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JO LEE’s Exclusive Interview: The Prince of Epic Jean-Charles Dupoire
Hijacked on the Wire Cataract Tuscan Surgery Dreams: Dark Ages Sculptor,Writer Gone Linda Kay Marie
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Philanthropic 2 The ADESTE Prize Jo Lee: Exclusive 32 Interview 10 The Prince of Epic Toronto: The Fairmont Royal York’s Jean-Charles Dupoire Lifestyles & Careers Jo Lee: 6 The Marvelous Maverick 36 Celebrating Beauty by Hugh Coppen Le Café au Salon Rouge Company and Employees on Different Wavelengths Jo Lee Intoxicating Thin'K'ers Corner Opinions 40 by Carolyn Young 38 Come to the CamPUS Politically Red by Lani Silver Medicine Pros & Ex.Cons 18 46 by George Weigel Stethoscope 911 Sr. Fellow of the Ethics by Dr. John J. Bagshaw 23 and Public Policy Centre, Why are patients subjected Washington, D.C. to radical treatment?
Travel Arts & Entertainment 20 Come – Explore with me The Provocative by Audrey Lisette Hess-Eberle 8 Nepal: By Design of Splendor and Challenging by Gene Arceri The incomparable Jean Cook: An Invitation to Understanding
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Features Sports 23 Tuscan Dreams Half Time: by Linda Kay Marie Wallace, 22 Behind the Bench Tuscany, Italia. Sculptor, by James Mansell 22 Writer, Caprese Michelangelo The “X” Factor Who and Where 28 Art Thine Enemies? Body and Self by Captain Peter A. Stark, Jr. You Are What You Ate USN, Ret., Charlottesville, 45 You’ll Become What You Eat Virginia. Exploring the by Andrea Buckett, challenges of terrorism Doctor of Homeopathy to the freedoms we enjoy. Hijacked on the Wire Indulgences 26 by Gary Freeman, 42 Toronto, Canada Managing Editor Information theft CraZzy about R & D and identity hijacking by Nahidah Malik 30 Cataract Surgery Editor at Large by W.E.S. Connolly, 50 Preparing for School MD, FRCSC by Carla Dragnea Montréal, Canada. Dark Ages Gone. Wit’s End 32 How a Business Is Born 48 Weird and Wacky Facts by Micheline C. Hollaus, by Mohammed Malik Boca Raton, Florida. On Authors and Books Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. On theCover » To Grow Without Jo Lee at the Fairmont Royal York, 34 Violence 19th Floor, Toronto, Canada by Judith Land, 22 Karat Gold Pendant, National Shield of Honduras, Budapest, Hungary by Merendon Jewellery, S.A.
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CONTENTS PAGE 5 THE MARVELOUS MAVERICK » By Hugh Coppen
» OK – that’s it! Summer is over. Life’s like Aaron S. asks: Mav, coming home that: things we enjoy slip by too fast, while from a business trip the airline was overbooked and offered a free things we don’t, seem to last forever. Here’s ticket to anyone who would give up my question: Would you prefer for your life their seat. I took the deal and was to go by fast because you’re happy with what back at work on time the next day. it is, or to drag by slowly because you’re not Do I owe that free ticket to the company? at all happy? Here are some great questions from this month’s mailbox: Whoa, Aaron, questions like this have so many aspects – it all depends on your perspective! Often the company thinks one thing and the employee, the opposite. My first advice to you is to do whatever your ‘highest conscience’ guides you to do. Beyond that, I’d say this: if the company generally expects you to travel on ‘your’ time (i.e. evenings and weekends) then, I say you keep that free ticket since you gave up more of your own time to earn it. But if the company normally books you to travel during business hours, and if you earn a free ticket ‘on Things we enjoy company time’, then I think you’re obliged to return the free ticket to the company. Pretty broad slip by too fast. guidelines, I know, but they work!
CONTENTS PAGE 6 Do whatever your ‘highest conscience’ guides you to do.
Mike B. asks: Mav, My boss is all Julie M. asks: Mav! I was over me – I don’t seem to do promised a bonus package anything right although I am at my last review, but I doing everything expected of me. have no idea what is I’ve never had this problem expected of me to earn it. before and always have excellent What do I do? performance reviews. What do Should a free ticket obtained I’m going to bet you’re in a small, from business travel be used you suggest? entrepreneurial company, Julie. for a personal vacation? Tough one, Mike, because it Entrepreneurs are so self-motivated could be so many things. that they think everybody is like Sometimes it’s because the boss is them and that people will work for so frustrated by his/her own boss some vague bonus. Not true! that the only outlet is to nit-pick You absolutely must get specific you. Or it could be that you’re on achievable measures down on different ‘wavelengths’ and that paper. You’re likely to find that there are expectations that your your boss can’t be very specific, so boss has, that you’re not meeting the discipline will fall on you. because you never knew they were Suggest targets, and don’t settle there. for anything less. It’s the only way What often happens in this you’ll ever earn your bonus, trust situation is that tensions build up me! Until next time, The Mav and communications go down. To Write The Maverick » Click Here « Don’t let this happen! It usually ends badly for you! You have to find Hugh Coppen, The Marvelous Maverick, ways to talk with your boss. Talk is a man who understands that the only about what you’ve done (be very way a company succeeds is when the specific) and what you’re in the employees from bottom to top are process of accomplishing, and motivated by shared goals and when explain how puzzled you are that they develop their skills, knowing that he/she is not satisfied. Ask for new what they do really matters. People specific goals you can agree on have always been the focus of Hugh’s together, document them yourself highly successful career! Write Hugh if you have to, and then commit now with your questions about your to your boss that you will achieve career and let him help you. those goals. Go do it! And if that Hugh Coppen resides in California still doesn’t work, think about www.winningleadership.com getting another boss!
CONTENTS PAGE 7 THE PROVOCATIVE & CHALLENGING WORLD OF ARCERI » By Gene Arceri New York – San Francisco The]xtÇVÉÉ~M Incomparable an Invitation to Understanding
» As principal Minister/Founder try to paraphrase her thoughts. of The World Metaphysical Group Remembering that the Italian - Jean has many acclaimed awards astronomer Galileo who was the but modestly remains unaffected. first to use a telescope to study the She is accomplished as she is pre- stars, not only searched the cognitive with Trans-Channeling. heavens for the stars, he searched She too, is a renowned Egyptologist the stars for the heavens. having been invited to lecture by Museum Curators from around To those who come to Jean for a the world. reading from far and wide - all A bright, smiling, good looking leave with a sense of wisdom and woman interested in others, and relief from the weight of a their accomplishments – her problem that brought them to her inquisitive clients have many in the first place. unanswered experiences. What is She believes you should trust your coincidence! Really? Whether you psychic instincts. For years she call it fate or a miracle, life is full herself suppressed hers. Born in of extraordinary events. Who better Cardiff, Wales, her life there with to have had experienced this than family and friends couldn’t have psychic Jean Cook, who has been been more comfortable. Soon a called spiritually profound, and wife and mother with a career in unusually pleasantly moved with medicine, in London, nevertheless the message she may have for you. hers was inwardly an uneasy life – Sphinx like in her ability to talk for she was haunted by her about herself and shy of publicity, spiritual guide as a child to follow it is only because of our many years her destiny. of friendship that she has agreed Finally, unable to resist any to my doing this composition. I will
CONTENTS PAGE 8 The secret of life is to see things under the aspect of eternity.
further, she opened up to My personal input now her psychic gifts. Suffice will be this. In The to say she followed a Wizard Of Oz you may destined path to recall, a tornado come to San touched down in Francisco and what Kansas, on June ensued was her 22, 1969 – the Christian day Judy Garland spiritualist church died. Spinoza has with a following of said “the secret of famous clients – life is to see things several calling for under the aspect of taped absent eternity” and I readings – when might add over the backed into a corner: rainbow. « Trapped, as long as they To Write Gene Arceri consider their own » Click Here « feelings as ultimate and as long as they are guided by irrational passions. Independence Gene Arceri has gained attention in no is not an external condition, but a small measure as a writer, critic, award state of the soul. too much by the tools of the winning PBS reviewer and publicist. A times. Here and soon gone … native New Yorker, Gene resides in San As Jean Cook would say – ‘we are better that we should preserve a Francisco and spends considerable time living in an age of anxiety. We are sense of humility in moments of in London, England. Among his best suspended, between an uncertain triumph and a sense of expectancy selling books are ‘Elizabeth Taylor: Her future which we cannot comprehend in moments of disaster for we Life. Her Loves. Her Future.’ and Susan and a past which we cannot would achieve the perspective of Hayward’s ‘RED’. Gene can be seen on recover. Living in an age of flux peace, of serenity amidst turmoil E! Entertainment. and constant change we tend to and fortitude, amidst the twilight rely upon our senses and we feel of despair. that our desires and ambitions are the measure of the universe.’ Many answers lie in questions. Often people take action because of Many of us are so seduced by their premonitions but are reluctant immediacy – the fast now – that to talk about them. It might just we lose sight of lasting values. We save your life. Jean’s healing clinic believe that success is all and her classes – are well booked. important, we rely too much So are her astrological readings by upon material comforts, guided mail recorded on audiocassette.
CONTENTS PAGE 9 EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW »
Jo Lee talks to JEAN-CHARLES DUPOIRE: The PRINCE of EPIC in a Castle of the North
» The youngest Prince of his kind treasured privileges!) to outside pleasure – it is then that you learn more about the to be raised in the Loire Valley of JEAN-CHARLES: Yes Jo Lee, it person and not the chef. France, he’s a sophisticated Titan, is a real pleasure to receive you whose kingdom lies in the $12 today to talk about our common J.L: Defining your own! Is this million restoration of La Grande passion: food! how one explains to the world, Dame of Canada’s finest! He’s Jean-Charles, why at 27 you were J.L: What an elegant gentleman quick, brilliant, handsome and Chef de Cuisine at The Ritz you are Jean-Charles. I’m one of the most sought-after Carlton in St. Thomas, at the wondering if your sophistication Chefs to be found. He’s Epic’s Dorchester and Berkeley Hotels of character is what translates into Jean-Charles Dupoire – Chef de in London at age 24 and 25, the equation between Renoir, Cuisine at Toronto Canada’s together with several award Cezanne, Monet - and becoming famed Fairmont Royal York: ‘a winning dining rooms of France, a Master of great Cuisine? As we Castle of the North.’ Switzerland, French Polynesia know Jean-Charles, there is and the Caribbean before turning JO LEE: Salut, Jean-Charles. La greatness and then there is greatness. séance avec vous aujourd’hui, un 28 and becoming Chef de des plus grands Chefs de notre J.C: Thank you Jo Lee for this Cuisine Epic within the exquisite temps, dans mon hôtel le plus compliment. I believe my character Fairmont Royal York? was molded through all the chefs préféré dans le monde – est J.C: In France, I started to cook I've worked with - learning about surement un de mes privilèges at the age of 15. I was lucky for I every single person’s personal tres precieux! (Jean-Charles, began my training in a very good style, then defining my own. When sitting with you today, one of the restaurant. When food ‘started to you choose to be a chef, Jo Lee, greatest Chefs of our time, in my speak to me’, I knew if I wanted to you are around chefs all the time most favorite hotel in the world – achieve I’d have to push myself and when this becomes extended has indeed got to be one of my every single day. No exceptions.
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3 1. The Fairmont Royal York has been the “grande dame” of Canadian hotels since 1929 2. The Chef and Jo Lee 3. The Foyer to Epic
CONTENTS PAGE 11 Jerusalem artichoke soup a fricassee of seasonal mushrooms garlic roasted corn fed chicken breast spring sugar snap peas asparagus light lemon emulsion Domain des Aspes,Viognier refreshing raspberry parfait glace passion fruit coulis espresso Pillitteri,Vidal Ice wine, Niagara 2001
The choice of working for good J.L: Epic – your dining room, pride and before choosing a new restaurants or well known hotels is Jean-Charles, brings into view: employee to be in the team, I just about working around people linen from Italy, Limoges and need their feedback. And if you who have the same passion as I. Hutschenreuther china from were a Culinary child prodigy Jo France and Germany, silverware Lee, I’d hire you. J.L: Jean-Charles, the raison d’etre from other European parts and of perfection within every J.L: Thank you Jean-Charles but crystal from Tyrol, Austria. Who dimension of this hotel is the with my present credentials, I’d decides what is used? essence behind it hosting over 40 never get past ‘the feedback’ in the million guests since its creation in J.C: The appropriate table falls kitchen! But Jean-Charles, tell 1929, including three generations within the Chef’s domain. My me about Epic’s acclaimed Wine of Britain’s Royal Family. If you assistant, Martin Buijsrogge and Cellars, the rareness of the wines and I were King and Queen, what myself, decide which china the and how closely interwoven you types of cuisine would we enjoy dish will best be presented on, would be with Le Sommelier? during the course of a day and always taking into consideration J.C: David Smock, Epic’s how might we expect them to be the contrast between shape and Sommelier and myself work very served? color. The linen, silverware, closely as he drives me to the best crystal then complement the J.C: "Will it be a dream come in food pairing, tasting and wine china and the dish. true, Jo Lee??" Of course, the maker’s dinners. Our food and King and Queen would begin J.L: How might you choose your beverage director Mr. Le Chatom with breakfast in their private staff? And, if I were a child is a Sommelier, too. This surrounds quarters via room-service. What a prodigy in the world of fine me with a lot of wine knowledge pleasant way to start the day. cuisine, would you hire me and these two gentlemen bring to Lunch, would tease with our without formal schooling? me a new challenge by making me passion for Asian flavor and most aware of the true essence of J.C: I choose people Jo Lee, by Benihana’s tepaniaky and fresh fine dining: Food is good but their knowledge, their motivation sushi. The afternoon would let food with a good wine is even to work in our Fairmont Royal time pass us by with tea and delicious better. The acclaimed wine cellar York and – most important – by tea food. By early evening, the belonging to Epic offers one of listening to what my colleagues drums would roll and to get the the most magnificent selections of think of this new person. Though ‘dining experience’ that a Queen wine from all over the world, a kitchen is continuously and a King deserve – we would including Ontario’s finest. changing, there are always the enter: Epic. All served with ease strong people who remain J.L: What are your most favorite and proficiency. around. These people are my vineyards?
CONTENTS PAGE 12 J.C: Experiencing new wines each Caviar and Dom Perignon – a food do you anticipate with day, is so good for me. From the 1962, ‘73 or ‘85 vintage. Et voila longing this Fall Season? What old world to the new world several – le menu? wines, spirits or beverages would wines are very good. But you pair with chocolate? What might J.C: Shall we begin by envisioning remember, it all comes down to your idea of comfort food be, a masterpiece table setting – lights the food that is paired with the when you’re sick? And can you are low! wine. I love the companionship of remember the very first thing a Pinot Noir and Merlot for their The first course: fresh Malpeque your mother or father ever showed full body, with a rich sauce and a oysters with cucumber tagliatelle you how to make? red meat. My favorite will be the topped with Beluga 000 caviar, J.C: Actually, it was my grandmother pinot noir. Moet et Chandon Brut Imperial who first showed me how to make 1995. Second course: Champagne J.L: Chef, one of the remarkable a gorgeous potato purée. I still poached John Dory filet with a duo signatures of Epic – is remember the taste of it. It’s your ability to present la the best comfort food in the crème de la crème within world! Chocolate, Jo Lee, is a range of appreciable sumptuous and David prices. Let’s say I was a proposes: a Ridge, Lytton guest in your dining Springs, Zinfandel, Sonoma room and wanted to be County California 1997. totally extravagant for For the fall season, I will two, with little money to suggest fresh, wild mushrooms spend. What would the from British Columbia, menu be? Canada, Venison, Caribou, Partridge and generally game J.C: You don't need foe meat. Magnifique! gras or caviar to make a memorable menu. It's all J.L: Is breakfast, lunch or about the ‘twist’ you give dinner the best? to the product and, but of J.C: They are all very course, the final taste of it. important to me. Different For a truly delicious meal moment of the day. Different you would not want to food. rise from? We’d begin J.L: Chef, may I ask: Why with a Jerusalem artichoke did you become a chef? soup with a fricassee of seasonal mushrooms, then The Luxury Amongst Sumptuous Dining: Epic J.C: I became a chef for the garlic roasted corn fed love of food in my chicken breast with fresh spring of asparagus and caviar beurre grandmother's eye when she was sugar snap peas and asparagus, blanc, Roederer Cristal 1994. cooking for the family. Then, for light lemon emulsion, and our Then I will serve you a Champagne the creation I could feel with my selection of Wine, Domain des granite. Third course: Alberta hands, in my early days of chef Aspes, Viognier, Languedoc 2000. beef tenderloin and Nova Scotia life. And finally, for all the travel For Dessert: a refreshing raspberry lobster served with a truffle jus and culture within the last ten parfait glace with a passion fruit and a Caviar oil Dom Perignon years, that embraced the meaning coulis, espresso and Pillitteri, 1985. And for dessert: chocolate of cuisine. Vidal Ice wine, Niagara 2001. strawberry with Dom Perignon J.L: Did you realize at that J.L: Bravo Jean-Charles! Now, can Rose, 1992 Champagne. Perfect moment, did your gut intuition we turn 180 degrees and create to the final taste bud! tell you (even though you didn’t for a party of four and within this J.L: C’est formidable! Jean-Charles, know how) that the universe had design, the only two requests off the top of your mind, what greatness mapped out for you? would be: Russian Beluga 000
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CONTENTS PAGE 14 4. Engulfed in Warmth: The Lobby of the Fairmont Royal York 5. The 19th Floor Executive Meeting Rooms 6. The Health Spa at the Fairmont Royal York 7. The Lounge at Epic 7
J.C: My gut told me something. the entire experience. To taste What we achieve is: seating children Jo Lee, I am now where my first things they’ve never tried before. /teenagers around a dining room chef that I worked under, wanted But when it comes to proper table, teaching them the many me to be. It is how I’ve been trained. etiquette, they are unaware and if different manners, whether in a This profession is very hard and you’re unaware, I believe Jo Lee, dining room or in a fast food usually not paid well when you first it’s a matter of interpretation. If restaurant. We teach them the begin. But the love of discovering one is not taught/schooled in beautiful way to eat, to drink, to new things is what’s driven me manners, it is an unknown to use a napkin, how to carry their since the beginning. I was lucky to them. I would like to suggest presence throughout the meal, the work with these kinds of chefs. people consider reading up on importance of staying at the table, Without them, how could I be the etiquette of dining only because socializing with others and to here today? it will truly enhance the ambiance appreciate the different tastes and around their entire meal. It is like colors that food provides so J.L: Jean-Charles, manners are the difference between drinking wine naturally. It’s powerful, Jo Lee. such an integral part of one’s out of a wine glass or out of a cup. And we all like power. being. We say please and thank you and are taught to respect those J.L: I understand Epic, from time J.L: Yes, this is very true. Chef, so older than we, so I ask: Why do so to time, has exclusive sessions on much of the world has come to many enjoy the finest of fine food the art of sociable dining. know about the illustrious, yet minus the etiquette that custom-designed four-poster- J.C: Yes, this is one of many beautifully accompanies the art of this bed, High Rise Herbarium, on beauties of our Fairmont Royal single most important role of life? the hotel’s rooftop! Sitting 200 York. But you know Jo Lee, it is feet above ground, 45 feet above J.C: For most people, fine food is not for the adults. It is to teach sea level and 18 stories high, not something they get on a daily the younger generation one of the overlooking the CN Tower, a view basis. I think when people go out arts that will nicely flatter them, of the lakefront and all amongst for fine food they're looking for no matter where they dine. the beauty of chrome and glass
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office towers, it peers down and today, the rareness of its ambiance, J.L: E Bravissimo! into an oasis on the rooftop. its first class wonder. It has been From the richness of your roots named: Best Canadian Deluxe Hotel. J.C: Yes Jo Lee, the pride of the in France to your Epic cuisine of A hotel, a dream that one must culinary team is our roof garden. many lands, you, Jean-Charles encounter at least once in a lifetime! It’s so nice to go up there and pick are quite incredible! In 2001, your Jean-Charles, how would you fresh herbs overlooking Lake challenge was to open a new express your affection for La Grande Ontario. Every year in the signature dining room at a Dame herself. Toronto, Canada’s beginning of May, we clean and landmark, historic hotel. In less The Fairmont Royal York? plant a variety of different herbs than two years, your Epic was and vegetables, some are standards J.C: I adore her. Once you walk presented with the CAA/AAA like basil, chervil and chives, some into the lobby of this hotel, you Four Diamond award. I say Jean- are experimental like lemon know you’re in a special place. Charles, that’s savoir faire! thyme, melon and chocolate mint. The elegance and the beauty shine J.C: That savoir faire is all about the Summer is a real joy on the throughout its people and the people who work hard around me rooftop for we entertain guests entire building. It is an integral every day, Jo Lee. They are my and journalists up in our garden. part of Canada's history and I, Jo energy. We all work in the same Lee, am lucky enough to be in it. J.L: Jean-Charles, I so love what spirit. Would you agree Jo Lee the world has come to know: J.L: If you had but one wish, Jean that once you get this kind of Fairmont Hotels & Resorts. When Charles, what might it be? mentality around you, you feel we think of this unique collection that everything is achievable? J.C: To continue to work with the of world-class resorts and city people around me now, and to J.L: Oh yes, Jean-Charles. center hotels unrivaled in have the same success in my future Mentality is the force of greatness prominence, I instantly envision family life that I have had at work. and what a force you have been! the elegance of the Fairmont Royal York, born 74 years ago and J.C: Merci, Jolie! «
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By Dr. Jack Bagshaw STETHOSCOPE 911 » Your work is to discover your work And then with all your heart To give yourself to it. - Buddha
Q: DR. B: With a small PSI reading of 4, to see how many a hard spot but normal size prostate, 90% treatments are offered of my prostate was diagnosed, cancerous. for prostate cancer. It Blockage and catheterization translated into is even more discon- a biopsy and treatment. Operating, chemo certing to be keenly aware or radiation were not suggested. I am in my that each medical specialty 6th month of a planned 3-year treatment pushes its technology. In the US, with drugs. At the end of the 4th month I believe treatment is too aggressive, another PSA test was taken. The results were too frequent and far more given below 2, indicating effectiveness of drugs. to complications. I do not agree (Am now an expert on 'hot flashes'!) with your comment, as worded, about supplements. You may well Why are so many patients subjected to be in a much better place having radical treatment when the combination of been taking them than if you Buserilin and Bicalutamide appear to be weren’t. I do not know what you effective? were taking, what your expectations Previous to being diagnosed I had been were, or what you know. I do agree relying on supplements to live up to their that supplements do not replace claims which likely gave the cancer such a being responsible, educated and foothold. disciplined. The supplement industry needs to be far better Dr B: Your situation is not the controlled as it is given to many usual! It, and your questions, false and misleading claims. place squarely before us the many unknowns of prostate cancer. A bit of a large question. Do well! Your age and the extent of your cancer were the major consider- ations in the decision as to how best treat you. The bicalutamide blocks the impact of testosterone stimulation on the cancer but is well known to cause hot flashes. As you know, prostate cancer is believed to be far less aggressive in Left: Dividing Prostate Cancer Cells. men over 70. It is disconcerting
CONTENTS PAGE 18 Above: What’s going on inside your body? Below: SARS changes daily life for medical workers in Toronto, Canada.
Q: Love your Column Dr. B. What are very slowly and continuing small your thoughts on SARS? amounts may be a necessary ongoing requirement. Check your Dr. B: Thanks! It’s living up to its potassium level once in a while as first letter: S. Serious! Don’t get low potassium can cause fatigue. it. This is best accomplished by staying away from it. As always, Q: Doctor, I read a fascinating article. much to learn. I’m confused as to What is saligra? why WHO chose to close down Dr B: Saligra is the generic Toronto. Media played a high version of what many make a dash negative. Malaria, highly treatable to the Pharmacies for: Viagra. I and preventable, continues to ask? Is this: sane or curious if not take a devastating toll, every day, required for health purposes! around the world! These questions remind me of a Q: Despondent. What can one do to avert quote on my desk: “The latest clinical or minimize the ravages of Prednisone, the studies show there are no answers.” chosen drug for those struggling with polymyalgia? It has an insidious effect on Be well! From here on the bay, the body and getting off it is tough. Dr. Bagshaw « DR B: Long term Prednisone is For the Doctor » Click Here « tough on the human body and Dr. Bagshaw practiced Cardiology, mind. In hopes of decreasing it, Critical Care and Internal Medicine in you must take exceptional care of Marin County, California where he yourself: regular exercise, good served as Director of the Coronary Care nutrition, decreased stress and a Unit. In 1979, he founded PHYSIS, a new attitude. You should read Preventive Medicine Company in San The Zone for some nutritional ideas Francisco, with the mission to see given to reducing the existing preventive technology become part of inflammation. Polymyalgia, like the healthcare system. He is presently many other thought to be auto- working on two books: "Inactivity: immune problems, may be Modern Man’s Major Health Risk" and induced by stress effecting our "Prevention and Aging". immune responders. It is imperative that you try to taper Prednisone
CONTENTS PAGE 19 YES, VIRGINIA! COME – EXPLORE WITH ME » By Audrey Lisette Hess-Eberle – Chicago, Illinois, USA TRAVEL Nepal by Design of Splendor
» In 1953, world attention was landscapes, subtropical jungles, drawn to a tiny kingdom in the rhododendron forests, to the Himalayas as Sir Edmund Hillary world’s tallest summits, Nepal is a of England, and Sherpa, Tenzing fusion of geography interlaced by Norgay were first to conquer the its rich cross-cultural heritage. world’s highest summit of mighty It is easy to take Nepal and her Sagarmatha, better known as Mt. jovial people into your heart as Everest. This year, three sons of you set out to explore the Valley of those first mountaineers forged Kathmandu by foot, bus, or cab. their own climb to honor their Several ancient cities like Patan, fathers’ accomplishments as a 50- Boudhanath with its white-washed year commemoration, recorded Buddhist temple and eyes of by National Geographic Society. Buddha flanked by hundreds of Like the illusive Himalayan fluttering pray flags, or the ‘Shambala’, The Kingdom of UNESCO World Heritage Site of Nepal continues to be a land of Bhaktapur and its ‘Sun Dhoka’ intrigue, extraordinary cultural (Golden Gate) are but a few and natural diversity, home to a kilometers away. warm and hospitable people in Derived from the name meaning which Hinduism and Buddhism ‘House of Wood’, Kathmandu’s dominate a tapestry of 35 distinct Above: Ganga Devi’s bijamudra, old section is a forest of fire- ethnic cultures. From fertile Mul Chowk, Patan baked brick and tiered temples
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1. Prosperous Town of Namche Bazar 2. Bodnath Stupa, Kathmandu Valley, Nepal 3. Annapurna at Dawn
and shrines set amidst an urban will offer you opportunities to Whatever your abilities, honor sprawl of modern-day living. touch the sublime in Himalayan the Spirits of the mountains, and This cross-roads for centuries of experiences. those who have come before you, trade and barter continues its and have yet to follow in your The fertile valley of Pokhara is lineage, as thriving bazaar-life is footsteps. « backdrop to the towering Annapurna set at the steps of buildings richly range and ‘Machhapuchre’, or To write Audrey: » Click Here « decorated with magnificent ‘fish-tail peak’. The jingle of woodcarving, metalwork and As we venture out into our world, your mule bells, the smiles from gear- gilding, flanked by mythical stone travel can consist of a visit to the next laden porters, Tibetan settlements, beasts of strength’s ascending town for the day, or a journey that trekker lodges, and a more lazy life order. Yet amidst the furious would place your feet clear on the will hypnotize you into readiness activity, quiet shrines and deities other side of the world. It is all about to experience this mystical, awe- are tucked away for moments of discovery and your relationship to the inspiring Sanctuary. Trek alone prayer and contemplation in this world which is everywhere you walk. for hours, exploring the valley, city like no other. As a refuge, stay We all have different reasons as to why town and hill-villages, ever at the ‘Yak and Yeti Hotel’ – a we are attracted to a particular place – climbing for higher vantage luxurious grand dame of a gilded and my suggestion is that you don’t points to view the peaks, or join past and demanding present, limit yourself. an escorted trek for as little as a built around an old Rama palace day or as long as one month. Your travel life can stop by the mere off Durban Square, the main, old When trekking is through, take thought of I can’t, or it can start with section of town. your refuge at the ‘Fish Tail Lodge the thought of I can, and will find my After several days of exploration, on Phewa Lake, accessible by raft. way. In the coming months, we will head north. It is 1 hour by plane, cover the many aspects of travel. We For those hardy trekkers, nothing 8 hours by bus, or an 8 to 9 day will consider everything from practicality more than the Annapurna or trek from Kathmandu to Pokhara, to reclusive escapes. We will travel to Everest ranges will do. One can the latter offering you an some pretty fabulous, well known or trek to the thriving, prosperous excellent introduction to trekking off the beaten track places. town of Namche Bazar as a in Nepal with relatively low passes, turning point (a mere 11,300 feet So, sensitize yourself, flex your muscles numerous tea houses and means high) or continue onward to of awareness, open your mind for all to exit should trekking not be higher realms. possibilities and come, explore with me. your forte. But if it is, Pokhara
CONTENTS PAGE 21 HALF TIME » By James Mansell, Montréal–Québec
The Factor
» Hi folks! I predictX the Extreme They were social misfits, rebels, The legendary Sport Industry will brainwash kids looking to do something different. skateboarder Tony Hawk to invest their parent’s hard They lived their lives through is, today, a multi-million earned money on the stock market. their sport. They were the perfect dollar machine. He sponsors marketing segment! video games, clothing lines, Fall is a tremendous time of year. cereal brands as well as his own For years, no one realized what Schools are in full swing and made for television skateboard outstanding athletes these kids are students? Flustered for another tour. Is this a bad thing? No, he is They’re extremely dedicated and year. Make it your business to seek opening doors for future athletes put it on the line every time they out an outstanding teacher or and setting the bar very high as a go out to practice. Unlike some of professor, and say, have you respected business man and the major league sport millionaires nominated someone especially athlete. My only concern is when we see, night in, night out. The talented for the Adeste Prize? the "X" sport athletes are forced one thing, in my estimation, that www.yesintl.com/adeste.html to go to arbitration and be judged differentiates these athletes from by an arbitrator and not by the My topic this month is about the the others is that you cannot fool applause of their devoted fans. « unstoppable money making their fans. These athletes live in a machine that is better known as world where posers are labeled and To Write James: » Click Here « the "X GAMES". "X" is short for not forgotten. A posers is a guy James Mansell, 26 – Sport Management. extreme. Sports involved in the pretending to be something he is Member Canadian Baseball Academy, "X" games are: skateboarding, in- not. If you are in [the sport], you full scholarship; Donnie Mash Memorial line skating, BMX, motorcycle have to be really hot every time Scholarship; Best Athlete student, jumping, snow boarding, you are out performing with no Scholarship; Wayne State, Nebraska USA, freestyle skiing, downhill luging, days off, in these sports. and many more. What makes Athlete of the Year, Varsity Baseball these sports so exciting? They’re This brings me to my point. Captain, 3 time Jr. Elite All-Star, 3 time Jr. truly made for television sports. These sports have done very well Elite Provincial Champion, Academic Watch an event and you will realize for many years. Now, mainstream Baseball Canada Alumnus, Coach- the magnitude of this phenomenon. media have brought these sports Counselor, high performance Baseball to the forefront. Obviously, some Camp, conceptual-principal developer Such sports have been around for deserving athletes will receive big sport drink Founder-implementer years but have found their niche checks for the television revenue Education through Baseball Sport School. only in recent times. You see, the and sponsorship endorsements. people involved in these sports So I ask you: will this not destroy what were always a different breed. is genuine about these sports? Above: legendary skateboarder, Tony Hawk
CONTENTS PAGE 22 22 FEATURE » By Linda Kay Marie Wallace Tuscany, Italia
TuscanDreams
Her hands fling stars over mountain curves, As she shatters moonbeams with ecstatic turns, Spiralling to the music of her eternal song, She joyously dances the soul’s dream.
» On an enchanted summer’s night in Florence, July 2002, I sat before an attentive audience, in an inner courtyard that lay behind the brightly lit gallery. In the showroom, my bronze sculptures, bathed in lights, had received rave reviews. Further installations and shows, including an invitation to Spain, lay before me. Waiting with other poets to read poetry, while the bells of the Duomo rang in the back- ground, I reflected on the power of dreams. In December 1995, I walked suddenly from a twenty-year career in management consulting. I resolved to sculpt images of, and write about, the archetypal journey to personal destiny. I yearned to live in the creative world, to discover the wisdom and ancient strength of the feminine. Further, I was determined to pursue my life-long dream of living in Tuscany, my heart’s home.
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1. Dragonfly Meditation. Limited edition bronze, burgundy, bronze patina, 9.5"x 6.5"x 6.5" 2. Linda Kays’ six-year artistic and spiritual odyssey began in Tuscany . 1 3. As the bells of the Duoma rang in the background in Florence, Linda Kay reflected on the power of dreams after a successful show of her bronze sculptures.
Buying the house in Tuscany in artists such as Ioyan Mani, and, in dance with tenacity, vision, and 1996 began a six-year artistic and a university gallery, integrated my courage in the circle of the spiritual odyssey that resulted in sculptures and poetry with quotes headlights, knowing that just the sculpture and poetry featured from Dante’s Divine Comedy and outside the circle, the darkness in my first book, The Spiral Path. The Salvador Dali’s illustrations. lay, perhaps not all that comforting. years were tougher, more arduous Upon invitation, I began to speak His survival depended on good than I had imagined, for my quest on creativity, visions, and my art. will, on love, and on an honoring led me through the classic journey Sculpture studies in Florence led of his place in these starlit to inner silence and wisdom. me to this magical evening, in mountains. And so did mine. which I mused on the journey, Sequestered in my studio, I Through this stronger and wiser and read my poetry. descended through emotions artist soul, my hands are which miraculously transformed Late that night, driving home flowering new sculptures for into bronze sculptures such as Grief, amongst silent mountain peaks Cosmic Dance, Earth Song, a book Anger, and Limbo. Through the dark shimmering in silvery moonlight, which will meditate on leaving the night of the soul, portrayed as I realized, with awe, that I was road much traveled to dance our Medusa, I depicted the ancient dancing my dream. Deep in dreams in the stars. « moment of The Fall and the move thought, I rounded a curve on the Since her debut, Kay Marie’s art is upwards into grace. dark road, to see, dancing delicately being recognized by art circles around in the glare of my headlights, a Over time, my hands nurtured my the world for their unique, powerful magnificent porcupine, flaring heart into sculptures and writings messages. Charles Pachter, OBE, the with black and white quills. of hope and joy. Images of Flight, renowned Canadian painter, with of the delicate evanescence of the The porcupine, I concluded, was whom she had an invited show in 1999, Dragonfly, and of the graceful rather like bringing that dream describes her work as “stark and beauty of the Butterfly emerging alive. The journey had been, like powerful musings…on being creatively from the rose, symbolized the theme his quills, both dark and light. I alive.” Her work, held in private and of transcendence. was sometimes pierced with the public collections in North America and quills of obstacles and immovable in Europe, is featured in galleries and During this creative cycle, my barriers. Being an artist in our bookstores in Norway, Italy, and North friendships with indigenous artists society requires a dedicated America. Kay Marie lives in twin stone taught me to honor inner talent strength and nerves of steel not cottages in Tuscany and Canada. and calling, to move beyond required in my success as a traditional views of technique. My business consultant. Like this dreams became astonishingly real. majestic creature, I, too, had to I mounted shows with aboriginal
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1. Grief. Limited edition bronze, smoky blue patina on black marble base, 8.5" x 5.25" diameter 2. The Fall. Limited edition bronze, silver patina on black marble base, 13.5" x 5.25" diameter circular 3. Limbo. Limited edition bronze, black with bronze figure, 8" circumference
CONTENTS PAGE 25 FEATURE » By Gary Freeman Information Security Specialist Toronto, Canada
HIJACKED on the Wire
»You enter the freeway for the hijacking are common threats in ropes leaves us vulnerable. our society. This fact becomes ritual bumper-to-bumper drive Using CD-ROMs mailed Internet more noticeable in the wake of the to the office. Within minutes Service Providers, dropping a Internet. Electronic Commerce / chaos begins. Your cell phone business card into a box, surfing Online Bill Payments and many rings. Your credit card company the web, or opening flashy Spam services requiring personal is calling for authorization on a (unsolicited) email, provides information are becoming $6000 purchase of bonds at a unsecured information which is common practices. bank in France! You insist on an sold to marketing agencies who immediate investigation for fraud. What Information start a file on you regarding your The representative then informs is Stolen? spending habits and financial you of similar transactions around information. the globe. An email from Ebay • Credit and Bank Card Numbers and ten other messages arrive • Social Security, Education and Also, PC cookie’s directory stores confirming credit card purchases Employment Information and sends back information with for merchandise you didn’t buy! • Personal Addresses and Phone regards to online habits, good or At your office, a message says that Numbers of you and your bad, that you may have. the state police want you to come loved ones To Make Matters Worse in for questioning regarding a hit and run accident involving your How is it acquired? These agencies can agencies such as Equifax and pay a fee for an new Mercedes you are alleged to Through carelessly allowing the abstract on your complete financial have purchased. theft of your identity. Getting on evolution. We carelessly trust Information theft and identity the Internet without learning the
CONTENTS PAGE 26 NINE TIPS THAT CAN PROTECT YOU: 1. Learn how to safely use the technology. Take courses or invite the local computer junkie for dinner. 2. Where your personal information is concerned, BE PARANOID! Ask to see the manager next time someone asks for your address and phone number. 3. Install Internet Firewall software to circumvent anyone attacking and intruding your computer. 4. Delete web browser cookies regularly. There are free products you can download to automate this task. 5. Install an Anti-Virus program and make sure the software is up-to-date. 6. Stop handing out your business cards for contests. 7. NEVER reply to spam email messages. 8. Lower your credit card’s spending limit or ask your Credit Card Company to verify with you by phone, every purchase over a certain dollar amount. 9. Shred your bank statements and other sensitive documents.
merchants and our financial We are connecting in droves to the Crew. They steal unsecured institutions to secure this inform- internet without any understanding information from your PC and ation and in some cases they allow of how information is stolen. major institutions that keep it to get into the wrong hands. Internet service providers usually personal data records. A little leave it to the consumer to protect hole in what’s securing this To Characterize This themselves from hackers, viruses information allows the hackers to A young clerk may demand your and cookies. extract what they want and share name, address and telephone or use it in illegal activities. Marketing firms are building number loud enough for the profiles on consumers without whole store to hear. This inform- Take Action their permission and without ation in the wrong hands could breaking laws (many countries are Find the time to secure your have serious consequences. You pushing for stiffer anti-spam family’s security. If you don’t, when sheepishly whisper your response legislation). will you find the time to rectify to the clerk’s question. the damage? « Am I blaming the consumer for Enter your ignorance which may result in Neighbourhood Hacker your falling prey to fraud. No! I Hackers have a common mandate believe that the service providers amongst their ilk: to steal confi- need to educate the public on dential information and share it what ‘Information Security within their underground society Policies’ they deploy. like Cult of the Dead Cow or Phrozen
CONTENTS PAGE 27 FEATURE » By Captain Peter A.Stark Jr. USN (Ret.) Charlottesville, Virginia
Who and where art thine
enemies?We knew our enemy and his objectives; thus we could wage war against his country, as nations have done for centuries. Declaring war against Iraq was use of the age old scenario except that, once the Iraqis capitulated, the bar was raised a notch: terrorism and criminal actions remained. 1 23BACKGROUND FOR WAR » Exploring the challenges of As the wars of the 20th Century 1. Soldiers doing the job terrorism to the freedoms we enjoy they do best occurred, differences in the conduct 2. President George W. Bush as citizens is necessary; ‘everything of war came about through advanced 3. The “Enemy” about terrorism centers on where technology. Paramount was the Saddam Hussein art thy enemies.’ I am concerned increased speed and proficiency of that the future will be filled with aircraft, nuclear powered vessels terrorism and the acts of militant and computers. What has remained extremists. constant in the formula for war, is As a career naval officer, I the envy that our enemies have for experienced war at sea during the the freedom enjoyed by a free Korean Conflict while serving society. Free people hold those aboard an aircraft carrier and freedoms as their reason for being while ashore in S. Vietnam as the and doggedly protect them. As early senior advisor to the S. Vietnamese as the 8th century, Muslims had Navy in I Corps, the northern most conquered all of Christian North military zone. Africa and much of Spain. In the
CONTENTS PAGE 28 11th century they made additional advances by taking Asia Minor (Turkey) which also was Christian. A call for help went out to Christendom from the Emperor of Constantinople to stop the Muslim invasion. The Crusades that resulted were a model of how to respond to modern day terrorism: ensure that the terrorists know that they will be held accountable. Freedom-loving people must not forget those early lessons and take heart with the action that continues by the coalition forces tracking down al-Qaida terrorists and their leaders. Muslims have not forgotten the result of the Crusades. No longer do concerned Christians respond to the cry for help traveling on horseback across continents to face those wanting to impose Islam; however, that threat remains throughout the world today. The attacks on the U.S. of 9/11 are a stark reminder of the complete disdain and hatred that Muslim th activists have for a free society. As the wars of the 20 Century TODAY’S CHALLENGES occurred, differences in the The delays in getting the U.N. to conduct of war came about sanction the war against Iraq gave Saddam the time necessary to through advanced technology. destroy weapons of mass destruction that could have fallen into the becoming known. Consider the make Islam the dominant faith hands of terrorists had the following: and also to make the Koran the coalition not waged war. As for highest authority in America. France, Germany, Russia, China, > In France the political strength and others, I have not been able of the Muslim population forces That is scary! And it should be a to accept the fact that countries the government to respond to wake up call to all who cherish defeated by the U.S. in 20th their agenda. freedom of religion. Add to the above goals of CAIR the inclination century wars would become allies > In Canada, census figures show and propensity of Christians to that we could count on when that Muslims during the 1990's turn the other cheek when ‘push came to shove.’ What surprises surpassed Jewish population confronted, and then you have the me is that both Canada and numbers and that Islam is potential for disaster. We as a nation Mexico did not join the coalition Canada’s fastest growing religion. (especially Canada in that it was must remember what has brought my birthplace, though I grew up in > In the U.S., the Council on us this far, continue to give of Minnesota.) Free people around American-Islam Relation’s (CAIR) ourselves and invite like-minded the globe need to take notice of goals are to get Muslims to nations and peoples to join us. some of the facts that are accomplish two objectives: to May God bless America. «
CONTENTS PAGE 29 FEATURE » By Dr. W. E. S. Connolly, MD, FRCSC Montréal, Québec
» When I was a resident-student in Ophthalmology some 25 years ago, cataract surgery was performed as an in-patient procedure requiring at least four days in hospital. Patients underwent an operation which required injecting Out of the Dark Ages: anaesthetic behind the eye with a needle. This ‘retrobulbar’ needle was not without its dangers; occasionally the needle would perforate a CATARACT blood vessel resulting in a massive hemorrhage behind the eye, and immediate cancellation of the cataract surgery. If the eye was successfully frozen, the operation SURGERY to remove the cataract would proceed. It usually took thirty to forty-five minutes and required an incision of about 15 mm long carefully placed at the junction of the cornea and the sclera. When I say carefully, this implies as carefully as was possible twenty- five years ago. Operating microscopes were just becoming available and were only used by a minority of eye surgeons. Most of the ophthalmologists I trained with used modified eyeglasses called loupes which provided two to four times magnification. Cataract surgery in the seventies usually involved removing the natural lens (the cataract) and simply closing the eye with a few sutures. The missing focus power as a result of the surgery was supplied by a pair of high power aphakic spectacles. These were thick, heavy, cumbersome glasses which Dr. Connolly (left) Performing Cataract Surgery magnified everything so drastically that patients needed several months to adapt to the new world which
CONTENTS PAGE 30 A very small incision The bag of the lens A small foldable The final replacement is made in the side is opened and a artificial lens is inserted lens is shown in place. of the cornea. special ultrasonic probe through the small (phaceoemulsifier) incision to replace the removes the cloudy lens. cataract lens.
was 25% larger than before the introduced through this incision the patient a useable focus without surgery. This was no mean feat for and the cataract is gently glasses postoperatively. While a patients who were often in their vacuumed out. Only the cloudy cataract patient may still need seventies and eighties! Cataract part of the lens is removed using the glasses to see small print after surgery was not nearly as safe as it phacoemulsification technique. surgery it is not unusual to find is today so only those patients with The needle does double duty that they’ll wear glasses less than profound visual loss were advised during the operation not only 10% of the time, regardless of to undergo the procedure. aspirating the cataract but also whether they needed glasses breaking it up by vibrating at an before the operation. Today, cataract surgery has a 99% incredible 25,000 cycles per success rate. The surgery itself is Cataract surgery stands today second, so called ultrasound because usually accomplished in less than as one of the truly ‘miraculous’ this speed of vibration is beyond ten minutes and results in useable that which can be heard by medical achievements of the past vision within minutes and usually humans. This rapid vibration of quarter century. If you get a perfect vision the next day. The the tip shatters or emulsifies the cataract today and feel dismayed, surgery is performed under 5 to lens. Once the lens cataract is just think to yourself how lucky 25 times magnification using an removed it is replaced with a you are: that it did not happen to operating room microscope with synthetic lens which is usually you 25 years ago! « high precision optics. These made of a soft acrylic material Dr. Ted Connolly is Associate Professor instruments are beautiful examples which can be rolled up and of Ophthalmology at McGill University of man’s scientific achievements inserted into the eye through the Medical School in Montréal. He is the and provide an exquisitely accurate same tiny incision. The artificial chief instructor of cataract surgery in 3-D view of the surgical field. With lens is carefully placed in the the McGill Ophthalmology residency the eye frozen using an anaesthetic correct position and then training program and is Chief of jelly, there is no need for the injected into the eye where it Ophthalmology at St. Mary’s Hospital dreaded retrobulbar needle. The unfolds into its optically perfect in Montréal where he runs the McGill incision into the eye is all of shape within a minute or two. cataract surgical centre. 2.75 millimeters! A special The power of this lens is phacoemulsification needle is calculated preoperatively to give
CONTENTS PAGE 31 FEATURE » By Micheline C. Hollaus Boca Raton, Florida
How a Business is Born
Are we ever entirely » My husband and I were in Thailand – he being a 5-star hotel executive and I, doing full time charity work. As a sure why any one matter of fact, I was the very first foreigner to be named direction or experience Consultant to the Director General of the Department of might turn us around Public Welfare, Thailand, working directly under the Minister of Interior and traveling extensively to the poor a corner to yet areas of Thailand. I am the founder of the International another, that will Support Group to the Department of Public Welfare, Thailand (ISG DPW), still in action today, and for which I ultimately lead us received a Royal Decoration from His Majesty the King of far from anything Thailand. we had ever expected? Remember the poignant saying: “Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day, but teach him how to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime”. It all began when an Indian member of our Support Group whose family is in the fabric business, gave me an enormous quantity of beautiful fabric as a gift. Not knowing exactly what to do with it, we brought it to ladies in a poor, small village, asking if they could make bags, placemats and other small niceties that I had designed, by hand of course. Within two months, we returned to this village to find the material The Weekender Set includes: the weekender transformed into a pile of bags reaching the ceiling. The bag, a large cosmetic case and a jewelry roll. ladies were so pleased to have been given work but, what should Shown here in French Stripe. they do with all of the bags? Well, we carried them to the city (Bangkok) and sold them wherever we could. Seven years later
CONTENTS PAGE 32 1. Royal Decoration presented to Micheline from his Majesty the King of Thailand 2. Micheline with Khunying Phankrua, wife of General Chavalit Yongchaiyudh, former 1 Commander in Chief of the Royal Thai Army and former Prime Minister of Thailand
when we returned to the United My favorite motto is organize in States: Stashé began! style, the thought behind everything 2 we create. Our traveling bags, New designs of the highest quality, handy totes are designed for easy made of the best poplin, fade- access with large compartments, resistant cotton fabric, for the inside and out, ending the problem American Market, needed to be of finding those cell phones created. It took many years to and/or car keys. Your life is trans- train the ladies to make the items formed into a more pleasurable perfectly well, but certainly worth experience, whether for business it. Today, we have a product that is or a relaxing get-away, when using the best of its kind. our weekender and matching Stashé had very humble beginnings; garment bag. The best part? All are it took many years of hard work machine washable to keep them for the products to become looking new. And there’s more! known. Several companies now We’ve extended our creative copy our lightweight and practical landscape to embrace stylish closet bags, but I like to believe it is Stashé, sets, designed to organize your selling to stores and catalogs all over closets with complimentary fabric choices. Yes, it’s exciting when we the USA, that remains ahead of 3 the game. So much so that within hear the people’s applause. my developing of our very own What can I tell you? From my fabrics for yet an additional new cultural heritage in La Belle line, a new name was born! Province, Montréal, Québec to the Olivia’s Boutique many countries I’ve lived in: Egypt, China, France and Thailand, to It is not sold on a fashionable street their people’s heritage and to my lined with unique window-front home today in Boca Raton, Florida shops. Olivia’s Boutique was – together, the essence of all these introduced when TV’s Home wonderful spices became a montage Shopping Network (HSN), on a of created beauty and practicality mission to sell the best of with fabrics and weaves. everything, discovered our exciting bags. Fabrics fashioned in hand- So you ask, how is a business born? 4 quilted elegance and charm by Why, but of course - through your taking cotton to an unfamiliar new own special touch. « ‘territory of creativity and design.’ 3. Micheline’s daughter and OLIVIA’S BOUTIQUE www.hsn.com Attorney-to-be, Olivia. 4. Some bags are made in these houses.
CONTENTS PAGE 33 FEATURE » By Judith Lang Budapest, Hungary
How to Grow WithoutViolence » The International Symposium The essence behind Emmi Pikler’s Dr. Emmi Pikler's approach to ‘To Grow Without Violence’ was an psychology was brilliant: to ensure parenting is popular in families – extraordinary success in Budapest that the psychic and physical not only in institutions. This was this year, when Pediatricians, development of children raised in seen in amazing form through the Child Psychologists, Teachers institutions was as close as story of one of the speakers, a were remembering and applauding possible to that of children raised medical doctor from Belgium, who Dr. Emmi Pikler's pioneering in their own families. called himself ‘A Pikler Child’, who reveled within this unprece- approach to early childhood After the 1973 publication in dented method of child-rearing, education. France of her book Loczy - An penetrating through 3 generations They came from 21 different Unusual Approach To Mothering, Emmi in his family, with success. countries, from France to Argentina Pikler’s ideas spread to various and Switzerland to Ecuador; countries. The Pikler philosophy Dr. Pikler has taught mothers the Symposium was beautifully became well known and used in around the world how to bring up conducted in 4 languages with 60 professional and family circles all their babies without anxiety. “The simultaneous interpreters. over the world, ensuring the baby who is allowed to confront Dr. Pikler's approach is as much of harmonious and happy development and solve his/her own difficulties” a Hungarian export as the Unicum of millions of children. claimed Dr. Pikler, “excels along the road to becoming a healthy or the Hungarian salami. Dr. Pikler Bernard Martino, the renowned child.” was a Pediatrician who created an documentary filmmaker, took 4 institution for children abandoned years to make his film Loczy, A In these times of turmoil amongst at a very early age. In time, her Place To Grow. He said, “children in peoples of today, we need now unrivaled arena became known institutions generally have orphans’ more than ever: parenting with as: The Pikler-Loczy Institute. eyes. But not at The Pikler Institute!” foresight, engulfed with tremendous thought. «
CONTENTS PAGE 34 1. Emmi Pikler’s ideas have spread to various countries. 2. Children in institutions generally have orphan’s eyes. But not at the Pikler Institute. 3. International Syposium “How to Grow Without Violence” was held in Budapest. 4,5. The institute ensures the happy development of millions of children.
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CONTENTS PAGE 35 THRU THE EYES OF JO LEE CELEBRATING BEAUTY » By Jo Lee
YÜxÇv{ CUISINE
CONTENTS PAGE 36 » Le Café Au Salon Rouge The ‘Red Room’ of Paris hostess Charlotte Aillaud’s St.-Germain- des-Pres house is one of those privileged spots informed by taste and sensibility where all is calm, luxurious, secure, voluptuous. After luncheon in the Aillauds’ Empire dining room, guests pause in this intimate salon before rejoining the outside life of 1980s France. An oversized lacquer coffee table is the center of action. It holds an eighteenth-century French silver coffee service with ‘Fruit and Flowers’ porcelain cups along with orchids, art books, silver ‘Heart Beakers’ filled with pencils and violets, and a ‘Cerbere’ crystal cube vase designed by Tiffany’s Van Day Truex. Sunlight from the garden filters in through painted silk muslin curtains with a portrait of Mme. Aillaud by Douglas Johnson, sitting below a fifth-century B.C. Greek torso. There is a drawing of the master of the house, the French urbanist /architect Emile Aillaud, in the illuminated bookcase. The title of our luncheon is but of course, Dream! How it turns out is not a guess but a certainty of perfection. Vive la difference. Et salut et bonne appetit. And, as only you know how, Go Mes amis, je vous souhaite la bienvenue! Dear ahead – capture and enjoy the flavor of your own creation. E Bravissimo! friends, I welcome you to a most exquisite From Paris to the Black Sea, from experience. Oh,the thought of lunch in my Italian home to yours. « Paris. The beauty, the antiquity, la joie de vivre. Life is an inescapable passion in Paris and as I now set sail onViking River Cruises Eastern European Odyssey, Vienna, Black Sea, my dream is of the wonder I departed from yesterday. French cuisine.
CONTENTS PAGE 37 POLITICALLY RED » By Lani Silver, San Francisco, California
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VERKHOVSKAYA-COHENANYA » I’ll never forget the first time I Tell me – would you stare at Bruce saw her. It was six or seven years Willis or Madonna if they were ago. I was doing some consulting walking down the street. Few will for the great Steven Spielberg, on notice Anya Verkhovskaya-Cohen his Holocaust oral history project, – yet they should. the Shoah Foundation for Visual Holocaust scholars, you see, will History. I glanced into the tiniest tell you that they know almost office I'd ever seen (6' x 8') and a everything there is to know about the small woman - a wisp of a woman Holocaust, except what happened - was sitting at a desk across from in Russia, for only a few books have her assistant. The two were in a been published on the Holocaust series of small offices in a dusty in Russia. Anya Verskovskaya- trailer on a dusty back lot of Universal Studios. Up until Verkhovskaya-Cohen's Cohen coordinated Verkhovskaya-Cohen, for much work, we Holocaust historians of the past decade, has coordinated have had suspicions, that the story 10,000 interviews 10,000 interviews with Holocaust of the Holocaust in Russia is the survivors, rescuers and witnesses story of the Einstazgruppen, the in 150 cities with in 150 cities in Eastern Europe bands of roving assassins. No and Russia - in the most adverse records were kept; survivors almost survivors, rescuers circumstances possible, equating never spoke about what they'd and witnesses of to 1/5th of the 54,000 interviews seen, and there has been no Spielberg has conducted/collected systematic documentation of the the Holocaust in during the past decade. I too, am Holocaust in Russia, up until now. a Holocaust oral historian and My personal work with the coordinated 1,700 oral histories eastern Europe Holocaust in Russia resulted in in San Francisco. and Russia. l00 oral histories. We set up what was essentially a parallel project:
CONTENTS PAGE 38 “ANYONE WHO TESTIFIES IS SUSPECT. THERE IS A TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF ANTI-SEMITISM IN RUSSIA.”
Depicting the holocaust through the brilliance of Art sponsored special interview trainers her on videotape. She protected Lani Silver - historian, artist, free-lance recruited researchers, translators, survivors, interviewers, and equip- writer, and Lecturer with the American and transcribers, shipped off ment in a land where none of this Program Bureau. (Gorbachev, Desmond packages of tapes to a dozen cities is usually possible. Anyone who Tutu’s Bureau) For 16 years, Lani in the Soviet Union, and hired two testifies is suspect. There is a directed San Francisco's landmark brilliant coordinators, Rita tremendous amount of anti- Holocaust Oral History Project, Gopstein, and Ruth Durling. My semitism in Russia and for the most conducting l700 oral histories with tiny staff worked night and day. A part - schools in Russia, do not Holocaust survivors and witnesses. Lani quarter of our entire budget went teach the Holocaust and yet, out and her partner, historian Eric Saul, to our Russian work, and still, in of these horrific conditions: a flower discovered the story of Chiune the end, we only gathered and grew. Anya Verkhovskaya-Cohen. Sugihara, who is called “The Japanese translated l00 interviews. The woman who masterminded, Schindler.” Lani became Steven for all time, the preservation of the Spielberg's first consultant and trainer I stand in awe of Anya. She’s pulled stories that tell us what happened. « for his Survivors of the Shoah Visual together hundreds of interviews History Foundation. 53,000 testimonies. and interviewers, identified thousands Lani is currently the Project Director for of survivors and made them the James Byrd Jr. Racism Oral History comfortable enough to speak to Project. [email protected]
CONTENTS PAGE 39 THIN’K’ERS CORNER » By Carolyn Young – Lead Thin’K’er » Got a problem? Any problem. We’re here to HELP!
Dear CamPUS: Dear CamPUS: Q: My dad has been pressuring me to the join Q: The new school year began this week the local swim team. I enjoy swimming but don’t see (Grade 9) and I’m hating it. Last year all my friends myself spending hours each week in competitive were in the same class. Now, I know no one. Our training. Acting is what I want to do. Dad doesn’t timetables don’t coincide - not even at lunch. The get it. How do I make him see the light? kids in my home room and most of my classes just Quinn, Hamburg, Germany seem so boring! Francesca, Little Rock, Arkansas, USA
Quinn, you’ve got to bring it up again, as A:Hey, Francesca. Thanks for your note. difficultA: as it may be. Stand firm in your position and You’re going to find that the older you get the eventually he will appreciate your insight. While your harder it’ll be to stay in contact with the kids who dad may be initially disappointed, he’ll come around. were your friends. And not just because your Keep this in mind: Parents want their kids to be happy. schedules aren’t the same. Make time outside school Period. for other friends. Give the kids in your classes a chance. While they may appear boring right now, I believe once you get to know them a bit, you’ll find out some pretty cool stuff. If not - at least you’ll have study buddies!
A:Dear Karen: this is a dilemma I’ve had to Q:Dear CamPUS: deal with firsthand. But there is a solution! I finally I haven’t been sleeping. It’s got smart and saw my doctor. He suggested I look for things that relaxed me mentally and physically, horrible. I’m tired. I’m at a new like yoga, a class in meditation or soft running. Do job. I can’t even think straight. remember that ‘positive’ projections /images work wonders. I’m guessing that your new job is one of What’s wrong with me? several substantial things on your plate. The key lies Karen, Halifax, Canada in one word: Choice! The way you choose to walk hand-in-hand with life. SEE YA! «
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Did you know? » A follower of Islam is called a Muslim. The Koran is the holy book for Muslims. Islam does not tolerate violence or terrorism. Islam recognizes Adam and Eve, Abraham, Moses, Jesus and the other prophets that are mentioned in Christianity and Judaism. Why can’t we learn from each other and live together in peace and harmony? «
CONTENTS PAGE 42 RAMADANTHE HOLIEST MONTH
» Ramadan ... the holiest month in the Islamic calendar. For 30 days - Muslims around the globe fast from sunrise to sunset. Breakfast is taken before the sun rises and not a drop of water or a morsel of bread will pass the lips of the faithful all day, until the sun sets and it is time to 'break' the fast. This is also a month of intense prayer and meditation, a time to take count of all that we do, a time to ‘center’ ourselves spiritually, morally, personally and financially. To humble ourselves and give thanks for all the blessings and to be mindful of those less fortunate than us. Idd-ul-Fitr marks the end of the fasting month. After the morning prayers, family and friends gather to feast and have fun. Hopefully, by this time we are all better people until the next Ramadan comes around! »
CONTENTS PAGE 43 LEAVING HOME for UNIVERSITY/COLLEGE YEARS
» How many times have you said to yourself: where/why – when the imagery of what you want for your children, becomes reality? Where to study and what they’ll be within this exciting world! But what about the mental/physical anxiety within your hearts … when it’s time to say goodbye? How can you help one another make this a smooth transition?
Create a Treasure Chest of love Each would find a framed photograph of fun, a stocking filled with rare treats, a book by their favorite author, cell phones to be instantly reached on, As your child leaves, don’t feel empty. prepaid calling cards for the student leaving home, and a tiny Do the things you’ve long put off! gift-wrapped box containing a lifelong treasure. As your child leaves, don’t feel empty. Do the things you’ve long put off! What a perfect time to explore new frontiers. But remember - the most important thing of all – assist your children along the pathway to becoming responsible, caring adults.«
CONTENTS PAGE 44 FEATURE » By Andrea Buckett Doctor of Homeopathy Toronto, Canada
Andrea Buckett, Dr. of Homeopathy, lecturer, writer, health coach – graduated from The Homeopathic College of Canada. Her private practice is a passion in pursuit of educating the public on alternative health and nutritional ways.
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CONTENTS PAGE 45 PROS AND EX.CONS » By George Weigel Sr. Fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, Washington, DC. North Bethesda, Maryland
AJustWar?
»International terrorism, is a structure of international public For example: “It was important to deliberate assault, through the life capable of advancing the express our serious questions murder of innocents, on the very classic goals of politics – justice, about the moral legitimacy of any possibility of order in world freedom, order, the general preemptive, unilateral use of affairs. The peace of order is also welfare, and peace? military force.” (Catholic under grave threat when vicious, Bishops’ letter to President Bush). aggressive regimes acquire COMMENTS “The pre-emptive military attack weapons of mass destruction that The headlines in San Jose, against Iraq is immoral, illegal we must assume, on the basis of California’s Valley Catholic newspaper and ill-advised.” (World Council their treatment of their own read: “War is never good, war is of Churches). citizens, will not hesitate to use failure. We prayed for peace. Yet, “War is one of the most regrettable against others. There is a moral today missiles fly and bombs fall. things that has come to deface our obligation to ensure that this Even modern warfare cannot fair world. War is the result of lethal combination of irrational, discriminate between soldier and man’s greed, envy, hate, aggressive regimes, weapons of civilian.” mass destruction, and credible blindness, and passion.” (Austin delivery systems does not go Many debates have been raging Fagothey, Professor of Philosophy, unchallenged. over the morality of the war in Santa Clara University). Is there a necessary inner dynamic Iraq. World leaders, the United These are strong statements by of the exercise of America’s Nations, and the religious have influential organizations. What international responsibilities given their opinions and attempted are we supposed to think? Can which include the obligation to to influence the Coalition. we rationalize the justness of the contribute to the quest for Iraq war? ordered liberty in an evolving
CONTENTS PAGE 46 A war otherwise justifiable can become wrong by how it is fought.
ANALYSES innocent. The killing of the guilty borders, and organizations such as Austin Fagothey, S.J., often combatants is allowed on the NATO for common protection. quoted Jesuit ethicist, provides principles of retributive justice. Eleanor Roosevelt said in 1945 several conditions for a just war. The weapons used in war must “We are One World and that which discriminate between combatants injures any one of us, injures all JUST CAUSE There must be and non-combatants. Every effort of us. Only by remembering this sufficient proportion between the must be taken to avoid killing will we finally have a chance to good intended and the evil civilians. build a lasting peace. permitted. War must be the last resort after the breakdown of LAWFUL AUTHORITY War is an Does our evolving society need a negotiations. There must be fair act of a legitimate authority police force that will: maintain hope of success and establishment sanctioned by a legitimate society order, distribute benefits and of peace. and must be properly authorized. duties fairly, protect people who live in tyranny, and remove RIGHT INTENTION Objective Our society is evolving as an potential threats to our society? grounds for war may exist, yet enduring union of persons bound there may be wrong motives. to cooperative activity for a Is this closeness of our society Punitive war is acceptable; common end and good to be moving us toward one world? Is therefore, punishment of war obtained by cooperative effort. the fight against terrorism the first criminals is allowed. step in this direction? » Our society no longer has natural RIGHT USE OF MEANS A war geographic bounds. Modern Mr. Weigel was educated at the University otherwise justifiable can become transportation, television, and the of St. Michael's College in Toronto, He is a wrong by how it is fought. Almost internet, has created a world member of the Editorial Boards of First anything is allowable in a just war society. We have police to protect Things and Orbis, and serves as a consultant except the direct killing of the our cities, armies to protect our for NBC News.
CONTENTS PAGE 47 WEIRD AND WACKY FACTS » By Mohammed Malik, 12 years old Windsor – Canada On Authors and Books!
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1. Best Selling Deceased Author Dame Agatha Christie (Britain) holds this title, with 78 crime novels, having sold close to 2 billion copies, in 44 languages.
2. Best Selling Author British romantic novelist, Dame Barbara Cartland, raked in US $650 million in global sales, for her 635 titles. 3. Most Translated Novelist Sidney Sheldon’s novels, including Rage Of Angels, have been translated into 51 languages and sold in over 180 countries.
4. Most Prolific Novelist Jose Carlos Ryoki de Alpoim Inoue, Brazilian novelist, published 1,046 westerns, thrillers and science fiction novels, between 1986 and 1996 – more than any other writer.
CONTENTS PAGE 48 5. Most Reclusive Author J. D. Salinger has so resisted publicity that a book about the effects to find him has been published by Ian Hamilton called 1 In Search Of J. D. Salinger.
6. Oldest Authors Two sisters, Sarah and Elizabeth Delany, at the ages of 103 and 102 respectively, wrote their autobiographies in 1993. 7. Highest Annual Earnings By An Author J. K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter books, increased her net worth from, US $93 million in 2001 to 7 US $325 million in 2002. 12 8. Most Comic Books Written Paul S. Newman has written for 360 different comic book titles, which include The Lone Ranger, Superman, Mighty Mouse, Fat Albert, Tweety and Sylvester. He has written more than 8 4,000 stories that have been published. 9. Best Selling Non-copyright Book The Bible is the world’s best selling and most distributed book. 6 About 5 billion copies have been printed to date. 10. Best Selling Children’s Book The Goosebumps series by R. L. Stine (USA) has 80 titles and to date, has sold 220 million copies around the world. The first book, Welcome To Dead House, was published in 1992.
11. Best Selling Book The Guinness World Records also known as The Guinness Book Of Records is the world’s best selling book. Published in 37 languages, global sales have reached 91,941,000 copies. 12. Longest Running Comic Book Published by D. C. Thomson & Co of Dundee, UK, The Dandy is the longest- running comic book. The weekly comic’s most loved character is Desperate Dan, a cowboy from Cactusville, whose favorite food is cow pie, baked in a dustbin lid. 9 5
CONTENTS PAGE 49 EDITOR AT LARGE » By Carla Dragnea Bucharest, Romania
Preparing your Children for SCHOOL It’s the end of summer and to the world, this means Back to School.
« In these times of progressive unrest, BULLIES kids are faced with issues far greater than one could have envisioned Since victims of bullies usually don’t even a few years ago! Social and seek help, it is important to look educational stresses have reached for signs that your child is being outrageous heights and within bullied: trying to avoid school, a these heights drug use and abuse, change in personality, or a change violence, suicide and bullying have in grades. Talking about bullying become quadruple nightmares. with your child may also help to Parental guidance, Big Brothers, Big prevent your child from becoming Sisters should indeed become an a bully. Teach them to share with an integral extension of every human adult, if he/she sees another child life. Talk with your children about being bullied. these issues. Decrease their chances of becoming a victim to them. DRUG USE AND ABUSE Communicating with your child is IMMUNIZATION MOST important to help prevent You should find and review your them from picking up bad habits: child’s immunization records. Are the use of tobacco, alcohol, gangs, his/her shots current? What shots pornography, hackers and drugs. does your child need to attend Children whose parents talk to kindergarten or the first grade in them regularly are at much less risk addition to what they received as when it comes to experimenting. an infant? School age children Remember: whether your children usually need booster doses of the are 6 or 18, regular talks represent MMR, DTaP and IPV vaccines. the KEY to their future. « Older children require a Tetanus booster. For « Carla click here «
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