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If Buck Pierce wants to return and continue to quarterback the Winnipeg Blue Bombers, there is only one scenario that is conceivable for him as a starting-pivot solution.
Buck would have to become the Anthony Calvillo of the Bombers, and in more ways than one.
Back in 2007, I thought Calvillo's career was all but over. The Montreal Alouettes had ended the season in third place and just in time for us to knock them out of the first round of the playoffs at home. That post-season game, however, was just a microcosm of what we had seen all season long, and perhaps the last two seasons. Calvillo was getting pin-balled on the field and he could no longer stand up to the punishment he was receiving.
He was 35 years old, and the secret to beating Montreal was out. Hit Calvillo hard and he will falter and fail, and defensive co-ordinators across the land were only too happy to endorse this theory and bring the heat.
Teams were sacking A.C. five, six, seven times a game and you could see his performance suffer as a result. By the end of a game he was chucking and ducking, he could not set his feet in the pocket and he was gun-shy. He couldn't run and had nowhere to hide.
Fortunately for Calvillo, in 2008, Marc Trestman was hired as the new head coach. I never spoke to Trestman about how and why he came to change the offensive system they ran, but it was pretty clear from my position as a defensive player that the days of target practice on No. 13 were long over.
Trestman recognized he had an elite-level talent at his fingertips, one that did not have the physical wherewithal to stand up to being punished on a regular basis. So he implemented the system that you see today, a scheme that forces defensive co-ordinators to drastically alter their approach to attacking him and relies on Calvillo's pinpoint accuracy and quick release.
When you play Montreal these days, the very first thing your defensive co-ordinator warns you of is, "Don't get frustrated about not being able to get to A.C. Just keep rushing him and try to get your hands up."
Calvillo was susceptible to physical play when he was in his mid-30s; he is even more vulnerable now that he is 40, and I would dare say as prone to injuries as Buck. Yet you may only see him take a shot -- the likes of which Buck seemingly incurs on a weekly basis -- once in an entire football season.
The reason he has an almost impenetrable force field around him is that the Alouettes system commits to protecting him like Fort Knox. At a minimum, they keep six blockers in on passing plays, and we've seen them use as many as eight at times when we were only rushing four. You may beat the man in front of you cleanly, but that still won't necessarily get you to A.C. You'll at least have a back to contend with before you get a sniff of the No. 13 jersey.
To start every game, the Alouettes play with a faster tempo than any other team in the CFL. Their first couple of series are filled with nothing but quick, short routes and timing patterns to get you chasing your tail. Calvillo knows where he is going with the football and he delivers it faster and more accurately than anybody else. When you keep additional personnel in to block, you better be able to thread the needle and throw into double coverage, and A.C. is a master of these tactics.
When the Alouettes are on top of their game, they are also a quick-strike offence. They identify weaknesses so well that it seems they get points almost every time they touch the ball in the early goings.
By the time you've figured out how their offence has decided to exploit you, you are too tired, too winded and often too far behind to mount a rush or do much about it.
At 31 years of age, Buck Pierce could probably play another three or four seasons if he fit into a system that emphasized protection as much as the Alouettes.
Do the Bombers have the offensive capabilities to implement such a system, when they were outscored more than three to one in the first quarter this season? Does Buck fit a scheme like that and does he have the same ability to process information as rapidly as A.C., with the same quick release and level of accuracy?
Some things are easier said than done.
Doug Brown, once a hard-hitting defensive lineman and frequently a hard-hitting columnist, appears Tuesdays and game days in the Free Press.
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A Winnipeg-based research team has concluded that a product used worldwide to resuscitate critically ill patients with low blood pressure may be doing more harm than good.
The team, whose findings will be published Wednesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association, discovered that use of a commonly used blood volume expander can lead to increased kidney failure and mortality.
Dr. Ryan Zarychanski, a CancerCare Manitoba blood disorder specialist and the study's lead researcher, said publication of the research could change the way hospitals and regulators around the world view the product.
"I'm really excited to get this out because by using the product less more people will actually live," he said in an interview.
Zarychanski and his team, which included researchers at the University of Manitoba and Laval University in Quebec City, examined 38 clinical trials in support of corn-based hydroxyethyl starches (HES). The trials involved 10,880 patients from around the world.
Zarychanski said problems with HES might have been detected earlier if not for previously published studies conducted by a German investigator that were later retracted due to scientific misconduct.
"When you remove the data from that one investigator [seven studies' worth], the evidence of harm is even more clear," he said.
Zarychanski said there are several alternatives to HES — some of them vastly less expensive than the product that is sold under the trade names of Hespan, Voluven and Volulyte b. HES has been in use since the 1980s.
"I'm expecting that physicians will immediately reconsider the use of the product on a day-to-day basis. I'm expecting that hospitals will re-examine their decision to carry this... or to carry it without restrictions," he said.

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>Gears and Wears>Shoe Suggestions Please
I'm looking for a light stability shoe with a wide toe box. I run in Altra Provisioness for my shorter runs, but am not quite ready to run in them for longer distances. The Nike Lunarglide 3s have worked well for me, but I believe the 4s have a narrower toe box. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
PR's: 5k - 23:33/ 10k - 48:30/ 5 mi. - 39:21/ 13.1 - 1:53/ 26.2 recent - 4:34
Upcoming races: Resolution Run HM 1/1/13
Phoenix R&R HM 1/20/13
Try the LunarGlide 4 anyway. I was skeptical of the tight fit when I first tried them on, coming from Lunarglide 2, but I have not had any problems with them yet.
I wear the Saucony Progrid Mirage 2 (I wore version 1 as well). They are relatively light, with a little bit of stability. Toe box is about average, though. It's sort of a transition shoe towards minimalist.
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I have a pretty wide foot and ran in the Lunarglide 4 for and while. I had zero problems with the toe box and absolutely loved the shoes. Unfortunately, they ended up giving me a blister on the bottom of my foot so I had to switch, but I say definitely give them a shot!
PRs: 5K 22:59, 10K 46:54,HM: 1:51:15
In it for the long run..
Altra Torin has more cushioning than Provisioness and is fine for long runs.
"It's not who wins the workout..."
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I have a pair of Asics GelNeo33s and I like them.
2 Mile: 17: 11 5k PR: 27:45 5 Mile: 44:11 10K: 59:01 Half: 2:15:59 Marathon: 5:50:07
If the LunarGlide has been a shoe thats working well for you.. then why the heck do you want to go to a Altra?
sethh - That's a good question. I guess I got caught up in all the "zero drop is best" hype and decided to check it out. The Altras are ok, but probably not the shoe nirvana I was looking for.
Thanks for the suggestions everyone. I think I'll give the Lunarglide 4s a shot.
sethh - That's a good question. I guess I got caught up in all the "zero drop is best" hype and decided to check it out.
Yea... there is a lot of that fiction going around.


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While small towns across the south are well known for their commitment to local culinary traditions, few could match the fervor of Ponchatoula, Louisiana. Situated a scenic forty-five minute drive from New Orleans, this farming community is full of devotees to everyone's favorite ruby red treat: the strawberry.
The town's love of this springtime fruit can only be compared to the kind of adoration usually reserved for sports stars and pop icons: elaborate fountains spout pink water in front of the local history museum, the street signs are all emblazoned with a strawberry motif, and Louisiana has official given the designation of "Strawberry Capital of the World" to this sleepy hamlet.
The strawberry undeniably reigns as king.
For over forty years, Ponchatoula has hosted the annual Strawberry Festival: a weekend designed to spotlight their favorite crop in as many delicious ways as possible. For three days in April, festival goers have the opportunity to enjoy a plethora of strawberry sweets, enter baking contests, and try their hand at strawberry eating contests.
(Next year, I might really mix things up and enter the running for Strawberry Festival Queen, who knows.)
For snapshots from this year's celebration of the berry, crack open a pint of this praise-worthy fruit and click through to the slideshow.
About the author: Sarah Baird is a writer, editor, and petit four aficionado living in New Orleans, Louisiana. She likes planning elaborate dinner parties surrounded by her collection of dwarf citrus trees. You can read her latest musings and about her various misadventures on her website: hellosarahbaird.com or follow her on Twitter: @scbaird.


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Two tests await Ed Miliband, Labour leader, and his party: polls across the country, and a referendum on the alternative voting system for which he is a principal campaigner. George Parker, political editor, talks to the leader of the UK opposition about the upcoming ballots, his call for a cultural change in the City o f London, and the coalition government's deficit reduction strategy. Read more
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MIAMI SHORES, Fla. – The No.15-ranked Saint Leo women's tennis team (18-7) made program history as they downed the No.4 seeded and twelfth-ranked Rollins College Tars (13-11), 5-0, Tuesday afternoon from the Buccaneer Tennis Center in Miami Shores.
The program's first-ever NCAA Tournament win advances the Lions to play top-seeded Barry University at 2 p.m. on Wednesday, May 2, from the Buccaneer Tennis Center. Infact, it is the Lions first-ever victory against the Tars.
"The women played great tennis today," said Head Tennis Coach James Bryce. "We displayed resiliency and patience at doubles and that momentum carried over into a strong singles effort. It was a great all-around team win."
Dominating from the onset, Saint Leo went through doubles unblemished, before taking a pair of singles wins in consecutive sets.
Adrianna Daszkiewicz and Jeanette McDonald got the ball rolling for the Lions as they paced the Tars' No.2 slotted team, 8-4. Battling back from a 3-1 deficit at No.1 doubles, Saint Leo's eighth-ranked team of Laura Kemkes and Emily Singleton surged past their foes for an 8-6 win. The Lions' three-flight tandem of Maria Benkirane and Selma Hidass capped off the sweep as they proved victorious in a back-and-forth struggle with Callie Whitlock and Elissa DeCampli, 8-6.
Needing only two more points to seal the win, Kemkes quickly put the Tars in a nearly insurmountable hole as she dropped Lisa Loft at top-flight singles in consecutive sets, 6-1, 6-0. Senior Jeanette McDonald provided the match point as she overpowered Whitlock at No. 4 singles, 6-4, 6-1.
At the conclusion of the match, the Lions were up one set at two, three, and five singles.
The victory avenges a 5-4 loss to the Tars in the third-place match in the 2012 Sunshine State Conference Tournament in March.
The Lions had made one previous trip to the NCAA Tournament, 2007, losing in the first round to the Barry. Saint Leo will look to avenge that loss as they will face the No.1 seeded Buccaneers on Wednesday.
For more on the nationally-ranked women's tennis squad, visit SaintLeoLions.com.


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A city committee has voted in favour of a plan to allocate $3 million to upgrade Winnipeg recreation facilities for the 2017 Canada Summer Games.
This morning, Mayor Sam Katz put forward a motion at council's executive policy committee to approve $3 million in capital spending as part of the city's bid for the 2017 Canada Summer Games.
Bid committee co-chair Hubert Mesman said event will bring together about 4,500 of the country's best amateur athletes, and Winnipeg will have the chance to host up to 20,000 out-of-province visitors. He said it's Manitoba's turn to host the games, but the Games could decide to move it to another province if Winnipeg's bid is unsatisfactory.
A bid proposal has to be submitted by April 6, and the host city will be announced at the end of April.
Katz said Halifax saw $130 million in economic spinoffs after the city hosted the games. He said the plan calls for the city, province and federal government to each contribute $3 million of capital funds to upgrade Winnipeg facilities.
"That's something I'd very much like to see," Katz said.
City council still needs to approve the expenditure.


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Mavi Jeans Serena - Mid Kensington
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This low-rise super skinny stretch jean is narrow throughout the entire leg and tapers at the ankle with a silhouette similar to a legging. The Mid Kensington wash is inspired by the natural fade of denim and includes whiskering at the pockets and knees for that truly worn look.
Button front closure with zipper fly
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We've seen several interesting data center fabric solutions during the Networking Tech Field Day presentations, every time hearing how the new fabric technologies (actually, the shortest path bridging part of those technologies) allow us to shed the yoke of the Spanning Tree monster (see Understanding Switch Fabrics by Brandon Carroll for more details). Not surprisingly we wanted to know more and asked the obvious question: "and how would you connect the switches within the fabric?"
The vendors were quick to assure us that "we can use any topology we want." We also heard the buzzwords like hypercube, Clos, daisy chain and ring, and the promises like "you just plug it in ... it just works!" What they usually forgot to mention was the fact that removing the rigid requirements of spanning tree protocol doesn't magically alleviate the need for proper network design.
Brandon has gracefully allowed me to use a picture from his blog post to illustrate the problem. Imagine you build a network shown in the following diagram. Because you're using a fabric technology (be it TRILL, SPB, FabricPath or something else), no ports are blocked and you should be able to use all the bandwidth in the network ... but that simply won't happen.
You see, the shortest path bridging technologies behave almost exactly like routing, and (like their name indicates) they give you shortest path bridging. All the traffic between A and E will still go over the B-C link because that's the shortest path. The path A-B-D-C-E is longer and won't be used.
The B-D and C-D links would be used if there would be other devices attached to D, but I hope you get my point – shortest path bridging technologies are no better than routing.
Just because the shortest path bridging technologies provide routing-like behavior at MAC layer doesn't mean that you can wire your network haphazardly. Fortunately, you can fall back to the age-old rules of properly designed routed networks ... and guess what: they usually prescribe a hierarchical structure with edge, aggregation and core. Maybe the shiny new world isn't so different from the old one after all.


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A Wharfedale health clinic is celebrating its 20th anniversary.
The business that became Physio Logic Ltd was started by principal Wendy Carswell and began life on The Gills back in March, 1994, before spending several years running from a town house on Carr Bank Bottom.
It was in 2001 that it became a company and the following year the physiotherapy and sports injuries clinic moved into its current premises, on Westgate.
Over its two decades the firm has enjoyed a number of highlights including, in 2009, being awarded Willing Provider status by the NHS.
It went on to trial a successful, nine-month NHS physiotherapy service for Leeds Primary Care Trust for the provision of physiotherapy to Charles Street Surgery in Otley.
The clinic is also a centre for training and provides regular postgraduate courses for physiotherapists, osteopaths and sports therapists.
Wendy said: "I would like to take the opportunity to thank all our patients – we now have 7,000 registered – for supporting us over the last 20 years.
"I would be honoured if they continued to make Physio Logic their healthcare practice."
The business started with Wendy trading on her own as a chartered physiotherapist but has grown into a much bigger venture.
It now employs seven more physiotherapists, two registered osteopaths, a chiropodist, a podiatrist and a doctor qualified in Chinese medicine.


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Epic Floyd at Molly Malone's
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Epic Floyd will be performing Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Wall" at Molly Malone's in Los Angeles.
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Epic Floyd offers an amazing homage to the incredible musicians who defined an entirely new genre of music. The name Pink Floyd will long be remembered along with such visionary marvels as Mozart, Gershwin, and the Beatles for hundreds of years. Their live performances gave fans an experience of a lifetime they'd never forget. Unfortunately, it was an opportunity many fans missed and would never have again.
Epic Floyd has changed that. Once again you can experience performances of the songs you love from Dark Side of the Moon, The Wall, Wish You Were Here and more. This is an opportunity to experience what you may have missed the first time. We know die-hard Pink Floyd fans want to experience their songs as they were originally - not a cover band's interpretation - you want an authentic recreation, and that's what Epic Floyd delivers.
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Abu Garcia Pro Max 2 Low Profile Baitcasting Reel, PMAX2
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Duragear brass gear for extended gear life
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Abu Garcia Pro Max Low Profile Reel
The Pro Max reel from Abu Garcia has been updated for 2012 with a more compact design and smoother feel thanks to advanced technology. The top-of-the-line Abu Garcia Max series reel features 7 smooth bearings plus a corrosion resistant instant anti-reverse bearing. Its graphite side plates and frame create a truly lightweight reel weighing in at a mere 7.9 ounces. The 7.1:1 high speed gear ratio is the fastest in the Max family picking up 31" per turn.
• 7 stainless steel ball bearings + 1 roller bearing provides smooth operation
• Machined double anodized aluminum spool provides strength without adding excess weight
• Power Disk drag system gives smooth drag performance
• Duragear brass gear for extended gear life
• MagTrax brake system gives consistent brake pressure throughout the cast
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Mike & Ally Nursery Luxe Wastebasket + Tissue Box
Start them off young with an adorable hand enameled wastebasket and boutique. Each piece is lovingly embellished with multi colored bunny rabbits, teddy bears and elephants. You"ll have to wean the little ones off the collection. Choice of Winter Sky, Pink, Cream Pearl. Gold or Silver trim.


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Question for the Money Doctors
Question submitted on Jun 7, 2013.
QuestionI have been offered a multi year contract to work in Montreal for a US company. My payment will come from a firm in NYC. Am I entitled to the 92,000 deduction under this arrangement?
Foreign earned income relates to where you work versus where the payment comes from.  IRS Publication 54 is always a good reference tool for US citizens working abroad. The publication discusses special tax rules for U.S. citizens who work abroad or who have income earned in foreign countries, including:
- How to qualify for the foreign earned income exclusion ($97,600 for 2013)
- Foreign housing exclusion and deduction
- Foreign moving expenses
- Foreign tax credit
- Tax treaty benefits
US citizens are taxed on their worldwide income, regardless of where they live or earn their income.
Included in the income tax filing requirement is Form 8938, Statement of Specified Foreign (non-US) Financial Assets. In addition to the income tax, US citizens may be required to file Form TD 90-22.1 if they own a foreign account worth over $10,000 during the tax year.
That being said, please note that the income tax rules applicable to expatriates are very complex and that you would be well served by contacting a CPA/PFS who will be able to help you analyze the tax rules and whether or not you are eligible for treaty benefits. Visit www.findacpapfs.com to find a CPA/PFS near you
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SME is unleashing its breadth and depth of manufacturing content into a powerful, user-friendly, 24-7 online resource. Everything you want to know about manufacturing is available when you want it, where you want it.
NOW AVAILABLE! The former Tool & Manufacturing Engineer's Handbook (TMEH) has been digitized and is now available in a new peer-reviewed and validated WIKI environment.
Local SME chapters help build a member network in your own backyard, meet potential customers, partners and employers, and gain leadership opportunities. Whether you are looking for help with a manufacturing-related problem, searching for a new vendor, building your list of professional contacts, looking for a new job or simply want to learn more about what's going on in your local manufacturing community, your SME chapter can help. Chapter membership is automatic when you join; there are no additional fees.
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SME is unleashing its breadth and depth of manufacturing content into a powerful, user-friendly, 24-7 online resource. Everything you want to know about manufacturing is available when you want it, where you want it.
NOW AVAILABLE! The former Tool & Manufacturing Engineer's Handbook (TMEH) has been digitized and is now available in a new peer-reviewed and validated WIKI environment.
An (*) next to the name of the chapter listing indicates previous year information. For those chapters not showing a chapter chair, please contact SME Customer Care at email@example.com or 800.733.4763.
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The Division focuses on the poorest and most vulnerable developing countries in the world. Specifically, it aims to increase understanding of the development problems of Africa and the Least Developed Countries (LDCs), as well as countries with specific geographical impediments, notably Landlocked Developing Countries (LLDCs) and Small Island Developing States (SIDS).
The Division proposes policies for actions to support inclusive and sustainable development.
Over 90 developing countries fall under the Division's areas of work.
UNCTAD's Secretary-General, just back from a week of meetings in New York, has told the Trade and Development Board that it is vital to focus on "how trade contributes to Post-2015 sustainable development goals".
UNCTAD is organizing a training and capacity-building workshop on Angola's progress towards graduating from the category of the least developed countries (LDCs).
Prospects for African economic growth look bright, the fifty-seventh executive session of UNCTAD's Trade and Development Board has been told.
The Deputy Secretary-General of UNCTAD has discussed intensified cooperation for aid to Africa, with the heads of three Japanese development agencies. The meetings took place on the occasion of the fifth Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD V), which was held in Yokohama from 1 to 3 June.
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GSA's Southeast Sunbelt Region, located in Atlanta, Georgia provides value-added products and services to government customers located in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee. GSA supports clients' missions by offering at best value: superior workplaces, expert acquisition solutions and more.
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GSA is also responsible for the transfer or disposal of government-owned real property and the redistribution, utilization, donation, sale, and abandonment or destruction of government-owned personal property.
In addition, the Southeast Sunbelt Region's Small Business Utilization Center provides counseling, information, and resources to help qualified small businesses learn how to secure federal government contracts.
GSA is a federal procurement and property management agency created to improve government efficiency and help federal agencies better serve the public. Nationwide, GSA's roughly 12,000 employees provide services and solutions for the workplace operations of over one million federal workers located in government-owned and leased buildings in more than 2,000 U.S. communities and overseas locations.
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I'm not here to tell you that Brandon Nimmo, the Mets' top pick who signed last night, will be a star. Maybe he'll be Darryl Strawberry. Maybe he'll be Shawn Abner.
But that's precisely the point. The Mets did exactly what an intelligent team needs to do in the draft, since no draft pick is a sure thing. They collected high-ceiling talent in great numbers, and will let fate sort out their futures.
And that's exactly the opposite of the draft philosophy the team employed for years. The results from the farm system have been evident- the number of stars produced have been- well, no one since David Wright. And that was a draft pick they got for losing Mike Hampton, to give you a sense of how long ago that was.
As Joe DeMayo pointed out, the Mets spent over slot on ten players in the 2011 draft. For comparison, they did so last year on three- once on top pick Matt Harvey, the other two barely over slot. Why does this matter? Because drafting high-ceiling players in the later rounds will mean one of two things- either spending more than you typically would on a lower draft choice to add additional top-level talent to your farm system, or seeing those players return to school, hoping to get drafted higher next year. It's how the Yankees brought in players like Austin Jackson and Joba Chamberlain.
The best example of this came in the fifteenth round, when the Mets signed shortstop Phil Evans for $650,000. Will Evans make it? Who knows- but they added a player with first or second-round talent with a fifteenth-round pick. You can't develop a farm system with high-end guys without drafting high-end guys. You just can't.
So don't go buy Brandon Nimmo or Phil Evans jerseys just yet. But here's Joe's list of major investments, and the incomparable Toby Hyde's comparison of this year's spending to past years. It's both how much they spent, and how they spent it.
We may not realize it until, say, 2014. But Toby has it right: "It is a good day to be a Mets fan."


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SALISBURY, N.C., Feb. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- 1. Know your blood pressure.
Have it checked at least annually. If it is elevated, work with your doctor to keep it under control. High blood pressure (hypertension) is a leading cause of stroke.
You can check your blood pressure at your doctor's office, at health fairs, at home with an automatic blood pressure machine, or at your local pharmacy or supermarket.
If the higher number (your systolic blood pressure) is consistently above 135 or if the lower number (your diastolic blood pressure) is consistently over 85, consult your doctor.
If your doctor confirms that you have high blood pressure, he or she may recommend some combination of changes in your diet, regular exercise, and medication. Medication for blood pressure has been improved. Once you and your doctor find the right medicine for you, it will almost never cause side effects or interfere with your quality of life.
2. Find out if you have atrial fibrillation.
Atrial fibrillation (AF) is an irregular heart beat that changes heart function and allows blood to collect in the chambers of your heart. This blood, which is not moving through your body, tends to clot.
The beating of your heart can move one of these blood clots into your blood stream, and can cause a stroke. Your doctor can diagnose AF by carefully evaluating your pulse. AF can be confirmed or ruled out with a test called an electrocardiogram, which can be done in your doctor's office or at the hospital.
If you have AF, your doctor may choose to lower your risk for stroke by prescribing medicine. Blood thinners such as warfarin or aspirin are the most commonly prescribed treatments.
3. If you smoke, stop.
Smoking doubles the risk for stroke. If you stop smoking today, your risk for stroke will immediately begin to drop. Quitting smoking today can significantly reduce your risk of stroke.
4. If you drink alcohol, do so in moderation.
Studies now show that drinking up to two drinks per day can reduce your risk for stroke by about half. More alcohol than that each day can increase your risk for stroke by as much as three times and also can lead to liver disease, accidents and more. If you drink, it is recommended that you limit yourself to no more than two drinks each day. If you don't drink, don't start.
Remember that alcohol is a drug and can interact with some medications. It's a good idea to ask your doctor or pharmacist if any of the medications you take could interact with alcohol.
5. Find out if you have high cholesterol.
Know your cholesterol number. If your cholesterol is high, you may be at increased risk for stroke. Lowering your cholesterol (if elevated) may reduce your risk for stroke.
High cholesterol can be controlled in many individuals with diet and exercise. Some individuals with elevated cholesterol may require medication.
6. If you are diabetic...
Follow your doctor's recommendations carefully to control your diabetes. Often, diabetes may be controlled through careful attention to what you eat.
Work with your doctor and your dietitian to develop a nutrition program that fits your needs and lifestyle. Your doctor can prescribe lifestyle changes and medicine that can help control your diabetes. Having diabetes puts you at an increased risk for stroke. By controlling your diabetes, you may lower your risk for stroke.
7. Exercise.
Include exercise in the activities you enjoy in your daily routine. A brisk walk for as little as 30 minutes a day can improve your health in many ways, and may reduce your risk for stroke. Try walking with a friend. That makes it more likely that you'll make it a habit.
If you don't enjoy walking, choose another exercise activity that suits your lifestyle, such as riding a bicycle, playing golf, swimming, dancing, playing tennis, or taking an aerobics class. Make time each day to take care of yourself by exercising.
8. Enjoy a lower sodium (salt), lower fat diet.
By cutting down on sodium and fat in your diet, you may be able to lower your blood pressure and, most importantly, lower your risk for stroke.
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How Shawn Atleo and Idle No More will benefit from divisions among the chiefs
I wonder if some national Canadian journalists have ever given a thought to how social movements operate.
Over the past 24 hours, we've been treated to a steady stream of negative commentary about how the First Nations community is "divided" over its dealings with the federal government.
Some have speculated that the national chief of the Assembly of First Nations, Shawn Atleo, could be facing a mutiny because some chiefs refused to attend yesterday's meeting with Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
The doom-and-gloom tone hints that this Idle No More movement might be on the rocks.
The reality is that when people work together to advance change, they will disagree over tactics and strategies.
And this can enhance the likelihood of success. That's because governments are often eager to negotiate with "more reasonable" people over the hotheads.
Smart leaders in social movements—and I include Atleo in this camp—will take advantage of this to gain concessions.
Mohandas Gandhi wouldn't have been as successful in the Quit India movement had it not been for violent freedom fighters like Bhagat Singh and Subhjas Chandra Bose.
The British knew that followers of Singh and Bose were willing to engage in armed struggle, so it was easier to deal with Gandhi and the Congress Party.
Similarly during the U.S. civil-rights movement, the existence of Malcolm X and the Black Panthers made the demands of Martin Luther King Jr. look reasonable in comparison. That enhanced King's standing in the eyes of the public and the mainstream politicians.
If there are divisions within the First Nations community, this could prove very useful to Atleo.
It's already gotten him and other chiefs a long meeting with the prime minister. And it's put aboriginal issues at the top of the national political and media agenda for the first time since the Oka crisis.
Social movements—and I include the more recent struggle for LGBT rights in this—are multsegmented entities swimming in a similar direction. They are often characterized by differences within.
These divisions can be beneficial if channelled properly. It's time that the national media recognized that there is enormous strength in diversity.
Atleo's position has been enhanced by the fact that some chiefs wouldn't meet with Harper.
He's going to be seen by the media, the public, and the government as the "good chief", just as Gandhi was the "reasonable" Indian leader and King was the "reasonable" African American leader.
Harper is smart enough to know that if he doesn't deal with Atleo, he'll likely face much bigger challenges from the Idle No More movement.
First Nations are making progress. It's going to be a bumpy ride, but that's always the case when people are bringing about major changes in any society.
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Ralph 'cleesemeek' Fulber
Jan 12, 2013 at 12:45pm
Harper doesn't represent all of Canada. No leader can. The difference between Atleo and Harper is that Harper rules as a bully for his camp while Atleo has a different function. The AFN is an advocacy group of extremely diverse interests and there is an obligation to fascilitate the expression and interests of all. It is not in our best interst to homogenize the political process but rather to encourage diversity, support dissent and bring as many people into the fold as the bus will hold.
West Van Guy
Jan 12, 2013 at 1:39pm
I'm going to propose something to all blood Indians in Canada. Since the Indian internal governments and councils rob rest of the Indians of millions/billions of dollars and continually fuel the 'they are killing our culture and rights' BS (just look at how the East Indians from India and Chinese come to these lands, become Canadian and also hold their beliefs and cultures close for the most part. It is not impossible and is possible without being given billions of dollars) we do things differently for generations coming and to maybe help all Canadians and Canada. Here it is – every true blood Indian is given a onetime payment for everything and anything of $1,000,000.00 and they agree to step away from the Indian Act, the special rights and become Canadian citizens (look at what the tsawwassen band signed in BC, very similar). All reserve lands are now free titled and divided equally amongst the living members to do as they wish individually as well as a community if they choose. Each person would be given basic financial planning and management training before the funds would be released so they would have the best chance at making the most of it. This would bridge the gap between all Canadians, Indians would have their culture and beliefs and be able to move forward with their lives free of the suppressive nature of the Indian Act and their own corrupt leaders/councils (for the ones that live on such reserves). I hope to one day live in a united Canada where we all are happy, prosperous and on the same page as much as possible with no outrageous land claims, protests or acts of terrorism under the laws all Canadians have to abide by. Change is needed on all sides though, here's to an interesting 2013 I'm sure.
Stephanie McDowall
Jan 12, 2013 at 2:05pm
Atleo and all Native Bands need to keep in mind there is much interest on the part of this Government in dividing the First Nation's people. There is also a wish to instill negative views about First Nations amongst main stream Canadians. This Government does not wish to fairly share the resources that First Nations are entitled to. They want to ensure the Corporations reap the benefits and wealth from these resources. ...not Natives or the Canadian tax payers either. Bands mired in poverty has been deliberately caused as an attempt to drive the people off their land and into the cities where they are almost always discriminated against. Poor nutrition, poor health care, poor education will ensure those remaining on their lands will succumb to a form of "soft genocide" Don't believe for one moment Government policies have not been made with this in mind. It is time to call a spade a spade. Soft genocide is the name of the game. How can anyone with a grain of intelligence not recognize this......and it has been going on for the past century. Admit this and advocate to change things so that First Nations finally receive what they are entitled to. A fair and equitable agreement as to resources needs to be put in place.
Matters will soon change on Reserve land. The Provinces must come last re what they have been taking and what they now believe is their fair share and their right.
CANADA MUST LIVE UP TO THEIR TREATY AGREEMENTS. This has never been done.
Jan 12, 2013 at 5:13pm
Gee, look at all the comments that Charlie deleted.
No, wait. You can't look at deleted comments.
Oh well. Free speech is fleeting.
Martin Dunphy
Jan 12, 2013 at 5:49pm
Charlie didn't delete any comments. I did. Yours was, unfortunately, deleted because it was in response to a comment that had nothing to do with the article, was mistakenly posted, then removed.
Free speech had nothing to do with it; relevance did.
My apologies.
A guy on the rez
Jan 12, 2013 at 6:12pm
If there is no significant change in one year.....I`m going leave my homeland forever and never look back. Leave the land my people have lived on for thousands of years. I don`t want to live in a country where my people and I are living in poverty and oppressed. I cannot stand what has been happening to my people...yet there is nothing I can do. I will just leave everything I`ve known and leave this horrible country.....and never come back.
Jan 12, 2013 at 6:17pm
Maybe atleo has been bought out by the govt and his stance isn't quite inline with many other people. And perhaps because his stance is more inline with the govt, is why he is allowed so close to them. Ask him his stance on copper mining and fish farming in clayoquot sound?!
Jan 12, 2013 at 7:14pm
But INM is a peace movement, and that is still the essence. Obviously its just a political move to divide; it's using AFN who are just homeboys, to moreover usurp the real drive of native people and that's their voice. In other words its a false peace!
Jon S
Jan 12, 2013 at 7:16pm
And if the "reasonable Indian" publicly gloats that so much has been accomplished because Harper agreed to "high level discussions" (whatever that means) and proceeds to sell out First Nations in exchange for empty platitudes (and a future with the Conservatives), what then? Atleo is certainly no Gandhi or Martin Luther King.
Vancouver island boy
Jan 13, 2013 at 12:05am
United we stand divided we fall. Would the government rather have our people united or divided? Lets not forget the big picture!


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Barnet started strongly and went ahead inside ten minutes when a clever kick by scrum-half Ed Maclennan found left winger Glyn Bayley, who raced in for a try. Jonny Hart converted the extras.
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As the Dow hit 14,000, billionaires dumped U.S. stocks in droves, and insiders were bailing out at record numbers. What gives?
Just last Thursday, Feb. 21, Bloomberg reported that corporate executives were taking advantage of high stock prices by selling shares of their companies.
From the Bloomberg story, "Insider sales reach 2-year high as S&P 500 nears record":
The ratio of sales versus purchases by chief executives, directors and senior officers at (Standard & Poor's) 500 companies is more than twice the average ratio of 5.4 over the past 10 years, according to data compiled by Bloomberg and Pavilion. In the months after the ratio was last at this level, the benchmark index retreated as much as 19 percent from April to October of 2011.
Is there something they know?
It may not bolster confidence in their companies when insiders are selling stocks faster than McDonald's sells cheeseburgers, but the simplest explanations are often the right ones.
"Sometimes a lock-up period has expired -- as happened with Facebook stock last year -- that leads to increased selling," says CFP professional Peter Donohoe, a wealth management specialist with PRW Wealth Management in Quincy, Mass.
Most of the time, insiders have no special line on what's going to happen in the economy or in the stock market.
"They react to fear and greed and are just as uncertain as to what is going to happen in the future," says Scott Wren, senior equity strategist with Wells Fargo Advisors.
"Most of it is, 'Gee, the stock market has moved up a lot, our stock has moved up a lot. I want to lock in some gains here,'" he says. "If you have a lot of stock options and can take a meaningful amount off the table and have a lot left, there's no reason to not take some profits and declare victory -- on that portion at least."
With the S&P 500 up about 6 percent year-to-date, many people do think there may be a short-term correction coming in the first half of the year -- including Donohoe.
"While I feel a correction is possible in the first or second quarter, for a longer-term time horizon, I am cautiously optimistic about the prospects for the equity markets," he says.
That's good because retail investors have been warming up to stock mutual funds since the beginning of the year, according to the Investment Company Institute, the trade association for the mutual fund industry. Domestic equity funds posted positive inflows in January and through the first two weeks of February, the latest data reported. They were negative every month in 2012.
With the U.S. budget issues and slowing gross domestic product around the globe, there are already a lot of mixed messages regarding the stock market that may spook individual investors. How and when insiders sell is ultimately more noise than most people need.
"It might be something to maybe keep in the back of my head, but it's not anything I would use when I'm trying to come up with a strategy and talk to our portfolio managers," Wren says.
"Some individuals might look at it as one more reason for them to be panicked and add it to the list of reasons they shouldn't own stocks -- retail investors are really good at that," he says.
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Well, sort of.
To keep you guys busy until 7 p.m., here's a Taylor Hall video his equipment company sent out.
Good to see everybody's favorite Uncle stopped by for a wrap-up in the last thread. Maybe I'll repost it in this thread for those just joining us.
I don't exactly know how to go about posting tonight, since I'm pretty sure everybody who cares will be watching it unfold on TV. Maybe I'll put up all the picks up to No. 10 for those not near a TV. After No. 10 I have to write something for the paper. So I'll pretty much give you the pick and let you discuss … as you are wont do to.
Have fun.
(sorry this is late, got caught up in some work stuff).
1. Edmonton, Taylor Hall.
2. Boston, Taylor Seguin.
3. Florida, Erik Gudbranson.
4. Columbus, Ryan Johansen.
5. Islanders, Nino Niederreiter.
6. Tampa Bay, Brett Connolly.
7. Carolina, Jeff Skinner.
8. Atlanta, Alexander Burmistrov.
The Rangers are going to get a pretty highly-ranked player here. Right?
9. Minnes0ta, Mikael Grandlund.
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What do you folks think/feel about the idea of having a "Theme of the Week" cookout. We could consolidate all the themed cookouts in one thread for all who wish to participate. Then we get to see and appreciate everyone's take on a particular cook. By no means am I implying a competition throwdown... more like in the spirit of an art show. So for example, we could have weeks of burgers or dogs or ribs or wings, or pizza, etc., etc., or even go by national/cultural categories like Italian, Mexican, Hawaiian, Asian, whatever. I see that we need to generate enough interest and participation. And perhaps the Mods would like to declare the themes? Let's all talk about this.
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Donovan to coach U.S. 19-under team
Published: Thursday, February 7, 2013 at 6:28 p.m.
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Florida coach Billy Donovan was named to coach the USA Basketball Men's 19-under team on Thursday for the FIBA 2013 World Championships.
The World Championships will take place June 17-July 7 in the Czech Republic. Last year, Donovan coached Team USA to a gold medal in the FIBA Americas 18-under world championships.
For the second straight year, VCU head coach Shaka Smart and Gonzaga head coach Mark Few will serve as Donovan's assistants.
"Anytime your country asks you to be a part of representing them, that's a pretty big undertaking," Donovan said. "I'm excited about it and looking forward to it when it comes."
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Curious as to what shopping carts are available for print shops.
Prefer a cart that is open source "free or paid" and is owned not leased.
Some websites:uprinting "dot"comvistaprint "dot"com
online design editor is not as important as the qty, shipping etc the way it is outlined. Of course a design editor would be great to have.
Are there solutions out there already or would a custom shopping cart need to be developed?
The first store uses Amazon S3 service for images. Do you need this feature as well?
We are aware that this site is most likely custom coded.
Just curious if there are any shopping carts out there for printers that are no serviced as SAAS.
What cart functionality is actually needed to sell these sort of printed products? If you don't need a design editor is it not just a normal cart with products where the customer can select various product options, quantity, finish etc and then be able to upload their own artwork? Would a "standard" cart not be able to handle this?
Yes, however they all act like product pages
instead of something like:http://www.printrunner.com/business-cards.aspx
Is the second one not the same as the first but with more options? Or do you mean that it updates the price based on the selections?
Any luck with this? As we're looking for something similar.
We have found some software however most are SAAS, there were very few that you can buy upfront and the ones that do are in the range of $2-$10k
What software products you found? We can discuss it here, and help you to decide what is the best solution.
Note that some products offer several editions: SaaS and self-hosted solution.
This is a great thread. I was wondering the same thing. Is there a good non SAAS CMS out there that can be used to run a print shop online? One that has the real-time Ajax-esque product variations configuration abilities.
Nothing exists for less than $3k, get one custom developed is the best way to go as the ones you can buy outright are horrible
Just out of curiosity, what solutions did you look at, zactive? I can tell that the Avactis solution isn't suitable for my needs but was wondering what other solutions you checked out.
We're also looking for an affordable solution to run our online printing business. Yes, I know I can probably get a custom solution developed but I just don't really want to deal with all the hassle, wasted time, communicating to-and-fro with programmers who may not have a clear idea of what we want and no guarantees that the final solution actually meets our needs.
I'm not that bothered about it being SAAS or buying outright... as long as the cost is competitive. Of course, I'm not looking to get tied to any SAAS services that charge an arm and a leg
I have been trying to locate an online photo printing service for years now. It seems the industry doesn't get it. Most online photo printing services require you to upload your photos to their gallery. In my case I have my own website and I would like for the photo printing orders to be programmatically submitted to the printing service. I ran into ezprints.com but they have a $50K monthly quota to use their API and not a good fit for a small biz like mine. There is an upcoming service called Peecho.com based out of Amsterdam, but they do not offer single photo prints yet. They say they are working out the logistics. Otherwise, their "PRINT BUTTON" seems very interesting and can be added to any website. I do hope they can offer old school photo prints soon.


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Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Single (Participant)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
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|Effects of a Low Glycemic Index Diet on HbA1c and Lipids in Patients With Type I Diabetes
- HbA1c [ Time Frame: 3 months ]
- LDL-cholesterol [ Time Frame: 3 months ]
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|June 2007
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|December 2009
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|August 2009 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
Other: Low GI food
The glycemic index (GI) was introduced by Jenkins and co-workers in the early 1980s, and is a concept for ranking of carbohydrate foods based on their effect on postprandial glycaemia. A meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials of the effect of low GI diets in the management of diabetes showed a beneficial effect (i.e., a reduction in HbA1c) of low GI versus high GI foods. However, several critical points concerning the GI concept remain, for instance, how to apply it in practical every day life, how to calculate GI in mixed meals, how to find relevant low GI foods, how to ensure compliance to a low GI diet. The most important issue, however, is the fact that studies on the long-term effects of a low GI diet in type 1 diabetes are lacking. In this study, the critical issue of finding palatable low GI foods will be solved in close collaboration with the food industry. This may lead to the development of new commercial products with low GI, which is necessary if low GI diets are to be advocated for diabetics in the future.
Comparison(s): A low glycemic index diet, compared to a medium/normal glycemic index diet.
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- Type I diabetes, durability >5 years
- Age 20-65 years
- Normal weight (BMI 19-26 kg/m2)
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- HbA1c ≤10 %
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- Diabetic complications; neuropathy, foot ulcers and/or gastroparesis.
- A known food intolerance of gluten, leguminous plants, nuts or almonds.
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The purpose of this article is to discuss load balancing and how to implement and configure the technology in the Amazon Web Services™ (AWS) Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Beta environment. We will examine the purpose of load balancing and some of the features that it provides, and we will take a closer look at two practical examples of load balancing: DNS round robin and HA Proxy.
About Load BalancingThe purpose of this article is to discuss how load balancing can work in the context of Amazon EC2. Although many applications and technologies can be implemented in the Amazon EC2 environment, we will take a closer look at two of the most requested implementions: round robin DNS and HA Proxy. We will also discuss some of the other options that can be used in the proposed environment.
Before we delve further into how to implement and configure load balancing, let us take a quick look at what exactly load balancing is and what it accomplishes.
In the purest sense, load balancing is any technique that distributes a load among multiple entities such as CPUs, disk drives, servers, or any type of device. The goal of load balancing is primarily to obtain much greater utilization of available resources than can be obtained from a group of standalone objects (such as servers). In practice, load balancing can be provided through the use of hardware or software.
Hardware Load Balancing
Load balancing can be provided through specialized devices, such as a multilayer switch that can route packets within a cluster. Typically, implementing, configuring, and maintaining hardware-based solutions require costly investments in time and capital. Hardware load balancing is generally considered impractical for hosted environments and is mentioned here only in the interest of completeness.
Software Load Balancing
Software load balancing is provided in one of two ways: as a part of an operating system or as an add-on application. Load balancing that is implemented as a software-based solution can often offer ease of deployment and maintenance as well as performance similar to that of hardware-based solutions. Some common implementations of software-based load balancing include those bundled as part of Microsoft Windows or Linux, and add-ons such as HA Proxy, which is discussed later in this article.
In this article, we will discuss only the software-based aspect of load balancing.
Why Implement Load Balancing?
Load balancing offers many benefits to the hosted application. When considering a load-balancing solution and its suitability for your situation, consider the following benefits:
- Asymmetric load balancing. You can use this technique to disproportionately distribute loads across servers, generally to allocate different loads to servers with differing amounts of resources (e.g., CPU, memory).
- Priority activation. Priority activation occurs when a predefined number of available servers drops below a given threshold. Typically, this threshold is determined by load or the availability of servers to pick up increased load. In this scenario, you can allocate additional standby servers to handle a given need.
- SSL acceleration and distribution. Applications that make heavy use of Secure Socket Layer (SSL) can offload SSL-associated loads to servers that are better suited to handling an increased load. The offloading of SSL to different servers can increase overall performance of the group.
- TCP buffering. The load balancer can buffer responses from the server and spoon-feed the data to slow clients, allowing the server to move on to other tasks.
- Content filtering. Some load-balancing packages can modify traffic as it passes through the package.
- HTTP security. Some load-balancing packages can sanitize traffic and can employ other measures to obscure the clients behind them.
- Priority queuing. This feature provides the ability to prioritize traffic, based on need.
- Content-aware switching. You can use this advanced feature to direct traffic to a specific server, based on the URL being requested.
- Firewall. For security reasons, direct connections to backend servers are prevented.
Note: Some of these features and benefits are specific to certain technologies or applications.
Selecting a Service to Host with Load Balancing
Although several services can be hosted in a load-balanced environment, not all may benefit from the configuration. The following points should be considered when assessing services to be hosted with load balancing:
- Load balancing should not be viewed as a replacement for fault-tolerant architectures. When load balancing is implemented, a server that fails will remain offline and, in the event of round robin DNS, will still be sent requests.
- Applications that require a persistent connection to a specific database or backend server are generally incompatible by default. In certain situations, you might be able to put persistent connections in place outside of load balancing, but this option should be considered prior to implementing load balancing.
- Additional connections to a server cannot be guaranteed without additional work outside of load balancing.
Round Robin DNS
Using a technique known as round robin, you can perform a basic form of load balancing. Let's take a closer look at this technique and how to use it.
Round robin functions simply by providing a list of IP addresses instead of providing the traditional single IP used in standard DNS implementations. The server responds to requests by providing the first IP address on the list to the first requestor, the second IP address to the next requestor, and so on until the last IP is handed out. The server then repeats the process from the beginning. In this setup, each server to which traffic is redirected presumably has the same content (i.e., hosts the same website).
Round robin is ideally suited for setups in which servers are located in geographically diverse areas or in which content is located in multiple data centers, servers, or availability zones.
DNS deployed in this configuration offers several advantages and disadvantages:
- Pros
- Relatively simple configuration
- Effective distribution of traffic among multiple servers
- Cons
- No mechanism to deal with unavailable servers
- No means of ensuring that subsequent requests will be fulfilled by the same server
- Each server will require public IP addresses
Configuring Round Robin
The process for configuring round robin is fairly simple, and the steps are generally the same for each DNS server.
In the following example, we assume that several web servers host an organization's website. For this scenario, we don't care where the servers are located; we just want to ensure that each can respond to requests as necessary.
To configure the setup, we will add multiple A records that collectively have the same name but that each have a different IP address. The following is a snippet of the zone file:
www IN A 192.168.0.1 www IN A 192.168.0.2 www IN A 192.168.0.3 www IN A 192.168.0.7 www IN A 192.168.0.8
Alternatively, you could use the following format, which will yield the same result:
www IN A 192.168.0.1 IN A 192.168.0.2 IN A 192.168.0.3 IN A 192.168.0.4 IN A 192.168.0.5 IN A 192.168.0.6
In both scenarios, the web server will respond to requests by handing out the next IP address in the list to the requesting client.
Managing the Order of Round Robin Requests
By default, DNS does not offer any control over how responses are serviced. Specifically, DNS does not control the order in which it returns IP addresses. However in some implementations of BIND DNS, you can set the order of the responses to be returned, based on settings that you can define through the rrset-order option.
In the Amazon EC2 environment, you can more effectively manage the order or round robin requests through the use of Elastic IPs. By using Elastic IPs, you can remap the IP address from a failed instance to another working instance. You have two avenues to complete this task: programmatically or by directly altering the DNS entries on the server. Both methods are presented here.
Note:A full discussion of Elastic IPs is outside the scope of this document. For more informatin about the Elastic IP feature, please refer to this guide.
Using HA Proxy with Amazon EC2
HA Proxy is another technology that you can use with load balancing. HA Proxy is a software solution designed to provide proxying for both TCP- and HTTP-based applications. In the following example, you will install HA Proxy into the Amazon EC2 environment and perform some initial configuration to get the solution running.
The first step to implementing HA Proxy on Amazon EC2 is to customize an Amazon Machine Image (AMI). In
this article, we will use ami-6a57b203, the most recent version (as of this writing) of Eric Hammond's
Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron images, listed at alestic.com. To launch this AMI, open a
command-line window. Set up a command-line environment by using the EC2_PRIVATE_KEY
and EC2_CERT environment variables, then issue the command
ami-6a57b203 -k my-keypair, where
my-keypair is
the name of the keypair you were issued to log in remotely to public Amazon EC2 AMIs.
pjcabrera@dopey:~ $ export EC2_PRIVATE_KEY=~/.ec2/pk-my_aws_credentials.pem pjcabrera@dopey:~ $ export EC2_CERT=~/.ec2/cert-my_aws_credentials.pem pjcabrera@dopey:~ $ ec2-run-instances ami-6a57b203 -k my-keypair RESERVATION r-8913dee0 my_aws_userid default INSTANCE i-57b8693e ami-6a57b203 ec2-72-44-48-213.compute-1.amazonaws.com domU-12-31-39-00-A5-E8.compute-1.internal pending my-keypair 0 m1.small 2008-06-28T19:17:30+0000
A couple of minutes after the
ec2-run-instances command finishes,
issue the
ec2-describe-instances command to find out whether the instance has
finished booting.
pjcabrera@dopey:~ $ ec2-describe-instances RESERVATION r-8913dee0 my_aws_userid default INSTANCE i-57b8693e ami-6a57b203 ec2-72-44-48-213.compute-1.amazonaws.com domU-12-31-39-00-A5-E8.compute-1.internal running my-keypair 0 m1.small 2008-06-28T19:17:30+0000
Note: If you prefer GUIs over command-line tools, you can use the fantastic Firefox extension Elasticfox to launch and manage your instances.
Once the AMI instance is running, log in and start installing HA Proxy. Modify the following command with the path to your Amazon EC2 keypair and the domain name of your running instance:
pjcabrera@dopey:~ $ ssh -i ~/.ec2/id_rsa-my-keypair firstname.lastname@example.com
Install the Screen package first because it lets you reconnect to your command-line session on the instance, even if the connection is interrupted. This package isn't installed in Ubuntu by default.
root@domU-12-31-39-00-A5-E8:~# apt-get install screen root@domU-12-31-39-00-A5-E8:~# screen
Next, upgrade Ubuntu to the most recent packages.
root@domU-12-31-39-00-A5-E8:~# apt-get update && apt-get upgrade
Now you are ready to install HA Proxy. The most recent version (as of this writing) for Ubuntu Hardy is 1.3.12.
root@domU-12-31-39-00-A5-E8:~# apt-get -y install haproxy
We like to set up HA Proxy to use syslog to log to /var/log/haproxy.log.
root@domU-12-31-39-00-A5-E8:~# sed -i 's/SYSLOGD=\"\"/SYSLOGD=\"-r\"/g' /etc/default/syslogd root@domU-12-31-39-00-A5-E8:~# echo 'local0.* /var/log/haproxy.log' >> /etc/syslog.conf && /etc/init.d/sysklogd restart
Note: If you choose not to use this command, HA Proxy will send its messages to /var/log/messages.
In Ubuntu, HA Proxy does not start up automatically by default, so you need to change that rule.
root@domU-12-31-39-00-A5-E8:~# sed -i 's/ENABLED=0/ENABLED=1/g' /etc/default/haproxy
And now, you can start HA Proxy for the first time.
root@domU-12-31-39-00-A5-E8:~# /etc/init.d/haproxy start
Finally, you install the Heartbeat package, which lets you monitor how the system is running. This package lets you set up rules to restart Apache services if they stop responding to monitoring or if resource use is too high (to manage memory or file handle leaks, for example.)
root@domU-12-31-39-00-A5-E8:~# apt-get -y install heartbeat-2
Now that you have installed HA Proxy and Heartbeat, you can create your own AMI. Doing so will let you launch instances with HA Proxy already installed and waiting for the specific configuration for your application or solution.
First, you need to upload your Amazon EC2 private key and certificate to your current running instance so that you can sign your AMI bundle, or Amazon EC2 won't be able to decrypt your AMI. Run the following command from your workstation, changing the filenames as appropriate for your Amazon EC2 private key and certificate and the domain name of your running instance:
pjcabrera@dopey:~ $ scp -i ~/.ec2/id_rsa-my-keypair ~/.ec2/pk-my_aws_credentials.pem \ ~/.ec2/cert-my_aws_credentials.pem firstname.lastname@example.com:/mnt/
Make sure that you upload these files to the /mnt directory. Later, when you create your AMI bundle, you will tell the AMI tools to ignore this folder, thus keeping your private key and certificate private.
Returning to the running Amazon EC2 instance, issue the following
command to begin creating your tailored AMI. Replace the
-c, and
-u parameters
with your Amazon EC2 private key file, certificate file, and AWS user ID, respectively.
root@domU-12-31-39-00-A5-E8:~# ec2-bundle-vol -d /mnt -k /mnt/pk-my_aws_credentials.pem \ -c /mnt/cert-my_aws_credentials.pem -u my_aws_userid -r i386 -p haproxy
Once the AMI bundle gets created, we can upload it to Amazon S3 for storage. Replace the -b, -a, and -s parameters with your S3 bucket name, your AWS access key and AWS secret key, respectively.
root@domU-12-31-39-00-A5-E8:~# ec2-upload-bundle -b my_s3_bucket -m /mnt/haproxy.manifest.xml \ -a my_aws_access_key_id -s my_aws_secret_access_key
When you upload your bundle, you can disconnect from your running instance and terminate it.
root@domU-12-31-39-00-A5-E8:~# logout pjcabrera@dopey:~ $ ec2-terminate-instances i-57b8693e pjcabrera@dopey:~ $ ec2-register my_s3_bucket/haproxy.manifest.xml IMAGE ami-02bf5b6b
This AMI is the identifier of the image that you created with HA Proxy preinstalled. Feel free to use it in your HA Proxy projects.
To continue setup, launch two instances of your AMI, logging in and configuring HA Proxy.
pjcabrera@dopey:~ $ ec2-run-instances ami-02bf5b6b -k my-keypair -n 2 RESERVATION r-8913dee1 my_aws_userid default INSTANCE i-57b8693f ami-02bf5b6b ec2-72-44-48-215.compute-1.amazonaws.com domU-12-31-39-00-A5-E9.compute-1.internal running my-keypair 0 m1.small 2008-06-29T21:47:40+0000 RESERVATION r-8913dee2 my_aws_userid default INSTANCE i-57b86940 ami-02bf5b6b ec2-72-44-48-216.compute-1.amazonaws.com domU-12-31-39-00-A5-EA.compute-1.internal running my-keypair 0 m1.small 2008-06-29T21:47:51+0000
Now you can log in. Open a different command-line window for each of the following ssh logins:
pjcabrera@dopey:~ $ ssh -i ~/.ec2/id_rsa-my-keypair email@example.com pjcabrera@dopey:~ $ ssh -i ~/.ec2/id_rsa-my-keypair email@example.com
Configuring HA Proxy
In Ubuntu, HA Proxy comes with sample configuration files. These files will need to be configured to conform to the particular goals of your specific project or plan. The configuration files are located at /etc/haproxy.cfg and in folder /etc/ha.d/. To get a full listing of the options that are available in each of these files, consult the HA Proxy documentation at the main HA Proxy site.
In this article, we discussed the concept of load balancing as well as some services that are well suited to being implemented in this environment. Additionally, we explored the pros and cons of some of the more commonly requested applications that can be implemented with load balancing. Finally, we explored how to implement round robin DNS and HA Proxy in Amazon EC2, using load balancing techniques.
Learning More About AWS
This article highlights a few aspects of working with AWS. Here are a few more resources available to help you learn more.
- Amazon Web Services™
- Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Beta
- Elastic IP Addressing Feature Guide
- alestic.com, a web site listing Debian and Ubuntu AMIs for Amazon EC2
- HA Proxy
About the Authors
PJ Cabrera is a freelance software developer specializing in Ruby on Rails e-commerce and content management systems development. PJ's interests include Ruby on Rails and open-source scripting languages and frameworks, agile development practices, mesh networks, compute clouds, XML parsing and processing technologies, microformats for more semantic web content, and research into innovative uses of Bayesian filtering and symbolic processing for improved information retrieval, question answering, text categorization, and extraction. You can read his weblog at pjtrix.com/blawg/.
Sean-Philip Oriyano has been actively working in the IT field since 1990. Throughout his career, he has held positions such as support specialist to consultants and senior instructor. Currently, he is an IT instructor who specializes in infrastructure and security topics for various public and private entities. Sean has instructed for the U.S. Air Force, U.S. Navy, and U.S. Army at locations in North America and internationally. Sean is certified as a CISSP, CHFI, CEH, CEI, CNDA, SCNP, SCPI, MCT, and MCITP. He is also a member of EC-Council, ISSA, Elearning Guild, and FBI Infragard.


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D2 Johnny Nobles Awarded 2014 ADEAGies Foundation/AADR Fellowship
D2 Johnny Nobles has been awarded a 2014 ADEAGies Foundation/AADR Academic Dental Careers Fellowship Program (ADCFP).
The fellowship components include two online sessions (Webinars), biweekly collaboration meetings between Fellow and Mentor, eight faculty/administrator interviews, three teaching practicums, two career reflection essays, a research practicum, and ADCFP portfolio, and a poster presentation at the 2015 ADEA Annual Session.
"It's designed to encourage dental students to consider academia" says Nobles. "The research component focuses on oral health in the Chinese community," noting that he will be working collaboration with his faculty mentor, Dr. Maria Orellana, Associate Clinical Professor, Director of the undergraduate Orthodontic Program, and clinic director of the Orthodontic Clinic.
Adds Nobles: "I'm considering academia for sure, as well areas of dentistry concerned with public health and serving dentally underserved communities."
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Vote! Is Jesse James Mean Betty's Idiot of the Week?
Or will Natalie Portman – or perhaps Miss KStew – don the crown?
-Mean Betty
Goodness gracious, it's that time again already? Mean Betty does not know where the hours go; it seems like only yesterday that she was taking advantage of a lovely little thing called Taco Tuesday, where strawberry margaritas are half off (not unlike Mean B's top by the end of a few rounds…just kidding, pets!).
But since it is in fact Friday, Mean Betty needs your help deciding which contender should be dubbed Idiot of the Week.
First up, Jesse James! The burly West Coast Choppers CEO has been on Mean Betty's shiz-list for months and months, but his latest faux pas is the stinker of ALL stinkers.
Jesse recently 'popped the question' to skanky girlfriend Kat Von D, and then fired off this marvelous message to People:
"You know sometimes the public and press gets it wrong. This is one of those times. 2010 was actually the best year of my life because I fell in love with my best friend. An amazing woman who stood behind me when the world turned their backs. I have never met anyone so kind and loving and committed to making the world a better place every day. My love for her is beyond description. So honored that she said 'yes.' Growing old with her is going to be a f—-n' blast!"
Well isn't that simply dandy. He had the best year of his life! Except, what ever happened to that bit about him begging for Sandra Bullock to take him back? Suddenly 2010 was a barrel of monkeys, free of heartbreak and custody disputes?
Read Mean Betty on Jesse James and Kat Von D's Mushy Love Tweets
And did he give any thought as to how Sandy was going to take this? What a swine. Mean Betty has one word for Jesse's declaration: TACKY.
Option 2: Natalie Portman's Disdain for Romantic Comedies (While She is Promoting One) …


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York County company owner bilked investors to the tune of $400,000
A former Glen Rock man living in Utah will go to jail for more than three years and pay more than $400,000 in restitution for bilking investors in a business he ran out of his York County home.
Christopher A. Engel, 34, ran Pinnacle Forex Group LLC, a home-based currency trading firm, and took in $411,500 from 21 investors intended to be invested in the Foreign Exchange Market (Forex). He had moved from the area and was living in Washington, Utah, at the time of his arrest.
U.S. Attorney Peter Smith said the company advertised itself as a "full scale currency investment firm," but Engel invested only about $137,000 of the money he collected. He later withdrew those funds for personal expenses — just like the remaining funds — Smith said in a news release.
He started the company in 2010 and took the investments in question between June 2011 and October 2012, Smith said.
U.S. Judge Yvette Kane of the Middle District of Pennsylvania sentenced Engel to 38 months in jail and ordered him to pay $405,500 in restitution.


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PATTON VILLAGE, Texas - The embattled mayor of a Montgomery County town faced more legal troubles as the Texas Attorney General's Office filed suit to have Pamela Munoz removed from office.
According to the civil suit filed in Montgomery County, Munoz is a convicted felon and, according to Texas law, cannot hold public office. Harris County court records show Munoz pleaded guilty to third-degree felony theft charges in 1979.
According to officials with the Montgomery County District Attorney's Office, Munoz did not disclose her criminal record when she filed her state required election application. This is the latest legal battle facing Munoz, who is awaiting trial on a slough of felony charges.
Texas Rangers raided Patton Village City Hall and the police department in October 2011, carting away dozens of records. In February 2012, Munoz was indicted by a grand jury on charges stemming from the use of city funds for personal services at her home and taking out loans while using police vehicles as collateral.
In all, Munoz is facing trial on 10 felony charges, including theft by a public servant, abuse of official capacity and tampering with a governmental record. Officials with the District Attorney's Office said this last charge is related to Munoz not disclosing her prior criminal conviction on the state required election application.
Munoz's attorney, Janeri Rivero, declined to comment about the case.
Munoz is scheduled for trial on April 22.
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Jared08 wrote:On another note, I read that this steel is rather flexible, which i dont really care for. Is there a comparable steel in edge retention and ability to take a screaming sharp edge being more stiff?
Jared08 wrote:By: HansShelburne,VT[i]One of my largest gyutos,this is also one of my lightest. I was impressed by the factory edge,which was set at a very steep bevel,and the significantly flexibility in the blade. For such a hard blade,the flexibility in this knife is impressive. It's very attractive,although the black residue from forging does come off when you clean it a bit. The fit and finish is not great,which is why I only rated it four stars. There's a significant amount of glue where the tang meets the handle,and some irregularities in the shape of the blade. However,it is fast,cool looking,and uses a great steel. I would recommend the smaller size to most people,however.this was the first review on the takeda 270mm gyuto. http://www.chefknivestogo.com/tagyas27.htmlIve also read elsewhere there is a certain flexibility to it but cant recall where exactly. Not as big of a factor as im assuming it to be?
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It's been over 30 years since new record pressing equipment was installed anywhere in the United States. That changed with the opening of Third Man Records in Detroit, Michigan. Started by Jack White, Third Man records, presses, and creates merch for artists on the label — all in-house. Adam Savage visited Third Man in Detroit, recorded a song, and watched the entire process from recording to record pressing.
Visual effects artist Captain Disillusion, who's famous for debunking fake viral videos, explains the tricks behind popular trick shot videos on YouTube. Watch the raw footage of Captain Disillusion's cup trick shot, below.
This is Eagle Prime, America's entrant into the Giant Robot Duel, in its first-ever live-fire combat trial. Eagle Prime is the first MK3-class MegaBot from MegaBots, Inc. It weighs in at 12 tons, stands 16 feet tall, seats two, is powered by a 430 horsepower V8 LS3 engine, and costs a cool $2.5M. Cupholders come standard. Eagle Prime will be representing Team USA in the upcoming Giant Robot Duel against Suidobashi Heavy Industries.
Being a composer for a television show is tough. But scoring the oddball, alien-themed cartoon series that is "Rick and Morty"? WAY more challenging. Luckily, the creative team has Ryan Elder and his out-of-this world tunes to help give the show its intergalactic quirk. From an alien bondage dream sequence, to an alien band annihilation, to a David Bowie-esque original song, Elder has proven himself capable of handling anything the show throws at him.
Islam Badurgov is a pro street workout athlete from Kazakhstan. But decked out to look like Conor McGregor he roles up to the famed Muscle Beach in Venice and convinces everyone he's the MMA fighter.
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Being an astronaut is hard — but now you don't have to worry about doing all that work. Google now gives you a Street View look at the entire International Space Station. From hallways to windows and even the bathroom, you can experience life 249 miles abouve the Earth
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They're fleeting as the wind. No matter how affecting they are, dreams are hard to pin down — talking about them to others never captures how they felt when they were happening. The School of Life has a few tips are preparing how to explain our strange unconscious to others.
A man was pulled from the crowd during a women's invitational doubles tennis match and given the chance to try to return a serve from four-time major champion Kim Clijsters. He was given the chance after Clijsters could be heard on court asking where she should serve to win the point. Calling from the crowd the man suggested 'body line.' Taking his suggestion on board, Clijsters invited the fan down to the court so he could play the point.
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Summer isn't over yet, my loves. If it was…would I be writing about Sorella Swim, this new incredibly chic luxury swimwear line? Hmmm???
"Our goal with Sorella Swim is to have our customer feeling sexy and chic while wearing her Sorella swimwear. With this in mind; we pride ourselves on the high level of quality with a specific focus on fit. This key attention to detail combined with superb craftsmanship and design set Sorella Swim apart from all other full figure swim brands. Sorella Swim is a luxury swimwear brand for the real woman. It is finally a brand she can call her own! "-Jessica Petersen, owner and designer of Sorella Swim
The swimwear will be available in sizes 10-24. And it will debut for the first time this summer to retailers in July during the famous Miami Swim Fashion Week.