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Reconciling FlashJune 17, 2003
Mike Pick posted an article about Flash today that reflects my thinking on the subject rather well. Flash isn't 99% bad, but it sure ain't 99% good either.
As a designer I'm supposed to be awed by great Flash work, and thrilled at incricately detailed interfaces that invite me to explore. And from time to time I am. But I can't be bothered to browse PixelSurgeon or SurfStation day in and day out to keep up with the latest design work, because it all starts blending in together. You can only see the same transitional effect or same illustration style used on so many sites before its common–place.
The goal of 'experience design' is flawed. When I'm on the web, I am generally looking for information. I don't browse for the sake of browsing, and that's unfortunately what those aiming to provide an experience expect me to do. It's funny: I'm a visual person, and I know great illustration, photography, and animation enhances content. But when used as an end result? I just don't get as much out of it.
They say content is king. There might just be something to that.
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I've been thinking the same thing a lot lately; you simply put it to words in a much more eloquent fashion than I ever could. Thank you.
I second Bob's comment.
I'm just starting out as a web designer and I know clients are going to ask me for big ugly flashsturbation - now I have a better grasp of how to steer them in a better direction.
I should probably just get this out of the way now: obviously illustration and photography and animation are content in and of themselves. That point isn't in dispute. I'm just saying the goal of a site has to be, to me anyway, more than just visuals.
And to further my point of view, when I go to a site where I'm actually looking for something specific, I almost always select the 'HTML' version of a site over the Flash version. I know I'm not alone on that. Flash is the time-waster, HTML gets you to what you need. It's a mindset caused in reaction to the countless sites that confirm the theory.
DS: "I'm just saying the goal of a site has to be, to me anyway, more than just visuals."
WP: "I know clients are going to ask me for big ugly flashsturbation…"
Hahaha! Great term for that.
I'm a contributing member (in that I did all the setup and currently moderate) of a local designer's mailing list/message board, and by and large, the group is made up entirely of Flash gurus. Not that there's anything wrong with that, but they are, like so many others in that category, awed and wowed by the purely visual Flash site, where the text is eight points too small and the blue 45-degree arrow is king. I'm like you, Dave, I can only take so much of that.
Content will forever be king on the net because we derive our entertainment from other forms of media. When we do want entertainment on the net we go to games sites or sites that have some cool flash movies. When we just want to get some information we want to go to the site that gets us the information we want fast. Flash sites very rarely serve this purpose. I cannot recall a time I needed some information and went to a flash-based site.
My boss wants me to make our corporate site flash-based so that there are "cool moving thingies" on the screen. I think these kind of people are more into the fact that they want something cool for themselves to look at instead of something useful for the user.
Flash does have its place on the web just as much as souped up "Fast and the Furious" type cars have their place on the streets.
That CBC3 site is nice.
There's a place for Flash, for sure - I think Dave feels more strongly anti about it than I do. What I was trying to get at is that maybe its time for some new thinking about it - too many designers seem to default to Flash without considering other media.
The whole article came from an overdose of Newstoday, I think. People there seem to consider only Flash sites to be noteworthy, and most everyone's portfolio is Flash-based - it just gets tiresome, and in the end isn't as effective as an HTML portfolio might be in alot of cases. Why would a photographer need Flash?
As for design vs. coding - a web designer isn't a good web designer unless you understand the nuts and bolts to a certain degree. I would argue that for any design-oriented profession - an industrial designer must understand materials, a fashion designer must understand fabric, and a print designer must understand the printing process. I like to say that you should forget the process for conception and remeber it for execution.
While I agree with most of the sentiments posted here I have two or three points:
First, Flash is a tool that has it's uses. It's often used incorrectly, there is no doubt, however it can be very useful and I would assert that knowing Flash is a very good thing. Clients and employeers will expect it, whether that is a good thing or not….? It would be nice to work for folks who "get it" but often that isn't possible and well, in lots of cases some work is better than no work.
Knowing how and when to use it is even better. I added a small flash piece to my current freelance site (up soon) with the thinking that while it doesn't add any huge value, it shows potential clients that, yes, I can "do" Flash. But would I do that whole site in Flash…no way.
Second, something that has been on my mind and hasn't been touched on here (unless I missed it) is the use of Flash in building RIAs or stand alone applications. I see quite a bit of power there. When I worked for Connexion we did almost everything in Flash, but then again, we weren't building "Web sites" as such. So it really depends on the goals laid out for a project. I would agree that Flash is usually not the appropriate tool for informational sites. I say usually because on the Web it seems there is always an exception to every rule.
Well, I see eye to eye with you all.
I used to work for an agency, which sold more and more flash sites. It's like wiping everybody's eyes. Looks pretty cool the first time, but is enerving more and more, each time you revisit. Furthermore, they were all inaccessible and had nothing to say. They were not updated, because updating flashsites is a mess when not constructed properly.
I think Flashdesign faces the same problem than we did some years ago. A lot of good designers I know are mastering Flash, but they don't have a clue of Actionscript or displaying db-content in Flash, and alot of programmers have little ideas about Flash or Actionscript.
Paul said: I think these kind of people are more into the fact that they want something cool for themselves to look at instead of something useful for the user.
And that's just what it is.
Last but not least, we (may I say we?) got the standards, while actionscript changed it syntax heavily the last couple of versions. What will happen to the next version??
Personally I think, Flash is a playground for the pixel-oriented former print-designer that has great difficulties taking the leap in order to create liquid designs for a flexible medium (Cite: I don't mind the fontsize You don't have to read it cause hey, it's good-looking!).
The end of the 'personal' story? The standards guy (me!) got his pink-slip.
And with some time passing by since then, I must say, I am happy about that!
Without Flash, Homestarrunner would not be possible, and it has become such an important part of my pitiful life that I cannot imagine it's nonexistence.
But I agree with Dave. I'm constantly trying to tell my fellow design students that Flash is not appropriate for content based sites, but it seems that even the designers are only interested in the eye candy sometimes.
I think the main problem is that people keep confusing DESIGN with FINE ART. The biggest difference being that design has an intended audience and intended purpose with an intended reaction (fine art isn't confined to such restrictions) and some designers tend to design only for themselves when it's inappropriate. When design IS fine art, that should be left up to personal websites and personal projects. Anything else should be geared to your client's goal.
And yeah, where would the world be without Strong Bad emails??? A sadder place, that I tell you.
Oh yeah… I forgot about the weekly Strong Bad e-mails. Okay, so there IS one site that's entirely Flash-based that I visit on a regular basis.
I like this discussion. You're all bringing up great points. Who knows, maybe I'm just on a CSS high, and I'll turn around in 3 months and pump out some new Flash work. I never did make it through that advanced ActionScript book I have on my desk.
Content is the king. However an experience on itself is content too. An Image can say more than 1000 words, an animation are 25 images a second. Each to it's own is the phrase you're looking for. Too much people see Flash as an online version of Powerpoint, which shows Flash is not the tool for ordinary text based presentations. However the ability to combine user interaction, intelligent behaviour, soundscapes, music, video with non-linear storyline alone shows that it's a complicated medium as well.
As we only now start to realise the potential of a old hypertext language called (x)html and there is still no complete support from any browser, it's similarly also impossible to bash Flash for being an animated playground. It's used for TV ads and cartoon for it's animation capabilities, but much more is possible and it will probable take another 6 years before people are enough familiar to make unique things with it. When Macromedia takes flash to the desktop this will add another dimension etc.
Each to it's own, the experience of ZenGarden would make no sense to Flash, and Cartoon transcripts on xhtml are not as enjoyable as the flash cartoon. (to use cartoon as example). So I don't see why the obvious has to be stated time after time. Perhaps it's just easier to misuse Flash, or it's harder to grasp what it's meant for (skip intro, loading, animated websites and other' misuses').
Well said… Flash does have its place, however.
At the government agency I work at, we use Flash to publish presentations on the web that are done internally in Powerpoint. The reception this has received from the public has been very positive. We are also in the process of developing several very slick interactive apps using Flash to provide dynamic graphing of our collected data.
Overall, though, Flash is misused far too often.
There's a time and place for all things, and I believe Flash still has its place. Blaming a technology for the mistakes of human designers is a little harsh and misplaced.
And as a recent college graduate (I majored in Design & Digital Media), I can affirm Minz's observation that Flash is used largely for wary Print designers trying to recreate their world digitally. In class, they pushed Dreamweaver and said that coding will be left to… well, the coders, and that designers will be left to design. Which I think is a dangerous mantra. I believe that designers SHOULD primarily design, but a working knowledge of some aspects in markup/coding (at least) and such is detremental in succeeding in the marketplace these days. Some people in my class dropped HTML all together in favour of Flash merely because it's "simpler" or it looks cooler.
However, just because you and your colleagues share the same view about Flash doesn't mean the rest of the population does – there are many many people quite content just clicking away to get some eye candy. I know I still do it occasionally to get inspiration before I tackle a design project.
Though, I agree that many of the Flash sites are starting to blur into one. In fact, I recently criticized Eyewake Studios of looking too similar to 2advanced Studios, and got a couple people raising their guards about it (I actually got contacted by Eyewake!) Although, in the end, I agreed that they are different, their styles are quite similar and perhaps it was just the cynical part of me who was tired of seeing the blinky transitions and sound effects that sound almost the same.
However, I think Flash, if used properly, is a powerful tool. But if people get too caught up on the flashiness (pun intended) and forget about the end user or purpose or content, then it's all useless.
Flash is a tool that gets used badly A LOT! Sure it has it's place, but the problem is it duplicates the "in your face" attitude of television advertising on the web. I'm sure companies who advertise on websites love Flash. No more limiting GIF animations. Now there's full fluid motion.
For websites that have content, I agree, Flash bites. I hate not being able to search text, or copy and paste text from sites with flash. It does prevent theft from sites, and I think a lot of photogrpahers love it. Of course most people know how to use screen captures and if I want to steal your images, I can and will, Flash or not. I usually don't want sound on websites and especially if I'm listening to MP3's I don't want to hear sound on sites. Rarely have I found a Flash site that I really like the navigation and find it faster or easy to use than an HTML site. For the most part I find Flash sites slow and irritating.
In class, they pushed Dreamweaver and said that coding will be left to… well, the coders
That's a good reason why my recent post about designers being free of the burden of code may not have touched on the right points. I instinctively bristle up at the notion of clueless 'media instructors' setting people up for failure like that.
Designers need to be aware of their medium. Scott says it best: "I wouldn't hire someone to design a city park unless they were experts in design AND plants." I absolutely agree that a good foundation includes both design principles and study of the medium you choose to work in. Industrial design classes have special materials components where you learn the strengths and limitations of the material you choose to work with.
A good interactive media program will touch on code and, while they may not have time to explore it to the depth needed (what program ever does?) they will at least make students aware that there's more out there that doesn't fit on a Flash timeline.
Using Flash for animation, vector maps or online games is one thing (as the alternative technologies aren't yet practical), using it to build navigational menus or, god forbid, entire sites is lunacy as it completely undermines the whole point of the www. But what do I know, I'm just a web designer, so lets hear what the MAN who invented the whole damn thing has to say:
"The power of the Web is in its universality. Access by everyone regardless of disability is an essential aspect."
→ Tim Berners-Lee
Now, while flash has quite a large installed base, its not nearly as universal as HTML- the language of the web - and while its made strides in terms of accessibility its still leaves too much power in the hands of the author. There is no reason why an author should be able to prevent a user from selecting and copying a line of text or turning off sound, or increasing text-size for readability. What's great about HTML + CSS (user stylesheets) is that the user is in control - not the author.
Ol' Tim said it best when he said:
"Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They don't care as much about attractive sites and pretty design."
→ Tim Berners-Lee
Which I couldn't agree more with.
…while flash has quite a large installed base, its not nearly as universal as HTML
I don't know if that's a valid argument these days. Flash penetration is pretty damn high — so much so that I'd hazard to say anyone building CSS-only sites is dealing with the same dwindling percentage of users who won't see it properly.
I know, I know. CSS-based sites have accessible content without style, Flash doesn't. For some, especially those making the decisions, a non-viewable style is about as much of a crime.
I'm with Tim, but only to a point. Users don't care about attractive sites and pretty design, but that doesn't mean they're not important. A site with a good design is seen as a more authoritative or legitimate source of information than one without. Don't bother arguing me on that one, you'll lose ;)
In class, they pushed Dreamweaver and said that coding will be left to… well, the coders
This is getting a little off-topic, but when I was interviewing for jobs a couple of years ago, the interviewer at one local web design agency asked me if I'd rather code or design. Coming from a background where I've always had to do both, the question took me a little off-guard, so I asked for an explanation.
It was the first time I'd been introduced to the concept of a team of designers doing their work, then passing off the raw photoshop files to the coders, who did the splicing and dicing and coding around the graphics. The idea that I would have to (a) hand over my work to someone else to mess with (and potentially goof up), or (b) have to code around someone else's design (that I potentially wouldn't like) was something that I didn't care very much for.
This was the point in the interview that I knew I didn't want to work for them, but I forged ahead. "Why not give each designer complete ownership of the design, from start to finish? Design, code, test, and upload?"
"That's not how we do it here. Would you rather code or design?"
To me, there's no distinction. The code is part of the design. Whether splicing graphics into nested tables or positioning elements with CSS, the design relies on the code to be properly displayed to the browser. If you design the layout in Photoshop, you should still have a fundamental knowledge of how the code will display the layout.
Anyway, I'm not really going anywhere here, so I'll end. Lea's statement brought that whole episode to mind, and I felt compelled to share my story.
Next! :-)
Flash has it's shortcomings and may always have substantial compromises built into it, but nobody can convince me that in 2003 CBC Radio 3 isn't a fantastic implementation of an online magazine (a magazine with audio, no less), or that Macromedia's Pet Market demo isn't a highly compelling rethink of the awkward ecommerce experience.
Is content not King in these examples?
For a developer site that I'm working on, we had a meeting with the outside firm who was doing the collateral to talk about how to integrate the print and web designs. When they suggested, "well, you could add a little Flash to the site," I realized they knew nothing about the audience. Developers do NOT want to be dazzled by Flash when they're looking for solution to their crashing app at 2am.
CBC3 rocks, and I've drooled over it from day one. I just rarely go back. A friend was sending me links every time a new issue came out; I shrugged.
I think my own problem with it is that Flash is halfway between the passiveness of text on a page - where the user decides what he or she sees next - and the active pandering of television where the broadcaster has full control. When I'm reading, I realize my brain is going to be taxed, but I can always stop at some point and come back in a bit. When I'm watching TV (something I don't do anymore, which may also say something about my mindset) I turn my brain off and expect to be pandered to. It's when there are elements of both that I start getting confused - I generally can't pause a Flash animation, so it's like TV in that respect. But I don't get the full immersion of TV, so I can't bring myself to committing to it.
Bob, that's amazing 'cause my current employer asked me pretty much the same question. Although, mine is a happier story because I am able to do pretty much all the markup and design (I'm their all-in-one Print & New Media Specialist…) but, as I like it, the backend is handled by the backend people who know ASP and SQL, and any other too-techy things can be handled by the same people. And he was pleased when out of the list of things he wanted me to do and asking me what I preferred, I said, "Design."
It always will be my answer. :-)
That's great to hear. I spent many years getting a master's degree at an arts school, so the visual design side of the web should be the thing that interests me, right? Well, yes - and no. Being a web developer myself for almost ten years, I have come to favor sites where content exists and is presented in a graceful, usable manner, rather than confusing, egotistical flashturbatory eye candy. I have tried my hand at Flash and have done several projects across the years, even featuring high end Actionscripting - only to discover I feel myself more comfortable and at ease using plain HTML and CSS to do design. Making changes in Flash is (for me) such a pain in the rear - not so with CSS. Which reminds me - I should dump the Flash blob that is my current site and replace it with something more, uh, practical… when there's time :)
"I'm with Tim, but only to a point. "
Boo… Tim is the man… and don't you forget it!
"Users don't care about attractive sites and pretty design, but that doesn't mean they're not important."
I agree as long as usability isn't being sacrificed for the sake of attractiveness. For example, the trend seems to be to make hyperlinks look like anything but hyperlinks (i myself am kind of guilty of this on my site http://www.zeit.ca/ which makes me a bit of a hypocrite, but i'm still working on it … ;)) by either changing established color standards or removing the underline from links as well as making text too small to read because the designer thinks that tiny text fits the layout better.
"For some, especially those making the decisions, a non-viewable style is about as much of a crime."
I hear ya, but that's besides the point. What some idiot in a suit wants and what users would prefer aren't necessarily the same thing. Control should be in the hands of the user. If you (not you personally) want total control get into print design and stop perverting the original intent of the web. Kill all the lawyers and then kill all the graphic designers. The world would be a much more accessible place ;)
Haze, I think you're being rather harsh and uncalled for. Quite frankly, after a quick scan of the comments listed, only a few have listed references, and none of which were made in a pretentious manner, and most were because it pertained to a personal story or back-up of their claims. No one in these comments have claimed what you have said we are claiming.
I'm curious, what would you deem are "valid points" ? Ironically, whatever points they are, since it's a form vs. function debate, they are also rather subjective/relative and thus, the validity of a statement is up to the interpreter. Which seems to negate your previous statement.
Although this debate is form vs. function, we are merely lamenting how people forget what the hell they're making things for. They stop asking questions and just make assumptions.
So it may never be completely resolved, but through discussions such as this, one may able to have their personal convictions solidified or altered. Not debating merely because it seems "unanswerable" is a defeatist type of attitude. Only by having debates like these, although a definite answer may never be found, can people realise what they truly believe in.
As many of more of the intelligible comments have mentioned, flash sites have their use on the internet. And since Lea needs some example of what I am talking about the greatest example of flash used in the real corporate world would have to be Tiffany's. They use flash to the point where they make the navigation invisible, which in my mind keeps the content at the forefront. The overuse of flash is like the overuse of animated gif's back in the 90's. Eventually, companies will begin to realize that their pretty websites that use 100k of flash to display a news article is not keeping the customers. The bad flash design agencies will get weeded out and harmony will once again rein supreme on the web.
Paul, why me in particular? : P I was one of the people who previously mentined that Flash sites do have their use on the internet! Silly. ; )
Hi Dave. My thoughts got real long real fast, so they can be found here. Do you support trackback, by the way?
I'm in shock over here that some of you enjoy Strong Bad emails. What was the discussion about again?
Trogdor strikes again.
I think that there is a fairly significant area of Flash development that is being overlooked here, and in Pick's article. Flash's capability for delivering application like interactions, along with it's ever improving back end communication capabilities make it an exceptional tool for releasing applications on the web. Back in 2002 I wrote an article about Flash's potential called Running from Bears, and why I felt that web applications are well suited for Flash's capabilities. You can read it here: http://www.flazoom.com/news/running1_11202002.shtml
Recently I've been seing a lot of ROI data for Flash applications on both the Internet and on Intranet's for a number of large corporations. Once this ROI data gets up to the assorted bean counters at various web agencies and web businesses I think we will see a huge growth in Flash application deployment on the web. I just hope it can be done without sound tracks.
Good point, Chris. As I replied to your latest post, Macromedia's recent forays into application development are interesting, to say the least. I haven't used the latest authoring tools, so I can't say I understand how they're going about it. But it'll be interesting to see the mindset shift from multimedia to task-based .swf-ing.
Dave, I just linked over here from Ken's site and decided to check it out. Wow, dude, you rock! This site has a sweet design. I'd be interested to have your thoughts on my site (and it's multiple designs). Just a good professional critique would be ever so useful to me. I know I'm not the best, but I certainly don't suck either.
Gimme some feedback, if you would be so kind, and maybe some pointers. I'm stubborn, so if you say anything bad I'll most likely initially be insulted- but then I'll come around and most likely agree with you and begin to move forward with your advice (I guess that's the case with most designers who continue to grow).
I just thought of something – isn't Macromedia's recent revamp a prime example that good ol' HTML and CSS is still the way to go if you're content-rich and Flash to be used as small interactive pieces throughout? Remember how the initial launch had an all-Flash navigation and all-Flash elements (thinking that by doing so, it would prove the power of Flash) And in the end, their development team was forced to step down their all-Flash efforts because it was becoming cumbersome, slow, and unuseful?
Did Macromedia change their site? Because I stopped going there as soon as they made it all Flash. I'm all for Flash, but that site used to be spectacular for getting information and Macromedia plugins and now it just plain sucks! It takes forever to load! I think if it was quick I wouldn't mind it so much, but it's extremely slow. I think it's a detriment to what Flash can (and.or should) do rather than a compliment! They oughta go back to what they had before. I used to regular the site, now I avoid it like the plauge!
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"…Trogdor was a man… or um.. he was a DRAGON man… er well maybe he was just a Dragon, but he was still TROGDOOOOOOOOOR!…" - Strong Bad
Not that it's really necessary, but here's a case in point on a minor quibble:
http://www.ertdfgcvb.ch/ - it's actually Shockwave, but stay with me here. Go into the site, work your way to the menu, and start playing. These are cool!
So when I want to link 'Parisienne' or 'the Rocket' for example, and tell you those are great, I can't because they're buried within the interface. No URL to grab, so no link. Sure, in the end, you can get to them. But wouldn't it have been easier if I'd been able to just link you directly to the experiments I was talking about?
As Chris points out, it is not that flash is taking over as a presentation medium for strictly content based sites – an area where smart, econo, HTML and CSS reign supreme – but it is taking a big role in providing online front ends to web applications.
The single most significant deficiency of HTML and CSS as application front-end is that it is difficult, often impossible, to update items onscreen in a manner similar to what users are familiar with via their use of desktop apps. Flash, increasingly, offers that. I have seen demos for this sort of functionality that exude considerable elegance.
What is interesting is that there are going to be fewer people that are solely designers moving into this space than one might think for the simple reason that programming is more complex and much more familiar to an OOP developer (Java, C++, etc.) than the designer/scripters that perhaps use flash in the greatest numbers. It's mostly a matter of developers/designers (including meself) catching up with the tools at this point, plus finding clients/funding for striking out in less travelled directions (the web has become a tad conservative as of late).
Ultimately, I think it will be a very different flash than what comes to most people's minds when they currently think "swf". But, yeah, there will still be much eye candy, much of it gratuitous.
You know, something that occurs to me reading your summary Kris is that if Flash-based forms are a valid tool, it couldn't possibly be that much of a challenge to build a system that controls HTML form elements with absolute CSS positioning. If you could drag-n-drop your forms and have the interface spit out xhtml/css instead of a .swf, the process should be just as easy as building a Flash form. That could eliminate the ease-of-building deficiency.
That's just a surmise though. I'm not committed to either method of thinking, since I don't know the advantages/disadvantages of Flash applications well enough. But it's good food for thought, and possible exploration. Thanks!
I think you are on to something, however…
The whole shot with flash based forms is that you could do things like validate input with a back end data source and send conditional feedback to the user without changing screens. Or sorting a datagrid column on the fly much as you would in an OS style datagrid. Which is to say, you can potentially provide a richer experience that leverages user experiences painlessly. I would love to see technologies other than flash scratching at this itch.
Consider these two examples which, I think, accomplish simple things simply. Take the developer goggles off, forget about what tool was used and attack it the same way your Mom might and I think you'll agree that it atleast hints at a "better way":
The Broadmore Hotel
A classic done some time back in Flash 5
Clyde's Online
An elegant example…. check out the shopping cart in particular.
The bottom line is that, at it's best, it's just classic usability… of the Jef Raskin/Tog type, less so the "links must be blue and underlined" Jakob Nielson type.
Both very well-built forms. I've done forms very similar to Broadmore using javascript objects and data pre-loading. Since most of it is text-based, the overhead isn't really that large.
But Clyde's - super sexy. I'd be a masochist to try to to duplicate that. Good example. A bit hard to use without a mouse, but I'm sure with a bit more attention to user testing that could be alleviated.


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CANCER (June 21-July 22): Decide to be indecisive. The pressure you feel to make a final choice is someone else's issue, not yours. Don't rush to a foolish judgment simply to make another person happy. Wait for more information.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): You may be your own worst enemy. The only thing that will keep you from achieving your goals is doubt. Maintain a positive attitude and you will find the most monumental challenge a bit easier to handle.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Exercise your mind. Find creative ways to test your mental prowess through crosswords, puzzles or trivia. An item may have caught your eye, but you'll be happier by keeping the money in your pocket.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Follow your head, not your heart. Your intuitions are slightly off and consequently going with your gut instinct will yield poor results. Items that you must have today will not seem as attractive tomorrow.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Stay the course. Your impatience with a financial situation may have you ready to make drastic changes. Don't undo what you've built so far by rocking the boat right now. Things will improve shortly.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Don't let extra cash burn a hole in your pocket. Although you have the means to acquire what you desire, this may not be the time to spend money. When faced with a social invitation, your best bet is to respectfully decline.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Like Sgt. Friday used to say, "Just the facts." Don't let others waste your time by beating around the bush, get right to the heart of the matter. Know the difference between the essential and nonessential.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Take it with a grain of salt. Accept nothing at face value. Do a little probing and research to delve beneath the surface of an offer. Just because friends mean well doesn't mean that they can't be wrong.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Roll with the punches. There's no point in dwelling on your failures, all you can do is use the experience to make your next endeavor a success. The fires of romance may be doused this evening.
IF DECEMBER 29 IS YOUR BIRTHDAY: Spend the next four to six weeks gathering your resources and momentum. Although your ambitions might be a priority, you will achieve more success by waiting until late February to launch key initiatives and business plans. That is when your judgment is at its best and when well-wishers will lend a helping hand. Your career or financial plans seem to be going great in April, but unexpected changes can distract you. Wait until June to interview for a new job, make crucial commitments or meet up with Mr. or Ms. Right while your most attractive qualitative are shining bright.
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Find out what some Bucknell faculty were studying this summer as they traveled to Turkey, the Canadian Arctic, France, Germany and Kenya.
Kris Trego, Assistant Professor of Classics & Ancient Mediterranean Studies
Nautical archaeology begins underwater. Professor Kris Trego, Classics & Ancient Mediterranean Studies, begins there too. She was a member of the team that excavated the Kizilburun shipwreck on the coast of Izmir, Turkey, and from 1999-2001, the team that excavated the Tektaş Burnu, a shipwreck dating back to around 425 B.C. Since then, she's collaborated with her research partner, Deborah Carlson, President of the Institute of Nautical Archaeology (INA) and professor at Texas A&M University, to uncover the everyday mysteries revealed by the Greek merchant ship.
After excavation is complete, years of research and analysis of recovered materials begin to answer questions about the maritime cultures of the ancient Mediterranean. "When materials have been on the sea floor for that long, you have to slowly desalinate and stabilize them before they can be dried and examined," Trego said. The materials from the Tektaş Burnu have gone through conservation and analysis for over a decade.
As the artifacts emerge from conservation, Trego returns to the Bodrum Museum of Underwater Archaeology and INA's Bodrum Research Center to use the library's resources and catalog, photograph, and analyze artifacts. This summer, with the support of a Bucknell Faculty Scholarly Development Grant, Trego continued her work.
"These sea routes were how goods and culture traveled," she said. "I'm fascinated by the human element. Cooking pots, fishing equipment, tools, and personal items — that type of material gives us insight into the size of the ship, the number of crew, and the activities that took place on board, information that doesn't survive in the written record."
Trego believes the ship was small and had around two crew members. In addition to a smaller cargo of decorated tableware, there were roughly 300 amphoras — large, two handled jugs made of terracotta. They contained wine, olives, oil and pine resin, goods to be sold at markets in the Greek cities of Ionia. Two amphoras were filled with butchered cow ribs, the remains of what was once likely salted beef. This finding has challenged archaeologists to rethink their ideas about meat consumption during the period, which was previously believed to be limited to special occasions.
Trego's dedication to the project has been sustained by each new discovery. "You fall in love with the place. You fall in love with the project," she said. "We've found some incredibly unique items that have been changing some archaeologists' views of the ancient world."
Andrew Stuhl, Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies
When Professor Andrew Stuhl, environmental studies, travels to Inuvik, Canada, he goes with the intent to connect with this Arctic community and learn from the relationships between the people, the environment and the science being done there. Previously, he spent two years conducting research in the Inuvik region and returned this summer with support from an American Philosophical Society's Franklin Research Grant. While there, he shared his earlier work and did new research in the Inuit governmental archives and at the Aurora Research Institute, and interviewed local people and scientists.
A historian, he approaches his work in environmental studies by considering issues from a variety of perspectives like science or geography, in addition to history. "I'm very interested in how we can take into account historical change to better understand our environment and address environmental problems today," he said. "One of the major world issues is climate change and where we're seeing that first and fastest is in the Arctic. High latitude regions are experiencing climate change with more intensity than any other place on Earth."
In contrast to how it is commonly characterized as a new, ecological phenomenon, Stuhl sees Arctic climate change as a series of social events that have taken place over time. "The images and discourse around climate change today suggest that environmental change in the north brings with it the first-ever interactions of industry, politics, Inuit society and the Arctic," he said. "But this just isn't true. It's important to go to the north to do research because within the communities in the Arctic, the history is very well known. It's outside of the Arctic that we don't know it."
He thinks that often we see the Arctic as a frontier on the edge of our world instead of as part of it. "While there are national borders, species don't know those. Pollutants don't know those," he said. "That's why climate change reveals our interconnectedness — the ecology of our life on Earth. History shows that interconnection goes deeper in time and is layered in the landscape and in people's interactions with one another. If we don't learn to see this history, or choose not to look at it, we won't be able to respond attentively to global change in the Arctic — or anywhere."
Professor Stuhl's research will be part of his book, Making the Modern Arctic: The Hidden History of Science and Nature, which will be published by The University of Chicago Press.
Logan Connors, Assistant Professor of French & Francophone studies
Does reading fiction change you? Is it important? Does it distract you from being useful? The debates that professors and students have about literature today are not so different from scholarly discourse in 17th- and 18th-century France, said Professor Logan Connors, French & Francophone studies.
Connors traveled to Paris this summer to study emotion in theater during this period — a time when philosophers like Descartes and Diderot were writing about how emotions function. He began by asking, what can an emotion do? Where do discussions about the function of emotions originate? How are these debates manipulated and why?
"During this time, theater was an important event for socializing," Connors said. "It's a place to study emotions because people are not alone reading, but are out interacting with both the performance and each other."
He worked at the national library, where he read sermons written by Christian clerics who opposed theater. "These sermons claim that theater is going to do all kinds of horrible things to people," he said. "There was a systematic, concerted effort to shut down theater in France."
"In the sermons, actors are portrayed as low-level miscreants who have no business playing noble characters and spectators are described as being influenced so much by theater that they develop a false sense of self-importance and stop focusing on their family and religious obligations," he explained. "Even the government is attacked for funding a costly public theater."
Exploring these documents in person is key to the research, said Connors. "It's really something you have to be there to do," he said. "You may find a handwritten note on the side of a sermon you're reading that refers you to another related sermon. These types of surprises are an exciting part of the process."
To understand both sides of the debate, Connors read pamphlets, often written anonymously, that defend theater and question the opinions expressed in the sermons. "My projects are grounded in the context of 17th- and 18th-century France. You can't get that grounding from just reading a play," he said. "There's this world outside that exists in clandestine literature — all of the pamphlets, police reports and other documents you read give you a much clearer picture of what was happening during the time."
Ann Tlusty, Professor of History and Associate Dean of Faculty, College of Arts & Sciences
Imagine that something you write in your daily life might, 400 years from now, help historians understand how you used language and how that has changed over time.
Professor Ann Tlusty, history, spent her summer collaborating with a colleague in Germany to examine documents written during the 16th and 17th centuries that were preserved as part of court cases and were written by ordinary craftsmen and women. "I spend most of my time in Germany in archives and libraries," she said. "The kind of work I do is dependent on reading a lot of archival manuscripts, many of them records of arrest and interrogations, which exist only in a single copy."
By combining insights from both their fields (socio-historical context and linguistics), she and her colleague were able to explore how close written German was to phonetic speech, how dialect forms affected or were affected by the standardization of the German language, who was literate and where and how they learned to write.
Tlusty also worked on a project on weapons magic — magical spells men used in order to gain hyper-masculine advantages, like having an unbeatable sword or becoming invulnerable. "Many of these spells required parts of dead bodies taken from the gallows or other objects associated with death," she said. "The power in these materials supposedly grew out of a kind of natural sympathy existing between the living and the dead."
Stories about magical weapons and invulnerability have survived as hyper-masculine themes in fiction, fairy tales, comic books, and games, providing data for modern-day pundits debating the link between masculinity and guns. "This project grew out of an earlier work on the right to bear arms in early modern Germany that draws connections between historic European weapons cultures and the idea that the right to bear and use arms is about independence and male power," she explained.
Research travel gives Tlusty access to important sources and connections with other scholars in her field, essential elements of her academic work and classroom teaching. "As faculty, we're passionate about building knowledge in our fields," she said. "We bring that passion and knowledge with us back into the classroom and to research projects with students."
Kevin Myers, Associate Professor of Psychology
The Samburu people, who formerly were semi-nomadic pastoralists, live in scattered settlements in northern Kenya. Professor Kevin Myers, psychology, who studies appetite and eating behavior, traveled to the region this summer with the support of a Bucknell University College of Arts & Sciences Dean's Fellowship. He was part of an interdisciplinary research team that included Jon Holtzman, an anthropologist at Western Michigan University who studies the cultural significance of Samburu food customs, and Jeff Brunstrom and Peter Rogers, experimental psychologists at the University of Bristol who focus on human nutrition and behavior.
The team studied the dietary habits and nutritional psychology of the Samburu, focusing on cross-cultural comparisons about how environment and culture affect eating habits. "Research in the U.S. and other countries that have easy access to a variety of inexpensive, high-calorie, processed foods centers on how environmental factors promote overeating and obesity." Myers said. "The Samburu live in almost the exact opposite type of environment. They have limited access to food and a typical person would only encounter a few dozen types of food in a lifetime, hardly any of it processed."
Among those foods is sugar, which gives the Samburu experience with sweetness, even though its high cost causes them to use it sparingly. However, they have never used artificial sweeteners. This lack of exposure allowed the team to test ideas about the psychological response to sweetness.
"One theory claims that artificial sweeteners have ruined the natural relationship between sweetness and calories," Myers said. "If this is true, for a person who eats a lot of artificial sweeteners the experience of sweetness becomes inconsistent — sometimes high calorie and sometimes low calorie. It fools the brain into expecting that sweet foods should not be as filling, potentially leading to overeating." This hypothesis is impossible to test in places where artificial sweeteners are ubiquitous, so the Samburu participants gave them new insight into the theory.
His work in Kenya has caused Myers to think about psychology from a more cultural perspective. "When it comes to appetite and eating behavior, culture is such a big influence," he said. "This type of research broadens my thinking and opens me up to a whole new set of questions."
"Being out of the lab and away from the U.S. context adds a dimension of different cultural, social and economic factors to the research," he said. "It allows us to do studies that otherwise wouldn't be possible and to test hypotheses about what's involved in the psychology of certain behaviors from a cross-cultural perspective. It forces us to remember that we shouldn't take for granted that humans are a particular way when we're basing that on our Western point of view."


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Johnson's goal boosts ACS
MT. HERMON � Isaac Aning scored two goals, and Daniel Antunez recorded three assists as visiting Graham defeated Southern Alamance 4-2 in a non-conference boys� soccer game Monday night in the season opener for both teams.
Jorge Rivas and Ozzie Antunez also found the net for the Red Devils. Jesus Benitez recorded four saves in goal for Graham.
▪ ALAMANCE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL 2, TABERNACLE-MONROE 1:At Graham, Chase Johnson scored a goal midway through the second half to help ACS to a non-conference victory. Wyatt Howard scored a goal in the first half, as the teams were tied 1-1 at the half. Jared Forehand recorded six saves in goal for the Warriors (2-0).
William Jones scored for Tabernacle-Monroe (3-1).
At Ramseur, Southern Alamance swept host Eastern Randolph 25-19, 25-14, 25-21.
Katie Boone smashed 14 kills and had nine blocks, while Tessa Faucette recorded 20 assists. Carleigh Brooks had 10 digs, Nicole Byrd added six kills, and D�Lainee Holman had seven blocks. The Patriots improved to 4-1.
▪ BARTLETT YANCEY 3, ROCKINGHAM COUNTY 2:At Yanceyville, Logan Slades 12 kills and 22 digs were part of a number of contributions that helped the Buccaneers outlast Rockingham County in a non-league match that went five sets. The scores were 25-22, 19-25, 25-23, 19-25, 15-11.
Laura Young (11 kills), Korinthia Dixon (seven kills, seven blocks), McKenzie Miller (six kills) and Sarah Katherine Cumbo (25 assists) were among the top performers for Bartlett Yancey (1-1).
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These classic holiday cookies come with a twist of s'mores flavor thanks to the Lotus Biscoff Cookie Butter flavored cookie, a dollop of marshmallow creme and a chocolate kiss. Recipe from: http://foodfamilyfinds.com/smores-blossom-cookies-recipe/
- Remove wrappers from chocolates and set aside.
- With an electric mixer, beat shortening and Biscoff Cookie Butter in large bowl until well blended.
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- Add egg, milk and vanilla, beat well.
- Stir together flour, baking soda and salt in a bowl and gradually beat into Biscoff mixture.
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- Squeeze a dollop of marshmallow creme on top of each cookie and press a chocolate onto the top of each cookie.
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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 65 diseños de 31 diseñadores freelance.
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The logo itself needs to be very recognisable yet clean, modern and sharp.
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STONY BROOK, N.Y. — The Yale University baseball team took the momentum from the strong pitching performances that it received on Saturday down to Stony Brook Sunday afternoon to complete the four-game weekend series with the Seawolves. Unfortunately for the Bulldogs, the Stony Brook bats came to life early and often and prevented a repeat of Saturday's pitching display.
Stony Brook jumped out to a 13-0 lead before Yale could get on the board in the opening game, cruising to a 13-2 victory in seven innings. The Seawolves closed out the twin bill with a dominant pitching performance, with three pitchers combining on a five-hitter in a 10-0 win in nine innings at Joe Nathan Field.
With the two losses, Yale falls to 4-10-1 overall, while Stony Brook improves to 11-6.
The Seawolves scored three runs in the first inning, one more in the third, and then three in the fifth before closing out its offensive effort with a six-run sixth inning that put the game out of reach for the Bulldogs. Yale finally put together a small rally, but could only manage a pair of runs in the top of the seventh before Zach Uher replaced starting pitcher Evan Stecko-Haley to get the final two outs of the game and shut the door on Yale's hopes in the opener.
Cale Hanson, Jacob Hunter and Cam Squires provided a bulk of the Yale offense in the opening game. Hanson went 2-for-3 with a double, a run scored and a stolen base. Hunter reached base three times, going 2-for-2 with a double, an RBI, a run scored, and he was hit by a pitch. Squires drove in Yale's other run with an RBI double.
Maxx Tissenbaum went 3-for-3 with a home run, two RBIs and two runs scored to lead the Seawolves, who saw seven batters get a hit and drive in at least one run. Travis Jankowski went 2-for-2 with a home run, two RBIs and two runs scored, while Willie Carmona drove in a pair of runs with his only hit of the game, a two-run homer in the first inning.
Yale didn't fare any better in the final game of the four-game series. Stony Brook's three pitchers held Yale to just five hits. Hanson and freshman David Toups each had two hits. Josh Scharff had the other Yale hit.
The Seawolves used three big offensive innings to pull out the 10-0 win, scoring a pair of runs in the first, five more in the fifth inning, and three in the seventh. Carmona went 3-for-4 to lead the Seawolves, while Jankowski was 2-for-2 with two runs scored.
Yale returns to action on Wednesday in a scheduled nine-inning contest against the University of Connecticut (6-11) at J.O. Christian Field in Storrs at 3 p.m.
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The New Bern Woman�s Club�s Club House wasn�t exactly the most regal building in town, nor was it by any stretch of the imagination the oldest, being that its demise occurred at just 65 years old.
The New Bern Woman�s Club�s Club House wasn�t exactly the most regal building in town, nor was it by any stretch of the imagination the oldest, being that its demise occurred at just 65 years old.
But that didn�t make it any less historic.
For a time after its construction in 1933, the Club House had been a focal point of community life. The Woman�s Club, a prominent power in New Bern today, was no less influential then. During World War II, it hosted USO dances and continued to be a gathering and meeting place for young people for years before and after.
�The building is well known throughout New Bern,� Susan Moffat (now Moffat-Thomas) told a Sun Journal reporter in 1996. �Until [it was built], Union Point had been a landfill� There�s a lot of sentiment with that building.�
A Sun Journal article in 1993 said of it, �The building was for years a favorite spot for parties, club meetings and receptions. It had come to symbolize the spirit of community pride that grew out of its construction during extremely hard economic times.�
It spent time as a soup kitchen and was a popular spot for parties and wedding receptions.
I, myself, have gotten a few notes from people who remember taking dancing classes there. One reader said she recalled the floor had started to sink in the middle and that everyone just danced around it, while another reader remembered meeting her husband there.
Over time, being in one of the more exposed locations in town and being battered more than once by hurricanes, the Club House began to show serious wear. The city bought the building from the Woman�s Club in 1960 for $1,500, but it failed to keep the place up. By 1983, it was abandoned and in bad shape.
By the early �90s, the city was beginning to view the old girl as a bit of a white elephant. Union Point needed upgrading if it was going to remain a focal point of the city, and the Club House was now as much an eyesore as it was a monument to the past.
Although the city spoke of doing feasibility studies for restoration, I think that, reading between the lines in the old articles, the aldermen were quietly moving toward tearing it down.
A number of residents fought hard for a few years to either restore or move the building to a new location, for old time�s sake you might say.
�Club member Rose Williams said the issue centers around helping New Bern retain its charm and a slice of its past so future generations can enjoy it,� an article from 1993 said. �She wants the building repaired so others will hear the echoes of the past.�
An echo from our own past finally did the Club House in when, in September 1996, category 3 Hurricane Fran swept into town.
�While the park emerged� from being submerged �relatively unscathed, the Woman�s Club Building at Union Point was damaged,� Sun Journal reporter Andrea Ball wrote in 1996. �Part of the roof came off, some cracks in the walls were expanded, doors and windows were blown in and a section of the back wall collapsed.�
And so, as the park morphed in the late �90s into the Union Point we love and stroll today, the Woman�s Club passed away in 1998.
I read an article or so in which a replica was considered as a replacement but, again, I suspect that idea was never considered with any real seriousness.
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Turkish riot police have fired rubber bullets, tear gas and water cannon to block demonstrators from entering the Istanbul park at the centre of last month's protests.
Gezi Park, the birthplace of deadly unrest that engulfed the country last month, was reopened to public use on Monday (local time).
"Four people died for this park. This park will reopen!" a young demonstrator shouted.
But later in the day police sealed off access to the city's central Taksim Square and the adjacent Gezi Park.
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At least one demonstrator was seriously wounded, with his left eye abundantly bleeding, an AFP journalist reported.
"You should be ashamed of yourself. Go on, shoot me too!" one of the protesters yelled at a police officer on top of an armoured vehicle.
Some angry shopkeepers at a fish market close to Taksim Square lashed out at police and anti-government demonstrators, accusing them of ruining their business.
When Turkish authorities earlier reopened the park, they warned that no further protests would be tolerated.
"Gezi Park has been reopened to public but there are many calls for unauthorised protests aimed at turning the park into an occupation zone," Istanbul governor Huseyin Avni Mutlu wrote on Twitter.
A brutal police crackdown on May 31 against a peaceful sit-in to prevent 600 trees from being cut down in a park redevelopment scheme sparked June's nationwide protests against prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Islamic-rooted government.
Protesters occupied the small park and put up tents to remain around the clock before being evicted by police on June 15.
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Nearly three weeks of protests in Turkey have left four people dead and around 8,000 injured.
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Gosh, I never thought I'd find myself agreeing with Rush Limbaugh on a whole lot of things, but I think the living refutation of the notion that no man is an island may have a valid point in complaining about the TV journalists chosen to moderate the presidential and vice-presidential debates.
A recent story in the New York Times detailed the various objections leveled at the selected moderators, who include a woman for the first time in years, CNN's Candy Crowley, but no African Americans and no one from Fox News. According to the story, PBS was all a-whimper at the choice of former "NewsHour" anchor Jim Lehrer as a moderator, wishing instead that the selection commission had gone for someone like Judy Woodruff or Gwen Ifill to help PBS project a younger, hipper image. At 65 and 55, respectively, both women are paragons of young and hip, by cracky.
Limbaugh was especially steamed at the choices, calling Crowley "a far, far, left-wing, Democrat momma," CBS' Bob Schieffer "a far, far left-wing Democrat and dinosaur" and Lehrer "far, far left" as well.
The more you repeat "far" in a sentence, the more you make your point irrefutable, by the way.
Naturally, this begs a few questions. If the brain trust who decides these things had opted, say, for Sean Hannity or Bill O'Reilly, Limbaugh might have had little to complain about. Rachel Maddow, however, would have whipped herself into a liberal-schoolmarm frenzy.
The Times' article quotes a Northeastern University professor as saying the choices are really "pretty mainstream," and maybe they are.
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After all, we pretty much know what all the candidates will say. Well, except for Biden of course: He doesn't seem to know what he says even after he's said it. But he's just as apt to make some tweet-ready gaffe in answer to questions from Jason Kennedy as he is from Martha Raddatz.
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I suppose it would be too radical to turn the debates into a competition show, something akin to "America's Got Political Talent." If we went in the reality competition show direction, we'd be in danger of having the country's future determined by a bald germophobe, a garishly made-up British rock star wife and Howard Stern, instead of the American people.
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All this talk about who's going to ask the questions really ignores the more important point. No, I don't mean what the answers will be. I mean, what will make great television?
Isn't that what really counts?
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