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We are less than 24 hours away from the 2013 NFL Draft, so it's time to unleash my final mock draft of the year.
I expect there to be a lot of movement in Thursday's first round, so this draft could go haywire very quickly, but there's a lot of talent to be had as team's will attempt to solidify their future.
With that being said, let's take a look at my final 2013 NFL Mock Draft of the season
1. Kansas City Chiefs
Player Name: Luke Joeckel
Position, School: OT, Texas A&M
After the Alex Smith trade, it is all but certain that the Chiefs get the tackle to help protect him. Joeckel is a guy that could come in and play either side for Andy Reid from day one and be a cornerstone at left tackle in Kansas City for a long time.
2. Jacksonville Jaguars
Player Name: Eric Fisher
Position, School: OT, Central Michigan
The Jaguars need a legitimate pass rusher badly, but the chance to land a top flight tackle is too much to pass up here. Fisher could potentially go No. 1 overall, but shouldn't make it past the Jags at No. 2.
3. Oakland Raiders
Player Name: Sharrif Floyd
Position, School: DT, Florida
The Raiders acquired Matt Flynn so they likely won't go quarterback here. What they do need is quality young talent on the defensive front. Floyd has played inside and on the edge and is explosive with great leverage and power.
4. Philadelphia Eagles
Player Name: Dion Jordan
Position, School: DE/OLB, Oregon
It's tempting to take a shot on Geno Smith here, but they have the opportunity to land a potentially dominant pass rusher. If one of the top two tackles make it this far, I would expect Chip Kelly to go that route, but if they aren't, Jordan has to opportunity to be a beast for the Eagles.
5. Detroit Lions
Player Name: Ezekiel Ansah
Position, School: DE, BYU
The Lions can take the best player on the board, but in this case it fills a huge need. The Lions can address their woeful pass rush by grabbing one of the best pass rushers in this class. He will need to develop, but Ansah will make an impact in 2013. Jacksonville could take him at No. 2 and if they do, the Lions could target a corner here which will help fix their pass defense as well. But if Ansah is available, they can't pass on him.
6. Cleveland Browns
Player Name: Geno Smith
Position, School: QB, West Virginia
The Browns would ideally target Jordan or Ansah here, but they also have to think about a quarterback or potentially a corner like Dee Milliner. Cleveland has had a different starter under the center the past six seasons. It may not be the conventional pick, but the Browns need a legitimate quarterback and Smith may be too good to pass up here.
7. Arizona Cardinals
Player Name: Lane Johnson
Position, School: OT, Oklahoma
Carson Palmer gives them some flexibility as Bruce Arians doesn't have to reach for a quarterback here. They do have a need on the offensive line though and targeting a tackle or guard to help protect Palmer makes a lot of sense. They have been rumored to be inquiring on Kansas City's Branden Albert, but if they don't make a deal for him, Johnson is a safe pick.
8. Buffalo Bills
Player Name: Ryan Nassib
Position, School: QB, Syracuse
Here's where things get a little crazy. The Bills need a quarterback and even though they could get Nassib in the second round, they could pull the trigger for him here. Buffalo has been rumored to be hot after both Nassib and USC's Matt Barkley, but here's thinking that new Bills coach Doug Marrone sticks with the guy he is familiar with.
9. New York Jets
Player Name: Barkevious Mingo
Position, School: DE, LSU
Mingo has the potential to be an outstanding pass rusher, something the Jets need badly. He's athletic and can be a difference maker on the edge. New York could go Jarvis Jones here, but Mingo seems like a great fit for Rex Ryan.
10. Tennessee Titans
Player Name: Dee Milliner
Position, School: CB, Alabama
Milliner's injury history could result in him sliding down some, but I can't see him making it out of the Top 10. If he makes it this far it's a gift for the Titans who were the 26th worst pass defense in the league a year ago. Milliner is the best corner on the board and could make an impact in Tennessee right away.
11. San Diego Chargers
Player Name: Jonathan Cooper
Position, School: OG, North Carolina
Philip Rivers has been getting slaughtered behind a terrible offensive line. Finding their left tackle for the future has to be a top priority, but with the top ones off the board already it doesn't hurt to grab the best guard on the board. Cooper is as safe as a pick as there is in this draft and will help rebuild the Chargers offensive line.
12. Miami Dolphins
Player Name: Tyler Eifert
Position, School: TE, Notre Dame
I'm predicting the Dolphins to acquire Albert so that will solve their problem at tackle. They could still look at D.J. Fluker or a guard in Chance Warmack, but I like the addition of Eifert to this offense. The Dolphins will add just another weapon for young quarterback Ryan Tannehill and Eifert is the type of player who will create matchup nightmares for opposing defenses.
13. New York Jets (from Tampa Bay)
Player Name: Tavon Austin
Position, School: WR, West Virginia
It's tempting for the Jets to look at a quarterback here, but it's too early to pull the trigger on one here. Instead they take the best player on the board in Austin. Despite his size Austin could be the best playmaker in the draft and will give whoever is under center in New York a weapon that can do just about anything.
14. Carolina Panthers
Player Name: Star Lotulelei
Position, School: DT, Utah
The Panthers need to get better stopping the run and need to find a defensive tackle. It's also nice that player happens to be the best player left on the board at this point. Lotulelei has the potential to become a dominant defensive tackle and fills an immediate need in Carolina.
15. New Orleans Saints
Player Name: Chance Warmack
Position, School: OG, Alabama
The Saints are moving to a 3-4 and need to find a top pass rusher. Georgia's Alec Ogletree is an option but the Saints are going to go with the best player on the board and at this point that's Warmack. It can't hurt to add a potentially dominant lineman so the pick makes sense.
16. St. Louis Rams
Player Name: Kenny Vaccaro
Position, School: S, Texas
The Rams could go multiple directions with this pick, but I like them to target a safety here. Vaccaro is a steal this late as he is as good in coverage as he is a physical presence. The Rams have no depth at safety so Vaccaro is a guy who can come in and start right away.


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Posts by Vision Aforethought
70 posts • joined 10 Feb 2009
London commuter hell will soon include 'one card to rule them all'
Why bother?
Biometrics could eliminate the need for any form of tactile card or other authentication system, and of course, work everywhere. A fingerprint and/or eye recognition system would take up little space in a retail or travel location and allow transactions to be carried out securely and quickly, with no risk that the customer would lose their ID or payment method.
Why are we skirting the issue? The technology is already built into the iPhone 5S, Samsung Galaxy S5 and various military establishments, so why not public locations? What is hold this back? Cost? Reliability? Is there a security issue we're not being told about? Etc.
Launching a hardware startup? The stars are aligned in your favor
As someone engaged in hardware design and development, I whole heartedly agree. The comment regarding large companies taking legal action is all dependent on how you approach IP. That company that produced an obvious knockoff of the Blackberry keyboard for the iPhone was asking for the subsequent lawsuit. But those who try something new, such as the recent innovative Android phones from China (OnePlus One etc), or Pebble (better example really, being it was crowd funded and not founded by industry veterans). My company is also using such accessible concepts to develop our circular wireless device (!). It was great to quickly model it in 3D and then have a 3D Print made to try out the size and ergonomics, all for not very much money. Further, software allows circuits and designs to be simulated prior to development and production, saving on expensive mistakes. Etc.
Sinclair's 1984 big shot at business: The QL is 30 years old
Re: Obsession with cost engineering
Not to mention, quality control and attention to detail.
European companies, French and Italian included, may offer innovative industrial design, but their reliability is rubbish. Glad finally to have two built like a tank Nissan's in the family. (Year 2000 Micra and 2002 X-Trail.) No rattles, everything works, engines drive like new. (Same for my former 1991 BMW that lasted 21 years, and is still on the road I believe!) BMW get quality too. It's in their DNA.
Spot on!
BTW, I was involved externally in the design concepts for the One Per Desk, about to contact the author of this article. Started with me winning a competition in August 1982 to predict/conceive ideas for the - ZX-82! My prize was a Spectrum from Sir Clive himself. Scanning in all my correspondence and drawings right now, most from 1983.
How Britain could have invented the iPhone: And how the Quangocracy cocked it up
Re: NESTA bad
Socialism and unchecked capitalism are the same. Here we have the former.
So I wasn't the only one!
(Got to this article via the Daily Mail.) Approx 10 years ago I applied to NESTA too and this is pretty much what I discovered at the time. 1. I contacted them about something similar, IE, a high tech invention that my company had actually developed (related to online mapping etc), and only now has Google maps even come close. 2. The staff sounded like rail workers/traffic wardens/council jobsworths, not very well educated, and more like the sort of grumpy insecure self hating old fart you would find in a pub at 4pm. 3. I was advised that I only stood a chance (this is not a joke, and the examples in the article above validate this) if I was a black lesbian wanting to open a hair salon. In other words, a minority. (Not sure how the gov would get their money back from that!) Toxic damaging left wing prejudice at it's worst, and like Mr. Fentem, a loss to this nation. I'm taking my technology to the US where there is considerable interest. Mr. Fentem, if you are reading this, track me down via twitter, my ID is 'oflife'. You have my utmost sympathy. Socialism, what's it good for huh?
Apple iWatch due in October 2014, to wirelessly charge from one metre away – report
100 mHa = eInk display
Apple have the late arrival advantage here, watching as others get it all wrong, or almost right - (Qualcomm Toq is the best to date), and battery life is the issue, as is usability and what you use it for. Notifications and remote control of your phone are the most obvious, but having key information available ALL the time, not just when you press a button or are in sunlight can only be achieved with an eInk display with an automatic (Kindle paperwhite like light) for low light readage. Why do I say eInk? (Colour of course.) Because it draws no power when static, draws little when active - and provides excellent daylight viewing angles, so it won't even be necessary to twist your wrist to 'take a reading'.
Unless of course Apple are working with Qualcomm on an improved version of their Mirasol tech, which currently doesn't do colour as well as LCD or AMOLED.
The Raspberry Pi: Is it REALLY the saviour of British computing?
Most who I know who have a Pi...
...are in the their late 30s to up to 50!
The very people who coded on the Sinclair or Acorn machines here in the UK or Apple II etc in the US during the early to mid 80s.
No one I know who is under 25 has any skills to even code in Basic or html never mind develop with something like the Pi. Today's youth appear to be any of the following: Baristas, Burger flippers, Hair dressers, Media studies students, 'working' for overseas charities (effectively, an unpaid expenses covered holiday) or hanging around McDonald's or shopping Malls.
People have too many things to enjoy today that provide instant gratification, so there is no incentive to create a machine or program ('app') that provides a sense of achievement in the same way as we entrepreneurs of the 80s did. (I designed and co-developer AMX Pagemaker etc on the BBC Micro etc - and did it because I wanted it myself, and fortunately, so did a lot of other people.)
Either way, Pi is a superb initiative and you can bet the educated Chinese will lap them up to use to (eventually) create the very products that will compete with us (Apple, Samsung etc) in the future, just as the Sinclair and Acorn machines created the IT professionals of the 90s in the West.
Apple's top bean counter: New spaceship HQ won't emit 'one atom of carbon'
For something closer to home
A visit to the inspiring new National Trust building in Swindon is recommended. Nice café inside, superb outlet clothing arcade across the pavement, and best of all, the (NT) building is 100% solar powered.
MacBook Air fanbois! Your flash drive may be a data-nuking TIME BOMB
I bought the 11" MacBook Air when it first came out. Very soon after it suffered total SSD failure losing me data, although being a good boy, I was using Time Machine and the loss was limited. Apple replaced it. The second machine suffered an even more catastrophic SSD failure and I lost more being i was travelling without my backup drive. I learned that Apple were switching from (I believe) Toshiba SSD to Samsung. They gave me a third machine, but I sold it to upgrade to a 13" late 2011 MacBook Air and the buyer says it's still working today. So my 3rd 11" MBA must have had the Samsung SSD. I bought by 13" MBA in March 2012 from Chicago and as I type this, it has behaved superbly, despite being thrust into my bag every day countless times and taken all over the UK since. It is the best Apple product i have ever owned, and the only product of their's that comes close in reliability is the Mac mini and iPad.
Planning to get the new (Oct 2013?) MacBook Pro being the latest MBAs don't have retina displays and my current 13" SSD is full. If it wasn't for the memory being full up (256GB), I would keep it.
Anyway, this issue with the SSDs is probably why Apple try to make their own chips when they can, but I imagine economies of scale mean they could never produce their own SSDs. Memory is a commodity and mass production is the only way to keep prices in check.
One more thing: PLEASE USE TIME MACHINE 100% OF THE TIME! #YouNeverKnow
MEGA ASTEROID could 'BLOW UP EARTH' - Russian space boss
What's really sad...
...and if you watch most of Jame's Burke's Connections (1970s BBC science series, similar to V-Sauce on YouTube) you'll appreciate this, is how all our discoveries, developments and learning will all have been for naught. Unless of course we can document and archive the best of our work in such a manner that it is legible by other species and will survive drifting through space for millennia on the autonomous space craft we will be launching prior to our demise. #2032ThisWasUs
MS Word deserves DEATH says Brit SciFi author Charles Stross
He is spot on
As a UX designer and the guy behind AMX Pagemaker on the BBC Micro (yup, way back then!), I ran the company using two outstanding wordprocessors, whose UX (or GUI as we called them back then, not that the Beeb had a GUI until our product!) was superb, namely Computer Concept's Wordwise and Acorn's own wordprocessor, whose name I forget. (It's been a while.)
Wordwise, being embedded in the ROM, was instant (like most BBC Micro software that wasn't on a floppy), had a cursor that remained in the same vertical position - the text scrolled smoothly up and down about the cursor position and so it was a pleasure to use.
MS Word was always unusable and bloated to me and we refused to adopt it in the company, sticking to the aforementioned, and more recently, various Mac based text editors, and now, Google Docs or Google sites, where are content can be shared and is therefore by default cross platform and device. (And no doubt read by the NSA etc - the one downside to the cloud computing paradigm.)
I have always liked Excel, but it didn't really have any competition, although likewise, we have of course now adopted Google Docs Spreadsheet whose collaboration features are excellent!
Ex-HTC execs launch UK-based smartphone maker Kazam
Re: Surely there is a market now for devices that put privacy first?
Working on it!
Re: Phone for grown ups
We're working on it (as in, my ultra stealth team), and I'm willing to guarantee here and now, no one else will deliver such a product before we do, because few 'get it' with regards product design - else it would have been done already. The last person to get it was Jeff Hawkins who created the Palm Pilot.
Hang in there, we care!
Internet pioneer Vint Cerf predicts the future, fears Word-DOCALYPSE
I have priceless Hypercard stacks on my Mac, but cannot view or edit them! No emulators exist at all.
MIND CONTROL HAT makes CHOPPER do what BRAIN says
It's probably been said, but...
...I've been able to control my chopper with my mind for quite a while now. Comes naturally.
Quantum boffins send data ACROSS TIME AND SPACE
Neutrino communications
Cloud startup's business model defies laws of physics
Hope not
I came up with the same idea a whilst back for my employer and tweeted about it. (Something along the lines of "One day, there will only be one copy of each item of content.") Why replicate when you can stream?
Aussie retailer accuses UK shops of HDMI 'scam'
Simple, buy from Amazon
I buy ALL my cables from Amazon or their suppliers - never paying more than £7 inc the shipping. Yes, the shipping is a rip off, but that applies to all the small items they sell - and you can consolidate your orders sometimes to save on the total shipping price.
I have purchased a mini HDMI to HDMI cable for my (albiet) pricy Panasonic GH2 camera, for what, £3.95 or something, and it is excellent quality. Why should a few strands of copper and rubber cost any more when mass produced in China? Same for all the USB cables etc I have, each cost no more than a few quid and still work.
The high street stores are desperate for cash so are forced to flog all these extras, warranties etc. The solution is to buy your expensive items, such as computers, TVs, monitors from the high street (Richer Sounds, Curry's etc), where the really isn't much difference in price (+/- £50 mac), but you get the peace of mind of being able to try before you buy, support the high street retailers AND have somewhere to take it when it breaks - but then save money by purchasing all the extras online from Amazon, Play.com, Dabs etc.
Works for me!
DARPA, NASA look to spawn STARSHIP enterprise
Remember the tag 'polomarco'
That's all! ;)
DARPA says surveillance vid-search tool is ready for use
Which begs the possibility...
Find: Waldo
Wanted: Nude female web coders
Let's hope it 'takes off'!
FOSS maven says $29 'Freedom Box' will kill Facebook
Actually, my employer is toying with the same idea
It is not as crazy as it sounds. This reverses the cloud concept such that we each own our own servers. Don't forget, that is what the Internet was originally all about - masses of disperate machines all sharing data to maintain the integrity of the 'system' after a catastrophe, such as nuclear war. All we're proposing here is what P2P wireless will hopefully do the (nefarious) carriers and that is eliminating the ISP from the equation.
If I told you in 1992 when we were all communicating using faxes and pagers that a few years later it would be possible to electronically share with anyone anywhere in real time any item of content, you would have thought me mad. Two years later, Mosaic changed everything.
Well, the personal 'server' and all manner of P2P comms will be as ubiquitous in a few years as the reverse is today. It is inevitable.
@oflife #p2pwireless #projectprecisely
Court strikes down Facebook probation
Yet example of idiotic liberals in action
Having lived in several cities run by liberals, where criminals are treated with kid gloves, I can testify to observing higher crime rates (including murder) than cities with less lenient policies.
Liberals are doing more harm to our quality of life than any enemy of the nation. (Am referring to both the USA and UK.)
DARPA inks 5-year-mission solar strato-wingship deal
Here's to the first solar powered commercial airliner
A slow ride across the Atlantic, not a drop of carbon based fuel used. Nice!
O2 shocks customers by slashing iPad data allowance
Not Apple's fault at all
Everyone gets to buy an iPad unlocked and can choose their provider and plan. I specially chose Three because they offer a fairly good contract free value package. 1G = £10, 3G = £15 etc. At the end of the month, if you are unhappy you don't have to continue. It is 100% 3G too, so you know when you're connected you will either get quite a speedy connection or nothing at all - in which case, it's time to hit your nearest WiFi hotspot, or survive for a few hours offline by firing up a game of PinBall HD or Meteor Blitz.
(BTW, non of the other airtime providers offer an honest a plan as Three. I would ideally like to use Vodafone, but they don't offer a contract free package.)
Android gaining on iPhone among developers
Reason is, Android is compelling & versatile
As a developer (software designer) and having had much time to play with or own iPhone and Android devices (not to mention the excellent Samsung Wave Bada handset), I find the iPhone 4 to be what WOW geeks would refer to as 'Meh'. Yes, it's sexy, but the screen is too small and the lack of certain features available on Android and other devices limit it's usefulness. Pickup a Dell Streak, play around with it (including surfing the web, viewing photos & video and using maps) and then go back to an iPhone 4. I am excited by the possibilities provided by Android, even if any apps we develop are limited to specific handsets, that is no different than being limited to a specific platform. Users will purchase the handset or platform that delivers the solution(s) they desire. And solutions is what this is all about. (To be frank, the masses buying iPhone 4 at launch are in it to be first with the blingiest phone, not because it offers much new. It is a very advanced fashion statement.)
Johnson: ID cards will pay for themselves
The Home Sec is a Marxist
And don't ANYONE forget that. Britain is walking into a very dark and sinister future, blindly by the looks of things. ID cards should be 100% voluntary and the data behind them managed by the individual, with the law purely there to ensure data validity and security. And I should reserve the right to destroy my ID card (and ALL data behind it) at any time.
Small biz suffocated by employment red tape
Socialists don't like small business
1. There is no socialist country that exports anything (name one, oh, ok, Vodka from Russia. Next?)
2. Britain is lead by liberals and trashy women with a massive chip on their shoulders who are undoing all the good that Mrs. Thatcher and the HONORABLE working classes did in the 1980s.
3. Within a few years, Britain will only possess state owned industries that produce dull low quality products, whilst Asia will boom. Talk about a reverse of poles!
Meanwhile, the 'government' (like those in other socialist and communist nations) will live it up and install more and more CCTV and PCOs to monitor 'the people' for fear of losing their grip on power.
Look outside.
A hard working well meaning entrepreneur who likes to hire people who take a common sense approach to life and don't thrive off victimhood
Brits left cold by mobile internet
iPhone makes the process seamless
As a recent iPhone user (and previous owner of an iPod Touch and many other phones from other vendors), it is clear that the fact most iPhone apps seamlessly access the Internet without requiring anything more than a one off login drives these statistics. As per the microwave oven and DVD player, if you make something easy (insert dish/disc, press start/play), it will succeed. People have short attention spans today and if they are made to go through hoops to achieve a task, whether for business or pleasure, they will abandon it and move on.
I have not used an Android phone so cannot comment, but the Nokia E71 made email configuration a snap - and the iPhone is the same. Previous devices required complex technical information to be entered first. The same goes for other apps.
Survey shows strong demand for Apple tablet
But will it run full OS X?
These customers are assuming the tablet will run a fully fledged version of OS X.
All said, as an iPhone user, I believe the iPhone OS is how computers should work, not OS X. It is naturally intuitive. The PhotoShop app (while of course very very basic) is considerably more intuitive (& fun!) to use than the desktop application thanks to the direct touch screen operation.
Effectively, Apple have to choose - do they scale down OS X to a smaller form factor device, or scale up the iPhone OS to larger devices?
Euro project to arrest us for what they think we will do
We'll all moan here - and do nothing...
...about it. Don't know about you, but until recently, I had never felt frightened in my own country. Ever. Whether it is technology or politics, those visionary sci fi and political writers were only wrong about one thing, the exact timing of their prophecies which tended to be about 20 years ahead of reality. Almost there now children, almost there.
We could support these guys: http://www.liberty-human-rights.org.uk/
But some of what they stand for may not appeal to us all, so what do to?
There are about five El Reg emoticons appropriate to this article. Ah, which to choose?!
LG unveils first Android handset
@By Anonymous Coward Posted Monday 14th Sept
a) It is certainly not fugly, in fact, it is probably the nicest looking Android handset ever launched. While not a style issue, the keyboard is 5 row, a lot more practical too. b) It's 'too' not 'to'. LOL.
Apple squeezes video camera into iPod nano
iPod Nano is shexy, but what's the point?...
...when one can buy a Nokia 5530, an exceptionally versatile music centric touch screen phone - and because it is a phone, you can upload your video to your blog or YouTube without needing to go home and sync with iTunes first!
I just don't get why Apple don't exploit the lovely form factor of the Nano and build in a phone - the young peeps who cannot afford an iPhone will love it. The scroll wheel is an intuive way to select contacts and then all you do is hit the middle button to place that call!
Logical, capi-tain. No?
iPhones get sun, leg power
Awesome, please contribute....
...any sustainable energy technologies to our forthcoming blog/community site at www.lifemachine.com.
Once complete later in 2009 (currently, just a list of services and products), LifeMachine.com will only be listing devices and services that are capable of being 100% self sustaining. For example, an iPhone charger must be capable of charging the device from zero to full without being connected to the grid at all. Likewise, hybrid cars, while technically interesting, are really just a marketing gimmick, after all, some non hybrid vehicles producing better mileage. However, cars running entirely on electricity (such as Tesla) will be included, because if they are re-charged using services such as that planned by BetterPlace.com, then (like the iPhone charger) the grid is removed from the equation. And that's going to be fantastic for the environment - as long as the batteries can be disposed of safely!
iPhone MMS hits US on September 25
Sorry, but text messaging is for idiots!
You buy one of the most advanced phones in the world, and use it to send MMS? What is wrong with email? a) Email is free. b) Email is a reliable proven standard based on over 30 years of development. c) Email is versatile, allowing attachments of significantly larger size and format than MMS. d) Email is not a dubious money maker for the carriers who are duping billions of people across the world by using technology capable of allowing video conferencing to instead send 140 characters of ASCII plus a small bitmap - and then charging them silly money for the privilege.
Want to stop this madness? Don't text, email. And then Wave goodbye to that too as real time live multimedia sharing replaces email.
Good night.
Apple confirms 28 August is Snow Leopard day
$29 - £25, well there's a surprise!
skjqdkqwdhkdk, random text so El Reg accepts my empty comment field posting.
Nuke-nobbler raygun 747 scores 'surrogate' test success
This seems like a flawed concept...
...because: a) If a missile/rocket attack is launched by a foreign power, they will fire a large number of missiles. Just how many of these flying guns will we need? And how much for a large fleet? b) Surely a 747 is an easy target for air to air or ground to air missile? c) Surely the money spent on this could be spent on technology that could take out several missiles at once, such as some form of air burst explosion - based on the shut gun effect? d) And as an earlier poster mentioned, coating a missile in a reflective surface could render a laser obsolete overnight. Or is this thing way faster and more capable than we think? IE, capable of taking out several targets very quickly and able to penetrate reflective surfaces?
Ten of the best... iPhone beaters
@K800i comment - agreed!
I have returned to a trusty K800i after having gone through three (excellent, except the camera and lack of letters on the number keys making punching in passwords a pain in the @*&#!) Nokia E71s, a Samsung ToccoULTRA (great camera & video), a Nokia N95 8G (possibly the best all rounder phone I have ever owned, but a little too bulky) and am managing to do all that I did on these other phones on the K800i - in fact, I own an iPod Touch, and while the apps are outstanding, Apple's web browser is too much work over the nice automated browser on the K800i (not sure whose it is, Netfront? Opera?) that formats the text and forms on the fly - IE, nationalrail.co.uk is all compact and nice and takes way less time to fill in and submit than on Apple's browser.
All said, it is the view of this here poster that the future lies with Android, as long as Google are able to build upon ALL the sorts of technologies Apple have under the hood of OS X and the iPhone OS, namely, advanced 3D graphics, multitouch and more.
Samsung Jet is a worthy contender
Check out it's specs on GSMArena.com (and soon, a shortform review) at Fonebox.com.
Samsung shines a light on first solar cellphone
Very sensible Mum/backup phone
A great phone to give to Mum to leave on her window sill all day so she doesn't have to fiddle around with or worry about a charger - plus it looks easy to use. Secondly, keeping a PAYG version on the dashboard, sunnyside up will provide an ideal emergency phone in the event your main super duper do it all smart phone is nicked, breaks, runs out of juice or suffers an OS embolism. Less is more - in particular when carbon neutral.
RIP Personal Computer World
Our advertisement in PCW
For the time I read it during the 1980s, PCW remained professional and covered all aspects of the industry, while the more focused publications (Acorn User, PCN, various Sinclair mags) appealed to the hobbyist. As evidence of our respect for PCW, we placed our only national branding advertisement in PCW in February 1988. (Ironically, due to a mixup at PCW, they placed our ad in the wrong location! However, they made up for this by re-printing the ad correctly in the April 1988 edition. You can see it if you visit http://www.owonder.com and click on 'History', where we have temporarily inserted a copy of the ad. (We were known as TECNATION back then.) I am saddened that PCW will no longer be around to offer their mature and robust journalism. Guy: This is a sad day. Moving on, we need to go for a beer sometime, to talk about your review of AMX Pagemaker! ;) Alex
Software to turn iPhones, Pres into virtual pens grabs award
Write on! Thinking about it...
...if he could apply this tech to a small (finger) ring, and use Bluetooth to transmit to a nearby storage device, phone etc, then one would not need to wave ones gadget around in the air like Magnus Puke after a double espresso and Red Bull. You could in fact probably wiggle your hand around in your oversized pocket taking notes almost in secret...
"Is that your index finger in your pocket or are you just happy to see me in a wibbly wobbly sort of way?"
Paris, because she likes gadget lads with large flexible objects in their pockets.
London's e-van drivers club together
All the better for children...
...being diesel particulates are fairly harmful to the wee ones. Re outsourcing the smog to elsewhere (NIMBY), surely it is easier to clean up one or two power stations than X thousand vee-hic-ules. Where I live in Oxford, dirty vans running their engines outside lead to silt building up in our house - and it's back there after being cleaned up every week. Imagine how much of that is in our lungs! Way to go Leccy Tecchy White Van Man*! You're now a Green Van Man*! *Uhm, Person?
Google to slip SVG into Internet Explorer
I wrote to Adobe many years ago...
...to protest at their decision to stop supporting SVG. (I knew deep down that Adobe were protecting Flash.) Google have it right on, SVG/HTML 5 'are' the web, while Flash and Silverlight are superficial commercial ventures designed to garden wall developers into a license based technology. Adobe should focus on building great content creation and publishing tools, and let Google and the W3C do the infrastructure.
Paris, because she's a Super Voluptuous Girl.
Smera tilting e-car debuts in Paris
The price is a barrier to entry
If people are to adopt leccy tech then while one can be expected to fork out for top notch e-vehicules like the Tesla, itteh bitteh machines like zee e-car need to be priced according to their size and perceived value, IE, this thing should be about £9500 - similar to a mid range motor bike. No wealthy individual will buy one (probably for corporate insurance reasons), so which demographic unit is this machine targetted at? Other than price, it looks great.
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@Ian Davies: I cannot disagree more
Having owned three K800i phones - and back to one of them now, and sharing use of an iPod Touch, and played with the iPhone, the K800 is way way faster to navigate and operate with one hand. Just today, I checked my gmail, while listening to the stereo FM radio - and took some calls, all with one hand - on my bike. One can navigate music on it very quickly. The music navigation on the iPhone/Touch is a pain, just as it is on the iPods. There is no faster way to navigate information than using a DPAD or good joystick. Having owned about 50 phones (sad), where the iPhone and Touch do score is in browsing visual media, like photos, video etc. It is also way easier to browse web pages on the K800i, as it doesn't require zooming in each time, it formats the text perfectly.
And the camera is still one of the best.
Don't get me wrong, the iPhone is amazing (as is the App Store), but tactile navigation is (I hope) never going away.
Blighty's barmy for e-cars, poll discovers
A great example of market forces over law
The gov's scrappage plan, while well meaning, only attracted 35,000 takers (so far), however, with innovators such as Tesla and others offering appealing leccy vehicles, the people are obviously willing to speak/vote with their wallets, no politics required. The greatest immediate benefit of leccy vehicles will be the reduction in local particulate and noise pollution - as anyone who lives near a road can testify too! Great for children whose bodies are being flooded with muck from birth thanks to our reliance on carbon fuels, plastics and useless drugs.
Finally, after all this time, change is in the air! Happy times.
Google Wave - interwebs idealism in real-time
Google first to demo, not first to conceive
I proposed real-time shared document space(s) in 2003 and possibly earlier - originally to run our own projects - and then to commercialise. Called them 'Chatboxes' or 'chatspaces' and all my team know of it. The reasons behind the chatspace idea were also identical to Google WAVE, and I also specified using distributed content to reduce the need for a central 'provider' / host. However, kudos to Google for doing it and best of all, they have the resources to pull it off and scale it - in particular thanks to their faith in the open source community to extend the concept. Their translation system may well be amazing, but is it wise to substitute learning a language, something that is part of the challenge of life? On the other hand, learning Chinese to discuss something for a few minutes with a distant collaborator may be an argument in favor! This is all very Star Trek either way.
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@The Mole: Way back when...
...back before teh multimedia intensive intertubes, I used a teeny weenie but very capable Nokia 8210 in conjunction with it's infra red port to get online anywhere using my lovely Titanium PowerBook. It was in fact quite reliable and of course, no silly second line worries. More recently, vendors and carriers have done all they can to make using your phone as a RELIABLE modem difficult. All so they can charge for another line. It's a complete waste of time. 3G phones with their modern multi-tasking OSes are more than capable of carrying out a voice call while simultaneously using the Bluetooth or Infra red to get online using a laptop.
The solution to this big rip off is simply to cancel a dongle account (as I'm about to do) and buy a slightly older phone that has not been knobled - or do the reverse, junk your mobile and use your laptop as your phone by firing up Skype. (Keep a small PAYG mobile in your pocket for those essential walking around town calls.) My 3G equipped Sony Ericsson K800i gets me online via my MacBook and Bluetooth. It's not as fast as a dedicated dongle (Vodafone in our case), but to be frank, using cloud apps such as Google docs on ANY wireless dongle is too slow (unless permanently at 7.2MB) - cloud apps need a very fast and consistent connection, and currently, that's only possible when on a good WiFi signal or connected direct to teh interwebs using a cable. I only use mobile wireless for checking email now. Rest of mobile time is used for reading and thinking. Ah yes, those where the days! :)
Less is more. I particular when it's your phone bill.
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It is the companion that nobody wants and is a part of many people's everyday life.
Loneliness is a major problem in modern Britain affecting all age groups.
The recent case of a pensioner found dead in her flat six years after she died seems to symbolise, albeit an extreme example, isolation in our society.
The Silver Line provides a 24-hour helpline with staff available to talk to lonely older people who call the service.
Sarah Caplin, the charity's director of development and communications, says older people face particular problems apart from the trend for more people to live alone and not know their neighbours.
"What happens to older people is as they become more physically frail and are able to go out less often and as they cease to drive and perhaps their friends or family move away, some of their friends may well have died and as they lose partners, relatives, pets, they become prisoners in their homes in many ways."
Caplin says some older people are effectively living in solitary confinement and they can go days at a time without talking to someone.
The Silver Line has even matched a 101-year old caller with a Silver Line friend – volunteers who make weekly phone calls to older people.
Caplin discusses the health impacts of loneliness.
"These are Department of Health figures and they say that loneliness is as damaging to health as smoking 15 cigarettes a day. And I think it won't actually surprise people to learn that if you are very lonely you then become depressed. And if you're depressed you're more likely to be admitted to hospital, you're more likely to visit your doctor a lot and get prescriptions for pills that possibly have side-effects and make you feel less like going out and socialising and doing fun things."
Caplin says Silver Line has answered in the region of 120 to 130,000 calls since the end of last year.
But of course, loneliness isn't just confined to older people.
Marjorie Wallace, the founder and chief executive of the mental health charity SANE, explains:
"Loneliness affects absolutely everyone, it's no respecter of age. Everyone has the classical image of a lonely old widow, but that's not in fact the case. In the various surveys it's shown that young people suffer from loneliness, and in fact in one particularly large survey of 2,000 people they found that the age group to suffer most or say they were most often lonely were the people between the ages of 18 and 34.
"So it's become in our eyes an epidemic. People telephone our helpline and the single greatest cause for them ringing us is not surprisingly loneliness but it's the impact loneliness is having on both their physical and mental health."
Wallace points out that tackling loneliness, like depression and anxiety, is hindered by the social stigma attached to it.
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Wallace gives a rather gloomy prognosis for the future:
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Hey all, I voted today! By which I mean I mailed my ballot, the less-glamorous but more convenient way that my state makes it easy to do. Probably the most interesting vote I made was for a Republican, Tim Donnelly, for governor. What are you, insane? You might ask. After all, this is the guy who just alleged that one of his opponents (an Indian-American Republican, FYI) supports imposing that perpetual bugaboo of the insane right, Shari'a law. That's right. Tim's a very special politician, the kind of guy who says the sorts of things that conservative radio hosts say but that GOP politicians generally don't say aloud, especially in blue states. He's also a former Minuteman and is the wonderful piece of humanity behind this short-lived piece of trans panic:
Seriously, you don't have to go too far to figure out this guy is a walking melange of Tea Party id, someone who wears his contempt for anyone different on his sleeve and uses flamethrower language with abandon. So I voted for this guy?
Yes, I absolutely did, and so should you.
Really, the importance of Donnelly's getting into the top two cannot be overstated for progressives because a Brown vs. Donnelly race would almost certainly lead to an enormous Brown landslide and coattails for other Democrats in the state. Yes, it would also be a black eye for the GOP, though Donnelly basically believes the same things they do, he just says them plainly instead of elliptically. Really, the supreme hateability of Donnelly among, well, all the groups previously mentioned (who happen to make up much of the Democrats' base here) would result in a gigantic Jerry Brown landslide. Donnelly's tendency to be mouthy–which he's shown neither the capacity nor the inclination to restrain–would make him an epically terrible candidate for the state's top job, an office that Republicans have been able to win in recent times when they've run candidates attuned to the politics of the state. Donnelly either is deluded about these politics, as failed gubernatorial candidate and ex-Rep. Dan Lungren was, or he simply does not care and just wants to get more media attention, perhaps in order to parley his political career into a future in the conservative-media complex much like Herman Cain's presidential "run" last time. Considering California's term limits, I can't entirely blame him. In any event, Donnelly isn't even trying to be a credible threat to Brown, he's just being himself. And nobody (and I do mean nobody) sees him as electable.
Why does this matter? Because CA-GOV isn't the only important race for California Democrats this fall, as it is a foregone conclusion and only the margin is at stake. What is not a foregone conclusion is whether Democrats are able to maintain our 2/3 supermajority in the state legislature. If we fall below 2/3, then Republicans will once again be able to cause trouble, though no longer will they be able to stop budgets–the voters took that power away from them in 2010. They can, however, still create problems on taxes. Thanks to Jerry Brown and the state's legislative leadership, the state's economy is looking up, but more importantly, state government has gone from crisis-ridden and irresponsible to streamlined and professional. That this occurred during the period where Republicans lost virtually all their power in the state is no coincidence, and while the old days are gone for good, doing anything to fix the admittedly ridiculous state tax system will be impossible without 2/3. We have here extremely high income and sales taxes but no taxes whatsoever on services, and famously low property taxes that primarily benefit realtors by keeping housing prices high, and large businesses who are still operating on assessments from decades ago in some cases. It's nobody's idea of a sensible, efficient tax system and a full-on overhaul is long overdue. One suspects that Brown's tangential role in screwing it all up in the first place by supporting Prop 13 would make him eager to fix these problems, which could foster economic growth and create new revenues. Not possible without the supermajority.
Also, there's the problem of the nation's legislature. Republican control of the U.S. House has led to the strangling of numerous popular bills, even ones that managed to get out of the Senate with bipartisan support. Immigration reform, ENDA, energy, take your pick. Counting on bipartisanship and mutual understanding didn't work in Sacramento and it hasn't in Washington either, taking away Republicans' power was the only way to make things work here and is the only option there. Looking over the state's House races, the 31st District is a sure flip from red-to-blue, but the 21st and the 10th will be tougher–both are Obama-won districts that sport non-insane, talented Republican incumbents. However, in a base election either or both could fall. And if it gets really bad, the SoCal seat vacated by Buck McKeon and the one held by Rep. Ed Royce could conceivably (if not necessarily likely) come into play. What is very likely, though, is that none of these people relishes the idea of sharing a ticket with an impolitic extremist like Tim Donnelly. At the very least, they'll have to work harder, use more resources. That's less money getting kicked back to the NRCC, to be used elsewhere.
So, ultimately, it's strongly in your interest as progressives to vote for terrible person Tim Donnelly in June and for Jerry Brown in November. Do it. Hoist the Tea Party by its own petard!
I'd never heard of Michael Schaus, who is a conservative financial writer and the writer of a minimum wage piece that's actually not all that crazy when you…just kidding, it's awful. I'd just as soon prefer to skip all the obvious rage-bait that he includes in his column in an obvious attempt to keep people distracted from his main arguments (for a taste: "The economically challenged protestors of market driven wages are asking the profit-driven businesses to increase that wage to $15 per hour. Heck. Why stop there? Let's kick it up to 25, or 40 dollars per hour." Because…nobody's asking for that?). Schaus's entire article is really just speen directed at the poors. Just take this point:
Which brings us to the often repeated (in this column anyway) difference between careers and jobs. The Current Walmart CEO started his career as a part time (minimum wage) employee… But notice that he wasn't satisfied with remaining in that position. Upward mobility, and ambition, does far more to increase the living standards of any given employee than petitions, protests, and government mandates.
The jobs at the center of the minimum wage discussion are jobs that are not designed for the average American worker to make into a career. Flipping a burger is a job for a part time teenage worker. It can even be a stepping stone for someone who fell into hard times, and is actively looking to increase their skill set (in hopes of obtaining more gainful employment). It is even a great job for someone who is looking for some supplemental income while they job hunt for better prospects.
This is something you occasionally hear from Republicans. Sure, the minimum wage sucks, but that's what teenage burger-flippers are supposed to earn. It's only for entry-level jobs, they say. Better workers will move up the ranks! Of course, not every single sales associate at Walmart is going to become the CEO. Most are going to either leave the company or remain roughly in the same job. And, obviously, having educational credentials and connections become increasingly more vital every step of the way. Schaus's argument would be entirely valid if there were a huge number of CEO positions just there for the taking, with the only qualification being hard work. Unfortunately, there simply aren't very many at all. So the question is, what do the average checkers of the world deserve? Schaus's answer to that seems to be minimum wage salary, underinsurance and poverty.
Now, of course, I predict that Schaus would strongly object to this interpretation of his argument. It might seem uncharitable to describe it that way. But that is the basic argument here. His column isn't a solution, or even an insight, so much as stale lecturing that's not even going (or meant) to be heard by the subjects. The fact is that working a very hard job at very long hours for minimum wage is not something I've experienced personally, but I can easily imagine that it must suck, and historically the best way of making it suck less has been by working to form a union. Also, Schaus like many conservatives believes in the Upward Mobility Faerie, which assumes that hard work/some intrinsic quality of America/some extrinsic force liberated by an American commitment to "freedom" (as pertains to employment laws) is all we need, certainly not organized labor. Unfortuantely, upward mobility is used here as a catchphrase rather than as a social science concept that has actually been calculated and mapped out, and the US in particular has been found wanting. Which is another reason why the associate-to-CEO path is rarer these days than it once was.
Essentially, the Michael Schaus argument is that, since your fast food clerk or Walmart checker is not a CEO, they have not passed his test and essentially deserve desperate poverty. It's about time we started calling this sort of thing out.
This TNR piece proves it:
It wasn't just Reagan. Moral Majority leader Jerry Fallwell called Tutu a "phony" who didn't speak for South Africans blacks. He even urged Americans to support the Pretoria government. North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms filibustered the sanctions bill. Strom Thurmond and Phil Gramm likewise opposed it. And future vice-president Dick Cheney called Mandela a terrorist, saying in 2000 that he didn't regret his position. Pat Buchanan called Mandela a "train-bomber." The Heritage Foundation said America should stop calling for Mandela's release from prison. Pat Robertson, Grover Norquist, future Tea Party leaders, and current Republican Senators—all were on the books supporting the Apartheid government. When 35 House Republicans broke with the Reagan administration, the National Review called them "uppity," and Human Events called them a "lynch mob."
That last bit in particular is charming. The right, sad to say, still manages to regularly work violent rhetoric about race into topics both humdrum and climactic, and wonders why virtually everyone who isn't a white person sees them as having unacceptable baggage on race. Every couple of days some conservative pundit or other makes some gratuitous offhand comment about rape (most recently El Rushbo), and the right wonders why women are an ever-elusive voter target. Even putting aside the overall presentation and content of your policies, peppering your communication with references to things that have incredibly negative connotations for specific groups of people is going to put you at a bit of a disadvantage in reaching out to them, and shows just how ingrained certain kinds of attitudes are, how hard to change. I mean, they said all this stuff over twenty years ago and none of it sounds much different than their rhetoric now.
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God, what a stupid article. This teacher hasn't broken any laws, in all likelihood did some adult modeling to put herself through school (which is not something that IMO ought to be even stigmatized), and I have heard anecdotally that many women are having to turn to the sex industry to get through college. It's speaks volumes about the priorities of Tucker Carlson's shop that the outrage here isn't over women forced by circumstance to use their bodies to maintain a middle-class existence, but rather than that it's icky for former strippers to continue to exist, and indeed would presume to try to have a productive career and make a difference.
It's been said before many times, but let's say it again. Tucker Carlson, you are a scumbag. You employ a bunch of other scumbags. This isn't about politics strictly. There are conservatives who are not scumbags, even in the media. You are not among them. This is about being an opportunistic bottom-feeder, when you could do better. In an even moderately just society you all would be pariahs, treated universally with the kind of withering contempt that you deserve. But this isn't even a moderately just society. That's the only reason why you still have a microphone. But I do believe that it is getting more just, slowly but surely. Perhaps it won't get just quickly enough to see you laid low publicly. But I'd rather be me than you, that's for sure.
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What with assholes ("Yoho"? Really?) who're making life worse for everybody saying they're Rosa Parks (via) and Senator Aqua Buddha all keen like Charlie Sheen (via), it's been quite the day for bad comparisons — so obvs, I thought I'd throw my hat in the ring vis a vis Ted "Costa Concordia" Cruz. I'm thinking either a) Jim Jones: the Final Picnic, or 2) An Evening with Milo Radulovich and Friends.
From Ted Cruz unmasks his own confidence game on the Plum Line:
Cruz's call on House Republicans yesterday to keep up the fight was a signal to the troops to prepare to train their fire on Boehner again. But the swift denunciation from House Republicans suggests they aren't going to lie down and take it anymore if and when that happens. They will push back with the reality-based argument that House Republicans have done all they can to prop up this scam — giving Cruz and company exactly what they asked for — and that ultimately it's unworkable. And they can use Cruz's own words to do so. In the end Cruz's own suggestion that this will all be on House Republicans fatally undermines his whole confidence game, because it's effectively an admission that the scam ultimately can't be made to work.
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Literally Saying Anything To Get ElectedIt's worth noting that at this point, Scott Walker has committed multiple heresies against acceptable conservative doctrine in his attempt to win another term, previously on taxes and now on abortion. I'm strongly disinclined to believe that this will hurt him next month, as the Republican Party and its donors are strongly invested in securing > more ... (0 comments)This will be interesting. I mean, the basic problem with rape law enforcement is still that it's one person's word against another, but this law does mean that there's no more gray area with respect to unconsciousness. That's good. The bigger problem is that it is difficult to enforce overall, and the real challenge in > more ... (1 comments)I haven't been traveling, nor have I not been thinking about current events, politics and all the rest. I haven't really been able to think of anything new to say at this time about the big issues. I still think the entire Iraq/ISIS venture is ill-conceived at best, that it will turn out badly, and > more ... (1 comments)
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New Network Links Madagascar's Environment and Health Sectors›Guest Contributor // October 7, 2014 // By Laura Robson
As the international community seeks to articulate a collective vision for sustainable development following the Millennium Development Goals, a vibrant new network has emerged in Madagascar to advance integrated population, health and environment (PHE) initiatives across this island nation.
From the PHE Conference in Addis Ababa, a Progress Report on Integrated Development›Guest Contributor // July 7, 2014 // By Kristen P. Patterson
My grandmother was pleased when I told her I was heading to Ethiopia last November for an international conference focused on population, health, and the environment.
No REDD+ Program Is an Island: Integrating Gender Into Forest Conservation Efforts›From the Wilson Center // June 25, 2014 // By Donald Borenstein
Since 2005, the Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation program (REDD+) has functioned as a mechanism to financially incentivize the preservation of forestlands in order to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. But beyond its original use, some organizations have also started exploring ways it can help with other development initiatives, like women's empowerment. [Video Below]
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7 Billion and Counting: Roger-Mark on Global Population Concerns at Future of Nature Forum›June 10, 2014 // By ECSP Staff
Since the start of the Industrial Revolution some 250 years ago, the widespread use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides that began about a century and a half later and the atomic half-life of the past seven decades, humans have developed and doused land and dammed and diverted water. These practices have left a wound that continues to fester as the human population swells.
CNN Profiles the Work of Conservation Through Public Health in Uganda›On the Beat // June 9, 2014 // By Kate Diamond
Reporting on long-term, complex human-environment interactions can be daunting. As the saying goes, "if it bleeds, it leads," and slow, sometimes-distant changes rarely make headlines. Yet, earlier this year CNN International's African Voices program took a stab at it, diving into the world of integrated development in a three-part profile of Conservation Through Public Health (CTPH), a Ugandan NGO that is working to preserve one of Central Africa's most important biodiversity hotspots while strengthening the health and wellbeing of nearby communities.
Forests on Film: New Stories From Nepal and the Congo Basin›From the Wilson Center // April 14, 2014 // By Donald Borenstein
Given growing awareness about environmental change and how it affects human life, it is perhaps not surprising there is also a growing audience for environmental filmmaking. At the 2014 Environmental Film Festival in the Nation's Capital on March 25, the Wilson Center premiered ECSP's latest documentary, Scaling the Mountain: Protecting Forests for Families in Nepal. Together with Heart of Iron, a recent film on mining in the Congo Basin, the event took viewers into some of the world's most remote forests to see how their inhabitants are adapting to rapid changes in the natural resources on which they depend.
New Film Explains Blue Ventures' Integrated Approach to Development and Conservation in Madagascar›Eye On // April 1, 2014 // By Kate Diamond
Blue Ventures has become a leader in the population, health, and environment (PHE) community through its work with the remote, semi-nomadic Vezo people living along Madagascar's southwestern coast. In a new short documentary, The Freedom to Choose: Empowering Communities to Live With the Sea, Blue Ventures describes how their approach has helped the Vezo respond to the combined challenges of resource scarcity, poor reproductive health, and unsustainable livelihoods.
Mapping China's Dam Rush – and the Environmental Consequences›China Environment Forum // Eye On // April 1, 2014 // By Luan "Jonathan" Dong
In southwestern China, three parallel rivers – the Nu, Lancang, and Jinsha (also known as the Upper Mekong, Salween, and Yangtze, respectively) – form a series of corridors that connect the tropical rainforests of Southeast Asia to the Tibetan Plateau. These areas are some of the most biodiverse in the world, and scientists argue they have value as "climate refugia" – places worth preserving in order to allow species to retreat to cooler, more suitable climates as temperatures rise. A cascade of dams, however, has been planned for the region, threatening to submerge habitats, reduce the flow of tributary rivers, and make the area less suitable for many plant and animal species.
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Tonight the New York Rangers continue their western Canada road trip against the Edmonton Oilers. The puck drops at 8pm ET.
The Rangers enter tonight's game with 86 points from a 41-30-4 record; good for third in the Metropolitan Division. A win, or over time appearance, tonight would move the Rangers back into second place over the Philadelphia Flyers. The teams are tied in points, the Rangers have more wins, but the Flyers have two games in hand again after tonight. Cam Talbot gets the nod tonight in his third game since the Olympic break. With an 11-6-0 record Talbot has a 1.76 goals against average and a .936 save percentage with two shut outs. Mats Zuccarello and Derek Stepan continue to lead the team in points with 15 goals for 50 points. Zuccarello and Derick Brassard, 17 goals for 41 points, will be reunited with Benoit Pouliot,12 goals for 30 points, tonight as coach Alain Vigneault looks for the chemistry to return to his line-up. The fourth line of Derek Dorsett, four goals for seven points, Dominic Moore, six goals for 18 points, and Brian Boyle, six goals for 17 points remains intact tonight as Dan Carcillo returns to the line-up on a line with Rick Nash and Stepan. Vigneault is also reuniting the line of Martin St. Louis, three assists as a Ranger, Brad Richards, 18 goals for 49 points, and Carl Hagelin, 17 goals for 33 points. Richards comes into tonight's game with two goals and an assist in the last three games.
John Moore remains out of the line-up after sustaining a concussion in the game against the Columbus Blue Jackets, the same game where Chris Kreider was injured. On defense, Raphael Diaz remains in the mix as the Rangers look for continued production from him. Dan Girardi and Brian Boyle need to continue their strong physical play. They have 182 and 143 hits, respectively. Pouliot, brassard, and Zuccarello are also over 100 hits with 125, 120, 106 hits respectively; that's a tough third line! Girardi and Ryan McDonagh will be counted on to help Talbot blocking shots, they have 64 and 126 respectively.
The Rangers will have to solve the Ben Scrivens puzzle tonight as the face the Oilers. They will also need great speed on the ice. The Oilers are young and speedy. They have snipers who will be looking to catch Talbot off guard.


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