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Vol. XXXIII—No. 11 Published by Bethel College and Seminary, St. Paul, Minn. Tuesday, February 7, 1956
Year's First Formal Friday
Founders Wk
Theme Told
"The word of God in the life
of man" is the theme for the
1956 Founders Week Programs,
which will begin February 13
and last through February 17.
Of the 500-600 people ex-pected
to register, 70 will be
housed in the recreation room of
the Edgren residence, and
others in private homes, mo-tels,
or hotels. Meals will be
secured on the campus or in
nearby restaurants.
The Annual Founders Week
Banquet on Monday, February 13,
at 6:30 p.m. in the fieldhouse, will
open the week of meetings. Bethel
students will be admitted on their
meal tickets. The price for guests
and off-campus students is $1.75.
The speaker of the evening will be
Dr. Henry Wingblade.
Special speakers during the
week will be Charles Hatfield,
Ph.D., Stuart Hackett, Ph.D., Cur-tis
Akenson, D.D., Reuben Holm,
Bernard Ramm, Ph.D., and Wil-bert
Norton, Th.M.
Faculty members will present a
series of special lectures at three
o'clock each afternoon dealing with
the theme of the week in special-ized
areas. These lectures will be
broadcast over Minneapolis radio
station KTIS.
A nursery will be provided dur-ing
these hours for the convenience
of parents with small children.
9:00-12:15 a.m.
1:30 - 5.00 p.m.
7:30 - 9:30 p.m.
The band will play the prelude
and offertory to the Wednesday
evening meeting.
PMA Elects
The Pre-ministerial Associa-tion
elected officers at their
meeting January 30 at 8:00 p.m.
in Room 33 of the eminary.
They are : President, Ed Whit-ford;
Vice President, Bill Mac-
Kinney ; Secretary - Treasurer,
Virgel Collins. The thirty mem-bers
present also elected a fac-ulty
advisor, Dr. Virgil Olson.
Dr. Clifford Larson suggested
courses for college students who
plan to attend seminary. He also
answered questions asked by the
The executive committee is
working on future programs and
gaining formal recognition by the
Student Senate.
The next meeting will be Febru-ary
20 at 8:00 p.m. in room 33
of the Seminary.
Above: Olivet Baptist church in north Minneapolis, where the "Coffee Cantata" will be presented
is the Twin Cities' newest Conference church building.
Below: Miss Bisgrove directs a practice session for the "Coffee Cantata." Singers are (left to right)
Roy Walters, Gordon McCrostie, Phil Caldeen, Vern Needham, Dave Seaquist, Coreen Berry, Sandra
Myrberg, Georgia Schultz, Hope Seffens, and Marilyn Hagstrom.
Photo by Bob Carlson
Senate Approves New Editors
Meeting at President Lundquist's home last Friday evening, the Student Senate handled business that
included the library noise problem and the appointment of the editors of both Clarion and Spire.
The library discipline committee was renamed because the name at present is misleading. It will con-tinue
as the library investigating committee to work in cooperation with faculty and administration on this
matter. Tentative action includes a combined chapel, perhaps a panel discussion reviewing the library behav-ior
and attitudes as a part of the whole concept of Christian living.
Other items of business were the appointments of the editors for the next year's CLARION and Spire.
Marie Magnuson and Allan Stahnke were chosen as co-editors of the CLARION; Carol Martinson and Viv-ian
Weekley will co-head the '57 Spire. In addition, Paul Schlueter was reappointed CLARION business
manager, and Jim Hansen was named business manager of the Spire.
The student activities bulletins will not be placed in the mail boxes hereafter. Instead, these bulletins will
be posted at prominent places about the campus.
The Senate was served a light lunch.
Emcee To Be
John Woods
Bethel's first formal affair for
this school year will be the Val-entine
semi-formal to be held at
Olivet Baptist church at 9:00
p.m. on February 10. Tickets
for $1.00 per ticket have been
sold and a corsage is included
at this price.
John Woods will be acting as
master of ceremonies. The feature
event of the program is the "Cof-fee
Cantata." The "Coffee Can-tata"
is the story of a father who
wouldn't permit his daughter to
drink coffee because dring coffee
was definitely frowned upon in
that day.
The leads in the contata are
played by Ron Eckert, Marilyn
Hagstrom, and Bill MacKinney. A
chorus consisting of Hope Seffens,
Georgia Schultz, Sandra Myrberg,
Correen Berry, Dave Seaquist,
Vern Needham, Chuck Paton, Gor-don
McRostie, and Roy Walters
also helps make up the cast of the
contata. Carol Martinson accom-panies
the cast at the piano.
The different committees which
are working on the Valentine
semi-formal are the following:
Phil Caldeen, Bonnie Carlson, Bill
Browning, Carolyn Dahlquist, Pat
Rodgers, Howie Rekstad, Harold
Richardson, Dick Swanson, Hope
Seffens, Lynn Weaver, Jo Ann
Holland, Georgia Schultz, and Bev-erly
Bowman. These students make
up the social council along with
several ohers who are helping too.
The various committees have the
responsibilities of taking care of
finances and advertising, planning
the refreshments, making arrange-ments
for the program, and doing
the decorating for the affair.
Heart Sis Week
Now At Bodien
To celebrate Valentines Day
in a special way, the girls in
Bodien residence are carrying
out a Heart Sis
plan. Names will be drawn some-time
during the week before
Valentines Day, and every day
from then until the 14th each
girl must do some special deed
for the girl whose name she has
drawn — such as making her
bed, polishing her shoes, putting
a package of gum or a pencil
in her mailbox—without letting
the girl know who her Heart
Sis is. Each day she must also
leave a little poem or some other
hint that will help her to guess
the identity of her "Heart Sis."
The affair will be climaxed by
a "get-acquainted" party follow-ing
the dorm Bible study Tuesday
night, at which each girl will re-ceive
a small gift from her "Heart
Sis" and find out who she is.
Peace Be Still
One of the matters considered at Friday's Student Senate
meeting was the problem of our noisy library. There are many
"trouble areas" which create plenty of noise. To name some of
these are the stairs to the outside and stairs up to the conference
rooms, the magazine and newspaper racks, and even the pencil
sharpeners. These "things" can be taken care of.
Another source of noise comes from people. People can be
taken care of, but why should grown up persons act and be treated
as grade schoolers?
There are many students who come to the library to study. In
fact the number of studious students is much larger than you
would think. "One rotten apple . . ."
Also another mistaken idea we have is that the library is a
place to meet. Believe it or not, the student lounge is still unused
and far more atmospheric than the library. (By the way, I am ot
chief sinner in this matter : red face now in order.)
Take away the "trouble areas," the immature show-offs and
the social butterflies, and the Bethel library will be well started
on its program for peace and quiet.
A Campaign Campaign
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Sophomore Bee
Held Last Week
The student lonnge hummed
Monday, January 30, for two hours
as the sophomore class held an
alumni bulletin mixing bee. Gor-die
Olson has been printing the
newest version of the alumni bul-letin
but this was but the begin-ning.
All the pages had to be as-sembled
into book form. The task
was large and required manpower.
It was then that Dr. Bob Smith,
adviser for the sophomore class,
suggested that the class have a
From about seven to nine as
many as twenty students (not
necessarily sophs) combined ef-forts
to reduce the mountain of
sheets to piles of books to be
Jim Hansen assumed the res-ponsibility
of setting up the ma-terial
for the workers. Dr. Bob
also spent a while working along
with the group. After the bee the
workers were treated to a lunch
supplied by the school. 1
In the last issue of the CLAR-ION,
a letter to the editor signed
"footsore," asked if it would not
be possible to flood the tennis
courts for a skating rink. The
need for a skating rink on cam-pus
is perhaps warranted, but
however, the administration in
looking into this need and check-ing
with other colleges has found
that the ice is destructive to the
tennis court surface. As the water
seeps into the surface cracks, the
black-top begins to swell and
The original intention this fall
had been to flood the landscaped
area just north of the tennis
courts. However, since this area
was just newly sodded, the ice
would be equally as damaging to
the new grass.
This area definitely will be
flooded next year when the sod
will be much stronger.
Missionary Theme
At Student Wives
"Missionary housekeeping" was
the theme of the student wives
meeting which met February 6,
at the home of Mrs. Carl Lund-quist,
1600 Asbury street.
The program consisted of
three speakers : Mrs. Franklin
Nelson spoke on China, Mrs.
Willis Adams spoke on Japan,
and Mrs. Rueben Holmes spoke
on Assam.
An offering was taken for
the youth center which Anna
Marie Oesterle, a former Bethel
student has started in Germany.
Pictures of Europe
At BWA Thursday
February 9 at 3 :00 p.m. the
B.W.A. will meet in the dining
hall. After refreshments every-one
will go to the Bodien lounge.
Mrs. Carl Lundquist will show
movies that were taken on their
trip to Europe this summer.
Special music will be a clarinet
duet by Jo Ann Holland and
Alice Barnes.
tie Edetot
•Later Hours?
Dear editor,
Would it be possible to have the
library open on Saturdays until
5:00 or 6:00 p.m.?
We would appreciate your bring-ing
this matter before the Student
Senate and student body.
Six interested students: Lillian
Boyer, Marion Reimer, Francine
French, Barbara Jorgenson, Ray
Geiger, and Rollo Entz.
Ed. note: Glad to oblige.
•A"News" paper
Dear editor,
I just finished reading the Clar-ion
and am pleased, very pleased,
with its improvement over the last
few issues. The CLARION is our
(the students) school paper and
should be appealing to us, first of
all. I appreciate the intended help
and the work put into some of the
recent long write-ups, but as for
me, I prefer more news of and
about Bethelites. We get plenty of
reading material that is brain tax-ing
and time consuming — let's
have a school paper we can sit
down to enjoy. A big thanks to
those of you who work with what
"guzinta" on our paper.
Not-Quite Satisfied Fan
Never Had It
So Good
Dear editor,
No six-day old ever had it so
good as did Nils Soren at the
dormitory reception.
His parents want to thank the
residents for him and themselves.
M. and W. P.
9,01.14 Peeade 72ote
CHAMBLEE, GA.—(ACP)—The
Technician, published by students
at the Southern Technical Insti-tute,
recently took a scientific
view of the female of the species.
It yrinted this description of a
woman as seen through the eyes
of a chemist:
120 lbs.
Boils at nothing and freezes at
any minute; melts when properly
treated; very bitter if not well
OCCURRENCE: Found where
ever man exists.
CHEMICAL PROPERTIES: Pos-sesses
great affinity for gold,
silver, platinum and precious
stones. Violent reaction if left
alone. Able to absorb great amount
of food matter. Turns green when
placed beside a better-looking spe-cimen.
USES: Highly ornamental; use-ful
as a tonic in acceleration of
low spirits, and an equalizer of
the distribution of wealth. Is prob-ably
tzhe most effective income-reducing
agent known.
CAUTION: Highly explosive in
inexperienced hands.
Now is the time for every good
man to think seriously about the
Student Senate president for next
year. Too early ? Not so. This
quarter is really in a dying state
and Senate elections, as I under-stand
it, will be held sometime be-fore
the middle of spring quarter.
Elections at Bethel have been
little more than popularity con-tests,
to use a familiar phrase.
Often the candidates running have
not even been those most quali-fied
for the job. Finally campus
voting interest for the most part
has been fair but far from what it
should be and typically the loud-est
"chewers" were the ones who
"didn't bother to vote."
Al Glenn at the last Senate
meeting proposed that students
should be given the chance to
show their interest. Regular pro-cedures
of nominating a candidate
by petition or an organization and
backing a candidate can start the
campaign by persons who are not
only interested but able.
The student presidents in the
past have been very qualified hard-working
persons. However, this
may be sheer grace and there
could be a bad mistake same day
—it's just a thought.
Well Rounded Curriculux
by Avonne Papineau
A well-rounded curriculum is the aim of every college for its stu-dents.
Having been here only a little over one month although, I am a
freshman, I feel I can speak with the voice of authority. The way I see
it this well-rounded curriculum is absolutely impossible to fit into a
student's schedule if the student plans to study.
For one thing it is advocated all work and no play makes Jack
a dull boy. I grant you this is true; however, it is also stated all play
and no work makes Jack a dumb boy. No doubt this is also true. The
third point which is implied in this statement, and that Dr. Bob has
emphasized in chapel, sleep is essential.
Since a definition of a well-rounded curriculum has been set
forth let us note the problem of getting one in practice.
• The morning of an average student, myself of course, begins at
7 or 7:15 since my ear was not sensitive to the sound of an alarm
clock ringing before 7. I arrive at breakfast in time to experience a door
shut on my back and cold cereal being tracked down my throat by warm
The morning of classes constitutes a full morning wasted. As my
last class lapses over twelve, and since the dining hall line looks like
an over-sized snake it is well into the afternoon by the time I find my
seat in the library.
Health rules say one should rest at least an hour after eating
so as not to defy rules I faithfully lay my head on the library table
for at least one hour every day after lunch.
I have a hard time concentrating on my studies in the afternoon.
There is a lot of noise in the library—the person in the next chair
keeps talking to me all the time. I never did feel English composition
was for a person with a Swedish background.
At supper I decide to go bowling at eight with a couple of the
fellows. I haven't had my exercise today. I do want a full-rounded cur-riculum.
I go to the library till eight. I never realized how interesting
people are. You should watch them chew gum. You'd think they'd not
had supper the way they bear down.
Then I go to the dormitory prayer meeting after bowling.
There I get into a bull session, and I have to finish studying for my
English test afterward so I get to bed rather late. Missed out
on some of my sleep, too.
So life goes with a rounded curriculum.
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Tuesday, February 7, 1956 the CLARION . Page 3
Bethel Revenges Earlier
Bemidji Defeat 77-72!
Boosting the skyline for the
Royal five is 6' 5" Mark Nyberg.
Alternating at forward and center
Mark is an agressive rebounder.
He displays an effective under the
basket shot along with a patent
jump shot from the side. Utilizing
good passing Mark sets up plays
and is effective on tip in shots.
Hailing from Kennedy, Minne-sota,
Nyberg carries on where his
brother Paul left off.
N. L. Hermes
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Sundays from 12:00-1 a.m.
Johnson and Barnes
Fairway Foods
Fruits, Vegetables
and Bakery Goods
597 N. Snelling Ave.
Mi 6-8621
Orace H. Hanson, Reg. Phar.
Lexington and Larpenteur
1544 West Larpenteur
Deposits insured to $10,000 by the
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Westlund's Food
Market, Inc.
Quick Freeze Service
For your Locker or
Home Freezer
597 N. Snelling Ave.
MIdway 6-8621
by Dick Biller
Humorist on Bethel's basketball
club is 6' 3" Paul Ohlin, who join-ed
the team last quarter after a
hitch in the navy.
Paul can hook with either hand
and is a good set shot, but he ex-cells
as a feeder.
Although he played guard in the
navy, he is used by coach Peter-son
as a forward and center to
make use of his height and re-bounding
ability. His favorite trick
is to drive into the basket and lay
it up without looking.
Winfrey's Variety
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Week-days 5:00 p.m. 'til 9:00 p.m.
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Snelling and Larpenteur
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Ski Club Organizes
The ski club is not an author-ized,
recognized organization yet.
The purpose is to create en
enthusiasm in the entertaining,
recreational past time of skiing
and also to offer help and hints to
all classes of skiers from begin-ners
to the skilled and "schush
Skiing expeditions are open to
all and posters will be put up tell-ing
when the troops will evacuate
the campus for adventures or
(mostly) the unknown wonder of
The officers of the Ski club
are: President, Rog Moberg; vice-president,
Ron DacDonell; Alice
Barnes, sec.-treasurer.
Competition is provided by the
Minnesota Inter-Collegiate Ski or-ganization
and the University of
Minnesota. They have gotten to-gether
and formed and organized
ski competition meets.
Night skiing, possible movies,
and lectures are some of the things
planned. If you like to live dan-gerously—
why not join the ski
club ?
Open evenings
till 10:00
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Quality Hair-cutting
1546 W. Larpentuer
Five Way Tie For
First In Intramurals
After last week's of East by the
Plains team, the standings are
rather unique with five teams in
first place. The week before, East
tipped West to gain undisputed
possession of first place, but
Norris Magnuson and Co. evened
things off.
The Illinois "B" team played a
very sharp game in tromping the
Twin Cities team 54-32. MacArthur
led the team with 14 points.
The Minn team trompled Wisc-
Dak. team 55-19 behind Jack Tier-ney
and Dale larson who had 14
and 12 points respectively.
In the other scheduled game, The
Illinois "A" team forfeit for lack
of players.
3 1
3 1
Minn. 3 1
Plains 3 1
Ill. "B"
3 1
Twin Cities 1
Wisc.-Dok. 0
Ill. "A"
Ladies' and Men's Apparel
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Records - Phonographs - TV
Gulck's Records and
Open Evenings till 9 P.M.
221 No. Snelling MI 5-7744
1692 North Lexington Ave.
(in the Plaza)
by Allen Hubin
Bethel defeated a determined
Bemidji team 77 to 72 in the field-house
last Saturday night.
Bethel played the first three
quarters as if they wanted to run
Bemidji back to Paul Bunyon, and
at one point were leading 60 to 40.
Then Bemidji shifted to a full
court press and started making
their shots as they'd probably been
told to, and when the smoke lifted
the score was 66 to 60 for Bethel
with better than five minutes of
the game left.
The game got a trifle wild at
this point. Bethel stalled when
they got the ball and Bemidji scor-ed
when they got the ball and the
scoreboard said 72 to 70, Bethel.
Now with two starters, Ohlin and
Rekstad, excused with five fouls,
thunderclouds rolled in from the
west. But a few alert plays and a
few advantageous Bemidji fouls
later, Bemidji was still panting
lustily, five points behind.
Leading the scoring parade was
Bill Conrad with 23 points, edg-ing
Rekstad with 22. Rekstad as
usual contributed a major share
of Bethel's rebounds. Robbins of
Bemidji put on a free throw exhi-bition
with 14 for 14, and ended
with his teams top total, 22 points.
B-Squad Evens
League Record
Led by Ron Ekert, Laure Dahl-quist,
Bob Singleton, Whitey John-son,
and Gene Smith, the B-squad
has won three of their last four
games, giving them a three won,
three lost league.
The club won their first game
of the season by avening an earlier
loss to U. Farm. Since then they
have topped the Chiropodist's
school twice and lost to North-western
College b-squad.
Needs Blood
Sunday noon guest at Bethel
was Mrs. Lisle from Buffalo, New
York. Her son is at the University
Hospital to undergo heart sur-gery.
This operation demands fresh
blood and so it has asked that the
CLARION appeal for blood from
the students. Either contact the
University Hospital or Mrs. Wm.
Adam or the Rev. Curtis Akenson,
First Baptist Church, Minneapolis.
Tune-up — Brake Service
Tubeless Tires and Repair
Referee's Paradise
The referee poked his head out of the pile of players and tooted
angrily on his whistel.
"What," he inquired, "is going on around here ?"
The battleground was the field house, the reason was intramurals,
and the conflict was basketball, more or less.
Some minutes later the referee had sorted out five miscellaneous
players per team and had located the ball, and the game went on.
Up and down the floor the tumult raged, a virtual torado of fly-ing
feet and other appendages, and not unlike an ambitious cyclone
happily engaged in disecting a china shop.
And, rather far behind and along the sidelines, now quite removed
from the actual combat, puffed the referee, sucking his whistle fircely
as if it were the only thing which remained between him and insanity,
and shaking his head. He felt that the game was rather getting away
from him.
Five or six hospital cases later, when the two teams had run out
of players in operating condition, a truce was signed and the battle
ended. The referee was informed of this wise decision and he turned,
a lonely man, and made his weary way toward the exit, with a vaguely
troubling, persisting thought that perhaps he had missed a few calls.
"There is no love sincerer
than the love of food" Shaw
Fulfill your love at the
Coffee Shop.
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Zipper Sweatshirts $2.50
Blue and White Wind-breakers $5.00
Navy and Maize Poplin Jackets $4.00
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U of M To Host
Quartet Society
"By the Falls of Minnehaha," a
special centennial theme, is the
title of the ninth annual Parade
of Quartets, sponsored by the Uni-versity
of Minnesota and featur-ing
the Minneapolis Chapter of
the Society for the Prevention
and Encouragement of Barber
Shop Quartet Singing in America,
Incorporated. The parade will be
presented in Northrop Memorial
auditorium at the university, on
February 11 at. 8:00 p.m.
Bodien Gets
New Face
Second floor of Bodien is
about to get a "new face" as a
part of the entire paint job being
done in the building.
Five different colors, surf
green; apple blossom, maple nut,
prim-rose yellow, and starlight
blue, will be used to brighten the
various rooms.
Repainting on third floor has al-ready
been completed. The entire
job is expected to be finished early
in the third quarter.
Davis Photo Service
Box 341
24 hour rush on Black-White
Color Pictures
Films and Flashbulbs sold
Como and Snelling Ayes.
Monday-1 p.m. till 6 p.m.
Tues. - Sat.-8 a.m. till 6 p,m,
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Complete Lubrication — Towing
Brake Work
Photo by Bob Carlson
The youngest resident in the gay
history of Edgren hall was recent-ly
welcomed by his dorm-mates in
an informal gathering in the resi-dence
lounge. Dick Andre, presi-dent
of Edgren hall, bid Nils wel-come,
and Jim Dinsmore, fresh-man,
presented a plaque signed by
84 of the 85 residents to Mr.
Peterson, acting in behalf of his
son. Jim also presented a figurine
of an angel with a ping pong
paddle to the Petersons. Then Dick
and Jim, in the true spirit of the
residence, brought in a play pen,
gift of Nils' neighbors.
Nils forgot his blue slip. Re-freshments
were not served.
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A Nationally Accredited
The Mounds-Midway Unit of the Hamline University
School of Nursing, operated in connection with Mounds
Park and Midway Hospitals, offers the unusual opportunity
of studying nursing in hospitals of high standards in an
atmosphere of Christian fellowship and missionary interest.
• Our next class begins in June, 1956. Applications should
be made to
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Tuesday, February 7, 1956
Renaissance Art
Festival March 9-13
The Renaissance Art Festival
will be presented at Bethel college
on March 9, 10, 12, and 13 to
demonstrate the literary and artis-tic
activity of the movement. The
programs will include: Miss Su-zanne
Bloch, lutist; Dr. Eitner,
lecturer from the University of
Minnesota; two films, "King
Richard" and Orson Welles' "Mac-beth,"
and a student participation
group. Nearby colleges will be
notified of the event.
It Tees Me Off
by Bev Carlson
I don't know of anyone who lis-tens
to more "chewing." Bethel-ites
are always telling me their
latest gripes. I hear what's wrong
with the chapel programs, social
council, Student Senate, dining
hall, students, faculty. You name
it. There's something wrong with
everything. And who has to listen
to all these gripes ? I do, and
I'm seldom thanked for listening.
Of course, my life is rather in-teresting.
Someone is always tell-ing
me the latest scoop. I'm about
the best informed Bethelite. A
word to the wise—don't confide in
me. I'm a failure at keeping sec-rets.
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I left a safe job to volunteer post 2004 tsunami in Sri Lanka. Good intentions do not protect you from situations and fear beyond feeling.
An oppressive force weighed down on me as I swayed in the middle of the river, barely able to stand.
An innocent girl is wearing her favourite red dress. She is alone in the car park. A creepy man approaches. What happens next?
The quirks of living in Broken Hill as well as reliving the most memorable, yet scariest, dust storm to hit its skies...
Beaufort based Yvette Hollings has been honing her online writing skills this year with ABC Open's writing challenge 500 Words.
Terrifying tale of the huntsman, the hysteric and the heroine
A 500 Words: A Scary Moment audio story read by the author, and currently on exhibition at the Western Plains Cultural Centre
For a man with anxiety issues, is fear of the specific greater than fear of the unknown? A little levity and humanity help put things in perspective.
This story is about how my life was drastically changed after a car accident at the age of nineteen. My parents were told I would never walk again, I spent 8 years in a wheelchair but never gave up. With the love of my family I am now walking.
It was commonplace for teenagers to hitchhike in the Sutherland Shire in the 1980s. I was no exception. The Shire was vast, and although serviced by a train line, hitchhiking was cheap. I had no fear of getting into a stranger's car.

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A former Patriots receiver has landed with Kansas City.
Mark Harrison, whom New England waived earlier in June, has signed with Kansas City, the club announced Friday.
A first-year pro from Rutgers, the 23-year-old Harrison sat out the 2013 season with a foot injury. The Patriots signed him as an undrafted free agent last May. Harrison hauled in 44 passes for 583 yards and six touchdowns in his final season with the Scarlet Knights.
According to Nick Underhill of MassLive.com, Harrison was tardy to one of New England's OTA sessions before being released from the club.
Harrison is one of 13 receivers on the Chiefs' roster, with Dwayne Bowe the top target and Donnie Avery likely to have a key role. However, there is some uncertainty thereafter on the depth chart.


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There are many difficulties we face when we are Grieving. The Landscape is unfamiliar and frightening. As we all know, the journey of Grieving and what to expect is not an open discussion in our culture. There are all kinds of tips about all kinds of wonderful topics and yet, the topic of Grief is still a bit taboo. We don't hear people discussing the tips that support us through our Grief at the cocktail party or the local drinking hole. And yet, Grief is as normal a part of our human experience as is our joy. Learning how to move through grief should be as normal as learning the tips for getting into shape or weight loss or financial planning. We cannot avoid Grief. We experience loss from the moment we leave our mother's womb. Loss is normal and an everyday part of life, like brushing our teeth. We still think that Grief only applies to death. And of course, one of the greatest losses in our lives is when someone we love, care for, and/or know dies.
Now why does all of this matter, you may ask. Why does it matter if I understand that Grief does not only mean death -- that losses are woven throughout our lives in the form of disappointments, or relationships/marriages ending, job changes or loss, a beloved pet dies, a dear friend moves away, our own aging, and dreams changing or dying. These are just some of the losses we experience in life. And when we have a loss, we Grieve. We feel the three main feelings of Grief (sadness, anger, and anxiety) which is the human experience of being alive. It also matters because we are often very alienated from our own feelings and feel as though we are doing something wrong if we are Grieving when no one has died. Giving ourselves permission to feel and to Grieve is a powerful choice for our own health. Many diseases, physical disorders, and emotional struggles are caused by not allowing ourselves to feel our feelings of Grief. We have a wide array of sophisticated defense mechanisms that block our feelings and keep us from experiencing our Grief. What is essential is understanding that, while it may be unpleasant at times and hurt emotionally, Grieving is your right when you experience a loss. And learning to Grieve in healthy ways is good for you. It allows you to know more about yourself. So here are some tips for healthy grieving.
Tip #1: BE ON YOUR OWN SIDE!
When we are Grieving and it hurts deeply --when it drops you to your knees (emotionally) -- it is very tempting and quite common for the individual to get mad at themselves, actually thinking they are doing something wrong for hurting so badly. When you've experienced a loss, no matter what it is, if you feel deeply sad, it's ok. The amount of sorrow we experience is directly related to how bonded and important to us the person, place, or thing is/was to us. And when you're Grieving, the last thing you need to do is turn on yourself, place guilt on yourself, or put yourself down with thoughts such as, "I shouldn't be hurting so badly," " I shouldn't be Grieving for so long" or "I should be over it by now." These are very unfair statements to make to yourself. They are not true. And they actually prolong the Grieving process. What is absolutely essential in this process is that you say to yourself, "All of my feelings are okay and normal. I will grieve this loss as long as my spirit needs me to. I will be kind, patient, and loving with myself as I move through my grief. I am on my own side." This will make such a huge difference for you and your entire experience of Grieving. You are human and you have every right to feel your Grief, just as you feel your Joy!
Tip #2: WELCOME YOUR GRIEF IN YOUR OWN MIND
Create the space for your Grief in your own mind. Talk to yourself. And I truly mean have a conversation with yourself. We have an ongoing monologue in our minds happening anyway, so do yourself a favor and talk to yourself about how you are feeling and what you are needing. Talk to friends who can sit with you in your Grief. Do your best to give yourself a break from those who may be accidentally pressuring you to pretend like you're fine. It's okay to take a break from well-meaning people, especially if you have to hide your Grief when you are around them. You can openly share how you are feeling and choose to ignore their discomfort, but if it's too hard for you, then take care of yourself and take the space you need. However, if you do that, make sure you are opening up to others and are talking about how you feel. Don't try to go it alone. We all need support. Give yourself permission to get support. Look for support groups and online resources to help you understand what you are going through. Welcome your grief by not trying to go it alone. View it as normal and as an important topic to discuss, regardless of what the cultural norms may be; those norms to silently brave it alone are too isolating and keep people feeling as though they are doing something wrong by Grieving. Put post it notes on your bathroom mirror, that say for example, "I welcome my grief as a normal part of my human journey."
Tip #3: TRUST YOUR FEELINGS
Sadly, we are often taught to not trust our feelings. We're taught that our feelings are too volatile and will only lead us astray. That is simply not true, and is incredibly conflicting. When we are experiencing such an intensity of feelings through the grieving process it's because quite simply, it's normal. Of course, you are deeply sad, perhaps fiercely angry, and nervously anxious as you experience the loss of what mattered to you. Your function of feeling is as normal a part of being human as is your function of thinking. When we experience a loss, of course our feelings intensify and feel sometimes unmanageable. It's very tempting to become numb and do all the things we do, to escape feeling. Learning to trust our feelings as guides and powerful allies while we are Grieving will shift our whole experience. Understanding that intensity of feelings is congruent when we are Grieving gets us out of a battle with our feelings. Listening to how we are feeling without judgment, with acceptance, and with self-love allows us to better understand ourselves. Trusting your feelings means that you accept how you are feeling as difficult as it may be. It also means finding creative ways of expressing your feelings, instead of avoiding or numbing them. Creative ways may include journaling, talk therapy, yoga, massage, support groups, reading, exercising, resting, being in nature, creating a collage, etc. The important point is to not block your feelings when you've experienced a loss, and to trust that your feelings are teaching you about you.
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Mandy Eppley is a licensed psychotherapist, in practice for over 21 years. She has devoted herself to counseling individuals, couples, and families struggling with depression, anxiety, grief, and the effects of sexual abuse and trauma, and is considered a Grief Transformation Specialist.
She is also a co-founder and Director of Services & Programs at The Respite, A Centre for Grief & Hope and the co-creator of the 7-Step Model of Heart-Centered Grief, with Chris Saade.
Inspired by their work and own personal experiences with loss, Saade and Eppley created this 7-step process to guide those dealing with grief toward the special gifts that can be found in this process. Through the program, which is currently available on DVD and through streaming access on a donation-only basis, they encourage individuals through their uniquely designed series of personal coaching sessions to embrace this process as an opportunity for personal growth and exploration.
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IRONMAN Looks Back: Tom Warren's Legacy
Tom Warren's 1979 IRONMAN win put the sport on the map.
by Don Norcross, originally published in October, 2003.
Julie Moss' crawl to the finish line might be remembered as one of the sport's defining moments, but it was a story that appeared in Sports Illustrated about 1979 champion Tom Warren that created worldwide interest in the sport. Today, a day after Warren's 70th birthday, we look back at his enduring IRONMAN legacy.
"Everything Tommy did was an adventure . . . if you look at the early days of IRONMAN, he is the epitome of what the event was all about back then."
Lake Cuyamaca sits 4,650 feet above sea level, some 65 miles east of San Diego. Pine trees and open fields meander for miles in the mountain community. Southern California's image might be beaches, surf and sun, but come winter, snowfall clings to the Cuyamaca pines.
There's a home in Lake Cuyamaca that rests high on a hill overlooking the lake, a 300-year-old oak tree dominating the front yard. The tree's trunk measures eight feet in diameter and its branches stretch 80 feet to the heavens.
The home is Tom Warren's. This is his world.
Warren, 59, winner of the second IRONMAN race back in 1979, long ago turned his back on most people's perception of the real world. He owned Tug's Tavern, a famous San Diego restaurant and bar that sat a block from the beach. He sold the place one day shy of his 42nd birthday.
Warren's wife of nine years, Barbara, a psychologist, lives in San Diego four days a week in a home Warren built. She retreats to the mountains for three-day weekends with her husband. They originally purchased the mountain home as a weekend getaway. "One day," says Warren, "I just decided not to go home." He has lived there now for nearly five years.
"Barbara lives in that house. I live in this house, so we're going to be married forever," jokes Warren.
Warren is an explorer, 59 going on 15, filled with wanderlust. Today, the mountains are his playground. In his youth, it was the beach. He grew up in Pacific Beach, not far from the tavern he would make famous. He delivered newspapers as a kid. After the comics hit the porch, Warren pedaled to the beach to bodysurf, then he'd race home, change clothes and run to school.
Bike, swim, run.
"I did the triathlon before it was invented," says Warren.
After graduating from the University of Southern California with a degree in accounting, then serving three years in the Army, Warren returned to his Pacific Beach haunts, where he opened Tugs and pushed himself with maniacal workouts.
Warren once biked 1,412 miles from Vancouver, British Columbia, to San Diego. He did 15-mile swim races. He'd run from Pacific Beach to Tijuana, roughly a marathon. For his Tijuana adventures, Warren would phone the time operator to get the exact time he departed. When he reached Tijuana, Warren would pluck another dime in the pay phone to find out how fast he'd made the trip.
"I'd get a lot of anxiety a mile before Tijuana," Warren recalls. "What if a bunch of people were using all the phones?"
Asked why he undertook the bizarre challenges, Warren gets this far-off look in his eyes as if he'd never pondered the question, then says, "I just wondered if I could do it."
Come the summer of 1978, when Warren was winning this morning half-marathon run and afternoon mile swim in nearby Coronado, a Navy SEAL told him about the IRONMAN. Warren figured it suited his zany lifestyle perfectly. The guy who told him about the race, John Dunbar, finished second in the inaugural race. Come '79, Dunbar finished second again, whipped by Warren by 48 minutes.
"Poor guy," says Warren. "He shouldn't have told me about the race."
In November of 78, barely three months before the '79 IRONMAN race, Warren flew to Honolulu on a reconnaissance mission. Halfway through a tour of the marathon course, Warren stopped at a restaurant to eat. Outside the restaurant, native Hawaiians sold detailed wood carvings.
"I saw this lion, it was about 3½ feet tall," says Warren. "I said, 'If I win that race, I'm going to buy that lion.' The whole race, all I could think about was winning so I could buy the lion."
After winning the IRONMAN and being handed two trophies, Warren was asked by organizers if there was anything else they could do for him. Warren requested a ride to the aforementioned restaurant, where he made good on his self-promise and bought the lion. Turned out to be an expensive gift, costing $170 to ship to San Diego.
It also tripped the beginning of Warren's fascination with wood carvings. Over the years he has collected more than 800 of them, including a 1,000-pound elephant and 20-foot tall giraffe.
"I guess," says Warren, still sounding very much like an Ironman, "I have an obsessive compulsive nature."
As for training, Warren didn't cater many of his workouts specifically for the 1979 race. A couple weeks before the event he swam a mile in a pool, biked about 25 miles, finished the workout with a six-mile run, then pronounced himself sufficiently fit.
Recalls Warren: "I finished and said, 'I can do (the race).' "
Warren didn't need to specifically train for a 2.4-mile swim, 112-mile bike ride and marathon run. His eccentric workouts (even by IRONMAN standards) naturally prepared him for Hawaii. Warren challenged himself with 100-mile runs before ultramarathons were novel. When Warren and Bob Babbitt, editor of Competitor Magazine, were asked to check out Cabo San Lucas as a potential triathlon site, Babbitt went the conventional rout, flying; Warren pedaled the 1,075 miles. Two years ago, Warren, his wife and another couple vacationed in Las Vegas. Barbara and the other couple drove. Warren pedaled his bike. Three days. Three hundred sixty miles. In August, where the desert temperature soared to 122.
"I've never felt heat like that in my life," says Warren, who had to hide behind a boulder at one point to shield himself from the sun. "It was pretty exciting, I tell ya."
Says Babbitt: "Now if you want to do an IRONMAN, someone's there to tell you how much protein you need, how many carbohydrates per hour you need, what your VO2 max needs to be during run workouts. Everything Tommy did was an adventure and that's what made it fun. If you look at the early days of Ironman, he is the epitome of what the event was all about back then."
As for the 1979 race, after it was delayed a day because of foul weather, there wasn't much suspense to the outcome. Warren came out of the water second, passed the leader about 10 miles into the bike and never looked back. As for nutrition, he energized himself primarily on peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, washed down with soft drinks. To make sure he didn't eat the sandwiches too fast, Warren would poke his tongue through the middle of the sandwich, let the peanut butter get all sticky, then wash them down.
Warren, who was 35 at the time, won the '79 race in 11 hours, 15 minutes, nearly 31 minutes faster than Gordon Haller's time in the inaugural race. Warren wasn't fueled by competitive fires back then. He was far more concerned about enjoying the journey than fretting about the destination.
"If somebody said, "Hey, there's a race,' I just did it," he says. "Sometimes ignorance is bliss. It never occurred to me something could be difficult or challenging or whether I'd win or lose. I think a lot of athletes who are young do well because they're so naïve. When they get up to the plate, they don't consider that they might strike out."
On the flip side, his training adventures left him supremely confident.
"Every sport you cover, people have to have confidence," he says. "Once they have that confidence, it doesn't matter how good they are. That overcomes a lot of barriers."
Sports Illustrated chronicled the '79 race and Warren's eccentric lifestyle, prompting the entrants to swell from 15 to 108 in 1980. At 45, 10 years after his historic victory, Warren would lower his PR at the race to 9:42:59, finishing third in his age group.
What's sometimes lost in Warren's colorful biography is the fact that he was an exceptional athlete. At USC, he played water polo and swam on three NCAA championship swimming teams, which earned him a lifetime free pass to Trojans athletic events. One time in the mid-60s when he was in the Army, Warren, looking somewhat disheveled in his crew cut and T-shirt stretched at the neck, hitchhiked from Monterrey to Los Angeles for a Trojans football game. Two men in front of him at the Will Call line were debating which tickets to buy.
The man at the booth recognized Warren and asked the other gentlemen to step aside so he could serve Warren. The man fanned out a bunch of tickets and asked Warren where he wanted to sit. The USC grad picked out a seat near the 50-yard line. After accepting his ticket, Warren looked at the two men who had to step aside and they looked at him, surely wondering how the ratty man carried such clout.
The two strangers who stepped aside: Bill Cosby and James Garner.
As you might guess, Tom Warren doesn't do Hollywood. He barely does San Diego. When he does descend from Lake Cuyamaca's 5,000-foot vistas, he's as likely to pedal to his destination as drive. In 17 years, Warren has put 75,000 miles on a 1986 Nissan 300 ZX, less than 5,000 miles a year. He rides his bike at least 8,000 miles a year. "My goal in life is to be sure to always put more miles on my bike than I do a car," says Warren. "I mean that."
Warren doesn't own a computer. He does own a cell phone, but can't tell you the number and only uses it for safety when he's out on a trail run or mountain bike ride. He practices carpentry and the work on his redwood deck and 400-square-foot cabin is immaculate.
When he does hop in the ZX "it's a rude awakening," he says. "When I go to shift, I can't remember where fifth gear is and it's written right on the knob." When a car pulls behind him on the road, Warren, feeling uncomfortable, pulls aside. He hugs the righthand lane on the freeway, never topping 50 mph. The car radio doesn't work, so he brings a portable radio for his listening pleasure.
But in the hills surrounding his cabin home, where he has stared down bobcats, he's content.
Says Barbara Warren of her husband, "Nature is a part of him. He can't live without exploring. That's him."


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UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Former Nittany Lion standout Jack Forster was selected 40th in Major League Lacrosse's Supplemental Draft on Wednesday (Dec. 11) afternoon by the Chesapeake Bayhawks.
Forster, who completed his time in Happy Valley this past May, will join the Bayhawks this spring with the chance of making the final squad for the 2014 season. The MLL Collegiate Draft will be held in January for current student-athletes. The supplemental draft serves to select graduated seniors that weren't taken in the previous year's collegiate draft as well as former MLL players to fill out rosters ahead of the 2014 season.
Forster ended his amazing career at Penn State tied for second all-time in goals scored with 104 tallies. This past season was his best by scoring 41 times with 16 assists and 57 points, all of which were career highs. The 57 points were the most scored by a Nittany Lion since 1995 (Erik Merkel, 61). For his career, Forster notched 148 points, the sixth-most in Penn State history.
Additionally, Forster was named to the 72nd edition of the USILA North-South Game in May following an All-CAA First Team season for the Nittany Lions, who won the CAA regular season title with a perfect 6-0 record. Forster also served as a co-captain during the 2013 season, which saw the Nittany Lions return to the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2005 and host its first NCAA game in University Park.
The Bayhawks are the defending MLL champions following a 10-9 victory over Charlotte in August's championship contest. One of Forster's teammates, Matthew Mackrides, helped lead the Bayhawks to their third title in four years. Mackrides scored 21 goals with nine assists and 30 points during 30 games last season. One of the nine assists came on the eventual game-winning goal in the MLL title bout.


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Here's something you didn't expect to say: "Hey, remember that episode of 'Community' where Britta thought that girl was a lesbian? Well, the actress who played that girl now stars in a spectacular new sci-fi movie that she also co-wrote."
Get ready to say it.
Starring "Community" guest star and Winnetka native Brit Marling, "Another Earth" is a terrific, low-budget story of regret and redemption guaranteed to rattle you.
In the film opening July 29, the 27-year-old actress plays Rhoda, whose plans of going to MIT are derailed when she has a few drinks, gets in her car and distractedly kills a woman and her son. After getting out of prison four years later, Rhoda pretends to be a maid and develops a surprising relationship with the widower (William Mapother) who survived the crash. This all happens as a duplicate of Earth, dubbed "Earth 2," appears in the sky.
Marling, who's certain there's intelligent life beyond Earth and expects an extraterrestrial arrival to be peaceful ("I think if they're smart enough to figure out how to find us, they're smart enough to know that aggression isn't the best way to meet someone," she says), doesn't think "Community" fans will recognize her in "Another Earth."
Probably not. But she could be a familiar face to many upon the opening of the recently wrapped "Arbitrage," in which Marling plays the daughter of characters played by Richard Gere and Susan Sarandon.
At the James Hotel, L.A. resident Marling talked about filming naked in cold weather, meeting a duplicate of herself from Earth 2 and the surprising lack of successful saw players.
You say you like winters in Chicago. How much time have you spent, as you are at one point in "Another Earth," naked in the cold?
Not any time except this movie! We shot that scene three times, and I think there are three different edits there, together. One of them we shot in the snow in Connecticut when there was like three feet of snow on the ground and I just like trudged out into this field and got naked.
You were actually naked?
I was full-on derobed. And another we ran out of snow and so the next time … there was some ski mountain in Connecticut, which was like a mountain of fake snow and people doing downhill stuff, and so we snuck in when that was closed and did it again. And there was another time where we had to do the close-up again and we didn't have any snow, so we got it from the back of a hockey rink. When they clean the rink they push off all the ice and it looks like snow. So we took a bunch of that in a pickup truck and put it in [director/co-writer Mike Cahill's] mom's backyard and flattened it out. It was a lot of cold work.
And after the third take you just said, "Enough!"
After that I was like, "I don't care! There will be no more snow nudity!"
If you had a chance to meet a duplicate of yourself, would you want to?
Yes, I would want to do that. I think I would be curious about the various mutations of Brit. What would Brit, the doctor version be like? [Laughs.] I think we're all curious as to how we might turn out if we had made different choices along the way.
What would you say? Like, "Did you also get a parking ticket in 2007?"
[Laughs.] Totally. I guess I would be like, if she looked and acted very different from me, so I knew that she'd had a totally different experience, I would just want to get to the bottom of that. I'd be like, "What are you passionate about? Are you in love? Have you ever been in love? What do you want to do? What do you want out of life?" I'd be so curious to know … what happens when you take the basic raw goods of who you are and then put them through a different filter?
How tempted would you be to trade places with her like an episode of "Sister, Sister"?
[Laughs.] That's so funny. That is a real fantasy, the prince and the pauper, or the idea of having a twin that you meet up with and you get to go live their life. I forgot about that fantasy, the doppelganger fantasy. Would I want to take on her life?
Yeah, how much would you want to do a switcheroo?
It depends. If she showed up and seemed really buttoned up and severe, I'd be like, "I don't know that I want your life."
"I think I hear my mom calling me; I gotta go."
[Laughs.] "Really nice to see you, but I gotta get back on my Saturn-5 rocket to Earth 1." "Seriously, call me!" And then you give her a fake number. It's like, "So good to meet you, but not that great." "Find me on Twitter," but then you're like, "Peace." But yeah, if she seemed cool, if she seemed more open and spontaneous and she seemed like she had some edge or something about her that was dark and complicated, I'd be curious to figure out why and to live her life for a bit.
What would you need to bring with you on your trip to Earth 2?
A videocamera.
That's it?
Yeah. I'm trying to think, is there anything else?
I think you'd get there and be like, "Dammit, a toothbrush!"
Sunscreen! We're so much closer to the sun here! [Laughs.]
In "Another Earth" there's a musical performance on the saw. Why are there not more well-known saw players out there?
This is a really good question. I don't know. Mike met that lady, the saw lady, she calls herself the Saw Lady--and I guess she can call herself the Saw Lady 'cause there aren't many of them. When you're the only one, then you're allowed to call yourself the Saw Lady. I think it's because it's actually really hard to produce the sound. First of all, it's difficult to just bend the saw in those contortions and then even when you draw the bow across it, producing something that's really resonant, it's really hard.
Wait. The Saw Lady?
Mike was going through the subway in New York and this woman was playing and she trained William on how to hold the saw and how to draw those notes from it.
So he can play it now?
His saw is in all of the right positions, and he was producing a tone, but the tone is actually in the film it's from the Saw Lady herself playing it.
'Cause there is room for a Saw Man.
I mean, we could have Saw Man. I wonder if William would want to take that on, I'm not sure. Maybe Mike will become the Saw Man.
I can see the press release now: "I'm giving up film to play the saw."
"I have found my true love."
Like Rhoda, you're in prison. How do you pass the time?
I love your questions. Your questions are so imaginative. How would I? I think I would just leave the space in my imagination. I would just create imaginary characters and I would try to convince my cellmates to play along with me.
That can only end well I'm sure.
Or it can end really badly. It probably wouldn't end well.
How to punish someone whose crime is an accident like Rhoda's: "I don't know because part of it is that the person really punishes themselves. There wasn't any intent there. And there was a recklessness, certainly, in the drunk driving so there should be some punishment. And you need some punishment because the person needs that to work through the grief and the guilt and the loss and of course the victim needs that too. But the funny thing is that the victim and the perpetrator, they also kind of need each other, oddly. They had this experience that has bound them together that somehow only they understand. Whatever it is, it should be something that's a lot more open and honest and talking and about communication. I don't think that putting somebody in a cell and depriving them of light and the natural environment and depriving them of human contact and social interaction is somehow a deterrent or that it will make you into the kind of person who will behave better on the other side. I think there are other ways to deter people. I think Rhoda would have done a lot better with her car being taken away and maybe doing some kind of manual labor with a group of other young people who are in similar circumstances."
On her iPod: "Gil-Scott Heron. 'I'm New Here,' that album, so good. There's this song, 'I'll Take Care of You,' it's beautiful. What else? Discovery. I love dancing to that music. I love music that makes me want to dance and makes me happy to be alive."
If she's moving back to Chicago: "That would be cool, wouldn't it? Oh my gosh. I would love to come back and make a movie here. I love this city. This is what I feel like is home when I come back here."
Where she goes when she comes back: "Oh my gosh. The Museum of Contemporary Art because I love that museum, and I love being by Lake Michigan. And I love being here in the winter actually which is strange, but I guess 'cause I'm living in L.A. now, something about the extreme of the weather seems so appealing to me."
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School district budget on track
The Park City School District released an annual audit of the past fiscal year online this week, all evidence of what the school district has been going through to get its financial house in order.
The 58-page document outlined the nuts and bolts of where the school district spent tax dollars over the past fiscal year.
And one point came forward: the financial health of the Park City School District is on the mend.
Last year, the local Board of Education faced serious concerns about a looming deficit. Original projections estimated a $4 million shortfall. When Business Administrator Todd Hauber was brought on to the school district staff, he estimated a shortfall closer to $2.7 million.
At the end of the fiscal year in June, between budgetary cuts and an influx of incoming property taxes, the school district ended the fiscal year with a $1.7 million shortfall from a roughly $45 million operating budget, which the school district will be able to compensate for.
"Before I started, there was a great concern there would be a financial deficiency," Hauber said, "and that is would be so large that the next fiscal year would have challenges in balancing books, that there would be such a huge, burdensome deficit that something would have to happen."
"We have corrected the picture," he added. "There is no longer a deficiency, we are not using our reserve funding and the district then has sustainable revenue source for next four to five years."
The school board used two measures to restore the financial health of the school district: they cut the operating budget by $3 million and raised local taxes by $4 million. Between the two actions, the board will be able to bring expenditures and revenues back into line. The increase in property taxes is anticipated to cover the district's budget needs for the next five years, generating $4 million in extra revenue.
"We are trying to keep as close an eye as possible on the property taxes," said Moe Hickey, the Board of Education president. "We are staying in touch with the county and have a good grasp on that.
"I think we have felt more confident about the budget since we implemented the tax increase," he added. "For the first time since I have been on the board, we are looking at a five-year budget plan so that we will have a strong analysis where we would be in a few years This way we are really looking at a nice, long-term approach, and not annual Band-Aid."
The school district will be using the incoming property taxes to build up a stronger reserve fund, money allocated specifically in case of an emergency or some type of financial hardship.
"We have set a 16.8 percent target, basically two months of our operating budget, and set that money aside for any terrible thing that could financially happen to a district it's money just for the unknown."
The local tax increase was approved at the start of the school year in August, shortly after the end of the fiscal year in June.
With property taxes due this week, residents are paying the higher rate this year. Primary homeowners in the school district which includes Park City and the Snyderville Basin are to be taxed 55 percent of their property value. For a Park City home with an estimated value of $500,000, property value taxes would increase by $111. That primary homeowner who paid $1,243 last year now pays $1,354 in taxes, according to the school district. Second homeowners and businesses pay property taxes based on the total assessed value. For a second home or business valued at the same amount of $500,000, the property tax increased by $202, from $2,260 to $2,462 per year.
The school district anticipated very little growth in the coming years that would impact the revenues from the property tax increase, a major source of incoming money for the local schools. As cost of operating the district increases, the board has decided to save incoming taxes to compensate with a declining amount of taxes coupled with an increased cost for items such as teacher salaries, fuel and even classroom supplies.
"The school district needs to maintain the budget as it looks forward," Hickey said, "and that is an art as much a science there will be time to make adjustments if needed."
UPDATED: Park City Planning Commission approves Woodside Park housing development
The Park City Planning Commission on Wednesday approved a City Hall workforce or otherwise restricted housing development slated for the northern reaches of Old Town.


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Guess what the hottest trend in status updates was for 2010? Use of the phrase "HMU." If you're only marginally hip (like me), explanations are probably in order. That stands for "hit me up." (And if you're terminally unhip, "hit me up" means "contact me."). Apparently lots of people were using Facebook as the starting point for -- dare I say it -- person-to-person communications. Pretty cool, if you ask me.
Check out the rest of the list of top status updates here.
What was your favorite status update meme of 2010?
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
Facebook lists hottest status updates of 2010
Guess what the hottest trend in status updates was for 2010? Use of the phrase "HMU." If you're only marginally hip (like me), explanations are probably in order. That stands for "hit me up." (And if you're terminally unhip, "hit me up" means "contact me."). Apparently lots of people were using Facebook as the starting point for -- dare I say it -- person-to-person communications. Pretty cool, if you ask me.
14 comments:
- Dan said...
Does talking on the phone technically qualify as real life person to person communication?
- December 14, 2010 at 12:46 PM
- Eric Frazier said...
Well, good correction, Dan. I'm going to scratch "real life" from my sentence.
- December 14, 2010 at 1:57 PM
- Debi said...
My favorite meme was the Dry Erase girl who pretended to quit her job and outed her boss - LOL
- December 14, 2010 at 2:04 PM
- Anonymous said...
new motto for Facebook: where uninteresting people take morbid facination with the lives of other uninteresting people.
- December 14, 2010 at 4:09 PM
- Anonymous said...
Agreed. Pathetic facebooking lives here. Get out and enjoy your life and deal with real people for the love of God! Makes me sick to my damned stomach.
- December 14, 2010 at 4:15 PM
- Anonymous said...
While Facebook may indeed be pathetic for some, for my friends and family all spread out it is an awesome way for us all to stay in touch and share with eachother en masse, it is great for us!
- December 14, 2010 at 5:11 PM
- Anonymous said...
To the poster above me, and by your statement you mean its a great way to keep in touch for those that are too lazy to actually maintain a friendship or any other social connection by actually seeing them or calling them. And Eric, nothing against you personally but are you on the Observer's payroll or Facebook's because you should probably be paid by them with as much free press as you supply them.
- December 14, 2010 at 6:42 PM
- Jessica Howells said...
Oh my. The lack of civility continues online, even with those that are mocking online social networks! Why doesn't "anonymous" follow his or her own advice, break away from the computer, and phone a friend? I love the connections I can foster via facebook, and have reconnected with old friends from college and high school through it. Personally loved the random acts of culture and the a cappella groups singing Lady Gaga.
- December 14, 2010 at 8:02 PM
- gone2carolina said...
All the Facebook haters, have you ever maybe considered that us Facebookers do in fact USE the program as a tool to socialize MORE? A lot of my friends, myself included, create "events" on FB and invite a bunch of people with a click of the mouse. We can discuss details within this medium, like who is bringing what, when, who is coming late, etc. It's great, and I dont have to make 20 individual phone calls.
Many of my friends and I also send messages over Facebook to DISCUSS our plans for hanging out, gasp, IN PERSON. And I've been re-connecting with people I haven't seen in years and years, some of whom live halfway across the world. Yet you call it "laziness"? How easy would it be to individually keep up with 251 (how many Facebook friends I have) people, each of whom I know in some way, shape, or form?? Sorry but I work full time and always have something going on, so it is not laziness but rather BEING BUSY LIVING LIFE. Perhaps you are too wrapped up in your own negativity to see that.
I am also "friends" with various companies on Facebook who alert me to "facebook fans only" discounts and specials. Anyone who is anti-Facebook just because of the principle of it, well you're missing out, so go enjoy being a hater. Leave the rest of us to enjoy our social lives, even if it is VIRTUAL. You all sound like a lot of fun.
- December 14, 2010 at 8:50 PM
- Anonymous said...
Why don't you enjoy being a sorry lemming and do something worth while. You have no idea what true socializing is all about. You have become addicted to the damn computer and you are trying to justify it any way you can. If you want to know what someone is bringing to an event, CALL THEM. If you want to talk to someone or especially play private investigator and try to find out every little detail of their pitiful online life, why not take a breath and ask them over the phone or in person.
Don't fool yourself with a bunch of foolish talk about connecting with relatives and all that crap. You are the flavor of the month and this is just yet another out of control fad that will go with time. Thank God. Now, run along and jump on the computer, all your cyber FRIENDS are waiting to know what you ate for lunch!!!
- December 14, 2010 at 9:29 PM
- Anonymous said...
To the high schooler above who said, "Anyone who is anti-Facebook just because of the principle of it, well you're missing out", you just go right on believing that garbage, you young naive child. YOU are missing out - on real life, and you don't even know it!
- December 14, 2010 at 9:34 PM
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Brussels, 21 January 2009
Maritime security: protecting maritime transport from piracy
Piracy and armed robbery of maritime transport is the subject of today's seminar organised by the European Commission to gather ideas on the means of preventing and dissuading acts of piracy and how we can protect ourselves and fight against this very real threat.
European Commission Vice-President Antonio Tajani stated "Acts of piracy and armed robberies pose a serious threat to the lives of seafarers, the security of the shipping industry and the safety and security of coastal states. I call on all the stakeholders to engage actively in fighting this phenomenon and seek lasting solutions to this scourge that is affecting the whole international community."
Joe Borg, European Commissioner for Maritime Affairs, added: "The EU is committed to doing all it can to play its part in deterring and stamping out acts of piracy. We need an integrated civilian/military approach where all concerned work together. The European Commission contributes to this through improving maritime surveillance and by helping to set up a firm international legal framework for ensuring security at sea and to establish stable public order on land."
This seminar brings together leading figures from the European maritime sector, political representatives, high-level international officials, diplomats and military officials involved in and committed to combatting this phenomenon which increased considerably in 2008, notably along the Somali coast – a strategic passage for international shipping.
On 10 November 2008, the Council decided to launch the Atalanta military operation to deal with the increased acts of piracy along the Somali coast that indiscriminately target shipping and pleasure boats, humanitarian convoys from the World Food Programme (WFP) and fishing fleets. Led by the EU NAVFOR force, for a period of 12 months this operation will safeguard the WFP vessels bringing aid to Somalia's displaced populations, protect vulnerable ships navigating the Somali coast and dissuade, prevent and crack down on acts of piracy and armed robberies off this coast, by force if necessary.
The Commission's seminar aims to facilitate an exchange of experience and opinions on issues relating to acts of piracy and armed robbery in a geopolitical and economic context. Furthermore, the implementation of the international judicial framework enabling the international community as a whole to prevent and curb such acts is also one of the main subjects addressed at this meeting.
Community development aid instruments will be used, both geographically and on a more comprehensive level through the 'Instrument for Stability' (IfS), which provides for a programme on 'critical maritime routes' for 2009-2011 covering the Strait of Malacca and the Gulf of Aden in particular, to seek a more long-term resolution of the phenomenon of maritime piracy and armed robberies at sea.
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Soon after I had stopped teaching and begun to try to write, I read a book called The Hustler by Walter Tevis. I was much taken by Fast Eddie, the character played by Paul Newman in the film, just as I had been much taken with the notion that I was the Cannonball Kid when Charlie Nicholas moved down from Celtic. And as the book seemed to be about anything you wanted to do that was difficult-- writing, becoming a footballer, whatever-- I paid it extra special attention. At one point (oh God oh God oh God) I typed these words out on a piece of paper and pinned it above my desk:That's what the whole goddamned thing is: you got to commit yourself to the life you picked. And you picked it-- most people don't even do that. You're smart and you're young and you've got, like I said before, talent.As the rejection slips piled up, these words comforted me; and as I began to panic about the way things that everybody else had, like careers and nice flats and a bit of cash for the weekend, seemed to be slipping out of arm's reach, friends and family began to try to reassure me. "You know you're good," they said. "You'll be OK. Just be patient." And I did know I was good, and I had committed myself to the life I had picked, and my friends, and Fast Eddie's friends, couldn't all be wrong, so I sat back and waited. I know now that I was wrong, stupid, to do so, and I know because Gus Caesar told me so.
Gus is living proof that this self-belief, this driven sense of vocation (and I am not talking about arrogance here, but the simple healthy self-confidence that is absolutely necessary for survival), can be viciously misleading. Did Gus commit himself to the life he had picked? Of course he did. You don't get anywhere near the first team of a major First Division football club without commitment. And did he know he was good? He must have done, and justifiably so. Think about it. At school he must have been much, much better than his peers, so he gets picked for the school team, and then some representative side, South London Boys or what have you; and he's still better than anyone else in the team, by miles, so the scouts come to watch, and he's offered an apprenticeship not with Fulham or Brentford or even West Ham but with the mighty Arsenal. And it's still not over, even then, because if you look at any First Division youth team of five years ago you won't recognize most of the names, because most of them have disappeared. (Here's the Arsenal youth team of April 1987, from a randomly plucked programme: Miller, Hannigan, McGregor, Hillier, Scully, Carstairs, Connelly, Rivero, Cagigao, S. Ball, Esqulant. Of those, only Hillier has come through, although Miller is still with us as a highly rated reserve goalkeeper; Scully is still playing professional football somewhere, though not for Arsenal or any other First Division team. The rest have gone, and gone from a club famous for giving its own players a fair crack.)
But Gus survives, and goes on to play for the reserves. And suddenly, it's all on for him: Don Howe is in trouble, and flooding the first team with young players: Niall Quinn, Hayes, Rocastle, Adams, Martin Keown. And when Viv Anderson is suspended over Christmas 1985 Gus makes his debut as part of a back four that's kept a clean sheet away at Manchester United.
Howe gets the sack, and George Graham keeps him on, and he's used as a sub in quite a few games over George's first season, so things are still going well for him-- not as well as they are for Rocky and Hayes and Adams and Quinn, but then these players are having an exceptional first full season, and when the squad for the England Under-21s is announced it's full of Arsenal players, and Gus Caesar is one of them. The England selectors, like the Arsenal fans, are beginning to trust Arsenal's youth policy implicitly, and Gus gets a call-up even though he isn't in the first team regularly. But never mind why, he's in, he's recognised as one of the best twenty or so young players in the whole country.
Now at this point Gus could be forgiven for relaxing his guard a little. He's young, he's got talent, he's committed to the life he's picked, and at least some of the self-doubt that plagues everyone with long-shot dreams must have vanished by now. At this stage you have to rely on the judgment of others (I was relying on the judgments of friends and agents and anyone I could find who would read my stuff and tell me it was OK); and when those others include two Arsenal managers and an England coach then you probably reckon that there isn't much to worry about.
But as it turns out, they are all wrong. So far he has leaped over every hurdle in his path comfortably, but even at this late stage it is possible to be tripped up. Probably the first time we notice that things aren't right is in January 1987, in that first-leg semi-final against Tottenham: Caesar is painfully, obviously, out of his depth against those Spurs forwards. In truth he looks like a rabbit caught in headlights, frozen to the spot until Waddle or Allen or somebody runs him over, and then he starts to thrash about, horribly and pitifully, and finally George and Theo Foley put him out of his misery by substituting him. He doesn't get another chance for a while. The next time I remember him turning out is against Chelsea at Stamford Bridge in a 1-1 draw, a week or two before the Luton final, but again there is a moment in the first half where Dixon runs at him, turns him one way, then the other, then back again, like your dad used to do to you when you were a really little kid in the back garden, and eventually strolls past him and puts the ball just the wrong side of the post. We knew that there was going to be trouble at Wembley, when O'Leary was out injured and Gus was the only candidate to replace him. Caesar leaves it late, but when the ball is knocked into the box seven minutes from time, he mis-kicks so violently that he falls over; at this point he looks like somebody off the street who has won a competition to appear as a centre-half in a Wembley final, and not like a professional footballer at all, and in the ensuing chaos Danny Wilson stoops to head the ball over the line for Luton's equalising goal.
That's it. End of story. He's at the club for another three or four years, but he's very much the last resort centre-back, and he must have known, when George bought Bould and then Linighan and then Pates, with Adams and O'Leary already at the club, that he didn't have much of a future-- he was the sixth in line for two positions. He was given a free transfer at the end of the 90/91 season, to Cambridge United; but within another couple of months they let him go too, to Bristol City, and a couple of months after that Bristol City let him go to Airdrie. To get where he did, Gus Caesar clearly had more talent than nearly everyone of his generation (the rest of us can only dream about having his kind of skill) and it still wasn't quite enough.
Sport and life, especially the arty life, are not exactly analogous. One of the great things about sport is its cruel clarity: there is no such thing, for example, as a bad one-hundred-metre runner, or a hopeless centre-half who got lucky; in sport, you get found out. Nor is there such a thing as an unknown genius striker starving in a garret somewhere, because the scouting system is foolproof. (Everyone gets watched.) There are, however, plenty of bad actors or musicians or writers making a decent living, people who happened to be in the right place at the right time, or knew the right people, or whose talents have been misunderstood or overestimated. Even so, I think there is a real resonance in the Gus Caesar story: it contains a terrifying lesson for any aspirants who think that their own unshakeable sense of destiny (and again, this sense of destiny is not to be confused with arrogance-- Gus Caesar was not an arrogant footballer) is significant. Gus must have known he was good, just as any pop band who has ever played the Marquee know they are destined for Madison Square Garden and an NME front cover, and just as any writer who has sent off a completed manuscript to Faber and Faber knows that he is two years away from the Booker. You trust that feeling with your life, you feel the strength and determination it gives you coursing through your veins like heroin... and it doesn't mean anything at all.
Monday, January 3, 2011
Hornby on excellence's long tail
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A really poignant story. It shows the value of confidence but also the downside.ReplyDelete
I found most of this book rather boring,probably because its about one mans rather unbelievable obsession with Arsenal but this extract was brilliant,it sums up professional sport and its cruelty but also its way of bringing young men and women to their senses when it comes to their own abulities. I was a decent young cricketer, whats called a good club player and I had several trials with some first class counties but every time I did I realised, no matter how good I thought I was or was in my own club world I would never make it as a professional , there were others that were better. If had of been taken on I would probably of had a miserable time and it may have put me off cricket for life. Thankfully I wasn't and went on and still do enjoy playing club cricket.ReplyDelete


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April 19, 2007
Santa Barbara, Calif. - Three UC Santa Barbara men's volleyball players picked up Mountain Pacific Sports Federation (MPSF) honors for their performances during the 2007 season it was announced Thursday. Evan Patak and Theo Brunner were named to the league's first team, while Bart Kowalski earned honorable mention accolades.
Patak currently leads the nation in kills per game (5.75) and aces per game (.981) and is second in points per game (6.65). The senior opposite hitter finished the regular season as the MPSF leader in kills per game (5.98), aces per game (1.02), and points per game (7.40). Patak has been the Gauchos' offensive workhorse all season, recording 30 or more kills seven times and collecting a school single season record 106 service aces. He put away double-digit kills in all but two matches and is the lone player in the nation with over 600 kills this year. The two-time all-American has accounted for 1,210 of UCSB's 3,360 attacks, 36%. On April 6 against Cal State Northridge, Patak tallied his 2,000th career kill, making him just the second Gaucho in school history to surpass the mark. He has been chosen as the MPSF Player of the Week four times this year. Patak was named to the All-MPSF First Team in 2005 and was a second team selection in 2004. In addition, he was touted as the MPSF Newcomer of the Year in 2004.
Brunner was second in the conference in hitting, swinging at a .531 clip in MPSF matches. His current .548 overall attack percentage ranks fourth in the country. The junior middle blocker is on pace to obliterate UCSB's single season hitting mark, which he set at .486 in 2005. He leads the Gauchos with 111 blocks, is second with 419.5 points, and third with 19 aces. Brunner notched his 800th career kill this season and recently moved into the top-ten on UCSB's career block assists and total blocks lists. On Jan. 12, he established a new career-high with 23 kills at Pacifc. He was named All-MPSF Honorable Mention in 2006 and 2005.
Kowalski, a senior setter, has racked up 1,019 assists this season and is averaging 12.28 per game, good for 13th in the country. His 11.93 average in MPSF matches ranked him seventh among all league players. Kowalski set several career-highs this season, including assists (74 at Pacific on 1/12), digs (9 vs. UCLA on 1/17), and blocks (5.0 at Indiana-Purdue on 3/3). With 26 assists at Cal Baptist on March 27, he moved into fifth place all-time at UCSB, where he currently sits with 2,859 helpers. Kowalski has helped lead the Gauchos to a .366 hitting percentage, which is second best in the nation. UCSB is on pace to set a new single season record as the current hitting mark is .348, set in 2002. The Gauchos led the MPSF with a .369 attack percentage.
Pepperdine setter Jonathan Winder was named the 2007 MPSF Player of the Year, while BYU setter Yamil Perez took Newcomer of the Year honors. Marv Dunphy, in his 24th season as the head coach at Pepperdine, was tabbed the MPSF Coach of the Year.
UCSB (19-11, 14-8 MPSF), ranked fifth in the country, will host No. 4 UCLA (19-10, 13-9 MPSF) April 21 in a MPSF Tournament quarterfinal match. First serve is slated for 7 p.m. at Robertson Gymnasium. The winner will advance to take on top-ranked Pepperdine in the semis on April 26 in Malibu.


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Craft gin club offers chance to sample specialist beverages – and puds!
The finely stocked bar at Fernhill House will enjoy an extra bit of pizzazz every month – thanks to its membership of a craft gin club.
Residents can enjoy sampling a specialist gin every month – and carrying on testing it until stocks are depleted. But never fear – there'll be another one along soon!
And creative hospitality manager, award winning chef Chris Williams, used this month's mystery consignment – Honeybee gin - to create a mouth-watering take on the traditional Eton mess - Fernhill mess, the recipe for which is below.
The ethos behind the gin club is to enable members to sample small batch, rare gins from around the world which would not be available anywhere else – least of all in the supermarket!
With Fernhill House's all inclusive price policy, residents can not only quaff as much gin as they like – but meals, wine, tea and cakes for themselves, family and friends whenever they fancy – without paying a penny on top of their monthly fee.
Friends and family are positively welcomed to join their relative for a cocktail, craft gin, three course dinner or afternoon tea and cake whenever they fancy.
Recipe for Fernhill mess (makes six)
Six ready-made meringues, 570 ml double cream, 450g raspberries, 75ml honeybee go 1 x tablespoon of sugar
Begin by mixing the raspberries, gin and sugar together so the raspberries are covered and slightly macerated. Next whisk the cream until it is firm. Fold the raspberry mix through the cream and then crush the meringues into the mix and give it a final stir. Finish with finely grated lime zest and voila!!


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Oceans: Our Blue Planet takes us on a global odyssey to discover the largest and least explored habitat on earth. New ocean science and technology has allowed us to go further into the unknown than we ever thought possible. From the coastal shallows to deeper, more mysterious worlds, we reveal the untold stories of the oceans' most astonishing creatures.


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On 14th February, the Danish ambassador to India, Michael Sternberg, visited the headquarters of Grundfos' Indian sales company in Chennai.
The ambassador is the gentleman in the light suit in the centre of the picture, beside Managing Director N.K.Ranganath.
This was Michael Sternberg 's first visit to Chennai as Danish ambassador. Until recently he was Danish ambassador to Indonesia, where he contributed greatly to helping Danish companies within the water supply and energy conservation industry.


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Manchester City legend Mike Summerbee got into a heated debate Saturday after his side lost 2-1 to Manchester United at Old Trafford. The discussion was aired on Sky Sports where Summerbee, sitting alongside Manchester United legend Dwight Yorke and Jamie Redknapp defended City's performance by arguing that they had more of the possession, created more chances and the only difference between the two sides was a spectacular goal.
Depending on side of the fence you sit on, you may agree or disagree with Summerbee. But nevertheless, it made for good television and a fiery debate rather than many pundits who often tend to agree with another.
What do you think? Do you agree or disagree with Summerbee regarding Manchester City's performance on Saturday?


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Bring traditional style and elegance to your bathroom with the Milano Elizabeth triple thermostatic shower valve, 300mm shower head and slide rail kit. Supplied with the solid brass ceiling mounted arm, the shower head delivers a luxurious rainfall effect. The slide rail kit is supplied with the handset and hose. The handset can easily be adjusted to the desired height.
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- Diameter of Shower Head: 70mm
- Diameter of the connector between hose and head: 22mm
- Diameter of slide rail is 18mm
|2-Outlet Shower System
|ABS, Brass
|Head Size
|300 x 300mm
|Number of Outlets
|Functions Work Simultaneously
|Flow Control
|Ceramic Disc
|Temperature Control
|Recommended Water Pressure
|1.0 bar
|Minimum Water Pressure
|0.5 bar
|Maximum Water Pressure
|5.0 bar
|Hand Shower
|10 Years
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*You will not be charged for delivery if your order totals £295 or more. Any order under £295 will incur a standard delivery charge of £4.95.
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Highlands & Islands
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At BigBathroomShop.co.uk we operate a 30 day returns policy, so if you're not completely satisfied with your purchase, then you can return your order within 30 days of receiving it.
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Full details of our returns policy can be found here
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