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[Spelling Progress Bulletin, Spring 1982, pp9-19]
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SSS Conference 3: Teaching and Learning Spelling continued.
"Spelling errors made by phonologically disordered children."
by P. Robinson, R. Beresford, and Barbara Dodd.**Dep't of Speech, School of Education, The University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England.
Abstract.The spelling errors of eleven phonologically disordered children were compared with those of eleven normally articulating children. The groups were matched pairwise for age, sex, educational experience and reading ability. The subject pairs received spelling tests designed individually to investigate words pronounced correctly and incorrectly by the phonologically disordered children. The results indicated that phonologically disordered children make significantly more spelling errors, but that they made as many errors on words they pronounced correctly as they did on words they mispronounced. However, regularity of phoneme-grapheme correspondence was an important factor. Phonologically disordered children made as many errors for regularly spelled words as they did for irregularly spelled words. Their performance on irregularly spelled words equalled that of the control group. That is, phonologically disordered children appear to rely on orthographic representations of words, and have difficulty generating phoneme-grapheme correspondences.
Corpus.By the time children reach five years of age they should have acquired the ability to use all the phonemes, i. e. speech sounds, of their native language appropriately. However, about 5% of the normal school population have communication disorders, and well over half of these children present with an inability to produce consonant phonemes correctly in the appropriate context. Usually the children can produce all phonemes in CV syllables, e.g. /tʃə/, but /tʒt/ church; and they also can usually discriminate phonemes, e.g. /tʃ/ - /t/, chip-tip, but their spontaneous speech is marked by:
(1) reduction of consonant clusters, so that train becomes [teɪn]Teachers often report that children with a spoken phonological disorder also have difficulty learning to read. Their most frequent comment is "Since I can't understand a word he says, I don't know whether he's reading, or making it up." However, teachers rarely complain about the children's spelling performance, and this is reflected in the literature.
(2) limited range of final consonants, e.g. all word final consonants may be omitted or signalled by a glottal stop so that bed becomes [bəʔ]
(3) a limited range of phonemes used contrastively, e.g. fricative sounds such as /ʃ/, /tʃ/, /s/ may be realized as /t/ so that ship, chip, and tip are all produced as [tɪp], and
(4) lack of a voice-voiceless distinction, so that pin and bin would both be realized as [bɪn].
Few studies have been directly concerned with the relationship between the mispronunciations and the misspellings of children. Schonell observed in 1934 that "if a child constantly pronounced inaccurately, he not infrequently spelt inaccurately, and the nature of his written errors have remarkable similarity to the nature of his spoken errors." However, Carrell and Pendergast (1954) and Ham (1958) found no such relationship. Thus the literature is limited, and the results contradictory.
The study I am reporting here was designed to answer the following questions:
(1) Do children with a spoken phonological disorder make more spelling errors than children with normal speech?
(2) Are mispronounced words more likely to be spelled incorrectly that words pronounced correctly?
(3) Do phonologically disordered children, like normal children, have more difficulty spelling words which have NO strict phoneme-grapheme correspondence, e.g. night, than regularly spelt words, e.g. bit?
Subjects.Eleven phonologically disordered children, who were all receiving speech therapy, but attending normal schools, were matched individually, with normally speaking children from their own class for age, sex, and their teacher's assessment of their reading ability. Note, however, that some teachers felt that the reading ability of some of the phonologically disordered children was the poorest in the class. The age range was 7 years, 1 month to 10 years, 8 months. Thus 22 children were tested, 11 in each group, for spelling ability.
The results showed:
(1) Children receiving speech therapy for a phonological disorder made more spelling errors than did the control, normally speaking subjects (351.2 plays 245.9).These results indicate that 7 to 10 year old children who have a spoken phonological disorder also have difficulties in spelling. This appears to be due to a particular difficulty in generating phoneme-grapheme correspondences, since they are much worse than normal children in spelling words that have a 1:1 sound/letter relationship; but are equally bad /good at spelling irregular words.
(2) Children with a phonological disorder made as many spelling errors on words they pronounced correctly as they did on words they mispronounced (178.2 plays 173.2).
(3) Phonologically disordered children made the same number of errors on irregularly spelled words as they did on regularly spelled words (169.3 plays 181.9).
(4) Whereas the normally speaking control subjects made significantly more errors on irregularly spelled words than they did on regularly spelled words (98.3 plays 147.8).
(5) The phonologically disordered subjects made significantly more errors than the control subjects on regularly spelled words (169.3 plays 98.3). There was also attend for the phonologically disordered subjects to make more errors on the irregularly spelled words, but this was not statistically significant, i.e. both groups made similar number of errors on irregularly spelled words.
In one way these results are like those found for deaf children in a similar experiment. I found that profoundly prelingually deaf children also make as many errors when spelling regular words as they do spelling irregular words (Dodd, 1980). This would seem to indicate that phonologically disordered children have a problem using auditory information, even though, of course, they have no sensory hearing loss. Thus, they would have to rely heavily on orthographic information when learning to spell, as do deaf children.
However, this cannot be the sole explanation for the phonologically disordered children's poor spelling abilities. Several studies have shown that deaf children can spell remarkably well; some experiments have indicated that deaf children spell better than normally hearing children matched for Chronological Age. One simple explanation for this surprising finding is that hearing may detract from spelling accuracy in languages lacking exact phoneme grapheme correspondence. It is possible to argue that there are so few invariant phoneme-grapheme correspondences in English orthography that being deaf may be an advantage in learning to spell.
However, it is obvious that phonologically disordered children's poor spelling abilities cannot be solely accounted for by an inability to fully use auditorally derived information, they would appear to have additional difficulties.
In hope of finding some clues that might indicate the nature of these difficulties, we examined the types of spelling errors made by the phonologically disordered children and their control group. Perhaps the most striking finding from the qualitative analysis was that normally speaking children's spelling errors were easy to classify, whereas the phonologically disordered children's errors were bizarre.
Table 1. Mean (%) Spelling Errors.
|Phonologically Disordered Children
|Normally Speaking Children
Thus, as you can see from these typical examples, classification of the phonologically disordered children's spelling errors was virtually impossible, since so many had to be labeled "Other Errors."
We did find, however, that 25% of the control subjects' spelling errors were phonetic alternative spellings, e.g. erth for "earth', whereas only 6.5% of the phonologically disordered children's spelling mistakes could be classified as such.
One further finding of interest was gained from comparing the errors of the two oldest phonologically disordered children with the younger phonologically disordered subjects. The older subjects made many more error-phoneme/ grapheme correspondences, e.g. if they said leloo for 'yellow', they were more likely to spell the word yellow. Thus, they seemed to have better use of a phonological strategy for using sound to letter spelling rules. Perhaps a longer period of reading and spelling practice and instruction had established the use of the strategy which had not yet been grasped by the younger phonologically disordered children.
In summary, the phonologically disordered children tested made significantly more spelling errors than normally speaking children, both in words they mispronounced and in words they pronounced correctly. They made as many errors when spelling regularly spelled words as they did for irregularly spelled words, but their ability to spell irregular words did not differ much from that of the control group. Thus, phonologically disordered children appear to rely on orthographic representation of words, and have difficulty generating phoneme-grapheme correspondences. The effects of their phonological disorder are not limited to speech, but also underlie a difficulty in learning to spell.
Table 2. Examples of Phonologically Disordered Children's Spelling Errors.
|= thunder
= yellow
= family
= hedgehog
= thought
|= zebra
= room
= tortise
= shepard
= castle
[Spelling Reform Anthology §17.6 p236]
[Spelling Progress Bulletin, Spring 1982, pp20,18]
[Harvie Barnard: see Journal, Anthology, Bulletins.]
[For Timmie's first letter see Spring 1981, For his second letter see Fall 1983.]
|Dear Timmie:
|Grandpa's reply to Timmie A. Dropout
|by Harvie Barnard.
Thanks for writing to tell me about your school experiences. I think it's wonderful that you've made such good progress with your reading in spite of all that spelling bee nonsense. How do you like the Treasure Island story? Its one of the best!
But I'm disappointed to hear that you're thinking of quitting school. What does mother and dad think about that? Of course I can understand why you don't enjoy or care for the Dick and Jane running and jumping stuff. Apparently they're still teaching the same kind of "kid stuff" that we were bored with when I was your age.
Still, I wouldn't agree that you should quit school just because of that "dum bunny" spelling bee business. You'll just have to lern that lots of words are spelt in strange ways, and that kids have had to lern what they call "sight words" where the spelling has no connection with the sound of the word or the sound of the letters.
It's surely a shame that you lost your Dr. Rider who was teaching you to use fonetic spelling. Maybe if he goes back to college to study education he'll be able to teach those college people some things they ought to know about teaching kids.
If your father decides to send you to a private school perhaps he'd better check to see what kind of a program they have before he sends you there. If they have spelling bees perhaps you'd be just as happy to stay in public school where you are. It might be a good idea for you to talk things over with Jorje's dad to see what can be done to arrange a reading program which would be fun insted of nonsense.
I certainly agree with your mother that you should have a good dictionary for your birthday. A dictionary doesn't teach you to think, but it does help in lots of ways. I remember a good teacher I had who used to say, "A dictionary is a wonderful thing - if you will lern to use it." I use one for nearly every letter I write. I went to grade school 70 years ago, and there are still lots of words I'm not sure about, so I hav to use my dictionary, not only to check up on my spelling but to find fonetic spellings which tell me how words should be pronounced. Besides that, I very often hav to find the best word to use to explain what I am trying to say. And there's another interesting thing about using a dictionary - each time I use one I discover some other words that I've often wondered about, but never used because I wasn't sure how the words were spelt, or what they ment, and you could sometimes find words which were much better than the ones you were planning to use. Yes, Tim, I'm sure you ought to hav a dictionary and I'm going to see to it that you get a really good one, and not a paperback either, but one which will get you thru grade school and help start you off right in high school.
But don't quit yet! You might get lucky and get a better teacher next term! And I think I'll talk with your dad about private school. If you're reading Mark Twain and Robert Louis Stevenson I should think you're reddy for 4th grade, and maybe more. So let's quit talking about quitting school. Besides, I'm sending you some new books that should be a lot more interesting than Dick and Jane. And please write agen soon. I want to hear more about how you do in school.
With love, Gramps.
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Defense Information C2 vs T2
I can't find the last one I posted on this topic this summer/spring so I thought I'd put another info post up so that people can understand the differences between the 2 and why I keep harping on the need for a Warpig.
I love this one......Gives you alot of history on how defenses evolved on how the DLmen, LB'rs and DB's work in the T2 and C2....
All 3-technique tackles are not alike. Defensive coaches continually search for ways to make their defensive linemen more effective. One of those ways, which was later adapted to the Tampa-2 defense by Tony Dungy and Monte Kiffin, was to slide the defensive tackles away from the strength of the offensive formation instead of playing them in even alignments over the offensive guards. This "undershifted" front makes it very difficult for the offensive line to double team the 3-technique, or in this case, undertackle.The lineage of great undertackle includes many of the league's other most successful pass rushing defensive tackles. John Randle, the first undertackle in what would become the Tampa-2 defense, racked up nine consecutive seasons of ten or more sacks. La'Roi Glover's 17 sack season in 2000 came as an undertackle. Kevin Williams, Rod Coleman, Vonnie Holliday, Tommie Harris? All have had very successful seasons playing 3-technique on defenses frequently using underfronts during the last five years. The Giants nickel pass rush that used four defensive ends to wreak havoc on offensive lines early in 2007 frequently moved Osi Umenyiora or Justin Tuck into undertackle-like roles.
The implications of our discussion of undertackles should be crystal clear. While conventional wisdom suggests ignoring defensive tackles altogether for IDP roster purposes (and rightly so in most cases), you can now see why and when it's acceptable to deviate and target this special class of defensive tackles. As we hinted above, nearly every team that uses the Tampa-2 frequently (now just IND, CHI, BUF, MIN and in smaller doses than in prior seasons) should be scouted for an undertackle worth rostering. Be on the lookout for other 4-3 teams that aren't Tampa-2 teams, but use some undershifted fronts like the New York Giants, Seattle, St. Louis, Cincinnati, Houston and Carolina. Watch for mentions of undertackle and 3-technique in each team's defensive line discussions and be alert for those 4-3 depth charts that list one of the two DTs as a nose tackle. Very often, the other tackle is a 3-technique.
It's not at all uncommon to see a previously marginal talent explode for big numbers as an undertackle - as Cory Redding and Jovan Haye have in recent seasons. Vonnie Holliday's renaissance in his early 30s was directly attributable to his move to undertackle in Nick Saban's defense in Miami.
With the Tampa-2 defensive scheme no longer the hot defensive fad it was earlier in the decade, 3-technique tackles may be harder to find. But quick, powerful, penetrating tackles won't go the way of the dinosaur. Expect to see more teams scheme the underfront into their nickel packages. As Mike Nolan did in 2008 in San Francisco and the Arizona Cardinals did under Clancy Pendergast, the 3-technique tackle in an underfront may become a common sight among the newer 4-3/3-4 hybrid front defenses beginning to take over the league. Watch for players like Glenn Dorsey or Robert Ayers to work into 3-technique roles in their team's new hybrid schemes. Brandon Mebane (SEA) or Adam Carriker (STL) may also see more time in 3-technique roles under new defensive coaches in 2009.
Okay, so it might be a stretch to call Jimmy Johnson the lone driving force of the move back to the 4-3 front in the 1990s, in college or the professional ranks. But the attacking style of defense he brought to the NFL from his days as a college coach continues to impact the league today.
Johnson knew he couldn't recruit successfully against the big schools in his first head coaching gig at Oklahoma State. So he recruited athletes - football talent and size was nice, but speed and athleticism were what he wanted. He simplified the 4-3 scheme to a bare bones approach. No reading and reacting, no controlling your gap assignment. Instead, he coached his players to attack, penetrate and swarm along the front seven and used simple zone coverage in the secondary. He took safeties and made them linebackers. He turned linebackers into speedy, edge rushing defensive ends. Within ten years, a huge number of college coaches followed suit and turned out the players (and coaches) that would change the face of defensive football in the NFL.
- Cover-2 teams must have very talented safeties and a solid pass rush. Each safety has to be able to cover an entire half of the field. They need range, closing speed, tackling skill and enough run-pass recognition ability to not get fooled by play-action. It's extremely difficult for one man to handle the deep middle and the deep sideline. Having an average safety behind a poor pass rush that gives the quarterback time to wait for the deep routes to develop is a recipe for disaster.
- The Cover-2 can also be beaten by flooding one side of the zone with multiple receivers running routes on multiple levels. Force the safety, corner or outside linebacker to make decisions on which receiver to cover and another route may be left open. That was made painfully clear to the Washington Redskins last year when the Cowboys used Terrell Owens, Patrick Crayton and Jason Witten to pressure one side of the Redskin Cover-2 with a combination of sideline, seam, out and deep middle routes.
- Cover-2 teams, by definition, put only seven players in the box and are susceptible to the run. They hope to successfully take away the run without dropping a safety into the box. A team that wants to run Cover-2 because their corners struggle in man coverage but can't stop the run with the front seven is in major trouble.
- Cover-2 teams, by definition, can't blitz a linebacker frequently. The linebackers and corners can take more underneath zone responsibility, but the pressure must come from the front four. As mentioned above, a Cover-2 that can't generate pressure goes from a bend-but-don't-break style of play to one that gives up big plays in bunches when the deep routes come open downfield.
Couple on how the MLB is used for both variants.
2. Cover 2 Basically means you split the field in half using the center as the middle. Each safety has deep halves (deep as the deepest receiver on their half of the field). The corners have the flat, the OLB's have hook to curl, and the MLB has what I call the short hole (the void left when the OLB's bail out to the curl). All NFL teams play some form of cover 2 some of the time. As for the dreaded Tampa 2, the only difference between it and the Cover 2 zone is how deep the MLB has to play. In a Tampa 2 the MLB drops 10-15 yards into coverage to take away the cover 2's biggest weakness, the deep middle.
Alot of you keep harping on our MLB and how far he drops. Keep in mind that we don't run the T2 but rather the C2.
These basic coverage schemes, and variants on them, are as old as the hills. Typically, a Cover 2 splits the deep part of the field into two halves, and the two safeties provide deep help for the outside corners. Underneath, the corners and linebackers split the fields into five short zones. The defensive line is responsible for generating pass rush.The Cover 2, with or without the "Tampa" modification, relies entirely on the front four to generate a pass rush. With the linebackers fully committed to coverage, the front four must get at the quarterback or risk the zone coverage being picked apart.
Cover 2, Tampa-2
The one secondary scheme that basically changes all the rules is the cover 2 and it's variation the Tampa-2. The Colts and Bucks have used this scheme for years and now several others have joined them including the Bears, Vikings, Lions, Bills. In all there are 6 clubs using this scheme on a regular basis and a few others who have it in their playbook for situational use. The basic difference between the normal 4-3 and the cover 2 is that in a cover 2 both safeties take on free safety responsibilities with each covering half of the field while the corners are asked to play more aggressively underneath. They usually move up closer to the line of scrimmage where they can be more physical with the receivers, often jamming them at the line and trying to alter their patterns. Being positioned closer to the line, the cover 2 corner generally has a much bigger role in run support. In fact the strong side corner often takes on very similar responsibilities to the strong safety.
Many many thanks to my talented friend Jos for the new Sig.
Are you sure that we are primarily a cover 2 defense? The coaches would beg to differ:
Notebook: Vikings want to mix it up ...fensive scheme
EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. -- The Minnesota Vikings have been considered to play a Tampa-2 defense since Brad Childress took over as head coach in 2006 and hired Mike Tomlin from Tampa Bay to be his coordinator.
That didn't change in 2007 when Leslie Frazier replaced Tomlin after the latter was hired as coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers.
But Vikings officials long have said that classifying their defense as exclusively a Tampa-2 isn't accurate because they mixed in other looks as well.
That proved to be the case in the Vikings' 26-23 victory over Jacksonville on Sunday at the Metrodome -- the first game for Alan Williams as the team's defensive coordinator.
"When we were playing our best defense, we were not a heavy Cover-2 team and our personnel is getting back to where we need it to be," said Frazier, who was promoted from coordinator to coach during the 2010 season when Childress was fired.
"The last couple of years, we've struggled on the back end from a personnel standpoint, but we're getting to where we need to be so we can mix up a little bit more and not be as predictable as we had become. It's more about our personnel than anything."
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We run a lot of cover 2 and even some cover 3 with either an extra corner or the MLB dropping back.. We run a lot of nickle defense with 2 linebackers and an extra cornerback in there.. Ive also seen a lot of safety blitz and some MIKE blitz.. I think we have a zone defense base which depends on not to give up the big play over the top, but most of all we adjust to what is in front of us and play the opponent to what fits us best..
10-05-2012, 06:45 AM #4Cover-2 teams must have very talented safeties and a solid pass rush. Each safety has to be able to cover an entire half of the field. They need range, closing speed, tackling skill and enough run-pass recognition ability to not get fooled by play-action. It's extremely difficult for one man to handle the deep middle and the deep sideline. Having an average safety behind a poor pass rush that gives the quarterback time to wait for the deep routes to develop is a recipe for disaster.
With today's athletic QB's that can avoid even decent pass rushing, I believe the last statement can happen if you don't have speed and talent at the DB positions. Especially if they're giving them big cushions.
"If at first you don't succeed, parachuting is not for you"
Marr, didn't you say damn near every team ran the cover2? I recall you telling that to someone (PF? Kevon?) when they said hardly anyone uses it anymore.
Now, just six years later, only two teams -- the Bears and Vikings -- consider the cover 2 to be their base defense. Most teams are switching to more combination man coverages, in part to combat the two-tight-end sets growing in popularity (see sidebar). But an even bigger reason for the demise of the cover 2 is the rapid rise of defensive penalties called for big hits.
"If at first you don't succeed, parachuting is not for you"
10-05-2012, 06:57 AM #6Most teams are switching to more combination man coverages
"If at first you don't succeed, parachuting is not for you"
From what I've gathered over the summer (reading up on this guy) both he and Leslie like to run a mix of the two (T2 and C2) but prefer the C2 and will use that as their base.
Q: Considering your familiarity with Leslie Frazier and his defense, how much of your previous defense did you use as a starting point and how much of it did you start fresh?
A: People ask me that question a lot, kind of Leslies defense or the Tampa 2 scheme, that type of thing.Williams won't unveil anything revolutionary scheme-wise. He'll keep the Vikings running a Cover-2 based system but has vowed to mix in more man-to-man coverage.
Vikings Quotes - Alan Williams - July 31
Williams is most comfortable running a Tampa-2, Cover-2 coverage scheme. Considering that Frazier wants to run that particular coverage scheme in 2012 helps Williams' chances of landing the spot as the Vikings' defensive coordinator.Williams may not be the most decorated candidate that the Vikings have shown interest in, but his history with Frazier and the Cover 2 defense could make him a good match in Minnesota.Many many thanks to my talented friend Jos for the new Sig.
As to the cushions being provided. I can't see it as good as you guys do in the dome, but it appears to me that our CB's are playing tight and trying to funnel to the inside.Many many thanks to my talented friend Jos for the new Sig.


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Sunday is usually a day of worship for valley residents that's spent inside a church, but it seems that it's also becoming a prime time for thieves. The Peoria Police Department is warning churchgoers of a string of burglaries taking place while the victim is in church. A spokesperson for the Peoria police department tells us several of these thefts have taken place in the past month. Personal and valuable items go missing from a victim's home while the owner is in church.It isn't just happening in Peoria, the Phoenix Police Department, Surprise Police Department and even Maricopa County Sheriff's Office is on high alert. Larry Laprarie is the elder on call this week at Reunion Church in Peoria. He spent Sunday morning patrolling the parking lot, keeping an eye out for suspicious behavior. "I already approached one guy that was sitting in his car with his motor and air conditioning running and I said, 'May I help you?'" said Laprarie. Peoria police say thieves are targeting church's like Reunion and more specifically, the parked cars. They're using what they find inside to steal even more. "It's pretty sad. It doesn't seem right that people would take advantage of people on a Sunday morning," said Cecelia Hofberger. According to Peoria police, the suspect or suspects either break into a car or enter an unlocked vehicle they immediately grab a garage door opener, the address off the vehicle registration card and immediately head to the victim's house. "In one case, we were able to get some surveillance video of a woman who tried to use a stolen credit card," said Amanda Jacinto, Peoria police spokesperson. Jacinto says the woman in the picture used a credit card connected to one of the church burglaries.
Identifying her could lead to more information. In the meantime, Laprarie says the vigilance won't stop even if someone is caught. "I'm sure it's not just one group. I just don't think it's one group," said Laprarie. Because the thefts are occurring in a number of jurisdictions, anyone with any information is asked to call their local police department.


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Charles Lane is a narrow cobblestoned alley that connects Washington Street and the West Side Highway. There is nothing particularly remarkable about it, except it feel like one of those narrow crevices in the city which time has forgotten, even though it is tucked into a peculiarly modern housing development.
What I most remember about the place was the fact that a band called Mountain had once rehearsed there. Large framed posters of the band were on the walls. And the amplifiers we plugged into had once belonged to the band themselves.
Mountain's front man was Leslie West, who is (or was) a very large man, with unruly hair. I remember staring with an odd kind of reverence at the pictures of him and the band on huge concert stages, rocking out. It made me feel special to be rehearsing in a place once occupied by such rock Gods. I had only heard one song of theirs, "Mississippi Queen", but that was enough.»
Now when I walk by Charles Lane it seems like a lost, quiet place, and I wonder vaguely about what parties and debaucheries took place at Charles Lane Studios those nights before our arrival.
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My shoulders seem to be sagging. Is there anything I can do reshape my shoulders?
Sandy, Vineland, N.J.
You can use shoulder pads to give them a straight lifted appearance, but what about when you have to look at the real you? Instead, develop the muscles that help hold up the shoulders girdle, neck muscles and the scapula area. Stand with your feet about shoulder-width apart and your knees slightly bent. Grab two dumbbells and hold them at your sides along the middle of your thigh. Raise your shoulders upward then roll them backward and down. You can also roll them forward. Do 3 sets backward for 8–10 repetitions. This is a good exercise to loosen up the shoulders and upper back muscles during the day.
Tennis Grip Strength
I want to play a better game of tennis this year and I want to improve my grip strength. What exercises will help me improve my grip?
Jean, Philadelphia
The muscles in the forearm control your grip strength. The forearm contains 19 muscles. They perform a variety of functions. If you find you're having problems with your grip, try these two exercises. Grasp a barbell or a pair of dumbbells with your palms facing up. Sit down with your feet flat on the floor. Place your forearms on top of your thighs with your wrist extended over your knees. Curl the weight with your hand without lifting your forearms off your thighs. The second exercise has you sitting in the same position but with your palms facing down. Start with one set of 10 repetitions for each exercise twice a week and increase the number of set each week until you're doing at least three sets. Do these exercises after your tennis game.
Osteoporosis and Gender
I always hear about older women and osteoporosis. Do men get osteoporosis? Is there anyway to prevent it?
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Osteoporosis is a condition that affects men and women. Though it usually affects the elderly it begins at around age 30 for women and age 50 for men. Osteoporosis is associated with loss of bone mineral, which results in less density and strength in bones. Normally, women have about 30 percent less bone than men and after menopause lose bone mass twice as fast as men. Lower levels of estrogen after menopause, chronic alcohol abuse, coffee, tea, candy, low calcium intake, lack of exercise, high levels phosphorus, which is found in soda all contribute to bone mineral loss.
Taking preventive measures for bone loss should start early. By your mid twenties you should be taking between 800–1500 milligrams of calcium daily. Calcium-rich foods include dairy products, green leafy vegetables, dried beans, sardines and salmon. Calcium alone will not prevent or treat osteoporosis. Exercise stimulates bone strength. Bones weaken when you don't exercise. This applies to both men and women.
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Hydrogenation is the process that makes oil solid at room temperature. This is the process that gives us margarine and gives processed foods a longer shelf life. Hydrogenation fats act the same way saturated fats act in your system. Saturated fat raises your cholesterol level. Hydrogenated oils, sometimes called trans fats, are found in cakes, pies, cheese spreads, cookies, some ice creams and most bread.
Most foods contain saturated, unsaturated and polyunsaturated fats. Saturated fats should only be 10 percent of your total caloric intake. Remember, hydrogenation increases the amount of bad fat. So read the label and limit your trans fats and saturated fat combined to less than 14 grams daily.
What can I take to boost my energy level?
Dan, Washington, D.C.
There are a lot of herbs that have become popular for energy such as ginseng, guarana and bee pollen. All of these products are called natural, which may have you believe they are safe. These products have to be broken down into a chemical that the body can use. All three of these products are powerful chemicals that can have bad side affects. It has been said that ginseng can cure almost everything, increase your endurance and improve your sex life. Ginseng is largely based on superstitions and anecdotal data instead of scientific fact. Side effects of ginseng can include insomnia, diarrhea and skin eruptions. Ginseng can also affect blood sugar, which may complicate diabetics.
Guarana is a caffeine-based product. Guarana is an herb that is used to boost energy. The bad effects of caffeine can include sleeplessness, irritability, anxiety and depression. A person can suffer the bad effects from one or two cups of coffee a day.
Bee pollen is mixture of bee saliva, plant nectar and pollen. There have been no good large studies done that can show that bee pollen can increase your endurance. This product can be dangerous to anyone that has allergic reactions to bees or pollen.
The best way to increase energy level is to eat right, exercise and get enough rest.
Vitamin C
How do I get in the Vitamin C that I need?
Kevin, Orlando, Fla.
Vegetables and fruits provide us with the vitamin C we need, but we loose much of it when we handle our food. Vitamin C, which is also known as ascorbic acid, is a water-soluble vitamin that is found in fruits and vegetables. Vitamin C plays a major role in healing wounds, burns, red blood production, formation of connective tissue, fighting infections and preventing hemorrhaging. This vitamin is destroyed easily when foods containing the vitamin are stored or cooked. Vitamin C is sensitive to light, heat and air. Smoking, excessive drinking, antibiotics, cortisone aspirin pain killers, excessive amounts of water, cooking in cooper utensils and sulfa drugs can reduce the body's ability to absorb vitamin C. You should store vitamin C as little as possible. When you do store foods containing vitamin C you should keep them refrigerated. When cooking foods containing vitamin C, you should cook them as little as possible. Steaming and micro waving them in a small amount of water for short cooking time help to insure you will get the most of the vitamin C found in the food.
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Postcode Validation with Regex
I am fumbling/hacking my way through my first Javscript code but have now hit some stumbling blocks.
I've recycled some functions I found online which use regex to validate and format UK postcodes. I really can't get my head around how they work though
The code should work as follows
1. User types in postcode (this could be a full uk postcode i.e. NW11 1AG or a short version NW11 or full postcode not formatted NW111AG.
2. There is a list of allowed postcodes stored with a variable or array. The list will only contain the first part of the postcode i.e. NW11 or N1 etc.
3. Code then checks whether users postcode is within list
4. Dialog box tells user if postcode is allowed or not.
I think the code is now structured in the correct way but am struggling with a couple of things.
(a) How do I change this line to use the 'pc' variable not the hard coded list which is in place.
if (["foo", "bar", "BS3 1PZ"].exists(shortenPostcode(x))) {
Something like below (which doesn't work - think something to do with ")?
if ([pc].exists(shortenPostcode(x))) {
(b) How do I tweak function shortenPostcode to just return the first part of the postcode? It works at the moment if you type TW11PA but not if you type TW1 1PA
(c) Any other suggestions on how I could improve structure of my code and/or speed.
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My husband and I took the Viking Cruise up the Elbe River, flying from London to Berlin, embarking at Magdeburg and visiting various ports on the way to Prague, from which we flew back to London.
This was our first cruise, and we found the Viking cruise line exemplary. We spent 10 days on the cruise (including two nights in hotels) and visited 8 ports.
In Berlin and Prague we stayed in Hilton Hotels, enjoying the high standards of these hotels and the aid of exceptionally helpful Viking employees. On land and on the river, we found the cruise well run, and all the Viking people pleasant and helpful. Service in all departments was excellent. If we had to single out anyone, it would be our cabin steward, but all the Viking employees were outstanding, from the captain and the organizers onwards.
The excursions, lectures and other activities were well planned, and the guides were lively and well informed. We particularly enjoyed the Worlitz gardens at Dessau, the town of Meissen, the experience of Dresden, plus the Saxon Switzerland, Litomerice, and Prague. Viking employees were always on hand to give advice and information. On the Fontane, our cabin was comfortable and the dining experience was excellent--we appreciated the wide variety of good food available.
Overall, we greatly enjoyed the experience, so much so that we have already booked our places on another Viking river cruise next year.


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We took a bus from Braintree Ma to NYC Dock, we would never do that again, ride was too long, bus uncomfortable and stopped way too much. Also, keep in mind, of this is the way you go, ship docks at 7am, need to be out of cabin by 9 am, off ship by 10am, and bus doesn't come till 1 PM.
First nite was freezing on ship, as was the next day, kind of a bummer,, but should have expected that as we were leaving from NYC.
Staff was fantastic! Food was fantastic! We went out to 3 fee restaraunts, they were good, but the free,included ones were just as good, if not better. The only one I would say to check out is, teppanyaki, fun and delish. Cabin was great, Deck 11 is perfect, mini suite with balcony.
Shore excursions: we did islands of adventure at universal, it was a blast! Norwegians island, stirrup cay is awful. Stay on the ship. Free Buffett is a zoo, beach was lame. They are doing construction work, so it looks like they Re trying to make it better, but, I just don't see it. waste of trip, everyone goes, so it would be a great day to stay on board. We also did Blue Lagoon beach for excursion in Nassau, FABULOUS! Gorgeous beach, so worth it. You can walk around, see dolphins, sea lions, etc. don't buy any star excursions for blue lagoon, buy them at beach, cheaper. Free lunch was awesome. This was my fave day. It was perfect.
The pool area is very small, and very crowded, the above decks are really nice to lounge, tip, u HAVE to get up early (7am) go down, find your chairs, spot, etc and claim it with towels, books, hats, whatever, but you must or you won't have anywhere to sit. If ou get a nice spot. It's fantastic.
Tsars breakfast is delish, also, the back deck on floor 12 has a great breakfast and outdoor seating beyond the buffet area, it is so nice. Azur is delicious as well. We had 2 13 year olds with us, they LOVED the blue lagoon restaraunt, it is open 24/7.
The kids had the time of their l,Ives, we never saw them, they didn't want to leave. The soda package is a must for kids, so easy.
All and all. This was our first cruise and it was fantastic, we would definitely do it again. We would take our own car to NYC, and would not spend $$ on restaraunts, not worth it, and finaly stirrup cay is awful, ship it for the day. :)
Other than that, have nothing but positives!!!! Loved it.


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With three wins on the bounce, the Fire are on the brink of a playoff spot with only one game to go. The Men in Red could be in before the start of play on Sunday but the earliest they'll know is a little over an hour from kickoff of their match vs. New York Red Bulls (LIVE 3:30pm CT on My50/Time Warner Sports WI; 4pm on UniMas).
Still, there is plenty to play for, including a possible third place finish thus avoiding the play-in game. For New York no incentive is bigger than knowing a win against the Fire will guarantee the team's first ever trophy. Here are some things to look out for from a tactical perspective.
Patrick Nyarko and Jalil Anibaba vs New York's left back – taking advantage of a Red Bulls weak spot
Left back has been a problem position for the Red Bulls this season and with the two natural left backs nursing injuries, the Red Bulls may have to resort to playing right-back Brandon Barklage out of position as cover. Red Bulls coach Mike Petke admitted that he is wary of Patrick Nyarko and hinted that it could be Barklage that gets the start due to his strong 1v1 defending.
WATCH: Segares, Nyarko preview NYRB
With that in mind, I feel the Fire coaching staff will be encouraging Nyarko to get the ball and take the left back on as much as possible. Left midfielder Johnny Steele is not the best at tracking back and helping in the defensive third and this could also allow Jalil Anibaba to get forward and support Nyarko on the Fire's right.
Anibaba's crossing ability has improved dramatically this year and regardless of who New York starts on the left, I expect the majority of the Fire's attacks to come down that side.
Logan Pause vs Alex – who will partner Rios in the middle?
The toughest decision for the Fire's coaching staff this week is who will replace the suspended Jeff Larentowicz in the center of the midfield alongside Arevalo Rios. One of Logan Pause, Alex or Daniel Paladini will be half of the tandem that will have to compete against one of the strongest midfield pairings in MLS: Dax McCarty and Tim Cahill.
On the one hand, the Fire know that the Red Bulls will be playing for the win and the Supporters Shield crown that comes with the points. On the other, the Fire will also be going for the win, knowing what they will have to do to finish in either fifth, fourth or even third.
With this in mind, Alex would be a more logical pick to start alongside Rios due to his attacking creativity and willingness to get forward and support the strikers. To those who argue that starting Alex over Logan would mean the team loses some defensive clout, coach Frank Klopas would argue that Alex's defensive play has been excellent this season.
Tactically, I think starting Logan Pause would be the wiser choice, especially when you take into account the fluidity of the New York attack. The center midfielders and strikers for the Red Bulls are never static, with players like Henry often drifting wide and Cahill moving forward to play as the target striker.
With Pause alongside Rios, the Fire would form a very solid block of four, similar to the formation that the Republic of Ireland played under Giovanni Trapattoni. This formation would make the Fire very difficult to break down but would put a lot more emphasis on the wide players to create. This coaching decision has the potential to have huge impact on the match.
Shutting down Fabian Espindola – a player easily lost in the shadows of Henry and Cahill
In the Red Bulls last home match against New England, Mike Petke started with Henry and Fabian Espindola up front and in the first half in particular, Espindola was unstoppable. The New England defense could not keep up with the Argentine striker, who dropped deep and wide in search of the ball, dragging defenders out of position along the way.
Espindola is a player that any coach would love to have due to his tireless work rate. He also hounds opposition defenders when they are in possession, always looking to force a turnover or mistake and does not give up possession easily.
His low center of gravity can be very difficult for defenders to contain and he will certainly pose a challenge for the Fire's backline on Sunday afternoon. The Fire defenders must not allow Espindola to get behind the backline.
Individually the defenders must not allow him to drag them out of position and create space for players like Cahill and McCarty to move into.
Prediction: With both teams knowing a win would be massively rewarding, I expect an end to end thriller, especially if there is an early goal. 2-2 with goals from Mike Magee and Patrick Nyarko.
When Sasha Chanoff, the founder of RefugePoint, reached out to the Fire's ownership about hosting a family at Saturday's Fire game that seemed like the least we could do.
The Lokango family, a Congolese refugee family (whose lives RefugePoint saved) are new arrivals in Chicago. Prior to Chicago, they were living as refugees in Kenya for a number of years. Not only did they suffer unspeakably before escaping the Congo, but the 13-year-old, Emile, was shot in the leg in Nairobi because they were living in a dangerous area where refugees had become targets.
RefugePoint's Cheryl Hamilton, who escorted the family to Toyota Park, had met them a few months ago in Nairobi and worked with RefugePoint to get them out as soon as possible. They are overjoyed and overwhelmed with relief to finally be in Chicago and safe.
Sasha and Cheryl knew Chicago Fire owner Andrew Hauptman and had worked with the Hauptman family as they had hosted a fundraiser for RefugePoint in the past. Additionally, in 2010, RefugePoint's effort in protecting the world's most vulnerable refugees was awarded with the prestigious Charles Bronfman Prize (one of whose founders is Andrew Hauptman). As the boys also love soccer, Cheryl knew that it would be a warm Chicago welcome for them to come and experience a Chicago Fire game. They were seen cheering on the Fire and high-fiving other supporters after Mike Magee's magical penalty kick.
In the end, it was an honor to host the family and for them to be recognized on field during Saturday's game against Toronto. Their story touched everyone who met them at Toyota Park on Saturday, and they definitely brought the Men in Red good luck as well.
For more on RefugePoint and the hundreds of families they help (including the Lokango's) visit http://www.refugepoint.org/.
What's more awesome than watching a Mike Magee penalty kick conversion? Watching a Mike Magee penalty kick conversion in slow motion, of course!
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There were shots off the post, a disallowed goal, more Sean Johnson saves, the dramatic contexts of playoff contention and the last regular season home game of the season - Saturday's win had a handful of talking points, but it had really only one truly interesting scene: Mike Magee's game winning penalty.
Because despite the atmosphere and everything that was at stake, the game, in fact was pretty flat. Maybe it was the rain-soaked field, maybe it was a bit of nerves but Fire fans had to be uncomfortable when they saw the first 10 minutes with little of the urgency, high pressure, and high defensive line that pushed the team to those two huge away wins in D.C. and Dallas. Toronto was finding gaps all over the field to exploit and if it wasn't for such bad finishing by Robert Earnshaw, they would've been in front.
The Fire grew into the game, however, and were in control when Magee scored the winning penalty. Then, as we've seen for the past month or so, the Fire managed the remainder of the and took all the points.
So maybe it's good that it wasn't a spectacle of high drama. Maybe it was just a professional victory -- a cold blooded three point snatch.
But then there was Magee's PK.
Just a few weeks ago, Magee hit the crossbar with what would've been a game winning PK against Montreal. It cost the Fire two crucial points. "Tonight's on me," he said after the game. "It won't be the last one I miss but I'm confident taking them and I'll bury the next one."
It's more or less the approach you expect from someone leading the league in goals and there aren't many better opportunities to pad your stats than from the penalty spot.
And yet, and YET, Saturday's PK was terrifying. I didn't like the way Magee looked, I didn't like his set up. He kept wiping his hands, and he started his run-up exactly at the whistle. You can often tell if a player's going to score their PK based on their face, their calm, their approach, and their cool. We all know Magee is cool in front of goal, but wouldn't the Montreal miss be on his mind? There he was, right in front of Section 8, back in his home city, a stadium chanting MVP - it was a moment, just a second or two, where some people might have thought about the whole chaos of the season. All the missed chances, all the posts they hit, all the points they dropped, all the mistakes and antagonism and pressure.
It happened so fast. Magee didn't let the moment fester. He knew what he was going to do. He knows where the goal is. He wipes his hands, he tugs his shorts down a bit, he looks at the ref waiting for the whistle. When it comes he leaps off the line like a 5k start, skips a bit to the left of the ball, and approaching it that way, executes the deftest of chips right into where the goalie's chest would've been if he hadn't dove down to his right, where he thought Magee would go.
What I love about the way he took it is that he seemed to beat the rhythm of the game. I wanted a dramatic pause. I wanted to consider the entire season in the moment, and I wanted him to look straight at the keeper with fire in his eyes, like Rivaldo in 2002. But then, that's what makes him such a good finisher, isn't it? It's the way he seems to catch defenders and goalies unaware. For some goals he's quicker than you think he can be, and for others he seems to wait an eternity before calmly putting it away. The PK on Saturday was a combination of both. It had the quickness to take a few people by surprise (and short circuit any nerves), and the calmness to chip a Pirlo-esque panenka in front of thousands of people, in the most important game of the season.
After the game, Magee admitted he had some nervousness: "Normally I get up there and don't think twice about missing, and this time the last one off the back of the post was on my mind, so I figured I couldn't hit it off the post if I shot it up the middle."
Even when admitting nerves, he sounds like the doubt in his mind didn't really make him fear not scoring, it just pushed him to score differently.
And so now the Fire go to New York with nerves and doubts, but like Magee, they'll have to use those doubts to push forward. They've learned from their mistakes against Montreal (and Columbus, and etc. etc.) but for three games in a row they've managed games and have a chance to finish the season the way Magee finished his PK: maybe a little afraid of the posts, maybe not exactly with the suave calmness of a secure playoff spot, but with a chance to kill it off, take the points, and head into the playoffs.
Select shots from the Fire's 1-0 win over Toronto FC.
CREDIT: Brian Kersey, Chicago Fire
With two massive road victories under their belt, the Fire play the final regular season game of 2013 at Toyota Park against Toronto FC on Saturday night (LIVE 7pm CT on My50/Time Warner Sports Wisconsin).
With six goals scored in the last two matches, the Men in Red are hitting form at the right time and know if results go their way, they could be guaranteed an MLS Cup Playoff spot by the final whistle. Toronto have nothing to play for but will be looking to play spoiler. Here are some tactical things to look out for from a tactical perspective.
Keeping up the high pressure tactic – play a high line and get players into the TFC box
As I mentioned before, the Fire have scored six goals in the last two games. The closest to that tally in a previous two-game MLS span has been four goals. With that in mind, the Men in Red must try and get people into the box whenever possible against Toronto.
In many games this season, Toronto have not been undone by individual brilliance, but rather defensive errors. TFC coach Ryan Nelson, a former defender, must be disgusted by the amount of tap in goals his team has allowed with Sporting KC, Montreal and New York all scoring simple goals against Toronto and all stemming from defenders ball watching and not following their marks.
The Fire need to try and take advantage of this by getting more players from the midfield into the box to support assumed strikers Mike Magee and Juan Luis Anangono. The high pressure tactic can be very beneficial to this, with players like Alex not allowing the defenders to have time and space on the ball. With the team playing a high line and not dropping deep, it will give players an opportunity to get forward and into the box faster.
The Rios conundrum – who to start in the center of midfield?
Arevalo Rios played two grueling matches for Uruguay over the past week, helping La Celeste qualify for the World Cup intercontinental playoff against Jordan.
After playing 180 minutes for his country and only returning to Chicago on Thursday, it might be difficult for him to start in the middle for the Fire on Saturday night.
WATCH: Magee, Berry talk Toronto FC
One reason that the coaching staff might decide to start Rios however is that Jeff Larentowicz is currently sitting on four yellow cards and one more against TFC would rule him out of the season finale at New York next Sunday.
Another option for the Men in Red could be to start Larentowicz and bring on Rios for the former New England man if the Fire are in a comfortable position.
That being said, as we have seen from the past two games, the high pressure tactic is effective regardless of who starts in the middle.
Muzzling Bobby Convey – a danger on both wings
Bobby Convey is one of the few players to have a strong year for TFC and the Fire must not allow him to create chances for target striker Bright Dike. Convey is equally comfortable playing on either wing and it wouldn't surprise me if he started on the right where he would link up with improving right back Mark Bloom.
While Bakary Soumare has found form again in the last few matches after having a few horror moments previously, Gonzalo Segares is a player that will be looking to have a better performance against TFC.
In 1v1 situations, Sega is very difficult to beat but the problems start when players make runs in behind him. The Costa Rican can sometimes be caught too high up the field while other times he is forced to move inside to cover for one of the center backs. Both of these were highlighted in last weekend's match against Dallas.
Against Toronto, I would also like to see the Fire's outside midfielder track back and help out Segares more, especially if Bloom gets forward. A composed and compact performance by the Fire's back four as a unit will give the team a very good chance of coming out of the game with three points and maybe even a guaranteed playoff spot.
Prediction: After having to endure a nervy end to last week's match, the Fire make it easier on fans by winning 2-0 with goals from Alex and Mike Magee.
Hey, look at that... For his vaillant performance en route to a win over FC Dallas, the folks over at MLSsoccer.com decided to make Mike Magee the #3 performer of the week!
And since we're on the subject of Mike Magee, we would like to subtly steer you in the direction to support him to be the MLS MVP. Check out the video below!
The Fire won back-to-back away games and scored six goals. They sit in a playoff position and control their own fate with two games remaining. Juan Luis Anangono is heating up. Mike Magee is so hot he's scoring goals by accident. Sean Johnson is playing like, and being recognized as, one of the four or five best American goalies. Jeff Larentowicz is owning midfields. Jalil Anibaba and Austin Berry are two of only three MLS players who've played every single minute so far this season and their defensive relationship is finally solidifying. There's real depth on the outside and through the middle (where captain Logan Pause and summer standout Daniel Paladini are working to get past Alex and Arevalo Rios).
That's the general view right now. The squad is playing up to their potential and the depth is supporting them. The competition for spots is pushing everyone harder, and the depth is allowing Frank Klopas to cover for injuries, international duty (Rios, Lindpere), or to go with the hotter player (Anangono over Chris Rolfe).
In other words, things are shaping up nicely. The general feeling is a good one, momentum is building, the Twitter trolls have returned to their caves, and it's hard to fend off enticing thoughts like, you know those lower-seeded teams that barrel into the playoffs and scare everyone because they're playing with momentum and confidence? What if the Fire can be that team?
All season long, the Fire's major problem was consistency. They were infuriatingly inconsistent from game to game and, indeed, from half to half. Maybe it was a focus thing, maybe it was a changing personnel thing, who knows. But now the Fire are managing games better. They're attacking straight from the beginning. They're pressuring the ball all over the field. They're getting crucial two-goal advantages and defending well enough to hold on to them.
We saw all that last week in D.C., where a super high defensive line pushed the Fire team way up the field to pressure United players into mistakes that led to chances and goals. We saw the same thing in Dallas on Saturday night. Alex, especially, was way up the field in the first half, never letting the Dallas players play the ball comfortable in their own half. (Magee, Anangono, Patrick Nyarko, and Dilly Duka deserve credit too.) How many shots did the Fire have at the top of the Dallas box in the first 30 minutes? It was harassment.
So just like in DC, a high defensive line and concentrated pressure led to a 2-0 first half lead. But just like in DC, we saw where it could be dangerous. We saw the team pay the price of so much early pressure, with Nyarko tweaking a hamstring and the rest of the team almost running out of gas late in the second half. We also saw how pushing too eagerly can be scary:
But I like this high pressure because it fits the moment, with the Fire desperately needing these results to make the playoffs. There are just two games left and the Fire have to prove their potentially newfound consistency beyond the past two away wins. They have to show the urgency and the commitment and the work rate into the next two games, too. Klopas's high risk and high pressure tactic fits.
It's a great moment: After all the work and all the struggle, suddenly the players' quality shines through. Suddenly everybody trusts each other. Goals and points happen. Anibaba scores a stunner. Other teams hit the posts.
I don't know about predicting anything against Toronto and New York. But if we keep seeing the Fire play as they have these past two games, they'll get to play a few more.


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Halton MP debates the outdoors with top mountaineers
8:10am Tuesday 25th September 2012 in News By Barbara Jordan, Chief Reporter
TWO accomplished climbers joined MPs for a discussion - on top of a mountain.
Alan Hinkes, the first British mountaineer to have summited all 14 8,000metre peaks, and Crag Jones, the first Welshman to climb Everest, accompanied Halton MP Derek Twigg and seven colleagues to scale Mount Snowdon.
The MPs belong to the All Party Parliamentary Mountaineering Group and met to discuss issues affecting climbers and walkers.
Mr Twigg, a keen fell walker, said: "The climb was exhilarating and it was rewarding to be greeted by spectacular views of Snowdonia at the summit.
"I was pleased to be doing something to promote the health and social benefits of accessible walking, which helps boost individual health and well-being as well as the rural economy more generally.
" I would encourage anyone who is able to do so to take up this inspiring activity.
"It was also great to spend time with two esteemed mountaineers such Alan Hinkes and Crag Jones."
MPs are keen to promote the importance of outdoor recreation to the rural economy.
The climbing group is made up of more than 30 MPs, and gives the British Mountaineering Council access to policitians to work on issues affecting climbing, hill walking and mountaineering.
Last year, the group walked up Blencathra in the Lake District, with Sir Chris Bonnington.
Halton MP Derek Twigg with esteemed mountaineer, Alan Hinkes, on Mount Snowdon
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Google pays record bounty for Chrome bug
Patches 16 browser bugs, including one that earns researcher $3,133
Computerworld - Google patched 16 vulnerabilities in Chrome on Thursday, and it paid one researcher a record $3,133 for reporting a single bug.
The flaws fixed in Chrome 8.0.552.334 were in several components, including the browser's support for extensions, its built-in PDF viewer, and the way it processes cascading style sheets (CSS).
Thirteen of the bugs were labeled as "high" threats, Google's second-most-serious rating, and two were pegged "medium." Only one was tagged as "critical," the company's highest threat rating.
As it always does, Google locked its bug tracking database to bar outsiders from reading the technical details of the just-patched vulnerabilities. The company usually opens access to a flaw later -- sometimes within weeks, often only after months -- to give users time to update before the information goes public.
Researcher Sergey Glazunov was credited with reporting the single critical vulnerability, described by Google as a "stale pointer in speech handling." A "stale pointer" is a bug in an application's memory allocation code.
Glazunov was the first researcher to take home Google's biggest bounty.
"We're delighted to offer our first 'elite' $3133.70 Chromium Security Reward to Sergey Glazunov," said Jason Kersey, a Chrome program manager, in a post to Google's Chrome release blog.
Last July, Google raised its top dollar payout for bug discoveries from $1,337 to $3,133, making the move less than a week after rival Mozilla boosted Firefox bug bounties to $3,000.
Wednesday was also the first time that Google has classified a bug as critical since the debut of the higher bounty; only critical vulnerabilities are eligible for the $3,133 reward.
Altogether, Google paid Glazunov $7,470 for reporting five of the 16 flaws. Google wrote checks totaling more than $14,000 to Glazunov and others for their work.
Yesterday's patch collection was the third since Google updated the stable edition of Chrome to Version 8 in early December.
According to the newest statistics from Internet metrics company Net Applications, Chrome accounted for a record 10% of browsers in use last month.
Chrome 8 can be downloaded for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux from Google's Web site. Users already running the browser will be updated automatically.
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This cruise was booked by my Aunt as a gift for me, in order to help me recuperate from some medical treatments.
My Aunt cruises for about 6 month continuous through the year and I go on at least 1 cruise or transatlantic crossing every year.
As a General Manager of Hotels for some 20 years, I tend to not be over critical, but try to 'switch off' and relax when in other hospitality establishments.
I also like to say that it is my strong opinion that one always gets what one pays for.
Our Inside Stateroom 9559 was immaculate and perfectly clean and comfortable, I also like to note that the Shower room was one of the most spacious I have seen (for this type of category). By the time we reached our room at 3pm our luggage was in our room. Our Steward Jose and his team were polite and very efficient. And our room was made up and turned down at convenient times at all times.
I also found that all the public areas where spotless clean throughout the cruise.
Immediately after embarking we purchased a soda card each, as well as a premium Wine and Champagne package, we also paid for a bar set up in our state room. We went to the SPA and booked several treatments for the entire cruise.
We also booked the speciality restaurants Cagney's, Le Bistro and Papa's Italian.
Having done all this, we did get extremely annoyed with the constant HARD SELL (being approached by staff sometimes several times a day and even by the same person) to book restaurants, whilst either having breakfast or whilst relaxing/reading on deck.
What I found even more disturbing was the treatment (looks) the bar staff gave one when asking to get a soda or refill. (I have since written a letter to NCL, advising them to retrain their staff, to understand that if a passenger buys a soda package or wine package they have already paid the service charge.
I have also received confirmation of this from NCL head office).
Dining: We have visited the main dining room Grand Pacific on Boarding Day for lunch and thought that the food was wonderful and the service friendly and efficient. However at other times we were rather surprised at the foods taste, preparation and the time of service/ staff attention. We also noticed that it was rather loud and very disturbing 'background noise' i.e. staff running with glass/crockery and linens.
The speciality Restaurants: Papa's the food was simply divine especially their Beef Carpaccio and their Entrecote (melt in the mouth!).
Le Bistro also very delectable dishes.
Cagney's, very enjoyable and the service wonderful.
What surprised me most of all was the Garden Cafe, the food and choice served there was by far superior than that served in the main dining rooms. As I am an early riser, I found the Breakfast simply delightful, from French Toast to Eggs Benedict, Fruit etc... all sublime. But don't come late as it will be very crowded. The same for lunch and dinner.
Entertainment: I only visited one show 'SHOUT', which I personally enjoyed, however I was shocked to see children sitting in the auditorium and was rather shocked as the show uses a lot of sexual and drug references (this is a show about 60's London). I overheard several American families the next day saying how shocked they were.
I understand that there is now a Parental advise in place.My Aunt visited all the other shows and enjoyed them very much.
All in all, we did enjoy the cruise, with a few problems, however theses have been resolved by head office and I will be back on Jade very soon!


text: The Grub Street Project: A Cautionary Tale http://cnx.org/content http://cnx.org/content/m34323/latest/ m34323 The Grub Street Project: A Cautionary Tale 1.2 2010/02/25 11:48:58 US/Central 2010/05/14 06:01:18.466 GMT-5 Frederick Moody Frederick Moody email@example.com Robert Darnton Robert Darnton firstname.lastname@example.com Ben Allen Ben Allen firstname.lastname@example.com robfd fmoody bjallen robfd fmoody bjallen Archives Archiving Digital English Harvard hauteur Humanities Literature Online Research Scholarship Arts Humanities en Allison Muri offers a cogent account of her experience as a scholarly editor working in a digital environment. It is a cautionary tale, and it gives cause for alarm. A young scholar with a bright idea about how to make the most of the latest technology will encounter formidable obstacles—legal, economic, institutional, and even cultural—for she must overcome deeply entrenched views about scholarly communication. What is it to edit a text in the digital era? Ms. Muri argues that such editing goes far beyond the bibliographical rigor required in a printed edition, for it opens up endless possibilities of relating text to context—that is, to the entire world in which a work came into being. In her case, she aspires to recreate the world of Grub Street in eighteenth-century London, a subculture shaped by the physical structure of the city, by the conditions in the printing and publishing trades, by the corpus of contemporary literature, and by the boundaries of the collective imagination. Allison Muri's Grub Street Project epitomizes editing of the kind that can fire the imagination of "digital natives" familiar with texts "born digital." But they exist in a subculture of their own, composed of uncomprehending older colleagues, limited resources, and institutional obstacles—above all, tenure. The great strength of The Grub Street Project is its appeal to the sense of sight. It is intensely visual. By helping readers to imagine eighteenth-century London in their mind's eye, it will permit them to roam around in its literature with a keener sensitivity. At its base, it consists of a palimpsest of maps. Beginning with Richard Horwood's Plan of the Cities of London and Westminster from 1799, it will use geographical coordinates to impose map upon map and show how the cultural topography evolved over time. Then it will permit the user to zoom in on particular neighborhoods, and it will populate the entire urban landscape with contemporary images of public spaces, buildings, streets, and street life. Detailed contemporary directories will make it possible to locate activities at precise addresses, especially in areas where the book trades proliferated and writers congregated—Cripplegate, Moorfields, Fleet Street, Covent Garden. The most familiar names—Bedlam, Billingsgate, Grub Street itself—light up associations in the modern reader's mind, but to embed them in an eighteenth-century setting, one must navigate through the digitized material provided by the website. To the inhabitants of the eighteenth century, that topography also had a metaphorical character created by the authors who made it come to life: Defoe, Pope, Johnson, Swift, Fielding, Gay, and the lesser writers of The Grub Street Journal. Allison Muri's project will therefore include links to their works. In editing them, with rigorous respect for the original editions, she will edit London itself. The result should be not only a magnificent work of literary scholarship but something close to what the historians of the Annales school idealized as "histoire totale." I emphasize the promise of this project, because Allison Muri's essay concentrates on the difficulties that stand in the way of its realization. You might think that they are manageable. After all, she intends to reproduce maps, images, and texts that have long been in the public domain. But even a public-spirited dix-huitiémiste can become entangled in our oppressive copyright laws. Those laws can be construed to extend to derivative works such as digital copies made by commercial companies from the originals in the public domain. In order to systematically study the data base composed of those copies and to reproduce them in her web site, Ms. Muri ran into the copyright restrictions that protect the interests of publishers, notably the two houses that have meant so much to eighteenth-century studies: Gale (Eighteenth-Century Collections Online or ECCO) and Chadwyck-Healey (Early English Books Online or EEBO). She could have defied the publishers by invoking the doctrine of fair use. But she was advised that she would probably lose, and the advice was probably right. Fair use has made little headway in U.S. and Canadian courts. It might have gained some solid legal ground had Google pursued its side of the lawsuit brought against Google for alleged breach of copyright in connection with its scanning of copyrighted books. But instead of fighting for fair use, Google preferred to strike a deal with the litigants, the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers. They will now share the income from a gigantic commercial operation, Google Book Search, which makes the enterprises of Gale and Chadwyck-Healey look trivial in comparison. To be sure, Google makes books in the public domain freely available online, and that is a great benefit for the reading public. But it is not clear whether Google will be so generous in conceding derivative rights; and even if it is, its faulty scanning, metadata, and choice of editions may make its database useless for the kind of scholarship envisioned by The Grub Street Project. Allison Muri rightly pins her hopes on strictly non-commercial enterprises like the Internet Archive, which has digitized about a million public-domain books and made them fully available from an open-access repository. Ms. Muri finds further grounds for hope in projects such as Creative Commons, Wikipedia, and Project Gutenberg. Because they are not only open access but also are the product of countless voluntary contributors, they represent "the wisdom of the crowd" and stand the greatest possible chance of surviving the obsolescence built into hardware, software, and time-bound metadata. Ms. Muri does not go all the way in her enthusiasm for "Web 2.0" interaction because she wants her website to be protected against blatantly unscholarly annotation. But she argues convincingly that scholarship can be reinforced by communal participation, properly overseen by experts. One set of problems remains, however, and it takes up the bulk of the essay: how can a scholar at the beginning of her career find support for such an ambitious project? And if by some miracle she puts together the financing and the technology, aided by a supporting cast of programmers, bibliographers, and research assistants, how at a mid-point in her career can she convince a skeptical tenure review committee, composed for the most part of eminences from an older generation, that she has created an original work of scholarship—that is, actually "edited" something they could recognize as a "book"? Anthropologists and sociologists have long accepted the challenge to "read behavior as a text." But English professors? They may have read Paul Ricoeur's formulation of that notion, but their own ideas of textuality may get in the way of the mental experiment that Ms. Muri proposes at the beginning of her essay: "Imagine an "edition" of eighteenth-century London, where a single page as zoomable map provides the interface for "reading" the city, its communications, its economies and texts, its literature, history, architecture, art, and its music." For my part, I find that prospect moving. I would happily vote to give Ms. Muri tenure on the grounds of her erudition, her technical virtuosity, her understanding of eighteenth-century literature, and her sheer audacity. But I worry about how The Grub Street Project will be communicated and received throughout the academic world. To make research openly available is one thing; to make it part of contemporary discourse on literature and history is another. We can take heart at the success of similar enterprises, such as the Valley of the Shadow and the Rossetti Archive. But the profession has no adequate way of evaluating and assimilating a project like Allison Muri's. Will a reviewer for the PMLA take account of the technology, the innovative design, and the full range of interactive elements that she offers, or will the review be limited to a discussion of editing in the narrow sense—that is, the presentation of texts like The Dunciad and The Beggar's Opera? We need to develop a protocol for book reviews in cases where the "book" does not fit into conventional categories. In fact, we should reassess those categories and the institutional expression of them: that is one of the lessons to be learned from Ms. Muri's essay. I would admit to one hesitation about The Grub Street Project—not a fundamental doubt but a concern that gives me pause. Pat Rogers has already worked through most of the conceptual issues at the heart of the project. To be sure, his Grub Street. Studies in a Subculture, published way back in 1972, contains only two maps and one illustration. It is visually thin, and it cannot be compared with the whole library of material that Allison Muri plans to present. But by thorough research and well-chosen words, Rogers surveyed the entire physical and metaphorical landscape of Grub Street, and he situated a great many literary works within it. He carried his argument. Will The Grub Street Project, for all its undeniable richness of detail and technological originality, carry the argument further?