The Tannourine Cedars Forest Nature Reserve was created under Law No.9 on February 25, 1999. The reserve is managed by the Tannourine Cedars Forest Nature Reserve Committee in cooperation with the Ministry of the Environment.
The Tannourine Cedars Forest Nature Reserve protects one of the largest and densest cedar forests in Lebanon. Eighty percent of the trees in the forest are cedars. The unique geography and topography of the forest has sheltered the area from excessive tourist activity. The hiking trails, here, in the rocky terrain of the mountains are not for the faint of heart. However, a trip to Tannourine is well worth it. The stunning mountainous landscape, with cedars seemingly defying gravity and growing on extremely vertical slopes, is impressive. Visitors will also enjoy the opportunity to discover rock-cut or naturally occurring grottos on their hike, as well as rare flowers particular to this high altitude terrain.


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Crypto Sites Hit by Increasing Number of DDoS Attacks
Websites including Trezor, Poloniex and The Block have all suffered DDoS attacks in recent days.
By Scott Chipolina
Dec 9, 2020 Dec 9, 2020
Several DDoS attacks have hit the crypto industry in recent days. Image: Shutterstock
Several DDoS attacks have hit the crypto industry in recent days.
Trezor's online store was hit with a DDoS attack today, several days after The Block and Poloniex were targeted.
Major crypto exchanges like Binance, OKEx and Bitfinex have all suffered DDoS attacks this year.
Crypto sites have suffered a rising number of DDoS attacks in recent days. These include a hardware wallet provider, a crypto exchange, and a crypto news outlet.
According to SatoshiLabs—which created the Trezor hardware wallet—the "Trezor Shop is currently being targeted by a DDoS attack, meaning it is being overloaded by requests from hijacked computers, so the site may be a bit slow to access."
While the site has experienced some delays, the integrity of the store has not been compromised.
"This attack does not affect the security of the e-shop in any way, but we know it can be a bit of an inconvenience for our customers, so please bear with us. We've seen these attacks plenty of times over the years and business will continue as usual," SatoshiLabs said.
A Trezor hardware wallet on a keyboard. Image: Shutterstock.
A Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack involves a network being flooded with so much traffic from external computers that it ultimately cannot operate as it normally would. DDoS attacks are relatively simple in comparison to other forms of cyber attacks, but they remain a reliable and effective option for attackers.
Before Trezor's DDoS attack, similar attacks were experienced by crypto news outlet The Block, and crypto exchange Poloniex.
"We've mostly mitigated the latest (2,666 requests per second) DDos attack The Block has ever seen thanks to Cloudfare (sic)," Jake McGraw co-founder and CTO of The Block tweeted last week, adding, "When you attack our site, you're also attacking our team of 28 full-time employees."
We've mostly mitigated the largest (2,666/req/s) DDoS attack @TheBlock__ has ever seen thanks to @Cloudflare.
When you attack our site, you're also attacking our team of 28 full-time employees.
A big 🖕 to whomever is responsible. pic.twitter.com/jMXq6Tox6c
— Jake McGraw 🇺🇸 (@jakemcgraw) December 3, 2020
On December 5, Crypto exchange Poloniex tweeted that it suffered a DDoS attack, but that funds remained safe throughout.
"We experienced an outage due to a Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack. We have since restored full trading for all markets. Customer funds remained safe throughout this time of degraded performance," Poloniex said in the tweet.
We experienced an outage due to a Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack. We have since restored full trading for all markets. Customer funds remained safe throughout this time of degraded performance.
Details: https://t.co/SQrMkVa6yI
— Poloniex Customer Support (@PoloSupport) December 5, 2020
A chronic problem
The last week in crypto has seen its fair share of DDoS attacks, but these kinds of attacks have been a persistent issue in the industry for much longer.
In April of this year, Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao blamed rival crypto exchanges for DDoS attacks on the Binance exchange.
"Earlier today, our Chinese domains experienced targeted DDoS attacks, and users saw some lag and interruption of network access," Zhao tweeted, adding, "Based on the attack pattern, it looks like work of our self-perceived competitors."
What's more, in February of this year, Bitfinex and OKEx were hit with massive DDoS attacks that caused both exchanges to momentarily go down. Bitfinex was offline for about one hour, while OKEx suffered an offline interruption that lasted several hours.
DDoS attacks are turning into a bit of a nuisance.

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Athletes have many choices once on a college campus; almost every college offers club, intramural, and recreational sports, and that level of competition can be more than enough for the occasional athlete. For the serious athlete, the college search may be all about finding the right match of ability and opportunity.
Some dedicated athletes have to recognize that their hope of playing for a Division I (scholarship) athletic program is unlikely to materialize. Many will come close and end up at a Division FCS or Division II athletic program, but many, particularly those who prefer the smaller and mid-sized colleges and universities, may want to consider playing in Division III.
Make no mistake, play at that level is highly competitive; many successful high school athletes will not be able to make the final cut on a strong Division III team. In order to identify where those programs are and what sort of traditional strengths they have developed, here is a quick scan of the most visible Division III teams in a variety of sports.
Football – Four Division III colleges have dominated the post-season Division III championships: Mount Union (OH), University of Wisconsin- Whitewater, Augustana (IL), and Ithaca (NY). The 2015 rankings included: Hobart, Widener, Ithaca, MIT, St. Lawrence, Mount Union, John Carroll, Wittenberg, Wabash, Chicago, Johns Hopkins, Saint John's (MN), Linfield, Chapman, and Pacific U (OR).
Women's Volleyball – Hope College (MI) got by Emory to take the 2015 championship. Others in the hunt were: Washington U. (MO), Augsburg, Saint Benedict, Coe, Calvin, Wittenberg, Mount Union, DePauw, John Carroll, Christopher Newport, Juniata, Haverford, Swarthmore, Hopkins, Carnegie Mellon, Cornell College (Iowa), Chicago, Williams, Bowdoin, MIT, Tufts, Amherst, Bowdoin, Coast Guard, Wellesley, Clarkson, Union, Emory, Hendrix, Washington and Lee, Randolph-Macon, Millsaps, Birmingham Soutehrn, CMC/Scripps, Trinity (Texas), Southwestern (Texas).
Men's Basketball – Augustana (Ill) defeated Randolph-Macon to take the 2015 title. Others in the hampionship hunt incuded: Illinois Wesleyan, Washington U. (MO), Hobart, Skidmore, Clarkson, Marietta, Ohio Wesleyan, Wooster, John Carroll, Dickinson, Johns Hopkins, Trinity (CT), Babson, Bates, WPI, Bowdoin, Emory, Centre, Rhodes, St. Olaf, Whitman, and Whitworth.
Women's Basketball – In 2015, Thomas More defeated George Fox to take the national championship. Other contenders included: Wheaton (Ill), Washington U. (MO), NYU, Ithaca, Stevens, St. Lawrence, DePauw, John Carroll, Transylvania, McDaniel, Muhlenberg, Tufts, Amherst, Springfield, Norwich, Trinity (Texas) Lynchburg, Millsaps, Whitworth, CMC/Scripps, Puget Sound.
Men's Ice Hockey – Trinity in Connecticut defeated U Wisconsin Stevens Point to take the title. Others in the top 15 were; Adrian, Amherst, Norwich, Plattsburgh, Oswego, St. Norbert, Hobart, Babson, Nichols, and Hamline.
Women's Ice Hockey – The top 15 in Div. III women's hockey were: Plattsburgh, Elmira, UW River Falls, Norwich, Middlebury, Trinity, Adrian, Amherst, Gustavus Adolphus, Lake Forest, and St. Thomas.
Men's Lacrosse – Tufts defeated Lynchburg in the finals to take the title for the second year in a row. Others contending: RIT, Gettysburg, Ohio Wesleyan, Lynchburg, Endicott, Middlebury, Bates, Ursinus, Ithaca, Denison, Kenyon.
Women's Lacrosse – SUNY Cortland knocked out Trinity College (CT) to take the 2015 title. Others in the mix: Union, Gettsyburg, Franklin and Marshall, Catholic, Saint Mary's (MD), Mount Union, Wittenberg, Sewanee, Wooster, Denison, Rhodes, Middlebury, Bowoin, Hamilton, Amherst, Colby, MIT, Pomona-Pitzer, Augustana, Occidental, Colorado College, Pacific U. (OR).
Men's Tennis – Claremont got by Middlebury to take the national title. Others in the race were: UC Santa Cruz, Pomona-Pitzer, Hopkins, Kenyon, John Carroll, Kalamazoo, Bowdoin, MIT, Trinity (Texas), Mary Washington, Emory, Chicago, Gustavus Adolphus, Coe, Amherst, Rose-Hulman, Colby-Sawyer, Washnigton and Lee, Washington U (MO), Skidmore, Whitman.
Women's Tennis – Williams edged Emory for the national title. Top contendors were: Claremont/Scripps, Trinity(Texas), Whitman, Pomona-Pitzer, Endicott, Babson, Whitman, Skidmore, Carnegie Mellon, Chicago, Augustana, DePauw, Hope, Washington and Lee, Middlebury, Simmns, Bowdoin, Ithaca, Hopkins, Amherst, Washinton U (MO), and Sewanee.
Baseball – SUNY Cortland beat U Wisconsin LaCrosse for the national Div III title. Others contending were: Emory, Trinity (Texas), Washington (MO), Ill. Wesleyan, Hopkins, Franklin and Marshall, Adrian, Wooster, Case Western, Saint John's (MN), Wesleyan (CT), Amherst, MIT, Wheaton (MA), Clarkson, Rhodes, Emory, Millsaps, Birmingham Southern, Pacific Lutheran, Linfield, Whitworth.


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Q: Return view then action in MVC I have a link. When used, I want to load a new view and then, automatically, call an action. But I only know to load views with a "return" within an ActionResult method (so I cannot later call another action!).
Perhaps I am simply thinking about the whole thing wrong, but I cannot figure out how to do this any other way.
One thing I tried is to call the action from the view, but something like @Html.ActionLink will require the user to click, whereas I want the action to be triggered automatically.
Edit:
Since a few asked, here is the motivation for what I am trying to do (feel free to suggest better approaches!):
I want to redirect the user to a view while a long process runs, and then automatically redirect the user to the final view. The second action would call the process and redirect the user when it is complete.

A: You need to get the client to redirect the browser on page load, to automate it add this at the end of the view before the  tag:

Although I suspect there better solutions if we know the specific problem you are trying to overcome.

A: I am just guessing what u are trying to do,may be u can try something Like this
TransactionIndex.cshtml
@model List<Transaction>
@Html.Partial("../Transaction/_Transaction",model)
Main.chtml

A: You can use async ajax call from client to make another request after the view is rendered.
$(document).ready(function(){
 jQuery.get( url [, data ] [, success ] [, dataType ] )
});

e.g.
jQuery.get( 'mywebsite/mycontroller/myaction')

Others are optional parameter.
This way you can trigger another action automatically and can handle the reponse of the request in success callback.
$(document).ready(function(){
    jQuery.get( 'mywebsite/mycontroller/myaction', {id:1}, onSuccess );
});
function onSuccess(response){
  // add logic to do whatever from response
}

A: You need to use javascript to check the status of your long running request. Once it has completed you can redirect.
Add an action that reuturns the current status of your operation, e.g.
public JsonResult GetLoadStatus(){
    //Get status from somewhere
    bool isLoaded = ...
    return Json(isLoaded, JsonRequestBehavior.AllowGet);
}

On your page, assuming you have jQuery (haven't tested this):

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