H.S. Golf Roundup: Sir Bills down Huskies, 175-187

JOHNSTOWN - Chris Geleta shot a 3-over 39 to lead the Johnstown Sir Bills to a 175-187 victory over Gloversville in Foothills Council golf action Thursday at Fox Run Golf Course.

Ben Wager added a round of 44 to the Sir Bills' score, while Richie Lee and Chris Renda both carded 46s.

Gloversville's Josh Fonda earned medalist honors for the match with his 2-over 38. Kyle Johnston and Justin Putnam both shot 49, while Anthony Ponticello turned in a 50.

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Johnstown?s Ben Wager warms up for Thursday?s Foothills Council match against Gloversville at Fox Run Golf Course. (The Leader-Herald/Bill Trojan)

Gloversville?s Dylan Sweeney warms up on the practice green for Thursday?s match against Johnstown at Fox Run Golf Course. (The Leader-Herald/Bill Trojan)

Scotia-Glenville 155, Broadalbin-Perth 161

SCHENECTADY - Broadalbin-Perth's Alex Bond earned medalist honors for the match with his round of 36.

The Tartans picked up the win in the match behind David Renko's 37, Tyler Popp's 39, Scott Stopera's 39 and Dan Omicinski's 40.

Rounding out the scoring for the Patriots (5-7 Foothills, 6-7 overall) were Brett Getman (39), Noah Scott (42) and Brent Bochenek (44).

Big 10

Amsterdam 176, Bishop Gibbons 227

AMSTERDAM - The Amsterdam Rams wrapped up their Big 10 season with an 8-4 record after winning Thursday at Amsterdam Municipal Golf Course.

James Phelps led the Rams with his round of 41, while Andy Madej turned in a 43 and Jon LaBahn and Corey Tambasco both shot 46.

Daniel Jameson led NDBG with his 51, followed by Michael Mattice (57), Michael Belcher (59) and Victoria Maddaline (60).

WAC

Canajoharie 10, Schoharie 5

CANAJOHARIE - Michael Balfe shot a 46 to lead the Cougars to victory Thursday at Canajoharie Country Club.

He was joined in the victory by Buck Anderson's 49, Ari Boslet's 52 and Soren Hudyncia's 53.

Schoharie was paced by Joe Polly's 49, while Cole Chase shot 50, Darryl Silverlies 53 and Tyler Schoeffler 55.

Source: http://www.leaderherald.com/page/content.detail/id/558782.html

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Atom bomb nearly exploded over North Carolina in 1961: UK paper

LONDON (Reuters) - A U.S. atom bomb nearly exploded in 1961 over North Carolina that would have been 260 times more powerful than the device that devastated Hiroshima, according to a declassified document published in a British newspaper on Friday.

The Guardian newspaper said the document, obtained by investigative journalist Eric Schlosser under the Freedom of Information Act, gave the first conclusive evidence that the United States came close to a disaster in January 1961.

The incident happened when two Mark 39 hydrogen bombs were accidentally dropped over Goldsboro, North Carolina, after a B-52 bomber broke up in midair.

There has been persistent speculation about how serious the incident was and the U.S. government has repeatedly denied its nuclear arsenal put Americans' lives at risk through safety flaws, the newspaper said.

But the newly published document said one of the two bombs behaved exactly in the manner of a nuclear weapon in wartime, with its parachute opening and its trigger mechanisms engaged. Only one low-voltage switch prevented a cataclysm.

Fallout could have spread over Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia and even New York City, the paper said, threatening the lives of millions of people.

In the document, Parker Jones, a senior engineer in the Sandia National Laboratories responsible for the mechanical safety of nuclear weapons, concluded that "one simple, dynamo-technology, low-voltage switch stood between the United States and a major catastrophe."

Jones' report, titled "Goldsboro Revisited or: How I Learned to Mistrust the H-Bomb," was written eight years after the accident in which one hydrogen bomb fell into a field near Faro, North Carolina, and the other into a meadow.

He found that three of four safety mechanisms designed to prevent unintended detonation failed to operate properly in the Faro bomb.

When the bomb hit the ground, a firing signal was sent to the nuclear core of the device and it was only the final, highly vulnerable switch that averted a disaster.

"The MK 39 Mod 2 bomb did not possess adequate safety for the airborne alert role in the B-52," Jones concluded.

The Guardian said the document was found by Schlosser as he was researching a new book on the nuclear arms race, "Command and Control."

(Reporting by Belinda Goldsmith; Editing by Xavier Briand)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/atom-bomb-nearly-exploded-over-north-carolina-1961-230654850.html

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GameCase is a third-party iOS game controller for iPad and iPhone

Following the rollout of the iOS 7 update for Apple's mobile devices and tablets this week, ClamCase revealed the GameCase, its third-party iOS game controller for iPad and iPhone devices.

Apple announced that iOS 7 will add support for third-party game controllers to the hardware via new MFi controller framework during its WWDC 2013 keynote presentation in June. Similar in basic atheistic design to Microsoft's Xbox 360 controller, GameCase features trigger buttons, dual analog sticks, an interface button, directional pad, shoulder buttons, a non-slip rubber surface and four face buttons.

According to the announcement, the company is currently working with iOS developers to create ClamCase supported games. The GameCase supports iPad 2, iPad Mini, iPhone5/5S/5C and iPhone 4/4S.

Release date and pricing information was not available at the time of writing. Interested parties are invited to register on the peripheral's official website to be notified when pre-orders open.

Source: http://www.polygon.com/2013/9/19/4750598/gamecase-is-a-third-party-ios-game-controller-for-ipad-and-iphone

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Navy Yard shooting highlights military's security flaws

Members of the FBI unload boxes from a large truck near the front gate of the Washington Naval Yard Sept. 17 in Washington, DC. Thirteen people were shot and killed by a lone gunman during a shooting rampage at the Navy Yard the day before. (Jim Watson, AFP/Getty Images)

Key details of the massacre at Washington's Navy Yard are just beginning to emerge, but the attack offers an unsettling reminder that many military facilities have soft underbellies when it comes to security.

Visitors to the Pentagon walk past guards armed with assault rifles and then pass through an outside building equipped with state-of-the-art metal detectors. Once they enter the Pentagon itself, the first thing they see is another booth manned by heavily armed security personnel.

The Pentagon is very much the exception, however. Washington, Maryland and Virginia are dotted with dozens of military bases and Defense Department office buildings, and both types of facilities have significant potential security gaps, according to experts in the field.

At military posts like the sprawling Marine base in Quantico, Va., for instance, virtually anyone with one of the Common Access Cards (CAC) issued to troops, civilian Defense Department employees and government contractors can enter the facility without being patted down or made to go through a metal detector.

Aaron Alexis, the primary suspect in the Navy Yard shootings, was a Navy information technology contractor, and appeared to have a government-contractor access card of his own, according to his company, The Experts. Figuring out how Alexis managed to enter the compound with at least one semiautomatic weapon is a top priority for the FBI agents leading the investigation into the shootings.

"The primary element of security is limiting access for people who don't have the need to be in a given place," said Ian Kanski, a former Marine Corps force protection officer who also worked as a private security contractor overseas. "We have an overabundance of universal access in the military. I've been out of the Marines since 2006. Should I still have a card that allows me to get onto almost any base?"

The hundreds of thousands of people with CAC cards aren't the only ones who have a relatively easy time making their way onto military posts. Many bases also allow veterans with valid military retiree ID cards to enter the posts so they can receive medical care at the facilities' hospitals and medical clinics, or shop at subsidized supermarkets.

Some bases search the veterans' cars, but the retired troops themselves are almost never patted down or asked to go through metal detectors. That would theoretically make it easy for a potential assailant to smuggle a firearm onto the base.

The Defense Department's office buildings in and around Washington present a different kind of risk. Unlike military posts, the buildings are generally protected by private security guards who are either unarmed or equipped solely with a sidearm. The entrances have metal detectors, but government employees or contractors with ID cards for the buildings are often allowed to bypass them, according to personnel who work at three of the Defense facilities.

Fred Burton, the vice president for intelligence at Stratfor and a former State Department counterterrorism agent, said human nature made it even harder to guard against insider attacks like the one that appears to have taken place at the Navy Yard.

"Guards, even good ones, can have familiarity fatigue where they see the same guy every day and decide to just wave him through," he said.

Kanski said that preventing that type of complacency is the biggest challenge facing the security personnel charged with preventing people like Alexis from taking the lives of their friends and colleagues.

"Security is only as good as the human element implementing it," he said. "If that falls short, all the security measures in the world won't be enough to keep something like this from happening again."

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Week Ahead: Fed Speakers Hit The Mic, China HSBC Manufacturing PMI, US Q2 GDP (Final), Japan CPI

The Fed officials are set to discuss the economic and monetary-policy topics that presumably were on the table during the Federal Open Market Committee meeting that concluded last Wednesday. The FOMC said the U.S. economic data isn?t quite convincing enough to warrant winding down its stimulus efforts, so it now ?needs to provide additional clarity on how they will react to news on the labor market, inflation, and financial conditions,? Bank of America Merrill Lynch?s Michael Hanson said in a note.

The data releases scheduled for next week are likely to show consumer spending rose a bit in August, consumer confidence fell a bit in September and new-home sales managed only the slightest of rebounds in August. Investors will also get the final regularly scheduled reading on second-quarter growth in the U.S. gross domestic product.

Markets will probably be paying a lot of attention to developments in Congress. ?Unless a deal is agreed to extend the federal government?s spending authority, a partial shutdown will be triggered at the start of October,? said Paul Ashworth, chief U.S. economist at Capital Economics. ?Beyond that, Congress also has to raise the debt ceiling, or a shutdown will begin in mid-October when the Treasury runs out of money.?

In Europe, attention will be focused on the outcome of the German federal elections on Sunday and the subsequent coalition negotiations. (See 4 Things To Know About Sunday?s German Election.)

Also in the coming week, the French budget for 2014 will confirm there is significantly more austerity to come, including contentious cuts to welfare spending, according to Capital Economics? Jennifer McKeown.

On the data front, euro-zone business surveys for September should reveal further improvement, suggesting that a moderate recovery will continue into the third quarter. But monetary data are likely to show that bank lending remained very weak in August.

It will be a relatively quiet week in the U.K. Economists expect Q2 GDP to be unrevised at 0.7 percent and further solid gains in service-sector output and home prices.

There are two data releases of note next week in Japan, centering on its August consumer price index, or CPI, and small business confidence.

Elsewhere, the HSBC Flash China Manufacturing Purchasing Managers? Index, or PMI, compiled by Markit will provide an early look at the performance of China?s manufacturing sector this month, while Vietnam is due to publish third-quarter GDP figures: However, the fact the data are published before the end of the quarter raises questions about their reliability.

Below are entries on the economic calendar Sept. 23-27. All listed times are EDT.

Monday

8:58 a.m. -- Markit Flash U.S. Manufacturing PMI for September.

9:20 a.m. -- Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta President Dennis P. Lockhart (a nonvoter on the FOMC this year) speaks on ?Drivers of Economic Recovery and Growth? before the Blouin Creative Leadership Summit in New York.

9:30 a.m. -- Federal Reserve Bank of New York President William C. Dudley (a voter on the FOMC) speaks before the Fordham Wall Street Council in New York.

1:30 p.m. -- Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas President Richard W. Fisher (a nonvoter on the FOMC this year) speaks on ?Banking Conditions in Texas and the U.S. and Comments on Too Big to Fail? before the Independent Bankers Association of Texas Annual Convention.

Non-U.S.:

Euro zone -- European Central Bank President Mario Draghi speaks before the European Parliament in Brussels.

Euro zone -- September flash manufacturing, services and composite PMIs.

France -- September flash manufacturing and services PMIs.

Germany -- September flash manufacturing and services PMIs.

Tuesday

9 a.m. -- Economists expect the S&P Case-Shiller home price index to rise 0.8 percent month-on-month in July, a bit softer than the increases observed in recent months, leaving the index up 12.3 percent from a year ago. The 20-city index has posted gains in every month since February of last year, and economists look for this momentum to continue.

9 a.m. -- Federal Housing Finance Agency home price index for July.

10 a.m. -- Consumer confidence is expected to fall to 79.8 in September from 81.5 in August, mirroring the decline in the preliminary release of the closely correlated University of Michigan consumer-sentiment index. Gasoline prices have begun to rise, mortgage rates have also continued to inch higher, and economic data since August have been mixed.

10 a.m. -- Richmond Fed manufacturing index for September.

Non-U.S.:

Euro zone -- ECB Vice President Vitor Constancio speaks at the presentation of the German Bernacer prize for promoting economic research in Madrid.

Euro zone -- ECB Executive Board Member Benoit Coeure speaks before the Bank of Finland.

Euro zone -- ECB Executive Board Member Yves Mersch speaks at the annual general meeting of the Austrian Bank Scientific Society in Vienna.

Spain -- Budget, year-to-date.

Vietnam -- September CPI.

Netherlands -- Final Q2 GDP.

Germany -- September IFO business-sentiment index.

Wednesday

7 a.m. -- The Mortgage Bankers Association?s, or MBA?s, Mortgage Index for the week ending Sept. 20.

8:30 a.m. -- Following a sharp 7.4 percent, drop in durable-goods orders in July, economists are forecasting only a modest increase of 0.2 percent in August. A rebound in core orders is likely to be partly offset by a decline in the aircraft component. The Boeing Co. (NYSE:BA) reported orders for only 16 aircraft last month, down from 90 in July and 287 in June.

10 a.m. -- The sharp 13.4 percent month-on-month drop in new-home sales in July reflected the impact of the steady rise in mortgage interest rates over the past four months. Sales are unlikely to have made much of a comeback in August. Economists expect new-home sales to increase 6.6 percent month-on-month to 420,000 in August.

Non-U.S.:

France -- Government presents 2014 budget.

Australia -- Reserve Bank of Australia Financial Stability Review.

U.K. -- Bank of England Financial Policy Committee statement on September meeting.

Euro zone -- ECB Executive Board Member Joerg Asmussen speaks at the Commerzbank Conference in Frankfurt.

Thailand -- August customs exports.

Germany -- October GfK consumer confidence.

Thursday

8:30 a.m. -- Economists expect initial jobless claims to climb to 325,000 for the week ending Sept. 21 from 309,000 in the prior week.

8:30 a.m. -- Data releases since the second estimate of Q2 GDP do not suggest a significant revision from the reported 2.5 percent. The consensus estimate stands at 2.6 percent for the final regularly scheduled reading of Q2 GDP. The core personal-consumption-expenditure deflator is expected to remain at 0.8 percent.

10 a.m. -- Pending home sales are forecast to decline by 0.7 percent month-on-month in August. Sales have fallen for two consecutive months following a strong 5.8 percent month-on-month jolt in May.

10:10 a.m. -- Federal Reserve Board Gov. Jeremy C. Stein (a voter on the FOMC) participates in a ?Yield-Oriented Investors and the Monetary Transmission Mechanism? panel before the Symposium Honoring Raghuram G. Rajan: Banking, Liquidity, and Monetary Policy in Germany. Note: Watch live webcast by clicking here.

12:15 p.m. -- Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis President Narayana Kocherlakota (a nonvoter on the FOMC this year) speaks on ?Monetary Policy Strategy? before the Rotary Club of Houghton Rotary in Michigan.

9:15 p.m. -- Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City President Esther L. George (a voter on the FOMC this year) speaks on the U.S. economy before the Kansas City Fed?s Colorado Economic Forum in Denver.

Non-U.S.:

Euro zone -- ECB Executive Board Member Asmussen speaks at a forum organized by the American Chambers of Commerce in Berlin.

Euro zone -- ECB Executive Board Member Mersch speaks at the annual European Supervisor Education conference in Frankfurt.

Euro zone -- ECB Vice President Vitor Constancio speaks on liquidity and monetary policy in Frankfurt.

Euro zone -- ECB Executive Board Member Coeure speaks at a meeting of the Money Marketeers of New York University in New York.

Singapore -- August industrial production.

U.K. -- Q2 GDP final release.

Japan -- August nationwide CPI.

Friday

5:45 a.m. -- Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago President Charles L. Evans (a voter on the FOMC this year) speaks before the Norges Bank?s ?The Role of Monetary Policy Revisited? conference in Norway.

8:30 a.m. -- Federal Reserve Bank of Boston President Eric S. Rosengren (a voter on the FOMC this year) gives opening remarks before the New York Fed?s Conference on Stable Funding.

8:30 a.m. -- Economists forecast personal income to rise by 0.4 percent month-on-month in August and personal spending to rise 0.3 percent. The core PCE deflator probably rose 0.1 percent last month, similar to CPI growth.

9:55 a.m. -- The University of Michigan survey of consumer sentiment will likely show a final reading of 78.0 in September, compared with a print of 76.8 in the preliminary survey.

10:15 a.m. -- Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago President Evans participates in panel before the Norges Bank?s ?The Role of Monetary Policy Revisited? conference in Norway.

2 p.m. -- Federal Reserve Bank of New York President Dudley speaks on the economy before the Syracuse University Whitman School of Management in Syracuse, N.Y.

Non-U.S.:

Euro zone -- ECB President Draghi speaks at Bocconi University in Milan, Italy.

Germany -- Preliminary September CPI, harmonized index of consumer prices.

Thailand -- August manufacturing production.

France -- Final Q2 GDP.

Euro zone -- Final consumer confidence for September.

Sources: Central banks, European Commission, Reuters, Market News, Capital Economics, Barclays, Bank of America Merrill Lynch.

Source: http://www.ibtimes.com/week-ahead-fed-speakers-hit-mic-china-hsbc-manufacturing-pmi-us-q2-gdp-final-japan-cpi-1409174

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Mayor Fires Entire Volunteer Fire Department

United States?(Iowa) - The mayor of a small Jones County community fired the town's entire volunteer fire department Monday night. Onslow Fire Chief Darrin Schaefer said he's still trying to figure out why the move was made. Mayor Curtis Thornhill said the cut was spurred by the fire department's noncompliance with a city-wide audit.

"The fire department here is reluctant to provide the auditor with information that's needed to complete this audit," Thornhill said Wednesday. "This constitutes an unfavorable light on the city and possibly gives the city a negative audit."

Schaefer said he went to a city council meeting Monday night and delivered the fire chief's report.

"After my report, the mayor made the announcement that -- effective in 30 days -- he's firing the volunteer fire department," Schaefer said.

Schaefer, who has been with the nine member volunteer department for nearly 20 years and chief for the last nine, said he has "no idea" why Thornhill dissolved the department. Schaefer said he spoke with city council members and they also had no insights on Thornhill's decision-making. Three members of the fire department sit on the city council.

"They don't know what to say about it," Schaefer said.

Thornhill, who has been mayor for two years and served one year as a city councilor prior to that, said his decision came after two months of trying to get information from the fire department as part of an audit. Onslow is preparing to embark on a $1.3 million sewer project and the audit is part of that process.

Complicating the issue is the Smoke Eaters, an association formed in 2004 by members of the Onslow Fire Department. Schaefer said the city requested the association be formed to distance the fire department from the city in the event of a lawsuit. The Smoke Eaters is made up of firefighters and non-firefighters and conducts fundraising to buy firefighting equipment, which Schaefer said the association allows the city to use.

Thornhill said the city discovered the Smoke Eaters have been operating as a nonprofit organization, despite losing that designation in 2007.

"When it came up, the citizens requested a city audit," Thornhill said. "That's when all heck broke loose. They're reluctant to provide the auditor with the necessary information the auditor needs to complete the city audit."

Schaefer said the Smoke Eaters did lose their nonprofit status when the IRS changed its rules about filing. The Smoke Eaters failed to file necessary paperwork and lost its nonprofit organization designation.

"It fell through the cracks," he said, adding the association has reapplied to be a nonprofit.

Thornhill said he wants financial information from the fire department on their $5,600 budget, as well as finances from the Smoke Eaters. He suggested that some money may have been mishandled or misappropriated. A potential criminal investigation, involving two federal agencies Thornhill declined to identify, is underway.

Schaefer called Thornhill's comments an "interesting accusation" and "speculation on his part."

Schaefer scoffed at the notion he had mishandled any money. He said the city clerk handles all of the fire department's finances. He said the Smoke Eaters' finances are separate from the city's and not subject to the audit.

The whole matter can be put to rest if Schaefer turns over the financial documents for the Smoke Eaters, Thornhill said.

"It's a simple matter of providing the auditors and the city with the records that they should have," he said. "That's the bottom line."

What happens when the 30 days is up remains to be seen. In the meantime, Schaefer said if Onslow residents are concerned what will happen if the fire department is terminated, they should contact the city council.

"You need to tell your city council what your feeling is, what your thoughts are," he said. "People of the community need to realize they need to have their voices heard."

Written by Gazette (Cedar Rapids, IA)

Source: http://www.firefightingnews.com/article.cfm?articleID=105164

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