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Bone Biopsy
Test Overview
A bone biopsy is a procedure in which a small sample of bone is taken from the body and looked at under a microscope for cancer, infection, or other bone disorders. The sample of bone can be removed by:
- Inserting a needle through the skin and directly into the bone (closed or needle biopsy). A numbing medicine (local anesthetic) is used to prevent pain during this procedure. Intravenous (IV) pain medicine and a sedative medicine also may be given.
- Making a cut (incision) through the skin to expose an area of the bone (open biopsy). General anesthesia or medicine to block feeling in the area where the cut is made (spinal anesthesia or a nerve block) is given for this procedure.
A bone biopsy can be taken from any bone in the body. It is easiest to get the biopsy samples from bones that are close to the skin surface and away from any internal organs or large blood vessels.
A bone biopsy is often done on bone areas that show problems on an X-ray. Computed tomography (CT scan) or a bone scan may be used to guide the biopsy needle.
Why It Is Done
A bone biopsy is done to:
- Confirm the diagnosis of a bone disorder (such as Paget's disease, a disease that may look like bone cancer, or bone cancer) that was found by another test, such as an X-ray, CT scan, bone scan, or a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan.
- Tell the difference between a noncancerous (benign) bone mass, such as a bone cyst, and bone cancer, such as multiple myeloma.
- See what is causing a bone infection (osteomyelitis) or if an infection is present.
- Find the cause of ongoing bone pain.
- Check bone problems seen on an X-ray.
An open bone biopsy allows your doctor to do surgical treatment at the same time, if needed.
How To Prepare
Before having a bone biopsy, tell your doctor if you:
- Are taking any medicines. If you take medicines every day, ask your doctor whether you should stop taking these medicines before the test.
- Are allergic to any medicines, such as those used to numb the skin (anesthetics).
- Take a blood thinner, or if you have had bleeding problems.
- Are or might be pregnant.
- Take any herbal remedies. Some of these remedies may thin the blood.
Getting ready for a bone biopsy changes depending on the type of biopsy that will be done.
- For a closed biopsy (needle biopsy), you do not need to do anything before the procedure. Right before the procedure, you will be asked to remove most or all of your clothes. You will be given a gown to use. You will be awake during the procedure. Arrange to have someone drive you home because you may get a medicine (sedative) to help you relax.
- For an open biopsy, your doctor will tell you how soon before surgery to stop eating and drinking. Follow the instructions exactly about when to stop eating and drinking, or your surgery may be canceled. If your doctor has instructed you to take your medicines on the day of surgery, please do so using only a sip of water. You can eat your regular diet after the procedure. You may need to stay overnight in the hospital after an open biopsy is done.
You will be asked to sign a consent form that says you understand the risks of the test and agree to have it done.
Talk to your doctor about any concerns you have regarding the need for the biopsy, its risks, how it will be done, or what the results will mean. To help you understand the importance of this procedure, fill out the medical test information form( What is a PDF document? ).
How It Is Done
Closed or needle biopsy
A closed or needle biopsy is done in a hospital or clinic by a doctor who specializes in X-ray tests (radiologist) or by a surgeon who specializes in conditions of the bone (orthopedic surgeon).
During the biopsy, you lie on an examining table or firm bed. It is important to lie very still during the entire procedure. Tell your doctor if you need to move or get more comfortable. You may feel pressure or discomfort during the biopsy. A needle biopsy takes 15 to 30 minutes.
- Before a needle biopsy, an intravenous (IV) line may be put into a vein in your arm. You may be given a sedative to help you relax. You will be awake during the biopsy.
- Your doctor uses a special soap to clean the skin over the bone where the biopsy sample will be taken. The skin area may need to be shaved. Then your doctor gives you a numbing medicine (local anesthetic) in your skin.
- The radiologist or surgeon puts a long, thin needle through the skin into the bone. Your doctor may make a small cut in your skin before putting the needle in so the needle passes easily. Then your doctor takes out a small amount of bone through the needle.
- After a closed or needle biopsy, a small bandage is placed over the area and pressure is put on the area to stop any bleeding. After bleeding has stopped, medicine to prevent infection (topical antiseptic medicine) may be put on the skin. A clean bandage is put on the area.
- You will stay for a short time after the biopsy until your doctor says it is okay for you to go.
Open biopsy
An open biopsy is done in an operating room by a surgeon. During the biopsy, you lay on an operating bed. An open biopsy takes 30 to 60 minutes.
- Before an open biopsy, you will be given general anesthesia or medicine to block feeling in the area where the skin cut is made. You will have an intravenous (IV) line in a vein in your arm for medicines and fluids. Before making a skin cut, your surgeon uses a special soap to clean the skin over the bone where the biopsy sample will be taken. The area may need to be shaved.
- The surgeon makes a cut to see the bone and take out a small piece.
- After an open biopsy, the cut is cleaned and closed with stitches (sutures). A bandage is put on the area. The stitches are taken out about 14 days after the biopsy.
- You may need to stay overnight in the hospital after an open biopsy is done.
In rare cases a special test of your bone tissue (frozen section) is done while you are having an open biopsy. The bone taken for a frozen section is quickly frozen, thinly sliced, and looked at under a microscope. If cancer cells are seen, your surgeon may take out some more of the bone during the procedure.
How It Feels
Closed or needle biopsy
You may feel a brief pinch or sting from the numbing medicine. You may feel pressure or a brief, sharp pain as the needle enters the bone. You may also feel an aching pain or pressure when the bone tissue sample is taken out. After the procedure, the biopsy site may be sore and tender for up to a week. Your doctor will talk to you about pain medicine.
Open biopsy
You will be asleep or the area will be numb so you will not feel any pain. After the biopsy, you may feel sleepy for about 2 hours. The biopsy site may be sore and tender for up to a week. Your doctor will talk to you about pain medicine.
After a bone biopsy
- If a closed biopsy is done, you may go home shortly after the procedure. If you got a sedative, you may need to stay longer and have someone drive you home.
- If an open biopsy is done, you may need to stay in the hospital overnight. Arrange to have someone drive you to and from the hospital or clinic.
- A bandage will be placed over the biopsy site. You may be told to keep the biopsy site covered and dry for 48 hours. A small amount of bleeding from the biopsy site is normal. Ask your doctor how much drainage to expect.
Problems from a bone biopsy are rare. There is a very small chance that the biopsy needle may break (fracture) the bone or injure a nerve, blood vessel, or organ near the biopsy site. Surgery may be needed to treat the problem.
There is a very small chance for a skin infection or for the bone to become infected (osteomyelitis) or to not heal well. In rare cases, the bone may become weak and break (fracture) at a later time.
After the biopsy
Call your doctor immediately if:
- The biopsy site continues to bleed.
- You have signs of infection. These signs may include:
- Increased pain, swelling, redness, or warmth around the affected area.
- Red streaks spreading from the affected area.
- Drainage of pus from the area.
- Swollen lymph nodes in the neck, armpit, or groin.
- Fever or chills.
A bone biopsy is a procedure in which a small sample of bone is taken from the body and looked at under a microscope for cancer, infection, or other bone disorders. It may take several days to get the results because the bone sample needs to be specially prepared for study.
The biopsy sample shows normal bone tissue.
Bone tissue may show signs of infection, cancer, or another bone disorder (including Paget's disease, osteomyelitis, a bone cyst, or a noncancerous [benign] bone growth called an osteoma). The bone tissue may also show osteoporosis or osteomalacia, which means the bones are weak.
Most cancer of the bone spreads (metastasizes) to the bone from another part of the body, such as the breast, lungs, prostate, or other organs. But bone cancer can also start in the bone itself (such as osteosarcoma or Ewing's sarcoma).
What Affects the Test
Reasons you may not be able to have the biopsy or why the results may not be helpful include:
- Not being able to lie still during the biopsy.
- Having a condition that affects your immune system. This may increase your chance for an infection at the biopsy site.
- Not getting a good sample of bone tissue. A good sample may be hard to get to with a needle.
What To Think About
During a bone biopsy, the doctor may also take a sample of bone marrow (bone marrow biopsy). A bone marrow biopsy is done to check for infection in the bone marrow or to see why the bone marrow may not be healthy or to check for certain kinds of cancer, such as leukemia, lymphoma, or multiple myeloma. To learn more, see the topic Bone Marrow Aspiration and Biopsy.
Other Works Consulted
- Chernecky CC, Berger BJ (2008). Laboratory Tests and Diagnostic Procedures, 5th ed. St. Louis: Saunders.
Current as of: March 28, 2019
Author: Healthwise Staff
Medical Review:Adam Husney, MD – Family Medicine & E. Gregory Thompson, MD – Internal Medicine & Martin J. Gabica, MD – Family Medicine & David Bardana, MD, FRCSC – Orthopedic Surgery, Sports Medicine
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Source: Capital IQ, a division of Standard & Poor's. Data is current as of last fully reported fiscal quarter. Dollar values in millions. FCF = free cash flow. FY = fiscal year. TTM = trailing 12 months.
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Source: Capital IQ, a division of Standard & Poor's. Data is current as of last fully reported fiscal quarter. Dollar values in millions. FCF = free cash flow. TTM = trailing 12 months.
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Source: Capital IQ, a division of Standard & Poor's. Data is current as of last fully reported fiscal quarter. Dollar values in millions. TTM = trailing 12 months.
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With 27.5% of operating cash flow coming from questionable sources, Windstream investors should take a closer look at the underlying numbers. Within the questionable cash flow figure plotted in the TTM period above, other operating activities (which can include deferred income taxes, pension charges, and other one-off items) provided the biggest boost, at 21.8% of cash flow from operations. Overall, the biggest drag on FCF came from capital expenditures, which consumed 48.1% of cash from operations. Windstream investors may also want to keep an eye on accounts receivable, because the TTM change is 2.3 times greater the average swing over the past five fiscal years.
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Pod::Usage, pod2usage() - print a usage message from embedded pod documentation
use Pod::Usage
my $message_text = "This text precedes the usage message.";
my $exit_status = 2; ## The exit status to use
my $verbose_level = 0; ## The verbose level to use
my $filehandle = \*STDERR; ## The filehandle to write to
pod2usage( { -message => $message_text ,
-exitval => $exit_status ,
-verbose => $verbose_level,
-output => $filehandle } );
pod2usage( -msg => $message_text ,
-exitval => $exit_status ,
-verbose => $verbose_level,
-output => $filehandle );
pod2usage( -verbose => 2,
-noperldoc => 1 )
pod2usage should be given either a single argument, or a list of arguments corresponding to an associative array (a "hash"). When a single argument is given, it should correspond to exactly one of the following:
A string containing the text of a message to print before printing the usage message
A numeric value corresponding to the desired exit status
A reference to a hash
If more than one argument is given then the entire argument list is assumed to be a hash. If a hash is supplied (either as a reference or as a list) it should contain one or more elements with the following keys:
The text of a message to print immediately prior to printing the program's usage message.
The desired exit status to pass to the exit() function. This should be an integer, or else the string "NOEXIT" to indicate that control should simply be returned without terminating the invoking process.
The desired level of "verboseness" to use when printing the usage message. If the corresponding value is 0, then only the "SYNOPSIS" section of the pod documentation is printed. If the corresponding value is 1, then the "SYNOPSIS" section, along with any section entitled "OPTIONS", "ARGUMENTS", or "OPTIONS AND ARGUMENTS" is printed. If the corresponding value is 2 or more then the entire manpage is printed.
The special verbosity level 99 requires to also specify the -sections parameter; then these sections are extracted and printed.
A string representing a selection list for sections to be printed when -verbose is set to 99, e.g.
Alternatively, an array reference of section specifications can be used:
pod2usage(-verbose => 99,
-sections => [ qw(fred fred/subsection) ] );
A reference to a filehandle, or the pathname of a file to which the usage message should be written. The default is
\*STDERR unless the exit value is less than 2 (in which case the default is
A reference to a filehandle, or the pathname of a file from which the invoking script's pod documentation should be read. It defaults to the file indicated by
$0 (
$PROGRAM_NAME for users of English.pm).
If you are calling pod2usage() from a module and want to display that module's POD, you can use this:
use Pod::Find qw(pod_where);
pod2usage( -input => pod_where({-inc => 1}, __PACKAGE__) );
A list of directory paths. If the input file does not exist, then it will be searched for in the given directory list (in the order the directories appear in the list). It defaults to the list of directories implied by
$ENV{PATH}. The list may be specified either by a reference to an array, or by a string of directory paths which use the same path separator as
$ENV{PATH} on your system (e.g.,
: for Unix,
; for MSWin32 and DOS).
By default, Pod::Usage will call perldoc when -verbose >= 2 is specified. This does not work well e.g. if the script was packed with PAR. The -noperldoc option suppresses the external call to perldoc and uses the simple text formatter (Pod::Text) to output the POD.
The default text formatter is Pod::Text. The base class for Pod::Usage can be defined by pre-setting
$Pod::Usage::Formatter before loading Pod::Usage, e.g.:
BEGIN { $Pod::Usage::Formatter = 'Pod::Text::Termcap'; }
use Pod::Usage qw(pod2usage);
The following options are passed through to the underlying text formatter. See the manual pages of these modules for more information.
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pod2usage will print a usage message for the invoking script (using its embedded pod documentation) and then exit the script with the desired exit status. The usage message printed may have any one of three levels of "verboseness": If the verbose level is 0, then only a synopsis is printed. If the verbose level is 1, then the synopsis is printed along with a description (if present) of the command line options and arguments. If the verbose level is 2, then the entire manual page is printed.
Unless they are explicitly specified, the default values for the exit status, verbose level, and output stream to use are determined as follows:
If neither the exit status nor the verbose level is specified, then the default is to use an exit status of 2 with a verbose level of 0.
If an exit status is specified but the verbose level is not, then the verbose level will default to 1 if the exit status is less than 2 and will default to 0 otherwise.
If an exit status is not specified but verbose level is given, then the exit status will default to 2 if the verbose level is 0 and will default to 1 otherwise.
If the exit status used is less than 2, then output is printed on
STDOUT. Otherwise output is printed on
Although the above may seem a bit confusing at first, it generally does "the right thing" in most situations. This determination of the default values to use is based upon the following typical Unix conventions:
An exit status of 0 implies "success". For example, diff(1) exits with a status of 0 if the two files have the same contents.
An exit status of 1 implies possibly abnormal, but non-defective, program termination. For example, grep(1) exits with a status of 1 if it did not find a matching line for the given regular expression.
An exit status of 2 or more implies a fatal error. For example, ls(1) exits with a status of 2 if you specify an illegal (unknown) option on the command line.
Usage messages issued as a result of bad command-line syntax should go to
STDERR. However, usage messages issued due to an explicit request to print usage (like specifying -help on the command line) should go to
STDOUT, just in case the user wants to pipe the output to a pager (such as more(1)).
If program usage has been explicitly requested by the user, it is often desirable to exit with a status of 1 (as opposed to 0) after issuing the user-requested usage message. It is also desirable to give a more verbose description of program usage in this case.
pod2usage doesn't force the above conventions upon you, but it will use them by default if you don't expressly tell it to do otherwise. The ability of pod2usage() to accept a single number or a string makes it convenient to use as an innocent looking error message handling function:
use Pod::Usage;
use Getopt::Long;
## Parse options
GetOptions("help", "man", "flag1") || pod2usage(2);
pod2usage(1) if ($opt_help);
pod2usage(-verbose => 2) if ($opt_man);
## Check for too many filenames
pod2usage("$0: Too many files given.\n") if (@ARGV > 1);
Some user's however may feel that the above "economy of expression" is not particularly readable nor consistent and may instead choose to do something more like the following:
use Pod::Usage;
use Getopt::Long;
## Parse options
GetOptions("help", "man", "flag1") || pod2usage(-verbose => 0);
pod2usage(-verbose => 1) if ($opt_help);
pod2usage(-verbose => 2) if ($opt_man);
## Check for too many filenames
pod2usage(-verbose => 2, -message => "$0: Too many files given.\n")
if (@ARGV > 1);
As with all things in Perl, there's more than one way to do it, and pod2usage() adheres to this philosophy. If you are interested in seeing a number of different ways to invoke pod2usage (although by no means exhaustive), please refer to "EXAMPLES".
Each of the following invocations of
pod2usage() will print just the "SYNOPSIS" section to
STDERR and will exit with a status of 2:
pod2usage(-verbose => 0);
pod2usage(-exitval => 2);
pod2usage({-exitval => 2, -output => \*STDERR});
pod2usage({-verbose => 0, -output => \*STDERR});
pod2usage(-exitval => 2, -verbose => 0);
pod2usage(-exitval => 2, -verbose => 0, -output => \*STDERR);
Each of the following invocations of
pod2usage() will print a message of "Syntax error." (followed by a newline) to
STDERR, immediately followed by just the "SYNOPSIS" section (also printed to
STDERR) and will exit with a status of 2:
pod2usage("Syntax error.");
pod2usage(-message => "Syntax error.", -verbose => 0);
pod2usage(-msg => "Syntax error.", -exitval => 2);
pod2usage({-msg => "Syntax error.", -exitval => 2, -output => \*STDERR});
pod2usage({-msg => "Syntax error.", -verbose => 0, -output => \*STDERR});
pod2usage(-msg => "Syntax error.", -exitval => 2, -verbose => 0);
pod2usage(-message => "Syntax error.",
-exitval => 2,
-verbose => 0,
-output => \*STDERR);
Each of the following invocations of
pod2usage() will print the "SYNOPSIS" section and any "OPTIONS" and/or "ARGUMENTS" sections to
STDOUT and will exit with a status of 1:
pod2usage(-verbose => 1);
pod2usage(-exitval => 1);
pod2usage({-exitval => 1, -output => \*STDOUT});
pod2usage({-verbose => 1, -output => \*STDOUT});
pod2usage(-exitval => 1, -verbose => 1);
pod2usage(-exitval => 1, -verbose => 1, -output => \*STDOUT});
Each of the following invocations of
pod2usage() will print the entire manual page to
STDOUT and will exit with a status of 1:
pod2usage(-verbose => 2);
pod2usage({-verbose => 2, -output => \*STDOUT});
pod2usage(-exitval => 1, -verbose => 2);
pod2usage({-exitval => 1, -verbose => 2, -output => \*STDOUT});
Most scripts should print some type of usage message to
STDERR when a command line syntax error is detected. They should also provide an option (usually
-H or
-help) to print a (possibly more verbose) usage message to
STDOUT. Some scripts may even wish to go so far as to provide a means of printing their complete documentation to
STDOUT (perhaps by allowing a
-man option). The following complete example uses Pod::Usage in combination with Getopt::Long to do all of these things:
use Getopt::Long;
use Pod::Usage;
my $man = 0;
my $help = 0;
## Parse options and print usage if there is a syntax error,
## or if usage was explicitly requested.
GetOptions('help|?' => \$help, man => \$man) or pod2usage(2);
pod2usage(1) if $help;
pod2usage(-verbose => 2) if $man;
## If no arguments were given, then allow STDIN to be used only
## if it's not connected to a terminal (otherwise print usage)
pod2usage("$0: No files given.") if ((@ARGV == 0) && (-t STDIN));
=head1 NAME
sample - Using GetOpt::Long and Pod::Usage
=head1 SYNOPSIS
sample [options] [file ...]
-help brief help message
-man full documentation
=head1 OPTIONS
=over 8
=item B<-help>
Print a brief help message and exits.
=item B<-man>
Prints the manual page and exits.
=head1 DESCRIPTION
B<This program> will read the given input file(s) and do something
useful with the contents thereof.
By default, pod2usage() will use
$0 as the path to the pod input file. Unfortunately, not all systems on which Perl runs will set
$0 properly (although if
$0 isn't found, pod2usage() will search
$ENV{PATH} or else the list specified by the
-pathlist option). If this is the case for your system, you may need to explicitly specify the path to the pod docs for the invoking script using something similar to the following:
pod2usage(-exitval => 2, -input => "/path/to/your/pod/docs");
In the pathological case that a script is called via a relative path and the script itself changes the current working directory (see "chdir" in perlfunc) before calling pod2usage, Pod::Usage will fail even on robust platforms. Don't do that. Or use FindBin to locate the script:
use FindBin;
pod2usage(-input => $FindBin::Bin . "/" . $FindBin::Script);
Please report bugs using http://rt.cpan.org.
Marek Rouchal <firstname.lastname@example.com>
Brad Appleton <firstname.lastname@example.com>
Based on code for Pod::Text::pod2text() written by Tom Christiansen <firstname.lastname@example.com>
rjbs for refactoring Pod::Usage to not use Pod::Parser any more.
Steven McDougall <firstname.lastname@example.com> for his help and patience with re-writing this manpage.
Pod::Usage is now a standalone distribution, depending on Pod::Text which in turn depends on Pod::Simple.
Pod::Perldoc, Getopt::Long, Pod::Find, FindBin, Pod::Text, Pod::Text::Termcap, Pod::Simple


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|Information send feedback
|Domain NS records
|Nameserver records returned by the parent servers are:
ns2.yandex.ru. ['188.8.131.52'] (NO GLUE) [TTL=14400]
ns1.yandex.ru. ['184.108.40.206'] (NO GLUE) [TTL=14400]
ns1.uz was kind enough to give us that information.
|TLD Parent Check
|Good. ns1.uz, the parent server I interrogated, has information for your TLD. This is a good thing as there are some other domain extensions like "co.us" for example that are missing a direct check.
|Your nameservers are listed
|Good. The parent server ns1.uz has your nameservers listed. This is a must if you want to be found as anyone that does not know your DNS servers will first ask the parent nameservers.
|DNS Parent sent Glue
|The parent nameserver ns1.uz is not sending out GLUE for every nameservers listed, meaning he is sending out your nameservers host names without sending the A records of those nameservers. It's ok but you have to know that this will require an extra A lookup that can delay a little the connections to your site. This happens a lot if you have nameservers on different TLD (domain.com for example with nameserver ns.domain.org.)
|Nameservers A records
|Good. Every nameserver listed has A records. This is a must if you want to be found.
|NS records from your nameservers
|NS records got from your nameservers listed at the parent NS are:
ns2.yandex.ru ['220.127.116.11'] [TTL=86400]
ns1.yandex.ru ['126.96.36.199'] [TTL=86400]
|Recursive Queries
|Good. Your nameservers (the ones reported by the parent server) do not report that they allow recursive queries for anyone.
|Same Glue
|The A records (the GLUE) got from the parent zone check are the same as the ones got from your nameservers. You have to make sure your parent server has the same NS records for your zone as you do according to the RFC. This tests only nameservers that are common at the parent and at your nameservers. If there are any missing or stealth nameservers you should see them below!
|Glue for NS records
|INFO: GLUE was not sent when I asked your nameservers for your NS records.This is ok but you should know that in this case an extra A record lookup is required in order to get the IPs of your NS records. The nameservers without glue are:
You can fix this for example by adding A records to your nameservers for the zones listed above.
|Mismatched NS records
|OK. The NS records at all your nameservers are identical.
|DNS servers responded
|Good. All nameservers listed at the parent server responded.
|Name of nameservers are valid
|OK. All of the NS records that your nameservers report seem valid.
|Multiple Nameservers
|Good. You have multiple nameservers. According to RFC2182 section 5 you must have at least 3 nameservers, and no more than 7. Having 2 nameservers is also ok by me.
|Nameservers are lame
|OK. All the nameservers listed at the parent servers answer authoritatively for your domain.
|Missing nameservers reported by parent
|OK. All NS records are the same at the parent and at your nameservers.
|Missing nameservers reported by your nameservers
|OK. All nameservers returned by the parent server ns1.uz are the same as the ones reported by your nameservers.
|Domain CNAMEs
|OK. RFC1912 2.4 and RFC2181 10.3 state that there should be no CNAMEs if an NS (or any other) record is present.
|NSs CNAME check
|OK. RFC1912 2.4 and RFC2181 10.3 state that there should be no CNAMEs if an NS (or any other) record is present.
|Different subnets
|OK. Looks like you have nameservers on different subnets!
|IPs of nameservers are public
|Ok. Looks like the IP addresses of your nameservers are public. This is a good thing because it will prevent DNS delays and other problems like
|DNS servers allow TCP connection
|OK. Seems all your DNS servers allow TCP connections. This is a good thing and useful even if UDP connections are used by default.
|Different autonomous systems
|OK. It seems you are safe from a single point of failure. You must be careful about this and try to have nameservers on different locations as it can prevent a lot of problems if one nameserver goes down.
|Stealth NS records sent
|Ok. No stealth ns records are sent
|SOA record
|The SOA record is:
Primary nameserver: ns1.yandex.ru
Hostmaster E-mail address: hostmaster.yandex.ru
Serial #: 2023030624
Refresh: 600
Retry: 900
Expire: 3600000 5 weeks
Default TTL: 900
|NSs have same SOA serial
|OK. All your nameservers agree that your SOA serial number is 2023030624.
|SOA MNAME entry
|OK. ns1.yandex.ru That server is listed at the parent servers.
|SOA Serial
|Your SOA serial number is: 2023030624. This appears to be in the recommended format of YYYYMMDDnn.
|WARNING: Your SOA REFRESH interval is: 600. That is not so ok
|Your SOA RETRY value is: 900. Looks ok
|Your SOA EXPIRE number is: 3600000. That is NOT OK
|Your SOA MINIMUM TTL is: 900. This value was used to serve as a default TTL for records without a given TTL value and now is used for negative caching (indicates how long a resolver may cache the negative answer). RFC2308 recommends a value of 1-3 hours. Your value of 900 is OK.
|MX Records
|Your MX records that were reported by your nameservers are:
10 mx.yandex.ru 22.214.171.124 (no glue)
[These are all the MX records that I found. If there are some non common MX records at your nameservers you should see them below. ]
|Different MX records at nameservers
|Good. Looks like all your nameservers have the same set of MX records. This tests to see if there are any MX records not reported by all your nameservers and also MX records that have the same hostname but different IPs
|MX name validity
|Good. I did not detect any invalid hostnames for your MX records.
|MX IPs are public
|OK. All of your MX records appear to use public IPs.
|MX CNAME Check
|OK. No problems here.
|MX A request returns CNAME
|OK. No CNAMEs returned for A records lookups.
|MX is not IP
|OK. All of your MX records are host names.
|Number of MX records
|OK. Looks like you only have one MX record at your nameservers. You should be careful about what you are doing since you have a single point of failure that can lead to mail being lost if the server is down for a long time.
|Mismatched MX A
|OK. I did not detect differing IPs for your MX records.
|Duplicate MX A records
|OK. I have not found duplicate IP(s) for your MX records. This is a good thing.
|Reverse MX A records (PTR)
|Your reverse (PTR) record:
249.21.88.77.in-addr.arpa -> mxfront.stable.qloud-b.yandex.net
You have reverse (PTR) records for all your IPs, that is a good thing.
|WWW A Record
Your www.yandex.uz A record is:
www.yandex.uz -> yandex.uz -> [ 18.104.22.168 184.108.40.206 22.214.171.124 126.96.36.199 ]
[Looks like you have CNAME's]
|IPs are public
|OK. All of your WWW IPs appear to be public IPs.
|OK. You do have a CNAME record for www.yandex.uz.Your CNAME entry also returns the A record for the CNAME entry, which is good.
Processed in 0.336 seconds.


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California homeowners warned about brown lawns
By CHRISTOPHER WEBER and FENIT NIRAPPIL
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Laura Whitney and her husband, Michael Korte, don't know whether they're being good citizens during a drought or scofflaws.
On the same day the state approved mandatory outdoor watering restrictions with the threat of $500 fines, the Southern California couple received a letter from their city threatening a $500 penalty for not watering their brown lawn.
It's brown because of their conservation, which, besides a twice-a-week lawn watering regimen, includes shorter showers and larger loads of laundry.
They're encouraged by the state's new drought-busting, public service slogan: Brown is the new green.
The city of Glendora sees it differently.
"Despite the water conservation efforts, we wish to remind you that limited watering is still required to keep landscaping looking healthy and green," says the letter, which gives Korte and Whitney 60 days to restore their lawn.
They're among residents caught in the middle of conflicting government messages as the need for conservation clashes with the need to preserve attractive neighborhoods.
"My friends in Los Angeles got these letters warning they could be fined if they water, and I got a letter warning that I could be fined for not watering," Whitney said. "I felt like I was in an alternate universe."
Despite the drought, Californians have increased their water use by 1 percent in May compared with previous years, according to a state survey of water providers. To combat perceived complacency, the state water board voted this week to require water agencies to adopt emergency drought plans and authorized fines of up to $500 a day for water wasters.
The board's chairwoman, Felicia Marcus, said "a brown lawn should be a badge of honor because it shows you care about your community." But several homeowners are reporting that a dried-up lawn instead attracts the wrath of their community.
Homeowners associations can't punish residents for scaling back on landscaping under an executive order signed by Gov. Jerry Brown in April and a bill awaiting his signature. While both measures are silent on fines imposed by local governments, the governor's office condemned moves that punish drought-conscious Californians.
"These efforts to conserve should not be undermined by the short-sighted actions of a few local jurisdictions, who chose to ignore the statewide crisis we face, the farmers and farmworkers losing their livelihoods, the communities facing drinking water shortages and the state's shrinking reservoirs," said Amy Norris, a spokeswoman for the California Environmental Protection Agency, in a written statement.
Local officials say conserving water and maintaining healthy landscaping are not mutually exclusive goals. They caution that even in times of water shortages, residents shouldn't have free rein to drive down property values, and they can use drought-resistant landscaping or turf removal programs to meet local standards.
"During a drought or non-drought, residents have the right to maintain their landscaping the way they want to, so long as it's aesthetically pleasing and it's not blighted," said Al Baker, president of the California Association of Code Enforcement Officers.
Anaheim resident Sandra Tran, 47, said she started installing drought-resistant landscaping after receiving violation notices from Orange County Public Works. She spent more than $600 on the changes as the agency mandated she water and maintain her yard in "a healthy green condition."
Yet as Tran drives home from work, she sees signs flashing on the freeway urging her to conserve water.
"It's almost crazy because one agency is telling you one thing and another is forcing you to do the opposite," she said.
Democratic Assemblywoman Cheryl Brown introduced a bill that would have prohibited local governments from imposing fines, but she dropped AB1636 after cities in her district promised not to penalize homeowners for brown lawns during a drought emergency.
Brown was shocked when she heard the practice continued elsewhere in the state, and said she would consider reviving her bill in 2015.
"It seems to me those cities aren't using common sense," Brown said. "It's too bad you need a law."


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Humor, playfulness and serendipity may on first impression seem incompatible with the serious business of designing products for Nambé. Meet Neil Cohen, who creates some of Nambé's most popular and wondrously beautiful designs in metal, crystal and lighting, and has a ton of fun in the process.
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Holder of two degrees from Rhode Island School of Design, Cohen has lectured at his alma mater, as well as at Pratt and Parsons School of Design. His work has been recognized for its innovation by the Steelcase/Interiors Design Partnership, featured in The New York Times and New York Magazine and chosen for the AIGA's Objects of Design Award. The Japan Arts Council has exhibited his designs. The prestigious 30 Under 30 exhibition in New York has showcased his work among 30 young designers who are shaping the future.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama gave a glowing rollout Monday to Thomas Perez, his choice to lead the Labor Department after an aggressive stint as the nation's chief civil rights enforcer. But the nomination quickly ran into trouble as a Republican senator declared he would block the nomination until GOP concerns about Perez's Justice Department tenure are addressed.
Sen. David Vitter said he objects because Perez enforced Louisiana's voting rights laws in a way "that specifically benefits the politics of the president and his administration at the expense of identity security" of registered voters in the state. The Justice Department, he said, has not responded to Vitter's 2011 letter on the subject.
But Obama and his allies pressed ahead with Perez's debut in a new role, in which he would shift from the upper ranks of the Justice Department, saying they expect him to bring the same aggressive mindset to the Labor Department. They predicted he would raise the agency's profile and play a more prominent role in the Cabinet than Hilda Solis, who left the post in January.
Obama called Perez a "consensus builder" whose "story reminds us of this country's promise."
"Tom's made protecting that promise for everybody the cause of his life," Obama said in an appearance with Perez in the White House East Room.
Perez is the only Hispanic so far to be named to Obama's second-term Cabinet.
"Our nation still faces critical economic challenges, and the department's mission is as important as ever," Perez said, sprinkling some Spanish throughout his remarks.
The son of Dominican immigrants who once worked as a garbage collector, Perez has led the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division since 2009. If confirmed by the Senate, he would take over the Labor Department as Obama pushes several worker-oriented initiatives, including an overhaul of immigration laws and an increase in the minimum wage.
But he could face spirited opposition from some Republicans lawmakers who say his tenure at Justice has been guided too much by political ideology. His nomination comes days after a report from the Justice Department's inspector general found the agency's voting rights section has been plagued by ideological divisions and unprofessional conduct over two presidential administrations.
"This is an unfortunate and needlessly divisive nomination," said Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., who called Perez's views on illegal immigration "far outside the mainstream."
Vitter said Monday he would block Perez's nomination until the Justice Department responded to the 2011 letter, in which Vitter complained about "spotty enforcement" of voting rights laws in Louisiana. Vitter claims the department made registration of welfare recipients a priority while ignoring a duty to remove ineligible voters from the rolls.
Before taking the job as assistant attorney general, the 51-year-old Perez was secretary of Maryland's Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation, where he vigorously enforced safety and wage violations, pushed through tough new consumer protections against foreclosure, and helped implement the nation's first statewide living wage law.
"I think he will raise the profile of the Labor Department," said Laura Murphy, director of the American Civil Liberty Union's Washington legislative office. "I think he understands that the role of the federal government is to help ensure that the rules of the game are fair."
At Justice, Perez has reinvigorated a division tarnished by a political hiring scandal during President George W. Bush's administration and run for years by political appointees hostile to many of its long-term policies. He launched a record number of investigations into civil rights abuses and other misconduct at local police departments around the country. That includes a lawsuit last year accusing the office of law-and-order Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio of racially profiling Latinos during a crackdown on illegal immigrants.
Perez also played a leading role in challenging laws in Texas and South Carolina that require voters to show photo identification in order to vote. A federal court later struck down the Texas law, saying it restricts minority voting rights, while another court delayed implementation of the law in South Carolina until after the 2012 election.
His nomination has broad support from labor and from the Latino community. Among those at the White House ceremony Monday were AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka and NAACP President and CEO Benjamin Jealous.
The nomination likely was delayed by the release last week of the Justice Department report. It found that Perez gave incomplete testimony to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights when he said the department's political leadership was not involved in the decision to dismiss three of the four defendants in alawsuit the Bush administration brought against the New Black Panther Party.
While the report concluded that Perez did not intentionally mislead the commission, it said he should have sought more information about the role of the agency's political leaders who participated in the decision to dismiss those charges.
Republican Sen. Charles Grassley of Iowa said Perez appeared to be "woefully unprepared to answer questions" from the Civil Rights Commission.
Other Republicans have cited his role in persuading the city of St. Paul, Minn., to withdraw a lending discrimination lawsuit from the Supreme Court. In exchange, the Justice Department declined to join two whistle-blower lawsuits against St. Paul that could have returned millions in damages to the federal government.
The St. Paul case had challenged the use of statistics to prove race discrimination under the 1968 Fair Housing Act, and Justice Department officials were concerned the court could strike down the practice.
Perez, once the top adviser to Sen. Edward Kennedy on civil rights, is a former career attorney at the Justice Department division he now leads.


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Perhaps no other relic of the European Middle Ages captures our imagination more than illuminated medieval manuscripts, or those documents decorated with images and colored pigments. Serving as windows unto a lost world of kings, ladies, faith, war, and culture, they communicate complex visual and textual narratives of Europe's collective cultural heritage and patrimony. In this fashion, illuminated manuscripts are dynamic messages from our communal past that are still relevant today in fields like graphic design and typography. In this seven-week course, students will explore the material creation, content, and historical context of illuminated medieval European manuscripts. Students will acquire an introductory knowledge of their distinguishing characteristics, their cataloguing and periodization (when they were created), the methods utilized to produce them, and their historical context and value.
Student achievement will be assessed using not only traditional multiple-choice quizzes, but more importantly will be evaluated based on individual student projects. In their final projects students will either (1) produce a board of commented images about medieval manuscripts or (2) prepare a physical manuscript using medieval methods. The best of these peer-evaluated projects will be posted on the Deciphering Secrets website, which is our collective citizen scholarship web presence that encourages and supports our global citizen scholars appreciation and contributions to transcription of medieval manuscripts.
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