Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - December 28, 1986, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press december pages 916 Weaver wonderful in thriller half Moon donating brain for research encouraged by tissue violence viewed As a disease Chicago Tribune murders and suicides Are More responsible for keeping Young people from growing old than is they have become the big three of and some medical Awakening to their devastating want to reclassify the violent nature of these deaths As a that is the concept that health officials Are working on to find ways to Stem the car nage of violent injuries and the new morbidity of eight out of 10 deaths among adolescents and Young adults Are making them the 1 victims of premature violent deaths among the 15 through24 age group account for More years of potential life lost before age 65 than any other cause of including heart disease and among All other age groups the Federal govern ments centers for disease control in which is leading the new Way of looking at also wants to get rid of the word Acci we want to get away from the term Accident that implies theres nothing you can do about these deaths that they Are random events As opposed to something we can said sociologist James head of the cacs violence epidemiology the cd recently established an unintentional injuries Section to conduct research on deaths caused from such things As Motove Hicle crashes and an intentional injuries Section for murder and suicide viewing violence As a Dis opens the possibility of using medical epidemiological techniques to detect the causes of violence and to develop prevention for Are Young Black males in the the most Likely to be or Young White males the most Likely to die in car or Young White males the most Likely to commit or Young White females the most Likely to attempt or Young Black females the most Likely to be victims of abuse throughout most of infections have been the Lead ing cause of infectious disease control started 190 years ago when Edward Jen an English developed the first which provided Protection against with the development of Public health Mea improved bet Ter antibiotics and other deaths from infections declined precipitous violent deaths surpassed those from infections some time in the Early until violence Hast been viewed As a pub Lic health said William former Assis Tant surgeon general and special assistant for policy development at the centers for disease it has been viewed As a la enforcement prob or As a welfare in the Case of Auto Acci a transportation prob violence appeared inevitable because it defied this fatalistic thinking must be said who is now director of the Carter Center at Emory University in that we live in a Ausean effect world is As True with violence As with infectious an important observation for both Public health people and just As epidemiology is used to track Down the germs that cause similar surveillance is needed to identify the risks involved in such As de risk taking cars and if we in Medicine Are going to do anything to reduce the death rate in weve got to tackle the disease of violence just like we tack led infant diarrhoea and infections in babies several dec Ades said Robert professor of paediatrics at the Cornell University medical Vienn free press juggling careers Nathan Zassman works so hard his feet rarely touch the ground by Dave Haynes a smile works across Nath an Zassman face As the seconds pass and the or Anges Hes fished out of the Kitchen remain what with everything else going its been months since he tried juggling anything other than his Ca but standing amidst his Liv ing room flipping three oranges around for a Zass Man looks at he knows he wont Fumble the it be like personification a Little his tight curly hair getting scarce up 38yearold Zassman hardly looks like the 80s personification of yup but its All he runs a booming computer sales and consulting plays trombone for the Winnipeg symphony or is among the Best photog Raphers in the teaches both music and photography on the writes for a business Maga dabbles with astrology and and Cooks gourmet food Well enough to interest Cookbook operating out of the second floor of his mostly on his Zassman has quickly made Aries Micro systems a Success Story in a highly competitive with a growing professional client list and newly acquired rights to a major medical software Aries could top million in sales in Manitoba business Maga in its upcoming top 100 list will identify Zassman com Pany As one of the fastest growing in the his Success has a lot do with personal customers can ring him up late at night for help and write musician Wanda Toews talked to what seemed like every computer Man in town before deciding to buy from he just won my says and he certainly Hast let me Prairie theatre Exchange artistic director Colin Jackson has purchased a Cou ple of systems from Zassman and has since recommended him to two other arts word Mouth because of that Good word of Money is rolling but curiosity might More accurately explain Nathan Zassman learning has always been the biggest thing with i always wanted to learn More and ill go to bed at two in the morning and ill still pick up a Book and i dont really think in a Workaholic like some people think i i just want to do things As Best i he recently stopped in at a local pistol Range and shot for the first time in his now Hes talking about shooting Zassman oozes he loves to talk about his about his ego is that manner grates on some peo other friends consider him warm and though inevitably a Little everything emanates from his huge Stra Brook Avenue he lives and works on the upper with the ground floor rented As an a maid comes in to clean up after but the place has the ramshackle look of some one who Doest have a lot of time for the Side stairwell is half blocked by cardboard boxes and the Kitchen is cluttered with everything from electronic gadgetry and bottles of red wine to a Polaroid of Nathan standing with Wade the Star third base Man of his beloved Boston red a Basic Auburn rules the wandering everywhere and climbing uninvited on visitors where he makes himself at two bedrooms have Given Way to computers and one a sales the other for camera gear is stuffed and stacked in a Hall and music stands loiter behind a living room a Fourshee drive Subaru Wagon moves his clutter around Between a cashier Subaru Sedan sits All but mothballed in a Zassman schedule has him forever in touch with a silent pager beepers dont go Over big with symphony conductors and an answering Hes looking for office i dont consider anything i do he when asked about what seems like an exhausting id be play ing for even if i want paid for Witch trials other interests have come and but music has been Central to Nathan Michael Zassman since he was a growing up in the Small seaport City of about a 30minute train ride outside of an area Rich with his the family was just Down the Street from the oldest woo Frame House in the where the pilgrims held Witch is just across a Bridge from Zassman father owned and maintained a series of apartment his an Oil company credit manager when Nathan and his two Sisters didst demand her introduced him to she thought id be safer in a band than on a football he took voice lessons for a couple of even Sang at his Syna but when his voice teacher Between 10yearold Zassman swung his interest to the i liked the sound of the and there was an ice Cream called Coronet ice he re i knew nothing about the and he never found his band director had other he looked at me and you May want to play the but we need trombones in the and youve got Long he was to his the Only trombone player worse than him at music Camp one summer was a boy whose arms were too Short to hit certain Nathans interest in music was fading rapid but then an Odd thing he heard someone play the trom Bone beautifully in and Young Zassman was Back he told his mystified Mother that he wanted to find the Best instructor around and get Seri he started training with a Boston symphony his i just want to do things As Best i skills and obsession and every he tagged along with a Guy across the who took his children around the Boston area to play in youth bands and exposed to so much loped and was performing with semiprofessional orchestras while still fresh out of High Zass Man moved to new York in 1966 and enrolled in the Manhattan school of he played with some area orchestras and paid the rent fixing sandwiches in a Deli and working As a male the offshoot of learning How to touch Type at 14 because Nis handwriting was so i can still show you a he that says Nathan Zass Man classical phone Sid trips Zassman discovered quickly that he was just another Good brass player in new the Best he were there via taught to professional Standard by Chicago sym phony musician Arnold Zassman resolved to learn from and started taking Side trips to it want after two years in new Zass Man had his credits transferred to Chicago american conservatory of it took another six years of intensive studying with Jacobs before he was ready to make a living with his i Basi Cally had to relearn the trom says because of All the bad habits i had picked up it was a very painful time in my it was also one of his happiest the Vietnam War was at its Peak when his draft card turned up in the a student deferment had kept the armed forces at Bay for a but they had tracked him Down to Chicago and wanted already Skinny at four 150 Zassman went on a crash diet to drop below the 138pound minimum for his the Day he went for his the scale read Over the he has slowly filled out to 200 he made ends meet in Chicago by tending Selling Volvo and teaching other Young trombone winning a concerto Competition with a Chicago orchestra in 1973 suggested he was finally ready to play and the Fol lowing Zassman auditioned and won a second trombone spot with the attended workshops his interest in photography first developed while he was still in Chi Cago and then took hold in his first years with the in his free he read volumes about photo and in Summers away from the attended work shops across the by he was using his summer Breaks to teach technique at a noted photog Raphy school in with he opened the he Lio graph gallery of photography in an old Bell Avenue Home in staging exhibitions of work by top regional but the concept was i had intended for it to at least pay its own and it want doing he and his partners the Heli graph evolving gradually into the still existing floating Zassman briefly tried a hybrid Fine gallery in his old Mcmillan Avenue but the resulting invasion of privacy Trou bled he got out of the gallery business entirely in his photography is now limited to sporadic commercial and Maga Zine shoots and teaching Small groups of carefully selected Stu dents for intensive three month schools he runs once or twice each year from leased studio and lab space Zassman had been As the gallery that it was time to slow Down a bit and maybe develop some semblance of a per Sonal but his passion for Cook ing led accidentally to his newfound obsession for wanting to write a Zassman bought himself a word eternally transfixed by Zassman was drawn to the Workings of his you do have to learn How to think a differ ent Way with he i like the fact that computers Are very in a perfectionist in Many in the things that i and you cant Issue a command with a computer and just be almost Correct in your it wont know what youre talking so i guess that one of the things that i he have made him More having raved about his computer to anyone who Zassman found himself taking Over sales for the brands local with in Zassman entirely took Over the distributorship and started Aries with the distributorship for a handful of accessories and sales have doubled each of his three years in Zassman expects the regional rights he has for a new medi Cal office software which replaces endless rows of record files with a few magnetic could dramatically boost his Busi its a vertical the potential is All this has come with a he still Doest have much of a private hed love to find the right but he Hast got the time to his body is flabby because he Hast time for racquetball or one knee is racked up and there Are some so musicians who think Hes got too much on the go to give his work the needed Atten in sometimes worries other musicians might re sent his diverse i doubt there Are Many musicians who make the Money that i am but i work real hard for its not like in just sitting Back and the Money is just flowing in up til two or three in the All the i work ;