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Eighteen Highly Recommended Books for Girls
Henkes, Kevin.
Chester's Way
. 1988. Greenwillow. Ages 3-7.
The mouse Lilly is one of the bravest, most flamboyant young females around. She rescues her friends from bullies, teaches them how to do wheelies, and always carries a loaded squirt gun. Everyone should meet her!
Pinkney, Brian.
JoJo's Flying Side Kick
. 1995. Simon & Schuster. Ages 3-7.
In order to earn her yellow belt in Tae Kwon Do, young JoJo must break a board with a flying side-kick. With the help of her family, she masters her fears and succeeds. A real winner.
Nash, Ogden.
The Adventures of Isabel
. Illustrated by James Marshall. 1991. Little, Brown. Ages 3-8.
In this funny poem, Isabel conquers a bear, a witch, a giant, a doctor, and a nightmare. The pictures will make children laugh while they learn to banish their own nightmares. Not to be missed.
Young, Ed.
Lon Po Po: A Red-Riding Hood Story from China
. 1989. Philomel. Ages 4-8.
Exquisite illustrations accompany this Chinese folktale about a girl who outwits a nasty wolf and saves her sisters. Winner of the Caldecott Medal.
Thompson, Kay.
. Illustrated by Hilary Knight. 1955. Simon & Schuster. Ages 4-8.
Eloise is one of a kind. She tears around the Plaza Hotel in New York, driving adults crazy and having a terrific time. It is no surprise that this incorrigible girl has been popular for more than forty years.
Isaacs, Anne.
Swamp Angel
. Illustrated by Paul O. Zelinsky. 1994. Dutton. Ages 4-9.
Tennessee-born Angelica Longrider, known as Swamp Angel, is a wonderfully outlandish addition to American tall tales. Building her first log cabin at age two is just the beginning of her incredible career. Witty folk art captures the larger-than-life heroine. A Caldecott Honor book.
Krull, Kathleen.
Wilma Unlimited: How Wilma Rudolph Became the World's Fastest Woman
. Illustrated by David Diaz. 1996. Harcourt Brace. Ages
Striking illustrations portray the life of Wilma Rudolph, who overcame childhood polio to become a great runner and win three Olympic gold medals. A powerful, inspiring story.
Pomerantz, Charlotte.
The Outside Dog
. Illustrated by Jennifer Plecas. 1993. HarperCollins. Ages 5-8.
A charming beginning reader about a Puerto Rican girl who is determined to have a dog, despite her grandfather's objections.
LeGuin, Ursula K.
A Ride on the Red Mare's Back
. Illustrated by Julie Downing. 1992. Orchard. Ages 5-9.
With the help of a magical horse, a brave girl sets off to rescue her brother who has been stolen by trolls. A beautifully illustrated tale of courage and love.
Hesse, Karen.
. Illustrated by Marcia Sewall. 1994. Henry Holt. Ages 6-10.
More than anything, Tate wants to keep the stray dog that shows up at her mountain home. With persistence and hard work, the girl succeeds. A heartwarming novel for younger readers.
MacLachlan, Patricia.
Sarah, Plain and Tall
. 1985. Harper & Row. Ages 6-10.
This small gem tells the story of two children and the quiet, strong woman who they hope will marry their father. Perfect for reading aloud. Winner of the Newbery Medal.
Fenner, Carol.
Yolonda's Geniu
s. 1995. McElderry. Ages 10-13.
A large and confident girl, Yolonda draws on all of her many talents to help her younger brother pursue his musical dream in this outstanding novel. A Newbery Honor book.
O'Dell, Scott.
Island of the Blue Dolphins
. 1960. Houghton Mifflin. Ages 9-12.
In this modern classic, twelve-year-old Karana must survive alone for years on a California island. Winner of the Newbery Medal.
Lauber, Patricia.
Lost Star: The Story of Amelia Earhart
. 1988. Scholastic. Ages 9-13.
Amelia Earhart broke barriers for women while she broke men's flying records. This biography describes her fascinating life from childhood to her mysterious disappearance.
Wrede, Patricia C.
Dealing with Dragons
. 1990. Harcourt Brace. Ages 10-13.
Cimorene finds being a princess so boring that she takes a job working for a dragon! The first in a popular, funny series.
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
. 1990. Orchard. Ages 10-14.
"Not every thirteen-year-old girl is accused of murder, brought to trial, and found guilty," opens this thrilling tale of a proper young lady who changes when she gets caught up in a mutiny. A top-notch adventure. A Newbery Honor book.
Freedman, Russell.
Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery
. 1993. Clarion. Ages 11-14.
Award-winning biographer Russell Freedman conveys the greatness of Eleanor Roosevelt through his lively writing and an extensive array of photographs. Highly recommended. A Newbery Honor book.
Staples, Suzanne Fisher.
Shabanu: Daughter of the Wind
. 1989. Knopf. Ages 12-14.
Set in contemporary Pakistan, this gripping novel follows the fate of Shabanu, an adolescent girl from a nomadic tribe who rebels against her arranged marriage. A Newbery Honor book.
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Please don't download our album, sob Red Hot Chilis
Emotional appeal for more riches
Mainstream rockers Red Hot Chili Peppers have resorted to emotional blackmail to prevent their fans from downloading illegal copies of their new album before it is released on 9 May.
Flea, their much-admired bassist, and a man who, like the other "peppers", is wont to make an exhibition of his naked torso, told fans in a letter posted on the website of the Red Hot Chili Peppers Fan Club on Tuesday that it would "break my heart" if they downloaded the new album.
He called upon the sensitive souls of his colleagues, who together form one of the biggest selling bands in the world, as expert witnesses in his case: "it will break john frusciante's heart. it will break anthony kiedis's heart. and it will break the heart of chad smith," he wrote.
But Flea, also known as Michael Balzary, also said there were "equitable business reasons" why fans should buy the album, citing the hard work the band members had put into it.
The group is thought to have sold 50m albums and is not short of a bob or two. But that does not mean they are any less human. Flea confessed how deeply hurt the band would be to think their fans had to listen to poor quality copies of music they had put so much time into producing.
Indeed, he said the thought "bums all of us out", and guitarist John Frusciante in particular would be "hurt deep inside".
The Chili Peppers' record company and numerous retailers are counting on making big bucks out of the new album, "Stadium Arcadium".
Fans should, he said, appeal to their own consciences before deciding whether to download the new album or buy it in the shops. ®

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Business property owners must file a Business Property Statement (PDF) each year detailing the acquisition cost of all supplies, equipment, fixtures, and improvements owned at each location within Placer County.
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California Constitution Article XIII and Revenue and Taxation Code section 201 state that all property is taxable unless it is stated that it is exempt. Business personal property is not exempt.
Sales tax and property tax are two different types of taxes.
Unsecured property is a personal liability of an Assessee, generally the owner of a business, which has not had the tax payment secured by the ownership of real property.
Yes. If you are using the equipment for business purposes, it is reportable, assessable, and taxable as business personal property.
Movable property has situs where it is located on the lien date of January 1 if it has been in the county for more than 6 of the 12 months before the lien date and is expected that it will remain or return to the county for:
If the property does not meet the qualifications, the location of the property is the location where it normally returns or is stored when not in use, such as a construction or rental yard, or the principal place of business of the owner if no such location exists.
Yes. All True Leases, Capitalized Leased Equipment, and Lease to Purchase Option Equipment, where the final payment has not yet been made, are reported in Part III on the front of the property statement, or as an attached listing if more space is required.
Capitalized or Purchase Option Leased Equipment, where the final payment has been made, must be reported in Schedule A at the original cost and original year acquired, not the buyout cost or year the final payment was made.
No. Unsecured bills are never prorated regardless of the disposal date. Proration of taxes should be done between the buyer and seller at the time of sale.
Either the Assessor's request to file a valid property statement was not received by May 7th, or no statement was received. California Revenue and Taxation Code section 463 mandates that a late filing penalty of 10% of the assessed value be added for statements not timely filed by May 7th. The Assessment Appeals Board is the only authority with the ability to abate a penalty for late filing.
The bill is not for real property such as the land or building. It is for the business personal property and fixtures used in the operation of a business such as:
For additional information on Business Property, please visit the California State Board of Equalization website.


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LoadMaster for AWS
1 Introduction
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a collection of remote computing services (also called web services) that together make up Amazon's cloud computing platform.
1.1 Document Purpose
This document is intended to brief you on the LoadMaster for AWS product and assist the reader to set up a basic LoadMaster for AWS instance and create a service.
It is strongly encouraged to use High Availability (HA) when using the LoadMaster for AWS for production workloads. For further information on this, refer to the HA for AWS, Feature Description on the KEMP Documentation Page.
1.2 Intended Audience
This document is intended for anyone who is interested in finding out about the LoadMaster for AWS product.
2 LoadMaster for AWS
2.1 Prerequisites
Some requirements to be aware of when deploying a LoadMaster in AWS are below:
- Internet access in the Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) is required to license free and hourly-usage LoadMasters.
- Using Bring Your Own License (BYOL) licensing in an AWS VPC does work without internet access when using the private IP address but only if Offline Licensing is used during the deployment.
- Alternate default gateway support is not permitted in a cloud environment.
- If you want to enable 10 Gb throughput for a LoadMaster in AWS, you must select an AWS virtual machine (VM) instance type that supports the 10 Gb ENA driver. You can do this on initial install, or by moving to a new instance type after installation. The following AWS VM instance types support the 10 Gb ENA driver: A1, C5, C5d, C5n, F1, G3, H1, I3, I3en, m4.16xlarge, M5, M5a, M5ad, M5d, P2, P3, R4, R5, R5a, R5ad, R5d, T3, T3a, u-6tb1.metal, u-9tb1.metal, u-12tb1.metal, X1, X1e, and z1d. Refer to the Supported Instance Types AWS page for further details.
2.2 Differences from the Virtual LoadMaster (VLM)
First, the initial IP address that is obtained is assigned by AWS using Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP). The LoadMaster obtains this address at instantiation and uses it as its interface address. This address is permanent for this instance and this private address is associated with a public IP address as well. Additional private addressing can be assigned according to your needs if you have additional private networks in AWS.
In addition, a public address that maps to the private address is issued by AWS. Unlike the private address, the public IP address can be changed by purchasing an Elastic IP.
For more information on Elastic IPs, refer to the Amazon EC2 Elastic IP Addresses Feature Guide. Elastic IPs can be requested by opening a Support case with AWS. Elastic IPs can be allocated in the AWS EC2 Console in NETWORK & SECURITY > Elastic IPs.
Interface IP addresses can be changed administratively as usual from the LoadMaster, but this requires an additional AWS configuration to prevent disconnection.
To preserve public ports, the Web User Interface (WUI) is available on port 8443 rather than 443. This allows port 443 to be used for a Virtual Service.
Due to AWS limitations, it is not possible to bond interfaces on AWS LoadMasters.
2.3 Licensing Options
There are three main licensing options when deploying a LoadMaster for AWS:
Hourly consumption (PAYG)
The hourly consumption option includes Enterprise Plus Support. You can find details on Kemp subscriptions at the following link: LoadMaster Support Subscriptions.
You must purchase a Standard, Enterprise, or Enterprise Plus subscription as part of the BYOL option.
Metered Enterprise Licensing Agreement (MELA)
Kemp MELA is a monthly subscription that allows for unlimited LoadMaster deployments and is billed based on aggregate consumption.
2.4 Security Best Practices
AWS has many security features to protect customers' cloud assets. This section outlines some security best practices pertaining to AWS. See the AWS Security Best Practices Whitepaper for further details.
If you already have an Identity and Access Management (IAM) role for administration of the Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and SSH key pair, you can skip to the Start a New Instance section.
2.4.1 IAM Service
IAM is a centralized service that manages users, credentials, policies, and keys for the resources deployed in AWS. You should create individual accounts for each user that creates or accesses AWS resources. When possible, you should enable AWS Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) for the IAM user account to further secure unauthorized access to assets running in the public cloud.
You should always leverage IAM Policies to assign permissions to IAM user accounts. You should scope these permissions with the least privilege security model by only permitting access based on users' job requirements.
184.108.40.206 Create an IAM Policy
This section provides step-by-step instructions on creating an IAM Policy allowing an IAM user to create and manage EC2 Services:
1. Log in to the AWS console.
2. Click Services.
3. Under Security, Identity, & Compliance, select IAM.
4. In the navigation on the left, click Policies.
5. Click Create policy.
6. Select JSON.
7. Enter the IAM Policy in the provided area. The text shown above is only an example. Policies created in AWS should be reviewed with your organization's security team.
8. Click Review policy.
9. Enter a unique Name.
10. Click Create policy.
You can find further information on IAM Policies at the following link: Policies and Permissions.
188.8.131.52 Assign an IAM Policy to an IAM User
This section provides step-by-step instructions on assigning an IAM Policy to an IAM user:
1. Log in to the AWS console.
2. Click Services.
3. Under Security, Identity, & Compliance, select IAM.
4. Select Users.
5. From the list of users, select the user to assign the policy to.
6. Click Add permissions.
7. Click Attach existing policies directly.
8. Search for and select the IAM Policy to apply.
9. Click Next: Review.
10. Click Add permissions.
2.4.2 Access Keys
Access Keys are credentials for an IAM user that allow programmatic requests to the AWS Command Line Interface (CLI) or AWS Application Programming Interface (API). These keys consist of two parts; an access key ID and a secret access key. You should leverage multiple keys and use them across the different applications requiring access to AWS resources. In addition, you should rotate these keys regularly.
18.104.22.168 Rotate Access Key and Secret Key
This section provides step-by-step instructions for creating and rotating Access Keys and Secret Keys:
1. Log in to the AWS console.
2. Click Services.
3. Under Security, Identity, & Compliance, select IAM.
4. Select Users.
5. From the list of users, select the user to manage.
6. Click Security credentials.
7. Click Create access key.
8. Copy the Access key ID and Secret access key.
You can now use these keys in the application or direct access to the CLI or API. When viewing the Access Key, there is a Last used column. You can leverage this to ensure the Access Key is no longer in use and can be deleted as part of the key rotation schedule.
2.4.3 Storing Secrets
The handling and storing of secrets is a critical component of the overall security of the assets. AWS provides AWS Secrets Manager, which makes it easy to store and retrieve secrets. You should use the AWS Secrets Manager whenever possible to improve the overall security in AWS. For more information on AWS Secrets Manager, visit the following website: AWS Secrets Manager: Store, Distribute, and Rotate Credentials Securely
2.5 Create a New Key Pair
When starting a new instance in EC2, you are prompted to select a key pair. A key pair is a certificate and key. It is used to SSH to the LoadMasterand you must keep the downloaded key in a safe place. Steps on how to add a key pair are below:
1. Log in to the AWS console.
2. Click EC2.
3. In the main menu, select Key Pairs.
4. Click Create Key Pair.
5. Enter a name for the key pair and click Create.
6. The .pem file will download.
This file is required to SSH into the LoadMaster so make a note of where this file is stored. This file needs to reside on the client that is used to SSH to the LoadMaster.
If you are using a client that does not accept PEM format, you must convert the file to another format, for example PPK for Putty.
7. The permissions of the key pair file must be changed for it to work. To do this in Linux, go to the directory where the file is stored and run the following command:
chmod 600 <FileName>
2.6 Start a New Instance
You can deploy new LoadMaster instances through the AWS Marketplace. For greater availability, Kemp recommends deploying a pair of Kemp LoadMasters in HA mode. For more information on deploying an HA pair, refer to the following feature guide: HA for AWS Feature Description.
To start an instance, follow the steps below:
Note that it is also possible to deploy a LoadMaster using a different flow using the AWS Marketplace. Configure the same settings as outlined below, in particular - ensure to select a VPC as the network.
1. Log in to the AWS home page.
2. Click EC2.
3. Click Instances.
4. Click Launch Instance.
5. Select AWS Marketplace.
6. Search for Virtual LoadMaster.
7. Click Select for the relevant version to be deployed.
8. If you select an hourly licensing model, click Continue to proceed.
9. Select the desired Instance Type.
Use the following LoadMaster sizing table as a reference only because some workloads may require more vCPU or memory than others:
LoadMaster |
Instance Type |
m4.large |
VLM-3000 | m4x.large |
VLM-5000 | m4.2xlarge |
VLM-10G | m4.4xlarge |
For further information on instance types, refer to the following Amazon link: Amazon EC2 Instance Types.
If you want to enable 10 Gb throughput for a LoadMaster in AWS, you must select an AWS VM instance type that supports the 10 Gb ENA driver. You can do this on initial install, or by moving to a new instance type after installation. The following AWS VM instance types support the 10 Gb ENA driver: A1, C5, C5d, C5n, F1, G3, H1, I3, I3en, m4.16xlarge, M5, M5a, M5ad, M5d, P2, P3, R4, R5, R5a, R5ad, R5d, T3, T3a, u-6tb1.metal, u-9tb1.metal, u-12tb1.metal, X1, X1e, and z1d. For more information, refer to the Enable a 10 Gb Interface section.
10. Click Next: Configure Instance Details.
11. Ensure to select the correct item (a VPC) in the Network drop-down list.
If multiple LoadMasters on multiple networks are needed, choose the different networks as required. If more networks need to be created, contact your AWS administrator to add them. The Create new VPC link can be used to add more networks if needed.
12. Ensure that the Auto-assign Public IP option is set to Enable.
13. Configure any other setting as needed.
14. Click Review and Launch.
15. Select the relevant option on the Boot from General Purpose (SSD) screen and click Next: Add Tags.
AWS tags allow you to categorize resources in different ways. You can categorize by application, owner, purpose, or any custom tag.
16. Enter tags.
17. Before launching, click Edit security groups.
18. Select the security group of your choosing or create a new security group.
a) The following rules are needed in the security group:
- Custom TCP Rule with the Port Range 8443 for the WUI
- SSH for the SSH management interface
- Any additional rules that are needed for other ports for services to be load balanced, for example Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) if load balancing Windows RDP servers, or HTTPS for a secure website
Do not block port 6973. This port is used for synchronization when using the LoadMaster in a HA configuration.
Select the relevant source option from the drop-down list and enter the custom IP addresses as needed.
19. It is recommended that management services only be allowed using trusted IP addresses. You should also add rules for any services you intend on creating. You can always revisit this security group later if additional services become necessary.
20. Click Review and Launch.
21. Click Launch.
22. Select the appropriate key pair for your environment. This is the key pair that was created in the Create a New Key Pair section. This key pair is needed to connect using SSH.
23. Select the check box.
24. Click Launch Instances.
25. Click View Instances. The Public IP address or Public DNS address can be used to connect to the instance using HTTPS on port 8443.
26. After your instance state is Running, you can connect to your LoadMaster instance.
2.7 Enable a 10 Gb Interface
Virtual LoadMasters deployed within the AWS Cloud now support 10 Gb interfaces. This support comes with the following limitations:
No speed is displayed when it cannot be read from the interface.
The speed displayed behaves similar to bonded interfaces in that the speed of the aggregate of the number of separate logical interfaces that have been defined on that interface is displayed.
- Interface graphs for 10 Gb interfaces on the Statistics page may be displayed incorrectly. This will be addressed in a future release.
If you upgrade from a release prior to 7.2.48 to 7.2.48 or a later release and your AWS VM is running a VM instance type that does not support 10 Gb interfaces (for example, m4.10xlarge), you must convert the VM to a machine type that supports 10 Gb interfaces (for example, m4.16xlarge).
To enable 10 Gb interfaces on the LoadMaster, perform the following steps:
1. Shut down the LoadMaster using the LMOS WUI or API.
2. Enable ENA driver support on the AWS VM using the following command:
aws ec2 modify-instance-attribute --instance-id instanceID --ena-support
The Instance ID can be found in the AWS EC2 Dashboard by selecting Instances within the INSTANCES section of the main menu.
3. Change the AWS VM instance type to one that supports the ENA 10 Gb driver (for example, m4.16xlarge) using the AWS UI.
4. Start the LoadMaster VM.
For further details on this, refer to the AWS document on Enabling Enhanced Networking with the Elastic Network Adapter (ENA) on Linux Instances.
For details on how to get started with AWS command line, refer to the following AWS documentation:
2.8 Initial Setup - Hourly Licensing
If you chose an hourly licensing method - after the instance is launched, you must first access the LoadMaster using SSH with the required key pair to enable WUI access. The example steps below use PuTTY as the SSH client.
1. Open the PuTTY client.
2. Enter the IP address of the LoadMaster instance. This is the IP address obtained in the Start a New Instance section.
3. In the main menu, navigate to Connection > SSH > Auth.
4. Click Browse.
5. Navigate to and select the key pair file that was exported in the Licensing Options section.
If you are using a client that does not accept PEM you must convert the key pair file to another format, for example PPK for Putty. For instructions on how to do this, refer to the following TechRepublic article: Connect to Amazon EC2 with a private key using PuTTY and Pageant.
6. If desired, you can save the settings so that you do not have to perform these steps each time you open a Putty session for this IP address. To do this, enter a name in the Saved Sessions text box and click Save.
7. Click Open.
8. Log in with the username bal. This is the default LoadMaster username.
9. Enter the passphrase if you specified one to be used for the private key.
10. A number of screens appear relating to configuring various network options. These can be left as the default values but can be changed if needed. Press OK on each screen to proceed:
a) A screen appears relating to the IP address.
b) The IP address for the default gateway should only be changed if you have an alternative gateway configured.
c) The default name server appears. You can optionally change this to an alternative name server if required.
d) Leave this option blank unless your environment requires a proxy server to access the internet.
11. If you selected an hourly licensing model, you are asked to enter the current LoadMaster password. By default, the password is set to the Instance ID which can be found in the AWS EC2 Dashboard by selecting Instances within the INSTANCES section of the main menu. Enter and confirm the new password.
The password must be reset to access the LoadMaster WUI. If you enter an incorrect password, you must restart SSH and go through the setup again.
12. Log in with the new password.
13. Connect to the LoadMaster using a browser by entering https://InstanceAddress:8443 in the address bar to continue configuration. The instance address can be the public IP address or the public DNS, both of which can be found in the EC2 Console in the Description tab.
If the first attempt to reset the password fails or if the WUI is not accessible, follow the steps in the Restart Web Server Access - Hourly Licensing section.
2.8.1 Restart Web Server Access - Hourly Licensing
If the first attempt to reset the password fails or if the WUI is not accessible, follow the steps below. The existing SSH session can be used, or a new SSH session can be opened using bal and the new password created in the Initial Setup - Hourly Licensing section.
1. On the main menu, select Local Administration.
2. Select Web Address.
3. Select Immediately Stop Web Server Access.
4. Select Immediately Start Web Server Access.
5. Connect to the LoadMaster using a browser by entering https://InstanceAddress:8443 in the address bar to continue configuration. The instance address can be the public IP address or the public DNS, both of which can be found in the EC2 console in the Description tab.
2.8.2 Initial Configuration - Hourly Licensing
If you chose an hourly licensing model, follow the steps below to initially set up the LoadMaster:
1. Open the VLM in a web browser by entering https://InstanceAddress:8443 in the address bar. The instance address can be the public IP address or the public DNS, both of which can be found in the EC2 Console in the Description tab.
2. Acknowledge the self-signed certificate to proceed.
The certificate used by the WUI takes the public name used by AWS.
3. Accept the End User License Agreement (EULA).
4. A screen appears asking if you are OK with the LoadMaster regularly contacting Kemp to check for updates and other information. Click the relevant button to proceed.
A prompt appears asking for the username and password. Enter bal as the username and the password that was set previously. The LoadMaster is now licensed and is ready for administration and configuration.
2.9 Initial Setup - BYOL
When using the BYOL method, the normal LoadMaster licensing and activation process is used. Access the LoadMaster using the WUI by entering the Public Address, preceded with https:// and followed by :8443. Then, proceed through the steps and license the LoadMaster.
To use the BYOL option, follow the steps below:
1. Deploy the BYOL - Trial and perpetual license version of the VLM (follow the steps in the Start a New Instance section).
2. When the LoadMaster deploys successfully, connect to the LoadMaster WUI, for example, https://220.127.116.11:8443.
3. Acknowledge the self-signed certificate to proceed.
4. Accept the EULA.
5. Enter your Kemp ID and password to obtain a trial license. If you have an Order ID#, enter it now to apply the purchased license. If you do not have an Order ID#, you can proceed with these steps and then enter an Order ID# later after contacting a Kemp representative to purchase a license (see steps below).
6. Select your license and click Continue.
7. A screen appears asking if you are OK with the LoadMaster regularly contacting Kemp to check for updates and other information. Click the relevant button to proceed.
8. Enter a new password for the default bal account and click Set password.
If you did not enter the Order ID# during the initial configuration, follow the steps below to license the LoadMaster:
1. Contact a Kemp representative to get a license.
2. Log in to the LoadMaster WUI and navigate to System Configuration > System Administration > Update License.
3. Enter your Kemp ID and Password to update the license.
2.10 Create a Virtual Service
To create a Virtual Service, follow the steps below in the LoadMaster WUI:
1. In the main menu, select Virtual Services and Add New.
2. Enter the private address of the LoadMaster instance in the Virtual Address text box.
3. Enter the relevant Port, which was permitted in the Security Group.
4. Enter a recognizable Service Name.
5. Select the relevant Protocol.
6. Click Add this Virtual Service.
7. Configure the settings for the Virtual Service as needed, for example:
a) To enable SSL acceleration, select the Enabled check box in the SSL Properties section. For more information on SSL offloading, refer to the SSL Accelerated Services, Feature Description.
b) To enable ESP, select the Enable ESP check box in the ESP Options section. For more information on how to configure the ESP options, refer to the ESP, Feature Description.
c) To enable the Web Application Firewall (WAF), select the Enabled check box in the WAF Options section. For more information on how to configure the WAF options, refer to the Kemp Web Application Firewall, Feature Description.
8. Add Real Servers in the Real Servers section.
2.11 Activate your Support Subscription
If you are using a Pay Per Use (Hourly Usage) LoadMaster, three days after initially setting up the LoadMaster, a prompt appears asking you to activate your support subscription. Enter your Kemp ID and Password and click Update License to do this.
You can activate your support subscription before three days by expanding System Configuration > System Administration, clicking the Update License option and filling in your Kemp ID and password.
Kemp recommends rebooting the LoadMaster after updating the license.
3 LoadMaster Firmware Downgrades
It is best practice to keep the Kemp LoadMaster firmware at the latest version. In the event an issue occurs after an upgrade to the latest firmware version, the system can be rolled back to the previous version.
You can find steps for upgrading/downgrading the LoadMaster firmware at the following link:
Updating the LoadMaster Software
Do not downgrade from firmware version 7.2.36 or higher to a version below 7.2.36. If you do this, the LoadMaster becomes inaccessible and you cannot recover it.
4 LoadMaster Backup and Restore
Kemp provides several methods to backup and restore configuration and certificates on the LoadMaster. Depending on the Recovery Point Objective (RPO) and Recovery Time Objective (RTO), you can take these backups manually or automatically on a daily or weekly schedule. For information on the backup and restore features, refer to this Technical Note: Backup and Restore Technical Note
5 Monitoring LoadMaster Health in AWS
Refer to the sections below for details on monitoring LoadMaster health.
5.1 Monitoring with Kemp 360
Kemp provides network and application owners with the necessary tools to maintain and monitor the application delivery infrastructure:
Product |
Description |
Link |
Kemp 360 Central |
Management and control of application delivery controllers |
https://kemptechnologies.com/kemp360/central/ |
Kemp 360 Vision | Proactive monitoring of application delivery controllers and application health | https://kemptechnologies.com/kemp360/vision/ |
5.2 Monitoring with AWS
AWS provides monitoring on the system and instances. These status checks can be leveraged to alert on certain outages such as in an availability zone or region. You can configure status check alerts to email an administrator in such an event. This section outlines the configuration of status check alerts:
1. Log in to the AWS console.
2. Click Services.
3. Under Compute, select EC2.
4. In the navigation on the left, click Instances.
5. Click the relevant instance to create an alarm for.
6. Click Status Checks.
7. Click Create Status Check Alarm.
8. Complete the following fields:
a) Type a name for the notification group.
b) Type an email address for alarms to be sent to.
c) Select Status Check Failed (Any) in the Whenever drop-down list.
d) Keep the default interval of 2 consecutive period(s) of 1 Minute.
e) Type a unique name for the alarm in the Name of alarm text box.
9. Click Create Alarm.
While the instructions above provide a basic overview of how to deploy and configure LoadMaster for AWS, it is not designed to be a comprehensive guide to configure every possible workload. This section identifies some of many guides published on our resources section of our website. Unless otherwise specified, the following documents can be found at http://kemptechnologies.com/documentation.
LoadMaster Licensing, Feature Description
SSL Accelerated Services, Feature Description
Kemp Web Application Firewall, Feature Description
Web User Interface (WUI), Configuration Guide
HA for AWS, Feature Description
Last Updated Date
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Is it possible to create an autoforward rule and/or a mirror-like service for current users? We use Google Apps for Enterprise (paid version—includes Postini).
I need that emails sent from/to a specific user will also be sent to another email. Of course, this needs to be discrete, without the user knowing that.
Is it possible in any way?
- Having a forward address in the user's settings box is, of course, not an option.


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The Alcohol, Drug, and Tobacco Study Group (ADTSG) of the Society for Medical Anthropology invites submissions for the best graduate student paper in the anthropology of alcohol, drugs, tobacco, pharmaceuticals, or other psychoactive substance use. A committee of ADTSG members will judge qualifying submissions. The author of the winning paper will receive a cash award of $100, and her or his name will be announced in Anthropology News and at the Society for Medical Anthropology awards ceremony at the American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting in November. Submissions from all anthropological sub-disciplines are encouraged.
- No more than 9,000 words
- Must be based on original fieldwork and data
- Must have been written in the past 12 months
- Primary or first author must be a graduate student at time of submission
- May be unpublished or submitted for publication at the time of submission
- Originality of fieldwork and data
- Richness of substantive or evidentiary materials
- Clarity of anthropological methods
- Linkage of work to social science literature
- Effective use of theory and data
- Organization, quality of writing, and coherence of argument
- Please do not include your name or any identifying information in the paper itself
- Papers must be double spaced and in PDF format (please include page numbers)
- References and in-text citations should be formatted according to Chicago Manual of Style
- Please submit via email to Shana Harris, Chair of ADTSG, at firstname.lastname@example.com
- Submissions must be received by 5:00PM EST on September 15, 2016 for full consideration
Questions may be directed to Shana Harris at the above email address. We look forward to your submissions!


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True Happiness
Anuruddha's story really impressed me. First of all, the crudeness of it; poor Anuruddha getting blind after his efforts of not falling asleep again. But then, this idea of Buddha Shakiamuni as the person more actively looking for happiness in the world helped me to make more vivid the importance of our quest for true happiness. When one thinks about it, it is a concept strange to Western religious thought. We tend to view spirituality just as renunciation, and not as a quest for happiness. Happiness will come after you die, and the world is just a valley of tears.
As Aoyama wisely presents in this week's text, happiness is a state of mind, not the result of our external circumstances, and we need to learn acceptance on what there is, and what we are.
Logic and taoist philosopher Raymond Smullyan once wrote that "the Tao is about doing what you like; and zen is about liking what you do". So we are always within the same paradox: should I accept what is there? Or should I try to change it? Do what I like? Or liking what I must do?
So here is the open question, a question that comes to me quite often:
How do you decide whether to accept things as they are or trying to change them? What is your main criterion?


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Green Bay Packers wide receiver Randall Cobb set a franchise record and led the NFL with 2,342 all-purpose yards last season. If not for a late-season ankle injury, he might have become the first player in NFL history with 1,000 yards apiece receiving and returning kickoffs.
The expectations are even higher this year with Greg Jennings and Donald Driver out of the picture.
Instant Debate: NFL's biggest arm?
Which QB boasts the strongest arm in the NFL? Our analysts debate, with Matthew Stafford getting some love. **More ...**
"I really don't think I've peaked yet," Cobb said last week, via the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. "I'm 22 years old. I've got a lot of learning still to do."
Coach Mike McCarthy's preference is to remove Cobb from the kick-return game to increase his role on offense. Aaron Rodgers is counting on Cobb to replace Jennings as his go-to receiver. "I think Randall Cobb is a guy who could be a 100-plus catch guy every year," Rodgers said Wednesday, via ESPNWisconsin.com's Jason Wilde.
It's no surprise that Rodgers is singing Cobb's praises. After calling him a "star in the making" and a "big-time" player last October, Rodgers told WAUK-AM that Cobb likely would go down as "one of the best picks in Ted Thompson's career, if not the best."
By last Thanksgiving, defensive tackle B.J. Raji noted that Cobb had become so valuable that he and Rodgers were the only two players the Packers couldn't afford to lose.
Harrison: Top 20 Games of 2012
The 2012 season was one for the ages. Which games will be remembered the most in NFL lore? Elliot Harrison gives you the Top 20.
Cobb led the Packers in targets (104) and receptions (80) last season despite playing 416 fewer snaps than James Jones. That was with McCarthy only in the beginning stages of figuring out how best to utilize his versatile weapon. McCarthy will make an even more conscious effort to emphasize Cobb this season because "playmakers need the ball in their hands."
Fantasy leaguers take note: Cobb is not just a dark-horse candidate. He's a legitimate threat to lead the NFL in receptions this season.
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If something doesn't suit your needs, just change it. That's a motto we live by, and it looks like [Doug] took up the same creed when he modified a cheap effects pedal.
The victim of [Doug]'s soldering iron is a Danelectro BLT Slap Echo – a tiny, cheap pedal in Danelectro's mini 'food named' pedal series. Stock, this pedal's slap back echo is set to a fixed amount of time. [Doug]'s mod changes that.
The mod consists of desoldering a single SMD resistor and replacing that with a 50k pot [Doug] had lying around. After mounting the pot between the two stock knobs, the new and improved pedal had a variable length echo. There are a few more mods possible with this pedal – changing some of the resistors on the filter for a better sound, or even connecting the rate pot to a wah-style rocker pedal for some wobbly Echoplex or Space Echo action.
You can check out [Doug]'s gallery of pics here.


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The R&A is demonstrating its support for nine hole golf as an ideal way to play golf in less time whilst still doing so competitively and for handicap purposes by introducing a new championship at Royal Troon this summer.
The inaugural event for amateurs will be played on Saturday 9 July at Royal Troon, giving the players the opportunity to play nine holes at the historic Ayrshire links on the eve of The 145THOpen.
In 2017, the event will be expanded to cover golf clubs in Great Britain and Ireland with players being given the opportunity to qualify at nine hole events held by The R&A's affiliated national associations in England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales.
Padraig Harrington, two-time Champion Golfer of the Year and R&A Working for Golf Ambassador, welcomed the initiative. "People who want to play golf are increasingly struggling to find the time to play and so positioning nine hole golf as a legitimate alternative makes a lot of sense," he said. "I'm really pleased to see The R&A taking the lead in this area.
"For regular amateur golfers to be able to play The Open venue in championship condition immediately before the best players in the world is a fantastic initiative and I'm sure this new competitive format will encourage more people to get out on the golf course and play nine hole golf."
The R&A's extensive survey on pace of play and the subsequent Time for Golf conference in St Andrews last November highlighted the challenges many people face in finding time to play 18 holes, with 60% of the golfers surveyed expressing the view that they would enjoy golf more if it took less time.
The survey also revealed that among 25-44 year-olds who are unhappy with the pace of play, 21% would like to see the playing time reduced by as much as one-and-a-half hours, while 19% said they would welcome the opportunity to play nine holes more often as an alternative format.
Martin Slumbers, Chief Executive of The R&A, said, "One of the messages that came through clearly from the survey and the Time for Golf conference is that people would play more golf if they could do so in significantly less time. Nine hole golf is not new but we feel it is often overlooked as a perfectly valid way to play the sport either with your family and friends or competitively.
"We are delighted to introduce a nine hole championship and will be promoting this format as a way of playing golf in less time which can have wider appeal among people who lead increasingly busy lives today. We are very much looking forward to working with the national associations to promote nine hole golf and we hope to see more events being played throughout Great Britain and Ireland to cater for this important audience."
This year's event will see 30 golfers playing a nine hole championship at Royal Troon. Two players will qualify from events held at each of the 13 Regional Qualifying venues for The Open throughout Great Britain and Ireland with host venues Royal Troon Golf Club and The Ladies' Golf Club, Troon each providing two players. The handicap event will be open to men, women, boys and girls who are members of the clubs taking part.
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The AIDS-causing virus, HIV, must attach to cholesterol-rich regions of a cell's membrane before it can do its destructive work, researchers at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) have discovered. When the investigators removed cholesterol from the cells, HIV lost much of its ability to produce new virus particles and infect additional cells. These findings provide a more detailed picture of how HIV travels into and out of cells as well as possible ways to block that travel.
"Our research raises the intriguing possibility that widely used cholesterol-lowering drugs might have an effect in humans similar to what we have found in these initial laboratory studies," says Eric O. Freed, Ph.D., an investigator in NIAID's Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology, and the senior author of a paper published in the November 20 issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
HIV, like everything else passing into or out of an animal cell, must navigate the cell's complex double-walled outer membrane. Much like a bog, a cell membrane contains some areas of relatively solid material while other regions are more fluid. Among the features of this constantly shifting landscape are small, cholesterol-rich patches called rafts, which are more solid than the surrounding membrane and are able to move about like a raft on water.
Rafts are believed to be most concentrated at points of cell-to-cell contact in the immune cells that HIV targets for infection. Any mechanism that helps HIV find and attach to rafts would help the virus spread. Conversely, even a modest degree of disruption could slow the virus' spread because it would hinder the virus' ability to enter and leave its host cells.
Scientists have known for some time that an HIV protein called Gag must attach to the inner surface of the cell membrane before new viruses can be produced. Scientists also suspected that Gag's attachment to the membrane is not random, but rather targets specific regions of the cell surface. The new research shows their suspicions were correct.
Dr. Freed and his co-author Akira Ono, Ph.D., first established that Gag does indeed attach to rafts. They then created several mutant forms of Gag and learned that two pieces of the protein are required for successful attachment. Finally, the investigators turned to the key question of what happens when HIV is kept off the rafts.
To determine this, they depleted cholesterol from rafts using two compounds, one of which removes cholesterol rapidly from the cell surface and one that inhibits cholesterol synthesis. When used alone, each compound significantly reduced HIV's ability to form particles that could infect new cells. Applied simultaneously to virus-producing cells, the compounds almost completely abolished HIV's power to replicate.
"Our findings are clear evidence that Gag-raft association is a critical step in HIV replication," says Dr. Freed. "Additional experiments are needed to determine whether this interaction can be interrupted therapeutically to treat HIV-infected people."
NIAID is a component of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). NIAID supports basic and applied research to prevent, diagnose, and treat infectious and immune-mediated illnesses, including HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases, tuberculosis, malaria, autoimmune disorders, asthma and allergies.
Reference:A Ono and EO Freed. Plasma membrane rafts play a critical role in HIV-1 assembly and release. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 98:13925-13930 (2001). DOI: 10.1073/pnas.241320298.
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Jeff Scherr, owner, Comfort Heating & Air Conditioning, LLC, Billings, MT, believes one of the most difficult challenges an HVAC business owner must confront is making the transition from "good craftsman" to "good businessman." But for those owners who can finally "get out of the truck," and focus on developing their business, it's a giant step that will definitely take the business to new heights.
And, once you focus more on managing the business, be careful that you don't ignore your approach to the HVAC sales process, where it all starts.
Scherr —who runs Comfort Heating & Air with his brother Tony, and their wives, father Tom, and brother in-law, is guiding the 30-year-old residential/commercial HVAC business started by their dad to one of its most successful periods — believes it's essential to master the art of the HVAC sale.
I spoke to Scherr recently about how he goes about selling to Comfort Heating & Air's residential customers.
Scherr believes good, effective selling is essentially a simple process that comes down to, "showing up, being extremely honest with prospects, and offering them choices."
If you think "showing up" as an element in this company's success seems a little too simple, Scherr will tell you he's constantly surprised by the number of competitors who don't return calls from prospective clients.
"I understand that people are busy, but these homeowners are willing to spend hard earned cash, and contractors aren't returning phone calls to even make an appointment to get into the house," he marvels. "To get a sale, it might be a good idea to return the phone call and show up for the appointment."
Knowing and Working with People
HVAC is a people business, with customers of all personality types. Scherr has found that prospective customers can be different in every way, even in how they choose to provide information and review their comfort options. While the contractor holds a couple of high cards as the comfort expert, a controlling, "Type A" prospect still holds a better hand. The contractor who can understand human nature best, and work with all types of people, wins the job.
"You can't use any single method for an in-home visit, comfort system proposal, energy survey, or energy audit," he says. "You first have to pick up clues about the prospect's personality in the initial phone call. When you set appointment you can gain clues as to what the customer will be open for. You have to use those clues to figure out what the person wants and may respond best too."
Later, during an initial home meeting, Scherr gathers information in a way a homeowner understands or is most comfortable with.
"Some fit into the classic stereotype of wanting a lot of privacy. Others want to sit down with coffee before you even look at the furnace. They want to get a feel for you, do you have a family, and so forth. That's where I tout that we're a 30-year, second generation business. My wife answers the phone, my dad still works with us, and we have 18 technicians who are part of our 'family.' They want to establish that before you get into the mechanics of the job.
"Others are more to the point: 'Give me a bid and leave. When will you be here, what will they do how long will it take?'
"Some don't mind if you come in with the ipad and laptop, conduct a survey, and talk about all the comfort and air quality things, basic system selling approaches. Others just want you to walk in, measure it up, and leave." Fewer than 5% of Scherr's initial meetings turn into long conversations. "I haven't drawn up a proposal in a home in two or three years," he says.
For the briefest meetings, Scherr asks three questions:
- 'What would you like in an HVAC system?'
- 'What issues have you been having?'
- 'What are your expectations?'
"However, if you discover over the phone that the woman of the house wants lots of information, be prepared for a longer meeting with lots of questions, be flexible? It is important to have a great toolbox with different selling methods to serve all types of personalities "
Whichever scenario develops, Scherr is always alert to make note of things he sees during the visit, and bring them up when the time is right.
"If I'm in a 1,250 sq. ft. home that has an existing older oversized 150,000 BTUH furnace, I can have a discussion about short-cycling, lack of comfort in cold basements, or issues facing multi-level homes, something that allows me another five or 10 minutes, because I've identified an issue. Normally, their response is, 'And what can you do to solve that for me, Jeff?' "That's when I can talk about two-stage or variable speed systems. You can't push them, but you can definitely guide them into allowing you more time."
Scherr begins with a binder of basic information. If they need more information, he gets it out of his truck. He has a leave behind card with some options and company information, or may leave his I-pad running with a video or other information for the client to review while he is at the truck. This also allows couples to discuss things for a moment.
When completed "I'll leave information on our Comfort Care Plan, and possibly brochures on equipment and other items we discussed. I always ask the homeowner how they'd like to receive the final proposal, and I always ask to be allowed to come back to talk it over. Some just want an email, but I'll also send a packet via the regular mail. The packet contains the proposal first and foremost, an easy reference letter on the different equipment features, brochures, additional items like indoor air quality options and a copy of the home's load calculation.
Time to Compare & Contrast
During the interim, homeowners have a chance to talk to other contractors, which Scherr says can work to his benefit, when the others don't measure up, don't or cannot provide what the customer wants or has a bad presentation. He says 30 to 40% of prospects are looking at two or three estimates. Another 10 to 15% are just fishing the market for the lowest price. "They're calling everybody. They might have five to 10 contractors come in. In this region, more than 50 HVAC contractors are serving a region of less than 150,000 people. Some are strictly commercial companies, and some only serve outlying areas, so there's about 30 residential contractors for the consumer choose from. That includes the guy working out of his truck, to larger companies like ours.
"After they've met with other contractors, I get to come in and sit down to discuss features, and the things they want. Then, the pricing discussion happens."
When it comes to offering solutions, whether at the first or second meeting, Scherr always provides a variety of options because . . .guess what?…people want choices.
"In the end, they don't always choose the most expensive system, but they aren't automatically driven to buy the least expensive system, either," he says. "The market has tightened up, people are more money-conscious, and more willing to spend more, if the return is greater. They understand that the return on their investment in cash and energy savings is one thing, but they also want comfort. Some of them have lived in their homes 20 or 30 years and have never truly been comfortable. I'm transparent about the cost, and about what they're going to get for that money they spend."
Although he sends proposals by email and snail mail, Scherr always requests that he get time for a second, in-person visit, to explain those proposals and get the work scheduled. Mailed information includes a copy of the load calculation, an easy reference sheet that explains 85% and 95% furnaces, single and multi-stage technology, variable speeds, ECM motors, two-stage air conditioners, and heat pumps.
The "final" proposal meetings are focused on a "good/better/best" set of options, that pretty well cover the company's entire line of product offerings from Rheem and Armstrong Air.
"We still deal with a lot of 80% furnaces in our market, so I continue to provide pricing on an 80% single-stage furnace, an 80% two-stage, the 95% AFUE furnaces, variable speeds, and in certain applications, modulating units."
Comfort Heating & Air is a Rheem Recognized Top Contractor, members of the Service Roundtable, Mitsubishi Diamond Contractors, and its technicians persue North American Technician Excellence (NATE) certification.
Comfort Heating & Air Conditioning, LLC enjoyed their best retrofit year ever in 2012 residential sales of furnaces and air conditioning systems with about a 20% increase over previous years, thanks to an extremely hot summer, and homeowner tax rebates for new HVAC system installations.
"People's environmental thinking is changing, They wonder why they'd want to put in an 80% furnace when a 95% is so much more efficient and economical, same with higher SEER ac units. In the last year, on practically every workday, we've had at least one retrofit."
Trade School Crisis
The only thing holding Comfort Heating & Air from growing much faster is the lack of trained workers who are 'van ready,' because fewer and fewer students are entering the industry. For example, the two-year technical college in Billings has closed its HVAC program. Scherr believes the lack of enrollment in electrical and HVAC trade schools is nearing a "dangerous" level.
"Nowadays, they go through high school with the expectation of attending college. They think they have to get into computers, or they won't be able to compete. The high schools have failed in that they aren't teaching people about the trades, HVAC, welding, auto mechanics, electrical, on and on. There's a huge labor world out there that isn't getting any mention.
"Eventually, due to extreme shortage of tech, our technicians will be able to say that they can get a job anywhere at $100/hour. Labor shortage can demand higher wages to keep employees. If I'm paying a guy that much , it becomes a $200 service call for me to walk in the door." Most customers will not be able to afford the higher service rates. This is not a good situation for the consumers or the service companies.
Judge Not
One of Jeff Scherr's cardinal rules is, "Don't Prejudge a Customer." To prove his point, he offers this story:This past November, he received a call from an elderly woman looking for a new air conditioning and heating system.
When he arrived, Scherr says she was very guarded, almost afraid to speak. But then she spoke up, and told him she wanted:
- a digital thermostat
- a 95% AFUE furnace with an ECM motor
- a 16-SEER, two-stage heat pump.
"Then," Scherr recalls, "she asked me if that was okay. I said, 'Why wouldn't it be okay?' and she said two other contractors told her someone her age doesn't want a complicated digital thermostat. Two others said she wouldn't live long enough to realize the payback on the higher-endsystem, and one said at her age, she probably didn't want a high-tech system that she wouldn't understand."
Scherr was floored.
"Those guys all offended this lady. I said, 'Ma'am, first and foremost, I'm going to give you what you want. Second, you've done your research, and that makes me believe you're technologically aware, and can handle what I sell you.
And third, if we install it right and show you how to use it, I don't care what age you are," you'll be able to operate it.'
"She bought the top-end system, a 95% variable speed furnace, 16-SEER, two- stage heat pump, electronic air cleaner, humidifier, and our Comfort Care plan. And I've gotten five or six referrals from her friends.
"She had told the other contractors what she wanted, and they were trying to talk her out of it."
Judge not.


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Fred Dickey's Island
of Human Drama
A novelist who believes every life is an adventure.
By Fred Dickey
March 11, 2013
Leland McPhie walks with a shuffle and his voice is low and a little hard to follow, but good grief, the man turned 99 on Sunday.
Going back a half-century, if you had the bad luck to be jailed in San Diego, McPhie would have been the man who held the keys. He's clipped enough jailbird wings to make a featherbed.
For almost three decades, from his first day on the job in 1940 until retirement in 1969, he worked his way up from a deputy jail turnkey to the youngest sheriff's captain and boss of the San Diego County jail.
Today, McPhie lives in a mobile home with his granddaughter, Michelle McPhie, in San Diego's Linda Vista neighborhood. As a practicing Mormon, he continues the lifelong practice of avoiding alcohol, tobacco and caffeine. He was honored Wednesday by fellow retirees and others at the Kolender Sheriff's Museum in Old Town.
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McPhie sits erectly in his chair and watches with alert eyes. His hair is thinning, but he's still got a pretty good thatch. His skin shows the wear you might expect of a century of hard use.
But there was a time when, with flashing legs, a lithe body and a will to win, he was the star of track and field at San Diego State College. In 1937, he long-jumped 24 feet, 7 inches, and ran 220 yards in 20.9 seconds. Both were school records at the time.
Through the years he continued those exploits when he was a fixture at senior track meets. In his various age groups, he's held 12 U.S. records and 11 world records. In 2010, he was still out there competing.
McPhie started his career in the jail right out of the academy. That small facility became the "old jail" when the "new," larger jail opened in the early 1960s across the street at C and Front streets. McPhie was an important catalyst in constructing that facility and advocated many features that were progressive for the time.
Also in the '60s, McPhie pushed to have female jail matrons become deputy sheriffs, until it finally happened.
The biggest change McPhie has observed over his years of watching a parade of criminals perp-walk into his cells was the explosion of drug-related crimes. "Back in the '40s, about the only drug offenses were from the Orientals down on Market Street bringing in marijuana from Tijuana. Other than that, we didn't see much of anything in the way of drugs."
There are a lot more violent crimes today than in those days. "We never had near the gun violence you see on TV every day now. That's mainly due to drugs and gangs," he says.
There is less control of juveniles now, he believes, because of both parents working and of families being split up. Years ago, mothers were at home and were able to control their kids. The big hammer moms could wield was, "Just wait until your father gets home." Now, kids have all hours during the day and night to run wild.
When McPhie was deputized, he recalls being the only college graduate on the force. "Cops back then were more on their own. They went a little too far at times, and sometimes they'd get too rough, but I never saw anyone brought into the jail who was beat-up by police. Today, prisoners are protected by civil rights, and cops are more professional and better educated."
Overcoming my aversion to cliché questions, I ask what's it like being almost 100.
He gives me more of an answer that I expect: "It's like being 3 years old. People just automatically think you can't do many of the things you can do perfectly well. That frustrates me."
His main problems are orthopedic, and that especially pains the old athlete. "I feel younger mentally than physically. My motor control isn't as sharp. I can't walk as fast as I used to. I sure can't run like I could, even a few years ago. I have to look where I walk so I don't stumble or fall down, and that makes me shuffle. I have a cane, but I don't use it as much as I suppose I should."
McPhie demonstrates in his chair his greatest frustration and how he copes with it. "I have a hard time standing up. I put my feet as far back as I can and lean forward. I put my hands out like this." He grips the chair arms and laboriously pushes himself up. "When I try to get out of bed in the morning, I sometimes fall back."
He had a stroke a couple of years ago, which must be considered minor, I suppose, because it doesn't seem to visibly impair him. He also has had an aortic valve replaced and cancer removed from his ear. After that repair work, McPhie says he's good to go.
He'd be delighted to once again drive his car, if they'd let him. He lost his license after his stroke, and that vexes him. "I could get out and do lots of things if they'd let me drive," he complains.
This is a man who will always fight to be taken seriously. He spent a lifetime being a serious man, and he has no intention of quitting.
He carries on by going to the gym a couple of times per week and works out. He'll always be the athlete, so he's looking forward to entering more senior track meets. He acknowledges he can no longer run or jump, but says he could throw the shot put or discus from a stationary position. To demonstrate, he slowly twists his body and then simulates a heave with his arm outward.
Winning is no longer why he loves the senior track meets. "I go there to socialize. I don't care if I win or lose. I've got over 300 medals hanging on my wall and most of them are gold. I don't need any more."
He describes his memory as pretty good, and he's proud to tell you he doesn't have hearing aids and can read without his glasses. To prove it, he picks up an old newspaper lying nearby, removes his glasses and reads several lines without faltering.
Memory is a tricky proposition for anyone from the 60-year-old who can't find her car keys, to the sixth-grader who "forgets" to bring his report card home — well, maybe not for the kid.
In an almost-centenarian, it waxes and wanes: sharp on one thing, then wavering on another and failing on yet another, even when talking about family.
"I have three children — uh, no, yeah, three: a boy and two girls. All still alive." Grandchildren? "Five or six." Great-grandchildren? "About 30, I guess." Do you know them all? "If I see them, I recognize them, but I won't know all the names."
McPhie says he looks forward to welcoming the dawn of his 100th birthday next year, "out of curiosity." He also desires to once again attend his beloved senior track meets.
He says otherwise, but competitive fires, though banked, can be stirred alive. And it's possible that McPhie has noticed a blank spot on his wall of gold medals.
Those other old-timers might have to be satisfied with silver.
Fred Dickey of Cardiff is a novelist and award-winning magazine writer who believes every life is an adventure. He welcomes column ideas and other suggestions; contact him at firstname.lastname@example.com
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Dolores Huerta has been an organizer and advocate for 55 years. Her work has grown with each decade; from civil rights to farmworkers' rights to women's rights to immigrant rights to environmentalism to LGBTQ rights, all have been incorporated into her activism. As she recently told Amy Goodman on Democracy Now!
Each one of our movements has a different path. … In order to really get the progressive agenda that we are all looking for … we've got to come together. If we don't come together, well, we're not going to be able to win our progressive agenda.
Huerta turned 80 this year, with celebrities and other supporters recently honoring her at a benefit concert for the Dolores Huerta Foundation, appropriately called "Weaving Movements Together." Held before a packed audience at the outdoor Greek Theater in Los Angeles on August 13, it featured such performers as Carlos Santana, Zack de la Rocha, Pete Escovedo and Lila Downs, along with actor/hosts Martin Sheen, Danny Glover and Benjamin Bratt. Even President Obama sent a video birthday greeting.
Huerta began her career in grassroots organizing after feeling she needed to do more than just teach at a Stockton, Calif., grammar school. She wanted to address what was behind her students' struggles in the classroom: the economic disadvantages of their farm-worker parents. In 1955 she met César Chávez in the Stockton Community Service Organization, and in 1962 they founded the National Farm Workers Association (now the United Farm Workers of America) together.
I remember hearing about the grape boycotts sponsored by the unionized farm workers' while growing up, halfway across the nation. Each Saturday, my family members would sit on the porch and share reverent tales of Huerta and Chávez, both mythical figures fighting for the underrepresented.
At 80, Huerta hasn't slowed down at all. She's still on the front lines for farmworkers, immigrants, political candidates, feminist causes (she's a board member of the Feminist Majority Foundation, which publishes Ms.) and anything else that advances "our progressive agenda." She understands that when we take positions inclusive of all our movements, our activism is much more effective. A good example is the recent Prop 8 victory, as the issue was examined through the lens of feminism, immigrant rights, civil rights and LGBTQ history.
So thanks for your inspiration, Dolores Huerta, and Happy Birthday to you! As you taught us to say, Si se puede (Yes we can)!
For more information about the Dolores Huerta Foundation and upcoming events, check out their Facebook page.
Photo of Dolores Huerta from Flickr user Freedom to Marry, licensed under Creative Commons 2.0.


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Editor's Note: The Climate Post will take a break from circulation Nov. 22, in observance of the Thanksgiving holiday. We will return Nov. 29.
In his first press conference since being re-elected, President Barack Obama acknowledged he'll focus on climate change in his second term. "I am a firm believer that climate change is real, that it is impacted by human behavior, and carbon emissions," Obama said at a televised news conference on Wednesday. "And as a consequence, I think we've got an obligation to future generations to do something about it."
Obama vowed to remain engaged in getting Republicans and Democrats to agree on a course of action on climate change, but not at the cost of jobs and economic growth. While he steered clear of making specific proposals for addressing climate change, Obama did offer this: "So what I am going to be doing over the next several weeks, the next several months, is having a conversation—a wide-ranging conversation—with scientists, engineers and elected officials to find out what more we can do to make short-term progress. You can expect that you will hear more from me in the coming months and years about how we can shape an agenda that garners bipartisan support and help moves this agenda forward."
Meanwhile, Hurricane Sandy continues to drive attention to climate change. Most recently, a New York Daily News op-ed by New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo stated New York "will not allow the national paralysis over climate change to stop us from pursuing the necessary path for the future" and "denial and deliberation from extremists on both sides about the causes of climate change are distracting us from addressing its inarguable effects." Cuomo's words may follow shifting public perception if a new Zogby poll is to be believed. It found that "half of Republicans, 73 percent of independents and 82 percent of Democrats saying they're worried about the growing cost and risks of extreme weather disasters fueled by climate change."
Fiscal Cliff Renews Debate about the Environment
The environment was a focus this week as the still newly re-elected President Obama faced negotiations over a metaphorical "fiscal cliff"—when the terms of the Budget Control Act of 2011 go into effect at the end of 2012, increasing taxes and putting in place spending cuts that could threaten environmental protections. Some have suggested a carbon tax as one means of avoiding the fiscal cliff, as it would curb climate change and help reduce the deficit. "It will be difficult for sure but we can back away from the fiscal cliff and the climate cliff at the same time," former U.S. Vice President Al Gore said in an interview with The Guardian. "One way is with a carbon tax." Obama didn't specifically endorse that approach in a press conference Wednesday. According to The Hill, a Treasury Department official "did not rule out White House backing for a carbon tax as part of fiscal policy talks, but noted the administration isn't going to propose one and that initiative would have to come from Republicans." Earlier this week, Americans for Tax Reform President Grover Norquist suggested a "carbon tax swap"—a tax on carbon offset by an income tax cut—might not violate his no-tax pledge. After he was criticized by a Koch-backed group, he reversed the statement he made prior.
A number of environmentally focused services remain at risk should lawmakers fail to avert the fiscal cliff. Among those threatened—energy efficiency and production. Mother Nature Network reports: "Sequestration would take $148 million away from the U.S. Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy program, according to the White House report, which Natural Resources Defense Council notes 'would be equivalent to cutting the solar energy program at the Department of Energy in half, or equal to eliminating the entire wind and geothermal energy programs.'"
Country Eyeing California Cap-and-Trade Program
As Germany's renewable energy institute, IWR, announced global carbon dioxide emissions rose 2.5 percent in 2011, California unveiled the nation's first economy-wide carbon market to combat harmful emissions and potentially serve as a model for other states to fight climate change. The state's cap-and-trade program requires businesses to purchase pollution allowances for going beyond their designated "cap" of greenhouse gases emissions. Despite a last-minute lawsuit by the California Chamber of Commerce alleging that the sale of allowances was an unconstitutional tax, the first auction moved forward.
The program was years in the making, designed with the assistance of the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions, among others. It is now the second largest carbon market in the world behind the European Union. ThinkProgress pointed out four important things about the program. Among them: money from auctions will be used to invest in California's clean energy future that could reach $11 billion a year by 2020. The price for carbon will also vary as the program evolves. As The Associated Press explains: "For the first two years of the program, large industrial emitters will receive 90 percent of their allowances for free in a soft start meant to give companies time to reduce emissions through new technologies or other means. The cap, or number of allowances, will decline over time in an effort to drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 2050." The results of Wednesday's closed, online auction will be available Nov. 19.
Meanwhile, the European Commission announced it will hold off requiring airlines based outside the European Union to pay for their carbon emissions until 2013—following threats of international retaliation. China, the United States, Russia and India opposed the charges, and the European Union plans had begun to cloud international trade relations. Around 30 governments that oppose the charges issued a joint declaration in February that cited possible retaliatory steps, such as imposing charges on European airlines.
Will the U.S. Be an Oil Giant Again?
Growing supplies of crude oil extracted through hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking," could transform the United States into one of the largest oil producers within the next decade. By around 2020, the International Energy Agency (IEA) projects, the U.S. will be the world's largest global oil producer, overtaking both Russia and Saudi Arabia. It further predicts the U.S. will be virtually self-sufficient within 25 years. The implications are many. "There is a shift in competitiveness," said IEA Executive Director Maria van der Hoeven. If production forecasts are borne out, "it will have a major impact on the return of industry to United States."
Gas prices, however, are falling—reaching numbers we haven't seen since 2011.
The Climate Post offers a rundown of the week in climate and energy news. It is produced each Thursday by Duke University's Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions.


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Carson High School students are receiving national attention for the work they've done over the past six months as part of a citizen science research project exploring the outer solar system.
"I think it's pretty cool," said Jared Akers, 17. "Being a teenager, a lot of people focus on popularity instead of experiences. It makes you feel, maybe not grown-up, but like you have a sense of maturity."
A crew from the National Science Foundation was in Jim Bean's astronomy class Wednesday getting footage for a short film as part of its online magazine, Science Nation, which examines breakthroughs and discoveries in science.
The film will focus on Project RECON, Research and Education Cooperative Occultation Network, in which Carson High School students joined residents in Carson City and 12 other towns stretching from Tulelake, Calif., to Tonopah, to help scientists study Kuiper belt objects — large, frozen bodies that orbit the sun beyond Neptune.
"Understanding KBOs will help us better understand the very first days of our solar system," explained professor John Keller of Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, who is leading the project, along with Marc Buie of the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colo. "These objects haven't been changed significantly for more than 4.5 billion years."
Crews filmed the students recording data from observations made in Bishop, Calif., when the asteroid Comacina passed in front of a star.
"It's very exciting to have the National Science Foundation here," Bean said. "This is good recognition for the students and for the high school staff here. These are really sharp kids."
The students will participate in 10 coordinated observations over the next 18 months to track shadows of KBOs and asteroids that pass between Earth and a given star, an astronomical event called an occultation.
"It's pretty fun just learning about this," said Travis Summers, 17. "It's something out there and we're seeing it happen here in real time."
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The Barack Obama administration's commitment to progress is highlighted by the president's role in opening the discussions, and in its invitation to Egyptian and Jordanian leaders to attend the gathering. But the obstacles are formidable, with the White House's ambition of a resolution of outstanding issues taking only a year, looking very optimistic.
A list of the four most substantive and difficult matters that will have be engaged is enough to illustrate this:
• The settlements that now stretch right across the West Bank, and which have been greatly expanded since the Oslo peace process started in the early 1990s.
• The final boundaries for an independent Palestine, including the status of Gaza and the physical link between the strip and the West Bank.
• The status of Jerusalem – seen by both parties to the dispute as its capital (see Mariano Aguirre, 'Israel-Palestine: a frontline report', on https://www.opendemocracy.net/, 26 March 2010).
• The rights of the Palestinian diaspora, both refugees and their descendants living in the region and those in other parts of the world, including the question of a return to land and homes lost in 1948.
The Palestinians face enormous problems, of which even the enduring political division between the Fatah and Hamas movements is but one. Their national predicament is such that many Palestinians find it near-impossible to envisage a viable state as a realistic possibility; a significant minority now embraces the idea of a unitary state covering the whole of historic Palestine. This 'one-state solution' is anathema to almost all Israelis, not least as demographic trends would mean that Israeli Jews would become a minority in such a state within a few decades.
More generally, Israel's overriding preoccupation with security reinforces its view of a region of enemies where any measure of political progress is seen in terms of the new vulnerabilities it may entail. Thus, for example, it views Hamas as exclusively a terrorist entity with which no negotiation is possible.
The reward of failure
At the outset of the talks, the Israelis will seek – as a precondition for any negotiations – the immediate and complete acceptance of the state of Israel, with all the security guarantees it requires (see Akiva Eldar, 'With a victory like this…', Ha'aretz, 23 August 2010).
Any decision by Israel to halt the freeze on new settlement-construction, and to restart further large-scale building projects, could wreck negotiations before they are underway. This alone means that it will be fortunate if the two sides are still talking in October, let alone in mid-2011.
Moreover, many in the Israeli government are confident that Israel is negotiating from such a position of strength that it need not make any serious concessions. They are bolstered here by a domestic rightward shift over the past generation, in part because of the influx of migrants from the former Soviet Union in the 1990s (see Colin Shindler, 'Israel's rightward shift: a history of the present', openDemocracy, 23 February 2009).
The calculation here is that the talks will (sooner or later) fail, leaving Israel to return to its tried-and-tested stance of enforcing security through overwhelming conventional military power, backed up by nuclear forces. In addition, behind its own iron fist it can rely on the backing of the world's sole superpower.
Israel is supported in this outlook by influential networks in Washington, among them the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (Aipac) and other lobby-groups. Aipac itself may not enjoy such unstinting loyalty as before – and liberal Jewish initiatives such as J Street offer a more nuanced view of what it means to be 'pro-Israel' – but it has been successful in forging links with evangelical Christians who espouse an apocalyptic vision of Israel's role in God's plan (see 'Christian Zionists and neocons: a heavenly marriage', openDemocracy, 2 February 2005).
This balance of forces, with Israel "impregnable in its own insecurity" and the Palestinians weak and divided, looks a recipe for diplomatic failure. Yet three factors are in play which should in principle give the Israelis pause – and should certainly be of deep concern to any thoughtful Israeli politician with a longer-term perspective on his or her state's situation.
The costs of failure
The first factor is that asymmetric military systems in the region – especially the extraordinary levels of mass production of short- and medium-range missiles in Iran, Syria and elsewhere – are becoming ever more difficult for Israel to counteract. Hizbollah, in Lebanon, has tens of thousands of missiles that can reach across much of Israel (see Amal Saad-Ghorayeb, "The Hizbollah project: last war, next war", 13 August 2009); and Iran, whether or not it has serious nuclear ambitions, is developing robust solid-fuel medium-range missiles (see 'An asymmetrical drone war', openDemocracy, 19 August 2010).
The second is that some senior figures in the American military are beginning to express in public a view they may previously have voiced only in private: that in relation to US interests in the middle east, Israel is part of the problem rather than a means to a solution. The argument here is that the Palestinians' enduring predicament, for which Israel bears a great responsibility, acts as a potent radicalising force across the region – with deleterious effects both on the US's strategic position and on the security of its forces (see 'America and Israel: a historic choice', openDemocracy, 18 March 2010).
The exceptionally close relationship between the Israeli and the American military makes such a shift of focus too important to ignore. The United States, after all, meets over 20 per cent of the Israeli defence budget, and US forces make extensive use of Israeli equipment and training facilities. A number of columns in this series has explored this theme: (see, for example, on openDemocracy, "After Saddam, no respite"
The third factor is more long-term; it too relates most immediately to the United States, but it also affects western European public opinion. In June 1967, Israel vanquished three Arab armies in the six-day war and in the process, occupied great swathes of territory. This historic victory consolidated support in the west (particularly the US) for what was perceived as "brave little Israel", and in time was also seen by those adhering to a politically influential Christian-Zionist worldview as the fulfilment of a religious destiny.
Almost two generations on, both the region's geopolitics and its demography have changed. The war of 1967 is a living memory only for those in middle age or above; far more important and pressing on the minds of people observing the region from outside. is Israel's widespread destruction in the Gaza war of 2008-09, the relentless expansion of settlements in the West Bank, and other human-rights infringements great or small.
The Israeli government may present these issues in a very different light – but its message is less persuasive than ever. In many circles, even those previously sympathetic to Israel, a profound reversal of roles has occurred in the region's 'David vs Goliath' combat – with the result that Israel, now seen as an overweening bully, is losing its moral legitimacy.
Some in Israel's national community – journalists, academics, NGO workers among them – recognise this, and are doing their best to alert their compatriots to the dangers of the situation (see Thomas Keenan & Eyal Weizman, 'Israel: the third strategic threat', openDemocracy, 7 June 2010). But most Israelis, starting with the Binyamin Netanyahu administration, do not. As a whole, the Israeli state seems not to understand – and may simply be unable to see – that its posture is unsustainable (see 'Israel's security trap', openDemocracy, 5 August 2010).
Time really is running out for Israel; but most probably, only outside actors can enable the country to recognise this (see 'After Gaza: Israel's last chance', openDemocracy, 17 January 2009). In this respect, the Barack Obama administration may be different enough from its predecessors as to ensure some serious diplomatic progress.
If, as a result, the Washington talks on 2 September 2010 become truly serious in the coming months, Obama's presidency could yet be responsible for a historic achievement that would help save Israel from itself.


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Eating less protein, combined with consuming extra calories, may lead to fat gain that won't show up on the bathroom scale. How can that be? The findings from recently published research may be surprising to some.
A study conducted by researchers at Louisiana State University's Pennington Biomedical Research Center followed 25 young adults, ages 18 to 35 with BMIs ranging from 19 to 30, who agreed to live in the university's metabolic unit for three months. After working with researchers to find a daily calorie intake that would maintain their current weight and eating a weight-stabilizing diet for 13 to 25 days, the volunteers began a diet consisting of an extra 954 calories per day with varying amounts of protein, and had their every bite monitored to assure they ate every morsel of food.
This small study has some large implications. The typical diet in the United States is high in fat, high in carbohydrates, and low in protein. The results of this study suggest that overeating on this type of diet can cause people to gain body fat, even if they aren't gaining a lot of weight.
The volunteers were either fed a low-protein diet (5 percent of calories from protein), a high-protein diet (25 percent of calories from protein), or a normal-protein diet (15 percent of calories from protein) to see if the amount of protein consumed had an effect on body composition, weight gain, and energy expenditure. Carbohydrate intake was kept constant at 41 percent of calories during the study, so the higher protein diets resulted in a higher fat intake. The study participants were encouraged to be couch potatoes - no exercise.
All three groups gained about 7.7 pounds of body fat. Those on the low-protein diet gained about half as much weight, but they also lost an average of 1.5 pounds of lean body mass, and body fat accounted for about 90 percent of the extra calories stored as fat compared to a 50 percent gain in body fat for those eating the normal- or high-protein diet.
At the end of the study the volunteers who had been consuming the normal- or high-protein diets had a higher resting energy expenditure, which means they were burning more calories while their bodies were at rest. Muscle mass increases the body's ability to burn calories. Resting energy expenditure stayed the same for those who ate the low-protein diet.
Summarizing the results of the study, Dr. George Bray, Chief of Pennington's Division of Clinical Obesity and Metabolism said, "Calories from fat and carbohydrate were stored as extra calories. Protein calories did not affect fat storage directly, but did increase energy expenditure and changes in lean body mass."
Most people probably need about 20 percent of their calories from protein each day, which is 100 grams for someone eating 2,000 calories a day.
The results also imply that the epidemic of obesity may be worse than statistics show since even people at lower weights can have excess body fat. Body composition – or the make-up of a person's weight – may be a more important indicator of health than weight as measured on a bathroom scale. Excess body fat is linked to a greater risk of chronic diseases such as type 2 diabetes, coronary artery disease, and stroke.
Also implicated in this study are the federal government's recommendations for minimum protein intake. The current minimum recommendations are 46 grams per day for females and 56 grams per day for males. These recommendations may not be high enough to maintain a person's lean body mass. In the study, at least 78 grams per day were needed to avoid the loss of muscle, something that is never a good idea. Most people probably need about 20 percent of their calories from protein each day, which is 100 grams for someone eating 2,000 calories a day.
How do you achieve a balanced diet that is high in protein and low in fat? Plan a diet that is chock full of fruits and vegetables of every color in the spectrum, and include lean protein such as the white meat of chicken and turkey, fish, eggs, low-fat milk and yogurt, and beans. Not only are these foods low in fat and high in protein, but they are packed with essential nutrients and phytochemicals. They are also low in calories so you can eat enough to fill you up and still stay within your calorie budget. And don't forget to include carbohydrates, mostly in the form of whole grains.
The study was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.


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Organizations that need to distribute an equal number of users across iFolder servers need user load balancing support. User load balancing ensures an equal amount of connections per server and balanced data transfer across servers.
Figure 8-1 Load Balancer
Organizations that need automatic user management should provision the users soon after iFolder server deployment. This is necessary in large organizations where user management is difficult and provisioning existing users requires considerable administrative overhead. With the load balancing option, the users are provisioned to the server that has fewer users provisioned so that the number of users across the deployed iFolder servers is equalized.
This configuration ensures that the response time for every user is good and the number of connections per server is not excessive. If some super users have large data sets, this setup does not guarantee data load-balancing, but only guarantees user count balancing across available servers.
The following sections describe the deployment of an iFolder master server as a load balancer.