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You can read the full content here, but I'll post an excerpt to give you an idea of what Joshua Fruhlinger, an influential blogger at Engadget (a website for people who like high-tech toys), thinks of his local bike shops-
This year, I was in the market for a new mountain bike. My first move, of course, was to look online where I found a multitude of great deals, free shipping and, of course, no tax. I then checked online communities like mtbr.com where I was guilted into checking my local bike shop. For not much more money, it was argued, I'd establish a relationship with a local dealer who would also service my bike and hook me up with equipment and accessories over the life of the bike.
This sounded nice. I like relationships. So I set out to visit two of the most reputable bike shops in the area, money at the ready, in the dead of Black Friday.
The first shop was set up for the big day with a clearance tent out front full of last year's shoes and pedals. I sauntered past into the showroom and over to the mountain bikes. I stood, staring, waiting for help from one of the three unoccupied salespeople. After 10 minutes, not one approached me. Finally, I walked up to the counter to ask a young, Bieber-esque dude if I could get some help. Without leaving the comfort of the counter, he asked, "What are you looking at?"
"Well, I'm not sure, but I wanted to check out the Specialized and Yetis you have."
"What's your budget?"
"I'm still figuring that out."
He was still behind the counter. I told him I'd come back when he wasn't so busy.
Continue reading Bike shops get skewered by Engadget blogger (and of course, I respond)


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The Iowa House passed a resolution calling for a repeal of a California law that forbids the sale of eggs produced by hens kept in cages that don't meet certain size and space requirements. Representative Helen Miller and Pat Grassley were cosponsors of that resolution. The current California law would go into effect in 2015. The California law requires egg laying hens to be in pens with enough space so the animal can stand up, turn around, lie down, and fully extend their limbs. Most of the eggs produced in Iowa could no longer be sold in California. According to Grassley and Miller the resolution unconstitutionally infringes upon the commerce clause of the Constitution of the United States. That would be a detriment to this nation's consumers and farmers.
Iowa is the nation's number one egg producing state. In 2013, 15 billion eggs were produced in the state and, according to the Iowa Egg Council that means almost one out of every five eggs produced in the U.S. last year came from Iowa. The methods used by Iowa's egg producers are wide-spread throughout the United States. "The effect of California's legislation is to increase consumer prices, create financial hardship on low-income families and deny egg farmers the right to access the nation's market," Grassley said, reading from the resolution.
Iowa is one of a handful of states that have sued to try to get federal courts to declare the California law unconstitutional. The resolution that passed the Iowa House Thursday April 3rd calls congress to act on the issue as well. This resolution was a bipartisan effort by Helen Miller, a Democrat from Fort Dodge and Pat Grassley, a Republican from New Hartford.
For the last couple of weeks oversight committees have been working overtime. A couple of weeks ago it was found that some past state employees were released of their duties at the beginning of the Branstad administration. Some would believe that there may be some favoritism involved in who would be a part of that new team. Some of those dismissals were done in a secretive way and the Governor is being blamed for some that were given severance pay. He denies knowing about those agreements.
We have spent an inordinate amount of time as a legislative body working through this. Some want to exploit a situation that has happened many times in the past. The house passed legislation that will correct some of the flaws in how that new team will be chosen.
It defines "personal settlement agreement", the law makes clear that personal settlement agreements shall not contain any confidentiality of nondisclosure provision that attempts to prevent the disclosure of personal settlement agreements. It makes an open record to the public of the fact that a public employee "resigned in lieu of termination" or was demoted. Finally, it would require personnel settlement agreements to be posted on the Internet.
I am proud of the way the House has responded to this issue. Until this news broke a couple of weeks ago, I don't believe anyone here in the House knew that these agreements existed. It's not that they are not necessary, but if exercised the public has the right to know. This bill, if signed by the Governor, will assure this.
I encourage anyone to contact me with questions, concerns, and new ideas on how we can improve Iowa even though the 2014 session is coming to an end. It is an honor to be your Representative, and I will continue working hard for all of you and for the great state of Iowa.

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Hospital Dreams
By Amy Goyer , May 13, 2011 03:20 PM
She looks so pale and frail lying in that bed with the blankets tucked up around her shoulders so only her sweet face pops out.
Five or more enormous bruises on her arms are nagging reminders of the multiple IV's (both failed and successful) she's had over the past week, but they are hidden now under the butter-cream cotton blankets - once comforting, fresh out of the blanket warmer, but now cold and impersonal like everything else in this hospital.
The whirring of the IV machine pumping fluids into her tiny veins has been in my ears for so many days that I almost don't hear it anymore. Until it rudely brings me back to reality with its alarm piercing through the monotonous whir. Where is the nurse?
Her feet stir under the blankets as she sleeps. Perhaps she is dreaming of walking through a fascinating land, "far, far away," (her code for any foreign country) that she has traveled to in the past - free of cane, walker or wheelchair and able to express her enthusiasm and curiosity verbally.
This morning marks my Mom's 5th visit to the emergency room in the past 9 months. The last time was just a week ago and resulted in a 5 night fun-filled hospital stay. Just two days back home and we find ourselves once again enjoying hospital-ity after another fall, more GI distress and who knows what else. Its the multiple health issues at once that are so overwhelming for her - both physically and emotionally. No offense to this health care institution, but I think we'd both rather have a root canal than be back here again. Waiting, waiting, waiting. 6 1/2 hrs now since the fall and most spent in our curtained cubicle waiting. Still waiting.
I tried so hard to prevent this. Got more help for my parents in the mornings. Was arranging for home health nurse, physical therapy and occupational therapy to build her strength back after lying in a hospital bed for 5 days. My sister and I have not left her alone at night since this started a week ago. Bought a monitor so that I could hear her from their spare bedroom if she started to get up in the night but it didn't work and planned to get another one tomorrow. Went low-tech and gave her a bell to ring. But still my Dad awakened me at 4am for help and there she was on the bathroom floor, unable to get up and unable to walk once I got her up.
So many emotions accompany this episode: glad I was there; ashamed that I slept through the fall. Grateful for kind paramedics, doctors and nurses; frustrated they haven't found the answers. Reminding myself that she is strong and a fighter and has come back from miscarriages, surgeries, stroke, breast cancer and broken hip; scared that this will be the time her resiliency fails her.
I've heard that positive thinking draws good things to us, so to pass the time I close my eyes and envision her smiling, energetic, mobile, purposeful and safe. I dream of doctors with answers and treatments that work. I imagine her reading the paper at the kitchen table in the sunshine eating a hearty breakfast and sipping Daddy's coffee laced with cinnamon. I hear her laughter when Jackson brings his toy around and gives her gentle kisses on her cheek. I see him happy to have all his people in one place. I feel her essence shining through brightly again, hopeful and enjoying the quality of her life. I dream her independent. I feel her cool hand on my face.
Amy Goyer lives in Phoenix, Arizona, taking care of her mom and dad.
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ESB then has a second soloist (not just guitar solos during instrumental sections of songs). The flashy brass on stage and the additional live musician enhances ESB's performance visually (see above answer).
The most "bang for the buck" is 2 added horn players because you then have a "live horn ensemble" for minimal cost.
ESB would be happy to learn up to TWO songs that are not currently in their extensive playlist. We ask you submit those choices no less than 30 days before your event.
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PRAQUE, CZECH REPUBLIC – Two summers with USA Basketball. Two gold medals for VCU Head Coach Shaka Smart.
Smart was on the sidelines this past weekend as an assistant coach for USA Basketball's U-19 squad that took home gold at the 2013 FIBA World Championships in Praque, Czech Republic. Last year, Smart was an assistant on the U-18 squad that won the gold at the FIBA Americas Championship.
"It means a great deal to win the gold medal. It's been very rewarding the past couple years being able to work with USA Basketball," Smart said. "This tournament was much more challenging than last year's because we were playing against the world. We knew everyone was gunning for us. I'm proud of the guys for playing hard, especially at the end of the game, making the big plays when we needed them the most. Ultimately, that allowed us to come away with the gold medal."
The U-19 squad went a perfect 9-0 at the tournament with an average margin of victory of +39.6. Coach Smart's HAVOC style traveled across the water as the US forced an average of 22 turnovers per game, tallying 13.6 steals per night.
Smart sat on the sidelines with Head Coach Billy Donovan (Florida) and fellow assistant Tony Bennett (University of Virginia).
Originally known as the FIBA Junior World Championship, the tournament was held every four years between 1979-2007. FIBA now conducts the U19 World Championship every two years. USA men's teams are 78-13 in the U19/Junior World Championships and have now won five gold and three silver medals.


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Players of the Week - No. 9
Brown, a 5-foot-10 sophomore forward, posted five goals for 10 points in two victories last week. The native of Manchester, Jamaica, notched two scores in the 4-0 win over No. 12 Auburn Montgomery (Ala.) on Oct. 25. The match was a battle of the top-two teams in the Southern States Athletic Conference (SSAC). The four goals allowed tied the highest amount given up by a Senator defense this year. Brown followed that effort with a hat trick in the 5-0 triumph over Spring Hill (Ala.) on Oct. 29. He ranks first in the NAIA in total goals (29) and total points (60).
Hartley, a 6-foot junior goalkeeper, allowed only one goal and made 12 saves in a pair of SSAC road victories last week. He finished with eight saves in the 3-0 victory at Faulkner (Ala.) on Oct. 25 and then compiled four saves in the 2-1 win at No. 7 William Carey (Miss.) on Oct. 29. Thanks to the efforts of Hartley, William Carey scored one goal for just the fourth time this season (in 17 matches). In the NAIA rankings, the native of Manchester, England, is sixth in goals against average (0.540).
The final Players of the Week announcement will be on Nov. 8.
Offensive Nominees: Drew Ecker, Cincinnati Christian (Ohio); John Mark Pocock, Houghton (N.Y.); Thiago Andrade, Cumberlands (Ky.); Briant Reyes, Kansas Wesleyan; Vitor Gazza, Martin Methodist (Tenn.); Elliott Everson, Indiana Tech; Ricardo Valsien, Central Methodist (Mo.); Jordan Green, Hastings (Neb.); Frank Toscano, Huston-Tillotson (Texas); Facundo Dipascuale, Concordia (Ore.); Alejandro Porras, Hannibal-LaGrange (Mo.); Gunnar Kelly, Central Christian (Kan.); Adam Black, Oklahoma City; Paul Islas, Fresno Pacific (Calif.); Luke Davis, Bethel (Ind.); Jace Maxfield, Westminster (Utah); Jhonathan Rico, St. Thomas (Fla.); Chris Ochieng, Milligan (Tenn.); Ben Allen, Cardinal Stritch (Wis.); Lucas Almeida, Ashford (Iowa); Mark Bondaruk, William Jessup (Calif.).
Defensive Nominees: Thayer Wallace, Cincinnati Christian (Ohio); Luke Baxter, Bellevue (Neb.); Michael Amico, Houghton (N.Y.); Marcus Oliveira, Oklahoma Baptist; Matthew Shattuck, Cumberland (Tenn.); Alex Montiel, Kansas Wesleyan; Derek Prinz, Hastings (Neb.); Cole Dahle, Concordia (Ore.); Jesse Guevara-lehker, Aquinas (Mich.); Michael Argumedo, Texas at Brownsville; Matt McKenna, Columbia (Mo.); Adria Borras, Missouri Valley; Zack Szymel, Robert Morris (Ill.); Nils Carlson, Embry-Riddle (Fla.); Yuta Nomura, Lindsey Wilson (Ky.); Cody Troyer, Bethel (Ind.); Kc John, Westminster (Utah); Alex Haun, Milligan (Tenn.); Daniel James, Ashford (Iowa); Joe Geletko, Azusa Pacific (Calif.); Victor Augustsson, Holy Names (Calif.).
2011 Men's Soccer Players of the Week (Offensive; Defensive)
Week 1: Billy Forbes, Lubbock Christian (Texas); Zack Schultze, Reinhardt (Ga.)
Week 2: Trent Remmich, MidAmerica Nazarene (Kan.); Sam Winstanley, Illinois Tech
Week 3: Lebogang Moloto, Lindsey Wilson (Ky.); Cody Poteat, Hastings (Neb.)
Week 4: Veit Couturier, Embry-Riddle (Fla.); Will Akers, Cal Maritime
Week 5: Eddy Campbell, Lindsey Wilson (Ky.); Collin Cone, Grace (Ind.)
Week 6: Paul Islas, Fresno Pacific (Calif.); Steven Waite, Fresno Pacific (Calif.)
Week 7: Nate Polak, Hastings (Neb.); Alex Palomarez, Menlo (Calif.)
Week 8: Bill Jeffries, Lyon (Ark.); Josh Putz, Mount Mercy (Iowa)
Week 9: Greg Hartley, Belhaven (Miss.); Deshorn Brown, Mobile (Ala.)


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Man dives under Ferrera's dress
A man rushed on to the red carpet at the Cannes Film Festival and crawled beneath the dress of actress America Ferrera.
Security officials quickly pulled the man away as he tried to hide under America's voluminous gown before the premiere of How To Train Your Dragon 2.
It was a bizarre incident on a red carpet renowned for its strict decorum.
The man was later identified as Vitalii Sediuk, a Ukrainian prankster known for such stunts.
Yet America did not seem ruffled on the carpet and was in good spirits at the movie's after-party, laughing with guests and taking pictures, although s he declined to comment on the incident.
The former Ugly Betty star was on her way into the Palais des Festivals for the world premiere of the DreamWorks animated sequel.
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|Archived Aug 4, 2016
USGS Geology in the Parks
Tremors shook the Earth, issuing a warning to Sinagua people living nearby. Then, just over nine hundred and thirty years ago, a blink of an eye on the geologic time scale, Sunset Crater Volcano rumbled to life. Fiery lava spewed up from a central vent, drawing molten rock from ten kilometers beneath the surface. Fountains of glowing liquid lava rose hundreds of meters into the air, falling to Earth as cinders.
Remarkably well-preserved evidence of Sunset Crater Volcano's sudden birth is now protected in the National Monument. We would love to share it with you! Come explore our colorful cinder cone on a virtual field trip. We will take you along a trail that winds across one of the frozen rivers of lava that gushed from Sunset Crater Volcano's rocky flanks. While you're visiting, why not step into our visitor center to see our seismograph record of Arizona's earthquakes? Are you looking for 'just the facts'? Click on the Sunset Volcano button to get the details you're looking for.
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Here's how Corriher-Lipe Middle School head football coach Douglas Pruitt explains what happened between assistant coach Jared Gallagher and a 12-year-old player this week in Rowan County, N.C.:
Gallagher was walking with the 12-year-old boy to the locker room after practice and choked him.
Pruitt tried to intervene, but Gallagher tried to fight him, according to the report. A parent then got involved as Pruitt called 911 for help.
When deputies arrived they approached Gallagher and asked him to put his hands behind his back.
Gallagher did not comply, according to the report, and was tased by the deputy. Gallagher reportedly pulled the prongs out of his body and was shocked again by another officer behind him, the report stated. Gallagher was shocked for a third time and fell to the ground where he was restrained by officers.
Fun Fact No. 1: Gallagher's non-football job is "full-time In-School-Suspension (ISS) assistant."
Fun Fact No. 2: He's already out on $5K bail.
Football coach arrested after fight at school [WCNC] (H/T Last Angry Fan)


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Port of Rotterdam Manages Spatial Data Online7 Jul, 2010 By: Amy Zeller
One of the world's biggest shipping centers implements ERDAS APOLLO to catalog and deliver masses of data via the web.
Situated on the North Sea in the Netherlands and stretching 40 kilometers in length, the Port of Rotterdam (PoR) is the largest seaport in Europe — and one of the busiest ports in the world. A global gateway and massive transshipment point, it operates around the clock to distribute goods to hundreds of millions of European consumers.
The port's massive industrial complex provides an intermediate destination for storage, cargo handling, processing, and also distribution via various other forms of transport including road, rail, ship, river barge, and pipeline. Goods arriving in the port in the morning may be in the hands of merchants in the heart of Europe and the UK by mid-afternoon.
This massive development site at the Port of Rotterdam, called tweede Maasvlakte, is an extension to a main part of the harbor that can accommodate the world's largest ships. It is being developed in stages, with final completion expected in 2013, and will expand the Harbor's territory by 20 percent.
The PoR Authority acts as the managing agency of the port. The Authority strives to develop and advance the port, and supports businesses in the port area. Focusing on space and infrastructure planning and logistics, the Authority is responsible for creating optimal conditions for onsite business locations and accompanying residential environments.
Spatial Information Management
In the past decade, the shipping industry entered the digital age, and information management has progressed immensely. The digitization of data and the ability to transfer information more freely has led to the unification of formerly independent systems. Systems integration and centralization has swept across port operations, and even encouraged cooperation beyond corporate borders.
PoR's Spatial Information Management department handles the internal processes at the port, including guidance of ship movements, commercial processes, infrastructure management, and strategic planning. More than a decade ago, PoR made the strategic decision to implement one organization-wide database, providing the entire operation with a comprehensive information package. This centralized approach seeks to make newly published data and information immediately available to all relevant departments.
Spatial Information Management also provides PoR with correct and appropriate geospatial information for its commercial processes. "As part of the port's centralized information solution, Spatial Information Management delivers spatial information systems for harbor traffic, leased harbor parcels, asset management and current projects in progress," said Spatial Information Manager Albert Mulder.
To date, Spatial Information manages more than two million spatial objects, totaling more than 100 GB of data. Much of the data is self-collected by the Port, including soundings of harbor floor, parcel boundaries for lease contracts, environmental data, and radar data. Other data is derived from outside sources, including a high-detail general Netherlands basemap, cadastral, aerial photography (at a resolution of 7 cm for the entire harbor area), and general topographic maps.
Data Management and Delivery Challenges
The centralized information solution has been very successful. However, to maintain standards of performance and efficiency, PoR continues to investigate ways to improve the current system. Because geo-information became so easily accessible via the centralized solution, the demand grew tremendously. For Information Management, this was a trigger to begin using web services.
"Web services are no longer deemed a specialized area of information," said Mulder. "The end user's ability to interact with geospatial web services has increased significantly over the years."
Even though requested information continues to reside in dedicated systems across the organization, there is a significant demand for a more integrated view of this information. "Everybody needs access to these sources, which calls for a service-oriented information architecture and policy," Mulder added.
PoR identified four must-have improvements to the existing solution:
- Web services for connecting to HAMIS (Harbor Master Information System)
- Multiple user interfaces for different applications
- Ability to access externally hosted datasets in office applications (without the need for import)
- More modular framework to carry out modifications to minimize expense and system downtime.
Geographic Information Architecture
After assessing the Port of Rotterdam's requirements for updating their existing system, Imagem, an authorized ERDAS reseller in the Netherlands and Benelux, presented the ERDAS APOLLO solution to PoR. "The overall aim of this implementation is to provide a general geographic information architecture for all spatial assets and all other geographically significant items at the PoR," said Patrick de Groot, sales manager, Imagem.
The biggest challenge was combining the information from multiple sources in a clear and simple way, so that both technical and also non-technical staff could access this information without specialized applications.
PoR's Spatial Information Management chose ERDAS APOLLO Essentials-SDI, an entry-level APOLLO product for cataloging and delivering geospatial data over the web. Available in three tiers, ERDAS APOLLO is a data management system that enables organizations to describe, catalog, search, discover, and securely disseminate data. ERDAS APOLLO integrates with existing GIS environments, leveraging business systems and supporting almost any kind of data input.
ERDAS APOLLO also adheres to Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) standards, which makes it easy for PoR staff to access geospatial web services through a variety of office applications. "These include applications for maintenance of infrastructure, the leasing of land parcels and nautical applications, to name a few," said Mulder.
PoR intends to use the ERDAS APOLLO Solution Toolkit to build custom client interfaces for its various customers. This includes adding OGC services discovery and visualization in custom GIS applications.
"Contrary to our present client-server architecture, ERDAS APOLLO makes it possible to use different viewers and update tools for each of the user groups," said Mulder. In addition, the modular framework of ERDAS APOLLO enables modifications to be carried out with minimal system downtime. "The front-end and back-end connections are very flexible," added de Groot. "If they change something on the back end, it does not mean they have to also change the front end immediately, because of the service oriented architecture."
Officers at the Port of Rotterdam monitor all ship movements on wall-size video screens.
Part of the ERDAS APOLLO implementation is in the back-end infrastructure, not directly visible to the end users. From an architecture standpoint, ERDAS APOLLO is situated between the database and the end-user application, and provides a portion of the services delivered to that front end. ERDAS APOLLO also connects to other enterprise systems at the port, including Oracle, SAP, Microsoft SharePoint, Harbor Master Information System (HAMIS), several management systems (also partly in SAP), environmental systems, and soil information systems.
To date, ERDAS APOLLO Essentials-SDI has been implemented in the following systems:
Ruimtelijke Informatie Voorziening (RIV). Translated to English, this simply means "Spatial Information Management." This is the general, organization-wide geographic information infrastructure. It can be accessed by the Port's employees for a variety of processes and applications, including the database of lease contracts on parcels. These are stored in SAP, which is connected to the geometric parcel database inside Oracle, which is now served through ERDAS APOLLO.
Harbor Master Information System (HAMIS). This system contains all relevant
information for the Harbor Master, including tracking of ship movements, ensuring ship traffic safety, and handling ship traffic messaging. This is a live map of the Port and all current ship positions, which is constantly updated and projected on a large video screen in the Harbor Coordination Centre.
Looking towards the future, Mulder said, "there is no doubt that this implementation will yield benefits to the everyday operation at the Port of Rotterdam, both in terms of insight and of speed of delivery, which will become more apparent over the next months as things develop."


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Authentic Voicework
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Energy Healing is based on the premise that matter and energy are not mutually exclusive, but that matter is simply a denser form of energy. The human energy field sets the foundation for the physical body. Any disturbance, or imbalance, will manifest first in the energy field before affecting the physical body. The energy therapist seeks to re-balance the energy fields of the body, opening up the flow of energy, clearing blockages, and releasing toxins. Energy Healing can be done hands-on, hands-off, or even at a distance.
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Chinese herbal medicine, along with acupuncture, is part of an integrated system of Chinese medicine that has been practiced for over 3,000 years. Chinese herbal medicine is a natural and gentle way to enhance the body's innate ability to cope with stress and heal from injury and illness. Herbal prescriptions are individualized, formulated to provide relief from symptoms while addressing the underlying imbalances that may be causing them. Chinese herbal medicine can used alone or in conjunction with acupuncture. It can also safely complement Western medical treatments and reduce its side effects.
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Leap of Faith performed by the Founder of the Brotherhood in Assassin's Creed: Origins
Bayek: "Well. Deal with it."
Bayek vs. huge Anubis in Assassin's Creed: Origins
Just when you thought you can't be more excited about this game!
A glimpse of Assassin's Creed: Origins Present Day. Literally :D
From Unboxing des Dawn of the Creed Collector's Case by Ubisoft DE.
Well, the out-of-IMDb-Top-5000-and-no-rank-at-all actor Matt Ryan is on the front page of the world famous Rotten Tomatoes today. At my first glance, I thought it was a customised AD of Google. :D
In this interview:
RT: When will we see John Constantine again in the animated series?
Ryan: I don't know, man. I'm waiting to hear. I've recorded it and the script was absolutely great. I'm really looking forward to seeing it and hopefully soon. I have no news on t hat I'm afraid.
RT: Does it pick up right where we last saw John on Arrow and Justice League Dark?
Ryan: No, what we've done is we've taken a very popular Hellblazer story from the comics and then adapted that. The John Constantine that I play in the TV show, the DNA of the character is in the Justice League Dark movie and in the animated TV show as well. It's all the same John, but we've taken a very specific story and adapted that. I was really pleased about that story because I was reading the comics and I was hoping we'd be able to do. It was great fun to play that out and John is such a beloved character by all the Constantine and Hellblazer fans. It's just been a pleasure to play him in these different media and hopefully I'll get the chance again.
RT: Which Hellblazer arc was it?
Ryan: "All His Engines."
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Some details from The Order of the Ancients Trailer of Assassin's Creed: Origins
Assassin's Creed: Origins Cover for Edge
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Assassin's Creed Matryoshka doll/Russian nesting doll made by NIM.ru and photo by Ambre Lizurey
Cute or hilarious? And they are even lined according to the release date. :D
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Three Easter Eggs of Final Fantasy XV x Assassin's Creed: Origins in their collaboration
Aya and Bayek!
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Concept art of the Abstergo's "Trophy Chamber" for Assassin's Creed Movie by Kamen Anev
I know this is not the same as what has been made into the movie and it seems not very reasonable (Why has Templar got all the legendary gears of the Master Assassins: Edward, Altair, Arno, Ezio, Connor?), but geez, it looks so amazing!
Bayek of Siwa (with Arno Dorian's face?) from Assassin's Creed: Origins by Wert23
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I thought that in ACO, there would have been certain Helix Rift/Time Anomaly missions setting during Napoleon's Egyptian Campaign, where we could have playe
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Why Solvency II is a lesson for all CFOs
In this Progressive CFO series, Marco van Ackooij, partner at Deloitte Consulting, will be interviewing Ronald van Hees, finance director for CZ Health Insurance, on his company's Solvency II journey
Solvency II, which introduced stringent requirements for capitalization and reporting for insurance companies throughout the European Union, is arguably the most complex regulatory regime business has ever seen. In order to meet Solvency II requirements, most insurance companies had to dramatically revamp and automate processes for data collection, data management, reporting, and risk management.
At the same time insurance companies took the opportunity to improve their financial management capabilities and transform their reporting processes towards a truly data driven process. This drives the ambitions to further integrate and enhance the reporting solutions and take management reporting, risk reporting and planning, budgeting and forecasting to the next level.
Given the increased regulatory requirements and ambitions for a rigorous finance transformation for all markets and geographies, finance professionals across all industry segments can benefit from the lessons learned by companies successful in Solvency II compliance.
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Seriously Big Shark
BEDE Durbidge passed on this image of a 3m Great White caught on a state government hook off Cylinders, which was subsequently cut in half by the jaws of a much larger predator, estimated to be about 6m.
"That picture is out of this world. That shark was 10ft, so imagine how big the other shark was. It's scary to know what's out there when you're paddling back up the point at Cylinder. Sharks were always a part of growing up on Straddie. I went out on the shark run one time when I was young to check all the hooks with the guy, but we never saw anything like that, haha."
Sightings in Queensland's pointbreak belt have spiked in recent months as they chase the Humpback migration down the coast, herding weaker whales close to shore for an intimate dining experience.
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Teddy Bridgewater, Louisville stun Florida in Sugar Bowl
The University of Louisville football team earned the biggest victory in its history by using Florida to beat No. 4 Florida 33-23 in the Sugar Bowl on Wednesday night before a partisan and partying Louisville-heavy crowd in the Superdome.
The No. 23 Cardinals (11-2) boasted 34 players from the Sunshine State on their roster, and it was obvious that playing the Gators (11-2) brought out their best.
BOX SCORE:Louisville 33, Florida 23
Cornerback Terell Floyd (Fort Pierce) intercepted a tipped pass on the first play from scrimmage and returning it 38 yards for a touchdown. The Cards would never trail.
"They kind of thought we were going to come in and lay down and give them the game," Floyd said. "But Coach (Charlie) Strong always preaches that we're better than any team in the nation if we come out and play hard. Coach Strong believed in us and our coaching staff believed in us, and we came in and believed in ourselves."
Receiver Eli Rogers (Miami) converted a third down on the Cards' first possession with a 25-yard catch. On the same drive, defensive end B.J. Butler (Kissimmee) lined up at fullback and made his first career pass reception, rumbling 23 yards to the 1-yard line.
Jeremy Wright (Clermont) ran in from there to make it 14-0. His score meant the Cards never really would have to sweat a close outcome.
Receiver Andrell Smith (Miami) recovered the Gators' onside kick to start the second half. And two unsportsmanlike-conduct penalties against Florida on the play set U of L up at the Florida 19.
From there, Damian Copeland (Bradenton) hauled in a 19-yard reception from Teddy Bridgewater (Miami) to give the Cards a touchdown on the first snap of each half. That made it 30-10, and the Cards could begin to believe their lead would hold up.
Above all there was Strong, who served 15 years in Gainesville as an assistant under Galen Hall, Steve Spurrier, Ron Zook and Urban Meyer. In many ways he molded the Louisville program he took over three seasons ago in the image of the teams he helped coach at Florida.
GATORS:Tebow on sidelines for Sugar Bowl
Strong played it cool in the month leading up to this game, but privately he was confident his team could pull off a landmark victory.
"We physically matched up and were able to overpower the No. (4) team in the country," he said. "I told them, 'Don't worry about who we're playing. Win every play.' They weren't a team that produced a lot of points. ... We knew we had to make them drive the ball down the field."
The outcome was never really in doubt, although it helped that Andrew Johnson (Miami) halted a fourth-quarter Florida threat with an interception in the end zone.
Louisville scored on its first play of the second half thanks to the Gators' desperation. The onside kick was recovered by Smith, and during the scramble for the ball, Florida's Loucheiz Purifoy and Chris Johnson were both whistled for unsportsmanlike conduct. Johnson also was ejected for throwing a punch at Zed Evans.
The combination of penalties put the ball at the 19. Bridgewater, who was 20 of 32 for 266 yards and two scores, immediately connected with Copeland. That made the fact that the Cards squandered two red-zone opportunities later in the third quarter a nonfactor.
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Safety Calvin Pryor (Port St. Joe.) created the second of the Cards' three takeaways when Florida quarterback Jeff Driskel didn't see him coming on a blitz. Pryor jarred the ball loose, and teammate Brandon Dunn nearly caught it in the air. Lorenzo Mauldin eventually recovered the ball but fell at the Florida 4, and three straight negative plays ended with John Wallace missing a 43-yard field-goal attempt.
Both teams matched field goals early in the second quarter, thanks to defenses that tightened up in the red zone.
Florida made its deepest penetration to that point by reaching the Louisville 10. After a false-start penalty, cornerback Adrian Bushell — who played his first two seasons at Florida before transferring — broke up a third-down pass to former roommate Frankie Hammonds Jr., forcing the Gators to settle for three points.
Louisville faced a similar situation on third-and-goal from the 9. Butler, who lined up at tight end, bumped into teammate Nate Nord (Boca Raton) on a crossing pattern, throwing off the timing of Bridgewater's pass to Nord.
But on the Cards' ensuing possession, Bridgewater's timing was just fine as he connected with DeVante Parker for a 15-yard touchdown and a 24-3 lead.
The Gators were able to answer in their two-minute offense, marching all the way to the Louisville 1. Jeremaine Reve (Miami) knocked away a would-be touchdown pass to Neiron Ball. But on fourth down, the Gators broke from their formation, sending half of the linemen wide left. Matt Jones took a handoff and scored as the Cards appeared unsure of how to line up but had no timeouts left to sort things out.
"I look at this performance tonight and I sometimes wonder, why didn't we do this the whole season?" Strong said. "We said this at the beginning: We just take care of our job and do what we're supposed to do. Don't worry about who we're playing."
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Want to know a secret? There's a simple way to make WoW more fun.
Last night I had more fun in a random dungeon than I have for a long time. I was in Stockades, of all places. A Stockades run is usually a pedestrian half hour filled with enemies which aren't challenging but have vaguely annoying abilities and no loot to make up for it.
The dungeon didn't magically morph into a Lernean Hydra spitting epics at us. What changed was the group. The tank suddenly left. We were left with a lowish level party of three mages and a priest healer. We also had prison cells full of bad guys cracking their knuckles and asking whether our relatives could stitch this.
We carried on. The three mages had fun using every trick to play mage tennis and help the healer ensure we didn't become wallpaper paste. The priestie sat there cheerfully swearing as he healed and cackling maniacally every time he physic screamed because he could it saved our clothie hides. Lots of conjured water later we finished the dungeon, all in great spirits.
What does that mean? We don't need tanks. Nope. Not in 5 man instances.
Right now WoW is based on the 'holy trinity' of three roles; tank, healer, DPS. It's a tradition going back through the MMO and RPG genres. The nay-sayer in me mutters that removing one of the roles would shake the very foundations of the games industry. It wouldn't; it's already happening.
The complexity of the roles has been simplified over time. Back in the day groups had to be pristinely organised. Each person performed challenging tasks. Support classes were necessary. Contingency plans were useful if the battle went awry.
It was the case for WoW as much as any other game. It wasn't long ago tanks alone were juggling single-target tanking on four monsters whilst anxiously watching the one nursing a headache and herding the battle round the confused sheep. Before TBC, I gather, it was more tricky. That type of game play taught players to be creative strategists. It's in that kind of situation that I met and bonded with my guildmates over hours of wipes and brainstorming.
Things are more straightforward now. More generalised; each of the roles is cut-and-dry in WoW. Tanks are there to hold the monsters' attention. DPS are there to take them down, usually with little mind of what dies first. Healers are there to keep everyone topped off with heals so huge I'd not be surprised if characters feel like they've been dunked in the fountain of youth. Of course, there are fights where there are exceptions – sometimes healers get to top the boss' health off instead, The roles are plain and appear interdependent.
But the roles don't need each other to function. Last night my group's DPS did its job – to deal damage – perfectly fine without a tank regulating us. We just had to be a bit more creative, versatile, and able to think on our feet. These are qualities which haven't really been challenged in Wrath's standard system but I'd go as far to say that the creative strategist in me opened one drowsy eye while my mana'ed out mage watched the cooldown on frost nova with her robed back to the wall.
Dare I say it, we also had to work as a team, rather than just have the tank glue everything to himself and everyone else sedately press the usual buttons to floor the next pack. We functioned much better as a social group. Usually the members of a group each have a set task and if something untoward – or just unexpected – happens it's easy for a group of strangers to feel justified in laying blame on a person who failed or made a mistake with their individual task.
Last night, without a tank and with the group's tasks shared equally, the potential for blame was removed. Everyone could contribute to everything. Even the healing! Us mages didn't just sit in the fire expecting the healer to keep us all, four clothies, up AoEing 10 mobs at once. I don't know if any of us would do that under the standard roles but with that jot of creativity and freedom allowed to us, we did what we could to help tank and heal. And when we did wipe? We all laughed and congratulated each other on a good fight.
So there we go. The roles already look a whole lot different to how they did when they were originally conceived in EverQuest or even Breath of Fire. We just need to take the plunge and get rid of one of the canonical roles. Not much to ask, right?
We're only talking as regards 5 man groups, here, but just think of the ramifications for raids. What would they be? More creative players graduating from instances and more chaos and raids unlike anything we've ever known – I wonder if the outcomes would offset one another. I wonder if WoW could even support such a change, or if it would require a whole level playing field.
What do you think – is this a terrible idea which would do irrevocable damage to WoW, or a great one, with modifications?
This is an article by Mimetir, an owl (and resto shaman) of a raid leader on The Venture Co. (EU) You can find my twitter feed here.
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A pilot was killed when a small plane crashed in a southwest Chicago suburb Thursday morning, burning a home in the residential area, according to authorities.
The Joliet Police Department said the plane crashed in the 1800 block of Hampton Court near Chestnut Hill Road and Bedford Drive in Plainfield around 11:15 a.m.
No one was hurt inside the home and the Federal Aviation Administration said there were no injuries on the ground. It remained unclear how many people were inside the plane, but Jim Hock, the city manager for Joliet, said the pilot was killed.
"Beyond the pilot, we have no idea if anybody was in the plane," he said.
Homeowner Patti Daniel said she was sitting in her family room watching TV when the crash happened.
"I heard some loud noise, some backfiring, very loud. I didn't know if it was a motorcycle or a car. Then it got really loud," she said. "The next thing I knew the whole side of the dining room blew open."
The National Transportation Safety Board reported someone associated with the pilot said he was by himself in the plane. The flight took off from Florida, stopped in Tennessee and was traveling to Wisconsin when the crash happened.
Hock said the city was "very fortunate" that no other injuries have been reported in the crash.
Footage of the scene showed the house badly burned on one side with debris scattered across the street.
"I could the one engine just grinding, grinding, grinding so I guess the pilot was trying to pull up and take off on the throttle, but he couldn't get it back up and just went faster and faster, tailspinning to the groun," said witness Gene Williams. "I had never seen anything like it. I've never seen a plane just lose control, tailspinning straight down as fast as it was going."
Officials said they believe fuel from the plane sparked the fire, but an investigation remained ongoing.
"I thought a car had come through [my house]," Daniel said. "I expected to see the front half of the car into my dining room. I didn't see that. I saw all flames."
Reports that a plane crashed near Route 59 and Theodore in the Brighton Lakes subdivision of Plainfield first surfaced on social media just before 11:30 a.m.
Photos appeared to show a home with damage and emergency crews covering the area.
"I heard this explosion," said Lisa Guardiola, who lives next to the damaged home. "Like thunder, but 10 times louder than that. It was very scary. I just kept tihnking that it could have been our house, or my kids could have been outside."
It was not immediately clear what caused the plane to crash or if there were any injuries.
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Managing Neck and Back Pain in America
Discover Americans' preferences for managing neck and back pain, including their perceptions of health care options. This report provides health care professionals valuable insight into patient experiences and preferences for managing neck and back pain.
Adults in the U.S. commonly experience neck and back pain.
Data from the 2018 Gallup-Palmer College of Chiropractic annual study reveal that medical doctors and doctors of chiropractic are often the first point of contact for adults seeking care for neck or back pain. These health care professionals have a unique opportunity to influence the care decisions of neck or back pain sufferers in the United States.
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Nearly one in five saw a health care professional for low back pain in the last 12 months.
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In Memoriam: Father Alexander Schmemann (1921-1983)
13 December 2010 • Feast of St. Herman of Alaska
On the Feast of St. Herman of Alaska, the seminary community joined in celebrating a memorial service for Protopresbyter Alexander Schmemann, the prominent 20th-century Orthodox churchman and theologian who served as Dean of St. Vladimir's from 1962 until his death on December 13, 1983. Our current Dean, Archpriest John Behr, served the panikhida for Fr. Alexander's repose, and presented the following homily that wonderfully encapsulated his earthly ministry:
Today we celebrated the memory of St. Herman of Alaska, the one who brought Orthodoxy to these lands. Now, this evening we will serve a panikhida for Protopresbyter Alexander Schmemann, who more than almost anyone else in the past century helped shaped Orthodoxy in America. Today, in a very particular way, as the weather turns colder and life around us begins to die, with these two figures—St. Herman and Fr. Alexander—we celebrate our own "Winter Pascha," knowing that through their work Orthodoxy will continue to flourish in these lands.
Father Alexander came to St. Vladimir's Seminary in 1951, and when the Seminary moved to Crestwood in 1962, he was appointed Dean, in which role he served for twenty-one years until his death in 1983. There is probably no figure as identified with our Seminary as Fr. Alexander. During his time as Dean he worked tirelessly, taking up three specific challenges:
- First, that of secularism and modernity; he insisted that Christianity never become a "mere religion," commoditized on the marketplace of American consumerism. Although we are now in a post-secular and a post-modern culture, his words are still as applicable as ever.
- Second, he emphasized that Orthodoxy must find its indigenous expression here in the new world, become an American Orthodoxy, with full canonical regularity. And again, his message here is as timely as ever.
- And third, of course, he revived the liturgical practice and experience of the Church, trying to communicate to others the joy and taste of the Kingdom that is given in the liturgical celebration of the Church. This message is not simply still relevant—it is eternally relevant.
A few weeks ago, as we celebrated the holiday of Thanksgiving, which was the day he served his last liturgy, we read the sermon that he gave that year, which begins with the words: "Everyone who is capable of thanksgiving is capable of salvation."
Let us give thanks then, for Fr. Alexander and for all that he has given us—the work he did building up the seminary, and the words that he has left for posterity—knowing that all who are capable of thanksgiving are capable of salvation.


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Thursday, January 10, 2013
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Mason, Hornets beat Rockets, win 3rd straight
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(AP) -- Roger Mason scored 15 of his 17 points in the fourth quarter to rally the New Orleans Hornets to an 88-79 victory over the Houston Rockets on Wednesday night.
Greivis Vasquez and Jason Smith each scored 17 points for the Hornets, who have won three in a row for the first time this season. Robin Lopez added 14 points for New Orleans.
James Harden scored 25 points for the Rockets, who had won 10 of 12. Harden, who was held to three points in the final quarter when the Rockets were outscored 28-10, was the only Houston player in double figures.
Eric Gordon struggled with five points on 2-of-12 shooting, but the Hornets have won four of five since his return.
Ryan Anderson, New Orleans' 3-point specialist, was 0 of 7 from the field, including 0 of 4 from behind the arc.
No. 1 pick Anthony Davis, who along with Lopez did not play in the fourth quarter, had six points and three rebounds.
The Hornets trailed 69-59 entering the final quarter but behind Mason's shooting went on a 22-2 run to take an 81-73 lead with less than 4 minutes remaining. Smith's jumper with 3:06 left gave New Orleans its biggest lead at 83-73.
The Hornets, who were 1-19 when trailing after three quarters, made 10 of their first 13 shots in the fourth quarter. The Rockets' 10 points were the lowest total New Orleans allowed in a quarter this season.
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Gordon and Vasquez sat out for much of the fourth quarter, and Davis and Lopez did not play in the final period.
Harden was 1 of 4 in the fourth quarter.
Harden scored 15 points to stake the Rockets to a 36-34 halftime lead.
New Orleans made seven of its first 12 shots to take an early lead but struggled from the field the rest of the half. The Hornets led 16-10 midway through the first quarter, when Hornets coach Monty Williams gave guard Austin Rivers, Davis and Gordon a break.
With New Orleans' scoring trio on the bench, the Rockets closed on a 12-2 run to take a 22-18 lead. Harden, who missed his first two shots, made three of the last five to finish the quarter with nine points.
NOTES: The Hornets are 10-11 when holding opponents to less than 100 points.
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LONGMONT — Police report that a 30-year-old man drove drunk, eluded officers who tried to stop him, and then fled the car he was driving after crashing it, leaving two injured passengers behind.
Jarrod Wright, whose license was suspended as a habitual traffic offender, was arrested on suspicion of DUI, eluding police involving reckless driving, third-degree assault, resisting arrest, leaving the scene of an accident involving injuries, obstruction of a police officer or firefighter, and other traffic offenses.
According to reports, a Longmont police officer attempted to stop the car Wright was driving on the 600 block of Kimbark Street at about 1:45 a.m. Saturday. The officer reported the car fled from him at about 60 mph south on Emery Street. A second officer determined it was unsafe to pursue the car, turned off his lights and sirens, and stopped following. Other officers in the area reported sightings of the vehicle, but did not follow.
Three minutes later, the car crashed into a fence near First Avenue and Emery Street, and Wright fled, police reported, losing one of his shoes. Two passengers in the car were hospitalized for injuries.
Police reported that they found Wright at 1:58 a.m. near Mobile Street and South Coffman Street.
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The description of the case is similar to a March wreck that left a 21-year-old Longmont man dead. Officers reported that they attempted to stop Pablo Bustillos' vehicle after observing that he was not keeping to a single lane, but he fled officers. Police reported they did not pursue, but Bustillos continued to flee, crashing into another vehicle at 17th Avenue and Main Street, killing the other driver. Bustillos is due in court on May 3 for a preliminary hearing on suspicion of first-degree murder and other charges.
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Engaging Fellows: Kevin Fong
The Wellcome Trust's first ever Engagement Fellows came into the Trust a couple of weeks ago to record a conversation about their different experiences in engaging the public with medicine and its history.
First, Dr Richard Barnett interviewed Dr Kevin Fong – consultant anaesthetist at University College Hospital and television science documentary presenter – about his career from UCL medical school to Engagement Fellow via NASA.
RB: Well, what we share is University College London (UCL) Medical School. So what was the story that got you to medical school?
KF: Slightly convoluted. I didn't really know what I wanted to do when I was at Sixth Form College but I was good at maths and I was okay at physics and the UCCA handbook, as it was then, was alphabetically arranged and so Astrophysics came up very quickly. And I went to UCL and then I started hanging out with medical students and I thought, "Gosh, I think I might like to do that." I didn't think I was working any less hard than they were – physics was quite a tough course – and I realised very rapidly that my skill set was suited to that: you have to be able to take exams, you have to be able to talk to people and you've got to want to do it most of all. And so I went to medical school.
RB: But you said you did astrophysics first: how did that shape your outlook on and interest in medicine?
KF: I really am pleased that I had the time to study a properly esoteric subject, sit there and rub your chin about the age of the universe and exotic active galactic nuclei and high-energy astrophysics. I actually took a course called high-energy astrophysics…
RB: Were you just dancing all the time?
KF: Yeah exactly, it was aerobics and –
RB: Techno sort of thing.
KF: Aerobics while you did differential equations, yeah. But towards the end, I thought there must be some practicality to all this, so I looked at medical physics but I realised it was the medicine and not the physics.
Listen to Kevin describing an encounter with Nobel laureate Maurice Wilkins:
A mile wide and an inch deep
RB: What was it that really gripped you about medicine? What excited you and made you want to get up in the morning and go to these awful nine o'clock lectures and ten o'clock dissecting sessions and so on?
KF: For people who love science and the breadth of science, medicine's quite good because the syllabus is a mile wide and an inch deep, and you see an awful lot of things and you get to see the practical applications in what is generally a very positive way. So I did love it – most people hate the first two years and actually I quite enjoyed them because I was looking down microscopes and seeing things and remembering bits of biology and physiology and anatomy that I hadn't done for six, seven years.
I did genuinely think that that was it, no more astrophysics. I was headed for general practice because I quite liked the idea of the holistic cradle to grave – when that's what general practice was. I remember doing my general practice rotation in this little village outside Taunton and thinking, "This is quite a nice existence and you're part of this community." But it was by chance that I got to go to NASA in the final year of medical school –
RB: Now that's a sentence which I get the feeling covers a fascinating story….
KF: We ran out of money: I was paying for the second degree, my parents didn't have a lot of cash and I started writing to everybody who I thought might have spare cash. And NASA, I thought: well, I've got a degree in astrophysics, I'm going to have one in medicine, I'm sure they must have some sort of bursary, surely. And I wrote a lot of emails and letters and eventually one of those hit someone's desk, I'm not even sure which one, and they sent me this thing: "We have no money but there's this elective programme that we don't usually let foreigners come on but apply for that." I applied and I didn't think I had a hope in hell: there were four places worldwide and mostly they were taken up by Americans. Then one day this envelope came through with a NASA 'meatball' saying "Come, turn up on this date, Johnson's Space Centre."
RB: What were your feelings when that arrived?
KF: That's right up there in the proper 'all your Christmases'. They're very distinct those envelopes from NASA: they've got the American Government typeface with the US Government postage stamp on it and the meatball – and the "Please turn up to Johnson's Space Center, Astronaut training ground", the place that you've always dreamed of going since you were about five years old: that was amazing.
RB: What did you think you would do on this programme?
KF: I had absolutely no idea. I didn't know what it would lead to and in fact it was just a month of total exposure to the full depth and breadth of NASA's human space flight operations. It was basically like going to Disneyworld for adults and getting to go on all the rides every day for free. We met astronauts, we got inside simulators, we got to fly in the vomit comet, but we did a bit of research – research in a very NASA sort of way, so you could cover a lot more ground than you would have back in the UK, they threw a lot of resource at you. At the time they were sending John Glenn back to space at the age of 77 so I had to go off and do a literature review on the physiology of ageing and the physiology of space flight and cross reference that. So, when I walked out of the gate at the end of that month, I thought if I never come back that'll just be scandalous and I've got to find a way to come back. And so I did.
RB: The blue touch paper had been lit, as it were.
KF: It had been lit, and it was a bit weird that it was medicine and not astrophysics that took me to NASA in the end. After that, I would go out there every spare opportunity because I had a security badge by then – that was the important thing. Once you had a badge you had it, and so I would ring up and say "I've got a two-month break from my career, I want to come out and do some research with you; I'll come for free." And they'd say, "Sure, why not." Eventually I started winning a few grants, but at the start it was on my own time, in career breaks, which is why it took me so long to become a consultant.
RB: It's striking: the two poles of your life at that time, this very sleepy GP practice in a village outside Taunton and Johnson Air Force Base: that must have been quite some cognitive dissonance coming back and forth.
KF: It was, I guess. I think I would have been happy with the GP thing, I really do. It's just this came along and it was irresistible. Literally the first thing I can remember is watching black and white images of the end of the Apollo project: not the landings but the Russians and the Americans in 1975 –
RB: Oh, shaking hands across the –
KF: Yes, I have that image in my head; I know that event happened, that we were taken down to watch that, and it's just in my head as thinking "Wow this is monumental". So to get the chance to go back to that, I just couldn't resist it and all of those feelings that you'd sort of put aside because you thought you were growing up… and it had never really gone away.
RB: But it's such a wonderful thing to be able to carry that childhood enthusiasm: it's almost the clichéd example of childhood desire and enthusiasm to want to go into space and to want to go to NASA, and you've been able to carry this right through your career.
KF: Oh yeah, I feel enormously lucky. Probably the only two things I thought of as a naive child was I want to be a doctor, I want to be an astronaut; and so I sort of got to do bits of both….
Questions, questions
RB: Now you're also an anaesthetist – how did the connection with anaesthesia come in?
KF: One of the things about anaesthetics for me was it was one of the areas of medicine where you tried to be reasonably reductionist about the whole thing: "Why am I putting this fluid into this patient's arm?" "Well it's because you're trying to support an intravascular volume and that's important because of Starling's Law etc", and so that was one of the few places for me in medicine where you could find three or four levels of explanation for why you were doing something. Whereas a lot of other places in medicine, it was "Why do we do that?" "Well, because survival benefit is this with this p-value." "But why?" "Don't know, actually."
RB: So you haven't got a bridge across the chasm; you've got a big leap that you have to make across the chasm.
KF: Absolutely, and I found that much more difficult because in physics, the one thing was you could ask questions all the way back. You could say, "Why does the sun shine?" and you could start there: "Oh the sun shines because it's hot and hot things shine", or "Why is it hot?" "Well it's hot because of nuclear fusion." "Why does nuclear fusion occur?" and you could get all the way back and you could keep going until you got to: "Well, because that's an axiom and I can't tell you any more than that." And you could do that and in medicine it was very rarely the case. So it appealed to that part of me and it appealed to the generalist in me. So I guess that's what it was. That and the fact that the anaesthetists were much more willing to entertain my slightly bizarre space ambitions. A lot of other specialities wouldn't have touched it with a barge pole.
RB: What was the leap from all of this into public engagement?
KF: Yes, I'm still slightly amazed that anyone sits up and listens to anything that I give a talk about. I did Grand Rounds: that's where I first remember doing it. At UCL, I got the opportunity to do Grand Rounds and because they knew I was interested in space and I'd done this elective with NASA, I had to give this very po-faced scientific Grand Round to all of the senior consultants. I was a house officer and it was terrifying. It was in the days of the old slide carousels that would occasionally get jammed and everything. And it went down okay – I had to get a lot of tips on how to do it – and then I gave the same talk somewhere else, because I had the slide set, and it just seemed to go down quite well wherever I gave it, whether it was to other doctors or members of the public. There was something about that tale of exploration, the tale of where the past has got us to and where the future is going to lead us, that was very compelling about the whole human space exploration thing. And then that just led to all sorts of opportunities to communicate and finally led to this, I guess.
Listen to Kevin recount an early experience as a doctor working in television, and one programme idea in particular:
KF: The communication thing has sort of happened by accident. But it is enjoyable, isn't it, when you know that you've done the job well and that people have been – you've given them something they didn't have before or they've been engaged in a way that they haven't been before.
On Monday, the tables will be turned as Kevin interviews Richard about his very different journey from UCL medical school to Wellcome Trust Engagement Fellowship.
Kevin and Richard have guest-curated an event at the Royal Institution on 28 February: 'From iron lungs to intensive care' will investigate the history – and future – of intensive care.
Applications are open for the second year of Wellcome Trust Engagement Fellowships. See our website for more details – the closing date for preliminary applications is 30 March 2012.
Image credits: Wellcome Images (Kevin); GRIN – Great images in NASA
- Engaging Fellows: Richard Barnett « Wellcome Trust Blog
- Podcast: The joy of science demonstrations « « News in BriefsNews in Briefs
- Science demonstrations rock the Royal Institution – video « « News in BriefsNews in Briefs
- Where are the real scientists in good sci-fi films? « Wellcome Trust Blog
- Open science and hacking « Wellcome Trust Blog
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Nervousness. Suspicion. Even rage. Mostly, it's just under the surface. But more and more it's bubbling to the top. Political debate is breaking into outright war. Just say the words, "I don't believe government should do that..." and the war is on. Take a side. Feel the heat. Tolerance is a thing of the past.
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