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Riz Khan - Schools killing creativity - 10 Sep 08 - Part 2

2008-09-18T04:45:42Z

Education is a terrible way to find out what you're good at. Sound strange, right?

But think about this; how many of you are currently working in the subject you liked most in school. Not the one you excelled in, the one you liked.

In our very streamlined public education system, children around the world are taught the maths and sciences, but how many of them are taught art, painting or dance with the same vigour?

Riz speaks with world renowned creativity and education expert Ken Robinson who strongly believes the current state of education may begin holistically but progressively focuses "on the head, and then just to one side."

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Riz Khan - Schools killing creativity? - 10 Sep 08 - Part 1

2008-09-18T04:45:42Z

Education is a terrible way to find out what you're good at. Sound strange, right?

But think about this; how many of you are currently working in the subject you liked most in school. Not the one you excelled in, the one you liked.

In our very streamlined public education system, children around the world are taught the maths and sciences, but how many of them are taught art, painting or dance with the same vigour?

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Ballad of the Little Hater

2008-10-11T14:44:20Z

Topher asked me to describe my Little Hater, and Derek asked me to discuss beatboxing. But the beatboxing game is to be sold, not to be told.

If you're not familiar with the Little Hater:
http://www.illdoctrine.com/2007/12/beating_the_little_hater.html

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Paul Rothemund: The astonishing promise of DNA folding

2008-10-11T14:41:12Z

www.ted.com In 2007, Paul Rothemund gave TED a short summary of his specialty, DNA folding. Now he lays out in clear, adundant detail the immense promise of this field -- to create tiny machines that assemble themselves.

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Vlogging is Stupid

2008-10-11T14:44:21Z

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Just a station announcement before we return to regular programming. Conversate is totally a word, by the way.

Like I said in the video, please hit me back with ideas, comments, stuff you disagreed with in some other video.. here or at my site or on twitter (twitter.com/jsmooth995) or wherever. And if you can do it in a video response that's even better!

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(6).Can we trust Solicitors & Ins. Co. with our private info

2008-08-02T12:10:41Z

Hi all just a quick update for those who have been keeping an interest in our case " Accident at Costco's" our new solicitor has asked me to make a "Statement" for the next case management conference to be held in Central London County Court for trial instead of Edmonton County Court. I will be posting my statement below but I am sure that our solicitors won't agree to it and will make changes? Will put you all in the picture of the outcome.

Statement

I Colin Berry am making a statement on behalf of my wife Mrs. Mary Berry and my self; the reason why Mrs. Berry is unable to make her own statement is because of a head injury received at the accident.

I Colin Berry am a self employed businessman who ran an established business since 1983 named "Colin Berry BMS" it specialized in Electrical and Plumbing and also offered to carry out Building Maintenance Specialist work on commercial and domestic properties.

My wife does domestic work, 31 and a half hours a week for various individuals including 10 hours for Enfield Council, she also carried out additional work dealing with the clerical side of my business in taking calls and keeping accounts to date.

Accident at Costco

We went shopping on the 5 April 2003 at Costco Chingford around 5:00 p.m. after passing the first isle walking in between the first and second isle we heard an enormous bang that shook the whole building, preventing my wife from taking another step forward she flew out of my grasp and vanished followed by another enormous bang two washing machines lying in front of me but my wife was not to be seen, I panicked trying to find her she was thrown about 10 ft behind me in the opposite direction from where we were heading. She was unconscious with blood coming from her mouth, I laid beside her calling her name and suddenly realized that she needed an ambulance and shouted out, get an ambulance, but there was no one around it must have frightened everyone, it seemed forever but eventually someone tiptoed and poked their head around the corner I screamed at them get an ambulance please.

Finally a plea was announced across the tannoy asking for Medical Assistance, a doctor and several other people two of which were an ambulance crew; they were directed to the scene by Costco's management but the management kept well away from the seen of the accident? My wife finally stirred I asked her if she was all right but she was still dazed the ambulance crew that was shopping there came and introduce themselves to me and began to put my wife into a safe position awaiting the Air Ambulance crew to arrive.

Police

The police were called, their was around five officers at the accident they had to seal the whole area off one of the police officers who was taking photos remarked, don't worry we have taken 14 photos of the incident and have all the names of the witnesses, he pointed up to show me where the washing machines were stacked, 8 machines on the highest shelf the remaining 4 were tipping over, there was barely sufficient room to accommodate the 4 that fell at the back, the bottom 2 machines fell on the racking on our side the top 2 machines that fell and hit my wife was 30 ft. high the police officer remarked how the machines manage to pull the cling film down because of their weight resting on it due to the 20% overlapping.

Air Ambulance

The air ambulance crew had to cut my wife's clothes off to enable them to assess her injuries, she was in a lot of pain and refused to move they eventually managed to lift her on to the stretcher and went, I was told that a constable would take me to the Royal London Hospital. When I arrived at the Hospital she was in the emergency intensive care area where a lot of X-rays was taken, after a while a Doctor approached us with the X-ray and informed me that three of my wife's vertebrae's were fractured and showed me on the X-ray that there was concern for internal bleeding and wanted to take more CT scans, now it is past 10:00 p.m. I am told that it is best that I go home don't know the area and asked my son-in-law to come and pick me up.

Admitted in Hospital

My wife was in intensive care for five days and was moved to an adjoining ward after, she had to wear an extremely restrictive "neck collar MJ 200L" for over a week, she had bruises to the head and extensive bruising to the right side of her rib cage and arm, she looked a mess, she could not turn her head to the left without extensive pain, she had a body cast made and fitted, that allowed her to move more freely, 12 days later I over heard a conversation made by her Consultant Dr. Afshar on the phone debating whether or not to discharge my wife with his superiors, "there is a possibility that the bone may break away" after the phone call he approached us saying there is a shortage of beds would she be prepared to accept to be discharged. Well I gather that they were willing to take the risk on behalf of my wife, throwing the ball into our court, I guessed if there were patients that needed the bed it would be right that she accepted to be discharged and I agreed. (I am appalled to think that the NHS is under such considerable strain that they are prepared to release patients with such severe damage to their vertebras and partial movement to her neck, not to mention her head injury, which was totally discarded.)

Outpatient at Bart's

Regular X-rays was taken at Bart's Hospital and a CT Scan at the London Chest Hospital revealing, this is what the nurse had to say, "in the 15 years doing this work I have only come across one other similar fracture, there is only a wedge remaining of one vertebrae carrying a rib, how did this happen?"
I mention to the Consultant's in charge of Mary's case at Bart's that she has a memory problem and was told, I am a Consultant Neurosurgeon there is nothing I can do for Mary and finally referred Mary to a Consultant Neurologist Dr. Gawler at Bart's.

Dr. Gawler said that he couldn't locate any problems with Mary's short-term memory loss. Dr. Gawler requesting that Mary see a local psychiatrist, letter sent to Mary's GP Dr. Connaughton, letter dated 24 March 2005; he had also made an appointment with a Mr. Blunden Chartered Clinical Psychologist for the 27.6.05. At the appointment on 27 June 2005 Mr. Blunden told me that Mary's GP failed to carry out the request made by Dr. Gawler for a local Psychiatrist to see Mary. Apparently I only knew of the appointment to see Mr. Blunden he was annoyed that the request was not followed through by Mary's GP.

Eventually Mary saw a local Psychiatrist, Consultant Psychiatrist at the CMHS Edmonton N9
Dr. Balasubramaniam asked for reports from the following doctors mention. Psychologist Dr. Gillion Century was assigned to her case, further test conducted by Dr. M. K. Burke Clinical Psychologist and was referred on to Dr. Kizzy Alner Clinical Neuropsychologist at Queen's Square London, she advised me that our Solicitor should obtain private rehab for Mary "remarked Medico Legal should have been involved in the first six months," she advised in her report that Mary should obtain rehab.

Our first and second Solicitors' failed to see the need to obtain rehab for Mary or even obtaining an independent Medical Expert Report, with my constant pleading for protocol rules to be in force the both Solicitors' ignored my request, I had to report the both Solicitors' to the Law Society. They failed my wife dismally and refused to obey any of my instructions. Currently we are on our third firm of Solicitors' and my wife is still consulting a local psychiatrist and awaiting Brain Rehab assessment at Edgware Hospital.

Second Claimant Colin Berry

I am still in a dream I cannot believe what has happened, my heart torn from me and haven't had the time to recover, its as if my soul is missing and has been replaced with sheer determination.
My world fell apart and have not been given the opportunity to recover in the midst of deep sorrow and destruction lies a soul that is misplaced and required some form of normality to regain its consciousness.
Extremely hurt injured and bitter determine to get justice at no matter what cost.

Business and accounts

We was thrown into the deep end and left to die, we received no financial help or advice from the hospital or our solicitor, eight months before an interim payment of £5,000 was offered, my wife required constant care, I had to employ someone we knew and trusted and someone to help with the backlog of work already booked in my business, pledges that we could not deny, customers that had over twenty years loyalty and elderly. I had to accomplish clearing my pledges in whatever way I could and what ever help I could get, realizing that it was impossible to keep my business going due to extreme circumstances I find myself in, the reality is that people want plumbers and electricians ASAP and remain till the job is done.

After dismissing our first appointed solicitor for professional negligence he demanded £15,000 + to release the files eventually settled for £5.875.00 as an interim payment.

The second appointed solicitor took the case on a private client bases, saying that it was till they received the files from the first solicitor but decided to leave us on a private client basis till they finally came off the records that was a further £1,000 in interim payment.

We have cleared all of our savings of £15,000 and Mary's life insurance policy of a further £10,000 and loss of earnings for 4 and half years.

This accident not only destroyed us physically but also mentally and demolished all the faith we had in our society.

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Yves Behar: Creating objects that tell stories

2008-09-04T08:22:32Z

www.ted.com Designer Yves Behar digs up his creative roots to discuss some of the iconic objects he's created (the Leaf lamp, the Jawbone headset). Then he turns to the witty, surprising, elegant objects he's working on now -- including the "$100 laptop."

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Moshe Safdie: What makes a building unique?

2008-06-12T15:34:31Z

www.ted.com Looking back over a long career, architect Moshe Safdie digs deep into four extraordinary projects to talk about the unique choices he made on each building -- choosing where to build, pulling information from the client, and balancing the needs and the vision behind each project. Sketches, plans and models show how these grand public buildings, museums and memorials, slowly take form.

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Craig Venter: On the verge of creating synthetic life

2008-06-15T09:29:50Z

www.ted.com "Can we create new life out of our digital universe?" asks Craig Venter. And his answer is, yes, and pretty soon. He walks the TED2008 audience through his latest research into "fourth-generation fuels" -- biologically created fuels with CO2 as their feedstock. His talk covers the details of creating brand-new chromosomes using digital technology, the reasons why we would want to do this, and the bioethics of synthetic life. A fascinating Q&A with TED's Chris Anderson follows (two words: suicide genes).

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Tod Machover & Dan Ellsey: Releasing the music in your head

2008-07-28T08:47:25Z

www.ted.com Tod Machover of MIT's Media Lab is devoted to extending musical expression for everyone -- from virtuosi to amateurs, and in the most diverse forms -- from opera to videogames (Guitar Hero grew out of his group). At TED2008 he talks about what's coming next, from new tools for music creativity to the world's first robotic opera. Machover then introduces Dan Ellsey, a young man with cerebral palsy who has found his voice through music created and performed using Media Lab technologies. Ellsey plays his "My Eagle Song" in a soaring rendition that underscores music's power to heal, to communicate, and to inspire.

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Amy Tan: Where does creativity hide?

2008-07-31T10:46:58Z

www.ted.com Novelist Amy Tan digs deep into the creative process, journeying through her childhood and family history and into the worlds of physics and chance, looking for hints of where her own creativity comes from. It's a wild ride with a surprise ending.

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Creativity

2008-10-11T14:44:24Z

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As we enter the new year, just some quick thoughts on feeding your creative muse, from people who are smarter than I. Or me. One of those.

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Being First

2008-10-11T14:44:24Z

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part 2 of "Beating the Little Hater"

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Connecting with Iraqi Students through American Pop Culture

2008-06-15T21:31:01Z

Complete video at: fora.tv

Author Ian Klaus talks about using American pop culture to connect with Kurdish students in an excerpt from his book, "Elvis is Titanic: Classroom Tales from the Other Iraq."

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Ian Klaus delivers "Elvis is Titanic: Classroom Tales from the Other Iraq."

In the spring of 2005, Ian Klaus, a twenty-six-year-old Rhodes Scholar, traveled eight hours from Turkey, via broken-down taxi and armed convoy, to reach Salahaddin University in Arbil, the largest city in Iraqi Kurdistan. ELVIS IS TITANIC is the poignant, funny, and uplifting story of the semester he spent there teaching US history and English in the thick of the war for hearts and minds.

Inspired by the volunteerism of so many young Americans after 9/11, Klaus exchanges the abstraction of duty for an intimate involvement with individual lives. Among the Kurds, a perennially oppressed but seemingly indomitable people, he encounters both openhearted welcome and resentful suspicion -- and soon learns firsthand how far trust can go. With assignments ranging from Elvis to Ellington, from the mysteries of baseball to de Tocqueville, from Michael Jackson to Thomas Friedman, Klaus strives to illuminate the American way for students initially far more attuned to our pop culture than our national ideals. These efforts -- recounted in unforgettable vignettes full of hope and discovery -- also occasion his own reexamination of truths we hold to be self-evident, as well as the less exalted cultural assumptions we have presumed to export to the rest of the world. - Cody's Books

Ian Klaus, who now lives in New York City, wrote for publications across the United States while he was in Iraq and Afghanistan. He is currently pursuing a doctorate in history at Harvard.

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