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Strangled on an Auckland doorstep and ignored by police, this is the incredible story of a Russian bride

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HERSDEVINE

Bounty comes to Bligh Miranda Devine

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etween Cyclone Yasi and the Queensland floods, Anna Bligh has been transformed into the “people’s princess”. All agree that Bligh’s style and delivery have been second to none. But the rush of adulation and hero worship that has enveloped the Queensland premier seems to surprise even her.

To go from a reviled premier, noted for incompetence, with a 24 percent popularity rating that was like lead in federal Labor’s saddlebags in the last election, to a political hero virtually overnight is quite some rollercoaster ride.

How it all ends next election is up to an increasingly fickle electorate and the commentariat that feeds it. For now, however, Bligh is lauded for her calm, kindly demeanour as leader in a time of crisis during numerous press conferences in the past month of natural disasters up north.

She has seemed always to strike the right note – there is none of the egomaniac posturing we endured with Rudd, and none of the unnatural emoting and cadences of Prime Minister Julia Gillard.

Unfairly, the irresistible comparison is being made between the two women, with Greens Senator Lee Rhiannon one of many in recent weeks using praise for Bligh as a stick to beat Gillard. Bligh had a “beautiful combination of humanity and authority,” she gushed to Sky News’ Agenda program. “Julia Gillard didn’t come across as well. I can’t say I’ve met anyone who’s had a good word to say about how she handled it”.

Rhiannon went on, citing adjectives “wooden, remote, unemotional” to describe the Prime Minister.

It is through no fault of their own that the two women have been pitched against each other by the chattering classes. Each is performing her job properly and Gillard has shown admirable restraint in not stepping over Bligh to hog the limelight as her predecessor

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most certainly would have done.

Yet, as Bligh becomes stronger and more popular, it seems the life is drained out of Gillard. It makes you wonder if we want a mother or a prime minister. Either way, Bligh earned her plaudits– and not just for telegenic prowess.

The fact that there were no direct fatalities from Cyclone Yasi, and that property loss was no more than in previous cyclones, is a tribute to Bligh’s leadership, to the emergency services, weather forecasters, and the common sense of most Queenslanders.

It was also, of course, a triumph of adaptation and sensible planning – the sort of adaptation that is the most logical and cost-effective response to climate change. Houses built in Queensland’s cyclone zone after 1974’s Cyclone Tracy and Larry five years ago were designed to much higher standards, for instance.

Stronger buildings, cyclone shelters, better communications, early warnings, clear instructions from authorities, and a population willing to evacuate, along with a little luck and low tides, saved Queensland from a tragedy of Tracy proportions.

This kind of preparation is simply climate adaptation 101, says Townsville’s James Cook University paleoclimatologist Bob Carter – who wasn’t at home when Yasi hit Townsville but said his house survived with minor water penetration.

He argues we should stop obsessing about the “chimera of human caused greenhouse warming” and focus instead on the real threats posed by natural variability of our climate system. Adaptation to reduce our vulnerability to extreme weather is a lot cheaper and more effective than trying to put a price on carbon.

Newcastle university hydroclimatologist Associate Professor Stewart Franks, also warned last month of the need for adaptation.

“After all, if we fail to cope with natural climate variability what hope have we for coping with any supposedly catastrophic humaninduced climate change?”

Nothing could stop the opportunistic alarmism of those like economist Ross Garnaut, who seized on Yasi to bolster his case for a carbon tax. “You ain’t seen nothing yet,” he said after the storm.

Yet Queensland’s history shows how deadly its weather has always been.

In 1899 Cyclone Mahina, another Category 5 killed more than 400 people. In 1918 Cyclone Mackay killed 30 and Category 5 Cyclone Innisfail killed almost 100.

In 1970 Ada killed 14. In 1971 Althea killed three. In 1972 Emily killed eight at sea. In 1974, Tracy killed 71. In 1986 Winifred killed two. In 1997 Justin killed two people in Queensland.

You would think in such a place that insurance coverage might be a prudent and essential element of adaptation to climate change.

Unfortunately, Anna Bligh didn’t think so, leaving her battered state exposed as the only state in the country not to have

All agree that Bligh’s style and delivery have been second to none. But the rush of adulation and hero worship that has enveloped the Queensland premier seems to surprise even her comprehensive insurance cover, and leaving the Australian taxpayer to pick up the bill for that foolhardy decision.

Bligh’s newfound popularity may be enough to protect her from the criticism that will come over her government’s many such bungles and past failings. But, then again, come election time, Queenslanders might tell her what they told the cyclone: “Kiss My Yasi”. devinemiranda@hotmail.com

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HERSGEN-Y

Tweet dreams Chloe Milne

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t’s official, the Internet has taken over our lives and made us all lamer. Basic everyday activities now require an online status update or “tweet” in the hope that someone will actually care. Here is the truth, you are all tweeting to everyone while tweeting to no one. No one cares if you hate Paul Henry, have a bad case of haemorrhoids, or your penis grew 0.1 cm. If you are over the age of 20, unless you have a business or are someone of importance (which I highly doubt), you should not be updating your status.

Communication is becoming restricted to the virtual kind where, through a mime of symbols and ambiguities, you are slowly becoming socially inept. Before social networking sites men were from Mars, now they’re from a completely different dimension. If we didn’t understand them face-to-face in full sentences how can we expect to understand them in Facebook or text language?

Facebook is taking over our love lives. Instead of asking a person out Tweeting has become the new pick-up line, the new dating, the new foreplay and let us face it, it’s nearly the new sex. As much as I love Facebook and twitter, which let’s be honest, is not at all, I prefer to actually see and talk to real people. Believe it or not the guy at the gym who you’ve never actually talked to is not a friend. Nor is the girl who you played ‘I’ll show you mine if you show me yours’ with, when you were five.

Facebook not only limits our love life it also limits our dreams.

Now our biggest thrill is to get a “like” on Facebook and cracking the goal of 500 virtual friends.

Malcolm S Forbes once said, “[w]hen you cease to dream you cease to live”. Yet

ANZ’s “perfect world” advertising campaign suggests the world has forgotten how to dream. They essentially claim that on a commercial flight, in a perfect world strangers would remain just that. There is one large problem with this “perfect world”, the woman in question is jammed in cattle class with two, more than likely, weird people on either side. Well, in my perfect world I wouldn’t be sardined in economy for 12 hours in what can only be described as the foetal position. Personally I would have gone for a super speedy private jet flown by someone extremely attractive, perhaps Richie McCaw. The jet would be run simply on carbon dioxide thus saving the planet whilst saving money.

Of course that wouldn’t matter because in a perfect world money would grown on trees,

If you are over the age of 20, unless you have a business or are someone of importance (which I highly doubt), you should not be updating your status

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chocolate would be non-fattening, Paul Henry would still be on breakfast and David Tamihere would still be in jail. But because the world isn’t perfect we must strive to make it better. Martin Luther King didn’t say, “I have a dream… but it’ll probably never happen.”

Small dreamers are the problem and Facebook and twitter only enlarge this problem. The virtual social networking shackles must be released in order to dream bigger and live fuller.

Better go update my status “too busy to tweet now: am changing the world, tweet later.”

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Valentina was a Russian bride, far from home. A child of the Cold War, born while wartime leader Josef Stalin was still in his final years as Soviet leader, she’d lived through KGB and CIA spy scandals and the unspoken threat of the Siberian gulags for those who dared speak their minds in public. In Russia, it wasn’t unknown for people to just disappear. She’d walked the streets of Moscow on dark afternoons, tilting her fur collar up against the icy blades of the winter wind, and keeping her head down to avoid the watchful gaze of the Soviet secret police. So an Auckland doorstep, then, wasn’t the place she’d expected to be fighting for her life, but for Valentina Seale the point was academic as she felt her face smash against the doorframe, sending her glasses clattering to the concrete below. She gasped in a silent scream as her assailant’s fingers tightened around her throat and her diminutive body was thrust, kicking wildly, into the air. And then, as it all went black, she could feel nothing at all.

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here are tears in the eyes of the dark-haired woman as she greets me on another Auckland doorstep. It’s been nine years since that vicious doorstep beating, but for Valentina Seale the scars are real, and the stress is killing her, literally. She’s in the advanced stages of cancer and has weeks, perhaps months, to live. With a teenage daughter still at school Valentina, like any dying mother, has much on her mind, and so little time.

“I pray you can help me,” she says plaintively as she welcomes us into a tiny North Shore bedsit. Around the walls, pictures of her child and her child’s schoolwork, and boxes piled high with files and memorabilia. There’s an air of fatality in the room, or perhaps an air of impending fatality. Whatever it is, it’s as if Time has sucked up the flotsam and jetsam of an entire life like a tornado, then dumped the sum total of it in a living room. After Valentina has gone, I wonder, will there be anything left beyond faded bits of paper and photographs? And then a face on the fridge

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door catches my eye. Of course there’ll be one thing left – a daughter who needs to know what happened to her mother and why their lives changed that June day in 2002.

The events leading up to it, as in all domestic disputes, were messy. Tina had split with her husband, Ian Seale, and because she had fled the house without money and some of her belongings, she went back to the matrimonial house that day to ask him to return her gold jewellery and give her some cash so she could return with her five year old daughter to Russia.

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hen she got there around 4:45pm, she initially had a conversation with Seale outside and came away empty handed. But the woman who’d driven Tina there told her to go back inside and try again. Tina entered the house and found Seale now resting in bed, although his house guests Darryl and Svetlana Williams were up and about. Svetlana Williams, like Tina, was another Russian bride. The Williams’ had been guests for several weeks – and in fact their presence was one of the reasons Tina had left her husband, as she later told the Police Complaints Authority.

“I left the house because I was afraid for the safety of my child and me with aggressive attitude of my husband’s friend Darryl.”

Witness statements collected from Tina’s neighbours confirm loud domestic incidents on April 28, 29 and May 6, 2002, after which Tina took her daughter and moved out.

So on June 2nd, after a brief discussion about the gold jewellery, Tina left Seale in his bedroom, walked up the corridor, into the kitchen past Darryl and the pregnant Svetlana, and moved toward the front door to leave. “ ‘You shouldn’t have come’, she told me in Russian,” Tina remembers Svetlana saying. “I answered back, also in Russian, ‘Why on earth did you decide to have a baby with this mental man?’.

It was not said in English, it was said in Russian.”

The translation from Russian to English loses a little colour in the telling. The phrase “mental man” is more accurately

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It happened so fast, in the blink of an eye.

Darryl grabbed me from behind. He’s a strong man. He seized both my hands and I was hanging and I couldn’t do anything.

But I spit in his face. He started kicking me and put his hands around my neck.

After I saw the door open and heard the words, ‘get out you f***in bitch’ spoken loudly and with aggression, I then saw physical violence. I immediately got out of the car and rushed… to render assistance. When I arrived Tina was down on the floor being held there by Darryl’s hand gripping Tina’s hair. rendered as “man whose dogs are not all barking”.

It was an exchange between two Russian brides, in their mother tongue. A symbol perhaps of the tension and the tit-for-tat snappiness that exists between two women who don’t see eye to eye, and Tina’s dislike of what she saw as Darryl’s repeated aggression towards her. Valentina left her comment hanging in the air, and turned to leave, opening the door.

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ina only vaguely registered that Svetlana Williams had then repeated, in English, Tina’s slur about Darryl, and she didn’t realise until later that Svetlana had added a twist – telling her husband that Tina had suggested the unborn baby would be mentally damaged as well. Down the concrete steps and parked in the driveway Tina could see Ross Wylie and his wife – also named Svetlana – watching her. And that’s when it happened.

“It happened so fast, in the blink of an eye. Darryl grabbed me from behind.

He’s a strong man. He seized both my hands and I was hanging and I couldn’t do anything. But I spit in his face. He started kicking me and put his hands around my neck. I don’t remember anything that happened after that, but Svetlana [Wylie] did, and she told me what happened.

“Mrs Wylie said to me – she didn’t know I’d spat on him – but she just saw him grab me and that my neck was in his hands and he was banging my head on the wall. Mrs Wyllie was screaming, ‘Police!, Police!’. Then Mr Wylie jumped out of the car and came to help. My glasses were smashed.”

Ross Wylie described it like this: “Darryl’s assault included a combination of the following elements: grabbing Tina from behind, turning her around,

putting his hands to her throat to strangle and shake her so she could not breathe and she felt she was losing consciousness and felt darkness in her eyes.

“Tina went to her knees and instinctively grabbed Darryl’s leg with her two hands to avoid being thrown out like a kitten [she weighed only 53kg and Darryl was a security guard]. In this attack she sustained bruising to her body and a sore neck. The force and nature of the attack by Darryl Williams dislodged her spectacles and some of the items she was carrying fell or were propelled outside the doorway.

“After I saw the door open and heard the words, ‘get out you f***in bitch’ spoken loudly and with aggression, I then saw physical violence. I immediately got out of the car and rushed…to render assistance. When I arrived Tina was down on the floor being held there by Darryl’s hand gripping Tina’s hair.”

Wylie told police he had to apply “considerable force” to get Darryl off the tiny Russian woman, who he led away to the safety of his car.

“I was sitting in the car, not crying, just out of my mind, dumbfounded, it was the first time in my life I had experienced something like this. They took me to my pastor’s place and the next morning they took me to lay a complaint with the police.”

The police officer at Glenfield who took the initial statement did not properly understand Valentina’s broken English, and waved away the Russian’s concerns that the written statement police wanted her to sign was not entirely accurate.

“Don’t worry,” the female constable told her, “you can correct it in the next statement to the investigating officer.”

“Normally I would insist on getting it right,” says Valentina, “but she was heavily pregnant and really did not want

to re-write the statement, so in the end I signed it.”

There are glaring errors obvious within moments of first opening the official police statement. For a start it records the date of the attack as June 3rd, even though it happened on June 2nd and the statement is recorded as being taken by police at “09:12” on June 3. June 3 hadn’t even begun in any real sense.

Police told Valentina an investigator would come and interview her “within three to five days”. But it didn’t happen.

It was more than a week later that an officer turned up.

“I opened the door and it was a constable. This man he came, and he never looked me in the eye. He just sat at the table telling me there was no assault, it was just ‘restraining’, that the door had been closed so ‘your witnesses couldn’t see anything’, the house door was locked and that I wasn’t welcome in that house, and that because Darryl was a guest in the house he had a right not to let me in.

“While he was telling me all his conclusions I just couldn’t believe he was saying this without once asking me any questions. ‘Are you going to ask me any questions or talk to my witnesses?’ I asked him.

“He told me, ‘I have got already all the evidence from your husband, I have got all the evidence from Mr Williams and from his wife, and everything they say does not support what you say’.”

I couldn’t believe it. ‘My husband wasn’t even there! He didn’t see the assault because he was in bed!’. The constable did not want to know.

That investigating officer was Constable D C (Don) Henderson, under the supervision of a Sergeant Shane O’Connor. O’Connor, who is now one of the Senior Sergeants in charge of Auckland’s North Shore Policing unit,

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excelled himself with an A-grade whitewash of Tina’s formal complaint. A tape transcript in HERS magazine’s possession clearly proves beyond any reasonable doubt that Constable Henderson failed to interview Tina, and ignored incriminating evidence provided by the Wylies, before telling Tina he would not be taking her complaint any further and that there was “no assault”.

Here’s what the recording, made by Constable Henderson himself using a hidden dictaphone according to the Police file, at 13:28 on the afternoon of June 11 shows: TINA: Welcome, sit down please, I was waiting for you for over one week.

CONSTABLE: Mrs Seale, as I explained to you on the phone, I was given this file yesterday at 1:10pm…since I got this file I have visited the address concerning this matter. I have spoken to Mr Darryl Williams. I have spoken to his wife Mrs Williams, and I’ve spoken to your husband Mr Ian Seale. They all gave in effect a similar account of what happened. The

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account of Mr Williams is corroborated by the other two.

Mr Williams has stated that he entered the house. Mr Seale has stated that he came outside the house and had a conversation about jewellery. Mr Seale stated that he went inside the house and you, a couple of minutes later, followed him into the house. An unsuccessful search was made for the jewellery (in the bedroom of the house) and at that point you decided to leave. When you got to the door of the address, that comment was made to Mrs Williams about the child.

[Mrs Seale tries to interrupt] CONSTABLE: You will tell me your comments later. I’m telling you what they told me. You left the address at that point and once you were outside the address Mr Williams exchanged words telling you you were not to come back because you were not welcome. He bolted the door. A couple of minutes later Mr Williams said you returned to the door. The door was locked and as a tenant at that address he was in the position to lawfully exclude

anyone from the address that he feels are intruders.

Now, it’s worth noting at this point that this was the matrimonial home of Ian and Valentina Seale, not Mr and Mrs Williams. Secondly, the claim here and in the transcript which follows suggesting Tina tried to force her way into the house is absolutely denied by the couple parked beside the front door who witnessed the entire event. However, for the sake of watching a “highly qualified” police officer (as Henderson would later describe himself) at work, let’s resume the transcript where we left off: CONSTABLE: He returned to the door.

The door was locked. You tried to get in.

Initially he did not want you to come back into the address – the door was still bolted. The door was eventually opened and Darryl has indicated to the police that he did not want you to come in so he stood in front of you stopping you from coming in. It was witnessed by Darryl’s wife and by Mr Seale. They said independently separately of each other without

of loud screaming and he was trying to shake you off while you were biting his leg.

This is witnessed by Ian and Ian has stated that he and the other gentleman that accompanied you Mr Wylie, Mr Ross Wylie, separated you from each other. The fighting continued until both you and Mr Williams were separated.

It is my belief, because what I understand is that Mr Wylie was sitting in the car, that Mr Ian Seale and Mrs Williams were standing right behind Darryl – it is my belief that the assault did not happen as you say it has. That is my belief.

So my investigation shows that what ensued didn’t show that assault took place.

Now, the above portion in italics is a verbatim reprint of the official transcript of that interview, taken from the moment Constable Don Henderson walked in the door and sat down. He repeatedly claims in this 11 June transcript that Ian Seale and Mrs Williams have made statements, yet the police DOCTOR’S REPORT: “This is to advise that Valentina is having ongoing pain in her neck, right shoulder and documents show left thumb. These problems started after an alleged assault on 2 June 2002. She is having ongoing pain and loss of statements were not function in her right shoulder. An ultrasound scan…has revealed a full thickness tear in the supraspinatus tendon in taken until June 13, that shoulder. two days after this.

“She has pain with flexion at the IP joint in her thumb. An xray…shows a possible fracture at the base of the 1st Constable Henderson has barely metacarpal.” – Dr Michael Loten drawn breath. He’s outlined the “facts” POLICE CONCLUSION: “You injuries, your bruises on your body support that you have been struck in physical as given to him by contact with someone. I cannot say they are caused by Mr Williams. I cannot say that they came from anybody else the offender and his … There is the possibility that you did receive your injuries because of the conflict at the door while Mr Williams was wife and friend, and concluded at the end, trying to exclude you from the house. It’s what struggling gets.” – Constable Don Henderson, North Shore Police “It is my belief that the assault did not knowledge of the others having been Clearly, it appears Constable Henderson happen”. Remember, Henderson had interviewed. was lying. At the point where he was tellnever met Tina before this moment, and Again, let’s just review Constable Hening Tina he had completed his investigacertainly had never interviewed her. derson’s claim for a moment in light of tion, he had not even collected formal He had not taken full statements from certain actual facts. Firstly, the police file statements from Svetlana Williams or Mrs Williams or Mr Seale at this point. in this magazine’s possession shows Hen- Ian Seale.

But he had reached a conclusion on his derson conducted a video interview with Now, let’s return to the transcript investigation. the accused, Darryl Williams, the previagain: Sergeant O’Connor signed off on ous evening, commencing at 18:17 hours CONSTABLE: At no time has Darryl this as a good example of a “thorough and finishing 58 minutes later at 19:15 on struck you, whatever. At no time were you investigation”. the 10th of June. There is no record on the restrained and stopped from entering the Later in the tape transcript, as Tina police file in our possession of any forhouse. He did say about holding his hand challenges Henderson’s conclusion, the mal statement being taken from Darryl’s out to stop you from coming forward. police officer implies he has interviewed wife or Ian Seale until 13 June – two days You have gone down to your knees at one Ross and Svetlana Wylie, the witnesses after Constable Henderson had told Tina point and that was when you had bitten parked by the doorstep. in the paragraph immediately above that Mr Williams on his leg which caused the “Mr and Mrs Wylie had limited views the witnesses had all been interviewed. blood injury. That is the point where a lot of what happened, as I said. Mr Wylie

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was in the car. Mrs Wylie was in the car.

She was in the car but she could not see the action…she could not see the door,” Constable Henderson is heard starting on tape.

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et, the official police file in the possession of HERS magazine has a police file note from the evening of 11 June 2002 – some six hours after Henderson had already made the above comments to Tina – which records his first official contact with the Wylies was that evening. It was a shoot first, ask questions later kind of investigation. In other words, he hadn’t even spoken to them when he told Tina this earlier in the day at around 1:45pm on the 11th: “It is my belief Mrs Wylie was not in the house with you. In this situation I’ve got three people saying one thing. I have two people supporting what you say, but who were not present in the house.

Because of the conflict, I have to be impartial. I don’t take sides.

“I cannot justify or prove assault has taken place because of the conflicting evidence, and at this stage the Police cannot be of any further assistance to you.”

When Tina tumbles to the fact that Henderson hasn’t even spoken to the Wylies, she is flabbergasted.

“How could you make such a conclusion without even trying to see two other witnesses? Ring them now! They are waiting for your call, I’ll give you their telephone number. They are leaving Auckland on the 17 th of June and you will not be able to speak to them. Can I give you their telephone number?”

“No,” snaps Henderson on the tape.

“I don’t need to speak to them…I’m a highly qualified policeman! I believe I don’t need to see them at all.”

The Wylies, of course, would have told police that the front door was open and that they could see the whole thing

unfolding, but Henderson didn’t want to know. Williams had told him the front door was closed, and Constable Henderson parroted that claim back to Tina: “The door was closed. How could she see?...They were in the car and did not see anything.”

“But the door of the house was opened and he was trying to throw my body away!” complained Tina to the cop. Her logic fell on deaf ears.

“I must assure you Mrs Seale, I told you in this situation we are not pursuing it any further. The investigation is finished and it does not matter if the door was opened or closed. It will not go further, OK?” Unfortunately for Constable Henderson, as he was leaving the address he recorded the time into his hidden tape recorder and added some editorial comment about Tina while he thought she was out of earshot: “I am leaving the address. Any mongrel could have contrived this [complaint].”

Remember, he had not, at this stage, formally interviewed Mrs Williams or Mr Seale, nor had he interviewed eyewitnesses Ross Wylie and his wife Svetlana. Nor, as the transcript shows, had Constable Henderson interviewed the victim, Tina Seale. He had merely turned up to tell her of his decision to drop the investigation, and he did that before he asked her any questions at all.

Yet despite this damning tape recording, Sergeant O’Connor upheld the findings of his junior and stated in a letter to Tina dated 28 June 2002: “The Police have undertaken a thorough investigation of this file and it is the decision of the Police that no prosecution will be made by the Police.”

O’Connor justified his decision on the basis that police found “contradictions between both the alleged offender and victim’s account of the events. From

I cannot justify or prove assault has taken place because of the conflicting evidence, and at this stage the Police cannot be of any further assistance to you.

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our investigation we cannot disprove the credibility of either party and their accounts.”

Yet O’Connor knew, when he wrote this, that Valentina Seale had never been formally interviewed by the investigating officer. In a legal and procedural sense, there was no “victim’s account of the events” for a contradiction to arise from.

O’Connor adds in his letter, “The allegation by you cannot be corroborated by the independent witnesses…[they] did not see Mr Williams strike you or threaten to strike you in any way.”

But O’Connor’s claim simply wasn’t true. Ross Wylie’s wife Svetlana, sitting in the front seat of their car outside the front door, had a birdseye view of the attack. In one document on the Police Complaints Authority file she is absolutely insistent she told the investigating constable, Don Henderson, that she saw Williams hitting Tina, hard: “My husband and me were waiting since 3rd June 2002 to 15th June 2002 for the Police to contact us personally…but it didn’t happen. This doesn’t take into account the short evening call on the 11th June 2002 when I was repeating many times to him [Constable Henderson] in English, ‘He was beating Tina!’

“If he couldn’t understand the easiest phrase told him by me in English he should have met me with an interpreter, but not to fabricate things that never happened or find any excuses. The policeman made his investigation without honesty at all or professionalism,” declared Svetlana Wylie, who reiterated what she had personally witnessed that day: “The man was beating Tina on the porch and the entrance door was open.

When the man assaulted Tina from back when Tina was leaving the house, she was twisted so sharply to the concrete deck that she lost her glasses.”

In fact, Svetlana Wylie had provided the first written account of what happened, when she scribbled a witness statement out in Russian on ordinary writing paper. That document is dated 2nd June 2002 and timed “17:45”. This means the attack had to have happened sometime before 5:45pm, and given the time to get home and get to a writing pad it probably happened around five that evening. This undermines another

plank in the fraudulent police investigation. Henderson’s documents record the “incident” as taking place at 6pm or 6:30, which would have made it dark. Police claimed Tina’s witnesses would not have been able to see anything at night. But the sun was still in the sky at 5pm on June 2, 2002. We checked official records, which show sunset happened at 5:12pm that day, and it still would have been late twilight at 17:45 when Svetlana Wylie sat down at home to write out a witness statement.

In confirming his refusal to prosecute, North Shore policing boss Shane O’Connor tried to tell Tina that “the account of Mrs Wylie is significantly different to your alleged allegation.

Mr Wylie’s account is also from a less advantageous viewpoint position a short distance away from the alleged scene, which coincidentally was in darkness.”

Readers can make up their own minds as to whether it would have been dark, and whether Svetlana Wylie’s evidence that “he was beating Tina” was really “significantly different” from Tina’s “alleged allegation”.

In truth, this was all just a coverup. The tape recording taken just after

lunch on 11 June clearly shows police had already made up their minds to let Darryl Williams off the assault charge without even bothering to conduct a proper investigation.

But the pattern of police butt-covering didn’t stop with the Glenfield station boss. Further up the food chain, the Acting Area Controller for the North Shore, Inspector Morris, rubber-stamped the investigation as “thorough”, and the then Professional Standards Manager for New Zealand Police, John Cryer also claimed his team’s “investigation” was squeaky clean.

Shockingly, Cryer’s successor as Professional Standards Manager, Inspector Shearer, also later endorsed the actions of Henderson and O’Connor, despite wrongly claiming the Wylies had been properly interviewed by Police prior to the non-prosecution decision.

Superintendent Roger Carson, the then District Commander for the North Shore, also added his weight to the cover-up, suggesting the inquiry had been “hindered by the departure of Mrs Wylie to Russia and her consequent unavailability as a witness in the matter”. Yet Carson appears to have

missed the glaringly obvious point: the tape recording shows Constable Henderson had already closed the inquiry, and confirmed he would not be interviewing Mrs Wylie, a week before she left for Russia. She was still in the country when police announced their investigation was over.

On top of these ringing endorsements, the Police Complaints Authority also rubber-stamped the dodgy investigation, the PCA finding “there was no misconduct or neglect of duty on the part of Police”.

This is possibly the most serious aspect of the entire case, because it goes to the heart of whether police internal investigations for the PCA can be trusted: With two “Professional Standards Managers” and police top brass rubber-stamping as “thorough” an investigation where the victim and her witnesses were never properly interviewed, this case raises questions about the competence and integrity of Police.

For the Police Complaints Authority to give such an investigation a clean bill of health raises questions about the competence and credibility of the Police Complaints Authority.

The time sequence and paper trail is blindingly clear. Henderson closed the investigation before he had spoken to the victim or her witnesses, and two days before he bothered to collect statements from Mrs Williams and Mr Seale in a butt-covering exercise – probably a precautionary measure because of Tina Seale’s complaint about him.

If this is how New Zealand Police treat violence against women, and how they close ranks to protect their own, little wonder the Minister of Police is getting impatient about the need for a massive culture change.

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We’re told to use sunscreens to protect us from skin cancer, but it appears they may not work.

IAN WISHART has the story

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he suntan debate has taken another dramatic twist, with a new scientific study finding that while sunscreen lotion may protect us from sunburn, “there is no evidence that they protect against basal cell carcinoma or melanoma”. In short, there’s no evidence sunscreens prevent the serious skin cancers.

The stunning report, carried in the January issue of the journal Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, published by the scientific journal Nature, is yet another blow to the New Zealand Ministry of Health’s slip, slop, slap and wrap advice, and puts the Cancer Society in a tricky conflict of interest given that the Society is a major investor in a sunscreen lotion company.

“Safety of sunscreens is a concern,” reports study author Dr Marianne Berwick, of the University of New Mexico’s Cancer Centre and Department of Internal Medicine. “Sunscreen companies have emotionally and inaccurately promoted the use of sunscreens.”

With global sunscreen sales in the multi-billions of dollars every year, there’s money to be made in selling products that can be linked to public health campaigns. The problem for consumers and regulators is whether in fact sunscreens are worth what we are paying for them, or whether consumer fears have been overhyped.

What is important to keep in mind, however, is that sunscreens do provide protection from UV damage to the skin, the kind of damage that causes premature skin ageing. If keeping skin in good condition is your prime concern, then products with sun protection factors are important.

The message from the new study is, however, don’t expect sunscreens to necessarily protect you from melanoma.

Despite more than 70 years of sunscreen manufacture, the new study says proof of effectiveness is missing: “Thus far, no rigorous human evidence has shown that sunscreens prevent the major types of skin cancer – cutaneous melanoma and basal cell carcinoma,” reports the study. >>>

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The problem for consumers and regulators is whether in fact sunscreens are worth what we are paying for them, or whether consumer fears have been overhyped

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“They do reduce the prevalence of actinic keratoses and recurrent squamous cell carcinoma.”

With a lack of evidence that sunscreens protect against melanoma at all, have consumers been lulled into a false sense of security, that if we slap on sunscreen we’ll be OK? That’s the question the new study attempts to answer.

“Sunscreens protect against sunburn, even when inappropriately applied,” the study found, “even when a person applies too small an amount, and, infrequently, sunburn is generally avoided.”

However, Berwick’s team found this lies at the heart of the problem. We assume that because we didn’t get burnt we are safe from sun damage, but apparently it isn’t so: “Individuals typically use sunscreens in order to stay in the sun for longer periods that they would otherwise and end up with high doses of UV radiation that are often sporadic or intermittent.

Intermittent exposure is the strongest

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solar risk factor for the development of melanoma.”

That’s a finding that echoes two medical studies published just before Christmas (Investigate, Jan 2011 issue), that discovered people who stayed in the sun for several hours a day, regularly, were actually less likely to die of melanoma than people who only sunbathed occasionally.

The studies found a strong correlation between humans getting plenty of sun and those same people effectively developing an immunity from the deadlier

skin cancers. The study authors speculated that our sky-rocketing melanoma rates probably have more to do with the 20th century trend towards working in offices, out of the sun, whereas two hundred years ago most work was agricultural and in the open air. These days, most of us get intermittent – instead of regular – exposure to the sun.

As the Cancer Society wrestles with the problem that regular sun exposure actually appears to be good for you, it has altered its safety message this summer to

With a lack of evidence that sunscreens protect against melanoma at all, have consumers been lulled into a false sense of security, that if we slap on sunscreen we’ll be OK?

excessive sun exposure and a susceptible phenotype – that is, severe solar exposure to skin unaccustomed to it – rather than a direct cause of melanoma and basal cell carcinoma.”

In other words, it is not that the sunburn necessarily causes the cancer, it’s just that people most susceptible to skin cancer burn more easily.

“Death from skin cancer is advertised as being avoidable with the use of sunscreens,” the Berwick study reports.

“This position might actually be true, but there is as yet absolutely no scientific evidence to support it…Validation of the role of sunscreens in preventing skin cancer is urgently needed.”

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telling people “don’t get sunburnt”.

“Sunburn now could lead to melanoma later in life – no matter what your skin type,” says the Cancer Society’s “SunSmart” website.

“All types of sunburn, whether serious or mild, can cause permanent and irreversible skin damage. In people with fair skin, some types of skin cancer are related to the number of severe sunburns the person has had, particularly sunburns during childhood and adolescence.

Other types of skin cancer in people with fair skin tend to be related to a person’s lifetime or ‘cumulative’ exposure to UV radiation.

“Be SunSmart and protect yourself and your family from sunburn. Slip, slop, slap and wrap.”

That’s the current advice from the Cancer Society, but it might still be problematic, according to the Berwick study.

“Unfortunately,” says the new study, “some aspects of the promotion and analysis of sunscreen use are controversial. Many take the perspective that if sunburns are strongly associated with the development of melanoma, and sunscreens prevent sunburn, then sunscreens will prevent melanoma.

“However…it is likely that sunburn is a clear indicator of the interaction between

dded to the mix is the question of Vitamin D. A growing body of scientific studies are suggesting people who get more of the sunshine vitamin are significantly less likely – a 70% reduction in some cases – to develop major tumours like breast cancer or suffer heart attacks or strokes.

Dr Berwick’s latest research finds that if sunscreen were actually used correctly, it would block our ability to get Vitamin D from the sun: “If individuals actually applied sunscreen as recommended, then it is likely that routine sunscreen use would inhibit Vitamin D production. However, as noted above individuals tend to apply less [sunscreen] than is recommended, and therefore many studies show that sunscreen does not inhibit the metabolism of Vitamin D.” So where does that leave New Zealanders at the tail end of summer? If you are worried about skin damage from the sun, premature ageing and the like, then products with an SPF factor remain a crucial line of defence, supplemented by the Cancer Society’s main advice to slip on clothing, a hat and sunglasses.

If your primary concern is skin cancer, however, the jury is still out. There is no evidence that sunscreens protect you from the main skin cancers, and ironically the latest evidence suggests people who spend more time in the sun get greater protection against melanoma.

However, that puts you back in the gun for the effects of UV radiation on skin ageing, so there’s no easy answer.

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IS SOCIAL NETWORKING THE ULTIMATE BIG BROTHER TOOL?

When Desperate Housewife Eva Longoria used Facebook to spring her cheating husband of three years, Tony Parker, just before Christmas, she was using social networking to gather intelligence. But she’s not the only one, and some agencies are salivating at the information they’re gathering on citizens across the world WORDS BY IAN WISHART PHOTOGRAPHY BY OCHLIK MORIN/and FACEBOOK hose who followed the celebrity world were stunned this summer, when Desperate Housewives star Eva Longoria filed for divorce from hubby Tony Parker, citing Facebook in papers lodged with the courts. It seems she’d caught the man out exchanging explicit messages with a woman on the social networking site, which has just boasted its 600 millionth sign-up worldwide.

To put that in perspective, that’s enough people using Facebook to account for every man, woman and child in the US, Australia, New Zealand, the UK, Canada and Japan combined. Of course, market penetration in the West isn’t quite that high (yet), so there’s a fair stack of users across Europe, Asia, Africa, South America and the Middle East.

Facebook stats for New Zealand reveal 44% of the total population are now registered on Facebook, and when you consider that most Facebook users are adults, that turns into a majority of New Zealand adults now registered. Women are slightly more likely than men to use social networking, making up 55% of NZ users.

With that level of exposure, you’d be hard pressed within your circle of friends not to find at least one of them (and probably a lot more) are on Facebook. The level of interconnectedness is legendary; everybody knows somebody.

Back in the early 1990s, a story began doing the rounds about “the Kevin Bacon phenomenon” – the strange fact that every Hollywood actor could somehow be linked to Footloose star Kevin Bacon within six degrees of separation, based on movies they’d appeared in. For example, Elvis Presley had appeared in a 1969 movie with Ed Asner, and Asner had two decades later appeared

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in a movie with Bacon, giving Asner a Bacon-separation of 1, and Elvis a Baconseparation of 2, even though he and Bacon had never met.

Sociologists have discovered the same thing in public life – that virtually all of us can be linked through our acquaintances and friendships, within six degrees of separation, to anyone else on the planet – even to Kalahari bushmen.

This “interconnectedness” is one of the driving principles that Facebook is designed to exploit, but in doing so has it created a monster? In Eva Longoria’s case, she’s by no means alone: Facebook is now officially cited as an aggravating factor in one in every five divorces.

The opportunity to reconnect with old flames or new ones is more than many can resist.

While it can be argued infidelity is as old as the hills, it’s certainly a lot easier now in this era of mass communication, than it was when people were confined to small villages for most of their lives as they were prior to the industrial revolution. ut just as it has made infidelity easier, Facebook has also made it easier to track, and that’s where the Big Brother twist comes in. Just as Longoria was able to detect and trace Parker’s online activities, so could others. In fact, “others” had already stung Longoria in March last year by getting access to some of the actor’s family photos she’d uploaded to a “friends only” section of Facebook.

Some celebs, already accustomed to living life in the public eye, have resigned themselves to a goldfish bowl existence and in fact have embraced it. “It’s personal till it’s not” reads Demi Moore’s

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definition of “personal information” on her Facebook page, which is probably the right attitude given the number of family snaps of Moore and husband Ashton Kutcher pirated off Facebook and now doing the rounds.

To understand, though, how much your own privacy may be under threat from social networking, it’s worth going back in time a little.

Former Israeli intelligence agent Ari ben-Menashe published a book called Profits of War in 1992 that caused a worldwide sensation, because it described for the first time a plan by Israeli spy agency Mossad to create a computer programme capable of monitoring individuals and working out who their circle of friends were. That programme was called PROMIS, and it was picked up not just by Mossad but also the CIA and the NSA in the US. A commercial version of PROMIS was developed and sold to companies and government entities around the world, including New Zealand and Australia.

Unbeknownst to clients, the software had a built in hack that allowed the CIA or other spy agencies to suck out the data on individuals that had been collected by, say, the New Zealand IRD. “We can use this programme to stamp out terrorism by keeping track of everyone…All we had to do was ‘bug’ the programme when it was sold to our enemies,” wrote ben-Menashe. “It would work like this: using a modem, the spy network would…tap into the computers of such services as the telephone company, the water board, other utility commissions, credit card companies etc.

PROMIS would then search for specific information.”

Information, said ben-Menashe, might include phone records that showed who the target associated with, or locations that he regularly visited. “The programme…would have the ability to track the movements of vast numbers of people around the world. Dissidents or citizens who needed to be kept under watch would be hard put to move freely again without Big Brother keeping an eye on their activities.”

That was 1992. When the whistle was blown the intelligence agencies ran for cover, and organisations in New Zealand and elsewhere who had purchased PROMIS ditched it. But the dream of tracking social networks via computer did not go away. Imagine the fun to be had if people voluntarily waived their rights to privacy and uploaded their personal information and friendships online for everyone to see.

In 1998, the CIA ostensibly gave up the fight to lead the world in IT intelligence software.

“The leadership of the CIA made a critical and strategic decision in early 1998. The Agency’s leadership recognized that the CIA did not, and could not, compete for IT innovation and talent with the same speed and agility that those in the commercial marketplace, whose businesses are driven by “Internet time” and profit, could. The CIA’s mission was intelligence collection and analysis, not IT innovation,” reports the CIA’s own website.1 Instead of developing software, the CIA set up a company called In-Q-Tel in 1999 to go into venture partnerships with private capital firms to develop and fund promising new technologies that could help the CIA “data mine” for useful intelligence.

Believe it or not, this is the genuine* US Govt logo for its internet-scanning Information Awareness Office, and its Latin motto meaning “Knowledge is Power”. Critics couldn’t believe that a Defence Department agency tasked with creating “Big Brother” dossiers on private citizens around the world, would use a logo the one-world government lobby would be proud to call their own. The agency and its projects were removed from the public eye as a result of the controversy. http://web.archive.org/web/20021027211118/ http://www.darpa.mil/iao/

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Snap happy – Eva Longoria’s private Facebook photo album turned out not to be so private, after LA celebrity websites obtained copies last year, before the Tony Parker breakup. Likewise Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher’s Facebook snaps.

The good news? Even celebs have ordinary home lives

“In contrast to the remarkable transformations taking place in Silicon Valley and elsewhere, the Agency, like many large Cold War era private sector corporations, felt itself being left behind. It was not connected to the creative forces that underpin the digital economy and, of equal importance, many in Silicon Valley knew little about the Agency’s IT needs. The opportunities and challenges posed by the information revolution to the Agency’s core mission areas of clandestine collection and all-source analysis were growing daily. Moreover, the challenges are not merely from foreign countries but also transnational threats.”

The CIA’s website makes In-Q-Tel’s mission clear: “In-Q-Tel’s mission is to foster the

development of new and emerging information technologies and pursue research and development (R&D) that produce solutions to some of the most difficult IT problems facing the CIA. To accomplish this, the Corporation will network extensively with those in industry, the venture capital community, academia, and any others who are at the forefront of IT innovation.”

The first CEO of In-Q-Tel was Gilman Louie, and he and his CIA subsidiary were appointed with seven others to the Board of Directors of the National Venture Capital Association of America in 2004. The chairman of the NVCA was James Breyer of Accel Partners, and one of his first tasks that year was to give a young student named Mark Zuckerberg

US$13 million in venture capital.

What for? Well, in February 2004, Harvard student Mark Zuckerberg launched Facebook, a new social networking service designed to help fellow students stay in touch with each other.

James Breyer was also chairman of BBN, a Silicon Valley company whose Arpanet technology had helped kick off the internet with the assistance of the US Defence agencies. Joining Breyer at BBN in 2004 were both In-Q-Tel’s Gilman Louie and Dr Anita Jones, a colleague of Gilman Louie’s at In-Q-Tel, and a former advisor to DARPA, or the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency.

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itself, and their chairman James Breyer was one of the initial bankrollers of Facebook.

One of DARPA’s projects was “scalable social network analysis”, or SSNA, which researcher Sean McGahan described this way: “The purpose of the SSNA algorithms program is to extend techniques of social network analysis to assist with distinguishing potential terrorist cells from legitimate groups of people ... In order to be successful SSNA will require information on the social interactions of the majority of people around the globe.

Since the Defense Department cannot easily distinguish between peaceful citizens and terrorists, it will be necessary for them to gather data on innocent civilians as well as on potential terrorists.”2

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s New Zealand Herald journalist Matt Greenop reported3, DARPA and its new Information Awareness Office (whose official US government logo came straight from The X-Files) were planning to strip-mine the internet in search of whether ordinary citizens were somehow, through “friends of friends”, linked to subversive or terrorist organisations.

“The IAO has the stated mission to gather as much information as possible about everyone, in a centralised location, for easy perusal by the United States government, including (though not limited to) internet activity, credit card purchase histories, airline ticket purchases, car rentals, medical records, educational transcripts, driver’s licenses, utility bills, tax returns, and any other available data.”

If you’ve been paying attention, you will note the mission statement is remarkably similar to the former covert PROMIS project. Only this time, US intelligence agencies have been able to do it largely in the open.

But it’s not just US intelligence that might have an interest in knowing the whereabouts and friends-lists of Facebook users. In 2008 Chinese industrialist and People’s Liberation Army frontman Li Ka-shing purchased a US$120 million stake in Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook.

Li is praised in business magazines as an entrepreneur. Indeed, a Christchurch Press editorial said just that when he

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tried to purchase the Port of Lyttelton a couple of years back: “There is no need to be starry-eyed about the proposed venture. Li Ka-shing has risen from complete destitution as a refugee who fled the raping and pillaging of China by the Japanese in the 1930s to become a multi-billionaire.

“He did it by being an astute and hard-nosed businessman. He also did it, according to one account in a business journal, by ‘remaining true to his internal moral compass’ and operating with integrity.”

But as Investigate magazine reported back then, things are never quite so Pollyanna simple: “U.S. Congressman Dana Rohrabacher revealed that the U.S. Bureau of Export Affairs, the U.S. Embassy in Beijing and the Rand Corporation had identified Li Ka-shing and Hutchison Whampoa (Li’s primary business) as financing or serving as a conduit for Communist China’s military in order for them to acquire sensitive technologies and other equipment.”

Hutchison has since gone on to become a 50% owner of Vodafone Australia, a part owner of Vector Energy’s Wellington power company and is investing in strategic assets throughout the West.

This past month, the power of social networking to shape geopolitics has been laid bare in the Middle East uprisings. Both Facebook and Google proved crucial in mobilising networks of people instantly to force a revolution.

Coincidence? Who knows. But ultimately, as you enter your next Facebook update or disclose your newest friendship online, spare a thought for the supercomputers somewhere that are storing your details, who you associate with, where you live and what you like. If you are a good little Facebook user you will undoubtedly have entered photos of yourself so that identification and face recognition systems can pick you out of a crowd.

If you’re under the impression that Facebook have improved their privacy settings after last year’s big controversy, well, yes, but only to a point. Facebook’s terms and conditions make it clear that anything posted under the “Everyone” setting (which is the default setting when you first set up your account and details),

is available to the whole world – possibly forever if the information is cached or taken by third parties.

If US intelligence agencies have figured out a way to tap into Facebook via the backdoor, as was planned with the original PROMIS software 19 years ago, then no amount of Facebook privacy settings is going to protect you from data mining. And the idea that spooks around the world are not tapping into the world’s largest database of private social networking information, or trying to, is probably naive, given the mission statements of the US defence agency DARPA’s Information Awareness Office and the CIA’s In-Q-Tel. George Orwell saw a time in his future where the State would force citizens to subject themselves to government monitoring through their TV sets, and history would be re-written by “the Ministry of Truth”. He had no idea a time would really come when people would voluntarily give up what governments had been unable to force them to: the intimate details of their personal lives, social networks and much more, all for the buzz of seeing ourselves on a computer screen watched by 600 million others.

While the focus is confined to finding “terrorists” one could argue that those who have nothing to hide have nothing to fear. But ten years from now, with the global political landscape changing and the increasing likelihood of some kind of UN global governance structure to monitor individual travel and carbon use, what will a dossier of your political and social views, and the names of all your friends, be worth to someone, somewhere, if authorities want to shut down dissenting opinions fast?

The truth may be out there, but the question remains: whose truth?

References 1. https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/additional-publications/in-q-tel/ index.html 2. Ethier, Jason. “Current Research in Social Network Theory”. Northeastern University College of Computer and Information Science 3. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/ technology/news/article. cfm?c_id=5&objectid=10456534

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Samsung’s new Galaxy tablet, trinkets from Pandora and Orsini, and much more

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ABOVE: With Australia currently suffering from extreme weather conditions on many fronts, Pandora have announced we will support the victims of the floods across Australia by donating 30% percent of the retail price of sales of the ‘Tree of Life’ charm across Australia and New Zealand to The Salvation Army Flood Appeal.

Things to escape with...

ABOVE: Tirisi collection from Orsini. An 18kt white gold ring set with 4 violet amethysts and 4 deep purple rhodolites. $680 LEFT: Damiani’s Chignon collection from Italy, showcased

by Orsini. Gold bands woven together are brightened by preciousness of diamonds, which coil up like lacework of rare beauty. POA

LEFT: Point and scoot with the new Olympus XZ-1.

With a 10 megapixel sensor, this new compact boasts a sought-after Zuiko lens that’s perfect for taking shots in low light situations.A 4x optical zoom gives you a range of 28mm to 112mm. More at olympus.com

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ABOVE: Pretty Hot - Elizabeth Arden’s sequel to the original Pretty from 2009, breaks out a mix of tropical flowers, juicy red fruits and exotic spices, as one reviewer puts it. More at elizabetharden.com LEFT: Fragrantica. com says of this new fragrance from Givenchy, that it “dances with accords of jasmine, ylang ylang, apple, mandarin, orange blossom, wood and musk”. Enough said, really. You can see it at givenchy.com. Better still, you can test it at a store near you

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Baby soft skin – smooth and silky – that’s all you want.

You slather lotions and moisturizers from head to toe, day and night.

Lip balms lie within reach at home and work.

You drink a gallon of water every day. But that routine isn't working.

It's so bad, your sweetie lovingly calls you “Itchy” – and sometimes “Scratchy” (just to mix it up).

But no matter what you do, your skin feels coarse and prickly – and at least a size too small.

What’s the cause? Some people are just born with dry skin; for others, skin gets drier with age, says Doris Day (yes, it’s really her name), a New York Citybased dermatologist.

Dehydration also could be a side effect of medications you may be taking. And then there’s the weather.

“Extremes in temperature, such as going from a cold, windy outdoors to a dry, hot, indoor office, or vice versa, can leave your skin even more dry and uncomfortable,” says Day. And dry skin makes you look older.

“Fine lines will appear; previous lines will appear deeper. The skin will have a more uneven texture due to scale and redness,” Day says. “It will be more sensitive to (skin-care products) and the environment. Many people who perceive their skin as sensitive really have dry skin that they are not addressing in the

appropriate manner.”

So, what to do? Here’s some expert advice on getting the skin you’re in to be the skin you want:

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Know your skin type “If you’re using the wrong products for your skin type, you won’t get any benefit,” says esthetician Sandra Leggett.

Look for products specifically for your type. Also, if you haven’t done so in a while (five years or so), update your moisturizers. The skin type you had as a teen isn’t what you have in your 30s.

What works for your best friend may not work for you, unless you have the same skin type. If your skin is chapped, look for medicated products.

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Check the ingredients Don’t buy a product without reading what it’s made of. Some ingredients are better than others at keeping the skin moist. Not familiar with what irritates your skin? Do a test patch: Apply moisturizer to a patch of skin (inside your forearm is best) to check for irritation before slathering it all over.

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Exfoliate regularly If you don’t thoroughly slough off the dead skin at least once a week, no matter how much you spend, you won’t get any benefit from a moisturizer, say Day and Leggett. Those with dry skin should use a scrub that’s creamy or marketed as “mild” or for “dry, sensitive skin.” A brush or loofah will work for those with oily or normal skin.

For the face and neck: Dry skin sufferers should again look for a mild, creamy cleanser, says Day. Every other day, use a cleanser with alpha hydroxy acids, recommends Bobbi Brown, celebrity makeup artist and head of Bobbi Brown

Cosmetics, in the February issue of Prevention magazine: “Unlike their predecessors, today's alpha hydroxy formulas are gentle enough to do their work without causing skin sensitivity.”

Dry types can use a face scrub once a week, but should do so only on the T-zone (the areas on the face with a high concentration of oil glands: forehead, nose and chin). Over-exfoliating can irritate and knock the skin's pH level out of whack.

Manicures and pedicures can help keep hands and feet in shape.

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Timing is everything To get the maximum benefit from moisturizers, apply when the skin is damp. A moisturizer with a rich, creamy emollient will lock in the moisturizer and pull moisture from the environment to the skin, says Day. “That’s why people look so great after a facial or after a body treatment,” says Leggett.

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Add humidity A cool-air or cool-mist humidifier is a good investment, says Leggett. Humidifiers come in all shapes and sizes these days. Some are small enough to set on your desk at work. Heat depletes the moisture from the air and your body.

Also, try setting a bowl or glass of water near a heat source (fireplace, stove, vent) to add moisture. Turn down the thermostat in the house and the car. A long, hot bath sounds like a good idea, but it's not.

Learn to love lukewarm.

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Keep your mouth shut If your lips are dry, keep your tongue in your mouth. “When saliva evaporates, it removes any natural oils on your lips,” says Brown in Prevention magazine.

To get rid of dry skin, she recommends smoothing an eye cream on the lips and then using a toothbrush or washcloth to gently exfoliate them. Follow with a heavy-duty lip balm. Some cosmetic lines offer lip exfoliators and scrubs.

Also, Brown recommends avoiding matte lipstick formulas and sticking to lip gloss or a tinted balm.

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Hair care “The straighter the hair, the sooner it gets oily,” says Day. “This is because the oil wicks down the hair, away from the

scalp, more easily. With wavy or curly hair, the oils take much longer to move along the hair, and so the hair will feel drier and need less washing.” Unless your hair is oily, wash it every other day.

If your scalp is red or irritated and scaly, “this is due to another condition called seborrheic dermatitis, the mildest form of which we see as dandruff,” says Day. For that, use sulfa-based or antifungal shampoos. Visit a dermatologist if the condition persists.

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Take care Drink plenty of water (reduce caffeine and alcohol intake), eat fresh fruits and vegetables, take your vitamins, get eight hours of sleep and wear sunscreen even BE LABEL SAVVY What ingredients should you seek or avoid in a moisturizer? Again, what works for you will depend on skin type and sensitivity. Here’s what our experts recommend: Good • Shea butter • Oils such as mineral, olive, almond, sesame and apricot • Squalane, an oil derived from shark liver or plants and sebum • Avocado • Oats • Beeswax • Vitamins A, D and E • Aloe vera • Petrolatum (A word of caution, though.

“Petrolatum jelly is best used on hydrated skin, such as after bathing and on areas other than the face, since it can be overly occlusive,which could lead to a flare of acne,” says Doris Day, a New York-based dermatologist.)

Not so good • Harsh detergents/soaps and surface active agents such as sodium laurel sulfate and cetyl alcohol, which “are excellent for creating lather but they are also often irritating to the skin,” says Day. Use a cleanser that has less lather.

• Scents and perfumes • Alcohol • Plant extracts, such as rosemary or peppermint

in the winter. Sun-damaged skin is more vulnerable to the elements, Leggett says.

Also, don’t smoke.

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Go to the doctor Consult your dermatologist, Day says, if you have any of these conditions: Your skin is uncomfortable and itchy, red, scaly; unresponsive to appropriate adjustments in product use, bathing and moisturizing; if the discomfort is waking you from sleep; or if you have a rash that seems to be more than just dry skin. “My feeling is you want to address the issue in a reasonable way for a reasonable amount of time. If you have changed your regimen and you do not see improvement after two weeks, it is time to get professional help.”

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HERSBEAUTY

Brush-up on Make-up

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tanding amid the display counters in a cosmetics department, many women feel as though they have been transported to a makeup wonderland. There are dozens of shades of lipstick and umpteen kinds of foundations, powders, rouges and mascaras.

But even the finest beauty products can work little magic if the tools used to apply them are inferior. Makeup pros and amateurs alike need good brushes. Every woman should have at least five, experts say.

Makeup artists such as Olaf Zieseniss, who runs a mobile cosmetic service, usually have an impressive collection. "I've got about 280 brushes myself," Zieseniss remarks, adding that he really uses only 10 of them, though.

Women who put on their makeup themselves every day require even fewer, he says.

"The classic brush set consists of five brushes: a powder brush, blush brush, eye shadow brush, lip brush and round brush to brush the eyelashes thoroughly after the application of mascara."

Other makeup artists use a similar selection of basic brushes, with slight personal variations. Claudia Seitzinger, co-owner of Berlin's Yab Academy for makeup and hair design, said she would also include a makeup brush for the application of foundation, and an eye liner brush. A woman with a starter set of these seven brushes could then test what

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works best for her, Seitzinger says.

Finding the right brushes is complicated by the abundance of sizes and shapes. Powder brushes, which tend to be quite large, present few problems. But mere millimetres make a difference when it comes to blush brushes, which are somewhat smaller.

"If the blush brush is too big, the whole cheek is red. If it's too small, all you can see is a stroke," notes Beatrix Isabel Lied, a cosmetics expert from Hamburg.

Eyebrow brushes should be hard and angled, advises Seitzinger. Soft bristles are ideal for eye shadow brushes, though. Pros use more than one brush to apply eye shadow – for example one for contours and another for blurring.

The most important thing in buying a brush is to take your time. As star US makeup artist Bobbi Brown notes in her "Makeup Manual,"you can feel the quality of a brush with a little patience. "When at the store looking for one," she writes, "feel the brush against your skin till you find the one that works best for you."

You should also run your fingers through the bristles to make sure they do not fall out easily. Important, too, is that the brush lies comfortably in your hand. As a rule, the cheapest brushes quickly shed bristles, which then become stuck in the makeup.

It is important to clean brushes regularly with hair shampoo or liquid soap.

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n article in the Sydney Morning Herald’s Life & Style section on 19 July (Boom and bust, by Erika Woods) reported that women’s breasts, particularly those of younger women, had increased on average by three cup sizes during the past 50 years.

Increasing richness of diet and increasing levels of oestrogen due to puberty starting much earlier are

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offered as possible factors, however some professionals argue that an increasing level of oestrogen in women’s bodies, due to external sources, is a key factor in this developing phenomena.

Plastic bottles may also be partly to blame. Many plastic bottles contain the chemical Bisphenol A (BPA), which has a molecular structure that is similar to oestrogen.

BPA has been associated with damage

to the endocrine system.

In her article Woods wrote: “Concern has mounted about BPA content in babies’ bottles and major retailers in Australia have begun phasing out bottles containing BPA, as has already happened in the US, Canada and some European countries.”

In the August 21-27, 2010 issue of NZ Listener Jennifer Bowden suggests the NZ Food Safety Authority’s wait

and see approach over BPA in baby bottles and other food containers is posing health risks. “At high doses BPA is potentially hazardous to our health, as it mimics the female hormone oestrogen.”

Bottle BPA may well be linked to a recent report that some Chinese babies have shown signs of puberty after drinking infant formula; or it may be the water that was mixed with it to make the milk.

Some medical professionals believe the contraceptive pill is a factor in this oestrogen overload.

Men may have issues too The New Zealand Herald, on March 22, 2002, reported that in England nearly 50 per cent of male fish in low lying rivers had changed into females. “. . . the urine of women taking the contraceptive pill was contaminating one third of the country’s drinking water,” the report stated.

The article also linked falling male fertility to osetrogen contamination.

Some believe the growing incidence of so-called man boobs is also linked to excess oestrogen in our food and environment.

Some other sources of oestrogen are: l Chemicals in our food some producers using oestrogen as a growth hormone to fatten animals more quickly. l Some medication. l Environmental pollution, especially agricultural chemicals in our food.

Impact on emotions and relationships Women well past puberty can experience life changing mood swings and stressful emotional issues also as a result of oestrogen overload.

Australian Olympian and mother of three Lisa Curry went public in 2002 with her story of an ongoing battle with hormone imbalance. Her story of Hormonal Hell related how hormone imbalance nearly destroyed her family life.

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Angry one minute and crying the next Lisa refers to this part of her life as an emotional roller coaster. “Back then I didn’t know how hormone imbalance could affect you and I just couldn’t understand why I was bounced from one emotional extreme to another without any real cause. I would fly off the handle for no reason; angry one minute and crying the next.

My husband walked out on me.

“It is now very clear to me now that hormone imbalance was the likely cause of my problem. It is very difficult for the modern woman to avoid oestrogen overload and the subsequent mood swings and associated emotional problems.

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Breast cancer study

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any women with breast cancer will out,” Brinkmann says. “It’s very hard not to US surgeons act no longer face a potentially devastatfall into that hole. But we have to look at the ing side effect of their cancer surgery, “immediately”, NZ data and the studies that have been done. This as the conclusions of a newly published study will be the standard of care now” for women surgeons prefer about the need to remove underarm lymph who match the study criteria. to wait a year nodes are taken to heart by breast surgeons.

The findings further the trend toward less“This was a celebratory day for me,” says Dr. invasive breast cancer treatment. In recent Laura Klein, medical director of a New Jersey hospital’s breast decades, lumpectomies, when combined with radiation treatment, centre. “It’s practice-changing. I personally will no longer be have been shown to be as effective as mastectomies for many performing axillary node dissections” on women who match the women. And sentinel-node biopsies have replaced wholesale initial study criteria. excision of lymph nodes.

At Holy Name Medical Centre in New Jersey, Dr. Erika Knowing how many additional lymph nodes contain cancer Brinkmann, director of the breast centre, says she will act on does not change decisions about whether to use chemotherapy the study results “immediately.” and what type of chemotherapy to use, said the study, by Dr. “It will influence not only my practice but everyone’s practice,” Armando Giuliano of the John Wayne Cancer Institute in says Dr. David Pearlstone, chief of breast surgery at Hackensack California and others.

University Medical Centre. The medical centre’s breast-cancer Oncologists increasingly base their chemotherapy treatment team, including surgeons, radiologists, medical oncologists and on the specific characteristics of the patient’s tumour, includnurse practitioners, will discuss the findings immediately, he says. ing the cells receptivity to estrogen and progesterone and their The study, published February in the Journal of the Amerimolecular composition. can Medical Association, found that women who underwent The study is significant because for many women, the worst lumpectomies for tumours of less than 5cm and whose lymph side effects of breast-cancer surgery result not from the breast nodes did not have obvious signs of disease, showed no differincision, but the lymph node removal. “A few women suffer ence in survival if many lymph nodes were removed or if only medical problems from having a sentinel node removed,” Pearltheir sentinel nodes were removed. stone says. “But many, many, many suffer medical problems Surgeons will still remove one to three sentinel nodes, the from having a whole lot” of nodes removed. first nodes that drain lymphatic fluid from the breast, to see “There’s a lot going on in that area,” under the arm, says Caroif the cancer is spreading beyond the breast. Finding cancer lyn Monroe, a nurse-practitioner in the surgical breast practice at in those nodes indicates that disease cells have migrated and Hackensack, N.J. “It’s the junction from your arm to your torso and could cause metastases elsewhere. Such patients almost always shoulder and neck.” Many muscles and nerves join and intersect. are treated with chemotherapy.

Side effects may include pain, tingling, numbness, weakness, But until now, a finding of cancer in the sentinel node had led tightening or a cord-like feeling that can extend down the arm, surgeons to remove more nodes – either at the same time as the and lymphedema, a permanent swelling that can limit motion lumpectomy or with a return to the operating room later – to try and for which there is no cure. to make sure that no cancer cells remained in the body. The study Recovery after surgery is expected to be easier, too, because showed that this makes no difference in terms of cancer recurrence women will not require underarm drains for weeks if they have in the same breast, disease-free survival, or overall survival. not had multiple lymph nodes removed.

With or without the additional surgery, called an axillary Despite this, the New Zealand Breast Cancer Foundation’s node dissection, more than 90 percent of the women survived Dr Belinda Scott says on the Foundation’s website that New for five years. With or without it, the chance of a cancer recurZealand women will still be getting multiple nodes removed for rence in the same breast was less than 4 percent. some time yet: That conclusion upends one of the most closely held beliefs “This study has been done by excellent authors and has proabout cancer surgery, that it is best to “get it all out.” duced good results as far as numbers go. Nevertheless, as it is “As cancer surgeons, it’s anathema to us to know we leave only one study, I think it will be some time (over the next year) cancer behind,” Pearlstone says. “But here’s a study that says, before anyone would directly act based on the findings. This hey, it doesn’t matter.” needs to be looked at by our various collegial bodies and we “We always have felt that the role of the surgeon is to cut it all will definitely raise this topic at our conference in April.”

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HERSCUISINE

Thai Fish Dish De-lish Here come the vegequarians!, says James Morrow

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artinis have different effects on different people.

“One is plenty; two at most; three I’m under my table; four I’m under my host!” the American wit Dorothy Parker is said to have once quipped.

A crystal cone of gin (or vodka, for philistines and James Bond wanna-bes) causes some people to become geniuses, and others to just think they are. And some martini drinkers, noted comedian Bill Cosby in his pre-Dr. Huxtable era concert, “Himself”, just “hum a lot when they talk”. (“How are you-mmmmm…nice to see you-mmmmm”, and so on).

The other night, however, I was witness to a true bit of martini-inspired brilliance, and what I believe was the birth of a new word. My wife, a committed vegetarian since the age of, oh, eight, had announced earlier in the week that she was going to start trying to get some fish in her diet, and to celebrate we had another couple around for a dinner that would include a Thai fish curry (recipe follows). Over pre-prandial cocktails, we explained the – for her – bold experiment my wife was attempting, and that she was trying to become one of those vegetarians who eats creatures of the sea but not the land.

“Oh”, our friend Matt announced, rolling the olive from the bottom of his glass into his gob. “A vegequarian!”

For a movement – vegetarianism – that is often associated with a certain dour humourlessness, a playful term like vegequarianism is a great antidote to all the different gradations (vegan, lacto-ovo vegetarian, veglegon, and so on) that divide up the movement like breakaway sects of Mormonism or Islam.

Indeed, although they are often very secular people, vegetarians in all their various ilks and incarnations generally have very fundamentalist attitudes when it comes to their eating habits, and believe that anyone that doesn’t adhere to their level of anti-carnivorous asceticism is somehow not quite worthy.

(Indeed, I am quite lucky in this respect: even before her decision to belly up to the raw bar, my wife has had only one rule for meat in our house – it doesn’t bother her, so long as she doesn’t have to eat it or cook it. But I’ve known couples that nearly came apart over this very issue: one fellow I know in New York visits steakhouses like other men frequent brothels – furtively and on the sly, lest his habit be discovered, something that almost assuredly bustup his marriage. Another unfortunate bloke of my acquaintance has partnered himself with a

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neurotic Hollywood actress who treats him like a dog, giving food rewards – steaks, or the privilege of ordering them when they are out together – for good behaviour – baubles and fivestar holidays – and revokes them when she’s not happy about one thing or another. Needless to say, he leads a very tense, unhappy, feast-or-famine type existence).

In any case, my wife’s newfound fondness for fish has opened up a wealth of options in the kitchen – and being able to share a couple of fine, thick, purple tuna steaks will give me something to do with all that NZ pinot noir in the cellar I’ve been worrying about leaving too long. Plus, it will probably make us both healthier in the long term. Regularly masking vegetables in risottos laden with butter and parma cheese is a recipe for a happy, if not necessarily long, life.

It has also gotten us interested in some cuisines we’d never been confident enough to really seriously play with up until now – cuisines such as Thai, which is covered with encyclopaedic depth and breadth by David Thompson’s gorgeous tome, Thai Food (Arharn Thai). For anyone who has ever loved Thai food but been nervous about trying it at home (what do I do with bamboo shoots?; how do I make a curry paste?; will the shopkeeper think me racist if I ask for “kaffir lime leaves”?), this book is a must-have that explains ingredients, recipes, and even Thai history and religion through the lens of their ancient and venerable cuisine.

Once one becomes familiar with the essential vocabulary, and a few basic techniques, it is hard to turn out a losing dish.

Furthermore, like studying a foreign language, learning a completely alien cuisine makes one appreciate and understand elements of one’s “native tongue” that much more. I was fascinated to note the parallel use of anchovies in both Thai and Mediterranean cooking; whereas a European might add some of the little fishes to a hot pan and liquefy them to add a salty savouriness, the Thai use their own fish sauce, or Nam Pla. And thus both cooking cultures suddenly made a little more sense to me.

So far we’ve been making baby-steps with the vegequarian project: the fish curry has been a big hit, though the actual process of roasting shrimp paste has the missus rushing for the relative fresh air of the garden. Ceviche was suggested by another mate, and that’s on the menu for later this week. I’ll let you know how it goes.

Fish Curry With Cucumber

(from David Thompson’s Thai Food (Arharn Thai) Although Thompson suggests sea bass or barramundi, I’ve had great success with thick, oily filets of fresh blue-eyed cod.

Ingredients:

For the paste: 10-15 dried long red chilies, deseeded, soaked and rained Large pinch of salt 1 tablespoon chopped lemongrass 3 tablespoons chopped red turmeric 1 tablespoon chopped red shallot 3 tablespoons chopped garlic 1 tablespoon white peppercorns 1 tablespoon shrimp paste (gapi) that’s been roasted for a few minutes on the stove For the curry: 3 tablespoons oil Large pinch white sugar

2 tablespoons fish sauce ½ cup thick tamarind water (made by combining tamarind or tamarind puree with water and mixing until thick) 2 small cucumbers, peeled and sliced into half-moons 250 g barramundi, sea bass, or cod 1. First, make the paste, either by bashing the ingredients together in a mortar and pestle or giving them a whiz in the blender, stopping occasionally to scrape down the sides. It should be as fine as possible without overheating the paste and cooking it prematurely; add a little water if it needs some loosening. Leftovers will keep in the fridge for up to a fortnight.

2. Heat the oil and fry 3 tablespoons of the paste over a medium heat for about 5 minutes, until it becomes fragrant and the colour deepens. Lower the heat and season with sugar, fish sauce, and tamarind water. Add cucumber, fish, and simmer until cooked – this will just take a couple of minutes. Check the seasoning – it should be sour, salty, hot and slightly sweet.

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WORDS BY PATTI NICKELL PHOTOGRAPHY BY DON HAMMOND/JOHN SHORT he weather in this lovely seaside village on Scotland’s east coast, not far from the golfing mecca of St. Andrews, was about as inhospitable as it could be for early November.

The wind whipped the sea into a frenzy, sending whitecaps ashore; a misty rain leaked from a leaden sky; and icy pellets of hail showered down like miniature daggers.

So, what was I doing, layered up like the Michelin tire man, ambling along the beach with seven other women and a frisky black Labrador retriever named Hooley?

We were here with “Forage Ranger” Fiona Houston, a journalist and local-food advocate, to learn about the edible delights found on the coast this time of year, including oysters and varieties of kelp and seaweed. Our tour was intended to be a “walk, talk, taste” experience, but after 20 minutes of being buffeted by the wind and bruised by the ice pellets, we chose to talk while we walked to the nearest pub to do our tasting there. Only Hooley seemed disappointed.

Inside the cosy confines of The Ship Inn, a fire blazed, a pint appeared in my hand, and a gent sitting on a bar stool, nursing his own beer, swivelled around to address me.

“Are ye daft, lass, wandering around on the beach in weather such as this?” he asked.

For the record, I didn’t think I appeared any more daft than the others, but he seemed to take a shine to me.

I had come to Scotland for what was billed as a “glam, green experience,” to discover that you don’t have to sacrifice the glam to appreciate the green. Indeed, Scotland has led the United Kingdom in sustainability, alternately caring for and making use of the natural environment in unique ways.

During the next six days, I would meet a chocolatier who infuses her candies with rhubarb, wild mint, Scots pine, garlic and almost anything growing in the woods around her home on the southern shore of Loch Tay; a man who runs a “green” distillery in the picturesque town of Pitlochry; and an herbalist who dispenses natural products at Napier’s, Edinburgh’s oldest pharmacy. (Who knew that passion flower capsules are a remedy for restless leg syndrome?)

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Anyone who has ever been to Scotland can attest to its outstanding natural beauty: rugged mountains and deep glens, shimmering lochs and firths, heather-blanketed hillsides in the spring and summer, forests ablaze with colour in the autumn, and snow-capped peaks in the winter. From the Lowlands to the Highlands, spectacular vistas unfold.

That scenery is a source of pride for the British – why do you suppose the royal family keeps rushing off to Balmoral, in northeast Scotland? – and a source of endless fascination for the visitor. Amid the dramatic landscape of the Valley of Glencoe, I learned about the massacre of the ill-fated MacDonald clan. After lunch one day at the Victorian-era Fortingall Hotel, I wandered into the adjoining village cemetery and saw a yew tree that has stood for several thousand years, and under which, it is alleged, Pontius Pilate was born.

On a tour of Blair Atholl Castle – its gleaming white turrets rising against a backdrop of hills – I learned about the 19th-century Duke of Atholl, who, at one time, boasted Britain’s only private army. The duke dispatched his army just once, in an effort to turn back a botanical expedition led by a certain Professor Balfour. He was unsuccessful, and the professor won the right to walk the area around the scenic Falls of Bruar in search of rare botanical specimens. In Fort Augustus, alongside Loch Ness, I didn’t spot “Nessie,” only three kayakers gently gliding through the loch’s glassy water.

Scotland isn’t the first place one thinks of for four-wheel-drive safaris to view animals in their natural habitats, but Highland Adventure Safaris offers that opportunity. Amid the majestic scenery of Highland Perthshire – called Europe’s last wilderness – we boarded our Land Rovers and headed off in search of the Caledonian “big five:” grouse, mountain hare, red deer, golden eagle and red squirrel.

Colin and Andy, our kilted safari leaders, set up a high-powered telescope, allowing us a perfect view of three noble stags atop a rocky ledge. Afterward, they organized a Scotch tasting in a secluded mountainside cabin. You’d think that after a “wee dram” or two, I wouldn’t have any trouble seeing things, but I have

to confess I was the only one in our party who failed to spy the elusive snowy owl and the pine marten.

No trip to Scotland is complete without a distillery tour of its most famous product. The names roll off the tongue: Glenfiddich, Glenlivet, Strathisla, Dalwhinnie, Talisker.

Edradour is probably not a name most Americans are familiar with, as barely 12 casks a week are produced by three men using the same recipe as their predecessors 150 years ago.

The distillery, nestled in a glen of the hills above Pitlochry in the Southern Highlands, can claim a number of distinctions: the smallest distillery in Scotland, both in footprint and distribution (it’s the country’s last remaining “farmhouse” distillery and produces as much in a year as the larger distilleries do in a week). The single malt, aged for 10 years after fermentation, is difficult to get in the United States today, but it allegedly did a brisk business during Prohibition.

If you drive the scarily narrow road alongside Loch Voil in Trossachs National Park, you will arrive in Balquhidder Glen, where you could be forgiven for thinking you had stumbled upon a 21st-century Brigadoon. Unlike that legendary village, though, the Monachyle Mhor Hotel doesn’t appear just one day every 100 years. Owned and operated by brothers Tom and Dick Lewis and their sister Melanie, it is just one facet of a family business that emphasizes sustainability and farm-totable produce.

“Our aim is to provide the finest Scottish food and hospitality, whilst taking care of our spectacular surroundings,” Tom Lewis says.

As a host, Tom welcomes the likes of Prince William (whose best mate from university lives in the area) and actor Gerard Butler, who likes to bring his mother here. As a businessman, he welcomes visitors to the area to drop by Mhorbread (a bakery, tearoom and shop) and Mhorfish (a combination fishmongers, restaurant and setting for his cookery classes) in the nearby village of Callander. And as a raconteur, he knows no equal. The man can tell a story. In this instance, the theme is that a country can be both glam and green.

Mains of Taymouth Cottages, Perthshire.

Once the home farm for Taymouth Castle, this fifty hectare estate on Loch Tay is now a collection of luxury self-catering cottages. The cottages are beautifully decorated, and the Courtyard Bar and Restaurant serves delicious, back-to-basics Scottish cuisine. Taymouth.co.uk.

Lovat Arms, Fort Augustus. This Victorian-era hotel, a five-minute walk from Loch Ness, is at the forefront of sustainability, with many innovative energy-saving features. It also has a delightful staff, an excellent restaurant and a lively bar.

Lovatarms-hotel.com.

Monachyle Mhor, near Callander. On the shores of Loch Voil, this 18th-century farmhouse has been converted into a 14-room luxury hotel. Mhor.net.

In Edinburgh, two excellent lodging choices are Apex Waterloo Place (Apexhotels.co.uk) for its unbeatable location on Princes Street and a short walk from the Royal Mile, and the Bonham (Thebonham.com), a renovated Victorian townhouse on a quiet residential square.

In Edinburgh, Iglu (Theiglu.com) and Urban Angel (Urban-angel.co.uk) are at the forefront of ethical sourcing and using local organic produce to ensure the highest quality. Although not a restaurant, Ardross Farm Shop in Elie (Ardrossfarm.co.uk) offers a stunning array of fresh produce, homemade packaged food and locally sourced products.

If you are looking for a private guide, contact Johanna Campbell (Johannacampbell.co.uk), who along with her husband, Gilbert Summers, combines a love for Scottish history and lore with knowledge of all things glam and green.

Highland Safaris ( Highlandsafaris. net) offers several ways to see Scotland’s wildlife: walking safaris, cycling safaris or the traditional Land Rover safaris.

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mind

Exercising the

WORDS BY MICHAEL MORRISSEY PHOTOGRAPHY BY ANDREW JOHNSON THE ART OF PETER SIDDELL

By Peter Siddell Godwit, $75

From memory, I first met Peter and Sylvia Siddell in the RKS art gallery in the mid 1970s. Sylvia was a person of extraordinary vitality and told many amusing and at times outrageous stories. Peter was quieter and had a well-developed interest in fiction. Instead of talking about painting, we often discussed novels. John Updike was one of his favourite writers and he once speculated that the closely observed detail of Updike’s writing had played a part in influencing his comparable technique and the vision his work came to present.

In any event, this magnificent book shows Siddell’s work in its quiet splendour – a career that now spans 40 years. Siddell has written a biographical essay in an extremely honest straightforward style. One of the most charming anecdotes is the way he met Sylvia – he helped rescue her from a mountain.

While the rescue was in progress Sylvia told jokes and stories! The two therefore shared a passion for tramping and mountaineering and this common interest proved to be a strong bond. Professor Michael Dunn contributes a critical essay.

The two complement each other nicely.

Siddell’s inner Auckland is at once familiar and strange. We all recognise (or seem to) his idealised green volcanic hills of which Auckland has an abundance and the neat orderly villas. The deliberate sense of a frozen tableau, of a complete lack of movement, is reinforced by a lack of “peeling paint, street signs, power lines” which combined with the familiar yet actually strange urban landscape produces a surreal feeling. Dunn compares Siddell’s work to Dali and especially Chirico – though the originating influence comes from echoes of Bill Sutton’s well known Nor’ Wester in the cemetery.

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The scholarly Dunn also notes that painters like Canaletto would subtly rearrange architectural aspects of Venice to suit his artistic purpose and also detects the influence of Vermeer in Siddlell’s depiction of lowering cumulus clouds. Thus the self-taught Siddell shows a keen sense of art history. He was over fifty before he went to Europe and was able to see firsthand the grandeur of European art.

Very early Siddell seems (at least to my eyes) to have a touch of Rita Angus.

But this soon disappears as his style develops and becomes more sharp edged and detailed. My favourite – among many – is Doorway 1990 which uniquely shows the perspective of a viewer inside an old villa with stained glass windows looking out onto an urban landscape instead, as is more often the case, of someone looking in.

Though Auckland dominates there are a scattering of portraits.

While this haunting surreal stillness owes something – a lot – to Sutton – and the surreal tradition, this still and apparently uninhabited Auckland may well be most firmly founded in Siddell’s memory of being a Herald boy. This early morning experience of walking deserted streets would have created the effect of a motionless, empty Auckland – an urban landscape which was uncluttered and in its way quietly beautiful. Hence Siddell’s work invites us to share one of his most powerful memories while enriching our imagination.

WULF

By Hamish Clayton Penguin, $30

History is a sombre subject. Leading historians like James Belich and Matthew Wright treat it with due diligence and respect. Hamish Clayton’s debut novel is written in a lush poetic style that spins a web of verbal elegance over grim nineteenth century facts. It is like an ancient

song that touches the inner ear. The original tenth century poem to which the novel is linked is a mere 19 lines long and is considered to be difficult to interpret.

The connection seems to be that Wulf (Te Rauparaha is called the Wolf) is on an island with bloodthirsty men who want to kill him. And with a scant 700 men, he triumphs. The poem is so short it seems a slender foundation on which to rest a novel. The novel could stand without it.

The central character then is Te Rauparaha one of New Zealand’s most feared Maori chiefs. The narrator takes a long time to meet his quarry and when he does describes him in a manner comparable to Alister Campbell’s famous poem: “He had a nose hooked like a Roman’s and a curled lip curved like an eagle’s beak.” He is calm, quiet and unsmiling. Yet for page after page, Clayton’s prose waxes so lyrically about the chief, you almost forget he was a bloodthirsty warrior. When slaughter is mentioned, it is not dwelled on in any detail. Thus Te Rauparaha (or Te Rop’raha as the text spells it) becomes a sort of mythic demi god. His trickery in lighting fires and having warriors run around discharging firearms rapidly creating an illusion of a large army emphasises his strategic skill in warfare. There is never any doubt about his cunning, ruthlessness and determination. The pakeha are a mild lot by comparison.

Initially, Te Rauparaha plans to take Kapiti Island near Wellington and take it he does. Then he enlists the aid of the ship Elizabeth to take 120 musket-armed warriors to conquer the southern Ngai Tahu. He promises Captain Stewart 50 tons of flax – an enormous shipment.

Dramatic tension rises as Te Rauparaha’s plan unfolds.

Yet in many ways, the most interesting character is Cowell, a speaker of Maori and a great yarn spinner. Much of the text about the great chief falls from his lips. There is a certain homoerotic ambiance in the way the narrator describes Cowell bathing in the river but it never becomes explicit.

In his poetic excess, Clayton refers to a “vast desert” in the centre of

the island. By world standards, New Zealand has no real deserts – there is nothing large enough or barren enough to qualify except the “desert-like” Rangipo Desert.

And the overall impression given by Wulf is of a large country. As New Zealand is as large as Germany, is isn’t small. It could be argued that in the nineteenth century with fewer people and less settlement and travel taking a longer time, the landscape would have seemed larger. But the frequent use of the word “vast” seems like overkill.

Other ships crew such as Wilson, Jones, Smith, Kirkpatrick, Wall, Brown, and even the Captain could have been characterised more strongly. Some readers may find the poetic prose a little forced, I found it a refreshing change from most New Zealand novels. It will be interesting to observe how Clayton develops as a writer.

Will poetry or narrative dominate?

THE LAKE OF DREAMS

By Kim Edwards Viking ( $27.99, instock at Mighty Ape)

Kim Edwards’ debut novel, The Memory Keeper’s Daughter in 2006, whooshed like a tsunami through the literary landscape, becoming a huge best-seller and earning fierce loyalty among her readers. Edwards followed Memory Keeper with republication of her 1997 collection of short stories, The Secrets of a Fire King, which was well-received but not nearly as popular as Memory Keeper; fans were clearly waiting for the next novel.

They can rejoice: The Lake of Dreams is finally here, and it’s a doozy, although it lacks the emotional heft that made readers clasp Memory Keeper to their hearts. Still, it’s gorgeously written and, for a book with a mystery at its core, refreshingly introspective.

Like Elizabeth Kostova (The Swan Thieves), Edwards is an author who’s not afraid to linger and pause, to let a character sit with a thought or problem and work it out on the page. You won’t find car chases here or pounding suspense, but patient readers will come away with human insight worthy of a psychology text and a lot more interesting to read.

As in Memory Keeper, a family secret drives Lake of Dreams, a puzzle that goes

back generations and traces its roots to a collection of intertwined circumstances.

Among them are the 1910 appearance of Halley’s comet; the suffragist movement in upstate New York; and the burgeoning early 20th-century industry in the Finger Lakes region, with glassworks taking the lead, both workaday glass and stained art glass in the tradition of Louis Comfort Tiffany and John La Farge.

The story is set in the fictional Lake of Dreams, one of a bevy of hamlets strung like beads along the Finger Lakes. Heroine Lucy Jarrett, in her late 20s, returns home from Japan, where she’s living with her boyfriend, Yoshi. Lucy has spent her young adulthood moving frequently, state to state, country to country, refusing to perch anywhere for long.

Once at her mum’s lake house, Lucy gets quickly drawn back into family drama. There’s a hint of Hamlet, with Lucy’s not-so-beloved Uncle Art assuming much of what she considers her father’s rightful place (he died years ago in a boating accident), and also strain over her mother’s new romance and ongoing friction with her brother and cousins. She’s also shaken by renewed proximity to glass artisan Keegan Fall, who was her teenage romance.

When Lucy discovers some old letters and pamphlets and a swath of beautifully woven cloth, tucked away in a window seat, it leads her back in time to ancestors she’d never heard of: Rose Jarrett and her daughter Iris. Rose, it seems, may have been the model for a series of glorious stainedglass windows that Keegan is restoring for the local church. But why were she and Iris expunged from the family history?

There are almost too many issues to keep up with here: women’s rights, American Indian rights, artistic integrity, family squabbles (and possible murder, it turns out), the tug of freedom vs. the comfort of familiarity.

Edwards’ book is much like her plotcentral piece of cloth that was woven with interlocking moons and vines: It’s busy, and it’s complicated, but as a finished, carefully woven product, it turns into something luminously beautiful.

Reviewed by Joy Tipping, The Dallas Morning News

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tor, exploits in a good way is her ability to look as believable in a shapeless, off-the-rack shift and sandals as in a body-hugging, off-the-shoulder mini and stilettos. But – and this is the big one that most of Hollywood doesn’t get since they keep casting her in one failed romantic comedy after another – he also understands that while she’s hot, she’s not smokin’ hot, as in mouth-drooling, pulse-racing, temperature-raising hot. Her on-screen kisses and clinches are more sisterly and sincere than sexy. Maybe she’s a slow burner, but at least on screen, y Sharkey no one has figured out yet how ts Be by ed w ie Rev to light that fire.

All of those girl-next-door, punch-youin-the-arm-if-she-likes-you qualities make a good comic match for Sandler, though, who’s got the whole not-sexy thing going too. His nerdy naughty-but-nice persona has proved appealing to males and females alike, and coupled with his mumble-funny self-deprecating patter, it has made him Anyway, Dr. Danny has finally met a a box-office billionaire ($3 billion and gorgeous girl (Sports Illustrated swimsuit counting), which means Hollywood will cover girl Brooklyn Decker) who likes let him do whatever he wants. And that is him even without the wedding ring. what happens here.

Since he really likes this girl back, when There’s not much to say about Dugan’s she discovers his fake gold band and directing; even he admits in the producdeclares she won’t date a married man, tion notes that his main job is to let Sandler he undertakes a cover-up of Watergate be Sandler. Ditto writers Allan Loeb and proportions to try to keep her. The plan Timothy Dowling. Their screenplay may be involves getting Katherine to pose as his based on Cactus Flower but it’s been pureed wife, conscripting her kids, concocting almost beyond recognition in the Sandler a divorce, funding a “Pretty Woman” blender. There’s a wacky mean-girl turn by makeover and before you can say, “Huh?” Nicole Kidman, who plays Devlin, Kaththe new girlfriend, the fake ex, the fake erine’s old college nemesis. Complications kids and the fake ex’s fake flame (Nick abound when they bump into each other Swardson) are off to Hawaii to swim with in Hawaii, and not just in that old-scoresdolphins. Don’t ask. to-settle way. Devlin is what Katherine has The whole idea somehow seemed more adopted as her fake wife name, and it’s also plausible in 1969 when the screen version what her kids and Dr. Danny call poop. So of Cactus Flower was first trotted out, win- along with all the other potty-mouth stuff, ning Goldie Hawn an Oscar for her turn there is a lot of Devlin name-dropping as the girlfriend. It was based on the Tony- going on. Ha, ha, ha. winning stage play, which itself was based If you’re a Sandler film buff, the comon the French stage play, which makes edy is classic Sandler and will probably sense. After all, if anyone knows what to satisfy. Still, the best thing about the do with a sexy farce it’s the French. movie remains Aniston – she is reason Still, the movie is a good fit for Aniston. enough to just go with it.

One of her gifts, which director Dennis JUST GO WITH IT Dugan, a longtime Sandler collaborass

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he best thing about the new Adam Sandler comedy Just Go With It (I’m assuming “Just Bear With Me” was already taken) is Rachel. And by that I mean Jennifer Aniston, playing a slight variation of the pretty, pragmatic waitress with great hair and even better comic timing whom America (or large parts of it) fell in love with over the 10-year run of Friends.

In Just Go With It, whose title really has to be read as a plea from the filmmakers, given all the leaps of faith they want you to take with a movie that’s really more like a loose improv session, or an extended party game – oh wait, what was I saying ...

Aniston plays Katherine, a single mom working as an assistant to Sandler’s successful plastic surgeon, and she’s got the frumpy wardrobe to prove it. If you’re inclined to buy the premise, the way for a nerdy guy to bed an endless succession of great-looking chicks is to pretend he’s married. I gather it’s all part of the feminine mystique as defined by boobs (as in boys, not breasts) that a wedding ring and a bad marriage are the ultimate aphrodisiac. Right.

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e’ve all speculated about that couple in the ology found that “readiness for self-disclosure” was associated restaurant, the one that sits there in stony with higher marital quality. silence. Are they bored? Furious? FrusTypically, Orbuch says, romantic relationships begin with trated? All of the above? a lot of sharing and excitement. (“You like your baked potaThe British dating site ForgetDinner. toes with sour cream? OMG! So do I!”) But as time goes on, co.uk recently set off a fresh wave of hand-wringing when it children, elderly parents, exercise routines, volunteer work and claimed that a couple married for 50 years will speak for an even hobbies can push the relationship to the back burner. average of only three minutes during an hourlong dinner.

Some couples recognize the problem and respond quickly.

But Terri Orbuch isn’t all that concerned.

Others want to respond and aren’t exactly sure how. And some “As a relationship expert, I do not talk about quantity; I don’t see the problem until it’s too late. talk about consistent, quality communication,” says Orbuch, “One day you wake up, and you don’t know who (the other) a research scientist at the Institute for Social Research at the person is,” Orbuch says.

University of Michigan who has studied 373 married couples Every single day is a good starting point for couples seeking for more than 20 years. “You can have a two-hour conversation to reconnect by following her 10-minute rule, she says. and not talk about anything of substance or value or quality.”

You might ask your partner about his or her favourite book, So how do you cultivate and sustain the kind of communicabest friend or dream vacation. Why doesn’t he get along with tion that has actually been tied to long-term, happy marriages? his brother? What would she do if she won the lottery? Couples Consider setting aside 10 minutes a day for quality converin Orbuch’s study who discussed such topics for as little as 10 sation, says Orbuch, who recently wrote about the practical minutes a day were much happier, she says, and less likely to implications of her research in 5 Steps to Take Your Marriage divorce. from Good to Great (Delacorte Press, $37.99 from MightyApe).

Her study also found that “affective affirmation” – basically, “Many couples think they’re communibehaviour that makes your partcating with each other” when they ner feel loved, cared for or special sort out who will pick up the kids, – plays a role in happy marriages pay the bills or call the grandparents, and that men need it more than TALKING POINTS says Orbuch. But that’s not the kind women. Affective affirmation can Relationship expert Terri Orbuch advocates of communication she’s talking about. be as simple as a hug, a thank you at least 10 minutes of quality conversation “In the (research) literature, as well or buying a partner’s favourite a day for couples. Try to touch on goals, as for my couples, communication food. Men tend to favour gestures values, important friendships or sources of means you’re sharing and really getof affirmation over words, Orbuch stress. Avoid household chores (who’s getting to know one another,” she says. says. Women tend to go with verting the milk?) and other minutiae.

Quality communication is defined bal affirmation.

Here are a few conversation starters you can somewhat differently from study to It’s OK to fulfil the requirements try from Orbuch’s book, 5 Simple Steps to study, but research consistently has of the 10-minute rule by phone or Take Your Marriage from Good to Great: shown a link between happy mare-mail a few times a week. But you ӦӦ What’s your favourite movie? Why? riages and “self-disclosure,” or sharing have to talk in person on the other ӦӦ Are you closer to your mum or dad? your private feelings, fears, doubts and days, and you have to ask questions Why? perceptions with your partner. that relate to your partner’s inner ӦӦ What is the one thing you really want In 1987, a review in the Journal of Sex life: his or her goals, values, best to accomplish in the next two years? and Marital Therapy found that higher friends or sources of stress. ӦӦ What are you most afraid of? rates of self-disclosure were tied with “Ten minutes is not that long, when ӦӦ What age do you feel like inside? higher rates of marital satisfaction. you think about it,” says Orbuch. “It Why? Expression of love and support was also just means paying attention to your ӦӦ What was the one thing you hated linked to happy marriages. partner and asking one question most as a kid?

More recently, a 2010 study in the (and responding when) they ask one ӦӦ What are the top three worst songs of journal BMC Medical Research Methodquestion.” all time?

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Real people, real homes.

John and Joanne had seen a G.J. house they really liked in Australia.

The team at G.J. Gardner Homes flew back to Australia with them to look at the house and modify it to meet NZ conditions.

“The trip was amazing – we had a lot of fun. We have a house we just don’t want to leave. From when we first open the front door, through the spacious living areas, to the gorgeous bedroom-bathroom, we can look out of the windows at the beautiful view, it has the feeling you are on cruise ship. G.J.’s literally went the extra mile and built a truly magnificent home.”

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Crouching Tiger, Mother Dragon Using Fear As A Parenting Weapon WORDS BY DEBRA-LYNN HOOK PHOTOGRAPHY BY GOLDMUND LUKIC & NEWSCOM

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hroughout my 22 years as a mother, I’ve read a lot of books on parenting – reassuring tomes like Bruno Bettelheim’s The Good Enough Parent; sanity savers like Richard Ferber’s Solve Your Child’s Sleep Problems; all-around helpful handbooks like Benjamin Spock’s Baby and Child Care, which begins with the powerful words: “Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.”

For my money, these books were meant to inform or accompany me on my parenting journey. Not dictate it.

Same with the runaway mummy memoir, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother. This is one woman’s story of parenting “Chinese style.” It is a memoir, not a treatise; a 229-page book, not a Bible.

And yet from the looks of things, from the amount of press in mommy blogs, The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, Time, The New York Times, NPR, ChinaDaily. com, even on Stephen Colbert, you’d think author Amy Chua had proclaimed herself Queen of Parentdom. And none of us in the overweight, overwrought, overindulged Western world can touch the edge of her robe. We are either in awe of her style, which forces us to look at our own. Or we think she’s nuts.

Chua gets our attention right away because she is a law professor – a thin, beautiful, Yale law professor with two beautiful, accomplished teen-age daughters. The elder daughter, Sophia, now 18, is good enough to play piano at Carnegie Hall.

The younger, Lulu, 15, once took violin lessons with a coveted Juilliard music teacher. Chua, 48, who is Filipino-Chinese, is further anointed because of her lineage; the ancestry she most closely aligns herself with is Chinese, that disciplined, accomplished culture consistently credited with stealing our economy because we don’t know how to produce disciplined, accomplished children as well as our Asian counterparts.

Indeed, Chua claims, at least at the beginning of her book, to have the winning parenting formula, which is rooted in the tradition of Chinese parenting, which is, at its most basic, stricter

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parenting than our Western lackadaisical style.

Chua believes that while Western parents offer their children too many choices, hover over their self esteem and praise them for insignificant accomplishments “like simply drawing a squiggly line” (ouch) as they learn their ABCs, Chinese parents choose their children’s extracurricular activities, then make them work long, hard hours perfecting them.

While Westerners see childhood as a fun time, Chinese parents see childhood as a training period, during which they must rise to the top of everything they do, so that they will be well-prepared for success in a competitive world.

Ah, but then right about the time Chua starts to sound like she’s got a royal flush to our lowly pair of twos, her house of cards tumbles.

We find there is an extreme edge to her child-rearing philosophy. Not just rigid, not just driven, Chua is hysterical at times, using shame, insults and vicious threats to get what she wants out of her children–the worst example being the day she threatened to put her 3-year-old outside in freezing temps because she refused to play piano. In another example, she rejected the birthday card her 7-year-old daughter made for her because it wasn’t good enough. She admits to raging at her children and calling one of them “garbage,” which she defends as an effective Chinese parenting practice. She doesn’t allow sleepovers or play dates. Her daughters must be No. 1 at everything they do. They must practice music for hours a day, every day, even when they are on vacation, even when they are sick.

In the end, Chua calls herself an “extreme parent.” When her younger daughter has a mini breakdown, chopping off her hair, refusing to meet her mother’s demands and eventually screaming “I hate you!” and a slew of other hurtful words in the middle of a restaurant, she admits that her methods might not be completely right.

In the end, Chua is “just” a mum. She is confused. She eventually begins to look for answers instead of believing she has them all.

Some of her behaviours make sense to me, like when she tells her children that everything worthwhile is difficult. Some of her behaviours don’t, like when she punishes her daughter for saying she doesn’t like to compete.

Some of her analysis of Western culture makes sense, like when I see 4-year-olds running amok inside an auditorium where a concert is going on, because their parents believe in creative expression. Some of her analysis makes the hair stand up on the back of my head, like when she complains that we Western moms get to drink wine and go to yoga while she stays home and supervises her daughters’ music practice.

Chua is also afraid. Afraid of what, I don’t exactly know.

I’m not sure she does either. Whatever it is, it’s big. And it’s powerful.

Fear, in fact, is what drives both “sides” to the outer edges of

She doesn’t allow sleepovers or play dates. Her daughters must be No. 1 at everything they do

good parenting – we Westerners with our so-called overindulgence and Chuan Chinese with their hell-bent determination to wring straight-A perfection out of their children.

Indeed, in the end, this book and all the emotional dialogue it has provoked, presents more common ground than differences.

Both sides are afraid that the kids, in fact, are not all right.

Both sides are fierce.

Both sides could do with a dose of the good, simple psychology that accompanied another book written back in 1946, way before “parenting” was even an entry in Webster’s, when the words “Trust yourself” meant something.

Debra-Lynn B. Hook (www.debralynnhook.com), has been writing about family life since 1988 when she was pregnant with the first of her three children. Read her blog at http://debralynnbloopbloopotter.blogspot.com

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Tackling Anxieties

Pastor Raymond Davis Jr: There are necessary concerns that touch our daily living that are subject to becoming an anxiety or worry. We do daily family administration of various kinds and even become subject to various temptations of the flesh that test our faith resolve. These all fall under the scope of anxieties that we inherit as a result of our living in the world.

Anxieties are pressure points that result when we become troubled in mind and fearful of our ability to handle the situation. The danger of anxieties is that the possibility exists that we fall out of the will of God over these concerns that have fallen into the anxiety stage.

Anxieties take many forms. Jesus stood within the spiritual principles resulting in overcoming anxiety and staying in the will of God. Temptation is an anxiety that can take us out of the will of God. The Bible makes the bold assertion that Jesus “was in all points tempted as we are, yet without sin” (Hebrews 4:15b).

As Jesus stood in the power to overcome anxieties through prayer, so too are we encouraged to do the same. “Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need” (Hebrews 4:16).

“It’s my life!

– the nuclear option

Rabbi Robert L. Tobin: Our lives are created by God and by parents, and we are given the responsibility to care for that expression of hope and love that we see in the mirror every day. No, our lives are not our own.

Genesis includes the famous declaration that “it is not good that the human should live alone, so I will make a soul mate for him/her.” The basic human condition is only fulfilled in relationships. Our teachers, friends, colleagues and children all have a claim on us. We are their investments, and they deserve to enjoy the benefit of their efforts and involvement in our life.

We are not self-made beings, living in narcissistic isolation and solo-empowerment. We are the sum of all of our experiences.

And those experiences are sacred, spiritual, social and political.

Yes, we are sacred beings created in God’s image. And yes, prolonging real suffering in disease without hope for health and recovery would be a desecration of that sacredness. Yes, there are ultimate times in the end of life when hospice care is appropriate-even sacred. But premature suicide? It is not our life to take, and if we take our own life, we steal it from every person we have ever met, and from any person we might ever help, and from the one who formed us from days of old. This is the proper context for the command “choose life.”

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WORDS BY RAYMOND DAVIS, ROBERT TOBIN & HOLLY MCKISSICK PHOTOGRAPHY BY ROBERT CHURCHILL

The Rev. Holly McKissick: Who said it was your life?

That’s the real question. At the heart of Christian faith we affirm: the Earth is the Lord’s and the fullness thereof.

What passes through my hands is not mine, but mine to tend. From the oceans to the ozone, I am called to be a wise, generous steward. That includes my life, and when it comes to my life, the guiding question, from the first breath to the last, is: does this decision promote the well-being of the Earth and those around me?

Decisions at the end of life are highly personal, and yet they cannot be made apart from the community. When an individual – overcome with despair – ends her life prematurely, society loses gifts, dreams and talents. Suicide is not just “poor stewardship” of a nonrenewable resource – a unique life – it is “contagious,” raising the risk of suicide throughout the affected community.

A terminal illness is different. The decision to forego futile medical treatment can be a hope-filled act of faith, signalling a healthy understanding of one’s place in creation – along with sensitivity to the finite nature of resources.

If it were just your life you could do whatever you want, but it’s not. You and I are an inseparable part of a community that is, by the grace and mystery of God, without beginning or end.

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