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The two individuals perhaps most responsible for transforming the West Village from what it was ten years ago into what it is today are Carrie Bradshaw and Marc Jacobs. The former is a bubbly, self-involved, inordinately chic blond journalist who chronicles the lives of New York women, her own life in particular. The latter is a fashion designer who has become famous as the creator of the shoes and clothes and, most prominently, handbags worn by the women whom Carrie chronicles and the women who wish that they could be her. Carrie Bradshaw, of course, is make-believe, the protagonist of the "Sex and the City" franchise, whereas Marc Jacobs is a real person. Or he was once.
Jacobs used to be a chubby Jewish guy with long hair and glasses who made his name—and got fired—by designing a "grunge" collection (of very expensive silk shirts printed to look like flannel, and fine cashmere sweaters with the appearance of thermal underwear) in 1993, as the head of womenswear at Perry Ellis. Five years later, he was hired as the creative director of Louis Vuitton, France's premier luxury-goods house, where he was seen as an enfant terrible, and nobody was quite sure if he would make it work. But, in the decade since Jacobs arrived at Vuitton, he has quadrupled its business and, with the company's backing, watched his own Marc Jacobs Collection and his less expensive secondary line, Marc by Marc Jacobs, grow into a global business, with a hundred and sixty stores, in nineteen countries. You see his handbags, with their quilting and clunky hardware, on every other girl in Manhattan—like flip-flops, except that they cost thousands of dollars.
Jacobs's physical appearance has come to reflect his success. At the age of forty-five, he is no longer remotely plump. His hair is cut short (and was, briefly, bright blue), and he has started wearing contact lenses. He looks like a cartoon superhero: muscular, bronzed, shining with diamonds. And he has accomplished the comic-book feat of transforming himself from hardworking Everyman (Bruce Banner, Clark Kent, Peter Parker) into something elevated and different and not merely human. But this is fashion, not crime-fighting, so the goal isn't to fly or to leap tall buildings or—God forbid—become invisible. No. What one wants is to be a cultural touchstone, to represent and embody a life style, the way Karl Lagerfeld does, or Donatella Versace, or Carrie Bradshaw.
Jacobs could almost be in one of the Annie Leibovitz photographs that make up his current Louis Vuitton ad campaign. (They feature Sofia and Francis Ford Coppola relaxing in a field with a monogrammed Vuitton tote; Keith Richards playing guitar in a hotel room next to a custom case; Mikhail Gorbachev and a Vuitton satchel in the back seat of a limousine near a remnant of the Berlin Wall—all in a golden, larger-than-life light.) Almost, but not quite, because Marc Jacobs's brand of success is unapologetically less dignified. Jacobs has twenty-eight tattoos, among them one on his left arm that says, "Bros before hos," a phrase borrowed from pimp culture that expresses a credo of allegiance to men before women, comrades before conquests, or, as Jacobs puts it, "friends before a piece of ass." Until recently, he had a boyfriend named Jason Preston, seventeen years his junior, who was a retired prostitute, and who had the Marc Jacobs logo tattooed in large letters up the length of his forearm. The couple issued regular updates on their romance on their respective pages on MySpace.
Jacobs's retail domain stretches across several blocks of Bleecker Street, rendering the surrounding area a kind of Marc Jacobs theme park and, naturally, a prominent stop on "Sex and the City" bus tours, which regularly crawl along the cobblestones, shuttling young women to the Magnolia bakery to sample the cupcakes favored by Carrie. A handbag that Jacobs designed for Vuitton was so prominent in the movie that it was more a character than a prop.
All this makes Jacobs very happy. There is nothing he loves more than seeing his work woven into the culture. With the Japanese artist Takashi Murakami, he created a series of handbags featuring the stately Vuitton monogram reimagined in candy colors on a white backdrop and, more recently, interspersed with a camouflage print, which was named "monogramouflage." The collaboration has been so successful that its biggest problem has been the frequency with which the purses are knocked off and illegally hawked on street corners. Jacobs, delighting in copying the copycats, installed faux street venders selling real bags at the opening of Murakami's recent exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum. It was possible, that night, to buy a three-thousand-dollar handbag off a folding table from a guy in a skullcap and a sweatshirt who was being paid an hourly wage to wear that costume. Jacobs is amused by such things—things that seem like other things. His collections often include trompe-l'oeil_._
Jacobs also enjoys the idea that the brand is the product being sold. (This is unusual for a fashion designer: designers tend to think of their work as art and get snippy at the suggestion that they are simply peddlers of schmattes and image.) A recent print campaign for the Marc Jacobs Collection shows Victoria Beckham, née Posh Spice, wearing Marc Jacobs clothes and sunglasses and emerging from boxes and bags that bear his name—she is a human product, wrapped.
Jacobs is a human product, too, as famous for what he means as for what he does. In market research conducted for Daisy, a perfume he was introducing (named after one of his dogs), women at a mall in the Midwest were asked if they'd heard of Marc Jacobs. Many said yes, but when they were asked who he was, they often replied "a rock star" or "an actor" rather than "a fashion designer." Probably, they had noticed his name in a gossip column. They might have seen pictures of Jacobs smoking cigarettes at parties with celebrities. Or perhaps they'd just felt his potent commercial presence when they were riding a red bus down Bleecker Street.
While Marc Jacobs the brand is at least as prominent a resident of the new West Village as Sarah Jessica Parker, the actress who played Carrie Bradshaw (and who lives around the corner from the Bleecker Street Marc Jacobsland), Jacobs himself resides in Paris, in a sparkling Batcave filled with millions of dollars' worth of contemporary art, and many, many ashtrays. (If he were to be in one of his own Vuitton ads, the signature accessory would be a monogrammed cigarette case.) "I'm going to smoke a lot," he said one evening in early summer, returning from the gym after his daily superhero workout. "Forgive me."
Jacobs smokes at the office, at the table, in his bedroom, in the car on the way to and from exercising. He smokes and smokes Marlboro lights, and he talks and talks about working out at the gym, his favorite place lately. "The gym to me is like in 'A Chorus Line' it's the ballet," he said. "Everything is beautiful at the gym, everyone looks amazing. You just think it's like one big healthy circus going on out there: the bodies are great, people are jolly, and, even when they're complaining about how strenuous it is, there's, like, a kind of very good, positive, we're-all-doing-something-good-for-ourselves . . . And it's two and a half hours that I'm not smoking." He took a drag of his cigarette. "I am a true addict in that whatever makes me feel good I want more of, whether it's good for me or not."
He wore a thick gold Rolex and a white shirt unbuttoned to his sternum, and he had carefully trimmed black stubble on his tan chest and his strong chin. He was sitting on one of two brown velvet settees he has in his living room, a grand space accented by a fluffy white life-size sculpture of a sheep (the work of Claude and François-Xavier Lalanne) and an astounding view of the Eiffel Tower. On the coffee table were silver bowls of sweet peas and peonies and green, unripe strawberries that were so expertly arranged they looked like jade carvings. When you are in the home of Marc Jacobs, every tabletop vista of purple glass and silver objet, every clever combination of exquisite furniture and costly sculpture is so refined that, despite the cigarette smoke wafting through the rooms, you get the sense that you are breathing rare and expensive bottled air.
Jacobs doesn't have a butler like Bruce Wayne's Alfred Pennyworth, but he does have a chef, Susan, a Californian with wild gray hair who was wearing red tights, red high-top sneakers, a white smock dress, and a flowered apron, and who kept bringing out plates of bacon-wrapped figs and very small vegetables. "Susan brightens up the grayest of days," Jacobs said, with a kind of wistful gratitude. He also has two bull terriers, who were upstairs in their crates that night, because, Jacobs said, if they were let out the barking and the chaos would be unending. (As it was, there was a lot of barking. Every ten minutes or so, Jacobs would call, "Daisy, it's O.K.!") He has selected dogs that require an unusual amount of attention.
From where he was sitting on the sofa, Jacobs could see works of art by Andy Warhol, Francis Picabia, Georges Braque, John Currin, Elizabeth Peyton, David Hockney, Ed Ruscha, and Richard Prince (with whom Jacobs collaborated on an extremely successful line of handbags). Jacobs collects art the way he lifts weights, the way he smokes: with great fervor. "All this is mine for the time being," he said. "Where it'll end up and who it'll go to, what other places it'll be, I don't know." He glanced at the paintings and drawings on the walls. "I don't think they're mine forever. They're just mine now."
Jacobs is well aware that he has shapeshifted from a withdrawn schlump in eyeglasses into something . . . special. "Somewhere along this nutrition-gym thing, I started to develop a sense of, I don't know, a sense of confidence," he said. For Bruce Banner, it was gamma rays; for Marc Jacobs, it was free weights. He went on, "All of a sudden, before I knew it, I started to say, Gee, I'm really happy with the work we've been doing. I'm really happy with the house I live in. I'm really happy with the way I look when I look at myself in the mirror. I spend hours in the bathroom now. I used to spend five minutes! But I like taking a shower. I like shampooing my hair. I like putting on moisturizer. I like wearing jewelry. All of these things I used to think, That's not for me. I'm on the floor picking up pins or I'm sketching all day, what does it matter what I look like? And then I discovered, you know what? It does matter. It makes me feel good. I get it! I went for a manicure and a pedicure this morning, and I understand when I look at my hands and they're not, like, scabby and bleeding—it's great!" He has made his home a museum and his body a work of art beautiful enough to reside there.
Jacobs has the word "perfect" tattooed on his right wrist. "Because I am a perfect being in a perfect world where everything that happens must be completely . . ." He let that thought go. "It was from something that I was studying at this rehab that I went to." Jacobs has been to rehab twice, once in 1999 and again in February, 2007, for alcohol and cocaine abuse. "It felt so right to me when I read it: that I have a choice. We all have a choice in how to look at things, and when things don't go the way I like I tend to think they're a problem. Well, you can look at something as a problem or look at it as a learning experience or an opportunity for growth or whatever. This idea that everything happens for a reason and is perfect and you will benefit from it even if you can't see the benefit—it's just a nicer ideal to subscribe to than 'Oh God, I've got all these problems and life is full of obstacles.' " Rubbing his finger over the word on his wrist, he said, "I put it there to remind me, for when I'm looking at myself and wishing that I could be stronger in this way or better at that thing, and I can just go No. I'm exactly how I need to be. So, perfect."
Earlier that day, he had been expressing these ideas—firmly—to his current boyfriend, a handsome Brazilian advertising executive named Lorenzo Martone. According to Jacobs, Martone was upset by the avid coverage that Jacobs's (and, consequently, Martone's) romantic life receives in tabloids and blogs. (On May 6th, the Web site Gawker ran a photograph of Jacobs and Martone, looking dashing in tuxedos, along with the post: "Trendy Wendy fashion designer Marc Jacobs escorted yet another new gentleman friend to last night's Metropolitan Museum Costume Institute Gala. . . . He could be another MySpace find, or some aspiring hanger-on who stumbled into one of the stores one day. . . . What a revolving door this man has! Keeping all the hookers, porn stars, and Mensa members straight—heh—can be difficult.") Jacobs told Martone to "man up" and not pay any attention to the stories.
Jacobs may think that all difficult things are opportunities rather than obstacles, but the truth is that being a tabloid star is not something that he finds particularly difficult. "There is definitely part of me that just loves the idea that I'm the headline—I do get some weird thrill out of that," he said. "I'm human. I love attention. Actors don't go onstage because they don't want attention. If you show your art, if you show your fashion, that's also a very human thing, and, in terms of contemporary life and the twenty-first-century fascination with personalities, I like that I get out of that fashion-designer box and become, I don't know, personality box or celebrity box. I love that! It's fun." Jacobs recently named an ostrich-skin handbag the BB, after a blogger named BryanBoy, who writes about him frequently.
Jacobs is a reality-television star without a reality-television show. His personal traumas and dramas are tracked by a wide audience, some of whom care that he is perhaps the most influential and talented American designer of his generation, and some of whom are interested in him exactly the same way they are interested in the characters on "The Real Housewives of Orange County." Jacobs's vision has transformed the luxury-goods market—you can feel the reverberations of his early inspiration that a sloppy flannel shirt could be rendered in fine silk, that the low could be high, and that streetwear could be fashion, in everything from the advent of the now ubiquitous two-hundred-dollar pair of jeans to the frayed hems and distressed elbows on the jackets that Karl Lagerfeld has designed for Chanel in recent seasons. "Marc is a great, great designer—his talent is stronger than it's ever been before—but he also has a very acute sense of how to deal with the media, how to use the media," Anna Wintour, the editor-in-chief of Vogue, said. "If you look at the kind of women he's drawn to, whether it's Sofia Coppola or Lindsay Lohan, he always taps into them at exactly the right time. To be honest, I don't think Marc would be in the press the way he is if he didn't want to be."
Of an item that ran in Page Six, Jacobs said, with outrage and delight, "Last Tuesday, they had me making out with my ex-boyfriend Jason Preston at Pastis and bad-mouthing someone I went out with for four days. Well, first of all, I did not bad-mouth the person I went out with for four days, second of all I was not getting back together with Jason Preston, and, fourth—or first!—of all, I wasn't even in the city of New York on that Saturday! I was in Paris, France. My current boyfriend said, 'Marc, you know I don't believe it, but so many people have asked me about it.' I was, like, 'You put me on a plane Friday night! How can you be listening to this?' " Last month, Page Six misreported that Jacobs had married Martone.
Jacobs walked outside to the back garden, to take in the evening amid the boxwood. "I like the fact that people are sort of commenting on my appearance," he said. "I work on these things! So to have them recognized, even if sometimes I don't like the way they're recognized, I like that they are, and I feel good that I can admit that, instead of being ashamed." He paused. "I'm going to get a 'shameless' tattoo next," he said, the Eiffel Tower sparkling behind him in the night sky. "That's what I think everyone should aspire to in life: being shameless."
A few days later, Jacobs was in his fashion-designer box, sitting in a stuffy conference room (smoking) at the Vuitton headquarters, on the Rue du Pont Neuf. He was listening to Madonna on the stereo and going through fabrics with several members of his staff, in search of the prints and textures they would use to design the Spring, 2009, collection. "Gross, gross, gross," Aisling Ludden, an outgoing Irishwoman in patent-leather peep-toe pumps, who has worked with Jacobs for eight years, said. They were looking at a fuzzy purple fabric with a geometric pattern. "That's a horror, isn't it?" They moved on to a cream-colored silk embroidered with little tree branches.
"It's always tough at the beginning," Jacobs said. "We all want to be responsible in terms of not overbuying fabric. But it's kind of unavoidable, because we have to get started, and there are deadlines, and the thing is, it's often not the first thing you respond to that you care as much about in the end. But you kind of can't get to point Z without going from A to Y." It's only in movies that fashion designers think, Eureka! This season, Eskimos, or whatever it is. In actuality, a collection comes together in fits and starts, and there's no guarantee that it will come together at all. Even when Jacobs's work overtly reflects his current obsessions—as in the early grunge collection he made while he was besotted with Nirvana and Hole, or his Spring, 2008, collaboration with Richard Prince, in which models dressed as the eerily erotic nurses that Prince likes to paint (Jacobs owns several of Prince's paintings)—the concept congeals incrementally.
"That's a crazy one," Jacobs said, flipping through a book of sequinned netting samples. "A couple of crazies. I think we've gone down this road before—"
"Get rid of it!" Ludden shouted.
"And I don't think it ever goes really far."
Madonna was singing "Ticktock, ticktock." Jacobs sighed. "Sometimes I think other people have this ability to do it differently and know exactly what they want to do and say," he said. "The way my mind works is somebody else has got this so down that they don't make mistakes and their process is so much more linear than mine. I'll think that, but, at some point, you know what? This is my process and I don't know how to do it any other way." He didn't stop and look at his "perfect" tattoo, but, of course, he knew it was there. "I'm sure there are people who can't afford—who don't have the luxury of being quite as organic as we are," he went on. "We work up until the last minute." As a result of this tendency to work until the bitter end—and past it—Jacobs's Fall, 2007, show in New York started two hours late, prompting the critic Suzy Menkes to say, "I would like to murder him with my bare hands and never see another Marc Jacobs show as long as I live."
"Are you going to the gym today?" Jacobs asked Joseph Carter, the head of womenswear for the Marc Jacobs Collection.
Jacobs's assistant came in and told him that Angel was there to see him. People looked at one another in a funny way. A few moments later, a very beautiful, very tall young woman wearing an enormous hat made of feathers, many strands of pearls, a four-tiered black lace skirt, and hot-pink satin high-heeled shoes came into the room. "I bring something for you!" she said triumphantly, and thrust a bottle labelled "Tokaji aszú" at Jacobs.
"Oh," Jacobs said. "Is that alcohol?"
"Ees sweet wine!" Angel replied.
"Mmm. Thank you. I don't drink, but I'll serve it to my guests."
Angel was led away to change into a dress. "That's a girl who goes to my gym and she wants to be a model," Jacobs said, "so I told her she could come by and I'd take her measurements. You should see what she wears to the gym—you know, outfits. Spandex and stretch tulle."
Angel came back and Jacobs asked her to show him her walk. She marched down the hallway in a dramatic fashion. "Perfect," Jacobs said.
"Yeah," Jacobs told her. "That's it. Come spend a few minutes with me and then I have to get back to work." He led her into his office, which is wallpapered with pictures of pills on a brown background (a gift from Damien Hirst), and closed the door.
"That's a particular case," Ludden said. "She's really invaded his personal space." Ludden smiled. "That's very Marc—he's definitely always got one eye on the underdog. If there's a bunch of people in a room, Marc will pay attention to the sadster."
Jacobs gave Angel a good fifteen minutes, returned, and lighted a cigarette. "Every girl in the world wants to be a model."
"Was that outfit a joke?" Ludden asked. "Like, is this a reality-TV-show trick, do you think?"
Jacobs laughed. "If you think that was weird, you should've been in there," he said, exhaling smoke in the direction of his office. "I am definitely going to the gym today."
Superheroes tend to be orphans of sorts, and Marc Jacobs is no exception. His father, an agent at the William Morris agency in New York, died when Jacobs was seven. His mother is still alive, but he doesn't see her. "I haven't spoken to her or my sister and brother in years and years," he told me. "I never feel like it's a bad thing. I mean, my mom's very, very sick—mentally ill. She didn't really take care of her kids."
Jacobs was brought up by his paternal grandmother, in an apartment at Seventy-second Street and Central Park West. "She had a very bad relationship with her sister, whom I never knew, but I guess there was some argument and they never spoke again," he said. "Whenever I would mention something about my family, my grandmother would bring up the story of her sister and she would say, 'We haven't spoken in years, so you'll get no argument from me.' "
When Jacobs was in his teens, and a student at the High School of Art and Design, he would go to Studio 54 all night, sometimes bringing his books along so he could go straight to class in the morning. "I had a ball," he said. "I mean, I really did." He went to France for the first time at seventeen, and "cried like a baby" on the plane home, because he felt so sure that he was meant to be a Parisian. "Living with my grandmother, I just kind of grew up feeling like I'm not going to be obliged to spend Thanksgiving with a bunch of people I didn't like—or who didn't like me! I shouldn't do anything, or shouldn't feel anything. I either do feel or I don't feel. I'm not going to should feel. Whether we're talking about contemporary art or we're talking about family, pretending that I feel something I don't feel doesn't really achieve anything. People say, What if something happened to one of them? Well, if that happens and I regret that, that'll be the way it is. But right now it's not something I'm regretting, so I can't act on that." When Jacobs says that people should be shameless, he is talking about something more than exhibitionism. He seeks a kind of relentless authenticity.
His grandmother died in 1987, but in his adult life Jacobs has had another guardian: Robert Duffy, a tall, tanned, silver-haired man of fifty-three, who has been Jacobs's best friend and his business partner for twenty-four years. When he was thirty, Duffy, the son of a steel executive, wanted to go into business with a young designer. Jacobs was attending Parsons School of Design, and Duffy went to see the fashion show he put on for his graduation. "These three sweaters came out that were just like the most awkward proportions and shapes and colors, and they just looked so right on those girls," Duffy told me. "There was nothing intimidating about the clothes—I found them very friendly, and I still to this day do. He's never lost that childlike quality that he has in him when he's designing, and it's just something that I love the consistency of. Wherever his influences come from, whatever it is, I can always tell if he's had a hand in something." Duffy has "1984" tattooed on his right hand, in honor of the year that he and Jacobs formed their partnership.
Every year, Duffy travels to Asia to visit the Marc Jacobs stores there—forty-six in Japan, seventeen in China, sixteen in Korea, ten in Taiwan, eight in Hong Kong, four in Malaysia, three in Singapore and in Thailand, two in the Philippines, one each in Vietnam and Indonesia, and another about to open in Macau. The day before he was to leave on this year's trip, Duffy was sitting at a table in the Marc Jacobs office in Manhattan, where he works with Jacobs for about five weeks before every show, when Jacobs is in town. "That's our desk," Duffy said, pointing across the room at two desks, back to back, in front of the windowsill, where the seven Council of Fashion Designers of America award trophies that Jacobs has won stand in a row. "Mine's the left side and his is the right side, but when I used to work over there"—Duffy pointed to the left side—"he used to work over there, too. So then the whole desk became his. So I moved over here." Duffy pointed to his seat at the table. "So now he sits where you're sitting"—across the table from Duffy. "It's horrible! I'll have all my papers and my notes and my margins and my, you know, audits and my shit on the table and I'll come back and there'll be spinach on my audit. Or he'll take this thing that says 'confidential' and all of a sudden he'll flip it over and start sketching things, and I'm, like, where's that confidential audit that no one's supposed to be touching or looking at? And then I'll find it months later in the design studio."
Duffy says that his relationship with Jacobs has been one of the few constants in Jacobs's life during the past two and a half decades, and, in spite of that—or because of it—he is never surprised by Jacobs. "When he decided, or we decided, or originally I decided, to get him clean and sober, I got him to a doctor and I got him to a nutritionist, and so his body started changing, and he started taking an interest in his health. He started morphing into this person that he always sort of didn't ever want to be. He always took a certain pride in being an outsider and sort of chubby and nerdy and wearing glasses, having awkward muses and friends and things." Before Victoria Beckham, Jacobs's ads starred women with more obvious glamour, like Jennifer Jason Leigh and Winona Ryder.
"People were reacting to him very differently, in a way that I don't think he ever thought he would like," Duffy continued. "That just led to his fascination with celebrities, and he started watching these reality shows that I've never watched in my life, and then he started dating Jason, the call boy—a self-promoter." It was the exposure moment, and Duffy said he never doubted that it would "play itself out." Leaning against a wall near the windowsill was a framed cartoon of a woman selling her soul to the Devil for tickets to a Marc Jacobs show.
"Marc becomes enchanted with certain things at certain times," Duffy said. He watched Jacobs's interest in art, for instance, flower into a penchant for collecting (which has at times necessitated borrowing large sums of money). "He was buying art until I was, like, 'Marc, stop! You've got to pay your taxes!' " Duffy predicts that this particular passion will persist, but that it has peaked. "He took it from collecting personally to getting artists to work at Louis Vuitton," Duffy said. "He made what he was doing personally a trend, a cultural thing." Then, there was the matter of the bull terriers. "When he wanted to get a dog, it was, like, 'Oh God, we've got to get two, and they've got to be bull terriers, and they've got to be crazy and they have to be brought into the office every day.' " Jacobs has tattooed likenesses of both his dogs on different parts of his body.
"I'm terrified of the day that he decides he wants to start gardening," Duffy said. "Because we'll have, like, Central Park in here or something." He was happy that Jacobs seemed to be finally—if impermanently—content. "You never know what's going to trigger something," he said. "He's hypersensitive, and so insecure. About his talent he's so insecure."
It's fun to watch people turn into pictures. You start out with a short, frizzy-haired woman in a pants suit and high-heeled boots, but then she lights a cigarette and makes a grouchy smirk, the flash explodes, and, voilà: Fran Lebowitz.
On the evening of the Council of Fashion Designers of America awards gala, at the New York Public Library, the little courtyard in front was crawling with beautiful women making faces, and assuming poses not found in nature, for the cameras clicking all around them. The exception was Victoria Beckham, who was wearing a pouf of a dress made from hundreds of heart-shaped pieces of fabric (by her date, Marc Jacobs), and who always looks as if she's having her picture taken, no matter what she's doing. Hebrew lettering was tattooed down her long, lean neck. "It's in Jewish," she said. "My husband's part Jewish."
Jacobs walked toward the library entrance with Harvey Weinstein and his wife, the fashion designer Georgina Chapman. "That Murakami thing!" Weinstein barked.
"Oh, it was great!" Jacobs said, smoking.
"It's ridiculous!" Weinstein shouted. "You made him! Ridiculous!"
"That's a great color on you," Jacobs told Chapman, who was wearing a dark-crimson gown. "No, it really is."
"I designed it," Weinstein joked, pawing at his wife's shoulder.
"Oh, he does everything!" Jacobs retorted. "I want to be you when I grow up, Harvey."
"You stole all your ideas from me," Weinstein said.
"What?" Jacobs asked.
"I'm kidding! I'm kidding!"
Jacobs had been nominated for the accessories and womenswear-designer-of-the-year awards, but he won neither. At his table, after the ceremony, he stayed on his BlackBerry, text-messaging Martone, while Victoria Beckham, Robert Duffy, the hip-hop star Lil' Kim, the comedian Amy Poehler, and their dates attempted to have a conversation. After an appetizer of tiny turnips was cleared away, Poehler got up to say hello to other people she knew, and when she returned she found that the entire table had evacuated, before the main course had even arrived. "Are they afraid of food?" she asked.
Jacobs said later that he and his celebrity entourage had gone to meet David Beckham at Nobu. "It's been years since I've wanted to go to the C.F.D.A. awards," he said. "I feel a bit obliged, and, again, when I go against what I feel and do what I'm obliged to do, I'm always unhappy." Victoria Beckham had given a little speech about Jacobs during the awards presentation, in which she remarked that, from season to season, Jacobs's collections tend to be "diametrically opposed, yet completely signature." It was perhaps the only element of the evening that pleased him.
"I love frogs," he told me. "This sort of fairy-tale frog that became a prince, and the chameleon who changes colors with his environment. 'Zelig' is my favorite film. I understand that. I can hang out in a sports bar with a bunch of straight guys and say 'Go, Knicks' and I can run around in the art scene and I can also be at the Met ball and be Mr. Fashion Designer with Anna Wintour. I can go wherever I want; I can be whatever I choose." This, in the end, is Marc Jacobs's superpower: "I can change colors—for my own amusement and, perhaps, the entertainment of others." ♦


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This is a modular home 3 bedroom 2 baths with an attached garage, with an apartment above garage. The apartment 2 bedroom 1 bath. Flour is weak in apartment and sags to middle, floor Joyce is 14' span and is only 2"x 7" and spongy, I beam is sagging and has a hole drilled thought it and a 220 electric wire running through it. Stairs to apartment are not supported. Bathroom & kitchen are not connected to I beam. House laminate floors installedwrong needs a lot of plaster work, counter tops installed wrong non of seams match.Chimney major crack from top to bottom. Major mouse people at one time, electrical problems from the mice through out house apartment and garage. Sewer slow and clogs easily, sewer lines don't have enough slope to drain right some of main sewer lines slope up not down. Bathroom need remodeled matter shower drain not attached to sewer, bathtub old cracked and leaks, apartment bath tub is cracked moldy built into a wall that looks like it was once a closet,all fixtures need relaxed. Basement block walks have cracks completely through blocks, basement floor is not level it's wavy like a lake. Outside the turn around is not on 1292's property it's on the neighbors, the corner of driveway at road is on property line. This is a 3 bedroom house with a apartment that was a one bedroom with a nice size living room that was converted to 2nd bedroom rather sloppy and 1 bath. Looks like home owners tried to do the interior and had no carpentry experience.See this property: 1292 COFFEE RUN ROAD, PULASKI, PA
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With pleasant spring evenings arriving, many people may be thinking of buying a telescope. There's a lot of bad advice out there; here are some samples, counterbalanced with the facts.
Myth: Magnification is a good way to judge a telescope
Reality: Any telescope that has interchangeable eyepieces can produce any magnification. The useful magnification on a telescope is much more limited, and depends on the size of the telescope's aperture (diameter of lens, mirror, or corrector plate). A telescope with 60mm aperture has a range of useful magnifications from about 12x to 120x, no matter what the advertising on the box may say. And a larger telescope, such as an 8" reflector, will have a larger, but still limited range, 40x to 300x. Unless you live in a place with very stable air, such as Florida, 300x will be your upper limit on magnification no matter how big your telescope is.
The best way to compare telescopes is by their aperture. By and large, a telescope with a larger aperture will outperform a telescope with a smaller aperture on every kind of object. The main counterbalancing factors are size, weight and cost. If a telescope is too large to be set up conveniently, it won't be used as often as a smaller, more convenient scope.
Myth: Refractors are better than reflectors for planetary observation
Reality: Like many myths, there's a kernel of truth in this one. For a given aperture, a refractor, with its unobstructed aperture, will have better contrast than a reflector, because of the scattering of light caused by having a secondary mirror in the light path. However, this breaks down when faced with the realities of economics and mechanics. An 8" reflector or Schmidt-Cassegrain costs $360 to $2100 and weighs 40 to 75 pounds, complete, and is easily transported in a small car. An 8" refractor costs at least $3500 for the optical tube alone. The tube is eight feet long and would weigh 40 pounds, requiring a mount that costs at least as much as the tube and a permanent observatory to house it in.
Myth: Smaller apertures show more than larger ones when the seeing is poor
Reality: On many occasions I've masked my telescopes down under marginal seeing conditions in the hopes of improving their image, but never have I noticed any improvement. All it does is make the image dimmer and reduce the amount of detail visible.
Myth: Smaller apertures work better than large ones under light polluted skies
Reality: I lived for many years in a big city, and never once was I tempted to use anything other than my largest telescope for all kinds of observing. If light pollution reduces what your naked eye sees by three magnitudes, it will also reduce what your telescope sees by exactly the same amount, three magnitudes.
Myth: Faster scopes are better at showing faint objects than slower scopes
Reality: This myth comes from people who are knowledgeable about photography, where "faster" lenses gather more light than "slower" lenses. In telescopes used visually, the focal ratio is irrelevant in terms of how bright the image will appear at a given magnification. Short focal ratios (f/4 to f/6) are generally preferred because they make the scope more compact and allow a wider field of view, while long focal ratios (f/8 to f/15) are preferred because they provide higher magnifications with relatively simple and inexpensive eyepieces. Objects are equally bright in either scope, given identical magnifications.
Myth: I don't want a Dobsonian: it doesn't look like a real telescope
Reality: Despite the fact that the Dobsonian design offers the most "bang for the buck" in any telescope size, some people seem to be turned off by its looks. It doesn't have a lens at the top of the tube, and the mount looks more like a cannon than a precision instrument.
But, take a look at any modern research telescope, such as the Subaru on Mauna Kea:
That sure looks more like my Dob than like my grandfather's refractor!
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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 118 diseños de 29 diseñadores freelance.
I'm looking for a logo that will complement my business name and sum up my business philosophy at a glance.
Candela Sales & Marketing
I've recently started a new business and need the right logo - it's just that simple.
Profile - Me: Self starter that understands how to create opportunity, make sales, solve problems, and present solutions.
Profile - Business: A reflection of myself, CS&M will target the aftermarket automotive sector - performance parts, consumer electronics, technology items, etc. The services I offer vary from conception and writing of sales programs, developing website content, newsletter creation, HTML marketing, etc. My client list will be made up of vendors, mfr. sales representatives, distributors, and retailers. I will use my 20 year history in the aftermarket automotive business to deliver results to my clients.
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Chinese military websites experienced a barrage of hacking probes originating in the US during 2012, the Chinese military has said in a statement designed to remind the world that it can also be a victim of cyberattacks.
According to a Defence Ministry spokesman Geng Yansheng, two key Chinese state websites were attacked by hackers an average of 144,000 times per month last year, with 62.9 percent of this activity originating from IP addresses in the US.
Yansheng noted that the US had recently announced an expansion of its cyberwarfare capabilities, including a willingness to consider pre-empt attacks.
Whatever the rights and wrongs of the US v China cyberhacking debate, Washington is winning the propaganda war for now, not helped by China's insistence on publishing its arguments in the Chinese language at press conferences foreign reporters are reportedly not invited to attend.
"Chinese law forbids hacker attacks that undermine Internet security," Gansheng said in a statement now being quoted from a translation run through Google.
"The Chinese government has always resolutely combated criminal activities [and] the Chinese army has never supported any hacker activity," he said.
"The above practices [US cyberwarfare] are not conducive to the joint efforts of the international community to enhance network security. We hope that the United States [must] explain and clarify."
The statement is not the first the Chinese have made as they attempt to balance the repeated and increasingly detailed claims of alleged Chinese industrial-level hacking of US and foreign organisations.
Recently these have centred around a report by US security consultancy Mandiant that offered unprecedented detail on the organised nature of China's hacking against the US in particular.
Earlier this week it was claimed that the Chinese had attempted to hack Eurofighter maker EADS and a German steel maker, the latest in a growing list of cyber-grievances aired against the country's activities.


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Americans are starting to feel the pinch of the sequestration budget cuts. From canceled White House tours to employee furloughs, the cuts haven't gone unnoticed.
So it may come as a shock that the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service found that the federal government spent $3.7 million on former presidents last year.
The bill includes pension, compensation and benefits for office staff, travel, office space, and even postage. George W. Bush was found to be the costliest former president, receiving one third of the total bill. George W. Bush costs just over $1.3 million; spending $400,000 on 8,000 square feet of office space and $82,000 on phone calls.
Bill Clinton was runner up with a cost of just under $1 million. George H.W. Bush came in third at $850,000.
So together, the men of the Bush family cost our country around $2.15 million last year.


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Denver, Colo., Nov 1, 2012 / 12:02 pm (CNA).- The Catholic bishops of Denver have called on Catholics across the U.S. to pray for the country ahead of the Nov. 6 elections, encouraging parishes in their archdiocese to organize rosaries and holy hours.
"As Americans we have a civic responsibility to vote and to participate in the political process," Archbishop Samuel Aquila of Denver said Oct. 30.
"As Catholics, we have a moral duty to vote with an informed conscience, and to pray for wisdom and guidance as we head to the voting booth."
Denver's Cathedral Basilica of the Immaculate Conception will expose the Blessed Sacrament for Eucharistic Adoration on Nov. 6 from 7:30 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. and from 4:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Archbishop Aquila asked Catholics to join him "in praying for our great nation" beginning this weekend.
"Let us ask God to bless us with the courage to live in the truth, and for leaders who are dedicated to protecting the rights of the unborn and religious liberty," he said.Bishop James Conley, the outgoing auxiliary bishop of Denver who will soon become head of the Diocese of Lincoln, Neb., also asked for prayers.
The Archdiocese of Denver is encouraging everyone to pray Cardinal Francis Spellman's mid-20th century "Prayer for America."
It asks God to bless the country "with a valiant, Godly spirit, with a vision to see, with the courage to try, with he power to achieve, that, marching behind Thee, Thy people shall not perish."
"God, bless our America! Hear our prayer for our united peoples, grant guidance to our leaders, protection to our sons, and teach each of us Thy way of life in good will and peace," the prayer concludes.


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11/05/2009 (09:30PM - 10:00PM) (Thursday) : SCHEMING ENSUES ON AUDITION DAY WHEN EVERYONE IS OUT TO GET THE ACTOR OF THEIR CHOICE HIRED. BRIAN WILLIAMS GUEST STARS
While Liz (Tina Fey) and Pete (Scott Adsit) try to rig the audition process, Tracy (Tracy Morgan) and Jenna (Jane Krakowski) decide it's in their best interest to conduct their own search for a new "TGS" actor. Amidst the audition chaos, Jack (Alec Baldwin) faces a more personal issue. Jack McBrayer, Judah Friedlander and Keith Powell also star.


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ICC Women's World Cup: India start campaign with convincing win
Mumbai - Thirush Kamini's 100 off 146 balls helped India defeat the West Indies by 105 runs in the opening game of the ICC Women's World Cup at Brabourne Stadium here Thursday.
Put in to bat, India posted a massive score of 284 for six, largely owing to the 175-run stand between Kamini and Poonam Raut (72) for the first wicket.
In reply, the West Indies lost wickets at regular intervals and were bowled out for 179 in 44.3 overs.
Indian bowlers bowled in good areas and extracted movement off the pitch and in the air.
Nagarajan Niranjana picked up three for 52 but it was the opening spell of new ball bowlers Jhulan Goswami (2-13) and Amita Sharma (1-28) that put the team from the Caribbean on the backfoot.
Earlier, after a brilliant start by Kamini and Raut, Goswami smashed her way to 36 off 21 balls. It was the impetus the hosts needed as the lanky all-rounder hit six fours in a blitzkrieg off an innings.
Harmanpreet Kaur (36) too played a good hand as India went on to post a big score.
The West Indies batters were in trouble from the outset, finding it hard to play the moving ball.
Deandra Dottin's 39 off 16 balls was the only bright spot for an otherwise poor batting performance.
Brief Scores:
India: 284 for six in 50 overs (Thirush Kamini 100, Poonam Raut 71, Jhulan Goswami 36, Harmanpreet Kaur 36; Deandra Dottin 3-32) vs West Indies: 179 all out in 44.3 overs (Deandra Dottin 39, Shanel Daley 28, Shemaine Campbelle 21; Nagarajan Niranjana 3-52, Jhulan Goswami 2-13, Gouher Sultana 2-38)


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Resilient Tanaka wins big league debut
TORONTO -- The third pitch of Masahiro Tanaka's career in the Major Leagues came to rest somewhere behind the 375-foot marker painted on the right-center-field wall at Rogers Centre, and the debuting rookie placed his right hand on his hip, kicking at the mound.
He was nervous, Tanaka would admit later, sensing something like what he felt while preparing for last year's Japan Series. And as he did then, Tanaka was able to settle those emotions and give his new team a winning outing on Friday, pitching the Yankees to a 7-3 victory over the Blue Jays.View Full Game Coverage
TORONTO -- The third pitch of Masahiro Tanaka's career in the Major Leagues came to rest somewhere behind the 375-foot marker painted on the right-center-field wall at Rogers Centre, and the debuting rookie placed his right hand on his hip, kicking at the mound.
He was nervous, Tanaka would admit later, sensing something like what he felt while preparing for last year's Japan Series. And as he did then, Tanaka was able to settle those emotions and give his new team a winning outing on Friday, pitching the Yankees to a 7-3 victory over the Blue Jays.View Full Game Coverage
Tanaka, the Yankees' $155 million prize, bounced back from serving up Melky Cabrera's leadoff homer and a pair of second-inning runs to retire 16 of the last 18 batters he faced in a seven-inning performance, striking out eight without a walk.
"I was missing some spots earlier in the game, but as the game progressed, I think I was getting better out there," Tanaka said through an interpreter. "Obviously I'm happy. I think No. 1 is that I'm relieved."
The expectations and scrutiny are sky high for Tanaka, 25, who spun last year's 24-0 record and 1.27 ERA for the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles into a seven-year contract with the Bombers.
Yankees manager Joe Girardi was peppered with questions about Tanaka since the first moments of the exhibition season, and with Friday's game being beamed to a worldwide audience, Girardi believes Tanaka is handling the blinding spotlight with aplomb.
"I think it's really impressive," Girardi said. "You think about what he's had to deal with all Spring Training, the attention that's been on him. The covers of magazines. Everywhere he goes, people want to know when's he pitching. That started Feb. 14. I think he's handled it great."
Jacoby Ellsbury paced the Yankees' offense with three hits, two runs scored, a walk and a pair of stolen bases, as New York thumped Toronto right-hander Dustin McGowan for four runs and eight hits in 2 2/3 innings.
Carlos Beltran and Mark Teixeira knocked first-inning RBI singles to provide Tanaka with instant support. That lead was halved when Tanaka hung an 83-mph splitter over the plate to Cabrera.
"It was my mistake," Tanaka said. "I thought that Cabrera took a really good swing at it."
Toronto claimed a 3-2 lead in the second inning, a frame prolonged by first baseman Teixeira's throwing error on a Ryan Goins grounder and set up Jonathan Diaz's two-run single on a hard ground ball to left field.
The Yankees lost Teixeira's services in the second inning to a strained right hamstring, putting a damper on the occasion, but they were encouraged when Tanaka struck out the final two batters in the inning and returned as a different pitcher.
From that point, Tanaka limited Toronto to two hits -- including Edwin Encarnacion's generous infield single in the sixth, which could have been ruled an error after it smacked off the glove of third baseman Yangervis Solarte.
"It was good that I increased the numbers of fastballs after two innings," Tanaka said. "I think that was good for me."
Yankees pitching coach Larry Rothschild said that Tanaka's breaking pitches were not as consistent as they were at times this spring, but Tanaka showed the ability to battle. The hanging splitter to Cabrera was a wake-up call, Rothschild said.
"It wasn't a great pitch, but in the long run it probably helped because he got going right away, got the concentration going," Rothschild said. "It's not really the initiation you want, but he did great anyway."
Girardi said that he viewed Tanaka's ability to recover as a sign of maturity, and Blue Jays manager John Gibbons said that he was sold on the hype that had flowed out of Yankees camp all spring.
"He's the real deal," Gibbons said. "He made a few mistakes and we capitalized on them, and those are the balls you have to hit. But he's strong, he stayed in the game, and when they gave him the lead back he kicked it in pretty good."
With Tanaka spinning zeros, New York pulled ahead in the third inning when Girardi challenged a call at first base. The overturned call allowed Ichiro to remain on the basepaths with two outs and Brian Roberts at third; Solarte followed with a two-run double that put the Yankees ahead to stay.
By that time, the Blue Jays were chatting in their dugout about the possibility that McGowan was tipping his pitches. McGowan acknowledged that he was setting in different spots on different pitches.
"I have to fix that tipping thing for sure," McGowan said, "because even I noticed after the first inning they were putting good swings on every pitch I threw. I knew something was wrong from the get-go."
Brian McCann added a fourth-inning RBI single off Aaron Loup and Brett Gardner punched a RBI single in the eighth off Brett Cecil, padding the Yankees' advantage and allowing Tanaka to feel more confident about his chances of a victory.
Tanaka's first big league win also marked another milestone; his 100th victory in professional ball, having gone 99-35 in the Japanese Pacific League. Tanaka has now won 29 consecutive decisions dating back to 2012, and he said that his ability to settle down stems from his surroundings.
"I think it comes from what I've experienced as a baseball player throughout the years," Tanaka said. "My teammates really backed me up today."
Bryan Hoch is a reporter for MLB.com. Follow him on Twitter @bryanhoch and read his MLBlog, Bombers Beat.


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When Peaches Geldof was recently snapped during a drunken (and god knows what else) one night stand, she was quite clearly identified by the tattoos on her body.
Peaches has quite a few tattoos and of course the rather distinctive long flower up her torso.
Peaches is of course still a young girl – I wonder if she will grow to regret any of her adornments?
So I was thinking ladies – what do most of you think of tattoos?
Personally, a few years ago I would have told you I didn't like tattoos and that most looked tacky.
Although, to be fair most people I knew did have tweety pie etched on their breasts and Chinese characters that meant nothing on their bellies.
As I've got older, I am thinking that I will want to experience the actual process of getting a tattoo before I die and certainly, if something comes up in the future that I feel strongly about, it could be a reason for getting one done.
For me, personally, I wouldn't get a tattoo just for fashion reasons because its not worth the ear ache from my mother.
So now, I want to know –
Are you someone who would never ever have a tattoo done?
Or would you consider it if the design and time was right?
Or do you think your body is there for you to decorate as you please?
What tattoos do you have?


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Halloween is approaching, and maybe you plan to run a race in costume, or at least put in some extra miles to run off those candy calories. In honor of the holiday, today's column features a grab bag of tricks and treats, some of what is good and what is not so good regarding running and runners. Enjoy, and yes, hauling your young children around in a wagon for trick-or-treat does count as strength training.
Treat. Chocolate is pretty great, and is one of the reasons trick-or-treat is so popular; it tastes delicious and you feel good after eating it. Running is also great, and many runners experience a sense of calm and optimism at a certain point during or after a long run, known as a 'runner's high.' It turns out that eating chocolate and a runner's high are related, and both center on the chemical anandamide, sometimes referred to as the 'bliss' molecule. Anandamide is defined as a naturally occurring cannabinoid compound of the mammal brain which is released in response to pain, and is also found in small amounts in cocoa. A 2004 study published in the journal Neuroreport found very high levels of this compound in runners and cyclists who had exercised at 70-80% heart rate for 45 minutes. Researchers believe that the physical stress of exercise activated the compound and suggested that exercise such as running might also play a role in reducing chronic pain in some individuals. Just in case you needed any more reasons to run or eat chocolate.
Trick. Dear faster runner, you finished the race five, ten or however many minutes ago, which is great. Unlike many runners who count the second loop around the food table as a cool-down, you plan a cool down run after the race, which is admirable. But, for whatever reason, be it lack of knowledge of the area or lack of imagination, you have decided to run the race course in the opposite direction for your cool-down, passing many other runners who are still on the course, still making their way to the finish. You might also gamely shout 'you're almost there' to encourage these runners who haven't finished yet and perhaps have been glared at in response. Here's why: every one of those runners would also like to be done with the race, and even though they are slower, they are also giving everything they can to make it to the finish. So please, be considerate of their suffering and run your cool down in a different direction.
Treat. This gives new meaning to the phrase 'move it or lose it.' According to an Oct. 23 study published in the medical journal Neurology, exercise may protect your brain from age-related brain shrinking better than engaging in mental or social activities. The study performed MRI scans on 638 individuals at age 73, then again at age 76. Those individuals who reported participating in more physical activity experienced less brain shrinkage than those who reported minimal exercise. The study did not show any real benefit to participating in mental or social activities as far as brain shrinkage was concerned. But just in case, planning a group run will safely cover all bases.
Trick. In some circles, there seems to be a longing for the good old days of running. Back then only the most disciplined and toughest were runners, racking up 75 to 100 miles a week, and running races that were so small, popsicle sticks were given out at the end to indicate finish positions. Like viewing most things through rose-colored glasses, we can easily forget what wasn't so good about the old days, such as women not being allowed to race long distances. Running has changed, and races have become much more inclusive and open to anyone willing to pin on a bib and give it a try. Overall, this is a good thing, particularly in this age of obesity-related health problems. It's true that some races around the country have become huge and resemble more of a party than a race, but you can still find plenty of smaller races where competition is the main focus. And unlike the 'good' old days, now for both men and women, wherever you are in the pack and whatever your motivation is to run, there's room for you as well.
Running Notes
A short drive brings you to the Fall Challenge 5K at YMCA Camp Lincoln in Kingston on Nov. 3 and on Nov. 4, the All Women and One Lucky Guy Half Marathon in Newburyport, Mass., the Cider Mash 5K Orchard Run in Amesbury, Mass., and the Noble Youth Soccer 5K in Berwick, Maine.
Nancy Eckerson writes about running for Foster's Sunday Citizen. You can reach her at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Nancy Eckerson: A few tricks and treats for runners
Halloween is approaching, and maybe you plan to run a race in costume, or at least put in some extra miles to run off those candy calories. In honor of the holiday, today's column features a grab bag of tricks and treats, some of what is good and what is not so good regarding running and runners. Enjoy, and yes, hauling your young children around in a wagon for trick-or-treat does count as strength training.


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This topology combines the function of Linux Directors and Real Servers into the same hosts, so that high availability and load balancing can be achived with just two nodes. For a more detailed explanation of the function of each component please see the overview.
The documentation that follows assumes that all nodes on the network are set up with correct interfaces and routes for each network they are connected to as per the diagram above
The servers should be configured to run the underlying services for the virtual services. For instance, an HTTP daemon, such as Apache should be configured on each server if an HTTP virtual service has been set up. In addition the the request URLs as specified in /etc/ha.d/ldirectord.cf should be present and contain the receive string.
The servers need to be configured to see traffic for the virtual addresses in 192.168.6.240 as local, even if they are not acting ast the linux director. This can be done by making use of an IP alias on the loopback device.
The file /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-lo:0 configures the lo:0 interface, an example follows:
DEVICE=lo:0 IPADDR=192.168.6.240 NETMASK=255.255.255.255 NETWORK=192.168.0.0 BROADCAST=192.168.0.255 ONBOOT=yes NAME=loopback
To avoid unnecessary warnings you should ensure that the gateway device is set to the ethernet interface. The following line from /etc/sysconfig/network sets the gateway device to eth0.
GATEWAYDEV=eth0To bring up the IP alias the ifup command is used:
/sbin/ifup lo
The lo:0 interface can be configured by adding an entry to /etc/network/interfaces, an example showing the lo and lo:0 interfaces follows.
auto lo iface lo inet loopback auto lo:0 iface lo:0 inet static address 192.168.6.240 netmask 255.255.255.255 up sysctl -p > /dev/nullTo bring up the IP alias the ifup command is used:
/sbin/ifup lo:0
/sbin/ifconfig lo:0 Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:192.168.0.0 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3924 Metric:1Note: The netmask of 255.255.255.255 on the lo:0 interface indicates that this interface will only accept traffic 192.168.6.240.
To ensure that the loopback device does not answer ARP requests the interface should be made hidden. This is done by adding the following lines to /etc/sysctl.conf.
# Enable configuration of hidden devices net.ipv4.conf.all.hidden = 1 # Make the loopback device hidden net.ipv4.conf.lo.hidden = 1For these changes to take effect the sysctl may be used:
/sbin/sysctl -p
Due the the ordering of boot-up on Debian and supported versions of Red Hat and Fedora sysctl is called before interfaces are brought up. This means that entries in /etc/sysctl.conf that act on the loopback interface will not take effect and interfaces will not be hidden on reboot as desired.
To resolve this problem add the following to /etc/rc.d/rc.local:
if [ -x /sbin/sysctl -a -e /etc/sysctl.conf ]; then echo -n "Hiding loopback interface" /sbin/sysctl -p /etc/sysctl.conf > /dev/null echo fi
On Debian this is resolved using the up in the interface configuration for lo:0 above which will be called after the lo:0 interfce is brought up. No futher configuration is required for sysctl on Debian.
Heartbeat runs on the two Linux Directors / Real Servers and handles bringing up the interface for the virtual address. This is the address to which end users should connect, and is typically advertised using DNS.
To configure heartbeat /etc/ha.d/ha.cf, /etc/ha.d/haresources and /etc/ha.d/authkeys must be installed. The node names in /etc/ha.d/ha.cfand /etc/ha.d/haresources have to be set according to the output of the uname -n command on each linux director. The key ultramonkey in /etc/ha.d/authkeys, should be modified to something confidential to the site. The /etc/ha.d/authkeys must be mode 600, this can be done using the chmod command.
chmod 600 /etc/ha.d/authkeysThe configuration files supplied expect that the linux directors are connected via eth0 and by a null modem connected to /dev/ttyS0. This may be modified but it is highly recommended that heartbeat be run over at least two links.
The monitoring of real servers, and their insertion and removal from the pool of servers available is controlled by ldirectord which is run by heartbeat. To configure ldirectord /etc/ha.d/ldirectord.cf must be installed. Information on customising this file can be found in the ldirectord(8) man page.
Ldirectord is run by heartbeat. On supported versions of Red Hat and Fedora, to ensure that heartbeat starts up (on run-levels 2, 3, 4 and 5) and that ldirectord does not start on reboot up the chkconfig command is used:
/sbin/chkconfig --level 2345 heartbeat on /sbin/chkconfig --del ldirectord
On Debian the update-rc.d command is used:
/usr/sbin/update-rc.d heartbeat start 2 3 4 5 . /usr/sbin/update-rc.d -f ldirectord removeTo ensure that ldirectord is not running and start heartbeat with the new configuration run:
/etc/init.d/ldirectord stop /etc/init.d/heartbeat start
After a few moments heartbeat should bring up an IP alias for the virtual address on the first real server that heartbeat is started on, the master. This can be verified using the ifconfig command. Heartbeat should also run ldirectord to configure LVS on this node. To check that ldirectord is running use:
/usr/sbin/ldirectord ldirectord.cf statusTo inspect the current LVS kernel table the ipvsadm command may be used. A sample invocation follows showing that ldirectord found all servers to be available. Note that the FTP virtual service on port 21 is persistent when using direct routing (DR).
/sbin/ipvsadm -L -n Prot LocalAddress:Port Scheduler Flags -> RemoteAddress:Port Forward Weight ActiveConn InActConn TCP 220.127.116.11:443 rr -> 220.127.116.11:443 Route 1 0 0 -> 220.127.116.11:443 Route 1 0 0 -> 18.104.22.168:443 Route 1 0 0 TCP 126.96.36.199:80 rr -> 22.214.171.124:80 Route 1 0 0 -> 220.127.116.11:80 Route 1 0 0 -> 126.96.36.199:80 Route 1 0 0 TCP 18.104.22.168:21 rr persistent 600 -> 188.8.131.52:21 Route 1 0 0 -> 188.8.131.52:21 Route 1 0 0 -> 184.108.40.206:21 Route 1 0 0The other server should become the standby and stopping heartbeat on the master with the following command should effect a fail over:
/etc/init.d/heartbeat stopHeartbeat and Ldirectord log debugging and status information to /var/log/messages using syslog. These logs should be inspected if problems occur. Please see notes on logging to ensure that all logs are written to disk for debugging purposes.
The linux directors / real servers need to be set up so that their default route is set to the gateway router's address on the network and not an address on one of the linux directors.
Using the simple case of a single gateway with an address on the server network of 192.168.6.1 this can be done by editing the GATEWAY specified in the interface configuration for the interface connected to 192.168.6.0/24. In the case of eth0, this is, /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0. A sample of this file follows:
DEVICE=eth0 ONBOOT=yes BOOTPROTO=static IPADDR=192.168.6.2 NETMASK=255.255.255.0 GATEWAY=192.168.6.1
To effect this networking should be restarted:
/etc/init.d/network restart Shutting down interface eth0 [ OK ] Setting network parameters [ OK ] Bringing up interface lo [ OK ] Bringing up interface eth0 [ OK ]
auto eth0 iface eth0 inet static address 192.168.6.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 gateway 192.168.6.1
To effect this change networking should be restarted:
/etc/init.d/networking restart Reconfiguring network interfaces: done.
/sbin/ip route show 0/0 default via 192.168.6.1 dev eth0
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The Hold Steady "Teeth Dreams"
The Hold Steady "Teeth Dreams"
The Hold Steady never thought they'd be making music together 10 years after their debut album – The Hold Steady Almost Killed Me – was released. A few members have changed, but the powerful riffs and debauched storytelling is strong as ever on Teeth Dreams.
The first thing you notice when you put on Teeth Dreams is how big the sound is. Much of the credit for that can be given to the band's newest member Steve Selvidge. The former Lucero guitarist adds a layer of gritty precision that compliments the fretwork of Tad Kubler in very symbiotic way. The addition of a second full-time guitar player also affords lead singer Craig Finn the space to explore his voice in new ways. Finn's gravelly, speak-sing style sounds more polished and melodic on Teeth Dreams, but it certainly doesn't lack for intensity.
Longtime fans of The Hold Steady will appreciate the band's return to form on Teeth Dreams. The riffs tower like Minneapolis skyscrapers over the characters Finn sings about who feel more at home in the gutters and back alleys of the Twin Cities.
If you've ever dreamed about your teeth falling out, you know the helpless, anxious dread that accompanies those visions. The Hold Steady perfectly capture that anxiety on Teeth Dreams and they make us feel that we're not alone.
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Brain Stimulation Increases Ability to do Math
(OXFORD, England) -- Bad at math? A new study by researchers at Oxford University suggests that applying high-frequency electrical noise to the brain can make you better at math for up to six months following treatment.
According to BBC News, 51 Oxford students participated in the small study appearing in Current Biology. Over a five-day period the students had to complete two arithmetic problems each day. Half were given transcranial random noise stimulation, or TRNS.
Six months later, the group that had received the TRNS preformed much better when asked to solve math problems than the control group.
Dr Roi Cohen Kadosh, study author from the department of experimental psychology at the University of Oxford, explained that the results "suggested that TRNS increases the efficiency with which stimulated brain areas use their supplies of oxygen and nutrients."
Dr Michael Proulx, senior lecturer in psychology at Bath University, told BBC News that using TRNS this was could have "real, applied impact," and could help those with learning disabilities or who are suffering from a stroke or other neurodegenerative illness.
Experts stress, however, that more testing is required before the practice becomes widespread, so don't expect to hear math teachers telling students to put away their TRNS machines before tests anytime soon.
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