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Just google for Windows disk alignment best practice, and you would find thousands of articles, whitepapers, and posts, all preaching the practice of aligning disk partitions on the 64K boundary. For instance, one of the EMC recommendations prescribes a disk alignment value of 64K for the host file systems when deploying SQL Server 2005. Microsoft states that, "misalignment can defeat system optimization of I/O operations designed to avoid crossing track boundaries."
But I must admit that I wasn't sure how much of it was based on solid first-hand and current data and how much of it was due to the sheer number of times it was recommended, giving it a life in itself. Perhaps, since everybody else was recommending it, it had to be true--one of those best practice folklore, urban legends, or myths. My attempt to scour the web for related empirical evidence always seemed to have come up empty handed. I'd be happy if it turns out that my failure to find empirical evidence was simply a direct result of my inadequate Google search skill. Regardless, I like to see some real data points.
That was the motivation, and here's the test design.
The choice of focusing on 8K random reads/writes was partly arbitrary, and partly due to the difficulty of referencing multiple charts in a blog post at this site. More importantly, as will become evident, because the result of the 8K random reads/writes is enough for us to see the wisdom of the recommendation of aligning disk partitions on the 64K boundary, including additional test scenarios would have a rather diminished margin of return.
The following two charts summarize the test results.
The first chart is a bit difficult to decipher. For 8K random reads, aligning the partition on the 64K boundary didn't produce the best result. This remained consistent in multiple runs of the same tests. Misalignment on the 63.5K boundary, on the other hand, was the worst performer, though it is debatable whether the performance difference among the three boundary settings is really significant.
The second chart shows the results of 8K random writes. Unlike in the case of 8K random reads, the performance difference is no mistake in the second chart, especially between the 64K alignment and the 63.5K alignment (or misalignment). The former outperformed the latter by a whopping ~34%. Also note that the 64K alignment was consistently the best performer for 8K random writes.
Thus, based on these data points alone, it is advisable to align your disk partitions on the 64K boundary.
Thank you so much for going through this case scenario to put a data-point based in reality out there on the net. Like you said, there is scant hard evidence out there on this topic which makes it hard to know if it is worth going through the hassle of doing.
On a related topic, I wonder if you have thoughts on the proper usage of sqlio and what a user should expect in their results. I am personally having trouble making heads or tails of the results I am getting. I can try different configs to get the best value for my system, but that still doesn't help me know if I am in the ballpark of where I should be with my hardware.
For example, if I try sqlio on a RAID0 array with 5 drives, I should get much better results than on a single drive, right? But then again, that difference depends if I am doing sequential or random access, right? Anyhow, I've used tools like HD Tach and h2benchw which give me great lower-level profiles of my hardware, but those doesn't seem to relate too well with what I get from sqlio.
I hope my frustration sparks someone to post a nice blog on sqlio and how to use it other than just part of the routine.
Thanks Again!
FYI, here's a thread that has another person's results comparing use of track-aligned partitions and its impact on sqlio benchmarking. It is not quite as detailed, but it provides some additional support for aligning partitions to the beginning of the track.
Good that you raised the issues of using sqlio.exe and conducting storage I/O tests in general. I happen to have a few more blog entries planned on the very subject. Interpreting sqlio.exe results is really no issue. The key is how you design your controlled disk I/O tests for the results to be meaningful. I'll leave the details for the upcoming blogs.
Good stuff, man!
While you're at it, what about NTFS cluster sizes and its impact on performance? What about matching the RAID stripe size to the NTFS cluster size or some multiple thereof? Do these have any predictable impact on performance from a theorectical perspective?
I've read around that changing the stripe size to a bigger value or a lesser value, depending on the usage profile, would increase performance. However, from my low-level testing with h2benchw, I've found that DELL's PERC4 and the PowerVault 220S with Seagate's 10K.7 drives do best with a 64K stripe. This was true even for extreme tests that should have favored other stripe sizes (both smaller and larger). The point I'm making here is that one should note that optimal RAID stripe size is very heavily dependant on the controller's optimal configuration and not necessarily based on the usage profile.
So, any messing around with stripe size should be weighed against hard measuring of the capabilities of ones own hardware. h2benchw makes this determination relatively easy; at least it did in my case. However, that type of performance test only does so from a pre-partition level with no clusters involved. Hopefully I can make similar judgments from the OS filesystem (post partition) level using test like you provided here using sqlio.exe.
I tested many different combinations with SQLIO looking for the best combination. 64k nt allocation unit, 128k offset and 64k cluster(HP smart array setting) was the best overall setting in my tests. 10%+ gain on sequential writes(log traffic) I was focused on finding the best setting for mixed IO patterns so there may be better settings for strictly backup drive for example. This was a few years back so hardware and the OS may have changed.
Since we use SAN exclusively, there is not much we can do with RAID stripe size. Conceptually, NTFS allocation unit size should not have a huge impact on SQL Server performance except when additional space is being allocated to a database. Once space is allocated, SQL Server manages the space and NTFS allocation unit should not matter. But as with most other things in storage, I have learned to keep a completely open mind. There could be factors unknown to me that change the whole eqution and render my conceptual reasoning totally invalid.
I enjoyed reading your article and test results. I especially appreciate your empirical evidence to substantiate what is largely hearsay evidence in other articles ("… up to 20% improvement with alignment", "… as much as 30% improvement with alignment", etc. – but no documented proof). I can buy into the value of disk volume alignment, based on the descriptions of the phenomena and proposed solutions. I have an easier time selling it to colleagues with the evidence and conditions you and others presented above.
The tests in your article use unaligned partition / volume offsets of 63.5 KB and 64.5 KB, but do not use the most common unaligned partition / volume offset: the default starting offset of 63 sectors (32,256 bytes or 31.5 KB). Any interest in retesting to include that most common unaligned partition / volume offset size?
You didn't mention the storage frame vendor / model used in the tests, possibly to avoid the appearance of recommending a brand or model. However, it would be useful to know the vendor-recommended alignment value (I assume the stated 64 KB alignment value is vendor recommended for the storage frame model used in the tests, and not drawn from other conclusions) and characteristics that determine the chosen alignment value (logical track size, stripe size, other storage frame caching issues, etc.), which is often mentioned in the vendor recommendation for disk volume alignment value.
I have observed that different storage vendors and storage frame models have different recommended alignment values - some at 32 KB, some at 64 KB, some higher or dependent on other factors (like configurable stripe size). These vendor recommendations appear to be stated as minimum values ("not less than...") and most often as binary-multiple values (32 KB, 64 KB, etc.), based on the assumption that storage frame caching and logical track lengths are often managed as binary-multiple sized values. Variation of alignment values between storage frame models can make the choice of an appropriate alignment value more challenging, and possibly result in choosing inappropriate values. I have recently chosen to use a large-enough binary-multiple value of 1 MB (1,048,576 bytes or 2,048 sector offset), which also happens to be an aligned value for all smaller binary-multiple values such as 512 KB, 256 KB, 128 KB, 64 KB, 32 KB, etc. This single alignment value may serve to simplify the disk volume alignment process across multiple storage frame models (possibly with different vendor recommendations). Any comments on this approach, or interest in retesting with 1 MB alignment?
Keep up the good work!
Thanks for the comments! I have actually tested the 63K offset and various offsets around 32K . I chose to exclude the results to limit the size of this blog entry. I wanted each blog entry to address a specific topic that would not require a lengthy and convoluted discussion.
But briefly, the 63K offset didn't perform as well as the 64K offset, so the recommendation of aligning on the 64K offset holds. The results for the various offsets around 32K were less clear cut, though in most cases the 32K offset was among the offsets that produced better results. It's just that I could not categorically conclude that the 32K offset was the way to go.
It's good news that the results of the offsets around 32K do not materially impact the main point of this blog entry, which is to present some data points in support of the 64K offset. No other offsets I have tested produced significantly better results. Well, I have not tested the 1MB offset. To be honest, an offset of that size was never considered when I was thinking about testing the performance impact of various offsets.
Yes, I deliberately chose not to mention the vendor or the SAN model on which the tests were performed. And yes, the vendor recommended alignment offset was 64K. True, it may have added value to identify them, and I wish I could. But then even if I identified the vendor and the SAN model, I could not possibly include all the configuration details in this little blog. And these configuration details often matter. So regardless, it remains that you should perform your own tests on your own system and use whatever I have reported here only as a reference.
My experience has been that 64k offset with 64k cluster size and large stripes of 256KB works best providing you've got a controller with a large amount of battery-backed write-back cache. Also note that there is an undocumented sql server switch (/E) that allocates 4 x 64k offsets to a single file in filegroup before switching to another -- therefore allowing you to lay out 4 contiguous extents on a 256KB stripe.
Hi guys, I'm seriously out of my depth here and just researching why Microsoft decided on a 1MB – 2048 sector – offset for the first partition created on a hard drive by Vista. They say it's for future large-sector hard drive support, but would it need to be 1MB just for that? http://support.microsoft.com/kb/923332
Scott R.s comment that 1MB "happens to be an aligned value for all smaller binary-multiple values" has pushed me towards thinking that there is more to the 1MB decision than large-sector support and perhaps it has do with the subject being discussed here. A couple of replies in a TechNet chat session suggests it is.
"We have also changed the default alignment for partitions on disks so that they are cache aligned"
"This change results in better performance, by aligning the volume offset with the cache line size."
I've been goggling for days and can't find anything substantial from Microsoft. Only two other KB pages mention the new offset, but are no help.
One Microsoft forum thread on the subject:
The replies from Hale Landis in this forum thread are the most interesting.
In SQL Server related storage literature, it is almost univerally recommended that disk partitions be
Hi guys,
I could find a number of papers telling how to align a partition, but could not find a simple way of checking if the partitions are aligned on an existing server. Can you guys help?
Depends on the windows OS Version
Use DiskPar or Diskpart to determine the offsets of the Partitions
I for example would on a W2K3 OS use diskpart and use the align = 64 option to configure the Raid partition..
Responding to Roust_m's question and Neil Hambly's reply regarding how to determine the offset for current partitions (to see if they are aligned or not, and to what degree - 32 KB, 64 KB, etc.):
- Neil's reply that DiskPar or DiskPart can be used is correct with conditions. DiskPar shows the exact offfset in place for a given partition (shown in bytes, I believe). But be aware that the answer from DiskPart is not always correct. It appears that DiskPart shows the offset for a partition in KB, but the value is rounded up to the nearest KB value. Since offsets are expressed in whole sectors (512 bytes or 0.5 KB), it is possible to have an actual offset value at n.5 KB but DiskPart will incorrectly show the offset value as N+1 KB. The best example of this phenomenon is with an unaligned partition - 63 sector offset / 32,256 bytes / 31.5 KB is displayed by DiskPart as 32 KB. This display implies alignment to 32 KB or smaller multiples, but is incorrect.
- I find a more reliable utility to use for displaying alignment offsets for current partitions is DiskExt (free from Sysinternals - http://download.sysinternals.com/Files/DiskExt.zip). It will show you the correct offset in bytes, with no rounding or misrepresentation. The added benefit of DiskExt is that you request the display for all drives (no parameter) or a specific drive by drive letter. The display from DiskExt is shown with the drive letter for each requested drive and it's corresponding alignment offset. I find this easier than having to find the Windows disk # for a given drive letter.
- Also note that DiskExt works for mounted volumes as well as drive letter volumes. DiskPar and DiskPart may also work with mounted volumes (after you manually translate the mounted volume path to a Windows disk # - as with drive letters).
Scott R.
We run an HP EVA 8000 SAN. The EVA has its own mechanism for dealing with the 64k offset. The EVA best practices guide states not to use it.
I was also going to mention about NTFS cluster sizes?
Kevin talks about the little known but very important issue of disk alignment partitioning.
Nice job, Linchi! I've referred a lot of my customers to this post. Some of our customers in *real-life* testing are seeing 30% - 40% improvements. Until Windows Server 2003 is deprecated & all existing partitions are re-built, partition alignment will remains a relevant technology.
To see a comprehensive characterization of disk partition alignment--including explicit implementation details--see the following:
Keep up the great work, Linchi.
@Roust_m: I'm sympathetic. When I first dived into the rabbit hole that is the black art of disk optimization & discovered disk partition alignment, not only could I not find what you seek, I even had trouble finding reliable implementation details. See my deck for the answers you seek (the URL is in the previous comment). Beware--it's a different ballgame for basic disks (well-documented) vs. dynamic disks (the truth is out there, yet elusive). I'll be posting more about dynamic disks. Stay tuned.
@Mark Sullivan: I am concerned about HP's claims. I don't yet have definitive information. Here's what I do know: HP states that starting with the 5.xxx versions of StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA) XCS Controller Software, the need for partition alignment is eliminated, adding that explicit alignment "neither enhances nor detracts from EVA sequential performance". Ref: HP StorageWorks 4x00/6x00/8x00 Enterprise Virtual Array Configuration Best Practices white paper http://h71028.www7.hp.com/ERC/downloads/4AA0-2787ENW.pdf, p. 27, August 2007.
HP's claims are intriguing, but corroborating data is lacking or in dispute. The statement explicitly cites sequential IOPs, but fails to address random IOPs--optimal performance of which is important for OLTP databases. I have a quote from an internal resource which I'm not authorized to share which lends credence to my claim. I'll let you know if I get an opportunity to do tests.
@McTavish: The reason they 1MB was chosen as the starting partition offset for Windows Server 2008 is that there are two important correlations which must be satisfied for optimal performance:
Partition_Offset ÷ Stripe_Unit_Size
Stripe_Unit_Size ÷ File_Allocation_Unit_Size
Of the two, the first is by far the most important. Windows can't reliably determine stripe unit size, but 1MB aligns with all current & putative future stripe unit sizes, i.e., 64KB, 128KB, 256KB, 512KB, 1024KB. For this reason, the 1MB starting partition offset default for Windows Server 2008 strikes me as an excellent choice.
There were discussions on disk misalignment on this site. See my previous post on " Performance Impact
Hi Linchi,
Thanks for your tests - they provide direction to less experienced folks. I'm testing IO performance for a new server whose data and log files will be placed on a SAN. I ran SQLIO tests after the SAN folks set it up and then again after performing disk alignment partitioning (recreated the partitions using a 64K offset and also formatted the partitions using 64K allocation units). This time around, I find that sequential reads and writes improved (8K, 64K and 128 K). Random 8K writes don't show much difference. Random 8K reads also improved. But 64K random reads now show decreased performance. Any idea why? Thanks!
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In the case of 64K random reads, what's the decrease in performance?
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I was testing alignment on an existing 4-disk RAID10 volume and ran into some odd performance numbers when expanding the array to use 6 disks. This was on a EMC CX3 SAN using 146GB drives. The first time around, using the 64k offset worked fine. When we rebuilt the array using 6 disks instead, running the identical SQLIO tests showed performance worse/equivalent to the original un-aligned tests. When I changed this to use MS's reccomended 1024k offset, the numbers came back into the expected range (better than my prior 4-disk aligned tests)
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I have a SQL cluster where all volumes are accessed via mount points. The volumes are correctly offsetted however the mount points are not - problem?
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Great blog Linchi. @Ian Posner So you're saying that even if you have a stripe size of 256KB, and a cluster size of 64KB, it will not waste disk space?
Any thoughts on this Linchi?


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We've been reading a lot about Greece's debt crisis, which has now spread to other countries. How did it begin?
The problem started long before the current situation. Greece has been living beyond its means for a long, long time. In fact, from the time it joined the euro zone, its deficits have been higher than 7 per cent, which is more than double what they're supposed to be to belong to the euro. Greece has structural problems within its economy that it never really resolved. It's a very small economy with a very large public sector which accounts for about 40 per cent of its GDP. It was deficit spending all along and the 2004 Olympics made things even worse.
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Harker Heights coach Shirretha Nelson was up front and honest in discussing the positives from the Lady Knights' district opening win against Belton on Tuesday — namely that there weren't any before the fourth quarter.
But the final quarter, not to mention a 10-0 run to turn a nine-point deficit into a one-point lead to start the fourth, were enough for Heights to begin district play 1-0 thanks to a 41-37 win at Belton.
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"We are going to have a better fight (next time that happens) because we've had an experience like that," Nelson said.
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Thanks to the Lord, for all that he has created.
Thanks for sharing this sight, perfect for Vespers.
Beautiful photos! Thank you for posting them.
Glorious. We're having a similar night here in the mountains of upstate New York: snow-covered ground, bright moon, crisp air, not a cloud in the sky. Oh, the glories of Creation. Deo gratias.
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Ms. Powell made the comments while speaking to Indian students about relations between the two countries on Tuesday in Jharkhand, a state in eastern India, according to a transcript of the session sent to The Wall Street Journal by the embassy.
Asked by one of the students why many Americans didn't come to India to study, Ms. Powell said that "the concern for personal security and perceived increase danger to women as a result of the rape cases was perhaps a factor in US students' decision regarding study in India."
Ms. Powell added: "What I said was one of the factors for U.S. students' decision regarding study in India."
While more than 100,000 Indian students are currently studying for higher education degrees in American institutions, the traffic the other way is much lighter, at under 5,000 students.
According to a report published this month by the Institute of International Education, a Washington D.C.-based nonprofit, the number of American students taking courses at Indian institutions increased by 6% to 4,593 in the academic year spanning 2011 and 2012, compared to 4,345 in the previous year.
In August, after a series of attacks on women travelers in India, CNN published the account of an American student who said her three months in India as part of her university course were marked by near-daily sexual harassment.
In a subsequent interview with The Wall Street Journal, the student, Michaela Cross, said that she still "loved India" but that "it's a dangerous country" and "you have to accept this."
Both countries have introduced a number of scholarships and programs to encourage American students to study in India in recent years, including the Connect India Program announced in June 2012 and designed to place 200 U.S. students in Indian educational institutions for a semester of study.
The issue of women's safety has never been more prominent in the public discourse in India than in the months since the gang rape and murder of a student in New Delhi in December, which horrified the country and triggered an international outcry at the way India treats its women.
Since then, the Indian media has devoted increased coverage to new incidents of sexual violence, while at the same time women have reported attacks with greater frequency to the police than previously, at least in India's capital.
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Paul Howarth wrote:The problem with that theory is you would expect it to be talking to rpm_script_t or rpm_t. Probably a leaked descriptor that useradd does not need to talk to, but applications that are handed open descriptors some times check theirOn Tue, 2006-05-23 at 17:12 -0700, Knute Johnson wrote:I found some interesting things in my 'messages' log today. I'm not sure what they mean and would appreciate any information.This one is the most bothersome. It appears that 'useradd' was prevented from running this morning only I didn't run it. Would any other programs run 'useradd' and what would cause it to be denied?May 23 05:11:49 rabbitbrush kernel: audit(1148386309.877:556): avc: denied { write } for pid=13906 comm="useradd" name="[1708464]" dev=pipefs ino=1708464 scontext=user_u:system_r:useradd_t:s0 tcontext=user_u:system_r:unconfined_t:s0 tclass=fifo_fileuseradd is often run in the pre-install scripts of rpm packages when the package provides something that runs as a service. You probably updated such a package (or yum did it automatically in the overnight run). For instance, I got one of these when avahi was updated recently. The pre-install script for the avahi package is: # Add the "avahi" user /usr/sbin/useradd -c 'Avahi daemon' -u 70 \ -s /sbin/nologin -r -d '/' avahi 2> /dev/null || : The denial is coming because useradd is trying to write its output to a pipe, which is not allowed by policy. Perhaps it should be? Anyway, I think this one's harmless.access, which could cause an AVC.
Are you sure? rpm.te has: usermanage_domtrans_useradd(rpm_script_t) at least in serefpolicy-2.2.23 (don't have an up to date one to hand)
This means webalizer is trying to look at the routing table. Not sure whether it matters whether it can or can not. Not thatThere are a boatload of these messages. I know that 'webalizer' is a statistics formatter for the web server but why would it be run dozens of times and be denied?May 23 04:02:02 rabbitbrush kernel: audit(1148382121.861:514): avc: denied { create } for pid=12313 comm="webalizer" scontext=user_u:system_r:webalizer_t:s0 tcontext=user_u:system_r:webalizer_t:s0 tclass=netlink_route_socketI get these too. I asked about it yesterday but no response yet. Looking at the policy for other packages, and bearing in mind that webalizer still seems to work despite the denials, I suspect that these can be dontaudit-ed, but I'd like to know what they are first.valuable of information so I will probably allow.
OK, I'll add it locally for now too, to make my audit logs a lot smaller :-) Paul.


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PAUL NICHOLLS holds the key to Saturday's Betfair Hurdle at Newbury, according to the sponsors.
The Nicholls-trained duo Irish Saint and Irving head the ante-post market, at 6-1 and 7-1 respectively, after the five-day declaration stage in which there remain 29 possible runners.
"The richest handicap hurdle in Britain is shaping up to be a cracker, but from a betting perspective a lot hinges on the Paul Nicholls stable," said Barry Orr of Betfair.
"Irving has been the ante-post favourite for some time, but his stablemate Irish Saint is now the 6-1 market leader due to the prospects of soft ground.
"Far West, the other possible runner from Ditcheat, is unchanged at 16-1."
Irish Saint bounced back from two disappointing efforts earlier this season to prove an impressive winner on his most recent start at Ascot.
Nicholls, the seven-time champion jumps trainer, said "Irish Saint was very slow to hand this year and was found to have injured his hind joint. But he travelled well on his first start (at Newbury) before he fell at the last.
"He got stuck in the middle at Ascot next time like a lot of them but he still wasn't ready.
"But he relished the testing ground and hosed in (at Ascot). The handicapper has raised him 12lb but he has only a 5lb penalty, so he's nicely in and you can see why he's favourite. He must have a leading chance."
Irving has won all three starts since being transferred from France, but his trainer issued words of caution for ante-post punters.
"He's been schooling well and working nicely but I'm concerned about the ground, so we will have to see how it unfolds.
"We think he is well-handicapped but I'm loathe to run him if it's very testing. He likes decent ground and I want to look after him."
Newbury's clerk of the course Richard Osgood described the ground as 'soft, heavy in places' and although showers are expected throughout the week, fresh ground has been set aside on the course.
Far West, in the same ownership as Irving, has also been left in the prestigious Betfair Hurdle worth £152,500 – but Nicholls will not run both.
Nicholls may also be represented in the Betfair Denman Chase, named after one of his former stars.
Cheltenham Gold Cup hope Al Ferof, last seen when third in the King George at Kempton on Boxing Day, could be in the line-up, along with Tidal Bay who is being prepared for the Grand National.
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WASHINGTON, DC, March 9, 2011 – On Monday, March 7, Claudia Martin and Diego Rodríguez Pinzón, the Co-directors of the Academy on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, and Vladislav Michalčík, Research Scholar-in-Residence, joined the Gender, Human Rights and Culture Branch of UNFPA and submitted a compilation of the examples of legal and institutional frameworks to protect and realize the right to health of older persons to the U.N. Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health.
The objective of the joint contribution is to provide input for the thematic study on the realization of the right to health of older persons, including the main existing challenges and best practices. The Special Rapporteur was mandated to develop the thematic study by the Human Rights Council's Resolution 15/22 adopted on Sept. 30, 2010.
The findings included in the joint contribution have for the most part resulted from a research project implemented based on the partnership agreement between UNFPA and the Academy in 2009-10. The objective of the research activities has been to develop a handbook with a comparative analysis of the global and regional human rights systems regarding the rights of older persons, as well as examples of good practices at national levels.
The joint contribution includes five regional sections that highlight good practices in the selected countries in Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Arab countries, Europe, and Latin America and the Caribbean. The sections focused on the realization of the right to health of older persons, themes included in national human rights and policy plans, the standards entrenched in constitutional and organic laws, and institutional and protection mechanisms.
The Academy on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law at American University Washington College of Law was created to promote practical approaches to human rights and humanitarian law as well as to strengthen links between human rights organizations, practitioners, and educators worldwide. The Academy enhances the culture and prominence of human rights and humanitarian law around the world by offering relevant, empowering training for scholars, practitioners, and students interested in the international human rights system and laws. The Academy accomplishes these tasks through its programs, partnerships, and scholarly endeavors.
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"We're telling people to check their flight status on the entire itinerary because the flight from here to Dallas or here to Houston or here to Atlanta, the big hub cities, may be fine, but the second flight from that hub city to their final destination may be canceled," Johnson said.
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Competition Committee Releases Official Rules for Drew Carey vs. U.S. Soccer FIFA 07 on Xbox 360 Challenge
CHICAGO (June 3, 2007) – The Official Competition Committee for the Drew Carey vs. U.S. Soccer EA SPORTSTM FIFA Soccer 07 on Xbox 360™ Challenge has released the rules that will govern the matches between Mr. Carey and the stars of U.S. Soccer at the $100K invitation-only event that will take place on June 5 from 7-10 p.m. PT in the Stadium Club at The Home Depot Center in Carson, Calif.
Mr. Carey will compete against five players from both the Men's and Women's National Soccer Teams – Landon Donovan, Abby Wambach, Kasey Keller, Hope Solo and Taylor Twellman - as well as a neutral player from the audience, with a total of $100,000 at stake for the Mooch Myernick Memorial Fund, established in honor of former coach and MNT captain Glenn "Mooch" Myernick. The fund was established to help increase the number of children playing the sport in metropolitan communities nationwide, and to assist soccer clubs and organizations in urban areas to create and sustain soccer opportunities for local underserved children.
After careful consideration of the positions of the respective sides, as well as the generally accepted practices of FIFA Soccer 07 on Xbox 360 players everywhere, the following rules have been established:
- The length of the first five matches, also called the preliminary phase, will be ten (10) minutes long. For each match that Mr. Carey loses in the preliminary phase, he will donate $10,000 to the Mooch Fund.
- The length of the last match against Mr. Donovan, also called the final phase, will be twenty (20) minutes long. If Mr. Carey loses that match, he will donate $50,000 to the Mooch Fund.
- For all matches in both the preliminary and final phases, the games will take place in 'night-time' conditions. Mr. Carey thinks it looks 'cooler'.
- For all matches in both the preliminary and final phases, the field conditions will be 'dry'. Mr. Carey can control the ball better and not screw up passes as much when the grass isn't wet.
- There will be a maximum of three (3) substitutions per match. Unless Mr. Carey can figure out how to give his team more, and the other team less.
- Players may change formations at any time. Mr. Carey couldn't think of a reason why this would hurt him.
- Mr. Carey will choose his team first, and will not divulge the name of said team until five minutes before kickoff of the opening match. This will allow for Mr. Carey to pick the best team possible and give no one a fair chance to prepare.
- No opponent may use the same team as Mr. Carey, and no opponent may use the same team as any previous opponent of Mr. Carey. Mr. Carey does not wish to get bored playing against the same team over and over again.
- Mr. Carey reserves the sole right to use Mr. Donovan as a player against himself. Mr. Carey knows that Mr. Donovan is damn good.
Any rules not specifically addressed here will be decided in favor of Mr. Carey. It should be noted that the decisions of Mr. Care… that is, the Official Competition Committee, are final and not subject to appeal. After all, it's his money.
Donations to the Mooch Myernick Memorial Fund can be made at www.ussoccerfoundation.org/myernick.
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WHO: Drew Carey., U.S. Men's National Team stars Landon Donovan, Kasey Keller and Taylor Twellman, U.S. Women's National Team stars Hope Solo and Abby Wambach
WHAT: An EA SPORTSTM FIFA Soccer 07 / Xbox 360 video game challenge pitting Drew Carey against five players from the U.S. National Teams to raise some serious cash
WHEN: Tuesday, June 5, 7-10 p.m., by invitation only
WHY: 100 percent of the proceeds will be donated to the Mooch Myernick Memorial Fund, in honor of former coach and MNT captain Glenn "Mooch" Myernick. The fund was established to help increase the number of children playing the sport in metropolitan communities nationwide, and to assist soccer clubs and organizations in urban areas to create and sustain soccer opportunities for local underserved children. Since the Fund was created, the Foundation has raised over $106,000 from individual and corporate donors in Myernick's honor to help support the growth of soccer in major metropolitan areas across the country. An assistant coach for the USA in the 2002 and 2006 FIFA World Cup, Myernick was universally admired, respected and loved by all those whose lives he touched. He passed away in October of 2006 at the age of 51.


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The Future of Computing - An Interview with Matz
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RSpec 2.14 Released
Myron Marston unveils the last 2.x feature release of the popular spec framework and announces work is well underway for the future RSpec 3. 2.14 includes a new feature called 'spies' which is shown off here.
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Design Patterns: The Template Method Pattern
An introductory Ruby-oriented look at arguably the simplest design pattern.
Object Oriented Rails: Writing Better Controllers
Damien Le Berrigaud of Pivotal Labs tries to avoid stubs and mocks and leans on dependency injection to test his controllers' code.
Vimscript And You
HashRocket's Jonathan Jackson demonstrates how you can use RSpec against Vim to aid in the development of a Vim plugin with Vimscript.
MotionPhrase: Next Level Localization for RubyMotion Applications
PhraseApp is a translation management tool for producing multilingual Web sites, Rails apps, etc, but it also works for localizing RubyMotion apps too, as demonstrated here.
Ruby's Eigenclasses Demystified
Andrea Singh looks at Ruby's quirky 'eigenclasses' (a.k.a. metaclasses) and explains things in both code and diagrams. Dates from 2011 but worth revisiting.
The Self-Pipe Trick Explained
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Nokogiri: History and Future
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Sometimes you might need to be careful what you pray for.
Faced with declining attendance, members of Winnipeg's Christ Lutheran Church spent months planning and praying about their future, hoping for new life for their aging congregation.
What they got instead was new life in their building, says church chairwoman Cathy Horbas.
"We had hoped it would grow our congregation, but (now) we're helping another congregation to grow," she says.
Sunday at 11 a.m., the once-thriving Evangelical Lutheran congregation, founded in 1905, holds its final service at their Garden City location. Then they'll hand over the keys to the Living Christ Community Church, a Baptist congregation with a large Filipino-Canadian membership.
Horbas says weekly attendance at Christ Lutheran had dwindled to about 30 people, with about 100 more on its membership list. The church has also been without a permanent minister for several years, and it shares a youth minister with two other Lutheran churches.
The Baptist group purchased the building after three years of renting it for their two Sunday worship services and weekday activities, explains the lead pastor of the congregation of 250.
"We are happy so much space is available to us," says Carlito Arceo.
"What attracted us to (the building) is that it looks like a church."
Constructed in 1956 near the corner of Inkster Boulevard and Arlington Street, Christ Lutheran Church has worship space for about 450, several meeting rooms and an elevator to a large lower level hall with a kitchen.
"Our youth love it because they can play basketball down there and our kids love it because it has a stage," says Arceo.
"Our church loves to cook, our members love cooking, so the kitchen is absolutely a delight."
The Baptist church is now in the process of selling their former building on Wellington Avenue to another congregation.
Over the last six months, four Evangelical Lutheran congregations, including three in Winnipeg, have sold their buildings because of declining attendance, says Bishop Elaine Sauer of the Manitoba/Northwestern Ontario Synod.
"We knew this was coming for 10 to 20 years," she says about the downward shift in attendance and membership, common to mainline churches.
"That trend has been accelerated in the last two or three years."
While acknowledging the decision has been difficult, Horbas says the remaining members at Christ Lutheran are happy a vibrant and growing congregation will inhabit their former building. They're also pleased to direct the proceeds from the sale to Luther Home, a seniors' complex, and Luther Village, a summer camp, both organizations which they've long supported.
"Because we've chosen to close in this manner, we have the opportunity to direct our resources and assets," says Horbas, adding they are seeking a new home for their two-manual pipe organ.
Sauer applauds their generosity and their example of looking beyond themselves.
"I also see some signs of hope that people are looking more outward and inward, and people are working with the communities they are part of to make some changes," she says.
As they take over the building at 815 Inkster, Arceo says his church will honour the work of the Lutherans and be good stewards of the property.
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Composer/Lyricist David Are will offer selections from four original musicals tonight, Monday, May 5 at 9:30pm at The Cutting Room in NYC.
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Static Electro is the story of an introverted teenage genius, Electro, and his ambitious schoolmate, Beth. It takes place in the very near future, with the release of the highly anticipated iMind. When Beth suddenly loses her college scholarship to an iMind applicant, she reluctantly turns to Electro for help. Smitten with her, Electro helps her navigate the world from the chip inside his mind. But when Beth becomes obsessed with having the world at her fingertips, Electro must learn that human connection trumps technological invention, before he loses the only real thing he's ever cared about.
Joni and the Wail is the story of a college freshman living at home with her over-protective father, and her first wild night out trying to get the approval she so desperately seeks. After spending high school being shunned as the assistant principal's daughter, she hopes that college will be her chance to start over. But when her father forbids her to attend the LAMDA PHI pledge party at the frat house of her high school crush, Joni runs away from home.
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"Actions speak louder than words." We love to repeat this old saying. I believed it once. But recently I've begun to question the value of that position as never before. I've come to understand that what I really want is to hear people commit to something. I want to hear people say what they want me to think they believe. I want them to say it in public, say it in legal documents, say it in catechisms, say it in Encyclicals. Say it ...
About a month ago under a tent meant to protect us from the hot African sun, I began to think differently about a lot of things, and that was key among them.
We were all religious types from every major tradition around the world. We were professed monastics and swamis and pastors and ministers and rabbis and lay catechists and church officers. Our type travel the world, talking of peace and righteousness and Truth -- with a capital T-- and holiness. But by the end of the week, I had a very clear intuition we were leaving something very important out of our preachings. Something that gave the lie to everything else we were talking about, perhaps.
That particular day, the topic was forgiveness. The plan was to hear from various traditions, particular regions, specific representatives about issues peculiar to the work they were each trying to do around the world to bring peace and justice between people of opposite persuasions, between people who saw the same world together, but differently. The storytellers were all people who were living in the midst of the experience of which they spoke.
We heard, for instance, about the progress of the revolution in Egypt from Egyptian philosophers, the ongoing social upheaval in Cambodia from international peace workers, the delicate situation of Christians in the Middle East. It was a very interesting session. Until, suddenly, it became more horrifying than interesting.
The speakers now were Congolese women. They were dressed in long gowns splashed with bright reds and greens and yellows and blues in assorted and eye-catching proportions. Their turbans of the same colors gave them a kind of regal impact. To look at them was to have a vision of real African queens up close and personal.
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The first speaker talked hesitantly and in broad terms about the difficulty of forgiveness after a civil war in which neighbors who had lived side by side for years had suddenly turned on one another. There was, they said, no forgetting either the personal pain or the faces of the perpetrators.
Frankly, it was hard to explain how so much angst could linger with such energy on such personal levels over such mundane emotions -- like mistrust, for instance, or an ongoing sense of betrayal, or even as a result of the loss of faith generated by standard-brand political disagreements. After all, civil unrest is everywhere these days.
Then, the speaker stopped for a moment. She had clearly sensed the lack of understanding in us. "Let me tell you plainly," she said. "Seventy thousand women and girls were raped in the Congo during the war. They are homeless yet. Many have starved to death. Many became pregnant and now the children they bore are orphans. I am one of those women. I am a Christian, but I could not forgive." She sighed and her voice rose.
"I will give you an example: One night, robbers came to a house and demanded that the man hand over his wife and daughters or die. He refused. So they began to cut him. They cut off his fingers and blinded his eyes. His wife couldn't stand it anymore. 'Take me and let him go,' she screamed. And they did. Then after they had gang-raped her and each daughter, they robbed the house and left."
She waited again -- for what felt like eternity -- before she went on, tight-voiced and loud. "Then the husband began to scream. He threw the wife and daughters out of the house. Those women had no place to go," she said. "No one, no one," she paused, "would take them in."
There was an audible gasp in the tent.
No one would take them in? I felt my arms get a little weak. No one? Where did they go?
The questions came from everywhere at once: "Why not? What are you talking about? Why, in God's name, did the husband put them out? Do you mean that the husband got angry at the wife?" The disbelief and incredulity in the group was palpable.
"Wait a minute," I called from the other side of the tent out of my own growing sense of agony. "What in that culture could possibly justify that kind of behavior -- from either the rapists or certainly of the husband?"
The woman raised herself up in the old plastic chair. "Men," she said, "must begin to believe that women are human beings. They must stop saying that women 'want it.' Because he believes that women want it; he threw them out. They all do. And the families that will accept the woman back refused to take the child that comes from the rape."
A dark silence hung heavily in a tent full of monks and ministers, catechists and keepers of ancient faiths for a long, long time.
The pain now had another dimension to it. These countries have been "converted" for centuries. You have to wonder, don't you? What have they been told about women by the religious men who catechized them? What snide jokes and demeaning theology are still being taught about women by patriarchal religions? By the actions of exclusion and control and invisibility and domination and subordination of women by church men and holy elders everywhere? Even here. Even now.
From where I stand, it seems to me that male "protection," paternalism and patriarchal theology are not to be trusted anymore because the actions it spawns in both men and women have limited the full humanity of women everywhere, and on purpose.
Isn't it time for us all to really be converted, to say the real Truth about women from our pulpits, from our preachers, from our patriarchs, until both they and we finally believe it ourselves? Then surely the actions that make it real will follow.
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