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OK. I had my say a couple weeks ago about Carrollton City Council and it's inability to decide if code enforcement officer John Welch is not doing his job, or has too big a job for one person to handle.
Any argument regarding the state of the city of Carrollton, in terms of nuisance properties, comes back to this question, it seems.
I would like to address this letter to merchants, fellow business people and other individuals, as well.
The 19th Annual Bedford Bash was a hit. We raised more than $500 for the needy kids' Christmas party through the sale of T-shirts. We gave away several prizes and had a great time. I have heard several positive comments on the band Young Country and on the 2nd Annual [Trimble County Raider] Car Show.
Congratulations to the Bedford Post Office for winning the window decorating contest.
I am writing to express my concern for teen-agers who have headed back to school this fall and may be exposed to the dangers of underage use of alcohol.
As a Kentucky state trooper, I see first-hand the destruction that underage drinking brings on our youth. One of the hardest tasks for any law enforcement officer is to notify a parent whose teen-aged son or daughter has been killed in an alcohol-related incident.
In 2007, Kentucky law enforcement arrested 3,108 people ages 16-19 for driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs.
I have a lot of parents, families and friends to thank for everything they have done for Trimble County High School football and me. I worked on Midnight Madness for five weeks. I am very pleased to say it turned out to be a great success. I have so many people to thank, and I do not know where to begin.
That is why I am writing. I am not a great speaker or writer. I don't think there is a paper big enough to express my gratitude to everyone. I have never been so proud of people in Trimble County and so disappointed in others.
It has been 20 years since the Carroll County High School Class of 1988 graduated, and we are having a reunion on Saturday, Oct. 25, at the Conference Center at General Butler State Resort Park.
We are hoping to get in touch with all of our classmates. Anyone who has not received an invitation, or those who would like more information, can call Marla Bickers at (502) 732-6308, Gwen Abbott at (502) 525-0797, Wayne Adams at 732-0183 or Robin Huesman at 732-6405.
We have to know who will be attending no later than Sept. 24.
After reading Mr. Dapron's article in the last issue of The News-Democrat, I felt like I had to submit an article. Congratulations Mr. Dapron for speaking your mind! Myself, among many others, agree with you whole heartedly.
We need more people in this county who are not afraid to speak up.
Can someone please tell me what to do about the drinking and driving in Carroll County? It's gotten way out of control.
Do I turn in my spouse of 20 years? My 18-year-old daughter? My best friend? My boss at work? And if we do turn in the ones we love, then who is going to turn in the people who leave the bar? Or the people who leave the liquor store? Or the ones who leave the party?
To me, it's obvious, based on statements made at Monday's Carrollton City Council meeting, that there are many residents who don't feel that our elected officials are doing enough to clean up this city of about 4,000.
Several folks came before council and said they feel frustrated that their complaints seem to go unheard.
I understand what they are saying; it seems that this same argument has been circulating through town for the entire six-and-a-half-plus years I've been editor here.
Good-old-boy politics is alive and well in the Carroll County Democrat Executive Committee. On Aug. 8, there were eight people who applied to be the Democrat candidate for constable in District 3.
Of the eight candidates, two expressed having some degree of law enforcement training; a third had served a year as a police officer in northern Kentucky and spent several years as a military police officer with training in investigative police work.
This story is about animal rights, and if you're thinking why I wrote this story it's because I hate seeing animals being abused like they are.
Have you ever seen an animal get abused like on TV? It's just the same in the real world also. Animals can't talk, so they can't tell you what they want.
And they can't tell you if it hurts or if they don't like something. So that's why people abuse them like that.
To the editor,
Every year the Governor's Scholars Program is open to any school in Kentucky. For the past two years, Trimble County High School has had five students each year participate in the program. Each year the students applying have to fill out a lengthy application including extra-curricular activities, ACT score, and an essay. This year the program had budget cuts, making the program harder to get accepted in to.
What ever happened to enjoying a small town parade and letting the kids have fun outside while you catch up with friends? In a time when everything seems so hectic, kids are glued to the computer and the price of gas is limiting our ability to have fun, it's time to take a step back and enjoy ourselves and this great community.
We have the perfect opportunity for that. The Trimble County High School Raider football team is hosting their annual Midnight Madness Saturday, August 23.
I've been coaching three softball teams since mid-March and would like to take this opportunity to thank the many people who helped me make it through the summer months of practice, games and travel.
Members of the Trimble County High School class of 1988 will host a reunion planning meeting Sunday, Aug. 24. The meeting will begin at 1 p.m. at Milton Fire Department Station #2 on Hwy. 421 North near the Hwy. 1226 intersection.
All alumni are welcome and are encouraged to bring lots of ideas.
Nicole Lacefield
Class of 1988 president
On behalf of the Carrollton/Carroll County Tourism Office, I would like to thank those who contributed to the "Welcome Bag" items distributed to members and competitors at the National Bass Anglers Association fishing tournament May 13-17 at Point Park in Carrollton.
Because of your generosity, visitors from outside our community received a warm hometown welcome and fond memories. Word of mouth goes a long way in promoting our community, and your support helps to ensure that Carroll County is a place that they will want to visit again and again.
Saturday evening, July 26, around 7 p.m., two tour buses were driving back to Louisville on I-71 South after a visit to Cincinnati's Union Terminal Museum. On the way, the second bus began leaking antifreeze and had to stop just past Exit 44 at Carrollton. The passengers were a group of physically fit senior citizens, all members of the Second Saturday Serenity Hiking Club sponsored by Unity Church of Louisville.
It is summertime, and your teens may have more free time on their hands. Most of our teens are making healthy choices this summer – like not drinking alcohol.
Unfortunately, there are many who do choose to drink. Most young people who start drinking before age 21 do so when they are about 13-14 years old. That is why parents and all adults should send a strong message that underage drinking is not OK.
On behalf of the staff and Board of Trustees of the Carroll County Public Library, I would like to thank all who helped make our Summer Reading Program, "Catch the Reading Bug" such a success.
I may be a domestic goddess, but does that mean I have to be the female equivalent of Bob Vila?
My latest escapade in home repair began at 9:30 last Saturday morning. After leisurely crawling from my comfy bed, I uncharacteristically decided to immediately shower and begin a full day of errands. To my chagrin, only lukewarm water flowed from the pipes when I turned the knob labeled "hot."
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Bikesy is an open bike mapping system used for finding biking routes in the San Francisco Bay Area. The service focuses on providing users with the safest bike routes with the least change in elevation. The API lets developers access bike route data for use in their own websites and applications. The API accepts a number of inputs such as starting and ending points, reluctance to ride hills and safety. It uses RESTful calls and responses are formatted in XML and JSON.


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What do you get a Major League Baseball player for Christmas?
The Cincinnati Reds answered that question recently at Redsfest, and their answers ranged from the practical to the fantastical.
What do you get a Major League Baseball player for Christmas?
The Cincinnati Reds answered that question recently at Redsfest, and their answers ranged from the practical to the fantastical.
The more mundane answers? An ironing board (on Todd Frazier's wish list), a new ladder and fireplace cover for Devin Mesoraco, hair gel (David Holmberg) and the ever-reliable gift card (Mike Leake).
Listen up, Santa: Zack Cozart wants a massage chair.
"I'm getting old now and getting all of these aches and pains!" Cozart said laughing.
And when it comes to holiday plans, the Reds are doing it big.
"I'm going over to my brother Jeff's. We're going to have about 35 people over there and it's going to be a lot of fun," Frazier said.
Many players are returning home for the holidays.
"We live in Nashville, [Tenn.], so we travel down there and hang out there for a week or so," Cozart said. "For New Year's, we kind of play it by ear. Nashville isn't New York, but they do have a pretty big countdown, too, which is pretty cool."
"Since I am away from my family so much during the season, I don't leave my house too much when I am home," new Red Skip Schumaker said. "We need some type of stability, so we have Christmas at our house, have the family over to our house. We don't travel. Maybe we will go to the mountains -- they are about an hour away -- and see some snow and snow sled. We just want to be together as a family."
On the subject of holiday traditions, Ryan Ludwick explained, "I'd say the biggest one that we are doing is Elf on a Shelf. [My son] Stetson has his little Elf on the Shelf and [the elf] shows up in a different spot every day, and watches him for Santa."
"We got to decorate my house this year, which was awesome," J.J. Hoover said. "I [plan on] just spending it with family. That's what the season is all about."
"On New Year's Eve at my grandparents' house -- they're Italian -- we have a big fish fry," Mesoraco said. "We eat a lot of fish and seafood and crab legs. And with my other grandparents, we go to Midnight Mass and then run back to their house because they live close and try to open presents real fast, [which was] especially fun when we were younger."
It's evident the Reds don't take their holidays for granted.
"We don't make it a huge deal of opening a ton of presents," Schumaker said. "We like to go to different places and help out. I think that is important for my kids to see. It's not about getting a lot of presents, but going to different houses and helping families. We adopt a family through our church, and I think that is more important than opening a ton of gifts.
"Once you have kids, you just hope that they have a good year in school, [stay] healthy, whatever it is. My focus is on my kids now. So Santa ... I'd take a World Series ring with the Reds. I'll take one of those."
Meggie Zahneis, winner of the 2011 Breaking Barriers essay contest, earned the job of youth correspondent for MLB.com in the fall of '11.


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At least one firefighter and two civilians have been injured in a gigantic fire in the Breezy Point neighborhood of Queens.
Officials are estimating anywhere from 80 to 100 houses have also been destroyed by the blaze, according to The Associated Press.
The injuries are only minor and reports speculate the inferno was caused by a gas line, according to The Guardian Express Newspaper.
Breezy Point is a low-lying neighborhood at the end of the Rockaway peninsula.
Population of the area is about 12,000.
The was under control at 11 a.m. Tuesday, according to Mayor Michael Boomerg — 12 hours after it was first reported.
The fire was so thick you couldn't see through it. It was wall-to-wall flames.
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The fire began around 11 p.m. and quickly became "an out-of-control six-alarm blaze," the New York Daily Newsreported at the time.
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The term agglomerate (from the Latin agglomerare = amass, accumulate) in the area of abrasives signifies a combination of several same-size abrasive grains that are shaped into a larger granulate using resin in a technical process (wet agglomeration) before they are spread across a backing. Synthesised in this way, the agglomerated grains form a firm bond of roughly identical size and are then applied to and fixed in place on the corresponding abrasive backing just like any conventional abrasive mineral.
Agglomerate belts afford the user a service life that is much longer than the service life delivered by conventional, single-layer abrasive belts. This is why these belts are also referred to as long-life abrasive belts. They offer a ground surface that remains relatively constant throughout the entire grinding process in terms of scratch depth and scratch pattern (worn and dull grain is shed and substituted by a fresh grain located next to or under the old grain). Immediately apparent at first glance, the abrasive surface of an agglomerate belt is significantly coarser than that of a conventional abrasive belt due to its grain clusters, however its surface finish is finer.
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Argan Oil: Too Much of a Good Thing?
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Most people have heard of the health benefits of using olive oil instead of butter or other saturated animal fats. The monounsaturated fats in olive oil have been shown to reduce levels of harmful cholesterol, and as a result nutrition experts have touted it and other aspects of the Mediterranean Diet as heart healthy.
But olive oil isn't the only celebrated oil from that region of the world. In Morocco, argan oil has been consumed by the Berber people for centuries. Berbers add the deep yellow, toasty-flavored oil to couscous, serve it alongside bread, or eat it on its own. Argan oil has been shown to reduce cholesterol and triglycerides in the blood, and recent research by France's Institut Pasteur, Morocco's Lipoproteins and Atherosclerosis Research Laboratory, and others suggests that it might contribute to the prevention of various cancers,cardiovascular diseases, and diabetes.
Beyond the health benefits of consuming argan oil, there are also important environmental benefits associated with its production. The same deep root systems that make argan trees well adapted to heat and frequent drought in southwestern Morocco also protect the land against soil erosion and desertification. Meanwhile, argan trees provide shade and protection for crops or pastureland, presenting opportunities for agroforestry.
Arguably, however, the most noteworthy impact of argan oil production is social. This rare oil has captivated a global audience, primarily because of its use in cosmetics. As a result, market prices have been on the rise (making it the most expensive edible oil in the world), and argan oil producers—largely local Moroccan women—have been reaping the benefits.
Because the process of extracting argan oil is extremely labor intensive (it can take 50 kilograms of seeds to produce just half a liter of oil), the women who produce it by hand are frequently part of production co-operatives, such as the UCFA (Union des Cooperatives des Femmes de l'Arganeraie). Founded in 1999, this innovative co-operative produces and markets argan oil and is supported by the Moroccan government as both a conservation and development strategy. Today, the UCFA unites 22 smaller women's co-operatives. The women who make up these groups gain status, a steady income, and, in some cases, an education through their work.
Yet the argan oil boom has been a double-edged sword. Argan trees and the area in which they grow are threatened by overuse and deforestation. A study by the University of California, Davis finds that "the boom has predictably made households vigilant guardians of fruit on the tree, but it has not incited investments in longer term tree and forest health." While the development of a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve in Morocco is a step in the right direction, it will be both economically and environmentally critical for the same non-governmental groups, development agencies, and government offices that supported argan oil production in the first place to keep sustainability in mind.
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Republicans in the Virginia House of Delegates are set to vote against a proposal to accept federal Medicaid funding.
A largely symbolic full floor vote is scheduled for Thursday. Republican leaders said they wanted to show they are united in opposition to a proposal by the Democratically controlled Senate to expand publicly funded health insurance coverage for low-income Virginians.
Democrats and a few Republican senators want Virginia to take the federal funds, saying the state's working poor need the extra help.
House Republicans argue that the current Medicaid system is broken and shouldn't be expanded before it's fixed.
The vote is part of an effort by House Republicans to reinforce their position ahead of budget negotiations with the Senate.


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In conjunction with maintenance on many NERSC systems PDSF will be down on July 13 from 8am-8pm Pacific Daylight Time. During the maintenance there will be no access to PDSF at all. A number of issues will be addressed including the upgrade of /common, GPFS and kernel upgrades, and work on some of the PDSF hardware.
As usual we will set the io resource limits to zero 12 hours before the maintenance so that new jobs using them will not start. Running jobs will be allowed to continue and any jobs still running when the maintenance starts will be terminated. When the maintenance is done the io limits will be reset to their usual values.


text: WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said Friday "there's still a chance" for a deal to be reached to avert the fiscal cliff of scheduled tax hikes and spending cuts. The California Democrat said she hoped Republicans would consider President Obama's proposal "and iron out any differences." Pelosi, flanked by other House Democrats, said that every time a deal gets close, the Republicans walk away. Chris Van Hollen, the Maryland Democrat who is the ranking member of the House Budget Committee, said he believes the House if given the chance would pass the Senate bill extending tax rates for those making under $250,000.


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NCLB Update
Yesterday (July 1), at the Education Commission of the States' National Forum on Education Policy, Secretary Spellings announced that Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, and Ohio have been approved to participate in the Department's differentiated accountability pilot program. No Child Left Behind currently treats all schools in improvement alike. The pilot allows states to vary the intensity and type of interventions to match the academic reasons that lead to a school's identification for improvement. And, in states with a large percentage of schools identified, it allows officials to target interventions and resources to schools most in need of reform. The Department received 17 state proposals. A peer review panel evaluated the proposals against core principles and priorities (set out in agency guidance). After considering the peers' comments, the Secretary approved these six proposals. "The plans these states submitted speak to the fact that many were among the first to embrace data-based decision-making and accountability," she explained. "I'm hopeful that they will build on this progress, by creating effective new strategies that we can share and take to scale. However, I'm also discouraged that more states didn't take this as an opportunity to take more dramatic action to improve schools that have not met reasonable goals for multiple years running. We need more states to be pioneers in advancing positive change." The Department intends to invite additional state proposals in the fall. For more information, please go to http://www.ed.gov/news/pressreleases/2008/07/07012008.html.
Expanding on a similar study from last year, the Center on Education Policy (CEP) found that reading and math achievement has increased since 2002 (when the No Child Left Behind Act went into effect) and achievement gaps between subgroups of students have narrowed. Indeed, in reading, 17 of 28 states made moderate-to-large gains in the percentage of students scoring proficient at the elementary level, while 14 states recorded such gains in middle school and eight states recorded such gains in high school. Likewise, in math, 21 of 27 states made moderate-to-large gains in the percentage of students scoring proficient at the elementary level, 22 states recorded such gains in middle school, and 12 states recorded such gains in high school. (The number of states included varies depending on the trend being referenced. CEP excluded state data from years that should not be compared because a state introduced a new test, changed the passing score on its test, or made other major test changes.) In general, although proficiency gains on the 2007 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) tended to be smaller, the overall trends on state tests and NAEP moved in the same direction. For example, in fourth-grade math, of 33 states with sufficient data, 31 recorded gains on both assessments. Moreover, achievement gaps between white and minority students have narrowed more often than widened. For example, in elementary reading, the proficiency gap between white and black students narrowed in 13 states on state tests, while it widened in only one. The study's authors were careful not to credit any particular initiative for these positive trends, praising local, state, and federal reforms. For more information, please go to http://www.cep-dc.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=
In a recent letter to Congressional appropriators, Secretary Spellings argued against the "zeroing out" of the Reading First program. As evidence, she presented state-reported performance data indicating impressive gains in reading comprehensionwith improvements in nearly every grade and subgroup of students. For more information, please go to http://www.ed.gov/news/pressreleases/2008/06/06232008.html.
Military Children Pact
On June 25, at the Pentagon, Deputy Secretary of Education Ray Simon and Deputy Secretary of Defense Gordon England signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between their agencies that addresses the quality of education and the unique challenges faced by children of military families. Hundreds of thousands of students in military families will be affected by moves precipitated by recent Base Realignment and Closure Act decisions and the relocations of military units from overseas bases to stateside installations as part of global defense posture realignment moves. The MOU generally defines how the entities will work together with school districts to strengthen and expand school-based efforts to ease student transitions and help students develop academic skills and coping strategies during parental deployments. Of the nation's 1.2 million school-age military students, only 8% attend Defense-run schools; the overwhelming majority attend America's public and private schools. For more information, please go to http://www.defenselink.mil/releases/release.aspx?releaseid=12014.
Evaluating Online Learning
This week, the Department's Office of Innovation and Improvement (OII) released the latest guide in its "Innovations in Education" series: "Evaluating Online Learning: Challenges and Strategies for Success." The guide highlights seven evaluations that address a broad spectrum of online learning options, from programs that provide online courses to web sites that feature education resources. These evaluations help to hold programs accountable for results and can assist schools in identifying whether online programs and resources are performing as promised (identifying critical areas for improvement). For more information, please go to http://www.ed.gov/admins/lead/academic/evalonline/. (For an archived webcast discussing the guide, see http://evalonline.ed.gov/.)
Other new, insightful publications:
- "Trends Among High School Seniors, 1972-2004" (http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/
- "National Indian Education StudyPart II" (http://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/nies/)
- "Technology-Based Distance Education Courses for Public Elementary and Secondary Students: 2002-03 and 2004-05" (http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/
- "Biennial Report to Congress on the Implementation of the Title III State Formula Grant Program: School Years 2004-06" (http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/oela/
- The final report of the National Commission on Adult Literacy, "Reach Higher, America: Overcoming Crisis in the U.S. Workforce" (http://www.nationalcommissionon
Student Loan Access
The Department's Office of Federal Student Aid (FSA) has developed a new web site to publish and disseminate information about the agency's authority to purchase federal student loans under the Ensuring Continued Access to Student Loans Act. The latest posta Federal Register noticeoutlines the final terms and conditions under which the agency will buy loans made by lenders who are unable to sell them to other investors. The terms are consistent with those the Department unveiled in May, as part of a broader, four-part plan (http://www.ed.gov/students/college/aid/loans.html) to ensure students will be able to access federal student loans in the 2008-09 academic year. Want more details? FSA is facilitating a series of live, Internet-based briefings (or webinars) on the Department's purchasing authority and, specifically, the plan to implement that authority. For more information, please go to http://federalstudentaid.ed.gov/ffelp/.
Administrative Items
President Bush has announced his intention to nominate Holly Kuzmich to be Assistant Secretary for Legislation and Congressional Affairs and Christopher Marston to be Assistant Secretary for Management. Kuzmich currently serves as Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy and Programs at the Department. Previously, she served as Associate Director of the Domestic Policy Council at the White House. Earlier, she served as a professional staff member on the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP). Marston currently serves as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Process Improvement of the Office of Management at the Department. Previously, he served as White House Liaison at the Department of the Interior. Earlier, he served as Washington Office Director for the State of Ohio. For more information, please go to http://www.ed.gov/news/pressreleases/2008/06/06252008.html and http://www.ed.gov/news/pressreleases/2008/06/06252008a.html.
Meanwhile, over the last two weeks, the Department made a number of substantial grant awards, including the Partnerships in Character Education Program (http://www.ed.gov/news/pressreleases/2008/06/06202008a.html), the Arts in EducationModel Development and Dissemination Grant Program (http://www.ed.gov/programs/artsedmodel/awards.html), the Elementary and Secondary School Counseling Program (http://www.ed.gov/programs/elseccounseling/awards.html), the Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs (GEAR UP) (http://www.ed.gov/news/pressreleases/2008/07/07012008a.html), and the Safe Schools/Healthy Students Initiative (http://www.ed.gov/news/pressreleases/2008/07/07022008.html). Also, the Department's Office of Special Education Programs' National Technical Assistance Center selected six states with which it will work to expand promising, evidence-based practices (http://www.ed.gov/news/pressreleases/2008/06/06202008b.html).
Public School Choice
BuildingChoice.org is a web-based toolkit for district administrators and others seeking to improve or expand public school choice options for students, parents, and teachers. Providing access to information about the initiatives profiled in OII's "Innovations in Education" guides and/or funded by the agency's Voluntary Public School Choice Program, the web site features descriptions of key practices, examples of district materials, and downloadable tools in five essential areas: Building a Vision; District Operations; Communication with Parents; Supporting Schools; and Evaluation and Improvement. The site is regularly updated with additional choice sites, more resources, and details on other public school choice options (charter schools, supplemental educational services, virtual schools, etc.). For more information, please go to http://www.buildingchoice.org/.
Quote to Note
"With No Child Left Behind, we know what's working in schools and what's not and where students are falling behind. We've reached an important crossroads. Will we leverage the information we have to challenge the fundamental structures, customize instruction, and use time and people more effectively? Or will we go back to the ostrich approachsticking our heads in the sand while problems multiply? Instead of turning our backs on students and teachers, we must defend the core principles of accountability. And we must use data and research to create innovative solutions to our most pressing problems."
|Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings (7/1/08), at the Education Commission of the States' National Forum on Education Policy
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Here is the remaining schedule for free Teacher-to-Teacher summer workshops: New York City (July 9-10), Newport News, Virginia (July 10-11), Fort Worth (July 15-16), New Orleans (July 17-18), Washington, D.C. (July 22-23), Lakewood, Washington (August 4-5), Philadelphia (August 7-8), Twentynine Palms, California (August 11-12), and Los Angeles (August 13-14). Registration is closed for some of the workshops, but all materials are available through the web site. For more information, please go to https://www.t2tweb.us/Workshops/Schedule.asp.
Take another deep breath! Over the next two weeks, the Department will be exhibiting at the National School Public Relations Association's National Seminar in Arlington, Virginia (July 6-9), the League of United Latin American Citizens' National Convention in Washington, D.C. (July 7-12), the American Federation of Teachers' Annual Convention in Chicago (July 10-14), and the National Council of La Raza's Annual Conference in San Diego (July 12-15). If you are attending any of these events, please stop by the Department's booth.
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It's 5 a.m. and we are jetting across the dark fall waters of Charlotte Harbor.
The wake of the boat and the turbulence caused by the prop provide a spectacular light show of intense bright electric blue-white light under and behind the boat as millions of bioluminescent plankton give off their eerie glow in the wake of our passing.
If you've never experienced this phenomenon it's worth the early trip just to witness it as it's quite beautiful. Imagine six intense spotlights mounted under your boat pointed down and rearward as you motor along. It's that bright.
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Once on scene we quietly drift, hoping to hear the sounds of schools of snacking snook slurping shrimp, surface style. The slightest movement from the boat sends any baitfish within 15 yards rocketing away, leaving trails of light in the black water. This speaks volumes about boat noise in shallow water and the fish's ability to hear it from remarkably long distances, alerting them and sending wise old trophies fleeing to the next county before your first cast.
Suddenly, a school of ladyfish cuts through them leaving large luminescent light trails all around the boat as they attack the fleeing baitfish. Turning on the trolling motor produces the same bright white effect and a horizontal cone of light extending all the way to the transom.
We threw glow plugs and watched the light trails as we "walked the dog" back to the boat. After a few casts a huge surface explosion/light show and a screaming drag as a chunk redfish inhaled the plug turned and rocketed away across the flat leaving a missile like light trail behind him.
Fish are obviously used to this psychedelic light show and at night we like to throw glow topwater plugs and glow soft plastics like DOA Cal jigs in glow flavor. Try it against your buddy when night fishing. If not producing go to all black for maximum contrast which is my second choice, especially on bright moon nights like we will experience this weekend.
This underwater light phenomenon is caused by a species of phytoplankton which also make "red tides," the toxic algal blooms that can kill marine life and create bands of red coloring in the ocean during the daytime. This species is bioluminescent at night, which means it combines oxygen with luciferin - similar to a plant's chlorophyll - in a chemical reaction that emits light. The plankton only glow when they're disturbed, possibly as a way to warn away predators.
If you find yourself in front of a school of hungry reds reach for something different this trip. Put on a big bass buzzbait and slowly gurgle it near the school (hold on). Are you into tossing spinnerbaits for chunky largemouths? Love the strong hit on a spinnerbait? Well toss one at a big red for a jolt you will never get from a bass.
No doubt spinnerbaits annoy fish and reds really intend to kill these lures when they strike them. In the heart of redfish country, Louisiana, the spinnerbait is a top favorite of red anglers but not so popular here on the West Coast of Paradise. Try gold Colorado blades on your spinnerbait in our dark post summer water.
My favorite school red topwater is a largemouth bass Arborgast Jitterbug in glow or black, souped up with salt grade hooks and split rings. Reel it slow and steady and hang onto the rod. Snook and trophy trout and reds will climb all over this lure and multiple hookups happen due to the side hook placement on this old classic largemouth bass killer.
This really is a unique lure which I've used to catch not only bass but pike, muskie and most saltwater flats species in Florida, including a Matlacha blacktip shark. Two retrieves: slow and steady, or crawl and pause.
Capt. George Tunison is a Cape Coral resident fishing guide. Contact him at 239-282-9434 or firstname.lastname@example.com, or www.flyingfinssportfishing.com.


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DAN DIDIO Explains BRIGHTEST DAY #24 [Spoiler Warning]
[Spoilers ahead for today's Brightest Day #24! Click on the link for a preview.]
Swamp Thing is back in the DC Universe after years at Vertigo, but he didn't travel alone.
John Constantine came along for the ride.
In Brightest Day #24, the grand finale of DC's bi-weekly series, John Constantine officially returns to the DC Universe, opening the door for even more migrations between the two DC lines.
And according to DC Co-Publisher Dan DiDio, Constantine's appearance comes as a result of plans to expand Swamp Thing's role in the DCU.
"[John Constantine's return] was 100 percent a story decision," DiDio told Newsarama. "As we were starting to bring some of the [Vertigo] characters back into the DCU for storytelling, so they could interact with the rest of the universe, naturally once you introduce Swamp Thing, Constantine was such an integral part of so many important stories featuring Swamp Thing that we felt that we would be remiss if we didn't have him make that appearance also, at this time."Constantine, a chain-smoking British occultist, was originally introduced as a cast member in the then-DC Universe title Swamp Thing during writer Alan Moore's legendary run. But when the Vertigo line of mature comics was launched, Constantine was among the characters moved out of the DCU, and he's now starring in the John Constantine: Hellblazer comic series, which is one of the longest running comics at Vertigo. The character was also featured in the 2005 Constantine movie starring Keanu Reeves.
The Hellblazer series, which is in the midst of an acclaimed run by Peter Milligan, currently has Constantine aging in real time, growing old and recently getting married. DiDio said that version of John Constantine will still exist, simultaneously with the one in DCU comics. And there will be no change to the current Hellblazer series.
"There may be two John Constantines — one who is running around in Vertigo, who has gone through an important change in his own story arc recently with the marriage, and now you'll see a little bit different version of Constantine in the DCU," DiDio said. "He'll be a little bit younger, he'll be more in line with the character as he appeared when he was last in the DC Universe."
And will the DCU version still be a chain-smoker?
"There are some things you can't get people to quit," DiDio laughed.
Written by Geoff Johns and Peter Tomasi, Brightest Day recently identified Swamp Thing as Earth's "new champion" and has returned the character to his original status in the DC Universe, complete with Alec Holland as the creature's actual identity. But the series doesn't completely finish Swamp Thing's story, and that's where John Constantine comes into play.
The end of Brightest Day sets Constantine up for his next role as the lead character in Brightest Day Aftermath: The Search for Swamp Thing, a three-part DCU mini-series by Jonathan Vankin and artist Marco Castiello.
"When you have a search for Swamp Thing, what better person to search?" DiDio said. "There's a definite place we leave Swamp Thing at the end of Brightest Day, and Constantine is an important part of that. How that plays out, we'll see over the course of time."
DiDio wouldn't clarify what Swamp Thing and John Constantine might be doing after the conclusion of the three-issue Aftermath mini-series. "That would be giving a little too much away," he said. But Newsarama learned earlier this month that DC has talked to Swamp Thing's co-creator, Len Wein, about possibly doing something with the character in the DCU.
Constantine's presence in both Vertigo and the DCU is not without precedence. As Newsarama recently highlighted, the barrier between the lines has been broken before, with characters like Phantom Stranger, Black Orchid, Animal Man and Deadman.
Now DC has opened that door for dual citizenship again, with Swamp Thing, John Constantine and even the recent appearance of Sandman character Death in Action Comics #894 and today's Action Comics #900..
"In the earlier days, when Vertigo was first starting up, we had a number of DCU characters migrating over to Vertigo," DiDio pointed out. "There was a point there that if you saw the Phantom Stranger, he was one of the few characters who was able to transcend both lines of series between DCU and Vertigo. He was appearing in DCU books as he was appearing in Vertigo books."
That level of shared characters between the DCU and Vertigo now returns with John Constantine. But even though there will be two versions of Constantine, DiDio said there are currently no plans to do the same thing with Swamp Thing.
"There's always been a consistent Constantine: Hellblazer book, and that's running non-stop. But Swamp Thing has started and stopped so many times," DiDio said. "There were so many interpretations of Swamp Things, with the character interpreted several different ways over the years over at Vertigo, and we've had him appear in several incarnations through the years.
Besides, the co-publisher said, there is currently no Swamp Thing title at Vertigo. "Starting two new versions of Swamp Thing simultaneously didn't make any sense," DiDio said. "So the goal was to start Swamp Thing up here in the DC Universe.
"But who knows?" he added, opening the door for a Swamp Thing at Vertigo. "If a Constantine can guest star in a book featuring Swamp Thing [in the DCU], why couldn't Swamp Thing guest star in a book featuring Constantine in Hellblazer? So the opportunity is always there.
"But right now the focus is the reintroduction of Swamp Thing in the DC Universe, and to make that as big and important as possible to all the characters here, and then not just put him out there, but bring back the things that people remember the most as part of his world, part of his universe, starting with John Constantine," he said.
Now that the door has clearly opened for Vertigo characters to show up in the DCU, DiDio said any character that was formerly a citizen of the DCU could be called home if the story warrants it.
"We're hoping that not only are we calling the characters home at some point, but we're calling some fans home as well," he said. "Our hope is to make these things as exciting to everybody as possible.
"What we want to do is use all the characters we have available to us to tell the best stories possible, in any way possible," DiDio said, "just to get people re-energized by all the big stories we have taking place in the DC Universe right now."
- Why They Endure: SWAMP THING's Creator Talks His Return
- Preview: Brightest Day #24
- The DC - VERTIGO Exchange Program: Swamp Thing & More
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Year Built1973
AreaCopper Mountain
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This beautiful, top-floor unit is located in one of the few ski-in/out locations in Center Village! This unit is absolutely stunning and completely turn-key. The main floor has a completely updated kitchen and bathroom along with the living and dining room. The second floor has a large bedroom and an oversized loft which connect to the updated second bathroom. You will enjoy mountain views of the 10 Mile Range from every window!
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Copper Mountain, with 2,450 acres, is Summit County's largest ski area. At Copper you can enjoy Colorado's first high-speed detachable six-passenger chairlift, the "Super Bee" and an award-winning trail system that naturally separates snowriders by their ability levels. The Village at Copper is a pedestrian-only, high alpine community with spectacular Colorado views. While in the village take time to enjoy a concert, watch fireworks light up the sky overhead or sit-down for some fine dining. In the summer, your senses will be enhanced by fresh wildflowers and a Colorado blue sky. You can hike, bike, golf on a championship course or go whitewater rafting in nearby Buena Vista. One of the newest additions to Cooper Mountain is Woodward at Copper. A training facility where athletes of all ages can practice new tricks over foam pits before testing their skills on the mountain!
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On Monday, we yakked it up about fusion centers, coming to a Pennsylvania city near you (if you live near Harrisburg, where the FBI and state police will get cuddly while poring over data).
Yesterday national ACLU updated its report What's Wrong with Fusion Centers and announced it to the press. More info is over at national's blog:
Of course we want law enforcement sharing truly relevant information. But hoarding information like medical records, tax information, credit scores, etc. is effectively throwing more hay onto an already massive stack and that won't make us safer.
Fusion centers, why do we distrust you so? Let me count the ways:
* Ambiguous lines of authority. Who is the boss of you exactly? So many jurisdictions and no clear lines of authority make us nervous.
* Private Sector Participants. You're BFF with those guys. Using private-sector companies and corporations to get information about me makes me worry about who has access to that information. And, frankly, it only makes me like you less.
* Military Participation. Ever hear of Posse Comitatus?
* Data Fusion = Data Mining. A lot of hay means a lot of ways to sift through that hay and a lot of hay sifters sifting through that hay. Listen. Bottom line — enough with the hay. You are data mining. Knock it off.
* Excessive Secrecy. You keep telling me to trust you baby, but you're always keeping secrets. Without oversight and uniform guidelines that means no real rules and that doesn't work when you've got our information at your fingertips.
Amanda from national picked up on this key point:
Here's the creepiest part. Fusion centers aren't just a mystery to us, they're a mystery to the people running them, the people working in them and the people's whose information is stored within them.
That's what I found Friday while hangin' at PSP headquarters. The communications trooper I spoke with couldn't clarify what the oversight mechanism is at the new PSP-FBI fusion center at PSP HQ. Translation: Abuse our privacy at will.
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QUEENS, N.Y. -- There comes a point in every team's season where they can either accept their fate or change it. Tech entered the St. John's Chartwell's Holiday Classic as Southern Belles, ready to enter society with white gloves and pristine looks, but these belles of the ball will leave the big city with an edge, some grit and a fierce attitude of fight.
The Golden Eagles lost to St. Mary's College, 73-58, in the consolation game Sunday afternoon but emerge as a united force with a purpose and pride in their ranks. The St. Mary's Gaels entered Sunday's contest in true Irish form: strong, forceful and a belief, a knowledge, that they would walk all over Tennessee Tech. They were bigger, leaner and quicker. It was a true David and Goliath match-up. Head coach Jim Davis knew the Golden Eagles would need to play their best to defeat the Western Conference powerhouse.
From tip-off to the mid-point in the first half it appeared to all that the game was long over as St. Mary's held a 29-5 lead, but that turning point where a team's acceptance changes to fight kicked in when Quira Demery, Tia Nicholson, Mariah Dean and Christina Caddy joined senior Jala Harris on the court. Point-by-point the Golden Eagles put the Gaels on their heels and shocked Carnesecca Arena. The Golden Eagles went on an 18-8 run to close out the half 37-23.
Coach Davis and his staff went into the locker room searching for a spark. The second half began and Diamond Henderson scored a lay-up and a 3-popinter, lighting up the gym as the Golden Eagles found their spark. Henderson found Jala Harris for a second three and for the first time Tech was within reach, trailing by eight points.
As shots started falling, that edge and grit emerged and Tech's defense made a statement. There was energy in the gym and fans saw a different team on the floor. Rather than backing away from the fight, Harris and Henderson drove into lane, putting up shots with two or three players hanging on each arm. As they drove, they opened up players on the wings and the team's ball movement made Tech unstoppable. In addition, Tech held the Gaels scoreless for four minutes, going on a 9-0 run coming within one point at 45-46. Lashay Davis was on the ground diving after loose balls searching for her teammates, with the rest of the team stepping into the lanes, going push-for-push.
Tech went point for point with the Gaels until nine minutes and 44 seconds remained in the game. The Golden Eagles got into foul trouble, and found themselves on a scoreless run until 2:33 when a free throw by Henderson ended the draught. Tech was on the bottom end of a 16-point deficit, but finished the game as a respected team.
Leading all scorers was Jala Harris with 20 points, and Henderson added 19. The pair combined for five of the team's nine assists. Davis chipped in with seven points and Molly Heady added three points. T'Keyah Williams, Katherine Barker and Caddy added two points each and Mariah Dean had one point but led Tech with five rebounds.
"For the first time this season, we will have a full week with all of the girls in practice," said Davis. "With their class schedules, we had several girls not able to make practice every day of the week. We now have the ability to really tweak a few things and work on our greatest weakness: rebounding."
The Golden Eagles were again outrebounded by their opponent, 43-35, giving up 14 second chance points.
Tech returns to action Saturday, December 22, as the Golden Eagles travel to Marshall. Tip-off is set for 1 p.m. CT.


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The powers of deduction: In case you were wondering, the only thing that Rafa does with his left hand is play tennis.
This video, produced by Nike in time for last year's Wimbledon, shows Rafa's uncle Toni recounting convincing his nephew to go southpaw at nine years old. Later in the video, they also playfully have Rafa throw, write, and brush his teeth using his left hand. He doesn't do so well.
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He had a chance to seize the outright lead at the par-five last but narrowly missed his birdie attempt from 15 feet to finish at 14-under 205, level with fellow Americans Webb Simpson (68) and Jordan Spieth (69).
Overnight leader Zach Johnson was two ahead of the chasing pack with seven holes to play but bogeyed 14 and 16 on the way to a 74 and fourth place at 12-under.
Dustin Johnson won last year's title, his seventh on the PGA Tour, by three shots in a tournament reduced to three rounds and forced to a rare Tuesday finish because of relentless howling winds at the Kapalua Resort.
He began Sunday's third round three strokes off the pace and launched his timely surge up the leaderboard with his stunning eagle at the ninth.
"I hit a great drive down there right to the end of the fairway and had a good number, 211 (yards) with uphill," Johnson told Golf Channel. "I just hit a great four-iron right at the flag and it ended up being pretty close."
Asked how he would attempt to close the deal in Monday's final round in pursuit of his ninth PGA Tour victory, Johnson replied: "I've got to take advantage of the par-fives.
"Today, I made a birdie and an eagle but I parred the two on the back nine which is poor for me, especially (after) hitting good drives."
Simpson, the 2012 U.S. Open champion, birdied four of the last seven holes to set the clubhouse lead at 14 under.
"That was really good," said the 28-year-old, who clinched his fourth PGA Tour win at the Shriners Hospitals for Children Open in Las Vegas three months ago.
"I feel like I am getting a little more comfortable with what I am working each day… and I was able to capitalise on those holes where you need to make birdie.
"I've just got to stay patient (on Monday). If you don't get it going early, you've got plenty of opportunities on the back (nine)."
Matt Kuchar made the first significant move of the day among the leaders, birdies at the fourth and fifth putting him at 12 under, just a stroke behind the pacesetting Zach Johnson.
However, Johnson picked up a shot with a two-putt birdie at the par-five fifth to edge two ahead, then regained his three-stroke advantage when Kuchar bogeyed the par-three eighth.
Spieth, the 2013 PGA Tour Rookie of the Year, trimmed the deficit to two with birdies at the eighth and ninth before being joined at 12 under by power hitter Dustin Johnson, who eagled the ninth and birdied the 10th.
Zach Johnson squandered a good opportunity to extend his lead when he missed an eight-footer for birdie at the 12th, and Spieth and Simpson closed in at 13 under with respective birdies at the 14th and 15th.
Johnson ran up his first bogey in 39 holes when he overhit the green with his second shot at the driveable par-four 14th and failed to get up and down from the rough to save par.
That briefly dropped him back into a share of the lead before Simpson knocked in a six-footer to birdie the 16th and move one stroke clear.
Zach Johnson also bogeyed the par-four 16th after a wayward tee shot ended up in an unplayable lie, while Dustin Johnson and Spieth, at the 16th and 17th, rolled in 15-footers to join Simpson in a three-way tie at the top.
Masters champion Adam Scott of Australia, the world number two and highest-ranked player in the elite field of 30, fired a 69 to end the day at 10 under, four strokes off the pace.
The Hyundai Tournament of Champions is the opening event of the year on the PGA Tour, but the seventh in the new wrap-around season for 2013-14.
(Reporting by Mark Lamport-Stokes in Los Angeles; Editing by John O'Brien)


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nslookup sends queries to Internet domain name servers. It has two modes: interactive and non-interactive. Interactive mode allows the user to contact servers for information about various hosts and domains or to display a list of hosts in a domain. Non-interactive mode is used to display just the name and requested information for a host or domain.
Set the permissible options, as shown in the following list. These are the same options that the set command supports in interactive mode (see set in the Commands section for more complete descriptions).
List the current settings
Restrict search according to the specified class
Set exhaustive debug mode on
Set exhaustive debug mode off
Set debug mode on
Set debug mode off
Set domain-appending mode on
Set domain-appending mode off
Establish the appendable domain
Set it to ignore packet truncation errors
Set it to acknowledge packet truncation errors
Inquires about the specified host. In this non-interactive command format, nslookup Does not prompt for additional commands.
Causes nslookup to prompt for more information, such as host names, before sending one or more queries.
Directs inquiries to the name server specified here in the command line rather than the one read from the /etc/resolv.conf file (see resolv.conf(4)). server can be either a name or an Internet address. If the specified host cannot be reached, nslookup resorts to using the name server specified in /etc/resolv.conf.
Non-interactive mode is selected when the name or Internet address of the host to be looked up is given as the first argument.
Within non-interactive mode, space-separated options can be specified. They must be entered before the host name, to be queried. Each option must be prefixed with a hyphen.
For example, to request extensive host information and to set the timeout to 10 seconds when inquiring about gypsy, enter:
example% nslookup -query=hinfo -timeout=10 gypsy
To avoid repeated entry of an option that you almost always use, place a corresponding set command in a .nslookuprc file located inside your home directory. (See Commands for more information about set.) The .nslookuprc file can contain several set commands if each is followed by a RETURN.
Interactive mode is selected when
No arguments are supplied.
A `-' (hyphen) character is supplied as the host argument.
To exit from an interactive nslookup session, type Control-d or type the command exit followed by RETURN.
The commands associated with interactive mode are subject to various limitations and run-time conventions.
The maximum length of a command line is 255 characters. When the RETURN key is pressed, command-line execution begins. While a command is running, its execution can be interrupted by typing Control-c.
The first word entered on the command line must be the name of a nslookup command unless you wish to enter the name of a host to inquire about. Any unrecognized command is handled as a host name to inquire about. To force a command to be treated as a host name to be inquired about, precede it with a backslash character.
Exit the nslookup program.
Display a brief summary of commands.
Look up information for host using the current default server, or using server if it is specified.
If the host supplied is an Internet address and the query type is A or 1PTR, the name of the host is returned. If the host supplied is a name and it does not have a trailing period, the default domain name is appended to the name. (This behavior depends on the state of the set options domain, srchlist, defname, and search).
To look up a host that is not in the current domain, append a period to the name.
Connect with the finger server on the current host, which is defined by the most recent successful host lookup.
If no name value is specified, a list of login account names on the current host is generated.
Similar to a shell command interpreter, output can be redirected to a file using the usual redirection symbols: > and >>.
List the information available for domain, optionally creating or appending to filename. The default output contains host names and their Internet addresses.
Output can be redirected to filename using the > and >> redirection symbols. When output is directed to a file, hash marks are shown for every 50 records received from the server. The permissible values for options are:
Lists aliases of hosts in the domain. This is a synonym for the command ls -t CNAME.
Lists all records for the domain. This is a synonym for the command ls -t ANY.
Lists CPU and operating system information for the domain. This is a synonym for the command ls -t HINFO.
Lists well-known services of hosts in the domain. This is a synonym for the command ls -t WKS.
lists all records of the specified type (see querytype within the discussion of the set command).
Establish a preferred mode of search operation. Permissible token and keyword values are:
Display the current values of frequently-used options. Information about the current default server and host is also displayed.
Limit the search according to the protocol group (classname) for which lookup information is desired. Permissible classname values are:
A wildcard selecting all classes
The Internet class (the default)
The Chaos class.
The MIT Athena Hesiod class.
Enable or disable exhaustive debugging mode. Essentially all fields of every packet are displayed. By default, this option is disabled.
Enable or disable debugging mode. When debugging mode is enabled, much more information is produced about the packet sent to the server and the resulting answer. By default, this option is disabled.
Enable or disable appending the default domain name to a single-component lookup request (one that lacks a dot). By default, this option is enabled for nslookup. The default value for the domain name is the value given in /etc/resolv.conf, unless: there is an environmental value for LOCALDOMAIN when nslookup is run; a recent value has been specified through the srchlist command or the set domain command.
Change the default domain name to be appended to all lookup requests to string. For this option to have any effect, the defname option must also be enabled and the search option must be set in a compatible way. The domain search list contains the parents of the default domain if it has at least two components in its name. For example, if the default domain is CC.Berkeley.EDU, the search list is CC.Berkeley.EDU and Berkeley.EDU. Use the set srchlist command to specify a different list. Use the set all command to display the list.
Ignore packet truncation errors. By default, this option is disabled.
Change the default domain name to name1 and the domain search list to name1, name2, etc. A maximum of 6 names can be specified, along with slash characters to separate them. For example,
example% set srchlist=lcs.MIT.EDU/ai.MIT.EDU/MIT.EDU
sets the domain to lcs.MIT.EDU and the search list to all three names. This command overrides the default domain name and search list of the set domain command. Use the set all command to display the list.
Enable or disable having the domain names in the domain search list appended to the request, generating a series of lookup queries if necessary until an answer is received. To take effect, the lookup request must contain at least one dot (period); yet it must not contain a trailing period. By default, this option is enabled.
Specify the default TCP/UDP name server port. By default, this value is 53.
Change the type of information returned from a query to one of:
The Internet address of the host
The canonical name for an alias
The host CPU and operating system type
The mail destination
The mail exchanger
The mailbox domain name
The mail group member
The mailbox or mail list information
The name server
The host name if the query is in the form of an Internet address; otherwise the pointer to other information
The domain's start-of-authority information
The text information
The user information
The supported well-known services
(Other types specified in the RFC 1035 document are valid, but they are not as useful.)
Enable or disable having to query other name servers before abandoning a search. By default, this feature is enabled.
Set the maximum number of times to retry a request before abandoning a search. When a reply to a request is not received within a certain amount of time (changed with set timeout), the timeout period is doubled and the request is resent. The retry value controls how many times a request is resent before the request is aborted. The default for count is 4.
Change the name of the root server to host. This affects the root command. The default root server is ns.internet.net.
Change the amount of time to wait for a reply to interval seconds. Each retry doubles the timeout period. The default interval is 5 seconds.
Enable or disable the use of a virtual circuit when sending requests to the server. By default, this feature is disabled.
Change the default server to the server for the root of the domain name space. Currently, the host ns.internic.net is used; this command is a synonym for server ns.internic.net. The name of the root server can be changed with the set root command.
Change the default server to domain. lserver uses the initial server to look up information about domain while server uses the current default server. If an authoritative answer can not be found, the names of servers that might have the answer are returned.
To effectively search the Internet domain namespace, it helps to know its structure. At present, the Internet domain name-space is tree-structured, with one top level domain for each country except the United States.. There are also some traditional top level domains, not explicitly tied to any particular country. These include:
Commercial establishments
Educational institutions
Not-for-profit organizations
Government agencies
MILNET hosts
If you are looking for a specific host, you need to know something about the host's organization in order to determine the top-level domain that it belongs to. For instance, if you want to find the Internet address of a machine at UCLA, do the following:
Connect with the root server using the root command. The root server of the name space has knowledge of the top-level domains.
Since UCLA is a university, its domain name is ucla.edu. Connect with a server for the ucla.edu domain with the command server ucla.edu. The response produces the names of hosts that act as servers for that domain. Note: the root server does not have information about ucla.edu, but knows the names and addresses of hosts that do. Once located by the root server, all future queries will be sent to the UCLA name server.
To request information about a particular host in the domain (for instance, locus), just type the host name. To request a listing of hosts in the UCLA domain, use the ls command. The ls command requires a domain name, (in this case, ucla.edu, as an argument.
If you are connected with a name server that handles more than one domain, all lookups for host names must be fully specified with its domain. For instance, the domain harvard.edu is served by seismo.css.gov, which also services the css.gov and cornell.edu domains. A lookup request for the host aiken in the harvard.edu domain must be specified as aiken.harvard.edu. However, the set domain=name and set defname commands can be used to automatically append a domain name to each request.
After a successful lookup of a host, use the finger(1) command to see who is on the system, or to finger a specific person. (finger requires the type to be A.)
To get other information about the host, use the set querytype=value command to change the type of information desired and request another lookup.
Initial domain name and name server addresses
Initial option commands
Summary of commands
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
Interface Stability
Standard BIND 8.2.4
finger(1), more(1), in.named(1M), nstest(1M), resolver(3RESOLV), resolv.conf(4), attributes(5)
Mockapetris, Paul. RFC 1034, Domain Names - Concepts and Facilities. Network Working Group. November 1987.
Mockapetris, Paul. RFC 1035, Domain Names - Implementation and Specification. Network Working Group. November 1987.
If the lookup request is successful, an error message is produced. Possible errors are:
The server did not respond to a request after a certain amount of time (changed with set timeout=value) and a certain number of retries (changed with set retry=value).
No name server is running on the server machine.
The server does not have resource records of the current query type for the host, although the host name is valid. The query type is specified with the set querytype command.
The host or domain name does not exist.
The connection to the name or finger server can not be made at the current time. This error commonly occurs with ls and finger requests.
The name server found an internal inconsistency in its database and could not return a valid answer.
The name server refused to service the request.
The name server found that the request packet was not in the proper format. This may indicate an error in nslookup.


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He almost pulled it off...
The Voice of Reason
I think that guy's uncle is in the Marines
The most important six inches on the battlefield ... is between your ears.
I was talking to this gent that claimed to have been a Force Recon Marine, but then he jumped over to the Navy to become a Seal, while being a 4 star Admiral, while also being the first Army guy ever to fly a jet airplane. Being retired, he sends all of his retirement pay over to charities for wounded service people.
As Commandant for the Marine Corps League Detachment here at the time, I guess that he chose the correct person to tell this to. Some of the members of the Det. and I were out in front of a local Walmart, selling tickets to a drawing that would benefit a charity for wounded service people, when he did that.
Finally, though, he ran out of fascinating things to run his mouth off about, and I related as to how I was a Roman Centurion, way back when. Also that I was the guy that stuck my spear up through Jesus's ribs, to make sure that he was dead.
He looked at me with his mouth hanging open, then he ran away back to his car and took off. Too bad, though.
I was about to sell him the Spear of Destiny!


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Northern Route stage 04: Deba - Markina-Xemein
This stage passes through...
Deba (variante Sasiola - Astigarribia), Deba (variante del Calvario), Aparain (no es localidad, donde se juntan las dos variantes), Olatz, Markina-Xemein
Outstanding destinations
- Route belonging to:
- The Way of Saint James
- Name of route:
- Northern Route
- Distance:
- 21,80 km
- Mode of transport
- Bicycle
- Walking
- Main difficulties
- The path up to Mount Arno has constant differences in level. It should be remembered that the route starts from sea level and goes up to 500 metres at its highest point. This ascent —and the subsequent descent— is a little over five kilometres and involves an intense workout.
- Craft products
- The work of craftsmen is closely linked to the peoples and culture of Euskadi. It honours the ancestral customs and ways of life, and serves as a channel to welcome in new ideas. www.ereintza.com www.gabiltza.org
- Gastronomic products, cakes and pastries
- The sea has historically been more generous than the land in Euskadi, and fish is the star ingredient of the traditional cuisine. The local meat is lean and full of taste, with more emphasis on quantity than quality. Another typical element of the local fare is cheese and dairy products such as cuajada (a kind of curd cheese), as well as traditional cakes and pastries.


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Dave Berzins needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 34 designs submitted by 14 freelance designers.
GravityCube Software
GravityCube Software is a new software development company specializing in mobile applications for iPhone, iPod and iPad. While we have developed our own projects, our main clientele comes to us for outsourced coding. People come to us to write software for them.
We are not targeting any specific market at the moment (be it gaming, business, music, etc), but the logo should be fun and exciting and geared more towards the business segment. Target age group would be male 25 - 45, business owner.
The logo should be relatively simple with a maximum of four colours. Avoid use of 3D and or drop shadows to enable logo use for embroidery and printing. The logo can look 3D but only show solid colours on each face. A name with "cube" in it lends itself to a logo based around some sort of cube or box. Play on gravity, big bang, science possible here? We do not have any set criteria on logo look and feel and or the font choice for company name. As we are starting from scratch, their are no limitations on design, so open book.
Logos that we have found online we like but for one reason or another (cant get exclusivity, use of 3D shadowing), they are not a perfect fit.
We have included these two logos to give you ideas on direction.
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