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I'm really exited to announce that today we released the Technical Preview of the IIS Admin Pack and it includes 7 new features for IIS Manager that will help you in a bunch of different scenarios.
You can download the IIS 7.0 Admin Pack Technical Preview from (It requires less than 1MB):
(x86) http://www.iis.net/downloads/default.aspx?tabid=34&g=6&i=1646 (x64) http://www.iis.net/downloads/default.aspx?tabid=34&g=6&i=1647
These UI modules include the following features:
Please, help us, we want to ask for your help on trying them and give us feedback of all these modules, do they work for you? what would you change? what would you add? What features are we missing?
Some things to think about,
Database Manager, what other database features are critical for you to build applications?
IIS Reports set of reports, what reports would you find useful?, would you want to have Configuration based reports (such as summarizing the Sites and their configuration, which configuration)? More Security Reports (such as)?
Configuration Editor, is it easy to use?, what concepts from configuration would you like to see?, etc
Given that each individual feature above has a lot of interesting features that can easily be missed, or might be confusing, I will be blogging in the near feature talking about why we decided to build each feature, what makes them different from any other thing you've seen as well as how you can make the most out of each of them.
Today I will be talking about one of the features included in the new IIS Admin Pack called Configuration Editor.
Configuration Editor is an IIS Manager feature that will let you managed any configuration section available in your configuration system. Configuration Editor exposes several features from configuration that are not exposed anywhere else in IIS Manager, including:
Please give us feedback on things you would like to see or change at the IIS Forums: http://forums.iis.net/1149.aspx
OK, but rather than keep with more and more text, I will just show you a video on how it looks and all its features (for those of you who like text, there is a transcript below).
So I have here Windows Vista SP 1 with the IIS Admin Pack installed, in my machine I have very few applications installed but should be good to show some of the features on config editor. When entering Config Editor, first thing you will notice is that at the top you have a drop-down list that shows all the sections currently schematized and ready to be used in your system.
Since this is sorted alphabetically, the first section that gets selected is AppSettings, for I can very easily switch between ASP.NET configuration sections, such as system.web/authentication, or the IIS configuration sections such as system.webServer/defaultDocument or the system.applicationHost/sites that contains all the sites configuration for IIS.
As you can see the user interface displays the configuration elements and properties of the section that is selected, providing you an easy way to see every single configuration property available in the system.
At the top you'll get a label specifying the deepest path where this section is being used relevant to your scope, so in this case its telling us that its been set in ApplicationHost.config. After that, all the elements and properties are shown in a Property Grid, that displaye elements as a collapsible set of properties. One of the interesting things is that we provide validation for the properties for example, when entering string characters in a numeric property type an error message will be displayed giving you the details of the expected types. Additionaly other benefits such as type editors, so that when editing a property of type boolean, you get the True/False drop-down, or when a property that is of type enumeration such as the LogFormat inside the SiteDefaults, you will get a drop-down list with only the list of options that are allowed for that enumeration. Same way, when editing a property of type flags such as the logExtFileFlags that contains the fields to include in the log file, you will get a multi-select drop-down list where you can select and de-select the different options. Also, you will notice that additional information is displayed as you select the different properties, giving you details of their data type as well as additional validations for those that have some, for example, the truncateSize property has specified that only a certain range is considered valid, if I type a value that is not within that range it will show this message giving me details of the problem.
Making Changes
Now, lets move to a simpler section so that we can show other features of the Configuration Editor. For example here in default documents, if I want to disable it I just change it to False and click Apply. As you would expect all the changes are applied and to see what changes this actually made in my system I'm going to show a Diff of the configuration that I have backed up and indeed the only change that happened in my configuration system is that it changed from true to false.
Collection Editor
As you will notice there is a collection in this section, all the collections are shown in an advanced collection editor that will let you see all the information of the items on it, including the ability to add, remove and clear the collection, as well as lock individual items on it. It additionally shows where each of the individual items is coming from making it easier to understand the distributed configuration.
Another thing you will notice is that this collection editor shows some visual cues to help you deal with data, for example this little key here tells you that this property is the unique key of the collection item.
So lets actually add a new one, for that I just need to click Add and fill the values, in this case, lets add Home.aspx as a new default document. After doing that, I can close dialog and click Apply. And lets take a look at what happened to my configuration. As you can see the new item was added. So as you can see its really easy to see and change configuration in collections.
Script Generation
Another interesting feature is locking, for example if I want to make sure that my default documents are always enabled and no one else can override them, I can go here and select the enabled attribute and click lock attribute which will prevent it from being changed in any other web.config file.
Search Configuration
Now, another interesting feature which is probably one of the most powerful features is the ability to search configuration so that you can see a high-level overview of the configuration system and all the web.config files on it. Just click Search Configuration. This shows me this dialog that shows me the root web.config that includes all the section that are being set on it, it also shows me applicationHost.config that includes again all the sections being used on it, as well as a location tag for a particular application that includes also some sections for it. you will notice that I also have a couple of applications that include web.config's in their folders, and sub-folders. where we can see how for example in this web.config it includes some
one of the neat features is that you can actually click any of this nodes and it will immediately display the content of the section as well as where its coming from. For example if I click the web.config my entire web.config is displayed, if I click a specific section it only displays the content of the section. I can even click the locationPath that I'm interested and only get that particular one.
Additionally you can easily search who is changing the authorization settings from asp.net and as easy as that you can see all the places in your server where the authorization settings are being set and quickly identify all the settings that are being used in your server. This feature is extremely useful because now, you can easily search for example default Document and make sure nobody is changing it and make sure no one else is violating the locking we just did.
It also allows you to see the files in a flat view where it gives you all the different paths and files where each of them is coming from. You get the exact functionality, its just a different visual representation of the config.
Another interesting thing is that if you want to build your own sections and extend our configuration system, you can go to the schema folder and write your own configuration section, declare it using our schema notation, here I'm just defining a section named mySection, that includes an attribute called enabled of type bool and an attribute called message of type string and an attribute password of type string that should be encrypted.. Now, I just need to edit applicationHost.config to define the section so that config system knows we are going to consume it . Just by doing that, now I can go back to config editor and refresh the window, and my section is now available in the drop down, and as you would expect it displays all of the properties I defined, and I can just go ahead and set them, and I get all the locking functionality, I get all the script generation, I get all the UI validation.
And if I apply, you will see that as expected the changes are done, the password attribute is encrypted, etc.
So as you can see configuration editor is an extremely powerful feature that will be really useful for successfully managing the web.config's in your system.
A few weeks ago my team released the version 2.0 of the URL Rewrite for IIS. URL Rewrite is probably the most powerful Rewrite engine for Web Applications. It gives you many features including Inbound Rewriting (ie. Rewrite the URL, Redirect to another URL, Abort Requests, use of Maps, and more), and in Version 2.0 it also includes Outbound Rewriting so that you can rewrite URLs or any markup as the content is being sent back even if its generated using PHP, ASP.NET or any other technology.
It also includes a very powerful User Interface that allows you to test your regular expressions and even better it includes a set of templates for common types of Rules. Some of those rules are incredibly valuable for SEO (Search Engine Optimization) purposes. The SEO rules are:
For more information on the SEO Templates look at: http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/806/seo-rule-templates/
What is really cool is that you can use the SEO Toolkit to run it against your application and you probably will get some violations around lower-case, or canonical domains, etc. And after seeing those you can use URL Rewrite 2.0 to fix them with one click.
I have personally used it in my Web site, try the following three URLs and all of them will be redirected to the canonical form (http://www.carlosag.net/Tools/CodeTranslator/) and you will see URL Rewrite in action:
Note that at the end those templates just translate to web.config settings that become part of your application that can be XCOPY with it. This works with ASP.NET, PHP, or any other server technology including static files. Below is the output of the Canonical Host Name rule which I use on my Web site's web.config.
There are many more features that I could talk, but for now this was just a quick SEO related post.
One easy way to enhance the experience of users visiting your Web site by increasing the perceived performance of navigating in your site is to reduce the number of HTTP requests that are required to display a page. There are several techniques for achieving this, such as merging scripts into a single file, merging images into a big image, etc, but by far the simplest one of all is making sure that you cache as much as you can in the client. This will not only increase the rendering time but will also reduce load in your server and will reduce your bandwidth consumption.
Unfortunately the different types of caches and the different ways of set it can be quite confusing and esoteric. So my recommendation is to think about one way and use that all the time, and that way is using the HTTP 1.1 Cache-Control header.
So first of all, how do I know if my application is being well behaved and sending the right headers so browsers can cache them. You can use a network monitor or tools like Fiddler or wfetch to look at all the headers and figure out if the headers are getting sent correctly. However, you will soon realize that this process won't scale for a site with hundreds if not thousands of scripts, styles and images.
To figure out if your images are sending the right headers you can follow the next steps:
Alternatively you can just save the following query as "ImagesNotCached.xml" and use the Menu "Query->Open Query" for it. This should make it easy to open the query for different Web sites or keep testing the results when making changes:
In IIS 7 this is trivial to fix, you can just drop a web.config file in the same directory where your images and scripts and CSS styles specifying the caching behavior for them. The following web.config will send the Cache-Control header so that the browser caches the responses for up to 7 days.
You can also do this through the UI (IIS Manager) by going into the "HTTP Response Headers" feature -> Set Common Headers... or any of our API's using Managed code, JavaScript or your favorite language:
Furthermore, using the same query above in the Query Builder you can Group by Directory and find the directories that really worth adding this. For that is just matter of clicking the "Group by" button and adding the URL-Directory to the Group by clauses. Not surprisingly in my case it flags the App_Themes directory where I store 8 images.
One thing to note is that that even if you do not do anything most modern browsers will use conditional requests to reduce the latency if they have a copy in their cache, as an example, imagine the browser needs to display logo.gif as part of displaying test.htm and that image is available in their cache, the browser will issue a request like this
GET /logo.gif HTTP/1.1
Accept: */*
Referer: http://carlosag-client/test.htm
Accept-Language: en-us
User-Agent: (whatever-browser-you-are-using)
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
If-Modified-Since: Mon, 09 Jun 2008 16:58:00 GMT
If-None-Match: "01c13f951cac81:0"
Host: carlosagdev:8080
Connection: Keep-Alive
Note the use of If-Modfied-Since header which tells the server to only send the actual data if it has been changed after that time. In this case it hasn't so the server responds with a status code 304 (Not Modified)
HTTP/1.1 304 Not Modified
Last-Modified: Mon, 09 Jun 2008 16:58:00 GMT
Accept-Ranges: bytes
ETag: "01c13f951cac81:0"
Server: Microsoft-IIS/7.0
X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
Date: Sun, 07 Jun 2009 06:33:51 GMT
Even though this helps you can imagine that this still requires a whole roundtrip to the server which even though will have a short response, it can still have a significant impact if rendering of the page is waiting for it, as in the case of a CSS file that the browser needs to resolve to display correctly the page or an <img> tag that does not include the dimensions (width and height attributes) and so requires the actual image to determine the required space (one reason why you should always specify the dimensions in markup to increase rendering performance).
To summarize, with IIS Search Engine Optimization Toolkit you can easily build your own queries to learn more about your own Web site, allowing you to easily find details that otherwise were tedious tasks. In this case I show how easy it is to find all the images that are not specifying any caching headers and you can do the same thing for scripts (if you add Content Type Normalized equals application/javascript) or styles (Content Type Normalized Equals text/css). This way you can increase the performance of the rendering and reduce the overall bandwidth of your Web site.
InetMgr exposes several extensibility points that developers can use to plug-in their own features and make them look and feel just as the built-in functionality. One of those extensibility features is the hierarchy tree view and is exposed mainly through three classes:
To extend the Tree view to add your own set of nodes or context menu tasks, developers need to perform the following actions:
Tasks illustrated in this walkthrough include:
HierarchyProvider is the base class that developers need to inherit from in order to get calls from the UI whenever a node needs to be loaded. This way they can choose to add nodes or tasks to the HierarchyInfo node that is passed as an argument.
The code above creates a class derived from HierarchyProvider that implements the base GetChildren method verifying that the node that is being expanded is a ServerConnection; if that is the case it returns an instance of a DemoHierarchyInfo node that will be added to that connection. The class DemoHierarchyInfo simply specifies its NodeType (a non-localized string that identifies the type of this node), SupportsChildren (false so that the + sign is not offered in tree view) and Text (the localized text that will be displayed in the tree view). Finally it overrides the OnSelected method and performs navigation to the DemoPage as needed.
In this task we will register the hierarchy provider created in the previous task so that the HierarchyService starts calling this type to extend the tree view.
To test the feature
In this lab, you learned how to extend the tree view to customize any node on it and add your own nodes to it. You can also override the GetTasks method to provide context menu tasks for existing nodes, and you can also override the SyncSelection method to customize the way synchronization of navigation works.
The other day a friend of mine who owns a Web site asked me to look at his Web site to see if I could spot anything weird since according to his Web Hosting provider it was being flagged as malware infected by Google.
My friend (who is not technical at all) talked to his Web site designer and mentioned the problem. He downloaded the HTML pages and tried looking for anything suspicious on them, however he was not able to find anything. My friend then went back to his Hosting provider and mentioned the fact that they were not able to find anything problematic and that if it could be something with the server configuration, to which they replied in a sarcastic way that it was probably ignorance on his Web site designer.
So of course I decided the first thing I would do is to start by crawling the Web site using Site Analysis in IIS SEO Toolkit. This gave me a list of the pages and resources that his Web site would have. First thing I knew is usually malware hides either in executables or scripts on the server, so I started looking for the different content types shown in the "Content Types Summary" inside the Content reports in the dashboard page.
I was surprised to no found a single executable and to only see two very simple javascripts which looked not like malware in any way. So based on previous knowledge I knew that malware in HTML pages usually is hidden behind a funky looking script that is encoded and usually uses the eval function to run the code. So I quickly did a query for those HTML pages which contain the word eval and contain the word unescape. I know there are valid scripts that could include those features since they exist for a reason but it was a good way to get scoping the pages.
After running the query as shown above, I got a set of HTML files which all gave a status code 404 – NOT FOUND. Double clicking in any of them and looking at the HTML markup content made it immediately obvious they were malware infected, look at the following markup:
Notice those two ugly scripts that seem to be just a random set of numbers, quotes and letters? I do not believe I've ever met a developer that writes code like that in real web applications.
Notice how both of them end up writing the actual malware script living in martuz.cn and gumblar.cn.
Now, this clearly means they are infected with malware, and it clearly seems that the problem is not in the Web Application but the infection is in the Error Pages that are being served from the Server when an error happens. Next step to be able to guide them with more specifics I needed to determine the Web server that they were using, to do that it is as easy as just inspecting the headers in the IIS SEO Toolkit which displayed something like the ones shown below:
With a big disclaimer that I know nothing about Apache, I then guided them to their .htaccess file and the httpd.conf file for ErrorDocument and that would show them which files were infected and if it was a problem in their application or the server.
Turns out that after they went back to their Hoster with all this evidence, they finally realized that their server was infected and were able to clean up the malware. IIS SEO Toolkit helped me quickly identify this based on the fact that is able to see the Web site with the same eyes as a Search Engine would, following every link and letting me perform easy queries to find information about it. In future versions of IIS SEO Toolkit you can expect to be able to find this kind of things in a lot simpler ways, but for Beta 1 for those who cares here is the query that you can save in an XML file and use "Open Query" to see if you are infected with these malware.
My last post talked about the Technical Preview release of the IIS 7.0 Admin Pack, and how it includes 7 new features that will help you manage your IIS 7.0.
Today I was going to start writing about more details about each feature and Bill Staples just posted something (How to (un)block directories with IIS7 web.config) that almost seems that it was planned for me to introduce one of the features in the Admin Pack, namely Request Filtering UI.
IIS 7.0 includes a feature called Request Filtering that provides additional capabilities to secure your web server, for example it will let you filter requests that are double escaped, or filter requests that are using certain HTTP Verbs, or even block requests to specific "folders", etc. I will not go into the details on this functionality, if you want to learn more about it you can see the Request Filtering articles over http://learn.iis.net
In his blog Bill mentions how you can easily configure Request Filtering using any text editor, such as notepad, and edit the web.config manually. That was required since we did not ship UI within IIS Manager for it due to time constraints and other things. But now as part of the Admin Pack we are releasing UI for managing the Request Filtering settings.
Following what Bill just showed in his blog, this is the way you would do it using the new UI instead.
1) Install IIS Admin Pack (Technical Preview)
2) Launch IIS Manager
3) Drill down using the Tree View to the site or application you want to change the settings for.
4) Enter into the new feature called Request Filtering inside the IIS category
5) Select the Hidden Segments and choose "Add Hidden Segment" from the Task List on the right
6) Add the item
As you would expect the outcome is exactly as Bill explained in his blog, just an entry within you web.config, something like:
So as you can see the Request Filtering UI will help you discover some of the nice security settings that IIS 7.0 has. The following images show some of the additional settings you can configure, such as Verbs, Headers, URL Sequences, URL Length, Quey String size, etc.
NOTE: RTM has been released see the following blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/carlosag/archive/2008/03/04/IISManagerForWindowsXPand2003andVista.aspx
With the release of Windows Server 2008 RC0, in IIS we are also releasing the ability to manage the Web Server, the new FTP Server and the new modules remotely using IIS Manager 7.0.
In the past with previous Beta we shipped similar functionality under a different name, however for the first time this is the real way we will be supporting this remote administration from different Windows versions when Windows Server 2008 final version comes along.
The reason this release in particular is exiting is because for the first time all the UI extensibility is enabled for these platforms making it possible to build your own UI modules, install them in the server and have the clients that connect to your server automatically download the new functionality and use it as it was part of the IIS Manager release.
Another reason this is important for us is because this is the first time we are releasing support for x64 which is something required for customers using Windows Vista 64 bit edition or any other 64 bit version of Windows.
You can download and install them from:
Note: This RC0 version will not be able to connect to any other older build of Windows 2008 Server including Beta 3, so if you need to still manage Beta 3 version you will need to install the Beta 3 build of the tool which can safely live side-by-side with the RC0 build.
Today there was a question in StackOverflow asking whether it was possible to read the IIS binding information such as Port and Protocols from the ASP.NET application itself to try to handle redirects from HTTP to HTTPS in a way that was reliable without worrying about using different ports than 80/443.
Turns out this is possible in the context of the IIS worker process by using Microsoft.Web.Administration.
The following function will take care of that by reading the Worker Process isolated configuration file and find the HTTP based bindings.
If you want to try it, you could use the following page, just save it as test.aspx and add the function above, the result is a simple table that shows the protocol and port to be used:
Also, you will need to add Microsoft.Web.Administration to your compilation assemblies inside the web.config for it to work:
In this blog we are going to write an example on how to extend the SEO Toolkit functionality, so for that we are going to pretend our company has a large Web site that includes several images, and now we are interested in making sure all of them comply to a certain standard, lets say all of them should be smaller than 1024x768 pixels and that the quality of the images is no less than 16 bits per pixel. Additionally we would also like to be able to make custom queries that can later allow us to further analyze the contents of the images and filter based on directories and more.
For this we will extend the SEO Toolkit crawling process to perform the additional processing for images, we will be adding the following new capabilities:
A crawler module is a class that extends the crawling process in Site Analysis to provide custom functionality while processing each URL. By deriving from this class you can easily raise your own set of violations or add your own data and links to any URL.
It includes three main methods:
Create a Class Library in Visual Studio and add the code shown below.
As you can see in the BeginAnalysis the module registers three new properties with the Report using the Crawler property. This is only required if you want to provide either a custom text or use it for different type other than a string. Note that current version only allows primitive types like Integer, Float, DateTime, etc.
During the Process method it first makes sure that it only runs for known content types, then it performs any validations raising a set of custom violations that are defined in the Violations static helper class. Note that we load the content from the Response Stream, which is the property that contains the received from the server. Note that if you were analyzing text the property Response would contain the content (this is based on Content Type, so HTML, XML, CSS, etc, will be kept in this String property).
When running inside IIS Manager, crawler modules need to be registered as a standard UI module first and then inside their initialization they need to be registered using the IExtensibilityManager interface. In this case to keep the code as simple as possible everything is added in a single file. So add a new file called "RegistrationCode.cs" and include the contents below:
This code defines a standard UI IIS Manager module and in its client-side initialize method it uses the IExtensibilityManager interface to register the new instance of the Image extension. This will make it visible to the Site Analysis feature.
To test it we need to add the UI module to Administration.config, that also means that the assembly needs to be registered in the GAC.
To Strongly name the assembly
In Visual Studio, you can do this easily by using the menu "Project->Properties", and select the "Signing" tab, check the "Sign the assembly", and choose a file, if you don't have one you can easily just choose New and specify a name.
After this you can compile and now should be able to add it to the GAC.
To GAC it
If you have the SDK's you should be able to call it like in my case:
"\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0A\bin\gacutil.exe" /if SampleCrawlerModule.dll
(Note, you could also just open Windows Explorer, navigate to c:\Windows\assembly and drag & drop your file in there, that will GAC it automatically).
Finally to see the right name that should be use in Administration.config run the following command:
"\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0A\bin\gacutil.exe" /l SampleCrawlerModule
In my case it displays:
SampleCrawlerModule, Version=22.214.171.124, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=6f4d9863e5b22f10, …
Finally register it in Administration.config
Open Administration.config in Notepad using an elevated instance, find the </moduleProviders> and add a string like the one below but replacing the right values for Version and PublicKeyToken:
After registration you now should be able to launch IIS Manager and navigate to Search Engine Optimization. Start a new Analysis to your Web site. Once completed if there are any violations you will see them correctly in the Violations Summary or any other report. For example see below all the violations in the "Images" category.
Since we also extended the metadata by including the new fields (Image Width, Image Height, and Image Pixel Format) now you can use them with the Query infrastructure to easily create a report of all the images:
And since they are standard fields, they can be used in Filters, Groups, and any other functionality, including exporting data. So for example the following query can be opened in the Site Analysis feature and will display an average of the width and height of images summarized by type of image:
And of course violation details are shown as specified, including Recommendation, Description, etc:
As you can see extending the SEO Toolkit using a Crawler Module allows you to provide additional information, whether Metadata, Violations or Links to any document being processed. This can be used to add support for content types not supported out-of-the box such as PDF, Office Documents or anything else that you need. It also can be used to extend the metadata by writing custom code to wire data from other system into the report giving you the ability to exploit this data using the Query capabilities of Site Analysis.


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Wow! Finally a HR...
Teheran's reaction was priceless! Haha!
"Hey...Dad. Wanna Have A Catch?" Kevin Costner in "Field Of Dreams."
Not Jim Day's best inning lol
Woohoo. Everything is better now!
Games are won on run differential -- scoring more than your opponent. Runs are runs, scored or prevented they all count the same. Worry about scoring more and allowing fewer, not which positions contribute to which side of the equation or how "consistent" you are at your current level of performance.
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That was Bruce's first homer in 3 weeks
I'd say that HBP and the ump squeezing Cingrani got the team fired up. Bruce with a bomb.
"You only have to bat a thousand in two things; flying and heart transplants. Everything else you can go 4-for-5."
-Beano Cook
Frazier flies out to center.
Bruce up to 830 for the season
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|Author: Elizabeth Bear
Learn more about All the Windwracked Stars:
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Tor Books
Sku: 211293522
Publish Date: 9/1/2009
Dimensions: (in Inches) 7.25H x 4.25L x 1.25T
Pages: 378
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It all began with Ragnarok, with the Children of the Light and the Tarnished ones battling to the death in the ice and the dark. At the end of the long battle, one Valkyrie survived, wounded, and one valraven – the steeds of the valkyrie.
Because they lived, Valdyrgard was not wholly destroyed. Because the valraven was transformed in the last miracle offered to a Child of the Light, Valdyrgard was changed to a world where magic and technology worked hand in hand.
2500 years later, Muire is in the last city on the dying planet, where the Technomancer rules what's left of humanity. She's caught sight of someone she has not seen since the Last Battle: Mingan the Wolf is hunting in her city.
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Royal Durst Theater @ Vancouver School of Arts & Academics
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Agile, which started in the development organization, has gradually expanded into other areas downstream - namely IT and Operations. Teams – then teams of teams – have streamlined processes, improved feedback loops and driven a much faster pace into IT departments which have had profound effects on the entire organization. In his session at DevOps Summit, Anders Wallgren, Chief Technology Officer of Electric Cloud, will discuss how DevOps and Continuous Delivery have emerged to help connect dev...
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It is one thing to build single industrial IoT applications, but what will it take to build the Smart Cities and truly society-changing applications of the future? The technology won't be the problem, it will be the number of parties that need to work together and be aligned in their motivation to succeed. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Jason Mondanaro, Director, Product Management at Metanga, discussed how you can plan to cooperate, partner, and form lasting all-star teams to change the world...
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Overgrown applications have given way to modular applications, driven by the need to break larger problems into smaller problems. Similarly large monolithic development processes have been forced to be broken into smaller agile development cycles. Looking at trends in software development, microservices architectures meet the same demands. Additional benefits of microservices architectures are compartmentalization and a limited impact of service failure versus a complete software malfunction. ...
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Internet of Things (IoT) will be a hybrid ecosystem of diverse devices and sensors collaborating with operational and enterprise systems to create the next big application. In their session at @ThingsExpo, Bramh Gupta, founder and CEO of robomq.io, and Fred Yatzeck, principal architect leading product development at robomq.io, discussed how choosing the right middleware and integration strategy from the get-go will enable IoT solution developers to adapt and grow with the industry, while at th...
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Containers have changed the mind of IT in DevOps. They enable developers to work with dev, test, stage and production environments identically. Containers provide the right abstraction for microservices and many cloud platforms have integrated them into deployment pipelines. DevOps and Containers together help companies to achieve their business goals faster and more effectively. In his session at DevOps Summit, Ruslan Synytsky, CEO and Co-founder of Jelastic, reviewed the current landscape of...
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Malicious agents are moving faster than the speed of business. Even more worrisome, most companies are relying on legacy approaches to security that are no longer capable of meeting current threats. In the modern cloud, threat diversity is rapidly expanding, necessitating more sophisticated security protocols than those used in the past or in desktop environments. Yet companies are falling for cloud security myths that were truths at one time but have evolved out of existence.
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The cloud has transformed how we think about software quality. Instead of preventing failures, we must focus on automatic recovery from failure. In other words, resilience trumps traditional quality measures. Continuous delivery models further squeeze traditional notions of quality. Remember the venerable project management Iron Triangle? Among time, scope, and cost, you can only fix two or quality will suffer. Only in today's DevOps world, continuous testing, integration, and deployment upend...
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Does anyone have a PDF version of the B8 A4 Avant user manual (2009) please?
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Thanks for that but it was the actual user manual I was wanting....
Oops ! Let me check. I think ikve got the 2008 one (shouldn't be any different) but I also put the manual that you pull up in the MMI on line somewhere. I have it installed on my PC so I can find stuff and also cut and paste the drawings/diagrams.
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Corpus Christi Independent School District teachers will get a $1,575 pay raise this year and see no increases on their health insurance premiums.
School trustees voted 5-0 Monday to approve the flat salary increase for certified personnel, to keep the same insurance premiums and to give a stipend for special education, dual language and bilingual education teachers. Board members Manuel Flores and Bill Clark were absent.
All three moves translate to more money in educators' pockets, said American Federation of Teachers President Juan Guerra.
"These are real gains not offset by any other costs," Guerra said. "It's a major victory for all of us."
The raises are possible because of factors including an increase in taxes collected and increased investment returns, said Andy Noriega, the district's chief financial officer.
Certified personnel such as teachers, nurses, librarians and counselors, will get a $1,575 salary increase under the plan. Auxiliary personnel, such as administrative assistants and teachers' aides, will get a minimum increase of 42 cents or 3.9 percent per hour, whichever is greater. Administrators, such as principals and assistant principals, will get a 3.72 percent increase.
The board also voted to give a $750 stipend to certified bilingual teachers, special education teachers and dual language teachers, something Guerra said AFT has been pushing for the last 20 years. The stipend will increase by $250 each year beginning in 2006-2007 until it reaches a cap of $1,500. There are an estimated 200 bilingual education teachers and 350 special education teachers. The number of dual language teachers was not available.
It is difficult to recruit teachers in those subjects, Guerra said, and the stipend helps the district become more competitive.
"I'm proud to know that administration and the AFT have worked together to come to a conclusion that is in the best interest of our professional staff," board vice president Lucy Rubio said of salary negotiations between the district and the union.
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In this book John Bird introduces engineering science through examples rather than theory - enabling students to develop a sound understanding of engineering systems in terms of the basic scientific laws and principles. The book includes 575 worked examples, 1200 problems, 440 multiple choice questions (answers provided), and the maths that students will require is also provided in a separate section within the book. Throughout the book assessment papers are provided that are ideal for use as tests or homework. These are the only problems where answers are not provided in the book. This work includes assessment papers - worked solutions in a free lecturer's manual.
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John Bird, the author of over 100 textbooks on engineering and mathematical subjects, is the former Head of Applied Electronics in the Faculty of Technology at Highbury College, Portsmouth, U.K. More recently, he has combined freelance lecturing at Portsmouth University, with technical writing and Chief Examiner responsibilities for City and Guilds Telecommunication Principles and Mathematics, and examining for the International Baccalaureate Organisation. John Bird is currently a Senior Training Provider at the Royal Naval School of Marine Engineering in the Defence College of Marine and Air Engineering at H.M.S. Sultan, Gosport, Hampshire, U.K. The school, which serves the Royal Navy, is one of Europe's largest engineering training establishments.
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Preface. Applied Mathematics: Basic arithmetic. Fractions, decimals and percentages. Indices and standard form. Assignment 1. Calculations and evaluation of formulae. Algebra. Simple equations. Transposition of formulae. Assignment 2. Simultaneous equations. Straight-line graphs. Trigonometry. Assignment 3. Areas of plane figures. The circle. Volumes of common solids. Assignment 4. Multi-choice questions on Applied Mathematics. Mechanical Applications: SI units and density. Atomic structures of matter. Speed and velocity. Acceleration. Force, mass and acceleration. Assignment 5. Forces acting at a point. Work, energy and power. Simply supported beams. Assignment 6. Linear and angular motion. Friction. Simple machines. Assignment 7. The effects of forces on materials. Linear momentum and impulse. Assignment 8. Torque. Pressure in fluids. Heat energy and transfer. Assignment 9. Thermal expansion. Ideal gas laws. The measurements of temperature. Assignment 10. Electrical Applications: An introduction to electric circuits. Resistance variation. Chemical effects of electricity. Series and parallel networks. Assignment 11. Kirchhoff's laws. Electromagnetism. Electromagnetic induction. Assignment 12. Alternating voltages and currents. Capacitors and inductors. Electrical measuring instruments and measurements. Assignment 13. Engineering Systems: Introduction to engineering systems. List of main formulae. Answers to exercises. Index.


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CHICAGO (AP) — A musical production of "Big Fish" starring two-time Tony Award winner Norbert Leo Butz will have a five-week pre-Broadway run in Chicago next spring.
Five-time Tony Award winner Susan Stroman will direct and choreograph the musical, based on the Daniel Wallace novel and the 2003 Tim Burton-directed film starring Ewan McGregor and Albert Finney. The musical's book will be by John August, who wrote the movie's screenplay. Producers are Academy Award winners Dan Jinks and Bruce Cohen.
The fantasy story is set in the American South and follows the epic adventures of Edward Bloom and the effect on his son.
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John Marty, a member of the Minnesota State Senate, gives weight to personal integrity:
One place for voters to begin scrutinizing candidates would be to evaluate a candidate's integrity. The level of integrity can be measured through indicators such as how they conduct their campaigns. Candidates who run mean-spirited attacks on their opponents might be electable politicians, but they are not people of integrity.
Helmut David Baer, Associate Professor at Texas Lutheran University, advises Christians to focus attention on the candidate's policies:
Even when they disagree about individual strategies, however, Christians evaluating political candidates remain focused on the policies the candidates advocate. Political candidates should not be surprised if their professions of faith are met with skepticism by Christian voters. Personal piousness is not politically important. To sum up: it's not the piety, it's the policy, stupid.
John Stumme, A department director at ELCA, quotes statements on religion and elections from the 1960 election:
Nevertheless, the religious faith of a candidate cannot absolutely determine his conduct of public office. He is subject to pressures, valid and proper, from many sides and sources. In weighing and reconciling them all, he necessarily compromises any absolute rigidities his denominational dogma might impose in addition to the teaching of Scripture. We hold that no church body can compel the unquestioning allegiance of its members in public office to its partisan ecclesiastical dictates. Any candidate who binds himself so thoroughly to partisan ecclesiastical domination thereby unfits himself for public office.


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Grand Canyon: Travels along the River · Landscape Photographs by Stu Levy, Phil Straus, Rita Swinford, and Jasmine Swope
Venice Arts
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Benefit Exhibition for the Venice Arts Young Explorer Campaign
In 2012, four photographers—Stu Levy, Phil Straus, Rita Swinford, and Jasmine Swope—traveled along the Colorado River, from Lees Ferry to Diamond Creek, capturing its geography and history through fine-art photography. This exhibition brings together their photographic visions of this spectacular landscape, and is a benefit to support the new Venice Arts Young Explorer Campaign, which will send Venice Arts' students on a sponsored program to explore the Grand Canyon, offering them an opportunity of a lifetime to travel on the river, explore the history and geology of the environment, and document their experiences through photography, film/video, and multimedia.
Now in its twenty-second year, Venice Arts is a nonprofit arts organization that is committed to providing high-impact arts education for low-income youth in the areas of photography, filmmaking, and multimedia. In addition to its core Art Mentoring & Education Program, Venice Arts implements regional, statewide, and international Documentary Programs with both adults and children; presents exhibitions, public programs, and workshops for adults centered around documentary photography and film through its Gallery & Public Programs; and consults on media arts, visual storytelling, and arts education locally and internationally through its Consulting & Training Program. It is the philosophy of Venice Arts that self-expression, particularly through the arts, has the potential to transform and empower young people to see greater possibilities for themselves and for their communities.
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Tuesday, March 24, 2009
The problems of inserting sex into a novel. I wasn't going to post this but not having anything else ready - well, why not?
Liz Hinds had sexual troubles recently, both in her novel and with her George who decided to mount a rottweiler.
Of the different aspects of this novel of mine, I'd give my handling of them the following scorecard, out of ten:
Action, chases, killings etc.: 7
The problem with action is the use of the staccato technique and the economy of shortish words required. No section kills speed faster than a misplaced comma or misspelt word and this requires close attention.
Suspense, tension, thrill: 5
Rather than keep the tension bubbling, I prefer to allay fears and lull you into a false sense of security, then when you're not expecting it, in comes a horror, which I describe mundanely, in the way the perpetrator might. Overall, you remain uneasy, knowing it could come at any time.
Realistic dialogue: 7 to 9
Pathos: 4 [but I'm working on it]
Sex: 7
This is really tough to handle well and I've had to rewrite and adjust it over and over. For a start, one's own sexuality must never intrude because that would turn anyone off. Once you're clear it's characteristic of the protagonist only and true to form, then it's the better for it.
References to genitalia can only be used outside the sexual scenes. For example, someone will refer to vaginal politics at some point in an asexual philosophical discussion but when it comes to the actual lovemaking, these words are mysteriously absent.
These sorts of scenes make you realize just what a genius Nabokov was. How do you have a sex scene [and one of main character Emma's, in the third book, goes for two chapters in real time] and not refer to body parts? The answer is – with a heck of a lot of editing.
How do you avoid the other end of the scale – the classic French cut to the crashing waves on the shore which is, quite frankly, cheating the reader? How do you make it suggestive without the reader feeling short-changed?
For example, it might go: 'Sophie had just withdrawn her hand when Laurence walked into the hut …' Laurence is an upright military type.
There was no reference anywhere to anything sexual having happened before this scene but in the context of the three people now in that room, knowing the two characters, both women, knowing their relationship and knowing that the only possible venue was the bed in that room [from a reference two chapters earlier when they were building the hut], then it's pretty clear what had been going on. The shock and horror which now follows confirms it, still with no anatomical reference nor any name for the act.
It needs to come form nowhere, it seems to me and not be mentioned again for some time.
The scene I'm most pleased with is where one character gets some alternative passage action in but you only know it was happening from a third party prude who accidentally sees the two of them together in a rock pool and now she rushes to tell others, in the euphemistic terms you'd expect a prude to use.
The problem with this technique is that you can become too opaque, you rely too much on the reader interpreting it correctly. It also brings in the problem that if you keep the description of the physical aspect mundane, how do you build sexual tension?
The only way is to leave little alternative. If there's a lead up to it, if a reference is made to fingers and if you distract the reader at this point, coming back to the recovery scene straight after the thing is done and describe that in detail instead, then the reader can fill in the blanks.
Nothing kills sexuality in a book and turns the reader's attention back to the author more than a scene being misplaced, in the context of the sub-plot. If there was hardly likely to be sex there, then why have it?
I've tried to delay it actually. When you were expecting it, it doesn't happen – they're called away, something gets blown up or whatever. Eventually, when it does happen and you say, 'At long bloody last,' it goes for two chapters and you can bathe in it.
In one series of scenes on the run in northern England, the middle-aged 'protector' is thrown together with a 23 year old and the reader thinks, 'Oh yeah, I know where this leads.' Actually, it never does. There's more sex which doesn't happen than sex which does and you're the one with the naughty mind who thought it was going to.
Sexual prowess
This is another killer. In a Mary-Sue novel, the lead man has near-magical powers and the girl is always voluptuous and gagging for it.
You have to avoid this like the plague.
If one of the three lead characters [and there are always three or four at any one time] is middle-aged, then he's not going to excite his thirtyish partner and certain plot paths can accrue from this, for example when she does meet a younger stud. Yet she has to be happy enough in their relations overall or else she wouldn't hang around.
These things are not easy to write. You also have to have sexual scenes between other characters, almost as closely written as with the leads but not quite because you don't want to fragment the storyline. This takes a lot of rewriting and editing.
Finally, why is your fellow blogger, a supposed moral champion, including this sort of thing in a book anyway? Actually, I'd like to see how Cherie, Andrew Allison, Ubermouth or dearieme would include such a thing.
Perhaps they could write a short story each and we could see for ourselves.
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Uber has taken up the challenge - now what about you others?
9 comments:
- Liz said...
You have to include it in a book because it's part of life. A big part. (Bo boom, I've turned into Sid James.)
- 24 March 2009 at 13:46
- jams o donnell said...
Since my only published work was concerned wit the rat colon (and the noradrenergic innervation therein, there was not much scope for inserting a sex scene!
- 24 March 2009 at 13:54
He was bent over his keyboard, unmoving, tense. I ran my finger up the nape of his exposed neck. He shivered. I began to massage his shoulders, gradually pressing my thumbs down harder and harder, while slowly easing him back until his head rested between my breasts. He nestled, his eyes closed.
I stroked his forehead, the fingers of each hand in turn moving upwards from the brow of his nose to the crown of his head. His hair felt soft and silky with its familiar shampoo smell. I gently kissed his head. He took my hand and squeezed it. 'Enough,' he sighed. 'I have to get this done.'
'Okay,' I breathed into his ear, letting the word be drawn out on a long slow exhalation of warm breath. I traced the turnings of his ear with my tongue as I followed the line of his cheekbone with my fingertip, across, down and around his parted lips. His breath was shallow now. I slid my finger slowly into his mouth, between his teeth, further, deeper, letting him suck before biting down on me. Hard. I licked his earlobe before my teeth sank in.
My other hand that had been massaging his shoulder now moved over his chest, down to his waist where I tugged urgently at his t-shirt. I pulled it up exposing his nipple, dark and erect. I ran my palm over it, just allowing contact. He groaned.
I pulled away suddenly. He leaned back further expectantly. I swung his chair round and leaned over him. I traced the line of pale hair running from his chest bone to his navel, first with my fingertip, then with my tongue. As my fingers pulled at his sweatpants I raised my head just enough to look up at him. 'Enough,' I breathed. 'I have to get this done.'
- 24 March 2009 at 17:17
- UBERMOUTH said...
Fascinating James[unless I am the prude-which was when young].
I shall take up your short story challenge,talking about S-E-X without ever mentioning it,but there will be misplaced typos.
- 24 March 2009 at 18:54
- UBERMOUTH said...
I think he was looking for more subtlety,Anon.
- 25 March 2009 at 05:09
- James Higham said...
Anon - well done but the idea is to put your name to it!!!! :)
Liz - bo boom!
Jams - any sex in that?
Uber - I'm heading over there now.
- 25 March 2009 at 13:12
- ScotsToryB said...
'alternative passage action'????
- 25 March 2009 at 18:14
- CherryPie said...
Thinking of the story in the first place would be the hardest bit for me!
- 25 March 2009 at 20:08
- James Higham said...
C'mon, Cherie, be daring. :)
- 26 March 2009 at 13:09


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52 4 0.125 3.5 0.1 3 log-normal 2.5 distribution Number of Pile-Cases 0.075 Relative Frequency mlnx = 0.326 lnx = 0.738 2 mx = 1.714 0.05 1.5 normal distribution 1 x = 1.027 0.025 0.5 0 0 0 0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5 3 3.5 4 4.5 KSX = Ratio of Static Load Test Results over the Shaft Capacity Prediction using the FHWA Method for Mixed Construction Figure 38. Histogram and frequency distributions for Ksx for 32 cases of drilled shafts in sand. 4. The determination of the required number of indicator 3.5 EVALUATION OF piles can be combined along with the required number THE RESISTANCE FACTORS of dynamic pile tests presented in Table 28. For sites at 3.5.1 Overview which fewer than 100 piles are driven, the number of indicator piles can be used as the number of tested piles Evaluation of the recommended resistance factors to be (approximately 8). Specifically, at least one pile should incorporated into a code is a complex and extensive process. be tested under each substructure, using the test results The aim of the process is to compare an existing code of as outlined in section 3.3.3. When more than 100 piles practice to the recommended new factors. Very often this are driven, particularly at sites of high variability, sep- evaluation cannot be done directly, as either the principles aration can be made between indicator piles and pro- behind the factors differ (e.g., WSD vs. LRFD), or the applied duction piles, with the former used for assigning driv- methodology is not compatible (e.g., the design and con- ing criteria and the latter used for production quality struction combined factors of the existing code). As a result, control, as outlined in section 3.3.3. Restrike testing of the evaluation can be carried out in two ways: piles should be scheduled according to equations 37 through 39, as outlined in section 3.4.6. 1. Analyzing design case histories in light of both the new 5. Resistance factors for static load tests of driven piles and factors and the existing codes. In this way what has drilled shafts should be assigned according to Table 30. been done can be compared with what would have been The driven pile tests should be scheduled according to done; and, if a sufficient number of case histories are equations 37 through 39, as outlined in section 3.4.6. analyzed, statistically valid conclusions can be derived 6. All drilled shafts should be tested using small or high regarding the effectiveness and overall performance of strain integrity testing. the recommendations.


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Community Health Fair set for Jan. 25 at Butterfield's in Port St. Lucie
PORT ST. LUCIE - Butterfield's Pharmacy & Medical Supply, 1707 N.W. St. Lucie West Blvd., Suite 166 in Port St. Lucie, will have a Community Health Fair from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Jan. 25.
There will be several vendors at the health fair, and free cholesterol screenings and hearing tests will be available.
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Sorry this is so long, but I just want everyone to know the back story if you haven't been following my saga on the breastfeeding board.
I've had a love/hate relationship with breastfeeding. I've been adamant about sticking to it though, as I know it's what is best for baby - and we live a very crunchy lifestyle. At one month, we had to start supplementing with 6 oz. formula per day (split up into 3 - 2 oz. bottles), because baby was still 3 oz. under birth weight and didn't seem to be putting any weight on at all. Poor thing was skin and bones. She was feeding continuously (up to 6 hour blocks of time on the breast). I never leaked, never felt engorged, and could never express milk.
Fast forward, and we are at 7 weeks. With the formula, she has been able to put on some weight. I know this means that my milk must be close to adequate, as 6 oz. shouldn't make that much of a difference if I was not making nearly enough. I'm on More Milk Plus capsules 3 - 4 times daily, focus on water and food, and try to stay as relaxed as possible. Baby still is eating a majority of the day from the breast, but with the bottle she at least is more content in the rare times she is off the breast. I STILL cannot express milk! In the past week I have been able to get maybe 4 oz. all together. I try to pump and absolutely nothing will come out most of the time - even if baby is in the middle of a 2 hour nap (which let me tell you isn't all that normal for her as she is still acting hungry ALL the time). She pees every 30 - 45 minutes, so I know she is certainly hydrated.
I HATE giving formula. It was so hard for me to start it, and I stressed greatly. We gave in because she seemed to really not be moving forward with weight and both the pediatrician (who is ocd about moms NOT using formula), and the midwife both said we really needed to do it. Even with the formula she is at the breast for a good chunk of the day. It doesn't seem that my milk supply is increasing with all the work I'm trying.
I have to return to work in 2 weeks and am in fear that I will need to add even more formula into her diet. I can't seem to pump anything, so it scares me to death. I know any breast milk is better than no breast milk, but would rather be ebf. My midwife gave me a box of Domperidone and told me she really suggested I try it. Being super crunchy, I don't even like to take ibuprofen, let alone any other drug. I've read good things about success with supply, and haven't seen much as far as side effects.
My question is....which is better? Taking a drug that I'm not terribly familiar with, and it being a drug at all that who knows if it could transfer to the baby? Or is that still better to be on that if it could mean cutting out formula which I absolutely don't trust and don't think it's good for my baby's digestive system. To me the ideal would be to stop using formula and my supply be adequate without intervention. That just isn't going to happen for me.


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High Protein Bread is a simple and delicious side dish recipe which cannot just escape your guest's attention in any party. Why don€™t you give it a try and let me know the experience.
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2. Combine all dry ingredients in a mixing bowl. Add the liquid and mix well. Add shortening and continue mixing until the dough is smooth.
3. Place the dough in a well-greased bowl, grease the top, cover and let rise in a warm place (80° to 85° F.) for one and one-half hours.
4. Punch dough down, fold over edges of dough and turn it upside down. Cover and let rise fifteen to twenty minutes.
5. Shape dough into a loaf and place in a greased bread pan 9 x 4 x 3 inches. Cover and let stand about fifty-five to sixty minutes in a warm place until dough fills the pan.
6. Bake in a preheated hot oven (400° F.) about fifty minutes.
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A new social media and electronic communication policy was recently unanimously approved by St. Marys City Council.
The policy requires all of the city's 48 employees to sign off on the system which allows the city to monitor social media posts by employees both in and out of the office.
Students from April School of Dance appeared in the 2013 Ridgway Firemen's Carnival parade. Shown on top the "Glam" dancers took home a first place award. From left to right are Kaitlin Quinn, Rachel Keller, Kaitlin Yankovich, Elle McGowan, and Allie Gier. Shown on bottom are, from left to right, Abbi Johnson, Narriann Meyer, Abigail Mosier, and Chloe Frank with Jayden Gustafson in front, who took home a second place award for their "Mr. Postman" routine.
The St. Marys Little League Softball senior league all stars defeated Bald Eagle Area 3-2 this afternoon to advance to Monday's state championship game at 1 p.m. at Ber-Vaughn Park in Berwick. St. Marys will play the winner of today's game between Plains and Bristol Boro.


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When we see a public service announcement in America, the edge is often taken off to make it presentable to all audiences.
In New Zealand? Not so much.
This driving PSA is straight to the point. It points out that speeders need to slow down, as they never know when another driver will make a simple mistake that can lead to catastrophe.
The PSA features two cars. Before a massive accident, time slows down and the drivers get out and talk to each other.
One says, "I thought there was enough time." He has his son in the backseat.
The end of the PSA shows the collision. It's brutal.
Does America need to see things like this? The other part of it we found interesting was the word "mistake." We tend not to think about how people drive in terms of mistakes.
Maybe we should.
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