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“The combination of the two websites sets the stage to capture the potentially 3 million plus viewers to the new GEWO, Inc. Faith-Based Content Delivery Network. The network provides a host of video viewing and hosting services for individuals, ministries and artists as well as advertising opportunities for businesses.”

Metro, NY (PRWEB) March 24, 2010 — Gods Eye World Outreach, Inc., the new standard in faith-based Internet broadcasting, launches its new business structure and additional services. Previously the firm was a video production company, promotional website and separate Internet TV station. The Internet TV station was hosted by Wi-FiTV, Inc., a pioneer in Internet TV and was one of the most watched Internet TV web portals in the world. This affiliation thrust station #85 onto the international stage with an instant audience of worldwide members and viewers of the 500 multi-language TV stations hosted by wi-fitv.com.

The new hosting web portal for GodsEyeWO.TV is http://www.Godseyewo.com which has over 2 million annual viewers and in the past served as a link to the Internet TV station that had its own URL and web traffic. The new structure combines the Internet TV station and the website which also combines their traffic. This move brings the http://www.Godseyewo.TV web traffic of over 1 million annual viewers from wi-fitv.com, which is no longer in business, to the new web portal.

The combination of the two websites sets the stage to capture potentially 3 million plus viewers to the new GEWO, Inc. Faith-Based Content Delivery Network. The network provides a host of video viewing and hosting services for individuals, ministries and artists as well as advertising opportunities for businesses.

The video streaming service starts with hosting wedding/special event videos for individuals, streaming live and on demand faith-based video messages for ministries, promoting artists projects and providing advertising opportunities for businesses. in addition, members have the opportunity to launch their own faith-based video TV channel from the GEWO, Inc. CD Network starting as low as $250/month. GEWO, Inc. has created a place where the playing field is level as well as an opportunity to capitalize on an existing faith-based viewer market. Viewers are eager to have access to consistent Christ-centered material which makes GEWO, Inc. CD Network a great place to establish your own niche someplace where the competition isn’t already miles ahead.

The firm’s target markets are individuals who want to share special event videos with family and friends, faith-based artists who want more exposure for their products, medium to large ministries that video record and edit their sermons and are looking for an affordable way to expand their outreach and faith-based businesses that want to advertise their products and services to a niche market.

GEWO, Inc. Internet Faith-Based CD Network provides more services and offers a more affordable way than traditional TV, radio and expensive Internet podcasters to reach a worldwide audience. Plus, there are many foreign ministries already partnering with GEWO, Inc. who it wants to help support. GEWO, Inc. CD Network is a place where a portion of your ministry broadcast dollars are used to bless hungry souls in many countries with the Word of God, spiritually, physically and financially.

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Districtwide

Kindergarten registration for students wishing to attend Des Moines Public Schools during the 2010-11 school year will be from 1 to 7 tonight at most elementary schools. Children must be five years old by Sept. 15 to enroll. Families should bring verification of birth date (birth certificate), immunization record, and proof of address (power bill, rental agreement, etc.). For more information call 242-7725. all DMPS elementary schools are participating, except Capitol View, Moulton and River Woods, which follow a year-round calendar, and held their registration on Feb. 11.

Elementary Schools

When it’s cold outside, the first-grade students have used their imaginations inside. The students have left the comforts of their warm classrooms to be transported to exotic jungles, sandy deserts and deep oceans. all this traveling has been done as the children read nonfiction material about animals. as the students have read about their animals, they have learned about that animal’s size and color, habitat, babies, food, and enemies. It has been exciting to learn how the animals live each day finding food and protecting themselves from predators. After taking notes, the children have written their own animal reports to share with family and friends. Each child has become an expert and an author by reading to understand more about the animal kingdom and writing the new information in his/her own words.

The fifth-graders are preparing for their trip to Junior Achievement’s Biztown in April. This is a simulation of a day of work in the “real world.” The students have to write resumes, apply for jobs, learn how to use a checkbook, and many other job related skills. The students have a lot of fun making products to sell at their ‘businesses” on the day of the trip. It is also a great learning experience where the students practice very valuable life skills.

An extended learning program has been started targeting students in reading. The program takes place Tuesdays and Thursdays from 3 to 4 p.m. Students in the Extended Learning Program are working in small groups (4-6 students per teacher) to develop their reading comprehension, fluency and word work skills through a very interactive program. Students will have the chance to be on the computer, do word activities, and read high interest stories. with each session, the students will have the opportunity to be actively involved in one of these areas. The computer program Tune into Reading is a new program to Park Avenue where students use music to increase their reading ability. Students enjoy the repetition of the songs to help them learn new words and increase their reading ability.

In music the second- and third-graders had a winter show about finding their way to Grandma’s house. The kindergarten and first-graders just presented a Valentine’s show where they sang about friends, appreciation, and love. they played instruments and used sign language. Now, the fourth- and fifth-graders are getting ready for their show. The theme is “Rock and Roll forever.” You’ll hear the Beach Boys, the Beatles, and there may even be an Elvis sighting.

Student Council collected more than $400 for Haiti by having a money drive. Students that donated money were given an ‘I HELPED HAITI’ sticker to wear that was designed by a Student Council member. Many students helped by bringing spare change they had around their homes.

Studebaker will host its annual Fine Arts Night March 4 from 6 to 8 p.m. The show will include masterful pieces of art work created by our students. The 5th-grade will have their music program along with band, strings and piano performances. This is a celebration of the fine arts in the Des Moines Public Schools.

Middle Schools

Seventh-grade science students have been reviewing the parts of an atom. they are now learning how the periodic table works and have incorporated singing into the learning experience. Seventh-grade special education science students are learning that rocks are made up of minerals but minerals are not made of rocks. as part of science lab, students were asked to bring in their rock collection and sort them by their chemical composition. Students are learning how to determine the identity of minerals by color, luster, streak, cleavage and fracture, hardness, density, and special properties.

Seventh-grade Reading and Language Arts students are completing the research process over countries throughout the world and/or other focus topics of their choice. Students are working on how to correctly cite sources using APA format in their bibliographies. other students are completing their research on countries of the world and writing research reports over the facts they have discovered.

Seventh-grade math students are currently working on fractions, decimals, and percents, as well as how to convert from one to the other. in advanced math, students have been working with exponents, square roots, and the Pythagorean Theorem.

Seventh-grade geography students are spending their time studying Ancient Greece and are competing in classroom Olympics.

All seventh-graders are participating in the school’s first Live Healthy Iowa Kids, a free, 100-day program designed to encourage young Iowans to increase their physical activity levels and make better food choices. This is a positive way to teach kids about the importance of being physically active and show them ways to make fitness fun. This program is a way for advisory classes to win monthly incentives and monetary awards. (Student activity will be tracked by minutes. Each participant aims for 60 minutes of activity, five days a week.)

Spring conferences continue today from noon to 8 p.m. in the gymnasium. SOAR teachers will be located in the cafeteria. we look forward to seeing you for conferences.

Merrill hosted Fine Arts Night and Soup Supper/Silent Auction on March 4. Presentations were made of student work by the Drama Club, Mustang Choir, Spanish Dancers, the Orchestra, Jazz Band and Art Department.

Students are learning about construction. they are building homes, skyscrapers and words. they are learning about tools we use every day and different types of jobs in the construction world. they are learning about ways to be safe when using tools. Students are practicing their skills using pretend saws, hammers and nails while wearing construction safety gear. Students are building a structure to take home by gluing and painting wood pieces. After spring break students will take their construction knowledge to start working on the farm.

High Schools

On Feb. 11, Chris Dow’s psychology classes were visited by 2-year-old Rylee Morris and her older sister, Leah Morris, 4, daughters of Amanda Zehring Morris. as a finale to the chapter on infancy and childhood, the girls took part in hands-on experiments which tested their understanding of conservation, symbolism, role reversibility (taken from the cognitive stage theory of Jean Piaget) as well as general knowledge questions.

Janet Malmberg’s English classes researched four generations of their own family histories and presented a color coded family tree to their respective classes. This process involved the Internet, interviews, and developing a formal presentation with visuals.

The Academic Decathlon team competed at the state competition held in Denison on March 6. The young team of only eight members had a commendable performance at Drake University as they tested in the regional meet. Senior Catherine Linnane scored second highest overall and Tanaya Thomas walked away with the first place ribbon in the Speech category. next year the team will have six returning members.

Students in Kaylee Brown’s first and fourth period Adult Living classes have been operating a student run Rails Cafe two days a week. Operating the cafe is a part of the class curriculum in the Special Education department and assists the students in gaining job site experience that they may need once they’ve graduated and enter the workplace. The students participate in all aspects of operating the cafe. they take on the roles of order taker, delivery people and kitchen staff. Staff and students throughout Lincoln High School help the Rails Cafe students gain valuable employment skills by placing orders for fruit smoothies, hot drinks and healthy snacks. There are 21 students participating this semester. Prior to opening the cafe each semester, the students practice all the skills needed to perform the tasks required to smoothly operate such a business, such as handling money and giving proper change, taking orders, phone etiquette and kitchen safety. in addition, students learn to work with a team. they may not get to choose their co-workers when they enter the workforce, just as they do not get to choose their classmates. Students also figure out for themselves how to work using each other’s strengths to form a strong team.

The East High Golf Classic, four-person, best shot on may 14th or 15th, is taking registration. call 242-7788.

Iowa Jobs for America’s Graduates (iJAG) had its annual Legislative Day at the Capitol on March 1. Students and specialists from across the state of Iowa met at the Capitol to talk to legislators about the economy and the budget for this term. Students met with iJAG board members and had lunch. Students talked to legislators about the importance of keeping iJAG in the budget. The junior and senior iJAG students are very passionate about the program and each wrote a letter to a House Representative or Senator about the importance of iJAG in his/her life. Each student has his/her own personal success story, and in iJAG we help make their dreams become a reality. For more information or to volunteer and/or help with East’s iJAG program, e-mail jennifer.myers@dmps.k12.ia.us or call 242-7788.

Other Des Moines High Schools

Seven students competed Feb. 27 for the Iowa High School Speech Association’s Individual Events:Allison O’Braza, Kristina Ryan, Aaron Homard, Zaynaba Musa, Madison Jones, A.J. Hawxby and Jacob Wolfe. Homard, Wolfe and Musa are advancing to the state competition March 14.

Hoover’s Mock Trial team advanced past districts to the playoff round on March 3. The following students competed: Katie Hawks, Merisa Lengeling, John Jordan, Andrew Woods, Alli Nutting, Ann Strom, Jacob Scott, Zach Dickhoff, Brenna Carlson and Tyler Bainter.

Miriam Heuermann’s Earth Science classes are making fast fossils and learning about past life on Earth. Students also are looking at a museum-quality fossil collection with some very rare fossils from the collection of their science teacher.

A fundraiser for the Hoover High School Drama Department, “For Love or Money,” is an interactive murder mystery dinner. This cast of 12 students will be interacting with you, the audience, throughout the night. sometime in the night, a “murder” will take place. It is up to you to seek clues to solve this murder. The program is March 26 and 27 at 6 p.m. at Walnut Creek Community Church, 900 64th St. Dinner will be catered by Felix and Oscar’s; a dessert buffet is also provided. Tickets are $25 each with all proceeds benefitting Hoover Drama and must be purchased in advance. For tickets, call Chelsea Cunningham, Hoover Drama Director, at 242-7263 or e-mail chelsea.cunningham@dmps.k12.ia.us.

The National Council on Youth Leadership is a leadership recognition program for high school seniors. It was designed to reward those who are good citizens and good students and who have also been active in a leadership position in their school, their community or their faith community. Application packets were distributed to all juniors who currently have a cumulative GPA of 3.0 or higher. A committee consisting of representatives from the faculty and administration met to make their final selection of representatives from the applications which were submitted completely and on time. Students who were chosen to be Hoover’s 2010-211 NCYL representatives are Mittzi Castellanos, Samuel Duncan, Linh Giang, Kourtlin Jackson, Nile Jacobus Jonathon Kline, Brian Le, Trayveon Lewis, Jolinn Nguyen, Ian Pierson, Kiana Roppe, Katheryn Stites, Quan Truong, Max Wissler.

The North High School MCJROTC Rifle Team competed in the Marine Corps National Championships in Camp Perry, Ohio, the week of Feb. 24-28. The North shooters finished second nationally in the 13-team field comprised of Marine units from all over the United States. The competition began in December with the first round of firing by more than 320 teams from around the country. The top 13 teams advanced on to the national stage for the right to shoot for the National Title. North qualified as the No. 3 seed in the initial round with a score of 1,058, just behind La Cueva, N.M., and Tuba City, Ariz. During the competition North broke the previous school 3×20 record of 2,115 and with a 2,147 on the first day of competition. North shot a total match score of 4,261, smashing the previous year total of 3,997 to set a new team 3×20 record. North was led in the competition by Michael Stroud, who finished seventh overall with a two-day score of 1,086, followed by Brandon Wicker in ninth with a 1,068. Lucas Rohrbaugh was 15th and Emily Allen 22nd overall, so all North shooters finished in the top 25 in the country.

North will host the American Legion State Championships on March 13 and will defend its four-time state championship title. The team then travels to Fort Benning, Ga., on March 20 and will represent all the ROTC units in Iowa at the Army Nationals. on March 25 the team will travel to Anniston, Ala., for the JROTC Inter-Service National Championships. The top four teams from each JROTC branch of service will participate.

On April 18 North will host the state of Iowa Junior Olympics Air Rifle Championship. Each year the number of participants has grown and more 125 shooters are expected to participate this year. North High intends to have 50 or more students participate in this event.

Members of the Roosevelt Chamber Orchestra participated in the Central College Stringfest in Pella on Feb. 25.

The Roosevelt Debate team finished the West Iowa District Qualifier tying its modern record for the number of students qualified to the national tournament in June. Seven students will make the trip, led by seniors Mirza Germovic and Amelia Martin, who both won their divisions of extemporaneous speaking. Joining them are two other extemp students: juniors Sarah Larson and Catherine Chiodo. making the trip in Original Oratory is junior Aida Ver Ploeg. Additionally, juniors Michael Flannery and Sam Roeder will represent Roosevelt in Public Forum debate. A number of Roosevelt students also made final rounds in a variety of events including Tess Yocom, Katy Roat, and Caroline Alexander.

Drake University’s Cowles Library hosted a special one-day debate tournament for the top 8 Public Forum programs in Iowa. The team of sophomores Rachael Bandstra and Kayleigh Courard-Hauri were seeded 2nd in the tournament and finished second, losing the final round to Ankeny. The pair posted single elimination wins over Valley and Okoboji to earn the final round debate. The event was part of the library’s three-year “Citizen’s Arise” program. The students were asked to debate the growth in federalism.

Citywide Schools

Students presented their culture-culminating event by sharing a dance from Ireland and a dance from South Africa. they also sang a self written song about weather. other learning groups are following the growth of their plants and discovering what plants need to grow and thrive. Different learning groups wrapped up their restaurant investigations by having a culminating event incorporating a PowerPoint of all their representations.

The students came together on Feb. 24 for a Day of Service. we gathered 673 pieces of food, which was donated to the Food Bank of Iowa.

Smouse Students enjoyed guest readers from the school board and support staff on March 2 during the celebration of Dr. Seuss Day. Students also watched books read on a large projection screen, played Dr. Seuss Trivia Facts games, and some classes even celebrated by dressing up as the Cat in the Hat and thing 1 and thing 2. all students had a lot of fun with reading and celebrating Dr. Seuss.

The Smouse Knights of the Week traveling trophy went to a classroom for demonstrating excellent Safety Drill expectation skills for the week of Feb. 22.

Caring projects have been going on this semester. During February change was collected to donate for water purification. During March a 25-cent donation allows students to use their electronics at lunch time. The 25 cents will buy the ingredients needed to package a meal for a Haitian. Proceeds from the upcoming Goodrell dodge ball tournament also will be donated. Pride Time groups will collect quarters for the cause as well. in April, Holmes Hyundai will provide us with the necessary ingredients and supplies so that students can package meals at Goodrell during Healthy Choices classes. Holmes is also matching 50 cents for every $1 raised. we will accept any outside donations for the cause.

In civics class students recently participated in a mock Supreme Court case. Students were able to act as Supreme Court justices, lawyers and reporters. The experience really helped students understand what happens during a Supreme Court Trial. Also in Civics class students have learned about the Civil Rights Movement during February. Students were able to make presentations on famous leaders of the movement as well as infamous events that occurred.

Goodrell Pro-Motion Kids sponsored a breakfast with someone special to emphasize the importance of good role models and to start your day off right with breakfast everyday.

In language arts class students are writing persuasive editorials on the dangers of texting and talking on a cell phone while driving.

Eighth-grade reading students are working with student teacher Melinda Lansing to improve reading fluency with the book “Time Trap.” The book recalls the time of Martin Luther King Jr. Eighth-grade language arts students are learning about symbolism, imagery, sound devices, and figurative language to write poetry and inquire, “What is the secret to reaching someone with words?”

Volunteer blood donors are needed at the Central Campus High School Blood Drive from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. March 31 in the auditorium. This drive is sponsored by Career Opportunities in Health. For information about the blood drive or to schedule an appointment to donate blood, contact Jennifer Eppert at 205-1449 or jennifer.eppert@dmps.k12.ia.us. To learn more about The Blood Center of Iowa, visit www.bloodcenterofiowa.org

Central Academy has some of the best high-school mathematicians in the country, as demonstrated by their seventh-place finish in the 2010 Four-by-Four Competition, a national mathematics contest administered by National Assessment & Testing (http://www.natassessment.com). Coach Mike Marcketti prepared students for this contest, in which teams of four participated in 10 three-minute rounds in which they attempted to answer four questions. This effectively gives each student three minutes to answer one problem, but the team must also decide who will work each problem and whether their time would be better spent checking one another’s work on easier and more familiar problems or if they should attempt to answer all four questions. After results from schools across the country were double-checked, the teams of Joel Schneider, Jay Kakade, Jack Bequeiath, and Luke Sheeley and Luchang Wang, Tricia Shi, Kevin You and Eric Chen tied for the highest score at Central Academy, leading their team to place seventh overall among the top schools in the country. Central Academy will be participating in National Assessment & Testing’s next contest, the 2010 Collaborative Problem-Solving Contest, from April 14-21. This contest allows a team to collaborate for one week on 15 difficult and complicated problems, and rewards real-world problem-solving skills such as brainstorming, collaboration, research, and the application of technology.

National Assessment & Testing administers high-quality mathematics competitions that schools can participate in through the mail. their contests span a variety of formats, including individual and team tests, as well as a variety of difficulties, from an easier 100 problems in 30 minutes to 15 more complicated problems in one week.

Drake University runs a contest for high school physics majors in the following states: Iowa, Minnesota, South Dakota and North Dakota. This takes the form of a test written by the faculty of the Drake Physics and Astronomy department which is taken at the student’s home institution. Students are entered by their high school physics or science teachers. First prize in the test is a full, four-year tuition scholarship to the Drake Physics and Astronomy department. A second four-year tuition scholarship is offered to a runner-up (top 50 senior) based on the academic record of the student, high school teacher and counselor recommendations, and the results of interviews held in April. This year 434 students from 58 schools participated in the examination, including 37 from Des Moines Central Academy. Central Academy students took 6 of the top 12 places in the standings, including second-place, senior Kerrick Staley, and a third-place, junior Joel Schneider.

Central Academy Students of Sara Karbeling, physics and mathematics instructor, participated in the initial exam in January. two students, Kerrick Staley and Joel Schneider, will be continuing on in the semifinal round this spring.

Students toured the Hy-Vee test kitchen in West Des Moines on March 4. Information from the tour will used in projects in a variety of classes. Students especially enjoyed the taste test; it was better than most tests.

Thanks to Iowa Workforce Development, a pilot group of students are taking part in the Career Readiness Certificate program. Students were evaluated in applied math, reading for information and locating information. Future Pathways hopes to learn from this pilot and offer the Certificate program to all of its students next year.

Students recently completing requirements for graduation include Kayla Woods and Daniel Ruacho, both from East, Alexa Delaria from Roosevelt and Tray-Van Butler from Hoover.

On Thursday, the students and staff were treated to a musical performance by the Belin String Quartet. This event was coordinated by Carrie Clogg of the Des Moines Civic Music Association. The quartet provided an interactive and engaging performance for students; one student was actually invited to participate by ‘playing’ the violin in one of the selections. Students tested their knowledge of composers and music genres during the presentation and were eager participants in the question and answer session. The audience was attentive and appreciative, demonstrating the qualities of the Circle of Courage.

During January, physical education classes completed a unit on basketball skills in which students learn and practice the skills of dribbling, passing, shooting and working together as a team. on Jan. 14 and 15, all classes participated in our annual Homeroom Basketball Tournament to showcase their skills in front of their peers. on Jan. 30, all students participated in the annual Hot Shot Contest, a favorite activity of students and staff. Students compete individually against each other in various shooting activities throughout the day and winners of each male and female divisions win trophies. The Ruby Van Meter Booster Club provides T-shirts for each student to wear that day and take home. our students always win or lose gracefully, display great sportsmanship and cheer for the peers they are competing against. Trophy winners that day were Joe Parenza, Ryan Essy, Lisa Green, Jason Alex Tyndall and Aaron Brinda.

February P.E. units included working on body awareness by learning some tumbling and gymnastics skills. Students also participated in a floor hockey unit in celebration of the Winter Olympics. March activities will include an archery unit and then students will begin preparing for the Special Olympics track meet which be held at Simpson College on April 14.

Our Viking Varsity and J.V. Boys and Lady Vikings basketball teams just completed their season. Games were held at RVM against middle school teams from Meredith, Callanan and Earlham. The teams wrapped up their season on Feb. 26 playing against both the men’s and women’s teams from Simpson College during the RVM P.T.O. Basketball Jamboree.

Four social science economics students were chosen by instructors Carl Stamey and Steve Peters to participate in Junior Achievement’s Stock Market Challenge day at the Junior Achievement offices. The all day event gave students first -hand knowledge of how the stock market works on a day to day basis, and included the buying and selling shares of local companies’ stocks. More than 100 students from central Iowa gathered to take part in the event. During the game, nobody lost. even the last place team made money. all of our students have participated in Junior Achievement’s Banks in Action and Skills for Success programs, as well as working on projects associated with the Buck Institute’s “governomics” program. they are all seniors and will graduate this spring. The students were Alex Dows, Kris Erichsen, T.J. Thompson and Daniel Long.

Private Schools

Eighth-grade students are finishing a unit combining reading fluently with expression and using and evaluating oral/dramatic presentations. they started by reading by parts condensed plays of various sorts. During Catholic Schools Week, they presented “The One-Million-Pound Bank Note” and “Answer Man.” they are concluding with the play form of “The Diary of Anne Frank”.

Congratulations to the junior high and high school jazz bands for their performances in Woodward at the Jim Coffin Jazz Festival on Feb. 27. The junior high placed second out of the three bands, and the high school placed first. Senior Jennifer Brooke was named outstanding soloist of all Class 1-A bands.

The boys’ varsity basketball team qualified for the state basketball tournament March 8-13. The top-seeded Lions opened their tournament run by playing No. 8-seed Carroll Kuemper Catholic on March 8.

Elementary students completed the Iowa Tests of Basic Skills, and secondary students completed the Iowa Tests of Educational Development during the week of March 1-5.

On March 6, the junior high and high school jazz bands competed at the Hooverfest competition.

The first-grade classes of Allison Sherer, Charlene Brown and Pam Wilson presented the elementary chapel on March 10.

On March 10, the junior high show choir, Destination Excellence, and the high school show choir, Light Inc., performed for the secondary chapel.

Third quarter ends on March 12.

On March 15-19, school will be closed for spring break. There will be no school on March 22, when teachers will be taking part in in-service activities. Classes resume for fourth quarter on March 23.

On March 23, the board of directors and the standing committees of the board will meet.

There will be a seniors vs. faculty basketball game on March 26.

DMCS is again offering a variety of summer camp opportunities for students. Brochures are available at elementary, secondary, and administrative offices or on the Web site (www.dmcs.org). The registration form, with payment, is due by may 14. call Linda Steddom at 252.2480 for information.

Registration for the 2010-11 school year is under way. Current families receive placement preference until March 31. on April 1, registration opens to new families. Registration packets are available at the elementary and secondary offices.

Twelve students have qualified for the National Forensic League National Speech and Debate Tournament. Qualifiers were: Alex Blank, Anna Dore, Sean Duff and Shannon McCarthy in policy debate. Remington Jaques, Alex Parrott, Adrienne Pyle and Lauren Pyle in duo interp. Matt Brown and Matt Pierick in humorous interp. Mary Conway in dramatic interp and Clare Roth in oratory. all will represent Dowling Catholic this summer in Kansas City at nationals.

“Waller’s Warriors” won the Junior Achievement stock market challenge recently. Team members were Blake Waller, Garrett Miller, Zac Illg and Michael Hudson.

March is Women’s History Month in the media center. stop by and check out the PowerPoint presentation on famous female authors as well as the book display.

Abby Bockhaus received the Loyola University Jesuit BVM scholarship at Loyola University of Chicago.

Tyler Melin will receive a bowling scholarship to attend St. Ambrose.

DCHS students will visit the children at ChildServe March 31 for dance group.

The Dowling 4-Hers are hosting a blanket drive for the Domestic Violence Center. Blankets may be dropped off in the box in the attendance office or room 803.

March 4, the kindergarten, first- and second-graders presented their musicals in the church. The kindergarten did a short musical version of “The little Red Hen” featuring the gossiping geese, vain cats, lazy dogs, and the little red hens who do it all. First- and second-graders enjoyed preparing for “Go Fish,” a musical with a moral that “different is nice.” A spotted zebra fish, a seven-legged octopus, a blow fish with allergies and a tuna who couldn’t carry a tune were among some of the fish that made appearances.

It was Clifford Week at preschool. The preschoolers enjoyed Clifford puzzles, red cinnamon play dough, making Clifford pictures and reading Clifford books. The preschoolers wore red and brought something red for show and tell.

Our Lenten focus is under way at Holy Trinity. This season the parish and school communities are working together with a commitment to become aware of and help lessen hunger. The students have had an opportunity to learn more about the Meals from the Heartland program. they were able to taste the package meal and experience in a small way what a child in a Third World country would have for possibly their only meal that day. The children, along with the parish, have been learning about how our local food pantry helps so many people in need. our families have been bringing in many canned items, boxed meals and cereals. in the next few weeks the children will be focusing on how they can help alleviate hunger in the world by donating their spare change in their rice bowls. they will learn how many throughout the world lack clean drinking water, and what we can do to help.

The third-graders in math are wrapping up their units on multiplication and will be moving into division. they have used many strategies to master the facts such as using hundreds boards, acting out a problem, song, making arrays, demonstrating with patterns and good old flash cards.

In social studies the third-graders have been focusing on a variety of map reading skills. they are currently learning about the three movements in U.S. history: the movement on the Oregon Trail, the entrance to the United States through immigration, the great migration, and the movement of many African-Americans heading to the Northern states after the Civil War.

The kindergartners and their teachers are ready for spring and getting rid of all the winter gear. The students say a special prayer for Lent each morning. they made beautiful butterflies that will emerge at Easter. they brain stormed ways to be more like Jesus. During Lent we want to change our ways so we are more like Jesus. Chrysalises are hanging from our ceilings during Lent . Glued to the chrysalises are strips of paper with ways the children want to change during this Lenten season. as the caterpillar inside the chrysalis changes, we hope to make good changes too, so at Easter our hearts are full of love, caring and giving.

The kindergartners continue to practice addition and soon will learn to subtract. they are becoming very good readers and look forward to their turn to work in small group on a new book.

Eighth-grade students just completed a sculpture unit. they created shoe sculptures out of brown grocery sacks. they first did a study of their own shoe in a pencil drawing and then began creating their sculpture. The students had many challenges. How do you make a paper bag transform into a shoe? What is craftsmanship? How do I get the paper to form the way I want it to? How can I show texture?

More than 2,500 Lutheran elementary schools, high schools and early childhood centers across the United States are celebrating National Lutheran Schools Week this week. Combined, more than 18,000 teachers and administrators along with 270,000 students are sharing the message of Jesus’ love daily. in addition to the United States, Lutheran schools in Papua, New Guinea, China and Hong Kong are sharing Christ’s love. in the USA, Lutheran schools have been in existence for more than 160 years. This year, Mount Olive celebrates its 50th anniversary, having opened its doors in Des Moines to young children in 1960. Many activities have been planned for the week. For information about educational opportunities in preschool through eighth grade, call 277-0247.

On Feb. 24, The Most Rev. Bishop Richard Pates visited Sacred Heart School. He celebrated Mass with all students and then visited each classroom. in Linda Adamiak’s first-grade class, the students presented him with a book titled, “We Love Jesus, Bishop Pates.” The book’s pages featured a page from each student on which he/she illustrated and wrote a sentence either about God, Jesus, Mary, the Holy Family or them praying at church, home or school. The Bishop enjoyed receiving his unique book. First-grader Catherine Beggs asked the Bishop if he would take a picture with the class and he did.

On March 24 at 9 a.m., a Mass will be held at St. Augustin School with Bishop Richard Pates presiding.

The seventh-grade boys, basketball team took fourth place in the Catholic Basketball League. stop in and see the trophy they won. The players were Brendan Cahill, Jake Dowd, James Mattern, Jack McCabe, Grant Meek, Michael Peterson, and Mike Simmons.The coaches were John Meek and James Cahill.

Grace Rice had the winning essay for Martin Luther King Day. she read her essay at the Forest Avenue Library and received a cash prize.

Along with everyday tasks of giving, fasting and praying, fifth-grade students in Christy Sullivan’s and Mary Hingtgen’s rooms have started a Lenten project. in conjunction with learning about the mysteries of the Rosary, they are learning how to make their own. Jeane Bishop volunteered to come in to teach both classes. their first Rosary will be for themselves. others will then be donated to shut-in parishioners of St. Theresa. they are also studying the importance of different components of the Mass by creating their own information pamphlets.

The elementary students are continuing the study of the Winter Olympics. we have learned new Spanish vocabulary words for some of the events as well as the medal names (oro, plata y bronce). we have played bingo and charades using our new vocabulary.

The middle school continues to work on greeting each other and introducing classmates. we will move into describing classmates, family members and discussing likes, dislikes and favorite pastimes. we enjoyed reading the Spanish magazine “Que Tal?” and answered comprehension questions about the different articles.

On March 6, 26 fifth- through eighth-grade musicians will be participating in the South Central Iowa Bandmasters Association Solo and Ensemble Contest at Norwalk Middle School.

Every School Every Thursday – Des Moines South

Debian is currently the fastest growing Linux distribution for web servers, with more than 1.2 million active sites in December. Debian 3.1 was declared stable in July and it appears that both the anticipation of this release becoming stable, and the release itself, have generated new interest in Debian, after some years where it had lagged behind its more active rivals. This growth is particularly noticeable at some of the larger central European hosting locations, including Komplex, Lycos Europe, Proxad and Deutsche Telecom.

Red Hat remains the most popular distribution for web hosting, and is still the best known distribution outside of the Linux developer community itself. But with the Red Hat brand now being available only in their commercial offerings, this has given rivals the opportunity to get into the arena. the most successful newcomer is CentOS, which repackages the same software as commercial rivals, while offering free community-based support. More significantly, some large hosting companies, like 1&1 and Affinity, are now offering Fedora – Red Hat’s free, community distribution – instead of Red Hat on new dedicated servers.

In fact the non-commercial distributions are growing faster than the commercial Linux distributions across the board at present. Fedora is growing almost as fast as Debian. Gentoo continues to grow strongly, passing 100,000 active sites in November, while SuSE and Mandriva are making relatively small gains.

Debian is Fastest-Growing Linux Distro

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There is an extensive maintenance for US servers today and tomorrow it will be the same for EU realms too. the newest patch 2.4.3 will go live so here is our topic with this patch changes we saw on PTR.

These are the 2.4.3 patch notes (similar to PTR notes tho):

World of Warcraft Client Patch 2.4.3
The latest patch notes can always be found at http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/patchnotes/

The latest test realm patch notes can always be found at http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/patchnotes/test-realm-patchnotes.html

General

• Dispel effects will no longer attempt to remove effects that have 100% dispel resistance.
• Parry Rating, Defense Rating and Block Rating: Low-level players will now convert these ratings into their corresponding defensive stats at the same rate as level 34 players.
• Haris Pilton has launched a new line of bags and jewelry. Check her out in the World’s End Tavern!
• Mounts at 30?! yes, it’s true: Apprentice Riding and mounts are now available at level 30. Training costs 35 gold.
• Blood Elf flightmasters outside of Silvermoon City and Tranquillien have traded in their bats for glorious fire-breathing dragonhawks.
• Alcohol cooldowns have been rolled into Drinks: all 10-second cooldowns have been removed and replaced with the 1-second Drink cooldown.
• Numerous flying non-combat pets have had their flight height modified to no longer skim along the ground: captured firefly, dragonhawk hatchlings, moths, owls, parrots, phoenix hatchling, spirit of summer, sprite darter and tiny sporebat.
• Nether Ray Fry (a non-combat pet) is now available from the Skyguard Quartermaster. This requires an Exalted reputation with Sha’tari Skyguard.
• Equipping an item will now cancel any spell cast currently in progress.
• Placing an item in your bank will now cancel any spell cast currently in progress if the spell was cast by that item.
• When a stun wears off, the creature that was stunned will prefer the last target with the highest threat, versus the current target.

Druid

• Barkskin: the cost of this spell is now reduced by Tree of Life Form.

Hunter

• Growl: Pets will no longer generate additional threat from this ability based on attack power buffs cast on them. Attack power buffs on their master will still indirectly increase the threat generated by the pet’s Growl.
• Pet Aggro: Pets will no longer generate threat immediately from being summoned.

Mage

• Frost Armor, Ice Armor, Mage Armor and Molten Armor are no longer Magic effects and cannot be dispelled.

Paladin

• Greater Blessing of Light Rank 1: This spell will no longer overwrite Greater Blessing of Light Rank 2.
• Summon Warhorse is now available at level 30.

Priest

• Mind Vision: This effect will now be cancelled immediately on targets who use an Invisibility Potion or Gnomish Cloaking Device.
• Spiritual Healing: Ranks 2-5 of this talent will no longer prevent refreshing Prayer of Mending.

Rogue

• Cheat Death: This talent has been rebalanced significantly. Killing blows are no longer 100% absorbed. if the Rogue is below 10% health, the killing blow is still completely absorbed; if the Rogue is over 10% health, enough damage will be absorbed to reduce the Rogue’s health down to 10%. For the following 3 seconds, damage is not always reduced by 90%; it is now reduced by a maximum of 90%, depending on how much resilience the Rogue has. the damage reduction will be four times the damage reduction resilience causes against critical strikes.
• Sinister Calling now increases damage to Backstab and Hemorrhage by 1/2/3/4/5% (down from 2/4/6/8/10%.)

Shaman

• Earth Elemental: This pet will now leash back to its totem when pulled beyond 50 yards away.
• Lightning Overload: This talent will no longer do excessive damage when used with Lightning Bolt Ranks 2-10.

Warlock

• Curse of Shadows: This spell has been removed.
• Curse of Elements: This spell now applies to Arcane and Shadow damage, as well as Frost and fire.
• Demon Skin, Demon Armor and Fel Armor are no longer Magic effects and cannot be dispelled.
• Health Funnel: This ability will now cancel channeling when the target pet is Banished.
• Ritual of Summoning: the mana cost of this spell will now be properly deducted when cast.
• Summon Felsteed is now available at level 30.

Warrior

• Revenge: Ranks 1-5 of this ability now have damage ranges instead of fixed damage values (like ranks 6-8.)

PvP

• The time available to accept the option to “Enter Battle” for a battleground has been reduced to 1 minute and 20 seconds (previously 2 minutes) in order ot give each side more time to get a full complement of players before the battle begins.
• The Warsong Gulch flag can no longer be picked up at the same time as a flag is capped.
• Rocket Boots Xtreme and Rocket Boots Xtreme Lite can no longer be used in the arena. these no longer have a failure chance.
• Zoning into an instance on a PvE realm will now drop your PvP flag.

Professions
Alchemy

• Philosopher’s Stone now requires 200 Alchemy.

Cooking

• Juicy Bear Burgers now correctly increase healing as well as spell damage.

Jewelcrafting

• Activated beneficial effects from jewelcrafting trinkets can no longer be dispelled.

Mining

• Green quality gems can be found in mining nodes again. the drop rate of blue gems from mining nodes remains unchanged.

Tailoring

• Removed the cooldown from regular Mooncloth.
• Herb bags can now hold Un’goro Soil and Evergreen Pouches.
• Mycah of Sporeggar has discovered how to create 28 slot herb bags.
• New Tailoring patterns are available from Haughty Modiste in Steamwheedle Port, Tanaris: Haliscan Jacket and Haliscan Pantaloons.

Quests

• Bhag’thera now spawns at a normal quest spawn rate.
• For the quests, Intercepting the Mana Cells and Maintaining the Sunwell Portal, phased characters will not be able to see non-phased character AoE effects and vice-versa.
• For the quests, Intercepting the Mana Cells and Maintaining the Sunwell Portal, pets gaining/losing phase status will now properly break off combat from unphased/phased opponents.

Dungeons and Raids

• Players can now be summoned to raid instances from heroic dungeons.

Magister’s Terrace

• The Stun component to the Sunblade Mage Guard Glaive Throw has been removed and the Bounce range reduced.
• Vexallus and Kael’thas are now tauntable in Heroic mode.
• Vexallus’ damage caused by Pure Energy has been decreased.
• Kael’thas’ Arcane Sphere has had its visual size increased. His Arcane Sphere attack has had its range decreased and the damage/second of Phase two on Normal mode has been decreased. (Heroic mode remains unchanged.)
• Sunblade Warlocks have had their damage reduced slightly.
• Fel Crystals in the Selin Fireheart encounter have had their health reduced slightly.
• Warlord Salaris and Kagani Nightstrike have had their damage output reduced slightly.

Sunwell Plateau

• Creatures in the area around Grand Warlock Alythess and Lady Sacrolash will no longer spawn while the twin eredars are in combat.
• M’uru, Entropius, Shadowsword Berserkers and Shadowsword Fury Mages have all had their health decreased.
• Kil’jaeden Encounter
• Nether Protection will now correctly trigger from Kil’jaeden’s Shield Orb Shadow Bolts.
• Vanish now correctly wipes threat on Kil’jaeden.
• Sinister Reflections are now interruptible.
• Sinister Reflections on Hunters now use normal Wing Clip instead of Improved Wing Clip.
• Kil’jaeden will now wait slightly longer before casting Flame Darts after casting Darkness of a Thousand Souls.

Items

• Bow of the Verdant Keeper’s Aim: This item’s triggered effect no longer breaks the effect of Scatter Shot.
• Brutal Gladiator’s Pummeler has had its Stamina value increased to the appropriate value.
• Clockwork Robot Bots fight amongst themselves again…without attacking people in the arena. Well… they’ll blow up other Bots in the arena, but you know what we mean.
• The Eredar Twins will now always award the same items (including bonus items) regardless of which order they are killed in.
• Invisibility Potions: these potions now are on the same cooldown as other combat consumable potions (such as mana potions.)
• Pendant of the Violet Eye: This item will again work correctly with Holy Light and Flash of Light.
• Shattered Sun Pendant of Acumen: the triggered effect from this Item can now occur on periodic damage ticks.
• Thori’dal, the Star’s Fury is now Unique as intended.
• Vengeful Gladiator’s Baton of Light: This item now appears in the correct position on the vendor list.

User Interface

• The help interface has been simplified dramatically. Players will no longer be required to select a category when opening a GM ticket. In addition, players can use the “Talk to a GM” button to fill out a ticket that requires a GM response or the “Report Issue” button to fill out a ticket that does not require a GM response.
• Target buff/debuff timers that appear when you cast a spell are now more visible.
• Time Management features have been implemented! these features include an alarm clock, stopwatch and viewing your computer’s local time.
• The new stopwatch feature can be accessed via the /stopwatch, /sw, or /timer slash commands. Inputting a time into the slash command will make the stopwatch count down. For example, /stopwatch 1:0:0 will make the stopwatch count down from an hour, /stopwatch 1:30 will make it count down from 1 minute, 30 seconds and /stopwatch 30 will make it count down from 30 seconds.
• Added the following macro commands: /targetenemyplayer, /targetfriendplayer.
• Added key bindings for tab targeting players.
• Ctrl-Tab and other target nearest friend functions will no longer target you.
• Targeting using /target will prefer live targets over dead ones.
• You can no longer click the minimap to cast ground targeted spells.
• Invisible players with Hunter’s Mark can see the hunter that put the mark on them.
• Vendor items now show their Duration in Inventory.
• For additional notes on Lua and XML changes please visit the UI & Macros Forum.

World Environment

• Winterspring Ice Thistle Matriarchs and Patriarchs may now drop Thick Yeti Fur.
• Skinning any Winterspring Ice Thistle yetis may now result in Thick Yeti Fur.
• Increased the drop rate of Pristine Yeti Horns from Winterspring Ice Thistle Matriarchs and Patriarchs.
• Goblin Weather Machine- Prototype 01-B weather changes will no longer force the affected character to stand.
• Collector’s Edition Pet Redemption NPCs/items/quests have been relocated/modified to/for towns with mailboxes (Goldshire, Razor Hill, etc.).
• Young Sporebats and Greater Sporebats in Zangarmarsh now drop Sporebat Eyes for the quest Gathering the Reagents.
• Blacksmithing Supplies vendor and repairer, Blazzle, in Area 52 is now next to the forge and anvil outside the inn.
• Banker Meeda, in Area 52 is now in the…well…the bank, along with a guild vault and guards. the other three Area 52 bankers are still located in the auction-house-turned-bank.
• Wastewander Bandits and Rogues should be more plentiful in the northern parts of Tanaris.

Bug Fixes

• The mage spell, Counterspell now shows in the combat log.
• Gan’arg Analyzers will no longer occasionally become friendly to players.
• Talented abilities that cost a percentage of base mana will no longer display an incorrect mana cost when inspected by a player of a different class or level.
• Guild leaders should now be able to properly promote a new guild leader regardless of their range.
• Druids: Mangle will no longer incorrectly indicate a 100-yard range on the tooltip.
• Hunters: Using an instant ability after Steady Shot will no longer lock out auto shot.
• Hunter Snake Trap will no longer break players out of stealth if the snakes pass near the stealthed character.
• Hunters: Concussive shot will now properly have a chance to proc Bow of Searing Arrows.
• Hunters: Scare Beast will now be correctly limited to one target and has had its tooltip updated to display the proper cast time of 1.5 seconds.
• Paladins: Righteous Defense will now properly check for range when a mob is selected.
• Rogues: the talent Heightened Senses, Rank 1 and Rank 2 will now affect attacks from wands.
• Warlocks: the heal aspect of felhunter Devour Magic will now display in the Combat Log.
• Warlocks: the Succubus will now behave properly while under the effects of Lesser Invisibility.
• Warlocks: Demonic Sacrifice: This ability will now interact correctly with the Spirit Guide resurrection system in battlegrounds. a sacrificed pet will not be resummoned on death. Warlocks will still be able to resurrect with the pet they last summoned (non-sacrificed pets), even if it has since died.
• Using Jewelcrafting figurines will no longer cause scrolling combat text to appear twice.
• Fixed an issue in which shadows were not appearing properly for users with GF4 video chipsets in Open GL mode.
• Corrected an issue in which users with Creative X-FI sound cards would sometimes here a slight popping noise when running.
• Players will now correctly receive a Battleground Mark message for the marks that are received at the end of a battle.
• Corrected an issue where the initial trigger or activation sounds for Immolation Trap and Explosive Trap could not be heard by some players.
• Smelt Hardened Khorium will now properly require a forge instead of an anvil and hammer.
• Hardened Khorium Bars can now be placed properly into Mining bags.
• Corrected a typo in the tooltip for the Druid spell Rip (Rank 4).
• The flight from Zul’Aman, Ghostlands to Sun’s Reach Harbor, Isle of Quel’Danas and the flight cost from Emerald Sanctuary, Felwood to Astranaar, Ashenvale will now cost the correct amount of money.
• Looting a Nightmare Vine will now properly no longer apply poison when the node is looted.
• The Figurine- Seaspray Albatross ability will now properly restore the correct amount of mana.
• First Aid bandages can no longer be applied to a player with the recently Bandaged debuff. An error message of, “Could not activate more than one bandage” will be displayed.
• Corrected the tooltips to read properly for the flight paths from the Stormspire, Toshley’s Station, Blade’s Edge and Area 52.
• Greater Elementals summoned by a shaman will now properly have a combat log entry.
• Players will no longer become stuck on the Nimboya’s Laden Pike when driving it into the ground.
• The quest, “Going Going, Guano!” will now have a more consistent level requirement for the dungeon.
• The quest, “Into the Scarlet Monastery” is now available to players of the appropriate level for the instance.
• Blueleaf Tubers can now be properly looted.
• The quest turn-ins for the Ahn’Qiraj war effort now give the appropriate amount of credit for each successful quest turn-in.
• Cloak of Shadows will now properly remove the curse Shrink.
• Nightbane will no longer become unresponsive and unkillable during his air phase.
• Several items sold by the Consortium reputation vendor Paulsta’ats are now bind on pick-up: Formula: Enchant Weapon- Major Striking, Design: Delicate Blood Garnet, Design: Shifting Shadow Draenite, Design: Lustrous Azure Moonstone, Design: Thick Golden Draenite.
• It is no longer possible to delete a character that is an arena team captain without first promoting another player to captain.
• Taunts will now properly stick when a target is stunned while being taunted.
• Taking the Druid flight path from Moonglade will no longer dispel buffs.
• Players who die on the Isle of Quel’Danas and release their spirit will no longer be sent to the graveyard in Eversong Woods.
• Disabling some subtypes under the Combat Log Message Types in the Combat Log Config menu will no longer cause main Message Types to be disabled.
• Changes on the Desktop gamma options will now be properly discarded when canceled.
• A message will now appear in the combat log if a debuff is removed by normal melee attacks.
• Moving a quiver from one container slot to an empty container slot will no longer reset the ranged attack speed.
• Fixed an issue where players could have two minimap tracking types active at the same time.
• Corpses with money on them will now be able to be looted even when all party members opt to pass on loot.
• Fixed an issue where ravager pets had all available pet skills.
• Players will no longer receive an error message while receiving money and attempting to send mail to another player.
• It is no longer possible to be in a guild without a Guildmaster.
• Pets will now properly attack mobs when out of phase with the real world.
• Players who have the Apprentice and Journeyman Riding skills trained already will no longer show these as available to train despite having the higher riding skill.
• It is no longer possible to dispel Shattered Sun Pendant buffs.
• Passive pets will no longer attack due to AoE taunt spells.

2.4.3 Patch Goes Live

Coming from a background of developing in languages such as Java, one of thethings that surprised me the most about the Ruby and Rails community, was thecommon practice of not using an Integrated Development Environment. Most of themembers of the community, including the most relevant, were comfortable with just aprogrammer’s editor.

At first I thought it was because, Ruby being a dynamic language, using a full IDE mightbe an overkill. But then I thought of the PHP community, in which several IDEs arepopular, with PHP also being a dynamic language. So I still had to guess why using anIDE was not a common practice within the Ruby on Rails world.

Nowadays, there is a growing list of IDEs with support for Ruby on Rails, but twoyears ago the options were really scarce. back then, I chose to use RadRails because itworked on top of the Eclipse IDEwhich was the tool I was already using forother programming languagesand because it was the only free, open source, andportable option.

Truth is, the first version of RadRails I used was very promising, but still a bit too basic.It featured just a few specialized tools, Ruby syntax colorization, and a slow and faultycode-assistance. as a result, the difference between RadRails and a good programmer’seditor was not really significant. however, as Ruby on Rails gained popularity, RadRailswas vastly improved, and a lot of new features were added.

At the same time, several other IDEs started to provide support for Ruby too. Today,even if many Ruby on Rails developers still don’t use an IDE, a growing number ofthem already.

During these two years, I’ve been developing projects almost exclusively with Ruby onRails; and I developed all of them using RadRails. Of course I have been keeping an eyeon every new IDE with Ruby support, just to see if there were any reasons for changing,but I still didn’t find any.

To me, writing this book is a way of contributing back to the RadRails project. I hope thisbook will help the existing community of users of Aptana RadRails, and will also helpnew users to start working with this tool. Besides, thanks to the Packt Open SourceProject Royalty Scheme, a part of the benefits will be directly paid as a royalty to theRadRails project, so by purchasing this book you are funding a bit of the CommunityEdition of Aptana RadRails.

This book will show you how to get the most of the Community Edition of AptanaRadRails for developing Ruby on Rails projects. apart from the features provided byRadRails, the book will give you an overview of working with the Eclipse IDE,and will show you how to use the Eclipse functionalities that are relevant for Ruby andRails development.

This book is not about the Ruby programming language or the Ruby on Rails framework.even if you don’t need to be an expert, you should already be familiar with the languageand the framework to get the most from this book.

Chapters 1 and 2 will show you how to install and configure Aptana RadRails, and willhelp you find your way around the Eclipse IDE. if you have previous experience withEclipse , and you have already installed Aptana RadRails, then you can proceed directlyto Chapter 3.

Chapters 3 to 8 are a complete reference to each of the components of RadRails,including all the configuration options.

Finally, in Chapter 9 you will find documentation about some complementary pluginsyou can use for connecting to a database and for managing your source repositories.

You can find below a brief introduction to each of the chapters.

Chapter 1: this chapter will introduce you the concept of IDE and will give you ageneral overview of what you can expect from Aptana RadRails. You will also findinstructions about how to install Aptana RadRails and the Eclipse IDE in your system.even if you should already be familiar with the installation of Ruby and Rails, the chapteralso provides a quick reference for installing Ruby and Ruby on Rails on Windows,Linux, and OSX.

Chapter 2: in most cases, Aptana RadRails will work directly out of the box. however, insome cases you will need to make a minimal configuration of the IDE. the first part ofthis chapter will show you the basic configuration of RadRails.

Chapter 3: Two of the basic tools RadRails provides are the Ruby Explorer and theConsole View. with the Ruby explorer you will be able to browse the structure of yourprojects and perform any kind of file-related operations, including working with the localhistory of your files. the console view will display the output of most of the processeswe will launch from RadRails. apart from learning how to use these views, we will showhow to use Generators and Rake Tasks from Aptana RadRails to create a simple demoapplication. You will also learn how to start and stop your servers and how to use thebuilt-in browser to watch your application in action.

Chapter 4 explains in detail all the built-in capabilities of RadRails for developing Rubycode. You will learn to use the Ruby Editor to write your source code, to navigatebetween the different classes and files, and to get the most out of code completion and thecode templates.

Chapter 5: One of the strong points of Aptana RadRails is the great support for the clientsideof your application: JavaScript, HTML, and CSS. in this chapter you will learn howto write Rails views mixing together Ruby code with HTML or JavaScript and gettingassistance for all of the languages.

Chapter 6: When an application grows large, it’s always a good idea to have a way ofdebugging the potential errors. this chapter will show you how to use RadRails’ built-indebugger for interacting with your code at run time. You will learn to start a server or astand-alone script in debug mode, how to set breakpoints , and how to intercept any Rubyexceptions. the debugger will also allow you to walk through your code, to examine thevalues of any variables and expressions, and even to execute arbitrary code at run time byusing the Display view.

Chapter 7: apart from the coding and debugging, Aptana RadRails provides a number ofspecialized tools to make the development and management of your application easier. Inthe context of Eclipse, each of these tools is called a View. in this chapter, you will learnhow to use the different views to browse the Ruby and Rails documentation, manage andmonitor your servers, install gems and plugins, launch generators and rake tasks, use codeannotations, keep track of warnings and to-do lists, evaluate regular expressions, and runyour tests. if you prefer to use the command line, then you will learn how to takeadvantage of the built-in Rails Shell, in which you can get auto-completion for the mostused Ruby and Rails commands directly at the command line. this chapter will alsoshow you how to use your IDE to control external servers such as Apache or MySQL.

Chapter 8: Out of the box, Aptana RadRails provides a fully working environment.however, many of its components allow for some configuration. this chapter is acomplete reference to all the preferences you can set to change the user experience whenusing RadRails.

Chapter 9: Aptana RadRails bundles together plenty of interesting features for thedeveloper. however, since the focus is on Ruby on Rails, there are some general aspectsof the development of a project that are not covered by RadRails. Fortunately, since theunderlying platform is the Eclipse IDE, we have a virtually unlimited number ofcomplementary plugins to choose from. this chapter will give you a general overview ofthe Eclipse plugins ecosystem, and will also explain in detail how to use two of theplugins you might want to use when developing. DBViewer is a plugin you can use toconnect to your database from the IDE. this chapter will show you how to set up theplugin, and how to use it for examining and modifying your database structure andcontents. Subclipse is a plugin to connect to Subversion repositories. By using Subclipseyou will have repository access directly from your IDE. Besides, the built-in features ofSubclipse will help you examine and merge changes in a much more comfortable waythan using the Subversion command line.

When developing a Rails project, there are more things to do than the source codeitself. We have to start, stop, and monitor our servers, generate code templates, runour test suites, install plugins and gems, generate documentation, keep controlof to-do items, or run Rake tasks for different purposesdatabase migrations,for example.

RadRails provides different views for supporting these tasks that are a part ofthe development but not of the coding itself. and, of course, it does it so we cancontrol everything from within the IDE without having to go back to thecommand-line interface.

We already had a glimpse of some of these features when using the Generators,Rake, or Servers views briefl y when we needed them in previous chapters. now youwill learn how to take full advantage of all the RadRails views, to help you take careof routine processes and just focus on getting things done.

Some of the views that we will go through in this chapter are available as part ofthe Rails default perspective, which means you don’t need to do anything specialto open them; they will appear as tabbed views in a pane at the bottom of yourworkbench. just look for the tab name of the view you want to see and click on it tomake it visible.

However, there are some views that are not opened by default, or maybe you closedthem at some point accidentally, or maybe you changed to the Debug perspectiveand you want to display some of the RadRails views there. When you need to opena view whose tab is not displaying, you can go to the Window menu, and select theShow View option.

If you are in the Rails perspective, all the available views will be displayed in thatmenu, as you can see in the screenshot above. When opening this menu from adifferent perspective, you will not see the RadRails views here, but you can selectOther… as we did in previous chapters. if this is the case, in the Show View dialog,most of the views will appear under the Ruby category, except for the Generators,Rails API, and Rake Tasks views, which are located under Rails.

As happens with any modern programming language, Ruby has an extensiveAPI. there are lots of libraries and classes and even with Ruby being an intuitivelanguage with a neat consistent API, often we need to read the documentation.

As you probably know, Ruby provides a standard documentation format calledRDoc, which uses the comments in the source code to generate documentation. Wecan access this RDoc documentation in different ways, mainly in HTML formatthrough a browser or by using the command-line tool RI. this produces a plain-textoutput directly at the command shell, in a similar way to the man command in aUNIX system.

RadRails doesn’t add any new functionalities to the built-in documentation, butprovides some convenient views so we can explore it without losing the context ofour project’s source.

This view provides a fast and comfortable way of browsing the local documentationin the same way as you would use RI from the command line.

You can look either for a class or a method name. just start typing at the input boxat the top left corner of the view and the list below will display the matching entries.That’s a nice improvement over the command line interface, since you can see theresults as you type instead of having to run a complete search every time.

If you know the name of both the class and the method you are looking for, thenyou can write them using the hash (pound) sign as a separator. for example, to getthe documentation for the sum method of the class Enumerable you would writeEnumerable#sum.

The documentation will display in the right pane, with a convenient highlighting ofthe referenced methods and classes. even if the search results of RI don’t look veryattractive compared to the output of the HTML-based documentation views, RI hasthe advantage of searching locally on your computer, so you can use it even whenworking off-line.

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To listen to folks at the South by Southwest Interactive Festival, the proprietary Content Management System is on its deathbed.

And it may well be not too much of a stretch to believe that’s the case.

the idea of open source isn’t as foreign and scary to businesses as it once was, and in such difficult economic times as we find ourselves, it’s to be expected that it would become more attractive. why not customize a CMS built on Drupal or Python or Ruby or Joomla rather than start from scratch? what need is there to reinvent the wheel each time?

A few panels at SXSWi gave rather convincing evidence this has become the norm, not the exception.

It wasn’t any surprise that speakers at the Friday panel, “Selling Your Milk When the Cow is Free,” were in the open source corner. After all, the moderator was Jeff Eaton, software architect for Lullabot Consulting and a core developer for the Drupal project. Panelists were Brad Fitzpatrick, creator of LiveJournal; Evan Prodromou, founder/CEO of StatusNet inc, the Open Source microblogging company; Eric Gundersen, president/co-founder of Development Seed; and Tiffany Farriss, president of Palantir.net inc. and member of the Drupal Association Board of Directors.

They, and much of their audience, were the choir. No preaching necessary. but, still, they offered interesting insight into how they got into open source development. For Fitzpatrick, it was quite by accident. He built LiveJournal as a tool for himself and his friends. As someone hacked a new tool or improvement, he passed the code around. Eventually, he got tired of doing that and open-sourced it so that anyone could add code.

For Farriss, it took some convincing. As her company does a lot of development for clients, she fell into the cliche of thinking that open source would mean her clients wouldn’t need her.

the point all panelists came to was that they’re being paid for their expertise and ability to do the job, not because their technical tools are hidden behind proprietary licensing. that point was made at length during a SXSWi conversation about businesses moving toward the open source model when it came to their processes and pricing.

Drupal creator Dries Buytaert pointed out a slew of utterly mainstream sites that are built on that open source platform: Emmys.com & Grammys.com, for example. Heck, even Sun Microsystems used Drupal to build its online community, Java.net.

Though some in the audience complained loudly on Twitter (though not in the Q&A portion of the talk) that Buytaert’s talk, headlined, “RIP, Content Management Systems,” ran more like an infomercial for Drupal than an actual talk about the death of CMS, he made some convincing points that the CMS is no longer really that – and they’re rarely proprietary anymore. Audience member Lance Roggendorff, a technology consultant from Nashville, Tenn., put it quite succinctly in this tweet:

“Long and short: Content has been dethroned, community is the new royalty. Drupal is a social publishing system, not a CMS.”

And the point of content being “dethroned” – i.e., whole communities being built up around user-generated content, such as I can has Cheezburger or Digg/Reddit – Buytaert pointed out made it difficult for the old CMS model to work, anyhow. Those focused on a relatively small number of content creators. with a virtually unlimited number of content creators, the system needs to be simpler and more flexible – calling cards of Open Source.

while the SXSWi audience may be a bit more tech-savvy than the world at large, and therefore perhaps a bit more predisposed to the open source model, there are plenty of mainstream examples besides those listed above: WhiteHouse.gov on Drupal, IHOP and Harvard on Joomla, Twitter and YellowPages.com on Ruby on Rails.

there will always be some who are nervous about anything labeled “open,” for fear that others will be able to get into their content, somehow, but that doesn’t seem to be any more the case with open source platforms than it is with proprietary (though to listen to each side argue, you could easily be convinced it is – and which is easier to hack depends which side the person’s arguing against).

After listening to all these talks, though, one might be forgiven for thinking the proprietary CMS is on its last legs – or thinking that it should be.

Is this the year the proprietary CMS dies?