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U.S. taxpayers have provided the Israeli military that invaded Gaza on Thursday night with more than $121 billion since the state's founding, subsidizing about 25 percent of the tiny country's annual defense budget in recent years.
That subsidy has increased even as Israel's economy has experienced a growth spurt and the country has discovered stores of natural gas. Indeed, President Obama last year pledged to begin early negotiations to extend the annual military subsidy to Israel for another decade and has sold Israel powerful bunker buster bombs and helped finance the Iron Dome missile defense system that has protected Israelis from Hamas rockets and missiles in the current war.
One would think with that kind of record, pro-Israel conservatives would find a rare bit of common ground with a president they have criticized for being hostile to the Jewish state. But at least for some, the military aid is part of the problem.
"The experience of the Obama years has sharpened the perception among pro-Israel Americans that aid can cut against Israel by giving presidents with bad ideas more leverage than they would otherwise have," said Noah Pollak, the executive director of the Emergency Committee for Israel (ECI). Pollak's group has been one of Obama's toughest critics, running television advertisements in 2012 that blamed Obama for dithering as Iran continued to enrich uranium.
It goes without saying that ECI is not the sole voice of the pro-Israel community. The emergency committee does not match the influence in Congress of the much larger American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), which has shown no signs of ending its efforts to push Congress to pass the annual military aid bill.
But getting legislators to support aid to Israel in recent years has not required much effort at all. The committee votes are rarely contested and the money for Israel is rolled into the larger bill for foreign aid.
For Pollak and others this is part of the problem. "Aid to Israel is a low bar for politicians to claim they're pro-Israel and it'd be better if there were more substantive things one had to do to earn that title," he said. "And aid provides easy fodder for critics to claim that the alliance is a burden on the United States or that it's a one-way street of America giving and Israel receiving. All things being equal, why not remove these falsehoods from the debate?"
Pollak is not alone. Elliott Abrams—a former deputy national security adviser to President George W. Bush and leading pro-Israel writer and policy analyst—told The Daily Beast, "My view is over time it would be healthy for the relationship if the aid diminished. Israel should be less dependent on American financial assistance and should become the kind of ally that we have in Australia, Canada or the United Kingdom, an intimate military relationship and alliance, but no military aid."
This is also the view expressed by leading Israeli politicians. Naftali Bennett, Israel's minister of economics and the leader of the right-wing Israel Home party,said in 2013, "Today, U.S. military aid is roughly 1 percent of Israel's economy. I think, generally, we need to free ourselves from it. We have to do it responsibly, since I'm not aware of all the aspects of the budget, I don't want to say 'Let's just give it up,' but our situation today is very different from what it was 20 and 30 years ago."
Today, Israel is prosperous. In 2000, the country's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) was $124.9 billion. In 2013, the Israeli GDP was $291.3 billion. This is before Israel has seen any real revenue from the fields of natural gas it recently discovered. Israel has become so prosperous that legislation is now before the country's Knesset to create a sovereign wealth fund, a state-owned investment vehicle designed to invest the surplus revenue Israel collects from selling its natural gas.
"I have heard discussions of a sovereign wealth fund, by which the Israelis mean they want to handle the revenues carefully the way Norway does and not waste them," Abrams said. "But I do not believe a country that has a sovereign wealth fund can be an aid recipient."
Abrams was careful to say that he did not favor cutting the military aid while Obama was still president. "Were there a reduction now, it would be attributed to administration hostility to Israel and be seen as a weakening of U.S. support," he said. "It should be done only in a context of robust American political support and close relations between American and Israeli leaders."
Michael Oren, who served as Israel's ambassador to Washington until 2013, said it was a mistake to view the aid to Israel as something exceptional. While it's true the aid to Israel represents more than half of the total U.S. annual budget for foreign military financing, Oren says that statistic can be misleading.
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PHILADELPHIA – The lone remaining Ivy League team yet to concede a goal in Ancient Eight play, Penn (5-6-1, 2-0-1 Ivy) hosts Yale (3-8-1, 2-0-1) in a battle of teams tied for first place on Saturday at 7:30 p.m. at Rhodes Field.
The Quakers and Bulldogs are two of three teams knotted at seven points three matches into the Ivy season, joined by Princeton. A fourth team, Harvard, is one point back. As Penn and Yale warm up for their match, the Tigers and Crimson should just about be settling things in Cambridge as matters begin to settle themselves out in the Ivy League standings as the conference season crosses the midway point.
The Quakers have outscored their opponents, 4-0, in Ivy matches this season and sit as just one of four teams across all of NCAA Division I soccer to not allow a goal in conference play this season (Denver, Missouri State, Western Michigan.) Dating back to the Harvard match to close out the 2012 season, Penn has not conceded a goal in 377:58 of Ivy League play.
The Red and Blue have been at their best at home this season, with a 5-3-0 record and a 2-0-0 mark in home Ivy matches. Of the five shutouts recorded by the Quakers in 2013, four have come in University City, including the last two matches at Rhodes Field. In home matches this season, Penn is outscoring its opponents, 16-10.
Tyler Kinn has started the last two matches, recording shutouts in each. He has dropped his goals-against average for the season down to 1.47, while increasing his save percentage up to .758. Kinn's 4.70 saves-per-game are 42nd among all Division I keepers.
As a team, Penn has scored the most goals among all Ivy teams with 20 through 12 games. Penn's four goals during Ivy play are tied for second in the League. Duke Lacroix paces the Quakers, with six goals and 14 points – both good for second in the Ivy League. Lacroix, the reigning Ivy League, ECAC and Philadelphia Soccer Six Player of the Week, scored twice last week as Penn defeated Dartmouth, 3-0. A pair of freshmen, Sam Hayward (four goals) and Alec Neumann (three goals) is also in the top ten of Ivy League goal scorers. Hayward leads all Ivy rookies with his four goals, while Neumann is tops among Ivy freshmen in total points with nine off his three goals and three assists.
Saturday marks the 99th all-time meeting between Penn and Yale in men's soccer. The Quakers have a 48-42-8 advantage in the all-time series, with a 5-4-1 edge in the last ten meetings. Yale has won the last two contests between the two sides, both by a score of 2-1.
The Quakers will be looking to add to a four-match unbeaten streak, tied for the longest by a Penn club since Sept. 16-25, 2011. In terms of Ivy League matches, Penn is also unbeaten over its last four matches dating back to the win over Harvard to close the 2012 season. The last time Penn went unbeaten over four Ancient Eight matches was Oct. 2-23, 2010. A win or draw on Saturday will give Penn its longest unbeaten streak in Ivy League play since a six-match unbeaten streak (4-0-2) since the 2008-09 seasons.
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Penn and Yale have five common opponents to this point in 2013, with Sacred Heart, Cal Poly and UC-Santa Barbara joining regular Ivy foes Cornell and Dartmouth. Penn is 3-2-0 against those opponents, Yale is 2-2-1.
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For the first time in five years, Los Angeles County government is poised to propose a budget without drastic cuts, marking a turning point since the Great Recession.
County managers are still crunching the final numbers for fiscal year 2013-14, which will be released April 15, but spokesman David Sommers said the outlook is positive - for a change.
"You're not going to see the cuts and you're not going to see a deficit like you've seen in the last several years," he said. "This is a budget that gets us back to where we were before the recession."
"We have weathered the storm," Sommers added.
Currently, the county budget is about $25 billion. Sommers said during the worst of the economic crisis, some departments, like Human Resources, and the Treasurer and Tax Collector, saw their funding shrink as much as 30 percent.
Steve Whitmore, spokesman for Sheriff Lee Baca, said the Sheriff's Department endured cuts ranging from $100 million to $140 million during each of the last three years.
For the upcoming fiscal year, however, the agency is proposing a budget of $2.8 billion, up slightly from its current allocation of $2.7 billion.
A portion of the money will be used to implement some of the reforms recommended by the Commission on Jail Violence, such as the creation of an Office of Inspector General.
"The sheriff is very gratified the county Board of Supervisors is going to make this financial commitment to jail reforms," Whitmore said. "We couldn't do it without their help."
Miriam Krinsky, the commission's executive director, noted the county has paid out millions of dollars in settlements over abuse at the jails and would benefit from the investment in reforms.
"At the end of the day, investing in enhanced accountability measures and other positive changes within the Sheriff's Department isn't simply the right thing to do, but also in the long run a fiscally prudent decision as well," she said.
Meanwhile, county Fire Chief Daryl Osby said his department's proposed $920 million budget is $35 million less than last year because "we're still trying to live within our means."
He explained that even though revenue from property taxes has been going up since last year, the department lost more than $270 million in revenue since 2008.
"We're postponing long-term infrastructure needs like replacing our headquarters and fire stations until our revenue catches up with our expenditures," Osby said.
He stressed the belt-tightening has not slowed down emergency response.
"We have no reductions in staffing and all our 171 fire stations are open, so we've been able to endure the economic downturn without having an impact on our service," Osby said.
The Probation Department, on the other hand, is proposing a budget of $822 million, up from $716 million, according to Assistant Chief Probation Officer Don Meyer.
The increase was primarily state funding for AB 109, also known as realignment, which made county probation officers, instead of state parole officers, responsible for supervising certain felons released from state prison.
"Although there is an improvement, there are still significant gaps in services that still exist from prior budget reductions," Meyer said.
Nevertheless, he added, "Our budget has overall stability."
Robert Stern, former president of the Center for Governmental Studies, noted that while some local governments, like the cities of San Bernardino and Stockton, ended up filing for bankruptcy during the recession, Los Angeles County emerged relatively intact.
It did not even resort to mass layoffs or furloughs, unlike the city of Los Angeles.
"I've been very impressed with the county because they didn't go on a spending spree during the good times and didn't have to cut employees during the bad times," Stern said. "It shows the board took a very responsible long-term approach and they deserve some credit."
Sommers agreed the board's fiscally conservative policies, including funding the reserve and rainy day funds "before doing anything else," were critical.
He said because several members of the board have been working together since the 1990s and won't be forced out by term limits for a few more years, they had a "long-term vision," knowing they would be "here to see the outcomes of their actions."
Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky, who plans to retire in 2014, said the board should continue this approach.
"The reason we've been able to navigate this recession without layoffs and furloughs is because we don't spend in the good years things we can't sustain in the lean years," he said. "We need to continue to sustain that fiscal management, so we don't get into the situations that other cities have gotten into by spending everything they have when they have it."
But Stern believes that's easier for a supervisor to do than, say, a mayor or city council member.
"Supervisors can afford to be a little bit nonresponsive to the unions, and nonresponsive to the public, and have this even keel (in budgeting) because they really don't have to look over their shoulder for re-election purposes," Stern said. "It's very hard to defeat them, and very few of them run opposed."
Other factors that put the county in the black this fiscal year are the economic recovery, which boosted property and sales tax revenues; a stellar credit rating that allowed it to borrow money at lower interest rates; and an "efficiency initiative" that saved $255 million through such common sense measures as programming office lights to turn off at night, Sommers said.
There are significant new expenses, however, such as the jail reforms and legally mandated upgrades to storm channels.
Also, under a state Supreme Court order, the county must reimburse several cities tens of millions of dollars for improperly keeping a portion of their tax revenue for years.
Yaroslavsky said the county should work on bringing services back as soon as it can.
"We've taken a lot of cuts in the last four to five years, during this recession, and a lot of damage was done to the operations of the county," he said. "We need to get busy about restoring services."
Whitmore said budget cuts forced the sheriff to cut patrols to unincorporated areas, but those have since been restored. Sheriff's academy classes were cancelled for a time, but no longer.
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Whitmore said he hopes these will be addressed when funding becomes available.
As for the Fire Department, Osby is saving up to renovate or replace its headquarters.
"It's bad," he said ruefully. "It's about 70 years old and doesn't even meet earthquake standards."
Osby said the department also needs to upgrade or replace helicopters, firetrucks, and its 20-year-old dispatch system.
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It's no secret that Marco Andretti has not been happy about the way his IndyCar career has gone. He told this newspaper just that last year at the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach.
In seven seasons ahead of 2013, Andretti's highest finish in series points has been seventh twice. Last year he was 16 th. And, he has won just two races.
Andretti is off to a nice start this season, with a 3rd-place finish at St. Petersburg and seventh at Barber, good enough to put him in fourth place in series points with 61.
"I think I'm pleased," said Andretti, who races for his father, Michael, and Andretti Autosport. "I've been really working on consistency in the off-seasonn and we have that. But I need to be consistently better. Obviously, having teammates wins races, it bodes well for us and what we can do in the future. But I definitely feel it's my turn and we need to win."
Andretti said one of the things he concentrated on during the off-season was improving his performance on street and road courses. St. Pete is a street course, Barber is a road course and Long Beach is a street course.
Oh, yeah. I mean, on the streets you just have to look at the results," he said of previous years. "I was over-driving it, but I didn't know how I was over-driving it. It has noting to do with focus or anything like that. It's just been working on what I've been lacking, you know?"
Andretti, 26, said he could not divulge and what he found out in that regard. But he did have an interesting response when asked if he believes this could be his breakout year.
"It has to be, yeah, it has to be," he said between practices at his transporter in the IndyCar paddock.
And why is that?
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Conner's 28 Kills Sets New BC Record, Leads Tornados Past AndersonSeptember 14, 2012
Brevard, N.C. - The Tornados upended Anderson University 3-1 on Friday night on the strength of a Brevard College record 28 kills from junior Kortney Conner.
Conner's 28 kills sets the new BC record for kills in a single match, surpassing Brooke Seaman's 25 kills in a four-set match against North Greenville on September 13, 2008.
The Tornados took the first two sets by the score of 25-22, before dropping the third set 15-25. The Tornados sealed the victory with a 25-21 victory in the fourth set thanks to 10 kills from Conner, who also came up with 10 digs in the match.
Kayla Hanus had a breakout performance as well, contributing a season-high 46 assists. Freshman Fatima Gharachorloo also benefitted form the sets of Hanus, posting a career-high nine kills against the Trojans.
The win improved the Tornados to 1-0 in South Atlantic Conference play and a perfect 7-0 on the season.
BC returns to South Atlantic Conference action Saturday afternoon as they host the Newberry Wolves at Boshamer Gymnasium at 2 p.m.


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The NFC's biggest surprise could be the Atlanta Falcons. Many had high expectations for this team, but one loss at this stage of the season wasn't expected. The New York Giants are dominant at times, but tend to play to their opponents level. Like New England though, the playoffs is when they shine. The Chicago Bears got off to a great start, and one of their division opponents to the north, Detroit, can never seem to get it's act together. There are five weeks left until the playoffs, and this week is just as important as any. Let's get started.
As always, home team in CAPS.
ATLANTA 3 1/2 New Orleans
This would be the Game of the Week if it was on Sunday. The Falcons only loss of the year came at the hands of the Saints, and I don't see the Falcons losing to them again. The Saints didn't look good last week, and Atlanta could be in great shape if they get the home field throughout the playoffs. I think Atlanta gets it done.
Falcons 24-20
Buffalo 5 1/2 Jacksonville
I am fairly certain not that many people care about this one.
Bills 27-16
San Francisco 7 St. Louis
The 49ers are suddenly the talk of the NFL, and the quarterback debate between Alex Smith and Colin Kaepernick rages on. Sounds like Bledsoe-Brady from year's past. It won't really matter for this game. The Rams are game, but the 49ers have the hot hand right now.
49ers 30-21
New England 7 Miami
I have a feeling this game will be closer than some think. The Patriots sometimes have trouble with the Dolphins, but New England right now is playing about as well as anybody. Miami has been no pushover this year, but I think they will get pushed around just enough this week for the Patriots to cover the poins.
Patriots 29-17
CHICAGO 4 Seattle
This is actually a pretty big game in the NFC. I keep waiting for the Seahawks to fall apart, but they haven't yet, even though they lost last week. The Bears haven't been great, but their defense could make them a tough out in the NFC postseason. The Bears should take care of things, but this is the NFL after all.
Bears 17-10
Houston 6 Tennessee
The Texans are bearing down on the number one seed in the AFC, but they need to get their defense squared away before the playoffs start. I have a feeling they are going to struggle again here. They are due for a blow out, but the Titans tend to give them fits. I think Tennessee will cover.
Texans 26-23
Denver 7 Tampa Bay
The Broncos are cruising in the AFC West, but that isn't saying much. They do look good, and he Bucs mini streak was snapped last week. The Broncos will be in the playoffs and fighting for a top seed, but I think the Bucs last chance was last week. I like Denver at home.
Broncos 31-21
NEW YORK JETS 4 1/2 Arizona
J-E-T-S Jets.....wait we can't say that anymore. The Jets season absolutely cannot end soon enough. It will be interesting to see what happens in the offseason. The Cardinals totally fell apart. The Jets can't possibly be as bad as they were Thursday. They are still bad, but the Cardinals aren't much better. A Jets win MIGHT calm the masses. Temporarily.
Jets 23-17
Carolina 3 Kansas CITY
I don't see any reason at all to go with the Chiefs.
Panthers 20-16
Cincinnati 2 1/2 SAN DIEGO
The Bengals are looking at a playoff berth, and the Chargers stink. If Norv Turner is still the Head Coach next year, then there is something seriously wrong with the NFL.
Bengals 30-24
DALLAS 8 1/2 Philadelphia
Yawn. Both of these teams need major upgrades in the offseason, especially in Philadelphia. Say goodbye to Andy Reid.
Cowboys 30-20
DETROIT 5 Indianapolis
The Lions just can't seem to get it together, especially their Head Coach. The Colts magical season is because of guts and emotion, but sometimes those qualities win in the NFL. It won't give the Colts a win here but it will be enough to keep it close.
Lions 27-23
GREEN BAY 7 1/2 Minnesota
Don't count the Packers out yet. They are still very good, and can beat anybody on any given day ( I think we have heard that before ). The Vikings were done a couple of weeks ago, and I don't seem them giving much of a match up here.
Packers 34-20
New York Giants 3 Washington
The Redskins are in the playoff chase in the NFC as hard as that is to believe. They won't get in, but they will be pests for anybody that plays them. The Giants November swoon could be over, and if it is that could be a very dangerous thing for the NFC. The Giants should be able to win here.
Giants 28-24
Game of the Week
BALTIMORE 3 1/2 Pittsburgh
This isn't the matchup it might normally be, but there were not a lot of big games this week. This is a huge game for the Steelers, because a loss might mean no trip to the post season. They are decimated with injuries though, and with the Ravens being at home, I don't think they can take out Baltimore.
Ravens 21-13
Stinker of the Week
OAKLAND 2 Cleveland
Look at the two teams and it should be pretty obvious why it is the Stinker. The Browns though, to their credit have played hard, so I will pick them here.
Browns 27-26
Record For Week 12: 7-9 ( 8-8 without the spread )
Record Through Week 12: 75-87-3 ( 93-72 without the spread )
Game of Week Record: 6-6
Stinker of Week Record: 4-8
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Post subject: A closer look at the Jets poor play
After blaming everyone from Tanny to Rex. Lets take a look on why a team plays poorly. First the obvious, the Jets just don't have the horses to run the race. Now this is no reason of their own in large part, but injuries have decimated the teams ability to perform at a consistent level with the rest of the league. Injuries have hurt the offense, all of their weapons at WR at one point or another have missed games. They drafted in the second round a player who has all the potential in the world, but lets be frank, he is raw and there is a learning curve and maturity will be at least a year away, maybe more. The running game if anything has been a major disappointment, Greene is not the player he was 3 years ago, but the offensive line is not what it was 3 years ago, and as much as I would like to jump all over Greene. I believe that much of that has to do with the offensive line. The Jets have to potential to score points and many of them as witnessed by the win over the Bills. The defense really is the most puzzling aspect of this team, because compared to the offense they seem to be stacked on defense. All we heard in preseason was how good the D looked and how it could be better than any D since Rex became coach of the Jets. It has not lived up to all the hype, and frankly we all thought that the Jets would win close games because of the defense. It has not translated on to the field. Sanchez had a terrible game, granted, but it cannot all fall on him. Tony Romo throws 5 INT's and no one is calling for his head, both teams are 2-2 and the Jets won ugly. If Sanchez had thrown for 5 INT's against the 49ers I would understand. But the fact of the matter is the Jets are an engine without any gas to get it going. The Jets have not gotten the engine going. Will they be able to, that depends on how much the injuries effect them. As of now the Jets have a multitude of injuries to their major players both on defense and offense. The team that is being fielded offensively is challenged, however it is the defense which puzzles me most. Sanchez is not Manning, or Brady, or Brees, but he can be effective, but he has no weapons to help him. When the Jets were winning, they had Bray, Cotch, Keller, and Leon Washington, Jones, Brad Smith. Compared to this Jets team, we were rich in talent. So before we take the deep plunge into despair, there are reasons for the start we have. But looking back before the season began and anyone got hurt, I think to a man we all were hoping the Jets were 3-2 after the first 5 games. Although the wins have been ugly and the play of the Jets inconsistent they are just about where we thought they would be.
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I'm using Vista running VMWare 6.5 using Backtrack 3. I'm using both ndiswrapper and r8187 driver (which came with the distro). I find myself having to rmmod r8187 -> modprobe r8187 to get functionality back. For example, during an airodump, after a few moments, the output will just disappear. If i perform a new one, i get nothing (it's just blank fields where there should be an essid and data and everything). If i start the driver again, the functionality comes back and i get the output. I could be doing anything and find i cant connect to an access point until i restart the driver. The issue is the same when im using ndiswrapper, but only notice it when trying to stay on an AP because of course i can't monitor with it.
Is this a known problem that perhaps i've missed? and if so im sorry but could you point me in the right direction?


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GSA Debuts Online Marketplace GovSales.gov
October 3, 2006
Contact: (202) 501-1231
Washington, DC – The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) today announced the launch of GovSales.gov, the Federal Asset Sales E-Gov Initiative's new web site that provides single-point, public access to surplus, seized or forfeited assets for sale by the Federal government. To shop now, visit www.GovSales.gov.
GovSales.gov allows the public to search listings of surplus and forfeited property for sale by the Federal government ranging from luxury items such as furs and jewelry to automobiles and homes. The web site's single-point access makes it easier for the public to find and purchase these goods, and the online convenience of GovSales.gov provides shopping options that span across multiple national and regional federal sales centers.
"The Federal Asset Sales Initiative is one of the President's Electronic Government Initiatives, and it's one of the five E-Government programs managed by GSA. GovSales.gov's official launch supports this important Presidential initiative and highlights GSA's commitment to better serve our customers," said GSA Administrator Lurita A. Doan.
The Federal Asset Sales Initiative's goal is to create a secure, efficient, and effective online marketplace for the public to find and buy commercial/residential real estate and other assets from the federal government. To learn more about the Federal Asset Sales Initiative visit http://gsa.gov/fedassetsales.
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GSA is a centralized, federal procurement, property management, policy development and information provision agency, created by Congress to improve government efficiency and help federal agencies better serve the public. In this role, GSA acquires products and services on behalf of federal agencies; plays a key role in developing and implementing government-wide policies; provides services and solutions for the office operations of more than one million federal workers; and encourages a citizen-centric relationship with government by providing a single "point of entry" to the information and services citizens need in a timeframe they can appreciate. This allows citizens to receive accurate, timely and consistent answers and information, and helps federal agencies better respond to citizen inquiries.


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BC Men Grab Third at Greensboro InvitationalSeptember 28, 2013
GREENSBORO, N.C. – Brevard College freshman Marc DeLisle ran a personal best and earned a top-five finish at the Greensboro XC Invitational Saturday afternoon at Hagan Stone Park in Greensboro, N.C.
The men's team provided its best outing of the year while the squad finished third overall. DeLisle paced the squad with a time of 26:42.49 to finish fifth. Senior Josh Mower finished sixth with a time of 26:43.05.
Patrick Helmick enjoyed a solid outing completing the 8K course in a time of 27:51.58 while teammate Jordan Tager needed 28:01.81 to complete the track.
The third place finish is the highest for the men's team this season. The field included High Point, West Liberty State, Concord and Covenant.
"The men's plan was to run very aggressively through the first half of the race," said head coach Adam Malloy. "They followed the plan well; it just coincided with the toughest miles of the course. We learned a lot about ourselves today."
On the women's side, Hannah Cook earned a top-10 finish in the 5K with a time of 19:25.93 while finishing third. Heidi Kaartinen finished 17th with a time of 20:38.21 while Madison Smith notched a 25th place finish with a time of 20:58.30.
The Tornados will enjoy a bye week
before returning to action on Oct. 11 when they travel to Charlotte, N.C. for
the Queens Royals Challenge at McAlpine Creek Park.
Greensboro XC Invitational Results


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There are dangers and adventures in the graveyard for a boy. But if Bod leaves the graveyard, then he will come under attack from the man Jack - who has already killed Bod's family.
Beloved master storyteller Neil Gaiman returns with a luminous new novel for the audience that embraced his New York Times best-selling modern classic Coraline. Magical, terrifying, and filled with breathtaking adventures, The Graveyard Book is sure to enthrall readers of all ages.
Music arrangement of "Danse Macabre" copyright 2008 by Béla Fleck and Ben Sollee, Fleck Music (BMI), admin. by Bug Music.
©2008 Neil Gaiman; (P)2008 HarperCollins Publishers
"Masterful Fantasy for the Jaded Heart"
I just put my finger on why I find Neil Gaiman's Graveyard Book and Neverwhere so enchanting. As a kid (roughly age 10 to 13) I used to love reading books like the Sword of Shanara, Hobbit, Lord of the Rings, Circle of Light, Elric of Melnibone, Chronicles of Amber, Grey Mouser and Fafhard, The Dragon and the George, The Compleat Enchanter, etc. They were books of a different world with with rules of magic I could believe were real. They had not only villains and heroes, children who became men, and powers discovered, but they made me feel like I could be part of battles between order and chaos, mages and warriors, gods and men, monsters and me.
Somewhere along the line in the thirty years that followed I gradually lost the desire or will to escape the rules of nature. I gradually lost my passion for fantasy and got drawn more to hard science fiction or murder mysteries or at least stories with a hard basis on reality, even if a reality poetically described.
When I hear Neil Gaiman's books, however, I am drawn all the way back, full force, into a world of all new rules. Everything becomes possible, and it all feels real.
I noticed that most of the negative reviews for this book are by people who bought it for their small children. This book is no more for small children than a Tolkien book would be. What it is, however, is for grown ups who miss the magic of childhood.
This book is magical.
I am an artist who paints romantic landscapes in soft pastels.
I bought this around Halloween for me, a 50+ lady. I wanted something spooky, but not really scary and this was just what I was looking for. It was delightful and fun and I just loved the story. AAAAA++++++ Just wonderful!!
"This is Gaiman's best!"
I devoured it like candy!! And Gaimen's narration has gotten so great. Really, really, great! I highly recommend this book for adults and those children who's parents trust them with a wee bit of violence and horror. Its a coming of age but one that beautifully and artfully acknowledges that the past,even the distant past, is a powerful force of life all around us, that those who walked before us could be closer then they seem, and they might be loving and sympathetic. I listened to the book straight through, in one sitting, I couldn't help it!
"A fun listen for tweens and up"
This book has a lot of charm; it keeps you interested through storyline and a terrific narrator. I wrote for "tweens and up" because there are a couple of violent parts that you only understand by "reading between the lines" My 13 y.o. would get it but my 8 y.o. would be lost - which is okay because if my 8 y.o. understood what was happening, he wouldn't sleep in his own bed for a month!
"Takes the gloom out of lugubrious"
I enjoyed this book very much. It is well written, interesting and the author's use of language gives an extra kick, like an elusive spice in a soup.
To be honest I almost turned it off after the first couple of minutes, but don't want to spoil. Let us just say that the story cannot take place without this bit, just struck a tad close to home for me.
Luckily I was driving mach 80 down the interstate and couldn't fiddle with my iPod at the time. I am now delighted that fate compelled me wait a couple of minutes, otherwise I would have missed out.
The story is a good one and has a very original twist.
Insofar as it goes as an audio book, it is fantastic. This is a book that begs to be read aloud and comes alive in the most marvelous way. The reader does a splendid job.
Now, as an aside - my husband recently ran out of shaving soap. As matter of fact, the week after I finished listening to this book. He ran up to Target to get some shaving soap. He came home with a bottle of "Every Man Jack" saving soap. I actually got chills, I was scared to pieces and had to tell myself it would be silly to make him take it back.
I didn't think the book all that scary, wrong. The story weaves its way into your psyche and finds a place to live (always the mark of an exceptionally fine piece of literature).
All in all, definitely a top drawer listen!
Hey Audible, don't raise prices and I promise to buy lots more books.
"Short, Simple, Sweet: a wonderful book"
I could not call this a great book but easily I rate it a wonderful one. Some of the reviewers commented on the violence. I abhor violence and one of the reasons I liked the book so much had to do with its minimal violence. The description of a violent act in the very beginning leaves more to the reader's imagination than to the words of the narrator. The hero, Bod is totally nonviolent. He never threatens and hardly even defends. He allows the villains to do themselves in. Scary goules and ghosts? I think not. They are pretty much all loving and caring souls.
Throughout the book I considered whether this was a book for children. As an adult, I certainly enjoyed it and believe many children would also. Hansel and Gretel now that's violent and horrific. Little Red Riding Hood? That's perverted and violent. None of that here... just a delightful story in which good completely triumphs over evil... or better yet, evil does-in evil. And to top it all off, the narration was excellent.
Star-wise I find the book difficult to rate. For what it is I would rate the book 5 stars. Compared to all books in general maybe only 4. In Netflix, 4 stars means "I really liked it." That settles it.
"Another Superb Gaiman Book"
I have come a little late to the whole Gaiman thing. I tripped over his book Neverwhere and that led me to this. It's positioned as a children's story but the funny,dark driven and enormously likable story makes it a must-hear for anybody. The fact that Gaiman is such a brilliant performer of his own work compounds the effect. Gaiman creates a wonderful completely credible alternate reality which sits just behind the cemetery fence.Although I now live in the US I was raised in London and that perhaps prejudices me towards this author who is so quintessentially Brit. If you are new to Gaiman then get this book and get Neverwhere at the same time. You will then spend many more hours than you need to sitting in your car parked on your driveway not wanting to leave the world he weaves around you. If you already know Gaimin and haven't yet enjoyed this book...what are you waiting for?
"Pure Fantasy"
I rated this book a five but I should state that this book is targeted toward tweens or young teens. I believe there is too much murder and scary stuff for younger than that. As for older than that, this is a trip down the dark side of the rabbit hole. I enjoyed the book though and I am 68 years old. You have to suspend your disbelief no matter your age. The author is so talented and the narrator so perfect that I got a kick out of the book enjoying the fact that it is such a stretch of the imagination. I don't usually enjoy music during a reading but the playing of a variation of the Sherlock Holmes theme was perfect in this book and added to the fun. If you like fantasy then this is the book for you.
Addicted to audiobooks & podcasts. 5 Stars=I Loved It, 4 Stars=Enjoyed it Thoroughly, 3=Kinda Good, 2=Bad/Boring, 1=Complete Waste of Credit
"Unique and refreshing"
I really enjoyed this one - light, fun, and just gruesome enough to keep me entertained. This would be a great book for older kids/teens and something the family could listen to together as long as nobody is too squeamish. Reminds me of the movie Beetlejuice - this would be a great Tim Burton movie.
"Made me wish I had a haunted graveyard family!"
A lighthearted tale about an orphaned baby who is adopted and raised by the supernatural inhabitants of a graveyard.
When a secret, occult group learns that a child will spell their doom, they seek to eliminate said child. Though they dispatch the infant's family, through a series of events, the baby boy is found by the spiritual (deceased) inhabitants of an old, local cemetery.
He is quickly adopted and protected by the graveyard folk. They protect him from the faction that took his natural family while raising and loving him as if they were his living, breathing kin.
This book invites you to become ensconced in the hamlet where your adopted parents are a kindly, husband-and-wife, Victorian ghost couple, your guardian is an ancient, reformed vampire, your tutor is a matronly werewolf, and your neighborhood is a venerable graveyard with a quaint community of ghosts from here, there, and then. The graveyard's magic keeps you hidden from those who would do you harm, and you must remain until safe. But in the meantime, you find your hearth and heart among the macabre.
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Manning Match-Up Week 12 - November 21
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
In last year's Miami victory at Duke, 49-31, Harris threw a career-best four touchdowns as he completed 18-of-28 passes for 185 yards. He was picked off twice, but also ran 10 times for a career-high 53 yards and one score. This season, Harris has completed 190-of-313 passes for 2,655 yards with 18 touchdowns.
Last weekend, Lewis became Duke's all-time leader in completions by breaking a 26-year-old school record of 825. This season, he has completed 226-of-364 passes for 2,640 yards with 16 touchdowns and just six interceptions, while adding three rushing scores.
Other Week 12 Manning Match-Ups
November 21, 2009 (Saturday)
Duke (Thaddeus Lewis) at No. 20 Miami (Jacory Harris), 11 a.m. CT, ESPN-U
Manning Award Stars of the Week
From the players currently on the Watch List for the Manning Award, here are some of the standout stars from week 11:
Blaine Gabbert, Missouri (20-of-27, 298 yards, 3 TDs, 0 INT)
Dan LeFevour, Central Michigan (29-of-36, 341 yards, 2 TDs, 0 INT)
Ryan Mallett, Arkansas (23-of-30, 405 yards, 5 TDs, 1 INT)
Kellen Moore, Boise State (22-of-32, 299 yards, 5 TDs, 0 INT)
Manning Award Players to Watch
While the final additions have been made to the Manning Award Watch List, all quarterbacks remain eligible to win the award. Here's a look at 11th-week numbers from quarterbacks who are not on the Watch List:
Sean Canfield, Oregon State (21-of-29, 185 yards, 4 TDs, 0 INT)
Ricky Dobbs, Navy (4-of-6, 78 yards, 0 TDs, 0 INT)
Landry Jones, Oklahoma (24-of-39, 392 yards, 5 TDs, 1 INT)
Scott Tolzien, Wisconsin (16-of-24, 240 yards, 4 TDs, 1 INT)
Joe Webb, UAB (18-of-25, 379 yards, 3 TDs, 0 INT)


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Ryan budget passes House of Representatives
Rep. Paul Ryan's budget passed the House Thursday.
The 221-207 vote fell mostly along party lines, with no Democrats voting for the bill.
Ten Republicans voted against the bill: Rep. Justin Amash of Michigan, Georgia Rep. Paul Broun, Arkansas Rep. Rick Crawford, Virginia Rep. Randy Forbes, Rep. Chris Gibson of New York, Georgia Rep. Phil Gingrey, Nevada Rep. Joe Heck, Rep. Walter Jones of North Carolina, Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie, and Rep. David McKinley of West Virginia.
Broun came out aggressively against the bill earlier this week in a New York Times opinion piece, saying that it "fails to seriously address runaway government spending."


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Use the sudo command: " sudo /etc/init.d/networking start " . For further reading "man sudo"
Hi I am new and was looking all over and couldn't fine anything. I made a new user name on backtrack and gave it all privligaes. Well when i try to type /etc/init.d/networking start is says permission denied. but as Root it works fine. Any ideas? Thanks
Use the sudo command: " sudo /etc/init.d/networking start " . For further reading "man sudo"
are you trying to use this as your desktop operating system...
that isn't the intended purpose of this distro most things are meant to run as root. if you messed with permissions and dont know this part of linux you might have a mess on your hands... anywhoo
you want to su or sudo your command which will proxy the command as "root" you dont run this command as a user
you might want to consider using ubuntu and not backtrack as your desktop environment as its more suited for that for the beginning user. understand that backtrack isnt a "new linux" its ubuntu with a lot of custom work done for you already.
so in recap... learn linux, run your command as su or sudo backtrack should be used as root.
alternatively you can do a 'ifconfig eth? up" and a "dhclient" but again as su or sudo or root.
goog terms to google - ubuntu networking beginners
if you was looking all over then you would know that your new user needs to run certain commands as root /etc/init.d/networking start is one of them
Core i7-720QM
Nvidia GeForce GT 320M
BT5-64bit x WIN7-64bit DualBoot
here, so maybe you should put in the effort to read it.
If you search the Net Im sure you will also find other references explaining the requirement to run certain system tasks in Linux as root.
Thread closed.
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College football • The woman whose photo was used as the "face" of the Twitter account of Manti Te'o's supposed girlfriend says the man allegedly behind the hoax confessed and apologized to her.
Diane O'Meara told NBC's "Today" show Tuesday that Ronaiah Tuiasosopo used pictures of her without her knowledge in creating a fake woman called Lennay Kekua. Te'o asserts he was tricked into an online romance with Kekua and, until last week, did not understand he was being hoaxed.
"I don't think there's anything he could say to me that would fix this," said O'Meara, a 23-year-old marketing executive in Los Angeles.
O'Meara said she had never had any contact with Te'o, and that for five years, Tuiasosopo "has literally been stalking my Facebook and stealing my photos."
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Soccer • Defender Ali Krieger is returning to the U.S. women's team for the first time since tearing knee ligaments a year ago.
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MLB • Reliever Jason Motte and the St. Louis Cardinals have agreed to a $12 million, two-year contract, avoiding salary arbitration. The 30-year-old right-hander had a career-high 42 saves in 49 chances last year, when he was 4-5 with a 2.75 ERA.
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At the moment I train twice a week, each session is 1.5 hours. I also only get to spar for an hour once every other week due to work commitments.
Now when I am at training I work as hard as I possibly can and really enjoy it. However I have a trade off as I my diet is pretty shit. I tell myself that I can enjoy the shit food I want as I work hard at training.
When I started training I was 5 8" and about 195lb. I dropped weight, to around 170lb and became a lot fitter. Then as my training continued I settled at a weight of 180lb but I feel healthy which was my main factor for starting training.
At the moment I train with a group called Crazy Monkey on the Isle of Man. I have been training for about a year now. We train primarily for self preservation as a functional martial art. I am gonna be moving back to England, Surrey, in May and want to start training full MMA at a gym with the end goal being able to compete in time.
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NEW YORK -- Marc Forgione is the latest chef to join Macy's Culinary Council, the company announced. According to Macy's, the council is "a team of talented and distinguished chefs who serve to inspire the way Macy's customers shop, cook and eat at home.
Forgione, who was recently crowned season three winner of Food Network's TheNext Iron Chef, will kick-off his new position on Macy's Culinary Council with an in-store cooking demonstration at Macy's Chicago on State Street on March 8 at noon.
Macy's Culinary Council launched in 2003 and consists of notaable chefs who host cooking demonstrations in Macy's stores and offer their culinary tips and expertise to cooking enthusiasts nationwide through marketing, in-store displays and online content.
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It had been a long time since the NBC program "Saturday Night Live" set the cultural agenda for the nation, but on a December night in 2005 it did just that – and foreshadowed a trend that has finally landed in Beaumont. In the SNL digital short "Lazy Sunday," Andy Samberg and Chris Parnell made a crosstown Manhattan trip to see the movie "The Chronicles of Narnia," stopping along the way for some cupcakes at the Magnolia Bakery.
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Orthopedic conditions may be treated by your child's physician and/or other medical specialists and healthcare providers. Several physicians from different medical specialties may be involved in the treatment of one child at the same time. This multidisciplinary team approach is particularly important in managing the symptoms of an orthopedic condition, especially as many symptoms are chronic and change in severity over time. Some of the more common medical professionals involved in the treatment of pediatric orthopedic conditions may include the following:
While your pediatrician or primary care physician may treat and/or diagnose your child's disease, he/she may refer you to a specialist for more specialized treatment of certain aspects of the disease.
The physician who specializes in orthopedic surgery is called an orthopedic surgeon, or sometimes, simply, an orthopedist. Orthopedists are educated in the workings of the musculoskeletal system, which includes (but is not limited to) diagnosing a condition or disorder, identifying and treating an injury, providing rehabilitation to an affected area or function, or establishing prevention protocol to inhibit further damage to a diseased area or component of the musculoskeletal system.
The orthopedist may have completed up to 14 years of formal education. After becoming licensed to practice medicine, the orthopedic surgeon may become board-certified by passing both oral and written examinations given by the American Board of Orthopedic Surgery.
Many orthopedic surgeons choose to practice general orthopedics, while others specialize in certain areas of the body (i.e., foot, hand, shoulder, spine, hip, or knee), or in a specialized area of orthopedic care (i.e., sports medicine, trauma medicine). Some orthopedists may specialize in several areas and may collaborate with other specialists, such as neurosurgeons or rheumatologists, in caring for patients.
A rheumatologist is a physician who specializes in the treatment of arthritis and other rheumatic diseases that may affect joints, muscles, bones, skin, and other tissues. Most rheumatologists have a background in internal medicine or pediatrics and have received additional training in the field of rheumatology. Rheumatologists are specially trained to identify many types of rheumatic diseases in their earliest stages, including arthritis, many types of autoimmune diseases, musculoskeletal pain, disorders of the musculoskeletal system, and osteoporosis. In addition to four years of medical school and three years of specialized training in internal medicine or pediatrics, a rheumatologist has had an additional two or three years of specialized training in the field of rheumatology. A rheumatologist may also be board certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine.
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Physical therapists have an undergraduate degree in physical therapy, and many have a Master's degree. In order to practice, all graduates must be licensed by their state by passing a national certification examination.
There are more than 90,000 physical therapists practicing in the US today in a variety of settings, including:
As related to orthopedic conditions, physical therapists provide comprehensive training that includes, but is not limited to, the following:
Occupational therapy is a healthcare profession that uses "occupation," or purposeful activity, to help children with physical, developmental, or emotional disabilities lead independent, productive, and satisfying lives.
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Occupational therapists work in a variety of different settings, including:
A podiatrist specializes in foot care and is licensed to prescribe medication and perform surgery.
Nurses specialized in the care of orthopedic conditions may assist your child's physician in providing care. In addition, these nurses will help you to understand your child's treatment plan and can answer many of your questions.


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Alarm Verification Remains a Polarizing Proposition
Some unwanted alarms are a necessary evil in the overwhelmingly greater good of saving lives and property. However, the movement to impose verification practices continues to be one of the industry's most volatile areas. See where you stand with the latest developments.
As with intrusion alarms, nuisance or false alarms has been an issue for fire systems pretty much since Day 1 of this industry's existence. Consequently, even though I have addressed the need to reduce unwanted alarms in the past it remains a vital and central topic.
This is particularly true as of this writing as several changes to NFPA 72, The National Fire Alarm and Signaling Code, were promulgated by the International Association of Fire Chiefs (IAFC) for the 2013 edition. While a number of their proposals were not accepted by the various technical committees, the proposal regarding alarm verification was, with a number of modifications. There was also controversy involved, which has yet to be resolved.
Proposal Promotes Verification
The language in the proposal for alarm verification for commercial fire alarm systems was based on the allowance for verification that is found within Chapter 29, Single- and Multiple-Station Alarms and Household Fire Alarm Systems:
220.127.116.11 Remote monitoring stations shall be permitted to verify alarm signals prior to reporting them to the fire service, provided that the verification process does not delay the reporting by more than 90 seconds.
A.18.104.22.168 Where 18.104.22.168, which provides for screening alarm signals to minimize response to false alarms, is to be implemented, the following should be considered:
(1) Was the verification call answered at the protected premises?
(2) Did the respondent provide proper identification?
(3) Is it necessary for the respondent to identify the cause of the alarm signal?
(4) Should the public service fire communications center be notified and advised that an alarm signal was received, including the response to the verification call, when an authorized respondent states that fire service response is not desired?
(5) Should the public service fire communications center be notified and advised that an alarm signal was received, including the response to the verification call, for all other situations, including both a hostile fire and no answer to the verification call?
(6) What other actions should be required by a standard operating procedure?
This provision allows a supervising station to make a call to the protected premise to verify if the alarm signal is for an actual fire, or from an unwanted alarm. Unwanted alarms in this case may include, but not be limited to: cooking; fireplace use; outside barbeque; shower steam; dust.
The verification call must be made within 90 seconds of the signal being received. You will note that for a single-family residence there is no requirement there be a simultaneous call to the responding authorities. This will be discussed later in this article.
New Supervisory Section Stirs Pot
The source of the controversy is with the following new section within Chapter 26, Supervising Station Alarm Systems:
26.2.2 Alarm Signal Preverification
126.96.36.199 Where alarm signal verification is required by the responsible fire department, the supervising station shall immediately notify the communications center that a fire alarm signal has been received and verification is in process.
126.96.36.199 Verification shall meet the requirements of 26.2.3.
26.2.3 Alarm Signal Verification
188.8.131.52 For applications other than those addressed under the scope of 18.104.22.168, supervising station personnel shall attempt to verify alarm signals prior to reporting them to the communication center where all the following conditions exist:
(1) Alarm signal verification is required by the responsible fire department for a specific protected premises.
(2) Documentation of the requirement for alarm signal verification is provided by the responsible fire department to the supervising station and the protected premises.
(3) If the requirement for verification changes, the responsible fire department shall notify the supervising station and the protected premises.
(4) The verification process does not take longer than 90 seconds from the time the alarm signal is received at the supervising station until the time that retransmission of the verified alarm signal is initiated.
(5) Verification of the alarm signal is received only from authorized personnel within the protected premises.
(6) Verified alarm signals are immediately retransmitted to the communications center and include information that the signal was verified at the protected premises to be an emergency.
(7) Alarm signals where verification is not conclusive are immediately retransmitted to the communications center.
(8) Alarm signals that are verified as nuisance alarms are not dispatched and are handled in accordance with 188.8.131.52.
188.8.131.52 Alarm signals not reported to the communications center shall be reported to the responsible fire department in a manner and at a frequency specified by the responsible fire department.
A Closer Look at What Is Called for
It is first important to notice that alarm verification may only be used if the fire department allows its use. This is the "opt-in" requirement that was added during the comment cycle. The original language was that the fire department had to "opt-out" if they did not wish alarm verification to be used within their jurisdiction.
The second point to be aware of is that under 184.108.40.206, the alarm must still be called in to the fire department's dispatch center at the same time that the alarm verification call is being made. At the time of this call, the supervising station is to inform the dispatch center alarm verification is in progress.
Paragraph 220.127.116.11(4) requires that the verification occur within 90 seconds of the alarm signal being received. It is further required under (5) that only authorized personnel may verify an alarm. The supervising station is required under (6) and (7) to immediately retransmit to the dispatch center if the signal is an emergency or not.
If the signal is reported as an unwanted or nuisance alarm, the fire department may make a determination not to respond, or to make a reduced response. These decisions are not a part of NFPA 72.
Separating the Facts From Fiction
In reference to the points highlighted in this article's sidebar about alarm verification concerns, I offer the following …
First, there is no delay in the dispatch, as the verification call is taking place at the same time the call to the dispatch center is being made. During testimony that was made during the recent Final Action Hearings of the International Code Council (ICC) for the International Fire Code (IFC) it was stated that by allowing alarm verification there could be a delay of up to four-and-a-half minutes. This is simply not the case.
During the proposal meeting for the IFC, it was stated by a member of the ICC Fire Code Committee that the overwhelming majority of fire deaths occur within single-family dwellings in which alarm verification is permitted. While fires do occur at commercial locations, there are very few deaths. With sadness, there have been a number of firefighter deaths within commercial properties. Whether this number would be higher if alarm verification was allowed can only be determined through scientific study.
There may be validity to questioning whether a person called at a protected premises can make an accurate determination within 90 seconds if there is an emergency event or not. It is true that the typical single-family dwelling is smaller than a commercial property, which allows for quicker assessment of the event. However, as the call to dispatch has already been made, a quick check can be made within most buildings to see what may be causing the alarm.
With the expanded use of addressable systems, the area of the alarm can be quickly determined. For high-rises and other critical structures there should be no
delay in the dispatch. This, however, represents only a small percentage of the total amount of installed fire alarm systems.
As the 2013 edition of NFPA 72 is adopted throughout the country, the use of alarm verification should not be automatically ruled out. There needs to be a dialog between the alarm company/supervising station and the local fire department on the use of alarm verification within their jurisdiction. Section 18.104.22.168(2) does require the fire department to provide documentation to the supervising station on the protocols that are to be used. The development of these protocols should be a two-sided discussion.
Fire alarm verification will continue to be a lightning rod of debate throughout the industry for the foreseeable future.
Fire Alarm Verification Concerns
• Delay in the dispatch
• Can the authorized person at the protected premises be fully aware of what may have caused an alarm within 90 seconds?
• With lighter construction materials, the delay in the dispatch could allow for a flashover at the premises if there is an actual fire
• Does not address the underlying causes of unwanted alarms
Shane Clary, Ph.D., has more than 37 years of security and fire alarm industry experience. He serves on a number of NFPA technical committees, and is Vice President of Codes and Standards Compliance for Pacheco, Calif.-headquartered Bay Alarm Co.
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Hello peoples!
This is my first thread on this forum and i hope I'm not posting it in the wrong section.
I'm a student of Applied Sciences and therefore i wanted to see how secure my Home Network is...
So first thing i did was firing up reaver, worked like a charm within 5 hours and the WPS exploit!
The only thing which challenged me after that was finding a Wordlist which contained my pretty complex pw.
(in the end i wrote in a file myself and it had success of course...)
So now i wanted to gain access to my network and look at the traffic using Wireshark.
I knew the passphrase, but Wireshark did not show me any relevant Packages containing valid IP adresses.
This made me a little suspicious and I've checked why it is behaving like that.
(Tried nmap, arping, arpsniff, angry ip scanner)
We have 4 Pcs and my Laptop in our house.
All of the 4 Pcs have their adresses static and are connected wired to the Router.
So i thought, maybe the Wired interface is a closed environment for itself and the WiFi is isolated.
Turned on my Smartphone, connected to the AP Wireless and tried again with no success.
I can only see failing ARP and DHCP requests along some Netbios data (NBsomethingsomething coming from my own host...)
But the thing is - my AP has the Client isolation feature turned on. (Where the AP does NOT allow communication between clients, afaik)
Dont know since when it has this feature turned on but okey (i used to play my music via airplay which worked a month ago...)
My question is: Is there any other possibility a hacker could gain access to the devices or even the router itself? Is the IP in any other way visible to others?
Macbook Pro, BT5, Vmware, WG111v2 (PrismGT), Netgear Router


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