Fencing ace jamie can stake claim Top Class fencers from all over the world are set to descend on Aberdeen this weekend.

Top Class fencers from all over the world are set to descend onAberdeen this weekend.

The city will host the second Sparrows Offshore Doric Fencing Openon Saturday and Sunday.

The event, which will take place at Aberdeen University's ButchartSports Centre, follows on from the successful inaugural competitionlast year.

Doric Fencing Open chairman Euan Michie said: "I'm delighted withthe continuing success of the competition."

The tournament will attract competitors from Holland, Germany,Canada and the UK - as well as Nigeria.

Aberdeen's …

Excercise Prescription for the High-Risk Cardiac Patient

Exercise Prescription for the High-Risk Cardiac Patient. Squires, RW. Champaign, IL, Human Kinetics, 1998, hardcover, 205 pp, illus, $32.00.

This book is comprehensive in discussing exercise concepts in a difficult but increasingly common high-risk population group entering cardiac rehabilitation programs. This group involves those with myocardial ischemia and left ventricular dysfunction. The author's intended audience was exercise physiologists, physicians, physical therapists, occupational therapists, and nurses practicing in the field of cardiac rehabilitation.

The book is organized into 5 chapters, each including tables, figures, and graphs to further illustrate the …

Olympic champs Nadal, Dementieva win at US Open

Olympic champions Rafael Nadal and Elena Dementieva showed their mettle at the U.S. Open, overcoming early challenges to win Monday in the start of what's expected to be a wide-open tournament.

Former champs Lindsay Davenport and Svetlana Kuznetsova also opened with straight-sets victories. Many of the stars like to hurry through the first round _ it takes seven wins for the title, and any rest is welcome.

Playing for the first time as the top-ranked player on the ATP tour, Nadal swatted his very first shot wide against No. 136 Bjorn Phau. The Wimbledon and French Open champ was two points from dropping the first set when he surged and, despite needing to …

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When paving, learn how to walk the walk

A walkway isn't something you think about every day when you stepout to get the paper.

Unless you don't have one.

Take my brother Bruce and his wife, Stephanie. After their homewas built last August they focused on the interior. Now they'reconcentrating on the outside.

The project: a front walk. The dilemma: hire a contractor, ordo it yourself?

After getting estimates in the $1,000 to $1,200 range theydecided to take the DIY challenge.

"The how-to directions were pretty straightforward and wefigured with a little help we could do it for a lot less money,"Bruce said. "Plus I liked the idea of building something myself."

They took …

UK tabloid editors describe lax standards

LONDON (AP) — A former tabloid newspaper editor told Britain's media ethics inquiry Thursday that he published an inflammatory story about the parents of a missing girl because he thought there was a possibility the story could be true.

The unfounded Daily Express story suggested that Kate and Gerry McCann, the parents of missing schoolgirl Madeleine McCann, might have been linked to her 2007 abduction and possible death.

The Daily Express newspaper had to make a front-page apology and pay a substantial settlement to the parents, but former chief editor Peter Hill seemed unrepentant when quizzed about the decision to publish.

"I felt the stories should be published …

Pondexter leads Liberty to 77-68 win over Sun

Liberty guard Cappie Pondexter scored 19 points and New York rallied to beat the Connecticut Sun 77-68 Sunday.

The Liberty trailed by 16 in the first half and looked as if they were going to be run off their home court. But New York turned held Connecticut to 22 second-half points to take control.

New York's Nicole Powell had 14 points and 10 rebounds, and Taj McWilliams-Franklin added 10 points for the Liberty's second …