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Re-Introducing Page Description Diagrams
There's no such thing as a "standard" client or project in a typical agency setting, because every business has its own specific goals—not to mention the goals of its users. Because of this, we're constantly seeking ways to improve our processes and better meet the needs of our clients, regardless of their unique characteristics.
Recently, we discovered the page description diagram (PDD), a method for documenting components without specifying layout. At first, it seemed limited, even simplistic, relative to our needs. But with some consideration, we began to understand the value. We started looking at whether or not PDDs could help us improve our process.
As it turns out, these things have been around for quite a while. Dan Brown devised them way back in 1999 as a way to communicate information architecture to a client in a way that addressed some of his primary issues with wireframes. Those issues were that, looking at wireframes, clients would form expectations prematurely and that designers would be limited in their innovation by a prescribed layout. Brown's approach was to remove layout entirely, providing priority instead. Each component of a page would be described in terms of the needs it met and how it met those needs, arranged into three priority columns with wireframe-like examples when necessary. The end result looked something like this or this:
So why haven't you heard of them? Well, we don't exactly know. All we do know is that they lost popularity at some point. Kristin at Paste Interactive wrote a great blog post about PDDs in which she asked Dan himself, along with several other professionals, whether they still use page description diagrams. In short: they don't, but the reasons behind the abandonment don't seem to have anything to do with the method itself. Somehow, PDDs just dropped out of the public eye.
But to the point, are PDDs useful? We think so, and we're bringing them back.
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There are a lot of good reasons to bring something like the PDD back. The reason we keep circling is that while client deliverables can be extremely valuable, you should always let experts deal in their expertise. The client is an expert in their own field and you, as a UX professional, are an expert in information architecture, workflow, and interaction. So why would you ask the client for input on IA, workflow, and interaction when you can ask them about what they actually know? That's what a page description diagram does, and that's why we're using them now.
We put goals and priorities in front of the client for their input, but we keep layout, flow, and design behind the curtain. For a convincing argument that goes into greater detail on the topic, head over to Bold Perspective's blog post entitled "Professionals Don't Show Clients Wireframes."
Don't Throw the Wireframes out with the Bathwater
It's important to note that page description diagrams aren't necessarily a good excuse to do away with wireframes altogether. Many would take the opportunity to claim that actual layout is something to be left to visual designers, but there is still value in having a UX professional help define the spatial structure of a page. There is also an additional level of interpretation needed for a designer to translate a PDD effectively without losing sight of the underlying concept. Since wireframes can mitigate these issues, we can use PDDs and still keep control of the facets that align with our expertise.
We retain UX input into layout and structure by keeping wireframes in the process, but they are for internal use only. We don't replace the value of wireframing with PDDs, we simply replace the client-facing deliverable with them. This lets us specify layout as needed to craft the flow of information again. We also address the difficulty of communicating UX intent by involving visual designers in the wireframe creation process. Each project starts with a co-design session in which UX and visual design teams collaboratively sketch the beginnings of the wireframe. UX designers retain ownership for flow and usability, but visual designers contribute aesthetics and visual innovation at an early stage.
The New Process
The end result is a process that protects our design workflow from armchair advice while involving the client in a way that makes sense: show clients a page description diagram, and then develop wireframes to communicate and collaborate internally with design. We don't have to explain to a client what a wireframe is and we don't have to deal with endless attempts to revise colors and other irrelevant details in the wireframes. Perhaps best of all, we still get to put something in front of the client to make sure we're on the right track. Since the features on a PDD are incorporated directly, our clients still experience buy-in and a sense of ownership when we reveal the homepage design. Overall, there are a lot of wins here.
The primary sacrifice in removing wireframes from the client deliverables is that any major layout revisions have to be made to the production-quality layout. This takes longer than bumping around wireframe components, but is mitigated by the lack of wireframe revisions and the option to choose more efficient methods of communicating layout internally, such as sketches.
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Not surprisingly, we encountered several issues when we introduced PDDs into our process. Overall, however, we believe that our process has been enhanced by the method.
Maintain Clear Priorities
One of the first things we learned is that we needed to standardize definitions for what made an element high, medium, or low priority. These priorities are key to both defining the layout of the elements and encoding the users' needs, so they need to be both consistent and clear. We came up with the following definitions:
- High Priority: These features are vital to a user's understanding of the fundamental concept and goals of the site.
- Medium Priority: The site should include these features to function well and provide for the majority of a user's needs.
- Low Priority: These features are useful, but not vital to the user's operation or understanding of the site.
Without these definitions, the "high priority" column may be filled with "always there" page elements such as logos, navigation, and footers. But this doesn't speak to the actual importance of these elements. The priorities of a site should be organized by how important they are to accomplishing the user's goals, not by the mere expectation that they should be on the site.
To explain this, we sometimes use a car analogy. An example of a high priority item is the engine—without it, the car simply fails to function. A medium priority item would be seats—you could ride in the car without them, but the experience suffers. Low priority items would be cup holders or a sunroof, which complete the car, but are effectively optional. By this metric, the logos, navigation, and footers, though ever-present, should be medium priority items: important to the experience, but technically non-vital to the primary goal of establishing identity and directing the user to a product or service. High-priority items are more likely to include identity messaging and calls-to-action, and low-priority items might be news, social media, and newsletter signup.
Create One Diagram Per Page
It is important to focus on one PDD for each page. Home pages will likely require the most effort, so we have found it helpful to complete this diagram first. Some of the features that are initially brainstormed for the homepage may overflow into or be repeated on sub-pages.
In our experience, PDDs are also helpful for second-level pages since they are often used to provide an overview of the content in their section, but lower-level pages are usually more repetitive and content-heavy, making a PDD less valuable.
Leverage PDDs for Mobile-First Design
PDDs work very nicely with mobile-first and responsive design techniques, as well. When designing for mobile, you can use your PDD to easily prioritize content; sometimes that can be as simple as flowing most elements down the page in order of priority. Later, when you design checkpoints for other devices, you can refer to your PDD again for guidance on the size, positioning, and visual weight of page elements.
Keep Them Digital
Paper and sticky notes are great ways to start your PDD, but building a digital version in Microsoft Word or your favorite wireframing tool makes it much easier to share. If you don't have time to type it up by hand, you can at least take a picture of your paper version and send it to everyone.
We recommend creating a template in your tool of choice, but if you use Balsamiq Mockups, we have created a template that you can download here.
Create Them Collaboratively
Perhaps the most important thing we have learned is that PDDs cannot be built in a silo by one information architect. Gathering input from stakeholders and the rest of your team will yield a shared sense of ownership and a more robust set of features than going it alone.
If you're having trouble with clients engaging too little about what matters (goals and priorities) and too much with what doesn't ("Can you add some whitespace between those buttons?"), consider using page description diagrams. With them, you'll find it easier to prioritize features of your website design and increase buy-in for project team members while also reducing the need to show clients wireframes. It has worked very well for us so far.
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Dara: We did make an assumption there--mostly based on the lack of discussion surrounding them. Glad to hear you still use them!
Bob: Thanks for the comment! Yes, PDDs are very similar to page tables. In fact, I often use a priority list (similar to page tables) for sub-pages. PDDs simply tend to add more detail, including a sketch when it's useful.
Great read. I would be careful in making the assumption that people have stopped using PDDs. I use the constantly in my process. It is a wonderful way to get client agreement on the information that will be on the page. More importantly, I can had it off to my production ux/vx designers so that they can easily understand the goals of the page and design from there.
Great read. Thanks for reintroducing page description diagrams. We were originally intrigued with the idea by way of Kristina Halvorson's Page Tables (Content Strategy for The Web, Halvorson, 2010). I'm interested in revisiting this type of tool, and considering its introduction into our workflow.
Mathew: Storyboards, flow diagrams, and site maps/outlines are good tools for IA and PDDs help refine that broader view into the context of actual implemented pages, but we found that wireframes are still useful for fulfilling the interaction design component of the process. Adding a PDD can actually free the visual designer from the prescribed layout provided by a wireframe by giving him/her the information that supports the decisions made in that layout. If your designer has a differing idea on how something could or should be presented, he/she can review that idea against the rationale encoded in the PDD to see if it's an equally effective solution.
I agree with you that the ideal arrangement is definitely close collaboration throughout the process without strict boundaries between teams, but some people work in companies that don't follow a model like that and there's nothing that can be done to fix that completely. We just found that PDDs help bridge the client-to-UX-to-visual-design path more smoothly when you do have to deal with departmental boundaries.
I've not tried using PDDs for several years after a few failed attempts of bringing them into our internal process. To set the background, this was an agency situation where stakeholders would work with the IA (me) who would then work with visual designers.
Admittedly, I don't recall every using PDDs as a communication/collaboration tool with stakeholders. Instead I'd focus more on understanding critical user flows (storyboards/flow diagrams are great here since you focus on tasks that people complete rather than 'pages') and scope (asking stakeholders to do a constrained card sort by picking 12 features is a great group technique).
For me PDDs were more a tool that I hoped would help visual designers work without being biased towards the layout they saw on the wireframe. Unfortunately I discovered this put too much stress on my design team (which admittedly had a lot of work to get through) especially when I would return with feedback on items that had different priorities, but were related to each other so needed to be chunked somehow.
A lot of the time, I feel these tools are created to communicate ideas in teams set up in a division-of-labour model (e.g. research, design, develop, test etc) which in my mind are a false economy. My best work has been done when I'm paired with an excellent visual designer and we work end-to-end throughout the full process.
Actually, Jon W, your second point is somewhat obviated by a novel approach to creating PDDs that involves collaborating with stakeholders from the very start. There may be another article soon on how to create PDDs in a workshop setting, so stay tuned.
PDDs are a fantastic tool for getting stakeholder buy-in on content, functionality and hierarchy before you invest days in generating wireframes. Their fast to create and easy for non-tech, non-design people to grasp. We've found Keynote or PowerPoint (gasp!) to be great tools for creating them as 1) it lets you skip a step and go straight from creating to presenting and 2) sometimes you need to let clients sit with them for a while and share internally, and PPT is perfect for that.
I used to make "wireframes" on a similar methodology, where I used a 4:2:1 scale of UI element size to establish importance, but, as you noted, this starts to build expectations. Organizing it this way makes a lot of sense.
I've definitely found this to be a useful concept, even when when not passing it over as a deliverable to someone else. It's a nice way to lay out all the parts before figuring out how to put them together. Nishant Kothary wrote on a similar concept a few years back, which is what got me started: http://visitmix.com/Articles/The-Future-of-Wireframes


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Let's talk about wintertime and fresh starts and the New Year. Every autumn, when the leaves turn gold and the nights get colder, I prepare my winter survival strategy: a to-do list to keep me goin' through the months of snow, freezing temperatures, and early sunsets. This time around, I've been saying eat well, read lots, stay cozy, like it's some kinda slogan. Simple goals. Over the past few months, I've been training myself to be a morning person and I've been doing pretty well at it. I figure if I can do that, I can train myself to be a winter person, too. Not like a let's-hit-the-slopes winter person, more like a let's-not-be-a-melancholic-hermit winter person. So far, so good! I've been keeping myself busy with a few writing projects as usual, and mostly just hanging out at the Tulip Farm, surrounded by papers and cats and bowls of rice and soup. I repainted and redecorated my bedroom, and made a comic for Zine Crush. I've even been going for walks in the snow just for fun, and that's saying something – a few days ago, we had a record-breaking snowfall here in Montréal, levels that haven't been seen since 1971. Lookit this charming video of it!
This is the first year ever that I didn't visit my family for the holidaze. Really just because I saw them in November and I was tired of bus-ing it all over the place. I wrote letters instead, and my grandparents sent me a pair of slippers in the mail, which is super cute. It's been very quiet around here, with my roommate gone, and my neighbour left for a few days, too. I've had a houseful of cats though – Sebastian, Thunder, and Marie – and it's been so lovely. On Christmas Eve, I took the day to myself. I wrote lots, listened to tapes, went for a walk, picked up a copy of Putain by Nelly Arcan at a nearby used bookstore, worked on recording some audio zine-y stuff…
Now there are only two days left in the year. For me, it's a time of self-reflection. On Christmas night, I gathered around a kitchen table with friends (some I'd only met that night) and we talked about the things we'd learned over the past year. It was strange – I usually get shy and anxious in groups of people – but I felt so comfortable. The next day, I wrote a few pages in my journal about lessons learned: "I learned about the difference between loneliness and being alone. I learned about taking care of myself, even if I'm not always very good at it. I learned about the kinds of interactions I wanna have with people, and that it's okay if I don't wanna go to parties and do all the "fun" stuff. I learned more about communication and what I want/need from friendships and romantic relationships." There is so much more, but nothing I wanna share online. It'll stay in my journal, in letters, in conversations.
Looking back in an old notebook, my resolutions for 2012 were to learn how to approach people and be more sociable; to write reviews of every book I read; to stay sober; to travel lots; to make things happen. I feel like I've been successful and I can keep it up (except for the whole book review thing, but I'll try again). In 2013, I'd like to learn how see the big picture – like, to able to work on bigger projects even if I don't feel like I've accomplished much, if anything, by the end of the day. I'd like to build up my self-confidence and I'd like to quit a couple of pesky habits. Oh, and start a savings account, and publish my damn book.
I also want to be more mindful of my sobriety. I've been sober for fourteen months now, by the way. Back in November, I picked up a copy of Each Day A New Beginning: Daily Meditations for Women (I know I know, it sounds totally cheesy and unpunk, but hey, the book is stolen; I'm still cool, right?) and I'm looking forward to starting it on New Year's Day. Each page features a quote from various women in history – Virginia Woolf, Billie Holiday, Carole King, George Sand… – with additional notes. It comes back to the Twelve Steps, but it doesn't look too God-y. I tried to think about who I might replace God's name with while reading, and fuck it, my inspirational people are Anaïs Nin and Kurt Cobain. They'll have to be my version of God for now. (I am half-serious). (I just picked up the book to flip through it, and Anaïs Nin is actually quoted on the January 17th entry).
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Chase Field, the sometimes-indoor, sometimes-outdoor home of the Arizona Diamondbacks.
PHOENIX — Good afternoon from Chase Field in downtown Phoenix, where it's a dry and balmy 95 degrees right now, gorgeous weather for this time of year in the Valley of the Sun. Don't worry, the mercury is expected to climb well past the century mark the rest of the week.
As you can tell from the above photo, the roof is currently closed. Sometimes, they open the thing right before gametime, but according to the Chase Field Roof Hotline — yes, they actually have a hotline — it's going to stay closed tonight.
Livan Hernandez takes the mound for the Nationals, facing a Diamondbacks lineup that produces a ton of home runs but strikes out even more. Five players have already struck out more than 90 times this season, led by Mark Reynolds, who is on pace to shatter his own MLB record of 223 whiffs in a season.
Rodrigo Lopez starts for Arizona, which can only hope to get a quality start out of the journeyman right-hander and avoid having to ask too much of a bullpen that owns an atrocious 6.51 ERA. Yes, the Nats have to like their chances at the plate tonight and throughout the series.
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NATIONALS at DIAMONDBACKS
Where: Chase Field
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CF Nyjer Morgan
2B Adam Kennedy
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- Anonymous - Aug 2, 2010 at 10:31 PM
Amazement … blinking in the bright sunlight … ???No JMax immediately inserted into the lineup? Wow!
- Anonymous - Aug 2, 2010 at 10:46 PM
i'm thinking sweep.-longterm
- Anonymous - Aug 2, 2010 at 10:56 PM
JMax in with the first double-switch … my guess? For Willingham.
- cadeck13 - Aug 2, 2010 at 10:58 PM
JMax will be the first double switch. I think Riggleman needs an intervention, he's seriously addicted to double switches. Is there any other manager who uses this tactic daily?
- Doc - Aug 2, 2010 at 11:45 PM
I'll bet that Riggleman double switches his wife, kids, and dogs.
- kgwcoach - Aug 3, 2010 at 12:00 AM
If you have starting pitchers that consistently go seven innings you don't have the need to do a lot of double switches. But when you have a starting pitching staff that is lucky to make it past 4 innings it forces more double switches to keep pitchers available for more than a inning. Give Riggs eight every day players, then you would see a lot less substitutions in the field also. Folks there is a cause and effect at play with the way Riggs manages.
- Sunshine_Bobby_Carpenter_Is_Too_Pessimistic_For_Me - Aug 3, 2010 at 12:12 AM
I'm with kgwcoach. Lannan killed us yesterday by barely making it through five with 96 pitches. Riggs had to double-switch to avoid running out of pinch-hitters (He only had four bench players, ahead of the return of the much-adored J-Max). So every time Riggs wanted a lefty-righty switch on the mound, he had to do a double-switch to avoid pinch-hitter for the pitcher in the next inning or so. Riggs probably overmanages, but sometimes there is no alternative.
- Nattaboy - Aug 3, 2010 at 12:46 AM
Staying up late to watch this whole series, because I'll miss it so bad in December, even if they stink it up.Who's with me?!
- Anonymous8 - Aug 3, 2010 at 12:47 AM
I don't follow the DBacks. Crazy to see Mark Reynolds in the 6 hole.
- souldrummer - Aug 3, 2010 at 12:49 AM
I'm with you Nattaboy! I must say, it is a bit frustrating that Strasburg won't get to face the D'Backs this year. These guys are a K factory and he could rack up some scary K numbers against this team.
- Nattaboy - Aug 3, 2010 at 1:00 AM
Souldrummer for comment of the night :)Mark – where does Arizona rank as far as places/ballparks to visit? Do beat writers get access to the pool in center field?Prediction: nats win 8-6. Livo goes 6 scoreless but has to fight off rallies. Nats with early rout but bullpen struggles make it close. Big nights for willingham and Desmond
- Sec3MySofa - Aug 3, 2010 at 1:01 AM
Mark, you *know* you've just jinxed the [expletive] out of them, right?
- Richard - Aug 3, 2010 at 1:04 AM
Does anybody else think "Sunshine_Bobby …" was mis-named? Lannan killed us? He went 5 innings allowing 2 runs, none after the first inning. He's just back from AA, maybe we allow for a little human emotion. And a lot of regular Major League starters don't go 6 innings. Okay, its not a "quality start", which I'd call 7 innings, but Strasburg only goes 6 innings for now and he's not "killing us". Anyway, I'm staying up with Nattaboy to watch the game to find out who'll kill us this time.
- Nattaboy - Aug 3, 2010 at 1:17 AM
The guy has one of the best user names you'll ever see and mostly lives up to it. I agree with you but I'll give him a pass. Lannan's start did hurt us but it wasn't john's fault, as the bullpen had already been taxed.
- Sec3MySofa - Aug 3, 2010 at 1:19 AM
Nattaboy, speaking strictly for me, not one of my favorite places, although I will say this for them: the ushers do seem to enforce the Wait for a Stop in Play rule. When the team isn't in the playoffs, it's the world's largest elevator, except it doesn't go up or down–but nobody talks or looks at the people next to them, apparently. At least in DC, they talk to the people they came in with. The park had one of the best names as The BOB–then they sold the rights elsewhere. Bummer.
- Anonymous8 - Aug 3, 2010 at 1:46 AM
That pickoff of Nyjer was as bad as some I have seen in our local kids league when the player isn't paying attention. EMBARASSING!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Anonymous - Aug 3, 2010 at 1:48 AM
Sometimes I wonder why pitchers bother pitching to Nyjer. Why not intentionally walk him and then pick him off?
- Nattaboy - Aug 3, 2010 at 1:54 AM
Thanks for the report. Go Zim!Speaking strictly for me:Nats ParkRFKWrigleyFenwayOPACYComericaJacob's (progressive or whatev)GASPOld Yankee StadiumMiller ParkTurnerFulton CountySheaYeah hammer! So far so good
- Nattaboy - Aug 3, 2010 at 2:11 AM
Anybody see what that banner said? It'd be very cool if it was supporting AZ's new law and Livo had it torn down.p.s. Pudge is awesome
- Nattaboy - Aug 3, 2010 at 2:18 AM
Ruh roh.
- URban@DC - Aug 3, 2010 at 2:28 AM
Dunn Dunn Dunn
- Section 222 - Aug 3, 2010 at 2:28 AM
According to AKilgore on Twitter, the banner said "Don't Fund Hate." AZ fans cheered when it was taken down.I'm part of the "staying up because I'll miss baseball in December" club. And if we keep hitting dingers that will make dragging around the office tomorrow very worthwhile.
- Doc - Aug 3, 2010 at 2:32 AM
Mark, about catchers hitting more than 300 HR, you might add Gary Carter and his 324 HRs, unless he was playing other positions at some point.
- Mark Zuckerman - Aug 3, 2010 at 2:38 AM
Doc: Gary Carter came up just short. Only hit 298 of his 324 homers as a catcher. The rest came as PH, 1B and RF(?!).
- Michael J. Hayde - Aug 3, 2010 at 2:44 AM
"It landed 10 rows behind the infamous swimming pool."Is this swimming pool noted for being especially vile or evil? Because that's what "infamous" means… it does not mean "extra-famous" or "extremely well-known."Sorry for the snark but, as a writer, this has long been a pet peeve.
- Anonymous - Aug 3, 2010 at 2:51 AM
i believe it is known as ubiquitous or silly, and famous for such. so while it may not be evil, i think the spirit of infamous extends itself towards things that are famous for reasons other than greatness
- Bzl. - Aug 3, 2010 at 2:57 AM
Fielding, base running, now run-downs. Is this the stupidest team ever?
- Michael J. Hayde - Aug 3, 2010 at 2:57 AM
Anon 10:51. Sorry, but according to Merriam-Webster:1 : having a reputation of the worst kind : notoriously evil 2 : causing or bringing infamy : disgraceful 3 : convicted of an offense bringing infamyPopular usage of 'infamous' as "things that are famous for reasons other than greatness" has not yet extended to the dictionary. Maybe it will one day, if people keep using it incorrectly. But gadflies like me will continue to harp on it.Back to the game. We're still winning!
- Slidell - Aug 3, 2010 at 3:12 AM
Lots of long outs tonight. Ball must carry the way it does in Denver.Livo seems dialed in; maybe another CG?
- Mark Zuckerman - Aug 3, 2010 at 3:16 AM
Michael J. Hayde: I understand what you're saying, though I'd make the case I was using it as your No. 2 definition. The swimming pool here has long been thought of as a joke and a very minor-league thing to have in a major-league ballpark.
- Nattaboy - Aug 3, 2010 at 3:17 AM
That's ridiculous. Marks usage definitely fits with your Webster bit. Traditional baseball folks would say having a swimming pool at a ballpark would give you a reputation of the worst kind.Anyway, great info on the banner. 2 bits says t plush swipes this one
- Anonymous - Aug 3, 2010 at 3:26 AM
You mean that when FDR said "A Date Which Will Live in Infamy" referencing Pearl Harbor, he did not mean that Pearl Harbor was famous for other reasons besides a surprise attack by the Japanese? Wow you learn something new everyday. Desmond's defense or lack there of does meet the second definition.
- Nattaboy - Aug 3, 2010 at 3:36 AM
Racing ex-players? Weak. I get the feeling that of these 2 teams that are out of contention, the nats just care more. At this rate I'll get to bed at a fairly regular hour…Go nats!
- Nattaboy - Aug 3, 2010 at 3:39 AM
Ooh. Those of you who had Maxwell in the double switch pool can bring your $5 to Cheryl in accounting
- Section 222 - Aug 3, 2010 at 3:51 AM
Ok, I'm sorry. Why do a double switch there? Is he really going to use Burnett in the 9th? If not, there's no reason for it. But now he's taken Dunn and Willingham out of the lineup. And we're only up by two runs against one of highest scoring teams in the league. This doubleswitchitis is simply out of control. Ok Sunshine, off to you to defend him.
- Nattaboy - Aug 3, 2010 at 4:02 AM
Bang zoom! Nice work Sean!5 of the last 7. Break em' up!Goodnight and go nats!
- Cwj - Aug 3, 2010 at 4:04 AM
Burnett had some nice stuff tonight. Had Riggs pulled him after the second out in the 9th, I would have been pissed.Since acquired last summer, Burnett has been quietly effective.
- Michael J. Hayde - Aug 3, 2010 at 4:12 AM
Okay, so now I have to clarify 'infamous' definintion #2 by defining 'infamy?' Sheesh!Again, from Merriam-Webster:1 : evil reputation brought about by something grossly criminal, shocking, or brutal;2 : an extreme and publicly known criminal or evil act.Attack on Pearl Harbor (or World Trade Center and Pentagon), yes. Cheesy swimming pool, no.And, continuing my notorious – but not infamous – post from an earlier thread, with tonight's win, the Nats have begun the 12-game winning streak that will, combined with .666 ball through the end of September, will bring them at or near contention. That is, if they want it enough.
- Anonymous - Aug 3, 2010 at 4:23 AM
Less of this infamous discussion of infamous. More bashing Desmond for being dumber than dirt.
- Anonymous - Aug 3, 2010 at 4:26 AM
Maybe the swimming pool is infamous because Dunn bombed it.
- OlneyTerp - Aug 3, 2010 at 5:25 AM
Mark: I know Desmond is supposed to be an up-and-coming star, but is he coachable? Does he respond to coaching? Is he not real smart when it comes to baseball intelligence? I mean in one week he has botched a first-and-third play and just ambushed a run down play tonight. And it goes without saying that many of his fielding errors are because he sits back and waits for the ball to come to him instead of working his body toward the ball. I know he has to have been instructed on these things from the high school level up. I mean, most high school coaches would have a fit with the mistakes he makes. Any idea as to what is up with him? And don't tell me he is just a rookie. He has been playing pro ball for several years, and again, his mistakes aren't even acceptable at the high school leve.
- Buzz Killjoy - Aug 3, 2010 at 10:49 AM
"RF(?!)"Mark, you are likely too young to have followed the Expos, especially in their early years, but Gary Carter came up with the team as a right fielder. He had a penchant for all out play from day one and the team decided that they'd save him from himself, after he crashed the wall one too many times, by making him a catcher and thus put less strain on his body!BTW, Jarry Park had a swimming pool just past the right field fence. Although it was outside the stadium, it was a favourite spot for Rusty Staub to park many of his home runs.
- Anonymous - Aug 3, 2010 at 2:22 PM
Mike Hayde: perhaps you are unfamiliar with the concept of "connotation," an associated or secondary meaning of a word, outsid of its strict dictionary definition, or "denotation." Additionally, one of your Mirriam-Webster definitions (number 2, I think) states that infamous means "disgraceful." The pool in the outfield at Chase Field is disgraceful and can therefore correctly be called infamous, denotatively.If you want to correct Mark's vocabulary, that's your call, but you should at least wait until he actually misuses a word to do it.
- TheNotoriousS.O.F.A. - Aug 3, 2010 at 5:29 PM
Mike, clearly "infamous" has been covered, but how you could whiff on Anon 10:51's "ubiquitious or silly" is beyond me.


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^^ And if that does happen it'll be easy for her quickly substitute because I'm sure she'd be at the stands watching
Looks like Zijun brought her 2axel/3toe! YAY!
^^ And if that does happen it'll be easy for her quickly substitute because I'm sure she'd be at the stands watching
Looks like Zijun brought her 2axel/3toe! YAY!
Too bad for Zijun Li. :( But hey, let's not forget that we just saw Vanessa Lam rock her JGP debut! Congrats!
^^ Yes to that. If anything, Vanessa was robbed of her opportunity to make the JGPF by not being given a second assignment. Can't wait to see Vanessa skate! Junior ladies are so exciting these days!
Poor Vanessa, she could have won at several other Grand prix events.
She couldn't even go to the JGPF.
Too bad for Zijun Li :( Bad luck, she deserved to qualify more than Gong or Baga ((
Want to see Lam, great debut! Seems she can rotate her jumps which is good ))
Junior ladies this season are really strong, all the finalists except Gong and Baga scored more than 100 points for the FS and two of them even more than 110! JGPF will be very interesting
Times like this, I really, really despise the ISU's system of awarding points on placements without taking relative scores into account. Zijun Li is currently a better skater than Baga and probably Gong also. She should be in this Final. Would get a big crowd boost since this year it's in her home country. I hope she keeps practicing diligently and improving. You never know--so far this season, the way elite skaters have been dropping like flies from chronic and sudden injuries, she might still get a chance.
And for Juniors at least, the USFS needs to reconsider making assignments based primarily on previous year's nationals. They look pretty stupid about now, not assigning Lam earlier to see how she did on the chance that she at least had the jumps to do well enough in intl comps...instead of wasting a precious entry with someone completely uncompetitive at this level, like Davis.
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Maybe we'll see Vanessa Lam & Zijun Li meet up at JW.
It will be a brutal contest at National's, not just to qualify for WC but also JW. Among the contenders for WC team:
Rachael Flatt, Ashley Wagner, Mirai Nagasu, Caroline Zhang, Agnes Zawadszki, Christina Gao
At least four of them will not make it, and all but Ashley is still eligible for WC, though I expect some will go to 4CC and give up on JW (I can't see Caroline, Mirai, or Rachael back at JW).
Then among the top juniors:
Yasmin Siraj, Vanessa Lam, Leah Keiser, Courtney Hicks, Angela Wang, Kiri Baga, Kristiene Gong, Gracie Gold, Mary Beth Marley, Katarina Kulgeyko, Nina Jiang...
and I'm sure I've forgotten some!
Yes, you are right! Glad to see her first ratified 2A-3T in competition, though with -GOE. She's definitely improving throughout this season. She's only 13 so she's got a lot of potential for getting better and better. If she's got 2A-3T now, I think she's got a good chance of mastering a 3-3 reasonably soon in the future.
And bigsisjiejie, you're right, it would've definitely boosted interest and attendance for JGPF in Beijing had Zijun qualified for it. I'm a little worried how poor attendance will be at GPF and JGPF. In the past, skating competitions haven't been well attended. Shen/Zhao's wedding show was a great success, so may that boosted interest somewhat, but there's nothing like a home player to root for to bring people out onto the stands...
It was very narrow all around. Polina with Bronze. I thought she would win but she made mistakes on lutz's. Couldn't afford any.
I think the gold medalists should automatically advance to the final.
This year, they would be Polina, Liza, Risa, Adelina, and her. Then Yasmin, Christina. And the final spot open up for whoever.
Ex: Plushenko is more than qualified to advance to the final last year. This year, Kavaguti and Smirnov only competes in 1 event, and I think they are better than half of the team that will be going to the final. Vanessa Lam can definitely beat out Risa, Polina, Yasmin, Kristiene, and Kiri in the Final. It's too bad the way the points add up because better skaters are staying home.
What about JW in Russia! Liza, Adelina, Polina S, Polina A, Rosa, Anna if she's recovered, and then a bunch of wildcards all battling it out for 3 spots!
Kiri and Kristiene got lucky, but hopefully they can make the most of this opportunity and work to become more competitive with the rest of the field between now and the final. Zijun and Vanessa really are better skaters than those 2 but I guess that's just the way things work out sometimes. I'm still sad about no Ovcharova on the JGP this season, I miss that girl, she always brought the voids, but maybe (hopefully) we'll see her at JW. I think the international judges don't like Polina S's programs and Kiri's LP this season, looking at the marks. I wonder if either girl switches, I really liked Kiri's LP at JW last season.
Maybe next year they will finally change things. Because last season, DeeDee Leng was the US junior champion but only placed 7th at her JGP, and then Ellie who was the silver medalist qualified for the final but didn't get really high scores at any of her events. Plus Lindsay getting bronze at nationals was sort of flukey, because she managed that by placing 5th in the SP and 4th in the LP, due to Nina skating so much better in the LP than SP, and Kiri and Angela skating so much better in the SP than LP.
At the same time though, summer competition results aren't always the most telling. Cesario, Wang, and Gong all looked great this summer and were posting big numbers but then didn't faire as well on the JGP because of URs.
Well there's always Chinese Nationals, which seem to be well-covered judging from the number of YouTube videos. Except I'm always confused with the number of national competitions in China, which seem to take place not only in the winter but also in April or something like that..


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Anyone who knows me can attest that I spend a good amount of my time in coffee shops. It's where I write all my sermons, articles, and blog posts. In fact, I've gotten to the point where it's really the only place I can write.
This started innocently enough when we lived in New York. I couldn't write at the house when Bryna was home with two toddlers running amok and the office had its own share of distractions including nursery school classrooms across the hall. So I began searching for places to write that were conducive to the creative process. I found libraries too quiet and, with young kids at home, a shot of caffeine was always welcome. The ubiquitous New York diners weren't bad except for the coffee and they aren't exactly known as havens for writers — I wasn't going to encounter the next Hemingway at the Pleasantville Diner.
That's when I stumbled on the newly opened Coffee Labs Roasters in Tarrytown. Not only did they roast all their coffee on site, they were dog-friendly so I started my weekly ritual — Thursday morning sermon writing with Delilah in tow. Over time I became friends with the owners Mike and Alicia and before I knew it there was a whole artistic community forming around good coffee, good conversation, and an environment that kept both the coffee and the creative juices flowing.
There was Julie Anello, a talented oil painter, who showed up most days with a sketch pad to "practice her chops." She'd unobtrusively sit in a corner by the roaster and draw people before unceremoniously handing them the sketch on her way out. I have countless pencil drawings of both me and Delilah, several of which we keep framed in our house.�And Barbara Fischer, a gifted poet who writes under the name B.K. Fischer, has flourished in the years since I left New York. She was always scrambling to write while her children were in those two hour nursery school programs where the time quickly evaporates.
But it wasn't until I took a two and a half month sabbatical that I realized I could no longer write without good coffee and the creative environment of a coffee shop. People would ask, "Where are you going on your sabbatical?" And I'd say, um, with two young kids at home where would I possibly go and who would tell Bryna? The reality is I spent my sabbatical at Coffee Labs where I finished my first book, What Size Are God's Shoes: Kids, Chaos, and the Spiritual Life. I'd wake up, help get the kids out the door and head down to Tarrytown to write, drink coffee, enjoy the company of fellow artists and writers, drink more coffee, write some more and then head home. I always referred to this as my sabbatical on training wheels, knowing that one day I'd take a real one (still waiting but hopeful).
I've been reflecting on why I find the coffee shop so conducive to creativity ever since I read a book by Susan Cain called Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can't Stop Talking. Bryna saw it in the library and thought I'd be able to relate (for some reason). She wrote most of the book in a neighborhood cafe after trying unsuccessfully to work from home. She spent time carefully clearing out a writing space, moving filing cabinets, and setting up the ideal home office. The problem was that she "felt too cut off from the world to type a single key-stroke there."
The cafe worked as my office because it had specific attributes that are absent from many modern schools and workplaces. It was social, yet its casual, come-and-go-as-you-please nature left me free from unwelcome entanglements and able to 'deliberately practice' my writing. I could toggle back and forth between observer and social actor as much as I wanted.
Research shows it's pretty hard to be creative in a quiet space. And a loud workplace can be frustrating and distracting. But the mix of calm and commotion in an environment like a coffee house is proven to be just what you need to get those creative juices flowing.


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A's ready for another challenge vs. Red Sox
Coming off sweep of Rangers, Oakland takes hot bats to Boston
BOSTON -- After crushing the Rangers with a combined 25 runs in a three-game sweep in Texas, the A's will take their bats northeast to counter with Boston's staff following Thursday's off-day.
Red Sox righty Clay Buchholz gets the first crack at Oakland's red-hot lineup, with the A's sending Dan Straily to the mound for the three-game series opener Friday.
The two clubs split the season series, 3-3, last year.
Straily bounced back from a pair of sub-standard outings in his most recent start against the Astros on Saturday, giving up three runs on four hits and two walks with seven strikeouts in 6 1/3 innings.
He had allowed a combined nine earned runs in his previous two starts spanning just 8 2/3 innings while struggling with his fastball command, which remains his biggest focus.
"Every day you're going to go out there and your best pitch is going to vary as a starter," Straily said Saturday. "For me, my best pitch was definitely not my fastball. It was probably my fourth-best pitch. So I worked around that and found a way to get as many outs as I could with what I had in the tank."
The 25-year-old, who struck out over a batter an inning in his Minor League career, has been racking up the strikeouts with greater frequency in 2014, fanning 28 batters over his first 28 innings.
Straily is part of an A's rotation that exited Wednesday with an American League-best 2.85 ERA, despite the club losing Jarrod Parker and A.J. Griffin to Tommy John surgery.
Oakland is an AL-best 18-10.
"We felt like we had the guys to be able to fill in, but you look at the numbers, and I wouldn't say it's surprising but it's been unbelievable," said manager Bob Melvin. "It feels like they all feed off each other and push each other and motivate each other."
The Red Sox had a mediocre April, going 13-14. Now that Shane Victorino and Will Middlebrooks are both back in the lineup, they think they can get back to being a championship-caliber team.
"We're moving in the right direction," Red Sox manager John Farrell said, before his club fell to 13-16 with a pair of losses to the Rays on Thursday. "We finished up the month in a positive way, both in terms of health and more consistent offensive approach. We've gone through a number of challenges both performance-wise, health that kept us from being full strength for most of the month. While the win/loss record is less than we would hope for, we're moving in the right direction."
David Ortiz agrees that now is not the time to panic.
"This first month is one of those months where a lot of things happened but I think it was OK," Ortiz said. "I don't think it was that bad -- it could be worse. We kind of evened things out. If you look at this division, pretty much everyone's in the same boat. Everybody got stronger this offseason, everyone has a better team, so it's not like it's going to be easy."
Ortiz also thinks you can't discount the impact Victorino and Middlebrooks will have.
"Definitely, those guys are some of the secret weapons we've got and they always help us out to win games, and make the team better," Ortiz said.
A's: Lowrie bringing hot bat to old stomping grounds
A's shortstop Jed Lowrie, who received a scheduled day off Wednesday in advance of the club's off-day Thursday, will return to the starting lineup in Boston on Friday to face his former team.
Lowrie, who played with the Red Sox from 2008-11, enters the series batting .328 (20-for-61) with seven doubles and a home run over his last 14 games, after going 2-for-18 over his previous seven contests.
The veteran infielder ranks third in the American League in walks (20) and fourth in on-base percentage (.423).
Red Sox: Buchholz shows progress
Though Buchholz has had an uneven start to this season, his last outing was his best, as he limited the Blue Jays to three runs over seven innings. The right-hander will open this three-game series against the Athletics.
"Given the work I did before my last start, I was feeling really good about everything that we put into the start in Toronto," said Buchholz. "I was almost too amped up for that start at the beginning. It was a continuation of how I was throwing in the bullpen before the game. Everything was up and I wasn't finishing many pitches. I had some great defensive plays behind me to save some innings. I figured out a way to settle down after that."
Buchholz is still regaining his arm strength after his shoulder woes last season.
"The way Clay came out of Saturday feeling pretty good about himself is a step in the right direction," said manager John Farrell.
Worth Noting
• The Red Sox will enter Friday's series opener on the heels of a day-night doubleheader sweep by the Rays.
• The A's are 12-2 when scoring first, which is the best record in the American League.
Jane Lee is a reporter for MLB.com. Read her blog, Major Lee-ague, and follow her on Twitter @JaneMLB. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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We are snuggled up and watching Christmas movies. The cooking will resume in a bit. There is nothing better than slowing down and enjoying these special moments with people you love. Here is one last roundup of our home dressed up for the holidays.
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But, really, says Methven, sleeping together is a bonding experience.
"'Often a bedmate became your best friend. Not just married couples, but sons sleeping with servants, sisters with one another, and aristocratic wives with mistresses. Darkness, within the intimate confines of a bed, leveled social distinctions despite differences in gender and status,' Ekirch [a historian and professor] says. 'Most individuals did not readily fall sleep but conversed freely. In the absence of light, bedmates coveted that hour when, frequently, formality and etiquette perished by the bedside.' "
...Our minds need rest, but our minds also need camaraderie and intimacy and whispering. Anxiety and stress seem less intimidating when discussed with a partner while wearing pajamas. It's important to talk about our days lying side by side, discuss children and household situations, gossip about neighbors and colleagues, plan for tomorrow in the confines of private chambers. We cuddle. We laugh. At the end of each day we remove the onerous cloaks we've donned to face the world, and we want to do this lying next to our best friends, to know we're not in it alone."
What do you think? I completely agree.
This is part of a series called "What We're Reading"—featuring interesting articles on different topics we find during the week. I know most of you are big readers. Hope you like it!
P.S. Do you ever freak yourself out at night, and would you have a family bed?
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Spicy Shredded Chicken cooked in the slow cooker and then made into lettuce wrap tacos or tostadas! |
Trim four boneless-skinless chicken breasts, and then cut each one in half lengthwise.
Mix together the salsa, onion powder, diced green chiles, Cholula hot sauce, and lime juice.
Pour the sauce mixture over the chicken in the slow cooker.
To make the lettuce wrap tacos, peel off two pieces of lettuce, fill with some shredded chicken, and put a generous scoop of avocado salsa on top. Fold over the lettuce and eat with your hands.
Spread some of the chicken over the top of the tortilla.
Then spread a layer of salsa over that.
We liked tomatoes on the tostadas, and you could use some on the tacos as well.
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I used my Crock-Pot 3-1/2-Quart Slow Cooker to make the chicken in this recipe. You will need a slow cooker that's close to this size.
Ingredients for Spicy Chicken:
4 boneless, skinless chicken breasts cut in half lengthwise (about 2 lbs. boneless chicken)
1 cup mild or medium tomato salsa (homemade or from a jar)
1 tsp. onion powder
1 can ( 4 oz.) diced green chiles, not drained (Anaheim chiles)
1-2 T Cholula hot sauce, or other Mexican hot sauce of your choice
2 T fresh-squeezed lime juice
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3/4 cup chopped fresh cilantro
1/4 cup chopped red onion
1/4 cup fresh-squeezed lime juice
For Lettuce Wrap Tacos:
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For Tostadas:
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More Spicy Flavors in the Slow Cooker:
(Recipes from other blogs not always South Beach Diet friendly; check ingredients.)
Slow Cooker Shredded Beef Tacos from Gimme Some Oven
Slow Cooker Shredded Beef Tacos with Spicy Slaw and Avocado from Kalyn's Kitchen
Slow Cooked Carnitas Tacos from Recipe Girl
Slow Cooker Sweet Potato and Black Bean Burritos with Lime from Kalyn's Kitchen
Slow Cooker Barbacoa Beef from The Kitchn
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