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But however we sound, the important thing is that we're understood. “To make someone more understandable, we start with vowels, then conso nants, then pitch and stress — the total sound system. When we speak in English we use a lot of air so that, too, is something we work on. “You see, you're taking people back to the age of two, working on how they make sounds.” Accent adjustment was what the musical My Fair Lady was all about, based on NORA'S BEAUTY SHOP _ OPEN AGAIN! would like to thonk my customers for there pa George Bernard Shaw's Pyg malion. In recent years, accent adjustment has been the stuff of surefire comedy routines. FUNNY ACCENT The serious side of a funny accent, though, is it can be practically impossible to al ter. “To obtain a change, there must be instruction in what one does with one’s body,” says Christine Rickards of the University of Toronto's department of speech path ology. “And just as it's difficult for an adult to adjust his or her posture, it’s quite a dif ficult task to change the way you use your body to talk.” The tools of Gandy's trade include a flashlight with mirror attached so a student can see how a vowel or con sonant rolls off the tongue. Her current group includes a Newfoundlander, along with students of Chinese, European and Caribbean background “There is almost a stigma to being from Newfoud land,” says Clare Jones, a teacher who is taking the course. “Being not stupid and being halfway educated, I didn’t want to have to put up with that any longer. Many students initially are shy about taking instruction in a group. Soon, however, the benefits of working with others of different back. grounds becomes obvious. Firms told how to butt out TORONTO (CP) — Comp- anies planning to bring in no-smoking policies should use a little creativity to help employees kick the habit, a conference on smoking in the workplace was told. Robert Rosner, director of the Smoking Policy Institute in Seattle, Wash., said em- ployers should approach workers with an attitude “not of ‘Thou shalt not smoke,’ but ‘Policies are changing and we're going to help you adjust.” ” Ideally, companies should sponsor free smoking-cessa tion programs for employees and avoid giving incentives such as bonuses to smokers who quit, said Rosner, whose non-profit organization helps businesses implement smok. ing-control policies. Such incentives may make non-smokers feel penalized and may backfire. He cited one ease in which two non- smokers took up the habit so they could attend a hypnosis course offered to help smok. ers butt out, “because they'd always wanted to be hyp- notized.” Asked by one participant whether it's feasible for hospitals to ban patients from smoking, Rosner said Statistics show two-thirds of all hospital fires are caused by patients. “I feel very comfortable going into a hospital knowing the guy next to me lying in his bed is on drugs, and he's smoking with all the oxygen there and all the burnables,” Rosner quipped sarcastically. SMOKE UNHEALTHY Hospitals can emphasize safety to enforce a ban, he said, and suggested they also start up in-house cessation programs for elective pat- jents that start the day of admission. “What better place to quit than a hospital.” DESCRIBE HAZARDS Educational seminars on the hazards of smoking are also a good idea because many smokers are unaware that side-stream smoke “is harmful to others. About 50 participants at the day-long seminar were told earlier that non-smokers in offices with smoking em- ployees can ingest the equiv- alent of three to 10 cigarettes a day. Rosner said employers should also give workers about three months’ lead time when a difficult to treat because it also has psychological and social no-smoking policy. That gives them a deadline that is long enough to permit them to change behavior, but soon enough to be taken seriously. Dr. Barbara Dorian, a psy- chiatrist at Toronto General Hospital, said employers should be sensitive to the “very real distress" most smokers experience at the prospect of quitting. As well, non-smoking em- ployees should be educated “about the process that the quitting smoker is about to go through,” she said. Nicotine is similar to her- oin and other narcotics in its highly addictive properties, Dorian said. But the addic- tion is also one of the most Wood stoves a problem FREDERICTON (CP) — On cold winter mornings, the St. John River Valley in New Brunswick looks like a scene from a Christmas card. But along with the crisp green of the forest and the mantle of fresh white snow, there's a layer of blue smoke hovering over the houses. The valley is one of the areas of Canada where people depend heavily on wood for heat. There are times in the winter when the smoke hangs over the homes like a dense \bank of fog. The blue haze adds color and softness to the scene, but it also poses a problem When people step outside for a breath of air on those cold, hazy mornings, they risk inhaling a nasty com bination of carbon monoxide, hydrocarbons, nitrogen oxides. and a host of other organic chemicals and gases that float down from the wood smoke. They might as well stay inside and breathe second hand smoke from cigarettes — the effects are almost as bad “From a health perspec tive, long-term exposure to wood smoke may cause eye irritation, headaches and respiratory illness — not unlike the effects of second hand cigarette smoke,”, says Environment Canada spokes man R.N. Neumeyer. SWITCHED FUEL It has been ‘several years since the energy crisis and Ottawa's off-oil program prompted many Canadians to switch to electricty and wood for heat. In some parts of the United States and Canada, the wide- spread use of wood for heat has given rise to new pro- grams designed to cut emis: sions by improving the ef. ficiency of stoves and furn aces. In places like the Yukon, Oregon, Vermont and New Hampshire, monitoring equipment has béen installed in high-risk communities and subsidies are offered to help people replace old burners with state-of-the-art stoves and furnaces. In Atlantic Canada, one third of the homes burn wood for heat. Local environment officials say wood smoke is becoming a pollution hazard and they're watching what others do to control the problem. “We're keeping an eye on what's happening in other places . .. if it gets to be more of a problem here, at least we'll have some homework done as far as what other jurisdictions have done,” says James Knight, chief of the New Brunswick Environ ment Department's air-qual- ity section. The St. John River Valley was identified early in the off-oil program as an area where wood smoke could cause trouble. SMOKE TRAPPED Knight said smoke gets trapped in valleys because the wind and sun can't break it up easily. He says there have been a few complaints from valley residents, but not as many as expected. It might be dif. ferent, Knight says, if people could blame an_ industry rather than their own stoves. “People don't view wood- smoke as pollution in the same way they view in- dustrial emissions. “Certainly I've been out on evenings when I would think a lot of people would be com plaining if it was an industry that was causing the same smells and the same amount of particles in the air.” But Knight says wood heat is here to stay. “With the off-oil program of two or three years ago, there were a tremendous number of wood appliances purchased and put into homes. In fact it was about 50-50 between electricty and wood,” he says, adding New Brunswickers burn about 420,000 cords of wood a year to heat their hom “We had a feeling a lot of the novelty would wear off, but it hasn't.” The hope for the future, he says, is more efficient stoves and methods of burning wood. CRAVINGS INTENSE “Once dependence occurs, there is a highly unpleasant withdrawal state and intense cravings,” she said. Other effects of withdrawal include sleep disturbance, nauseau, disorientation, loss of con. centration and weight gain, which can last for months. For many smokers, the habit becomes part of their identity, often taking on the persona of a trusted friend or companion, particularly in times of stress, she said. Asa result, forced quitting can be traumatic, Dorian said. “Some may feel that to agree to quit is like agreeing to the death of a friend on a certain day.” An effective smoking ces sation program should assure smokers that “that part of them can be relinquished, given up and mourned, much as they would mourn the loss of a person.” Many smokers also fear they won't succeed in quit ting and are often afraid to try because failure causes a sense of shame, Dorian said. To combat their feelings of “Ob, what's the use,” Dorian said, smokers should be en. couraged to try to break their habit in “manageable bits,” taking it one day at a time. 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When you're 16 the age of 40 seems like 100 years away.” So Hewlett got on with his life. STUDIES BIOLOGY He came from a happy Vancouver Island family and always loved animals, fishing arid the him as staff biologist. “My heart soared when he offered me the job,” Hewlett said. He immediately told Newman about his eye disease and what it would lead to, Newman hired him anyway. In 1971, at age 28, he was promoted to curator. “Slowly my eyesight got worse, and my failure was denying that fact for so long.” relied increasingly on his wife, Stefani, who was appointed aquarium biologist in 1976 after working there for several years as his volunteer assistant. “But jt got harder and harder to hide my blindness,” Hewlett ‘said. “I wouldn't go out to functions or give lectures although all that’s part of my By January, he had only five-per-cent daytime vision and none at night. His marriage had ended. ACTIVE LIFE Finally he turned to the Canadian National Institute for the Blind where a man with a similar illness who leads an extremely active life talked to Hewlett weekly. He learned to use a white cane and was taught braille, He was given’ a federal grant to buy a voice-activated computer and learn to use it. “First I went to the barber's by myself,” he said. “Then to the dry cleaners and then to the supermarket. “I learned to ask for help and found out how kind people can be.” A watershed for Hewlett was taking the bus to work instead of spending $26 a day on taxis. The first day he mastered the bus (involving a downtown change and a walk through Stanley Park) the aquarium staff greeted him with flowers. He's giving talks again | and went to an out-of-town by Biology was a natural choice for his university studies. “T've had night blindness since I was a kid but I never liked to tell people,” he said. In 1964, Hewlett walked into the aquarium looking for a temporary job cleaning floors. He was given a tough science test by director Dr. Murray Newman who hired . Now he plans to go to all professional conferences. By summer, Hewlett was feeling so good about his independence that he decidéd to try skydiving. Strapped to an instructor, he leaped out of a plane. “We were at 9,000 feet and made a free fall for 30 seconds — it seemed like an eternity.” Bingo halls to be licensed VANCOUVER (CP) — The British Columbia Gaming Commission is requiring commercial bingo halls to be licensed to give it more control over bingo, commis- sion chairman Dick Macin- tosh said. Previously, only charities — which rented halls from the commercial operators — required licences. Last year, bingo generated revenues for $160 million, 25 per cent of which was re quried to go to charity. Macintosh said the com mission brought in licensing to limit the proliferation of commercial halls and to gain Canadian businessman stabbed wife's lover LONDON (CP) — Toronto businessman Joseph Robb told a British court Tuesday how he repeatedly stabbed his wife’s lover in a London hotel last’ May after pleading with the victim to “back off” from the love affair. Robb, president of North ern Fine Foods of Toronto, told the Old Bailey criminal court he had flown to London in hopes of having a “civ ilized" discussion with Michael Horton, former Eur- opean president of Burson Ottawa leaked figures? VANCOUVER (CP) — The federal government may have leaked information claiming more than 11,000 people have entered Canada without proper documents to muster public support for new immigration legislation. British Columbia refugee aid workers said. The information from the Immigration Department said the people had entered the country during the last two years on stolen or forged passports or without travel documents. more background on people in the business. “It gives the government some control,” said Norma Mitchell, a spokesman for charities involved in bingo. “Previously, the only way to prevent interference (by -hall operators) was to penalize the charity which held the licence.” But she said she had no proof of interference by hall owners. Commercial operators said they were opposed to the increased government con- trol. “The actual process of li- censing a hall is something I Marsteller, a New York- based public relations firm. However, Robb said he “exploded” when Horton at- tempted to leave the hotel room after brushing off his appeals to end the affair. “My temper exploded. I wanted to hit him and some- where in the process I picked up a knife and stabbed him,” Robb said. Horton, 41, bled to death in the hotel room. An autopsy revealed he had been stabbed 20 times. Robb has pleaded not guilty to murder. The court has refused to accept a re- duced plea of manslaughter. FIGHTS FOR WIFE Robb, 41, said he arranged the hotel meeting in a des- perate effort to save his marriage in the wake of a decision by his wife, Sheila, to leave him. “I told him it wasn't just support if the intent is dis- closure of the principals in- volved,” said Don Currie, owner of the Guildford Bingo Palace. “But if it is to control how many halls open, that's not in line with free enter- prise.” building up a bureaucracy,” he said. Macintosh said the licenc- ing requirement should solve the outstanding problems associated with the suspen- sion- last. November of 100 charity bingo licences. The charities lost their licences because they were not re- ceiving 25 per cent of gross revenues. Commercial bingo operator Tom Capozzi — forced to close his Penticton hall in November when the govern- Canada's top guns By STEVE MERTLE Canadian Press COMOX, B.C. — Ian Struthers is a high priest in a very exclusive religion. Clear-eyed and firm-jawed, his blond hair closely cropped, Struthers looks exactly like the typical image of a fighter pilot — right out of the film Top Gun. Except that Struthers pilots Canada’s CF-18 Hornets, and Top Gun was a paean to the cult of the U.S. fighter jock. “Actually, it was fairly close,” Struthers says of the film. “There was a lot of Hollywood involved in the movie, but the bravado, some of the spirit, some of the aggressive. ness, is a reality.” Struthers, who at 39 still looks too boyish to be a lieutenant-colonel, doesn't quite conform to type. Married and with a 16-year-old son, the sportiest thing about his ground-bound life is a vacation camper. His wingman, Lieut. Serge Beaulieu, is another story. The 26-year-old Quebec City native races motorbikes and owns a sports car. He got hooked on fighters after his first ride in a jet trainer. “I was so impressed by the rush, by the way those things handle,” he says. “It really did turn me on.” FLY CF-18 Struthers and Beaulieu are members of an elite group. Only 150 pilots are qualified to fly the CF-18 Hornet, Canada’s first-line fighter. Struthers commands 441 Squadron at Canadian Forces Base Cold Lake, Alta., the latest unit to get the new plane. Beaulieu joined the squadron last July after three years of flight training. They personify what Struthers calls “the new air force.” About half the Hornet pilots are veterans, hand-picked from other units. The rest are recent flight-school graduates. Struthers approves of the mix. The older pilots bring experience and the younger ones, weaned on video games, are at ease with the computerized CF-18. What they have in common is an addiction to high-per formance fighters. “It's not hard to get up at five in the morning and go flying,” says Beaulieu. AT COLD LAKE Struthers’ Silver Fox squadron — its motto is Stalk and Kill — is one of three CF-18 units at Cold Lake. Its main‘role is northern defence, but four of Struthers’ fighters also operate out of CFB Comox, on Vancouver Island, under control of the North American Aerospace Defence Command to intercept intruders. Pilots and ground crews rotate back to Cold Lake weekly. The Hornets share the base with Maritime Command's sub-hunting Auroras and aging Tracker fisheries patrol planes. They wear the same dull grey paint, a little darker than the Comox Valley winter sky. One pair of Hornets is always on alert in a compound tucked away at one end of the field. When a controller at Norad’s command centre in North Bay, Ont., spots an unidentified aircraft on radar, he pushes @ button.and a klaxon sounds at Comox. Minutes later the CF-18s, armed with missiles and a 20-millimetre cannon, roar out of their open-ended shelters like a pair of snarling dogs. With flame from the afterburners licking out their ex hausts, the fighters are airborne and out of sight in less time than most people take to back a car out of a driveway. SOVIETS RARE Usually, the intruders turn out to be airliners off.course or pilots who didn't bother filing a flight plan. The threat of Soviet ineursions is much smaller than on the East Coast, where Soviet bombers routinely test the defences. Struthers can rattle off the CF-18's vital statistics with military precision, but behind: the jargon the zeal of the believer is still in his eyes. “If you're looking for any bad-mouthing,” he says politely, “you're talking to the wrong person. The CF-18 is the finest fighter aircraft in the world.” Six Canadian Hornets have crashed, with two pilots killed, since delivery of the U.S.-built jets started in 1982. Canada bought 138 of them for $5.2 billion. The plane, also flown by the U.S. navy and the Australian and Spanish air forces, has been plagued by mechanical problems, including engine defects and structural weaknesses. NOT DISTURBED Struthers seems untroubled by the crashes. He says the CF-18 has had fewer teething problems than his earlier mount, the CF-104 Starfighter. Pilots nicknamed that 1950s- vintage, stubby-winged fighter the Widowmaker. The Hornet has 27 different computers to give it lightning reflexes in swirling, close-in dogfights. TH Coming Soon . . . See the Castlegar News of Sun., Jan. ment suspended the licences of charities that used it — said the government has gone too far. “Here we are in a province that is supposed to be priv- atizing and somebody is for Sheila and me: it was for the children, our parents and our life together,” he said. He described his earlier discovery of love letters be- tween Horton and his wife as the most miserable day in his We'lL Steer You to SAVI NGS Thing WeDo . - fo) ‘ life. “I thought they were for me,” he said. “I didn't think my wife would be writing to anyone else in those terms.” Joseph Robb was born in Belfast but emigrated to Toronto with his wife in 1975. Horton worked in Toronto between 1981 and 1985, where he employed Sheila Robb, prosecutor Anthony Glass told the court. Horton was posted to Eng- land, but he and Sheila Robb were able to continue their affair because both had to travel, the prosecutor said. BRAND NEW PONTIAC ACADIANS FROM °6488 NO PROBLEM INO bown payment... PAYMENTS UNTIL APRIL-’88 OAC BRAND NeW PONTIAC SUNBIRDS 10,988 BRAND NEW PONTIAC TEMPEST FROM ‘11,688 TO YOUR CREDIT REQUIREMENTS TO GREAT SAVINGS!!! 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