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So Ray Rice says he will consider retirement when he turns 30 years old. Can you really blame the guy?
The running back plays one of the most punishing positions in sports. At least a dozen times a game — or more, if the Ravens are winning and he is running well — Rice runs full speed at 250-pound linebackers who are running full speed right at him. Those collisions are like slow-speed car crashes, and even modern technology can't create helmets that totally absorb the blows.
Rice has now touched the ball 2,158 times in his professional career, including playoff and preseason games, after shouldering a heavy workload in college. He has not been tackled hard on all of those 1,723 carries and 435 catches, but those collisions already appear to be taking a toll on him nearly a month before his 27th birthday. In his least productive season as a starter, Rice has just 605 rushing yards while averaging 3.1 yards per carry.
On a conference call with New England reporters on Wednesday, Rice was asked whether he thinks about his future in the game and whether he would keep playing down the road even if he no longer resembled the back that was selected to three Pro Bowls. Rice said he plans to take stock of his life and his career when he hits 30.
"You know, it's always something to think about at the running back position. I'll just put it out there: My goal was to make it 10 years in the NFL," Rice said. "Anything after 10, if I can't do it the way I want to, then it's something to think about. But I'm young. I came in the NFL at 21 years old, a young guy. So I'm still young, I'm only going to be 27 in January. So there's a lot of football left to be played. With that being said, I have priorities, too. You know, I have a young daughter, and you've just got to put all that in perspective when you're going out there week in and week out, especially when you get older in your career."
Running backs have the shortest shelf life of any position in the NFL, something I wrote about two years ago when the Ravens and Rice were negotiating his five-year, $40 million contract extension. The average career length of an NFL running back is fewer than three years, according to the NFL Players Association.
Some of the players who lasted longer than that are still feeling the effects today. Former Ravens running back Jamal Lewis claims he is still affected today by the aftershocks of multiple concussions. Tony Dorsett is dealing with memory loss and depression. Earl Campbell, who turns 59 in March, uses a walker to get around.
Those are just a few of the many former players — the pain is not limited to running backs — who have had their quality of life diminished by playing this punishing game, so nobody would blame Rice if he did decide to walk away from the game while he was still physically able, as Barry Sanders, Jim Brown and Gale Sayers did.
The Ravens have Rice under contract through his age-29 season, though his cap figure becomes less restrictive after 2014. Given how the Ravens proceeded with Lewis and how they do business in general, a third contract here with Rice seems unlikely, unless it's on the cheap.
Hall of Fame running backs such as Emmitt Smith and O.J. Simpson hung around the game past their prime and finished their careers with unproductive years in unfamiliar locations. Rice said that if the business side of football ever forced him out of Baltimore, he would be conscious of how finishing his career elsewhere might affect his legacy.
"Who knows what the future can hold?" Rice said on the conference call. "If I can retire a Raven, that would be great. But it all depends on the running back position, too. The wear and tear of a running back, obviously it's true. So you don't want to be going out there and tarnishing something that you're already doing well."
Tarnishing your legacy is one thing. Tarnishing your quality of life is another. So it is encouraging to hear Rice had both on his mind as he pondered his football mortality.


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Going Nature's Way
Several weeks later than planned we have finally begun canoeing the uppermost part of the Mississippi River. Mike had hoped we'd start at the end of April, but I knew "the winter that wouldn't quit" was going to make that impossible. Most of May wasn't much better weatherwise, and even though the forecast called for continued chance of rain this week, we decided we couldn't wait any longer.
Along with our neighbor Dick Glattly and another friend, we put our two canoes in the water just 50 feet from the line of low rocks people love tiptoeing over so they can say they've walked across the mighty river. When we arrived at the famous spot, there was much splashing and squealing coming from the water as a large group of middle schoolers braved the chilly temperatures in the exuberant freedom of a spring field trip.
The four of us set our boats in the stream, donned our life jackets and set off into the unknown. We could only see portions of the river, which is about the size of a small creek at the Headwaters, from the trail and I was apprehensive about "sweepers." This is the term used by canoeists for trees that lean out over the water and can easily catch a canoe and sweep you out of it. Mike and I have been paddling companions for 27 years and work as a well-oiled team, listening to one another's suggestions and commands. This came in very handy throughout the rest of the day.
Dick and Jim were together for the first time and did not have the benefit of knowing one another's styles or abilities. Because the stream is narrow at the beginning, it also is fast, and combined with sharp turns and wayward branches it was a very challenging start. In fact, the first bridge we came to was part of the walking path and I didn't think we could fit underneath it. Mike and Jim were confident, but we all had to bend as low as possible to fit beneath it. A group of people stood above peering down to see if we would make it.
Shortly thereafter there was another bridge — much higher than the first, but the speed of the water picked up after it and then there was a sharp turn to the left, where a fallen tree waited patiently. We managed to get around it, but Dick and Jim were not so lucky. We watched helplessly as their canoe went over. It's an awful feeling to be in a canoe at a moment like that. Panic morphs into frustration. The water was not deep, so they were able to stand and right the canoe quickly, but they still had wet gear to deal with. We waited in an eddy downstream as they reorganized themselves and dumped the water out of the canoe. Then we were off once again.
The river slowed and opened into a wide and winding marsh. For the next two days most of our canoeing would be in this type of vast marshland of cattails, phragmites grass, willow shrubs and alder. If you look at a small scale map of the Mississippi River you will see that at the beginning and end it winds and twists like the hairdo of Medusa. In this far northern section of the great river, you can paddle in all four cardinal directions in less than a half mile of river. Back and forth we went, sometimes on turns that were 170 degrees. I can't say for sure, but it seemed as though we were paddling the length of a football field to make 100' as the crow flies. Patience is something a river teaches you.
It also reminded me of the popular phrase, "Be in the moment." Canoeing is one of the activities that I find to be almost meditative. You get into a metronomic movement of arm and torso, lifting and pushing, over and over and over. It's not hard on the body, once you have done it enough to know the proper stroke and position. When you do get tired, you just switch the paddle to the other side. It can become a comfortable, well-rehearsed dance between long time canoe partners. And it gives you the chance to just dwell on the scenery around you.
I looked out at that vast expanse of low vegetation, still mostly flattened from the heavy winter snow, and off into the distance where the aspen trees were glowing as they only do for a short period of time each spring as their tender leaves unfurl. All around us, for every hour of each day we were serenaded by red-winged blackbirds, as well as thousands of other songbirds. Trumpeter swans smacked the water with their feet as they ran ahead of us to get airborne. Common merganser pairs and mallard drakes and hens erupted from the edge of the marsh as our canoes drew near. American toad trills were the background music. Beaver, porcupine, muskrat and white tail deer were seen, but were as rare as other humans on this stretch of river.
I was somewhat reluctant to begin this adventure, mainly because I hate to leave home just as spring is getting underway. It is a form of inertia that I think we all experience at times, surrounded as we are by the familiar and comfortable, but what I would have missed by not going on this trip is sad to contemplate. I have seen a stretch of wild Minnesota where the waterfowl and other birds exist as nature intended, where the marsh and river meld with one another as they have for centuries and where we humans just pass through as very lucky guests.

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After Rex Ryan and Reggie Bush reopened their early season "hot sauce" debate this week, players from the New York Jets and Miami Dolphins are chiming in.
Jets safety LaRon Landry didn't sound sorry about the knee injury Bush suffered in their Week 3 confrontation. Linebacker Aaron Maybin took it a step further.
"We want to knock (Bush) out, but we're out to do it legally," Maybin told Rich Cimini of ESPN New York.
Dolphins players didn't take kindly to that plan. Partly because they're protective of their team-leading rusher and partly because it's Aaron Maybin.
Maybin is attempting to revive his career with the Jets after flaming out with the Buffalo Bills, who made him the 11th overall pick of the 2009 draft. Maybin failed to record a sack in two seasons with the Bills before catching on with the Jets last season and recording six. He enters Sunday's game against the Dolphins with zero takedowns and just a single tackle.
Dolphins center Mike Pouncey isn't impressed.
"I don't even want to talk about (Maybin). He's a joke," Pouncey told Omar Kelly of the South Florida Sun Sentinel.
"He's not even going to play enough plays to touch Reggie," Pouncey said. "I have to be on punt block to say something to him."
The heat-seeking tone between these teams is nothing new. The Jets and Dolphins can't stand each another. That channels back through the decades.
Ryan talks about having never swept the Dolphins as coach of the Jets, which would suggest a dash of respect for Miami. It hasn't filtered down to all the players involved.
UPDATE: Maybin responded to Pouncey's comments, telling The Associated Press he had "no thoughts, no words" and didn't intend to cause a stir.
"There was no trash talk coming from this side," Maybin said. "Basically, I'll say the same thing I said yesterday: In order for us to beat Miami, we have to stop the run and that means eliminating Reggie Bush. However people wanted to take that out of context, that's fine, but I'm not going to get into it."
Maybin said he wasn't offended by Pouncey's tirade: "Trash talk, it's all for the newspapers. I didn't have any of that for you yesterday. I don't have any today."
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So what worked well in the second game?D'Astous explained: "We did our research to find out what worked well, what people enjoyed about it - especially the first game. The second was a success in the eyes of some, but had some ups and downs, so we've tried to identify what worked well in that game.
For me, it was extremely fun just dicking around.
The Eye Menu of course, it's what screamed "console port" the least.
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I've never even heard the term FPS 2.
I think it is Shooter 2.0, actually.
Oh. Irrational. That explains a fucking lot.
Seriously, as I go back and read some of their interviews, they have this very pretentious attitude for what the final product ended up being. Especially this whole "shooter 2.0" business- Bioshock isn't the "next generation" of shooters, it's basically a dumbed down System Shock 2 with way less stability or charm.
No, as far as I'm concerned, games like Stalker are the next generation of shooters. Sure, the story is a bit sparse and cliched, and sure the game wasn't what we all expected it to be, but at the end of the day it still manages to do something very different, very new compared to what we're all used to.
Isn't Stalker just The Elder Scrolls with guns? Additionally wasn't it one of those games that talked big during its bloated dev cycle and shipped with half of its features intact with bugs replacing the rest?
Not saying Stalker is a bad game but it seems to be an odd thing to compare with Bioshock seeing as they are both fraught with crippling issues.
As for emergent gameplay, nowadays that just seems to be fancy talk for "NPCs can now break the game without you". I don't think the industry possesses the genius it will take to intentionally make this kind of gameplay good.
Good point. We're more inclined to let poor Ukranians off the hook you see
But, no; there is a sense for me, rational or not, that Bioshock could have done the things it set out to do and lived up to its forebears at the same time. For one reason or another they chose not to do it; some of it was technical (free roaming little sisters for instance) but a lot of it I still blame on fear.
Stalker was proclaiming it wanted to do things that had never been done before. If you've been around a while you know that's not going to happen, but you want to see how close they can get.
Most everything Bioshock wanted to do had already been done before, except for a few things. And when those didn't work out they scaled it back even further. (I don't really want to turn this into an argument about Bioshock b...oh darn)
TES lacks a certain vague quality which may be good or may be bad, the true meaning of is locked away in that magical treasure vault you call a brainpan.
Furthermore Stalker and TES can be differentiated by a craptacular metaphor which you didn't even bother to explain because I'm supposed to ruminate and then decypher it like some Chinese riddle as if it had a meaning beyond "DUR HUR STALKER IS ARBITRARILY BETTAR"
So basically the only point you're trying to prove is that you're a pretentious imbecile who believes his approval is a major selling point of a game?
Well color me convinced!
wow, take a chill pill dude...
cry more emokid
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I was standing on tiptoes, stretching over an extra-tall ticket counter to see my receipt printing at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, when a security guard sidled up next to me. I signed my receipt, lowered my heels and turned to smile at him.
"Oh - you were on tiptoe," he said. "I was about to remark on how tall you are, but you're actually short."
I'm 5 feet 8.
For my "daycation," I grabbed a friend and made for New York to see the museum's "Mythic Creatures: Dragons, Unicorns & Mermaids" exhibit. New York is full of pricier adventures, but the city can captivate when you're simply walking around, people-watching - and flirting with bored security guards.
As recent college graduates, Emma and I craved a fun diversion with a reasonable bottom line, and the idea of mermaids and sea monsters in a science museum piqued our interest. We drove to the New Haven train station, where Metro-North offers $14 rides off-peak to Grand Central.
We missed our train - we arrived early enough, but the station's parking lot was full. The auxiliary lot was a 10-minute walk away.
Arriving in New York later than planned, we were famished. At the Hummus Place (Amsterdam Avenue at 74th Street), we shared large bowls of hummus and salad and drank glasses of the best lemonade of your life, with mint leaves adrift among the ice cubes. Stuffed and collectively less than $20 poorer, we strolled toward the museum, gaping at the vast Upper West Side brownstones along the way.
The museum's suggested admission policy lists entry prices ($14 for adults), but pay a dime, and they'll still let you in, though with a scowl. Emma and I paid the suggested student rate, $10.50. Tickets in hand, we trooped up two flights of stairs, lined up for "Mythic Creatures" and learned it cost extra.
These $21 tickets, mandatory for entry, included the full suggested admission price. And they're time-stamped to admit people in waves every half-hour. The next few tours were sold out. Back to the lobby.
As we rejoined the line, the security guard asked why we were there again. We explained our failure to read the posted ticket prices. Next thing we knew, he pulled us aside and instructed a janitor sweeping the lobby to get us some tickets. Why, we asked the guard as we stood beside him, are you helping us like this?
"I hate to see people pay twice," he said. "And besides, I feel sorry for you because you're so short."
The janitor returned with two employee vouchers, which gave us free admission to four of the five special exhibitions. All-access adult passes cost $30.
After a detour to another exhibition about frogs (highlight: a touch-screen virtual frog dissection, with multiple steps, and background music), we finally entered "Mythic Creatures."
It was worth the hassle. The first thing you see is a crouching 17-foot-long green dragon model staring you straight in the eye. Its yellow-ish wings arch above, and I felt suddenly small and awed. I kept an eye on the dragon as I walked on, because I didn't quite trust it to stay in its place.
The exhibit is a fascinating combination of fancy and scholarship. Divided into land, sea and sky, each section features display cases devoted to various mythic creatures from all over the world, with panels that recount a version of each creature's legend. The tales are underscored with historical artifacts like sculptures, bones and 16th-century biology texts, all illustrating the persistence of the folkloric imagination throughout history and across continents.
There are detailed explanatory blurbs with dates and diagrams for adult visitors. For the crowd that discovered griffins and phoenixes reading "Harry Potter," there are things to touch, like a real narwhal tusk, sold in the Age of Exploration as unicorn horns.
More life-size incarnations of various creatures punctuate the exhibit. They merge the parts of "Mythic Creatures" aimed at different age groups, confirming children's suspicions as to what Kraken tentacles look like while stirring dormant adult memories. We never really stopped wanting to believe in dragons; we lost the luxury of time to imagine such possibilities.
The unicorn is especially breathtaking, looming on its pedestal. Sleek, white and noble, it's just as you always knew it would be.
After "Mythic Creatures," I made Emma pose, growling fiercely, next to a dinosaur skull. Then we left the museum, retracing our steps toward Amsterdam Avenue.
We stopped at Crumbs, a bakery where the decadent cupcakes instigate the same rapture of seeing life-size dragons - fantasies come true in a mini buttercream cupcake with chocolate icing. But from previous visits, I assure you the massive red velvet cupcake will change your life for the better.
Weary, happy and full of sugar, we strolled back toward Grand Central. Men in power suits rushed around us, sprung from a day at the office. I took another bite of cupcake.
The "Mythic Creatures" exhibit is on display through Jan. 8. The American Museum of Natural History is at Central Park West at 79th Street in New York. Information: 212-769-5100 or amnh.org.
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ROCKFORD - Pickleball is not a nuisance and can continue to be played at Sinnissippi Park, a Winnebago County judge has decided.
17th Judicial Circuit Judge Eugene Doherty ruled in favor of the Rockford Park District and against neighbors who wanted to put a stop to the sound of wooden paddles striking plastic pickleballs at the park.
The district's first outdoor pickleball courts opened inside Sinnissippi Park in September 2010 after two tennis courts were converted for the growing sport. Two neighbors immediately complained of the noise from players and paddles and filed a lawsuit in June 2012 to try to force the district to shut down the courts.
"While pickleball was not played there when plaintiffs moved into the neighborhood, surely they knew that they were moving in proximity to a large park," Doherty wrote in his decision issued before today's scheduled status call. "Part of living next to this particular park is that neighbors will experience sounds of picnickers at the pavilions, or children at the playground, or music from the bandshell or tennis from the tennis courts."
Sinnissippi Park is the district's oldest and largest park. It's home to a golf course, playground, band shell, pickleball courts and seasonal activities like the Festival of Lights and, right now, snow sculpting.
"Plantiffs are mistaken, however, if they feel that they have the right to lock the district into those activities, and only those, which existed at the time they became neighbors," Doherty wrote.
Neighbors Jeanette Haskell and Barbara Friel had filed the suit saying that "the noise filters into every part of their property and household" and interferes with their ability to enjoy their property. Friel, whose backyard borders the area near pickleball courts, testified during a two-day trial that the "ping" of the plastic ball hitting the paddle was "penetrating" and "sharp." She used to be an avid gardener, but neglected it to avoid the noise from games played in the early morning, afternoon and evening. Haskell, 87, died July 20 and her daughter testified on her behalf.
Two other neighbors also testified during the trial, including one who lived further than the two plaintiffs but found the noise just as objectionable. Rudy Valdez, whose property is closer to the courts than Friel's, testified that he didn't find the noise annoying and noted noise from North Second Street and the band shell can also be heard even when windows are closed, according to Doherty's decision. Jay Sandine of the district testified that there were no other noise complaints at either Sinnissippi or the Loves Park pickleball courts.
Pickleball players recognize that some people feel the sports signature noise can be bothersome. Noise complaints have followed new pickleball courts in several sites across the country, and manufacturers have worked to develop quieter paddles.
"The noise is very tolerable," said Chuck Kurt, Rockford's ambassador for the USA Pickleball Association. "There's no lights (at Sinnissippi), so its limited by daylight. We don't start before eight in the morning. It's really not that big of a deal."
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They're getting on a nice run. Not talking about the eight game win streak. Only four goals allowed in the last four games. They were struggling to just give up that few in one game for a little while there. Hopefully that's the last of that ugliness we'll see from this bunch. The next challenge is going to be maintaining this once they get Malkin back.
What Godric said.
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TAMPA, FLA. — The GOP convention doesn't officially start until Monday, but trouble is already brewing between presumptive nominee Mitt Romney and Republicans who are concerned by his campaign making an aggressive power play to control the party.
The drama Friday centered around a contentious meeting of the powerful Rules Committee, where Romney's campaign lieutenants, led by his legal counsel Ben Ginsberg, pushed through several changes that would give Romney broad authority over the Republican nominating process.
According to one source who was at the meeting, the saga ended with former New Hampshire Governor John Sununu, the committee chair, hightailing it out of the building before committee members could submit dissenting minority opinions, or "minority reports."
In an interview with Business Insider Friday night, Maine's newly-elected state committeewoman Ashley Ryan, said that committee members opposed to Romney's plan drafted two minority reports immediately after the meeting, stating their position against the changes. Republican Party rules stipulate that people have one hour to submit a minority report after a meeting of the Rules Committee, and that it must have the support of at least 25 percent of the committee.
"The rules say that you have an hour after the meeting, but within 15 minutes, we couldn't find [Chairman Sununu] anywhere," Ryan, a Ron Paul supporter and member of Maine's delegation, said. "Finally, we asked an RNC official if they had seen former New Hampshire Governor John Sununu. He said, 'John Sununu! Everyone's looking for him! But he left the building.'"
The details around Sununu's Friday dip are still foggy, and it's unclear if he ended up receiving the minority reports after all. Convention officials have not yet responded to our email asking for comment.
Earlier on Friday, Ginsberg and other Romney loyalists tried to neuter the threat of a minority report by raising the threshold of support to 40 percent.
BuzzFeed's Zeke Miller reports that the attempt was forcefully shot down as overreach, even by committee members who voted for Ginsberg's other proposals, including one that would force states to select delegates based on the results of their primary or caucus, and one that would allow the Republican National Committee to change the rules established at the convention.
"It's important to make the rules four years in advance, before we know who the favorites are," Ryan said. "If the national party can just change the rules, what's the point of having a Rules Committee at all?


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Eating a club sandwich at midnight is probably not the best way to start your day. But it seemed like a pretty darn good idea as the clock officially edged into a new morning.
After going to the VIP/Presenter Reception and then the TRX party last night, I was absolutely famished, as I hadn't eaten since lunch. There were so many people to see, hug and catch up with that I never made it to graze the food tables at either get-together. I really needed sustenance, though, and so eating late became the lesser evil of not eating at all, which would have kept me up all night. Tonight at the Welcome Party, I will endeavor to eat first, talk later so I can be fully digested before I hit the hay tonight. Probably won't happen though, as I get carried away by the moment very easily. Focus, Webster! Focus!
As I sat down to write this, I was thinking about how much things have changed since I covered my first World here in Anaheim 7 years ago. Changes not just in the way the IDEA editors cover our events, but in the weave of the events themselves. Such transformation has to happen in all facets of our work and lives or we grow stale and forget to challenge ourselves.
On the coverage front, I arrived onsite in 2002 with a couple of legal pads and pens as my weapons of choice. These days, my backpack is chock-full with digital camera, smart phone, FlipVideo pocket cam, computer, legal pad and pens. I used to be able to catch a nap between the last session and the evening activities. Now I--and the rest of the editors--come back and file our stories with just enough time to shower and move on to the evening functions. These changes have made all of us better writers, time managers and reporters, but mostly, we've been able to deliver more timely information as it happens. Heck, I've been tweeting quotes live from sessions since I got here. You can't get more on-the-spot than that.
On the industry front, one of the biggest changes I've seen since World 2002 is the emergence of the "hybrid trainer." For the past two days, I've heard this phrase over and over. What does it mean? To me, it's a reflection of what we at IDEA saw in 2004 when we not only began calling our Midwest event Fitness Fusion, but when we decided it was time to merge IDEA Health & Fitness Source magazine with IDEA Personal Trainer magazine to create IDEA Fitness Journal.
This strategy seriously considered the crossover and convergence we saw then among group exercise, mind-body specialists and personal trainers. It's even more pronounced today, which is why a convention like IDEA World works so well. A personal trainer can attend and learn from group ex pros more about leading in a group setting. A group ex pro can likewise expand her professional repertoire by taking personal training curriculum. They both can advance their careers by studying the wide array of management classes we offer. The program is rich with possibilities and our delegates are clearly taking advantage of them.
Are you shaping yourself to become a hybrid trainer? Define what hybrid trainer means to you in the comment box below. Do you favor the emergence of this "utility" professional in the industry? Should hybrid trainers be compensated more? I'm really interested in your thoughts about this.
Meantime, I've got to pack a few media collection devices in my evening bag and get ready for the party. If you see me there gabbing away at the Tweetup, please bring me a plate of broccoli or something. I'm sure I'll need a snack!
Like everyone here at World, I've been up since the crack of dawn moving, grooving, navigating, meeting, greeting and learning. I'm also schmoozing, blogging, tweeting and observing. This is a work week for me, and I'll tell ya--I've been working like a dog...the Weinstein way...at least as of mid-afternoon.
Keynote speaker Matt Weinstein wryly made fun of this old axiom about toiling the day away by asking a packed convention ballroom at this morning's opening ceremonies to ponder how hard dogs really work. I don't know about you, but the ones I've had in my life spend most of the time sleeping, mooching food, being petted, barking at the mailman, fetching Frisbees, wagging their tails...generally good, fun stuff like that. Weinstein, an author, motivational speaker and founder of Playfair, Inc., an international consulting firm based in Berkeley, suggested that maybe we should take a page from a dog's life and apply it to the way we work and live.
So, today, that's what I did. Not that I normally don't have fun in my work. I do. I think laughing--especially at work--is a high priority. But at World I tend to go at each day like a ball of fire, tearing my way through session after session with my multimedia guns blazing. At one point today I caught myself in a rowdy, loud session taking photos with one hand and talking to an IDEA colleague with phone in the other. My video flipcam was tucked nearby in my waistband. "Seriously," I thought, "I need a holster for all these gadgets." That's when I decided I needed to start the day over and be more dog-like. I went around and got lots of hugs and love from people I hadn't seen yet. I sat down and ate lunch with Karen Wells, who is part of the MELT crew this trip and who has been attending IDEA conventions for something like 19 years. And I learned a few new tricks and played some fetch by spending an entire time block participating in Todd Durkin's and Brett Klika's "Buddy Up" session. Mostly, I laughed at myself and how goofy I must look doing fast feet and ladder drills. But like a good puppy, I didn't care. I just went at it like it was the best thing ever. I came out of there panting, wagging my tail, slurping lots of water and ready to nap (and like most dogs after a good play, I could use a bath, too), but alas, I must write.
A few quick recaps of the day:
*I met Milo Levell in person and had a photo taken with him on my iPhone (yes, I'm a total geek). Did you see that guy bustin' it this morning with his 1,000,000 Dancers before the Opening Ceremonies this morning? What a great way to kick off the day.
*In case you missed the tweets and micro-blogs on Twitter and Facebook, our Award recipients are as follows: Fitness Instructor of the Year, June Kahn; Personal Trainer of the Year, Cynthia Carrion Norton (who trains the President of the Philippines and 15 of her cabinet members); Program Director of the Year, Debi Pilarella; and IDEA Inspiration Award recipient Scout Bassett.
*Favorite presenter observations: 1. Evan Osar, DC, in "Improving Hip and Trunk Rotation," wondered aloud whether we should tell clients to pull belly buttons inward or to push them out when loading the spine. His take, based on child development models and what babies do instinctively, is to push them out. "We are creating dysfunction for our clients when we ask them to pull in," he said. 2. Todd Durkin, MA, in "Buddy Up," reminded the 200 or so in this rowdy explosion of a session that no trainer has all the answers. "We can learn from each other's creativity and we can learn from wathching all of our clients move." 3. Jenna Bell-Wilson, PhD, RD, in "Are You Hungry or Are You Stressed?" said "One of my favorite things about the human body is that it has this overwhelming drive for homeostasis." Balance, people. The body craves balance!
*Trends in the Industry Panel, always one of my favorite sessions becuase it provides perspectives on current industry challenges and trends from the newly named IDEA Award recipients, was packed with good questions and ideas. For instance, June Kahn sees mind-body fusion and dance as the two top growth areas in group exercise. "Dance has now come full circle," she said. "For clients, I see it as a form of self-empowering exercise." Darren Jacobson, one of the Program Director of the Year finalists, filled in for Debi Pilarella, who had to catch an early plane. Jacobson, who directs multiple programs for Virgin South Africa, observed that one of the most important things he's learned in his career is that we have to strive to add value to everything we do. "Act with honesty and integrity in all you do. Once you lose that, you lose your credibility." Also, he emphasized being clear on expectations with staff, "and knowing your true North, so your team knows where you're going." Cynthia Norton cited the main challenges she faces in her country as lack of continuing education and what she calls "fancy gyms" versus "core gyms," her description for facilities that have basic equipment with smart trainers who know how to use it. She is working to get trainers (and the public) there to understand that training doesn't mean body building and that you don't have to have brand new, shiny equipment and every bell and whistle in the book to help clients toward success. Hmmm. Some things are just universal in this industry.
Now I'll see about that bath. Hope you're all workin' like dogs, too.
Has it already been a year since the last World Convention? Hard to believe, but here we go again!
This is actually my seventh straight World. I was hired at IDEA 2 weeks after the 2001 convention in San Francisco wrapped up, so was able to use our other events that year and in 2002 as training ground for this true extravaganza. Even as wonderful as our other events are, there's really nothing that can fully prepare you for your first IDEA World. Any newbies out there? Any veterans? I'd love to hear from you about your favorite experiences at this or any past events. Just drop me a note in the comment box below.
A change of pace and something almost unheard of in Southern California as my chosen means to get to Anaheim from San Diego this morning: I left my car at home! How great is that? I hopped a ride on AMTRAK and was able to get some work done, occasionally reminding myself to savor the sight of the beautiful coastline peeling away on my left. Mainly, I reviewed the event catalog again and tried to focus on which sessions are "must-sees" for me over the next 4+ days. Unfortunately, most of them seem to fit that description. Honestly, I'd rather be limited to a set number of sessions; I think it would force me to be more in the "coverage zone." But when you're a fitness editor at the globe's premier education event, you get a little greedy. Inevitably and unapologetically, I end up being a total glutton by trying to do and absorb it all.
Actually, today I didn't do too badly in the overload department. I stopped by just a few of the precons, but was mostly riveted by Sue Hitzmann's 6-hour session "New Science of the Human Body: The MELT Living Body Model™." If you or your clients have tension or pain (and who doesn't these days?), this material certainly provides new perspective and offers what appears to be new science (I need to track down the studies and look more into them). Sue walked the 80 or so attendees through neurofascial science regarding connective tissue, pelvic stability and the NeuroCore system.
She has some amazing surgical footage on cadavers that shows what human connective tissue looks like under a microscope. To see this stuff is to be awed by the brilliant architecture of the human body all over again. The visual/video aspect made me understand the neurofascial science more clearly, and literally see kinesiologic systems work in concert. I've read/heard about this before but had never witnessed it. It really is all connected. Anatomy geeks be forewarned. You'll be all over it and have a million questions for her.
A side note on Sue: Around 2003-2004, she wrote the Fine Anatomy column in IDEA Personal Trainer magazine. This lady knows her business. She took over the column after Greg Roskopf, who wrote it from 2001-2003. These columns are all in the IDEA Library and are always worth a visit for a primer or quick review of insertion, origin, action and, injury prevention and postrehab tips for specific musculature. We carried the column over to IDEA Fitness Journal and ran it through 2006. We covered every part of the body, so keep that in mind the next time you have an anatomy question.
With that, I'm wrapping it up for the day. I'm going for a run—ironically, probably my last chance for good cardio exercise over the next few days—and then having dinner with Nicki Anderson.
Tomorrow, we're really off to the races! Can't wait!
IDEA's Award-Winning Editors: (from left) associate editor Ryan Halvorson; managing editor Kate Watson; editor in chief Sandy Todd Webster; production editor Margie Rogers; and senior editor Joy Keller.Meet the IDEA editorial team. Smart. Hard working. Dedicated to quality. Perfectionists (in a good way). Did you know that just five IDEA staffers (and a few wonderful freelancers) produce all of IDEA's publications? These include IDEA Fitness Journal, IDEA Trainer Success, IDEA Fitness Manager, IDEA Fit Tips and Inner IDEA Body-Mind-Spirit Review.It's with great pleasure that I tout my colleagues and their splendid talents as we all enjoy being recognized by our magazine publishing peers for our fifth consecutive Western Publications Association "Maggie" Award. This year, IDEA Fitness Journal took top honors in the Best Health & Fitness/Trade magazine category. This is the second time IDEA editors have taken top honors in this division for the prestigious Maggie, also known as the "Oscar" of the periodicals publishing world.Our team has been together for 5 years now; what a privilege it's been to work alongside these fine professionals!"We are extremely proud of the IDEA editorial team," says Kathie Davis, executive director of IDEA. "Their commitment to producing the industry's most high-quality and educational print fitness magazines has been recognized with yet another prestigious award. The fact that their professional magazine industry peers have recognized them as best in class among many others vying for this magazine award is a testament to the gold standard quality they deliver. Their expertise in packaging practical fitness articles for fitness professionals around the world on the most relevant health and fitness topics has helped IDEA stay at the forefront of this industry."Past Maggie Awards for this IDEA team include the following:2005: Best Health, Fitness Beauty & Fashion/Trade Publication2006: Best How-To Article/Trade ("Shaping a Healthier Future for America's Children")2007: Best Health & Fitness/Trade Publication2008: Best Web E-Newsletter/Trade & Consumer, Inner IDEA Body-Mind-Spirit Review Congratulations to one and all!
A few years ago, I discovered spinning and threw myself into it. I went three times a week for about a year, which dwindled to twice weekly, which dwindled to once a month (in a good month). What happened? Did I just burn out? I'm pretty steady in my fitness pursuits, so I've often wondered why I lost interest in it. Last night I gained a bit of clarity on the matter.I'm training for a half Ironman later this year and getting back into indoor cycling is important to my success. Yesterday after work, I jumped into the 5:30 pm spin class at my gym and concluded that the missing ingredient for me has been a good instructor. I suspected that was the issue, but there's nothing like taking a class from a really great teacher—or one whose style overlays well with the way you approach training—to make you realize this. Bryant Crouch, a longtime IDEA member, has been teaching the Wednesday class at my club since I first got in the saddle a few years back. His workouts are challenging, but they seem to be more fun than hard because of his motivational approach. The time flies by as he plants great imagery in my head or challenges me to reach down and find a little extra. He does this without screaming into the mic, without getting in my face while I'm trying to ride in relative post-work anonymity, and without doing any ridiculous acrobatics or contortions that road cyclists would never do anyway. With Bryant, it's about good form, mind-body-breath connection and healthy structure in the work he plans. When we wrapped up the final push, something he said really stuck with me. "The hard work is done now…we don't 'ride to death' in this class, we 'ride to life. We ride until we feel alive.'" How great and healthy is the simplicity of that thought? Are you riding/working your clients and students to death or are you making them feel more alive? Have regulars dropped out? Do you plan your classes or sessions around what you need to get out of them or around what your students need? If you're not sure, ask one of your regulars how you're doing or ask for general feedback from the class. You might be surprised what you find out. Share any anecdotes or insights about your experiences in the comment box below.
If you've ever been to Jazz Festival in New Orleans—or if you've ever spent time in the great state of Louisiana, period—you know it's all about food and fun. For the second straight year, IDEA membership director Annina Torri and I took a quick vacation down South to visit our friend and IDEA member Charlie Hoolihan, personal training director for the stunning Pelican Athletic Club (PAC) in Mandeville, on Lake Pontchartrain's north shore. (Charlie and me, below) We arrived on Wed night, April 29, drove across the causeway to our home away from home and the calorie fest began almost immediately. Charlie, who is a terrific cook, had a delicious one-pot meal of chicken and noodle stew simmering on the stove. We dove in and didn't look back, except for maybe where the next glass of wine was coming from.We spent most of Thursday and Friday kicking around the Fest sampling as much great food as we did music. I can't even begin to talk about the many delicious dishes I ate or I'll spend the rest of the day drooling on my keyboard as I remember the delight of it all. "The air is deep fried down here," as Charlie is wont to say. I don't even eat fried food, but they do this stuff up right. It's "slap yo' mama" good, and a once-per-year splurge into it—especially when tempered by exercise—is certainly not a crime. Here's where the fitness aspect comes in. In order to eat like the strapping Southern boy that seems to control my appetite, each day I made it a point to earn my calories before I consumed them. Thursday and Sunday I got up early and ran 6 miles before breakfast; Friday I went up on the roof of Charlie's house (an expansive deck that overlooks the beautiful Tchefuncta River) and concocted a grueling circuit for myself using 1.5 liter club soda bottles for weights and balance props, and a bathroom rug for a mat. Side note: If your clients still think they need anything other than body weight and imagination to work out on their own, then you're not doing your job as an educator! Here's an idea: Challenge your clients with a homework assignment to come up with a 1-hour workout (including dynamic warm-up and cool-down) using only 2 props and see what they come back to you with. You'll know whether your lessons are getting through or not. They have to be able to take the "tools" you're giving them and apply them when you're not around (which is most of the time). The highlight of my fitness-for-food extravaganza was when Charlie invited us to his spinning class on Saturday morning. Our little group piled into the car, got a quick tour of the beautiful PAC (which looks like a plantation house—see photo), met some members and got into the saddle to sweat out the previous day's damage. Charlie has his cycling group, who are mostly regulars, on a 6-week periodized plan. He customizes intervals for sprinters, middle distance and "enduros" (the unfortunate Type I fiber people like me), cuing intensity and rest as needed for each. It was an awesome way to start the day. The sweaty glow of our little group, which included IDEA member and PAC personal trainer Mary Beth Simmons, says it all (see the PAC, below and Charlie, Mary Beth, Sandy Todd Webster & Annina Torri). From there, famished, we headed straight for the grocery store to provision ourselves for a big breakfast, our pool party that afternoon and a chicken tamale dinner that night. Fitness-fun-food: it really is the circle of life—or at least it's my little slice of heaven. Charlie—we need to start planning next year's menu!
The last day of any IDEA conference is always bittersweet for me. I'm sad that all the excitement is over and will miss seeing so many friends and colleagues until our next event, but at the same time, I'm exhausted and ready to go home! Plus, it's been raining here for the past 3 days and today it's cold to boot. I'm ready for some California sunshine back at IDEA's San Diego HQ.First and foremost, a very heartfelt thank you from the IDEA staff to all of our attendees, fantastic educators and our marketing partners who filled the Expo Hall with terrific products and bargains. We are grateful for your support!As usual, I'm taking home a lot of great memories and a whole notebook of new concepts to explore in the pages of our publications and as made-to-order content ideas for the IDEA website.Here are a few areas I'll be drilling into deeper based on conversations I had with delegates and presenters, questions I heard in sessions and general observations of what seems to be on people's minds.
- Small Group and Partner Training. We've already done a lot on this topic, so be sure to check the IDEA Library for resources. However, there are a lot of nuances in this business model yet to be explored. We'll be looking into programming for partners and for groups up to 10 strong. Also, while it's clear this is a lucrative model, how do we systematize what we're doing to maximize dollars earned and keep the administrative overhead low? How do you arrive at the right price point, etc?
- Program Design for Older Adults. We all know the stats on the volume of older adult exercisers flooding the market. Have you researched this special population's powerful potential for your club or training business? Do you understand how to communicate with them? What kind of programming is appropriate in the group and personal training settings? Look for a new column dedicated to this topic beginning in September IDEA Fitness Journal.
- Step Programming. There was some interesting discussion here about how instructors are overcomplicating high-low for their participants. Is it because instructors are not challenged unless they throw in advanced choreography? Are group leaders designing classes for themselves or with the participant in mind? Are we killing participant enthusiasm with too many bells and whistles?
- Stretching. There seems to be a lot of confusion out there about what safe, effective best practices are. What does the research say? How should we proceed with clients?
- Childhood Obesity. How can we give kids back the power of play or a sense of entitlement about making decisions about their playtime activities? As Brian Grasso, who presented two kids-related topics here yesterday said, "When we stop making passive passengers out of kids and start expecting them to be the active drivers of their activity, that's when we change the physical culture."
…this barely scratches the surface on interesting content, but I still have to pack and catch a plane, so I'll leave you with those thoughts for now. Even if you weren't at Fitness Fusion, I'd love to hear what areas you're challenged by and how we can present those better for you. Please take a moment to jot a note in the comment area below so the community can weigh in or e-mail me directly at email@example.com so we can dialogue about it. Meanwhile, please check back here often, as I have almost an hour's worth of great video clips from sessions to post and many, many photographs. For immediate gratification, join the IDEA Health & Fitness Association Fan Page on Facebook. There are already three photo albums from the Fusion event posted. For all you do to Inspire the World to Fitness®, IDEA salutes you!
There is more talent and personality embodied by IDEA presenters in the Rosemont, Illinois, Hyatt at this moment than I can possibly even fathom. There is the usual star power—Blahnik, Purvis, Glick, Kolber, Roskopf, Murphy, Anderson, Fable, McMillan (x 2), Brooks, etcetera. Too many to mention or count, really. And then there is newly mined gold that IDEA conference programming director Aprile Peishel has carefully cultivated to ensure that conference education stays fresh and relevant to today's fitness professional. In 8 years of covering IDEA programming for the publications and our conference blogs, I can remember some exciting days when I was lit on fire by one or two new presenters' material or by a unique teaching style. But today turned out to be a banner day for this. I felt like I hit the jackpot in the many sessions I attended. Here is a glimpse of some of the new (and not so new, but newly discovered to me) talent in the fabulous IDEA presenter brain trust: · Okay, so Fabio Comana isn't new to IDEA's program, but I'll start with him because he impressed me with his amazing command over a broad range of very complex topics. He presided over 3 fascinating and very useful lectures/workshops on metabolic training, balance training and functional regressions emphasizing triplanar movement. He also is a nutrition expert. Next time you get the opportunity, make sure you sign up for one of his sessions.· Wendy Williamson, PhD, is new to our line-up. She is an experienced educator who consults by helping facilities train their trainers and who also works on the front lines of medical fitness full time. She kicked off her IDEA teaching debut with a session about training trainers and went on to show her versatility by speaking about women and the lumbo-pelvic puzzle and spinal stabilization.· Jill Winegar steered the STOTT PILATES® curriculum here with an opening day precon on working with Pilates props and additional sessions yesterday and today on total body toning, using the stability ball for Pilates, and STOTT PILATES Fitness Circle® Flow. Her teaching style and use of a model to demonstrate as she cues and explains things are excellent.· Shari Kalkstein, PTA, CSCS, knows her stuff and delivers her material in totally no-nonsense style, but with a flair of humor that had me doubled over with laughter at times. She has an impressive knowledge of anatomy and biomechanics and uses her therapy background to bolster her training services. With more aging seniors joining the ranks daily, her knowledge of and experience with postural issues for older adults is sorely needed today and was welcomed by those who attended the session. · Donna Hutchinson is not new to presenting by any means, but new to IDEA audiences. Her experience and confidence combine with an approachability that invited a conversational air to her presentations. Here are five quick steps she provided for creating innovative and edgy new programs: 1. Identify the need. 2. Create the experience. 3. Have the right people. 4. Get pumped! 5. Evaluate.· Melissa Baumgartner is a personal trainer, life coach and corporate worksite specialist who brought a freshness and enthusiasm for the psychological dimension of fitness to the Fusion program. I ran into her in the hallway after one of her sessions and her powerful question asking and excellent listening helped flip a couple of switches for me regarding career issues…just like that. She's good! · Brett Klika left attendees wanting more after his Sports Star in 60 Minutes presentation. A protégé of the Todd Durkin Fitness Quest 10 school of inspiration and "edutainment," Klika has a rare magic and the type of magnetism that draws people to him effortlessly. He huddled up all of his sweaty, exhausted students at session's end and told them if they want more from being a fitness professional or from anything in life, they have to BE more. He had every one of us believing we could do anything! The best thing about all of these presenters—veterans and newbies alike—is that they are humble, approachable and classy professionals who are genuinely interested in sharing their knowledge and ensuring attendees have a top notch experience. They know that by inspiring their students at these events, they are putting one more strong link in the most kinetic chain of them all—to Inspire the World to Fitness®.
It's a beautiful spring day here (in the low 80s) in Chicago and the first full day of programming at 2009 IDEA Fitness Fusion is wrapped up. Fusion couldn't be a more apt name for this event. Concepts from all corners of fitness have fused and morphed and overlaid beautifully over the past few years to give pros from all disciplines interesting and meaningful training choices for their clients. Today I saw, photographed and videotaped everything from athletic sport performance circuits, nutrition and functional moves for group exercise to high-low step, life coaching, Pilates and yoga. There is a lot of detail I'm leaving out on programming. With more than 50 offerings on today's schedule alone, I wouldn't have room to describe everything here. Such breadth of quality classes makes it challenging to choose just a single class per time block, and fortunately (or not), as an IDEA editor, I don't get that luxury anyway. I was in and out of at least two-thirds of what was scheduled today and my head is kind of spinning right now with all the cool concepts I saw. It will take a day or two for all of this to really sink in. One of the neatest "new" things I saw was Indo-Row®, an updated rowing machine concept that is reportedly all the rage in group ex in Los Angeles. Fusion attendees are among the first fitness pros around the world to see it in action and Jay Blahnik and Josh Crosby presented it well. The organic-looking, wooden-bodied rower has a low-profile, clear plastic tank (a circle about two feet in diameter) on the foot end, with paddles inside that create resistance and a nice whooshing sound on the back stroke. The design looks like something you'd see in the lobby furniture of an austere, arty, high-end hotel. The mechanics were butter smooth and the noise level was pretty low (remember those horrible loud rowers of yesteryear?) Attendees worked in teams, as partners and as a crew for this fun, high-intensity workout. With Jay coaching, it's hard to not get a good workout and leave with a smile. Another piece of equipment that's been around for a little while, but that I'd not seen in action yet is the MVe™ Fitness Chair by Peak Pilates. Cherry Herzog explained that the concept of the chair takes Joseph Pilates' vision of the Wunda Chair a step further. Small enough for the home and with the versatility to use it for total body conditioning, it looks to have interesting potential as a tool for training multi-joint, multi-planar movement, strength and endurance, dynamic flexibility and propulsive strength and endurance. The third new tool I saw demonstrated is the tether system Douglas Brooks was using in the BOSU® Athletic Balance workshop. Basically, it's an elastic band encased in soft accordion-like material that clamps on either end to belts worn by training partners or to the wall if you're training alone (like rock climbing gear, but not bulky at all). They can be used for many drills—your imagination's the limit. Today Douglas employed them for balance perturbation. Once partner would leap onto the BOSU (dome up) and find his balance point; meanwhile, the training partner would pull on the cord and move it from side to side to try to unbalance his partner. I have some good video of this that I'll upload early next week and link to these pages, so be sure to check back! Tomorrow's program is equally packed, so tune in again for more from this exciting event.
If there's one thing I love about working in the fitness industry, it's the variety of things I get to try. Take today, for instance. I flew into Chicago a couple of days before the start of our 2009 IDEA Fitness Fusion Conference so I could visit Nicki Anderson, 2009 IDEA Personal Trainer of the Year, who also happens to be a dear friend. Aside from all the fun we had in the city yesterday on a wonderful architectural tour of historically significant buildings in the downtown loop, we shared a lot of conversation and exchanged many ideas about what's happening in the industry. Very enlightening, good stuff! Here are two highlights from today:
- We got up earlyish, walked to her studio in downtown Naperville, Illinois, and dove into a pretty intense workout. About halfway through, it dawned on me that I was training with one of the real elites in our business and was delighted at my great luck of having this opportunity. There was Nicki sweating next to me as she counted out reps, cued me on form and kept me going with her abundance of energy and humor. My muscles were trembling when we finished the creative cardio-strength circuit work.
The last time I was at Nicki's studio in 2007, it was in the middle of a remodel and frankly, it wasn't pretty; but at least it gave me perspective for my visit today. The result of the remodel is a bright, colorful, flowing space with many private rooms for her primarily female clientele. Nicki has discovered over the years that her clients thrive in this protective setting. By providing such an environment, Reality Fitness helps women achieve their goals and change their lives in a safe comfort zone.
- Nicki writes a weekly fitness column for a local newspaper. This week she chose to research and report on a local pole fitness enterprise that has opened in Naperville. A few hours after our morning workout, we drove over to Tease and Dance Fitness and were warmly welcomed by owner Kristin Hubbard. Kristin's philosophy for women is to "Be Confident; Be Sexy; Be Strong," and I definitely got the sense that she lives and breathes it. At first glance, her space appears to be the polar opposite of Nicki's. It's open, it's dark—it's sensuous with wafts of lilac and patchouli wafting through the candle-lit studio. There are 4 poles in the room forming a "circle" with an old antique chandelier softly illuminating the center and colorful, silky material forming an exotic "tent" overhead. But then it dawned on me that, beneath the surface, this space wasn't so unlike Nicki's afterall. It also is a "safe" environment for women. It was dark, comfortable and pretty. It was so unlike a regular fitness facility that I could see why so many women who otherwise would never set foot in a gym would feel unintimidated about being here.
Kristin put us through the dynamic warm-up and training portion of the class (about 45 minutes), which included Pilates variations, yoga and some strength and stretching work. Mostly, what it achieved for me was a way to connect with my body—to get in tune with it and appreciate all it does for me as an athlete and as a woman. It also helped put me at ease about what was to come next—maneuvering on the pole! It was fun. It was dizzying (figuratively and literally). It was damn hard! Talk about an athletic activity! Anyone who makes fun of this form of dance and gymnastics or thinks it's easy has never tried it. It somehow seems appropriate that I heard today that people are petitioning it for a slot in the Olympics. Why not!? Do you know what kind of strength it takes to shimmy up a pole gracefully and then flip yourself into a superman position sideways? That's all core, baby! Kristin's stunts were incredible, and she performed them all with the iron-fist-in-a-velvet-glove finesse that only a very strong, very flexible woman can pull off well. Although I'm bruised and a little sore, I vow to become a disciple of it when I get back to San Diego! The greatest thing about both experiences with Nicki and Kristin is the common thread of empowering women. Nicki's private rooms and no-nonsense approach give women the strength and confidence they need to move forward on the sometimes rocky road toward fitness, weight loss and, indeed, life. Kristin's approach puts women back in touch with their bodies and makes them connect to the very essence of being a woman. She works with everyone from beginners (including overweight and deconditioned) to advanced students. She told us she has watched women blossom under the dim lights of her studio and learn to love their bodies and themselves again. As I mentioned, it was a great way to spend the day. What a wonderfully diverse industry we work in! Have you had a similar experience? Does your studio do something unique to empower women? Share your thoughts with me in the comment box below.


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It's still Puzzle Time!
Paige's kindergarten lunch:
- bologna and cheese sandwich on multigrain, cut with a Lunch Punch
- homemade spicy cheese puzzle crackers
- organic grapes
- cucumber slices
- a few Annie's organic fruit snack bunnies in the tiny dip container
I used a couple of the sandwich cutters from the puzzle Lunch Punch set to shape the homemade crackers. Puzzle crackers are super fun. All the pieces can connect together and everything. :)
This lunch is packed in a Laptop Lunches box, with the large section the sandwich is in being from an add-on Laptop Lunches "bento buddies" set.
And because it is Autism "Something" Month, another great message from Amy:
"Talk to kids about autism! With about 2% of children currently being diagnosed, typical kids are likely to encounter peers with autism at some point.
Autistic people look like anyone else, but think and behave differently. Teaching kids that all brains work differently not only helps autistic people and the families gain acceptance, it helps typically developing kids become more at ease with many different kinds of people and with new ways of thinking, which will help them succeed too.
For some great tips on talking to kids about autism, check out 10 Things I Wish Your Kids Knew About Autism."
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Teacher resources and professional development across the curriculum
Teacher professional development and classroom resources across the curriculum
Choral Reading
"Choral reading," also referred to as "unison reading," simply means reading aloud as a group. Together, students speak or chant the words of a common text.
This method is particularly effective for teaching poetry, because reading aloud helps students understand the rhythm, meter, patterns, rhymes, and vocal characterizations of a poem. In addition, choral reading helps introduce students to the concept of oral tradition: They learn how poetry can be shaped by communities and passed on from generation to generation without being written down. (By listening to other students add their own inflections to a text, for instance, students are better able to understand how texts can be shaped cumulatively by continued retelling.)
To use choral reading most effectively, teachers should choose readings that are relatively short a poem of two to 10 pages is plenty. Also, teachers should look for a text that will put imaginations to work. "Railroad Bill, A Conjure Man," for example, is a dramatic multi-character poem with lots of repetition; it's almost like a song. Reading a poem like this aloud encourages students to think about the poem's structure and rhythm and it also encourages students to consider who is supposed to be speaking the lines and why. Teachers may also want to select narrative poems featuring a story with a good plot line and dynamic characters so that students have room to experiment with voices and sound effects. In that vein, teachers should look for texts with unusual sounds, contrasts, a strong mood, or snappy dialogue; all this makes for lively group reading.
In the classroom, teachers should ask students to read the entire selection silently before reading it aloud. This will give them time to become familiar with the content so that when they give their choral reading, they can focus solely on vocal interpretation.
Choral readings offer students a creative way to explore issues of voice, characterization, rhythm, and rhyme, along with the dialects and cadences of the texts. Choral reading can also help students to recognize how poetic structures, such as line breaks and internal rhymes, shape the poem's meaning. Finally, choral reading allows students to actually "feel" the work's aesthetic, putting them in touch with their creative selves and allowing them to interpret the work with their own aesthetic sensibilities.
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Block Obama!
The Obamas
It's Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided With the New Politics of Extremism
One of the sadder passages in Jodi Kantor's The Obamas relates what happened when, on February 13, only twenty-four days after taking office, "the Obamas turned around and went back to Chicago." The idea was to recapture a week- end of normalcy amid the chaos and strangeness of Washington, D.C. President Obama, Kantor says, hoped these getaways would be relatively frequent. His early ambition was to take his family home every four to six weeks.
But in Chicago the first family quickly learned that their house was no longer their home. The Secret Service had erected concrete barricades at both ends of the block. Black curtains were dropped to disrupt would-be snipers. Three bus stops were moved. Police officers stood outside on constant vigil. Pedestrians were rerouted. Neighbors had to clear their visitors with the president's security detail. The every-four-to-six-weeks plan was dead. "We live in the White House now," Michelle Obama said, perhaps with a touch of regret.
Obama's predecessors were arguably more prepared for the public responsibilities that come with the Oval Office. George W. Bush's father was president, and he was governor of Texas for almost six years before winning the White House. Bill Clinton was governor of Arkansas, with a brief interruption, for thirteen years. George H.W. Bush had been vice-president. Ronald Reagan had been governor of the largest state in the union and a famous actor. Barack Obama had been a well-known US senator for two years when he began running for president in earnest, and four years when he was inaugurated. His family wasn't used to the Secret Service or motorcades. "His still-unknown wife," Kantor writes,
bought her size-ten shoes on the Nordstrom sale rack, knew her way around a McDonald's drive-thru menu, and expressed little desire to live in Washington. Back then, they seemed like the rare political couple who were residents of our world, not a universe of green rooms, briefing books, and sycophantic handlers.
When Kantor's book was published, the White House reacted with unusual fury. Michelle Obama, in a rare public comment, told CBS This Morning that Kantor portrayed her as "some angry black woman." For the life of me, I can't figure out what about this book provoked such a harsh response. Kantor doesn't portray either of the Obamas as angry in the least. Rather, she portrays them as normal people trying to come to terms with a very abnormal situation.
Again and again, what comes through in Kantor's book is that the Obamas' marriage, and the Obama White House, works like most any other marriage, and most any other White House. The conventionality of their relationship is something they are proud of, and strive to sustain—some of the most grimly entertaining vignettes in the book come…
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- Core Enhancements
- Security
- Incompatible Changes
- Deprecations
- Performance Enhancements
- Modules and Pragmata
- Diagnostics
- Configuration and Compilation
- Platform Support
- Internal Changes
- Selected Bug Fixes
- Acknowledgements
- Reporting Bugs
perldelta - what is new for perl v5.15.5
This document describes differences between the 5.15.4 release and the 5.15.5 release.
If you are upgrading from an earlier release such as 5.15.3, first read perl5154delta, which describes differences between 5.15.3 and 5.15.4.
Core Enhancements
More consistent
eval operator sometimes treats a string argument as a sequence of characters and sometimes as a sequence of bytes, depending on the internal encoding. The internal encoding is not supposed to make any difference, but there is code that relies on this inconsistency.
use v5.15 and higher, the
unicode_eval and
evalbytes features resolve this. The
unicode_eval feature causes
eval $string to treat the string always as Unicode. The
evalbytes features provides a function, itself called
evalbytes, which evaluates its argument always as a string of bytes.
These features also fix oddities with source filters leaking to outer dynamic scopes.
See feature for more detail.
$[ is back
$[ variable is back again, but is now implemented as a module, so programs that do not mention it (i.e., most of them), will not incur any run-time penalty. In a later release in the 5.15 branch it might be disabled in the scope of
use v5.16.
The new implementation has some bug fixes. See arybase.
Privileges are now set correctly when assigning to
A hypothetical bug (probably non-exploitable in practice) due to the incorrect setting of the effective group ID while setting
$( has been fixed. The bug would only have affected systems that have
setresgid() but not
setregid(), but no such systems are known of.
Incompatible Changes
Certain deprecated Unicode properties are no longer supported by default
Perl should never have exposed certain Unicode properties that are used by Unicode internally and not meant to be publicly available. Use of these has generated deprecated warning messages since Perl 5.12. The removed properties are Other_Alphabetic, Other_Default_Ignorable_Code_Point, Other_Grapheme_Extend, Other_ID_Continue, Other_ID_Start, Other_Lowercase, Other_Math, and Other_Uppercase.
Perl may be recompiled to include any or all of them; instructions are given in "Unicode character properties that are NOT accepted by Perl" in perluniprops.
Dereferencing IO thingies as typeglobs
*{...} operator, when passed a reference to an IO thingy (as in
*{*STDIN{IO}}), creates a new typeglob containing just that IO object.
Previously, it would stringify as an empty string, but some operators would treat it as undefined, producing an "uninitialized" warning.
Having a typeglob appear as an empty string is a side effect of the implementation that has caused various bugs over the years.
The solution was to make it stringify like a normal anonymous typeglob, like those produced by
open($foo->{bar}, ...) [perl #96326].
Don't read the Unicode data base files in lib/unicore
It is now deprecated to directly read the Unicode data base files. These are stored in the lib/unicore directory. Instead, you should use the new functions in Unicode::UCD. These provide a stable API, and give complete information. (This API is, however, subject to change somewhat during the 5.15 development cycle, as we gain experience and get feedback from using it.)
Perl may at some point in the future change or remove the files. The file most likely for applications to have used is lib/unicore/ToDigit.pl. "prop_invmap()" in Unicode::UCD can be used to get at its data instead.
Performance Enhancements
Due to changes in File::Glob, Perl's
globfunction and its
<...>equivalent are now much faster. The splitting of the pattern into words has been rewritten in C, resulting in speed-ups of 20% in some cases.
This does not affect VMS, as it does not use File::Glob.
Modules and Pragmata
New Modules and Pragmata
arybase -- this new module implements the
Updated Modules and Pragmata
Archive::Extract has been upgraded from version 0.56 to version 0.58.
B::Concise has been upgraded from version 0.86 to version 0.87.
B::Deparse has been upgraded from version 1.08 to version 1.09.
It now correctly deparses
CORE::globand slices of empty lists.
CGI has been upgraded from version 3.55 to version 3.58.
Use public and documented FCGI.pm API in CGI::Fast CGI::Fast was using an FCGI API that was deprecated and removed from documentation more than ten years ago. Usage of this deprecated API with FCGI >= 0.70 or FCGI <= 0.73 introduces a security issue. https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=68380 http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2011-2766
charnames has been upgraded from version 1.23 to version 1.24.
Compress::Raw::Bzip2 has been upgraded from version 2.037 to version 2.042.
Compress::Raw::Zlib has been upgraded from version 2.037 to version 2.042.
Compress::Zlib has been upgraded from version 2.037 to version 2.042.
CPANPLUS has been upgraded from version 0.9111 to version 0.9112.
CPANPLUS::Dist::Build has been upgraded from version 0.58 to version 0.60.
Digest::SHA has been upgraded from version 5.62 to version 5.63.
Added code to allow very large data inputs all at once, which had previously been limited to several hundred megabytes at a time
Errno has been upgraded from version 1.14 to version 1.15.
Choosing an archname containing a @, $ or % character no longer results in unintended interpolation in Errno's architecture check.
ExtUtils::MakeMaker has been upgraded from version 6.61_01 to version 6.63_02.
feature has been upgraded from version 1.22 to version 1.23.
File::DosGlob has been upgraded from version 1.05 to version 1.06.
File::Glob has been upgraded from version 1.13 to version 1.14.
It has a new
:bsd_globexport tag, intended to replace
:glob. Like
:globit overrides
globwith a function that does not split the glob pattern into words, but, unlike
:glob, it iterates properly in scalar context, instead of returning the last file.
There are other changes affecting Perl's own
globoperator (which uses File::Glob internally, except on VMS). See "Performance Enhancements" and "Selected Bug Fixes".
HTTP::Tiny has been upgraded from version 0.013 to version 0.016.
Adds additional shorthand methods for all common HTTP verbs, a
post_form()method for POST-ing x-www-form-urlencoded data and a
www_form_urlencode()utility method.
Module::CoreList has been upgraded from version 2.57 to version 2.58.
Opcode has been upgraded from version 1.20 to version 1.21.
perlfaq has been upgraded from version 5.0150035 to version 5.0150036.
Socket as been upgraded from version 1.94_01 to 1.94_02.
It has new functions and constants for handling IPv6 sockets:
pack_ipv6_mreq unpack_ipv6_mreq IPV6_ADD_MEMBERSHIP IPV6_DROP_MEMBERSHIP IPV6_MTU IPV6_MTU_DISCOVER IPV6_MULTICAST_HOPS IPV6_MULTICAST_IF IPV6_MULTICAST_LOOP IPV6_UNICAST_HOPS IPV6_V6ONLY
Storable has been upgraded from version 2.32 to 2.33.
The ability to add a fake entry to %INC to prevent Log::Agent from loading has been restored. In version 2.27 (included with perl 5.14.0), Storable starting producing an error instead.
strict has been upgraded from version 1.04 to version 1.05.
Unicode::Collate has been upgraded from version 0.80 to version 0.85.
Locales updated to CLDR 2.0: mk, mt, nb, nn, ro, ru, sk, sr, sv, uk, zh__pinyin, zh__stroke Newly supported locales: bn, fa, ml, mr, or, pa, sa, si, si__dictionary, sr_Latn, sv__reformed, ta, te, th, ur, wae.
Unicode::UCD has been upgraded from version 0.36 to version 0.37.
This adds four new functions:
prop_aliases(), and
prop_value_aliases()which are used to find all the Unicode-approved synonyms for property names, or to convert from one name to another;
prop_invlistwhich returns all the code points matching a given Unicode binary property; and
prop_invmapwhich returns the complete specification of a given Unicode property.
UNIVERSAL has been upgraded from version 1.09 to version 1.10.
The following additions or changes have been made to diagnostic output, including warnings and fatal error messages. For the complete list of diagnostic messages, see perldiag.
New Diagnostics
New Errors
Source filters apply only to byte streams
This new error occurs when you try to activate a source filter (usually by loading a source filter module) within a string passed to
evalunder the
This previously removed error has been restored with the re-implementation of
$[as a module.
New Warnings
This new warning occurs when
lengthis used on an array or hash, instead of
scalar(keys %hash).
$[ used in %s (did you mean $] ?)
This new warning exists to catch the mistaken use of
$[in version checks.
$], not
$[, contains the version number.
$[in a numeric comparison is almost always wrong.
Use of assignment to $[ is deprecated
This previously removed warning has been restored with the re-implementation of
$[as a module.
Changes to Existing Diagnostics
The uninitialized warning for
$_is implicit and undefined now mentions the variable name, just like the non-/r variation of the operator.
The "Applying pattern match..." or similar warning produced when an array or hash is on the left-hand side of the
=~operator now mentions the name of the variable.
Configuration and Compilation
pod/buildtoc, used by the build process to build perltoc, has been refactored and simplified. It now only contains code to build perltoc; the code to regenerate Makefiles has been moved to Porting/pod_rules.pl. It's a bug if this change has any material effect on the build process.
Platform Support
Platform-Specific Notes
- GNU/Hurd
Numerous build and test failures on GNU/Hurd have been resolved with hints for building DBM modules, detection of the library search path, and enabling of large file support.
- OpenVOS
Perl is now built with dynamic linking on OpenVOS, the minimum supported version of which is now Release 17.1.0.
- SunOS
The CC workshop C++ compiler is now detected and used on systems that ship without cc.
Internal Changes
PL_curstashis now reference-counted.
Selected Bug Fixes
Perl now holds an extra reference count on the package that code is currently compiling in. This means that the following code no longer crashes [perl #101486]:
package Foo; BEGIN {*Foo:: = *Bar::} sub foo;
dumpvar.pl, and consequently the
xcommand in the debugger, have been fixed to handle objects blessed into classes whose names contain "=". The contents of such objects used not to be dumped [perl #101814].
xrepetition operator no longer crashes on 64-bit builds with large repeat counts [perl #94560].
A fix to
globunder miniperl (used to configure modules when perl itself is built) in Perl 5.15.3 stopped
<~>from returning the home directory, because it cleared %ENV before calling csh. Now
$ENV{HOME}is preserved. This fix probably does not affect anything. If File::Glob fails to load for some reason, Perl reverts to using csh. So it would apply in that case.
On OSes other than VMS, Perl's
globoperator (and the
<...>form) use File::Glob underneath. File::Glob splits the pattern into words, before feeding each word to its
There were several inconsistencies in the way the split was done. Now quotation marks (' and ") are always treated as shell-style word delimiters (that allow whitespace as part of a word) and backslashes are always preserved, unless they exist to escape quotation marks. Before, those would only sometimes be the case, depending on whether the pattern contained whitespace. Also, escaped whitespace at the end of the pattern is no longer stripped [perl #40470].
CORE::globnow works as a way to call the default globbing function. It used to respect overrides, despite the
In 5.14,
/[[:upper:]]/ino longer matched the opposite case. This has been fixed [perl #101970].
A regular expression match with an overloaded object on the right-hand side would in some cases stringify the object too many times.
The C-level
pregcompfunction could become confused as to whether the pattern was in UTF8 if the pattern was an overloaded, tied, or otherwise magical scalar [perl #101940].
A regression has been fixed that was introduced in 5.14, in
/iregular expression matching, in which a match improperly fails if the pattern is in UTF-8, the target string is not, and a Latin-1 character precedes a character in the string that should match the pattern. [perl #101710]
@{"..."} = reverse ...started crashing in 5.15.3. This has been fixed.
refin a tainted expression started producing an "sv_upgrade" error in 5.15.4. This has been fixed.
Weak references to lexical hashes going out of scope were not going stale (becoming undefined), but continued to point to the hash.
Weak references to lexical variables going out of scope are now broken before any magical methods (e.g., DESTROY on a tie object) are called. This prevents such methods from modifying the variable that will be seen the next time the scope is entered.
keysoptimisation in Perl 5.12.0 to make it faster on empty hashes caused
eachnot to reset the iterator if called after the last element was deleted. This has been fixed.
#line 42 foodirective used not to update the arrays of lines used by the debugger if it occurred in a string eval. This was partially fixed in 5.14, but it only worked for a single
#line 42 fooin each eval. Now it works for multiple.
String eval used not to localise
%^Hwhen compiling its argument if it was empty at the time the
evalcall itself was compiled. This could lead to scary side effects, like
use re "/m"enabling other flags that the surrounding code was trying to enable for its caller [perl #68750].
Creating a BEGIN block from XS code (via
newATTRSUB) would, on completion, make the hints of the current compiling code the current hints. This could cause warnings to occur in a non-warning scope.
eval $stringand
requireno longer localise hints (
%^H) at run time, but only during compilation of the $string or required file. This makes
BEGIN { $^H{foo}=7 }equivalent to
BEGIN { eval '$^H{foo}=7' }[perl #70151].
When subroutine calls are intercepted by the debugger, the name of the subroutine or a reference to it is stored in
$DB::sub, for the debugger to access. In some cases (such as
$foo = *bar; undef *bar; &$foo)
$DB::subwould be set to a name that could not be used to find the subroutine, and so the debugger's attempt to call it would fail. Now the check to see whether a reference is needed is more robust, so those problems should not happen anymore [rt.cpan.org #69862].
Localising a tied scalar that returns a typeglob no longer stops it from being tied till the end of the scope.
openis called with three arguments, the third being a file handle (as in
open $fh, ">&", $fh2), if the third argument is tied or a reference to a tied variable, FETCH is now called exactly once, instead of 0, 2, or 3 times (all of which could occur in various circumstances).
sortno longer ignores FETCH when passed a reference to a tied glob for the comparison routine.
Warnings emitted by
sortwhen a custom comparison routine returns a non-numeric value now show the line number of the
sortoperator, rather than the last line of the comparison routine. The warnings also occur now only if warnings are enabled in the scope where
sortoccurs. Previously the warnings would occur if enabled in the comparison routine's scope.
Internals::SvREFCNTnow behaves consistently in 'get' and 'set' scenarios [perl #103222] and also treats the reference count as unsigned.
requireon an implicit
*CORE::GLOBAL::requirehas been overridden does not segfault anymore, and
$_is now passed to the overriding subroutine [perl #78260].
Perl 5.15.5 represents approximately 1 month of development since Perl 5.15.4 and contains approximately 28,000 lines of changes across 440 files from 29 authors.
Perl continues to flourish into its third decade thanks to a vibrant community of users and developers. The following people are known to have contributed the improvements that became Perl 5.15.5:
Brian Fraser, Chris 'BinGOs' Williams, chromatic, Craig A. Berry, David Golden, Father Chrysostomos, Florian Ragwitz, H.Merijn Brand, Jilles Tjoelker, Jim Meyering, Karl Williamson, Laurent Dami, Leon Timmermans, Mark A. Stratman, Matthew Horsfall, Michael G Schwern, Moritz Lenz, Nicholas Clark, Paul Evans, Paul Green, Paul Johnson, Perlover, Pino Toscano, Reini Urban, Steve Hay, Tom Christiansen, Tony Cook, Vincent Pit, Zefram.
The list above is almost certainly incomplete as it is automatically generated from version control history. In particular, it does not include the names of the (very much appreciated) contributors who reported issues to the Perl bug tracker.
Many of the changes included in this version originated in the CPAN modules included in Perl's core. We're grateful to the entire CPAN community for helping Perl to flourish.
For a more complete list of all of Perl's historical contributors, please see the AUTHORS file in the Perl source distribution.
Reporting Bugs
If you find what you think is a bug, you might check the articles recently posted to the comp.lang.perl.misc newsgroup and the perl bug database at http://rt.perl.org/perlbug/ . There may also be information at http://www.perl.org/ , the Perl Home Page.
If you believe you have an unreported bug, please run the perlbug program included with your release. Be sure to trim your bug down to a tiny but sufficient test case. Your bug report, along with the output of
perl -V, will be sent off to firstname.lastname@example.com to be analysed by the Perl porting team.
If the bug you are reporting has security implications, which make it inappropriate to send to a publicly archived mailing list, then please send it to firstname.lastname@example.com. This points to a closed subscription unarchived mailing list, which includes all the core committers, who will be able to help assess the impact of issues, figure out a resolution, and help co-ordinate the release of patches to mitigate or fix the problem across all platforms on which Perl is supported. Please only use this address for security issues in the Perl core, not for modules independently distributed on CPAN.
The Changes file for an explanation of how to view exhaustive details on what changed.
The INSTALL file for how to build Perl.
The README file for general stuff.
The Artistic and Copying files for copyright information.


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