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Notorious T.R.E.
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Wife out of town, kid sick. Mimosas still? Or wait to drunk until after urgent care?
Limp Ditka
Footballguy
urgent care will probably have a wait. I suggest getting drunk during that wait time.
Notorious T.R.E.
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Agree more OTs would be better, but this is exciting
belljr
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belljr
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Notorious T.R.E.
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First bacon and soccer I think.
Homer J Simpson
I don't push
bentley
Footballguy
Guster hit the big stuff. Especially on the charts. If you want people to pay attention to the bottom left corner of a chart, highlight it. Or inlcude only that info.
No animations or transitions ever unless they have a specific purpose. Like if you have a slide with three or four VERY SHORT bullet points have them build so that people aren't reading ahead.
Every element on your slide should serve a purpose or it should be deleted.
PowerPoint is a great tool. Most people suck at using it.
Guster
Footballguy
FrustratingAgree more OTs would be better, but this is exciting
Notorious T.R.E.
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Ruh roh
Guster
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belljr
Footballguy
Notorious T.R.E.
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Whee!
T Bell
Footballguy
T Bell
Footballguy
The basic fade is a nice transition, but I agree that anything more starts getting distracting, and definitely don't be one of those people who needs a different transition for every slide.
bostonfred
Footballguy
No matter how important your point, you can always condense it to one line. If you have to add a bullet underneath, that's fine, but there should never be one sub bullet - always two or more. You don't want people to read paragraphs while you're talking, you want them to listen to you. If they're reading, they won't really be paying attention to you and they won't really remember what they read. Also, each slide should be associated with one point or learning objective. When you've finished your first draft, go back and move bullet points around so they're on the right slides. If you have a lot of pictures, use fewer words. Don't show a bar graph and then have bullets that explain what every bar on the bar graph says. Use a couple bullet points (or better yet callouts) if you absolutely must. If you just have one picture you want to discuss (like a screenshot of an application), use it more than once. Show it on one slide so they an see what you're talking about, then show a bigger version of it on the next slide where you look at it in more detail.
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Condense bullets to one line
- Can add sub bullets
- Should use two or more sub bullets
Don't write full paragraphs on slides
- People will read the slide instead of listening to you
- Reduces impact of what you say AND what you wrote
One learning objective per slide
- Move bullet points to the right slides
- Should be done after the first draft
Pictures
- Explain concepts better than bullets
- Don't require as many bullets
Using Pictures
- Bad: Bar graph with bullets that explain what every bar on the bar graph says
- Good: Use a couple bullet points to explain key points
- Better: Use callouts to point out the key points on the graph
Using Pictures (Continued)
- Bad: Showing an important picture only once.
- Good: Introduce is on one slide then drill in later
- Better: Show a bigger copy on later slides to call out key details
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Condense bullets to one line
- Can add sub bullets
- Should use two or more sub bullets
Don't write full paragraphs on slides
- People will read the slide instead of listening to you
- Reduces impact of what you say AND what you wrote
One learning objective per slide
- Move bullet points to the right slides
- Should be done after the first draft
Pictures
- Explain concepts better than bullets
- Don't require as many bullets
Using Pictures
- Bad: Bar graph with bullets that explain what every bar on the bar graph says
- Good: Use a couple bullet points to explain key points
- Better: Use callouts to point out the key points on the graph
Using Pictures (Continued)
- Bad: Showing an important picture only once.
- Good: Introduce is on one slide then drill in later
- Better: Show a bigger copy on later slides to call out key details
Guster
Footballguy
T Bell
Footballguy
bostonfred
Footballguy
don't write long paragraphs in ppt. i wrote a long unreadable paragraph, then broke it into bullets that said the exact same thing.
Guster
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DocGonzo
Footballguy
My taser case.....I'll try to just give you the Readers Digest version. But I'll go ahead and put a tl;dr here because I know I'll fail....maybe I'll split it into two posts...
My guy was the passenger in a car that was stopped around midnight for having a tail light out. Both he and the driver had had a couple of drinks, though neither was intoxicated. Eventually, the driver would be charged with DUI, but that case would be dismissed. My guy gets in and out of the car a couple of times and the officer finally tells him to walk away and go home. (I'm leaving out a ton of detail here in the interest of keeping this short.) In the meantime three other officers arrive. My guy didn't do everything right, getting out of the car twice was stupid, but he was polite and non-confrontational. He's approached by officer #2, who has been on the force for something like 6 weeks and is very aggressive. My guy has already been told by officer #1 that he can just wallk home. Officer #2 didn't hear this and begins giving conflicting commands. My guy gets his iPhone out and starts filming as he begins walking away.
Skip a bunch of details.
Moments later my guy hears officer #3 or #4 tell him "leave now or go to jail." He begins walking away, but he's still half facing them and taping. The three officers follow him. One of them apparently tells him to stop and that he's under arrest. He didn't hear it, and it isn't clear on the tape from the dashcam if it was ever said. This particular officer didn't activate his dashcam, so his body mic wasn't recording either. He turns his back to them to walk away and all three grab him and take him face down to the pavement. His arms are pinned underneath him. He isn't fighting with them but he isn't giving his arms up quickly enough for them either. Yada, yada, yada, they tase him a few times and arrest him, ostensibly for interfering with the traffic stop, and now for assaulting a police officer, ostensibly because one of them took an elbow from somebody when they took him down.
They take his phone as evidence and arrest him. He has to be taken to the hospital to be checked out because they tased him. They cuff one hand to the railing of the bed and he's polite and cooperative with the hospital staff. He goes through all the triage stuff and everything else without incident. He asks one of the officers where his phone is and tells him he wants it back. He knows he's got the whole incident on the street on video. The officer tells him it's evidence and he can't have it back. My guy tells him that in that case he's refusing any further medical treatment and again asks for his phone. He fears that his video may disappear before he gets the phone back. There is some conversation back and forth in this regard. The officers tell him that if he doesn't lay back and let the nurse treat the scrapes on his face/knee they're going to tase him again. He again states he just wants his phone back.
Each officer then uses the taser in drive stun mode (think: cattleprod) on each of his thighs while he's cuffed to the bed. He lays back, they cuff his other hand to the bed, and he gets his scrapes treated....
My guy was the passenger in a car that was stopped around midnight for having a tail light out. Both he and the driver had had a couple of drinks, though neither was intoxicated. Eventually, the driver would be charged with DUI, but that case would be dismissed. My guy gets in and out of the car a couple of times and the officer finally tells him to walk away and go home. (I'm leaving out a ton of detail here in the interest of keeping this short.) In the meantime three other officers arrive. My guy didn't do everything right, getting out of the car twice was stupid, but he was polite and non-confrontational. He's approached by officer #2, who has been on the force for something like 6 weeks and is very aggressive. My guy has already been told by officer #1 that he can just wallk home. Officer #2 didn't hear this and begins giving conflicting commands. My guy gets his iPhone out and starts filming as he begins walking away.
Skip a bunch of details.
Moments later my guy hears officer #3 or #4 tell him "leave now or go to jail." He begins walking away, but he's still half facing them and taping. The three officers follow him. One of them apparently tells him to stop and that he's under arrest. He didn't hear it, and it isn't clear on the tape from the dashcam if it was ever said. This particular officer didn't activate his dashcam, so his body mic wasn't recording either. He turns his back to them to walk away and all three grab him and take him face down to the pavement. His arms are pinned underneath him. He isn't fighting with them but he isn't giving his arms up quickly enough for them either. Yada, yada, yada, they tase him a few times and arrest him, ostensibly for interfering with the traffic stop, and now for assaulting a police officer, ostensibly because one of them took an elbow from somebody when they took him down.
They take his phone as evidence and arrest him. He has to be taken to the hospital to be checked out because they tased him. They cuff one hand to the railing of the bed and he's polite and cooperative with the hospital staff. He goes through all the triage stuff and everything else without incident. He asks one of the officers where his phone is and tells him he wants it back. He knows he's got the whole incident on the street on video. The officer tells him it's evidence and he can't have it back. My guy tells him that in that case he's refusing any further medical treatment and again asks for his phone. He fears that his video may disappear before he gets the phone back. There is some conversation back and forth in this regard. The officers tell him that if he doesn't lay back and let the nurse treat the scrapes on his face/knee they're going to tase him again. He again states he just wants his phone back.
Each officer then uses the taser in drive stun mode (think: cattleprod) on each of his thighs while he's cuffed to the bed. He lays back, they cuff his other hand to the bed, and he gets his scrapes treated....
DocGonzo
Footballguy
Eventually he pleads guilty to simple assault (never would have let him do that if I had repped him on the criminal case.) When they release his phone to him, you guessed it, the video is gone. Each taser keeps track of every trigger pull. Information like date, time, and duration of the discharge is recorded and can be downloaded later. We demand all of this is preserved. They send us info for one taser and tell us the rest of them have dataport problems and the information can't be retrieved. Eventually, despite our preservation letter, they send them off to the manufacturer to be destroyed and replaced.
That's the gist of it. We fought the case for the past 3.5 years. We beat their motions to dismiss in the trial court. We beat their appeals on those motions in the US Court of Appeals, and eventually we decided to resolve the case through binding arbitration and a "mini-trial." We didn't win on every count, but one of the big ones was the tasing in the hospital and we won on that one. The officers actually testified that they had to tase him while he was cuffed to the bed because (a) the bed had wheels on it and he could've escaped; and (2) the whole ER room is basically one big weapon and if he got loose he could hit them with a heart monitor or grab a sharp implement out of a drawer.
We got a good result for him. It meant a lot to me personally because this is the kind of case I went to law school for. It also meant a lot because it's tough keeping the lights on when you're a solo practitioner just starting out. The check I got from this case will pay off a lot of student loan debt that has accumulated and will take some (ok, a lot) of the pressure off. The check for my fees hasn't even cleared yet and I'm already sleeping better at night knowing that I can pay my bills. Mostly, though, it meant a lot because of what it meant to my client and his family. While we were celebrating Thursday night his mom kept hugging me and thanking me for "standing up for her family." I just kind of smiled and accepted the compliment, but this was all about her son standing up for himself. He deserves all the credit. He never cared about getting money out of this. He always cared about making these guys face that they did something wrong, and he always hoped standing up for himself meant this woudn't happen to somebody else (the case actually did result in one of the departments changing some of their use of force policies.) All we did was take his case and spend about 3.5 years driving this team of defense lawyers nuts because we wouldn't settle for peanuts. I've got a lot to learn still, but one thing I'll take away from this is that I think having a good client can make you a better lawyer.
So, that's the (too long) short version of why we were celebrating and why I thought to come to the GMTAN for drink recommendations. They didn't have Aftershock so we couldn't go with that. Apparently they really like brandy though.
That's the gist of it. We fought the case for the past 3.5 years. We beat their motions to dismiss in the trial court. We beat their appeals on those motions in the US Court of Appeals, and eventually we decided to resolve the case through binding arbitration and a "mini-trial." We didn't win on every count, but one of the big ones was the tasing in the hospital and we won on that one. The officers actually testified that they had to tase him while he was cuffed to the bed because (a) the bed had wheels on it and he could've escaped; and (2) the whole ER room is basically one big weapon and if he got loose he could hit them with a heart monitor or grab a sharp implement out of a drawer.
We got a good result for him. It meant a lot to me personally because this is the kind of case I went to law school for. It also meant a lot because it's tough keeping the lights on when you're a solo practitioner just starting out. The check I got from this case will pay off a lot of student loan debt that has accumulated and will take some (ok, a lot) of the pressure off. The check for my fees hasn't even cleared yet and I'm already sleeping better at night knowing that I can pay my bills. Mostly, though, it meant a lot because of what it meant to my client and his family. While we were celebrating Thursday night his mom kept hugging me and thanking me for "standing up for her family." I just kind of smiled and accepted the compliment, but this was all about her son standing up for himself. He deserves all the credit. He never cared about getting money out of this. He always cared about making these guys face that they did something wrong, and he always hoped standing up for himself meant this woudn't happen to somebody else (the case actually did result in one of the departments changing some of their use of force policies.) All we did was take his case and spend about 3.5 years driving this team of defense lawyers nuts because we wouldn't settle for peanuts. I've got a lot to learn still, but one thing I'll take away from this is that I think having a good client can make you a better lawyer.
So, that's the (too long) short version of why we were celebrating and why I thought to come to the GMTAN for drink recommendations. They didn't have Aftershock so we couldn't go with that. Apparently they really like brandy though.
DocGonzo
Footballguy
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Abraham
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Notorious T.R.E.
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Uruk-Hai
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Uruk-Hai
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Homer J Simpson
I don't push
Reading the word gym exhausts me.
strykerpks
Footballguy
Thanks for all the PowerPoint help. This just has to highlight some warehous/light manufacturing operations and services that my team does. There won't (shouldn't) be any graphs or heavy data.
Abraham
Footballguy
So is the internet.You guys underestimate the talent level in my gym. It's inspirational.
DocGonzo
Footballguy
Thanks for the congratulations and the kinds words guys. I lived and died with this thing for the last 3 or so years. I would get so exasperated by the other side's tactics that when we got their briefs my co-counsel and his secretary would leave my copy on my desk with a care package that consisted of a pack of smokes (before I quit, gum or chocolate after that) and a six pack of whatever local beer I was digging at the time. If it was real bad they'd leave a bottle of whiskey. I could always tell what level of anger they thought the other side's brief would inspire in me by what kind of booze they gave me with my copy of the brief.
So, yeah, I work with awesome people.
So, yeah, I work with awesome people.
Officer Pete Malloy
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