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www.herald-review.com Tuesd No 4, 2014 ur, Ill IN I A9 www.herald-review.com Tuesd No 4, 2014 ur, Ill IN I A A9 NEW YORK (AP) The silvery, foot skyscraper that rose from the ashes of to become a symbol of American resilience opened for business Monday, as 175 employees of the magazine publishing giant Conde Nast settled into their first day of work in their new offices. One World Trade official opening marked a symbolic return to some sense of normalcy or the site where the towers toppled more than 13 years ago. New York City skyline is whole said Patrick Foye, executive director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which owns both the building and the 16-acre World Trade Center site. Steps away from the new tower are two memorial fountains built on the footprints of the decimated twin towers, a reminder of the more than 2,700 people who died in the terrorist attack. Conde Nast, publisher of Vogue, The New Yorker and Vanity Fair, is expected to move in about 3,000 more employees by early next year, eventually occupying 25 floors of the $3.9 billion, 104-story tower, the tallest building.

Amid celebratory tour of parts of 1 World Trade Center, Conde Nast officials declined to comment on possible fears about working in the new building. oye counters that most secure office building in And its chief architect, T.J. Gottesdiener, said the high- rise was built with steel-reinforced concrete that makes it as terror attack-proof as pos sible, much stronger than the original towers that collapsed on themselves when the hijacked planes hit. The stairwells are built with a hardened concrete core, and wider to allow firefighters to move while people exit. The mechanical systems are also encased in hardened oncrete.

my son told me he had a job in the trade center Tower 1, I would have no qualms about him being Gottesdie ner said. After 9 he said, architects took pains to figure out new ways to make a high-rise safer, working with the New York Fire Department, buildings officials and police, while learning from new techniques from construction in cities worldwide. Finally, computerized simulations were used to calculate what would happen with people in the building. One World Trade Center is 60 percent leased, with another 80,000 square feet going to the advertising firm Kids Creative, the stadium operator Legends Hospitality, the BMB Group investment adviser, and Servcorp, a provider of executive offices. The General Services Administration signed up for 275,000 square feet, and the China Center, a trade and cultural facility, will cover 191,000 square feet.

The space is at the top of the global price range, at $69 per square foot below the 63rd floor, and $80 to $100 going up. The eight-year construction of the skyscraper came after years of political, financial and legal infighting that threatened to derail the pr oject. The bickering slowly died down as two other towers started going up on the southeast end of the site: the now-completed 4 Wor ld Trade Center whose anchor tenant is the Port Authority, which started moving in last week, and 3 World Trade Center, which is slowly rising. The area has prospered in recent years. About 60,000 more residents now live in the area, three times more than before keeping streets, restaurants and shops alive even after Wall Street and other offices close for the day.

Trade center reopens Magazine giant to occupy 25 floors of New York tower Associated Press One World Trade Center is shown in the background, as people gather, bottom, for a groundbreaking ceremony at the site of the St. Nicholas National Shrine in New York. WASHINGTON (AP) A cyberattack similar to previous hacker intrusions from China penetrated computer networks for months at USIS, the leading security clear ance contractor, before the company noticed, officials and others familiar with an FBI investigation and related official inquiries told The Associated Press. The bre ach, first revealed by the company and government agencies in August, compromised the private records of at least 25 ,000 employees at the Homeland Security Department and cost the company hundreds of millions of dollars in lost government contracts. In addition to trying to identify the perpetrators and evaluate the scale of the stolen mat erial, the government inquiries have prompted concerns about why computer detection alarms inside the company failed to quickly notice the hackers and whether federal agencies that hired the company should have monitored its practices more closely.

Former employees of the firm, U.S. Investigations Services LLC, also have raised questions about wh the company and the government failed to ensure that outdated background reports containing personal data regular ly purged from the computers. Det ails about the investigation and related inquiries were described federal officials and others familiar with the case. A computer forensics analysis by consultants hired by the lawyers defended handling of the breach, noting it was the firm that reported the incident. The analysis said government agencies regularly reviewed and approved the early warning system.

In the analysis, submitted to federal officials in September and obtained by the AP, the consultants criticized the decision in August to indefinitely halt the background investigations. USIS eported the cyberat tack to federal authorities June 5, more than two months before acknowledging it publicly. The attack had hallmarks similar to past intrusions by Chinese hackers, according to people familiar with the investigation. Last March, hackers traced to China were reported to have penetrated computers at the Office of Personnel Management, the federal agency that oversees most background investigations of government workers and has contracted extensively with USIS. In a brief interview, Joseph Demarest, assistant director of the cyber division, described the hack against USIS as but said still working through that as He added: is some as to who was responsible, but he declined to comment further.

For many people, the impact of the USIS break-in is dwarfed by recent intrusions that exposed credit and private records of millions of customers at JPMorgan Chase Target Corp. and Home Depot Inc. But significant because the government relies heavily on contractors to vet U.S. workers in sensitive jobs. The possibility that national security background investigations are vulnerable to cyber- espionage ould undermine the integrity of the verification system used to review more than 5 million go vernment workers and contract employees.

Security contractor breach went undetected Months passed before company realized intrusion BOSTON (AP) Tom Magliozzi, half of the brothers duo who hosted National Public where they antered with callers and commiserated over their car problems, died Monday of complications from disease, the news organization said. He was 77 years old. was most popular entertainment program for years, reaching more than 4 million people a week on more than 600 radio st ations across the country at its peak. It continued to be a top-rated show ev en after the brothers stopped taping live shows in 2012 and the network began airing reruns and archived materials. Car Talk Executive Producer Doug Berman, in a statement posted on website, said positive will be missed.

and his brother changed public broadcasting he said. Car Talk, NPR was formal, polite, cautious even The duo, which called themselves and Clack, the Tappet mixed sound advice about repairing cars with sharp one-liners, self-deprecating humor and off-topic digressions on philosophy and the mysteries of life. like drive with the windows open. I mean, before you know it, going to spend plenty of time sealed up in a box anyway, Tom once quipped on-air. The brothers always ended their shows with a catchphrase, drive like my delivered in their signature Boston accents.

Ray Magliozzi affectionately teased his late brother, who was 12 years his senior, in a statement posted on Car website: out he kidding He really remember last The Cambridge, brothers were an unlikely radio duo. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology graduates opened a car epair shop in the early 1970s. As the story goes, Tom was invited to a radio round-table discussion with other auto mechanics on NPR affiliate but was the only one to show up. He impressed the producers, however, and was in vited back the following week. Tom brought along Ray, and was born.

Tom Magliozzi, one of the brothers, dies Associated Press Brothers Ray, left, and Tom Magliozzi, co-hosts of National Public show. LONDON (AP) After acknowledging that it bungled the response to the biggest Ebola outbreak in history, the World Health Organization is electing a new regional direct or for its Africa office this week. Critics say about time. WHO Africa is widely acknowledged to be the U.N. health weakest regional office.

In an internal draft document obtained by The Associated Press last month, WHO blamed its staff in Africa for initially botching the response to Ebola, describing many of its regional staff as motivated and noted numerous complaints about WHO officials in West Afric a. WHO has six regional offices including Africa, all of them are largely autonomous and do not answer to the Geneva headquarters. The U.N. agency was intentionally set up as a fragmented org anization in 1948 because it was feared existing regional health organizations want to join WHO unless they had a high degree of independence. Whoev er is chosen as new WHO head probably have a big role in ending Ebola since the U.N.

has alre ady taken charge of control efforts, but the new director could be key to preventing similar disasters in the future. First, its structure must be overhauled, experts say. working in global health knows that if you want anything done in the African region, the last people you go to is (WHO) said Kelley Lee, an associate dean in health ciences at Simon Fraser University in Canada, who has studied the governance of public health agencies. She said the WHO Africa office is plagued by a profound lack of transparency and said many top jobs are doled out as political favors. The outg oing director of WHO Africa, Dr.

Luis Sambo, rejected the need for major change when he was elected in 2005, vowing that will be no radical Sambo oversaw the WHO Africa response to Ebola and has declined numerous interview requests. Having alr eady served two terms as regional director, he is ineligible to run again in the elections held at a committee meeting in Benin this week. There are five candidates jostling to be the new Africa director: Jean-Marie Okwo- Bele, a Congolese doctor in charge of the vaccination program at WHO Geneva, Dr. Fatoumata Nafo Traore, director of the Roll Back Malaria partnership, Dorothee Akoko Kinde-Gazard, health minister, Therese Yoman of Cote a past health minister, and Dr. Matshidiso Moeti of Botswana, who previously ran the epidemiology department.

In a report on les sons learned from Ebola released ahead of this meeting, the WHO Africa office said the explosive spread of the lethal virus was due to issues including poor awareness and badly trained he alth workers. It mention several problems detailed in the internal WHO document written in Geneva, which observed that WHO staff in Africa refused to help get visas for outbreak experts to fly to Guinea and were compromising Ebola containment efforts. Lee said WHO he adquarters in Geneva should have jumped in sooner to seize control of Ebola from its Africa office, but that agency politics likely complicated that. WHO to elect new regional director for Africa office BemoreTea Stopintodayto checkoutourwonderful KnowledgeyouNeed.CareyouDeserve. CountryNutritionInc 645W.PershingRd,Decatur,IL62526 217-877-6466 countrynutritionstore.com CountryNutrition 233.1425 imbodencreek.co FindSupport Youarenotalone.

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