Press Personal computers and physical fitness may not seem to have much in common, but users of a new program will huff and puff their way through a series of vigorous exercises. Aerobics, the name of the program which comes on a floppy disk, is intended to offer home computer owners a new way to become fit. In this electronic workout, the exerciser imitates the actions of a woman on the video sereen to the beat of music that issues from the computer's tiny speaker. The program is a product of Spinnaker Software Corp. of Cambridge, Mass., and sells in Canada for $59. The package calls it “a complete computer fitness program” for both out-of-shape and already fit people, and says that if used regularly, “after six to eight weeks you should be able to see results.” FIGURE BLURRY But users may become discouraged by trying to follow the actions of a small, blurry figure in the middle of their computer screen. The screen also shows a brief verbal description of each exercise, but because of the crude animation this sometimes doesn't match the picture. One exercise says “circle head smoothly,” but the program designers apparently couldn't get the computer demonstrator to do that. Instead, the figure does the movement in four jerky steps. However, the Aerobics program does offer some advantages. You can do your exercises when it suits you, rather than working out at the time of a program on television or in a gym. The computer also offers the user 18 exercise routines of varying difficulty, ranging from 25 minutes to 90 minutes long. Each routine begins with a warm-up sequence of easy movements to stretch muscles and ends with a cool-down section to relax gradually. Some routines focus on shaping up particular parts of the body, such as the hips, arms and waist. The instruction booklet also gives some common sense advice: “If you are doing an exercise and it hurts, stop.” Users are told to consult their doctors before trying the program. CONTROL ATHLETES After performing your exercises, you can sit back and watch some physical activity of a different sort with Summer Games, a $52.50 entertainment program from Epyx Inc. of Sunnyvale, Calif. The player controls the animated movements of athletes in events such as pole vault, diving and gymnas- ties, and scores points according to how well he performs. The creators of Summer Games have accomplished a considerable feat in realistic graphics. With the controls on a joystick — and a lot of dexterity — the player can manoeuvre a vaulting gymnast through an impressive display For example, the variations in the vault include slow or fast, with a sideways twist or without, high or low, tuck or layout position, from one to three spins, and you can even correct a stumble on the landing. However, some players may wish the figures looked a little less like the real thing. Computer enthusiasts generally like to see graphics that somehow transcend reality instead of merely mimicking it, and the actions of these too-realistic-looking athletes won't satisfy that desire. The program's creators might also have done well to tone down the florid prose found in the instruction booklet. It describes the program as “the supreme test of grace and precision” and invites users to “experience the power, the glory, the thrill and the challenge of the world’s greatest athletic competition.” British game comes to Canada By BARBARA GUNN VANCOUVER (CP) Welsh artist and game creator Brian Taylor has been described as scruffy, obstreperous and endlessly digressive, a man whose fisherman's sweater looks “as if it had done double-duty as a gill net in the North Sea.” The journalists might not have been kind, but they haven't been far off base. Taylor, the 48-year-old coinventor of a board game called Kensington, lives up to his billing. He has a squat, pot-bellied frame and his hair could use a gardener Taylor was in Vancouver to promote his game, which has recently been introduced in Canada. Among its enthusi astic fans are said to be actor Peter Ustinov, Sir Freddie Laker, musician Yehudi Menuhin, even the Queen. About three-million sets of the game have been sold and when it was released in 1981 it was named Britain's best game of the year All of this apparently strikes Taylor as somewhat of a joke , Taylor and Kensington co-creator Peter Forbes met several years ago at an airport ticket counter. Taylor was making a loud complaint because the pocket of his only suit had been ripped by an airplane ashtray. “Iwas getting very wild and angry and excited and this young man came over and said ‘I like your style. ~ Both Taylor and Forbes were out of work — in fact, says Taylor, neither had ever been employed before — and took to meeting in pubs and on park benches. DISCOVERED BOOK One day, while browsing through a London flea market, they came upon a book of ancient Islamic patterns. One pattern eonsisted of several hexagonal shapes with connecting lines and triangles. “We assumed it would make a very nice curtain or something.” recalls Taylor More than a year later, the pair had concocted a game — using the Islamic pattern as the board design — in which the aim is to capture all six points of a hexagon. Like winning a lottery, it's easier to imagine than aecomplish. tall, As the Soviet Union has expanded its role in inter national affairs, English has become the necessary pass- port for those who hope for a career offering the rare prize of foreign travel and jobs abroad. Education Minister Mik- hail Prokofiev has said 51 per cent of Soviet students study English, 37 per cent take German and 11 per cent French. Partly as a result of such ing, the | of — has become part of the in- struction program. Songs by the Beatles, he said, can be used to illustrate Certified General Accountant 270 Columbia Ave. Castlegar Ph. 365-2151 Pushkin and Dostoyevsky is becoming peppered with Russified English words. Officials striving to boost “ditsiplin” at the workplace, for example, urge “spetsial- isti” and “organizatori” to improve the “effektivnost” of economic “metodi.” Moscow teenagers, dress. ed in denim “dzhinzi,” are bank together in “klani’ “fani” at soccer or hockey matches. These are some examples of how English is being ab- sorbed into the Russian lan. guage, with the “i” ending signifying the plural Young Soviets who learn English are often avid fans of western rock music and ap- pear eager to practise the phrases they know when they meet Britons or Ameri- cans. Education is compulsory for 10 years and students are required to take a foreign language for seven years. Those admitted to special schools for English undergo more intense training. Such schools can lead to aceep- tance in prestigious foreign language institutes. At Moscow's Special School No. 45, for instance, pupils start English at age eight in their second school year with three hours a ik. Alexander Sakharovich, deputy director of the school, said in an interview that in Martin teaches manners MEMPHIS, TENN. 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