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Some might consider James Clark's recruiting strategy to have been mighty risky.
For Clark, however, putting off most of the entire recruiting process until after his senior season has paid huge dividends.
This morning the New Smyrna Beach slot receiver will put on the hat representing the college for which he has chosen to play the next four years. He has had an impressive array of suitors in the past month. Urban Meyer and Will Muschamp have wiped their feet at his door. Coaches from college football's elite schools have come calling.
If Clark, the No. 6-ranked player in the Sentinel's 2013 Central Florida Super60, had wasted his time on second-tier official visits during the season, he may not have had the opportunity to be picking from finalists Clemson, Florida and Ohio State on National Signing Day.
"I guess you can say that it kind of worked out to my advantage because I waited," said Clark as he prepared to whittle down his list of teams during the weekend. On Monday he cut Nebraska and Northwestern from his final five to make for today's hat trick of three schools remaining.
"I could have been in a situation where I had already taken three official visits to schools that I probably could have done a lot better than," he said.
Indeed, the list could have easily included Purdue.
Not that Purdue isn't worthy, but the Boilermakers fired coach Danny Hope in November, basically putting all previous offers on hold pending the hiring of a new staff. Clark visited Purdue with teammate Davarez Bryant Oct. 12.
"I was supposed to take a North Carolina visit too, during the season," Clark said. "I wanted to visit North Carolina, but they canceled on me. I guess they pulled the offer back."
It's a good thing. NCAA guidelines allow recruits to take five all-expenses paid visits to prospective colleges. Clark was able to visit four of his final five schools — Northwestern, Nebraska, Clemson and Ohio State and all of those trips were in December or January. He had to make a decision to visit Ohio State over in-state Florida with his final visit, but at least he could make the short drive to Gainesville to check out UF.
"When I look at it now, I'm so grateful that happened," Clark said of UNC pulling back its offer.
Not only was Clark able to take four visits after the season, he also didn't fall into the trap of feeling like he had to commit to a college early. It has been a year of change in college football this season and that was not lost on the 2013 Football Bowl Subdivision prospects.
There have been 30 changes in head coaches at the FBS level. That, combined with the wishy-washy nature of teen loyalty, has led to more than 80 instances of athletes backing off their commitments in state of Florida alone.
"I sat down with my coach and we talked about that a little bit," Clark said of New Smyrna Beach coach Lance Jenkins. "It's nice if you commit and all, but a lot of those guys don't go where they first commit."
The one thing Clark has had to deal with however, is taking in all of this process in the span of about two months. It's a lot to put on a 17-year-old kid, but his father said Clark has managed it well.
"I've been very impressed with the way he's handled it. He doesn't let it rattle him," said Jessie Clark, James Clark's dad. "He's on the phone almost every night, call after call, and he doesn't seem to let it bother him. He's gotten through it very well."
The process can be overbearing. Top prospects can receive 20 to 30 phone calls a night from coaches and reporters. They often ask all the same questions. James Clark, however, has been extremely accommodating. He's taken all the calls and politely put up with each and every query.
"It's really been a blessing for me," he said. "To have some of the top coaches in the country come into your living room and sit down on your couch and talk with you. A lot of kids don't get to do that."
Chris Hays is the Sentinel's recruiting coverage coordinator and can be reached at email@example.com. Follow us on Twitter at @Os_Recruiting and Facebook at Orlando Sentinel Recruiting and now on Pinterest at Orlando Recruiting.


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We got a later start than I'd hoped for, due to my morning WAR with my allergies, but finally after lunch I picked my mom up and off we went. She did a good job of getting into the car for me, which was a good sign. Before we left the parking lot of her facility, I put on her make-up and jewelry to get her looking like Mary Anne, and we plotted out our afternoon ride.
Our first stop would be in Hampton, at my mother's home (which she still owns and I take care of). She sat in the car while I went in to check the house and get the mail. When I came out, I noticed her neighbor sitting on her screened-in back porch. She hadn't realized my mom was with me, but when I told her, she came right over to chat with her. God is so good! This is just what my mother needed - a few minutes with an old friend - her neighbor of 46 years. I invited Mrs. Cappe to perch on the door-sill beside my mother, and sat by patiently while the two friends got caught up with each other, and Mrs. Cappe filled my mother in on the health of another previous neighbor. This little visit, though brief, did my mother a world of good, and served to continue the job of lifting her spirits, which the ride, the sunshine, and I had already begun. As an almost-afterthought, I decided to snap the two ladies' picture with my cell-phone just before we left. It's a dark shot, but still I'm glad I was able to capture the moment.
From here, we took a ride just a mile or so away, to the home of a dear friend and former co-worker of mine. I'd called to tell her that we were in the area, and wanted her to meet my mom, since she never had and she hears me talk about her all the time. The meeting was quick, but went well. :) Next stop - McDonald's to get the required Coca-Cola (I don't know how to make the brand-sign) which my mother requests whenever we go out. Then, it was onto to the interstate and off to Norfolk, where she was born and raised.
Our first stop on the south side was to Calvary Cemetery, the burial ground of my mother's mother and her paternal grandparents. I wanted to show her that there was no headstone or marker for them, a discovery I'd made when I first visited in January. She insists that there should have been a marker-plate for her mother, who died in 1986, and her brother has told me the same thing. Luckily, the plot is right by the side of the road, so my mother was able to see for herself that there was nothing there but grass. We drove around the cemetery a bit, looking at some of the surnames and unique graves (many of which I photographed on my last visit and have already uploaded to Find-A-Grave). Next, it was off to my mother's childhood home, which she also owns, and I also now take care of.
Again, Mom waited in the car while I did my walk-through of the now-vacant property, which is adjacent to ODU's campus. When I returned to the car, she reminisced a bit and commented on how the neighborhood was changing. We talked about the need to get new tenants or sell soon, noticed the completion of the new recreation center in the next block, and headed out of the neighborhood for the 45 minute drive back to her facility in Newport News.
All in all this was a great day with and for my mom. It saddens my heart that she, once such a vibrant and active member of the community, is now so physically confined by her failing body that she can't get out and about anymore, but I'm ever-so-glad that Spring has come, so that I can at least take her out on the weekends now.
On Tuesday, my mother will celebrate her 76th birthday. Yes, I said 76. The debilitating condition which has robbed her of her bodily control and ability to balance began to torment my mother eleven years ago, when she was only 65. I'm thankful that she still has her mind (although there are times when she is extremely sleepy and you might not believe it) and that she knows all of her family members and what is going on around her. This can be a mixed blessing though, because this means that she is well-aware of how seldom anyone else visits her, except for my daughters and me, but still it is a blessing. Mom has asked me to make a yellow cake with lemon icing for her birthday, and she wants vanilla ice-cream, so that's what we'll be having to celebrate. Oh, and if you're wondering what we'll be drinking... well, in this family, COKE is always IT!

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So I rolled a worgen -- no heirlooms, no gold from outside sources, just me and the quests, like the old days of vanilla WoW. The most important part to me was that I was going to forgo buying any upgrade gear from the Auction House, instead using only what dropped from quests or instances. Call it a moment of vanilla nostalgia if you will, but that's exactly what I had to do on my first character back in 2004, so I was going to do it again. I expected it to be tough; I expected it to take a while before I could even afford a mount at level 20.
I was so, so wrong. By the time I hit level 30, I had a little over 3k gold on my random alt, with little to no effort on my part. And I'm going to tell you exactly how I did it.
It all started with a pair of boots.


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GREEN BAY, Wis. (CBS/AP) — San Francisco's defense smothered Aaron Rodgers and the Green Bay offense for most of the game, then made one last stand to stop a late rally as the 49ers beat the Packers 30-22 on Sunday.
Randall Cobb gave the Packers a chance with a 75-yard punt return for a touchdown, and a 2-point conversion cut the lead to 8, at 23-15 in the fourth quarter. But Rodgers threw an interception to linebacker NaVorro Bowman, and Frank Gore ran for a 23-yard touchdown.
Rodgers then threw a touchdown to James Jones, but the 49ers held the Packers in the final minute.
Things went so well for the 49ers that when David Akers tried a 63-yard field goal at the end of the first half, it bounced off the crossbar and then kept going through the uprights to tie an NFL record.
Somehow the Packers still had a chance to pull even. With the clock nearing the four-minute mark, a sack by Clay Matthews helped force a punt and the Packers took over at their own 16-yard line with 3:37 left and no timeouts.
Rodgers steadily marched the Packers down the field, but Ahmad Brooks sacked Rodgers. Facing fourth-and-10 near midfield, Rodgers threw deep toward Jordy Nelson but the pass fell incomplete.
Rodgers finished 30 of 44 for 303 yards with two touchdowns and an interception, but the 49ers held him in check until late the in the game. Jermichael Finley had a 1-yard touchdown for the Packers.
Meanwhile, the Packers' defense didn't look much better than last year's porous unit. Smith was 20 of 26 for 211 yards and two touchdowns while Gore rushed for 112 yards.
Randy Moss scored a 14-yard touchdown in the second quarter, a familiar — and painful — sight for Packers fans.
The replacement officials called a 18 penalties, some of them questionable and drawing animated complaints from both sidelines.
With the 49ers leading 3-0, Smith found Moss wide open in the end zone early in the second quarter. Moss turned his back to the crowd and pointed to the name on his jersey, opting for a more subdued celebration than the now-notorious fake mooning motion he made toward fans at Lambeau during his Minnesota Vikings days.
Akers hit three field goals in the first half, including the 63-yarder as time ran out, with the ball bouncing the off the crossbar for a 16-7 halftime lead as a wide-eyed Akers held up his arms in celebration — and, perhaps, disbelief.
Smith and the 49ers then carved up the Packers' defense to start the second half, with Smith throwing a 20-yard strike to Michael Crabtree, Gore running for 21 yards and Smith hitting Vernon Davis for a 29-yard gain to set up first-and-goal at the 9.
Kendall Hunter had an apparent touchdown taken off the board when a replay review ruled that he stepped out of bounds, but Smith threw a dart to Davis on third-and-goal for a 23-7 lead.
Cobb's long punt return gave the Packers hope, although there were a few anxious moments. An official threw a flag as the play unfolded, but the crew then ruled that there wasn't any foul for a block in the back and the touchdown counted.
Television replays showed that Green Bay's Terrell Manning appeared to block a San Francisco player in the back.
Rodgers then threw to Nelson for a 2-point conversion, cutting the lead to 23-15 with 11:16 left in the game.
Gore then was marked short of the first down on a third-and-2 attempt, and 49ers coach Jim Harbaugh challenged the spot.
After a replay review, officials ruled that the ruling on the field stood and the 49ers punted.
But Rodgers threw the interception to Bowman, and Gore scored to seemingly put the game out of reach until Rodgers began to rally the Packers late.
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Feb. 11, 2010
ST. GEORGE, Utah - UC Santa Barbara (1-0) had a wild start to the 2010 season on Thursday afternoon as it rallied back from a two run deficit at the bottom of the seventh inning to defeat Northern Colorado (0-1) on the opening day of the Red Desert Classic being played this weekend in St. George, Utah.
Trailing by two runs at the bottom of the seventh inning with no outs and the bases loaded, freshman Kelly McDonald hit a walk-off homer in her Gaucho debut, catapulting UCSB to the 6-4 victory.
Redshirt freshman Keilani Jennings got things started in the seventh when she singled to left field. Junior Jessica Beristianos then earned a walk before Kelsey Anderson, who came in to pinch hit, singled to second, loading the bases and setting the table for McDonald's heroics.
Northern Colorado got out to a 2-0 lead at the top of the third inning when Kailee Vessey hit a two RBI single to right field with two outs.
UCSB was able to get on the scoreboard at the bottom of the fifth when sophomore transfer Jamie Adishian tripled to right field and then was sent home two outs later on an RBI single to third base off the bat of Beristianos.
The Bears scored again at the top of the sixth on a solo home run by Kelli Henderson, but UCSB responded with another run at the bottom of the same inning. McDonald and senior Priscilla Perez hit consecutive singles to put two runners on with one out. The runners each stole a base before Adishian walked, loading the bases. McDonald came home one out later on a wild pitch, but Northern Colorado pitcher Henderson calmed down and struck out the next Gaucho batter looking to hold onto the lead for one more inning.
At the top of the seventh, Northern Colorado stretched its lead to two with an RBI double from Erin Wilkinson. Unfortunately for the Bears, the Gauchos still had plenty of fight left and captured the win in the final inning.
In the circle for UCSB, sophomore Krista Cobb (1-0) got the win after tossing a complete game. She allowed four earned runs on eight hits, walked four and struck out eight.
In her first game back since redshirting the 2009 season, Jennings went 2-for-2 with a run and two walks. McDonald, meanwhile, went 2-for-4 with two runs, including her game-winning homer, and a stolen base. Senior Jessica Ziegler also went 2-for-4 with a stolen base.
"This win was a total team effort," head coach Brie Galicinao said. "People were really working their at-bats, we were switching players in and out and there were some big defensive plays, and obviously a big hit."
The Gauchos will continue action in St. George on Friday as the take-on Tulsa and BYU at 12:30 p.m. and 3 p.m., respectively.
UCSB will open its 2010 home schedule on Wednesday, Feb. 17 against No. 6 UCLA at Campus Diamond. To purchase tickets, please call (805) 893-UCSB, visit the Ticket Office located inside the Intercollegiate Athletics building on campus or click here.


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A "high-security" event celebrating the opening of new facilities at Johns Hopkins Hospital will close part of Orleans Street to traffic on April 11 and 12, according to hospital officials.
The opening of the hospital's new Sheikh Zayed Tower and The Charlotte R. Bloomberg Children's Center will also impact parking accessibility at the Orleans Garage, officials said.
On both days, the westbound lane of Orleans Street in front of the hospital buildings will be closed between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m., officials said.
Starting at 3 p.m. on both days, the entire street will be closed between North Broadway and North Wolfe Street, and won't be reopened until 11 p.m., officials said.
Patients can enter the Orleans Garage via the entrance on Fayette Street, officials said.
Employees of the hospital working daytime shifts can park in the Orleans Garage as well, but may have to exit through the Fayette Street entrance, officials said.
Employees working evening and night shifts must park in a garage on the hospital campus other than the Orleans and Weinberg garages, officials said.
The Sheikh Zayed Tower, named for High Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan of the United Arab Emirates, whose 2007 donation helped fund the building, will be the new home of the Johns Hopkins Heart and Vascular Institute.
The Charlotte R. Bloomberg Center will serve as the hospital's new children's hospital and pediatric wing.


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Deutsche Bank Said to Limit Immediate Bonuses to $409,000
Deutsche Bank AG (DBK), Europe's largest bank by assets, plans to tell employees it will impose a 300,000-euro ($409,000) cap on bonuses being paid this year, said three people with knowledge of the discussions.
The cap, which will apply across the company, may be relayed to employees next week, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the plans are private. Senior staff, or what the bank calls "regulated" employees, will receive as much as 150,000 euros in cash, with the balance available in shares in August, the people said.
Banks are under pressure to rein in compensation and tie it more closely to performance after large cash payouts were blamed for encouraging the type of risk-taking that led to the 2008 collapse of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. and the subsequent financial crisis. Deutsche Bank will pay 3.2 billion euros in bonuses for 2012, down 11 percent from a year earlier, Chief of Compliance Stephan Leithner said yesterday.
The bank had a cap on immediate payouts of 200,000 euros last year, people familiar with the matter said. A Deutsche Bank official in London declined to comment on bonuses.
Deutsche Bank named a panel of business executives and a former German finance minister in October to review its pay system. The bank said Sept. 11 it will increase the vesting period for deferred bonuses for about 150 top executives to five years from three, and will make a single payout after the deferral period ends rather than staggered payments every year.
The Frankfurt-based lender yesterday reported a loss of 2.17 billion euros in the fourth quarter, the biggest in four years, as it eliminated more than 1,400 staff and set aside 1 billion euros for legal costs. Deutsche Bank's investment bank employed 9,094 full-time front-office employees at the end of 2012, company filings showed.
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2006-07 Women's Basketball
Manchester 68, Bluffton 55
Tanya Rickenberg becomes most prolific scorer in Bluffton women's basketball history
By: Jordon Bruner and Shannon Ramer, sports information assistants
BLUFFTON, Ohio - The Bluffton University women's basketball team came out strong, but it was unable to sustain its first half momentum against Manchester College, falling 68-55. The loss dropped the Beavers to 2-13 overall, 0-6 in Heartland Conference play. The Spartans improved to 9-6, 5-1 in the HCAC.
The Beavers jumped out to an 18-7 lead with 12:40 to play in the first half. The three-point shooting of Lindsay Ebbeskotte (Delphos/Jefferson), Tanya Rickenberg (Paulding/Paulding), and Amanda Bell (Napoleon/Liberty Center) combined with Lindsay Bush's (Howard East/Knox) seven points in the paint to help the Beavers grab the early lead.
Manchester countered with a run of its own over the last five minutes of the opening half to knot the game at 30 going into the break.
The Spartans, who just made it onto the floor as the halftime buzzer was sounding, raced out of the lockerroom with a 13-1 run in the first six minutes of the final stanza to take a commanding 43-31 lead. Heather Terflinger scored seven of her game-high 19 points during the stretch.
Bluffton closed the gap to seven, 51-44, with a three-pointer from Vicki Auer (Cincinnati/Roger Bacon) on an assist from Ebbeskotte.
Rickenberg hit her first of two attempts from the charity stripe for point number 1,122 to become Bluffton's career scorer leader with just under seven minutes to play in the contest. She surpassed Janice Bruner (1983-86), aunt of current player Sarah Bruner (Wauseon/Pettisville), who ended her career with 1,121 points.
The Beavers hit 5-of-13 from long distance (39 percent), but they turned the ball over a whopping 30 times compared to 18 miscues by the Spartans who picked up 15 steals in their victory.
Rickenberg led the team with 14 points and pulled down three rebounds. Bush followed with 12 points and seven rebounds. Bell and Angie Lee (Mt. Blanchard/ Vanlue) added nine points apiece.
The Beavers return to action on Saturday, January 13, 2007, when they host Hanover College in the first game of a Heartland Conference doubleheader. Tip-off in Founders Hall is scheduled for 1 p.m. with the men slated to face the Panthers at 3 p.m.


text: Butterfly Garden Brings Colors of Joy to the Pavilion at Jupiter Medical Center June 25, 2013 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE JUPITER, Fla. (June 25, 2013) – In addition to the general high school curriculum, students in the Jupiter Environmental Research and Field Studies Academy (JERFSA) at Jupiter High School learn about wildlife, ecology, conservation, ecosystems, and green building solutions through a variety of classes ranging from APES (AP Environmental Science) to Zoology. As a requirement for completion of the JERFSA program, all students are asked to embark on a Senior Project that falls into one of four categories including: Environmental Action, Eco-Political Action, Ecological Research Investigation, or Environmental Education. For his senior project, Bryan Pepper (JHS/JERFSA class of 2013) chose to design, plant and maintain a butterfly garden composed of locally grown Florida native plants. In search of a meaningful location for this garden, Bryan met with John D. Couris, President & CEO of Jupiter Medical Center (JMC), who was enthusiastically supportive of the idea. After touring the campus of JMC, Bryan decided that the grounds of The Pavilion (JMC's sub-acute inpatient rehabilitation and long-term care facility) would be the ideal location for bringing joy to patients and their families. After researching the benefits of therapeutic healing gardens for nursing home patients, and meeting with local expert Connie Roy-Fisher of Studio Sprout, Inc., Bryan developed a plan to use colorful native plants of varying textures and fragrances that are easier for older patients to appreciate. He initiated a fundraising campaign to raise money for plants and supplies and began preparing the area for planting. As Bryan started his work on the garden, he quickly realized that patients and their families of JMC's Pavilion were enjoying being outside watching the garden take shape. In order to further engage the patients in this process, Bryan spoke with Mary Hodge, Activities Director at The Pavilion, to ask for permission to have them paint and decorate "butterfly shelters" that Bryan crafted by hand. The result was amazing. The patients did a great job painting and decorating the shelters. Once the garden was completed, they all gathered in the garden to watch as Bryan hung these structures in strategic locations. During the ceremony (which was also attended by Couris, Hodge, Kristina Edwards, Rehabilitation Services Program Manager, and Betsy Heartfield, VP, Post-Acute & Pavilion Administrator), several additional guests made an appearance - BUTTERFLIES! Bryan provided The Pavilion with a guide that he created to help patients and staff identify these colorful visitors. "Bryan's butterfly garden is a wonderful addition to the grounds of The Pavilion at Jupiter Medical Center," said Heartfield. "All the hard work and dedication he put into this project is a true attestation of the support Jupiter Medical Center receives from our community. The butterfly garden is here for patients and their families to enjoy for years to come." With graduation behind them, the students of the Jupiter Environmental Research and Field Studies at Jupiter High School will have more than just great memories. They take with them the values of contributing to the community while preserving the environment for generations to come. For more information about JERFSA, please visit http://jerfsapartnership.org/. About Jupiter Medical Center A not-for-profit 283-bed regional medical center consisting of 163 private acute care hospital beds and 120 long-term care, sub-acute rehabilitation and Hospice beds, Jupiter Medical Center provides a broad range of services with specialty concentrations in oncology, imaging, orthopedics & spine, digestive health, emergency services, lung & thoracic, women's health, weight management and men's health. Founded in 1979, the Medical Center has approximately 1,500 team members, 520 physicians and 700 volunteers. Jupiter Medical Center is the recipient of the HealthGrades 'America's 50 Best' Award™ for three years in a row (2011-2013) and the Distinguished Hospital Award - Clinical Excellence™ for nine years in a row (2005-2013). For more information on Jupiter Medical Center, please call (561) 263-2234 or visit www.jupitermed.com. Butterfly Garden at Jupiter Medical Center's Pavilion Categories Press Releases Previous Next


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The Estherville City Council vote 6-1 Monday evening to approve an Excel Grant to the Estherville Industrial Development Corporation to renovate the former J.C. Penney building at 12 S. Sixth Street.
EIDC purchased the building last fall and plans to repurpose the second floor of the building for use by entrepreneurs and emergency technology-based businesses.
As explained by Estherville Administrator Penny Clayton, the method of financing this grant is to use $100,000 of community betterment local option sales tax unrestricted cash, $50,000 from the fiscal 2015 LOST budget with the remaining $250,000 coming from the city's economic development revolving fund. The amount paid from the city's fund would be repaid by Excel at the rate of $50,000 per year beginning in fiscal year 2016.
Prior to voting, the council heard from residents for and against the project.
Tom Inman, owner of Inman Electric across the street from the building, was in favor of saving the building.
"Invest the money and get a good building and good tenants," he said. "A parking lot will never pay any taxes."
One alternative to saving the building was razing it and turning it into a parking area. It's projected the cost to do that could range from $300,000 to $380,000.
Former city administrator Steve Woodley spoke in opposition.
"Saving a 110-year-old building is an admirable goal," he said. "But I am opposed to using a half million dollars of taxpayers' money to do so."
Woodley said he was behind helping renovate the Gardston Building.
"This renovation project will find surprises," he said. He also worried about the project becoming a 'money pit."
"I can think of a lot of projects that a half million dollars of taxpayers' money would have a greater benefit to the entire community."
Alan Robinson, owner of Estherville Drug, wanted council to put the issue to a vote of the people. He also thought the money could be put to better use.
He pointed other downtown businesses with space on the second floors that is not being used, including his own.
Speaking in favor of the project was local attorney and entrepreneur Chris Fuhrman.
"I would happily be the first person to rent anything upstairs-whether I have a full business or not," said Fuhrman. "My vision up there is kids my age want to work together. They want three or four people bouncing ideas off each other."
Council member Larry Anderson made the motion to approve the plan.
"Part of this project was to save a building," he said. "The second part is for EIDC to find a use. We hope these people can make it work and bring people to the community."
Council member Ann Goebel added that the city has to try something to get entrepreneurs to come to town.
Council member Roger Guge also spoke in favor of the project.
"I feel that's what the LOST monies were meant to be used for is to better the community," Guge said. "That's why I feel strongly about it."
Meanwhile councilman Mike Nieland, who cast the one dissenting vote, agreed with those that said the money could be put to better use on a different project.
"I agree we should do project like this," Nieland said. "I just feel we didn't have the people ready to sign a lease."
He said another concern was staying within that $500,000 budget.
In other business Monday, council set 5 p.m., Monday, Feb. 17 as the date and time for a public hearing on the proposed 2014-15 city budget. It includes a property tax levy of $16.50 per $1,000 of taxable valuation, the same rate that has been in place for several years. That rate is expected to generate $2,361,171. It also includes an expected beginning fund balance on July 1, 2014 of $10,929,661 with revenue of $19,917,124 and expenses of $20,183,859 with an ending balance on June 30, 2015 of $10,662,926.


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National Survey of Adolescents, 2004: Burkina Faso (ICPSR 22408)
Published: Jul 24, 2008
Principal Investigator(s):
Christine Ouedraogo, Institut Superieur des Sciences de la Population (Burkina Faso); Ann Biddlecom, Guttmacher Institute; Eliya Zulu, African Population and Health Research Center (Kenya)
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The National Survey Adolescents was launched in 2004 in four Sub-Saharan African countries--Burkina Faso, Ghana, Malawi, and Uganda--to provide detailed information on adolescent risk-taking and health-seeking behavior as related to HIV, STDs and unintended pregnancy. The study examined a range of factors (e.g., behavioral, sociocultural, economic) that could lead to increased vulnerability to risk. The study also encompassed knowledge of means of prevention, sources of trusted information and health care, and impediments to adolescents' abilities to apply their knowledge and take preventive action. The survey in Burkina Faso was administered between April and June 2004. Using a two-stage stratified sample design that selected households from rural and urban clusters, 5,400 households were listed for initial screening. After an initial interview in each household, individual surveys were administered in person to adolescents between the ages of 12 and 19 who were de facto or de jure members of the household. This process collected 6,489 individual interviews with adolescents. Because of the sensitive nature of questions administered in the survey, informed consent forms were obtained from both parents/guardians and the respondents, and in all possible instances interviewers and respondents were paired by gender.
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United States Department of Health and Human Services. National Institutes of Health. Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (5R24HD043610)
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Smallest Geographic Unit
Regions within Burkina Faso
Between April 2004 and June 2004 a two-stage cluster sample of 5,400 households were visited, from which a sample of 6,489 eligible adolescents were interviewed. Only adolescents that were de facto or de jure members of the household and between the ages of 12 and 19 were considered eligible.
All adolescents between the ages of 12 and 19 in Burkina Faso.
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Response Rates
The overall response rate was 95.2 percent.
The individual case file has two weighting variables. The sample weight is "qweight" and is used for all respondents. If "qweight"=0, the case should not be included in analysis either because of incomplete data or possible redundancy. Before use with the data, the sample weight (qweight) should be divided by 1,000,000 before applying the weighting factor. The weight, "qwgt12", is a weight for respondents who also were selected for and answered Section 12 questions, since only one eligible adolescent per household was selected for those sensitive questions. When examining Section 12 questions, use only "qwgt12". Before using "qwgt12", it must also be divided by 1,000,000.
The public-use data files in this collection are available for access by the general public. Access does not require affiliation with an ICPSR member institution.
This study was originally processed, archived, and disseminated by Data Sharing for Demographic Research (DSDR), a project funded by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD).


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The Beth Fowler Dance Company of Genoa and St Charles will present a new original dance production, "A Storybook Ballet," March 15 through 17 at the Egyptian Theatre in DeKalb.
As the curtain opens, young Marie is getting ready for bed. As she falls asleep, four fairies fly into the room and spin her bed. She falls into a magical dream where the storybook grows to 10 feet high. Snow White and her friends step out of the book, and the bedroom is transformed into the forest where Snow White meets the Seven Dwarfs and is frightened by the Jealous Queen before being saved by her Prince.
Delighted by the happy ending, Marie turns the page and is greeted by The Little Mermaid and her sisters. Marie's bedroom turns into an undersea scene, where The Little Mermaid is saved by her Prince from the Sea Witch's evil spell.
Marie turns pages twice more to bring out the characters of Disney's "Aladdin" and "Beauty and the Beast" to tell their stories.
Auditions were held to determine principal roles. Performing as Marie is Mary Rose Fair of Sycamore. Rachael Kollins of Hampshire performs as Snow White and Miranda Cordes of DeKalb as the Jealous Queen.
Haley Young of Genoa is The Little Mermaid. The Sea Witch is Hannah Smith of Sycamore and the Prince is Ben Rabe of Genoa.
Leo Ayala of Elgin will play Aladdin, Brooke Fowler of Kingston will play Jasmine and Jenna Soldati of Geneva is the Genie.
Performing in "Beauty and the Beast" are Rachel Olsen of Genoa as Belle, Larry Pool of Rockford as The Beast, Zach Bohn of Sycamore as Gaston, Brandon Fowler of Kingston as the Prince and Kelly Bolander as Mrs. Potts.
Dance company soloists are Alicia Aldaz of St. Charles, Cara Birschbach of Geneva, Keeley Sawyer of Hampshire and Cassie Steffey of Geneva.
Familiar Disney songs will delight audiences of all ages. Choreographers are Beth Fowler, Miranda Cordes, Hannah Smith and Samantha Gaul. The elaborate scenery sets are being created and built by Sahin Sahinoglu of Northern Illinois University. Madlyn Steffey and her committee are creating the costumes.
Children and adult ticket prices for regular and premium seating (first five rows) range from $15 to $25 until Feb. 28. Starting March 1, ticket prices will be $17 to $27. Discounts are available for nonprofit groups of 15 or more.
Tickets are reserved seating and are available online at www.egyptiantheatre.org or 815-758-1225 or at the door one hour before each performance.


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NEW PALTZ >> The town on June 1 will celebrate the replacement of a sign honoring 28 people from the hamlet of Ohioville who served during World War II.
The sign was erected last week by town Highway Department crews on a triangle of land at the intersection of North Ohioville Road and state Route 299 to replace one that disappeared after the war ended.
"We're still trying to find out what happened to the old sign," said Juergen Wende, who designed the new one. "There was a garage that was built on the site sometime in the '50s, and it (teh sign) disappeared in the shop somewhere. Then when Route 299 was put through, the garage was moved to the other side of the highway."
Wende said the new sign was designed by Timely Signs in Kingston based on a newspaper photograph of the old one.
"I did the dimensions, and (Harold Schoonmaker) had to take some time with a local historian to decipher some of the names," he said.
Schoonmaker told the Freeman in October that the project began because he grew up in Ohioville and remembered the sign as representing a respect for people who served the country.
"That's a lot of people for one small, little town like Ohioville," he said.
"I was pretty impressed as a child with it," Schoonmaker said of the sign. " ... I live practically across the street from where it was. I didn't know that much about the war as a 10- or 11-year-old kid, but I knew (one of the servicemen) real well."
The new sign is about 7 feet tall and 5 feet wide, and the site where it stands is to have walkway and a flag donated by the town.
Wende said two people listed on the sign still are living: Carl Lillberg and Willard Hornbeck.
"There were three, but (Joseph Locascio) passed away (recently)," he said.


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Shared blessings
Arlington center seeks permanent home for revered Buddha
The bronze face of the Buddha, always serene, gazes down at recent gifts from the pilgrims who have come to see him: two apples, dried sage, a bouquet of artificial flowers, a $20 bill.
This replica of the most revered Buddhist statue in Tibet, 8 feet tall and 600 pounds, sits inside a stucco rental house in Arlington, behind Johnnie's Foodmaster.
Although there is no sign outside, Tibetan immigrants find their way to the Bartlett Avenue property to see the only version of the Jowo Rinpoche statue in the United States. Rinpoche is an honorific in Tibetan Buddhism, used for respected teachers.
Buddhists believe the original statue, 2,500 years old, gives blessings to pilgrims who travel to look upon it. The replica, which arrived at the Drikung Meditation Center in Arlington three years ago from Nepal, is believed to confer the same blessings, and was brought here for Tibetans who could not make the trip to their homeland, as well as Westerners.
"When you sit down and look at the serene face, it's like being transported,'' said Tsering Gesar, a Tibetan doctoral student who lives in Somerville. "It has a very calming effect. You have to grasp it with your sixth sense because it has no rationale to it.''
The pilgrimages to the statue increase during the celebrations marking the Tibetan new year, or Losar, which usually falls in late winter. In the past two years, the center has opened at 7 a.m. and stayed open late at night to accommodate the visitors.
"The stream of people coming in and bringing offerings and food didn't end until 10 o'clock at night, literally hundreds of people from all over the country,'' said Paul Orr, a member of the Drikung Meditation Center's board of directors.
Now the meditation center is raising money for a permanent home, which is a requirement for the statue to be consecrated. The center has raised $70,000 toward a new building, which leaders want to keep near a bus line in the Arlington or Cambridge area. They hope to raise $100,000 for a down payment.
The center is outgrowing its rental space. When Drikung Kyabgon Chetsang Rinpoche, one of the spiritual leaders of the center's lineage of Buddhism, visited Arlington to speak last year, the event was moved to the Regent Theatre to accommodate the crowd.
In Tibet, Buddhists travel to the Jowo Rinpoche to seek blessings for their studies or their business, said Khenpo Choepel Rinpoche, the lama who lives at the meditation center and leads meditation groups. When relatives are sick or dying, Tibetans offer gold to the statue, which represents Buddha at the age of 12.
"Tibetans believe that statue is very precious,'' Choepel said.
Alexis Tsapatsaris, president of the meditation center, said its founder, Khenchen Rinpoche Konchog Gyaltsen, wanted to make the statue's blessings available to Buddhists living in the West.
The center's resident teacher and spiritual director, Lama Konchok Sonam led a campaign to raise money for the statue, which was made in Nepal and shipped to Arlington.
"The purpose of the statue was to bring a spiritual object to the United States that would benefit the whole Boston area and the whole US, and also to give people who didn't have access to going to Tibet a spiritual object here,'' Tsapatsaris said.
Gesar, 40, is Tibetan but has never seen the original Jowo Rinpoche. Born in India, he came to the United States about 15 years ago. He first saw the Arlington statue soon after it arrived.
Gesar's mother, who grew up in eastern Tibet, had never made the long and difficult trip to visit the original statue, he said. Living in Somerville now, she goes to see the replica in Arlington about once a month, Gesar said.
"This is made accessible to people outside Tibet,'' he said, "and it carries the same weight in terms of merit.''
Another Tibetan, Tenzin Youdon, 27, also went to the Jowo Rinpoche in Arlington shortly after it arrived.
"Although I got the opportunity to see the main one in Tibet, I think it's a great privilege to have a Jowo here,'' the Medford resident stated in an e-mail, "since for many Tibetans going to Tibet is not as easy.''
Americans who study Buddhism and meditate at the Drikung center also say they feel the power of the statue.
Orr said he had long felt an intellectual pull toward Tibetan Buddhism. About three years ago, he decided to seek out a center and turn his reading about the religion into a practice. When he searched online for "Tibetan Buddhism Boston,'' he was startled to learn that the Drikung center was only a half-mile from his house in Arlington.
"For me, the statue is just iconic,'' Orr said. "It's such a stunning representation of what Tibetan Buddhism means.''
Kathleen Burge can be reached at email@example.com.


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2007-08 Women's Basketball
Anderson 66, Bluffton 55
Anderson ends game with 17-2 run for 66-55 victory over Beavers
By: Evan Miller, sports information assistant
January 5, 2008
ANDERSON, Indiana - The Bluffton University women's basketball team could not come up with a win on the road against HCAC foe Anderson University on Saturday, Jan. 5, 2008. With the 66-55 loss, the Beavers dropped to 6-6 overall, and 1-3 in Heartland Conference play. The Beavers fell behind early, trailing 7-0 with 17:10 left to go in the first, and they were never able to even the score with the Ravens (6-5, 2-2 HCAC) throughout the first half.
Sophomore Ginny Buckingham (Bluffton/Bluffton) got the Beavers into the scoring column on a layup following an assist from freshman Kim Miller (Delphos/St. John's), cutting the Anderson lead to 7-2. A Lindsay Bush (Howard/East Knox) layup from Amanda Bell (Napoleon/Liberty Center) trimmed the Anderson advantage to 17-13 with just over six minutes left in the first half.
The Ravens took a four-point lead into the break courtesy of a Kayla Martin jumper with seven seconds left on the clock, making the score 25-21.
The Beavers managed to trim the lead to a basket early in second-half action when Kim Miller got to the hoop for a score.
Bluffton used a 9-0 run midway through the second half to take a 48-43 lead with just over eight minutes to play. Helping the Beavers forge ahead of the home team were Vicki Auer (Cincinnati/Roger Bacon), who dialed long distance, and Kim Miller who capped the rally with a rebound and tip-in. Lindsay Ebbeskotte (Delphos/Jefferson) and Lindsay Bush also hit from in close for the Beavers.
Senior Angie Lee (Mt. Blanchard/Vanlue) buried her triple try with 5:16 to play to give the Beavers a 53-49 lead over the Ravens.
A 17-2 jag over the final five minutes of the contest proved to be the difference as Anderson limited the visitors to a lone Bush hoop with 2:45 to play in the Ravens' 66-55 victory over Bluffton.
Tiffany Bowsher gave her team the lead for good with two straight field goals, putting the Ravens up 55-53, and Anderson sealed the win by going 8-for-10 at the line down the stretch.
The Beavers were paced in the scoring column by both Kim Miller and Angie Lee, who scored 16 points each. Miller got her points by shooting an impressive 8-for-11 from the field. She and Amanda Bell both dished out five assists in the loss. Ginny Buckingham pulled down a game-high eight rebounds to lead her team. Sophomore Stephanie Jankov (Wooster/Wooster) tied her career-high in rebounds with three boards.
Bluffton hit 22-of-51 from the field for 43.1 percent compared to Anderson's 21-for-51 from the field (41.2 percent). The Ravens made their mark at the line, going 20-of-28 (71.4 percent) and limiting the Beavers to only 7-for-13 (53.8 percent). Bluffton coughed the ball up 19 times, six more than Anderson.
Anderson was led in scoring by guard Mandy Seward with 12 points, as well as Mel Hawthorne who also lit the Beavers up for 12 in only 19 minutes of action.
The Beavers return to action on Wednesday, Jan. 9, when they travel to face HCAC rival Manchester College. The contest is slated to start at 7:30 p.m. in North Manchester, Indiana.


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There is the price, but then there is the horrible Ribbon interface. I have yet to meet someone IRL who *really* likes it. I recently installed Microsoft Office 2010 to recover emails from a corrupted system (Needed to open PST files, copied the mails to an IMAP server. No more Office needed... That what Trial Versions are great for!). Frankly, it comes over even more toyish, more "Please treat me as a dumb user". It's aggravating.
Interestingly, when installing 2010, it asked me whether I wanted to enable OpenDocument formats. I was torougly surprised by that. That's another admittance of Microsoft that OpenOffice is a treath.
Interestingly, when installing 2010, it asked me whether I wanted to enable OpenDocument formats. I was torougly surprised by that. That's another admittance of Microsoft that OpenOffice is a treath.
It's better to support the format and keep users on your software than not support it and potentially risk losing them.
One reason I haven't switched is that I hate learning new software (as do most users), and I've never directly paid for an Office license, instead having it pre-installed or received through a MSDNAA.
Directly paid or indirectly paid, you still paid.
I've never paid for an Office license period thanks to OpenOffice and it's predecessors (StarOffice, etc).
you'll be happy to know that riding a motorcycle is about as close as you can come to riding a kids trycicle.. at least AFAI can tell, never had a trycicle as a kid..
but yeah, the step from office 2k/2k3 to OO is much smaller then to the new ribbon shit in 2k7
Funny, I have yet to find anyone (except me...as I just hate it) in my workplace (research institute) who does not like the new ribbon interface.
Frankly, it comes over even more toyish, more "Please treat me as a dumb user". It's aggravating.
Well... that might be for your self aggravating ego; for the majority of users it means an interface that gets out of their way.
quoting from TFA:
After doing a little digging, we found that these quotes are actually from case studies and press articles from the last four years,
What I would really like to hear is equivalent quotes of companies who successfully migrated from MS Office to OO.o. Is there any? (no, not
But for a 'Power User' that uses the keyboard shortcuts, one has to remember the 2003 menu layout and type away blindly. The idea that the ribbon makes things easier for hard-core Excel is laughable.
But for a 'Power User' that uses the keyboard shortcuts, one has to remember the 2003 menu layout and type away blindly
Or use the new keyboard shortcuts, of course, but they're far less intuitive than the old ones precisely because they retained support for the old ones. What would be the intuitive keystroke for a selection often isn't available because it's already in use for back compatibility. One of the very many annoyances of the 2007 interface -- it's not only the ribbon, which is fine eye-candy but a usability nightmare.
But for a 'Power User' that uses the keyboard shortcuts, one has to remember the 2003 menu layout and type away blindly. The idea that the ribbon makes things easier for hard-core Excel is laughable.
I would generally agree with you. It is just as laughable as thinking that Microsoft should be placing most of its attention on catering to 'Power Users'. Power users were able to obtain expertise in the previous UI, and they will be able to gain expertise in the new ribbon UI.
Good UI design is primarily about making it easy to use for the masses, and hopefully catering to power users too if possible. I am one of those 'Power Users' and I love the ribbon when working with Word and PowerPoint. It is much less useful in Excel and Access, but it doesn't get in the way after learning the new UI.
Yep. What MS have done in Outlook 2010 is incredible. In my experience, it's gone seriously downhill from 2003. The only reason I still use it is because it's so deeply tied into MS's proprietary Exchange server, and other Outlook clients' proprietary 'email' format, that I'm locked in to it at work. A couple of examples.
I used to be able to insert a signature with a single shortcut in 2003. In 2007, they forced the ribbon on me and the shortcut disappeared. It was then 'Alt-N G'. Unbelievably, they changed it AGAIN in 2010... and STILL prevent you from defining your own shortcuts. It's now 'Alt-N A S'. I wouldn't be surprised if they changed it to 'ALT-F U C K Y O U' in the next revision.
They also decided that the Outlook 2003 e-mail editor wasn't good enough; rich text and layout aside, there was a shedload of MS Word functionality users were just missing out on. The decision made was to basically send a Word document instead of an e-mail, which did 2 things. First, it made Outlook e-mails utterly incompatible with any e-mail client that wasn't Outlook. Second, it killed off the possibility of doing proper inline responses. I'm surprised more people haven't noticed this, but you used to be able to press 'unindent' to break the 'quote line' to the left of the quoted part of a reply. From 2007 when they implemented the MS Word e-mail editor, you can't. So, you see people using bastardized inline responses by colouring their response text red or something. Or just completely giving up on inline responses. Thanks, MS.
Honestly, I would be using something else if I could. And if I ran a business, I'd try to find a more standards-compliant (and preferably OSS) alternative to Outlook.
Funny, I have yet to find anyone (except me...as I just hate it) in my workplace (research institute) who does not like the new ribbon interface.
Just make sure that the people who say they like ribbon UI actually use MSOffice as anything else but Notepad replacement.
I was totally oblivious to the upgrade of MSO in my company - as I use for my needs OO.o anyway. Even compared to the older versions, for technical documentation latter is superior (after disabling all the annoyances, obviously). When it comes to the official internal documents (and internal Wiki may note be used) I still have to go with MSO.
It pain me every time I sit with others
Well I'm using Office 2007 (Outlook, Word, One Note) and am still ambivelent about the ribbon. Some of what the Ribbon has done is useful and then I find that some of the features I used on a regular basis are now buried three+ menus deep, so there's lots of trade offs that are still taking time to get used to.
You can pin any option you want to the top of the screen on the title bar, next save, undo, redo. Click the down arrow, then click more commands. You can see you can go through the tabs and add whatever you want.
Alternatively, Office 2010 lets you customize the ribbon itself..
My office of approx 50 people is about 50/50 OO.org and MS Office. The more technically-minded people took to OO.org. We still save in the MS format for compatibility. For the most part, the MS Office users have not migrated simply because they "think" it's going to make their jobs harder. There have only been a handful of incidents where there was a compatibility issue. Culturally, the two camps feel they are superior to each other, so it is an interesting social experiment and mimics the dichotomy you see on
Give the OO users half the cash from the cost savings of the software license and then see how many people think MS Office is superior.
That's a terrible idea that proves nothing. If someone payed me at works to use a slower system I would do it. But the company would lose money on the deal if my productivity suffered. If we charge $300 an hour and over the course of the year I lose an hour of productivity using a slower tool I don't see the cost but I got a "cheaper software" bonus.
I have yet to meet someone IRL who *really* likes it.
Perhaps this is a result of your area of work, or the place work / study etc?
I know some people who don't like the ribbon, the vast majority have a clear preference for it. Obviously neither of our anecdotal observations prove anything on a large scale. I'm surprised that you've managed to avoid fraternising with anyone of a dissenting opinion in, what, 4 years?
I know some people who don't like the ribbon, the vast majority have a clear preference for it.
I'd bet that there's a correlation between dislike for the ribbon and how may features of Office the person uses. The person who only uses Word, for example, as a Notepad replacement (as ThePhillips called it) can still use it like that and might spot some interesting things on the Ribbon that they find useful. The person who was already making use of a wide range of features finds that many of those features are now harder to access (especially if they don't want to have to keep moving their hand between mouse and keyboard -- the Ribbon is heavily biased towards mouse use) and doesn't get those nice surprises of discovering features they didn't know about.
That fits the anecdotal evidence just fine. The majority of Office users are probably just punching out internal memos, reports, personal letters and the like, all using simple fixed templates. The majority of
Yes there is the price and the ribbon, and if anything office 2007 (not sure of 2010) seems to make it harder to do interesting things with my docs. I'd pay $100 for Word/Excel 2003 over OO.org (free), but I'm not sure I'd pay even $0.02 for 2007 or 2010 over OO.org.
Still... In my experience, it beats OO.org. MSO crashes less (I really haven't had it crash on several computers in my normal use, OO crases maybe once every few months - a lot better than it was early in the 2000s, in terms of times of use, I u
It's worth skipping my mod points for this issue. I'll reply to you out of the 5 possible posts that are relevant.
I hate the Ribbon. But I banked on Rule ____ of the net that says if there's a purpose for someone's potential small project, it has better than even odds of existing.
Classic Menu for Office
http://www.addintools.com/ [addintools.com]
It's a plugin for Office that puts mostly similar menus back.
So the comparison becomes:
A: Office 2007 (or 2010?) with Old Menus
LibreOffice (OpenOffice.org / branding squabbles with Oracle)
Thanks to the Ribbon interface I spend much more time in the Microsoft Office products. It has never been easier to search for the tools that I've been using for over 10 years thanks to the new Ribbon interface. I just keep selecting tabs until I find the thing I was looking for. And it only took me half an hour to figure out what the Office Button was and that it was hiding operations like save as and print preview.
Good post. I do the same, but I figured that was just me not havign enough experience of using the ribbon. Fortunately, I managed to just figure out where the stuff I use often was before the company upgraded me to Office 2010.
One thing of note in 2010, the orb 'menu button' is now a
I really like the ribbon. It's an improvement over the combination of toolbars and menus. I can seem to be able to find things more quickly. OpenOffice on the other hand looks and feels like Word for Windows 2, with all its problems.
I have yet to meet someone IRL who *really* likes it.
Because we all know that your subjective anecdotes comprise the entire userbase of MS Office, right? It's funny that you claim that so many people hate it yet the entire foundation behind the ribbon was based on feedback from users during usability and UI tests.
Well, the old interface (of Word, specifically) encourages bad usage. People would choose fonts of various sizes instead of using styles, which makes working with the documents in an actual publishing setting a fucking nightmare. The new one is a lot easier to use properly, and it's much more obvious how. Just like OpenOffice, in fact, but it goes one step further and sorts the various features so that they can be readily accessible without making a convoluted and cluttered interface.
Objectively, it's simpl
Let's be brutally honest here at the expense of karma. The ribbon was created to accommodate the growing population of MS office users who do not have the mental capacity, focus, or experience to utilize the existing menu structure that has been used on all substantial GUI based computer programs for 15+ years. It was preceded by a toolbox panel in the OS X versions of Office which was actually useful since it allowed quick access to basic formatting options but also kept the pull-down menu interface intact for the more advanced commands. But MS actually decreased their program's functionality and efficiency with the ribbon.
Very few who were actually competent in the advanced Office features prior to the ribbon liked the change, because it meant that they had to go hunt for options that they knew used to exist. People who were never very familiar with Office loved it, because there were no large menus to get lost in. MS is happy because now your grandmother can probably work out how to use Office and you still will (unhappily) pay for it as well.
It shouldn't come as a surprise that MS is willing to whore themselves out to the lowest common denominator. Office is no longer specialized software... it's for the masses. However, if you want to write a 5 page memo without images or plot a few points on a graph, it allows you to do that with little initial setup. But if you want to write a 300 page Ph.D. thesis or work with an array of more than 65K points, you'll need to explore other options... unless you like the M in S&M.
It shouldn't come as a surprise that MS is willing to whore themselves out to the lowest common denominator.
Yes, how dare they make their software more usable and less opaque to the users instead of the other way around! That's clearly the antithesis of good software design.
It's more opaque, not less. The ribbon hides functionality to coddle morons, that's its main purpose. By contrast, good UI design exposes functionality in such a way that users can actually use it.
Microsoft's solution to "hey! 90% of people use only 10% of our product's features" wasn't "Ok, let's try and expose at least another 10% to these guys in a way that makes sense so maybe they'll use and appreciate it" but rather "Ok, let's hide that 90% so our stupid, stupid users don't get lost picking through the remaining 10%".
Software design, btw, has very little to do with where all the buttons are hidden.
How is bringing all 90% of the functionality within 3 clicks hiding functionality? Common tasks like page formatting are brought front and center in Office, whereas in Open office it's buried in a tab in a sub menu of a sub menu.
Further advanced functionality, like ToC, Indexes, Bibliography, are made accessible to the user, rather than languishing unused in the menu system.
You state the ribbon doesn't make sense, but you don't back that up. From my perspective it's perfectly logical. Want to change page di
Very few who were actually competent in the advanced Office features prior to the ribbon liked the change, because it meant that they had to go hunt for options that they knew used to exist. People who were never very familiar with Office loved it, because there were no large menus to get lost in. MS is happy because now your grandmother can probably work out how to use Office and you still will (unhappily) pay for it as well.
It shouldn't come as a surprise that MS is willing to whore themselves out to the lowest common denominator. Office is no longer specialized software... it's for the masses. However, if you want to write a 5 page memo without images or plot a few points on a graph, it allows you to do that with little initial setup. But if you want to write a 300 page Ph.D. thesis or work with an array of more than 65K points, you'll need to explore other options... unless you like the M in S&M.
OK, I haven't used MS Office in a long time -- at least not any recent version. Are you saying that MS removed the old interface and replaced it with one easier to use for beginners? Having an easy-to-use interface for beginners is a great idea. Also great for people who just don't need to use the system -- or even certain parts of it -- often enough for them to be practiced and expert at it. But why the heck would they remove the old interface entirely? Maybe it's the "Design of Everyday Things" talking,
There's bound to be other commentators leaping down on this, but I'll put my £0.02 in.
Are you saying that MS removed the old interface and replaced it with one easier to use for beginners?
Yes. Let me be absolutely clear - in Office 2007, there is no way to revert to the Office-2003 style menus except for using third-party add-ons, as other users have commentated.
But why the heck would they remove the old interface entirely? Maybe it's the "Design of Everyday Things" talking, but why wouldn't they keep the old one for more sophisticated users. There's nothing wrong with having an easy interface for casual use and an advanced one for the advanced users. It's actually a very good solution in this kind of case.
If this had been the case, I'd expect you'd have less hate from power users against Office 2007. If I were able to just select an option in Tools -> Options that did this, I'd be using 2007 at home (as it is, my copy of office 2003, cold dead hands, and so forth). However the option was completely denied us.
This makes the (IMO) stupid design decision of auto-hiding menu items (introduced in Office 2000? XP? It's certainly in 2003) look relatively painless. That was another example of Microsoft hiding functionality which detracted from the usability of a product.
I had heard that Office 2010 would allow a 2003-style interface, but a quick search suggests this is also via add-ins - anyone know whether this was the case out-of the box?
Also, anecdote time. A while ago I was testing Office 2007 (pre-SP1) and had need to use a custom Excel add-in I'd built myself under 2k3. Not only could a substantial amount of ferreting not show how you added add-ins to Excel, but the Help file was a direct copy of the 2003 help file content, referring to a menu that no longer exist. It's things like this that novice users won't find, but bug the hell out of power users.
Heh. That isn't brutal honesty, it's rampant insecurity.
If you're smart, then a new interface isn't a challenge. If you're focused, then a new interface won't interfere with your work. If you're experienced, then you'll know that even after 15 years you can find better ways to do things - and that the more you've invested in the previous method, the more effort the change will take. You'll also have noticed that resistance to change is strongest from those who fear their superiority is being challenged. The smarter they are, the more excuses they can come up with. The less confident they are, and the more pathetically emotive their language becomes (the ribbon interface is "whoring"? Seriously?) .
People focused on outcomes rather than self-aggrandisation tend not to bother with excuses or complaints. Stick with familiar tools for the duration of the project, or set aside some time to learn a new set of keystrokes. Either way, stay focused on the things that matter.
Office has never been specialized software, and certainly not for thesis work. The 65K limit was removed at the same time the Ribbon was introduced. You probably shouldn't be doing a Ph.D. if a new interface is more than you can cope with, and with that disregard for actual facts you really should ask yourself if research is the kind of thing you're suited for.
So your argument amounts to change is bad, and making software more accessible and easy to use is not worth while. Do you have any actual criticism? How does the Ribbon actually stack up against OpenOffice's menu?
Let's take changing page dimension for instance. In Office 2007, it's 3 clicks (Page layout > Size > Select). In Open Office 3.2, it's 6 clicks (Format > Page > Page > Format > Select Size > Ok). To change the size again (if you don't like it for instance) in Office it's 2 clic
I can't say I love the ribbon but I do think it is an improvement over the older toolbars. Problem is that many people are used to the older toolbars and as most people know gratuitous changes can be frustrating to existing users even if they are better for newer users.
That said, Open Office has a user interface only a mother could love. It's like the last ten years of progress in u
I tried OO 1.04, w2.x and they sucked. I had a general goal to be operating system agnostic. So I went to Vuze, Audigy, Gimp, Firefox, etc. Word didn't work on other operating systems. But OO sucked too much and was too painful to learn.
Then, as of 3.0 AND windows 7, suddenly a bunch of my hundred page word 2003 documents wouldn't print. No reason- just hung. Various fixes were tried. WOuldn't print.
I loaded the documents into 3.0, formatting was mangled. Not a lot, but too much for me. OO was drawing little grey boxes around everything which was confusing. But then with the little grey boxes, I could see the problem. The overlapping boxes of tables and graphical elements were confusing Word 2007. I fixed a few of those over in word "blindly" since i couldn't see the problem when in word and the document printed one more page. And some things took several tries before they were really fixed- each attempt cost me a few pages plus toner.
This was painful so I decided to fully reconvert/reformat one document to OO. I had my long term OSagnostic goal and I had a lot of word 2003 documents that wouldn't print. Fixing them in word was going to be a long slow manual process.
It took about 8 hours to convert the document, I learned a lot about OO in the process, I understood the little grey boxes, formatting menu, styles and it printed wonderfully. I also found features in OO that I really liked which were MISSING in word (visual cropping! was the one I remember most. In Word, I type the cropping value, exit, see the effect, then go back in... in OO it displayed cropping in real time).
So... I decided to convert another document. It took 2 hours. The next took about an hour. convert, save, strip all formatting, TOC and Index, reapply proper heading formatting, reinsert TOC & index, add back in the sections, columns. It became a process. By the time I finished, the last two documents took me about 40 minutes each to convert.
I have only used 2007 for short word documents since. I'll even type things up in OO and then take them to Word at the last minute. Even after 18 months, I still stumble over the new ribbon interface. I wasted 40 minutes looking for "auto adjust row hieght" the other day in excel.
So I'm OO and there for life. Once you go OO, it's free. Why convert back unless there is some critical feature gap? And word does have some features OO lacks-- to me they are mostly noise. OO has just about everything up to Office 2003 at this point.
Because, mature as it is, they keep adding bells and whistles. Each new version comes out with some new capability, and some of the new capabilities have exploitable bugs. You have to keep up with the current patch levels to reduce your chances of getting pwned by opening a
You get stuck in a cycle of updating just so you have a version that is official
Microsoft found a way to make people switch to Office 2010: in Europe, they sell Office 2010 at 10 euros to the people working for companies using Office 2010.
This is a clever move to encourage people to switch to their latest products, and as usual, taking the money from companies.
Don't forget, guys... it's called LibreOffice now! [slashdot.org]
Except that MS should focus on LibreOffice now... didn't they got the memo?
Or is it because they know Larry Ellison hates Microsoft...
Blame Oracle. There's nothing the actual developers can do about that. Oracle owns the trademark.
Sun owned the trademark before, it didn't hinder development then.
Oh yes, it absolutely did. Sun proved to be a major hinderance to the development process -- so much so, in fact, that a fork was created and actually became the go-to choice for some Linux distributions.
It was called go-oo [go-oo.org], and if you've installed/used "OpenOffice" in Debian, Ubuntu, or a few other distros, you actually used Go-OO without realizing it.
I don't know if it's going to go anywhere anyway. It seems more often then not, if I hear some random unsolicited comment in real life about OpenOffice, it's a negative one. Not from some form of software partisanship, but frustrations over problems with the software. The new name won't help.
P.S: I always use open source whenever it covers most of my needs.
Give me something to replace Outlook and I can start to kick MS Office out of our environment.
P.S: I always use open source whenever it covers most of my needs.
Mozilla Thunderbird. I use it at home and everything I have seen indicates that it will work as a MS Exchange client.
Thunderbird is a replacement for Outlook like Wordpad is a replacement for Microsoft Word.
These days practically any e-mail client with a large user base will do:
Apple Mail
Of course a real sysadmin would allow people to also get their mail through an open protocol like IMAP and not only the proprietary IMAP version. Same goes for the proprietary CalDAV and LDAP.
For all the people who get exposed to this new video by what ever means, if they never heard of OpenOffice before they sure have now - thanks Microsoft
Now that OpenOffice is in the hands of a company which isn't being criminally mismanaged and which has a well-known vendetta against Microsoft, maybe this is out of valid fears for real competition. On the other hand, Microsoft has a way of waving Linux and other FLOSS projects around for misdirection whenever they need to conjure a competitor to refute claims of their monopoly. Microsoft "admitting" that OO is a competitor would be like North Korea "admitting" they have nukes in order to try and bum rice off of the west.
Alternate hypothesis - Microsoft is really worried about the competition that Google docs presents to the casual web-connected user to their own Live offerings; so distract from that threat by hyping the non-contender. Don't get me wrong, I like oOo a lot and have used it extensively, but for enterprises the difference between deploying Office and oOo is like... well, there isn't even effective deployment documentation for oOo.
... well, there isn't even effective deployment documentation for oOo.
Official OpenOffice Deployment Documentation
If you're using KDE:
'sudo apt-get install openoffice.org-kde'
If you're using Gnome:
'sudo apt-get install openoffice.org-gnome'
Glad I could help.
I think the first half of the video was basically talking about how you have to actually pay *nix admins more money because its harder to fake being competent, and that by using MS products and hiring a bunch of mouse-clicking drones, you can pay them less and therefor save money you need to buy MS software. But I may have missed the point.
This may be a clue to Microsoft that not everybody loves the ribbon. At least not madly enough to pay for it.
I'm not an open source zealot, don't use Linux, have no particular dislike for Microsoft, but Office hasn't really been on my radar for a long time. I used Word for years, but when I got a new computer a few years ago it didn't come with Office installed so I downloaded OpenOffice to see what it was like. Never went back -- there didn't seem to be any point. I'm sure there are many, many things that Microsoft Word, Excel etc can do that OpenOffice Writer, Calc etc can't do, but personally I've never hit that hurdle. Office may still be required for some business tasks, but for my own business and personal use, OpenOffice will do me fine. Thank you to the wonderful people that made it and released it for free!
Typically Microsoft would keep messing with file formats, binary blobs dumped into the files, fonts/menus etc in every release to keep increasing the "spoiler" features and increase costs to OpenOffice and other competitors who are trying to keep up with the interoperability.
I have not seen any new feature in the last 5 years in MsOffice that is a must have feature or a killer feature. And most of the core functionality that could be saved and restored in Office97 format cleanly in MsOffice is done equally well in OpenOffice. Though it won the battle in getting OOXML certified as another "standard" format, the battle raised the visibility of interoperability issues and a few customers started actually separating "microsoft compatibility" from "interoperability". So they are setting the default save format is Office97 even on newer versions to keep their escape avenue open.
Another important strategic mistake it made was ignoring the web based office tools. Microsoft knew there were millions of pirated copies of MsOffice is being used everywhere. It turned a blind eye to it thinking, "these guys would never actually pay for an office suite. If we crackdown they might go to OpenOffice. So let us keep them in the tent, as a way to deny market share to the competition". When the web based office tools started coming out, they saw it as a pathetic little pipsqueak not comparable to the full power of a desktop Office tool. But it siphoned off a large portion of the bootleg users who were looking for a legal option to do simple editing without having to pay for a full price MsOffice suite. Now compatibility and interoperability with these web office tools is an issue and it is tying down Microsoft. It is not able to play the usual, "make enough changes to the file formats and the api and the look and feel and leave enough bugs in there to make everybody look bad compared to the defacto standard microsoft ".
Finally the software costs have soared. It used to cost 50$ for MsWord and 1900$ for a desk top in 1995. Now it is 100$ for a decent desktop and 300$ for MsOffice (more if you want these ultimate, professional versions). The hardware has become very powerful and a virtual machine running an WinXP 2005 image in a protected sandbox actually runs faster than the original machine it shipped with. People are recyling their old Microsoft Windows licenses and Office licenses using VMware.
I think Microsoft will still milk a few more billions of dollars from MsOffice. But it is not going to grow as fast as it did. If they suspend all new development on it and just milk it for profits, they might actually make more money than trying to add more bells whistles and hidden mines and bombs to thwart interoperability.
Microsoft can be really proud of XBbx. It is a real success. But everything else they are doing is crumbling like a sinkhole under them.
Windows: Macs just climbed to 10% of US sales. That's a huge event, considering that no software vendor can consider losing one in ten of every sale. It means that even despite Windows still near-dominence, Macs are in some ways on equal footing with them. And then of course there's Linux, which continues to grow in mindshare and has the price that can't be beat. Not to mention the security compared to Windows. Plus the libre vs. dracon mindset.
IE: Internet Explorer is now losing ground like crazy to Firefox, not to mention Safari and Chrome. And it's no wonder. Anyone who ever used IE and then *anything else* would find that *anything else* is better in every way except for compatibility with retarded websites that never bothered to program for anything except IE. And have you noticed that those retarded websites have gone from very prevalent to almost nonexistent?
Office: See above story. Then there are things like iWork for the iPad which costs $10 per app. MS doesn't even comprehend that space.
Windows phones and tablets: Well, they're just coming out with these, so its hard to draw conclusions yet, but... they're just coming out with these?? Usually when Microsoft releases something because everyone else is doing it, they have a really hard time doing it at all well. May I draw your attention to the Zune?
Bing: How many of you use Bing? How many of you use Google? 'Nuff said.
IIS: Still nothing compared to Apache.
Exchange server: Still a contender, but the open source tools are very robust now, and the licensing for Exchange is punishingly expensive. If enterprise still wants to buy commercial products, then solutions like OS X Server cost a tiny fraction of Exchange for most of the functionality.
Then you may notice that we see story after story of Microsoft closing down projects which were going to take over the world and which seem to have died a slow and long-overdue death. Again... you gotta wonder how much longer they're going to wait before they give up on the Zune. I'll bet they are losing tons of money on it, but keep it alive just so they don't have to face the humiliation of shutting it down.
So what does Microsoft have going for them? Yeah, Xbox. And while PS3 has at least jumped on the Wii-controller bandwagon, XB seems to still be missing the boat. But maybe they'll catch up here. If I were MS, I would want to spin off Xbox as the one branch of the company that might survive.
Don't get me wrong. They're still a huge and very powerful company. But it seems like they can do no right anymore. How much longer can they keep investors interested in holding their stock?
IE: Internet Explorer is now losing ground like crazy to Firefox, not to mention Safari and Chrome. And it's no wonder. Anyone who ever used IE and then *anything else* would find that *anything else* is better in every way except for compatibility with retarded websites that never bothered to program for anything except IE. And have you noticed that those retarded websites have gone from very prevalent to almost nonexistent?'
one serious notable exception-
Government websites: It's not worth the risk of usi
How much longer can they keep investors interested in holding their stock?
Not too much longer. Goldman has downgraded [theregister.co.uk] Microsoft's stock to neutral. From the article
Goldman said it now expected Redmond's core business to be affected by a longer PC refresh cycle. The sting in the tail being that Microsoft, as Ballmer has recently – finally – acknowledged, can no longer rely on those products alone. Diversify or die is, perhaps, the simplistic message.
Microsoft can be really proud of XBbx. It is a real success. But everything else they are doing is crumbling like a sinkhole under them.
Xbox is a huge fiasco in terms of opportunity costs for Microsoft. It kept losing billions of dollars year after year. Microsoft had these huge money machines MsOffice and Windows producing some 15 billion dollars in profits year after. So it kept bearing losses in the XBox line, undercut the competition and waited for them to go out of business. It did not even come up with an innovative concept like motion controller of Wii. Finally it has a decent franchise in XBox. But is it worth all the money it san
Look at the comments on the site where the video was linked to. Most of the comments were negative toward OO. However it seems that the biggest issues are compatibility (with M$), ease of use (complaints from people who had learned WP and SS apps on M$ Office), speed and support. Since the 'world standard' for WP files seems to be M$.doc format and this is always a moving target the compatibility complaint is real. Ease of use is an issue, and OO does need to improve in this area. Having more 'training' documentation, perhaps some YouTube videos for this would help. I don't know how much of OO is still built on java, but getting rid of this layer and re-writing EVERYTHING in some good HL language (C, C++, etc) would help with the speed issue. I'm guessing that the Java runtime layer is taking a godawfull time to initialize and suck up all the resources it needs. Finally there is support. There is decent on-line support for OO, but it's all over the place. You might have to google all afternoon to find the right URL to find answers to your questions. I don't know if you can buy OO support from Conical (Ubuntu), but there is an oportunitiy there for them to fill.
I use OO writer at home to write documents, and their spredsheet mostly to view excel files (which it does rather well, once I allow it to convert them to native format). I've had tons of problems with fixing format of documents imported from M$ word however. Once I get the format right on the screen it doesn't always print the same way. It's a WYSIAWYG problem. (What you see is ALMOST what you get). Mind you, OO (OK from now on LO) has promise and maybe now that it's been forked from Scum/Oriface it may improve as a true open source project. Gnu Cash took a while to get as good as it is, now it rivals the commerical product. Hopefully LO will improve to this point.
OO must be able to save documents back into the original MS format if it wants to take market share from MS. When you get a document from a client, they want it back in an MS format - they're not going to open it up in OO just because you want to use it.
Macros: OO still has issues with MS' macros.
For my per
I don't know how much of OO is still built on java, but getting rid of this layer and re-writing EVERYTHING in some good HL language (C, C++, etc) would help with the speed issue. I'm guessing that the Java runtime layer is taking a godawfull time to initialize and suck up all the resources it needs. Finally there is support.
That is so much BS. First, OO.org is not written in Java, Java is only used to connect to a database and for some plugins. Seconds, I am using Java applications all the time, like Eclipse and Visual Paradigm and I couldn't care less if Firefox were written in Java, because startup and speed of Firefox is the same as all other Java applications I ever had. Try using Lotus Symphony with is 100% Java, it is the same speed as OO.org in startup and usage. DBGL (dosbox game launcher) [quicknet.nl] is another Java application and it runs fast as well.
I'm sorry but that a Java application is always slower than a C/C++ application is so much BF I could vomit. That is just not true anymore and this myth is based on the very early JavaVM. You can also try a 3D Engine in Java http://jmonkeyengine.org/groups/tag/projects [jmonkeyengine.org] and see for yourself how "slow" the 3D applications and games are.
The Video itself actually is quite good. It goes head-to-head with OOo and banks on the prime benefits of MSO compared to OOo. Familiarity, existing macros, performance on Windows, wide-spread usage as an advantage in itself, cost of switching, etc. I've seen use cases where current Excel versions beat OOo Calc in terms of features and performance.
That all being said, the main point about MS Office that we all have had in the last 12 years is adressed aswell:
I'm sure nobody in his right mind here would obje
Obviously: when the oracle starts to offer total solutions form the database servers over the Fileservers to thin clients, all based on their own/former suns products an a little bit of open source, and support from one hand - hmmm what could possibly go wrong for MS?
The main one IMO is that it is cross platform. If your browser is cross platform, and your office suite is cross platform, then chances are your organisation can be cross platform with a small shove. This could result in huge savings on administration / IT and licensing in the long term.
An elephant is a mouse with an operating system.


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Giancarlo Stanton is a physical machine.
The Miami Marlins' right fielder, once sought after by major colleges to play football, makes sure to run, lift weights and maintain his physique. In fact, he was recently profiled nude in ESPN The Magazine's "The Body" issue.
"At the end of the season, the goal is to not be completely exhausted. That's what a training regimen should be for," says Stanton, 23. "You might feel like playing every day is enough, but it's not."
Q: What's your workout routine?
A: During the season, it's after games. Pretty standard stuff. I'll take whatever [exercises] they give me in the weight room. And I run with the pitchers.
If we have a long game, or it's hot outside, you just gotta get in there [gym]. So everything is dictated by the games. If I run after a bunch of balls, or run out some doubles or triples during a game, I won't run as much the next couple of days. But if I just run to first base or jog, I'll run more. Sometimes, you can get through a whole week with taking only a few sprints. Sometimes, you can feel like you're running a marathon.
Q: And in the off-season?
A: The off-season is more weightlifting. Heavier weights. I'm usually a little heavier coming in, but you're gonna lose weight in spring training. Playing every day [during the season], our main goal is to be as quick as possible. If you lift a lot of weights, it makes you quick but it also makes you slow as you recover from it. You gotta find that happy medium and exercises that won't carry on to the next day.
Q: Tell us how you were selected for ESPN The Magazine's "The Body" issue?
A: They approached me the year before. I was a little iffy about it, so I looked into it, saw the baseball guys who did it before, asked them about it. It was really professional. It was cool.
Q: Did you or ESPN come up with the idea for gold body paint?
A: They said, "Come up with some ideas," and at first I was like, "Shoot, what the heck? I don't know nothing about this." But then I saw a body-paint thing before and thought that would be cool. And then the Atlas pose, I saw that and thought it'd be cool. And breaking the bat, I thought that'd be awesome as well.
Q: Do you have a personal fitness or sports motto?
A: There's always someone working harder than you. It don't matter how hard you work; someone's working harder.
Q: Any injuries affect your workouts?
A: I've had some hamstring issues and had to get knee surgery last year for a cartilage that broke off. Those affect you during the moment. I'm sure they'll affect me when I'm older and retired, but now they've been OK. You just build the strength back slowly and try to even them out.
Q: Do you smoke or have any other health vices?
A: No, I don't like to drink [alcohol] too much. I feel fat. It's a bad way to gain extra weight. I will — I'm not gonna lie about that — but it's not one of my hobbies. I honestly don't like beer too much. Sometimes I'll get a Corona and lime, but usually it'll be liquor if I drink.
Q: What do you drink?
A: Water. Need to stay hydrated. I just came across coconut water this year and that's worked pretty good. I didn't like the taste before. But I'm more for the benefit of what it gives you than the taste.
Q: What's your typical daily diet?
A: I sleep a lot so I usually have two meals a day and some stuff thrown in there — protein shakes or vegetable shakes. I eat fish, chicken. If it's steak, it's gotta be grass-fed. I don't like corn-fed. It's better for you if it's grass-fed, which is hard to find.
Q: Ever cheat from your diet?
A: Yeah. I love Kit Kats. My favorites. And wherever we go for dinner, if there's a dessert that I really like. I'm a carrot cake guy, anything cinnamon. And Oreo shakes are my thing. It all depends on the game. If I feel like I burned a lot of calories, I'll eat more.
Q: Any advice for South Florida residents looking to get fit?
A: It's really not as difficult as some people might think. Some people think, "I'll never get this body." People like that think if you eat good for three days and work out for three days straight, they're supposed to see [results]. But when you continuously work out, the moment you see that change, there's that hunger for more.
Don't think you can go work out and eat good and then have a bunch of drinks at night. Soda is the absolute worst. You don't see a fat percentage on the drink, but if you read into what all that sugar and stuff does to you, it's not good.
You gotta get a plan and get hooked on it and not roll through McDonald's every other day.
Giancarlo Stanton
Age: 23
Residence: Miami, Los Angeles
Height/weight: 6 feet, 6 inches; 240 pounds
Occupation: Miami Marlin


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