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I found some info here: https://www.frommers.com/tips/cruise/icon-of-the-seas-doesnt-have-enough-lifeboatson-purpose Here's the pertinent part: Icon of the Seas, like an increasing number of vessels, is also equipped with what the maritime industry terms a Marine Evacuation System (MES). When a signal to abandon ship is issued by the bridge, MES systems deploy escape tubes over a ship's sides. Escaping passengers make their way down the tubes using an internal ladder system and descend into rafts that are capable of fully inflating within 90 seconds.

Some here may enjoy this video about the state of the cruising industry. I found this YouTube channel after the bridge collapse here in Maryland. The fellow is a long time merchant mariner who now teaches in North Carolina. His videos on the bridge collapse are good. This video summarizes the recent CLIA (Cruise Line Int'l Association) meeting. Fun facts: cruising is significantly down in Asia and the RCL Icon of the Seas doesn't have enough lifeboats for all the passengers -- you may end up in a life raft. Video is about 20 minutes. https://youtu.be/zE5XbaBz70o?si=8w6DSL3oIO_Q2_-u

Me too! I did find another chief engineer on YouTube. Here's a 12 minute video on how they start the engine on a cargo ship. Spoiler: they use compressed air! https://youtu.be/5mFmCxOjY_A?si=b9QMIje_GWf22iyA The NTSB has, so far, posted three videos. In one (length 7:32) you can see the bridge pavement laying on the bow of the cargo ship at about the 3:00 minute mark! https://www.youtube.com/@NTSBgov/videos

Costco is a good place to buy. I believe they double the 1 year manufacturers warranty, so you're covered for two years. Some purchases include an additional three year warranty for five years of total coverage. One can buy the three year add-on if it's not included for free. They will deliver any set 55-inches or larger. Costco won't have as many choices as Best Buy, but they have the latest and greatest from most manufacturers. Two months ago my six year old Sony Bravia died. I was very happy with that set, the picture was fantastic. I was focusing on a $600 65-inch Samsung at Costco. My son convinced me the OLED was worth the extra $1,000. I pulled the trigger and I'm very happy with the purchase. As good as the picture was on the Sony Bravia, the picture on the Samsung OLED is better. Much better. Agree with your suggestion to not waste any time comparing the picture in the store. All the sets are on demo mode where the color and contrast are pumped way up. No way one would want to run it like that at home.

YTTV records everything on every channel they carry. When you add a show to your library it's simply creating a link to the show they've already recorded or will record in the future. So there's nothing to delete. But there's also no storage capacity to worry about. So forget about deleting anything. All you can do is add or remove shows and movies from your library. You can mark individual shows, or entire seasons, as being watched. I often use my smartphone to mark individual shows as being watched. I've found it easiest to use Safari on my Mac to mark entire seasons as being watched. I did a bit of marking seasons as being watched in our first few months of YTTV, but haven't done so lately. BTW, your YTTV watch history is recorded right along with your other Google stuff. You can log in to your Google account to check your history settings. If you've never changed them they're most likely fine. Some new YTTV users see problems with their YTTV history because they've gone in to their Google account and changed the defaults. For example, some users don't want Google recording the things they search for and they've gone in and changed the defaults. Then they have trouble with YTTV not working the way they expect.

One of the strange things about YTTV is some changes are better made on a certain device, some changes can only be made on a certain device. For example, it's much easier to create a custom channel grid on a computer using a web browser. It's much easier to mark shows in the library as watched on a smartphone (works okay in a web browser too). I'm kind of obsessive with the New Shows in the library. YTTV is great at recording everything, I spend a few minutes each morning and evening clearing the library of things we've already seen.

Bring up the screen with Library, Home and Live. Right arrow to the right, just past search, to your account options. Then Switch Account, then Add Account. I don't think there's a limit on accounts, as long as everyone lives in the same household. Having multiple accounts is one of the main reasons we switched to YouTube TV. My adult son lives here and wanted his own DVR. Xfinity does not allow a household to separate recordings within a household. My wife and I haven't found a need for separate accounts yet, but I can see where it would help.

Bob is right, touch the "square" in the bottom right to go full screen. To change back just turn the phone to vertical. I like that when in vertical mode you see your four recent channels on the bottom. Makes it easy to channel surf and avoid commercials. I sometimes just want to listen to a news channel and discovered that when in full screen mode you can swipe down from the top to stop the video (you'll see a gray box). To get the video back just tap the screen a little above the "pause" control. For audio only I wish they'd let you turn the screen off, but it stops the audio. When I listen to audiobooks, with the Audible app, you can darken the screen and the audio continues to play.

You'll see the name of the show that is playing (live or taped) at top of the screen. Press the UP button until it's highlighted and then press the OK (or SELECT) button...I don't know what remote you're using. On the Apple TV remote it's UP and then the center (OK) button.

Same here...Activity Streams stopped working Nov 6 during the afternoon.

That's great! Yeah, the lowered floor on the Braun and VMI conversion vans can be a problem. I'd suggest using the Braun site to find your local dealer. Call 'em up and ask if they'd be willing to bring one by your house to give the driveway a test. I'd think they would be willing to do that.

The Braun vans are low to the ground, since the floor has been lowered by ten inches. A few years ago we were considering taking the Toyota Sienna on the Amtrak "Auto Train" to Florida. We were worried the van's exhaust pipe would be damaged during the train loading process. Amtrak said the minimum ground clearance was 4 inches, the van's exhaust pipe has just three inches ground clearance. We always take it slow and easy over speed bumps. Other than ground clearance, the Braun vans are wonderful and solve a lot of problems for wheelchair users. Looking at the picture you posted, I believe the Braun van would handle that just fine. It looks like the same angle our driveway has and it's never been an issue here.

Perhaps you know this, but Braun makes conversion vans that allow one to drive a powered wheelchair right up and in to the van. The wheelchair is then secured to the floor either via hold-down straps or an automatic device that locks on to the wheelchair frame. My son is on his second Braun van. The first was a Chrysler, the current one is a Toyota Sienna. Braun has a nice web site showing the possibilities. There is at least one other company that makes wheelchair conversion vans, VMI.

Ah, makes sense. I was already seeing the full filters menu...so no need to display Show Filters. Thanks.

Just to wrap this up, my custom activity stream now seems to be working fine. Only thing I changed was the time period. I'll try Chrome (instead of Safari) later to see if the Show Filters option appears. Also took the opportunity to change my Cruise Critic user name from Paul from Maryland to DeltaOne.