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Alabama's harsh immigration reform law [Most Commented] - latimes.com
It's clear that contention over immigration has moved beyond the coasts and border states. Alabama's new law concerning illegal immigrants is one of the harshest enacted thus far in the U.S. and brings the legal status of schoolchildren, and their parents by extension, into the debate. The editorial board weighed in Friday on the side of the kids, calling the failed attempts to implement comprehensive national immigration policy unacceptable.
Readers are at odds about Alabama's law and whether it unfairly criminalizes illegal immigration or is a positive step toward curbing a serious problem:
"It's not fair for legal citizens to foot the bill for illegal immigrants"
"It's one thing to be an illegal immigrant; quite another to be a criminal"
"Americans deserve the jobs that illegal alien workers get"
"Don't blame Alabama for putting kids in the crossfire; blame their parents"
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Cosy Apartment in the Citycenter, Wi-Fi
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|Hüttenstr, 40277 Düsseldorf, Almanya
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also week by week or monthly rentable (price negotiateable),
Restaurants, bars, beer gardens, snack, baker, supermarket and the wonderful south park foot-in heat.
City railroad to the airport / fair approx. 80 metres away,
Streetcar virtually before the front door,
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I came by second time and will not be the last.
Nothing else to add but say thanks to Stefanie!
Second time in the apartment and again a very good experience and excellent hospitality. I definitely confirm everything I've written in my previous review: for everyone who wants to spend some days in Dusseldorf this is a
great option considering the short distance from the town center and the good availability of public transports to move in the town. We will surely be back !
Very nice apartment, well furnished and very clean.
Quiet area, 5 min walking to the train station.
A bit noisy (train and big avenue near the window) but very confortable.
I have spent an excellence days in this so cosy apartment.
It has a nice design, anything is missing and you feel like at home, in a quiet area but well communicated and close to main station in 10 min walk.
I want to thanks Stefanie for all.
Very nice apartment, essential but absolutely comfortable and placed in a quiet area. Well placed in the town too because it's near to the town center and the main station (even by foot). Exquisite hospitality, comfortable apartment, public transports very close, supermarket easily accesible .... could you ask for more?
Very nice apartment in the city center. It has everything you need to make your visit easy and comfortable. Stefanie was charming and offered us every help we needed.
The only thing we missed was wifi internet, but it was our mistake because we didn't read carefully the description.
Everything was great--the host was nice and the apartment was perfect. Would definitely stay again.
Stefanie begrüßt euch herzlich. Alles verlief ganz locker und unkompliziert. Das Appartment ist sehr gemütlich eingerichtet und multifunktional ausgestattet. Gute und zentrale Lage, um zu Fuß oder mit öffentlichen Verkehrsmitteln schnell gewünschte Ziele zu erreichen. Wer im kleinen Supermarkt um die Ecke einkauft, kann in der Kombination mit der Küche tolle Gerichte zaubern und sich selbst versorgen. On top gibts von der Spezialistin Tipps für Fotolocations. Gern wieder.
Stefanie tiene la casa impecable, limpia, ordenada. Muy amable y atenta a lo que necesité.
La casa está muy céntrica, muy cerca del tranvía y del centro de la ciudad. Cerca cuenta con supermercado, restaurantes para elegir, etc.
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Triple A Durham or with the Rays?
Triple A Durham or with the Rays?
I think Rays, this guy has some incredible stuff.
Just FYI, there's a Rays subforum too.
My top 10 players:
1. Babe Ruth
2. Barry Bonds
3. Ty Cobb
4. Ted Williams
5. Willie Mays
6. Alex Rodriguez
7. Hank Aaron
8. Honus Wagner
9. Lou Gehrig
10. Mickey Mantle
I read he will not have an innings limit this year.
Chop! Chop! Chop!
Lets see how he does in ST.
San Francisco Giants, World Series Champions in 2010, 2012, and 2014!!!
"Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts" ~ Albert Einstein
"Royals wear crowns, but Champions Kiss the Ring" ~ Jeremy Affeldt
"all the mets road wins against the dodgers this year have occured at Dodger Stadium"---Ralph Kiner
"Blind people came to the park just to listen to him pitch"---Reggie Jackson, talking about Tom Seaver
The Rays are a penny pinching organization because they've had to be for many years. I fully expect them to put Moore in the rotation and let him polish himself on the job.
Heck, the Red Sox did the same thing with Lester and Masterson, and they had a good wallet from which to draw an extra starting pitcher if they'd preferred. Sometimes you just have to let a talented guy go through a bit of a struggle and see what he learns from it.


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The front and back 9's are very different. The course is difficult but not impossible. It is very well maintained and would definitely rival any private course.
Public course with a country club feel. Nice mix of woods and heather. Very challenging course. Helpful pro staff. Glad it is located close to me.
Terrific service from the golf staff. Course was in beautiful condition and the staff did a great job clearing the leaves etc. for the junior players tournament. Great views with the changing leaf colors.
Coore and Crenshaw took a forlorn piece of property with a drainage ditch and high power lines and transformed it into a worthy golf course for any skill level masterfully using the terrain and creating a beautiful meandering stream. Pick the right tees for your handicap and challenges await, many reminiscent of the old masters. My only reason to knock...
I have played several courses in the area and Warren's Coore and Crenshaw design was off the chain / course was in immaculate condition
Nice course but I really disagree with the way the place is run. the starter was rude as was the grill attendant, but far and away the worse experience of the round was seeing the coyote caught in the bear trap of eleven green. Not only did the trap catch a coyote and break its leg it could have caught...
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Tough course, beautifully maintained, holes are gorgeous, especially towards the end. Greens are very quick and the hazards really do make you pay for your mistakes.
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Councillor Murray Guy raises an interesting point in challenging the penalties charged by Tauranga City Council for late payment of rates.
He argues the penalty is too high when interest rates are so low and that it should be reduced to a figure closer to the interest rates paid by the council for its money.
According to Cr Guy, the 10 per cent legal maximum is almost twice the council's finance cost and it would be fairer if the penalty was 7.5 per cent.
Council figures show $500,000 of last year's $3.7 million rates surplus came from penalties.
In total, 3627 customers incurred penalties of $322,000 for this year's first rating instalment - an average of nearly $89.
While the average cost to individual ratepayers doesn't sound excessively high, there is a matter of principle here.
In short, things have changed and it appears the council has failed to adjust along with those changes.
In the not so distant past, ratepayers were willing to incur the penalty if it meant they could leave the money in their bank, earning interest for a longer period.
This, of course, was when interest rates were high.
The reasons for late payments nowadays, I suspect, are likely to be more about a lack of money than any bid to cash in on surges in interest rates.
While the economy is showing some positive signs, it's no secret that it's been a tough few years on the economic front for many families.
Things have changed and many people are finding it hard to make ends meet.
The 10 per cent penalty - the maximum that can be charged - does seem excessive in today's economic environment.
Every little bit helps when it comes to the family budget and it seems that, while many families are having to trim their costs and make adjustments, the council has so far been unwilling.
I agree with Cr Guy's view that a fairer system would be to set a floating penalty rate linked to actual interest costs.
Mayor Stuart Crosby suggests that Cr Guy should put forward his proposal as part of the council's 2013-14 annual plan process.
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Neal E. Schmale , Executive VP and CFO, Sempra Energy
Richard Stavros is Fortnightly's Executive Editor.
Neal E. Schmale, Executive VP and CFO, Sempra Energy
How would you say your company differentiates itself from other utilities?
Neal E. Schmale: The interesting thing about Sempra compared to many [other] companies is that we are 50 percent utility and 50 percent other [businesses]. If you look at the $895 million in earnings we had last year, almost exactly half of that was from San Diego Gas & Electric and SoCalGas combined. The other half was from businesses that were developed since the merger in 1998. At the time of the merger, we didn't have any of these other businesses that contribute half of the earnings. Certainly, they were in their infant stages. But now the generation business and the trading business, the pipeline and storage business that we have, coupled with the LNG business, which is being developed-these things are roughly equal in size to the utility side. This is pretty unique. The biggest earner on the unregulated side is the energy trading company known as Sempra Commodities. … There are really four great big businesses, two of which are utilities and two of which that are not.
How has Sempra been able to remain in the energy trading while others have not?
NES: You have to have a strong balance sheet to have a strong trading operation, because they do require a lot of liquidity and a lot of potential liquidity. But we are a conservative company in the way we manage the place under any set of circumstances. We realize that commodity prices go through cycles and that if you are going to take advantage of opportunities you have to have a strong balance sheet. If you are going to be able to weather a commodity price cycle, you do not want to have too much debt. We've been that way, and that has allowed us to take advantage of opportunities and weather some very relatively difficult commodity price cycles and still be in a position where we can continue to grow the company. Growing the company in our case means largely investing in the liquefied natural gas business.
Is there a certain return that you look for when Sempra makes its growth investments?
NES: We have a very classic Finance 101 view of life here. Look at how good the asset is. Look at the returns on the asset. Separate the investment from the financing decision. Make the best investments that you possibly can. Maintain the appropriate level of leverage given the nature of the risk of the business. Make sure you manage the risk properly. One of the things that has made us successful has been our risk management operation. We're very, very careful in that area. Most of our generation is sold forward. We're not building the LNG plants until we have the output contracted for. So we're very careful to understand the risk associated with the asset and take that into account when we decide how much leverage to put on the company.


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A Meeting of Minds - but how?More Related Discussions
I am writing a book of "success stories" from the world of education, and have come to the chapter on "Agendas". We all work with agendas, ie what we want to have happen during the meeting.
What I seek are examples of
* teachers negotiating with students, putting their agendas on the table and coming to a suitable compromise
* teacher - parent discussions (possibly conflicts)
* teacher - teacher discussions, making the best use of the available (limited) resources
Of course I won't use people's names. But I will mention you as the source of the story, if it is appropriate and if you wish.
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I think we all could give countless examples. I don't have a specific story, but I think what has always worked best for me was being completely open and transparent about what I needed and why. I think where we get into trouble is when we go into a situation with a hidden agenda.
If I believe that my agenda is for the best (for the students, parents, the group as a whole), then there's no need to hide anything.


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Date of Stay: June, 2011
Heaven. Quiet, peaceful, no bugs. We arrived at 8am and reserved a spot with electric, though it was not going to be vacated until 4PM. Parked my trailer in the office parking lot and went fishing with the kids. We had a great day fishing, swimming and hiking. Moved trailer to site at 3:45 and had a very pleasant and quiet night's sleep.
Date of Stay: June, 2011
Wow: was told quiet hours start at 10pm. The campground felt like downtown Minneapolis at 1AM. The party did not wind down until 4AM. We left at 6:30am. Off to Whitewater for some much needed sleep. I did receive a refund for the next booked night.


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The Astana Graves - Underground Museum
Mawangdui Han Tombs - An Open Book to the Glorious Western Han Dynasty
Tomb from Three Kingdoms period unearthed in Zhejiang
55 Large Tombs Found in Fangcheng, Nanyang, Henan Province
The Astana Graves are a series of underground tombs about 40 km to the southeast of Turpan in Xinjiang. The tombs were used by the inhabitants of the ancient city of Gaochang, both officials and commoners. The graveyard was built around the 3rd to 8th century AD some 1,700 years ago. It stretches for about 5 km from the east to the west and 2 km from the north to the south, covering an area of 10 sq km.
Nicknamed "underground museum", the Astana Grave Complex contains a total of over 500 tombs, the occupants of which include aristocrats, officials and ordinary people from the early Western Jin Dynasty to the mid-Tang Dynasty. Due to the high terrain and hot and dry weather in the area, the tomb chambers are naturally germ-free. As a result, mummies and burial objects inside are well preserved after thousands of years, and a large number of historical relics are kept intact, including silk fabrics, murals, pottery ware, wooden ware, coins, terracotta figurines, tombstones, tomb inscriptions etc. The most precious articles of all are the 2,700 or so ancient documents.


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I have not been titled as a nanny but I am a very experienced baby sitter and I worked as an assistant preschool teacher. I have always had a great mother like instinct and have always loved children! I have a sister who is 10 years younger than me so I am no stranger to infants. I have been babysitting since I was 12 and have taken 3 CPR classes and many other types of training from my prior job at a preschool. I took Peer Facilitating in high school and worked with children with different disabilities, that was a great experience that gave me patience and wisdom to handle any situation. Cleaning, taking care of children, and pets is something I enjoy and am great with! I love being around children and being able to help out!
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Good tread on these shoes, the grip has been excellent to date, in everything from hot rock to wet streams. I can read the terrain with ease wearing these.
I choose non-water proof shoes to hike in, they breath better, cost a little less, and dry faster than water proof footwear. Making for a comfortable hike in all weather types.
As much as I like these shoes, they have fallen apart on the outside edges - lifting from the sole of the shoe. Every shoe of this model, that I have seen on the trail has the same defect. Usually starting at around mile 150, there has been 4 pairs so far.
I contacted the warranty department and had a little run around....even tho they know there is a defect with this model, the guy said 350 miles is excellent miliage for these types of shoes
Then he said they will look at them, if I send them back. Well, that would require me to buy a new set of shoes, return this set, and then be stuck with another set ....IF they covered it under warrenty. Too much hassle in this situation. And since I had a similar issue with another company......except for the fact the other company understood my situation (long distance hiker), they sent out a new pair, and used photos to determine it was a defect......I will not use this brand again.
So I just glued the shoe back together and will trash these when I wear them out. After this experience - No more Supportive Brand shoes for me.
Back to my other brand, that I know I can count on to take care of issues easily, when/if they arise.
Shame, they have a great tread that holds up well, and grips great also......if only it would stay attached to the uppers!


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Haneef prosecuted without complete evidence
Prosecutors under 'extreme pressure' from AFP to charge the Indian doctor.
Melbourne: Prosecutors in the Mohamed Haneef probe were under 'extreme pressure' from the Australian Federal Police (AFP) to charge the Indian doctor and had no access to vital evidence to judge the strength of the case against him, a public inquiry commission has been told.
In a submission to the John Clarke inquiry into the bungled case of the 28-year-old medic wrongly accused of terrorism, Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions (CDPP) has disclosed how its officers were not supplied with basic information, including Haneef's interview record, before appearing in court to contest his bail application.
"The submission concedes one of its Brisbane-based prosecutors improperly advised AFP that Haneef could be charged and that advice, initially given verbally, was later issued in writing by the CDPP following a request from the AFP," it said.
"CDPP accepts that Haneef was charged following advice given by CDPP," the submission said, according to media reports. However, CDPP qualified its mistake, saying the officer identified "a number of weaknesses in the case and deficiencies in the evidence gathered to date".
CDPP also claimed that the officer misunderstood advice from CDPP's head office and felt subject to 'extreme pressure' to reassure investigators.
The Indian doctor was arrested on July 2 last year in connection with the botched terror plots in London and Glasgow before being released on July 27 as the case against him collapsed.
"The CDPP Brisbane case officer has said that he felt an unspoken but extreme pressure to provide positive reassurance to police that they were lawfully entitled to charge Haneef in circumstances where he would normally refrain from providing advice," the submission said.
The Director of Public Prosecutions said its advice was issued on the expectation -- created by AFP -- that gaps in the evidence against Haneef would be filled in by the ongoing police investigations in Australia and Britain.
The submission describes a 'hothouse' environment inside AFP's Brisbane headquarters as investigators raced to make the case against Haneef, who was being detained on newly minted, and poorly understood, counter-terrorism laws.
CDPP also appears to take issue with public comments by AFP Commissioner Mick Keelty. It claims that on July 12 last year -- 10 days after Haneef's arrest at Brisbane airport - Keelty told then Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions Damian Bugg QC that the evidence against Haneef was not strong enough but that the investigation was continuing.
Rod Hodgson of Maurice Blackburn Lawyers, which is acting for Haneef, said it was clear that the CDPP was kept in the dark by AFP. "It seems DPP were provided with incomplete, selective and misleading information," he said.
CDPP admitted putting two errors of fact before the court: that Haneef's SIM card had been found in the burning jeep that his cousin Kafeel drove to Glasgow airport and that he had resided in Britain with people connected to the attack.
CDPP, in its defence, said its case officer "did not have the benefit of a comprehensive statement of facts which is usually provided by police in these circumstances".
The AFP declined to comment.
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1. How do I find out about available internships?
- Join FutureLink to view a database of current employment and internship postings geared toward Arts and Sciences majors. runs workshops on how to use FutureLink effectively.
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2. I have an internship. Can I get course credit for it?
Yes! Psychology 3191, Internship in Psychology, is an online course that accompanies a psychology-related internship experience. This is a distance-learning course and all assignments will be on Carmen. Psych 3191 is graded Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory. As noted above, this course is only offered Spring semester
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Designing Websites with Personality
We all have personalities, and no one is exactly like another. Our relationships and memories are built on our interaction with other people.
Like every person, web designers have unique and intriguing personalities. But even with the clearly obvious level of impact our personality has in our lives and our work, there is still a noticeable lack of individuality in the web designs we see on the web.
For example, why do the Chicago Tribune and New York Times have websites with such similar personalities even when these newspapers are unique in their own right?
So often, we find ourselves getting caught up in typography, keeping up with the latest design trends, information architecture, content readability and the like that we forget or neglect to consider those who are going to be living through the experiences we're building.
Users have meaningful and memorable experiences with other people on a daily basis, yet we want our dull and generic websites to carry just as much weight in their day.
We need not be afraid of showing some personality with designs we make. Web designers need to rethink how we're providing generic and strictly formal website experiences with a user base that is increasingly seeking a casual, informal online experience that's rich with personality.
Made by People for People
What do people really love about the internet? The fact that we can communicate with our peers, do our shopping, spark a relationship, keep tabs on our bank account, and research new and exciting information on the web are all great. But beyond all of that is the fact that we can do them all without our pants on.
Have you ever submitted a resume for a job via email or a web form? Did you dress up for the occasion? I bet you would have if you were going into the company's office in person.
Why are we so caught up in formality when our users are all probably half-naked, chugging soda, and stuffing cheese puffs into their faces as they browse our sites?
The internet is the ultimate informal environment. That's great because it gives designers a lot of room to be creative in building a site that has a lasting impression on people because of its personality.
In a lot of cases, personality is best generated with content, as this is the component of the site that users will be most engaged with. For example, one of my favorite sites to visit is Cracked, a blog oozing with humor, satire and wit. Cracked does not have a remarkable web design (far from it), but the fantastic content on the site certainly builds a distinct personality.
Content is a huge factor for incorporating personality into a site, but as designers, we have exponentially more options at hand.
Making It Last
The success of a website is most often determined by repeat visitors, and no one is going to repeat their visit if they can't remember anything remarkable about a site.
Building a relevant connection with people and a product creates strong loyalties among users. As web designers, we can build a more memorable and personal experience simply by using fundamental design tools such as space, color, texture, shape, and so on.
A wonderful example of personality by using visual style can be seen in the various sites created as a part of the Lost World's Fairs project (a project by the Friends of Mighty to help Internet Explorer celebrate their support for WOFF).
In the three sites included in the project, we see distinctly different personalities being displayed, even without a wealth of content.
We collect so much information about the world around us based on what we see. As a designer and artist of the web, we can find so much power held in the principles of design and art, and how they can persuade our users to see our ideas and visualize our personalities. Evoking a strong emotional response from your users, be it positive or negative, is a sure-fire way of keeping them coming back for more.
Is There Value in Error?
It would be easy to deduce, in seeking to make websites that are more human in nature, that there might be an inherent value in making mistakes. People goof up and fail — a website that admits to its shortcomings is one that's built by people.
Instead of covering up imperfections, oftentimes, the best approach is to gracefully admit to them when they happen. For example, the Twitter "fail whale" has become a gag all over the internet, recreated, duplicated and mocked thousands of times. In the end, though, the "fail whale" error message has become a part of the Twitter story as an error message with personality. If we're going to fail, we should do so gracefully and in our own terms.
Imperfection is a part of the world we live in, and the internet is no exception. The mistakes we naturally run into when creating a website provides designers with an opportunity to make the most of a bad situation and remind our users that we are people too.
When It's Not Your Personality
Web designers rarely have the opportunity to design for themselves, so more often than not, our own personality will probably need to take a back seat to that of the person, product, or service that the project will ultimately represent. This is easier said than done.
In order to best build a new web personality from scratch, it is important to first take a step back and observe. The right website personality cannot be achieved without first getting a good sense of what the project is going to represent. Are you building a website for a quirky, local coffee shop? A church? A small business or tech startup? All of these organizations provide people with a hugely different experience in real life, so it makes sense that their online presence reflects that difference as well.
The best way to put your finger on this as a designer is to immerse yourself in as much of the experience as possible. Can you visit the location? Are you able to interview various people involved in the project? Every experience you have with the project is an opportunity for you to evaluate what personality this new website will/should have, and what factors come into play in creating the feelings and emotions associated with it.
The next step is to take measure of where you have control. Oftentimes clients will want control of their own content, so that may be something we won't be able to control. Do they have brand colors or photos that must be used? These are just a few examples where your creative license is limited.
Fortunately for us, much of what it takes to build personality in a website can be done with the details. Does that coffee shop have wallpaper or floor tiling that users can relate to when they see it as design elements of the website? Maybe the company you are representing has been around for 100 years and a black/white color palette will help users relate to the meaningful history the company has.
A Time and Place
Like so many ideas and design theories out there, incorporating personality into a website has its time and place. Ideally, most of your web projects will take on some level of human nature during creation and implementation, but oftentimes, we must limit how casual and personal we can be. Some clients would rather have a safe, vanilla website. However, as designers, we should always look for opportunities to express personality in the things we create.
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This was published on Jan 25, 2011
22 Comments
Charlotte Jan 25 2011
Just wanted to say how much I enjoy Six Revisions. I regularly share it with my followers on Twitter (@policyexpert).
Jason, you make some good points about injecting some personality into your blog. Something I need to work on.
Marios Jan 25 2011
Jason, great article. Most people are scare to be original they want to follow the trend just to be safe.But at the end being safe is risky, being original and unique is remarkable. I design my websites to be unique and memorable. One of my favorites quotes is, "You are born original don't die as a copy."
Fred Jan 25 2011
Well done Jason, I really relate to your thought process. All to often one is worried about making a mistake when really you should just go for it. As you say, the mistakes you make along the way sometimes turn into something more than you could have imagined – as long as there is not too many.
Hannah Hurst Jan 25 2011
What a great article to read! I completely agree about including personality into your designs. After all this is one of the things that makes a design unique and not just a follower of the trends.
This is not always so easily done though, depending on your particular client. But even if I do get a client with very specific needs, I try include a little bit of me somewhere in there, even if its only small.
Loving the thought you had of what our users are like! Thanks for sharing.
Katie O Jan 25 2011
"Why are we so caught up in formality when our users are all probably half-naked, chugging soda, and stuffing cheese puffs into their faces as they browse our sites?"
Ha! I love this line — so true!
Navin Jan 25 2011
Thanks Jason, This is my first comment on your site. I always enjoy reading your articles.
Thanks again :)
seenu Jan 26 2011
Superbly explained
Jovan Jan 26 2011
Thanks! very helpful
Okyere Adu-Gyamfi Jan 26 2011
well, said "…as designers, we should always look for opportunities to express personality in the things we create."
Rafael Jan 26 2011
"El Dorado in 1924" is awesome!
Jamal Nichols Jan 26 2011
Such clarity in your writing style. And an approach to Design that doesn't get enough attention. Really good. Made me look up who this Jason Gross is :)
Barry Jan 26 2011
Flow then go. I create it in my head after going over what a site needs. In my head I can already see the design and just have to finalize it on the screen. It's the same with many I've talked to. It's there already, we just have to uncover it. We're each unique in what life has tossed our way, where we've been, education, etc. That uniqueness is what personality is all about. So I let it flow out as much as I can. I learn from mistakes and charge ahead. Flow then go.
Roy Barber Jan 27 2011
Good Examples there Jason, I love the moon website keeps popping up now and again. I Suppose only someone who knows you well could tell if your personality is truly in some of your designs. I bet you could also miss judge a person's personality by their design!
Hiram Jan 28 2011
Awesome article Jason! I'm visiting six revisions a lot more because of articles like these. I completely agree with what Jamal said "such clarity in your writing style" . I've subscribed to your RSS and will be re-tweeting a lot more. Thanks!
João Gabriel Jan 31 2011
Great article Jason!
I think that the "personality design" can be aplied to so many design areas,such as graphic and branding =)
Your article reminds us to be originals,in a world full of copy. Afterall, design is the fusion of art and science,function and esthetics.
Donna Feb 01 2011
Nicely written article Jason, As I come first on your website, I found lot's of benefit article for anyone. thanks for giving the such kind of knowledge.
Vivek Parmar Feb 02 2011
designing websites with personality only works on personal websites not on professional websites
Ash Menon Feb 06 2011
Your examples and arguments are solid, Jason! But I agree with Vivek, in that it's a lot easier to design personality-rich websites for individuals, artists, startups, and creative agencies, rather than for medium or larger corporate entities. Still, it's worth a shot, especially if you can make them see the value of an online personality.
sonny Feb 06 2011
nice read. design with personality is really a matter of being creative whether its for personal or client designs.
Tyler Reed Feb 12 2011
Great article, Jason! You make web design interesting to read about. I love the visuals of the people eating cheese puffs without pants on. (That is, the people don't have pants on, not the cheese puffs!)
Jerrick Feb 21 2011
That why web design do have their personalities, but it also can't miss up customer behavior. They want to let visitor to have memorable and back to their website as repeat visitor but they need to have a personalties to suite to their role of visitors and we know now most of visitor prefer freedom and fully control as you mention. Show personalities but do not over and miss up the visitor purpose to your site.
sawebdesigns Apr 05 2011
My personality is quite dark maybe I should channel my potential clients personality then and nice article


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We have spent a chunk of today eagerly playing with our iPhone's new operating system, iOS 4.
There has been plenty of discussion about iPhone multitasking on Twitter, so I thought I'd post a quick summary.
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With the most exciting moments of the offseason behind us, Celtics Town is counting down the Celtics' roster from 16 to one. We'll offer speculation on the role each player has to play, and where they'll be in the rotation as we look towards the upcoming season. If you missed the last column in this series you can check it out here.
You could have made a compelling argument for Kevin Garnett as the most important player on the Celtics (last year the Celtics were a worse team defensively than the Charlotte Bobcats every time he sat down on the bench). However, with Garnett having signed what is likely his last contract, it's time for Rajon Rondo to step into the spotlight and take ownership of a team I expect to be his long after Kevin and Paul are gone. The oft-dazzling point guard is one of only five players mentioned by ESPN as potential 2012-2013 NBA MVP's, and the Celtics will only go as far as he takes them next season.
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I ask Woody if he has had breakfast. He says that he has. He tells me he got himself a chocolate biscuit for breakfast but Noah had caught him. Interesting.... (Noah brings me up to speed on this later and says he caught Woody sitting at the kitchen bench with a chocolate biscuit on a plate happily munching away until Noah swapped the biccie for cereal.)
Woody and I get ready to go out and we leave the dolphin asleep in his tank
Woody and I go to 'Move and Groove' and have a pretty good time. Woody behaves very well, even when some around him are not (smug parent moment). He gets to be the leader in his favourite exercise and all the children have to line up behind him. Woody looks so very proud and I feel glad that his good behaviour has been rewarded with this '3 year old honour'.
After we are sufficiently moved and grooved we head over to the library for their kid's session. We struggle to get a park and I have to drive around the block, get stuck in traffic and finally get a park which Woody then complains is not close enough. Grrrrrrrr.
Inside the library we return our books and then Woody decides he needs to wear his Mickey Mouse costume. Luckily, I have one on me. So, Woody is uncomfortably squeezed into his too small Mickey Mouse costume and we join the book reading session. We missed most of it, but Woody enjoys what we are there for. The craft project is making a crown of pears. This is as strange as it sounds. Woody does not really get into it, and neither do I. We wander off to choose books. Woody is over the moon to find a Mr Benn book
We check out the books and Woody makes some friends. They love his costume and they pretend he is the real Mickey Mouse and then Woody takes his ears off and they mock surprise that he is just a boy. This goes on for quite a while much to the delight of Woody.
Back at home, we get stuck into Lego dinosaurs again. Woody very briefly gets in a bit of a grump and we get him out of it by saying 'bum, bum, bum' over and over again. I love 3 year old humour. Woody is in great spirits after that and we both have a ball. We have some lunch and then Woody and I make some scones. Snacks are very important in this house. We cannot run out.
Noah cracks on with work and Woody and I read a stack of Dr Seuss books and then he is asleep. I tidy the kitchen, prepare dinner, half heartedly tidy toys away, and then fold the biggest mountain of clean washing the world has ever known. I weave this magic aided by an audio book.
Woody wakes up. He is delightful and mischief all rolled into one. We finish off folding the mound of washing and we take Woody out so he can run around like crazy. We head to Broadwater park and it is drizzling and blowing a gale. Woody runs around alternating between chasing and being chased by Noah. The rain gets heavier and I retire to the car leaving the fellas to continue the park in the rain mayhem
We call by the shops on the way home and buy; you guessed it, more food. Woody is looking for a red bucket so he wanders around in search of one and asks pretty much everyone who walks past if they have seen a red bucket. He is out of luck on the bucket front.
Noah takes a call and I can see a smile emerging on his face. After a quick chat he lines up an interview for Thursday. Super. Whilst Noah is on the phone, and I am busy eavesdropping, Woody manages to load glue and poster paint into our shopping basket. Rather unhelpfully, the red paint is open so some of our shopping and some of me get covered in red paint. But Noah has an interview in the diary, so we are happy, happy folk.
Back in the car Woody takes Noah and me by surprise by saying, 'I don't ever want to leave this place'. You never know with Woody, he could be role playing a book or a show. So we check he is talking about here, where we live. He says yes. He loves it and he doesn't ever want to leave. He wants to live here. Noah and Woody chat about how great preschool and the park are and I try not to cry happy tears. I look at him and he is really happy
Back at home I cook dinner. Woody has a bath but he is too tired to eat. In fairness we are running 2 hours later than his normal dinner time (eeek). So Woody has a drink of milk and goes to bed.
Noah and I crack on with work / blog and try not and get too excited about the interview.
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Fed Chair Janet Yellen told a crowd at a community reinvestment conference in Chicago:
"The most important thing we do is to use monetary policy to promote a stronger economy. The Federal Reserve has taken extraordinary steps since the onset of the financial crisis to spur economic activity and create jobs, and I will explain why I believe those efforts are still needed."
Madam Chairman was speaking to real people for a change, not those preeners and sociopaths on Capitol Hill. She implied those in Washington, DC including the Eccles Building were responsible for reducing unemployment from 10% to 6.7% and creating 7.5 million jobs. Surely, someone in the crowd wondered aloud about the record 20% of households now on food stamps, and 92 million Americans who have dropped out of the workforce.
Yellen continues doing God's work that Ben Bernanke, and Alan Greenspan before him, started. If things aren't perfect, it's because the central bank hasn't done enough for long enough. As she expands her balance sheet and sharpens her assumptions, her PhD training assures her the numbers will eventually fall into place and we'll all live happily ever after. If Lord Keynes himself were here to charm her, surely he would counsel, "It's not a matter of if, Janet, but when."
Mrs. Yellen confused her audience throwing around terms like "slack," "structural unemployment," and "cyclical unemployment," but then pivoted to warm and fuzzy. Mentioning three people she met, Dorine Poole, Jermaine Brownlee, and Vicki Lira, Yellen said, "They are a reminder that there are real people behind the statistics, struggling to get by and eager for the opportunity to build better lives. Second, their experiences show some of the uniquely challenging and lasting effects of the Great Recession."
Not so long ago, Professor Yellen's employer sported a balance sheet under $900 billion in footings. Now it approaches $4.2 trillion, and still, the chairwoman admitted, "In some ways, the job market is tougher now than in any recession."
So while central bank help has been inadequate so far, Yellen explained, presumably with a straight face, that the Fed helps people secure employment "by influencing interest rates." She followed with this whopper, "Although we work through financial markets, our goal is to help Main Street, not Wall Street."
Her predecessor used the same rhetoric in 2012. "This is a Main Street policy. Many people own stocks directly or indirectly. The issue here is whether or not improving asset prices generally will make people more willing to spend."
But speaking more plainly at Jackson Hole in 2011, Bernanke said, "It is probably not a coincidence that the sustained recovery in US equity prices began in March 2009, shortly after the FOMC's decision to greatly expand securities purchases. This effect is potentially important because stock values affect both consumption and investment decisions." He even pointed to how much the Russell 2000 index had increased versus the blue-chip indexes as a result of QE.
Oil, unlike the Fed's fiat dollars, can't be created out of nothing. And, job or no job, people are driving. With the article below, Chris Martenson gets you up to date on Peak Oil, a subject he addressed in these pages back in October.
So while Mrs. Yellen tells crowds, Don't worry be happy, your job will be printed anytime now. Martenson sends reality crashing down on us with a stunning observation about the oil patch. Let's just say, for those with a job to go to, getting there will not be getting easier.
(By the way, you'll soon see what exactly can happen when governments and economies go haywire… and how "it could happen here." Jonathan Roth, Casey's chief video content officer and a former producer for well-known networks such as Discovery Channel, Biography Channel, and Vision TV, is putting the finishing touches on a brand-new video that will be released next week. Keep an eye out for this coming Casey attraction.)
Doug French, Contributing Editor
Peak Cheap Oil Rears Its Head: Oil Majors Throw In the Towel
This is a critical update on the Peak Cheap Oil front.
Yes, I am talking about that tired old concept that was allegedly slain by American drilling ingenuity. It's back in the news... if you know where to look.
I remain steadfastly interested in the oil outlook because everything, and I do mean everything, in our exponential monetary and associated economic system is hinged upon there being more cheap oil next year than there was last year.
If there is not, then every single assumption of future growth being made by the globe's collective stock and bond markets is wrong. What I mean by that is the 350% debt-to-GDP ratio being held by the OECD countries in aggregate is a collective bet that the future will consist of very high rates of growth without any near or intermediate-term limits.
Further, a stock market with a price-to-earnings ratio (p/e ratio) that ranges from the 20s (S&P 500) to the mid-80s (small caps) is explicitly pricing in lots of future earnings growth as the justification for today's prices. Because we sometimes need reminders to appreciate what ratios really imply, a p/e ratio of 80 means that an investor is willing to pay $1 today for a stock whose current earnings would require 80 years to accumulate that same dollar.
Whether or not that company would return 100% of its earnings to an investor is doubtful and extremely unlikely, so really anybody paying 80 times earnings for a given stock is making just one explicit bet: that that company will grow earnings enormously in the years ahead. That is, an explicit bet on future growth is being made.
The same is true for anybody paying 20 times earnings... or even 10 times earnings.
Recent actions by oil majors add further evidence to the claim that all the cheap oil is gone, and that our global society needs to prepare for much higher oil prices in the future. Or reduced supplies. Either way, this is an admission that the world is past the peak of cheap, high net energy oil.
The only thing that could delay a major rise in global oil prices within the next few years would be a serious retreat in the global economy that drops oil demand from current levels. Otherwise, oil prices will have to rise to balance supply and demand.
Either the global economy advances and then gets walloped by much higher oil prices, or it retreats and oil demand drops as a result. Take your pick. Do you prefer to be walloped now or walloped later?
Future Demand
To understand the potential trouble, we have to begin with demand so we know what must be supplied.
The United States Energy Department (EIA) has forecast that world demand for oil will be met with supplies that look something like this:
The first thing we note is the obvious decline in the orange wedge at the bottom, which is all conventional fields… or Cheap Oil. As that goes away, the EIA projects that the shortfall will be met by future discoveries in the gray wedge.
Well, hang on right there, what should we make of that gray wedge there, which is comprised of "Crude Oil Yet-to-Find and Found-but-Yet-to-be-Developed"?
Well, it's not shale oil, or tar sands, or ultra-deep water; because those are all contained in the top dark-gray wedge labeled "Unconventional Oil."
That light-gray wedge is just good old, regular conventional oil that the oil companies first need to find and then produce.
And it is not an insignificant wedge… it's 38 million barrels per day. That's nearly four new Saudi Arabias or ten new US-sized shale miracles. Of course, the finds from today's US shale miracle will peak in 2021 and will have been in decline for 15 years by 2035 and be a bare shadow of their former selves.
So, as they say in the oil business, you have to find it before you can drill it. So let's take a look at the largest oil companies to see how they are doing in filling that light-gray wedge.
Here's where the story gets downright fascinating.
Note these recent headlines:
And then there's this summary article, which makes the claim that the oil majors are cutting CAPEX due to an embarrassment of riches, but we'll debunk that assertion in a minute. First read the string of CAPEX cuts catalogued here:
Decline in IOCs' capex amid growing oil, gas discoveries
Exxon Mobil Corporation recently disclosed that its capital spending will decline to $39.8 billion this year from a peak of $42.5 billion in 2013. Excluding potential acquisitions, capital expenditures are expected to average less than $37 billion per year from 2015 to 2017.
Royal Dutch Shell Plc had said it would slash capital budget and accelerate asset sales this year. Its capital spending, which totaled $46 billion in 2013, is expected to drop to around $37 billion in 2014, representing a nearly 20 percent decline.
United States-based Chevron had in December announced a $39.8 billion capital and exploratory investment programme for 2014, which is about $2 billion lower than total investments for 2013.
French oil major Total said it expects capital expenditure to fall to $26 billion in 2014 from $28 billion last year.
Italian oil giant Eni said it is cutting its four-year (2014-2017) capital expenditure plan by 5 percent to 54 billion euros ($74 billion.)
All told, every single one of the ten oil majors is planning on freezing or seriously cutting capital expenditures. This is the very lifeblood of their business… if you are not spending money to find and develop petroleum assets, you cannot grow production.
What does it tell us if Brent oil is trading at $110 a barrel and all ten oil majors are reducing their efforts to find oil?
Simply this: they have come to the conclusion that they cannot generate the necessary returns for their companies and shareholders at $110 per barrel. More bluntly, this means that the remaining plays that they have their eyes on are not sufficiently large and/or easy enough to justify pursuing them at $110.
Succinctly: Oil needs to be more expensive than $110 per barrel for the oil majors to become interested again in taking it out of the ground.
An Embarrassment of Production
Now, on to the idea that they have come across an embarrassment of riches that leads to falling investment…
Steven Koptis of Westwood Douglas has a truly excellent presentation on this issue, and in that he offers this chart:
This is a truly stunning chart. Instead of an embarrassment of riches, this chart tells the exact opposite tale. It reveals falling production since a high of 16.1 million barrels per day in 2006 to a current 14.0 million barrels.
And this was despite the increase in collective CAPEX from $50 billion in 2000 to a whopping $262 billion in 2012.
The decline rate of production across all the majors is running at about 5% per year, and this is with CAPEX increasing by 14.8% per year. That's a double whammy of exponential badness right there.
Instead of an embarrassment of riches as the above article suggested, I see an embarrassment of production, and an expensive one at that.
Faced with this, the oil majors have effectively tossed in the towel and decided not to chase dwindling oil supplies at these prices.
Now let's turn back to this chart from the EIA and turn our attention to the light-gray wedge comprising "crude oil yet to find…":
That's exactly the stuff that the oil majors are saying they are not going to be trying to get as much of going forward. Without increasing CAPEX, it's safe to say there won't be any growth at all in that gray wedge.
If there's no growth in the gray wedge, then overall oil production will fall across the globe.
What will make more oil come out of the ground? More CAPEX expenditures.
What will make CAPEX go up? Higher oil prices.
End of story.
The Squeeze Box
At a minimum, we might expect that oil has to move to $120 to $130 per barrel in order to incentivize CAPEX to go higher.
This next chart from the Koptis presentation, the original source for which is Goldman Sachs, explains everything. It shows the price of oil that would be required for various companies to be cash flow neutral after paying dividends and for CAPEX.
Note that all of the oil majors are above that nasty, red, dotted line, and that explains why they are sacrificing CAPEX here.
But if the world economy is already straining under the burden of $110 oil, and it is, what might we predict would happen to it at $130? And what about after the oil majors exhaust all the $130 oil plays and then need $150 to move forward? What's our prediction set for the world economy at $150?
The prediction is "nothing good, and a whole lot of bad."
The weakness will spread, as it always does, from the outside in. The already-weak economic players will wither and fall off the tree. Already-challenged countries like Greece and Spain will only find their economic headwinds that much stiffer. The number of people on food stamps will climb as will the rolls of the unemployed. Weak, over-indebted companies, like those that are found occupying the junk bond section of the debt ladder, will fail and losses will mount.
And this will cause oil demand to fall. So on the bottom of our squeeze box we have rising oil production costs, while the upper portion of our box is the price for oil that our massively over-indebted economy can afford before it keels over.
The boundaries of that box are closing in. And that's what the oil majors cutting CAPEX with Brent crude oil trading at $110 tells us in no uncertain terms.
So the price of oil will have to go up, and it will. And on the downslope of the Peak Cheap Oil curve, we will find that only those that can afford oil will be able to use it.
The really huge, gigantic predicament, of course, lies with the very system of money and credit we have that demands continued exponential growth for its very existence.
This chart is growing nearly perfectly exponentially with an R2 of 0.99 and leaving the math aside, that's just a smoking gun of an indictment of our current monetary system, and by extension our economic system.
Nothing can grow exponentially forever. And without continued exponential growth in energy, it is game over sooner than might be true otherwise.
But if our money system cannot grow exponentially, is that really such a bad thing? Why do I predict and warn that such an eventual date with the reality of limits will be so disruptive?
I do this because every single time credit growth has even slowed down, our financial and economic systems have flashed major warning signs. In the one time that it actually went backwards in living memory, the entire system threatened collapse.
Add to this view the untested $700 trillion in derivatives, which some people think might actually tip a quadrillion—whatever that number means—and which are additive to whatever debt numbers we might toss around, and I'm pretty sure that really nothing very positive will result from the process of reconciling those figures with reality.
And what is the reality?
Simply this: the oil majors have said there's nothing useful we want to pursue here with oil at only $110 a barrel.
That's a quite interesting if not stunning development.
It means that we will get less future growth in oil supplies because even with a 500% increase in CAPEX from 2000 to 2012 we saw falling, not rising, oil production.
It is an easy prediction to make that less CAPEX will result in even less future production. That's an easy prediction to make.
Following easily from that is the prediction that oil will have to rise in price because less supply with the same demand can only be resolved through higher prices.
The tacit admission by the oil majors that they cannot profitably pursue new oil opportunities at $110 a barrel is a stunning development—not to me or you, of course, but it should be a stunning development to anybody and everybody else paying the slightest bit of attention here.
The oil majors have tossed in the towel at $110.
Which means, of course, that when it comes to preparations, I'd much rather be a year early than a day late.
For more of Chris Martenson's analysis, visit PeakProsperity.com.


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Atisha's Journey
Renowned German thangka painter Andy Weber began his studies of Tibetan art in Kathmandu in 1975. He lived at Kopan Monastery for two years, painting large thangkas for Lama Yeshe, and moved to England in 1979. He lived and worked as a painter at Manjushri Institute, and now lives in a village in the Cumbrian mountains in the north of England. For many years Andy has been teaching thangka painting at Maitreya Instituut in Holland. "Some of my students have shown remarkable results," he says. His course this summer, featuring White Tara, will run from June 13-27. "Sculptors are also welcome," says Andy. Here he tells the story of one of his favorite paintings.
Most of my paintings have their own stories and destinies, either to be widely known due to publication or to go to Dharma centers or individual practitioners. Some, I believe, once blessed, lead a life of their own, choosing their own destination. One in particular, of Atisha, showed me its amazing story, and although not well known, it is my favorite creation.
This painting of Atisha grew within me over a few years; there was a strong urge to create it in a special way that I hadn't tried before – a blend of East and West. From the East came the inspiration and most of the symbolism, with its deep meaning, and from the West came the techniques and perspective.
Using oils I painted on a specially prepared panel, trying to imitate the great Western masters of the past, working with light sources and shadows, a foreign concept in Tibetan art. It took over a year to complete, interspersed with my work as a traditional thangka painter.
Once finished it was hung in our living room, much to the delight of our children and the curiosity of neighbors.
During a lunch visit by Ganchen Rinpoche one day in 1994, I requested him to bless it. Rinpoche had seen the beginnings of the painting on a previous visit, and I asked him to suggest an auspicious place for it. "It doesn't need blessing and I want it," was his answer. "The Atisha is with me now," were the words that I recall Rinpoche saying. I was quite baffled, but I agreed to the sale.
In its special box, created by our local carpenter, this large painting started on its journey. I thought that because it contained black and white tiles (a symbol of spirituality used in Venetian paintings) it was destined to end up in Italy, where Rinpoche has centers. But two months later I received the message, "Atisha is back!" on a postcard bearing a stamp from Tibet! Perhaps it's hanging in one of the Gangchen Rinpoche's newly opened medical centers in Tibet, I thought. A few weeks later I received a photo and a detailed letter about the amazing journey this painting had undertaken.
From Manchester Airport it had gone to Milan, where it stayed in the local Dharma center before moving on to Rome, Kathmandu and finally to Lhasa, accompanied by two large Maitreya statues and other precious offerings.
In Lhasa it actually vanished, but was recovered in an airport storage room among brooms, buckets and rags – and another missing item, a thangka of a Yamantaka mandala.
Finally, Atisha was offered formally to the Potala Palace by Gangchen Rinpoche on the occasion of the inauguration ceremony held on August 8, 1994, following a five-year reconstruction program by the Chinese government. It was given a place of honor on the balcony of gifts and offerings. (I wonder what the Tibetan and Chinese dignitaries thought of this odd creation: "Where has this come from … ?" – that thought itself, perhaps, a symbolic offering from West to East.) After the celebrations, news reached Tibet that UNESCO had taken the Potala Palace under its wing as an outstanding historic building.
And now? According to various visitors the painting hasn't been seen since that ceremony. Maybe it won't be seen for years, shelved in one of the endless treasure rooms of the Potala, but maybe one day it will reappear and be of benefit.
For me, the journey of this oil painting from a remote English hamlet to the Potala Palace in Lhasa is one of the wonders of the Dharma.
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Wake Forest is expecting Saturday's game against North Carolina to be the biggest in school history. Sports information director Dean Buchan said he has turned down at least 50 media requests, and no one can get their hands on tickets.
Buchan said hundreds of students have been camped out at the off-campus Joel Coliseum for days to get good seats. They already have tickets.
This is the first time in the 210 meetings between the two schools that both teams are ranked in the top 10.
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The Wildcats won't have big man Jason Fraser (broken hand) or Curtis Sumpter (strained knee) for Saturday's game against Georgetown and likely a road game at Boston College (next Wednesday) and a home game against Kansas (Jan. 22).
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