bill of Rights — What is it and What Does it Mean? David Clay, Netafim USA.
1:30-2:10 p.m. — Modern Electronic Controllers, Uses and Limitations, Eugene Carlson, CE Technical.
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MIAMI (AP) — Five things to learn from the Miami Heat's 103-100 overtime win over the San Antonio Spurs in Game 6 of the NBA Finals on Tuesday night:
LEBRON IS GOOD: Maybe it's time to put the "LeBron chokes" talk to rest. No, Game 6 of the NBA Finals was not his most offensively efficient game. He shot 11 for 26 from the floor and was very slow offensively for three quarters. And look how the game ended up: 32 points, 10 rebounds and 11 assists. His 3-pointer that got Miami within two points near the end of regulation will be overlooked because of Ray Allen's heroics, but for James to put up that kind of stat line while playing 50 minutes in a win-or-else game speaks volumes about what a second title would mean to him. He called it the best game he's ever been a part of afterward, and looked simply exhausted when it was over.
SPURS MISTAKES: More than letting Ray Allen — the best 3-point shooter in league history — get a shot off to tie the game, the final moments were an array of mistakes by the Spurs. They missed three of their eight free throws in the fourth quarter, two of those misses coming in the final 28.2 seconds. Plus, Manu Ginobili — the hero of Game 5 — committed eight turnovers by himself, and called the loss devastating afterward. Tony Parker, a Finals MVP candidate, missed 17 of his 23 shots. And substitution patterns might have played a role in the outcome as well. Spurs coach Gregg Popovich took Tim Duncan out of the game with 28.2 ticks remaining, the possession where Allen made the 3-pointer that forced overtime. If Duncan was in the game, maybe he would have had a better chance of outmuscling Chris Bosh for the rebound that saved Miami's season. (This led to another bizarre moment, that being referees allowing Duncan to return while they were reviewing the Allen 3-pointer.) Make no mistake, the Spurs locker room was an unhappy place.
BIG SHOT MARIO: Mario Chalmers loves big games, and proved that again in Game 6. Miami's point guard scored 20 points on 7 for 11 shooting, and helped keep the Heat afloat in a first half where the offense wasn't exactly clicking. Chalmers was also 4 for 5 from 3-point range, part of an 11-for-19 effort from long range by the Heat. The Spurs went just 5 for 18 from beyond the arc. The Spurs were clearly driven on keeping LeBron James from getting going, but too many of Chalmers' shots were uncontested.
DUNCAN'S FADE: Spurs forward Tim Duncan was unstoppable in the first half, with 25 points. He went just 2 for 8 after halftime, scoring only five more. Yes, he led everyone with 17 rebounds, but the Spurs absolutely needed to go to him more down the stretch. And after playing 44-plus minutes, how much Duncan will physically have left for Game 7 may now be a legitimate question, as well. Duncan benefitted from two things: The Heat not going with Udonis Haslem (who's had great moments in his career against Duncan) and a concerted effort to take the ball out of Danny Green's comfort range. Duncan nearly made the Heat pay for those choices, which wound up paying off in large part since Green missed all but one of his seven shots.
COMING UP: The final practices of the season are Wednesday, and then it's the final game of the year on Thursday night. A championship awaits someone.


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1) lennart's quote about eventually removing non-systemd support which got blown WAY out of proportion.
2) the commit that broke module loading for certain devices. Which if you actually delved into the mailing lists from lkml...the change made sense. It just broke things in process which pissed Linus off because of his "Dont break shit!" rule (a good rule) and then the udev guys made a fairly "Meh whatever" response to Linus, pissing him off more. BUT, the change they did, the re-ordering of the process for module loading that they did, made sense and was reasonable once you read the discussion and figured out what exactly happened.
I'm just gonna pick a few things at random that systemd does, this isnt meant to be comprehensive.
Hostname support: does systemd NEED be the hostname controller? No. But its such a simple thing (set HOSTNAME) I dont really see a problem with it.
Control login: Interesting idea, and im not against it mainly because of cgroups and the fact systemd tracks processes on a per-user basis no matter what (no double forking). It lets systemd properly follow what exactly started a process and by who to keep everything in line.
Rudimentary power management (Sleep, hibernate): Interesting idea, systemd controls modules being loaded and therefore it can ensure that everything is offloaded and reloaded properly.
The journal: Lennart was right about one thing: you can edit plaintext logs. (This isnt meant to be a binary vs plaintext log fight) and anyone can forge logs. Since systemd keeps absolute track of services, and processes it kind of makes sense that it would handle their logging too. The beauty here is that journal doesnt take exclusive control, I've got journal and syslog-ng running simultaneously. Journal takes messages from processes, makes its log, then forward the same messages onto syslog and then syslog does its thing.
Timezone handling: (See hostname)
Hardware clock: (see hostname)
Cron: This is one that I don't really see the point of, but as long as you can still run your own cron daemon if you want to, i dont really care lol.
udev: This is the one I'll get fought on, I know, but I'm gonna say it anyway. Systemd controls module loading as well as module logging, hardware is useless without drivers (modules), systemd also does hotplugging (multiseat) which means udev and systemd are going to be working hand in hand ANYWAY. Until such a time that Upstart, OpenRC, and SysV are all dead (AND you dont see a new competitor on the horizon) you won't see udev become hard-dependent on systemd... so whats the big deal? You can still build udev solo, you can still use it without systemd.
Side note: Every feature I mentioned except process handling (obviously) and the journal are all configurable via compile-time configure switches OR run-time configuration file values so don't jump down my throat about bloat or not being modular. Systemd has the ABILITY to do more when so desired just as it has the ABILITY to do less when so desired, which is only possible if its modular. And if its modular, then it cant be bloated because bloated implies that things are forced. Is the kernel bloated?


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