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JaQuan Blount hit the game-winning three-pointer with 4.1 seconds left in overtime as nationally 16th-ranked University of Mount Olive held off Lees-McRae College 85-82 in Conference Carolinas men's basketball Saturday at Kornegay Arena. The lead changed hands four times in the overtime period.
Mount Olive (18-2 overall, 11-1 Conference Carolinas) had a chance to win in regulation, but Dontrell Brite's three-point attempt rimmed out at the buzzer. The Trojans trailed by as many as eight points in the first half and never led by more than five points during the game.
Lees-McRae (10-9, 5-7) took the first lead of the overtime after Raul Tutton's three-pointer with 4:18 remaining put the Bobcats up 76-73. Baskets by Jordan McCain and Kendall Hargrove put Mount Olive back on top, but Sean Deniton answered with a three for Lees-McRae to give the Bobcats a 79-77 lead with 3:06 left in overtime.
After Brite put the Trojans back on top with a three-pointer, Cameron Redd hit 1-of-2 free throws to tie the game 80-80 with 2:02 remaining.
Mount Olive regained the lead on its next possession as Hargrove found McCain just inside the free throw line and McCain drove in for a layup to put the Trojans up 82-80 with 1:40 left. McCain and Brite helped Mount Olive defensively by drawing charging fouls, but a Trojan turnover in the final minute gave the Bobcats a chance to tie the game.
Lees-McRae called timeout with 39 seconds left in OT and 19 seconds left on the shot clock. Kendall Isler dished to Jacqueise Moore, whose layup tied the game 82-82 with one second left to shoot. Mount Olive inbounded the ball and called timeout after crossing midcourt with exactly 15.0 seconds left.
The Trojans moved the ball around the perimeter until Brite passed from the top of the key to Blount in the left corner. Blount, who already had a pair of three-pointers on the day, hit nothing but net to put the Trojans on top.
After calling timeout, Lees-McRae drove the length of the court and had an open look at a three, but the ball bounced off the rim just before the buzzer sounded. The overtime game was Mount Olive's first of the season.
Mount Olive trailed by three at halftime and never led by more than one possession until McCain's three-point play with 7:56 left in regulation gave the Trojans a 67-62 lead. Darius Malbon connected on a three-pointer on Lees-McRae's ensuing possession and the Bobcats went back on top 73-71 after Isler sank a pair of free throws with 2:44 remaining.
The Trojans tied the game 73-73 on their next possession after McCain chased down his own offensive rebound and put in a layup with 2:12 left in regulation. Neither team was able to score on its next possession as Dominique Reed blocked a Lees-McRae shot, but Mount Olive turned the ball over in the final minute.
Each team had a shot at a game winner in the final six seconds, but both the Trojans and Bobcats came up empty to send the game into overtime.
In the first half, Hargrove's uncontested slam dunk provided the first points of the game, but Lees-McRae came back with 10 unanswered points and led the majority of the half. Mount Olive regained the lead after Blount tapped a defensive rebound to Hargrove for a fast break layup and Reed converted a pair of three-point plays to put the Trojans up 26-24 with 6:25 left before halftime.
Lees-McRae came back with a 5-0 run on Isler's dunk and Tutton's three-pointer to go back on top. Blount's three-pointer tied the game and McCain hit a three with 1:12 remaining to give Mount Olive a 36-33 lead. The Trojans would not score again the remainder of the half as Deniton's 15-footer trickled in at the buzzer to cap a 6-0 run and give Lees-McRae a 39-36 halftime lead.
Reed led Mount Olive with game highs of 24 points, 12 rebounds and five blocked shots. Reed, who was 10-of-12 from the field, matched a career-high scoring total, coincidentally last season against Lees-McRae. McCain finished with 23 points, seven assists and six rebounds, while Blount scored 15 points. Hargrove added 11 points and six assists, while Brite dished out a game-high seven assists.
Tutton led Lees-McRae with 19 points off the bench for the Bobcats. Deniton added 16 points, while Moore finished 12 points and a team-high seven rebounds.
Mount Olive's win came less than 24 hours after moving into a tie for first place and handing conference co-leader King its first loss in conference play.
Mount Olive returns to action Wednesday as the Trojans travel to Gaffney, S.C., to take on Limestone in a Conference Carolinas match-up. The Trojans defeated the Saints 79-59 in the first meeting November 25 at Kornegay Arena. Tip-off is 7:30 p.m.


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Marketing Campaign Coordinator - Lead Generation
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Central London
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Event Details:
Registration is now open. Click Here! Get entered to win a North Face Jacket! (approx $200 value) Register for this event by January 5th! The more snowshoe runs you register for by Jan 5th, 2016 increases your entries and your chance of winning!!
The Dirty Feet Snowshoe Fun Run will be a fun running and walking event
The event will be held at Sun Peaks and will consist of 2 distances – Approximately 5km and 10km in distance for all ages.
Lots of prizes and snacks for everybody. Awards and prizes will be inside at the Cahilty Creek Bar and Grill. Stay tuned for a food and drink specials too!
Snowshoe Fun Run and Walk Distances:
5km, 10km distances are available. Snowshoe Walkers are welcome and encouraged to register for 5 km.
Race Package Pick-up
Pick up your race package on Saturday February 27th at the North Face store from 1:00-2:00pm. If you are not around during the day on Saturday you can pick up your race package starting at 4:30pm at the start/finish area.
Participant Check In:
Begins February 27th at 5:00pm at Start/Finish.
Need somwhere to stay?? – The Nancy Greene's Cahilty Lodge will is offering a discounted rate for snowshoe run and walkers. Click here to link to the where to stay page for the discount codes!
Snowshoe Map and Elevation Profile:
The course will be different from the previous years it will start near the clock tower and head towards the Burfield chair on the snowshoe trails and cross the main mountain finishing in the near the clock tower. A map for 2016 will be posted soon. Here's a link to last years course. . Click here to view the map.
The course will be a 5 km loop and the 10km will be 2 loops.
Start Time:
5km and 10 km starts at 5:30pm
Entry Fees:
5 km and 10 km fun run and walk early bird entry fee is $30 includes GST January 1st – entry does not include on line processing fee.
Registration changes to $35 starting on January 1st includes GST – entry does not include on line processing fee.
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February 26th, 2015 at 6:00pm. (No Race Day Registration)
Jodi is originally from Montréal, Quebec but spent a few years in Northern New Brunswick after graduating from University. She moved to Kamloops in the Spring of 2010 with her family and works as an educational assistant. Her 7 and 8 year old keep her really busy as they love exploring the area and enjoying what Kamloops has to offer!


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To join us on this beach clean, please first register as a volunteer. You will then be able to sign up to this event on this page to let us know that you will be coming.
Further details available on RSPB Titchwell website: www.rspb.org.uk/titchwellmarsh


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Text: Genesis 22:1-18
Theme: Abraham's willingness to sacrifice Isaac foreshadows God's willingness to sacrifice his one and only Son, Jesus.
God commanding a father to sacrifice his son, like some horrible, pagan custom.
And then reversing the order at the last minute.
Does God take some kind of sadistic pleasure in tormenting Abraham?
This is the stuff cynics seize as ammunition against the Christian faith.
But a closer look provides some breath-taking insights.
This passage proves to be one of the most important in all the Old Testament.
It foreshadows what the divine Father and Son would do for us.
It offers a glimpse of the gospel orchestrated centuries before the coming of Jesus.
Let's start at the beginning. Sometime later God tested Abraham. Why we're not told.
Likely it's because God has given Abraham the long-awaited child of promise.
And it would have been easy for Isaac to become first in his heart- a sort of idol.
Will Abraham still put God first- even before his precious son?
God said to him: Abraham! Take your son, your only son, Isaac, whom you love… Later in our passage it says: they went on together. Together. Father and son.
Here we find the loving, intimate bond between Abraham and Isaac.
They give us a glimpse of the loving, intimate bond between God the Father and his Son.
Vs. 2 continues: take your son… and go to the region of Moriah.
Where was Moriah? II Chronicles 3 records this event a thousand years later:
Solomon began to build the temple of the Lord in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah.
So God was sending Abraham to the very spot where his temple would be built,
where sacrifices would be offered, where one day the supreme sacrifice was made.
Take your son, your only son, Isaac…
Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains I will tell you about. It's hard to imagine a tougher test!
Isaac is God's miracle child- conceived long after Sarah was past childbearing.
At Isaac's birth God promised: it is through Isaac that your offspring will be reckoned.
As an old man, Abraham's life and hope and future were wrapped around this boy.
Now God says: sacrifice him… as a burnt offering.
Leviticus 1 describes a burnt offering:When any of you brings an offering to the LORD… if the offering is a burnt offering from the herd, he is to offer a male without defect.
He is to lay his hand on the head of the burnt offering,
and it will be accepted on his behalf to make atonement for him.
Now Isaac is to be sacrificed as a burnt offering: a human male.
Isaac foreshadows another human male without defect who would be offered.
The perfect Son of God would make a permanent atonement with God for all our sins.
Take your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love. Sacrifice him as a burnt offering. What were Abraham's feelings? What was his reply to God? Of this we are told nothing.
But his actions speak loud and clear. Early the next morning Abraham saddles his donkey.
He takes his son Isaac and enough wood for an offering and sets out for Moriah.
It almost takes your breath away! No pleading. No hedging. Just prompt obedience.
By the way, this is a great story for our children: prompt obedience.
In fact, Abraham is a towering example for us all: unsparing obedience to God.
Let me ask: is there any area in which you struggle to do what God asks of you?
Let Abraham be your example: to trust and obey God no matter what!
Abraham's obedience was not only prompt, it was persistent. He kept on going.
Vs. 4: On the third day Abraham looked up and saw the place in the distance.
Now the place and the sacrifice loom ahead. Yet he doesn't flinch. Persistent obedience.
In fact, Abraham's unsparing obedience makes you wonder: is he really human?
Or is he some automaton? How could he stab his precious son and sacrifice him?
Well, vs. 5 gives a clue to the answer. Abraham said to his servants:
Stay here with the donkey while I and the boy go over there.
We will worship and then we will come back to you. Did you catch that?
We will come back to you. Father and son. Somehow he expects Isaac to come back alive!
How can that be? How can that be when he fully intends to sacrifice Isaac?
It could only be this: Abraham believed God would raise Isaac from the dead.
How else could he be sacrificed and yet come back with Abraham?
Centuries later Hebrews 11 confirms that Abraham was thinking along this line.
It notes: He who had received the promises was about to sacrifice his one + only son, even though God had said to him: It is thru Isaac that your offspring will be reckoned. Abraham reasoned that God could raise the dead.
So, it turns out that Abraham was not some unfeeling machine.
Rather his obedience came from believing. He believed in God's power to raise the dead. Here is the first hint of the resurrection- a hint fulfilled on a third day 2,000 years later.
Abraham and Isaac continue their climb. Vs. 6: Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering and placed it on his son Isaac, and he himself carried the fire and the knife.
What an irony! Isaac carried the very wood by which he was to be sacrificed.
John 19 tells of another son who carried the wooden cross on which he was sacrificed.
Vs. 7: As the two of them went on together, Isaac spoke up and said: Father?
Yes, my son? Abraham replied.
The fire and wood are here. But where is the lamb for the burnt offering?
Abraham replies: God himself will provide the lamb for the burnt offering.
Unknown to him, his words had a grander meaning, reaching forward in time.
One day God himself provided that lamb. One day John the Baptist spotted Jesus + said:
Look, the lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!
Vs. 9: And the two of them went on together. When they reached the place
God had told him about, Abraham built an altar there and arranged the wood on it. He bound his son Isaac and laid him on the altar, on top of the wood.
Right here we see that Abraham is not the only remarkable figure.
From prior chapters we know that Abraham was well over one hundred years old.
And Isaac was strong enough to take this rugged trip and carry the wood to the top. Could Isaac have been bound and laid on the altar against his will? Hardly.
So, Isaac must have cooperated. He must have laid down his life as a willing sacrifice.
From John 10 we know he foreshadowed Jesus' own words:
I lay down my life... No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord.
Now the climax: Abraham reached out his hand and took the knife to slay his son. But the angel of the Lord called out to him from heaven, "Abraham, Abraham!" You can't miss the drama of this last second intervention.
This is the stuff movies should be made of.
Here I am, he replied. Do not lay a hand on the boy, he said.
Do not do anything to him. Now I know that you fear God,
because you have not withheld from me your son, your only son.
What a test of faith and obedience! Isaac had not become an idol who came before God. Abraham passed his test with flying colors!
And Isaac was spared. You see, ultimately there was no need for Isaac to be sacrificed. After all, it was only a test. Abraham saw a ram stuck in a thicket + sacrificed it instead.
But with Jesus it was different. His sacrifice was a necessity.
We had a world of sin and misery weighing us down.
Because of our disobedience, we were condemned under the righteous judgment of God. Jesus' sacrifice on the cross to pay for our sins was the only way to save us.
Here's something which boggles the mind.
Ever since the sin of Adam and Eve, God knew he would sacrifice his only Son.
Already with Abraham and Isaac God was foreshadowing his plan to sacrifice his Son. Over all those centuries of time, Jesus knew he was destined
to be the sacrifice.
And they never bailed out. They went through with it. Such was their love for you + me.
In the fullness of time God sent his one and only Son to Mount Moriah.
In the fullness of time God, in effect, went ahead and plunged in the knife.
In the fullness of time Jesus was sacrificed as the lamb of God.
In the fullness of time he made atonement for the sins of the world.
Because you have not withheld from me your son, your only son.
Today it is not God speaking these words to any man.
Today it is you and me saying these words to God:
you have not withheld from me your son, your only son.
That's why we love him. That's why we trust him. That's why we obey him.
Neil Jasperse
December 2, 2018
Faith Church


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Cops leaving school-shelter near Posco site
NCPCR had paid a visit to project villages earlier this month and asked Orissa government to take immediate steps to withdraw police forces who were being given shelter in schools in the Posco project site area.
Earlier the matter relating to use of school buildings for police shelter had come under judicial scrutiny with Orissa High Court serving show cause notice to the state government. The matter is sub-judice with verdict awaited.
With the project locked up in a resistance movement, a section of guardians had sought high court`s intervention while stating that the presence of police is adversely affecting the academic activities.
The government-run Balitutha primary school had become temporary home for armed constabulary since the past 19 months when the resistance movement against the steel project was at its peak.
The civil and police administration preferred to house the armed police at the particular school building because of its strategic location.
Balitutha staying on the borderline of steel mill project incidentally happened to the entry point of the project. The place is witness to resistance movements in the past necessitating police deployment at the spot.
"On direction of district Collector, we have vacated the parts of the school building in which police were housed.
The police forces were withdrawn from school premises. They are being accommodated at another place in Balitutha," said S Devdatta Singh, Superintendent of Police, Jagatsinghpur.
"Though police had been sheltered in the school, it was ensured that classroom teaching was least affected. Now, police force had been withdrawn from the site after NCPCR sought for the freeing of the school campus from armed police," said Jagatsinghpur Collector N C Jena.


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E-Journal of Chemistry
Volume 9, Issue 1, Pages 131-136
Reductive Cleavage of 1,2-Oxazines Promoted by Zinc and Ammonium Chloride; Mild One Pot Preparation of γ-Hydroxy Ketones
1FMC (I) R&D Centre, SID, Indian Institute of Science Campus, Bangalore-12, India
2Department of Studies in Chemistry, University of Mysore, Manasagangotri, Mysore, Karnataka-570006, India
Received 4 June 2011; Accepted 12 August 2011
Copyright © 2012 Hindawi Publishing Corporation. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
A facile method for a mild single pot reductive cleavage of 1,2-oxazines to γ-hydroxy ketones was developed using zinc and aqueous ammonium chloride as the reagent in methanol. The reaction involves the reduction of N-O bond of the oxazine and the hydrolysis of the resulting 1,4-iminoalcohol.


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The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. fought for racial justice and equality. He is famously known for his works in the Civil Rights movement, where he maintained that "all men are created equal." He was died at 39 years old on April 4, 1968. He is honored for his "I Have a Dream" speech.
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Evolving Leadership for Collective Wellbeing: Lessons for Implementing the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals edited by Seana Lowe Steffen, Jamie Rezmovits, Shanah Trevenna, and Shana Rappaport (Emerald Group Publishing 2018)
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The child of William Bixler (a labourer) and Rachel Sargent, Frances Bixler, the third cousin three-times-removed on the mother's side of Nigel Horne, was born in Indiana, USA c. 1865.
She married John Young in Allen, Indiana on 2 Oct 1882. On 1 Jun 1880, she was living in Allen, Indiana1.
She died on 26 Dec 1899 in Fort Wayne, Allen, Indiana.
From The Fort Wayne Sentinel, Thursday, 28 February 1889, page 4: "Frances Young yesterday filed a complaint for divorce from John Young, alleging cruelty and adultery. The complaint is M. V. B. Spencer.".
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Our next meeting will be on July 17th at the Multipurpose Center off West Grey – address is 1475 West Gray Houston, Texas 77019. The meeting will run from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. We have less than 2 months left until Deaf Awareness Week! See you there!
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A whining noise heard driving at freeway speeds (more than 55 mph) can be normal noise from the rear axle which is being transmitted through the body. A body/frame damper is available which may help with this concern.
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2005 Dodge Durango - 2WD 147,000 mi,
Similarly, my 2WD 2005 Durango has a whining noise about 60-70mph and when I let up on the gas pedal to coast the noise goes away, push down on the pedal can hear immediately.
Does not matter how fast I am going I start to hear as soon as I take off from 0.
2003 Dodge Durango - 4WD 127,000 mi,
I hear a high pitch noise only after 60mph on the freeway and lets up after I take my foot off the gas. Whats the problem?
2003 Dodge Durango - 4WD 223,265 mi,
i have the same problem but mine doesnt sound like its near the back its around the middle so i thought it may be the transmission but im not sure and havent felt like doing anything about it yet haha it sounds like a jet plane taking off every time i enter the highway
2003 Dodge Durango - 2WD 145,129 mi,
same issue, but whining is loud and starts from take off at zero. have been told it is the rear axle. never heard it before, bought it at 55k miles and started at 143k miles
2006 Dodge Durango - 4WD 100,000 mi,
whining noise on freeway from the rear
1999 Dodge Durango - 4WD 128,085 mi,
It grinds at low speeds when I turn an gets a vibration at 50mph an above
2008 Dodge Durango 82,000 mi,
At speed i can hear the pinion support bearing howling. I can vary the degree of noise by either accelerating or decelerating. If i "float" thru the rpm range at a particular speed, i can make the sound go away.
Repair was not made because the mechanic at auto nation dodge was either deaf, lazy or "new". He could not find /hear the problem.
Repair was not made because the mechanic at auto nation dodge was either deaf, lazy or "new". He could not find /hear the problem.
2002 Dodge Durango - 4WD 123,000 mi,
Loud whinning sound when moving at all speeds from the rear end. Dealership said it sounds like it was coming from the Differential
1999 Dodge Durango - 4WD 201,000 mi,
I have a whining when i turn my steering any way and if i travel speeds above 50 the truck slides to right and it vibrates
2005 Dodge Durango - 2WD 137,000 mi,
Just started making a whining noise at take off that pitch increases with speed. As soon as I lift off accelerator noise stops. No noticeable difference in driving other than annoying sound. Sounds under cab near mid/back.
2007 Dodge Durango - 4WD 75,500 mi,
Noise starts at about 20 mph and whirring increases in pitch as the speed picks up. No clunking, no issues shifting. So it sounds like bad pinion bearings.
2003 Dodge Durango - 4WD 173,000 mi,
whining noise as I speed up coming from rear end.


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Where's the best supermarket in NZ's North Island?
Regular visitors here will know that I'm a big supporter of local. Buying local, eating local, sourcing local; basically supporting the guys who work hard to make their product the best they can. And something many people don't know is that our Pak'nSave stores aren't owned by some anonymous corporates – they are curated by locals.
Last night, Foodstuffs North Island celebrated the best of the best at the annual Co-Op awards, and I am so very happy to say that the top spot was taken by my own local – the Pak'nSave in Albany on the North Shore.
Huge congratulations to Paul and Liz Blackwell, owners of this terrific local store, and also to every other winner on this list.
At the awards event, Chris Quin, CEO of Foodstuffs North Island, said, "It's humbling to get up on stage and applaud the incredible work that our people put in each day to deliver what our customers need. While we are the market-leader in the supermarket business, we can't rest on our laurels. Every single one of our owner-operators goes all out to do the right thing by their customers – but some are exceptional. These awards recognise the extra effort they put into running 100% New Zealand owned and operated businesses who really get what this country is all about."
The Awards recognise the best in Produce, Butchery, Bakery, Seafood and Service Deli. They also look at Safety & Wellbeing, Sustainability and Supplier Relationships. "All stores work all day on these areas – it's just that some go that extra mile to ensure the avocados are glistening, the focaccia is piping hot, the salmon is fresh and the team is healthy, safe and supported."
One of the most highly prized awards is the Co-operative Spirit Award, which was awarded to Leo and Kieran O'Sullivan. "The beauty of the Co-op is that no owner or their team goes it alone. Leo and Kieran are legends in our business for putting the Co-op first and this shines through in events like the aftermath of the 2016 November quakes, when they offered unstinting support to Steve and Sarah Williams at New World Hutt City," says Quin.
At the end of the night the award for best store was given to Paul and Liz Blackwell, PAK'nSAVE Albany. This amazing couple has set the bar high for 20 extraordinary years. They not only enjoy undying loyalty from their customers and team, they also give so much to the Co-op as mentors and to the community.


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Converting solar energy to useful electricity - Grid Tie Inverters and solar geysers
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A really impressive technology is developing at present relating to the useful conversions of solar energy.
Solar panels are becoming quite cheap and have a long operating life (20 years if well made). However they are difficult to interface to harness the available power. A typical panel might have an open circuit voltage of 22 volts, a short circuit current of 3 amps and have an optimum power transfer point elsewhere say at 15 volts. In addition a cloud passing across the direct sun path might cause the output power to drop to just 10% of the energy compared to the energy without the cloud. All this means that one is getting continually fluctuating energy from the panels and it is very difficult to design for a steady load- especially something using a motor.
In the past one might have stored the energy in some form of battery, but this gives very little of the potential energy available from the solar panel to a useful load. Batteries are expensive, difficult to charge and discharge quickly, have small capacities and a limited life.
The ideal situation is to immediately convert the solar energy to mains electricity that is compatible with the supplied mains and to use the energy in the normal AC load of the building, reducing the amount of energy drawn from the municipal supply.
You cannot use any inverter to convert the DC voltage from the solar panel to AC mains compatible energy. It has to be generated in exact phase and frequency with the incoming mains otherwise it is going to be vaporised.
The type of inverter needed is called a Grid-Tie inverter.
It is wired directly onto the mains supply and the solar panel provides the energy. The inverter continually monitors the solar panel and as soon as there is sufficient energy it starts to monitor the AC mains supply determining the frequency and the phase angles.
It starts its inverter at the same frequency as the incoming mains supply but at a low output voltage and gets the two voltages in exact phase with each other. It then increases the output voltage to start supplying in phase electricity and using up the available solar power.
On the solar input side it adjusts the load voltage to get maximum power transfer from the solar panel by monitoring the DC voltage and current to operate at the Maximum Power transfer point. It continually adjusts these values so that it can handle variations in the available solar power such as might happen with a cloud passing through the direct sun path.
The inverter has another feature called islanding, which shuts down the entire process in the event of an incoming mains failure.
Grid-Tie inverters have been around for a long time for major solar and wind turbine installations. They have however been quite expensive (US$1500 for a 15KVA system)
The new development is in the form of micro grid-tie inverters which allow simple systems of 300 watts or 500 watts to be implemented in modular form. These are not wired into the main switch board of the establishment, but plug into a normal AC outlet in a room. They are also cascadable allowing many 300 watt or 500 watt units to work in parallel so that larger loads can be addressed. They cost only about US$150 each.
The performance advantage of the micro grid tie inverter compared to the historic large scale grid tie inverter is that it can work with a single solar panel as it is designed to work with 12 volt, 24 volt or 48 volt DC systems. The advantage with lower voltage small systems is that they are safer for the DIY enthusiast, you can start your system with a small working system and expand as your needs and finances grow, and that they are less susceptible to loss of performance caused by shadows. On traditional grid tie systems where a single inverter is used which is fed from many panels, the panels are wired in series to supply DC voltages as high as 400 volts. As soon as a shadow falls on any one panel, the performance of the entire system is compromised as all the panels are in series. With the microgrid tie inverter a shadow on one panel affects only that inverter while all the others in the network operate at full capacity. There are market developments that in future it is likely that the grid tie inverter will be built into each solar panel and that the output of the panel will be at mains voltage with all panels tied in parallel.
Another advantage of the micro grid tie inverter is that it will optimally transfer power from its solar panel to the mains network. As solar panels made by different manufacturers have different performance specifications, the use of micro grid tie inverters allows a network of panels with different specifications to work optimally.
We have six of these systems running at present which generate about 70% of the electricity used during daytime. We have power meters on the incoming mains power supplied from the municipality and on the power supplied from the solar panels and continuously monitor the effectiveness of the system. When clouds pass over the setup one instantly observes the change in output from the solar network and the increase from the municipal network to keep the building load running optimally.
With Prepaid electricity systems and remote electricity meter monitoring, the municipal meter is becoming an electronic device. In computing your power usage, it takes into account the magnitude of the voltage and the magnitude of the current, and the phase angle between the two components so that it can calculate the true power supplied. When you overgenerate, current flows back to the municipality and the meter detects this as the phase angle between the voltage and current reverses. The meters do not give you credit for this returned power, but rather calculate that no power is being supplied by the municipality.
Above: A meter measuring the incoming current from the solar panels to one of the micro grid-tie inverters.
At current electricity rates, we expect payback within 5 years without any form of solar subsidy.
Solar water heating - solar geysers
Heating water via a solar geyser is the most effective use of solar energy that the home owner can implement. The equipment is cheap, it is low tech and payback comes very quickly.
A low pressure solar water heater. These are very efficient in heating water. In this case the heating tubes are double walled tubes with the gap between the two tubes being evacuated. The water being heated is inside the inner tube and rises as it is heated to be replaced with colder water from the header tank. The vacuum insulation between the hot water and the outside is so effective that when you touch the tubes they feel cold. This one has a 100 litre header tank which achieves nearly 70 degrees celsius in one day sunshine. In our situation we feed this to the kitchen sink as a third feed and only switch on the electric geyser for the kitchen if there are a number of days of overcast weather.
A high pressure solar water system allows the use of balanced pressure taps for showers, baths and basins to also be used with solar systems. The pressure in the balanced water system operates at 400 kpA, while the solar heater is a low pressure system. Inside the solar storage tank is a coiled pipe through which the high pressure water flows. This pipe transfers heat by conduction from the heated solar water tank to the water flowing in the coiled pipe. The water in the coiled pipe is fed to the input water connection of the electric geyser meaning that instead of filling the geyser with cold municipal water, it is filled with preheated water meaning less electricity is needed to heat the water to operating temperature. When using the showers etc, the temperature of the solar geyser tank drops as heat is transferred out of the tank.
1 calorie of energy causes 1 cc of water to rise 1 degree centigrade 1 calorie of energy is equivalent to 4.17 joules of energy 1 joule = 1 watt-second 1 kw-hour of energy raises 100 liters of water 8.633 degrees centigrade 1 kw-hour of energy raises 200 liters of water 4.31 degrees centigradeFrom the same calculation, every four degree drop in temperature or a 200 litre solar geyser means that 1 kilowatt-hours energy has been transferred to the electric geyser saving the same in electricity.
In our situation, the geyser in Sept (Spring) gets to 70 degrees in the afternoon and reduces to 30 degrees after everyone has showered and bathed,
meaning it is reducing the electricity power consumption of the house by 10kwh per day.
In the high pressure solar geyser, the water in the storage tank is only use to store heat and is not consumed. This means it is suitable for situations where the geyser might encounter
temperatures below zero over night as an antifreeze can be added to the geyser water.
The following graph shows the electrical power used by two geysers that use the preheated water from the high pressure solar geyser system. The electric geysers are a 200 litre and a 100 litre system. In South Africa in Johannesburg there is a ripple relay control system that allows the municipality to switch off the geysers remotely during peak loads. This typically happens between 18h30 to 21h00 and from 07h00 to 09h00. The graph shows that for 3 adults 7.26kwh of electrical energy was used to heat the geysers in one day. This situation occured before the load scheduling program was implemented detailed below.
A solar swimming pool filter that runs on a 12 volt pump drawing power from the solar array which is also used by the micro grid-tie inverters. The water is treated with an ozone generator and the main swimming pool pump is only used occasionally to let the pool cleaner retrieve the fallen leaves.
Solar Blankets
One of the most effective energy saving devices is a geyser blanket.
We measure electrical energy daily used to keep our geysers at operating temperature.
Load scheduling
Common electronic municipal meters will not give you credit for over generating with the solar/grid-tie system and feeding power back to the neighbourhood. What is needed is to consume the solar energy when it is generated by running non-time critical appliances during the day when power is being generated. We have time switches on our geysers to try to reheat the geysers when the solar power is at a maximum so as to minimise power being returned to the municipality.
Electricity bought from the municipality
Analysing the upper graph
Impact of overcast weather
The above graph shows the total energy generated daily from the solar network. The fluctuations are caused by weather conditions between overcast and sunny days.
The above graph shows the total energy bought on a daily basis from the municipality. On overcast days the energy increases due to the solar geysers not getting as hot as normal and not preheating the geyser inlet water to normal temperatures, meaning extra energy is needed to heat the water to temperature.
We have six gridtie inverters in parrallel. Referring to the above graph.
At 08h45 one of the units is shut down as the other five are generating sufficient for our base load excluding geysers and swimming pool.
Delivering 50% of our energy needs from the sun
Running our household with its swimming pool, geysers, kitchen appliances, computer systems, borehole, garden sprinklers, entertainment systems, security systems, workshops, compressors, home heating/cooling and all energy requirements except for motor vehicles - typically uses 50 kwh per day of which 50% is supplied from the Municipality and 50% is from the sun.
In the above graphSouth Africa is in the Southern Hemisphere and summer is in December and winter in June. This is a 20 room house on a 2000 sq meter stand with a large swimming pool.
Achieving higher percentages than 50% for the solar is a challenge as we consume energy over 24 hours but only have solar capture over 8 hours to 12 hours. We do not want to go the route of batteries as that defeats the benefits of a grid tie system and increases costs dramatically.
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www.common-place.org · vol. 3 · no. 3 · April 2003
Rachel F. Seidman, a freelance writer and independent historian living near the prairie in St. Paul, Minnesota, is the author of The Civil War: a History in Documents (New York, 2001).
"I'm not sure how I made it this far without realizing that I would find Wilder's books on the fiction shelf."
This Little House of Mine
It's embarrassing to remember now. We were in the library and I was trying to find The Little House in the Big Woods for my six-year-old daughter. I was looking for the famous series of books by Laura Ingalls Wilder in juvenile nonfiction. My husband looked at me, bemused. "But they're novels," he said. The voice that squeaked out of my mouth and the tears that sprang to my eyes as I vehemently disagreed came not from my adult self but from the little girl still deep inside me. Complicated emotions welled up as I started to laugh at my own reaction. In a single instant I saw myself passionately defending an assumption that I was simultaneously letting go: my previously unchallenged childhood belief that the Laura Ingalls Wilder stories were really, truly true. A panicky feeling swept over me as visions of Laura and her sister Mary, and Ma and Pa and baby Carrie raced through my mind.
If these stories were made up, it was not only my child-self who would feel betrayed; my job was on the line as well. I have long held that Laura Ingalls Wilder was one of the reasons I became a historian. My intense reading and rereading of her books was a central pleasure of my girlhood. I stored away tidbits of information about "the pioneer days"—like how Ma used carrots to color winter butter—that stayed in my mental treasure box for years. Despite being a relatively docile, blonde older sibling, I deeply identified with the headstrong, brown-haired, younger sister Laura. The act of projecting myself back into her world, of imagining another time, of absorbing the details of daily life, now seems like a direct precursor of my vocation as a women's historian. The mere suggestion that the source of all that early "research" was unreliable struck me as deeply unsettling.
I'm not sure how I made it this far without realizing that I would find Wilder's books on the fiction shelf. Partly, I guess, I really didn't want to know. But after my forced epiphany in the public library, that changed. Now, indeed, I did want to know. Flooded with memories of the Ingalls family pioneer trek across the Midwest, I wanted to know how much was true, and how much was not. I felt ready, even eager, to read biographies of Wilder and scholarly analysis of her work. I was nervous, certainly; afraid I might lose something dear to me. But I set out with a sense of excitement, too, newly willing to see Laura through grown-up eyes.
Now, having researched "the truth" about the Little House books, I find I can live with my new knowledge. In fact, the process of learning about the stories has been quite bittersweet, in a way akin to growing up. I have had to let go of my fond, naïve trust in the narrator and learn to accept new realities, including the impossibility of knowing certain things for sure. My relationship to Laura Ingalls Wilder has been changed, but not destroyed.
What I learned can, I think, be divided into two categories. First is a set of simple facts that conflict with the books. For those of you who did not thrill to these books as children, let me remind you of the basics. There are eight in the series, written by Wilder in the 1930s, when she was in her sixties. The books follow the late-nineteenth-century Ingalls family from their home in the "Big Woods" of western Wisconsin, to Kansas, Minnesota, and finally South Dakota. Written in a straightforward, realistic style, the books have seduced generations of readers with their apparently true rendition of the Ingalls's pioneering life.
The devil, as they say, is in the details. For instance, Laura's sister Carrie was born on the Kansas prairie in 1870; she wasn't alive yet when the family lived in the Big Woods although she is present in the story. A baby brother, Freddie, who died at nine months old, never appears in the books. Ok, I could handle those. But the fact that Laura Ingalls left the woods of Wisconsin for the open prairie when she was only three years old suddenly reconfigured my whole relationship to the stories. It surprised me because in the Little House in the Big Woods, the first book in the series, she is five. How could Wilder remember all those things from when she was three years old? I immediately recognized, of course, that she couldn't. Suddenly the foundation of the little house seemed much shakier.
The second category of my discoveries revolves around this new perspective; I came to think of the little house as a stage set, rather than an actual home. It seems basic, but for me it was a completely different approach to these works, as I began to invoke the tools one uses to read fiction, not autobiography. Anne Romines's excellent book, Constructing the Little House: Gender, Culture, and Laura Ingalls Wilder (Amherst, 1997) confirmed what I was beginning to sense: the intricacy and depth of these books as novels. I grew to treasure not only Wilder's recollections, but her invented world. While I mourned the loss of my belief in these books as what really happened, I gained a new appreciation for the work of a mature artist. I found it exciting to follow through on themes embedded in the text. I began to look for the implicit, rather than only the explicit, messages. I was newly fascinated by the nature of Wilder's portrayal of the frontier and the "others" she encountered there. My adult reading of her books and of the scholarly comments on them amplified and made clear whispers I had heard from the text as a child but had never been able to fully understand.
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A crowd favorite was given that it is beginning in 2006, the musical Million Dollar Quartet highlights the contributions of four leaders of modern-day popular music. Enjoy the personas of legends Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Elvis Presley, and Carl Perkins come to life on phase in this sentimental production. With efficiencies in cities throughout the United States at a few of the leading places the theater world needs to use, you can easily find your favored Million Dollar Quartet tickets through the Tixbag marketplace.
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Million Dollar Quartet Tour Continues in 2014, Chicago Production to Close in March
Influenced by the real story of an unintended recording session between 4 iconic American musicians, Million Dollar Quartet has been a crowd-pleaser considering that it premiered in 2006 with hit tunes like "I Walk the Line" and "Blue Suede Shoes." In 2014, the show's Chicago production stationed at the Apollo Theater is anticipated to close on March 30, while the Las Vegas production is currently dipping into Harrah's Showroom and will continue there till a minimum of June 29.
Meanwhile, the national tour is still going strong after three years on the roadway. Since Feb. 7, Million Dollar Quartet is on stage at the Von Braun Center Auditorium in Huntsville, Ala., where it will remain up until Feb. 9. Much more cities are still ahead for the trek, amongst them Omaha, Neb. (Feb. 18-23), Kalamazoo, Mich. (March 18-19), Fort Meyers, Fla. (April 1-6), Nashville, Tenn. (May 6-11), Madison, Wis. (May 13-18), and Syracuse, N.Y. (June 3-5). Presently, the last city consisted of on the 2014 trip schedule is Dayton, Ohio, where the Schuster Center will host the production from June 17-22. More stops are expected to be announced at a later date.


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Hello to interested voters and observers of the 2019 King County Elections Director election. This is the promised new section in which Friends of Mark Greene For Director of Elections will get into elections issues a little more detailed than what you have seen on this site thus far. Our first focus will be on ballot tabulation, and the Friends of Mark Greene idea to de-aggregate the counting system so that if any errors are found, they can be quickly spotted and analyzed by focusing on specific voting areas where the problem or problems are occurring, which is likely more difficult and takes longer in the centralized system that King County uses for counting.
De-aggregation could also extend to ballot preparation and other areas of elections operations as well, but no dramatic changes in the present system would occur without first doing a legal analysis and weighing the "pros & cons" of any reform. We'll be writing more about de-aggregation in this section, later, as more content is added about various issues, gradually. The latter sections of this page are more general, but give readers a sense of direction about how a new director would operate.
The Mark Greene For Director of Elections campaign recently proposed, on this site's blog (through the post "One County, One Pamphlet"), that the county voters' pamphlets be consolidated as one pamphlet with all the districts, municipalities and jurisdictions contained within, instead of being sub-divided as is presently the case, which in the past has led to prime information being mistakenly omitted from some pamphlets, and voters not being aware of what some of their neighboring King County voters were voting on. We believe this will be a vast improvement in reducing the chance of possible big errors, and in furthering the knowledge that voters would have about our entire county, not just certain parts of it.
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What the media doesn't talk about regarding the Elections Dept. are late ballots, mixed up voters' pamphlets and a Potemkin Village where the partisanship & chaos inside are covered up.
One of the earliest pioneers in the fight for woman suffrage, Susan B. Anthony is the most famous suffragist that led this struggle, which was redeemed by the ratification of the 19th amendment to the Constitution in 1920.
The symbolic aftermath of the ratification of the 19th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution as depicted by Life Magazine in 1920.
Upset the apple cart and reorder the deck at King County Elections, which is headed up by a Dean Logan acolyte (even worst, may have learned under Bob Roegner, too). With the disingenuous new voting laws passed by the Legislature, we'll need extra scrutiny to make sure there's no underage, non-resident and/or non-citizen voting, or any kind of invalid voting whatsoever (caveat: we support actual voting by 16 & 17 year olds). Let's send the puppeteers on their way out the door on Election Day in November. A vote for Mark is a vote for sound election practices.
A former leading puppeteer, Dean Logan, ran off to California some time ago, but some of his worst policies still linger. Mark is mostly concerned about policies, not personnel so much, as 95% per cent or more of the current staff would very likely remain, but there would be more emphasis on hand-counting votes and making as sure as possible that there's no hacking of the system.
Empower your vote, sweep out the staleness left over from old administrations, make Elections pretty much hands off from the parties, and sweep away the last remaining fragments of the old era by voting for a new director in November. You would learn the most about Mark's stances on election issues by reading the blog at the bottom of this page.
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If you were watching our social media coverage from YALC, you may have seen that we were offering attendees the chance to have a character named after them in Teri Terry's upcoming novel, Fated – the prequel to her Slated trilogy. If you weren't at YALC and were feeling sad that you had missed this prize draw, then we have good news for you… Teri has one more character name to offer, and this time you can enter online!
Simply fill in the form below by 22nd August 2018, and you (well, your name – all characters entirely fictional, of course!) could be featured in Fated. Please read the full terms and conditions before entering.
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Armada DJ Pool - sign up now!
Professional DJs can subscribe to our exclusive digital download DJ Pool service. This means that you will have upfront access to all the tracks released by Armada and its sublabels.
Subscription costs are as followed:* 3 months access: 100 Euro (approx. 30 full releases)* 6 months access: 180 Euro (approx. 60 full releases)*12 months access: 300 Euro (approx. 120 releases)
New tracksWe have just made Markus' new album "Progression" available, as well as the new Absolute and Sophie Sugar just to mention a few.
Cloud 9 Dance joins the pool!We have also made a deal with our friends at Cloud 9 Dance to offer their catalogue! This includes releases on their sublabels such Combined Forces, More Moor, Deal Records and more! To start of we bring you the latest More More release.
After the successful first release on the More Moor label with Flowtation 2007, it's now time for another Vincent de Moor classic to get a 2007 treatment. No Hesitation was one of his later releases on which de Moor proves he can also make a great track without a melodie that's bigger than life. For Dutch producer Arctic Quest it was an honour to remix his all time favourite Vincent de Moor tune and also the man himself did an excellent rework job on this timeless tech-trance monster.
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Tuesday, 17 August 2010
More on the shop (1/24th)
I have used a different door to that which came with the kit as this did not have a window. I used a cheap wooden Georgian door and removed the top 4 panels by simply cutting through with a craft knife. Then used some thin strips of wood for a frame and some plastic off some packaging for the window.
This picture show the inside of the front wall..
"Realistic brick compond".
Below is a video from the makers of this product, showing the process of stencilling the bricks.
I want to just add one thing to the video. They say you can add the stencil back on before the first lot of bricks is dry, but I found I was squashing some of the wet bricks, so I quickly dried the overlapping area a llittle with a hair dryer.
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¡Cuanto trabajo llevas adelantado! Te está quedando preciosa. Besos Clara.ReplyDelete
¡Bienvenida a mi blog! Besos Clara.ReplyDelete
Tu tienda esta quedando preciosa.ReplyDelete
Me encantan las paredes y el suelo.
El color que has eegido queda genial.
Muchas gracias por los consejos.
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It all looks very professional. I am very interested in your work with terracotta clay as I have just purchased some for my project. It looks great.ReplyDelete
Love the shop and the video tutorial is very interesting, makes it looks so easy :-)ReplyDelete
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Network security challenges have become increasingly serious as we evolve from the Internet era to the IoT era.
Not only has the number of organised, premeditated attacks across all networks increased, but the form of cyber attacks has become more and more complex and advanced.
In this new age of network security, the roles of the intrusion detection systems (IDS) and intrusion prevention systems (IPS) are gaining increasing importance with their continuous development and innovations. After outlining the new requirements for IDS/IPS equipment to maintain network security in the IoT era, this article will introduce how ADLINK's CSA-7400 high performance, high density and high scalability platform helped NSFOCUS to build next-generation 100G+ grade IDS and IPS that offer safer, more reliable and more stable solutions for carriers.
New requirements and challenges for IDS/IPS
As traditional firewalls find it increasingly difficult to handle the new types of intrusions in the cyber world, today's network protection requires more sophisticated and diversified capabilities. As a result, IDS/IPS have gradually become indispensable components for building an effective network security system. An IDS monitors network operations security by gathering and analysing information on the entire network in order to instruct the operator of the required adjustments of security rules, while an IPS blocks intrusions by executing security rules in real time after in-depth analysis of network data.
Traditional detection technologies – challenges of protecting web-based networks
To enhance detection rates and minimise error rates, both IDS and IPS are equipped with comprehensive detection technologies including feature matching, protocol analysis and anomaly detection.
Feature matching is by far the most commonly used due to its high accuracy and speed. Maximum efficiency of feature matching is dependent on the accuracy of the overall feature library and the feature matching capacity of the equipment.
By discerning the operating principles of a protocol (usually based on RFC standards), protocol analysis searches for suspicious visit behaviours; to detect overflow and denial of service (DoS) attacks. Effective use of this technology enables a high detection rate and a near-zero error rate. Anomaly detection discovers unexpected abnormal traffic through learning and adjusting the normal traffic criteria of a specific network environment. When the actual traffic statistics exceed the threshold value for a given traffic criterion, an anomaly detection alarm is sent.
Despite their advantages, each technology has its flaws. For example, feature matching requires regular updates of the feature library to avoid omissions. Due to the wide variances in each protocol's implementation and unavailability of complete details for proprietary protocols, protocol analysis can usually only be realised for common protocols such as HTTP, FTP and SMTP. When threshold values are set improperly, anomaly detection can result in false positives. As the number of web-based networks and advanced persistent threats (APTs) continues to increase, the deployment of IDS/IPS relying on these traditional technologies will be inadequate.
About the NSFOCUS
NSFOCUS is committed to tracking the latest trends in network security vulnerability research around the world, continually extending vulnerability analysis, mining, and engineering technology to enhance the technical standards of IDS/IPS, anti-DDoS, malware, and attached behaviour analysis and detection. Furthermore, NSFOCUS spares no effort to actively engage in the research and development of cloud security and virtualisation security, software as a service (SaaS)-based security services, security measurement, security reputation, and security intelligence.
Over the past two years, NSFOCUS Security Labs has published integrated reports on trends in security threats, next-gensecurity architectures, IPv6 security research, and security for industrial control systems. As of the end of 2017, NSFOCUS has published 96 notices on security vulnerability research and assisted Microsoft, Cisco, and Oracle on the discovery and resolution of over 94 security vulnerability problems, making it an important contributor to the national vulnerability database. The NSFOCUS Vulnerability Database (NSVD) is the leading Chinese vulnerability database in China.
Application of deep packet inspection technology
The main difference between an IPS and a traditional firewall is that the former can perform deep packet inspection (DPI) of packet contents. If a hacker launches attacks through the vulnerability in Layers 2-7, an IPS can detect and then block such attacks from the data flow. By contrast, the traditional firewall can only detect the quintuple of a data packet (source IP address, source port, target IP address, target port, and protocol at the transmission layer), without detecting the contents at the application layer or individual bytes, thus overlooking many attacks. As an IPS checks each byte of data traffic, it identifies most mainstream application protocols; based on its protocol recognition framework. Then, through nuanced management of the identified information, it can detect the security vulnerabilities in these applications and take the initiative to prevent web attacks.
Application identification using DPI generally requires equipment with large-scale parallel computing ability to filter and detect tens of thousands of packets per second, as well as being able to perform IP defragmentation, TCP stream aggregation and data flow status tracking.
User-based behavioural analysis
In recent years, the mobile network has become an important infrastructure for enterprises, resulting an increasing number of intranet infiltration incidents via wireless networks. In wireless network deployment, open Wi-Fi hotspots for visitors allowing unauthenticated access to the corporate network has become increasingly popular. In addition, employees working off-site may access the company network from their homes, airports and customer's premises. While effective, these wireless networks often lack effective management, allowing hackers to easily bypass the company's firewalls, making wireless networks a stepping stone into the company's intranet.
As the second security gateway after the firewall, IDS/IPS offers user identity and user access control to effectively resolve broken access control (BAC) problems brought about by the roaming of unauthenticated equipment and employees. With the statistical analysis of employee network visit activities of a company, a normal web visit pattern can be built upon features including user identity, geographical location, operating time, visit contents and visit frequency. The system can accurately detect abnormal behaviour deviating from the normal visit pattern and send alarms (IDS) or block the activity (IPS).
Advanced Persistent Threats
Stealing core data is often the goal of APTs. Web attacks and intrusions launched On corporate users are often premeditated over a long period of time and highly concealed. APT attacks are like a special-forces team equipped with comprehensive and sophisticated weapons that can paralyse the defensive power of the corporate web environment's traditional firewalls and antivirus programmes.
IDS/IPS bring better probability for successfully dealing with APTs. By performing network traffic visualisation, an IDS will send alarms after detecting traffic anomalies to minimise the losses caused by APTs. Through collaboration with the local threat analysis system and based on the APT sample, behaviour analysis and virtual execution technologies, an IPS can discover advanced malicious codes hidden in the traffic and dynamically adjust its protection strategy to block malicious traffic in real time.
NSFOCUS NIDS/NIPS solutions and hardware platform requirements
To allow customers monitor for, detect, and prevent attacks, NSFOCUS offers its brand new NIDS and NIPS intrusion protection solutions.
In addition to a having an advanced attack rule feature library for detecting known security threats, NSFOCUS' NIDS is equipped with a continually updated reputation feature library that can reduce hazards brought by unknown malware and effectively prevent persistent intranet infiltration with its intranet security function, thus minimising leakage of sensitive data and abnormal external connections to servers. NSFOCUS' NIPS is equipped with a world-leading attack feature library and real-time reputation library. To respond to advanced threats, an integrated sandbox detection capability is used to realise 3D protection for both known and unknown threats. The use of flow virus detection technology can capture hotspot viruses to maximally enhance antivirus capacity. The integrated mobile phone housekeeper realizes a secure enquiry push and secure status real-time monitoring to reduce the workload of maintenance and operation staff.
Advanced threat prevention NSFOCUS NIPS
Mobile security
To support the security characteristics and requirements of next-generation 100G+ grade NIDS/NIPS platforms, NSFOCUS proposes the following computing platform requirements:
High throughput capacity and I/O density
To better meet the demands of high-end application scenarios of operators such as core networks, cloud computing centres, large enterprises and IDC outlets, NSFOCUS requests support of the 100GB interface on computing platforms for its IDS/IPS products, with each piece of equipment supporting a minimum of 800G traffic connection and of a minimum of 64x 10GB ports. The network ports must support upstream and downstream port consistency and RSS.
Parallel computing and computing density
To support deep packet inspection and other detection methods, NSFOCUS requests that NIDS/NIPS computer platforms support parallel processing capability. In particular, network packet processing platforms should be equipped with wire speed transceiving capability, have the maximum possible computing density per rack unit, and have a zero packet loss rate for small packets of 64 bytes.
Load balancing, same source and same host
In NSFOCUS' NIDS/NIPS, all data traffic is connected by means of a switch board which balances the traffic load to individual processor boards. When processor board errors are detected, the switch board can redirect the traffic. To ensure processing of the same conversation at the same CPU node, the switch board must support the same source and the same host to automatically merge the data flow of the same conversation.
Carrier-grade high availability
As a NIPS platform must be incorporated into the traffic path, NSFOCUS requires the modularisation of computing platforms in a carrier-grade industrial design to provide uninterrupted services for users with hot swap capability for faulty components (compute, switch, PSU, fan, and storage).
Support for standardised API support for standardised API management
To reduce low-level development burdens, NSFOCUS requires the support for standardised API management of hardware platforms with a set of standardised APIs for traffic and hardware management of all components on the rack, port and VLAN management, commonly used L2/L3 switch protocol stacks, and remote reboot management.
Product features CSA-7400
As a next-generation high-performance telecommunications COTS DPI and network security platform, the CSA-7400, built on ADLINK's Open Compute Carrier-grade Edge Reference Architecture (OCCERA), achieves high-speed interconnection of compute nodes with dual-redundant switch nodes to offer front panel I/O up to 800GB. The CSA-7400 supports hot swapping of major chassis components to protect uninterrupted business, making it suitable for the next-generation high-performance IDS/IPS.
Unbeatable cooperation
According to NSFOCUS, ADLINK's expertise in attack prevention developed over the years, this in-depth collaboration with ADLINK enables both parties to build IDS/IPS products meeting the demands of high-end application scenarios such as core networks for operations, cloud computing, large enterprises, and data centres. The interconnected redundant module design and hot swap support for both computing nodes and switches of the OCCERA-based CSA-7400 platform.
ADLINK offer users uninterrupted delivery service.
NSFOCUS' NIPS products are equipped with various advanced technologies such as the NSFOCUS global threat intelligence system and NSFOCUS unknown threat detection can demonstrate better protection on the CSA-7400. In the future, NSFOCUS will continue close collaboration with ADLINK for its IDS/IPS products to maximize the effectiveness of the excellent features of NSFOCUS' NIDS/NIPS products on CSA-7400 platform for the network security market.
The CSA-7400 is a next-generation, high performance, carrier grade COTS network security platform built on the Open Compute Carrier-grade Edge Reference Architecture (OCCERA) by ADLINK, integrating network interfaces, switches, and overall computing capacity.
The open hardware architecture and platform scalability of the CSA-7400 support NSFOCUS' next-generation 100G+ IDS/IPS solutions, allowing NSFOCUS to launch its high-performance NIDS/NIPS products for the network security market. The CSA-7400's flexibility and configurability enables cross-business product deployment and easy integration to other high-end network security markets, such as next-generation firewalls, telecommunications, and mobile edge computing.
In addition to hardware features, the API library provided by ADLINK allows security solution providers focus on their core competence, enhance business migration increase product efficiency, and shorten product launch and delivery cycles.


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A recent column about the criminal misadventures of an Alabama man who claimed to harbor a meth-fueled attack squirrel inspired several readers to point me in the direction of other animal-related news stories they believe I should spotlight.
At least one of those stories was not suitable for a family newspaper, unless it was a Manson family newspaper, but I appreciate the feedback nonetheless.
Here are a few of the offbeat stories from the animal kingdom I am able to share. Thanks to readers Vickie, Dan and El-Bone61 for the heads up.
Feline contract killers or "hit cats." In our nation's capital, an organization called the Humane Rescue Alliance offers businesses and homeowners the "perfect new hire for wherever pests interfere with your inventory in the greater DC metropolitan area. These cats are not house pets. They're strictly business. And their business is solving your business' rodent problem."
Notice the alliance passed up the obvious cutesy line the "purr-fect new hire." That's because these kitty-cats are stone-cold killers.
"These cats are not social enough to live indoors as pets," the alliance says in an online Q&A, but they "are not a threat to humans…"
Unless, of course, the price is right and then they will put that no good, stool pigeon son of — at the bottom of the Potomac wearing concrete shoes, capiche?
No, no, I added that last part. The Humane Rescue Alliance is definitely not a front for the mob. And they certainly aren't threatening any of my family members to make me say that.
The Humane Rescue Alliance (again, not the mob) calls the program Blue Collar Cats. And, while that sounds like Larry the Cable Guy's failed Saturday morning animated kids' show, those who have used it testify to its brutal effectiveness when it comes to ridding a place of rodents.
"I haven't seen a sign of rats in weeks," Eva R. said on the alliance's website. "Rats used to cross my deck at night - I'd like to see them try that now!"
Eva R.'s rat problem seems to be solved, but should she now be worried about…
Meth-gators. The news service AFP reported that police in the town of Loretto, Tennessee, issued a warning after a suspect tried to dispose of methamphetamine down a toilet.
"Folks... please don't flush your drugs m'kay," the department said on its Facebook page.
And why not dispose of our illegal and highly addictive stimulants through the municipal sewer system when Johnny Law is at the door with a search warrant and a battering ram?
Because, Lorretto police said, those drugs may eventually end up in retention ponds, consumed by water fowl that frequent those ponds and "if it made it far enough we could create meth-gators in Shoal Creek and the Tennessee River down in North Alabama."
And the only thing worse than a North Alabama meth-gator is…
A plague of Sin City grasshoppers. USA Today reported on July 30 that meteorologists in southern Nevada picked up a huge green mass on radar. Instead of a thunderstorm, it turned out to be "a sprawling swarm of pallid-winged grasshoppers now plaguing the neon lights, streets and sidewalks of Las Vegas."
The government said don't worry, but isn't that what the government always says?
"They don't carry any diseases, they don't bite, they're not even one of the species that we consider a problem," said Jeff Knight, an entomologist with the Nevada Department of Agriculture.
But if (when) they do start spreading disease, biting gamblers and gumming up the slot machines, I suggest Las Vegas officials discretely hire a couple of hit cats and a meth-gator or two. Problem solved, capiche?
Or it might make it worse. But it's Vegas so no one will notice, not even Vickie, Dan or El-Bone61.


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|One of the first parts where we begin to feel the effects of the passage of time is the back. Since certain positions or movements generate difficulty, discomfort and pain. Because this part of the body is under constant pressure, over the years it begins to bring us several complications.
Although the passage of time is inevitable, there are several solutions directly related to our habits and our lifestyle that can help us to control and relieve this annoying pain. These answers by Center For Upper Back Pain Relief to frequently asked questions will give us all the information we need to know in order to solve this problem successfully.
What is the best position to sleep?
In these cases, the best way to sleep is on the side and with the legs bent. A good pillow is always necessary to support the weight of the neck. You can put a pillow between your legs for comfort.
If you are one of those who sleep on their back, put a pillow under the knees, and a smaller one under the lower back.
What is the best position to stand?
If you have to stand for long periods of time, rest one foot on a low bench to relieve pressure on the back, alternating feet every 10 or 15 minutes. Good posture is essential: keep your shoulders and hips in proper alignment with your head.
What can I do to prevent back pressure?
First, use comfortable shoes with a heel less than 3 cm. Something that is also extremely important is exercise and an active lifestyle. If you have to lift weight, it is always better to push before lifting.
If for work or other reasons you spend most of the day sitting, it is recommended to take short breaks to stretch and relax the muscles.
Is there anything else I can do to relieve the pain?
Hot water pouches or compresses can help relax the muscles of the back. Apply them in the painful area for 15 or 20 minutes. Massages are also a good option to relieve Upper Back Pain.
Causes of lower back injuries
The main cause of muscle spasms, sprained ligaments or joint pains is the misuse or excessive use of back muscles in activities that we are not used to doing, such as lifting.
On the other hand, herniated discs arise when one of the discs between the bones of the spine protrudes and produces pressure on the nerves.


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Regional meeting of academic libraries shares collaborative efforts in open resources, student outreach and digitization
Hushed chatter over Monday morning coffee and muffins drifted through the Memorial Union's River Valley Room on May 8—the occupants, hard-wired for unobtrusive quiet.
Three dozen librarians, archivists and their counterparts gathered at UND for the annual symposium of the North Dakota-Manitoba Chapter of the Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL). The ACRL is a professional organization that provides networking opportunities and regional and national conferences at which members of the academic library community can share new projects and research.
Keynote speaker Stephanie Baltzer Kom, Head of Technical Services for the ND State Historical Society Archives, began the event by addressing the unspoken character quirk of some attendees. "A lot of people who get into libraries, archives and museums—we're all pretty high on the introversion scale, if I say so myself," she said to the polite chuckles of the crowd. "Collaboration for us can be a little hard, because you have to put yourself out there."
This year's symposium theme was "Better Together"– a call to libraries to crack out of that shy shell and start building partnerships. Newly-appointed chapter president and UND Dean of Libraries Stephanie Walker said it was a perfect year for UND to host, because she and her team have a lot of recent successes to share.
"We split the theme into three different areas—collaboration between the library and other campus units like student affairs, collaboration between different libraries, and collaboration with non-library entities—for example, a state historical society or state archives," Walker said.
Presentations from UND and others from the University of Manitoba, North Dakota State University (NDSU), Concordia College and more ranged from "New Innovations in Multi-institution Collaborations" to Open Educational Resources (OER) and Student Outreach.
Baltzer Kom described her road to effective teamwork in digital initiatives for the North Dakota State Library and the State Historical Society. One of those initiatives, Digital Horizons, is a consortium of five major partners (NDSU, the State Library, the State Historical Society, Concordia College and Prairie Public Broadcasting) pulling together thousands of digital texts, images, audio/video files into a searchable online library.
Baltzer Kom has been calling meetings with players across state institutions to form one digital access portal through the Digital Public Library of America. She said those meetings have raised more questions than answers, but added that starting the conversation is the most important step to progress—for any project.
"It all comes back to getting the bodies in the room and forming the relationships with people, understand where they're coming from, and try to form some kind of effective collaboration relationship with everybody," she explained.
"That's what I encourage everybody in this room to do—step outside yourself, step outside the introvert, start talking to people and start making those connections and relationships."
Open education
UND's librarians took advantage of their roles as symposium hosts to present and share how they've worked cross-campus on several initiatives, including the incredibly fruitful pursuit of OERs.
"We thought this would be a particularly appropriate topic for the symposium because of the high degree of collaboration that's been involved in implementing these OERs at UND," said UND Digital Initiatives Librarian Zeineb Yousif. "This huge list of groups (pointing to slide of a dozen campus and state entities), including the library, UND faculty, Student Government, etc., have all been involved at some point in making OERs successful here."
Help first came in the form of state legislator support in 2015, when more than $100,000 was allocated for OERs in North Dakota. From there, a webbing of UND librarians, instructional designers, tech experts, faculty and students joined together in a working group that rolled out OERs and saved students up to $1 million in textbook costs in the first year. That cost savings is expected to grow to $4 million this year.
"One of the things you want to avoid with a project like that is having a really terrific start—and then a fizzle," Walker said. "It wasn't all one kind of group…it was a few people from all over the place, and I think that helped a lot."
The UND math department has also reached out to colleagues at NDSU and Northland Technical College about sharing what they've developed for the classroom, as well as local high schools.
"That's really exciting to me, because they're working with [the high schools] on some of the advanced placement items," Walker said. "They're thinking that might actually be a good recruitment tool."
Student success, outreach
Another UND panel explained how their libraries have developed partnerships with Student Affairs to foster student success.
UND School of Medicine and Health Sciences Research & Education Librarian Dawn Hackman described the steps she and others took to link up with the Wellness Center, Health & Wellness, Financial Wellness and the Student Success Center to provide outreach through resource fairs, de-stress events, peer education, and passive education like bulletin boards and bookmarks.
"We're not trying to pretend that the librarian is the subject expert in student debt or healthy eating or sleeping habits. But we're fulfilling the same role that we've had for millennia, which is connecting people to resources," Hackman said. "That's all we're doing—it's just a different type of resource."
The panel said their partnerships have faced challenges amid recent departmental changes on campus, but a reliance on communication and shared interests has kept those connections flourishing. And it all comes down to recognizing the needs of the students—whether they know it or not.
"Librarians—we're everywhere!" Hackman said to knowing laughs. "We're incognito, and students don't realize we hear what they're saying."