Steve C

There are "stations" listed on amtrak's website but they have a tendency to list bus station connectors as "stations" -- I want to know if an actual train stops in or near the national park... the map here makes it look like they certainly go close to it! http://www.amtrak.com/servlet/ContentServer/Page/1...

Where's there a free software program that can help me convert the file?

Need a hand, i'm still new with my mac and i don't know how to deal with ace files... help please!

So tomorrow night is our opportunity to see the Leonids - several dozen meteors per hour, they say...

Is there someone from Salt Lake or from Utah who can make a recommendation to me? I was thinking that Guardsman Pass would be ideal, but it's been snowing lately and the road officially closed a few weeks ago... I know there have to be a ton of places where I can escape light pollution and get a good view of as much of the sky as possible -- but where do you recommend?

Should I drive west on 80 and find a place to pull off in the salt flats? Should I drive south on 15 and find a place there? Or should I head out past Park City on or near 40 and find a place up at a higher elevation?

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So tomorrow night is our opportunity to see the Leonids - several dozen meteors per hour, they say...

Is there someone from Salt Lake or from Utah who can make a recommendation to me? I was thinking that Guardsman Pass would be ideal, but it's been snowing lately and the road officially closed a few weeks ago... I know there have to be a ton of places where I can escape light pollution and get a good view of as much of the sky as possible -- but where do you recommend?

Should I drive west on 80 and find a place to pull off in the salt flats? Should I drive south on 15 and find a place there? Or should I head out past Park City on or near 40 and find a place up at a higher elevation?

Just wondering. Partner notified that she has the virus and I want to know what the risk is as regards oral sex. Post your source, if you have one, please. I've been reading all over and can't find any info with this particular angle addressed.

anyone know where i can find power cords that will work with these items? i need power supplies and google searches are not helping me much

AIM 6 isn't working with them - they use ichat with their macs and i need to find some way to connect with them. AIM just shows me a black screen when i try to connect.

we get sound and my cam works because it works elsewhere with other software... just not with AIM -- any other suggestions?

So we joined Gold's Gym a week and a half ago.

the sales person gave us verbal terms to a contract, saying "you don't have to read it, i'll just explain it" -- and telling us that we were signing a month-to-month that we could cancel at any time. The term of the contract, he said, was two years, but we could end the contract without penalty so long as we called the corporate office and gave 30 days notice.

Well, we called to cancel one of our memberships, and they told us that the written contract stipulates that there is no cancelling the contract, we have to pay for the two year period stipulated therein -- and that any verbal agreements are null because we signed the contract.

and, indeed, there is an integrated clause in the contract stating that there is no verbal agreement that can supercede the terms of the written contract.

of course, we were dumb and didn't read it, we just signed when he explained it to us.

now they won't allow a cancel.

Help me make a choice about utah resorts based on the above criteria! Thanks

Basically, I have had some stress on my back in the last 72 hours, moving things i had to move, etc...

and yesterday, in the middle of a seemingly harmless motion of lifting a book while bending over, all of the muscles in my lower back just *seized* and I could do little from falling over.

as long as I lie flat on my back on the floor it's bearable. when I'm sitting up it's very painful and if I bend at all it's excruciating.

I took ibuprofin and this morning I put an 8 hour heat pack on the back.

the way i would describe the pain is --- imagine a contortion-spring scorpion or crossbow --- where the string winding up on both sides of the bolt provides maximum pressure... that's the picture i have in my head of all of the muscles on the two sides of my spine.

lower back...

so, today is supposed to be moving day -- all my stuff's in the car and i'm supposed to get on the road to drive 2,000 miles across the country...what can I do to help heal this situation and loosen those muscles

Help me find a Goodwill store, please, or something of the same sort --- I need furniture and have about a grand to spend on everything in the darned place.

Honestly, that a philosopher/scholar would TEACH for a living was totally new when Kant did it, now we all assume that a person can't really be a serious philosopher if they're not in academia.

What gives with the institutionalized constraints?

are they beneficial to the field or detrimental? or if it's a mixture, how so and to what degree for each?

Movin to salt lake, really want to drive a dune buggy in the sand dunes -- any information you can think of that i might need (locations of rental centers, dune buggy tracks/paths, expected costs, etc)

whatever you can tell me, i want to hear!

I've got a newly built PC - 4gb ram, souped up graphics, etc...

but winXP32 won't even load on the machine - first, is that at all common?

second, winXP64bit will load, but will it run my favorite games (WoW, counterstrike, call of duty, etc)?

Before last week, i didn't even know about the two versions of the OS --- my other option is vista, but i don't really want a whole lot of nonsense loading up my machine, especially when I *trust* winXP. So I'm currently stuck on linux, which is great as long as I don't want to run games...

any advice?

I also do dvd/music storage/burning and word-processing, but that's pretty much it...

will WinXP64bit allow me these things?

what's the real difference between 32 and 64?

help!

Spending my first winter in SLC, Utah, this winter - and I'm looking at all the resorts and trying to choose which one is the best resort for me.

Do you have an opinion or idea about what place you like best? If so, please say why.

In my case, I'm an expert rider - what I need to be totally satisfied is big bowls, some chutes, and lots of powder (no problem with 500 inches per year). Fewer people is helpful (for instance, of the 12+ out-west resorts I've been to, Moonlight Basin (scary chute hike!) and Copper Mtn (best bowls) have

been among my top 3, above Breck, Beaver Creek and Vail...)

I'm a student, so I should get a discount, and Alta is out immediately, since it's a no-snowboard resort.

Whaddya think?

I have an option between moving to buffalo and moving to tampa -- if you're from tampa or have lived there, tell me about it, please.

the more generic, the less helpful ("it's a unique city!" doesn't help)

the more specific, the more helpful ("part of town X is a really down to earth place, lots of coffee shops, etc")

I'm not interested in hearing about clubs and bars, i know about them - i'm interested in pretty much any other info you can offer.

I have a small frame bike - a raleigh venture

- the top tube comes up to about 3 or more inches below my crotch area

- the seat, when i stand over it, is in just the right place

the guy who was trying to sell me bikes told me that this would just not do, that a person my height (5'10.5", 29 inch inseam) would be crazy to ride the small frame over a long distance... but me riding it around now, i don't see the big deal... someone tell me why it would be such a problem if the seat is in the right place.

i mean, he took one look at it and said "take it back, get rid of it, get a large frame bike, this won't work"

do i need to go out and pick up a new 400 dollar passage or can i ride this venture i have now?

I'm planning a 340 mile pittsburgh-to-D.C. bike trip along the allegheny/c&o canal bike trails, and i'm planning on camping most or all of the nights --- i'm getting a super lightweight tent to carry with me...

what advice do the experienced riders have for a newbie? the longest trip i ever made was 72 miles in a weekend when i was 13 from cumberland to DC... and it was a great time, so i want to do it again, only this time -- a longer trip, now that i'm 23.

advice for safety, morale, how to carry supplies (light backpack a bad idea in addition to bike pack? what sorts of bike packs are best for weight distribution and carrying things?), advice regarding safe diets, safe travel, and anything else you can think of as "basic" and important for me to know.

i want to leave in 2 weeks and i'm planning now. there's only so much time before i have to get a new job.

I'm planning a trip down the allegheny trail, starting in pittsburgh, and meeting up with the C&O canal trail, and i know a bit about the surfaces of the trails from my research, but the thing is, i just don't know much about bicycles...

what brands are good brands for crossover/hybrid style bikes? i know that a street bike wouldn't be appropriate for this trip -- nor would a trail/mountain bike.

trip length is about 340 miles

packed limestone for most of the trail. some light off-roading, some on-roading...

i'm also very cost-conscious ---- looking on craigslist for bikes, but i know nothing about brands and really anything else... any advice would be appreciated

so a few weeks ago she got mad at him, said she was taking their daughter and leaving (which he should have just let her do) and he spent a week in jail before she dropped assault charges for something that may or may not have been accurately charged

(he requested that a neighbor call the police and when they got there they arrested him for the disturbance)

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her father owns the place htey lived in -- so when she filed a PFA (which she dropped a week later) this kid was evicted

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her father took all of his belongings (i am talking at least 6-8k worth of stuff) and he's "holding them" at his house until this kid gives him some money he's decided the kid owes him

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today, the girl calls my friend and wants him to watch the baby for the day - he says "i don't think i can do that" - and she says "well you're not going to win this game, and tonight when the garbage guys come, all of your belongings will be outside"

so he called me and wants me to take him to the police station