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Q. Why do I have Bonjour on my Windows system?
If you didn't install Bonjour for Windows manually, the most likely reason is that it was installed by an application that relies on Bonjour functionality. For example:
- iTunes uses Bonjour to find shared music libraries, to find AirPort Express devices for streaming music to, and to find Apple TVs.
- Safari uses Bonjour to find devices advertising web pages on your network. Many of today's network printers, network cameras, and wireless gateways provide a web interface for status and configuration, and many of these devices (especially network printers) now advertise those web pages using Bonjour, to make them easily discoverable in Safari.
- Internet Explorer, via the Bonjour toolbar plugin, also provides easy discovery of Bonjour-advertised web pages.
- The Bonjour Printer Setup Wizard uses Bonjour to discover and set up Bonjour-advertised network printers.
- Adobe's Creative Suite 3 applications use Bonjour to discover digital asset management services.
Q. Why is Bonjour a System Service that runs all the time?
The Bonjour System Service runs in the background, and builds a cache of Bonjour-advertised services it sees on the network. This gives two benefits.
- Network efficiency
By passively observing the queries and answers generated by other devices on the network, the Bonjour System Service can avoid having to generate its own, thereby conserving network bandwidth.
- Speed
When a program such as iTunes asks the Bonjour System Service to discover services or devices on the network, the Bonjour System Service can return the list of results it already knows, giving near-instantaneous results.
Q. Why does my system report Bonjour as spyware/malware?
In order to provide you accurate information about services on your local network, Bonjour needs to run continuously in the background. Some security systems have not yet been updated to recognize Bonjour as legitimate system software.
Q. How can I temporarily turn off the Bonjour System Service?
To stop and start the Bonjour System Service, use the Windows Services applet. Disabling Bonjour is effective until the next reboot, when it starts up again.
Note: Disabling the Bonjour System Service may limit the functionality of programs that use Bonjour.


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Glad he got some $ for the crap he was put through.
NBC stood by their story, but later agreed to a reported settlement of $500,000 in December 1997. They issued a statement saying they agreed on the settlement to protect confidential sources.
The settlements—NBC's for more than $500,000 and CNN under that figure—came without any retraction by NBC or CNN. "The journalists simply weren't prepared to do that," the industry source said.
Jewell, 43, who now works as a sheriff's deputy in a rural county, says he never considered himself a hero for warning people.
The settlement money he won bought houses for Jewell and his mother, and eventually he found work as a deputy sheriff in Meriwether county, Georgia, where sheriff Steve Whitlock described him as a "go-getter" who "ate and drank his job".
Last year, on the 10th anniversary of the bombing, Jewell remarked: "I never sought to be a hero ... [I was] just one of many trained professionals who did their jobs that night."
He was struck with severe diabetes earlier this year and suffered from heart and kidney disease. He was found dead on his bedroom floor by his wife, Dana. She and his mother survive him.
• Richard Allensworth Jewell, law enforcement officer, born December 17 1962; died August 28 2007.
Ya see moleman, some stories just ain't so.
Constitution Or Bust
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Glad he got some $ for the crap he was put through.
A lot like the ATF agents. If he is not guilty and jailed, he shouldn't hold his breath till release. Too bad.
I can't believe that the Judge would not allow the Document from Plympic Arms saying they they SOLD AR-15's with M-16 Parts WITH the BLESSING of the ATF, this document would have pushed the Jury into a Not Guilty verdict, that is IF they had common sense!
The Prosecution wanted the Document surpressed because it was a Friggin Tax document
Our System AND Country is SCREWED, period, the system is broke, has been broke and needs fixed !
How? I am not sure, but the system IS broke!
There is a really good 6-7 page thread concerning this case over on m4carbine.net. Just run a search for 'felony conviction'.
The thread includes hot links to the trial transcripts and other court records.
Love it or hate it , your choice , but it is a reasoned discussion by some very knowledgable people.
He aint the first guy who the BATFE has gone after for a broken gun, ruled to be a machinegun, check JPFO's story and video the gang... Atf has ruled a shoelace to be a machinegun... Dam I'm wearing two of them...B2B
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United States v. Cruikshank 92 U.S. 542 (1875)
The first amendment to the Constitution prohibits Congress from abridging 'the right of the people to assemble and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.' This, like the other amendments proposed and adopted at the same time, was not intended to limit the powers of the State governments in respect to their own citizens, but to operate upon the National government alone. Barron v. The City of Baltimore, 7 Pet. 250; Lessee of Livingston v. Moore, id. 551; Fox v. Ohio, 5 How. 434; Smith v. Maryland, 18 id. 76; Withers v. Buckley, 20 id. 90; Pervear v. The Commonwealth, 5 Wall. 479; Twitchell v. The Commonwealth, 7 id. 321; Edwards v. Elliott, 21 id. 557. It is now too late to question the correctness of this construction. As was said by the late Chief Justice, in Twitchell v. The Commonwealth, 7 Wall. 325, 'the scope and application of these amendments are no longer subjects of discussion here.' They left the authority of the States just where they found it, and added nothing to the already existing powers of the United States.
The second and tenth counts are equally defective. The right there specified is that of 'bearing arms for a lawful purpose.' This is not a right granted by the Constitution. Neither is it in any manner dependent upon that instrument for its existence. The second amendment declares that it shall not be infringed; but this, as has been seen, means no more than that it shall not be infringed by Congress. This is one of the amendments that has no other effect than to restrict the powers of the national government, leaving the people to look for their protection against any violation by their fellow-citizens of the rights it recognizes, to what is called, in The City of New York v. Miln, 11 Pet. 139, the 'powers which relate to merely municipal legislation, or what was, perhaps, more properly called internal police,' 'not surrendered or restrained' by the Constituton of the United States.
The fourteenth amendment prohibits a State from depriving any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; but this adds nothing to the rights of one citizen as against another. It simply furnishes an additional guaranty against any encroachment by the States upon the fundamental rights which belong to every citizen as a member of society. As was said by Mr. Justice Johnson, in Bank of Columbia v. Okely, 4 Wheat. 244, it secures 'the individual from the arbitrary exercise of the powers of government, unrestrained by the established principles of private rights and distributive justice.' These counts in the indictment do not call for the exercise of any of the powers conferred by this provision in the amendment.
Who was the conspirator in this case, who was the injured party. Cruikshank states specifically, the 2nd amendment does not guarantee the right, nor does in depend on that document for it's existance.
Whether OLOFSON is guilty of transferring or not, would he even be guilty of any crime if the Cruikshank decision is adhearred to.
This is where the outrage begins.
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UPDATE: Yesterday saw the arrival of the new "Snow White and the Huntsman" banner, so naturally today we get the trailer, and we have to say, it far exceeds even our most generous expectations.
Charlize Theron appears to be having a blast as the vampiric Evil Queen, the colors pop, the action looks great... We're impressed. The other Snow White pic, "Mirror, Mirror, " starring Lily Collins is going to need to step up its game.
Kristen Stewart's "Snow White" movie has dropped a darkly dramatic poster, just two days after Lily Collins' take on the classic fairy tale announced a title change. This Snow White Showdown is officially on, people.
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Stewart's version, "Snow White and the Huntsman" finds our hero taken out into the woods to be killed by a huntsman (Chris "Thor" Hemsworth) at the behest of the Evil Queen (Charlize Theron). What EQ doesn't realize is that the Huntsman's been training Snow in the art of battle.
What's got us most excited about this version is the cast of dwarfs: Ian McShane, Toby Jones, Nick Frost, Ray Winstone, Eddie Izzard, Bob Hoskins and Stephen Graham. Directed by Rupert Sanders, it appears to be a gritty version of the tale, much more in line with the version told by the Brothers Grimm a couple hundred years ago.
This is in sharp contrast to Collins' vehicle, which earlier this week finally settled on a name, "Mirror, Mirror," which on the one hand we like. But from a marketing standpoint, we question the wisdom of not leveraging the "Snow White" brand. This film comes from Tarsem, whose "Immortals" is coming out Friday, and appears to bear his signature flair for intense colors, as well as a more Disney-esque vibe, with Armie Hammer as Prince Charming and Julia Roberts as the Evil Queen.
"Mirror, Mirror" already put the pedal down on production to get into theaters March 16, some 10 weeks ahead of "Huntsman"'s June 1 date, so why are they now surrendering the name?


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'Virtual Iraq' Combats Horrors of War for Troops
By John J. Kruzel
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, Sept. 25, 2008 – The aroma of roasted lamb rubbed with saffron wafts from a bazaar that begins to empty as the sun sinks between a pair of minarets. A soldier walks past a veiled woman, her eyes peering through a thin slit in an ink-black headscarf. The call to prayer beckons from a lone mosque in the parched, desert town.
Graffiti on a nearby wall catches the soldier's eye and he moves
closer, recognizing the mustached face of Saddam Hussein. The iconic
image is what remains after a cardboard stencil was dusted with a cloud
of red spray paint and peeled off the sandstone.
Army Col. Michael J. Roy, who oversees the "Virtual Iraq" exposure therapy at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, conducts a demonstration of a life-like simulator that represents a new form of PTSD treatment with Army Sgt. Lenearo Ashford, Technical Services Branch, Uniformed Services University, on Sept. 16, 2008, in Washington, D.C. Defense Dept. photo by John J. Kruzel
(Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available.
Just then the undulating notes of the prayer call are shattered by far-off shouting: "Get out of my country you imperialist American!" The soldier cranes his neck and traces the gruff voice to a rooftop. He finds the silhouette of a man shouldering a rocket-propelled grenade launcher and senses the weapon's crosshairs on his camouflaged body.
Thousands of miles from Iraq, this war scene unfolds in a windowless room in the psychiatric wing of Walter Reed Army Medical Center. In the corner sit three computers, one with cords linking it to a pair of goggles, a set of stereo headphones, and machines that generate motion and scent. Using this equipment, doctors are morphing the hellish memories of troops afflicted with post-traumatic stress disorder into an interactive experience called "Virtual Iraq."
A study released in April found that nearly 20 percent of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans report PTSD symptoms, which cover a range of emotional and behavioral changes aimed at blunting the effects of trauma. Now some medical experts believe troops can learn to release the grip of their demons by confronting them face-to-face through this cutting-edge form of exposure therapy.
"You feel like you're going to die: Your heart's beating out of your chest, your blood pressure's going up and you want to just get away from it all," Army Col. Michael J. Roy, a medical internist and director of Military Internal Medicine who oversees Virtual Iraq, said of the treatment. "But you can make it through it. And you realize you're going to be OK."
The traditional form of PTSD treatment is known as "imaginal" therapy. In an average session, patients may be asked to close their eyes and provide a first-person account of their traumatic recollection as thoroughly as memory allows: what they saw, smelled, and heard. But instincts often bar subjects from willingly revisiting these terrifying moments in vivid detail.
"It works well for those who can do that, but one of the cardinal features of PTSD is avoiding the trauma," Roy said. "So you're asking somebody who wants to avoid any reminder, 'Tell me everything you can about what happened.'
"If you can do that, great -- there's a good chance you're going to be cured. But are you going to be able to do it? Are you going to put up with it and keep coming back? A lot of people don't."
Though it's still in the early test phases, Roy and a team of therapists at Walter Reed hope to show the medical community that virtual reality exposure therapy can be more effective than its classic counterpart.
So what is the starkest contrast between the methodologies of imaginal therapy and Virtual Iraq?
"We're deliberately creating some anxiety," Roy said. "To once again witness a battle buddy getting shot, or smell the residue of a roadside bomb dredges up memories more quickly and in greater detail than merely talking.
"You really do need to create some degree of stress or anxiety for this approach to work," Roy said. "It basically helps to remind the subject of what they felt, and then they remember all kinds of elements that were either suppressed or hard for them to describe."
Virtual Iraq works somewhat like a backhoe, pulling buried memories to the surface by their roots. But the therapy is far from an instrument of penetrating force. On the contrary, one of the computers acts as a physiological feedback loop, safeguarding against experiences that are too emotionally high-charged.
From the back of this machine runs cables that stick to the patient, monitoring blood pressure, heart rate, and levels of perspiration and respiration. The virtual landscape builds piecemeal, and the therapist keeps watch of the physiological readouts as new cues, like gunshots and mortar explosions, are added incrementally.
Meanwhile, a specialist intermittently asks the patient to gauge his levels of distress. The philosophy is that each experience should progress as quickly or slowly as is medically sound, striking a balance between comfort and anxiety.
Perhaps no piece of Virtual Iraq hardware symbolizes this paradox as well as the replica M-16 control device.
"Some troops said, 'Hey, I'm walking through here but I don't have a gun in my hand. When I'm on patrol, I've got a gun in my hand,'" said Roy, explaining why troops have the choice of a handheld joystick or lifelike assault rifle with built-in controls -- a kind of semi-automatic security blanket.
The vulnerability that lies at the heart of PTSD demands that therapists tread carefully while administering treatment. The disorder occurs in the wake of life-threatening events, from surviving an ambush or car crash, to witnessing a fatal accident. While it's normal for a person affected by trauma to have nightmares or flashbacks of the event, PTSD is defined by symptoms that persist longer than one month.
In addition to avoidance, hallmark characteristics of the disorder fall under two categories: hypervigilance and, somewhat paradoxically, numbing.
Michael Bradley, a former Army staff sergeant with the Army's 4th Infantry Division, was diagnosed with PTSD after narrowly surviving a roadside bombing and mortar attack in Baqouba, Iraq, last year. His escalated feeling of vigilance became manifest while vacationing at an amusement park after returning home.
"I went to Disneyland, and the cannons starting firing off the ship," Bradley recalled in an interview. "And here I am low-crawling across the ground, knowing full well that I'm in Disneyland, but my body's reacting.
"My mind is saying, 'Get up, you fool!' But my body's saying, 'No. I'm not going to do it.'"
Experts believe the parts of the brain affected by PTSD are the amygdale and anterior cingulate gyrus, sections that regulate aggression and fear, and avoidance and numbing, respectively. Though the understanding of its neural pathways has evolved greatly, records of PTSD trace their roots as far back as Homer's ancient Greek epic poem the Iliad, when the protagonist Achilles hears about the death of his closest companion, Patroclus.
Despite its various names -- shell shock, battle fatigue -- and the prospect of even better treatment in the future, it seems PTSD is likely to remain part and parcel of human conflict, Roy said.
"No matter how well we prepare our troops, war is not a pleasant thing; it doesn't come naturally to human beings to be faced with killing other human beings," he said. "We're just not wired that way."
But in the meantime, the secret to what could be the next best treatment of PTSD might be inside the last computer in this room. Known around the psychiatric ward as "The Wizard of Oz," this processor controls everything from the sandstorm pelting the soldier's helmet to the body odor he smells.
Roy fires up the machine and places his subject in the driver's seat of an armored vehicle ripping down a pitch-black desert highway. Through the troop's night-vision goggles, the landscape glows electric green. With the omnipresence of a deity, this machine transports a soldier through time and space, back into the far recesses of his mind, where memories steeped in translucent neon fog remain tucked away.
Whistles of AK-47 assault rifle rounds sing past the vehicle. One connects with the front of the car and web-like cracks spread across the windshield. A panicked call cracks over the radio as mortars begin erupting along the unlit ground like landmines. A scream cuts through the interior noise, and the troop swivels his helmeted-head to see the slain body of the soldier in his passenger seat.
Though it's counterintuitive that reliving a moment like this could somehow lead to a breakthrough, evidence culled from soldiers in this stuffy room suggests it does.
"We've had guys who were avoiding going out in public, not using the Metro, not going shopping, not going to sporting events and the movies," Roy said. "Then they go through this, and suddenly they're able to do those things."
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wow, tough question.
I'm an Avengers fanatic, so it wouldn't surprise you that my choices are all from that team. i'll guess i'lllist them from 5 down.
5) Hawkeye (clint barton.) the acrobatic wiseguy archer.
4) She Hulk - the brave giantess , smart lawyer,hates what marvel's done to her the past year.
3) War Machine - he's a marine , shows what happens when you get a angry man with heavy weapons.
2) Black Panther - he Smart, skilled, and deadly, this former king is being revived as the most dangerous man alove, i'm looking forward to it.
1) Iron Man. yeah, he's arrogant, yeah, he's rich, but man, with that brilliance and Toys, why not?


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The U.S. East Coast may be trembling in anticipation of "Frankenstorm," but Hurricane Sandy's spawn has nothing on a record-breaking storm on Saturn.
Marked by cloud cover wider than the entire Earth, the Saturn tempest in early 2011 also boasted the "largest and hottest stratospheric vortex ever detected in our solar system" and a mysterious explosion in ethylene production.
But wait, there's more: At one point NASA's Cassini orbiter detected on Saturn an "almost unbelievable" regional temperature spike of 150 degrees Fahrenheit (84 degrees Celsius)—the biggest jump ever recorded in our solar system—NASA announced Thursday.
Video: Evolution of Infrared Hot Spots in Saturn Storm
To get an idea of just how extreme the temperature spike was, imagine teleporting from northern Alaska in winter to the Mojave Desert in summertime—a change of some 150 degrees Fahrenheit (84 degrees Celsius).
"We were quite shocked when we detected the temperature change—nothing like that was ever observed before," said University of Maryland research scientist Brigette Hesman, part of the Cassini team. "It was not at all what we expected."
At its height, the storm—which produced high winds and intense lightning—created a cloud cover that circled the gas giant planet in a band 9,000 miles (14,500 kilometers) wide. (Related: "Saturn Lightning Storm Breaks Solar System Record.")
Accompanying the huge temperature change was the formation of a vast deposit of the hydrocarbon gas ethylene, a byproduct of methane previously seen only in trace amounts in the Saturn atmosphere. How ethylene became so prevalent is a mystery.
"We know this was all caused by a big storm in the lower atmosphere," where temperatures are warm enough for water to condense and form clouds, Hesman said.
But as for how the storm managed to spawn so many oddities? "We'll be studying this one for years to try to figure it out."
(See Saturn pictures.)
Milestone for NASA Saturn Probe
Saturn completes an orbit of the sun every 30 Earth years and has a major storm at roughly the same interval. The 2011 monster storm came ten years early and lasted for more than half a year. It was also the first to be monitored by a sophisticated orbiting satellite.
"I would have to say this is one of the biggest discoveries made so far by Cassini," said Scott Edgington, Cassini deputy project scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California. The spacecraft, jointly operated by NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency, arrived at Saturn in 2004 after a seven-year journey.
While the temperature boost was unprecedented, it still left temperatures in the Saturn stratosphere at about -65 degrees F (-54 degrees C). While the inner atmosphere of Saturn can get relatively warm, the stratosphere—roughly the height where long-haul airplanes fly over Earth—is normally extremely cold.
Still, Edgington said, the enormous swing in temperatures may have changed the kind of chemistry taking place—allowing the methane present to evolve into ethylene in a way highly atypical for Saturn.
(Also see: National Geographic magazine on Cassini's mission to Saturn.)
Saturn Vortex Bigger Than Jupiter's Great Red Spot
The size and power of the storm at its strongest was revealed largely through infrared imaging. What that instrument found—and what optical telescopes could not have—is that, as the visible storm spread in cloud deck of Saturn's troposphere, waves of energy shot up hundreds of miles, creating enormous "beacons" of hot air, which pushed into the stratosphere.
Researchers expected the beacons to break up and cool down, but by early 2011 they had instead merged into one enormous vortex that for a brief period was larger than of Jupiter's enormous Great Red Spot.
Edgington said Cassini, with the help of telescopes in Hawaii and Chile, was able to monitor the six-month storm more intensely than any other—and the work is only beginning. On Cassini alone, he said, "we have 12 instruments to use for our research, and we're putting all the data together to get the history of this very unusual event."
The new saturn-storm findings will appear in the November 20 edition of the Astrophysical Journal (available online October 30.)
Author of the National Geographic e-book Mars Landing 2012, Marc Kaufman has been a journalist for more than 35 years, including the past 12 as a science and space writer, foreign correspondent, and editor for the Washington Post. He is also author of First Contact: Scientific Breakthroughs in the Hunt for Life Beyond Earth, published in 2011, and has spoken extensively to crowds across the United States and abroad about astrobiology. He lives outside Washington, D.C., with his wife, Lynn Litterine.


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Schoolies revellers have had a lucky escape after a major fire broke out at a Gold Coast apartment building and spread to a nightclub.
The fire broke out on a lower level of the Top of the Mark apartment complex about 12.25am (AEST) on Tuesday, and spread a club on the same site, where school leavers were partying.
A fire service spokesman told the ABC the blaze damaged three floors of the building, and authorities acted quickly to evacuate about 1000 people from the nightclub and others nearby.
About 80 people who were staying at the Top of the Mark were also evacuated during the drama, which has left roads closed and a haze of smoke over the city.
Two people were taken to hospital - a woman with breathing difficulties and a firefighter with heat stress, the Department of Community Safety said.
It took fire crews about three hours to bring the fire under control.
It began in an electrical switchboard and quickly spread. Fire investigators will remain at the scene on Monday.
Traffic disruptions are expected with Surfers Paradise Boulevard, and Cavill and Orchid avenues still closed.
Those in nearby buildings have been told to keep windows closed to reduce the smoke hazard.


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Determine Sioux Falls Future – Take Online Survey
The growth of Sioux Falls and how the community should look in the future is the focus of the third rendition of Sioux Falls Tomorrow. You can join others from across the Sioux Falls area to create a new vision for the future. This is a planning project focusing on five aspects of community life ― economic vitality, education, local government services, quality of life, and social services.
There is a survey you can take, online at www.siouxfallstomorrow.com between January 20 and 31. Visitors to the website may also download the 2004 Sioux Falls Tomorrow vision and goals. It will also be an insert to the January 21 edition of the Argus Leader.
"Planning sessions begin January 21," says Mary Tidwell, chair of the Sioux Falls Tomorrow steering committee. "But our first step is to gather input from as many of our neighbors as we can."
To that end, people who live in Lincoln, Minnehaha, Turner, and McCook counties and nearby in Iowa and Minnesota are being asked to complete a short survey to share their opinions.
"We want to reach a large, diverse audience, so that we hear the views of folks from all age groups and backgrounds," Tidwell says.
Sponsors of the project include the City of Sioux Falls, Forward Sioux Falls (a joint venture of the Sioux Falls Area Chamber of Commerce and Sioux Falls Development Foundation), Lincoln and Minnehaha counties, the Sioux Empire United Way, Sioux Falls School District and Sioux Falls Area Community Foundation, which is coordinating planning activities.
Representatives from the sponsoring organizations serve on the steering committee and will be joined by stakeholders ― volunteers who agree to participate in six planning meetings and to join one of five key performance area (KPA) work groups.
"We expect to have as many as 100 stakeholders," says Andy Patterson, Community Foundation Vice President and project director. "People who take the survey can volunteer as a stakeholder and join one of the KPAs. Those who can't commit to attending all the meetings can follow the project online and participate in a public meeting to comment on the work in progress."
"Sioux Falls Tomorrow convenes every ten years," Patterson says. "We hope to wrap up planning this spring and publish a report to the community that can be used by local groups to help guide program and community development activities."
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A massive storm packing hurricane-force winds and blizzard conditions is sweeping through the Northeast, dumping nearly 2 feet of snow on New England and knocking out power to more than a half a million customers.
More than 23 inches of snow had fallen in parts of central Connecticut by early Saturday, and more than 21 inches covered Randolph in southeastern Massachusetts.
The National Weather Service says up to 3 feet of snow is expected in Boston, threatening the city's 2003 record of 27.6 inches.
Throughout the Northeast, more than 600,000 homes and businesses lost electricity. Airlines canceled more than 5,300 flights through Saturday, and New York City's three major airports and Boston's Logan Airport closed.
The storm is being blamed on at least four deaths in New York and Canada.


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Home > Tyne & Wear > Newcastle upon Tyne > Seven Stories National Centre For Children's Books
"Some people say there are only seven stories in the world but a thousand different ways of telling them. Seven Stories is about the thousand ways."
Seven Stories National Centre For Children's Books can be found under the Byker Bridge in Newcastle upon Tyne's Ouseburn Valley (30-34 Lime Street, Ouseburn Valley, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 2PQ).
Seven Stories is a great day out for the whole family, visitors can explore the amazing world of children's books where magical words and pictures are brought to life through exhibitions, activities and special events. Explore your own creativity through writing, illustration and crafts or uncover a world of storytelling with dressing up and dramatic fun in the Seven Stories theatre
The Seven Stories Visitor Centre also includes an independent children's bookshop and café with a great selection of home cooked food.
The voucher below is valid from tomorrow and enables free child admission with a paying adult. The Seven Stories voucher download link is beneath the preview…
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Chocolate Chip Cheesecake
Total TimePrep: 20 min. Bake: 30 min. + chilling
Makes12 servings
- 1 cup crushed reduced-fat Oreo cookies (about 11 cookies)
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 2 packages (8 ounces each) fat-free cream cheese
- 1 package (8 ounces) reduced-fat cream cheese
- 1 can (14 ounces) sweetened condensed milk
- 3 eggs
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1/2 cup miniature semisweet chocolate chips, divided
- 1 teaspoon all-purpose flour
- In a small bowl, combine cookie crumbs and butter; press onto the bottom of a 9-in. springform pan coated with cooking spray. Bake at 325° for 6-8 minutes. Cool on a wire rack.
- In a large bowl, beat cream cheese until smooth; beat in sweetened condensed milk. Add eggs; beat on low speed just until combined. Beat in vanilla just until blended. In a small bowl, toss 1/3 cup chocolate chips and flour; stir into batter.
- Pour into prepared pan. Sprinkle with remaining chocolate chips. Bake at 325° for 30-35 minutes or until almost set. Carefully run a knife around edge of pan to loosen; cool on a wire rack for 1 hour. Cover and refrigerate overnight. Remove sides of pan. Refrigerate leftovers.
Nutrition Facts1 piece: 303 calories, 14g fat (8g saturated fat), 87mg cholesterol, 417mg sodium, 33g carbohydrate (0 sugars, 1g fiber), 12g protein.
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Dec 7, 2014
Its good, and pretty easy for cheesecake. The instructions are not great, however. Just "combining" the oreo crumbs and butter doesn't do anything. You need to use an electric mixer on medium speed. Then, when baking the crust, it should mention that it will harden as it cools. Most importantly, it needs to bake until COMPLETELY set, not "almost". I followed the instructions, cut a sliver the next morning, and found it to be runny in the middle! I am now trying to salvage it by bringing it to room temp and putting it back in the oven. I plan on baking it until the edges are brown, and use a toothpick to check for doneness. WAY more than 30-35 minutes. I'm wondering if Taste of Home doesn't do a trial run of dessert recipes, as I found another dessert recipe that was just plain wrong.EDIT: I was able to successfully salvage it by re-baking it the next day. Can't give a higher rating as it was almost a failure due to the instructions.
Jun 24, 2014
People know me for my cheesecake and this is my go-to recipe. Sometimes I make it "healthy" and sometimes I use regular ingredients. It's great either way, depending on how many calories you want to expend at a time. :)
Mar 30, 2013
i know it's a light receipt, but I doubled the chocolate chips to 1 C - 3/4 in the batter and 1/4 on the top.
Mar 13, 2012
I do not use the lighter cream cheese, but use all the real stuff and it comes out great. My daughters favorite dessert.


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A Phone Call from a Pharmacist Can Reduce Some Hospital Admissions
Release Date: April 10, 2014 |
- Medication therapy management services provided by pharmacists to patients at home can help identify potential drug interactions, medication errors and adverse reactions.
- Medication management by pharmacists to patients at home appeared to reduce hospitalizations only in the least at-risk patients as defined by the severity of their medical conditions.
Having a pharmacist call patients at home to go over their medications can identify many medication-based problems. However, a new study in Health Services Research found that pharmacist-patient telephone consultations only appear to reduce hospitalizations in patients who are least at risk.
"It is a little counterintuitive that those who were healthiest benefited most and those who were the sickest didn't," said Alan Zillich, Pharm.D., associate professor of pharmacy practice at Purdue College of Pharmacy in Indianapolis and lead author on the study.
Providing medication management via phone calls from pharmacists to patients is one strategy being used to reduce medication errors, adverse reactions and drug interactions, all of which contribute to costly hospitalizations and harm to patients. The cost of medication-related illness and death in the United States was estimated to be more than $290 billion in 2009.
For the study, nearly 900 home health Medicare patients were randomized to receive either medication therapy management services, including an initial call from a pharmacy technician, a phone consultation with a pharmacist, and follow-up phone calls or no pharmacist medication management services.
There was no significant difference between the two groups in the probability of being hospitalized within 60 days. However, when the patients were analyzed by the severity of their conditions, patients in the lowest risk quartile were three times as likely to remain out of the hospital as high risk patients.
The patients who were in the lowest risk quartile were the ones who were most mobile and most functional, but were still pretty sick, noted Zillich. Medication therapy management by telephone worked for this group. Sicker patients may need a home visit by a pharmacist or some form of a face-to-face meeting to help resolve medications problems, he added.
The telephone consultations between the 415 patients and pharmacists in the study group revealed 460 medication-related problems, including drug interactions, inappropriate drug or dosage, or problems with adherence. Twenty-four percent of these problems needed the involvement of a physician to resolve. Ninety percent of these problems were resolved.
"It's positive that we have gotten some very insightful information on what seems to work well in a certain segment of patients," said Anne Burns, R.Ph., vice president of professional affairs at the American Pharmacists Association in Washington, D.C. "For higher risk patients, further work is needed to determine the best medication therapy management delivery method or type of service," she added. Burns agreed with Zillich that some patients may do better with video conferencing or an in-person interaction with a pharmacist.
Burns also noted that the study found that physicians accepted the pharmacist's recommendations 80 percent of the time. "As we move to team-based care, this is an important consideration for effective medication therapy management."
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Zillich AJ, Snyder ME, Frail CK, et al.: A randomized, controlled pragmatic trial of telephonic medication therapy management to reduce hospitalization in home health patients. Health Services Research. 2014.


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Justin Bieber and Hailey Baldwin had fans alarmed when the newly-engaged power couple was spotted crying in public on Tuesday (August 7), and now the pop superstar, who recently snipped his hair, shared some insight on their emotional afternoon with a photog via TMZ.
Just a day later, the Biebster was spotted leaving his fiancé's apartment in New York City and seemed to be in much better spirits. Not only did the 24-year-old chart-topper stop to chat it up and take photos with fans, but he also explained why he was in tears. "You got good days and you got bad days. It's not real if it doesn't got any bad days," he told a photog after pointing to a book in hand by Timothy Keller called The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God.
As we previously reported, Baldwin was seen comforting Bieber after a bike ride. Rubbing his back on the sidewalk, the 21-year-old model looked concerned for her fiancé, but the tears didn't stop there. Later in the afternoon, Baldwin was in tears herself as the pair sat in a Tribeca restaurant. Returning the affection, the 24-year-old star attempted to caress the model's face as she wept. Interestingly enough, Baldwin shared a photo of the pair later in the afternoon on her Instagram Story, making no mention or indication of their emotional afternoon.
Just last week, the pop star teased fans with a hint that his wedding with Baldwin could potentially be happening soon. When paparazzi caught up with the power couple, they asked what's next for the star. Instead of giving an update on the music front, Justin replied, "What's next? Getting married," according to a video on TMZ. Stay tuned for the latest on Bieber's whirlwind romance!
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After 5 years of walling at theO, I've finally decided to make a wallpaper challenge~ Since I'm uncreative, I'm keeping this fairly simple and I hope at least some of you find this interesting.
The idea I'd like you all to give a try is to make a wallpaper out of an electronic song. It's my favorite song genre to base wallpapers on. Most electronic songs don't have lyrics, so you're really free to let your imagination run wild.
-Wallpaper must be based on a song of the electronic genre.
-Maximum of 3 submissions per person.
-Any kind of image may be used.
-Any series may be used.
-Follow TheO's submission guidelines.
-Give credit to all of your sources. (Image's, texture's, the song ect. I will be checking all resources)
-You do not have to dedicate your wallpaper to me.
-Anyone may enter.
-& Have fun!
Judging criteria:
-Wallpaper is based on an electronic song.
-Technique (extraction, image re-sizing ect.).
-General quality.
-Overall visual appeal.
First: Wallpaper, Card, 4 Icons + Gift
Second: Card, 4 Icons + Gift
Third: 4 Icons + Gift
Honorable mentions: 2 Icons + Gift
I know that music related challenges are done quite frequently, but I hope this will strike some interest in some of you~ I invited random people, so if I invited you please don't feel obligated to enter, although I would love it if you did. I would also love to see an entry from anyone who wants to join!
I've included a few links to a handful of electronic songs if you're someone who isn't familiar with the genre. You do not have to use these particular songs! You have 2 months until the challenge ends. However many participants I get, I can't wait to see the entries! :D
Comment or PM with any questions~
Example Songs:
Lights – Klaypex
Keep Hope Alive – capsule
Between Two Points (feat. Swan) – The Glitch Mob
Blood Sugar – Pendulum
Stompbox - The Qemists
Fuse- she
Weekend Warrior – 80Kidz


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Adhesion and Cohesion Make Irrigation Work
The principles of adhesion and cohesion are well understood by irrigating farmers. They use those concepts every time they water a crop.
"Irrigators apply enough water to make sure the two fronts—one moving downward and one already deep in the soil—meet, so water is pulled back to the surface after the pivot passes on," explains Farm Journal Field Agronomist Ken Ferrie.
"You have to drive the irrigation water down from the top," Ferrie continues. "You can't water 2" deep when your other front is 7" or 8" below the surface. When you drive the irrigation front down to the water table, evaporation from the surface pulls water up from below, using adhesion and cohesion."
Soil type determines how much water must be applied to accomplish that goal. "In sandy loam, if you drop water into an irrigation ditch, 24 hours later the water may be 7" deep but it has only spread out sideways a little bit," Ferrie says. "Sandy soil has fewer adhesion sites on soil particles to pull the water sideways, so it moves straight down.
"But if you put the same amount of water into a ditch in a clay loam soil, the water spreads out sideways as fast as it moves downward because there are lots of adhesion sites on soil particles."
If an operator gets nervous and speeds up his center pivot before the fronts meet, the water applied by the pivot will evaporate. The water deeper in the soil will stay down there, below the roots, where it was before he irrigated.
Irrigation Farmland on the Increase
The USDA's 2008 Farm and Ranch Irrigation Survey reveals that farmers and ranchers now irrigate 54.9 million acres of farmland across the U.S., an increase of nearly 5% since 2003.
The survey also shows a trend to more efficient irrigation practices. More acres were irrigated by sprinkler systems and less with gravity irrigation. Since the last survey in 2003, area irrigated by sprinkler systems has increased by 15%, while area using gravity irrigation decreased by 5%.
From 2003 to 2008, a total of 74,846 farms implemented changes in equipment or management practices that reduced energy use and/or conserved water. Nearly 46% of the farms reported a reduction in energy cost, and 59% reported a reduction in the amount of water applied.
For the first time, the survey also collected information on the amount of recycled and reclaimed water used for irrigation. There were 9,843 farms reporting use of recycled water and 3,205 farms using reclaimed water, for a total of more than 2.5 million acres.
You can view the survey results at www.agcensus.usda.gov.
Energy and Water Research Moves through Congress
The Energy and Water Research Irrigation Act, H.R. 3598, is intended to ensure consideration of water intensity in the Department of Energy's research, development and demonstration programs.
The bill provides for advanced efficiency technologies and practices to minimize water consumption, use nontraditional water sources, consider the effect climate change could have on water quality and quantity and understand the energy needed to provide water supplies.
Introduced by Rep. Bart Gordon (D-Tenn.), chairman of the House Committee on Science and Technology, the bill would direct approximately $240 million to be authorized between 2011 and 2015 for energy and water research.
H.R. 3598 passed the House on Dec. 2, 2009, and was referred to the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
You can check on the bill's status at http://thomas.loc.gov by searching for bill number H.R. 3598.


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In summer, the spring area in West Northumberland Canyon is one of few sources of water on the east side of Big Smoky Valley, and it's way up the canyon and out of the way for Highway 8A travelers (now S.R. 376). Better bets for finding water while traveling through Big Smoky Valley are the many running creeks coming off the east side of the Toiyabe Range, more than 15 miles across the valley from this often wet and muddy spring area (MSRMaps location).
On our mid-January trek up West Northumberland Canyon, we came to a large ice floe that had completely cut the road in the area of the West Northumberland Canyon springs. The slick ice was easy to track across, though staying to the right was entirely necessary to prevent sliding off into the ditch on the left side of the road.
I didn't stop to examine the ice prior to crossing; I instead followed existing tracks and stopped on the far, uphill side of the ice, to get this shot looking looking west-northwest, back down the canyon.
Like I said, the ice floe went entirely across the road.
In fact, the entire spring area was covered with ice, as seen in this shot looking northwest toward the lower end of the spring and the remains of a small mill.
The frozen spring upstream a bit: Freezing aparently caused the water to flow around the spring and marsh area and onto the road, where it froze solid in a shady spot.
From the springs, we wound our way up a few switchbacks toward the Northumberland gold mine (currently inactive), making it to the pass, which has been somewhat relocated from its original sit by mining activity. (Original map location of Northumberland Pass; a newer air-photo shows the pass a little to the north of the old site.)
We had a fine view from the pass, looking back to the northwest over the north part of the Northumberland caldera, and across Big Smoky Valley, all the way to the Toiyabe Range. The high peak in the Toiyabe Range north of Kingston Canyon (the low-ish spot beyond the reddish hill of tuff of Hoodoo Canyon) is Bunker Hill, at 11,473 feet.
From the pass, we drove down East Northumberland Canyon into Monitor Valley, to the Monitor Valley salt flat, the Potts Ranch hot springs, and The Geographical Center of Nevada.
Related Posts (in order of posting; #s indicate order in real time):
A Soak at Spencer Hot Springs (1)
The Geographic Center (8)
West to Southwest of Center: Beers and Roads and Folds and Things (2)
ENE of Center: Breccia at Devils Gate (3)
South of Center: Potts Ranch Hot Springs (7)
South by West of Center: Monitor Valley Salt Flat or Dry Lake (6)
Backroads: Too Cold to Change a Flat, and other Considerations (9)
SW to SWxS of Center: Northumberland Canyon (4)
SWxS to SSW of Center: The West NU Canyon Springs and Northumberland Pass - this post (5)
Monday, April 23, 2012
SWxS to SSW of Center: The West Northumberland Canyon Springs and Northumberland Pass
Posted by Silver Fox at 7:00 AMLocation: West Northumberland Canyon, Toquima Range, NV, USA
Labels: 8A, highway 50, ice, nevada, Northumberland, road trip, roadside, springs, winter
2 comments:
- Geophysical Surveys said...
You have taken very great pictures of the Northumberland Canyon Springs and Northumberland Pass. I am all of sudden overcome with a wistfulness and a desire to visit this place someday.
- Tuesday, May 1, 2012 at 3:13:00 AM PDT
- Silver Fox said...
Ya, just don't get stuck in the spring like the last surveyors that drove straight into the mud!
- Tuesday, May 1, 2012 at 8:23:00 PM PDT
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