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IEEiiiiiEE% He resents study inference is "not fooled" by the facts as presented in a summary report prepared by the staff of the Waterloo County Board of Education. It is unfortunate that the Beechwood Ad Hoc Committee on Hydro Line Safety As the independent consultant hired by the board to monitor readings taken by Ontario Hydro, I resent the inference of Ms. Judy Hayes that the outcome of the measurements was in any way slanted to yield the "desired" outcome. She and her cohorts may not have obtained the results they wanted, that is often the case in science, but there is no While working the tit-s held, with nyexerciatogdueonadailybasisJ 'btttttue-dtohavetodonetyrormat exercise at home. However. after moving and leaving the tttg-trt; business (at least on a lull-time basis) the dilemma of when, bow, and where to do a routine quickly come up. Just before moving, my husband tried to solve the problem by buying a pair of weights at "too good a value to pass up." "Great", I'm sure I said. "PII lust be able to hoist those Ill-pound weights all over the place!" Speaking as a person who had only done weight work on a universal or using five-pound free weights, I was of course being facetious. "No, those weights are Just perfect, you’ll grow into them," said my husband, the week-end athlete. For a few weeks the weights sat in a corner and our laborious job of renovat- ing our new old home had begun. The tearing apart, lugging away, hammer- Ing, painting etc. went well with few sore muscles and injuries. I knew, however, that it could go better. It didn't take long for me to appreciate the weight of the weights. Wanting to increase the strength of my arms, back, chest and upper body I decided to do battle with the weights and get stronger. It wasn't long until the battle became desire. Almost feebly at the beginning I set a goal of three sets of 10 repetitions of the infamous bicep curls. By the end of the first set my arms were shaking and my bones were groaning. It wasn't going to be easy. I was serious about increasing my strength and venting a little frustration, particularly on the hard labor days, so I persisted. Amazingly the weights got feedback "It looks too simple. It looks more like a warehouse than the city's centre." Doug Buchanan "Waterloo y q ' bc, l ' my ' “I Ek : " " . * . . it _ , [rrrtcl, I , ( ' 9;, il' V T _ .t ’ 2ll ‘ J l " F 'MPN, 1 - ', . , t ‘1 t lighter each tirne l picked to. up and my whole W body now moves more freely and easily. Here's my routine I triedtodoeverydayoratleastevery other day: (All movements were performed as three sets of " repetitions) l. Bicep curls - (Remember if you haven't used weights before start with a fivepoond weight and increase from there. and don't be afraid to increase - He Man you won‘t become). Stand in front of a mirror to watch your form. Feet apart, knees slightly bent, curve of your back straightened or tilted for- ward, tuck one elbow into the side of your stomach. Holding the elbow there raise the hand with the wrist tight until the weight touches your upper chest. Lower slowly with full control. Don't break the wrist to try to get more umpff. Don't baby the weaker arm. 3. Elbows bent above your head, both hands holding one weight, lower your hands down behind your head, keeping your elbows close to your head. Full control or you may bash your spine. (Difficult) 2. Holding one weight with both hands in the middle, maintain your position, as described above, and push the weight away from your chest, keeping a straight line from the chest out. 5. Lie on the floor with hands above your head, a weight in each hand. Raise arms alternately until the weight is above the chest and return to start. For a more advanced lift, pull both arms up at the same time. You‘ll notice immedi- ately which arm is the weaker. 4. Lie on the floor with a weight in each hand, arms out to the sides. Slowly raise the weights until they meet in the middle then return to start. The detailed report from Ontario Hydro, along with my commentary, should be available in the near future. I will not attempt, in this space, to answer Ms. Hayes' criticisms. It is not worth the effort. David Nobes University of Waterloo escaping the fact that the magnetic field in a classroom at Mary Johnston public school is essentially the same as in a comparable classroom at Empire public school. It was never our intention to confirm or deny the possibility that health effects exist. If, however, health effects due to electromagnetic fields do exist, then they exist in approximately equal mea- sure at Mary Johnston public school, Empire school and in our homes. "I think it's simple and airy. It's not too high and doesn't clash with ' the other buildings around it." Gamal Elfeki Waterloo What do you think of the design of the new Waterloo City Centre? MnrMatMeAtt0isqreetuteA-d hallo. methanol-I Aigareehad [and the ma cl ms at the ehtMre-tieiaHyistthe-tattts. Sheser-datthemtottett- tgertFsssed,tereometottee"fast,tottet 'oHyfbrsehooi,nndcatehtheoehool btas.rtwnsatreeasemrdtmhtdqttieated in thousands, perhaps millions, " homes every morning. But it left my friend, John, his wife, and, the children pretty badly shaken every morning, with nerves jangling and a great desire to get as far away from that house as possible in the shortest possible time. Each morning. John iound himself heaving a sigh of relief as he left the wild confusion and noise of his home for the relative quiet of the drive to the office. A group of 224 people participated in the seventh annual 1trkilometre Terry Fox Run at University of Waterloo Sun- day. Although the numbers were down from 1986, participants managed to raise $11,000 this year, slightly more than the 810,000 raised by 315 partici- pants last year. On one such drive, he began to think of ways in which this situation could be changed. It was absurd to think that every member of the family had to start the day with an unhappy scene of shouting confusion and he suddenly got an idea that he felt might work. The next morning, unknown to his wife, he hid a tape recorder and microphone in the kitchen, with the volume turned up. All through the frenetic tableau of shouting and impre- cations, the silent machine recorded every word. Then, when the children had left and his wife was sitting [imply in her chair with a cup of coffee, getting her breath back from her morning drill-master duties, John played the tape back to her. For a few moments, his wife looked at him in curious amazement. Then, she suddenly realized that the strident, shouting, barking, unhappy voice was her own. For the first time, she heard herself as she sounded each morning to her husband and children. “I think it looks very up-to-date. They should have had it long 'e you) M) I Med at an ”magnum-wan:- The run,' of course, is in memory of Totals encouraging for Terry Fox Run 'ttuT%RuttttM$BttMt".-t-0ttPN-rtttt0.r-rtAdM, Ralph Zurbrlgg Waterloo Gunny Polo's, “I think it's a little plain There's not enough detail on it It's too square." the courageous British Columbia native who travelled 4,800 kilometres from Newfoundland to Thunder Bay, where he was forced to stop and his Marathon of Hope ended. Cancer claimed his life on June 29, 1981. one month before his 23rd birthday. m-taatheorftal-detheroqm maul- f'ltee'tAtt,',ttteltgI Itedtteett-r,ahehadtmtker 'tatherarmsandwaaerrtrsekertteart He was running across Canada at the time to . raise money for cancer re- search. John tuned of! the tape recorder and 'txathlsamt-dher.Wtteatsheraiaod her face to look at him It was ttthed with molve and she said quietly. “John. 1'tl never make another sound like that u long as I live." The next morning, the neighbors must have thought this family had left town. The children were ttumtrtounded, but delighted. Their mother was smiling hamily, she spoke to them in normal Everything went off like clockwork and when the children, still dazed by the smiling stranger who looked like their mother, had left for school. John and his wife sat smiling over their coffee. He told me she said, "John, that was a dirty trick you played on me, but I'm very glad you did." I think you will agree that this was a pretty drastic cure. It's not everyone that can take such shock treatment, but, fortunately she was big enough to face herself and benefit from it. But it's a good idea to realize, from time to time, how we must look and sound to others. The great majority of us haven't the faintest idea of the image we project for the world to see. (Mr. Fellows operates the Human Re, source Development Institute. PO. Box 642, Cambridge, NlR 5W1, providing effectiveness training to business and industry.) l guess we could all benefit from more feedback. The trouble is that we usually resent hearing hometruths from other people. Stephen Cole Kitchener