Creativity

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the RIAA is trying to shut down internet radio. They want to increase royalty fees by ridiculous proportions, forcing all small- and mid- size internet radio companies into bankruptcy. We need to fight this. We can’t let lobbyists in Washington ruin the innovation and creativity that internet radio sites like Pandora.com (which, by the way, I highly recommend) have brought to radio. Please go to www.savenetradio.org to understand a bit more. Please, please help with this. I think that many of you will agree that internet radio deserves a future brighter than that if regular broadcast radio, which is totally saturated with commercials, plays only the mainstream artists and genres, and has no flexibility at all in what programming they offer. Again, I can’t stress this enough. If WE don’t fight the moneymongers throwing their weight around in Washington, we’ll end up with another watered-down, non-creative, factory-produced part of the entertainment industry. Nobody wants that.

Don’t call your congressman, call the RIAA, or BMI or Ascap and demand that they lower their ridiculous royalties. Their actions amount to price gouging (we’ll just pretend they haven’t been doing that since the inception of the music industry).

we’ll end up with another watered-down, non-creative, factory-produced part of the entertainment industry.

Not necessarily, artists represented by BMI and Ascap, as well as any other companies demanding these royalties simply won’t get played. There’s lots of quality music not bound by red tape and contracts for radio play, I think it’s time we boycott the industry and give them a chance.

After a long day of fishing off the Florida Coast testing products, a Penn Engineer and Penn’s CEO were engaged in conversation. For years, reel companies mimicked Otto Henze’s original patent of using a bridgeplate to mount the gear stud and main gear. At the time this was innovation and creativity at its finest. However, with the great advances in materials and machining capabilities, the question was posed, why were companies using decade old technology when a better, stronger, and more reliable design could be used? A new, revolutionary concept was quickly sketched on the back of a napkin and a new Patent was born. From this innovative and revolutionary patent, Penn is proud to introduce a truly unique reel design, an Integrated Side Plate. This integrated Side Plate (ISP) serves as the basis for a new series of reels which is introduced over the next few pages. But before its introduction, a bit more discussion of the Integrated Side Plate design is warranted. LIghtweight and Strong Aluminum Alloy; Forged & machined Frame, Spool, and Side plates. Infinite anti-reverse Roller Bearing PLUS Double Dog system Backup. Precision Machined Stainless Steel Main Gear (6.3:1 Gear Ratio). Heat-treated Stainless Steel Pinion Gear for strength. Versa-drag, Multiple Drag-stack Arrangement. Disengaging Pinion for superior Free Spool. Oversized Soft-Grip Power Handle. Five Stainless Steel Ball Bearings. Stainless Steel Reel Stand. One-Piece, Open-Top Frame.

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Isn’t the fact how our system was originally set up the reason we have continued to invent, prosper and advance the world as we know it?

Why would we want to stifle innovation or creativity. IF you want that, they have that in France already.

So, why?

People who don’t have narrow, insular viewpoints look around and see some advantages to some social systems that are used in other countries and would like to see them adapted for use here. There is nothing wrong with that. Obviously certain systems that might be worthwhile would have to be changed to accommodate Americans.

One example is universal health care. It is not just Europe and Canada but also Japan and Australia, for instance, that have workable systems. We can study those systems and adapt the best provisions to respond to our current health care crisis.

I need a good quote that has to do with innovation and creativity. This is for a promotional graphic for TSA. Please put your quotes below along with the author of the quote.

"All new ideas begin in a non-conforming mind that questions some tenet of the conventional wisdom."
– H. G. Rickover

"The ability to innovate is only as good as how one can accept changes and take risks."
– Franco Paolo Liu Eisma

"Creative thinking ability facilitates the ability to realize innovations"
– Emem Ite

"The practice of R&D involves making mistakes, realizations, corrections, and more mistakes. Trial and error is a fundamental part of the process. Too many managers in corporate America learn to avoid invention and new thinking because they have been convinced that their careers depend upon not making mistakes."
– Tom Huff

"Managing and innovation did not always fit comfortably together. That’s not surprising. Managers are people who like order. They like forecasts to come out as planned. In fact, managers are often judged on how much order they produce. Innovation, on the other hand, is often a disorderly process. Many times, perhaps most times, innovation does not turn out as planned. As a result, there is tension between managers and innovation."
— Lewis Lehro, about the first years at 3M

"The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it."
– Michelangelo

"Never innovate to compete, innovate to change the rules of the game."
— David O. Adeife

I don’t know for sure, but it would seem to me that when times are tough, and money is hard to come by, that would actually lead to greater innovation, creativity, and new entrepreneurship, because it forces people to cut out the fat and focus on the basics, and to be creative and get the most mileage out of what they have to work with. On the contrary, an era of supposed "economic vitality" with all its "easy money" leads businesses to get lazy, to pork up on too high salaries and bonuses for their employees, and not enough incentive to innovate.
Furthermore, hard economic times produce a more interesting, artistic sociocultural milieu, with more interesting art and music and film…kind of bohemian like. It will help bohemians to take back their neighorhoods from yuppies now that the yuppies are losing their i-banking jobs, etc.

What do you think? Is my reasoning valid or flawed?

Of course, Yes, recession is the best period for an entrepreneur to explore, try and use his creativity. In fact, only those with unique ideas and progressive thoughts get success during recession period.

General Business & Economics – Corporate Creativity consistently connects creative outcomes to the actions that really made a difference to them. Through detailed real-life examples from organizations … – Corporate Creativity: How Innovation and Improvement Actually Happen (Books)

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I went to several art museums over the years, and true creativity and innovation seems to be lacking in the post modern art section. Most of it leans too heavy on the philosophy and seriously lacks talent and ingenuity. We are in a dire need for an artistic overhaul. How do we do it?

this is just your opinion why don’t you become a critic

I went to several art museums over the years, and true creativity and innovation seems to be lacking in the post modern art section. Most of it leans too heavy on the philosophy and seriously lacks talent and ingenuity. We are in a dire need for an artistic overhaul. How do we do it?

this is just your opinion why don’t you become a critic