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On The Cover: Jo Lee in her suite at The Fairmont Royal York Toronto. Her Canadian home. Ensemble en gris français et crystal collier. The Fairmont Store, Toronto, Canada. 416.860.4572 www.facebook.com/TheFairmontStoreRYH 1920s Josephina Lea Pink Beaded Berretta designed by Jo Lee. Original cover photography and Digital Imaging by Alexandra A. Egan. alexandraegan.com The ADESTE Medal Sr. Strategist Gayle Robin, Strategic Ampersand Inc. Toronto, Canada Founder, Publisher, Editor in Chief Josephina Lea Mascioli Mansell Executive VP Creative Jason Howlett Worldwide Marketing Advisor Ann Graham BACKER Marisa Gallagher Print Sherwood Design And Print
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The Prestigious ADESTE Gold Medal is awarded to the 40 and under Unsung Heroes – whose achievements have created outstanding benefits within the categories of Humanities, Social Justice, Technology, Arts, and Medicine: The Unsung Heroes. ADESTE is a Medal of Honor. It’s about those who have achieved extraordinary findings or who have excelled beyond their limits in inspiring others to touch the stars. It’s about the drive within the insurmountable challenges in a world we call ‘life’! It’s about the Unsung Hero who has achieved/created outstanding benefits from Man to Universe. Please! Will you nominate someone today? Adestelive.com
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The World’s Top Investigative Journalists For our Power List we selected exceptional professionals who have chosen an exceptional branch of journalism dedicated to shedding light in dark places, often helping to change the course of history. By Susan Berger Special Assignment – JO LEE Magazine New York/San Francisco/Hong Kong/ London/Tokyo/Rome/Toronto
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The Marvelous Maverick Five Corporate Commandments – The Keys To Success And Failure By H. Gail Regan Toronto – Canada
Pros & Ex.Cons A Better Economy? By Stanley J. Dorst San Francisco – California
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Seizing Power The End Of All Our Troubles The Rich & The Famous By Brian Hanington Ottawa – Canada Dubai, Abu Dhabi: Wealth, Power And Contrasts Double Entendre By Heide Van Doren Betz Feeling Down San Francisco – California By Saul Levine, MD San Diego – California L’Occhio / The Eye Back To Alcatraz Synaptic Transmission From The Private Collection Of Worth The Norwegian Internationally Renowned Photojournalist Hospitality Ray Scotty Morris By James T. Rutka, MD Toronto – Canada San Francisco – California
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The Provocative & Challenging World Of Arceri The Girl Least Likely: Greer Garson By Gene Arceri San Francisco – California
And That’s Pizzazz By Kathleen Mailliard Solmssen San Francisco – California
Indulgences
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Yes, Virginia! Come – Explore With Me Chile By Lois M. Gordon Silicon Valley – Californi
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You Are What You Ate You’ll Become What You Eat By Dr. Andrea Buckett Toronto – Canada
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Contributors
The Poet’s Corner By Dr. Margaret R. O’Keeffe Umanzio, Sally Anne Reisner & Vera Resnik
The Power Image San Francisco Columbarium San Francisco – California
The Private Museums Nasher Sculpture Center By Julie Rekai Rickerd Toronto – Canada
Editor at Large Celebrating The Ordinary By Carla Dragnea Bucharest – Romania
The Edwardian Ball And The Edwardian World’s Faire By Justin Katz, Founder and Co-Host with Mike Gaines San Francisco – California
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When Angels Cry Hear The Child The Malala Yousafzai Story By Kelechi Eleanya The Niger Delta – Nigeria
The Digital Divide What Happened In Syria? By Craig Ricker Moscow – Russia
La Grande Finale Power By Monte S. Bell Warren – Vermont
I’ve Always Been Nuts Remittance Man: Families, What Are You Gonna Do? By John Paul Jarvis Toronto – Canada
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Avery Shi Investor Hong Kong
The Coming Economy, Anniversary Issue 2013: This article is still relevant regardless of when written. In fact it is interesting how much of the forecast is true. Retired people who did invest in the stock market or minerals have been richly rewarded. I wonder what is next?
Leighton Dossett Notary Public UK
The World’s Top Authors – 16 Who Matter: The level of formality, sophistication, preciseness of language brought elements of exciting tones. The images produced through the writer’s words were engaging with a standing ovation for the briefness of profiles on all 16 authors. Beautifully done.
Kristopher Deponty Nuclear Engineer New York – New York
A fascinating invitation to an interesting city. Magnificent photography. Of course, Savannah also has a decidedly dilapidated area as well. The poor live in such squalid conditions. A tremendous divide. A divide now recognized in many world cities. I would like to think of Savannah’s beauty as a peaceful calm for those on the other side of the divide. World Luxury – Savannah In History And Famous In Legend
Godric Maas Mineralologist Oslo -- Norway
The Digital Divide, Anniversary Issue 2013: I enjoyed this article very much – and almost believe it. It reminds me of the Vikings of another era. In fact we forget that some parts of the earth do not live in this century and our dealing with them is not so simple. Why do we think that we know how to deal with everyone based upon our limited knowledge?
Tamra Haedicke Professor Boston – USA
I have often gone back to old memos written with difficulty understanding what I was saying. The arguments laid out are not understandable because everything I had in my mind did not get on the paper. Good suggestions, Editor at Large. World Luxury Issue – Writing Is A Reflection Of Your Thinking.
Zyana Jacelon
Pharmaceutical VP, Retired Toronto -- Canada You Are What You Ate, Anniversary Issue 2013: I suppose there are people who cannot tolerate salt or sugar, and at least can add it if they choose to. In any case, bland tasteless foods are not for me and I continue in good health. I also wonder how many people die of lung cancer from second hand smoke out of doors? And how many extra years – my father was a smoker and I grew up in smoke filled rooms. He lived to 96 and I am in good health at 85. JL
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CONTRIBUTORS
Gene Arceri
The Provocative & Challenging World of Arceri
Gene Arceri has gained world attention as a writer, critic, award winning PBS reviewer and publicist. A native New Yorker, Gene resides in San Francisco and spends considerable time in London. Among his best selling books are: Elizabeth Taylor: Her Life, Her Loves, Her Future and RED: The Tempestuous Life of Susan Hayward.
Monte S. Bell La Grande Finale
Monte S. Bell was a practicing architect in San Francisco for almost 40 years while affiliated with Sidmore, Owings and Merrill before forming his own firm in 1970. Born in Vancouver, Canada, Monte is now retired and living in Vermont. Always interested in art, he began drawing cartoons for his high school magazine and has continued cartooning to the present.
Susan Berger
16 Who Matter
Susan Berger, after a successful career in finance, embraced journalism as JO LEE Magazine’s Marketing Editor and writer of 16 Who Matter. Previously, Susan held financial positions with major institutions including TD Financial Group and Alliance Atlantis Communications.
Andrea Buckett
You Are What You Ate
Andrea Buckett, Dr. of Homeopathy, lecturer, writer, renowned food expert – is passionate about helping people feel young. She is a graduate of The Homeopathic College of Canada and her successes to date have become a sole focus on the body’s benefits and pleasures of great food.
Brian Hanington
Stanley J. Dorst
Seizing Power
Pros & Ex.Cons
Stanley J. Dorst is a retired officer of Chevron Land Development Co. and CEO of Grosvenor Development Co. He’s been advisor to European governments and private companies as Vice-President of The International Urban Development Association and advisor for The International Executive Service Corps on behalf of the United States State Department Agency for International Development.
Kelechi Eleanya When Angels Cry
Kelechi Eleanya is an economist and a committed development expert with the UNDP. He holds a degree in Renewable Natural Resources Management and a Master’s in Forest Economics.
M. Carla Dragnea Lois Gordon Editor at Large
Carla Dragnea is a Biologist whose interest in feature writing has encompassed ‘the study of life’. In September, 2008, she was appointed Intellectual Advisor to the YES! E-Help Campus which assists 11+ million young people worldwide with their problems, each month. yesintl.com
Yes, Virginia! Come – Explore with Me
Lois M. Gordon is a world traveler and resides in California’s Silicon Valley. She has spent her life as wife and mother, chairing several committees and indulging in her passion for reading and writing poetry.
Brian Hanington is a relentlessly busy ghostwriter in the corridors of power. He has penned speeches, letters and books for movie stars, admirals, knights, prime ministers (and even a pope), always staying anonymous -until now. His column gives readers an expert’s insight into the power of persuasion. Brian is the President of Stiff Sentences Inc.
John Paul Jarvis I’ve Always Been Nuts
Paul Jarvis has enjoyed a full corporate career as CEO of four subsidiaries of foreign multinationals and served on six boards. Board and boat sailor, tennis player, terrible musician all tempered by eclectic friends – affords a basis for views and opinions on a broad range of topics.
Saul Levine, MD Double Entendre
Saul Levine, MD, is Professor Emeritus in Psychiatry at the University of California, San Diego. Saul is an international author and former host of a long-running television advice show. He is especially interested in the paradox of humanity: our capabilities to be benevolent and inspirational, yet also to be greedy and destructive.
Ray Scotty Morris L’Occhio / The Eye
Ray Scotty Morris is an internationally renowned photojournalist and successful San Francisco society photographer. He has won 29 photo awards in just ten years – local, state and national, including best news picture of the year. Scotty has received a Certificate of Commendation from the U.S. Senate along with the distinct honor of being written into the 107th U.S. Congressional Record.
Dr. Margaret R. O’Keeffe Umanzio The Poet’s Corner
Dr. Margaret R. O’Keeffe Umanzio, Peggy, has been an advisor to CEOs and corporate executive teams. She was a cofounder of the first fully-integrated alternative public school in the U.S., has lectured at Boston University as well as at Stanford, Berkeley and Tufts. She is currently writing a book titled Delivering on the Promise.
H. Gail Regan The Marvelous Maverick
Gail Regan is vice-chair of Cara Operations. She chairs Energy Probe, is a member of the Canadian Association of Family Enterprise and the Family Firm Institute. She has a PhD in Educational Theory and an M.B.A. in Finance. Her background in sociology and her personal experience of business have given her an intellectual interest in the problem of evil.
Craig Ricker The Digital Divide
Sally Anne Reisner The Poet’s Corner
Sally Anne Reisner grew up in San Francisco’s Bay Area and then taught in an urban-suburban high school in New Jersey for eighteen years. At the age of fifty she left her job, re-married and focused on her writing.
Craig Ricker is a prolific writer and among the world’s best photographers. He went to Russia to develop an understanding of its world from the inside and to accurately portray their life predicament within his books.
Dr. James T. Rutka Vera Resnik The Poet’s Corner
Born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, Vera Resnik lost most of her family in the Holocaust. Her volunteer work in the New Jersey court system – as a conflict resolution resource and advocate for children’s rights – led to a court appointment to the child review committee. Today, Vera’s writings are widely read.
Synaptic Transmission
Dr. James T. Rutka is the R.S. McLaughlin Chair of the Department of Surgery at the University of Toronto; Co-Director of The Arthur and Sonia Labatt Brain Tumour Research Centre, and pediatric neurosurgeon at The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada. He has served as Chairman of the Division of Neurosurgery, University of Toronto and President of the American Association of Neurological Surgeons.
Kathleen Mailliard Solmssen Pizzazz
Renowned designer, writer, successful photographer, hilarious speaker, chef, mixologist Kathleen Mailliard Solmssen resides in the magnificent outskirts of San Francisco. Her pinterest.com/ fashionandflair and fashionwithflair.blogspot. com is filled with life lessons and laughter, exquisitely mirrored in her column Pizzazz.
Heide Van Doren Betz The Rich & The Famous
Heide Van Doren Betz, an Art Consultant specializing in Ancient Art and Icons, has taught Art History and created world famous collections of Antiquities and Icons. Her accomplished photography was shown in a solo exhibition at the Winckelmann Museum in Germany. JL
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THE MARVELOUS MAVERICK
Five Corporate Commandments – The Keys To Success And Failure By H. Gail Regan Toronto – Canada
Cheap ballpoint pens had just been commercialized in 1952 and each child in my class was given one. Eight-year-olds like me found them hard to use and not as much fun as real ink. This was also the year they taught us the biblical Ten Commandments. I had trouble understanding number 10, coveting goods. “Father,” I asked, “I like your pen. It writes easily. I want one like it. What’s wrong with that?” He explained that nothing was wrong with liking his pen. It was wanting HIS pen, wanting him not to have it, that was the sin of covetousness. I was puzzled by his answer. I did not see wickedness in secret envy. However, I did understand the prohibitions against murder and theft. Developed societies today have institutionalized the commandments that forbid killing and stealing, thereby solving the problems of extreme violence and property rights. These societies are also likely to have global corporations that reinforce peace and plenty, while providing generous incomes to executives who like to sublimate their covetousness in shopping. The biblical Ten Commandments apply to individuals, but modern life now depends on corporations. An equivalent designed for them would encourage corporate continuity and efficacy. With this belief in mind, I wrote a book, “The Evil Governor”, and my colleague Jon Kieran illustrated it with a short story “Overlooking Lake Alois.” Here is a summary: Corporate Problem Corporate Commandment That Solves The Problem Excess Risk Do not syndrome mix. Avoid corruption Wealth-destroying deals Suppress narcissism. Commit to performance Group think Break up alignments. Allow all energy Rigidity Value holistic thought Excess compensation Provide opportunity to new alphas Before the 2008 crisis, my family company was performing adequately, if not strictly according to these guidelines. After the crisis, there were needs for less grandiosity, more commitment, less alignment, more holistic thought, less status seeking. We did the opposite, not out of malice, but because the language of business reform encourages breaking the corporate commandments. We were advised to: expand market share, search for deals, adhere to business models, elaborate accounting discipline, issue more stock options to present leaders. Sales held up, but the balance sheet weakened. The puzzling language of corporate reform is the language of corporate sin. The idea applies to political conflict as well as business. A journal article in 2013 September/October “Foreign Affairs”, The Limits of Counterinsurgency Doctrine in Afghanistan: The Other Side of the COIN”, illustrates how breaking the corporate commandments wastes life and fortune in war zones. If we applied these guidelines at critical choice points, we could limit business uncertainty and political failure. I am retiring from business, but these ideals should continue to inspire.
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PROS & EX.CONS
A Better Economy? By Stanley J. Dorst San Francisco – California
It appears that there are those who believe that we would all be better off with new, ”fairer” tax laws and stiffer controls on U.S. corporations; that corporations and their leaders are making too much money as well as not treating the environment and employees fairly; and that since our companies are making huge profits they can afford to help the middle class. Can the “free enterprise system” be redirected in detail in the way it does business? One of the purposes of government is to regulate business, but are there limits on the detail in which this can be done? As more and more complicated controls are legislated, industry adapts in complex and uncontrollable ways that prevent the achievement of subservience. The structural reason is that there are not just corporations; there are big corporations and small companies. For example, assume that the government passes a new tax code defining a new way of calculating company profits, or new detailed controls on perceived unfair business practices. Will all companies immediately conform their accounting systems and way of doing business, or will some not get around to it? Which companies are going to follow
these directives? Which ones will support the new system? It will be the big corporations with tax and legal departments who have the time and talent to study and implement the thousands of pages of new regulations, and public relations and legal departments to counsel conformance. Small companies will not have the time or funds to digest and follow the new directives; they will put off compliance, or, hide profits and skirt compliance. Is it a problem if only small companies don’t follow the endless regulations formulated by the government? Is it a problem if family companies don’t pay their full taxes, as happens in most of the world? First of all the large corporations are not the companies that are doing most of the hiring and business here in the USA – no it is small companies that are creating the vast majority of new jobs and employing the employees receiving the lower incomes. We have an increasing transfer of business from large to small businesses – this is actually happening! Is this a problem? Yes these are problems that cause us to end up with a worse rather than better situation for the middle, and lower
income employees. When regulations are too complicated: they don’t end up getting used. The middle class will not be better off. They will be worse off when jobs are transferred to small companies. Many small companies don’t exercise equal treatment of their employees – favoring their family members and friends; they don’t follow all the complex regulations they have not had time to read and the objectives the government tries to force on them are ignored. The percentage of taxes collected in many European countries is much less than here and the same can be said for government regulations in much of the world. Of course the government can enforce all the new regulations if they have enough public servants but they won’t have enough. So what is lost in forcing large corporations offshore and enhancing the growth of small businesses? •Promotional opportunity •Pension benefits •Job security • Full time employment •Freedom from workplace discrimination and harassment. Do these problems look familiar? Are the results of more regulation the opposite of what is intended? JL
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INDULGENCES
The Poet’s Corner
By Dr. Margaret R. O’Keeffe Umanzio, Sally Anne Reisner & Vera Resnik Photography By Vera Resnik San Francisco – California
Sky Tears
A blanket of overburdened nimbostratus veils the earth. The gloomy sky has dropped, shielding the sun and stars from view, sending the farthest horizon into a cocoon of oblivion, nothingness, a stagnant oppressive void. Day after day, after day, unrelenting, furious liquid balls pummel the house, the ground, swell rivers, knock birds off their perches, bend flowers, form cavernous puddles, while voracious mosquito appetites percolate Kamikaze bombers, precision targeting, piercing skin like shrapnel. Ear shattering thunder, crashing, clanking cymbals, a rumbling concert of percussive disturbance; drumbeat of nature’s fury.
House In The Redwoods
My grandparents’ house stood at the top of a canyon. We could smell the scent of redwoods and dusty road. The stillness of tall trees hugged our young bones, where, wrapped in childhood chatter, we slept on the porch, four of us telling ghost stories in the dark. In daylight we swam in the flowing Russian River, swinging and jumping from hanging ropes. Our mothers sat on the sandy beach smoking their Camel cigarettes, paying no attention to us. We were young and fearless. On weekends our fathers would arrive, cautious and observant. My mind often returns to those childhood days: the sour green apple trees in the family orchard; the swing hanging between two tall redwoods; evening bonfires down by the local bandstand; picnic lunches on the beach; performing skits for tipsy grown-ups; and walking up the canyon road passing neighbors’ porches lit by swinging paper lanterns. ©sallyann
May Day
First one, then twenty flits of yellow appear. Thirsty, water logged Swallowtails materialize. Satiate selves. Pollen laden they ride the wind, drifting from sight. A bright magical moment –– gone.
Half way between the spring equinox and the summer solstice Bonfires burning to mark the end of winter Cattle marching between the protective fires to the pasture Morris dancers tapping to awaken the earth May Queens dancing under and around the streamers of the May Pole The Hawthorne bush proudly standing in a dress in flowers, ribbons and shells Celebrated as the Feast of Bealtaine in Ireland, Walpurgis in Sweden, Lei Day in Hawaii, Walpurgisnacht in Germany, Armindeni in Romania, and Vappu in Finland.
Sky darkens. Ebony clouds amass. Sky cries again.
Feast of St. Joseph the Worker.
Suddenly –– pervasive silence. Rain ceases. Clouds depart. Sun announces the respite. Drooping flowers open faces skyward, wafting enticing scents.
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International Workers Day around the world. ©margaretumanzio
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Photograph By Arthur Koch – San Francisco
INDULGENCES
The Edwardian Ball And The Edwardian World’s Faire By Justin Katz, Founder and Co-Host with Mike Gaines San Francisco – California Courtesy Photos Pages 22 – 54 The Edwardian Ball and The Edwardian World’s Faire is an elegant, whimsical celebration of art, music, theatre, fashion, technology, circus, and famed author Edward Gorey, set in an imagined Edwardian era. Enthusiastic attendees, traveling from all corners of the globe, flock to this San Francisco (and for the past five years, Los Angeles) tradition, hailed as “the quintessential must-nevermiss event of the year!” All ages are welcome and appropriate in this darkly humorous and elegant setting, where the only guiding rule is that you join in on the fun! Literary fans, history buffs, Goth club goers, and curious first-timers mingle effortlessly as steam-powered machines and high-flying aerialists paint the backdrop for elegantly dressed ball goers waltzing their way from absinthe bar to the dance floor. This year, the founders Justin Katz (Rosin Coven) and Mike Gaines (Vau de Vire Society) perform Gorey’s “The Curious Sofa” combining naughtiness to the limit of the imagination and laughter to the point of breathlessness.” Dark Garden Corsetry presents an elaborate fashion show, “this year
showcasing a new collection in vibrant jewel tones, suitable for cocktail parties or the boudoir,” says owner and designer Autumn Adamme. Attendees explore the Museum of Wonders, a crackled compendium of human knowledge and natural history. Curated by ramshackle polymath Benjamin Burke, the museum displays the fruits of the labors fueled by human curiosity, scientific illustrations and paraphernalia, incongruous contraptions, tools and trinkets of forgotten trades, trophies of taxidermy, and skeletal remains of the animal kingdom. The Ball also features its famed Vendor Bazaar, where attendees can browse and purchase couture fashion, costumes, accessories, jewelry and assorted oddities. Friday’s Edwardian World’s Faire presents a night of music, theatrics, circus, fashion, and gaming. A little more rambunctious than Saturday’s Ball, the Faire offers an interactive night of Midway Games, bicyclepowered carnival rides, steam-powered machinery, and circus sideshows. Saturday’s Edwardian Ball invites all to return to a time of well-dressed
gentility in elegant costume and character. Friday’s rides and games are cleared away, making way for ballroom dancing and a steam-powered tea parlor. History: Since 1999, The Edwardian Ball has grown from a small underground club phenomenon into a full-fledged festival of arts and culture, focusing on the esteemed works of the late, great author Edward Gorey. Now, with the blessing of The Edward Gorey Charitable Trust, the truly prodigious and original artist, Edward St. John Gorey (1925-2000), is honored for his body of over 100 works. The Edwardian Ball returned to the historic Fonda Theatre in Los Angeles on February 8, 2014, where the entirety of San Francisco’s festivities are distilled and condensed into one unforgettable night of arts, entertainment, and fabulous participation. edwardianball.com
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Photograph By Alex Stover – San Francisco
EXCLUSIVE
Sandra Bartlett Canada
By Susan Berger Special Assignment New York/San Francisco/Hong Kong/London/Tokyo/Rome/Toronto
Currently a freelance investigative journalist, Sandra Bartlett spent 20 years with the Canadian Broadcasting Company (CBC) as an editor, reporter and producer in radio news and documentary production. Her investigative documentaries covered such diverse subjects as prescribing mood altering drugs to the elderly, tax scams which resulted in a cost to the Canadian government of hundreds of millions of dollars, and the use by police of Taser stun guns. While at the CBC, she created a “The World This Weekend�, a half-hour program of news and information. Ms. Bartlett left the CBC to join National Public Radio (NPR) in the U.S. in their new investigative reporting unit, where she remained for three years. At NPR, she worked on projects with PBS Frontline, ProPublica, The Center for Public Integrity, and The Center for Investigative Reporting. As co-chair of the Global Investigative Journalism Conference in Toronto in 2007, Ms. Bartlett oversaw 650 journalists who had come together to discuss investigative topics and techniques. That conference created an international award, the Global Shining Light Award, for journalists from developing countries or countries in transition who risk their lives for their stories. The recipient of the Michener Award for public service journalism, Ms. Bartlett gives training sessions on investigate techniques at journalism conferences in North America and Europe
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Photograph By Marco Sanchez – San Francisco
EXCLUSIVE
Dai Qing
China By Susan Berger Special Assignment New York/San Francisco/Hong Kong/London/Tokyo/Rome/Toronto
Trained as a missile engineer, Dai Qing was a committed Communist Party member until the 1980s when she became concerned that the Yangtze River Three Gorges Dam project would be a disaster from both environmental and human perspectives. She began by publishing “Yangtze! Yangtze!”, a compilation of essays, interviews and petitions by Chinese scholars who supported this viewpoint. The book was ultimately banned after the 1989 military crackdown in China, with the government claiming that it contributed to the turmoil of the pro-democracy movement. She resigned from the Chinese Communist Party after denouncing the Tiananmen Square massacre and was subsequently banned from publishing in China before being sent to jail for 10 months. The “Far Eastern Economic Review” described the book as a “watershed event in post-1949 Chinese politics, representing the first use of public lobbying by intellectuals and public figures”. She followed up with a second book on the dam project entitled “The River Dragon Has Come!” Dai Qing notes: “The whole world is talking about China rising, but at what cost?” The cost, she believes, is total environmental devastation, with 80 percent of the country’s rivers and lakes drying up, a third of the land contaminated by acid rain, and the elimination of most of the forest. Of the world’s 20 most polluted cities, 16 are in China. As an environmental investigative journalist, Dai Qing has published more than 20 books in several countries. She is the recipient of many awards, including The Goldman Environmental Prize and the world Association of Newspapers’ Golden Pen for Freedom Award.
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Photograph By Clarence Alford – Los Angeles
EXCLUSIVE
María Cristina Caballero Colombia
By Susan Berger Special Assignment New York/San Francisco/Hong Kong/London/Tokyo/Rome/Toronto
The recipient of the International Press Freedom Award of the Committee to Protect Journalists, an award given to journalists who faced jail, physical harm and death by doing their work, María Cristina Caballero has a Bachelor’s degree in Communications and Journalism from Javeriana University and a Masters in Public Administration from Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. At 16 years of age, Ms. Caballero began reporting for the Bogotá newspaper “La Republica”. She became Editor of Investigations at “El Tiempo”, Columbia’s largest daily newspaper, and Director of Investigations at “Semana”, a weekly news magazine. Known for her investigations of organized crime and corruption in Columbia, Ms. Caballero’s work was the first to reveal the millions of dollars received by the President’s campaign from the Cali drug cartel. She has noted that at least a dozen Columbian politicians were jailed for corruption as a result of her reports. In an attempt to end the violence in Columbia, Ms. Caballero rode into the jungle to interview the leaders of the country’s armed factions, subsequently publishing Peace on the Table, which presented the views of each party – the government, civil society groups, and rebel factions. As a result of her work, Ms. Caballero received numerous death threats and a gunman was seen hiding near her apartment door. After going into hiding, Ms. Caballero received an invitation from the Dean of Harvard, and she moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts. She has returned to Columbia to continue her work.
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Brigitte Alfter
Denmark By Susan Berger Special Assignment New York/San Francisco/Hong Kong/London/Tokyo/Rome/Toronto
A former correspondent in Brussels for the Danish daily paper “Information”, Brigitte Alfter is currently a freelance journalist in Copenhagen specializing in European affairs. Her specific interest is in cross-border reporting and the use of freedom of information laws in journalism. Ms. Alfter co-founded HYPERLINK “http://www. farmsubsidy.org” www.farmsubsidy.org, where journalists, academics and activists have worked together to reveal the recipients of the €50 billion farm subsidies by using freedom of information legislation. She was also a co-founder of “Scoop”, a network and support structure for investigative journalists. Scoop provides funding for journalists, organizes conferences, and connects reporters so that they are able to collaborate and investigate across borders. Recognizing that coverage of certain issues is hindered by language and other barriers, Ms. Alfter was also involved in the development of “Journalismfund.eu”, whose goal is to facilitate cross-border journalism in Europe and to create networks of journalists across borders while ensuring the independence of their journalistic work. The organization grants scholarships for the creation of multinational research teams, tackling issues such as trafficking, abuse of EU funds and illegal arms trading. In 2013, Ms. Alfter was awarded the Prize for the Freedom and Future of the Media, which honors people who bravely show commitment to the freedom of the press.
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Fabrice Arfi France
By Susan Berger Special Assignment New York/San Francisco/Hong Kong/London/Tokyo/Rome/Toronto
Currently an investigative journalist for the online publication “Mediapart”, Fabrice Arfi began his career as a columnist on judicial affairs for “Lyon Figaro”. After working with the police and justice section of “Agence France Presse” in Lyon, he helped form the Lyon bureau of the daily newspaper “20 Minutes”. Mr. Arfi and Fabrice Lhomme broke a story on the “Mediapart” website about a bomb blast in Karachi which killed 11 French naval engineers. They subsequently wrote a book entitled “Le contrat: Karachi, l’affaire que Sarkozy voudrait oublier”, or “The Contract: Karachi, the case that Sarkozy would like to forget”, in which they follow up on the incident. They claim that the blast was linked to a contract between the French defence contractor DCN and the Benazir Bhutto government, for the sale of three Agosta submarines to Pakistan, and that the perpetrator of the attack was not al Qaeda, as was then thought, but an ISI-supported jihadi group. The book links the event to a politically motivated financial scam, which involved then French Prime Minister, Edouard Balladur, presenting evidence that Mr. Balladur may have used the Agosta deal illegally to finance his election campaign. Questions also arose pertaining to Nicolas Sarkozy, who was Mr. Balladur’s budget minister during this time. The journalists also wrote the book “L’affaire Bettencourt, un scandale d’état”, or “The Bettencourt affair, a state scandal” about the legal investigation into whether the mentally frail 90-year-old Liliane Bettencourt, the billionaire heiress to the L’Oréal shampoo empire, was taken advantage of.
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Yusuf Jameel India
By Susan Berger Special Assignment New York/San Francisco/Hong Kong/London/Tokyo/Rome/Toronto
Before accepting his current position as a reporter specializing in coverage of the civil war in Indian-held Kashmir for the daily newspaper “The Asian Age”, Yusuf Jameel was a correspondent for India’s newsmagazine Ravivar and for Calcutta’s newspaper “The Telegraph”. He also worked for the BBC, Reuters and “Time” magazine. He has covered a variety of subjects, including human rights abuses, the disappearance of Kashmiri youth after their arrest by Indian troops, terror brought on by insurgents, and corruption by Kashmiri politicians. Mr. Jameel has had to contend with violence and attacks from all parties involved in the conflict in Kashmir, where Indian security forces and government-backed militias are fighting against guerrilla groups striving for independence or merger with Pakistan. The press is viewed as supporting their adversaries, and they respond through violence. Grenades have been thrown at Mr. Jameel’s home and office, and he was hospitalized after being beaten over the head by security officers while he was trying to cover a protest march by Kashmiri women. He has faced numerous threats from militant separatists who were not pleased with his coverage of the war. In the most tragic incident, a letter bomb addressed to Mr. Jameel exploded and killed a colleague at the BBC. For his reporting of the war in Kashmir, Mr. Jameel won the Committee to Protect Journalists’ International Press Freedom Award. He was also awarded the Best Journalist/ Writer award by the South Asian Free Media Association and the Ahad Zargar Memorial award for his outstanding contribution as a journalist.
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Sam Smyth Ireland
By Susan Berger Special Assignment New York/San Francisco/Hong Kong/London/Tokyo/Rome/Toronto
As a reporter and columnist for the “Irish Independent” and “Sunday Tribune” newspapers, Sam Smyth is the only Irish journalist to win the Journalist of the Year award twice; once for his investigation into business scandals and the second time for his exposure of a political scandal that led to the resignation of a government minister and the eventual fall of the “Rainbow Coalition” government. He was also voted the “Journalists’ Journalist” in a poll of over 250 Irish newspaper reporters. In his book “Thanks a Million Big Fella”, Mr. Smyth wrote about the story he uncovered regarding multimillionaire Ben Dunne, head of Ireland’s richest family, who financed an extension to the home of a minister in the governing Fine Gael party. Thirty-six hours after the story broke, the minister resigned. A subsequent government investigation into the affair discovered that Dunne had also given 1.3 million pounds to former Prime Minister Haughey over the years. In 2010, Mr. Smyth exposed cabinet minister Michael Lowry as corrupt, and was accused by Mr. Lowry of defamation. Mr. Smyth was successful in his defense, and in 2012 Mr. Lowry lost an appeal to the Irish High Court. Mr. Smyth has stated that he is interested in how figures in authority use and abuse their patronage and power. He believes that a reporter’s trustworthiness and reputation for integrity is his or her greatest asset.
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Yossi Melman Israel
By Susan Berger Special Assignment New York/San Francisco/Hong Kong/London/Tokyo/Rome/Toronto
Born in Poland, Yossi Melman emmigrated to Israel in 1957. He served with the Israel Defense Forces for three years before attending the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he studied history and international relations. He has been a journalist since 1974, and worked for 27 years for the Israeli daily “Haaretz”. As the security and intelligence commentator of “Walla”, Israel’s biggest news website, he is currently one of Israel’s most respected journalists. Mr. Melman has written numerous books on the subjects of foreign policy, strategic issues, terrorism and intelligence. “Spies: Israel’s Counter Espionage Wars” retained its spot at the top of Israel’s best-seller lists for almost a year. In 2012 he published “Spies Against Armageddon”, a history of the intelligence community in Israel. His articles on Iran’s nuclear program and the Israeli attack on the Syrian nuclear facility were among the top 10 most read stories in 2007 on the “Haaretz” website. He is also an accomplished playwright, and “The Good Son”, about a fictional espionage case, was performed at a Tel Aviv theatre. As the only Israeli member of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), Mr. Melman shared an award for an ICIJ project entitled “Making a Killing: The Business of War”, which examined worldwide arms dealers and oil and diamond merchants in Third World countries.
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Toshihiro Okuyama Japan
By Susan Berger Special Assignment New York/San Francisco/Hong Kong/London/Tokyo/Rome/Toronto
A writer for over 20 years for the largest newspaper in Japan, “The Asahi Shimbun”, Toshirhiro Okuyama has been a member of its investigative reporting team in Tokyo since 2006. Topics of his reporting include the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, public prosecutors, the judiciary system, and Japan’s Ministry of Finance. He has written several books, “Power of Whistleblowing: What Would Whistleblower Protection Act Protect?” and “Reportage TEPCO: A Month of Nuclear Crisis.” He has also co-authored books including “Giso Ukeoi – Disguised Employment Contracts: Works in the Gap-Widening Society”. In a story reported by Mr. Okuyama, workers at the Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) miscalculated the pressure levels inside a reactor in the early days of the Fukushima nuclear crisis, which led to a reduction in cooling water and a possible increase in the amount of radioactive materials released. TEPCO did not announce the mistake after discovering it. Another story reported by Mr. Okuyama described the inaction by TEPCO for two years after it pledged to seal a leaking hole in a turbine building of the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant. One month after the disaster, TEPCO said it would block the connection between the turbine building and an underground pit to prevent radioactive water from leaking into the sea. It is considered probable that the inaction is responsible for the spread of radiation.
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Bissane El-Cheikh Lebanon
By Susan Berger Special Assignment New York/San Francisco/Hong Kong/London/Tokyo/Rome/Toronto
A reporter in Beirut for the London-based newspaper “Al-Aayat”, Bissane El-Cheikh is currently the editor of the paper’s weekly supplement on youth. She worked at the paper in London, and was the first Visiting Arab Journalist at the Woodrow Wilson International Centre for Scholars in Washington, D.C., where scholars and experts research topics with an aim to build bridges between academia and public policy. When she was in the United States, Ms. El-Cheikh became interested in the way Arab Americans were treated in that country before and after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, and she began researching the lives of Arab Americans and Arab immigrants in the U.S. Her paper at the Woodrow Wilson Centre was titled “Mind the Gap: American Politics, American Societies. How America Managed not to Home Grow Islamic Terrorists, but Inspired Them All Around the World.” Ms. Cheikh’s expertise is on the Middle East and North Africa, and includes radical Muslims in Lebanon (both the Palestinian refugee camps and the north) and in Jordan, American detention camps in Iraq, Tehran, and Iran. She is a media trainer and a coach with Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism.
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Roman Anin Russia
By Susan Berger Special Assignment New York/San Francisco/Hong Kong/London/Tokyo/Rome/Toronto
An investigative journalist with the Moscow-based weekly newspaper “Novaya Gazeta”, Roman Anin has focused on corruption within the Russian government and military. Claiming that the system of corruption is created and fostered by Russian oligarchs and politicians, he continues with his work despite the fact that four of his colleagues were murdered. He says that the violence emphasizes the important role investigative journalism plays in revealing the truth and informing the public. In a series of articles, Mr. Anin wrote of a criminal organization led by the son of the head of Russia’s Airborne Forces which was linked to assassinations of business leaders, and described how the General tried to use military personnel to block police investigations into his son’s activities. In other reports he described corruption among politicians and businessmen who were involved in construction for the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympic Games. For five years, Mr. Anin investigated the disappearance of almost $1 billion from Russia’s budget, which was ultimately found in a maze of offshore accounts and shell companies in Europe, some of which were traced to Russian officials. Mr. Anin documents corruption through his work with the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP). In 2013 he was awarded the Knight International Journalism Award, which recognizes excellent reporting that makes a difference in the lives of people around the world. In granting the award, Mr. Anin was credited for his pursuit of truth despite serious threats.
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Rob Rose South Africa
By Susan Berger Special Assignment New York/San Francisco/Hong Kong/London/Tokyo/Rome/Toronto
After earning a law degree, Rob Rose joined South Africa’s largest business daily newspaper, “Business Day”, focusing on financial fraud and corporate governance. He went on to work for the “Financial Mail” magazine and the “Sunday Times”, and is currently the editor of that paper’s “Business Times”. Over a four year period, Mr. Rose investigated and exposed a $2 billion national Ponzi scheme, which involved some of the top businessmen in South Africa. He showed how Barry Tannenbaum, the grandson of the founder of South Africa’s largest pharmaceutical firm Adcock Ingram, lied to investors by offering them enormous returns in excess of 200% if they invested in components of AIDS drugs. It is considered the most embarrassing financial disaster in the country’s history. For his series on the sandal, “South Africa’s Madoff”, he was awarded the Taco Kuiper Award, South Africa’s highest prize for investigative journalism. He went on to write a book about the scandal entitled “The Grand Scam – How Barry Tannenbaum Conned South Africa’s Business Elite”. Other investigations centered on South African arms deals and how FIFA, football’s ruling body, awarded lucrative deals to politically connected companies in advance of the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. Mr. Rose has contributed to several books, including “Player and Referee: Conflicting Interests in the 2010 Soccer World Cup” and “Troublemakers: The Best of South Africa’s Investigative Journalism”.
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Jenny Nordberg Sweden
By Susan Berger Special Assignment New York/San Francisco/Hong Kong/London/Tokyo/Rome/Toronto
The New York-based foreign affairs columnist for the Swedish national paper “Svenska Dagbladet”, Jenny Nordberg has a B.A. in Law and Journalism from Stockholm University and a Masters from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. She was part of the first investigative team at Swedish Broadcasting’s national radio division, where she worked on projects on terrorism and politics. While working for “The New York Times”, she did a series on the American freight railroad system, for which she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting. In her article “Afghan Boys are Prized, So Girls Live the Part”, Ms. Nordberg describes the Afghani practice of “bacha posh” (which translates as “dressed as a boy”), where girls grow up disguised as boys, cutting their hair and dressing in typical Afghan men’s clothing. She describes the reasons for this as economic need, social pressure to have sons, and a superstitious belief that dressing a daughter as a son can lead to the birth of a real boy. Ms. Nordberg expanded on the article in her book “The Underground Girls of Kabul”. In discussing the topic, Ms. Nordberg poses the question, “What does it really tell us about the human condition, when so many women give up on their own gender, in our time?” Ms. Nordberg believes that a good investigative article will reveal a crime, a lie or blatant hypocrisy. She works on the premise that everyone wants to tell their story, even when it’s an unflattering one.
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Frank Garbely Switzerland
By Susan Berger Special Assignment New York/San Francisco/Hong Kong/London/Tokyo/Rome/Toronto
Freelance investigative reporter and documentary producer Frank Garbely studied Ethnology and Journalism in Switzerland before going to work for the daily Swiss newspaper “Tat”. He also worked as a news editor at the German Swiss Broadcasting Service. His stories have covered topics pertaining to intelligence, organized crime, political corruption, money laundering and terrorism. While doing research for a documentary entitled “Hitler’s Slaves – Forced Labor in Swiss Companies in the Third Reich”, Mr. Garbely became interested in Evita Peron’s three-month trip to Europe in 1947, and her ties to exNazis. His resultant documentary focused on disappeared Nazi funds and how bankers saved those funds from the Allies. The film included formerly secret documents and photos of European diplomats who aided Nazi criminals in their escape to Argentina, with these Nazis ultimately helping to bankroll Peron’s re-election in 1951. Mr. Garbely co-authored the book “The Environment of a Scandal: A Report on Organized Crime and the Role of Swiss Government Officials”, in which he described how Switzerland was used as a transfer country for cigarette smuggling by the Italian Mafia, and how Swiss laws facilitated the laundering of money acquired through blackmail and illicit arms and drug deals.
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Steve Bradshaw United Kingdom
By Susan Berger Special Assignment New York/San Francisco/Hong Kong/London/Tokyo/Rome/Toronto
Originally a rock music DJ, Steve Bradshaw was initiated into the world of journalism while working for his father’s Nottingham News Agency. With over 40 years’ experience in broadcast journalism, he is currently a television documentarian. Mr. Bradshaw has written in excess of 100 television and radio documentaries from over 40 countries. He has touched on subjects including open government, maternal mortality and the UK’s cancer record. His “Life on the Edge” series for BBC World TV included topics such as marginalized children in Latin America. He was the only journalist from the UK to make a primetime film about the case against the war in Iraq. Other reports covered money laundering and corruption in Pakistan, and an investigation into the role of Augusto Pinochet in a Washington, D.C. car bombing which took the life of a Chilean exile and ultimately led to the arrest of a U.S. citizen. In another documentary series, he examined the human impact of globalization. A member of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), Mr. Bradshaw won the ICIJ Award for Outstanding International Investigative Reporting for the documentary “When Good Men Do Nothing”, which described the deliberate inaction of Western powers during the Rwandan genocide. He is the recipient of many awards, including an Emmy for Investigative Journalism and the Amnesty International Media Award.
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Christian Amanpour United States
By Susan Berger Special Assignment New York/San Francisco/Hong Kong/London/Tokyo/Rome/Toronto
Born in London, England, Christian Amanpour relocated with her family to Iran, where she remained until her early twenties when the family fled the Iranian Revolution and returned to England. She moved to the United States in order to study journalism at the University of Rhode Island, remaining after completing her degree, and went on the air as a radio reporter. Shortly after joining CNN, Ms. Amanpour won the DuPont Award, which recognizes excellence in broadcast journalism, for her report on Iran. She went on to report on the Bosnian crisis, but it was her reporting of the Persian Gulf War following Iraq’s occupation of Kuwait that brought her international recognition. She is currently the global affairs anchor for ABC News and the chief international correspondent for CNN International. She has reported from Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Pakistan, Somalia, Israel, the Palestinian territories, Rwanda and the USA during Hurricane Katrina. In addition, she has interviewed many of the world’s top leaders, including Hosni Mubarak, Muammar Ghadafi, and Iranian Presidents Mohammad Khatami and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Ms. Amanpour has received every major broadcast award, including numerous News and Documentary Emmys and the Courage in Journalism Award. In commenting about accusations that her reports were biased, Ms. Amanpour stated, “There are some situations one simply cannot be neutral about, because when you are neutral, you are an accomplice. Objectivity doesn’t mean treating all sides equally. It means giving each side a hearing.”
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YES, VIRGINIA! COME - EXPLORE WITH ME As you venture out into our world, your travel can consist of a day visit to the closest towns or a journey that will place your feet clear on the other side of the world. It is all about discovery and about everywhere you walk. So, COME – EXPLORE WITH ME.
Chile
By Lois M. Gordon Silicon Valley – California
For anyone who has ever been fascinated by geography, the long, impossibly thin line of Chile has always produced a tiny moment of astonishment. Chile stretches over 4,300 km (2,700 mi) along the southwestern coast of South America, a distance roughly the same as that from San Francisco to New York, or Edinburgh to Baghdad. At the same time, its width never exceeds 240 km (150 mi), making the country more than 18 times longer than its widest point. Chile’s remarkable slenderness is caused by the Andes, a mountain range that is still rising and contains more than 50 active volcanic peaks.
over the world. Some come for Viña Del Mar ‘s tropical ambiance – its grand avenues lined with palms and banana trees, soft stretches of white sand beach, and its sybaritic plenitude of gourmet restaurants. While Viña’s celebrity has brought it any number of sleek, modern buildings, the character of the town is set by its many charming colonial houses. The most romantic way to tour Viña Del Mar is via Victoria, the region’s traditional horsedrawn carriage.
Santiago is where our journey began. We visited the museums, monuments, horse race track and all of the architectural sights the city offers.
Next stop is scenic Patagonia to see the penguins. True to form they marched in perfect order. It was a calm, day with blue skies and puffy white clouds.
The Bellavista neighborhood is home to many restaurants and cafés. For stunning views of the city, head to the top of Cerro San Cristòbal, accessible by bus, funicular, or by a vigorous hike.
Through Darwin Channel, on the calmest of seas, we saw the Chilean fjords. Next the Strait of Magellan, usually choppy and rough seas, was calm as glass for us.
Viña Del Mar, Chile’s most luxurious resort town, attracts visitors from all
We have completed eleven days of our 23 day adventure.
On to Puerto Montt by ship, we visited a Chilean farm; ate too much, watched the dancers and the rodeo.
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YOU ARE WHAT YOU ATE – YOU’LL BECOME WHAT YOU EAT
And I’ll Bet The Sweeps On That! By Dr. Andrea Buckett Toronto – Canada
Q: As a busy mom I try to eat breakfast on the run. Is it better to make a smoothie or fresh juice for my kids and me? Hélène – Bruges, Belgium AB: Hélène, the fact that you’re getting breakfast into you and your children is fantastic. Both smoothies and fresh juices have their place in a healthy diet. Smoothies are wonderful because you are able to get the whole food, including the fiber. Juicing, on the other hand, concentrates on the vitamins, minerals and phytonutrients and delivers them to your blood stream without having to digest the fiber. If you are in good health I would suggest switching it up so you get the benefits of each. Q: I recently saw organic gelatin in the supplement section of my health food store. Can you tell me why I would take this product? Luis – Virginia Beach, Virginia AB: Gelatin is a natural compound found in the bones and connective
tissue of animals, all of which have fallen out of favor with the North American diet. Most of us eat a diet heavy in the muscle of the animal (think boneless skinless chicken breast) and we miss out on all the other nutrients that the bones and connective tissue have to offer. Luis, gelatin supplement is an easy way to get these nutrients back into the diet. Gelatin helps to support skin health, digestive health and joint health. Q: Above herbal supplements and remedies are there any must have foods that help boost immunity during the cold and flu season? Zachary – Toronto, Canada AB: Food, Zachary, is without a doubt the best medicine as it helps lay the foundation for a strong and resilient immune system. Some of my favorite foods to keep on hand include garlic, ginger, hot peppers and lemon. I like to take an organic clove of garlic, mince it and let it sit for 10 minutes and swallow it with a glass of water. Garlic, ginger and hot peppers can easily be added
to chicken or vegetable soups. Try adding a slice of ginger and a Tbsp. of fresh lemon juice to hot water for a cup of soothing tea. Q: What is a kombucha drink? Taina – Espoo, Finland AB: Taina, kombucha is an ancient Chinese beverage that is made from a sweetened tea that’s been fermented by a symbiotic colony of bacteria and yeast. Although an ancient remedy, research has shown that it is beneficial in detoxification, boosting immune function, repairing and protecting joints, improving digestions and cancer prevention. Taina, you should be able to buy pre-made kombucha in a health food store or, make your own at home.
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The Provocative & Challenging World Of Arceri
The Girl Least Likely: Greer Garson By Gene Arceri New York – San Francisco – London
Greer Garson wrote to me on February 26, 1987, suggesting the above title for her biography. There were so many obstacles. So much hope deferred. But it would be worth writing even for a limited readership, as it is a story of success despite disappointments and handicaps.
Garson I was thoroughly enchanted with her, yet detected a sadness behind the smile and within the blue green eyes. Somehow, we connected. She cut her talk short, telling the assembly she was anxious to get back to her ailing husband. When she said goodbye to me, she handed me a note with her address.
And that should encourage others to hold onto their dreams.
From my questions and knowing of my scheduled library lectures, “Great Books Into Great Films Starring Greer Garson”, it was a gracious offer to call on her.
The Press Club of San Francisco was to honor Greer at a luncheon on May 7, 1986. The seven-time Academy Award nominee’s films include Goodbye Mr. Chips, Madame Curie, and Mrs. Miniver (winning this time). During the FDR years she was Queen at the New York’s Radio City Music Hall box office. Winston Churchill said Mrs. Miniver is propaganda worth 100 battleships. And my favorite is Random Harvest. David “Scotty” Morris was CoChairman and MC at the Press Club event. I was invited to attend representing PBS. Sitting near Miss
In 1949 she married E.E. “Buddy” Fogelson, an oil developer and industrialist. The Fogelson’s had homes in Dallas and L.A. and a ranch outside Santa Fe, New Mexico. Meanwhile we corresponded. As her husband’s illness, Parkinson’s disease, had progressed, she wrote: “We are living with hospital equipment and RNs around the clock...a revolving door”. Buddy painfully battled Parkinson’s for years until his death in 1987. For the last
six years of his life he was confined to a hospital and Greer moved into an adjoining room. During this time, she suffered her first heart attack. Then on April 8, 1988 I received a note from Greer in which she praised her beloved Buddy. “His wonderful life touched so many with his dignity, grace and courage including the long years of the battle against Parkinson’s.” In their 40 years of marriage, he was everything in the world to her. Greer Garson died in Dallas at age 92, epitomizing a noble, wise and courageous wife on film and in real life. In her will she donated millions to hospitals, medical schools, the performing arts, and other philanthropies. Not bad for The Girl Least Likely. We never did get to write her book. With her passing, it was a sad goodbye to motion picture’s romantic age of Hollywood. JL Jo Lee
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The Power Image
San Francisco Columbarium Photography by Ron Henggeler San Francisco – California
PIZZAZZ
And That’s Pizzazz By Kathleen Mailliard Solmssen San Francisco – California
opposite: “Catrina, Dia de los Muertos” (“Catrina, Day of the Dead”) Art And Photograph By Bill Wheeler
Somewhere between a golden parachute and a gold watch, the golden years require a bit of planning. Retirement while sitting in lounge chairs and dining on bland food is one way to go. Then there is what I have dubbed refirement: discovering what’s around the bend and the possibilities that lie ahead. Never having been known for traveling in low gear, Ingrid and Bill Wheeler chose to awaken a fire in their bellies and build creative fires in their lives. San Miguel de Allende, Mexico is the art-infused spot they picked to ignite and nurture their bonfires. From art universities, to galleries, from local primitive works to magnificent monuments, education and inspiration bubbles up and flows everywhere. Although this magical town has an international flavor, it
still holds on to traditional values and a rainbow of colorful culture. A few times each year, Bill and Ingrid manage to escape from the San Francisco Bay Area to their place in San Miguel and allow their creative juices to take off and blossom. They sort of save up their treasure trove of plans and ideas until they nest into their south-of-the-border casa and then the process begins. Without instruction of any kind, Ingrid has become a very admired jewelry designer. She has a real gift for being able to infuse high style into classical designs. Like a perfect frame, her necklaces enhance rather than consume the wearer. Bill is a painter. If he doesn’t have a tennis racquet or a golf club in his hand, he’s holding a brush and completing yet another masterpiece in his rooftop studio. A perfect frame
surrounding one of Bill’s paintings is totally unnecessary. When he signs a painting – the work is complete and he’s ready to stretch the next canvas. “It’s not about selling art – it’s about making art. We love our life in San Miguel,” he says. Being a jewelry designer wasn’t ever a dream for Ingrid. It just happened. She thought it might be fun and so she gave it a try. Today, she has a signature look and a confidence to branch out with new techniques. Being a painter was far from Bill’s business trajectory – he never imagined himself an artist. The exquisite balance that the Wheelers have created with their California and San Miguel lifestyle has continued to keep them full of energy and a joie de vivre like no other. Indeed that is pizzazz. JL Jo Lee
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“Ingrid, Jewel of the Parroquia” Photograph By Bill Wheeler
“Agave Azul” Photography By Ingrid Wheeler
SEIZING POWER
The End Of All Our Troubles By Brian Hanington Ottawa – Canada
What if the solution to humanity’s greatest problem were already in place? One marine biologist with a fondness for scooping muck out of the sea and sticking it under a microscope thinks that might be the case. Her name is Sallie Chisholm. At the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at MIT where she works, she goes by the nickname Penny. Think lucky penny.
it back out as sweet, clean eminently breathable oxygen. As President Barack Obama pointed out this past June when he awarded Ms Chisholm the National Medal of Science (the United States’ highest honor in science and engineering), this little guy we didn’t even know existed 25 years ago produces one fifth of the world’s oxygen already – and the story gets better.
every time the sun shines. After 200 years of industrial pollution and our almost universal refusal to accept responsibility for it, Mother Earth is saying to us, “Oh for heaven’s sake I’ll handle it”. In a seemingly supernatural move, yet one that is natural to its core, the world is healing itself even as we look out into space for a habitable planet to hop on having trashed our own.
In 1988, Ms Chisholm was bobbing around idly (as one does) on the Sargasso Sea aboard her research vessel VR Oceanus when she discovered what Simon Winchester later called “the most numerous, quite possibly the most important, and certainly one of the most unpronounceably-named creatures on the planet.”
There are 100 million of these little suckers in every quart of seawater, yet they flourish only in warm temperatures. Ironically, with global warming their range is expanding ever outward. That’s because we’ve been putting more carbon dioxide into the air worldwide, and for them it’s an open invitation to a feeding frenzy. And when they feed, they breed. Or, um, divide. Or something.
The peril, of course, is that those idiots who claim that human interference is not the cause of climate change might now be emboldened to pat themselves on their pointed heads and continue pressuring governments to avoid legislating emission limits in mining, drilling, transport and manufacturing. As Penny Chisholm has made clear, the only way our little Prochlorococcus buddies can help us is if we reduce our production of greenhouse gases now. Only then will they be able to turn the tide and end our troubles.
That creature is the sausage-shaped bacterium Prochlorococcus. It stands about half a micron in diameter (that’s one millionth of a meter) and, get this, it absorbs carbon dioxide, transforms it through photosynthesis and spits
In the still-warming Atlantic, as an example, they’ll soon be sucking in CO2 from the Faeroes to the Falklands, belching back pure oxygen
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DOUBLE ENTENDRE
Feeling Down By Saul Levine, MD San Diego – California
Most people go through some periods of self-questioning and sadness. It is not that we are meant to suffer as part of the “the human condition,” but life at times presents dilemmas that challenge us and affect our minds and moods. The stress of coping with our frenetic schedules can sometimes feel unrelenting for a while. In every lifetime, there are serious problems in ourselves or loved ones which confront us, and if unrelieved, get the better of us, bringing us further down in our mood states. At other times our melancholy might be due to brain chemical imbalances, or hormonal changes, illness and exhaustion. We all at times have private concerns about ourselves and our families. In periods of sadness or despair, we might find ourselves lying in bed, wide-awake at night or in the cold gray of dawn. When we’re under severe stress and in a sad or anxious mood, we tend to worry and ruminate, we review our
We usually get through and overcome, but sometimes we enter periods of despair, when we might think we are “losers”, an unfortunate expression (captured by The Beatles’ song, “I’m a loser; I’m not what I appear to be”). In the worst of these moments, we fear failure, or that our fragile house of cards we’ve spent a lifetime creating will come crashing down. A related fear is that our inadequacies will finally be publicly exposed, followed by our utter humiliation. “They” will see our frailties, and we will then be like “The Emperor who has no clothes”.
is often our friends and family we turn to, and who give us solace and nurturance. But if these sad and absorbing thoughts and feelings persist or worsen, and they begin to impair our friendships and functioning, they could be signs of a serious depression. It is then that we need to muster the energy, often with the help of others, and consult with our physicians or a mental health professional. It is important to realize that “down moods” are very common, and that these psychological clouds usually lift with time and with the help of those we are close to. But there is no shame in asking for professional help if we are feeling helpless and hopeless.
These “fleeting fantasies of failure” are not unusual when people are in particularly difficult times, but they usually disappear as we venture forth into the day, and resume our relationships and activities. When we habit our “House of Blues” it
Mood disorders are common, and if severe, they should be evaluated and treated. The good news is that various psychotherapies and medications are highly effective in speeding up the process of feeling “ourselves” again. JL
past and present, sometimes extra critically, and we try to contemplate our futures.
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Dubai, Abu Dhabi: Wealth, Power And Contrasts Photography and Text by Heide Van Doren Betz San Francisco – California
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is a constitutional monarchy located on the Persian Gulf. Four-fifths of the country is desert, yet it is one of the world’s great areas of contrasts. Skyscrapers, shopping malls, car races, water sports, fine hotels and dining lure tourists from all over the world. Dubai and Abu Dhabi are the largest cities and the centers of commercial activity. The official language in UAE is Arabic and the religion is Islam, with visitors finding much English spoken. Dubai, the main city of the UAE, is a modern city of world-class architectural design. None gets as much attention as the Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the world, with 163 floors. From the observation deck one can see the entire city, much of it built on sand-filled
islands called The Palm, and desert surroundings. Extravagant malls boast of every store from the U.S. and Europe as well as the largest aquarium and an indoor ski run. Separate souks, or stalls, invite the visitor to buy gold (weighed and price calculated by the ounce), exotic herbs and spices, and traditional handicrafts. One of the world’s largest gold markets is in Dubai. Abu Dhabi, the second largest city, is the capital of UAE. Again, a completely man-made island, Yas Island, was created to house modern skyscrapers for pleasure and relaxation. Favorite activities include visits to one of the ultra modern shopping malls, golf clubs, camel races, Ferrari car races, the ultra modern and impressive Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque – the
largest in the world. One of my favorite activities was a wild jeep ride in the desert. The contrasts are not only found in the landscape and architecture but also in the dress code. One encounters all types of dress, especially in Dubai, with visitors wearing anything from modest clothing to mini-skirts and shorts. However, UAE men wear the dishdash, or thwab (long white robe) with a keffiyeh (white headscarf ); others wear gellabiya with turbans. Women wear the traditional abaya (long black robe) with a hijab (head scarf ), some adding a niquab (covering the mouth and nose). Visitors entering the mosque must conform to this dress code, and are given a black robe courtesy of the visitor center. JL
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L’OCCHIO / THE EYE opposite: Prize winning photographer, Fred Pardini, photographs San Francisco from an Alcatraz cell.
Back To Alcatraz
Photography and Text from the private collection of Ray Scotty Morris San Francisco – California
Back in 1963 Fred Pardini, a San Francisco Examiner prize-winning news photographer, received a routine assignment: the transfer of prisoners and the closing of Alcatraz Prison. Little did he know he was seeing history in the making. Fred, who later left his beloved Examiner to become a TV cameraman, went on to be the only photographer in the United States to win both top awards as a news photographer; best news picture of the year, and then an Emmy; as a TV cameraman for KGO TV in San Francisco.
prison dealing with such incorrigible prisoners as Al Capone, Machine Gun Kelly, and The Bird Man of Alcatraz, Robert Stroud. Stroud’s story was later made into a movie starring Burt Lancaster. At its peak, the prison held 260 to 275 hardened criminals. In 1962, three prisoners made the first and only escape from the prison and they have never been found to this date. Maybe drowned in the bay as many believed, but that meant the end of the prison which had been built in 1934.
Now retired at 84 after a brilliant career of 44 years in news photography, he was going back to Alcatraz.
By the year 1962, the sea air and exposure had made the cement walls easy to crumble with minor tools. Now the prison is one of the top tourist spots in the city with over one million visitors a year.
Alcatraz is situated 1.5 miles offshore from San Francisco, a rocky 22-acre island. It was a maximum security
In 1775, it was Juan Manuel de Ayala who, in entering San Francisco Bay, found the island and named it La Isca
de los Alcatraces: Island of the Pelicans. Today, as you take the ferry out to the island, pelicans are still around with lots of wildlife. Between the wild life and the cell blocks and the history of the prison, Alcatraz is a tourist dream. The photography reflects Fred’s visit, back to Alcatraz after 50 years.
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John Cantwell, National Park Service Ranger, with Fred in the main cellblock.
Fred points to himself in the photo at Alcatraz that appeared in Life magazine.
The dining hall at Alcatraz.
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WHEN ANGELS CRY
The Next 100 Years: One Child’s Journey How She/He Will Live, Love And Never Really Die
Hear The Child The Malala Yousafzai Story By Kelechi Eleanya United Nations Development Program The Niger Delta – Nigeria
In every society one would expect to see men and women, young and old, putting efforts together to assist children in every way. There are numerous ways and inexhaustible areas whereby a child can be helped. Unfortunately, this help has not matched the growing needs for every child and the reverse is still the case in a constant conflict-prone society where issues of human and child rights are violated daily. Traditionally, one of the areas where children should receive APT (attention process training) is in communication: there is a need to hear a child and his/ her views. It is however, disappointing that little attention is often attached to this very crucial aspect in many families and societies. The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Children, the most widely ratified UN convention, reinforces the fact that children are people with human rights. The Convention acknowledges that parents and others legally responsible for children have rights and duties and
play an important role in children’s lives. There are four principles under this Convention namely: 1. Best Interests of the Child 2. Non-Discrimination 3. The Right to Participate 4. The Right to Life, Survival, and Healthy Development It is the young Pakistani teenager, Malala Yousafzai’s story, that should further lend the global community a form of impetus to respect the opinion, wishes and needs of the child. Malala was exposed to a situation that almost took her life after a terrorist attack, yet the young girl said, “I want education for the sons and daughters of the Taliban and all terrorists and extremists who shot me. I don’t hate them.” She went ahead and said, “Even if there is a gun in my hand and they stand in front of me I would not shoot.” These are clearly extraordinary statements from a young girl and it epitomizes the heart cry of Malala.
organization, the United Nations, and also a special day, July 12 has been set aside as the Annual Malala Day. The teenager was honored at the UN headquarters in New York City, where she addressed the UN Youth Assembly with a speech advocating global education. “Here I stand, just one girl among many. I speak so those without voice can be heard,” she told the UN audience, adding everyone has the “right to live in peace and to be treated with dignity.” We should all strive to go beyond the norm. We don’t need to wait for circumstances to prompt our necessary actions for the child. Hearing every child is a global responsibility for us all. Please! Hear The Child wherever you are.
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What Happened In Syria? By Craig Ricker Moscow – Russia
Understanding the Syria disaster requires grasping two important aspects of the revolutionary left. The anti-Assad insurgency is a generic, Marxist revolution. It differs from other Marxist revolutions in propaganda only. The first aspect is that all leftist activities stem from one simple manufactured conflict. The conflict is created like this: the revolutionary left appears at the door of a country or culture, knocks loudly, and says, “you, your culture and country are unacceptable to us, what are you going to do about it?” The nature of the ensuing conflict is determined by how vigorously the target culture resists the left. If they resist in a reactionary manner the result is gulags and firing squads. If the target culture is accommodating, then their destruction comes gradually, as in the case of Western Countries. If you want to make a leftist warrior scream, state the second aspect of the revolutionary left: all leftist countries
and organizations on earth are part of one global revolutionary force which pulls towards the same revolutionary goal, but are free to adjust their methods to fit local conditions.
was America’s fatigue with war and the greater was Assad’s chemical weapons arsenal, which could have inflicted unacceptable losses on U.S. forces or Israel. What to do?
Syria found itself in a two-pronged pincer operation between Marxists Leninist Putin and Obama’s Trotskyite Neocons; both part of the revolutionary left described above. Syria is a reactionary country so Bolshevik tactics are in order. The popular version of events is that the Neocons lost a Mexican standoff with Mr. Putin. When a person understands that Mr. Putin and Mr. Obama are not rivalries, but colleagues, the picture becomes clear.
A brilliant Leninist solution was found. Mr. Obama symbolically went to congress, asked for war, and was rejected, as expected. Mr. Putin offered to take control of the chemical weapons. What did this accomplish and how did it serve the revolutionary left? First it enhanced the prestige of an openly Marxist/Leninist state, Russia. Second, it eroded the prestige of America and frightened the American public. Third, it delivered Syria into the hands of Mr. Putin and he will disarm it as promised and either abandon it to the wolves or integrate it into the new communist block of nations he is forming around the emerging economies group BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa). In either case, reactionary Syria is neutralized.
The initial small-arms insurgency failed to topple Assad. As Vladimir Lenin said, “a good communist must snatch victory from defeat.” I believe Mr. Putin and Mr. Obama put their heads together and lived up to Lenin’s rule. Military victory required U.S. air power and ground troops, but there were two problems: the lesser
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THE PRIVATE MUSEUMS
The Private Museums – Nasher Sculpture Center By Julie Rekai Rickerd Toronto – Canada
Raymond D. Nasher was a real estate developer, U.S. delegate to the United Nations, banker and part owner of the Texas Rangers baseball team. Originally from Boston, he moved to Dallas and, with his Texas-born wife Patsy, put together one of the world’s finest collections of modern and contemporary sculpture. The collection began with the purchases of relatively inexpensive pre-Columbian pieces but gained momentum when Mrs. Nasher, as avid a collector as her husband, surprised him on his birthday in 1967 with Jean Arp’s bronze, “Torso with Buds”. This piece was followed by acquisitions of works by Henry Moore, Joan Miro, Alexander Calder, Barbara Hepworth and David Smith. Mr. Nasher would also commission sculptors such as Beverly Pepper to create pieces for his real estate developments. One of the first developers to always include art in his buildings, he maintained that his focus on the sculptures of such minimalist
and pop artists as Donald Judd, Andy Warhol, Richard Serra, Jasper Johns, Max Ernst, Claes Oldenburg and Roy Lichtenstein, was as rewarding, but much less expensive than their paintings. Older masterpieces by Giacometti, Rodin, Picasso and Matisse also found their way into the collection as did pieces by newcomers Anish Kapoor, Jeff Koons and Richard Deacon. After the sculptures began to overflow the Nashers’ North Dallas home and filled all the open spaces of his developments, Mr. Nasher commissioned architect Renzo Piano and landscape architect Peter Walker to design the $70 million, 55,000-sq-ft Nasher Sculpture Center in downtown Dallas to house the more than 300 piece collection, indoors and out. Its mandate: to examine “the primary sources shaping the history of sculpture since the late 19th century”. Opened in 2003, the Center’s building is divided into five equal-sized pavilions; its sidewalls covered in two-
inch-wide slabs of Italian travertine. Each end of the structure’s facade is of clear glass to create both a visual and actual link to the garden that unites the Center’s indoor and outdoor spaces. It boasts a unique, barrel-vaulted glass ceiling above the galleries, held in place by narrow steel ribs that are supported by stainless steel rods. A cast aluminum sunscreen above the roof allows the control of natural light into the galleries. A spectacular acre and a half garden surrounds the building and hosts about 25 of the collection’s large-scale pieces at any one time. The Nasher is a treasure trove of magnificent sculpture indoors and out. Location: 2001 Flora Street, Dallas, Texas 75201 Tel: (214) 242-5100 Hours: Tuesday – Sunday: 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM Admission: Includes free audio tour and special exhibitions. First Saturday of Month Free: 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM Adults: $10. Seniors & Military: $7. Students: $5. www.nashersculpturecenter.org JL
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SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION
Worth The Norwegian Hospitality By James T. Rutka, MD Toronto – Canada
Photography by James T. Rutka, MD Killarney Provincial Park
Recently, my wife and I had the distinct pleasure of traveling to Norway to visit friends and to tour the countryside. We began in Oslo where we stayed with friends with whom I had worked years ago as a research fellow at the University of California, San Francisco. It was our great good fortune to see an exhibit devoted to Edvard Munch’s works at the National Gallery in Oslo. Perhaps the best known and studied of all Norwegian artists, Munch’s works evoke intense emotions through his use of psychological themes that reflected his own personal journey through the vicissitudes of life. One of Munch’s greatest works is “The Scream”, a highly recognizable and valued painting that epitomizes man’s internal and personal struggle against elements in his environment. We also had the distinct pleasure of walking through Frogner Park, the home of the famous Vigeland sculptures. Gustav Vigeland was a
Norwegian sculptor who created over 200 bronze and granite sculptures that are on display in the park. In the center of the park is the famous monolith depicting the curved bodies of 121 human figures that curl upward towards the summit of the 46-foot obelisk. They symbolize humanity’s attempts to reach a higher order of spirituality. Another spectacular architectural feat worth visiting is the Oslo Opera House, which was designed by the Norwegian architectural firm, Snohetta. The building is comprised of angles of snow-white granite and Italian marble that course upward from sea level to the rooftop. We traveled by car from Oslo to Bergen across the beautiful Hardangervidda mountain plateau that sits above the tree line and is home to numerous Arctic plants and animals. In Bergen, we met our friends with whom I collaborate on current neuro-oncology research
projects. As we enjoy the outdoors so much, they suggested we hike to Fannaraken, a 2,068-meter steep mountain in Jotunheimen National Park, about a four-hour drive from Bergen. The Jotunheimen National Park is home to the largest number of mountain peaks above 2,000-meters in Norway. Naturally, we jumped at this opportunity, and drove with them to the base of the mountain. The ascent was steep for sure, but was marked along the way with the characteristic red “T” signs symbolizing the Norwegian Trekking Association (NTA). Founded in 1868, the NTA maintains mountain trails and cabins throughout Norway. There are more than 400 mountain cabins maintained by the NTA, and for an annual fee of $100, you can receive a key that will open the doors to all. Having summited Fannaraken by noon, we descended to the staffed mountain cabin at Skogadalsboen to rest our weary legs, and to enjoy some wonderful Norwegian cuisine. Norwegian hospitality at its best! Jo Lee
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Remittance Man: Families, What Are You Gonna Do? By John Paul Jarvis Toronto – Canada
For the unfamiliar, a remittance man is the black sheep of a well-todo family who suffers deportation, but is provided an annual stipend to stay away. That was my great, great grandfather. Remittance arrived exclusively to the reprobate’s offshore location ensuring he didn’t return. It provided a sum that would maintain this ex-patriot comfortably, but it contained the tacit message, “stay away”. His immediate, and my distant, relatives operated England’s oldest brewery, Shepherd Neame, founded in1698 and still located in Faversham, Kent. The Shepherd family’s embarrassment from too many scandals, and due to family standing, was banished in disgrace to the Colonies, English Upper Canada in great great grandfather’s case. The country of Canada had not yet been formed. My grandfather, Charles Jarvis Shepherd bequeathed the family Bible
to his eldest, Earl Jarvis, and then to me, the next generation’s eldest son. To my amazement the Bible contained a series of formal missives from a lawyer in Faversham, England, directed to the remittance man, my great grandfather, Dr. Charles Shepherd, containing the princely sum of £100 drawn on the Bank of England. This was at a time when a substantial annual wage in Upper Canada was £10. An oddity was that there were no envelopes in 1849. The handwritten letter containing the draft was folded over on its self and sealed with wax, addressed to my ancestor at “North America, Upper Canada, Trafalgar Post Office”. How it accurately careened from England to Oakville remains a mystery. Dr. Shepherd traveled to Oakville, 35 miles from York, now called Toronto, initially residing with a relative, Mary Ann Shepherd. Mary Ann was unmarried but owned a thriving inn replete with rooms, stables, a significant courtyard to accommodate coaches, and a kitchen and dinning
room with a well-stocked wine cellar. The tale now becomes shadowed as Mary Ann, who my grandfather always refered to as “the old lady”, was one of only two female land owners identified in the 1871 census conducted four years after Canada became a Dominion. There is unsupported speculation as to Mary Ann’s arrival as we assume she was pregnant but fortuitously augmented by a purse full of pounds. Affluent Oakville was a port located on Lake Ontario, otherwise connected by cart-paths and trails. The methods of transport other than sail were stagecoach, horse back or on foot. Dr. Shepherd maintained his wastrel ways even after being banished. He abandoned my grandfather as an infant in the care of Mary Ann Shepherd, or “the old lady”, who raised my forebear, who also studied medicine. Dr. Charles Shepherd is buried in the churchyard of St. Peter’s Anglican in Erindale, adjacent to Oakville. JL
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Celebrating The Ordinary By Carla Dragnea Bucharest – Romania
Good and bad situations are part of everyone’s life. We tend to notice the bad ones more, because of their negative impact on our paths. They sometimes seem to flood our lives without letting up, and we wonder if they will ever stop. We’ve all seen it at some time. None of us are immune to adversity. And the truth is, it’s impossible to prevent. However, we always have “opportunities” which arise from bad situations, if we are willing to learn from adversity, and deal with it properly. With wisdom and a positive attitude we can turn bad situations to our favor. Because we cannot prevent bad situations from coming into life, it is imperative that we learn how to transform them into positive situations – turn life’s lemons into lemonade. There are a few essential keys that
help in transforming bad situations into good ones. Some of the most important are: Never Lose Control – This is true no matter what type of situation you face. You must always maintain control over the situation (and over your thinking and actions) as much as possible, especially during bad times. Maintaining control aids in making good decisions aimed at overcoming the problems caused by bad situations. Learn From Bad Situations – Bad situations have important lessons hidden within them. Intelligent people try to find out the root causes, and how they could have been avoided – valuable information for your future success.
that help turn a bad situation around. Those with a positive attitude don’t panic during crises. They focus their time and energy into planning and management to overcome adversity. Stay Cool and Let Things Happen – During those few times in life when things happen that are truly beyond our control, and it is clear that there is nothing we can do to reverse the resultant damage, we must remain calm and sometimes just let things take their natural course. Never forget: “Every problem has a gift for you in its hands” (Richard Bach).
Positive Attitude – A positive attitude is among the most important factors
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LA GRANDE FINALE
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WITS END
Facts You May Not Know By Kerry Baker Brisbane – Australia
It takes glass one million years to decompose, which means it never wears out and can be recycled an infinite number of times! Gold is the only metal that doesn’t rust, even if it’s buried in the ground for thousands of years. Your tongue is the only muscle in your body that is attached at only one end. Zero is the only number that cannot be represented by Roman numerals. Drinking water after eating reduces the acid in your mouth by 61 percent. Peanut oil is used for cooking in submarines because it doesn’t smoke unless it’s heated above 450 degrees F. The University of Alaska spans four time zones.
If you get into the bottom of a well or a tall chimney and look up, you can see stars, even in the middle of the day. When a person is dieing, hearing is the last sense to go. The first sense lost is sight. The moon moves about two inches away from the Earth each year. The Earth gets 100 tons heavier every day due to falling space dust. Soldiers do not march in step when going across bridges because they could set up a vibration which could be sufficient to knock the bridge down. Everything weighs one percent less at the equator. For every extra kilogram carried on a space flight, 530 kg of excess fuel is needed at lift-off.
The tooth is the only part of the human body that cannot heal itself.
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The Coit Tower Murals Photography and Text by Ron Henggeler San Francisco – California
The Coit Tower murals were done in the 1930s under the auspices of the Public Works of Art Project, the first of the New Deal federal employment programs for artists. The Coit Tower murals were painted during a particularly disruptive period in U.S. history. Depression-related economic challenges led to much discussion about alternate forms of government. A four-day general strike (Bloody Thursday) accompanied by widespread rioting in San Francisco triggered the 83-day, 1934 West Coast waterfront strike. These Diego Rivera-inspired murals, many depicting the struggles of working-class Americans, were completed in 1933 to 34. Coit Tower muralists protested and picketed at the tower when Rivera’s mural, commissioned for Rockefeller Center in New York City, was destroyed after he refused to change an image of Lenin in the painting. The murals at Coit Tower are available for daily viewing by the general public for free but access to the second floor murals is restricted to once a week tours. The San Francisco City Guides free walking tour of Coit Tower every
Saturday at 11:00 a.m. gives visitors access to the spiral stairway and second floor murals. Page 112: One of the figures, John Langley Howard, reaches for a copy of Karl Marx’s Das Kapital while crumpling a newspaper in his other hand. The titles of books on the shelves include Rexroth (The poet, essayist and social critic Kenneth Rexroth is reaching for a book on the top shelf.), Hitler and Oscar Wilde (controversial because he was suspected of being homosexual). Newspaper headlines (which Ralph Stackpole is reading) cover the artists’ protest of the Riviera fresco destruction and other topical subjects. Jewish literature and traditions are also included in the painting. Page 114: Industries of California, another large mural in Coit Tower, was painted by Ralph Stackpole. Mr. Stackpole carved the agriculture and industry grouped statues on the former San Francisco Stock Exchange Building (where Rivera created his first U.S. mural, Allegory of California).
of industry. As a tribute, the mural is compositionally very similar to Rivera’s first sketch for the recently destroyed Rockefeller Center mural (all that Mr. Stackpole would have seen). Page 118: The NRA and eagle symbol on the crates workers are filling with oranges refers to the National Recovery Administration and the Blue Eagle Drive. Page 120: The opening of Coit Tower and the display of its murals were delayed several months because of the controversial content of some of the paintings. Page 122: City Life, one of the largest murals at Coit Tower, was painted by Victor Mikhail Arnautoff who had worked as an assistant to Diego Rivera in Mexico and taught at the California School of Fine Arts (CSFA). Arnautoff later taught at Stanford University returning to Russia after the death of his wife. ronhenggeler.com
Page 116: The Ralph Stackpole mural depicts chemical, steel mill, cannery, newsgathering, packaging line, and other workers as cogs in the machines
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