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Man charged with attempted homicide after woman is stabbed in Carbondale
A homeless man stabbed a Carbondale woman multiple times Wednesday night at her mother's home, police said.
Anthony Lowden, 19, was sitting on a porch at 33 Pike St., about 1½ blocks from Sand Street, when police found him around 8:30 p.m., matching the description of wearing a black shirt and shorts with an Angry Birds backpack.
Patrolman Dominick Andidora yelled to him to come over to the patrol car and asked, "Do you have a knife?"
Police said Mr. Lowden replied "yes" and began to reach into his pocket. Patrolman Andidora drew his weapon, and Mr. Lowden threw the 4-inch blade to the ground, saying, "I shouldn't have done that."
Police took him into custody and drove to 16 Sands St., where Anjelica Sona, 19, was bleeding from four wounds. Several people were holding towels to her wounds.
A witness a few houses down on Sand Street told police she saw Mr. Lowden walking down the street with a knife while a young woman was screaming she had been stabbed.
Ms. Sona had a 1- to 2-inch stab wound high on the back of her right thigh and a wound on the bottom of her left foot leaking a steady stream of blood.
She also had a wound about 10 inches above her right knee and a fourth stab wound on her upper chest.
Ms. Sona was taken to Geisinger Community Medical Center in Scranton, where she was treated and released, hospital spokeswoman Noelle Snyder said.
After police read Mr. Lowden his rights, he said he stabbed Ms. Sona three times and threw the knife at her ankle, cutting her, because she was abusive to him, police said.
He said he stabbed her first in the thigh when she grabbed at his back and then again in the chest when she called him a coward, police said.
Mr. Lowden was charged with attempted homicide, aggravated assault, recklessly endangering another person, prohibited offensive weapons and simple assault when he was arraigned Thursday.
Mr. Lowden was taken to Lackawanna County Prison in lieu of $50,000 bail. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for Wednesday.
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Celebrity Pregnancy
Pregnant Scarlett Johansson Is Waiting Until Baby to Get Married — Report
It sounds like pregnant Scarlett Johansson won't be hearing wedding bells until she hears her baby coo! The expectant star is, according to a report, holding off on saying "I do" to French journalist fiancé Romain Dauriac until they welcome their first child.
A source dishes to E! News that Scarlett "is telling friends that she is not getting married until after the baby." This report comes just days after rumors that The Avengers star was heading to the altar within the next month.
Adding more confusion to the mix, Page Six also reported that the lovebirds were going to wed in less than four weeks! While we're not sure which claim is true, we find it hard to believe that ScarJo would walk down the aisle near the tail end of her pregnancy.
Regardless of when these two tie the knot, this will be Scarlett's second marriage! She was previously married to actor Ryan Reynolds — pre-Blake Lively, of course.
The 29-year-old's pregnancy was announced this past March, with E! Online breaking the news stating that the couple (who got engaged just six months prior!) were "very happy" with a baby on the way. TMZ even claimed that, when the news broke, ScarJo was already five months along! While the couple hasn't officially confirmed it, ScarJo's burgeoning belly seems to be doing the trick.
But back to this supposed wedding: Let's not forget that Scarlett's rep initially told the masses that the parents-to-be "haven't chosen a date for the wedding" just yet. So we're completely fine with playing the waiting game — because who doesn't love a surprise wedding!
When do you think Scarlett will tie the knot for the second time? Share your guesses in the comments below!

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Say 'Oh hey' to UNC Charlotte's latest social networking site
With Valentine's day upon us, many singles have their heart set on someone special they've seen around campus. For those who fall in love multiple times a day, there is a definite challenge. How can you wear your heart on your sleeve for someone if you don't even know who they are?
UNC Chapel Hill graduate Taylor Kolasinski knows all about this woe of the heart and created OhHey.co last November with the intention to help alleviate this problem.
"I wanted a way to connect and talk to all the cute girls I saw around campus that I felt like I was connecting with," Kolasinski explains. "It's a widespread and shared problem on college campuses, not being able to just approach someone that you have no relationship with besides the fact you're both in the same spot at that particular moment."
The premise of Oh Hey is simple. Think Craigslist Missed Connections, but about 1,000 times less creepy and a million times more cute. Have you passed by a cute girl eating Bojangles at the Cone Center and want to find her? Is there a guy in your calc class you've been making eyes with? Is there a hot tutor at the WRC you can't get out of your head, but too shy to tell her? Connect anonymously with the lucky guy or girl at OhHey.co by making a post. As the slogan of the website reads, you can "Be bold. Stay cute. Remain anonymous."
Even while keeping busy finishing up a double major in mathematics and economics, Kolasinski came up with the idea, website design and marketing campaign for Oh Hey. The Portland-native first thought of Oh Hey in his sophomore year but admits that by the time he developed it he was already happily in a relationship and never got a chance to post on the site himself.
"If I'm not working, I'm probably running and usually wearing something unique, noticeable or short (like really short) in hopes I'll read about it on Oh Hey," Kolasinski jokes.
On the first day of Oh Hey's launch, over 500 users registered on the UNC Chapel Hill site alone. After a revamp of the initial launch site, Oh Hey was receiving over 5,000 unique visitors to the site a day.
With the success of UNC Chapel Hill's site, Kolasinski decided to spread the love to other college campuses and the site has platforms all the way from UC Berkeley to Harvard. In the past month, Oh Hey UNC Charlotte opened up to heartsick students and has received upwards of 200 UNC Charlotte registered users so far. Once more register, a personalized feed for Charlotte students only will be opened.
Between the 3,000 and growing registered users of OhHey.co total, most of them attend UNC Chapel Hill, Duke, Georgetown and Washington State. The growing UNC Charlotte users is good news for those looking to get their flirt on, as Kolasinski has made it possible to connect with those who's posts look a little too familiar.
Being able to make a connection from what would have just been a missed opportunity is the reason Kolasinski started the site.
"There's a lot of reasons why these connections don't happen," he explains. "Whether it's from a lack of confidence, fear of rejection or embarrassment, and even just not knowing what to say. Oh Hey is unique in that it's a place that gives the confident another channel to flirt and be witty, and provide the shy a place to break out and be cute. "
Posts range from quirky to romantic enough to elicit more than a few "awws." But which is the founder's favorite?
"It's hard to pick a favorite," Kolasinski says. "There's a lot of creative ones, ranging from nerdy science and math related flirts to Harry Potter pickup lines. You really can't pick just one."
With a mobile app on the way, Kolasinski is trying to make the experience as seamless as possible. He is hoping the site will take off well with new universities that were added, including UNC Charlotte.
"What will be made available in the coming weeks is the login portion of the site, the area that allows you to comment on posts and private message and chat with the individuals who posted," Kolasinski explains. "This is where the connections are made. However, we will only open that up to a university when there is a predetermined number of registered users from that institution, so we encourage all to register and share with their friends."
For those ready to make a move, visit and register with your school email at OhHey.co.


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Each week we bring you the best tech reads from around the web. This weeks readings are centered on 2014 Tech Predictions, Apples iBeacon Love, Candy Crush Saga, 3D Printing, NSAs surveillance and lots more. Happy Reading!
1. Top 10 Predictions for Technology in 2014: Mark Anderson needs no recognition. In this piece, he predicts the future of technology in 2014.
2. Candy Crush Saga reaches new heights as designer explains its success: Success story of Candy Crush Saga explained by its designer Tommy Palm.
3. Motorolas Project Ara Modular Prototype Almost Ready, CEO says: TechnoBuffalos Jacob Klienman details the progress in Motorola
4. Tech Companies Unite against NSA spying: The Atlantics CONOR FRIEDERSDORF writes about the open letter seeking strict limits on government surveillance.
Bonus link to NSA defends global cellphone tracking as legal.
5. Apple Has A New Way To Watch You While You Shop And It Could Soon Be Everywhere: Julie Bort writes about Apples adoption of iBeacon technology for Business Insider.
Bonus link to another Apple story.
6. Watch out, Google. Vuzix smart glasses sell for $1000: Finally there is a Google Glass competitor and Lance Whitney writes about Vuzixs smartglass M100 and how the $500 price difference can play in Vuzixs favor.
7. Obama Says Everyone Should Learn How to Hack: Klint Finley of Wired writes about the significance of Coding and President Obamas message to young Americans encouraging them to start programming.
8. The Worlds First 3-D Printed Car seeks Funding To Become A Showroom Reality: Ben Schiller elaborates Jim Kors plans to go crowdfunding way to make the worlds first 3D printed car a showroom reality.
9. Samsung tries to silence report of Galaxy S4 catching fire: Last but not the least, the revelation of Samsung silencing a user whose Galaxy S4 caught fire has not gone well with the media and The Inquirer puts the story to Page.
- Compiled by Karthekayan Iyer, a Mumbai-based geek and aspiring tech writing writer


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Think back, and this is pretty much how things went for the original Droid 2, right? Leak after leak after leak, and finally Verizon announced the phone about 48 hours before it was released. So it's with little surprise that VZ Navigator for the Droid 2 Global appears in the Android Market. Leak after leak after leak, folks. Place your bets on when the phone finally appears. [via Droid Life]
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Why pay ten bucks a month that Google does for free? Am I missing something?
What is so special about VZnavigator?
My gripe is why does Verizon make a version of VZ Navigator for each phone instead of one version for all their Verizon phones? It's like they're baiting iPhone fanbois to shout "FRAGMENTATION!"


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Do you trust that the police serve to protect you?
It seems each new day brings a new story of police brutality and abuse of power. A video of a Seattle sheriff's deputy kicking a 15 year old girl in police custody was recently released to the public. The same deputy shot and killed a mentally ill man in a confrontation on Interstate 5 in 2006 (the killing was deemed justified, natch).
In Galveston, Texas, a group of plain-clothes officers assaulted and beat a 12 year old black girl in her yard after jumping out of a van and accosting her during a raid in which they claim to have mistook her for a prostitute. The prostitutes they were looking for were white. The police then arrested Dymond Milburn at her school and charged her with assaulting the police officers who were wrongfully
kidnapping arresting her. Her father, who had tried to stop the officers from taking his daughter, has also been charged with assault. Ultimately, the case ended in a mistrial.
Earlier this year, an Oakland BART police officer exectuted 22 year old Oscar Grant, who was unarmed, as he lay face down on the train platform. The shooting was captured on a witness' cell phone video. At least the officer is being held accountable: He's been charged with murder.
The hits just keep on coming. Renee at Womanist Musings has a list of black women who've been beat, assaulted, and/or killed by police officers in recent years. Their stories rarely get widespread media attention.
Now, two New York City police officers stand accused of raping an intoxicated woman they escorted home. The incident occured in December. Video surveillance footage shows the two officers helping the woman into her building and returning twice more during the two hours that followed. The first time they returned they followed a resident inside; the second time they used a key. The next day, the woman reported having been raped by the police officers. Her friends later asked a nearby bar owner for the surveillance footage that documented the officers' comings and goings.
One of the officers admitted to investigators that the other one had "had sex" with the woman. She was drunk enough to need assistance to walk less than two hours before the alleged rape. But of course the "sex" was consentual.
These are not isolated incidents. They are part and parcel of a culture wherein cops are above the law and they know it. There is a pattern of violence, corruption and abuse in law enforcement. We would all like to believe that there is a clear line between good guys and bad guys – your friendly police officers and your criminals. But plenty of violent criminals wear cop uniforms, which protect them from facing punishment for their thuggery.
There may very well be "good cops" on many forces, but until the so-called "good cops" stop covering up for the bad ones and making excuses, they are not "good." At the same time, my understanding is that police officers are obligated to protect their own. Is law enforcement, by nature, bound to be corrupt?


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By our count, Bush's Shoe Dodge (screen shot at left) is game #5 based on the now-famous incident in which an Iraqi journalist hurled his shoes at President George W. Bush during a recent news conference.
Flash games based on Muntader al-Zaidi's shoe toss have been arriving on the Web at the rate of one per day. The latest offering comes from Atom. It's the second game in which you play as the President with the goal of dodging al-Zaidi's shoes. The other game based on Dubya's perspective is Flying BaBush.
Of the remaining games, in two (SockAndAwe and Can You Throw a Shoe at Bush?) you play as al-Zaidi, while in Bush's Boot Camp players assume the role of a Secret Service agent.


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December 16, 2003
POWERPOINT HATERS UNITE!....Microsoft just can't catch a break. Via The Talent Show, apparently PowerPoint is now being blamed for the space shuttle crash:
That's rough. However, at the risk of offending the legions of PowerPoint haters out there, I'd caution everyone against taking this too far and indulging in dreams of a golden age in which everyone sat down with quill pens and fashioned beautiful, tightly reasoned prose in the business world. Information was presented really badly in the pre-PowerPoint era too. Trust me on this.
As for me, I'm torn. There's no question that PowerPoint can hide a lot of shoddy thinking and often ingrains some bad habits, but on the other hand I'm a PowerPoint guru and would lose some of my competitive advantage if it became less popular. So let me just leave it at this: if you're good at presenting ideas, you'll probably do fine with PowerPoint. If you're not, you won't.
But I will say one thing: PowerPoint is great if you're presenting to a foreign audience that might otherwise miss some of what you say. It's a real boon for us Americans making sales pitches in Asia or Europe.
Oh, and one more thing: Edward Tufte is kind of a cranky guy. I liked his first book, but his subsequent books devolved into a set of really idiosyncratic lectures on How Charts Must Be Drawn. I liked his advice on a broad level, but his obsession with "chart junk" eventually got to the point where there was virtually no chart left. I'd take him with a grain of salt.Posted by Kevin Drum at December 16, 2003 05:46 PM | TrackBack
It didn't really help Powell did it!Posted by: Bugs Benny at December 16, 2003 05:50 PM | PERMALINK
Why isn't the story that Hussein had been someones captive for weeks or months getting more play? It explains alot, like his immediate, talkative reaction upon his 'release' from the hole. They had Hussein on ice in a way. Someone was holding him and trying to negotiate his ransom. Yes, its Debka but it makes alot of sense given his condition and initial reaction. http://www.debka.com/article.php?aid=743Posted by: jack at December 16, 2003 05:50 PM | PERMALINK
It's my provisional theory that the Boeing ppt was intentionally ambiguous, to reduce the risk of leaks (that ended up occuring) and to compartmentalize the true nature of the present danger while on-orbit.
Two of the most hazardous case analyses were left off the ppt entirely.
The only thing worse than a shuttle coming in like it did would have been a media circus surrounding it for two weeks prior.Posted by: Troy at December 16, 2003 05:50 PM | PERMALINK
Yes, thank you!
I read Tufte's books, and I was like, "Oh this is neat, kinda fun," but ultimately there wasn't a lot of there there.
But at least he's better than Donald Norman, who's written the single worst "design" book ("The Design of Everyday Things"), one that you should actively avoid reading.
Self-proclaimed design gurus tend to irritate me. Bruce Tognazzini (Mac guru) bugs the heck out of me.Posted by: Mike Kozlowski at December 16, 2003 05:51 PM | PERMALINK
jack -- spider hole, or imprisoned -- not much of a difference.
I was expecting a nifty vault like in _Three Kings_. THAT would have been news.Posted by: Troy at December 16, 2003 05:53 PM | PERMALINK
Gotta disagree. Tufte's books can be repetitious, but the examples themselves, both good and bad, are worth the price. I've never seen so much out of the box thinking about design in one place (and I need some of his ideas for my living).
I saw Tufte at a "seminar" (200 attendees, of course) last year, where he mentioned another idea I'd never thought of: the huge improvement of printer resolution relative to the small improvement in screen resolution since the early PC era (say 1983). As a result, he showed us printouts that weren't really feasible before, including a nifty stock price percent-change time series.Posted by: Andrew Lazarus at December 16, 2003 05:58 PM | PERMALINK
PS Tufte absolutely despises Power Point.Posted by: Andrew Lazarus at December 16, 2003 05:58 PM | PERMALINK
I wonder if part of the problem was managers who insisted on being informed through a presentation alone, and didn't want to be bothered with actually reading a detailed technical report.Posted by: Jon H at December 16, 2003 06:07 PM | PERMALINK
Powerpoint is like Flash. It's too much, or it's not enough. (Out of a hundred Flash animations, two or three are the work of people who really need to turn off the computer and sketch like the wind, or step up to serious animation tools, or get a camera and some plasticine and start trying to capture motion a frame at a time. The rest are crap, and the "designers" should be whipped with an extension cord. The whole thing is very sad, which is why my proxy kills Flash silently, along with other harbingers of suckyness.)
Powerpoint gives bad ideas, poorly organized ideas, even self-contradictory ideas the sexy sheen of professionalism and attention to detail, at the cost of practically no effort. It's dead simple to abuse, and it is abused. It got its bad reputation the old-fashioned way: it EARNED it.
There's a trick, though. Someone know knows the subject and is comfortable with the material will interject related material, wander off-slide, and occasionally even have to shuffle around to find his place again. Knowing your subject better than you know Powerpoint is nothing to be ashamed of.Posted by: Mike D. at December 16, 2003 06:15 PM | PERMALINK
Tufte has some good ideas. I just think he goes overboard with some of them.
And yes, he hates PowerPoint. It's not really surprising in a guy who really cares about design, though. For better or worse, PowerPoint is a tool for the masses, and the masses just aren't going to all be design gurus.
However, I don't want to go overboard either. There really are problems with overreliance on PowerPoint (and Excel!), but there are also some advantages. PowerPoint may not be divine, but neither is it diabolical.Posted by: Kevin Drum at December 16, 2003 06:16 PM | PERMALINK
yeah -- the next big thing wrt computers is increasing the resolution of the display. It's been this sucky (for Mac users at least) since 1984.Posted by: Troy at December 16, 2003 06:17 PM | PERMALINK
"A good craftsman never blames his tools."
No offense to Tufte, but he's overly enamored with dense graphical presnetations. He's just blaming the medium instead the user. The user is the one who's making the decision what to display. And resolution has nothing to do with it. Anything you can display on a 8-1/2x11 sheet of paper can be put into a Powerpoint slide. Resolution is not the issue.
But speaking of resolution, have you seen the types of charts that Tufte extols? They are incredibly dense. Sure, they might be an elegant way to present large sums of data in a single chart, but they OBFUSCATE. "What was the POINT?" And that's what at issue.
The NASA scientists put together a confusing table of information. Instead they should have said:
- O-rings get brittle at low temperatures
If you view Tufte's version, it's not much better at conveying the important point: STOP THE LAUNCH.Posted by: out4blood at December 16, 2003 06:36 PM | PERMALINK
Everyone seems to miss the point of PP bashing. To quote myself, "Powerpoint presentations are an embodiment of a formal managerial hierarchy." If you're trying to push an idea into a hidebound management bureaucracy, you have to either dress it up in Dilbert clothing with PP, or else find you may go unheard. Middle managers are unreceptive to radical ideas, unless they are a wolf in sheeps' clothing. Thus, the radical idea "OMG, the Shuttle is going to disintegrate" must be buried in a Powerpoint presentation, nobody would listen to it otherwise. They didn't listen to it in that PP format either. Oopsie.
To put it another way, there is an old hacker aphorism, "topology is politics." The topology of a network is a political decision. It is easier to exclude people from the management decisionmaking network when the ideas can be buried in bureaucratic crud like Powerpoint.
Kevin, I've never heard you say anything quite as insipid as "I'm a PowerPoint Guru and would lose some of my competitive advantage if it became less popular." You are mistaking the message for the medium. Did you ever hear of a writer go around telling people he was a "typewriting Guru?" I could equally make the same assertion about my own (pre-PP days) lectures, my only prop to establish myself as a lecturer of authority was a 3-piece business suit. By your measure, I am a "3-piece business suit guru." People who would be fooled by such trivial external appearances (and there were many) are deadwood in any management hierarchy. Do you want to sell sugar water for the rest of your life, or do you want to change the world? Powerpoint is sugar water for corporate drones. Do you want to fatten people with empty calories, or do you want to give them sustenance?Posted by: Charles E at December 16, 2003 06:38 PM | PERMALINK
David Byrne proved that anybody can learn to love powerpoint...
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.09/ppt1.htmlPosted by: Frugal Liberal at December 16, 2003 06:44 PM | PERMALINK
Didn't Tufte criticize the pen-and-paper engineering reports that failed to stop the Challenger launch? (It was in Visual Explanations, I believe.) I don't like PowerPoint either, but this seems a bit rich.Posted by: Matt Stevens at December 16, 2003 06:50 PM | PERMALINK
Powerpoint isn't the problem, it's the users. I know it's a cliche.
There used to be a time when slide presentations would contain bullet-point summaries and pics and charts, but would be supplemented by handouts. These days the handouts are just the powerpoint slides with seven blank lines off to the left for notetaking. In the old days, the Nasa handouts would probably have a whole paragraph or two about how the shuttle is doomed, and in complete sentences (or as complete as engineers can make them).
Sometimes software solutions make us lazier, not more efficient. Hmm. Maybe it is Microsoft's problem.Posted by: Amitava Mazumdar at December 16, 2003 06:52 PM | PERMALINK
Chalk and good blackboard. Simply can't be beat.
A good whiteboard and pen combo is good, too, but still inferior to chalk.
- Anarch
I took Tufte's class in college, and I really like the guy, especially since he gave me a break on the fairly awful paper I did which purported to be a statistical comparison between Internet IPOs and tulip bulb mania.
He knows his shit, and he gets paid big $$ to dish it out. I believe he is responsible for the NYT excellent display of statistical info.
Kevin, I think you missed his point about Power Point, which is that its rigid format inhibits the creative display of information; more specifically, it prevents statistics from being displayed properly.
Ever tried to import an Excel spreadsheet into PowerPoint? If the dimensions aren't right, it quickly becomes impossible to balance font size, width, etc.
I'd go beyond Tufte and say that the standard screen dimensions of computer monitors are a problem. Ever tried to display a large region with 20' contour lines--say, a topo map of California? Can't do it!Posted by: praktike at December 16, 2003 07:30 PM | PERMALINK
I remember way back when....
I started working as an accountant in the early 80's, just as we were starting to rely on the PC as a tool. Someone told me way back (and I remind myself daily)..."this is a tool to help you to think through complex problems." That is so true. Kevin, thank you, you called it (these software packages) a tool. That is what they are.
When the car breaks down, do you blame the screwdriver?
These packages (ppt, excel, etc) have become so ubiquitous that people think they are replacements for "thinking." Ugh!!! Jon H, your comment is it!!! People rely on the presentation, not the THINKING that is supposed to follow the presentation.
I am a CFO for a small company. I make presentations to venture capitalists all the time on ppt and excel. If they're not THINKING about what I'm presenting, I know it's a waste of time.
I can't resist:
Keynote kicks PowerPoint's ass.Posted by: 16 at December 16, 2003 08:06 PM | PERMALINK
PP has proven to be a perfect sheild for the inept and incompetent. In some of the consulting work I've done, I have sat through 2-hour PP presentations by middle and upper management people that were completely devoid of content. One fairly recent one involved a makeover of a captive restaurant at a resort. The resort GM brought me in because he wanted a take on how his people were communicating. Half of the 3-hour meeting was a PP presentation by second-tier management. The entire presentation was on salt-shaker choices. At the end of the presentation, the only information that had been presented was that salt shakers exist, and people in restaurants tend to use them to dispense salt, pepper, and similar granular seasonings.
These people had worked for several days to put this together. They were very proud of what they'd done, but failed to realize that what they'd accomplished was less than zero: At the end of the meeting, the process was were it had been two weeks previously--except, of course, that a half-dozen highly paid people had managed to waste three whole days of work time to put the presentation together, then waste another half day to show us all how they'd wasted those days.
The above is one of the more egregious examples, but I've seen plenty of others. Usually, these things come down to people having done lots of work right after they had lost sight of the real object of the exercise. For the button-heads above, the entire exercise should have been taken care of in 10 minutes by simply passing around representative salt shakers and saying "Let's pick one."
Yes, I have LOTS of contempt for PowerPoint. But that's probably because I've never seen a single presentation that couldn't have been cut in half or done more simply with some b asic handprops.Posted by: Derelict at December 16, 2003 08:09 PM | PERMALINK
I HATE Being on the other End of a Power Point Presentation. I've seen them used in the academic and professional world and have yet to see even one decent use of this product. Over head projects/chalk boards/white boards are better technology then this conglomeration of shitty lot of zeroes and one.
Posted by: Texan at December 16, 2003 08:15 PM | PERMALINK
I keep hearing about the Tufte book, so I guess I'll have to pick it up.
Anyone heard of a book called "The Psychology of Everyday Things"? It's about how people react to certain designs, and why some are better than others. For some reason I thought of that when looking at the Tufte book at Amazon. Great book, anyway, think of it all the time, when trying to pull on a push door, using new software, designs of buildings, etc.Posted by: NJC at December 16, 2003 08:28 PM | PERMALINK
Charles E: my my....
All I meant is that I have a lot of technical expertise in making nice PowerPoint presentations. Plus it was kind of a joke. These days, I'm a blogger.
Praktike: I haven't read Tufte's paper about PowerPoint, just read a couple of interviews. However, based on my experience, I would say that crappy charts and graphs are almost entirely due to people who don't have a clue how to make good charts and graphs, not PowerPoint. It is simply astonishing the poor grasp that most business people have of how to make use of numerical information. Most of them literally don't even know which numbers to use and what they mean, let alone how to create a graphic that presents it.
Derelict: yeah, I agree. I don't like taking classes much because I hate having to go at someone else's page. I've come to dislike PowerPoint presentations for the same reason, although it's unfair in a way. After all, people can be slow and boring without PowerPoint too.
Actually, my real pet peeve is Excel. I have an entire theory worked out about how Excel has fucked up an entire generation of business people. But I guess you'll have to wait for the book.Posted by: Kevin Drum at December 16, 2003 08:39 PM | PERMALINK
Speaking as a mechanical engineer, view graphs, and their successors like powerpoint, seem to be an excuse to lie.
"We can't find out ass with both hands. We haven't examined basic issues. But this is a cool slide."Posted by: Matthew Saroff at December 16, 2003 08:42 PM | PERMALINK
Derelict: LOL. Been there, done that.
Still, that's really a problem with the people, not the medium. Without PowerPoint they still would have wasted all that time because they fundamentally didn't understand what they should have been doing.
(Although it's true that PowerPoint excels at giving people a good way to hide that fact.)Posted by: Kevin Drum at December 16, 2003 08:43 PM | PERMALINK
This should be obvious, but the great thing about the chalkboard is that it forces the presentation speed to be the same as note taking speed. For math, it's even better because you can stay engaged by trying to stay slightly ahead of the presenter.
I soured on PowerPoint long ago while interning at a national lab. I developed a PowerPoint presentation with complete sentences and good parallel structure. My boss turned all the sentences into fragments and all my verbs into nouns. I was told the sentences and verbs weren't professional. This isn't PowerPoint's fault, but it seems there is an unwritten manual that enforces these habits of unclear thinkers.
Now I hear it is unprofessional to give a business presentation without PowerPoint. I wonder which company promotes that dogma?Posted by: Matt at December 16, 2003 08:46 PM | PERMALINK
Bad NASA presentations are nothing new: one of the main causes of the Challenger crash was a confusing graph showing the temperatures during previous shuttle lift-offs. If the table had been clear, it would have been obvious that the morning of the Challenger disaster was going to be far colder than any previous lift-off.
Incidentally, a great book on NASA's organizational problems and their relationship to the Challenger disaster is "The Challenger Launch Decision" by Diane Vaughn. One look at the tables in the book, and you stop wondering how they could have ever given the go-ahead.
Maybe NASA engineers need a mandatory course in communications?Posted by: Maya at December 16, 2003 08:59 PM | PERMALINK
Anything you can display on a 8-1/2x11 sheet of paper can be put into a Powerpoint slide. Resolution is not the issue.I can fit about 2000 characters on an 8.5x11 sheet of paper. You put 2000 characters on your Powerpoint slide and project it on the wall. I think you'll change your mind. (This trick doesn't work only for text; try small-multiple charts.)
Posted by: Andrew Lazarus at December 16, 2003 09:08 PM | PERMALINK
Following along the (general) theme of PowerPoint bashing, here's a website that shows how the Gettysburg Address would've appeared had Lincoln used PP. It's actually pretty funny -- assuming you know the Gettysburg Address already.Posted by: Jim E. at December 16, 2003 09:10 PM | PERMALINK
Oops. Here's the Gettysburg Address website:
I'm a mechanical engineering grad student and one of our undergraduate requirements was a course called "technical writing" (I got my B.S./currently getting my masters at UT-Austin). They course objective said they were also going to teach us presentation skills and it turned out to be a "how to use power point" class. We were actually quizzed over what font sizes should be used. It was a useless class.
As for the Columbia I recently went to a presentation called "Columbia Causes and Consequences" by Dr. Hans Mark who is currently an engineering professor here at UT (his past jobs include head of the Neutron Physics Group Laboratory for Nuclear Science, Lawrence Radiation Laorotory, Director of Ames Research, Secretary of the Air Force, Worked in the DoD under Clinton, and was Deputy Administrator NASA.) I think he'd either have a laugh or some four letter words for anyone who suggests that Power Point was responsible for the disaster. In his mind (and he is as candid as possible) the disaster is the fault of those currently running NASA ans he thinks they need to be removed ASAP.Posted by: Josh Maxwell at December 16, 2003 09:30 PM | PERMALINK
There's lots of famous memos in engineering that have hidden serious safety problems. If you read a book on Three Mile Island, you'll see the same sort of communication problems. I'm sure if you go back to WWII, similar issues could be found.Posted by: snore at December 16, 2003 09:38 PM | PERMALINK
well, Kev, I didn't mean that as a personal insult. You usually sound
like a smart and rational guy, and your defense of PP seemed irrational
to me. OK, I'll now assume you were joking.
"PowerPoint, which can be found on two hundred and fifty million computers around the world, is software you impose on other people."
Give me PowerPoint, a government bureaucrat, and 5 minutes; and I will give you some lunatic government contract for a billion or so.
Remember, we are not talking rocket scientists here. This is who you are dealing with:
Star Trek fans who barely made it out of pre-calculus in college, and think that Dr. Spock is a real person.
The same group of numbskulls who couldn't tell the difference betweeen the metric system and emglish system; sending a $250 million rocket crashing onto mars.
Lunatics who coudn't perform a simple optics test on the Hubble telescope, the barely educated that spend $100 billion on SDI space junk.
Blew $10 billion on the Thaad ABM system.
Built the stealth warship which had a wake so big it was impossible to miss the thing in the ocean.
In short, we are tallking about Lockheed-Martin; the bozo company that has been behind every major American technology disaster in the US over the last 20 years, including two shuttle disasters, the Hubble, SDI, at least three major computer integration fiascos for the State of Californis, the strealth warship, F-22 cost over-runs, and a not yet incurred loss of $20 billiuon on the advanced fighter, which they most assuredly will screw up.
In short, a company made of bozos from second rate colleges whose only mission in life is life time screw ups on the government dole; a welfare program for the technical illiterate.Posted by: Matt Young at December 16, 2003 11:17 PM | PERMALINK
Matt Young: Dr Spock is, in fact, a real person. I think you mean Mr. Spock.
When I initially read the post I pointed out to the resident rocket scientist that this was not the fault of the tool, but of the people using the tool. To which he replied that it is not possible (or professional as someone notes above) to do a presentation without it any more. And whose fault is that I respond. Could it be ---- Satan?
MKKPosted by: Mary Kay at December 17, 2003 12:52 AM | PERMALINK
I teach history, and Powerpoint is great if I use it as a more manipulable overhead projector. It works much better than chalk and a blackboard.Posted by: Michael at December 17, 2003 04:50 AM | PERMALINK
If you're talking about the safety of a space shuttle mission, complete sentences describing a logical train of thought would be nice.
Now obviously there wasn't a logical train of thought in the building at the time. The people who were supposed to be presenting one got away with presenting rubbish instead. So, who to blame?
Obviously, the people giving the presentation and the ones looking at it bear a large part of the blame.
But people are never perfect. It does make sense to put part of the blame on a presentation system that makes badly-organised rubbish look as good as coherent thought.
How long before politicians start using PP? Or will they never, because it's so impersonal?
In theoretical physics (my field), the OHP is still alive and well - with even the occasional hand-written slide. But then, it's common for the audience to interrupt a presentation as well.Posted by: TomD at December 17, 2003 05:16 AM | PERMALINK
Oh, this will be fun! I Hate Powerpoint! HATE IT!
OK, now that I got THAT out, now some real thoughts. . .
For the record, I am not only a Powerpoint guru, but also a graphic design guru. I do nothing but this kinda stuff all day, since I oversee the design and production of the 20th-largest circulation magazation inthe country. I also build my own computers, do professional music recording on a computer, blah, blah, blah...I use all the state of the art shit for design, have used it for years.
I therefore state the following:
1. The LARGE majority of Powerpoint presentations are simply coverups for poor speakers. Just how many MORE times will I have to sit through someone reading off their damn presentation, word for word, letter by letter, an exact duplicate of the screen???
2. Additionally, most Powerpoint presentations, like their cousins the Word documents, look like explosions in a type foundry. One of the unfortunate by-products of computers is the illusion that "I CAN type, therefore I WILL type - any and everything - and the world will love me!" Back in the day when people who did "design" actually had some TRAINING, only the village idiots would attempt to use more than two typefaces. Now, computers turn every fool on the face of the earth loose, who blithely proceed to use EVERY damn font they have on a single page! (Admit it - you KNOW who you are!)
3. This brings me to a correlate point. One of the first victims of the "computer revolution" was the virtual death of an artform - typography. Around 10 years ago, the time-honored discipline that real typographers brought to design died at the hands of some secretary in front of a Mac. These folks, working in a craft that stretched back centuries, understood the notion that the ability to use every typeface in the world doesn't mean that doing so is alright. They understood the almost spiritual dimension of the tension between the dark black type on the stark white paper.
Powerpoint users are, unfortunately one of the populist responses to this loss of craft. I have no real fucking clue what to do here, but one of these ugly templates, along with my vapid ideas, and LOTS of animation, might actually convince someone that I'm not a total fool!
Good speakers and presenters can do so JUST FINE without the damn Powerpoint presentation. They have the ability to conjure up images in the imagination through their artful use of words. JFK did not need a Powerpoint presentation to go along with "Ask not what your country can do for you..." Martin Luther King did NOT need bullet points with flyouts for "I Have A Dream!"
And finally: 4. If you plan to read aloud all the shit on the screen, PLEASE just give me a printout and let me read it. By myself. WITHOUT YOU! Or email it to me. I can read. Your verbal skills usually suck. Powerpoint will NOT save you!
In conclusion, LEARN HOW TO SPEAK. Learn how to convince people of the value of your ideas WITHOUT Powerpoint. Good presenters lose NOTHING without Powerpoint. Good speakers' strong ideas are only enhanced by any visuals. Let the words from your lips fire the imagination of your listeners. If you can't do that, DO NOT expect Powerpoint to make the misery of your listeners more palatable.
Now for some coffee...Posted by: Jon at December 17, 2003 05:39 AM | PERMALINK
Also: use spellcheck. Then you wouldn't type words like "magazation" instead of "magazine."
I need an editor. . .Posted by: Jon at December 17, 2003 05:41 AM | PERMALINK
By the way, Tufte thinks that good Flash animation is worth doing, because it uses the computer screen to show things that paper, for all of its great attributes, cannot. In his lectures, he uses a number of examples of good flash (and other) animations to make his point.Posted by: Tim Francis-Wright at December 17, 2003 06:25 AM | PERMALINK
Of course you also have to take up at least one quarter of every screen with repetitive info about your organization and the title of your presentation.
Butterflies, sunbursts etc are always nice.
Why use a single color for the background when you can shade from dark to light?
Jim E:
All due respect to the investigation board, and PLEASE carry on with the PowerPoint-bashing, as is everyone's god-given right.
But, the premise is total horseshit. Anyone that's been following the entire chain of events knows that PowerPoint was the least of the problems at NASA. There was a *total* breakdown of communications. It doesn't matter if you use PowerPoint or a hand courier in a situation like that. There were numerous opportunities for the message to get across, and not one of them involved PowerPoint. Yet the message was ignored or cut off at every turn.
Ferchristakes, the MEDIA was already peripherally aware of the 'splatter' during the launch. Footage was even on CNN for a few cycles.
Furthermore, this highly visible finger pointing at PowerPoint can lead to the unrealistic expectation that if they get RID of PowerPoint, "everything will be just fine." Does anybody actually think that's the case? And does nobody doubt that that will in fact be seriously suggested before the dust settles?
I hate to say it, but if this kind of thinking takes root at NASA, we might as well start dismantling the program now, before somebody else dies.
I can't find Frank Borman's (I think it was him) comment on Apollo 1, but it went somewhat along the lines of "We accept risk, but we don't invite it." The astronauts are at times too trusting in thier administration.
I'd like to think that if the crew of Columbia had been fully aware of what was going on at Houston, they'd all have walked away from it.Posted by: grimmtooth at December 17, 2003 07:41 AM | PERMALINK
"if you're good at presenting ideas, you'll probably do fine with PowerPoint. If you're not, you won't."
That pretty much sums it up.
I use PowerPoint in two ways. One for making a presentation, and another if I'm sending something out for someone to sit at their desk and view at their leisure.
In the first case, it is for my benefit, not the audience's. I list my talking points as bullets and talk about each in detail. I never use a "script", but the PP provides a nice guide and seems more natural than looking at a paper outline. The only actual content would be a chart or graph or something to illustrate a point. Sure, that's abusive, and possibly distracting, but they expect a freaking PowerPoint so I have one.
In the latter case, I cram it with information and details and screen shots and report examples and so forth, with (tasteful and useful) animations and effects to create a flow and highlight certain things.
But I still hate being subjected to it, and agree that the very worst presentation is one where every single scripted word is crammed on the slide with an empty suit reciting from it (and having trouble reading the words sometimes).Posted by: skbubba at December 17, 2003 07:45 AM | PERMALINK
Most of the comments have been addressing the idea that the PowerPoint slides are intended for the audience.
I would argue they are primarily for the benefit of the speaker. The slides outline the talk, capture the topic sequence, and remind the speaker of the points they need to make.Posted by: Mark at December 17, 2003 07:49 AM | PERMALINK
This is starting to sound a little like the "5 paragraphs" debate a few weeks back. Both Powerpoint and 5 paragraphs are designed to allow inexperience and/or mediocre communicators to get their point across adequately. Neither are intended to be the sine qua non for experts in communication. If you are the sort who rambles, gets off point, wanders, and overruns your time, powerpoint is good. If you are the sort who rambles, gets off point, wanders, and writes in 10 pages what can be presented in 1, 5 paragraphs (and its relatives, for longer/shorter theses) is a useful starting point. If you are the great communicator, on paper or in person, Powerpoint is less useful. Same with 5 paragraphs.
Powerpoint is an acknowledgement that presentations by certain people are going to be painful to sit through. They might as well be painful, but organized.Posted by: rvman at December 17, 2003 08:07 AM | PERMALINK
My pet peeve has always been gratuitous use of 3-D. If the information you are presenting is fundamentally 2-D in nature, using 3-D boxes, etc. just makes the diagram look too "busy".
Also, I am relatively confident that if you tested two versions, one a simple 2-D diagram, and the other a fancy 3-D diagram, the 2-D version would result in faster, more accurate interpretations. (Unless, of course, you are trying to present information that is fundamentally 3-D in nature, such as function over 2 dimensions.)Posted by: someone at December 17, 2003 08:40 AM | PERMALINK
"Powerpoint isn't the problem, it's the users. I know it's a cliche."
"PP has proven to be a perfect sheild for the inept and incompetent. "
"I HATE Being on the other End of a Power Point Presentation."
You could substitute the "five paragraph essay" for powerpoint in about any of these.
And, Kevin, I LOVE Excel. Same is true for it as for all technological crutches.Posted by: denise at December 17, 2003 08:42 AM | PERMALINK
Boy, that was badly written. I didn't mean I love all tech crutches. I meant they can all be wonderful if used properly and a nightmare if used poorly.Posted by: denise at December 17, 2003 08:43 AM | PERMALINK
This is old news and was at least referred to in the November Atlantic Monthly's cover story.Posted by: monocle at December 17, 2003 10:21 AM | PERMALINK
I work for a webcasting company and after having seen hundreds of different PowerPoint presentations by major corporations in different industries over a span of several years, I can safely say that 99.9% of all people are completely incapable of communicating ANYTHING through PPT. People try to use bullet points to explain complex scientific, financial, technical (etc) concepts and it just doesn't work. (But it is good for sales pitches, I must say.)
Tufte is indeed a crank, but he gives a damn good information design seminar, lemme tell ya...Posted by: Angela at December 17, 2003 11:27 AM | PERMALINK
It isn't just PP, though the program makes horrible presentations easy enough to delude bad presenters into thinking that presentations don't require careful thought before, during and after, and for that it earns my animosity.
In my experience, we as a people have _wretched_ visual argumentation skills. My students, even the brightest, most articulate of them, turned into the visual equivalent of three-year-olds babbling when asked to do presentations or web-based work.
This is deeply disturbing, not simply from a "God, no more bullet-points!" perspective; if people are unable to create a decent visual argument, they are also unable to dissect one created by someone else. Given the power of visuals to persuade audiences, I am worried about our national illiteracy on this point.Posted by: Rana at December 17, 2003 01:13 PM | PERMALINK
Jon nailed it above. People aren't taught to do presentations: they're taught PowerPoint. People aren't taught to write documents: they're taught Word.
Back in the dark ages, if you had to typeset something you'd need to talk to a typesetter, who would have at least some knowledge of proper design and some restraint. Now, you use a word processing or typesetting package, and have no idea what you're doing. The "explosion in a type foundry" results from not knowing good design. (By the way, ever notice how bad the typesetting is in Word?)
Now, horror of horrors, everyone's editing their own home videos. I have to learn to sleep with my eyes open.Posted by: RichK at December 17, 2003 01:16 PM | PERMALINK
It isn't that PowerPoint is bad, or that something in the nature of PowerPoint contributed to the communications failure that resulted in the Columbia flameout.
PowerPoint is designed to facilitate a particular style of presentation. That presentation style has been used by aerospace contractors and their opposite numbers in the government bureaucracies for decades.
Twenty years ago, I was a graduate student in SoCal, while a friend of mine was working for a Big Aerospace firm there as well. Hearing about his work as an "engineer", I said in jest, "It sounds like your job isn't to design satellites at all, but to design viewgraphs with bullet points." His answer: "That's about the size of it, yes."
Now with PowerPoint as part of Microsoft Office, installed at point of sale on millions of PCs, everyone has what it takes to be an aerospace engineer. Were you afraid that using a PC was like rocket science? Guess what: it is.Posted by: Alan Bostick at December 17, 2003 04:10 PM | PERMALINK
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The cycling community in southern Colorado is asking for support to keep a convicted killer locked up. Barbara Thomas, 64, was convicted in June 2009 of killing two cyclists the year before. Thomas was given a three year sentence and she is up for parole in the coming weeks.


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Tech at Night: Q&A with with Steve Scalise on Retransmission Consent; Snyder backs Marketplace Fairness Act; Lieberman-Collins gets opposition
Technical note: This was written Friday night, but due to technical difficulties at RedState, was only posted Saturday afternoon I know many RedState readers are big fans of Jim DeMint, so in my coverage of the Retransmission Consent debate, I've focused on him. However he's not the whole story. This Congress, due to the TEA party-driven Republican majority, it's been the House where our major | Read More »


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College Hockey:Eaves' OT Winner Lifts Eagles Home
Back to the FleetCenter and the Frozen Four for Boston College
MANCHESTER, N.H. — The hockey life of Boston College's Ben Eaves went from pure pain to amazing jubilation in the matter of 11 seconds, and with that sudden shift his Eagles are heading back to NCAA Frozen Four.
Just 11 seconds after returning to the ice after missing three shifts in overtime with dehydration cramps in his right quadriceps, Eaves knocked a rebound of his own shot past Michigan goaltender Al Montoya at 10:08 of overtime to give BC a 3-2 victory and send the Eagles to their fifth Frozen Four in seven years.
"[Ben] was lying down on the back part of the bench with [trainer] Bert [Lenz] trying to massage him," said head coach Jerry York. "I was trying to call the referee over to get this kid to the dressing room. Then Ben says to me suddenly, 'I can go.'
"He wasn't on the ice for 15 seconds and he scores. It's like a legend in the making."
Eaves was having none of the locker room talk.
"[Coach York] said something about going to the locker room, but I wanted to be on the bench," said Eaves who laid in back of the players bench in the area usually occupied by coaches and watched the game on the jumbotron while Lenz massaged his leg. "[Lenz] started rubbing ice on it and finally I got up and I could bend it."
Eaves, who only this weekend returned to a regular shift after missing much of the second half recovering from a broken kneecap, returned at 9:57 of the first overtime and went to work. Off the ensuing faceoff, Peter Harrold made a move to drag the puck around a Michigan defender and get the initial shot on goal. Ben's younger brother Patrick, the Northeast Regional Most Outstanding Player, fired a second shot on Montoya (42 saves). Ben Eaves was at the left faceoff circle to take a second shot that bounced in the air above Montoya, and showing no signs of injury, skated towards the net and batted the puck out of the air and across the goal line to send the 8,439 in attendance, mostly BC fans, into pandemonium.
"We were watching a Bobby Orr [highlight] video on the way up here," said the younger of the two Eaves, Patrick. "He knocked a puck out of the air from behind the net and that's exactly what Ben did tonight. I was standing the watching and was just like, 'Wow!'"
The actual story of Eaves' comeback goes far beyond Sunday's overtime. He missed 15 games from early January through to the final regular season game on March 6th. After seeing limited action in the Hockey East playoffs, his first true test was this weekend's regional in Manchester, N.H.
"Ben's heart is too big, he's not going to sit back on the bench [in a big game]," said Patrick. "When he came back out [after the injury in overtime] I knew that he was there. I can't say enough about what he did. It's the bravest thing in hockey I've ever seen."
The goal propels BC to a Frozen Four date with Maine in the national semifinal, 6 p.m. (ET) on Thursday, April 8. Getting to that point, though, was a very difficult task against a good Michigan team and a great goalie in Montoya.
BC outshot the Wolverines, 45-17, on the game but thanks to Montoya's play, had to fight back just to tie it and send it to overtime.
"Montoya is an unbelievable goalie," said Pat Eaves, who was teammates with the Michigan sophomore on this year's goal-medal winning U.S. Junior National Team. "I don't know how to describe him, he's just always there to make the save."
The opening period featured Boston College outshooting the Wolverines, 9-4, but in essence it was a very balanced period territorially, despite the shot discrepancy.
Most importantly, the Wolverine scored the only goal of the period when rookie Mike Brown fired a shot from the right faceoff circle on the rush that squeaked between the right armpit and body on BC goalie Matti Kaltiainen (15 saves) at 12:09.
As much as the shot chart wasn't a good representation in the first, it perfectly described the second. BC held a lopsided 15-3 advantage in shots, literally dominating Michigan in the frame. The story, though, was the fact that each team scored once to give Michigan the lead heading to the third.
After pinning Michigan in its defensive zone for the majority of the opening nine minutes, BC finally got on the board at 9:02 when Tony Voce scored his 29th goal of the year. Just seconds after Pat Eaves hit the post for BC from the left point, Voce, camped at the right post, found the puck on his stick and lifted it over a sprawled Montoya to finally give the BC faithful something to cheer about.
The BC dominance continued and Michigan was held without a shot until Jason Ryznar fired a grade 'A' one-timer that Kaltiainen got his left pad on at 12:13 of the second. As the struggles continued for the Wolverines, the game's first major turning point put Michigan back on top.
As Dwight Helminen pursued a loose puck into the Michigan offensive zone, Kaltiainen came out of the net to push it away. He successfully got a piece of the puck but couldn't clear it, meaning that he was stuck in the corner with the Michigan offense pressing. An original shot on net was stopped by BC defenseman J.D. Forrest, playing goaltender in the crease. Michigan's only senior, Andy Burnes, though jumped into the action and one-timed a blast from the right point before Kaltiainen got back to the net, to give Michigan a 2-1 lead through two.
In the third, it was Michigan's turn to come to life offensively. And it was Kaltiainen's turn to come up big when challenged.
Back-to-back saves kept BC in the game, the first at 8:57, was a left post bid by T.J. Hensick, and the second, just seconds later came on David Moss, who broke in two-on-none but chose to shoot only to have Kaltiainen flash the glove to keep it a one-goal game.
Those shots were part of a 9:39 second burst by Michigan without a stoppage in play. With 4:51 remaining, Michigan was finally whistled for icing. And on the next faceoff, BC gave Michigan a taste of its medicine, scoring to steal back the game's momentum, and more importantly, even the game.
Peter Harrold began the play, wristing a shot from the right point. Ben Eaves deflected the shot in front and Montoya placed the rebound right on brother Pat's stick. With the net open, he deposited the puck at 15:16 to knot the game at two.
BC had one final burst in regulation as Harrold's shot from the point caught Montoya by surprise and ended up on Ben Eaves' stick. Somewhat out of position, Montoya still got a pad on the elder Eaves' shot with 37.5 seconds left to keep the game even and send the game to overtime with BC holding an incredibly lop-sided 37-12 through 60 minutes.
In the overtime, Michigan had a flurry of chances, and one that sticks out that almost propelled the Maize and Blue to Boston. Kaltiainen made an initial save on T.J. Hensick, and then on a follow up attempt got his left toe on a shot that most thought was headed in the net.
"I saw it going in the net and all of a sudden he flashes his leg out there," said J.D. Forrest, who then, without a stick threw the puck between his legs to get out of harm's way.
After that flurry, BC began to take back momentum and finally Eaves' goal at 10:08 ended the extremely entertaining regional final.
The loss ends a three-year streak of consecutive Frozen Four appearances for the Wolverines. Michigan has advanced to the Frozen Four 22 times, more than any other team.
BC, on the other hand, will make its 18th Frozen Four appearance, tying it with Minnesota for third all time. The Eagles will be looking for their third national championship, and first since 2001, when this year's senior class — Ben Eaves included — captured the title.
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My take on what happened at the Cullen house the day Edward bought a bed. Takes place during ECLIPSE.
poor edward. maybe he needs some tips from Domward?
This one-shot was written for the 2010 Twilight Winter Gift Exchange.
Edward has grown to adulthood as the only child of a farming family. Hoping to earn extra money, he travels to the city each day, ultimately finding more than he bargained for within one of the mansions of affluent Chicago. AU, B&E, explicit lemons.
a sweet story. i'm glad i had something so tender to read today.
Thank you! I'm so glad you enjoyed it. It was a lot of fun to write as a Christmas gift...
The NM-AU you've never read before! Edward breaks up with Bella, but he doesn't leave town. Alice has seen that in order for Bella to move on, she must see him move on. Will they ever find their way back together?
i can understand being nervous since you're out of your comfort zone, but i have to say - well done! it never fails to amaze me when authors twist the story just a bit and get such an exciting premise. i recall wondering how alice didn't see what would happen and show edward; you took that to the next level. i look forward to more.
Edward and Bella have a conversation about their daughter's newest development. Assumed B/E. Crack!fic. One-shot.
Unexpectedly thrust into a dangerous situation, will Edward risk his family's secrecy to ensure Bella's safety?
hmm. i'm intrigued. looking forward to your next update.
I'm glad I've captured your interest! The next chapter is awaiting validation, so with luck an update should appear fairly soon. Thanks so much for reviewing!
Ready for some fun? After a confining newborn year, Izzy finds herself in more trouble than she bargained for. Dark days lay ahead as she faces new enemies, old friends, a past that won't stay dead and a future that is alive with more craziness than you can poke a stick at. Sequel to Dirty Dancing with the Devil Herself.
i am impressed by the thought and research you put into this chapter alone. this is just another example of the brilliance i encounter in fan fic.
Bella Swan is, according to her friend Jasper Hale, "that girl that every guy in high school falls in love with at least twice." Jasper's new foster brother, Edward, is convinced he's kidding. After all, he can see that Bella's acting, that her perfection is the cover for her true self.
But Edward has secrets of his own, and he's sure he'd be better off without them coming to the surface. His past of multiple foster houses and gang violence aren't the worst of his problems.
Their meeting is an accident. Or maybe fate.
(and you see that incredibly amazing banner of incredible amazingness? my beta, Dr_Twilight_PharmD, who constantly goes above and beyond the call of Beta Duty, made that for me)
this chapter started out so sweet and hopeful; it just about killed me to see megan like that. i can understand zach's anger, i'm just concerned about the consequences for all of them.
as a high school teacher i can't thank you enough for your a/n.
And as a high school student, I can't say how much I appreciate how much you and all your colleagues do to help me and all mine. Thanks for reading.
i hesitated to read this story because of the gang aspects, but i am happy that i gave it a try.
i worry for bella's sanity with all those AP courses!
Yeah, that's my junior year schedule. The difference is that I was class vice president instead.
great closing line for rosalie, and i totally agree with edward's fail. i have to say that i can see where he's coming from...
i love how slow they're taking things. if i could only go back in time...
and the bit about the scars, sad and tender, both.
Not all is as it seems when the Edwards from two different universes find a journal that can bridge the gap between them. Things become even stranger when the reality of one universe starts to bleed into the other, since in one universe vampires exist, and in the other universe, they do not.
Until now.
i find myself intrigued. you have never failed me, so i'm in.
Thank you!!!!
wow.n you really took the alternate universe idea to a whole new level. i like it!
LOL, thank you!
i'm curious as to where you got this idea. something feels familiar about the journal serving as a link, but i can't remember.
anyway, loving the story!
I can't say one way or another. I didn't see something else that inspired it for me, but you never know what's out there.
love the last line!
Thanks! This story really is so much fun to write!
I tilted my head closer toward my wife's tummy, though I didn't necessarily need to do so in order to hear the baby's budding thoughts, but I wanted to be closer, still marveling over everything that was happening. Oh, I'm sorry – I'm so sorry for every doubt I had. I'm sorry. Everything was suddenly becoming extremely sharp – I now understood exactly why Bella was so ready to give her life up to make sure this child lived.
Because, I knew that if it were me, I would make the same decision – my life was nothing compared to that of my child's.
Edward's experiences spanning from when he first hears the baby's thoughts until Bella awakes from her change (with a little steam in the middle).
i completely agree with your explanations for the interpretations of events in BD. alice was obviously not feeling the affection that the others did, and although i felt a bit uncomfortable with edward's physical reactions to biting bella, they are completely logical.
THIS is why i love fanfic: new insights.
:) Thank you!
this is so sweet! i love all of the little details, especially nessie wetting her diaper!
best of luck with NaNoWriMo!
In All of Me, Bella chooses to serve Edward as his 24/7 consensual slave, but while she serves his needs, Edward is always looking for ways to fulfill hers. Exploiting the voyeuristic tendencies of their gardener, Jacob, is just one way Edward does that.
In this sideshot, we get to see Jacob's perspective, as he is looking from the outside in and learn how this arrangement came about. It is best read after Chapter 22 of the main story.
WARNING: This story contains strong, graphic language, graphic sexual situations and BDSM. Please read with caution.
if. if. if we we want more. that's sarcasm, right?
so. what did i think? hot. sexy. funny. perfect.
Written for the What About Alice? Contest. Alice feels lost in New Moon when Edward leaves.
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wow. i am constantly overwhelmed by the talented authors on this site. it never occurred to me that alice would blame herself because of the party. this is the second story i've read this week, but only one of less than a dozen overall, that are now part of the twilight saga. as far as i'm concerned, this happened.
Thank you so much for the review and your many compliments. Please be sure to vote for this story on July 10th at http://fanfiction-challenges.blogspot.com/ Thanks again!
~Twivamp :)
Post-Eclipse ONE-SHOT.
Jacob has returned; and is desperate to stop the wedding. When he's offered a chance to change fate, will he take the risk? And where will it lead them?
Jacob lovers beware.
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wow. that just blew me away.
Happy to be of service!
Bella is enjoying a wonderful cloudy day at the beach with her vampire boyfriend Edward when she gets stung by a jellyfish. Jasper helps tend to Bella's sting and Bella learns new things about Jasper she never knew.
i've always loved the relationship between bella and jasper. he's so afraid to hurt her and so protective of her.
Yeah, it's such an interesting friendship for them. Thanks for reviewing!!
One night in a dark, crowded bar can change everything. J/B/E.
My entry in the P.I.C's Two's Company, Three's A Party Polyamorous Contest.
Thanks to ms_ambrosia for the great banner.
been rec'ing your stories all over! you just don't disappoint!
Alice gets invited on a date with her dream guy, but all is not as it seems.
My entry for the FML contest.
Thanks to ms_ambrosia for the banner.
ouch. at least edward was cool about it!
Bella and Edward return from Volterra just in time for English final papers. As they struggle to "cure" their relationship wounds, Bella's analysis of Juliet reveals just how far they have to go, and just how alike their stories actually are. Mostly IC. Takes place actually post-New Moon, pre-Eclipse, pushes Eclipse back a bit so I guess sort of Eclipse-AU?
i'm so caught up with this story already! you captured their personalities and characters quite well, and i loved the interaction with mike.
really, really looking forward to more.
Bella is an uppity, bitchy, in-demand movie star. Edward is her busboy...or is he?
nice. *special case* i love it!
Sweet Tooth is the sweet but warped love story of Edward Cullen, a lonely baker of erotic pastry, and Bella Swan, a curious woman with a curious philia. King Schlong introduced them... will buttercream frosting be enough to bring them together?
Rec'd by Jessypt on the Perv Pack Smut Shack!
i love sweets and work at a"sex shop" so you captured my attention right away.
i agree with carlisle - edward is a freak. i don't see anything wrong with that.
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FINDLAY, Ohio (AP) — An orange cat that got a lot of attention when it was rescued after spending days in an Ohio drainpipe during severely cold weather has recovered and been adopted.
The Hancock County Humane Society's animal control officer tells The Courier in Findlay (http://bit.ly/1dYswKw ) the new owners promised that the male cat, dubbed Piper, would be kept indoors.
The cat initially refused attempts to lure it out of the pipe with tuna, the classic call of "here, kitty, kitty" and even a cellphone app that meowed. Groundskeepers at a school in Findlay cut through the pipe Jan. 10 to free the cat, which was muddy, emaciated and hypothermic.
A veterinarian says Piper turned out to be a pleasant, happy creature despite the health problems.
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Talented funnywoman Melissa McCarthy has been on a roll for the past couple of years. She won an Emmy for CBS comedy "Mike and Molly" in 2011, stole the show and received an Oscar nomination for box office hit "Bridesmaids" in 2012, and then proved her headliner appeal alongside Jason Bateman in poorly reviewed if box-office boffo "Identity Thief" in early 2013. McCarthy recently sat down with Dave Itzkoff of the New York Times and talked her upcoming comedy "The Heat," in which she stars with Sandra Bullock as an odd couple of law enforcers; the key to her comedy; and that notorious Rex Reed review of "Identity Thief." Interview highlights below.
On getting aggressive with Bullock during a scene where they simultaneously squeeze through a doorway:
"I thought, I may just have one shot at this. I'm going to push Sandy Bullock as hard as I can. I'm, like, really, really shoving her. She's tiny but she's mighty and she would push back. It was a true fight to the death."
On the key difference between a crazy character and an eccentric one:
"You push so far past the normal boundaries of what's O.K. in society. I'm always fully aware of, 'You can't do this'… When someone really believes in what they're saying, but it's crazy, it's like my favorite thing on earth… [But] Crazy's just crazy and there's nowhere to go. You can have a point of view, it can be very strange, but we have to know your reasoning."
On Rex Reed's notorious review of "Identity Thief," in which he called McCarthy "tractor-sized":
"Really? Why would someone O.K. that? I felt really bad for someone who is swimming in so much hate. I just thought, that's someone who's in a really bad spot, and I am in such a happy spot. I laugh my head off every day with my husband and my kids who are mooning me and singing me songs... [Articles like that] just add to all those younger girls, that are not in a place in their life where they can say, 'That doesn't reflect on me'… That makes it more true. It means you don't actually look good enough."


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So far we are learning about Minnesota and Mississippi.
I would love to trade postcards with someone who wants to get one from North Carolina.
If someone knows how or wants to start a postcard trade please include me. We want to make a book with all the state postcards and other info for each state for the year.


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Virtually every day in Onslow County, traffic tickets, search warrants and arrest warrants are served and filed. Once they are, they become a public record and available to anyone who wants to see them. Citations, warrants, subpoenas and court decisions are among the criminal and judicial documents eligible for public inspection.
�The only thing that would not be open to the public are warrants that haven�t been served and those that have been sealed by a judge,� Cindy Casteen, an assistant clerk at Onslow County District Court said. �That will sometimes happen during an ongoing investigation.�
Casteen said the majority of people who come through her office looking for records are attorneys, their assistants and other court officials, but she mentioned criminal background checks by businesses and individuals are also popular reasons for visits to the records office.
According to the North Carolina Court System, certified copies of background checks can be obtained from all 100 counties in the state for $25 as a money order or as a certified check. In order to obtain a copy of the background check, you must contact the clerk of court and fill out a form found on the court system�s website. The form asks for the county of the search, the name of person being searched and the name, address and signature of the requester.
According to Casteen, background checks for Onslow County go back to 1983, when criminal records were first computerized.
�You�ll have people coming up here to get (background checks) for things like child custody cases or if they�re getting one for their job,� Casteen said.
Assistant Clerk of Court Loretta Schippert said background checks are in high demand now that an increasing number of employers are demanding them from prospective employees.
�With people getting jobs now, they�re requiring those checks from everyone,� Schippert said. �They want to make sure you have a good criminal history. They want to make sure you�re not prone to (breaking and entering) or any other criminal activity. That�s becoming more frequent.�
Criminal records can be researched and viewed upstairs at the Summersill Courts Building next to Superior Court on Court Street in Downtown Jacksonville. Court records can be found at both the Summersill building and Superior Court, depending on where the case was decided.
Individual criminal records and court cases can also be found on a public computer upstairs at the Summersill building. According to Casteen, many county residents are aware of their rights to public information, but she wants to remind those who aren�t that the information is there and it�s available.
�Most people know records like those are public,� Casteen said, �but it�s still important to know they can access it.�
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could help Pfizer on several fronts. It would bolster the pipeline of cancer drugs in development, allow it to re-domicile in Britain to take advantage of a significantly lower corporate tax rate there, and to use tens of billions of dollars it has overseas without having to pay high taxes to bring the cash back to the United States.
Both companies' shares rose with the original announcement, a sure sign investors liked the idea.
Pfizer has declined to comment on its strategy.
"We believe we will make an offer that is attractive to the shareholders of AstraZeneca," said Pfizer spokeswoman Joan Campion.
A hostile bid would be complicated by the fact that Pfizer needs the deal to have a substantial stock component in order to do the tax inversion and re-domicile in Britain. A straightforward cash offer would not accomplish that.
Marshall Gordon, healthcare analyst for ClearBridge Investments, which holds more than 20 million Pfizer shares and more than 729,000 AstraZeneca ADRs, said he believes the largest U.S. drugmaker does not want to go hostile, but might have painted itself into a corner.
"They need to get this deal done because they've gone public with it and the market has said they like the deal," Gordon said. "It's hard to back down now."
Gordon expects Pfizer to up the ante.
"To get Astra's management to the table and get a friendly agreement, Pfizer will have to offer more. There's probably some room to go."
Len Yaffe, portfolio manager for the healthcare fund StockDoc Partners - which has Pfizer holdings - believes Pfizer is more likely to walk away than take its case directly to AstraZeneca shareholders.
He sees the deal as far less essential to Pfizer than its 2000 purchase of Warner-Lambert, which was necessary for it to gain full control of the cholesterol-fighting drug Lipitor.
Pfizer took that bid directly to Warner-Lambert shareholders, ultimately buying the company for $90 billion.
"If they go hostile, I would be surprised, but Pfizer has to replenish the pipeline for their next phase of growth," Yaffe added.
In 2008, when Pfizer was frustrated in its attempts to reach a deal with rival Wyeth, it signaled its willingness to go hostile. The two sides reached a $68 billion agreement completed in 2009.
"When it became clear that Pfizer was willing to go hostile, (Wyeth) entered talks relatively quickly," recalled Seamus Fernandez, an analyst with Leerink Partners.


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Selective IgA deficiency
Other Names for this Disease
- Immunoglobulin A, selective deficiency of
- IgA, selective deficiency of
- Gamma-A-globulin, selective deficiency of
- Immunoglobulin A deficiency 1
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- ClinicalTrials.gov lists trials that are studying or have studied Selective IgA deficiency. Click on the link to go to ClinicalTrials.gov to read descriptions of these studies.
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I won tourneys on all of them besides ipy. Name one server worth a damn of playing scrub.
And Chopper X would easily be in the top 5 of all time UO players across any era. The only 2 people id put ahead of him would be Roach (obviously) and HMU. Both i have also beaten, and if you havent heard of them names you're a nobody.
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-you have 3 slots usually one character can specialize in one crafting, yes you can't do everything on you own
-growing, players online everytime, atleast in the city where iam, i guess some remote places are empty
and same as darkfall you cant log in and PVP, you need to build your char (4-7 days if you know how) and more important you need players to craft shit for you you cant do...shocking in a MMO i know
Darkfall Unholy Wars
Playing Darkfall is the most fun I've ever had on a computer with my pants zipped up and both hands on the desk.