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More Eric MeyerApril 14, 2004
Well since the cat seems to be out of the bag, More Eric Meyer on CSS is hot off the press and on its way to a bookstore near you. As a technical reviewer of the book (along with Porter Glendinning), I've read it thoroughly a few times, and I can tell you that it's a real treat.
Eric steps you through building 10 projects, and you can't help but come away wondering how he makes it look so easy. The resulting CSS is astoundingly light and straightforward, just the way the W3C intended it. I wish I knew CSS like Eric Meyer knew CSS.
If you loved the last one, there's more to love in this one. If you didn't like the last one, you should give your head a shake and buy it anyway.
(My promo copies arrived the other night and I'll corroborate — it's really tomato-soup-red, not hot pink.)
But the fun doesn't stop there! We planned a special treat.
Chapter 10 deconstructs the building of a css Zen Garden design. Added just now, "15 Petals" is a collaborative effort between Eric and myself, and marks official design #100.
Holy cow. 100! There's something wildly satisfying about having a hundred uniquely incredible submissions to a project which was started not quite a year ago. And there's something supremely felicitous about having Eric Meyer contribute design #100.
Grow, baby, grow! I couldn't be more proud.
Reader Comments
Congrats on number 100. It's been great watching it grow.
And that is one fine Zen Garden design! I bow before you guys.
Congratulations on 100. What a fine design to celebrate it with!
#100 couldn't have been a better design! Congrats on hitting the century mark
Glad to have been a part of the first 100 :)
That is one awesome design. My only criticism would be that links are only differentiated from text by colour, and not one that is substantially different from the body text. My recollection of web accesibility guidelines suggests making links underlined or emboldened so that people who are colour blind can see them.
Other than that, it's almost faultless. Well done!
As Dave noted to me, Wiggles the Wonderworm is so fabulous that it deserves to have been #100:
Still, it makes a pretty fine #99, and is my new favourite, besting Miracle Cure, by the same designer (which I didn't know until afterward):
Congratulations on number 100! Here's to another 100 in even less time! ;) Now that there's a whole chapter devoted to making a CSS Zen Garden entry, I think you can expect an exponential increase in the submissions. :)
The design was so good it actually made sit down and re-read the content of the Zen-Garden. Well worth reading again I think. I hope you are deservedly proud of your achievement Dave. Congratulations.
Great Zen Garden designs. I especially like the creative #99 design.
I don't see why there aren't areas devoted to each design for the creators to talk about the creative process or just to say "Enjoy." if they want. I think this would be a great way to promote techniques in CSS and XHTML and would accopany the Zen Garden designs perfectly.
We would all benefit from each design's backstory.
I was absolutely stunned when I saw 15 Petals. Absolutely gorgeous! I noticed that the photos seemed vaguely familiar in a weird sort of way, then I noted the author(s) and I knew that Eric had taken them, and where. meyerweb today confirmed my suspicions. My wife and I are taking our nieces to that same Botanical Garden on Monday (on a visit from Connecticut – and they'll *love* the CBG!). I gotta take my camera…
BTW, can you guys send me your .htc solution for the PNG when you get it to work? I'm still having trouble…
Thanks in advance – for everything!
My congratulations as well, Dave! I am glad to have been a part of the first 100, and I hope to be a part of the next, though I suspect the bar will continue to be raised :)
Brad, I'm guessing there aren't areas such as you suggest because Dave has a life… but several designers have talked about their designs in their own webspace, notably Doug Bowman (Golden Mean). I'm planning on writing a post (when I get done with school) on my design (#88). Maybe Dave…oops, I'm talking about Dave in the 3rd person…maybe you could create a page that has links to these discussions on the individual authors' sites?
It's great to see the Garden maturing (growing? blossoming? sheesh…) and extending its sphere of influence - I got an email from an asp developer a couple weeks ago saying I had inspired him to attempt better design and move away from table layouts after he saw what was possible with CSS. That was a pretty cool email to receive. Thanks, Dave!
I remember (from my own trial-and-errors over the past month or so) that the .htc trick for getting PNG-24 to display correctly in IE doesn't work so great for background images. For images with the tag it works fine (most of the time)… sigh… i used to know the specifics, but it's escaping me at the moment…
Congratulations on reaching the 100 design milestone, 15 Petals in a stunner.
Though it did get the wind taken out of it's sails by "Wiggles the Wonder Worm", I was laughing out loud in a office full people and rereading the whole css Zen Garden content for the first time in a long time.
Hmmm the site comes out all pink for me on Mozilla/Linux 2.6. Odd, eh? Is this perhaps because of gamma differences?
Just to ask Dave, is the black box in IE 6 supposed to be there in the 15 pedals?
Happy 100th, Dave. It's been a hell of a year, and I'm sure the next hundred will be just as great.
Beautiful new Zen Garden entry.
But what's the deal with the more eric meyer site? It's all stretchy and it's _definitely_ in shades of pink.
15 Petals is simply beautiful, elegant and interesting. I can't wait to read how you guys pulled it off.
I'd actually like to know from Dave or anyone else if you all think that this book would be better than the first one. I've been considering going between the first and the second book, and I definitely do know most of the basics of CSS; it's the more sophisticated styles that I'm trying to master at this point. So with this in mind, which book do you think I should go for? Thanks. Peace.
I like the 100th design. Congrats!
I have to say, that I love the creativity behind "Wiggles the Wonderworm" even if its not as pretty as "15 Petals."
My copy is supposed to be arriving tomorrow, after I ordered it from PeachPit directly. I really liked his first book, and although my CSS is pretty good already, I wanted it for the collection.
"Wiggles" was totally unexpected. I thought I'd navigated to the wrong page for a second!
JJ: the big black block was IE/Win's default rendering of the PNG graphic. The problem should now be fixed on a temporary basis, although you might have to empty your cache and reload to see the change. Hopefully we'll figure out what went wrong with the PNG support in short order and get it fixed.
Eric: It's definitely in shades of pink on your machine, and on many others. Not mine, though, and I checked on multiple machines. I suspect it's Yet Another Gamma Variance Problem. As for "stretchy," there you've confused me. A more detailed explanation would be helpful.
No, the black box surrounding the top flower wasn't supposed to be there. We tried to get around IE's PNG deficiency using the .htc hack, but obviously it didn't take. Fixed with a slightly uglier GIF for the time being (only for IE, everyone else can still bask in PNG glory) but we'll look into it. Thanks for pointing it out, JJ.
Jon – both books offer the same project-based approach to learning CSS, as Eric walks you through the creation of various pages step by step. The new book has some more advanced (and enhanced) CSS than the last, which makes it more fresh, but both offer some pretty solid grounding in the basics. They're both good; it's definitely a tough choice and one I'm glad I don't have to make. So, I guess I'm not much help in deciding…
Great work Dave and I'm looking forward to read the new book by Eric!
One thing regarding the Garden: Could you offer thumbnails of the designs on the "view all designs" page? It would be much easier to find a particular design. Thanks!
15 Petals is gorgeous, and it's great to see two such great names as contributors together.
I haven't been around The Garden for a while, and was again blown away a couple of times by the recent designs; it never ceases to amaze me what these people can come up with, using only CSS.
A real contrast can be had, by the way, by modifying the URL to design "101" (or anything higher than the last one) to see the document completely unstyled.
And, Wiggles was fantastic; waddayamean, taking design to the extreme?
Eh… back to the png-24 in "background-image"… couldn't find everything I was looking for, but I did some twiddling and this is what worked for me… Dave I'm assuming you and Eric are probably already on top of this, but just in case, here's one solution that worked for me:
#div-in-win-ie {
background: transparent url(/images/spacer.gif);
filter:progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.AlphaImageLoader(src='/images/intended_png24_filename.png', sizingMethod='scale');
/* other properties for position, width/height, etc… would follow… */
I vaguely remember also using something that made it work without using a filter, and only using an .htc file, but I can't seem to get it to work anymore. Or perhaps it was my imagination that it ever did work…?
Yeah, thats only 100 official designs, not even including all the unofficial designs you have… i.e. mine :-D
> As for "stretchy",? there you've confused me. A more detailed explanation would be helpful.
I was referring to the fact that it the layout widens out to a full screen width if that's what your browser happens to be set to. Mine isn't _usually_, but it was at the time, so I noticed. I guess it's a personal design preference, but I found it really hard to read.
If it'll help, it showed up pink at all but the most extreme viewing angles on my iBook.
I have studied the first ( book Eric Meyer on css)
At first I was very angry that Eric doesn't take care of IE browser.
Most of the examples are not working correct in IE, but I think the whole community should ignore the dame IE. Maybe one day the IE is under 1% in the statistics.
But anyway, I will buy the new book from Eric. I find it a good idea to discuss the chapter with the Zen Garden Design.
I think I will develop a design for zen-garden too and hope it will by good enough.
I love the side there are so many ideas and you can show everybody what is possible with css.
Man that design looks great, I wish i had that kind of still, perhaps ill give it a look, as my CSS skill could really use some help.


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NVIDIA GTX 275 Review
It's spring time and most people are looking to get out of their houses after being cooped up inside for the winter, while others are thinking about April Fools' and what kind of weird and BS stories will be told. Well, that is not the case today with a new war being fought between nVidia and ATI with the release of their new cards. While people are looking to go outside, nVidia and ATI are looking to keep you inside for another season of game play. With the economy going the way it has, a lot more people are watching their wallets than before, so pricing vs performance is a very hot topic. Pretty much everyone knows about the battle between the nVidia GTX 260 and the ATI 4870 was a back and forth battle for top performance and pricing. Today that battle looks to heat up again with two new releases.
nVidia has been very very aggressive with its drivers by trying to offer great performance before a game is launched or on game day launch whereas ATI has not been as successful. With the launch of the GTX 275, where does it fall performance wise in nVidia's lineup and how does it stack up against ATI's latest release? Well read on to find out.
Closer Look:
The GTX 275 is a card the combines the attributes of the GTX 285 (GPU core with 240 shader processors) with the memory sub system of the GTX260 (896MB on a 448-bit bus) so essentially you have half of a GTX 295! The clock speeds on the GTX 275 come in at 633MHz on the GT200 core, 1404MHz on the shader processing cores and 1134MHz on the 896MB of memory. The card uses the reference design cooler to keep the GTX 275 alive and well.
Connectivity on the GTX 275 is via two Dual Link DVI ports. There is no other method for connecting to this card unless you use an adapter to go from the DVI to either an HDMI or D-Sub VGA port. The rear of the card is open allowing airflow in over the heatsinks on the lower circuits and discharges air through the heatsink via the port on the mounting bracket.
The GTX 275 needs two PCI-E 6-pin power connectors to supply power to the card, so a power supply with the appropriate power connectors is the best solution as using adapters is the the second and less desirable option to feed this card. Next to the power connections is the S/PDIF high definition sound input port that carries the sound from either your sound card or on-board sound solution. The GTX 275 can be used in a Tri SLI setup if multiple graphics cards are used in your system. This is the obvious upgrade path with the performance delivered by the GTX 275.
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Networks with recurrent connection weights that reflect the covariation between pattern elements can dynamically recall patterns and simulate certain forms of memory.
4.1 The Four Hebbian Learning Rules for Neural Networks
4.2 Simulating Memory Recall Using Recurrent Auto-Associator Networks
4.3 Recalling Distinct Memories Using Negative Connections in Auto-Associators
4.4 Synchronous versus Asynchronous Updating in Recurrent Auto-Associators
4.5 Graceful Degradation and Simulated Forgetting
4.6 Simulating Storage and Recall of a Sequence of Patterns
4.7 Hebbian Learning, Recurrent Auto-Association and Models of Hippocampus
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CRESTVIEW � The City Council will continue debating the merits of four companies bidding to run the city's garbage collection services.
After Rory Cassedy defended his company, Allied Waste Services�, proposal, the council agreed on Monday to defer any decision until all bidders could present proposals during the council�s Aug. 26 meeting.
Allied ranked third out of four companies scored by a review committee comprising Public Works Director Wayne Steele, City Clerk Betsy Roy and Finance Director Patti Beebe.
The committee scored the bidders in 15 areas under technical, managerial and financial categories. The top-scoring company was Waste Pro, the city's current waste contractor.
The contract period expires Oct. 1. Bidders were vying for a five-year contract to handle Crestview's solid waste and recycling programs.
Cassedy protested the committee's ranking, noting Delaware-based Allied, Gulf Breeze's waste contractor, submitted the lowest residential and commercial services bids of $15.49 and $19.59, respectively.
Florida-based Waste Pro's current monthly charges are $19 for residential customers and $24 for commercial.
Waste Pro's proposed charges are $17.25 and $23, a savings of $21.12 and $12 annually, respectively, if the company is selected again.
Also bidding were Inland Services Corporation, a Texas-based company, and Waste Management, which previously held the city's contract.
Waste Management proposed the highest monthly charges of $24.38 for residential service and $30 for commercial.
"I feel they have priced themselves out of bid consideration," Steele stated in an evaluation letter to the council.
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Roy noted that though Allied offered the best prices, "this does not mean the lowest bidder is the best choice for the city of Crestview."
The committee had many factors to consider in making its recommendation to the council, Roy said, including customer service.
Councilman Tom Gordon, who often simplifies issues into household terms, concurred, observing that he can buy a hamburger for a dollar, but if he wants a tasty hamburger, he expects to pay more.
The city would also realize more than $10,000 in franchise fees under Waste Pro's proposal than it currently receives, for $150,670 total, Roy said.
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Allied Waste $15.49 $19.59 $141,588
Allied Waste scores: 55/65/66 = 62 average
Inland Waste $17.68 $23.68 $163,221
Inland Waste scores: 60/64/60 = 61.33 average
Waste Mgmt. $24.38 $30 $208,317
Waste Mgmt. scores: 60/65/63 = 62.66 average
Waste Pro $17.25 $23 $150,670
Waste Pro scores: 72/72/73 = 72.3 average
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About Joseph Kalar
Walter Kalaidjian
The grim setting of a factory closing, as Joseph Kalar describes it in his widely published poem "Papermill" was "Not to believed hardly, this clammy silence":
Where once feet stamped over the oily floor,
Dinnerpails clattered, voices rose and fell
In laughter, curses, and songs. Now the guts
Of this mill have ceased their rumbling, now
The fires are banked and red changes to black,
Steam is cold water, silence is rust, and quiet
Spells hunger. Look at these men, now,
Standing before the iron gates, mumbling,
"Who could believe it? Who could believe it?"
One of the few proletarian poets of the depression era who actually earned his living as a mill worker, Kalar was isolated on the iron range of northern Minnesota throughout his lifetime. Nevertheless, he published worldwide in Red Flag (official organ of the German CP), Literature of the World Revolution (Moscow), and International Literature, as well as in such domestic venues as Anvil, The Daily Worker, Left, Morada, New Masses, and The Rebel Poet. In fact, it was only through the literary network which little magazines kept alive that talents like Kalar's survived on the outskirts of provincial America. "New Masses," he wrote in 1932, "kept me on the road, in this period, when the hallucinative fog of egotism . . . would ebb and I would write. Through New Masses I became acquainted with a number of fine fellows, Jack Conroy, H. H. Lewis, Walt Carmon, and others." In introducing Kalar to a left audience in the 1933 anthology We Gather Strength, Mike Gold valorized him as "a young lumber worker and paper-mill mechanic of Minnesota":
There is power in him that has not yet found words; but nobody can miss the ardor, the fierce proletarian groping for a due to the world, the painful cheated sense of beauty.... He is a mystic, and he works in a papermill, sweating and starving. This is the contradiction, and this is the secret of his communism.
From Gold's proletcult perspective, Kalar's strength lay in his everyday familiarity with working-class existence coupled with an understanding of Marxism and the Soviet Revolution. His proletarian credentials made him a native son of the American left, one who seemed to embody Gold's Soviet ideal of the worker correspondent.
In a review for The Rebel Poet of the 1931 Unrest anthology, Kalar warned against aestheticizing industrial processes. Kalar cautioned, in his critique of Sherwood Anderson's "Machine Song," that "it is not enough to chant the beauties of machinery without taking into account the realities of the 'new life' bred by the machine under capitalism." In the course of his review, Kalar drew a keen distinction between a poem's representation of industrial design vs. the social processes entailed in the new industrial forces of production. He thus resisted any aestheticization of technology that would divorce machinery from its social contexts.
Kalar's realistic style has the virtue of reflecting with exacting verisimilitude the barbarous side of capitalist production, as in, say, "Warm Day in Papermill Town," where
sulfur dioxide
bums the nose and wreathes the mind
with thoughts of beaters to be filled,
pumping jordans, swish swish of hot rolls,
paper to be made, the crash of spruce,
furred branches stabbing here and there,
the arm caught pulpy in the rolls,
the finger, lost; faces young, floating in steam,
shouting, cursing, seen now,
haggard in the sun, remembering flowers.
Echoing the "apparition" of faces in Pound's "In a Station of the Metro," Kalar's "faces young, floating in steam" lends a political inflection to modern imagist poetics. Beyond Pound's more cosmopolitan setting, the pastoral expectations set up in the poem's title are ironically undercut with graphic scenes of abusive child-labor practices and industrial mutilation.
In addition to such disturbing portraits, Kalar also composed in the agitprop manner, employing slogans, journalistic lampoon, and topical parodies to critique American jingoism, red baiting, racism, and xenophobia, as in the "patriotic" mask of the "Flagwaver":
When I get patriotic, I go on the big drunk.
I cut Wesley Everest, I hang that black Injun
Frank Little from a bridge, I put Joe Hill
Against a wall and fill the lousy bastard
With hot jets of lead,
I break the foreign heads of strikers,
Them yella slackers, them chickenlivered
Responding to the often violent scenes of depression era unrest, Kalar artfully captures, in his grotesque personae, the reactionary vernacular of the American midwest.
From American Culture Between the Wars: Revisionary Modernism and Postmodern Critique. Copyright © 1993 by Columbia University Press.
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WordPress is a popular blogging software and powers more than 10% of all websites globally. Developed by Automatic, WordPress rose to popularity quickly because of it's up-to-date development framework, extensive feature set, flexibility, rapid and multilingual publishing ability, multi-author support, and thriving community. Thousands of free and commercial themes and plugins are available to extend and personalize WordPress for just about every situation.
This CenturyLink Blueprint provides a click-through solution to install and configure WordPress on the Linux platform.
For more information, please visit http://www.wordpress.org.
CenturyLink Cloud Users
After reading this article, the user should feel comfortable getting started using the Blueprint technology on CenturyLink Cloud.
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If you want to access your application over the internet, please perform the following tasks after you receive an email notifying you that the Blueprint completed successfully.
If you need to connect to your server via the Internet, Add a Public IP to your server through the Control Portal.
Allow incoming traffic for desired ports by clicking on the Servers Public IP through the Control Portal and configuring appropriately.
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- The default ports to access the application are:
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WordPress is available as a Blueprint for deployment on a new server.
Steps to deploy to an existing server Blueprint
Locate the WordPress Stack Blueprint.
- Login to the Control Portal. From the Nav Menu on the left, click Orchestration > Blueprints Library.
- Search for "WordPress" in the keyword search on the right side of the page.
- Locate the 'Install WordPress on Linux' Blueprint.
Choose and Deploy the Blueprint.
- Click the "Install WordPress on Linux" Blueprint.
Configure the Blueprint.
Complete the information below:
- Execute on Server: Select a Linux x64 server to deploy the Blueprint on.
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Deploy the Blueprint.
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Monitor the Activity Queue.
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Select to Execute the Package on a Server Group.
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Configure the Parameters.
Set the following application parameters:
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- SSL Port - default 443
- Web Server domain - default 127.0.0.1
- MySQL Server port - default 3306
- Login - default user
- Your real name - default User Name
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Deploy the Script Package.
- Once verified, click the
execute packagebutton.
- This will kick off the deployment process and load a page where you can track the progress. Deployment will typically complete within a few minutes.
- Once verified, click the
Monitor the Activity Queue.
- Monitor the Deployment Queue to view the progress of the Blueprint.
- To monitor progress, click Queue from the Nav Menu on the left.
- Once the Blueprint completes successfully, you will receive an email stating that the Blueprint build is complete. Please do not use the application until you have received this email notification.
Access your WordPress server
After your Blueprint deploys successfully, please follow these instructions to access your server:
- Check email to obtain Server Name and IP Address Login information.
- Log in to the server and start having fun!
The costs associated with this Blueprint deployment are for the CenturyLink Cloud infrastructure only. There are no Bitnami license costs or additional fees bundled in.
About Bitnami
CenturyLink Cloud works with Bitnami to provide open source software integrations to its customers. Bitnami is a library of popular server applications and development environments that can be installed with one click, either in your laptop, in a virtual machine or hosted in the cloud. Bitnami takes care of compiling and configuring the applications and all of their dependencies (third-party libraries, language runtimes, databases) so they work out-of-the-box. The resulting packaged software (a 'stack') is then made available as native installers, virtual machines and cloud images. These Bitnami application packages provide a consistent, secure and optimized end-user experience when deploying any app, on any platform.
Frequently Asked Questions
Who should I contact for support?
- For issues related to deploying the Bitnami Blueprint on CenturyLink Cloud, licensing or accessing the deployed software, please visit the Bitnami Support website.
- For issues related to cloud infrastructure (VMs, network, etc.), or if you experience a problem deploying the Blueprint or Script Package, please open a CenturyLink Cloud Support ticket by emailing firstname.lastname@example.com or through the CenturyLink Cloud Support website.


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Your team in 2014 toolkit
This dvm360 toolkit focuses on your team in 2014. The special package of articles, tips, handouts, videos and tools is designed to keep your veterinary team members performing at their best this year.
Articles and tips
> How to heal a fractured veterinary team
> 10 tasks to tackle right now
Social media skills
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> What your next team meeting needs
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Youth make their mark on Leadership Samoa
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Migrant caravan groups arrive by hundreds at US border
Migrants in a caravan of Central Americans arrived in Tijuana by the hundreds Wednesday, getting their first glimpse of the robust U.S. military presence that awaits them after President Donald Trump ordered thousands of troops to the border.
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The man who first seized power in a military coup then refashioned himself as a legitimate leader appears set to rule Fiji for another four years.
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Hosted by the Town of Cary and Meredith College - May 21-26, 2012
May 26, 2012: Cary, N.C. - The 2012 NCAA Division III Tennis Championships concluded on Saturday with the men's and women's individuals and doubles championships being decided. Emory pulled off the singles sweep with Dillion Pottish winning in men's and Gabrielle Clark taking the women's title. Amherst took the doubles sweep as Luis Rattenhuber/Austin Chafetz took the men's crown while Laura Danzig/Gabby Devlin won the women's title.
The men's singles final featured Emory's Pottish against Nicholas Ballou from Cal Lutheran. Pottish took the first set 6-2 and Ballou knoted things up with a 6-1 win in the second. The match was pushed to a third set with Pottish gaining the 6-2 win in the third and sealing the championship with a 6-2, 1-6, 6-2 victory.
In the women's singles, Lok-Sze Leung from Middlebury and Clark from Emory will played for the championship. Clark took down Leung in straight sets and winning a tie breaker in the second set 6-2, 7-6 (7-1).
In men doubles, Amrik Donkena/Mya Smith-Dennis of Gustavus Adolphus faced off against Luis Rattenhuber/Austin Chafetz of Amherst. The duo from Gustavus Adolphus took the opening set 6-4. Rattenhuber and Chafetz then had a come back from 5-3 in the second set to take the 7-5 win to tie the match at one all. Amherst kept it rolling as they took the first three in the third set to roll to the 6-3 win in the third set.
On the women's side, Zahra Dawson/Gabrielle Clark of Emory and Laura Danzig/Gabby Devlin of Amherst met in the doubles final. Emory jumped out quick as they took the first set 6-4, but Amherst quickly answered with a 6-1 win. In the third set, Amherst started the set hot as they took the first three and were up 5-1 at one point. Emory then started a roll of their own as they tied the match at 5-all. The match then went to a tiebreaker at 6-all with Amherst winning the tiebreaker 7-3.
A total of six NCAA championships were handed out over the week with Emory winning the men's team title and Williams taking their fifth women's championship on Wednesday.
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Saturday, May 26
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|Men's Singles Finals -
Dillion Pottish def. Nicholas Ballou (6-2, 1-6, 6-2)
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Smith-Dennis - Gustavus Adolphus 4-6, 7-5, 6-3
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Clark/Emory vs. Laura Danzig - Gabby Devlin/Amherst 4-6, 6-1,
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By Clive Bernath: British boxing fans will be treated to a good old fashioned punch up when Carl Froch makes the second defence of his IBF super middleweight title against Mikkel Kessler at the O2 Arena in London on Saturday night. For far too long some high profile British boxers have talked a good fight only to come up embarrassingly short but when Froch and Kessler finally face each other in the ring on Saturday we know exactly what we are going to get-an out and out war between two proven ring Warriors.
This of course is a rematch of their April, 2010 battle in Showtimes's Super Six tournament which Kessler won via 12 round decision in his home country of Denmark. Kessler always promised his British rival a rematch in England and has duly kept his word.
The first fight was closer than the judges 115-113,116-112 and 117-111 verdict in my humble opinion but I felt Kessler did enough to nick the decision. The key to victory for Kessler was the way in which he executed the jab against the hands down style of Froch, who for his part did not use his left jab enough. Froch spent the first part of the fight on the back foot as Kessler rained in the jab, looking for the right hand over the top. The Englishman allowed Kessler to dictate the pace of the fight for long periods in the first fight which ultimately not only cost him his unbeaten record but also the WBC super-middleweight crown.
That was three years ago and whilst Froch has been defeated by American world No.1 Andre Ward since then, it is he who has enjoyed the greater success. That greater success was never more evident than back in May, 2012 when he impressively destroyed the undefeated Canadian Lucian Bute inside five rounds to claim the IBF super-middleweight crown. As for Kessler, following the win over Froch the 34 year-old Danish legend was forced to take a year out after sustaining a serious eye injury in sparring, which he claims he suffered in the run up to the Andre Ward fight in November 2009 and still hampered him in the Froch fight, which is why he withdrew from Super Six Tournament. Kessler's career hung in balance for a while but thankfully he has made a full recovery and gone on to fight three times since he fought Froch.
After routine wins over Mehdi Bouadia and American puncher Allan Green the 'Great Dane' destroyed Irishman Brian Magee with sustained body shots over three rounds to claim the WBA super-middleweight crown.
Froch starts the bookies favourite and rightly so considering his form and level of activity. The feeling is that Kessler has lost his edge since sustaining the eye injury and that could be a major factor on the night. Froch is also fiercely driven by the desire for revenge which could be his undoing. All things considered If Froch takes the fight to Kessler and nullifies his jab early I can see him clinching a tight but deserved decision to set up the rubber match.
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Though the Republicans and President Barack Obama seem far apart, we can already see the elements of the deal: modest tax raises and some spending cuts.
The bad news: The era of American Austerity is about to begin.
The good news: It will be a fairly gentle austerity, at least in the beginning. Housing and autos are improving. The Federal Reserve will likely continue to expand its quantitative easing operations at the next meeting on Dec. 12, which will provide some cushion against austerity.


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Rihanna Grabs Justin Timberlake for Next Album
Rihanna is out and about New York City in thigh-high leather boots on Tuesday (September 22).
The 21-year-old Bajan beauty has just picked up Justin Timberlake as producer for her new album. The U.K. dance duo, Chase & Status will also be producing on her next album as well.
JT talked about the project and told Access Hollywood, "In my opinion, she's got the world in the palm of her hand right now, based on her success with her last record. The stuff we've come up with in the studio, it's the next step for her. It's a little more grown up. It's got some edge to it!"
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One Reason Companies Don't Do 'Free': They're Scared Of Pissing Off Those Who Bought?
from the could-be... dept
Several months later, right before we were due to go live, we had a meeting about the final details of the experiment--this time with a bigger entourage from marketing. One of the new members noted that because we were extending differing offers, some customers might buy a product that was not ideal for them, spend too much money, or get a worse deal overall than others. He was correct, of course. In any experiment, someone gets the short end of the stick. Take clinical medical trials, I said to the team. When testing chemotherapy treatments, some patients suffer more so that, down the road, others might suffer less. I hoped this put it in perspective. Fortunately, I said, price testing household products requires far less suffering than chemo trials.I'm not actually convinced Ariely is correct on the reasoning here. It might not be this "beautiful human sentiment" where they "don't want to treat any [customer] unfairly." I suspect that it's the same reason why dynamic pricing often gets shunned by companies: because if customers find out that someone else got a better deal, even if they were happy with the original deal they suddenly change their minds and believe they got ripped off. It's because we tend to judge things relatively, rather than in absolutes, and companies that have been caught charging different prices to different customers often have found that the backlash is worse than the benefits of differential pricing.
But I could tell I was losing them. In a sense, I was impressed. It was a beautiful human sentiment they were conveying: We care about all customers and don't want to treat any one of them unfairly. A debate ensued among the group: Are we willing to sacrifice some customers "just" to learn how the new pricing approaches work?
They hedged. They asked me what I thought the best approach was. I told them that I was willing to share my intuition but that intuition is a remarkably bad thing to rely on. Only an experiment gives you the evidence you need. In the end, it wasn't enough to convince them, and they called off the project.
However, it is interesting that many companies fear experimenting and prefer to just make a decision and go with it. I think this is less true in some tech companies. Google, for example, is infamous in their ridiculous level of experimenting and detailed A-B testing on things before going live with a final decision. But for companies that are worried about how any sort of "experiment" is viewed by consumers, you could see them being afraid to even try a concept like "free." I'm not convinced this is really a strong enough effect to keep companies from using "free," but it could be one explanation for why legacy companies are often so resistant to the idea.


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All papers are accessible online from the UCSD network. To access the papers from a non-UCSD computer, use the campus web proxy with your web browser or campus VPN with your computer.
|Course Introduction
|Historical Perspective
(Additional historical background on semaphores in Wikipedia.)
Q: Dijkstra explicitly states their goals for the THE operating system. How do these goals compare to, say, Microsoft's goals for the Windows operating system? Why do we no longer build operating systems with the same goals as THE?
Optional related paper on a deployment experience of RC 4000:
P. B. Hansen, The RC 4000 Real-Time Control System at Pulway, BIT 7, pp. 279-288, 1967.
Q: How does synchronization in the RC 4000 system compare with synchronization in the THE system?
Q: What features in TENEX are reminiscent of features in Unix (a later system)?
Q: How is a Hydra procedure different from the procedures we are familiar with in a typical language and runtime environment?
Q: What are the concepts in HYDRA that correspond to Lampson's definitions of "Domain", "Object", and "Access Matrix"? What about Multics?
Optional Multics paper:
A. Bensoussan, C. T. Clingen, and R. C. Daley, The Multics Virtual Memory: Concepts and Design, Communications of the ACM, Vol 15, No. 5, May 1972, pp. 308-318.
Q: Compare and contrast protected subsystems in Multics with procedures in Hydra.
Q: What aspects of Unix as described in the 1974 paper do not survive today, or have been considerably changed?
Q: What does it mean, "9P is really the core of the system; it is fair to say that the Plan 9 kernel is primarily a 9P multiplexer"?
Q: What are the three distributed OS structures outlined in the paper, which structure does Medusa use, and why?
Q: How do the requirements of the Pilot operating system differ from the systems we have read about so far, and how does the design of Pilot reflect those differences?
Q: What are "monitor invariant" I and "condition" B, and why are they important in the discussion of monitors?
Q: Compare and contrast synchronization in Java with Hoare monitors and Mesa monitors.
|Virtual Memory
Q: The paper states, "VAX/VMS, then, is a collection of procedures that exist in the address space of each process." Explain in your own words what this statement means.
Q: Why does Mach support copy-on-write, and how does it implement it?
Q: What is the argument for diskless workstations, and do you agree/disagree with the argument?
Optional historical retrospective:
J. K. Ousterhout, Sprite Retrospective
Q: How do the caching policies in Sprite differ from those in the V Kernel?
Q: In what ways was Grapevine explicitly designed to handle scalability?
Q: How does the implementation of the GMS page replacement algorithm approximate the ideal algorithm?
|OS/Architecture Interaction
Optional related papers on hierarchical address spaces and formally verifying a microkernel:
J. Liedtke, On Micro-kernel Construction, In Proceedings of the Fifteenth ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, December 1995, Copper Mountain Resort, Colorado, pp. 237-250.
G. Klein, K. Elphinstone, G. Heiser, J. Andronick, D. Cock, P. Derrin, D. Elkaduwe, K. Engelhardt, M. Norrish, R. Kolanski, T. Sewell, H. Tuch, S. Winwood, seL4: Formal Verification of an OS Kernel, In Proceedings of the 22nd ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, October 2009, Big Sky Resort, MT, pp. 207-220.
Q: Compare and contrast the L4 microkernel with the RC4000 Nucleus and the HYDRA kernel in terms of their goals to provide a basis on which higher level OS functionality can be implemented.
Optional — the other Exokernel paper:
M. F. Kaashoek, D. R. Engler, G. R. Ganger, H. M. Briceno, R. Hunt, D. Mazieres, T. Pinckney, R. Grimm, J. Jannotti and K. Mackenzie, Application Performance and Flexibility on Exokernel Systems, In Proceedings of the Sixteenth ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, October 1997, St. Malo, France, pp. 52-65.
Q: Compare and contrast an exokernel with a microkernel.
Optional related paper describing VMware virtualization performance (2006-era):
Keith Adams and Ole Agesen, A Comparison of Software and Hardware Techniques for x86 Virtualization, In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems, October 2006, pp. 2–13.
Q: Microkernels and virtual machine monitors are two different ways to support the execution of multiple operating systems on modern hardware. How does the microkernel approach in L4 compare and constrast with the VMM approach in Xen?
Q: The goal of scheduler activations is to have the benefits of both user and kernel threads without their limitations. What are the limitations of user and kernel threads, and what are the benefits that scheduler activations provide?
Q: At a high level, as a mechanism how does lottery scheduling provide modular resource management? Why can't the Unix scheduler provide a similar kind of management?
Optional related papers on lottery scheduling:
David Petrou, John W. Milford, Garth A. Gibson, Implementing Lottery Scheduling: Matching the Specializations in Traditional Schedulers, In Proceedings of the USENIX Annual Technical Conference, 1999.
Carl A. Waldspurger and William E. Weihl, Stride Scheduling: Deterministic Proportional-Share Resource Management, Technical Report: TM-528, MIT, Cambridge, MA, 1995.
|Communication and Bugs
Q: In what ways do the authors optimize connection management?
Optional fun retrospective:
Al Bessey, Ken Block, Ben Chelf, Andy Chou, Bryan Fulton, Seth Hallem, Charles Henri-Gros, Asya Kamsky, Scott McPeak, and Dawson Engler, A Few Billion Lines of Code Later: Using Static Analysis to Find Bugs in the Real World, Communications of the ACM, Vol. 53, No. 2, February 2010, pp. 66-75.
|I/O and File Systems
Q: In FFS, reading is always at least as fast as writing. In old UFS, writing was 50% faster. Why is this?
Q: When we want to read a block in LFS on disk, how do we figure out where it is?
Optional further readings on Rio:
David E. Lowell and Peter M. Chen, Free Transactions with Rio Vista, In Proceedings of the Sixteenth ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles October 1997, St. Malo, France, pp. 92–101.
Q: Do you believe the underlying argument in Rio? Why or why not? Would you use a system that recovered data using Rio?
Optional GFS retrospective:
Marshall Kirk McKusick and Sean Quinlan, GFS: Evolution on Fast-forward, ACM Queue, August 2009.
Michael Vrable, Justin Ma, Jay Chen, David Moore, Erik VandeKieft, Alex C. Snoeren, Geoffrey M. Voelker, and Stefan Savage, Scalability, Fidelity and Containment in the Potemkin Virtual Honeyfarm, Proceedings of the 20th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP), Brighton, UK, October 2005, pages 148-162.
Diwaker Gupta, Kenneth Yocum, Marvin McNett, Alex C. Snoeren, Amin Vahdat, and Geoffrey M. Voelker, To Infinity and Beyond: Time-Warped Network Emulation, Proceedings of the 3rd ACM/USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI), San Jose, CA, May 2006, pages 87-100.
Diwaker Gupta, Kashi Vishwanath, and Amin Vahdat, DieCast: Testing Distributed Systems with an Accurate Scale Model, Proceedings of the 5th ACM/USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI), San Francisco, CA, April 2008.
Diwaker Gupta, Sangmin Lee, Michael Vrable, Stefan Savage, Alex C. Snoeren, George Varghese, Geoffrey M. Voelker, and Amin Vahdat, Difference Engine: Harnessing Memory Redundancy in Virtual Machines, Proceedings of the 8th ACM/USENIX Symposium on Operating System Design and Implementation (OSDI), San Diego, CA, December 2008.


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Broward County's Beach Renourishment Project (Segment III) Updates for the Months of October, November and part of December
When last we updated the "Weekly Update," the beach at north Hollywood was being restored. During the last couple of months, beach construction has been completed along the beaches of Hallandale Beach, Hollywood Beach, and Dania Beach.
The total length of completed beach is 5.7 miles, and stretches from the Broward/Miami-Dade County line to Dania Beach Pier. Some 1.3 million cubic yards of sand was placed along these beaches, enough sand to fill the Empire State Building two times. After completing construction on November 4, Great Lakes crews took the Hopper Dredge Liberty Island to Norfolk, VA, for several weeks of maintenance while other crew members prepared John U. Lloyd Beach State Park (JUL) for its turn to receive beach sand.
A barge was moored on the east side of the ICWW across from Port Everglades Berth 27, and a pipeline was laid down across the island to the beach. Since the presence of the U.S. Navy Surface Warfare Center's cable field offshore of the Park precludes anchoring or placement of objects on the seafloor in that area, the dredge, after filling up at the borrow sites offshore of Deerfield Beach and Hillsboro Beach, must steam into the Port and moor at the barge on the ICWW. Then the dredge hooks up to the pipeline and pumps the sand across the Park to the beach. Using this method, the dredge has pumped approximately 75,000 cubic yards of sand to date onto the Park's beach. Approximately 600,000 cubic yards of sand will be placed onto the northernmost mile of the Park's beach. An additional feature of this portion of the project involves the removal and placement onto the Park's beach of a sand shoal at the mouth of the Port's inlet. It is estimated that approximately 40,000 cubic yards of beach-quality sand will be dredged from the channel and placed onto the beach.
The structures at the north end of the Park, consisting of a rock spur on the south jetty of the Port and two T-head rock groins, have also been completed. These structures will be mostly covered by added beach sand as part of the project, and then function to hold a beach in place permanently.


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KANSAS CITY, Kan.—About two and a half hours after saying that Dale Earnhardt Jr. had been cleared to return to racing next week at Martinsville, team owner Rick Hendrick clarified his comments and said that Earnhardt has not yet been cleared to race.
Earnhardt, who has missed the past two Sprint Cup races with a concussion, will have to go through more tests on Monday and Tuesday before getting clearance to run next week's race.
Hendrick said Earnhardt will test a racecar on Monday and then be evaluated by doctors on Tuesday. He said he would be "shocked" if Earnhardt were not cleared to race at Martinsville.
Hendrick met with reporters prior to Sunday's race at Kansas Speedway and said that Earnhardt had been cleared by Dr. Jerry Petty, a Charlotte, N.C., neurosurgeon who first diagnosed Earnhardt's concussion Oct. 10.
"Everything is great," Hendrick said before the race at Kansas Speedway. "The doctors have actually already cleared him. He'll be in Martinsville. He feels good. He's done everything they've told him to do. He didn't have anymore headaches on Thursday or Friday of (last) week."
But with about 100 laps left in Sunday's race, Hendrick came to the infield media center and told reporters he had spoken prematurely and that Earnhardt had not yet been cleared.
"I got ahead of myself that there's a closed test Monday that Dr. Petty will attend and Dale will be back in the car and he'll make the decision with a final test (at the doctor's office) on Tuesday," Hendrick said. "So we don't foresee any problems. I didn't read my e-mails this morning and I kind of got ahead of myself."
Hendrick said he is optimistic that Earnhardt will be racing at Martinsville.
"I would be shocked if he's not in the car," Hendrick said. "Everything looks good—his attitude and the way he feels. He has had no headaches since the Thursday or Friday of Charlotte and the tests have gone real well.
"I think Dr. Petty is being super-cautious and I applaud him for that. I think the sequence he will be with him at the test Monday, they will evaluate him at his office Tuesday and then he will notify NASCAR if he's OK. Maybe I just heard what I wanted to hear when I talked to Petty because everything in Pittsburgh was good."
Earnhardt, who was 11th in the standings before missing last week's race at Charlotte Motor Speedway, got a concussion in a crash during testing Aug. 29 at Kansas and another on the final lap of the Oct. 7 at Talladega Superspeedway.
NASCAR's most popular driver, Earnhardt has been replaced by Regan Smith the past two weeks.
Complaining of headaches in the days following his crash at Talladega, Earnhardt started seeing doctors on Oct. 9 and the next day he was told he had to sit out for at least two races.
"His head was hurting him bad enough that I thought maybe we might have a problem," Hendrick said. "But it's just really fortunate that everything is good."
Hendrick said there was no thought of holding Earnhardt out for the rest of the season even though he has no shot at winning the Chase to the Sprint Cup championship. Before missing the Charlotte race, Earnhardt, 38, had driven in 461 consecutive Cup races dating back to the 1999 season finale.
"He's burning up to get in a car," Hendrick said. "He wanted to run this weekend. He's very anxious. He wants to get back. No way are you going to hold him out unless the doctor wouldn't clear him. But he's good to go."
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SAN JOSE, Calif. – January 17, 2012 – SEMI announced today that G. Dan Hutcheson, CEO and chairman of VLSI Research, is the recipient of the thirteenth annual Bob Graham Award. This award for outstanding contributions in semiconductor equipment and materials marketing was presented today to Hutcheson during the SEMI Industry Strategy Symposium 2012 held in Half Moon Bay, California.
According to the nominating committee, Hutcheson has had a major impact on the industry. Most of the leading firms in the industry rely upon Hutcheson's research services, databases, and consulting services to plan and guide their strategic investments. His email newsletter, The Chip Insider®, contains a mix of industry insider facts, forecasts, market opportunities and threats, as well as industry debates among recipients. His book, Maxims of Tech, chronicles how our Industry's leaders have innovated — providing key business lessons. Together, his activities empower executives with strategic and tactical marketing value.
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The Bob Graham Award was established to honor individuals for the creation and/or implementation of marketing programs that enhance customer satisfaction and further the growth of the semiconductor equipment and materials industry. The award is named in honor of the late Bob Graham, the distinguished semiconductor industry leader who was part of the founding team of Intel and who helped establish industry-leading companies Applied Materials and Novellus Systems.
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SEMI is the global industry association serving the nano- and microelectronics manufacturing supply chains. SEMI member companies are the engine of the future, enabling smarter, faster and more economical products that improve our lives. Since 1970, SEMI has been committed to helping members grow more profitably, create new markets and meet common industry challenges. SEMI maintains offices in Beijing, Bengaluru, Berlin, Brussels, Grenoble, Hsinchu, Moscow, San Jose, Seoul, Shanghai, Singapore, Tokyo, and Washington, D.C. For more information, visit www.semi.org.
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Emergency Medical Services Lecturer Malone Experiences STEMI System First-Hand
- 03-06-2014
- By Jennifer Nachbur
For Patrick Malone, an emergency medical services lecturer at the University of Vermont since 1999, providing details of his cardiac arrest experience is like reading a story book. He has no memory of the event, or the week before or week after, but he's been told what happened many times since the fateful May 10, 2013 event, and he's happy to share those accounts.
Malone's "informants" include his partner Debbie. The two had discussed his staying late that evening to teach a last-minute Wilderness First Responders recertification class to three UVM undergraduates who needed cards for their summer jobs and were begging Malone to fit in a class on the last day of exams. Debbie had advised against it, but Malone – who'd spent the prior week and weekend cutting and stacking wood, planting a garden, attending a party and celebrating his daughter's birthday – decided to do it. The class began at 5 p.m., with a planned break at 7 p.m.
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Because of his long history teaching at UVM and directing IREMS, which was housed in the Department of Surgery until June 2013, Malone's been responsible for educating and certifying more than 3,000 emergency medical technicians (EMTs) across Vermont, including 75 to 100 students per semester. In fact, he'd trained the firefighters and EMTs who responded – five in total.
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He confesses that being a patient after teaching caregivers was tough, but he enrolled in Fletcher Allen's cardiac rehabilitation program and took three months off from teaching. By fall 2013, he was back at UVM, teaching full-time and working out regularly at the UVM Fitness Center. Last October, he shared his story in a keynote address at the 2013 Vermont EMS and Healthcare Preparedness Conference, sponsored by the Vermont Department of Health, held at Vermont's Jay Peak Resort.
In the current academic year, he's worked with UVM medical students, undergraduates, plus community EMS service providers in classrooms in Rowell, the Clinical Simulation Laboratory, and at the IREMS offices in the Bioresearch Complex on Spear Street.
Malone, who will earn his Master of Education from UVM this coming May, admits that his personal awareness of cardiovascular disease and health has changed dramatically since the event, but his stress response is basically gone.
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A nightmare finally came to an end...
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by claudinka
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Oh my God, I am so relieved that this dress is finished. Took me almost 3 (!!) years and cost me so much energy and nerves. When I started I was very motivated. I even bought the original fabric – as you can see from the magazine's picture (burdastyle 10/2009, no. 112B). But when working on it I got more and more disturbed by the chiffon (sliding around whenever possible, fraying to death), loads of french seams, seam ripping over and over again because I made so many mistakes, the rubber band casing. So I throw it into the corner… got it out again, nerved me again… throw it again in the corner. I think when I started it was just too advanced for me. Finally after some sewing classes and easier projects in between, I dared to work on it again. And somehow, I don't know how, I finished it.
It didn't come out as I wanted. Actually the waist is supposed to be much lower, now it's an empire waist which I'm not very fond of 'cause I think it doesn't flatter me too much. But I didn't know anything about a big bust adjustment back then and I am happy just because of the fact that it is finished and doesn't give me a bad consciousness any more. I am ready to start with something new !! (Oh, isn't there this skirt that I started 2 years ago and didn't finish….? ;-)
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Chiffon, rubber band
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Jun 10, 2013, 09.39 PMby DrapedinCloudlets
Wow, what a wonderful dress!
Apr 11, 2013, 04.33 PMby SassyT
I love this dress, I can't tell you have been through stress with it. Maybe Gerties tip on sewing with slippery fabrics may help next time http://www.blogforbettersewing.com/2013/04/cutting-slippery-fabrics-with-tissue.html
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Apr 16, 2013, 07.01 PMby claudinka
Thanks for the tip! For cutting a layes a bed linen underneath and that worked quite well. Still there was the problemt that it wanted to slip away from the sewing machine.
Apr 8, 2013, 08.44 PMby claudinka
Thanks everyone for your nice comments. Makes me even more proud and gives me motivation for any new projects!
Apr 8, 2013, 08.16 AMby hormiguica
really lovelly!!!
Great job
Apr 8, 2013, 06.11 AMby balllisaann
This dress deserves a celebration and champagne! Take it out. It looks amazing. :)
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Apr 8, 2013, 08.43 PMby claudinka
Oh, champagne, you're right. ;-) At least I've already worn it today and told everyone that I made it myself.
Apr 8, 2013, 05.52 AMby chichil
Your dress is fabulous, it looks like you bought it some expensive store so it was definitely worth all your efforts!
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Apr 8, 2013, 08.42 PMby claudinka
Oh wow, thank you!
Apr 8, 2013, 03.08 AMby runningwithscissors1
I love it! It turned out great.
Apr 7, 2013, 09.37 PMby liliv-1
It's a reallly great dress, the empire style is very flattering on you especially with the belt.
Apr 7, 2013, 06.29 PMby sleepy-dumpling
Despite your nerves I think the dress is stunning and you look wonderful in it. Well done for persevering!
Apr 7, 2013, 05.50 PMby SewNotWork
It's a wonderful dress. No one will know that it wasn't meant to be an empire waist dress. The belt goes nicely with it. Wear it proudly. It's beautiful!
Apr 7, 2013, 05.21 PMby Red Point Tailor
well… it was worth waiting…it is fabulous!
Apr 7, 2013, 05.15 PMby The Tropical Sewist
Congratulations! I'm glad you stuck with it to the end. It does look pretty, and the empire waist looks fine! I hope you wear it lots and lots to justify all the effort! Now, if only I dared to try working with chiffon…
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Apr 8, 2013, 08.41 PMby claudinka
Thank you. I've already worn it today and told everyone that it is selfmade. ;-)
Apr 7, 2013, 05.13 PMby BeYou TiFul
Your nightmare looks beautiful!
Apr 7, 2013, 04.10 PMby flowergirl22
hunting down the original fabric must have been a challenge in itsself,, I have tried that a few times,, and sometimes you really have to love the design and colour to be able to spend the money on the fabric. I admire you'r sticking with it for so long,, It does look stunning. I hope you get a lot of wear out of it. you absolutely should be proud of it,
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Apr 8, 2013, 08.41 PMby claudinka
Thank you! To find the original fabric was not so difficult. But yes, it was not really "cheap". Maybe that was one of the reasons why I had such a bad consiousness and just had to finish the dress.
Apr 7, 2013, 03.31 PMby froggylonglegs
Good job on finishing that dress! You have way more perseverance than I ever would have. That would have stayed in my corner forever if it was me! The dress looks great, you did such an amazing job, you should feel very proud. Now maybe I should go and finish some of my UFO's!
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Apr 8, 2013, 08.39 PMby claudinka
Thx a lot. I wish you good luck and energy for your UFOs ;-)
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Oprah Winfrey said she was denied service at a Swiss store last month because of her race.
In an interview with Entertainment Tonight taped on Monday, Winfrey who may be one of the most recognizable faces on the planet, said a shop assistant in Zurich refused to show her a handbag worth close to $40,000, telling her it was "too expensive" for her.
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Winfrey has just been awarded America's highest civilian honor - the Presidential Medal of Freedom. She will receive the award from President Barack Obama at the White House later in the year.
The OWN founder is coming back to the big screen in Lee Daniels' new movie, "The Butler," which spans nearly 35 years of American history, including the turbulent years of the civil rights movement.
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