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A power distributor is an electrical engineer tasked with distributing and regulating the flow of electrical currents across electric power lines to generating stations and load centers. Power distributors monitor and inspect equipment to ensure that the correct amount of power is going to the proper load centers at all times. They also might be responsible for repairing equipment malfunctions.
Power distributors typically work for utility companies, though some work for local governments; those who are able to secure government positions may enjoy job security and good benefits.
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It's a good idea to complete an internship to boost your career. Many prospective employers require that job applicants have anywhere from two to four years of experience working with electrical systems, and some employers specify a preference for candidates who have completed a relevant internship. Interns may work in projects related to power generation and equipment maintenance, the engineering and construction of power distribution systems, planning, licensing, and land conservation.
It's also a good idea to attain certifications specific to interns and engineers in training. Some employers seek entry-level candidates who have taken the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) exam or who have completed an Engineer in Training (EIT) certification. These voluntary certifications measure the technical expertise of student engineers. An individual wishing to attain the EIT or FE designations must pass an examination for each credential.
Step 2: Obtain NERC Certification
According to the BLS, all power distributors who affect the power grid must become certified. NERC (which stands for North American Electric Reliability Corporation) offers four different kinds of certification; the one applicable here is the system operator/dispatcher certification, which must be renewed once every three years. Once certified, a power distributor must take continuing education classes to maintain the credential.
Step 3: Gain Expertise
Many positions require applicants to have extensive work experience. While some potential power distributors obtain sufficient experience through internships, others may find it advantageous to work in other entry-level positions in the energy industry at the beginning of their careers.
Step 4: Complete a Master's Degree
While most positions for power distributors require a bachelor's degree, some employers prefer job candidates who hold a master's degree. A master's degree program may combine intensive coursework in physics, mathematics, and electrical engineering with specialized laboratory projects and opportunities for advanced research. A master's degree also might incorporate elements of leadership training that prepare an engineer for long-term career advancement.
Power distributors distribute and regulate the flow of electrical currents across electric power lines to generating stations and load centers. They have college degrees, mechanical and mathematical skills, and knowledge of industry-related computer and electrical technology. And, they earn a median annual salary of $79,610.

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Will developers build affordable housing if Anaheim doesn't require it?
City Councilman Jose Moreno says they haven't, and won't.
"When we ask, 'how much of it is affordable?' and they say 'none,'" Moreno said of developers for new housing projects. "When we ask 'why not?' they say, 'because we don't have to.'"
A state study shows Anaheim needs 1,256 units of very low-income housing by 2021 and 907 units of low income units. The study assessed city needs for the eight-year period between 2014 and 2021. Of the total needed, the city so far has issued permits for 119 of the 1,256 very low-income units and 249 of the 907 low income units.
Meanwhile, the city exceeded its need for above moderate income units. The need between 2014 and 2021 is defined as 2,501 units, but the city issued permits for 4,714 units in half that time, according to the staff presentation.
Moreno has lobbied his colleagues to consider mandatory policies that would require developers to either include affordable housing in their projects or pay new fees.
Such policies, known as inclusionary housing ordinances, typically require developers to set aside a certain percentage of units in a project for affordable housing. Some ordinances give developers the option of instead paying a fee that goes toward construction of new affordable housing units.
Another policy, known as a linkage fee, would charge commercial developments a per-square-foot fee based on whether the types of jobs the development creates would generate a demand for affordable housing.
At least six Orange County cities – Brea, Huntington Beach, Irvine, Santa Ana, San Clemente and San Juan Capistrano– have an inclusionary ordinance on the books, according to a city staff report.
Moreno argued during an Oct. 24 city council meeting that letting the market lead the housing market hasn't been effective for motivating developers to build affordable housing to accommodate the city's existing workforce. Instead, the city has largely been building new housing for moderate and higher income families, he said.
City staff say since Gov. Jerry Brown eliminated redevelopment agencies statewide in 2011 – a tool which generated $14 million annually in funding for affordable housing— they have fallen short of meeting goals for building new affordable housing.
Other federal entitlement funds for housing also have decreased over the past decade, according to city staff.
Almost all the new affordable units in Anaheim are generated by standalone projects dedicated to affordable housing, staff said.
Moreno's argument didn't sway at least three of his six colleagues, who said they would not support any kind of mandatory policy.
Councilwoman Kris Murray said the city already has been proactive in constructing affordable housing – pointing to an Affordable Housing Strategic Plan established by a previous council in 2006, under which 1,511 new units were completed between 2005 and 2014.
"We've had a very aggressive policy in place…that put a lot of housing stock in place by repurposing commercially zoned and industrial zoned areas and then working with redevelopment to create that housing stock," Murray said. "The limit to that has been the state's dismantling [of redevelopment]."
Murray said she would like to see the council use tools similar to redevelopment, known as tax increment financing, to generate funds to use toward affordable housing.
"I would prefer we work in that direction and not look at some of these programs that fly in the face of our freedom-friendly history here," Murray said.
Mayor Tom Tait and Councilman Steve Faessel both said they would support voluntary, incentive-based policies, rather than mandated ones.
"I'm more comfortable giving options to developers than mandating them," Faessel said. "I for one would be more for more honey than hammer."
Councilwoman Denise Barnes didn't comment on whether she was in favor of mandatory policies. But she called for more housing to support low wage workers, such as those who work for Disneyland.
"Would anybody be interested in promoting low [income] affordable housing, near where they work, have transportation, have schools," Barnes said. "And that way they could carry on and have a living wage and still be able to be near their job, and maybe even not have a car?"
Moreno asked his colleagues to set aside their ideological beliefs about government mandates to consider his proposal.
"When you don't mandate this kind of policy, you're really mandating residents to live two or three families to an apartment," Moreno said. "We're mandating people to live in garages or live in the streets. Or we're mandating them to commute for an hour to two hours."
The council has formed an ad hoc committee, consisting of Moreno, Barnes and Councilwoman Lucille Kring, to consider developing a policy, although Moreno didn't specify what kind of policy.
Two representatives of the building and real estate industries spoke against mandatory policies at the meeting.
"Inclusionary zoning is an added regulatory hurdle…simple economics shows you cannot tax a market into existence," said Adam Wood of the Building Industry Association of Orange County.
Peter Herzog of the Commercial Real Estate Development Association said instituting a linkage fee would only pass on the cost to homebuyers and raise the cost of housing.
"The problem with regards to affordable housing, and housing across the entire spectrum is it costs too much," Herzog said. "What a linkage fee is, is to add a new cost onto housing."
Joese Hernandez of the group Orange County Communities Organizing for Responsible Development, or OCCORD, encouraged the council to take aggressive action to increase the affordable housing stock.
"All we see is luxury housing developments going up left and right," Hernandez said. "Affordable housing must be used as a tool to fight gentrification, not facilitate it."
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Nurseries can get expensive, especially when you need new supplies. If you're on a budget, there are many ways to save money on a nursery. Look for cheap or secondhand items to add to your nursery. Choose simple decorations, like stripes, to avoid overspending on things wallpaper and professional painters. When selecting practical items like cribs, take a minimalist approach.
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Finding Cheap Items
1Buy secondhand supplies. Many secondhand supplies are quality. Thrift stores and garage sales often sell items that have only been used minimally. While you may want to err on the side of caution and buy new for things like cribs, other items can easily be purchased secondhand. Things like furniture, a changing table, and even some decorations can be secondhand.[1] X Research source
- Be on the lookout for flyers for garage sales. You can also hit up established thrift stores in your area.
- Always examine a secondhand item closely for damage before purchasing it. Some things can be easily fixed, however. A dresser with chipped paint, for example, can easily be repainted at home.
2Find sites to trade items. There are many websites specifically designed to swap items with others. You may be able to find the nursery items you're seeking here. Create an account on websites like Swap.com, FreeCycle, and ThredUp.com.[2] X Research source
- Go through your home and look for items you no longer need or use. Chances are, there are many things you planned to give away, donate, or sell. These can be traded for baby or nursery supplies.
- Make sure to pick high quality items of your home. People will not be happy with you if they don't receive good items in return for a trade. Choose items that have minimal damage and that you have not used much over the years. For example, try trading the extra chair at your dining room table no one ever uses.
3Look online. You can often find cheap deals online. This does not just mean secondhand items. Websites like Overstock.com sell name brand items for cheaper prices, for example. You can also sign up for e-mail lists for stores you love to wait for online sales. Sites like Craigslist and eBay often let you purchase items for cheap.[3] X Research source
- Practice basic safety if you meet up with someone online to make a purchase. Meet in a public place and, if possible, bring someone else with you.
4Get supplies from low-cost department stores. Not everything you purchase needs to be a name brand. While you should invest in quality items for supplies like your child's crib or changing table, go for low-cost department store items for other nursery supplies. A low-cost lamp, dresser, or bookshelf will likely hold up fairly well. You can save some money by shopping at somewhere like Target or Walmart to get these kinds of items.[4] X Research sourceAdvertisement
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Decorating on a Budget
1Choose stripes for the wall. Stripes are a simple, baby-friendly design that are easy to create yourself with some paint and paint strips. Lay the paint strips over the wall to paint on your first shade. Let this shade dry completely and then fill in the bare spots with your second color. This is a quick, easy, low-cost design that works great for a nursery.[5] X Research source
2Create one focal point. The busier you make your decorations, the more expensive they'll be. Focusing in on a single focal point can save you money. Instead of having many decorations spread across the room, pick something like a large area rug for the center of the room. This will draw attention to a single spot in the room, making it look decorative while saving you money on excess decorations.[6] X Research source
- Look for cheaper items for your focal point as well to save even more money. Check secondhand stores and discount websites to find the centerpiece you want.
3Encourage DIY decorations. If you don't have a lot of money to spend on professional supplies, decorate on your own. Even if you're not artistically inclined, things like stencils are easy enough to use.[7] X Research source
- If you want a decorative dresser, for example, buy one secondhand. Paint it yourself and then stencil on the designs you want.
- Use chalkboard paint. You can use colorful chalk to draw any designs you want. As your baby gets older, they'll be able to experiment with painting and drawing on the wall.
4Use toys as decorations. When you're having a baby, you may receive a lot of toys your baby is not old enough to use. While you're waiting for the toys to be safe for your baby, use them as decorations. This will save you money buying knick-knacks for shelves and drawers.[8] X Research source
- Fill in bare spots in your bookshelf with stuffed animals. For example, a stuffed owl could be placed on the bookshelf.
- Place things like figurines, plastic dolls, and action figures on mantels and dressers.
5Go for decorative storage. You can save on buying decorative items by doubling up and making your storage devices decorations. Go for things like decorative baskets, shelves, and floor storage. This can spruce up the room and add a splash of color without making you go over-budget on expensive decorations.[9] X Research source
- You can also paint duller items in your nursery. For example, a yellow dresser can brighten up a room. Try painting a neutral-color piece of furniture in a bright, kid-friendly shade.
6Use personal decorations. Your decorations do not have to come from a store. You can fill the nursery with personal decorations. Hang up family photographs. If you have other children, have them make artwork for the new baby.[10] X Research source
- Feel free to get creative. Make a collage, for example, of family photos.
- Arrange family photos and mementos in a frame, using decorative paper for the background.
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Choosing Practical Items
1Opt for minimal crib bedding. You don't need to splurge on fancy bedding for your baby's crib. You can stick to plain colored sheets and blankets over decorative colors, which may be more expensive. If you can't afford a large printed blanket, go for four smaller printed blankets.[11] X Research source
- Make sure any bedding you get is baby safe. You can save money by foregoing things like extra decorations while still buying from a reputable company.
2Use a bookshelf for a dresser. Dressers can be pricey, but many stores sell bookshelves for relatively cheap. If a dresser is out of your budget, get a bookshelf instead. Fold and stack your baby's clothing in this shelf.[12] X Research source
- If you want a little more organization, invest in baskets and storage bins. You can use these to separate your baby's toys and clothes.
3Look for pieces you can keep long term. You can save money by thinking ahead. Do not buy items exclusively for a baby's room. Look for items that will age along with the child. For example, a dresser with cutesy cartoon animals may not fit in a nine-year-old's room. However, a brightly colored dresser with something like stripes or polkadots will still be acceptable as your baby gets older.[13] X Research sourceAdvertisement
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You know what bothers me? The destruction of property. It upsets me when someone damages someone else's belongings.
I can't grasp the concept of enjoying the act of destroying anything, let alone something that isn't a part of my own possessions. I am making this argument because it seems that at John Carroll, some people enjoy this harsh activity.
I remember the spring semester of 2010 when the snow had melted, and landscapers had just planted rows of beautiful flowers on campus. The people who planted them worked for hours making the campus look great. However, their work was for naught because as soon as the next weekend came around, somebody destroyed the majority of the flowers. There were clearly footprints in the ground that had ruined what John Carroll's grounds crew had worked so hard to create.
The most recent destruction of property that really upset me was the bike rack in front of Campion Hall. Over the weekend, someone (probably on a drunken escapade) decided it would be a good idea to flip the bike rack over so it was bent and broken into pieces. Not only was the rack completely damaged, but the 10 or so bikes that were chained to it were destroyed. There were handlebars, pedals and such detached. The remainder of the bikes were bent so much that they were no longer usable.
I do have to applaud how John Carroll handled the situation. The owners of the bikes were reimbursed for the damage. This still doesn't make up for the fact that their property was destroyed by acts of pure irresponsibility and carelessness.
What are the remaining problems? The bike rack is still not put together completely. There are parts of the rack that are not connected. The larger issue at hand is that after John Carroll reimbursed the owners of the bikes, and possibly attempted to repair the remaining damage, rumor has that people (maybe the same as before, maybe not) attempted to destroy it again.
I know there have been more instances, but the two that I have mentioned have stuck with me since the incidents occurred. I can't understand why students continue to damage campus property, not only because it is wrong, but because students pay a significant amount of tuition money. Why would someone want to destroy things that they pay a great deal of money to have? Or destroy things that other people pay this money to have?
It's disappointing to me because I don't take advantage of my opportunity to attend John Carroll, as many other students here feel the same. I want to see the campus looking its best, not in ruins. I don't understand the reason why anyone would. It's embarrassing when sporting events, conferences and other events come to John Carroll, and campus property is damaged. It reflects poorly on the school and everyone involved with it.
I'm not naïve, I know this problem will most likely never be stopped completely, but there is room for improvement.


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I went in to work for a half day before going home to get ready for the evening's event – "a celebration of the 239th Anniversary of our Independnce Day in honor of America's National Parks" at the US Embassy in Beijing.
A few of us met downstairs for pictures (by this beautiful pagoda behind our hotel)
then hopped in taxis to go to the embassy. Well, at least that's how it was supposed to go. In reality, I spent an hour hailing three taxis. This was using a combination of three apps, plus all 20 arms available to us. I got the first one almost immediately using 快的, a taxi-hailing app, which lulled me into a false sense of securing. My next 20 requests on the app, including ones for the more expensive 专车, were ignored, and we couldn't get Uber China to accept any form of payment we had available to us. We came upon a driver taking a water break next to his taxi and convinced him to take another group of passengers. Finally, one of the guys hailed a taxi across the intersection . . . just as my last request on 快的 was accepted, with a driver on his way to get us. Ugh.
It worked out, because our contact who gave us the details for the embassy party was wrong on over half of the information. Yes, we had to bring our passports and dress nicely (common sense also suggested as much), but there was no need to leave electronics at home (you could easily check them at the door), or print off the invitation (not surprisingly, a printed version of a poorly-scanned invitation without a name on it does not suffice to get you in the door of the US embassy), or arrive 45 minutes early.
I'd been to the embassy twice before, but today was different. We were greeted by a good number of American flags, a miniature Lincoln Memorial, and patriotic music playing as we waited in the reception line. We shook hands with Admiral Adrian Jansen, the defense attaché; Ambassador Max Baucus and his wife Melodee Hanes; and Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewel, and were graciously welcomed by them to "America".
And goodness, did it feel like America. We were blessed with another (!) gorgeous day – warm bordering on hot, but with perfectly blue skies above. The grounds were clean and well-kept, there were myriad buffet lines that included things I hadn't eaten in a month like cheese and salad, there was a live bluegrass band inside – and in the bathroom, the toilet bowls had so much water in them and there was toilet paper on the stall wall. I know, right?!
The theme of this year's party was America's National Parks. It was a pretty fun theme. There were giant painted fabric images from some of our most famous parks, including a giant Mt. Ranier. Some of the food – a make-your-own trail mix stand and a s'more tent! – were also outdoor- and camping-themed.
I went in every buffet line. No regrets. Those key lime pies, man! It gave me something to do while we were waiting to take a picture with the ambassador. (No electronics were allowed inside, at least not for lowly students like us, so I'll have to post the picture when I get a copy.)
After the welcoming address by the ambassador (in which we learned the real reason for this party being on the 2nd – it's their anniversary!), I went to explore the grounds a bit. I ended up at the Hawaiian luau, sponsored by Hawaiian Airlines, who recently opened a direct flight from Honolulu to Beijing. I sat next to a sweet woman from the airline, who showed me how to make a crown of flowers as we listened to a Hawaiian band and watched the dancers. They had all been in Hawaii that morning – including the flowes! – and it seemed so incredible that they were here in Beijing tonight. It's funny, I've never been to Hawaii and I'm sure it's a bit different from the parts of the US that I'm used to – but when you're far from home, anything that is closer to home starts to feel more like home. And so I loved my time in Hawaii.
Then I went next door, to a big room with a band playing – the U.S. Air Force Band of the Pacific-Asia, and they were great. Before too long, people were swing dancing. None of the guys I was there with would dance with me :( so I grabbed the two other Beijing girls and made them follow. I also asked one guy to dance, but most of the guys seemed more focused on their beer than dancing. (The beer was good, brewed locally by a bunch of expats.) Other Maria got to dance with the Ambassador for a few minutes!
As the party would down (around 9pm; early, but later than the official time of 7:30 at least!), I ended up talking a man from Denmark. He was the head of their diplomatic envoy tonight, as the ambassador was out of town – I found this out because I was amazed that he was able to keep his cell phone. We talked about the Little Mermaid, New Year's Eve in Las Vegas, the EAPSI program, and the other places I've lived in China.
It was such a great party – the setting, the food, the people, the activities, the dancing. I complimented the ambassador's wife and she said, "Of course! We're Americans, we throw the best parties." Pretty much.
As we left, a Chinese man was coming in, carrying a bucket and a broom made out of straw tied together. It was a reminder that we were leaving America and going back to China . . .
Outside, a friendly Australian soldier gave us a bar recommendation in Sanlitun, a nearby part of the city, and we got cabs to head over. One guy took a cab home, and I thought about going with him – go home, write about the night, and get to bed at a decent hour for work tomorrow. But no, I thought, I didn't come here just to write about China, but to live it. We're all dressed up, no one's working late tonight, and we're already out in Beijing – let's see where the night goes! Yeah, that ended up being a terrible decision, as the night went straight downhill from basically that point. Oh, hindsight . . .
We ended up at Fez, a rooftop bar in Sanlitun. The sky was perfectly clear and the moon was absolutely brilliant, so the atmosphere got top marks. Unfortunately, a few of the EAPSI guys took advantage of the setting to smoke. Seriously, we finally get some nice fresh air and your first instinct is to light up a cigarette?? I've never really understood smoking, but I do get why people smoke when they drink – a lot people do stupid shit when they're drunk.
And then it got worse. We ordered a giant bowl (5L) of sangria for the 10 of us. It was 700元, so around $12 each. A bunch of people chipped in 100元 bills, and the waiter walked away. A few minutes later, he came back – two of them were fake, he said. He produced two bills, which were indeed fake, and asked for real bills. I wasn't witness to this exchange, unfortunately, but the guys at the other end of the table gave him two new 100元 bills.
Ugh. This is just the worst. Our money was good; we were all given stacks of hundreds when we arrived, courtesy of the Chinese government, so where would we have gotten fakes from? But of course you can't argue after they've made the switch – the bills they presented us with were undeniably fake and we couldn't prove that the ones we had given them weren't.
We were warned about fake bills during orientation, and in the context of a scam where taxi drivers will take your hundred and return a fake one to you, demanding that you pay with good money. Then the first week, we had it happen to us in a restaurant. We paid again, but later some Chinese friends told us that you should always follow the waitresses to the cash register to make sure they don't pull a fast one on you. I should have learned my lesson after that, but I didn't.
I usually get mad at myself when I make decisions that cost me money, but what was my mistake here? Being insufficiently paranoid? Not assuming that everyone is out to get me? So I'm just angry at the bar. I also just can't believe that they had the audacity to claim that we had given them, not one, but TWO fake bills.
The night had lost its charm for me, so once the sangria was done, a few of us left to get a taxi back home. Sanlitun is a bar area, so there were lots of taxis around – but it's also an area that's very popular with foreigners and expats, so most of them were trying to take advantage of the drunk and/or ignorant. We walked up to one taxi that was parked in the intersection, and I asked him to take us to CUMTB, where we're staying. He looked me up and down and said, 150元. I actually laughed in his face – I couldn't help it, the fare would be about 60元 on the meter and we all knew it.
Walking on, we started getting targeted by black taxis. These are illegitimate taxis, just guys with cars who buy red lights to put in the front window to signal that they're available. We had also been warned about these during orientation – "never get in a taxi if the driver speaks English". They really obviously target foreigners; I hadn't seen a single one until we found ourselves in Sanlitun at midnight trying to hail a cab. One thing I will say, they were all on the same page when it came to the bogus fare they wanted to charge – everyone quoted me 150元.
It took us about an hour before we finally got a cab. He used a meter, and the fare was 60元. We got home a little before 1.
What a day. Thinking of the party at the embassy just puts a smile on my face, but the rest of the evening was a rude reintroduction to China. Thinking about it now, I realize that we saw just about every scam that we were warned about during orientation. I guess I should be glad that no one tried the tea ceremony scam on us; two out of three was bad enough. Never again, Sanlitun.


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Monthly Archives: July 2009
Growth Spurt Over?
Wow, it's been a tough couple of months. When Megan turned 16 months, we noticed she began to be more whiny. She made hold her more often even when I told her I was very tired. She threw more temper tantrums when things didn't go her way. And it was awful going out to dinner with her throwing food and refusing to eat!
We were getting very sad and we missed our sweet natured baby.
For the past week, it has been a lot better. Especially going out to dinner last night. She did throw food on the floor but it was an accident. She picked up her bowl a little to swiftly and the contents flew out. She was easily entertained at dinner with sipping ice tea out of a straw and with ice cubes that she could play with. And she readily slurped up her milk without me, pushing the cup at her.
Today was another great day. Great improvement. At 12:30pm she climbed into bed, grabbed a pillow, pulled the covers over herself, babbled for a couple of minutes and now she's asleep. First time in a loonnng time that she was able to do that.
I did notice that 1 of her back molars came in. Maybe the babying was because she was in pain and she just wanted some affection. It is nice to have my sweet girl back. But I'm not looking forward to the other 3 molars though.
Horrible Vietnamese Customer
This vietnamese lady came in our shop with already a bad attitude. She wanted a good deal on a speaker and player. We discussed price. She agreed but with a nasty look on her face. She then was like "how come you don't give Free Speaker Stands? All the other stores give FREE speaker stands. You should too. You're ripping me off if you don't give me FREE speaker stands."
We just had to keep telling her "No. That's only for sale. We already gave you a good price. If you want to purchase Speaker Stands, we can do that at a special price."
Well she starts cursing at us. Saying we're ripping her off. So she left.
What I don't get was an hour later she called back, screaming at us.
It seems like Vietnamese people are the harshest, most awful customers in the world. They have no patience and no understanding of other people's feelings. They just want to hurt you. It's not going to get them anywhere.
Drooling for some NQN
Anger Management
Today was one of those days that everything pissed me off. I came into the office and the orders that were supposed to be sent out, were not sent out. Orders that we received from Tuesday and Wednesday were all ignored. I felt swamped with work and exhausted with no one to help me out. What upset me the most were the phone calls. I was unindated with calls and yet everyone droned the rings out all day. I kept having to bring the phone to an open person just to get someone to pick the phone up.
I feel like without me working, the business wouldn't run at all. That seriously scares me that no one takes care of duties and that everyone slacks off. And when we were closing up, I was still handling orders and yet still everyone leaves everything to me. At least Kassim closed up the registers for me. Vinh sometimes makes me want to smack him. He's very laid back for a manager that sometimes I think he doesn't want to work at all.
I totally need to calm down. I haven't been this upset in a long time. I wanted to slam doors and stab someone today.
Wed Him Before You Bed Him by Sabrina Jeffries
Family Issues
A friend said, "The older the parent gets, the CRAZIER, they get." I certainly feel that way. My mom has crazy, restrictive norms. Her way of thinking is very outdated and to the point of being strange.
1. No single friend may spend the night in your house.
2. Any female friend, whether single or married, will have sexual urges around your husband.
3. The business is your family. If you want control of your life, take care of the business.
More or less, I understand, men will cheat. So will women. But trust is very important to me. If I don't trust my husband, I wouldn't have married him.
Nalini Singh – Giveaways
She's given away Hidden Currents by Christine Feehan, Sweet Persuasion by Maya Banks, and Witch Fury by Anya Bast. To ENTER, you just have to answer her daily question at http://nalinisingh.blogspot.com/ and she'll pick a winner. Check back the next day to see if you have won.
I had preordered my copy of "Branded By Fire", so BN said they had shipped it last Wednesday. It should arrive today! YAY! I can't wait.


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Coming off of a three-game winning streak that featured victories against Wellesley, Skidmore, and St. Joseph's, the women's lacrosse team began its run of seven straight NESCAC matches to close out their regular season schedule. The three consecutive wins brought the team's overall record to 5-3, but their 0-3 record in conference play left the team with an uphill climb the rest of the way.
The Cardinals' first contest of the extended NESCAC stretch came on Saturday, March 29 at home against a Colby team ranked 12th nationally in Division III. Though they trailed the entire game, the Cardinals hung around and competed with the very talented Mules.
After an early Colby goal two minutes in to open up the scoring, the Cardinals' Abby Wheeler '17 tied the game up at 1-1 with her eighth goal of the season. The two teams traded goals throughout the rest of the first half, with Cardinal scores coming from Leah Sherman '15, Martha Harding '16, and Maddy Coulter '14. Harding's goal was the sophomore's 12th on the year, good for third-most on the team.
The Cardinals trailed 5-4 at halftime, but quickly tied the game three minutes into the second half when Caty Daniels '15 netted her eighth goal of the season.
Colby then took the lead for good at the 20:38 mark of the second half with a high-bouncing goal. Sherman tacked on her 11th goal of the year at the 8:49 mark, followed by Coulter's 3rd and final goal of the day with 1:24 remaining, which made it a one-goal game. But the Cardinals' comeback attempt eventually fell short, with Colby able to hold on to the 9-8 victory.
Meredith Smith '17, the Cardinals' leading scorer, took nine shots on goal but was held scoreless. Wesleyan's keeper, Nina Labovich '16, came away with seven saves in the game.
The Cardinals returned to action this past Wednesday, traveling to Amherst to take on an undefeated Lord Jeffs squad, ranked third in the nation.
After Amherst jumped out to an early 4-0 lead, Daphne Kroessler '15 opened up the scoring for Wesleyan with her first goal of the year. Smith followed with her team-high 15th goal of the season with 1:01 remaining in the first half, making it 5-2 at the break. Coulter then scored her 13th and 14th goals of the season in the second half, but Wesleyan was not able to stave off the Amherst attack, falling 8-4.
The Cardinals outshot the Lord Jeffs 17-16, picked up 19 ground balls compared to Amherst's 17, and turned the ball over 18 times compared to Amherst's 22, but the Lord Jeffs' 10 saves proved to be the difference in the game.
With many hard-fought games and close losses against elite opponents, the Cardinals now sit at 0-5 in the NESCAC, leaving them with a difficult battle to make the conference playoffs. The team will look to get their first NESCAC victory with a contest against Williams at home on Saturday, April 5.
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Red Summer Remembered
Historians cite complex factors that combined to propel the wave of lynchings and race riots that
distinguished 1919 as the year of the greatest white-on-black violence in United States history. These
include the massive, white-supremacist backlash against the progress African Americans had made
during Reconstruction and into the early years of the 20th century, labor unrest, white anxiety about
African American mobility—both geographic and social—as well as the return from overseas of
black veterans who had served in World War I.
The African American writer, composer, and statesman James Weldon Johnson devised the phrase
"Red Summer" to describe the concentration of racial attacks against black communities (at least 25)
that erupted across the United States during 1919. This exhibit of work by artists Wendel White
and Casey Ruble marks the centennial of that extraordinary escalation of racialized violence and
reflects upon the century separating those attacks from our historical moment.
It should come as no surprise that white as well as black artists have chosen to reflect upon the
violent cataclysm of 1919. All current citizens and denizens of the United States are the inheritors of
this legacy. Given the contemporary resurgence of attacks on people identified as "non-white" or
"non-American" across the United States, forgetting this history places our nation's present and
future in jeopardy.
Related LibGuide: Red Summer Remembered Exhibit Guide by Cyree Jarelle Johnson
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Computer Science Talks and Events
Monday, December 2, 2019
Postponed until Spring semester New date TBA
3:30 pm in Science Center A131 with refreshments in C209 at 3:00 pm
Rik Sengupta, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Formal Languages, Binary Trees and Graph Coloring
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Bio: Rik Sengupta is a Ph.D. student in theoretical computer science at UMass-Amherst, working under Neil Immerman. He has an AB in Mathematics from Princeton University, and an MS in Mathematics from MIT, where he worked on structure theoretic problems on graphs. His current interests lie at the intersection of descriptive complexity and graph theory.
Monday, November 18, 2019
3:30 pm in Science Center A131 with refreshments in C209 at 3:00 pm
Conrad Kuklinsky '21 & Matteo Riondato
Learning intersections of halfspaces: novel VC-dimension bounds
Abstract: A key question in machine learning research is understanding the trade-off between the size of the training set and the accuracy of the classification function learned by the algorithm. This trade-off can be fully characterized by a single quantity: the VC-dimension of the family of functions that the algorithm may learn. Beautifully combinatorial in nature, the VC-dimension is elusive to compute exactly, but upper bounds to it are sufficient to understand the trade-off. In this talk, we report on our recent results on improved upper bounds to the VC-dimension of intersections of half-spaces in high dimensions, a very popular class of functions. We show a novel connection with convex polytopes and with planar graphs. All the terms and results will be explained without assuming any specific background in the audience.
Monday, November 4, 2019
3:30 pm in Science Center A131 with refreshments in C209 at 3:00 pm
Lee Spector, Amherst College
Evolutionary Computation
In the same 1950 article in which Alan Turing described his "imitation game" test for artificial intelligence, he also described ways in which ideas from evolutionary biology might help us to develop AI. It took time for these ideas to be refined, and it took advances in computing infrastructure for them to bear fruit, but now "evolutionary computation" methods are solving scientific and engineering problems that are beyond the reach of other forms of AI.
In this talk, I will introduce the general concepts of evolutionary computation and illustrate some of its applications. I will also describe a contribution to the field that my students and I have recently made, demonstrating that the speed and success of adaptation can be boosted by using random sequences of challenges, rather than overall performance, as the basis for parent selection in evolving populations. This approach increases the problem-solving power of evolutionary computation, and it also raises broader questions about the role of specialists in communities and in evolution.
Bio: Lee Spector is a Visiting Professor of Computer Science at Amherst College, a Professor of Computer Science at Hampshire College, and an Adjunct Professor in the College of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He received a B.A. in Philosophy from Oberlin College, a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Maryland, College Park, and the highest honor bestowed by the National Science Foundation for excellence in both teaching and research, the NSF Director's Award for Distinguished Teaching Scholars. His areas of teaching and research include evolutionary computation, quantum computation, and intersections of computer science, cognitive science, and the arts. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines (published by Springer).
Monday, October 28, 2019
3:30 pm in Science Center A131 with refreshments in C209 at 3:00 pm
Deby Katz, Carnegie Mellon University
Ensuring Software Quality in Complex Settings
Abstract: Software runs many things in our lives and our society. It's important that software running vital systems works as intended, but ensuring that software works as intended can be a surprisingly difficult task. In this talk, I'll introduce some of the techniques that software researchers and professionals use to ensure software quality. I'll also examine some well-known software failures: why they happened and how they were missed. I'll discuss some of my work, including work with finding bugs in robotics and autonomous vehicle software.
Bio: Deby Katz is a senior Ph.D. student in Carnegie Mellon University's Computer Science Department working with Professor Claire Le Goues on the applications of low-level analysis in software engineering. I also collaborate with Professor Philip Koopman and roboticists on robotics applications for software quality techniques. My research interests include applying dynamic binary instrumentation to software testing and automated bug repair; using low-level software engineering techniques in the domains of robotics and autonomous vehicles; and new approaches to decompilation.
I graduated from Amherst College in 2004, majoring in Computer Science. I graduated from New York University School of Law in 2007, with a J.D. I worked for several years as an intellectual property litigator in New York before returning to computer science.
I am a world traveler, having visited all seven continents. I enjoy theater, knitting, and cooking.
Monday, October 21, 2019
3:30 pm in Science Center A131 with refreshments in C209 at 3:00 pm
Emily Griffen, Loeb Center for Career Exploration and Planning, Amherst College
Preparing for Careers in Technology with the Loeb Center
Abstract: The field of technology is growing and changing every day, meaning career opportunities are plentiful, but sometimes hard to navigate. How do you translate your academic computer science work into a resume that tech recruiters will respond to? What are the best sources for internships and jobs? How do you prepare for a coding interview? What kind of roles are there beyond software engineering? Emily Griffen, director of the Loeb Center for Career Exploration and Planning, will answer these questions and more and give you concrete action items and resources to help you tackle the career development process in this field. This talk will be especially helpful for interested first-year students and newly declared CS majors.
Monday, September 30, 2019
3:30 pm in Science Center A131 with refreshments in C209 at 3:00 pm
Daniela Hurtado Lange, Georgia Tech
Optimal resource allocation in data center networks: Drift method and transform techniques
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Bio: Daniela is a 3rd year Ph.D. student at Georgia Tech, working with Prof. Siva Theja Maguluri. Her interests are in queueing theory and applied probability.
Monday, September 23, 2019
3:30 pm in Science Center A131 with refreshments in C209 at 3:00 pm
Tina Eliassi-Rad, Network Science Institute, Northeastern University
Just Machine Learning
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Monday, September 16, 2019
3:30 pm in Science Center A131 with refreshments in C209 at 3:00 pm
Scott Alfeld
Amherst College
Undergraduate Research in Adversarial Learning
Abstract: With the growing use of data in decision-making systems, new security vulnerabilities have arisen. Attacks (whether propaganda campaigns orchestrated through social model, corporations "cooking the books" to manipulate prices, or glasses frames that trick facial recognition software) are having an ever-increasing effect on our world. In this talk, I'll present a broad introduction to the field of Adversarial Learning — the study of using machine learning when the input data may be corrupted by an attacker. We'll get our hands dirty constructing various data manipulation attacks against simplified models. I'll then cover some of my recent work with students ranging from detecting and classifying fake news online to preventing the manipulation of stock prices to injecting Trojan horses into the computer chip design process.
Bio: Scott Alfeld is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Amherst College. His research is at the intersection of machine learning and security, centered on using data analysis techniques in the presence of intelligent adversaries. More broadly, his work focuses on performing statistical inference when the source of data is a diverse set of (potentially adversarial) agents or sensors with unknown relationships to one another. Outside of academia, Scott is a wildlife and astronomy enthusiast and volunteers as a locksport instructor.
Computer Science department events are added to this space as they are scheduled.
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► Spotlight 2 Fund Raiser
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Spotlight 2 Funding
Spotlight 2 is a short film that has been funded by fans through Indiegogo, so when the film is finished it will be distributed to those who donated at the right levels: $25 for a digital download and $50 for an autographed DVD. The good news is that IT'S NOT TOO LATE! You can still donate and get any of the perks. To see a complete list of the perks, visit the fund raiser page. The fund raiser page is no long accepting donations, so to claim a perk and make a donation, send an email to Peter Paul Basler and let him know which perk you would like.
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New Preview of Spotlight Part 2
"Hello all Spotlight and Joe Lando fans! We are working away on the final audio on the film. So excited to be sharing our film with all of you soon... SOON... I promise. But until then... here's a little something we put together for you the fans. The sound is temp and it is not mixed (not perfect) but you have been so patient with us that I wanted to give you all a little taste of what is to come... enjoy!!
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This is the first installment of a new series focusing on Russian foreign policy, in brief. Each month Lincoln Pigman will give you an overview and analysis of Russia's foreign policy landscape from the previous month. We hope you enjoy reading.
By Lincoln Pigman
With enemies like Trump, who needs friends?
At first glance, a month of US President Donald Trump at his most erratic—announcing the US's withdrawal from the JCPOA on 8 May, opening the US's embassy in Jerusalem on 14 May, and, ten days later, abruptly cancelling a summit with North Korea, scheduled for 12 June—appears to have benefited Russia.
For now, Trump's decisions have left Russia on the same side as an international community increasingly at odds with the US, a situational convergence of interests that was on display at last week's St Petersburg International Economic Forum. There, French President Emmanuel Macron and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe—world leaders who have found a common language with Trump while finding his policies deeply frustrating—joined Russian President Vladimir Putin in castigating the US's destabilizing behavior. In a charm offensive that recalled the French leader's visit to Washington in late April, Macron went so far as to offer recognition of Russia's "irreplaceable role…in certain international matters". His remarks led television presenter Dmitry Kiselyov to enthusiastically declare the emergence of a "new Macron…a politician with more potential than we thought".
Putin may hear echoes of 2003, when he, Jacques Chirac, and Gerhard Schröder built a coalition to oppose the Iraq War. However, just as that entente proved to be short-lived and limited to a single issue, today's version is unlikely to last. These developments will not ameliorate the major issues in Russia's relations with the international community, especially amid revelations about Russia's role in the downing of MH17, the implications of which are explored in further detail below. Both in 2003 and in 2018, mutual anxiety over US foreign policy cannot serve as the basis for a lasting partnership.
Even if Russia has made diplomatic gains as a result of the deterioration of the transatlantic alliance, these pale in comparison to the potential consequences of escalation in the Middle East. This outcome is more likely given the US's withdrawal from the JCPOA and the relocation of its embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. As Iran, its proxies, and Israel intensify their confrontation in Syria, and the US, Israel, and Saudi Arabia form something akin to a war coalition, Russia's Middle East policy, which relies on Russia's ability to work with all regional actors without becoming wedded to or alienating any of them, is threatened with total collapse.
Indeed, Russia cannot afford to stand aside or take a side; the former would undercut its claim to be a major regional player and the latter would jeopardize its carefully cultivated regional ties. For instance, although Russia has looked the other way and allowed Israel's air force to target Iranian and pro-Iranian forces in Syria, it could not decisively take Israel's side over Iran's without dealing a fatal blow to Moscow's relationship with Tehran, straining its ties with the Syrian government, Iraq, and political elements in Palestine. As analyst Vladimir Frolov recently wrote, Russia's choice is to "[r]emain above the fray, demonstrating [its] marginal influence, or take a side," the first an option that Frolov says is decidedly "not in Russia's interests". For now, Moscow benefits from US actions that have alienated its European allies and escalated tensions with Iran, but Russia should be careful what it wishes for: Donald Trump's last month has also hardened cleavages in the Middle East, creating potential challenges for how Russia operates in the region.
As for the US-North Korea summit, there does not appear to be a clearly preferable outcome for Russia. As one of Pyongyang's main trade partners, Moscow stands to gain from the lifting of international sanctions on the DPRK. Yet, if talks take place and succeed in producing a nuclear agreement, there is no reason to believe that Russia will have a role in the resulting arms control regime, despite Moscow's repeated insistence on being part of the solution to the crisis on the Korean Peninsula.
A pariah state in the making?
On 24 May, the Dutch-led Joint Investigative Team announced that a Russian military missile system downed MH17 in July 2014; the following day, investigative group Bellingcat established a GRU commander's complicity in the civilian airliner's explosion. Coming on the back of the Sergey Skripal affair, these developments cement Russia's growing image as a rogue state indifferent to the rules and norms of the international order—at least in the West.
The erosion of Russia's willingness to conform to the rules-based order has made it easier for Western countries to overcome their usual reluctance to punish Russia's transgressions in a meaningful way. In the aftermath of the poisoning of the ex-spy and his daughter, the United Kingdom launched a campaign against illicit foreign capital, while 28 states expelled a combined total of 342 Russian diplomats, a response unheard-of since the Cold War. Immediately after the dual revelations concerning the downing of MH17, both Australia and the Netherlands formally charged Russia with responsibility for the civilian airliner's explosion, and it remains to be seen whether other countries will join them in doing so and whether their formal accusations will come to serve as a basis for additional sanctions against Russia or even international charges of war crimes.
Moreover, worsening relations with the West will almost surely complicate any efforts to capitalize on the rapid deterioration of the transatlantic alliance and the generally divisive behavior of the current occupant of the White House.
No tears shed for the opposition
That said, the month of May has reassured Moscow in one important respect: regime security. Preoccupied with Russia's behavior on the international stage and the tumult caused by President Trump's decisions on Iran, Israel, and North Korea, few in the West found time to shed tears for those caught up in what Alexey Navalny's team called a "full-scale campaign of political persecution" launched by the Kremlin following a series of protests on 5 May.
By its estimate, approximately 1,500 people—including Navalny himself and nearly 20 of his aides and allies—have been jailed for organizing or participating in the protests, a crackdown that would have been widely condemned in the West at one time. Today, it barely registers, obscured by Russia's assertiveness and the erratic behavior of the US. Moscow, whose twenty-first century worldview has been heavily shaped by regime security concerns from external actors, can at least take solace in that as it enters Putin's fourth presidential term.


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"In the face of such unjust aggression, which also strikes Christians and other ethnic and religious groups in the region – the Yazidis for example – a unanimous response is needed, one which, within the framework of international law, can end the spread of acts of violence, restore harmony and heal the deep wounds which the ongoing conflicts have caused."
--Pope Francis, Address to Diplomatic Corps, 12 January 2015
BACKGROUND: The persecution of Christians and other religious minorities, particularly in Syria and Iraq, but also in other areas of the world, has been much in the news. Images of refugees washing ashore on beaches in Greece, huddled in train stations and makeshift camps in the Balkans, and clamoring for food and shelter as temperatures drop, have filled the media. Fences have been erected at many borders as political leaders, especially those in Europe, debate how to cope with massive numbers of migrants flooding in, searching for safety and a future without fear. And to make things worse, the terrorist attacks in the Middle East, Paris and San Bernardino, claimed by ISIS, have made many people in many nations, including the United States, fearful of taking in refugees lest extremists be hidden in their midst.
The United Nations estimated that in the month of October alone, 218,000 people crossed the Mediterranean to Europe – a record number. In June, the UN refugee agency reported that the number of refugees, asylum-seekers and internally displaced had risen to 59.5 million, 8 million more than the previous year. Much of the increase is due to war in Syria that has displaced 7.6 million internally and 3.9 million into surrounding countries, overwhelming those populations.
Aid to the Church in Need recently issued its Religious Freedom Report covering the period October 2012 to summer 2014. Their findings were that "global religious freedom entered a period of serious decline." Out of 196 countries, the report found religious freedom is significantly impaired in 81, and deteriorating in 55 of those countries. The report designated 20 countries as experiencing the most problems related to religious freedom (in 14, religious persecution is linked to an extremist version of Islam and in another 6, it is linked to authoritarian regimes.) Countries with the most serious religious freedom violations tended to be Muslim-majority nations. According to the report, the persecution of long-established religious minorities by extremists, who purportedly want to establish a caliphate, has led to the wholesale displacement of thousands, contributing to the worldwide refugee crisis. As the report says, "religiously-inspired terror is not only widespread but is on the increase."
In a recent meeting with the Chaldean Church, Pope Francis decried the "fanatical hatred sown by terrorism, which continues to cause a great hemorrhage of faithful who leave the lands of their fathers…. This state of affairs clearly undermines the vital Christian presence in that land." He called on the international community "to adopt every useful strategy aimed at bringing peace to countries terribly devastated by hatred, so that the life-giving breeze of love will once more be felt in places which have always been a crossroads for peoples, cultures and nations."
While emigration affects everyone, it has affected Christian groups and other ethnic and religious minorities disproportionately as they are particularly vulnerable to attack. The bishops in the region blame the U.S. invasion of Iraq as causing chaos for Christians in the region. Church leaders throughout the region have expressed concern that the Christian population is emigrating at alarming rates and could dwindle to a point where their unique cultures, dating back over 2,000 years, will be lost. These ancient Christian communities make vibrant contributions to their societies; the loss of their presence would be harmful for all. As Pope Francis said, "A Middle East without Christians would be a marred and mutilated Middle East! In urging the international community not to remain indifferent in the face of this situation, I express my hope that religious, political and intellectual leaders … will condemn all fundamentalist and extremist interpretations of religion which attempt to justify such acts of violence."
What can be done to stem this tide of violence against religious minorities? What can be done to restore a modicum of security so people do not feel compelled to flee for their lives? What can be done to provide sufficient opportunities so people believe they can remain in communities where their ancestors have lived for generations?
The answer may lie in how we as a nation and Church deal with "fanatical hatred sown by terrorism." In late October 2015, at the 50th anniversary of Nostra Aetate, Pope Francis noted "an attitude of suspicion or even condemnation of religions has spread" due to violence and terrorism. Recognizing that no religion is "immune to the risk of deviations of a fundamentalist or extremist nature," the Holy Father said it was necessary to focus on the positive values that religions espouse. He called for respectful interreligious dialogue that can lead to friendship and cooperation in many fields, working toward the common good. In December 2015, Archbishop Joseph Kurtz, USCCB President, admonished us to "confront the extremist threat with courage and compassion, recognizing that Christianity, Islam, Judaism and many other religions are united in opposition to violence carried out in their name" and advocated for "people facing religious discrimination, including our Muslim brothers and sisters."
USCCB POSITION: USCCB is addressing the complex challenges facing those in the Cradle of Christianity by making religious freedom for all a high priority within policy deliberations. In letters and Congressional testimony, USCCB has echoed the calls of the Holy See to protect those living in Iraq and Syria threatened by ISIS, especially religious and ethnic minorities, and to provide humanitarian assistance for the most vulnerable, including Christians. Pope Francis has denounced the persecution, torture and killing of Christians in the Middle East as "a form of genocide" that must end. USCCB has met with groups representing Iraqi Christians and other religious and ethnic minorities in the region. Earlier this year Bishop Oscar Cantú, Chair of USCCB Committee on International Justice and Peace, urged "the U.S. government to adopt five key policies in response to the rise of ISIL and religious persecution in the Middle East:
USCCB has also been promoting interreligious dialogue to promote protection of Christians and religious minorities in the Middle East and to counter discrimination against Muslims in our own country.
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Deep dive of Chassis Cluster Configuration on Juniper SRX-1500 firewalls
This article demonstrates the deep dive understanding of chassis cluster configuration on Juniper SRX 1500 firewalls. I am using SRX 1500 firewalls but cluster configuration is almost similar across many of the SRX firewall models except the interface slot numbering.
Juniper Networks SRX Series Services Gateways can be configured to operate in cluster mode, where a pair of devices can be connected together and configured to operate as a single node, providing device, interface, and service level redundancy.
Before we configure the chassis cluster configuration, it is very important to understand some of the terminology and key components used to configure the chassis cluster. So this article is written in a way that it has some "what is" and "how to" questions and related answers. Let's get started.
1. Pre-requisite
- Same hardware and software required (In this case, we have two SRX 1500 with identical hardware components and both of them are running 15.1X49-D50 code)
- Make sure, both units are the same model, running the same code version and have the same modules installed.
- Physically connect two devices together to create the control and fabric links.
- On the SRX 1500, There is a dedicated HA Control port; Connect both HA control ports from respective devices together to form control link.
- In this example, I used last unused port (e.g. Ge-0/0/11) for Fabric link; Connect both Ge-0/0/11 from respective devices together to form Fabric link.
- NOTE: Clustered SRXs share the same IP address for an individual interface.
This is how both SRX-1500s are cabled, and this article this diagram can be used as a reference.
1a. What is the use of control link (Control Plane)?
The control link
- is used to synchronize the kernel state between the two REs (using daemon called ksyncd)
- is used to send hello messages between them (using daemon called jsrpd)
- is used to synchronize configuration
- is always in an active/backup state. This means only one RE (Route-Engines) can be the master of the cluster's configuration and state. If the primary RE fails, the secondary takes over for it.
1b. What is the use of Fabric link (Data Plane)?
The fabric link
- is used for state synchronization. The state of sessions and services is shared between the two devices. Sessions are the state of the current set of traffic that is going through the SRX, and services are other items such as the VPN, IPS, and ALGs.
- operates in active/active mode. so it is possible for traffic to ingress the cluster on one node and egress from the other node.
2. How to enable the cluster mode?
- Set the devices into cluster mode with the following command and reboot the devices.
- Note: this is an operational mode and not a configure mode command. (run it from > and not #)
*** On primary device (node0): > set chassis cluster cluster-id 1 node 0 reboot *** On secondary device (node1): > set chassis cluster cluster-id 1 node 1 reboot
2a. What is the Cluster ID?
- A cluster is identified by a cluster ID (cluster-id) specified as a number from 1 through 255.
- Cluster ID greater than 15 can only be set when the fabric and control link interfaces are connected back-to-back.
- Setting a cluster ID to 0 is equivalent to disabling a cluster.
- Each cluster must share a unique identifier among all of its members.
- Cluster ID is also used when determining MAC addresses for the redundant Ethernet interfaces.
2b. What is the Cluster node?
- The cluster node is identified by a node ID (node) specified as a number from 0 to 1.
- The cluster node is the unique identifier for a device within a cluster.
- Setting the node number distinguishes which SRX is which. Regardless of failover state, node 0 will always remain node 0 and node 1 will always be node 1. The firewalls can take turns being primary and secondary.
3. How to verify that chassis cluster was successful by running?
root@lab_SRX1500> show chassis cluster status Cluster ID: 1 Node Priority Status Preempt Manual failover Redundancy group: 0 , Failover count: 1 node0 1 primary no no node1 1 secondary no no
4. How to configure management interfaces (fxp0) for each of the nodes?
Now that we have the chassis cluster completed, we can start with the configuration. We can do the entire configuration on the primary node0 and anything that is committed on the primary node0 will be copied onto the secondary node1.
This will allow us to have remote SSH access onto each node.
set groups node0 system host-name SRX1500-HOSTNAME set groups node0 system backup-router <Management-Gateway-IP> set groups node0 system backup-router destination <Management Network> set groups node0 interfaces fxp0 description MGMT set groups node0 interfaces fxp0 unit 0 family inet address <Management IP> set groups node1 system host-name SRX1500-HOSTNAME set groups node1 system backup-router <Management-Gateway-IP> set groups node1 system backup-router destination <Management Network> set groups node1 interfaces fxp0 description MGMT set groups node1 interfaces fxp0 unit 0 family inet address <Management IP> set apply-groups "${node}"
The backup-router configuration is required for management of the Standby Unit only (either node0 and node1).
- Do NOT configure a default route as the backup-router destination. Also, these routes should match the static routes that point to the Management Gateway in the cluster configuration:
- the standby unit will use the backup router configuration
- the active unit will use the static routes in the configuration.
- NOTE: Adding the command set apply-groups "${node}" is mandatory, as it ensures that the node specific configuration is only committed on that specific node
4a. Understand Slot Numbering with the SRX-1500 Chassis Cluster
- The SRX-1500 can have a maximum of 6 FPC slots. After the devices are connected as a cluster, the slot numbering on one device changes and thus the interface numbering will change.
- When connected in cluster mode, the standby unit's interfaces will be +1 more than the max number of FPC slots in the primary.
- In this case, the primary interfaces will be ge-0/0/0 to ge-0/0/15 and the secondary will be ge-7/0/0 to ge-7/0/15. This is very important to understand.
5. How to configure the Fabric links in the cluster?
set interfaces fab0 fabric-options member-interfaces ge-0/0/11 set interfaces fab1 fabric-options member-interfaces ge-7/0/11
6. How to configure the Redundancy Groups 0 and 1?
set chassis cluster redundancy-group 0 node 0 priority 100 set chassis cluster redundancy-group 0 node 1 priority 1 set chassis cluster redundancy-group 1 node 0 priority 100 set chassis cluster redundancy-group 1 node 1 priority 1
6a. What is the Redundancy group?
- The redudndancy group is a collection of resources that need to fail over between the two devices. Primary on one device and backup on another peer.
- Only one node at a time can be responsible for a redundancy group; however, a single node can be the primary node for any number of redundancy groups.
- The default redundancy group is group 0. Redundancy group 0 represents the control plane (RE failover). The node that is the master over redundancy group 0 has the active RE.
- Redundancy group 1 or greater represents the data plane. A data plane redundancy group contains one or more redundant Ethernet interfaces.
- Each member of the cluster has a physical interface bound into a reth.
- The active node's physical interface will be active and the backup node's interface will be passive and will not pass traffic.
7. How to configure interface monitoring?
set chassis cluster redundancy-group 1 interface-monitor ge-0/0/0 weight 255 set chassis cluster redundancy-group 1 interface-monitor ge-0/0/1 weight 255 set chassis cluster redundancy-group 1 interface-monitor ge-7/0/0 weight 255 set chassis cluster redundancy-group 1 interface-monitor ge-7/0/1 weight 255
7a. What is Interface Monitoring?
- This will check the health and physical status of the each of the interfaces.
- Interface monitoring can be used to trigger a fail-over in the event link status on an interface goes down.
- By default, interface monitoring has a threshold of 255, once this number is reached the redundancy group priority will be changed to '0' for the specific node.
- If one or more interfaces monitored fail, the redundancy group will fail over to another node.
- Note: interface monitoring is not recommended for redundancy-group 0.
8. How to enable and apply Redundancy Ethernet interfaces?
set chassis cluster reth-count 2 set interfaces ge-0/0/0 gigether-options redundant-parent reth0 set interfaces ge-7/0/0 gigether-options redundant-parent reth0 set interfaces ge-0/0/1 gigether-options redundant-parent reth1 set interfaces ge-7/0/1 gigether-options redundant-parent reth1
Note: In this example, I am only provisioning two reth interfaces, that's why I have used reth-count 2. One for OUTSIDE and the other for INSIDE zone but do provision them as per the requirements.
8a. What is Redundant Ethernet Interface?
- The Reth interface is a logical aggregated interface that allows port bundling between the nodes.
- Once the reth number has been applied, you will be able to assign the physical interfaces.
9. How to configure Redundancy Ethernet interfaces?
In this example, both interfaces are configured as Trunk port.
set interfaces reth0 redundant-ether-options redundancy-group 1 set interfaces reth0 vlan-tagging set interfaces reth0 unit <VLAN> vlan-id <VLAN> set interfaces reth0 unit <VLAN> description Outside set interfaces reth0 unit <VLAN> family inet address <Outside IP/Mask> set security zone security-zone OUTSIDE interfaces reth0.<VLAN-ID> set interfaces reth1 redundant-ether-options redundancy-group 1 set interfaces reth1 vlan-tagging set interfaces reth1 unit <VLAN> vlan-id <VLAN> set interfaces reth1 unit <VLAN> description Inside set interfaces reth1 unit <VLAN> family inet address <Inside IP/Mask> set security zone security-zone INSIDE interfaces reth1.<VLAN-ID>
NOTE: As redundancy group 0 is control plane; Make sure to configure both reth interfaces in redundancy group 1. Also, as stated earlier, Clustered SRXs share the same IP address for an individual interface. With that said, you will not require a separate interface configuration for the secondary device.
Verification Commands
- show chassis cluster status
- show chassis cluster interfaces
- show chassis cluster statistics
- show chassis cluster control-plane statistics
- show chassis cluster data-plane statistics
- show chassis cluster status redundancy-group 1
I hope you enjoyed this article. Feel free to leave any comment or feedback.