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The 1" for the meter to the house is a good idea, but after reaching the house, 3/4" is plenty large enough. When you branch off of the 3/4 to individual fixtures, 1/2" will be good.
Hi all,
I'm making a last minute rerouting to my incoming copper water supply line prior to closing up the wall.
The plumber who installed our water line ran 1" copper about 60 feet into the back of the house. Along the way, the 1" line hits the basement (ground floor in-law apartment) master bath, branches to the upstairs bath + laundry, branches to the main kitchen + backyard hose bib, and also supplies the basement kitchenette.
Then, 15 feet before reaching the water heater, it's mysteriously reduced to 3/4" copper. Along that final 15' run, the 3/4' line branches to the basement laundry and a half-bath above, before it finally terminates at the boiler-fired indirect water heater.
I'm re-routing a portion of this 15-foot run of 3/4" copper around some new duct work, and wondering if I ought to stick with 3/4", or upsize it to 1". I'm sure there's no harm in upsizing it, but it'd be easier not to if there's no real benefit.
Hot water requirements for the house will be 3 full baths, one half bath two laundries, kitchen + kitchenette, and at least one dishwasher and possibly two.
Any words of wisdom?
Water pipe sizing
Last edited by Terry; 09-01-2011 at 02:46 PM.
The 1" for the meter to the house is a good idea, but after reaching the house, 3/4" is plenty large enough. When you branch off of the 3/4 to individual fixtures, 1/2" will be good.
Not sure, but I think most WH inputs are 3/4". WIth a 3/4" line, your max safe water flow is around 18gpm to keep the velocity down to safe levels. If the WH has a 1" input, you can significantly increase the flow available if you increase the size - keep in mind that the area has a squared factor, so it is not linear. But, unless you are going to be using everything simultaneously, you'd probably not notice. this assumes that your output is also available as a larger pipe, which may not be the case. To use that max flow, you'd probably exhaust the indirect if it went on for long even with its quicker recovery over a stand-alone WH.
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Thanks for that. But again, it's ultimately my hot water supply I'm concerned with, since the water heater is all the way at the end of the supply line.
I'm a little familiar with the 3/8" - 1/2" - 3/4" and "groups of three" rule for distribution, but a very likely scenario will be three showers running at the same time plusmaybe a kitchen faucet, dishwasher, or washing machine (or two). If the water heater is supplied by 3/4" supply instead of 1", will pressure remain sufficient under high demand, especially since most of the hot water demand will need to be pushed up to the the two floors above?
@ Jim, Ok, more food for thought (previous reply was to Gary).
So are you saying it's actually possible to oversupply (overpressurize) a water heater if the line is too large?
Another concern is the 3/4" line I'm rerouting will have no fewer than six elbows to get around all the ducting. I'm unsure how that affects pressure drop / flow rates.
There is no such thing as too large of pipe when it comes to cold.
The mains in the street are 8"
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What you want to do, using the chart below count up the fixture units that the water heater is providing, and the cold fixture units on the way to the water heater minus ten and see if that's overloaded.
Ok, so to clarify, I would count (for instance) each shower twice -- once for the hot side, once for the cold side?
Does each elbow add to the effective length of the run?
Do I need to account for vertical rise to the 2nd & 3rd floor?
And lastly, what's the -10 for?
Thanks everyone!
From a non-pro...
Ideally, count fixture units.
If that makes your head hurt and/or you don't mind spending a few more $, run 1" until after the last cold take-off and all the ells.
Each pipe size will be able to supply a maximum volume of water at any specific water pressure before the velocity gets too high to expect longevity of the pipes. If the WH has 1" inputs, then running 1" to it may be worth it. If not, then probably not.
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+ cold fixtures on just the 3/4" segment
= gives me 31.5 Fixture Units
Subtracting 10 brings me down to 21.5, just a little over the 19 max units recommended for a 3/4" line.
Is there some fudge factor here? Is this "close enough" I should just stick with the 3/4" copper?
FWIW, my water heater has 3/4" connections, and I'm leaning towards switching to the 1" line.

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When things turned south in the economy in 2008, money was tight, lawyers scrambled for fees. Real estate lawyers were observed hustling the criminal courts, charging low rates to handle felony cases, a new form of bottom feeding.
We all might share the same law degree, but the fact remains that most lawyers are adept at only a few things. I suspect you will never see me handle a real estate closing, for example. I am clueless about real estate.
I do, from time time, stumble into family court, although on the few occasions that I do fill me with a sense of terror. I'm not a family court expert. I've never held myself out to be one. I feel like an infant released from a wading pool into a shark tank. The family bar is sharp, and inbred.
The new rule permitting lawyers to file limited appearances in family court is going to invite more lawyers into the family courts. Like real estate lawyers entering the criminal arena, some of these lawyers will be attracted by a quick fee for what seems to be simple work. Why not take a few hundred dollars to draft a motion, or appear for argument on some contested claim?
You will not see me or any member of my firm appear in a court proceeding under cloak of a limited appearance. I would no more dive head first into a complex proceeding than I would go to a surgeon to ask him to to remove half a tumor.
I understand why the head honchoes in the Judicial Branch like limited appearances. Some 80 percent of family litigants end up representing themselves. A contested divorce is part suicide, part murder. It stirs the deepest of passions, passions that litigants will spend everything to address. Having a lawyer in the well of the court makes sense in terms of trial management; it will make the judges' job easier.
But what, aside from a quick fee, does a limited appearance offer a lawyer?
It will be interesting to see the sorts of malpractice claims that limited appearances yield. A lawyer with an eye on the clock steps into a years-long war to offer spot advice on the crisis du jour. Once his cameo lawyering is complete, he leaves the fray, with court approval. Then come the consequences, whether foreseen or not, of the lawyer's work. What's the defense to a malpractice claim? "I wasn't hired to handle the whole case."
A more sensible approach to handling the crisis in the family courts would be to assure, at least in those cases involving the welfare of minor children, that litigants are appointed counsel paid for by the Judicial Branch: let's transfer the incentive to resolve cases promptly with sensible rulings to the decision-makers. Too often family court becomes a forum for wars of attrition, with the litigants trying to bleed their once-loved, now-hated, adversary to financial death.
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- Breakfast fee: AUD 18.00 per person (approximately)
- Fee for in-room wireless Internet: AUD 19.95 (for 24 hours, rates may vary)
- Fee for wireless Internet in public areas: AUD 19.95 per 24-hour period (rates may vary)
- Rollaway bed fee: AUD 40.00 per night
- Onsite credit card charges are subject to a surcharge
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RUSSIA, IRAN CRITICIZE TEHRAN SNUB FOR SYRIA TALKSTuesday, 21 January 2014 09:38 Published in National News
GENEVA (AP) — Russia and Iran on Tuesday criticized the U.N. chief's decision to withdraw Tehran's invitation to join this week's peace conference on Syria, as diplomats said a new report on Syrian regime atrocities underscored the urgent need to try to end the country's brutal civil war.
The last-minute U.N. invitation for Iran to participate in the so-called Geneva conference threw the entire meeting into doubt, forcing U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon to rescind his offer late Monday under intense U.S. pressure after Syria's main Western-backed opposition group threatened to boycott.
After Ban withdrew the invitation, the opposition Syrian National Coalition confirmed that it would attend the talks, stressing the goal should be to establish a transitional government with full executive powers "in which killers and criminals do not participate."
That cleared the way for the conference to open Wednesday as planned in the Swiss resort city of Montreux, with high-ranking delegations from the United States, Russia and close to 40 other countries attending. Face-to-face negotiations between the Syrian government and its opponents — the first of the uprising — are to start Friday in Geneva.
Expectations for a breakthrough at the conference are low. The front lines of the war have been largely locked in place since March, and despite suffering enormous losses, neither the government nor the opposition appears desperate enough for a deal to budge from its entrenched position.
It's also unclear how the opposition coalition, a weak and fractured umbrella group with almost no sway over the most powerful rebel groups inside Syria, could enforce any agreement reached in Geneva.
The determination to hold the talks anyway is a reflection of the urgency felt by the international community to find a political resolution to end the civil war that activists say has killed more than 130,000 people and unleashed a humanitarian crisis.
For some of the more than 2 million Syrian refugees scattered around the region, there is little hope that the peace conference can deliver a solution to the conflict, and scant interest in a settlement with President Bashar Assad's government.
"We lost our faith in the international community. We don't care about the Geneva conference and whether it takes place or not," said Ibraheem Qaddah, a former rebel fighter now holed up in Jordan's sprawling Zaatari refugee camp.
"We have lost a lot of relatives and friends and family members in the fighting and we've lost Syria. We are not looking for reconciliation with Bashar Assad," said Qaddah, whose left arm was amputated after he was severely wounded in the war.
In the latest report of atrocities, three prominent international war-crimes experts said they had received tens of thousands photographs documenting what they called the systematic killing of some 11,000 detainees by Syrian authorities. The images, which were smuggled out by a defector from Syria's military police, showed victims' bodies with signs of torture and maltreatment.
David Crane, one of the three experts who examined the newly revealed images of slain detainees, told The Associated Press that the cache provides strong evidence for charging Assad and others for crimes against humanity — "but what happens next will be a political and diplomatic decision."
"These photographs, if they are real, they reconfirm what we already are thinking and so we hope that the talks in Montreux and further on will produce results," said European Union President Herman Van Rompuy. "We don't need more evidence. If there is other evidence, all the better, but we don't need more evidence on the humanitarian tragedy that is happening there."
Assad's family has ruled since 1970, and Iran is Assad's strongest regional ally. The Islamic Republic has supplied the Syrian government with advisers, money and weapons since the uprising against his rule began in March 2011. Iran's allies, most notably the Lebanese Shiite militant group Hezbollah, have also gone to Syria to help bolster Assad's forces.
Iran's role has infuriated Syria's opposition forces, which accuse Tehran of in essence invading their country.
The controversy over Iran's participation in the talks highlighted the fundamental differences over Syria between the United States and Russia, which has shielded Assad's regime from U.N. sanctions and continued to supply it with weapons throughout the civil war.
In Moscow, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Ban's decision to rescind Iran's invitation was a mistake, but that the Kremlin would try to make the Geneva negotiations work.
"There is no catastrophe, we will push for a dialogue between the Syrian parties without any preconditions," Lavrov told reporters Tuesday.
At the same time, Russia's top diplomat took a jab at Ban, saying his decision on Iran "hasn't helped strengthen the U.N. authority," and that recalling the offer looked "unseemly."
Lavrov reaffirmed Russia's stance that the presence of Iran was essential for the success of the talks, saying Tehran's absence "isn't going to help strengthen the unity of the world's Muslims."
Iran's Foreign Ministry also sharply criticized Ban's diplomatic about-face and called on him to explain the "real reasons" for withdrawing the invite.
"From our point of view, the withdrawal is deplorable," ministry spokeswoman Marzieh Afkham said, adding that the U.N. chief must have done so under immense pressure.
Syria's civil war has unleashed sectarian hatreds that have rippled across the wider region. It also has developed into a proxy war between Iran, the region's Shiite Muslim power, and Saudi Arabia, the Sunni heavy weight.
In the latest evidence that the unrest is spilling over Syria's borders, a car bombing in the Lebanese capital's southern suburbs early Tuesday. The explosion struck a Shiite area that is a bastion of support for Hezbollah, killing at least two people.
Lebanon is deeply divided by the war in Syria, and Lebanese Sunnis and Shiites have lined up behind their brethren in Syria on opposing sides of the war.
The last-minute flap over Iran's participation set a chaotic tone for the run-up to the conference.
In another bizarre twist, Syrian state TV said the government delegation stopped in Athens but couldn't leave because Greek authorities weren't allowing them to refuel the plane. It said the delegation, led by Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem, would be delayed several hours and could miss meetings.
Greek Foreign Ministry spokesman Constantinos Koutras said the delay was caused by a procedural issue, and that the plane had been cleared to depart.
Associated Press writers Ryan Lucas in Beirut, Vladimir Isachenkov in Moscow, Omar Akour in Zaatari Camp, Jordan, Elena Becatoros in Athens, and Ali Akbar Dareini in Tehran, Iran, contributed to this report.
SNOWDEN COULD USE A TRIAL TO SHOWCASE SPY CLAIMSTuesday, 21 January 2014 09:37 Published in National News
WASHINGTON (AP) — Should Edward Snowden ever return to the U.S., he would face criminal charges for leaking information about National Security Agency surveillance programs. But legal experts say a trial could expose more classified information as his lawyers try to build a case in an open court that the operations he exposed were illegal.
A jury trial could be awkward for the Obama administration if the jurors believe Snowden is a whistle-blower who exposed government overreach. Snowden surely would try to turn the tables on the government, arguing that its right to keep information secret does not outweigh his constitutional right to speak out.
"He would no doubt bring First Amendment defenses to what he did, emphasizing the public interest in his disclosures and the democratic values that he served," said David Pozen, a Columbia Law School professor and a former legal adviser at the State Department. "There's been no case quite like it."
Administration officials say the possibility of a public spectacle wherein Snowden tries to reveal even more classified information to make his case has not lessened the Justice Department's intent to prosecute him, and Attorney General Eric Holder has not warmed to calls for clemency for the former NSA systems analyst.
Department spokesman Andrew Ames last week indicated there was no change in the department's intent to prosecute, and that point was reinforced by National Security Council spokeswoman Caitlin Hayden.
"There's been no change in our position: Mr. Snowden is accused of leaking classified information and faces felony charges here in the United States," Hayden said. "He should be returned to the U.S. as soon as possible, where he will be accorded full due process and protections."
A former NSA general counsel, Stewart Baker, drawing from conversations with his former associates after New York Times and Guardian editorials called for clemency, said the issue "has been more of a media idea than something that is being seriously debated inside the government."
Both newspapers, along with The Washington Post, have received and reported on some of the documents Snowden took.
"I haven't talked to anyone in government who considers this a possibility," Baker said.
Officials have called Snowden's leaks the single largest theft of secrets in U.S. history.
The Justice Department breaks those alleged misdeeds into three charges filed in federal court in Virginia: theft of government property; under the Espionage Act, the unauthorized communication of national defense information; and willful communication of classified communications intelligence information to an unauthorized person.
A November Washington Post/ABC News poll found 52 percent of Americans supported charging Snowden with a crime, while 38 percent opposed it.
Escaping conviction would be difficult.
Snowden has admitted taking and distributing the documents, explained Jason Weinstein, a former deputy assistant attorney general. The documents were first published in the Guardian and the Post in June, based on some of the thousands of documents Snowden handed over to Barton Gellman of the Post, Brazil-based American journalist Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras, a U.S. filmmaker.
It would be tough, too, to make a legal argument that Snowden was acting as a whistle-blower, exposing criminal wrongdoing by the government.
"To the legal argument that the programs were illegal, the government's answer would be that the programs were legally authorized," Weinstein said.
"Your personal judgment as to whether the government is doing something illegal is not an element of the crime. You disclosed something you did not have permission to disclose."
No court has allowed a leaker of classified information to escape punishment on those grounds, Pozen wrote in a Lawfare blog post on the subject.
The first person convicted of espionage for furnishing classified data to a journalist was Samuel Loring Morison, who was employed at the Naval Intelligence Support Center in Suitland, Md., from 1974 to 1984. He was convicted of spying for leaking intelligence photographs in 1984 to Jane's Defence Weekly, a British military magazine. Morison was sentenced to two years in jail, and later was pardoned by President Bill Clinton.
The Obama administration has pursued leakers aggressively, and Snowden's breach was far more sweeping than Morison's.
Snowden's defense strategy could rest on "graymail," said national security lawyer Mark Zaid, in which the defense threatens to reveal classified information in the trial if the prosecution insists on pursuing the case.
Zaid, who has defended clients in similar cases, said that could force government lawyers to argue to close much of the hearings, only feeding Snowden's argument that the government is trying to hide misdeeds from the public behind a cloak of secrecy.
Snowden's legal representative, Ben Wizner at the American Civil Liberties Union, said the government likely would not ever let the jury hear his client's arguments for releasing the information on moral grounds.
"The Justice Department has successfully barred defendants in leaks prosecutions from mounting any kind of public interest defense by using the Espionage Act," Wizner said. He said all the government would have to prove is that Snowden took national defense information and gave it to someone who wasn't allowed to receive it.
"The government doesn't have to prove that the disclosures were harmful to the country. The defendant can't defend himself on basis that documents shouldn't have been classified ... and lower courts have upheld that," Wizner said. "That's why Edward Snowden is not taking his chances in a federal court. He wouldn't be able to explain himself."
Snowden is living under temporary asylum in Russia, which has no extradition treaty with the United States. If he decided to stay there or move to another country also without an extradition treaty with the U.S., he conceivably could live out his life without prosecution.
SEX ABUSE FILES ON 30 CHICAGO PRIESTS GOING PUBLICTuesday, 21 January 2014 09:35 Published in National News
CHICAGO (AP) — Thousands of pages of documents showing how the Archdiocese of Chicago handled the sexual abuse of children by priests will be made public Tuesday, providing the broadest look yet into the details of what the archdiocese knew and did — or didn't do — about the scandal.
The archdiocese, one of the largest and most influential in the U.S., handed over last week more than 6,000 pages of documents to victims' attorneys, who said they will show the archdiocese concealed abuse for decades, including moving priests to new parishes where they molested again.
The disclosures involving 30 priests were made as part of legal settlements with abuse victims, and are similar to disclosures made in other dioceses in the U.S. in recent years that showed how the Roman Catholic Church shielded priests and failed for many years to report child sex abuse to authorities.
Chicago officials said most of the abuse occurred before 1988 and none after 1996.
Debra Brian, a 24-year-old Catholic from Chicago, had not yet seen or heard what was included in the documents, but said Sunday that the church is doing the right thing by acknowledging what occurred.
"Hopefully it will help people come forward," said Brian.
Cardinal Francis George, who has led the archdiocese since 1997, released a letter to parishioners on Jan. 12 in which he apologized for the abuse and said releasing the records "raises transparency to a new level." He also stressed that much of the abuse occurred decades ago, before he became archbishop. He said all of the incidents eventually were reported to civil authorities and resulted in settlements with victims.
"I apologize to all those who have been harmed by these crimes and this scandal, the victims themselves, most certainly, but also rank and file Catholics who have been shamed by the actions of some priests and bishops," George wrote.
The archdiocese has paid millions of dollars to settle sexual abuse claims, including those against Father Daniel McCormack, who was sentenced to five years in prison after pleading guilty in 2007 to abusing five children while he was parish priest at St. Agatha Catholic Church and a teacher at a Catholic school. The next year, the archdiocese agreed to pay $12.6 million to 16 victims of sexual abuse by priests, including McCormack.
Files on McCormack will not be among those released; they have been sealed by a judge because of pending court cases, said Chicago attorney Marc Pearlman, who has represented about 200 victims of clergy abuse in the Chicago area. Pearlman said he and St. Paul, Minn., attorney Jeff Anderson will re-release the McCormack documents that they have.
Many of the accused priests are dead, and the documents will include only 30 of 65 priests for whom the archdiocese says it has credible allegations of abuse.
Peter Isely, Midwest director for the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, said it's important for all Chicago-area Catholics to read the documents.
"This is about a part of their story as Chicago Catholics that ... has been systematically hidden," Isely said.
Associated Press Writer Sara Burnett contributed to this report.
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Eaglehorn, Rattlecage, Firelizards, Crainte Vomir, Stealskull 38MF, Ravenclaw, Dwarf Star, Razortail.....pgems
Plenty of p amethyst/pgems/rals.....Hel/Lem/Pul
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I'll bin the smallcharm, mule sent.
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That charm is worth a lot more than Um.
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Lay of Hands?
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steelskull for 6 pgems?
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Plain shadow GC - bin!
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I don't want the charm.
These charms are very rare, and very useful for one of the most used PvP builds (ES sorc) hence the high price. When you get rich people who really want something, they overpay. This charm is one from perfect, and everyone would much rather have 20/16 than a 19/17 so the 20/16 is worth significantly more.
There are other trading sites that value these rare items much higher than here and I have frequently let posters who were practically giving away their items know about them and about what value they should receive. The reason I do this is simple, there are many posters here who would simply buy that charm for the sole purpose of reselling it on a different forum, and I figure why should they sit back and get even richer (like hundreds to thousands of HR's rich) when most of these people can't rub a couple HR's together at any one point in time.
03-03-2009, 18:12 #10
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actully life/mana worth that much coz veryuseful for all pvp player..
i think rare items sell on bnet better than here..ha..


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Today's web performance and availability requirements make load balancing indispensable. In this article, we show you how to set up an effective load balancing system using features built into the Apache web server.
A multitude of technologies support load balancing for web servers. Load balancers come in all shapes and sizes, from simple DNS-based techniques through vast and versatile proprietary systems. In some cases, however, the load balancing features you need might be available already through the Apache web server. In this article, I describe some strategies for load balancing with Apache.
The schematic in Figure 1 shows the underlying structure of a software-based balancing system. In this scenario, several front-end load balancers accept incoming user requests and distribute them to a pool of back-end servers on the basis of a predefined scheme. Multiple individual systems can run in parallel to provide a fail-safe (shown in the background in Figure 1). Apache includes a number of modules for supporting load balancing (Table 1), and you'll need to make sure any modules you intend to use are loaded:
LoadModule xyz_module modules/mod_xyz.so
As you can see in Table 1, Apache's basic load balancing capabilities include features such as caching, compression, URL rewriting, and header processing. Some of the modules in Table 1 are loaded by default.
Consult your own Apache configuration for more on which modules might already be present on your system.
If JServ-capable application servers, such as Apache Tomcat or Jetty, are used, the gateway can also use the Apache JServ Protocol (ajp). All you need to do is load the mod_proxy_ajp module instead of mod_proxy_http and change the URLs from http:// to ajp://.
The use of this binary-format protocol offers a couple of advantages with regard to back-end connection performance and lower resource overheads, but this functionality is bought at the price of more permanent connections to the back ends.
Incidentally, you can run ajp and http back ends at the same time as members of the same pool. For the sake of completeness, keep in mind also that Apache supports ftp proxy with the mod_proxy_ftp module.
For additional details, check out the Apache http server documentation [2].
The sample configuration shown in Listing 1 includes the basic front-end server settings for load balancing in Apache.
Listing 1
Sample Configuration
01 ProxyRequests Off 02 ProxyVia Off 03 04 ProxyPreserveHost On 05 ProxyErrorOverride On 06 07 ProxyTimeout 30 08 09 <Proxy balancer://pool> 10 BalancerMember http://server1:8080 \ 11 min=10 max=50 loadfactor=2 12 13 BalancerMember http://server2:8080 \ 14 min=5 max=25 loadfactor=1 15 </Proxy> 16 17 ProxyPass /shop balancer://pool1 \ 18 lbmethod=byrequests \ 19 nofailover=Off maxattempts=3 \ 20 stickysession=PHPSESSIONID
This configuration starts with ProxyRequests to disable the normal proxy mode and setting up what is known as a reverse proxy, or gateway, to be more precise. Disabling Via headers (ProxyVia) makes the gateway invisible.
The ProxyPreserveHost and ProxyErrorOverride commands ensure that the host headers included in the request are passed on to the back ends and that any error messages generated by the back ends are replaced by the load balancer and thus standardized. The output of a suitable timeout, with ProxyTimeout, rounds off the basic configuration.
The core definition, that of a back-end pool and its members, is handled by a Proxy container and the specification of a special balancer:// schema followed by the pool name. The BalancerMember instructions and parameters in the container specify the individual members along with their properties.
At the end of the configuration, the back-end pool defined previously is assigned a separate URL space; more parameters define the load balancer's generic approach. To enable regular expressions, you could use the advanced ProxyPassMatch command instead of ProxyPass.
As an alternative, the rewrite module (mod_rewrite) and custom rules would unleash the full power of regular expressions. However, in this case, you will need to use ProxySet because load balancer parameters cannot be modified by rules:
ProxySet balancer://pool1 lbmethod=bytraffic ... RewriteEngine On RewriteRule ^/+(.*)$balancer://pool1/$1 [P,L]
Listing 1 thus defines two back-end servers for pool1. Requests are distributed on the basis of the number of requests (see the lbmethod parameter). The load factor setting assigns twice as many requests to server1 compared with server2. Connections are reused but also restricted to a maximum value. The URL space is defined as the complete URL space below /shop.
Table 2 provides a summary of the most common ProxyPass and BalancerMember commands. For more information, see the Apache http server documentation [2].
The Apache http server's proxy module (mod_proxy) provides an unbelievable range of special settings. Tools are available for many different scenarios. For example, you can use the status parameter to operate a hot standby server:
BalancerMember http://server4:1080... status=+H
This command specifies that server4 is only enabled if all the remaining pool members fail.
This server is the last line of defense and can be used to serve up a restricted version of a web application or to forward requests to a substitute system.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – A bipartisan bill that seeks to streamline the federal licensing requirements for small hydro projects around the nation got new wings this Tuesday, when the House Energy and Commerce Committee agreed to advance the Hydropower Regulatory Efficiency Act of 2013.
Authored by Reps. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) and Diana DeGette (D-CO) and championed by small hydro proponents right here in the Western San Juans, the bill seeks to help facilitate the development of new hydropower projects across the country by reducing red tape and streamlining the permitting process. If the bill becomes law, all hydroelectric projects under 5 megawatts on existing pipelines would be exempt from strict and costly federal permitting requirements.
"It's hard to overestimate how huge this bill is for the small hydro industry," said Telluride-based small hydro advocate Kurt Johnson. As Johnson testified on the bill's behalf when it was first introduced last year, the cost of permitting for small hydro projects often exceeds the cost of the infrastructure itself.
Johnson often bumps up against this problem. He is the president of the Colorado Small Hydro Association and principal at Telluride Energy, a small hydro development and consulting firm.
The new legislation's successful passage could have a huge positive impact on exactly the kinds of projects that Johnson specializes in; most of his clients simply seek to take advantage of existing infrastructure, including dams, pipelines and irrigation canals, to create a small steady stream of green electricity.
However, current one-size-fits-all Federal Energy Regulatory Commission permitting requirements for hydroelectric projects are time-consuming, costly and unnecessary for small installations, said Johnson.
"If the government required homeowners to get a federal permit before installing a rooftop solar panel, there would not be a small solar industry in the U.S.," Johnson said. "The reason we don't have a thriving small hydro industry in this country is because of federal permitting requirements, which have been crushing the small hydro industry for decades. H.R. 267 cuts away all that regulatory red tape – which will provide a dramatic boost to the U.S. small hydro industry."
From Ames, Bridal Veil Falls, and the Ouray Hydroelectric Plant to the Gunnison Tunnel and the M&D Canal, the Western Slope of Colorado has a rich and compelling hydroelectric history. Yet as rich as this history is, many argue that the region's real wealth lies in its still untapped hydroelectric potential.
Hydropower is the largest renewable electricity source in the United States, and according to industry experts, new hydropower development has the potential to create 700,000 new jobs over the next 14 years. It is a form of power that makes particular sense in places like Colorado where water and gravity consort in high places.
If signed into law, Johnson said, the bill would save communities wishing to develop new small hydroelectric projects thousands of dollars in permitting costs.
The Town of Telluride, for example, could stand to benefit substantially from the new law as it develops a planned hydroelectric component to its new Pandora water system. The City of Ouray already has one licensed micro-hydro project which offsets power usage at the Hot Springs Pool, and would like to install others along its water main which plummets into town from its source at Weehawken Spring several miles up the Camp Bird Road.
"It's such a no-brainer," Ouray Mayor Bob Risch said of the Hydropower Regulatory Efficiency Act last July. "Having a simplified process gives us encouragement to move those things forward. We definitely have a lot of untapped potential in our system."
HR 267 is the next generation of a bipartisan bill introduced by Congresswomen McMorris Rogers and DeGette last spring. The legislation was developed after extensive discussion with interested stakeholders, and passed the House last July by a vote of 332-0, but failed to make it to the floor of the Senate and so the process must start all over again.
"We were hoping the Senate could find 10 minutes to pass the same bill last year, but they were preoccupied with the fiscal cliff," Johnson said. He is keeping his fingers crossed that the bill will pass the House with similar support this time around.
"Based on last year's outcomes, it is expected that the Committee will approve the legislation and that the full House will quickly approve the bill under 'suspension of the rules,' an expedited process to move non-controversial legislation," Johnson said. "Then we hope the Senate will move with similar alacrity. But even with noncontroversial bills such as this one, the Senate is the great unknown."
Johnson said the National Hydro Association is currently looking for a champion for the legislation on the Senate side.
Things looked good for the bill in the House, as it made its 2013 debut on Tuesday. House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Fred Upton (R–Michigan) said he intends to get the bill up on the House floor as quickly as he can. "And I'll be walking over to the Senate to see if we can't get them moving this along to the President's desk."
As it wends its way through Washington D.C., hydropower will also be front and center in the State of Colorado this year. A global conference on the topic takes place in Denver in July 2013.
"The entire global hydro business is coming to Denver," Johnson said. He hopes that with the successful passage of the proposed legislation, "We can have a nice story to tell about Colorado's leadership in small hydro."


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