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Playlouder Review 'Who Invented Love'
The Young Playthings have established themselves as true exponents of the DIY lifestyle: all their past singles have been home-made, they tour endlessly in a doctored blood donor van, and live they're a ballsy three-piece who pack tight harmonies and crunching hooks.
So 'Who Invented Love?' acts as the curve-ball to their melee of concise pop-punk delivery. String quartets pepper the album, and the arrangements push the boundaries of indie-pop with gleeful reverie.
However, this isn't to say that The Young Playthings have changed their format. Instead, they've merely elaborated upon it. The songs are still punchy and full of vigour and vim - first single "Hot Sex With A Girl I Love" perfectly walks the line between sexiness and innocence, crude lyrics clashing with poetic observation, the whole underpinned with a cheeky wink.
Past single "She's A Rebel" makes the album too, and is all the better for its polished presentation. In working with producer Andrew Dragazis (Blue States, The Pipettes) the musical palette has been broadened - what live is the bone-crunching anthem of "Tune" now blazes in fanfare brass and a Pixies-esque guitar riff. Again, the humour of lines such as "In the bathroom, the toiletries are few / And none of these pubes belong to you" are played against others like "I wanted to write you a note / But I don't trust the post / And after all, love isn't a note / It's a tune". It somehow allows you to perfectly imagine the strife of the long-distance relationship depicted in the song.
From the Hannah Barbera-esque front cover, it's clear The Young Playthings use music as they would a diary, pandering to neither fashion nor fad, but instead a seeking blessed release. In acoustic tracks like "Just A Fool" and "Never Let You Go" strings add essential melodies, allowing the songs to sprawl in their confused pondering between love and hate. The jewels in the crown have to be "Last Night In Los Angeles" and "Cold Cold Heart", both songs matching the radio-friendly guitar sounds of The Cars with the impeccable melodies of Huey Lewis at his finest. These are songs Razorlight wouldn't have the audacity to write, and the opening line of "Last Night In Los Angeles" has one of the catchiest guitar hook written this century.
'Who Invented Love?' shows that exploring the pleasures and perils of life through guitar music can transcend cliché and the band-as-brand commercialism we've come to expect from the stagnant indie climate.
- Jon Falcone, Playlouder
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"Feminists don't hate families; in fact, many feminists are running them. The Radical Housewife: Redefining Family Values for the 21st Century is a frank and fun look at stay-at-home mom Shannon Drury's journey into grassroots activism and feminist leadership. You could read this during time you would otherwise spend yelling at the large group of conservative men on TV."
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"With The Radical Housewife, Shannon Drury shares her journey as a stay-at-home mother and activist, filling in a wide gap within the feminist sphere. Drury not only takes the reader through her own feminist awakening and activist career, but also provides a bit of Feminist 101, reviewing the history of US feminism in an easily accessible way. A mixture of unflinching honesty and snarky humor, this book serves as a necessary reminder that mothers are an integral part of the feminist movement, despite not always being recognized as such."
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During Adopt a Shelter Dog Month, we encourage you to visit Greenhill Humane Society and discover the many benefits of having a dog: happiness, companionship, improved physical and emotional health, and devoted love.
Greenhill works year-round to promote adoptions and enhance the bond that people share with their companion animals. During the month of October, Greenhill Humane Society will be teaming up with two local businesses to help promote Adopt a Shelter Dog Month. On Wednesday October 14, 11am – 3pm, Greenhill will be at Rainbow Pets, 1020 Greenacres Road (Delta Oaks Shopping Center) and on Saturday October 17, 11am – 3pm at Lexidog Boutique at 5th Street Public Market. If you're ready to find your faithful canine companion, come view Greenhill's adoptable dogs at these two events or visit our Web site at www.green-hill.org.
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The UAHC has consistently sought to apply the prophetic passion for peace to the great issues of our time. We have supported the ban on nuclear arms testing; we have encouraged the process of arms control and especially SALT I and SALT II; we have expressed alarm at the unchecked proliferation of nuclear technology and lethal arms.
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Q. What are the ingredients of the H1N1 vaccine and adjuvant?
A.The H1N1 vaccine Arepanrix has been developed by GlaxoSmithKline using the egg-based production method. This means the vaccine viruses are grown in eggs. This is true for the regular flu shot as well.
The manufacturer states the level of ovalbumin (egg protein) in the adjuvanted vaccine is generally below 5-10 ng/mL. The ovalbumin level is not yet available for the unadjuvanted version of the vaccine, which will be offered to pregnant women. (For egg and other allergy concerns, be sure to read: H1N1 and Food Allergies [1].)
The vaccine has two components that are mixed together before the vaccine is given. The primary substance is the antigen drug substance for immunizing. It is administered with an adjuvant known as AS03.
The antigen contains: thimerosal, a mercury-based preservative used in the manufacturing of multidose vaccines, sodium chloride, disodium hydrogen phosphate, potassium dihydrogen phosphate, potassium chloride and water. As mentioned, there are traces of egg protein, and also of formaldehyde, sodium deoxycholate and sucrose.
The adjuvant AS03 is composed of: DL-alpha-tocopherol (vitamin E), squalene (shark liver oil) and polysorbate 80 (an emulsifier). In addition, its vial contains: sodium chloride, disodium hydrogen phosphate, potassium dihydrogen phosphate, potassium chloride and water. (For fish, soy allergy concerns, see H1N1 and Food Allergies [1].)
Read Health Canada's Arepanrix [2] product leaflet details.
Read Allergists' Position statement [3] – on egg allergy.
A doctor may prescribe an anti-viral medication for two reasons: first, if you have the flu, to reduce your symptoms; and second, as a "prophylaxis", which means, to reduce the likelihood that you will contract the virus. (This would likely be to stop the spread of the flu in a setting such as a hospital.)
Q. What are the ingredients of anti-viral Relenza?
Medicinal Ingredient:
• Zanamivir
Non-medicinal Ingredient:
• Lactose (contains milk protein)
Read the Relenza [4] product monograph.
Q. What are the ingredients of Tamiflu?
Medicinal Ingredient:
• Oseltamivir phosphate
Non-medicinal Ingredients:
• Corn starch
• Croscarmellose sodium
• Povidone K30
• Sodium Stearyl fumarate
• Talc
• Gelatin
• Titanium dioxide
• FD&C blue No. 2
• One more of: Red iron oxide, Yellow iron oxide, Black iron oxide
Oral Suspension (for young children or people who cannot swallow a capsule)
Medicinal Ingredient:
• Oseltamivir phosphate
Non-medicinal Ingredients:
• Monosodium citrate
• Saccharin sodium
• Sodium benzoate
• Sorbitol
• Titanium dioxide
• Tuttifrutti flavouring
• Xanthan gum
Read the Tamiflu [5] [5]product monograph
Related Reading
• H1N1 media call with experts, organized by The Lung Association of Canada [14].
• Websites linked above.
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) [11].
• E-mail interviews with Dr. Wade Watson and Dr. Michael Cyr.
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[1] H1N1 and Food Allergies: http://www.allergicliving.com/features.asp?copy_id=307
[2] Arepanrix: http://tinyurl.com/yh9ynra
[3] Allergists' Position statement: http://www.allergicliving.com/features.asp?copy_id=319
[4] Relenza: http://www.gsk.ca/english/html/our-products/relenza.html
[5] Tamiflu: http://webprod.hc-sc.gc.ca/dpd-bdpp/info.do?lang=eng&code=79011
[6] AL's December H1N1 Update: http://www.allergicliving.com/features.asp?copy_id=322
[7] Discussion on H1N1 & Allergies: http://www.allergicliving.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=5006
[8] H1N1 and Asthma: http://www.allergicliving.com/features.asp?copy_id=308
[9] Warning Signs of Severe Flu: http://www.lung.ca/diseases-maladies/a-z/swineflu-grippeporcine/index_e.php
[10] Incidence of H1N1, Fatalities in Canada: http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/fluwatch/09-10/w41_09/index-eng.php
[11] CDC Resource Center: http://www.cdc.gov/h1n1flu/
[12] Pregnancy and H1N1 virus: http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/alert-alerte/h1n1/pregnancy-grossesse-eng.php
[13] Taking Care of the H1N1 sufferer: http://www.cdc.gov/h1n1flu/guidance_homecare.htm
[14] Lung Association of Canada: http://www.lung.ca/media-medias/news-nouvelles_e.php?id=161
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Family's tribute to 'irreplaceable' dad Geoff'
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THE family of Exmouth skipper and former RNLI crewman Geoff Ingram have paid tribute to a "loving, caring, irreplaceable" man and expressed their sincere gratitude to all those who have offered "overwhelming" support.
Since Geoff's boat the Sarah Jayne sunk several miles off Brixham on September 11, more than £15,000 has been raised by the community, led by the fishing fraternity, to support his wife Sarah and the couple's children, Vicky, 20, and Tom, 17, known as Geofferson after his dad, and the two crew members.
It was Geoff's friends and fellow fishermen who went out to the wreck just over a week after the incident, after the Maritime Accident Investigation Branch lifted the cordon from around the wreck site, and retrieved his body.
Sarah said they had received hundreds of cards and letters of support as well as cakes and meals left at their doorstep. She said words could not express their gratitude for all the support they have received.
"The support and kindness we've received has been humbling, absolutely overwhelming," she said. "It's really helped us cope, knowing there are people who care."
More than 700 people filled the Holy Trinity Church for Geoff's funeral on Monday, October 1.
"Geoff would have been looking down, probably thinking there was a lot of fuss, but he would have loved it," Sarah continued.
A reception was held at the Beach Hotel after the funeral, a venue where Geoff once celebrated his 18th birthday party, met Sarah, and where they held their wedding reception and his 40th birthday party.
Events were also held at the Dock Side Café and the Point Bar and Grill organised by café owner Viv Ewings and Geoff's best friend Burt Thomas, with 51 lanterns let off from the docks in the evening.
Sarah said the family had received letters of support from friends from as far away as New Zealand, Australia, Canada and America.
She said she would like to thank everyone who has shown her and the family support but particular thanks to Mr Thomas, Mrs Ewings, Phil and Louise Higgins who organised the fundraising event in the Manor Gardens which raised more than £7,000 as well as the fishermen and divers who went to the seabed to bring Geoff back to them.
Sarah described the family's wait for his body to be found as "agonising".
"We knew he was down in the boat," she said. "We think he was waiting for his friends to come and get him. Geoff's body came to the surface before the divers and he floated towards the boat.
"We owe them everything, without them we wouldn't have Geoff. There is nothing we can say to thank them enough. It meant everything to us to have him back. We knew he wouldn't have wanted to stay down there. We would have done anything to get him back even if it meant rising the boat.
"Vicky and Tom helped out at the fundraising event which was brilliant, it really gave them something to remember.
"It's hard to put into words the gratitude we feel."
Vicky and Tom described their dad as "happy, unique, selfless and irreplaceable".
Geoff and Sarah met at the Beach Hotel on New Year's Eve 26 years ago and were married for 21 years. Geoff grew up in Topsham, went to Bramdean School and then Hele's School. He developed his love of the sea through spending time at his grandfather's chalet on Shelly Beach where he learnt to sail with the Exe Sailing Club going on to sail at competition level and winning several awards.
He joined Exmouth RNLI aged 17 and remained a volunteer crew member for 18 years and alongside his fellow crew members saved 98 lives at sea. In 1985 Geoff received a bravery award for jumping from the lifeboat and pulling two girls from the water.
At 16, Geoff went out on a Brixham fishing trawler the Pegasis Rex and it wasn't long before he got his first job working for Terry Rowsel on the Zena, the Osprey and then the Neils Risarga, all skippered by Tony Wreford who became a cherished mentor to Geoff.
Geoff went on to skipper the Neils which he bought in 1985. He owned the Sarah Jayne for 12 years, more recently crewed by Matt Bull and Scott Chamberlain, who said Geoff saved their lives on the day it sank by going back into the wheel room to make the mayday call.
He was also interested in carp fishing and motocross but was first and foremost a "family man".
"Fishing was all he wanted to do," added Sarah. "He used to say you can't put a price on life, so there was two of everything on the boat and that's why he spent so much money on it.
"Geoff was a real family man, he was considerate, honest, loving. He was just Geoff."


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Vic Chesnutt is a Southern singer-songwriter who's more respected by other musicians than by the marketplace or the public. Partially paralyzed since a drunken-driving accident at the age of 18, he's put out a series of albums with songs that veer from accessible to inscrutible, his genre from folk to country to art-rock, his lyrics from straightforward to as twisted as his body appears on the back cover of Silver Lake, silhouetted against a window in his wheelchair. And this release is no exception; in fact, the variations are possibly even more extreme than usual.
I've always resisted the easy classification of Vic Chesnutt as a purveyor of Southern Gothic, because even though he deals in the trappings of the genre -- tragi-comic tales of enigmatic characters whose only redemption seems to lie in death, his or someone else's -- his writing rarely stoops to the sentimentality that is its hallmark. In fact, I would have said that Chesnutt showed no evidence of believing in the existence of redemption.
But where does that leave me, after listening closely to Silver Lake? The album starts off with one of the bleakest lines ever sung in pop music, "Forget everything I ever told you/I'm sure I lied way more than twice," and ends with a gentle song about the glories of domestic love that asks the question, "Do you think you deserve it?" and answers, "I say yes, in my way yes."
Call it just another example of Vic Chesnutt confounding expectations.
Silver Lake is an ambitious project. It was recorded mostly live over a period of about three weeks, with a large cast of supporting musicians, near Silver Lake, Calif., making it the first album Vic has recorded outside of the South.
Between the languid and bitter opening track, "I'm Through," and the final strains of "In My Way, Yes," are nine more songs that run the gamut, stylistically and thematically. "Stay Inside," an agoraphobic's anthem, has lovely gospel harmonies and big, gutsy electric guitar charts that could have been plotted by Neil Young and Crazy Horse. "Band Camp" is a rocking slab of California pop with the indelibly catchy chorus of "If I knew then what I know now..." "Girls Say" is a funny, folky and profane exploration of the sexes' different communication styles, every verse ending with "Boys say, 'why you wanna be a bitch?'"
The album is also full of painful and unflinching poetry, among Vic's best ever. Take "Styrofoam," rife with typical gems: "I'm a cheap, spent shell/and a biohazard/grind me up then mail me away..." The folk-pop "Fa-La-La" seems autobiographical, the tale of a boy who doesn't want to go home from the hospital because he's in love with another patient. Images of nature that is beautiful but deadly in "Wren's Nest" are reminiscent of the Handsome Family: "The barn owl's white belly is like a flash bulb/instantly illuminated by a moonbeam/as he swoops silently before us/toward a fateful meeting in the forest."
The only track that feels indecently self-indulgent is "Sultan, So Mighty," a falsetto epic from the point of view of a treasonous eunuch. It's an effective bit of poetry and an intriguing metaphor on a par with Richard Thompson's "Pharaoh," but the delivery and the orchestral production drag it down.
But Vic Chesnutt is always a refreshing antidote to today's by-the-numbers pop and the saccharine sweetness of confessional folk. If you're ready to think as well as feel, and don't mind ending up with more questions than answers, consider Silver Lake.
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The GA observed a moment of silence to mark the death of former South African President Nelson Mandela, the flag was lowered to half mast at UN duty stations around the world. Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson said that we should remember Mandela today, but carry his spirit with us everyday by "speaking out against prejudice and discrimination." UNICEF Executive Director Anthony Lake said that Mandela was "the father of his nation" and devoted much of his work to children. UN Human Rights High Commissioner Navi Pillay described Mandela as a champion of freedom, justice and human rights. UNTV / UNICEF/ OHCHR / UNAIDS
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Baylor's Art Briles could be a candidate for Texans job
Even though Baylor coach Art Briles signed an extension in November, the National Football Post reports that he could be a prime candidate to replace former Texans coach Gary Kubiak, who was fired on Friday.
Houston owner Bob McNair has indicated the team will put a priority on finding a coach who has head coaching experience.
Briles has strong connections to Houston, having both played at coached at the University of Houston. In addition, Briles recruited Texans quarter-back Case Keenum out of high school to play for the Cougars.
Because Baylor is a private university, details of Briles' contract are not available, but it is believed he has smaller buyouts that would allow him to go to the NFL or to the University of Texas.
McNair said during a press conference Friday that coaches with previous experience tended to have more success than coaches who were elevated from a coordinator position or other spot.
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This past weekend, David W., James W. and I headed to Desolation Wilderness for a quick backpacking trip. I recently created a blog and posted the trip report there. The blog is still very much a work in progress and I'm just using one of their basic templates for now, but here's the link....http://thewindblowshigh.blogspot.com/2013/09/cold-rain-and-snow-in-desolation.html
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Nice quick trip! Sometimes there is nothing better than dry clothes and a warm sleeping bag.
Even the bad weather is good weather in California...
Sounds like a great trip Chris, James and David. Hopefully that bad weather was a look into the future because California needs snow and rain for sure! My sons B-day was super crazy and sorry I had to miss the trip.
You took what I call the Lily Lake Trail but the FS still calls it and the more popular trail past the parking lot, the Glen Alpine TH, which if you had driven a few hundred yards further where there was paved parking and all, the proper TH would have started there. Nice pics, all the colors stood out well. I was at Susie in late July on my solo vacation, next to last night there. I did a loop out of Eagle Falls TH, down to Camper Flat, north to Buck Island, XC to Highland, over the mountain then to Lake #5? was it, then back over the mountain to Schmidell, then to Susie. Not many people out. I camped by myself for three nights.Duane
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August 10, 2005
By Jonathan Butcher
In a survey of gifted students published in
1994, a sixth-grader from New York did not mince words when asked
about "cooperative learning," the educational fad that calls for
students to work on assignments in groups.
"Since I always end up doing everything, even when I try to get
other people to do things, it is sort of like working by myself,"
she said. "Except my teacher yells at me for doing everything and
not giving anyone else a chance, which I did give … It also
takes longer because I have to wait for everyone to catch up to
Her comments typify those of gifted students on the drudgery of
"heterogeneous grouping" -- the practice of placing students of
different ability levels together on projects so those who learn
quickly can help pull up the others.
Heterogeneous grouping is a staple of cooperative learning -- one
of the many educational fads that have seeped into middle-school
education over the past 50 years. Cheri Pierson Yecke, former
secretary of education in Virginia and commissioner of education in
Minnesota, describes this movement to make all middle-school
students equally mediocre in her book, "The War Against
Excellence." She decries the effort to "promote social
egalitarianism by coercing students who are gifted/high ability to
be like everybody else" as well as the way educators tend to use
middle schools as laboratories in which to conduct their perverse
social experiments.
Yecke provides a history of the reform movement that began in the
1950s and has produced a body of research supporting the ideas that
a) middle-school students cannot learn challenging material and b)
treating students differently based on skill level is harmful. She
calls this effort, spearheaded since 1973 by the National Middle
School Association, unethical.
"Public schools never were meant to be the vehicle for massive
social experiments aimed at achieving the questionable utopian
goals of an elite few," she says.
She considers "heterogeneous grouping" merely the most destructive
of these trends. Gifted students who understand the material don't
find themselves challenged, and students less far along take a back
seat in the project to the more gifted, whom they figure can do the
work quicker and more competently. This, of course, only widens the
gap, academically and socially, between the top students and the
rest. Other exercises, such as peer tutoring and cooperative
learning, lead to similar results.
What's worse, these "reforms" actually seem to arrest student
achievement. The most-recent report on long-term reading and math
scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress tests
revealed that overall achievement among 9-year-olds has improved
nine points since 1971. But middle-school students have improved
just four points over that period, and high-school students haven't
improved at all.
Considering that barely a third of eighth graders can read at
grade level, this "progress" simply cannot be enough to satisfy
students, parents or educators. And, as Yecke points out in her
perceptive final chapter, "Implications for the 21st Century," it
does not bode well for our future.
In the final chapter, Yecke argues that the movement's core values
are un-American: "American values such as rewarding individual
effort, honoring individual achievement and promoting healthy
competition have given way to a capricious smorgasbord of liberal
ideas that undermine traditional values in many of our schools.
Beliefs driving racial equity include the leveling of achievement
and the desire for equality of outcomes. This is in stark contrast
with the premises underlying our nation's founding
The middle-school reform movement has sabotaged America's schools,
and this intellectual genocide must be stopped. By attempting to
make all students equal, middle-school progressives have given all
students subject to their poisonous methods something in common --
none can achieve their potential.
Jonathan Butcher is a researcher who specializes in education
issues at The Heritage Foundation (heritage.org).
In a survey of gifted students published in 1994, a sixth-grader from New York did not mince words when asked about "cooperative learning," the educational fad that calls for students to work on assignments in groups.
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In addition to the farmers' market, the Market on Madison is host to a variety of public and private events. The Market's amphitheater is home to the First Friday Concerts March thru October, presented by Dublin's Main Street program. The facility and grounds are available as a rental space and are often used for weddings, parties and photo shoots.
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After 45 years as a stylist, and 18 years as owner of Salon 512, Gail Sarvis is turning the keys over to Chroma Salon and Spa.
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Voters Affected By Superstorm Sandy Go To The Polls
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"The hardest part of being a complex organism is that a skin cell has to know it's a skin cell, a hair cell has to know it's a hair cell, and all of them have the same genes."
Scientists at The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions and the University of Michigan have proved that a technique used to study molecular structures is accurate enough to analyze a class of proteins that help control the activity of genes.
The finding is important because scientists could not be certain until now that the information obtained through this technique, extended X-ray absorption fine spectroscopy (EXAFS), was completely accurate.
Information from the study should also help scientists improve EXAFS, making it easier to examine zinc-fingers' role in some forms of cancer, in growth and development processes, and in other important biological phenomena.
For this investigation, Hopkins researchers supplied a number of chemicals known as zinc-binding proteins. The compositions of these chemicals were already well characterized through other methods. Michigan researchers then tried to determine the same information using EXAFS.
"We wanted to see if we could use this technique to find out what we already knew," says Jeremy Berg, Ph. D., director of Hopkins' biophysics department.
They were successful: using EXAFS, they determined much of the same information about the zinc-finger proteins.
First identified in 1985, zinc-finger proteins have since been found in a wide array of biological systems. Scientists believe they play an important role in making genes active or inactive.
"The hardest part of being a [complex] organism is that a skin cell has to know it's a skin cell, and a hair cell has to know it's a hair cell, and all of them have the same genes," explains Berg. "Zinc finger proteins are an important key to how the same genes can do so many different things."
Scientists are just beginning to understand how this process works. For example, Wilm's tumor, a common inherited childhood kidney tumor, has been linked to a mutation in a gene known as WT1, a gene that directs the production of a zinc-finger protein. This protein will normally turn off genes that promote growth of the kidney. When WT1 mutates, though, this growth continues unchecked, producing tumors.
The Hopkins and Michigan researchers will present their findings on EXAFS at the American Chemical Society's August meeting in Washington, D.C. The researchers are currently attempting to use EXAFS to study zinc levels in zebrafish eggs. If they can successfully detect zinc proteins in living tissue, they are hoping to learn more about zinc's role in gene regulation by studying how zinc levels change as the eggs mature into adults.


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Fine Tuning Your SharePoint 2010 Environment – Front End Optimizations
Abstract: Tuning your SharePoint environment is an important step in optimizing its performance and enabling an efficient deployment that reduces overutilization in resources and in turn provides the best possible user experience. In this session, Mike Watson and Shannon Bray will demonstrate techniques to improve the capacity of your SharePoint 2010 environment and discuss ideas and solutions to include software boundaries, caching options, and remote BLOB storage.
TechED 2010: North America gave me the opportunity to co-present a break out session with Mike Watson on SharePoint 2010 performance and capacity planning. Included here are notes to my portion of the presentation along with the steps required to complete the demos. Mike and I broke up the presentation into two distinct areas. I started out with "Frontend Optimizations" and Mike wrapped up with "Backend Optimization".
This session will be hosted on-line via TechED Live and will be available for FREE!!!
The word capacity may mean different things to each of us, so before we dig much deeper, let's take a second to make sure we are all on the same page. According to Dictionary.com, the word 'Capacity' means:
"Actual or potential ability to perform, yield, or withstand"
So what does this mean when it comes to SharePoint? In order to find the actual ability of your environment, you need to be able to answer questions similar to the following.
How much hardware do we need?
Should we implement a server farm?
Do we need SQL Server?
How much data can we store?
How many users can our environment support?
How many sites can we run on our servers?
How do we validate our design?
So, why are these questions important to capacity? Knowing how much hardware you need may seem obvious, if you think in terms of data storage. But Capacity is much more than just storage. Let take a look at the components of Capacity.
Capacity has three primary components. They include end-user latency, throughput, and storage. I will be focusing on the first two. Let's start with "End-User Latency". Microsoft has recently released a new white paper entitled "Capacity Management and Sizing for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010". I recommend anyone who is serious about capacity for SharePoint to review it.
"The measure of time delay experienced in a system."
Latency can be defined as the measure of time delay experienced in a system. This is the time measured from the time the button is clicked to the time the page is rendered. On a great system, this can be less than a second, but we have all experienced those not so great systems. You know the ones that it takes 5, 10, or 15 seconds to bring back results.
Latency is composed of three major components:
- The time it takes the server to receive and process the request
- The time it takes the request and the server response to transfer over the network
- The time it takes the response to render on the client application
Microsoft has made many investments in dealing with latency. Some of the improvements include: lighter and faster pages, early rendering, IE8 is WAN optimized as compared to IE7, and they have also decreased the page load times of PLT1 and PLT2.
Office 2010 now has a local file cache which resides on the user's computer; this is called the Office Document Cache (ODC). When a user opens and document from SharePoint the document is downloaded into this cache and then opened from there. When a user saves the document back to SharePoint it is saved into the document cache and then uploaded in the background (asynchronously) to SharePoint (like email leaving your outbox and going into sent items without you knowing). On top of both this download and upload scenario, only file differentials are sent across the wire, so if only 1 paragraph has changed, it is essentially just that paragraph which is sent on the wire, not the whole document. There are a few benefits to this ODC model:
- A user can open a document previously cached if the SharePoint server is not available e.g. offline
- Reduced network utilization which improves both performance and costs.
- When a user saves a document back to SharePoint, it seems like it has happening immediately and they get control back of the application immediately, in the background the document is uploaded to the server. Thus having a GREAT user experience.
This uses a new protocol Microsoft has put together called FSSHTTP (File Sync via SOAP over HTTP). There are some important points to note about this though:
- It only works with Office 2010 on the client and SharePoint 2010 on the server. This is because it requires new components on the client and server to deal with FSSHTTP
- It only works with the XML based Office file formats i.e. docx, xlsx, pptx etc
Mobile Pages in SharePoint – Recommended for high-latency users (above 300 ms RT) and/or narrow bandwidth
As a SharePoint Architect, you may need to pin point latency issues. Some of the recommended tools include Fiddler, Team System 2010, Virtual Round Trip Analyzer, and the JS Profiler located in IE8."
Let's take a look at what some of these tools have to offer.
The first tool we are going to take a look at is the IE8 JS Profiler. This feature helps developers find performance issues. To see this tool in action, simply load up your SharePoint site and hit F12. You have several options including the opportunity to start a profiler service. One of the tools I like the best is the image report that shows all of the images and their sizes on a page.
The next tool we are going to review is Fiddler. Fiddler is free to download and is a Web Debugging Proxy which logs all HTTP(S) traffic between your computer and the Internet. Fiddler allows you to inspect all HTTP(S) traffic, set breakpoints, and "fiddle" with incoming or outgoing data.
"The quantity or amount of raw material processed within a given time"
Throughput is the quantity or amount of raw material processed within a given time. In SharePoint 2007, it was not uncommon for a user's actions to affect the entire server. Deleting a list that has 300,000 items in it, could take a very long time to complete, and while SharePoint is performing this task, other operations suffer.
I mentioned earlier that Microsoft made several investments in Latency. They have also improved throughput in SharePoint 2010. They have offered this by optimizing SQL Server to sustain higher loads and have added protection to reduce latency spikes inside the software itself.
Here are some of the key investments they have made.
We will start off with the Logging Database. If you haven't seen this yet, I would encourage you to take a look at this as it collects data from across your farm. It is basically a one stop shop or the health and usage data. The database is not on by default. In order to enable it, visit 'Configure web analytics and health data collection' and click 'Enable usage data collection'.
We can now go into SQL Server and open the logging database.
Next, we have the Developer Dashboard. This is very similar to the Trace.axd file inside ASP.NET that allows a web developer to see key aspects of the page life cycle and the cost of the page. This is now available through the SharePoint UI. The developer dashboard is enabled by the Farm Administrator either through STSADM or PowerShell. It has three states: On, Off, and OnDemand. It can be turned on through Visual Studio, PowerShell, or by using STSADM.
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Microsoft has also made some key investments on excessive client load. Here, the server will inform clients on its health condition, thereby allowing the clients to tune down sync frequency. SharePoint 2010 throttles low-priority requests and becomes more aggressive before going down.
Now that we have taken a look at the components of capacity, let's turn our attention to how latency and throughput factor into common capacity issues. You will notice a solid mix of both hardware and software problems. While software may be the biggest culprit in the form of poorly written code, access control lists on code inside the bin directory, and round trips back and forth to the server; network issues should not be overlooked. We will now take a look at fine tuning your environment.
Some of these may seem like no brainers, but you would be surprised at the number of systems that don't take these into account.
We often view minimum requirements as a soft value. This can be due to several factors. I have a laptop with 8 GB of RAM, dual-core, running Server 2008 R2. All of my servers are virtualized using Hyper-V. The system runs pretty good, but I am still under the minimum requirements as you will see from the first line.
Number and speed of round trips to the authentication provider
Authentication provider processing performance
Network security can also affect how your system performs. The authentication mechanism used in your environment has an incremental effect on the overall performance of the system. Factors which contribute to authentication performance include the number and speed of the round trips to the authentication provider and the authentication provider processing performance.
Microsoft's tests indicate that the order of authentication mechanisms, from fastest to slowest, is: Anonymous, Kerberos, NTLM, Basic, and then Forms. So, what is missing from this list?
That's right… Claims based authentication will allow SharePoint to incorporate an authentication model that works with any corporate identity system, including Active Directory, LDAP v2-based directories, application -specific databases, and new user-centric identity models. Each model is different, so it is difficult to actually rank it in this list.
Network configuration is critical to the performance of your SharePoint installation. Common network components which can affect your performance include:
Network Interface Card (NIC)
- NIC settings Where possible, you should always use Gigabit network cards. If you have self-switching cards (100 MB / 1 GB), you should always set the over-ride to use 1 Gigabit.
- Inbound/Outbound For scenarios where you expect high traffic, we recommend you have separate NICs to handle inbound and outbound traffic.
- NIC settings Where possible, you should always use Gigabit network cards. If you have self-switching cards (100 MB / 1 GB), you should always set the over-ride to use 1 Gigabit.
- Switches If you run your network through a switch, ensure that you are using a GB switch and that you have the same number of inbound/outbound channels.
- Routers Ensure your routers are configured on a GB infrastructure.
Domain controllers It is possible for authentication to become a performance bottleneck in your SharePoint environment if the domain controller (DC) receives requests more quickly than it can respond. For environments using user authentication such as NTLM, Microsoft recommends a ratio of 3 Web servers per DC. If your tests indicate that the authentication load at 3 Web servers per DC is acceptable, you can add one more Web server per DC for a supported limit of 4 Web servers per DC.
Keep in mind that network configuration should be planned and tested thoroughly prior to moving a system to a production environment.
So now that we have gotten the network out of the way, let's move on limits within our favorite Microsoft product.
Here, you will notice that we have two areas to examine. The first is Software Scalability. This is the recommendation for acceptable performance based on software behavior and characteristics. We will discuss some of the common ones here in a moment.
Secondly, we have hardware scalability. These are the boundaries that do not change software behavior, but can increase overall throughput of a server farm and might be necessary to achieve acceptable performance as the number of objects approach recommended limits.
So, as many of you may be aware, Microsoft has improved many of the software boundaries from the previous product.
100 Million Items per Search Index (1 Billion with Fast)
Tens of Millions of Documents / Items in a single list
View/Query 5000 items at a time
150,000 Site Collections per WebApp
50, 000 Site Collections per Content DB
100 GB Content DB (W/R)
Search has increased the number of items on a Search index from 50 million to 100 million. Not only that, you can now have more than one Search index, so the scalability here is amazing. If you are using FAST, that number increases to a billion.
The previous limit for a SharePoint list was estimated at 5 Million. In SharePoint 2010, this number has increased to tens of millions.
One of the most notable improvements is the View/Query items at a time. In SharePoint 2007, it was estimated around 2000. In SharePoint 2010, this number has increase to 5000.
Some of the other cast of characters have remained the same. We still have a limit of 150,000 Site Collections per web application, 50,000 Site Collections per content database, and a 100 GB limit for a content database that supports proportional reading and writing. You can actually scale up to over a terabyte if your database is mostly read, so the 100 GB size is more of a science than a hard fact. In a recent report by Microsoft, it is actually stated that the size of the database they support is now 200 GB, but the largest a site collection can be is 100 GB. This is available in "SharePoint Server 2010 Capacity Management: Software Boundaries and Limits"
So let's take a look at some of our other limits.
A service application provides a resource that can be shared across sites within a farm or, in some cases, across multiple farms. According the preliminary tests, Microsoft does not have a recommended limit for the number of service applications in a single farm.
In IIS 7.0, an application pool is a group of one or more URLs that are served by a worker process or set of worker processes. When you create a site collection and services in SharePoint, you select an application pool to use or you can create a new application pool. Each app pool has its own worker process and can have a separate security account which prevents two processes from interacting.
The memory overhead of an application pool is 30 – 50 megabytes plus any memory for the applications running in the application pool process space. The various application demands usually drive the memory usage to over 800 megabytes. While the limit of the number of application pools is influenced by available memory, the general guideline for acceptable performance is to use ten or less.
You can have up to 5 zones per web application.
You should have less than 300 content databases per web application
You should have less than 50,000 site collections per content database
You should have less than 250,000 sites per site collection.
Host-named site collections are an option if you want to create multiple root-level site collections within a web application. You can create host-named site collections by using PowerShell. Additionally, by using PowerShell, you can use managed paths with host-named site collections. (New-SPManagedPath -HostHeader)
Host-named site collections give you more control over URLS. However, host-named site collections are only available through the default zone. User accounts that are configured to authenticate other zones cannot access host-named site collections.
In SharePoint 2010, host-named sites collections support off-box SSL termination for the protocol scheme. (http:// or https://)
You can create up to 100,000 host-named site collections within a single IIS Web site.
You would like to keep your _Total processor time between 50% – 75%.
Your processor queue length should kept below two times the number of core CPUs
Memory actually has two key areas: Available Memory and Pages per second. You need to target keeping 20% of the total physical RAM free while keeping the pages per sec below 100.
The most common cause of poor performance in earlier releases of SharePoint Server is the development and deployment of inefficient custom features on top of the SharePoint platform. When developing customer features for SharePoint, there are a number of performance metrics you should monitor. These include, but are not limited to:
SQL Server round trips For core pages, we recommend no more than 2-3 SQL round trips. Excessive round trips have the following deleterious effect on performance:
- Increased end user response time due to greater server-side processing time
- Reduced overall system throughput due to additional load on the database server.
- Increased end user response time due to greater server-side processing time
SQL server CPU utilization In order for your MOSS system to remain healthy, it is important that CPU utilization on the database server(s) remains relatively low. If SQL Server 2005 CPU usage averages more than 60%, performance will be adversely affected. Steps you can take to reduce SQL CPU utilization include:
- Implement a caching strategy – this reduces the overall number of calls from the Web server(s) to the database server.
- Optimize custom code to use object methods which return your desired data in the most efficient manner (e.g. introduce indexes on lists, etc.)
- Distribute your SQL databases across multiple physical database servers
- Implement a caching strategy – this reduces the overall number of calls from the Web server(s) to the database server.
- Page download size Keep code size to a minimum. A relatively small increase in page size can have a significant impact on performance if that page is accessed by a large number of people every day, especially during peak hours.
- Client-side code efficiency Approximately 50% of end user response time is comprised of client side processing of returned code. If your custom solution increases any of these, you can expect an adverse effect on end user response time.
- AJAX callbacks For AJAX parts, the number of callbacks, and the payload for each callback. For example, each KPI makes 3 calls in order to return the result. Make sure you test page performance when you introduce multiple KPIs or other custom code into a page.
You should design your code or performance using best practices and try to re-use existing client code versus adding more. As with any custom code, you should profile your solution so that you understand the potential limitations.
Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 provides three types of caches that help improve the speed at which web pages load in the browser: The BLOB cache, the page output cache, and the object cache. The BLOB cache is enabled and configured in the Web.config file in the web application to which you want to apply the cache. The changes you make to the Web.Config file will be applied to all of the site collections and sites within the Web application. The page output cache and object cache are usually configured in the user interface at the site collection level; however certain settings for these caches can be configured at the Web application level.
The BLOB cache is stored directly on the hard disk drive of the front-end Web server. The first time that a page is called, these files are copied from the database to the cache on the server hard disk drive, and all subsequent requests for those files are then served from the hard disk drive cache of the server. By default, the BLOB cache is off and must be enabled.
We will take a look at how to configure this in our upcoming demo.
The page output cache stores the rendered output of a page. It also stores different versions of the cached page, based off of permission of the users who are requesting the page. Page output cache settings can be configured at the site collection level, at the site level, and for page layouts. By default, the page output cache is turned off.
The page output cache uses cache profiles that specify how long items should be held in the cache. You can specify different cache profiles to be used for anonymous and authenticated users, which optimizes the use of the cache based on the authentication methods that are allowed on the site.
You can configure cache profiles settings for a Web application by editing the web.config file on the application server. The cache profile settings that you configure at the Web application level will be used for all cache profiles in the site collections for that Web application.
The object cache reduces the amount of traffic between the Web server and the SQL database by storing object – such as lists and libraries , site settings, and page layouts – in memory on the WFE server. As a result, the pages that require these items are able to be rendered quickly, increasing the speed with which pages are delivered to the client browser. Object cache settings can be configured at the Web application level, and at the site collection level. By default, the object cache is on at the site collection level.
You can optimize the object cache for a web application by specifying the size of the object cache. Specifying a larger number can enhance performance for some large sites at the cost of memory on each front-end Web server. You can configure other settings for the object cache at the site collection level.
To see an example of how this works, let's take a look at the SharePoint request cycle.
For more detail on SharePoint and the HTTP request, check out the following blog article: https://shannonbray.wordpress.com/2010/04/04/in-the-beginning-sharepoint-2010-and-the-http-request/
If your sites use lots of bandwidth, or if you want to use bandwidth more effectively, enable compression to provide faster transmission times between IIS and compression-enabled browsers. If your network bandwidth is restricted, as it is, for example, with mobile phones, compression can improve performance.
IIS provides the following compression options:
- Static files only
- Dynamic application responses only
- Both static files and dynamic application responses
Compression of dynamic application responses can affect CPU resources because IIS does not cache compressed versions of dynamic output. If compression is enabled for dynamic responses and IIS receives a request for a file that contains dynamic content, the response that IIS sends is compressed every time it is requested. Because dynamic compression consumes significant CPU time and memory resources, use it only on servers that have slow network connections but that have CPU time to spare.
Unlike dynamic responses, compressed static responses can be cached without degrading CPU resources
Digging Deeper into the 2010 Caching Options: Part 2
As I mentioned in my previous post, the object and output cache options require you activate the 'SharePoint Publishing Feature' or as I like to call it, the Cha-Ching Feature, as it is normally where Microsoft puts its entire set cool features (i.e. caching, navigation, etc.).
So now that we have experimented a little with the BLOB cache, let's move on to the output cache. Once you active the appropriate feature(s), you will find your caching options under the Site Administration and Site Collection Administration option of your SharePoint's setting page.
The output cache is responsible for storing the output of a page. It has the capability to store various versions of the same page based off of parameters. An example of this would be caching pages based off of local area like zip codes. Like the other caching options, output cache can really improve the overall performance of your SharePoint implementation by eliminating the most expensive part of the request: the content database. In a previous post, I outlined the HTTP request. If you examine the steps, you will notice that having output cache enabled cuts out the majority of the hard work help to ensure that the end user is getting what they need without any latency. All though output cache can really help in all areas, it is extremely powerful when it comes to publishing pages with anonymous access enabled. In the world of caching, you don't want to server your content contributors cached pages, since you want them to be able to review the latest and greatest. When it comes to anonymous users, it's an entirely different story. Output cache stores the pages in RAM, so after the page is requested the first time, it is ready to rock and roll. The short story is… cache for anonymous and not for publishers. Show how do you separate the two? Caching profiles help you do just that, and in SharePoint 2010, they have improved quite a bit.
Once you click the 'Output Cache Settings' link, you will have the option to select the 'Enable output cache' checkbox. Under this you will notice the Default Page Output Cache Profile.
A cache profile specifies how long items should be held in the cache. It also describes to the caching system how to determine whether a cached page element is in fact valid for other requests for the same element from different users.
You can specify different cache profiles to use for anonymous and authenticated users. This optimizes the use of the cache based on the authentication methods allowed on the site.
Page output cache profiles specifically affect portal publishing pages.
So by default, you have four caching profiles to choose from: Disabled, Public Internet, Extranet, and Intranet.
You also have the opportunity to specify a different caching policy for page layout designers and administrators and also specify whether or not you wish to collect Debug Cache Information. The debug cache information shows up in the source of your web page and will let you know which caching profile is currently enabled and when the information was saved.
Now we are going to take a look at a caching profile so that you can see how these guys work. We will focus on the Public Internet profile. Here you will see various properties that you can set. TechNet has an article on how to set many of the cache settings, but doesn't go into caching profiles, so I will discuss these a bit.
Perform ACL Check – When this is set to 'yes', it will ensure that all of the items in the cache are properly trimmed for security by checking the access control list of the items. That sounds like something you might want to do all of the time, but remember this is an anonymous profile, and these visitor have limited to no rights.
Duration – This is how long the item will be cached for in seconds. The default setting is 180, so it's 3 minutes.
Check for Changes – If this is set to 'Yes', SharePoint will check for changes in the page prior to rendering. So if you have this set, the duration doesn't really add much value. If you want to keep your content for a specific amount of time, set this to 'No' and use the duration to its fullest potential.
Now we get to the Vary by parameters. These allow you to store multiple versions of the same page based off of specific values. You may have one cache setting for one HTTP Header versus another or based off of a Query String Parameter. Query Strings are represented in the URL by way of values after the '?'.
The Cacheability parameter specifies the devices that the object can be cached on. These are an enumerations are from HTTPCacheability (ASP.NET 2.0) and has six values, four that map directly to a Cache-Control HTTP header settings and two special values called HttpCacheability.ServerAndPrivate and HttpCacheability.ServerAndNoCache. ServerAndPrivate, the default setting here, allows a response to be cached only on the origin server and the requesting client. ServerAndNoCache means only the origin server.
Safe for Authenticated Use specifies whether or not an administrator can use this policy for authenticated users.
Allow writers to view cached content does exactly what it says. I don't know of a good reason to use this one, but someone must have one, J
Ok, so that's the run down on the caching profiles. Mix that with the output caching and you have a pretty powerful tool at your disposal.
Most of the caching options are only available to the Site Collection Administrator, but the Site Administrator does get the Site Output Cache option, which simply allows for overriding the Site Collection cache profile settings.
In my research for really trying to understand all of the caching mechanisms, I found a post called Measuring ASP.NET and SharePoint output cache. It's short and sweet, so I will be applying these concepts to my virtual farm and make it the topic of my next post.
Digging Deeper into the 2010 Caching Options: Part 1
There is nothing complicated about caching in SharePoint 2010. TechNet provides a decent overview of the three options available that will improve the overall performance of how the web pages load in the browser. If you haven't read the article on Cache Settings Operations, I would definitely encourage you to do so. SharePoint stores most of the content it needs to serve up in the content database, so any time we can save a trip, we are helping the performance of our application.
So we will be examining the three types: BLOB cache, page output, and object cache. Page output and object cache require that you activate the 'SharePoint Server Publishing' feature located in the site features of your web site, so these will not be available to you if you are using SharePoint Foundation. BLOB caching, on the other hand, is available in the server product and will be where we start off.
BLOB Caching is a disk based cache. You configure it in the web.config file of the web site, which means that you will need to go to each WFE to set it up. Your web.config file is typically located at Local Disk:\inetpub\wwwroot\wss\VirtualDirectories\SiteFolder. Before making any changes to your web.config, you will need to back it up. It can be quite difficult to repair this file if you happen to make a mistake.
Inside the web.config file, find the following line:
<BlobCache location="C:\BlobCache\14″ path="\.(gif|jpg|jpeg|jpe|jfif|bmp|dib|tif|tiff|ico|png|wdp|hdp|css|js|asf|avi|flv|m4v|mov|mp3|mp4|mpeg|mpg|rm|rmvb|wma|wmv)$" maxSize="10″ enabled="false" />
If you are familiar with BlobCache from 2007, it works the same way. One nice thing about 2010, is that you get a very long list of file types that default to Blob cache as opposed to the previous version. I am going to save much of the explanation of Blob caching for the article written on TechNet: Plan for caching and performance. Once you have it set up, upload a few photos to a picture library and will see them populate the blob location.
In the root of your blob location, you will find a series of folders. Each of these folders represents the various web applications on your WFE. If you're a little confused on which folder maps to which web site, simply check the Sites in your IIS Manager. The folder name is the Site ID.
In each of the sub folders is an additional folder and a file named currentcache.bin. If you rename the currentcache.bin file to a text file and open it up, you will see that it is the path referencing the cryptic named folder associated with it. Inside the cryptic folder, you will start to see the site structure of some of your content and additional bin files: change.bin, dump.bin, fulshcount.bin, filestodelete.bin, inprogressdump.bin, and oldcachefolders.bin.
change.bin: This file contains serialized change tokens (SPChangeToken) for objects being cached in the local file system. These tokens allow the BlobCache maintenance thread to query the content source(s) and subsequently update the contents of the BLOB cache with any items that are identified as having changed since the last maintenance sweep.
dump.bin: This file contains a serialized copy of the BlobCache's cache dictionary. The dictionary maintains information for all objects being tracked and maintained by the BlobCache object; each key/value pair in the dictionary consists of a local file path (key) and its associated BlobCacheEntry (value).
flushcount.bin: This file contains nothing more than the serialized value of the cacheFlushCount for the BlobCache object. Practically speaking, this value allows a BlobCache to determine if a flush has been requested while it was shutdown.
One of the changes from MOSS 2007 and SP2010, is that the files use to be stored with a .cache extension. They now have their original description. Another change that I noticed is that the 'Disk Based Cached Reset' is no longer available, but you are able to flush the object cache.
One thing I was expecting is that if I went into the file system and deleted the files from the cache directly, that they would be populated on the next request. This was not the case. Once deleted, the files were still visible on the site. I was thinking that SharePoint was now going back to the content database to get these file, but I was wrong. I started up an instance of Fiddler to see if I could find these requests. These files are now being rendered by the cache of my web browser. When I deleted my temporary files, I found that the image no longer rendered. I tried several different ways to repair my site. I used the 'Object Cache Flush' to see if it had any influence on the BLOB cache. It did not fix my issue. In fact, I had to go as far as deleting all of the .bin files and toggle the web.config file to get the image to render again with blob cache enabled.
In MOSS 2007, we had a property called max-age. It allowed you to specify how long cached content would be valid in you blob location. This was measured in seconds, so I attempted to enter a value of "60" to force my image to go back to the database. I wanted to make sure there weren't any leftover references, so I once again deleted the .bin files, my image and toggled my web.config. The image was recreated in the blob location with a time stamp of 2:11 PM. I expected to wait a few minutes and refresh the page and get a new item in the blob storage location. This was not the case.
I did find some interesting behavior while playing around with the image properties. I found that if you have an image stored in the blob location and then change one of the properties, the image was updated leading me to believe that the max-age no longer works, but the SharePoint team has obviously set flags to check if the file has any changes and then refreshes the file accordingly. You may also notice that your image may not render until your browser cache is cleared.
In my previous post, I mentioned the HTTPModules that get included in the HTTP request. While researching BLOB cache a little deeper, I found a very informative post by Sean McDonough, that states that BLOB cache is implemented by way of Microsoft.SharePoint.Publishing. This class is loaded in the PublishingHTTPModule. This means that while Blob cache does not require that publishing features be activated, it will not work in SharePoint Foundation. I went back to review the list of IIS modules to see where the PublishHTTPModule fell into the ordered list view. I have it highlighted in blue below.
In the next post, we will take a look at the output cache.
In the Beginning: SharePoint 2010 and the HTTP Request
In the beginning, there was an HTTP request. Prior to getting back that first glance of your new SharePoint 2010 Team site, you have to initiate a request to a web front end (WFE) that is hosting the site, but what actually happens during this request? Coming from the ASP.NET world into SharePoint, I always have had an elementary understanding of how the typically HTTP request worked. I recently decided to really study many of the aspects of how SharePoint 2010 work under the covers, and why not start at the beginning.
For those of you who have an understanding of how the HTTP request worked in SharePoint 2007 with IIS 6.0, you may be surprised to learn that there have been a few changes, but not all of these changes are actually being used my SharePoint 2010.
When you submit a HTTP request, the request is intercepted by the HTTP listener (HTTP.sys), this is true in both IIS 6.0 and 7.0. The HTTP listener is responsible for both receiving the response and sending it back to the requesting client. IIS 7.0 enables kernel-mode by authentication by default and runs under the machine account. Using kernel-mode has some benefits are far as caching and request queuing are concerned and can improve authentication performance. Kernel-mode also prevents authentication problems with application pools configured to use a custom identity.
In my SharePoint environment, I examined the SharePoint Central Administration Authentication settings. There you will notice that ASP.NET Impersonation and Windows Authentication are enabled. If you click on 'Advanced Settings' in the right pane, you will notice that by default 'Enable Kernel-mode authentication' is not selected by default.
According to Chun Liu, SharePoint 2010 does not use Kernel-mode for two primary reasons:
- There is an incompatibility between IIS7 kernel mode authentication and IE8 which is the level 1 browser for SharePoint 2010. IE8 uses a way so-called "pre-authentication" to avoid some authentication round trips. But when working with IIS7 kernel mode authentication, the IE8 user may experience separate authentication prompt for every single resource on the first request after IIS recycled. (BugID: Windows 7 628823)
- Kernel mode authentication does not support the new Nego2 authentication in IIS7.5.
One of the biggest changes from IIS 6.0 to IIS 7.0 is a change in how the HTTP listener works. In IIS 6.0, the WWW Service managed HTTP administration and configuration, process management, and performance monitoring. The worker process in IIS 7.0 has now moved to a new service called the Windows Process Activation Service (WAS). So this means that the WWW Services takes care of the administration and configuration part of the request and then notifies WAS when a request enters the request queue. The WAS allows you to use the same configuration and process model for HTTP and non-HTTP sites. According to a recent post by Pete Harris, you can run WAS without WWW Service if you don't need HTTP functionality. Both the WAS and WWW Service run as LocalSystem in the same Svchost.exe process and share the same binaries:
Another difference between IIS 6 and IIS 7, is that IIS now keeps the majority of the functionality in modules, which are components that you can added and removed. This allows you to trim down the HTTP request by only using what SharePoint needs.
So let's take a deeper look at the modules used by SharePoint 2010. If you open the web.config of your Central Administration site and search for the modules section inside <system.webServer> tag. IIS 7.0 has two types of modules. We have the native module and the managed module. Native modules are the ones that come with IIS, while the managed modules are used to extend IIS functionality. Some of the common native modules include: CustomErrorModule, HTTPRedirectionModule, FileAuthorization, AnonymousIdentification, Profile, etc.
Here are a list of the caching modules that are native to IIS 7.0:
Module Name
Provides user mode caching for files and file handles.
Provides kernel mode and user mode caching in HTTP.sys.
Provides user mode caching of user name and token pairs for modules that produce Windows user principals.
Provides user mode caching of URL information.
I mention these here, as later we will list out the steps in the HTTP request. Since these are native IIS, they will be present in the HTTP pipeline unless they are removed. If we examine the web.config file, we will notice the following modules either being removed or added.
For a list of native modules, you can use the IIS 7.0 Manager. Simply select the web application in the left pane, and then double click 'Modules' in the center pane.
"In a worker process, an HTTP request passes through several ordered steps, called events, in the Web Server Core. At each event, a native module processes part of the request, such as authenticating the user or adding information to the event log. If a request requires a managed module, the native ManagedEngine module creates an AppDomain, where the managed module can perform the necessary processing, such as authenticating a user with Forms authentication. When the request passes through all of the events in the Web Server Core, the response is returned to HTTP.sys. Figure 2, below, shows an HTTP request entering the worker process."
So armed with this information, we should be able to put the SharePoint HTTP request together:
HTTP Request
Subsequent Requests not Using Output Caching
Requests Using Output Caching
Subsequent Requests Using Output Caching


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