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New Berlin - Developer MSP Real Estate has inquired about what it has to do to make its newly proposed 75-unit apartment in the New Berlin City Center acceptable to the Plan Commission, which last week turned down the plan on a split vote.
MSP has contacted city staff, but whether the firm is willing to alter its proposal isn't certain.
"Will they tweak it? I don't know," Mayor Jack Chiovatero said Monday.
The city's concerns were more definitive, though not unanimous.
The MSP proposal was denied on a 4-2 vote, with Chiovatero and commissioners Marta Broge, Jenalyn Groeschel and Mark Mattes voting to deny and Brian Felda and Robert Rafel voting for the plan.
Trafficking concerns
Commissioners expressed concerns about several aspects of the plan for 14900 W. Library Lane, in the City Center neighborhood off National Avenue. Traffic was one key concern.
Some officials expressed their disappointment that all the traffic from the proposed apartments would be funneled to Michelle Witmer Way, adding to a concern that the apartments in general would generate a lot of traffic.
Chiovatero said after the meeting that he voted to deny because he wanted the building's two parking lots connected so that cars could get directly onto National Avenue from the driveway at the more easterly lot behind the building. Under the current building plan, all cars would have to take Library Lane to Michelle Witmer and then out to National Avenue.
But the mayor said he didn't agree with others who were shocked at all the traffic the 75 apartments would add.
Broge was one of those who is concerned.
"It's a nightmare now on National Avenue and we're going to add 1,300 trips a day," Broge said, noting it's hard to get out of neighboring Culver's restaurant now.
Another commissioner concurred, stating he doesn't even go to that Culver's because of the traffic.
But a traffic study shows the intersection of National and Witmer can handle the additional traffic from all five buildings, said planner Jessica Titel.
"One commissioner also noted that Deer Creek Parkway ends at what would be the east parking lot of the proposed building, meaning the street would never go through to National Avenue to bring better access to the City Center.
Currently, there are three entrances and a fourth circuitous one on Wilbur Drive. Groeschel pointed out that two more roads had been planned to go through to National - Deer Creek Parkway and Howard Avenue. But it's doubtful that either will go through, Chiovatero said.
Squeezed space?
Some also were unhappy that the proposed apartments would be so close to the National Avenue edge of the City Center in an area where city officials hoped stores could be built to promote interest in the entire center. One commissioner even wondered if the lots that would be left on National Avenue would be large enough for stores.
Groeschel also noted that it's too bad the apartments are planned so close to National Avenue.
But that cannot be part of the Plan Commission considerations because zoning allows multi-family housing, advised city attorney Mark Blum.
The 75-unit apartment building is the second phase of MSP's Deer Creek development. The first phase was the controversial project consisting of three 34-unit buildings of workforce development apartments for lower-income residents and one 34-unit senior citizen building. Controversy over workforce housing landed the city and developer in court.
The proposed 75-unit building would have 15 workforce apartments. The rest would have rents at the market value.
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Sometimes your only options might be to kill yourself on a turret, monster or minion. How long from the last time an enemy attacked you until you die does it have to be for it not to count towards your enemy score? I belive it is called an execution when you do this.
If a champion dies and hasn't been damaged or debuffed by another champion in the last 10 seconds, it is an execution. Otherwise, the kill is awarded to the enemy champion who last dealt damage.
Executions are generally caused by a turret, minion, or monster. An execution offers no gold but still gives experience to nearby champions on the opposite team.
Also from the Wiki like 2 inches further down.
So basically, if you exhaust an enemy champion at 9 seconds after the damage you dealt it gets reset. The only way for them to dive a tower or minion wave and commit suicide is if it has been 10 seconds since any enemy has inflicted any kind of debuf or damage.
Short Answer 10 seconds;
I Could not find a link to Mocking Shout, so here is the skill description:
Source "A kill is the act of decreasing another champion's health to zero while it has no abilities to prevent death. The last player to strike the target champion is awarded with the kill, and all contributors within the last 10 seconds are awarded with an assist."

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I'm thinking about doing things in XNA because I really like C# but I'm wondering about the whole Xbox 360 Development. How good exactly good will the hardware be, also I heard that the games are optimized for the hardware would that apply for XNA games?
As a side question does anyone know if you can release a XNA game in the XBLA?


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Yep, knitters are sooo SMART!
Oh … I am the dumb one! LOL! But it is really cute. Are there going to be any other embellishments?
How cool is that?
Oh, it is so so cool!
That is great! It looks like a big marshmallow. YUMM.
Very cool–I wasn't one of the "smart" knitters who guessed😉 but I love it!
Awww Amy – I think all of the "wrong" answers are extremely witty and smart too. This has been so much fun!
[Said in best Emily Litella voice while pondering own dumbness] Oh. That's quite different. Never mind.
See what happens when you come back home, all away from blogland? You miss the Big Wind Up. It is GREAT——- and by the way, I think you stopped more than once in the line when creativity was being handed out!
fuzzy plushie moravian star. very nice.
Yeah, I'm the not-smart one who thought it might be a really cool purse!
a little bit like modular origami =)
so cool!
Miri – I'm sure it COULD be a really cool purse-leave out the last 2 or three pent-cones , felt it, add a handle. It was looking like a cool cartoon character hat there for a while too.
Dayum, that's really insanely cool. Really.
love it!
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Dad's Depression May Raise Kids' Risk of Emotional Problems
Nov. 7, 2011 -- Children of depressed dads are more likely to have emotional and behavioral problems, compared with kids whose dads are not depressed, according to a new study.
Much has been written about how a mother's depression can affect her children. But less is known about how depression in dads affects a child's emotional development.
The new study looked at more than 22,000 children from two-parent homes. It showed that depression in dads increases kids' risk for emotional problems.
The researchers measured depression and more general mental health problems among parents using two standardized tools.
The study appears in the December 2011 issue of Pediatrics.
According to the findings, a child's risk for emotional or behavioral problems was still much greater if their mothers, rather than fathers, were depressed or had other emotional problems (19% vs. 11%, respectively).
Children were even more likely to display emotional or behavioral problems if both parents were depressed. One-quarter of children with two depressed parents had emotional or behavioral problems.
Study researcher Michael Weitzman, MD, breaks it down this way: "There is a doubling of the risk if the father alone is depressed, a tripling of the risk if the mother alone is depressed, and the risk increases fourfold if kids have a depressed mom and dad."
Weitzman is a professor of pediatrics at New York University Langone Medical Center in New York City. "This is huge," he says.
Depressed parents parent differently, he says. "How people parent influences every aspect of child development," he says. For example, "if a parent is depressed, the normal things that might excite him or her can be an irritant," he says.
Treating Depression in Dads
R. Neal Davis, MD, a pediatrician at Intermountain Healthcare in Murray, Utah, agrees. Parents who are depressed engage in less positive parenting behaviors and more negative ones, he says. For example, they may be less likely to read to their children and more likely to spank them.
"Depression in parents affects children, and it is our job to encourage parents to get care, as this will have spillover benefits on their kids," he says.


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5 Tiny Wording Tricks That Can Totally Change Someone's Mind
We all know that language can affect our behavior. For example, chances are you would react much differently to hearing "Aww, wook at da fuzzy widdle bumblebee!" than you would to "OH MY GOD THERE'S A BEE ON YOUR FACE! RIGHT ON IT!" But language can manipulate you in ways much more subtle than that, and trust us, marketers know it very well. That's why ...
#5. Minor Diseases Get Renamed to Sound More Serious
Here's a little question for you to ponder: When's the last time you heard someone's boner deficiency syndrome referred to as "impotence"? Unless you recently awakened from a long-term coma or are a time traveler from the '80s (and in either case, welcome! Love the frosted jeans!), chances are it's been a good long while. That's because today it's known as "erectile dysfunction." Huh. Ever wondered why that is?
Because doctors get paid by the syllable?
So What's Going on Here?
The pharmaceutical industry is fond of taking conditions that were once considered a normal (if annoying) part of life and encouraging the use of their clinical names. Why? Probably because the use of "medicalese" results in people perceiving a condition as more serious and rare, which in turn leads to a shitload more frightened potential drug buyers. That's right: All you have to do is start calling male pattern baldness "androgenic alopecia," and all of a sudden people will be clamoring to run marathons for it.
But this psychological effect also works the other way around: Some diseases currently don't sound serious enough to our easily manipulated brains. For example, there's an initiative being pushed by the Rheumatoid Patient Foundation to rename rheumatoid arthritis, because they claim that calling a systemic autoimmune condition "arthritis" hampers research funding and insurance coverage. So, your medical condition getting insurance coverage might be seriously affected by the stupid name someone gave it in the past. Here's an idea: Let's just start calling all diseases "-rot" (joint rot, brain rot, dick rot, etc.). That way, they all sound equally serious and insurance companies will have no language-influenced reason to deny coverage for treatment.
"Facial pus explosion" opens a lot more doors than "acne."
And speaking of treatment, have you ever noticed how pharmaceutical companies regularly throw ridiculous wads of cash at a consultant to come up with names for their pills, yet new drug names all end up sounding the same? It's as if said highfalutin consultant laced his dog's food with Scrabble tiles (with an extra dash of Xs and Zs) and jotted down whatever Rover shat out. Prozac, Lexapro, Paxil, Zoloft, Luvox ...
That's because, for a bunch of wacky historical reasons, the letters X and Z have become associated with technology and innovation -- stick one or both of them in a drug name, and you have something that just screams "SCIENCE!" On the other hand, the magic of sounds can also make your drug appear gentle and non-threatening. For example, Prozac -- all efficient-sounding and full of plosives (consonant sounds like k and p that produce a short burst of sound, like little mouth-explosions) -- was also marketed as the premenstrual aid Sarafem, which manages to bring to mind a common female name, "femme," and angels, all at once. This is why that consultant we mentioned can afford the expensive brand of dog food, people.
#4. You Can't Resist Buying Products With Meaningless Adjectives
Have you ever wondered why marketers advertise breakfast cereal as "crunchy," even though crunchiness is pretty much inherent to the concept of breakfast cereal? Seriously, if the new cereal you just came up with is, like, chewy or something, it may be time to re-examine your career choice as a breakfast cereal development specialist.
That's why we have our Lucky Charms with a side of gummy bears.
Well, it turns out that's actually a form of marketing known as meaningless differentiation. The words don't convey any information, but their presence flips a switch deep in your brain.
So What's Going on Here?
According to a study published in the Journal of Marketing Research, meaningless differentiation occurs when somebody tries to sell you something based on a "special feature" that is really just some random word they pulled out of their ass. For example, the researchers discuss a company that sold "flaked" instant coffee. It turns out that the shape of an instant coffee grain has absolutely zero effect on the drink itself -- instant coffee dissolves, so its shape is purely aesthetic. It could be shaped like a giant turd and it'd still taste like instant coffee (which, incidentally, tastes like a giant turd). That extra, totally random adjective makes you want it. Here, we'll let Don Draper explain why Lucky Strikes tout "toasted" tobacco:
In one study, researchers tested participants with two different kinds of jackets, one that had normal jacket filling, and one that had "alpine class fill" (which, you'll notice, means precisely nothing). They found that when people were confronted with two identical products, they were far more inclined to choose the one with an added (meaningless) attribute. And here's the kicker: Even after being told that the feature was meaningless and that they had been force-fed a heaping load of horseshit, people still found it impossible to lose their stronger attraction to the meaninglessly differentiated product.
Suddenly, infomercials make a whole lot more sense.
#3. Vowels Affect How Big and Manly You Think Things Are
Pop quiz time, monolinguists! Of the two Mandarin words "qing" and "zhong," one means "light" and the other means "heavy." Which do you think is which?
If you guessed that "qing" means "light," you're not alone. English speakers are far more likely to guess this, and guess what? We're correct! We're all some kind of secret linguistic savants! Or really lucky guessers, maybe!
What do you think it is, History Channel?
So What's Going on Here?
For some reason, "front" vowels made with the tongue forward in the mouth (i and e) bring to mind "small, fast, or sharp" things, while vowels made with the tongue further back in the mouth (o, a, and u) make us think of "larger, heavier" things. And this applies not only across languages, but also to made-up words: In a study where researchers pulled some brand names straight out of their asses, participants assigned names containing front vowels to objects like small cars and knives, while they preferred back vowels for objects like Thor hammers and SUVs. In other words, guys, be sure to consult at least one linguistics expert before naming your penis.
In retrospect, "Needley Pete" could stand a redo.
This effect is so strong that it overpowers things you'd think we would have pretty much grasped by adulthood, like, you know, counting to 10. "Six" has the double whammy of a sissy non-plosive sound at the beginning and a puny-sounding front vowel, while "two" has a badass face-punch plosive followed by a powerful back vowel. So subjects who were told to mentally repeat the prices $7.66 and $7.22 for a scoop of ice cream (Starbucks serves ice cream now?) ended up rating $7.66 as the better value, simply because the larger numbers at the end sound so teeny-tiny.
"Thank goodness they cut this down from fifty-five thirty-three."
This "vowel size" effect applies not only to size, but also to gender. Researchers have found that larger vowels are associated more with masculinity, whereas smaller ones are associated more with femininity. For example, the "a" in "Brad" is a deep, masculine sound, whereas the "e" and "i" in "Angelina" are more feminine. The research found that boys were one and a half times more likely to have a large vowel sound in their name than girls, and also that, paradoxically, boys named "Sue" were 100 percent more likely to grow up to be badasses. And if you want to target a product toward dudes, you want those back-vowel sounds -- Axe, Maxim, Xbox, Dodge Ram, etc.
But when it comes to how a person's name can manipulate the brains of others, there is something else to consider ...


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Is there any way to show an image for RSS feeds in my WordPress page? Currently the default WordPress RSS feeds will only show the text of feeds from other sites. How can I make my site show a thumbnail image of RSS feeds of the other sites?
SimplePie, which ships with WordPress, does support images in feeds. Please see the SimplePie Reference if you need to look for specific functions regarding images.
If you want to display images from feeds on your own site, you could for example create a plugin containing a custom widget that reads a feed for images. For example with the
Be carefull not to inject content into your site you do not want to inject because of security reasons etc. .
While researching another question, I found the Anyfeed Slideshow plugin, that shows images in RSS feeds. I don't know how good it is displaying both text and images, but if your feed is image-focused (like a Flickr feed), this will probably do what you want.
I also was searching for adding thumbnails to my feeds. I found a solution which I'm not sure if it is a best way, but it works. I used RSS Image Widget plugin, and made some changes to the code:
Also it's worth mentioning that on the source blog images were included in the feed.


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Cranberry Biscotti
Categories: Christmas, Cookies, Thanksgiving
Type: Desserts and Baked Goods
Type: Desserts and Baked Goods
Biscotti take a bit more effort than traditional cookies, but the lemon-cranberry tang in these sets them apart!
- 3 eggs
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 3 tablespoons butter or margarine, melted and cooled
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 tablespoon pineapple or orange juice
- Zest of 1 lemon or orange
- 1 2/3 cups spelt flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon mace
- 1/2 cup chopped fresh cranberries
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- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
- In a mixer, beat the eggs until foamy, then slowly add the sugar and, on high speed, beat until light. Add butter, vanilla, pineapple or orange juice, and the zest.
- In a separate bowl, mix the flour, baking powder, salt, and mace. On low speed, add the dry ingredients to the egg mixture and blend well. Stir in the cranberries. The dough will be soft.
- Divide the dough in half and, on a greased cookie sheet, mold each half into a long thin loaf (about 8 by 3 inches).
- Bake for 25 minutes. Remove from the oven, and reduce heat to 325 degrees. Let the loaves cool for 10 minutes.
- Put the loaves on a cutting board and slice on the diagonal into 1/2-inch pieces.
- Return the cookies to the baking sheet and toast on one side for 5 minutes, then turn each cookie and toast on the other side for another 10 minutes.
- Remove from oven when golden brown. Cool completely.
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In the course of preparing lessons on projective geometry I want to give an account on the historical development. It is easy to obtain an overview of the history starting with G. Desargues. And with respect to older sources http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projective_geometry is of great help. But what I am not sure about is the question, whether Desargues was more an Euclid or an Eudoxos. Was he more collecting and reproducing the knowledge of scholars and artists like Filippo Brunelleschi, Ambrogio Lorenzetti, Pietro Perugino? Or did he invent himself most of what he wrote about? And what were his relations to his contemporary Johannes Kepler who worked in the same field?
I guess you'll find what you need in the monograph by J.V. Field and J.J. Gray, The Geometrical Work of Girard Desargues.
Desargues had a limited range of interactions, which apparently did not include Kepler. Quoting from Gale's Science and Its Times:
One piece of trivia, on the origin of the concept of involution caught my attention:
Desargues certainly pioneered original mathematics. The notion of a point at infinity in projective geometry is usually attributed to him. Kepler apparently did not work in projective geometry but rather in astronomy and pioneered a number of mathematical techniques such as infinitesimals. I am not aware of any interactions between Desargues and Kepler, but Desargues did play an interesting role of attempting to resolve a dispute between his junior colleagues Fermat and Descartes.
I now see that wiki attributes the notion of the point at infinity to Kepler, citing Coxeter. This seems like a novelty to me. Kepler did talk about points at infinity, but not in the context of projective geometry as we understand it, but rather as a way of developing a unified technique for treating conic sections through a kind of a continuity principle. This is closer to calculus than projective geometry.


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A fantastic pitching performance by Kestyn Lee put the Nebraska City Juniors in position to force a second championship game Wednesday night during action at the Class B Area Two tournament at Plattsmouth.
Stranded base runners and a couple of big innings by Gretna were too much to overcome, however, as the Dragons won 7-2 and clinched a spot in the Class B State Tournament, which will be played next week in Chadron.
Gretna scored four runs in the third inning and added three more in the sixth inning.
Lee opened the game on the mound and was in control, particularly early on in the game when he struck out six of the first nine batters he faced.
Gretna scored two runs on errors and two more on one big hit, a triple, in the third inning.
The Dragons got their sixth inning runs on an RBI double and a two RBI single.
Offensively, Nebraska City threatened in every inning of the contest.
Lee hit an RBI single in the fourth inning.
Brett Kochanowicz came up to bat with two outs in the fourth inning and the bases loaded. A past ball resulted in a play at the plate and Trey Denniston was called out on a very close play.
Kochanowicz returned to the plate at the start of the next inning and hit a lead off double. He would later score on a Chris Monaghan RBI double.
The Class B Area One Seniors tournament begins Friday in Nebraska City with the host team taking on Norris at 8 p.m.
Check out photos from the Juniors tourney at Plattsmouth plus all the rest of the photos this season at the following link.
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text: Beats bang to different drums which is why it's time to make a lesson for kids. Here is "how to draw drums for kids" and I think you will find that this is one drum that will beat to your liking. I know this is not what most people would think of as a "traditional" looking drum, but at least it can be played the same way or better. I say better because not only can you use a pair of drum sticks, you can also use your hands. The animal skin instrument is going to be easy to replicate. If you like drawing drums for kids, maybe you can think of something else you would like to see. Until then, remain calm because I still have more on the way. The day isn't over till the artist scribbles. Peace folks.


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WELLSBURG - While preaching on one hot August day in 1957 in Montgomery, Ala., Martin Luther King Jr. said, "Life's most persistent and urgent question is, what are you doing for others?"
Many Brooke High School students, staff and other volunteers could answer that on Monday, the day named for the slain civil rights leader, as they were helping to provide meals to fellow community members of all walks of life.
As visitors entered the school's front cafeteria, they were greeted by a student and encouraged to take a seat while other students delivered a plate of hot spaghetti, bowl of salad, slice of bread and cake to their tables.
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Brooke High School senior Katie Nunley, left, and Makayla Moore, a freshman at the school, were among many students who joined school staff members and other volunteers in serving free spaghetti dinners to hundreds of community members, including about 100 residents at home, Monday in observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day. -- Warren Scott
At one end of the lunchroom, teens and adults formed an assembly line, filling plates and bowls and placing them on carts to be wheeled to the many tables.
"We started (getting ready) about 11 a.m. and there have been kids helping out through the day," said Juliet Casinelli, president of the school's student government.
Casinelli said some students received credit for community service at the school, but many were just looking for something to do on their day off.
"We have made it our motto that instead of a day off, we make it a day on," said Toni Shute, principal, who noted it's the third year for the event dubbed "Break Bread with the Bruins."
Shute said in addition to members of the student government, volunteers included members of the basketball and baseball teams, Key Club, Bruin Leaders "and some students who don't belong to any organization but just wanted to come and help."
She added members of Vets for Veterans and the Ohio Valley Veterans Memorial Squad turned out to help in the kitchen.
Mick Mullen, a member of both groups, noted vocational students at the school presented a $500 donation to the squad to help with its expenses in delivering military honors at the funerals of area veterans.
"This is our way of saying thanks," he said.
Shute said many local businesses provided food and supplies, from noodles to to-go boxes used to deliver meals to residents at senior and handicapped apartment complexes and nursing homes.
"We started getting calls (for take-out orders) at 2 o'clock," said Savannah Piehs, a senior from the Cross Creek area, as she and Cassie Galiano, a junior from Wellsburg, cheerfully readied a cart with slices of cake.
"It's really nice giving back to the community and serving other people," said Galiano.
Shute said the school also received a $10,000 state Community Participation Grant through the efforts of state Sens. Jack Yost, D-Wellsburg, and Orphy Klempa, D-Wheeling, for the event and an upcoming school assembly that will feature Dr. Edith Eva Eger, a survivor of the Holocaust who went on to become a clinical psychologist and lecturer.
There are plans for Eger to speak at an evening program open to the public.
Asked why he volunteered for the dinner, Devin Zenobile, a sophomore from Follansbee, said, "I just wanted to give back to the community."
He added it was nice to think that he might be helping someone who hasn't eaten in a while.
The dinner wasn't limited to those in need. Through local media and the school district's automated calling system, normally used to announce cancelations or delays, Brooke school officials invited the public. But Shute said the dinner underscores the importance of helping others and the principles for which King stood.
She noted King once said, "Everybody can be great, because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love."
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I don't know what it is about WSG and long battles, it doesn't make sense to me that the small map with 10 players could take longer than a long long map with 40 players like AV.
Mind you generally if you are in AV for 55 minutes it's a long boring fight. No, not always, but usually you are dreaming of a quick pee to break the boring gridlock.
WSG on the other hand should be a quick 10 minute filler, but if they are longer, they are often the more enjoyable.
Last night I got both sorts of WSG, unfortunately both losses.
The 1st one was snappy. Only extended by the Horde pausing in their flag capping to grab some spare honor kills – quick and unfulfilling.
Probably summed up by one comment in BG chat:
What's going on guys, 8 on D, 1 AFK, and 1 on O?
(Gnome was on O by his little Gnomeself)
The 2nd one was an epic struggle, no one scoring for ages, then we grabbed 2 hard contested flags (both defending our flag carrier and trying to take theirs down), followed by 3 hard contested caps by the Horde.
If I wasn't having so much fun I would have rued the single token in the time I could have run 4-6 WSG.
Tip for our flag carrier in future, don't stray too far from our flag room so you (and your defenders) can both defend our newly released flag and cap theirs on short order.
To that Horde Lock (whose name escapes me) I'm glad I finally took you down after all the slow deaths I suffered and your hands.
To Ghostwar, the Horde warrior, you got too much health, but I did enjoy chasing you down the battleground, in and out, and up and down your base… Times like that I wish I had more Frost in my arsnal… Are we getting multiple specs soon?
BTW, I was spurred on to hit the battlegrounds after reading Sonny's post at ArathiHighlander on level 70 starting PvP gear, which nicely fits in with my Life is Cheap (WSG, AV, AB) series, quick and east to pick up some starting PvP gear for the cost of an hour's Sunwell dailies.
Oh Sonny, I think you have the wrong gear listed… The Satin set is Priest gear, us Mages are after Evoker's Silk gear (which do do have correct in the set section)..
I had 3-4 PvP items prior to my shopping spree, so I picked up another few.
He'll yeah!
I recommend you have a read of Sonny's post, and swap out your Spellfire and Spellstrike for a little blue PvP gear… It was a blast to be still standing after the majority of the contests.
A question for those of you that respec on a frequent basis…
How do you deal with your tool bars?
It frustrates me that I have to remember the setup of my toolbars and reconfigure them after each respec… Not so much the standard trainable skills, rather the talented skills, eg. Pyrobalst an Blast Wave. When you unlearn your talents, those skills disappear both from the spellbook and from the toolbar (macro versions as well). It drives me nuts, and a spare spec in my back pocket isn't going to remove that frustration.
So, yeah 55 minute WSG and a loss FTW… Or fun at least.
Gnomer and Out!


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Eric Eisner
The Educator
As founder of the Young Eisner Scholars program, Eric Eisner '73 is helping kids from the roughest neighborhoods reach their full potential
Eric Eisner '73 dreams big. He sees no point in waiting around, fingers crossed, hoping pundits will fix the system. "Let's sell education," the former Hollywood dealmaker and Young Eisner Scholars (YES) founder says, "the same way Nike sells sneakers to kids: Make it glamorous. Each YES scholar, home for Christmas in his Columbia jacket, is the living advertisement for kids in his neighborhood."
Eisner is sitting in a windowless bungalow on a middle school campus full of windowless bungalows in Lennox, Calif., a troubled neighborhood adjacent to Los Angeles International Airport. Here, 92.2 percent of the children are on free or assisted lunch programs. Through YES, Eisner works to give promising students here, and in other low-income communities, the chance to experience world-class educational instruction by linking them up with the city's top schools.
Eisner moved to L.A. in the mid-'70s after graduating from Columbia Law School, where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar. In 1980, he was tapped by David Geffen for what became a 10-year stint as president of the Geffen Company, producing hits such as Risky Business, Beetlejuice, and M. Butterfly. By the early '90s, Eisner was able to retire, and when a friend working with inner-city children in L.A. asked him to get involved, Eisner agreed. But first, he told her, he wanted to meet some of the students.
Eisner began visiting five students each week to get a sense of why some kids excelled despite such difficult circumstances. "We would geek out about physics and astronomy," says Chris Bonilla '16, one of the first students to meet with Eisner. (Bonilla began his studies at Columbia Law School this fall, four years after graduating from Columbia University.) "It's not so cool to be [seen as] a 'nerdy kid' at these schools," he adds. "Hearing about Eric's success, and him pushing me, really boosted my self-esteem."
As Eisner realized the untapped potential in the students he met, he began assisting them in earning scholarships to the best high schools and colleges in the country—with YES funding SAT prep and covering costs that financial aid misses. Through a variety of Eisner's corporate connections, YES also helps find internships and jobs for upperclassmen and graduates.
Fourteen years after Eisner's first sit-down with students, YES employs seven staffers and maintains a yearly operating budget of $850,000, of which 83 percent goes exclusively to programs. The organization now works with more than 250 students at four L.A. middle schools and at five schools in Harlem. (Eisner recently reunited with an old Law School friend, Harold S. Handelsman '73, who plans to open a YES branch in Chicago.) YES seeks out the most driven students at each location, offering spots in the program based on test scores, recommendations, and the all-important interview with Eisner. "Dynamic people have had an enormous impact on my own life," he says. "I guess I'm drawn to the process of being influential in the lives of young people."
While Eisner's success can inspire students, a bigger influence, he says, is their peers in the program, who come back for visits during breaks from schools like Columbia and Stanford.
"The glamour radiates from successful students with whom other kids can identify," Eisner says, recalling the first time a prep school sent an articulate YES scholar—resplendent in her school uniform—rather than a middle-aged admissions director, to recruit new applicants. "Those kids were mesmerized," he says, "and I thought: 'Of course, they're looking at the dream.'"


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Alycia M. Guichard, Head of Street Law Program, Honored as Young Lawyer of the Year by State Bar Association
May 20, 2008 –Alycia M. Guichard, Supervising Attorney and New Jersey Bar Fellow for the Street Law Program at Rutgers School of Law–Newark, has been selected to receive the Young Lawyer of the Year Award by the Young Lawyers Division of the New Jersey State Bar Association. The award salutes a young lawyer whose personal and professional achievements merit special recognition and who has made significant community and public service contributions. Guichard will accept the award on May 21 in Atlantic City during the opening session of the state Bar's annual meeting.
"Alycia is passionately committed to using the law to improve the lives of young people," said Dean Stuart L. Deutsch. "Her inspiring leadership of our student-initiated Street Law has expanded the reach and services of the program and demonstrated the impact of effective advocacy to our students." In addition to supervising Street Law, which trains law students to teach lessons about the law and civic responsibility to teenagers in Newark and surrounding communities, Guichard serves as interim director of the law school's Minority Student Program & Externships.
Guichard, a former foster child, has been a guest speaker at numerous conferences on children, families, and child welfare issues. In March 2007 she was invited by New York Chief Judge Judith Kaye to serve as a speaker and facilitator at "A Summit on Children: A National Judicial Leadership Summit for the Conference of Chief Justices." She is a law guardian with the Office of the Public Defender in Newark, providing legal representation to children in family court matters.
Before joining the law school in January 2007, Guichard was a teaching fellow and summer law faculty member with the Street Law Clinic at Georgetown University Law Center. She received her A.A. from Westchester Community College, B.S. from New York University, J.D. from Fordham University School of Law, and her LL.M. in Advocacy from Georgetown University Law Center.


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Today in Tweet Beat, Snooki has gotten very into books and words and spelling since she got that book deal. Plus, Melissa (Joan Hart) explains it all.
Suns out! Hallelujah baby jesus!!! Today is going to be phenomenal ! (Word of the day)
Yes I used spell check and I'm not ashamed. Spell check is the shit bro. Don't hate on it
The word of the day is @foursquare! I'm spending the day roaming NYC - checking in all over so you all can meet up, say hi & earn my badge!
Read Teen Vogue's article "cruel intentions" pg 134. Are girls meaner or are they just talking about it more? Story of extreme bullies
They r just scared of him!RT @MsLauraNicole: @MellyJHart I think whats sad about all that, is the Celebs that say how much they love PerezH.
Finally saw #RHOATL. @KimZolciak is very watchable.
I'm always worried about little kids falling. I'm kinda like a neurotic super hero. I've saved some cut knees for sure
On hold to the bank for two minutes listening to muzak. Daughter comes in and I say "Hello fart face!" at the exact moment someone picks up.


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Seattle Parks and Recreation Jesús Aguirre, Superintendent
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See the Fremont Peak Park development project webpage for the latest news.
On September 30, 2004 Seattle Parks completed the acquisition of the remaining .13-acre property for this new park site that will offer panoramic views of Puget Sound, the Olympics and the Ship Canal. Funding sources included the Pro Parks Levy Opportunity Fund, King County Conservation Futures Tax fund, and community fundraising.
On August 23, 2002, Seattle Parks and Recreation purchased view property totalling .43-acre for this new park in Fremont.
On July 29, 2002 Seattle City Council unanimously approved Pro Parks Levy Opportunity Fund funding as one of the funding sources to acquire the Fremont Peak site. This property has panoramic views of Puget Sound and the Olympic Mountains, and was nominated by residents and business people from the Fremont neighborhood.
On July 11, 2002 Friends of Fremont Peak Park held a community event to celebrate progress on the potential park, and nearly 150 supporters attended.
In 2001, the community had begun to raise funds for the potential park site. Parks and Recreation held a public meeting in August 2001 at B. F. Day School to discuss the potential new park and determine the level of neighborhood support. About 90 citizens attended.
The community obtained a variety of funding sources toward the purchase, including private and foundation grants and a Neighborhood Matching Fund grant, and they successfully nominated it for the Pro Parks Levy Opportunity Fund. County Conservation Futures Tax matching funds were also earmarked for acquisition of the site.
Seattle Parks and Recreation's purchase of a portion of the property was completed on August 23, 2002. An additional property was purchased in September 2004.
In 2003 the community began a public process through the Neighborhood Matching Fund to create plans to develop park improvements at the site. Development funds were provided through the second cycle of the Pro Parks Levy Opportunity Fund and other funding sources, and park development will start in 2006.
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Fremont Peak is a citizen-initiated project. For details and history about the community's efforts and to see photos of the view from the site, see the Friends of Fremont Peak Park website. A photo above shows Fremont citizens with their Fremont Peak display at a Pro Parks Levy Oversight Committee meeting that addressed Opportunity Fund acquisition nominations.
In spring 2003, the community began a public planning process for future development of the park, and hosted open houses at the site. For information, see the Friends of Fremont Peak Park website.
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The most expensive tax in the history of the world has been proposed by the Obama administration and to hear them tell the story, you'd think the rest of us should be grateful.
"We want to create a global minimum tax," said vice president Joe Biden, "because American taxpayers shouldn't be providing a larger subsidy for investing abroad than investing at home."
A global minimum tax is a tax on all profits made by nominally US companies that operate overseas. They operate overseas for various reasons, but one big reason is because corporate taxes are higher in the US than overseas. And to fix high corporate taxes in the US, the Obama administration proposes even HIGHER TAXES on corporations.
Yes: Obama thinks American taxpayers should be forced to pay higher taxes for everything they buy inexpensively from overseas so Obama can subsidize only government approved activities.
Our vice president now posits that normal corporate and individual profits in the course of business outside of the US are "subsidies" given out by a benign government.
Oh, where have you gone Harry Truman? In terms of real subsidies, though, how come Biden doesn't know that the government should be providing no subsidies at home or abroad?
That's because, just like any other addict, Biden, Obama and their progressive friends on both the right and the left refuse to understand that they have a problem when it comes to spending money.
Not content to try to tax the rich here in the United States, Democrats are so hungry for welfare revenues that they now want to tax all revenue, everywhere, ignoring international borders, international waters and universal common sense.
And guess who is gonna pay the tax? When they tolled the bell "rich" during this campaign, understand that that bell tolled for thee.


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GENESEO, N.Y. -- Artist, educator, and New Orleans native Steve Prince will share his art and discuss issues confronting New Orleans and the United States in the continuing recovery from scars left by Hurricane Katrina during a lecture March 1 at 5:30 p.m. in Newton Hall 214. The event is free and open to the public.
Situating his talk within New Orleans' unique funerary traditions of the dirge and the second line, Prince will discuss ways to find healing and restoration within African American cultural practices. Participants will embark on an American historical journey using the visual arts to grapple with deep moral and ethical dilemmas circulating around race, sex, power, and spirituality.
Represented by Eyekons Gallery in Grand Rapids, Mich., and Stone Metal Press in San Antonio, Texas, Prince has shown his art internationally in various solo, group, and juried exhibitions, including the Contemporary Art Center of Virginia; the National Gallery of the Bahamas; the Museum of Cultural Arts Center in Santa Catarina, Brazil; the Grand Rapids Museum of Art; the Portsmouth Courthouse Museum; Hampton University Museum; the Museum of African American Culture in New Orleans; Xavier University of Louisiana Gallery; Charles H. Taylor Art Center in Hampton; and the Peninsula Fine Arts Center. Prince earned a master of fine arts degree from Michigan State University.
Prince's lecture is sponsored by Geneseo's Office of the President, Department of English, Africana/Black Studies Program, Office of Multicultural Affairs, Department of History, GOLD Leadership Education, Office of Residence Life, Director of Galleries, and Campus Auxiliary Services.
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The Great Ace Attorney is a new Wright adventure set 100 years in the pastWritten by: / / No Comments
Capcom has recently taken the wraps off of The Great Ace Attorney, a game that will kick off a new series in the fan favourite Ace Attorney adventure game franchise, this time set nearly a hundred years ago in Japan.
According to Wikipedia, the Meiji period of Japan (comprising September 1868 to July 1912) is considered to be the era in which the region "moved from being an isolated feudal society to its modern form," which included the introduction of formal laws and societal structures.
It's during this period in which The Great Ace Attorney, or 'Dai Gyakuten Saiban – Naruhodou Ryuunosuke no Bouken,' will be set and stars the ancestor of franchise protagonist Phoenix Wright, named Naruhodou Ryuunosuke, who will be assisted by new character Susato Mikotoba.
The Great Ace Attorney is being developed under the supervision of series creator Shu Takumi for release on 3DS in Japan. No Western release or localisation plans have been announced. In an interview with Japanese magazine Famitsu recently (translated by SiliconEra), game producer Shintaro Kojima said of the game:
"While it's not a main-numbered Ace Attorney title, it's the start of a new series called The Great Ace Attorney. I believe that it's becoming something that can show that it's not simply just a derivative title.
"We can't say too much about it for the time being, but we'll be revealing more on the characters and their backgrounds next time, which we hope you all can look forward to. It's really becoming something that we have high expectations for, so please look forward to it!"
Watch the debut trailer for The Great Ace Attorney below, which (apparently) includes the information above:
The Great Ace Attorney – Announcement Trailer
Do you hope that The Great Ace Attorney makes it to the West or have you not yet played the previous Ace Attorney games?
Source: Polygon
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6 Ways Cities Are Getting Into the Attention-Whore Game
Sad attention grabs are something you expect from reality show characters or self-important activists, people who don't really have any dignity to lose. Surely our civic institutions are above all that.
No, not really. Cities apparently are as anxious to get people to like them as any small child or eager puppy, and often just as clumsy in their attempts to win that attention. That's why you see them doing things like...
#6. Pandering to UFO Nuts
Fyffe, Alabama, population 971, was allegedly visited twice by aliens in 1989 and that's apparently all that ever happened in that town. The Alabama legislature almost immediately proclaimed Fyffe the official "UFO Capital of Alabama" and gave the town a $10,000 tourism grant. Fyffe eventually established the annual "UFO (Unforgettable Family Outing) Festival," which is apparently an ordinary small-town fair that stretches to relate every attraction to UFOs somehow.
For some reason, that is enough to draw 10,000 visitors. Before the UFO business, Fyffe did not have any kind of civic celebrations at all, so basically the entire town's culture and civic events are based around a few people thinking they saw UFOs in 1989.
Fyffe's mayor says it makes perfect sense - "Ider, Ala., has its Mule Day," he said. "UFOs are what we're famous for."
That looks like a pretty identifiable FO to me.
Of course this is pretty small-time compared to Roswell, New Mexico, whose official tourism site is designed to evoke a 1950s B-movie poster, thanks to the 1947 event where an alien ship crashed into the ground near that town, and the government covered it all up and did alien autopsies or something, because they were afraid of nerds with beards finding out the truth.
Roswell has a UFO museum as well as an annual UFO festival, and unlike Fyffe's all-in-good-fun festival, this one is for people to talk for serious about real UFOs. This festival is funded by the city itself, which put $150,000 into it in 2010.
"Why won't anyone take our theories seriously?"
Unlike Fyffe, apparently Roswell actually had a history and a culture, and some of the citizens were against cheesing out their town as Alien Disneyland but I guess they're screwed.
It could be worse. At least the phenomena they're building their image around is something some people actually believe exists, even if it's mostly crazy people. Meanwhile, Riverside, Iowa, is building its appeal around being the birthplace of Captain Kirk.
Other than that giant off-brand Enterprise (lawsuits, you know), they also renamed their annual "Riverfest" to "Trek Fest," named all their shops after Star Trek puns, and sell $3 vials of dirt from the exact site Kirk was (will be?) born. So they actually previously had a festival celebrating their community or heritage or whatever, and now it's celebrating a fictional sci-fi universe whose only connection to the town comes from a throwaway line and a fan petition.
#5. Pretending to Have the Power to Make Foreign Policy
Every so often, maybe two or three times a day, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors forgets San Francisco is a city and starts making foreign policy resolutions. Previously, they've declared elections in Burma illegitimate, passed a resolution to condemn Israel's attack on the Gaza flotilla, and come up with a policy of how the entire world should deal with Peak Oil. One blogger calculated that the five hour session for the condemnation of Israel cost approximately $7,000 in city money.
"Hey, did you hear the San Francisco Board of Supervisors thinks our government is illegitimate?"
Not to be outdone by their cross-bay neighbors, Berkeley has passed a resolution calling for German prosecutors to prosecute Donald Rumsfeld for war crimes and another demanding that the U.S. pull troops out of Iraq. They made an attempt to pass a resolution to honor Bradley Manning (the private who leaked the military documents to Wikileaks).
Curiously, you'll find hundreds of articles about the Bradley Manning thing leading up to the vote, but it takes a fair amount of digging to find news articles from the day after, when the measure was voted down (to the compelling counterargument of, "oh, come on"). You could almost hear the media deflate and walk home sadly. But whatever will become of Private Manning without the symbolic support of Berkeley?
#4. City "Branding"
So apparently the concept of "city branding" became a hot new trend a while ago, probably inspired by cities like Las Vegas, which changed its image to a family destination in the 90s with ads showing off their roller coasters and fake European cities, and then swapped back to its "Sin City" image a couple of years later with slogans like, "What happens here, stays here," hinting that it would be a good place to commit crimes.
"People who cheat the house, also stay here."
Both image changes were decently successful at the time, and apparently the takeaway message for other cities was that if you came up with a new logo and slogan, people would magically flock to any crappy city. They forgot that Vegas actually built all those roller coasters when they told people to come ride roller coasters, and that they actually hired dozens of shows worth of live nude girls when they promised travelers live nude girls.
Meanwhile, the city of Melbourne's $240,000 logo promises people... uh...
You tell me. Anyway, many citizens of Melbourne were not happy with the city spending so much money on... that... while they were making budget cuts to community programs, nor were they happy with the fact all the money went to a design firm in Sydney, so they could tell Melbourne what Melbourne was all about. Proponents argue that it's money well spent because now everyone can tell that Melbourne is... uh... something.
Meanwhile, the German city of Cottbus had a contest to design its logo. The 8,000 euro prize went to this:
Pretty much every user-submitted alternative on this page is better than that, but that's cool, some disturbed grade-schooler now has 8,000 euros toward his college fund I guess.
At least they didn't pay $487,000, like Montreal did for this logo:
Whose slogan seems to imply that Montreal is imaginary, but had the potential to become tangible.
And Abilene, Texas paid $107,000 for someone to design this:
And then they decided not to use it. Probably because it was stupid. One tourism official pointed out the stars would just look like dots if they put it on anything small, like lapel pins. Presumably she was too polite to also point out that "frontiering" doesn't make any sense.
So does the "branding" thing ever work? What do you think? Would you ever change your mind about a city based on its logo or slogan? I mean like, in a positive way. Would you ever go, "Well, I always thought of Detroit as a shithole but wow they have a snazzy logo. Maybe I'll go visit."
So no, it doesn't work in that sense. But it does keep graphic designers employed during a recession.


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My bash is white and black and I would like it to look much more colorful, how do I do that?
Terminal -> Preferences -> Settings
Select a color scheme and click
In the settings mentioned in earlier answers you can only change the main background and foreground colors, but if you want to for instance change the prompt, you have to set the PS1 env variable.
There are many examples that can be found with some googling, I use this (username in blue, path in green) for my black background:
Add that piece of code to a file called
Edit: More info here, Works in OS X even though they write about Linux.
Look in the Terminal Preferences dialog, Settings pane.


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Europe's Year in Stocks: A 14% Climb
COPENHAGEN—European stock markets made mixed moves on the last trading day of 2012, as U.S. budget negotiations dominated the mood after policy makers failed to lock in an agreement over the weekend in Washington.
The Stoxx Europe 600 index moved 0.3% higher Monday to close at 279.68, ending the year with a 14% gain. This marks the biggest yearly advance since 2009. On a monthly basis, the index gained 1.4%, while adding 4.2% for the quarter.
Many regional markets were shuttered for New Year's Eve, while others were open only for a shortened trading day.
"To sum up, the market has performed strongly [in 2012] but not well in December, [which] has been historically a strong month," said Atif Latif, director of trading at Guardian Stockbrokers. "Much of this is due to ... the U.S. government's ability to bring a quick resolution to the fiscal cliff, which we knew months ago was looming."
U.S. markets also were focused on the fiscal cliff, but stocks were stuck in a tight range.
In London, the FTSE 100 index dropped 0.5% to 5897.81, cutting gains for the year to 5.8%.
Mining shares declined, as investors were unmoved by an upward revision to HSBC's China manufacturing purchasing-managers Index for December. Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton BBL 0.20 % both shed 0.7%. Anglo American NGLOY -0.90 % lost 0.5%.
Shares of BG Group rose 0.5%. The oil group said it has secured a $1.8 billion loan from U.S. Export-Import Bank that will be used to buy the services of American companies for the construction of a major liquefied natural gas project in Queensland, Australia.
In Paris, shares of Total SA gained 0.3%, helping lift the CAC 40 index 0.6% to 3641.07, on the heels of a court ruling that rejected a 75% marginal tax rate that would have been imposed on the wealthiest citizens of France.
The Paris benchmark closed out the year 15% higher.
Banks were also higher in France, with shares of BNP Paribas BNPQY 3.81 % up 0.6% and Société Générale SCGLY 2.25 % 0.7% higher.
Banks were on the rise in Spain as well. Shares of Banco Santander SA picked up 1.5% and BBVA SA gained 0.6%.
In Madrid, shares of Iberdrola IBDRY 0.75 % gained 1.5%, after the power-utility firm said it has agreed to sell its French renewable-energy unit to a group of investors led by General Electric Co. GE -0.35 % .
The IBEX 35 index rose 0.5% to 8167.50 but closed out the year 4.7% lower.
Greece's composite index gained 0.7% on Monday to 907.90, marking a 33% rise on the year. For the month, it rose 12%—and added 23% for the quarter.


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To me this is a simple question – of course not. But on several questions and answers lately I need to fight for this opinion. I might be wrong, so I need to know. Do user experience practitioners ever have to worry about the implementation of design choices [i.e. code]?
Theoretically a UX practitioner needn't understand the technology behind the medium, and given enough time and money and good developers could make the design happen, but that's not an optimal way to operate.
A UX practitioner, for the sake of an efficient process, needs the strong technical understanding of the medium, and given that, he/she would likely understand some of the languages involved. A UXer needn't necessarily be an expert in these languages, but more he/she understands the better.
Of course we have to!
Well, maybe not technically understanding or knowing the actual syntax of the implementation of a feature, but we should understand and be aware of how much effort goes into implementing certain features, ie. how expensive they are. Good UX doesn't come cheap all the time regarding the time it takes to realize the design.
UX people are in my meaning usually part of the driving force that makes key decisions on what route a product should take. The UX teams come with ideas, which are designed with IxD's, IA's, GD's, and later realized by the dev team.
If the UX people keep coming with solutions that clogs up the dev team then the production will stagger.
A UX person should therefore have some idea of what is practically doable in a dev point of view, but not necessarily know how to implement the designs.
An anecdotal perspective ...
On a couple of occasions, I've worked with supposed 'UX Experts' that know nothing of the implementation. In those cases my role was primarily as Creative Director but I found myself progressively taking on the UX role. The reason being, the expert didn't have the breadth of knowledge to push the experience beyond copy cat patchwork. The problem became evident over time and my role concomitantly expanded.
With apps and sites you have to understand what can be done in order to provide complete direction. You don't have to code it (as others have said) but you definitely have to be able to push the dev team a bit. Otherwise, they'll just say "it can't be done" ;)
The short answer is no, having no knowledge of code won't prevent you from making a career out of UX.
Having a good working knowledge of how things can be implemented, what is possible, what isn't, will always help. Understanding the technical processes on a basic level can prove tremendously beneficial when it comes to conveying your ideas to the development team. Development teams famously won't like the idea of changing something they deem to work perfectly well as it is, they'd rather be working on that much bigger project, it's your job to convince them and push things through. Having a basic level of technical knowledge can add a lot of weight to your argument.
All I can say is, it has helped me a great deal.
It depends on your slant. I've know UX people who focus on research or IA and don't get involvted with UI or prototyping, but I also know some (like me) that are 100% fluent in HTML and CSS (or Less, compass, sass, etc etc) and a bit of jQuery and coffeescript that helps prototype and provide things to developers to help get the message across. But I also provide pixel-perfect mockups as well.
Really, UX should have a deemphasis on code obviously. Or at least just stick to HTML and CSS. But if you know how to leverage things like the Bootstrap css boilerplate and Less.css and such, it really can help get the point across.
If you're talking production implementation of code that is pushed live - no. Front End Developers or Backend Engineers need to write and maintain that code. Problem is - they can't always be relied on for the HTML part since they may not really focus on the implementation of layout and UI design.
But I agree - other than fiddling with jQuery and coffeescript for rapid prototyping, it's probably not a UX requirement that you actually write production code.
Does a painter have to worry about oils and canvases? Does a landscape architect have to worry about drainage, and soil conditions? Does a fashion designer have to worry about fabric weaves and stitching patterns?
Sometimes, no. They can simply be the aesthetic gurus. But most do. Like any craftsman, understanding the medium one is working is is part of the craft. A carpenter that understands wood grains is going to have a better finished product than one that doesn't.
How MUCH does one have to understand the medium in detail? Well, that all depends on a whole lot of factors.
In reading through all the answers, there seems to be two common POVs:
I think both point of views can be accommodated by stating The UX Process needs to assist in developing the UI.
In other words, whether one knows code vs. doesn't isn't so much of an issue at the individual level as it is a the team level.
The team involved with producing the product's experience--namely the UI--does have to understand the code required to build the presentation layer.
So I think this becomes much less of an issue of individual skill sets and more of an issue about team structures and project development processes.
Agile seems to help with it. Regardless of the corporate org chart, an Agile process tends to force the larger team to constantly be in sync with each other. The person designing the wireframes has to constantly be in contact with the person designing the database tables.
Waterfall processes have a much more difficult time with this. In a waterfall process, those designing the UI have to design something ahead of time that is implementable. So in that situation, they either need to have code folks on the UX team, or they need to reach out and bring in the UI developers into the loop.
You could turn this question around. "Should a good developer know about User Experience?". I think many of us would answer a resounding yes. However equally you are not expected your colleagues to become an expert.
I think the truth is the more you work in development the more you understand something about the constraints of technical medium you are working with. However I think a valuable role is the one pointed out above sometimes questioning the status quo is a useful step in taking it beyond those constraints.
Much of this relationship has to do with respect for each others perspective and an openness to learn new things.
First of all: GREAT question!
To me the question isn't "should a UX professional KNOW how to code."
The question that was asked is: "should a UX professional THINK about code".
For me, the former is no. The latter is a resounding YES!
I recently read about the concept of "I" shaped people--in contrast to "T" shaped people. This really is the crux of my point:
If one were to take the position of "I live in an abstract world and if I can think it, my work is done", then you are not being a collaborative partner with your developers.
To "worry" about code is to open the door for finding new ways to solve existing problems both in design and implementation. To not "worry" is to draw a line and say "outside of my sandbox, it's not my problem" which isn't going to do much good for anyone.
A good design is not an abstraction, it is a living/working thing that a user interacts with. Knowing how your design decisions might relate to implementation (code) allows you to moderate your abstract design, and creates an open channel that encourages developers to engage and try to work creatively to find the best solution.
If your abstract design comes back from dev because of a problem in implementation, being able to understand the developer's language and relate to their needs is going to be critical to getting the revised design right.
Taking a look at the same question from the opposite end of the equation, do UX practitioners find developers who lack basic UX concepts and say they dont have to "worry" about it are easy to work with? If they focus solely on code without any awareness or intellectual curiosity about "why" their code needs to be written in the first place, does that make you as a UX professional feel respected? Do you look forward to working on a project with that developer?
For me personally, I like to extend the user centered design tenet of empathy to encompass not only the end user, but all users of the design, which includes those who must implement them. As a result, I worry about code.
Edited to add a practical example: The Art and Practice of Content Assembly: Where IA and CMS Meet
As I mentioned above, your design is a conversation between you and a dev. This is what the dev thinks:
Depending on your platform, there are different "ways" in which that platform structures content. Being aware of that implementation should inform design. Your design can actually become better if you are aware of what will and wont work well in the implementation. What might be a less "pure" design might be a more effective (read: "better") design if it avoids a particular weakness in the ability of the platform to implement. It's one of the intangibles that are inevitably a function of a well received design.
I think it is more important that the UX designers don't get held back by limitations they think are there, but might be fully possible to implement. In HTML5/CSS3 there are very few limitations, and almost anything is possible.
I am currently working on a pilot project where there are 2 UX people designing the look and feel, and I am working with another programmer to implement it in HTML/CSS. There are some things that can seem complicated to do, but really isn't, and other things that can seem easy that is actually a bit tricky to implement because of some CSS issues.
My experience here is that the best is to let the UX people design the look, and leave the "how to implement" to the programmers that knows how to do it. I actually find it stimulating to get good looking design and try to implement it. It is a good feeling that what I implement looks good, instead of having a boring "easy to implement" look that is result of something the designer thinks is easy to implement based on basic html/css knowledge. I love to work with people that is very good at user experience and graphic design, so I can implement something that looks good.
The answer is a good UX practitioner COULD code but DOES NOT on a project.
If you code during a project then it WILL alter the outcome. There is a difference between the ENGINEER mindset and the ARCHITECT mindset.
If given a choice between a solution that is good for users that is difficult to implement and something that is easy to implement that is okay for the user then an engineer will pick the second. An architect will pick the first.
The engineering mindset is engaged if you are involved with implementation. That includes Coding AND detailed Visual Design.
In short if you do code and create visual design on a project then you can produce something that works and is okay. If you want good rather than okay then the UX practitioner must NOT Code or Design on a project but be the UX Architect.
For more about this read About Face by Alan Cooper.
In a practical sense, it could be problematic to design something that can't be build (for technical or practical reasons). A good understanding of the front-end and back-end technologies (not necessarily from a code level of detail) will help prevent this from happening. A good communication process between the designer and developer will help too, and generally if this is the same person then it is less likely to be a problem.
For another look from the other side: As a programmer on a small team with no UX expert, I find it incredibly important to understand usability, hence my presence on this site. Understanding the code when I work on interface lets me decide quickly not just what's possible, but what's feasible, while understanding Usability allows me to come up with solutions that don't make the User say "huh?" It may not be necessary for a UX expert to understand code, or a programmer to know UX, but as team sizes shrink, it becomes more and more valuable and important.
It really does depend on the size of the team and organization, I would argue within a smaller development team it would be beneficial to have some knowledge of front end coding (HTML5/CSS3).
Not only does this align the rift between design and development, but being able to implement what you preach is beneficial from a scalability and a 'whats possible?' perspective. But being careful not to lose sight of your primary purposes: building beautiful, simple solutions.
This UX Masters article sums this up well, its not a core function of a UX designer, but certainly a 'nice to have'
Another factor to consider is the designers willingness to branch out and learn these languages..


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I don't know of a book that records all of his judgments. However, there is one story brought in the Talmud (Sanhedrin 6b (English)):
"And David did judgment and kindness" (Samuel 2 8:16). They ask: How can there be judgment and kindness together? They answer that the way he ruled was doing judgment to one of the parties and kindness to the other: He would judge fairly, making the innocent one innocent and the guilty one guilty, making the guilty one pay the innocent; but if he saw that the guilty one was poor, he would pay the poor one out of his own money. By doing so, he was giving the innocent one his money with judgment and the guilty one his money with kindness.
In the Jewish tradition regarding King David, his role as a judge doesn't figure particularly prominently. He is much better known as a military leader and as the author of Psalms, Biblical poems that serve as the basis for many of our daily prayers.
If you want to learn more about the Jewish tradition regarding King David, I recommend that you take a look at the Biblical Book of Samuel, which is our primary source for his biography. In addition, if you're interested in accessing his wisdom, albeit in poetry rather than in judgement, I recommend that you study the Book of Psalms.


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In addition to an outdoor pool and a children's pool, Clube Praia da Oura - Apartments provides an outdoor tennis court and a sauna. Dining is available at the restaurant and guests can grab coffee at one of the 3 coffee shops/cafés. The resort also has a snack bar/deli. Guests can unwind with a drink at one of the resort's bars, which include a poolside bar and a bar/lounge. A computer station is located on site and high-speed wireless Internet access is complimentary.
This beach resort also offers a nightclub, a library, and a children's club. Guests can use the health club at a partner hotel. For a surcharge, the property provides an area shuttle within 3 km and a roundtrip airport shuttle (available on request). Complimentary self parking is available on site.
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An outdoor pool and a children's pool are on site. Other recreational amenities include an outdoor tennis court and a sauna.
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The American Historical Association has awarded NYU's Karl Appuhn, an associate professor in the Department of History, its 2010 Herbert Baxter Adams Prize for A Forest on the Sea: Environmental Expertise in Renaissance Venice (Johns Hopkins, 2009), which chronicles Venice's efforts to manage its natural resources.
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Venice needed access to large quantities of wood to build its naval and merchant ships, maintain its extensive levee system, construct buildings, fuel industries, and heat homes. Lacking any forests, the state turned to its mainland holdings for this resource. A Forest on the Sea explores the history of this enterprise and Venice's efforts to extend state control over its natural resources.
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