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By Steve Neavling and Tom Hals
DETROIT/WILMINGTON, Del., Feb 15 (Reuters) - Wanted: A financial whiz with powers of persuasion, an acute political radar and thick skin, for the demanding assignment of taking over a major American city on the brink of bankruptcy.
That's what Michigan Governor Rick Snyder is likely looking for as he decides whether to appoint an emergency financial manager for the city of Detroit, according to restructuring experts and Michigan politicians.
Snyder revealed this week that he has a "short list" of candidates for the job. He still awaits a report from a team of advisers to decide whether Detroit needs an emergency manager, said spokeswoman Sara Wurfel, but is "talking to and looking for prospective qualified candidates."
It's a job few may want as it will probably involve decisions that could lead to further cuts in jobs and services in a city that has been in decline for a long time - with its high crime rate, abandoned buildings and many unlit streets.
Still, success could make the manager a star in the world of restructuring - especially given a number of other financially distressed cities in the United States which might have to seek a similar savior.
"When there is not enough money to go around, somebody is going to be disappointed. And that disappointment will be aimed at whoever is the poor devil that took the job," said Steve Miller, a top turnaround specialist with strong Michigan ties who has worked for automakers Ford Motor Co and Chrysler Group LLC, and parts maker Delphi Automotive Plc .
The ideal qualifications would be someone with both a business background and a sense of public service to do the job for little or no pay, said Miller, who is now non-executive chairman of insurer American International Group, which was bailed out by the U.S. government during the financial crisis.
Scott Eisenberg, managing partner of corporate restructuring firm Amherst Partners and a past president of the Detroit chapter of the Turnaround Management Association, goes even further, saying "a magician" is needed for the job.
"You have a city council that doesn't want to lose control," Eisenberg said. "Who knows how much the mayor will go along. This will be filled with legal challenges over what you can and can't do. Everything the person does that is controversial will be challenged in court."
Snyder isn't talking about the candidates on his short-list, but politicians and restructuring experts say he needs to take their race into account. Eighty-three percent of Detroit's population is black and Mayor Dave Bing and city council members are all African American.
"To forcibly put a Caucasian in that position could have a very negative effect on the workforce, the voting populace and the people he will have to work with," said State Senator Virgil Smith, a Detroit Democrat, who is black.
No large American city in recent history has seen a decline like Detroit. Once the fifth largest city in America, it is now only the 18th biggest, according to the latest population figures. With the exodus has come declines in the tax base and revenue, the flight of jobs, rising numbers of poor, increased crime and a city saddled with the infrastructure and labor costs of a bygone era.
Urban policy experts across the country are closely watching the struggles of Detroit, which could be an example for a number of cities still trying to recover from the housing bust and financial crisis, at a time when their pension and healthcare costs are soaring.
The emergency financial manager could choose to recommend that Detroit files for bankruptcy, although the decision ultimately rests with a board composed of people appointed by Snyder.
If Detroit files for Chapter 9 bankruptcy, its outstanding rated debt of $8.2 billion would make it the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history, almost double the 2011 filing by Alabama's Jefferson County.
Other American cities have gone to the edge of insolvency including New York in 1975, Cleveland in 1978 and Philadelphia in 1991. But none of them filed Chapter 9 municipal bankruptcy.
Republican state lawmakers, who hold majorities in the legislature, said Snyder has not sought their counsel on the appointment of an emergency manager. But in interviews this week there was a virtual consensus among Michigan lawmakers in both parties that an emergency manager is likely.
"Every day that goes by and Detroit does not take action to save itself limits the governor's options," said Ari Adler, spokesman for Michigan's Republican House Speaker Jase Bolger.
Snyder has kept the names on his short list within a small circle of advisers, saying only that few people have the financial knowledge and people skills to do the job.
So far, several of the names swirling around Detroit political circles have said they are not in the running.
The Detroit News reported on Sunday that former Washington, D.C. mayor Anthony Williams, now in private law practice, had turned down the job. Repeated efforts to contact Williams for comment were not successful.
Another former politician whose name has surfaced in the speculation said he was not interested in the job.
"I am not a candidate for the emergency manager of Detroit," Thurbert Baker, a former attorney general of the state of Georgia now practicing law in Atlanta and Washington, told Reuters in an email.
If anyone knows the challenges a Detroit financial manager would face, it could be Robert Bobb, who from 2009 to 2012 served as the state-appointed emergency financial manager for Detroit Public Schools.
Bobb closed dozens of schools, outsourced school services, increased class sizes and laid off hundreds of teachers.
"If you are there for a popularity contest, then cast that aside," said Bobb, who said he had not been contacted about the Detroit emergency manager position.
While some described it as the job from hell, others said it could be a huge opportunity for someone to become the leading municipal turnaround specialist in the nation.
"It's a bit amorphous as to what constitutes success in this project, but there are a lot of careers built on one successful job," said Tim Skillman, a managing director in the Los Angeles office of turnaround firm Gavin/Solmonese. (Additional reporting by Karen Pierog and James Kelleher in Chicago, Paritosh Bansal, Jessica Toonkel and Nicholas Brown in New York, and Dawson Bell in Lansing, Michigan; Writing by Greg McCune; Editing by Mary Milliken and Tim Dobbyn)


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Health impacts from climate change can arise via complex processes. The scale
of these effects would depend primarily on the size, density, and wealth of
human populations or communities (WHO, 1998). Extreme weather variability associated
with climate change may add new stress to developing nations that already are
vulnerable as a result of environmental degradation, resource depletion, overpopulation,
or location (McMichael et al., 1996).
Persistent poverty and population pressure accompanied by inadequate sanitation
and inadequate public health infrastructure will limit many populations'
capacity to adapt (Kovats et al., 1998; Patz, 1998). Interaction between
local environmental degradation and changes on a larger scaleclimate change,
population growth, and loss of biodiversitymay significantly influence
effects on health (Haines and McMichael, 1997; WHO, 1998). The direct impacts
of climate change depend mainly on exposure to heat or cold waves or extreme
weather events, such as floods and droughts.
Kattenberg et al. (1996) made generalized tentative assessments concerning
extreme weather and climate events. Studies in temperate and subtropical countries
have shown increases in daily death rates associated with extreme outdoor temperatures
(see Section 14.1.5; McMichael et al., 1996). Climate
change scenarios constructed from three models have been used to estimate human
mortality with changes in baseline climate conditions for Buenos Aires, Caracas,
San José, and Santiago. In Caracas and San José, where present
temperatures are close to the comfort temperature for all months, mortality
rates (total, cardiovascular, and respiratory) increase for most of the climate
change scenarios employed. However, decreases in winter mortality may offset
excess summer mortality in cities with relatively colder climates, such as Santiago
(Martens, 1998). People who are more than 65 years old are more temperature
sensitive than younger people (Martens, 1998).
There is evidence that people living in poor housing conditions (crowded and
poorly ventilated) and urban populations in developing countries are particularly
vulnerable to thermal stress enhanced by rapid urbanization (urban heat island)
because of few social resources and low preexisting health status (Kilbourne,
1989; Martens, 1998). Furthermore, in rural areas, the relative importance of
temperature on mortality may be different from its effect on urban populations
(Martens, 1998).
Prolonged heat can enhance production of smog and dispersal of allergens. Both
effects have been linked to respiratory symptoms (Epstein, 2000). High temperatures
and air pollutants, especially particulates, act synergistically to influence
human health. This effect is occurring in large cities, such as Mexico City,
Santiago, and more recently Buenos Aires, where such conditions enhance the
formation of secondary pollutants (e.g., ozoneEscudero, 1990; Katsouyanni
et al., 1993; Canziani, 1994). Saldivia (1994, 1995) has observed an
increasing trend in the mortality of elderly people following peaks of air pollution
in São Paulo. Daily mortality has been correlated mainly with temperature
and ozone concentration, both measured the day before (Sartor et al.,
1995). Hyperthermic syndrome (heat stroke) affected children under 2 years old
and people over 80 in Peru's coastal regions during the high temperatures
of the El Niño phenomenon (Instituto Nacional de Salud, 1998a, 1999).
During droughts, the risk of wildfires increases, causing loss of green areas,
property, livestock, and human life, as a result of increasing air pollution
from suspended particles (OPS, 1998). The direct effects of wildfires on human
health occur from burns and smoke inhalation (Kovats et al., 1999). In
Alta Floresta, Brazil, there was a 20-fold increase in outpatient visits
for respiratory disease in 1997 during a biomass smoke episode (Brauer, 1998).
Increased ambient temperature may have significant effects on the distribution
and overgrowth of allergenic plants. Higher temperatures and lower rainfall
at the time of pollen dispersal are likely to result in higher concentrations
of airborne pollen during the peak season (Emberlin, 1994; Rosas et al.,
1989). A relationship between concentrations of algae and weather parameters
(temperature and vapor pressure) in Mexico has been correlated. Dispersion of
algae has received much attention during recent years as a result of associated
inhalant allergies and other respiratory disorders (Rosas et al., 1989).
The high degree of seasonality (dry-rainy season) in air-borne enteric bacterial,
basidiomycete spore, particle, and protein concentrations also could be associated
with temperature and vapor pressure in Mexico City (Rosas et al., 1994,
1995; Calderón et al., 1995). Thus, future changes in climatic
variables might have an important effect in the distribution of air-borne bacteria,
fungus, pollen, particles, and proteins whose allergenic properties have to
be considered.
In 1998, there was an increase in cholera cases in Peru and Ecuador and other
countries affected by weather disasters. Hurricane Mitch affected Guatemala
(the number of cholera cases increased four-fold), Belize, and Nicaragua (the
number of cholera cases was six times the usual number of reported cases) (OPS,
Global warming could increase the number and severity of extreme weather events,
such as storms, floods, droughts, and hurricanes, along with related landslides
and wildfires (IPCC, 1996). Such events tend to increase death and disease ratesdirectly
through injuries or indirectly through infectious diseases brought about by
damage to agriculture and sanitary infrastructure and potable water supplies
(PAHO, 1998a). Floods and droughts could permanently or semi-permanently displace
entire populations in developing countries, leading to overcrowding and diseases
connected with it, such as tuberculosis and other air-borne and crowd diseases;
adverse psychological effects; and other stresses (IPCC, 1996; McMichael and
Kovats, 1998a,b; Epstein, 2000). Slums and shantytowns located on hills (e.g.,
Rio de Janeiro), as well as human settlements located in flood-prone areas,
are particularly subject to periodic natural disasters that adversely affect
human health and sanitary infrastructure (IPCC, 1996).
In developing countries, populations are becoming more rather than less vulnerable
to disasters (McMichael and Kovats, 1998b). Natural disasters may be responsible
for outbreaks of cholera, leptospirosis, malaria, and dengue (Moreira, 1986;
PAHO, 1998a,b). Hurricane Mitch stalled over Central America in October 1998
for 3 days, claiming 11,000 lives. It was the most deadly hurricane to strike
the western hemisphere in 2 centuries (Hellin et al., 1999). After Mitch,
Honduras reported thousands of cases of cholera, malaria, and dengue fever (PAHO,
1998a,b; OPS, 1999; Epstein, 2000). As the risk of flooding increases with climate
change, so does the importance of the major drainage system, which will determine
whether floodwaters drain in minutes, hours, or days (McMichael and Kovats,
1998b). Floodwaters can cause the release of dangerous chemicals from storage
and waste disposal sites and precipitate outbreaks of vector- and water-borne
diseases (Patz, 1998).
Indirect effects of disasters can damage the health care sector. After Hurricane
Mitch, some countries in Central America regressed decades in health services
and transport infrastructure, thereby making it more difficult to assist the
affected population (OPS, 1999). Environmental refugees could present the most
serious health consequences of climate change. Risks that stem from overcrowding
include virtually absent sanitation; scarcity of shelter, food, and safe water;
and heightened tensionspotentially leading to social conflicts (Patz,
1998). Weather disasters cause many deaths and have long-term impacts on communities,
including psychological effects such as post-traumatic stress disorder (Kovats
et al., 1998). In 1999, heavy rains on the coast of Venezuela displaced
80,000-100,000 people and caused 20,000-50,000 deaths, as well as
enormous damage in infrastructure (PNUD/CAF, 2000).
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Back to the Future Musical Opening in London in 2015
In the West End.
Soon, all the time-manipulation movies you loved growing up will be musicals, and it will be good. Thirty years after the release of Back To The Future, Marty McFly and Doc Brown will finally take their flux capacitors and accidental mother seductions to the stage in a West End musical. BTTF director Robert Zemeckis will write the show's book with Bob Gale and Jamie Lloyd, with music written by composers Alan Silvestri, Glen Ballard and, if they keep their wits about them, Chuck Berry by default.


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Although Prabal Gurung showed his Fall 2012 collection nearly 3 weeks ago, this was one I couldn't help but dedicate a full post to (save the best for last right?) Plus, Kate Bosworth killed at at the Oscars Vanity Fair after party in Prabal's newest collection the other night…so this is well deserved.
While most designers started their Fall '12 shows with all white looks, Prabal did the complete opposite with striking models in black. I tend to look at black as boring, however this was FAR from. These looks had the intricate detailing that Prabal is known for and made me just as excited as when I first laid eyes on those melting purple pants. The prints and sheer cut outs seen in his Spring 2012 collection carried over for Fall but this time Prabal showed more gold and deep blue as opposed to turquoise and purple.
My favorite part about this collection was the return of the blue pants (updated and modified of course). I first fell in love with Prabal after seeing his Spring 2010 collection, specifically these blue pants. Something about them intrigued me and I've been a huge Prabal fan ever since. It's been amazing to see how he's evolved as a designer and I always look forward to what he's going to wow us with season after season.
I could ramble for hours about how amazing this collection is (and how much I love the makeup), but you'd probably get sick of me obsessing over Prabal so instead just take a look at some photos…


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5 Things You Missed On Instagram Last Night: Kanye Puts A Ring On It
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Author Notes: Sweet butternut squash and crunchy red quinoa make surprisingly good panfellows – as the quinoa cooks, the squash steams, and releases its soft edges into the grain, like it does in risotto. Spiked with the bright flavors of grape tomatoes and feta cheese, the salad makes for an easy, nutritious lunch. - jessthompson —jessthomson
Food52 Review: What's not to adore about a salad that's colorful, full of flavor, vitamins and protein, tastes delicious, and takes about 20 minutes to prepare? The most arduous task here is peeling and cutting the squash. I could easily see substituting for it some sugar snap peas or asparagus in the spring, or grilled zucchini and/or eggplant in the summer. A few recommendations: wash the quinoa thoroughly to get rid of any bitterness, and use the best feta you can find, as it plays a starring role in this. What a terrific, versatile dish!! ;o) - AntoniaJames —AntoniaJames
Serves: 2
cup red quinoa
cup water
teaspoon Kosher salt
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cups chopped, peeled butternut squash (3/4" chunks)
teaspoon extra virgin olive oil
grape tomatoes, halved lengthwise
cup crumbled feta cheese
cup chopped fresh basil (loosely packed)
Freshly ground pepper
- Combine the quinoa, water, and salt in a small saucepan. Bring to a simmer over high heat. Reduce heat to low, stir in squash, cover, and cook for 10 to 15 minutes, or until the quinoa has popped and the squash is soft. (You may need to add another tablespoon or two of water, depending on how juicy your squash is.)
- Remove from heat and fold in the olive oil, tomatoes, feta, and basil. Season to taste with freshly ground pepper.
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So, after lots of kerfluffle, Elizabeth Moon is no longer invited as Guest of Honor to WisCon.
And, rather quickly, Juan Williams is no longer employed by NPR.
Some people are crying about free speech and all that, but that's silly. If an avowedly feminist, anti-racist, and progressive/left/whatever convention doesn't want to honor somebody who posted what seemed to lots of folks (including me) an Islamophobic and blazingly ignorant screed ... that seems like a fairly predictable outcome, one that maybe should have even happened sooner. It's not like Moon had been invited as guest of honor to the Newt Gingrich Sing-a-long -- it's WisCon! (And as Nick Mamatas points out, this is not the first con to disinvite a GoH.) She's welcome to attend WisCon if she wants, she just can't do it as a guest of honor.
With Juan Williams, NPR doesn't want to pay a guy who says he's scared of Muslims when they get on planes. NPR's not destroying his freedom of speech; they're deciding who they want to spend their money on. (And Fox News promptly gives him $2 million -- they, too, are deciding who they want to spend their money on.)
If my posting this causes the White Supremacist Sci-Fi Convention to decide not to make me a guest of honor in the future, that's okay. And if Fox News decides not to hire me, I'll understand. Really.
There are plenty of discussions of both of these topics happening all over the place (e.g., the WisCon News blog), if you're looking for more depth and chat about it all -- I particularly liked Cat Valente's post on Moon and Ta-Nehisi Coates's on Juan Williams.


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HOUSTON (AP) — One of Mexico's most powerful and violent drug cartels intended a racehorse-buying operation to be a clandestine means of laundering its illegal proceeds in the United States, prosecutors say.
But with the millions of dollars spent — sometimes in the form of duffel bags stuffed with cash — on horses named with names such as Number One Cartel and Mr. Ease Cartel, it wasn't long before authorities learned of the alleged scheme and reined it in.
The federal investigation resulted in indictments last year against 18 individuals. Now, at least four of the accused in the money laundering scheme, including the brother of two of the top leaders of the Zetas drug cartel, are set to go on trial Monday in an Austin federal courtroom.
The trial, which could last up to six weeks, is expected to offer insight into the internal workings of the Zetas, as well as highlight what some cartel experts say was a rookie mistake by an organized crime outfit: drawing attention to yourself.
"It's just sort of flashy, ostentatious behavior that is not smart if you are involved in organized crime," Howard Campbell, a professor of anthropology at the University of Texas at El Paso who has studied drug cartels, said of the racehorse-buying operation's high profile.
Federal authorities have accused Miguel Angel Trevino Morales, believed to now be the leader of the Zetas drug operation, of setting up the horse operation that his younger brother, Jose Trevino Morales, ran from a sprawling ranch near Lexington, Okla. The operation spent millions of dollars buying horses in California, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas, prosecutors said.
Authorities allege Jose Trevino Morales and his wife, who had lived in North Texas before moving to Oklahoma, did not have the means to support the ranch operation, which bought, trained, bred and raced quarter horses throughout the Southwest, and that drug money paid for everything.
Neighbors said those who worked with the ranch spent lots of cash, bought land and made improvements at a time when others in the industry were struggling financially.
Workers at the Ruidoso Downs Race Track and Casino in New Mexico said Jose Trevino Morales' stables were known as the "Zetas' stables."
The U.S. Attorney's Office in San Antonio, which is handling the case, declined to comment on Friday about the trial.
Jose Trevino Morales' attorney, David Finn, said his client is not guilty of money laundering, describing him as a hard-working person who learned to raise horses while growing up on a ranch in Mexico.
"This is not about Jose Trevino Morales and his family. This is about his brothers and their alleged criminal activity in Mexico," Finn said. "He is not involved in any Zeta activity ... They couldn't get the brothers so they are focusing on my client."
Miguel Angel Trevino Morales and another brother alleged to be a top Zetas leader, Oscar Omar Trevino Morales, were also indicted. But they — along with five others also charged — remain at large. Three others indicted have pleaded guilty, including Jose Trevino Morales' wife and daughter.
Campbell said while the racehorse-buying operation might have been a creative way to launder money, it was also "really stupid because it was so public."
"The smarter people launder money more discreetly," he said.
Campbell attributed the mistake to the Zetas' relative inexperience as an independent drug trafficking group. Originally a band of assassins made up of ex-special forces soldiers from the Mexican Army, the Zetas worked for the Gulf Cartel before splitting off in 2010.
The Zetas, known for beheading rivals, have been blamed for some of Mexico's most shocking atrocities and mass killings.
"The Zetas seem to be a little more out of control and not as sort of hip to how they should operate in order to avoid getting caught," Campbell said. "They've learned their lesson in this case."
George W. Grayson, an expert on Mexican politics and drug cartels at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Va., said the Zetas might have been drawn to the idea of using a horse-buying operation because of their love of such animals, especially thoroughbreds.
"With horses and laundering money, you have a daily double on which they thought they couldn't lose," said Grayson, who co-authored "The Executioner's Men: Los Zetas, Rogue Soldiers, Criminal Entrepreneurs and the Shadow State They Created."
Campbell called the upcoming trial a "slam dunk" for prosecutors, citing the extensive evidence.
Grayson said he doesn't think the shutting down of the horse-buying operation was a major blow to the Zetas' operations.
"It's a thorn in their side but not a dagger in their heart," Grayson said.
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PRAGUE (AP) — An international film festival in the Czech spa town of Karlovy Vary is bestowing its Crystal Globe awards on actor John Travolta and director Oliver Stone for outstanding contributions to world cinema.
Travolta is receiving his award on Friday, the opening day of the 48th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. Stone has to wait for the final day, July 6.
Fourteen movies are competing for top honors, including "A Field in England" directed by Ben Wheatley, and U.S.-Swedish production "Bluebird" by director Lance Edmands.
The grand jury is led by Polish director Agnieszka Holland.
The festival, known for its relaxed atmosphere, features some 200 movies.


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- 1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, room temperature
- 1/2 cup powdered sugar
- 1/2 cup ground hazelnuts, lightly toasted, ground
- 1 teaspoon finely grated orange peel
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup all purpose flour
- 4 tablespoons (1/2 stick) unsalted butter, divided
- 6 medium-size slightly under-ripe bananas, peeled, each cut on diagonal into 1/2-inch-thick slices, divided
- 1/2 cup sugar, divided
- 6 tablespoons warm water, divided
- 1
- 1 pint premium vanilla ice cream
- Bittersweet Chocolate-Port Sauce
Recipe Preparation
Using electric mixer, beat first 6 ingredients in medium bowl to blend. Add flour; beat until moist clumps form. Gather dough into ball; flatten into disk. Wrap in plastic; chill 30 minutes.
Preheat oven to 350°F. Divide dough into 6 equal pieces. Press 1 piece evenly onto bottom and up sides of each of six 4 1/2-inch-diameter tartlet pans with removable bottoms. Bake crusts until deep golden brown and cooked through, about 25 minutes. Cool crusts completely in pans on rack. DO AHEAD:Can be prepared 1 day ahead. Cover and store at room temperature.
Melt 2 tablespoons butter in large nonstick skillet over medium-high heat until beginning to brown. Add half of bananas to skillet in single layer; cook until bananas brown on bottom, about 45 seconds. Using thin spatula, turn slices over; sprinkle 1/4 cup sugar evenly over bananas. Cook until sugar dissolves and turns golden, occasionally swirling pan, about 3 minutes. Turn banana slices over; add 3 tablespoons warm water and continue cooking until caramel thickens slightly, swirling pan, about 2 minutes. Arrange banana slices in each of 3 tartlet crusts; spoon any caramel from skillet over. Clean skillet, then repeat procedure with remaining butter, bananas, sugar, and water. DO AHEAD: Can be prepared 2 hours ahead. Let stand uncovered at room temperature. Warm in 350°F oven 10 minutes before continuing recipe.
Top each tartlet with scoop of vanilla ice cream. Drizzle each tartlet with Bittersweet Chocolate-Port Sauce and serve.


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This article provides information on the DNS resource records used in DNS Security Extensions (DNSSEC)
As mentioned in Introduction to DNS Security Extensions, DNSSEC is a set of extensions to DNS which provide a measure of security for it. Specifically, responses to DNS queries can be validated - verified as being genuine - when DNSSEC is implemented properly. In order to accomplish this, several new types of DNS records are needed. This article lists them and provides a brief description of each.
DNS Record Types Specific to DNSSEC:
DS, NSEC3, and NSEC3PARAM records are only supported in Windows Server 2012 and later versions.
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LONDON (AP) — Amid regal pomp at Queen Elizabeth II's Windsor Castle home, the Irish president and the British monarch have begun Ireland's first state visit to Britain with expressions of mutual affection and respect — and a shared determination to consign national hatreds to a sorrow-tinged past.
President Michael D. Higgins, Ireland's elfin head of state, was guest of honor at a royal banquet that brought together former enemies in Northern Ireland and leading politicians and celebrities of Britain and Ireland, including Judi Dench and Daniel Day-Lewis. Gathered together on one massive 160-seat table, they heard the queen and Higgins pledge to lead their nations into a new era of friendship.
Higgins' trip — on his country's first state visit to Britain since Ireland won independence nearly a century ago — underscores how much the success of Northern Ireland peacemaking has transformed wider relations between the two longtime adversaries since the 1990s, when Irish Republican Army car bombs were still detonating in London.
It comes three years after the queen, defying threats from IRA splinter groups still seeking to wreck the peace, made her own inaugural visit to the Republic of Ireland, where a British monarch last visited in 1911, when all of Ireland was still part of the United Kingdom.
As she toasted the health of the Irish nation, Elizabeth said she had loved her Irish visit and found it "even more pleasing since then that we, the Irish and British, are becoming good and dependable neighbors and better friends, finally shedding our inhibitions about seeing the best in each other."
The queen managed a rare joke as she lauded the role of Irish immigrants in Britain's public, academic and cultural life. She recalled her own surprise role in the Opening Ceremony of the 2012 London Olympics, when she performed in a film alongside James Bond star Daniel Craig — before a stuntman dressed as the monarch parachuted live into the stadium.
"It took someone of Irish descent, Danny Boyle, to get me to jump from a helicopter," she said to laughter, referring to the show's director.
More significantly, the queen criticized how Irish immigrants to Britain used to experience "discrimination and a lack of appreciation." She said a peaceful future would require Britain and Ireland to be "respectful of each other's nationhood, sovereignty and traditions, cooperating to our mutual benefit, at ease in each other's company. After so much checkered history, the regrettable pain of which is still felt by many of us, this goal is now within reach."
She signaled her intention to return to Ireland for the 100th anniversary commemorations of its Easter Rising, a short-lived 1916 Dublin rebellion that inspired Ireland's later war of independence.
Even a few years ago, the idea of British royals attending celebrations of one of the most anti-British events in Irish history would have seemed farcical, if not dangerous. Not now.
"My family and my government will stand alongside you, Mr. President, and your ministers, throughout the anniversaries ... of the events that led to the creation of the Irish Free State," she said, using the original name of what became the Republic of Ireland.
Earlier Tuesday, Higgins delivered the first speech by an Irish president to the joint Houses of Parliament, where he declared that both nations had attained "a closeness and warmth that once seemed unachievable."
Previous Irish presidents toured England and met the queen in several official trips since 1993 as part of early peacemaking efforts. But a formal state visit with full honors had been repeatedly postponed because of security and diplomatic sensitivities.
Higgins, a left-wing politician, poet and human rights activist who was elected to the ceremonial post in 2011, said the two nations' relationship had gone "from the doubting eyes of estrangement to the trusting eyes of partnership and, in recent years, to the welcoming eyes of friendship."
"Our two countries can take immense pride in the progress of the cause of peace in Northern Ireland," he said. "There is of course still a road to be traveled, the road of a lasting and creative reconciliation."
When Higgins arrived at Windsor Castle, a military band played Ireland's martial national anthem, "The Soldier's Song," as the queen and her husband Prince Philip welcomed the president and his wife, Sabina, into the castle quadrangle. Outside, Irish tricolors and Union Jacks lined the streets of Windsor for the start of Higgins' four-day tour of England.
Also taking part in royal events for the first time is Martin McGuinness, once a senior IRA commander, now deputy leader of Northern Ireland's unity government. He boycotted the queen's 2011 visit to Ireland.
Before Tuesday's banquet, McGuinness chatted animatedly with the prime ministers of Britain and Ireland, David Cameron and Enda Kenny, but was not seen to exchange any words with the queen.
More than 3,600 people were killed during the four-decade conflict over Northern Ireland. The main faction of the IRA killed nearly 1,800 people — among them the queen's cousin, Lord Louis Mountbatten —during its failed effort to force Northern Ireland out of the United Kingdom. Experts say McGuinness was the IRA's chief of staff when the group assassinated Mountbatten in 1979.
Higgins paid silent tribute to Mountbatten, as well as to Britain's dead from the two world wars, during a tour of Westminster Abbey, where a plaque on the abbey floor honors Mountbatten, a World War II hero who was Britain's last viceroy to India. The 79-year-old shunned personal security when holidaying in the Republic of Ireland; an IRA remote-control bomb killed him, two teenage boys and an 83-year-old woman.
For all its symbolism of reconciliation, the queen's banquet invitation for McGuinness dismayed some IRA victims.
Stephen Gault, whose father was one of 11 Protestant civilians killed in an IRA bombing in 1987, said it was "another nail in the coffin of the innocent victims of terrorism."
Gault told the BBC he "would like to see Mr. McGuinness behind bars for his crimes."
"Yes, we all want peace, but peace at what cost? It's been a dirty peace so far," he said.
Pogatchnik reported from Dublin.


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The motorcycles rumbled up and down Main all afternoon and the ones who weren't bikers sort of sat back and watched.
DAYTONA BEACH -- The last big day of Bike Week 2013 was D.J. Murphy Jr.'s first. He's got a head start on just about everyone else. Because he's 2.
"I don't want him to live here the rest of his life," the older D.J. Murphy, a Daytona Beach native, said Saturday, pushing his son's Mickey Mouse stroller down a packed Main Street. "But I want him to come back every year."
If he does, he'll join thousands of others who do come back to Daytona Beach and the surrounding area each year for one of the biggest motorcycle rallies in the world. On Saturday, this year's version was headed into its final night of parties — where there probably weren't going to be many 2-year-olds.
The motorcycles rumbled up and down Main all afternoon as people hopped off their bikes and snapped pictures of the ones they liked. The Main Street Barber Shop sold water and sodas for $1 each, like it does every year. Inside the bars, the beer sold faster. Bikers walked loops past leather shops and carts full of turkey legs, sausages and grilled onions.
The ones who weren't bikers sort of sat back and watched. And in this setting, at least, in their street clothes and sun visors, they were the ones who stood out.
"I like to come down and see the crazies, as I call them," said Janet Vair, a snowbird from Ohio who winters in Cocoa Beach but comes to Bike Week regularly. "I love to watch the different people and the way they dress, the ambience."
"It's neat to come here when something like this is going on," said Roger Lundgren, visiting from Quad Cities, Iowa, but not on a motorcycle. "It's pretty awesome."
Lundgren, who came to Daytona just after a fishing trip in Mexico, was planning on staying around for next weekend's Daytona Turkey Run car show, too.
Saturday's sunny weather put big numbers on the streets beyond Main. Not far away in Daytona Beach, Mary McLeod Bethune Boulevard was packed, too, with a crowd of mostly black bikers that included members of motorcycle clubs from around the Southeast.
One was the Georgia Bad Boys, a group of about 20 bikers like Budweiser Walden, who said he's been coming to Daytona since he got his bike in 1984. In all those years, he said, he's never been to Main Street. He doesn't see any reason not to keep coming to Bethune.
"As long as they keep the wild ones out," Walden said. "I just keep it low-key."
The Bad Boys ride from Darien, Ga., to just about any rally they can, if they can get off work.
Why? "It's the ride, the destination," Walden's fellow rider Willie Tyson said — "and the different scenery," Walden finished.
While Saturday was winding down, the official end to Bike Week hadn't arrived just yet. At the Iron Horse Saloon in Ormond Beach, co-owner Melissa Penland said the bar would still have a full day of biker events Sunday.
"We still go full-bore on Sunday," she said.
The famous outdoor biker bar was busy this year despite some cold nights — although those probably helped sell more body-warming alcohol and extra gear.
"The cold at night is a little tough, because we're outside, but it's all been good," Penland said. "Long sleeves and jackets and leathers and all that stuff, too. You hope for the warm in the day and the cooler at night."


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The Jets made their first deadline trade in the last hour by making a move expected by most, as Johnny Oduya was traded this afternoon to the Hawks in exchange for Chicago's 2nd and 3rd round picks in 2013. The Jets' rearguard was in the final year of a deal paying him an average of 3.5M a season.
It's a deal that makes a fair bit of sense for both sides, given the circumstances. As I mentioned this morning in my game preview, the Hawks are in a mess at the moment, reeling in their own end on most nights. Oduya fits Chicago's mold better than a few of the leadfoot types that were bandied about in rumours leading up to this afternoon, since the 30 year old is still pretty mobile, so his acquisition was fairly predictable from their side. They're also the sort of team that can live without a few picks, what with the relatively young nature of their top player group.
For the Jets, Kevin Cheveldayoff's savvy pickup of Grant Clitsome this morning paved the way for this move to be made with a minimum of displacement. Clitsome and Oduya have similar underlying numbers, since both were just OK against bottom pairing comp, and the if the Jets have one area of depth in the organization, it's on the back end. Postma, Kulda and Redmond are fairly close to being ready, and since Oduya wasn't likely to return without taking a giant financial haircut, Winnipeg's likely done well here. I would have preferred a young forward, since that's an area of clear weakness on the roster, but two picks for six weeks of a third pairing D has to be considered a solid return by any measure.


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Nashua City Hall now accepts credit cardsBy KIMBERLY HOUGHTON
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February 24. 2013 11:00PM
NASHUA - For the first time ever, credit and debit cards are being accepted for many transactions at Nashua City Hall.
"Twenty-first century, here we come," joked Mayor Donnalee Lozeau, who said that by March 1, a majority of city departments will accept plastic.
In December, a soft launch of the program was initiated in the Motor Vehicle Department and Community Development Division.
"It has gone very smoothly. Our customers really seem to like it," said David Fredette, city treasurer.
Most of the credit card transactions are being used to pay for vehicle registrations and new license plates, according to Fredette, who said Visa, MasterCard and Discover are being accepted. So far, City Hall is averaging about a dozen credit card transactions a day, but Fredette expects the usage will increase significantly once more of the city departments are offering the service.
He explained that there is a fixed, 2.95 percent fee to use a credit card or debit card at City Hall, but said most people don't seem to have a problem paying $3 extra for a $100 transaction.
"It is mostly about convenience and customer service, which is something the mayor has been promoting," said Fredette. "We have been wanting to do this for quite a while."
In addition to the new credit card program, the city is also launching more online services such as vehicle registrations and dog licenses, according to Lozeau.
"The program will continue to expand within other areas of city government, and additional options will be added for customers as our capabilities allow, hopefully to include property taxes," said the mayor.
There is an existing city ordinance that prohibits property taxes from being paid with credit or debit cards, Fredette said, adding that legislation should probably be revisited by city officials.
However, Fredette said electronic checks are permitted to pay tax bills. Sewer bills, building permits, electrical permits and summer park and recreation programs will also be available for purchases online, but will require the small fee, he said.
Fredette expects motor vehicle transactions, which now average about 7,000 a month, will account for most online activity.
The wastewater bills will likely be a popular online service as well, he said. The new, online services should be available at the beginning of April. A notice will be mailed to customers with their bills, informing them about the online program, added Fredette.
"Our goal is to get as many city services as possible available to our citizens in the most accessible way," Lozeau said.


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Byzantium 330 - 1453 - Royal Academy
Preview by Lizzie Guilfoyle
A NEW exhibition entitled Byzantium 330 – 1453 will be on display at the Royal Academy of Arts from October 25, 2008 to March 22, 2009.
Highlighting the splendours of the Byzantine Empire, the exhibition will comprise around 300 objects including icons, detached wall paintings, micro-mosaics, ivories, enamels plus gold and silver metalwork. Some of the works have never been displayed in public before.
Byzantium 330–1453 will include great works from the San Marco Treasury in Venice and rare items from collections across Europe, the USA, Russia, Ukraine and Egypt. The exhibition begins with the foundation of Constantinople in 330 AD by the Roman Emperor Constantine the Great and concludes with the capture of the city by the Ottoman forces of Mehmed II in 1453.
This will be the first major exhibition on Byzantine Art in the United Kingdom for 50 years, made possible through a collaboration between the Royal Academy of Arts and the Benaki Museum, Athens.
Byzantium 330–1453 will follow a chronological progression covering the range, power and longevity of the artistic production of the Byzantine Empire through a number of themed sections. In this way the exhibition will explore the origins of Byzantium; the rise of Constantinople; the threat of iconoclasm when emperors banned Christian figurative art; the post-iconoclast revival; the remarkable crescendo in the Middle Ages and the close connections between Byzantine and early Renaissance art in Italy in the 13th and early 14th centuries.
Between 1204 and 1261, Constantinople was in the hands of the Latin Crusaders, but the return of the Byzantine Emperors to the city initiated a final period of great diversity in art. Art from Constantinople, the Balkans and Russia show the final phase of refinement of distinctively Orthodox forms and functions, while Crete artists like Angelos Akotantos signed their icons and merged Byzantine and Italian styles. Up to the end of the Byzantine Empire, with the fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Turks in 1453, manuscripts, micromosaics and metalwork demonstrates the virtuosity of its artists.
The exhibition will show the long history of Byzantine art and document the patrons and artists and the world in which they lived. Seeing themselves as the members of a Christian Roman Empire they believed that they represented the culmination of civilisation on earth. The art emits an intellectual, emotional and spiritual energy, yet is distinctive for the expression of passionate belief and high emotion within an art of moderation and restraint.
Byzantium 330 – 1453 will showcase the Antioch Chalice, 500 – 550AD, on loan from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. After its discovery in c. 1911, the silver gilt artefact was believed to have been the Holy Grail, the cup used by Christ at the Last Supper. Major works from the Treasury of San Marco, Venice have also been loaned to the Royal Academy, including the ornate Chalice of the Patriarchs, c. 10th-11th century.
Other highlights include a two-sided icon of Virgin Hodegetria (obverse) and the Man of Sorrows (reverse), 12th century, from the Byzantine Museum, Kastoria; an impressive 10 -11th century imperial ivory casket from Troyes cathedral depicting hunting scenes and riders ; and the Homilies of Monk James Kokkonobaphos, a manuscript from 1100 – 1150AD on loan from the Bibliotheque Nationale De France, Paris.
Byzantium 330 – 1453 continues the Royal Academy's tradition of hosting outstanding exhibitions exploring world cultures. It has been organised by the Royal Academy of Arts and the Benaki Museum, Athens; and curated by Professor Robin Cormack, Courtauld Institute, London, Professor Maria Vassilaki, University of Thessaly at Volos and the Benaki Museum and Dr Adrian Locke, Acting Head of Exhibitions, Royal Academy of Arts.
The exhibition is sponsored by the J.F. Costopoulos Foundation, the A.G. Leventis Foundation, and the Stavros Niarchos Foundation.
An accompanying catalogue is illustrated with over 340 works and has contributions from more than 100 authors. In 13 essays, leading authorities trace the history and cultural development of more than a thousand years of Byzantine art, revealing the splendours of the imperial city of Constantinople.
Times: Daily from 10am – 6pm (last admission 5:30pm); Fridays until 10pm (last admission 9:30pm).
Tickets: £12; £10 Registered Disabled and 60+ years; £8 NUS/ISIC cardholders; £4 12 – 18 years and Income Support; £3 8 – 11 years; 7 and under free.


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When it comes to chest rigs there are generally three types of retaining straps readily available. Those straps are: the standard criss cross style; The h-harness; and the final is known by a multitude of design names such as the yoke, x-harness or just a harness.. To date there are only three major manufacturers producing an "x-harness style" for sale as a seperate unit; Tactical Tailor, Original SOE Gear, and EssTac. Herein we will take a look at the latter of the group... Esstac and their Padded Harness and Sleeve Kit.
The Esstac Padded Harness is designed to replace the standard straps of and work integrally with the Esstac Boar line of chest rigs. It features all the connecting hardware that the standard shoulder straps have (pictured below). As pictured above, there is an elastic band on each connecting strap. These are very useful when dealing with excess webbing. Instead of trimming the webbing after adjusting it to the right height, you simply fold it over (as many times as necessary) and then slide the elastic over it.
As I stated in the intro, this is a padded harness. The manufacturer uses, what seems to be, a closed cell foam. It is not as "cushiony", nor is it as poofy as open cell foam. Closed cell foam has become popular because it rarely shifts onced stitched into place, and is not prone to clumping as the open celled foam does. It's about as thick as a standard USGI sleeping pad/work out mat, for those of you who are familiar with them. For those unfamiliar with a USGI sleeping pad, think yoga mat thick. In the Back piece the foam is stitched into place on all edges and with a line going down the center. The Arms are a different story.
Not only is the back piece padded, the padding also extends into the "arms" of the harness. The Arms are a different story. Each Arm is lined with loop material. This allows for complete customizable placement of the included arm accessories. It would appear that the loop material was the last piece to go onto the arms, as it is tacked down through the material AND the foam; thus holding the foam in place with three lines of horizontal stitching and two rows of vertical stitching.
As stated previously the arms are lined with loop material so that you can easily move around the included accessories. The padded harness comes with One large black, rubberize piece. This is for extra padding when shouldering your weapon. Because of the texture it also works in conjunction with your rubber butt pad (on your stock) to prevent the weapon from slipping off the shoulder strap. It also comes with one loop faced square for attaching unit patches; and one pals faced square for additional accessories. All three have hook material sewn into the inside.
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The Rear Padded piece has two nice features. It has 6 pals colums that are 7 rows tall. This allows for mounting additional pouches such as a hydration bladder. Should you decide to run a non-EssTac hydration carrier I would recommend running two rows of small malice clips. One row at the very top and one just under where the first two ends (ie: start it on the third row of pals). This will reduce the amount of side to side sway in the bladder pouch. You should also make sure that the bladder pouch you buy has a hanging tab (see other hydration pouch reviews on this site). The second feature is a drag handle. The drag handle is constructed from 2 inch webbing and is tacked down in at least 5 locations on each side.
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As stated this harness is designed to work with the entire Esstac Boar line of chest rigs. It is particularly useful on the bush boar A1. With the standard shoulder straps you find yourself having to organize the shoulder straps, and hold them in place to get into the rig easily. With the padded harness it's just like putting on a jacket; one arm at a time. SUPER EASY. Not only does it make for mounting the rig easier, it makes carrying the load much more comfortable, not that the Esstac Boar line was uncomfortable to begin with, it just makes it that much more pleasureable. IMO, this is a must have addition to this line of chest rigs. It would be interesting to see how this style, when made to integrate properly, would work with other rigs.
Disclosure: I am not an employee, nor have I ever been an employee of Essential Tactical (EssTac). The item reviewed was gifted to me by EssTac for the purpose of a product test and evaluation. The items pictured and reviewed are my personal property. The opinions and views expressed in the posting are that of my own and are not influenced by any outside sources.
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APRC, short for: Aprilia Performance Ride Control…that just about sums up the latest special edition motorcycle out of Noale. Taking the World Superbike winning RSV4 Factory, Aprilia joins a bevy of other manufacturers in applying race-bred electronic packages to their sport bike offerings for 2011. More than just a traction control system, Aprilia has added a multitude of electronics to the 2011 Aprilia RSV4 Factory APRC Special Edition.
Already leaked before Intermot, the Special Edition RSV4 Factory gets Aprilia Traction Control (ATC), which features 8 settings that are selectable via the left handlebar. However we also know now that the 2011 Aprilia RSV4 Factory APRC Special Edition comes also with Aprilia Wheelie Control (AWC) and Aprilia Launch Control (ALC), both of which have three settings. Similar to the Ducati 1198 series, the RSV4 is also getting a quick-shifter, dubbed the Aprilia Quick Shift (AQS), which allows the rider to shift gears without using the clutch and without closing the throttle. Photos and more after the jump.


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GREENWICH, Conn. – "Szechuanosaurus" isn't the newest dish at your local Chinese restaurant – it's one of about a dozen dinosaur fossils discovered in China now on display at Greenwich's Bruce Museum.
The Bruce Museum unveils its new "Chinasaurs: Dinosaur Discoveries from China" exhibit to the public Saturday. The exhibit features casts of fossils of dinosaurs whose lives span millions of years, including the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods.
"We love having family-friendly exhibits. We haven't had dinosaurs in a very long time and they're really nice specimens," Bruce Museum Curator of Science Gina Gould said. "China is one of the fastest-growing paleontology areas a,nd many museums have opened there just in the past five years."
The Bruce Museum is going all out with the nearly four-month exhibition, featuring a lecture series on dinosaurs and several events for children.
"Any time you can get dinosaurs to come to the little Bruce Museum, we're happy about it," Bruce Museum Deputy Director Susan Ball said. "We knew when this was coming in we wanted to do a lecture series that you can bring your budding paleontologist to and meet the people who actually dig these things up."
Some of the fossils may look very similar to dinosaurs people might be familiar with from the film "Jurassic Park," but almost all are biologically different. One dinosaur that looks a lot like a stegosaurus is actually a tuojiangosaurus.
Dinosaur fossils have been found in neighboring Mongolia since the 1920's. But Gould said that it is only within the last 20 years or so that China has become a hotbed of paleontology finds.
"China is really kicking butt right now," Gould said. "Whether it's fossils or living stuff, they have a renewed focus on what their land is that they haven't had in a long time."
Gould said one of the most striking things about the exhibit is how intact all the fossil casts are.
"When you look at these animals and their bones, they're really pieces of art," Gould said. "They're beautiful sculptures and they fit in as art, even though it's not. It's science."
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Robert Pattinson Steps Out Solo After Outings with Mystery Gal
Robert Pattinson steps out solo one day after hanging out with a mystery brunette on Wednesday (September 25) in West Hollywood, Calif.
That day, the 27-year-old actor stepped out solo to go to the gym. The day before, Rob was seen with a mystery brunette – the two reportedly have been making separate entrances into the gym.
Robert reportedly took this new girl to a party. "There were like 40 people at the party, it was intimate, and Rob was next to her the entire time no matter where he was," a source told Us Weekly.
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Bonnie Berk, RN, is the founder of Motherwell and a childbirth education specialist with more than 25 years of experience working in the obstetrical and women's health fields. She is a pioneer in the field of pre- and postnatal fitness, as proven with the success of the Motherwell program. This program is offered through more than 100 hospitals and fitness centers in the United States and abroad.
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Hello, I'm Annie Kovach (technically Suzanne but I've always gone by Annie) and I work for Harford County Public Library, just north of Baltimore, Maryland. I'm currently the Assistant Branch Manager at the Bel Air Branch, overseeing the Children's Department. I received my MLS in 2004 from the University of Kentucky and my BA in 2000 from the University of Dayton with a double major in English and Psychology.
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After the World Trade Center attacks of September 11, 2001, many organizations reconsidered how they manage and protect crucial business data. Having a remote data center with a second set of databases and application servers has become a common practice. Businesses have been willing to accept the cost of supporting additional personnel, data centers, and changes in application design because they want to be able to switch operations to a different location quickly in the event of a disaster. For example, after the September 11 attacks, a large bank where I recently worked as a consultant with Microsoft Consulting Services began requiring that all crucial applications be able to function from either of two locations hundreds of miles apart with no more than 2 hours downtime.
These tighter business requirements are a challenge to database architects. Most organizations' databases constantly grow, but maintenance and downtime windows are kept at a minimum. Databases must be highly available and ready to function in distributed environments, and data in primary (Publisher) and secondary (Subscriber) databases must always be synchronized.
Several solutions support high availability for SQL Server 2000 databases in different locations, including log shipping, third-party hardware or software solutions such as geographical clusters or EMC's SRDF remote-storage replication solution, and transactional replication. In most high-availability solutions, the Subscriber is completely or partially unavailable during the data-synchronization process. For example, in log shipping, the Subscriber database is available for reading only when new transaction logs aren't being applied. In the expensive SRDF hardware solution, the Subscriber database is unavailable all the time; it's available only for restoring data if the Publisher database is down. Only transactional replication allows full use of the Subscriber database all the time. This solution is available in all SQL Server editions, so you can avoid extra expenditures on third-party software and still get the maximum use of the hardware you already have. That's why many companies choose transactional replication as their high-availability solution.
But transactional replication doesn't automatically solve the problem of data synchronization; it requires efficient business processes and a highly skilled DBA team to create and support the solution. Let's look at the high-availability problem the bank I worked with faced in implementing transactional replication and continuous data synchronization and see how I solved the problem by using a new method I call forced replication.
Confronting the Problem
Using replication for very large databases (VLDBs) isn't simple when a business requires the ability to shift operations to a secondary site on short notice. Database personnel must be sure that data is synchronized all the time, and they usually have only a small window of time to fix any problems that arise in a disaster situation.
Several possible scenarios in transactional replication might cause data on the Publisher and Subscriber to become out of sync, which could create problems for the business if a disaster occurred. For example, say the remote Distributor (the server that stores metadata and history data and temporarily stores replicated transactions) crashes and, for business reasons, the company can't immediately stop accepting new data on the Publisher (as is the case with our bank). The Publisher will continue to accumulate new data, and the databases on the Publisher and Subscriber will become out of sync. Or, a subscription might expire for some reason—for example, failure of a replication agent—and changes on the Publisher wouldn't be propagated to the Subscriber. Or, a user might inadvertently—or maliciously—run a DELETE command on the Subscriber and remove already propagated data. In such a case, the Subscriber would have fewer records than the Publisher. If you've used transactional replication, you've probably faced this situation at least once.
To avoid having unsynchronized data, the bank asked me to develop a mechanism of online data synchronization for the banking system that replicates two VLDBs with a combined size of approximately 500GB from a server in New York to a server in Delaware, as Figure 1 shows. Additionally, each site has reporting servers that contain identical reporting data—a subset of the data from the VLDBs. In an emergency, the bank has to be able to easily shift its data load from the New York server to the Delaware server and reverse the replication data flow between the two OLTP servers (i.e., from the Delaware server to the New York server). In the bank's original replication plan, a scheduled job runs every hour to compare the number of records in corresponding tables on the Publisher and Subscribers. Of course, the job algorithm takes delivery latency into account. If the job finds an inconsistency in the databases, the bank needs to immediately synchronize the data.
To accomplish this quick synchronization, I couldn't use conventional techniques such as applying publication snapshots, traditional backup and restore, or Data Transformation Services (DTS). Because a snapshot requires that you copy all the data, not just the part you need, preparing and applying snapshots for large databases by using SQL Server Enterprise Manager's Snapshot Agent can take hours or even days, and the bank doesn't have the luxury of time. The bank needs to synchronize only the data that has changed since the last time the scheduled job ran successfully—just a few hours of new information. Preparing a special differential snapshot of the affected tables, which have hundreds of thousands of rows, would be a waste of time and resources.
Traditional backup-and-restore technology wouldn't work either because it would replace the entire Subscriber database with the Publisher's information, which in the case of the reporting server would be inappropriate. The bank's reporting servers contain only a subset of tables replicated from the OLTP servers, along with additional tables for reporting. Another reason I couldn't use a typical restore from backup is that such a restore requires exclusive access to the Subscriber. If the Publisher accepted new data during the restore, the data would immediately be out of sync again. But the bank couldn't afford to shut down the Publisher.
We also couldn't use the DTS Import/Export Wizard. The wizard gives you the option of using a query to specify the data to transfer so that you can copy to the Subscriber a subset of the Publisher's data. But you have to recreate the destination tables or DTS will append the data you're restoring to the existing tables. Appending the rows might create duplicate records on the Subscriber if your query doesn't exactly define all the missing rows. In addition, with DTS, you need to define a query for each table, which could be a big task if you have to synchronize many tables. And the task becomes even less convenient if you have several Subscribers (as our bank has) and the wizard must run several times. The bank needed a new approach.
As a solution to the problem, I created and successfully implemented a methodology I call forced replication. This technique can synchronize the data between selected articles without stopping online operations on the Publisher and Subscribers, and you can schedule forced replication to run any time. You can apply this methodology to any database system that uses transactional replication, but it especially benefits applications that work with large databases (100GB or more) and that would require too much time for data synchronization with snapshots or other backup-and-restore methods.
What Is Forced Replication?
In solving the bank's replication problem, I found that the best tool for synchronizing data is replication itself, so I developed forced replication to synchronize on demand only the parts of the database that need updating. This technique is fast and doesn't disrupt user access to data. To use forced replication after a disaster occurs, I first verify that both the Publisher and the Subscriber are available again and the system's replication configuration is restored. For example, if a Distributor failed, I would make sure it's back online. Then, at a time that won't interfere with business processes, I run commands that resend the parts of the data that have changed since the last time the data was synchronized. These commands either insert missing data or replace existing data without duplicating it.
The forced-replication technique is based on default SQL Server replication behavior. SQL Server replicates updates that are issued against any column from the table's primary key (except an IDENTITY column) as a combination of DELETE and INSERT commands. SQL Server replicates updates against any other table columns simply as UPDATE commands. Let's look at how this behavior works.
Say the Pubs database includes a publication called Test that contains just one article, Table1. Listing 1 shows the code that creates Table1, which has a primary key defined on the integer column f1, the varchar column f2, and the datetime column f3. You want to synchronize Table1's data on the Publisher and all Subscribers. (Listing 2's code creates the Test publication, the Table1 article, and a subscription.) Assume that the Distributor, Publisher, and Subscriber servers are already configured. Subscribers might have different numbers of records or different data in some columns because they aren't synchronized yet.
If you run on the Publisher the following simple UPDATE command
UPDATE Table1 SET f1=f1 WHERE f3 < '01/03/2004'
SQL Server doesn't change the existing data on the Publisher server but instead delivers the command to the Subscribers as two new stored procedure calls for DELETE and INSERT:
\{CALL sp_MSdel_Table1 (1)\} \{CALL sp_MSins_Table1 (1, 'AA', '01/03/2004')\}
Listing 3 shows the code that creates these stored procedures, which are similar to those that SQL Server 2000 automatically generates if you use a publication creation wizard instead of running Listing 2's scripts to configure the Test publication.
If a record that you're replicating already exists on the Subscriber, the stored procedures will delete and immediately replace the existing record. If a record is missing, the stored procedures will insert it where it belongs in Table1. Note in Listing 3 that the custom stored procedure sp_MSdel_Table1 doesn't generate an error message if it doesn't find a corresponding record on the Subscriber (as SQL Server does by default); I removed that part of the code from the system-generated stored procedure to avoid creating an error message that would stop the Distribution Agent. This change is the only difference between the system-generated stored procedures and the custom ones I use for forced replication.
To view how the Distributor delivers commands to the Subscriber, stop the Distribution Agent in Replication Monitor, as Figure 2 shows. Next, run the preceding UPDATE command against the Table1 article again. Then, on the Distribution server, run the following command in Query Analyzer:
EXEC distribution.dbo. sp_browsereplcmds
As Figure 3 shows, SQL Server transforms the UPDATE command on the Publisher into two CALL commands—one for a deletion and one for an insertion—on the Distributor.
Scenarios for Using Forced Replication
You can use forced replication to synchronize data from the Publisher to the Subscriber or from the Subscriber to the Publisher. In most cases, when data is out of sync, it's because the Publisher has more data than the Subscriber—in other words, INSERT or UPDATE commands on the Publisher haven't been propagated to the Subscriber. To synchronize the data, you simply need to run on the Publisher server an UPDATE command against one of the primary key columns, replacing the column's value with an identical value. The UPDATE command will either delete and reinsert the records without duplicating them or insert missing records on the corresponding Subscriber tables. You can use a WHERE clause to restrict the amount of affected data. For example, as Figure 3 shows, you can update only records that occurred before January 3, 2004 (f3 < '01/03/2004').
In rare cases, you might have more data on one or more Subscribers than you do on the Publisher. For example, if a user runs a malicious INSERT command on a Subscriber or if a DELETE statement on the Publisher wasn't propagated to Subscribers, you'd need to remove the unnecessary data from the Subscribers. To handle such situations, I added an extra datetime column called repl_time to each article on every Subscriber. This method might sound like it requires a lot of additions, but you'd do it only in rare situations. Just once, before configuring replication, you run the script that callout A in Listing 4 shows, which adds the extra datetime column to each image table (the table that's part of replication) on the Subscriber. You don't need to add the column to the Subscriber's own tables. Every time a record is inserted or updated on the Subscriber, the proper custom stored procedure (either for insert or update) will change the value in the repl_time column to the default value, getdate(). The code at callout B in Listing 4 shows the stored procedures sp_MSins_ Table1 and sp_MSupd_Table1, which run on the Subscriber and change the value of repl_time. (Note that the insert and update stored procedures are different in Listing 4 than they are in Listing 3, but the sp_MSdel_Table1 stored procedure remains the same as it is in Listing 3).
When you run on the Publisher UPDATE statements that replace a value with the same value—such as the preceding UPDATE statement that sets the value for column f1—all Subscriber records that have corresponding records on the Publisher will get new values in their repl_time columns. Subscriber records that don't match any records on the Publisher will keep the old values in this field. To remove any extra records from the Subscriber, you can run a DELETE command that includes the repl_time column in a WHERE clause. For example, if you run forced replication at 11:00 a.m. on August 27, 2004, the following command
DELETE Table1 WHERE repl_time < '2004-08-27 11:00:00'
will remove from the Subscriber the records that have repl_time values before 11:00 am on August 27, 2004.
Note that you can also create the repl_time column on the Publisher and insert default NULL values into that column during the data load. During replication, data in the repl_time column would change only on Subcribers. This technique will keep table structure identical across all servers. For information about how to maintain data integrity when tables are related through foreign key constraints, see the sidebar "Handling Referential Integrity."
Using Forced Replication to Synchronize Large Tables
To implement forced replication, you need only two new stored procedures: one for small (or lookup) tables and another for large tables. Depending on your table's size, you might decide to run the UPDATE command either against selected rows (by using a WHERE clause) or against the entire table (by leaving out the WHERE clause). If your table is large (many thousands of rows), you should run the UPDATE command against a limited number of records to avoid long-running transactions and to decrease the chance of blocking other users.
If your table has columns that allow data partitioning, you can use those columns to replicate (and synchronize) only part of the table. In most cases, you can use a datetime column to filter the data. You can create a stored procedure, such as the sp_ForceRepl stored procedure that Listing 5 shows, to filter records for replication. The sp_ForceRepl stored procedure takes four parameters: TableName, BatchSize, StartDate, and EndDate. Let's take a look how this stored procedure works. First, you tell the code to select into the temporary table #Table1 all primary keys for records that satisfy the criteria you specify in the WHERE clause on the f3 column. In Listing 5, the code is selecting records with values in column f3 between @sStartDate and @sEndDate. Then, you select into the #Table1_Temp temporary table a certain number of primary keys from #Table1, which you specify in the @iBatchSize parameter, and update the records in Table1 that have the keys you specify. At the end of Listing 5's loop, the code removes the processed primary keys from #Table1 and truncates the #Table1_Temp table in preparation for the next cycle. You can create a similar filtering process for any other large table.
Using Forced Replication to Synchronize Small or Lookup Tables
Sometimes, the tables you're working with are relatively small or can't be partitioned, as with lookup tables, which are usually much smaller than operational tables that you can partition by such criteria as ID or time. If you need to replicate a table that can't be partitioned, you can run against all the table's records an UPDATE statement that doesn't change the value in the selected column. Because forced replication implementation for lookups doesn't require the preliminary step of selecting records that satisfy given criteria (as with the sp_ForceRepl stored procedure in Listing 5), you can write a generic stored procedure that works against all lookup tables. Listing 6 shows the code that creates such a stored procedure, sp_ForceRepl_Lookup. Note that Listing 6's code runs one UPDATE command for an entire lookup table instead of breaking the process into several batches, as you would with a large table.
The code in Listing 7 creates in the msdb database a table called ForcedReplTblExclude that stores the names of the large tables from all the publications that you need to process separately by using batches. Then, sp_ForceRepl_Lookup loops through all tables except those that are listed in the ForcedReplTblExclude table, finds the first column in the selected tables' primary keys, and constructs and executes the UPDATE statements that synchronize the data.
Putting It All Together
Now you're ready to implement forced replication. You need to follow several steps.
- Verify that all foreign keys on the Publisher are configured with the NOT FOR REPLICATION option.
- Add the repl_time column to each table on the Subscriber, and modify the replication stored procedures for INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE commands for all articles on the Subscriber. (To learn more about the options you can choose when configuring replication, see the Web sidebar "Additional Facts About Configuring Transactional Replication" at InstantDoc ID 44150.)
- Create the ForcedReplTblExclude table to hold a list of all non-lookup tables (e.g., those that you can partition by datetime or ID).
- Create the sp_ForceRepl stored procedure, which executes for each partitioned table an UPDATE command that replaces a value with the same value.
- Create the sp_ForceRepl_Lookup stored procedure to handle forced replication for all other tables.
- Create a DTS package, a data link file, and configuration INI file, as the Web sidebar "Creating a DTS Package to Run Forced Replication" (InstantDoc ID 44149) describes.
- Create a job that executes the DTS package, but don't schedule this job to run. The DBA should start it manually, whenever you need data synchronization.
Having in your arsenal a tool that implements forced replication will make your life easier. Such a tool lets you quickly synchronize the data at different sites after a disaster has happened—but don't wait for disaster to strike. Use the scripts I provide in this article to implement a forced-replication solution in your development environment. There, you'll see the benefits of the tool because in a development environment, you're likely to have more replication interruptions than in your well-monitored, stable production environment. Having the tool ready for production will give your company a valuable, cost-saving technique for switching database operations to a secondary data center.


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Ashton and the newly engaged actress tackle the issue of friends with benefits in their new flick — and believe it or not, Ashton finds sex to be funny!
Ashton Kutcher and Natalie Portman want you to know that onscreen sex isn't what it seems! The actors are used to intimate scenes — especially Natalie with her racy oral sex scene with Mila Kunis in Black Swan — but Natalie tells the February issue of InStyle that her solo masturbation scene on set was "super-awkward" and "anyone who tells you otherwise is not being honest."
Ashton echoed Natalie's feelings based on his experience from their upcoming romantic comedy No Strings Attached, which hits theaters Jan. 21, saying it's definitely difficult to film sex scenes.
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