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Exchange Between Senator Chuck Hagel (R-NE) and Eileen Claussen Regarding: U.S.-International Climate Change Approach: A Clean Technology Solution
Hearing of the Subcommittee on International Economic Policy, Export and Trade Promotion of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Panel II
Washington, DC
November 14, 2005
Adopted from transcript by the Federal News Service
SEN. HAGEL: Secretary Claussen, welcome. We are glad you're here. When I say Secretary Claussen, those who are observing this hearing should note that you are not a secretary in the current government, but in a past government you were assistant secretary of State. And we're once again very grateful for your willingness to come before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and offer some important thoughts. Your present capacity is president of the Pew Center on Global Climate Change. You have been a leader on this issue for many years. You know exactly what you're talking about and have very definite opinions and perspectives. We are always grateful to receive those.
And I'm pleased again that you'd take time to come before the committee. So please provide your testimony, and if you'd care to abbreviate it or read it all, either way. And then, we'll have an opportunity to exchange some thoughts.
President Claussen, thank you.
MS. CLAUSSEN: Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. If I may, I would just like to summarize a few key points from my written statement.
The Hagel climate provisions of the energy bill go to a very important issue: how best to develop and deploy climate-friendly technologies urgently and on a global scale. Standards of living and energy demand are expected to rise dramatically in the developing world over the next few decades. China expects to build 544 gigawatts of new coal capacity over the next 25 years, and the city of Shanghai -- and these are just examples -- predicts a quadrupling of cars and trucks by 2020.
If we are going to address the climate change problem, the huge growth in energy demand in developing countries must be as climate- friendly as possible. We believe the Hagel provisions, if implemented properly, can help achieve that outcome. First, we would urge that assistance provided to developing countries be tailored to their specific needs. Rather than seeing climate-friendly technology deployment as an exercise in funding demonstration projects or increasing technology exports, our goal should be to integrate climate-friendly activities into national strategies for economic growth, poverty reduction and sustainable development.
This is the only way that it will make a lasting difference – that is, by becoming a part of the recipient country's own economic plans and programs.
Second, the Hagel provisions, like the many technology initiatives launched before it, can only be effective to the extent that they are adequately funded and managed. Time and again in the past, we have launched initiatives to much fanfare, but then provided inadequate funding and failed to manage them as a coherent whole. It would be a shame if the same happened to the Hagel program.
More important than any of this, though, is the need to establish a fair and effective international framework to engage all major emitting countries in the effort against climate change. We do not believe that technology initiatives in and of themselves will make a significant difference, and we do not believe that an international framework necessarily means putting countries on an energy diet -- a greenhouse gas emissions diet, yes; an energy diet, no.
But in order for countries to undertake and sustain ambitious efforts to limit or reduce greenhouse gas emissions, they need to be confident that other countries, and in particular their major trading partners, are also contributing their fair share to the overall effort. We need, therefore, some form of mutual assurance and some certainty. This is best accomplished in a common framework within which countries can take on commitments commensurate with their responsibilities and capabilities and appropriate to their national circumstances. Technology cooperation should be a part, but only one part, of such a global framework.
Through an initiative called the Climate Dialogue at Pocantico, the Pew Center has engaged with policymakers and stakeholders from around the world to look at options for creating such a framework. Dialogue members who participated in their personal capacities included policymakers from Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Germany, Japan, Mexico, the United Kingdom and the U.S. Senate; senior executives from Alcoa, BP, DuPont, Eskom of South Africa, Exelon, Rio Tinto and Toyota; and experts from the Pew Center, India's Energy and Resources Institute, and the World Economic Forum. The final report of the dialogue will be released tomorrow, actually, in this room with Senators Lugar and Biden, and will be presented to government ministers at the upcoming climate change negotiations in Montreal.
We believe we've come up with some ideas for a path forward. Now what we need is for the United States to be constructively engaged in negotiating a framework, based perhaps on some of the ideas we will be suggesting. The climate negotiations taking place next month in Montreal would be an excellent place to start that engagement, and we know that nearly every country there would welcome U.S. leadership.
Unfortunately, we understand that the Administration is opposing efforts by other countries to initiate a process to begin considering next steps under the Framework Convention. We believe it is essential that such a process go forward.
So my final recommendation would be for the Senate to revisit and update the 1997 Byrd-Hagel resolution, advise the executive branch to work with other nations, both under the Framework Convention and in other international fora, with the aim of securing U.S. participation in agreements consistent with the following four objectives:
- First, to advance and protect the economic and national security interests of the United States.
- Second, to establish mitigation commitments by all countries that are major emitters of greenhouse gases.
- Third, to establish flexible international mechanisms to minimize the cost of efforts by participating countries.
- And fourth, to achieve a significant long-term reduction in global greenhouse gas emissions.
Doing that, if it leads to constructive U.S. engagement in the development of an international climate policy framework, is far and away the most important thing the Senate could do to create a positive context for implementation of the Hagel provisions.
Thank you very much.
SEN. HAGEL: President Claussen, thank you, as always, for your comments. And your entire statement will be included in the record.
I'm going to bounce around a little bit on some questions based on your testimony and some things that you did not specifically mention, but are in your statement, and then also based on some of the things that the previous witnesses mentioned.
First, Kyoto's cap and trade system – in your opinion, is it working for the European countries?
MS. CLAUSSEN: Let me put it this way. I think it is much harder than most of them thought it would be to actually implement the targets they negotiated. But I do think it has spurred a lot of activity, a lot of which is really positive in terms of reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
So, has it been helpful in educating people and getting them on the right path? I think the answer is yes. Is it going to fulfill the dreams of many of those that signed? Probably not.
SEN. HAGEL: Meaning that many will not meet their targets?
MS. CLAUSSEN: I think many will not meet their targets -- not all, but many.
SEN. HAGEL: Do you believe a cap and trade system is necessary to force new technologies onto the market?
MS. CLAUSSEN: No. I think a cap and trade system is one approach that can work quite effectively, but it is not the only approach.
It is certainly my vision that we need some different paths forward, of which that could be one. It could be chosen by some countries, but I think we need others as well.
SEN. HAGEL: You sat and carefully listened, as I noted, to the testimony of the first panel, and they referenced some of these areas, in particular Secretary Garman. How do you respond to what you heard? Do you think that's too far out? Is it too much on the periphery? Were you encouraged by what you heard? Give me your thoughts on that.
MS. CLAUSSEN: This is something that Jim Connaughton said at the end: I think we are at a point where many in the private sector are starting to think very seriously about long-term strategies that move us toward climate-friendly greenhouse gas technology. I think that's right. I think, though, that what he thinks spurred that development was maybe helpful, but not what actually did it.
If I look at what has changed in the world that would result in that kind of activity, it is much more likely to be implementation of Kyoto, warts and all; the efforts in California and along the West Coast of the United States; the efforts in the Northeast and the Mid-Atlantic, where they are developing and will soon announce a cap-and-trade system; lots of other activities at the state level – 21 states with renewable requirements. That activity is really what is spurring the change in the private sector, more investment in climate-friendly technologies.
But I do think it's happening. I do agree with that. I just see different reasons for it.
SEN. HAGEL: Would you generally say you agree with what you heard as the objectives of this administration from the three representatives of the administration?
MS. CLAUSSEN: On the assumption that what we're all after is a world where emissions are reduced pretty substantially in the next 50 or so years, I think the answer is yes. I just don't think you can get there only by a "push." I think you need a "pull" to get the technologies into the market as well, and some kind of certainty and some kind of policy that's more than the current administration seems to be interested in.
SEN. HAGEL: If we are seeing significant increase in the potential and the technologies coming on line, then what additionally would mandates, caps or government regulation do?
MS. CLAUSSEN: What would they do? I think they would move the technologies much faster in the development stage, and much, much faster in the deployment and diffusion stage, which is what we need to do. We need to get moving faster than just a little bit of push.
Again, I think your provisions will be very helpful. They just need to be complemented with something that helps get those technologies into the marketplace.
SEN. HAGEL: You mentioned international dialogue and how you think maybe something can come out of that. Would you expand on that a little bit?
MS. CLAUSSEN: Well, I don't want to expand too much, because I don't want to talk about what we're going to announce tomorrow. But I'll give you a little flavor.
The fact that we had such a diverse group of people around the table and that they actually reached a consensus was pretty good. We agreed on a set of elements we think are really important. We talked about adaptation, and we talked about long-term targets.
But when we started to focus on mitigation, we thought that there were four elements that were really important. One of them was technology, one of them was targets-and-trading, one of them was sectoral approaches, and one of them was what we called policy-based approaches.
We looked at that range of elements because we thought some may be more appealing to some countries than others, and what we were really interested in, in the long term, was getting everybody on the right path.
So we are looking at something that provides maximum flexibility with real results. When you asked me about targets and trading, yes, it's important, and I think it's a path that many will want to go down. But there are other ones as well.
SEN. HAGEL: Let me ask you a question I asked Secretary Dobriansky about. What are some of the regions in the world where you think we have the most significant opportunity for cost- effective development of these technologies?
MS. CLAUSSEN: Let me put it a slightly different way. Twenty- five countries are responsible for 83 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions. These countries are also among the most populous, and they're also the countries with the largest GDPs.
But on the other hand, per capita emissions range by a factor of 14 and per capita incomes within that group by a factor of 18. So while they are the countries that absolutely have to be at the table -- and we feel very strongly that all of that group needs to be at the table -- we do need to have some kind of a flexible approach that allows each of those countries to do what is in their national interest, but that is also moving us on the right path on greenhouse gas emissions.
So I would look at it in terms of sort of major emitters, major economies, the people who have to be at the table.
SEN. HAGEL: You mentioned your idea about revisiting the Byrd- Hagel amendment, if I understood your point, to essentially update it.
MS. CLAUSSEN: Yes.
SEN. HAGEL: And you mentioned, I think, four specific areas. Would you care to expand on that point?
MS. CLAUSSEN: Our interest is in doing some of the things that you have in the Byrd-Hagel resolution, but instead of putting them in a negative context – what you shouldn't do – we think they should be put in a positive context of what the U.S. government should do. It is really important for the U.S. government to be engaged in this, and it's important for our private sector, too, to see the U.S. at the table shaping the solutions. Many in the private sector would feel that our views, our analysis, the way we look at these things is really important and should be a part of the process if we're going to have an outcome with which we can live.
So it's really important to urge engagement. I understand the context for the Byrd-Hagel resolution, but I think the context is different now, and it is really important for the U.S. to be at the table – at the table with ideas and at the table with solutions.
SEN. HAGEL: You do not think what you heard in the last hour and a half from three senior administration officials, talking about at the technologies, engagement, not only some of the legislation I sponsored that's now law, but even beyond that R11; you do not feel that's enough?
MS. CLAUSSEN: I don't, because I think most other countries, while they will participate in all of these initiatives that the last three witnesses talked about – and many of them have the potential to be effective, so I'm not trying to denigrate what contribution they can make – most countries are interested in a policy framework, not just a technology framework. As far as I understand it -- I may be wrong here, but I don't think so -- the U.S. has essentially said they don't want to participate in discussions about the future in a policy sense. And I think that's a mistake because the world needs both mutual assurance and certainty, you have to do that in some kind of a policy framework, and I think the U.S. should participate.
SEN. HAGEL: Thank you. Staying with your three colleagues here for a moment, let me give you an opportunity to respond to anything that you care to respond to that you heard while they were at the table.
MS. CLAUSSEN: Well, I talk to them all all the time, and we agree on a fair number of things. I just think the vision doesn't go where it needs to go if we're really going to address this. We have to start with a much greater sense of urgency, but not to do things that are bad for economic growth. I think that we can do things that are good for economic growth, that result much sooner in reductions in greenhouse gas emissions.
It's interesting when you look at the companies that have taken on targets, and there are probably 35 or 38 of them. Many of them have targets that are much more stringent than, say, the U.S.-Kyoto target. Thirteen of them have already met their targets, and not one of them on net has spent money doing it because they've found efficiency opportunities that would result in reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. I don't want not to take those while we can take them, while we're developing the technologies that would be good in a decade or two decades. We need some long-term technologies, but why wouldn't we take opportunities that exist right now to put us on the right path? And I just don't see the Administration moving in that direction. I seem them focused on the long-term. I don't want to see us miss opportunities in the short-term.
SEN. HAGEL: You were here for the question that Senator Alexander asked the panel about why we shall invest in the Australian project with the timeline as it is, versus the timeline here. Do you know anything about that?
MS. CLAUSSEN: I don't know any of the specifics about that, but I do know that the private sector is really interested in advancing the technology, and I see them marketing a lot of technologies abroad because they feel that the policy climate is more certain abroad, whether it's in a Kyoto country or a country that's more committed to long-term emission reductions.
If you talk to the CEO of General Electric, for example, who's just started to really focus in a major way on greenhouse gas reducing technology, he views a lot of his markets abroad rather than here, because he doesn't think we're at the same stage in our policy development and implementation. He's very much focused on abroad, and of course he wants to sell his technology, but it's interesting that he sees the markets there, not here. Well, I think he should be seeing them here as well.
SEN. HAGEL: But you don't know anything about why they would make that decision.
MS. CLAUSSEN: No, I don't. But I'm happy to try to find out and answer it for you.
SEN. HAGEL: Well, I'll tell Senator Alexander that you will take that assignment on. He'll be very pleased about that. As you know, he is very engaged in this overall issue and very knowledgeable.
MS. CLAUSSEN: Yes. Well, coal and transportation are the two things we really need to focus on, because we're going to burn a lot of coal, and China and India and Australia are going to burn a lot of coal, and we have to find a way to do it with capture and sequestration.
SEN. HAGEL: Yes, for a long time to come.
MS. CLAUSSEN: For a long time to come.
SEN. HAGEL: Well, we are going to vote shortly, so I will adjourn our committee hearing. But let me also say, as I did to the first panel, that we may have additional questions if that is acceptable to you.
MS. CLAUSSEN: Absolutely.
SEN. HAGEL: We'll get those to you in the next two days if we have some members that would require that. Your full testimony, of course, will be included in the record.
Again, I personally appreciate all of the time that we've had over the years to exchange views on this issue, and your continued leadership. Thank you very, very much.
MS. CLAUSSEN: Thank you very much.
SEN. HAGEL: The committee's adjourned.


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WORK has started on the £34 million expansion of a college in York - the biggest project in its history - after the Government gave the scheme the all-clear.
Askham Bryan College secured planning permission from City of York Council last year for a three-stage development which includes a new animal management centre, a wildlife and conservation area, an equine centre and new teaching facilities and student accommodation, but the project still needed to be cleared by the Department for Communities and Local Government.
This approval has now been granted and construction work on the first phase of the development - which will also include an engineering workshop, improvements to the college farm and a glazed roof over the site's quadrangle - has now begun. It will focus on the £6 million animal management centre, which is expected to be completed in autumn.
College principal Liz Philip said: "The start of work on this project is a significant milestone not only for the college, but also for young people wanting to develop career paths into animal science and management.
"The centre will provide a wonderful working environment for our students, and hopefully it won't be too long before we are able to welcome the public to see the new animals in the wildlife and conservation area."
The animal management centre will house lecture rooms, a replica vet practice, a hydrotherapy room for animals, a cattery and kennels. Once the wildlife and conservation area is completed, animals and birds already at the college - including skunks, mongoose, marmosets and birds of prey - will move there and exotic species such as zebras, ostriches and wallabies may be added.
The overall project will create 120 jobs and see almost 1,600 additional students based at the college by 2017/18.

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I spent some time explaining SQL Server Replication to someone recently. They said they hadn't ever really understood the concepts, and that I'd managed to help. It's inspired me to write a post that I wouldn't normally do – a "101" post. I'm not trying to do a fully comprehensive piece on replication, just enough to be able to help you get the concepts.
The way I like to think about replication is by comparing it to magazines. The analogy only goes so far, but let's see how we go.
The things being replicated are articles. A publication (the responsibility of a publisher) is a collection of these articles. At the other end of the process are people with subscriptions. It's just like when my son got a magazine subscription last Christmas. Every month, the latest set of articles got delivered to our house. (The image here isn't my own – but feel free to click on it and subscribe to FourFourTwo – excellent magazine, particularly when they're doing an article about the Arsenal.) Most of the work is done by agents, such as the newsagent that gets it to my house.
In SQL Server, these same concepts hold. The objects which are being replicated are articles (typically tables, but also stored procedures, functions, view definitions, and even indexed views). You might not replicate your whole database – just the tables and other objects of interest. These articles make up a publication. Replication is just about getting that stuff to the Subscribers.
Of course, the magazine analogy breaks down quite quickly. Each time my son got a new edition, the articles were brand new – material he'd never seen before. In SQL Replication, the Subscribers probably have data from earlier. But this brings us to look at a key concept in SQL Replication – how the stupid thing starts.
Regardless of what kind of replication you're talking about, the concept is all about keeping Subscribers in sync with the Publisher. You could have the whole table move across every time, but more than likely, you're going to just have the changes go through. At some point, though, the thing has to get to a starting point.
This starting point is (typically) done using a snapshot. It's not a "Database Snapshot" like what you see in the Object Explorer of SQL Server Management Studio – this is just a starting point for replication. It's a dump of all the data and metadata that make up the articles, and it's stored on the file system. Not in a database, on the file system. A Subscriber will need this data to be initialised, ready for a stream of changes to be applied.
It's worth noting that there is a flavour of replication which just uses snapshots, known as Snapshot Replication. Every time the subscriber gets a refresh of data, it's the whole publication that has to flow down. This might be fine for small pieces of data, it might not for others.
(There are other ways to get started too, such as by restoring a backup, but you should still be familiar with the concept of snapshots for replication.)
To get in sync, a subscriber would need the data in the snapshot for initialisation, and then every change that has happened since. To reduce the effort that would be required if something went drastically wrong and a new subscription became needed, snapshots can be recreated at regular intervals. This is done by the Snapshot Agent, and like all agents, can be found as a SQL Server Agent job.
The middle-man between the Publisher and the Subscribers is the Distributor. The Distributor is essentially a bunch of configuration items (and as we'll see later, changes to articles), stored in the distribution database – a system database that is often overlooked. If you query sys.databases on a SQL instance that has been configured as a Distributor you'll see a row for the distribution database. It won't have a database_id less than 5, but it will have a value of 1 in the is_distributor column. The instance used as the Distributor is the one whose SQL Server Agent runs most of the replication agents, including the Snapshot Agent.
If you're not doing Snapshot Replication, you're going to want to get those changes through. Transactional Replication, as the name suggests, involves getting transactions that affect the published articles out to the subscribers. If the replication has been set up to push the data through, this should be quite low latency.
So that SQL Server isn't having to check every transaction right in the middle of it, there's a separate agent that looks though the log for transactions that are needed for the replication, copying them across to the distribution database, where they hang around as long as they're needed. This agent is the Log Reader Agent, and also runs on the Distributor. You can imagine that there is a potential performance hit if this is running on a different machine to the Publisher, and this is one of the influencing factors that means that you'll typically have the Distributor running on the Publisher (although there are various reasons why you might not).
Now we have a process which is making sure that initialisation is possible by getting snapshots ready, and another process which is looking for changes to the articles. The agent that gets this data out to Subscribers is the Distribution Agent. Despite its name, it can run at the Subscriber, if the Subscriber is set to pull data across (good for occasionally connected systems). This is like with my magazine – I might prefer to go to the newsagent and pick it up, if I'm not likely to be home when the postman comes around. In effect, my role as Subscriber includes doing some distribution if I want to pull the data through myself.
These three agents, Snapshot Agent, Log Reader Agent and Distribution Agent, make up the main agents used for Transactional Replication, which is probably the most common type of replication around. Snapshot Replication doesn't use the Log Reader Agent, but still needs the other two.
Now let's consider the other types of replication.
Merge Replication involves having subscribers that can also change the data. It's similar to Transactional Replication with Updateable Subscribers, which has been deprecated. These changes are sent back to the Merge Agent, which works out what changes have to be applied. This is actually more complicated than you might expect, because it's very possible to have changes made in multiple places and for a conflict to arise. You can set defaults about who wins, and can override manually through the Replication Monitor (which is generally a useful tool for seeing if Subscribers are sufficiently in sync, testing the latency, and so on). Updateable Subscribers end up using the Queue Reader Agent instead of the Merge Agent. They're slightly different in the way they run, but I consider them to be quite similar in function, as they both involve getting the data back into the publisher when changes have been made elsewhere.
Peer-to-Peer Replication is the final kind. This is really a special type of Transactional Replication, in which you have multiple publishers, all pushing data out at each other. It's the option that is considered closest to a High Availability system, and is good across geographically wide environments, particularly if connections are typically routed to the closest server. Consider the example of servers in the UK, the US and Australia. Australian users can be connected to the local server, knowing the changes are going to be pushed out to the UK and US boxes. They're set up in a topology, with each server considered a node. Each server keeps track of which updates it's had, which means they should be able to keep in sync, regardless of when they have downtime. If Australian changes are sent to the UK but not the US, then US can be updated by the UK server if that's easier.
Replication can feel complex. There are a lot of concepts that are quite alien to most database administrators. However, the benefits of replication can be significant, and are worth taking advantage of in many situations. They're an excellent way of keeping data in sync across a number of servers, without many of the server availability hassles associated with log-shipping or mirroring. It can definitely help you achieve scale-out environments, particularly if you consider Peer-to-Peer, which can help you offload your connections to other servers, knowing the key data can be kept up-to-date easily.
I haven't tried to be completely comprehensive in this quick overview of replication, but if you're new to the concepts, or you're studying for one of the MCITP exams and need to be able to get enough of an understanding to get you by, then I hope this has helped demystify it somewhat.
There's more in SQL Books Online, of course – a whole section on Replication. If what I've written makes sense, go exploring, and try to get it running on your own servers too. Maybe my next post will cover some of that.
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SQL Server Central has a StairWay tutorial on replication, you might want to point that out people also.
Thanks Kalen.
Readers: Sebastian Meine has written a series on replication that you can see over at SQLServerCentral.com. Check out the link in Kalen's comment for more.
Hi Rob,
There is absolutely nothing wrong with a 101 level article. I think the thing that confuses people the most with replication is the fact that there is only so much you can get out of management studio, when things go awry. The other main stumbling block is with conflicts encountered with merge replication, particularly when identities are used to seed primary keys, Hillary Cotter's "Identity crisis" article which can be found on simple-talk is an excellant reference for dealing with this.
I hope you and your family are having a happy Christmas.
Yes, I think there are a number of things which people struggle with around replication, and hopefully this can help people grasp the basic concepts. Maybe I'll do a post on conflict resolution soon.
I Rob, I agree with you: SQL Replication is nothing to worry about.
On the other hand, I think it's quite complex to implement in a big production environment. I've got some experience of Transactional Replication but, apart from the key concepts, all I know about it I've learned on the job (mistakes included of course).
Can you suggest any good advanced self-training book about SQL replications?
Hi Francesco - I've never read a book on replication, so I can't really recommend one. Sorry.
Bad luck. Someone should start thinking of writing a good book about that subject.
For more SQL replication info checkout Paul Ibison's excellent site: www.replicationanswers.com
Hilary Cotter's SQL 2000 replication book was invaluable to me, a possible update required?
@Francesco - There's an excellent chapter, by Hilary Cotter in the first SQL Server MVP Deep Dives book, that looks at performance tuning Transactional Replication topologies. It contains the best (IMHO) explanation of how to tune the performance of the various Replication agents. (http://www.manning.com/nielsen/)
For general replication performance and tuning knowledge, see the REPLTLK blog on MSDN (http://blogs.msdn.com/b/repltalk/)
There are some replication performance tuning guides out there too, buried in various blogs however, I don't have the references to hand. I'll see what I can dig up....
Thanks @Scott & @John.
I've never read that book but I knew already it was a really good one :)
about guides, I've found this quite usefull "Achieving Excellence in Designing and Maintaining SQL Server Transactional Replication Environments" (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj215849.aspx)
This one is good for beginners to intermediate: Pro SQL Server 2008 Replication (http://www.amazon.com/Server-2008-Replication-Experts-Voice/dp/143021807X)
thanks all for the great info.
hope this is the place for my question.
should peer to peer transactional replication ( with updates from peers enabled ) withstand network disconnects easily ?
we are using it in an application, set up sqlprime as the primary and sqlsecond as the failover server
all goes well until we test the redundancy by disconnecting the network on sqlprime .
the app find the failover, writes data but when sqlprime ( primary server) comes back, all replication is stopped with strange error ( mainly directing to login failures ( which are bogus as passwords did not change. )
so , are we testing something this setup should not stand ? ( network interruptions ? )
Hi Dave,
It should be able to resume. It will be helpful to see the actual errors.
Maybe drop me an email and I'll see what I can do. rob at lobsterpot.com.au is best.
i have 3 Server using Sql Server 2008 R2 Standard edition located in 3 different sites and didnt use domain. i want to replicate each transaction from these server to my HQ server that also using Sql Server 2008 R2 standard.
my question is, is it possible to replicate in non-domain environment?
if the answer is yes, how the server can communicate in different network as the replication cant use Ip Address as their communication?
how do I set up peer to peer replication for 2012
do I do a snapshot or just go to peer to peer
How do I determine the agent for a specific replication job?


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LONG BEACH -- The case of two Long Beach men charged with assault in the hate crime beating of two gay men last Halloween came to an early close Thursday, just days before their trial was scheduled to begin.
The defendants, Marquise Anton Lucas, 19, and Sierus Lamar Dunbar, 27, both pleaded no contest to felony assault, and were sentenced by Judge Gary Ferrari to six years and four years, respectively.
Lucas pleaded to the most serious charge, including two counts of assault likely to produce great bodily injury and a hate crime allegation; he received six years in state prison where he will have to serve 85 percent of his time before he can be paroled, Deputy District Attorney Bob Hight said.
Dunbar pleaded to a count of assault likely to produce great bodily injury and admitted his prison priors, meaning he will serve his four-year term in county custody and can be given credit for time already served, calculated by the court to be 182 days.
In addition to their jail and prison terms, Lucas and Dunbar were also ordered to pay more than $2,400 each to the most seriously injured victim. Neither man can appeal his conviction.
Had the pair gone to trial and been convicted on all counts, Lucas faced at least 11 years in prison and Dunbar faced at least nine years in prison, Hight said.
"The people are ready to proceed with trial, it's a very strong case," the prosecutor said last week, after the defendants rejected the plea deal.
Hight said he was surprised the defendants did not accept the offer earlier.
"It's not a case that I think will play well to a jury given (the defendants') size and age compared to the victims ... and the hate crime allegation, the things that were said were extremely offensive and hateful," he said.
But the offer didn't go down well with Dunbar, who argued with his lawyer up until the moment he entered his plea Thursday; nor did it seem to sit well with Lucas' family, including one relative who insisted the incident was a fight, not an attack, and there was no hate crime committed.
"This is bulls---," the man muttered in court. "They're being railroaded."
The victims, who attended the court proceedings, and who left at one point when they felt overwhelmed by hostile comments from Lucas' family, disagreed with that view.
"We have five or six witnesses ... who heard (one of) the defendants yelling f----- before and during the attack," Hight said.
The incident occurred at about 8:15 p.m. near Fourth Street and Cherry Avenue, just west of The Gay and Lesbian Center of Greater Long Beach, last Halloween. The victims, who asked that their names not be used, had just left the center when they said Lucas and Dunbar walked by and Lucas yelled out a gay slur.
As one victim took a picture of the pair with his cellphone, the other victim pulled out his cell to call police. That is when Lucas attacked, said witnesses and the victims -- one of whom is 52, and the other who is in his 60s.
Both the victims were beaten, suffered broken bones and bruising, and one had several teeth smashed. One man was treated and released from the hospital the following day while the other victim spent several days in the hospital, the men said.
"It would be nice to have this settled and over," one of the victims said Thursday inside the courtroom.
Based on witness statements and the evidence, it was clear Lucas had intent to commit a hate crime because of what he said to the victims and his actions, the prosecutor said. Witnesses, however, did not recall Dunbar using any derogatory terms and he did not attack the victims until after he saw one victim come to the aid of the other, who was being beaten by Lucas, Hight explained.
"My client is no choir boy," said Attorney Darcy Calkins, who was assigned to represent Dunbar.
"But what he was guilty of was his friend blew a gasket and he jumped in to back up his friend," Calkins said. He never had any intent to commit a hate crime, which is why the allegation was dismissed at his (preliminary hearing)."
Calkins offered her apologies to the victims for their ordeal as they left the court and wished them a speedy recovery.
"You were very brave to come here," Calkins told the men, adding that she is a member of the gay community.
"I don't want to see anyone subjected to a hate crime," she said, noting the case was a difficult one because it hit close to home.
No apologies were offered by either of the defendants, though Lucas looked back at his family and smiled while Dunbar yelled "f--- you" at a photographer before both men were taken out of the courtroom handcuffed and shackled.
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WKYT Partners with Alltech for the First-Ever Kentucky Gathering
[LEXINGTON, Ky.] – CBS broadcast affiliate WKYT has joined as an Official Media Partner for Alltech's first-ever Kentucky Gathering, a celebration of the state's horses, heritage and hops at the Alltech Arena from Oct. 29-Nov. 3. Proud traditions of the Bluegrass state will be celebrated through world-class equestrian sport at the Alltech National Horse Show; family-friendly activities including bouncy castles, face painting and pony rides; and a tasting experience featuring local artisan foods, brews and spirits called "Savor Kentucky."
"WKYT is proud to partner with Alltech for the Alltech National Horse Show," said Chris Mossman, WKYT general manager. "We are excited to be the exclusive television Media Partner for the first Kentucky Gathering and look forward to adding to the buzz that this event will bring to our community."
As the exclusive local broadcast television Media Partner, WKYT will champion the Kentucky Gathering through promotions and participation during the week-long festival of events. Official Media Partners of the Kentucky Gathering will receive special recognition for their support during prime-time equestrian events inside the Alltech Arena.
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Kentuckians will gather this fall to celebrate three proud traditions deeply rooted in the Bluegrass state – horses, heritage and hops. Alltech will host the first-ever Kentucky Gathering, Oct. 29-Nov. 3, at the Alltech Arena on the grounds of the Kentucky Horse Park. The week-long festival includes the world-class equestrian sport of the Alltech National Horse Show; the Biggest Loser RunWalk on Nov. 2; delectable craft foods, spirits and brews at the Savor Kentucky experience on Nov. 1-2; a children's play area with bouncy castles, face painting and pony rides; and much more to entertain the entire family. For more information, visit www.kentuckygathering.com.
An American equestrian tradition, the Alltech National Horse Show, Oct. 29-Nov.3, has reached its stride in the Alltech Arena at the Kentucky Horse Park. Reserved for the year's top talent on the North American show circuit, the Alltech National Horse Show opens the ring to a variety of equestrian classes and disciplines, with events including the $250,000 Alltech Grand Prix, the $50,000 LIFEFORCE Elite™ Puissance and the ASPCA Alfred B. Maclay Final for youth competitors. For more information, visit www.alltechnationalhorseshow.com.


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Wow Cubs fans should be excited if this happens.Report: Theo Epstein nears Cubs job
Theo Epstein is "on the cusp" of joining the Chicago Cubs, according to the Boston Herald.
The position may include powers greater than his current job as the Boston Red Sox general manager, the paper reports, citing two baseball sources.
Obstacles in the move include the Red Sox wanting to retain Epstein, or, if he does leave, wanting fair compensation from the Cubs, according to the paper.
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Epstein, who has won two World Series with the Red Sox, has one year remaining on his contract and the team has not said that he will get an extension.


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South High football coach dies at age 44
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK/KBFX) John Wren, who served as head coach of the South High School Rebels football team for the past seven years, died either Monday night of early Tuesday in his sleep.
He was 44 years old.
Fellow coaches and South High administrators confirmed Wren's death. They couldn't say what caused the coach's death.
Wren was a South High grad who, according to a Twitter page bearing his name, planned "to coach there forever."
Wren was also an English teacher, working at both South and Foothill high schools, according to district spokesman John Teves.
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I started snowboarding at the age of 12, only because I wanted to be as cool as my sister. Out of this grew the biggest passion of my life and I would go snowboarding every free minute. As I grew up at the base of two ski resorts, I spent nearly every free day on the mountain. At an early age, I started to really enjoy good powder days more and more and today this is what motivates me the most. Even though I started competing at contests (mostly at big air events), riding good powder lines and doing photoshoots is what I enjoy most these days. Nature offers me the biggest playground where I have most fun.
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Following a request at the Competitors meeting that the explanation of the Rules changes be made very public so that competitors for Dubai are aware of how these rules will be applied - this explanation is given clearly in the First Jury report from the competition in Kolomna. Follow the link for that report.
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Graduate Counseling – A Challenging Path to a Career of Caring
Monday, October 14, 2013
I don't know about you, but I've become dependent on electronic devices to get me where I need to go. Oh, I can read a map and I know my well-traveled routes, but more and more I depend on Google Maps or Siri or Tom-Tom or some other virtual guide to get me from "here" to "there." The guides don't always agree with each other – some take the shortest route, some avoid toll roads, some keep you on the multi-lane highways. Easy drives and challenging drives. Multiple paths, all to the same destination.
The path to becoming a licensed counselor in Arkansas requires you to complete a master's degree in a program approved by the Arkansas Board of Examiners in Counseling (ARBOEC). All graduate programs in counseling at John Brown University have received that approval – MS degrees in marriage and family therapy, community counseling, and school counseling and the post-graduate certificate in play therapy. They were developed and are maintained by faculty who have traveled that road ahead of you – licensed counselors with terminal degrees and years of experience in the practice and teaching of counseling. The path is well known to them, and they will be your guide as you travel.
There are routing options – you can take roads to become a school counselor, a licensed professional counselor, a marriage and family therapist or a play therapist – but there are no easy paths. Your JBU faculty will help you avoid road blocks, detours, dead ends and bottlenecks along the route, but it remains a challenging journey. Once you arrive, you will be equipped with the skills and knowledge to become a bridge of healing and hope to those who travel to you for care.
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JHern wrote:If your putter isn't your favorite disc, get a new putter.
pdga rules school wrote:These changes for holing out mean calls for the "putting tree" photo shown below that was in the Rules School story on Interference need to be updated. Under the old rules, only the yellow disc would not have been considered holed out when the player removed it. Under 2011 rules, the white and red discs are holed out (IN). The yellow disc as before and the orange disc hanging on the nub outside the basket are NOT IN. The orange disc balancing on the rim, which used to be considered IN, is now considered OUT in the 2011 rules because the disc is not entirely supported by the pole, inner wall or bottom of the basket. The orange wedgie is now NOT IN if the group observed it wedge from the outside. If the group did not see it or watched it clear the top basket wire then wedge on the way out, it is IN.
pdga rulebook: 803.13B wrote:
Disc Entrapment Devices: In order to hole out, the thrower must release the disc and it must come to rest supported by the chains and/or the inner cylinder (bottom and inside wall) of the tray. It may be additionally supported by the pole. A disc observed by two or more players of the group or an official to have entered the target below the top of the tray or above the bottom of the chain support is not holed out.
Craig wrote:Regarding the picture - Why would the white disc be considered in, but not the yellow? It looks like the white is hanging from an internal eyelet/hook, not a chain link. I don't see how it is any more or less supported by the chains than the yellow which is hanging from an outer eyelet/hook.
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Meet Ally McBeal, the eccentric, young, and waif-like attorney that introduced us to the unconventional workplace — unisex bathroom anyone? — with a sexually charged atmosphere. As hemlines were raised, so were eyebrows. When McBeal's micro-minis became "too business casual," critics claimed that the very minimalist wardrobe was degrading to women at the workplace. But hey, a little leg never hurt anyone.
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Letter to the editor: Raley's workers needed to strike
November 9, 2012
I have been following the labor dispute at Raley's and have come to the conclusion that the workers have taken the only course available to them. The only remedy to the one without the power is to organize, not just to get your way, but to bring the parties to the table. The forces are far from equal. Raley's has the power, it could close this store and not damage its profit. It could fire everyone and get new employees, as was done before for fair labor practices law were adopted. Believe me, employees and their families suffer during these strikes. The walkout is the last resort, the only tool that will to force that issue.
In my work I have seen many examples of the underdog being forced into situations in which they have no real power; an example is the rent increases on mobile homes. There is not a level playing field, the landlord raises the rent and, unlike an apartment, you can not just throw your stuff in the back of your truck and move, it costs thousands of dollars to move a mobile home – if it can be moved at all.
I personally understand and support the right of the Raley's employees to strike when discussions break down and you have no power but to walk away at great expense. There are issues to resolve and sometimes it takes collective action to resolve them; in the old days the action was clubs and guns, violence.
Before you take a side, I ask you to try and understand both sides, get the facts. What do the employees want? What is the employer offering? Get the whole story, if you do, I believe that you will understand the need of the employees to strike.
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Early in the second half at Viejas Arena, San Diego State was called for a shot-clock violation just as Fresno State gained possession of the ball and raced to the other end on the break. The referees blew their whistles, but Bulldogs guard Tyler Johnson continued anyway for what appeared to be a meaningless, uncontested layup.
Until Jamaal Franklin flew in behind him and emphatically swatted the ball off the backboard.
The play was over. SDSU's intensity, and intent, was not.
Three days after blowing a 17-point lead to Boise State and needing a desperation 3-pointer to win, the fourth time in seven conference games they had squandered a double-digit margin, the Aztecs finally got tired of playing the gracious host. The victim was Fresno State. The final score was 75-53. The largest margin was 29.
Mercy: none.
Relief: palpable.
"It's a lot easier on the coaches," Coach Steve Fisher said, "a lot less exciting maybe, but a lot easier to win in the fashion we did today … This was nice. It doesn't happen often, so when it does you can relax and feel good about how you've been playing."
"It feels good," Jamaal Franklin said. "It feels good."
Xavier Thames returned to uniform for the first time in two weeks, playing 13 productive and pain-free minutes with five points, four rebounds, three assists, two blocks and no turnovers – pushing his turnover-free streak to 78 minutes.
Dwayne Polee II got off the bench for 10 minutes and promptly drained a pair of 3-pointers in the space of 77 seconds after going 1 of 10 all season, then got his first dunk as an Aztec on a lob from Chase Tapley.
And sophomore transfer James Johnson got off the bench for seven minutes, the longest stint of his career against a Div. I opponent.
And 14 Aztecs played and 11 scored, including a jumper by walk-on Ryan Staten.
And the win streak against California schools grew to 33 …
But the laughs and smiles vanished quickly when the subject turned to next week, when the view turned to the ominous clouds on the horizon. The Aztecs (18-5, 6-3) play at Colorado State on Wednesday, at UNLV on Saturday. They lost at both places last season, and Colorado State's 26 straight home wins is the third longest active streak in the nation.
"We're a group of veteran guys," said James Rahon, whose 14 points gave him double-figure scoring in back-to-back-to-back games for the first time in his SDSU career. "We've been in big games, in big-time conference games. It's definitely going to be tough, but we can handle it if go in with the right mindset and play like we did today."
The Bulldogs (8-14, 2-7) had one basket on their first six possessions, a fall-away jumper by Johnson at the shot-clock buzzer. On the other five, they failed to hit the rim – either turning it over or firing up air balls.
By late in the first half, they had missed 22 of 26 shots and had 11 points before closing with three straight makes for a respectable 25-17 deficit.
"We were right where we needed to be," Fresno State coach Rodney Terry said. "It was important to come out and set the tone for the second half. We came out and executed the first play and scored. But then we gave them an easy basket at the other end, and it kind of snowballed from there."
Kind of? The Bulldogs scored two baskets over the next 13 minutes and found themselves down 57-29. The lead was still 28 when Fisher relented to the chants of "Castle-berry, Castle-berry" and put in the 5-foot-10 Jeremy Castleberry along with the walk-ons. The 50 second-half points by SDSU was a season high.
And this is a Fresno State team, remember, that handled UNLV 64-55 three days earlier.
"It's always tough playing on the road, especially here," Bulldogs forward Braeden Anderson said. "I think that's what it was. Guys were rattled for some reason, and it was hard."
That, inexplicably, included SDSU's Franklin, who didn't wear his long-sleeved undershirt for the first time this season and admitted being "frustrated" by Fresno State's early defensive attention. He missed his first six shots and had three turnovers against one assist.
"Sometimes I get caught up trying to do it by myself," said Franklin, who finished with 14 points and 11 rebounds to reach 1,000 and 500 for his career, the 11th Aztecs player to do so. "I can't get caught up in that. I know I have good teammates who can do things. And now X is back, and James (Rahon) has got his shot back. We're in good shape."
SDSU's 33-game win streak against California teams, according to STATS Inc. is the longest active streak by any team against any state since the 1996-97 season … Also extended, to 87, is SDSU's streak when leading with five minutes to go … Fresno State shot 29.3 percent to SDSU's 50 percent (26 of 52). The Aztecs were 8 of 16 behind the 3-point arc, which makes them 14-0 this season when shooting at least 25 percent from long range …
Thames, on how long until he's back at full strength: "I probably have another week or so." On how it felt: "During the game, I did not feel any pain so that is really good." … Tapley ran the point when Thames was out and had six assists, making it three straight games with five or more … The Aztecs wore their gray home uniforms … A sign in the student section, referring to Franklin's off-the-backboard-to-himself dunk the last time these teams played: "Remember that dunk? We do."


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Don Smith EAC Awards Recognize Outstanding Employees
Jan. 26, 2010
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At the Board of Supervisors meeting today, the Fairfax County Employees Advisory Council (EAC) presented the 2009 Don Smith EAC Award and an honorable mention to county employees. The award recognizes employees who have contributed in an outstanding manner to the well-being of fellow employees.
2009 Don Smith Award recipient — Nancy Klein, librarian, Fairfax County Public Library. According to the
nomination, Klein, as president of the Fairfax County Public Library
Employee Association (FCPLEA), worked tirelessly with county agencies
to find answers to complicated human resources queries during the
budget discussions. She also met with Fairfax County Board of
Supervisors Chairman Sharon Bulova; made presentations to the Library
Board; and spoke at the Board of Supervisors public hearing for the
FY2010 Budget.
- 2009 Don Smith Award honorable mention — Marjorie Braxton, administrative assistant, Department of Public Works and Environmental Services. Braxton was nominated for the many things she does for the Newington employees that make them feel part of a work family and boosts morale. She shares her knowledge about county services and goes out of her way to assist employees.
The Don Smith EAC Award was established by the Employees Advisory Council in 1991 to honor Donald D. Smith, a longtime employee of the Office of Comprehensive Planning who was a mainstay of the EAC for 17 years, retiring from his EAC position in 1987. This award was established after his 1990 retirement from Fairfax County.
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Get an overview of this hotel4-star Manhattan hotel in Bowery, near New York University
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Located in Bowery, this hotel is within a 10-minute walk of Museum of Chinese in Americas, Bowery Ballroom, and New Museum. Lower East Side Tenement Museum and Manhattan Bridge are also within 15 minutes.
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This smoke-free hotel features a restaurant, 2 bars/lounges, and a fitness center. WiFi in public areas is free. Other amenities include a rooftop terrace, a conference center, and valet parking.
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The hotel offers a restaurant. Guests can unwind with a drink at one of hotel's 2 bars/lounges. Business-related amenities at this 4-star property consist of a business center and meeting rooms.
Wireless Internet access is complimentary. Event facilities measuring 1190 square feet (111 square meters) include a conference center. This business-friendly hotel also offers a fitness center, a rooftop terrace, and tour/ticket assistance. Parking is available onsite for a surcharge.
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Wyndham Garden Chinatown has a restaurant on site.
Room service (during limited hours) is available.
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Recreational amenities at the hotel include a fitness center.
If you have requests for specific accessibility needs, please note them at check-out when you book your room.
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Check-in time starts at 3:00 PM
Check-in time ends at midnight
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- Pets allowed for an extra charge of USD 50.00 per pet, per day, plus a deposit of USD 30 per night
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Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy.
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- Breakfast fee: between USD 12 and USD 18 per person (approximately)
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Class 7 - Combo Pack (IMO / NSO / IEO / NCO) - English (Test Prep CD - IMO - 55 Tests,NSO 72 Tests (Mental Ability + Science),IEO- 28 Tests ,NCO 23 Tests,Total Tests - 178)
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Interview sessions are over and it's time to look back on all that happened in the first day. Day one featured the head coaches of each of the nine schools. Although each school had something unique to offer in their outlook of the season, all agreed on one thing: the Mountain West not only made noise last year, but is ready and required to do the same in 2009.
UteZone.com sat down with each coach and got the scoop on how each team will do their part to further raise the national profile of the MWC.
TCU: TCU's challenge will be to replace seven starters on defense, though that is a task head coach Gary Patterson feels the group is up to. "I don't know if we'll ever have another team that will match those [2008's] numbers. 218 yards a game is really hard in this day and age. I think we have a chance to be as fast or faster than a year ago on defense. Daryl Washington's faster than the two linebackers from last year. They key for us will be can we learn to hunt together. Our standard has never been 'it's OK every once in a while to be a good defense' it's been to be a top-25 defense."
Spring Star: "I was really excited with Daryl Washington. I think both of our backup corners are really good players. Ed Wesley on offense."
Position that needs to step up in fall camp: "I think the two positions on defense will be one of the safety positions and defensive tackle. On offense it will be one of the guards and center."
Player no one is talking about, but should be: "Antoine Hicks is a guy you should watch. Signed with Texas out of high school and ended up in our place."
Outside of competing for the conference championship, what are you expectations for the season: "Same as it always is every year. As a head football coach I'm always going to make sure it's the best football team we can have. That's all anyone can ask to do. If we do that, we'll have the opportunity to win a lot of football games."
BYU: The Cougars need to replace quite a bit on offense in 2009, with seven starters from 2008 leaving the program. Though the task is large, head coach Bronco Mendenhall expects the unit to continue to produce yards and points. "It's who we are, we've been productive for four years."
Spring Star: "I really can't say. I don't want to focus on the individual; I want to look at the team as a whole. It's not about the player but about the collective."
Position that needs to step up in fall camp: "We lost four starting offensive linemen. That position needs to demonstrate a high level of play early in the season."
Outside of competing for the conference championship, what are you expectations for the season: "Do the best we can, that is all I can ask."
Utah: 2008 has come and gone and the Utes are looking to put that perfect season behind them and compete for the MWC crown in 2009. The biggest issue the Utes have to overcome is replacing 2008 MWC Offensive Player of the Year Brian Johnson at quarterback. Right now the Utes have three candidates, a situation head coach Kyle Whittingham wants to solve as soon as possible. "That's a little bit undoable. We have to get to two as soon as possible. There's not enough time nor repetitions in practice to get three guys ready. First order of business is to get it down to do and then down to one."
Spring Star: "Brandon Burton. First couple years here he kind of laid low and didn't make much noise but he had a tremendous spring and really has solidified himself as one of the starting corners. Tony Bergstrom. We knew Tony was ready."
Position that needs to step up in fall camp: "The cornerback position depth-wise. The starting two, Burton and R.J. Stanford are very good. We play so much man-to-man and we're seeing so much spread offense that we have got to have that third, fourth, and even fifth corner up to speed and ready to go. Right now we're not sure how those guys are going to be."
Player no one is talking about, but should be: "Sausan Shakerin. Matt [Asiata] is going to be the go-to-guy. It's not going to be like last year where Matt's splitting time, but Shak is going to be a very good player."
Outside of competing for the conference championship, what are you expectations for the season: "Becoming the best football team we can become, getting better on a week-to-week basis, playing very tough defense - that's kind of a trademark of ours, being prolific on offense, I expect us to be very productive offensively."
Air Force: The question always gets asked, how does Air Force win? The teams they play are almost always bigger, stronger, and faster. "I've always said this, in football 90 percent of games are won by the fastest team," Falcons head coach Troy Calhoun said. "98 percent of games are won if a team is both the biggest and the fastest. But there's still that other 2 percent, and those are the intangibles. Year round our guys work, they have a great attitude, and they absolutely love football. Seeing how motivated they are when they practice, when they lift, they're pretty special. That's our way to make up for some other areas."
Spring Star: "No, I probably make sure we don't have a whole lot of stand out guys, because our guys don't want it that way. That doesn't mean you're going to suppress success, but they like being kind of melded together."
Position that needs to step up in fall camp: "We've got a couple of spots that don't have a lot of experience that will have to step up. I look at wide receiver as an area where we're going to have to see some guys find ways to create separation, get open and catch the ball. And outside linebacker. They're capable, those guys are really, really mixing it up."
Player no one is talking about, but should be: "We're going to have to have a kicker. That comes to the forefront. And yet, that name, I don't have it."
Outside of competing for the conference championship, what are you expectations for the season: "You know James, it differs probably school by school and team by team. In the NFL, it was always playoffs. That's just not our school. What's probably healthy as a coach is that you get continuous reminders that there's got to be some kilter, their other reasons why they're at the Air Force Academy. They've got to be there for the character development and the leadership qualities that they have got to have for what they're going to do after graduation. They have to understand honor, they have to understand work ethic, and they have to understand what it means to be unselfish. We want to make sure football is an enjoyable experience for our guys."
UNLV: The Rebels return what looks to be a very good offensive unit, but injuries and poor play doomed an often overmatched defense in 2008. Why will the 2009 defense be better? "Competition, especially in the secondary. There's a lot of uncertainty right now as to who the starters are going to be in the secondary, and for us right now I think that's a good thing," head coach Mike Sanford said. "I think we needed competition to create a sense of urgency. That and Dennis Therrell is in his second year as defensive coordinator."
Spring Star: "Probably Malo Taumua. He had a great spring. We give a black shirt out during practice to a guy that had a great day. He got the black shirt five times."
Position that needs to step up in fall camp: "I don't know about that, but we have a lot of uncertainty about our tailback position. We have five guys that are competing for that job. The other one, I think we've got to find a punter and who our starters are going to be in the secondary."
Player no one is talking about, but should be: "Yeah, I would say Star Fuimaono. He's played for us, this will be his senior year, he's been hurt. He was hurt the year before. If he was able to stay healthy, I think he will make some plays."
Outside of competing for the conference championship, what are you expectations for the season: "Conference championship."
Colorado State: Steve Fairchild was the new coach on the block last year, making a solid debut in winning seven games including a win over Fresno State in the New Mexico Bowl. So how does Fairchild compare his second year to his first? "I think myself, my staff, we're all a little more familiar with the kids. Our players are a little more familiar with what we're asking them to do. When they walked into that gym at six in the morning late last January, it wasn't like the January before when they had no idea what to expect. I think the familiarity with everybody makes it a little easier."
Spring Star: "I thought our tight end play surprised me. I knew we would be pretty good by I was surprised at just how good we are there. Our receiver corps can be something special."
Position that needs to step up in fall camp: "I think our receivers have not played the way they are capable of. If they ever do this season, they will be special."
Player no one is talking about, but should be: "Eric Peitz, our tight end. I am sure he will have a big year for us."
Outside of competing for the conference championship, what are you expectations for the season: "A lot like last year I don't want to put that in a number of wins. All I asked from our team last year was to get better every time we went out on the practice field and get better throughout the season."
New Mexico: As soon as new head coach Mike Locksley started looking in the Lobos 2008 season, he found something that immediately caused concern. "The first that that jumped to me about this team was that after last season and having a chance to evaluate them, I think we had about eight games where going into the fourth quarter we had a chance to win," Locksley said. "We only won two of those eight. This team very easily could have been a seven win, eight win team and I probably wouldn't be sitting here. One thing we've really stressed is… we need to learn how to finish."
Spring Star: "I think Erik Cook met all the things that we had heard about him. He's a guy that is going to anchor our offensive line."
Player no one is talking about, but should be: "Ian Clark. I think Ian is a guy that has the ability from what I've seen to be a big time safety and also he's a huge playmaker in the return game."
Outside of competing for the conference championship, what are you expectations for the season: "To me, we set goals. Unfortunately success is going to be measured by wins and losses by people outside the program. We're going to sit down and put those [goals] together as a team and we're going to use those to measure if we had a successful year or not."
SDSU: New head coach Brady Hoke left the same position at Ball State to take the job with the Aztecs. Why? "I've recruited the west coast, I know the talent base, I know a lot of the coaches," Hoke said. "I think you can recruit good football players at San Diego State. I just think the timing was right to move forward."
Spring Star: "Well, I think Vincent Brown is a talented young man. I think there's a lot of guys that will even be better in the fall. We're excited about our team."
Position that needs to step up in fall camp: "I think two positions on our team, that's our offensive line and then our defensive line. I know Darrell Funk, our offensive line coach, will do a good job with them. I'm the defensive line coach so I've got my work cut out for me."
Player no one is talking about, but should be: "I don't know, I really can't answer that yet. We're still going through evaluations. I think there will be a lot of growth over the summer."
Outside of competing for the conference championship, what are you expectations for the season: "Well, we want to develop consistency, to be a team that plays with toughness, a team that plays with great effort, a team that plays with accountability for each other and a team that plays smart."
Wyoming: Dave Christensen wastes no time painting a rosy picture of a Wyoming program that has fallen on hard times in recent years. "Wyoming was an appealing job to me for a number of reasons," Christensen said. "One is that I felt they had all the intangibles to build a consistent, winning program. In order to recruit you have to have great facilities, and I thought Wyoming had great facilities in place and we'll continue to improve on those right now with our luxury sweets. The other thing that was important to me was to go to a place that had a great fanbase and passionate about football and we're the only show in town."
Spring Star: "The tough thing with our program right now is that we had a number of injuries in the spring that didn't allow us the opportunity to evaluate all the personnel that we had."
Position that needs to step up in fall camp: "That's hard to say. I think we need to improve at every position. There is no area on our football team where I would say 'wow, we're really set there'."
Player no one is talking about, but should be: "That's difficult. I'm hoping there ends up being 10 or 15 of those players (laughs). We're still in an evaluation period right now."
Outside of competing for the conference championship, what are you expectations for the season: "Our expectations are to make sure that each and every day we're a better football team than the day before. If that continues to happen throughout the season we're going to have a chance to compete for a bowl game."


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Anyone who has shopped at a grocery store or a mall with children – especially young children – knows that the experience can sometimes be trying, even highly stressful.
Here are some steps that can change potential misery into potential mastery of shopping with kids.
Plan Ahead:
Check attitudes – Is your child too tired or hungry to
shop? Are you? If yes, postpone your trip or find a sitter for you
Explain the Rules – Before entering the store make
your expectations clear, such as "Stay close to me" and "Use your quiet
- Agree on Rewards for Good Behavior – Keep it simple, such as a choice of a favorite snack food, or a stop at the park. Promise to read a story or play a game at home.
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Make a Game Out of Shopping – Who can see the bananas?
Who can find the shoe store first? Who can see a person wearing red?
Which store begins with the letter "t"?
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Play – "I see something." Then ask you child(ren) what
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Remember: Kids will be kids – they are not perfect. Of course, neither are we, but we are the adults.
Ignore inappropriate behavior unless it becomes dangerous, destructive,
annoying to others, or truly embarrassing.
Remove a child who is out of control. Take him to the restroom or out
of the store. Tell the child quietly, eye-to-eye, that bad behavior is
absolutely unacceptable.
Wait (say nothing at all) for the child to calm down, then ask if he is
ready to try again.
Remember kids will be kids – they are not perfect. Of course, neither
are we, but we are the adults.
- Go home if the child cannot calm down. If the shopping cannot wait, find a sitter and return alone.


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Prince takes care of business in Tigers' comeback win
First baseman rips RBI singles after two walks to Cabrera late in game
DETROIT -- The home run streak Miguel Cabrera is on has teams wanting nothing to do with him with first base open.
The hit streak Prince Fielder is on after teams walk Cabrera had him rewarding Tigers manager Jim Leyland for actually setting up the opportunity Thursday.
"I just feel like that means they want to pitch to me. They want to give me a strike," Fielder said after his go-ahead RBI single completed a four-run Tigers comeback for a 7-6 win over the Twins at Comerica Park. "That's good."
The Tigers' third straight win kept them a half-game behind Cleveland in the American League Central. The Indians recovered from their two-game sweep to the Tigers to rout the Red Sox at Fenway Park.
It won't always work out so easily, and it arguably came within inches of backfiring on Thursday. But on a night when Cabrera homered for the fourth consecutive game, it was a deflected RBI single by Fielder that decided it.
It wasn't pretty, but for Fielder, it's becoming beauty in consistency.
"That's what I told him after the game. I said, 'Just keep doing what you're doing,'" Leyland said. "And that's the reason I felt comfortable."
Five times, teams have walked Cabrera over the course of his home run streak, intentionally or otherwise. Five times, Fielder has followed with a hit to drive in a run. It happened in back-to-back innings on Thursday.
The seventh-inning chance was technically unintentional. With four pitches up and out of the strike zone, it was still clear the Twins wanted no part of Cabrera, even though it meant bringing the tying run to the plate in a 6-3 game the Twins had commanded for much of the cold, damp Detroit evening.
Cabrera's two-run homer in the opening inning put the Tigers ahead before the Twins put up five runs on Rick Porcello. Fielder hasn't homered in nearly two weeks, and Twins manager Ron Gardenhire had left-hander Brian Duensing to pitch against him. Fielder was 3-for-10 against him, but with no home runs and three strikeouts.
Cabrera's walk moved Omar Infante into scoring position with one out. A 2-1 count and a Duensing sinker over the plate allowed Fielder to move Infante home, sending a ground ball through the middle.
After a Victor Martinez blooper just out of Aaron Hicks' reach in right-center field, then a Jhonny Peralta double into the left-field corner off Jared Burton, the Tigers had the game tied. Burton left the bases loaded with back-to-back foul popouts to keep it that way, but another Infante single leading off the eighth sent the same process in motion.
This time, Leyland set it up himself, using Torii Hunter to bunt Infante over to second base.
"You have a tough call," Leyland said, "because you know you're taking the bat out of Miguel's hands. To be honest with you, in that situation, if there was a tough left-hander sitting behind him, you probably wouldn't bunt. But you have a guy behind Miguel with 40 RBIs.
"You have to get him in scoring position with Prince hitting there, and if you have a real nasty lefty, you don't do it. But who knows? If they have a nasty lefty, they might walk him anyway."
The one left-hander remaining for Leyland to worry about was Glen Perkins. With the game tied and the Twins on the road, he wouldn't be pitching in the eighth. The other lefty, rookie Caleb Thielbar, had pitched a pair of two-inning appearances over the previous three days.
Down went the bunt toward first base, over went Infante to second and on went Cabrera to first with his fifth intentional walk of the year, like a mechanism.
Burton stayed on to face Fielder, 3-for-9 against him in his career. Fielder drew another 2-1 count and centered another ball back toward the mound.
The liner looked like it was headed through the middle until Burton made a stab at it. Had he snared it, he would've ended the inning.
"It looked like it was probably a double-play ball," Twins manager Ron Gardenhire said. "Stuff happens. When you're good, it goes right to him, and when you're scuffling and trying to find ways to win, it bounces the other way. And tonight, it bounced the other way for us."
The deflection sent the ball to the right side, right where second baseman Brian Dozier had been before he scrambled toward the middle to try to snare the liner initially. All he could do was reverse course to try to stop it.
"I knew he wasn't going to be able to throw me out, because he had to dive," Fielder said. "I just wanted it to get by so Omar could score. That guy's tough. You always want to make sure you can score off him if you can."
Dozier was left on the ground clutching for the ball as Infante rounded third.
"I took my shot," Leyland summarized, "and it worked out."
No matter how the division race unfolds heading into the summer, the debate over how to pitch the middle of the Tigers' lineup -- and how Leyland sets up run-scoring opportunities late in close games -- is going to continue.
For now, Detroit's big two hitters are driving in runs in bunches. Cabrera's three RBIs, including a bases-loaded infield single in the fifth, pushed him to 55 through 45 games, something no Major League hitter had done since Manny Ramirez in 2001. Thirteen of those RBIs have come in the last four games.
Fielder is closing in on an RBI-a-game pace, now with 41 on the year. The way pitchers are having to deal with Cabrera, he'll have plenty of opportunities for more.
"I think it's a tough decision," Cabrera said. "I always try to be ready, take nothing for granted. I'll always be ready to hit over there."
Jason Beck is a reporter for MLB.com. Read Beck's Blog and follow him on Twitter @beckjason. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Braves' skid rises to eight as Teheran struggles
Three-run third inning not enough to offset ace's rough outing
SEATTLE -- The Braves will have to wait at least 48 hours before they can attempt to get over their worst road trip in 65 years.
Atlanta dropped a 7-3 decision to the Mariners at Safeco Field on Wednesday afternoon to finish a three-team, eight-game West Coast road swing with an 0-8 record. It's the only time the Braves have gone winless on a road trip of at least eight games since the Boston Braves didn't notch a victory on an eight-game trip in 1949.
The 2014 Braves, meanwhile, fell to 58-56 and 3 1/2 games behind the Nationals in the National League East, with Washington playing two against the Mets before beginning a three-game set Friday in Atlanta.
On Wednesday, the Braves jumped out to a 3-1 lead against Mariners starter Chris Young (10-6) after Evan Gattis led off the third inning with Atlanta's first hit, a bloop single into left field, before B.J. Upton fanned. Back-to-back singles from Ramiro Pena and Emilio Bonifacio loaded the bases, then Tommy La Stella drew a walk to force in a run and tie the game at 1.
With the bases still loaded, Freddie Freeman followed with a double into left-center field that drove in two runs. La Stella tried to score all the way from first, but he was cut down at the plate on a relay throw from shortstop Chris Taylor. Nonetheless, the Braves had a 3-1 cushion and hope of avoiding a season-high eight-game losing streak.
"It's been a tough go this whole season," Freeman said. "Not even personally. It's been up and down for us as a team."
Mariners left fielder Dustin Ackley led off the bottom of the frame with a solo blast, cutting the deficit to 3-2. Atlanta ace Julio Teheran (10-8) retired the next two hitters before Kyle Seager singled, then Taylor followed with a check-swing infield single that died about halfway between Freeman and La Stella.
First baseman Logan Morrison followed by blasting a towering three-run homer into the right-field seats to put the Braves in a 5-3 hole. Teheran allowed six runs, nine hits and two walks over six innings.
"It was a tough day for me," Teheran said. "I didn't have my best location."
"We gave the momentum right back to Seattle," manager Fredi Gonzalez said. "We just didn't get anything going after that."
From there, Atlanta didn't score against a Mariners staff that entered Wednesday with the best ERA in the Major Leagues. Teheran allowed a sacrifice fly to Taylor in the fifth inning, which gave the Mariners a 6-3 lead. Kendrys Morales added an RBI single in the seventh to push it to 7-3.
"It's hard to win when you have only one good inning," Freeman said.
The Braves fell behind quickly.
With one out in the first inning, Teheran allowed an Ackley single, then walked Robinson Cano. A batter later, he gave up a two-out RBI single to Seager, which put the Braves in a 1-0 hole.
There were a few positives: Freeman finished with three hits and Jason Heyward went 2-for-4, his fourth consecutive multihit game, but in a trend that underlined their road trip, the Braves couldn't capitalize. They finished with 10 hits.
"I liked the way our approach was against Young today," Gonzalez said. "We got some people on base. … I told them after the game that we're a better team than we've played on the road."
Starting in center field after getting Tuesday off, B.J. Upton hit a two-out ground-rule double in the fourth inning. Heyward would have scored from first base, but the ball hit the warning track and bounced over the wall, so he had to return to third base. Pena then grounded out to end the inning.
"It's just not matching up right now. It's not clicking on all cylinders at the same time for us," Heyward said.
The loss dropped the Braves to 4-10 in Interleague Play and 0-4 this season against the Mariners. Their eight-game losing streak is the longest since they fell eight consecutive times in May 2012. They are just 6-13 since the All-Star break.
The Braves have an off-day Thursday before they begin that 10-game homestand against three clubs -- the Nationals, Dodgers and Athletics -- that entered Wednesday in first place in their respective divisions.
"It's a big one, obviously," Freeman said. "We can be really far out of it or [get] back in it this weekend. We gotta take tomorrow off and, just like I said a couple days ago, regroup [and] come in with a sense of urgency on Friday."
Adam Lewis is an associate reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Though the market has ticked up a bit more since the open, it's one of those gap-up-and-sit days. There has been very little intraday action after the first hour of trading and most stocks are holding up and treading water.
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