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Tomas Maier, the creative director and head designer of the Italian fashion label Bottega Veneta, is one of those people who want to erase every fault in their range of sight. He describes himself as someone who "can't get happy." In his thirties, he corrected the asymmetry of his first and last names by editing the "h" out of Thomas. A few months ago, before I stepped into his office at Bottega Veneta's new headquarters, in Milan (a minimalist environment of slate-colored carpet and bare walls of sanded glass), one of his public-relations minions inspected me as if before a military parade, then plucked a microscopic piece of lint from my lapel. "Oh, God," she said. "If that's there, he won't be able to think of anything else."
Maier is fifty-three, and has the aspect of a hipster monk: hair shaved to dots on his scalp; grooved, hollow cheeks; watchful blue eyes; a thin-lipped mouth set in a down-curving line. Speaking with a heavy German accent—Maier grew up in the Black Forest—he invited me to make myself comfortable at the room's only seating space: a strict-looking metal table in the center of the room, where a tray held a single bottle of chilled mineral water and two glasses. He was wearing black jeans, a black polo shirt, and a suit jacket of his own design: a black piece with a rolled Neapolitan shoulder, narrow armholes, and a nipped-in waist that seemed to yank its wearer into a soldierly posture. Marc Jacobs, the creative director at Louis Vuitton, says that he wears one of Maier's jackets whenever he is obliged to dress up. "I was immediately attracted to it when I saw a photo," Jacobs told me. "When I wear it, people, even in fashion, always say, 'Where's that jacket from?' "
At Bottega Veneta, Maier designs men's and women's ready-to-wear clothing, along with housewares, furniture, watches, porcelain, and jewelry. But it is his leather accessories—bags, shoes, wallets—that are the label's signature, and its best-selling items. In everything he designs, Maier shows an acute sensitivity to those infinitesimal irritants which most people can overlook. For instance, the coffee saucer at the Bulgari Hotel, in Milan, where he used to stay. "It drove me crazy," he told me. "Every morning. You lifted up the cup and by the time you put it down—because the saucer was too curved up—the spoon had always slid down." With a certain fierce pleasure, he pantomimed the entire act. "Now, in this hand you hold the newspaper, and with this hand you lift the coffee up and have a sip, and you want to put it down and you put it crooked on the saucer because this spoon is underneath. You drip half the coffee over, so that means you have to put the paper down, you have to take the glasses off, pick up the spoon—" He threw up his hands. "I mean, hello! Whoever designed that should have designed it right."
At such moments, Maier recalls characters in the novels of Kingsley Amis, those finely tuned instruments of outrage who find catharsis in cataloguing all the human failures around them. (A character in "One Fat Englishman" grows so enraged at a towel that insists on slipping from the towel bar that he knots it in place and then "consolidates" the knots with water.) In airports, where Maier spends a great deal of time waiting for flights between his home in Florida and his office in Milan, he will watch people, enumerating the design horrors on display. "I just sit there and look at people and I see what's the malfunction and how can we help that man," he said. "I pity him! That he makes his life so miserable—himself!—by carrying some ill-functioning bag that rips his jacket half off"—Maier threw himself sideways in his chair—"and gives him a bad shoulder ache at the end of the day. And it makes him look an idiot on top of everything."
Maier's goal as a designer is to strip away all unnecessary parts until a dress or a shirt or a bag or a watch has been reduced to its functional essence—until it achieves what he calls "a certain nothingness."
"You look at a piece of abstract art and it's a white canvas," he said. "And it's just, like, a line, and somebody standing next to you says, 'I really could do that.' " He rolled his eyes. "Actually, no."
When Maier took over Bottega Veneta, in June, 2001, the fashion world was ruled by bling-laden excess, symbolized by the phenomenon of the It Bag. The status handbag had existed since at least the nineteen-fifties, when Grace Kelly carried a boxy Hermès purse to hide her pregnant belly from paparazzi. But the era of the modern It Bag dates to the late nineties, when Sarah Jessica Parker's character in "Sex and the City" wielded a bread-loaf-shaped clutch, made by Fendi, whose "F" clasp announced both the bag's origins and its steep price. The bag, which is known as the Baguette, sparked a worldwide demand, and soon every major label was competing to create the new purse of the season.
For fashion companies, the It Bag is an important source of revenue. It's a multigenerational purchase (daughter, mother, and grandmother), and often a prop for an entire label. Not everyone can wear the trousers, the mantra goes, but everyone can carry the bag. Thus, cheap coated-canvas bags were converted into objects of consumer fetish with eye-grabbing adornments: denim and diamonds, graffiti, crystal beads, and, almost always, a prominent logo. "There was a stage when, however unappealing something was, if it had enough logos written all over it, somebody seemed to buy it," Suzy Menkes, the fashion critic of the International Herald Tribune, says. Menkes calls the period "a worldwide aberration," as if she were talking about the concomitant era of credit-default swaps and subprime-mortgage lending.
"The It Bag is a totally marketed bullshit crap," Maier told me. "You make a bag, you put all the components in it that you think could work, you send it out to a couple of celebrities, you get the paparazzi to shoot just when they walk out of their house. You sell that to the cheap tabloids, and you say in a magazine that there's a waiting list. And you run an ad campaign at the same time. I don't believe that's how you make something that's lasting—that becomes iconic as a design."
Maier's first act upon taking over at Bottega Veneta was to design a bag that looked, in the context of the times, like a rebuke: a woven leather sack with two handles. With no logos, no hardware, no adornments, not even a closure, the bag, which Maier called the Cabat, looked like a beach tote––albeit a beach tote with a six-thousand-dollar price tag. Furthermore, Maier announced that, rather than scrapping the bag in six months, as most fashion companies would, he planned to put it down the runway every year. The usual It Bag was defined by its "girliness"; his was a unisex sack. Maier also notified his bosses at Gucci Group, which owns Bottega Veneta, that for his first year at the label he would give no interviews and run no advertising. Lisa Pomerantz, who started as the communications director of Bottega Veneta just as Maier took over, told me, "I thought he was either crazy or brilliant."
Maier's Cabat was unveiled one week after September 11, 2001. Pomerantz (who recently left to start her own company) remembers feeling foolish asking fashion editors to fly to Europe and look at the line, but when they touched the bag, she said, "they had this look in their eye." The Cabat, free of any visible frivolity, was a purse—for those inclined to be thinking about purses—in keeping with the suddenly sober mood of the time. Martha Stewart noticed when a few of her friends began to carry "these beautiful, soft, malleable woven bags," she told me. "I studied one of them, and it was simple but so complicated." She bought two—one brown, one black.
The Cabat has since become one of the label's top-selling items, but the company makes only about five hundred each season, and they invariably sell out (thereby creating waiting lists not unlike those for It Bags). Maier has increased Bottega Veneta's sales eight hundred per cent in the past nine years, bringing the company out of near-bankruptcy. He has continued to send the Cabat down the runway every season, unchanged except for differences in the color and the treatment of the leather. Despite the pleadings of Bergdorf Goodman and other retailers, he refuses to sell the bag anywhere but at Bottega Veneta stores.
Of course, Maier's strenuous refusal to overmarket the bag is itself a kind of marketing—the type that appeals to a customer who disdains the easy status recognition that comes from a conspicuous logo. Labels on clothing date to the mid-nineteenth century, when Charles Frederick Worth, a British couturier, first sewed into his gowns a label with his name. "The idea was like the signature of the artist on a painting, a kind of guarantee that what you have is the real deal," Valerie Steele, the director of the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology, says. "Those labels and logos migrated from the inside to the outside of the clothing—mostly in the nineteen-seventies and later—as a more obvious kind of semaphoring." More recently, designers have distinguished themselves by rejecting logos. In the eighties, Martin Margiela, the Belgian designer, eschewed all identifying signs on his clothes; instead, he attached an inner label with a gnomic series of numbers that told the initiated which collection the piece was from. Its only external sign was four white pick stitches that held it in place. "Ironically, his no-label label is immediately visible from the outside and has become quite iconic," Steele says.
The appeal of Maier's designs is similarly aided by clubbiness and artificial scarcity. With the Cabat, small production runs insure that it is not seen everywhere and thus retains what Steele calls its "stealth luxury" appeal. "One of the most interesting aspects of fashion in the past ten years has been how much of it has been like a secret Masonic handshake," she told me. "Only people in the know will recognize what you have, and it's really just not relevant to other people."
Tom Ford, the former creative director of Gucci Group, who hired Maier to run Bottega Veneta, described Maier's strategy: "By not doing the It Bag, you do the It Bag." The Cabat's weaving pattern is now used—discreetly—on virtually every Bottega Veneta product, from the etched pattern on the bottom of glasses to napkin rings, chair bolsters, jewelry, and cutlery.
Maier grew up in the small city of Pforzheim, near Germany's border with France. His father was an architect, his mother a homemaker. Maier, the youngest of three children and the only boy, spent many hours in his father's design studio, and accompanied him to building sites, where, he says, he learned how a design project goes from idea to completion. When Maier was six, his parents sent him to the local Waldorf school; the schools, founded by Rudolf Steiner, an Austrian scientist and educator, stressed creativity and independence. "You go and pluck potatoes," Maier says, "so then when you eat potatoes it's very different, because you know where they came from and what it means to have them from the ground on your plate." Both boys and girls were taught to knit, sew, embroider, and work with wood.
Karl Lagerfeld, the Chanel creative director, had a similarly provincial childhood in Germany. And, like Lagerfeld, Maier cultivates interests outside fashion. He is a book collector, a student of photography and architecture, and an aficionado of old movies; he explores art museums in every city he visits. But Maier objects to the comparison. He hates the cult of personality around designers like Lagerfeld ("Who cares how thin he is? Hasn't he reached a point in life where he can relax?"), and feels no affinity with Lagerfeld's acquisitive habits. "I'm not somebody who likes to possess," Maier said. "I'm not the person who has six hundred suits. I want to have two suits. Actually, I want to have one suit, and I replace it."
After high school, Maier contemplated a career in architecture but resisted, because he would have been expected to take over his father's business. "I did not want to stay in that town," he says. "I was not a small-town guy at all." Instead, he applied to study fashion at the Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture, in Paris, where Yves Saint Laurent and Lagerfeld had studied. During his first year at the school, he went with his class to a Saint Laurent couture show. Maier had heard about Saint Laurent's exquisite tailoring, but he found himself attracted to a flowing dress. "It was just a piece of fabric," he recently told Interview, "but, as the model was walking, you didn't know how she got into it, how it closed, where the seams were, and that, for me, was perfection. It stayed with me as a lifelong vision."
By his early thirties, he was freelancing for Sonia Rykiel, Revillon, Hermès, and other well-regarded labels. At Hermès, he worked for the woman he calls his mentor, Claude Brouet, who was the creative director of women's ready-to-wear. Brouet's mother worked at Schiaparelli, and Brouet herself had worked for thirty-three years at the French editions of Elle and Marie Claire. Maier says that she could pick out the slightest imperfection in fit or proportion. "She would say, 'A hair makes a difference,' " he recalls. "The precision of her eye! And I would learn. Why did she like a certain length in a skirt? Eccchhh, it was awful. But then I would really look, and she would be right."
Perhaps the most salient lesson he took from Brouet was her impulse toward private enjoyment. "Luxury is something you love to feel, to touch, to admire," Brouet says. "Luxury to me is not something you can see from a mile away; it doesn't show." At Bottega Veneta, Maier has raised this ethos to a level that can be almost unseemly. He uses decadently soft and expensive suède for clutches and attaché cases, but conceals it within unremarkable-looking exteriors, as a lining that offers its owner a moment of stealthy self-pleasuring every time he or she reaches inside.
Maier spent nine years at Hermès, while continuing to freelance all over Europe. "I would work somewhere in Italy for Monday and Tuesday and then come back on Tuesday night and work somewhere else in Paris on Wednesday, then work at another company on Friday, then off to Germany on Monday morning," he says. By 1999, after twenty years of this, he was "sick of the craziness." He quit all his contracts, and moved to Miami, along with his companion, Andrew Preston, an American whom he had met in the late eighties in Paris, where Preston was working as a communications officer for the State Department. In Miami, they went into business together, launching Maier's own, eponymous label. They started with a line of bikinis and a few pieces of casual clothing. Maier relished the design limitations of swimwear—just four triangles on strings, with no padding or underwires. "The right cut on a leg can make the legs appear longer," he says. "The whole optical aspect is very important." And he loved the technical challenges presented by the fabrics, which had to be able to stand up to the water and not become droopy, not fall off, not turn unexpectedly transparent. Sally Singer, the editor of T Magazine, says that Maier's bikinis were unlike other designers'. "He had a fantastic sense of color," she told me. "He had picked the right fabric." With bikinis, she says, "every stitch shows, and the way you finish every cord, every string—everything is visible. And you're also selling fabrics with sheen, which are very unforgiving. So the proportions mattered. How they sit on the hip. How much of the buttocks show. There's such a fine line between sleazy and right."
Maier's designs were sold on a tiny rack at Bergdorf's, in New York, and at other department stores around the world, for around four hundred dollars apiece. Within two years, Maier had made the business profitable, and he and Preston were planning to open a "tomas maier" store in Miami. Then, in early 2001, he got an unexpected phone call from Tom Ford, with an offer to run Bottega Veneta.
The company originated in 1966, as a small leather-goods company distinguished by a technique of weaving, called intrecciato, specific to the Veneto region of northern Italy. Its products—bags and accessories—were understated, and the label advertised itself with the slogan "When Your Own Initials Are Enough." Bottega Veneta's quiet style became popular in the late seventies, when Jackie Onassis shopped in the New York boutique, on Madison Avenue, and Andy Warhol made a short promotional film for the company. But, as fashion moved away from understatement, sales declined. In the late nineties, two young British designers, Katie Grand and Giles Deacon, took over, and they attempted to make the label trendy by creating oddities like lizard-skin headphones and miniskirts appliquéd with porn images, and by putting Bottega Veneta logos on everything from pants to bags and tights. It did little to increase revenues. In early 2001, when Gucci Group bought the label, at the sharply discounted price of a hundred and fifty-six million dollars, Bottega Veneta was, Maier told me, "weeks from bankruptcy." Tom Ford, sensing a retreat from the excesses that he had helped to usher in at Gucci in the nineties, believed that the company could be revived if it went back to its no-logo values. He turned to Maier, who, at forty-three, had a reputation among designers but was nearly unknown outside the industry.
Ford and Maier first met in the mid-nineteen-eighties, through the fashion journalist Richard Buckley, Ford's longtime companion. Ford and Buckley often visited Maier's Palais Royal apartment in Paris. "Every time we would go to Tomas's house for dinner," Ford told me, "he would have some amazing chair that I was envious of, or some incredible painting from an artist I'd never heard of, or the perfect pair of shoes. And his way of putting things together and his taste level always impressed me." Ford says that Maier was his only choice to run Bottega. Maier, however, first wanted to inspect the label's leather workshop, in Italy. "I wanted to get the reassurance that the integrity was there, intact," he said.
The Bottega Veneta workshop is situated in an anonymous-looking two-story industrial concrete bunker of early-sixties vintage in the town of Vicenza, an hour west of Venice. When I visited, a few months ago, Stefano Brazzali, the workshop's technical director, who has worked there for thirty-five years, gave me a tour. We watched as a man, a twenty-year veteran of the factory, cut pieces of wickedly expensive crocodile skin for a purse that Maier introduced to the collection three years ago. Because crocodiles are, uncoöperatively, narrower than what Maier saw as the ideal width for a purse, he asked his artisans to devise a way to attach matching skins to each side in order to conceal the join. Placing a rounded wooden form against the skin, the cutter used a quick flicking motion to cut the basic shape. ("This is harder than it looks," Brazzali told me; a slip of the blade could destroy a skin.) Then he cut a series of parallel diagonal notches along the edge of the skin. These he interwove into notches cut in a smaller piece. The join disappeared.
In a room next door, a middle-aged woman named Anna Rosa, a specialist at intrecciato, was working on a Cabat bag. Previous Bottega Veneta bags were created by weaving strips of leather through a base panel of leather, in which tiny slits had been punched with a machine. A cotton backing was then glued to the reverse side. The result was too crude for Maier, who has said, "I find it vulgar when you can distinguish how something is made." For the Cabat, he wanted to do away with the base panel and the cotton backing. The solution was for the artisans to make double-sided leather strips by gluing together two plies, then braid them, so that the finished leather formed both the inside and the outside of the bag.
On a rectangular wooden box form, Rosa used bulldog clips to attach eleven triangular sections of leather, each one trailing eight centimetre-wide strips of double-faced leather—a messy-looking tangle. She used her fingertips to braid the leather, from the top of the box form to the bottom, in a motion too fast for the eye to follow, creating a double layer of rustic-looking basket weave. Working at a rate of an inch or so per minute, she would need two days to braid the sides and the bottom of the bag. Brazzali explained that only one person can work on a single Cabat, since no two people pull the leather to the same tension. On a nearby table was a Cabat in crocodile that a customer had special-ordered. It cost seventy-eight thousand dollars.
Two hundred and thirty artisans are employed in the Vicenza workshop. When Maier first inspected the workshop, in 2001, there were fewer than fifty, and Bottega Veneta's imminent bankruptcy threatened the centuries-old craft of intrecciato. The mood at the workshop was sombre. Nevertheless, Maier says, he was inspired by the visit. "You see in their eyes what they are capable of. Even working on horrible products, which they worked on at that time, you saw the passion that was there."
Maier agreed to take the job, but with conditions. He would not stop making his own line. (He has since opened stores in Miami, Palm Beach, and the Hamptons.) He demanded total control—"everything from product to image, advertising, architecture, anything that involves creative," he says. And he did not want his name used. "At that time in the nineties, lots of companies were called Tom Ford for Yves Saint Laurent Rive Gauche, Dior by John Galliano—you know, everything had an endless name."
Ford and Gucci Group agreed to Maier's conditions. "You choose your horse and you have to let him run," Ford told me. "You can't say, 'Ooh, I don't really like the color of that.' And a lot of times fashion executives do that. They drag in blouses that their wives like. And a lot of these brands that never quite take off, it's because in a sense the designers aren't given that kind of autonomy." By the time Ford left Gucci Group, in 2004, Bottega Veneta was solidly profitable, and the label had established a clientele, Singer told me, of "the people who are beyond the kind of fast-twitch moments in fashion"—whom she described as "the Faubourg Saint-Honoré, Madison Avenue shopper. Those people are usually recession-proof—unless they invested with Madoff."
Maier refuses to live in Milan, a city whose many design flaws he finds too frustrating to bear. In 2008, he moved his studio to Delray Beach, Florida, near the house that he and Preston share. Though the local strip malls, freeways, and swamps might not seem an obvious aesthetic improvement over the center of the Italian fashion industry, Florida offered Maier the light and open spaces he craved. The studio is in a one-story building, a former industrial bakery, shielded from the street by a low stone fence and a security door. The interior is yet another minimalist sanctum, with bare white walls, except for a Julian Opie print of a woman stripping down to a bikini. On the otherwise clean cement floor was an area with messy, splashed pentimenti of white and black paint, left by the previous owner, the artist Enrique Martínez Celaya. When I pointed out to Maier that he hadn't bothered to remove the paint, he shot me a look: What fool would do that?
A low shelf, easily overlooked, lay just inside the entrance. It was divided into twelve sections, each of which held a plastic container filled with fabric swatches, which Maier has been collecting for a quarter century; they were meticulously folded and then arranged by color across the spectrum—reds, greens, blues, yellows, browns, beiges, and grays. Maier's shapes and silhouettes and hemlines change only subtly each season, if at all; color is the great variable in his work, and he begins a new season by rising early each morning to leaf through the swatches, looking for inspiration. When he finds what he is looking for, he will clip a sample from the swatch, staple it to a card, and send it to the Bottega artisans to match. Maier and his design team attend all the important fabric fairs, largely, he says, to see what not to use. He has increasingly been inspired by Japanese synthetics—"They are ahead in technology," he says. Last year, he made layered dresses from a Japanese viscose so fine that it could be cut only by lasers.
Maier then works with a team of twelve designers to create the garments and accessories. Beauty, he told me, should never come at the expense of function—an idea that he sometimes has to drum into his young designers. "The kids design a dress," Maier says. "Then we make the dress, we go into the fitting, and I say to the girl, 'Sit down.' And she can't sit down. I say, 'O.K., something is not really working here.' Or there are other problems with how the dress is to be put on. 'You're supposed to go in by the top?' That can work—it's not that comfortable, but some dresses work that way. O.K., now we go to the bathroom. If the dress doesn't come up from the bottom, what's she going to do? She's going to unzip it from the top and put the dress down on the floor? I mean, it's nonsense!"
In early May, Maier was at Milk Studios, in Manhattan's meatpacking district, to oversee the making of a promotional DVD for Bottega Veneta's 2011 "resort" collection—a runway show, without an audience, that would be filmed and disseminated to fashion editors. The shoot was in a barnlike studio where a white runway had been laid on the cement floor. A white backdrop carried the slogan "When Your Own Initials Are Enough." When I arrived, Maier was in a cafeteria upstairs, looking through proofs of Bottega Veneta's fall advertising campaign. The photographs had been taken by Robert Longo, whose nineteen-eighties series "Men in the Cities" depicted men and women who appear to be recoiling from the impact of gunshots—a conceit that, Maier pointed out, has been appropriated by dozens of fashion photographers. Maier asked Longo to reproduce the series himself, using models with Bottega Veneta clothing and bags. The proofs had no credit line identifying Longo as the photographer. When I asked Maier about this, he said that anyone who couldn't distinguish the difference between a real Longo and an imitation was not the customer he was after.
A real Longo, of course, is very expensive, and, as with Maier's function-first clothes, it is often possible to get something nearly as useful for much less money. As Maier finished lunch—a salad—I asked him about the ethics of creating astronomically costly things when many people are having trouble meeting their food bills. Maier insisted that his prices reflected the cost of materials and labor. "A chain store can sell a pair of khakis for sixteen dollars," he said. "I can't even get a bolt of khaki for that much. That means they are being made in some country where a kid is chained sixteen hours a day to a sewing machine. At Bottega, we pay our artisans in Vicenza properly, with benefits, and excellent working conditions. We use the best materials, and we make things in a way that is built to last." He insisted that Bottega's goods were not beyond the reach of middle-class people, who have simply been trained to want too much stuff. Anyone, he said, could afford one five-hundred-and-fifty-dollar hand-painted cashmere scarf. "Just have less," he said.
He went downstairs, and the shoot resumed. Standing among the spotlights by a dolly-mounted 35-mm. camera, Maier looked on as the models paraded down the runway. He had spent five months designing the collection and the previous two days styling the shoot, matching each model with precisely the right clothes and accessories. He seemed, finally, to have got happy. A model appeared wearing a black wool blazer with leather lapels, which had a slight shine. "To reflect some light onto the face," he said, in an undertone. "Softens the shadows from above." The next model appeared in a pair of dark pants and a voluminous white blouse cut like a feminized version of a man's dress shirt. "I love a poplin shirt," he said. "That little bit of noise it makes as you walk. So much sexier than a negligee—when a woman gets out of bed and puts on a man's shirt."
Then a model came down the runway in a short black dress and brown suède boots, carrying a Cabat in her left hand. Maier called out for the shoot to stop. "The bag," he said. "It looks dead."
While the staff waited—stylists, computer technicians, makeup people, lighting artists, cameraman—Maier helped to redistribute the wad of paper that had been used to fill out the bag's dimensions. He returned to his spot beside the camera and watched the model come down the runway again. "That's better," he said. ♦


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How to stop data thieves and old bad habits
The recent slew of high-profile stored data thefts has revealed the weak point in many enterprise networks -- storage security.
What you will learn from this tip: Four storage experts explain why storage security has been overlooked and how administrators can keep thieves out of their storage resources.
"Security for storage has been ignored by storage administrators and everyone else in charge of IT security," says Jim Damoulakis, CTO of GlassHouse Technologies, Inc., based in Framingham, Mass.
Damoulakis' assessment comes on the heels of recent storage security breaches, including unencrypted backup tape thefts from Bank of America, sizeable backup tape losses at Ameritrade and Time Warner and theft of DSW Shoe Warehouse customers' credit card data. These headline-grabbing data losses have led to the introduction of Senate legislation, the Personal Data Privacy and Security Act of 2005, which puts the blame for customer data loss on corporate executives.
Historically, added security for storage was deemed unnecessary, because storage was done on relatively isolated standalone devices, according to Dennis Martin, senior analyst for storage management software and security at Greenwood Village, Colo.-based Evaluator Group. Since the physical connections of those devices to the hosts were hidden, they were difficult to find within a network. If an outsider couldn't get to the host, he or she couldn't get to the storage device or to the stored data.
With the advent of new storage technologies, storage is no longer so hidden. Fibre channel (FC) and iSCSI SANs are accessed and managed over IP connections, with all the attendant risks to which IP exposes networks.
"Islands of SANs within an environment have been considered low-risk areas," says Damoulakis. "However, the SAN infrastructure connects to hosts on the network. To do very serious damage would simply require working through a compromised host and getting access to this largely unsecured storage network."
Standard corporate network security practices -- such as password management, enforcing access controls, enabling audit trails, securing management interface points -- should all be applied to storage, the experts agree.
"Security for backup has also been very lax," says Jon Oltsik, senior information security and storage analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group, Milford, Mass. For example, Bank of America's backup tapes were stolen by baggage handlers while being shipped to another location on a commercial plane.
The fact that Bank of America's stolen data was unencrypted points to another historic oversight. "Typically, companies only do encryption on information in motion across the network from point A to point B," says Damoulakis.
Oltsik explains that encryption of stored data has been a duty shirked for two reasons; encryption slowed networks down to a crawl, and management of algorithms and keys is difficult.
The issue of bogging down performance is old news as far as Oltsik is concerned. "Encryption is a very processor-intensive activity, but it no longer slows backup because the processors are 10 times as fast as they once were," Oltsik explains.
According to Vijay Ahuja, president of Raleigh, N.C.-based Cipher Solutions, managing encryption is not the easiest task but is doable with simple best practices. The management of encryption keys should be carefully considered, with the security risks inherent in changes in personnel and company management taken into account. Ahuja counsels companies to review and test their encryption keys and algorithms on a regular basis.
Securing data may be a hassle but it's a job that can't be ignored anymore. The experts recommend taking a holistic approach to IT infrastructure, in which the security and storage teams work together to examine and secure the infrastructure as a whole.
Every best practice in security that's in place for the network should be implemented for storage. Here's the experts' list of some important best practices:
- Audit and do a risk assessment on the storage infrastructure, looking for risks and vulnerabilities.
- Implement authentication across the storage network. Ahuja advocates using the Diffie-Hellman Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol (DHCHAP). "The beauty is that most Fortune 500 companies already have this protocol in their networks," says Ahuja.
- Implement strong role-based access controls. Assign access rights to parties on a need-to-know basis.
- Demand strong security from storage system vendors and offsite storage providers.
- Adopt and enforce data encryption policies. Best practices include classifying data and applying encryption to private and confidential data through the lifecycle of the data. "You don't have to encrypt all data," says Oltsik, but sensitive data should be encrypted in flight and at rest.
- Don't forget to secure your SAN at the switch or fabric level, says Martin. Carving up your fabric by zones is one technique that limits access to various parts of the SAN.
- Create a policy for discarding old devices and media, routinely doing such tasks as scrubbing and destroying hard disks, Martin says.
- Isolate your storage management network from your corporate IT network. "The storage management network has to be secure, since that network is connected to all of your devices," says Ahuja. "If you don't isolate the networks, every employee has access to your storage."
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Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani weighs in on the 'fiscal cliff' and Washington. Photo: Getty Images.
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Feet positions: In all schools of ballet, there are five basic foot positions: first, second, third, fourth, fifth. All ballet movements begin or end in one of these five positions. Ballet dancers must have good natural turnout of the leg from their hip to enable them to stand in first position with the feet turned out to the sides.
First position: Heels together, toes pointed outwards to the sides.
Second position: The feet remain pointing outwards, but are moved apart in parallel with each other, by approximately the length of the dancer's foot and a half.
Third position: The feet remain pointing outwards, but one is placed in front of the other, the front foot's heel touches the back foot's instep.
Fourth position opposite third / fourth open: The feet remain pointing outwards, and in the same position as third but the front foot is placed slightly forward (about the length of one of the dancer's feet).
Fourth position opposite fifth / fourth crossed: As above but the feet are crossed further with the front foot placed opposite the toes of the back foot.
Fifth position: The feet point outwards with the legs crossed and the feet touching. The heel of one foot is placed beside the toes of the other.
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Systemics brings together a collection of new writing and curatorial projects that unfolded at Kunsthal Aarhus, Denmark, over a two-year period from 2013 to 2014. Contained here are its various parts: details of the four core exhibitions and related events, two commissioned exhibitions, and four essays, together comprising the Systemics series program as a whole. Like any series, it unfolds over time, in associative parts, using descriptive and poetic exhibition titles to develop a cumulative experience.
Borrowing the term systemics from the Austrian cybernetician Heinz von Foerster to point to a new conceptual attitude that embraces the growing complexity of the world, the book extends it to curatorial thinking—as theme for the artistic program and as curatorial method. What results is something close to the understanding of exhibition as a series, to unfold ideas through their temporal relations in their seriality without an ending: like episodes of an ongoing film narrative, words that weave into sentences, chapters that add to a book, or data that is arranged by algorithms to correlate meaning. In this sense, systemics lends itself to thinking about the conditions for making curatorial "events" that are extended over longer durations to connect their constituent elements across space and time—exhibitions, texts, projects—formally and thematically, overlapping and feeding into one another like reflexive feedback loops in a cybernetic system.
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*Disclaimer – as with any allergy situation, please always contact the location you will be visiting and verify any information you find online! Menus can change at any given time so you always need to verify allergen information with your individual location. I called headquarters to find out more information about their food ingredients! Below I talk about gluten and dairy allergies because that is what we have.
I HIGHLY recommend calling Medieval Times at 1-866-543-9637 for any food allergy questions or other issues you may be wondering about! They were incredibly helpful and it's always good to verify information before you go! I also HIGHLY recommend you let your server know when you are at the castle about any food allergies in your party! I found them extremely knowledgable and helpful when it came to our food allergies! We were offered additional food or substitutes on anything we could not eat.
When I visited Medieval Times there was only one thing to watch our for when it comes to eating dairy free – the ice cream dessert! Now I will say this, I've been to Medieval Times several times and had different desserts SO as I mentioned before, always call ahead of time AND let your server know! **NOTE – the night I visited I was told that the ice cream was LACTOSE FREE SO if you're just intolerant then you might be able to have their ice cream! I was offered a bowl of fresh fruit as an alternative for dessert.
All of the butter used during the dinner was made without dairy ingredients! YUM!
The biggest thing to watch our for when eating gluten free is the garlic bread! And of course, if there is a cake at dessert then that as well. Let your server know! I was offered a bowl of fresh fruit as an alternative for dessert.
So really, the only two things that we could not eat during our dinner was the garlic bread and the dessert. I was SO SO SO SO ecstatic that I could eat the tomato bisque (aka – Dragon's Blood) because it is my favorite there! I have to be honest, eating out being dairy free AND gluten free is not an easy feat! I feel like Medieval Times does a ROCK STAR job at being allergy friendly in this area! I was able to have the main course, all beverages, and all sides without needing to changing anything! (aside from the bread of course)
Probably not, unfortunately. Ask your server for verification, of course but being gluten-free and dairy-free, it was a no go. They did, however, offer a giant bowl of fresh cut fruit – and let me tell you, it was piled high! I couldn't finish it all but it sure was tasty!
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This design goes back to a typeface from c. 1820 by the Paris-based foundry of Joseph Gillé. In 1862, Laurent & Deberny had adopted it in various size variations (Lettres ornées N. 101, N. 103, N. 89). It reappears at Deberny & Peignot and at Haas under the name of Lettres Ombrées Ornées. Letraset had it as Lettres Ornees (with a D&P credit), Mecanorma as 82A Lettres Ornees / Ornees A (with a Haas credit).
Dieter Steffmann made a freely available (but unsatisfactory and limited) digitization in 2002. FontMesa announced a new digital version with a lowercase in 2015.


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The legal woes for fashion superstore Forever 21 continue this week as national chain Express filed a lawsuit citing infringement of both copyright and "trade dress," a legal term for the visual look or characteristics of any item for sale. In the complaint, Express cited in particular four men's shorts and a track jacket designed and sold by Express in 2007 and 2008, then allegedly copied by Forever 21.
The complaint even goes a step further to say that Forever 21 has been "engaged in a pattern of 'shop and copy'" for quite some time. Take, for example, a lawsuit that clothing brand Trovata brought against Forever 21 for the same reason. (The lawsuit recently ended in a mistrial.) And they weren't the only other ones: Gwen Stefani sued the chain in 2007, saying that they'd lifted the logo design from her Harajuku Lovers label for use in some of their pieces.
We have to admit, the pieces do look eerily similar (as did the pieces Trovata accused Forever 21 of copying). But at the same time, don't we all get a cheap thrill from knock-offs?
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All you Hipstamatic Instagram-addicts that love nothing more than cloaking something digital in an analog costume need to rally Black DA with me and demand that their Leica i9 iPhone standalone camera case goes into production.
Calling it a "dream project," Black DA proposes to combine the Leica cameras's good looks and smart lens with the ease of the iPhone 4, creating a case that the iPhone can slip into easily with a latch door that resembles an old 35mm film camera's back.
If the Leica i9 camera case went into production, they're figuring on a $900 - $1,200 cost, though that's with a shelf life of around 5 - 10 years, and not a six months-novelty fest like so many of the iAccessories gift users. Provided Apple doesn't change the design of future iPhone models too much, naturally.
I do like that Black DA isn't just wanting to attach a bigger lens to the iPhone 4's, and calling it a day. Their concept actually shows an independent camera body that doesn't actually rely on the iPhone 4's processor, instead using the 30-pin connector to transfer images to the iPhone for easy uploading to the cloud. That means a true optical zoom could be used, along with dedicated aperture and shutter dials.
Really, this is one of the best concepts I've clapped eyes on, and seamlessly sidesteps that hole the third-party accessory manufacturers seem to fall into. The only problem I see on Black DA's horizon is actually getting Leica and Apple to agree to it. [Black DA]


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Grandma repeatedly admonishes your daughter to 'act like a lady.' Help!
From our panel of staff contributors
Find a quiet moment with mom/mom-in-law and gently explain the terminology you prefer. "Act like a grown-up" might be preferable to a gender-based correction, but you might prefer that the admonishments (if any at all) be more behavior-specific: "That's not a nice word to use," or "please use your indoor voice," or "setting fire to the curtains is dangerous."
It would be great to request that grandma use different language, but it is also time to explain to your daughter how things have changed since grandma was her age and help her understand what grandma means. Terminology aside, grandma may have a wise message.
Tell grandma to act like a grandmother: Clam up and smile. That said, what is wrong with aspiring to act like a "lady" — or a "gentleman," for that matter? Both words, while a bit antiquated, do offer a certain sense of uplift and grace. One can indeed rise out of the muck and live life more nobly, gracefully and generously. And "lady" has long been considered a compliment (same with gentleman) in American society.
— Bill Daley
Expert advice
If grandma makes a habit of admonishing her grandchildren, it may be time for a larger discussion, says clinical psychologist Roni Cohen-Sandler, author of "Trust Me, Mom — Everyone Else Is Going! The New Rules for Mothering Adolescent Girls" (Penguin Books).
"Grandmothers have so much potential to have a really magical relationship with their grandchildren," says Cohen-Sandler. "Even more than parenting, it can be a relationship of pure joy and relishing each other in a nonjudgmental way with total acceptance. Grandparents don't have to be involved in manners or correcting behavior. That's the parents' bailiwick."
Perhaps a simple, gentle, "Oh, you don't have to discipline. That's our job," would work.
If that's not a conversation you want to have with your mother or mother-in-law, focus on putting "act like a lady" in proper context for your daughter.
"Come to the rescue of your daughter without making a big confrontation about it," Cohen-Sandler suggests. "You could say something like, 'Girls and ladies act in all sorts of ways. We think it's important to express yourself and be strong and brave.'"
Later, when you're alone with your daughter, you could explain what bothers you about the "act like a lady" phrasing.
"Call it a generational thing," says Cohen-Sandler. "'People from different generations had very different ideas about how ladies should act. Maybe you've learned about that during history at school or watched it in movies. Some people still believe that, but your dad and I don't. And if you're ever not sure about something that someone says to you, make sure you come talk to us about it.'"
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Only in Ithaca
This past August, 21 electrical boxes in downtown Ithaca were transformed from drab, gray blobs to works of art. Thanks to the project by the Public Art Commission, local artists got to show off their skills on city street corners. Here's a sampling of their work. For more photos, visit facebook.com/21boxes. You can also download a hi-res map to see where they're located.
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There's only 8 pics on here! where's the rest! Slackers!
Hi Randy. This is only a sampling, but you can see a full gallery of the 21 Boxes at this Facebook page: www.facebook.com/21Boxes.


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Introducing the magic of storytelling into adult learning Sheherazade is a Grundtvig Multilateral Project 518365-LLP-1-2011-1-BE-GRUNDTVIG-GMP that wants to introduce storytelling and the use of storytelling techniques as an educational strategy and a pedagogical tool in formal and non-formal adult learning. The project will develop adult learning practice using stories and oral storytelling in order to enhance the transversal key competences of disadvantaged citizens and to improve the language skills of adult learners. Sheherazade will help adult learners:
Material, methodologies and examples will be published as the project develops.
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One of the funniest things about the baffling decision by NBA commissioner and future "Spy Kids" villain David Stern to veto the Chris Paul trade is that it will almost certainly HURT the competitive balance of the NBA. The New Orleans Hornets are now bound to end up getting either A) less than what the Lakers and Rockets were willing to give up, or B) nothing at all, with Paul walking at the end of the year. That Stern failed to see the eventual futility of that veto is perhaps the single most damning thing about his recent job performance, and that's saying a LOT.
Casual NBA fans (Cavs owner Dan Gilbert apparently among them) assumed that the new collective bargaining agreement struck between the NBA and its players was supposed to end this whole run of players forcing their teams to trade them to other, cooler teams. We American sports fans don't like it very much when players pull this sort of thing. It somehow offends our sense of loyalty, despite the fact that the majority of us are free to change jobs and cities as long as we give two weeks' notice. I don't know how we came to view sports in the exact inverse of how view our own professional lives, but I'm not about to try and figure it out.
What I do know is that Paul's desire to leave one team for another isn't the first time a pro athlete has forced a team's hand, and it won't be the last. You saw it last year in Denver with Carmelo Anthony. You saw it in baseball when Alex Rodriguez forced the Rangers to trade him to the Yankees. Even the NFL, our most despotic of sporting leagues, isn't immune to it. John Elway forced his way out of Baltimore. Eli Manning -- shy little Eli Manning! -- forced his way out of San Diego.
And you'll see it in sports again and again for the foreseeable future. As soon Dwight Howard picks a suitable new team for himself, he'll cease being a Magic (or a magician, or a magi, or whatever is the proper term for a single Magic player). And if the Colts decide to keep Peyton Manning around for the next couple years (unlikely), you could see Andrew Luck forcing their hand so he can play for someone else.
There's only so much a league can do to prevent this type of thing, and there's only so much they SHOULD do to prevent it. As long as there is free agency (and no right-thinking sports fan thinks we should go back to the pre-free agency stone age), there will be players who have leverage over their respective ball clubs and dare, DARE!, to take their talents elsewhere.
This destroys the whole illusion of team spirit and commitment to winning that pro sports leagues and sportswriters work mightily to maintain. But that illusion covers up the basic humanity of an American like Paul wanting what he considers to be a better situation for himself. Is there really anything wrong with Paul wanting to leave one place for another? NO. But because we live in a world where Coach K wins Sportsman of the Year for teaching "these kids" and Tim Tebow wins games thanks to magic church dust, this basic desire gets warped and twisted into something wrong, even unpatriotic.
Hopefully, the backlash to Stern's veto will help correct this, but I'm not terribly optimistic. Once someone like Howard or Luck "whine their way out" of a situation, you'll again see the Cowherds of the world rise up in phony outrage over players having too much control, as if people shouldn't have control over their own lives. Chris Paul should be a Laker if he has the leverage to make it happen. I assure you that any system that prevents such a thing will be a worse alternative.


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Respect Life! Suicide among LGBTQ+ teens is 3 times higher than their peers. Micro-aggressions, which on campus can mean the use of derogatory, homophobic words whether directed towards individuals or not, create a atmosphere of hostility. This can contribute to a sense of isolation, alienation, self-loathing, and despair.
We invite members of the Marquette community to be not only mindful of the words chosen during conversations with friends, but to pray and reflect on how each of us are living as our best selves, being persons for others who welcome our brothers and sisters who identify as LGBTQ+, and actively forging a campus environment that is welcoming. Welcoming is a life or death issue.
The US Catholic Bishops remind us:
Respect for the God-given dignity of all persons means the recognition of human rights and responsibilities. The teachings of the Church make it clear that the fundamental human rights of homosexual persons must be defended and that all of us must strive to eliminate any forms of injustice, oppression, or violence against them (cf. The Pastoral Care of Homosexual Persons, 1986, no. 10).
It is not sufficient only to avoid unjust discrimination. Homosexual persons "must be accepted with respect, compassion and sensitivity" (Catechism of the Catholic Church, no. 2358). They, as is true of every human being, need to be nourished at many different levels simultaneously. This includes friendship, which is a way of loving and is essential to healthy human development. It is one of the richest possible human experiences. Friendship can and does thrive outside of genital sexual involvement.
The Christian community should offer its homosexual sisters and brothers understanding and pastoral care. More than twenty years ago we bishops stated that "Homosexuals . . . should have an active role in the Christian community" (National Conference of Catholic Bishops, To Live in Christ Jesus: A Pastoral Reflection on the Moral Life, 1976, p. 19). What does this mean in practice? It means that all homosexual persons have a right to be welcomed into the community, to hear the word of God, and to receive pastoral care.
U.S. Bishops Committee on Marriage & Family, Always Our Children: A Pastoral Message to Parents of Homosexual Children and Suggestions for Pastoral Ministers, 1997.


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Excellent detailing and pure hardwork. Super WOW.
Cant stop staring at it...really does inspires one to draw
I can't believe I have never commented on this! So very amazing. Just swinging by to see some of your awesome gallery. Wishing you a wonderful new year.
This is an amazing!! I can't get over how realistic this looks and its done with digital art I absolultey love it
How da flip did you get the skin and eyes so perfect! i love it!
amazing drawing love it heaps regards kibteaatu
Inspiration over 9000% percent , Fav!!!! I love all those details , (Both on Skin and on the eye!) Yeah and Eyes are one of the hardest things to draw and well this is amazing! So super amazing , Fav! (Wait I said 'Fav' before right?) FAAAAAV anyway!
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