| Are Designers The Enemy Of Design?
This lack of definition gives license to label design as innovation rather than the process that generates lots of innovation. For this reason I commend you for goading us arrogant suckers into further discussion about the subject. True, design has been slowly changing its meaning. Design is making it apparent that it will never again be the same in the mind of the beholder. And yes, people do want to participate in the design of their lives, however it's not the kind of design that headlines Business Week, or is taught in business school. Design is about life. Design is an internal and subjective process more than a philosophy; clue as to why it is so difficult to measure. However, I agree that design by ego must subside in order to allow design to present itself to our true creative nature.
The Impossible Art of Deciphering Manuscripts
Matthew Bourne, as you may have heard, is the most successful choreographer alive. His shows break box-office records and reach an audience much larger and wider than is usual for dance. Accordingly, each new endeavor—like the current North American tour of his version of Edward Scissorhands, which left Brooklyn on Sunday to head for Toronto and points west—occasions a deluge of articles and reviews. Read a few, and an uncomfortable fact becomes clear: The least interesting thing about this most successful of choreographers is his choreography. This is sometimes expressed damningly ("He has made modern dance marketable by taking out the dance"). It is sometimes offered in admiration, as evidence of his properly populist attitudes ("He cares about story, not steps"). More often, it is admitted parenthetically, to offset praise of Bourne's almost universally recognized gifts as a storyteller.
FBI Wants To Build Huge Biometric Database
We just found out that the White House has chosen not to staff the official "Privacy Board" that is supposed to make sure gov't surveillance doesn't infringe on American citizens' privacy. That came right after National Intelligence Director, Mike McConnell, announced that he's hoping to get the rights to monitor all internet traffic. Since news tends to come in threes (well, so says the urban legend) now comes the news that the FBI is looking to put together a huge biometric database containing info on fingerprints, palm prints, iris recognition mug shots and scars of anyone they can gather this info on. This seems like a typical reaction from a gov't agency, and with the announcement comes all the typical political doubletalk about how this is for safety, claiming that the database is "important to protect the borders to keep the terrorists out, protect our citizens, our neighbors, our children so they can have good jobs, and have a safe country to live in." However, as has been made clear countless times, these types of databases always get abused.
Wild Card -- Weekend
Hunky Santa, Beverly Center's (Calif.) original take on old St. Nick-he's tanned, toned, and traded the belly full of jelly for six-pack abs-is posing for photos for two more nights. Young kids have traditional Santa by day, big kids have Hunky Santa Thursday and Friday evening. .
Huawei's 3Com Deal Flops
The news release we issued on Feb. 20, clearly states that the only action taken has been a voluntary withdrawal by Bain Capital Partners, Huawei and 3Com of the filing the parties had made to the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States. CFIUS granted that request. The bid for 3Com by Bain Capital and Huawei has not been withdrawn. The parties, as the news release stated, are continuing to work closely to "construct alternatives that would address CFIUS' concerns." That is a far different situation than what this article portrays. -- Kevin Flanagan, Director of Public Relations, 3Com Corporation .
Christopher Magryta column: Back to old-school parenting
As an advocate for the health of the children of Rowan County, I want to help give parents the tools they need to help their children live a life in wellness. I want to encourage parenting with responsibility. Let's look at the state of our youth's nutrition today. Our children are more obese than ever, prone to more chronic disease and relatively unaware of the poor quality of life that awaits them. Whose fault is this? Corporate fast food? Our work schedules? School vending machines/lunches? I think not, although maybe partly. The fault lies with our collective inability to make healthy choices and to educate our children to do the same. Simply, we do not parent effectively. How does one effect change? I have been fighting this battle in my head and at Salisbury Pediatrics for nine years.
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