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NEWARK, N.J. — Williamsville's Justin Bailey was picked in the second round of Sunday's NHL draft and West Seneca's Sean Malone went in the sixth. Pretty much what they expected. But what was already a life-changing moment came with an incredible twist: Both players heard their name called by the Buffalo Sabres, the team they grew up watching.
"It's surreal. I always loved the Sabres. This is definitely a dream come true," a smiling Bailey said after he donned his blue sweater. "It's a blessing for me to be taken at all. There's not disappointment being drafted into the NHL. There's thousands of other kids that won't get drafted and will never play at a high level. For me to be taken anywhere at this draft, especially by the hometown team, is really special."
Bailey, a rugged winger from the Ontario Hockey League's Kitchener Rangers, went at No. 52 overall and that's the highest pick ever for a Western New York native by the Sabres. The previous best came in 1989, when Nichols product Scott Thomas was taken in the third round at No. 56.
The Harvard-bound Malone, a center who played two years at Nichols, most recently suited up for the U.S. National Development program and played at First Niagara Center in the All-America Prospects game in 2012. He went at pick No. 159.
"It's been a long day and I'm real excited to be picked by my hometown team," Malone said. "I have a lot of family here and it's a real honor. My dad was nudging me a little bit that it was always a possibility. … It's really cool. I can't wait to go home and celebrate with my friends."
Malone is 18 and Bailey turns 18 today. Kevin Devine, the Sabres' director of amateur scouting, said he's looking forward to both players having year-round access to the programs of Doug McKenney, the team's strength and conditioning coach. General Manager Darcy Regier echoed that feeling.
"I actually view the ability to choose local guys as an opportunity both for them and for us," Regier said. "Because they are there, they can have full access to our resources, the facility, our staff. To be able to get hands-on with those players I think is a huge advantage both for them and for us."
Bailey was taken with the selection acquired from St. Louis in April for Jordan Leopold.
Both Bailey and his mother, Karen Buscaglia, said they had not heard much chatter about the Sabres taking him other than perhaps Montreal.
"As a mom, you feel their pain and their joys," Buscaglia said. "I was just watching him. I did say, 'Put him where you want him to be, God' and this is where it is. Buffalo is close to home and there's 25 wacky people with him here."
Bailey, the son of former Bills linebacker Carlton Bailey, grew up knowing all the Sabres and was especially close with Matthew Barnaby. He lived with Pat LaFontaine and played with his Long Island Royals.
How bizarre are Bailey's connections to the Sabres?
He had minor shoulder surgery a few years ago and the doctor was Les Bisson, the Sabres' orthopedist.
"It was amazing for my family and myself," Bailey said. "You grow up and you're playing hockey. Especially for me loving the Sabres, quoting Rick Jeanneret when I was younger, knowing every guy on the team and growing up with them as well. It's just absolutely amazing."
Bailey's mother said he was a Sabres autograph hound until just a few years ago.
"I was in the rinks at the summer skates at the Northtown Center and he'd make me wait there and I'd be like, 'We already have their autographs' and he'd get them 500 times," Buscaglia said. He has the signatures of Maxim Afinogenov "and all those guys. It's just amazing to see this little kid that stood out at the rinks and now he's pulling the jersey over his head for the team."
Malone, who said his favorite Sabre was former captain Chris Drury, is especially looking forward to playing in the ECAC with Harvard.
"I know it's a very pro-like league, especially this past year with Yale and Quinnipiac being in the finals this year," he said. "I'm real excited to be a part of that."
In a little over a week, they'll both be at the FNC for development camp officially wearing the Blue and Gold.
"It's incredible. I love that rink and I can't wait to go out there and show them what I have," Bailey said.
"It's crazy. It's sort of going a full loop," Malone said. "I started off in Buffalo, went to Nichols, played two years, headed out to the national team and then coming back to Buffalo. It's pretty cool."
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RALEIGH � The North Carolina Court of Appeals has reinstated a murder charge against a man who kept a Durham woman's skeleton in a backpack.
A three-judge panel ruled Tuesday that Durham County Superior Court Judge Orlando Hudson was wrong in dismissing charges against Michael Dorman, 34. Prosecutors say he killed Lakeia Boxley, 31, and kept her bones for two years before his arrest.
Hudson dismissed the murder case in 2011, saying Durham authorities violated Dorman's right to a fair trial by prematurely releasing all Boxley's bones but for a piece of her skull to her family for cremation. The judge said that destroyed key evidence before defense experts could examine the remains.
Dorman has remained in jail under a $150,000 secured bond for more than a year while his appeal worked its way through the courts. Tuesday's ruling was unanimous, meaning there is no automatic right of review at the N.C. Supreme Court.
It was not immediately clear when Dorman will stand trial for Boxley's murder. His lawyer, Ann Petersen, was unavailable for comment.
Hudson, Durham's senior resident judge, said Tuesday that he has not yet decided whether to retain jurisdiction over Dorman's case. But there is nothing in the appeals ruling, he said, that would bar the defendant's lawyers from making the same argument over the bones at trial or preclude him from ruling on the issue again after the defense presents testimony.
�Just because you rule against a party doesn't mean you can't come back and hear the case,� Hudson said. �I don't think there's anything in the case that says I couldn't be fair.�
Former Durham District Attorney Tracey Cline lost her job after publicly criticizing Hudson's decisions dismissing charges against Dorman and Derrick Allen, who had been convicted of killing and sexually assaulting a 2-year-old girl in 1998. Cline then sought unsuccessfully to have Hudson removed from overseeing cases involving her office, claiming he had personal ill will against her.
Cline is now appealing a 2012 decision by Superior Court Judge Robert Hobgood removing her from her elected position for bringing her office into disrepute. Arguments in that case were heard by the court of appeals last week.
Cline's lawyer, James Van Camp, pointed out Tuesday that appeals judges have now overturned decisions in both the criminal cases that drove the former district attorney to attack Hudson's judgment. The court overturned Hudson's ruling in the Allen case in September. That should aid his client's argument that she was unjustly removed, Van Camp said.
For his part, Hudson said he has no regrets about his rulings or Cline's fate.
�It was her actions, not my actions, for why she was removed,� Hudson said. �She wants to make it, her argument, that it was me. But Judge Hobgood did not buy that and I don't think the court of appeals is going to buy that.�
Dorman was arrested in July 2010 after a friend told authorities that Dorman admitted shooting a prostitute and asked him to help dispose of her bones, which he kept in a backpack at his apartment. An autopsy later determined that the bones belonged to Boxley, who had been missing since March 2008. Wounds found on Boxley's skull indicated she may have been shot in the head, according to the medical examiner's report.
Investigators said Dorman told them the woman was already dead when he found her remains, which he planned to use for his sexual gratification.
At a hearing before the appeals court in September, Dorman's lawyer argued his client's constitutional rights had been violated when the bones were cremated, leaving no way for the defense to confirm that some or all of the remains belonged to Boxley or that they were even human.
The medical examiner is required under state law to release remains to the next of kin after all needed tests are completed.

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Encourage One Another
Our words to one another about one another not only describe reality. They also create reality. "You idiot!" does not simply assess what is objectively true to the speaker. It also produces, in the one spoken to, death and darkness …Read More
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Dr. Dane Ortlund serves as Bible publishing director at Crossway Books in Wheaton, Illinois. He is the author of Defiant Grace: The Surprising Message and Mission of Jesus.


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We're on record about the whole racist t-shirt thing. It wasn't funny in 2008 when it involved Kosuke Fukudome and a slant-eyed Harry Caray Cub cariacature. It wasn't funny when St. Louis fans wore "Zambrano mows my lawn." It especially wasn't funny when vendors outside Wrigley Field, having seen the miniature furor over the Zambrano t-shirts, adopted the design for themselves, turning the shirt into a blue ditty reading "Pujols mows my lawn." None of this was funny.
And it wasn't funny when vendors decided to appropriate it for the crosstown series this week. An "Ozzie mows Wrigley Field" shirt may be in the competitive spirit of the rivalry, but it's also incredibly insensitive and wrong in about ten different ways.
Fortunately, Ozzie Guillen is awesome, and he turned the whole thing on its head. This is how you handle idiots:
White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen was amused Wednesday by a T-shirt that sported a cartoon drawing of him cutting the Wrigley Field lawn.
"Ozzie mows Wrigley Field" was inscribed on the front, with the Wrigley scoreboard in the background.
Guillen bought a T-shirt and wore it in the clubhouse. "I might cut lawns but I don't stand in the rain selling T-shirts," Guillen said, laughing.
That, my friends, is a victory. A victory for wit, for intelligence, and for Ozzie Guillen, who has become so good at deflecting criticism he can simultaneously take the sting out of a racially insensitive shirt AND insult the people who created the shirt in the first place. Impressive on more counts than one.
Eamonn Brennan is a Chicago-based writer, editor and blogger. You can also read him at Yahoo! Sports, Mouthpiece Sports Blog, and Inside The Hall, or at his personal site, eamonnbrennan.com. Follow him on Twitter.


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'The Doctors' star no stranger to North Texas
Travis Stork, one of the four doctors who star in the syndicated weekday series The Doctors, is familiar with Fort Worth. His sister and her family live in the city, and his parents live in Granbury, so he has visited fairly frequently.
But he got an education in October, when The Doctors spent a week filming in Dallas-Fort Worth, in locations as far-flung as the Fort Worth Stockyards and Southfork Ranch, north of Dallas.
"What's remarkable about the Dallas-Fort Worth area is how big it is," says Stork, whose name might ring a bell because he was on Season 9 of The Bachelor. "I'm used to landing at the airport and figuring out what route I'm going to take into Fort Worth. [But] by the time we spent the week there and got up to Southfork Ranch, I began to realize how little I actually knew about how big the area actually is."
The Dallas-Fort Worth segments begin airing this week, with an episode at 2 p.m. Thursday on KTVT/Channel 11 (more North Texas footage will air next year), and it provides some idea of the sprawl, although as TV tends to, it plays up stereotypes. A rough cut sent for preview began with the doctors -- emergency physician Stork, OB-GYN Lisa Masterson, pediatrician Jim Sears and plastic surgeon Andrew Ordon -- entering on horseback at Southfork, and then shopping for cowboy boots at Ponder Boot Co. in Fort Worth.
But there's more to it than the stereotypes -- the four doctors use these activities to address health issues, such as the therapeutic benefits of horseback riding, or how to buy footwear that doesn't put unnecessary strain on your feet, legs or back.
During a Stockyards-shot segment in which the doctors learn to two-step, an instructor mentions that she's a vegetarian, and asks about health issues involved with that lifestyle. And would it be a DFW-shot episode without cameos from Mark Cuban and Tim Love?
"What we like to do on The Doctors is we like to teach you without you knowing it," Stork says. "If you're watching a show that takes place in the studio, I might be at our 'magic wall' explaining an animation of what happens during a heart attack. But I think what you'll see in Dallas-Fort Worth is us with two left feet, trying to do the Texas two-step -- and along with that, we'll share some of the health benefits unique to finding an activity you love."
Going on location
The series is usually shot on a Hollywood sound stage, with many of the trappings of talk TV -- segments on different topics, with questions from the audience and viewers, and banter among the hosts. But Ordon, the plastic surgeon, says that the DFW episodes are part of an occasional series in which the doctors get out to other cities (they've already done New York and Chicago).
"It's a theme that we've done before, and we really enjoy doing it, because we focus in on a certain area and try to relate health issues to the activities in the area," Ordon said. "So we did some horseback riding and the two-step Western dancing. Those are great examples of exercising and having fun and socializing and the health benefits of all that."
Ordon says he really enjoyed the Southfork segment, where he got to ride a rodeo-trained horse, and the doctors met with Dallas star Linda Gray to talk about how she stays so youthful. Other segments include a visit to Cowboys Stadium, as well as the Cowboys' practice facility, where several players talk about their health regimens (they include yoga and ice baths); and a segment with Miss Texas DaNae Couch, who talks about the health benefits of baton twirling.
Although it's not in Thursday's episode, the doctors also made an appearance at Frisco's Stonebriar Center Mall, where they took audience questions. There is still much footage of passers-by, especially in the Stockyards, asking questions of the doctors (Stork says that in North Texas, it was common to hear questions about allergies). Which leads you to wonder if they ever get thrown a question they can't handle.
"Between having been practicing for 30-some-odd years and having been on the show for six seasons, you'd think I'd heard it all," Ordon says. "But we always do get something new. One, I guess, that stood out was from somebody who had already lost 100 pounds, wanted to lose more but sort of hit the wall. ... And that's something relatable to people out there who were really obese and are trying to lose the weight naturally, without going through bypass surgery or lap-banding."
Although the restrictions of broadcast TV mean that the doctors have to be delicate when discussing some topics, they say they'll talk about anything. One of the show's goals, Stork says, is to get people to talk to their own doctors candidly, no matter how embarrassing the subject.
"I always tell people who haven't seen our show, 'You tune in to our show, and you're going to get a glimpse of what doctors talk about when you're not around,'" Stork says. "We don't self-edit. We have genuine conversations that you would hear in the hallway of a hospital. It just so happens that we do it on a soundstage."
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Health effects of UV radiation
Small amounts of UV are beneficial for people and essential in the production of vitamin D. UV radiation is also used to treat several diseases, including rickets, psoriasis, eczema and jaundice. This takes place under medical supervision and the benefits of treatment versus the risks of UV radiation exposure are a matter of clinical judgement .
Fig. 1: Relationship of exposure to UVR and Burden of Disease
Prolonged human exposure to solar UV radiation may result in acute and chronic health effects on the skin, eye and immune system. Sunburn (erythema) is the best-known acute effect of excessive UV radiation exposure. Over the longer term, UV radiation induces degenerative changes in cells of the skin, fibrous tissue and blood vessels leading to premature skin aging, photodermatoses and actinic keratoses. Another long-term effect is an inflammatory reaction of the eye. In the most serious cases, skin cancer and cataracts can occur.
|Skin cancer data from UK
Between 2 and 3 million non-melanoma skin cancers, e.g. basal cell carcinomas and squamous cell carcinomas, are diagnosed each year, but are rarely fatal and can be surgically removed. Approximately 130,000 malignant melanomas occur globally each year, substantially contributing to mortality rates in fair-skinned populations. An estimated 66,000 deaths occur annually from melanoma and other skin cancers.
Worldwide some 12 to 15 million people become blind from cataracts annually, of which up to 20% may be caused or enhanced by sun exposure according to WHO estimates. Furthermore, a growing body of evidence suggests that environmental levels of UV radiation may suppress cell-mediated immunity and thereby enhance the risk of infectious diseases and limit the efficacy of vaccinations. Both of these act against the health of poor and vulnerable groups, especially children of the developing world. Many developing countries are located close to the equator and hence, people are exposed to the very high levels of UV radiation that occur in these regions.
It is a popular misconception that only fairskinned people need to be concerned about overexposure to the sun. Darker skin has more protective melanin pigment, and the incidence of skin cancer is lower in darkskinned people. Nevertheless, skin cancers do occur with this group and unfortunately they are often detected at a later, more dangerous stage. The risk of UV radiation-related health effects on the eye and immune system is independent of skin type.
For further reading beyond the following web sites a comprehensive summary and review of UV-related health effects can be found in the WHO Environmental Health Criteria Monograph Ultraviolet Radiation
Global burden of disease assessment
WHO has now published the report entitled "Global burden of disease from solar ultraviolet radiation" that provides detailed estimates of UV-associated disease burden worldwide. Using established methodology and best available estimates on UV-related mortality and morbidity, this report estimates that annually around 1.5 mill DALYs (Disability-adjusted life years) are lost through excessive UV exposure. The report gives region, age and sex-specific estimates and includes detailed methodological considerations. A counterfactual zero population exposure to UV would generate a substantial burden of disease through diseases of vitamin D deficiency. This, however, is only a theoretical possibility since the large majority of people is casually exposed to UV radiation such that extremely low Vitamin D levels are rarely found.
Related links
- Educational programmes for children sites
- International organizations sites
- Links to WHO collaborating centres
- Primarily patient-oriented sites
- Primarily physician-oriented sites
- Skin cancer prevention and information sites
- Skin cancer treatment sites
- Standardization organizations sites
- UV Index reporting sites


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Win a tractor Win a chance to pick one of four tractors (Case CX60, Deere 5310, New Holland 4630 or Massey Ferguson 253) in "The Great Tractor Give-Away!"
The promotion kicks off a "partial" launch of www.allAg.com, an online ag information and commerce company. Enter the contest (once a month if you choose) by registering at www.allAg.com until the May 1st drawing.
Company tightens its belt Because of recent reduced demand for ag equipment and in an effort to reduce costs, AGCO closes its Coldwater, OH, and Lockney, TX, manufacturing plants. Planters, hay tools, spreaders and Tye seed drills and cultivators will be relocated and manufactured at the company's hay and forage facility in Hesston KS.
The company's Massey Ferguson, Allis and White brands of high-horsepower tractors will be built with a common platform at its facility in France; and its Farmhand brand of loaders will be produced by the Soo Tractor Company in Sioux City, IA.
Driverless tractors The Kubota Corporation and Japan's Hokkaido University have developed a tractor that farms without a driver.
They've used the same type of GPS that is used in car navigation. Instructions are registered in a computer to command the tractor to drive out of its spot in the garage and into the field. It then can till soil, spread fertilizer and even park itself back in the garage. It's expected to be on the market in about five years.
In the U.S., Qin Zhang, assistant professor of ag engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, has plans to develop an on-tractor computer system that uses sensors to "see" its surroundings. With gathered data, the on-board computer will decide what to do and send a command to implements to make necessary changes.
Money-saving tip Case Credit is offering 90-day free financing on Case IH parts and/or service totaling $1,000 or more when you qualify for the company's new Vantage Account. Sign up by March 31, 2000, with your local Case dealer.
Implement companies create joint venture We've been operating in this type of arrangement; this will just be more of the same."
That's how Steve Koep with Ag-Chem Equipment describes the new joint venture his company is forming with Redball, to be named Redball, LLC.
"We started looking for a partner about three years ago," Koep adds. The company was seeking a good pull-type sprayer, among other products, and thinks it found it in Redball. This year the new company is introducing these new products:
* Model 110 liquid planter application system, which offers in-cab pressure adjustment, built-in rinse water base and 55- or 110-gal. tanks (price average: $2,200); * Model 310 row-crop cultivator geared to conservation tillage with 22- and 30-in. row spacing (base price: $10,310 for a 12-row, 30-in. cultivator); * Model 655 3-pt. front-fold sprayer that features boom widths from 54 to 90 ft. (base price: $12,000 with an 80-ft. boom); * Model 680 high-clearance trailer sprayer, which is equipped with a maximum tank capacity of 1,600 gal. and an adjustable-height boom up to 100 ft. long (standard unit price: $28,213 with 100-ft. boom).
Koep adds that Redball, LLC, will be introducing a self-propelled, 1,200-gal. sprayer in August.
Along with sharing products and ideas, Ag Chem and Redball will jointly design, manufacture and market certain products. Contact Redball, LLC, Dept. FIN, 202 Industrial Park, Jackson, MN 56143, 507/847-2690.


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Gluten-Free Restaurant Search Results
The results below are from compiled recommendations from those in the community. While steps are taken to ensure the restaurant's safety, as always, it is up to the individual to ensure their own safety every time when dining out. The National Celiac Association is not responsible for these restaurants.
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Grainmaker is Boston born and began with the simple belief that food can change lives for the bet...
16a North East Street, Frederick, MD, USA
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Sanctuary Modern Kitchen is a Certified Gluten Free cafe in Downtown Frederick, Maryland. We are ...
707 Main St. Norwell, MA 02061
Our Chefs are Trained to follow strict procedures when preparing food in order to accommodate all...
3944 S. Ranch Road 620, BLDG 6 Bee Cave, TX 78738
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30 Forest Falls Drive, Yarmouth, ME, USA
The entire menu at WOODHULL is gluten-free and features a fun mix of internationally inspired foo...
400 Boston Post Road, Wayland, MA, USA
The Local is a relaxing, neighborhood place to gather with friends and enjoy a creative menu stee...
10411 East McDowell Mountain Ranch Road, Ste 120, Scottsdale, AZ, USA
Sapiens Paleo Kitchen is a unique, chef-owned restaurant, catering and bakery, serving French Cui...
7714 Burnet Rd, Austin, TX 78757, USA
Our kitchen is 100% gluten-free!
1813 Capitol Ave. Sacramento CA 95811
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Everything in our kitchen is gluten and refined sugar free. We never cook with vegetable oil. We ...
160 West Fort Street, Detroit, MI 48226, USA
Lucky's menu is completely composed of Gluten Free Ingredients. Our Super Buns reflect our goal ...
Cambridgeside Galleria, 100 Cambridgeside Pl, Cambridge, MA 02141
We aim at offering you a uniquely pleasant environment to enjoy healthy energetic meals. We will ...
Pottstown Farmer's Market 300 E High St Pottstown PA, 19464
When you eat our tacos, the first thing you will notice is the freshly pressed and grilled organi...
5040 N 40th St, Phoenix, AZ 85018
Many items on menu are or can be made GF.
6 Town Wharf, Plymouth, MA, USA
A varied menu and most items can be made gluten free. They serve gluten free bread & rolls a...
547 Commonwealth Avenue, Newton, Newton Centre, MA 02459, USA
Our attention to quality ingredients, preparation, as well as allergy-conscious practices, allows...
35-12 Ditmars Boulevard, Astoria, NY 11105, USA
390 Manor Drive Pocono township, Pennsylvania 18349
(570) 476-4000(570) 476-4000
Located in the Carriage House in Pocono Manor next to Kalahari Indoor Water Park, Bite Grill &...
125 East 10th Street, Lawrence, KS, USA
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Centerstone Plaza Soldiers Field 401 6th Street Southwest Rochester, MN
Meals prepared in a dedicated Gluten-Free kitchen.
At Nourish, we are committed to fresh, local, organic and gluten-free food.
167 Church St, Whitinsville, MA 01588, USA
Here at The Green Plate Cafe, we make healthy food taste great. We partner with local farms, usin...
3105 Shattuck Ave Berkeley, California 94705
Mexican restaurant featuring homemade corn tortillas.
159 Main Street, Cooper's Common, Agawam, MA
A quaint, vintage cafe and dedicated gluten & allergy free bakery in Agawam, MA! Serving ligh...
124 S Main Street Woodstock, VA 22664
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279 Sunset Park Drive Herndon VA 20170
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254 E Ojai Ave, Ojai CA 93023
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46 Gerard St, Huntington, NY 11743
This Modern American restaurant delivers an innovative earth to table menu with emphasis on local...
6 Stillwater Avenue, Orono, ME
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4616 W Kennedy Ave. Tampa, FL 33609
Fresh Kitchen is our 100% gluten free re-imagined healthy fast food concept. We believe in servin...
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8491 Cooper Creek Blvd. Sarasota, FL 34201
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851 N. Alafaya Orlando, FL 32828
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2855 S. Orange Ave. Orlando, Florida 32806
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5550 N. Military Trail, Bay 214 Boca Raton, FL 33496
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170 West Broadway, Boston, Massachusetts 02127
Like your favorite childhood cookout, but better. American classics, backyard cookout cuisine, &a...
2664 Easton St NE Canton, Ohio 44721
It is you, our guests that make all of this possible. We have spent the last 10 years turning ou...
3459 Massillon Road Uniontown, Ohio 44685
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40 Main Street, Suite 2 Lee, MA 01238
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Il Brutto offers a variety of gluten free options, including entrees + freshly made pasta.
6909 Melrose Ave Los Angeles, CA 90038
All chef-driven dumplings are gluten-free, organic whenever possible, and made with local ingredi...
1100 Summit Place, Suite B, Blue Ash, Ohio
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85 Rainey St, Austin, Texas 78701, USA
Our menu is Gluten Free, except marked as NGF
4329 South Congress Avenue, Austin, Texas 78745, USA
Our newest trailer location serves grab-and-go breakfast and lunch items, as well as butter coffe...
1700 South Lamar Boulevard, Austin, Texas 78704, USA
Our original trailer location serves grab-and-go breakfast and lunch items, as well as butter cof...
4801 Burnet Road, Austin, Texas 78756, USA
At our flagship restaurant, we have a full butter coffee menu, bone broth, breakfast, lunch, dinn...
10900 Lakeline Mall Dr, Austin, TX 78717, USA
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Most of our items are gluten free- the only exception is our spicy red dressing.
Most of our items are gluten free- the only exception is our spicy red dressing.
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13776 N Highway 183, Austin, Texas 78750, United States
Features Fresh, Healthy, and Tasty 1. Natural Flavoring 2. No Sugar, No MSG, No Gluten, No Preser...
110 San Antonio Street Suite 170 Austin, Texas 78701
ATX Cocina experiments with the boundaries of Mexican cuisine. We have taken traditional Mexican ...
1300 E 7th St, Austin, Texas 78702, USA
With an all scratch kitchen, you can be sure to find fresh, healthy ingredients as well as an ent...
36 Delaware Ave, Rehoboth Beach, DE 19971, USA
At Melissa's is the only completely gluten-free Bed & Breakfast in the state of Delawar...
801 East 8th Street, Ocean City, NJ 08226, USA
At Heart Beet Kitchen we make great tasting food that does not compromise health. We are proud to...
29 Haddon Avenue, Westmont, Haddon Township, NJ 08108, USA
At Heart Beet Kitchen we make great tasting food that does not compromise health. We are proud to...
1007 West Lancaster Avenue, Bryn Mawr, PA 19010, USA
We strive to serve you foods that are healthy, organic, fresh, and delicious! Organic, vegan, glu...
6 Gay Street, Phoenixville, PA 19460, USA
All menu items are VEGAN, 100% organic, 100% gluten free, 100% soy free, refined sugar free and m...
2454 West Main Street, Norristown, PA 19403, USA
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360 Lancaster Ave, Malvern, PA 19355, USA
Our Kitchen is Grain-Free, Gluten-Free, Peanut-Free, Cashew-Free, Soy Free, GMO free and Dairy-Fr...
1700 Market St, Philadelphia, PA 19102, USA
All of our recipes are 100% gluten-free naturally.
207 South 16th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19102, USA
All of our recipes are 100% gluten free.
119 South 21st Street, Philly, PA, USA
PURE FARE multi-concept restaurant group with one common goal across all of our brands- to provid...
10 S 20th St, Philadelphia, PA 19103, USA
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Editor's note: This story was originally published Feb. 2, 2003, in the Amarillo Globe-News special section "Final Flight"
When the space shuttle Columbia began its fateful descent through the atmosphere Saturday morning it careened toward Earth with such force that the ground trembled, buildings shook and skies roared with the sound. The routine flight that began Jan. 16 suddenly became an attention getter.
Mark Ensign, an Amarillo attorney, watched the tragedy unfold in the skies over Grapevine.
Ensign was on a business trip, staying at the Embassy Suites in Grapevine.
"CNN had announced (the shuttle) was going over Dallas at about 8 a.m. I knew Rick husband was on there.
"I told some friends that it was going to go over. About six of us went out on the lawn of Embassy Suites. Right at 8 a.m., a contrail began," Ensign said.
"Immediately we saw the contrail. At that point the shuttle had just entered the atmosphere. Then within less than a minute, we started seeing what looked like sparks coming off of it... little pieces."
Ensign said he first thought the sparks were ionization.
"Then someone said the shuttle had gone missing. Then it dawned on us. It broke up," he said.
Ensign had a personal connection with Husband's father, the late Doug Husband. The men were in Rotary together.
He said he felt intense grief when he realized what had happened.
"It was incredible. I started shaking, praying. The fact that one of the pilots was from Lubbock, Amarillo and an Israeli on there. It was just a shock.
"At this moment in history, we went out outside to celebrate what was happening and witnessed a tragedy on the magnitude of Challenger. It was heartbreaking," Ensign said.
Paul Koetting, a Groom native, said he heard what sounded like a sonic boom or explosion around 8 a.m. while his family was getting ready for a spelling bee.
The explosion shook their house near Ferris, just southeast of Dallas, and rattled the windows, so Koetting said he looked around to see whether any of the neighbors' houses had blown up.
"I never looked up in the sky. We get sonic booms every now and then, but usually not ones that shake the house and rattle the windows," he said.
Amarillo Globe-News Assistant Regional Editor Kay Ledbetter, City Editor Beth Duke and Staff Writers Cheryl Berzanskis and Mark Werpney contributed to this report.


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Couchbase : Create a large dataset using Twitter and Java
An easy way to create large dataset when playing/demonstrating Couchbase -or any other NoSQL engine- is to inject Twitter feed into your database.
For this small application I am using:
- Couchbase Server 2.0 Server
- Couchbase Java SDK (will be installed by Maven)
- Twitter4J (will be installed by Maven)
- Twitter Streaming API called using Twitter4J
The sources of this project are available on my Github repository Twitter Injector for Couchbase you can also download the Binary version here, and execute the application from the command line, see Run The Application paragraph. Do not forget to create your Twitter oAuth keys (see next paragraph)
- Consumer key
- Consumer secret
- Access token
- Access token secret
Some basic explanation:
- The setUp() method simply reads the twitter4j.properties file from the classpath to build the Couchbase connection string.
- The injectTweets opens the Couchbase connection -line 76- and calls the TwitterStream API.
- A Listener is created and will receive all the onStatus(Status status) from Twitter. The most important method is onStatus() that receive the message and save it into Couchbase.
- One interesting thing : since Couchbase is a JSON Document database it allows your to just take the JSON String and save it directly.
cbClient.add(idStr,0 ,twitterMessage);
... com.couchbase.demo.TwitterInjector .
Some information:
- The mainClass entry allows you to set which class to execute when running java -jar command.
- The Class-Path entry allows you to set the current directory as part of the classpath where the program will search for the twitter4j.properties file.
- The assembly file is also configure to include all the dependencies (Twitter4J, Couchbase client SDK, ...)
mvn clean package
Run the Java Application
Before running the application you must create a twitter4j.properties file with the following information :
twitter4j.jsonStoreEnabled=true oauth.consumerKey=[YOUR CONSUMER KEY] oauth.consumerSecret=[YOUR CONSUMER SECRET KEY] oauth.accessToken=[YOUR ACCESS TOKEN] oauth.accessTokenSecret=[YOUR ACCESS TOKEN SECRET] couchbase.uri.list=http://127.0.0.1:8091/pools couchbase.bucket=default couchbase.password=
Save the properties file and from the same location run:
jar -jar [path-to-jar]/CouchbaseTwitterInjector.jar


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Moving AlongOctober 25, 2007
What's up the the css Zen Garden? So reads the plethora of messages I get when the server goes down for a day. But lately I'm getting email of similar subject matter for a different reason: there haven't been any updates for a long, long time.
Through 2006, publishing slowed down as my attention went elsewhere. Then I redesigned mezzoblue late last year. The Zen Garden support pages continued to live on this site (for historical reasons, explained here if you really want to know why), but under the old template. Due to the way I built the publishing system, moving those pages to the new template would have required some sleeves-rolled-to-the-elbow tinkering and a free month. That, as they say, didn't happen.
Submissions continued to roll in to a frustrating backlog, guilt accumulated, and 2007 progressed. It would be a shame to kill the thing, so I didn't, but I also haven't been able to deal with the increasingly messy situation. Until now. You may have noticed a long-dormant RSS feed show signs of life this morning. Two new designs have been posted, both submitted some time in March, 2006. And I've started cracking away at the backlog, with more on the way.
What changed? I made things easier for myself. When I built the Zen Garden publishing system a few years ago, I created the capability to categorize designs by many different criteria; sounded like a good idea for the sake of the archives, but the time investment to do so wasn't really something I carefully considered. Sure, evaluating a single design takes all of 2 minutes, but when I get 30 at once from a whole class somewhere in Tennessee, it adds up.
That actually hints at the bigger issue. When I first started this thing almost 5(!) years ago, the ratio of quality designs to those I didn't think were strong enough to publish was pretty high, maybe 1 to 3. It's always been about quality over quantity to me; strong and/or clever design work was added as an "Official Design", everything else went to the "All Designs" list. I maintained that second list so I could publish everyone who contributed, something that's always been important to me. But it's also the root of the problem; submission quality has fantailed, and these days that ratio is looking more like 1 to 30. It's great there's so much enthusiasm still, after all this time, so many years later, but it just didn't scale.
So. The big change: it's now yes or no. You either get published or you don't. The archive contains only what were formerly known as Official Designs. The rest, sorry, thanks for trying, keep submitting ideas if you like. (The previous All Designs is available as a historical archive, complete with old site design.) Yeah, I know it's not ideal, and not everyone will be a fan of the new system. I'm not big on it myself. But it's the only way the site will continue to be maintained, so it is what it is.
By making it a binary decision, I can actually reasonably hope to clear up the backlog and start processing new ones. I'm going to work at it from both ends; new stuff and old stuff alike will be published, regardless of original submission date, so if you have something to send in (or re-submit), please do.
And, one final question to address: why bother? The css Zen Garden had a good run, does it really need to keep going now, in 2007? I addressed this once upon a time (see "Is it still relevant?"), but here's why I'm doing this: there are hundreds and hundreds of designs in the submission queue. New ones keep coming in almost every day. People ask me all the time when I'm going to update it next. After all this time, there's still interest.
To many, the site long ago accomplished its original purpose. But others are stumbling across it for the first time, even now. They're getting excited, and creating submissions of their own. Some of those are great, and I think great design ought to have an audience. So those are the ones I want to keep publishing.
Over a year ago, I decided that I was leaving my profession at the time to pursue something else. Though not completely sure what, I was leaning toward making web pages.
Until I found the CSS Zen Garden. Every day for weeks I'd click through the website, completely in love–"You can make this many amazing designs by only changing one page of code? THAT'S INCREDIBLE!" I had no idea. Now, I'm in school to learn this stuff and it's completely turned my life around–I couldn't be happier.
If I were to name a single source for influencing my decision to pursue Graphic/Web Design, it's the CSS Zen Garden. I also bought the book, having no clue what it all meant at the time, just so when I did know my stuff, I could do what you guys do. I start my web design classes next spring, and I'm heading in there with the full intent to make great use of the design materials I'm studying now–something that the CSS Zen Garden will be an essential tool in my arsenal.
I like your perspective on why you're doing this–KEEP IT UP… if for nobody else but those like me, seeking a job that they can love and finding it in graphic design.
What about making it easy on yourself, and letting the community vote for what deserves to be published (maybe in a different category since you can't really call that 'official designs' - or maybe you can afterall) ?
I guess it might free up some time.
cssZenGardenr 2.0
Heh. In all seriousness.. this is great news! I'm looking forward to seeing new designs. I'll second Jamin and point out that the Zen Garden was my introduction to css. Thanks, for keeping it alive!
@jamin - cool feedback, thanks!
@lqd - "What about making it easy on yourself, and letting the community vote for what deserves to be published… ?"
Well, cause that'd involve building a voting system. And with the new change, it'd just be outsourcing the easy stuff anyway.
The decision to publish/not publish isn't at issue here, it's the stuff that goes along with it the caused the slowdown. I got rid of the stuff.
It would have been great to pass this project on to someone with the time and dedication to bring the Zen back to life, but I imagine that would be a truck load of work as well.
I look forward to seeing the designs you rate in my feed reader soon!
@Sam Brown - "It would have been great to pass this project on to someone with the time and dedication to bring the Zen back to life"
Okay, but why exactly? With the archive of designs, the site continues to make the same point it's always made. What would be the purpose of me or someone else investing all that time in it, here in 2007?
The "challenge designers to adopt CSS" and "showcase what's possible with CSS-based designs" part of the site is done. We won. With a thousand designs in the archive, nothing left to prove.
Like I said, the only real reason to continue updates from now on is as a way to provide exposure to great design. So I changed things to facilitate that.
Hi Dave,
I appreciate your insistence of DIY (do-it-yourself) filtering. It's definitely a good way to ensure quality entries. Despite that, I think the idea of developing a Digg-like voting engine would take a bulk of the strain and involvement off your back. I agree it would involve effort, but perhaps that type of project needn't by 100% DIY.
Thanks for the updates none-the-less!
@Daryl - see my previous response:
The time to do community voting would have been 2004. I just don't think the site *needs* it now.
Making the thumbs-up/thumbs-down call isn't the hard part, it was all the stuff that went along with it, the stuff I just got rid of.
One of the modules I'm currently studying at University is Web Development and the Garden was shown by our lecturer to highlight just what can be done with CSS and good design sense. I think it really opened the eyes of a lot of other students, regardless of how old the site is.
I recently used the CSS Zen Garden to make a business case for moving a web application from tables to standards.
There are still many people who have not been exposed to the new ways of doing things and the Zen Garden is a powerful demonstration.
Thanks for keeping it alive!
For me, the Zen Garden is a piece of internet history. The most important thing is that it's always preserved somewhere. The fact that you're continuing to update it is a bonus. Cheers.
You've done a superb job curating what I will always think of as the gallery of a movement that has become so pervasive, in a few years people will struggle to believe the Web was once any different. It sits there alongside other places that have fermented change, and enthused thousands of people all over the world, as a priceless archive.
It's still so relevant too, which is why I still refer people there. I, for one, am glad you're still doing it your way. If that means in your own time, too, then so much the better. No guilt necessary, after all, that's the way the garden became so beautiful in the first place. Thank you, and here's to the years to come!
As a (french) teacher, I think CSS Zen Garden is a wonderful tool. When I first meet with new students, not specially accustomed to Web design and the subtleties of CSS, and show them the Zen Garden, I know I have motivated them enough to get involved in my lessons. I have noticed that about half of them still come back from time to time on the site, perhaps in order to get inspiration. Publishing new designs is a way of maintaining this "Wow" effect I need to motivate my students :-)
I'm so pleased that CSS Zen Garden is going to live on. Even though it's maybe not so important now to demonstrate the power of CSS to designers, the Zen Garden is still just as relevant, as there are plenty of managers that need convincing!
When Zen Garden was regularly updated, I always looked forward to seeing new designs pop up, and would spend ages trying to figure out how the designers had achieved particular effects or constructed their graphics to get everything to fit together.
Here's to the future of CSS Zen Garden! :)
I see CSS Zen Garden is a resource and a source of inspiration. It might not so 'hot/relevant' now, but we could see some stuff there that pushes how we may use CSS now and in the future.
Dave - CSS Zen is great, gives me a lot of inspiration and I'm glad you've made the decision to keep ploughing on.
However, the binary decision I think in the end will hurt the site more - choosing not to post submissions that don't meet your personal tastes or criteria may make people go elsewhere - the 'All submissions' list got around that by showing everyone's work, even if they weren't 'featured' by yourself.
Why not create a subdomain, copy your zen code to that, and make the binary decision, but put failed ones on there instead? That way people who don't quite make the cut will still get the glowy feeling :)
By the way, I never have submitted to CSSZen, and I'll probably never have enuogh talent to warrant trying, but I really take inspiration from it and seeing the number of submissions drop would be a shame.
CSS Zen Garden is an important website and has a part in the history of web development. The main reason is the high quality of the themes showed.
I think it's a good idea for its future 1)to keep it updated and 2) to point exclusively on high quality designs.
Anyway I agree with James' idea to keep the 'All submissions' alive elsewhere, for instance with an automatic publication when submitted, just for the "historical" purpose.
I was just talking about the CSS Zen Garden to a friend the other day. Please don't take it down. It doesn't mater if it doesn't get updated it is still a great site and a large piece of web design history. I don't think the wayback machine could do it justice.
Good to see updates to the garden! Thanks!
To James et al,
Community voting is not perfect. As a Digger, and someone who votes (albeit infrequently) on CSS gallery sites, I find that the mob mentality is not the best for curating good vs. bad. Design especially — sites like Digg STILL feature top 50 god-awful-Photoshop-effect-tutorials-masquerading-as-design on their front pages. Just stop already with that…
As an aside — The founding fathers of the U.S. Constitution were actually aristocrats who didn't have that much faith in the common man (hence the vexingly vexatious Electoral College).
In this case (unlike the Electoral College) I have complete faith in Dave to be completely fair and filter out what he deems to be worthy of showcase. I mean, look at this site. Look at the success of the Zen Garden. Dave couldn't have written a book centering around all those designs if hadn't been so good at filtering and if we didn't trust his judgement. Still, there are too many dilettantes out there and I just don't trust open voting on Garden designs for that reason.
Not that this debate matters much, it's Mr. Shea's domain, quite literally, and I have no doubt he'll do what he feels is best.
Thank you for keeping it alive! I've been waiting and hoping to see some new designs for a long time now… :-)
You are a good man, Dave.
I have been on web development for over ten years now, but with an increasing interest for computers themselves I've been into non-web development for some time.
About two years ago, I knew *some* CSS, but the Zen Garden was really a major influence in embracing web standards to the bone and quit mobile prototype development and return to the web.
That said, I think social web and digg-like sites and the web 2.0 in general are all very beautiful, but I don't believe they apply to everything.
If someone starts a digg-like Zen Garden, I am in the line to sign up and participate, but if you are willing to keep the ZG yourself, I am all in favor of letting it still be a showcase of GREAT design (gourmet-style), instead of social favorites.
I can't help thinking people would be better off seeing the ones you reject than the ones accepted, but I can understand your point of view.
Seeing what someone thinks is 'good web design' to me isn't necessarily helpful. There was a "50 best designs" posting a while back (can't find link) where people annotated what they liked about the designs (your site was one of them). That was helpful. Annotation of what people _don't_ like about a design is also helpful. A listing of sites, though, without a why or wherefore doesn't strike me as all that helpful. Other than meeting the original purpose of CSS Zen Garden and demonstrating how stylesheets can change the appearance of the same markup.
However, your space, your time, and you should use it as you wish.
As a student in multimedia/web design, I've always considered you one of the "gods" of CSS. Now granted, the title may slight over-kill, but when I'm trying to convince the program heads about the importance of teaching Cascading Style Sheets, the Zen Garden was one of the many sites I'd use in order to prove my point*.
When I first discovered CSS myself, the Zen Garden was the site that I always felt if I learned enough, one of these days I'd gather enough skill and guts to eventually submit. No, still not there yet. And if the design was enough to get rejected, then personally, I'd rather not see it posted due shame.
So this comment is a big Thank you of sorts. Thank you for inventing a site that now has too many redundant copies. Thank you for creating a site that gives up-and-coming designers something to aim for. And a thank you for taking the effort to continue updating the beast**.
*The instructors still refuse to teach CSS.
**"Beast" is an affectionate nickname, I swear.
Thanks for the update. FYI, TSTC in Waco (webtech.tstc.edu) uses Zen Garden as a final project for their Advanced XHTML/CSS class. Must be where your getting some of the floods from ;)
This is really great news. For someone having totally no design background, and also coming from a so called developing country where I didn't really have access to good learning materials, Zen Garden was a tremendous source of inspiration and a learning resource for me.
So, I am glad that people who are still finding their feet in CSS and the upcoming generation of designers can still be benefitted by this.
Also, I am not actually for the community based voting idea… I would prefer Zen Garden to be the way it is right now. I don't think a Digg like model is exactly apt for Zen Garden.
Great work and thanks for Zen Garden!
I'm glad it's up again. I checked it a few days back and was sad to find that it was offline. It was inspirational to me back in the day - just two or so years ago - and is what really got me into web design, something that I now put a lot of time into and get a lot of pleasure out of. To this day, when I don't know where to take a design, I check the Garden. Just ever so often.
Thanks for making it. Thanks for keeping it.
Well, I'm thrilled that the Garden is being updated again.
As someone who got a fairly lucrative project from someone who found and liked one of my "non-official" designs, I admit I'm sad to see those get taken down, but I understand how much of a project it could be.
If there no way to just have the submissions automatically coded to a single list. That way there's no time strain on you to deal with non-official designs at all?
CSS Zen Garden is different from other CSS galleries because of its historical perspercive and value. And because they look all different but say the same thing. Designs that came forward from the same idea, build around the same content.
I, for one, am pleased that you've decided to keep the Zen Garden around. It serves the dual purposes of illustrating (as you intended) what can be done with CSS and providing inspiration for those of us more familiar with the nuts and bolts of (X)HTML and CSS than the graphic design side.
I can't think of another single site where I can come to see so many different varieties of apples compared to apples (so to speak). If you never added another new entry, I'd miss the Zen Garden if it were gone.
Dave I would be devastated if you took down the css zen garden. You have no idea how many people I refer to the official designs page to look at some of the best designs on the web. Many of the early designs still look awesome 5 years later which says a lot about progress we've made and web design. Even if someday you don't want to add new designs to it, keep it around for people to browse through previous designs.
"To many, the site long ago accomplished its original purpose. But others are stumbling across it for the first time, even now. They're getting excited, and creating submissions of their own. Some of those are great, and I think great design ought to have an audience. So those are the ones I want to keep publishing."
Not to mention that, as CSS evolves, we will get new, interesting designs, or perhaps old designs done in a new way. Especially now that CSS3 support slowly starts appearing, many old, ugly hacks could be replaced by new, shiny CSS3.
Hi David.
Almost exactly two years ago you accepted my design, Mozart.
Following that, I set myself up as a sort of part-time freelance website designer and in the last year alone I have made just over $10,000.
All of which will go towards my son's education; all of which is a direct consequence of your having accepted my little piece of work.
I would suggest that your contribution to the wonderful world of web design is much greater than you and many others realise.
Best regards.
I think #21 sums it up best.
Indeed, you are a good man. Thank you very much for everything.
Dave, Please keep the garden growing, I am an instructor with and author for LearningTree Intl. I have used the garden site in all my lectures on Web design around the world, it truely shows the power of CSS. With your site - CSSZengarden, and Andy Buds book - Advanced CSS - I could talk for a week.
Kinda ironic, I too live in BC - Maple Ridge and never knew the garden was from by own backyard until now, hope to see you at the Jan show.
Dave, from your post, it sounds like the physical publishing is what's taking the most time, and not the actual thumbs up or down, correct? Just curious about what it is in the physical publishing that's taking all the time.
Would there be a way to make the publishing more "automatic" once you do the thumbs down/thumbs up that would still allow you to maintain an All Designs list? For example, giving the submission a thumbs down or up automatically publishing the design in the correct section for you?
Sorry if I'm not understanding the issue properly. I know that my suggestion might take a bit of a time investment, but after that initial investment publishing would be much easier on you. It might not be so bad if you didn't have to do all of the publishing manually.
Kudos to you for making a decision that both addresses your needs and still keeps a wonderful resource on the web. Sometimes the smartest thing you can do is to say "This is too much, I need to make a change" and I really respect that you did just that.
To all the people making 'helpful suggestions' - unless you're lurking the bushes peering over Dave's shoulder, seeing exactly what goes on behind the scenes… as Richie Cunningham would say, Sit on it.
I've been a lurker for about 3 years (I think) but only recently to your blog. I'm glad you're keeping the site…it's one of my favorites when I hit a rut. I'm looking forward to the new designs you're selecting. :)
Hi Dave,
I've not written on here for a loooong time. I think the idea to only have one set of 'Official' designs is great. Although some may get annoyed if they get rejected, hopefully it will fuel them to up their own game in terms of quality and ideas.
Personally, I think the site has, and still does, provide a great service to the industry and is an amazing resource of inspiration and ideas. Don't feel guilty for giving yourself a bit of breathing space : )
I first came across css Zen Garden a few years ago, and I can still remember being absolutely *flabbergasted* when I discovered that it was possible to create so many different-looking designs, just by using different style sheets…
I'm glad you decided to keep the site alive, even if it means that some designs won't make the cut. (Unfortunately, that would include everything that *I* would be able to create!)
as of right now, i can't get zen garden to load, and i was hopping to use it as a showcase to some stakeholders in a committee meeting i've got coming up this afternoon.
for me, once you got 20 or so designs, the primary point was made. i love being able to go there and explain to non technical types that if we embrace these technologies (and take the time to do the markup right from the get go) we can do site wide redesigns THIS radical simply by changing one file and the images associated with it. seeing is believing.
it could also be a valuable teaching tool, but schools could just as easily mirror the basic content for that purpose. maybe that's something you should look into. zip up everything needed to host your own zen garden and let people who want to do so go wild on their own servers.
and if you really got 30 entries from some school in TN, i'd love to know about it. i'm a graduate from both the 2 year program at pellissippi state technical community college in knoxville and the 4 year program at tennessee technological university in cookeville. those are the only higher ed web design programs i'm aware of and neither of them were terribly web standards centric at the time. there's also some high schools that offer a few classes, largely the CIW certification stuff, which as of a few years ago was also pretty un-standards centered.
I think this is the best coda for css Zen Garden. It came and won.
Thanks a lot for your incredible work.
As others said, websites like these make people falling in love with web design.
That's nice.
CSS Zen Garden opened my eyes to the world of the CSS. It was two years ago. I still visit the Zen Garden every week to find inspirations and to have a break of peace and tranquility.
Keep updating and maintaining it!
I just wanted to say that frist off the site is down and has been down for the last couple of days.
Secondly I really love the web site. When I'm at a loss for inspriation I just stroll over to zengarden and bam I have some motivation to get this project completed. Your site has moved me to design using web standards. I run a couple consumer based sites that are all using standards infulenced by ZenGarden. One of the sites use a modified version of the ZenGarden theme for Drupal CMS.
I hope that this site is up an running soon it is a real shame if you take it down forever.
PS…. If you are reading this and do not have the book it still is avaiable and it totally a great read. NUMBER one book on my shelf for design based css reference.
Hmm, hopefully only temporarily,
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I have derived much pleasure from looking at the designs presented in the garden. They all have been a source of inspiration for me. Keep it up!
As a student of graphic design and a believer in web standards, I'm excited to hear that the CSS Zen Garden will continue. Art on the web is such a valuable thing, and when mixed with the practical it becomes all the more valuable. I come to the Zen Garden for inspiration, and want to thank you for all your work. As for the backlog, with all the support you are seeing on this forum, if you can think of any way to rope volunteers into the process, I think you would get quite a response. Many of us evidently find value in your work, and would be happy to contribute if we could help to keep it alive.
All the best,
Please don't take down the Zen Garden! I just came across it this year, and I love browsing through it and getting creative ideas. It would be a real shame if it was thrown out.
Also, it's a great site for showing to friends to get them excited about web design and how many cool things you can do with CSS. There's a real dearth of beauty on the internet, don't deprive us of one of the biggest resources currently available. :)
The very fact that you have this issue to deal with is proof enough of the importance of what you created. I can't tell you how much I appreciate the work that you put into this, both past and present. I have referred to the Garden so many times, for many different reasons. And yes, please don't ever take it down. If it gets to that point, put the word out and I bet someone, somewhere would gladly keep this thing going.
You earned your wings with this one, my boy. Chapeau!
I think this is the besst place to learn all about css, and i went through all the designs i'll visit weekly once for this site and getting lot of ideas and design knowledges :)
CSS Zen Garden is an inspiration. Truly remarkable, thank you for your effort. Much appreciated.
I've submitted a design back in February 2006. We had a short back and forth over email (you mentioned that I should keep an eye on the 'last updated' timestamp on the submittion page).
What I would like to know is if you lost the design that I have submitted or if you simply didn't think it was good enough to be one of the official designs.
Here it is again:
Your response is much appreciated.
Regarding "is it relevant", my company hires entry level web developers that often want to use html for presentational markup. We point them to csszengarden to help visually demonstrate what CSS is capable of and the difference between structure and presentation. I think the site drives the concept home nicely and hope that you keep the project online, if not continually growing, for them alone.
I also use it for design inspiration. I'm not much of a designer really, I'm a mediocre decorator at best, so I often extract design ideas from some of the submissions.
There will come a day when you just don't want to do it anymore. It happens to all of us.
CSS Zen Garden is too important to allow that to happen.
Others might create similar websites but the original is the historical reference for millions of web development folks. Folks like me that are extremely presentation challenged as well as design folks that want to be inspired or get better.
Perhaps one of your personal issues (as well as successors that do not yet exist) is the lack of revenue. The book and future updates of the book is one reason for website maintenance. But, I do think you have a bigger opportunity that is being overlooked.
For years now we've seen the dismal attempts by advertisers on the web. As I recall, perhaps 15 years ago my youngest child said, "be quite, be quite, my favorite show is coming on" - it was a commercial. Today, we still have no useful design criteria on the web that shows anyone how best to integrate sponsor messages of various kinds.
That suggestion is two-fold. CSS Zen Garden still would exist as it does today and it would provide a link to a sister website Commercial Web Garden that addressed that related issue. Of course, as folks visit that new website many will visit the sponsor ads because they want to see the transition. The site will generate revenue for you. You can build a company around that website. And, none of it would happen without the continued existence of CSS Zen Garden and the online and offline references folks continue to make about the historical leader.


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These photos are part of the exhibit "Life: Magnified," cosponsored by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences, the American Society for Cell Biology and the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority's Arts Program, on view through November 2014 at Washington Dulles International Airport.
This image of cells from a mouse eye illustrates the complexity of a mammalian eye,
which is made up of at least 70 different cell types. Each color in this
picture represents a different type, which include the many layers of the
retina and peach-colored muscle cells to the left.
Credit: Bryan William Jones and Robert E. Marc, University of Utah
Yeast -- a microorganism found in foods such as beer and
bread, as well as in the human body -- can reproduce sexually. A mother and
father cell fuse together and create one large cell that results in four
offsprings. Here, one offspring emerges.
Credit: Juergen Berger, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, and Maria Langegger, Friedrich Miescher Laboratory of the Max Planck Society, Germany
The center of the mouth (yellow) is covered by sharp points,
which helps the tick stay secure while feeding on its host.
Credit: Igor Siwanowicz, Janelia Farm Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ashburn, Va.
This photo from the exhibit "Life: Magnified" shows the mighty immune system (purple) gulping
up a single anthrax bacterium. Anthrax bacteria live in soil and the spores can
stay dormant for centuries. When they're eaten or inhaled the bacteria activatea and rapidly increases in number.
Credit: Camenzind G. Robinson, Sarah Guilman and Arthur Friedlander, United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases
Squamous cell carcinoma is the second most common type of
skin cancer. This image shows uncontrolled growth of the cells in a mouse.
Credit: Catherine and James Galbraith, Oregon Health and Science University, Knight Cancer Institute
The brain of this lab mouse demonstrates structures of blood
vessels (red) and nerve cells (green), but also abnormal proteins proliferating
throughout. The blue clumps in this image are plaque buildups, which is a
hallmark of Alzheimer's disease.
Mice have nearly identical genomes to humans
and are therefore used in labs to study both genetic and environmental factors
that trigger the illness.
Credit: Alvin Gogineni, Genentech
This photo from the exhibit "Life: Magnified" shows the HIV virus (yellow) attacking a human T cell. This type of
human cell is crucial for a well-functioning immune system to protect the body
from bacteria and viruses.
Credit: Seth Pincus, Elizabeth Fischer and Austin Athman, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health
Two copies of the each chromosome (blue) are lined up next
to each other. The protein strands (red) will soon pull apart these twins and
drag them to opposite sides of the cell. The cell will then split to form two
daughter cells. If all goes well, each will have a single complete set of chromosomes.
Credit: Jane Stout, Indiana University, 2012 GE Healthcare Cell Imaging Competition
This image is a magnification of the rotavirus by about
50,000 time. The rotavirus infects humans as well as animals and causes severe
diarrhea in children, though a vaccine is now available in the U.S.
Credit: National Resource for Automated Molecular Microscopy, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, Calif.
When you walk to work, scramble an egg or sign a check, your
cerebellum -- the locomotion control of your brain -- is hard at work. The cerebellum
is found at the base of your brain near the spine.
Credit: Thomas Deerinck, National Center for Microscopy and Imaging Research, University of California, San Diego
The majority of the liver is made up of hepatocyte. They are
crucial for building proteins, producing bile needed for digestion of fats and
processing chemicals in the body such as hormones and foreign substances like
medicines and alcohol.
Credit: Donna Beer Stolz, University of Pittsburgh
Nearly half of our blood is composed of red blood cells, which deliver oxygen to our tissues. T cells (orange) are an essential part of the immune system. Platelets (green), the smallest blood cells, clump together into clots to stanch bleeding after an injury.
Credit: Dennis Kunkel, Dennis Kunkel Microscopy, Inc.
Believe it or not, tiny hairs inside your inner ear are
integral to your ability to hear. When sound reaches the ear, the hairs bend
and the cells send signals to the brain with their movement. Too much
sound can cause these tiny hairs to bend until they actually break, resulting
in hearing loss.
Credit: Henning Horn, Brian Burke and Colin Stewart, Institute of Medical Biology, Agency for Science, Technology, and Research, Singapore


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Local blue crab catches are reported more scarce than ever this year, and nobody is sure why.
"There are absolutely no crabs," said Keith Watts, Crab Task Force representative for the Louisiana Seafood Promotion and Marketing Board. "We're not catching anything. It's ridiculous."
Local blue crab catches are reported more scarce than ever this year, and nobody is sure why.
"There are absolutely no crabs," said Keith Watts, Crab Task Force representative for the Louisiana Seafood Promotion and Marketing Board. "We're not catching anything. It's ridiculous."
Watts does most of his crabbing in Lake Pontchartrain in New Orleans, but he said the same holds true throughout the rest of the state.
"This year, we're catching 50 pounds on 240 traps, versus 240 pounds last year for No. 1's (blue crab) and about the same the year before that," he said. "We should be catching 180 to 200 pounds at least."
Watts said he hopes he's wrong, but from what he's seeing, you can forget about eating much blue crab this year.
"The waters warmed up," he said. "We've had high tide, we had low tide, we've had muddy water, we had clean water, we've had fresh water, salt water — we've had it all, and there's been no crabs in none of it."
Watts has made up his mind the BP oil spill of 2010, which leaked roughly 4.9 million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, is responsible for the declining blue crab population.
"It's just too much of coincidence for it not to be," he said. "Crabs live for two to three years. The oil spill was in 2010. You do the math."
Saturday was the three-year anniversary of the spill.
In the meantime, Watts said he's counting on scientists and researchers to make haste and bring the facts to light so the problem can be addressed accordingly before it's too late.
Julie Anderson, an assistant professor at the LSU Agcenter and Louisiana Sea Grant, said the blue crab harvest reported in 2012 by the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries indicated an average season.
"Statewide, it appears that the numbers and the value are about the same," she said. "But individual fishermen are getting hit very differently."
The weather is still pretty cold and windy this year, she noted, and blue crabs are sluggish creatures that typically don't crawl into traps until it gets warmer.
"Until it really warms up and we're still not catching anything into the summer, the state and scientists will become a lot more concerned," she said.
Anderson has done research on the effect of oil and dispersants on local crabs, and so far she said she hasn't seen anything directly linked to the spill.
For one study, she exposed larval blue crabs to the chemical dispersants used to clean up the oil spill. But she worked with a much higher concentration than what was used in the spill.
Anderson said she found it did not make much difference in the crabs' death rate.
However, when she exposed mud crabs to a combination of oil and dispersant, the oil broke down more easily and was absorbed by the crabs. More of them died as a result.
The low blue crab harvest can be attributed to several causes other than the oil spill itself, she said, such as the state's fresh water diversion program, which opened Mississippi River floodgates in an effort to prevent the leaking oil from invading sensitive inland marshes.
In 2011, the opening of the Morganza Spillway to keep the Mississippi River from flooding into urban areas again exposed blue crab and oysters to fresh water. These species rely on water with high salt content.
Still, Anderson said she and other scientists are not ruling out oil spill implications.
Mike Dupre, owner of Captain Allen's Bait and Tackle in Chauvin, said he's gone from averaging about 200,000 pounds of blue crab per year to not even reaching 50,000 pounds this year.
In two years, Dupre said he's gone from having 10 to 12 steady crabbers working for him down to one.
"Nobody is even going out because all they're going to do is waste time and gas," he said.
When he can get blue crab, Dupre charges $24 for a dozen.
"Something is going on," he said. "You can't just go from having all this crab to having no crab. I can't make it just selling bait and tackle. I need seafood."
O'Neil Sevin, owner of Bait House Seafood in Chauvin, agrees that blue crab catches have drastically declined, the reasons of which are many.
"Things aren't quite right," he said. "But with the way the weather has been cooperating this year, things may pick up later on."
Other than speculation that the oil spill has had an effect on the reproductive cycle of blue crab, which Sevin doesn't rule out, he said other factors may be just as likely.
It's possible that certain areas have been overharvested, Sevin said, and fish species such as sheepshead, drum and red fish, which sometimes become overpopulated, will eat the crabs.
Still, Sevin said the price for blue crab is simply too high, and the locals won't buy it. As a result, they're shipped to places where people can afford to buy them.
Asked whether the declining blue crab population makes him nervous, Sevin said "not yet."
"You can always go ahead and put a big question mark on something like this, but it's a little premature to get worried," he said. "With all the hurricanes and disasters we've been through, we always survive."
The next Louisiana Crab Task Force meeting will be held at 2 p.m. May 7 at the Wildlife and Fisheries' Waddill Outdoor Education Center, 4142 N. Flannery Road, Baton Rouge.


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AGCO Corporation recently purchased a Brazilian manufacturer called Industria Agricola Fortaleza Limitada (SFIL). SFIL produces farm implements, including drills, planters, corn headers and front loaders. Its sales for this year are estimated at $35 million.
AGCO already holds a strong presence in the South American farm equipment market with three factories located in Brazil. Equipment sales in South America account for 15% of AGCO's total sales.


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I am the essence of overconfidence! I am speculation, adventure; the spirit of pursuit; the stag howling for its winsome yet anonymous mate. I am the love call of evolution; the perfume and color of the flowers as they offer their pollen to the gentle buzz of the bees. I am sex itself, gentlemen. I am life. I am appetite!
Thursday, April 05, 2012
Prarabdha Karma
14 comments:
- Hawk Eye said...
i wante dto write something for rama navami. this was belated.
- Thursday, April 05, 2012 12:15:00 AM
Natvevaham jatu nasam natvamneme janaadhipah na kaiva na bhvavishyamah sarve vayam atah param.
- Thursday, April 05, 2012 4:55:00 AM
Slightly unrelated...the other day I was having a discussion about how in both the scenarios you describe people tend to support the anti-hero...Vali in one case and Karna in the other. The fact that they did make bad choices is glossed over, the fact that they were victims of an unjust God is highlighted.
- Thursday, April 05, 2012 9:15:00 AM
- amas said...
நன்றும் தீதும் பிறர் தர வாரா! Very well written.
- Thursday, April 05, 2012 9:30:00 AM
- D.N.A. said...
Elegant. One dumb question, though. How is the title of the post related to it's content? Isn't Prarbdha Karma more of a "brought forward" entry in banking speak? So, given Son of Surya's righteousness in previous birth, how dies it justify what he faces in his next life? Or am I wrong in the premise itself?
- Thursday, April 05, 2012 9:33:00 AM
have you read 'the difficulty of being good' by Gurucharan Das? My bet is you'll like it a lot.
- Thursday, April 05, 2012 9:49:00 AM
- Hawk Eye said...
yes. thats what i call krsna tipping off arjuna :-)
mostly people do that to show that they are rebels. there is no depth in their arguments. in this upside down world of ethics criticising rama is considered is sensational way of showing you can think differently. you can poorly fed information to this phenomena as well.
:-). Beautiful words. you and anon above made my day. now someone has to quote garuda puranam and we are done.
Woman A is an evil woman. she doesnt like her Mother-in-law and conspired with her husband o drive away MIL and make her husband not support his mother during old age.
History repeats itself with Woman A's daughter-in-law. The DIL is unable to tolerate the abuse of Woman A and influences her husband to drive away woman A. So Woman A has no support in her old age. A fate she inflicted on her MIL.
Now all 3 people - MIL, WOman A and DIL have prarabhdha karma i.e. carried forward balance one way or the other.
austrian man,
i havent read the book. the reason why rama avatara is most dear to me is precisely because of this concept that you mention.
- Thursday, April 05, 2012 3:17:00 PM
- வழிப்போக்கன் said...
மிக நன்றாகவும் தெளிவாகவும் எழுதி இருக்கிறீர்கள். வாழ்த்துக்கள்.
தமிழில் எழுத முயலுங்களேன்!
- Friday, April 06, 2012 4:36:00 AM
Types of Karma was explained better by Swami Nithyananda in Youtube. Neer edhukku time waste panreer.
- Friday, April 06, 2012 6:58:00 AM
They are sons of Indra and Surya respectively. Different sons in each yuga i.e Vali was not reborn as Arjuna likewise Sugriva as Karna.
- Friday, April 06, 2012 8:39:00 AM
Hope you add that book your list.
You're right about Rama, but Rama is called Maryadha Purushothama for a reason. His goodness is divine. However, IMHO Mahabharata is much more human. The characters turn gray very quickly, which makes the epic even more interesting.
How can a doe give birth to a tiger, who shines like the sun ? - Duryodhana replying to Bhima, after Bhima mocks that Karna is just a charioteer's son.
- Saturday, April 07, 2012 10:47:00 PM
Prarabdha karma is of three categories, ichha, anichha and parechha [personally desired, without desire and due to others' desire].
Whatever a jnani does is for others only. If there are things to be done by him for others, he does them but the results do not affect him. Whatever be the actions that such people do, there is no punya and no papa attached to them. But they do only what is proper according to the accepted standard of the world - nothing else.
Those who know that what is to be experienced by them in this life is only what is already destined in their prarabdha will never feel perturbed about what is to be experienced. Know that all one's experiences will be thrust upon one whether one wills them or not.
The above was said by great Ramana Maharishi.
- Sunday, April 08, 2012 8:37:00 PM
- hyd said...
- Monday, April 09, 2012 7:06:00 AM
Its valuable information.....also
- Monday, April 09, 2012 1:17:00 PM


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Hubble's Grand View of Star Birth
These two images, taken in visible and infrared light by the Wide Field Camera 3 aboard NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, reveal a massive star cluster nestled in the largest stellar nursery in our local galactic neighborhood.
The massive, young stellar grouping, called R136, is only a few million years old and resides in the 30 Doradus Nebula, a turbulent star-birth region in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a satellite galaxy of our Milky Way. The nebula is close enough to Earth that Hubble can resolve individual stars, giving astronomers important information about the stars' birth and evolution.
In the image at left, taken in ultraviolet, visible, and red light, the stars look like icy blue diamonds. The green in the nebula is from the glow of oxygen and the red is from fluorescing hydrogen.
In the image at right, taken at infrared wavelengths, Hubble sees through the dusty nebula, revealing many stars that cannot be seen in the visible-light view. The large bright star just above the center of the image is in 30 Doradus. The observation was taken through two infrared filters (1.1 microns and 1.6 microns).
The Hubble observations of 30 Doradus were made Oct. 20-27, 2009.
NASA, ESA, F. Paresce (INAF-IASF, Bologna, Italy), R. O'Connell (University of Virginia, Charlottesville), and the Wide Field Camera 3 Science Oversight Committee