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A look at 4 players in supplemental draftPosted by on July 10, 2014 – 12:54 pm
Here's a look at the four eligible players for the NFL's 2014 supplemental draft.
College Football 24/7 writer Mike Huguenin breaks down the prospects and where they might go. There's a linebacker, running back, defensive tackle and wide receiver.
Believe it or not there's also a mock supplemental draft on NFL.com where it's predicted that only two of the players will be picked. They have two of the players being drafted by AFC East rivals of the Bills. They've got DT LaKendrick Ross (Virginia-Lynchburg) going in the sixth round to the Jets and SMU RB Traylon Shead going in the seventh round to the Dolphins.
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Browns take WR Gordon earlyPosted by on July 12, 2012 – 12:37 pm
Former Baylor WR Josh Gordon was the most highly touted prospect in today's (Thursday) NFL Supplemental draft, and Cleveland didn't wait long to take him.
The order in which the picks stood in this year's Supplemental Draft at the top were as follows Buffalo, Cleveland, Tampa Bay, Miami. Cleveland chose to use a second-round pick on Gordon, a pick they have now forfeited in the 2013 NFL draft. The Browns need receiver help, but Gordon though physical gifted is raw and might not be able to contribute much this season.
The Browns likely saw parting with a two as palatable since they have a pair of third-round picks next spring. Gordon was forecast as a 3rd-5th round selection.
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WR Gordon runs in 4.5sPosted by on July 10, 2012 – 1:26 pm
According to Tony Pauline of TFY Draft Insider, NFL Supplemental draft prospect WR Josh Gordon did not run quite as fast as anticipated in his pro day Tuesday in Houston.
Here's what Pauline had for a 40 time along with his height and weight and other measurables.
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Bills at WR pro dayPosted by on July 10, 2012 – 9:37 am
Baylor WR Josh Gordon, who is holding his pro day Tuesday (today) in Houston in anticipation of the NFL Supplemental draft on Thursday, will have some Bills scouts in attendance watching him.
Buffalobills.com has confirmed that the Bills will be in attendance with scout Theo Young scheduled to attend. Young is a former Baylor coach, who was on the Bears staff when Gordon last played for Baylor in 2010. Young was the team's defensive line coach. I wouldn't be surprised if Bills College Scouting Director Chuck Cook or Assistant GM Doug Whaley were in attendance as well.
According to ESPN AFC East blogger James Walker, the Bills will be one of several teams in attendance at the pro day. Gordon has an intriguing physical skill set at 6'3″ 225 pounds. He's expected to run in the low 4.4s.
Those are numbers that mirror those of Marcus Easley, both height, weight and 40 time, if Gordon can pull it off. The Bills do not have a defined answer at the outside receiver position opposite Stevie Johnson, though they have numerous candidates entering camp (Easley, Graham, Hagan, Jones) where one of the more heated competitions will ensue.
It's forecast that one NFL club will sacrifice anywhere from a 2nd to a 4th round draft choice for Gordon on Thursday. Knowing Easley, who has a very similar skill set to Gordon went in round 4 I can't see the Bills investing anything higher than a fourth round pick, and I believe that might even be a stretch.
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Raider take Pryor in 3rdPosted by on August 22, 2011 – 12:35 pm
The Oakland Raiders have taken Terrelle Pryor using a third-round pick in today's NFL Supplemental draft.
That according to ESPN's Adam Schefter.
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Bills at Pryor pro dayPosted by on August 20, 2011 – 2:08 pm
It comes as no surprise knowing how thorough Buffalo's scouting department is that the Bills were in attendance at Terrelly Pryor's pro day Saturday.
According to NFL Network reporter Albert Breer, 15 NFL teams were on hand.
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Schefter on Pryor destinationPosted by on August 19, 2011 – 12:15 pm
ESPN's Adam Schefter offered his speculation on where Terrelle Pryor could end up when and if he's taken in the NFL Supplemental draft Monday.
Schefter was clear in saying he has no evidence that any of these teams are interested, but pointed to them as "logical destinations." Here's his list, take it for what its worth.
1. Bills
2. Colts
3. Bengals
4. Dolphins
5. Raiders
I highly doubt the Bills would be interested in Pryor knowing they have a similar player in Brad Smith in whom they made a sizable investment.
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Supplemental draft is onPosted by on August 18, 2011 – 9:02 am
The NFL Supplemental draft was postponed earlier this week, but a new date has now been set.
The league announced that the Supplemental draft will take place on Mon. Aug. 22. And former Ohio St. QB Terrelle Pryor is eligible, however he will face a five-game suspension to start his NFL career. It relates back to his NCAA violations, which is an interesting development knowing in the past the NFLPA has been opposed to NCAA violations coming back to bite players already in the NFL.
Here are some other top prospects in the Supplemental draft pool.
DB Torez Jones – West Carolina
RB Caleb King – Georgia
DE Keenan Mace – Lindenwood college
DE Mike McAdoo North Carolina
DB Tracy Wilson Northern Illinois
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Expert review of PryorPosted by on June 8, 2011 – 3:09 pm
With the likelihood of Ohio State QB Terrelle Pryor requesting an application to be eligible for the NFL's Supplemental draft growing by the day, the executive producer of NFL Matchup and Senior Producer for NFL Films for more than 30 years, Greg Cosell, broke down two of Pryor's games and came up with the following conclusions with respect to how his game translates to the NFL.
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Pryor to apply for Supp. draftPosted by on June 8, 2011 – 2:59 pm
According to ESPN National College Football Reporter Joe Schad, former Ohio State QB Terrelle Pryor will be applying for the NFL's Supplemental draft very soon.
Per Schad's twitter account he reports that Pryor could apply to the league as early as next week and there's a report on ESPN.com confirming Schad's reports.
schadjoe Pryor's attorney says TP may apply supplemental early next week
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Terrelle Pryor debatePosted by on June 2, 2011 – 6:48 am
With most speculating that embattled Ohio St. QB Terrelle Pryor will not be welcomed back for his senior season with the Buckeyes in light of the recent transgressions that have come to light forcing the resignation of Jim Tressel, ESPN tackled the question of whether it's worth forgoing a late draft pick to grab Pryor in the supplemental draft should he choose to put his name in that pool.
I know there are a lot of 'ifs' here including whether the NFL would hold a supplemental draft in light of their unusual offseason. But ESPN blogger Dan Graziano isn't all that impressed with Pryor's body of work as it applies to the next level as a QB.
For the record, Pryor has not declared for the supplemental draft.
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Supplemental draft newsPosted by on May 31, 2011 – 8:58 am
The NFL still has plans to hold a supplemental draft if necessary.
That according to NFL Network reporter Albert Breer, who stated the following on his twitter account.
Tags: NFL Supplemental draft, Terrelle Pryor
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Don't see Bills making supplemental draft pickPosted by on July 13, 2009 – 2:10 pm
The NFL's supplemental draft is this Thursday (July 16th), but it would be surprising if the Bills forfeited a 2010 pick for one of the top three prospects available.
I don't see the Bills participating for a couple of reasons. First, the top prospects are at positions where Buffalo currently has a surplus of talent. Kentucky DE Jeremy Jarmon, Texas Tech DE McKinner Dixon and Kansas St. WR Deon Murphy are at positions where the Bills are pretty well stocked.
In fact it wouldn't be surprising if the Bills explore moving a receiver or DE at the close of the preseason provided everyone stays healthy because it's unlikely they'll be able to keep all of their talent at those respective positions, and most of it is NFL caliber.
Second, I don't see the Bills participating in the supplemental draft because giving up a 2010 draft pick is almost sacrilege. It's been a widely held opinion that the 2010 draft class might be one of the most talented in a generation. The depth of talent this coming spring is considered rare at a host of positions, so draft picks will be valued more than ever.
I anticipate that only teams that are in a go for it mode this year and need just a bit of young depth would take a chance on these players and likely would not do it with anything higher than a fifth rounder.
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An appeal will be made against a decision by Allerdale councillors to throw out plans to turn a Workington laundrette into a takeaway.
Mehdi Samadi, of Whitehaven, had applied to change the use of the laundrette at Harrington Road into a pizza/burger takeaway.
The plans were recommended for approval by Allerdale council planning officers, but 18 councillors voted on Tuesday to refuse the application, with one abstention, at the council's development panel.
Councillors refused the plans on grounds of increased traffic and concern over highway and pedestrian safety.
Mr Samadi confirmed on Wednesday that he planned to appeal against the decision.
Councillor Joe Holliday believed the proposed takeaway would add to traffic problems at the Mason Street junction.
He said: "It's a very, very busy junction. It's one of the busiest in Workington by far."
He added that the takeaway would make the problem of cars parking on double yellows around Harrington Road much worse.
Coun Nicky Cockburn raised concern about the proposed takeaway's proximity to St Joseph's High School and the negative impact it would have on pupils' healthy eating.
Coun Carole Armstrong was worried that the proposed opening time of 3pm on weekdays would clash with the school's finishing time at 3.15pm.
The council received 13 letters of objection to the proposals.
Paul Broughton, of Harrington Road, wrote: "It will bring a negative vibe and have a detrimental effect not only on the value of my home but also on the local community.
"Within the last 12 months there was nothing short of a rat infestation which I was left to sort out myself. Given the fact food would be present, I dread to think that they would return."
The Harrington Road Laundrette is open as normal.
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how do you think we can better utilize our intellectual capabilities in this modern age?
Science classifies our species as homo sapien or wise man honouring our minds, our intelligence as a species. But do we effective or even efficiently employ those 6 billion minds our species is now blessed with? No.
The principle forms of employment today simply involve the exchange of labour for wages and the vast majority of those jobs are service, assembly line and office work. Most of which simply involve a body performing repetitive and boring tasks that utilize only a fraction of our intellectual potential. Meanwhile hundreds of millions of equally 'wise men' and 'wise women' are abandoned to subsistence existences simply because their bodies are unemployable.
This "jobs" agenda that our politicians so often champion has only been with us for a few hundred years and was a direct result of the Industrial Revolution which required huge numbers of workers in order to run the machines and maintain the records of commerce.
However, scientific and technological advancements have already replaced human beings in hundreds, perhaps thousands, of labour based employment activities. And online shopping, automation and robotics are poised to take over more and more of our labour based tasks as we move ever forward. .
In other words, there are far more valuable and self-enriching activities human beings, today, can engage their incredible intellectual potential in than simply exchanging their labour for wages. In this Information and Communication Age it seems timely that we look at ways of finally employing all that intellectual capacity that the 6 billion human minds on this planet represent.
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We seem to still be split between those who cannot see beyond the status quo of a person's value being derived from their bodies exchanging labour for wages and those who welcome a future where our minds matter more. "know thy self" was a popular theme for the later group with a strong emphasis on a student focused educational system as being most desirable and leading to lives that are mindful and thereby meaningful.
It was most gratifying to see that empowerment, motivation and opportunity came up often as both consequences and purpose in a population that was fully engaging its mental capacities as priorities over simple employment and consumption. Personally I am all for empowerment, personal empowerment, and the premise that all else will benefit thereafter.
However, there was also strong support for the premise that first the political system must change before anything else will and few would disagree that such a change is long overdue. .
Sara Fryett
Jan 2 2014: Thanks for the fascinating topic, William. It may seem a bit broad or simplistic or perhaps off-base, but I see three overarching, interconnected needs: empowerment, motivation and opportunity. All of these have been picked up on in other posts, and I think all of these are essential.
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Empowerment: e.g. more effectively using existing institutions and systems (education, political systems, workplaces etc) to equip and facilitate (and not restrict) individual and societal intellectual growth, contributions and self-belief; addressing poverty-related obstacles
Motivation: e.g. making intellectual development and engagement seem less elitist/unsexy/unattainable; continuing to spread the idea that IQ is not the only valuable intelligence and finding ways for our systems to reflect that
Opportunity: e.g. creating an environment where we have greater capacity to focus on more than meeting personal day-to-day needs; connecting wider social/environmental needs with groups and individuals – it's not like we have a shortage of problems
A nice little (well, it's big in this small pond) real-world example that comes to mind is Volunteering Waikato, a non-profit operating in my area which creates opportunity. It's like a job agency for volunteers, linking all sorts of other non-profits (local to international) and even individuals with potential volunteers through its job website, targeted emails of volunteering opportunities, and a personal consultation on registering. Positions range from charity board members to assisting at therapeutic pony-riding centres. Simple, but fabulous. But, perhaps more labour-orientated than you were driving at?
Jan 2 2014: thank you Sara, I like the breakdown and examples a lot.Dec 24 2013: Better education at a younger age. Children are capable of learning far more than they're taught. Elementary and secondary education in the US today seems to cater to the lowest common denominator, and it's only getting softer. I know some other countries have a far more rigorous education system. I don't know much about Canada's system.
Children are genuinely curious, interested in the world around them, and fast learners. It's been acknowledged that children are better at learning languages, and I believe this aptitude may carry into other areas as well. Rather than giving them a sugar-coated explanation of the world, we should begin teaching them what we would teach high schoolers, especially in the area of history. It seems that by the time they reach the age that we finally teach them these things, they're no longer interested in learning.
Dec 24 2013: I agree. To some extent I think we need to stop treating adults like adults and children like children. Instead, just realize how curious everybody is. Individualizing people helps us individualize problem solving. I love the idea of teachers and students, but skilled people and their apprentices.Dec 25 2013: you speak to my heart Fred. Sadly so-called education systems around the world have been co-opted to simply make youngsters employable and little else. Not to create an informed and empowered citizenry, but simply one capable of serving the needs of the Industrial Age and the new class of capitalist it spawned. An era when the capitalists were desperate for huge numbers of workers who could read, write and perform simple math - in fact the 3 R's - to build the factories, to run the machines and, most importantly, maintain the records of commerce.
And here we are, some 250 years later saddled with the same, tired, old, out-dated mandate of simply making students employable for an era that is long past, yet its dinosaurs still dominate our institutions.
Your are absolutely right that children have much, much more potential than simply exchangers of labour for wages. Addressing that reality with all the resources and support we can would be a very good start.
Elizabeth Gu
Dec 25 2013: And…better education to the elderly as well.
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In this aging society, educating adults also means a lot.
Children are the potentials; grown-ups are the ones who have tangible tickets to take part in social matters right now.
There are so many people who weren't lucky enough to get better education when they were young.
They could have been elites or not. They could have had different lives.
According to some linguists, when compared to children, adults could be more likely to learn a foreign language(particularly as to reading and grammar parts) faster.
It isn't just 'kids' who hold future for this world. We should consider it very important to educate adults as well.
Marcus Cake
Dec 23 2013: We can better utilize our intellectual capabilities in the modern age if we use 'modern age' structures to organise. Information Age structures isolate knowledge within hierarchies.
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If we come 'Over the Top' with a distributed network and organise things in the Internet of Everything, we can harness the collective innovation, wisdom and knowledge of the crowd by transcending the structures that isolate, fragment and fail to share or organise intellectual capabilities.
I entered a "Global Wisdom" hack in the MIX "Unlimited Human Potential Challenge" which provides a good introduction to harnessing intellectual capabilities and wisdom of the crowd by creating "Global Wisdom" in the modern age. It is available at http://www.mixprize.org/hack/global-wisdom .
Economic evolution means that we use much less resources (including labour) in sectors over time. 25% of the workforce was involved in agriculture. That number is now less than 2%. Information Age workers will follow the same path.
It may be that society can generate the same output (or standard of living) by applying modern age structures. We then need to consider how we engage the available people to improve society. It would be a waste for these people to not make a contribution to society, their neighbors and families. As suggested we need look at ways of harnessing the wisdom and effort of 6bn people.
Network Society is emerging by default. People rendered redundant by technology (particularly information workers), need to empowered and utilised in the next stage. We are not redeploying these unemployed for employment in the next stage of economic development. Society and the unemployed are stagnating. Without proactive change, a generation will not make a contribution to the economy (ie output) or society (ie; prosperity). Education Wisdom could retrain the displaced for jobs in the next stage of economic development (a topic for another thread?).
Wayne Busby
Dec 23 2013: Hello Marcus,
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Checked your entry at the link you provided, then your TED profile and must say I'm impressed.
I would like to show you a few things I believe would have great positive impact on your considerable, much needed and timely project. I have worked almost 20 years in health care and developed something called the HNAQ( holistic needs analysis queue).
The HNAQ is a fractal key that helps explain the behaviour of certain complex systems and the interdependent relationships we share with every living thing on earth. Yes it's that awesome.
It's functions are based on the most ubiquitous examples of bio mimicry ever discovered and can be applied in ways limited only by ones imagination to education, business, the life sciences and more.
The HNAQ is a behavioural process which empowers personal and community growth by:
1) Rewarding curiosity, invested creativity, initiative, imagination, double loop learning and divergent thinking.
2) Encouraging us to reflect on, choose and act responsibly with our attitudes towards ourselves, others and our environment.
3) Allowing us to effectively share, manage, and refine our individual and collective skills.
4) Permitting us to collaboratively concentrate, validate and disseminate our knowledge in a transparent fashion.
Let me know if you interested.
P.s. Let us creat the means whereby 7 billion potential innovators contribute to "The most wise council, unrestrained intellect and the sum of all human knowledge."
Cheers!Dec 23 2013: I like the way Marcus and Wayne are thinking about this topic. Just imagine if only a billion or two were on the same wavelength.
Dec 24 2013: I am board with this as well - that makes four, only a few billion more to go.
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Dec 18 2013: Excellent question.
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We can better utilize our intellectual capabilities in this modern age by:
1. Learning the facts ---> before we assume.
2. Seeking to understand why ---> before we judge.
3. Feeling how the other person feels ---> before we hurt them (in any way).
4. Thinking ---> before we speak.
5. Hearing ---> before we conclude.
And no matter what ---> when we have a chance and even the seemingly full conviction to hurt someone, we should help them do the right thing instead.
Applying our intelligence (mind & heart) this way will produce infinitely more valuable and self-enriching activities for each of us. This would classify us (our species as human): wise human honouring our being.
Dec 19 2013: Well said, and I agree in some part.
So it's like 'back to the basic'; putting our 'student hat' on.
Do you think we, people living in this modern age have more advantages to utilize our intellectual capabilities--when compared to our ancestors?
If not, what are the things that prevent us from effectively utilizing our brains?
Are we not rational enough or not moral enough?
Or wouldn't it be possible that we're not imaginative enough?
Just want to know your opinion on these questions.
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Jan 3 2014: Dear Elizabeth,
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I feel the past generations (our ancestors) did the very best with what they had available to them -- and without their wisdom we would have never gotten this far. If we are doing anything right or have any privilege or access today, it is because they held us up high and gave us the best of all they had in their world.
Barry Schwartz provided some of the best thoughts I have found on your questions in his 2009 Talk. You can hear them at http://www.ted.com/talks/barry_schwartz_on_our_loss_of_wisdom.html
Thank you:)
Happy New Year!!
Have a brilliant 2014.Dec 13 2013: From a career standpoint, I think it would be wise for corporations to favor "democratic" work environments which promote creativity, collaboration, and critical thought over traditional hierarchal "autocratic" work environments which are commonplace among most large corporations. Not only do "democratic" work environments capitalize on each employee's intellectual capabilities, but they also create intrinsic motivation for employees.
Beyond careers, I honestly believe that intrinsic motivation and displaying one's intellectual capabilities go hand in hand. In other words, if one is not self-motivated and does not apply oneself, it really does not matter how much intellectual capability one has.
As for better utilizing our intellectual capabilities, become more self-motivated, inspire change (both in and outside of the workplace), and encourage others to seek out their true potential.
Dec 13 2013: could you expand upon where you would see that self-motivation manifesting itself outside the workplace?
Dec 13 2013: I think this varies from person to person. I happen to enjoy reading most of the works of many of the TED Speakers, and have motivated myself to continue my college education, not only to advance my career but to expand my knowledge. I also try to keep updated on what's happening around the world and do my own research rather than blindly follow most of the news outlets.
Basically, anything that keeps one's mind active and prevents us from stagnating via apathy. Although it might not fall within the scope of "intellectual capability" per se, certain hobbies and interests can also provide quite a challenge that keeps us motivated. For instance, one of my friends recently got me into rock climbing. It's an intense hobby to say the least, but what I've noticed through these experiences is that my mind is more "active" when I myself am actually active.
Dec 14 2013: Thank you for providing us with such personal examples of where and how you experience your own mindfulness. My own readings and climbing may have different focuses but i suspect quite similar outcomes For me, the more i explore and the more i learn, the more personally empowered i feel.
And it is this sense of personal empowerment that i imagine will be greatest benefit of the inevitable transition from the out-dated model of 'a job/career as the basis of a person's societal worth and personal well-being to that of becoming an informed and engaged member of one's community.Dec 10 2013: our system seems to be at the best interest of the richest most powerfull human beings.
we work to survive but if you look at it from another viewpoint we work to enrich the owners of the companies.
the best answer I can give to your question is this,
we are together on this planet and we can do with this place and our time what we want, we certainly can come up with better ways of life, better structures for our society to achieve the greatest happiness of all.
their are enough recourses that we all can have a rich life, our problem is that most people think in money and power, they have greed for one or the other, I am born In a family I would call rich, I realized early enouth that outer wealth is not the path to happiness.
poor people just go after money and power to survive, rich people do it because of greed.
with 6 billion minds you can accomplish the world we have, if you want a world where everyone will have food and shelter and has education and where we work together to achieve a wonderful life for all of us, if 6 billion people have this in understanding and this wish in their hearts then with 6 billion minds who are in service of 6 billion hearts we can achieve wonders.
jezus, budha, mohammed, allah, god, me and you, lets form a circle around the planet holding hands, and realize we are all one and so are our deepest dreams.
Jimmy Strobl
Dec 9 2013: Anything that's open-source is a great way to utilize these abilities.
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Dec 9 2013: an excellent point, open-source has long been at the core of a free and open internet despite all the attempts to monetize it.
Dec 10 2013: I only read the title before, luckily my answer fit into the explanation as well... But there's some focus on "Jobs" here with the angle of automation, so I'll leave some links for you to use as ammo in the future.
First Reddits Automate subreddit http://www.reddit.com/r/automate
And second a documentaryish called "Will Work for Free" http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/will-work-for-free/
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Jan 6 2014: Thank you William for creating an enriching conversation.
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I send you my favorite TED Talk: joy is these words-worth-hearing:)
Have a brilliant 2014!!
Jan 6 2014: Thank you for the sharing, I am including some of his words here in homage
beauty and seduction are Nature's tools for survival because we protect that which we fall in love with... to see ourselves in nature .... when we explore we get more imagination ... begin each day by opening your eyes...open your heart to the incredible gifts civilization offers us... let the gratefulness overflow into blessings all around us
Surely words to inspire and honour the wonders all around us
NamasteJan 3 2014: This is a fantastic question, William.
Over the last five to six years, I have come to see that our current monetary/capitalist system is simply unsustainable. As I developed a new (but certainly not original) world view, a key thought that has always been at the forefront of this process has been to take advantage of our intelligence and ultimately free ourselves from dangerous, repetitive, or meaningless work.
Furthermore, as many others have noted, the state of our technology is such that we really need to begin devising an alternate world society. While computers, robots, and automation will be important components of this new system, education will be the key to its ultimate success or failure. The smarter the population overall, the better off each of us will be. Speaking of population, education will have a direct effect on population growth, or - more precisely - population diminishment.
Finally, to flesh this out a bit further - if not tangentially - I am confident that state and national borders will vanish as we truly begin to see that we are all one people, and that the planet in its entirety belongs to all of us.
Jan 5 2014: I apologize for not noticing earlier that I had posted this reply in the wrong spot.
From your lips to all the ears out there Andre, thanks for sharing your insights and support.Jan 3 2014: As information deluges us in all facets we collectively deduce, this is to say we begin an evolution that enables a further definition of truths. Now with far greater knowledge bases and experience sources and tech to share same, we seem to find quality of life can be attained without grinding away at a mortgage payment for 30 years via a specialty that takes the width and breadth of life away from us.
Breaking from local informal educated norms in the community we find we can have different life practices without failing because the availability of support information at or in almost any community.
I think the answer is more of the same, new interface techs, more software, expanding communities with basic ideals while truths empower new solutions and move humanity onward as a family bound by interdependence.
Jan 6 2014: All good points Phiip. In particular, expanding communities can mean more inclusiveness within the existing boundaries as well as outside those boundaries as well. Boundaries will always exist I suppose, but move them further out is a definite improvement.Jan 3 2014: Use mass media to educate and not distract the people. We have so many great minds in this day and age with access to so much tech and knowledge, but most people settle down for entertainment, and not just any entertainment, the weakest and the dumbest entertainment. More people focus on reality Tv shows, and Apple's next Iphone, than the current human condition and how to innovate.
Jan 3 2014: I have known people who can make learning very entertaining as well as informative, perhaps there would be an opportunity to combine the two efforts. I think The Nature of Things is one of them as well as Quirks and Quarks. Certainly the infrastructure is readily available.Jan 1 2014: Real artificial intelligence will change everything
Jan 2 2014: Please expand?Jan 2 2014: 'Real' and 'artificial' don't mix well.
On the topic of oxymorons, I think Artificial and Intelligence may be mutually exclusive as well.
just a thought. I may be wrong.
But the perfection of "artificial" intelligence may be our final outsourcing allowing our minds to join the redundancy heaps of limbs, organs, and entertainment.
Good post come to think of it.Jan 1 2014: I actually hold a somewhat controversial opinion as regards: maximising our collective intellectual capacities to enhance efficiency by effectively utilizing our EXISTING individual intellectual capacities.
My view is that this would negatively impact on our species' survival ability by removing our ability to withstand random, acute, and severe stressors that require us to recruit our natural inbuilt reserves. Nature loves built-in 'latent' potential. Most things are duplicated, sometimes many times over, so that it would take either significant loss or failure of massive functional 'upscaling' or recruitment to destabilize essential life-sustaining processes. We see examples in the kidney where up to 75% loss is easily tolerated as is significant liver loss, brain and lung tissue loss, neuronal receptor interaction etc. I personally like knowing I've got much intellectual reserve should I need to engage brain in times of severe or sudden stress. If I were to build an AI android, I'd add the same excess reserve to that most critical of survival capacities - the intellectual capacity.
This 'way' that nature has is inherent, fractal-like and is evident from the tiniest of biological processes to the largest natural systems. I don't think maximizing our intellectual capacity or efficiency is a wise idea without first expanding our total capacity. Once we have a greater total capacity we will naturally increase our latent capacity, but it will be back to square one as regards ratios!
So for me, let's first create a system where each person's human rights are protected irrespective of intellectual capacity.
Jan 1 2014: What an intriguing thought. I had not considered that a reserve of mental 'energies' might be required in a stressor situation. Could this be why we can become immobilized by fear or shock, our minds are already working hard and the stressor exceeds the remaining capacity?
However, what I meant by this thread was to better employ, or utilize our collective thinking capacities as human beings rather than simply as bodies used to keep production lines humming and endless filling office cubicles performing mind numbing tasks. Granted not all would want to or even have to participate. But there is tremendous human potential to be derived from those 7 billion minds and it is a shame to waste them simply employing their bodies and only a tiny portion of their minds in jobs performing repetitive tasks day in and day out.
Thank you for adding this new dimension to the discussion
Jan 1 2014: Only a pleasure.
The problem for me is thinking like I did while feeling the way you do. I see where you're coming from now and I agree it's a praiseworthy goal. My gut says one thing and my brain another.
I hope my gut is smarter than my brain on this one though.
Happy New Year :)
Jan 1 2014: and a Joyous New Year to you Sumesh :)Dec 28 2013: How to optimize the harvest of our overall pool of intelligence. Nice question. Before all of this, I want to say one thing; a lot of discussions here on TED, I think, have a negative point of view of the education systems in many countries. "There's not enough adaption to all the different learning types."
Well. Here in Denmark we have been working very hard on suiting all different learning styles to our educational system - and I for one am a result of this. It occured to me recently that as a result, I can use all the different learning styles, and shift automatically between them depending on which strength of style is optimal.
My point is, having already implemented focus on the early steps of children's education in Denmark, we have moved on to focus on talent-development in talented children and youth in Gymnasium (High School end, College level) in all faculties. I have participated in some of these, and I think it's too bad there are not more of it; maybe we should even consider having a mandatory talent-development cause for different subjects so that talented youth can continue challenging themselves, even if they are ahead of their class.
I think this is a key factory to further expanding the "overall pool of intelligence". To conclude: I believe implementing the different learning styles in early education is essential, but remember to keep helping those who are behind, and help those who are ahead finding the necessary challenges to continue education, even on their own terms. In practice, this would mean more talent courses for children to sign up on -
and most importantly: Creating attention around the necessity of attending these talent courses! How greatly it can improve their job opportunities and helping the world evolve. It would be optimal to have even the media help creating attention for talent development. I think this is a good, academic guess of what the future will bring. Media coverage of talent development.
Dec 28 2013: Albert, i sure like the sounds of that. Would you please expand upon what you have experienced as Denmark's educational focus? By learning styles does that mean the system must fit the learning needs of the student, as opposed to most other nations where the student must fit the system?
Dec 28 2013: Of course formal teaching in front of a blackboard is still the majority of our teachings, but I believe in the beginning of the 00s there had been a lot of debate on the educational system which lead to the focus of adapting the teaching to all kinds of learning styles: The Reflexive learner, the theorist, the pragmatic and the active. We try to fit the teachings so that we get around all the different styles – the real challenge is to have the students participate actively. But if they do so, it optimises their learning, because it's fitting their individual way of learning. Maybe a good idea for other nations would be to have some courses in Denmark?
We have had this focus for a long time, and the new debate seems to go on the fact that we are bad at continuing the optimised learning behaviour when the students stop at highschool. They still follow these different learning styles, but some are ready to move into a more advanced difficulty, but there was previously nothing available. The latest we are doing is trying to get students with ambitions interested by making talent contests; for instance we make a project where students can sign up in the age of 17-24 in which they can make contact to a scientist and come up with a completely new research, make some pilot project and write a paper on how they would proceed from there, if they had the funding. Then some appointed scientists read through the submitted papers and the winner gets a prize – usually money, a travel or similar. It is essential though, that these contests try to gather the interested students to meet each other (networking) but also scientists, in order for further development to happen.
This is an example of what we're trying to do as of lately; focus not only on the students who need extra help, but also those who are in need of challenge. Our current challenge is how to reach those who aren't ambitious – who wouldn't participate in such contest – but still would be a great resource.Dec 28 2013: I would recommend mandatory talent development programs for each faculty that would give those who aren't ambition more motivation to become ambitious. :)
Dec 29 2013: Thank you, the two posts have provided a clearer picture of the student focus you mentioned. Please allow me to digress for a bit.
Regarding your point about "motivated" learning, I find myself thinking about my own schooling. From the beginning school was a strange place for me, so much so that I finally "dropped out" of grade 9 and went off on my own. While I enjoyed certain subjects like math and English i had zero interest in most of the other subjects. I too was told many times that I needed the "education" to get a job, but I had already had 3 or 4 jobs and figured that was no big deal. Of course that was a time when Canadian manufacturing was booming and there were lots of jobs to choose from.
Some 5 or so years later there was a brand new industry, computers, hitting the market and crying out for people and they eagerly hired people who knew how to run machines and who exhibited good problem solving skills. Thereafter I had a great 25 years making good money in an industry that was a frontier and with new and innovative changes occurring almost monthly.
But in my forties I realized that I needed more, that i had always wanted wanted to know more and left the workforce 'to find myself" as they say'. I finally ended up going to university as a mature student and because I was there for my own interests I was able to build my own curriculum and take whatever courses interested me and never more than 2 or 3 at a time. . As a consequence I spent almost 10 years engaged in some of the most interesting and exciting knowledge acquisition imaginable. True empowerment in what I later characterized as my own quest to better understand the world around me and, especially, myself.
But there was never a desire to have another job or career. Ever, since I left the workforce I have simply been an active volunteer and participant in whatever community I found myself in.
But motivated? Only to know more and understand better and to enjoy life.Dec 29 2013: Albert, I like the " talent development program ".
The talent development program should be encouraged and be popular in today's world !Dec 31 2013: So, basically you spent a lot of years at a job where you weren't really developing, but helping create the hardware - afterwards you became curious about knowledge and self-realisation which lead to studying.
Maybe the "pool of intelligence" runs automatically then; those, who are like me, are motivated to begin with create jobs where those who weren't motivated to begin with can work and help build their ideas - later in life, those people become motivated and create jobs for other people who didn't start out motivated either? Or do you have a suggestion as to how to motivate people to study earlier, should we discuss a method for doing so - or maybe we should really just provide tools for young people to follow their own path themselves? Maybe this would make their 'path' easier?
And Lamb Lamb, I agree; the world really needs more of these kinds of programs. I wish I was in a position to create such projects. Maybe later, right? When I get older
Jan 1 2014: Hello Albert, Happy New Year for 2014 !
Professional experiences and knowledge worth out spreading to the young generations genuinely.
Leaders of Companies are encouraged to develop themselves consistently: Big Idea, Big Heart, Big Give, Big Receive.
I am ready to " give " to All.......
What is your thoughts about it, Albert?Jan 1 2014: How sad that "jobs" remains your principle venue for motivation. My little dissertation was meant to point out that once I got off the 'exchange of labour for wages' treadmill and became better informed I was far more "motivated" to become involved in and contribute to the community I lived in. In this way, knowledge becomes empowerment which then leads to a healthier and more functional community which, in turn, enriches everyone in the community.Dec 25 2013: William,
This is one of the most engaging conversations I've seen on TED … Bravo.
I've long felt that our brains contain enormous untapped potential. Take the aptitude for language—we seem "prewired" for it. Children up to the age of ten or so can achieve fluency in multiple languages (who knows how many?) without confusion, and are able to speak each like a native … which in fact, they are. After around ten, our brains seem prone to begin "shutting down" this excess capacity.
Now we've all been taught that evolution is a miser and wouldn't equip us with faculties beyond that which is essential for survival. And yet it seems likely that the human capacity for language was present well in advance of its emergence. This leads me to ponder, what capacity might we now possess that awaits the proper stimulus in order to surface?
We have barely begun our quest to understand the complexities of the human brain. We still know very little regarding the relationship between "mind and brain," and have yet to identify the origins of consciousness. I look forward to the discoveries headed our way, and am optimistic that what we eventually learn will catapult early childhood education, identify the cause of and cure for Alzheimer's, enable the successful treatment—if not prevention—of psychiatric disorders, and permit us to substitute positive emotions, such as empathy and calmness, for the negative emotions of fear and rage.
Dec 25 2013: Your bang on about children and language Positivist. Whiled most cultures around the world are multilingual most Western nations - especially Canada and the U.S. - seem to have their heads firmly stuck in their neither regions regarding the virtues of multilingualism preferring, instead, to beat their breasts while ranting and raging about nationalist pride and unilingual arrogance.
Each language has its own unique way of describing the world around us offering a banquet of perspectives that can only enrich one's understanding of that world especially as you point out it is children who are the most adept at language acquisition.
I believe the penny pinching manner in which so-called education systems around the world treat children as commodities on an assembly line of grades and institutions is small-minded in the extreme and just as much of a disgrace as the narrow-minded premise that the sole value of an "education" is simply to make people employable by the mandarins of industry and commerce.Dec 24 2013: Well, 'better use' definitely implies some sort of goal. My own personal goal is a sort of sustainable happiness (for myself, but also extrapolated for and multiplied by all people). Two points of intellectually-capable-leverage that come to mind right now are 1) our continued studies of traditional sciences and 2) our advancing self-awareness.
By understanding the nature of our own existence in relevant ways ways, we could mold our own experiences in real ways. By understanding what all people have in common, all mammals, all animals, all life- we can find a more sustainable existence. By understanding the tethers we have to reality we can fully enjoy or avoid them.
Consider how people are 'attracted' to faces. Just a couple distinct points and we take special notice. We see faces sometimes in the clouds, on the moon, or in just a couple black lines on top of a yellow circle. Even people who might not consider themselves particularly social are 'bound' to this.
Or how so many people avoid stepping on cracks, except on the odd occasion when we feel excited about jumping on all the cracks. Maybe this is because of an evolution gained not long after the arrival of the eye that helps keep us moving on stable ground. (I'm sure there are people who have given more thought to this than me. Thoughts?)
Understanding where we came from- our evolution- gives greater understanding into our own minds today.
Conversely, SUPERSTITION often pacifies our investigative desires, not allowing us to pursue with full due diligence the thought processes required for any desired advancement. I would share my thoughts if someone would like to challenge this point.
Dec 25 2013: Agreed Stephen, I don't know anything more enjoyable than acquiring new and better understandings of self and, thereby, the world around me.
Having said that, In the world of science it is said that the real advances in understanding are made only when the advocates of the current theories have died off. Hence an open mind seems to be crucial to moving forward.Dec 24 2013: Know thyself
Dec 25 2013: most definitely a good starting point :)
Jan 7 2014: Starting point is the ending point of something else
and vice versa :)
" Those who know all but are lacking in themselves are utterly lacking "
Probably we should stop being ignorant and get to know who we really are .
Happy 2014 !!!
Uba D Tmar
Dec 23 2013: our intellectual capabilities must be utilize to learn from nature and the natural world. only if we are truly one with nature we are truly modernize. our itellectual capabilities must strive at the welfare of the poor, the neglected and the dowtrodden whereever they are. Building cheap eco-friendly technology, grassroot democracies, and the promotion of self esteem for all through enabling evironments. Science is indebted to nature, it must not enslave nature. therefore, the change of mindset ( the superior and creator of technology and intelligence) is a must, a change from 'I' to 'We" approach.
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Dec 23 2013: agreed Uba, sadly governments around the world are populated by politicians who are still tied to the worn out old "I" ideologies of the past and have no real consciousness of the we yet.
Gord G
Dec 15 2013: It's almost seven billion at this point. And the spectrum of intellectual potential has always fallen within the scope of the definition. In other words we define what we believe is relevant...everything else is either heresy or ill informed conjecture from the perspective of the people who define the concept.
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The modern age is simply the most recent expression of our sense of hubris.
To answer your question...
We can't...because our intellectual capabilities are defined by us at the moment of our understanding ... which is modern times.
Dec 16 2013: Great point made! However, I think we can grasp a little further challenging our current understandings, develop better alternative solutions to subjects and adapt to those solutions.
Gord G
Dec 24 2013: I agree George. But reaching beyond what's understood means believing we're more than what is considered capable. I think most significant breakthroughs run counter to accepted paradigms. I also believe the risk could be intellectual suicide, destroying the innovator's credibility. I think it's a high wire act introducing a new idea that runs contrary to intellects of the era.Dec 11 2013: I've heard an opinion that the process of industrialization that you describe may be responsible for the widening income gap between people. Unskilled laborers are left without jobs while the wealth amasses in the hands of smaller and smaller group of people because these people can afford to buy the machines or can afford the education to stay in the work force. All this simply because productivity growth allows fewer and fewer people to produce the same amount of goods while decreasing the buying capacity of the consumers putting a damper on production growth.
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WIth this in mind, if we increase productivity even more, then we will need even fewer people to sustain society leaving even more people without jobs. And, you know, low income results in lower education level, higher crime rate, etc. etc. - exactly the problems discussed at TED and elsewhere. If this theory is true, then it seems that engaging more intellect is a self-refuting effort.
In fact, the people whose jobs are automated are far from viewing it as a positive phenomenon and they spend a great amount of effort and money to prevent this from happening through unions. I do not advocate luddism, but this does seem to be a quite perplexing problem.
Dec 11 2013: I don't think that we should keep jobs for the sake of jobs, and I even believe that jobs will soon be a thing of the past, but that's a different conversation.
If we just wanted jobs for the sake of jobs we could all go out and plow the fields, there solved.
An alternative system will need to be put in place.
Dec 11 2013: I agree. If I can have a machine do work for me, I'd go for it any time.
But sometimes I doubt that humans can put such system in place.
Humans may have some control over their individual actions and decisions (although that is debatable as well). But it often seems to me that, on a large scale, economic, social, and other processes are not under human control. E.g., I don't think, there was a choice whether to create a nuclear bomb or not. There were forces in place that made it happen regardless of individual human will, if you read the history of the Manhattan project. This is just one example. Certain social things happen under certain conditions regardless of the will of the people who participate in these processes.
Your "basic income" idea is in the same category. Perhaps, it will be implemented in its due time. And before that, things will continue the way they go. Society reminds me of this toy
Certain forces act to get things unbalanced (e.g. increase the income gap). Then, when the disbalance reaches a certain point, the system resets - through revolutions, reforms, economic crisis, etc. Then the same process of getting things out of balance starts again. You and I are parts of these processes, contributing to the statistics. Unfortunately, this seems to be the way social things work.Dec 11 2013: very well put arkady, good to see the thought is spreading.
I agree with you Jimmy, hence this chat. Do you have any ideas regarding alternatives?
Dec 30 2013: As I'm sure that you're aware by now (I'm terribly late for this response). My solution is to automate as much as possible, put Basic Income into use and go into an Electronic Direct Democracy.
The capitalistic system will stand for the automation, it's inevitable because of competition.
BI might come from the current political system (well not in the US but elsewhere).
But true democracy will have to come from the people, and we'll have so much money put against us to change this current system. So that's the fight of tomorrow (and today).
John Gianino
Dec 10 2013: I believe "OUR" intellectual capabilities should be the focus at present. We are all simply parts of a whole. Our minds are comprised of shared thoughts whether imprinted in the brain from past experiences or through influences absorbed from our environment. People share thoughts and capabilties, this is fundimental.
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Joshua Bond
Dec 9 2013: It seems that the long-time dream of machines doing work in order to free humans for "higher pursuits" is now coming to fruition. Unfortunately no-one told the economists.
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Dec 10 2013: nor the workersDec 8 2013: by not separating intelligence from emotion. by ensuring that intelligence is tempered with imagination.
Dec 9 2013: I would suggest that imagination can often be far more advantageous than mere intelligence itself.


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The Vampire Diaries
Vampire Diaries Logic Fails From Season 4, Episode 11, "Catch Me If You Can"
The Vampire Diaries is a show where witches can bring people back from the dead, vampires kiss humans instead of ripping their throats out, and werewolves have silky smooth chests when they haven't transformed. And we accept all of this without blinking an eye. Yet it's the little things that make us scoff and say, "That would never happen." Check out the biggest logic fails from Season 4, Episode 11, "Catch Me If You Can."
How romantic
We're still not quite sure what Damon (Ian Somerhalder) was hoping to have happen when he told Elena (Nina Dobrev) to come to the Gilbert cabin and then got in on Klaus's (Joseph Morgan) mark-growing plan. Maybe the couple could cozy up by the fire while Jeremy (Steven R. McQueen) finished off the bar-full of vampires? Either way, Elena drove a long way to spend the night waiting for the sun to come up with Jer and Matt (Zach Roerig).
Klaus leaves quickly
Shouldn't Klaus have stuck around the Gilbert cabin to make sure Jeremy completed his mark? Instead, the OV leaves the new hunter with a dozen vamps to kill and then blabs the plan to Kol (Nathaniel Buzolic). It's called follow-through, Klaus!
Why doesn't Damon believe Kol about Silas?
When Damon and Stefan (Paul Wesley) were in New Orleans, the witch Nandi told them about Expression, saying, "Channeling the power of human sacrifice calls on darkness that can't exist on this plane without swallowing it whole." Sounds scary — and memorable. Then Kol briefs the elder Salvatore on Silas: "His followers told me that he would rise again, and when he did, he would trigger the end of all time." This doesn't ring any bells for Damon, who replies, "We're not going to back off the cure because you were told one too many bedtime stories, you idiot." It's time to start putting the end-of-the-world puzzle pieces together.
Bonnie gets a confession
Apparently just about anyone can waltz into an interrogation room at the Mystic Falls police station. Bonnie (Kat Graham) tells her dad, the mayor — who is not in any way involved with law enforcement — that she's the only one who will be able to get Professor Shane (David Alpay) to confess to the Council explosion. The sheriff defers to Rudy's judgment. We're not lawyers, but we're pretty sure that won't hold up, legally. Well, unless Mystic Falls runs its courts like it runs its police station.
Random rummaging
Rebekah (Claire Holt) and Stefan spent all day searching Shane's office for the headstone to Silas's grave. All day. When there was light. And yet a mysterious stranger spends a few minutes rifling through papers and knocking on walls in the dark and manages to find it? That's what you get for spending so much time flirting, Stebekah!
Elena's moral code
Elena is fine with killing people. No, not people — vampires. Thousands of vampires. When she decided that Jeremy should use the white oak stake on Kol, effectively ending his vampire bloodline, however long it might be, she sounded very different from the girl who stood in a cabin a few hours earlier complaining about the number of human lives lost to Klaus's plan. What if those vamps are all like Rose and Lexi, Elena?


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Abstaining from sex in order to store up sperm and maximise the chance of a pregnancy is not just a waste of time for men with normal sperm counts, but positively detrimental for those with low counts.
The new research overturns a long held view that men with reduced sperm counts should not ejaculate for at least a week before giving a sample for use in some types of fertility treatment.
Scientists in Israel tested over 7200 semen samples for qualities including sperm volume, shape and speed. For all the men, the volume of sperm produced increased as the period of abstinence lengthened up to 11 to 14 days.
However, for those with low counts, the shape and motility of the sperm began to deteriorate after just two days of abstinence. For those with normal sperm counts, abstinence made no difference to the sperm's quality.
"Our data challenge the role of abstinence in male infertility treatments," says Eliahu Levitas, from Israel's Soroka University, who presented the work at the European Society for Human Reproduction and Embryology in Madrid on Monday.
The findings may be most pertinent for couples attempting to conceive via intra-uterine insemination, in which semen is injected through the cervix directly into the woman's uterus.
It is often the first option tried by couples unable to conceive naturally. "For these patients we recommend minimal abstinence - ideally no more than two days," Levitas says.
The findings should not alter the approach to treatment called intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI), where a single sperm is injected directly into an egg.
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Google Docs and Sheets get their own iPhone and iPad apps
Google has released two new apps for iOS, one for Docs and one for Sheets. The two apps are dedicated to viewing and editing text documents, as opposed to the Google Drive app, which shows all of your documents in one place. It's a way to easily find all of your documents of a single type. Both apps support all of the features that you would expect.
You can create new documents, edit existing ones, both online and off, and work collaboratively. Docs lets you add and respond to comments. Both apps function very much like the Google Drive app, including the ability to pin files for offline editing. However, unlike Drive for iOS, Docs and Sheets display all of your documents in the same view, including documents that have been shared with you by another user.
Google says that in addition to Docs and Sheets, a Google Slides app is on its way. You can download both universal apps from the App Store now.
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Google Docs and Sheets get their own iPhone and iPad apps
I like them.
I don't mind that.
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I didn't really notice this until you mentioned it but now...I hate them! I always thought Google had pretty decent looking apps but why they added the shaded bottom/3D effect, like you mentioned, is beyond me. Sore thumb indeed.
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City Walls Medical Centre
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Contact Information
St Martins Way
Tel: 01244 357 800
Fax: 01244 357 809
Web: www.citywallsmedicalcentre.co.uk
Chester is a beautiful and delightful walled city situated close to the beautiful countryside of North Wales and rural Cheshire and yet is within 30minutes of Liverpool and Manchester on the easily accessible motorway system. Chester is widely regarded as a pleasant city in which to live and practice medicine.
The Trainers
Tony Shanahan and Chris Neukom both reappointed in 2006 with a combined training experience of 34 years. Tony is a GPwSI in Dermatology and Chris has special experience with helping patients with drug problems and the homeless.
The Training
We accept registrars for periods of preferably 12months but also 6 months and part-time registrar applications are also very welcome.
Registrars can expect to have 4 hours of direct trainer contact each week in the form of informal daily meetings, educational meetings, practice meetings and at least 2 hour personal tutorial. The practice has an educational half-day each month for the whole Primary Health Care Team.
There is a dedicated consulting room for the registrars use and the practice also has video facilities. The practice has a fully staffed surgery on a second site in a nearby village, which offers the registrar experience in general, practice in a semi-rural setting as well as the more urban setting of the larger city centre practice. The registrar will see a diversity of medical problems from a wide variety of socio-economic groups. The half-day release scheme is based at The Postgraduate centre at The Countess of Chester Hospital which is approximately 2 miles form the surgery. Attending a communications skills course is encouraged.
Out of hours experience will be provided at the West Cheshire Out of Hours Service (WCOOH) and one trainer works regularly for this service. The registrar can expect to work along with the trainer on 12 sessions per year.. The CWOOH covers a large area serving 250,000 patients.
The practice has a dedicated Family Planning Clinic run by a partner who is a FPA trainer; she is also an appraiser for the PCT. One partner is the Deputy Director in General Practice at the University of Liverpool and another is the prescribing lead for the PCG board. Two partners hold clinical assistantships in diabetes and dermatology respectively. Final year medical students also train in the practice.


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Rookie Designer 139 – Finding Freelance Work
In this latest episode of Rookie Designer Podcast Carl and Jake discuss where you can find freelance jobs online and offline. They also take the time to address some of the sites that run competitions and why they may not be the best for finding good quality freelance work.
Show Notes
Carl's question posted on the Rookie Design Podcast Facebook page: http://goo.gl/nnPZo
Freelance Sites:
oDesk – https://www.odesk.com/
Freelancer.com – http://www.freelancer.com/
iFreelance – http://www.ifreelance.com/
eLance – https://www.elance.com/
Craigslist – http://www.craigslist.org/about/sites
Other Mentions:
NO!SPEC – http://www.no-spec.com/
CANDI – http://www.candiinternational.org/
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Another great show! iTunes 5 stars!
I agree with you about spec sites taking advantage of designers. Thanks for all the tips!
Thanks Mark! Spec work has been the bane of our industry, a lot of people think it's not so bad, but it cheapens our lot as designers and makes us all look like we're participating in amateur hour.
We're planning out the next episode content now, I'm thinking maybe it's worth talking about how we as designers can go out in the world and promote our work through low-cost physical means like car signs, shirts, postcards and the like… I have a couple ideas.
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A page from the diary of John Wilkes Booth implicates Ben Gates' (Nicolas Cage) great-great grandfather as a major conspirator in the assassination of President Lincoln.
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Will waiving NCLB testing standards bring more 'reforms' or more honesty?
Just days after the state Board of Education asked the U.S. Department of Education for a waiver on No Child Left Behind testing standards so Michigan could boost student proficiency on state assessments, federal education officials announced they'll waive the rule that calls for states to have 100 percent of students proficient on state tests by 2014.
Federal education officials believe that without the waiver, more than 80 percent of the nation's schools would be labeled as failing. For Michigan, as many as two-thirds of our schools could carry that label.
State Superintendent Mike Flanagan said he appreciated the move. "This will ease pressure on teachers who now won't have to teach the test. This prevents states like Michigan from being penalized for doing what other states should be doing--raising the standards."
The Department is expecting problems with test scores this fall after it voted to raise the bar on the percentage of students considered proficient on the MEAP. The change is expected to mean far fewer students will be considered proficient and more schools would fail to meet Adequate Yearly Progress benchmarks. The state Department reasoned that this move would provide parents a more accurate measure of school and student achievement.
While Michigan may be cheering the move, waivers will be granted in exchange for states adopting certain education reforms which have yet to be named. So far, only Tennessee and Kentucky had joined Michigan in requesting a waiver.


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What should have been a fun way to kick off the Fourth of July weekend quickly turned tragic for a Custer man who choked to death while trying to speedily eat hot dogs during a competitive eating contest.
The crowd at Way Park in Custer, just across from the county courthouse, was stunned Thursday afternoon when one of six contestants — Walter Eagle Tail, 47 — began to choke while trying to win the contest.
Paramedic who swiftly were called to his side tried in vain to save him. Eagle Tail was transported by ambulance to Custer Regional Hospital, where he died, authorities said.
"There was someone doing CPR when we arrived," Custer County Sheriff Rick Wheeler said on Monday. "Basically, he probably just suffocated. It got lodged in his throat and they couldn't get it out."
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Eagle Tail's untimely death put a damper on the festivities sponsored by the Custer Chamber of Commerce. Organizers cancelled a planned pie eating contest for the next day.
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- Ph.D. Geography Clark University, 2006
- B.A. Fairhaven Concentration Western Washington University
Research Interests
Identity representation difference and place, race and natural resource management
Research Description
My focus as a geographer is to explore how issues of difference impact participation in decision-making processes designed to address environmental issues. I first conducted research in Nepal, speaking with women about their experiences collecting fuel wood, fodder, and water, and the challenges of balancing traditional gender roles with immediate economic needs. Their stories revealed the significance of identity, representation, and struggle in shaping strategies for negotiating their daily lives. Since returning to the United States, I have explored how these same issues influence African Americans' participation in environmental debate and decision-making. What happens when the environmental debate presumes to encompass most perspectives, expectations, and needs? The aim of my work is to develop greater cultural competency within environmental organizations and institutions, challenge media outlets on the (mis- or non-) representation of "different" folks, and increase awareness of how privilege shapes who gets to speak to environmental issues and determine policy and action.
All of my work grows out of a commitment to question conventional wisdom and reconsider long-held assumptions regarding the production, representation, and dissemination of knowledge about people, places, and ideas. We must revisit and revise the way we do things – the frameworks we use, the value we attach to particular kinds of knowledge, the forms of expression that have currency in decision-making arenas – in order to invite creativity and maximize the possibility for positive change.
Here is a recent three-part interview conducted by Berkeley students:
Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6M6R30ftls
Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qY1Op_4md1w
Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDPleebY2uA
Current Projects
Black Faces, White Spaces: Reimagining the Relationship of African Americans to the Great Outdoors
I have completed my first book, which explores the relation of African Americans to the environment and to the environmental movement. In particular, I explore the role of memory and identity in influencing African American environmental participation, and the general disconnect between African American environmental professionals and their white counterparts regarding the perception of exclusion and racism within an environmental context. Black Faces, White Spaces was published in May 2014 by UNC Press.
National Parks Advisory Board/Relevancy Work
As chair for the Relevancy committee on the National Parks Advisory Board, I am working with a geographically and culturally diverse group of people from across the county to assist the National Park Service in engaging in relationships of reciprocity with diverse communities. In particular, we will be hosting a number of Citizen Conversations over the course of the next two years where members of the park service can engage in dialogue with community members.
Climate Change, Privilege, and Consciousness
S.D. Bechtel Jr. Foundation - With Dr. Matthew Kolan and artist/educator Kaylynn Twotrees, I constructed a framework to bring into the climate-change conversation those people whose voices have so far been unheard. Who is shaping this conversation, and how is it being packaged and disseminated? Who gets to participate, who is experiencing the impact of climate changes through loss, and who is engaging with the changes through information? For those individuals and groups who wish to communicate their experience of a changing planet, we will provide a structure for framing their issues, expressing their ideas, and proposing solutions, as well as leveraging that dialogue into full participation in the climate-change debate.
The Great Dismal Swamp
American University/National Endowment for the Humanities - I was part of team of investigators taking part in The Great Dismal Swamp Landscape study in Virginia. In particular, I was responsible for constructing a narrative about race and environment in the region.
Out in the World
I also work with individuals and organizations in the U.S. and abroad who are deeply invested in developing innovative and creative approaches to how they do their work in the world. One of these organizations is The Global Environments Summer Academy (GESA) whom I have been privleged to work with for the last two summers in Europe:
Selected Publications
Geographer Carolyn Finney on the Tavis Smiley Show
Finney, C. 2014. Black Faces, White Spaces: Reimagining the Relationship of African Americans to the Great Outdoors. UNC Press (May 2014).
Finney, C. 2013. Brave New World? Ruminations on Race in the 21st Century. Antipode
Finney, C. 2012. Child's Play: Finding the Green in the In Between. In Companions in Wonder: Reflections on Children and Adults Exploring Nature, Julie Dunlap and Steven Kellert, editors, MIT Press.
Finney, C. 2010. This Land is Your Land, This Land is My Land: People and Public Lands Redux. In The George Wright Forum Vol. 27(3), p. 247-254.
Finney, C. 2008. What's Race Got to do With It? Climate Change, Privilege and Consciousness. Whole Thinking Journal January 2009.
Finney, C. 2003. Can't See the Black Folks for the Trees: Feminist Theory in Black and White. In Voices for a New Century. Eds. C. Faulkner and S. Weir. Massachusetts: Allyn & Bacon.
Honors and Awards
- Graduate Mentorship Award, ESPM - 2014
- Faces of Conservation - The Wilderness Society - 2010
- Creating a Community That Works Award - North Lawndale Employment Network, Chicago, IL - 2009
- Newhouse/Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in Environmental Studies, Wellesley College, 2006-07 - Wellesley College - 2006
- Canon National Parks Science Scholarship, 2004-07 - National Parks Science - 2004
- Society of Women Geographers Pruitt National Fellowship - Society of Women Geographers - 2003
- Fullbright Fellowship, Nepal - Fullbright - 2001
Recent Teaching
- 262 - Race, Identity, and the Environment
Selected Professional Activities
National Parks Advisory Board - I have been appointed through the Department of the Interior to advise the National Park Director on increasing park relevancy to a diverse public.
The Center for Whole Communities, Vermont – I participate as a board and faculty member in developing curriculum and facilitating workshops with environmental professionals designed to focus on race, land, and privilege.
Second Century National Park Commission – I served on a board-appointed committee of academics, politicians, and private sector individuals that addresses the educational role of the National Parks in the 21st century.
Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) – I serve as a member of a board-appointed committee on the Public Understanding of Science and Technology (COSTEP).
Contact Information
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Office: 128C Giannini Hall
Office Phone: 510-643-6342
Fax: 510-666-3031
- Black Faces, White Spaces
- Tracking Patterns and Mapping New Terrain in Environmental Education: Building Relationships and Embracing Change
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Tuesdays, 2:30-4:30 and by appointment.
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Dept of Environmental Science, Policy, & Management
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1. Cut 2 carrots into 1-inch dice; place in a saucepan, cover with water and simmer until tender, about 10 minutes. Drain and puree in a food processor or blender. Set aside.
2. Grate the remaining carrot; reserve.
3. Preheat the oven to 350°F. Grease a 9x13-inch baking pan. Line the bottom with waxed paper and grease the paper.
4. Sift the flour, sugar, baking soda and cinnamon into a large bowl. Add the oil, eggs and vanilla; beat well. Fold in the carrot puree, grated carrot, walnuts, coconut and pineapple.
5. Pour the batter into the prepared pan. Bake until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean, about 1 hour.
6. Cool the cake in the pan for 10 minutes before unmolding it onto a rack, then let the cake cool completely.
7. Prepare the frosting: Mix the cream cheese and butter together in a bowl. Slowly add the confectioners' sugar. Stir in the vanilla and lemon juice. Frost the cake.
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Nutritional Breakdown: New Wellness, Richmond, Va.
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Another culture — not American — is where you should look for evil, says one of the savviest conservative observers. Back with a bang, she takes issue with Brent Bozell's invocation of "Satan" to describe American culture: "I, too, believe in evil, and I'd say Satan's found a far more mellifluous laughing-ground among the Muslims, who please themselves to bury women up to their heads and stone them to death for 'adultery,' murder their own daughters for 'mingling,' and practice forms of human sacrifice—selling their sons to Pashtun pedophiles, for one, or celebrating their childrens' deaths in suicide bombings, for another. To name just a few of the ways Islam holds the Satan laugh hand at the moment. So enough with the wah, wah, wah, Brent. Bad as it may be here at culture-rotten central (or not), it's worse out there among the practitioners of the culture and religion of peace."
Another terrible ambassador nominated, this time for Turkey. Elliott Abrams explains: ""Especially in 2005 and 2006, Secretary Rice and the Bush administration significantly increased American pressure for greater respect for human rights and progress toward democracy in Egypt. This of course meant pushing the Mubarak regime, arguing with it in private, and sometimes criticizing it in public. In all of this we in Washington found Ambassador [Francis] Ricciardone to be without enthusiasm or energy." And he was publicly insubordinate. Other than that, great pick — who can wait in line behind Robert Ford to be confirmed.
Another reason not to take the UN seriously: "When the results of the international investigation into the sinking of the South Korean ship the Cheonan were released in May, the U.S. State Department was adamant that it believed North Korea was responsible — and that the country would have to face some actual punishment for killing 46 innocent South Korea sailors. … Fast forward to today, when the United Nations released a presidential statement which not only does not specify any consequences for the Kim Jong Il regime, but doesn't even conclude that North Korea was responsible for the attack in the first place." But the UN is certain the flotilla incident is all Israel's fault.
Another inconvenient truth for the left: "The Obama administration would quickly send home six Algerians held at the military detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, but for one problem: The men don't want to go. Given the choice between repatriation and incarceration, the men choose Gitmo, according to their lawyers."
Another awkward moment for Jewish groups. Obama declares that Israelis don't like him because of his middle name; American Jewish leaders are mute. But Rep. Peter King isn't: "'That's a terrible cheap shot. … And if he wants to get cute about it, King Hussein of Jordan was one of the best allies Israel ever had.' … But his middle name 'has nothing to do with it,' King said. 'The fact is that his policies from day one have had an anti-Israel overtone. … He has no one to blame but himself. He should forget his name — that's just a cheap game and he should knock it off.'"
Another reason to dump Michael Steele: Haley Barbour could take over and would do a boffo job.
Another "Huh?" Clinton moment: he is officiating at the wedding of New York Rep. Anthony Weiner and a Hillary aide. Is he really the guy you want to lead the recitation of your wedding vows?
Another sign of the inherent good sense of the American people: Mark Penn, on the result of a survey for the Aspen Festival of Ideas, writes: "The poll suggests that, while the public may be dissatisfied with recent administrations and the partisan political environment, they remain reasonably satisfied with the governmental framework set out in the Constitution. By 64 to 19 they endorse the system of checks and balances as necessary to prevent one branch from dominating the Government. Freedom of speech was seen as far and away the single most important right guaranteed by the Constitution, and, as a corollary, only 28 percent believe the press has too much freedom." I guess they don't buy the suggestion that we are "ungovernable."
Another outburst — and a reminder that the idea of engaging Iran is ludicrous: "Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad questioned the historic dimensions of the Holocaust but rejected the label of an anti-Semite, the Fars news agency reported Friday. … Ahmadinejad had earlier sparked international fury by calling for the eradication of Israel from the Middle East and its relocation to Europe or North America and by describing the murders of 6 million European Jews by Germany's Nazi regime as a 'fairy tale.' He said Thursday that the Holocaust was an excuse for Israel and the West to take land away from millions of Palestinians and give it to Israel." You know the last world leader to argue that the Holocaust was the rationale for creation of the Jewish state was… Barack Obama. Just saying.
Another reason to rethink lifetime Supreme Court appointments: at the Aspen Ideas Festival, "Justice Ginsburg said, 'I am so glad that Elena is joining us.' … Calling herself a 'flaming feminist,' Ginsburg said, 'we will never go back' to the days when abortion was illegal." Since her mind is closed and her bias is evident, she should recuse herself from gender-discrimination and abortion cases.


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Joe Jonas ranks his favorite Disney Channel star: Miley Cyrus, Demi Lovato, and Selena Gomez
When the Jonas Brothers stopped by Bravo's "Watch What Happens Live" to promote their upcoming album, Joe Jonas was dealt a tough question during a game of Plead the Fifth. The middle JoBro was asked to rank his favorite Disney Channel star -- Miley Cyrus, Demi Lovato, and Selena Gomez -- in order from his favorite to least favorite.
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First was Lovato as his favorite, despite them being exes. "Me and her are very cool now," Joe said. Then came Cyrus, followed by Gomez in third. But last place was decided based on his most recent interactions, not because of any hard feelings towards Gomez.
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