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Naruto:Kyuubi Secrets Ch.4
Fiction, Fan fiction
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Naruto:Kyuubi Secrets
Ch.4: Undying Passion
So, guys, this is the beginning of chapter 4!! I'm excited, because even I, as the writer, don't know what to expect!!! Well, I just hope that you guys can enjoy this chapter!!!
Naruto held his head in confusion as he tried to comprehend what he had just heard.
"So, what you're saying is that the CloudScape is basically just a small scroll?" He asked, looking at Kubo.
"Not 'basically', it's exactly what I'm saying," Kubo replied, as he took another bite of ramen, with an ornate red scroll resting in his hand lazily.
"Ok, I'm a little confused," Naruto replied unsteadily as he also sipped the remains of the ramen from his bowl.
"How so?" Nya asked, from the background, as she did multiple backflips, and played around with the two blood-red kunais in her hands.
"Well," He replied, looking at both Nya and Kubo,"It just, I guess, takes some understanding to believe that such an amazing world can be sealed into a tiny scroll."
Kubo held his head and muttered something about it being way to hard to explain things, then replied,"It's not really sealing the world in the scroll. It's more like writing the world and everything about it, then bringing it to life."
"Yeah," Nya said, stopping her gymnastics altogether."It may sound impossible, but it is actually an ancient art called 'Scroll Mimicking'."
"That's right, Scroll Mimicking isn't used amongst the humans, though," Kubo said as he stood and began walking away from the ramen stand."It is, in actuality, a bijju art, but as Kyuubis, we know about it, and don't have anything against sharing it."
"So, would I be able to learn how to Scroll Mimick?" Naruto asked anxiously.
"Of course," Both Nya and Kubo said simultaneously.
"Anyone can do it, but it's just a matter of doing it correctly and effectively," Nya continued in a serious tone.
"Exactly," Kubo pointed out." And another example of Scroll Mimickry would be this."
From this, he pulled a scroll out of his back holster, and cut it at the opening. He then swung it through the air, and as the contents unraveled, Kubo trailed his hand over the writing. Suddenly, there was a flash of light, and when it cleared, instead of a scroll, he sported the same red blade as he had in the mock battle, a few days ago.
"This, is the Kyuubi Blade 1.1, or so I call it," Kubo said proudly.
"Wow," Naruto exclaimed, breathtakingly."I'm looking forward to this Scroll Mimicking thing!"
As Nya and Kubo both laughed, all three made their way to the apartment, where,(no surprise) Jayiara was no where to be found. So, they all just got ready for sleep, and after a conversation about Scroll Mimicking, they all dozed off.
But, Naruto, not being able to sleep, instead went to the roof, and gazed up at the stars. Suddenly, he felt a pair of arms wrap around his neck, down to his chest.
"Hey," Nya said sleepily as she held onto Naruto.
He grabbed ahold of her arms, then flipped her over his back, then hugged her as he replied,"Hey to you too, beautiful."
"I love you, Naruto," Nya said as she molded herself into Naruto's chest.
Naruto was surprised, but then said,"Don't worry, Nya. I know you do."
Nya giggled and snuggled into Naruto even more before replying,"Your training is coming along well."
Naruto eyed her for a second then said,"Ok Nya, what are you up to?"
"Oh, nothing much," She said, grinning devilishly, as she stood.
Nya began doing twirls, dancing through the brisk night air as she "accidentally" let her arms out, and the robe came slowly falling to the ground. Naruto deeply blushed while Nya stood there fully nude, and strutted over to him.
"Does my body appeal to you, Naruto?" She asked in a sexy voice, filled with a seductive slur.
"Uh...Well, yes, I mean no, I mean, it just bothers me," Naruto blurted out, trying to keep his gaze off Nya's body.
Nya giggled as she sat down and hid behind her legs before asking,"How so, Naruto? How do I bother you?"
"It isn't you in general, it's just that your body is a little new for me," Naruto replied still blushing.
"So, you don't like my body?" Nya asked in a sad tone, obviously disappointed.
"No, no, that's not what I'm saying at all, Nya," Naruto said, pulling Nya into his chest and hugging her softly.
"That's good," Nya said snuggling into Naruto once more as he looked on in confusion.
"Why is it good?" He inquired, non understandingly.
"Because," Nya curtly replied as she leaned up and whispered into Naruto's ear,"My body is all yours."
Naruto just smiled as he held the beautiful vixen, rubbing her ears as she slept. Soon after she fell into her deep sleep, Naruto made his way back to the apartment, and quickly fell into a deep sleep of his own.
"So Naruto, are you ready for your first lesson in Scroll Mimicry?" Kubo asked, obviously tired as hell.
Naruto, running in random circles and patterns, let out a 'whoop' and shouted,"Hell to the fuckin' yeah!"
Nya sat in a stool at the corner of the field writing in scroll, giggling at Naruto's vigorous response. She watched in silence as Kubo sat at a desk he had conjured(from a scroll), and showed Naruto the basic steps. She, of course, had all of them memorized, but she just loved staring at Naruto pointlessly.
"Ok Naruto," Kubo began."The main steps aren't to difficult, but they're easy to screw up if you don't do them correctly."
Naruto stared on seriously, then replied,"Ok, I've got it. Carry on please."
"Good. So first, you are going to form a Kage Bushin. So, do that now."
Naruto quickly formed the hand seals, and instantly, there was a complete clone next to him.
Kubo nodded in approval, then continued his lecture."Ok, now, I want you to make your Bushin transform into a brush."
After Naruto finished, Kubo went on."Ok, now those were the hardest parts. Now we can move on to your first lesson. Here is an empty scroll," Kubo said, handing the teenager a blank scroll,"I now want you to simply write any type of animal, include any color, then tell me when you're done."
Naruto thought for a second, then quickly began writing on the scroll. After a few moments, Naruto handed the scroll to Kubo, and after a minute of inspection, Kubo once again began to relay his instructions.
"Ok, so now that you have your scroll that contains you 'Scroll Ideal', I'm going to teach you how to bring it to life," Kubo lectured to a wide-eyed Naruto."I want you to send an amount of chakra into your hand, then quickly, but lightly, drag your hand over the paper. So, try it."
Naruto took a deep breath, then steadily held his hand up. After some time, he placed his hand on the base of the scroll, then ripped his hands over the contents of the scroll.
The white paper suddenly exploded into a flash of light that no one was expecting. After everyone had recovered from the blinding light, they all turned to see a midnight blue fox, licking the back of its red-tinted paw.
"AAWWWWW!!!!" Nya exclaimed as she ran to pet the fox.
But, directly after she touched it, the fox was startled, then it began unfolding, almost as if it were an origami fox, until, in its place, rested a closed scroll, the exact same one that Kubo had given Naruto.
Naruto began running around, whooping, as Kubo tried to keep his eyes on him, and said,"Great job, Naruto. But that was only the beginning."
Naruto altogether stopped his celebrating, then pouted, expecting more from his teacher. Nya was on the ground, with a splitting pain in her side, but still laughing her ass off at Naruto's quirky attitude.
Naruto, over two years, had rapidly excelled in the art of Scroll Mimicking, and was now at the point were he was almost as good as Nya and Kubo. He had learned many new justus, and had gotten better at controlling his 'Kyuubi Transformations'. Nya had grown more lusty, and was almost always obsessing over Naruto's body. Kubo had stayed fit, by fighting in a local town arena, and had won several awards.
And now, after three years, Naruto was on his way, with Jayiara, back to Konoha.
A cloaked figure quickly trudged through a muddy field in the dead of night. When he reached his destination, he gave three short chirps, and directly after, two other cloaked figures drop from an above tree. One had a taped katana in his hand, and a scroll in the other. The other had two sheathed knives in each of her hands.
"Do you have it," the boy with the katana asked.
"Yeah, it's right here," the original boy replied, pulling a scroll out of his cloak.
The 'katana boy' took the scroll, then opened it and read its contents. After a couple moments of reading, the teen looked up and said,"This is good. It includes the telepathy link, and that's really all we need."
"Ok, well then," The original boy started," You guys have to hurry up. You guys can't be seen in the village."
"We understand," The katana boy said, then quickly dragged his hand over the contents of the scroll.
There was a flash of light, then a swirling portal formed on the ground. The katana boy jumped in, and the portal glowed brighter for a moment, the returned to normal. The girl, in her black cloak, with prints of cherry blossoms, looked back at the one remaining boy with pain in her eyes, then ran into his arms.
"I love you," She whispered silently, then stood on her tippy-toes to kiss him.
Their tongues danced in an erotic pattern, and when they broke the kiss, the boy looked down and said," I know you love me, baby."
She looked up at him disappointedly, and replied,"Why can't you say you love me, Naruto?"
"Nya, I'm just not ready yet," Naruto answered sadly.
Nya looked at him, then quickly packed him on the lips, and jumped into the portal. The portal flashed one last time, then closed and compressed into, once again, a small scroll. Naruto smiled softly, then picked up the scroll, and quickly ran through the field, in the direction of the village, to meet up with Jayiara and set out for Konoha.
Well guys, that was chapter four! Hope you enjoyed it, and try to comment please. Those who wanted more had wait a long time because I didn't know anyone liked my story, so comment!!! Also, I might be thinking of doing a 'One Piece' story, so given me your opinion on what you would think of that.
Next chapter:Naruto finally returns to Konoha, and finds that someone he would never expect has a major crush on him, and it isn't Hinata!!
Until then,
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Amazing story please continue.
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No one piece. More Naruto
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Me and my friends read these and we think you do a wonderful job keep it up.
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Colombo rejects TNAs ultimatum on non-existing devolution plan[TamilNet, Friday, 05 August 2011, 11:54 GMT]Rejecting outright the demands of the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) in a typical Sinhala hegemonic manner, the militaristic government of Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa on Thursday said that the demands set out in the TNAs ultimatum for future talks have reflected the attitude of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). According to a statement from United People Freedom Alliance (UPFA) parliamentarian Sajin Vas De Gunawardane, the Rajapaksa regime is now set to embark on the process of Parliament Select Committee (PSC), unable to carry on with its never ending deceptive effort to drag the time on in the name of holding political dialogue with the Tamil representatives on the non-existing devolution plan. At a time when the Tamil political circles were sceptically pondering the motives behind the talks between the government and the TNA, a section of the TNA on the supreme advice of the Indian bureaucracy, held ten rounds of talks with the government since January 2011 aiming to reach what it called an acceptable political solution despite very negative ground realities. Having exposed that they were taken for a ride once again by both the governments of India and Sri Lanka, the TNA on Thursday gave a two-week ultimatum to Rajapaksa government to come out with devolution details on the structure of governance, the division of subjects and functions between centre and the devolved units and on fiscal and financial powers, to decide on carrying forward any future dialogue. We do not think that the ultimatum delivered to the government by the TNA, which is tantamount to the attitude portrayed by the LTTE, is at all helpful or constructive for the purpose of carrying forward in a structured and methodical way a process which can reach a positive outcome only if it has the widest possible support among the public, MP Gunawardane, who is also the Secretary of the UPFA delegation, said in the statement on Thursday. It will be observed that these three areas, taken in combination, encompass almost the entirety of the issues involved in the discussions between the SLFP, the main political party of the government and the TNA. It is certainly not possible, nor is it consistent with the national interest, to make a final pronouncement on all these crucial issues, hastily and without wider consultation, at this stage, the government statement said. As much as the SLFP does not solely represent any community in particular, the TNA also does not solely represent the Tamil community. In the circumstances which have now arisen on account of the demarche of the TNA, the government will proceed with the appointment of a Parliamentary Select Committee the statement said. Calling the PSC as an appropriate forum for a discussion in which all the representatives of the people can participate with a view to identifying the constitutional reforms that are needed the Government statement expressed optimism that all political parties, including the TNA will avail themselves of this opportunity. The TNA, which became a political force after it got the backing of the LTTE, publicly dropped the demand for a separate state for which thousands of Tamil youth have sacrificed their lives, immediately after the governments military victory over the LTTE in May 2009. The TNA did this without any political compromise from the government, which has slaughtered over 40,000 Tamil civilians in the final weeks of the war in May 2009. The TNA now appears to have not only dropped the demand for a federal-style solution, but is ready to hold talks with the Sri Lankan government on the drastically watered-down version of the controversial 13th Amendment, even without police and lands powers. The fresh developments have taken place after Presidential sibling and Sri Lankas defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa has said in an interview that the political solution talk is simply irrelevant as his troops have ended terrorism. We don't have to talk about solution and various things any longer, because we have ended this terrorism in Sri Lanka. We have a constitution. If there is further amendment needed then government can speak with the elected representatives. Now we have representation from these areas, Gotabhaya Rajapaksa has said in an interview with the Headlines Today. The Rajapaksa government is under ever increasing international pressure over the wide-spread war crime allegations during the final weeks of the war in May 2009, especially after the release of UN expert panel report and the Channel 4 documentaries. Chronology: |
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Our advisers agree that Bex is fortunate in having accrued some benefits in public-sector pension schemes, as these offer beneficial terms and guarantees which are increasingly difficult to replicate in the private sector.
"That said, she doesn't have many years of service, so these are likely to pay out relatively little," warns Mr Connolly.
He urges her not to rush into transferring the local government scheme benefits into the NFPS.
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Mr Smaje also urges caution.
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If Bex does want to transfer her pension benefits into the NFPS, she should have a year from joining the scheme to do this – giving her a bit of time, according to Mr Connolly.
"Equally, going forward, she should then remain in this employer scheme in preference to contributing to a personal pension," he says. "Even if more changes are made to the NFPS, it will still offer better benefits."
Mr Cox adds that the NFPS is very good value – far better than paying into a private pension.
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Nutella Funnel Cake
I can never resist getting funnel cake at the fair. Fried dough, with a sprinkle of powdered sugar. What's not to love?
My first taste of funnel cake wasn't until college. They used to always have it at random events on college walk, along with kettle corn, and some other vendors I can no longer remember.
I never thought about trying to make my own funnel cake until coming across a post for a red velvet funnel cake, which also happens to be a new food item at the San Diego Fair this year. I was set on trying out the recipe and then didn't have all the needed ingredients. I had just made some of my Nutella Donut Pancakes, and thought, why not try frying up the rest of the batter?
I was happily surprised to see the dough come together and stay in one piece from my random circular drizzles into the hot oil. Unfortunately, I couldn't get my funnel cake to be thicker. Every time I tried piping thicker dough, it ended up falling apart. Rather than tasting fluffy like a donut, it was brittle since it was so thin. It tasted like more a fried Nutella cracker or cookie. It still tasted really good, though not exactly like funnel cakes I've had in the past.
I think I need to try out some more funnel cake recipes first and become more experienced in making funnel cakes before trying to create a Nutella one again. But I still like the look and taste of this one even though it wasn't exactly funnel cake.
Nutella Funnel Cake
3/4 cup minus 2 tbsp sugar
1 large egg
1 1/2 cups all purpose flour
2 tsp baking power
1/4 tsp salt
1/4 tsp ground nutmeg
1/4 cup vegetable oil
3/4 cup fat free milk
1 tsp vanilla extract
1/2 cup Nutella
Oil for frying
Powdered sugar for dusting tops of funnel cakes
1. In a large bowl, whisk together sugar and egg until combined. Add in flour, baking powder, salt and nutmeg. Then mix in vegetable oil, milk, Nutella and vanilla extract. Stir until everything is combined.
2. Pour oil into pan being used for frying, at least one inch deep. Preheat to medium-high heat. While oil is heating, put batter into a piping bag. After oil is hot, drizzle the donut batter in a circular motion until it forms the shape and size you wish. The batter will spread while frying and start to firm up. As soon as it is firm enough, flip over and cook other side.
3. Remove from hot oil and cool on paper towel lined plates. Repeat with remaining batter. Before serving, sprinkle powdered sugar on top.
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Despite a large body of evidence for the authenticity of the dinosaur tissue, there remains a pattern of denial within the evolutionist community.
For more than a century Christians have looked for the scientific silver bullet that would destroy Darwinian evolution and prove biblical creation to be true.
It has always been an interesting historical point that the contemporary creation movement began not in the pulpit, but in the laboratory.
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You all know how much I love The Ellen DeGeneres Show, and she has this recurring feature where she calls up this 80-something-year-old woman in Austin, Texas named Gladys.
The first time she called Gladys, Gladys revealed the best. quote. ever.
She said, in response to a completely unrelated question by Ellen, "Listen, I'll be honest with you I love Jesus, but I drink a little."
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QNAP announced a new 12 bay rackmount Turbo NAS unit today. Read on for details!
QNAP announced a new 12 bay rackmount Turbo NAS unit today. This unit is aimed at small to medium sized businesses and has many business-oriented features, like dual gigabit LAN ports, rackmount form factor, Atom processor, 512MB DOM for system boot, locks on the drive bays, and more. Here is the press release:
Taipei, Taiwan, February 20, 2013– QNAP® Systems, Inc. today officially launched its latest business-class 12-drive rackmount Turbo NAS TS-1269U-RP. Featuring blazingly fast performance and well-rounded designs to ensure system reliability and rich business applications, the TS-1269U-RP is designed to fulfill mission-critical storage needs of small and medium businesses with maximum system uptime.
The TS-1269U-RP is equipped with a Dual-core Intel® Atom™ 2.13GHz processor, dual Gigabit LAN ports, and 2GB DDR3 RAM, delivering excellent performance to match up with the needs of running performance-driven applications concurrently in nowadays business environments. With 4TB hard drives installed, the TS-1269U-RP can hold up to 48TB of raw storage capacity. "QNAP's internal testing shows that both writing and reading speeds in typical Windows environments can achieve up to 220 MB/sec in network trunking mode," said Jason Hsu, product manager of QNAP.
Business continuity is backed with comprehensive reliability designs of the TS-1269U-RP, including advanced RAID management, redundant power supply, 512MB DOM with dual system OS that ensures successful system boot-up, dual LAN ports providing network failover, and hot-swappable support for SSD, SATA 6Gb/s 3.5" and 2.5" drives. It also features key lock on hard disk trays for enhanced security.
The TS-1269U-RP, certified with Windows Server 2012, is an ideal centralized storage solution for SMBs with large number of users. It allows cross-platform file sharing for Windows®, Mac®, and Linux/UNIX users. The Windows AD and LDAP directory services enable the IT administrator to retrieve user accounts from Windows AD or LDAP-based directory server and assign access rights to the Turbo NAS, greatly reducing time and effort in account setup. The Windows ACL (Access Control List) feature offers sophisticated shared folder permission settings which simplify IT management in privilege control.
Being certified by major virtualization solutions in the market, the TS-1269U-RP is proven to be a reliable storage unit for server virtualization via iSCSI/IP-SAN deployment. It supports VMware® vSphere™, Citrix® XenServer™ and Microsoft® Hyper-V™. Being certified with VMware® Ready™ for ESXi 5, the TS-1269U-RP supports both vSphere 4 and vSphere 5.
The TS-1269U-RP offers flexible backup solutions, supporting Real-time Remote Replication (RTRR) for real-time or scheduled data replication, backup to cloud storage including Amazon® S3, ElephantDrive®, Symform® and Google® Drive, and third-party backup software such as Veeam® Backup & Replication and Acronis® True Image. Windows users and Mac users can use QNAP NetBak Replicator utility and Apple Time Machine respectively to easily back up data to the TS-1269U-RP.
The TS-1269U-RP has built-in Surveillance Station Pro. Compatible with over 1,400 IP cameras, it's easy to build up an IP-based surveillance solution to safeguard the environment. Without additional software installation, the IP camera live-view, recording, and playback are all done on web browsers. The VMobile app for iOS® and Android™ devices enables on-the-go operations.
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My evolving learning journey
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I attended ASTD, eLearning, Online Learning, Elliott Masie's TechLearn, Training, ISPI (then NSPI), and many others. In the early 2000s, Elliott Masie's TechLearn (he came up with the name; ASTD's TechKnowledge shamelessly ripped it off) was a fertile field for networking and sampling new concepts. I grumbled. Lance Dublin set me straight. It's open.
eLearning Conferences 2013
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Clayton R. Wright has done his 28th version of his amazing list of conferences again this year. Past years eLearning Conferences 2012 , eLearning Conferences 2011 , eLearning Conferences 2010 , eLearning Conferences 2009. You can contact him at: crwr77 [@] gmail.com. This year, he has cut down the list slightly to cover "selected events." " But its still a massive list. Do Different.
Lean ISD, Social Learning, VAK, Joe Harless Video, & Google
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Social Learning Survey - The Masie Center. It was him as a Wizard doing the Banquet Speech at the 1993 Chicago NSPI (now ISPI) Conference. Lean Instructional System Design - by Wong Yew Yip (YY) in Ditagroup. It is not uncommon for learners who signed up for a particular course to find that what was delivered was not what they had expected. It arrived in the mail on Thursday.
E-Learning for Newbies
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' joined ASTD, ISPI, e-Learning Guild, went to Masie lab. ASTD 's Learning Circuits Blog has a monthly 'Big Question. This month it's: I'm interested in [the field of] eLearning. What should I do first? I think one place to start is to look at the competencies and skills needed for various "e-learning jobs. knowledge of evaluation. Tweet!


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Fridays the LA Progressive features a comment that was particularly noteworthy. This week we are featuring a comment submitted by Dr. Stephen R. Keister commenting on The Day the Democrats Died, by Paul Hogarth.
Here's Dr. Keister's comment:
As an 88-year-old, retired physician, and a member of Physician's For a National Health Program, I am, of course,in favor of universal/single payer care. When Obama by-passed that option without a word in favor of same, I was a good sport and accepted "the public option". Thereafter the White House and the Senate turned that option aside and settled on a very poor third choice "Medicare for those inder 65″. Now that is gone and all that remains, in essence, is compulsary tax payer subsidy of the Health Insurance Cartel. Note the tremendous rise in health insurance stocks in the past week, as they know full well that they have won. The apologists in the senate continue to delude the public that "health insurance reform" is still possible. Hogwash !
If our elected representatives in the Senate had been sincere they could have changed the filibuster rule with a mere majority vote, as they have done several years ago when the filibuster was changede from 66 to 60 votes. And there is still the 'nuclear option', discussed in detail in Wickopedia. Thus, we are left in a tragic situation as the only western nation sans universal health care–the only nation in which deprived persons die because of lack of resourses. We are a basically unethical and immoral society, driven by greed, and dominated by the corporate, neo-liberal economic culture.
My prior rantings per the Rag Blog are available in part via Google under Dr. Stephen R. Keister. Thanks to the L.A. Progressive as one of the few remaining resourses for enlightened progressive thought.
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Before You Start
Before you start to configure your DNS, you must gather some basic information. Internic must approve some of this information for use on the Internet, but if you are configuring this server for internal use only, you can decide what names and IP addresses to use.You must have the following information:
- Your domain name (approved by Internic).
- The IP address and host name of each server that you want to provide name resolution for.
Before you configure your computer as a DNS, verify that the following conditions are true:
- Your operating system is configured correctly. In the Windows Server 2003 family, the DNS service depends on the correct configuration of the operating system and its services, such as TCP/IP. If you have a new installation of a Windows Server 2003 operating system, then you can use the default service settings. You do not have to take additional action.
- You have allocated all the available disk space.
- All the existing disk volumes use the NTFS file system. FAT32 volumes are not secure, and they do not support file and folder compression, disk quotas, file encryption, or individual file permissions
Install DNS
- Open Windows Components Wizard. To do so, use the following steps:
- Click Start, click Control Panel, and then click Add or Remove Programs.
- Click Add/Remove Windows Components.
- In Components, select the Networking Services check box, and then click Details.
- InSubcomponents of Networking Services, select the Domain Name System (DNS) check box, click OK, and then click Next.
- If you are prompted, in Copy files from, type the full path of the distribution files, and then click OK.
Configure DNS
- Start the Configure Your Server Wizard. To do so, click Start, point to All Programs, point to Administrative Tools, and then click Configure Your Server Wizard.
- On the Server Role page, click DNS server, and then click Next.
- On the Summary of Selections page, view and confirm the options that you have selected. The following items should appear on this page:
- Install DNS
- Run the Configure a DNS Wizard to configure DNS
- When the Configure Your Server Wizard installs the DNS service, it first determines whether the IP address for this server is static or is configured automatically. If your server is currently configured to obtain its IP address automatically, the Configuring Components page of the Windows Components Wizard prompts you to configure this server with a static IP address. To do so:
- In the Local Area Connection Properties dialog box, click Internet Protocol (TCP/IP), and then click Properties.
- In the Internet Protocols (TCP/IP) Properties dialog box, click Use the following IP address, and then type the static IP address, subnet mask, and default gateway for this server.
- In Preferred DNS, type the IP address of this server.
- In Alternate DNS, type the IP address of another internal DNS server, or leave this box blank.
- When you finish setting up the static addresses for your DNS, click OK, and then click Close.
- After you click Close, the Configure a DNS Server Wizard starts. In the wizard, follow these steps:
- On the Select Configuration Action page, select the Create a forward lookup zone check box, and then click Next.
- To specify that this DNS hosts a DNS zone that contains DNS resource records for your network resources, on the Primary Server Location page, click This server maintains the zone, and then click Next.
- On the Zone Name page, in Zone name, specify the name of the DNS zone for your network, and then click Next. The name of the zone is the same as the name of the DNS domain for your small organization or branch office.
- On the Dynamic Update page, click Allow both nonsecure and secure dynamic updates, and then click Next. This makes sure that the DNS resource records for the resources in your network update automatically.
- On the Forwarders page, click Yes, it should forward queries to DNS servers with the following IP addresses, and then click Next. When you select this configuration, you forward all DNS queries for DNS names outside your network to a DNS at either your ISP or central office. Type one or more IP addresses that either your ISP or central office DNS servers use.
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Three storm chasers were killed when their vehicles collided at a rural intersection during severe West Texas storms.
Should the "Fearless Girl" stand up to Wall Street's charging bull forever?
Two teenage girls were barred by a gate agent from boarding a United Airlines flight from Denver to Minneapolis because they were wearing leggings.
Republican leaders have abruptly pulled their troubled health care overhaul bill off the House floor, short of votes and eager to avoid a humiliating defeat for President Donald Trump and GOP leaders.
Lawmakers in Washington are once again sparring over the ACF River Basin. This time, Florida lawmakers claim they're on the losing end of new water guidelines. Rep. Neal Dunn (R-FL) says his state needs better treatment from the Army Corps of Engineers.
President Trump fired a federal prosecutor Saturday who said he wouldn't honor Attorney General Jeff Sessions' request to resign.
A man carrying a backpack was arrested Friday night after breaching White House security and making it to the building's south entrance
The United States House of Representatives today passed the Fiscal Year 2017 Appropriations bill. U.S. Representative Martha Roby (R-Ala.) applauded the bill's passage, highlighting critical funding for the military at both a national and local level.
For several hours, Lady Liberty didn't shine so brightly.
Organizers of January's Women's March are calling for women to take the day off and encouraging them not to spend money to show their economic strength and impact on American society.
A bus hit by a train in Mississippi -- killing four people -- was carrying people on a trip organized by a Texas senior center.
The Anti-Defamation League says new threats have been made to four of its offices, at least six Jewish community centers and three day schools.
Key members of Congress say they will honor President Donald Trump's request to investigate his unsubstantiated claim that Barack Obama overstepped his authority as president and had Trump's telephones tapped during the election campaign.
President Donald Trump has signed a revised travel ban that temporarily halts entry to the U.S. for people from six Muslim-majority nations who are seeking new visas and suspends the country's refugee program.
The Supreme Court is handing a transgender teen's case back to a lower court without reaching a decision.
An arrest has been made in connection with threats made to at least eight Jewish community centers nationwide and the Anti-Defamation League's headquarters in New York City.
Another controversy for the Trump Administration, this time at the Department of Justice. Questions linger over Attorney General Jeff Sessions' contact with Russians during the 2016 campaign. It is causing division on Capitol Hill. While some lawmakers find the reports to be a witch-hunt, others believe they could pose a problem.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions had two conversations with the Russian ambassador to the United States during the presidential campaign.
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News at BME
November 21, 2016
Federal Work Study Position Available Effective Spring 2017
If you have Federal Work Study for the Spring 2017 semester and are looking for a position still. Please send your resume to email@example.com. The position includes filling, clerical tasks, deliveries across campus, etc.
October 25, 2016
Shu Jia, BME Assistant Professor, Awarded 2 Prestigious Awards
The National Science Foundation and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has funded two projects focused on the development of new super-resolution light microscope for both imaging of cells, tissues and organ systems and specifically will try to develop an understanding of the brain. Congratulations to Shu and his research team!
October 12, 2016
Postdoctoral Position Available
We are seeking a motivated postdoctoral fellow to join our multi-institution team in the research of novel applications of optical spectroscopy in medicine and the device-on-chip development. Qualified candidate should have a Ph.D. degree in biomedical engineering, electrical engineering or related fields with strong interest in medical device, proven experience in optical spectroscopy and field programmable gate array (FPGA) technology in high performance computing, and electronic and optical system integration.
September 27, 2016
Amna Haider, BME Junior, Featured on PSEG LI Investing in the Future of Stem
Congratulations to Amna for her research work this summer, funded by PSEG LI, to look into the role of cocaine on bone mechanical/physical properties. Amna is currently working on the direction of Drs Ete Chan and Clint Rubin. Bruce Coluccio, a BME Sophomore, and Robert Bruce, a Physics Major, also work with Drs Chan and Rubin over the summer in this project. Congratulations to all for their important work.
September 20, 2016
Assistant Professor, Shu Jia, has been named as a DARPA Young Faculty Awardee
The awarded project entitled: "Wavefront-Engineered, High-Speed Super-Resolution Microscopy for Nanometer-Scale, Live-Tissue Imaging" is at the forefront of super resolution microscopy.
The advancement of our understanding of biology has been greatly reliant on observations of cells. Light microscopy, especially fluorescence microscopy, has evolved to observe smaller specimens with greater resolution. The spatial resolution of a microscope is defined as the smallest distance in an image in which two distinct points can be distinguished. Because of the diffraction of light, resolution had previously been thought to have a theoretical limit from what is called Abbe's diffraction limit of light (~200-300 nanometers). Recent emergence of super-resolution imaging techniques has surpassed this limit, allowing visualization of cellular and sub-cellular structures with ~10-20 nanomater resolution at the near-molecular-scale. This advance provides thriving opportunities for exploring the complex structure, dynamics and function of biological molecules. Due to the significant impact of these new techniques, the 2014 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to the development of super-resolution fluorescence microscopy.
The research in the Jia Laboratory aims to enhance this resolving power across unexplored regimes in space and time to attain a better understanding of the molecular basis for the functions of tissues and organisms. To achieve the goal, the group investigates the physical and engineering principles underlying single-molecule imaging in complex biological materials, and utilizes these principles to develop new biophotonic methods for super-resolution microscopy. These methods include optical physics, optical wavefront engineering, single-molecule biophysics, adaptive optics, phase microscopy, large-data processing, advanced instrumentation, nano-fabrication, etc.
One super-resolution imaging method currently under investigation is called stochastic optical reconstruction microscopy (STORM), which relies on imaging of single molecules to reconstruct fluorescence images with sub-diffraction-limit resolution. In biological systems, how these single-molecule mechanisms are integrated over larger scales is critical for understanding physiological functions and disease initiation of complex biological systems. There remains a great demand in an enabling technology to extract such single-molecule information and dynamics across large volumes of specimen with ultra-high spatiotemporal resolution.
The DARPA award will support the lab's development of a new super-resolution microscopy system for in vivo investigations of cell, tissue and organ functions. The research will base on the lab's expertise in a technique called point spread function engineering, which can modify how light is propagated within an imaging system to achieve better imaging capability. By exploring and implementing a new type of optical non-diffracting waveforms, the light within a microscope can propagate in a dramatically different way from normal light. One typical feature is that it will not spread out as much as described by the usual diffraction effect of light. This allows people to image further deeper into biological samples. In addition, it also provides better 3D resolution and is more robust to scattering effect in biological tissues.
First trained as an applied physicist and electrical engineer and later into a bioimaging expert, Dr. Jia is passionate about advancing imaging technology with new physical concepts and engineering design. The highly interdisciplinary team consists of experts from physics, computer science, engineering, and biology. In collaboration with researchers both within the Department of Biomedical Engineering and elsewhere, the lab expects their new technologies would provide new insights and solutions to challenges in biological and ultimately clinical research.
August 1, 2016
Ete Chan wins SUNY Funding to Develop a Virtual Lab
Ete Chan, Assistant Professor, has received funding which will explore and develop the creation of virtual labs for Biomedical Engineering students. She is the leader of a group of biomedical engineering faculty and students and computer science faculty and students that will implement this project. Congratulations.


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I Have Seen the Future:
Norman Bel Geddes Designs America September 11, 2012 – January 6, 2013
When you drive on an interstate highway, attend a multimedia Broadway show, or watch a football game in an all-weather stadium, you owe a debt of gratitude to Norman Bel Geddes (1893–1958). Bel Geddes was both a visionary and a pragmatist who had a significant role in shaping not only modern America but also the nation's image of itself as leading the way into the future. Bel Geddes was a polymath who had no academic or professional training in the activities he mastered—designing stage sets, costumes, and lighting; creating theater buildings, offices, nightclubs, and houses; and authoring prescient books and articles.
Bel Geddes believed that art, as well as architecture and design, could make people's lives psychologically and emotionally richer. He influenced the behavior of American consumers and helped make industrial and theater design into modern businesses. Believing that communication was key to shaping the modern world, Bel Geddes popularized his vision of the future through drawings, models, and photographs. Of his utopian predictions, Bel Geddes's best-known project was the Futurama exhibit in the General Motors "Highways and Horizons" pavilion at the 1939–1940 New York World's Fair. It was an immense model of America, circa 1960, seen by 27,500 visitors daily who exited with a pin proclaiming "I Have Seen the Future."
I Have Seen the Future: Norman Bel Geddes Designs America explores the life and career of this complex and influential man and is organized into five thematic sections.
Setting the Stage: 1916–1927
In the initial phase of his professional career, Bel Geddes focused on theater design and theater spaces. Bel Geddes adapted for the American stage the principles of the so-called New Stagecraft movement in Europe, which aimed to free the theater from the strictures of bourgeois realism and to create settings for a new generation of playwrights who were exploring psychological and emotional depth in their work.
Industrious Design: 1927–1937
Eager to move beyond theater and broaden his influence over American society, Bel Geddes branched out in new directions in the late 1920s, adapting his flair for theater to architecture and interior design, pioneering the new field of industrial design, and popularizing streamlining as a design concept with his book Horizons (1932).
A Bigger World: 1937–1945
In the late 1930s Bel Geddes sought to reshape the entire American landscape. When Bel Geddes was asked to create an ad campaign for a new form of gasoline, he envisioned a Shell Oil "City of Tomorrow." With this project, pitchman Bel Geddes became urban visionary, focusing on decentralization as key to the improved city.
Futurama: 1939–1940
Bel Geddes's Futurama installation at the 1939–1940 New York World's Fair, dedicated to "building the world of tomorrow," was one of the fair's most popular attractions. This feat of imagination captured the national consciousness and highlighted Bel Geddes's talents as a modeler, futurist, and urban planner.
Total Living: 1945–1958
No longer at the epicenter of American industrial design after World War II, Bel Geddes nonetheless remained a visionary who was involved in virtually every field that defined Cold War America, from television to suburbia to urban renewal.
The exhibition was organized by Donald Albrecht, an independent curator and Curator of Architecture and Design at the Museum of the City of New York, with assistance from Cathy Henderson and Helen Baer at the Harry Ransom Center.
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Gallery Night picks from Dorota Biczel Nelson
Without hesitation, I recommend the letterpress-printed posters by the self-described "humble Negro from the South," Amos Kennedy Jr., whose work is on view at RedLine Milwaukee, 1422 N. 4th St. Kennedy is among a handful of print fanatics who, in a refreshing manner, have revived the near-obsolete but elegant tradition of printing text from hand-set type. He infuses the 19th-century tradition of using decorative wooden type, the format you might associate with "Wanted Dead or Alive!" posters, with provocative political and ethical slogans and the layering of rich color and pattern. They strike a chord without being overtly didactic. They are visual seduction with contemporary life lessons.
The "Persian Visions" show at the Haggerty Museum of Art (recently reviewed for Art City by Brent Gohde), 13th and Clybourn streets, is a rare opportunity to see contemporary work from one of the most volatile countries on the planet. The show prompts interesting questions about the role of art in society. Why feature photography and video work by the youngest Iranian artists abroad? Is the work an authentic expression of the struggles, challenges and attitudes? Does the exhibition highlight or obscure the battle of ideologies?
Last but not least, there is a small show not to be skipped. As I was browsing through the Gallery Night offerings, it struck me that shows of large-scale, three-dimensional work are rare outside institutional settings. So it is a real treat to see Blue Ant Gallery, 338 E. Milwaukee St., feature the sculptures and furniture of L. John Andrew. Working at the intersection of fine art, design and craft, Andrew creates mesmerizing, imaginative objects in which myriad, tiny, industrial elements come together in oblique, organic entities (see image, left). The natural, the sci-fi and the meticulous cohere in organism-like objects.
Dorota Biczel Nelson is an artist, the communications director for Walker's Point Center for the Arts and an Art City contributor.
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The Rams have found their new defensive coordinator, as the team will be bringing in Lions secondary coach Tim Walton.
The 42-year-old Walton has coached the Lions secondary since 2009. Before that he was the defensive coordinator at the University of Memphis.
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* Clark Kent has been ethically challenged for years, says former columnist Connie Schultz, and now he's "stomped out of the newsroom and trashed the industry that gave him cover. Rumor has it that he left the paper to blog. Bad idea, meet worst nightmare." (npr.org) | (parade.com)
* DNAInfo Chicago goes live. The hyperlocal site is funded by billionaire entrepreneur Joe Ricketts. (capitalnewyork.com)
* ESPN refuses to acknowledge plagiarism in Lynn Hoppes's archived stories. (deadspin.com)
* Tom Ricks' Fox News segment is cut short after he calls the network a wing of the GOP. (washingtonpost.com)
* Why Aaron Kushner and others are investing in newspapers. (ajr.org)
* If you invested $100 in Canada's Postmedia a year ago, you'd have $11 today. (@sladurantaye)
* Fund political cartoonist Bill Day for a year. (indiegogo.com) | (cagle.com)
* Vancouver Province fires its cartoonists (kriegercartoons.com) | (@dnmr1)
* Why Washington Post needs a paywall — and now! (cjr.org)
* Is the all-powerful magazine editor a thing of the past? (adweek.com)
* Even print journalists can reinvent themselves: a Deborah Blum update. (newspaperalum.com)
* Ten computers are stolen from Berkeley j-school. (mercurynews.com)
* Patch is apparently rethinking its focus. (patch.com)
Daily Archives: November 26, 2012
Politico looks ahead to 2016 – 15 days after the election
4:30 pmJust fifteen days after the election, Politico was already writing about the 2016 presidential race. ("Rick Santorum is telling friends he wants to run again. …Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker also harbors national ambitions and remains a favorite of tea party conservatives.")
So soon? I thought.
But then I did a quick search and discovered that Politico in 2008 wrote about possible 2012 GOP contenders on Nov. 9 — just five days after the election.
Here's what Jonathan Martin wrote in his "GOP Gears Up for 2012" story:
* Mitt Romney: "Sources close to the CEO-turned-politician say he's very much uncertain about whether he'll run for elective office again and is keeping a close eye on what direction the party takes in the months ahead, especially with regard to Palin. Romney is extraordinarily close to members of his family, and most are opposed to another run."
* Bobby Jindal: "Though only 37 and in his first year in statewide office, Jindal is already drawing rave reviews."
* Tim Pawlenty: The former Minnesota governor told Politico: "My day job is an honor and a privilege, and my focus is here."
* Sarah Palin: "A source close to the Alaska governor says that she has been bruised by the finger-pointing in her direction by anonymous campaign aides … but that she's also 'clearly an ambitious woman.'"
* Nov. 9, 2008: GOP gears up for 2012 (politico.com)
* Nov. 21, 2102: Republicans, 2016 – in full swing (politico.com)
Journalist wins school board seat with 24-hour write-in campaign on Facebook
2:26 pmSouth Jersey Times online editor Jim Cook Jr. noticed there was only one candidate running for the Woodstown-Pilesgrove school board, so he "half-jokingly" encouraged his Facebook friends to write him in.
"My first post went up around 10:30 p.m. Monday night [Nov. 5], and my last went up less than 24 hours later," he writes. "Eight posts total, asking for votes." (He also had a little Twitter campaign going.)
Cook ended up winning a three-year term — but he couldn't accept the job. (That's him jumping for joy in the newsroom after learning that he'd won.)
I wish I could, but I have to take the ethical route here and make the best decision for my career and the South Jersey Times — a job and company too close to my heart to put in jeopardy.
In my field of work, it is of the utmost importance that a reporter or editor does not serve on any elected position in politics. Objectivity is the basis of our dedication to local journalism in South Jersey. That can't be hindered. If I accepted the position, I would have to resign from a job that I worked too hard to get and feel too passionate about to give up.
"I hope I haven't let you down, and I'm sorry I cannot accept this position," he tells his backers. "I can, however, throw a victory party. And you're all invited."
* How I won an election by only using Facebook (nj.com)
* Cook on Facebook and Twitter
Cox Media Group to launch website for 'heartland conservatives'
12:07 pmCox Media Group is launching "a national news website for conservative audiences that is independent, anti-propaganda and rooted in the South away from the right and left coasts," according to ads on the Cox website. (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution parent is looking for an editor-in-chief, managing editor, and content editor. Go here and type "conservative" in the keyword form to see the advertised positions.)
Cox is looking for an editor-in-chief with "an established personal brand" who is "nationally recognized as a voice for heartland conservatives." That journalist "will be the face of the publication on TV/radio talk shows and in the public arena" and "will set the voice and tone of the publication and drive the national public conversation."
Creative Loafing's Thomas Wheatley writes: "Erick Erickson kinda fits the editor profile, no?"
More from the Cox ad:
This editor will mentor a small team of editors working on the 24/7 news site and offer fans/readers instant insights with humor, intelligence and transparency. The editor must establish a strong ideological narrative and lead the editorial team to find stories that mirror or magnify it. This editor embodies the soul of the publication and will be responsible for setting and meeting overall product goals and launch milestones throughout 2013 and beyond.
Cox Media Group spokesman Andy McDill tells me the company isn't ready to disclose the site's name or launch date. When will we get more information? "In the coming weeks, probably after the first of the year."
* Cox planning national news website geared toward conservatives (clatl.com)
Radio station apologizes for lifting ChicagoNow's Thanksgiving Parade drinking game
11:08 am"Do you routinely steal content?" ChicagoNow community manager Jimmy Greenfield asked Nashville's 107.5 after seeing the "Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade drinking game" posted on the Clear Channel radio station's site. The piece, written by T.R. Slyder, first appeared on ChicagoNow, a Chicago Tribune website.
107.5 morning host Jim Chandler apologized in the comments section:
This was my fault. We have a service that provides material for our show preparation. I confused their original content with T.R, Slyder's content. If I had read further into the article in the wee hours of the morning, I would have seen the source. It's good stuff, and we'll directly link to his content in the future when he blogs more about things our audience would enjoy. My apologies.
Wanted: A geezer with grammar skills
10:15 amThat's just an excerpt from the Craigslist ad placed by a 79-year-old "geezer" who writes that "I simply do not have the amount of money it would require to hire accomplished qualified professional people (who understandably expect enough remuneration to make a living wage doing such work)." You're likely to get the job if you live "reasonably near (hopefully within ten minutes or less driving time) the intersection of highways Interstate Highway 205 and Oregon Highway 224."
* Editor needed…over 70 yrs. old (NOT an EMPLOYEE) (craigslist.org)
UPDATE: This Craigslist ad is swell, too: "I would like to write a book, but find myself without the time or expertise to write it."
* Depressing Craiglist ad of the day: "Journalist wanted. No pay."
* Ad seeks person willing to write up to 60 articles a week at .009 to .02 cents per word
Today's unfortunate photo/headline placement
8:42 am
Several readers tipped me off to this front page photo and headline from Sunday's The State. I've asked Mark Lett, executive editor of the Columbia, S.C., paper, if it's much ado about nothing, or if the layout should have been reconsidered. (Here's how Deadspin cropped it.)
UPDATE: "Yes, the design-headline juxtaposition is unfortunate," the editor writes in an email. "Certainly, no offense was intended."
Morning report
8:08 am* News outlets fall for story about Andrew WK being appointed cultural ambassador to the Kingdom of Bahrain. (brokelyn.com)
* David Carr: For war correspondents, "the margin is razor thin between reporting on the death toll and becoming part of it." (nytimes.com)
* Has Rupert Murdoch gotten his "mojo" back, as NYT suggests? Michael Wolff is skeptical. (usatoday.com)
* Dylan Byers' list of 10 "breakout" political reporters of 2012. (politico.com)
* Chicago Newspaper Guild urges Sun-Times staffers to boycott the paper's holiday party. (Second item.) (timeoutchicago.com)
* Simon Dumenco's gag: "SocialSocializing will re-revolutionize the social-media revolution in a revolutionary new fashion that re-engages consumer engagement engagingly." (adage.com)
* Hackers target the Las Vegas Sun and sister websites. (lasvegassun.com)
* Campus police stop Georgia editor from distributing petitions and talking to students outside of the "free expression zone." (splc.org)
* Ex-editor: Stop me if you've read these lottery jackpot stories before. (johnlrobinson.com)
* Southern Living hopes to attract younger readers with Jenna Bush Hager as editor at large. (nytimes.com)
* West Virginia Record editor accepts plea deal after being caught creating fake vehicle inspection and registration stickers. (wvgazette.com)