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I recently helped a client migrate an application's back-end databases from Sybase to SQL Server. One of the databases used by this application, which I'll call MyApp, was a shared database. The other applications that used this database weren't being migrated from Sybase to SQL Server, so the client needed a data synchronization mechanism that would transfer over changes made in the Sybase tables to the SQL Server tables.
The SQL Server users of MyApp only read data from 19 tables of 100+ tables in the shared database. The data in those tables was modified by several other applications that were still utilizing Sybase. Because the users of the Sybase applications were spread across multiple time zones around the globe, data changes occurred practically every minute, 24/7. For this reason, the client wanted no more than a 30-minute delay in delivering data changes to SQL Server.
Creating the Data Synchronization Mechanism
Typically, configuring replication is the simplest way to synchronize selected tables in two environments. However, SQL Server doesn't support Sybase publishers. And using Sybase Replication Server or another third-party tool wasn't an option for the client for budgetary reasons.
Another synchronization approach is modifying all the applications using the shared database so that updates are made to both the Sybase and SQL Server databases in one transaction. Unfortunately, that approach wasn't possible because the client wanted to minimize the impact of MyApp's SQL Server migration on the other applications.
So, using SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) was my only option. I needed to create an SSIS package that would synchronize the 19 tables and run every 30 minutes. The data synchronization process needed to complete in 12 minutes or less so that at least 18 minutes would be left for other processes to execute during the 30-minute cycle.
After examining the 19 tables, I found that they could be split into two groups. One group consisted of 16 relatively small tables, each of which had 150,000 or fewer rows. The other group consisted of three large tables. Two of these tables had about 1 million rows, and the third had more than 20 million rows.
I also found that all of the tables allowed INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE operations. However, they didn't have any timestamps to indicate when a row had been inserted or updated last. More important, I discovered that the deleted rows weren't "archived" or marked as deleted—the rows were physically removed from the tables when the DELETE command was used. As a result, the biggest obstacle for data synchronization was determining which rows were deleted. The only way to find them was by comparing the data in the Sybase and SQL Server tables.
Initially, I decided to implement a four-phase process for all the tables:
- Create stage tables in SQL Server (one for each Sybase table).
- Copy all the data in the Sybase tables to the stage tables.
- Merge the data in the stage tables with the data in their corresponding core tables (i.e., the production SQL Server tables).
- Use the TRUNCATE TABLE command to remove all the rows from the stage tables in preparation for the next run.
The merge phase turned out to be the trickiest. I knew that running the MERGE command against even a small table (150,000 rows) would hurt server responsiveness, so I devised an update operation that would run in batches of 50,000 records. The update operation consisted of four steps:
- Delete the rows in the core table that don't exist in the stage table.
- Update the core table with the corresponding rows from the stage table.
- Delete all the rows that were used in the update in step 2 from the stage table.
- Insert the stage table's remaining rows into the core table.
Figure 1 shows the results of these steps in a simple scenario.
Figure 1: Results of each step in a sample merge operation for small tables
Initially, I created an SSIS package that used the four-phase process to synchronize data in both small and large tables. I discovered that the process worked fine for the small tables, but it took significantly longer to complete—45 minutes—for the three large tables. The vast majority of that time was spent copying and merging the data. Just copying the data from the large Sybase tables to the stage tables took about 15 minutes on the hardware provided (a dedicated virtual box with 2 CPUs, 3.5GB of RAM, and a 32-bit version of SQL Server 2008). I needed a different approach to deal with the large tables to meet requirement of having the entire data synchronization process complete in 12 minutes or less.
Synchronizing Data in Large Tables
Instead of using the batch-based four-step update process for each large table, I decided to perform a data exchange operation on the entire dataset. The fastest way to exchange data between two SQL Server entities is to use table partitions because there are no physical data transfers in the operation—the operation deals with metadata only. So, I decided to try the partition approach with my large tables.
Listing 1 (below) shows the original structure of one of the large tables, which was named dbo.Users. (For simplicity, I just included the basic structure.) To speed up the data exchange, I decided to create several partitions and populate them in parallel. The number of parallel threads that an SSIS package can run simultaneously is equal to the number of processors plus two. Thus, I created four partitions because the SSIS package would be running on a machine with two CPUs. (If you have a machine with more CPUs, you can create more parallel threads in an SSIS package.)
Listing 2 (below) shows the partition scheme, partition function, and structure of the partitioned dbo.Users table. I split the entire data range (alphanumerical characters in this case) into four intervals: [0;E), [E;L), [L;R), and [R;}). I chose these boundaries so that the number of rows in each interval was approximately the same. This was crucial to get the optimal time for loading the data into the stage tables.
Because there were four partitions, I created four stage tables (dbo.Users_Stage1 through dbo.Users_Stage4). Each stage table has the same structure (columns and indexes) as the partitioned table. In addition, each stage table has a CHECK constraint that matches the corresponding data condition defined in the partition function. Listing 3 (below) shows the structure of the dbo.Users_Stage1 table.
Figure 2 illustrates the partition approach for the dbo.Users table. On the right, note the four additional backup tables (dbo.Users_Old_Part1 through dbo.Users_Old_Part4). Prior to each new data load, the backup tables are truncated so that they don't contain any data. Then, the old data in the partitions is moved (aka switched) to the corresponding backup tables so that the data from the stage tables can be moved to the corresponding partitions in the SQL Server destination table.
Figure 2: Partition approach for the dbo.Users table
The structure of the backup tables is the same as the structure of the corresponding stage tables, except they don't have a CHECK constraint. The general requirements for switching partitions can be found on the MSDN web page "Transferring Data Efficiently by Using Partition Switching". Switching the data takes only a few seconds, no matter how much data is moving in and out of the partitioned table.
Figure 3: SSIS package design for the dbo.Users table
In the simplest case (no other tables, no logging, no error handling, and so on), the SSIS package design for uploading data into the partitioned dbo.Users table would look like that in Figure 3. Truncate_Tbl is an Execute SQL task that truncates the stage tables and backup tables. Load Part 1 through Load Part 4 are Data Flow tasks that upload the data from the Sybase source table into the corresponding stage tables. As Figure 4 shows, the Load Part 1 task uses the command
SELECT * FROM dbo.Users WHERE user_id < 'E'
to load the dbo.Users_Stage1 table. The Load Part 2, Load Part 3, and Load Part 4 tasks use the following commands
SELECT * FROM dbo.Users WHERE user_id < 'L' AND user_id >= 'E' SELECT * FROM dbo.Users WHERE user_id < 'R' AND user_id >= 'L' SELECT * FROM dbo.Users WHERE user_id >= 'R'
respectively, to load their corresponding stage tables.
By creating four parallel threads for data loading, I was able to decrease the data load process time to around 7 minutes or less, which is about half the time compared to the original process in which there was one Data Flow task per table.
SwitchPart_Tbl 1 through SwitchPart_Tbl 4 are Execute SQL tasks that execute a stored procedure named dbo.SwitchPart_Tbl. This stored procedure first moves the old data from the partitions in the SQL Server destination table to their corresponding backup tables. Then, it moves the new data in the stage tables to their corresponding partitions. You can download the dbo.SwitchPart_Tbl stored procedure by clicking the 139796.zip hotlink on the top of this page.
The Dummy Task in the SSIS package's design is for simplification only. In a real package, after all four parallel threads complete successfully, you would perform other tasks, such as logging results, sending email notifications if an error occurs, or writing the backup tables to backup media.
Implementing the Partition Approach
Although I needed to synchronize Sybase and SQL Server tables, you can use the partition approach to synchronize other types of heterogeneous tables (e.g., Oracle and SQL Server tables) or two SQL Server tables. For each table that you need to synchronize, follow these steps:
1. Create a partition scheme, partition function, and partitioned table, using the structure required in the destination environment.
2. Create a set of stage tables with the same columns and indexes as the partitioned table. In each stage table, create a CHECK constraint that matches the corresponding data condition defined in the partition function.
3. Create a set of backup tables with the same columns and indexes as the partitioned table. These tables will temporary store the old data from the corresponding partitions.
4. Create an SSIS package with a set of parallel threads. Each thread needs to:
- Truncate the stage tables and backup tables.
- Copy data from the source table into the stage table.
- Run a stored procedure that moves the old data from the destination table's partitions into the corresponding backup tables, then moves the new data from the stage tables into the corresponding partitions in the destination table.
You can use the partition approach with other data synchronization techniques in the same SSIS package. For example, in my SSIS package, I used the partition approach to synchronize the data in the three large tables and the update approach to synchronize the data in the 16 small tables. All 19 tasks ran in parallel.
Table Partitioning Saves Time
Table partitioning can significantly reduce the time it takes to load massive amounts of data into a SQL Server table. It allows an SSIS package's Data Flow tasks to execute in parallel. As a result, it takes a lot less time to upload data from the source table to the stage tables and move data from the stage tables to the destination table's partitions. I used table partitioning to reduce the time it took to synchronize the data in three large tables from 45 minutes to 12 minutes or less.
Listing 1: Original dbo.Users Table
CREATE TABLE dbo.Users ( user_id varchar (32) NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY, Name varchar (80) COLLATE Latin1_General_CI_AS NULL, -- DBName_Group1 is the name of the file group -- in which the table was created. ) ON [DBName_Group1] GO
Listing 2: Partitioned dbo.Users Table
DROP PARTITION SCHEME myRangePS GO DROP PARTITION FUNCTION myRangePF GO CREATE PARTITION FUNCTION myRangePF (varchar(255)) AS RANGE RIGHT FOR VALUES ('E', 'L', 'R'); GO CREATE PARTITION SCHEME myRangePS AS PARTITION myRangePF TO (DBName_Group1, DBName_Group1, DBName_Group1, DBName_Group1 ); GO CREATE TABLE dbo.Users ( user_id varchar (32) NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY, Name varchar (80) NULL ) ON myRangePS (user_id) ; GO
Listing 3: dbo.Users_Stage1 Table
CREATE TABLE dbo.Users_Stage1 ( user_id varchar (32) NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY, Name varchar (80) COLLATE Latin1_General_CI_AS NULL, ) ON [DBName_Group1] GO ALTER TABLE dbo.Users_Stage1 ADD CONSTRAINT [CK_Part1] CHECK ([user_id] < 'E') GO


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Eight years later, fuel ethanol is made from corn in the Midwest. Soon, forestry wastes in the northeast, switchgrass and rice straw in California, sugar cane in Louisiana, Hawaii, and Florida, and garbage from everyone will all help America wean its addiction from oil. These new and emerging cellulose production technologies, some under construction today, will build new potential for producing our own fuel – but we still need to use less.
New automotive technologies such as hybrids, electric plug ins, smaller more efficient cars are all helping America use less gasoline everyday – but we still need to try and find ways to replace it. Today, there are seven million Flexible Fuel Vehicles on the road that can use any combination of gasoline or alcohol, and another million are going to come out of showrooms this year. Learn more about how we support the development of these vehicles and the use of higher blends of ethanol at www.flexiblefuelvehicleclub.org
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Did you know that every time our country processes a bushel of corn into ethanol, ethanol plants produce food and fuel for America? In many states where ethanol plants are located, they already produce enough motor fuel to help meet the majority of their own fuel needs. The #2 yellow feed corn remains in the food chain as animal feed, since only the starch content has been converted. Why corn now? Year after year corn is a renewable resource, as are a host of agricultural products and wastes. And the more ethanol we produce, the more we can begin to reverse the tide of imported oil that is approaching 70% and threatens the very security of this nation. Despite the propaganda you may have read or heard, ethanol has a positive energy balance and also produces a strategically important commodity from our natural recourses like agricultural products and natural gas.
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In the small towns and rural communities where ethanol plants are being built, we have seen the benefits first hand — new jobs at good wages. Business and personal taxes flow back to the very communities where you may live, helping to provide good schools, better services, and keeping our young people from having to leave their home towns.
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An ambitious program? You bet it is, and good things don't come easy. But with the kinds of benefits ethanol offers, we need to all work together to support ethanol programs and revitalize the economy everywhere and lead the way so we can develop newer technologies to transfer the rest of the world – which is in the same predicament.
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Some agricultural practices can result in high risk to groundwater and your drinking-water supplies, while others present low risk or virtually no risk at all. With increased knowledge and careful management, the risk of groundwater contamination can be greatly reduced, often with little cost or trouble.
Farmstead activities and structures (Figure 1) are the most likely contamination sources for farm drinking-water wells. The design and construction of structures and their location relative to the drinking-water well, the condition of the well, along with the storage, handling, and disposal of potential contaminants at the farmstead, are important factors to consider in assessing risks. By identifying contamination risks around your farmstead and taking action to reduce them, you can better protect the health of your family and livestock, prevent potential liability from groundwater contamination, and avoid any difficulties in property transfer.
Your drinking water is least likely to be contaminated if you follow appropriate management practices, recycle whenever possible, and dispose of remaining wastes at least 300 feet downslope from your water source. Even with large separation distances, proper disposal practices are essential to avoid contamination that could affect the water supplies and health of others.
The Farmstead Assessment System provides accurate first-hand information about how your farmstead structures and activities, such as pesticide storage, fuel storage, or livestock facilities, might be affecting your drinking water. Some of the information will be reassuring, and some may encourage you to modify certain practices. Either way, you will have the information you need to do the best possible job of protecting the groundwater you depend on for your family's drinking-water supply.
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Many potential groundwater contaminants exist around the farmstead.
Rural farmstead/homesite water quality risk assessment.
The Farmstead Assessment System (Farm•A•Syst) is a series of nine worksheets that helps you assess how effectively your farmstead practices protect your drinking water.
The Farm•A•Syst package is a voluntary and confidential service for concerned farmers and rural residents. As a user, you decide what to do with the results and keep them for your personal records. It's like hiring a private consultant to do a detailed assessment at little or no cost
Farm•A•Syst specifically focuses on the effect of farmstead practices and structures on drinking-water supplies. While field practices also have the potential to contaminate groundwater, this package is not designed to address that concern.
As a private water user, you alone are responsible for your drinking-water quality. Farm•A•Syst will help you identify potential problems. Review of the fact sheets in the complete Farm•A•Syst packet will help you develop an appropriate response to potential problems. However, if you have not had any problems to date, and do not feel it is worth your time to do the full survey, at least complete the risk assessment in this guide to see how your farmstead or rural homesite fares.
The water-quality risk assessment enclosed in this guide does not replace the much more comprehensive Farm•A•Syst assessment. It does, however, highlight important factors associated with protecting groundwater.
Several studies show older wells are more likely to be contaminated than newer wells. Deeper wells tend to have fewer problems than shallow wells. Construction methods influence ability of the well to protect groundwater from direct surface contamination. Hand-dug and driven wells do not meet current well construction standards.
Separation distances and drainage direction influence whether a potential pollution source will reach the well site. A large separation distance and an upslope position of a well site reduce the pollution hazard of a particular source.
There are many structures and activities around a rural well site that pose a risk to the water supply. These are depicted in Figure 1, and if they occur within 300 feet of the well, they should be assessed more completely with Farm•A•Syst. Do not ignore structures or activities that are not on your own property. Pollution does not recognize land boundaries.
Drainage around the well head and well construction largely define seepage potential. Localized ponding and certain well construction shortfalls can be corrected to reduce movement of surface water into the groundwater around the well.
The soil's ability to protect the underlying water is dependent on a number of factors, including permeability. Sandy soils intake surface water rapidly and therefore offer less protection than silts or clays. Another factor is whether the soil is overwhelmed by the number of potential pollution sources in the vicinity of the well.
Deeper water tends to be better protected than shallow water. Different aquifer types are better protected than others, however, this mini-survey only looks at surface conditions as defined by the predominant soil texture.
Seven Farm•A•Syst worksheets help you assess the pollution potential of your farmstead structures and activities. Select the worksheets appropriate for your site:
An assessment of a site with Farm•A•Syst includes a site evaluation (Worksheet #8, MU publication WQ658), which helps you assess how soil and geologic features affect groundwater pollution on your farmstead. An overall evaluation (Worksheet #9, WQ659) combines the results of the individual worksheets with the site evaluation, allowing you to:
Plan on spending 15 to 30 minutes to complete each worksheet you select. The site evaluation and overall assessment may take more time, as will reading the fact sheets.
As you work through the system, the fact sheets provide information on factors influencing pollution risks, health and legal concerns related to specific pollutants and resources to help you set priorities and take action to minimize groundwater pollution potential on your farmstead.
The goal of Farm•A•Syst is to help you protect the groundwater that supplies your drinking water
Information derived from Farm•A•Syst worksheets is intended only to provide general information and recommendations to farmers regarding their own farmstead practices. It is not the intent of this educational program to keep records of individual results.
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It's Oaks Day at Churchill Downs, and the color pink has grown over the vast grandstand and the sprawling infield. The "Pink Out" will help raise money for cancer charities, as it has done in recent years. That's all part of what the track has dubbed its "Ladies First" theme.
Rosie Napravnik, who went to high school in Maryland and had a stint as the state's top jockey (winning all four titles in 2006), is hoping to become the first woman to win the race for top 3-year-old fillies.
She was ninth last year in the Kentucky Derby, aboard Pants on Fire, but is not scheduled to ride this year.
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Hitless at the plate, Robinson Cano isn't getting a break with the umpires, either.
The slumping All-Star second baseman could only plead his case to no avail Sunday after a missed call by an umpire helped the Detroit Tigers beat the New York Yankees 3-0.
And just like that, the Tigers once again tagged the Yankees, taking a 2-0 lead in the AL championship series.
"We've just got to forget about these two games," Cano said.
And the task doesn't figure to get easier in Game 3 at Detroit on Tuesday, when the Yankees face AL MVP Justin Verlander.
"Maybe a little change of scenery might be good," Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez said. "It's definitely not an ideal situation. You'd rather be up 2-0 and facing a Triple-A pitcher. That would be nice."
An MVP-caliber player for much of the summer, Cano has been a fall flop — all the more stunning given that he finished the regular season with 24 hits in his final 39 at-bats.
And it's not just him. Four-hit by Anibal Sanchez and Phil Coke in Game 2, the Yankees are batting .205 in the playoffs (53 for 258), including 10 for 50 with runners in scoring position.
"We've been through stretches like this all year," said Rodriguez, hitting .130 (3 for 23) with no RBIs. "It's been a very volatile stock market for us this year."
Cano is hitless in 26 straight at-bats, a record for a single postseason, and 2 for 32 overall (.063).
"It is odd," manager Joe Girardi said. "You know this is a really, really good hitter that is struggling right now, and he's not getting a lot of pitches to hit."
Cano's failure to run hard out of the batter's box has become glaring. And he let the ball pop out of his hand in the seventh inning, allowing Detroit's first run to score on Delmon Young's grounder instead of trying for an inning-ending double play.
"He is capable of making it. He knows that he has to get rid of it quickly," Girardi said. "I am not sure if he gets rid of it quickly he is safe. He knows it's going to be a bang-bang, so he has to hurry."
Then Cano wound up on the wrong side of a call by second base umpire Jeff Nelson, who missed seeing Cano tag Omar Infante. Instead of the Yankees getting the third out, the Tigers expanded their lead with a two-run eighth.
"If it was the right call, it'd be a different game," Cano said.
A week shy of his 30th birthday, Cano is looking forward to a nine-figure contract after the 2013 season, when he can become a free agent. Instead of revving his resume, he's become a big factor in the Bronx Bombers' transformation into Bronx Busts.
Cano grounded out four times Sunday, and his 0-for broke the previous mark of 24 for a single postseason set by Baltimore's Bobby Bonilla in 1996, according to STATS LLC. By the end of the game, fans were booing him as loudly as they jeered A-Rod.
Derek Jeter's broken ankle seems to have left most of the rest of New York's batting order hurting, too, with Raul Ibanez, Mark Teixeira and Ichiro Suzuki the only consistent threats.
Rodriguez is 0 for 18 with 12 strikeouts against right-handers, and fans mocked him with applause when he made contact and flied out. Curtis Granderson is 3 for 26 with 14 Ks, Nick Swisher 4 for 26 and Russell Martin 5 for 26.
Girardi sounded peeved about the lack of plate prowess.
"You have to make adjustments. We know what they are doing to us," he said. "They are not going to put it on a tee for us. We know that. We are more than capable of scoring runs, and have done it a number of times this year."
Rodriguez said that when Yankees hitters chased bad pitches, Tigers hurlers "became predator-like" and used "sucker pitchers."
Swisher complained about hearing from angry fans in the right-field corner.
"You're trying to go up there, you're trying to get a hit," he said. "If you don't, people let you know about it. It's a tough spot, but hey, man, I guess that's playing in New York."
Hiroki Kuroda had taken a perfect game into the sixth inning and was on the verge of escaping trouble in the seventh. Following Quintin Berry's leadoff double over Granderson in center and a single to right by Triple Crown winner Miguel Cabrera, Kuroda struck out Prince Fielder and induced a grounder to shortstop from Delmon Young.
Jayson Nix, starting in place of Jeter, made a good throw to second, where Cano stepped on the bag, But in transferring the ball for the throw to first, Cano allowed the ball to pop out of his right hand as Berry scored.
Kuroda tied his season high with 11 strikeouts, allowing five hits and three runs in 7 2-3 innings. But the Yankees, looking like the old team that they are, have scored just 20 runs in seven postseason games, a figure more appropriate for 1968 than 2012.
"This game is a very cruel game sometimes," Teixeira said. "When you're hitting, it's fun and you enjoy it, and the team's winning and you're putting up your numbers. When you're cold, it stinks. I've been cold plenty of times, and it's not a fun feeling."


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5 November 2012: Children stand in Thea Chaung camp. Credit: UNOCHA/ Nicole Lawrence Funding request increased after October clashes.
The western state of Rakhine, Myanmar is nestled between the border with Bangladesh and the Rakhine Mountains. Inter-communal violence in Rakhine in June and October led to some 115,000 people fleeing their homes in fear and taking shelter in some of the newest IDP camps in the world. The clashes destroyed houses and public buildings and left many thousands of people without any way of making a living.
Mother of four Sokina Khatu fled from her village to Thea Chaung camp for internally displaced people after the inter-communal conflict in June. "Everything was burned and now we are here," she said. "My husband was killed and now I am in a difficult situation with four children. The children are sick and could even die."
Khim Maung Myint arrived in Thea Chaung in October by boat with his family. They fled conflict in the town of Kyaukpyu where he says their houses were burned.
"We thought our lives were more important than our belongings so we fled with nothing," Kim Maung Myint said. His children had no food for two days during the journey; others became sick, he added.
According to the Government, at least 139 people have been killed, 190 injured and over 10,000 houses destroyed due to the unrest. Several mosques and monasteries were also burned or badly damaged. Days after the renewed violence in October, Barbara Manzi, OCHA's Head of Office was deployed to the state capital Sittwe to lead the humanitarian coordination and response efforts.
"With the recent escalation of violence, more immediate and well-resourced action is required to address this humanitarian emergency and ensure the wellbeing of the most vulnerable people," Ms Manzi said.
The most urgent needs are for food, shelter, health services, safe drinking water, and hygiene and sanitation facilities. The July Rakhine Response Plan estimated that some US$32.5 million was required to provide emergency assistance to 80,000 internally displaced people and host communities until the end of 2012. This plan has now been revised upwards to meet the needs of all 115,000 displaced people, and to cover a longer period: it now requests $67.6m to cover needs until June 2013.
More is required, particularly to reach those who were being supported by humanitarian and development programmes before the crisis and who have now been forced from their homes. Agencies have been reaching increasing numbers of these people since late September. Malnutrition and other health problems peak at this time of year, making it even more important to restart and step up humanitarian operations and development programmes.
However, almost three months since the release of the plan, just $18m has been funded or pledged so far, including $4.8 million from the Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF). This leaves a gap of over $14 million just to meet the needs of those affected by the June violence. Additional donor funding has been pledged in the past week, and a new CERF request is being prepared.
"Current levels of funding are so low that even basic needs are not being met, particularly around temporary shelter and water and sanitation," said Ms. Manzi. "By the time of the October violence, the relief stocks were depleted. These people are in a desperate situation and we need to help ease their suffering."
"Having witnessed so many people affected by the violence, including the tens of thousands of people without homes and livelihoods, I am compelled to act and to urge others to do so as well," Ms Manzi added.
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The Toronto Blue Jays signed Dominican OF Andres DeAza to an undisclosed deal Wednesday, March 7. DeAza, 17, is 6-foot-4 and weighs 190 pounds. He can reportedly play all three outfield positions and possesses an above-average arm and plenty of power with the stick.
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Casimir's Modern Finnish Nursery
Name: Casimir (17 months)
Location: Suomi/Finland
This was a dressing room before, and now it has turned in to a nursery. It still has all the clothes cabinets, and the space is small (only about 10 square meters).
It has only one wall to put things on, and there are lots of DIY projects like the teepee tent, cushion covers, and duvets. The kick bike and kick car have been renovated (painted, added numbers etc). The floormat is custom made to look like a racetrack, and there are many scandinavian products like Brio toys, Ikea Cabinet, Eero Aarnio Puppy toy dog, etc.
Thanks, Stefanie! Well done!
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Lung Transplantation
Reducing Antibodies in Lung Transplant Recipient
Is there any way of reducing antibodies in a lung transplant candidate who has been refused transplantation because of this? Are there any medications not currently available in the UK that could be benficial in the reversal of antibodies?
A potential lung transplant candidate may have in their circulation of blood a high level of antibodies to common antigens (ie blood proteins) compared to the general population. The test used to screen for this is the Panel of Reactive Antigens (PRA). If the PRA value is high, this means that should the candidate receive a transplant, then there is a higher chance that their immune system will react to (try to reject) the donor organ (lung).
There are no approved medications or procedures that have been shown to reliably reduce the PRA into a range that would be considered safe to proceed with transplantation.
There have been reports of using the drug mycophenolate mofetil to try to reduce the PRA value before a transplant, but these studies have not been confirmed.
There have also been instances where plasmapheresis (a cleansing of blood proteins via a device similar to dialysis) has been used to reduce the PRA prior to transplant. This has been mostly performed with kidney transplant candidates, but there are a few lung transplant centers who have also tried this approach. Again, this procedure remains unproven.
David R Nunley, MD, FCCP
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Street people strike many as a mystery. Doing the right thing by them - even the seemingly simple decision whether a panhandler deserves money - is fraught.
Street people strike many as a mystery. Doing the right thing by them - even the seemingly simple decision whether a panhandler deserves money - is fraught.
David Brewer, the angel of Stockton's poor who died Tuesday, made such choices easier. For me, at least. And undoubtedly for thousands of others.
Brewer is remembered as the remarkably compassionate and effective head of St. Mary's Dining Room.
In that role, he was more than admirable. He changed people. The Christian love he extended down-and-outers cast out their demons and gave them their lives back.
But before he held that job, Brewer worked at another St. Mary's: St. Mary's High School of Stockton. There, from 1962 to 1983, he changed the way his students saw the poor.
I don't remember the year - 1972, perhaps - but one day Brewer gave us all clipboards and a questionnaire, and proclaimed we were going on a field trip.
To skid row.
Specifically, we were going to Washington Park. Washington Park used to occupy a square block across the street from a third St. Mary's: St. Mary's Catholic Church.
It was - at least, this is how I thought of it - a wino park. Dozens of winos slouched around, drinking themselves to oblivion or passed out on the grass.
I had seen them. But I had never dreamed of wading into them. It was foreign to me, filled with dangerous and crazy characters.
Our instructions were to pick a person, introduce ourselves and ask them the questions on our questionnaire.
I remember surveying the park, spying a lone figure sprawled on the grass, and nerving up to approach him, probably (my memory's not perfect) with a timid "Excuse me, sir," or some greeting of that sort.
The man stirred and turned over, startled and wary. Jackrollers preyed on vulnerable winos. He was on guard.
Filthy and badly sunburned, long-haired and unshaven, the man reeked of wine. But he roused himself and sat up receptively when he saw I was harmless.
The first question on the questionnaire: What is your name?
A merry glint came into the man's eyes. "Justin," he replied with a slur. "I make shoes."
Having rolled out his introductory joke he grinned, toothless.
The questions that followed - Where are you from? (Oregon.) What is your occupation? (Laborer.) - progressed to more personal inquiry (What are your dreams?).
Justin said once he had a family, a house and a job, just like everybody else. But his wife divorced him. His downward spiral started with heartbreak.
A half-hour later, we piled back into cars and returned to St. Mary's High School.
Comparing notes, we learned that a surprising number of the men were not what we expected at all. They were not all ne'er-do wells or willful moral misfits. Bums.
Some were doctors, lawyers, businesspeople. They were - light bulb - people. They had stories you could know, if you cared to.
Some field trip. Definitely more of a revelation than a trip to the box factory.
It turned out that Brewer was already helping to feed those homeless men from a soup kitchen at St. Mary's Church. That kitchen later expanded, moved and became what is now St. Mary's Dining Room.
The constant was Brewer. He was always interested in the homeless and the working poor as people. He loved their personalities, their potential, but most of all their stories.
That was his central insight: engaging with the poor and learning their story lays a foundation for compassion that makes a difference.
I'm no plaster saint. Sometimes when I'm panhandled I turn away. Other times I offer change or food and scurry on my way.
But sometimes I stop what I'm doing. Unafraid, I ask the person as respectfully as I can how they came to be there. And I listen, closely, to those who choose to answer.
Sometimes I wind up none the wiser. Other times I see clearly the person's need and feel satisfied that charity is appropriate.
Yet other times, I have been enriched by what they have to offer.
In a way, I still carry the questionnaire and clipboard David Brewer gave me. Many others do, too. As I said before, he changed people.
Contact columnist Michael Fitzgerald at (209) 546-8270 or email@example.com. Visit his blog at recordnet.com/fitzgeraldblog.


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SAN ANTONIO - Barring a miracle, USC can cross off a five-star recruit from its projected 2009 recruiting class. Sources say there is a 1 in 100 shot that Los Angeles Cathedral wide receiver Randall Carroll remains committed to the Trojans. Carroll, who committed to USC in September 2007, has soured on the Trojans to the point where there is little to no chance he suits up for Pete Carroll and company.
Carroll, the fastest player in the state of California, already taken taken an official visit to Cal and has officials set with UCLA, Arizona State and Tennessee, and is likely to take one to Florida. Carroll will go to UCLA on Jan. 9, to Arizona State on Jan. 23 and to Tennessee on Jan. 30. He wanted to take an official to Florida on Jan. 16 but that hasn't been scheduled yet. If he can't set his visit for Florida that weekend, he likely won't be able to take the trip. He will not visit USC again.
So who is likely to land the 5-foot-11, 175-pound speedster? Right now, Cal is in the lead and wants Carroll to come in and become the next DeSean Jackson. UCLA has the best chance to unseat Cal, followed by Florida, Tennessee and Arizona State.
Carroll remains a commitment to USC on the advice of his mom, but there seems to be little doubt that he will sign with someone else. One of the sticking points is that he hears different things from different USC coaches and his position has not been settled. Randall doesn't care if he plays wide receiver or cornerback in college, but he reportedly is tiring of USC's mixed messages on that point and others.
Out of the blue, North Carolina suddenly is a serious player for five-star offensive tackle Morgan Moses, from Richmond (Va.) Meadowbrook. Moses took an unofficial visit to North Carolina a few months back and wasn't blown away, so most felt the Tar Heels were out. But counting out Butch Davis is a mistake.
Moses recently was told by Davis and his staff that he could possibly start right away at UNC, and early playing time has become a big factor in his decision. Moses has now set an official visit with North Carolina for Jan. 9. He still has an official set with Alabama for Jan. 16, although that is tentative because he thinks Alabama wants to redshirt him. But Alabama coaches reached out to the Moses family Monday and now are talking about immediate playing time.
In addition to UNC and Alabama, Ohio State, Oklahoma, Virginia and Virginia Tech are in the mix. Virginia seems to have the edge over Virginia Tech when it comes to keeping Moses in state because of the recent hire of assistant Latrell Scott. Scott was recruiting Moses while he was at Tennessee and established a good relationship with Moses and his family. The Vols apparently are out for Moses with the loss of Scott.
Right now, the plan seems to be to visit UNC, Alabama, Ohio State and either Oklahoma or Virginia or Virginia Tech on successive weekends.
The daily drama that is the recruitment of five-star defensive tackle William Campbell from Detroit Cass Tech took a few twists and turns Tuesday. The morning started off with a not-so-solid tip that Campbell might be choosing Florida because the Gators have dropped Pompano Beach (Fla.) Ely cornerback Michael Carter, apparently to make room for someone the staff didn't expect they were getting. But that someone likely isn't going to be Campbell.
One source, Campbell's roommate here in San Antonio, said he thinks LSU will be the team the big man chooses Saturday. Oak Park (Mich.) HIgh running back Edwin Baker isn't playing this week because of a knee injury, but he's Campbell's roommate and said Campbell talks about LSU all the time. Stay tuned.
• Philadelphia (Miss.) High defensive tackle Josh Boyd is still a commitment to Mississippi State and had a recent in-home meeting with new coach Dan Mullen, but he will take an official visit to LSU on Jan. 23 and might take Alabama and Florida visits. None of the three schools have offered Boyd at this point, but apparently are close to doing so.
• Monticello (Miss.) Lawrence County running back Kendrick Hardy is down to Ole Miss and Southern Miss, although Mississippi State has recently shown interest. Hardy takes an official visit to Southern Miss on Jan. 9 and could land there, especially if Ole Miss slow-plays him with four running backs already in this class.
• Center/defensive tackle Corey Gaines, from Tallahassee (Fla.) Godby, has a top three of Ole Miss, USF and Arkansas, a source says, and will be taking official visits to all three following the break.
• The aforementioned Carter is down to West Virginia and Minnesota now that Florida has backed off, and he will announce his decision Saturday. Minnesota is rumored to be the favorite, although Carter said both schools are even.
• East St. Louis (Ill.) High wide receiver Kraig Appleton apparently won't be making it down to San Antonio this week, so he won't be announcing his college decision on NBC. Appleton is listed as a solid commitment to Illinois, but sources say he was expected to announce for Wisconsin on Saturday. I'm not sure how this latest turn of events changes his plans as far as a timetable for an announcement.


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BOSTON — The Bruins practiced today at TD Garden without the services of Benoit Pouliot.
Head coach Claude Julien said the forward was sick and he did not know if Pouliot would make the trip to Montreal for tomorrow night's game against the Canadiens.
The rest of the Bruins forwards lined up in some familiar combinations that Julien has decided to go back to. Milan Lucic and Nathan Horton were back on David Krejci's wings, while Rich Peverley was back on Chris Kelly's wing (with Jordan Caron on the left side). Tyler Seguin joined Patrice Bergeron and Brad Marchand. Only the fourth line remained untouched.
All seven defensemen and the two goaltenders practiced for the last-in-the-East Bruins. The session lasted 40, pretty intense, minutes. For more on today's practice, read my NHL.com article.


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Matt Allen
St. Charles East, Sr.
Conquered late-season technique issues to win 3A Hoffman Estates Sectional title and advance to the state meet in 300-meter hurdles.
Kyle Carter
Kaneland, Jr.
Chronicle Athlete of the Year was one of three Knights to take part in a pair of 2A state medal-winning relays. Heroics early in 4x800 helped in team's recovery to win crown.
Tim Guthrie
Geneva, Sr.
Placed seventh in the 3A pole vault to lead a strong field of Upstate Eight Conference River Division representatives in the event.
Zach Kirby
St. Charles North, Sr.
Standout among North's decorated stable of sprinters battled the flu at the 3A state meet. Joined Jack Feeney, Connor Larson and Tyler Ingham in school-record run in 4x400 at prestigious Penn Relays in April.
Nathaniel Kucera
Kaneland, Sr.
Joined Carter and Conor Johnson on Knights' champion 4x800 and runner-up 4x400, and will stretch career into Saturday's appearance at Midwest Distance Gala.
Kevin Grahovec
Marmion, Jr.
Improving throughout the spring, Grahovec will look to build on his run of 1:54.77 in the 800, which netted him fourth place at the 3A state meet.
Patrick Lefevre
Aurora Central Catholic, Jr.
A four-event state qualifier in 2A, Lefevre took fifth in the 110 hurdles. He won sectional and Kane County titles in the same event.
Kyle McNeil
Geneva, Sr.
Part of a healthy throwing rivalry with teammate Nathan Balettie and Batavia's Sebastian Vermaas, McNeil won a sectional title and went to 3A state in the discus.
Erik Miller
St. Charles North, Jr.
Miller finished fourth in the 3A state high jump, clearing 6-feet, 8 inches to give the program one more medal under outgoing coach Don Spencer.
Dylan Nauert
Kaneland, Jr.
Helped Kaneland cruise to title at 2A Sterling Sectional, winning both hurdles events. Capped state weekend by anchoring the Knights' runner-up 4x400.
Ryan Olsen
Burlington Central, Sr.
Marquette-bound Olsen nearly capped his career with a 2A state title, running 49.39 seconds in the 400, nine hundreths of a second behind Cahokia's Marlin Brady.
Tim Roels
Geneva, Jr.
Roels sparked the Vikings' surprise burst to the Hoffman Estates Sectional team title by winning the 200 and taking a narrow second in the 100.
Sebastian Vermaas
Batavia, Sr.
Football convert kept looking like a natural, qualifying for the 3A state meet in the discus. Was pondering walk-on possibilities with DePaul at season's end.
Luis Acosta, Kaneland, Jr.
Mike Bianchina, Geneva, Sr.
Jorden Berendt, Batavia, Jr.
Brandon Cottier, Kaneland, Sr.
Lucas Ege, Burlington Central, So.
Zack Flint, Aurora Central Catholic, Sr.
Jake Gehman, Aurora Christian, Sr.
Kory Harner, Kaneland, Sr.
Mason Heinz, St. Charles North, Sr.
Mike Hockett, St. Charles East, Sr.
Conor Johnson, Kaneland, Jr.
Wal Khat, Mooseheart, Jr.
Connor Larson, St. Charles North, Sr.
Grant Loess, St. Charles North, Sr.
Tyler Maryanski, Marmion, Jr.
Matt Meyers, Aurora Central Catholic, Sr.
Chris Orlow, Batavia, Jr.
Josh Phelan, St. Charles North, Sr.
Jake Ruddy, Marmion, Sr.
Matt Ruff, Wheaton Academy, Jr.
R.J. Viereckl, Batavia, Sr.
Eric Baron
Baron guided the Knights to comfortable victories in the Northern Illinois Big 12 and 2A Sterling Sectional meets before Kaneland used its blend of newcomers and veterans to place sixth among 2A teams at state.
"We were young and we gained a lot more experience with a young group of guys," Baron said. "The way they competed and raced and went up agains the best in Illinois really showed where our program is at."
Recent graduates like the Knights' chances to stay near the top, as long as Baron keeps helping athletes stay at ease.
"Going into state he told us to calm down, do what you're capable of, we're able to run with everyone out there and we'll be fine," senior Nathaniel Kucera said.
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Marathon Training Guide – Introduction
A series of training programs that guarantee marathon success
Among my most enjoyable activities is helping runners train for the marathon. I estimate that I have assisted a half million runners reach the finish line of 26 mile 385 yard races. Even that estimate may be low given the number of people who have purchased copies of my best-selling book, Marathon: The Ultimate Training Guide, who have signed up for my interactive training programs or who, like you, have surfed into this Web site.
Most runners choose one of my Novice programs. Interestingly, 40 percent of the 45,000 who register for the Chicago Marathon each year are doing their first marathon, often their first road race!
The first question these so-called Newbies ask is: How do I train? Whether from word-of-mouth or some other source, they learn that my 18-week schedule for beginning runners is pretty much foolproof. It is a gently progressive program involving four days of running a week. The long run in the first week of training is a relatively easy 6-miler. Each weekend, the long run gets longer, peaking at 20 miles three weeks before the marathon. A tapering period allows runners to gather energy for the race. Stepback weeks allow runners to avoid overtraining. Cross-training and ample amounts of rest complete the mix. And it works! Many experienced runners doing their second, third and fourth marathons stick with the Novice 1 program, because it fits well into their busy lives. Or they choose Novice 2, which provides a slight bump upward in difficulty. Recently at an Expo where I was signing copies of my book, one woman told me that she had used my Novice 1 program for 13 consecutive marathons!
For those hoping to improve, to set Personal Records, or to qualify for The Boston Marathon, I also offer two Intermediate and two Advanced programs, each one a logical step upward in difficulty and intensity. The Intermediate 1 and Intermediate 2 programs offer more mileage. The Advanced 1 and Advanced 2 programs insert speedwork. Check out the introductory screens for each to see which of my six 18-week programs works best for you. And for those who have more than 18 weeks to train, I also offer two 30-week programs: Novice Supreme, aimed at runners new to the sport, and Personal Best, aimed at runners seeking peak performance. Finally, I offer Marathon 3, featuring only three days of running a week and slightly more cross-training.
My programs are now being used by runners to train for marathons all over the world. Thanks to the World Wide Web, you can become my virtual training partner by using the free schedules here on this Web site to train for any marathon. Or you can sign up for Virtual Training, the interactive version of all my programs, available through TrainingPeaks. Each day I will send you e-mail instructions telling you what to run each day, offering also tips on your training. You will learn much, much more about how to train for a marathon by signing up for one of my interactive programs. I strongly urge that you consider to do so. Several of my training programs for the full and half marathons are now available as apps for your iPhone, available through BlueFin LLC. If you have a question about your training, you can direct it to my Virtual Training Forums. That service is free! Never before has it been easier to run a marathon. Never before has it been more fun! Good luck with your training.
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Basilian Father Alphonse de Valk, editor of the Canadian magazine Catholic Insight, is weighing in on a provision of the Canadian Human Rights Act, according to this story in The Western Catholic Reporter.
The provision led to a costly accusation that the magazine was "purveying hate literature" because of its editorial stance opposed to same-sex marriage. The commission dismissed the case in July 2008, but it cost the magazine almost $30,000 in legal fees.
"On matters of faith and doctrine, we seek to be faithful to the teachings of the Catholic Church," Father de Valk wrote in a letter to Justice Minister Rob Nicholson Feb. 2. "In our view, the attacks on us, therefore, are also attacks on the freedom of the Catholic Church in Canada."
"The changes to the charter made by the Supreme Court over the years now pit the new sexual orientation equality rights against the rights of large sections of the Canadian population," he said. "In the future, this may well become the source of grave divisions and political unrest."