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Celebrating The Power of Substance 

Philanthropic 

9 The ADESTE Gold Medal 

12 Letters To The Editor 

Exclusives 

24 Jo Lee Anniversary Exclusive 

The World’s Top Philanthropists 

16 Who Matter 

For our Anniversary List we have chosen top, 

significant philanthropists whose 

performances, we believe, have consistently 

enriched the lives and enhanced the enjoyment 

of charitable giving around the world. 

By Susan Berger 

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2 Happy Holidays JO LEE Magazine 

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86 L’Occhio / The Eye 

It Was 1987 

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Internationally Renowned Photojournalist 

Ray Scotty Morris 


Wealth 

68 Pizzazz 

And That’s PIZZAZZ 

By Kathleen Mailliard Solmssen 


76 The Rich & The Famous 

Berlin Mitte 

Rich And Famous In History, 

Survival And Perseverance 

By Heide Van Doren Betz 


105 I’ve Always Been Nuts 

Baseball Player Extraordinaire 

Gary Carter – 1957-2012 

By John Paul Jarvis 

Toronto – Canada

Intoxicating Opinions 

16 The Marvelous Maverick 

Productivity? 

By H. Gail Regan 

Toronto – Canada 

18 Pros & Ex.Cons 

Business Ethics 

By Stanley J. Dorst 


61 You Are What You Ate 

You’ll Become What You Eat 

By Dr. Andrea Buckett 


70 Seizing Power 

Wallow With Me In The Irrelevant 

By Brian Hanington 

Ottawa – Canada 

84 Synaptic Transmission 

A Medical Discovery 

That Changed The World 

By James T. Rutka, MD 


72 Double Entendre 

Stuff Happens 

By Saul Levine, MD 

San Diego – California 

98 When Angels Cry 

Child Leadership: 

We Can Make It Happen 

By Kelechi Eleanya 

The Niger Delta – Nigeria 

101 The Digital Divide 

Downshifters 

By Craig Ricker 

Moscow – Russia 

Travel 

58 Yes, Virginia! 

Come – Explore With Me 

Christmas On The River Rhine 

Aboard Viking River Cruises’ 

Viking Helvetia 

By Lois M. Gordon 

Silicon Valley – California 

Indulgences 

14 Contributors 

20 The Poet’s Corner 

By Dr. Margaret R. O’Keeffe Umanzio, 

Sally Anne Reisner & Vera Resnik 

102 Understanding The World’s 

Second Largest Economy 

By Olivia Y. Hollaus 

Director – Peking University International 

Economic Law Institute (PKU-IELI) 

Beijing – China 

62 Happy 12th Anniversary 

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107 Editor at Large 

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108 LA GRANDE FINALE 

Happy 12th Anniversary JO LEE 

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109 Wits End 

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And New Testaments 

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Jo Lee Anniversary 2012 11

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 

Giovanni Trestanni 

Professor 

Rome – Italy 

When Angels Cry by Kelechi 

Eleanya. The terrible tragedy of 

the children born in poor countries 

indeed calls for help. But what 

help would be useful? Two causes 

are people having children and a 

government that suppresses progress. 

Should we attack the causes or just 

support the situation by feeding it? 

World Luxury Issue. 

Luis Müller 

Dr. of Medicine 

Bonn – Germany 

Pros and Ex.cons by Stanley Dorst. 

A single building can become the 

identifying symbol for a city or a 

country. Thus governments are 

justified in designing buildings 

to draw attention rather than be 

economical. A soaring architectural 

design establishes a city as a modern, 

forward thrusting economy where 

businesses need to locate. The 

overruns are merely a process 

involved in getting projects approved 

that are not economic. World 

Luxury Issue. 

Aaron Siow 

IT Executive 

Singapore – Singapore 

Happiness by Saul Levine. Many of 

us would agree to happiness as a life 

goal so it was a pleasure to read his 

World Luxury article. I remember 

“The Bluebird of Happiness” that was 

eventually discovered in your own 

back yard which fits the definition 

of “being satisfied”. Perhaps also 

involved is setting goals that are 

achievable. This is the time of year 

when graduates are setting life goals 

and therefore their chance of finding 

happiness by aiming accurately for 

achievable goals. 

Ben Adelsen 

Executive 

New York – New York 

The Digital Divide, By Craig Ricker. 

The lack of objective and uncensored 

news in Russia is evident from 

observations. Fascinating thoughts 

attributed to Republican candidates 

– unnamed and unrecognizable. 

Questioning the contribution of 

mankind to a global warming that 

is not happening is a republican 

position with which he agrees – not 

witchcraft. On the other two points: 

“the war on terror and 9/11”, Ricker’s 

sources apparently are unaware that 

they actually happened. I think 

we who were there are pretty well 

convinced they did happen. World 

Luxury Issue. 

Casé Jorne 

Venture Capitalist 

Zurich – Switzerland 

Seizing Power, By Brian Hanington, 

is a stirring invitation to create 

increased world wealth by Canada. 

Compelling article, Mr. Hanington. 

I look to the next five years! World 

Luxury Issue. 

Mireil Pelltier 

Engineer 

Québec City – Québec 

The World’s Top Film Stars was so 

artistically inviting. To reminisce 

is pleasant when one remembers 

the way great plays or movies shape 

our lives. Since we learn largely by 

experience – the play teaches us. 

Many of your featured stars bring 

those memories and lessons to mind. 

Margaret R. Yeung 

Residential Architect 

Hong Kong – China 

I’ve always been Nuts, World Luxury 

Issue by John Paul Jarvis. An 

intriguing summary of the demise of 

Kodak by a common phenomenon – 

“resistance to change”. An extreme 

example that shows the futility of 

resisting change. We see many 

companies, countries and churches 

fail because of this and wonder why. 

I suppose the uncertainty that is 

faced prevents the average person 

from moving through change. And 

there are many average persons. 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. 

Stanley J. Dorst 

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. 

Carla Dragnea 

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 

Kelechi Eleanya 

When Angels Cry 

Kelechi Eleanya, a UNDP 

Coordinator, is an economist 

and a committed development 

expert. He holds a degree in 

Renewable Natural Resources 

Management and a Master’s in 

Forest Economics. 

Lois M. Gordon 

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 

Seizing Power 

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, M D 

Double Entendre 

Saul Levine, MD, is Professor 

of Clinical Psychiatry at the 

University of California and 

the Head of Psychiatry at Rady 

Children’s Hospital in San 

Diego. He 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 fullyintegrated 

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, the Family 

Firm Institute and the Strategic 

Leadership Forum. 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. 

Sally Anne 

Reisner 


Sally Anne Reisner grew up 

in San Francisco’s Bay Area 

and then taught in an urbansuburban 

high school in New 

Jersey for eighteen years. At 

the age of fifty she left her job, 

re-married and focused on her 

writing. 

Vera Resnik 


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. 

Craig Ricker 

The Digital Divide 

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 

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 


THE MARVELOUS MAVERICK 

Productivity? 

By H. Gail Regan 


Photography By Ron Henggeler 


Bend. Dig. Plant. Hoe. Harvest. 

Peel. Boil. This is the way generations 

of my half-starved Irish ancestors 

earned their living. Not one of their 

descendants farms potatoes. 

Canada’s resource-rich provinces have 

growth opportunities, but prospects 

for Ontario’s manufacturing are more 

uncertain. The experts believe that 

increased productivity will enable us 

to maintain our standard of living and 

our civil society. 

Of course productivity is the answer. 

Do you think my relatives, an 

assortment of administrators, athletes, 

lawyers, massage therapists, realtors, 

stock brokers and teachers would be 

willing to return to nineteenth century 

Irish-style potato production? It is 

horrible to contemplate. Half an hour 

would be too much. 

But going forward is not easy either. 

For example, assume an Ontario 

potato farm achieving maximal pounds 

per acre with the work of five people. 

Farmers and farm experts may not be 

able to further increase crop yield, but 

information technology can increase 

labor productivity. Suppose a system 

could be purchased for $1 million, 

permitting the operation to be staffed 

by four people rather than five. Is this 

a good investment? 

The experts may think, “Yes, this is 

just the ticket for Ontario.” Their 

idea is a problematic business 

proposition, barely earning the cost 

of capital. Moreover, short staffing 

could overwork the team and severance 

would be expensive for the employer. 

Potato farming is now a creative 

profession demanding technical 

expertise – the dismissed might not 

find other employment and their skills 

would be wasted. 

Where corporations are very large, 

information technology is scalable. 

There is a very good business case for 

spending $1 million to lay off 10 staff 

members. But one? Although the 

gurus may urge it, Ontario’s smallbusiness 

leaders are too risk averse to 

jump off this cliff. 

Our productivity solution is not going 

to look like a large-corporate approach. 

The systems that support the 

enterprises we work for – accounting, 

business education, consulting, 

commercial law, government 

expenditure, regulation, tax policy, 

transport, and utilities – have more 

potential for efficiency gains than 

direct labor. 

Canadians may not have the scale 

economies to enable our workers to 

be as productive as U.S. workers, but 

we can improve our organizations. 

Intensification of value-added activity 

may not be feasible, but subtraction of 

value-negative, unproductive procedure 

is always an opportunity. 

In the future, we may look back on 

to-day’s organizational rigidities and 

feel about them the way I feel about 

nineteenth century Irish potato 

farming. Yucch. Or we may cling to 

what we think we know how to do and 

hate change. Attitude counts and will 

make the difference to our standard of 

living and our civil society. 

JL 


PROS & EX.CONS 

Business Ethics 

By Stanley J. Dorst 


Photography By Ron Henggeler 


Business schools teach ethics as well 

as profitability analyses, marketing 

etc. They teach responsibility to their 

various clients, viz. stockholders, 

employees, the public and government 

– but what about competitors? Is it 

just a matter of doing the best job for 

the lowest price or are other things 

going on that go unmentioned? 

The Regional Vice-President 

negotiating the sale of a major 

company asset after months of 

perfecting an agreement admits that 

there are some undisclosed liabilities 

associated with the asset. “Do you still 

want it – there can be no change in 

price at this time?” 

The real estate broker negotiating with 

a key tenant announces that he and the 

tenant are talking to another developer. 

You have developed a project in 

cooperation with two others, one of 

whom controls the property. The 

time has come to sign the partnership 

agreement – the other two do not show 

up, sign their own agreement and buy 

the property. 

You have a project under verbal 

agreement that you share with people 

in a major company who take for 

themselves. 

Finally, one of your managers takes 

the key clients to another company 

and takes a partnership interest in 

consideration of his contribution. 

Perhaps now you could add your own 

examples of business ethics to this 

senario. 

It would seem that learning how to 

deal with liars and cheaters is a very 

important part of business. What do 

you think? Who do you trust? 

JL 


INDULGENCES 


By Dr. Margaret R. O’Keeffe Umanzio, Sally Anne Reisner & Vera Resnik 

I See You In The Early Morn 

Snow is falling 

The Christmas tree is trimmed 

Candles are lit in the windows 

The only thing missing is you 

A fire burns in the wood stove 

Holiday cards are in the mail 

Sugar cookies are baking 

The only thing missing is you 

But when I close my eyes 

and open my heart 

I feel 

you’re with me 

I see you in the early morn, 

as I sip my first cup of coffee 

You’re coming down the stairs 

wrapped in your Papa’s arms 

You turn your angel face toward me, 

Your smiling eyes meet mine. 

Everyday is Christmas when 

love is in our hearts. 

©Sallyanne 

The Pagan Room 

Sacred soul 

Ancient rhythm 

Nature breathing 

Solid, still, immoveable 

Womb of life: past and present 

Place of magic and mirage: 

Color splashes from night sky into shades 

Boulders into chairs 

Cave into couch 

Sand into rug 

Trees into walls, book ends with faces, Huichol 

masks, mythological wall carvings 

Antlers into art 

Clay into Italian country scenes 

Bamboo into stacking tables 

Straw into duck 

Room as Trickster 

Room as Alchemist 

Room as Shaman 

Sacred place, life eternal 

©margaretumanzio

Simply, Love 

Cherubic, cunning Cupid. Playfully mischievous. Arrows released. Imbued heart. Enchantment, elephantine joy, volcanic 

feelings erupted. Intoxicated, captivated. 

One gaze, that is all it took. Edison’s bonhomie transported me through Elysian Fields. Blue ribbon genes strutting. 

Resistance dissolved. Instant effusive love, reaching clouds. Juvenescent cartwheels. 

Proud carriage, magnificent head held tall, high. Soft, gentle, animated charcoal eyes—laughing, twinkling orbs. A face 

melting the polar ice cap. 

Love encased in a cocoon of unconditional love, devotion, acceptance, round-the-clock dedication. Love without 

expectations, demands, parameters, strings attached, metamorphosing wings of my captured love. 

Love blooms—a seed of magical power, growing upon a touch without planting or nurturing; bursting in diaphanous joy, 

effervescent euphoria. 

Stroking his smooth head, Edison, guide dog extraordinaire, life long companion, leans closer, rests head upon my lap. 

Wags tail. Sighs. 

Yes, simply, love.. 

©Veraresnik

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Born in Salisbury, New Brunswick, Claude Taylor graduated 

as an industrial accountant from McGill University in 

Montréal, Québec and became a world visionary, leader and 

ambassador of remarkable achievement. 

He began his distinguished career in aviation; 23 years later, 

he was President and Chief Executive Officer of Canada’s 

leading airline, Air Canada, and subsequently, Chairman. 

One year later, he accepted the chairmanship of a special 

industry committee which became the architect of a restructured 

International Air Transportation Association 

(IATA). 

Mr. Taylor had a profound influence on the development of 

the airline industry as it is today. He pushed for the 1977 

Air Canada Act, which separated the airline from Canadian 

National Railways and made it a stand-alone Crown 

Corporation and, eventually, he took Air Canada public. 

Claude Taylor, who remains Chairman Emeritus of Air 

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Centraide and the Canadian Centre for Cultural Renewal. 

He was Honourary Chair of the Governor General’s 

Canadian Leadership Conference, and served as Chair 

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McGill Management Achievement Award, the C.D. Howe 

Award, and the Canadian Operations Research Society 

Award. He was made an Officer of the Order of Canada 

for having “turned Air Canada into a world leader in air 

transportation.” He was inducted into Canada’s Aviation 

Hall of Fame, and received honourary degrees from several 

universities. Mr. Taylor is a Commander of the Order of St. 

John, and became the second chair of HRH The Duke of 

Edinburgh’s Canadian Commonwealth Study Conferences. 

Mr. Taylor has said, “Young people have been an ongoing 

concern of mine, particularly in these times of unrest. Their 

goals, their dreams are far greater than what we could have 

imagined in our day! For this reason – we all must give 

them the will to dream bigger and beyond.” 

In 1988, he co-established The Adeste Academy that 

provides university education for African students who 

have completed high school amidst great adversity: Unsung 

Heroes – with no advantages. The Academy went on to 

create the prestigious Adeste Gold Medal, awarded annually 

to “40 and under Unsung Heroes” whose achievements have 

created outstanding benefits to humanity. 

Internationally revered as “The White Knight”, Claude 

Taylor saw what could be and moved to make it happen. 

Adestelive.com 

JL 


EXCLUSIVE 

Mo Ibrahim 

Chairman, Satya Capital LLP 

AFRICA 




An expert in mobile communications, Mo Ibrahim is the 

founder of Celtel, one of Africa’s most successful companies, 

as well as the Mo Ibrahim Foundation, which supports good 

governance and leadership in Africa. 

Born in Sudan, Dr. Ibrahim grew up in Egypt. He was 

granted an engineering scholarship in the UK, where he 

received a Masters in electronics and electrical engineering 

from the University of Bradford and a Ph.D. in mobile 

communications from the University of Birmingham. 

He went to work for Cellnet, British Telecom’s in-car 

telephone company, and in 1985 his team launched BT’s 

first cellular service in the UK. In 1989, he started his own 

telecommunications consultancy firm, Mobile Systems 

International, which was sold to Marconi for $916 million. 

Dr. Ibrahim went on to found Celtel in 1998 to build and 

operate mobile networks in Africa. The company now 

operates in 15 African countries, covering in excess of a third 

of Africa’s population, and has invested more than $750 

million in the continent. In 2005, Celtel was sold to MTC 

Kuwait for $3.4 billion. 

The Mo Ibrahim Foundation, which awards funds 

to African heads of state and governments that have 

demonstrated excellence in African leadership, was founded 

in 2006. Dr. Ibrahim also developed the Ibrahim Index of 

African Governance, which rates African countries according 

to the efficiency of their governance, and the African 

Leadership Award, the largest prize in the world. He is also 

the Founding Chairman of Satya Capital Ltd., a company 

which invests in Africa. 

Dr. Ibrahim was named Entrepreneur of the Decade by 

Africa 2.0 and was listed in Time Magazine’s 100 Most 

Influential People in the World. He has received the GSM 

Association Chairman’s Award, the telecommunication 

industry’s highest honor, and the BNP Paribas Prize for 

Philanthropy. 

JL 


EXCLUSIVE 

Georgina Rinehart 

Chairman, Hancock Prospecting Pty Ltd 

AUSTRALIA 




Considered the richest person in Australian history and the 

wealthiest woman in the world, Georgina Rinehart was born 

in Perth, Australia to one of Australia’s richest families, and 

studied economics at Sydney University. 

Ms. Rinehart joined the Hancock Group as a Personal 

Assistant to her father, the mining magnate Lang Hancock, 

who discovered the world’s largest iron ore deposit. After 

gaining extensive knowledge about the industry, she 

inherited Hancock Prospecting from her father, a company 

which has no other shareholders and is therefore completely 

under her control. She also acquired a 10 percent stake 

in Ten Network Holdings Ltd. and a 12 percent stake in 

Fairfax Media. 

Ranked by Forbes as the 19th most powerful woman in 

the world, Ms. Rinehart keeps a very low profile, routinely 

declining interviews. An ardent supporter of women’s 

causes, she has paid for the construction of an orphanage 

in Cambodia, sponsors the education of poor young girls, 

and has worked to prevent human trafficking. She is a 

recipient of many awards, including the Commonwealth 

Bank Business Owner Award, the Telstra Australian Business 

Woman of the Year Award, and the Australian Corporate 

Heroes Award. 

JL 


EXCLUSIVE 

James Martin 

Innovator 

BERMUDA 




Residing on a private island in Bermuda, James Martin 

is the biggest donor in the 900-year history of Oxford 

University. He was born in the United Kingdom in 1933, 

the son of a clerical worker. After receiving a scholarship, he 

obtained a physics degree at Oxford. 

Dr. Martin joined IBM’s in-house “university”, the Systems 

Research Institute in New York, and became recognized 

as an expert in complex systems. He was also known as 

a futurist. In 1977, he took a year’s sabbatical from IBM 

and travelled around the world giving lectures on what he 

envisioned to be the upcoming computer revolution. He 

decided then to set up his own company and continues to 

give seminars to senior executives. Dr. Martin has written 

over 100 books, one of which, The Wired Society: A 

Challenge for Tomorrow, was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. 

He has also produced hundreds of educational videos, and 

created several IT consultancy firms. 

Throughout his travels, Dr. Martin noted seeing many 

changes in the world, and he became more concerned 

about the problems of the planet. In 2005, he established 

The James Martin 21st Century School at the University 

of Oxford with a donation of $100 million. The aim of 

the school is “to formulate new concepts, policies and 

technologies that will make the future a better place to be.” 

Researchers at the school are to have direct, practical bearing 

on the problems facing humanity in the 21st century. In 

2009, Dr. Martin pledged up to an additional $50 million if 

this amount was matched by other donors, which occurred 

in 2010. Computerworld ranked Dr. Martin fourth among 

the 25 people who have most influenced the world of 

computer science. 

JL 


EXCLUSIVE 

Eliodoro Matte 

Chairman, Empresas CMPC 

CHILE 




Born into the long-established Matte family in 1936, 

Eliodoro is one of the wealthiest people in Chile. He 

obtained a Bachelor of Arts/Science from the Universidad 

de Chile and a Master’s in Business Administration from the 

University of Chicago. Although upon graduation he was 

given the opportunity to stay in the U.S., Mr. Matte decided 

to return to Chile, a country then struggling with increasing 

poverty and few personal freedoms, to try to effect change. 

Mr. Matte presides over Chilean-based Empresas CMPC, 

which manufactures and markets wood and forest products 

for export to Latin America, North America, Europe 

and Asia. It has real estate holdings of over 1.5 million 

acres in Chile and Argentina that are planted with pine 

and eucalyptus trees, and it is one of the largest lumber 

companies in South America. The forests are kept viable 

through an ongoing reforestation and replanting program, 

which was established by Mr. Matte. As a result, he has 

received worldwide recognition for his environmental 

policies. 

In an attempt to help the environment, Mr. Mattte and 

the American building supply company Home Depot 

established The Home Depot Foundation, which is 

committed to using only lumber that is supplied in a 

sustainable and environmentally friendly way. 

JL 


EXCLUSIVE 

Robin Li 

Chief Executive Officer, Baidu, Inc. 

CHINA 




Currently the richest man in China, Robin Li was born 

in 1968 in Yangquan, in the north of China, to factory 

worker parents. Interested in computers in high school, 

Mr. Li studied library information management at Peking 

University and then obtained a Master’s degree in computer 

science at the State University of New York at Buffalo. 

After completing his education, Mr. Li joined IDD, 

a division of Dow Jones & Company, and worked on 

developing a software program for the Wall Street Journal’s 

online edition. At this time he became interested in search 

engines and created a search method that ranked the 

popularity of web sites. In 1997 he joined Infoseek in the 

Silicon Valley as head of search engine development. He 

stayed for two years then returned to China with his friend 

Eric Xu, and in 2000 they founded Baidu, which became 

the leading Chinese-language Internet provider. 

In 2010, Li founded the Baidu Foundation, whose goal is 

to use information technology for the support of youth and 

disadvantaged groups, to focus on the environment and to 

promote social harmony. Baidu Foundation and the Bill & 

Melinda Gates Foundation formed an alliance and its first 

project was a program to encourage smokers to quit. It is 

the intention of the union to embark on additional public 

health initiatives in the future and to use China’s large 

online community to spread health messages. 

JL 


EXCLUSIVE 

Xavier Niel 

Deputy Chairman and Chief Strategy Officer, Illiad SA 

FRANCE 




France’s richest web entrepreneur, Xavier Niel was born in 

1967, grew up in a working-class suburb of Paris, and did 

not attend college. As a teenager, he developed a sex chat 

service on the French Internet forerunner Minitel, and later 

invested in a number of sex shops and peep shows. In 2004, 

he was investigated for pimping and tax evasion, and held in 

jail for a month. Although he was cleared of sex charges, he 

was convicted of failing to disclose income. 

In 1999, taking advantage of deregulation in the industry, 

Mr. Neil founded the Internet service provider Iliad, which 

trades under the Free brand. Iliad went on to become 

the first French company to offer broadband packages 

combining Internet, television and telephone service, and 

now has 23% of the broadband market. He also owns 

a piece of Le Monde, the bestselling French-language 

newspaper in the world. 

Over the last few years, Mr. Neil has invested approximately 

€50 million per year in startup tech companies. He has 

stated that he wants to help young French people skilled 

in math and science, and has started a professional school 

for web entrepreneurs. The European School of Internet 

Professions will offer a three-year program, teaching subjects 

such as programming, web design and online marketing to a 

class of 100 to 200 students. 

JL 


EXCLUSIVE 

Nicolas Berggruen 

Chairman, Berggruen Holdings Inc. 

GERMANY 




Known as the “homeless billionaire” because he sold his 

homes and lives out of hotels, Nicolas Berggruen came 

to the conclusion that wealth is about lasting impact, not 

material possessions. He believes that whatever he owns is 

temporary, stating that it’s what we do and how we act that 

will last forever. He intends to leave his fortune to charity, 

and his vast art collection to a museum. 

Born in 1961, Mr. Berggruen obtained a Bachelor of 

Science in Finance and International Business. In 1984 

he founded Berggruen Holdings Inc., which is the direct 

investment vehicle of The Nicolas Berggruen Charitable 

Trust, and invested in stocks, bonds, real estate, private 

equity and venture capital funds. Having made a fortune 

in financial markets, Mr. Berggruen turned his attention to 

projects which he hopes will alleviate social problems, such 

as developing rice farms in Cambodia, windmill farms in 

Turkey and building in poor inner cities around the world. 

The Nicolas Berggruen Charitable Trust is a philanthropic 

entity which supports the arts and activities that help 

governments manage the challenges of the 21st century. 

The Trust supports the Museum Berggruen in Berlin as well 

as the Nicolas Berggruen Institute, a non-partisan political 

think tank comprised of global thinkers and entrepreneurs 

who volunteer their time to design and implement systems 

of governance. 

JL 


EXCLUSIVE 

Savitri Jindal 

Non-Executive Chairperson, Jindal Steel & Power Limited 

INDIA 




Born to a conservative family in Tinsukia, Assam in 1950, 

Savitri Jindal grew up living the lifestyle of a traditional 

Indian woman. In 1970 she married O.P. Jindal, who had 

founded the Jindal Group, a steel and power conglomerate. 

She had nine children, and was satisfied staying home 

and taking care of her family. When O.P Jindal died in a 

helicopter accident in 2005, Ms. Jindal became the owner 

of a large portion of his assets, and she was thrust into 

a lifestyle she never expected to have. She is the richest 

woman in India, and has the distinction of having more 

children than any other billionaire mother. 

Until 2010, she served as Minister of Power in the 

government of Haryana. Preferring to stay away from the 

daily business life, she spends three days a week in Hisar, 

where she is a member of the Haryana Vidhan Sabha, the 

Legislative Assembly. 

Ms. Jindal likes to remain in contact with the people in her 

constituency, stating “We have a tradition that whenever we 

set up a factory, we also set up a school and a hospital.” Her 

husband believed that his factory workers were to be treated 

as extended family, and Ms. Jindal says she is following his 

path. In 1984, the family established the Vidya Devi Jindal 

School, a residential school for girls in Hisar. 

JL 


EXCLUSIVE 

Miuccia Prada 

Chairperson and Executive Director, PRADA Group 

ITALY 




The Prada empire was founded in 1913 when Miuccia’s 

grandfather, Mario Prada, and his brother started a small 

luggage company. Miuccia Prada was born in Milan in 

1949, and received a Ph.D. in Political Science from the 

University of Milan. She then trained as a mime, and spent 

the next five years at the Piccolo Teatro in Milan, while 

also spending time as a Communist activist. In 1978 she 

decided to take over the family business. 

Ms. Prada transformed the small leather company into a 

global conglomerate. She immediately updated the look 

of the products with her own designs, including a black, 

lightweight backpack for which she became famous, and in 

1988 moved into womenswear. In 1992, she introduced a 

secondary, more affordable line of clothing called Miu Miu, 

which was based on her personal wardrobe. Menswear was 

introduced in 1995. 

PradaMilanoArte, a non-profit organization, was established 

in 1993 by Ms. Prada and her husband, based on their 

growing interest in contemporary art, in an industrial 

building in Milan. Ms. Prada’s intent was to present “the 

most profound and thought-provoking art projects of our 

times.” In 1995 it was re-named the Prada Foundation and 

its focus changed to that of a multidisciplinary mission, 

which included art, photography, cinema, design and 

architecture. 

JL 


EXCLUSIVE 

Masayoshi Son 

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, SoftBank Corp. 

JAPAN 




The son of a Korean family in Japan, Masayoshi Son was 

born in Tosu in 1957, but did not become a Japanese 

citizen until 1990, when he adopted the Japanese surname 

Yasumoto. He left Japan at the age of 16 to finish high 

school in California, and then attended the University 

of California, Berkeley, where he studied economics and 

computer science. 

Convinced that computer technology would be the wave 

of the future, Mr. Son returned to Japan, where in 1981 he 

founded SoftBank, initially supplying computer software. 

The company went on to buy Japan Telecom Co. and the 

Japanese unit of Vodafone Group, one of Japan’s three 

biggest wireless carriers, and entered into a joint venture 

with Yahoo Japan Corporation. SoftBank has an interest in 

more e-businesses in more countries than any other cyber 

prospector, making Mr. Son one of the richest people in 

Japan. 

After the 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan, Mr. Son 

donated 10 billion yen to the relief effort, and said he would 

donate his salary from SoftBank until his retirement. He 

would like to get rid of nuclear energy by replacing it with 

renewable energy, solar, wind and geothermal, and believes 

that energy policy should be the responsibility of local 

governments rather than that of a central administration, 

which will encourage private initiatives. He is of the 

opinion that this will also help the northeastern part of 

Japan recover from the disaster. 

JL 


EXCLUSIVE 

Sir Tom Hunter 

Partner, West Coast Capital 

SCOTLAND 




The son of a grocer from the coal mining district of New 

Cumnock in Ayrshire, Sir Tom Hunter advanced from 

modest beginnings to become Scotland’s first billionaire. He 

attended business school at Strathclyde University, however, 

when finding a job upon graduation proved difficult, he 

began selling athletic shoes and tracksuits out of the back 

of a van. In 1984 he opened the first Sports Division store, 

which grew to 250 in number, making him one of the UK’s 

biggest retailers. In 1998 Sir Tom sold the chain for £290 

million. 

After completion of the sale of his business, Sir Tom began 

to develop an interest in philanthropy, and together with 

his wife Marion, set up The Hunter Foundation to support 

educational and entrepreneurial projects in Scotland. One 

of the first projects was to fund primary education, which 

ultimately entered into collaboration with the government 

and extended across the entire Scottish education system. 

Rather than giving away funds, the Foundation works to 

change the way things are done. 

In 2005, Sir Tom was knighted for services to philanthropy 

and entrepreneurship. That same year he founded the 

Clinton Hunter Development Initiative with former 

President Bill Clinton, taking aim at alleviating poverty in 

Africa, and pledged £60 million to the venture. In 2007, he 

stated that he would donate £1 billion to worthy causes in 

his lifetime. 

JL 


EXCLUSIVE 

Antonia Johnson 

Chairman, Axel Johnson AB 

SWEDEN 




Antonia Johnson was born in New York City in 1942, but 

moved to Sweden when her father returned to manage 

the family business, the Axel Johnson Group, a diversified 

trading company founded by her great-grandfather in 1873. 

She returned to the U.S. as an exchange student, where she 

studied at Radcliffe College. Upon completion, she went 

back to Sweden and attended the University of Stockholm, 

obtaining a BA and an MA in Psychology and Economics. 

In 1971 Ms. Johnson joined the Axel Johnson Group and 

went through a trainee program whereby she spent a few 

years in each of the major departments of the company. 

When her father suffered a stroke at an early age, she took 

over as Chairman of the Board, although she felt she was not 

yet ready. 

Now one of the richest women in Sweden, Ms. Johnson is 

supportive of several Swedish charities, including the World 

Childhood Foundation, which was founded in 1999 by the 

Swedish Queen, Her Majesty Queen Silvia. The Foundation 

focuses on marginalized children, particularly girls. She also 

supports the Stockholms Stadsmission Secondhand stores, 

which sell donated items to the homeless and other needy 

individuals. 

JL 


EXCLUSIVE 

Ernesto Bertarelli 

Co-President, Bertarelli Foundation 

SWITZERLAND 




Although born in Italy, Ernesto Bertarelli’s family moved 

to Switzerland in 1977. He attended Babson College 

in Massachusetts and received an MBA from Harvard 

Business School. In 1996 he became CEO of his family’s 

biotechnology firm Serono, which he took over and ran with 

his sister after the death of their father. During this time, 

the company showed a huge increase in revenues, due in 

large part to the multiple sclerosis drug Rebif. In 2007 the 

company was sold to Merck. He now serves as a member 

of the Harvard Medical School Biological Chemistry and 

Molecular Pharmacology Advisory Council. 

Mr. Bertarelli, an avid sailor, founded the yachting team 

Alinghi, which defeated Team New Zealand in 2003 to win 

the America’s Cup, the first time a team won the trophy on 

its first try. It won again in 2007. 

The Bertarelli family created the Bertarelli Foundation 

in 1999 to manage its philanthropic activities. Ernesto 

and his sister Dona are Co-Presidents of the Foundation. 

Although initially established to promote research in the 

area of infertility, it was expanded to include the fields of life 

sciences, the environment, education, culture, children and 

sport. Among its many initiatives, it is currently involved 

in the research Centre for Neuroprosthetics at the Ecole 

Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne and entered into a 

partnership with the British government to safeguard the 

world’s largest marine reserve in the Chagos Islands in the 

Indian Ocean. 

JL 


EXCLUSIVE 

J.K. Rowling 

Author 

UK 




Renowned author of the Harry Potter series of books, 

Joanne Kathleen Rowling was born in Chipping Sodbury, 

England, in 1965. While Ms. Rowling says she knew from 

the age of six that she wanted to be a writer, her parents 

suggested she become a bilingual secretary, and with this 

goal in mind she attended Exeter University, where she 

studied French. 

When she was 26, she moved to Portugal to teach English, 

which she did in the afternoons and evenings, so that she 

could write in the mornings. Ms. Rowling then moved to 

Edinburgh with her young daughter. As a single mother, 

she was unable to afford a computer or a typewriter, and 

wrote the first drafts of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone 

in longhand while sitting at a café. 

With a fortune earned from the phenomenal success of her 

books, Ms. Rowling decided that she would use her money 

and celebrity status for philanthropic purposes, and supports 

a myriad of organizations focused on illiteracy, poverty, 

multiple sclerosis, and children’s welfare. She became the 

President of the National Council for One-Parent Families, 

and established the Volant Charitable Trust, which helps 

women and children combat poverty and social inequality. 

She contributed a large sum towards the creation of a new 

Centre for Regenerative Medicine at Edinburgh University, 

and has written three books for charity which raised almost 

$30 million for various charities. Rather than simply 

signing checks, Ms. Rowling prefers to become involved in 

the charities and the public events that increase awareness of 

their activities. 

JL 


EXCLUSIVE 

Bill and Melinda Gates 

Co-Chairs, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation 

USA 




The largest philanthropic organization in the world, the 

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation was formed in 1999 by 

amalgamating previously existing Gates charities. Guided 

by the philosophy that, “Every life has equal value, the… 

Foundation works to help all people lead healthy, productive 

lives. In developing countries, it focuses on improving 

people’s health and giving them the chance to lift themselves 

out of hunger and extreme poverty”. 

Bill Gates was born in Seattle in 1955, and by the age 

of 17 had sold his first computer program, a timetabling 

system for his school. It was at that school where he met 

fellow student Paul Allen; they subsequently both attended 

Harvard University, where they wrote the first computer 

language program for a personal computer. They established 

Microsoft in 1975, and Mr. Gates dropped out of Harvard 

to work on the new company. Melinda French, born in 

Dallas in 1964, attended Duke University. She obtained a 

BA and an MBA before joining Microsoft, where she met 

her future husband. According to the Forbes 2012 list of 

the world’s richest men, Bill Gates is currently #2. 

In 2008, Bill Gates stopped working full-time for Microsoft 

in order to concentrate on the Foundation. He opted 

to begin giving the large majority of his wealth to the 

Foundation to distribute. In 2010, Bill and Melinda Gates, 

along with Warren Buffett, established the Giving Pledge, 

which encourages the richest people to give away most 

of their wealth to charitable causes. Two of the entities 

receiving enormous funding from the Foundation, the 

Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization and the 

Global Fund to Fight HIV/Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria, 

have delivered vaccines to over 250 million children in 

underdeveloped countries and prevented more than five 

million deaths. The Foundation has helped to eradicate 

polio in India, and is funding development of a malaria 

vaccine. 

Bill and Melinda Gates are not only the biggest 

philanthropists in the world; they are also viewed as role 

models for other philanthropists. 

JL 


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By Lois M. Gordon 

Silicon Valley – California 

Photography by Ron Henggeler 


The Viking Helvetia trip through 

parts of Germany begins and ends in 

beautiful Cologne, where the best of 

guided tours sweeps you off your feet 

as the ship docks for tours embracing 

Strasbourg, Baden-Baden, Mainz and 

the beautiful Alsatian wine country. 

This is an eight-day journey, available 

in November and December. If you 

have never experienced the Christmas 

markets in Germany, it is time. These 

markets make us all wish for moments 

of the past. However, old traditions are 

still alive and are especially beautiful 

leading up to Christmastime when 

melodies begin to speak. 

Construction of the Cologne Cathedral 

began in 1248, but it was not 

completed until 1880. For over seven 

centuries, the same spirit of absolute 

fidelity to the original plans inspired 

successive builders. In the heart of this 

town, stalls are set out displaying the 

most magnificent range of traditional 

Christmas gifts and decorations. 

Wooden toys, glass, ceramic and 

porcelain items, marionettes, 

nutcrackers, music boxes, and figurines 

are among the most popular. 

Christkindelsmarkt in Baden-Baden 

boasts one of the loveliest Christmas 

markets in Germany. The horns 

of heralding angels are replaced by 

hunting horns. The Baby Jesus and 

the animals baying in the manager are 

alive and pet-able. Santa makes an 

appearance in a horse-drawn sleigh and 

a children’s choir beckons his arrival. 

Mainz is another city with a beautiful 

market, beautiful decorations and 

food to tempt everyone. Booths are 

lined up, the winter air is filled with 

the delicious smells of Stollen (a rich 

sweet bread containing nuts, raisins, 

etc.), bratwurst and spicy gingerbread 

cookies – all difficult to resist – as are 

the mulled wine and baked apples. No 

watching the waist on this trip! All 

filled with wonder. 

JL 


YOU ARE WHAT YOU ATE – YOU’LL BECOME WHAT YOU EAT 

And I ’ll Bet The Sweeps On That! 

By Dr. Andrea Buckett 


Q: I have recently been diagnosed 

with full-blown diabetes. As I appear 

to live on airplanes, what foods can 

I pop into my briefcase to eat, when 

necessary, en route? Jo Lee – JO LEE 

Magazine 

AB: Jo Lee, you and I have had 

several talks on the Big D and as we 

know, being well prepared is the first 

step in balancing your blood sugar 

levels. Eating on the run can really 

be difficult. Always try to have some 

complex carbohydrates, protein and 

fat on hand. One of the best and 

easiest to carry with you is nuts! 

Other good choices include mixed 

fresh fruit/veggies or cheese cubes, 

hard-boiled eggs or tiny strips of 

chicken – each zipped into a freezer 

bag. Jo Lee, always ensure you eat 

enough to keep your blood sugar 

levels from dropping. Please listen 

to me! 

Q: How often should I replace my 

dried herbs and spices? Finlay – 

Cumbernauld, Scotland 

AB: I am a great proponent of using 

herbs and spices to add both flavor 

and a good dose of antioxidants to 

food, Finlay. My best advice for 

dried herbs and spices is to buy them 

in small quantities and buy organic. 

If you buy them in bulk, you can 

buy as little as you want, then store 

them in an air tight container at 

home. While herbs and spices do 

not go bad per se, they do lose both 

their nutritional impact and most 

importantly their flavor! 

Q: I am worried that my daughter 

isn’t getting enough vegetables in 

her diet. Should I hide them in her 

food? Ginevra – Trieste, Italy 

AB: Ginevra, while many crafty 

parents swear by this method, my 

answer is twofold. Grating copious 

amounts of vegetables to be mixed 

into various disguises such as breads 

and sauces may ensure your child 

gets plenty of roughage. However, 

this method never allows the child’s 

palate to enjoy the vegetable on their 

own. So while hiding some veggies 

can help bump up their intake, 

always strive to serve a few different 

veggie choices each day, allowing 

your children to develop a palate to 

enjoy them in their true form. 

Q: I’ve noticed lately that I have 

trouble falling asleep. Is there an 

herb you can recommend that will 

help? Ben K. – Toronto, Canada 

AB: Herbs are a great place to 

start to help you fall asleep, Ben. I 

recommend herbs like chamomile, 

hops, passion flower and catnip. 

While you can purchase these herbs 

in pill or liquid form, my first 

suggestion would be to try a tea. 

There are many sleepy time teas on 

the market that contain calming 

herbs. Be sure to set a nighttime 

routine, allowing your body a chance 

to wind down. Enjoy your tea and 

ease into your sleep. 

JL 


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Brian Hanington 

Seizing Power 

Micheline 

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Adeste Global Advisor 

Olivia Hollaus 


Representing United States 

Jason Howlett 

Executive VP 

Creative 

J. Paul Jarvis 

I’ve Always Been Nuts 

Emma Kadatuan 

Photo Stylist 

Bette Laderoute 


Brett Lamb 

Creative Advisor 

Brett Lamb Graphics 

Saul Levine 

Double Entendre 

Fritz Lyons 

Production 

Kathleen 

Mailliard 

Solmssen 

Pizzazz 

Lucia Mancuso 

Director 

Social Media & Technology 

Julie H. Mascioli 

News Curator 

Nino A. Mascioli 

President & CEO 

Social Media 

Ray Scotty 

Morris 

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The Marvelous Maverick 

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And That’s Pizzazz 

By Kathleen Mailliard Solmssen 


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Perfume is the oldest luxury known 

to man. From ancient times and 

even more so today, intrigue, 

mystery and global quests for scents 

have never waned. Unfortunately, 

synthetic copies of precious oils 

have all but wiped out the natural 

fragrance industry. 

Like polyester materials, madein-a-minute 

synthetic perfumes 

have nearly numbed our desire and 

satisfaction for the intimacy that 

natural perfumes evoke. As with 

music, natural perfumes have notes, 

vibration and harmony. From deep 

to delightful, uncontrollable feelings 

soar through sounds and scents. The 

layering aromas evoke memories and 

ignite inner beauty. 

Due to the desire for the next best 

chic thing, a rebirth of custom 

perfumes has come alive and 

announced made-to-order perfumes 

as the must-have international “it” 

accessory. The bonus to having this 

“in” item is the complex, emotional 

resonance of wearing a custom-made, 

unique as your fingerprint, perfume. 

The mystery and sillage left behind as 

the scent of a custom perfume floats 

through a room is indescribable. 

This custom buzz cannot be 

avoided. It’s gone viral! Locating 

the best natural perfumer is another 

story. A hide-and-seek search for 

an artist who blends pure essences 

to perfection is nearly as much of a 

challenge as the hunt for the essential 

oils. As with any artist, perfumers 

have a peaceful yet energetic passion 

for the process of combining the best 

that nature has to offer into a magical 

dance that is YOU. Just as the 

best conductors work with the best 

musicians and compositions, so too 

great perfumers search the world for 

exquisite scents before the remarkable 

blending begins. 

As with a painter’s palette, a gallery 

(called an organ) of hundreds of 

essential oils is arranged into top, 

middle and base notes. Knowing the 

client (long distance or in person) 

and then blending a personal scent 

to perfection is the creative gift of an 

expert perfumer. 

Forever, I have been obsessed with 

perfume. Years ago, I had a small 

vial blended in Grasse, France. 

The scent didn’t resonate with 

me. Like hunting for truffles, I 

found myself on a quest to find 

a custom perfume maker. Talk 

about miracles, I located a bespoke, 

world famous perfumer just a few 

zip codes away from our home! 

Meeting Mandy Aftel, dubbed the 

“angel of alchemy” by Vanity Fair, 

was a thrill rooted in my mother’s 

perfume tray. After “getting” you, 

she blends sumptuous, handcrafted 

liquid and solid perfumes from her 

organ of more than 500 of the finest 

essences in the world. Like my first 

trip to Disneyland, je reviens, I will 

return again and place my order with 

Aftelier Perfumes. 

JL 

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SEIZING POWER 

Wallow With Me In The Irrelevant 

By Brian Hanington 

Ottawa – Canada 



Teachers have long known that the key 

to education is inspiration. Yet how 

does one inspire students to take an 

interest in any topic? Easy. Simply 

allow any student to study any topic. 

Students encouraged to enjoy anything 

new soon desire to discover what else is 

new, and the habit of lifelong learning 

gets underway. One man who puts 

this theory into daily practice is Dan 

Lewis, a New York City lawyer who 

spends his time simply finding out 

new things to know and passing them 

on to anybody who will listen. His 

daily Now I Know e-mail is a breeding 

ground for curiosity, and is the latest 

hit of the digital age. Here are some 

recent eye-openers. 

Carrots were originally purple 

Until the 17th century, people who 

ate carrots used the common purple 

variety even though they were as bitter 

cooked, as turnips are raw. In the late 

1600s, Dutch farmers isolated and 

cultivated the infrequent yellow and 

white offshoots of the purple plant into 

a hybrid both orange and sweet. 

Rivers can be hyper-colored 

Caño Cristales, a remote river in 

Colombia, becomes a moving rainbow 

twice a year. When the water level is 

low enough, rare local algae feed on 

sunlight and glow red, green, yellow 

and orange within the otherwise blue 

water. 

Velociraptors acted like turkeys 

The movie Jurassic Park convinced 

us that velociraptors weighed 150 

pounds, sprinted at 60 MPH and 

hunted in packs. Sorry, not even close. 

Paleontologists peg velociraptors at 18 

inches tall, and at a mere 30 pounds. 

They scavenged alone, were about as 

smart as turkeys and, yes, had fluffy 

feathers. Adorable. 

Munch was afraid for a reason 

Edvard Munch’s 1895 painting 

The Scream depicts a man in agony 

beneath a menacing sky of yellow and 

red. Munch had seen that very sky 

over Norway two years prior when an 

earthquake erupted 6,800 miles away 

on the Indonesian island of Krakatoa. 

Ash enveloped the planet and colored 

the sky, making Munch and other 

observers wonder if doomsday was at 

hand. 

Pirates weren’t one-eyed 

While injuries sometimes explained 

the patches common in depictions of 

pirates, there was a more usual reason 

to wear them – night vision. Covering 

one eye was a technique of fighting 

sailors, particularly those who ran on 

and off deck during battle to fetch 

gunpowder. An eye covered with a 

patch could be used immediately in 

the dim light below decks. No need to 

acclimatize to the dark. 

So there’s a quick dose of botany, 

chemistry, paleontology, art history 

and military studies. If you find such 

stuff irrelevant, you may finally be on 

the right track. Wallow more at www. 

nowiknow.com. 

JL 


DOUBLE ENTENDRE 

Stuff Happens 

By Saul Levine, MD 

San Diego – California 



Unforeseen roadblocks and detours 

can suddenly appear in our lives, 

as can opportunities; we might be 

going along smoothly when we’re 

confronted by a hairpin turn in the 

road. Illnesses or losses of loved ones, 

accidents or broken hearts might 

occur, but we might just as easily be 

swept away by unanticipated good 

fortune or heartening experiences. 

So we live in a state of some 

uncertainty and ambiguity, which 

we deal with in a variety of ways. 

Some think they’re immune to 

bad fate. Others take the opposite 

perspective: they expect bad 

developments, with a perpetual cloud 

hanging over their heads. 

Most of us have learned to 

compartmentalize; i.e., we avoid 

preoccupation with vigilance by 

putting our thoughts of danger into 

a safe compartment in our minds, so 

that the unpredictability of life can’t 

interfere with our everyday lives. 

We try to prevent problems as best 

we can. We might childproof our 

homes, eat healthy foods, and avoid 

dangerous situations, but we realize 

that we can’t stave off disastrous acts 

of Mother Nature, or prevent all 

accidents, or always keep our loved 

ones safe and sound. Tragedies are 

a natural part of the ebb and flow 

of life, like wildfires in overgrown 

forests. 

When confronted with either tragedy 

or triumph, we are advised, “Ride 

the waves, be cool and composed.” 

But we are emotional beings, not 

robots. We seldom anticipate pain, 

which is always unbidden and 

unwelcome, and we are prone to cry 

when we experience losses. When 

we benefit from good fortune, we 

might exult and enjoy the glow of the 

moment. 

While a sense of invulnerability is 

foolhardy, when sad events occur we 

need to remember that time, help 

and people will eventually make 

things better. After the initial shock 

and feelings of helplessness, most of 

us gather our thoughts and bring our 

strengths to bear. Just as loss is never 

an ultimate defeat, success is never an 

ultimate triumph. 

In periods of calm we need to cherish 

what we have, because we know that 

blips will occur on our radar screens. 

How we face our setbacks and accept 

our successes are good measures of 

who we are, because both are merely 

transient changes in our long paths. 

Unexpected curves and daunting hills 

will appear on the road of life, but 

so will exciting new challenges and 

lovely vistas. 

“Stuff” will indeed happen, and 

change will occur. But rest assured, 

the pathway will, inevitably, return to 

a state of quiescence and stability. As 

Rudyard Kipling put it, 

“If you can meet with triumph and 

disaster 

and treat those two imposters just the 

same,” 

you are a better person than most. 

JL 


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THE RICH AND THE FAMOUS 

opposite: The Berlin Cathedral or, Berliner Dom, seen through the columns of the Altes Museum. 

Berlin Mitte 

Rich And Famous In History, Survival 

And Perseverance 

Photography and Text by Heide Van Doren Betz 


Berlin Mitte, one of several sections of 

Berlin, began as a trading post in the 

12th century. It became the central 

part of the Soviet sector, the DDR 

(East Germany), in 1945 until the 

reunification of Germany in 1990. 

Much of Berlin Mitte was bombed 

during the war and remained in various 

states of destruction or disrepair until 

after the reunification of East and West 

in 1990. 

The Berlin Wall was constructed in 

1961 by the DDR as a concrete barrier 

cutting off travel and communication 

from the East Berlin to the West. 

Today the Wall Museum is a popular 

attraction with commissioned outdoor 

wall murals and historic photographic 

exhibitions. 

The Mitte is one of the most vital 

areas in the new German capital. The 

world-class museums of Museum 

Island – the Pergamon, Altes Museum, 

Neues Museum, and Bode have 

been redesigned to accommodate 

extensive collections from former 

West and East Berlin museums. The 

modern shopping malls include 

state of the art international retail 

stores. The television tower is the 

highest structure in the country 

with a visitor center and a revolving 

restaurant on top. King Frederick 

William built the Brandenburg Gate, 

which sits majestically at the start of 

the picturesque Unter den Linden 

Boulevard, in the late 1700s. It was 

severely damaged during World War 

II and covered with barbed wire 

during the DDR rule. Brandenburger 

Tor in its restored glory continues 

to be a symbol of not only Berlin 

but also Germany. Not far from the 

Gate is the Reichstag building, the 

seat of the German parliament, the 

Bundestag. The historic building 

reconstruction, complete with glass 

dome was completed in 1999, after 

having been destroyed during both the 

First, and the Second World War and 

subsequently neglected. The imposing 

Berliner Dom, known as the Protestant 

St. Peter’s, rebuilt in 1905 by and for 

the Hohenzollern royal dynasty, on 

the site of earlier churches beginning 

in the 13th century, is another 

highlight of Byzantine architecture. 

Gendarmenmarkt, one of Europe’s 

magnificent urban squares, is known 

for several noteworthy architectural 

structures, among them the French and 

the German Doms. All were restored 

in the mid 1990s to house historical 

exhibitions. Many elegant shops, 

hotels, cafés and restaurants are in the 

vicinity of this square. While Berlin’s 

Philharmonic Hall is considered one 

of Europe’s finest, with an illustrious 

legend of famous conductors, many 

outdoor musical events are in the 

Gendarmenmarkt Square. 

Berlin has much to offer. If you can 

only see one area, explore Museum 

Island, Mitte. The rich and famous 

treasures gathered here, will remain 

with you for a lifetime. 

JL 


The entrance gate to Patara with a Lycian tomb. 

Neues Museum: Xanten Youth, c. 1st 

century AD. 

opposite: Neues Museum Egyptian 

Antiquties – Fragment of a Pillar of 

King Seti I, standing in front of the 

God Osiris, c. 1300 BC.

Pergamon Museum: Detail of 

the Great Frieze of the Altar of 

Pergamon, representing battle 

between the Gods and the Giants. 

opposite: Neues Museum: Museum 

of Egyptian Antiquities – Ptolemy 

III, c. 220 BC.

Berlin’s Brandenburger Tor: Photo opportunities for tourists 

abound, as with these two actors posing as soldiers. 

opposite: A section of Berlin’s Museum of the Wall or, 

Mauer Museum, exterior wall commissioned murals.

SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION 

A Medical Discovery 

That Changed The World 

By James T. Rutka, MD 


This year marks the 90th year 

celebrating the discovery of insulin, 

the hormone released by the 

pancreas that helps regulate glucose 

metabolism in the body. Without 

insulin, blood sugar levels rise, 

resulting in a condition known 

as diabetes. There are two types 

of patients with diabetes: Type 1 

diabetics fail to produce insulin; and 

Type 2 diabetics have resistance to 

or insufficient production of insulin. 

Typically, Type 1 diabetes occurs in 

children, and is known as juvenile 

diabetes. Prior to the discovery of 

insulin in 1922, a juvenile diabetes 

diagnosis was virtually a death 

sentence. Survival was measured in 

months not years. 

Based on his conviction that a cure 

for diabetes would be found within 

soluble extracts of the endocrine 

pancreas, Dr. Frederick Banting, a 

surgeon at the University of Toronto, 

and Charles Best, a medical student 

working as an assistant in Banting’s 

laboratory, performed experiments 

that led to the purification of insulin, 

and its successful use in the first 

human clinical trials. Assisting 

Banting and Best in the purification 

process of insulin was Dr. Bertram 

Collip, a biochemist working at the 

University of Toronto at that time. 

Professor John Macleod, Head of 

the Department of Physiology, was 

responsible for overseeing the entire 

insulin project at the University of 

Toronto. In January of 1922, the 

first patient in the world to receive 

insulin therapy was a 14-year-old 

boy, Leonard Thompson, who was 

suffering from the end-stage effects 

of the disease. Interestingly, the third 

patient in the world to receive insulin 

therapy was Elizabeth Hughes, the 

daughter of famed U.S. presidential 

candidate and Secretary of State, 

Charles Evans Hughes. In 1923, 

Elizabeth Hughes came to Toronto 

to be treated by Banting. With 

the discovery of insulin, Elizabeth 

Hughes lived a long and productive 

life, and died at age 74, having 

received more than 42,000 injections 

of this life-saving hormone over her 

lifetime. 

Following the use of insulin therapy 

in early clinical trials in Toronto, 

news of its success spread around 

the world. In 1923, soon after the 

discovery of insulin for diabetes, 

Banting and Macleod received 

the Nobel Prize in Physiology. It 

is interesting to note that the 

length of time from the discovery 

of insulin to its use in clinical 

trials was rather short – about two 

years. And the discovery of insulin 

must be considered as one of the 

greatest scientific discoveries in 

all of medicine. Today, most new 

drugs take about 10-15 years to 

reach clinical trials and to undergo 

regulatory review. It is hoped that 

in the future drugs and treatments 

which hold potential promise to 

improve the lives of patients with 

disease processes, like diabetes, can 

receive expedited review and testing 

for the greater good of humanity. 


L’OCCHIO / THE EYE 

opposite: Santa and Jo Lee, 1987. 

It Was 1987 

Photography and Text from the private collection of Ray Scotty Morris 


Long ago, back in the celebratory days 

of Christmas in 1987, Jo Lee would 

call, “Scotty, Scotty! We’re having 

another Christmas To Remember. Oh 

please! Will you shoot it for me?” One 

never says no to Jo Lee. And the best 

part? From the onset, we became 

tremendous friends. 

Jo Lee’s A Christmas To Remember 

galas were to bring the less fortunate 

and specially challenged children 

together from various parts of Northern 

California. Her psychology was 

two-fold. The less fortunate would 

see how far less fortunate they were 

by coming to know how specially 

challenged the severely wheelchair-bound 

youngsters were. And for the specially 

challenged: they were overjoyed with 

their newfound friends, loving them 

because of who they were! 

You cannot imagine Jo Lee’s productions. 

1000+ youths who could only dream 

of such excitement were invited to the 

best the worlds of Hollywood’s Disney 

and George Lucas had to offer, all 

facilitated by wonderful people who 

believed in whatever crazy ideas Jo Lee 

designed in her dreams. And it didn’t 

stop there! 

Drive-In {Remember the classic George 

Lucas film, American Graffiti, released 

in 1973? This was Mel.} to call his 

poker-buddy, Richard Swigg, Founder/ 

Chairman, Fairmont Hotels, and ask him 

to give Jo Lee his Fairmont Ballroom and 

carte blanche for the venue to pursue her 

dream. Richard did, and his generosity 

helped produce the most phenomenal 

celebration/s the world could image – Jo 

Lee’s A Christmas To Remember. 

Let us not forget, these were not 

fundraisers to pay for staff and 

party. No, no. 

Jo Lee raises monies strictly for the 

cause and today 100 percent of revenue 

generated from JO LEE Magazine 

advertisements is flipped into its 

ADESTE Academy for the advancement 

of higher education for African students 

who can only dream of possibilities. 

I present to you now, a very small 

portion of my photomontage of 25 years 

ago. 1987’S a Christmas to remember. 

Jo Lee got her great friend Mel Weiss, 

creator of America’s famous Mel’s 

JL 


Entering an abandoned house.

Susan climbing in through a window. 

Mr. Clown presenting a talking A.G. Bear to one of our 1000+ young guests. They all got one!

Jo Lee with her friends: Little Reina and Brian with R2-D2, 

C-3PO and Ewok from Star Wars, Mini and Mickey Mouse, and 

Donald Duck who seems to be hidden.

Star Wars’ Ewok pausing 

for a hug with Jo Lee.

Santa with so many more gifts for our young guests.

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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 

Child Leadership: We Can Make It Happen 

By Kelechi Eleanya 

United Nations Development Program 

Abuja – Nigeria 

Photography By Ron Hhenggeler 


Leadership is both a challenge and 

an opportunity for the world today. 

As the world’s population continues 

to increase annually, we realize that 

leadership is a strategic resource that is 

currently in short supply. One could 

suggest that leadership is a choice we 

make; however, we must realize that 

great leaders are made not born. 

Child leadership offers a strategic entry 

point to a lasting and more rewarding 

leadership development focus in a 

sustained manner. Leadership traits 

are found in every child born into the 

world, but there is a need to sharpen 

these traits at home and school at 

every given opportunity. Several 

identifiable traits present opportunities 

to develop leadership in a child early 

enough and change our society for 

good in the long run. These include 

the desire to be challenged, the ability 

to solve problems creatively, the ability 

to reason critically, the ability to see 

new relationships, the facility of verbal 

expression, flexibility in thought and 

action, and the ability to tolerate 

ambiguity. 

The journey to be a great leader 

must begin at an early age, as such 

qualities, once developed, cannot be 

removed from the child when he/she 

is older. The responsibility lies in this 

generation to groom in the child key 

qualities of good leadership. 

Integrity: We must do the very best 

we can to promote the right values and 

truth in our kids 

Courage: Develop a courageous heart 

in our children 

Confidence: Let them know they can 

do it 

Diligence: Hard work is a hallmark of 

great leaders 

Creativity and independent thinking: 

His/her ideas should be put to the test 

of time 

Responsibility: Taking responsibility 

for actions is vital 

Planning: Drawing a course for 

actions daily 

Self belief: Never allow children to be 

insecure or doubt themselves 

All these qualities can be imbued in 

children if we determine to set good 

examples; do it in front of them 

because they learn faster by watching 

and observing. We need also to 

develop their communication skills; 

they must learn to accept others the 

way they are, to develop a team spirit 

and an ability to read. We must help 

children develop vision and strategic 

planning plus the ability to concentrate 

and focus on goals. 

Applying these goals should be a 

focus of government and society in 

rebuilding and re-ordering the broken 

legacies of leadership in our world. 

Give children this opportunity to be 

leaders for all time: The Time is Now! 

JL 


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THE DIGITAL DIVIDE 

Downshifters 

By Craig Ricker 

Moscow – Russia 

For single men, the best-kept secrets on 

earth are the all-inclusive beach resorts 

in Turkey and Egypt. What makes 

them special is that single women 

outnumber single men by at least 

50-to-one. 

After a close examination of my green 

face at the end of a long, dark Russian 

winter, it was clear that some fun in 

the sun was in order. For $625 I got a 

one-week trip to Hurghada, Egypt in 

a plus four-star hotel including airfare, 

drinks, and meals right on the beach. 

Quickly, I found myself spending all 

my time with a lovely Sophisto type 

girl from the north of Russia who is the 

spitting image of a 24-year-old Sharon 

Stone. This young lady, Kcenia, 

informed me that her mother has been 

living in Hurghada for five years. I 

found this a bit shocking because the 

local Arab men are extremely aggressive 

and rude towards white women. 

My clever young companion assured 

me that her mother is happy and living 

it up in sunny Egypt. Kcenia offered 

to introduce me. We ran the gauntlet 

of groping Arabs for 10 blocks and met 

up with Kcenia’s mother, Eenna. She 

was walking alone and the Arabs did 

not harass her much. She was about 

45, tall, and heavy-set with long black 

hair worn in a hippie style. She looked 

much more vibrant than most Russian 

women her age. 

Eenna informed me that Hurghada 

has a population of 80,000, of which 

15,000 are Russians. Of that 15,000, 

85 percent are middle-aged Russian 

women. I asked why a woman would 

want to live in such a dirty and slightly 

scary city? 

She said that in Russia she has no 

chance of finding a good man. Most 

men her age are crushed by tobacco 

and alcohol, and the ones that are 

not, already have several families and 

girlfriends. She explained that most 

of the Russian women in Hurghada 

have Arab boyfriends. Again I was 

puzzled. She said nobody she knows 

has any contact with Arab culture, they 

only associate with elite, educated Arab 

men and she assured me that they are 

civilized and charming. I could see in 

her face that she felt she had overcome 

a life problem and had extended her 

youth by 20 years. 

She sold her flat in Russia for $75,000 

and bought a better, new one in Egypt 

for $10,000. She had “downshifted”, 

as had all the other Russian ladies 

there, and they are bathing in a sea 

of men who dream only of finding a 

Russian woman. 

I could not find a chink in her logic. 

JL 


INDULGENCES 

Understanding The World ’s 

Second Largest Economy 

By Olivia Y. Hollaus 

President 

Olivia Hollaus & Associates, Inc. 

Cross-border U.S. and China Business Development Consulting Company 

Boca Raton – Florida 

China’s economy has been growing 

over the past years. Because the 

economy has been changing very 

quickly, the information we receive 

does not always reflect real-time 

developments. At Olivia Hollaus & 

Associates, we can shed some light on 

what is actually happening. 

As seen this year, China has been 

faced with some challenges that every 

developed country has gone through, 

mainly, finding a balance between 

economic growth and inflation. 

China is transitioning from an exportdriven 

economy to a consumptionoriented 

economy. No longer 

primarily emphasizing exports, the 

Chinese government has been putting 

in measures to encourage domestic 

consumption. 

Even though it remains a cashoriented 

society, Chinese consumers 

have been more willing to use their 

credit cards. In 2011, US$1.2 trillion 

in sales were made via credit card 

payments, up 48% from the previous 

year. Meanwhile, overseas corporations 

like GM, GE, McDonald’s, KFC and 

Starbucks are benefiting from China’s 

growing retail market. Economists 

forecast that by 2020, China will 

account for 22% of the total global 

consumption, behind the US at 35%. 

The country has a decent in-flow 

of foreign investment. For the 

past decade, such global financial 

institutions as Bank of America, 

Morgan Stanley, J.P. Morgan and 

Deutsche Bank have established 

operations and investment strategies in 

China. In fact, many Chinese banks 

have major overseas shareholders. To 

name a few: HSBC owns a significant 

stake in the Bank of Communications; 

Goldman Sachs and Temasek are 

both shareholders of the Industrial 

& Commercial Bank of China; 

BlackRock has an interest in the Bank 

of China, the Agricultural Bank of 

China, China Merchants Bank and 

China Citic Bank. 

These international financial 

institutions not only have equity 

stakes in China’s banks, but they also 

act as strategic advisors. The banking 

system in China is the primary source 

of funding and thus, important to the 

country’s real economic growth. 

The inflation factor is an issue that 

needs to be managed accordingly. 

China is opting for a controlled 

inflation model. Investment in the 

property sector has slowed down 

for the past two years, but more 

social housing units are being built 

to alleviate the shortage. Despite 

higher prices for foodstuff, local 

restaurants are still relatively affordable. 

Transportation costs are low, and more 

infrastructure, such as subway lines, is 

being added. 

As we often discuss with our clients, 

an economy of this size and magnitude 

constantly needs to balance growth and 

stability. 

JL 


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Prescience 

By John Paul Jarvis 


My best friend Mike was a cop, now 

retired. A very intelligent man except 

for his choice of vocation, and most 

would suggest his choice of friends. 

Skipping high school physics 

recurrently, we would frequent a tavern 

called the Islington House in attempts 

to breathe life into the doldrums of 

academia. This became our default 

meeting spot for decades. 

Fast-forward 20 years. Mike left a 

message to meet him at the “I” as he 

needed to introduce Roger and Mary 

Martin. Roger was a Barbadian banker 

assumedly down to earth because the 

Islington House was a dump. 

Mike and Roger had a significant 

head start imbibing, rounding the 

corner approaching the point of no 

return. In contrast Mary was sipping 

a Coke, regarding the pair with a wife’s 

practiced detachment. 

Mary and I chatted politely as the 

slurred speech soared in volume, and 

then apropos of nothing, Mary asked 

me, “What is your birth sign?” Barely 

suppressing a yawn and in hopes of 

deflecting an unwanted oratory on 

astrology, I responded, “Equestrian,” 

drawing a snigger from Roger. 

Mary smiled, turned to me eye to eye 

and began a quiet series of predictions 

that opened with, “You will not die in 

this country.” She told me facts about 

my life past and present that were 

impossible to know. She described 

minutiae that were personal, often 

intimate with clarity. 

Roger glanced, rolling eyes observing, 

“Mary’s’ doing it again” while 

sustaining Molson’s Brewery profits. 

I surprised myself and accepted the 

implausible immediately; “Do you get 

that reaction often,” I asked, gesturing 

toward Roger, she quietly remarked, 

“I don’t tell too many people.” “Why 

me?” I asked. Mary simply smiled. 

I asked quietly, “What is the 

downside?” Her eyes dropped to 

her folded hands, “I have resigned 

two career positions, because I could 

tell that death was imminent for 

colleagues.” I asked her the signs and 

Mary vaguely described an aura that 

surrounded the individuals. 

She then told me aspects of my future 

that have become fact. She looked 

at me anew and softly declared, 

“Understand, this is not a gift.” 

Mary’s uniqueness surfaced in early 

childhood. From a diplomatic 

family on Barbados, she was raised 

by Barbadian nannies. These astute 

island women identified the child’s 

prescience by chance, and, based on 

trust, counseled Mary up to her teens 

on methods to filter her thoughts and 

statements. Her parents never cared to 

recognize. 

Mary sat back with a laugh, looked 

at me and said, “Taurus, May 18, the 

same as Pope John Paul II, and you 

both have the same name.” 

I only recalled later that I had been 

introduced to her simply as Paul. 

JL 


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A Little Bit About High Heels 

By Carla Dragnea 

Bucharest – Romania 

Stiletto, wedge, cone, prism; if you are 

a woman you know these are various 

types of high heels. You would also 

know that a good pair of heels can 

make you feel elegant, slender and very 

glamorous. But did you know these 

elegant shoes actually have a long and 

remarkable history to them? 

The history of high heels can actually 

be traced back to Egypt, 3500BC, 

where murals on walls show upper class 

citizens wearing heels for ceremonial 

purposes. 

However, it wasn’t until the 16th 

century that high heels were properly 

invented. It was in 1533, when 

Catherine de Medici decided to wear 

heels on her wedding day to Henry 

II (future King of France) as she was 

quite short and wanted to appear much 

taller. It is said that Catherine de 

Medici is the original inventor of the 

high heel, setting the rage 

in Paris. 

Heels, which became very popular in 

the French Court among wealthy men 

and women and quickly spread to 

other parts of nobility, were seen as a 

dividing line between classes. 

It remained that only the rich wore 

heels for quite some time, and even in 

the early 1700s, Louis XIV (King of 

France) wore very high heels, often up 

to five inches, with decorative patterns 

such as miniature battle scenes. It was 

Madame de Pompadour who helped 

Louis popularize high narrow heels – 

referred to as either the Louis or the 

Pompadour heel. 

The heeled shoe was quickly banned 

after the French Revolution when 

Napoleon came to power during the 

late 18th – early 19th century as he 

wanted everyone to appear equal. 

Because the heel was something that 

rich people used, many didn’t want to 

be linked to the shoe. It wasn’t until 

the roaring twenties when hemlines 

became much shorter that the heel 

regained its full glory. 

Both the ’30s and ’40s were tough 

times, so the heel became more 

moderate, with lower and wider 

heels. At the same time, Hollywood 

gave the heel a new edge with many 

actresses wearing sparkly and glittery 

heels which challenged the traditional 

French look. 

The ’50s and ’60s saw a revival of 

very high heels with Christian Dior 

magically inventing the stiletto. 

The emerging feminist movement in 

the ’70s did a lot to change perceptions 

on how the heel was viewed. Many 

women stopped wearing heels as 

it was claimed that wearing them 

indicated the sexual stereotyping by 

men. However, this theory lost favor 

in the ’80s with the invention of power 

dressing. Heels were brought back 

to the catwalk with Manolo Blahnik’s 

shoes making a huge impact. And? 

The world has never looked back. 

JL 


LA GRANDE FINALE 

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Jo Lee Magazine 

By Monte S. Bell 

Warren – Vermont 

JL

WITS END 

Children On The Old And New Testaments 


New York / San Francisco / Hong Kong / London / Tokyo / Rome / Toronto 

1. in the first book of the bible, guinness’s. god got tired of creating the world so he took the sabbath off. 

2. lots wife was a pillar of salt during the day, but a ball of fire during the night. 

3. sampson was a strongman who let himself be led astray by a jezebel like delilah. 

4. moses died before he ever reached canada. then joshua led the hebrews in the battle of geritol. 

5. the greatest miricle in the bible is when joshua told his son to stand still and he obeyed him. 

6. solomon, one of davids sons, had 300 wives and 700 porcupines. 

7. when mary heard she was the mother of jesus, she sang the magna carta. 

JL 


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