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INTRODUCTION:

From my perspective, I think that democracy is synonymous of equality between women and men in the civil society and government. Ironically, there are more women voters, but fewer women candidates. However, From my point of view I think that “Parity Democracy” is the big difference between democracies and dictatorships.I remembered that the Taliban´s regime -the worst dictatorship in the modern history- prohibited women from participating in Afghanistan´s National Government.In 1990 Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, a pro-dremocracy activist, won the elections in Myanmar (ex-Burma), but she was arrested and the results were cancelled abruptly by dictator Saw Maung.

Certainly, international organizations reports that 10 democracies have the highest proportion of women in its governmental structures: Sweden, Denmark, Finland, The Netherlands, Iceland, Germany, New Zealand, Mozambique, South Africa and Spain.Another example: under the Administration of Bill Clinton, Madeleine Albright was the first female Secretary of State.

Sri Lanka, formerly named Ceylan, is the home to Sirimavo Ratwate Dias Bandaranaike. She was often described as one of the most important females in the history: Mrs Bandaranaike became World´s first female Prime Minister. She influenced Prime Minister from Janet Jagan to Gro Harlem Brundtland with her leadership for women´s rights and democracy.

Inspired by example of the “Women Revolution” in Sri Lanka, Pakistan, India and Bangla Desh, Chandrika Kumaratunga, Bandaraike´s daughter, was elected Head of State in 1994.Her government was very similar that of her mother.

Certainly, there were fewer governments by women´s leaders as Violeta Barrios de Chamorro, who has fought for the democracy and women´s rights in Nicaragua, one of the most poorest countries in Latin America.

Finally I would like to finish my article with my favourite personal motto: “The future is for those people who believe in the beauty of their dreams”, by Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt, who was First Lady of the United States between 1933 and 1945.

ARGENTINA: In 1974 Maria Estela Martinez de Peron, best known as “Isabel Peron”, became the first woman President in the modern history.She is the widow of former President Juan Domingo Peron (1946-1955 and 1973-1974). After his death in 1974, Juan Domingo Peron was replaced by Vicepresident Isabel Peron. On March, 1976, after 2 years in power, she was ousted in a military coup led by Jorge Rafael Videla. She was forced into exile.

BANGLADESH: The country, an ex-British colony, has had two women in the national power. Begum Khaleda Zia was Prime Minister from 1991 to 1996. Khaleda was an advocate for the environment.She escaped assassination in 1995. However, she was reelected without opposition, but Khaleda Zia was succedded by other woman: Sheik Hassina Wajed, anti-governmental activist. Sheik Hassina Wajed was as unpopularity as her predecessor.Bangladesh was one of the few states in the world whose government has been successively held by women.

BOLIVIA:Lydia Gueiler Tejada, former accountant, served as interim President of Bolivia from 16 November 1979 to 17 July 1980.She was elected President by Parliament. Mrs Gueiler Tejada was overthrown by General Luis Garcia Meza Tejada, who was one of the worst dictators in the Latin American history.

CANADA:Dame Kimberley Campbell was ephemeral Prime Minister from 25 June 1993 to November 1993. But she was not the only one in power. Jeanne Sauce was Governor General from 1984 to 1989.Furthermore, Adrienne Clarkson was elected also GG in 1999. Currently, Michaelle Jean, was born in Haiti, has been elected GG in 2005.

DOMINICA: Dominica, a small country in the Caribbean, has been an independent State since 1978. Mary Eugenia Charles governed from 1980 to 1995. During her government Dominica had one of the most highest rate of human development in Latin America.In 1983, Mary Eugenia Charles, an admirer of Great Britain´s Margaret Thatcher, established diplomatic relations with Republic of China (ROC) or Taiwan. She was apparently supported by the United States and Taiwan for its anti-communism.

ICELAND:Vidis Finnbogadottir was Head of State of Iceland from 1980 to 1996.Vigdis was a key interlocutor between the Soviet Bloc and the United States. She was the first woman democratically elected President in the world.

INDIA: Indira Ghandi was one of the greatest politicians of the history. She served as Prime Minister of India from 1966 to 1977 and from 1980 to 1984. In the 1970s her government was marked by corruption, human rights abuses and pro-Soviet politics. In 1984, Mrs Gandhi was assassinated by her bodyguards. During her government, she was an anti-Apartheid leader. Many people loved her and others hated her. Currently, she is a symbol of the India.

IRELAND: Mary Robinson was elected Head of State of Ireland from 1990 to 1997. She was a forceful campaigner for women´s rights in the world.The fruits of her efforts continue to flourish: On November 11, 1997, Mary McAleese was elected President.The world recognized Ireland´s Mary robinson for her fight against abuses of refuges.

ISRAEL: Golda Meir governed as Prime Minister from 1969 to 1974. She is remembered as one of the most important women in the Israeli history.During her government, Israel and Egypt, Syria and Iraq went to war. After her death, Israel is the birthplace of important women as Leah Rabin and Shulamith Katznelson.

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NEW ZEALAND: Jenny Shipley had an ephemeral government. She became the NZ´s first female Prime Minister.In 1999 Helen Clark was elected Prime Minister of NZ. Historically, New Zealand is the birthplace of the “Woman Suffrage”.The country´s name in the local dialect means “Land of the Woman Suffrage”.

NORWAY:Gro Harlem Brundtland served as Prime Minister for 11 years. She has been described as a “great Prime Minister”. She is equally admired as an ecologist and diplomatic.Under her leadership, Norway was an example of human development in the world.

PHILIPPINES:Corazon “Cory” Aquino was the fourth women in Asia to assume the position of President. After her victory, Aquino said that among her political projects were the anti-poverty and human rights.She was Benigno Aquino´s wife. She helped win more representation for women in the Parliament. It was under her government that full democratization began.

SRI LANKA: Sririmavo Bandaraike was the first woman who became Prime Minister in the history. Historically, she has been the first woman with real power in the 20th Century. Under her government, the Island, an ex- British colony, became a democratic republic. Mrs Bandaranaike had taken a prominent role in national affairs during the government of her daughter, President Chandrika Kumaratunga Bandaranaike (1994-2000).

UNITED KINGDOM: Margaret Hilda Roberts Thatcher, best known worldwide as the “Iron Lady”, was Prime Minister from 1979 to 1990. She was the most powerful woman in the industrialized world.Mrs Thatcher does not herself as a feminist. Thatcher was reelected Prime Minister in the 1980s and she was an active anti-communist leader.Her economical philosophy provided a model for many countries as Hungary, Czech Republic, Mauritius, Botswana, El Salvador, Chile and Cyprus. Under her leadership, the UK´s economy witnessed the most rapid growth in the 1980s.Ironically, she has not made campaigns for women´s rights, but she is an advocate for the ecology.Europe has produced many leaders, but none as Margaret Thatcher…

UNITED STATES:In 1996 Maria Jana Korbelova or Marie Hana Korbel, best known as Madeleine Albright, made history when she was elected Secretary of State of the United States.She was born in Czech Republic, former Czechoslovakia, but Madeleine became American citizen in the 1950s.She gained international recognition for her efforts on behalf of human rights and democracy. She was one of the few American leaders to balance good relations with North Korea…

Did you know that an American woman was Head of State?

Janet Jagan became President of Guyana, an ex-British colony and South American country.Mrs Jagan, a naturalized Guyanan citizen who was born in Chicago, Illinois, came to power from 19 December 1997 to 11 August 1999.

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6-INFORME SOBRE DESARROLLO HUMANO 1995: GENERO Y DESARROLLO HUMANO, PNUD, NUEVA YORK, 1995

7-NOTES FOR SPEAKERS ONTHE ADVANCEMENT OF WOMEN, NACIONES UNIDAS, NUEVA YORK, 1995

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In a bizarre story of international friendships gone awry, Sheikh Abdulla bin Hamad Al Khalifa, second son to the King of Bahrain, is suing Michael Jackson in a British court for the sum of $7 million.

Jackson had previously purchased Bahrain ’s former Prime Minister’s mansion, and had called himself “increasingly Bahraini” while living there in 2005. He was a guest of the sheikh, and wore a traditional Muslim veil, the black “abaya” which gave him and his children a perfect shot at relative anonymity. Bahrain appeared to enjoy the notoriety.

This was around the time of his child-molestation trial, from which he was acquitted, and for which the sheikh paid $1 million up front and another $2.2 million in legal fees. Michael Jackson’s lawyer calls this a gift, and the sheikh calls it a loan. (However, the sheikh also reports paying $450k for Jackson ’s brother Jermain Friday to visit Bahrain and buy a Rolls Royce; the sheikh calls that a gift and has not asked for it to be returned.)

The two also jointly owned a record label, 2 Seas Group (a reference to ” Bahrain ” meaning ” Two Seas “), through which Michael Jackson was expected to produce songs, an autobiography, and a stage play. This was a “combined rights agreement” which apparently Jackson backed out of, after the sheikh had incurred $7 million in expenses toward the project. The agreement specified that the expenses would be paid back out of Jackson ’s royalties. Since the project never went forward, legal teams argue that the $7 million is a loss on an aborted business venture, not a loan that needs to be paid back.

In 2006, Jackson moved from Bahrain to Las Vegas, apparently becoming significantly less Bahraini than he had been the previous year, or perhaps just for irony; a Bahraini cleric had expressed worry that Jackson would “turn Bahrain into Las Vegas.” It’s unclear what his friendship with the sheik was like after the move, though the sheikh claims that they were still close personal friends. He did agree that Jackson was a “vulnerable person,” though didn’t agree with Jackson ’s lawyer’s assessment that the singer was “not exactly an astute businessman.” They claim that the funds for the legal trial and for the abortive music deal were gifts, and are now being claimed as loans due to the sheikh’s “mistake, misrepresentation and undue influence.”

For the King of Pop with a music career spanning a half-century, one is tempted to agree that a man who needs a $7 million loan and can’t pay it back is probably not an astute businessman. Jackson ’s nanny testified that received a $1 million wire transfer from the sheikh because the singer didn’t have any money; possibly this was because he was having a nanny pay his bills.

Jackson tried to remain in Los Angeles during the trial, having petitioned the court to appear through a video link rather than traveling to London due to health concerns, though his doctor eventually cleared him to travel over the weekend. The health concerns, whatever they are, didn’t prevent him from going through a ceremony to convert to Islam at a friend’s house in Los Angeles. He changed his name to Mikaeel… The final chapter of this novella does not seem to be any closer and I honestly doubt it will ever come to any satisfactory conclusion.

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Imagine seeing a top sheik from Dubai, wrapped in traditional Arab clothing, exclaim “Yes We Can” in front of the 800 experts gathered during the Summit of the Global Agenda that just took place in Dubai on November 7-9th, co-organized by the World Economic Forum and the Government of Dubai. This same sheik added that “we build the future with our own hands”.

As previously announced, the “Global Agenda Councils will challenge prevailing assumptions, monitor trends, map interrelationships and address knowledge gaps. Equally important, Global Agenda Councils will also propose solutions, devise strategies and evaluate the effectiveness of actions using measurable benchmarks.”

You will read more about this event in the media. But let me share some of my own still-jetlagged reflections.

The financial crisis has made obvious the obvious: that we live in a truly new and global world.

And that business as usual will lead to global disaster - we need new approaches to collectively adapt to and thrive in this new environment. The answer is not to go back to any old paradigm, which simply will not work in a new reality, but to imagine and build a better new way of doing things. And we all need to participate.

Some of the attendants urged us to “reboot” the system. I don’t think that a “reboot” is enough - we need to upgrade to a new operating system. We can call it Planet Earth 2.0. Based on the group discussion we had on Sunday morning, let me propose some of the architectural principles that should underlie any emerging Planet Earth 2.0 operating system. And let me present those principles using a “Yes We Can” value-based approach:

Yes

- From Business As Usual to Imagination-led Action.

- From Analysis to Synthesis.

- From Talk to Walk.

We

- From Financial Hegemony to Human and Natural Capital.

- From Us vs. them to Win-win Diversity.

- From Regulation/ Deregulation to Mindful Architecture.

- From Top-down Authority to Shared Responsibility.

Can

- From Selfish Genes to Committed to Improving the state of the world.

- From Accounting Rules to Values and Standards.

- From Being Stuck to Learn and Evolve.

Given that each of us are in fact part of that new operating system, we could start by pledging to live by principles like those. How can we refine them?

In short, no more Business as Usual. We need more Imagination, and Action. By each of us.

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Did You Know…

Qatar is sometimes called the “Olympic paradise” in the world. In this Arab country you can feel the Olympic atmosphere: many children competing in athletics, tennis, football, volleyball, basketball, karate, gymnastics and judo. Cylist legend Eddy Merckx said, “Qatar as a country pushes for sport. No other country in the world is doing what Qatar is doing for sport - especially for kids. As a child, sport is a great school of life. It shows you that just talent is not enough - you also have to work very hard. If you’re a lawyer, you stay a lawyer for life. As a sportsman or sportswomen, you have to start every season at the beginning again. It’s hard to become the best, but it’s even more difficult to stay the best year after year.” Certainly, Qatar - it is about the size of Hawaii- has one of the best sporting systems outside of the industrialized world.

The Arab athlete Saif Saaeef Shaheen won the gold medal in the 3,000m steeplechase at the 2003 World Athletics Championships in Paris, France. There were celebrations for Qatar, after he won the gold medal. Saif Saaeef Shaheen wrote history for Qatar becoming the first Qatari to win a world championship in the Olympic sport.

Qatar qualified for the 2007 Handball World Championship. It was the third time that Qatar had qualified for a World Cup. Under the direction of Ekrem Jaganjac, Qatar`s national coach, the Qatari team defeated Australia 36-22. “In Qatar, there are no outstanding players, but there are many enthusiastic young ones, and I concentrate all my work on them”, said Jaganjac, who was a member of the enlarged Yugoslav team for the Summer Olympics in 1972.

Doha was scheduled to host the FIFA World Youth Championship in 1995.

Ahmed Ibraheem was the first runner to represent Qatar at an Olympic track event when he competed in the 10,000 metres and 5,000 metres at the Games of the XXIV Olympiad in Seoul (South Korea) in 1988.

The Qatari football team finished sixth at the Olympic Games in Barcelona (Spain). In the Barcelona 1992 Olympic Football Tournament 16 men`s teams competed in four rounds (preliminaries, quarter-finals, semi-finals, finals). Under the brilliant leadership Mubarak Nooralla, Qatar defeated Egypt (African champion) 1-0 in the first round. Qatar represented Asia in the quarters finals, but was eliminated by Poland, one of the best teams of Europe. The Olympic players were Ahmed Khalil Saleh, Hamad Al-Atteya, Rashid Shami Suwaid, Zamel Essa Al-Kuwari, A-Nasser Ali Al-Obaidly, Waleef Bukhit Maayof, Mubarak Nooralla, Juman Salem Johar, Mahmoud Yaseen Souf, Fahad Mohd Al-Kuwari, Adel Mulla Al-Mulla, Mohd Al Mohannadi and A-Aziz Hassan Jaloof.

Doha -the country`s capital and largest city- is one of the most modern sporting cities in the world. It has many sports facilities.The Khalifa International Stadium is the nation`s largest stadium. It is one of the most beautiful and modern stadiums in the world. Doha is also the home of the Hamad Aquatic Centre.

This Asian country organized the 1999 Handball World Junior Championship. There were 17 teams: Denmark, Sweden, Egypt, France, Yugoslavia, Spain, Russia, Greece, Tunisia, Portugal, Croatia, Qatar, Brazil, Israel, Norway, Hungary and New Zealand.

Doha hosted the Asian Games in December 2006. The opening ceremony on 1 December was held at the Khalifa International Stadium before a crowd of more than 50,000. At the 2006 Asian Games, Sheik Mohammed Bin Hamad Al -Thani, a Qatari horseman, did the honors of carrying the Olympic flame and lighting the torch. A record number of 45 countries and territories participated in the event. The Olympic village was home to 10,500 sportspeople.The competitive programme included 39 sport events: archery, athletics, badminton, baseball, basketball, bodybuilding, bowling, kayak, chess, cycling, diving, equestrian, fencing, football, golf, gymnastics, handball, field hockey, judo, kabaddi, karate, rowing, rugby, sailing, sepaktakraw, shooting, softball, squash, swimming, synchronized swimming, table tennis, triathlon, tennis, volleyball, beach volleyball, water polo, weightlifting, wushu and wrestling. These Asian Games will be remembered for its excellent organization and hospitality. The success of the Asian Games was result of the combined efforts of the Qatari government and the organizing committee (Doha Asian Games Organizing Committee). The Asian Games are the second largest international sporting event after the Summer Olympic Games.

The Qatari athlete Musa Obaid Amer finished fourth in the 3,000m steeplechase at the Olympic Games in Athens, the capital city of Greece.

Qatar won the second place at the 1981 FIFA World Youth Cup in Sydney (Australia). Qatar`s qualification for the finals was one of the greatest surprises.

Talal Mansoor made history at the 1994 Asian Games by winning three gold medals (100m, 200m and 4×400m relay).

The Asian Cup, the continent`s top football tournament, was held in Qatar in 1988.

Doha is officially bidding for the 2016 Olympic Games and Paralympic Games. As chairman of the Doha Bid Committee, Hassan Ali Bin Ali said: “A lot has already changed in Qatar and in particular Doha, in the last 50 years. If we were granted the opportunity to stage the Olympics and Paralympics in 2016, it would not only allow us to further develop the city’s infrastructure but also to use the power of peaceful sporting competition to create understanding, hope and change that could unite the entire region with the rest of the world. Hosting the Olympic and Paralympic Games in Doha would bring the Olympic flame to the Arabic-speaking world for the first time, extending the Olympic ideals to millions of new hearts and minds”.

Andres Sebastian Soria Quintana is one of the most talented footballers from Qatar. He came to Doha from Uruguay as a footballer professional and got Qatari nationality just in the time for the 2006 Asian Games. He was born on November 8, 1983 in Paysandu, Uruguay (South America). He is symbol of multiethnic Qatar.

Said Asaad is one of the greatest weightlifters in Qatari sports history. He won a bronze medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Australia. Like Mohammed Sulaiman (track and field), Nasser Saleh Al-Attiyah (shooting), Jaber Salem (weightlifting), Talal Mansoor (athletics), he is one of the country`s most respected personages.

Qatar is the home of the ASPIRE Academy for Sports Excellence. It is one of the world`s leading elite sports institutions.The Academy has four departments: Sports, QESA (Quality Management ,Education and Social Affairs), IT (Information Technology) and Administration. These centers provide accommodations, coaching training facilities, Olympic studies and medical care for students from Qatar and the Third World. The Academy also participates in international sports exchanges and has signed official sports exchange agreements with Third World countries. This center is one of the most beautiful sports installations in the world. Andreas Bleicher, Sports director at ASPIRE, said: “We have always looked to position ASPIRE as an international academy whose primary focus in sports in Qatar. A major part of our approach has been to evaluate talent at on early stage and look to bring out the best in our young sportspeople. This intense, local focus has been matched by a global process of talent identification”.

The Qatari team won four gold, five silver and eight bronze medals during the Asian Games held in South Korea in 2002.

Mohammed Sulaiman became the first Qatari sportspeople to win an Olympic medal at the Olympic Games in 1992 in Barcelona, Spain. His achievement was greeted with joyful celebrations in the country. He also participated in athletics in the 1996 Summer Olympic Games in Atlanta (USA). He was one of the best Arab and international runners of the 20th century.

Qatar was one of the 160 countries who participated at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul, Republic of Korea. It participated in one sport: track and field. Some of the athletes were: Saad Mubarak (4×100m relay ), Talal Mansoor (100m), Faraj Marzouq (4×100m relay), Ismael Mohammed (800m), Mohammed Ahmed (1,500m), Ahmed Ibraheem (10,000m and 5,000m) and Rashid Marzouq (110m hurdles).

Mubarak Hassan Shami, one of athletics greatest performers, won a silver medal in the marathon at the IAAF World Championship in Japan in 2007.

The Qatari delegation competed in the 2007 Arab Games held in Cairo (Egypt), and won 14 gold, 13 silver and 13 bronze medals.

The Qatar Sports Club is considered one of the most beautiful and modern clubs in the world.

From 2000 to 2007, a large number of famous athletes visited Qatar. They included: Diego Armando Maradona (football), Haile Gebrselassie (track and field) and Nadia Comaneci (gymnastics).

The Qatari athlete Ibraheem Ismael was finalist in the 400m at the 1992 Olympics.

The Doha IAAF World Super Tour 2007 was the largest sports even in Qatar after the Doha Asian Games in 2006 and the FIFA World Youth Championship in 1995.

Khalfan Ibrahim Khalfan Al Khalfan is one of the most honourable athletes at present. In 2006, he was named Football Player of the Year by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC). He was born on February 18, 1988 in Doha.

Hassan Ali Bin Ali (chairman of the Doha Bid Committee) is an ardent supporter of the Olympic ideal and work hard on the promotion of the Olympic movement in Qatar.

The World Table Tennis Championship took place from March 1st to 7th 2004 in Qatar.

Qatar made its Olympic debut at the Games of the XXIII Olympiad in Los Angeles (California,USA) in 1984. It qualified 27 sportspeople in three sports: athletics, football and shooting.

The Qatari basketball team, with star players such as Hashim Zaidan Zaidan, Seleem Abdulla, Daoud Mousa Daoud and Erfan Ali Saeed , beat out the powerful South Korea team to win bronze medal in the 23rd Asian Championship that were held in Doha.

The state of Qatar won 6 medals at the 1990 Asian Games in Beijing (China), which counted with the participation of 6,122 athletes from 37 countries. Overall, Qatar ranked eight, after the People`s Republic of China, South Korea, Japan, North Korea, Iran, Pakistan and Indonesia.

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Unless a prospective home buyer has a large change purse and is having the new house custom designed, the average home buyer is forced to settle for the mediocre and mundane. Home builders usually fall into two categories; average or subpar. It is true that a majority of home builders employ cookie cutter techniques and methods in order to scrape as much profit from the home buyer as possible. Unfortunately it is the customer that receives a “blah” decor. When it comes to style, very few builders will take the time to customize and accentuate the interior items and niceties such as closet doors, room dividers, door hardware and shelving.

It now befalls the home owner to turn the house into a home by customizing each room and putting their own flare throughout. With space always in short supply, organizing is the key to success. Rather than reduce the available square footage of an already tight area by overcrowding with large, bulky bureaus or bookcases, a quaint solution may be a Murphy bed. Although not very mainstream, Murphy beds have always been a stylish and innovative solution. Murphy beds, once built directly into a wall, now double as armoires and bookcases without commandeering an entire room. Murphy beds may not be a solution for everyone.

Because the big brick and mortar super centers and home improvement retailers have squeezed out the smaller retailers, resources and choices for the home owner have been severely limited in the recent past. Even though some of the items these stores stock are inexpensive, many times the prices are inflated to stay “competitive” with other inflated offerings from the competition. There are alternatives to settling for the contrived.

As home owners become wise to the fact that the large retailers are charging a premium for the basics, they are turning to custom made solutions for just a bit more investment. Once a home owner chooses to go this route, a myriad of new possibilities become available. Instead of the standard louvered closet doors or single panel door, multi-paneled doors can be manufactured with a combination of glass, aluminum, wood and other materials. The freedom to use different materials can truly remake a bland home into a relaxing and sheik abode.

Companies offering this flexibility and freedom of customization are once more gaining ground in the marketplace. With the proliferation of the computer and access to the internet, it is now easier than ever to find a reliable and professional remodeler.

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Reader Views would like to welcome Djelloul Marbrook, author of “Saraceno”, a new and unique mafia novel.

Irene: Tell us the gist of your recent novel, Saraceno (sa-ra-CHAY-no).

Djelloul: It’s about nobility of soul in the dark context of the Mafia. It’s about the redemptive qualities of friendship, even in the most dangerous circumstances. And, finally, it’s about the true meaning of alchemy, which is the transformation of the base to the precious. Historically we think of turning base metals into gold, but that’s just a metaphor for the journey of the spirit.

Irene: What inspired you to write this book?

Djelloul: I knew a young man like Billy Salviati in my book. He was eerily handsome and he had a magical gift for friendship. I played a role in his life and he played a role in mine. Everything was crystal-clear to the real Billy, whereas everything was baffling to me. Of course it took me many years to understand that things are always crystal-clear to psychotics. That’s why they’re so seductive. It’s why we’d like to be them, while they’re perfectly happy to be themselves. But I had another reason for writing the book. It’s my homage to my stepfather, Dominick Guccione, who rescued me from my assigned role as family embarrassment and bastard. You see, I was a bastard, and Dominick gave me a place in the world. His extended Sicilian family embraced me, whereas my mother’s family was uncomfortable with me. So I wanted to salute Dominick, and I wanted to say something about the Sicilians who brought such marvelous gifts to North America only to see them overshadowed by the specter of the Mafia.

Irene: Please tell about the title, what it means, and why you chose it.

Djelloul: Dominick used to call me Il Saraceno. It means the Arab in Italian, and in my case it referred to the fact that my father was an Algerian Arab. Dominick used the nickname fondly, and so in fact do the Sicilians when they speak of the Saraceni. That is because of all European people the Sicilians have a unique collective memory of the Saracens. The Saracens (Arabs) ruled Sicily for more than 200 years. It was a period of unparalleled peace, prosperity and harmony in a very troubled Sicilian history. So the Saraceni are not enemies to the Sicilians. Every Sicilian has enjoyed the puppet shows in which Christian knights do battle with Saracen knights. The Sicilians especially like these traditional shows because in their heart of hearts they’re not really sure who the bad guy is. In the book the Mafia don whom Billy Salviati serves calls Billy Il Saraceno. It’s a compliment. It means he’s a bit foreign (Billy is half Irish) and he’s a lot deadly. It also means that as a puppet he does his master’s bidding

Irene: Saraceno is a new variety of a gangster tale. What make it different from any other book about gangsters?

Djelloul: The Mafia has been portrayed in many ways in books and movies, and I don’t have a quarrel with these portrayals, because the Mafia is a work of many facets. The word in all likelihood comes from the Arabic word ma’afie, which was simply the name of the clan that ruled Palermo during Sicily’s Arab period. Many of the customs associated with the Mafia probably have Arab tribal origins, such as the idea of the vendetta or omerta, the rule of silence. But I felt I had something interesting, if not unique, to say about the Mafia because as a boy I had listened not only to Mafiosi in my stepfather’s kitchen but to first and second generation Sicilians who understood how and why the Mafia had gotten a foothold in this country. Dominick used to say that the Sicilians had wanted to leave four things in Sicily: a corrupt church, a corrupt government, poverty and the Mafia. Hey, he would say with a wry grin, three outta four ain’t bad! I not only heard the Sicilians talk about how the Mafia imbedded itself in their new lives, I actually experienced some of it myself. When I was in college I worked for a guy who had a string of hat-check concessions in nightclubs in Manhattan and Brooklyn. The hat-check girls were also hookers. My boss took a cut of their income and I collected this cut for him. In other words, I was a bagman. I was also a dumb kid who confused an education with being smart. The idea was that the cops wouldn’t take a college kid wearing twills, fruit boots and a tweed jacket for a bagman. One night I was working in the Village Barn in Greenwich Village developing photos of party-goers and my boss dashed in and stowed a brown paper bag on a shelf and told me he’d be back. I was street savvy and I poked into the bag and saw it was heroin. I wasn’t about to take a fall for this guy, so I ran out into an alley and dumped it all in a grate. When he came back he beat me half to death and told me he’d be back. I wasn’t going anywhere, because he’d broken my nose, my cheek and three ribs. But I made it to a telephone and called Vito Genovese who was at that time the most famous of New York’s mafia bosses. He was also a childhood friend of my stepfather. Vito sent two guys to the Village Barn. They told me to sit on the floor and wait for my boss. When he returned they worked him over pretty good. But then they wanted to know all about his operations. So I spent three weeks after I got out of the hospital showing these two goombahs how the hat-check scam worked. And of course my boss lost his empire to the Mafia. Being dumb, I was happy. He kept me working for him, because he figured it would ingratiate him with the wise guys. He was dumb, too. So that’s a little sample of how the mob gets into things. But the story the Sicilians had to tell is really the never-ending story of the American struggle with racism. When the Sicilians arrived and found the Irish in control of city government up and down the East Coast, they thought, they hoped that fellow Catholics would be kind towards them. But the Irish perceived them as a threat to their own wellbeing, and there was no little bigotry involved. Of course the Irish themselves had recently suffered bigotry at the hands of the landed WASPs. The Mafia was often the only protection the Sicilians had from the injustices that were inflicted on them. This came home to me vividly when I introduced my first wife to Dominick. What a pretty girl you are, he said, you’re not Irish, are you? This is an aspect of the Mafia story not often told. In other words, racism and discrimination played a role in the Mafia’s climb to power in the United States.

Irene: Parts of the book draw from the life of your stepfather, Dominick J. Guccione, a childhood friend of notorious Charles Lucana (Lucky Luciano.) Tell us about your experience living within the realm of Mafia.

Djelloul: Dominick was not himself a mafioso. He was a self-made businessman and a great success. He was a taxidermist by trade, but his wealth came mostly from his successes in real estate. Salvatore Charles Lucana (Lucky Luciano) had been his friend down on Elizabeth Street. Dominick was one of those men who made lasting friendships. But his success, a great story by itself, came originally from his beautiful singing voice. He used to sell newspapers outside Luchow’s on Fourteenth Street in Manhattan and he would sing opera to keep warm. People would gather and call him the street Caruso. One of his admirers was the famous architect Stanford White, and White befriended Dominick and introduced him to important people–Dominick called them swells. And these swells helped Dominick, not only because his beautiful voice thrilled them at their parties, but because they found him a man of rock-solid integrity, a man who would rather die than betray a trust. Such men were useful to the ruling class.

Irene: The book also draws some parts of your own personal life. Tell us how you were able to weave it into the book?

Djelloul: Well, when I decided late in my life–I’m 71 now–that I wanted to write fiction because I could say more than I ever had been able to say as a newspaperman, I remembered the real Billy and how much I had liked him and how he had worked so hard to befriend me. I had long since lost touch with him, but I knew he had become

a wise guy–the book describes how–and I decided that I would imagine the rest of Billy’s life for him and make it turn out the way I would have liked it to turn out. I also wanted to pay tribute to some people who had a profound impact on me. In the book Hettie Warshaw, Auschwitz survivor and magus, is one such person.

Irene: How much influence did Billy have on you? On how you act/react now?

Djelloul: I wouldn’t have anticipated that question in a million years, but I like it. I think Billy taught me to take things head-on, to call things by their real name, to trust my antennae. I think my encounter with him took up a perch in my mind. After I met him I was less inclined to let anybody run numbers on me, and you’ll see that in the book where he has an intriguing encounter with the young Marlon Brando.

Irene: If you could come face to face with the real Billy now, what would you say to him?

Djelloul: Exactly what I just said.

Irene: How different is your recount of the Mafia than what is portrayed by movies and television programs?

Djelloul: Movies and television must try to keep the overt action going. But I’m interested in where I think the real action is: inside us, in our decisions, the split seconds in which we respond to each other. I think the real heroes of our culture are unsung. We know how to sing the praises of warriors, of firemen, of men of action, and we define action in terms of violence. But I think the real heroes are often the elderly facing death with dignity, prostitutes trying to hold on to their humanity, artists and writers struggling against the tsunami of commercialism that is swamping our culture, farmers trying to hold on to their small pieces of land against the swindling of agribusiness. We’re not celebrating the right heroes, and most cultures that have gone before us didn’t either. And until we get straight just who the heroes are–all of us, not just us Americans–we will go on having wars and the injustice and greed that cause them.

Irene: You mentioned earlier that you were an embarrassment to your mother’s family. Seventy-one years ago, and in most European based cultures, having an illegitimate child was frowned upon. How did you cope with being ostracized?

Djelloul: Poorly. For a long time I didn’t even know I was illegitimate — my mother told me she had married my father and he had died in a hunting accident when I was an infant. I later learned they had not married. He had fought against the French, had three children (with whom I now correspond), and lived until 1978. Until I was five I lived with my mother’s younger sister Dorothy and my grandmother, who told me before she died that my mother had received letters from my father for some years after bringing me to New York. When I was five my mother’s sister Dorothy got breast cancer and I was sent to a Christian Scientist boarding school where many of the kids were English evacuees from the Nazi bombing of their country. I got a good education there, but I missed Dorothy and my grandmother. I was not told Dorothy had died for quite a while. I suffered a lot of bullying and some sexual abuse and it compounded my identity problem. I could see that my mother’s family was embarrassed by what they considered her indiscretion. Her brother called me “son of the sheik.” She was a free-spirited artist, a very good one, but not suited to bringing up a child. Let me put it this way: by the time I joined the Navy and went to boot camp I thought the military life was a cakewalk compared to what I’d been through. Abused children cover the abuse, so in that way they become co-conspirators with their abusers. Some people come out of the military suffering post-traumatic stress disorder; I entered the military suffering it. The Navy was the best and safest home I ever had, until later in life when I met my wife Marilyn. I always knew what the name of the game was in the Navy, and that was wonderful to me, so I did well. I even began to know who I was–I was an American, a patriot, a young man who loved his country. That was incredibly important to me. I used to think that if I had looked like an English choir boy–I certainly went to school with many kids who looked like that–then my mother’s family would be more accepting. But after years of therapy I realized that they wouldn’t have been any more accepting, no matter what. My own uncle never learned how to pronounce or spell my first name, but one day I woke up and remembered that my officers in the Navy always learned how to spell and pronounce it, and that’s why I realized that my stepfather Dominick and the U.S. Navy were my family. Dominick fell ill just as I graduated from high school and he died the year I left the Navy. So my day-to-day contact with him lasted only four years, enriched by occasional interaction, but Dominick and the Sicilian-American culture to which he belonged gave me a chance to survive my feelings of un-belonging. I returned to this subject of un-belonging and to my relationship with my mother in a subsequent novel, which has not yet been published. Our entire society today is engaged with the issues of belonging and un-belonging. At the same time that immigration is strong there has been a rise, a dramatic rise, in the number of hate organizations. So this issue belongs to us as a nation of immigrants. We have to own it and engage it, again and again.

Irene: You were a newspaper reporter on the streets of Manhattan. How much exposure did you have with the Mafia?

Djelloul: I never had the pleasure of newspapering in New York City. I served in the Navy and when I was discharged I went to work for The Providence Journal, but I wasn’t one of the reporters who wrote about the Mafia there. I later worked for Gannett in Elmira, New York, for The Baltimore Sun, for the Winston-Salem Journal, for The Washington Star, and for Media News newspapers, but I never wrote about the Mafia. It remained back in my boyhood. I certainly wrote about corruption, enough to know most of the corruptors never get caught and much of our society–such as paving the country in concrete–is shaped by the corruptors.

Irene: What would you say is the most corrupt aspect of our society now:

Djelloul: Ah, an easy question! Greed. Did we triumph over communism only to give free rein to unbridled piracy? What is a decent, moral profit margin? Why is it that we never engage that question? Is it because we have already acquiesced to the answer that a moral profit margin is anything you get and then some? Or, when we speak of American capitalism, do we mean jobs for our people, medical care for all of us, decent wages and decent retirements? Or do we mean everything for the shareholders and the CEOs and to hell with everybody else? Why is it that the moralistic religionists never raise this issue of what is a decent and moral profit? Is it because they’re on the side of opportunistic greed? Why are the pulpits that are so noisy about abortion silent about the plague of greed that is destroying our lives, dismantling the middle class, exporting jobs and futures, and throwing us medical peanuts instead of proper care? Where is their morality when it comes to that?

Irene: When readers delve into “Saraceno” they come out with a deeper message than they expected. What do you want the readers to “get”?

Djelloul: I want them to get that our lives, all our lives, are great and marvelous dramas. We don’t need Hollywood to tell us where the action is. I want them to begin to understand that we don’t know anyone, we just pretend we do for our own convenience. Everyone is capable of surprising us, and we are capable of surprising ourselves in ways far more dramatic than 24 on Fox Television. I want them to be thrilled by the idea that each of us is capable of running into high adventure on every street corner and in every friendship. Billy Salviati and Matthew Pieto and Hettie Warshaw are us. We have to start respecting ourselves so much that we get our kicks from our own lives and not from cooked-up stories on a screen. I often read critics talking about page-turners. By that they mean plot-driven drama where the characters are like the Saracen and Christian puppets. That’s not life. We’re not puppets. We don’t need anybody to pull our strings. We may change our lives forever by the simple act of taking a walk and meeting somebody like Hettie Warshaw. Or Billy Salviati. We are living lives of great tragedy and comedy, but we’re letting the tastemakers talk us out of it. We’re letting them turn us into puppets.

Irene: I get that you are referring that our society is very confused right now. Yet, there seems to be a need to connect with reality. Do you believe that the reality shows on TV are filling that need? If so, why? If not, what is?

Djelloul: No, I believe they are a retreat from reality. Reality would be holding our leaders’ feet to the fire, insisting on a just and compassionate society. I believe that our corporate bosses are entertaining us to death. I believe that we are losing a free and independent press to a corporate slave-press that feeds us infotainment instead of the reality and truth we need to make proper decisions. I believe that under the circumstances we are in danger of losing our blessed and glorious republic. I believe we need to wake up and shake the crooks out of the trees.

Irene: Thank you so much for taking the time for this interview. I know that readers found our interview very interesting and will want to read your book, “Saraceno.” Is there anything else you would like our readers to know about you or your book?

Djelloul: My web site–djelloulmarbrook.com–will give you some insights into the influences behind “Saraceno” and it will keep up to date about my other writings. There you will see Dominick himself in his workshop. You can also correspond with me through my blog At Amazon Connect.

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Boris Sheiko is a Russian bodybuilding coach and renowned powerlifting expert. Several of his trainees have won national and international competitions. Along the path to prominence in the powerlifting world he developed his own training regimen, which came to be known as Sheiko Training.

Boris’ training philosophy flies in the face of what most training regimens where you train each muscle group once each week. In contrast to this, Boris believes that frequency and volume performed at low intensities can drive progression and gains. In Sheiko Training, you repeat lifts several times a week, which both improves your form and drives growth. The key though is that the weight must be kept relatively low in order to allow your body sufficient time to recover.

I’ll tell you straight up that the program is complex and if you’re not into keeping a journal then this is not the plan for you. Measured progress is the underlying principle of Sheiko Training. In Boris’ program, frequency refers to the number of days you train a muscle group each week, volume refers to the number of reps you for each muscle group and intensity refers to the weight-specifically, the percentage of your max weight that you’re lifting. With so many things to track, you’ll need to log your training sessions each week so you can see your improvements.

For the beginner, Sheiko Training can be confusing-especially since it has not been that long since it was first translated from Russian and most of them have been literal translations such as, “Trainings of arresters in the preparatory period.” As a result, some of the terms and phrases can be difficult to understand for the layman. Also because its translation to English is relatively recent, it can be a bit tough to find detailed explanations of the program and its philosophies.

Sheiko Training uses percentages to manage your lifting volume. You start low and work your way up, increasing the percentage as you go along. For the beginner, the first bench press set might be 50% of max lift, then 60%, 70% and the finally 75%. Remember that although the weight may be lower than what you’re used to doing, you’ll be doing more reps (volume) than in a normal workout. In fact, with Sheiko training you may be going anywhere between 850 - 1000 reps each month, sometimes more.

In addition, there are three periods in Sheiko Training: the preparatory period where the foundation is established, the emulative period, which is more advanced and the transitive period, which prepares you to renew the cycle again. During the preparatory period volume is higher and intensity lower. Conversely, during the emulative period, intensity is higher but volume lower. And finally, during the transitive period, volume, intensity and the number of weekly workouts are all reduced in order to give the body time to recuperate.

There are a lot of different Sheiko Training templates to choose from depending on your level of familiarity with the program. Most Sheiko experts recommend that beginners start with training routine #29. This is a three day a week program that will help you get accustomed to Sheiko. This routine has you doing about 964 lifts (reps) per month.

As you progress through the templates things get tougher. For instance, in Sheiko Training template #37, the total number of reps for the month is 1093. Gains are also achieved by increasing the weight (percentage of max lift) lifted in the templates. Because of the complexity of the routines-keeping track of all those percentages and lifts can be a real chore, some guys have taken the time to make spreadsheets that automatically calculate the appropriate percentages for you, based on the one-rep max you enter.

Opinions on Sheiko training run to extremes. Some guys swear that they’ve made incredible gains following Boris’ training templates with others saying that it’s just too complicated and that any gains they made are negligible. Keep in mind though that because Sheiko Training is relatively unknown here in the United States, there really isn’t enough information out there to say that the program isn’t really effective.

Also, remember that the Russians have long been known for their expertise and success in developing some of the world’s most powerful lifters and if you take the time to read the science behind Boris’ training philosophy you’ll see that he knows what he’s talking about. So given that, I definitely believe that we’ll be seeing and hearing more about Sheiko Training in the future.

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It’s always interesting to follow the trends worldwide in fashion and design, but if you really want to know what the newest styles and ideas are, you should track the developments in Paris. The French are always fashion forward, and Paris is the fashion capital of the world, whether you are talking about clothes or furniture. To be in the know and ahead of the general public, you have to follow the market in France. One of the more popular trends in French bedroom furniture right now is to install a mini bar in the bedroom, complete with all the accessories and barstools.

In France, most people are laid back and unconcerned with many aspects of life, with the except of style and fashion. Being as hip and trendy as they are, the French are quite fond of contemporary bedroom furniture, which is less ornate than many of the more classic styles of old. In fact, there is little if any detail work directly applied to the furniture of choice, and all details are typically added through the décor and theme design in the room. In fact, this works out better for them because they can be fickle and change their style frequently with aspirations of instant gratification, one thing they do have in common with Americans.

This is important because it leads to the decision to use contemporary bar stools and counters for the bar they are going to build. After all, it would look a bit ridiculous to have a simple platform bed with no intricacies matched up with an ornate 18th century English bar. Instead, the French are quite careful to make sure their styles match from top to bottom of a room. If they are going for shabby sheik, every last detail is refined to give this impression, for example.

While you can find some ultramodern styles in metal, most French people prefer wood bar stools for their bar, as it looks more elegant, is sturdier, and often matches the rest of their bedroom décor better. Interestingly, it is often also cheaper, despite its superior quality to most of the metal products on the market. Of course, this is all based on personal taste, and even in France, many will look to be different from the crowd or seek out that perfect metal setup that is trustworthy and high quality design.

Perhaps making sure the home bar matches the master bedroom furniture is the number one concern of the Frenchmen as they built their little watering hole. Luckily, that’s easy to do, since barstools come in pretty much all the same wood types as the beds and accessory furniture on the market. In fact, those who are especially excited about the mini bar will design the entire bedroom around this part of the room rather than vice versa. Watching the French advance in their designs can definitely provide tips and ideas for your own home that will be entirely fashion forward just like the fashion capital of the world!

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Known worldwide for its savvy trends and head-turning designs, Paris is the place to visit if you want to update your wardrobe in style. However, if you don’t know where to look, your trip may turn out to be more exhausting than you would think. Do some research beforehand to get an idea of what you are looking for before you plunge into the sheik capital, where you may be easily overwhelmed.

1) Fashion Avenues - Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré, Avenue Montaign and Les Halles

If you are looking for major designers that have dramatically changed the fashion world, Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honore and Avenue Montaigne are the places to look. You can find the famous French shops of Emmanual Ungaro, Celiene, Chloe, Nina Ricci, Chanel, Bon Pointe and Christian Dior on Avenue Montaign, as well as Italian and American designers such as Valentino, Versace, Prada, Giorgio Armani, Ralph Lauren and D&G. On Rue du Fauborug, look out for Hermes, Gucci, Christian Dior, Givenchy, Lavin femme, Yves Saint-Laurent and Gianni Versace. For younger fashionistas in Paris, Les Halles may be closer to paradise. Featuring Anges B and Claudie Pierlot, you can’t go wrong when looking for an outfit for a night on the town, or even unique daily wear.

2) Department Stores - Boulevard Haussmann

If you are looking some of the most sheik fashion in Paris in some of the world’s most extravagant malls, Paris department stores are the place to look. Two of the most famous are Printemps and Galleries Lafayette, which are both located on Boulevard Haussmann. Thousands of chic goods are spread out over five floors of merchandise. Between glorified window-shopping, enjoy gourmet food on breath-taking terraces and occasional free fashion shows. Find bargains during one of the two Parisian sales seasons, either from the end of January to the beginning of March or the latter half of June.

3) Flea Markets

Sprinkled around Paris are flea markets, which offer a delightful variety of gently used merchandise and art. A few of the city’s many markets are listed below.

- Antica Market - A tiny market with only about a dozen stalls, Antica offers a gallery with high-end tapestries ornaments and other household objects.

- Biron Market - Selling the highest quality antiques, Biron is known as the most upscale market in Paris.

- Dauphine Market - Probably the largest antique market in the city, Dauphine market occupies a large space and sells everything from rare books to genuine Victorian dressers.

4) Open Air Markets

Open Air Markets have been popular in Paris since the 5th century and are an integral part of Parisian Culture. Currently there are 69 open-air and 13 closed-air markets. The schedules of the open-air markets varies, but rest assured that there is at least one open in each district, each day of the week.

If you are scared to do it on your own, don’t fret, there is a solution at hand. Companies such as Chic Shopping Paris (phone 06.77.65.08.01) can help you maneuver through the foreign streets to uncover real gems in the rough.

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Many are now getting equipped with business as they believe it is one way for them to earn a living. In having a business, there are so many things that you need to plan being the owner. If you really want to run a business smoothly, you must make decisions that will help you a lot in making your business successful. In a certain business, making effective adverts is one great way where you can make your business a success, because it is in your advertising and promotion where you can make the chance to invite customers and potential clients whom will patronize your business.

Making good adverts is now possible online if you know the new innovations that for sure will help you a lot. Several business techniques came across the business industry because still, many of the business owners are still looking for the best way where they can make effective advertisement for their business. In doing so, the use of ads will help you solve your problem. Free local classifieds just like in the local newspapers section, this section is one way for you to promote the business and at the same time the product that can offer to the public. It can also help you a lot, especially when you are selling something and you want it to be fast, it is more likely the solution for you.

In making them you do not need to ask and pay for somebody just to make effective promotions for your business; instead, doing it on your own is already possible. If you only have an access online the making of these things will be easier for you to do. Unlike other means of advertising, it can give you much benefit since it is free of charge. If you are going to start making your adverts using these things, you can already make you post online in the best site where most of the free local classifieds are being posted. With free local classifieds, you can be sure to have the best and more beneficial free local classifieds for your business.

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