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Kresge Foundation awards Intermedia Arts $1 million to support Creative CityMaking in Minneapolis
Intermedia Arts has been awarded $1 million by the Kresge Foundation for a three-year pilot of its Creative CityMaking program. This grant follows a successful pre-pilot partnership in 2103 between Intermedia Arts and the City of Minneapolis' Long Range Planning Division and its Arts, Culture and Creative Economy program.
The pre-pilot, funded by ArtPlace America, fostered year-long collaborations between local artists and City of Minneapolis planners to develop fresh, innovative approaches to community engagement. Seven artists embedded in the Long Range Planning Division of the Community Planning and Economic Development Department (CPED) gathered input from communities on issues from light-rail transit to historic preservation. These collaborations resulted in new creative strategies and tools to engage residents, especially those who are underrepresented in conventional city planning processes. The exciting results from this first year are currently on display through March 8 in This is our City!, an interactive gallery exhibit at Intermedia Arts.
The new grant from the Kresge Foundation is focused on building strong, healthy cities by promoting integration of arts and culture into community revitalization. This goal aligns with the City's 2005 Plan for Arts and Culture, established by the Minneapolis Arts Commission and the Minneapolis City Council, which outlines a vision for bringing together artists and City Departments to explore creative ideas for addressing city problems.
Over the next three years, Creative CityMaking will apply what was learned in 2013 about the roles artists can play as innovative collaborators in city government, integrating artists into the operations of up to five City of Minneapolis departments. Kresge Foundation aims to use what is learned through Intermedia's partnership with the City of Minneapolis Arts, Culture and Creative Economy program to promote effective creative placemaking on a national scale.
Drawing on Intermedia Arts' 40 years of work at the crossroads of the arts and community change, the Creative CityMaking initiative will emphasize sustained collaborations between public service professionals and experienced community arts practitioners. A central goal will be the creation of a network of professionals working as creative community leaders within the City's structure to support the development of healthy, caring, and equitable communities. Over time, Intermedia envisions that members of this network will establish themselves as an effective force for innovation in service to the City of Minneapolis and its citizens.
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I'm pretty sure he means 'as opposed to Page 2 on OSNews'.
In any case, I don't really know what the answer to that question would be, or even what it could be. Someone, (Thom, I suppose) made a judgment call, and put it on the second page. Perhaps this one is a bit borderline, but even so, who really cares? If you use RSS, like me, you get front page and page 2 news all the same. And you clearly found the article, so it wasn't an impediment in that case.
I suppose I would agree, though, that this article is probably higher in importance than others found on Front page; 25 Years of Mac? Analysts indecisive (over Android)? A review of the IBM x41? A new release of one of the major Linux distros does seem, to me, at least, to be significantly higher in importance.
But then I don't have to make those judgment calls, or listen patiently to my whiny users every time they disagree over such a trivial matter. In other words: Let it go, man. Just let it go...

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Viking navigation from Norway to America in the northern latitudes remains a mystery for physicists, historians and archaeologists. Polarimetric methods using absorbing dichroic crystals as polarizers to detect a hidden Sun direction using the polarized skylight have led to controversies. Indeed, these techniques may lack in sensitivity, especially when the degree of polarization is low. Here, we demonstrate theoretically and experimentally that using the transparent common Iceland spar as a depolarizer, the Vikings could have performed a precise navigation under different conditions. Indeed, when simply rotated, such a birefringent crystal can completely depolarize, at the so-called isotropy point, any partially polarized state of light, allowing us to guess the direction of the Sun. By equalizing the intensities of the ordinary and extraordinary beams at the isotropy point, we show that the Sun direction can be determined easily, thanks to a simple sensitive differential two-image observation. A precision of a few degrees could be reached even under dark crepuscular conditions. The exciting recent discovery of such an Iceland spar in the Alderney Elizabethan ship that sank two centuries before the introduction of the polarization of light in optics may support the use of the calcite crystal for navigation purposes.
1. Introduction
Although the first observation of the polarization of the skylight was performed only in 1809 by Arago (Arago 1811), earlier uses of the phenomenon have been suggested and discussed, namely in the Viking navigation nearly 1000 years before (Ramskou 1967; Können 1985; Mills 1992). Following the Icelandic sagas, the Vikings sailed thousands of kilometres of open water between Norway and America, without magnetic compass (Thirslund 2007). At these latitudes of about 61° N in the near-polar regions, they could use the Sun, the stars and also the direction of the wind, the waves and swell. However, when the Sun was hidden by clouds or fog or during the long twilights in these polar summers, Ramskou (1967) suggests that the Vikings could also have used polarimetry for finding their way. An enigmatic crystal called a sunstone could have been used then as a polarizer of overhead skylight for finding the location of the obscured Sun. As the Rayleigh scattering of the light provides us with E-vector patterns over the entire celestial hemisphere (Coulson 1988; Berry et al. 2004; Horváth & Varjú 2004; Hoeppe 2007; Smith 2007; Horváth et al. 2011), a small patch of blue sky at the zenith is sufficient to perform polarimetry. The polarimetric method could have been used by the Vikings, using dichroic analyzers such as cordierite, for example. However, the weakness of these polarimetric methods for the Viking navigation was emphasized by Roslund & Beckman (1994). They consider that when the Sun is hidden behind clouds, its location can often be found with the naked eye from the bright lining of the cloud tops and crepuscular rays emanating from the Sun. However, such counterarguments are not supported by psychophysical studies (Barta et al. 2005). The invisible Sun cannot be quite accurately located from only the celestial brightness and colour patterns under partly cloudy or twilight conditions. Recently, full-sky imaging polarimetry (Hegedüs et al. 2007) has shown that the atmospheric optical prerequisites for polarimetric navigation are fulfilled under certain sky conditions, but for the moment physics cannot rule it out one way or another. All the polarimetric methods require some dichroic analyzer, so as to align its transmission axis parallel to the E-vector of the scattered celestial polarized light, but absorbing the orthogonal component. However, such methods may lack in sensitivity and precision, namely when the sky is cloudy or foggy and the degrees of polarization of the light are weak (Roslund & Beckman 1994). By contrast, one may wonder if the Vikings were able to determine with precision, the direction of the hidden Sun by depolarizing any partially polarized skylight through a transparent crystal like an Iceland spar for a peculiar orientation of the crystal, corresponding to the isotropy point defined below, so as to use sensitive differential observations avoiding any absorption. The recent amazing discovery of an Iceland spar in an Elizabethan ship sunk in 1592 (Bound & Monaghan 2001), which we had the opportunity to test (figure 1a), reinforces the potential of the peculiar calcite crystal that is even currently used to build optical cloaks (Chen et al. 2010; Zhang et al. 2011).
2. Material and methods
(a) Material
To introduce the isotropy point of a calcite crystal, where any state of partially polarized light passing through the crystal can be completely depolarized, let us recall the double refraction of a birefringent crystal as first described by Bartholinus in the seventeenth century (Hecht 2002). Each light ray falling on such a crystal, which is not a polarizer (Bretenaker & Le Floch 1991), is split into an ordinary beam that behaves as if it merely passes through a plate of glass and an extraordinary ray that is deflected in the crystal and does not obey Snell's Law. Today, the ordinary and extraordinary indices associated with the ordinary and extraordinary axes of the crystal are well-known and their spatial separation, i.e. the walk-off distance d (figure 1b) is given by the expression d=e tan γ (Hecht 2002), where e is the thickness of the crystal and γ is the deviation angle of the extraordinary beam in the crystal. For the crystal in figure 1b, the thickness is 40 mm, γ≃6° and the walk-off distance between the two orthogonally and totally linearly polarized beams is about 4 mm.
(b) Methods
(i) Wide beam experiment at the isotropy point
When the beam impinging on this crystal is wide compared with the walk-off distance, if one looks directly at the sky through the crystal, the two beams are no more spatially resolved as shown in figure 2a. For a random orientation of the crystal illuminated by a partially polarized light, there is, in general, no balance between the intensities of the ordinary and extraordinary beams as schematized in figure 2a. Let us call α the angle between the ordinary axis of the crystal and the main axis of a given partially polarized light, which is defined by and , the intensities measured through a usual polarizer (figure 2b). The degree of polarization is defined as . This parameter varies from 0 (unpolarized natural light) to 1 (totally linearly polarized light). According to Malus' Law applied simultaneously to the two beams, the ordinary and the extraordinary intensities passing through the birefringent crystal can be written as 2.1and 2.2The corresponding theoretical variations of Io and Ie for different degrees of polarization are reported on figure 2c, when the crystal is rotated. As no light is absorbed in a birefringent system, we note that for different orientations of the crystal, the sum Io+Ie=ITot remains constant through the crystal, but the difference Io−Ie determines the isotropy point K, where Io−Ie=0 (figure 2c). So for any partially polarized light impinging on the crystal, there exists an orientation of the crystal for which the ordinary and extraordinary beams have strictly equal intensities. This isotropy point is reached when the bisector of the angle between the ordinary and extraordinary axes of the crystal is exactly along the main axis of the partially polarized light. Then for this precise rotation of 45° of the crystal, it behaves like a perfect depolarizer for any partially linearly polarized light. As seen below, if a patch of a blue sky is available, the isotropy point K offers a first detection of a hidden Sun, through the Iceland spar using the so-called Haidinger's brushes, i.e. the polarization sense in human vision (Haidinger 1844; Le Floch et al. 2010).
(ii) Narrow beam experiment at the isotropy point
Narrow beam observations from the skylight impinging on the surface of the Iceland spar, for the same isotropy point K, bring as shown below a more powerful method, based on the same equations (2.1) and (2.2), to locate the hidden Sun. Let us now look through a small square hole in an opaque screen covering the Iceland spar as shown in figure 3a, where the side a of the square hole is about the value of the walk-off distance d between the ordinary and the extraordinary beams. When the crystal is rotated, so as to reach the isotropy point of figure 2c, the two beams give two equal half-intensity images on a completely dark background as shown in figure 3a. Note that, at the isotropy point, the two image irradiances are rigorously equal, whatever the degree of polarization of the partially polarized light impinging on the crystal. Moreover, the human eye is well known to be highly sensitive to low contrasts (Hubel 1988). This sensitivity of the naked eye to contrasts has also recently made it possible to detect a single layer of atoms, which exhibits a very small 2.3 per cent opacity (Nair et al. 2008). From the theoretical curves of figure 2c representing the variations of the irradiances Io and Ie of the two images, we can deduce the differential irradiances |Io−Ie|, i.e. the contrasts between the two images as shown in figure 4 for different values of the degree of polarization of the incoming light. We observe that on both sides of the isotropy point at 45°, the theoretical contrasts between the two images increase sharply, the ordinary and extraordinary images exchanging their respective irradiances. Thanks to the Babinet principle, similar curves could be obtained for the complementary screen shown in figure 3b. However, if instead of a hole in an opaque screen, we have an opaque spot on the incoming face of the crystal, we will observe two half-intensity shadows. Note that in this case, the ordinary and extraordinary beams are interchanged as shown in figure 3b.
3. Results
The first navigational experiment using the Haidinger's brushes is performed at 48°07′ N, 1°41′ W, at twilight with a clear sky. First in absence of the Iceland spar, the degree of polarization of the skylight can be measured by rotating a commercial polarizer P in front of a detector D (figure 5a). From the varying intensity (right of figure 5a), we obtain ρ=0.6. Second, interposing the Iceland spar shown in the inset of figure 5b in front of the polarizer P (figure 5b), when the crystal is rotated at 45°, i.e. at the isotropy point, the transmitted intensity no more varies as shown on the right of figure 5b. For this peculiar position of the crystal, we reach a complete depolarization, i.e. ρ=0. We can now try to guess the direction of the hidden Sun by observing successively the polarization patterns on the fovea, when using an Iceland spar. Let us recall that for the natural unpolarized light falling on the scatterers (figure 6a), i.e. the air molecules of the atmosphere, the direction of the polarization of the skylight is perpendicular to the plane of scattering determined by the Sun, the observer and the point observed. Then for an observation at the zenith, only the Rayleigh component polarized along the x-axis can reach the observer (figure 6a). Haidinger has earlier shown (Haidinger 1844) that when a polarized beam of white light falls on the foveal cone mosaic, a blue-yellow propeller-like pattern is observed with the naked eye, subtending a visual angle of 3° centred on the fovea, the polarization of the light being parallel to the blue axis and perpendicular to the yellow axis. Moreover, recently, a short 0.1 s reading and erasing time associated with the chromophore response has been isolated (Le Floch et al. 2010), enabling us to rapidly compare clearly two different successive patterns, namely for a polarized and an unpolarized state of light. If we interpose the crystal at the isotropy point, the x polarized light is completely depolarized and then no pattern is observable in the plane of the eye fovea (figure 6a). Now, if we remove the crystal (figure 6b), the polarized electric field E of the skylight, which is aligned along the x-axis induces Haidinger's brushes on the fovea, as shown at the bottom of figure 6b. Thanks to the short 0.1 s reading and erasing time, one may alternatively interpose the depolarizing crystal in the line of gaze (figure 6a) and rapidly remove it (figure 6b). Then we successively easily observe the no-pattern image and the pattern image on the fovea as shown at the bottom of figure 6a,b, respectively. Note that the yellow brush of figure 6b is perpendicular to the scattered electric field E of the skylight, but directly gives the direction of the Sun. To estimate the precision that can be obtained by such an observation, we have compared the bearings made by 20 observers, using a sun locator device built in our laboratory (see the inset in figure 6). The observations were essentially made at sunset, at 48°07′ N, 1°41′ W. We have tested 10 Iceland spars of our collection, but most of the tests have been performed using the Iceland spar shown in the inset of figure 8a. As a typical measurement of the Sun bearing lasts 1 min, a set of measurements takes about 1 h. Such measurements have been repeated over several months. Of course during the set of measurements, we have taken account of the Sun azimuth variations, which is about 11° h−1, at our location. With the stability of our sun locator device, the Sun direction can be determined with a precision of about ±5°. Aboard a boat, the precision can be reduced, but could have provided the Vikings with a sufficient estimation of the boat course.
Although the isotropy point permits a direct observation of the Sun direction, thanks to our polarization sense based on Haidinger's brushes, the theoretical curves of |Io−Ie| near the isotropy point suggest a more powerful differential observation, allowing the Sun detection for weaker degrees of polarization of the light. Figure 7a shows typical experimental results obtained with a narrow beam like in figure 3a, when the crystal is rotated back and forth around the isotropy point, for a degree of polarization of 0.6 corresponding to a clear sky. Here, the entrance face of the crystal is simply covered with an opaque sheet with a small 4.8×4.8 mm2 hole. The simultaneous differential observations were also made at 48°07′ N, 1°41′ W, when the zenith was rather clear and the Sun below the horizon. At the isotropy point (α=45°), the irradiances of the two images are equal (figure 7a). For α=35°, the ordinary image irradiance is greater than the extraordinary one, but the result is reversed for α=55° in agreement with the theoretical curves. The corresponding density profiles shown in figure 7b confirm that the irradiances of the two images are easily discriminated in this case where the degree of polarization is measured to be ρ=0.6 (clear sky). Here, these density profiles show that a contrast of 18 per cent can be obtained by a rotation of the calcite crystal of ±10°. Hence a precision of ±1° can be reached as the sensitivity of the human eye to contrast can be as low as 1 per cent (Hubel 1988). This precision has been directly verified with the eye in the same conditions as for the Haidinger's pattern tests. This high precision is confirmed by equations (2.1) and (2.2), which give a 1 per cent contrast between the two images for a rotation of the calcite crystal of only 0.5°. By contrast, for a dichroic polarizer, in similar conditions, reaching a variation value of the intensity of 1 per cent requires a rotation of 5° according to the Malus' Law. Moreover, note that on the one hand as discussed in textbooks and by Mills (1992), the human eye is very well adapted to matching the irradiances of two adjacent images, such as the ordinary and extraordinary ones (photometric matching). On the other hand, the eye/brain system is not good at remembering and mentally comparing varying intensities such as those produced through the dichroic polarizers. On a ship, the precision can also be reduced, but the Vikings could have been able to benefit from an efficient tool with a calcite crystal at the isotropy point to locate a hidden Sun. Using the Babinet principle, two complementary half-intensity shadows can be obtained (figure 7c) in the same conditions as earlier qualitatively observed (Karlsen 2003), but on a bright background.
To demonstrate the high efficiency of the differential method with a hole in an opaque screen for quite low degrees of polarization, we compare in figure 8a that the theoretical signals for the orientations of the crystal with the corresponding experimental measurements. Here ρ=0.08 corresponds to a cloudy sky. The agreement remains quite good even when the back and forth rotations of the crystal are reduced around the isotropy point at 45°. Note that for rotations of ±10° around 45°, the contrast remains as high as 3 per cent, i.e. clearly above the limit fixed by the 1 per cent sensitivity of the human eye to a contrast (Hubel 1988). So to have a bearing of the Sun direction remains possible for low degrees of polarization. The inset of figure 8a shows the Iceland spar used in this experiment, similar to the one the Vikings could have employed as a sunstone, the arrow beside the hole indicates the true bearing of the Sun, when the crystal is rotated at exactly the isotropy point. The calibration can be performed by rotating the crystal at the isotropy point, i.e. by equalizing the two-image irradiances, when looking at the zenith a day when the sky is clear and the Sun not hidden. The arrow is then fixed towards the Sun. To choose the course of the ship, the Vikings could, for instance, go to the bow of the ship and align a horizon board with the bearing of the Sun given by the sunstone.
4. Discussion and conclusions
As its absorption is negligible, the crystal also works quite well for very low luminosities of the sky, namely when the Sun is largely below the horizon, i.e. in crepuscular conditions. Typical experimental results are shown in figure 8b, 10 min before the stars appear. This is another characteristic of the method, which is important from the Viking point of view. We have verified that the human eye can reliably guess clearly the Sun direction in dark twilights, even until the stars become observable. In this situation, the Iceland spar with its differential signatures at the isotropy point still behaves like an efficient sunstone. To appreciate the ultimate limits, we have plotted in figure 9 the theoretical contrasts for quite low degrees of polarization from ρ=0.02 to ρ=0.2. Two points are important to have a precise bearing of the hidden Sun. First for each value of ρ, we have to take into account the threshold imposed by the human eye, i.e. about 1 per cent (Hubel 1988). Another parameter is the minimum amplitude of the back and forth rotations, so as to reach the 1 per cent limit. Guessing the Sun direction is of course easier if the required rotations are smaller around the isotropy point, i.e. for larger ρ values.
We may note that 90° ambiguities could exist with the two-image comparison for the true position of the Sun, as the signals are the same for the ±90° directions of the true position as shown in figure 4. Other clues such as the swell or the wind could have helped the Vikings to resolve these ambiguities, but it is worthwhile noting that, when a patch of blue sky is still available, the yellow brush of the Haidinger's pattern can clearly resolve these ambiguities as it directly gives the true direction of the Sun. Hence combining the yellow brush and the two-image observations, for the same isotropy point of the Iceland spar, the Vikings could have been able to remove such ambiguities and to localize clearly the hidden Sun. Further tests and psychophysical experiments aboard a boat could be performed in the future, at about 61° N in various weather conditions. Without any knowledge of the polarization nature of the light, by looking through a calcite crystal commonly found in Iceland and Scandinavia, the Vikings could have exploited the high sensitivity of the human eye to small contrasts. As the magnetic compass was introduced in Europe around the thirteenth century, the recent amazing discovery of a calcite crystal (figure 1a) on board a sixteenth century Elizabethan ship may seem useless. However, we have verified in Alderney that even only one of the cannons excavated from the ship is able to perturb a magnetic compass orientation by 90°. So, to avoid navigation errors when the Sun is hidden, the use of an optical compass could be crucial even at this epoch, more than four centuries after the Viking time. The Alderney discovery opens new possibilities as it looks very promising to find Iceland spars in other ancient shipwrecks, or in archaeological sites located on the seaside such as the Viking settlement with ship repair recently discovered in Ireland (Clinton 2010).
This work was supported by the Contrat Plan Etat-Région PONANT. We like to thank G. Horváth and D. Nilsson for their fruitful discussions, M. Clinton for his comment on the Viking settlement near the Irish village of Annagassan, L. Langoüet, J. Lucas and O. Sorel for their help, A. Carré, C. Hamel and L. Frein for their technical assistance, P. Nouet and D. Rouède for the loan of calcite crystals. Two of us G.R. and A.L.F. enjoyed the privilege to test the Alderney crystal, thanks to M. Bound, M. Corfield, M. Harrisson, D. Loades, S. Wright, Sir N. Browse and HRH Duke of York, the Patron of the Alderney Elizabethan shipwreck.
- Received June 9, 2011.
- Accepted October 3, 2011.
- This journal is © 2011 The Royal Society


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PORTLAND — Maine supreme court justices are hearing arguments this week in the appeal of a 22-year-old man who claims his 45-year sentence for a double killing is unfair.
Eric Hamel is challenging the sentence he received after pleading guilty to two counts of murder in the 2009 shooting deaths of two men in Rumford.
The Maine Supreme Judicial Court is scheduled to hear arguments on Wednesday.
Hamel argues that his sentence was longer than that of his two co-conspirators, creating an inequality in violation of state law.
Richard Moulton was sentenced to 40 years after pleading guilty to two counts of murder for his role in the killings. Moulton's girlfriend was sentenced to 15 years for helping to plan the killings.


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November 28, 1961 - January 26, 2013
Montgomery, NY
Lauren was called home to be with the Lord on January 26, 2013 after a 2-year battle with leukemia. Daughter of the late Marvin P and Esther L. (Hunt) Colegrove, she was born in Elmira, NY. She was married to her loving husband, Thomas for 27 years.
Lauren was a homemaker, bank teller for several area banks and worked at Barton Farms. She was an active member of Trinity Lutheran Church, Walden, NY. Her bright smile and infectious laugh will be greatly missed.
In addition to her husband, she is survived by her children: son, Mark Thomas at home and daughter, Leslie Joy and Christopher D'Amato; her siblings: sister, Valerie A. and Dean Ramsay of Palmyra, PA, brothers, Marvin H. and Linda Colegrove of Newburgh and James E. and Carol Colegrove of Port Jervis; father and mother-in-law, Joseph and Alice Rockafellow; brothers and sisters-in-laws, Michael and Susan Rockafellow and Stephen and Peggy Rockafellow all of Newburgh; nieces and nephews, Scott Ramsay (Diana) and Jennifer Sturtevant (Dave), Dana Herm (JD) and Devin Colegrove, Jason and Seth Colegrove, Emma Colegrove, Justin and Stacia Rockafellow and Megan and Stephen Rockafellow. Also, six great-nephews and her beloved cat, Lucy.
Special thanks to Dr. Andrew Eisenberger and the staff of NY Presbyterian Hospital at both the Columbia and Weill Cornell campuses.
Friends may call on Friday, February 1st from 2 to 4 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m. at Gridley Horan Funeral Home, 39 Orchard Street, Walden, NY. Funeral will be held 11 a.m. on Saturday, February 2 at Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church, 2520 State Route 208, Walden, NY.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in Lauren's memory to NY Presbyterian Hospital or Trinity Lutheran Church.
Arrangements by the Gridley-Horan Funeral Home 845-778-3811 gridleyhoran.com


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When VMware announced the general availability of VSAN in March, it reported some frankly astounding performance numbers, claiming 2 million IOPS in a 100 percent read benchmark. Wade Holmes, senior technical marketing architect at VMware, revealed the details of VMware's testing in a blog post. Since, as I wrote recently, details matter when reading benchmarks, I figured I'd dissect Wade's post and show why customers shouldn't expect their VSAN clusters to deliver 2 million IOPS with their applications.
The hardware
In truth, VMware's hardware configuration was in line with what I expect many VSAN customers to use. The company used 32 Dell R720 2u servers with the following configuration:
- 2x Intel Xeon CPU E5-2650 v2 processors, each with 8 cores @ 2.6 GHz
- 128 GB DDR3 Memory.
- 8x 16 GB DIMMs @ 1,833 MHz
- Intel X520 10 Gbit/s NICs
- LSI 9207-8i SAS HBA
- 1x 400GB Intel S3700 SSD
- 7x 1.1TB 10K RPM SAS hard drives
I tried to price this configuration on the Dell site, but Dell doesn't offer the LSI card, 1,833 MHz RAM, or the Intel DC S3700 SSD. Using 1,600 MHz RAM and 1.2 TB 10K SAS drives, the server priced out at $11,315 or so. Add in the HBA, an Intel SSD that's currently $900 at NewEgg, and some sort of boot device, and we're in the $12,500 range.
When I commented on the testing on Twitter, some VMware fanboys responded that they could have built an even faster configuration with a PCIe SSD and 15 K RPM drives. As I'll explain later, the 15 K drives probably wouldn't affect the results, but substituting a 785 GB Fusion-IO ioDrive2 for the Intel SSD could have boosted performance. Of course, it would have also boosted the price by about $8,000. Frankly, if I were buying my kit from Dell, I would have chosen its NVMe SSD for another $1,000.
Incremental cost in this config
Before we move on to the performance, we should take a look at how much using the server for storage would add to the cost of those servers:
Since VSAN will use host CPU and memory -- less than 10 percent, VMware says -- this cluster will run about the same number of VMs as a cluster of 30 servers that were accessing external storage. Assuming that external storage is connected via 10 Gbit/s Ethernet, iSCSI, or NFS, those 30 servers would cost around $208,000. The VSAN cluster, by comparison, would cost $559,680, making the effective cost of VSAN around $350,000. I thought about including one of the RAM DIMMs in the incremental cost of VSAN and decided that since these servers use eight DIMMs per channel, that would be a foolish configuration.
That $350,000 will give you 246 TB of raw capacity. Since VSAN uses n-way replication for data protection, using two total copies of the data -- which VMware calls failures to tolerate=1 -- would yield 123 TB of useable space. As a paranoid storage guy, I don't trust two-way replication as my only data protection and would use failures to tolerate=2 or three total copies for 82 TB of space. You'll also have 12.8 GB of SSDs to use as a read cache and write buffer (essentially a write-back cache).
So the VSAN configuration comes in at about $4/GB, which actually isn't that bad.
The 100 percent read benchmark
As most of you are probably aware, 100 percent read benchmarks are how storage vendors make flash-based systems look their best. While there are some real-world applications that are 90 percent or more reads, they are usually things like video streaming or websites, where the ability to stream large files is more important than random 4K IOPS.
For its 100 percent read benchmark, VMware set up one VM per host with each VM's copy of IOmeter doing 4 KB I/Os to eight separate virtual disks of 8 GB each. Sure, those I/Os were 80 percent random, but with a test dataset of 64 GB on a host with a 400 GB SSD, all the I/Os will be to the SSD, and since SSDs can perform random I/O as fast as they can sequential, that's not as impressive as it seems.
Why you should ignore 2 million IOPS
Sure, VMware coaxed two million IOPs out of VSAN, but it used 2 TB of the system's 259 TB of storage to do it. No one would build a system this big for a workload that small, and by keeping the dataset size so small compared to the SSDs, VMware made sure the disks weren't going to be used at all...


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April 27, 1937 - November 19, 2012
Monticello, NY
Allen Cooper, age 75, of Monticello, died Monday, November 19, 2012 at the Orange Regional Medical Center in Middletown, NY, after a long illness.
He was born April 27, 1937 in Monticello, NY, to William and Tillie (Goldsmith) Cooper. He grew up in Monticello and was a graduate of Monticello High School. He served in the U.S. Army during the Korean War. He attended Syracuse University for higher education.
Allen is survived by sons, Mitchell Cooper and wife, Doreen Cooper of Rock Hill, NY, and Robert Cooper and wife, Joann Cooper of Mongaup Valley, NY.; brothers, Gary and wife, Peggy Cooper, Larry and wife, Vivian Cooper of Mongaup Valley, and predeceased by Mort Cooper of Fremont, NE; sister, Bonnie Lloyd of Monterey, CA; aunt, Bobby Aurut of Sacramento, CA; one grandchild, Amanda Cooper of Mongaup Valley, and many nephews and nieces.
He started Cooper Paint Distributors in 1973 where he always greeted you with a smile and maybe a joke or two. He always gave back to his local community as his thank you for people who he served and loved.
Graveside funeral services will be held Tuesday, November 20, 2012 at 11 a.m. at the Glen Wild Cemetery, Marsh Road, Glen Wild, NY.
Funeral arrangements are under the direction of the Joseph N. Garlick Funeral Home of Monticello. For further service details, to leave an online condolence, or for directions to the cemetery, please visit www.josephngarlickfuneralhome.com


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NEW YORK - Beyonce and husband Jay Z will launch the co-headlining "On the Run Tour" on June 25 in Miami.
Beyonce made the announcement Monday. The stadium tour will visit Philadelphia; East Rutherford, N.J.; Chicago; and Los Angeles. It wraps Aug. 5 in San Francisco.
Pre-sale tickets go on sale Tuesday.
The closest the pair will come to the Lowcountry will be for a stop in Atlanta on July 15. Tickets for the performance at the Georgia Dome start at $36.50 and run up to $222.
Beyonce and Jay Z have collaborated on a number of songs, including the hits "Crazy In Love," "'03 Bonnie & Clyde," "Deja Vu," "Part II (On the Run)" and the recent smash "Drunk In Love."
Beyonce released her ultra-successful self-titled fifth album late last year in surprise form. Jay Z, who toured with Justin Timberlake last year, also had success with the release of "Magna Carta Holy Grail."


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Photos: Boston's best wings
Photos: Boston's best wings
Buffalo wings from The Pub in Somerville.
Buffalo wings at Smoken Joe's BBQ in Brighton.
Buffalo wings from Somerville's Eat at Jumbo's.
Buffalo wings from The Fat Cat in Quincy.
The Bleacher Bar's bucket of wings.
A bucket of Labatt Blue beer to go with wings from the Bleacher Bar.
The Bills Backers of Fenway club hang out every Sunday at the Bleacher Bar to eat wings, drink Labatt Blue beer, and watch their team play.
Danielle Miano, Alex Fernandes, Jehanne Junguenet, and Becky Nelson eat wings and drink Labatt Blue beer.
Dan Britton and Danielle Miano at the Bleacher Bar.


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The proposal has significant merit. Approving the district would allow the city to help the project succeed without using tax monies from other parts of the city.
Daytona Beach officials should give thorough consideration to a request from One Daytona, the planned massive complex of stores, restaurants and residences across the street from the Daytona International Speedway.
The project will help diversify the city's economy, providing shopping and entertainment that will draw tourists and locals alike. It will also create up to 10,000 permanent new jobs, the developers estimate.
The challenge is that the developers — International Speedway Corp. and Jacoby Development — must first install necessary infrastructure such as water and sewer, roads and electrical lines. Those improvements will cost more than $50 million. To pay for those improvements, ISC and its partner want to create a small taxing district to help pay the costs.
There are a number of good reasons to consider this proposal to create a community development district where One Daytona will rise on 190 acres.
The district would be one of 600 in Florida, including four in Volusia County and seven in Flagler County. It would be in place for 30 years, and include a public governing board. The developers have asked former Daytona Beach Mayor Glenn Ritchey to chair that board.
If created, the district would allow a portion of taxes generated within it to be used to fund infrastructure improvements and other needs. That in turn would enable the district to use a public bond issue to fund the needed improvements. Brian Leary, managing director for Atlanta-based Jacoby Development, said it's "vital" for the city to approve the district's development. If that doesn't happen, he said, the project would need to go back to the drawing board.
The proposal has significant merit. Approving the district would allow the city to help the project succeed without using tax monies from other parts of the city.
There is also little doubt that the project will create new revenues for Daytona Beach, Volusia County, and Florida. Consider the size and scope of the One Daytona project: Daytona Beach has authorized One Daytona to include up to 1.4 million square feet of retail space; 2,500 movie theater seats; 660 hotel rooms; 1,350 residential units; more than 567,000 square feet of office space; and 500,000 square feet of commercial and industrial space. The first phase, which the developers hope to complete by 2016, is projected to include a Bass Pro store and a Cobb Theatres complex.
Daytona Beach City Hall hopes the ISC project will raise $376 million in new property tax dollars and $168 million in new sales tax revenue over 30 years.
Another good reason to consider this idea is that it's being proposed by ISC, a hometown public company. CEO Lesa France Kennedy and the entire France family have deep roots in the Daytona Beach community. If the community development district is approved, ISC plans to invest $289 million into this project. That's a huge investment.
Community development districts have worked here. They include the LPGA development in Daytona Beach, Hammock Dunes oceanfront community in Flagler County, and The Pavilion in Port Orange. All of those projects added to the quality of life — and property valuation — of surrounding communities.
A community development district is like a mini-government. Besides a board, it has the ability to collect money in several ways. It can levy additional charges for commercial tenants, collect property taxes, and sell tax-exempt bonds to finance construction, acquisition and improvements.
Details are critical. In considering this project, it's important for the city to have a clear sense of how the district would use its revenue-generating power. It's also important for everyone to understand who will be ultimately responsible for any bond issues the district sells.
Leary told The News-Journal the developers would like to have the district approved by February in order to maintain the project's schedule.
There is no doubt One Daytona will improve Daytona Beach, creating new retail, residential and commercial growth. It will lead to significant new tax revenues and, most importantly, thousands of jobs.
Ritchey's appointment also means the developers have a trusted community leader on board who is familiar with public policy.
The proposed community development district is a worthy idea that merits consideration.


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Verschijning van de architect-bemiddelaar
Een verkenning van een architecturale productie gericht op bemiddeling
Architectuur in naam van de vader
Column #3 over de oorsprongsmythen van de architectuur
Uplace of Shopping K? Nee, bedankt
Artikel over de architectuur van een vals dilemma rond winkelcentra
Dood van een dienstverlener
Column over het bouwen als olifant in de kamer van de architectuurcultuur.
Het belachelijk sublieme in de Vlaamse architectuur
Artikel over humor als het teken van kritische afstand in de architectuur
Verslaafd aan architectuur
Een artikel over de betekenis van de Biertempel discussie voor de architectuurcultuur in België
Wafels, bier en architectuur
Een artikel naar aanleiding van de herbestemming van de Beurs in Brussel tot biertempel naar ontwerp van Robbrecht & Daem Architecten.
Creatio ex nihilo
Column #1 over de oorsprongsmythen van de architectuur
Zorg dragen voor architectuur
Artikel over gebruik en postproductie in de architectuur naar aanleiding van het Jozef Plein in PC Cartias (Melle).
Do Good architectuur
Artikel over de rol van ontwerp in zorgarchitectuur.
Pic Nic Architectuur
Een retroactief manifest voor Pic Nic the Streets als bijdrage aan de architectuurcultuur in België. > Version Française > English Version
Wraak op de commons
Een artikel over het nakende einde voor Agrocité en de toekomst voor architectuur onder zelfbeheer.
Architectuur van de schaamteplek
Wie grip wil krijgen op de problemen van in psychiatrische ziekenhuizen, begint bij het ontwerp van de isolatiekamer.
Van Utopia naar Wuustwezel
Er zijn weinig termen die zo'n beladen betekenis hebben in de architectuurgeschiedenis als utopie. Version Français
Relational Architecture
Read about the production proces of the Kanunnik Petrus Jozef Triest Square in the Psychiatric Centre Caritas, Melle. Article in Dutch / English / French
Hoeveel samenwerking kan architectuur verdragen?
Artikel over de tentoonstelling 'Ensembles. Architectuur en Ambachtschap' in deSingel en Vlaams Architectuurinstituut.
Bouwstenen voor het psychiatrisch centrum van de toekomst
Lees meer over de visieontwikkeling rond het psychiatrisch centrum van de toekomst gepubliceerd in Psyche.
Eco-politiek in Brussel: Bas Smets en de Brussels Urban Landscape Biennial
Artikel over het nut en nadeel van landschapsarchitectuur als instrument voor regionale ontwikkeling in Brussel.
Architectuur vol van verlangen
Artikel naar aanleiding van de opening van het Kanunnik Petrus Jozef Triest Plein in Melle.
Proud to present the A+261 issue on architecture and politics - Dutch and French edition.
Architectuur met schaduw
De 20ste eeuw baarde vele duivelspacten tussen architectuur en politiek. Opvallend genoeg wordt de architectuur van het Italiaanse fascisme tot op vandaag geprezen omwille van haar abstracte vormentaal. Dergelijke rehabilitatie is de architectuur van het Derde Rijk nooit te beurt gevallen. België heeft zo zijn eigen kleine trauma in de relatie met de politiek.
Ingebedde architecten
Lees meer over de architectuur van oorlog en vrede
Vakmannen aan het front
Een recensie over de bijdrage van Bravoure in de Architectuurbiennale van Venetie.
Toiletemmers in Werelderfgoed
Er is iets curieus met de inrichting van de gevangenis van Merksplas, waar enkele weken geleden een opstand uitbrak. De geschiedenis van de site reflecteert een utopisch beeld van de gevangenis van de toekomst, de manier waarop omgegaan wordt met die geschiedenis symboliseert dan weer de gemiste kansen.
FPC Gent: geen markt, geen gevangenis
De opening van het Forensisch Psychiatrisch Centrum in Gent zorgt na één jaar werking voor een grote opluchting - zelfs bij voormalige critici. De juiste vraag is niet of aanvankelijke bezorgheid terecht was, maar wel of de opluchting niet een beetje voorbarig is?
Het penitentiair verdriet van België
In de bouw van het gevangenisdorp Haren vormen de lokale en regionale overheid samen front met de actiegroepen tegen de federale overheid - of toch niet? Hoe kunnen we de knoop tussen activisme en politiek ontwarren?
Een psychiatrisch centrum bouwen we samen
Ook architectuur heeft zijn plaats op de Vlaamse Hersteldagen. Doe mee op 18 november in de Vooruit.
Eindelijk een kennisplatform voor humane gevangenisarchitectuur
De website www.prisongear.be presenteert het onderzoek naar een humane gevangenisarchitectuur.
Ontmanteling van de psychiatrische kliniek
Lees de gevalstudies over zorgarchitectuur in Vlaanderen gepubliceerd in Psyche
Een sterke leefomgeving begint met ruimteregie
Wie is er bang van het Bouwmeestercollege?
Iedereen lijkt het roerend eens dat de Vlaamse architectuur zonder de Bouwmeester overgeleverd is aan de wetten van de markt en de willekeur van het politieke bedrijf. Lees de opinie 'De Bouwmeester en de onheilsprofeten'.
A humane prison is coming to your neighbourhood
As part of the Conflict & Design Triennial the knowledge platform Prison Gear presents design studies that pave the way for a humane prison in Leopoldsburg, Belgium.
Een humane gevangenis komt naar je toe
Als onderdeel van de Conflict & Design Triënnale presenteert Prison Gear twee visieontwerpen voor de toekomstige gevangenis op het militaire domein Reigersvliet in Leopoldsburg.
Limburg City / Stad Limburg
Read the memorandum of the Limburg Europa Workshop / Lees de projectnota van Atelier Limburg Europa
The dismantling of the psychiatric clinic
Read the case studies on care architecture in Flanders
Wat is ontwerpend onderzoek?
Drie vragen over ontwerpend onderzoek, drie antwoorden vanuit de Noorderkempen.
Heeft een gemeenplaats ook een gemene waarde ?
Commentaarstuk bij het Architectuurboek n° 10: Radicale Gemeenplaatsen - Europese architectuur uit Vlaanderen
Is onzichtbare psychiatrische zorg mogelijk?
Review van de opstart Pilootprojecten Zorg door de Vlaams Bouwmeester
Limburg heeft ambitie / Limburg has ambition
Presentatie van de Startnota Provinciaal Bouwmeester Limburg / Presentation Initial Memo Limburg Government Architect
Hoeveel vernieuwing kan de gevangenis verdragen ?
Lees hoe de modernisatie van de gevangenisarchitectuur in handen van Stéphane Beel begon en eindige bij het Ducpétiaux-model.
San Gimignano aan de Zenne
Lees de column naar aanleiding van de Keukentoren van XDGA
Sociaal-realisme of zelfcensuur
Met Jonas Staal schreef BAVO een pleidooi voor een nieuw sociaal-realisme in de kunst. Sociaal-realisme is broodnodig in het tijdperk van de hysterische reproductie.
Nu ook een schreeuw om architectuur!
Niet occupy-en, maar de gevestigde orde verleiden om in crisistijden te investeren in leuke projecten. Lees hier meer over de Studio for Unsollicited Architecture.
Gesloten architectuur is ook humaan
Lees meer over Fleur Agema's gevangenismodel
Waarom kunstenaars niet fascistisch genoeg zijn
Lees het artikel in het decembernummer van Rekto:Verso.
De Culturele Elite
Lees de bijdrage.
Recensies van boek Too Active to Act
Artist Participation in South Africa
The international PR campaign to showcase Rotterdam's robust policy on artist participation is now also tapping into the emerging African art markets.
Denkverbod op liberale kunst
Column over de stellingenoorlog naar aanleiding van de aangekondigde bezuinigingen in de cultuursector.
Maak liberaal kunstbeleid liberaal
Lees BAVO's advies aan staatssecretaris Zijlstra met betrekking tot de noodgedwongen keuzen die de cultuursector in Nederland te wachten staat.
Vrijheidscampagne met inhoud
Edinburgh prepares for artist participation
Kunstenaars vormen een nieuwe alliantie met Geert Wilders / Artists form a new alliance with Geert Wilders
International promotion campaign of the Office for Artist Participation kicks off
The City of Edinburgh will be the first to host an international promotion event of Rotterdam's innovative cultural policies for enforcing the participation of artists in heightening a city's competitiveness and securing social peace on the local level.
Culture and Contestation
The essay 'Neo-Liberalism with Dutch Characteristics: The Big Fix-Up of the Netherlands and the Practice of Embedded Cultural Activism' is published in the book volume 'Culture and Contestation in the New Century'.
Art and Activism
BAVO's essay 'Artists... one more effort to be really political!' is published in the volume 'Art and Activism in the age of Globalisation'.
Boek verschenen: Too Active To Act
Het boek biedt een kritische analyse van de maatschappelijke betrokkenheid van culturele actoren in Nederland in de afgelopen tien jaar.
Commoning the Clinic
Read more about the Kanunnik Triest Square (designed by architects De Vylder Vinck Taillieu) in the Caritas psychiatric centre (Melle) and how it results from a participative process with psychiatrists, managers, staff, and patients.
Unsettling the Category of the Border / Report EF lecture Saskia Sassen
project: EUREGIONAL FORUM
date: 29/05/2009
author: BAVO
source: Euregional Forum Newspaper
status: review
On 13 May, sociologist and internationally renowned globalisation scholar Saskia Sassen held the second lecture in the series 'The Unresolved Borders of Europe' at the NAi Maastricht. The main aim of Sassen's lecture was to unsettle the stabilised understandings and categories of the border, and offer the conceptual instruments to achieve this.
Unsettling the category of the border
Bordering instead of borders
The first in Saskia Sassen's series of 'unsettlements' was her emphasis on the man-made character of borders and thus not so much on the border as such, but on the activity of making borders, as well as the capabilities to do so. In this sense, she proposed to speak of 'bordering' instead of 'borders', that is to say: the border not as a noun, but as a verb, a specific type of human activity. Conceived of as man-made, the border becomes also something inherently unstable, since it can always be re-made or altered. Or, as Sassen put it: "the border is a stabilised meaning and no meaning is permanently stable".
Globalisation: deregulation and multiplication of borders
Apart from the notion of the border itself, Sassen also took issue with the master categories in which borders are mainly considered today: that is to say, the national and the global. The advocates of the former see the growing fortification of the borders around the globe as proof of the fact that nothing much has changed in terms of borders. The advocates of the latter, on the other hand, see the on-going deregulation of borders as a way to secure a smooth flow of goods, information and professionals, as proof of the coming of an increasingly border-less, global world. Sassen criticised the 'all or nothing' logic inherent in both positions. Her stance and main thesis was rather that even if certain borders are being deregulated today, there has actually been a multiplication of borders. Sassen also regarded the current situation of the EU as an "accomplished overcoming of a certain notion of order", i.e. that of the traditional nation-state, while also seeing it as the multiplication of all kind of other borderings.
According to Sassen, however, these borders are of a radically different nature. This is no longer about borders that encircle and enclose a certain local or national territory. Today, she argued, borders increasingly cut across countries and create encased zones and spaces for highly specialised activities (such as finance), to which she referred as "private circuits with special access". Although more elusive and flexible, these zones still enact clear-cut borders between those who are in the circuit and those who are not. Thus, Sassen took up a more complicated 'third' position between both globalisation and anti-globalisation discourses.
Third spaces
In line with this position, Sassen stated that the emergence of what she called 'third spaces' is most characteristic for the current stage of globalisation. These are spaces that are neither global nor national or, conversely, both global and national. They do not exist independently from the nation-state, but neither are they strictly national in scope or interests. As an example of a third space, she referred to the space in which global firms conduct their activities. According to her, there is no such thing as a global firm. Even though a lot of firms today undeniably act globally and operate beyond the national borders to maximise their profits, she stressed that in legal terms these firms are still fully national. However, their global operations are made possible since nation-states denationalise particular elements of their institutional space. Sassen also put forward that the executive branches of national governments increasingly develop into third spaces: although elected nationally, they increasingly ally themselves with global logics and interests. These two examples, in Sassen's view, support her broader thesis that today the global level still highly depends on certain developments and decisions of the nation-states. Furthermore, she also believes that in terms of globalisation, we are still only at the beginning of a major transformation.
The alternative framework: territory, authority, rights
In tackling the issue of present-day borders, Sassen went beyond merely deconstructing the prevailing categories of analysis, like the nation-state or globalisation. She also proposed a different conceptual framework for theorising about the current global order, built around a complex or, as she calls it, 'assemblage' of three major elements: territory, authority and rights (or short: TAR). She developed this alternative theory of globalisation in her latest book entitled Territory, Authority, Rights, where this framework is used not only to analyse the nature of our current social or global order, but also of previous, historical periods in human society. According to Sassen, each of these periods, including the present one, could be seen as a specific combination of the three TAR components; moreover, she distinguishes a certain hierarchy between these components. For instance, in the earliest nation-state period, territory was the dominant factor on which the other two rested: the most important act of the sovereign or state was the determining and consolidation of the national borders, as the basis of its power and legitimacy, and the rights of its subjects. In medieval times, however, authority was the dominant factor, while territory could be subjected to multiple authorities (as opposed to the "exclusive territoriality" of the nation-state). In contrast, what Sassen called today's "human rights regime would want to put rights in the dominant position, over territory and authority.
According to Sassen, looking at different phases of human society through the lens of these three categories creates a better understanding of previous social formations, while also providing a better detection and analysis of the third spaces characteristic of our present world. In our current global electronic-financial markets, for example, authority would again be the dominant factor, since the important factor is not so much where you are, on which territory, but whether you are authorised to access certain networks, which are themselves deterritorialised to a high degree.
Borders, immigration, resistance
Sassen's thesis of the present-day dominance of authority over territory or rights does shed a new light on the notion and status of borders in our contemporary world, as well as on related issues of inclusion and exclusion, border regimes and migration; she used a large part of her lecture to illustrate this.
Cross-border regimes and the IMF citizen
With reference to the issue of migration, for instance, Sassen gave the example of individuals working for well-known global institutions such as the IMF, WTO or World Bank. These individuals are granted 'portable rights': highly privileged rights, attached to them as employees of these institutions. Moreover, they can take these rights along to whichever country they go, in other words, they are not tied to a specific territory or territorial belonging. After their employment, the individuals are even able to choose whether they want to keep these rights. One of these rights, for instance, is the protection against lawsuits related to their activities within global financial institutions. Sassen found this to be rather problematic in view of the worldwide financial crisis that is largely caused or enhanced by the activities and policies of global financial institutions such as the IMF. It basically grants the perpetrators of the current economic crisis eternal immunity from being held accountable by its victims in a court of law.
This example of what Sassen called 'the IMF citizen' not only says a lot about immigration, but also about today's emerging type of bordered spaces. These are spaces that cross traditional national borders; yet, they do not eliminate these borders and their constitutive jurisdictions and territories, but merely cut a zone out of it. In addition, similar bordered spaces exist for immigrants with different statuses: such as the business visa immigrant, family dependent immigrant, green card immigrant, high tech visa worker …
Managing border ecologies
This emergence of cross-border spaces does, of course, not only stem from certain global institutions. For Sassen, similar spaces are constantly being produced from the bottom-up, as a result of the increasing globalisation of economies and societies. In today's world, she witnessed an increase in what she called 'border ecologies', which not only unsettle existing national borders, but also the ways of protecting their exclusivity.
As an example, Sassen referred to the complex border ecology between Mexico and the US. This border ecology not only concerns the massive emigration of Mexicans to the US, hoping for a job and a better life. Sassen showed how the ecology also works in the opposite direction, with one to two million US citizens living and working in Mexico (including a lot of retired people), besides nearly a hundred million travel movements from the US to Mexico (for work, tourism, etc.). This borderland ecology even stretches as far as Wall Street, with US banks annually earning around two million dollar in handling fees from the remittances of Mexican immigrants to their home country. In short, Sassen argued how the border issues between Mexico and the US involve much more than the iconic and infamous highly secured border between the two countries. It is rather a case of a complex and "sticky web" of social and economic interactions and interdependencies, which no fortification of the border can ever hope to eliminate or even control or neutralise. Sassen showed statistics revealing that despite the unprecedented "weaponising" of the border over the last fifteen years, the incidence of arrests of illegal immigrants sunk to a forty-year low, while the amount of illegal immigrants in the US doubled within a decade and is at an all-time high. In short, the case showed how a complex or ecology of social and economic processes is continuously "debordering" the border and how traditional strategies of reasserting the border are useless.
Finally, Sassen also addressed the implications of her theory of TARs for the issue and possibility of resistance to the many injustices in the current global order. According to Sassen, her theory unsettles and opens up the usual binary opposition of power and powerlessness. The specific combinations of TARs throughout human history do not just come about in an accidental way, nor are they solely created by the powerful. In Sassen's view, they are collective productions made out of struggles and therefore never harmonious entities, but full of tensions. In those struggles the powerless play an important, though complex role. Sassen, for instance, stressed how a lot of the norms that have come out of the struggle of the dispossessed have filtered into our laws. Even though this doesn't mean that they are always respected, these laws do exist and can be used against abuses by the powerful.
As an example of the complex power of the seemingly powerless, she gave an example of a series of successful court-cases in the United States by American citizens, levelled against several multinationals for their violations of workers' rights in offshore factories. The lawsuits, however, were not held at some international tribunal, nor did they involve international law. The court-cases were issued at the lowest, domestic court and cleverly used a national law dating back from the high-days of piracy, which hadn't been used for two hundred years. Still, it was effective in getting the multinationals evicted for their 'pirate-like' activities overseas.
For Sassen, this example showed how the third spaces in today's globalised order are not only there so that the powerful – like the abovementioned large multinationals – can exploit and manipulate them for the maximization of their own interests. The example revealed how a similar third space was created and exploited by seemingly powerless citizens, using national law to create a global jurisdiction to put the multinationals on trial. This is something that, in turn, is only possible because the multinational companies are legally speaking still national, and because their global activities are enabled by their respective national states, as Sassen had revealed earlier in her lecture.
Sassen concluded her lecture by emphasizing that when one starts to look at the world through the 'complicated lenses' of territory, authority and rights, one starts to see not only patterns but also possibilities. And in the case of the civil court case against multinationals, these include political possibilities, some of which may be direct, some indirect. It also causes the meaning of the border to become unstable, even if borders are still there and are being reinstated or renationalised.
- A first question concerned ways for governments to deal with border ecologies, other than militarization.
Sassen answered by again stressing the impotence of weapons – even the most advanced and destructive ones – in the face of border ecologies (which she called "complex systems of non-violence"). As proof of this, she referred to the recent Israeli war against Gaza (which she would rather want to call a bombing expedition by the Israeli army).
With regard to alternative ways of governing border ecologies, she stressed how the border ecology is itself a form of governing that is embedded in specific practices and systems, from investment and cash flows to employment structures of family or day workers. These forms of self-governing should form the focus of an alternative approach by governments or supranational entities like the EU. Thus, she saw the recent meeting in Rabat between European and African countries, to discuss a more sustainable approach to current European immigration policies – focusing, for instance, more on developmental aid –, as an attempt in the direction of a governance approach to the border ecology.
Yet, the persisting pathological fear, or even obsession of European governments with mass migration of the poor to the EU, made her feel more pessimistic about the initiative. According to Sassen, this fear is based on deep-rooted misunderstandings about both the history and the nature of migration. In the first place, she stressed how in similar historical situations, with great inequalities in European territories and with states unable or unwilling to control the borders, there was in fact no massive migration of the poor to more prosperous areas. Moreover, she said that there had been other historical settings, where the immigrant belonged to the same religious, racial, ethnic or cultural group, which did involve discrimination, persecution and even killings.
- A second question concerned the presumed, mainly American, perspective of Sassen's lecture, and the possibility of applying its theses to the case of the EU.
According to Sassen, there are great differences between the two. She stressed how Europe has always been more civilised than the US. She referred to the fact that despite its adoption of neo-liberal policies, Europe has embedded a good safety net in its laws, with for instance the activation of certain added socio-economic protections, if levels of unemployment go beyond a certain level. In the case of the Netherlands, she also lauded the existence of a technocracy inside the state, to which she attributed the safeguarding of green spaces in the Netherlands, as well as the excellent protection against environmental dangers.
- Some doubt was expressed towards the effectiveness of national court-cases against globally operating forces, especially in light of the collapse of a recent case of Belgian citizens against those responsible for the war in Iraq.
Sassen stressed the fact that failure of a strategy or action is not necessarily proof of its ineffectiveness, but should be seen as part of a larger trajectory. She referred to the famous recent lawsuit by a Spanish judge against Pinochet, ex-dictator of Chile. This case eventually didn't go through, which Sassen regarded as a good thing, since it would probably not have been won. Nevertheless, she thinks it was good that it happened, since it created a precedent, albeit a still weak and underdeveloped one, for thinking about more advanced and effective future legal actions against ex-dictators. Sassen saw the more recent lawsuit by the International Criminal Court against the Sudanese president in the same vein: even if it is unlikely to succeed, it sends out a clear signal to war criminals all over the world and also confines their manoeuvring space: they now have to avoid travelling to or via some countries where they might get arrested. For Sassen, in short, the crucial question is that of the temporal frame of the acts of resistance of the powerless. She illustrated that this frame can be rather protracted, saying that all military dictatorships in South America were eventually brought down, not by a more powerful power, but by the abuse of their own power. This, she claimed, is also the case with the recent collapse of the Republican Party in the US.
- Another issue put forward was whether the project of destabilizing traditional borders as described by Sassen and her thesis of the multiplication of other types of borders, does not in fact create the opposite effect: the stabilizing or minimizing of still existing frontlines, no matter how much they are being transformed, which still leaves them having very real and negative effects on a great majority of people in the world. Sassen's idea of the destabilizing of the borders was also said to obscure or undermine her attempt to come up with notions of struggle against these borders.
Sassen again stressed her focus on finding out how frontlines are being made as well as defining the spaces where they are made, in order to locate possibilities of unmaking these frontlines or altering them. She stated it wasn't the case that one can or must only fight borders at the border itself. She again referred to the conflict between Israel and Gaza: although the frontlines there are very visible, they are equally situated in less obvious places, such as the power hubs in other countries where foreign policies are made.
- A final question queried situations in which the creation and proliferation of new borders and territories could potentially be beneficial to stabilizing a conflict situation between different nation-states. Cited as an example of this were the plans of creating enclave-like micro-border regimes between the different warring ethnic groups during the disintegration of Yugoslavia, in order to temporarily counter and dilute the logic of the nation-state.
Sassen stressed that when it comes to political-geographic entities it is not a case of 'the bigger the better' or 'the smaller the better'. For instance, a large, extraordinary concentration and centralisation of power, such as in the US or the former USSR, can seriously undermine democratic processes. On the other hand, local organisations can be very provincial and narrow-minded: she referred to some independence struggles in Africa, which are mainly about acquiring and exploiting resources. However, she emphasised that there need not necessarily be a bad outcome, in either scenario.
With regard to this issue of the concentration of power, she made a last, closing comment on the extraordinary power of the financial sector in the US, which, she claimed, has invaded all economic sectors. It was Sassen's belief that, even though we may need finance, any condition that allows such excessive concentration of power is problematic: over the past twenty years, what we have seen is that finance, rather than being used to realise useful things, has in fact been using the people ("we got used").


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Mariah Carey's husband Nick Cannon has said he is feeling "100 per cent" after suffering mild kidney failure.
The America's Got Talent host went into hospital earlier this month but insisted he is on the road to recovery, reports Access Hollywood.
Speaking on Howard Stern's SiriusXM radio show, the 31-year-old said: "I'm good. I'm feeling 100 per cent.
"Because of this situation I know that I don't need to go so hard. It's more about just my way of living ... It's really about taking some time."
The star also told how his illness had brought him even closer to pop superstar Mariah.
"I'm happier than happy. Especially through this entire process, we've become so much closer.
"I even got a chance to see a different side of my wife where she became so nurturing. I'm in debt to her forever," said Nick, who has eight-month-old twins Moroccan and Monroe with Mariah.
When Nick was ill, Mariah, 41, penned a message on her website asking fans to pray for the family, and uploaded a picture of the couple in hospital in Aspen.
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i do some breathing exercises and talk myself out of being nervous. If i have to read a paper out loud in front of the class it helps to think about how when the other people are reading theirs out loud im not paying attention to them im worrying about my own paper. then you realize no one is really listening and even if they are they dont actually care.
Halloween may be over but I still love to be Halloweened themed!
Thinking I will commit suicide after this.
Because I'm her servant that's why I am reading this.
Well I have not been in a situation like that lately but I have thought if was to be nervous I would just remmember no matter what other people think about me I do not care for what they think. I normally have a phrase for that but it's not appropriate for here. before I did get this motto I just ignored everyone and kept my distance from situations where I would be nervous. but stand tall and do what you want to do. xD
"We should give meaning to life, not wait for life to give us meaning."
I try not to get too nervous for class presentation, but when I do my head start to get all spinny. Then my heart just starts pounding more. And I choke a little. But after speaking for a while, I just calm down and eventually start talking smoothly. I'm weird.
Only him ❤
Know your stuff like the back of your hand. I had to do a presentation for a class. I studied/practiced for it so well, I had everything memorized and didn't need to look at any papers (I brought them though just in case). I just looked at the clock at the back of the room, pinched my finger behind my back to keep me from having wandering/detrimental thoughts, and gave my speech. I was the only student who did that (totally memorized my paper and didn't have to read from it) and aced it.
Watching K-dramas instead of sleeping....;D
Like a lot of people have said before me, it's all in your head. Prepare yourself mentally and don't pay attention to the fact that there are people watching you. Just believe in yourself and let go.
The only way to completely stop being nervous, in my opinion, is to repeat activities that make you nervous and gradually make it into something to enjoy. I remember I used to have a problem with leadership capabilities when I was a lot younger; I hated going up in front of people or even just standing in class to announce something.
But, as I matured, I took chances and defeated all those little butterflies in my stomach.
For example, I participated in talent shows and sang. My first time, I thought I crapped a bucketful of poop in my pants (sorry for tmi).
I kept announcing things, spoke more in front of groups of people, and then quickly came to the point where I ran for offices and strengthened my leadership/public speaking skills by a LOT.
I'm very shy yes. Well I usually implement dirty words into my language to deal with that.
Would you like some wet pussy with that cup of coffee?
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With all the sales experience I have, which translates into a massive number of conversations with strangers it just does not happen anymore. You wanna get over that? Try selling bs in front of Wal-Marts for some local charity to every Tom, Dick and Harry that walks by. Talk to everyone. Never prejudge. Use the 5 steps to a conversation. Blah blah blah. After 3 months you don't even think about it anymore. You just think about finding a better job which turns out to be easy because you never get nervous anymore.
I used to get nervous back in high school when I had to perform speeches in most of my clubs.
I will look for you, I will find you, and I will raid your fridge.
Purposely puke up and/or listen to music.
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I twittle
Pills...? Jk. Pills are bad! No!
Uuum, I start drawing all over. On my hands usually, with a pen I carry around.
If I'm in a situation where I can't start scribblin' on me self then I look at the ceiling as if I were in pain.
You all disgust me. (:
I make certain that I am well prepared, I visualize things in a very positive way and I realize that people don't care that much about what I do.
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So, nobody but me does the thing that makes tons of sense?
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Eagerly awaited record The Long Road is available now!
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And for us, we are worried. Very worried. All our families are in Sierra Leone and we are over in the US on tour. It is so important that we do all we can from here to fight this horrible disease back home. So at each show on the rest of the tour, we will be collecting donations to We Own TV and will continue to do so until the spread of the virus has stopped and no new patients are reported. The donation box was designed by our keyboard/guitarist Jahson Bull and will be stationed at the merch table whenever possible. If you can, consider dropping something inside, however small. Or send what you can right now. We Own TV is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization so all donations are tax deductible.
We know you have demands on your time, dollars and attention, so on behalf of all our families and the Sierra Leonean community, we deeply appreciate anything you are able to devote to this cause.
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this is a discussion within the Saints Community Forum; what do you want explained to you dat? why we are optimistic about our team? BECAUSE WE ARE FANS DUMBA$$!!!!!!!! i don't like to come out on people but the last few days you've said some pretty questionable things, i ...
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what do you want explained to you dat? why we are optimistic about our team?
i don't like to come out on people but the last few days you've said some pretty questionable things, i understand that you don't like AB or venturi or haz, that's fine, but to be as doubtful of everything as you are i wonder why you call yourself a fan, if we open the season 0-4, then be my guest and join me in quoting how much we suck but until then...
everyone who has been here for awhile knows what you said about brooks and jake, quite frankly that one blew up in your face, i know you won't admit it but it did
as far as the defense goes yeah they LOOK crappy but they WERE crappy last year, for whatever reason you seem to have blocked out the fact that we were a good team last year, we missed the playoffs by a game, i'm not saying we're going to make it to the super bowl this year but playoffs is not really out of the question and as far as i'm concerned that would be enough for me since we haven't been there in 2 years
how about a little faith and support in your team for once instead of 'we're gonna suck, we're gonna suck'
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Funny thing is that at the end of last season you could\'t get whodat to acknowledge how poor the defense was. He (along with some others -- you know who you are) blamed EVERY loss on Aaron Brooks...EVERY one of \'em. Now the defense is all he (and others) want to talk about. Personally I think some people just like to complain.
See, with Whodat, the glass is neither half-empty nor is it half full. The glass just isn\'t by God big enough.
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i guess they\'ll all be on the bouman wagon this year, i mean as bad as AB is bouman must be better than AB and smarter too!!!!!
there\'s a reason guys have been backups for years and years, and i don\'t want to hear any warner stories those are very rare occurances
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So very rare....
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Tom Brady, Marc Bulger and Trent Green.
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What I don\'t understand is why my outlook on the season puts into question my loyalty to this team at all. I have posted as many GOOD reasons as to why the Saints MAY have a bad year as any of you have posted as to why they MAY have a good year.
And can we please, please get one thing straight. I DO NOT DISLIKE AARON BROOKS. Yes, I think he is the wrong quarterback for this team. But while I will acknowledge that he has physical skills and does certain things well, you guys that have your heads 2 feet up his a$$ won\'t admit that he has ANY flaws. And that makes me the crazy person. Saintfan, you\'ve been gone a long time so don\'t even begin to pretend like you know. I also think Dante Culpepper is a good quarterback, but I\'ll take a Marc Bulger or Chad Pennington over Aaron Brooks or Dante Culpepper IN THIS OFFENSE any day. They are better suited for THIS type of offense. Again, compare - Oakland - Gannon, St. Louis - Warner/Bulger, Pittsburgh - Maddox, Buffalo - Bledsoe, Tampa - Johnson... now is our offense more like those offenses, or more like Atlanta\'s, Minnesota\'s, or Philly\'s??? B/c those last three teams have QBs like ours, yet their offensive scheme\'s and personnel look nothing like ours. Can anyone argue that point?
Now, if you\'re happy about this defense right now that\'s great, but you\'re nuts. Other teams have gone from very bad to very good in a single season over the past few years... wanna know the big difference? EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM replaced a ****TY D COORDINATOR WITH A VERY GOOD ONE. Look. Go back and look. We didn\'t. And again, nothing you can say will change my mind right now. I may be wrong, it won\'t be the first time. But I will remember these conversations and I will come after each and every one of you who is singling me out right now in a few months if the D sucks again all season.
Of course, I\'m sure you\'ll all have some BS to quote. \"Hey, we got better. We\'re 22nd in the league this season.\" \"But our D line played better.\" blah blah blah. I just hope YOU GUYS are big enough to admit you were wrong wrong wrong if the defense sucks.
And one more thing. Saintfan, go back and find one post where I ever claimed that the defense was not the single biggest problem this team had. I never did once. I constantly stated and restated (and obviously you still haven\'t gotten it) that just b/c a team has one big problem doesn\'t mean that it doesn\'t have other areas where it can improve. Get it yet or are you still as deaf as ever?
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holcombe, bulger and maddox still have tons to prove, none of them has ever started from season\'s beginnning and bulger is still the backup
gannon and johnson have been starter\'s on some team or another for years
fiedler is nothing to wow about
that leaves warner (who might not be the man much longer), brady and garcia
3 guys out of 32 teams over the last 5 years, like i said a rarity
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Rusta, if I were you, I wouldn\'t have posted to this thread, in hopes that it would fall from the first page and not be seen by many, as you you look like the biggest idiot that posts here. In your last post, you have bent the facts so much that they are in direct conflict of your first post. Now, unplug your keyboard, place it neatly in the trash can, and walk away from the computer.
EDIT: Perhaps I\'m being too brunt and need to find another way to get my point across. I want you to play a game. I say that there was not a single running back to run for over 1000 yards last year. Now, prove me wrong.
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The sixth Southwest Florida location for Pollo Tropical will be the center of focus on Friday, July 11 when the community celebrates with an all-day Beach Party at 12611 South Cleveland Avenue.
The morning of the Beach Party, one lucky winner will be chosen from the first 100 guests to receive Free Chicken for a Year*. The party also benefits the community as local news media will be participating in a Surfing Media Challenge on the Pollo Tropical surfing simulator to benefit the Boys & Girls Clubs of Lee County's summer programs.
Music, prizes and more will also spice up the Pollo Tropical Grand Opening Beach Party. Guests are being urged to arrive as early as 9:00 a.m. to be among the first in line for the restaurant's 10:30 a.m. opening. The first 100 guests will receive a coupon for a free Create Your Own Family Meal redeemable on a future visit, and will be entered for a chance to win Free Chicken for a Year. The drawing and winner announcement will take place at 11:00 a.m. and the winner must be present to win. Surfing on the surfing simulator, music and more begins at 9:00 a.m. and continues until 8:00 p.m.
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All the Grand Opening Beach Party festivities take place at the new Pollo Tropical at 12611 South Cleveland Avenue in Fort Myers.
The new Pollo Tropical makes it even more convenient for the community to indulge on the brand's famous marinated Grilled Chicken, Create Your Own TropiChop, savory Mojo Roast Pork and all of its other popular Caribbean-inspired favorites. Pollo also features its wildly-popular Pollo Tropical Salsa Bar, boasting a variety of complimentary unique and tempting sauces including Spicy Poyo Poyo, Cilantro Garlic, Fresh Salsa, Curry Mustard, Guava BBQ and more. The new Fort Myers Pollo Tropical location will serve guests seven days a week, opening at 10:30 a.m.
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Though I haven't quite completely determined the circumstances under which this bug rears its head, it is evidenced by emails you send out using the GMail application on an Android phone stuck in the Outbox with "Sending . . ." but they never actually send. If it was a newly composed email, the solution was rather simple in that all you had to do was display the email, edit it and click the Send button again. Things are a little trickier with emails that are replying to a thread, however.
Rather than bore you with all the various things that didn't work, allow me to jump straight to the punchline. Should you see such a message as a reply to an existing thread stuck in your outbox, here's what you do: first, open up the offending thread. This can be either from the Outbox or whatever folder label the thread is under. Then, reply to one of the emails in the thread. It can be any email besides the Sending . . . email itself (you can't open that one anyway). After you click Reply and you see the Compose Mail screen, click the Save as draft button. Then, go back to the Inbox by whatever means you choose (e.g., back button). Then, bring up the Drafts folder by selecting the Menu key and choosing View Labels and choosing Drafts. Open up the email thread you were just working on. You'll note that at this point you're actually editing the content of the original email that was stuck in the Outbox! Edit it as you see fit and click Send. Voila! If it gets stuck in the Outbox again, you can repeat this process as often as you like. In some extreme cases where you have to go perform this process via more than one iteration, you may have some stale empty Draft emails in the thread you can discard at a later time.
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