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Minimum $100 Purchase Coupon must be used before May 9, 1992 * Limit 1 coupon per purchase * Not vaiid in conjunction with any other offer or promotion * Goods already on saie excluded As the title indicates, the book is high drama, glowing with the fire of creative fury. But there is a theme running throughout that absorbed my attention. I couldn‘t help being struck by the almost unbelievable extra effort and time he devoted to background detail and preparation for his work. Even in an age when art flourished and talent abounded out of all proportion to any other period of history, he would have been a giant with the minimum of effort. If he had worked at all, there was almost no way he could have escaped greatness. â€" But instead of following the easy, and perfectly acceptable, way of having apprentices do most of the drudgery, he refused to entrust even the smallest detail to others. Some might say that he wasn‘t well organized, that he was wasting his time on menial tasks, but much of his "agony‘" was his drive for perfection He made his own paint and his own tools and might spend weeks, even months, selecting the right marble for a sculpture. He supervised the quarrying and once helped build the road for transporting his selected stone from the quarry. In painting the scene on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, he had to work on a scaffold 60 feet high (that‘s as high as a six storey building). Painters, working at armsâ€"length, have to keep on standing back to view their work for correct proportion and right perspective. Imagine having to ‘stand back‘ from 60 feet down! It‘s the story of one of the world‘s most diversified artists â€" painter, sculptor and architect â€" who produced some of the greatest masterpieces that exist today. Those works for which he is most popularly known are the statue of David, the painting on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, and the design for the dome of St. Peter‘s cathedral in Rome Climbing up and down for over four years, he worked on his back with paint dripping into his eyes until he almost lost his sight. His artistry was equalled only by his physical stamina. The design of St. Peter‘s dome took years to complete, during which he finished many other masterpieces. His genius had no limits,; once, when his native Florence was under attack, he developed in a few hours a plan of defence that saved the city. He constantly fought with authorities in order to preserve principle. He did this, not only at great personal sacrifice, but risked his career and even his life in order to do the very best that was in him. With political pressures besetting him, he refused to compromise on the smallest detail. Work was his entire life. Sleep was not something he did from habit, but rather something to which he~succumbed when his body could no longer resist, and he ate only when his body gave him no choice. For sheer, raw talent, Michelangelo was one of the most gifted men to walk the earth. Yet what is perhaps even more significant and exciting to our imagination, he probably worked harder and longer, with more concentrated drive, than any other man since his time. Geoff Fellows operates the Human Resource Development Institute, P.O. Box 642, Cambridge, NLR 5W1, Tel. 623â€"0283, providing effectiveness training for business and industry. $20 OFF e 6 Grades, Everything in Cedar! 000 Sq. Ft. 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She went to the Zimbabwe Y in October 1991 to initiate a strategic planning process which includes assessing current programs, defining development goals and implementing these plans through an exchange of information from the Y in Waterloo. ‘That was done through a process of talking to staff, volunteers and doing community forums. Based on information out of that, decisions are being made as to how to expand and which areas need expansion. (We are also looking at) where our partnership is going and where the YMCA in Zimbabwe is going more importantly," Figher said. Fisher‘s trip to Zimbabwe alone would not constitute an exchange however, if Webster Maâ€" chacha had not come to Canada from Zimbabwe in Building friendships goal of Waterloo Y exchange program M. Coleen Bellemare Chronicle Staff Machacha arrived here in the middle of March and was given special training in computer skills by the staff at the Waterloo Family Y. He learned the Y‘s payroll system and programs such as Lotus 1, 2, 3 as well as DAC Easy, which is an accounting nie Burnett would agree that experience is the most effective teacher. iona Fisher, Webster Machacha and Berâ€" M 39,000 Sq. Ft. AAK Warchouse ; l & SuperStore 2P education "The whole idea behind it is to be able to change the Zimbabwe YMCA accounting system from manual to computerized," Machacha said. "We have the computer. Now that I have had this training, what is needed is to hire a specialist to install the various programs so that I may be able to use the knowledge that I have aquired in Canada." Of course, he learned much more than computers while here. He experienced Arctic temperatures, participated in fitness programs at the Y, saw the sights of southern Ontario, including the C. N. Tower and the Tour of the Universe, Niagara Falls and more. He also tasted every different kind of ethnic food but pizza remained his favorite. Machacha returns to Zimbabwa in April, after a fiveâ€"week stay. ra 99 same again. 66 1| learned a lot about what‘s Burnett, executive director for the YMCA of Kitchenerâ€"Waterloo, Waterloo Family Branch, alâ€" though not participating in a physical exchange, is going to Zimbabwe on a project visit May 10 to oversee the final phase of the process Figher started in October and to exchange ideas and informiation with people at the Zimbabwe Y. "That‘s what partnerships and exchanges are all about. Making new friends and feeling good about the Y mission throughout the world. We‘ve learned a lot from them (in Zimbabwe). They have a very interesting culture," Burnett said. "When it comes to environmental concerns they make a lot more sense when you can talk about it in a global way. One of the big phrases in international is ‘think globally and act locally.‘ It makes it much easier to ng on in Zimbabwe and t think I will ever be the «Decks