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LETTERS There is nothing wrong with the chip wagon in uptown Waterloo. It is always clean and tidy, I have never seen at any time congestion or trouble with cars parking or people on the sidewalk. Beâ€" sides, the people you do have to check the parking don‘t do a good job anyway. Chip wagon adds to Uptown appearance In response to Mr. Rob Deyman and his task force on street vendors â€" if they would look around and see what we do need, they would be doing something. As far as competition for merchants, if they made a good product of their own in _fFeedback Perhaps it‘s not the right timing for this column or haps it‘s the perfect timing. It depenf::ntirely on your frame of mind just a week after Thanksgiving. The midsection. Just as our eyes are the windows to our souls, the midsection is the bay window to our health habits. In midlife, which begins by midâ€"20s begin, we spend so much time doing so many different things, it‘s hard to think about all the physical activities we did in our school years. Or maybe that‘s all we do â€" think about it. The belt buckle simply gets pushed out further and further, the love handles stop being cute, and the shoulders stay slouchâ€" ed with the extra weight. > Although the midsection is the most vulnerable to weight gain, it is easy to exercises can slim the sides and flatten the front without the exertion required for most other parts of the body. In this I‘m referring to an average middleâ€"aged person trying to reduce and tone, not build a washboard stomach and join the Chippendales (yes, yes, I have glanced at their picture â€" just briefly.) While doing the midsection exercises try to concentrate on the midsection. By mentally and physically targeting the abdominal muscles, the exercises will work quickly, making a marked visual difference, encouraging you on. 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The mail is an important service and maybe government employees shouldn‘t be allowed to . _ Fitness Instructor Rick Hallwood Kathy Hammond Fitness Forum Kitchener both hands over your head and bend over to the side. No cheating. Bending forward or backward will not help the muscles. Situps: Most people now do curlâ€"ups with hands behind the head and only the shoulder blades curling off the floor as the stomach is held tight. However, if you want to maximize the abdominal work a situp is your most effective exercise. Now before you panic about back problems, it is true that the back also gets a workout with a situp. BUT ... most people with weak stomach muscles also have weak back muscles, so both need to be strengthened. repeat the same side or switch from side The further you raise the arm over the head and control it over to the side, the more weight you add to your abdominal muscles, working them harder, building muscle. If youngnd it too strenuous to keep yourself straight as you bend to the side, hoid your hands on your h1 minimizing the weight until your si Legs bent at the knees, hands at either side of your temples, pull yourself up to a sitting position, using your stomach muscles. If you can‘t get up in control, it‘s the curlup for you. If you can sit up, do so and stretch yourself in front each time you sit up. Curl down with as much control as you mustered while sitting up. Ten situps daily will build muscles and tone. Repetiâ€" tions of 25 situps will help you get a washboard stomach. their stores they wouldn‘t have to worry about the chip wagon. Two members of the Uptown Waterloo Business Improvement Area are always complaining â€" why don‘t they stand behind their quotes in the Waterloo. As long as things are going their way and they have what they want, everything is OK. paper â€" they have nothing else to do, or so it seems. Quit picking on street vendors like the chip wagon. There are hundreds of people like me who like the way it operates and keeps its area neat and clean. If other merchants would work as hard to beautify and improve the quality of shops uptown and in the mall, we‘d all be better off. If the one arm method is too easy, hold They are like the rest of the officials of ‘"Yes. I feel that they have an obligation to keep the mail movâ€" ing, and that having outside workâ€" ers is OK. Can.dangoat is trying to give the image that they‘re improâ€" m their service, even with the ike on. The public wouldn‘t tolerate no mail servite." Waterloo, Ont. Did you agree with the tactics used by Canada Post to keep the mail moving during the recent strike? is democratic Centralism at work here? Ian Kirkby (City Seen, Oct. 14) tells us that "for years, Waterloo council has operated under what they call a ‘team‘ approach. In this approach, council memâ€" bers openly debated issues and motions ‘in caucus‘ and at public meetings. However, once a decision had been made, dissent, in essence, stopped." I am struck by the fact that this conforms, almost word for word, with comrade Lenin‘s description of what he called "democractic centralism,"‘ Lenin‘s preferred mode of government for the Soviet Union. Enough said. â€" from all over the world. Most of them I found completely unin came face to face with a painting that really grabbed me. _ It depicted a twisting street in a small I felt had possibilities, and one was quite Spanish town, but it had been done in such a way, with such bold strokes of the palette knife and with such strong colors, that I couldn‘t take my eyes from it. To me, there was nothing wrong with it; it masterpiece. Now, I‘m no connoisseur of art, nor do I particularly want to be; I just like what I like. The other day I read a piece by a woman with an envied reputation for picking valuable paintings by new and unknown artists and she said: ‘"There are no set standards for judging any kind of art. The emotional reaction you get from looking at a picture is the thing that makes you want to buy it." She went on to say: "The emotion you feel looking at a picture was also felt, of course, by the artist while painting it. In any good art, whether it‘s a wild modern abstract or a Rembrandt or an El Greco, the artist isn‘t painting a picture of what he sees. He doesn‘t draw a child playing in the park. He draws a picture of what he feltâ€"when he saw the child playing in the park. If it‘s a good picture, you get the same feeling too, and if it‘s a masterâ€" piece, you get the artist‘s feeling very intensely and clearly. So you judge the value of a picture by how much feeling you get out of it." That definition of art â€" a work that gives the viewer the same emotion experienced by the artist with the same intensity â€" applies not only to painting Not long ago I was browsing through a ‘‘Yes. They have a business to run and a building to protect and I feel the measures they took were Post has been pushed too far." Dave Darasch WATERLOO CHRONICLE, WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 21, 1987 â€" PAGE 7 Rod Preece Waterloo, Ont. Geoffrey Fellows and sculpture but to any medium of artistic expression â€" poems, novels, plays, and music. So, let your feeling be your guide, and you be the judge. Leo Tolstoy, whose “{Var and Peace" is widely regarded as the world‘s greatest novel, arrived at much the same concluâ€" sion after several years of studying the question of what is art. He decided that the act of artistic creation is to recall an experience and the feeling aroused and then by means of painting, sculpture, writing, or musical sounds to transmit It is true that all great artists are ahead of their time and their works have been roundly condemned by their conâ€" temporary public, only to be fully appreâ€" ciated a generation later, in a way that‘s a measure of their greatness. They are leading the way in our search for someâ€" thing greater. that feeling to other peof‘le, so that they experience it, as if they are living There is a lot of snobbery in the art world so don‘t get the idea that art can only be appreciated by the few whose time and interests run in that direction. The discerning old novelist, W. Somerset Maugham, stoutly supports Tolstoy and scorns the notion that some important art can only be valued by a privileged few. He says: "An art is only great and significant if it is one that all may enjoy. The art of a clique is but a plaything." through it. But, as I‘m sure you know, never ask what is right for you or your home. You will know it when you meet it â€" you‘ll feel it. (Mr. Fellows operates the Human Reâ€" source Development Institute, P.O. Box 642, Cambridge, N1R 5W1, providing effectiveness training to business and industry.) Thanks from Black Ribbon Committee On behalf of the International Black Ribbon Day Committee, I would like to extend to you our gratitude for your help on Aug. 23. I know some people found it impossible to be there, due to previous commitments. However, they also helped by advertising the event for us among their friends and contacts. We ask that you keep our endeavor in mind, join us in our further efforts, especially Aug. 23, 1988 and watch our program on Rogers Cable TV, the Comâ€" munity channel. Once again many thanks. "Yes. I think that the governâ€" ment is adequately taking care of postal workers. I‘m in favor of franchising, it might improve the mail service." Desmond Lond Kitchener, Ont. Waterloo Gerhard Hess