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ANN ARBOR Paul Courant, who has served as interim provost and executive vice president for Academic Affairs of the University of Michigan since January, has been appointed to the position on a permanent basis by President Mary Sue Coleman. The three-year term will be effective Oct.1, subject to the approval of the Board of Regents.
President Mary Sue Coleman said, "Paul Courant embodies the academic credentials, the management experience and the public policy expertise that make him ideally suited to the position of provost. As an eminent economist and a seasoned administrative leader, he combines a passion for the academic mission with a deep understanding of the structure and organization of the University.
"Furthermore, he is a longtime member of the University faculty who brings a great love and knowledge of the institution. I have worked with him as a valued and trusted colleague since becoming president, and I look forward to our continued association."
Courant said, "I am honored to serve as the chief academic officer of the University of Michigan, one of the great public research universities in the United States.
"The most important thing we can do is to enable our superb faculty and our outstanding students to take advantage of the tremendous depth and breadth of what the University can offer. The University of Michigan has historically led the nation's universities in fostering collaborations that connect different units, multiple disciplines and diverse backgrounds, and I look forward to continuing and strengthening these traditions. The University can and must maintain and build upon its excellence in order to serve our students, our faculty, the national research community and the state of Michigan.
"I look forward to working with President Coleman, the deans and executive officers, faculty, students, and the entire community to serve this wonderful institution."
Courant's distinguished service to the University includes serving as chair of the Department of Economics in 1995-97 and as director of the Institute of Public Policy Studies (now the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy) in 1983-87 and 1989-90. He was appointed a senior fellow of the Michigan Society of Fellows, 1997-2001, and was named an Arthur F. Thurnau Professor, 1996-99, for his outstanding teaching.
He served as a senior staff economist with the President's Council of Economic Advisers in 1979-80, and as a member of the Technical Advisory Committee for the Congressional Budget Office in 1987-88.
Courant has published numerous articles and books on research topics including tax policy and reform, federal budget deficits, poverty, the effects of gender in labor markets and school finance.
He holds a B.A. in history from Swarthmore College (1968), as well as an M.A. and Ph.D. in economics from Princeton University in 1973 and 1974, respectively. Courant joined the U-M faculty in 1973, and has been a faculty associate of the Institute for Social Research since 1975.
Courant's appointment begins Oct. 1, 2002 and continues through July 31, 2005, with salary continued at the current rate received as interim provost, $283,250. Following a comprehensive review after the second year of the term, the appointment may be renewed for a term of five years.
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My job as a snowboard photographer:
I have finally come to terms with the fact that the photographer part is the last thing on the list of things that I do. I'm a life coach, counselor, motivator, doctor, search and rescue party, a backcountry guide, travel agent, businessperson, photo editor, marketing person, friend, someone relied on to save someone's life, and the list goes on. When I started, I did not know what I was signing up for. The things that really bother me about my job are also the things I love. I believe that I made the decision to do this with my life subconsciously. The things that I have seen and been a part of have changed my life forever. The snowboard community is the most dysfunctional group of people in the world. We're anything but normal. That is why we're all working together. Where else can you be free to express yourself in any way and be accepted? If you don't fit in to society and you're not considered a normal person, then come join us. We will welcome anyone who doesn't want to be put into a cookie-cutter mold. Normal will never measure up to being extraordinary. That is what we are.
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Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Screenings in Europe
A short series of screenings for Making Faces is scheduled for August 30-September 16. Starting with the Festival of Letters in Ljubljana, Slovenia and ending with the ATypI conference in Reykjavik, Iceland. Each screening will feature and introduction and Q&A session with director Richard Kegler.
Aug 30-11 - Festival of Letters - Ljubljana, Slovenia (subtitled in Slovenian)
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Sept 02-11 - Budapest, Hungary (subtitled in Hungarian)
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Sept 05-11 - Prague, Czech Republic
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Sept 08-11 - Das Film Café - Berlin, Germany
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Sept 12-11 - - Copenhagen, Denmark
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Sept 16-11 - ATypI Conference - Reykjavik, Iceland
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The Dow climbed on the week, helped Friday by stronger-than-expected jobs data. However, tumbling Apple shares knocked the Nasdaq lower by more than 1% for the week.
Today's Markets
The Dow Jones Industrial Average climbed 81.1 points, or 0.62%, to 13155, the S&P 500 gained 4.1 point, or 0.29%, to 1418 and the Nasdaq Composite slumped 11.2 points, or 0.38%, to 2978.
For the week, the Dow jumped 1%, the S&P 500 tilted higher by 0.13% and the Nasdaq slumped 1.1%.
It was a grim week for Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) shares. The world's biggest publicly traded company plunged 8.9%.
Data Paint Muddled Picture
The Labor Department said nonfarm payrolls rose by 146,000 in November from October, significantly more than the 93,000 expected. The unemployment rate fell to 7.7% from 7.9% the month prior to its lowest level since December 2008. Economists were expecting the unemployment rate to remain at 7.9%. The Labor Department said Hurricane Sandy "did not substantively impact the national employment and unemployment estimates for November." Many economists expected the superstorm to have a negative impact.
"The good news is not that the labor market is improving rapidly – it isn't – but that employment growth is holding up despite all the fears over the fiscal cliff," Nigel Gault, chief U.S. economist at IHS Global Insight wrote in a research note.
Digging into the report, the private sector added 147,000 jobs, while the government shed 1,000. Average hourly earnings climbed four cents to $23.63.
Still, many economists don't expect the recently upbeat data to impact the Federal Reserve's highly-aggressive monetary policy stance.
"While the data ... suggest that the labour market continues to recover, and bodes well for economic growth in the final quarter of the year, the gains are unlikely to persuade the Fed from changing its stimulus stance," Markit Chief Economist Chris Williamson wrote in an e-mail.
Consumer sentiment fell much more than expected in early December from November. The Reuters/University of Michigan gauge slid to 74.5 from 82.7, far lower than the 82.4 that was expected. These data are especially important given the key holiday shopping season is kicking into high gear.
Later, the Federal Reserve releases its reading on consumer credit conditions.
In Europe, Germany's Bundesbank said it expects Germany's economy to grow at a pace of just 0.4% next year, down sharply from a June forecast of 1.6%. The country is Europe's economic powerhouse, but has been showing increasing vulnerability to the eurozone debt crisis. The news comes only a day after the European Central Bank cut its economic forecast for the entire currency bloc.
Commodities markets were fairly stable. The benchmark crude contract dipped 33 cents, or 0.38%, to $85.93 a barrel. Wholesale New York Harbor gasoline rose 0.02% to $2.597 a gallon. In metals, gold gained $3.70, or 0.22%, to $1,706 a troy ounce.
On the corporate front, Netflix (NASDAQ:NFLX) and its chief executive Reed Hastings received "Wells Notices" from the Securities and Exchange Commission on fair disclosure questions, a filing released late Thursday revealed.
Foreign Markets
The Euro Stoxx 50 dipped 0.08% to 2601, the English FTSE 100 climbed 0.22% to 5914 and the German DAX slumped 0.22% to 7518.
In Asia, the Japanese Nikkei 225 fell 0.19% to 9527 and the Chinese Hang Seng edged lower by 0.26% to 22191.


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MIDDLEBURY — The Middlebury selectboard will soon send out a townwide informational letter reminding people about the May 13 revote on the $6.5 million proposal to build a new municipal building and recreation center.
MIDDLEBURY — The Middlebury selectboard on Tuesday set a reconsideration vote for the $6.5 million town offices-recreation center project for Tuesday, May 13. That Australian ballot vote will be preceded by an informational meeting on Monday, May 12, at 7 p.m. in the municipal gym.
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MIDDLEBURY — A revote on a proposal to build new Middlebury town offices and a recreation center was still hanging in the balance as the Addison Independent went to press on Wednesday, though the leader of the petition drive to force the referendum was optimistic he would gather the minimum 230 signatures required by the Thursday, April 3, deadline.
Former Middlebury town planner Fred Dunnington sent along photos taken in the tropics with the underwater camera he got as a retirement present this past summer. With the temperature on Monday night hovering at zero, selectboard Chairman Dean George said at Middlebury's town meeting he was glad someone was enjoying warm weather somewhere.
Dennis Cassidy asked the moderator, former Gov. Jim Douglas, if he was ready to declare he was running for governor again. Douglas dryly quipped that Cassidy was "out of order on many fronts."
MIDDLEBURY — Addison Central Supervisory Union residents on Tuesday evening voted 306-118, by paper ballot, to allow the UD-3 board to negotiate a lease with the town of Middlebury for a Creek Road parcel that would host an 11,500-square-foot recreation facility.
MIDDLEBURY — Brian Carpenter has spent almost his entire adult life serving his business and the U.S. Army.
He's now hoping for a chance to serve his community as a member of the Middlebury selectboard.
MIDDLEBURY — Ted Davis finished just 43 votes shy of winning a spot on the Middlebury selectboard last year.
The retired insurance company executive and current chairman of the Middlebury Development Review Board is burning shoe leather this winter in an effort to prevail in a March 4 election in which eight residents are competing for three selectboard seats that are up for grabs.
MIDDLEBURY — Middlebury officials and UD-3 school directors continue to hammer out the terms of a proposed lease that would allow the town to erect an 11,500-square-foot recreation center — including an addition with team rooms for student athletes — on land off Creek Road.
Editor's note: This is the most recent in a series of columns by members of Middlebury's Town Offices and Recreation Facilities Steering Committee. Nancy Malcolm chairs that committee and John Dale is a senior architect at Bread Loaf Corp.
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Ned A. Gray, Daniel Ko, Bob Zenouzi, Brad Frishberg
February 1, 2013
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Senior Vice President, Chief Investment Officer — Global and International Value Equity
One of the major constraints on the recovery overseas has been deflationary pressures, which have manifested themselves in a variety of ways, but particularly in the slow growth of credit. So, we believe investors would welcome a modest pickup in inflation, as long as it was associated with rising expectations for economic growth. But if inflation does revive, the devil will be in the details. In other words, how much of an increase in prices will we see, and over what time period will it occur? The markets can adjust to a modest and gradual increase in consumer prices, and may even respond more preferably in such an environment,
compared to the borderline deflationary pressures that are now in place.
The exception to that would be China, which deliberately slowed its economyto keep inflationary pressures in check. Overall, however, international markets(most notably Japan) have been struggling with borderline or outright deflation for so long that any hint of an increase in inflationary pressure would be greeted with tremendous enthusiasm, in our opinion. In fact, we've already begun tosee that. In the fourth quarter of 2012 — a period in which it appeared that political changes in Japan might finally spark a decisive response to the deflation problem — there was a 55-percentage-point return differential between the highest-and lowest-risk stocks. Since each sector of the international equity market is at a different point relative to its inflation cycle, though, we are sensitive to the need to look at each region and each company on an individual basis. (Source: Bloomberg.)
Vice President, Senior Equity Analyst — Emerging Markets
Inflation and rising rate scenarios are something that we generally stay very cognizant of, particularly in this environment, since we believe there is a very good possibility that the super-easy monetary policy in the developed world could first prompt an inflationary response in emerging economies. Many emerging market central banks are essentially being forced to import easy monetary policies in part because running higher rates would attract excessive capital inflows that would then put upward pressure on the currency, and reduce export competitiveness. So what we have, in many cases, are countries with meaningfully higher structural growth rates than those of the developed world, running real rates in the low single digits — historically, that has tended to be a recipe for inflation in the long run.
At the same time, loose monetary policy and global liquidity tend to be supportive of equity prices. That said, we believe that our portfolio may be positioned against rising inflation by nature of the investment process we
adhere to. We generally own companies with strong franchise value and high barriers to entry. These kinds of companies tend to enjoy pretty strong pricing power so that they can pass along higher costs to customers. We like to own these types of companies in all market environments, and certainly in situations where inflation is starting to pick up.
Senior Vice President, Chief Investment Officer — Real Estate Securities and Income Solutions (RESIS)
The current Federal Reserve policies are forcing investors to: 1) invest in hard assets that will preserve against the eventual inflationary result of current policies (that is, real estate) 2) buy financial assets that provide what the Fed policies are taking away (that is, yield). As a result, today's loose global monetary policies seem to be a bit of a win-win for the real estate sector, even if the monetary policies that drive it are misguided, in our opinion.
Historically, real estate investment trusts (REITs) have been a strong hedge against inflation, and we believe that this pattern may continue if inflationary pressures begin to increase. In today's environment, for example, approximately 85% of the debt of U.S. real estate companies is fixed; this figure is higher than was the case during the last cycle (Source: Citigroup). It also bodes well for the real estate sector, since borrowing costs are going to rise along with interest rates at some point down the road. In addition, many commercial tenants are locked into six- and seven-year leases, with rent step-ups over the life of the lease that are tied to inflation. We still have to pick the right companies, but overall, we believe that real estate has the potential to perform quite well in either a rising rate or an inflationary environment.
Managing Director, Chief Investment Officer of Infrastructure Securities — Macquarie Funds Group
Inflation protection is one of the key aspects that we believe makes global infrastructure so attractive. About half of our portfolio has some form of inflation protection, and often times this protection is direct and formulaic. For example, one of our current holdings, an international toll-road developer with major assets in Australia, has more than 20 years remaining on its concession: it will likely raise tolls automatically every year to reflect the inflation rate.
Another type of listed infrastructure, regulated assets, can also have inflation hedges built into its contracts. Regulated assets include businesses involved in electricity and gas transmission and distribution (that is, the poles and wires, or suburban gas pipelines) that deliver electricity and gas to households, and water companies that provide fresh water and remove waste water.
In determining the price that may be charged to customers, the regulator typically ensures that the regulated company is able to earn a return in excess
of its cost of capital, including permitting the regulated company to raise its tariffs in future years by a level linked to the inflation rate. Thus, regulated entities are able to generate a revenue stream that should grow at least in line with inflation. These kinds of contractual, inflation-linked revenue bases provide infrastructure investments, including many of those within our portfolios, with a very direct inflation hedge.
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considered a recommendation to buy, hold, or sell any security, and should not be relied on as research or investment advice. Views are subject to
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Ned Gray manages the International Value Equity strategies and has worked with the investment team for more than 30 years. Prior to joining Macquarie Investment Management (MIM) in June 2005 in his current position, Gray worked with the team as a portfolio manager at Arborway Capital and Thomas Weisel Partners. At ValueQuest/TA, which he joined in 1987, Gray was a senior investment professional with responsibilities for portfolio management, security analysis, quantitative research, performance analysis, global research, back office/investment information systems integration, trading, and client and consultant relations. Prior to ValueQuest, he was a research analyst at the Center for Competitive Analysis. Gray received his bachelor's degree in history from Reed College and a master of arts in law and diplomacy, in international economics, business, and law from Tufts University's Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.
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Vice President, Senior Equity Analyst
Daniel Ko, who joined Macquarie Investment Management (MIM) in June 2012, is a senior equity analyst responsible for covering Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, as well as financials, for the firm's global Emerging Markets team. Prior to joining the firm, he worked with Putnam Investments from 2009 to 2012 as a research analyst covering financials. From 2002 to 2007, Ko worked as a strategist at JPMorgan on the firm's global currency and commodity strategy team. He earned his bachelor's degree in economics from Brown University and an MBA from Columbia Business School.
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Senior Vice President, Chief Investment Officer — Real Estate Securities and Income Solutions (RESIS)
Bob Zenouzi is the lead manager for the real estate securities and income solutions (RESIS) group at Macquarie Investment Management (MIM). Zenouzi created this team, including its process and its institutional and retail products, during his prior time with the firm. He also focuses on opportunities in Japan, Singapore, and Malaysia for the firm's global real estate securities strategy. He is also a member of the firm's asset allocation committee, which is responsible for building and managing multi-asset class portfolios. He rejoined the firm in May 2006 as senior portfolio manager and head of real estate securities. In his first term with the firm, he spent seven years as an analyst and portfolio manager, leaving in 1999 to work at Chartwell Investment Partners, where from 1999 to 2006 he was a partner and senior portfolio manager on Chartwell's Small-Cap Value portfolio. He began his career with The Boston Company, where he held several positions in accounting and financial analysis. Zenouzi earned a master's degree in finance from Boston College and a bachelor's degree in finance from Babson College. He is a member of the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts and the Urban Land Institute.
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Chief Investment Officer — Global Listed Infrastructure Securities.
Brad Frishberg heads the firm's infrastructure securities team and is the lead portfolio manager for Macquarie's Global Listed Infrastructure strategies. Prior to joining the firm in 2009 in his current role, Frishberg was managing director and US equity portfolio manager at J.P. Morgan Asset Management, where, over a period of 13 years, he was responsible for managing portfolios and businesses in London, Tokyo, and New York. He earned a bachelor's degree from Brown University and a master's degree from Trinity College.


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Tom Hamilton has a funny bone
When his playing days are over, Tom Hamilton has a second career already in mind.
"Sketch comedy,'' says the Aerosmith bassist.
That's right. Hamilton (inset) might look deadly serious on stage, but he has a funny bone he'd like to exercise. At the moment, his only chance to yuk it up is "Banned in Boston,'' the annual madcap musical revue that benefits the violence prevention program Urban Improv.
Hamilton has been involved since the beginning — over 20 years — and he'll be on stage at the House of Blues again April 5 along with former governor Bill Weld, KISS 108's Matt Siegel, historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, Boys and Girls Clubs of Boston boss Josh Kraft, "On Point'' host Tom Ashbrook, Mayor Tom Menino, and Governor Deval Patrick, among others.
We're not sure what it says about Hamilton, but he's played a lot of famous women in "Banned in Boston'' over the years.
"I've been the queen of England, Martha Stewart, Barbara Bush,'' he says. "Hmm, that is a lot of women, isn't it?
"What's great about the show is it's a well-written, smart, and satirical script every year, and that appeals to me,'' says Hamilton, who's not so high-brow he can't enjoy a little slapstick, too. "Me and my brother used to sit on the couch and watch variety shows and 'The Three Stooges' and laugh our butts off.''
We'd be remiss if we didn't ask about Aerosmith, which last year released its first new CD in over a decade, the underrated "Music From Another Dimension!'' Hamilton says he and his bandmates, Steven Tyler, Joe Perry, Brad Whitford, and Joey Kramer, enjoyed making the record and even have some material left over.
"We may have overloaded the record. It might have been smarter to choose, say, nine songs and make sure those were really tweaked instead of 14 or 15 songs, but we couldn't help ourselves,'' he says. "It'd be nice now to go into the studio and do something really quick and stripped down, and not spend hours and hours on every bass note and cymbal hit.''
Hamilton told us he was never a big fan of "American Idol,'' but he isn't surprised the TV show's ratings have declined precipitously since Tyler left. (The flamboyant frontman and Jennifer Lopez have been replaced on the new season by Mariah Carey, Nicki Minaj, and Keith Urban.)
"I think the ratings were sliding before, but Steven's involvement put the brakes on that,'' says Hamilton.
And is the famously fractious band getting along these days?
"Oh yeah,'' Hamilton says. "We're glued together.''


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General Mills Adds Two Flavors To Sweet Moments Bite-Size Brownies Line
Minneapolis-based General Mills adds two new flavors of Pillsbury Sweet Moments Bite-Size Brownies: Caramel Brownie Cheesecake and Raspberry Brownie Cheesecake.
The new flavors satisfy with a combination of rich brownie layered with velvety cheesecake and either a caramel or raspberry filling. They are ready-to-eat, decadent brownie bites that, in addition to the luxurious fillings, are enrobed in a cocoa shell and finished off with a cocoa drizzle. And, at 180 calories for three pieces, you can enjoy this indulgent treat with no guilt.
Available in the refrigerated section, Pillsbury Sweet Moments are served cool to accentuate each layer and to magnify each texture. New packaging for the entire line showcases rich, dark colors and flowing imagery to better convey the indulgence of the product.
"Pillsbury Sweet Moments are the perfect bite of moist fudgy brownie to make those moments you take just for you even sweeter," says Angela Rassi, Pillsbury Sweet Moments marketing manager. "With new flavors like Caramel Brownie Cheesecake and Raspberry Brownie Cheesecake, you'll fall in love with the rich layers of sweet pleasure sending your senses into a world of decadent splendor."
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'Any Day Now': It's Called Giving A Kid A Happy Home
Any Day Now writer-director Travis Fine came across the story that would be his next film from a script that sat on the desk of original writer George Arthur Bloom and adapted it and tapped Alan Cumming to star in the story about a gay couple in the late '70s who fight a discriminatory legal system to formally adopt a special needs teen who has been in their care.
The feature, which opens Friday through Music Box Films, has won audience prizes at festivals throughout the year, including Tribeca where it debuted last Spring, to Provincetown, Chicago, Woodstock, Seattle and Outfest.
Inspired by a true story and touching on legal and social issues that are more relevant now than ever, Any Day Now tells a story of love, acceptance, and creating your own family. In the late 1970s, when Marco (Isaac Leyva), a teenager with down syndrome who's been abandoned by his mother, is taken in by committed couple Rudy (Alan Cumming) and Paul (Garret Dillahunt), he finds in them the family he's never had. However, when their unconventional living arrangement is discovered by the authorities, Rudy and Paul must fight a biased legal system to adopt the child they have come to love as their own. Co-starring Frances Fisher, Gregg Henry and Chris Mulkey, Music Box Films will open the film in select theaters across the country on December 14.


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Laudrup shares blame after hammering
Swansea manager Michael Laudrup accepted some of the blame for the "accident" of their 5-0 defeat at Liverpool but felt the players had to also take responsibility.
The Dane made seven changes - leaving 15-goal striker Michu and captain Ashley Williams on the bench - with one eye on next weekend's Capital One Cup final against Bradford. It backfired spectacularly as his side were never in the match and barely managed to raise a competitive element to their game.
"We could have lost seven or eight nil easily had it not been for (goalkeeper) Michel Vorm and that is not good enough," said Laudrup. "It is a little difficult to explain because I made a lot of changes so the first to blame is me because I picked the team."
He added: "But I will not exclude players who were thinking about the game next week, which in a certain way is human logic because it will be the biggest game in the history of the club.
"One thing you can always ask is your team is competitive and after 45 minutes we were still in the game but they came out and scored three goals in 10 minutes - you cannot do that.
"I don't regret making the changes because I still think, until now, even when we lost we were competitive but (we were) never like this. I was sure this team could do well. I want to see this as a single accident maybe caused by what is going to happen in seven days - at least I hope so."
Swansea trailed at half-time to Steven Gerrard's penalty but they conceded another to Reds debutant Philippe Coutinho within 16 seconds of the kick-off after the interval, sparking a 10-minute spell which brought further goals from Jose Enrique, Luis Suarez before Daniel Sturridge converted a 71st-minute spot-kick.
Liverpool boss Brendan Rodgers accepted Swansea's lacklustre showing had helped his side but insisted that should not detract from his team's performance. "It was an important three points," he said.
"We've had a bumpy road this week in terms of games Monday and Thursday (2-0 defeats to West Brom and Zenit St Petersburg) but the Premier League is very important for us and we knew we had to show focus and determination. I think we showed character and mental toughness to get a result like that.
"They were still a strong side and they will be disappointed with the performance but if you don't have Ashley Williams or Michu, who has been brilliant since he came in, then that can affect your team. I don't think you can take anything away from the Liverpool players but it (the final) was something they were thinking about next week."


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A week hasn't even passed since the 2012 election and already a new poll has announced Hillary Clinton as the runaway leader among 2016 favorites.
For her part, the well-traveled Secretary of State said she just wants a chance to "sleep and exercise and travel for fun" once she steps down from office.
And watch some serious television, including her favorite shows about home improvement.
"I find it very calming," she told the New York Times in an interview published over the weekend. Clinton's favorite show? "Love It or List It," which airs on HGTV and follows a new couple each episode trying to decide whether to redesign their current home — or just buy a new one.
"Maybe I'll get a decorating show," Clinton quipped when asked, again, about her plans once she steps down from office.
In all seriousness, she said she first wants to find time for herself and relax.
"It sounds so ordinary, but I haven't done it for 20 years. I would like to see whether I can get untired," she said.
According to a new poll, she only has a few years before the nation will ask her to step back into the political spotlight.
The survey by Public Policy Polling found Clinton the favorite candidate among Democrats polled in Iowa and New Hampshire, the first two states on the political contest calendar.
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Clinton had support from 58 percent of Iowa Democrats asked about the 2016 election, compared to the 17 percent who favored runner-up Joe Biden. She had 60 percent among the Democrats in New Hampshire, while the vice president only had 10 percent.
The surveys were taken Nov. 3-4, while many voters were still being asked about the ballots they would be casting this year.
However, they show how Clinton's popularity has risen since she ran for president in 2008, when she lost the party's nomination to Barack Obama. Since then, the former first lady and U.S. senator has beefed up her resume by learning about, and actually meeting with, nearly every foreign head of state in the world.
But first, she told the Times she looks forward to next year, when she can do everyday things like exercise.
"I work out and stuff, but I don't do it enough and I don't do it hard enough because I can't expend that much energy on it," she said.
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November 6, 2008
We made history in another important way over this last year. We made AIDS a critical part of the national election debate. President-elect Obama offered an AIDS platform that could have been written by us. Senator McCain actually came around to pledging to develop a national strategy to address the AIDS epidemic. And both candidates committed to maintaining or increasing the United States' role in the global fight against AIDS. Health care reform, critical to any national AIDS strategy, is now a top agenda item. And it is not just the presidential race that matters. The religious right no longer has a lock hold in Congress on issues that impact prevention. Even the economic crisis offers an opportunity as the Federal government looks for ways to pour money into local communities to stimulate the economy. For all of this, again, today is a day to celebrate.
But once we've caught our collective breath, we need to take realistic stock of how far we still have to go. Tuesday night America didn't put aside racism, sexism, homophobia or other forms of discrimination, prejudice or social and economic injustice. A majority of Californians, while voting overwhelmingly for Obama, voted in favor of Proposition 8, writing discrimination against lesbians and gay men into their constitution by banning the only recently won right to gay marriage. Here in New York State, the possibility of a progressive State Senate is now being held hostage by four conservative legislators who want to be able to veto various pieces of progressive legislation from even coming to a vote in the next legislative session. And we have already seen self-interested politicians and bureaucrats blaming current economic conditions as a reason to cut back on AIDS services and AIDS prevention.
We should hold Obama and the Democrats true to every progressive promise they have made. We now have a president-elect who favors federal funding for needle exchange. We should do everything in our power to fight for it in a Congress that should need no persuading, but inevitably will. We have a president who believes in reproductive rights and HIV prevention education that follows science rather than ideology. So we should work to strip PEPFAR and CDC legislation of the various proscriptions around reproductive rights, abstinence only sex education and the like. Unfortunately, all too many so-called progressive legislators will resist doing these things for fear of being tarred as endorsing promiscuity, promoting homosexuality, god forbid, or even endorsing prostitution and illicit drug use.
But there is an even bigger danger lurking for us now. Too many people in the AIDS community, and, dare I say, the AIDS industry, think we won last night. They now believe the folks taking office are our friends. We are going to have access now more than ever before, whether in the White House or the Halls of Congress. And, of course, we are going to be called on to be patient with our friends and certainly not do anything to embarrass them.
But they aren't our friends. They are politicians who, however progressive they might appear, live in a world of compromise and competing interests. Now is not the time to be less militant. We still are losing the fight against AIDS here in New York and around the world. It is all too little to late on almost every front, and now we are being told we need to learn to do more with less. All too many people are dying because they didn't get what they needed soon enough whether it was testing, treatment, housing, mental health services or just the food to eat. And the data is clear: More and more people are getting infected with the virus, and those people are overwhelmingly people of color, people who are poor, and people who for one reason or several are marginalized in our society.
I grew up in a family that ardently supported George Wallace's campaign for president. My eighth grade Texas History teacher spent a week on the post Civil War reconstruction, explaining to us how beneficial the Klu Klux Klan was to our communities. So I fully appreciate the depth of change this election signals for our country. That said, AIDS remains the greatest civil rights issue of our day, fueled at every level by social and economic injustice that remains racist, sexist and homophobic in every way. So celebrate, celebrate, and celebrate some more, and then get out and fight!
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BOSTON, Mass. - Practically serving as a home meet for MIT's harriers, the Cardinal and Gray delivered its best performance of the season at Franklin Park on Saturday, finishing an amazing sixth overall out of 44 full teams competing at the 2007 All-Division New England (NEICAAA) Cross Country Championship. Tech's final position on the leader board is the highest finish for either the MIT men or women in the history of the meet.
Sophomore Maria Monks faded slightly at the end, but not enough to mar a tremendous effort. Monks finished 23rd overall in a time of 18:56 in the hot and humid conditions after spending the middle part of the race inside the top 20. She finished ninth among Division III runners in leading the Engineers ahead of UConn, Harvard, Brown and Dartmouth in the final standings. Among the Division III contingency, MIT also placed higher than nationally-ranked Middlebury, Keene State and Bowdoin, while finishing third overall behind Amherst and Williams.
The MIT chase pack worked well as a group, with Jacqui Wentz and Jennifer Doyle sprinting through the chute next in 49th and 50th, respectively, in a time of 19:23. After a tough middle part of the race, Elizabeth Finn moved up well as the circuit progressed and finished with a terrific performance. Finn split 19:35 to finish 64th overall, while Liz Labuz stepped up and held strong through the final mile and a half to round out MIT's scoring after a clip of 20:02.
Quinnipiac finished 13 points ahead of Amherst for the team title, while Boston University, Boston College and Williams rounded out the top five. Nearly 300 competitors finished the varsity race.


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This was a party worthy of coverage in Town & Country magazine. The 37th annual Candlelight Concert, which celebrated the performing arts in Orange County, raised more than $1 million for the O.C. Performing Arts Center's artistic and educational programs. Chaired by two of the communities most philanthropic and classy women, Liz Merage and Eve Kornyei, the evening attracted a contingent of the region's best and brightest for what arguably is the grandest of charitable events on the Orange Coast.
It was a night of high spirits and reminiscing for many in the crowd who have attended the concert year after year, generously donating significant sums of money in support of the performing arts. Raising $1 million after expenses is no easy task in this economy. Serious underwriting was needed to cover the cost of organizing the event, which featured a show by legendary songwriter-singer Smokey Robinson, who was backed up by talented musicians, singers and dancers.
Fronting the contingent of loyal center donors were honorary chairs of the gala Julia and George Argyros. The former U.S. Ambassador to Spain and his ultra-fashionable bride told the audience a little about their long-time love affair with Orange County, their heartfelt appreciation for the phenomenal success the region has afforded them personally, and their commitment to giving back to the community.
Joining them were fellow significant contributors, including members of the Segerstrom family, Barbara and Alex Bowie, Roberta and Howard Ahmanson, Ronnie and Byron Allumbaugh, Marsha and Darrell Anderson, and Deborah and Larry Bridges. Also among the generous were Sally and Randy Crockett, Jane and Jim Driscoll, Carol and Kent Wilken, Idit and Moti Ferder, Kathy and Cliff Fleming, Sandy and Ron Simon, Zee Allred and Drago Gligic, Ellie and Michael Gordon, and Donna and David Janes.
Year after year it is a challenge to create a spectacular setting that is new and fresh and full of surprises for a "who's who" guest list of patrons, paying thousands of dollars per person to attend the party. Some critics have suggested that the event needs to be totally reinvented, perhaps through a change of venue. Suggestions range from a tent on the adjacent courtyard to a creative destination elsewhere in Orange County, to a private estate, or simply back to the former program, which began with a performance in Segerstrom Hall followed by the raising of the curtain to reveal a spectacular dinner party on stage.
In fact, this formula remains a favorite of the crowd. Revealing the party on stage delivered a sense of awe and excitement that was enchanting, as well as theatrical. Sitting on stage, looking out at the 3,000 burgundy colored seats in the theatre provided a unique and magical perspective.
That said, this year's event which seated the guests at tables arraigned on tiers within Segerstrom Hall, after all the seating had been removed, was as breathtaking a party as one might possibly have asked for. Designers draped all the walls of the massive hall in silver and white video screens projecting a snow-covered forest where it was snowing.
"We wanted this party to sparkle," said co-chairwomen Kornyei, escorted by Michael Ruffatto of Denver and Corona del Mar.
Kornyei certainly got her wish.
Tables were covered in silver sequin cloths with varying height table centerpieces of snow-dusted orchids and crystal-covered branches. Dinner was created and served by Patina under the direction of Chef Ross Panhalligan, Chef Greg Wiele and the legendary Joachim Splichal. Dinner was superb, no easy feat for caterers serving more than 450 very particular guests.
Organizers chose to present the Smokey Robinson concert in the middle of dinner between the second course of Manila Clam Chowder, served in a rustic bread bowl and a main course of chateaubriand, served in a Cabernet sauce. The unusual program structure was a different twist for the night, enabling patrons to fully appreciate the remarkable body of work of Smokey Robinson's multifaceted career as both a performer and an incomparable songwriter creating hit after hit of popular songs for many of the great artists of our time.
If that was not enough, as the party went on into the evening, Michael Grimm, winner of "America's Got Talent," performed for the Orange County audience on his guitar. Professional dance champion Corky Ballas, father of Mark Ballas and Derek and Julianne Hough, stars of the popular "Dancing With The Stars" television show, performed a routine with dancer Jackie Josephs. Then, to the applause of the crowd, he went over to the Argyros' table and took the hand of honorary chair Julia Argyros for a spin and a dip on the dance floor.
Performing Arts Center president Terry Dwyer delivered a heartfelt speech thanking Orange County and in particular the Segerstrom family for their continuous generosity and loyalty to the values of the center. Spotted in the crowd supporting the amazing event were Marta and Raj Bhathal, Patti and Jim Edwards, Caroline Jones, Dee and Larry Higby, Twyla and Chuck Martin, Suki and Randall McCardle and the extended McCardle family members, Richard Moriarty and Loren Blackwood, Pamela Paul and Jack Cancellieri, Harriet and Sandy Sandhu, and Leslie and Dino Cancellieri.
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Scientists explain Saturn's mysterious, moonless ring
Hidden matter in ring's bright arc
Saturn's gauzy G-ring is being swept into its orbit, grain by grain, from a region of icy chunks on its inner edge. So say researchers working on data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft in the 2 August issue of the journal Science.
A single bright arc on the inside of Saturn's G-Ring. Credit: Ciclops
Most of Saturn's dusty rings are associated with a moon: for example, it is thought that the moon Enceladus' leaky bottom creates the E-ring; and the F-ring can trace its origins to the moons Prometheus and Pandora. But the G-ring doesn't have a moon, and its origin has been a mystery.
But now researchers say they have uncovered a mechanism that explains how it is formed.
In the ring's inner edge there is a region of relatively large particles that extends roughly one sixth of the way around the circumference of the ring. It is about 250 kilometres wide, much narrower than the full 6,000-kilometre width of the G-ring.
The large particles are broken up by constant impacts from micro-meteoroids, and as plasma in Saturn's magnetic field moves through the region, the finer, dust-sized particles are swept up to form the G-ring.
"Distant pictures from the cameras tell us where the arc is and how it moves, while plasma and dust measurements taken near the G-ring tell us how much material is there," said Matthew Hedman, a Cassini imaging team associate at Cornell University, and lead author on the Science paper.
The arc is thought to be a relatively long-lived feature, confined by the gravitational influence of the moon Mimas. Part of Hedman's research involved constructing a model that demonstrated the mechanics of this confinement.
Further, the research has revealed that there must be plenty of unseen material in the arc - chunks ranging from pea-sized to small boulders. In total, the arc's mass is equivalent to that of an ice-rich moon around 100 metres across.
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There are many things in life we can neither control nor change. The only thing we can control, and change, is our own actions, and our reactions to these uncontrollable things.
Almost a decade ago, when I was young and fancy free (and dinosaurs roamed the earth) I had a job that allowed (required) me to travel extensively around Europe. I would be based in a country for around 3 months, after which I would move on to my next "assignment" in a different country. It was all terribly exciting. I was, after all, pretty much without ties or responsibilities, and I was totally and unequivocally enthralled with Europe as only Europe can totally and unequivocally enthrall.
This job also came with its own set of challenges. Nothing was constant. You had to learn to quickly adapt to and function in your new "home" – each with its own culture and ways and language and public transportation system. In all this, it was only too easy to sometimes become overwhelmed by things out of my control. It was also, in all this, that I learned to let go of that which I could neither control nor change — and focus on myself, and my reactions. I learned two important things: 1. To be able to be infinitely adaptable while, 2. Maintaining a central core which is constant no matter where I am…my inner compass.
When I travel out of the country, this is one of the dishes I look for when I return. It is a taste of home, familiar and comforting. At the same time open to many adaptations.
Tinapang Bangus (Smoked Milkfish)
- 1 tinapang bangus
- 1-2 white onions (depends on size – I like a lot of onions), sliced into thin half-moons
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 tablespoon balsamic vinegar
- Sea salt and lots of freshly cracked black pepper
– Place the onions, olive oil, and vinegar in a bowl. Generously crack the black pepper over and sprinkle with sea salt. Toss to combine.
– Lightly grease a baking tray and lay your tinapang bangus on it, open and belly-side up. Pile the onions on the bangus.
– Bake in a pre-heated 350C oven until properly heated through (the tinapa is technically already cooked) and the onions slightly softened.
Bangus (milkfish) is one of my favorite fish. Over here, bangus is eaten in households far and wide, in many different preparations. You can have it marinated and fried (daing na bangus), stuffed (rellenong bangus), in sinigang (our famous sour soup), even bottled like Spanish-style sardines. You can buy them whole, but I like to get them already deboned (unlike most of the time when I prefer my fish whole) as their bones are like a network of feathers and quite difficult and tedious to remove. This fish's smooth, black belly is rich and fatty and my absolute favorite part of the fish.
Tinapa is fish that has been smoked, and this preparation of bangus it the one I like the best. It is similar to any hot smoked fish, not just in its dusky flavor, but also in that it is already cooked. So preparing it is simply a matter of heating it up. This is my preferred way of preparing it, although not at all traditionally Filipino (what with the olive oil and balsamic vinegar). But like I said, this fish is open to many adaptations, and I think the soft, sweet onions complement the tinapa perfectly.
I am far from having reached a perfect state of balance. Life is one continuous learning process after all. Sometimes things happen…plans fall through, things just don't go your way, it rains and you wreck your ballet flats. And as much as I want to be that woman who goes through troubles with effortless grace and positivity, sometimes I am still that frustrated girl who needs to remind herself of lessons past.
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Wednesday, 3 August 2011
Kirin Ichiban Pop-Up - Yatai Japanese Restaurant
Japanese beer brand Kirin has launched a pop-up yatai aka street food stand with Yasuhiro Mineno (ex head chef of Nobu) and Shinya Ikeda, joint owners and Head Chef of London's fabled Yashin Sushi restaurant.
Kirin Ichiban is being dished up with a menu of kushiage and other snacks to offer Londoners a taste of what will be served at the Yashin founders' full-blown kushiage restaurant set to launch in 2012 (learn more about my beloved kushiage here).
The Kirin Ichiban Yatai is around for just one week from 3-8 August in the open-air Dray Walk gallery near Brick Lane and is serving up a selection of the traditional Japanese pankoed and deep-fried skewer snacks.
The short menu offers three sticks for £5, six plus edamame for £10, or nine plus ice cream for £15, with a free bottle of Kirin Ichiban for every diner who has booked online.
Kirin Ichiban is a beer made by the unique "Ichiban Shibori" Process which translates as "first press". Bottles of Kirin are £3 & a pint draught is £4. All soft drinks & bottles of water are £1.
There are seven kushiage to choose from: kushikatsu (pork and leek), karaage (chicken), ebi furai (king prawn), "dango" (actually means a type of skewered mochi, but in this case handmade fishcake resembling the classic snack), tomato and courgette (which sounds like a juicy explosion of pain to me), asparagus, and "oden" (at least, a choice of three oden ingredients - egg, daikon or tofu).
There is also a selection of rather exciting sauces to go with them - tonkatsu (sometimes referred to as Japanese Worcestershire sauce), jalapeno, yellow pepper, creamy tomato, and a truffle ponzu sauce so supernaturally delicious I was sorely tempted to squirt it straight from the squeezy bottle into my mouth.
I was a bit disappointed that the "slightly hot green pepper" advertised on the website seemed to have been abandoned (presumably shishito), but we ordered all the rest of the kushiage apart from the tomato and the asparagus and waited with some icey Kirin.
It was all fried to order, as should be the case, and in a short while one of the many petite Japanese waitresses arrived bearing our kushiage on those slightly crappy black floral sushi trays you get in Wasabi or Samurai.
It looked the part and the husband and I were pretty excited. A quick chomp confirmed it tasted the part too, and we soon polished it all off and then keenly wished we'd ordered more.
The only letdown was the "oden" egg - actually just a normal, hard-boiled egg given the same kushiage treatment as the rest of it. We were also mildy annoyed at the lack of receptacles for both the sauce and the used skewers - dishes for the first please, and cups to stick the second.
A side of "Thai" salad seemed inappropriate and pointless, tasting overwhelmingly of celery, but the lightly pickled cabbage that came with the skewers was better than your usual veg accompaniment.
Ice cream is "gelato-style" - we both chose black sesame aka kurogoma which we adore anyway, and agreed that it was the best ice cream we'd had in a very long time. There's also red bean flavour aka aduki but frankly why would you?
The pop up is also showing the work of the four finalists in the Kirin First Cut film competition on little screens at each table and you can vote for your favourite - the winner will be announced at the 55th BFI London Short film festival. I reckon the one about the magic camera will win, mainly because it's the only one intelligible as a silent film - the place got fairly noisy so you couldn't really hear the soundtracks.
You can even make a silent bid on the specially commissioned street art by Soulful Gallery art collective that surrounds you as you eat (prices start at £1,000), although it looked to us like they'd need some epic dismantling first.
All proceeds from the auction go to the charity Japan Society Tohoku Earthquake Relief Fund.
Don't bank on getting a seat at the yatai itself - we were shunted off to one of the two big tables in the main section of the gallery which sadly meant we couldn't see the chefs in action which really is part of the fun of kushiage, and there were plenty of people just standing around, though the Kirin seemed to keep them happy.
Kirin Ichiban Yatai pop up restaurant
Wednesday – Saturday 12pm – 11pm, Sunday - Monday 12pm – 9.00pm
Walk-ins accepted but booking advisable, and necessary to claim your free beer - visit http://www.kirinfirstcut.co.uk/how-to-book.php
To find it, go down Hanbury Street and turn into the Truman Brewery (directly opposite Wilkes Street) - it's near where the Sunday Upmarket is held. These things below are nearby.
My husband and I were invited to the press preview
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Srsly? No slightly hot green peppers? Not sure I wanna go any more!ReplyDelete
Only for a week?! This place sounds like it would make a killing if it opened for even a little bit longer. I wonder if there'll be anything similar to this at the Fringe in Edinburgh this month...ReplyDelete
Red bean ice cream is totally awesome - as is green (mung) bean. Wish it were more widely available.ReplyDelete
Lordy, I'm heading down this week! Shame it's only on for 1 week, love Kirin, love fried Japanese food, love amazing sauces in squeezy bottles. Awesome.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous3 August 2011 at 10:05
I love black sesame ice cream:) And kushikatsu! Can't wait for the restaurant to open.ReplyDelete
Three sticks for a fiver? Am I reading this right - three of those cocktail sticks? Seems horrendously expensivo if so...ReplyDelete
Excellent stuff; actually makes me want to go, but sadly off on a long hols in the West Country. You look like a particularly hungry pixie!ReplyDelete
@Miss Whiplash - Haha, you'd best give your booking to someone else then.ReplyDelete
@ThatFoodGuy - Like I said, it's a preview of the permanent restaurant coming next year.
@Lizzie - Heheh, only joshing :)
@Sig@scandilicious - Can't wait for the real thing!
@chasingbawa - Me neither!
@Jessica - They're not cocktail sticks - they're proper skewers - see the ones the ladies are holding in the frying photo or this photo here. Plus you get a beer as well. Compares favourably to yakitori prices in this country.
@chumbles - Hehe, thanks, I think :)
Booked for Sunday! Win :^)ReplyDelete
Gonna have to give this a go! I wasn't convinced 'til I got to the photos of the grub itself, then combined weaknesses for any meat on sticks and anything deep fried kicked in and KO'd any sense of objectivitiy I might have.ReplyDelete
Three sticks and a beer (albeit bottled rather than a good solid pint) for a fiver is actually a pretty good deal - certainly in this city! Seems similar price and portion-wise to dim sum, if you take off say £3 for the cost of the beer.
Wish we had more cook-it-yourself restaurants in the UK, though, like the kushiage place in your previous email. I'd sign a waiver at the door and everything, if it's health and safety they're worried about.
@Pavel - Nice one!ReplyDelete
@Alex - It really is a good deal.
I agree re the dearth of cook it yourself - for example, I hoped Abeno would let us cook the okonomiyaki ourselves but sadly not. I'd sign that waiver too!
I am relieved you can order a decent amount of skewers. I was worried I'd need to go for dinner afterwards.ReplyDelete
Nice reading Meemee, i'm booked to go tomorrow evening so glad to have a heads up about what to try!ReplyDelete
@Helen - It's a fair concern :)ReplyDelete
@Louis - Excellent, have a good time!
Don't think I'll be able to make it this time but cannot wait till the kushiage restaurant is opened - that's the plan right? Did I understand correctly?ReplyDelete
@Su-Lin - Yes, this is a preview of the real thing set to open next year!ReplyDelete
Nice one! Shame that it's open for only such a short time, I fear I won't make it. the ice cream looks so lovely, I adore Japanese sweets.ReplyDelete
Twas a bit disappointed if I'm honest, wasn't great value at £10 for a small plate of food. Tasty mind but for a pop up promoting a new resto you'd think it would have been a bit cheaper? Also SIDE WAYS RAIN so we had to run inside at one point :^PReplyDelete
@Ute - The ice cream was lovely!ReplyDelete
@Pavel - Aw, sorry dude. Though I reckon six of those sticks with a beer and edamame for £10 is okay (unless you're choosing the asparagus) since it's equivalent to a quid per stick. Yeah, I guess if it's a promo thing it could have been cheaper.


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I learned a very neat way how to make a placket pocket the other day, and thought it would be nice to share. It's not difficult to do and it's very useful for bag making as well as dressmaking. Let's get started shall we?
You will need a piece of outer fabric and two pieces of lining fabric for the placket and pocket and some fusible web. (I used smaller scraps of canvas for this tute but ideally you would make this pocket in your bag lining or exterior)
Fuse a strip of fusible web to your exterior fabric, you don't have to measure exactly where it should be as long as you can eyeball it's position covering the entire placket position.
Measure from the top of your exterior fabric and draw a center line. I marked 3"from the top.
Next mark the center of your placket {my exterior fabric measures 8" so the center would be 4"} and make a small dot, measure from the center however large you want your pocket to be. Mine will be 5" so I measured 2 1/2" either side, mark the ends. Now draw a line 3/8" above and below your center line. Also mark 3/8" from the ends and draw a dart like so.
One placket drawn up one more to go. Fuse your webbing to your lining piece of fabric and draw the same placket {this step is not absolutely necessary as long as there's some fusible web on your lining you're good. It does help a little to have the drawing on both sides)
|I placed the webbing at the top of my lining piece do not copy this! You'll see why in a minute.
|Sew rigth up to your marked ending.
Cut the dart only on the exterior fabric {teal}
Flip over to the other side and cut the center line straight through the {orange} lining fabric only!
Time to heat up that iron and do some pressing. First you want to press your corner darts out of the way.
|I pulled the lining to the back for this step.
So I'm keeping things real here, you will notice my top lining is coming up short (@£%&**$$£@@!!} ideally yours will be at least 1/2" longer or more. I managed to complete the next steps for this tute but trust me you need more lining on top!
This is what the front looks like after pressing.
Place your lining fabric on the back. pin and flip to the side so you can sew both lining pieces to the placket seam you've just pressed open.
|sorry it's not your eyes it's my shaky hands trying to hold the camera and show you where you'll be sewing!
|this is where my too short lining was causing troubles. Yours will be nicely secured on top.
Almost done! All that is left is to sew the sides of your pocket closed. You need to catch both your corner darts in your side seams so they're nice and secured. Again sew right next up to the line you drew.
You can now trim your pocket, press, stick an old wooden peg in your pocket, and there you go! Not that hard was it?
Let me know if you have any questions.
x Leila


text: Hi, Yes .. if you use GFS rule of thumb of 1:8 it can support 512 compute nodes.... provided you use NFS to re-export the GFS filesystem.... you may not get the performance you want with a GFS + NFS approach. If you use a direct GFS approach.. then you are limited to 64 nodes currently.... that is on each compute node.. you run GFS to access a central SAN storage. Laurence Michael Will wrote: > On Monday 15 November 2004 05:26 am, Laurence Liew wrote: > >>The current version of GFS have a 64 node limit.. something to do with >>maximum number of connections thru a SAN switch. > > Does this mean 64 nodes with direct SAN access or 64 client nodes? > > 64 IO nodes could support a larger cluster than just 128 nodes IMHO. > > Michael > >>I believe the limit could be removed in RHEL v4. >> >>BTW, GFS was built for enterprise and not specifically for HPC... the >>use of SAN (all nodes need to be connected to a single SAN storage).. >>may be a bottleneck... >> >>I would still prefer the model of PVFS1/2 and Lustre where the data is >>distributed amongst the compute nodes >> >>I suspect GFS could prove useful however for enterprise clusters say 32 >>- 128 nodes where the number of IO nodes (GFS nodes with exported NFS) >>can be small (less than 8 nodes)... it could work well >> >>Cheers! >>Laurence >> >>Chris Samuel wrote: >> >>>On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 12:08 pm, Laurence Liew wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>>>You may wish to try GFS (open sourced by Red Hat after buying >>>>Sistina)... it may give better performance. >>> >>> >>>Anyone here using the GPL'd version of GFS on large clusters ? >>> >>>Be really interested to hear how folks find that.. >>> >>> >>> >>>------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> >>>_______________________________________________ >>>Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf at beowulf.org >>>To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf >> > -- Laurence Liew, CTO Email: laurence at scalablesystems.com Scalable Systems Pte Ltd Web : http://www.scalablesystems.com (Reg. No: 200310328D) 7 Bedok South Road Tel : 65 6827 3953 Singapore 469272 Fax : 65 6827 3922


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