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As a senior consultant with the Financial Services Group of Microsoft Consulting Services, I help clients in the financial industry efficiently use Microsoft database technologies. I recently met with a client who wanted a high-availability and disaster-recovery solution. The client company's DBA had no practical experience supporting SQL Server high-availability solutions (including replication), so the client wanted a solution that would be simple to configure and support. I'll give you some background about this case and show you the steps I used to create a solution that doesn't require extensive scripting skills. If you're looking for an easy-to-use solution for your organization's high-availability and disaster-recovery needs, taking a look at this real-world example can help you decide whether merge replication is a good choice for you.
Client Requirements
The client I worked with had two data-processing centers located miles apart and linked by a reliable T2 network connection line between the sites. The client needed a flexible high availability solution that would allow the addition of a third site in the future with minimum effort. Each existing site hosted a SQL Server 2000 database on a Windows 2000 server. Both Windows servers had two processors and 2GB of RAM. The client's database was about 25GB and growing slowly (200MB to 500MB per month). The database had a relatively low load (10 to 50 transactions per minute). The client's application is in use mainly from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m., 5 days a week, and the database needed be available at both sites at all times during business hours.
The client wanted to do data processing at one site and reporting at the other site. In case of disaster at one data center, the client wanted a failover system so that the remaining data center could quickly combine these functions without any reconfiguration. The client had considered splitting data-load operations between data centers but knew that data operators might try to update or delete the same record simultaneously on both sites. To resolve such possible conflicts between the two sites, the client wanted to merge changes that users performed on different sites in different columns, if possible. For example, if a user at SiteA changes column1 and another user at SiteB modifies column2, the client wants to merge both changes in the resulting table. Some tables have one or more text columns. Several tables have IDENTITY columns.
So, from these requirements, the client and I determined that the solution they needed should provide continuous data transfer, site autonomy (so that operations at one site will only minimally affect operations at the other site), processing of changes at both sites, and resolution of data conflicts.
Why Choose Merge Replication?
SQL Server 2000 offers several options that keep databases synchronized close to realtime, including two-phase commit, transactional replication with immediate updating subscribers, snapshot replication with immediate updating subscribers, transactional replication (including bidirectional replication), snapshot replication, transactional replication with queued updating subscribers, and merge replication. Based on the client's requirements, I recommended using SQL Server 2000 merge replication for several reasons. First, merge replication has a robust, built-in conflict-resolution mechanism that can be easily configured using Enterprise Manager. In simple cases, no scripting is required. Merge replication provides an out-the-box mechanism for resolving conflicts at the column level and a high transactional consistency of operations in situations like the one my client described, in which conflicts are rare and only two sites are currently involved in data processing. In addition, merge replication allows replication of text data, which was important to my client because the company had more than 10 database tables that contained text columns. Merge replication includes continuously-running Merge Agents that provide data transmission with acceptable latency. And using merge replication makes adding another server to the existing topology easy.
The other alternatives have their own benefits, but I couldn't recommend using immediate updating and queued updating subscriptions because those options can't update text data. Not all types of transactional replication can merge simultaneous changes in different columns on different sites. Snapshot replication and DTS simply don't work in an environment in which data modifications happen on both sides simultaneously. And two-phase commit is a rather theoretical solution because even the loss of network connectivity for a short time during a transaction would effectively shut down the application. Once I'd decided on the high-availability implementation to use for my client, I prepared the database for merge replication.
Prepare for Merge Replication
Before configuring merge replication, you must first carefully analyze your application and address specific merge-replication requirements. Because this brief article can't provide all the planning and preparation details, I recommend that you read the "Planning for Merge Replication" section in SQL Server 2000 Books Online (BOL) for details. Here are some of the things I had to do for my client's solution.
Merge replication replicates text columns only if they've been updated explicitly by an UPDATE statement, which causes a trigger to fire and update metadata, ensuring that the transaction gets propagated to Subscribers. WRITETEXT and UPDATETEXT operations don't propagate the change to other sites. To solve this problem, I modified a few stored procedures by adding a dummy UPDATE statement after the WRITETEXT or UPDATETEXT operations within the same transaction. BOL gives an example of how to do this type of modification.
To avoid recurring conflicts during merge replication, I configured all foreign key constraints and user-defined triggers (UDTs) with the NOT FOR REPLICATION option. To perform this configuration, select a table from Enterprise Manager, right-click, and select Design Table. Click Manage Relationships, then clear the Enforce relationship for replication check box on the Relationships tab of the Properties screen, as Figure 1 shows; repeat this step for each foreign key in the drop-down list. Next, click Close, then click Save. Click Yes when the confirmation window appears. Close the Design Table window, and repeat these steps for all tables that have foreign keys.
To change the NOT FOR REPLICATION option for the existing trigger, select a table in Enterprise Manager. Right-click, select All Tasks, then select Manage Triggers. From the drop-down list, select a user-defined trigger. As Figure 2 shows, type NOT FOR REPLICATION on the line preceding AS in the text box. Click Apply, then repeat these steps for other triggers in the same table. Finally click OK. You'll need to change the NOT FOR REPLICATION option for all tables that have triggers.
All IDENTITY columns must have the NOT FOR REPLICATION option. (This option is configured automatically when you set up merge replication.) IDENTITY values need to be partitioned by site. When you configure merge replication, to ensure that the identity values being assigned are within those allowed for the site range, SQL Server automatically creates CHECK constraints in each table that has an IDENTITY column. For my client's solution, I carefully planned the range for the IDENTITY column for each affected table. I recommend that you assign a high range of values for the site so that it is practically impossible to reach the limit. Because of some problems with this functionality, don't rely on the automatic identity range handling set by SQL Server. (For an explanation of these identity-range problems, see the Microsoft article "BUG: Identity Range Not Adjusted on Publisher When Merge Agent Runs Continuously.")
I decided to use a default mechanism for conflict resolution (in which the Publisher always wins). This is the simplest variant and, in this case with only two servers and rare conflicts, choosing a default variant was appropriate. Implementing a datetime-dependent conflict resolvers would require modifications to the table structure of many tables. Generally, SQL Server lets you choose from several predefined types of conflict resolvers, or you can write your own conflict resolver. In most cases, I'm sure you'll be satisfied with some type of predefined conflict resolver.
By design, merge replication adds a uniqueidentifier column to each replicated table. The total size of the row for each replicated table, including the one I added, should not exceed 6000 bytes. I worked with the client to change the structure of a few tables that had a larger row size.
SQL Server requires that all tables connected by foreign-key relationships be published together, in one publication. Before configuring merge replication, I created a database diagram for ClientDB in Enterprise Manager and identified all such cases so that I could see the relationships overall. Then, I prepared a spreadsheet with a list of my planned publications and articles to make configuration easier.
Design of Merge Replication
Figure 3 shows the overall design of merge replication for my client. I chose SQLServer1 at Site 1 as Publisher and Distributor. I specified SQLServer2 at Site2 as Subscriber. ClientDB is the database to be replicated. The Snapshot and Merge Agents implement merge replication. The Snapshot Agent prepares snapshot files that contain the schema and data of published tables, stores the files in a snapshot folder, then inserts synchronization jobs into the publication database. The Snapshot Agent also creates replication-specific stored procedures, triggers, and system tables. The Merge Agent merges incremental data changes that occur at the Publisher or Subscribers after the initial snapshot is created, and it reconciles conflicts according to defined rules.
The role of the Distributor is limited in merge replication, so it's common to implement the Distributor locally (on the same server as the Publisher), which is what I did in this solution. The distribution database on the Distributor stores only history and miscellaneous information (e.g., errors) from both servers about merge replication.
Configure Distribution and Publishing
Before configuring merge replication, make sure that you have enough disk space on all servers. In addition to space for the database (ClientDB in this case), you'll need space to store elements such as the Distribution database, snapshot files, and backup files. Next, verify that SQL Server in both locations runs under a domain account. The domain account must have access to both servers and have access to the file share that stores snapshot files.
The easiest way to set up the Distributor and configure the Publisher is by using Enterprise Manager. Make sure that both servers (Publisher and Subscriber) are registered in Enterprise Manager. In Enterprise Manager's left pane, click Databases for the server you want to configure as Distributor (SQLServer1 in this case). On the toolbar, click Tools, select Replication, then select Configure Publishing, Subscribers, Distribution. If replication isn't already configured, the Replication Wizard appears. Click Next, and the Select Distributor screen appears. (If replication is already configured, you will see the Publisher and Distributor Properties screen.) Select Make SQLServer1 its own Distributor, then click Next.
If it appears that SQL Server Agent isn't running, select Yes, configure SQL Server Agent to start automatically on the Configure SQL Server Agent screen, then click Next. If SQL Server Agent is already running, you'll skip this configuration step. In the Specify Snapshot Folder dialog box, confirm the default selection (or choose your own) for the snapshot folder and click Next. If a message appears allowing you to confirm your folder choice, do so.
Next, on the Customize the Configuration screen, select Yes, let me to manually configure the distribution database properties, then click Next. Provide the location of data and log files for the distribution database, then click Next. If possible, use different drives for data and log files. I recommend that you keep the default name for distribution database.
On the Enable Publishers screen, select only the required server (SQLServer1). Close the message if one appears. If the Publisher Properties screen appears, leave the default setting (use trusted connection) and clear the option that requests a password to connect the Publisher with the Distributor. Click OK to leave the screen and return to the Enable Publishers screen. If a message appears, click Yes to accept, then click Next.
On the Enable Publication Databases screen, select Merge for your database (ClientDB in this case), then click Next. On the Enable Subscribers screen, select your database (SQLServer2 in this case), click Next, then click Finish. Close the message window that describes Replication Monitor functionality.
Prepare for the Initial Data Synchronization (Snapshot)
After configuring foreign-key and trigger properties for my client's solution, I prepared to create the snapshot. Merge replication requires that you take an initial snapshot for all replicated tables. During the initial snapshot SQL Server adds merge triggers to each published table and adds a uniqueidentifier column to each table that doesn't already have one. SQL Server also creates a new index on the uniqueidentifier column and creates conflict and other system tables.
Merge replication adds a uniqueidentifier column with the ROWGUIDCOL property and the default value newid() to each published table and creates an index on the column. For large tables, this process can be time-consuming. It's faster to add new columns to already populated large tables, then run the initial snapshot for the publication with the affected tables. (For details, see the Microsoft article "HOW TO: Manually Synchronize Replication Subscriptions by Using Backup or Restore.")
In my case, data in the ClientDB database was disproportionately spread among almost 200 tables that needed replication. The majority (85 percent) of database space was concentrated in the BatchTrans table, which had more than 53 million records. The next largest table had about 5 million rows.
Table 1 shows how the data was spread among the tables in ClientDB. For my client, I wrote a DTS package that prepared structural changes in the seven largest ClientDB tables (each with more than a million rows). I ran this package only once. Even if new initial snapshots were required later, running the DTS package would be unnecessary because the tables would already have the required uniqueidentifier columns.
Configuring Publications and Generating the Initial Snapshot
After configuring the distributor and pulishers, it was time to generate the initial snapshot. To increase the performance of the Snapshot Agent for large publications (or for publications that have large tables), I recommend creating a new profile for the Snapshot Agent and using it instead of the default one. Figure 4 shows the process for creating a new Snapshot Agent profile.
In Enterprise Manger, select Replication on the Publisher (Distributor) server, then right-click and choose Configure Publishing, Subscribers, Distribution. On the Distributor tab, click Agent Profiles, select the Snapshot tab, and click New Profile. In this case, I changed values for a few parameters that affect the performance of Snapshot Agent. On the Replication Agent Profile Details screen, enter the values that Table 2 shows (or tune these values for your own environment as I did here; I tested these changes in the client's development environment and choose the combination that gave me the fastest time). When you've changed the values appropriately, click OK. Then, on the Agent Profiles screen, select the Snapshot_Speed profile and make it a default profile by selecting Change all existing Snapshot Agents to use the selected profile option. Click OK twice to finish the configuration.
At this point I was ready to configure publications. I decided to create 12 publications: 4 different publications that combine groups of related tables and 8 others in which I've combined nonrelated tables based on their business functions, frequency of changes, size, and other factors. By using several publications, you can configure each Merge Agent to run independently, on its own schedule, using different threads, which speeds up the replication process. You do need to balance the number of agents running with available resources. The sidebar "Steps for Configuring Publications," gives you the process you need to go through to configure each publication you create.
After generating snapshots for all publications, I made a backup of the ClientDB database on the Publisher server, then copied backup files to the Subscriber server and restored the database there.
Creating a New Merge Agent Profile and Configuring Subscriptions
To increase the performance of the Merge Agent and minimize the effect of nonconvergence when SQL Server processes child and parent records in separate generation batches, I decided to create a new profile for the Merge Agent. (To read about the problem of nonconvergence, see the Microsoft article "PRB: Non-Convergence When SQL Server Processes Child and Parent Generations in Separate Generation Batches.") To create a new profile for the Merge Agent, start in Enterprise Manager and select the Replication node on the Publisher (Distribution) server. Then, right-click and choose Configure Publishing, Subscribers, Distribution. On the Distributor tab, click Agent Profiles, and on the Merge tab, click New Profile.
As Figure 5 shows, on the Replication Agent Profile Details screen, enter the values that Table 3 shows, then click OK and confirm changes if a message appears. On the Agent Profiles screen, select the Merge_Speed profile and make it a default profile by selecting Change all existing Snapshot Agents to use the selected profile. Click OK twice to finish the configuration.
Next, I configured Subscriptions. Starting in Enterprise Manager, select the Replication node of the Subscriber server, select Publications, right-click on a publication, and select Push New Subscription. Click Next, and in the Enabled Subscribers section of the Choose Subscribers screen, select the subscriber server (SQLServer2 in this case), and click Next. On the Choose Destination Database screen, verify the database name (ClientDB in this case), then click Next. On the Set Merge Agent Schedule screen, select Continuously (important to note that this is not a default option), and click Next.
When you see the Initialize Subscription screen, select No, the Subscriber already has the schema and data (again, this is not a default option) and click Next. You don't need to select this option because you've already restored a backup of the database to the target server. On the Set Subscription Priority screen, select Use the Publisher as a proxy, then click Next. Then, on the Start Required Services screen, accept all settings and click Next. Click Finish to complete the wizard, then click Close. In the right pane of Enterprise Manager, you'll see a new line with the newly configured subscription information. You'll need to repeat these steps for all configured publications
Test Merge Replication Before Going Live
Before implementing merge replication in your production environment, I recommend that you test its performance on similar hardware with the expected data load. It's possible that in your particular case, merge replication might not perform well enough to satisfy your specific business requirements. This is true especially in situations that have persistent high data loads. If this is your situation, consider transactional replication or other data transfer scenario. I know of one case when merge replication slowed down the data load on one of the servers by a factor of 2.
However, for small and midsized databases that have evenly spread and a not-very-aggressive transaction volume (as I described earlier), merge replication will usually work fine. Make sure that your user data, log, and TempDB and Distribution files are located on different drives. For additional explanation and advice, read the Microsoft article "SQL Server 2000 Merge Replication Performance Tuning and Optimization."
This implementation of merge replication satisfied my client's requirements. This solution supports simultaneous data entry on different servers (including modification of text columns) and doesn't require special data partitioning. It avoids many conflicts at the row level by merging changes in different columns into one record. And this solution makes it easy to increase the number of subscribers. This solution doesn't require deep scripting skills, and it can easily be supported by a relatively inexperienced DBA who wants to learn new technology. If your situation is similar to the one I've described here, merge replication is a good choice.


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In an increasingly ever-connected world in which technology is in a constant, always-on state, solution providers, MSPs and VARs have had to keep pace with not only the technology but also the services and support they provide, resulting in IT jobs that are also "always-on."
In the "Most Always-On IT Jobs" survey conducted by Emerson Network Power, a Columbus, Ohio-based division of Emerson Electric Co., of nearly 800 IT professionals from the U.S., Latin America, Europe and Asia, Emerson's Business-Critical Continuity experts found that on average, IT professionals are required to be available between 119 and 168 hours per week. And, although some may struggle with the work-life balance in the always-on environment, others find that it's their place to shine. "The results show that the top 10 Always-On jobs, as determined by respondents, can be the mental and emotional equivalent of sprinting uphill in the driving wind while juggling, wearing only one shoe. And some IT professionals thrive on this challenge," the report said. Here's a look at the top 10 always-on jobs.


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The Hatters will play their first game at 2 p.m. Sunday against Liberty at Stetson's new on-campus facility.
DELAND -- Freshman goalkeeper Whitney Meyers stood in the middle of the lacrosse field adjacent to Stetson's new athletic training center and marveled at the transformation.
Meyers recalled her first visit to campus about a year ago when the spot she was standing on Thursday was just an empty lot.
"There was nothing here,'' she said. "There were just blueprints that coach was showing me. Now that we actually have a team here in practice gear and playing on this field, it's really cool.''
Meyers and her women's lacrosse teammates will make school history at 2 p.m. Sunday when the Hatters play in their first official game, hosting Liberty University at their new on-campus facility.
"It's hard to believe our first game is here,'' said freshman defender Mary Katherine O'Sullivan, noting that the past six months of training now seems like a blur. "We're all super-stoked for our first game. We've all been working really hard for this moment.''
The first-year team hopes its excitement is contagious.
Women's lacrosse is the third new sport Stetson has added in the past year, but unlike football and sand volleyball, few people from around here have had much exposure to the native American sport that is practically a pastime in many areas of the Northeast and mid-Atlantic states.
"We hope it creates a vibrancy on campus,'' Stetson athletic director Jeff Altier said. "I think at first it will be at a curiosity level.''
Stetson head coach Nicole Moore, who was hired about 14 months ago, said her major challenge has been getting a new program up and running in just about a year's time. To help her, she hired assistant coach Brittany Dipper, who was the goalkeeper on Maryland's 2010 national championship team. But the challenges are just beginning.
The Hatters have 21 players on their roster, 18 of whom are freshmen. Only two of the players -- sophomores Samantha Akl and Elisabeth Blackwell -- have previous collegiate lacrosse experience. Yet this inexperienced group will be thrown into the fire this season with home games against established programs like William & Mary and UC Davis.
And then on March 19, the Hats will play third-ranked Florida in Gainesville. The Gators reached the Final Four last year in just their third season.
"Scheduling them made sense because of their proximity,'' Moore said. "Obviously it's a very tall order, but it will be a great learning opportunity as long as we set the goal of letting that learning happen. Florida has done a tremendous job in a very short time to build that program, and it's something we want to replicate.''
Moore, a former player at New Hampshire and assistant coach at Vermont, Temple and Canisius, said she was intrigued about having an opportunity to help build the foundation for a new program. But she's also fascinated with the prospect of generating popularity in lacrosse in this area.
"A lot of people look at it as a negative,'' Moore said of building a program in a county devoid of any lacrosse tradition.
"But I look it as a positive, being a part of the growth of the sport in this area. There are a lot of great (youth and high school) programs in this state, like in Orlando and South Florida. And we can build lacrosse in this area. It's a lot different than Baltimore where you have a lot of kids at games with lacrosse sticks.
"That's my vision -- to create that atmosphere locally.''
It starts on campus. The players have passed out fliers and they plan to work the crowd at Saturday's basketball games at the Edmunds Center, letting Hatter fans know about Sunday's historic opener.
"There's a lot of interest around campus,'' O'Sullivan said. "I think we'll have a good turnout.''
Freshman midfielder Amanda Parker, who is from the Philadelphia area, said lacrosse is a popular sport where she is from. Around campus she has seen budding interest.
"Everyone plays up north. It's the sport to play,'' Parker said. "Down here people come up to us and say, 'We're coming to your game on Sunday, but we don't know a whole lot about it.' It's funny because there are a lot of rules that people have to pick up on.''
Altier said he was first exposed to lacrosse when his older brother played it on the club level at Florida State in 1979. Altier said it was the most violent sport he'd ever witnessed.
"I was scared to watch the game. It was so violent,'' he said.
But the women's version is very different, permitting only minimal contact, which allows for very fast action.
"It can be very high scoring,'' Moore said. "There's a little bit of basketball, ice hockey, field hockey and soccer in it. It's a great sport.''
Like the other new sports, Stetson added lacrosse to help increase student enrollment, make the campus community a more vibrant place and help expand the university's footprint into other regions of the country, Altier said.
He said lacrosse should help the university get a better foothold in such regions as the Northeast.
Nine of the team's players are from out of state. Many of the Floridians on the team are fairly new to the sport. Meyers, who is from Ponte Vedra, began playing when her high school formed a team for her freshman year. Akl's school, Jensen Beach, started lacrosse when she was a junior.
"It's getting huge in Florida, but it's definitely still very much a northern sport,'' said Akl, who transferred from Limestone College.
Stetson is one of five teams starting up in the Atlantic Sun Conference. The Hatters and Detroit were picked to finish second in the conference behind established program Jacksonville. The other conference teams are Kennesaw State and Howard.
Stetson begins the season with seven straight home games before it hits the road.
"We're going to have some fun and amazing challenges,'' Moore said. "But we'll look back one day and say, 'Wow, look what we started.' The players, support staff and parents are all part of building the legacy at Stetson.''


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Gardner has talked before about how abortion businesses unfairly target minority communities and how black women have abortions at much higher rates than white women or Hispanics.
But Gardner says the last straw for her is the recent controversy surrounding Obama's votes in the Illinois legislature against bills that would have protected babies who survive botched abortions.
"Barack Obama is an extremist who, in supporting what amounts to infanticide, would like to see all of us stand idle--twiddling our thumbs as unplanned children, who are born alive, die this terrible death," she told LifeNews.com Thursday.
"We must realize this is definitely part of Mr. Obama's plan for America," Gardner explains. "But it is definitely not mine. In my America, all voices shout, 'No We Can't!' and 'No We Won't!'"
Gardner is also troubled by Obama's refusal to admit that he voted against the Born Alive Infants Protection Act even after his own legislative committee adopted an amendment he now says would have made it possible for him to vote for the bill.
"It's hard to believe that this man who wants to hold the highest office in this land would not only oppose legislation to protect children born alive, but would then lie about it for four years stating that he didn't oppose it," she says.
"For four years, Obama misrepresented his vote, saying that the bill he opposed in the Illinois State Senate was different from the bill that was passed by the U.S. Senate and signed into law by President Bush," she told LifeNews.com.
"Let's understand what opposing this important legislation means," she explains.
"Suppose that a woman goes to an abortion facility for an abortion and by some blessing the child survives--alive. Barack Obama has voted that the abortionist, medical staff, and anyone else in the room should stand by and watch the child die a horrible death--gasping for air--without lifting a finger to help him or her," she said.
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MUMBAI, India (AP) — A developing nation version of the World Bank was formally agreed this week two years after India proposed the idea to Brazil, Russia, China and South Africa. Yet even as the five governments hailed its formation, there were questions about whether four of them might simply be paying to move from U.S. financial hegemony to dominance by another economic superpower: China.
India ensured a sense of parity with its insistence that each of the countries behind the New Development Bank contribute equal shares of $10 billion to its initial $50 billion capital. Like the World Bank, the new institution plans to fund development projects in poor countries.
But India failed in its bid to host the new bank's headquarters in New Delhi. It will be located in Shanghai instead.
The headquarters skirmish was part of a larger struggle to keep China, the world's second-biggest economy, from dominating the new bank the way the United States has dominated the World Bank and International Monetary Fund. Losing out to Shanghai set off a flurry of concern in Indian media that instead of the consensual approach that India originally envisioned, the new institution could be used to promote China's priorities.
"At worst, India has been conned by China into giving Shanghai $10 billion, to start off with, to pursue Chinese interests in the developing world," columnist Mihir S. Sharma wrote in the Business Standard newspaper.
India has long been suspicious of its giant neighbor to the north and border disputes still fester. Plus, for about a decade, India hoped to match or even outpace the Chinese economic juggernaut when its own economy was growing at 8-9 percent. That dream has crumbled in recent years. India's economy slowed to less than 5 percent growth in the last two years and China, while also slowing, continued to outpace it.
In another concession to parity, the New Development Bank will have a rotating presidency shared among the member nations. But there is no doubting that China's priorities will carry significant weight.
The Chinese economy is four times the size of India's and larger than the combined economies of India, Russia, Brazil and South Africa. Take the C out of BRICS as the five are known and it becomes a much less muscular grouping.
Still, some economists argue that the significance of the development bank and the Contingent Reserve Arrangement, a $100 billion financial safety net similar to the International Monetary Fund, also agreed at the summit in Brazil, is useful as an alternative to the U.S.-dominated global economic system.
"It really is a historic development," said Biswajit Dhar, an economist and professor at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi.
Some even compared the significance of the BRICS bank to the Bretton Woods summit in 1944, which provided by the basis for the modern system of central banking and foreign exchange as well as the creation of the World Bank, then called the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, and the IMF.
China's official Xinhua news agency said in an editorial that the agreement ushers in a long-awaited alternative to the "Western-dominated institutes in global finance."
For decades, the World Bank and the IMF, along with the Asian Development Bank that is led by Japan, have been the only games in town for developing countries in financial trouble or seeking outside funds for big projects. The World Bank and especially the IMF have used that pre-eminence to advance a philosophy of free markets and limited government intervention in the economy.
The BRICS countries have long a shared desire for a bigger voice in global economic policy. Many developing nations had painful experiences with Western financial dominance. They've contended with economic sanctions imposed by Western powers. Or they've been forced to make painful budget cuts and meet other strict conditions to qualify for emergency IMF loans.
Economist Shreeram Chaulia said that simply by offering an alternative, the new bank and emergency fund will be significant.
"In any market, competition is a good thing," said Chaulia, a professor at New Delhi's Jindal School of International Affairs.
The market in the case of global development, he said, is one of ideas on how best to promote economic growth.
China's ruling Communist Party allows free enterprise but most industries, including oil and gas, banking and telecoms, are dominated by state-owned companies. The ruling party still issues Soviet-style five-year development plans and gives favored enterprises subsidies, monopolies and other support. Most bank lending goes to state companies.
Leaders of India, Russia, Brazil and South Africa also to varying extents favor a substantial state role in the economy, and Chaulia said he expected those values to be reflected when the new institutions open for business in two years.
"It will be more state-ist, to be blunt," he said of a future BRICS financial and economic system.
Dhar, the Indian economist, said the new institutions could serve Chinese interests by improving its relationships with poorer countries that view its growing economic clout with suspicion.
China is embroiled in disputes with Southeast Asian nations because of its vast territorial claims in the South China Sea and state-backed Chinese companies in Africa have accumulated a track record of labor and environmental abuses.
But Dhar doesn't see the New Development Bank as a vehicle for enforcing a Chinese hegemony.
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|Gese, E.M., Bekoff, M., Andelt,W., Carbyn, L. & Knowlton, F.
|Sillero-Zubiri, C. & Hoffmann, M. (Canid Red List Authority)
The Coyote has a wide distribution throughout North America, Mexico and into Central America. They are abundant throughout their range and are increasing in distribution as humans continue to modify the landscape. The species is very versatile, especially in their ability to exploit human modified environments.
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|Coyotes were believed to have been restricted to the south-west and plains regions of the U.S. and Canada, and northern and central Mexico, prior to European settlement (Moore and Parker 1992). During the 19th century, coyotes are thought to have expanded north and west. With land conversion and removal of wolves after 1900, coyotes expanded into all of the U.S. and Mexico, southward into Central America, and northward into most of Canada and Alaska (Moore and Parker 1992).
Coyotes continue to expand their distribution and occupy most areas between 8°N (Panama) and 70°N (northern Alaska). They are found throughout the continental United States and Alaska, almost all of Canada (except the far north-eastern regions), south through Mexico and into Central America (Bekoff 1982; Reid 1997; Bekoff and Gese 2003).
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Coyote densities in different geographic areas and seasons vary from 0.01–0.09 coyotes/km² in the winter in the Yukon (O'Donoghue et al. 1997) to 0.9/km² in the fall and 2.3/km² during the summer (post-whelping) in Texas (Knowlton 1972, Andelt 1985). Density in different geographic areas and seasons are listed in Sillero-Zubiri (2004).
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|Habitat and Ecology:
|Coyotes utilize almost all available habitats including prairie, forest, desert, mountain and tropical ecosystems. The ability of coyotes to exploit human resources allows them to occupy urban areas. Water availability may limit Coyote distribution in some desert environments.
Coyotes are opportunistic, generalist predators that eat a variety of food items, typically consuming items in relation to changes in availability. Coyotes eat foods ranging from fruit and insects to large ungulates and livestock. Livestock and wild ungulates may often be represented in coyote stomachs and scats as carrion, but predation on large ungulates (native and domestic) does occur (Andelt 1987). Predation by Coyotes on neonates of native ungulates can be high during fawning (Andelt 1987). Coyotes in suburban areas are adept at exploiting human-made food resources and will readily consume dog food or other human-related items.
|Major Threat(s):
There are no current threats to Coyote populations throughout their range. Local reductions are temporary and their range has been expanding. Conservation measures have not been needed to maintain viable populations. Coyotes adapt to human environs and occupy most habitats, including urban areas. Hybridization with dogs may be a threat near urban areas. Genetic contamination between dogs, Coyotes, and Grey Wolves may be occurring in north-eastern U.S. Hybridization between Coyotes and Red Wolves is problematic for Red Wolf recovery in south-eastern U.S.
Coyote fur is still sought by trappers throughout its range, with harvest levels depending upon fur prices, local and state regulations, and traditional uses and practices. Many states and provinces consider Coyotes a furbearing species with varying regulations on method of take, bag limit, and seasons.
|Conservation Actions:
The species is not included on the CITES Appendices, and there is no legal protection of the species. Restrictions on harvest and method of harvest depend upon state or provincial regulations.
The Coyote occurs in almost all protected areas across its range.
Occurrence in captivity
Over 2,000 Coyotes occur in captivity in zoos, wildlife centres, etc., throughout their range. They readily reproduce in captivity and survival is high.
Gaps in knowledge
Several gaps in knowledge still remain: coyote reproductive physiology and possible modes of fertility control; selective management of problem animals; effects of control; genetic differentiation from other canids (particularly the red wolf); development of non-lethal depredation techniques; interactions of coyotes and other predators; coyote-prey interactions; human-coyote interactions and conflicts at the urban interface; factors influencing prey selection; communication; adaptations in urban and rural environments; and interactions with threatened and endangered species.
|Gese, E.M., Bekoff, M., Andelt,W., Carbyn, L. & Knowlton, F. 2008. Canis latrans. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2008: e.T3745A10056342. . Downloaded on 25 September 2018.
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***1/2 (out of four)
A terrific party, J. Roddy Walston and the Business' "Essential Tremors" has song after song that you expect to support a commercial in which people are doing something more fun than what you're doing and promoting a product you probably won't remember. It's boogie you sweat to, rock that's classic in the proudest sense. Yes, he wears influences like Led Zeppelin and Little Richard strongly, but who cares when it's this great?
While not quite as consistently fantastic as 2010's self-titled sophomore outing, "Essential Tremors" grooves like nobody's, uh, business, from howling opener "Heavy Bells" to very Zeppelin-y "Sweat Shock" to "Black Light," which opens with OK Go-esque falsetto. The record's title comes from a nervous-system disorder that's long-affected Walston, but anyone can relate to his empowering lyrics that sound less earnest when wailed just right.
By the way: See this band live. You won't regret it.
Effective ballad "Boys Can Never Tell" may not deliver the goods of the rollicking stuff, but a pianist's gotta be free to do something somber if he wants to. And then "Same Days" and particularly "Tear Jerk" will kick any bash back into high gear anyway, so it's all good.
In concert: Sept. 12 at Double Door
Watch Matt on "You & Me This Morning," Friday at 6:55 a.m. on WCIU, the U
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I have in cooperation with the IceNews Network and eNewsWire UK working on mapping the behaviour of Journalists, editors, Columnists use the Internet to research for articles and or react to breaking news using such services such as Google Alerts. What surprised me was the sometimes lighting fast reaction time. That is from the time news or a PR item was sent out until we saw someone from the major news outlets or stakeholder related come in and review the article. We are talking some couple of hours from when the article was send out until it was mentioned or quoted somewhere else online.
Major news outlets such as the BBC, New York Times and News Week where sometimes in within minutes from when Google showed the news in their Google News search. We have seen timelines such as news being posted at 10:00, picked up by Google News at 10:03 and a major news agency and/or stakeholder is in 10 – 20 min later. Truly lightning fast?
I am hoping to have more data gathered and reportable within the next two months, did some preliminary finding introductions at the SES in NY, but SMX in London should provide me a platform to give more in-depth data and understanding of the true impact of online PR and news distribution. If you want more information pls. send me an email to kmh /at/ nem.is.


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Thursday, July 04, 2013
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Looks absolutely amazing!!!!! Glad I could join vicariously through the mouth-watering photos ;-)ReplyDelete
Thanks for sharingReplyDelete
I can tell by every word and every photo it was perfection~ReplyDelete
I think I am a "hooked" reader..i knew who Veronique was :)
Never forget those make up tricks she shared:)
YOUR lobsters are GREAT!
Yum--looks great, Carol! I like their version of the lobster roll--leave it to us to yuck it up...ReplyDelete
Have I ever told you how completely clever you are to have made a life and living of the things you love?ReplyDelete
This sounds like so much fun. I love the light in the restaurant, and I would just love to have just a taste of the food. Truly elegant. Thanks for sharing such an elegant outing.ReplyDelete
interesting to read thank you I really liked your article I love your beautiful blog and so enjoy your posts.good jobReplyDelete
Great photos; the food looks fabulous - but I don't think that those portions would fill me up :)ReplyDeleteReplies
The time spent enjoying the flavors and aromas leaves you deeply satisfied.Delete
It's not about a full tum
Why the French are thinner than us along with genetics
Beautiful sequence of photos, you took my along for the ride/meal. Amazing!ReplyDelete
- Anonymous8:04 AM
Wow !! words fail me... All the things I adore, especially the lobster, It must have been extra fab, being an invited guest.ReplyDelete
Enjoy your trip to London, the weather forecast is V. HOT.
Oooo it IS Very hot in LondonDelete
Natch I was not prepared like in Aix
Everyone is strIpped down
And I'm in back ;(
The parks are full of sunbathers!
OMG..What a meal.. looks wonderful! Especially that dessert.ReplyDelete
Espelette the village of my great grandmother, where Piment d'Espelette originates, is also a neiboring village. I LOVE the stuff :)ReplyDeleteReplies
My first time though I had to draw it for Living FranceDelete
Would love to go there someday I hope..


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STOCKTON - The starting guards helped Delta escape trouble on Wednesday.
STOCKTON - The starting guards helped Delta escape trouble on Wednesday.
Point guard Lisa Valentine and shooting guard Jennifer Keys led a surge in the final 10 minutes that proved to be the difference in the Mustangs' 57-50 victory against Merced College to take the championship of the Jocelyn Mancebo Delta Classic Tournament at Joe Blanchard Gymnasium.
The tournament championship is the fourth for Delta, its first since 2008.
Laney beat Mission 55-52 in the third-place game, and Modesto topped College of the Sequoias 55-44 in the consolation championship.
Valentine and Keys scored 19 of the Mustangs' (8-3) points during a 23-10 closing run. Keys had eight unanswered in the stretch, including back-to-back 3-pointers.
Valentine was named the tournament's most valuable player and Keys made the all-tournament team.
"I was telling (Keys) to shoot the ball because she is one of our best shooters," Valentine said. "Those 3s she made changed the game for us."
Both freshmen, Valentine is from Lincoln and Keys is from Antioch-Deer Valley. Valentine led the team with 17 points and Keys had 13 points.
Center Sonji Green was named all-tournament and led the Blue Devils (6-6) with 14 points. Rogenee Russell had 10 points and was also an all-tournament selection.
Delta led 31-20 at halftime before Merced tied the game, 33-33. The Blue Devils got the ball inside, drew fouls and made 6 of 6 at the free-throw line during their 13-2 run.
Merced coach Allen Huddle-ston was ejected from the game for arguing with officials.
"Delta is a good team and I'm proud that our kids didn't go away," Huddleston said.
"They had to battle to get back in it."
Delta struggled in the first 9 minutes of the second half, making 1 for 9 from the field, and didn't score during a 5-minute stretch.
"We just couldn't get into a flow for some reason," Delta coach Gina Johnson said. "We got really tight on offense and started to panic a bit."
The Mustangs made 11 field goals and 20-of-25 free throws. Valentine was 6 for 6 from the line.


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Centers of Distinction
Please visit any of MU's Centers of Distinction:
- Center for the Arts
- Monmouth University Polling Institute
- Kislak Real Estate Institute
- Institute for Global Understanding
- Urban Coast Institute
At Monmouth University, there are five unique organizations, known as Centers of Distinction, that work to promote awareness of specific issues and meet the needs of local and global communities. Our Centers, run by top experts and professors, provide important services in areas such as the environment, global affairs, and public policy. Whether their goal is to educate others, solve a problem, or bring important events to campus, the work being done by these Centers is what truly makes them distinct.
Students at Monmouth also have great opportunities to learn from and assist these Centers. Because they are located right on campus, these organizations can offer students valuable hands-on experience outside the classroom and the chance to work directly with influential leaders. It is all part of the personalized education that separates MU from other institutions and prepares students for the next chapter in their professional lives.
Center for the Arts
The Center for the Arts hosts of variety of concerts, shows, lectures, and exhibits for the MU community and public audiences. From musicians to ghost hunters, films to operas, these events provide education and enjoyment for those in attendance.
Monmouth University Polling Institute
The Monmouth University Polling Institute is a leading center for public opinion research. Led by director Patrick Murray, the Institute provides polls and contract research services to policymakers in government and private organizations.
Kislak Real Estate Institute
The Kislak Real Estate Institute, part of the Leon Hess Business School, is a leading research center on real estate and economic development. The Institute also offers programs of study that provide students and professionals with the skills needed for a productive career in commercial real estate.
Institute for Global Understanding
The Institute for Global Understanding promotes understanding of global affairs and brings awareness of worldwide issues and challenges. To meet the goals of IGU, students, faculty, and the community actively engage in a series of programs, partnerships, fundraising initiatives, field experiences, and service learning opportunities.
Urban Coast Institute
The Urban Coast Institute, part of the School of Science, is a forum for research, education, and collaboration supporting the stewardship of coastal ecosystems. Expanding on the University's marine and environmental biology and policy program, the UCI allows students to study important environmental issues, both on campus and at the beach only a mile away.


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Name of the game is consistency, officials say
By Carol Ryan Dumas
Capital Press
BURLEY, Idaho — Flood-irrigation practices in the early days of irrigation on the Eastern Snake River Plain boosted water levels in the aquifer, which lay beneath it. But as irrigation efficiencies improved, less water reached the aquifer, contributing to its decline.
One issue now is in trying to get more water to the aquifer by recharging it.
The state of Idaho and irrigation and canal companies have been attempting to "balance the budget" of water going in and water coming out, but it's a complicated endeavor, said Mike McVay, technical hydrologist with Idaho Department of Water Resource.
Managed recharge of the aquifer does offer a way to balance the budget, but it depends on where you recharge, he said during the Idaho Irrigation Equipment Association's conference in Burley on Wednesday.
Water injected for recharge doesn't stay in the aquifer and instead goes back to the Snake River fairly quickly, making balancing the budget a continuous effort, he said.
To assist in analysis of recharge, McVay has modeled the results of recharge efforts from 2007 to 2011.
During that time, irrigation and canal companies on the Eastern Snake River Plain participated in recharge efforts at several locations, sending 100,000 acre-feet per year into the aquifer.
But "the aquifer is not a very good bathtub, it leaks a lot," he said.
Water tends to go back to the river, he said.
That's not necessarily bad. It depends on water-management goals, with different benefits at different sites. In addition to raising aquifer-storage levels, those goals could be increasing flows in the river, springs and reservoirs, he said.
The goal of the state is to keep water in the aquifer for people to use, but it's a complicated issue. The state has to balance obligations for the Swan Falls Agreement — which balances water uses for agriculture and water needs for hydropower generation — and river and spring flows to keep water rights whole, he said.
McVay's models help evaluate recharge efforts by analyzing where the water is going.
In the theoretical modeling, McVay kept pumping water into the model, much more than the recharge sites can take, to see where the water would go. In both the theoretical and actual modeling, the impact on the aquifer was small.
If it isn't continuously recharged, the water will leak into the river, no matter how much is put in. That's because the aquifer is like a big bowl with a hole in the bottom, he said.
In addition, the theoretical modeling doesn't take into account other factors, such as weather or physical limitations, he said.
It is a tool that shows how the aquifer behaves. But the bottom line is the aquifer leaks and sooner or later, water is going to go back to the river, he said.
The take-home message is the aquifer has to continually be recharged or it will all leak out, he said.


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BRUSSELS (AP) — European Parliament leaders are threatening to hold up the legislation establishing a common authority to restructure or shut down failing banks.
The EU's 28 finance ministers reached a deal in December on how to set up that bank resolution authority, which they say will be a final step in building Europe's banking union. But many EU lawmakers, whose approval is needed, find the proposal flawed.
Their caucus leaders said in a joint statement Thursday the current state of negotiations to find a compromise "is not promising given the wide differences ... meaning that no deal before the European elections in May is a distinct possibility."
EU officials say failing to pass the legislation by May would considerably delay the project and undermine the efforts to stabilize the bloc's financial system.


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The 25 Best Twitter Reactions To Last Night's 'Scandal' Ep 'A Woman Scorned'
Olivia Pope and President Fitz's (not so) closeted romance is coming closer and closer to light. In last night's episode of Scandal, Liv flexed her mistress muscles and posed an ultimatum (see photo above). The President challenged it. Jake, who Prez originally sent to protect Olivia, is sprung. The First Lady, Mellie, called hubby's bluff by exposing his infidelity in a nationally televised interview (an interview with none other than the Vice President, Cyrus', husband). Cyrus allegedly tried to off Olivia. And it all ended in a steamy shower scene between Olitz. Exhale. Click through for Twitter's emo and outraged reactions to "A Woman Scorned."


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CAMBRIDGE — When Daniel Lanigan was growing up, the beer in the fridge was usually Keystone Light. When he was old enough to drink, Lanigan realized he didn't have a taste for cheap American lagers, so he became "a Guinness guy."
That changed during a visit he made years ago to a brewpub in Brattleboro . The pub didn't serve the Irish staple, and offered Lanigan its own craft-brewed stout instead.
"The rest is history," says Lanigan, proprietor of the Lord Hobo beer bistro outside Inman Square in Cambridge, where he presides over an ever-changing draft beer menu from Trillium, Jack's Abby, and other local standouts.
In recent years, the 37-year-old publican — who was born in Everett and went to high school in Ipswich — has helped open similar craft-beer bars in New York and Baltimore. Now he is ready for a new challenge. Lanigan is preparing to build what he says will be the country's first brewery entirely devoted to contract brewing: the making and packaging of beer to meet the exacting specifications of commercial clients.
Craft brewing, once a drop in the industry's bucket, accounted for 10.2 percent of total US beer sales in dollars last year, according to the Brewers Association, a trade group. While many craft brewers have their own production facilities, others need to strike deals with large breweries to get speciality beers made. Lanigan wants to give them an alternative.
"I'm offering a state-of-the-art playground for brewers," he said, sitting in a booth at Lord Hobo an hour before the usual after-work rush. "There's been a lot of inconsistency in contract brewing out there, and that's not good for anybody. There's an obvious need."
He expects to draw his customers from several groups, including West Coast microbrewers who want to eliminate cross-country distribution costs, European brands whose products can languish in shipping containers up to three months, and local entrepreneurs who have great brewing and marketing ideas but no brick-and-mortar brewhouse.
"We have a ton of customers who can't wait for us to open our doors," Lanigan said, although he would not name them.
He expects those doors to open within about a year, at a cost of about $18 million. With investors lined up to put in an undisclosed amount of money, he is prepared to sign a lease for a 150,000-square-foot warehouse on the North Shore with 34-foot ceilings and outdoor acreage that could accommodate beer-tasting festivals. Lanigan is not ready to disclose its location.
He is calling the brewery Paragraph XI — a name that comes from a German beer club where the 11th Commandment is "Keep on drinking" — and expects to create about 50 jobs.
"I want to be part of a community," he said. "The North Shore has a strong workforce, with skilled labor — plumbers, electricians, welders."
Eventually, Lanigan may decide to launch his own brand. But for now Paragraph XI will focus solely on his customers, to "gain their trust," he said.
Tom Acitelli, author of "The Audacity of Hops: The History of America's Craft Beer Revolution," said he believes Lanigan's concept is "unique in the US. I'm kind of blown away."
Noting that the concept of contract brewing has its origins in Boston in the early 1980s, Acitelli, who lives in Cambridge, said it was initially controversial among brewers who resented their competitors conceiving brands without accepting the financial burden of building their own breweries.
'I'm offering a state-of-the-art playground for brewers.'
"But it also put craft beer in more people's hands and expanded the market for it," he said.
Though Massachusetts has become home to many new microbrews in recent years, Lanigan says the East Coast still lags behind the "gold standard" of California and the Pacific Northwest when it comes to craft beer culture.
"People on the West Coast go to breweries after work to stand in tasting rooms — 200 people drinking fresh beer, with food trucks outside," he said, sitting with a small mountain of paperwork and two dog-training DVDs for the German shepherd he is adopting. "I want people here to go to a commercial facility to try fresh beer."
The move to the North Shore will mark a significant change for Lanigan, who said he is ready to build a house and start a family. "I've led a hectic lifestyle these last 10 years."
Before opening Lord Hobo on the site of the old B-Side Lounge in 2009, Lanigan was a fixture at the now-defunct Other Side Café in Boston. After studying briefly at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, he made his first foray into the bar business when he opened Amherst's Moan and Dove, a well-tended dive with floors covered in peanut shells.
"Everyone thought I was crazy for selling $5 exotic beers in a college town," he recalled. But the business was successful and led to a second one, the Dirty Truth in Northampton.
Moan and Dove, he said, refers to an Allen Ginsberg phrase appropriated by Bob Dylan. A student of poetry, he once saw Ginsberg speak at the Boston Public Library, "and it changed my life. He had such drive, and he was so compassionate to everyone. He drew so many brilliant people to him."
When Lanigan opens his brewery-playground, he hopes it also will act like a magnet.
"You see what's happened in Vermont — people drive for hours," he said of that state's reputation for breweries and brewpubs. "I would like them to consider my place a similar destination."James Sullivan can be reached at email@example.com. Follow him on Twitter @sullivanjames.