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Power Issue 2012 180° From Ordinary Jo Lee Jo Jo Lee Power Exclusive The World’s Top Bankers All That Glitters Is Gold • This Evolving Universe • Damnoem Saduak’s Floating Market C M Y CM MY CY CMY K C M Y CM MY CY CMY K inspiration in print Jo Lee 180° From Ordinary On The Cover: Jo Lee seated on a Florentine 18th-century love seat originally seen in her parent’s home. Today, it sits in her Canadian home at the famed Fairmont Royal York, Toronto. Dress, hat, jewelry from Jo Lee’s personal wardrobe. Original cover photography by Jag Gundu of Jag Photography. www.jagphotography.com Digital imaging by Alexandra A. Egan. President & CEO Social Media Nino A. Mascioli Founder, Publisher, Editor in Chief Executive VP & CTO Social Media Josephina Lea Mascioli Mansell John Black Marketing Editor Executive VP Creative Susan Berger Jason Howlett Marketing Relations Worldwide Marketing Advisor Matthew G. 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Jo Lee 180° From Ordinary PhilanthropicThe ADESTE Gold Medal 7 Letters To The Editor 10 ExclusivesJo Lee Anniversary Exclusive 26 The World’s Top Bankers The 16 Who Matter By Susan Berger Special Assignment – JO LEE Magazine New York/San Francisco/Hong Kong/ London/Tokyo/Rome/Toronto The Power Image 14 From the private collection of Ray Scotty Morris Internationally Renowned Photojournalist Ray Scotty Morris San Francisco – California L’Occhio / The Eye 86 Damnoen Saduak’s Floating Market Internationally Renowned Photojournalist Ray Scotty Morris San Francisco – California WealthPizzazz 66 And That’s PIZZAZZ By Kathleen Mailliard Solmssen San Francisco – California The Rich & The Famous 76 Visiting Spain’s Balearic Islands In Style And Luxury By Heide Van Doren Betz San Francisco – California The Provocative & Challenging 102 World Of Arceri Lloyd Nolan: A Champion To Remember By Gene Arceri with Sandra Grabman New York / San Francisco / London I’ve Always Been Nuts 105 Prescience By John Paul Jarvis Toronto – Canada TravelYes, Virginia! 60 Come – Explore With Me Copper Canyon, Mexico By Lois M. Gordon IntoxicatingThe Marvelous Opinions Maverick Silicon Valley – California 16 Human Evolution And Slow Recovery By H. Gail Regan Toronto – Canada Pros & Ex.Cons ContributorIndulgences s 18 This Evolving Universe 12 By Stanley J. Dorst The Poet’s Corner San Francisco – California 20 By Dr. Margaret R. O’Keeffe Umanzio, Sally Anne Reisner & Vera Resnik You Are What You Ate 63 By Dr. Andrea Buckett Power In Motion Toronto – Canada 22 Photography By Ron Henggeler San Francisco – California Synaptic Transmission 64 In The Mind’s Eye All That Glitters Is Gold By James T. Rutka, MD 94 By Guy Lamarche Toronto – Canada City of Timmins – Canada The Power Of Momentum 70 African Renaissance Editor at Large And Momentum 107 Power Up With Yoga By Carla Dragnea By David C. Wesonga Nairobi – Kenya Bucharest – Romania Double Entendre 72 Rewards Of Aging By Saul Levine, MD San Diego – California LimoncelloLA GRANDE FINALE When Angels Cry 108 Early “Green Power” 98 Liberating The Child By Monte S. Bell By Kelechi Eleanya Warren – Vermont The Niger Delta – Nigeria Wits End The Digital Divide 109 Humor And You 100 Putin’s Eurasian Empire By JO LEE Magazine By Craig Ricker New York / San Francisco / Hong Kong / Moscow – Russia London / Tokyo / Rome / Toronto Jo Lee Power 2012 9 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR CameronCEO C. Weinstat London – England Congratulations JO LEE on an AnaExecutive McCatherty Anniversary Issue splendidly done. Edmonton – Canada The World’s Most Powerful becomes a fascinating twist to the charmed In Craig Ricker’s The Digital pages of JO LEE. Your presentation, Divide (Anniversary Issue 2011), your flow of content, and your the argument that Communism photography are outstanding. does not believe in God, therefore there can be no humanity seems flawed in two ways. First, whether we believe in God or not does not MetahExecutive Zarkonis affect whether there is a God; and Hamburg – Germany second, the morality of Christianity EriProfessor Taafe can exist whether the government The Marvelous Maverick’s miniature Nuuk – Greenland believes in God or not. Caring for politics of community associations is our neighbor (person or country) is a often intrusive and equally as trying Epiphanies (A-Ha!) – Our minds are valid philosophy that produces results as major world politics. Finding indeed fascinating! They look at a in this world. Whether that concept community solutions is a real problem over and over to see the core is incorporated in government action challenge and this story, Unfairness, truth, or an answer to the puzzle. As is more a matter of democracy vs. History And Magic, is an interesting the author, Dr. Saul Levine, cleverly dictatorship. Dictators resort to example. Trying to assign benefits to states: the enlightenment that comes oppression in order to keep control, need may not be even possible. in an insight, or solution, is amazing. while a democracy denies control to (Anniversary Issue 2011) oppressors and allows progress. LesterBook Lover B. Arthur New York – New York TimothySr. Store Keeper Spawn MonicaBanker De Salle Dundee – Scotland Chicago – USA Mr. David C. Wesonga, Nairobi, Kenya, brings to mind the story of Powerful is the When Angels Cry Government is too generous with Rwanda – which I had forgotten. piece in the Anniversary Issue. other people’s money, as read in (Power Of Momentum, Anniversary Organized Crime: We Must Protect Pros & Ex.Cons, Anniversary issue. Issue). It is a story of great recovery The Child – it is interesting how I agree that the people who see – and I sense the USA is moving different the milieu of a teen in humans living in peace and sharing toward withdrawal world wide – Africa can be from one in Canada. their wealth are not of this world! hoping the world will leave us alone In North America our teens are over- We can be generous as individuals, in peace and prosperity. This article indulged, while in Africa they are but allocating the role of spending is a great reminder of a country that abused, tormented by criminals. Is “our money” to government does not deserves our friendship. there ever a middle ground? work. JL 072_21_2AI_JO_LEE_mag:072_21_2AI_JO_LEE_mag 7/4/08 10:58 AM Page 1 Flat out wonderful. 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