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Borrow a Laptop
Borrow a Laptop
40 wireless laptops are available for use in each of the Rivera and Orbach Science Libraries. The laptops may be borrowed from the Circulation/Reserve Desks.
Who is eligible to borrow a laptop?
- UCR Faculty, Staff, or Students
Laptop Borrowing Policies and Guidelines
Where Can I Use a Laptop?
Laptop computers may be used anywhere on campus where there is wireless access. They may also be used at any Library Link Network port in either the Orbach Science or Rivera Library.
What's Included in the Laptop?
Laptop Hardware:
- Dell XPS13 laptop with Intel i5 1.8 GHz Processor, 120 GB SSD Drive, 4 GB RAM, wireless networking, and 13" display.
- Power Cord and Power Supply (2 parts)
- Carrying Case
- Dell Latitude 6430u laptop with Intel i5 1.9 GHz Processor, 120 GB SSD Drive, 4 GB RAM, wireless networking, and 14" display.
- Power Cord and Power Supply (2 parts)
- Carrying Case
Operating System/Software/Applications:
- Windows 7
- MS Office Suite 2013
- Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer browsers
- VLC and Windows Media Players
- Please do not, under any circumstances, leave a library laptop unattended. You are responsible for the laptop checked out to you.
- Personal software may not be loaded onto the laptop.
If you have any questions, please contact the Circulation/Reserve Desk staff.
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When we create Product Design documents we include descriptions, requirements, test scripts, GUI mockups, and help text for each process step. We use RoboHelp conditional tags for each section, so the right information is outputted at the right time for the right audience. When we converted the RoboHelp files to MediaWiki with our RoboHelp2Wiki extension these sections become sub-headings on each article page. While we gained many benefits moving to a Wiki one important item was lost, the ability to output documentation. Printed documentation is still important for manuals, training materials, and sign-offs. Additionally, it would be very helpful to generate a hard-copy of the updated Product Design Document.
To solve these issues, I would need to convert over hundreds of Wiki articles into another format. Unfortunately, I have not found any good solutions for these conversions or the printing of Wikis in general. I have looked at the wiki2PDF scripts where user enters a list of articles and the script makes a single PDF file. However, it is based on the assumption I want to directly output the list of articles for final printing, which is not the case.
The ideal solution would be a new type of Wiki where the stored format can be used for multiple sources. A DITA based Wiki idea was floated and attributed to Paul Prescod, Group Program Manager, XMetaL in Crystal Ball: A DITA Wiki by The Content Wrangler and elaborated on by Anne Gentle in Document Actions Darwin Information Typing Architecture, meet Wiki. However, no such product yet exists.
Therefore, we are looking at reversing our RoboHelp2Wiki conversion tool to roundtrip the data back to RoboHelp. An advantage of this method is the ability to leverage the independent table of contents capability found in RoboHelp and other help authoring tools (HATs). Wikis and HATs have a natural connection between the HATs topics and Wiki articles. The power of HATs is the ability to organize the topics to best present the data. Organization is through table of contents hierarchies.
As part of the RoboHelp2Wiki conversion process the RoboHelp table of content hierarchy creates a MediaWiki conversion article. To roundtrip the information from MediaWiki back to RoboHelp, we simple need to create a MediaWiki article with the desired table of contents listing all the article pages and the order to present the information. On conversion, the tool would read this Table of Contents article and create the matching Table of Contents in RoboHelp and convert each article page listed.
In truth, we have been thinking about the above since before we created RoboHelp2Wiki, however, we did not want to commit resources until RoboHelp Version 6 was released. We were hoping that version 6 would be XML based without RoboHelp's priority tags ('kadov' tags). This is not the case.
So, before committing to a Wiki2RoboHelp strategy, we decided to look into creating the conversion tool to another HAT or editing tool. We plan to review Flare from MadCapSoftware and some of the DITA tools. We will also review the OpenDocument and Office Open XML. The minimum requirements would be ability to support an independent table of contents and the ability to round trip basic formatting, including tables. A nice to have would be the ability to round trip conditional tags.
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Deputies: Fla. drug suspect flushes confession
Published: Saturday, November 24, 2012 at 10:58 p.m.
Last Modified: Saturday, November 24, 2012 at 10:58 p.m.
LAKELAND — Authorities in Florida say a man confessed to trafficking methamphetamine — and then flushed the detective's recorder down the toilet.
The Ledger reported (http://bit.ly/ShaU1r) Saturday that Polk County deputies say they found 30-year-old Patrick Townsend driving with 32.4 grams of meth in his boxers during a Wednesday traffic stop.
Deputies say Townsend confessed, claiming he usually deals in much larger quantities. A detective recorded the confession but left the recorder on a desk. Authorities say Townsend grabbed it, hid it in his armpit and asked to use the bathroom, where he flushed it.
An arrest affidavit says that when the detective looked for the recorder, Townsend mocked him by saying: "Tighten up on your job, homie."
Townsend was jailed without bail Saturday, charged with meth trafficking and destroying evidence. No information on an attorney was immediately available.
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On Saturday, December 3 at 2 PM, Atherton Library invites a Legion of Honor art docent to present a slideshow and lecture on French Impressionist, Camille Pissarro. Belmont Library will host the same program on Tuesday, December 6 at 7 PM. Both programs are featured on the Events carousel of the San Mateo County Library website.
Why a Docent Program Fosters Art Appreciation
Woodside Library previewed this absorbing program early in November, and our small library attracted a crowd of 30 people eager to view the works currently on display at San Francisco's Legion of Honor. If you are interested in the exhibit, act quickly! The works are borrowed from collections worldwide and the exhibit will only be open until January 22, 2012.
I popped into the San Francisco venue the day after the library program. Still clear in my mind was the docent's suggestion to view Pissarro's oil painting of a maid, and then turn to the opposite wall to see an actual black-and-white, poster-sized photograph of the real maid. I also knew the heartbreaking story of a much-loved daughter's early death; thus, her portraits, so affectionately brushed in, evoked poignant memories.
Library Resources at Your Fingertips
Want more amplification? Check out the book written for this exhibit, Pissarro's People, or 31 other books and DVDs relating to this particular French Impressionist and his cohorts by typing Pissarro, Camille into the keyword search.
Author Bio:
Karen Y. is often lured into museums, because of her graduate student daughter's professional interests in Museum Studies.
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Police say a man walked into a Rocky Mount restaurant late Thursday morning and killed his girlfriend. They say the body of the gunman was found nearby a short time later.
Corporal Mike Lewis says it happened around 11:30 a.m. at Westridge Grill, that's on Sunset Avenue.
Lewis says Cynthia Joyner of Rocky Mount was killed. He says Carlos Whitaker, also of Rocky Mount, came into the restaurant and shot the woman who worked there. Lewis says the two were in a relationship.
The 37-year-old man's body was later found in a wooded area behind the shopping center with what police say was a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
The two bodies will be taken to the Medical Examiner's Office in Greenville for an autopsy.
Corporal Lewis says the double shooting remains under investigation. No one else was injured.


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WASHINGTON, D.C. (WUSA) - By now, you know it's cold. Thisstory could be chock full of tips, like let your car warm up, put on layers, and of course, turn that water off outside your house, but, don't you know that by now?
Instead we're going to focus on perspective. Some people call this weather bone-chilling, others call it just right for winter. First, we went to where most people would agree it's cold, the Washington Harbour Ice Rink.
There we met young skaters Marta and Ala. They agreed it was cold, but didn't seem to care. Then, we met, Tori Dunba of Arlington who told us in no uncertain terms, "It's freezing cold outside, yes it is."
Despite the chill, Dunbar didn't need any tips on keeping warm from me. "Layers, lot of layers, I have my scarf, my gloves, these are iphone gloves actually, I have a tank top, I have on a sweater, a long-sleeve sweater and another sweater and I have leggings underneath my pants and long thermal socks on and then my work pants, yep."
Our next stop was Dupont Circle where a sign on a bank clock read 20 degrees one minute, and 19 the next. Belinda Jensen is a meteorologist for our Gannett station in Minneapolis. She reports on bitter cold more often than most. We asked her for her take, " Well, it does sound cold for Washington, D.C. but you know cold air has to come from somewhere and it's coming from right here in Minnesota, we did go above zero for the first time in nearly 40 hours here."
Nothing like a forecast from Minnesota to put things in perspective.
Just steps away from that temperature sign, Epic Yoga in Dupont Circle is seeing more and more people stretching and posing in 85-plus degree heat. Emma Saal owns the Yoga Studio on Connecticut Avenue, "People that might normally take a regular yoga class are more interested in taking the hot yoga class, that extra few degrees can really warm the soul."
Until of course, you're back out on the street, trying to get from place to place, and that's brings us back to Dunbar who's waiting for a shuttle to go back home after a log day at work. "It is officially winter, yes, yes, and I hope that spring comes a little bit early this year!"


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That's especially true if the audience includes members of today's gamer generation—the young (and not-all-that-young) people who came of age with video games, instant messaging, and anytime-anywhere telephone access. They were nurtured by stunning graphics, digital surround sound, and fast-paced action. Technology is part of their daily lives; they're accustomed to swimming in a multi-media sea of information and being electronically tied almost continuously to a network of people.
They expect stimulation, multi-channel communication, multitasking, and multi-partner communication. Take it away from them by putting them in a room with a single speaker reading from text-only PowerPoint slides, and they're likely to tune out, open their PDA or laptop, or worse yet, duck out in search of connectivity.Enhancing Presentation Quality
Yet, some meeting planners have yet to fully incorporate technology into meetings. Many have limited their applications to such basic functions as registration, budget management, and attendee status. It's time to raise the ante and start using technology to create the kind of high-energy, information-rich environment young Americans crave—a 21st century environment for learning.
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Technology presents benefits and challenges in many areas of meeting planning. Here are some key areas to focus on:
Serving the presenter Presenters understand their subject matter, but they often are inexperienced in the best applications of technology to enhance their presentations and engage their audiences. One interesting new technique involves changing information on slides even after the presenter has started the presentation, using a pair of computers, one with the original presentation and the other available for editing or Internet access. In a recent application of this technique, the speaker began his presentation by asking the audience to answer questions using hand-held response units. As he continued his presentation, the responses were collected and developed into slides showing the results. The slides then were integrated into the presentation.
Failure proofing Every meeting host and attendee has experienced a technology failure. This can undercut the credibility of the presenter and the program. Perhaps most worrisome is the lack of IT and production expertise needed to keep systems online and operating smoothly. Technology is not foolproof, but actions should be taken to provide protection from failure. The best protection is a support system that includes full desktop support within the meeting space and the adjacent war room, with state-of-the-art software, hardware, and sound system.


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Have you ever wondered what the inside of Agyness Deyn's Williamsburg apartment looks like? I've always imagined it's cool and androgynous, with just a touch of feminine cuteness and a fondness for guys in bands. But according to Stylecaster, it "resembles a blown-up vintage shop that was curated by our grandmothers," which I guess is supposed to be a bad thing. Anyway, here are some interior pictures of it. See if you agree.
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Gloves for Kids tonight at Dick's Sporting Goods, Town Center Plaza
Ryan Lefebvre and his Footprints Foundation will host Gloves for Kids tonight from 6:00 to 8:00 at Dick's Sporting Goods, 119th and Nall.
Fans who donate at least $20 toward new baseball gloves for underprivileged youth baseball players can receive autographs from select Royals players. Fans who donate at least $20 will receive a $5 certificate for Dick's Sporting Goods as well as a special ticket offer. Sluggerrr will also be there!
Players scheduled to appear include pitchers Brian Bannister, Kyle Davies and Luke Hochevar; catchers John Buck and Brayan Pena; infielders Billy Butler, Tony Pena, Jr. and Mark Teahen; and outfielders David DeJesus and Mitch Maier.


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Reflective journey
Travel | A cross-country train trip proved to be unpredictable, uncomfortable—and an unmatched period of spiritual focus
It was around the thirteenth hour, on the third segment of my journey, when I finally questioned my rationality in traveling cross-country on Amtrak.
I was at the café section of the Crescent, slumped over the table with my chin stuck to a book. We had been on a steady speed of 0 mph for two hours since 10 p.m. A freight train had broken down on the rail ahead of us, obstructing the Crescent's way, so Amtrak called a crew to come haul it away.
At 11 p.m., the intercom crackled. All the other passengers around me perked up like prairie dogs, eyelashes fluttering and eyes brightening. We all but slobbered in anticipation of good news. I saw the train attendant at the end of the car, leaning into the intercom: "Ladies and gentlemen … unfortunately we're still waiting for the crew to come remove the freight train. ... We don't know when we'll be able to move again, but expect significant delay. …"
Everybody groaned. The train attendant gave us a "Yeah, what can you do?" shrug. She later told me such delays happen all the time. "We could wait 15 minutes or three hours," she said. "You never know. It's always unpredictable." A number of other issues can pop up that cause delays: The engine might break down, a crew might be cleaning up the tracks, a nearby construction site may require slowdowns, a cow or a drunk sometimes wanders onto the rail. Because Amtrak borrows most of the railroads from freight companies who own them, it's treated like a second-class citizen: Any time an Amtrak and a Norfolk Southern train cross the same track, the freight has the right of way.
My companion sitting across from me stared impatiently at the spinning wheel on her iPhone that signals the lack of cell phone service. "I'm never riding the Amtrak again," she declared. This was the first time she had ridden Amtrak long-distance, and she worried about the friend who had already driven over to the Greenville, S.C., station to pick her up. I checked the time: It would be past 2 a.m. before we reached Greenville.
There's a reason why the clichéd saying "Life is a journey, not a destination" frequently uses a train metaphor. You've really got to enjoy the whole riding experience to do long-distance travel by train. Otherwise, it simply doesn't make sense; flying saves money, energy, and time. Flying is also safer, at 0.003 fatalities per 100 million passenger miles, compared to 0.06 on passenger trains, according to a 2011 report by Politifact.
Established in 1970 by Congress, Amtrak is a national rail operator that operates an intricate spiderweb system of 21,000 miles to over 500 destinations, including three Canadian cities. Each day, about 300 trains crawl all over the continent, many of them the main mode of transportation connecting rural communities to urban cities. That night, I was on the Crescent, named after the "Crescent City" of New Orleans, a daily-operating train between New York and New Orleans.
For some, being sealed 40 hours in a moving tin box may sound like a claustrophobic nightmare. But for me, riding the train from coast to coast had always been the classic, quintessential American dream—perhaps because I grew up in Singapore, a city-state the size of earwax compared to the vast, resource-heavy, multiclimate terrains of North America.
This spring, I fulfilled that dream by booking multicity Amtrak tickets to travel mostly by myself from Los Angeles to Washington, D.C. Over a period of two weeks, I rode the Sunset Limited with a stopover at Houston, then switched trains at New Orleans to the Crescent with a stopover at Greenville. The total cost was about $400 for coach seats. Without the stopovers at Houston and Greenville, tickets would have cost about $300, or about $150 per ticket. Booking a room in a sleeper car would have meant a convertible bed, a fold-out table, cost-included meals, fresh towels, morning coffee or juice, and room service—but the price is over three times more than coach.
When I shared my travel plans with friends, they looked either impressed or flabbergasted. All worried and advised bringing pepper spray and a padlock. Meanwhile, my parents as usual mainly worried about whether there would be enough to eat. I pooh-poohed all their concerns. Instead, I imagined meeting interesting characters and sharing kooky stories. I was even eager to endure the backaches and wedgies, fancying myself a great adventurer.
That chutzpah abated a little when all throughout my travels, thick low-hanging clouds veiled any majestic sunrise or sunset I had so anticipated. The romance of a train adventure bruised blue-black like the starless sky I gazed at mournfully.
But I did enjoy most of the scenery, especially while on the Sunset Limited. On Sunday evening from Union Station in Los Angeles, we passed the cement-throttled Los Angeles River, then the frosted green slopes of the San Jacinto Mountains, which shaded into greenish blacks as the sky darkened. I woke up to a dusty Monday morning in the Sonoran Desert of Arizona: scorched earth with shrubs, high glimmering skies, and tall cactus saluting prickly arms—some as tall as a house and bloated with more than 2,000 gallons of water. As we chugged through New Mexico, the earth reddened. The land looked like a clay sculpture of Mars—barren but spectacular with lava rocks, sand dunes, and craggy hills striped red, orange, and beige.
When we drew near El Paso, Texas, the train attendant informed us that to our right sits the border city of Juarez. I was at the observation car at the time, and like me, every passenger dropped their books, iPads, and laptops, and scrambled to the right window to peer over the border. The contrast was stark: Out the left window, we saw highways, high-rise apartments, and office buildings for banks; out the right, flat-roofed adobe houses with tin-sheet walls, and rumbling, outdated public transportation buses that were once school buses imported from America. A U.S. veteran next to me let out a low whistle and said, "Wow. Strange how all that separates two lives and economies is about 150 yards, huh."
Overnight, the landscape shifted. Tuesday morning, I peered out the window with bleary eyes and saw lush greens and waters for the first time in 24 hours. We were now near central Texas under misty skies, crossing velvety plains, passing tiny springs and creeks and lumbering cows. At some towns, I was thrilled to see Western saloons and faded signs, Clint Eastwood–style. But as we approached Houston, we passed a blanket of suburbia and SUVs. The landscape turned considerably wetter and rural through Louisiana, with coastal marshes, steamy swamps, bogs, and bayous tending to bald cypress trees. Even inside an air-conditioned compartment, I could almost taste the salty humidity in the air.
In a way, I met all my gritty, bravado expectations. The coffee tasted recycled, my hair looked recycled, and my throat felt like a can for recyclables—but those tics were easily tolerable. On the Sunset Limited from Los Angeles to Houston, the old woman who sat right in front of me emanated such nose-sputtering body odor that the train attendant gifted her a Febreze air freshener.
On the Crescent from New Orleans to Greenville, a sleepless lady in my car babbled and spewed f-bombs for 13 hours straight in her nail-sharp, ear-raking voice. Even from several seats away, I indeliberately learned that she's vegan and agnostic, bore a child out of wedlock, and no longer speaks to her "Bible-pounding" parents. Fellow passengers piled to the snack bar to escape her incessant chatter, and then herded back to their seats when she moved in for Coke and chips. "Good lordy, does she ever stop talking?" one woman whispered to another man, and somehow we banded good-naturedly against a common nuisance.
Inconsiderate passengers are just one of many reasons why Amtrak doesn't attract more travelers. Americans prize predictability, convenience, and time efficiency, but Amtrak cannot guarantee any of these. While I was stuck in travel purgatory somewhere along the Georgia/South Carolina state line for three hours, groups of future passengers were also waiting for hours in tiny, minimal-service stations past midnight. Many of Amtrak's passenger cars and locomotives are outdated, hampering Amtrak's speed and aesthetics; doors between cars that are supposed to swing open sometimes refuse to close, blasting cold air into the already chilly compartments.
Amtrak operates at a yearly net loss of about $1.2 million. The biggest loss comes from long-distance passenger trains. To be fair, no passenger train system in the world earns a profit. As a federally chartered corporation, Amtrak receives funding from the federal government to help cover operating, capital, and debt service costs not covered by revenues—but the funds are never enough, and Amtrak constantly lives in danger of not receiving sufficient dollars.
Still, ridership is going up. Amtrak has been consistently breaking ridership records over the last decade. Its audited financial report for fiscal year 2012 showed another all-time ridership record at 31.2 million passengers—a 3.5 percent increase from previous fiscal year 2011. Of those 31.2 million, 4.7 million were long-distance passengers, a 4.7 percent increase from 2011. Amtrak collected a record $2 billion in ticket revenue and about $2.9 billion in total revenues, enough to help cover 88 percent of its operating costs and reduce some of its incurred debt.
Amtrak offers several explanations for these achievements: stronger economic environment, higher gas prices, declining air travel quality, and continued growth in business travel on Amtrak's improved high-speed rails. But it still faces persisting deterrence: the sprawling American landscape (getting to the train station can be costly and cumbersome), the infuriatingly slow speed on certain tracks (especially in the South), opposition from conservative governors and airline lobbyists, and the widespread car culture, to name a few.
Despite its issues, I loved my Amtrak adventure. After spending a day in the train, you instinctively develop ways to cope with the dampers. I learned to dim talkative passengers into some far corner of my mind. I nonchalantly wiped misaimed pee from toilet seats, automatically held my nose when I used the bathroom stalls. I figured out a way to fluff my pillow and curl up in just the right position to avoid neck cricks and a sore spine.
Then I discovered a second home in the sunny observation car, where seats face floor-to-ceiling windows. Some seats are large enough for me to stretch out and nap without pretzeling like a yogi. The Crescent doesn't offer an observation car, so I camped out at the café lounge area, where cafeteria-style tables and cushioned benches make a rather comfortable work/nap space.
On one trip, a train attendant of 15 years spent more than an hour explaining the Basque history to me, sketching out timelines and maps on an Amtrak napkin. Turns out he's an Eastern Orthodox former high-school teacher with a Ph.D. in theology (eschatology) and two bachelor's degrees in international relations and history. He apparently speaks nine languages, including Russian, Greek, French, and Spanish, and is now writing a history book on Louisiana's Basque origins.
But the best moments were the quiet hours spent in retreat of prayer, meditation, and study. On a plane, I'm too uncomfortably cramped to read or think. On the bus or in a car, I get carsick or fall asleep. But on a train, the gentle swaying feels more like a slow-motion rocking chair, and in unison with the occasional hushed choo-choo whistles, they create an unconscious rhythm for great focus.
I first read A.W. Tozer's The Pursuit of God on the Sunset Limited, a fitting starter that whetted my appetite for a personal intimacy with God. To my great delight, I later discovered that Tozer wrote the entire book during a single train ride from Chicago to Texas. The next morning, I read Lord, Teach Us to Pray by Andrew Murray and pondered what it means to enter the inner chamber, where sincere, private prayers shed off self-righteous morals and legalistic duties. Then I ached with grief while reading Ruth Tucker's Walking Away from Faith, in which she honestly researches people's crises of faith.
On the Crescent, Paul Tripp's Whiter than Snow revived my spirits with his meditation on sin and Christ's mercy, while Paul Washer's The Gospel's Power and Message challenged me to stay on the true course of Christian study as he unapologetically cut down today's superficial, attractive repackaging of the gospel. I also reread favorite portions of John Piper's When I Don't Desire God, always a joy-frothing well of encouragement and power.
These books had been on my reading list for months, and the train turned out to be the perfect place to plod through them. It's easy to flip through a paperback fiction in the weekends at home; it takes more intentional effort and dedicated concentration to finish theological writings, and then unhurriedly reflect on them. Being cooped for days inside a tube with no Wi-Fi meant I gained ample time and ability to be dexterous in my study. I also had the leisure to chew through the contents like a grazing cow instead of my habitual speed-reading, thus avoiding indigestion.
Apparently I wasn't the only Christian on the train. While I was reading Murray on my reading tablet, a young man in army uniform sat across from me reading a King James Bible. In the same car, a bespectacled graybeard shared testimonies from his prison pastoral ministry. He too had a stack of Christian books for reading. On the way to the lavatory, I heard a young man practically preach a sermon to his seatmate, attracting a small crowd. And on another train, I eavesdropped on an all-night discussion between two men, in which the elder one was defending his Christian faith to the young agnostic—rather poorly, I thought, but passionately.
In Amtrak, I found a wonderful haven to replenish the soul. Like all retreats, it was a privilege—I had the flexibility of time, the lack of family commitments, and the youthful ability to sleep anywhere. But that spiritual leisure I enjoyed on the train became unsustainable once I returned home to Los Angeles (by plane) and dived back into my galloping lifestyle. I still spend each morning reading the Bible and participate in church activities, but it's harder to make Jesus Christ your Lord and King of everything when you're no longer holed up in a ventilated casket with bare minimum amenities.
From my apartment near downtown L.A., I can still hear the battle cry of the train: choo kchoo choo choo, kchooo—and I catch myself stirring with wanderlust again, that belly-deep desire to drop everything and hop on Amtrak with just one bag stuffed with books and peanut butter. But I remind myself that this life is my true battlefield, where the same God who was present on the train with me is still working, breathing, and supplying all my battle needs. Of course, I also wouldn't mind if God decided I need another cross-country retreat on Amtrak.
■ Bring a blanket and thick socks—it gets chilly.
■ The café/lounge car sells a "passenger comfort kit" for $8 that provides a blanket, eyeshades, ear plugs, and an inflatable pillow. Skip it: The blanket is too thin, and you need Michael Phelps' lungs to inflate that neck pillow.
■ A fluffy pillow makes a world's difference.
■ Every seat has its own outlet, so bring your charger(s).
■ Pack snacks to save money, but nothing that needs to be microwaved. At the café, a candy bar costs $2.75, a can of soda $2.25, a microwaved pepperoni pizza $5.50. Dining car meals costs $8-$13 for breakfast/lunch, and $17-$26 for dinner.
■ Alcohol (beer, wine, cocktails) are sold onboard.
■ All major credit and debit cards accepted. So is cash.
■ Download the Amtrak smartphone app to check on train status, look up station amenities, and book or modify reservations.
■ The California Zephyr train from Chicago to San Francisco has the most scenic route, but you'll usually need to reserve weeks ahead.
seat61.com/UnitedStates.htm has more great detailed guides and tips for traveling on Amtrak.


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When daily cleansing routines aren't enough to remove all traces of impurities, it is important to turn to a beauty mask for an extra touch of skin purification. However, when you have sensitive skin, it isn't always easy to find a gentle facial mask that cleanses delicate conditions without further irritating existing sensitivity. Avene products have been designed with sensitive skin specifically in mind. For the best results, you should add the use of a facial mask into a beauty care routine that takes full advantage of available cleansers, toners, and treatments.
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This month's challenge theme actually dovetails nicely with my Troglodyte lair from last month. There, the PCs got thrown into a cavern which turned out to be a secret entry point for smuggled cargo. So, for this month's challenge, I thought I'd map the smuggler's off-shore hideout.
"The Floating City of Khuramunz" - Home of the Plundering Horde...Basic idea is that a smuggler's/pirate's guild of sorts has set up a floating base of operations a few dozen miles off shore. This is where territory is divided up, inter-guild quarrels are settled, and ships can safely off load/seek repairs in the absence of a friendly port.
In many ways, the city will be a mix between "Waterworld" (Really bad Kevin Costner movie from the 90s) and the Ancient Aztec City of Tenochtitlan. Small city kept afloat by millions of empty barrels strung together and anchored to the sea floor. The city is protected by a ring of ships tethered together and with rope bridges connecting each ship to the city. The "city" itself is quite small and mostly consists of taverns/whorehouses/gambling halls, etc. At the center is the guild house which will be a multi-story building capped by a light tower.
I just started thinking about this and sketching things out today...so really open to suggestions. I'm also trying to figure out whether I want to try to map it with CC3 (which i'm much more comfortable and competent with) or photoshop...


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IBM recently unveiled IBM MobileFirst, the most comprehensive mobile portfolio that combines security, analytics and app development software, with cloud-based services and deep mobile expertise. Using IBM MobileFirst solutions, businesses can now streamline everything from the management of employee mobile devices, to the creation of a new mobile commerce app that will transform their entire business model.
This move by IBM builds off of its experience helping nearly 1,000 customers become mobile enterprises, and takes advantage of its thousands of mobile experts and 270 patents in wireless innovations. Additionally, IBM has made 10 mobile-related acquisitions in the past four years alone.
IBM is also announcing an expanded relationship with AT&T to provide developers with tools to create faster, richer mobile apps and services for customers. For instance, organizations can now quickly incorporate payment and messages into their apps.
"To date, mobile computing has been dominated by discussions of new smartphones, operating systems, games and apps," said Robert LeBlanc, senior vice president, middleware software, IBM. "But enterprises have yet to tap into the potential of mobile business. Just as the Internet transformed the way we bank, book vacations and manage our healthcare, mobile computing is also transforming industries. As these devices become ingrained in everything that we do, businesses are now in the palms of their customers' hands. IBM MobileFirst is designed to make the transformation to becoming a mobile enterprise a reality."


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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Robin Williams was sober and suffering from early stages of Parkinson's disease as well as anxiety and depression at the time of his apparent suicide, the actor's wife said in a statement on Thursday.
Susan Schneider said the actor "was not yet ready to share publicly" his stuggles with Parkinson's Disease.
"It is our hope in the wake of Robin's tragic passing, that others will find the strength to seek the care and support they need to treat whatever battles they are facing so they may feel less afraid," Schneider said in the statement.
The actor, 63, was discovered on Monday by his assistant. He apparently hanged himself inside his California home, although toxicology tests are pending and the investigation remains open. Investigators have declined to say whether Williams left a suicide note.
From an eccentric alien to an animated blue genie, a loveable British nanny and a fatherly therapist, Williams used his multi-layered brand of comedy to make people laugh.
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While the Oscar-winner's death came as a bolt from the blue to the public, the actor's longtime friend and fellow comedian Bob Zmuda said he was not "totally shocked" by the news.Zmuda, the founder of the charity Comic Relief for which the actor had helped raise more than $70 million, said that Williams had difficulty connecting with people off-stage and that even those who knew him well were unaware of how severe his depression was.
"Sometimes I would meet him one-on-one, he would be so uncomfortable, he really had no social skills, and that's probably one of the reasons he needed to be on stage," Zmuda said. "That was his life blood, that was his psychological imperative, and without that, he was pretty lost."
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Williams had faced challenges in recent years as well, especially after undergoing open-heart surgery in 2009 and when his TV comedy "The Crazy Ones" was canceled in May after one season. Despite that, he left several projects behind in the wake of his death, all of which are in various stages of completion.
Funeral arrangements for Williams have not been released. Earlier this week Broadway dimmed its lights in his honor, and the Primetime Emmy Awards announced the "Mork and Mindy" star will be honored during the Aug. 25 awards broadcast.
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Repeated pressure and friction caused by standing, walking, and dancing in ill-fitting shoes can cause heel calluses to form on the foot. Calluses are thickened areas of dead skin that build up to protect the heels against further wear and tear.
Treatments include prevention like proper shoes, using inserts, and/or ensuring the shoes worn have thick cushion to protect the feet. Soaking and buffing the areas afflicted, exfoliating, and moisutrizing cream can be extremely helpful to treat this condition. Always check with your dermatologist.
Sexy stilettos and fashionable footwear may look attractive, but the repeated pressure and friction caused by standing, walking, and dancing in ill-fitting shoes can cause heel calluses to form on the foot. Calluses are thickened areas of dead skin that build up to protect the heels against further wear and tear. Although heel calluses form to protect the skin, they can be uncomfortable. As it is almost impossible to avoid standing or walking, heel calluses can significantly impact on an individual's wellbeing and enjoyment of life.
When it comes to heel calluses, you can take measures to prevent the problem but also treat when the issues does arise. To avoid heel calluses from developing, steer clear of shoes that have high heels or thin soles. Wear shoes that fit well and have soles that are thick enough to cushion your feet as you walk. Alternatively, there are inserts that can help shoes from slipping and creating friction on the skin. Inserts can prevent heel calluses by acting as shock absorbers. If you just can't give up your killer heels, invest in some good inserts.
If you have already developed heel calluses, don't despair. There are steps you can take to heal and nurture your feet.
Hardened skin can be softened by soaking the feet in warm water. For added benefit, add one cup of honey to a gallon of warm water. This natural antiseptic will reduce the chance of infection while soothing and softening dry skin.
Lemon juice can be used to soften and loosen dry, callused skin. Add half a cup of lemon juice to a basin of warm water and soak your feet for around 10 minutes. The natural acidity of the lemon juice will get to work on the hard skin on your feet.
A pumice stone can be used to remove thick, hardened skin from the heels. By rubbing on the heel with a wet pumice stone, you will remove the layers of dead skin. Pumice is often found in commercial foot treatments that are available for at home use. Formulas often combine physical exfoliators such as pumice powder with salicylic or glycolic acid to leave feet feeling smoother and softer.
An alternative way to remove the hard, dry skin from callused heels is by using an exfoliating treatment cream. The cream is left on the skin and gradually eliminates the dead cells that cause roughness.
After removing hard skin with a pumice stone or exfoliator, feet should be moisturized with a rich hydrating cream to replenish and protect the skin. Apply immediately after cleansing to seal in hydration and prevent cracking and dehydration.
For maximum benefit, apply a thick layer of moisturizing cream to the feet before retiring for the night and pull on a pair of thin cotton socks. The beneficial ingredients from the cream will be absorbed in to the dry skin during the night. When you awake, your feet will feeler considerably softer and wonderfully nourished.
A podiatrist may shave the hard skin on a heel callus. This is an approach best left to a trained professional. An individual should never use a sharp blade to remove a callus from her own foot. There is a high risk of cutting too deep and injuring the soft skin underneath the callus. Cutting the skin in this way can lead to infection.
While it can be hard to protect feet from everyday wear and tear, there are steps you can take to pamper and protect them, allowing you to stride out with confidence.


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VERMILLION | The University of South Dakota's College of Arts and Sciences is sponsoring a T-shirt swap ahead of next weekend's football matchup between the Coyotes and the South Dakota State University Jackrabbits.
The college is encouraging students, faculty and staff to donate any item of SDSU apparel in any condition in exchange for a new red USD T-shirt.
All of the old SDSU clothing will be recycled and returned to the SDSU campus before the game by the Department of Military Science.
Dean Matthew Moen says it's an effort to promote USD's new sustainability major in a light-hearted way while finding a good home for SDSU apparel.
USD travels to Brookings to face SDSU on Nov. 17 for the team's first football matchup in nine years.


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We use a Lightforce spotlight with a red lens here in Australia. Works perfectly, but it's heavy.
Spotlighting is a ton of fun, where legal. But you really need to watch what you are doing. Some friends shot a $35,000 angus bull that was turned and sitting in a big patch of brush. In the spotlight he looked like a wildboar, distances become very muted and the light doesn't show you the whole picture. I think your mind also plays tricks on you.
Keep that in mind. Was a very expensive night for some friends of mine, the land owner shrugged his shoulders and said " these things happen" he had done the same thing a few years before. My friends still had to pay off the bull though.


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I need to upgrade from my Bushnell Elite spotting scope. I can only afford to buy one scope. My binos are Minox 10x42. I mainly hunt mulies, sometimes antelope.
I am looking at a Razor HD 20-60x85 spotter, which gets great reviews. But, I am hesitant to add all that weight (+ the tripod) while I hunt.
I am also considering the Nikon ED50 which is obviously much easier to carry, but it tops out at 30x and optics are not as good.
What spotter would you recommend? I usually buy used or demos and I need to keep it under $1,250.


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To the editor:
Wow! Recently I awoke to the room shaking, the earth trembling. To my horror, I remembered that the sequestration had arrived! Then I realized it was merely our cat jumping on the bed to tell us her food dish was empty � she�s a liberal Demo-cat.
You can imagine my deep disappointment that President Barack Obama�s gloomy prediction had not come true. This pill was as bitter as learning there is no Santa Claus � something liberals have never learned.
So far, the sequestration panicked only Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which released 2,000 incarcerated felons because it would not have the funds to retain them and plans to release 3,000 more. Evidently ICE thinks it is cheaper to re-arrest them than to house them. ICE would have done better had it simply closed shop.
Speaking of closing shop, why not shutter the following cabinet departments: Education, HUD and Energy. Follow their dismissal by shutting down the EPA, GAO, Head Start and the National Endowment for the Arts. Then privatize the nation�s railroads and look for other government agencies to ax.
Our ever-expanding government has never operated anything well except the military; and in view of what I see coming from the Pentagon lately, I�m beginning to have serious doubts about that.
Folks, we are paying a dysfunctional government. There are 545 people (435 House representatives, 100 senators, nine Supremes and one campaigner-in-chief) who are supposed to be running the country, and they are not doing their jobs.
I wish there was a way to fire all of them and replace them with 545 fourth-graders. The only thing our government can agree on is when to take taxpayer-paid vacations. It is the biggest rip-off, the most egregious scam in my lifetime (1933 to date).
Think about it: We are all paying for this. What a country! God help us.
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Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is a series of steps to help a person who is not responding and has stopped breathing. CPR helps deliver oxygen rich blood to the body tissue when the body is not able to do this on its own.
CPR is given to a child who is not breathing. Reasons for this may include:
The outcome will depend on the cause and how soon effective CPR was initiated. Many people are unable to regain a normal heartbeat after it has stopped.
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People with weakened bones have a higher risk of
from CPR. However, there is greater risk of death if CPR is delayed or not done correctly.
When you see a child suddenly collapse, or find a child unconscious on the ground, immediately check to see if he is responsive. Tap the child and ask: "Are you OK?" If the child is unresponsive, follow these steps:
The length of time for CPR depends on the underlying causes and response time of medical help.
The patient is unconscious when CPR is given. The procedure does not hurt. Some children may complain of soreness in the chest after regaining consciousness.
The emergency team will take over care when they arrive.
Children will need to be taken to the hospital for evaluation following CPR.
If a child is unresponsive and someone is with you, have that person call for medical help right away. If you are alone, do CPR for about two minutes before calling for medical help.
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Goodguys Great Lakes Nationals - Winning In WaukeshaWritten by on March 1, 2007 Goodguys 17th Great Lakes Nationals
I am still not too sure why it's called the Midwest when it seems more like the North, but who am I to say? I wasn't sure if I was going to be fighting the heat and humidity or scraping ice off my Mustang rental car when I got to Wisconsin this past August for the Goodguys Great Lakes Nationals, but it would prove to be my lucky weekend. I landed in Milwaukee for the first time and drove around the city for an hour or so to take a quick look before heading west to Waukesha. I've heard the name Waukesha for years in reference to the Waukesha engines that have powered many industrial applications for 100 years now, and, in fact, I believe I had just missed the city's big anniversary party. Nonetheless, the weather was nicer than the tailings of the Texas-like summer we'd had back in California, and I couldn'tbe happier.
The show was held at the Waukesha County Expo Center, which seemed to stretch out for miles (why do I always wear my Converse shoes?). Friday's potential rain kept a few people away, plus many were still in route or at work still, but the grounds were filling up with some interesting cars and trucks, which got me started picking some Top Ten winners. Friday night's party in the parking lot of the Machine Shed restaurant included a hog roast and live music, which I enjoyed before hitting the hay to get a good night's sleep for Saturday.
We couldn't have asked for a better day for a car show! It was mostly sunny, around 72 degrees, and the Expo Center was packed. Being the only magazine covering the event, I had the place to myself which was great, but it meant I had to really hustle to shoot all the great trucks I found. The clouds moved in for a just long enough to shoot Steve Huntington's '53 F-100, and then they decided to dump on us just enough to make a mess and the air kinda sticky, but luckily that didn't last. One of the most interesting things about the show was the number and variety of the "off-brand" vehicles. There were more Studebakers, Nashes, and International than I'd ever seen in one place, plus there were lots of 1930s trucks of all makes, which are a rare sight. All in all, it was a great trip; I ate well, shot loads of cool trucks, made new friends, and saw a new-to-me beautiful part of the country. Go to www.good-guys.com for info on the '07 events.
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This was a happenin' spot at the show with these AD Chevys that ranged from mild to wild to suit your taste. From the left is Jeff and Brenda Kuhn's awesome silver '48, John Mathieu's clean '51, and Sam Boelens' barn-fresh '47. Look for full features on the two trucks on the left!Hanging out on the far side of the Expo Center was Dan Carey and his '39 Chevy from Eau Claire, WI. This subtle, cool-blue truck has logged more than a few miles on the odometer with Dan's foot on the gas.Like it or not, this truck was wild! Anthony Hammock's '52 Chevy looks like it was angle-chopped, channeled, and possibly sectioned, with a pancaked hood and '53 Buick headlights for starters. Oh yeah, it's kinda low, too!Paul Geweoke cruised his '54 Chevy 1-ton down from Eagan, MN, for the weekend. The dutiful flatbed serves Paul well as an eye-catcher for his concrete business, but it pulls its weight around with a 350/700-R4 combo.With seemingly more early trucks here than any other show I can remember, here's Perry and LouAnn Valle's '36 Chevy. The suede pickup has an early small-block with a Rochester Tri-power topped with Thickstun air cleaners that match the rest of the finned aluminum parts between the fenders-cool!Not only were there many early-model trucks at the show, but there were also a bunch of early work trucks, too. The flatbeds, wreckers, and 1-tons probably matched the number of 1/2-tons. Sitting in the car corral looking for a new owner was this '39 Dodge wrecker. Far from being a wreck, it even looked like a fresh resto, with the exception of the Chevy running gear.I know this doesn't have to do with trucks, except that the '60 Pontiac Safari wagon is doing a truck's job in towing the vintage A/GAS Pontiac-powered front-engine dragster! The Poncho mill in the dragster is from '59, but it was bored to a 413 and pushes out 460hp through the Hydro-Stick and early Ford banjo rearend! Owners Roger Mortinsen and John Josephson were busy answering questions all weekend.
Another hit at the show was John Olson's '35 Ford shop truck. Like a shoemaker's kid, this body shop's truck is probably the last on the list for paint, but with its low stance, whitewalls, spider caps, and tuck 'n' roll, we're sure John enjoys driving it regardless.Under the hood of John's '35 Ford is a built '49-53 Flathead. Proving that four in a row will go with Holley 94 carbs on top of the rare Edelbrock intake, and that you don't need aluminum heads to be cool, John kept the cast-iron stockers.We don't see many International trucks, so here's Mitch Wakeland's '49 work in progress. The black-primered truck runs a 455 Pontiac V-8 and hails from West Allis, WI. Next to him is Fred Fergande's green '49 Chevy 3100.I had to do it, and we might as well get it out of the way. I know Econolines can be a sore subject for some, but I love 'em, and you can't dispute their fun factor. Dan Kelly from Brookfield, WI, couldn't either when he bought his '65 Econoline, and he pushed the issue that much further by adding a Holman Moody logo on the sides since they actually used Econolines for shop vehicles. The stock six and three-on-the-tree still reside under the doghouse, while the big 'n' littles leave you wondering.Hiram Miller has owned this Second Series '55 Chevy truck for 18 years, and between him and his sons, they have transformed it into a winner. Under the salmon-red paint we found an LT-1, a 4L60E, Air Ride, a Mustang II IFS, and a Vintage Air unit. Nice work, guys!This was definitely Studebaker country, and Mike Kluth and his daughter were at the show with their '37 Studebaker J5 Coupe Express. These almost-custom or coach-built-looking trucks were way ahead of their time, yet they're built on Studebaker's four-door Dictator Sedan chassis and cowl. Mike restored the '37 in his Waukesha, WI, garage, and loves driving it all over the state. There's a full feature coming on this one, too.Jim Talaga's '34 Ford might look like a rat rod at first, but don't be fooled, it's all hot rod! Under the faux finish is a well-built pickup that sports a built '53 Ford Flathead backed by a '48 Ford trans, a dropped axle, exhaust cutouts, red tuck 'n' roll, and '53 Cadillac wire wheels. Jim and his wife drove the '34 from Plainfield, IL, for the show.
There were a few cool '40s in Waukesha, but Dennis Burkart's Hugger Orange and Lexus Vanilla Shake two-tone Ford was awful easy on the eyes. There's a Heidt's Mustang II under those fenders that helps the 350/350-powered truck on the road, and Dennis rides comfortably in the Shell Ultra Leather cover seat. Yes, there's a feature coming on this one, too.A '35 Dodge truck? Have we gone off the deep end? Thanks to Henry Bargenquast and his tasteful prewar pickup, we can maintain our sanity while we hand over his Top Ten. He's had the '35 on the road for over 25 years thanks to his efforts building it the first time around with a small-block Chevy, a TH400 for power, and an undisclosed IFS up front. Keep that speedo going, Henry.One of the cleanest trucks at the show had to be Jeff Kuhn's '48 Chevy. Even under soon-to-be rain clouds, the truck's brilliant fine metallic silver paint popped. The interior is one of the most amazing red leather creations ever, while the engine bay is every bit as impressive with a detailed and injected 572 big-block nestled in tight. Stay tuned on this one!A Cadillac-powered longbed '72 C-10! Loren Iwen from Oneida, WI, got this truck from his grandpa, who bought it new and used it on his farm until Loren put it on the street for good. The dare-to-be-different, clean green Chevy has a 500-inch Caddy motor hooked to a TH400 that boils the hides on the chromed five-spokes without thinking twice.Gray doesn't usually jump out and grab you, so it must have been the whole package with Steve Huntington's '53 F-100 that made it stand out from the crowd. The just-right rake and the American Racing Salt Flat wheels say the Effie means business, while the '76 Chevy truck blue on the roof ties the rest of it together. Steve spent many hours out in the garage until 2 a.m. building the 289 and C4-powered F-100, and he was delighted to be picked for a Top Ten and a feature. Nice work.Don and Sue Snyder from Janesville, WI, have logged more than 60,000 miles on their '48 Chevy since it's been on the road, but you'd never know it looking at it. The bright red paint still looks like new, and the LT-1 and 700-R4 run like a top. Elsewhere, we found full Air Ride, a power bed cover, A/C, cruise, and a supple leather interior.


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(USA Today) -- A House bill introduced earlier this week seeks to apply stiffer penalties to retailers who sell or rent adult-rated video games to minors.
The Video Games Ratings Enforcement Act submitted by House Rep. Jim Matheson, D-Utah, would require ratings labels on all video games and ban the sale of video games rated Mature or Adults Only to minors.
Any violators would be subject to a $5,000 fine.
According to the Entertainment Software Rating Board, the video game ratings system is voluntary, but nearly all video games sold in stores carry a rating. "Many U.S. retailers, including most major chains, have policies to only stock or sell games that carry an ESRB rating, and console manufacturers require games that are published on their systems in the U.S. and Canada to be rated by ESRB," reads an FAQ on the board's website.
And the video game industry seems most aggressive in enforcing its ratings. According to a 2011 survey by the Federal Trade Commission, the video game business was best at enforcing ratings on entertainmentpurchases.
The FTC survey found only 13% of minors were allowed to buy a game rated M for Mature or higher at a retailer. By comparison, 38% of minors were able to purchase an R-rated DVD, 33% could buy a ticket to a R-rated movie and 64% bought a CD with a "Parental Advisory Label."
The ratings bill is one of several pieces of legislation considered as the debate over violent video games following the shooting in Newtown, Conn., presses forward. A state bill introduced in Missouri urges a sales tax on all video games the board rates Teen or higher, while other federal lawmakers such as Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W. Va., are pushing legislation to explore the affects of violent video games.
On Wednesday, President Barack Obama urged Congress to fund research exploring the impact violent video games have on children. "We don't benefit from ignorance," Obama said in a speech unveiling a broader gun control plan. We don't benefit from not knowing the science of this epidemic of violence."
(USA Today)


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Although the map is labeled the Pool of the Sunken Well, that's only to allow the GM to show this map to players, and not give away the encounter. Its actually the Pool of Dead Children.
A tamashinaki, which is a soul-less being, one of the oddities that could arise in the cursed reincarnation cycle of Kaidan. In this case a reincarnating spirit attempts to takeover an existing living being, through whatever reason the invading spirit fails to take control yet the original soul is driven away. An empty body normally means death to that body. However, sometimes an evil elemental spirit takes over called a Tamashinaki.
Soulless beings can learn martial class trades, though cannot speak and makes for a cursed evil being. In this case, this tamashinaki is named "Blood falls on the Snow", a name given to a serial killer who has kidnapped, tortured and murdered 24 children at this location. Their spirits have formed a center of negative energy at the pool location where all their bodies have been dumped.
The encounter uses the new Haunt mechanic from the Pathfinder Game Mastery Guide. In this case, after the PC party decides to rest here over-night... at midnight a freezing mist rises from the pool moving outward at 10' per round causing 1 hp of frost damage each round, moving outward a total of 100' (nearly the entire map). Those sleeping within the 100' range must make a Fort save. If they fail they remain asleep taking 1 hp of frost damage, while ice begins forming on their skin. They also dream through the mind of a child the chase, torture and murder of them on a frozen lake.
Those who awaken have the frost immediately melt off, and discover a thick freezing mist obscuring their vision. 24 advanced zombie children crawl from the pool moving through the mist to attack anyone they can catch. If three or more zombies grapple any person they will drag them back to the pool to drown.
They can awake and escape the hundred foot diameter reach of the center of the pool to escape attacks by the dead children. They can attack and destroy the zombies as well. However to end the haunt, the party needs to kill all the zombies and bury them outside the 100' radius.
This is meant to be haunted location 4/5's into the adventure.
Hand-drawing, digitally scanned, imported to Xara. Beveled shapes of mountains and ground topography with drop shadows, as well as drop-shadowed trees fill the terrain. My usual hand-drawn style.


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ATLANTA (WXIA) - After starting in Atlanta, Minute Suites, one of a new type of what are termed "pod hotels," is expanding at airports across the nation.
The suites are based in airports, and provide a place for weary travelers to take a nap, relax or work in comfort while visiting the airport. Minute Suites is the first of its type in America, and has had large-scale use in Japan for a number of years. Their facility at Hartsfield, on Concourse B, opened in 2009. A second Minute Suites facility opened in 2011 at Philadelphia International Airport.
Rooms in both locations are roughly 56 square feet each.
Each suite includes a daybed sofa, pillows and fresh blankets. Sounds are suppressed within each room and an audio program is available to help guests get a good power nap in. Guests can use an in-suite alarm clock or request a wake-up call from management. An HDTV provides a comfortable place to watch television and can connect with the internet. The television also provides access to flight tracking for the airport.
In addition to internet access on the television, wifi is available for guests in each suite, as are a desk and telephone. A computer is also available for guests in each suite.
An hour stay is $30, with each 15 minute segment after that running another $7.50. Minute Suites partners with Delta to credit SkyMiles participants with one mile for each dollar they spend. Minute Suites provides special discounts for pilots, airline employees and military personnel.
Minute Suites says two new locations - both located at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport are under development: with one slated to open at the end of this year and the second is set to open at the end of 2014.
There are no showers or room service at either of the locations, although according to the company, they plan to include private shower units in the Dallas-Fort Worth locations when they open.
Minute Suites says they are in negotiation with other US airport hubs.
A London-based firm with a similar "pod hotel" concept is looking at expanding into the United States, and, according to Forbes magazine, has been talking with Kennedy Airport in New York City and is talking to other airports in the US.


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Steve Macek, North Central College associate professor of speech communication, authors syndicated op-ed about cyber-security bill in U.S. Congress.
Steve Macek, North Central College associate professor of speech communication and coordinator of urban and suburban studies, authored an opinion piece, titled "Let's not sacrifice our privacy on the altar of cyber security," that has been picked up by various news outlets, from The Naperville Sun and Columbus Dispatch, to outlets in San Diego, Brooklyn, Texas, Kentucky and more. The piece was syndicated by the American Forum, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit that works to encourage more citizen debate on important societal issues.


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Opposing counsel
Healthcare | A promising lawsuit against Obamacare has brought Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli-and his Madisonian outlook-into the public eye
"Opposing counsel" Continued...
Ken Cuccinelli laces up the black Reebok shoes he just bought at a Dick's Sporting Goods in Richmond, Va. He found the $40 pair of shoes hidden in a row of $80 shoes. Despite this deal, he claims they are the most expensive pair of athletic shoes he has ever owned.
The attorney general of Virginia is readying to take the court, but not the one you might think. Tonight, Cuccinelli, 42, is facing off with members of the Virginia General Assembly at a basketball gym near the city's Capitol Square. And he's a little nervous, mostly because he didn't have the best pregame meal-a couple of McDonald's hamburgers washed down with sweet tea. "It is not the smartest thing I've done today," he admitted. "I don't usually do two of those in a day."
Wearing a red Roanoke Tea Party T-shirt, Cuccinelli, with dark eyes and dark hair atop a frame that remains thin despite his fast food choices, warms up with a couple of air balls before sinking two shots in a row. "I'm done," he says.
When the game starts, Cuccinelli, who spent more than a dozen years refereeing youth basketball, is not too afraid to take risky shots. In three out of the four games tonight, he takes the game's opening shot. His team finishes with a 4-0 record after he sinks the game-winning shot in the final contest. "Cuccinelli knows how to close it out," one of the players shouts.
It's nearly 9 p.m. on Jan. 25, and President Barack Obama is about to give his State of the Union speech. Cuccinelli merely glances at a television screen while exiting the gym. It is time for him to head home: two hours away in a Northern Virginia suburb of Washington, D.C.
Cuccinelli's first year as attorney general ended about a month ago, and it was a little like his evening basketball game in Richmond. He did not waste time easing himself into his new position, and his fearlessness in taking on the federal government brought instant controversy. (He jokes that the swearing at him began the day after his swearing in.) But the year in office has made him one of the nation's highest-profile attorneys general. "We have not been bored," he admits.
Last February, Cuccinelli filed a legal petition to the Environmental Protection Agency-an organization he likes to call the Employment Prevention Agency-asking it to reconsider its decision to regulate certain emissions and questioning its global-warming findings.
Then on March 23, the same day that 235 years earlier another Virginian in Richmond named Patrick Henry uttered the words, "Give me liberty or give me death," Cuccinelli filed suit to stop the new federal healthcare law. The attorney general argued that the law's individual mandate to force everyone to buy insurance or face penalties violates the U.S. Constitution. Healthcare supporters called the lawsuit frivolous. But in December a federal judge from Virginia thought otherwise, ruling in favor of Cuccinelli and striking down the mandate that many consider the overhaul's tent pole.
Cuccinelli makes no apologies for his aggressiveness. He argues that the nation is in the midst of the "greatest erosion of liberty in my adult lifetime." His state, he says, is "not a wholly owned subsidiary of U.S. Congress, Inc."
Attorneys general from around the nation seem to agree: Twenty-six states filed a similar suit against the new healthcare law, and on Jan. 31 a Florida judge delivered a bombshell ruling when he sided with those states and declared the entire law unconstitutional.
With the Feb. 2 legislative defeat of congressional healthcare repeal efforts in the U.S. Senate, the focus of the fight against Obamacare is shifting to the nation's courts. Cuccinelli now is asking the Supreme Court to waive the normal appeals process and fast-track his Virginia healthcare lawsuit. While the other states banded together, he decided to have Virginia go after Obamacare alone. As a result, he is fast becoming the face of the healthcare debate.
This makes Cuccinelli a hero to some but a villain to others. Why fly solo against the federal government? The answer likely is found in his love of history. He calls Virginia the perfect place, thanks to its rich history, for defending the Constitution. "This lawsuit is about liberty, not healthcare," he says. "If they can order you to buy this, they can order you to buy anything. Frankly, the federal government ought to be knocked back here. It has overstepped its boundaries."
Cuccinelli was tea party long before there was a Tea Party. He grew up reading about Revolutionary War heroes and now comfortably refers to James Madison's Federalist Papers as if they were written yesterday. He says that by being Washington's foil, he is only doing what Madison intended-providing the institutional tension between state and federal governments that keeps both powers in check. On a recent cold Monday morning in Richmond, Cuccinelli stood before a "proclaiming Christ in the heart of the city" banner and addressed a room full of Christian students visiting the state capitol.
Inside Saint Paul's Episcopal Church at Capitol Square, a place where Confederate President Jefferson Davis was a member during the Civil War, it didn't take long for Cuccinelli to explain the present by delving into the past: "The king of Great Britain that we rebelled against acknowledged that he didn't have the authority to make the colonists buy British goods," he lectured the students. "But our president and the last Congress think they can. The power of the federal government after the American Revolution and the Constitution was less in all respects than the British Parliament. Otherwise, why rebel?"
Cuccinelli's conviction in these principles began during his own high-school days while attending a private Jesuit school in Washington, D.C. There lots of reading gave him clear ideas of what government should and shouldn't do. (He didn't only study: Cuccinelli, who says he has "a whacky side," spent time in costume as the school's eagle mascot. Nowadays he hosts annual fundraisers at a paintball course, and his "Don't Tread on Me" baseball cap sports numerous paintball stains.)
At the University of Virginia, the attorney general seemed to reject a career in politics by becoming an engineering major. But he served on the university's judiciary committee for three years. The experience of helping to govern the students led him to law school.
As a lawyer Cuccinelli worked pro bono on hundreds of mental healthcare cases. Still he nourished his passion for politics: volunteering to put up signs during elections, collecting inch-thick files on topics like school choice, and developing his recruiting pitch. Soon he became the Republican membership chair for his Northern Virginia county. But he always assumed that would be as far as he would go politically.
His wife, Teiro, had bad memories of the time her mother ran for a county board seat, and her disdain for politics made Cuccinelli reluctant to discuss the topic.
Then one night in April 1999, Cuccinelli came home from work late.
"Guess what I did at the grocery store today?" Teiro asked. "I signed somebody's petition to run for office."
Taken aback, Cuccinelli asked her for the name of the candidate. When she responded, Cuccinelli exploded: "He is pro-tax. He breaks his word. He backstabs pro-lifers!" he recalls ranting.
Then out of the blue Teiro said: "Well, why don't you run against him?"
After Cuccinelli overcame his shock, he did some research and found that the deadline to file a petition to enter the race had passed just four hours earlier. "I missed that. But I started planning for the next race."
Having paid his dues as a recruiter gave Cuccinelli a wealth of local contacts. Those relationships, his pro-life position, and a lot of miles on a 20-year-old Isuzu Pup to plant signs all over the county helped him eke out a GOP primary win in August 2002 by a mere 104 votes. In the general election Cuccinelli won again, despite being outspent by more than 2-to-1. At 34, he became a freshman state senator. Serving for eight years, he would go on to win even closer races-gaining reelection in 2007 by a margin of just 98 votes out of 37,000 cast.
Despite tight elections, Cuccinelli did not apologize for being a conservative Republican from traditionally liberal Northern Virginia. In the Senate he quickly bemoaned the fact that many of his fellow Republicans seemed to favor big government aggressively. He became known for the many 39-to-1 votes in which he was the lone dissenter. His personal favorite: trying to remove $100,000 earmarked for the budget committee chairman's district and replacing it with $100,000 for the brain injury foundation.
"It is more tiring to fight with the people who are supposed to be on your team than it is to fight with people who are supposed to be your opponents," he said. "But by the end, I was giving as good as I got. I don't mind knife fights. As long as the knives come from the front."
When he ran for attorney general in 2009, newspapers like the Virginian-Pilot bashed his conservative morality, warning that he would be an "embarrassment" to the state if elected. But he won by a sizeable 18 percentage points in November 2009-one of the early indicators of the larger conservative victory to come one year later.
"I recognize that the founders built this nation on the foundation of natural law," Cuccinelli said when talking about his conservative crusades. "The Founding Fathers would have never believed that you would debate abortion or that you would debate marriage."
He calls himself a cradle Catholic, having been raised in the faith. But four years into his marriage Cuccinelli and his wife had a significant reawakening. Their exploration, spurred on by the mother's group his wife joined at their church, led to what he calls the "most important change in either of our lives." Faith became their top priority.
That led to a passion for protecting family values that has, ironically, led him to spend long hours away from his own family. The couple has seven children ages 1 to 15, including 5 daughters. Wanting to remain near both their older daughters' schools (the younger ones are homeschooled) and their church, Cuccinelli and his wife decided to stay in Northern Virginia.
That is why, roughly two hours after the end of his basketball game, with the clock nearing 11 p.m., Cuccinelli is finally turning into his family's rural neighborhood in Prince William County.
"Oh my gosh, tonight's a trash night," he exclaims after noticing that all the other houses have the cans already pulled to the end of driveways. "All right girls, way to go," he adds after seeing that his own cans have been rolled down the long driveway that leads to the home on his 10-acre plot.
His wife is there to greet him at the door. At least one child is still awake, waiting behind the curtains to hug her father. Cuccinelli will head back to Richmond at 7:30 the next morning.
"We are not doing this for fun," he tells me before disappearing inside. "We are fighting."


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Brushwood Area
4955 Townsend Rd., Richfield 44286
Daffodil Trail
3100 Brush Rd., Richfield 44286
6 a.m. - 11 p.m.
Click here for alerts and trail closures
An estimated 40,000 daffodils – including dozens of varieties – bloom each spring along the H.S. Wagner Daffodil Trail, named for the park district's first director-secretary, who planted the first bulbs here in the late 1930s. Peak bloom is typically mid-April.
Old Mill
The trail takes hikers through beech-maple woods. Be sure to look for the Brush Family marker, which reads: "To all those who love as he loved the far sky and smiling land."
Rock Creek
The picturesque Rock Creek Trail leads hikers on a shaded, basic trail through beautiful beech-maple woods.
Class A=Multipurpose B=Accessible* C=Basic D=Primitive** E=Bridle
Rating 1=Easy 2=Moderate 3=Difficult
*Flat, easy trail or section with asphalt or crushed limestone surface that meets or exceeds ADA requirements.
See Spree For All for more information about accessible trails. Click for OPDMD trails
** Rugged and challenging with uneven surfaces and steep, narrow routes
The 890-acre Furnace Run Metro Park began in 1929 when the family of Charles Francis Brush Jr. donated 272 acres to Metro Parks. Much of the park was developed by work relief crews during the 1930s. Brushwood Lake, a once-popular swimming spot before erosion and sedimentation forced its closing in 1956, was created by diverting the natural flow of the Furnace Run.
Every March and April, thousands of daffodils bloom along the H.S. Wagner Daffodil Trail. Wagner, the first director of Metro Parks, owned the land off Brush Road and planted the first bulbs along the trail. After he retired in 1958, he sold the property to Metro Parks and the land became part of Furnace Run Metro Park.
Today, along the Old Mill trail, be sure to look for the Brush Family marker, which reads: "To all those who love as he loved the far sky and smiling land." Just south of Brushwood Lake flows a recently restored stretch of stream. The award-winning environmental project recreated several thousand feet of habitat for aquatic wildlife and native fish, including a thriving population of rainbow darters, a sensitive species.
The park contains beech-maple woods, acres of spring wildflowers – including trillium and Virginia bluebells – and deep ravines. Birds spotted in Furnace Run Metro Park include a variety of owls, hawks, herons, warblers and waterfowl. Downstream from the lake, the wet woods of sycamores, black walnuts, willows and shrubs welcome an occasional family of beavers. Brushwood Lake is home to fish, frogs and other aquatic wildlife.
Furnace Run Metro Park features a small sledding hill and trails for hiking and cross-country skiing. Anglers can drop a line in Brushwood Lake for bass, bluegill, catfish and perch. Brushwood Pavilion, a converted 1930s bath house, can be reserved for parties, meetings and other gatherings.


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Basically if you force DISH to provide you with HD equipment without subscribing to a HD package they will charge you a little extra. If they force you to accept HD equipment then they won't charge you extra.
I have a 6000, which is obsolete, and Dish is "forcing" me to replace it with an updated HD receiver - but as I do not currently subscribe to any HD programming, I would get the fee. Could I have requested an SD receiver to replace my 6000, thus bypassing this fee?


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Outdoor benches and chairs are a fundamental aspect of any backyard retreat. Besides giving your space a lived-in look, outdoor chairs provide your family and guests with places to relax, read, chat, nap, eat and above all, enjoy the fresh air. Strategically placed in garden nooks and crannies, outdoor benches allow visitors to sit a spell while admiring the beautiful view before them. Whatever style of outdoor décor you favor, our collection includes benches and chairs that are sure to enhance your open-air experience.


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File Shares Support for Students
Information Technology & Innovation supports access to your Student File Share only from university-owned equipment on campus.
Although WestConn does not restrict you from accessing your individual Student File Share from the Internet, Information Technology & Innovation cannot support this due to the factors outside of our control (e.g. corporate firewalls and proxy servers as well ISP policies often prohibit this type of data access).
On-campus: Windows XP workstations:
- For Windows users, your file storage will be available on the H:\ drive;
- your individual storage location will be H:\username (e.g. H:\Smith001)
On-campus: Macintosh OS X computers:
Click on the Finder icon in the dock;
- click on the Finder icon in the dock;
- from the top Finder menu, choose Go:
- from the drop-down menu, choose "Connect to server";
- under Server address, enter the network path: smb://w-homer/xfer$/yourusername, click Connect.
- enter the domain of which your account exists (WCSU_USER or W-WCSU-LOCAL), then enter your username and password.
- a window will appear, showing your folder that contains your file share.
Off-campus: Windows & Mac computers:
You can also access your file share outside of our local network (e.g. off campus, in the residence halls). Visit http://www.wcsu.edu/remoteaccess/ for more information.


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Al Zollar, General Manager of Tivoli Software, will be attending CIOsynergy,
Some of the insights Mr. Zollar will be sharing come from the CIO study
The CIO study underscores the fact that the role of the Chief Information Officer is changing dramatically. In addition to being IT experts, today's most successful CIO's are also business leaders who are actively engaged in setting strategy, enabling flexibility and change, and solving business problems, not just IT problems.
As the lines between business and IT blur, CIO's recognize the critical role service delivery plays in how their companies do business and generate revenue. And, as the world becomes more instrumented, interconnected and intelligent, the way services are designed, delivered and managed is rapidly changing too.
Physical assets are being transformed into smart, digitally-aware assets that can receive and emit data and connect with one another, allowing people, systems and objects to communicate and interact in entirely new ways.
As a result of the interconnection of these instrumented and intelligent devices, great breakthroughs in service innovation are creating new opportunities for people and businesses worldwide.
With these new opportunities also comes increased complexity and risk. And this puts new requirements on our business and technology infrastructures.
CIOs are faced with important objectives that often seem to clash: How can we support the introduction of new services while avoiding the disruption of existing services? How can I reduce costs while improving services? How will I balance the need to influence business strategy with the need to provide top-notch IT support? To respond to these conflicting objectives, successful CIO's are blending three pairs of roles that seem contradictory, but are actually complimentary. At any given time, a CIO is:
- An Insightful Visionary and Able Pragmatist, whose focus is making innovation real
- A Savvy Value Creator and Relentless Cost Cutter, whose aim is increasing the ROI
- A Collaborative Business Leader and Inspiring IT Manager, whose mission is to expand the business impact of IT
Integrated Service Management can help CIO's achieve their dual focus of IT expert and business leader. Integrated Service Management helps the:
- Insightful Visionary and Able Pragmatist make innovation real by simplifying and streamlining IT processes through technologies like automation and monitoring, giving them more time to focus on developing the intelligent infrastructures of tomorrow.
- Savvy Value Creator and Relentless Cost Cutter use process automation to reduce the need for human oversight and virtualization to keep assets running at optimal levels, automatically adapting as business demands change, creating a savvy, cost-efficient IT infrastructure.
- Collaborative Business Leader and Inspiring IT Manager expand the impact of technology by leveraging automation capabilities that help develop and prepare for the strategic business initiatives of the future.
Find out more about the changing role of the CIO.
Read the CIO Study.
Visit CIOsynergy.
Learn more about Integrated Service Management and how it can help CIO's excel as business leaders and IT experts.


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ATLANTA -- He is at peace, now.
Rashad Santiago, 25, is always telling people to get the blood test for HIV. He works in a pharmacy in the West End of Atlanta. He counsels those who test negative to get tested every six months. He provides life-saving medicines to people who test positive.
But Rashad Santiago's secret was that he was too scared to get tested, himself.
Until --
"Last Tuesday, actually."
Rashad Santiago laughed with relief.
He tested negative.
"I feel good about it now," he said Friday evening. "But during and before, I was extremely nervous. It's a nerve-wracking experience" emotionally, not medically. "But I'm so, so glad I did it."
He said he is finally practicing what he's been preaching.
"I just want everyone to get tested. I think this is extremely important. Even if you do have it, it's not a death sentence. You can take medication, you can live a long, healthy life."
He is well aware of the alarming numbers announced this week by the CDC in Atlanta:
Males in their teens and early 20s now comprise one-fourth of all new HIV infections every year.
And 60 percent of them don't know they're positive, many of them are too scared to get tested.
The Georgia Department of Public Health just received a grant of $2.5 Million a year, for three years, from the CDC to promote HIV testing, and to help people who test positive get the treatments, the medicines, that will save their lives.
The Director of Health Protection for the Department of Public Health, J. Patrick O'Neal, M.D., said Georgia is one of eight states that received the grant.
"Georgia is very fortunate" to receive the grant, he said. "The good news is that when patients are effectively being treated with those drugs, not only do they have better outcomes, but they reduce their ability to transmit the disease by as much as 95 to 96 percent.... We have the resources to turn this epidemic around."
"People need to realize sometimes they can be infected even after they test negative," Santiago said. "Sometimes it takes up to five or ten weeks to show up in your system, so it's just important to get tested every six months... It's great to get tested. If I did it, anyone can do it."
Dr. O'Neal said that in two to three years, "I hope that I'm able to see that we've tested a lot more folks, and identified those that are HIV positive, that we've gotten them into care, and that we're actually on the verge of seeing the opportunity to stop this epidemic."
Link: Georgia Department of Public Health HIV Unit
Link: HIV/AIDS Prevention


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May 30, 2016
One of the candidates running for Meridian mayor has been disqualified from the race by his own party.
The Lauderdale County Democratic Party sent a letter to Randle Jennings earlier this week Informing him that he has been disqualified from running in the mayoral primary.
Democratic Party leaders say they disqualified him because he owes the city $18,000 from a failed children's program he started.
Jennings only made a prepared statement Wednesday in response to his disqualification.
"Although I've been disqualified to run for Democratic candidate for mayor, God said he will liberate his people," said Jennings. "The Republican Party still must let the people go."
Jennings' disqualification leaves Rod Amos and Percy Bland as the only democrats in the race for Meridian mayor.
The primaries take place May 7. The general election is June 4.
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