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Design Eye for the Usability Guy May 18th, 2004
Last Monday, to much fanfare, Nielsen published the second part to his guidelines on the display of links. I was as shocked as anyone by it. He actually made sense!
Well, color me paranoid. I'm at loss. Beyond the awkward language, beyond the retina-burning presentation, and beyond a few misused design terms, I actually got from the King of Usability what I have been asking for all this time.
Life is good sometimes.
So, as you can see, I've implemented a few of the suggestions found in Nielsen's Alertbox. I have added dotted underlines to my links, even though they look like shoddy, gnarly dashes in Internet Explorer, and I've changed the color of visited links to be a darker shade of red to distinguish them. I'm getting religion.
Further, in the spirit of sharing, I decided I'd gather up some knowledgeable designers and help Nielsen in return with a little bit of design advice. The Design Fab Five, right here, right now.
You know you're going to love this.
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Andrei: Talk designer to me!
I'm going to start this little makeover excursion.
Let's all agree on a simple premise for the sake of discussion: Content is king. No argument from this guy. With that in mind, it's safe to say that great design with shoddy content is effectively shoddy design. As a curmudgeonly elder statesman once told me, "You can't make [expletive] taste like chocolate cake no matter how hard you try, so you'd best not start with [expletive]."
Now, let's not jump to conclusions. The content of Nielsen's latest Alertbox is not [expletive.] It's actually very reasonable. (Who knew!) Given how Nielsen has discussed issues in the past, one could even say his latest Alertbox is down right diplomatic.
However, the language could use some tightening. Nielsen needs to take his own advice and cut his own contribution to information pollution. While he's at it, he should drop all the psudeo-scientific mumbo-jumbo. Talk to me, man. Straight up. Whip that content into shape and make your audience take notice by the sheer, razor-sharp clarity of it all.
For example:
Don't underline any text that's not a link, even if your links aren't underlined. Reserve underlining for links. Because underlines provide a strong perceived affordance of clickability, users will be confused and disappointed if underlined text doesn't have an actual affordance to match this perception.
Uh… Yeah. Got it. I think.
Beyond the tongue-twisted, mind-numbing awkwardness of the phrase, also note that Nielsen tells us what designers can't do. Bad move. Telling any creative professional what not to do just invites them to do it. Creative professionals are often creative because they like to challenge the rules. Buck the system. Try new things. If you're a usability person looking to get things done with these anarchist, right-brained types, don't play a game of chicken with them.
Look at the difference when this guideline is stated in a more straight-forward manner, using a positive approach:
Use bold or italics for emphasis with text that's not a link. If you are going to use underlines, reserve the technique for links. Underlines on the web have a general expectation to act like links, and users will be confused or disappointed if underlined text doesn't match this expectation.
Compare the two write-ups, and see how effective you can be with nothing but language. Here's Nielsen's original language, and here's the rewrite.
The world is a better place when people speak in plain, positive terms. Keep it sharp, keep it to the point and keep it real.
Didier, take it over my friend!
Didier: People read it for the articles
Ah yes, my turn now.
First of all it's 2004, not 1996 — so let's keep it real while adding some flavour and style to that otherwise wonderful and intelligent content.
Last time I checked it wasn't illegal to use illustrations to spice up your web site. Now, before we go wild let us remember that Nielsen's not exactly the nothing-but-prada-shoes type of guy. So, I settled with a clean, icon-like style that will reinforce each guideline visually. The colours used are basic: red for links, blue for hover and shades of gray and black for other text. Again, let's try to stick with a style that somehow matches his current branding.
To translate the general concept of links into something simple I've chosen to use an underlined letter "a," applied to an assortment of situations that exemplify each guideline. The font used is Georgia, which happens to work nicely and is very much ubiquitous.
Aie, aie, aie! This is already becoming too hot to handle! Focus…
What's the point of adding illustrations? Oh my, I'm glad you asked. First of all adding illustrations creates a natural seperation between the individual guidelines, therefore improving scanability. (Yup, that's an awful word, but it sounds expensive, so let's keep it.) Second, illustrations and graphics are quicker to comprehend at a glance than reading text. Although images do not replace well-written copy, they can significantly add to the overall style and experience.
'Nuff said! Respect.
Ok, over to you D. Keith. Take us online…
Keith: Straight up web design
Yes, my friends… It is me. D. Keith Robinson. Keith to you.
First things first. We need bring Nielsen's code into this decade. What we've got now is soooo 1998. Jakob should start by taking the doctype from shabby old HTML 4.0 Transitional to a shiny new XHTML 1.0 Strict. That'll set the stage for a supreme makeover.
Useit.com and the articles need a better underlying structure. They're all a little bloated. So let's strip it down and make it svelte! Andrei has already reworked the document verbally. Didier has created illustrations. Now we just need to add a little semantic markup and remove unnecessary legacy tags.
There's a small tag in there! Come on, Jakob, what the hell is that? Out with inline styles, the table and useless span tags and in with some meaningful markup.
Meaningful markup will constitute a few headings, a few paragraph tags and a definition list for the bulk of the document. After all, Jakob is defining a number of guidelines. Now the document makes perfect sense regardless of display or style. A document for all seasons!
To those definition titles I'd add a simple ID element so that if someone wanted to refer to (link to) a specific guideline they could do that. While I'm at it I'd add a variation of David Dorward's JavaScript highlight code to highlight those titles when someone hits the page via an anchor link.
Then we'll need to make sure the heading, title and breadcrumbs also reflect the same information, in this case the title of the document. I'm not sure why Jakob wouldn't have done that, but we'll fix that for him. A good document begins with a fabulous title, does it not?
While we're at it we need to do something about the readability of the page. It's not horrible, just a bit sprawling and a bit awkward. (Ok… it's horrible.) Andrei's rewrite took care of some of that clunkiness. I'm going to take care of the rest. I don't want to go overboard, considering Nielsen's audience, but let's liven it up a tad, shall we? Go with a centered, flexible layout constructed with ems. Set the outer wrap to 35ems and then set the width of the content area itself to 31ems. This should allow for an almost ideal line-length for readability at any font size. Of course all text will be set to percentages so the user can override if needed.
Now for some other design details. Let's rework the fonts and margins. For fonts I'm thinking Verdana, a nice readable sans-serif for body copy — after all were talking Nielsen here, don't want to get too crazy — and perhaps Georgia for the headings. We can add some line-height to make them easier to read, call out the summary with a style to give it a light shaded background and add a little border between the navigation and the content area. Tweak the padding and margins a bit and we're home.
That should do it. Check out the result. (Don't forge to compare the source code for Nielsen's original page versus this redesigned version.)
A cleaned up, more structured, more readable — and if you ask me — more usable, Web document.
Cameron, over to you.
Cameron: Bring on the ink
Yes, 'tis me. When Andrei emailed me, I had to ask "Alertboxes in print?" I guess if you're going to make proclamations that designers can keep handy, posted somewhere in their cubicles, then a printed version would be perfect. I'm game for a stellar makeover. Let's dive right in and name this creative creature.
"Alertbox Sheet?"
Hmm. Perhaps not.
How about "Quickcard?" Simple… Understandable… Right on.
We've already got content, so let's talk page size. A4 and 8.5″ x 11″ just don't say "quick." 4″ x 6″ is sexy but will make for small type. So let's roll with a 5.5″ x 8.5″ postcard size, front/back, four-color process. Uber conventional. Not too large to be cumbersome, and small enough to fit nicely inside every designer's copy of "Designing Web Usability."
(Note: That's Andrei's desk, not mine. But what the?… Wine? The designer's secret is out.)
Type is next up on the chopping block. Type, type, type. Arguments are bound to fly at the mere mention of the word. Jakob is all about convention, so let's play it safe for headings: Helvetica Neue, Linotype's rework of the classic Helvetica typeface. And since you'll never go wrong with a sans-serif for headlines and a serif for body copy, let's toss in ITC New Baskerville — dates back to 1752, also reworked by Linotype — for content.
Hold on there for a sec before we fire up the doc. A few warnings. Don't fall prey to Helvetica Neue Condensed. Superb typeface, but a little too trendy. And watch out for large body type. I know small type takes heat for good reason on a computer screen, but nothing screams "children's reading" in printed form faster than large type. 9pt should size up fine. Oh, and use justification with caution. Exhilarating to use in print, but give the eye a chance to breath with some staggered line breaks.
This piece is shaping up to be hotter than George Clooney in Giorgio Armani garb. To die for. But I digress.
Color palette? Piece of cake. Hues of yellow and red similar to Useit.com (let's lose the aqua, Jakob), with a dash of grey to distinguish back from front.
Only thing left now is content structure. We could endlessly debate scanning versus reading, but let's assume screen captures and illustrations will run large for various quickcards, and itemize each guideline in plain copy on front. Artwork goes on back. Besides, no one will break a sweat flipping the card over.
Perfect. I couldn't have planned it better. But then of course, isn't that why I was hired? Check out the PDF file yourself.
Didier? You got something more?
Didier: The "F" Word
We're not stopping here. I'm just warming up. Make some noise!
Gimme an F, gimme an L, gimme an A, gimme an S, gimme an H.
Oh yeah baby… We're ghetto now.
You know it's true — Flash is sexy. It's like a Philippe Starck gizmo, you gotta have one. But let's be clear, I'm not talking about a forever-loading-technomusic-[expletive]-intro here. It's not 1996 in that respect either. I'm talking about sensible use of Flash.
How about an educational approach? An interactive presentation that will nicely illustrate each guideline, while at the same time keeping usability and file size in mind.
Ok Greg… I'm really done now. Your turn!
Greg: That Designer POV
Useit? Good gravy, Marie.
Let's start with the topic — Make links blue. Holy [explicative], who knew?! It's not like we haven't beaten this like a dead horse or anything. Jakob, I got it the first and second time — before the new millennium. The science of blue links isn't new, so why not label this "Alertbox" with a more appropriate title like "Classic Alertbox". It even sounds better.
Moving on to much more important matters, let's address the obvious, glaring problem with Useit — the lack of presentation and style.
They say that clothes make the man and in my experience it's true. When I walk into a store with a nice Joseph Abboud suit and a pair of Alan Edmonds, I'm given prompt attention and addressed as "sir." If I go back in the same store with flip flops, shorts and a t-shirt, I have to ask for help twenty times and "sir" is completely dropped from the conversation. It's a matter of style and sophistication. If I look like a million bucks I get million dollar treatment. Otherwise I get the welfare-free-bowl-of-soup attitude.
This same principal can be applied to Useit.
Take a look at what the boys were able to do with Jakob's content and tell me you wouldn't prefer their Joseph Addoud over Useit's shorts and t-shirt.
I mean why is it that so much usability material is presented more like the Boeing Flight Planning Performance Manual than an airline safety card? Seriously, what's with all the damn text? How can anyone possibly write about design and not provide a visual aid or two?
As a designer, I would take Jakob's guidelines more seriously if I saw any indication that he took design seriously. As it is, anytime I read Useit I feel like I'm being talked down to by an overworked and underpaid engineer with a chronic smoking habit from circa 1950 IBM.
I won't even go into the sideburns thing.
Wrap up
So there you have it folks, the very first ever Design Eye for the Usability Guy. Some solid tips on how to take your content and design from drab to fab. To review the deliverables:
- The original Nielsen Alertbox
- Andrei's rewrite of the text
- Didier's illustrations and Keith's redesign of the Alertbox web page
- Cameron's print version of the Quickcard
- Didier's bonus Flash version
- Greg's inspiration from "A Better Tightey Whitey"
And yes, that's them and they wrote their pieces. I'm not Shirley McClaine you know. Also be sure to check out the original Useit redesign contest at Built for the Future.
Remember all you usability folk in the audience, if you're not a designer or don't play one on t.v., there's still hope! Just hit the design blogs of the world and take notes. A large part of good design is simply about effective communication, which is one part what you say, one part how you say it, and one part how good you look while saying it.
Seriously though, if you really do have something important to say, why not take just the smallest amount of time using fundamental design principles as exemplified here to make sure your content is clear, effectively communicated, and engaging?
Your co-workers and design peeps will love you for it.


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Rebel Visions: The Underground Comix Revolution 1963-1975 by Patrick Rosenkranz
In 2008 I was privileged to meet the legendary underground comic artist/writer Gilbert Shelton at a signing session in Leeds, just one stop on a UK tour promoting the publication of the complete " Furry Freak Brothers" anthology. I was thrilled to finally meet the man who had created such iconic characters and has been a mainstay of the comix underground practically since its inception. Yet that excitement was tempered by the fact that I was easily the youngest of the queue patiently waiting their turn to meet Shelton, indicating a very real lack of knowledge of underground comix among contemporary comic devotees.
What could lie at the root of such ignorance? These isles have a proud and glorious underground comix history, one that drew greatly upon its American counterpart and imported its greatest titles in significant numbers. That knowledge and passion seems to have ebbed away, leaving only the hardcore patrons like Knockabout Comics to pursue their noble causes without receiving their due.
The publication of " Rebel Visions" was a vital riposte to that tide of apathy, a vast and authoritative work built for the clear purpose of documenting the entire history of the US underground revolution in a definitive fashion: a not inconsiderable task given the various tributaries that have spewed forth since the early 1960s. Some have brought a great many of the original creators' fame, fortune and stature like the irrepressible figures of Robert Crumb, Rick Griffin and Shelton himself. Others like Spain and Greg Irons remain shrouded in a near-mythic obscurity, their work long out of print.
Rosenkranz diligently weaves a number of divergent themes using the oral histories of most of the major participants. He delves into the backgrounds of key figures like Kim Deitch, Art Spiegelman and S. Clay Wilson, whilst also signifying the original DIY works that were the first fruits of the nascent comix underground, notably Robert Crumb' s 'The Yum Yum Book' and Jack Jackson' s 'God Nose'. The surfer turned poster artist Rick Griffin is clearly positioned as the defining catalytic force for the entire West Coast underground movement. Even above the work of contemporaries like Stanley Mouse and Victor Moscoso, his formidable, freewheeling talent effortlessly conjured up images that were to become icons of the psychedelic era, in particular his poster series for hip promoter team The Family Dog.
The births of collective endeavours such as 'Gothic Blimp Works', ' Yarrowstalks' and 'Zap!' are covered in meticulous detail, brought to life in the spirit of creative solidarity by the biggest names in comix. 'The Big Four' of Crumb, Griffin, Moscoso and Wilson dominate these pages, but other names receive critical attention, like Spain Rodriguez with his violent anarchist strip 'Trashman'. These early collections truly broke the boundaries of what comics were expected to accomplish, spilling across the consciousness of countless readers worldwide in a free associative riot of groundbreaking art and transgressive ideas. The book gives over ample space to reproductions of classic strips, often in full blazing colour. Griffin' s work still gleams with possibility and invention, and Wilson's grotesque comic strips retain their queasy, black-hearted power.
The underground movement exploded in so many different directions, from the horror-themed strains of Greg Iron's 'Slow Death', to the emerging cadre of feminist creators like Shary Flenniken and Trina Robbins, that Rosenkranz had his hands full outlining the various personal and political shifts that guided each new territory. His skill lies in the interweaving of each of these movements at the right interval of the narrative; everything from the printing travails at Rip Off Press to the copyright battles emanating from the infamous Disney-baiting 'Air Pirates' comic receives a considered and concise airing. Unionization, allegations of chauvinism, self-referentiality; every pertinent issue is afforded its moment as the great tale unfolds, building towards the decline and near-collapse of the entire underground commix scene. Various reason are cited, among them censorship, premature death and creative inertia, but it seems that over-saturation and falling standards had as much to do with it as anything else.
If there is one failing with the book, it is this: my personal underground comic hero Vaughn Bode is at once present and not present as historical record proceeds. Rosenkranz has to necessarily emphasize the West Coast comix explosion, but that inherent bias places the New York-based Bode on the fringes of the main action, often quite literally. Entries concerning Bode figure on the margins of pages whilst Crumb, Griffin, Shelton etc have the full spreads to themselves. Crucially his work is cited in the book, 'Das Kampf' is credited as one of the first DIY comix, and his titling and editorship of 'Gothic Blimp Works' are acknowledged – but a truer sense of the bravery and innovation of his comix and art is not evident in Rosenkranz' s prose. Rather, he is presented as an early casualty of the counter-culture, a victim of his own proclivities instead of the creative giant that I truly believe him to be.
That being said, " Rebel Visions" is an essential guide to the comix underground, containing valuable information and insight that affords the contemporary comics reader a comprehensive view onto the first real wave of comic insurgency.
- Kevin McCaighy.
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HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — The U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) plans to continue testing the use of Reaper unmanned aerial vehicles for ballistic missile target discrimination in the near term because taking that mission to space is still too costly.
The agency terminated plans this year to design and build a follow-on to the two orbiting Space Tracking Surveillance System satellites, which have been used to launch a ship-based SM-3 successfully against a target. "We want to go to space," said Rich Matlock, director of advanced technology for MDA. But fielding a constellation of satellites capable of acquiring a target and tracking it through the midcourse of flight is far too expensive a goal for the near term.
Instead, MDA is experimenting with using unmanned aircraft to look up at targets, providing additional discrimination and targeting information. MDA has purchased at least four Raytheon MTS-B payloads for this purpose. But the goal is to test the upgraded MTS-C, which will incorporate a long-wave infrared detector into the system. Long-wave infrared is optimized for tracking cold bodies, such as missiles and warheads after booster burnout, or plumes and exhaust.
Ground testing will be conducted on the improved system in the next two months, Matlock said during a presentation at the 16th Annual Space and Missile Defense Symposium here Aug. 15. Flight testing is slated to start by the end of 2014.
Thus far, General Atomics Reapers equipped with the MTS-B (the standard payload used in Afghanistan and Yemen) have been used to observe missile defense tests. The MTS-B would expand the system's capabilities. Ultimately, the MDA would like to see if stereo data collected from multiple high-flying unmanned aircraft could provide an off-board cue to launch an SM-3 from an Aegis ship. This capability was proven using the STSS satellites during a February flight test.
Though the MQ-9 Reaper has been used and will continue to be used in the agency's tests, Matlock's slide presentation included a picture of the Northrop Grumman RQ-4B Global Hawk as a possibility for this application.
"We still have a little ways to go to get to 65,000 feet," Matlock said of the UAV options. The Global Hawk, designed to fly higher than the Reaper, typically orbits under 60,000 ft. when fully loaded. It has not yet been used to carry such a payload or operate in this application in tests, he acknowledged.
While UAVs are viewed as a near-term option as MDA continues to eye a space-based system for discrimination and targeting, these long-dwell systems are the objective platforms for carrying a yet-to-be-developed laser designed for boost-phase kill.
MDA canceled the YAL-1 747-400F-based Airborne Laser testbed after making its final flight last year. The massive chemical laser was used to demonstrate beam control, optics and the ability to use directed energy to shoot down a ballistic missile target.
But it proved too complex a system to build, maintain and field.
"It was a little bit of a bittersweet experience," Matlock said of the program, which was led by Boeing. But lessons from the experience are feeding into the agency's plans for UAV-borne lasers.
ABL featured a bulbous nose that carried the optics necessary to focus and direct the chemical laser; this presented aerodynamic challenges for the aircraft. The goal with an unmanned aircraft option is to fly high — 60,000 ft. or higher — to get above the distortion presented by clouds in the atmosphere (eliminating some of the complex beam-control parts).
This should allow for simpler optics and reduced operating speed, Matlock said.
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Wood marquetry involves the carving out of wood in order to inlay it with other materials and was common in the 17th and 18th centuries during the Louis XIV and Louis XV style periods. Artisan Rose Saneuil chose the materials of pale pink bird's-eye maple, light red and pink sycamore and white mother-of-pearl to create the stunning wood marquetry pieces in this collection.
Altiplano 38mm dial in white mother-of-pearl & wood marquetry
The long and delicate process selecting materials to achieve the desired color shades, "labelling" each of the 96 elements so they could be assembled and inlaid within a 32 mm diameter dial. Applying one petal at a time Saneuil was working with hundredth of a millimeter precision to create the beautiful and unique dials.
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Created by artisan Dick Steenman, this engraved gold dial also pays tribute to the Yves Piaget rose. After using a scriber to outline the petals Steenman sculpted each petal with surgical precision before sanding and smoothing out the surface. The final step was to accentuate the angles and reinforce the folds to perfect the sense of depth and thickness. The entire process takes about 30 hours.
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Jaquet Droz's decorative streak has resulted in some truly awe inspiring objects, now the watchmaker has created a series of timepieces that boast intricacy and subtle detail brought to life through the technique of paillonné enameling. The 18th century technique involves positioning ultra-thin sheets of gold (by hand!) one by one to form geometric patterns on the colored enamel base. A translucent coating of enamel sets the gold in place.
Pierre Jaquet-Droz was himself skilled in these art forms and today, the master craftsmen at Jaquet Droz have brought the technique back to life with a limited edition collection of watches with fresh new designs. Red gold meets jewel tones enamel to give the watches a regal look.
The Grande Seconde comes in blue, violet and anthracite gray and feature 18 carat red gold 43 mm cases. These are powered by the self-winding mechanical movement Jaquet Droz 2663.P, which is complete with a silicon balance spring and pallet horns, double barrel and an 18-carat red gold oscillating weight. They offer a power reserve of 68 hours and are limited to 8 pieces in each color.
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The Jaquet Droz Petite Heure Minute 35 mm Paillonné is a previously unseen version of the Petite Heure Minute. This special edition is available only in blue and is powered by the Jaquet Droz 2653.P self-winding mechanical movement, with a silicon balance spring and pallet horns, double barrel, and 18-carat red gold oscillating weight.
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This year's Faubourg Manchette Joaillerie watches combine that signature broad leather cuff with gem-studded bezels and precious stone dials. At first the leather craftsman assembles the cuff strap using the saddle-stitching technique, making three double stitches at each end of the seam before rubbing down the sharp edges and pressing a furrow between the seam and the edge of the leather. The strap contour is dyed and then heat-smoothed with a soldering iron, in an operation known as burnishing. To finish, it is waterproofed with beeswax.
Next, the watch case's hollowed out bezel is fitted with 36 precisely cut baguette set gems, color coordinated to the color of the strap. Green straps twinkle with emeralds while blue and brown straps get sapphires in matching hues. The classic black strap gets clear, crystalline diamonds. Even the dials are made from precious gems, green malachite, blue lapis lazuli, amber tiger's eye and black onyx are each set with four diamonds at the 12, 3, 6 and 9 indices. The colored variants feature rose gold cases and pin buckles while the black one uses white gold.
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CHANEL Horlogerie showcases some exceptional timepieces, a luxury watches collection featuring the excellent movements, charming jewelry appliqués and artistic crafts of the French high-end brand.
Skeleton Flying Tourbillon
The graphic design of its flying tourbillon, that is characterized as a charming comet, is enriched by a skeleton dial come up in line with the signature watchmaking traditions of Chanel. See also Behind the Scenes: Gucci Jewellery and Watches Ad Campaign Holiday 2016.
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Free dial, this watch represents the successful combination of fine watchmaking and symbolic codes of the Maison CHANEL. Embellished with sparkling diamonds, its enchanting tourbillon fleet stylized swirl as if by fascination. Don't miss also Michael Kors Sable Watches – The Luxe Women's Timepieces Collection of the Season.
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The precious flying tourbillon shaped camellia, Mademoiselle Chanel's favorite flower, highlights an openwork dial of deep black. As a floral sculpture, it also magical than air flying tourbillon reveals a diamond camellia heart offering the unique look.
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Conformed comet or camellia, each flying tourbillon beats while retaining and almost in secret at the heart of J12 and Première watches. Combining graphic lines and endearing symbols to Mademoiselle CHANEL, these luxury timepieces are coating the way for new concepts of remarkable female watches.
CHANEL Première Flying Tourbillon Embellished with Diamonds
Between sweetness and purity, power and femininity, the stylized flying tourbillon camellia dresses in yellow gold, beige or silver and featuring sparkling diamonds. The first of this exceptional diamond-paved case subtly combines the art of watchmaking perfection and spirit of Chanel fashion house. Dolce & Gabbana SOFIA Watches Collection: The Ultimate Hoiday Gift Guide for Her.
Rétrograde Mystérieuse Tourbillon
A perfectly round watch, devoid of side crown, hiding in its uncompromising design an unexpected concentrated horological innovations. The Tourbillon Retrograde Mysterious and combines technical perfection and aesthetic revolution.
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Concentrate horological innovations and cutting-edge design, the watch J12 Retrograde Mysterious invents an original reading of time. In its white gold dress and high-tech ceramic hides a treasure of mechanical ingenuity in the service of unprecedented aesthetics.
Calibre 3125
A prestigious automatic movement, a case of a rare graphic perfection, pure dial of an exemplary finish. Behind the simplicity of its lines and its mechanical excellence, the watch J12 Calibre 3125 hides an unusual character.
CHANEL J12 Calibre 3125
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Offered in five choices of lovely and feminine colors; pale blue, beige, grey, black and pink, the icon of style, Swiss made luxury watches of the Italian house are equipped with functional, modern yet innovative hours and minutes indicator, square-shaped case crafted in 18 Kt pink gold materials featuring charming "Sapphire" glass with precious enamel finished dial, this women's fabulous accessories also has elegant geometric dimensions positioned symmetrically to emphasize an exceptionally fun yet aesthetic shines impression, thanks to the refined strap made of fine silk satin while its 18 Kt rose gold-finished pin buckle closure complete a timeless elegance. The Dolce & Gabbana Swiss luxury timepieces collection Sofia is priced at 5.950,00 Euros.
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THE PET: Tigger, part Maine Coon cat, almost 16 years old
THE PERSON: Mary McCormack of Hudson
How did he come into your life?
I was attempting to replace a much-loved cat who was killed by a car several months earlier, and I decided one lunch hour to call Buddy Dog Humane Society in Sudbury. A quick trip down and a walk through the "kitty room" brought me to this feisty little guy who was trying to reach out to me from his crate. He was not the black and white tuxedo cat I was looking for, but he was so cute and anxious to be free. He had been abandoned at Buddy Dog the previous day. I took him home the following day.
How did you choose his name?
Because "Jerry Maguire" was a big movie at the time, the Buddy Dog staff named him Jerry. That didn't work for me, and this little guy was pretty peppy and bouncy. Once home, it took only a few minutes to realize he truly epitomized "Tigger" – the bouncy, jouncy lovable tiger from the "Tales of Winnie the Pooh" series. He has forever lived up to his name – even at his ripe old age.
Three words that best describe your pet are…
Smart, fun-loving and spoiled
What makes Tigger so special?
Whether he's inside or outside, he waits for my return each day. If he's outside, he hears my SUV from a distance and greets me enthusiastically when I pull in; if he's inside, he sits in the picture window about the time I'm due home - looking like another pretty statue as he waits there.
What's his most surprising trait or trick?
I like to say Tigger loves playing "marble hockey" in the bathroom. He'll bounce a little marble off the walls or tub and sometimes out to the hallway or living room. Then as quick as he starts playing, he'll stop and walk away – for a little nap. It's an especially good outlet for him during the winter months when he's inside so much.
Tell us about the last time you were amazed by something he did.
Last summer as I opened the door to call him in for the night (and he always comes), I was astounded to see him sitting on the picnic table watching a skunk strutting below him about 3 feet away. He was savvy enough to know not to bother his black and white "friend" and they just seemed to co-exist.
What's Tigger's favorite way to spend the day?
If it's a nice warm day, and he's outside, he uses his pet door to our screen house and lounges in the sun on the cushioned chairs; if he's inside, he prefers his spot on the couch or the hallway floor where it's warm, preferably near his people.
If he could talk, what would he say about you?
"I am well loved and cared for (even pampered) and I've trained my 'staff' well. 'Mom,' Moses and 'Aunt' Ellen see that I'm treated as I should be – royally. I do love them all."
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This week's Thursday Theory article on AiGameDev.com covers a landmark paper in AI planning from the early 1970s. So the "New Approach" mentioned in the title is basically… *gasp* 37 years old! However, don't be fooled by this seemingly type-written paper. The ideas and techniques described here not only have inspired most modern planners, but they are also simple to understand and implement within modern games.
The recent incursion of planning techniques into the world of game development can be attributed in part to the ideas behind STRIPS. In fact, the AI in the acclaimed first-person shooter F.E.A.R. is partly based on this technology. Other game studios and middleware companies are following suit.
STRIPS stands for the Stanford Research Institute Problem Solver, developed by Richard Fikes and Nils Nilsson from the AI Center at SRI International — as it is known now. This post also draws from Chris Cocosco's 1998 review of the original paper too, as referenced below.
STRIPS is rooted in robotics. The challenge was to build a system for controlling the robot Flakey (photo) capable of:
Performing tasks like moving objects or navigating around an environment with multiple rooms.
Solving problems in real-time efficiently on the very limited hardware of the time.
Research has progressed a lot in these areas over the years, particularly in the processing of low-level sensors and actuators, but STRIPS still retains many advantages for such high-level robot AI. That's one of the reasons it is well suited to games.
Generally speaking, there are two major contributions in this paper — both of which have remained at the heart of the AI planning community even today:
A representation language for planning problems (see this article). The basic idea is that a world model is modified by operators, which have a set of preconditions and side effects. The side effects are either lists of facts that are added or deleted from the world model. For example, a shoot operator would require a gun, and have as side effect a damaged target (added) and no longer have a loaded bullet (deleted).
The use of two different search algorithms: the first for doing the planning itself which figures out what should be done next on a high-level, and the second for working out what is currently true in the world and if the goals have been satisfied. For example, one algorithm would be responsible for working out the series of operators for assassinating a target, and another search algorithm would work out if the goal has been achieved by looking at the facts in the world model.
In practice, there are also quite a few ideas in the implementation that are worth taking note of:
The planner uses a strategy known as means-end. This works by looking at what needs to change in the world model, and selecting an appropriate operator to perform this task. For example, if the goal position is different then use a move-to operator. This helps drive the search forward more efficiently.
Also, since A* was invented at the SRI AI center, STRIPS makes use of it by applying a heuristic to help select which node in the search graph to work on next. Intuitively, this means the algorithms expands plans that seem the most promising.
The system uses dependency tracking to figure out pre-conditions for all the operators in a plan. When something unexpected happens, the system knows if replanning is necessary or not, and for which reason.
It's the combination of these ideas that made the system efficient enough to run in realtime for controlling the robot. When applying STRIPS into your game, keep these tricks in mind too.
Figure 2: An example search tree derived from STRIPS.
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It's not an abstract in the modern sense, but here's the official introduction to the paper:
"This note describes a new problem-solving program called STRIPS (STanford Research Institute Problem Solver). The program is now being implemented in LISP on a PDP-10 to be used in conjunction with robot research at SRI. Even though the implementation of STRIPS is not yet complete, it seems to us important to discuss some of its planned features so that they can be compared with other on-going work in this area.
STRIPS belongs to the class of problem solvers that search a space of "world models" to find one in which a given goal is achieved. For any world model, we assume there exists a set of applicable operators each of which transforms the world model to some other world model. The task of the problem solver is to find some composition of operators that transforms a given initial world model into one that satisfies some particular goal condition. This framework for problem solving, discussed at length by Nilsson, has been central to much of the research in Artificial Intelligence. A wide variety of different kinds of problems can be posed in this framework.
Our primary interest here is in the class of problems faced by a robot in rearranging objects and in navigating. The robot problems we have in mind are of the sort that require quite complex and general world models compared to those needed in the solution of puzzles and games. Usually in puzzles and games, a simple matrix or list structure is adequate to represent a state of the problem. The world model for a robot problem solver, however, needs to include a large number of facts and relations dealing with the position of the robot and the positions and attributes of various objects, open spaces, and boundaries."
You can download the paper from the website:
STRIPS: A New Approach to the Application of Theorem Proving to Problem Solving R. E. Fikes and N. J. Nilsson Artificial Intelligence 2 (3--4), 1971. Download PDF (1.5 Mb)
Also, you may be interested in a more modern interpretation of the ideas in the original paper:
A Review of STRIPS Chris A. Cocosco 1998 Download PDF (161 Kb)
In practice, here's how it all applies to artificial intelligence in game development.
- Applicability to games: 7/10
- Parts of STRIPS (the planner) are almost a perfect match for many aspects of game logic, especially for software engineering purposes. Such a design helps with modularity of the code. However, as specified in this paper, a full STRIPS solution is not ideal for games. Few games require the complexity of the theorem prover, and games that are complex enough will suffer from performance issues.
- Usefulness for character AI: 8/10
- NPC behaviors can certainly benefit from the additional automation and modularity brought by a planner. Some games may not see an obvious increase in "intelligence" by using this solution, but the AI will be more robust because of it (compared to more procedural approaches like scripts).
- Simplicity to implement: 7/10
- The full implementation of STRIPS including the theorem prover and the planner requires some time and experience with first-order logic. However, for most games a simple A* based search would be sufficient (which is very simple to implement). The only challenge remaining is to make it efficient enough for real-time performance!
Many improvements have been made to the STRIPS algorithm since it was invented, ranging from simple tricks that can speed up the search to major improvements using the underlying representation.
Figure 3: A flowchart of the STRIPS algorithm. Click to enlarge.
Despite being over a third of a century old, this research is (somehow) still at the cutting edge of game AI. You'll be seeing more games using this algorithm in 2008. However, most games will not use (or require) the full STRIPS implementation; they'll keep the planner and ditch the theorem prover. It's just not efficient enough to represent the world as a list of first-order predicates.
Instead, developers use a simple C/C++ data-structure or bitfield to represent the world. Then it becomes much more efficient to store the different states of the world and manipulate them with operators. In particular, see the F.E.A.R. SDK for inspiration and insights into how this was done in practice.
Once you have the basic representation efficient enough, then you can start to worry about catching up with the decades of improvements that have been made in planning research!
What do you think about STRIPS and its application to game AI? Post a comment below.


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Every South-Western district school has a cafeteria, but the one at its Career Academy is unlike any other.
Every South-Western district school has a cafeteria, but the one at its Career Academy is unlike any other.
The Jazz Street Cafe is a student-run restaurant open from 10:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Thursdays and Fridays.
"Our students do everything, from coming up with the menus to preparing the food, serving as waiters and greeting customers when they arrive," said Sharon Pallas, the culinary instructor at the career academy.
"They are gaining real-life restaurant skills that will help them as they pursue a career or further their culinary education," she said.
About 39 juniors and seniors are participating this year in the academy's culinary program, Pallas said.
The program uses ProStart, an industry-driven high school curriculum developed by the National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation.
Students who complete the ProStart program are awarded an industry-recognized certificate of achievement. They earn the certificate by passing two national exams, demonstrating a mastery of foundational skills and working 400 mentored hours.
"So it's a lot more than just cooking in the kitchen," Pallas said.
Through the career academy's culinary program, students interested in a restaurant career are able to get much more hands-on training then they could as an entry-level employee at a restaurant, she said.
"And once they start working at a restaurant or go to a culinary school, they have a definite leg up over other students," Pallas said.
Career academy students also go through the National Restaurant Association's ServSafe Food Safety Training Program, she said.
The students take their regular high school courses at the academy as well. They are able to participate in sports and other extracurricular activities at their home school.
Junior Karla Hernandez said she enjoys working in the Jazz Street Cafe with other students who share her interest in the culinary arts.
"I worked in a restaurant over the summer and I really found it was a lot of fun," she said. "I think I like helping and serving people, which is what restaurants are all about."
Hernandez said she would like to open her own restaurant someday.
While Hernandez said she likes working in the front of the cafe the most, junior Joe Crago likes working in the kitchen.
"I love to cook," he said. "I guess it started when I used to come home from school and tried fixing things to eat. I liked trying to do more than just fix a sandwich."
Planning and cooking a dish is a creative act, Crago said, just like painting or making music.
Pallas said it's fun for her to work with the students.
"They are so enthusiastic and full of ideas," she said. "I love to see what ideas they come up with for our buffets. Sometimes I have to guide them a bit toward what's realistic, because they think anything's possible."
Previous buffet specials have included Asian dishes, soul food, Cajun items and a picnic lunch.
Upcoming buffets are a pig roast April 5, a senior spotlight buffet April 26 and fair favorites May 3, the cafe's closing day.
On other Thursdays and Fridays, the cafe serves a regular menu that includes appetizers, soups, salads, sandwiches, desserts and entrees, including beef stroganoff and fried chicken. The students even make their own potato chips.
The public is invited to stop by the Jazz Street Cafe for lunch, Pallas said.
The menu lists prices for appetizers as $4.95 and $3.95; soups, $2 or $3; salads and sandwiches, $5.95; entrees, $6.95; and desserts, $3.95.


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Predicting the whims and quirks of Emmy voters isn't that hard. (For proof, see Exhibit A here. If that guy can do it, anyone can.) Still, Thursday's nominations produced a fair share of surprises and undoubtedly bruised a few egos. What's the fallout? And what might be in store when the television academy hands out the awards Sept. 22?
Let's sweep through the six main categories while pondering an upside-down universe where those crazy cutups from "American Horror Story: Asylum" can win 17 nominations but zombie-fighting members of "The Walking Dead" can manage but one. (Yay for the makeup team!)
The nominees:
"Breaking Bad"
"Downton Abbey"
"Game of Thrones"
"House of Cards"
"Mad Men"
The fallout: Emmy voters continue to demonstrate their limited generosity toward genre programming, passing over "The Walking Dead" and "Orphan Black." A case could be made that if FX's "The Americans" arrived with even half the hype that greeted "House of Cards," it would have found its way into the winner's circle. And don't get us started on the exclusion of FX's other stellar drama, "Justified." Its story arc was tighter and smarter than half the shows nominated here. It shouldn't be penalized just because it doesn't wear its artistic ambitions on its sleeve.
The future: With no nominations for writing, it would appear that "Mad Men" won't regain its top drama throne this year. A case could be made for any one of the five other shows winning this race, which feels more wide-open than it has in years. Might the long-overdue "Breaking Bad" finally ascend to the top?
The nominees:
Bryan Cranston, "Breaking Bad"
Hugh Bonneville, "Downton Abbey"
Damian Lewis, "Homeland"
Kevin Spacey, "House of Cards"
Jon Hamm, "Mad Men"
Jeff Daniels, "The Newsroom"
The fallout: Movie stars Spacey and Daniels make their series Emmy debuts, knocking out Steve Buscemi ("Boardwalk Empire") and "Dexter's" Michael C. Hall, who saw his streak of five consecutive nominations come to an end. (And not a moment too soon.) Neither nod came as a surprise; really, it was just a question whether it'd be Buscemi or Bonneville left out of the race.
The future: Lewis took the Emmy last year but may be hard-pressed to repeat in a category that Cranston once dominated — and may well own again. Then again, something tells us newcomer Spacey, who clearly had the time of his life playing "Cards'" calculating congressman, will win.
The nominees:
Vera Farmiga, "Bates Motel"
Michelle Dockery, "Downton Abbey"
Claire Danes, "Homeland"
Robin Wright, "House of Cards"
Elisabeth Moss, "Mad Men"
Connie Britton, "Nashville"
Kerry Washington, "Scandal"
The fallout: In a category where a tie (or two) produced seven nominees, the omission of nine-time nominee Julianna Margulies was (to use a word that gets bandied about way too much in these types of things, but in this case is indeed applicable) shocking. And if Margulies ("The Good Wife") was going to get snubbed, we would have guessed that "The Americans'" Keri Russell (that accent!) or "Orphan Black's" Tatiana Maslany (that multiplicity!) would have made it in before Britton. However you slice it, the many possibilities point to how competitive this once-starved category has become.
The future: Washington's nomination won the headlines. Is "Scandal" too soapy for some voters? Perhaps. But this feels like a performance with unstoppable Emmy momentum.
The nominees:
"30 Rock"
"Modern Family"
"The Big Bang Theory"
The fallout: There was really no way voters would be able to digest and appreciate the intricate construction of the long-awaited "Arrested Development" relaunch in the brief window between its Memorial Day weekend debut and Emmy balloting. Frankly, even if the show had premiered earlier, it probably still wouldn't have been nominated because of the distance between what fans had envisioned and what creator Mitch Hurwitz delivered.
The future: Is "Modern Family" vulnerable to lose for once? Yes. Is there one nominated comedy that can win enough voters on its own to pull off that upset? Iffy, though with six nominations, "Louie" clearly has some serious admirers.
The nominees:
Alec Baldwin, "30 Rock"
Jason Bateman, "Arrested Development"
Matt LeBlanc, "Episodes"
Don Cheadle, "House of Lies"
Louis C.K., "Louie"
Jim Parsons, "The Big Bang Theory"
The fallout: Apparently, enough voters believed that giving Jon Cryer the Emmy in this category (for surviving Charlie Sheen?) last year was reward enough.
The future: Baldwin won for "30 Rock" in 2008 and 2009, followed by Parsons in 2010 and 2011. Then it was Cryer's turn. Will voters return to either of the past winners or go with a new face — say, C.K? We're guessing Parsons' wide appeal will carry the day.
The nominees:
Tina Fey, "30 Rock"
Laura Dern, "Enlightened"
Lena Dunham, "Girls"
Edie Falco, "Nurse Jackie"
Amy Poehler, "Parks and Recreation"
Julia Louis-Dreyfus, "Veep"
The fallout: Voters apparently tired of "New Girl" Zooey Deschanel faster than we would have guessed. Was it that iPhone commercial? Let's ask Siri while we wait for the tomato soup to be delivered.
The future: The last 10 winners in this category have failed to repeat. That said, Louis-Dreyfus was even better this season on "Veep," funny and frail and absolutely charming. Fey, nominated for "30 Rock's" farewell season, might be the only candidate with a shot at besting her.


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This month, the U.S. Board of Geographic Names is mulling over whether Burton's Peak would be a good name for a mountain in Keene.
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Tropical Storm Irene drastically changed the Adirondack landscape last August, leaving opportunities for new features to be named by backcountry enthusiasts.
The formal application to rename the 3,631-foot unnamed mountain was made by Pete Nelson, who owns the property. A college math teacher who lives full-time in Madison, Wis., Nelson owns a 40-acre inholding near Slide Brook surrounded by the High Peaks Wilderness.
The name was chosen to honor the late Hal Burton, who once owned the property. Burton, who died in 1992, bought the land in 1948, and his family owned it until Nelson purchased it in December of 2010.
Burton was an author and journalist and a member of the Army's 10th Mountain Division's ski troops during World War II. He also played a key role in having the Wright's Peak Ski Trail cut in the late 1930s and was later a major proponent of establishing the Whiteface ski area. In the 1950s, he served as both a Whiteface Mountain Authority commissioner and as the chairman on the state Advisory Committee on Skiing.
It appears the application to name the mountain will be approved because it has the backing of the state Department of Environmental Conservation, Essex County Board of Supervisors and Keene Town Council. The application was submitted to the U.S. Board of Geographic Names in August 2011.
While the process for naming an Adirondack mountain today requires bushwhacking through a sometimes thick bureaucratic process, many backcountry features get named by a much simpler, unofficial process.
Climbers who make first ascents on cliffs name their routes, skiers who make first descents name the slides, and sometimes fishermen even name pools. The West Branch of the AuSable River is a good example of that. The river that runs through Lake Placid and Wilmington has at least 35 named spots, ranging from Quarry Hole to Betters Pool.
New slides in the Adirondacks created Tropical Storm Irene on Aug. 28, 2011 have provided new opportunities for naming. Interviews with various guidebook authors for this story turned up only one potential name for a slide, the "7 Slide" on Cascade Mountain because the slide in the shape of that number. And that name is debatable at this point, in part because the slide existed previously as a smaller one.
The process of how the names get from backcountry users to general public use is varied. Sometimes the names spread by word of mouth, sometimes those responsible for the name put it on the Internet, and sometimes guidebook authors take the liberty themselves of creating one.
Features are often named after individuals, or because they resemble something or follow themes for already named features in the area.
Lake Placid resident Don Mellor has been responsible for naming many rock climbs because he authored two climbing guidebooks in the 1980s, when many routes were unnamed and being discovered. Mellor would often find out names by word of mouth or through other means, but not always.
"I remember so well sitting with Pat Purcell in my house typing up the guidebook, and we got a six pack out there, and we had so much unnamed stuff," Mellor recalled recently. "And now these things are facts."
Of course, there's often much more to the process than guidebook authors making up names for slides and rock climbs. The names are often passed through the tight-knit backcountry community before making their way to books.
At the Mountaineer gear store in Keene Valley is a journal where climbers can jot down information about their first ascents.
"We have a binder at the shop, a binder at the climbing desk, where people write up stuff and put it into the binder," said Mountaineer employer and "Adirondack Slide Guide" author Drew Haas. "We kind of collect stuff, and that gets passed on to Jim (Lawyer) or Don (Mellor). A lot of climbing shops all over the country did that binder or book. People would add information to that, but that was kind of pre-Internet ... where you just write it up in an email."
Lawyer is one of the authors of "Adirondack Rock," a climbing guidebook. Jeremy Haas, Drew's brother, is the other.
Jeremy Haas admitted it's kind of difficult finding out the names for all the routes contained in his guidebook. He estimated there are now about 3,500 climbs and 300 cliffs in the Adirondacks. But he said names are often an enjoyable part of the process in putting together the guidebook, even if that's not always the case for climbers responsible for them.
"For some climbers, they put a lot of thought into why they name routes the way they do," he said. " Other people just really don't care about the naming process. They are out their not for recognition or there creativity isn't in coming up with a creative name."
Of course, there are also many names that don't ever make their way to the public. Saranac Lake backcountry skier Jim Sausville said he believes he was the first person to ski the Kilburn Mountain slide, near the Sentinel Mountain Range, a little more than a decade ago.
Sausville said he skied it with a friend in early December, when conditions were pretty difficult because it was early season.
"The hollows on the slide up there had snow blown into them, and all the convex areas had no snow in them. Plus, there was the rocks and the debris," Sausville said.
After skiing the slide, they decided to call it "Rose-Colored Glasses." That's because it was really patchy conditions, and to connect the dots you really had to be wearing rose-colored glasses," Sausville said.
That's one name that really hasn't been widely circulated. It's been known only to Sausville and a few friends.
But sometimes the lack of public knowledge of a backcountry feature can result in a bit of controversy. Such was the case last September when Adirondack Explorer Editor Phil Brown climbed a slide on Mount Colden in Avalanche Pass after Tropical Storm Irene.
Brown, thinking he had the right to name the slide, called it Crease Monkey in a blog about climbing it. He gave it that name because it resembled an open book, he said. But it turned out the slide had existed as a smaller version prior to last fall. Skiers had been apparently descending it for years, referring to it as Colden Couloir.
Two commenters on Brown's blog, one called Little Birdie and another named Another little birdie, took issue with the name Crease Monkey.
"Stop trying to make a name for yourself by renaming things that have had names 20 years before the slide guide ever came out," wrote Another little birdie.
Brown backed off and replied the original name was fine by him.
These arguments aren't new. They have been happening for quite some time and likely will continue to be subject of debate into the future. Adirondack hiking guidebook author Tony Goodwin recalled a story about legendary Keene Valley guide Old Mountain Phelps and his reputation for naming mountains.
"The legend is that Old Mountain Phelps sat on the summit of Marcy with an artist named Frederick Perkins and named Skylight, Basin, Saddleback and Gothics that day," Goodwin recalled.
But Goodwin said there is evidence that Gothics had been named previously.
"Whether Saddleback, Basin and Skylight already had names and Old Mountain Phelps was just sort of making this artist feel like he had invented them, I don't know," Goodwin said. "But Gothics seems to be a name in use before Old Mountain Phelps applied it."


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The two national political conventions are in our rearview mirror. In one of them, Charlotte shined in the world spotlight.
The two national political conventions are in our rearview mirror. In one of them, Charlotte shined in the world spotlight. And now we have less than five weeks until we�ll be asked to vote in a very crucial election.
We in North Carolina have an opportunity to do this right.
As a native North Carolinian, I�ve always thought there was wholesomeness about our state � especially when it comes to politics and government � that you don�t see in other states.
There have been some elections in my lifetime when I was not particularly pleased with the choices we had on the ballot � whether red, blue or green.
But this time I think is unique. In the race for governor we have two very fine candidates who have strong credentials.
One served a record seven terms as mayor of Charlotte, our state�s largest city. Another served in the General Assembly and as lieutenant governor for four years.
They have the experience. They have the character traits we�re looking for in a leader. And no matter which one of these two candidates is elected, I�m going to feel good about our state.
We have two very fine people who have offered themselves to serve North Carolina. We owe them decency. We need to treat them in an honorable way.
If you�re a Walter Dalton supporter, give your money, put out campaign signs, talk to your friends and back your candidate. If you support Pat McCrory on the other hand, I encourage you to do the same.
But there�s no reason and no justification for being mean spirited. There�s no reason to drag either one of these two fine and honorable public servants through the mud. They deserve better. North Carolina deserves better.
There have been a few statewide elections in my lifetime when the name-calling got particularly ugly. Even to this day, it�s an embarrassment to those who remember the vitriol.
When I think back on those races � I knew the candidates personally and respected each one of them � no one deserved the harm he received. And I think everybody involved feels badly about it now.
Let�s not let that happen again in this 2012 governor�s race.
Because of the attention the presidential campaigns are giving North Carolina and due to the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, the world will be watching us like never before.
I hope and pray we won�t become so overzealous in supporting our candidates that we allow ugliness to appear. I�m absolutely convinced that as long as one side doesn�t fire the first shot, everyone will treat this race with the dignity it deserves.
Where we may be in jeopardy is from the special interest groups� influence from outside North Carolina. But I believe if the leaders of both political parties stand firm we can have a fair and civil discussion on the important issues facing our state.
I�m calling on leaders to adopt a call for civility this election season.
We in North Carolina have an opportunity to do this right. The world is watching.
Wingate University President Dr. McGee is a life-long Carolinian, the longest serving university president in the state, recent inductee into the N.C. Sports Hall of Fame, author of two books and recipient of The Order of the Long Leaf Pine, North Carolina�s highest civilian honor.