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He has seen 66 student-athletes receive Collegiate Rowing Coaches Association (CRCA) National Scholar Athlete honors and his team has won TU's Outstanding Team Community Service Award eight times (2003, '04, '05, '07, '08, '09, '10, `13) for their community and campus involvement. During the 2012-13 season, TU earned 24 first-place marks and medaled 63 boats in 10 regattas. The Golden Hurricane's Lightweight 8+ recorded a third-place finish at the Dad Vail Regatta and Knecht Cup, while the Lightweight 4+ also earned a bronze meal at the Knecht Cup. TU claimed the Lawless Cup with a 19-second win over SMU and finished ninth in Conference USA. Amy Nelson was named to the CRCA South All-Region team, 10 were tabbed as CRCA Scholar Athletes and 50 rowers received C-USA academic recognition. The Golden Hurricane posted 19 first-place marks, while 34 boats finished among the top three in eight regattas during the 2011-12 season. 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Harris coached the Tulsa rowers to 21 first-place finishes during the 2006-07 season, including wins in the Varsity 2-, Lightweight 4+, Varsity 4+, Novice 8+ and 2nd Varsity 8+ at the Midwest Intercollegiate Rowing Association Regatta to capture the MIRC team championship. TU also claimed an impressive sixth-place mark in the Varsity 8+ at the Dad Vail Regatta. Off the water, six rowers were named CRCA National Scholar Athletes, 20 earned C-USA Academic honors and 20 earned TU academic accolades. In the 2005 fall campaign, the Club 4+ and Championship 4+ crews earned fifth- and 12th-place marks at the Head of the Charles Regatta, while the Varsity 4+ captured a second-place mark at the Head of the Oklahoma Centennial Regatta. In the spring, TU's Varsity 4+ posted wins over Creighton, Drake, SMU and Murray State. The Varsity 8+ claimed a third-place finish at the Midwest Intercollegiate Rowing Championship, and finished sixth in the semifinals at the Dad Vail Regatta. In the classroom, two rowers were selected as 2006 CRCA National Scholar Athletes, while five rowers were named C-USA All-Academic Medalists, and 21 were selected as C-USA All-Academic Honorees. In 2004-05, Tulsa registered one of the biggest victories in the program's history with a first-place finish in the Club 4+ race at the Head of the Charles Regatta, and during the spring season, Tulsa's boats combined for 14 first-place finishes in six meets. Off the water, Harris also had the Golden Hurricane excelling in the classroom. Three rowers were named 2005 National Scholar Athletes by the CRCA, and a total of 24 rowers were named to either the President's List (6), Dean's List (11) or Athletic Director's Honor Roll (7). Harris took a small Golden Hurricane squad and steered it through a successful 2003-04 season. TU concluded the fall by finishing ninth among 54 boats at the Head of the Charles in the Club 4+ event. During the spring, the Hurricane turned in first-ever victories against Iowa at the Longhorn Invitational and won races against Drake, Kansas and SMU in Varsity 4+ competition. Additionally, the 2004 season saw Tulsa make its first-ever appearance at the Dad Vail, where Tulsa's Novice 8+ finished fourth in a strong field. In his first season at Tulsa in 2002-03, the Golden Hurricane competed in 10 regattas, posted four first-place finishes and medaled 23 boats. Not only has Harris been instrumental in developing a highly competitive team, but he has been the driving force behind the construction of the Tulsa rowing facilities. The Jack Zink Indoor Rowing Center, completed in March of 2006, is a state-of-the-art rowing center that is housed within TU's Mabee Gymnasium and features an indoor rowing tank, an ergometer room capable of supporting the entire team practicing at one time, locker rooms and coaches offices. In addition to the indoor practice facility, the 5,000-square foot J. Bird Sr. Shell Nest was completed in January 2007. The boathouse is the first boat storage facility specifically dedicated to the needs of the varsity rowers at TU. It is located on the Verdigris River and sports a natural setting of 18 miles distance for practice. Before arriving at Tulsa, Harris was the first assistant coach at Kansas State from 1999-2002. During his tenure at KSU, he coached the novice crews and recorded victories over Big Ten, Big 12 and Pac-10 rivals. He was also responsible for recruiting over 20 student-athletes to Kansas State. It was during Harris' time in Manhattan that the KSU squad garnered the school's first top-25 ranking in the 2002 CRCA National Poll. From 1997-99, Harris was head coach at NCAA Division III Mills College in Oakland, Calif. In Harris' first year, he guided the Cyclones to their first-ever NCAA Championship appearance at the 1998 National Collegiate Women's Rowing Championships, becoming the first African-American coach to take a crew to the NCAAs. Mills finished 15th in the Varsity 4+, which was the school's first appearance in any sport at an NCAA Championship. Harris began his collegiate coaching career at NCAA Division III Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Mass. As the novice coach, Harris' crews won two straight Seven Sister's Championships and numerous duel races against New England rivals. In 1997, the novice crews contributed to Mount Holyoke winning the New England Women's 8+ Conference Championship, while also winning a New England Championship in the Second Novice 8+. From 1991-95, Harris coached top high school crews in the Washington Metropolitan Area. 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Titanium with Non-Stick Coating Curved Soleplate An iron with a curved soleplate concentrates pressure at the center of the iron, instead of at the tip, so there is less tugging, snagging, and minimal wrinkling.
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Rated Power | 10 Amps. - 1200 Watts |
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Unit (H x W x D) (in.) | 6 5/16 x 4 7/16 x 10 11/16 |
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The Qatari, who drives a Ford Fiesta RRC, began Sunday's competition with a comfortable 1min 13.8sec lead over Yuriy Protasov, and lost just 0.4sec of this margin by the end, to finish tenth overall.
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"Three wins this year, leading again and I equal my best result which was 10th in Greece, so it's feeling really good," said Al Kuwari. "I'm pleased to have made top-10 in an RRC car, my pace was really good, even against the top drivers, and every time the gap is getting closer. The team did a great job, as did my co-driver Killian, it's been a very nice weekend."
Protasov picked up 18 points for second, but was left rueing a spin on Saturday which damaged the right-hand side of his Fiesta R5 and dropped him out of the lead. "It's a good result, but maybe it could have been better," shrugged the Ukrainian.
Saudi Arabia's Yazeed Al Rajhi was third, almost seven minutes behind Protasov, and relieved to have salvaged a decent result after retiring his Fiesta RRC on Friday with broken steering.
Subaru Impreza driver Arman Smailov was a distant fourth, 20m35s further back, with New Zealand's Hayden Paddon rounding off the top five.
Paddon began the event as favourite, but retired on the opening day when his Skoda Fabia S2000 suffered an electrical problem. He re-joined on Saturday determined to prove his pace, and did this by going fastest on all but one of the remaining stages.
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April 16, 2012
President Obama hit the campaign trail with renewed calls for the "Buffett rule" last week. The rule would require millionaires to hand over a minimum 30 percent of their income to the federal government. Although the rule is supposed to increase fairness and raise a lot of revenue to narrow the budget deficit, it appears the Buffett rule is actually a campaign tactic that would accomplish neither of these goals. Instead of focusing on good policy, the president is focused on shifting the debate about the nation's deficit problem from cutting government spending to increasing taxes.
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President Obama is painting millionaires as the top "1 percent" who avoid paying their fair share. However, with respect to fairness, the tax burden for the top 1 percent as a share of total federal income taxes is near its highest in decades. The top 1 percent pay nearly 40 percent of all federal income taxes, while the bottom 50 percent account for only 3 percent. For the wealthy, that's higher than it was during the Clinton years even after the Clinton tax hikes. To qualify for the top 1 percent requires an income of around $380,000. That's a great salary, but probably not what springs to mind when you hear the term "millionaire."
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Thomas Boghardt, author of "The Zimmermann Telegram: Intelligence, Diplomacy, and America's Entry into World War One," explains why Germany's Foreign Minister, Arthur Zimmermann, sent the telegram to Mexico; how it was intercepted by the British; and how its discovery influenced American public opinion. The National Archives in Washington DC hosted this event.
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What's Killing the Aspen?
The signature tree of the Rockies is in trouble
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It's a relentlessly sunny day in the Rocky Mountains, and here at 9,000 feet, on the Grand Mesa in western Colorado, the aspen trees should be casting a shadow. But something is wrong in this stand: the treetops are nearly bare, their branches twisting starkly into the blue sky. Sarah Tharp, a wiry biologist for the U.S. Forest Service, hoists a small ax, takes aim and delivers an angled blow to an aspen trunk, peeling off a sample of diseased bark.
"Sometimes," she says, "I feel like a coroner."
Aspen, one of the few broad-leaved trees to grow at high altitude in Western mountains, are emblems of the Rockies. Their lean, chalky trunks are instantly recognizable on an alpine slope, their blazing-yellow fall displays part of the region's seasonal clockwork. The characteristic flutter of their heart-shaped leaves in the breeze gives them their nickname—"quakies"—and fills their stands with an unmistakable shhhhh.
In 2004, foresters noticed that aspen in western Colorado were falling silent. While the trees have always been susceptible to disease and insect attacks, especially in old age, "this was totally different from anything we'd seen before," says forester Wayne Shepperd. "In the past, you'd maybe see rapid die-off of one stand out of an entire landscape—it wasn't really a big deal. But now, we're seeing whole portions of the landscape go."
By 2006, close to 150,000 acres of Colorado aspen were dead or damaged, according to aerial surveys. By the following year, the grim phenomenon had a name—"sudden aspen decline," or SAD—and the devastated acreage had more than doubled, with some 13 percent of the state's aspen showing declines. In many places, patches of bare and dying treetops are as noticeable as missing teeth, and some sickly areas stretch for miles. Aspen declines are also underway in Wyoming, Utah and elsewhere in the Rockies. Surveys of two national forests in Arizona showed that from 2000 to 2007, lower-elevation areas lost 90 percent of their aspen.
Aspen grow in "clones," or groups of genetically identical trunks. Some clones are thousands of years old, although individual trees live 150 years at most. One especially large stand in Utah, known as "Pando" after the Latin for "I spread," was recently confirmed by geneticists to cover 108 acres. It is variously said to be the world's heaviest, largest or oldest organism. Disturbances such as wildfires or disease usually prompt clones to send up a slew of fresh sprouts, but new growth is rare in SAD-affected stands.
Tharp and three other young Forest Service biologists—under the genial supervision of veteran plant pathologist Jim Worrall—are chasing down the causes of the decline. They walk among the aspen trunks and divvy up their tasks for the day.
"You want me to dig? Is that where this is heading?" Worrall teases the crew members, who are outfitted in hard hats and orange vests and sport the occasional nose piercing.
A tiny mark on the bark of one trunk prompts Angel Watkins to probe underneath with a knife, where she finds the wood is decorated by the convoluted track of a bronze poplar borer larva. While the inch-long larvae don't usually kill aspen outright, their trails can weaken the trees and open new portals to fungal infections, which in turn form oozing bruises under the bark. On another tree, Worrall finds small cracks like those on the surface of a cookie, a clue that tunneling underneath has dried out the bark. Closer inspection turns up a bark beetle, no more than one-twelfth-inch long but capable, en masse, of cutting off the tree's nutrient supply.
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I can tell you the phenomenon what could be killing the aspen trees. It's human-made and it is called: CHEMTRAILS. Do your own research, Google and Youtube "chemtrails" spend days watching videos etc. Watch these professional videos by finding them on Google: "What in the world are they spraying?" "Why in the world are they spraying?"
Posted by John Morton on September 30,2012 | 08:12 PM
Bees and wsps in Aspen are most ofen a sign of aphids. The aphids secrete 'hone dew' s part of the digestive process
Posted by on July 8,2012 | 08:20 PM
Not to be picky, but shouldn't "Aspen," as you have it capitalized in the headline, be "aspen?" As far as I can tell, the name of the tree is lower case, while the name of town is upper case. Of course, there is plenty of room to discuss the decline of Aspen, but I think that's a different article.
Posted by Brent Gardner-Smith on December 19,2011 | 12:34 PM
The aspens in my neighborhood in Fort Collins, CO (5,000') were quite diverse in health. Some died young, some were big and healthy. It didn't seem to matter if the yards were watered well or ignored, there was an abundance of root sprouts in the yards. So with some thriving at a lower, warmer environment than what is native, it would be foolish to blame massive die-offs in native areas on global warming. I now live in Divide, CO (9,100') and the aspens here are in fine shape, even after the driest season in ten years. However, root sprouts and young trees are practically non-existent. The very obvious browse lines from the deer would explain why there is no new growth. Years ago in California the forestry folks wised up when they realized that their "burn ban" practices were preventing the new growth of Giant Sequoias, which require a bare mineral soil to grow. In Montana de Oro State Park, CA, a natural grove of Monterey Pines was suffering from old age until a fire came through and opened up the cones to let the seeds out so new growth could occur. Let's stop using the mythical global warming scare tactic to manage everything. We need to admit that there are natural cycles and fire is one of them. And when we interfere with the fire cycle we allow for devastating fires to occur, and insects, fungi, and diseases to overproduce unchecked. I'm glad I got my degree in Natural Resources Mgt when science was still unpolluted by global warming mythology.
Posted by Bill on September 21,2011 | 12:43 AM
I live in Idaho, in the Treasure Valley. I have what I believe are several Aspens in my backyard. They are sparse of leaves and in several places such as the middle of the tree, those branches appear dead. On the trunk from base to top, I see slash marks as if an animal clawed the trunk, (horizontally). A neighbor mentioned a "cutter worm" could be the issue. I have no idea. You are welcome to investigate.I believe I am 2300ft elevation. Any comments?
Posted by Leah Niacaris-Harper on June 26,2011 | 08:28 AM
Strange they have found a cause with no recommendation to fix the problem.
Of course a lot will blame global warming, but come on.
Does global warming breed beetles?
Posted by Lee on April 22,2011 | 03:35 PM
We live in the Keweenaw Peninsula of the UP of Michigan. About five years ago our birches began to die (most are now gone) but the aspen seemed alive and well. This year they, too, began to weaken, lose their leaves, and fall over. In the summer they sent out scores of new suckers a lot of which had blackened leaves.
Does this mean that we, like the western states, are destined to lose our aspens?
According to Public Radio this AM. it is because of climate change. Could this be because we are so far north?
If so, what can be done?
Posted by Elizabeth Haro on September 26,2009 | 01:06 PM
I have been concerned about the aspen trees where I live near Eagle CO for the past several years. This year has been the worst by far with whole stands of aspen being affected by whatever this disease is. Has anyone heard of any relationship between the trees and bees or wasps? I've noticed that in the past few years hundreds of bees and wasps will be in the aspens. Normal or not? I usually notice things like this but it seems to be more so lately.
I've read where bees and wasps will eat fungus. Is this what is going on? Thank you for your coverage of this disturbing event. I realize that nature has her cycles it's just different when you experience such a profound change in a huge landscape.
Posted by Brian on September 11,2009 | 08:33 PM
If drought is truly weakening the trees by pulling the reserved energy from the roots, then it would make sense that either selective cutting, clear cutting, or fire would reduce the amount of above ground growth. The resulting smaller/newer shoots would have lower water transpiration rates in comparison to the larger older trunks. This could potentially give the overall organism a chance to survive until water resources were more plentiful.
There are several examples from nature where organisms have undergone a reduction in size in light of diminished resources. Perhaps we should take this into consideration and use natures examples in developing a management plan
Posted by Eyvind on July 8,2009 | 05:51 AM
I will be visiting the area with SEEDS this coming late spring. Thank you for the article it is astounding to make some of the connections of global warming and forest loss. It is a sad realization to know and accept that human demand and industrialization is responsible for these wonderful Aspens.
Posted by Kellen Marshall on April 21,2009 | 06:22 PM
I worked as a wildlife manager in Michigan, where there is also a lot of aspen. Aspen is important for many game and non-game species, as is the young, regenerating forest type that it represents. With a sparse canopy that allows sunlight to penetrate to the forest floor, aspen forest also have an abundance of ground cover and understory that benefits many species. Now living in Colorado, I see most of our aspen forests are of an older age class. Aspen is aggressively managed in the upper midwest for economic reasons but also for wildlife reasons. It seems as though it is hardly managed at all in the Rocky Mountain region. I see so many stands in a declining condition with bracket fungus and conch all over; I am not surprised that aspen is in trouble in the west. It is important to know that aspens grow in clones, and all trees in a clone are part of the same living organism. You can create forest openings in aspen stands by clearcutting MOST of the trees in a clone while leaving several per acre standing. The standing trees will inhibit the auxin (like a hormone to humans) that stimulates root suckering or sprouting, almost as if the standing trees say to the root system "don't worry, there's damage to us but we're up here photosynthesizing", and the energy to regenerate is reserved until total destruction of the stand occurs. If this does not occur, aspen will most likely be lost from the site over time. So, "let it burn" is a great thing! However, if we don't let it burn, we really need to start clearcutting some aspen in the west to maintain it.
Posted by Tim on February 16,2009 | 09:55 AM
The aspen found in Vail are Populus tremuloides. It is THE aspen species of the rockies. There are some good comments here. Fire is very important to the establishment of new aspen stands. Young stands of aspen are still thriving in the midst of their neighboring older dying stands at mid elevations. There are also some amazing older aspen stands (~150 years old)in the best of sites. Not every old tree is a bad tree. I don't want to see a massive clear cut or fire program put in place because people think it will save the aspen - patchiness is good for these forests. Also, burning low elevation stands will probably speed up the process of aspen being replaced by sagebrush. There is also a lot of evidence that aspen established in low elevation during wetter times 100 years ago. These trees seem to be fading out with the last hot droughty decade. If our climate continues to heat up and dry out, we can expect the mid elevation aspen to die (and not regenerate) and the population to shift to higher elevations where they can. If all the climate models are dead wrong - cool. I like aspen.
Posted by Debbie on January 28,2009 | 05:26 PM
Let it burn. Fire cleanses the forest, not blaming everything under the sun on global warming. These trees will be around long after humans have killed themselves off.
Posted by Flouncer on January 14,2009 | 11:50 PM
I am from Slovenia (graduated forestry studies) an on a work on Vail mountain. There is a lot of Aspen trees but cant find which species is most common. It is winter now and your help would be helpful. please post me on my e-mail. Martin
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The term "blockbuster" is one that's bandied about so freely nowadays that its meaning has all but eroded away. Anything with a certain production budget attached and a fancy enough trailer is lauded as a blockbuster, as an "epic". In videogames the term tends to apply even more loosely: it has become synonymous with any AAA title with its fair share of set-pieces, A-list voice actors and an over-blown viral marketing campaign. In actual fact, however, it has taken the videogames industry just over 30 years to produce its first true blockbuster. Mass Effect 3 is it.
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Mass Effect 3 begins several months after the ME2 DLC "Arrival", and finds Shepard grounded after her actions caused the deaths of some 300,000 batarian civilians. In true action-movie fashion, no one believes her warnings about the Reaper invasion, until they arrive out of the clear blue sky, blasting everything in their path like the tripods in War of the Worlds.
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It's after a lengthy cutscene that you're granted control of Shepard, and immediately it's like being reacquainted with an old friend. Shepard handles like she always did, and as soon as you've got a gun in your hand and the camera snaps to that familiar over-the-shoulder angle, you feel right at home. Anyone importing a save from the first two games (and you really should) will find themselves starting at a higher character level (we began at level 30) with all the corresponding skill points available to spend. Combat, biotic and tech abilities have seen no significant overhaul since Mass Effect 2, with minor tweaks applied to the way you level them up and develop each skill down a certain path. Our Shep is a sneaky Infiltrator class, so we immediately upgraded Tactical Cloak and Incinerate fully, bunging the spare points into Sabotage and Cryo Ammo for that extra little kick in a scrape.
Following Admiral Anderson to rendezvous with the Normandy, we soon got to grips with the tightened gunplay, the newly added combat roll (achieved by tapping A and moving in any direction), and the more precise and immediate snap-to-cover manoeuvre. The new melee attacks are less well-implemented, unfortunately; cracking an enemy with the butt of your gun has the desired effect, but the "heavy melee" omni-blade kill often does more harm than good, launching Shepard into a two-second animation that an enemy can easily avoid but which you can't cancel out of. The lack of a decent instant stealth kill further compounds the omni-blade's uselessness – it's simply an addition we could all have lived without.
Once Shepard leaves Earth with a vow to bring an army back, you're given your freedom to once more explore the galaxy as you please – though there are only a handful of planets available to begin with, and there are even less to land on and explore on foot. Initially setting out only with a desire to entreat the Citadel Council for help, Shepard's objectives change minute-to-minute and mission-to-mission. This is not the formulaic recruitment and trust-exercise dynamic we saw in Mass Effect 2; rather, Mass Effect 3 casts Shepard as a buoy in a maelstrom, buffeted here and there by the savage gales of all-out galactic war. She stays afloat as only Shepard can, by making tough decisions and owning them for better or worse.
If we lose Shepard, humanity might well follow
Mass Effect 3 is a game that wants you to think about your choices, to agonise over them, and then reflect on them for hours afterwards, either celebrating your own foresight or ruing your rashness. If the choices presented in the previous two titles seemed tough, ME3 will genuinely test you. Favourite returning characters – including your crew mates – live or die based on seemingly inconsequential decisions made at key points in the game, as we found out the hard way in a moment that actually made us hate Bioware for a good hour or two afterwards. To lose someone who has fought beside you for a 100+ hours of gaming is heartbreaking in a way that you're genuinely unprepared for – especially given Bioware's incredible writing.
Playing an imported save file forces the game to calculate over 1,000 variables, determining who you meet, who hates you and who owes you a favour right at the beginning of your quest, and as a result you'll run into a ton of old friends and enemies. Bioware have forgotten nothing and no one, and Mass Effect 3 feels tailored to you as an individual to a degree never seen before in the medium.
The crew is much smaller this time around, allowing for more focused interactions, but all the crew members who survived the suicide mission can turn up at some point, usually during a mission wherein your actions can see them dead. There are some standout moments, too, but on the whole every mission is one giant set-piece and so choosing a favourite is difficult. Mass Effect 3 feels almost ruthlessly streamlined compared to its predecessors; there are no filler missions to bloat out the middle third, no need to spend hours scanning countless planets for resources (the scanner is now much quicker and easier to use – just watch out for the Reapers!)
Go out there, and give them Hell
Everything you do, every mission you complete, every life you save, person you help or resource you gather carries a point value that adds to Shepard's Effective Military Strength (EMS). To have a hope of beating the Reapers and unlocking the best possible ending, you need the highest EMS you can get – which is where the multiplayer mode comes in.
Although it's possible (but bloody hard) to achieve full EMS in the solo campaign alone, your victories in the online Galaxy at War campaign increase your Galactic Readiness percentage – a value by which your EMS is divided come the endgame. Rinsing the multiplayer is a handy way of increasing your chance of success.
Luckily, the multiplayer is brilliant. Similar to the oft-imitated Horde Mode made famous by Gears of War 2, Galaxy at War pits squads of players against increasingly difficult and powerful waves of enemies. With six classes and races to choose from, as well as the option to advance or promote your characters, Galaxy at War offers an experience that's far more than the desperate, bolted-on stab at the online market that many expected it to be. It's a game in its own right and one that lives up to the Mass Effect name in every way.
Despite the overriding quality, there are issues which, while not great enough to cause any real harm, are worth mentioning. The new squad-mates, for one, are probably the worst characters of all three games. Actually, scratch probably. Frog-faced, muscle-bound fratboy James Vega is irritating and unlikeable from the word go, whilst the other newcomer (who we won't mention here for spoiler reasons) is interesting in terms of interactions and backstory but fairly useless on the battlefield – though their class is the same as ours was, so we might be biased there.
You were born to do this
Thankfully, returning characters are as fleshed out and likeable as they ever were. Continuing to build relationships and pursue romances (complete with love triangles if you misbehaved) is touching, often amusing, and adds a much-needed human element. That other crew members can begin romantic relationships of their own accord is a testament to Bioware's respect and love for their characters.
The biggest complaint is aimed at the quest log system, which is so unhelpful as to be an actual drag. For some reason, it doesn't update as you complete legs of a mission, so you can run around carrying an artefact or asset without realising you've got them or who they're for. It can be confusing, but given the lack of hand-holding throughout, it's more than likely a deliberate design choice on Bioware's part. Apart from that little niggle, the engine that looked so beautiful only two years ago now seems dated since we've seen L.A Noire and Uncharted 3 – environments are still great, but the lip-synching and dialogue animations are so abysmal as to be off-putting at times.
After 30 – 40 hours you'll find yourself facing the endgame – at which point it's time to see if all your choices and sacrifices were worth it. The culmination of 120 hours of life-or-death decisions, personal struggles and moral dilemmas is bittersweet, topped by an ending that seemed to us to be deliberately ambiguous and screaming out for DLC – not to change anything, but to clarify events.
The fight of our lives
To avoid spoilers we'll divulge no details, but suffice to say that the last hour is a minefield of plot-holes, contrivances and inconsistencies that go against the grain of the stellar writing showcased up to that point. There's simply no way such an intricately plotted story arc would end with so many convoluted leaps of logic unless it was intentional – and the fact that a single, plausible plot device already hinted at several times could put everything right compounds the theory that this may be Shepard's final fight, but it's not quite over when the credits roll.
As a game to be played through and completed for the hell of it, Mass Effect 3 might be considered wanting. To avoid or opt out of indulging in the galactic politics and intricacies of the universe and story arc is to miss the point entirely. For the first time ever, the concept of judging a game as an overall "experience" genuinely fits, and doesn't seem like a piece of PR buzz to hide a lack of gameplay under some shiny set-pieces. Mass Effect 3 is everything it should be: a tight, exhilarating cover shooter and the ultimate instalment of gaming's finest sci-fi epic.
By turns Mass Effect 3 is amusing, exciting, challenging, heartbreaking and breathtaking, and a few minor complaints and arguably questionable design choices can't detract from what is a truly modern masterpiece. It might have been possible to knock a point of the score for the sake of controversy or to stand out from the crows, but frankly we'd have to really pick at every minor detail to find a decent complaint. At the end of the day, controversy be damned, we're giving Mass Effect 3 the only score we possibly can.
Simply put, this is epic.
Words by Mick Fraser (Twitter: @Jedi_Beats_Tank)
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The First Act Discovery Designer Junior Tambourine is a top-quality percussion instrument. The 6-inch diameter tambourine is built with a solid all-natural wood shell. The tambourine has silkscreen graphics on the head and comes with 4 sets of secured metal jingles that provide a crisp ringing sound.
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James Lindsey, Lori Lindsey's husband, arrived at the scene shortly thereafter and said he "totally lost it" after seeing his wife's foot through the windshield.
Lindsey spent 19 days in WellStar Kennestone Hospital recovering from the accident, and was finally able to go thank the emergency personnel for their rescue efforts on Monday, almost exactly a month to the date of her accident.
She thanked the four men, but went on to say that her appreciation was just not enough.
"You guys are wonderful," she said.
James Lindsey said many people have been praying for his wife since the
"Her attitude has been great and our church, Heritage Presbyterian, has been wonderful," Lindsey said. "They brought us meals and built a 55-foot ramp for Lori."
Tim Cavender, spokesman for Cherokee County Fire and Emergency Services, said it was an important day for the emergency service personnel who responded to the accident that day.
"For the most part, these experienced men never have a chance to meet with the patients that they serve after they are left at the hospital," Cavender said. "To experience a few moments with one of their patients to see that they survived a tragic accident is truly what keeps these dedicated men motivated."
Cavender, who was at the station when Lindsey visited, said she is doing extremely well.
"She has some scars and she's not able to walk right now, but she's going through therapy to get back to where she was," he said.