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Friday, August 9, 2013
Inferno roars through E. Africa's largest airport
Onlookers watch as black smoke billows from the international arrival unit of Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi, Kenya, Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2013. A massive fire engulfed the arrivals hall at Kenya's main international airport early Wednesday, forcing East Africa's largest airport to close and the rerouting of all inbound flights. (AP Photo/Segeni Ngethe)
Onlookers watch as black smoke billows from the international arrival unit of Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi, Kenya, Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2013. A massive fire engulfed the arrivals hall at Kenya's main international airport early Wednesday, forcing East Africa's largest airport to close and the rerouting of all inbound flights. (AP Photo/Segeni Ngethe)
Armed policemen cordon off the area as fire rages at the international arrivals unit of Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, Nairobi, Kenya, Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2013. A massive fire engulfed the arrivals hall at Kenya's main international airport early Wednesday, forcing East Africa's largest airport to close and the rerouting of all inbound flights. Dark black smoke that billowed skyward was visible across much of Nairobi as emergency teams battled the blaze. (AP Photo/Sayyid Azim)
A traveler with his luggage stands on a sidewalk as the fire rages at the international arrivals unit of Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, Nairobi, Kenya, Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2013. A massive fire engulfed the arrivals hall at Kenya's main international airport early Wednesday, forcing East Africa's largest airport to close and the rerouting of all inbound flights. Dark black smoke that billowed skyward was visible across much of Nairobi as emergency teams battled the blaze. (AP Photo/Sayyid Azim)
Kenyan air force personnel view the damage after a fire engulfed the international arrivals area of Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, in Nairobi, Kenya, on Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2013. A massive fire destroyed the arrivals hall at Kenya's main international airport early Wednesday, forcing the closure of East Africa's largest airport and the rerouting of all inbound flights. (AP Photo/Sayyid Azim)
Firefighters and airport officials view the damage caused by a fire at the international arrivals area of Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, in Nairobi, Kenya, on Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2013. A massive fire destroyed the arrivals hall at Kenya's main international airport early Wednesday, forcing the closure of East Africa's largest airport and the rerouting of all inbound flights. (AP Photo/Sayyid Azim)
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) ? A small fire at Kenya's main airport swelled into a roaring inferno Wednesday that destroyed part of East Africa's largest aviation hub and hampered air travel across the continent.
Firefighters were desperately short of equipment in an area where the county government apparently lacks a single working fire engine. Crews needed hours to get the flames under control and at one point resorted to a line of officers passing water buckets.
The early morning blaze gutted the arrival hall, forcing authorities to close the entire airport and airlines to cancel dozens of flights. The flames also charred airport banks and foreign exchange bureaus.
No serious injuries were reported.
The fire broke out on the 15th anniversary of the bombings by al-Qaida of the U.S. embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam, in neighboring Tanzania. No terror connection to the fire was immediately evident, but the blaze revived long-standing safety concerns about Jomo Kenyatta International Airport.
A statement from Kenya President Uhuru Kenyatta said the cause of the fire was being investigated and that "there is no reason to speculate at this point."
Kenya's anti-terror police boss, Boniface Mwaniki, said he was waiting for more information before completely ruling out terrorism.
Authorities last week shut down several duty-free shops at the airport, and some Kenyan media reports speculated that disgruntled parties from the forced closings may have had motive to carry out an arson attack. No government official made such an accusation Wednesday.
International airlines, including South African Airways, Etihad and Emirates, cancelled flights to Nairobi. Qatar Air said its Nairobi flights were being rerouted to the Kilimanjaro airport in Tanzania.
The domestic and departure terminals, which are separated from the arrivals hall by a road, were undamaged.
By the end of the day, the airport re-opened for domestic and cargo flights but remained closed to international flights. Officials planned to convert a domestic-flight area into an international terminal for the time being.
No U.S. carriers fly direct to Nairobi. Delta Air Lines, based in Atlanta, tried to open such a route in 2009, but the Transportation Security Administration rejected the plan because of security concerns.
Nairobi County does not have a single working fire engine, the Daily Nation, a Nairobi newspaper, reported last month. One engine, the paper said, was auctioned in 2009 because the county had not paid a $100 repair bill.
An Associated Press reporter at the airport Wednesday saw uniformed officers line up with buckets in hand, apparently to battle the blaze.
Many of the units that battled Wednesday's fire were from private security firms and had to fight airport traffic to get there.
Fire trucks and ambulances on the way to the airport "were trying to weave their way through a solid two lanes of cars," said Barry Fisher, whose flight to Ethiopia was canceled.
Nairobi is the capital of East Africa's largest economy, but public-sector services such as police and fire departments are hobbled by small budgets, corrupt money managers and outdated equipment or a complete lack of equipment.
A top government official at the scene of the fire said an initial assessment shows that a complacent response helped a small fire grow into an uncontrollable conflagration.
Some airport fire engines were not filled with water and others did not have personnel to drive them, said the official, who insisted on anonymity because he was not authorized to release details of an ongoing investigation.
Michael Kamau, the cabinet secretary for transport and infrastructure, said the fire began at 5 a.m. in the immigration section of the arrivals hall.
Inbound flights were diverted to the coastal city of Mombasa, he said.
Other flights were diverted to Dar es Salaam, the Kenyan cities of Eldoret and Kisumu and Entebbe, Uganda, according to Kenya's Red Cross.
Kenya Airways, the country's flagship carrier, diverted five flights to Mombasa and said all of its passengers in transit were being moved to hotels. The airline reported that one passenger and one employee suffered from smoke inhalation.
Medr Gudru, a 66-year-old German, had hoped to fly home on Wednesday but the fire stranded him.
"This is too much. It was very nice here but this is just a mess," he said.
Jane Waikenda, director of the Department of Immigration Services, tweeted in a bid to soothe frayed nerves. She said officials were "doing what must be done" to restore immigration services. But, she added moments later, "you can never please everyone."
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Thursday, August 8, 2013
Search and rescue volunteers honored as Festival at Mount Si parade marshals | Photo gallery
By CAROL LADWIG
Snoqualmie Valley Record Staff Reporter
August 7, 2013 ? 11:25 AM
Bree Loewen sees things pretty clearly, and acts accordingly. When she and her husband, Russell Anschell, found themselves in the mountains every weekend, they decided to move to North Bend. Since they are ?heavy back-country users,? she said it only made sense for them to volunteer with Seattle Mountain Rescue. Because they have a 5-year-old daughter, she is a stay-at-home mom, and they avoid working on the same missions, to minimize their risks.
It all sounds logical enough, but that?s not all there is to Loewen?s commitment.
?It really comes down to ?this is our community,?? she says. ?We?ve been doing this for such a long time and I think people have really come to rely on us.?
Loewen, a volunteer with King County Search and Rescue since she was 15, will represent the organization as grand marshal of the Festival at Mount Si parade Saturday.
Festival volunteer Tina Brandon, who chose the 490-member organization for the honor, said by e-mail that she always tries to choose a grand marshal with ?a real connection to the community?that will bring a smile or maybe a tear to the crowd.?
Brandon, who?s lived near the Mount Si trailhead for 15 years and seen a lot of search and rescue efforts in that time, described how some of the recent incidents on the mountain ? the 2012 plane crash and a missing skydiver earlier this year, as well as the overwhelming response from SAR volunteers ?moved her to tears.
?I can?t think of anyone more deserving than (they) all are. Or anyone more likely to get a great response from the crowd,? she said.
Loewen, meanwhile, feels that she gets as much from her volunteer work as she gives. First, she says, ?This is a beautiful place. There?s a reason we all live out here.?
A lifelong climber, she says ?This is my user group, and these people are my friends.?
These people include her community, and the 51-member Seattle Mountain Rescue branch of Search and Rescue, in which she is the training chairperson.
SMR is one of eight branches in King County, and as the technical mountaineering experts of the organization, they are often in the North Bend area, where, she says, more than 90 percent of all Search and Rescue missions take place, ?between Snoqualmie Pass and North Bend.?
?We come out on almost all of the missions that happen in King County,? she continued. ?We do all the technical rescue and anything in mountaineering, anything that?s difficult to access. We also provide a lot of field leadership.?
Last year, rescue organizations in King County were sent on 128 missions, and SMR was on 99 of them.? The most common call? Ankle injuries.
?We probably get maybe 15 or 20 broken ankles a year between Rattlesnake, Mount Si, Tiger Mountain ? those are the big three ? and Mailbox,? she says. ?Those have the largest numbers of users, so it?s just statistical, it?s going to happen there.?
Loewen has volunteered and worked for Search and Rescue agencies in other places in the past, she said, but has never found the level of teamwork and professionalism she has here.
?It?s kind of unparalleled,? she says, thinking about past missions. ?Just the number of people it takes to carry out someone with a sprained ankle ? It takes 30 people, because after you carry someone for a few minutes, your arms burn up.?
Also, because the volunteers are all recreational mountain users themselves, ?There?s a feeling, whenever we go to get someone, that we?re getting one of our own.?
Last year, Loewen went on 33 missions, some of them multiple days. She says she has ?a great setup? for childcare when she?s on a mission, with both her parents and in-laws nearby, but she is also aware of the risks she?s running every time she goes on a mission, especially with her husband, a construction worker, doing the same volunteer work.
?We definitely made some conscious decisions not to be on the same team at the same time,? she said, and family members understand.
?It?s rare to go a year without rescuing someone that I know,? Loewen said, and ?I think my family has come to recognize that I?m giving back to a group that will probably come get me one day!?
Giving back is a challenge at times, requiring ?an enormous amount of training,? and a minimum number of missions each year. Then there are the missions themselves.
?Usually these things tend to start in the middle of the night ? I don?t know why that is,? Loewen said on a recent Monday morning. ?Whenever it?s least convenient, 2 a.m. Monday morning is very popular, and there was one that actually started at 5 a.m. this morning??
Rescuers tend to keep their gear packed and ready to go, so they can respond quickly, she says, then "we'll meet in base and sort of discuss the overall big picture, what we're going to do, formulate a plan, go through an incident action plan, then head into the field and take care of it."
Sounds simple enough, and in some ways, it is. "We do feel like we're part of the community," she said. "We don't judge and we don't charge."
Because she has a daughter interested in climbing and back-country skiing, too, she wants to keep things that simple.
"There's always the desire, as a parent, to have your child take up table-tennis," she said, but "You want to live life, doing what you want to do, and I want that for her, too. I'll just teach her to do everything right, and make her read Accidents in North American Mountainering!"
Knowing the excellent response that people get from King County Search and Rescue, Loewen will probably keep her daughter close to home, too.
"This is a great place to get injured," she says, laughing. "I would not want to get hurt anywhere but King County."
SMR members train for a river rescue last January.
Members of Seattle Mountain Rescue take a break during a training exercise.
Search and Rescue volunteers assemble for high line training at Denny Creek.
Setting out on a training mission, Seattle Mountain Rescue members, from left, are: Josh Ferris, Bree Loewen, Garth Bruce, Russel Anschell and Ryan Cross.
A group photo of Seattle Mountain Rescue volunteers.
Rescuers make their way up Guy Peak in a 2011 training exercise.
More ropes training by SAR members.
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Contact Snoqualmie Valley Record Staff Reporter Carol Ladwig at cladwig@valleyrecord.com.Source: http://feeds.soundpublishing.com/~r/svrlifestyles/~3/U65lRjR4-3k/218714531.html
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Sunday, February 24, 2013
User accounts and services Windows 7 Pro x64
I would like to create two user accounts in Windows 7 Pro x64, each with their own separate running services. One account with just about all services running and a second account with just the bare minimum for playing games.
I tried doing this but found out that the services settings stay the same on both accounts. If I turn a service off on account one, that same service is disabled in account two even if I completely log out of account one.
Is there any way around this or is duel booting the only solution?
Thanks for your help.
Source: http://www.sevenforums.com/general-discussion/279815-user-accounts-services-windows-7-pro-x64.html
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Ford to pay CEO bonus at leaving
SOUTHFIELD, Mich. ? Ford will pay a bonus to CEO Alan Mulally after his employment ends as reward for leading the second-largest U.S. automaker through its turnaround.
The payment will be based on Ford?s contributions to Mulally?s company retirement and benefit equalization plans, the Dearborn, Mich., company said in a regulatory filing. Ford reported net income of $5.67 billion for 2012 and its shares climbed 20 percent, outpacing the Standard & Poor?s 500 Index?s 13 percent rise.
The agreement for the payment was dated Feb. 13 and is ?a clarification of a prior agreement,? said Jay Cooney, a company spokesman.
?Nothing has changed.? No amounts were disclosed in the accord.
Ford reclaimed investment-grade credit ratings and paid out its first dividend since 2006 on the strength of its namesake brand, the only vehicle line to top 2 million U.S. sales last year.
Mulally, 67, has instituted a global product development plan called One Ford to boost profits by selling the same models globally, rather than different versions for various regions.
Ford has earned $35.2 billion the past four years after losing $30.1 billion from 2006 through 2008. Executive Chairman Bill Ford elevated Mark Fields to chief operating officer in December from president of the Americas, positioning the 23-year veteran of the company to succeed Mulally after 2014.
Mulally?s compensation for 2012, including salary and benefits, will be revealed in the company?s proxy statement. Ford rewarded Mulally with stock worth $58.3 million in March of last year and $56.6 million a year earlier.
Ford also provided some detail on the Venezuelan government?s Feb. 8 decision to devalue its currency to an exchange rate of 6.3 bolivars to the U.S. dollar and the effect that move will have on the automaker?s operations in the country.
Ford had $620 million in net monetary assets denominated in Venezuelan bolivars as of the end of last year, according to last week?s filing. Ford would have recorded a translation loss of about $200 million in its year-end financial statements had the devaluation occurred before the end of last year, the company said.
?Our ability to obtain funds at the official exchange rate has been limited,? Ford said in the Feb. 19 filing. ?Continuing restrictions on the foreign currency exchange market could affect our Venezuelan operations? ability to pay obligations denominated in U.S. dollars as well as our ability to benefit from those operations.?
The automaker also reported that North American automotive employment increased to 80,000 at the end of 2012 from 75,000 a year earlier. Total Ford employment increased 4.3 percent to 171,000.
Rising demand for F-Series pickups in Ford?s home market paced a record $8.34 billion annual pretax profit for the company?s operations in North America.
Source: http://www.journalgazette.net/article/20130224/BIZ/302249906/-1/BIZ09
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Wednesday, February 20, 2013
Obama reaches out to three key Republicans on immigration reform
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama reached out directly on Tuesday to key Republican senators negotiating a sweeping U.S. immigration overhaul and urged them to help craft a bipartisan reform bill as soon as possible.
Facing criticism for not getting personally involved in the delicate process on Capitol Hill, Obama made phone calls to three U.S. senators - Marco Rubio, John McCain and Lindsey Graham - part of a "Gang of Eight" group of Republicans and Democrats working on an immigration package.
Obama stepped in amid tensions with Republicans over the weekend leak of details of a backup immigration reform plan the White House is drafting in case the congressional effort stalls or breaks down.
The Democratic president told the three Republicans that he supports the Senate immigration initiative and "hopes that they can produce a bill as soon as possible that reflects shared core principles on reform," the White House said in a statement.
But repeating a warning that Obama has already issued in public, the White House also said "he is prepared to submit his own legislation if Congress fails to act."
Rubio, a rising Cuban-American star in his party and considered crucial to winning conservative backing for any reform deal, had dismissed the White House draft, which included an eight-year path to citizenship for illegal immigrants, as seriously flawed and "dead on arrival in Congress."
Rubio's office had denied assertions by the White House over the weekend that it had been engaged with them on the immigration issue, but administration officials insisted again on Tuesday that the sides had held a series of staff-level meetings.
Obama's calls on Tuesday, including one to Rubio while he was visiting Jerusalem, may help calm the waters for now.
"Senator Rubio appreciated receiving President Obama's phone call to discuss immigration reform," said Rubio spokesman Alex Conant. "The senator told the president that he feels good about the ongoing negotiations in the Senate, and is hopeful the final product is something that can pass the Senate with strong bipartisan support."
Obama emphasized in last week's State of the Union address the importance of creating a clear path to citizenship for the estimated 11 million immigrants who are in the United States illegally.
Many Republicans stress that there must first be measurable progress in securing the nation's borders, a condition that will be hard for the president to accept if it drags out the legalization process.
The White House, however, is counting on many Republicans feeling the pressure to move swiftly on immigration reform after they were chastened by Latino voters' rejection in the November election.
Obama, who met last week with top Democrats involved in the Senate effort, told the Republicans on Tuesday that "commonsense reform needs to include strengthening border security, creating an earned path to citizenship, holding employers accountable, and streamlining legal immigration," the White House said.
"He thanked the senators for their leadership, and made clear that he and his staff look forward to continuing to work together with their teams to achieve needed reform," the White House said.
(Additional reporting by Roberta Rampton and Rachelle Younglai; Editing by Lisa Shumaker)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/obama-reaches-three-key-republicans-immigration-reform-000735851.html
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