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Is Your Family History Book Interesting? Measure Its Appeal
Nan Barnes
How can you know if your audience will find your book interesting? That depends on who your audience is, and what they find interesting. Your hard-earned knowledge is fascinating to you, but what excites your readers? The earlier you ask yourself this question, the easier it is to choose the contents of your book.
Many family histories are intended for private publication and they will only be read by the family. In this case, you can concentrate on sharing personal, or even intimate, family stories, photos and documents. This "insider" history, along with the family's jokes, beliefs, recipes and myths, will fascinate your relatives, and intensify the sense of identity and belonging that families enjoy.
Perhaps your book would interest a wider circle: people who know of your family, or perhaps a general readership of complete strangers. Why would they want to read about someone else's family? Because family histories, like memoirs, sometimes contain the heady stuff of first-class drama.
If you have a famous or influential "celebrity" ancestor, your family connection, your access to private records, and informal, personal knowledge of the subject can be invaluable. This is particularly true if others have already written about your ancestor. This indicates that there is interest and a buying readership for another book on the subject.
A similar premise for a popular book would be about a novel experience or lifestyle. Perhaps you have an ancestor who is fascinating, although unknown, who can become a "celebrity" of sorts through your book. Pioneers and adventurers and survivors and innovators are all heroes, and their stories have a universal appeal that is larger than life.
Sometimes it isn't an individual that appeals to readers; it is the unique place and time that your family member experienced. Just think of the powerful appeal of The Diary of Anne Frank. The musings and discontent of a teenager aren't of great interest, but we experience the time and place through her eyes. Many authors "novelize" their ancestor's lives, developing the book with supplemental research about the place and time, and some speculation about actions and motives.
Some subjects are inherently more interesting than others. If your family's celebrity, or his novel experience, or his period/place is already of interest to others, you will find a cluster of books surrounding the subject. These books have paved the way for you, and their readers may well be hungry for more information. Check out the topic, read book reviews on amazon.com, and investigate these other books, perhaps contacting their authors for an informal interview.
It is exciting to publish for a broader audience, yet there are some sacrifices a commercially publishing author must make. Unlike a typical broad-scoped family history, a book to be sold should focus solely on one concept, its appealing premise. The general public won't care about most of your family photos and documents, and irrelevant stories should not be included. The book must be edited and designed professionally to commercial standards. And finally, the author must inform the world that the book is out there, waiting to be read.
Publishing a book for a broader audience undoubtedly has great rewards, but it is not for everyone. If you only have the time and inclination to produce just one family history book, perhaps it is better to leave your descendants that broad-scoped legacy. Include all the family trivia that might be lost otherwise. Your family and friends can be relied on to applaud your efforts. They are the ideal audience, grateful and uncritical, because they recognize that you wrote the book for them.


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Predicted Order of Finish:
- Memphis (34-1, 16-0)
- Tulsa (22-13, 11-5)
- Houston (20-13, 9-7)
- Southern Miss (19-15, 9-7)
- Marshall (18-15, 8-8)
- Tulane (14-18, 6-10)
- Rice (9-23, 2-14)
WYN2K. The story of Conference USA basketball the last few seasons has been the absolute dominance of Memphis. This year should be no different as the Tigers return a great combination of veteran talent and blue chip freshmen. To put it in perspective, they have not lost a Conference USA game since an 80-74 loss at UAB on February 2nd, 2006. Despite the recent Tiger dominance, the arrival of quality coaches like Tom Penders (Houston), Mike Davis (UAB), Larry Eustachy (Southern Miss) and Ben Braun (Rice) has helped raise the level of play. There is enough talent in the conference to get two NCAA tournament teams and a few other teams in the other postseason tournaments. There will be close calls, but in the end none of the other teams will score that elusive upset over Memphis.
Predicted Champion. Memphis (#2 seed NCAA). It's really too easy to predict this one. I realize that the three most valuable players from last season: G Derrick Rose, G Chris Douglas-Roberts and C Joey Dorsey are all gone, but there are some talented players ready to step in. The star of Memphis coach John Calipari's latest collection of blue-chip prospects is G Tyreke Evans from American Christian in suburban Philadelphia. Evans was one of the most highly-sought out prep point guards in the nation and is the heir apparent to Rose at the position. The other incoming player that should see a lot of action is F Wesley Witherspoon, a small forward from Lilburn, Georgia. Among the returners, F Robert Dozier is without a doubt the best athlete in the low post and is the leading returning scorer (9.2 ppg), rebounder (6.8 rpg) and shot-blocker (1.7 bpg). Depth abounds at the guard position where Willie Kemp, Antonio Anderson, Shawn Taggart and Doneal Mack all have proven they can step up in key situations. The only area where the Tigers lack a proven commodity is at the center position, where Joey Dorsey starred the past couple of seasons. But there is the enough talent on this roster to dominate the Conference USA field and make another deep run in the NCAA tournament. Here's a bone for UM fans (last year's highlight mix)…
Others Considered. Do not sleep on UAB (NCAA #9) this season. If there is any team in this conference with a legitimate shot at making the NCAA tournament outside of Memphis, it's these guys. They were missing point guard Paul Delaney III for practically all of last season and still ended up finishing second behind Memphis in conference play. The Blazers also return the best shooter in Conference USA, Robert Vaden, and a solid scoring threat at small forward in Lawrence Kinnard. I could definitely see these guys getting in the dance as #9 or #10 seed if they avoid the costly slip-ups. Don't call these guys one year wonders either because Blazer coach Mike Davis' 2009 recruiting class is one of the best in the country. There is an outside shot that Tulsa (NIT) could make the NCAA Tournament with their very experienced squad. The Golden Hurricanes have Jerome Jordan, a 7-footer who has the NBA scouts drooling and is poised for a breakout year after a dominant finish last season. It doesn't hurt Jordan that he has an all-conference point guard in Tony Uzoh getting him the ball. There is an interesting collection of incoming talent on this Houston (NIT) squad, including former St. John's F Qa'rraan Calhoun and G Desmond Wade, a point guard from New Jersey who led his high school team to two state titles. But the Cougars lost way too much talent to seriously consider making the NCAA tournament. I have similar feelings about UTEP who returns one of the best athletes in this league – Stafon Jackson – and in the low post they bring in talented Memphis transfer Kareem Cooper. The Miners return most all of their key players from last season, but I'm just still not sold that they can put it all together under Coach Tony Barbee and make the NCAA Tournament. If nothing else, the Miners will be extremely tough on their home floor, the Don Haskins Center. Former national Coach of the Year Larry Eustachy has the most experienced team in the league at Southern Miss. Guards Jeremy Wise and Courtney Beasley are all-conference level guards who give the Eagles and Eustachy a shot at being a top-echelon C-USA team.
Important Games. Every time Memphis plays a top-half Conference USA team it could be an interesting contest, since a lot of teams seem to 'play up' for the Tigers. But I doubt anyone will beat the Tigers at FedEx Forum this season, so the road games will be the most interesting challenges. Specifically, trips to El Paso and Birmingham loom large on the Tigers' schedule. There are also a couple of contests that will determine who is behind Memphis in the conference pecking order.
- UAB @ Houston (01.10.09)
- UAB @ Tulsa (01.28.09)
- Memphis @ UTEP (02.21.09)
- Memphis @ UAB (02.26.09)
- Conference USA Championship Game (03.14.09)
RPI Boosters. If this league wants to move past its status as a 'one-bid' league then they'll need to pull of at least a few decently high-profile upsets in the non-conference season. There are opportunities for every team in the league to get a marquee win at some point. Memphis will not be included in this particular list because they will be favored in most, if not all of their games this season. Not all of these are booster games against big conference foes, there are also some interesting match-ups against other mid-major teams.
- Tulsa @ Oklahoma State (11.20.08)
- VCU @ East Carolina (11.25.08)
- Miami (FL) vs. Southern Miss (11.21.08) @ Paradise Jam (VI)
- Rice @ Texas (11.27.08)
- Western Kentucky @ Tulane (12.06.08)
- SMU @ Texas A&M (12.17.08)
- UAB @ Louisville (12.29.08)
- Houston @ Mississippi State (01.03.09)
Odds of Multiple NCAA Bids. As compared to the past few seasons, this is a much deeper and generally more talented group of Conference USA teams. Even the middle of the pack teams like Marshall, UCF and Tulane could put some scares into the top teams. But this conference is still fundamentally Memphis and the proverbial eleven dwarves at the end of the day. The other teams are gradually getting stronger and this could become one of the better "mid-major" conferences in the next few seasons.
Neat-o Stats.
I know I've made the point ad nauseum, but Memphis has absolutely dominated the Conference USA competition in the past three seasons. The Tigers' combined record in C-USA play in those three seasons: 45-1. If that's not domination, frankly I do not know what is.
Since basketball powers Marquette, Cincinnati, Louisville, and DePaul left for the Big East in 2005 there's only been one season where the C-USA has had multiple NCAA tournament teams. In the 2005-06 season, both Memphis (#1 seed) and UAB (#9 seed) qualified for the tournament. No C-USA team besides Memphis has made it to the Big Dance since.
Incoming UCF freshman big man Jakub Kusmieruk may be the biggest guy in all of college basketball since the 7'7" Kenny George of UNC-Asheville had to retire due to injury. Listed at an astonishing 7'4" and 295 pounds, this native of Poland is worth keeping an eye on. He probably won't see too many minutes in his first season, but all indications are that the kid has a good work ethic and can become a force in the low post for the Golden Knights.
65 Team Era. It's amazing how far CUSA has fallen since the great exodus of 2005. Consider that in 2004, the league earned SIX bids to the NCAA Tournament, racking up four first-round wins. Now it's very fortunate to get a team other than Memphis into the Big Dance (only happening once – UAB in 2006). Thus, the historical stats (48-42, .533) don't hold much meaning because the league has changed so much from its current iteration.
Final Thought. The quality of basketball in Conference USA has taken a dive since the "basketball" teams all left for the Big East and Atlantic 10. But it would be foolish to presume that no team outside of Memphis is worth talking about. In fact this conference's best days of basketball are ahead of them. UAB is bringing in a top-rated recruiting class and has a couple of serious NBA prospects on their roster currently. UTEP has Stafon Jackson and he could be the best athlete in all of Conference USA. While they aren't tournament contenders right now, Marshall brought in an impressive recruiting class that includes Florida's Mr. Basketball, Shaquille Johnson. Outside of Memphis few C-USA teams have players leave early for the draft, but Jeremy Wise is a great combo guard and could be the best player in Southern Miss history. There are multiple strong OOC games for C-USA teams to prove themselves in. Basically the onus is on the teams outside of Memphis to make a name for themselves and continue to elevate the national opinion when it comes to Conference USA basketball.

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17-Year Cicadas to make a noisy emergence from their long naps
Experts expect smaller numbers
HAMDEN -- With a face that only a mother could love and a mating call from a dark nightmare, one might think the 17-year cicada, set to appear in a few weeks, might not have too many fans.
But scores of people across the state are anxiously awaiting the thumb-sized insect, which experts say has seen its numbers decline in the last two centuries.
"They've been disappearing, especially from the northern end of their traditional range," said Chris Simon, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Connecticut. "You don't see them in Massachusetts anymore."
Worldwide, the cicada number about 3,000 species and spend years underground as juveniles. It's the 17-year cicada that reaps special interest because of its ability to stage a synchronized emergence after many years. This year's emergence is expected to occur in Connecticut between late May and mid-June, said Chris T. Maier, an entomologist with the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station.
The ones that will emerge in 2013 belong to Brood II. They live in the United States in a narrow swath that extends roughly from Massachusetts to Georgia. In Connecticut, you're most likely to encounter them in a footprint that includes 22 municipalities in central to south-central Connecticut extending roughly from Farmington south to the shoreline towns from East Haven to Madison, Maier said.
"It has a restricted distributed range in Connecticut," he said. "In fact, I will be documenting the locations of populations in Connecticut to see how they're faring because DEEP (the state Department of Energy and Environmental Protection) is interested in the decline of the cicada population."
Another brood of 17-year cicada lived here decades ago, but it's no longer seen here, she said.
More InformationKingdom: Animilia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Family: Cicadidae
Genus: Magicicada
There are three species: Magicicada septendecim, M. cassini and
M. septendecula
Declining numbers are bad news for the periodic cicadas because their reproduction strategy relies on what experts call "predator satiation," which is producing more than enough individuals to satisfy their predators. Cicadas are large, lumbering insects and they don't pose much of a challenge for birds or anything else that wants an easy treat.
"The rise of the farms really knocked them back," she said, "and they never recovered. Even the reforestation of the state in the 20th century didn't help because the ground was disturbed."
Magicicada adults -- the genus that comprises Brood II -- have black bodies and striking red eyes and orange wing veins, with a black "W" near the tips of the forewings. Most emerge in May and June. Don't confuse them with the so-called dog-day cicada, Tibicen canicularis, which appears every year, although scientists say that they likely spend a few years underground, too.
"They might me down there for 20 years -- there's really no way to tell," said UConn professor John Cooley of the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology.
Cooley said that it's still difficult to gauge the degree of periodic cicada decline. When Brood II emerges this year, a far more exhaustive effort will be undertaken to determine their numbers, providing a better baseline for when they're due to appear again in 2030.
Entomologists won't mind if you call them "bugs" because they belong to the Hemiptera order of insects, also known as the "true bugs." Their mouth parts are modified into a structure known as a rostrum, used for sucking fluids, usually sap from plants, and many of these cause great economic hardship to farmers. The 17-year cicada is seen as beneficial, however, as their years feeding off of root sap is easily shrugged off by trees. Certainly songbirds won't mind being surrounded by thousands of the juicy, sluggish insects.
As with scores of other animals and plants, the cicada is sensitive to habitat loss.
"They're certainly one of the most remarkable insects in the entire world," Maier said. "They can synchronize their reproductive cycles every 17 years. These are mass emergences. Then you have their big chorusing centers where you can have thousands of males singing in the same tree."
Maier studied the last two broods, in 1979 and 1996, and determined that the adults will begin reproductive behavior three weeks after crawling out of the soil.
They looks like something out of a 1950s science fiction movie. A few days before emerging, the nymph's eyes turn from white to red. Then they crawl up a tree and molt into the adult stage, their cream-colored exoskeleton turning black. Their translucent wings, which can barely get the heavy animals airborne, are laced with copper-colored veins.
Even in the strange world of insects, the 17-year cicada is something of an oddball. Its antenna are positioned in front of those red eyes and there are three more tiny red eyes on its forehead.
Another odd characteristic is the way they produce their unearthly mating call, sometimes described as the landing of a flying saucer from another planet.
Most musical insects, like crickets, produce sound by rubbing together two body parts. Not so with cicadas, which make a racket using a pair of abdominal structures called "tymbals." They have their own system of muscles and produce noise by buckling, much like a child's click toy, only operating hundreds of times a second.
Only the males can sing, and do so only to attract a female. Males congregate by the thousands "producing a clamor not soon to be forgotten," Meier said.
After copulation, females lay about 400 eggs in pencil-sized twigs. The newborn nymphs emerge after a few weeks, then drop to the ground and burrow into the soil to start the cycle again.
Simon said that if you find a cicada that you think belongs to Brood II, take a picture of it and send it to the experts by visiting the website www. magicicada.org.
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The New Zealand dollar gained back ground lost overnight after Fonterra Cooperative Group, the world's largest dairy exporter, reduced its payout to dairy farmers by less than some had expected.
The kiwi was trading at 85.62 US cents at 9am in Wellington, from 85.38 cents immediately before Fonterra's 8:37am announcement and 85.59 cents at 5pm yesterday. The trade-weighted index weakened to 79.72 from 79.87 yesterday.
Fonterra today pulled back its forecast for the coming season to $7 per kilogram of milk solids, better than the $6 payout expected by some. The company also cut its payout for the season winding down this month to $8.40 from a previous forecast of a record $8.65 as increased milk production dents prices. Soaring dairy prices underpinned New Zealand's strong terms of trade last year, and the local currency had fallen ahead of the Fonterra's announcement on concern a sharp decline in the payout could dent economic growth.
"Scaremongering earlier in the week may have depressed expectations into the $6 area and you get this knee jerk response accordingly," said Imre Speizer, senior market strategist at Westpac Banking Corp in Auckland. "It's about what most economists would have forecast. It is not a surprise. We are coming off a record high milk price but it is still a high number and it is still supportive for the economy and moreover Fonterra said they expect supply to rise even further so production is going to increase and production at a decent number is still positive for farm incomes."
Later today, traders will be focused on the ANZ business confidence survey for May, scheduled for release at 1pm. The Reserve Bank will be probably be eyeing the pricing intentions components of the survey for signs of inflation.
The New Zealand dollar was little changed at 92.41 Australian cents at 9am from 92.39 cents at 5pm yesterday ahead of a report on Australian first quarter construction activity today.
The kiwi was little changed at 87.26 yen from 87.28 yen yesterday, at 62.76 euro cents from 62.68 cents and advanced to 50.91 British pence from 50.77 pence yesterday.
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Google has announced the addition of My Location to the iPhone browser, making searching for local services easier.
While it's not the most groundbreaking news, since the iPhone already has a Google Maps application with the same functionality built in, it does bring the desktop experience closer to the mobile.
Users will be able to navigate to Google, and then can opt in to Google's My Location using the link on the homepage.
Location update
It's not automatic though, so you'll have to update your location every time you want to perform a new search for local listings.
Google has pointed out that this is very much an opt-in service, and users can remove themselves whenever they want through the preferences section.
Currently only available in the US and the UK, Google is expected to roll it out to more countries in the near future.
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The battle in which George Snyder lost his life is known as the Battle of Stones River. The Confederate soldiers attacked near dawn on December 31. Lieutenant Tunnel of the Fourteenth Texas Infantry described confusion among the Union trops:I have laid down my life for my
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Murfreesboro in the state of
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Many of the Yanks were either killed or retreated in their nightclothes … We found a caisson with the horses still attached lodged against a tree and other evidences of their confusion. The Yanks tried to make a stand whenever they could find shelter of any kind. All along our route we captured prisoners, who would take refuge behind houses, fences, logs, cedar bushes and in ravines.
The three-day battle was one of the bloodiest of the war. Both sides suffered a higher percentage of casualties at the Battle of Stones River than any other major Civil War battle.
"Stones River National Battlefield (U.S. National Park Service)." U.S. National Park Service - Experience Your America. Web. 22 July 2011. <http://www.nps.gov/stri/index.htm>.
"Battle of Stones River." Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. Web. 22 July 2011. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Stones_River>.
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When Amy Chau's 'Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother' was first published in 2011 and an excerpt appeared in the Wall Street Journal, a huge media backlash began, condemning Amy for her Chinese parenting techniques and seriously questioning the concept of the 'Tiger Mother'.
I had my own opinion on the matter and wrote on my blog about how shocking it all was and why I would never be a 'Tiger Mother' myself. But I hadn't read Amy's book. Now, having read the paperback edition which is published by Bloomsbury, my opinion has changed slightly.
'Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother', apart from anything else, is an excellently written, humorous, intelligent and, at times, self-deprecating memoir. Amy's writing is sharp, her account of family life is brutally honest and yet she isn't afraid to laugh at herself and point out her own flaws.
From the outset, Amy paints a revealing picture of family life with her husband Jed, her daughters Sophia and Lulu (and the dogs who eventually join the family – Amy's Chinese Mother approach to 'parenting' a dog is part insanity, part hilarious account of how she recognises she cannot always be in control).
Of course, Amy's approach to raising her daughters is vastly – and sometimes shockingly – different to the approach taken by the majority of 'Western' parents. And yet, having read 'Battle Hymn', I'm not angry with Amy, as I expected to be. I don't despise her, I don't even condemn her. I actually applaud her unbelievable self-discipline and drive, even if I cannot understand it and certainly don't feel that there would be a place for it in my own home.
Her continual, and often very dramatic, battles with her daughters over piano and violin practice may be extreme, but there is a part of me – the coaxing my children to eat their dinners part – which completely gets where Amy is coming from, as a mother, putting herself into an unpleasant situation in the belief that you are trying to do what you believe is best for your children.
There are some very painful low points between Amy and her daughters, but these always seem to be countered by the most amazing high points as they reach a seemingly unattainable goal and shine in their public performances, playing the piano or violin. Amy's pride and absolute love for her girls, at these times, is hard to deny.
From the gasp-inducing episode of the 'Birthday Card', to the relentless pursuit of excellence which involves booking the grand ballroom of the hotel they are staying in while on holiday so the girls don't miss out on any piano practice time, to dealing with two family illnesses, to the final showdown with her youngest daughter in a restaurant near Red Square, this is an account of family life which I couldn't put down.
With the paperback edition comes a post script from Amy, which gives us an additional insight into her reaction to the media storm which followed the initial publication of the book. Her re-telling of just one of the many interviews she experienced is hilarious. We also have the letter written from Sophia which was posted in the New York Post: 'Why I love my Tiger Mother'. This, perhaps above all else, tells the real story of 'Battle Hymn'.
Perhaps all parents face their own battles when it comes to raising children. 'Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother' certainly makes you think about your own parenting style. Ironically, I read the closing chapters of the book as I sat sipping a coffee, waving occasionally to my children as my husband played with them in the swimming pool. I could almost feel Amy breathing over my shoulder admonishing me for my shockingly lazy parenting techniques!
Amy Chua's battle is definitely one to open your eyes – and one which you simply cannot offer an opinion on until you've read the book.
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"A man that will take back a move at chess will pick a pocket."
- Richard Fenton (1837 – 1916)
So, when ChessCube Version 4 launched this week, it launched without the "take back" option. It's back (some of you may be pleased to know), but we've certainly seen lots of debate around whether it shouldn't even be an available option!
I asked for some opinions around ChessCube HQ, and John's thoughts are worth sharing:
"When you take back a move in chess you have had a glimpse of the future and your opponent has not had the same advantage. Except in beginners' games, it ought not to be allowed in my opinion.
Ultimately it can only harm the chess development of the player who takes back the move. Takebacks can also quite easily bedevil relationships.
The player who is asked for a takeback is placed in an invideous position. If she refuses then she risks being thought of as an ungracious person. And if she accedes then she has set a precedent which will be difficult to repudiate. Damned if you do and damned if you don't. Much simpler to simply not allow the possibility at all.
Mouse slips? I have had a few and smarted most mightily for it. I'm much more careful with my mouse these days. "
When playing games online, most players wouldn't want to be at the mercy of their own mouse slips. It's something we had to consider with the online games in the SA Open. For those games, even though the game was played online, each player also had a physical board to show their moves to the arbiter. That way, a request to take back a move based on a slip of the mouse could be verified against the board.
What do I think? Well, I'm quite the beginner myself, so I were to want to take a move back it would more likely be because I'd made the wrong one, rather than that my mouse had slipped. It would be better for me to learn to play the game without that "ctrl + z" option. For better players, I can understand the frustration of a mistaken move because of a sticky mouse. Take back remains for now.
What do you think?
[Image is detail of the "CTRL + Z" Tee by Ben Devens at Threadless.]


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"Release The Models"!
The stage manager's voice fills the backstage area, busy with hairstylists and makeup artists wielding the tools of their trade over a row of girls in front of brightly lit mirrors.
"It's time for a quick run-through."
It takes an extra moment for Petra Vujevic to break free from her chair, where she is surrounded by three stylists trying to tame her long blonde hair into a "punky ballerina" bun. The head stylist is teasing sections of her natural hair while another tends to neon pink extensions woven into her ponytail.
Vujevic winces. It hasn't been a good hair day for the 20-year-old Croatian model. It's the second time today that her head has been pulled in a million directions, loaded down with gooey products and hairspray.
But she refrains from pouting because it's part of the job. Anyway, modeling isn't her life -- not yet, at least. It's just something she decided to try by taking a year off from university in Croatia, where she's studying computer science. She started exactly one year ago, making the rounds in Milan, Paris, London and Spain before arriving in New York three weeks ago for Fashion Week.
"When you're tall and thin, everyone says you should be a model, so I thought: try it for a year," Vujevic said in accented English, which she learned in school and from television. "It's been good. I decided to model because it was completely different. How would I know if I didn't try?"
She hit the ground running in New York, averaging 15 castings a day and scoring not only a few shows during New York Fashion Week but jobs for catalogs and ads campaigns while in town. She plans on returning to her parents' home outside the Croatian capital of Zagreb to resume school in October.
Vujevic may not be the typical small-town girl trying to make it in the big city, but her story underscores the bigger picture in the post-supermodel era, when girls are cycled in and out with each season and only a rare few stick around to become bold-face names.
But her agency has high hopes for her. Lots of girls are tall, thin and beautiful, but Vujevic has an "X presence," said Louise Roberts of APM Models, which represents Vujevic in the United States.
"Our clients look for that classically beautiful girl that has a different edge to her, something that no one can define," Roberts said.
"We loved the spirit in Petra's photographs, the connection she had with the camera. In her eyes, you just saw there was a sparkle there. When you look at her, you have a sense that this girl can be successful."
But Vujevic is simply living in the moment. And right now, it's time for a quick practice walk on the runway.
The stage manager yells again for the girls, and Vujevic joins the line of models near the backstage runway entrance. With their hair and makeup in various states of readiness, they look like a disheveled flock of flamingos stepping to the beat of singer/designer Avril Lavigne, who is nowhere in sight even though the show bears the Canadian rocker's name and her brand's imprint, Abbey Dawn.
The collection, a swirling motif of skulls, rainbows, pleather and studs, isn't exactly Vujevic's speed, but she's still excited to take part in this kind of production. It's completely different from Rachel Antonoff's garden party-themed presentation Sunday, in which Vujevic's prop was a badminton racket, or the Christine Alcalay presentation earlier that day, which was staged in a 1,000-square-foot studio in an office building.
For that job, she wakes at 7 a.m. Monday, showers and puts on just a bit of mascara and concealer. She takes a cab to the Garment District, arriving at the 11th floor whitewashed studio about two hours before showtime.
It's not a runway show but a "presentation," in which the models will be dressed and positioned on the showroom like living mannequins. For now, the corner studio with lots of natural light pouring through the windows is a backstage area for hair and makeup. Eventually, it will transition into a showroom with music from a live violinist, creating an atmosphere reminiscent of an art gallery.
Vujevic takes a seat, and a makeup artist gets to work on her face while a nail technician applies heated "nail shields" that behave like stickers. As she moves on to hair, the benches and makeup tables are removed, and risers are brought in to begin setting up the showroom.
Twenty minutes later, her hair is done, and the tables are pushed back to a wall. A curtain goes up, creating an impromptu changing area for the designer to dress the girls. She emerges in a set of light blue shorts, blazer and shell.
"It's not really my style, very businesswoman," she says. "Maybe in 10 years."
Once the models are clothed, a set designer arranges them on the floor while stylists dart around with spray cans and makeup brushes, putting on the final touches.
Then, it's time for the girls to stand in place for an hour as fashion editors and store buyers survey the collection. When a camera focuses on Vujevic, she narrows her eyes ever so slightly. About a half-hour in, she leaves the floor for the curtained changing area and returns in a tan calf-length skirt and lace cut-out halter top.
She stands some more, occasionally shifting her weight to keep the circulation flowing. As the clock hits noon, some of the girls relax their rigid poses and wait for the cue to leave.
Vujevic thought she would have a stretch of time for lunch -- modeling makes her hungry, she says -- but as she's leaving the studio, her agency sends an e-mail letting her know that she has a fitting for Gerlan Jeans, so she heads downtown.
On the ride over, she talks about this being her first time in the United States. She has noticed that fast food is really cheap, healthy food is expensive and everything seems to be labeled "organic." She wishes she had more time to eat in restaurants and try new things but since she arrived in New York, she's only had two days off to explore.
In the studio on Bowery, she tries on two looks for the designer's "Gerl Power" presentation, which is part Minnie Mouse, part activist, designer Gerlan Marcel says.
Vujevic's childlike features and height make her ideal for the show's cartoon-y look, Gerlan says.
As she tries on two of the designer's neoprene looks, a bright yellow dress and a blue coat, Gerlan squeals in delight.
"When I was a little girl my favorite doll was named Petra and I carried her around with me everywhere," the designer explains as Vujevic struts down the narrow path in between racks of clothing and accessories littering the floor. "Petra has come to life!"
Gerlan and her team agree that the yellow dress is too short for the 5'11 model and settle on the blue coat. Vujevic bids them farewell and runs downstairs to head over to the Metropolitan Pavilion for Lavigne's show.
The contrast from the morning's gig couldn't be more severe. The intimate austerity of the open studio has been replaced with a massive showroom of folding chairs surrounded by booths for Monster Energy drink and thinkThin energy bars, with a bright white runway in the middle.
Getting her hair to cooperate and putting on her face leaves about 10 minutes to breathe before the show. On the way to the bathroom, she picks up a salted caramel chocolate from the Stoli Vodka booth.
Lavigne eventually shows up about 30 minutes before showtime to thank the girls and pose for pictures. As they line up, she walks around adjusting their bows and belts and other small details.
The show is over in 10 minutes, and Vujevic is already 30 minutes late for her next job in SoHo. She fills a plastic cup with vegetables before hustling outside to grab a cab to the Soho Grand Hotel for a presentation by menswear designer and self-described "urban emperor" Dominic Louis.
Again, the setting couldn't be more different. The constant loop of "Sk8er Boi" and "Girlfriend" has been replaced by Siouxsie and the Banshees and Coldplay playing softly in the background. She walks up a flight of stairs to the hotel bar, which has been transformed into backstage hair and makeup area. A woman is ironing pants where the waiter station would normally be and models are resting their hands on the wooden and marble bar to get their nails done.
She takes a seat on a plush stool of dark wood while two stylists set to work blowing out her hair to remove product. She picks at a plate of cheese in her lap while they pull her hair into a tight ponytail at the crown of her head and fashion it into a bun. The tip of her hair is pulled into an avant garde cowlick.
A makeup artist hands her a cloth to remove her makeup while she waits for a seat at the bar. Eventually, her face is transformed into a pale, white-lined canvas best summed up as extraterrestrial. There's no private changing area here, so she quickly strips and changes into a black top and pants with its calves cut out.
She's paraded out with the rest of the models to a corridor and placed on a riser against a column. She stands there for an hour while an art house film plays and attendees in leather black shorts and vests take her picture.
Eventually, she moves to the stage in front of the film screen with other models who are growing impatient. Finally, one of the models starts clapping, and the audience follows. The models seize the opportunity to step down and leave the corridor.
It's 11 p.m. now, and Vujevic is tired. Modeling is exciting but exhausting, she says.
Will she return to modeling after she finishes school? "It's possible," she says. "But maybe not for New York Fashion Week."
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We will have a "Hard Knocks" this summer. This was ensured at the NFL Fall Meeting, when a rule passed that allowed the league to appoint a team to be the subject of the popular HBO series if no other team volunteers.
NFL Media Insider Ian Rapoport reported that all organizations will be eligible with the exception of those that have a first-year head coach; teams that have made the playoffs in at least one of the last two seasons; and teams that have participated in the previous 10 seasons.
Now that the playoff field has been determined and we know which teams will enter 2014 with a new coach, we can figure out which organizations are eligible for a forced six-week residency on premium cable.
(As NFL Media's foremost "Hard Knocks" historian, I wish I could say I realized the field already had been set. I didn't. Great job, Internet.)
Here are the eligible teams. Any of these teams can be selected to appear on the show if there are no volunteers:
Arizona Cardinals
Buffalo Bills
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Jacksonville Jaguars
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A Liev Schreiber-narrated tour of Jay Cutler and Kristin Cavallari's luxury condo in Lincoln Park is this close to reality. This has to happen. We deserve this.
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Happy to have donated
Excellent project, and not yet another first person shooter which seems to be all the published games industry is willing to churn out.
Really hoping they make something great. :-)
Plans to bring back the post-apocalyptic RPG Wasteland will go ahead after a Kickstarter project mustered more than enough funds to give the project the green light. Wasteland 2 A team headed by Interplay founder and famed games developer Brian Fargo sought financial backing of at least $1m (£625,400) for the PC version of …
Even if (like me) you thought Magna Cum Laude was a decent game, LSL was killed by the developers themselves when they released the "So Bad It's Like The Worst Smell On Earth Farted After It Died" Box Office Bust (seriously, local tech store STILL has the game almost fully stocked on shelves, and last I saw it was listed for $2 just so they can get rid of it, with nobody taking it). Unless Al Lowe is involved this time (and I doubt he will be, since he was enjoying his retirement last I heard), I don't want to see anything else from the LSL franchise. Let it avoid the ignoble fait that Sonic is having to endure and just remember/play the glories of the past untarnished by present-day rust and decay.
I'd much rather someone pried the Space Quest and/or King's Quest licenses from Sierra/Activision's cold, dead hands and release the final games that end the series proper, as opposed to SQ6's open-ended stance leaving room for a sequal and KQ MoE's terrible, broken mess of a game (seriously, a game with massive levels of violence and killing as a capstone to a series known and loved for its aversion to and discouragement of same? Absolutely shameful attempt at a cash-grab, there).
Though a graphical update and/or remake of an old LSL game might be interesting. QFG2 VGA and KQ2 VGA (google them, they're free) have shown that it certainly can be done to success...
Sitll, all-in-all, considering the current owners of these series, I'd rather the past remain there and no further games are made.
I'm somewhat cynical about the 'stick it to the man' credentials of all this but both this and Pebble are interesting projects that I'm happy to have donated to, and Fargo's 'Kick It Forward' plan to redistribute profits is interesting.
Looking forward to a Kickstarter project where one of the rewards for funding is a share of the eventual profits - sort of distributed venture capital plan.
>sort of distributed venture capital plan.
Excellent thought, though probably only practical for larger donations, though I guess if donations were given some sort of nominal stock, which if (or when) the company made an IPO were guaranteed to become shares then it could work out.
So far on Kickstarter my donations have been for things that I think I would enjoy playing (code hero for example) but if there was an element of being a micro-investor then it might open up what I might be willing to donate to.
Is kickstarter a registered charity? can I claim my donations back form the taxman?
This won't be a successful alternative to publishing house gaming until these games are successfully released. If these games, when released, turn out to be a steaming pile of crap the people who have backed them will become disillusioned by the process and it will die. Kickstarter is not without it's problematic projects.
The gaming industry has a hit and miss history on sequels. Of course, if they fail to put out a good Wasteland sequel we'll know who to blame. Can't pawn it off on the bean counters.
Yeah, then there's the current potential problem of these huge overly-successfull game projects creating a new economic mini-bubble as everyone and their grandma suddenly realizes that people will shell out millions for as little as "a good idea for a game" and jumps into the business, which will cause a massive flood of crap titles and may even result in a bust as frustrated doners abandon the scene, unsure what games to fund and what to avoid, not disimiliar to the notorious USA game market collapse of the early 80s.
Still, I don't worry too much about it now. The early stages has plenty of promise and potential, and I embrace it completely while it lasts.
Yeah, set the wayback machine to 1997 and that's exactly what "the pundits" were saying to Mr. Fargo and the Troika at Interplay when the original Fallout came out too. And they were so wrong I still smile. True, the glut of 1st Generation FPS crap and cookie-cutter real-time strategy doldrums seemed like a gold rush, and the best (pathetic) CRPG we had was the truly awful "The Elder Scrolls: Daggerfall"...but Fallout changed all that by giving RPGers what we wanted, a real honest to god CRPG. And that opened the floodgates for the resurrection of the genre, which led to some of the most fantastic CRPGs ever made (Planescape: Torment) and some interesting fusion RPG shooters (Deus Ex, System Shock 2). Notably absent: Richard "Lord British" Garriott, who was too busy squandering Ultima's good name on terrible MMORPGs.
Newsflash for the idiots in the boardrooms today: not all of us are 13-year-old kiddies who think the only game ever invented was "Call of Duty." Wasteland 2? Sign me up. Just as long as they don't use that manual-based "copy protection" the original used.
Woohoo, we made it happen! $3 million to make a game bigger then the last, drawing on some of the most venerable and respected talents in the old-school RPG field! I never dreamed it would be possible for it to rise this high, especially not to $3M! We even got enough for them to make the promised user mod tools later!
Can't wait to see the final game in its finished form. Wonder what it's going to end up looking like...?
*form update* They're making RoboScrop TOUGHER?! What, were the Gods of Death not satisfied with the 30+ ranger corpses I offered up in gory sacrifice the FIRST time I faced it (to say nothing of the scores more in later reruns of the wastes)?!


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CONCORD, N.H. — New Hampshire is the first state to say it will opt out of the nationwide public safety communications system known as FirstNet.
Every state and U.S. territory must decide by Dec. 28 whether to opt in to the broadband network for first responders being built by AT&T or come up with their own systems. More than 30 states have chosen the FirstNet contract.
New Hampshire's Republican Gov. Chris Sununu announced his decision Thursday at the Twin Mountain state police barracks.
He says contracting with a company called Rivada instead will allow the state to retain more control over the project. Law enforcement agencies supported his decision, but a state business group said the state shouldn't take on such a big risk with an unproven company.
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Compared with many other Hollywood A-listers, Hugh Jackman is an old China hand. The Aussie actor has had a string of hits on the mainland in recent years, including "Real Steel," "Les Miserables" and "Wolverine." And Uncle Wolf — as Jackman is known to fans here — even sang in Mandarin in the 2011 film "Snow Flower and the Secret Fan."
Despite having at least four promotional tours to China under his belt, Jackman nevertheless said he can still be surprised by some of the quirky questions he gets from local reporters.
"Just today I was asked, does Fan Bingbing represent Oriental actresses? And … how does her body shape compare to a European body shape?" Jackman said, laughing, when he was in the Chinese capital Tuesday promoting "X-Men: Days of Future Past" with fellow cast members Peter Dinklage as well as Fan, a mainland star who also appears in the 20th Century Fox production.
"I was like, man, I would never be asked that question [elsewhere] — a lot of those questions. I'm like: First of all, I'm married; I can't go there. Secondly, this is a lose-lose situation."
China's box office is booming, and Hollywood superhero films in particular are doing strong business. "The Amazing Spider-Man 2," which opened eight days ago, has made $55.6 million already -- $5 million more than the first installment took in in 2012, film-industry consulting firm Artisan Gateway said Tuesday. "Captain America: The Winter Soldier," has topped $115 million on the mainland. "X-Men" will debut here May 23 and had a red-carpet premiere in Beijing as well.
Accordingly, more and more foreign stars are making media appearances on the mainland — and learning that junkets and panel discussions here can have their own, slightly zany, China flavor.
At the Beijing Film Festival last month, a moderator queried French actor Jean Reno — particularly known here for his tough-guy parts in films such as "The Professional" — about why he was so smiley in pictures from his wedding that she saw online.
"Of course, it's because I wanted myself to marry my wife," Reno replied, a bit bemused. "I have a job, which is being an actor, but I have a life which is being a human being, living among people. It's two tasks -- completely different."
Johnny Depp, who came to Beijing in April to promote his film "Transcendence," was asked by a China Vogue writer whether he had ever considered designing women's underwear.
Depp paused for a moment and said no, but added that he thought he could do a "good job." (He also said he thought he'd be adept at making party hats and women's shoes "with buckles.")
To be sure, many Chinese film reporters come armed with encyclopedic international movie knowledge and thoughtful questions. "Captain America" co-director Anthony Russo remarked during a news conference for his film: "The thing I've been struck with most, sitting with journalists and talking today, I was very excited to find such a sensitive and thoughtful appreciation for movies and what this movie was trying to be."
News conferences for Hollywood films, though, are often hosted by effervescent moderators eager to extract from foreign actors and directors details about places in China they've visited, and any personal impressions of Chinese culture -- and Chinese food.
Scarlett Johansson, in Beijing in March to promote "Captain America: The Winter Soldier," volunteered that hot pot was her favorite Chinese dish; while her director, Joe Russo, said he'd been eating dumplings nonstop. Depp observed: "There are spices here that can transform you into another human."
Attempts to speak any basic Chinese — like ni hao (hello) or xiexie (thank you) — receive gushing praise. Foreign actors often attempt to bond with local audiences by showing off some appreciation for Chinese culture: Depp repeatedly displayed one of his tattoos, which he said was inspired by the classical Chinese text the I-Ching, while Robert Downey Jr., when he was in town last year to promote "Iron Man 3," told journalists that he has his own Chinese traditional medicine doctor.
Andrew Garfield, who came to Beijing in March to drum up business for "The Amazing Spider-Man 2," regaled his news conference with details of how he had played ping-pong in a local sports club. "I was not as good as Chinese women. … I won one game and lost 10."
Jackman shared his own ping-pong story Tuesday, saying he had spent an hour after getting off the plane with a top Beijing ping-pong coach and was now ready to "smoke my brother, who's been beating me for 40 years."
Chinese publicists often come up with creative ways to try to express to visiting foreign celebrities what kind of fan base they have in China. During a news conference for "Spider-Man 2," organizers presented a video of fans from dozens of ethnic groups in China, dressed in traditional garb, expressing their appreciation for the Peter Parker universe.
The moderator then asked, with great sincerity: "How is it like to be loved by 1.3 billion people? Andrew what is it like for you?"
Garfield, flummoxed for a minute, laughed awkwardly. "It feels great! I don't think. … I don't know about that," he stammered. "We are really happy to be here, presenting this movie. … You guys have welcomed us with such warmth. That video — I think I speak for everyone — was overwhelming and amazing."
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In memoriam: A tribute to the memory of Lynne Cohen
May 15th, 2014
The Art Gallery of Ontario shares in the loss of Lynne Cohen, one of Canada's finest visual artists. Lynne's remarkable body of work took us to extraordinary, often-foreboding places — places we would be unlikely to encounter in our daily lives, except through her compelling photographs. Her enigmatic, real-world photographs of interior environments, uninhabited by humans, alluded to her sense of wit and irony.An internationally collected artist, Lynne was nominated for the Aimia | AGO Photography Prize (then called the Grange Prize) in 2009, and the AGO is proud to have exhibited her work alongside the nominees from Canada and Mexico. Lynne spent her Prize-sponsored residency in Mexico, inspired by interior spaces that became new installations of extraordinary photographs.
Lynne's legacy will be remembered by all who admired her vision, dedication to students, loyalty to those who knew her and her incredible strength the past three years. Our deepest condolences to Andrews Lugg, her partner of 50 years, who was closest to Lynne in every way.
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POWDER ROOMS BY DEFINITION are short on space, but that doesn't mean they have to be bland little boxes. Lately, they're bursting with personality. For these contained, single-use rooms, designers say pretty much anything goes, and homeowners are buying in, taking risks they wouldn't normally agree to for other parts of the house. The powder room has even been likened to a folly, a decorative structure once built on the grounds of English country estates as a conversation piece. Here are four modern-day examples of tiny half baths that, like those whimsical follies of yore, really make a statement.
When Sally Wilson's client, a stylish woman in the leather business, told her she wanted to incorporate leather into the decor of her Ipswich home, Wilson knew just the spot for it — the powder room. "It's the one place you can go wild, because you don't have to live in there," says Wilson, of Wilson Kelsey Design in Salem. Rather than "messing around with brown," Wilson went right for black, mixing croc-embossed leather tiles from EcoModern Design with a custom white Carrara marble counter and elegant nickel accents that she likens to jewelry. A beveled mirror is framed in a simple silver leaf and sized exactly to the room — proportion is especially important in such a small space to keep things in balance. The powder room's scheme ties into the design sensibility of the home's kitchen, which instead of a breakfast nook has a chic cocktail lounge with black and silver upholstery. "When guests walk into a lavish powder room, they feel special," Wilson says. "It's like you're giving them a little gift."
Rather than going for the predictable nautical theme, Wellesley-based designers Avery True and Andra Birkerts, both of Andra Birkerts Design, went retro in this Rockport powder room with an ocean view. The hexagon-shaped concrete tiles by Popham Design from Ann Sacks are Moroccan but have a '60s-mod sensibility. "Because you don't see them until you're actually in the room," Birkerts points out, "they offer an element of surprise, which we like." True had the faucet and vanity mounted on the wall, freeing up both counter and floor space and making the room feel more open and larger than it is. They painted the ceiling and trim chartreuse and added a resin countertop in the same quirky color. The sink (below) is special, too, decorated with little birds and scrollwork. "It's a conversation piece, best suited for a powder room because it's the room everyone sees," True says. "People can react to it and get a read on the homeowner's personality."
In a newly built Newton home where understated elegance reigns, John Stefanon of Boston-based JFS Design Studio created an over-the-top powder room where his client could show off her more flamboyant side. The jumping-off point is the shimmering Donghia mother-of-pearl wall covering. From there, he added the client's grandmother's antique crystal chandelier and a swirling French Regency-style gilt mirror. Using gold as the major design statement, Stefanon chose equally grandiose gold-plated hardware from Sherle Wagner, antiqued iron sconces with crystal drops and antique silk shades, and a basin with a hand-painted gold laurel vine. The white Calcutta marble counter, onyx floor and wall tile, and linen window shade help balance the bling. "I look at the powder room as an escape," Stefanon says. "If you're at a party, it can be viewed as a safe haven."
Playing off the client's love of the color raspberry, which was used in the family and living rooms of this conservatively decorated Winchester residence, designer Kristine Mullaney proposed wallpaper for the powder room that matched in hue but was considerably bolder in pattern. While "too much of this paper might give you a headache," says Boston-based Mullaney, she knew that the Clarence House "Flower Quince" covering would provide just the right touch in a tiny room. Especially when she paired it with a rich cherry cabinet topped with marble, brass sconces, and a ceiling cloaked in silk grass cloth. Every bit of wall and ceiling is covered, creating a jewelry box effect. An oval mirror counterbalances the hard, angular lines of the vanity and reinforces the curves of the cherry blossom branches. Mullaney says she often suggests bold wallpaper for powder rooms, because "in a small space, you can get outside your comfort zone and go dramatic."
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Barnes & Noble executive plans more store closings
NEW YORK Barnes & Noble (BKS) plans to continue to shrink its store base.
The head of Barnes & Noble's retail group, Mitchell Klipper, said in an interview published Monday in The Wall Street Journal that the company will have 450 to 500 stores in a decade. That's down from about 689 currently.
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Klipper said the chain plans to close about 20 stores a year over the period.
The largest traditional U.S. bookstore has been facing tough competition from online retailers and discounters that sell books and has been focusing on its Nook tablet, e-book reader and e-book business for growth.
A spokeswoman for Barnes & Noble said Klipper's remarks don't mark any change in its store closing plan.
"We have historically closed approximately 15 stores per year for the past 10 years," said spokeswoman Mary Ellen Keating. Some closings are due to the fact that stores are unprofitable and others are stores moving to better locations.
Though Barnes & Noble has for the most part stopped opening new stores in the past several years, Keating said New York-based Barnes & Noble opened two new prototype stores in 2012 and plans to test other prototypes in 2013.
"The company's management is fully committed to the retail concept for the long term," Keating said.
In addition to its traditional bookstores, Barnes & Noble operates 674 college bookstores.
Its shares fell 26 cents, or 2 percent, to $12.91 in midday trading. They have traded in a 52-week range of $10.45 to $25.


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I'm calling this the camera shy shrug because I couldn't get a decent picture of it despite snapping through nearly a whole memory card worth of shots!
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Did You Know? Cisco's FCoE Transformational Service
Over the past couple of years the conversation about Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) and converged networks (e.g., Unified Fabric) has become more and more sophisticated. While I still get the occasional "what is FCoE?" question, and still have to correct the occasional journalist who insists FCoE runs over TCP/IP (it doesn't!), those conversations are becoming more rare.
Instead, the conversation has shifted from the "what is this?" to "how do I do it?" All the diagrams and napkins in the world can't predict or prepare for the wide-ranging possibilities that customers have in their data centers. I've written about a few of the surprises before (http://blogs.cisco.com/datacenter/ciscolive-2012-and-the-fcoe-surge/) but every day I get more unique (and more interesting) scenarios.
The Bad News
There is no one-size-fits-all approach. In a conversation with a friend recently, he argued that it's much easier for customers to know how to use a tool in a proscriptive fashion, with well-defined use cases.
This is, of course, true. After all, server virtualization (he argued) took off specifically because there was a particular deployment model and use case. Not being an expert in the history of virtualization, I took his word for it, but I also know that this isn't the case for all technologies.
It's the inverse of the "Law of the Hammer." Normally, the adage goes, "When you're a hammer, everything looks like a nail." The inverse of that "law" is that if you have a hammer, you can only use it to build one thing, such as a house (maybe it should be called "The Law of the Nail"). To limit the tool to being used in such a limited situation risks missing the opportunity for all the other reasons why a hammer can be useful.
FCoE is similar (though the analogy obviously has its limits). While it has a specific purpose, it has more than one specific scenario where it's appropriate. And this makes the conversations somewhat difficult.
Why? Because customers want – no, need – someone to take a look at what they've got and give them the best possible solution for their given environment. Sadly, that's not something that can be prepared in advance.
The Good News
Cisco's Advanced Services group can help. I walked over to Seth Mason's office from our Advanced Services group and we started talking about solving these issues. It turns out that, for precisely the reasons above, we have the Cisco FCoE Transformation Service, that takes on these questions in a systematic, programmatic approach. At the risk of sounding like a full-page ad, here's the kind of things that this service provides:
- SAN Strategy Questionnaire
- Onsite FCoE technology overview presentation
- Customer Data Center-focused whiteboard session
- FCoE Architecture and Reference Guide
But these are just the preliminary steps. For customers who want to have the most help possible, the FCoE Transformation Service runs the entire gamut of assistance.
Soup-to-Nuts Service
Cisco's Advanced Services have created a thorough program of working with customers to make sure the Data Center is properly prepared and migrated into a converged environment using FCoE. Here's a sample of what the Planning and Design Service accomplishes and delivers:
Customer Requirements Document
Report on all of the requirements set forth by the customer for the new infrastructure, including LAN (Nexus 7000, 5000) and SAN (MDS)
FCoE Readiness Assessment
Determine the health of the Cisco Storage Area Network and Nexus LAN infrastructure prior to introducing FCoE
High-Level Design
Provide an overall FCoE architecture
Low-Level Design
Provide a detailed design for the proposed FCoE architecture
Implementation and Migration Plan
Provide guidelines and best practices to implement the low level design. This can include test plans and the steps necessary to migrate hosts and storage from native FibreChannel to FCoE.
Implementation Support
On-site or Remote assistance for installation and configuration
Migration Support
Supporting migration windows, if needed
Knowledge Transfer
Ongoing development of key personnel in new functionality and management of the FCoE solution on all platforms involved
You're Not Alone
Sometimes even experienced IT professionals need a little mentorship and guidance. As I've been getting more and more questions about FCoE, I'm glad that I'm able to be able to introduce them to this service which can eliminate much of the confusion and trepidation that comes with trying something new or facing change.
Generally speaking, FCoE may or may not be the right tool to build your Data Center, but for more people it's becoming a compelling story. If you find yourself among them, I highly encourage you to contact your friendly neighborhood Cisco account team and ask them about the Cisco FCoE Transformation Service, and how it can make your life a lot easier.
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Sunday, 12 February 2012
Götterdämmerung, Met Opera Live, 11 February 2012
Brünnhilde – Deborah Voigt
Gutrune – Wendy Bryn Harmer
Waltraute – Waltraud Meier
Siegfried – Jay Hunter Morris
Gunther – Iain Paterson
Alberich – Eric Owens
Hagen – Hans-Peter König
First Norn – Maria Radner
Second Norn – Elizabeth Bishop
Third Norn – Heidi Melton
Woglinde – Erin Morley
Wellgunde – Jennifer Johnson Cano
Flosshilde – Tamara Mumford
Robert Lepage (director)
Neilson Vignola (associate director)
Carl Fillion (set designs)
François St-Aubin (costumes)
Etienne Boucher (lighting)
Lionel Arnould (video image artist)
Patricia Racette ('Live in HD' host)
Metropolitan Opera Chorus
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra
Fabio Luisi (conductor)
Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear. With the caveat that this is the only instalment of Robert Lepage's Met Ring that I have seen, it really is as bad as everyone has said it is. In the face of uniformly negative reviews – I am sure there will be exceptions, but they have not come to my notice – Götterdämmerung proved to be one of the most vacuous productions of anything I have ever seen. Even the Otto Schenk production that this replaced seems in retrospect a monument to Wagner's 'emotionalisation of the intellect' (the desired mode for reception of his yet-to-be-composed tetralogy, according to Opera and Drama). Well, not quite, but here, I am afraid, there is simply nothing. There has been a peculiar recent trend of presenting ideas-free or at least ideas-lite Ring cycles: witness Stéphane Braunschweig in Aix and Guy Cassiers in Berlin (and Milan). However one could fail to entertain any thoughts, however misplaced, about the Ring is a conundrum too far for me, but Lepage seems to have hit rock bottom. So far as I can discern, his only concern is the 'machine', about which we have all heard far too much already. A preposterously expensive mechanism for scene changes and video projections – disturbingly similar to Ex Machina's 'Cirque du Soleil' – is not a substitute, or rather it is but not should be, for dramatic direction. A production that took technology as its starting-point could have a great deal to say. How about, say, starting with Victorian phantasmagoria in Nibelheim and making our way forward? (Memories of Patrice Chéreau's hydroelectric dam necessarily return.) But here we simply have duller costumes than in Schenk, and video projections of a few natural phenomena. What is the drama about? What is at stake? The nihilism of Götterdämmerung, or at least that dramatised therein - Chéreau rightly characterised the world of the Gibichung court as ageing, pointing to the increasing desperation of its rituals, which seek some sort of moral code in a post-religious society that knows no morality, indeed finds it impossible to 'know' – is quite a different matter from presenting nothing at all. The mock-up horse seems so designed to appease 'traditionalists' that it would surely have been more honest to go the whole hog, if you will forgive the mixing of equine and porcine, and present a real animal on stage. It all looks at best like an expensive version of a school Viking play. Poor Waltraud Meier really pulls the short straw with Waltraute's silly helmet.
Enough! If even the lobotomised would require a further lobotomy to find anything in the production, was there anything at least worth hearing? The score, after all, is not without interest. Fabio Luisi's conducting was better than we tend to hear at Covent Garden; there was little of the stopping and starting that must be endured here post-Haitink. But if corners were for the most part safely navigated, the reading nevertheless struggled to rise above the efficient. How depressing it is to write that! In a brief interval conversation with Patricia Racette – may I never hear her inane questioning again! – Luisi claimed that he wished to rid the work of heavy German tradition. He accomplished that after a fashion, I suppose, but it might have been worth him considering whence that disparaged tradition arose. This was not a chamber reading – there is, up to a point, a place for such – but a dull one, quite uninvolving throughout. Again, I should remind you that we are talking about Götterdämmerung here. Choral singing, I am delighted to report, was excellent. The Metropolitan Opera Chorus was clearly well-trained, and sang with admirable heft, as well as clarity.
Meier's Waltraute was, unsurprisingly, a highlight. Somehow she managed to wring some drama from the situation: she did so as only she can, with her extraordinary intensifying synthesis of word and gesture. Iain Paterson was an excellent Gunther, conflicted and insecure, and Wendy Bryn Harmer offered an excellent, complementary Gutrune, often quite beautiful of tone. Hans-Peter König's Hagen was interesting. There were times when I thought him too benevolent, but his portrayal won me around: a nasty turn thereafter suggested that it might actually have been an act, Hagen's act. We were left guessing. Sad to say, I missed Eric Owens's Alberich: confusion – entirely my own fault – concerning the interval timings meant that I missed the very opening of the second act, surely one of the most extraordinary scenes in this extraordinary drama. Owens certainly received a rapturous curtain call. As for Deborah Voigt's Brünnhilde, I have heard worse, but the view that her weight loss entailed a great deal of vocal loss seemed pretty close to confirmation here. There was a dignity to her portrayal that promised more than it delivered, but if hardly memorable, there was no disgrace here either. Jay Hunter Morris should probably be applauded for managing, more or less, to sing the well-nigh impossible role of Siegfried – we all have horror stories to recount in that respect – but there were times when he sounded strained, even in a recorded balance that offered undue emphasis to the singers. Moreover, this was a role for the most part presented as opposed to lived. The production of course did not help, but Meier and Paterson in particular showed what might nevertheless be done by intelligent singing-actors. Intelligence, alas, was not something with which Lepage and company credited their audience.
It was unfortunate that much of the final scene of the first act was vitiated by some problem with transmission. First an unpleasant noise replaced the music, then silence. Whether this were the fault of the broadcast or the cinema, I do not know. Strange computer announcements appeared on screen from time to time, too, and there were problems with the subtitles (quite apart from the often questionable translation). I shall not bore readers with too many of my thoughts concerning opera in the cinema – I have come rather late in the day to it, this being my first time – but this was, for whatever reasons, a far less involving experience than I had anticipated, and it would be good to hear a balance that sounded a little closer to what one might hear in the opera house. Wagner's great Chorus, the orchestra, suffered especially.
(See also the review by Classical Iconoclast, including links to reviews of previous instalments.)
7 comments:
- Doundou Tchil said...
The interaction between Waltraud Meier and Deborah Voigt was priceless. Meier is too poised to glare but you can imagine what shew thought!
- 13 February, 2012 01:12
- Gavin Dixon said...
Hi Mark. I'll probably be on my own here, but let me put in a short word in defence of the production. Lepage is clearly intent on telling the story in as straightforward a way as possible. Too straightforward perhaps, but in this of all works, the director can rely on the music to elaborate its psychology and significance. Signs and symbols in a production are all very well, but can easily become excessive, as Keith Warner has recently demonstrated. And the narrative focus of this production is helped by good casting and, for the most part, good acting too. That said, Lapage could have worked out some more meaningful interactions between the singers on the stage, and the 2nd half of Act 3 was mostly just standing and singing at the audience, but up until then I thought it worked very well.
- 13 February, 2012 11:02
I attended the performance at the Met; your comments on the conductor are unfounded and I think based on 1) knowledge gained by listening to recordings or other performances, rather than via the score and an open mind (i.e. it didn't sound like Goodall or whoever) and 2) the poor conditions under which you experienced the reading which you admitted to. In the "flesh" the dynamics were beautifully and aptly handled so that real climaxes registered as such, not as just triple-forte badly-balanced bluster. The solo winds played with great nuance and flexibility of tempo, so that solos were memorable (clarinet!). The phrasing of thematic material was very sensitively shaped (through agogic accent, dynamics, tone color) so that, for example, the music associated with Gutrune was magically lovely. The conversations between characters (i.e. the scene when we meet the Gibichungs, the plotting "Terzett" at the end of Act II) really came off as such due to the pacing. This aided the drama. An example of the care taken and beauty evoked: when the "Blutbrudershaft" melody comes "horning in" in that Act II "trio", it was really "Sehr getragen" and when the second "verse" came in, the rhythmic difference at the end of the phrases (1st time crotchet triplet, second time quavers) really told. One could go on detailing the felicities that imparted great poignancy and emotion. How could you hear this under the conditions you described? And you missed the scene between Alberich and Hagen that opens the second act. Incidentally, this is not known as "Hagen's watch"; that is rather the scene in Act One after Siegfried and Gunther depart to "obtain" Bruennhilde ("Hier sitz' ich zur Wacht..."). At any rate, you remarked as follows regarding the cinema transmission:
"but this was, for whatever reasons, a far less involving experience than I had anticipated, and it would be good to hear a balance that sounded a little closer to what one might hear in the opera house". So was it fair to criticize the conductor under these circumstances? Hardly.
- 13 February, 2012 21:15
- Mark Berry said...
Thank you for your comment and first of all for the correction to my mental aberration. (I was in a rush and writing at speed, but should nevertheless have checked more thoroughly.) What I had meant to say was 'the end of Hagen's watch,' which of course that scene is, but even that might read ambiguously, so I have replaced the offending phrase with 'opening of the second act'. I am also very interested to hear of what you discerned in Luisi's reading. The sound was a problem, I am sure, but to a good degree, I think one's ears begin to adjust (not that they should have to do so, given the much-trumpeted nature of the enterprise). Otherwise, how would one ever reach any sort of judgement concerning so-called 'historical' recordings? What I can say is that your first point is quite unfounded. To say that my knowledge of the 'Ring' is limited only to listening to other recordings and other performances is simply not the case. I have no wish to trumpet my credentials, such as they might be, so shall leave it at that.
- 13 February, 2012 21:35
- Doundou Tchil said...
Dear Anonymous, If you're in NYC, you'll know about the criticism about Luisi, which I hap0pen not bto agree with, but it exists. So what if his approach isn't like Levine? Luisi has his own style and is respected in Europe at any rate. Unless you heard the broadcast, you can't comment on the sound engineering. The balance was badly distorted for whatever reason (I can think of at least one) and spoiled what was probably a good performance (bar the horns). But we can only say what we heard. In any case, the orchestra is only one element in any true Gesammtkunstwerk. And the rest of this was a mess.
- 14 February, 2012 10:56
Mark, thanks for your review! I cannot agree with you more on the lack of emotional involvement in Lepage's Ring.
At the end, Debra Voigt/Bruennhilde struggled to swing over this mechanic horse, then we were treated with the view of a not-very-attractive backside of both the horse AND Debra being led away VERY SLOWLY...oh why oh why?!!!
On Fabio Luisi's "Kapellmeister"...oops, that would be doing other great Kapellmeisters a gross injustice, let say, "Schulmeister"'s lacklustre conducting, suffice it to say it was not gripping. This is Goetterdammerung, after all!!!
But I am grateful for the MET Live broadcast, despite of all its flaws...the BIG PLUS of being able to experience this great music from afar is just fantastic!
- 14 February, 2012 12:33
[Anonymous rears ugly head again].
You stated:
"reading nevertheless struggled to rise above the efficient ... This was not a chamber reading – there is, up to a point, a place for such – but a dull one, quite uninvolving throughout. Again, I should remind you that we are talking [sic] about Götterdämmerung here."
This sort of summary judgment consists of meaningless, which is to say, unsupported generalities. Please adduce evidence culled from the written score to bolster your claim that the performance "struggled to rise above the efficient", and was "a dull one, quite uninvolving throughout". And what the hell is a "chamber reading" (something not loud enough?)??? And what bearing does "again, I should remind you that we are talking [sic] about Götterdämmerung here" have on the discussion other than to contribute an obvious tautology? What should the conductor have done that he didn't do? Were rhythms and tempo relationships distorted? Were balances awry (as if you could tell given the circumstances of your audition). Etc., etc. Don't answer with vagaries. Please present confirmation of the deficiencies you heard from the written music so that we might learn something.
Unsupported "thought-bite" generalizations have become the bane of published criticism, allowing condemnation without evidence, indictment by superficial impression and besmirching of reputations without the need to demonstrate a confirming diagnostic expertise. Calling something "dull", for example, requires no skill; illustrating the reason does. Why join the ranks of those who pander "opinions" without meaning?
- 14 February, 2012 20:47


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