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Jan and I decided to treat the grandkids to an Amtrak ride this summer. We purchased coach fares for the two of us on No. 5 from Mt. Pleasant to Osceola on Saturday, and for ourselves, our daughter and son in law, and the two grandchildren in the opposite direction on Sunday. $66 one way, $165 the other.
On Saturday Jan and I left Indianola right after lunch and drove the Jeep and daughter Sarah's van down to Osceola. At Osceola we dropped off the Jeep and headed east along Hwy. 34 for some train-watching. Our train ride back to Osceola wasn't due out of Mt. Pleasant until 7:34, so we had plenty of time to stop and take pictures. We were running just behind a coal load, and stopped in Chariton, but apparently just missed it. Out under the highway bridge at the east end of town we were stopped by a man in a blue pickup who introduced himself as Max Bauer. Max had browsed the web site and I'd corresponded with him by email about scanners.
We hurried on east and got to the overpass near Halpin just as our load (UCEX cars) was starting up the hill at Albia. I went into town and parked near an overpass to get some pictures. At about 2:15, BNSF 9784 and 9954 ground into view and came under the road. I hustled to the end of the bridge, crossed, and went back out onto the sidewalk on the east side to get my RDA of diesel exhaust as the two MACs dragged 12,000 tons of coal up the grade.
Our next stop was at the IMRL/BNSF diamond in Ottumwa. At 3:15, the same train we'd seen in Albia appeared. The next train across was a set of engines that had taken one cut of a BN coal load up the hill to Rutledge. They headed back to the IMRL yard at 3:20. After a few minutes they came by us again, now eastbound, with a set of MPWX cars. The power consisted of BN 7154, BNSF 5182 and BN 7207.
After watching the old power hustle by Lawler East to tackle Rutledge hill, we waited for one more train, arriving at 3:55. We'd heard the detector at MP 271 announce a westbound, which turned out to be a coal empty, BN 7289, SF 8166 and BN 7286 with DETX hoppers and a set of five fuel tanks cut in behind the power.
We got to the Mt. Pleasant depot around 5:00. An older gentleman was sitting on one of the benches outside and a railfan, "Dale", from Fort Dodge was sitting in his pickup a block west of the depot. As I was visiting with Dale, the detector east of town announced a train. This turned out to be a set of CEPX empties behind BNSF 9728 and BN 9612. They came through at 5:20, just as a cloud blocked the sun, naturally!
Jan and I went to get some supper and returned to the depot just in time to see the tail end of a coal load. According to her notes it was probably BN 9650. They were followed closely, at 6:13, by a manifest, mostly grain cars, behind BNSF 4372, BN 7843 and BNSF 8724. After supper, Jan inspected the ramp beside the house track across the street east of the depot.
The depot in Mt. Pleasant seems to be a gathering place for locals. In addition to a few passengers, a number of people seemed to be at the depot just to see Amtrak come through. More and more of them kept arriving, some bringing lawn chairs to set up in the shade of a laundromat north across the tracks, others occupying the benches in front of the station.
After I told the agent of our plan to leave the van in Mt. Pleasant and ride back with the family the next day, he told us that No. 6 was alreay over three hours down. We'd been checking on the train's progress since it's sailing on Friday noon (our time) and already knew that it wasn't doing very well.
Another eastbound, an IPWX load, came through at 6:55. On the point were BN 9437 and BNSF 9833. Preparations for the passenger train were well underway as they rolled by the depot and headed east under the Hwy. 218 overpass.
BN usually clears the rails well ahead of Amtrak but tonight, at 7:20, we had a westbound coal empty. The sound of its horns caused great consternation in the gallery watching from their chairs across the tracks north of the depot. "Amtrak's coming, you'd better get people over here!", someone yelled. From inside the depot, I'd heard the detector announce a train on Main 1 with 510 axles and had walked outside to get a picture. The station agent, who'd also heard the detector, was assuring the crowd that it couldn't be Amtrak.
The train had new-looking JE hoppers and was pulled by three orange ones, BNSF 9943, 8832 and 8890. They poured on the fuel as the cars trailed west out of town and my friend recorded the details.
Passengers on the platform wanted to know how we knew the axle count and that the train wasn't Amtrak before we could see it (Actually, you could tell from the horns it wasn't Amtrak!) One of them had tried to count the cars, so Jan and I presented an impromptu lesson on talking detectors and passenger train lengths, "...there were three engines, each with 6 axles, leaving 492; divide by 4 to get 123 cars." "Amtrak will have fewer than 100 axles."
The California Zephyr arrived at 7:39. In tonight's train:
Seats in the Superliner coaches appear identical to those of an airliner, with one very important difference, there's plenty of room between them. Although the two experiences are completly different, I love the physical sensations of departing in both planes and trains. The rail experience is so subtle and quiet, I keep my eyes on a point of reference outside the window to detect the very first motion of the car.
We rode for awhile in the coach, but soon made our way forward to the Sightseer Lounge and spent most of the trip there. The BNSF line alternated between a few relatively smooth sections and a number of very rough spots. People walking through the train (there seemed to be quite a bit of pedestrian traffic) had trouble navigating as the lounge frequently lurched from side to side. Both of us thought that the ride of the coach was noticably smoother than that of the lounge car.
The lounge attendant apologized for neglecting to pick up a movie and asked if anyone aboard had one they might want to share one of their own to show on the monitors in the lounge. None was forthcoming while we were on the train. I rotated the lounge seat so we faced southwest, listened to the scanner for the trackside detectors announcing our passing and to the dispatcher making way for us down the line, and enjoyed the ride. Along the way:
Sunday came up bright and cool, with the neighborhood dogs going nuts over the balloons floating above our backyard. I called 1-800-USA-RAIL and was told that the train was 3 hours and 18 minutes late, but that some time might be made up between Lincoln and Omaha and that I should call back later. I called my daughter and we made a plan to go down to Osceola mid-morning and have a picnic across from the station while we waited.
I went to the basement and brought up some models so that, before we left for Osceola, I could explain to the grandkids how the train was made up and what it would be like on the train, that we'd be going up a stairway and walking between cars, and going very fast and such. Jan taught me that kids behave better when they know ahead of time what to expect and what is expected of them.
Just after 10:00 we piled all six in the Jeep, along with the fixings for a picnic and essentials for entertaining the kids, and headed for Osceola. Things were fairly quiet along the BNSF line this morning, but at 11:02 we had an empty come through. On the point were BNSF 9833 and BN 9437. The numbers seemed familiar, and when Jan checked her notes, it turned out to be the same IPWX train we'd seen (loaded) in Mt. Pleasant on Saturday evening!
We had our picnic lunch and packed things in the Jeep. I heard Amtrak report out of Creston at 11:27. The kids played around the depot, with mother reminding them every so often that they were not to play in the coal dust that accumulates in all the corners of the platform.
No. 6 appeared just as the noon whistle was blowing in Osceola, a little over three hours late. In today's consist:
One attendant started helping Jan onto the train while another one blocked her way, ordering her to "Let go of the train". After the train was securely positioned, Jan was helped on a second time. The train was crowded and we were boarded onto a lower level of one of the rear coaches. The only place in the train with six seats more-or-less together was in this "accessible" lower level. After we got moving, they began calling passengers for lunch, so I led my group forward several cars to grab seats in the lounge as they were vacated by diners.
My granddaughter braved the passageways between the cars, although admitting later that it was, "a little scary". When she was later debriefed about the trip, she said that she'd also worried that the television sets might fall from the shelves in the lounge car. It was my son-in-law's first passenger train ride, too and he was amazed at the rather violent-looking motions between the adjacent cars. As I thought about this it made me wonder if this motion is worse on high-level cars than on conventional ones. Seems like it might be so.
Ellen, who's just turned 4, and Will, 2 1/2, gradually got used to being alternately slammed against the window and thrown into the aisleway of the Sightseer Lounge as we sped through Lucas and up into Chariton. I'm making it sound worse than it actually was. After the kids got their "sea legs" they had a very fine time and really enjoyed the view of things like roads overhead through the wrap-around windows of the lounge car.
We met an empty just outside of Osceola and another waited at the bottom of the hill at Halpin, complaining on the radio about not getting a signal. At the top of Albia hill, we stopped at (new) Maxon so that the engineer could copy a warrant to go on down the line. The stopping point is right in the middle of a location where the BNSF had a major derailment, so the view while sitting there is of twisted and broken coal hoppers. This elicited lots of comments from the passengers as well as some questions from my grandkids.
We made our stop in Ottumwa from 1:28 to 1:34. The warrant that came aboard with the outbound engineer apparently had a wrong engine number, so a new one was made by radio before we departed. With only one soul on the engine these days, warrants can only be copied with the train stopped.
The rest of the trip into Mt. Pleasant was uneventful. Outside of Ottumwa, the winner of the "Trivia Contest" was announced and we learned that there were 281 passengers aboard the train. I'm not certain at what point along the trip this was measured or if we six short-haul fares were counted.
After finding another Mt. Pleasant fare in the car right behind the lounge, I cornered one of the attendants to ask if it would be okay for us to get off of that coach instead of having to go all the way back to our basement quarters in the rear of the train. I was told twice that we couldn't get off from the lounge car. "I know we can't get off of the lounge car, I'm asking if we can get off of this car." After repeated assurances that we did not leave anything back there, I secured permission to not have to navigate all the wildly oscillating doorways again.
Two spots were made in Mt. Pleasant. We were on the platform at 2:19 and the train rolled on eastward at 2:21. As we loaded the van, I noticed a railfan taking pictures from the old loading ramp east of the depot. We'd originally planned to make a visit to the museum in Mt. Pleasant, but the grandchildren had been kept awake well into their normal nap time, so we just hit the road for Osceola. We made a quick trip, arriving back to pick up the Jeep at 5:00.
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Leslie L. Lake, Board President
Leslie Lake is the Co-Founder and Managing Director of Invus Financial Advisors, LLC, an investment boutique based in New York City. Leslie co-founded the firm in 2006, with a specialty in long short equity strategies. Leslie has been managing assets within the hedge fund industry since 1995.
In 2018, Leslie suffered a bilateral pulmonary embolism (PE). Her quest to learn more about venous thromboembolism (VTE) lead her to the National Blood Clot Alliance via the organization's online Stop the Clot® Support Group and Discussion Community, powered by Inspire. Despite living in New York City, Leslie was shocked by the lack of information available to her after her PE.
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Teresa Bordeaux, Board Treasurer
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Teresa holds a bachelor's of arts in accounting from North Carolina State University. She serves on the Government Accounting and Auditing Committee of the North Carolina Association of CPAs. Teresa is a frequent speaker at state and national conferences on governmental auditing including recent revisions to auditing standards for recipients of federal financial assistance (Uniform Administrative Requirements, Cost Principles, and Audit Requirements for Federal Awards at 2 CFR 200). Teresa is currently serving on the Steering Committee for the Medical University of South Carolina study, "Comparative Effectiveness of Pulmonary Embolism Prevention after Hip and Knee Replacement (PEPPER)," which is funded through a Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) award. The purpose of the study is to combine information about effectiveness in preventing blood clots in the lungs and legs with the opinions of patients about the safety of the most commonly employed blood thinners. This work will provide background information to help both patients and their surgeons in deciding which blood thinner would be best to use after hip and knee replacement.
Teresa and her husband Larry, have two sons and live in Cary, NC. Larry developed portal vein thrombosis in 2007 and in 2009 the clot extended into his superior mesenteric vein and he began treatment with Coumadin. Larry is a lifer on Coumadin and does home testing of his INR. Teresa wants to help NBCA spread awareness about all clotting issues including those like Larry's that don't involve the extremities.
Kay Holcombe, Board Secretary
Kay Holcombe is Senior Vice President for Science Policy, BIO, the Biotechnology Industry Organization. Prior to that, she was a Senior Policy Advisor at the Genzyme Corporation, a subsidiary of the Sanofi Healthcare Company. Her background as a lobbyist extends beyond her current position. Previously she was Vice President of Policy Directions Inc., a government relations firm specializing in strategic planning and legislative and regulatory advocacy regarding healthcare and related issues.
In addition to this she has held leadership positions on a long list of federal healthcare committees. Given her background, she plays a critical role in our government and pharmaceutical relations. Kay received her MS in chemistry from Virginia and currently resides in Washington D.C.
Michael B. Streiff, MD, FACP, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, NBCA Medical & Scientific Advisory Board Chair
Associate Professor of Medicine and Pathology, Associate Faculty, Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality, Medical Director, Johns Hopkins Anticoagulation Management Service and Outpatient Clinics, Medical Director, Special Coagulation Laboratory, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions Baltimore, Maryland
Dr Streiff's research focuses on the prevention and treatment of venous thromboembolism (VTE) and evidence-based management of anticoagulation. He chairs the Venous Thromboembolism Guideline Committee for the National Comprehensive Cancer Center Network and has served on several international consensus panels to develop evidence-based guidelines for the management of VTE. He is a board member of the Anticoagulation Forum and a has been a member of the Medical and Scientific Advisory Board for the National Blood Clot Alliance for several years. As a member of the Johns Hopkins VTE Collaborative, he spearheaded efforts to develop evidence-based specialty-specific VTE Prophylaxis computer decision support "smart order sets" that have led to dramatic improvements in VTE prophylaxis across Johns Hopkins Medicine.
Dr. Streiff and the Johns Hopkins Anticoagulation Management Service team have played a key role in developing evidence-based guidelines and electronic order sets for anticoagulation therapy at Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions. He has published more than 100 articles and book chapters focusing on topics in VTE management and thrombosis and hemostasis and delivered more than 250 lectures at local, national and international meetings.
Shawna Russo Baffone
Shawna Russo Baffone is a regional human resources business partner for Take Care Health Systems a Walgreens Health and Wellness Company. She has over 15 years HR experience in the banking and health care industry. Shawna is an active member of Society of Human Resource Management. Shawna is a graduate of New England Institute.
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Evan Brovender
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Joe Harouni
Joe Harouni is a digital strategy and eCommerce leader with Deloitte Digital.
During his junior year of college, Joe was hospitalized due to pain in his chest and fluid in his lungs. Joe recovered but the hospital was unable to determine the cause of the issue. It was not until months later, during a routine check-up, that a doctor was able to piece together the puzzle and determine that he had developed a clot in his leg weeks before suffering from a pulmonary embolism. Joe is committed to raising the awareness of clots among the public and among healthcare professionals.
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Maury L. Lieberman
Maury L. Lieberman, MSW, MURP, is a community services planner and organizational consultant based in Washington, DC. He has been treated for DVT. For more than 20 years at the National Institute of Mental Health, Mr. Lieberman developed and administered extramural research programs involving urban and social problems, work and mental health, mental health services and training, and prevention/intervention research. He later headed the state mental health planning program, and was responsible for developing a federal mental health response to such concerns as workplace violence, suicide, and trauma. Mr. Lieberman's early career focused on community organization and housing development for immigrant populations, including Mobilization for Youth in New York, whose experiences formed the basis for the national anti-poverty program.
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For example, Carol and I had a conversation regarding regionalisms. There was something she said a certain way (sorry Carol, I can't remember what this one was specifically) and I was wondering if she was missing a word in the phrasing. Then I discovered it classified as a regionalism. This spawned an entire conversation regarding regionalisms and how, when someone asks me if I want a pop, I always think, "No. I don't want you to pop me. What did I do to you?" Around here, it's either a soda or a coke.
"Do you want a coke?"
"What kind?"
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So, if you disagree with your editor about one point or another, open a dialogue. Keep in mind that their hands might be tied by the publisher's guidelines, because part of our job is making sure your manuscript adheres to them. And that (along with grammar) is where most of us will become dictators. Always remember that we, like you, want your manuscript to be the best it can possibly be, and we want to see it do well.
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2-22, Kawanami-cho, Atsuta-ku, Nagoya, Aichi 456-0072
Tel No.:
Fax No.:
Haruo Koide, Executive chairman
Takahiro Koide, President
Yoshiyuki Nakanishi, Senior Managing Director
Akira Horiuchi, Executive Director
23,000,000 yen
February 1981
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※Total number of employees of the IMOGIN group as of January, 2018
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In Greco-Roman mythology, Aeneas was the son of Anchises and the Goddess Aphrodite. Aeneas took part in the Trojan war of the Dardanians, as an ally of the Trojans, and was the most generous hero on their side with Hector.
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Fantasy Humor Wizards anthropomorphic aging animals
For many years, the snowcat Jiro has been the companion of Korrinth, the emerald mage, but now the mage has begun to forget even simple spells. As they journey to the mages' council, Jiro must struggle to keep his friend safe... and his own secrets hidden.
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An adjustable set of sight blocks that provide both vertical and horizontal adjustment.
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As the pivotal battle of the war with the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant begins, Canada is deeply implicated, with about 600 soldiers deployed in four countries, more than a quarter of those in ground combat.
You wouldn't know it though, unless you dug around. There is no stream of independent dispatches from embedded reporters, as was the rule during the 2002-14 Afghan campaign because there is no embed program. And the Defence department has been exceptionally stingy with information. "Operational security" is a handy excuse. It doesn't justify the level of secrecy.
There will be quibbling, as is customary whenever Canada fields soldiers carrying loaded firearms, about whether the troops "advising and assisting" Kurdish forces in northern Iraq are actually in combat. It may be in the Liberal government's political interest to assert that, although Canadians have exchanged fire with the enemy – we don't know how often, that's a secret – these have been "defensive" actions only.
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If we acknowledge that Canada is at war – and, reading between the lines of recent remarks from Brig.-Gen. Peter Dawe and an "update" Monday from Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan, this conclusion is inevitable – then certain other conclusions also become inevitable.
The first is that the Liberals either did not know, or knew and did not care, when they promised last year to remove Royal Canadian Air Force CF-18 jets from "combat" in Iraq and Syria, that this would soon prove to be an empty gesture.
The campaign pledge to end Canada's role in coalition bombardment of ISIL positions — based on the specious notion that bombing was somehow more aggressive or combative than, say, refueling or targeting — did not withstand scrutiny from the get-go.
When Prime Minister Justin Trudeau promised to replace the CF-18s with a more robust ground training mission, it was pointed out that ground training was both more dangerous than flying bombing runs and no less combative, given the nature of modern war. Humanitarian work and training require force protection; force protection requires intelligence; intelligence applied requires pre-emptive action, which sometimes mean bombing.
In an integrated command, such as the coalition against ISIL is, there is no distinction between the left hand and the right. They work together.
There can be no effective training of ground troops in a shooting war without accompanying those troops into combat, a point made during the election campaign. This was a central lesson of the Afghan war. Canadian trainers in Kandahar found they needed to join Afghan trainees on the battlefield to be credible. Trainers from other nations, who stayed mostly behind the wire and out of harm's way, got little traction, Afghan contacts told me at the time.
Perhaps because it made so little sense upon examination, the vow to pull the CF-18s was not popular with most Canadians, polls indicated in 2015. But it did have an obvious political benefit: it helped make a vote for the Grits more palatable to the more pacifist-minded New Democratic Party voters who were the Liberals' main strategic target in Campaign 2015.
The CF-18 withdrawal reflected Trudeau's genuine desire to keep Canada at some remove from a conflict that had, after all, begun with president George W. Bush's catastrophic decision to pre-emptively invade Iraq in 2003. Likewise the "whole-of-government" approach to Iraq introduced in February, including a boost in of humanitarian assistance and a tripling of the special forces contingent, was in keeping with the PM's desire for Canada to have lasting impact on the ground, rather than "just bombing."
The arguments that there is no such thing as "just bombing" in modern warfare, as applied by the U.S.-led coalition in Iraq and Syria, that bombing is precisely targeted, and that it protects allies on the ground, fell on deaf ears. Last winter, when the Liberals could have changed course and left the fighters in place, they chose not to, the political imperative of keeping this signature promise apparently outweighing military considerations, frank speech and common sense.
Yet now Canada is at war outside Mosul, with soldiers on the front lines of what appears to be ISIL's last stand as a wannabe state with its own territory – and, thanks to the lack of independent reports from the scene, something that can only be done with relative security through an embed program, we know next to nothing about it, beyond the scraps of mission data parceled out on a Defence website.
Transparent and accountable? No. This is neither.
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Instead of dragging this on, and making you wait until the end to find out if ArcheAge is really worth it; No, it is not worth it.
The main reason ArcheAge isn't "worth it" is due to the absolutely INSANE queue times. At any given time, there is at least an hour lineup to get into any of the North American servers, the worth being "Kyrios" with wait-times up to 4 hours. One of the servers with the shortest wait times on average is "Aranzeb" which usually only has an hour lineup. Now, don't let these queue times fool you, ArcheAge is widely populated by brand new players as the game has only been released for a few days, but, a lot of those new players flake out after the same day they start, just because of the absolutely ridiculous wait times.
These queue times are absolutely killing ArcheAge, so far with F2P players, the turn-around rate has basically been 1 day as no one wants to sit in line for 2 hours to play a sub-par rewash of any other MMO you've played, with extra elements you could find in your run of the mill Facebook game. Purchasers of any of the founders packs, or the "Patron Pass" were supposed to get shot to the front of the lines, but, based on talking to some free to play people, this is not the case. Free to play, and patrons alike, are having to experience the EXACT same wait times, so are we really going to spend $20/month to have a house in a brand-new, but dying game? I know for a fact that I'm not going to be updating my subscription unless they rectify this issue.
Now, don't get me wrong, ArcheAge has tonnes of potential to be a great game, but it just isn't there yet. It feels like it was another victim of the "unfinished release" trend that has been booming for the past couple of years. (What was the last game you remember that was released with ALL of the features it was advertised to have? I bet you'll have to think about that one.)
Another massive concern with ArcheAge is the complete lack of housing space which has been "unlocked". This caused numerous "head-start" players to round up every bit of land there was on the first day of said head-start. The reason this is discerning is the impact it's had on the ingame economy. These very limited players who own the vast majority of the land due to the lack of thought put into the head-start, they are now able to effectively control whatever market they want, with whatever currency they want, which absolutely ruins an economy based game.
The third big issue is guilds and guild interaction, or lack thereof. Sure, you can make a guild, and you can invite people to your guild, you can even assign a couple of pre-made roles like "commander" "officer" or "member" and even upload your own custom "crest". But that's as far as guilds go. There are no auxiliary options for anything like an "officer chat", guild-banks or anything else really. In a game that is almost entirely guild dependant, one would only assume that there would be more interaction within the workings of a guild, but unfortunately, there is not.
Lastly, and this issue might be the biggest for some people, is the broken PvP/raids. The game is broken into 2 main continents, and 1 smaller continent that can be easily accessed by both factions, and of course each faction has their own continent. The are actually a few problems revolving around this, so bare with me. The first is to do with trade-runs, and protecting said trade-runs; Right now, when crossing to the other continent, a "visitor" can only defend, and cannot attack, where as a faction member of that island essentially has free-reign over when to attack (in certain areas), this in itself doesn't pose an issue, the issue lies with defense. Only the character who is attacked can riposte, as opposed to the whole party being able to pose a defense, this, to me, is a huge shortcoming because what kind of "party" isn't going to defend one of it's members who is being attacked? On the same note, how come every lv50 can attack 1 person?? If they're going to make it so the party can't defend, they should also make it so only 1 person can launch an attack on 1 trader. Thats just my opinion. Another shortcoming involving PvP is when it comes to guards, a lot of the time you will notice "red" players running for a guard protected zone while on your continent, 9/10 times these guards are more keen to protect the enemy, than they are you, in fact, theyre more liable to kill you for defending yourself if attacked in town, than killing your attacker. In almost every case, your own guards will always choose to work against you, which makes little sense, and completely ruins PvP unless you're in open water, where there are no guards to hide behind.
All-in-all, ArcheAge has a long way to come before it can be considered "worth it". With a minimum of 1 hour waiting times, and a maximum (so far) of 6 hours, is it really something you want to start investing time into? Or should we all just find something a little more… not run by trion?


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I got a second hand Tascam Portastudio 414 MK II
Overall It works and records. I replaced all the belts but I have this mechanical rattling noise when FWD button engage which I could not get rid of.
Any suggestions, reccomendations or pointers are welcome
See the the videos ( one with casette inside , one without )
I suspect it is caused by white gear in the middle when it is engaged to supply reel or take up reel


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I've relapsed very hard. I don't know where to start on what happened in my life. I moved to San Diego, started a new job, but...so many things happened to me and I couldn't handle all of them.
Warning, the post is somber and maybe not the best feeling to read
Let's start with my livelihood the past year. I had a job at a high stress cutthroat environment. My two and only teammates (my supervisors who hired me) up and bounced from the company after six months. I was fired about two months later once I taught the new people. But I was in an awful state by that time, and didn't respond well to the new management style. Being fired was a good thing for me, but how I handled the aftermath, finding a new job, maintaining self confidence... I failed at that.
I do know a lot of it wasn't my fault. My roommate attempted suicide and I helped her boyfriend clean the blood from the carpet. Took a sativa edible that caused severe paranoia to the point it affected my hobbies (example: I stopped my drum lessons because I thought my teacher was going to sell me as a sex slave if I showed up again, I'd be kidnapped and etc) this period of paranoia lasted for a few weeks and has had lingering effects...by making all of the worst moments of my life where I felt the most unsafe and scared and hurt be felt at once. I also had a new and amazing boyfriend who I fell in love with and even proposed to, who turned out to be cheating on me since the beginning. He was also being emotionally abusive and damaging to my view of myself. I would have done anything for him. Violence was involved slightly, and I was kicked out after midnight many times. Yelling in the streets, pushing or throwing me and my stuff out the door, literally, and he snapped my glasses. All because he thought I was a slut even though I was committed, he knew about my sexual past and he used it against me all the time to break things off. Then apologize the next day. The worst part was the emotional though, the constant comparisons of me to better people(oftentimes himself), the telling me what I was doing wrong and had done wrong in my life, and calling me many creative expletives.
Whats fucked up is I still love this man. Even though he's lied, cheated, led me on and abandoned me more times than I can count. That story is for a different time though
He's the only person who has ever doubted my integrity. I have always seen myself as an honest and genuine person. There were flaws there that honestly I'm happy he pointed out for me. But no one in my life mistrusts me. Or thinks that I don't mean what I say.
It was infuriating to me. When people believe things of me that are false this fierce pride rears up inside me. It made our arguments heated if he didn't believe I loved him or was committed to him or when he accused me of being on dating apps or fucking other men, if he did those things I would get so distracted by my anger.
After I lost my job, him and I kept this up from December to...I guess the middle of May.
I went back to gaming end of February because I have isolated myself from all of my friends over the past year. Partially because I was in San Diego and partially because of a rape and assaults and a 911 tinder date and partly because of my ex manipulating me because of his insecurities. But I consented to removing all those people. I don't trust the men in my life to be genuine friends. Even if I know they mean well, if any male friend were to make a move on me my mental health would probably deteriorate.
Most if not all of my friends were/are men. While dating my ex I blocked or unfriended most of them. The closest ones I definitely did.
About my relapse. Online was safe for me...it wasn't real people in person. I could have goals and something to do during this period of destructive limbo between my man and I. And the friends I made helped give me enough confidence back to make healthy decisions for myself and stand up for myself. I should also thank my family and sister for that as well. The dilemma is now most of my support group and friends are through an mmorpg.
Going to video games was the cowardly path and I know it I should have forced myself to be social and make in person friends in the local community, but I knew that it would put a rift between my ex and I if I did. I am sad I am spending so much of my day building towards awesome things...not in my life but a virtual one.
Thought id come back to this journal to start thinking about how I will change my life again. I have new challenges I never thought I'd have. New fears and social anxieties I've never had. But I remember myself. I know I can come back, in a better way, where I will have wholesome people around me who won't take advantage of me. I know I can. But I don't know that path yet. I'm taking small steps every week, potentially pursuing a career in massage therapy; first intro is on friday. Getting a drum set in my garage from a friend, and I'll be getting cheap lessons from him (he's also gay so that is a blessing on my fears of men).
Im taking the steps. And I know I'll get there. But I'm here right now and I'm not happy, I don't care sometimes about if I'm alive or dead, and I miss my ex so much, and am hurting so much from the betrayals of the heart and the abandonment. I'm here in this time. The not future me. The present, shitty, scared, barely capable of anything me. I guess that's why I'm here. To seek safety and encouragement, spend time with myself and others thinking on my plans, and to see the light in my depressed days.
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- Have an organized local tourist committee according to the affiliation requirements.
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I like to experiment and try new recipes. For the chicken stew, I combined two different recipes into one that would use up some ingredients I had in the house. It turned out pretty nice. The one below it is an easy company dish.
1 package Perdue original roasted chicken cuts
1 medium onion, chopped
4 garlic cloves, peeled and chopped
1 frozen package peas and carrots
1 frozen package cut green beans
2 Tbsp. cornstarch
1 can reduced sodium chicken broth
¼ teaspoon each cumin, curry powder, and ground ginger
1/3 cup plus ½ cup 2% milk, divided
1 cup biscuit mix or more if desired
Mix 1/3 cup milk into biscuit mix and set aside. Stir cornstarch into ½ cup milk. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In a nonstick skillet, sauté onions and garlic until wilted. Add all other ingredients except for biscuit mix and heat until thickened. Transfer to greased baking dish. Drop biscuit mix by the tablespoon on top of casserole in separate mounds. Bake for 30 minutes or until biscuits are lightly browned on top and casserole is bubbly around the edges.
Option: Toss in ½ cup rice to skillet and compensate with enough white wine to add liquid for rice to absorb while in oven.
1 package Perdue boneless skinless chicken breasts
1 jar artichoke bruschetta sauce
Place chicken breasts in greased baking dish. Spoon artichoke bruschetta sauce over each breast to coat. Bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes or until cooked through.
For more Recipes, visit my website: https://nancyjcohen.com/fun-stuff/recipes/
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It's so simple and tasty. Our daughter gave us a jar of this bruschetta sauce as a gift and I thought about trying it on the chicken. Now that I like it so much, I've bought more.


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Vintage TransPort GX+ Laptop with Intel Pentium III @ 800GHz
This laptop was able to power on and boot to BIOS but no further testing was done. Item is used and has cosmetic wear to it. Processor type is Intel Pentium III @ 800MHz. The screen is still in a good and fair condition with no cracks or blemishes to it. The bezel is broken on the bottom right hand side of the laptop as shown in photos. Keyboard is intact with no missing keys but keyboard is untested. The latches from the monitor are unable to fully close. Two bottom lids are missing from the bottom of the laptop as shown in photos. Battery is missing and does not include one. Caddy is not included. No RAM or HDD is included. The chassis is in a fair condition with minor scuffs and marks on it. No power cable or accessories are included. Will be selling as is. Here is a list of the specs:
- Intel Mobile Pentium III @ 800GHz
- No HDD
- No Battery
- 1 PC/2 Slot for mouse or Keyboard
- Ethernet Port
- Parallel Port
- VGA Port
- Serial port
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- PCI slot
- Floppy drive
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So I was waiting at the crosswalk…
Just another weekday. Just another city. Just another sunny day which it would be a blasphemy to spend inside the house.
So I get to the crosswalk and there's a whole bunch of people there. I'm talking about 20 people on each side of the road. We're all crumpled together waiting for the green light as the cars are blazing in-between- us.
One side of the road is mean mugging the other one. Each member of the group is throwing dirty looks to the opposite side. Everybody is nervous, fidgeting around, waiting for the green light which seemed like it was never going to come.
I'm calm. Like, super calm. But people around me are visibly nervous. They're going to work, they're late for appointments, maybe they didn't have their morning coffee yet. Who knows.
The tension is growing. The cars have stopped running by. Each member is pushing others out of the way, trying to be the first one to run across once that dreaded light turns green.
Time passes. The light is still red.
Everybody becomes increasingly more nervous, putting out anxious "sighs", walking in place, and preparing themselves like marathon runners about to spring at the sound of the gun.
From what I could tell, I was the only one somewhat unaffected by this long wait. I look left. I look right. There were no cars in sight.
"Fuck it" — I said and started crossing the street.
People's faces turned horrid. I'm not sure if it was awe, shock or disgust. Probably a combination of everything. To this moment, I'm not sure why. I mean, all I did was some light jaywalking in the safest possible way. What's the big deal?
Heads were turning. Some guy from the group across the street looks left, looks right, then start crossing as well. An old lady follows. So does the guy in the business suit. About ten seconds later, after the initial hesitation, both groups of 20 people from each side started crossing at the same time. We blocked the entire street.
I found this funny. Why?
Because this small, insignificant experience can tell you a lot about human psychology — if you know where to look.
The Ambiguity Effect
OR: Why everybody waits for the green light at all
The premise of my story is that a whole bunch of people came up to a designated pedestrian crossing and stopped, waiting for the permission to legally cross the road.
Well, at first it was common sense, as they didn't want to get run over by speeding cars. But after a while, the cars stopped and nobody decided to cross the road anyway, even those who were visibly anxious or in a hurry.
Enter: The ambiguity effect.
It's a cognitive bias that implies we'd rather choose an outcome in which we know what's going to happen rather than an outcome in which we don't know what's going to happen.
Wait for the light:
- The light will eventually turn green
- I will walk across safely
Don't wait for the light:
- I might get fined for breaking the law
- A car might come out of nowhere and hit me
- People will look at me weird
By waiting for the light, you pretty much know what's going to happen. There's less risk involved. By choosing not to wait you become less certain of the outcome. Everything might be fine. Then again… there's more risk involved.
You make these types of decisions all the time in life, even if you're not aware of it. Just look at the following examples:
Less risky:
- Stay at the same job (even if you hate it)
- Don't meet new people (even if you want to)
- Don't speak about controversial things (you don't want to offend anybody)
More risky:
- Start a company (you might go broke)
- Talk to strangers (they might reject you)
- Stand for your values (even if some people dislike you for it)
This fear of an unknown — ambiguous — outcome is what is stopping you from doing a lot of the things that might benefit your life. Sometimes, that fear is justified. Most of the time it is not.
Sometimes, you just need to say "fuck it" and cross the road. With that being said…
In-Group Favoritism
OR: Why people on my side of the road are better
This is another cognitive bias that explains how you will always assume that members of your own group — friends, political party, country, family — are more intelligent, better looking, and overall superior to other groups.
Why? Because you are part of that group.
This is a well-researched phenomenon and even applies to members who were randomly assigned to your team — like people standing on the same side of the road.
One Canadian study* found that if you ask people to go through a photo album and select people in the photos who look like they are supporters of a certain major political party, both liberals and conservatives assumed that relatively attractive people are, in fact, supporters of their own party.
These results show just how little effort is needed to trigger this bias.
In fact, research has shown that even groups who have no history of conflict and whose members don't even know each other, be it members within the same group of between groups, still show favoritism towards the group they are a part of.
Even something as mundane as waiting to cross the street was enough to trigger this bias, showing just how strong it is.
Be mindful of this. Just because you belong to a certain group, it doesn't mean that your group and its members are superior (or even good people, for that matter).
Take a step back and reevaluate your social circles. You may be surprised by your own realizations.
Herd Mentality
OR: Why people followed crossed the street after me
So the gist of the story was that I was the calm guy in an anxious crowd, then I crossed the street and everybody immediately followed me as their leader. I'm the shit, right?
Well, I kind of am the shit. But that's not why they followed me.
Here's what you need to understand: You as an individual and you as part of a group are two different people.
In most cases, you will assume a completely new identity when your role in a group is diminished. Once you blend into a crowd, your behavior and tendencies change drastically.
In other words: The more anonymous you become, the less consequences you think you have for your actions.
Just think of the YouTube comment section. People can easily talk trash and insult everybody left and right because they are hidden behind their anonymity. If their profiles had their legal names along with a photo of their face, the comments would be much different.
In person, there is almost 0% chance they would behave as they do online.
So why did people follow me?
Well, think back to the ambiguity effect I mentioned earlier. Stepping out of a crowd of people and doing something sketchy is very risky. However, doing the same thing as part of the crowd is less risky.
More anonymity = Less Consequences = More risks.
Once I stepped out, I gave the second person more confidence to do the same. In turn, they gave confidence to the third person, and so on and so on, until the entire group of 40 people followed in my footsteps.
They weren't "acting out" anymore, they were merely following the rest of the group.
Our brains are wired in funny ways. Sometimes, it makes sense if you understand it; other times, it makes no sense even if you do understand it. But the fact remains that our biases are here to stay.
Next time you're in a social situation, take a moment to ask yourself: "Why do people act that way? How can I make sense of this?" It's no coincidence this is the Rule #4 of mental strength. Do not act out of fear or uncertainty.
The more you understand the world, the less scary it seems.