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Arian Foster is a commencement speech come to life, a walking, talking, living, breathing, rhyme-dropping, Shakespeare-quoting, yoga-practicing, linebacker-outrunning testament to the idea that hard work fueled by dedication can turn dreams into reality. He is the NFL's philosopher king, a poet and deep thinker who led the league in rushing last season, his second, and seems to be on the cusp of stardom, both as a player and as an outsize personality out of whose mouth can come anything at anytime.
Such as now. He's standing on a rock in the desert in his hometown of Albuquerque, yelling at the universe and entreating everybody with him to do the same. He demands that the universe hear from his sister, Christina, a Sporting News photographer, the photographer's assistant and me. Foster, his fingers pointing to the endless desert, as wide and deep as the future that unfolds before him, instructs us to share our deepest desires. "Ask it for what you want," he says.
He takes his turn. "I WANT TO BE ME! THE BEST ME I CAN POSSIBLY BE!"
He picks up momentum. "YOU FEEL ME? IT WON'T KILL ME!" His voice catches. He starts to crack up. "I DIDN'T MEAN THAT (EXPLETIVE) TO RHYME, BUT IT DID."
The wind blows. The relentless heat of the day starts to give way. Sand shoots through the air, drying our eyes and lips and throats, tiny needles spiking our skin. Smoke dulls the sky in the distance to Foster's right, evidence of the fires that have ravaged New Mexico. Miles in front of Foster rise the Sandia Mountains, turning pink like the watermelon for which they are named; behind him sets the sun, yellow rays filtering through dark clouds.
Still standing on the rock but now facing away from the desert, Foster diverts his attention from the universe and onto a lone man, hundreds of yards away. "HEY! YOU! WALKING! DID YOU TAKE WHAT YOU WANT OUT OF THIS LIFE? OR DID LIFE TAKE WHAT IT WANTED OUT OF YOU?"
The man offers no response. Neither does the universe. Foster eventually moves to another topic, which is that he recently played an old video game and was surprised at how poor the graphics looked considering how state of the art they seemed 10 years ago. "It makes me think," he says in a British accent. "Ten years from now, what are we going to be doing?"
He means video game-wise, but it's a question he has pondered about himself, too. He might still be playing football or he might have moved on to a music or writing career. The way this photo shoot is going, he might still be on the rock, shouting to the heavens while admiring the earth. Whatever the Foster of 10 years from now finds to occupy his time, he'll do it full-tilt and off-center, spreading his message of love and unity and go-get-it-because-nobody's-going-to-give-it-to-you to whomever will listen, up to and including the universe.
Across the street from the University of New Mexico sits a diner called the Frontier. It has more tables than a Las Vegas casino and boasts a glorious menu of New Mexico cuisine: green chile hamburgers, green chile stew, green chile coffee, green chile oatmeal and green chile tequila. Just kidding. There aren't that many tables.
It is here that Foster and I talk for 90 minutes about football and philosophy, faith and family and whether Papa Smurf was a communist. Foster's interests are wide-ranging, and the last thing he wants is to be seen as just a football player. "He's different things to different people," says Simon Garcia, who has been friends with Foster since they were 7.
He's different, all right. On the field, few running backs are as well-rounded. He's big (6-1, 227) and fast and strong, makes crisp, decisive cuts and is very good at blocking and receiving. "You don't find that every day in a back," says Phil Fulmer, Foster's coach at Tennessee. Foster combines unteachable instincts with a devotion to studying and copying other great backs. Off the field, his ability to think on his feet is supported by how widely he reads.
Foster is a man who finds holes in arguments and in defensive lines, a homebody physically and nomad philosophically who writes aggressively and runs even more so, a contrarian raconteur for whom the politics of football are wearying but the possibilities of life are exhilarating. "I don't think we were put on this earth to pay the light bill," he says. "I feel like we were put on this earth to learn about ourselves, through and through, everything that a human body can do."
He didn't mean that (expletive) to rhyme, either, but it did.
I step away from our table for a minute, and when I return, a man dressed in tattered clothes sits in my spot. He is homeless and hungry. Foster agrees to buy him lunch, follows him to the line and starts asking him questions. Always with the questions.
The man says he recently got out of jail after stealing his girlfriend's car. He orders a breakfast burrito and wants a strawberry smoothie, too. But when the cashier says a small smoothie costs $2.80, he says that's too much because his buddy is with him and Foster is buying his lunch, too. "I got it," Foster says. "You're good."
Later, the universe-shouters are in a rental car, headed to meet two of Foster's oldest friends for dinner. Foster sits next to the photo assistant, a Washington State student named Eric Lee. Foster asks what Lee's major is. Lee says broadcasting. Foster wants to hear Lee work. Pretending to be an anchor, Foster introduces a story about a string of bank robberies and sends it to Lee, who is live on the scene.
For the next story, Lee is the anchor and Foster the interview subject. I suggest that Foster play a man raised in the woods by wolves, which he of course does. His wolf is an intellectual who speaks with perfect grammar and diction and bemoans the materialism he finds when he joins American culture.
When Foster was a junior in college, he made a crucial decision about his career. If he had entered the 2008 NFL draft, he probably would have gone in the second round, but he returned to Tennessee for his senior season. He was miserable, beaten down by criticism, injuries, lack of playing time and the chaos of a faltering program. Fulmer, the school's longtime coach, was fired at the end of that season.
Arian means "water bearer, holder of knowledge," and he uses water as an analogy in his writing and in describing his running style. After he went undrafted, he was a river bound by a dam, going nowhere.
His then girlfriend, now wife, researched which teams he would have the best chance of making as a free agent. They settled on the Texans, which was convenient because they were interested in him, too. Slowly, his river of dreams broke through the dam and started to flow again. He made the Texans' practice squad and before Week 11 of 2009 was called up primarily for special teams duties. He was the featured running back in the final two games and did well, though not so well anybody saw 2010 coming. Then again, nobody knew Foster would soon have a secret weapon in Houston.
The secret weapon is Arian's older brother, Abdul, who ran track at Florida A&M and was working as a trainer in Albuquerque. After the 2009 season, he moved to Houston to train Arian. He has watched every snap of every game Arian has ever played. He knows his brother's game so well that he frequently sends messages to him at halftime with suggestions of what to do. "He's always dead on," Arian says.
Their mom, Bernadette Sizemore, tells such a story about the 2007 SEC championship game in which she, as the bearer of Abdul's advice, lied to a security guard so she could get close enough to the field to talk to Arian. In an example from last season, Arian recalls when Abdul gave him a hand signal from his seat to check his phone for a text. (The message: Take your 5 yards. Stop trying to break a big one.)
And Christina talks about a brief halftime conversation between the two at the Tennessee-Arkansas game in 2007. In his second carry after the half, Arian scored on a 59-yard run.
"He always knows that Abdul is going to watch his back and Abdul is going to keep his best interest at heart," says Carl Foster, their father. "There's a comfort level that's there that you can't get from another guy that you're just paying."
That's especially important for Arian because he takes nothing at face value. He questions everything.
On a blistering-hot afternoon in Albuquerque, Arian Foster stands outside in the shade as his nephew and other children at day care line up for popsicles. Foster sighs at the sight of the kids doing what they're told — he sees the philosophical underpinnings of this. "Look at that," he says. "All our lives, we're taught to get in line. The ones who conform never discover."
That's an admirable point of view for poets and philosophers, but it doesn't make installing an offense any easier. Sports teams, especially football teams, love groupthink, can't exist without it. Coaches script practices to the minute, the league regulates every piece of clothing a player wears, and the media decide what opinions a player is allowed to express.
Into that constricting atmosphere steps Foster, who would rather shave the inside of his eyelids than follow the pack. He comes by this attitude honestly; he is Arian the contrarian, the nonconformist who is doing exactly what he was taught. The three Foster children repeatedly quote aphorisms they learned from their father. Not one of them endorses going along to get along. "The answer isn't always in the box," Carl Foster says.
Arian Foster wants coaches to explain why they want him to do things a particular way, which sounds perfectly reasonable to everybody except coaches. But for Arian Foster to stop asking questions is to stop being Arian Foster. And Foster's position coach in Houston, Chick Harris, says his curiosity makes him a better player. "He gets with the line to understand what they're doing," Harris says. "If it's something minute that they're talking about, he'll stop them and say, 'Hey, what are you talking about?' so he'll know exactly what's going on."
I see his nonconformity when I try to get him to talk about how he will repeat the success he had last season. "I don't know what success is," he says, but that's not exactly what he means. What he means is if he tries to meet somebody else's expectations for his own success, he starts playing for them, not himself.
"I drive me. Do you want to outrush somebody? Yeah, this is football. I'm not a yogi. I'm not a nun. I play ball, man. Yeah, I want to get as much yards as I can, as much touchdowns. Who doesn't? I just don't look at it like everybody else looks at it," he says.
He explains this by telling a story about a talk he gave to eighth-graders in San Diego, where he spent his last two years of high school. "I asked them, 'What is success to you guys?' One of them said, 'A lot of money.' One of them said, 'Big house.' Another one said, 'A whole bunch of girls.' They were trying to make their friends laugh, but that's really what some of them think. To me, that's not what success is. Success to me is providing a stable, emotionally and financially, home for my daughter and my kids to grow up in. To be the best husband I can be. To be the best father I can be. To be the best man I can be."
He'd rather his game be judged like a painting — does it add value to the museum? With his well-rounded game, the answer is an obvious yes. "Football is nothing but art. What is art?" Here he reads a definition off of his phone. " 'Quality, production, expression or realm, according to aesthetic principles of what beautiful is or what is good. Appealing. Or of more than ordinary significance.' That's exactly what I feel like football is. It's just a different form."
The fact he won't talk about conventional success for the 2011 season doesn't mean it's not a valid topic. Last season is already hanging in the museum. Next season is approaching; the curators expect another masterpiece. Can he do it?
Like a painter lacking a full palette, Foster says he played the 2010 season with a torn meniscus in his knee, telling nobody until the season was over because he didn't want to lose his job. That has been fixed, so he should be faster and more precise with his cuts. With his speed, size, instincts and determination, another great work of art is right there, waiting to be created, one that Foster can be proud of and fans can applaud. Of course, this assumes the lockout ends. Are you listening, universe?
Just because Foster doesn't care about success the conventional way doesn't mean he doesn't care about winning. Proof: He's ripped. "I have to literally say shut up to myself," he says. "Sometimes I'll be running and I won't be able to move for 20 minutes because I'm dizzy, there's no oxygen in my brain. We were training at Rice (University) a couple weeks ago, doing sprints. I was hitting it so hard. After my last one, I was laying on the grass for 20, 30 minutes. There were some track runners coming by. 'You all right, man?' "
He runs himself ragged in anything that crowns a winner. When he was a boy, it was Monopoly. Now, it's cards. His family plays when he leaves his home in Houston to visit them in Albuquerque. "We're there until 3 or 4 in the morning," Sizemore says. "You know those wrestling belts you buy at the dollar store? We have two of those, and we play for the belts. It gets vicious. We will eat our own young."
Winners get to talk junk until the next game, and this family cares not for hurt feelings. "You get your picture taken with the belt," Sizemore says. "You get to pick the music to come down the stairs and have an entrance to." For the NFL world, Foster's entrance into stardom started with the first game last season, in which he rushed for 231 yards and three touchdowns against Indianapolis. It's doubtful that game or any of the big games that followed would have happened without the intricate trainer-brother/coach-player/pusher-pushee relationship between Abdul and Arian. The whole family is close; though Carl and Bernadette divorced in 2000, they remain good friends, which has been crucial in their children's lives. And football has glued them all together for years. With the brothers, it's an everyday topic.
"When we spoke about me coming down to train him, the one thing that Arian said to me that told me that this was for real, for real, was he told me he didn't want to just get a starting spot," Abdul says. "What really hit me in the conversation was Arian told me he wanted to leave his mark on the game of football. That's heavy. That's a lot. I said, 'OK. If we do this, you understand you're going to have to work harder than anybody ever before you. You're going to have to do everything I tell you without question. Let's just go get it done.' "
The results of their work were obvious first in training camp, when Foster won the starting spot, and then in games, when he dominated opponents.
Inside the day care on that hot Albuquerque day, as Foster plays with his nephew and the other kids, I think of how his mom described him as a child: "the ornery, wild, loud, balls-to-the-walls kind of kid." He has grown into an ornery, wild, loud, balls-to-the-walls kind of adult, a physical manifestation of one of his mantras: "Life is just not that serious."
The kids play on him like he's a jungle gym, until he declares, "the next little kid who touches me is going headfirst into the trash can." Which of course leads one kid to touch him, and sure enough, Foster sweeps the kid off of his feet, takes him to the trash can, lowers him until his head crosses the top of the can … holds him … holds him … then relents and pulls him out. He drops his nephew into a recycling can minutes later, refuses to let any kid touch the ball in keepaway because "there's losing in real life," tells one kid "that's the weakest karate kick I've ever seen," and calls another a "hater" when he beats on the keys of a piano Foster is playing.
Then he steps inside the church that is adjacent to the day care and planks.
This story first appeared in the July 18, 2011 edition of Sporting News magazine. If you are not receiving the magazine, subscribe today, or pick up a copy, available at most Barnes & Noble, Borders and Hudson Retail outlets.


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ASIST 2012 Annual Meeting
Baltimore, MD, October 26-30, 2012
Preserving Imaged-Based Cultural Heritage: Valuation, Negation, or Desertion
Andrea Copeland, Joan Beaudoin, Chris Landbeck and Steven Puglia
Sunday, 3:30pm
The caves of Chauvet in the south of France contain some of the earliest known images created by humans in an effort to express a vision of their world - these images stand after more than 30,000 years. Reflecting on the near-miraculous preservation of these paintings inevitably leads to us to think of the responsibilities involved in caring for and maintaining cultural heritage imagery. Who is responsible for researching and preserving these images? Does this effort fall to the French alone? Do these responsibilities carry over to the surrogate imagery that documents the original items? Shifting the discussion to imagery produced in our current world we note that Yahoo! / Flickr contains over 6 billion images from all around the world. These images too are reflections of our human experience and yet there is no provision for preserving this content. Is it right that largest image collection holder could close up shop tomorrow? In other words does Flickr just belong to Yahoo!? Would this type of collection be better suited in the hands of a memory institution, one that is committed to preservation and education? If this digital content is placed in centralized depositories, who will be responsible for making decisions about how it is managed, accessed and preserved? Without cooperation, will digital cultural heritage depositories become like refrigerators that everyone shares but no one cleans or organizes?
The purpose of this panel is to explore the how's, what's and why's of preserving image-based heritage. What is valuable: how to identify it; organize it; preserve it and make it accessible? The panelists approach these questions from the following viewpoints: digitization as preservation reformatting; contextual metadata for preserving cultural objects, description of political cartoons for preservation and access; and memory organizations as agencies for digital preservation of social history.

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LAS VEGAS (AP) Damyean Dotson scored a team-high 19 points, including a short jumper from the key to give Oregon the lead for good, in an 83-79 upset of No. 18 UNLV on Friday night in the semifinals of the Global Sports Classic.
Dotson was one of four Ducks (5-0) to score in double figures. Carlos Emery had 16 points, Ben Carter added 12 and Dominic Artis contributed 11.
In a wild second-half that had 16 lead changes and five ties, the Runnin' Rebels (2-1) raced out with an 8-2 run to take a 45-42 lead at the 14:54 mark. But Oregon never lost focus and used a 13-5 run of its own to regain control.
UNLV was led by freshman Anthony Bennett, who scored 22. Katin Reinhardt scored all of his 18 points in the second half, while Justin Hawkins added 12 and Bryce Dejean-Jones put in 11.


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I have a 13m Element on order and I'll be getting the 9m when they are back in stock.
First of all I should say I have flown a LOT of different kites. I can be a little OCD with my quiver so needless to say there is a lot of kites out there that I have flown for awhile or even just briefly that I can use as a base for comparison.
As a guy who mostly likes freestyle/wakestyle/newschool and hopefully strapless wave riding this year with the occasional big air I'll be putting together a little review with my impressions after a few sessions.
I'll also try and round up some video footage and post that at the same time. I find its always better to get some time behind a kite before you start to comment on its characteristics. Everybody is always so quick to say "I love it" or "I hate it" after 30mins of lawn mowing and the bottom line is that's too small and too narrow of a sample size to know if the kite is good or not.
I have seen a lot of positive feedback about this kite and some very objective reviews so far so here's to hopefully adding one more to the mix.


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Chelsie Petereit, director of marketing and business development, Gurnee Mills
Chelsie Petereit was recently named director of marketing and business development at Gurnee Mills, the Simon Co. said. Petereit will be responsible for managing strategic marketing, business development, public relations, advertising and tenant and community relations. Petereit most recently was director of corporate marketing at Davis Street Land Co. and previously served as assistant vice president and director of corporate marketing at Heitman Retail Properties. She has a bachelor's degree in public relations ad communications from St. Thomas University and an associate's in retail merchandising from the International Fine Arts College in Miami. Petereit is a designated Certified Marketing Coordinator and a member of the International Council of Shopping Centers.
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People should wear more YELLOW
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by sushi
Innsbruck, Austria
Another dress I made with silk. This is a slightly amended version of the Celeste pattern. Originally I sewed the dress with the black top and a black skirt with white spots attached to it…which looked horribly dull. That's when I decided to bring some colour in – I am really happy with the result!! Very cheerful.
Material Notes
yellow silk, black satin, black ribbons
Burdastyle for the pattern
my boyfriend – who inspired me to make this second version of the dress
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Oct 19, 2010, 07.53 PMby rhilborn
I read your materials so I believe the black elements are black satin but it hugs you so well it almost looks like jersey. Beautiful styling, wonderful fit and sewing. Thanks for sharing!
Apr 4, 2010, 03.40 AMby aliish
Wow, I haven't been on for so long that it's amazing all the wonderful things I've missed. Your dress is Gorgeous!
Feb 11, 2009, 04.28 AMby pinksunflower
I totally agree – My favourite colour!!!! Looks great!
Feb 10, 2009, 08.08 AMby ichigogirl
Really really nice dress (and pictures!)
Feb 4, 2009, 12.03 AMby sushi
thanks for all the nice comments!! it took me ages to finally upload pictures of some of my creations and it is very encouraging – i am in a sewing frenzy now :)
Jan 31, 2009, 06.50 PMby kristybiscuit
Wow, I didn't even notice the diamond cut of the waist/skirt section before – the yellow totally highlights it! Love it!
Jan 31, 2009, 02.13 PMby calicocouture
I love the color and the fit! Beatiful work. =)
Jan 30, 2009, 02.52 PMby justmica
This dress is gorgeous!! Love the skitr part! Color is great!! Love the stripe on the end of it!! It's one fab dress!!! P.S. Interesting picks!!
Jan 29, 2009, 02.25 PMby olyaboieru
+ 1 for more yellow stuff! )))) I love yellow, especcialy for details and accents!
Great very inspiring outfit! Very funny pictures too! Great work!
Jan 29, 2009, 02.21 PMby tinkershell84
I love everything about this dress! It is so pretty!
Jan 29, 2009, 10.26 AMby daisylynn
I just totally love your celeste. The contrasting colors change the whole look and highlight the neat cut of the pattern. WOW!
Jan 29, 2009, 10.25 AMby erdronen
I love it! best celeste yet! great job!
Jan 29, 2009, 08.44 AMby serahayden
that is an awesome colour – i've been thinking of making a skirt in that colour since i saw a picture of zooey deschanel wearing one with a navy tank…thats my project this weekend!!
go yellow!!
Jan 29, 2009, 07.20 AMby susisonne
Your skirt looks amazing and the color is absolutely great! Love it.
Jan 29, 2009, 07.16 AMby dressdummy
I love it, and can't imagine it getting any better! Boy, I'm really starting to want to work with some silk now. . .
Jan 29, 2009, 07.14 AMby onlysonly
And the black bands around the bottom make it perfect!
Jan 29, 2009, 06.25 AMby gorde
The dress is very very very beautiful! I love the colorcombination too!
Jan 29, 2009, 04.59 AMby fashion1
wow, your version ist awesome! I love the colorcombination. it looks so different to the original, well done!
Jan 29, 2009, 04.47 AMby lybu
It's beautiful. Love the way you combined the colour's. This is my favourite Celeste on this site until now.
Jan 29, 2009, 04.15 AMby nikkishell
I think it looks fabulous!!! The yellow must be a lovely change for winter.
Jan 29, 2009, 02.43 AMby anajan
I couldn't agree more – I love yellow! Your variation of the Celeste is fantastic! Actually, the best variation I have seen on the site. BTW, do you always dress up when changing light bulbs? :)
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Coming off an Orange Bowl appearance, the Northern Illinois football team entered the 2013 season with high expectations and, so far, the Huskies have not disappointed. They're 4-0 and ranked 23rd in the in the coaches poll heading into their Mid-American Conference opener Saturday at Kent State.
Michael Santacaterina of Geneva has had a big hand in Northern Illinois' early-season success – perhaps two big hands would be more accurate. The junior linebacker has used those hands to help make 28 tackles on the season, third most on the team. He's also broken up a pair of passes and been credited with a pair of pass defenses.
Santacaterina's racked up those numbers despite not playing every down. He's part of a four-man rotation at linebacker.
"I feel like I'm doing all right," he said. "I'd like to get on the field more … [but] it's good to have all those people and be able to rotate."
Among the Huskies' four wins are victories over a pair of Big Ten teams, Iowa and Purdue.
"We've had some nice out-of-conference wins," Santacaterina says. "There's always room to improve."
That's particularly true on the defensive side of the football, as Northern Illinois is giving up 31 points a game. Santacaterina said the Huskies need to learn from their mistakes and match the physical play of their opponents.
Santacaterina came to DeKalb after earning accolades playing on both sides of the ball at Geneva. He gained 802 yards rushing and scored 23 touchdowns to help the Vikings reach the Class 7A state quarterfinals in 2009. Defensively, he was in on 70 tackles from his safety position, recovered a pair of fumbles and intercepted two passes. He received all-conference and all-state recognition and was named the Kane County Chronicle Player of the Year.
Those accomplishments still weren't enough to attract much interest from NCAA Division I schools.
"When the recruiting process started, I was getting some looks from Division II schools," Santacaterina said. "Northern came in late, around the signing date. … I ended up just walking on."
That's because the Huskies didn't have a scholarship to offer him, although they suggested he might be able to earn one.
"Mainly it was [former NIU] coach [Jerry] Kill," who influenced his decision, Santacaterina said. "I felt like he really wanted me here, he just didn't have a scholarship available."
Kill moved on to Minnesota after the 2010 season, but Santacaterina remains happy with his decision to join the Huskies.
"I love it here," he said. "We're a real tight-knit group."
After redshirting in 2010, he played in 11 games during the 2011 season, making four starts at weak-side linebacker. He intercepted a pass against Western Michigan in his first start. He had another interception last year against Ball State that started a Northern Illinois comeback. The Huskies wound up winning the game, 35-23, one of 12 wins on the season. Their only losses were to Iowa in the season opener and Florida State in the Orange Bowl.
Santacaterina said Northern Illinois is not resting on its laurels.
"We're moving on from last year," he said. "It's in the past. It's a whole new team."
Still, the Huskies hope to again make some history before the season is over.
"Obviously, we want to make it back to the MAC Championship and three-peat," Santacaterina said.
The demands of playing college football at the highest level mean Santacaterina rarely has an opportunity to see his brother, Daniel, play quarterback for Geneva. A bye on the schedule the second week of the season allowed Michael to come home to watch the Vikings battle Wheaton North.
"That was only my second time seeing [Daniel play] in high school," he said. "I wish they would have got the 'W'."
• Dennis D. Jacobs writes an On Campus column for Shaw Media. To suggest local college athletes deserving recognition, email him at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Carcassonne is a city in south-west France.
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Carcassonne station on the Bordeaux / Sète and Carcassonne - Rivesaltes SNCF lines.
High speed TGV trains between Lille, Bruxelles, Dijon, Lyon, Marseille and Toulouse call at Carcassone. Slower Corail Téoz between Bordeaux, Marseille, Nice and Paris towards Cerbère and Port-Bou (and overnight Corail Lunéa couchette trains between Paris and Cerbère / Port-Bou) also stop.
An extensive network of frequent, modern and comfortable regional services are provided by SNCF's TER Languedoc-Roussillon [1], with services to Toulouse, Narbonne, Marseille, Cerbère, Perpignan, Limoux and Quillan.
By plane
Carcassonne Airport (IATA: CCF) is 3km from the centre of Carcassonne. Ryanair [2] serve the airport to/from Brussels( Charleroi) Cork, Dublin, Nottingham, Glasgow (Prestwick), Leeds/Bradford, Liverpool, London (Stansted), and Porto. A shuttle bus to the city centre via Chénier SNCF station (€5) meets every flight.
Get around
There is no left luggage at the train station.
You can leave your luggage at Hotel La Bastide Saint Louis (42 rue Barbes 11000 Carcassonne) for 1/2 day : €3 - Day : €5
Useful if you want visit Carcassonne city before your trip back from Carcassonne airport.
Historic fortress (built upon ruins predating Christianity). Carcassonne is an amazingly well preserved medieval fortress that was featured in the movie, Robin Hood - Prince of Thieves. Ville de Carcassonne is a beautiful castle and is the centerpiece of the medieval Carcassonne. It is a lovely place but can get very crowded at the height of the season.
Much to see in this somewhat neglected region of France. Get into the hills and visit little villages like Minerve. Try using the Michelin maps but forsake the red roads and take to the little white roads. You will be rewarded by seeing lovely little places that tour buses etc never visit.
Carcassonne can also be visited departing from Toulouse.
Medieval jousting displays are held twice a day between the two walls. Whilst this may sound like a typical tourist activity, this is actually a very impressive and entertaining display of horsemanship and combative competition. Entry is €10 for adults as of Summer 2008 - certainly one of best €10 that we we spent on our Summer trip.
If you're up to it, the Torture Museum is also worth a visit. It's small but filled with torture instruments from the Middle Ages. Not for the squeamish!
The eating places get crowded and the prices charged can be a bit over the top. My advice is to eat away from the cite, perhaps in the lower town, or better in one of the enchanting villages away from Carcassonne. Cassoulet will fill you full of beans and sausage in addition to the meat in there!!
If you just wanna eat cheap, then the bars around the train station (La gare) should be good enough. There are also quite a few restaurants clustered around the main square in the Cite, the majority of which have outside tables so you can people-watch and enjoy the buzz of the square on a summers evening!
If your budget permits you, there are several excellent restaurants in the Cite, serving really good regional food. Among them are La Barbacane, Chez Saskia, Restaurant Comte Roger and the Brasserie le Donjon. These all serve divine food and the service is as you would expect - impeccable. As well as cassoulet, foie gras is a speciality of the region so expect it to be on most menus.
Be careful to not get to the town late when your hotels are far away from the city centre, because it is difficult to get a taxi.
The hotels around the train station are convenient but better book it earlier in the high season.
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Cubs turn to Jackson in home opener against Brewers
Journeyman right-hander Edwin Jackson makes start No. 2 for the Chicago Cubs - his eighth major-league team - when they host the Milwaukee Brewers to begin a three-game series with their home opener at Wrigley Field.
Jackson, who was drafted by the Los Angeles Dodgers in 2001, reached the majors two years later with the Dodgers and was with them through 2005 while going 6-4 in 19 appearances.
He's gone on to pitch for Tampa Bay, Detroit, Arizona, the Chicago White Sox, St. Louis and Washington, then came to the Cubs to begin 2013 after signing a four-year deal worth $52 million on Jan. 2.
He opened with a 3-0 loss at Pittsburgh on April 3 after going five innings and allowing two runs on three hits with a walk and five strikeouts.
In seven career meetings with the Brewers, he is 3-2 with a 3.06 earned run average in 47 full innings.
Starting for Milwaukee is Mexican-born righty Marco Estrada, who won a career- best five games last season while making 23 starts in 29 appearances.
The 29-year-old was drafted by the Washington Nationals in 2005 and pitched 15 times for them in 2008 and 2009, then went to the Brewers on waivers in February 2010.
He's won nine times in 80 appearances - 32 starts - for Milwaukee and made his 2013 debut last Tuesday. Estrada went five innings and allowed four runs on nine hits en route to a no-decision in the Brewers' 8-4 loss to Colorado.
Eight career meetings with the Cubs have yielded two wins with a 3.86 ERA across 23 1/3 innings, including 30 strikeouts and just 19 hits allowed.
On Sunday in Milwaukee, Eric Hinske clubbed a two-run homer in the top of the 11th inning and Heath Bell was just good enough to lock down the save, as the Arizona Diamondbacks took an 8-7 win over the Brewers at Miller Park.
Hinske pinch hit after Cliff Pennington led the 11th off with a double. He then crushed a breaking pitch from John Axford (0-1) well past the centerfield wall to put the Diamondbacks on top by two.
Bell came on and surrendered three hits, with Jonathan Lucroy's run scoring single putting runners on the corners. However, Bell fanned Rickie Weeks and pinch-hitting pitcher Kyle Lohse to end the game.
Milwaukee, losers of five straight, rallied with a two-run ninth inning off Arizona closer J.J. Putz to send the game to extras. Norichika Aoki went 4- for-6 with three RBI in the setback.
In Atlanta, Ramiro Pena hit a go-ahead two-run single in the sixth inning and Tim Hudson fired 6 2/3 innings of one-run ball in the Braves' 5-1 win over the Cubs in the finale of a three-game set.
Jeff Samardzija (1-1) struck out a career-high 13 batters, but allowed four runs on four hits and four free passes over 5 2/3 frames for the Cubs, who have dropped four of their last five games.
"It's a double-edged sword when you strike out guys like that," Samardzija said. "Your pitch count gets up, you're showing them a lot of pitches and you're doing some different things. Obviously it's not a bad thing. I felt good. It ended up coming back to haunt me."
The Brewers won 13 of 17 games in the head-to-head series in 2012, including six of eight at Wrigley Field.


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Water rationing won't be impacting just Yakima Valley farmers this year. Home gardeners wanting to maintain green lawns will be impacted as well, said Matt Johns, a turf grass technician with Washington State University.
Based in Puyallup, Johns said many home gardeners will probably have to forego having a picture perfect green lawn this summer. "Many will be facing letting their existing lawns go brown," he said.
Johns urges Yakima Valley residents to observe city water restrictions, which may include watering only once or twice a week.
"But if you must water, do it as early in the morning as possible or late in the evening," Johns suggested.
"Watering during the heat of the day will only cause you to lose water to evaporation," he said.
Johns said Valley homeowners should make use of all rainy days. "Use rainy days to soak in fertilizer and to reseed bare spots in the lawns," he suggested.
"Try to keep your lawn healthy up front," he said. Use slow release fertilizers early in the season and let the rain water in the fertilizer, he recommended.
Johns also recommends gardeners dethatch their lawns early this spring.
By dethatching, a process which removes the dead stems that build up in lawns during mowing, gardeners will increase the air flow in their lawns and allow water to penetrate more effectively. Johns suggested using a criss-cross pattern, using either a rake or a dethatching machine.
Follow up the dethatching process with the application of a slow release fertilizer, Johns suggested.
He also encourages the use of drought tolerant grasses in lawns and plants in gardens. Johns said lawns should be reseeded with drought tolerant grasses, such as colonial bend grass, tall fescue grasses or Kentucky blue grass. Although Kentucky blue grass, said Johns, is not as drought tolerant as the first two grass varieties.
Johns also urges people planning to put in new landscapes to consider alternatives to grass filled landscapes. Consider landscapes using gravel, brick, wood decking, landscape bark or concrete, he suggested. Johns also recommends planting drought tolerant ground covers such as juniper or ivy in home landscapes.
Water management will be a huge challenge not only for farmers, but for gardeners trying to stay within the restrictions of city water rationing, said Johns.
"Everyone must redouble their efforts to conserve water in any way possible," he said.
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Clemson held a ribbon-cutting for the newly renovated Littlejohn Coliseum on Oct. 14, 2016. The opener against Georgia on Nov. 11 served as the 'grand reopening' of the facility, complete with all the bells and whistles. The $63.5 million project was completed after 16 months of renovation, which began almost immediately after the 2014-15 season.
-Newly configured seating bowl, with court rotating 90 degrees from its prior layout
-Swann Pavilion, a newly designed operations complex and practice facility connected to the arena
-Burton Gallery, a new 10,000 square foot main entrance space
-Expanded portals, allowing for a more accessible in-game atmosphere from the concourse level
-Nation's largest centerhung curved videoboard, as well as ribbon boards atop each portal in the seating bowl
-Coliseum club & courtside club premium seating areas
-Coaches offices overlooking the practice gym
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In my last column, I said club development and aerobics were going in opposite directions, but nobody realized it. Here's a more thorough explanation.
By 1996, club growth was in the beginning of its boom stage. Fitness facility numbers had doubled in a decade. Soon-to-be major club players like LA Fitness, 24 Hour Fitness, Gold's Gym and Life Time Fitness were developing plans for nationwide penetration of larger membership markets. Prior to these years, the health club market consisted of big athletic clubs; made-over, medium-size, once-racquetball facilities; and a grouping of smaller gym-type operations, some nationally licensed but most independently operated. The net inflow of new members still matched the net growth of facilities. Not much "middle" existed in the market — and that meant that nearly everybody profited.
Accompanying this growth phase were five simultaneously occurring dynamics that had change written all over them: The clientele in clubs shifted from the mostly under-40 population already interested in fitness to a much wider age, type and interest-level prospective member market who wouldn't respond to the typical health club offerings that fueled the early advance of clubs and membership. These members were different, but few operators paid attention.
Clubs were suddenly getting larger in size, as though bigger was better. Facilities were much more costly to build, to equip and to staff. These factors placed an automatic emphasis on "more members needed." This meant that customer service would likely suffer — and it did.
America was rapidly becoming more automated, as evidenced by the use of computers (including the laptop), the newly developed cell phone, cable and satellite TV and the Internet. With this automation came a phenomenon still unexplained — the country became less active as substantiated by escalating obesity levels at all age ranges of the population. As an industry, we were struggling to increase the percentage of citizens that were members of health clubs, but we were not growing that rate as fast as the growth rate of new club development.
Cardiovascular equipment became the rage of the industry with LED and LCD screens, interactive programming and more appeal to the trainers who were orienting new members. Trainers were leading members to individualized exercise not to group classes.
As for aerobics programming in the average club, it had become step-oriented with higher movement difficulty levels. The less-fit, lifestyle-inactive, new members (and men) weren't able to participate in these classes. This was coupled with a movement on the clubs' part towards one-to-one new member training, which was primarily equipment-based.
The outcome was obvious. Niche facilities such as Curves arose, taking away little pieces of clubs' local market share. Personal training and group exercise studios began to flourish. Clubs tried to compete with each other by offering more and varied classes, not by adapting a business model for group exercise. While professionalism of class instruction grew, so did payroll and program costs. But in most facilities, overall participation began to drop.
Which brings us to today. Walk into most clubs, take a look at the group schedule, and you will see that club's version of "same old, same old." Other than the pre-choreographed programs, the offerings vary little, whether you are in a small gym, a large athletic club or a not-for-profit facility.
I estimate — from my own studies and from corroboration by Rich Boggs, CEO of Body Training Systems — that 80 percent of all clubs in the United States likely lose money on group exercise. Group exercise participants number less than 10 percent of the total membership of the average club. Attendance statistics indicate that class visits in a representative facility amount to only 12 percent (or less) of total facility visits. Group exercise payroll and payroll taxes often take up 18 percent or more of total staff payroll. Objective measurements in many clubs show that group exercise is not only a losing proposition on the bottom line, but also that facilities are suffering many "opportunity costs" by having a group exercise program. Group exercise as a business is in a general state of disrepair.
All of this sounds pessimistic for the future of group exercise, but not necessarily so. In next month's third and final installment, I will look at where group exercise as a business is going and how you may be able to profit from it.
Michael Scott Scudder, a contributing columnist for Club Industry's Fitness Business Pro, owns and operates MSS FitBiz Connection — an online-based club consulting and training service. Michael can be reached at 505-690-5974 or email@example.com.


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Beds Police are warn mobile phone users not to phone 999 to charge their mobiles.
It is known that a rumour or urban myth suggesting that calling 999 and disconnecting immediately will boost the battery life of a phone has been circulating for some time throughout the country.
Over the past six months the Force Control Room (FCR) has received numerous calls from the public who believe the myth and are incorrectly trying to get more power out of their mobile device.
Insp Claire Ackerman said: "This myth has been circulating for some time now and we are not the only force to have suffered from these false calls.
"Calling 999 for anything other than an emergency or a non-police matter puts additional pressure on resources, ties up an operator and wastes valuable time that could be better spent helping genuine callers possibly in a life-threatening situation. The only way to boost a mobile phone battery is to use a charger."
She added: "I would warn anyone making hoax or calls of this nature that silent or aborted 999 calls are always investigated to ensure the caller is safe and to protect the public.
"If the 999 system is misused or a call is found to be a hoax then this could constitute a criminal offence.
"All of the calls that come into the FCR are recorded and can be used as evidence in court. The police also have the power to disconnect mobiles from which hoax calls are made and we will actively arrest hoax callers and bring them to justice."
Beds Police wants people to use their phones responsibly and to remember that the 999 emergency number should only be used in an actual emergency where police, fire or ambulance attendance is required immediately. For all non-emergency policing matters callers should dial 101.


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Riding habit based on historic pattern
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Baden, Switzerland
This is a riding habit based on a historic pattern I received from a friend. Sizes were quite different in 1888, so I had to alter the pattern quite a lot. It consists of a jacket and a so called security skirt. While sitting on horseback, it looks like a regular skirt, but the trick is that it is open in the back so that you don't sit on any fabric but the one of your trouser you wear underneath. As soon as you dismount, you wrap the skirt around you so it looks like a very long pencil skirt.
Material Notes
Cotton, denim.
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Aug 18, 2013, 12.29 AMby Fantasywriter
I love the vintage pattern and the result with your alterations. It's all beautiful. Your horse is gorgeous, too!
Aug 5, 2013, 07.50 AMby martinK
great work!!! I love historical patterns
Aug 5, 2013, 07.21 AMby flowergirl22
amazing,, i have not tried sidesaddle with a skirt,, its bad enough with normal trousers,, amazing outfit..cute horse
Aug 4, 2013, 09.04 PMby bjr99
You did a fantastic job. I would love to see the pattern pieces for this outfit.
Aug 4, 2013, 07.31 PMby Oksana Starzhynska
So intersting and nice! You've got a real adventurous spirit in crafting:)
Aug 4, 2013, 04.58 PMby Mary Athey
wow!! this is fabulous on you. the photo's are lovely as well x
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I was considering buying a Dodge this year, then I saw this ad and realized that this company has little to no marketing sense because they chose to alienate all buyers who aren't Jewish or Christian by running this on the 8th day god created farmers, Paul Harvey horseshit. I was already annoyed by the Ram Tough commercials wondering why they only sought to appeal to rednecks and trogs and now this... I've owned three of their vehicles and I'll never buy another... good job Dodge. I had been driving through the local Dodge dealership eyeballing the new Dart and the Challenger which was an old love of mine for sometime too...
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Yeah pretty damn boring and long too honestly, farmers of the type he speaks of are pretty much a dying breed, they've been taken over by corporate farms nowadays anyway. /all hail Monsanto
Funny or Die nailed it with their spoof of the ad, "God made a factory farmer".
"Here's to shameless heartland pandering."
Tara Lohan's commentary on Alternet is worth reading.
That is extremely funny.
And it's a nice commentary to boot.
That was funny, thanks!
Yeah we grew up in a farming community, it's not nearly that romantic. I remember Farm Aid, farmers losing everything, even their dishes and suits watching helplessly as some auctioneer sold some of their most private possessions to the highest bidder, it was anything but romantic here.
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RENO, Nev. (AP) - State agriculture officials are exploring ways to muster support for slaughtering stray horses in Nevada and the discussions are stirring protests among advocates for the free roaming animals.
Wild horse protection advocates plan a rally at the state Capitol on Friday to urge Gov. Brian Sandoval to call off next week's scheduled auction of 41 wild mustangs they fear will end up at the slaughterhouse.
Hidden Valley Wild Horse Protection Fund Director Carrol Able says she's especially concerned about newly disclosed state records that show members of the Nevada Board of Agriculture have discussed ways to build public support for slaughtering stray horses in the foothills near Virginia City.
One board member suggested they might avoid some regulatory roadblocks by placing any new slaughterhouse on U.S. tribal lands.


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Hi-Fi Design with CSSMarch 18, 2004
And at last, the transcript of Monday's panel from SXSW 2004. Enjoy!
See, the way I see it, CSS is about font control. You can manipulate things like your leading, text color, and font face. That's about all it gets you.
Well… The old school method of thinking (old school being as late as last year for some, though I'm thinking more of 1998-era methods) was that CSS was useful for typography, and that's about it. I was guilty of that mindset myself for years. In fact, it was embarrassingly recent that I realized that hey, you know, this stuff can do a whole lot more.
I'm a graphic designer, image is important to me. I need things to look just right. I'd been hacking with tables and spacer GIFs for years, so I knew the mechanisms of that inside out, and all of us who had to put up with that way of building earned a badge of honour as far as I'm concerned. But I also think it's the finality of those methods that's holding the web of today back.
See, once you get comfortable in a way of thinking, you rely on it. I knew how to build a complex set of tables to hold a site together across all the popular browsers; I had no idea how to achieve the same in CSS for the longest time. That was a stumbling block for me, because when you have a deadline you go with what you know. And that's going to keep holding back those learning CSS.
But let me tell you, once you get over that hump, it's pretty cool stuff.
There's no question about it, this is the future of web design. I'm not going to bother going into a huge list of points about why you should use it, plenty of others can and will do the convincing for you. Suffice it to say it's becoming more common on large commercial sites, and the visual appeal of the new work being built in CSS these days is unrivaled.
But that's today. The problem I saw in 2003 was that we really didn't have many example sites. A few major commercial sites like ESPN.com and Wired.com (thanks to Doug, of course) had taken the plunge, and this was absoluetely great for business examples. And they were both well-designed, but they weren't the sort of visually inspiring artisitic free-form sort of work that designers could really latch on to.
Something to realize about us freaky artist types is that when we're looking for inspiration, we really don't care about things like usability and successful business targets and fast download times, and all the sorts of things you just HAVE to do when building commercial sites. That's work. We want play! And when it came to CSS, there wasn't much play around at the time.
So I got to thinking. What if there were a site that did all that, and demonstrated the flexibility of CSS, and also highlighted the benefits of using it, things like accessibility and degradability and so on? And, you know, what if, by the same token, it were to be approached as a collaborative effort so it's not just one designer's ego-stroking, but a community effort that displayed the multiple takes on a single source document by a bunch of talented people?
Well, we all know what happened then. Enter the Zen Garden. I've been maintaining this site for almost a year now, and I've seen some phenomenal design work added.
The basic idea here, of course, is that I've built a very simply marked-up XHTML document and that every submitter has used this exact same file as the source code, and contributed only a CSS file with a set of images to radically change the design. Take a look through these next examples — [1] [2] [3] [4] — and keep in mind that the only thing changing between each design is the CSS.
I guarantee that's all that's changing too, because I've made it physically impossible for each submitter to alter the XHTML.
Let's think about this for a second. These examples are all using the same base XHTML. And because I did most of the legwork when building that markup last year, every single one of these designs, and the other 200 hundred odd on the site, are highly accessible. They work just fine in older browsers and mobile devices and some screen readers because the presentational layer, that is, the CSS and images that go along with it, it's not being served up to devices that can't handle that. All they see is unstyled markup.
What you're seeing here is of course, is the bare bones XHTML without any CSS applied. It's ugly. No one wants to look at this for very long. Thanks to the plethora of designs on the Garden, we don't have to.
What's really struck me about some of the work being submitted is the wild variation between individual approaches. It's inevitable that when you ask two designers to submit their interpretations of a single theme, you'll get four or five responses. In this case that's more like hundreds and hundreds of responses, but you get what I mean.
There are a couple I'm particularly fond of, but of course my tastes vary as much as anyone's — what's nice is that there are so many to choose from.
- Not So Minimal, Dan Rubin
- (Shared anecdote about pushing minimalism, process for improving Dan's [beautiful, but too minimal] original design)
- Door to My Garden, Patrick Lauke
- (oh man, that's nice. Interesting effect - fixed position background.)
- Blood Lust, one of mine
- (Want to clear the air about this one. I like it, most don't, went for Futurist style/patterned GIF dithering… it does it for me)
- Maya, Bernd Willenberg
- (oh, you haven't seen this one yet have you? Sneak preview! See? You got your money's worth) (further note: will have this one added soon)
- This is Cereal, Shaun Inman
- (great theme, well-executed, and cool menus [which won't work in IE of course])
- Oceans Apart, Ryan Sims
- (oh, how I wish this were one of mine. wow.)
So on that note, here's what I want you to take away from this.
If you're a designer who hasn't explored advanced CSS yet for one reason or another, do! The world's moving in this direction, and it makes for happy clients. You might be surprised at how much quicker a site can come together.
If you're a designer just learning how to build with CSS now, don't worry. It gets easier. It's a tricky thing to learn, but once you have it down, the days spent cursing browsers that don't cooperate get fewer and far between. I promise!
If you're a designer who's been using it for a while, uh, where's your Zen Garden design, huh? I'm waiting.
If you're a company working with a designer who doesn't use CSS, ask them to start!
If you're a company working with a designer who does CSS, you're probably not paying them enough. (Just kidding. Or am I?)
Anyway. The benefits of using CSS are being proven time and again. It's a great tool in a designer's toolbox, it's available now, and once more start getting their mind around it, we're going to see some more amazing work. Can't wait to see the Zen Garden this time next year.
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Thanks for all your hard work in this area! As a media designer, I can appreciate CSS and its intricacies as I'm currently designing a new CSS-based site for a client. There are a few tricky things (can't browsers just get a long please), but once that's overcome, it makes for a nice, clean site that is easily maintained and updated. Each site gets a little easier.
I've learned a lot from you and other pioneers in this area.
Keep up the great work!
Dave, I told you this week, but thanks again for your contributions to the web (and for posting the transcript here). I enjoyed meeting you and look forward to seeing you next year if not sooner.
Ah yes, inspiring — I shall be working on my second submission after the projects I'm currently working on.
By the way, did you ever get the email about me switching domains?
I love this! All of the benefits of going to SXSW Interactive without having to leave the house. :-)
The Zen Garden has been a tremendous inspiration to me, even as an amateur web dork. I've been watching it since it originally went up a year ago. This Is Cereal just floored me when I saw it. The designs from the most recent update are all gorgeous, with Oceans Apart just making me jealous. This is truly one of the web's greatest assets. :)
Mine would have been submitted long ago. Problem is I don't have a server under my control (yet). When I do, expect to see a San Francisco theme at the Garden.
I had postponed learning how to use CSS for longer than I should have, because I really hadn't realised how great it is.
It wasn't until I saw CSS Garden a few months back that it became obvious just how powerful and versatile it really is. Since then, I've been preaching it wherever I go.
Thanks for that site. It's such an amazing example of why we should all be designing with CSS.
great stuff…and may i say that i'm honoured to get a mention with the door to my garden in there :blush:
I'll totally agree with Rob. I remember (about a year and a half back) when I started really getting into webdesign, when I found out that tables could build up an interface, I was like WOW.
Then I came across zen garden about six months ago, and then I was "WOW" except that WOW was alot bigger than the first one.
Oh, and by the way, very well done transcript. I am looking forward to submitting a design to the garden soon, and one day hope to go to SXSW and see you and the other people who are crafting the web present your panels.
I've also been very inspired by the Garden and its submissions. Ryan Sims' Oceans Apart is one of the most beautiful pieces of web design I've ever seen.
Even though I still consider myself a newbie with XHTML and CSS, maybe I'll take a stab at a Garden submission here soon.
Congratulations to you Dave and thanks for providing an outlet for such great creativity.
"This is Cereal" got me kinda mad.
It's another resource that makes Mozilla out to be perfect and Internet Explorer to be completely broken. Neither are true. IE's code engine needs retooling, I know (I use MyIE2 which is the same but has tabbed browsing, popup blocking etc). Mozilla has its far share of bugs as well, including a serious float problem.
Yeah Dave, but what version of InDesign do you use? ;)
Thanks for the great notes - they demonstrate much of the progress that has been made over the past couple years as CSS design (finally) moves to take its rightful place in the web designer's repertoire. I have been using CSS now for only about a year, and just submitted my first Garden attempt; breaking the rule about no horizontal scrolling…
Dante - the message was given to the browsers that couldn't even support the drop-down menus because of their blatent non-support of the :hover pseudo-class which has been around for quite some time. Nobody's saying any browser is perfect, but there are light-years between IE and Mozilla when it comes to CSS support. The point of Cereal was to show the benefit of CSS for menus that previously took crappy markup and scripting to perform. Oh, and it looks good.
Where would be without you Dave? You've spead up css standard support by a few years I'm sure, or should I say 99.
Anyways keep up the good work, We all appreciate it.
I'm sorry I missed it. Maybe next year. Thanks for providing the transcript, which also reminds me that I need to submit another zen garden entry soon as I can find the time. :)
"Yeah Dave, but what version of InDesign do you use? ;)"
Dave, what WAS up with those weird-ass questions? First the guy who sneers and says that sliding doors are just as much of a "hack" as tables + javascript rollovers. Then that guy who was strangely fixated on InDesign, somehow missing the point of the entire panel. Crazy people.
Thanks again for the wonderful presentation. I really enjoyed your writing, it's such a true voice for expansion of web stanadards.
I hope to be a SxSW next year to hear you personally this time. =)
Thank you so much so so so much for this group of websites that details the powers of css, the space that your information now takes up in my brain would have otherwise been wasted on possums and other marsupials, not to mension oppresive tables and frames. I now understand a great deal more about CSS and XHTML. Its a metamorphosis thats seen my skill set change from simple font control, to relative positioning, and of late oversized images in a smaller container acting as roll-over images with no pre-loading.
The power of css is amazing and there's admiration unlimitied from me one of your audience, good luck with everything you ever do :)
Thanks for your time.
Great of you to put the transcript online, but just to nit-pick:
"taken the plunge, and this was absoluetely"
Should be:
"taken the plunge, and this was absolutely"
But that's just the perfectionist in me speaking…
Woah… has it really been nealy a year since CSS Zengarden first hit the Internet?
I used to think CSS was just about typography and though I was quite won over by IE4's then advanced CSS support and what it could do… the new way of designing using CSS with structural (X)HTML that's been showcased with Zengarden was quite an eye opener.
Now if only I can get some spare time to finish my Zengarden entry. :D
Wonderful article and wonderful site. I have been a fan of Zen Garden since it went up and will always be a fan. Thanks largely to you, Zeldman and Meyers I have managed to make many converts to the wonders of CSS, especially with professional designers and artists. I have found that if you have a designer who is a little *geeky* but doesn't appreciate what you can do with CSS, you can show them Zen Garden and issue them a challenge to do something similar. Boom! They're hooked and are soon converts.
Again, wonderful site, it's an inspiration to many, not to mention a technical showroom of various techniques.
I love this site!
Thanks a lot, you opened my eyes.
Since I'm not a designer my homepage is a little shitty…but who cares? It's valid XHTML 1.1.
I can't get enough of your great articles.
Keep up the good work!
Maybe it is time I got off my ass and start some ZenGardening. To be continued..
I think CSS has a lot of potential. But being a newbie to it, one of the most frustrating parts is translating a design which is "easy" in tables, but has proven very difficult using css.
Although most tutorials have the usual 1, 2, 3, even 4-column layout, not may deal with multiple nested layouts. As in two columns nested in the right-hand column of a global 2 column layout..
The rantings of a newbie
Sean, there definately is a learning curve…it's like a language; you at some point get comfortable enough with it that you can stop taking phrases out of the tourist's guide to Spanish and start forming your own sentances. For me, this has happened only recently…but there's no way a tutorial can cover everything that you want to do with CSS. I can only encourage you to keep going; it does get easier as you write more and more style sheets, and you will get to the point where you control the language rather than the other way around.
I was so amazed that so many great designs have been submitted to the CSS Zen Garden in less than a year that I openned up Terminal to run a whois search. Dave said he's been maintaining the garden for almost a year…did someone else maintain it first? No, the domain 'csszengarden.com' was created April 18, 2003. WOW! So how do you plan to celebrate the first birthday (of course it's middle aged in internet years)?
I've only been active in webdesign (again) for a little over a year. I started maintaining my choir's website last spring. Previously, I took webdesign classes and learned HTML (of course the learning of HTML occurred on the internet, not in class) but lacked content to build a site with. I had fun learning CGI scripting in Perl (this time I learned some from class and some from then internet), but it began to scare me how much I understand programers and chose to fulfill my design ambitions through architecture. Before I got my letter of acceptance from CalPoly, I though I might switch back to web design if I couldn't get into architecture school - in large part because the 'standards advocate' community reinforces so much of what I think the internet should be. The parallels between architecture and (standards based) web design amaze me. I learn much from reading blogs of designers that I can apply to any design practice. Thanks everyone.
Great write-up on the Zen Garden.
I wish I could submit a design. Lack of free time and my not-so-great design ideas (as you can see the CSS design options at my site) currently prevent me from doing so.
But I'd just like to say thanks for the Garden and the awareness to CSS greatness it has brought, and thanks to all the people who put such great and inspiring designs in there.
Not to detract from any of the work at Zen Garden because all of the samples are inspiring.
Still - the entry from Ryan Sims with his 'Oceans Apart' is one of the nicest web designs I've seen.
the only thing holding me back is trying to come up with a good idea that hasn't already been done. The amount of alternative designs for ZG is truly staggering and this is possibly the most addictive website on the net. Im amazed my employers haven't proxied it yet! Also what is sxsw all about?
Even though my design probably won't make it on the Garden, I just wanted to thank you Dave for creating such a project, it's what made me really buckle down and get my feet wet with CSS. Thanks for all your hard work.
One of my favorite garden entries is Gemination by Egor Kloos. His is particularly cool because he makes the page look so good, yet so different, in IE and Mozilla. Plus his tongue in cheek poke at the box model in IE is funny. You can see Gemination at: http://www.csszengarden.com/?cssfile=/062/062.css&page=2 make sure you check it out in both browsers!


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