Perspective is Reality
2009-09-21 05:13:00 I sweated through this one without the benefit of actually watching it live. Thankfully, the magic of cellphones and old-school VCR recorders allowed me to enjoy the game in full, but perhaps with a little more perspective. Only getting play-by-play text messages from friends when the team was in the red-zone, I experienced only the most depressing aspects of the game while it was live. That sucked. Then I got in my car to crawl home through beltway traffic on my way home so I could finally watch my recording of the game. I new the outcome, so I listened to the analysis and fans. That sucked too. When I finally got home I opened Hogs Haven and the ESPN game story, intent on not having any opinion of my own to formulate while watching the game. In the game story, I read this doozie from All-Pro Tight End, and All-Around Awesome Guy, Chris Cooley: "I understand that they want us to beat the Rams by 40," said Cooley, who led the Redskins with seven catches for 83 yards. "But we ...
By: Hogs Haven
Feline Slade's Perspective from the Audience Member's Viewpoint
2009-09-16 01:44:00 Slamming Shut the Door on the “Killer App”by Feline Sladevia http://felineslade.wordpress.co-m"M Linden’s now-infamous labeling of music as a “killer app” for Second Life has led to a lot of discussion and blowing of hot air. Even when some very specific and relatively easily-implementable suggestions were made during the Looking to the Future of Live Performance in Second Life session at SLCC (Really, how hard would it be to repurpose an unused subcategory in Events?), they were automatically put in the “Not in 2009″ pile. In the end, the live music community has been left to its own devices to feel its way along.I’m pretty much a nobody on the Second Life live music scene. I don’t own a venue. I am not a musician, since I can’t tolerably play an instrument as well as sing. So why is the current music venue “to cover charge or not to cover charge” drama bothering me? Maybe it’s because I’m the supposedly deep pockets that it feels like some music venue ow...
Matt Shelvock: shred this, a Canadian perspective
2009-08-23 15:24:00 Another cool entry... just det to make Tom, Rick and my life really hard! SHRED THIS competition entry by Matt An excerpt from "Hot Wired" using my rig (US deluxe strat, Koch Powertone II+cab) and the Wampler Ego Compressor. Speedy Countryness-- Brent Mason This is a content summary only. Visit Truth In Shredding to find out more!
China's Rio Tinto Arrests. A Rapid Fire Historical Perspective.
2009-08-19 19:22:00 Sometimes big events can be so complicated, controversial and unwieldy, there is hardly any point in reading current reports because they are likely to be so biased and/or inaccurate as to be of no value. In those instances, particularly when the underlying topic is not of huge interest to me, I generally pretty much stop reading articles on it and just wait for the dust to settle. I think the common wisdom is that real dust settling (and releasing of key documents) and gaining of perspective usually takes around 50 years. And though I would love to be able to look at China's recent Rio Tinto arrests from the perspective of fifty years hence, that is obviously not possible right now. So instead, I will turn to an excellent FT.com by Arthur Kroeber, somewhat mis-titled, "Rio Tinto arrests reveal China has growing-up to do." The thrust of the article is that China is a relatively safe place in which to do business, particularly as compared to Russia. I agree. China has done...
By: China Law Blog
Farmer?s Market: A Chef?s Perspective
2009-08-19 13:00:00 I was in Minnesota recently, filming a series of videos about a veteran organic farmer, Steven Schwen, of Earthen Path Organic Farm. I was going to film at his farm for only 2 days, yet I also wanted to be able to see him sell his produce at the farmer’s market since it was ...
African American Beauty Perspective
2009-08-12 05:06:00 I am a dark-skinned African American woman with features that reflect my ancestry. Debates regarding Light vs. Dark and other biases have plagued our race for years and continues to impact millions of Black women. The deeply rooted intra-racial contempt that lies beneath this inane "compliment" is the reason I've chosen to spark dialogue surrounding the topic of self-hatred in our culture. It saturates every aspect of our lives, dominating the perspectives of our generation as a whole. We culturally are so influential, at times inadvertently, that we affect all with the words we utter and the images we portray. It lends to the theory of systemic racism. I'm authoring this piece because I'm miffed by this reality and would like to share my views on these subjects. I read "She's Pretty for a Dark-Skinned Girl..." by Tameka J. Raymond with concern and was wondering if anyone can see change coming in the perspective...
By: Light Within
Obama and Africa in Perspective
2009-07-19 22:13:00 I alluded in my most recent update on the president’s America-Bashing Tour that there was more to discuss about his speech to the Ghanaian Parliament. Here it is: A week or so ago, I was out for drinks and overheard a typical Obamaphile going on about how great this speech of his was. Nothing ...
By: GayPatriot
Development Debate ? An Engineer's Perspective
2009-07-03 12:40:00 The illustration above speaks for itself. This is the twenty first year (in a total of thirty eight years) of the writer's journey through space-time continuum of human livelihood conditions (mainly based on interaction in the various dilapidated villages in India). As student of Mechanical Engi
Perspective
2009-06-16 15:12:00 Blogging from my house outside Buffalo won't make Iran free. Re-Tweeting something off my iPhone won't make Iran free. These things may help inform people or make them interested, but the work of making Iran free lies with the Iranian people, and they're doing a very good job ...
By: BuffaloPundit
Consumerism: an Historical Perspective
2009-04-26 18:54:00 by Sharon Beder21 February 2009The Pacific Ecologist, whence this article came, provided this editorial note: Sharon Beder explores the history of consumer societies from the 1920s when over-production of goods exceeded demand. Instead of stabilising the economy, reducing working hours, and sharing work around, which would have brought more leisure time for all, industrialists decided to expand markets by promoting consumerism to the working classes. The social decision to produce unlimited quantities of goods rather than leisure, nurtured wastefulness, obsolescence, and inefficiency and created the foundation for our modern consumer culture. People were trained to be both workers and consumers in a culture of work and spend.Consumption was promoted through advertising as a "democracy of goods" and used to pacify political unrest among workers. With the help of marketers and advertisers exploiting the idea of consumer goods as status symbols, workers were manipulated into being avar...
RSA Conference 2009: An EMEA Perspective
2009-04-22 02:00:00 Greetings from RSA Conference 2009 in San Francisco. As the only RSA blogger currently based in Europe, I’ve given myself the challenge of trying to use my blog to bring a EMEA perspective to the thoughts, themes and announcements from this year’s show.
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Perspective
2009-03-20 16:43:00 Logan's Missing Front Tooth For all my recent cynical ramblings - nothing’s cuter than a 6 year old with a missing front tooth.
A Christ-Centered Perspective of King James Onlyism
2009-03-13 18:50:00 Damien over at Return to Biblicism, just completed a three part series on “Christ and the Scriptures“. He gives me hope: there are other people out there who write longer blog posts than I do!!! His series focuses on why we believe the Bible, and he argues convincingly that we should believe in Christ first, and ...
Positive Perspective
2009-01-29 23:26:00 I think this dog knows how to live the good life! When you’re chewing on life’s gristle Don’t grumble, give a whistle “Monty Python’s Life of Brian” Photo By: scott page Email This Image To A FriendAdd this image to Myspace or YOUR page:
The Problem Perspective
2009-01-14 18:48:00 The Problem Perspective, Martin Kippenberger?s first retrospective in the United States, is a lot to take in. The artist worked in an exhaustive array of media including sculpture, drawing, painting, photography, and book art. Kippenberger built complex relational webs encompassing the role of the artist within cultural production, issues of authorship, Germaneness, shame, and guilt--all filtered through a caustically irreverent sensibility. Curator Ann Goldstein presents the breadth and depth of the artist?s extensive oeuvre, showcasing favorites like the photorealistic series of paintings Lieber maler, male mirseries (Dear Painter, Paint for me, ) and the sprawling installation The Happy End of Franz Kafka?s Amerika (1994), in addition to lesser known works.WM | whitehot magazine of contemporary art | January 2009, Martin Kippenberger: The Problem Perspective MOCA
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Blind Leading The Blind: A New Perspective To Historical Tours
2009-01-13 00:16:00 Who ever said all guided tours have to be the same? Sensorial Lisbon, organized by Portugal's renowned creative studio Cabracega, lets visitors experience one of Lisbon's boroughs Alfama, using their senses other than vision.
A Better Perspective
2008-12-20 20:29:00 By Ray Melick -- Birmingham News Auburn didn't just pick a white football coach, Gene Chizik, over a black football coach, Turner Gill.Auburn picked a coach with a worse resume than just about anybody Athletics Director Jay Jacobs interviewed - white, black, or green.That fact seems to have been lost in the midst of this national conversation about the lack of opportunity for blacks as head football coaches at the college level.Not that the lack of opportunity isn't important. It is very important. It defies logic that of the thousands of young black athletes who have grown up playing and watching football, so few have been considered qualified for the opportunity to lead a college program.It is embarrassing that college football lags so far behind in this issue. Last year, roughly 25 percent of college basketball coaches were minorities. In the NFL, nearly one-fourth of the head coaches are minorities.And yet at the highest level of college coaching, the 66 members of the BCS con...
Meerabai Not Out: Cricket from a female perspective - Feature
2008-12-07 19:30:00 There is a conception propagated through various channels of communication that cricket and female do not go together, i.e. the fan following for cricket among cricket is very less as compared to the cult status that is has among the male population. MEERA BAI NOT OUT is able to dispel this notion to a large extent….
The Future of Mobile - London Perspective
2008-11-21 12:41:00 The Future of Mobile conference in ...
Energy Partners, Ltd. (NYSE: EPL) - a company with perspective?
2008-11-07 23:17:00 Energy Partners, Ltd. (NYSE: EPL) announced their quarterly financial results yesterday. The company's stock rallied over 10% right after the announcement, but ended the day at $3.42, up 12%. It after hours trading today it remained basically at that price level. Energy Partners reported quarterly income of $34.4 million which was a great improvement considering the nearly $4 million loss the company incurred a year ago. Such net income however was achieved on lower revenues. read more in hotstocked.com
Perspective on the plot to kill Obama
2008-10-29 02:52:00 If you’ve ever read my personal blog you’ll know that I am far from a supporter of Barack Obama. However I am going to discuss the alleged assassination plot against him by two neo-nazi skinheads from an apolitical point of view. As I’m sure most are you are well aware of the ATF announced that authorities ...
Real Estate FSBOs - a Perspective
2008-10-18 14:40:00 I'm not ashamed to admit it. My neighbor is a FSBO. He is selling his house as a for sale by owner. I've watched the debacle happen. First, there was a sign in his yard listed with a Realtor's phone number and name, then there was snow. Then there was a small sign with a tiny scrawled phone number. And then again there will be snow.What happened? This is the wrong time to be a FSBO. The time of the FSBOs was when the market was so hot, people were thrilled to find a home that they suspected had not been seen by anyone else. Home buyers were making offers before yard signs went up. All to avoid being in multiple offer situations. I know. I was there. I saw a house sell on a listing appointment. I'm not kidding. But we aren't in that market now. And if houses are not selling with marketing exposure, low pricing and buyer incentives, FSBOs stand a very low chance of ever selling at all. It's not about (only) about commissions!I know. You want to save money, right? And you think l...
A Perspective on 3-D Illusions
2008-10-16 18:38:00 From Scientific American: It is a fact of neuroscience that everything we experience is actually a figment of our imagination. Although our sensations feel accurate and truthful, they do not necessarily reproduce the physical reality of the outside world. Of course, many experienc
The Italian perspective on metahistorical fiction: The 'New Italian Epic'
2008-10-02 18:08:00 "The Italian perspective on metahistorical fiction"Claudia Boscolo (Royal Holloway University of London), Wu Ming 1 (Italian writer), Vanni Santoni (Italian writer), Marco Amici (University College Cork), Monica Jansen (Utrecht University & University of Antwerp)IGRS: Conferences & Workshops
By: weblogART
The new perspective on Paul
2008-09-22 09:55:00 Click on the title for a good, perceptive analysis of what N T Wright is saying.
By: Christian Quoter
Credit Crunch: The British Perspective
2008-09-08 21:19:00 The credit crunch is clearly having an effect on all of us as we are becoming more hesitant and cautious with what we spend our money on. With inflationary rises in basic living costs such as housing and utilities, there…
By: Jutia Group
A Developers Perspective on AppStore Reviews
2008-08-29 16:34:00 The last few months have been a blur of activity. New product, actual customers, future releases to plan, bugs to fix, strategy to plot and the world to conquer. Heady days indeed. I owe much gratitude to the AppStore for providing a venue that has allowed me to ramp up quickly. Yes, the AppStore has ... SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "A Developers Perspective on AppStore Reviews", url: "http://shanecrawford.org/2008/-88/a-developers-perspective-on--appstore-reviews/" });
Knowing History Puts It All Into Perspective
2008-08-25 13:57:00 The politics in an election year gets so overwrought that reading about history puts things into perspective. Americans don’t realize that the lack of violence in our elections is not normal in world history, nor is the transfer of power from one person to another a common occurance in world history. So last week’s UKTimes had an ...
A Divine Perspective on the Church ? C.J. Mahaney
2008-08-15 16:37:00 Last Sunday, we had the privilege of hearing C.J. Mahaney preach in our church. His text was 1 Cor. 1:1-9 where Paul surprisingly commends the Corinthian church. He’s about to provide some strong correction for their many errors, but he goes out of his way to thank God for them, and ensure they ...
San Diego Paper: ?Migrant? Deaths at Border Grows, Report Lacks Perspective
2008-07-18 13:50:00 -By Warner Todd Huston The San Diego Union-Tribune published a story last week that typifies the lack of perspective and a refusal to give a more full account of the facts in the illegal immigration debate common from too many media outlets. The Union-Trib was all worried that “22 migrants have died in S.D. sector” but ...
By: Publius Forum
Reincarnation | Islamic Perspective | part.2
2008-06-08 01:09:00 1. Beyond our historical mindOne of the challenges of human mind is that its often caught in historical mind. That also explains, whenever an enlightened person, a new prophet arrived, a new concept was put forward, masses are caught in their historical mind frame and fail to see the truth, fail to think outside the box and the ignorance sometime turn into arrogance. "Alas for My servants, there comes not a Messenger to them but they mock at him". - The Quran 36 :31When it comes to bridging the universal truth found in different religions in all of humanity, its again the historical mind that blocks us to even be ready to listen, let alone realize. For thousands of years, all religion has trained systematically to reject spiritual truths, just because its found or pre-exist in another faith tradition, ignoring the universality of the truth.When it comes to the idea of Reincarnation, if we are talking about spirit entering and re-entering the flesh, then the very concept is always th...
Reincarnation | Islamic Perspective | part.1
2008-06-07 11:25:00 1. Reincarnation | Where traditional Islam stands?In the orthodox / traditional / mainstream Islam at its later version doesn't talk about reincarnation. The idea of reincarnation is not discussed in Quran explicitly, the Prophet Muhammad, upon him be peace, never had to confront this idea since the very concept was absent mostly from the arab society and minds of his time. Offcourse the idea of hereafter was there, the idea of final resurrection is there, but the continuing cycle of life and death is simply not discussed openly.During the time of Quranic revelation, people of Jewish community came to the Prophet and asked about the mystery of soul. Prophet remained silent and waited for answer from God and it was revealed through the Angel Gabriel as inspiration:And they ask you concerning the soul. Say: "The soul is one of the things, of which the knowledge is only with my Lord. And of knowledge, you (mankind) have been given only a little." - The Quran, Al-Israa' 17:85alternate...
Perspective Is Always Interesting
2008-06-06 22:17:00 For the next few weeks I’ll be doing a consulting assignment in Pennsylvania. As with most places I go to, one of the first questions I’m asked is where I’m from. Instead of getting specific with it, I just say I’m from the Syracuse, NY area. Now, depending on where I am, the response ...
By: Mitch's Blog
RTS "World in Conflict" From a Design Perspective - Slashdot
2008-06-04 22:05:00 RTS "World in Conflict" From a Design PerspectiveSlashdot - 48 minutes agoIn this installment he takes a look at the RTS, World in Conflict that has an interesting twist on resource management. "World in Conflict has a simple ...
New James Bond Game To Blur Perspective Lines
2008-06-04 01:43:00 Activision's upcoming 007 Quantum of Solace will combine both first-person and third-person graphics, according to a new UK preview. Now is this 2D perspective or 3D? According to the current issue of GamesMaster (#200), Quantum of Solace will primarily use the first-person perspective. But a third-person perspective is also heavily used, notably when our gadget-freak takes cover a la GTA IV and during action sequences like the quick-time events found in God of War.With exception to the confirmed setting of both Casino Royale and Quantum of Solace, little else was revealed in the UK preview.007 Quantum of Solace is being developed by Treyarch games using the Call of Duty 4 engine. The action game is scheduled for release on Xbox 360, Wii, PS3, and PC on November 7, including both single player and multiplayer modes. Sports Legends Updates:Sports Legends TV Updates: We Have Just Perfected Our Beta Movie Search Engine! Can't Find The Show Or Movie On Sports Legends TV? Then Use Ou...
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Rolling Perspective Montreal Poster
2008-06-03 20:03:00 A Rolling Perspective, is coming through to Montreal, so if you're anywhere near there, you owe yourself a trip to see this art gallery. It's a lot of self-portraits by some great skateboarders.Check out our sponsors, and keep us skating - Free Shipping on all orders $25 and up, use promo code SLATER and save big on karmaloop.comOur online store, powered by amazon -The Sirj Online Skate Shop
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Inter-personal relationships in Buddhist perspective
2008-05-31 11:34:00 Inter-personal relationships in Buddhist perspective By Professor Chandima Wijebandara,www.sundayobserver.-lk (The writer is BRS Graduate of School of Buddhist Studies, Singapore ) As Aristotle has rightly stated that man is a social animal. Men wish to live in society, enjoy companionship, and happy to be crowded by fellow beings. Brahmajalasutta maintains that the initial feeling the first being to reappear in the present age of world reformation fell was loneliness. He wanted company. So, according to the Buddhist story also, the need of company and consequential necessity of interpersonal relations is ingrained in living beings. The Buddha?s practised (and, of course, made the followers also practise) seclusion only till they attained spiritual heights. After the attainments, they return to society to be in service for the benefit of many (bahujana). The Buddha once said ?I, Udayi, sometimes, stay crowded by monks and nuns, lay di...
Perspective Chair
2008-05-29 06:23:00 Its always good to have some perspective in life and the Perspective Chair may just help you in this endeavor. Designed by Pharrell Williams, the chair will be exhibited in Paris at Emmanuel Perrotin Galerie from October 21st 2008 until January 10th 2009. What noteworthy is the legs of the chair which seeks inspiration from ...
Print and online strategies: a UK perspective
2008-05-28 12:08:00 So another account of the state of newspapers from a thoughtful British news exec, Chatham House rules. The key themes and claims (my thoughts in itals): Protect print ad and subscription revenues and readership (claim = resilience/loyalty of core readership). The slow decline scenario. Grow online revenues and audience (claim = potential for growth and more growth). Still awaiting evidence ...
By: Adrian Monck
Supportive or wimpy? Depends on your perspective
2008-05-28 07:50:00 One of my children plays a sport for a somewhat controversial coach. We like the coach a lot, and have had no problems. However, some other parents disagree and have treated the coach pretty badly, and I am embarrassed because I'm associated with them, but, I do not share their opinion. After assuring the coach that we would remain on the team this upcoming season, we looked at our schedule and realized that we'd probably be too busy to play. I was dreading, (dreading, I tell you) giving this news because I thought the coach would think we were doing what these other parents are doing and that isn't it AT ALL. I was all set to send an e-mail, when an e-mail from the coach arrived telling us how wonderful our player is and thanking us for supporting the team when others didn't. Dammit. Guess we're still gonna play, although on a limited schedule. I'm either a wimp, or it's the right thing to do. Or both. Not sure. ADDED: Jay reminded me that in my effort to...
By: Busymom.net
Pharrell designs a chair, calles it Perspective.
2008-05-28 01:03:00 To continue the rapper-turned-designer theme we started earlier today - Pharrell joins the forces as a furniture designer... Who knew... The chair below is called Perspective and was designed by Pharrell in collaboration with Domeau According to the artist, the chair below represents the love between a woman and man. Hmm... ... [Original Post on MyItThings.com]
Pharrell designs a chair, calls it Perspective.
2008-05-28 01:03:00 To continue the rapper-turned-designer theme we started earlier today - Pharrell joins the forces as a furniture designer... Who knew... The chair below is called Perspective and was designed by Pharrell in collaboration with Domeau According to the artist, the chair below represents the love between a woman and man. Hmm... ... [Original Post on MyItThings.com]
Perspective Chair designed by rapper Pharrell Williams
2008-05-26 21:38:00 The Perspective Chair is designed by Pharrell Williams in collaboration with furniture designer Domeau & Prs. The chair, as well as another chair design and a table will be part of a show in Paris at the prestigious Emmanuel Perrotin Galerie. The show will be from October 21st 2008 until January 10th 2009. The chairs will ...
Memorial Day: A Day of perspective
2008-05-26 17:34:00 “For it is the jubilee; it shall be holy unto you… in the year of this jubilee ye shall return every man unto his possession. ~ Leviticus Today is Memorial Day and as a historian, I thought it only fitting if we explore the relatively unknown but highly symbolic origins of the day. More ...
Perspective on Twitter and its brethren
2008-05-26 08:25:00 Perspective on Twitter and its brethrenTwitter, FriendFeed, Pownce, Facebook, OpenSocial and other evolving Internet services and technologies are important network amplifiers, but they aren't a solution for global warming. http:-//news.cnet....
The Perspective Chair
2008-05-26 00:00:00 This four legged chair is designed by Pharrell in collaboration with Domeau & Prs, called the Perspective chair. It will be shown in Paris at the prestigious Emmanuel Perrotin Galerie from October 21st 2008 until January 10th 2009. The chair will be available in four colors and only 4 units ...
By: 2dayblog
Putting that $15 surcharge into perspective
2008-05-23 04:06:00 Back in the old days, check-in baggage was free (and they actually gave you something to eat, too, even on domestic flights). American Airlines decided to charge passengers $15 for their first check-in bag, a path which other airliners will undoubtedly follow given high fuel prices. But where exactly does $15 bring you? While it seems ...
One smart Perspective
2008-05-22 00:00:00 By John Coyle Editor Right before we were about to head out to lunch yesterday, Ryan spied a couple meter maid mobiles parked across from CarDomain World Headquarters, and he jumped at the chance to snap a picture of his...
By: CarDomain Blog
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