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In my last column, I pointed to the probable genesis of the mysterious anthrax letters – a clique of former US scientists, including one in particular who had been fired from his US government job at Fort Detrick's biowar research lab and complained that a government cover-up was in the works. The piece was posted on Friday. On Monday, a Washington Times story announced that the authorities had focused on a former US government scientist who had once worked at Ft. Detrick and had been fired – twice. I'm not assuming cause-and-effect, but then again: that's pretty quick results, wouldn't you say? Now if only I could get the same kind of action on the Fox News story about a certain foreign intelligence agency that had foreknowledge of 9/11….
The Washington Times also reveals that the chief suspect is "employed as a contractor in the Washington area." Curiouser and curiouser. Is his contract with a government agency? If so, which one would have use for a maker of mass murder? As a libertarian, I am naturally for privatization: but there are some government-owned and operated assets that just can't – or, rather, shouldn't – be privatized: that is, if one could even define germ warfare as an "asset" in any meaningful sense of the term. As my friend Lew Rockwell said to me recently: "If you want to see the real evil of government, then ask yourself: what other entity would unleash something so monstrous?"
Citing law enforcement sources, the Washington Times reports that the suspect's reaction to the events of 9/11 was to make a threat to use anthrax. His home was searched, where "numerous chemicals" were found but no anthrax. The story cites Barbara Hatch Rosenberg, a microbiologist with the Federation of American Scientists, whose fascinating analysis of the anthrax mystery is must reading – but only for those who don't scare all that easily. Because what she reveals about this grotesque case is unsettling in the extreme, leading to the undeniable conclusion that the US government has something to hide. As to just what that might be, I almost don't want to go there....
Rosenberg says that she can't understand the FBI's lethargy in this matter. After all, they've been working on a very short list of suspects: not that many people have both the scientific knowledge and the access to vital materials necessary to the making of such highly weaponised anthrax as was delivered to the offices of Senators Daschle and Leahy. The FBI, Rosenberg contends, has finally narrowed it down to "a particular person ... a member of the biochemical community." This person, it seems, has been questioned more than once, but no one is pressing any charges. Why not? "Is the FBI dragging its feet?" Rosenberg asks. Her answer gives law enforcement the benefit of a doubt: "I just don't know. And, if so, I don't know why." If the FBI is our only protection against anthrax-wielding terrorists, then I don't think I want to know. God help us all.
Naturally, the FBI has denied the Washington Times story, and Ari Fleischer, the President's spokesman, averred that the number of suspects is more than one: "I wish it were that easy and that simple right now," he said. Yet they're still sticking to their "lone nut" theory, with Van Harp, assistant director of the FBI's Washington office, writing in a letter to microbiologists nationwide that this person has "a clear, rational thought process and appears to be very organized in the production and mailing of these letters." Oh, now I get it: instead of arresting him, they're going to make him a job offer. But just how credible is this brilliant-but-mad scientist scenario?
Both the FBI and the Washington Times assume that we are dealing with a single perpetrator, a lone nut who, for some reason, and with remarkable efficiency, managed to pull off a feat many at first attributed to state-sponsored terrorism. I don't buy it. As Dr. Meryl Nass puts it in Red Flags Weekly:
Dr. Nass asks some very interesting questions that give us some insight into the possible motives of the attacker(s):
A true terrorist would want to spread death, and not just fear. Aside from that, however:
Making an impact on Congress to do – what? It's the political aspect of this curious case that argues against the "lone nut" theory, and gives the whole affair a rather ominous cast. For the achievement of a particular political goal conjures up a picture of an ideologically-motivated cabal, a lobbying group that was willing to go to unusual lengths in order to impress the US government with the urgency of its agenda.
The key issue here is motive. The "lone nut" scenario would have it that a single disgruntled scientist may have released the pathogens in order to get more funding for biowar research. But the extreme thoroughness with which these crimes were carried out suggests that the renegade scientist may not have acted alone. As Dr. Nass puts it:
As to what profession would be most helpful, it seems clear that this is the work of some government agency but which government are we talking about?
Dr. Nass seems to imply, at times, that the US government is somehow involved. She theorizes that filling the envelope with such a highly weaponised form of anthrax would be almost inevitably fatal unless the perpetrator prepared his deadly missive within the confines of a special facility used for experimental purposes – and available in the US only at a few carefully monitored government sites. With vague references to "the biowarfare establishment," and allusions to the CIA, clearly Dr. Nass is at least highly suspicious that the US government unleashed anthrax on its own people: perhaps in order to ratchet up the level of fear and make the populace more tractable. But the good Doctor, I believe, should stick to her own field – science – and leave the speculation as to motive to others. For this "the government was behind it" scenario makes no sense at all: the level of fear, and of funding for "anti-terrorist" programs, was already high in the wake of 9/11. Putting anthrax in letters to US Senators and other high profile targets seems like overkill, if you'll pardon the expression.
The evidence indicates that unauthorized research and entry into supposedly secure facilities occurred at Fort Detrick over an extended period of time, and that the culprit (or culprits) got away not only with anthrax but with a wide variety of deadly pathogens, some so virulent and top secret that slides of samples were labeled "unknown" – security at these facilities being so lax at the time as to be practically nonexistent. A former chief of the Ft. Detrick lab suspects that an elaborate system of deception was employed in the record-keeping department, so that many specimens were not even entered in inventory before they disappeared. But how could a "lone nut" have pulled off such a feat unaided? In order to cover his tracks, he would've needed the cooperation of allies in key positions at the lab. This militates against the "lone nut" theory, and reinforces the idea that the perpetrators of the anthrax attacks had some "professional help."
It is certain – in a sane world, that is that the US government could not have facilitated the release of such horrors as Hanta-virus, ebola, and god knows what other unknown plagues into the general population: the consequences of such an action would be so heavy as to outweigh any conceivable benefit. Yes, yes, I can just hear the tinfoil hat crowd objecting: "But we aren't living in a sane world, as you yourself have pointed out recently." We may be living in Bizarro World, at least in certain respects, but the axiom that our rulers will always act in order to preserve their own power is one of those pre-9/11 truisms that has survived intact: indeed, the eternal truth of it has been demonstrated by the alarming alacrity with which the government used the tragedy to aggregate more power to itself. That they would endanger this power by doing something so stupid, or allowing it to happen, defies belief.
The ideological angle of this strange case has, so far, been completely overlooked: in her list of possible beneficiaries of the anthrax scare, Dr. Nass lists "the biowar establishment," whatever that is, which certainly was not that desperate for extra funding, as well as the makers of antibiotics. However, she neglects to mention the likeliest possibility. What is all too believable is that some foreign intelligence agency with substantial assets in the US penetrated a government lab and recruited a clique of scientists and other insiders, initially for purposes of routine spying but eventually launching a full-scale terrorist operation designed, not to kill, but to frighten everyone out of their wits – and provoke an anti-Arab reaction.
In my last column on this subject, I detailed the story of Dr. Ayaad Assaad, an Egyptian microbiologist who used to work at Ft. Detrick, where he attracted the hostile attention of a clique known as the "Camel Club": they put obscene missives in his mailbox and otherwise tirelessly harassed him, until one of their number, Lt. Col. Philip Zack, was fired because of this hate campaign. Zack was also videotaped entering the lab after hours, without authorization, with the cooperation of one of his fellow Camel Club members.
So we have a viscerally anti-Arab clique at a biowar lab that might have been the cat's-paw of a foreign government – now which foreign government could that be?
The other day I was talking with my webmaster, Eric Garris, about this story, and remarking that the way it's being treated in the media is remarkably similar to the way the Fox News story on Israeli spying in the US was treated: i.e. in relation to its importance, and possible implications, the amount of attention it is receiving is negligible. Fox News reporter Carl Cameron's FBI sources told him that not only had Israel compromised supposedly secure US communications systems – the phone system of the Departments of Defense and State, as well as the White House but they had also launched an effort to physically penetrate important US defense facilities in the months prior to 9/11. Surely this would include such facilities as the bioweapons lab at Ft. Detrick, and others around the country.
Israel not only has the means, but also the motive: certainly an anti-Arab backlash in the US would aid their cause, and make the American public much more amenable to wiping out their Arab enemies. Indeed, Israel's supporters in the US were quick to suggest that Iraq was behind the attacks, and such a prominent Israel Firster as Andrew Sullivan lost no time in calling on Bush to at least consider nuking Iraq in retaliation. Indeed, it seems as though the "Camel Club" at Ft. Detrick must have been reading some of Sullivan's more virulent anti-Arab postings, and those of his fellow "war-bloggers," whose hostility to all things Arab was eerily echoed in this repulsive bit of doggerel attached to a rubber camel, a "gift" to Assaad from the "Camel Club":
"In (Assaad's) honor we created this beast; It represents life lower than yeast."
Some denizen of the extreme Israeli right-wing couldn't have said it better. So perhaps earlier speculation that the anthrax letters were the work of right-wing extremists was essentially right – only they got the wrong country.
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New research on American pronghorns explains why not everything is about looks
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July 3, 2008
When humans select mates, what's on the outside is important. Other factors may come into play but there's no denying the role of physical attraction.
Animal behavior research once held that physical ornamentation is what females of a species look for, when selecting a suitable mate.
With the American pronghorn, however, this is not the case. According to animal behaviorist John Byers--a professor in the department of biological sciences at the University of Idaho and a researcher who has studied this population for more than 20 years--female pronghorns are looking for good genes when they select mates. Furthermore, females can detect males that have a genetic advantage, regardless of the males' appearance. So, one could say that beauty is in the genes of the beholder.
Byers has studied the American pronghorn population on the National Bison Range in western Montana since 1981, and he says he already knows "the complete pedigree of the population through three generations."
With support from the National Science Foundation (NSF), Byers discovered that pronghorn females can choose good genes regardless of male appearance.
"The male characteristics that are favored by females are running speed, endurance, agility, and tactical spatial sense," Byers wrote in his book, "American Pronghorn: Social Adaptations and the Ghosts of Predators Past." Clearly, these are not visual attributes.
Visually speaking, both sexes of American pronghorn vary very little. They have horns but horn length among males is not that different.
Each year, most pronghorn females sample potential mates over a two-week period, then mate once. All females older than one year give birth to two fawns each spring.
So How Do Females Select Their Potential Mates?
According to Byers, before and during the period of sexual excitement in the female pronghorns, males suitable for breeding occupy fixed locations. The males collect females that come near and defend the females from other males. The female groups are called harems.
"When a female is about two weeks out from estrus--the period of maximum sexual receptivity--she begins to move at an accelerating rate, from one harem to another. Harem males try to prevent exits from their harems, but in an escalated escape attempt, the female always wins," Byers explains. If the male is not able to repel the other males that approach the harem, then the females leave. "While traveling from one harem to another, females commonly attract groups of 'floater' males, and this provides a new tactical challenge for the new male whose harem she joins," Byers notes. So, as the female moves among males at an increasing rate and the mating period approaches, the females test the males' vigor.
Byers' team used a two-prong approach in their study of American pronghorns. In addition to studying the animals' behavior, they obtained genetic markers for all pronghorn individuals in the wildlife refuge and assigned paternity to the offspring. The female mate sampling creates a small group of "fathers" that each year sire more than one-half of all young.
The researchers discovered that the offspring from that genetic pool are stronger and more likely to survive to weaning. Also, the fawns tended to grow faster and suckle less from their mothers.
Byers says he became interested in this particular population when he "was looking for an ungulate (hoofed mammal) that had an intermediate level of sociality" to compare with the results he had on the collared peccary. The wild, hog-like animal found in the southwestern United States as well as in Central and South America, is "the most social ungulate known," Byers adds.
Byers is now planning to focus on inbreeding reduction and inbreeding avoidance. Pointing out that the American pronghorn recently went through a population clog, he says that in the next few years, when choosing a mate, females "will often be faced with the choice of mating with a genetically superior male, versus avoiding mating with that male because he is a close relative."
Investigators John Byers
Related Institutions/Organizations University of Idaho
Locations Idaho Montana
Related Awards #0097115 Costs and Benefits of Female Mate Choice in Pronghorn, Antilocapra americana
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Related WebsitesDr. John A. Byers Web page: http://www.sci.uidaho.edu/biosci/faculty/byers.htmlAmerican pronghorn research lab Web page: http://www.sci.uidaho.edu/biosci/labs/byers/research/index.html
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A study at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago published this week in the online version of Biophysical Journal proposes that bubbles may control the opening and closing of ion channels. This new understanding of the channels that control much of life in health and disease provides a vital piece of the molecular puzzle.
The work of experts in mathematics, physics and molecular biology at Rush has produced a new explanation for how ion channels open and close. This discovery provides a springboard to a better understanding of many diseases and their treatment.
The body, like so many other mechanical and computing systems, is controlled by the on and off response of its smallest components. Life is controlled by switches and valves, in the same way that computers and cars are, but lifes valves are proteins that open and close, providing gates for pathways for ions to enter cells, says Robert S. Eisenberg, PhD, professor and chairman of molecular biophysics and physiology at Rush University. The problem is, if anything goes wrong with these ion channel gates, disease results or, worse death.
For years, researchers have been searching for the mechanism that opens and closes the pore-like ion channels that are an integral part of each cell membrane. These atomic-size channels control the movement of ions, or charged electrical particles, across the cell membrane. This, in turn, controls the function of the cell. An enormous range of biological functions are controlled by these channels, and failures in these channels produce many of the diseases that plague mankind.
Through rigorous analysis, we propose that bubbles form and break inside the tiny pores of the channel and that these bubbles are the gates that have been long sought by so many scientists, says Eisenberg. The bubbles create a vacuum that cannot conduct electricity as the surrounding water does; therefore, the channel is effectively in the off position. When the bubble breaks, the channel is in the on position. Its a rather effective, efficient and elegant design.
The understanding of the link between ion channels and disease is a relatively recent development. Researchers have found that many diseases for example, cystic fibrosis, or even such complex and systemic diseases as type 2 diabetes involve malfunctions of ion channels. When the valves in a car or in plumbing get stuck, the car can stop or the sink can overflow. In the same way, when gates in the ion channels of your cells get stuck, there can be serious health consequences.
An amazing number of diseases have been found to be related to ion channels, says Eisenberg. Heart disease is an excellent example. Channels control the flow of electricity in the heart. If we could simply fix whats happening electrically in the heart, we could change the course of the disease and its impact on our society.
The proposal that bubbles are indeed the gates of ion channels needs further study. The Rush group and its collaborators are proposing a sophisticated and plausible guess. Testing that guess will be most informative.
This type of paradigm shift is fantastically important, because we can save researchers from wasting valuable time and energy heading in the wrong direction, says Eisenberg. This new insight will really change the way people are doing their work and could bring us amazing new leaps in our understanding of certain disease processes and how to manage and ultimately cure them.
Eisenberg worked in partnership on this research and its publication with his colleagues, Dirk Gillespie, PhD, at Rush, Roland Roth, Ph
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Growth-suppressing function of glypican-3 (GPC3) via insulin like growth factor II (IGF-II) signaling pathway in ovarian clear cell carcinoma cells. | |
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OBJECTIVE: Ovarian clear cell carcinoma (CCC) is well known to be highly resistant to platinum-based chemotherapy. Glypican-3 (GPC3), a membrane-bound heparan sulfate proteoglycan, is overexpressed in only CCC of epithelial ovarian carcinoma subtypes. The purpose of this study was to identify the role of GPC3 in ovarian CCC. METHODS: To evaluate the function of GPC3 in ovarian CCC cells, we generated an ovarian cancer cell line, KOC7C cells stably transfected with plasmids encompassing shRNA targeting GPC3 (shGPC cells), and compared cell growth and the colony-forming ability to control shRNA-transfected cells (shCon cells). RESULTS: We showed that shGPC3 cells significantly increased cell growth and the colony-forming potential compared with shCon cells in 1% serum containing medium with 100 ng/ml IGF-II. Furthermore, these effects were significantly attenuated by pretreatment with 1 μM wortmannin (an inhibitor of PI3K/Akt). CONCLUSIONS: We have demonstrated for the first time the presence of elevated levels of GPC3 protein associated with cell growth inhibition in CCC cells. Our data suggest that GPC3 has the potential to become a novel therapeutic target for ovarian CCC patients. |
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1.5 million Canadians tuned in to Belfast and Northern Ireland last week – when an episode of a popular reality TV show, filmed here recently, was broadcast on Canada's TVA network. A 'couple', together with a production crew, came to Northern Ireland to film footage for an episode of one of Canada's top reality dating programmes, Occupation Double, as guests of Tourism Ireland.
Occupation Double is a French-language show, which is currently the number one reality TV show in Québec, with over 1.5 million viewers each week – and with many more fans chatting online about the programme (it has more than 289,000 Facebook fans and 15,000 followers on Twitter).
The show follows young singletons in their quest for their ideal partner, with selected couples travelling abroad during the series. The romantic journey sees them 'earn' prize money and compete for a grand prize worth thousands of dollars. Contestants Yannick and Camille won a 'dream date' to Belfast, where they filmed footage for a nine-minute segment, which aired last week.
The couple were filmed visiting Titanic Belfast, taking a Segway tour of the Titanic Quarter, sampling some oysters at the Belfast Cookery School, enjoying the views from Belfast Castle and visiting Belfast City Hall and Victoria Square. Their itinerary – prepared by the Northern Ireland Tourist Board – then took them along the Causeway Coastal Route, where they stopped off at the Carrick-a-rede rope bridge, the Giant's Causeway and Dunluce Castle.
Jayne Shackleford, Tourism Ireland's manager in Canada, said: "Occupation Double is the top reality TV show in Québec and is seen by around a quarter of all French-Canadians – so, we were delighted that the show's producers chose Belfast for last week's 'dream date' location. TV and film are recognised as strong influencers for prospective holidaymakers and we regularly work with overseas TV and production companies – as popular programmes such as Occupation Double are an excellent way for Tourism Ireland to get positive exposure for Northern Ireland in Canada. The episode filmed in Northern Ireland was seen by over 1.5 million viewers – or potential holidaymakers – showing them some of the many attractions and activities on offer for Canadian holidaymakers."
Tourism Ireland undertakes a busy publicity programme around the world each year to raise the profile of the destination – and media visits to Northern Ireland are a key element of that programme. This was the second television crew invited to film here by Tourism Ireland in Canada over the last few weeks – capturing footage and filming here for programmes which will be seen by millions of Canadians. French-Canadian couple Yannick and Camille (seated right), filming for a reality TV show 'dream date' in Malmaison Belfast, as guests of Tourism Ireland. Also pictured are the production team – Marc-André Gauthier, Carine Sansregret, Annik Lavoie and Julie Laperriere.
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Annual to shrub [(± tree-like or climbing)], fleshy. Leaf: generally simple, alternate or opposite, in dense to open, basal (or terminal) rosettes or basal and cauline, not in rosettes, reduced distally or not, margin often ± red. Inflorescence: generally cyme, generally bracted. Flower: generally bisexual; sepals generally 3–5, generally ± free; petals generally 3–5, ± free or fused; stamens >> to = sepals, epipetalous or not; pistils generally 3–5, simple, fused at base or not, ovary 1-chambered, placenta 1, parietal, ovules 1–many, style 1. Fruit: follicles, generally 3–5. Seed: 1–many, small.
± 33 genera, ± 1400 species: ± worldwide, especially dry temperate; many cultivated for ornamental. [Eggli (ed.) 2003 Illus Handbook Succulent Plants 6 (Crassulaceae). Springer] Water-stressed plants often ± brown or ± red. Consistent terminology regarding leaves, bracts difficult; in taxa with rosettes (e.g., Aeonium, Dudleya, some Sedum), structures in rosettes are leaves, those on peduncles are bracts, and those subtending flowers are flower bracts; in taxa where inflorescence is terminal, rosette leaves may "become" bracts as stem rapidly elongates to form inflorescence. Seed numbers given per follicle. —Scientific Editor: Thomas J. Rosatti.
Annual, perennial herb, shrub, glabrous (hairy). Stem: erect to decumbent, branched or not. Leaf: opposite, 0.1–7 cm, linear to deltate or obovate, bases fused, ± sheathing; margins generally entire. Inflorescence: terminal panicle or flowers 1 in axils of leaves, either 2 per node, axillary, or 1 per node, terminal but appearing axillary by overtopping of main axis. Flower: erect, sepals 3–5, ± fused at base; petals 3–5, spreading or recurved, free or ± fused at base; stamens = sepals in number; pistils 3–5. Fruit: spreading to erect. Seed: 0.2–0.6 mm, elliptic to elliptic-oblong (spheric, reniform), generally with longitudinal lines, sometimes ± smooth or papillate, red-brown.Key to Crassula
± 250 species: especially Africa, annual ± worldwide. (Latin: diminutive of thick) Crassula argentea Thunb., a synonym of Crassula ovata (Mill.) Druce, a waif.
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Annual, generally aquatic or on wet substrate. Stem: decumbent, or erect when stranded, 2–7 cm, ± branched. Leaf: 1–5 mm, oblong to linear; tip ± obtuse. Inflorescence: flower 1 per node, terminal; pedicel 0.5–6(10) mm. Flower: parts in 4s; sepals ± 0.4–1 mm, deltate-ovate to lanceolate, rounded to obtuse; petals > sepals, ± 1–1.5 mm, lanceolate. Fruit: ascending, tip lanceolate, oblique-acute; suture gradually outcurved in distal 1/2. Seed: 6–14, elliptic-oblong, shiny, glistening as if wet, with irregular, ± interrupted, longitudinal lines at 20×.
Vernal pools, margins of lakes, ponds; < 2100 m. Inner North Coast Ranges, Cascade Range Foothills, n Sierra Nevada Foothills, Great Central Valley, South Coast, Peninsular Ranges; to Oregon, Montana, Wyoming, Texas, Baja California; also Chile. Similar to, often occurring with Crassula aquatica. Mar–Jun [Online Interchange]
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SOURCE: "Baffled Narrative in Julian and Maddalo," in New Romanticisms: Theory and Critical Practice, University of Toronto Press, 1994, pp. 52-68.
In the following essay, Wall focuses on the dynamics of narrative suppression in Shelley's poem Julian and Maddalo.
I rode one evening with Count Maddalo Upon the bank of land which breaks the flow Of Adria towards Venice: a bare strand Of hillocks, heaped from ever-shifting sand …
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Not only will listening to that new Justin Bieber jam irrevocably damage your soul, but it may give hackers a way to remotely take control of your car. A multi-university research team has discovered a way to commandeer the firmware of an unnamed 2009 model car via a stealth bit of data embedded in song files. The trojan file in question was able to upload into the car via a burned CD played on the car's stereo system. This vehicular virus could give troublemakers with a nearby cell phone the ability to control functions of the car via Bluetooth including opening doors and turning the car on and off.
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Fun. Prestige. Competition.
Fun. Prestige. Competition.
Athlete = Gamer
Basic Equipment = Gaming Rig + game
Bad Comparison
Professional gaming is no wierder than Professional anything else, if people will spectate then advertisers will advertise and money will get made.While I understand that if the market exists, there deserves to be people making money to play, part of me does think the concept of a professional video game player is a bit odd. Like when there were professional Guitar Hero players a few years back, I just found that weird.
Another bad comparison. If your giving Messi the most basic equipment and a location to play he can still play...So you'd have to do the same with the Gamer, give him a comp with the min spec to run his game of choice.I could take Messi and dump him on the street with no shoes and a patched up football, and he'd still be the best soccer player in the world. You can't do that with a WoW/LoL/Dota/HoN/Other Acronym player.
"You have six different smiles. One for when you're angry. One for when you tear flesh. One for when you chew flesh. One for when you loot bodies. One for when you skin game. And one for when you want to kill something."
Its like in PvE you not going for gear you going for title and other prestige stuff who will stay with years
I got through 5 pages of this thread before I felt to respond. Here's what I know so far.
Up until this point in WoW's history, gear progression has been a huge part of PvP. Changing it now seems silly.
The reason I find the new patch silly is because the game is inherently IMBALANCED. If you can pick from any class or spec for your RBG team are you going to take a Ret Paladin? Will the best Ret paladin in the world beat the best Warlock? Gear imbalance helps players that like playing specific classes succeed in an unfair world. End of story.
I'm a casual hardcore player. Dabbled in heroic raiding but a long term player. I've never gotten to 2200 because I cap and GTFO. When they announced the *never implemented* rating scaling to help people push 2200 for elite gear I got excited. I got excited for the first time in regards to WoW and PvP in a long time.
The problem is that when you PvP and cap out gear, as the seasons progresses everyone else gets stronger and you feel proportionally weaker. Which is no fun. On that same token don't you want to feel like you can kill people easier? That you are more effective at your job than others? I like owning noobs for sure. But I also love that feeling when I see a Tier 2 player and I say to myself "OH SHIT, put your game face on."
I think Blizzard fucked this up hard. I think they should have made 476 gear craftable with material requirements that require you to, get to 1200, get to 1500. Keep it low tho, not too much more. Hell, craft a weapon for cheap if you get 1800.
Right now, craftable 458 gear is a slap in the face - an insult to new PvPers.
I've always been one of those players who always wanted to get 2200 and never had the time to dedicate to it. Come 5.3 I'm going to cap 2 more weeks and finish my Tyrannical set and never set foot in arena again.
I've always thought that seeing better geared players was a motivational factor. This is an RPG and you have an avatar in game. You play the game to make your character better. When you play a billion hours a day and it's impossible for you to enhance the strength of your character....someone at Blizzard failed.
I'll say it one more time, attempting to equalize an inherently imbalanced game is pointless.
Gear progressing is still a part of it, it's just going to be less retarded than last season. Gear should matter, partially, as in how you gem or which trinkets you use, but not to a point where someone can simply destroy his opponents without having to do his best because your weapon is 50% stronger than someone else his. Last season there was very little you could do if you say met a t2 warrior while sitting in honor gear yourself than dying quickly.
Also, I think the 458 crafted gear is fine, considering how ridiculousy easy it is to get honor gear nowadays. You don't even have to set a foot in a battleground anymore, just doing dailies or random dungeons is more than enough.
As for rating requirement on gear, I think it's a pretty bad idea if you want more players doing arena. If I recall correctly, 1.3k is where you are in the top 50% so you'll end up with the majority being unable to get geared. 1.8k for a honor weapon would be crazy, especially when you consider how much of a difference it makes between having a PvP weapon and not having one.
Its still is most of them time honestly. Their were some rank 1 rmp last season dude when rogues were the worst class ingame.
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You should just get the current season t1 for free the difference is huge as a dps honestly.
You're right except for 2 things.
1. My name is spelt "God" not "Loucious-sama".
2. I'm not a man, because man is inherently flawed. I am in fact a being so far beyond your comprehension that archaic constraints like flesh, blood, time and consequently, gender, have no meaning to me.
The strangest thing... if you went and had a look around PVP forums, most high level players would agree that it is a good thing to not have rating requirements. It's usually only the middling players that are the most vocal proponents for.... and there must be a bunch of those in this thread.
The problem with this is, there aren't any real title or prestige stuff for PvP. You're getting mounts, titles and pets thrown at you in PvE till you die, there is hardly anything like that in PvP. Between capping points each week and rank 1 there aren't any kind of real rewards that are going to stay with you, non.
If they want to remove gear as rewards that's fine in to me, but then they need to introduce something else to make up for it and they are NOT DOING THAT.
1. The were around 3 or 4 rogues above 2,2k from the statistics I remember.
2. Who exactly? I'd like to know because most likely the other two carried him to be there.
Based on the premise that PVP is meant to be about competition, it's because having "progression" and the playing field tied together when a zero-sum ladder is involved is stupid. The very nature of such a thing creates inequalities which run counter to competition.
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Didn't season 1 and 2 have the highest participation rates?
As I said many times, halting progression in terms of gear in the name of equality, fairness and balance, will highlight the class imbalances. If there is an edge you can get, people WILL go for it. The only punishment to playing fotm (or reactivate your account with the fotm class) was the effort to level up a new character and catch up on gear.
So what. For ppl who want to be on top of ladders it changes nothing, they will farm it if they have to and for normal guys who play more for fun FOTM does not matter. Going back to MOBA games you can clearly see that ppl don't just pick tier 1 champs ... they pick what they like and/or are good at. As long as the balance is reasonable it does not matter one bit.
And why should there be a punishment for playing other class ? We are talking about game you play for fun. Punishment is a silly word in this context. You have to grind to change class, it has to be long and painful experience ... funny
My part in this story has been decided. And I will play it well.
But it's not just the top of ladders. It's everywhere from 1500 to 3000. How many warriors did you encounter in your 5.0 arenas? Personally it felt like 7/10 games I played against had a warrior. How many rogues in cataclysmic season? How many shadow priests this season? Where are the warriors now? Where were the shadow priests in malevolant season? Where were the rogues, in arguably their worst season, malevolant season?
How fun is it if you play against the same classes, over and over? More over how fun is it if you are losing against the same classes over and over and over? And how fair is it if skill isn't the deciding factor and a class carries/hinders you?And why should there be a punishment for playing other class ? We are talking about game you play for fun. Punishment is a silly word in this context. You have to grind to change class, it has to be long and painful experience ... funny
Thing is with steep gear progression fotm classes get stronger faster and dominate even more than in case of mellow gear progression. Punishing players for switching is bad on its own, steep gear progression that makes the gap between top geared fotm and low geared average wider is bad as well. So what exactly are the positives. As it is gear progression does not stop ppl from fotm rerolling between seasons and what else is there.
My part in this story has been decided. And I will play it well.
I can't argue with that. What you said is true.Thing is with steep gear progression fotm classes get stronger faster and dominate even more than in case of mellow gear progression.
From my point of view (1700-2000 rating) it is ok to lose to a fotm regular, that just happened to play the right class at the right time. That his main class turned out to be fotm.
However it is infuriating to lose (or struggle to win) a 1500 fotm reroller, that jumped the wagon of opportunity.
If you play a lot you can distinguish who is who out of those above. Gear is a big clue.
If your girlfriend is about to cheat on you, it better be someone important than a nobody mouth breather that is sweating.
Agreeing pretty much with what Psilar said. Not much point removing the Carrot on the Stick for WoW PVP, it has always been about gearing up and the sense of progression, in both PVE and PVP. They finally got rid of PVPers requiring PVE Weapons to ultimately screw it up due to PVE. PVP Gear has a lower item level than PVE Gear because Blizzard did not want people to use it to get into LFR in 5.0. So ultimately it made the gaps between Dreadful (458) and Malevolent (483) much bigger. Most of those complaining about PVP expect to go into Arenas or BGs with less than 300k HP and eat everyone alive. Then when they get eaten by someone whose worked on their gear and put effort in, they come to the forums and complain. Not sure what people with 295k in questing greens expect to happen :S
I agree the damage needs to be nerfed somewhat, but not at the expense of making PVP Gear less of a reward. Increasing the Base Resilience and a massive nerf to PVP Power pretty much invites PVEers to PVP, without any return for PVPers beyond 'more people'. Base Resilience should be be kept at 40%, and have the entry set (Crafted Dreadful now) give 55%, Malevolent give 60% and Tyrannical give around 65%. An increase of 5% per season isn't much, plus readily available Contenders and Crafted Dreadful should support people to make an entry.
My concern more than the normalization of gear is Class balance. I have a Mage, Rogue, Paladin, Priest, Warlock and Warrior at 90 currently, and regularly cap most of them. I can easily say if I pitted my Rogue against my Warrior the Warrior would get so massacred in even gear I'd never wish to play it again, just because of balance issues. Trying to cap my Warrior this week was a nightmare due to Rogues, generally dying in openers despite starting in Defensive Stance with 1H/Shield and 426k HP. Nerf overall damage sure. But don't remove Gear Progression from PVP. My incentive is entirely gear based. Even playing something like CoD, the leveling up system of Black Ops 1 was so you could buy better gear. Cosmetics are nice, but I generally just play for the cap and never expect to see the tabard and cloak of 5.3. I am interested in getting that upgrade that means I have better damage/survivability.
Anyways /rant over. Feel free to criticize my opinions. People play for goals, whether that be in Reputation, Skills, Fun or Gear. Making one of these a smaller incentive isn't in my opinion the way forward.


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Fourth Place Medal's preview for tonite's LP: http://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/van...urn=oly,219789
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Is there anywhere that lists the start times of the groups or specific skater's? I want to not miss the last group. Thanks
My dream podium now:
1. Savchenko/Szolkowy
2. Shen/Zhao
3. Kavaguti/Smirnov
I would also love to see Mukhortova/Trankov have the performance of their life tonight and somehow climb into the top 5 and then hopefully they can win a medal at Worlds.
I hope we see great skating tonight!
Oh, and I forgot about my fellow countrymen , I want Amanda and Mark to climb into 8th or 9th place if they can skate a blinder! Hopefully, Caydee and Jeremy can somehow climb into 10 place.
My top 10 dream standings would be:
1. Savchenko/Szolkowy
2. Shen/Zhao
3. Kavaguti/Smirnov
4. Pang/Tong
5. Mukhortova/Trankov
6. Langlois/Hay
7. Zhang/Zhang
8. Evora/Ladwig
9. Volosozhar/Morozov
10. Denney/Barrett
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Finished our last practice and feeling good. Can't wait to hit the ice again for the long in three hours.
What NBC could have done was to show the first 3 groups on Unisport and have the last two groups on NBC. They may have thought of that but it would most likely interfere with their commercial plans.
NBC's only interest is in the Ratings to please their advertisers.
It is quite a jolt watching one Pairs Team and then switch to a speed skate and then a commerical, and return to Pairs, 45 minutes later. During that period, it was not LIVE. I wonder if the entire Pairs was time delayed.
All Euros can watch Eurovision, saw the whole thing on last night, through BBC, no interruptions by other sports!
My dream top 3 would be
because I just don't like S/S but realistically they'll switch with K/S.
um, duh? not sure what else they're supposed to do. NBC is giving fair amount of time to all sports. considering torino was not the best for their ratings I'm not sure I can fault them for cutting back in their coverage at all. how are they supposed to come out even (much less with a profit) if they ignore their contracts with sponsors and the sports organizers just so a very small demographic of their overall viewership will stop whining that we aren't getting enough coverage?
and universal sports is not on everyone's package plan, so chacking the US teams on the main station would not be a good idea. you're lucky you get universal sports, a lot of members on this board don't.
Depends where you are watching. If you are in central or eastern time, then it should have been live, but out here on the west coast everything is 3 hour delay. Which is silly because if they are going to delay it anyway, they might as well edit the program so we get to see all the skating at once, all the skiing at once etc. The way it was made it very difficult to watch and I could not try to watch something else because I was always "checking" to see if the pairs were back yet.
Denney and Barrett were on a maybe 1 1/2 minute max time delay because of, I suspect, a commercial or two running over time. But the last 7 skaters were live, as were Shen/Zhao. I don't remember if the group of three (B/L, E/L, L/H) were live or not. If they weren't, it would have again been a VERY slight delay.
there's not enough time for the stuff on the East coast to be done and editted before they hit primetime on the west coast, for one.
and it doesn't make it feel as "in the moment" that way, either.. I enjoy watching the other sports in between. It's a tiny bit annoying, but it's still fun (Moguls rule)


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Yordanova, Juliana and Kolev, Vasil (1998) Developmental changes in the theta response system: a single-sweep analysis. [Journal (Paginated)]
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Recently, increased interest was focused on the EEG frequency responses in the theta (4-7 Hz) range because of their association with stimulus information processing. However, it is not known whether the event-related theta response depends on the development of the spontaneous theta activity and how it varies with age in children. In the present study, a single-sweep analysis was applied to assess the developmental changes in the event-related EEG theta activity. Auditory passive, oddball target, and standard event-related potentials (ERPs) were recorded at Fz, Cz, and Pz from 50 children aged 6-11 years and 10 young adults. Theta responses were analyzed in two time windows of the post-stimulus epochs for three single-sweep parameters: amplitude, phase-locking with stimulus, and enhancement relative to prestimulus activity. For all three types of stimuli adults had theta responses with lower amplitude, higher enhancement, and stronger phase-locking than those of children. Unlike adults, no reliable differences between the early and late theta response were found for children. Significant developmental changes were observed for theta response amplitude that decreased and phase-locking of early theta responses that increased with advancing age. These findings indicate that the theta component of the auditory ERP differs remarkably between children and adults and undergoes developmental alterations, possibly reflecting specific differences in stimulus information processing.
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In the eastern Himalayan syntaxis, the southern Lhasa terrane is dominated by middle- to high-grade metamorphic rocks (Nyingchi Complex), which are intruded by felsic melts. U–Pb zircon dating and zircon Hf isotopic composition of these metamorphic and magmatic rocks provide important constraints on the tectono-thermal evolution of the Lhasa terrane during convergent process between Indian and Asian continents. U–Pb zircon data for an orthogneiss intruding the Nyingchi Complex yield a protolith magma crystallization age of 83.4 ± 1.2 Ma, with metamorphic ages of 65–46 Ma. This orthogneiss is characterized by positive εHf(t) values of + 8.3 and young Hf model ages of ~ 0.6 Ga, indicating a derivation primarily from a depleted-mantle or juvenile crustal source. Zircons from a quartz diorite yield a magma crystallization age of 63.1 ± 0.6 Ma, with εHf(t) values of − 8.2 to − 2.7, suggesting that this magma was sourced from partial melting of older crustal materials. Zircon cores from a foliated biotite granite show ages ranging from 347 to 2690 Ma, with age peaks at 347–403 Ma, 461–648 Ma and 1013–1183 Ma; their zircon εHf(t) values range from − 30.6 to + 6.9. Both the U–Pb ages and Hf isotopic composition of the zircon cores are similar to those of detrital zircons from the Nyingchi Complex paragneiss, implying that the granite was derived from anatexis of the Nyingchi Complex metasediments. The zircon rims from the granite indicate crustal anatexis at 64.4 ± 0.7 Ma and subsequent metamorphism at 55.1 ± 1.3 and 41.4 ± 2.3 Ma. Our results suggest that the late Cretaceous magmatism in the southern Lhasa terrane resulted from Neo-Tethys oceanic slab subduction and we infer that Paleocene crustal anatexis and metamorphism were related to the thermal perturbation caused by rollback of the northward subducted Neo-Tethyan oceanic slab.
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RangoI loved the movie %100. Great characters and designs. I love how one of Rango's eye is bigger then the other and how for the most part I wasn't thinking Johney Depp whenever Rango was on the screen. All of the characters had interesting quirks like with the main lizard girl and how she would go into a trance. I also felt that both Rango's journey and the relationship was well earned unlike a lot of movies nowdays. I'm not sure if I'd take my kids to it quite yet since its dark and suspenceful, the couple next to me brought their 4 year old and it freaked the kid out. But all in all a well crafted movie.
Re: RangoThe movie got a positive review from a friend of mine who's distinguished in animation and shared their opinion. If they like it, then it has to be a good film.
As a continuation of this topic... viewtopic.php?f=4&t=1168 It's deja vu all over again as there was an element of the film that I had seen before. For posterity...
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Crown Princess Cruise Review by Jo and Rob: Fabulous cruise onboard the beautiful Crown Princess.
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Fabulous cruise onboard the beautiful Crown Princess.
Embarkation was very easy. Although our advised check in wasn't until 3pm we arrived at 11.30am without a problem. The queue was long but with so many staff working at the check in desks we were at front and collecting our cruise cards within 15 minutes. To my surprise we didn't even have to wait in the lounge we walked straight onto the ship!
Cabins were ready so we dropped off our hand luggage and headed to the Da Vinci restaurant on deck 6 for a three course lunch with waiter service. We hate the buffet on embarkation day so the fact that Princess have a main dining room open straightaway is a real treat. We purchased a coffee card (which can be shared as it has a limited number of punches for tea and coffee, plus unlimited filter coffee) and two UKP drinks packages (which gives unlimited hot chocolate, milkshakes, mocktails, frozen drinks, juices and sodas).
After lunch we headed back to our cabin and most of our luggage had already More
been delivered. Our cabin was an outside cabin on deck 5 which was a superb location as it was only five metres away from the International café and Piazza.
Our steward provided us with extra hangers and as the wardrobe had no doors it was surprising how many clothes we were able to hang up. Above the hanging space there was a shelf where the life jackets were located but there was still ample space for storage. In addition, there were two bedside tables with a storage space and two drawers, the vanity table had two shelves in a cupboard on the right and by the wardrobe there were shelves on the side wall from floor to ceiling which was also the location of the combination safe. The fridge was located to the left of the vanity unit and was large enough for the ice bucket, a box of wine and a bottle of fizz. The children slept in bunks above our beds which were lowered at night when the beds were turned down and then put away in the morning when the room was made up.
The bathroom was tiny. The shower had a shower curtain and there was not a lot of space so dropping the soap ended up being quite tricky! Large towels, hand towels, flannels and pool towels were provided. There were also bottles of shampoo, conditioner and lotion provided plus many bars of soap. The bathroom had three little shelves on the left so there was room for all our toiletries despite the small size.
After unpacking we collected treasure hunt cards and had fun exploring the ship and getting stamps at each named location. This was an excellent way of getting to know the ship and we had great fun. We also filled in the spa raffle cards and after our muster drill we headed up on deck for the sail away party. The live band were really good and to encourage people to dance they gave out raffle tickets for every song for people who were dancing which was a great idea. Then they drew cards from the treasure hunt. The prizes were very varied from dinner for two at Sabatini's (specialty Italian restaurant) to a glass of Martini. Next was the sail away raffle and having danced every dance we had loads of tickets. I won a bottle of fizz and our son won a Princess drinks bottle. We then went off to the Spa raffle and I won $150 Spa voucher!
The Crown is a beautiful ship and we had a fabulous time from the moment that we stepped onboard.
The Art Gallery just outside our cabin was quite extensive and had a good variety of art which would appeal to most tastes. The International Café was open 24 hours a day and served a variety of complementary pastries, salads, sandwiches and cakes depending on the time of the day. It also sold ice cream for $1.50 for three scoops on a glass plate. This was also the location for specialty teas and coffees. On the opposite side of the Piazza was Vines the wine and sushi bar. We did a Champagne tasting on the last night at Vines which was really enjoyable even though they did serve a Californian fizz as one of the Champagnes and our host was relying on notes rather than her own knowledge.
The Piazza was the location for a variety of entertainment including the Champagne waterfall on the first formal night, the balloon drop on the second formal night, a string quartet, singers and a body balancing act. Deck 5 was also the location for the Internet café and future cruise sales. The future cruise sale rep was not available for the majority of our cruise but there was a drop box for future deposits and on board credit.
The Passenger Services desk on deck 6 was always well manned. There were also two self serve machines for print outs of your on board account. In addition there were machines for foreign exchange currency. The shore excursions department was next to Passenger Services. There was a drop box for excursions (just outside the Casino) for passengers who wanted to book or cancel shore excursions when the desk was closed.
Deck 6 (and 7) is the location of the Princess Theatre which had three shows a night so unlike some cruise ships we've been on we were always able to get a seat. The entertainment was generally good. The singers and dancers were excellent and the comedy impressionist Gary T Thompson was hilarious on his first show but the comedian on the first night was terrible and the second show by the Gary didn't live up to the first.
Deck 7 was the Promenade deck and a good deck to walk from aft to forward indoors as not all decks are accessible from one end of the ship to the other. Similarly deck 15, the Lido deck, was handy when heading from the Spa forward on deck 16 to the kids' club aft on deck 16.
The pools on deck 15 were heated and the children were surprised just how warm they were. There were also two additional adult only pools. Forward at the Spa next to the Sanctuary and aft at the back of Café Caribe. There was a large movie screen above one of the pools which showed films daily.
There were self-service Laundromats available on decks 5, 8-14 which although not needed on our 7 day cruise would have been a extremely valuable on a longer cruise and Princess is the only American cruise line that we have found this service.
The food on the Crown was outstanding. We loved lunch in the main dining room and were disappointed that it was not open on port days. As anytime diners we had the choice of eating in either the Michelangelo Restaurant or Da Vinci restaurant so if there was a queue at one we just went to the other. As we were crusing in Europe the busiest time was 7-30 to 8-30 with early diners able to walk in without a queue no problem. They did have a pager system so if you wanted a table for 2 and not share but there wasn't a table available you could take a pager and enjoy a drink in the Piazza while waiting. The Botticelli restaurant (aft deck 6) was fixed dining only.
Our dining highlight was Chef's Table which I can't recommend enough. We were treated like VIPs for the entire evening, given the guided tour in the working galley on deck 6 with the Maitre D before savouring amazing canapés with Champagne each one made by the executive chef himself. We were then led down to Michelangelo restaurant for a gastronomic extravaganza all accompanied by fine wines, candle light (yes real candles) and great company. The main course was flambéed in the restaurant before our eyes which was really spectacular. The evening ended with a rose and group photo for the ladies and a Princess recipe book for the gents.
There were two specialty restaurants open in the evening, the Crown Grill for steaks and lobster and Sabatini's for Italian cuisine. Although we didn't eat at either we met so many people who raved about the Crown Grill.
All food we found on deck 15 was complementary including hamburgers, hotdogs and fries at the Trident Grill , the Pizzeria made fresh pizzas in visible ovens which were huge so a slice of pizza barely fitted on the plate. Both eateries were by the pool and extremely popular with swimmers and sunbathers on deck. This was also the location for the complementary ice cream bar served in either a cone or a tub from 11am to 11pm.
Inside, Horizon Court buffet served a very limited lunch which did not meet our expectations of Royal Caribbean or Celebrity. This was probably why the International Café was so popular on deck 5 as the salads and pastries always looked so tempting. Café Caribe at the back of Horizon Court was a bit of a non event with only continental breakfast served there from 5am-10am.
The staff on Princess were extremely conscientious and friendly. The waitstaff were always attentive but never rushed us, the drinks staff were alert to a nearly empty glasses which meant we never had to go without a drink at dinner while we waited for another. The daytime staff were equally superb at their jobs. We played Win, Lose or Draw (that's Pictionary to you and me), did a couple of quizzes, played and won champagne hoopla, played the golf chipping challenge, watched a film in the theatre, took part in flashmob and attended the Champagne art auction. We were lucky that there was always going on we were spoilt for choice and never made it to the mini golf course, Casino, the bingo, the aerobics studio or gym.
Our children both went to Shockwaves, the kids' club for 8-12 year olds. They were able to sign themselves in and out at sea, but needed us to sign them in and out when in port. They both had a great time and came home with t-shirts, hand made jewellery and a decorated picture frame. Our daughter especially loved making things while our son enjoyed the playing games and the competitions. Unlike most cruise lines the children were not given a muster bracelet. Equally we were not given child life jackets from our steward despite asking. When we mentioned it to one of the officers she was absolutely horrified and we got the impression that our steward wouldn't make the same mistake again.
We had intended to take the Princess excursion to Bordeaux but our son wasn't feeling well that morning. I went to the Shore Excursion desk to find out whether we would be able to get any money back and they were fantastic and told us that it was understandable that people get ill especially as it was very rough that night and gave us a full refund without penalty on return of our tickets. I was so impressed as this was superb customer service by Princess.
Disembarkation was easy and hassle free. We put our suitcases out the night before and walked off with our hand luggage easily finding our suitcases in the baggage collection hall. A couple of days prior to disembarkation we were asked what time we would like to get off and got our requested time. All passengers are given coloured and numbered labels for cases to indicate disembarkation time and then the luggage in stored in coloured and numbered zones so need to panic at the thought of 3000 passengers trying to find their suitcases at the same time !
Our ports of call were La Coruna, Bilbao (free shuttle provided), Le Verdon (free shuttle to Soulac sur Mer or excursions to Bordeaux) and Guernsey which was a tender port. All ports were very easy to do DIY and walk around. The tides were causing issues with the gangways and at times one of the gangways was closed for repositioning. Wheelchair users were warned that they may not be able to disembark at Guernsey but we saw several getting back on the tenders with wheel chair assistants at the ready.
We thoroughly enjoyed our cruise and walked off the ship desperate to book another one. Princess is certainly a quality cruise company and their staff made every effort to ensure that we all had an amazing time. Less
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CRUISE CONTROL DOWNLOADSCRUISE CONTROL RADIO 4/09 CRUISE CONTROL 04/25/09 SHANGHAI SUPRISE, GRAND SPORT RETURNS and EXTREME HYPERMILING Shanghai News: Porsche takes the covers off its four door sedan and details its hybrid plans. And the folks at Rolls Royce are pretty steamed up about a certain Chinese auto manufacturer. The Grand Sport Rides again: Team Corvette reveals its new 2010 hot rod. The goal 1000 miles traveled on one tank of fuel If they can do it they will have a new record. Hyper miling Champion Wayne Gerdes and his team behind the wheel of the Ford Fusion Hybrid will make the attempt this weekend. Wayne will be our guest and have hypermiling tips we can all use. CRUISE CONTROL 04/18/09 GM FIAT CHRYSLER RUMOURS, MUSTANG AT 45 and MICHELIN GREEN X Rumors and Denials are flying fast as the June 1st deadline looms large in the windshield of GM. Will brands be eliminated, sold or retained? This is gonna be one wild ride. And while we are on the topic. The deal between Fiat and Chrysler could be on the rocks we will tell you why. Its a race with in a race. The American Le mans Series is in Long Beach California this week.. But some competitors are looking to not only go fast but also go green we will learn about the Michelin Green X Challenge from Silvia Mammone Michelin's Motorsports Manager. Its a celebration fit for a pony.. Mustang turns 45.. We'll tell you where the party's at. CRUISE CONTROL 04/11/09 NEW YORK AUTO SHOW, FORD FIESTA FIRST DRIVE and MINI'S VP JIM MCDOWELL Even with some the most difficult economic times for the auto industry the New York Auto show did not disappoint with plenty of new reveals and a few suprises thrown in for good measure. We have the details. First Drive: We get behind the wheel of the Ford Fiesta. and take this Euro spec 5 door out on the streets of New York city... You'll get our driving impressions and hear from brand manager Sam De La Garza about the car and a very unique marketing plan. There is plenty going on at Mini! There's a new Convertible and of course a Mini E their first electric offering. We hear it all and learn about the future of this unique brand from Jim McDowell Vice President of Mini USA. CRUISE CONTROL 04/4/09 GM BANKRUPTCY COZY, VOLVO AND TOYOTA PRICE SLASH and MOTA.COM Well this past week was one that GM and to a lesser extent Chrysler would like to forget. GM CEO was fired and it seems like the company is getting cozy with the idea of bankruptcy . Meanwhile for Chrysler its merge with Fiat or Else! Both Volvo and Toyota are slashing prices on specific models. Is this an industry wide trend? Charlie Vogelheim a former VP of J.D. Power and Associates. has recently signed on with Mota Motors to promote truth and transparency in the used car industry. He is combating fraud in the private party marketplace and helping consumers sell their used vehicles for an increased profit. We will hear about Mota.com |
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