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My Search for Strength and Health
by Fred R. Howell (1985)
"Don't encourage Freddie to walk, Mrs. Howell. When he tries to stand up to take those first steps gently push him back down," explained the family doctor.
As a change of life baby I was a colicky kid who was allergic to milk and just about everything else in this world! My mother couldn't believe her eyes when I first tried to walk and my legs bent like soft putty. She quickly called the family doctor who made house calls in those days. He took one look at my legs when I tried to walk and was shocked at the severe case of rickets in his patient!
None of the formulas tried had agreed with the cry-baby. Finally at their wits end, a friend suggested using evaporated milk. Until then I was busy building a foundation for arthritis and something worse.
With the increase in calcium intake thanks to the evaporated milk, I settled down to growing like an average baby. At the time little was known about nutrition except the basic facts. The hated cod liver oil was the only vitamin supplement used by the doctors to tread dietary deficiencies. Baby food was made at home by pushing food through a strainer. So with little extra help, I settled for homemade baby food, evaporated milk, and tried to catch up to the other kids my age in the growth department.
By the time I reached five years of age my family noticed I had more than my share of colds and was far underweight because of a poor appetite. My aunt, thinking she was helping her skinny nephew, gave me some chocolate malted milk balls. Anything to put some weight on the skinny kid! I ate as much as they would give me and the next day developed what was thought to be a terrible cold. But it was diagnosed as severe bronchial asthma.
As a kid you shake off illness and pay little attention to it. If you're lucky your mother pushes some rotten medicine down your throat and you get well and back to playing with your pals again. Complaints about joint and muscle pain were passed off as growing pains. At night my ankles would swell up and get painful only to return to normal the next morning.
Up half the night trying to breathe and living on candy, ice cream and cake, it's a wonder I reached my teens. It was a time of coal hot air furnaces with red hot living rooms and ice cold bedrooms. I can not remember one word being mentioned by the doctor about nutrition or vitamins. Later my mom told me I had such a severe case of asthma that when I was twelve years of age Dog Sagert had said to her, "You better get your son to Arizona or he won't line to see his 18th birthday." Many times from the lack of oxygen during an asthma attack my lips would turn blue. Fr many reasons my father did not take the family to Arizona.
Like all kids, I had sent for the Atlas and Jowett catalogs. I had also read a few issues of Bernarr MacFadden's Physical Culture magazine. But due to the lack of money as a kid and not knowing how much it could do for me to exercise, I never took the mail order courses.
With the death of my father when I was fifteen years of age, things were to get worse until one dark, cold, rainy day.
My baby teeth had come in decayed and been pulled out as fast as they appeared. So early in my life I had started a long and violent association with my enemy, the dentist.
I had just come from the dentist after having yet another tooth pulled. My mouth was full of packing and I felt gloomy. I had an hour to wait before the next bus home and I found myself sitting in a combined bus, lunch counter and newstand waiting room. Bored, I got up and walked over to the magazine rack to waste some time, when my eyes spotted two massive figures on two different magazines.
On the covers were John C. Grimek and Leo Robert. Was it possible for two humans to be built like that? I quickly bought the magazines and the guy in a dirty apron gave me a strange look as he shoved them toward me as if to say, 'what does a skinny punk kid want with muscle magazines?'
A new world was about to open for me.
Inside there was Grimek showing Professor Desbonnet a massive forearm and in the other magazine was a photo of Reg Park who was about to come to America. I was so intent on reading this magic I almost missed the bus. At home I poured over the magazines, reading the print off the pages. Would this miracle iron work for me? Doc Tilney in an article said anyone could gain good health and build a better body.
I saw the magic in the barbells but paid little attention to the nutrition angle. Before reading the magazines, if I was told not to eat something you could bet I would sample it. Quiet, shy but angry as a kid, don't say I was sickly or you had a fight on your hands! I became infuriated at my mother and sister if they told someone I had asthma. I had plenty of blood fights and have the scars to prove it.
This was a state secret and I was determined to be just like any other kid. I wanted no special favors and hated anyone making a fuss over me. By taking gym in school and with my own attitude, I made it tough on myself.
With all the allergy tests and poking by the doctor, he was one guy I wanted out of my life. The doctor had finally said because of the joint pains I probably had a little rheumatism.
After spending the summer haunting the newstands waiting for the next issue of the muscle magazines, it was time to plan how to get my own set of weights. This was in a time of the dark ages of barbells. Anyone who lifting 'those things' must be a nut! The only barbell set in town was a York Olympic set that sat on a dirty mat in the corner of the basketball court at the local YMCA. If you went near it, the instructor would scream at you to get away from it! There were no gyms and weights were a mystery to most people.
For a full year I cut lawns, turned in pop bottles, collected newspapers and did everything to turn a penny and saved every cent of it. Finally the big day arrived and I sent a money order to $21 for a 110-lb. dumbbell set.
As luck would have it, no one was home when the set arrived by truck. A neighbor signed for it and paid the freight. Now everyone would know what had been delivered by the truck. "What is he going to do with those things?" asked the neighbor. I had sent for the set without telling my family, sure they wouldn't let me bring the set in the house if I told them what I planned to do. My family and I had a mild war and I carted them off to the attic, determined to train with my new set of weights!
Weighing 112 pounds with a 9" arm, I was anything but a candidate for a muscle magazine. Training in the intense heat of the attic in the summer and wearing a coat in the freezing cold of winter I still managed to make progress. And I did everything wrong, including overtraining!
I would gain ten pounds, catch and cold and lose those hard earned ten pounds of bodyweight and more. I remember once, after I caught a terrible cold training in the ice cold attic, Doctor Silk paid a house call to check me out. I had a fever and felt rotten. As he wrote out a prescription for a cold rememdy, I sat on the bed crying like a baby. He looked at me and said, "What's wrong with you? All you have is a mild virus. Stay in bed a couple of days and you'll be fine."
Those were tears of anger for all I could see were those hard earned inches of muscle and bodyweight melting off of me. I was angry because I would have to start all over again and regain what I has lost in bodyweight. I was mad, angry and infuriated all at the same time but I couldn't tell him for he wouldn't understand. It seemed like a neverending battle.
Somehow the weights still worked their magic and a year later I, like a fool, tried out for the football team with my friends. I was able to sneak by the team doctor by telling him I had a bad cold when he listened to my chest. In all the confusion of team physicals, I managed to elude detection. I used tape on my forearm to carry asthma tablets and made it through the practice afternoons. Forget the instructions on how to take the medicine, I swallowed them like peanuts to keep going! All went well until one damp, cold, rainy day when the asthma got the best of me. No amount of tablets could slow ti down and the team physician attending practice that day picked up on what was wrong with me right away.
After a fireball lecture about what I could have done to myself, I was kicked off the team. Angry and embarrassed, I paid little attention to my studies and the next spring, quit school. This, against the wishes of my family, old hard-head was to regret the decision made because of a hurt ego and the kidding of my pals. Later in years I went back to high school and on to college, doing it as usual, the hard way.
I finally wrote to Doc Tilney and he wrote a long letter back telling me how to rid myself of those things called colds. He was one guy I paid attention to and I quickly eliminated milk and all dairy products. To keep the diet high in calcium, I took bone meal tablets.
I did not mention the joint pains to Doc Tilney for I felt it was best to tackle just one problem at a time. I was the only one training with weights in town and I sometimes felt I was the only one in the whole world! You had to take a lot of kidding and just walk away or you would spend all day fighting human dumbbells. I had no one to teach me the correct way to train with weights. You learned it all from the magazines. Many of the articles were slanted toward the advanced trainer and weren't too clear that a beginner should take it easy for the first few months.
Following Doc Tilney's diet suggestions and still training hard with weights using any routine that offered a gain in weight or strength, the asthma slowly became a thing of the past.
A fact that was to puzzle doctors and even today they can't understand it! Few people who have acute asthma as a child ever got better to the point where it no longer was a problem or a handicap. But with weights, a good diet and vitamins it did happen. The proof is I have lost little or no time from work because of the problem. In fact, one doctor makes use of my example when giving lectures about asthma to his colleagues.
The only problem I know I had with barbell training was that at 180 pounds, a gain of 68 pounds of bodyweight, I still did not look like a bodybuilder! It was about this time a friend shoved a copy of Iron Man in my hand and said, "Did you ever see this barbell magazine?" In it Peary Rader had written an article that seemed to be just for me. "Not all men can become top bodybuilders," said Peary. He went on to mention William Boone trained only for strength. Also that the game needs both types of trainers and there is plenty of room for both strength builders and bodybuilders.
With that I felt a little better for I had found the more weight I used in an exercise, the better I felt health-wise. As I added more and more weight to the bar and reduced the reps to 5 or less, the asthma slowly said goodbye. If I got the bodybuilding bug and lowered the poundage, I started to huff and puff again. It is my contention that extra-heavy weights stimulate the adrenal glands, in fact, all the glands and in turn bathe the body in life-giving hormones.
At the time there were no powerlifting meets. Boone and Peoples would meet once in a contest tacked on to a bodybuilding contest, but there was little in the way of formal powerlifting contests. About four men seemed to hold the candle for strength training -- William Boone, Bob Peoples, Mac Batchelor, and for weightlifters, the York Barbell guys. Out in the hills there was the squat and weight gaining king, Joe Hise.
Weight training and strength work in particular was to prove its value while working in an electronics plant. One Saturday I was to paint the walls in a large assembly room. Work desks were all along the walls and I told the boss that to put the ladder on an angle with the desks still in place would be too steep of an angle for the ladder. "Don't worry, it's fine. The desks are too heavy to move anyway." So up the ladder I went about a story-and-a-half high with paint and brush. I worked for a couple of minutes and the ladder went out from under me!
Th women working at the far end of the room said I did a backflip off the ladder, hit the corner of a desk and landed flat on my back on the concrete floor. Covered with paint, I was helped to my feet after I came around after being knocked cold and went off to the hospital. Except for a deep gash on my forehead, I had no broken bones but every bone and muscle in my body was to hurt for the next two weeks. The doctors at the hospital said my body strength and good luck were the only reasons I walked away from such a fall.
When I changed departments and started working as a machinist, I put added stress on my joints and body. Standing in one place for hours, changing tools and cutters, tightening bolts on the punch press caused already sore joints to ache and feel stiff in the morning. This, plus going to college at night and the pressure of homework on the weekends added up to plenty of stress. Workouts were hit and miss when I could fit them in to some free time. Supper was eaten on the run, can't be late for class, the professor who sat on his bottom all day would have a fit!
From the lack of good hard workouts the arthritis slowly got worse and worse. But was it really arthritis? I hated the thought of doctors and tests. Years ago I had watched a guy who hired me to cut his lawn when I was in high school battle arthritis. He boasted he was going to New York for gold treatments. This, along with other drugs, hot showers and long walks each day was to cure his shortly. But at the end of summer he was still disabled and not working. Later that winter I lost track of him when, in desparation, he and his wife moved to a warm climate.
Thinking about it, I decided to hold still for some tests. Sent to a specialist, I had sedimentation rate tests and anything else they could think of for a buck. One test proved that I has at least held my strength even if I was on a short now-and-again routine. Sent to the hospital, I sat down on one side of a table with a technician. A sharp needle was attached to a wire leading to a machine with a screen on the set. He would put the needle in a muscle and then have me flex it. On the screen would flash what I guessed was an electrical pattern which was photographed by a polaroid camera. After testing every muscle in my upper body he put the needle in my right biceps muscle. Then he had me grab his right arm as if we were going to arm wrestle and said, "When I tell you, try to pull on my arm as hard as you can."
When given the word, I did just as he said and pulled him right across the table! With great surprise he asked me what kind of weights I used.
The somber specialist told me on my next visit, "You may have some form of arthritis. Why don't you coach weightlifting or teach the young kids how to train with weights and forget about it yourself?" This did not go over big with me. I wanted a way to cure the problem so I could enjoy my training again. With that advice after those tests, I never returned.
I was slowly getting worse. Maybe he was right and I quit the weights. It just might be that he is right and barbells put too much stress on the joints causing them pain. Now just turning a screwdriver would cause my wrist to hurt the next day. Standing on a ladder to clean the gutters would cause my feet to hurt for days. When I came home from workwould get out of the car and then, with my feet still stiff from the long ride, hold on to the car and make my way into the house. After a few minutes of walking around in the house my feet would again be flexible and I could walk in a normal way.
One day while sitting outside after a year of inactivity and never touching a weight, I thought, "I'm not any better or worse than last year. I wonder if a little exercise with the weights just might help me? I got rid of one trouble maker, why not this one too?!!"
I went inside to the gym and wiped oil off the bars, removed the towels covering the weights and, with the sweat running down my face I did one set of deadlift reps using a 35-lb. plate on each end of the bar.
The next day I felt fine. It hadn't hurt me and I WAS HAPPY. With a glimmer of hope, I added one more exercise each workout until I had a full routine again, soing still only one set each. An old friend had returned.
Even if I was back lifting weights, I still read all the material I could find on arthritis. There are hundreds of crazy cures and they're crazy only if they don't work! There are mud baths, bee stings, liquid diets, water cures, fasting, fasting . . . you name it and you can find it. A nutty chiropractor has people walking on all fours. I better quickly say there are many fine chiros but this guy jus happened to write a book. Add to this all the drugs available and you have a huge pot of 'maybe it might help' material.
Just lifting weights again changed my mental attitude and outlook on life. The poundage slowly began to increase but it would be two full years before I would be back to what I used to use in my workouts.
A trip to Florida to visit relatives convinced me that I had made the right decision returning to weight training. Visiting my Aunt, I was sitting at poolside when a man pushing his wife in a wheelchair joined me. I learned he was a retired detective and his wife had severe arthritis. Later, after he took her back to their apartment for a nap, he rejoined me at the pool and we got to talking.
He looked at me and said, "You know my wife doesn't have to be in that chair. Years ago a doctor told her she had arthritis and to keep it in check she was to exercise every day. He warned her she would get stiff as a board if she didn't exercise. With exercise she could live a normal life. But she wouldn't do the exercises. She said it hurt to do them. Slowly she got worse until she couldn't dress herself. Then her knees got stiff and sore. Finally you see what condition she is in today. All because she was too stubborn to follow her doctor's advice to exercise!"
After he left to check on his wife, I thought how lucky I was to have started to exercise again. On returning home I again read "Strength Secrets" by Inch. "Secrets of Strength" by Liederman, and anything else I about building strength I could get my hands on.
My theory was to strengthenthe joints by exercising the tendons and ligaments. This would lower the stress on the joints and in return they could better stand the everyday stress, wear and tear of life. Jobs at home would seem easy with more strength and a job if physical would be easier to do. To do this, I planned to use as much weight as possible on the bar and slowly work the poundage upward. For me heavy weights are fun to lift so that wouldn't be a problem.
A full range of vitamins were used. Vitamin B6 was taken twice a day, 50 mgs. two tablets morning and night. A full range of other B vitamins were taken once a day plus natural E and all the minerals. Cod liver oil cherry flavored was taken the last thing at night just before bed. A teaspoon in a half glass of half grape juice/half water.
Now the expert says to mix it in a small amount of milk but the grape juice worked fine for me and still does today. Also bone meal tablets are taken for the calcium needed in the diet.
My diet is a normal one using little beef but filled with chicken, tuna and other fish. I never use sugar or white bread. Fruit, vegetables, a small amount of rye bread and potatoes, baked, round out the diet. I have read the night shade theory and you may want to test it yourself. I found a baked potato never bothered me. The only hard thing in nutrition is to try and avoid all the hidden sugar in foods. We are a sugar society.
For a moment let's talk about how you can put the percentage in your favor to avoid arthritis. Most trainers today do not pay much attention to health. But is is a paradox of nature that you will pay later for your neglect. There is a deferred payment in nature, she does not forget. Pain does not mean gain! Pump, yes, a tight feeling in the muscles, yes, but a joint that aches long after your workout is telling you something important. Change your exercise for that body part.
Many of you may not have symptoms until you reach 40 years of age and then wonder what happened. With dozens of exercises for each body part why keep doing an exercise that results in pain or doesn't feel right to you when doing it?
The heavy weights along with the vitamins and good food slowed down the problem. If a joint or muscle hurt a good workout would ease the problem. For example, my ankle and feet started to hurt from using a standard brake system in my car. Any stress can cause arthritis to flare up. Standing on a ladder to clean the gutters resulted in me skipping that job one year.
I needed more strength in my feet and calf muscles and the best solution was to do the seated calf raise. I worked in my bare feet for this exercise for freedom of movement. I did not use a block for you can overstretch the tendons. I started out using 180 pounds and have worked up to 435. It worked so well I was able to stand on a ladder for four hours to clean and paint my gutters and never felt a thing the next day.
The following exercises are done twice a week, Monday and Thursday. With limit weights the body needs time to rest and repair itself.
1.) Squat Lockout:
I warm up with 435 pounds then use 500, 600, 700, and a final set with 785. I have used as high as 850 for reps. I use 5 reps for the first warmup set and three reps for the rest of the sets.
2.) High Deadlift:
I learned this from William Boone, only instead of digging a hole in the backyard I use boxes to raise the weight up. I warm up with 400 pounds then work my way up to 650 in sets of 3 reps. Work up slowly in this one, it's a tough exercise. For a time my traps felt uncomfortable after this exercise because they weren't strong enough for the last heavy set. I cured that with heavy dumbbell shrugs, the next exercise.
3.) Dumbbell Shrugs:
A barbell will tend to pull you forward and you will be out of line. Dumbbells are natural and feel comfortable in your hands. I use very thick kettlebell handles on my dumbbells for extra strength work for my hands. I start out using 130 pound dumbbells and work my way in sets of 3-5 reps up to a final 2 sets with 230 pounders. Increase the dumbbells 20 to 30 pounds a set.
4.) Power Curl:
Here we are working the tendons of the arm. Take a barbell at the starting position and curl it to just below the belt. I warm up with 245 and work up to 300, adding 15 pounds a set. Do as many sets as you have time and energy. I do about five.
5.) Bench Press Lockouts off Boxes:
This will strengthen the elbows, pectorals, shoulder girdle, and build power in your triceps. I start with 400 pounds as a warm up and work up to a high poundage. By now I am running out of time so I do about 5 sets of 3 and call it a day.
The next day I may do a very short routine of the calf raise working up to 435 and some neck work. Here you can do the Asserati neck exercise by putting a dumbbell on your forehead while flat on a bench. Then do the wrestler's bridge without weights for a few sets and you will keep your neck strong and healthy. If time permits I will soon add the power rack press.
I enjoy using extra heavy weights and would miss it if it wasn't part of my life. A program of heavy poundages worked for me, but it might not work for you. As for me, as long as I am able I plan to sneak up on those big weights and slip on a few more plates. If I try and skip a few workouts I am quickly told by my body it's time to get back to work.
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Northampton returned to the victory trail, in the Premiership, with a 23-16 win over London Welsh at Franklin's Gardens on Saturday.
Northampton returned to the victory trail, in the Premiership, with a 23-16 win over London Welsh at Franklin's Gardens on Saturday.
Ken Pisi's touchdown and a penalty try, alongside seven points from the boot of Ryan Lamb, gave the Saints a 17-10 half-time lead.
A penalty try and a three-pointer from Gordon Ross was Welsh's response in the opening period. Lamb and Ross traded penalties in the second half but the home team held on.
Northampton went into the game off the back of three consecutive league defeats and they found themselves seven points down early on.
As the visitors rumbled towards the line, Gerrit-Jan van Velze brought down the maul illegally and referee David Rose awarded a penalty try.
Van Velze was then sin-binned as a result of his indiscretion and the visitors led 7-0 after eight minutes.
Lamb reduced the arrears with a drop-goal, but Ross responded with a penalty to restore the seven-point lead.
Prop Franck Montanella was then yellow carded for the Exiles and the Saints took advantage of the extra man in the set-piece when a dominant scrum ended in the second penalty try of the afternoon.
Incredibly, Dan Caprice became the third man of the half – the second for Welsh – to be given his marching orders for 10 minutes.
Almost inevitably, the hosts moved ahead just before the interval when a well-weighted cross-field kick was collected by Pisi. Lamb and Ross traded penalties after half-time before the Saints' stand-off took Northampton ten points clear.
However, Ross secured the losing bonus-point for the visitors with a late three-pointer.
For Northampton:
Tries: Penalty try, Pisi
Cons: Lamb 2
Pens: Lamb 2
Drops: Lamb
Yellow cards: van Velze
For London Welsh:
Tries: Penalty try
Cons: Ross
Pens: Ross 3
Yellow cards: Montanella; Caprice
Northampton: 15 Tom May, 14 Ken Pisi, 13 Dom Waldouck, 12 Luther Burrell, 11 Jamie Elliott, 10 Ryan Lamb, 9 Martin Roberts, 8 GJ Van Velze, 7 Phil Dowson, 6 Calum Clark (c) 5 Courtney Lawes, 4 Samu Manoa, 3 Brian Mujati, 2 Mike Haywood, 1 Soane Tonga'uiha.
Replacements: 16 Ross McMillan, 17 Alex Waller, 18 Paul Doran Jones, 19 Mark Sorenson, 20 Rhys Oakley, 21 Alex Day, 22 Stephen Myler, 23 Vasily Artmeyev.
London Welsh: 15 Tom Arscott, 14 Dan Caprice, 13 Sonny Parker, 12 Hudson Tonga'uiha, 11 Nick Scott, 10 Gordon Ross, 9 Tyson Keats, 8 Adam Balding, 7 Ed Jackson, 6 Daniel Browne, 5 Kirill Kulemin, 4 Jonathan Mills (capt), 3 Paulica Ion, 2 Neil Briggs, 1 Franck Montanella.
Replacements: 16 Greg Bateman, 17 Tom Bristow, 18 James Tideswell, 19 Matt Corker, 20 Alfie To'oala, 21 Jamie Stephenson, 22 Alex Davies, 23 Seb Jewell.
Referee: David Rose

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Heartbreaking loss for Canada to open junior men's Pan Am Cup
PANAMA CITY – Canada lost to Chile in five sets Wednesday to open the eight-country Pan Am Cup junior men's volleyball tournament.
The nearly two hour marathon finished 15-25, 25-19, 28-26, 17-25, 15-11.
Nicholas Hoag of Sherbrooke, Que., led the Canadian attack with 23 points while Tommy Belisle of Quebec City added 12 and Daniel Moreau of Sherbrooke, Que., 10.
Canada and Chile are in Group B with Puerto Rico and Mexico. Group A is comprised of Panama, Venezuela, the Dominican Republic and Honduras. The Canadians face Mexico on Thursday and Puerto Rico on Friday.
The top team in each Group gets a bye to the semifinals while second and third place must play a quarterfinal on Saturday. The semis are Sunday and the placement matches Monday.
The Canadian team selections were decided following a 47-player try-out camp that was held recently at the men's national training centre in Gatineau, Que.
The roster features seven players from the Canadian team that won the silver medal last summer at the NORCECA (North and Central America and Caribbean) championships in Gatineau including Hoag, the tournament MVP. That result qualified Canada for this year's world juniors.
Also from that 2010 team are Jay Olmstead of Edmonton, Bélisle, Tristan Aubry and Lucas VanBerkel, both of Edmonton, Tyler (TJ) Sanders of London, Ont., and Branden Schmidt of Winton, Alta.
The others selected to the 2011 squad are Brett Wiess of Winnipeg, Moreau, Braden McLean of Birch Hills, Sask., Alex Davis of White Rock, B.C., Bradley Kufske of Abbotsford, B.C., Derek Thiessen of Coquitlam, B.C., and Jarron Mueller of Calgary.
Following the Junior Pan Am Cup, the squad heads to Argentina just prior to the World Junior Championship for final tune-up matches before arriving in Brazil on July 30.
The men's national junior volleyball team sorted by province:
Alberta: Tristan Aubry, Edmonton; Jay Olmstead, Edmonton; Lucas VanBerkel, Edmonton; Branden Schmidt, Winton; Jarron Mueller, Calgary.
B.C.: Alex Davis, White Rock; Bradley Kufske, Abbotsford; Derek Thiessen, Coquitlam.
Manitoba: Brett Wiess, Winnipeg.
Ontario: Tyler (TJ) Sanders, London.
Quebec: Nicholas Hoag, Sherbrooke; Daniel Moreau, Sherbrooke; Tommy Bélisle, Quebec City.
Saskatchewan: Braden McLean, Birch Hills.
Head coach: Georges Laplante, Montreal
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By COREY BLUEMELStaff writer
"Easter weekend at Cleveland Lloyd Dinosaur Quarry saw more than 400 visitors to the newly remodeled facility," said Wayne Ludington of the Price Bureau of Land Management. Ludington was speaking to the Emery County Public Lands Council at their April meeting.
Ludington said the BLM is happy to have Cleveland Lloyd open again and announced the date for the opening ceremony and dedication will be April 28. A rededication program will begin at 11 a.m. "Easter weekend went well and the reports we have received have all been good," stated Ludington.
Ludington also announced the BLMs plans to expand the San Rafael campground near the Swinging Bridge. "We are moving into the planning stages of this project. We would like to expand the campground to the other side of the river to protect the large cottonwood trees in the area," he stated.
Paul Birdsey of the Division of Wildlife Resources informed the council of the Division's intent to do restoration work on the San Rafael River. "I will have a complete presentation in the near future. We will begin to do spring samplings on the river," said Birdsey.
Brian Torgersen from the School and Institutional Trust Lands Administration explained an application for a lease of some of SITLA's property east of Green River.
"This lease is to utilize the railroad spur on the property," said Torgersen.
He also stated that the permit for a quarry in the Molen Seeps Wash area east of Ferron has been renewed.
SITLA will also hold a land sale on May 11 at the Little America Hotel in Salt Lake City.


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HAMDEN, Conn. – For the second week in a row, the Quinnipiac University men's lacrosse team used fourth-quarter heroics to overcome a deficit as the Bobcats defeated the University of Detroit Mercy, 12-10, at Titan Field in Detroit, Mich. Basil Kostaras (Southlake, Texas) and Michael Sagl (West Islip, N.Y.) each recorded hat tricks for the Bobcats, who improved to 2-0 for the first time since the 2008 campaign.
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With his three goals, Kostaras (43) moved into sole possession of 15th place on the all-time scoring list at Quinnipiac. He added three ground balls and had seven shots on the afternoon. Sagl matched Kostaras with three goals and handed out an assist for a four-point outing and Pat Corcoran (Stratford, Conn.) scored twice. Chris Messina (West Islip, N.Y.), Carmen French (Baltimore, Md.), Brendan Wilbur (Hingham, Mass.) and Tom Gilligan (Brookfield, Conn.) each added one goal apiece, while Jay Binkowski (Bethany, Conn.) (2), Dylan Webster (Brampton, Ontario) and Messina each tallied assists. Webster compiled a team-high seven ground balls, with French leading the team in caused turnovers (3).
The teams went back-and-forth through the first half, with Quinnipiac carrying a mere one-goal advantage, 6-5, into the locker rooms at halftime. After the break, the Bobcats rallied off three of the game's next four goals for a 9-6 lead; but it was all Detroit Mercy for the remainder of the third quarter. The hosting Titans fired off four straight goals, as Jordan Houtby's tally putting UDM on top, 10-9, heading into the final 15 minutes of play.
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) -- The number of U.S. military deaths in Iraq has reached 2,500, the Pentagon said on Thursday, more than three years into a conflict that finds U.S.-led forces locked in a struggle with a resilient Sunni Arab insurgency.
The news came after a senior Iraqi official in Baghdad said his country's security forces had seized al Qaeda in Iraq documents giving key information about the militant group's network and the whereabouts of its leaders.
"We believe this is the beginning of the end of al Qaeda in Iraq," national security adviser Mowaffaq al-Rubaie told a televised news conference in the Iraqi capital.
In Washington, the Pentagon also said 18,490 U.S. troops had been wounded in the war, which began in March 2003 with a U.S.-led invasion to topple President Saddam Hussein.
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Rubaie told Reuters earlier this year the insurgency against the U.S.-backed, Shi'ite-led government had been defeated. But violence has continued to rage across Iraq, killing hundreds of people and showing no signs of abating.
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"The government is on the attack now ... to destroy al Qaeda and to finish this terrorist organization in Iraq," Rubaie said.
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"Military deaths in Iraq hit 2,500"
What? Al-Reuters didn't have an exclamation point and a smiley face attached to the headline?
So what Al Ja-Reuters is actually saying is that in over three years of war, we have lost ONLY 2500? While every loss hurts, can anyone name for me another war in which we lost fewer in the same time period? I don't think the media understand when they trumpet 2500 dead, most people say, "In three years of war? That's low."
Yech. Incoming drool storm from the MSM.
Ya beat me to it!
And God bless each and every one of them.
I wonder if maybe the President timed his visit to precede the inevitable announcement.
The recent leftist convention in DC planned to march from their Hilton hotel venue to the White House to "commemorate" the 2500th death. Unfortunately their convention ended when the count was 2497. So they marched anyway!
They live to feed on death.
Meanwhile, civilians saved in Iraq equals 27 million. Strange that Al JaReuters doesn't mention that.
Number of murder victims in the US in 2005 was 16,900.
Number of abortions in the US more than a million in 2005.
If the military does not watch out, it might catch up to Detroit.
Yup, it's definitely a 'culture of death' over there with the liberals!! Brace yourself for all the same old "It's all Bush's fault!", "Bush lied, innocents died", "Clinton lied, nobody died", "Bush should send his daughters to die!", "They died for oil!", yada yada yada garbage to roll out of the MSM for the next few days. And I'm sure Doonesbury will do a loving tribute to the troops for this number being so LOW, yeah, right.
Time for Rooters and the Democrats to party.
Next stop: 3000
I would have thought they would have had shots of Reurters journalists cheering and firing off pistols and doing that ululululu noise.
Hi - did you pick that line up from KOS or DU? Are you suggesting it had nothing to do with the result of Iraq FINALLY finishiing the formation of their new government and zark's death was the icing on the cake?
Reurters = Reuters.
Not that it matters.
1. When he dies.
2. When he screws up.
'Military deaths in Iraq hit 2,500' further proving that Iraq is safer than Washington, D.C or Dearborn, MI.
I do not believe we will reach 3,000.
I think the tide has turned, and I think Iraq will take on more of it's own security, and will be a lot more effective in stopping the terrorist (as they can also be a lot more ruthless).
A wonderful article on RealClearPolitics today -
June 15, 2006
Why I Left The Left
By Seth Swirsky
I used to be a liberal.
Iraq is the "Normandy" of the War on Terror. The hope, once Iraq and Afghanistan are more stable, is that the nearly 70 million people in Iran will look at those countires (on it's left and right borders) and say: "Why do these people get to vote, send their women to school, and buy Nikes and we don't?" - and then topple their Mullah's dictatorial regime. The President understands the big picture -- that if the U.S. doesn't help to remake that volatile region, we will face a nuclear version of 9/11 within the next two or five or 10 years. He is simply being realistic in his outlook and responsible in his actions. Iraq is succeeding, slowly but surely, but that's not a sexy enough story to lead the news with: the relatively small amount of casualities are. Don't forget, we occupied Germany and Japan for seven years and we still have troops there, more than 60 years after World War II ended.
And what have the Democrats contributed to the war effort since 9/11? Democrat Sen. Russ Feingold has suggested censuring our president; Former President and Vice President Bill Clinton and Al Gore, while visiting foreign countries, have blasted President Bush - acts of unconscionable irresponsibility; Democrat Sen. John Murtha, has invoked a cut-and-run policy in Iraq, supported by Democrat Senate Minority leader Harry Reid and Democrat House Minority leader Nancy Pelosi. Do they think the Middle East and the World would be safer if we had cut and run, as Murtha's plan wanted us to do? Under that plan, our troops would have been out of Iraq by May 18th and al-Zarqawi wouldn't be dead, but pulling the strings in an Iraqi civil war. With these kinds of ideas and behaviors, I just don't trust Democrats when it comes to our national security.
Rest in peace brave warriors. We will never forget you.
Nothing like seeing a good ZOT every now and then
Eye-opening stuff in that article, m.
Butternut squash is one of my favorite foods! Yes, that is a powerful article.
Safest war in military history. We lost 36,000 in the 3 years of the Korean War. This is unheard of. Our military should be congratulated but these heroes make a great club for the left.
Pray for W and Our Troops
The MSM and the Dems like to frame the issue and have steadfastly tried to separate the war of choice (Iraq) from the war of necessity (Afghanistan). They fail to recognize that Iraq is part of the WOT and the battle against AQ. We shouldn't let them get away with it. Koppel recited the names of the dead lost in Iraq and ignored Afghanistan. It is all part of the antiwar campaign.
Reuters and our news media also fail to mention that Iraqi security forces (military and police) have lost approximately 4800 personnel. The insurgents have also killed another 10,000 Iraqi civilians.
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At request of one of our teachers using cloze tests extensively I have modified the code for multianswer question so that the size of a text field corresponds to the longest of the right answers to that particular (short answer) question.
Motivation: Sometimes the default text fields' size=12 is too small and the students cannot see their whole answer in the field; on the other hand, longer fields are not necessary in other cases - therefore the adaptive length.
Modified file: http://moodle.cvs.sourceforge.net/moodle/moodle/mod/quiz/questiontypes/multianswer/questiontype.php (around line 265)
//echo <input $style $readonly $popup name=\$inputname\ // Moodle original lines
// type=\text\ value=\$response\ size=\12\ /> ; // Moodle original lines
// ELF - input field as long as the longest short answer
$xq = explode (question,$inputname);
$xquestid = explode (multianswer,$xq[1]); // $xquestid[1] contains the id of the actual part of the multianswer question
if ($xshortanswers = get_record(quiz_multianswers,id,$xquestid[1],question,$question->id,answertype,1)) {
$xshortanswersids = explode (,,$xshortanswers->answers);
$size = 0; // to have the variable defined
foreach ($xshortanswersids as $kk => $xshrtanswrid) {
if ($xanswer = get_record(quiz_answers,id,$xshrtanswrid,fraction,1)){ $xsize = strlen(trim($xanswer->answer)); // get the length of this answer with fraction 1 $xsize > $size ? $size = $xsize : $size = $size; }
$size > 60 ? $size = 60 : $size = $size;
if ($xsize){ echo <input $style $readonly $popup name=\$inputname\ type=\text\ value=\$response\ size=\$size\ /> ; unset ($xsize); }
else{ echo <input $style $readonly $popup name=\$inputname\ type=\text\ value=\$response\ size=\12\ /> ; }
// End ELF modification
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From Gustav Delius (gwd2 at york.ac.uk) Tuesday, 17 May 2005, 03:15 AM:
Wouldn't it be better to just ask the teacher what length of answer field he wants when he sets up the question? Maybe the teacher does not want the answer field to correspond the the length of the correct answer.
From (miksik at mrakoplas.phil.muni.cz) Tuesday, 17 May 2005, 01:27 PM:
Setting field lengths individually for hundreds of questions could be quite tedious; and it seems unncecesarry to me: if the teacher should have a choice, maybe this could rather be an option on the cloze setup page: adaptive/fixed-length fields.
I think we can count on teachers wanting to have the field long enough so that students can see their whole answer filled in. Maybe I could post this into Using Moodle to discuss it with others?
From Gustav Delius (gwd2 at york.ac.uk) Tuesday, 17 May 2005, 01:52 PM:
How about giving the teacher the option to either choose a length OR have it determined from the answer. I am thinking of situations where the answer is very short but the teacher does not want to give this information away.
In any case the length of the answer field should be determined at authoring time. I.e., your code for calculating the length of the answer field should be moved into save_question(). Recalculating it each time the question is presented to a student is too inefficient.
This option should not be specific to cloze questions but apply to shortanswer, numerical, calculated, ..
From (miksik at mrakoplas.phil.muni.cz) Tuesday, 17 May 2005, 02:47 PM:
I would be happy with this being specific to cloze qs as with all other question types what would usually do would be fixed length: if it's long enough, it solves both the visibility of the whole answer filled in AND the information about the length of the answer not being given away.
The case is different with cloze qs where you need to embed the form fields into the flow of the text - it's here where too long fixed fields could degrade readability and too short fixed fields could impair students' control of their own answering.
What I have in mind is trying to keep things simple where it is possible, i.e. not adding new options if the current solution suits the needs of most users.
> In any case the length of the answer field should be determined at authoring time. [...]
Yes, if there is a db field for it, it would be much more efficient.
From Gustav Delius (gwd2 at york.ac.uk) Tuesday, 17 May 2005, 02:55 PM:
We could add such fields to the database. It should not be a field to the quiz_multianswers table but to both the quiz_numerical and the quiz_shortanswer tables. I agree with you that having variable length fields is much less important for these question types by themselves, but because a cloze question can contain several numerical or shortanswer questions as subquestions it would be easier to store the length information for each of these in the table of the corresponding question type rather than in the quiz_multinaswers table.
From (miksik at mrakoplas.phil.muni.cz) Tuesday, 17 May 2005, 03:56 PM:
OK, so the information about field length would be stored with all shortanswer and numerical questions conditionally?
a) If they are used by themselves the db field would be prefilled with a fixed value.
b) If they are used in a cloze question, the length would be calculated from the answer - provided the teacher opts for this during the cloze question setup.
Do I understand you right, Gustav?
(I'm not a programmer so I don't feel competent to comment on this really but) to me, storing the length information in the quiz_multianswers table would seem convenient if this information would not be used and needed elsewhere. An example:
id question sequence length
1 14 15,16,17,18,19 36,12,0,0,60
The zero values being filled in automatically for other then numerical/shortanswer questions.
BTW, looking at the Moodle 1.5 quiz_questions database table I can see there is a field named 'length' but I'm uncertain about its purpose.
I think this is really important (and simple) issue, as in secure mode students even can't see their answer if it's bigger than field.
I suppose, first (and very big) step to resolve this problem can be just option for the teacher to select field length according to the right answer. It easy to implement and doesn't hurt anyone, but does a lot of good for many people.
The cloze syntax has no provision to indicate the answer length.
The best solution is to keep the actual default, check the actual length.
If actual length > default adjust the legth to the actual + random value (say 2-6), so there is no clue to the student.
I will test and come back tomorrow so I assign this to me
Something like
foreach ($answers as $answer) {
if (strlen($answer->answer) > $lmax )
if (strlen($response)> $lmax )
if ($lmax > 12 ){ $lmax = $lmax + rand(0,6); }
else{ $lmax = 12 ; }
echo "lamx".$lmax." <input $style $readonly $popup name=\"$inputname\"
type=\"text\" value=\"".s($response, true)."\" size=\"".$lmax."\" /> ";
will adjust either for the answertext max length of any answers even bad ones or the student response with a 12 minimum value.
using $correctanswer will adjust on the correct answer length
$lmax = 12 ;
foreach ($correctanswers as $answer) {
if (strlen($answer) > $lmax )
which one is the best I don't know...
The actual length (if > 12) will vary from one attempt to the other because of the rand() but I think that the only effect will be that the student won't rely on the actual length as the rigth one...
It's very good, except 12 symbol limitation.
I know complaints some people from Language department. They want to use close question with short answer field not only for words, but for commas and other syntactical elements, so they really want to have very short fields in some cases (for example comma or not).
I think initial value for $lmax is 2. As for random, it can be something like 0,$lmax/15, then it add 0-15% of correct answer length, which is much better than 0-6 symbols in all cases.
Also, I think that $lmax+/-rand() is a good value for attempt of the quiz. During viewing of finished attempt optimal field length is strlen($response)+1.
Anyway, it's very good to have this old problem fixed now. Thank's for the attention to it!!!
Thanks for your comments,
Giving a sufficient length to write the response on the attempt and to display the response after is solving a bug, so it should be done and merge down to 1.6.
Effectively having strlen($response)+1 is better than just strlen($response).
I understand your need to a shorter field but I consider that this is much as an improvement.
This could be applied to 1.9 as an improvement ( with the necessary docs modifications )
but not to older versions because it could change the actual question display without any warning.
I back Oleg's comment about the request from language departments to have the short answer fields very short, sometimes. This issue was originally filed as a New feature request. I don't think a slightly larger change would have a negative impact on displaying questions in older versions (1.6). We have used our modification since 1.5 principally unaltered (though improved on the basis of users' feedback). What we use now for setting the length of the answer fields is something like this:
$size = strlen(trim($textofrightanswer));
$size > 60 ? $size = 60 : $size = $size;
if ($size < 2)
if ($size == 2){ $styleinfo = 'style="width: 1.9em;"'; }
if ($size == 3){ $styleinfo = 'style="width: 2.3em;"'; }
if ($size == 4){ $styleinfo = 'style="width: 2.8em;"'; }
if ($size>4){ $styleinfo = "size=\"$size\""; }
You set the length following the $texttofrightanswer to which however I prefer adding some random.
how do you to obtain the $textofrightanswer ?
Limiting to 60 is a good thing.
I don't know the HTML standards sufficiently to conclude if your width settings ( em) for small size should be defined as you do.
Anyway, I am waiting for Tim comments before CVS any changes.
Adding the random part is a nice feature. We did it another way. We go through all the answers (not only the correct ones, sorry for misleading you) and use the length of the longest answer found. In this way the random part is supplied by the teachers entering the right answers and the distractors of varying, but similar, length. The code runs like this:
$size = 0;
foreach ($answers as $kk => $xshrtanswrid) {
if ($xanswer = $answers[$kk]->answer)
The CSS style definitions were worked out empirically, I don't know how well (or if) they comply with HTML/CSS standards.
Your suggestion are quite similar to my first one
foreach ($answers as $answer) {
if (strlen($answer->answer) > $lmax )
if (strlen($response)> $lmax )
I will try to integrate all those suggestions so that the solution works for new questions and old ones without to much surprise for the user if his moodle site update to a new stable? version.
This improvement however does not change anything on the grading process so it can be merged down without any new bug generation...
Need Tim advice before CVS anything...
I have been following this bug, but not commenting because you were having a good discussion that I did not think I could add much to.
The only thing I don't really like is this comment http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-3274?focusedCommentId=41447#action_41447. Presumably those sizes are chosen to make the display look just right on one particular browser with one particular default font. Whatever we do has to look reasonably good in Firefox, IE and Safari.
I don't see any problem with a minor fix like this going onto a stable branch. It can only make things look better.
As regards the http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-3274?focusedCommentId=41447#action_41447 comment, we always test all CSS modifications for Firefox and IE (and Opera, sometimes). It's true we have not done extensive tests for various fonts (we used White formal theme at the time of making the changes).
The presented code is meant just as a suggestion for further development, or discarding.
Simple size coding as proposed initially solves the problem.
Proceeding to furtther testing before CVS.
The actual code tested is
$size = 1 ;
foreach ($answers as $answer) {
if (strlen(trim($answer->answer)) > $size )
if (strlen(trim($response))> $size )
$size = $size + rand(0,$size*0.15);
$size > 60 ? $size = 60 : $size = $size;
From further testing it seems that explorer even when size = 1 gives you a larger display (at least 2).
However Safari is consistent and gives you the exact number...
Is there a moodle HTML specialist to set this?
I would not worry about it if the box is just a bit too big. If it was too small, then it would be a problem, because it would prevent students from seeing the answer they are typing.
And anyway, we have said it is not a bad thing if the size of the text box is slightly different from the size of the answer.
On http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-3274?focusedCommentId=41444#action_41444
We keep upgrading Moodle, so it's no problem to make improvment in 1.9. Maybe there is a need to create a special issue for this improvment ?
My proposal is to use the version that do not use the em width limits as the official one but to include
the em coding between /* */ so that administrator who wants to use, at their risk, the em will uncommented the necessary lines.
They even could try other em coefficients.
Something like
$size = 1 ;
foreach ($answers as $answer) {
if (strlen(trim($answer->answer)) > $size )
if (strlen(trim($response))> $size )
$size = $size + rand(0,$size*0.15);
$size > 60 ? $size = 60 : $size = $size;
$styleinfo = "size=\"$size\"";
/* uncomment the following lines if you want to limit size for small size
- see
- results could vary with browsers
if ($size < 2) { $styleinfo = 'style="width: 1.1em;"'; }
if ($size == 2){ $styleinfo = 'style="width: 1.9em;"'; }
if ($size == 3){ $styleinfo = 'style="width: 2.3em;"'; }
if ($size == 4){ $styleinfo = 'style="width: 2.8em;"'; }
- see
The modifications has been CVS to HEAD, will modify the help and docs and then merge to other versions
Further tests show that even if the size parameter is the good, the browsers do not interpet this size equally.
The size is almost rigth for aaa but insufficinet for WWW.
The final results is that the input HTML element more or less reflect the answer size. In fact more for small lengths and less for larger.
But the change should be done as it reflects more correctly if not exactly (and this is good) the expected response.
As you may know I have to produce a "special" version of question/type/multianswer/questiontype.php for people who use my REGEXP plugin question type to enable them to use it as a subquestion of the Cloze question. I produce this special version for all versions of moodle, starting with 1.8. So that I am kept updated of any change, would you please remember to systematically put me on the watch list whenever you enter a new bug in the tracker concerning question/type/multianswer/questiontype.php.
PS.- Should my REGEXP question type make it to the regular distribution of moodle some day, then things would be much easier.
Sorry, I did not know that you have to produce a special version but I do think that this is related to your contrib project.
Take note that this just a little part of the recent changes I have done on multianswer.
There is also a new way to delete unused subquestions (
MDL-12063) and the remodeling of the editor so that the text can be analysed in the Moodle editor( MDL-12255).
This has been cvs to 1,9 yesterday and will be to 1.8 and 1.7 in the following days.
For your regexp, just expect that Tim will be able to put it on the top of his to-do list.
On the long term , the solution will be the newmultianswer plug-able project that I have developped ( I will continue in the next months) or something of this kind.
Pierre, it seems you forget to set "Fix versions" field for this issue.
Thanks for your remark.
I fix it for 1.9 and working on 1.8.
And with your help, I am learning more about the various parameters of the tracker...
I'm a teacher interested in this variable length text box feature for embedded short answer questions. I'm currently using 1.8.4 and trying to decide whether I can wait for you to roll this into 1.8x (and then wait for the update to become available), or bite the bullet and install 1.9 now. Else, if it simply means modifying the appropriate config file, perhaps you could post the code and I can update this file manually. What do you suggest?
Mike Smith
(impatient course developer, addicted to embedded cloze question type)
First 1.9 is becoming more and more stable and there is even a prize contest to resolve the maximum f bugs in this versions.
The older like 1.8 will benefit as much as possible from this work.
We are polishing 1.9 before going to 2.0 .
So this is up to you but not just because of this bug...
Just wait at most a week.
University professors are often implied in a lot of other projects than this one but eventually they can do what they have planned...
Thanks Pierre,
Much appreciated. On your advice I'm now working with Moodle 1.9 and it seems stable enough for me as well as having some other useful new features. The text box size is adapting fine but it seems to have a maximum size of around 54 characters. Is that right? Is it a hard-coded set limit? Can I increase it a bit if I want?


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Ruapehu Cycles
Miss K Jay Nails & Beauty
Butterfly Creek
Kaitiaki Adventures Aotearoa
Waiwera Thermal Resort & Spa
Petes Property Care
Cafe Baraco
ZORB Rotorua
Diamond Decor
Diamond Photo
Dialled Indoor Rotorua
A1 Services
Lakes Care Dental Centre
Bridgestone Select.
My Kiwi Adventure
Wet'n'Wild Rafting
EZI Phone Repair
Total Health Dentistry
Lakes Care Dental Centre
Rocket Ropes
TCB Ski Board & Bike
The Boatshed Kayaks - Lake Karapiro, Cambridge
The Paddleboard Shed Raglan
Weight Watchers
Weight Watchers
Rocket Ropes
Paradice Ice Skating
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Voucher Guarantee
Getting more bang for your buck
Good news:
GrabOne's Voucher Guarantee means missing out on claiming your deal in time no longer means losing out altogether!
How does it work?
- A voucher is valid up to and including the expiry date stated.
- If you don't use your voucher before that date for whatever reason, it can still be used towards that service with that business for an additional 30 days.
For example, if you buy a bungy jump deal but don't use it before the expiry date, you can still use the amount you paid for the voucher towards a bungy jump, for another 30 days.
A few things to note:
- The GrabOne Voucher Guarantee does not apply to product deals, travel and accommodation-related deals, or time-dependent event deals.
- It's always best to use your voucher before the expiry date, so you get the most value for your money. And if you're a bit forgetful, we now automatically remind you if your vouchers are about to expire.
- During the extended Voucher Guarantee period, your voucher can only be put towards the service stated on the voucher.
- If the offer is seasonal, like a seasonal menu or chimney sweep service, the Voucher Guarantee can be put towards a similar offer at the merchant's discretion.
- The conditions on your voucher still apply during the Voucher Guarantee period.