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10 YearsMay 07, 2013
Wow. It's finally happened. The CSS Zen Garden is 10 years old today.
The web has come a long way in the past decade. CSS3, HTML5, responsive web design, web fonts, a version of Internet Explorer that doesn't make you want to commit seppuku every time you debug, and any other progress that we already take for granted. (You can get a sense of just how far we've come by reading the original cringe-worthy requirements.)
As you can probably imagine, I've had a lot of proposals for a "CSS Zen Garden for X" over the years. Javascript, PHP, the mobile web, CSS3, HTML5, ebooks, responsive web design. (And curiously, Joomla. There have been a disproportionate number of Joomla copycats/ripoffs over the years. What is it about that CMS?)
I've never been in a hurry to create a new site for any of those; part of what made the original work is that we were stuck in a time when no one was considering CSS seriously. It had an agenda: to try and change that. A CSS3/HTML5 Zen Garden doesn't need to exist, because who isn't using those at this point?
But still… it might be fun.
There hasn't been a conference yet where someone didn't corner me about a modern update. I've seen many blog posts over the years about why we need a responsive or CSS3 version of the site. Even more convincingly, I've seen blog posts about why the original has outlived its effectiveness as a teaching aid.
So for the tenth anniversary, the Zen Garden is open for business once more. I've thrown the codebase on Github, given the dusty copy a refresh, started the conversion of the site to HTML5, and brought all of the existing designs kicking and screaming into the modern age. The work isn't done yet, but it's a darn sight closer to how we would build it these days. If you see an area that needs help, consider sending a patch. (Here's the current list of issues to resolve, for example.)
The requirements are, of course, quite different this time around:
- CSS3 is in. Transitions, gradients, shadows, whatever. Just make sure to properly prefix it for all browsers. Webkit-only designs will be discarded with prejudice.
- Responsive is so in. You don't have to build a responsive version of your design, but it wouldn't be a bad idea. It might even be a great idea.
- Web fonts? Sure. Though I'm not quite sure how you're gonna pull it off. TypeKit and other hosted services that require tag insertion are out, and licensing probably means you shouldn't submit your purchased font files. If you can work out some other way to make it work legally, go nuts, but it's looking like free fonts are your best friend here.
- Your new browser testing list: IE9+, recent Chrome/Firefox/Safari, and iOS/Android. That should be your baseline. Graceful degradation is acceptable, and in fact highly encouraged.
- Only the best will be published. High quality design, well coded execution. Same as it has ever been.
- Please, no garden-themed / Zen pun / self-referential designs. Let's see some originality.
The form is open. I can't wait to see what happens next.
This is probably the part where I'd tell you about a brand new default design, but I've been juggling way too much lately for that to happen. Maybe soon.
Thanks Dave, this brings back memories. Really glad to see this brought back and updated. Time to go build a submission.
Congrats Dave! I'm following since the day 1. It's still awesome!
This brings the the same level of excitement a new series of Strong Bad emails would bring, only with a bit more consequence. Thanks for being a mentor to me in my early days…
Ooh! ooh! ooh!
MAJOR procrastinator—I built a design for the first zen garden but never submitted. I'll have to take a stab again this time around. Although I'm sure the competition is much tougher. :)
Seems to be down (not just for me).
You should have updated the server, too ;-)
Google Web Fonts can be included via an @import so I suppose they'll work fine for the zen garden constraints.
Of course, http://csszengarden.com is down right now.
Yay! :D Happy Tenth!
Ten years! Wow! Congrats :)
Thanks all, glad to see some excitement for this! It's been fun strolling down memory lane over the past week getting ready for this.
The server seems to be spotty right now, but MediaTemple is looking into it. It's related to a 'flurry of network activity' – I'm not saying I'm taking the blame here, but…
@Paul Irish – thanks, that'll be useful. Free fonts are our best bet unless I can work something else out, luckily there are some not awful Google Fonts.
Congrats again on the project rebirth!
It's both inspiring and heartbreaking to me that after 10 years, college and university instructors are still assigning a Zen Garden theme as part of the curriculum.
It's inspiring because it's a great assignment. Students are given HTML and must use CSS to change the look. This provides a clear differentiation between markup and presentation, and students learn to push the bounds of CSS.
It's heartbreaking because we're teaching the same code we've been teaching for 10 years.
Thank you for updating this. I hope the colleges and universities finally update their curricula to match, teaching HTML5, CSS3, and responsive design, and stop letting Internet Explorer 6/7 be the excuse for modernizing the curriculum.
Btw, what have you been upto lately? Its been a long time since you've been active on this blog..
This is exciting news. Viva la Zen Garden!
Happy anniversary! Thank you for writing for the book and creating the site. I learned so much from your hard work.
Thanks too for reopening submissions. Maybe all the procrastinators will finally take action…
It seems like just yesterday that CSS Zen rocked my world. How time does fly. Here's to 10 more years of code fu! :)
Thanks Dave and welcome back! It's been a great 10 years.
Congratulations on 10 years Dave! So glad to see this revived.
The CSS Zen Garden is probably one of the number one projects that got me really into web design; great to see you bring the project back to life after 10 years!
where is Opera on the browsers list?
it's the best out there, at least for css standards. they even help define css.
they seem to be going in the wrong direction now. still, their browser is still great.
and yes, i'm writing thing on Firefox, on a public library computer. still, Opera should be the reference for the css part of a site.
Hey Dave,
Just wanted to thank you. I owe a large part of my career to CSS Zen Garden. The project helped shape my view of what was possible with web standards and CSS. My submission was also published in a Chinese web design text book, and helped me land a number of jobs. Glad to see it back in business.
Congrats! Indeed. Sure many things have changed. But in many ways this was the pebble that started the ripple that started the Tsunami!
I am very happy to see you updating this. I have been out there probably three times this past year hoping to see that you have made a change. I will be glad to see what comes of it. Thanks so much this was a great source of inspiration early on, and still fun to revisit from time to time.
Congrats on 10 years!
Now excuse me while I walk back to my desk feeling quite dated. ;)
I am just so happy about this. CSS Zen Garden basically changed the playing field for the whole industry… it will be nice to see how it is approached in 2013! I hope to find some time to submit something.
I probably owe my professional career to the CSS Zen Garden. Thank you Dave.
Happy 10th! We used CSS Zen Garden for a class assignment, and it was the thing that opened my eyes and made everything I was learning about website html and css fall into place. To be able to see the CSS the designers used - Under the Sea was my favorite - was so helpful and a wonderful privilege. I bought the companion book and spent hours, days, and weeks in awe of the effects I could create with it. Thanks for your efforts in creating the site and now updating it. It may be the inspiration I need to start playing again!
Wow! Ten years… Happy Birthday CSS Zen garden, thanks for everything!
What a great resource to have come back. I agree that the justification element isn't needed anymore (I remember feeling very excited when I first discovered CSS Zen Garden in 04 or 05) and understood how important it was to teach the idea of CSS as an essential tool.
But I see an opportunity here to do the same sort of boundary pushing/best practice discussion/proof of concept work that the original was beautiful for.
Sure, there are resources today for like codepen, that allow for specific exploration of one idea, but this showcases the marriage of tech and design like nothing else.
Thank you, thank you, thank you for bringing it back.
Whahou 10 years already for CSS Zen Garden! Time is running out but we did not loose faith in what motivate us and now we are thousands more to embrace quality and front-end technologies =)
Happy birthday CSS Zen Garden!
P.S: Did you brew a special beer for this event?!
Wow.. cool. Loved it back in the day… such an inspiration. I can't wait to see what people come up with!
Thx for bringing it back!
Only ten years ago? Ah, good. That makes me feel less old.
I agree with luis santos. Opera should be included since it is one of the top CSS-compliant browsers out there.
Steve Haney
Awesome, I actually thought it was older than that!
Congratulations, and thanks, because it taught me a lot about CSS, and I remember it being a great source of inspiration! Can't wait to see it refreshed.
Still have my print copy of The Zen of CSS Design, between that and the site I fumbled my way into a career. Thanks and congratulations on 10 years.
Great to see it open back up… I'm one that also had their life change because of CSS Zen Garden. My design (#182) helped me realize how much I wanted to learn more about designing for the web and even brought be into the role of teaching (a couple of years after my submission). Yes, I'm one of those professors who still assigns the Zen Garden Theme challenge (with modified restrictions over the past couple of years). Students have always enjoyed the challenge of the Zen Garden competition and look forward to seeing the new designs. The first 20-100 entries, I expect, will showcase flat design. ;)
Maybe this will finally inspire me to get my own (woefully out-of-date) website updated.
Couple of questions, Dave
Q: If we have an official design, can we send you an updated link if we change our portfolio website URL?
Q: Was there a reason not to add the meta element with the viewport? Just wondering.
Holy crap! Welcome back! This site taught me sooooo much about CSS. I forgot all about it until now!
Seriously, thank you for everything you have done.
BOOM! Nicely done sir. Especially with your busy schedule.
@Jen Kramer - an educator helped push me to update to more modern code with this post: http://www.nateomedia.com/notebook/web-development/css-zen-garden-html5/ It's probably not as dire as you think out there!
@luis @Steve - I hate to be the one to break this to you, but Opera's former Presto rendering engine is gone. http://thenextweb.com/insider/2013/04/04/opera-confirms-it-will-follow-google-and-ditch-webkit-for-blink-as-part-of-its-commitment-to-chromium/
@Adrien - see my first comment about juggling. Not this time!
@Thomas - great questions. #1 - yes, absolutely. #2 - good catch! I ran out of time, there's still more to be done. That's a large part of the reason it's on Github now, to allow people to contribute fixes like that directly. (But I'll add that one myself tonight, thanks for the nudge.)
@Adam @Scott @Blagovest @Thomas - it's an honour, guys. Thank YOU.
I added a submission to this site so long ago, 2003 or 2004 that it's no longer hosted on the server it once was. The company went under during the RealEstate bust. At any rate, shows you how I used CSS Zen Garden to turn my web design and development from tables coupled with WYSIWYG to pure vim or another text editor with semantic HTML and CSS.
Happy Tenth Birthday!
This is a really exciting release, and its a great time too. Well done - let the games begin!
Who wants to join me in creating an aggregate site that pulls in all the designs people make on their blogs etc.
Are you going to be choosing the designs that are featured again David?
congrats, mate! happy to see it back again. i owe so much to the csszengarden since it boost my career into new dimensions.
Happy anniversary!
Wow, 10 years - brings back memories.
We've come a long way and CSS Zen Garden played a big part in making the difference. Thank you.
Maybe you can fix the errors in the translated versions when you get a chance.
I'm the one who translated the site into Japanese way back when :)
Great work. Happy 10!
CSS Zen inspired me to learn CSS 10 years ago when I was still a grubby high schooler with ethernet cable running down my parents' hallway to my room. I had a P166 and 13in CRT that I'd brought home from school on the schoolbus over several days time. Now I do web development for my job. Glad to see it making a comeback to inspire the next generation.
Wow. Zen Garden looks dated and ugly now…
@Joe - so does your mom!
@Mayu - definitely on the agenda! The whole reason for adding the site to Github was to allow people who actually speak the language to figure out the best translation without my involvement, and hopefully contribute new ones.
You might also be happy to learn that while I've heard complaints about some translations, I've never heard any about yours. I've even mentioned in talks I've given that the Japanese translation is one of the better ones. Thanks for your work all those years ago!
Good stuff. I cut my teeth with webmonkey.com and Netscape composer back in the day! Years later a buddy told me about tableless layouts and housing styles in an external file and I was like 'no F'n way!' Haha.
I guess I came into the web world late, in 2005-6 so I never learned how to use tables to build web sites. When I had to update a web site, I used CSS and never have used tables, that was a decision I made early on when I started learning HTML and CSS. The future did teach me that this was a wise decision. I am looking forward to updates to this site and the addition of new entries using udated HTML and CSS code. Congrats Dave on 10 years.
Congratulations! That's quite a long period of time. I wish I had paid attention to the web front end development earlier, then my LIVEditor project (code editor that let's you see result of CSS/html edits in real-time) would be even more interesting at the earlier years :)
I forgot to add the URL in my previous comment: http://liveditor.com
Its such a wonderful resource; first time i heard about it when getting the book into my hands.
It saved me tons of hours and teached me a lot.
Great Success!
great news from a great site like CSS Zen Garden.
I've used the zen garden a lot while explaining css to others and it inspired me to do more with css. I'm on of those who used the css zen garden to create a Mambo / Joomla template… And noticed a huge overhead of html in the default Joomla output.
Perhaps a new book too?
IE mobile for windows phone and Blackberry support should be added…
This sounds like fun! I do think more people need to learn about CSS3 and use it and that is why I did a http://speakerdeck.com/suzettefranck on CSS3 and using it in WordPress. I hope I can find time to make a submission.
I have a feeling I'll be wowed just like I was the first time around with what people can do.
I think you could probably ask typekit/font deck/etc. to just allow all font's on the zen garden domain as a kind of sponsorship (supposing you wanted to). I would suggest it would be pretty great for their businesses.
Looking forward to seeing how far we've come!
I was introduced to CSS Zen Garden in 2007 when I first began web development. I come back at least a couple times a year, just for the nostalgia, and to remember my humble roots. I knew nothing, but was so inspired by the idea that I picked up "CSS: The Definitive Guide, 3rd Edition" from O'Reilly and read the 3 most important chapters of it while at the laundromat with my wife (our washer broke that day). 6 years later, I'm a software engineer, and I owe a huge portion of my inspiration to CSS Zen Garden (and to this site called WordHugger which closed years ago).
Awesome news Dave! CSSZenGarden was a huge learning tool for me all those years(10?!) ago. I'm really glad to see it's being continued. Seeing so many different viewpoints create on the same source was a huge eye-opener to potential. I'll be keeping tabs on the project again - thank you, and here's to another 10 years!
I remember when I didn't really believe in CSS. It looked like an unnecessary, uphill hassle.
A friend told me to have a look at Zen Garden. I was obstinant at first, but the designs kept me engaged… and then, exploring someone else's css, the lights suddenly came on and I understood the elgance of the cascade. One of the few "aha" moments in my life that I truly remember.
I owe you dude.
Zen Garden taught me so much about the use of CSS when I was a beginner. I cannot express enough how much I appreciated this site and how happy I am its starting over to help people learn and learn to think outside the box. Well done Zen Garden!
I cut my teeth on CSS Zen Garden and Eric Meyer on CSS.
Between these 2 resources, I finally understood the separation between HTML and CSS. It was really a 'lightbulb' moment.
Zen is a treasure and will be more so, when HTML5'd..
Amazing how the web has evolved in the 10 year since the inception of the Zen Garden. I was so inspired by the sites back then and learned so much from them.
Seems like it's been longer than 10 years though. Time flies!
Weeeeh! Yes, good memories :)
Thank you! <3
It's been awhile.
Awesome! It's been too long. :D
Please excuse my ignorance, but if I were to submit a contribution/design to ZenGarden, how would I go about doing that?
Yavor Mladenov
I was a fan of the Zen Garden when I was a beginner and It was my teach early days and it helped me to start as front end developer freelance service
This is great, The Zen garden came out just after I graduated and threw out the table-based dreamweaver designing we'd learned. I embraced the manifesto like a creed, and it has served me ever-since.
I look forward to seeing the next generation of designs.
Happy birthday!
Happy 10th b'day Zen Garden. Here's to 10 more years.
I learn CSS because of CSS Zen Garden, Happy Birthday and Thank you!
My god it's been ten years already. I just might create another design, it sure was fun the last time! Oh, how I miss IE6.
*{#$! There goes my free time :)
"strolling down memory lane" sounds nice. 10 years ago we were in the second year of our web development agency and many things happened since! Thank you for Zen Garden which certainly has influenced our work!
I disagree that CSS Zen Garden v1 has outlived it usefulness as teaching tool. I learned a lot from it five years ago and most, if not all, of that is still valuable. Granted things have evolved since then and an updated version will be most valuable.
Happy 10th Birthday. I remember visiting CSSZenGarden 10 years ago :) Good old days.
Would be nice to add some CSS 4 experimental stuff in it too. Bring the new version on. Can't wait.
Remember when I first started learning CSS, Zen was a great help!
What about using something like sass or less? Too complex for this initial fase?
Maybe you could add more information about how to develop your page locally, start the server and how to fork the project. Also how to name the folder for your version and what we need to do for creating a new design.
It was great to see this back online, I remember CSS Zen Garden sparking my interest and use of CSS and moving me away from sliced / table layouts.
in looking at the CSS code, I did not realize how much "position: absolute" was used in some of the examples, but it seems to be prolific and overused. perhaps the new generation of coding entries will eliminate that questionable technique for positioning content. of course, that all depends on the HTML code layout you are presented with and need to handle. using the absolute parameter for positioning sure would not be conducive to a responsive design.
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Album Rating: 4.0nice review. i love this band. saw them 4 times back in the day and art solo a couple of times. disagree about it being "definitely Everclears best" as that is arguable and ultimitely i would rate Sparkle And Fade and Songs From An American Movie Vol 1 a bit higher. but this is of course among thier best. fave cuts: the title cut, Normal Like You, Father Of Mine, One Hit Wonder, and tracks 9-13, with special mention going out to Why I Don't Believe In God and Like A California King. incredible band led my the incredibly talented and sometimes frustrating Art Alexakis. nice write up, once again.This Message Edited On 08.20.06
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thanks for the positive feedback guys. I agree with JXD about the other albums being as good if not better, but in my opinion this beats sparkle and fade by a hair. I'm thinking about reviewing that one too.
Album Rating: 4.0yeah. they are all very close in quality and each have something different to offer. yet it's all uniformily Everclear. i saw an interview with art right before American Movie Vol. 1 was put out and they asked how much the band had left and he said "vol 1 and 2, one more, and that's it". and he stayed true to his word. for whatever reason. although the band continues part time in a different form today, it's basically art solo. i hope to see more reviews by you (or whoever. i might whip one up myself). this is just a real special band to me. and i appreciate the honesty of your review. and the treatment you afforded this oft times underrated and "overlooked except for the hits" band This Message Edited On 08.20.06
sept. 12th new album! can't wait. why? because art was the only member that ever mattered and therefore now they sound the same as old everclear except with keyboards. i read a review of someone who got the leak of it and it was quite positive.
Album Rating: 4.0yes, i think it sounds good so far if a bit familiar. Hater is a good single. Check youtube for a video of it and also Art making a fool of Bill 'O Riley who takes him to task about a video featuring "jesus". Art has to explain how it's just a metaphor and it's not really jesus and and on and on. Bill is just like "duh". also check the Everclear website. they have an active message board and stuff. pretty funny sometimes...
yeah i've been reading all that stuff lately and watching all that stuff lately, i've been really excited.
I absolutely hate Father of Mine with a passion. If that's a highlight, I'll try to steer clear (no pun intended) of this album.
Album Rating: 5.0Good review PTECK! 'overlooked' is a good word to describe the album. Despite negative reviews in rolling stone the album has held up against the test of time. It has a unique 'spirit'.
Album Rating: 5.0Yeah, but since when have rolling stone known shit about music.
Everclear were absolutely awesome back then - three consecutive, excellent and different albums in a row: Sparkle and Fade, SMFTAG, and Learning How to Smile vol 1. And I would say each has that 'unique spirit' - from each other and from the rest of the music produced at the time.
They have also just released a new album In A Different Light which revisits their greatest hits which is so much better than it sounds - it has that unique spirit too. Its really really good - a bit like a live studio album, stripped of the production and quite intimate.
Album Rating: 4.5Nostalgic as helllll. Father of Mine especially. This is the only cd of theirs that really does it for me
I agree that this album has been overlooked through the years, which is a bit unfortunate. I don't agree that it hasn't stood the test of time. I just listened to this album for the first time in a few years and it sounded better than it ever has, even when it first came out. The songs (for the most part) are brilliantly crafted - Alexakis was an outsanding writer in his prime. Although I'm not a big fan of the instrumentals, I can listen to this album from start to finish without skipping anything. "Why I Don't Believe in God" is probably the most personal thing he's ever written - just brilliant. I absolutely love this album. 4.5 stars.
Album Rating: 3.5Holy crap, the lyrics are pretty bad but this is so much fun to listen to.
Album Rating: 3.5nostalgia right here
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Album Rating: 3.0good band. it's a fun listen but not too much more than that.
Album Rating: 3.0yep yep. the title track is great.
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Pop punk thread? Andcas is on it.
Dude I'm sorry, apparently this is post-grunge. I've never listened to these guys and Everclear just seemed like a pop punk-ish name and so much for the afterglow seems like a pop punk-ish album name, and this kind of has a pop punk-ish album cover and idk.
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Cape Coral High's Brad Metheny hasn't coached his first regular-season football game for the Seahawks yet, but he's not even the newest coach in town.
That distinction goes to Mariner's Chris Siner, who was hired Aug. 16, less than three weeks before the Tritons' season opening matchup against (who else?) Cape High on Sept. 3. Siner took over the struggling program after the sudden departure of Chad O'Brien on Aug. 2, a mere seven days before the start of fall practice.
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The third, and only other new varsity coach at a Lee County public school this season, is Rob Hinson at Riverdale. Hinson replaced Tom Roszell, for whom Hinson had been an assistant coach since 1994 at Lehigh and Riverdale.
Siner, who played two years of varsity football at Mariner and graduated in 1994, is undertaking his first head coaching job. After graduating from Florida State in 1999 with a degree in physical education, Siner went to work at Immokalee the next fall.
He left Immok-alee briefly to teach and be an assistant coach for the Tritons and then-coach Robert Butz for the 2003-04 season. Siner returned to Immokalee and most recently was offensive coordinator for the Indians.
"I got my love of coaching football from Coach Joe Roles (Mariner, 1987-94) and my coaching mentor was John Weber at Immokalee," said Siner. "I learned a lot about coaching from Weber, who retired in 2007."
Coming into the program with so little time before the first game, Siner will lean heavily on the established schemes and style the Tritons use.
"(Offensive coordinator Steve) Larsen and the other coaches have been there for a long time," said Siner. "I will stay with the triple option offense that Larsen runs, because I am a fan of the triple option. It's a bit late to make major changes and it's more important that the kids are comfortable with what they are doing on the field. My contribution will be to establish the 4-3 attack defense that we used at Immokalee that coach (John) Weber was the architect of."
The Tritons have a long road ahead of them to drag themselves back to district contender on the heels of two lackluster seasons of 4-6 and 1-9 under O'Brien.
"The kids know what the expectations are," said Siner, "and 1-9 is not the expectation. Our goal is to improve on that."
Metheny replaces Mike Goebbel, who resigned for health reasons after serving three seasons. Goebbel is the Seahawks' all-time winningest football coach (28-8, .778 winning percentage). He led the Seahawks to the playoffs each of his three seasons and capped it off by winning the school's first district championship since 1993.
Metheny brings 23 years of coaching experience to the program, a time during which he has never experienced a losing season. Formerly the head coach at Frostproof, Metheny played and was a graduate assistant at the University of West Virginia.
Metheny compiled a 34-11 record over four seasons at Frostproof, winning district and regional titles as well as playing in the state final four two of those years.
"I was looking to get back into a bigger high school," Metheny said upon his hiring in March. "(I wanted) a change to a big high school program or small college, but at my age college no longer is on my list, or it is quickly diminishing. I am here to stay."
Cape Coral is not even his second stop in Florida. After several years at a four-school consolidation in his home county in West Virginia, Metheny moved to Florida to become defensive coordinator at Lake Wales. He also was an assistant at Lake Region High and had a two-year stint at Weber University prior to taking the job at Frostproof.
Metheny not only has big shoes to fill as Seahawks coach, but has a number of holes to plug in the lineup left by the graduation of five Division I players - Jaylen Watkins (Florida), Jeremy Davis (MIami), Dan Koenig (Oklahoma State) and Spencer Boyd (granted a transfer by Notre Dame to USF over the summer).
Hinson, 37, played one year of football at Cypress Lake in addition to baseball, which earned him a baseball roster spot at Palm Beach Atlantic and Embry Riddle University before his playing days were over. The graduate of South Florida stepped right in at Lehigh under Roszell for eight years, before moving over to Riverdale as defensive coordinator for Scott Jones in 2002. Hinson was defensive coordinator under Roszell the past four seasons with the Raiders.
"I'm going to keep with the Riverdale tradition," said Hinson. "We got the program on the right track since '03, better than a .500 record and won some district titles. I've talked to the kids about maintaining a winning attitude, and the tradition of being a physical team not afraid to run the ball. The main goal this year is a team concept. We have a lot of young kids, who I want to stress unity. With 30 juniors we'll have for two years we have to start right now."
Hinson is confident the Raiders, who won eight straight games to go 9-2 last season and District 3A-11 champions (5-0), will be competitive in a tough district with the likes of South Fort Myers, Bishop Verot, North Fort Myers, Fort Myers and Mariner, all solid programs again for 2010.
"We play Cape in the (preseason) jamboree, which will be a good test for us right off the bat," said Hinson, who made his head coaching debut in the spring classic against Ida Baker. "We play some pretty good teams outside of our district, too."


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He hit the Burberry Prorsum fashion show in London in leopard print. He also watched his reported GF, "It" model Cara Delevingne, as she strutted down the runway.
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I am Tala Rayne (not my real name) from MN, USA. I have loved to make obento for a long time, but usually do not actually do it >.< I hope to start again, because it is cute and also to help me with portion control!! I like to eat A LOT!
I went back to Taiwan over winter break and bought some small animal sauce container (like on jlist.com) and some furikake shakers and I want to use them now! <3
Other things I like are:
sewing, lolita fashion, dance (why I need to lose weight!), animals (my bunny Akito is a brat!), cute things, being crafty (crocheting, scrapbooking, sewing, I want to do it all!)
I am going to school for Apparel Technologies and hope to meet friends here!
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Hi Tala, welcome to Just Bento. If you have a look around the forum you will find a sub-group of people who also knit. I think they're called Ravellry - quite likely they do other crafty things as well as knitting. You should introduce yourself to them too.
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Stephen Harper warns Germany about Russia
Canadian prime minister warns Germans that Cold War mentality poses danger
Prime Minister Stephen Harper issued a solemn warning to Germans about Russia on Wednesday, reminding them of the dangers posed by a leader with a Cold War mentality who has brazenly seized territory from a weaker neighbour.
"As unfortunate as it sounds, it's increasingly apparent to me that the Cold War has never left Vladimir Putin's mind; I think he still thinks in those terms," Harper said on the eve of his meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
"We simply, as a world, cannot afford the risk of Europe going back to being a continent where people seize territory, where they make claims on neighbouring countries, where the bigger military powers are prepared to invade their neighbours or carve off pieces."
- Ukraine crisis: Obama shores up European support for Russia sanctions
- Ukraine in crisis: Key facts, major developments
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Germans know this better than anyone, Harper suggested.
"This is a world we cannot go back to — I know the feeling about that in Germany particularly. We cannot go back to this. It represents an enormous long-term threat to peace and security."
The prime minister's comments were similar to those made a short time later by U.S. President Barack Obama, also in Europe after attending the Nuclear Security Summit held in The Hague earlier this week.
Obama, Harper and the five other G7 leaders — those of Britain, Germany, Japan, France and Italy — held an emergency meeting on the sidelines of the nuclear summit. They emerged to effectively boot Russia out of the G8 as retaliation for its annexation of Ukraine's Crimea peninsula shortly after the pro-Western uprising in Kyiv last month.
"Once again we are confronted with the belief among some that bigger nations can bully smaller ones to get their way," Obama said in Brussels.
"So I come here today to insist that we must never take for granted the progress that has been won here in Europe and advanced around the world. Because the contest of ideas continues, for your generation, and that's what is at stake in Ukraine today."
A senior European diplomat suggested Wednesday that Harper's comments about Putin, made during a question-and-answer session with business leaders in Munich, are accurate.
The Russian president has never accepted the disintegration of the former Soviet bloc and views the uprising as "the second time Russia lost Ukraine," said the official, speaking on condition of anonymity because he wasn't authorized to brief the media.
Harper to meet Merkel Thursday
European leaders are convinced Putin has his sights set on a greater chunk of Ukrainian territory, but hasn't acted yet because he's testing the waters of international reaction, the diplomat said. The goal is to turn Ukraine into a "failed state," he added.
Harper and Merkel will discuss the crisis in detail Thursday in Berlin. The two leaders are the most senior in the G7 and have a close relationship.
Some European nations, including Germany, have been hesitant to level strong economic sanctions against Russia given their close ties to Moscow and the fragility of their economies following the 2008 global economic meltdown.
But in recent weeks, Merkel has been open to much tougher sanctions. She was reportedly infuriated by the false assurances Putin gave her about having no designs on Crimea.
The prime minister met German business leaders in Munich to extol Canada's economic virtues and discuss the Canadian-European Union trade deal, but even in a corporate setting, the ominous events of eastern Europe were a key topic of discussion.
Nonetheless, Harper's events in Germany were focused on promoting Canada to the European powerhouse. The two countries did nearly $19 billion in trade last year.
'Brave new' energy world
The prime minister was asked about Canada's energy sector at one point during the event. He expressed skepticism that Germany would be able to meet its goal of phasing out fossil fuels and nuclear energy while having a scant supply of hydro power.
"I do not know an economy in the world that does not rely heavily on at least one of those, so this is a brave new world you're attempting; we wish you well with that," he said to seemingly nervous laughter from the crowd.
Harper added it would be "very challenging" for Germany not to rely on some combination of fossil fuels, nuclear and hydro, but said Canada was ready to help.
"What I tell audiences at home and abroad is: Whatever the energy mix of the future is, Canada will be a major producer," Harper said, adding the country's current challenge is its overwhelming dependence on the Canadian and American markets.
"We're looking for ways to take that business, obviously, global."
The senior EU diplomat said European nations are, in fact, determined to find alternatives to Russian natural gas amid the biggest crisis in eastern Europe since the Cold War.
They're also aggressively lobbying NATO to boost "infrastructure" spending — in other words, build military bases — in new EU nations like Romania, Poland and Slovakia.
Despite skepticism about the weight of the economic sanctions already taken against Russia, the targeting of the Bank Rossiya, in particular, is "very good and will be painful for Russia's elite," another European diplomat said.
Eastern Europeans are advising Canada and the U.S. to expand the sanctions to include Russian lawmakers who voted for the use of force in Ukraine, he added.


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Just driving out some monsters from my head
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Gar, guardian of the skies of Eithanas.
Firstborn of Qiane and Malech, the ugliness of Gar was just a physical manifestation of the evil that lurked behind the beauty of his parents. Shunned at birth by his mother and left to fend for himself, Gar feeds off the souls of infants and the unborn. He guards the skies of Eithanas, one of the three exits from the world of illusions.
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One of the deities of Eithanas. Kinara dreams up and brings to life wispy entities infused with magic who grant the wishes of all those they meet.
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text: Fresh Alloy was the first forum I ever belonged to and at the time it was huge. I purchased my 2004 G35 Coupe in July 2003 and took delivery in Sept 2003. My car was completely stock and looked equivalent to a new car. It had 56,000 miles when I sold it on Feb 3rd 2014. I was asking $14,900 and had only received a few calls. The 3 times I showed it, I was offered $13,000 and turned them all down. After approximately 5 weeks on the market during the 4th showing I Sold it for $14,200. The bonus was that I received another $700 back from Infiniti for my proration on my Infiniti Elite factory extended warranty. I paid $34,000 for this car new and got back 44% of it's value after over 10 years. That's pretty impressive, but my car was close to a museum piece. Keeping it that way was not easy and it took a lot out of me, parking away from other cars, having it constantly garaged, and taking care of every single item that needed attention. We all know how weak the interiors are. I had my seat bolster changed 2 times and the seat side repaired to look like new. Compression rods,CD player,steering spindle,ball jonts, wheel bearings, ceramic pads, window motor and actuator and items I just can't remember....Oh yes....Tires, tires, and more tires. The G35 Coupe did like to eat tires. It was a super reliable car and never once let me down. For me, it was time for a change. Last November I purchased a 2010 Jaguar XK Coupe with 4,800 miles from the original owner. We can't keep all our cars, but I always will have fond memories of my G35 and this forum. I posted many times here and learned a lot. Good luck to all the forum members and enjoy what is certainly one of the best looking, classic designs that came from Infiniti. So long for now.


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'Kitchen Nightmares' Gets 'Sliced' by Damon Gambuto Tonight
I'm mostly known around here as the LA burger guy on A Hamburger Today. It's true, I am a burger devotee, but if you are asking me what food I cherish the most, the answer is easy: pizza. It is my first and greatest food love, and that's saying something. My favorite things in this life? A girl from Texas, my family, and then pizza.
As you might imagine, my New York City childhood is more than a little bit responsible for my pizza predilection. As a boy, my father and I would travel back and forth across the city in search of a slice. We'd ride the Belt Parkway out to his childhood stomping grounds in Bensonhurst to eat what I will always describe as the perfect Sicilian slice at L&B Spumoni Gardens. Sometimes it was a ride up to Arthur Avenue in The Bronx to the strange stuck-in-amber stretch of mid-century Italian-Americana. Suffice to say, my earliest and best food memories are pizza-shaped.
So I am duty-bound to alert you, dear Slice'rs, to my impending public embarrassment. I'll be appearing on tonight's episode of Kitchen Nightmares (gulp)! The folks who produce Gordon Ramsay's tough-love, restaurant makeover show asked for a Serious Eater to sample the reworked menu at the LA area restaurant called The Capri and I stepped up (and opened wide).
I'd hoped this post could a treatise explaining how I was misrepresented through the editing process, but the truth is I just don't know. I'll be watching it for the first time tonight with the rest of the audience—it's on Fox at 8 p.m. ET.
Maybe I'll get lucky and my screen time will amount to just a split second of me gorging on pizza, but however it goes down I'll write a follow up post reviewing the pizza so you can get a better sense of whether Capri makes a pie worth your time. Until then, please be generous with your judgments of my performance; I've never had to eat on TV before, let alone on TV with Gordon Ramsay yelling at a cuddly pair of twins who own an Italian restaurant!
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Good days give u happiness,
Bad days give u experience.
Worst days give u a lesson.
Have a good morning and great day ahead.
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my life will be incomplete without you. Good morning.
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Gaston County school board members plan to see legislators more often than the yearly meeting over eggs and bacon to talk about school system priorities.
Gaston County school board members plan to see legislators more often than the yearly meeting over eggs and bacon to talk about school system priorities.
Gaston County Schools Superintendent Reeves McGlohon said the Board of Education will be making trips to Raleigh to meet with elected officials in March and April.
�There are a lot of key issues out there, and we want to make sure we touch base with you,� McGlohon said.
On Tuesday, school leaders met with state legislators to outline what they see as the biggest issues facing the school system and what they�d like to see the state change:
* Eliminate the discretionary reduction for school systems. A discretionary cut means that the state hands out money, then asks for a certain amount back. The school system gets to decide where to make those cuts, which is why it�s called discretionary. Gaston County Schools gave back $7.5 million last year in discretionary cuts.
* Provide money for instructional materials, textbooks and professional development, items that had been cut from state budgets in recent years.
* Pay for a mandate that requires after school tutoring and summer remediation for students in early grades who aren�t reading on grade level.
* Give money to fund technology and people to manage it.
* Change the school calendar law to align the start and end dates with community colleges and universities and give local school districts control over their calendars.
�It is a real burden to our young people to have a calendar that is as restrictive as this one,� McGlohon said.
McGlohon said he would support a year-round schooling cycle where students are in school for 45 days, then off for 15 days, but said he didn�t think the community is ready for that kind of change.
* Keep a competitive base salary in mind and involve teachers, principals and other certified school staff when creating a system for performance-based pay.
The federal Race to the Top program offered a carrot to school systems to create performance pay measures.
�The notion that we simply pay people more money for just living another year and surviving another year doesn�t make sense,� McGlohon said. �It is the one item that in Washington (D.C.), the Democrats and the Republicans agree on 100 percent.�
* Rework the A through F grading systems for schools to include student growth. The 2012 Excellence in Public Schools Act will give school systems and schools report cards based on student performance on annual tests in reading and math, college and workplace readiness measures and graduation rates. School leaders want growth, which measures how much a student improved over the course of a year, included.
* Don�t allow tax dollars to be used to subsidize private, virtual charter or home schools that don�t fall under the same accountability requirements as traditional schools.
�To be honest, that kind of competition doesn�t scare me at all. We�ll compete with anybody, and we�ll beat anybody,� McGlohon said. �But we�ve got to be given a level playing field.�
You can reach reporter Amanda Memrick at 704-869-1839 or follow @AmandaMemrick on Twitter.
Legislators attending:
Rep. John Torbett (R-Gaston, District 108)
Sen. David Curtis (R-Lincoln, District 41)
Rep. Dana Bumgardner (R-Gaston, District 109)
Sen. Kathy Harrington (R-Gaston, District 43)


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cheetahtraffic needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 66 designs submitted by 24 freelance designers.
Cheetah Traffic is a manual traffic exchange that needs an identity. We want it to be fun and welcoming. Our target audience is internet marketers who love free stuff.
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I am indebted to Virginia (Ginny) Smith, a researcher from Union County, Ohio, who provided this copy of his obituary.
|Marysville Tribune, Marysville, Ohio, 25 December 1878.
Another Pioneer Gone. -- Died, in Leesburg township, on the 7th of December, 1878, Ephraim Cary, aged 88 years and eight months.
The deceased was born in Washington county, Pa., and emigrated to Ohio in 1796, and settled near Marietta, and in 1801 moved to Madison county, near Plain City, and in 1826 moved to Union county. On the 16th day of December, 1826, he moved on the farm where he died, being fifty-two years. The deceased was a Presbyterian in faith and died in the hope of a better [life?]."
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Hulu is still playing catch up to Netflix when it comes to device support, but today it's gotten a bit closer. Hulu Plus has been available on select Android phones and tablets for a while, but it has been updated with a much nicer, optimized look for tablet screens. The new design resembles the look of the iPad app, with swipe-able lists of shows and episodes as well as access to your queue.
These tablets now have the new Hulu Plus app:
- Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime
- Asus Eee Pad Transformer
- Motorola Xoom
- Motorola Xyboard 10.1
- Toshiba Thrive
- Acer Iconia A500
- LG G-Slate
Hulu Plus is also available on the Kindle Fire and Nook Tablet. Yet, the app is still pretty far behind. It doesn't support the Acer A200 or A100, nor does it support any of the Samsung Galaxy Tabs or even the Motorola Xyboard 8.2. It's also woefully behind in phone support.
Below are the phones supported by Hulu Plus:
- HTC Rezound
- HTC Evo 3D
- HTC Evo 4G
- HTC Incredible 2
- HTC Sensation
- HTC Thunderbolt
- HTC myTouch
- HTC Inspire 4G
- LG Revolution
- Motorola Atrix
- Motorola Bionic
- Motorola Droid 3
- Motorola Droid 4
- Motorola Droid II
- Motorola Droid X
- Motorola X2
- Nexus One
- Nexus S
No Samsung devices appear to be supported on the phone side either. What's the deal? Samsung and Hulu, you two need to get along. New devices like the Droid Razr are also missing.
Hopefully Hulu will get itself up to speed or find a way to support all Android handsets without sacrificing its DRM. In the meantime, for those of you lucky enough to own a compatible tablet or handset, the new Hulu Plus app looks quite nice. Check it out. You can download Hulu Plus from the Google Play store.


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Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Fairy Princess
For my friend's 30th birthday, Andy and I contributed fairy bread (along with some hemp seed cinnamon rolls - which reminds me, you should enter that competition). It is a seemingly simple thing to prepare, but there is actually a trick to getting the sprinkles to stick.
Butter bread, put sprinkles on a plate or shallow bowl.
Dip bread, butter side down, into sprinkles.
Slice bread into triangles, removing the crusts if your crowd is picky.Stack artfully onto a plate.
And the real trick - let them sit around (covered, of course) for an hour or two before you eat them. The sprinkles kind of melt into the butter and the whole thing is much greater than the sum of its parts.
This is a birthday tradition I would like to see incorporated into more grown-up parties.
10 comments:
- sara said...
I had never heard of fairy bread until this post. But what a cute idea for a treat! I know my kids will eat anything with sprinkles!
- 20 March 2012 at 09:55
- Millie said...
that is so cool...I will try it theresa...thanks.
- 20 March 2012 at 12:29
- radioactivegan said...
I've never heard of this, but it looks so cute!
- 20 March 2012 at 13:36
- Emma said...
ILOVEFAIRYBREAD. Ahem. It always has to be white bread (no point in trying to make this healthier!) otherwise it tastes weird. And always must be triangular. And the more marg and sprinkles the better.
- 20 March 2012 at 14:43
- Kari said...
I would love it if someone brought this to a party I was attending :) Interestingly, I didn't love fairy bread as a child - I liked it more in theory than in taste - but I think that's because I've never really liked butter, and my fairy bread memories involve thickly spread butter or margarine. You've made me think I should try it with just a hint of Nuttelex. It would be fun, at the very least!
- 20 March 2012 at 16:47
- Hannah said...
It makes me cry inside to read people saying they didn't grow up with this at birthday parties (you included, Theresa.) You poor poor neglected children! WHY WON'T ANYBODY THINK OF THE CHILDREN?!
- 20 March 2012 at 19:08
- Nadine said...
eeek at the risk of never being invited to parties - I don't like fairy bread!! heathen I know. Its something about the white bread - its the texture or lack of taste or something. at parties, I only like cake or pastry!!!
- 22 March 2012 at 05:23
- Joey said...
I remember fairy bread from my days in Oz - it's an important part of any balanced diet!
- 22 March 2012 at 08:52
- steph said...
No don't leave the sprinkles to sink in! Eat them while still crunchy!
- 24 March 2012 at 12:32
- KTBuns said...
How very interesting!! Looks yummy!
- 28 March 2012 at 08:24


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When I began writing, I worked hard to avoid linking my work to anything real. I wasn't sure about the rules. I made references to things like the obsession of Golum and the ring, without saying Lord of the Rings, or even naming Golum. I named towns with names similar to real town names, but steered clear of naming the towns. I even called Paris Hilton, Paris Hinton in one book. I didn't want to be in trouble. Really. I thought I could get in trouble. *shakes head* Now, while I wouldn't advise you name characters after people I know, just so you can kill them off – like my super evil ex bestie Linda Miller! *JERK!* <– Totally joking. I made that name up. If that's your name, I'm certain you are lovely and also a good sport. LOL.
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Hey, you're the author. Write it your way. Knock their socks off! And don't count out the hidden bonus of name dropping