Dedication

This website is dedicated firstly to Elizabeth - a beautiful and wonderfully complex person whom I love and am grateful to for, among other things, her intensely objective analyses which have improved and shall continue to better my writing. Secondly, this site is dedicated with a great deal of thanks to Brad Picken, Shawn Cady, Paul Lefebvre, Bill Duncan and Hyan Thiboutot - all who have offered not only great help but also incomparable support. In many ways, they have shaped the evolution of the Empires of Saladium as much as myself. Finally, but not least of all, this site is also dedicated to the surgeons, doctors and nurses of the Institut de Cardiologie de Montréal who gave my mother a new life. God be with all of you.