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At a forum on innovative business creation platforms recently, the issue of property rights arose in connection with the giant yellow Rubber Duck which is being displayed around Taiwan. Everyone present voiced their approval of the duck's first appearance in the country. However, during the duck's time in Keelung Harbor, a conflict arose between its creator, Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman, and the display's organizing team from the Keelung City Government. Due to the conflict, what was meant as an artistic message of purity and simplicity has regrettably deteriorated into a dispute over rights violations.
According to intellectual property legislation, an artist cannot copyright the shape of a duck because of the idea-expression dichotomy, which differentiates an idea from the expression or manifestation of that idea. Hofman has not applied for trademark rights in Taiwan for the sculpture, so the organizing team has not violated any of his intellectual property rights by manufacturing and selling rubber duck products, as Jerry Fan (范可欽) — who headed the organizing team — has claimed. Although manufacturing and selling duck merchandise does not violate intellectual property rights, it is a violation to use Hofman's name and claim to have obtained exclusive licensing rights. As an example, claiming that singer Jolin Tsai (蔡依林) is your brand ambassador without first obtaining her approval would not only be an infringement of rights, it would confuse consumers and distort competition. The Keelung organizers placed the duck on a turntable and made it quack without first obtaining Hofman's approval. Although this may have been creative, the creativity applied to someone else's work without first obtaining the artist's approval distorted his intentions. That was a violation of the creator's rights.
In response to Hofman's dissatisfaction with the "commercial circus" surrounding the display in Keelung, Fan, who was replaced as head of the organizing team, said Hofman was making a great deal of money from royalties, implying that Hofman was also engaged in commercial activities. However, there are many different kinds of commercial activity.
If Hofman's duck was selling purity, love and peace, for example, he would not agree to allowing someone else to use his work to promote "a circus and entertainment and making money." Such activities would clearly make the creator feel that his rights were violated.
According to statements from the business forum, the Greater Kaohsiung Government held the most successful duck display because of the integration of private-sector donations and public resources in the planning of the transportation and tourism events, which succeeded in attracting public attention. As the number of visitors increased, they brought business to the local hotel, tourism and cultural industries. Businesses enjoyed an unexpected advertising boost as people flocked to see the display.
The Keelung City Government's organizing team was too eager. They wanted to produce merchandise and sell it using Hofman's name. While this may not be an outright violation of the law, it leaves the impression that they were trying to make a profit on Hofman's back. However, because the government made its own merchandise, it cut into the profits of private businesses.

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Matthew Modine has signed up to play John Sculley, the former Pepsi-Cola CEP hired by Jobs to lead Apple in 1983, only to be fired by him two years later.
And despite Sculley's history of firing Jobs, Modine said his character won't necessarily be the villain of the story, which stars Ashton Kutcher playing the lead role.
"The interesting thing about that is some people may look at John Sculley as a villain in the story, an antagonist in the story," Modine told CBS. "You know the story of Michael Jordan. When he was playing high school basketball, he was kicked off the team. He was cut. And had Michael Jordan not been cut, a lot of people believe he wouldn't have found the aspiration and desire to show his coach that he was wrong and become the Michael Jordan who changes the game of basketball."
The actor is best know for his roles in "Full Metal Jacket," "Law & Order" and he will be in the upcoming "The Dark Knight Rises" playing Deputy Commissioner Foley.
The movie on Jobs' life will chronicle the Apple co-founder's life from 1971 through the end of his life.
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UPDATE: Check Out a Hi-Res version of Evans as Captain America!
We've seen the concept art, we've seen the Entertainment Weekly Captain America magazine cover and we've seen Chris Evans' stunt double in costume riding a U.S. Army Indian motorcycle. None of these images however, has offered us the full look of Evans as the title character of Captain America: The First Avenger in costume as the future leader of The Avengers.
That changes now as earlier today a leaked scan of an exclusive in-magazine image of the latest issue of EW made its way online. We don't post scans of inside-cover exclusive images but EW has released it officially on their site in proper resolution.
Check out the image as Evans in the Captain America costume, sporting a helmet with drawn-on wings, and note the heavily armed (and armored) characters in the background:
For an image of Evans in action as Captain America, go HERE!
I dig the new costume design however, especially how they integrated the star into his chest and shoulder pads. I do think from a material standpoint, it looks a little soft with the padding. No doubt, it's designed intentionally this way to help him move in combat. The battle-worn shield looks amazing, as do the leather detailing and addition of the holster to his costume.
I wonder what Cap's live-action costume will look like when he enters the modern era.
Now that we've seen both the full costumes for Thor and Captain America, knowing already what the Hulk and Iron Man look like, how bad-ass are The Avengers? If I were a CGI'd DC superhero, I might be tad worried...
Chris Evans stars alongside Neal McDonough's Dum Dum Dugan, Tommy Lee Jones, Hugo Weaving as the Red Skull, Hayley Atwell as Peggy Carter, Dominic Cooper as Howard Stark and Sebastian Stan as Bucky Barnes. Captain America is of course, directed by Joe Johnston.
Captain America: The First Avenger hits July 22, 2011 and The Avengers is scheduled to debut May 4, 2012.
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|Pictorial history of the Oxford Orphanage : Founded in 1872 by the Grand Lodge of North Carolina A.F. & A.M.
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|North Carolina State Library Oxford Orphanage Oxford, North Carolina ® VIEWS PICTORIAL HISTORY of the OXFORD ORPHANAGE Founded in 1872 by the Grand Lodge of North Carolina A. F. A. M. This attractive book was printed by the boys in the Printing Department of Oxford Orphanage WE H A V E long felt the need of some means of conveying to our friends a better idea of our work than we have yet adopted. This booklet is gotten up with the hope that it may give to those who see it a better conception of the great work we are trying to do for the orphan children under our care. It illustrates the provision which is being made for their physical development, as well as their pleasure. Also the manual training, whereby our children are able to learn a trade while they are getting an education. ace We have eleven grades in our school, and a child has the opportunity to obtain preparation which will admit him or her into the highest grade colleges of the State without examination. The Christian training we seek to give the children should enable them to possess a high moral sense of their duty to God and man. The education they receive should be a good foundation for them from a literary standpoint; and the manual training given will enable them to earn a living with little or no apprenticeship. R. L. BROWN, Superintendent. CAMPUS. OXFORD ORPHANAGE. OXFORD. NORTH CAROLINA St. John's College S T. JOHN'S C O L L E G E was founded by The Grand Lodge of North Carolina, A. F. & A. M., in 1855 for the purpose of educating the children of Masons. It was not a success and eked out an existence, changing management several times, until the War between the States came. Then the College ceased to function entirely. In December 1872, the question was brought up in the Grand Lodge as to what disposition should be made of the property. There was a motion to sell it but Bro. Jno. H. Mills offered a substitute motion that it be turned into an Orphanage. The vote was a tie. Grand Master Jno. Nichols cast the deciding vote for the Orphanage. Bro. Jno. H. Mills was elected the first Superintendent a n d an appropriation of $ 500.00 per year was made for its maintenance. Thus came into existence the first Orphanage in North Carolina, and one of the first in the South. Brother Mills assumed the duties of his office at once and proceeded to solicit funds to open the institution. His efforts were sufficiently successful for him to open the old St. John's College building as an Orphanage, and on February 1, 1873, the first children were admitted: Robert Lee Parrish, Nancy Parrish and Isabel Parrish of Granville County. The first year there were admitted 136 children. We can imagine the difficulty encountered by Brother Mills in providing for so many children with a $ 500.00 appropriation in the hard times following the Civil War. No man with less determina����tion and ability could have done it. But it seems that God's blessing was upon the work, and while there were many discouragements and the children sometimes lacked the necessities, God's providence gradually opened the way to the hearts of the people, until the Orphanage was well established with ample income to supply the needs of the children. T h e following superintendents h a ve served the institution: Jno. H. Mills served eleven years, B. F. Dixon served seven years; Julian T. Harris ( died in office) served two months; W. S. Black served three years; N. M. Lawrence served four years; Wm. J. Hicks ( died in office) served twelve years; R. L. Brown elected in 1910 — after having served as Assistant Superintendent for eighteen months. At the present time, the Orphanage is caring for 417 children with only twenty per cent of them children of Masons. About 3800 children have received the benefits of its care and training from the day the first child was admitted to the present. Some of these children have won for themselves very enviable positions in the ministry, professional life and business. The present Board of Directors is composed of the following: Leon Cash Grand Master, ex- officio, Chairman; B. S. Royster; P. G. M., Secretary; T. A. Green, J. Bailey Owen, P. G. M.; S. M. Gattis, P. G. M.; J. LeGrand Everett, P. G. M.; R. L. Flowers; A. B. Andrews, P. G. M.; and Geo. S. Nor-fleet, P. G. M. The Executive Committee consists of Leon Cash, J. Bailey Owen and B. S. Royster. Officers: Superintendent, R. L. Brown; Lady Supervisor, Miss N. N. Bemis; Treasurer and Bookkeeper, Mr. Ivey Allen; Assistant, Miss N. P. Bessent. The faculty consists of four officers, sixteen teachers, two physical directors, one for boys and one for girls; ten cottage mothers; six matrons, and sevens heads of industrial departments, besides a physician and a dentist. The plant consists of the following: tract of land with 376 acres, just on the edge of the town of Oxford; the Main Building ( St. John's College); four Cottages for Girls and one Baby Cottage; four Cottages for boys; Dining Hall; one Office B u i l d i n g ; Superintendent's Residence; Treasurer's Residence; three industrial buildings which contain the Laundry and Sewing Rooms; the School of Printing and Shoe Shop; the School of Electricity; the Hospital Building; School Building; two homes for department managers; splendidly equipped sanitary Dairy Barn with two glazed tile silos with 225 tons' capacity; three barns; two cribs and several large storage houses as well as hog houses. All of these are of brick construction except farmers' houses and barns. This home is for the dependent orphan children of the State and only such can gain admission. Money will not buy its privileges or pay for its benefits. Here the children of the poor have all the advantages the rich can give their children. They are cared for with the tenderest affection by the consecrated officers and teachers who do not work for the money they get, but are willing to spend their lives for the children, if need be. MAIN BUILDING, MASONIC ORPHANAGE, THE ORIGINAL ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE BUILDING CONTAGIOUS WARD IN HOSPITAL— Two of these WARD IN HOSPITAL— Four of These, Twelve Beds Each DENTIST'S OFFICE— HOSPITAL BABY COTTAGE FRONT CHILDREN FROM BABY COTTAGE ON THEIR PLAYGROUND PLAY ROOM, BABY COTTAGE BABY COTTAGE— KIN DERGARTEN ROOM PAST GRAND MASTER CASH AND THE "" KIDDIES"" JOHN NICHOLS HIGH SCHOOL BUILDING FIRST GRADE ELEVENTH GRADE MUSIC CLASS H. C. WORTHEN TELEGRAPHY CLASS MANUAL ARTS ROOM MANUAL ARTS EXHIBITS CHRISTMAS TREE DINING ROOM COOK ROOM DISH WASHING AND VEGETABLE ROOM BAKE SHOP STORE ROOM NO. 1 STORE RO OM NO. 2 Industrial _ E BELIEVE it is as important to /"" I | | teach children how to work as / I it is to give them an education. It has, therefore, been, and still the policy of the Oxford Orphanage, to have all the children learn to do something that will enable them to make a living when they go out in the world. The pictures immediately following are intended to give an idea of the various means we employ to accomplish this object. In further explanation, however, we will state that all the children, boys and girls, are taught to clean house. They all keep their own homes. The girls have a class in Domestic Science, so that all may know how to cook when they leave us. Since it is practicable to have only a few work at a time in our cook room, and they only remain there one year, we use this class in Domestic Science so all the girls may know how to cook when they go out from us. Training The class in Manual Arts and Basketry enables the boys and girls to learn the art of basket- work, wood- turning and carving, toy- making, and making useful things of cement, as well as other serviceable and ornamental articles. The class in Telegraphy and Typewriting gives the children an opportunity to become skilled operators. The Laundry and the Sewing rooms give the girls training which fits them to make their own clothes and keep them in proper condition. The School of Printing, the School of Electricity and the Shoe Shop afford the boys apportunity to learn lucrative and useful occupations. The Farm and Dairy are not only very necessary parts of our plant, but we make them serve the purpose of developing the boys into a class of citizens who are the back- bone of this great nation. LAUNDRY WASHING DEPARTMENT LAUNDRY IRONING DEPARTMENT GIRLS' SEWING ROOM— Making Girls' Clothes BOYS' SEWING ROOM— Making Boys' Clothes COMPOSING ROOM, PRINTING DEPARTMENT PRESS ROOM BINDERY SHOE MAKING. ( Boys Make All the Children's Shoes, Besides Doing $ 4,500.00 in Repair Work for Customers) SHOES MADE IN OUR SHOP \ CLASS ROOM IN SCHOOL OF ELECTRICITY WORK ROOM SCHOOL OP ELECTRICITY MACHINERY FOR WINDING ELECTRIC MOTORS— SCHOOL OF ELECTRICITY WORK IN PROCESS— SCHOOL OF ELECTRICITY SHRINE SWIMMING POOL ( A present from Oasis and Sudan Temples) SHRINE SWIMMING POOL, 100 FEET LONG, 25 FEET WIDE BASKET BALL— GIRLS BASKET BALL— BOYS VOLLEY BALL BASEBALL COMPANY AT DRILL WATERMELON ON THE RIND The Farm HIS IS one of the best assets of the Orphanage. In the past ten years it has been brought, by a systematic plan of land improvement, from one of the poorest tracts in Granville County to one of the richest, most productive farms in the State and capable of growing seventy- five to ninety bushels of corn as well as four crops of alfalfa hay to the acre. The tract consists of 376 acres. About thirty acres of these are used for trucking and most of the vegetables are made here; 200 acres are devoted to corn, ensilage and alfalfa hay. The other portion is used for grazing for our dairy herd, except some ten acres which are devoted to buildings and campus. DAIRY BARN. Silo capacity 225 tons DAIRY BARN. CAPACITY FIFTY COWS HERD OF HOLSTEINS HOGS— PART OF HERD GIRLS' COTTAGE— EIGHT COTTAGES IN ALL, FOUR FOR GIRLS AND FOUR FOR BOYS TREASURER'S COTTAGE SUPERINTENDENT'S RESIDENCE


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2013-14 Indoor: Set a new personal-best in the pole vault while finishing in sixth at the 2014 America East Indoor Track and Field Championships… Moved up into a tie for sixth in the UMBC record book by clearing 4.65m (15'3") at the conference meet in New York.
2013 Outdoor: Finished in a tie for eighth-place in the pole vault at the 2013 America East Outdoor Championships… Cleared a season-best height of 4.20m (13'9.25") at the conference meet at Binghamton.
2012-13 Indoor: Placed eighth in the pole vault at the 2013 America East Indoor Championships… Recorded his top performance of the season, clearing 4.20m (13'9.25"), at the conference meet.
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Berkshire's Tracy Britt Brings CEOs Together
Warren Buffett is famously hands-off when it comes to running the subsidiary businesses of Berkshire Hathaway, but some Berkshire CEOs have been craving a little more contact – at least with each other.
Buffett's financial assistant Tracy Britt is making it happen. The 28-year-old Harvard MBA has worked by the legendary investor's side since 2009, and is taking on more responsibility within Berkshire, including the chairmanship of four of its subsidiaries.
One of her goals is to increase interaction among the managers of Berkshire's 80-odd businesses. She travels frequently to the far-flung units to visit Berkshire executives and learn about their business challenges and practices, often using that knowledge to put CEOs in touch with each other.
Last month, dozens of Berkshire managers gathered in Omaha, Neb. on the sidelines of the conglomerate's annual meeting to socialize and discuss everything from employee incentive plans to the health of the economy -- a CEO roundtable that was the first of its kind.
The event was informal and attendance was optional. Some top executives, such as reinsurance business chief Ajit Jain and Matt Rose, CEO of railroad operator Burlington Northern Santa Fe, did not attend. Tony Nicely, the CEO of Geico, did.
"This was her brainchild," said Sam Taylor, the CEO of Berkshire subsidiary Oriental Trading.
In all, more than 40 executives participated, meeting for dinner and following up with a discussion the next morning. Britt also organized hour-long breakout sessions for the CEOs, so that the executives could talk more at length about their businesses and how they were faring during the economic recovery.
Some CEOs discussed how to create long-term incentive plans for their senior executives, since Berkshire doesn't give out stock options. Others shared their ideas of what it meant to be a Berkshire company, with no financial reporting requirements and near-complete freedom to run their businesses as though they were owners. Executives also discussed the possibility of partnering on business purchases and sharing communication budgets.
"It was really more of a nuts-and-bolts thing, lot of good interaction and good social time," said Terry Kroeger, publisher of the Omaha World-Herald, a Berkshire-owned paper.
Buffett and Britt declined to comment.
The plan is to make the CEO roundtable an annual event.
Such types of engagements among Berkshire chiefs have been rare in the conglomerate's history. Berkshire, one of the world's five largest companies by market value, is unique in that it owns over 80 different businesses, each of which operates as an independent entity with its own manager.
Buffett and Munger have eschewed the hierarchical reporting structure with divisional or regional heads that's typical of U.S. corporations, instead encouraging "decentralization to the point of abdication," as Munger said at this year's annual meeting on May 4.
Chief executives call Buffett as often as they want his advice, and send periodic updates about their businesses, including acquisition and succession plans. "My job is to stay out of their way," Buffett wrote in his 2002 letter to shareholders. The strategy has worked; no Berkshire CEO has left the company.
Executives who attended the dinner and roundtable in Omaha ahead of the annual meeting, said the event does not indicate a big change the way things are run at Berkshire.
"There's no change in the general philosophy" of Buffett, said Jordan Hansell, CEO of private aviation company NetJets, adding that the event could best be described as an "information exchange."
It came together because some managers felt they should tap other Berkshire executives as a resource and share their thinking about management, business and the economic recovery. Berkshire is often seen as a microcosm of the U.S. economy because its businesses are diverse in size and sector, including insurance, railroads, home builders and shoemakers.
"We're interested in each other's businesses… Always interested in what everyone is seeing," said Brad Kinstler, CEO of See's Candies and a 26-year veteran. He added that it was useful to discuss with other Berkshire-owned retailers how they fared during the recession, and how malls around the country were doing.
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Looks very raw and his end product needs lots of work but at 19 and scoring 1 in 2 he has the time.Looks very exciting but then we always go mad on a YouTube vid!
I watched the first minute and thought if that's his first minutes of highlights then raw is one way of putting it....that finish on 23 seconds!!
Do we need more Ademola Lookman's who might prove useful in the next few years? We need more Sigurdsson's who'll deliver you double figures in goals and assists from day one.
We need both
We already have Calvert Lewin and Lookman, both young prospects who we hope will come good in the next few years. Our more pressing concern is who will get us double figures next season.
Are you suggesting we just don't bother if we identify someone who could potentially become a world beater? Everyone's more pressing concern is now rather than the future. We surely need to plan for the future too though. More than every side above us because we currently can't sign readymade stars
There are better ones in there but yeah - I thought "why the hell are those clips on first and not buried later in the vid?"
10 minutes of youtube highlights at just 19 shows he must have something about him.
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Today's prompt song is "Between the Lines" by Sara Bareillas:
"Between the Lines" – Sara Bareillas
"Leave unsaid unspoken / Eyes wide shut unopened / You and me / Always be / You and me /Always between the lines."
Happenings happening, eyes wide shut.
I missed the obvious closing my lids.
Was blind to what you were doing, and did.
Eyes wide opened, she appeared frustration!
I never thought I was abandoning us.
But was I? You turned to her, your voice hushed.
Jealousy felt, her familiar name cuts.
Thought we were joined, in-between the lines.
Happenings happening, eyes wide shut.
Happenings happening, eyes wide shut.
Weren't we together in love? You're now of me rid.
Your life is calm; tears continueously drip.
Abandoned me; you had hers and my trust.
Hers meant more; glad you had time to inform,
Not letting me know and leaving me torn.
You on your side, me on mine, the cusp —
Grieving time wasted, never said, you hid.
Happenings happening, eyes wide shut.
Happenings happening, eyes wide shut.
I've learned much; I know where I stand amidst —
Games of the heart; I'm on my line, listen!
Imagine telling me the truth — your lust–
Was your crime, you left me hurt, decaying.
But I've huge strength, I'll find the path –my way.
Forgetting how you treated me, threw crusts —
Of your time; set free –no longer your tryst.
Happenings happening, eyes wide shut.
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NAS tackles enterprise storage
NAS technology is filling the gap between file servers and SANs, providing powerful file serving capability with high storage capacity and a growing number of enterprise-class features. NAS has emerged as a primary storage resource in SMBs and has proven itself in the enterprise. This article covers the basic concepts of NAS and NAS implementation issues.
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NAS usually takes on the role of low-end storage, while Fibre Channel (FC) SANs are associated with high-end performance. However, this segmentation is changing because of faster Ethernet and better NAS design. The cost advantages that NAS has enjoyed "has inadvertently pigeonholed NAS to be perceived as cheap 'toy' storage, not befitting an enterprise," Schulz says, noting that contemporary NAS systems can support the storage tiering, high performance and high availability that had only been available in SANs. Although we often refer to NAS as a dedicated appliance (e.g., a NAS box) with its own internal storage, some organizations choose to forego a new appliance when a SAN already exists in the enterprise. Rather than a NAS appliance, they can use a NAS gateway to serve files from SAN or some other external storage. The presence of a gateway adds NAS functionality, but uses the SAN or separately attached disk array for actual storage. The advantage of a gateway is that NAS storage is not limited by the capacity of the appliance itself, but by the storage capacity of the separate array or SAN, which can be considerably larger. For more on NAS appliances and gateways, see the NAS Upgrades Buying Guide. Today, SANs remain the preferred choice for block-based storage in the enterprise, but NAS has become a staple of file storage, especially in its ability to serve unstructured file data. NAS can exist alone, but SAN and NAS technologies can coexist when the storage environment handles a mix of block and file data. "In a large environment, every good SAN should have a NAS, and every good NAS should have a SAN," Schulz says. Implementing NAS Implementing NAS typically involves the deployment of an appliance or gateway device, along with the configuration/management software. Most NAS deployments are turnkey, requiring only simple setups for basic operation. High-end NAS systems can be more complex and involve backup, replication and snapshot software. If you're deploying a high-end NAS system, you should note what functionality is available out of the box, and which features may require a separate software purchase. Keep an eye on the NAS network traffic. Without adequate bandwidth, a network segment hosting the NAS can easily become overloaded and impair performance. In most cases, a NAS is implemented with multiple Gigabit Ethernet ports that can be aggregated for improved bandwidth. Multiple ports also allow for failover, an essential element of high-availability operation. Performance is also a serious issue when the NAS is called upon to handle transaction-centric applications, such as databases or email systems. SANs are still the preferred choice for storage in heavy transactional environments, but high-performance NAS systems offer alternatives when the application workload can be balanced with the NAS system. "You start to run into limits with NAS at the very high end where you're serving up hundreds or thousands of database transactions per second," says Phil Goodwin, president of Diogenes Analytical Laboratories Inc. Highly intensive OLTP environments can have trouble being hosted on NAS, he nogtes. As an added wrinkle, NAS can sometimes influence software support. For example, some block-based applications may not even support deployment on file-based storage, so be sure to review the applications that you intend to host on NAS and verify that the application vendor will continue to support them. Lab testing is a good way to see the application's behavior and stability on a NAS prior to a major rollout. Managing a NAS system usually doesn't take much work, and good tools can ease the overhead. Opt for tools that will support multiple NAS systems and heterogeneous storage systems if you can. This way, the IT staff won't have to deal with multiple management tools as more NAS systems are added. Otherwise, the ease of NAS deployment can lead to a myriad of NAS systems and file servers, and the sheer number of NAS systems will ultimately lead to management headaches. "In the PC and server world, the solution is some sort of consolidation or virtualization," Schulz says. "We're going to start seeing more of that [virtualization] in the NAS space." Impact of NAS NAS can help companies overcome the expense of a SAN or the management headaches of DAS. NAS overcame both issues for Jeremy Whaley, director of information systems and network services at Claremont McKenna College in Claremont, Calif. Several years ago, the college used an IBM SAN with 4.5 TB, with another 3 TB spread out between DAS systems connected to servers as needed. The high cost of server HBAs left the SAN poorly utilized. "Only a handful of Windows file servers were taking advantage of the SAN," Whaley says. 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After about six months of consideration, the college settled on a Titan NAS system from BlueArc Corp. Whaley notes that BlueArc also supports iSCSI, so there is always a potential to add an iSCSI SAN later.
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|February 5th, 2012 06:25 PM
|Yohann Gissinger
There are lot of mysteries remaining especially with the long legged birds...
|February 4th, 2012 01:25 PM
|Pierre Galafassi
Hi Yohann,
You have got an amazing "nose" for extracting information from the net.
Do you think you could make it perform as well for truffles?
P.S. I agree with Filiberto. The more we dig in "rugs and paintings" the more the feeling grows that we vastly under-evaluate the importance of Spain in rugs.
|February 3rd, 2012 01:37 PM
|Filiberto Boncompagni
Bravo Yohann!
And both textiles are fom Spain... Interesting.
|February 3rd, 2012 01:21 PM
|Yohann Gissinger
The silk textile hypothesis
Hello to all,
I don't think the tile hypothesis is valid in this case:
FIG b. P. del Pollaiolo, allegory of Faith, 1469-1470 Uffizi, Florence
The bands format drove my research to some silk textiles fragments still existing in some museums or collections:
XIV-XVth c. Spain (made) Satin band, woven in gold thread along the centre.
A simulated Kufic inscription on a red ground; along either side runs the repeating Arabic inscription "Glory to the All-powerful Lord" in red silk on a white ground, bordered by narrow bands in green, red, blue and white.
Source: V&A museum website
or like this one:
XIVth c. Spain (made) Silk and metal-wrapped thread in lampas weave.
The weaver of this silk from Muslim Spain has accurately reproduced the flowing lines of an inscription in Arabic, a task requiring enormous care. The phrase Glory to our lord the sultan has been repeated within the widest band in the design, creating the illusion of a long frieze of calligraphy.
Source: V&A museum website
Best regards,
|January 31st, 2012 09:34 AM
|Filiberto Boncompagni
Yes, that could have been a possibility but, as you say, such floor should be still in existence today or, if lost, its memory should have been recorded somewhere.
|January 31st, 2012 08:38 AM
|Pierre Galafassi
Hi Filiberto,
Yes a painter"s creation based on a real rug is a credible option, perhaps the best one.
I have dropped the hypothesis of a (semi-precious) stone-inlaid floor, mostly because such a costly solution could hardly have gone un-noticed at the time and we would probably still be able to admire it in a florentine church or palace. I am not hinting here at inlaid tiles (which would have to show vertical and horizontal lines too) but at this technique which was (and still is today) practiced by florentine artisans, mainly for tables. With this technique the brilliant and saturated colors of Del Pollaiolo's floor could have been easily achieved and no straight lines would appear.
Best regards
|January 29th, 2012 04:50 PM
|Filiberto Boncompagni
Hi Pierre,
There are seven paintings in this allegoric series symbolizing the Virtues. Six are from Piero del Pollaiolo. All of them but one (the "Charity") have the same floor decoration. The "Charity" however has a slightly different one, more carpet-like but again with multiple Kufic borders:
More exactly like a "small pattern Holbein rug" as seen in your essay on "Geometric Rugs in Early Renaissance Paintings":
Now, if you want my opinion, those floors are sort of "A painter's invention".
Well, not exactly inventions, though: I think the artist used real elements of a "small pattern Holbein rug" in the same way he used virtual architectonic elements (I say virtual because I exclude that the niches surrounding the women were real) to build up his compositions.
|January 29th, 2012 10:27 AM
|Pierre Galafassi
Hi Filiberto,
I have looked for these (perpendicular or oblique) lines too, without finding them.
But what else can it be?
It does not really have the structure expected from a rug, does it?
Intarsia or marquetry? The colors seem much too saturated and bright for such wood-inlay techniques.
Stone inlay? Unlikely, despite the Florentine mastery of this technique?
A painter's invention?
Best regards
|January 29th, 2012 08:54 AM
|Filiberto Boncompagni
Pierre, I have to disagree on the last painting: I don't think it's a tiled floor.
First, for the reasons mentioned in the second post of this thread.
Second, and more important, because if that is a tiled floor I would expect to see a grid pattern. What I see, instead, are only lines parallel to the Kufic script and no perpendicular lines. Unless those are very long tiles…
|January 28th, 2012 05:29 PM
|Pierre Galafassi
Hi Patricia,
Thanks a lot for this interesting contribution! I shall try to find an on-line scan of Francisque Pelegrins (Or Francisco Pelegrino's) book, if possible. The illustrations should be of great interest, not only for scholars interested in tiles, like Mr Puis, but perhaps as well for ruggies.
Tile floors were ubiquitous in Renaissance painting, being much more frequent «studio props» than carpets or even than velvets and other precious textiles.
The following paintings feature tile floors with probable islamic influence, as those mentioned by Mr Puis, but painted as early as the second half of the fifteenth century:
The first example illustrates the «Livre dheures de Catherine de Cleves » (Anonymous, ca. 1450, Munster) and shows what might be the sainak motif (Most frequent on Turkmen ensi, and also found on some much older Anatolian rugs).
The later tile floor, with its pseudo kufic «borders», appears in several allegories painted by P. del Pollaiolo (Here, the Allegory of Faith, ca. 1470, Uffizi, Florence).
Best regards.
|January 27th, 2012 07:18 PM
|Patricia Jansma
Dear All,
Just wanted to add the following text about tiles and rugs by Mr. Jan Pluis (a prominent scholar on tiles in the Netherlands) from the book "The Dutch tile, designs and names, 1570-1930" (Nederlands Tegelmuseum / Primavera Press, Leiden, The Netherlands, 1998, second edition). Page 31-35:
"Ornamental tiles 1560-1700
In Western Europe during the late middle ages, many buildings were erected in Gothic style. Monasteries, churces and the houses of the well-to-do often had floors of fired earthenware tiles. Red-firing floor tiles were either unglazed or were covered with a monochrome leadglaze or they had a decoration in relief or a white inlaid design. In Flanders, France, England, in the Northern Netherlands and Germany, these tiles were much used and were laid to form large 'tapestries' or 'carpets' of ornamental and/or figurative design.
In the third quarter of the 16th century, there was some cross-fertilisation of inlaid and tin-glazed (previously called 'maiolica') tile designs. Inlaid and relief patterns found their way onto maiolica tiles - or possibly vice versa?- during the second half of the 16th century (Van Dam, Tegel 12, 1984).
Ornamental tiles from the second half of the 16th century nearly always have a design painted in reserve against a dark background, producing an effect similar to that of inlaid floor tiles. Van Dam surmises that a number of floor tile makers switched over to the maiolica technique around 1550.
Although no examples remain of these early ornamental tiles installed on walls, it is likely that this was the case from abouth 1570 on. [...]
The traditional Italian system of surrounding a square, figurative tile with four elongated hexaganal tiles was abandoned in the middle of the 16th century. [...] The designs of this (pj: 1560-1600) period are purely ornamental ands show a mixture of renaissance and islamic styles, undoubtly influenced by the ornament books of the second quarter of the 16th century. One of the earlies of these was published by Francisque Pellegrin in 1530. His book had 62 pages illustrated solely with moresques and motifs derived from Moorish traceries printed in black on a white ground. Pellegrin, a native of Florence, worked a the court of the French king Francis I. At the time, there were numerous Islamic artists active in Italian cities and there was also direct trade contact between Venetian merchants and those of the Levant (notably Damascus). Because of this, Islamic designs and garland motifs became widely known. [...]
The star and cross shape goes back to the 13th and 14th century Persian tiles. At that time it was composed of individual star- and cross shaped tiles. In the 16th century this pattern was transferred to square tiles in Spain and later in Persia itself. Several tiles need to be placed together to obtain the star and cross design. [...] At the end of the 16th century the interest in figural designs increased again, and geometrical patterns gave way more and more to designs with, for example, animals and persons. By the middle of the 17th century ornamental designs only played a modest role in the total tile production. [...]
Carpets, tapestries and wallpapers
In common with tiles, carpets, tapestries and wallpaper are used to decorate walls and floors. Medieval tiled floors with a design in relief or inlay technique from the 12th and 13th centuries are often reminiscent of carpets. Rectangular areas of different patterns were laid adjacent to one another, separated by rows of plain tiles. These may have been inspired by Roman mosaics or by textile patterns. [...].
Best regards, Patricia Jansma
|July 4th, 2011 01:57 PM
|Chris Aquilo
here are some pics:
thanks in advance..
|March 17th, 2011 11:43 PM
|Yohann Gissinger
hide and seek, show and tell
Hello to all,
Just few words...
In one hand, acknowledge that one would feel very uncomfortable in trying to establish from a reliable source, at least one meaning of the simplest symbol from a rug or a kilim. The symbolic system has been transmitted in a restrictive way.
In the other hand, and at the opposite, concerning the symbolic medieval (+/-occidental) system there are numerous reliable informations, the interpretation of meanings can differs from a person to another of course, but the guidelines are there.
The difference between the XIII-XIVth century and nowaday's technique and knowledge is vertiginous!
At this time, most of the people didn't know how to read, but they were used to access some knowledge and understanding through symbols, there was a transmission utility for that system.
|March 17th, 2011 03:05 PM
|Pierre Galafassi
"The usual problem with symbols especially with the ones in rugs - is that they have so numerous meanings that is difficult to establish which one is the right one".
This, Filiberto, is of course very unusual in a fact-obsessed Rugdom were capillo-tracted theories and feuding experts are virtually unknown
|March 17th, 2011 09:14 AM
|Filiberto Boncompagni
Bonjour Yohann,
Yeah, my estimate of 65% was VERY conservative.
Like rugs, paintings contained a lot of symbols. Eagles, lions and thrones are normally associated with power. Long-legged birds, I don't know.
Let's have a look at your Bestiary which is very interesting, by the way, thanks for the link.
Here is what I (quickly) found:
Herons - The white feathers signify purity
Lion - Thus our Saviour, a spiritual lion, of the tribe of Judah, the root of Jesse, the son of David, concealed the traces of his love in heaven until, sent by his father, he descended into the womb of the Virgin Mary and redeemed mankind, which was lost.
Eagle - The word 'eagle' in the Holy Scriptures signifies sometimes evil spirits, ravishers of souls; sometimes the rulers of this world. Sometimes, in contrast, it signifies either the acute understanding of the saints, or the Lord incarnate flying swiftly over the depths then seeking once more the heights.
The word 'eagle' represents those who lie in ambush for the spirit. This is confirmed by Jeremiah, who says: 'Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles of the heaven' (Lamentations, 4:19). For our persecutors are swifter than the eagles of heaven when wicked men do such things against us that they seem to exceed the very rulers of the air in their evil machinations.
The word 'eagle' also symbolises earthly power. Ezekiel says with reference to this: 'A great eagle with broad wings and long limbs, in full plumage, richly patterned, came to Lebanon. It took away the marrow of a cedar-tree, it plucked the highest foliage' (see Ezekiel, 17:3-4).
The usual problem with symbols – especially with the ones in rugs - is that they have so numerous meanings that is difficult to establish which one is the right one.
|March 16th, 2011 07:49 PM
|Yohann Gissinger
No need to count you probably have 100% of christians scenes before 1500 and 65% or more with the virgin Mary after 1500, of course!
I noticed that when you have a throne/enthronement/coronation/king there are eagles or lions decorating the floor (whatever the support) and if the scene relates a virgin/Mary and her son/marriage the long legged birds appear...
How do you explain this other phenomenon ?
|March 16th, 2011 07:30 PM
|Filiberto Boncompagni
I don't want to count them now, but so they are at least 65% of the other paintings in the database up to the 16th century.
With the Virgin Mary, I mean…
|March 16th, 2011 07:14 PM
|Filiberto Boncompagni
|Yes, they are!
|March 16th, 2011 06:35 PM
|Yohann Gissinger
Hello Filiberto,
"In Pierre's database there are two other paintings of Sano di Pietro with the same carpet."
Are the two examples of Pierre database also related to a virgin/Maria?
|March 16th, 2011 05:39 PM
|Filiberto Boncompagni
Hi Yohann,
Lippo Memmi, Maria lactans,1340s, Staatliche Museen, Berlin
Like this one
Giovanni di Paolo, Virgin with Child 1445, Detail MET New York
Or this
Sano di Pietro, Marriage of the Virgin, 1448 Vatican
And there's no doubt here: it's a representation of a carpet.
In Pierre's database there are two other paintings of Sano di Pietro with the same carpet.
It is possible that Lippo Lemmi had invented it and the other two artists copied him but it seems improbable to me.
Pierre, the Spanish painting could be very well a tiled floor example.
And the specimen in the Pollaiolo's work is very un-probable as a carpet, being made only by kufesque borders. I tend more to interpret it as an artist's license though, like in this Vincenzo Foppa's Virgin and Child, ca 1480
Where the horizontal border looks definitely wrong. Wronged by the painter or by the weaver? Or it was badly repaired? Who knows?
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