CH2: Celebrate Hilton Head - January 2012

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C2’S BACHELOR OF THE YEAR

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A TOAST TO YOUR HEALTH! WITH FITNESS TIPS, A WORKOUT ROUTINE AND A VARIETY OF WEIGHT LOSS STRATEGIES January 2012

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FIvE STEPS FOR A SMART FINANCIAL START IN 2012 a well-planned budget is an invaluable tool if you want to improve your financial position.

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MEET CJ STEEDLEy C2’s newest Bachelor of the year

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EN GARDE! Maybe for una Jackson it should be touché. according to the usFa, she’s number one in the united states in her category.

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A GOOD HAIR DAy: NOW THAT’S KARMA Local hair stylist danielle Keasling opens her new salon and makes it into the finals of the Great Lengths hair Challenge. What a way to kick off 2012!

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FIvE INvESTING MISTAKES yOu DON’T HAvE TO MAKE it’s easy to have confidence in investments made during bull markets, but times of increasing market volatility tend to magnify mistakes.

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CRANFORD & SONS a local gang of 20- and 30-somethings are taking the road less travelled, musically speaking.

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FROM RESOLuTION TO REALITy the weight loss solution that lasts.

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IT’S bETTER IN GROuPS Group fitness offers many more benefits than working out alone. research shows that people are more likely to work harder and stay committed to a workout regimen when they exercise in groups.

THE bLACK HOLE OF WEIGHT LOSS discover a new universe—hCG (human chorionic gonadotrophin)

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C2’S FIFTEEN-MINuTE WORKOuT the basis of this routine is functional, full-body exercises that build strength and intensity intervals that get the heart pumping and boost metabolism.

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METAbOLIC MEDICAL MAGIC this time, let’s commit to a real lifestyle change, let our body know we’re serious and while we’re at it, let’s make it healthy.

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happy neW year!

ConGratuLations to C.J. steedLey, Ch2’s 2012 BaCheLor oF the year!

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EDITOR’S NOTE

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

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LAvA 24 Keep your new year’s resolution at the best health club in the Lowcountry.

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THE EyE SIGHT OF bLuFFTON drs. robert szypczak and Jennifer switak are 30-something optometrists, a married couple, and keepers of not one, not two, but four optical outlets.

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A SERIES OF FORTuNATE EvENTS your 15 minutes of fame.

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CHARITy CORNER ronald Mcdonald Care Mobile providing access to dental care

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SAvE A buCK, SAvE A PET Palmetto animal League thrift finds new home.

P32 A LINE IN THE SAND tim tebow: the Christian Quarterback

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GOLF 101 Launch Monitors: do they really help your game?

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C2 AFTER DARK Who’s playing where and when, along with trivia nights, and other reasons to stay up past 10 p.m.! But not after 2am. nothing good happens after 2 a.m. ask your mother.

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WHAT yOu NEED TO KNOW AbOuT... investing in oil & Gas

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A WORD FROM THE MAyORS drew Laughlin and Lisa sulka update you on town happenings on hilton head island and in Bluffton.

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DISCOuNTS! Why in the world would you not show your CH2 card to get these fabulous discounts? if your issue doesn’t have one, e-mail us your mailing address and we’ll send you one! Card requests to m.washo@ celebratehiltonhead.com.

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happy neW year!

CELEbRATE JANuARy We aren’t big fans of January around here. We admit it.

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ow many times in life have you wanted to say that? Maybe something thoughtless flew out of your mouth and, seconds after it did, you regretted it. Perhaps you hit send on an e-mail that should have been put through a filter first. i’m sure many a person who ended up with a dui wished they had just called a cab. Maybe you let “the one” get away because you didn’t have the wherewithal to make it work...at the time. there is something about the beginning of a new year that gives us all another chance. We get a collective “do-over,”—an opportunity to be a

better husband, wife, father, mother, boss, friend and neighbor. another year to say i love you more often, manage money better, eat healthier, be unselfish. i’m not sure exactly why we decide to start over after partying into the wee hours of the morning, but that’s neither here nor there. so, i propose a toast to everyone out there ready to make the world a better place, starting within your own sphere of influence. you’ve just been given a do-over. Make it count. happy new year!

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M. Washo Publisher / editor-in-Chief

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Letters

To the Editor...

A Letter to Tim: Tim, I know this loss of your position of Head Coach of your beloved Seahawks came as a shock. It is a shock to all of us and we feel your pain. We know what you went through during your time at Hilton Head High and we know that these last few months have been a tumultuous time for you, your family and your true friends who know the real Tim Singleton, not the monster the School Administration and the writers of this newspaper have made you out to be. WE KNOW you would never steal money from anyone let alone a program that benefits local children. WE KNOW about the policy’s that sprung up within the school that you “supposedly” didn’t follow during since September. WE KNOW that in all your time at HHH you never received one write-up until a few months ago when you received several to further the administrations purpose to fire you. WE KNOW the truth will come out eventually and we hope other HHH staff will not be hurt the way you have been in the process. WE KNOW how hard it’s been for you to lose your health insurance because of your son’s condition and need for medication. WE KNOW about the trips to the eye glass doctor for your “other kids/ players/students” who were unable to afford much needed eyewear. WE KNOW about the purchase of shoes, clothes, meals…..the list goes on and on, for any student that came to you with a need. WE KNOW there is no limit or end to your generosity. WE KNOW about the money you’ve loaned to friends in need, the blood sweat and tears you’ve put into your football team, your Strive program and your own children’s education. WE KNOW about the fundraising efforts you single handedly accomplished for your football team WITHOUT the support of the Booster Club. WE KNOW that you are not a slum lord, in fact that your generosity doesn’t stop with your kids but extends on to your tenants in your units who can’t pay rent on time or can’t pay utility bills. WE KNOW that when Chips father came to you about Chip playing on the team it never occurred to you to say no because you are a GREAT MAN, A LEADER OF MEN, A HERO, AN INSPIRATION, and you will now leave a LEGACY that will never be forgotten. This is not the end for you, it is just the beginning. We stand behind you, we support you and we are rooting for you Tim, to move on to greater endeavors in life and not let this bump in the road prevent you from greatness.

To your boys Bryce and Jordan: You may come across these articles as you continue to grow and become men.

The majority of what you read in the Island Packet Articles is absolutely false. Your father refused to “get into the mud” with the people behind the stories. He refused to stoop to their level and because of that only one side of this story was ever printed. You are quite possibly the two most loved children on the planet. You are his whole world and he tried to prevent any of this from reaching or hurting you although he couldn’t stop it and knows you had to endure issues within 20

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the schools because of this. Bryce, his dream of coaching you as a Seahawk football player may have been cut short but it by no means will interfere with your goals as a young man and up and coming high school student. Your father is an AMAZING person who became the target of somebody else’s agenda to further their own career while ending his. Sometimes that happens in the “real world” and it’s just a fact of life. If there is one thing you take from this whole situation it should be to always imitate your father’s composure under pressure, his humility, integrity and dignity.

Tim, we will always remember you the way you truly are and not the way the media has portrayed you to be. Your passion, your infectious smile, your drive, your hope, your generosity, your humility will never be forgotten at Hilton Head High.

R.P. Article by Frank Dunne, Jr. PHOTOGRAPHY BY ANNE

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ovember is National Hospice Month. Hospice Care of the Lowcountry’s executive director, Jenny Brasington, and director of community relations, Darlene Schuetz want to celebrate by clearing up some common misconceptions about what hospice is and what their people do. Here’s a hint: stop thinking about hospice care in terms of death, and start thinking about it in terms of life.

“Probably the biggest one (misconception) is that we enhance death,” said Brasington, “which we do not. What we do is go into a patient’s home, somebody who is terminally ill, per a doctor’s order, and find out what they need, what they want, for the last stage of their life.”

Those needs and wants may include things like physical care and pain and symptom management for the patient, but hospice care’s focus is not entirely limited to the patient. “What does the family need? We treat the patient and the family as a single unit, because it’s not only about the patient. It’s about the family,” said Brasington. “How can we help them physically, emotionally and spiritually?”

As luck would have it, just as the ladies and I were speaking about the family element, one Mrs. Nancy O’Connell happened by our table. Nancy’s husband Charles had spent the last six months of his life in Hospice Care of the Lowcountry’s care

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before passing away four years ago. She was happy to join us and share some thoughts about the experience. A better testimonial than what followed there could not be.

Naturally, it was emotional for Nancy (and everybody else at the table), and though a few tears welled up, it was through mostly smiling Irish eyes that she recalled not only the time spent with Hospice Care of the Lowcountry, but her entire life with Charles.

“I had a wonderful husband,” said Nancy. “We met in Ireland when he came to Cork to attend medical school. I was a nurse at the time. We met; we fell in love…that was it. It’s 47 years now, 44 that we were married, and I had the most wonderful life.”

She spoke of Charles and his work and of their life together in New England and the eventuality of settling here in the Lowcountry. Of course she talked about their children and the ways that Charles inspired them, and punctuated it all with slices of life anecdotes that painted a beautiful picture of a life well spent.

It speaks volumes, doesn’t it? That four years after the fact, this chance encounter with Jenny and Darlene, who were among a group of people only there to see the family through Charles’s last days, would serve as an opportunity for Nancy to reminisce about her late husband happily rather than as a

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Dear Ms. Washo, Thank you for publishing Frank Dunne’s thoughtful article about Hospice Care of the Low Country. He wove a beautiful story of personal reflections and factual information about hospice care.

As Dunne aptly detailed, hospice is not a global organization but rather a concept of care that a number of organizations (approximately fifteen in the Low Country, as he notes) provide.

Each hospice organization imparts valuable services that make it unique.

Hospice Care of the Low Country, however, is not exclusive in the respect that it is independent, community-based, non-profit and Medicare & Medicaid certified. THA Group Island Hospice is also locally owned, community-based, non-profit, and Medicare & Medicaid certified.

As a fellow provider committed to the very best end-of-life care, we applaud Low Country Hospice for the incredible services that its dedicated team brings to the coastal South Carolina community.

Sincerely yours, Sarah Smith THA Group Island Hospice january

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Letters

To the Editor...

Dear Frank, Thanks so much for your great article!!!

We are all thrilled to be featured so well in your magazine!

Merry Christmas to you!

Gabriele The Art League The gang at 3 Black Dogs has been an inspiration to so many people. It was amazing to witness so many people come together with a common goal.

See ya Jan. 28th!!!

Joan Huska I was proud to be a part of the fund raiser, and it is a great joy to see that love can overcome brutality!

Karen Trichel Chop Suey!

You handle your great responsibility of the stash well. I can remember when you came into the SCB wearing your little back pack, black goggles and a skull hat looking like a little Ninja turtle. Then you grew the “the Stash” and everything changed. You blossomed into this young dynamic bartender who may be short in height, but not in stature. Pour on my friend! The world is a thirsty place.

Nick Paulie-Paul is the best bartender I have had the pleasure of drinking with. He not only is creative with the jigger, but also maintains the most professional festive attire to keep the customers wanting more. I couldn’t be more proud of Mr. Mustachio.

Mags M. Paul is a wonderful bartender who not only knows his way around the top shelf, but he is charming in a kooky kind of way. Cheers to Paul!

Eric Sharpe Your Christmas Story tickled me and touched me! Especially the chuckle I got from the M and M story! So nice to read a story from a sweet girl that I knew a long long time ago!

Merry Christmas!

Nancy 

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KatHy’s closet bluffton’s newest consignment shop offers chance to help a good cause peter zinK

to learn more about Kathy’s closet, visit the store at 16a palmetto Way or visit kathyscloset.biz for more information.

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bacoa is never far from Kathy deringer’s mind. the colorful neighborhood in Jupiter, Florida with its cozy colonial cottages in bright pastels and clean colors stands in stark contrast to the familiar spanish adobe and stucco style homes so prevalent in south Florida.

Whenever she felt like getting away from the hustle and bustle of her life in Palm Beach Gardens, a pregnant deringer would take a drive up to this idyllic neighborhood and share the moment with her future son. “i would just drive through there and see these beautiful homes, and it just seemed like such a family-friendly neighborhood. i would cry as we were driving, and i would just tell my unborn

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son, ‘Blake, someday you and i are going to have a house just like that,’” she said. in december, deringer’s dreams of a quaint colorful cottage to share with her son became a reality when she opened Kathy’s Closet, a brand new consignment store in Bluffton, featuring chic

designs and classy fashion. drawing from her years of experience working retail on Worth avenue in Palm Beach, deringer hopes her new store gives women the confidence they need to look great and put themselves together.

When she worked at Mondi on Worth avenue, she gained an appreciative eye for what looks best on her customers.

“Back then i had a customer list, and i’d get to know their tastes. i would call them when certain pieces came in i felt would look good on them…i want to do the same with Kathy’s Closet,” deringer said.

Located on Palmetto Way, next to the Bluffton Library, Kathy’s Closet features fashion that’s not too trendy and possesses an elegant and classic flair. “think of the Grace Kelly and

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audrey hepburn look rather than the Pamela anderson look,” deringer exclaimed with a chuckle. the elegance of her quaint store is noticed in even the smallest of details, from the well-organized mix of designer labels on the racks to the custom-stamped hangtags on each piece of clothing resembling women from the Jazz age.

But for deringer, her consignment store means far more than showcasing great clothing and sharing fashion advice. Kathy’s Closet is a culmination of years of struggle and hard work and a way for her to help others in the community. no stranger to struggle or adversity, deringer became familiar with the

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PORTIONS OF KATHy’S CLOSET’S PROFITS WILL bE DONATED EACH yEAR TO CITIzENS OPPOSED TO DOMESTIC AbuSE (C.O.D.A.), A LOCAL NONPROFIT THAT PROvIDES SHELTER AND COuNSELING TO vICTIMS OF DOMESTIC AbuSE.

horrors of domestic abuse at an early age. “i grew up almost daily witnessing my father beating my mother. My brothers and i would have to hide because he was abusive to us, too,” deringer said. her father left the family when deringer was 12, but the pain he inflicted on her mother had left its mark. her mother became abusive like her father and struggled with alcoholism.

When deringer was 16, her mother committed suicide. it was at that point that she knew she had to get away. she moved to the Palm Beach area and worked as a Miami dolphins Cheerleader and retailer for several years. in her 20s, she finally started getting the help she needed and began reconciling the events of her past. “you can either choose to become better or stay bitter. For years i was bitter and angry, but i chose not to be like that anymore,” deringer said. it was determination and a willingness to change her circumstances that allowed deringer to escape her mother’s fate. at age 27, she married a minister who became physically abusive. she recalls, “he was 6’ 7”. one day he threw me over a stairwell into the front door, and then went to preach on a sunday morning about God’s love…at three in the morning, i loaded everything i could fit in my car and drove 18 hours back to south Florida. at that point, you don’t care about your stuff; you just want your life back.” today, after moving to Bluffton a little over five years ago, she has her life firmly back in her hands. With the help of the community and business organizations like the senior Corps of retired executives (sCore), she’s feeling good about the future. But she never intends to forget about the past, and she hopes to make Kathy’s Closet a place where women can feel comfortable coming to talk and share their stories. Portions of Kathy’s Closet’s profits will be donated each year to Citizens opposed to domestic abuse (C.o.d.a.), a local nonprofit that provides shelter and counseling to victims of domestic abuse. she also hopes to host a spring fashion show where women can model lines of clothing available in the store while raising money for C.o.d.a.. With a good cause and great clothing lines, it’s easy to see how deringer has finally found her own abacoa here in Bluffton.  26

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A SERIES OF FORTUNATE EVENTS

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Dr. Grant Evans

Founder of the Operation R&R Charity based out of Hilton Head, was a featured speaker at the Military Family Research Institute Symposium held in Indianapolis on Nov. 17th and dealt with solutions to military families reintegration problems after multiple deployments.

Big Band Swing

Dr. Jack McConnell and his wife, Mary Ellen, enjoy Big Band Swing festivities, dancing the night away to the sounds of Joe Gransden, his 16-piece band and Annie Sellick. The event, which was held in Dr. McConnell’s honor, was a collaboration of Volunteers in Medicine Hilton Head Island and The Junior Jazz Foundation. Held on November 17 at the Hilton Head Marriott Resort & Spa, the event drew a crowd of more than 525 attendees.

The Inn at Harbour Town

The Inn at Harbour Town, an award-winning 60-room boutique hotel at The Sea Pines Resort, has been honored with the 2012 Forbes Four-Star Award for offering an exceptional level of luxury and service.

Karis Art Gallery

The new Karis Art Gallery had their Ribbon Cutting Grand Opening Reception, December 9, 2011.

The gallery occupies 1900 square feet of retail space in the Village at Wexford on Hilton Head Island.

Brande’ D Rountree

Tidewater Hospice is proud to announce that Brande’ D Rountree, RN has joined their outstanding team of physicians, nurses, pharmacists, social workers, home care aides, volunteers, and bereavement counselors as case manager.

Rich Tiffany

SunTrust Mortgage, Inc. is pleased to announce that Loan Officer Rich Tiffany has joined the Hilton Head office.

To be included in our next Series of Fortunate Events, please email Ashton Kelley a PHOTO and A SENTENCE (not a paragraph) at a.kelley@celebratehiltonhead.com. Photos will not be accepted without a sentence. Sentences will not be accepted without a photo. Paragraphs will be edited down to one sentence. Get it? Got it! Good. january

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HaPPy MoutHs R O N A L D M C D O N A L D C A R E M O b I L E P R Ov I D I N G ACC E S S TO D E N TA L C A R E debbie szpanka

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clown known for its big, red, goofy shoes is laying out the welcome mat for local children to jump aboard the ronald Mcdonald Care Mobile® as it brings dental care and oral health education to preschool and elementary schools in Beaufort, Jasper and hampton Counties. it’s the little-known service that the charity brings to local children so their dental health stays in good shape and doesn’t lead to other health care issues. “a child’s oral health is an important factor in their overall health,” nikole Layton, executive director of ronald Mcdonald house Charities® (rMhC) of the Coastal empire, said. “if a child doesn’t know how to practice good oral hygiene and keep his or her mouth healthy, it can greatly affect their future health.” over time, untreated dental issues lead to periodontal or gum disease and that can lead to cardiovascular issues, diabetes and other severe health ailments, Layton explained. since 2001, the ronald Mcdonald Care Mobile has been visiting schools in Beaufort County, south Carolina to improve the oral health of underserved children

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in public elementary schools, including preschools and children of migrant workers on st. helena island. the 40-foot-long mobile unit is equipped with a two dental operatories and is staffed by an administrator and two dental hygienists who regularly provide thousands of dental care kits to the children who visit the Care Mobile. “school officials have told us they have seen a decrease in absenteeism since the Care Mobile has visited schools in Beaufort County,” Layton said. “Many would be shocked and surprised at how many of our children in this community have never used or do not regularly use a toothbrush. this not only leads to health issues, but it can also affect self-esteem.” ronald Mcdonald house Charities of the Coastal empire recently partnered with Beaufort Jasper hampton Comprehensive health services to expand its services to the children of Jasper and hampton Counties. “We work with the schools to identify the children who may need us the most,” Layton said. “We

primarily target children who are eligible for free or the reduced lunch program, but no child with a dental need is turned away.” the Care Mobile unit serves approximately 1,600 children each year. “some of these children have never been to a dentist in their lives, “Layton said. “ the Care Mobile is a core program of rMhC and a unique way to transcend the barriers many parents face when seeking dental health care for their children, including transportation and financial resources. We bring the Care Mobile to the schools, and there is no direct cost to the children or their families for our services.” the mission of ronald Mcdonald house Charities of the Coastal empire is to create, find and support programs that directly enhance the health and well-being of children and families. that mission comes to life everyday through the services rMhC provides to families with its Care Mobile unit as well as the ronald Mcdonald house® and the ronald Mcdonald Family room®. the ronald Mcdonald house, located on the campus of Memorial Medical university Center in savannah, opened in 1987. the house is a home away from home for families with critically ill or injured children receiving treatment in area hospitals. Families who live more than 30 miles out of savannah are welcome to stay at the house and are provided the comforts of home such as a bedroom, home-cooked meals and a place to rest, relax

RONALD MCDONALD HOuSE CHARITIES are only partly funded through McDonald’s restaurants. As with most non-profits, the majority of funding is derived through private donations, and local residents serve as volunteers. For more information, contact RMHC at 912-350-RMH1 (7641) or visit rmhc.org.

and recover from the stresses of caring for a critically ill or injured child. rMhC also has a Family room at st Joseph’s/Candler hospital and will open another Family room in Memorial hospital next year. these rooms, located within the hospitals, provide families with a respite from the hospital environment. Families can do laundry, rest, check e-mail, have a meal and watch television.

“We know children heal better and faster when their families are near,” Layton said. “at rMhC, we strive to provide basic human services when families need them most. Whether those problems involve how to stay near and support a hospitalized child, how to afford staying together in another city while a child is undergoing treatment, or even getting basic medical and dental care in a vulnerable community, we provide families stability and resources so they can keep their child healthy and happy.” 

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saVe a bucK, saVe a Pet PA L M E T TO A N I M A L L E AG u E T H R I F T F I N DS N E W H O M E david tobias

the newly opened Palmetto animal League thrift—formerly animal house thrift—now located in sheridan Park facing highway 278, may finally be in the perfect place to generate much welcomed revenues for the Palmetto animal League (PaL), an animal adoption center that has enjoyed enthusiastic support from the Bluffton regional community for 35 years. the newest location is the fourth in six years, but this one feels right to amy Campanini, who was a volunteer when the shop first opened in 2005, on the second floor of a furniture store near Moss Creek. By the time it moved a second time two years later, Campanini was executive director of PaL and, after a brief stop in an office complex off highway 46, it appears to have landed softly

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and profitably in its fourth and final home. “i sure don’t want to pack any more boxes and move it again,” Campanini said. “We moved a lot of stuff.” at nearly 4,300 square feet, the new space is about 2,000 square feet smaller, but decidedly more high profile than the last. although the League advertises in print and on radio, this new location even allows for a sort of rolling billboard presence in the form of a large delivery truck, recently donated by energy one america. the truck is painted with a menagerie of pets and parked along the front edge of the center at an obvious angle to highway 278 to help draw shoppers and merchandise donors. the new truck and the new location combined thrust PaL into the thrift store business in a bigger way than before. the truck allows volunteers to pick up large ticket items like furniture, and the location puts the shop in the heart of the thrift store circuit that stretches along and back from highway 278. already, since the shop’s grand opening in october, monthly sales have exceeded last year’s numbers by almost double. the concept of applying thrift shop proceeds to a good cause is not new. the Litter Box benefits the hilton head island humane

society; Cancer thrift of the Lowcounty contributes to the american Cancer society and on and on. however, the notion that a wide selection of thrift stores concentrated in a relatively small geographic area is beneficial to all is a recent revelation.

Cathy thurnau, who manages the shop (her first foray into the thrift store business after 30 years in retail), says that all the stores seem to do well because shoppers shop. “We have customers who buy to re-sell; we have customers who buy to stock their own shops, locally and from other states; and we have visitors who just love being able to shop our store, go next door and then around the corner for more,” she said. “on the norm, people will shop several, but we also have customers who really want to support the animals, so it just depends. of course the prices are good and the quality of the goods is just excellent, thanks to our wonderful donors.”

PALMETTO ANIMAL LEAGuE THRIFT Located at 1 Sherington Dr., Suite b, Sheridan Park, in bluffton. Hours of operation are MondaySaturday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.

For more information, visit palmettoanimalleague.org or call (843) 837-6369.

Between donors and volunteers (nearly 300 of them in all), the true beneficiaries are the cats, dogs and the occasional ferret that call the animal adoption Center in the riverwalk Center off highway 170 their transitional home. the center, which celebrated its first anniversary in december, can accommodate somewhere between 100-120 animals at any given time. according to Campanini, about 25 percent of the revenue to support the center is generated by the thrift store, but she believes there’s room for further growth. “a lot of effort went into creating an experience in the store that will bring a variety of different shoppers and donors back,” she said. “We have quality merchandise and great prices, but best of all, everything there benefits what happens under the roof of the adoption center building. it’s a great fresh start, but we’ll always need donors and volunteers and, of course, shoppers. now, more than ever, we love our shoppers.” 

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A Line in the Sand The Christian Quarterback

A r t i c l e b y F r a n k D u n n e, J r.

Photography BY ANNE

Well, the ink isn’t even dry on 2012’s birth certificate and our dear Miss Courtney, hater of all things good, decent, and rational, is already rearing her horns.

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he target of her ire this hour is Denver Broncos quarterback, Tim Tebow, a remarkable young man of exceptional character, who last fall enjoyed success beyond all conventional wisdom as a result of his hard work, commitment to excellence, leadership, and winning attitude. But listen to this.

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he addresses reporters as sir and ma’am and—you’d better sit down for this one— gives thanks to God for blessing him with the rare ability to play professional football. Can you believe the hubris? Can you believe the unabashed disregard for The Queen of Intolerance’s fragile psyche?

She’s not alone either. There’s a fairly sizable element in the sports media and elsewhere banging on Tebow for wearing his Christian faith on his sleeve. As the guys on Sunday NFL Countdown like to say, “C’mon, man!” We’re talking about a guy who spent his college breaks on missions to help desperate people in God-forsaken places. He’s a gentleman. He’s eternally optimistic. He gives his absolute best effort on every play. He listens to his coaches.

He turned a team that couldn’t beat its own cheerleaders at flag football into a playoff contender. Out here in the place called Reality, we call that a “positive role model for the kids.” In the Wacky World of Courtney’s Head, he’s called an idiot. Can I get another C’mon, man?!

Try this little exercise. About a million kids play high school football in America, and there are 1,920 active roster positions in the NFL. Ergo, a pretty small number of guys have a snowball’s chance in Miami to get within a cat’s whisker of a sniff at an extremely outside shot at a slim opportunity to try out for an NFL team.

Now, read the following two sentences out loud: 1. “I’m so blessed to have this opportunity.”

2. “We’re taking it one game at a time,

and if we give 110 percent and play as a team we should win some ball games.”

Which one sounds idiotic? In the annals of football history, there isn’t a single recorded instance of a team playing two games at the same time. If it’s possible to exceed 100 percent effort, why stop at 110? What if the other team gives 115 percent? And, by rule, there are 11 men on either side of the ball in every game. You can’t play as anything other than a team.

Yet players utter some version of sentence number two hundreds of times every season, and the interviewers react as if they’ve just received profound insight rarely heard outside the locker room. But when Tebow says sentence number one, we get a three-minute editorial on Mike & Mike in the Morning lecturing us why he is “wrong.” One more time…C’mon Man! Now, go back and reread the first three paragraphs, and then read the following two sentences out loud: 1. “The Broncos improved from 1-4 to 7-4 with Tim Tebow starting at quarterback, and he makes about $9 million.”

2. “Tim Tebow is an idiot because he says prayers on the field.”

Which one sounds idiotic?

Happy New Year everybody, and thank you, God, for blessing me with a great editor, Maggie Washo, and an opportunity to share this column with Courtney Hampson! 

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Recently, on the Today show, Ann Curry was interviewing the parents of a young model who had been struck by a plane propeller. Needless to say, she was severely injured; however, her parents were thankful for everything that the Lord has done for her recovery. Call me a cynic, but my retort to Ann (and the TV, neither of whom was listening) was, “Where was the Lord when this chick was 10 seconds from walking into a rotating jet propeller?”

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uck! Stop! Be careful! Look out!

Nope, she got nothing. No warning. No divine intervention.

So it was only timely when Frank and I began our monthly “what to write about debate” that we landed on Tim Tebow and his penchant for getting down on one knee and praying every time he scores and subsequently thanking Jesus for blessing him with great coaches and teammates (and John Elway) every time he’s interviewed. So, would it be fair to say that while the model was being near-mortally injured, God was watching football instead?

I think not.

So, to Tim Tebow I say, “Dude, you’re an idiot, and to get started, here are a few of the factors that may have actually contributed to who your coaches and teammates are: 1. The National Football League who orchestrated the draft and facilitated your team selection.

2. The Rams, Lions, Buccaneers, Redskins, Chiefs, Seahawks, Browns, Raiders, Bills, Jaguars, 49ers, Chargers, Eagles, Giants, Titans, Steelers, Falcons, Texans, Packers, Cowboys, Cardinals, Patriots, and Dolphins who all picked before Denver in the draft and probably took the player that the Broncos really wanted. (Don’t you think God would have traded up?)

3. The Panthers who dumped Coach Fox after his two and fourteen 2010 season which, ironically, yielded the first pick for them in the 2011 draft, thereby making way for Elway to hire Fox for the Broncos club.

Just so I understand correctly, is Tebow saying that God made the Panthers suck?

Embarrassed their coach? Disappointed thousands of fans all so he could be a superstar in 2011? Doesn’t sound like any God I want to know. While God is working so hard on Sunday helping Tebow get the ball over the line, who is listening to the millions of people donning their Sunday best and heading to mass where they believe in an almighty power and that someone is listening?

If God is really that into sports, maybe he should have spent a little time at Penn State or Syracuse. Some folks in those college towns could have used a little someone watching over them. No? I prefer to believe that if there is a God, he is working on the bigger things—like watching over the thousands of deployed service members who haven’t seen a football game in months. Or the sick patients at every children’s hospital in this country. Or the new mom covered in spit up who hasn’t slept in weeks and has no idea how she is going to be a good parent. Or the single dad, working to make ends meet and worried about where his child’s next meal will come from.

If God is instead watching Tebow and offering the assist, one (this one!) might ask, where was God when other NFL players have suffered career-ending injuries? I obviously have more questions than answers, but that’s okay. I think a lot of people have questions when it comes to faith. I just hope God is answering the most relevant ones.

Maybe God did play a role in Tebow’s draft and helps him win each week. After all, Denver’s stadium is a mile high, which puts it closest to the big guy’s “home field.” 

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January 9; 8:00pm Arts Center of Coastal Carolina The Charleston Symphony Orchestra’s Chamber Orchestra.

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January 30; 8:00pm First Presbyterian Church The Hilton Head Symphony Orchestra presents a Masterworks concert featuring guest conductor Bohuslav Rattay and Edisher Savitsky.

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January 14; 8-9pm Arts Center of Coastal Carolina The world-renowned dance company will perform a selection of classic and contemporary dance.

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MARK YOUR CALENDAR! CHAMBER BALL FEBRUARY 4. 2012 6:30p.m. – Midnight.

Hilton Head Marriott Resort & Spa. Enjoy fine dining, dancing and more as we gather with friends and colleagues to recognize important contributors to our community.

 Golf Tips From a Pro

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 on the heel and/or toe, etc. This causes the club head to do various unwanted things throughout the swing due to excess weight where it should not be. If this poor design is not counterbalanced by the correct shaft, the golfer struggles. Because the launch monitor does not factor in head design, how can it recommend the correct shaft? Once again, the result is a shaft not matching the club head or the golfer’s swing. Even though the numbers come out correctly on the monitor, neither the golfers nor their swings reach their full potential.

Some of you may be saying, “Well I got fit with a launch monitor and my game improved. How can you say those devices do not work?” The answer is that your clubs were so poorly fit before visiting the launch monitor that anything would have helped your game. The health equivalent would be walking around the block twice vs. sitting on the couch. Something is better than nothing. But if you want to reach your full golf potential, consulting those who know the science of how clubs and shafts work and how these variables relate to your swing is more important and more lasting than consulting a machine.

Why would you wear a size 10 shoe if you are supposed to wear a 10 1/2?

Other measuring devices that have become popular are putting measurement systems. As with launch monitors, these devices may tell you what is happening during the putting stroke, but they do not tell you why it is happening and how to fix it. These devices do not take into account eye positioning, putter fit, putter type or the golfer’s neurology, which all have a tremendous impact on the stroke.

I recently had a student come to me after unsuccessfully using one of these systems. When asked what he was told by his now former instructor, he said, “I was told to take a slice backswing and hook the putt when coming through impact.” I don’t know about you, but there are more important factors to think about when putting: speed, amount of break, and most important...making the putt!  If you would like to know more about club fitting, join us at noon on January 21, 2012 for our seminar, “Club Fitting: What They Do Not Tell You.” This seminar is by reservation only and sells out quickly. To sign up, contact the Golf Performance Academy-Hilton Head at (843) 3386737, golfacademyhiltonhead.com, or on Facebook at Golf Performance AcademyHilton Head. Not only do we know the science behind how golf clubs work, we know how to apply that science to let your swing work properly.

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Frankie bones - $10 off any Bottle of Wine (9PM) Hudson’s - Mike Korbar LiVe Kingfisher - Joseph the Magician Old Fort Pub - happy hour (5-7PM) Reilley’s - Lobster night $12.95 / happy hour (4-7PM) The Jazz Corner - Live Music The Salty Dog Café - Free nacho & hotdog Bar (During Monday Night Football Games)

Antonio’s - 1/2 off drinks & Food (5:30-7PM) (Valid In the Bar ONLY) black Marlin Hurricane bar - happy hour (4 - 7PM) Coconuts bar & Grill - Bluffton’s Got talent !

Frankie bones - Ladies night Kingfisher - the steppin stones / Fireworks Old Fort Pub - happy hour (5-7PM) Reilley’s - Kids eat Free night / happy hour (4-7PM) Remy’s - shag Lessons (5:45PM) !

The Jazz Corner - Live Music The Lodge - Pinch the Pint night The Salty Dog Café - LiVe MusiC Wild Wing Café - 2 Fer tuesday / team trivia !

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black Marlin Hurricane bar - happy hour (4 - 7PM) Coconuts bar & Grill - all request dance Frankie bones - $10 off any Bottle of Wine Kingfisher - alexander newton (Motown/R&B) !

The Lodge - Kick the Keg night Mellow Mushroom - trivia night !

Old Fort Pub - happy hour (5-7PM) R&D Wine - Free Wine tasting (4-7PM) Reilley’s - happy hour (4-7PM) Remy’s - treble Jay The Jazz Corner - Live Music The Salty Dog Café - Live Music (6 - 10PM) Wild Wing Café - rock idol Karaoke Competition !

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Antonio’s - 1/2 off drinks & Food (5:30-7PM) (Valid In the Bar ONLY) black Marlin Hurricane bar - happy hour (4 - 7PM) Coconuts bar & Grill - $1 Vodka / dJ MXM Ela’s blu Water Grille - LiVe Music Kingfisher - david Wingo The Lodge - Burgers & Beer night (ONLY $5) Old Fort Pub - happy hour (5-7PM) Reilley’s - happy hour (4-7PM) Remy’s - the trio The Jazz Corner - Live Music The Salty Dog Café - Live Music (6 - 10PM) Wild Wing Café - Live Music / drink specials

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bistro Mezzaluna - the Band target LiVe black Marlin Hurricane bar - happy hour (4 - 7PM) Captain Woody’s (bluffton) - Mike Korbar LiVe Coconuts bar & Grill - Weekend dance Party !

Ela’s blu Water Grille - LiVe Music HH Prime - dean st. hillaire LiVe (5-7PM) Kingfisher - earl Williams’ Band One Hot Mama’s - dJ and dancing Reilley’s - happy hour (4-7PM) The Jazz Corner - Live Music The Salty Dog Café - Live Music (6 - 10PM) Smokehouse - LiVe MusiC at 9:30PM Wild Wing Café - all double drinks only $1 More Wise Guys - Food & Bev. happy hour (10:30PM) xO Lounge - Live Music

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7PM)Mellow Mushroom(10PM) One Hot Mama’sReilley’s(4-7PM) The Jazz CornerThe Salty Dog Café(6 - 10PM) !

Skillets Smokehouse(9:30PM) Wise Guys (10:30PM) xO Lounge

sundays black Marlin Hurricane bar - drink specials (12 - 7PM) Coconuts bar & Grill - Funday all day!

HH Prime - November 20 - david Bohn (5-7PM) Kingfisher - Joseph the Magician !

Old Fort Pub - happy hour (5 - 7PM) Reilley’s - happy hour (4-7PM) The Salty Dog Café - Live Music (6 - 10PM) Skillets - david Wingo Live Wise Guys - Food & Bev. happy hour (10:30PM) January

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They. They. I couldn’t get this bachelor to talk about himself.

But, once we got his shirt off and had him doing half-naked push-ups in the photography studio (true story), he finally opened up about himself, his work, and what his heart says.

In his pre-bachelor interview, Charles Clifton Steedley, Jr. a.k.a. Cliff Junior a.k.a. CJ, told the magazine—and potential voters—that he is triumphant, ambitious, and hospitable. I needed examples. And much to my delight, he had them. “Triumphant? I woke up one day and just knew I needed to exercise, to do something. My friends Drew and Sol joined the gym with me, and I’ve lost 57 pounds,” he said. Steedley didn’t stop there. The slow exercise quickly became a passion for running, and Steedley has completed nearly a dozen races since, including the Rock & Roll Half Marathon in Savannah this past November. Just a couple weeks

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later at the Bluffton Turkey Trot, the officials repeatedly posted the wrong time for Steedley. Never one to miss an opportunity, he grabbed the microphone and begged for bachelor votes.

It worked, although I’m not sure it’s the running that won him the honor.

Perhaps it is his ambition. After starting his college career at Clemson, he came home to finish at USCB, much to delight of his parents, who were expecting the six-year collegiate to be a doctor by the time he finally finished. Nope. He just had a really, really good time at Clemson. When he did graduate, with a degree in business, Steedley landed a yearlong internship with Mortgage Network. As all good internships do, it ended, and he needed employment stat. Ever-ambitious Steedley posted his résumé on the USCB job site and had employers calling him immediately.

In three short weeks, the Boys & Girls Club of the Lowcountry nabbed him, and he’s been in their employ about 15 months.

At the Boys & Girls Club, Steedley is the database manager, all-around IT guy, wire un-crosser, and master of the ALT, CTRL, DEL, DEL. He is also hospitable. Being a Lowcountry boy, born and bred, it’s in his DNA. Although I’d venture to say that not everyone’s DNA moves them to buy

roses for every woman in the office on Valentine’s Day. No wonder they love him at the Boys & Girls Club. In fact, it is a former colleague and rose recipient who nominated Steedley for the bachelor honor. Speaking of honor, this guy is actually sharing his winning2 with the nominator—20 percent of his prize money! When asked (incredulously) why, his reply was simple. “Well, she got laid off this year, so I thought it was the right thing to do.”

Line up ladies. This here is a live one. His heart is in the right place.

Non-profit work is hard. You often play multiple roles, but as Steedley says, “I get to go to work every day and help make other people’s lives better.

The Boys & Girls Club mission is to enable all young people to succeed. I am lucky in my position that I get to see firsthand the amazing support that the club receives from our community. It is wonderful how generous the people in Bluffton and Hilton Head are,” Steedley said. “I like living and working in a small town where I can see the impact that people make.”

When he’s not working hard and wooing the ladies in the office, S te e d l ey l ove s t h e L owco u n t r y lifestyle, confirming that there was never a question as to whether or not he would come back after college. “I

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be found rocking out the driver’s seat while sitting in traffic. Steedley admits to living on the edge a little when he drives and checks Facebook (I guess it could be worse—he could be driving and checking a flask). Cottage cheese is his secret pleasure, which is certainly low on the “do I have to worry about this guy” barometer. What he really cares about is other people, like his friends Bob and Michelle DeCarlo and their 12-year-old son Nicklas who suffers from Juvenile Diabetes. One of the first things Steedley revealed in this interview was the bracelet he wears every day in support of Nicklas in his fight against this debilitating disease and his efforts to raise money to help find a cure.

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some really juicy stories about the 2012 Bachelor of the Year, but he’s a bonafide good guy. Just ask him, he’ll tell you all about someone else, and it will be become abundantly clear where his heart is.

But just for a chuckle, I did have to force him to play along for a few “Ad-Libs with The Bachelor of the Year.”

In looking for a partner, the top three qualities I admire are honesty, athleticism, and a down to earth nature.

You will drive me absolutely crazy if you ever eat all my peanut butter.

Good BBQ gets me every time.

If my house was on fire, I would save my dogs, my keys, and my phone.

I always sing along with Jason Aldean.

The last book I read was How Successful People Think.

If there was a movie about my life it would be Forrest Gump…because I’m always running.

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Some people say I look like Bob Van Dillon, the weatherman on CNN’s Robin Meade in the Morning.

My mom would tell you that I’m her favorite, right Mom? When I wake up in the morning the first thing I do is put my feet on the floor.

The words I use most are thanks for calling the Boys & Girls Club of the Lowcountry; this is C.J. When all else fails, sleep on it or go for a run.

I’m spending the winnings paying off my college loans (after I share $1,000 with Debbie).

I will use the title as “Bachelor of the Year” to perhaps get some good publicity for the Boys & Girls Club. (We see a “Date with the Bachelor” charity auction in our future.)

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aybe for Una Jackson it should be touché. According to the USFA, she’s number one in the United States in her category. USFA? That would be the United States Fencing Association. Jackson, who measures in at a charming five feet even, is in first place (as of December 2011) in the association’s Veteran 70+ Women’s Saber division.

Yes, saber (or sabre, if you prefer), one of those wicked looking things you might have seen in the 1968 remake of the movie, Charge of the Light Brigade, where Trevor Howard (or was it John Gielgud?) rides into the cannon of the Russians, attempting to slice heads and other body parts of the enemy (and, of course, failing). While today’s fencing saber isn’t quite as nasty, the idea is the same. You score points for any touch on your opponent from the waist up, including the arms and head.

“They only let women start to do the saber in the 1980s, because they (USFA) thought it was too violent,” Jackson, who is 74, explained with a laugh. She remembered a situation in a regional match in Atlanta where she was paired with a young college kid. “They can hit your sleeve and your mask. Because I’m short, they tend to jump up in the air. I don’t like fencing men, which you have to do in open competition. One time I watched this kid fence—he was in college. He was like six feet tall. He would run down the strip, jump in the air and whack. So I get out there and I see him coming, and I turn my head. He said, ‘Don’t ever do that. You could get hurt.’ I said, ‘It was just the thought of you running at me.’ Of course he was right.

It was pretty scary.”

While being a competitive fencer at 74 is a bit unusual, what is even more so is that Jackson took up the sport just a little over three years ago.

While being a competitive fencer at 74 is a bit unusual, what is even more so is that Jackson took up the sport just a little over three years ago. Why fencing? Jackson said, “I must have seen it (a match) when I was younger, because I talked about it, about wanting to do it. After my husband (Fred) died, it was kind of on the list of things I wanted to do. I wanted to sky dive, I wanted to do more traveling, and I wanted to fence,” Jackson said.

Jackson did sky dive when she was 70 and thought about taking it up more seriously, but the $6,000 entry fee for equipment and training was a bit daunting. The “more travel” wish list has taken her to walking the Great Wall in China, riding the Palace on Wheels (an extraordinary train) through India, and to a hot air balloon safari in Kenya. Her “more travel” wish, and fencing, also took her to Croatia in 2010 for the 50th World Fencing Championship. While she admits it wasn’t her finest performance, she made the cut and walked away with an eighth place medal. “That’s what you want to do—make the cut,” Jackson explained.

In 2008 she saw someone fencing on television. It wasn’t a match, just a brief glimpse. However, that was enough to immediately get her to her computer and check out the local fencing scene. She found the Savannah Fencing Club and called. “I didn’t tell him how old I was. He said, ‘It’s a sport, you have to be in condition.’ I told him I work out at the gym every other night faithfully, I play tennis and I’m still running. He said, ‘You’ll be fine. Come watch us.’

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yard to Savannah twice a week to fence at the club and to learn. Occasionally she spends a week in Atlanta for more intense training.

In fencing, there are three weapons: the epee, the foil and the saber. Jackson began with the foil. Her foil coach, Stewart Johnson said, “Una is the exception to the rule.

Most people start when they’re young. But she’s got a lot of desire to do well. She’s been the oldest student I’ve had.

It’s really a good sport for people her age. It’s low impact and works well for them. We’d love to see a whole crowd (of seniors) come out.”

Jackson’s saber coach, Charles Williams, who began fencing as a young teen, said he had never taught someone over 70. “She’s very much her own character. She’s got so much ability for someone her age. She just doesn’t always realize it,” he said with a smile. “Saber is all distance, footwork and timing. Una’s got the physical capability of really taking it to them. She’s taking on something people half her age wouldn’t even consider.”

Williams made the distinction between epee and foil, and saber. “Saber is flashier and quicker. Touches are very quick. When you hit your opponent in foil or epee you have to hit them for a certain amount of time and with a certain amount of strength. You have to make a penetrating blow.

With the saber, it’s completely different. It’s just a light flick of the wrists. In saber, when they say ‘fence’ somebody ‘dies’ right away” Williams said.

“When I took the (fencing) lessons, I had one goal: to enter a competition—just one, to say I competed. That was April of ’08. In September, I entered my first competition. I did a terrible job. I didn’t really know what I was doing, but I had a lot of fun. Then, in January they had the North American Cup, the NAC. It was going to be in Atlanta. Some of the students from SCAD wanted to go, but nobody had any money. Because they belonged to the SCAD fencing team, the school paid the entry fee. So I said, ‘Tell you what. We’ll pile everyone in my station wagon and we’ll drive to Atlanta.’”

In 2008 she saw someone fencing on television.

It wasn’t a match, just a brief glimpse. However, that was enough to immediately get her to her computer and check out the local fencing scene.

Jackson’s intention was just to be the students’ chauffeur. “But they said I should compete. There were three guys and another girl and myself.”

Jackson was doubtful but decided to enter. “In the competition, I got a medal, but nobody else did!” Jackson gave a self-depreciating laugh. “They gave out eight national medals. I came in last, eighth place, but I came home with a medal.”

When Jackson isn’t off fencing, she’s a volunteer for Hospice of the Lowcountry and works with Deep Well. Next on her list? She’d like to learn to fly and go solo when she’s 80. For now, however, maybe another medal will do.  january

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or many years, it has been Danielle Keasling’s dream to own her own salon. She had a location, a lease, her love of doing hair and a lunch date with karma.

In November, Danielle met her husband Jeff at Captain Woody’s Bar & Grill in downtown Bluffton to discuss her new location on Hilton Head Island. After lunch, they both noticed an industrial, urban-chic building caddy-corner to where they were eating. Danielle told her husband that building was exactly what she envisioned for her salon.

The rest is karmic history.

She knocked on the window and asked the man inside if he could get her in touch with the owner. He said she was speaking with him. She asked if she could rent the building for her new business, Salon Karma. Fast forward to early January, and Danielle is opening her new salon.

“The space is exactly what I wanted to recreate. Why recreate it when it is staring you in the face?” Keasling said.

“I tried for three years to open my own salon, and then in a few months, I got exactly what I wanted as everything just fell into place.

“I listen to my clients all day long as I do their hair, and they have made me wiser. I realize through their stories that you can’t control life’s events; you just got to let them happen,” Keasling said. “And if it’s happening, you have to just go with it.” A 13-year veteran of the salon industry, Keasling is continually striving to be on the fashion frontlines. In the past decades, Keasling has attended special schools and obtained certifications such as Matrix, Logics color, Redken, and Pivot Point International. Keasling also travels to other salons to educate stylists about Matrix color and CRAFT techniques. She is also one of the only stylists from coastal South Carolina to Atlanta who is certified in hair extension systems with Great Lengths International, USA Hair Extension systems and Balmain human hair extension systems.

“Great Lengths is the Rolls Royce of hair extensions,” Keasling said. “The trend of hair extensions is exploding in this area. Women love how they can change their hair like they can change their clothes without the commitment or the scare of not liking it,” Keasling said.

“I have expanded the line to add in clip-in bangs, wigs and hairpieces,” Keasling said “I want women to have any look they want as well as to help women who are going through cancer treatments and want to have their hair back without waiting months for it to grow naturally.”

Linda Papa, a mother of two and grandmother of six, is a client and has recently experimented with hair exten-

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“I listen to my clients all day long as I do their hair, and they have made me wiser. I realize through their stories that you can’t control life’s events; you just got to let them happen.” sions. She said she loves her new modern day Rapunzellike locks.

“Danielle is not a hairdresser; she’s an artist,” Papa said. “She attached many different shades of extensions in my hair and blended them together. Everywhere I go people say something about my hair. The other day, my granddaughter was performing her ballroom dancing and someone couldn’t believe I was the grandmother.”

Clients have many questions about extensions, however, Keasling said, it’s all pretty simple. “Hair extensions are to hair as cosmetics are to skin,” she explained. “As with makeup, it is different things to different people; it can add volume, length and thickness. It all depends on what the client wants or needs.” The cost varies according to the application, ranging from $450-$3,000, and the extensions last anywhere from two to five months.

Keasling applies the extensions through both thermal

Karma

Help her win by voting!

At press time we learned that Danielle’s entry of Christine Smith into the Socialite category made the finals!

Help her win by voting! To vote go to www.greatlengthschallenge.com. First you will need to register. The Register button is in the top left corner; you will receive a confirmation email and you can use that link to log in the first time.

After logging in(top right hand button) go to Judges Nominees.

Click on Socialite #283, middle row far right.

Click on the main picture to make it full screen, below the picture is a vote button. (This is the ONLY vote button that works!)

You can vote everyday between now and January 31.

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and cold fusion techniques. She loves the Great Lengths brand because it is made from human hair. Great Lengths International also developed and patented the first synthesized keratin bond polymer. That bond is considered the best among hairdressers because it gives the extensions the ability to expand and contract with the client’s natural hair.

Keasling is continually on the cutting -edge of her profession as she learns, competes and experiments with new trends, all for the cause of style. That’s why Maggie Washo, the editor of CH2 said she is a personal and professional client. Washo said her extensions probably added six inches to her natural look.

“I am getting so many compliments about my Before after hair, and yet no one has said ‘those must be extensions,’” Washo said.

Keasling is entering Washo’s before and after pictures into a national contest among hairdressers called the Great Lengths Challenge. Check out Keasling’s submissions at greatlenthschallenge.com. You can vote online for your favorite style transformation through January 31. Celebrity judges include Steven Tyler, rock and roll legend; Ted Gibson, hairstylist of the television show, What Not to Wear; and Kim Vo, co-host of the show, Shear Genius.

“Danielle has an innate sense of style,” Washo said. “We’ve worked with her on photo shoots for four out of the five years we have been in publishing. She has a great personality, she is easy to work with and she is artistically inspired. She can make everyone look great.”

A self-proclaimed workaholic, Keasling said she absolutely loves her job.

Mark your calendars for Salon Karma’s Grand Opening party, Thursday, February 2 from 5:30-8 p.m. so you can meet Keasling and discuss how good hair karma can come your way. 

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Many individuals are looking for ways to reduce their tax liabilities and generate income from their investments. Sounds easy enough, but how can you accomplish both goals with one investment? One of the only strategies available to make an investment and receive substantial tax benefits is investing in oil and gas exploration and production partnerships, not to be confused with Master Limited Partnerships (MLPs), which are publicly traded securities. These are private partnerships through which you actually own a part of the assets and the oil and gas produced.

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e have all heard the stories of the schemes where an individual invested in a drilling program, and the company had a couple of wells drilled and there was nothing there, sometimes referred to as a “dry well.” This was very popular in the 1980s, and many people got burned by these schemes. However, with the recent developments in drilling technology and geological studies, the modern day programs have drastically reduced the potential for a dry well by identifying the oil or gas in the ground before drilling begins.

So how do you benefit from investing in oil and gas? Let’s first discuss the tax benefits. The investment will be utilized to fund drilling costs associated with the operations. These costs are called Intangible Drilling Costs (IDCs) and may include the costs associated with clearing the ground and surveying the work as well as wages, fuel, repairs, and any other expense that may be included in the drilling of a well. Because these costs or expenses are “sunk” and have no salvage

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value, they can be deducted in the year the investment in made.

An investor needs to understand the investment is going into the ground; therefore it is sunk, or spent. The investor will not get their principal returned, but the money invested may be deductible up to 100%. Investors can elect to expense and deduct the IDC in the year of the investment or elect to capitalize and amortize it over 60 months.

So why would you invest in something where you lose all of your invested capital? Let me explain the immediate tax benefit:

Hypothetical IDC Tax Savings * No Oil & Gas Investment Gross Income $300,000 IDC Deduction $0 Taxable Income $300,000 State Tax @ 7% $21,000 Federal Tax @ 35% $105,000 Total Tax $126,000

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$50,000 invested in Gross Income IDC Deduction Taxable Income State Tax @ 7% Federal Tax @ 35% Total Tax

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This is a hypothetical tax savings example, based on the assumption the taxpayer lives in a state with state income tax and without consideration of other deductions, exemptions or calculations of the Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT). These results are strictly hypothetical and are in no way a guarantee of an investor’s tax liability, and individual results will vary.

So the immediate benefit is the tax benefit. In the above example you have a 42% immediate benefit from your investment. Now the company you invested with will start the process of drilling and bringing the oil and gas to market. The additional returns on the investment will depend on the geographic area of the program and the quality and

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volume of oil and gas brought to market.

For example, the gas found in the Appalachian Basin may result in a higher premium than many other regions of the country. This geographic area has a rich organic rock proven to produce high-energy content of natural gas. The wells drilled in this area may produce gas that may yield premiums between 14% and 24% over normal pipeline quality gas. So, not all oil and gas is created equal.

In order to protect against price fluctuations, from the time of the investment to the time the oil and gas comes to market, most of the programs use hedging strategies to protect prices from market volatility. This will protect the value of the gas and ultimately the amount of revenue the investor may receive.

An additional benefit is the stream of income generated after the wells have been drilled. These wells can produce oil and gas for over 20 years. Soon after the end of the year in which the investment was made, the oil and gas will start to go to market, and investors should expect monthly distributions from the revenue generated. These distributions can range and depend on how many wells were drilled in that time frame. Typically, after all the wells come online, an investor can expect anywhere from 5-18% annually. In our example that would be 5-18% of $50,000 annually.

Another tax benefit provided is the annual depletion allowance. The investor receives a percentage of depletion, calculated using 15% of the gross production income for the life of the wells. Therefore, this tax benefit allows 15% of the gross annual income of the partnership to be tax-free. The depletion deduction is not limited by the amount of the investment and may be used over the life of the wells to partially shelter income from the partnership.

There are two classes of investors in these partnerships. Investors can elect to be a general partner or a limited partner. In order to take the initial upfront deduction, the investor must elect to be a general partner. Being a general partner does come with some risk, as all the liability from the drilling will go to

the general partners. These programs have insurance to cover any incidents and utilize sub-contractors that have their own insurance.

Upon completion of all the wells, the general partners will automatically be converted to limited partners, thus limiting the liability. If concerned about the liability, an investor can elect to be a limited partner.

If you invest as a limited partner, your liability is limited to your capital contribution to the partnership. The use of the IDC deduction from the program will be a passive loss that cannot offset active income. The investor may not have enough net passive income from other investments in the year of the investment to offset all of the passive deduction from IDC. In that case, your unused passive loss from IDC may be carried forward indefinitely to offset your passive income in subsequent taxable years. ď‚?

 The tax advice in this article is not intended to be used and cannot be used by any taxpayer for purpose of avoiding taxes.

Taxpayers should seek advice based on their particular circumstances from an independent financial or tax advisor.

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t’s easy to have confidence in investments made during bull company’s website. Both the investor relations section and news announcements found on the website can provide useful markets: share prices climb, and any losses from poor deinformation. you should also review financial statements and cisions are usually recovered fast. But times of increasing carefully investigate anything that looks vague or unusual. market volatility tend to magnify mistakes, and many invesnot only can doing your homework help you to make tors may lose confidence in their decision-making. Let’s take informed investment decisions, it can also help you to feel a quick look at some of these common, but generally avoidable, comfortable with the holding in spite of temporary ups and mistakes. downs.

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Timing the market. during a downturn in the market, 3. Chasing past performance. yesterday’s hot stock may investors who regularly contributed to their portfolios when the have already topped out. today’s innovative start-up may not market was rising often decide to stop investing until conditions have the wherewithal to stay in business. so it’s important to improve. this can prove to be a costly mistake. not only is it base investment decisions on more than past performance and impossible to time the ups and downs of the market with a few headlines. you should invest with the future in mind. if consistent success, but by sitting on the sidelines during a down there is strong growth potential and the fundamental likelihood market, you could miss out on an opportunity to buy stocks and of the company’s success looks good to you, then it may make other investments at lower prices. in good times and bad, longsense to invest even after a successful run. term investors should carefully consider the Keep in mind, however, that past performance merits of dollar-cost averaging. By continuing is no guarantee of future results. to make investments of the same dollar value learning from your 4.

Trading too often. Frequent trading at regular intervals, investors can buy more often reduces the total return of your portfolio. oWn past mistaKes as shares when prices are low, fewer when prices in addition to the trading fees and taxes that it are high.

Well as from those may incur, frequent trading does not reflect a a periodic investment plan such as dollarlong-term outlook and thoughtful investment maDe by others is an cost averaging does not assure a profit or protect against a loss in declining markets. important step toWarD strategies—neither timing the market nor running from losses enhances your portfolio’s also, since such a strategy involves continuous performance. becoming a better investment, investors should consider their 5.

Selling low, or not at all. Before ability to continue purchases through periods investor. selling a stock or investment product that has of low price levels. tumbled, it’s important to do some additional it is also important to continue to make research to understand why it fell. this research will help you contributions to your 401(k) plan or similar employee-sponsored anticipate the holding’s potential for recovery. if the setback retirement plan. these contributions often “earn” matching appears to result from a temporary problem that can be funding from your employer, providing additional earnings overcome easily, you may even want to consider buying more potential. while the price is low.

2. Skipping the research. determining whether an Conversely, it’s also important to know when to take a loss. investment is appropriate for your portfolio requires research. it hurts to lose money, but a little pain now may pay off in the there are more companies and investment products to invest long run. if your company or investment relies on an industry in today than ever before, and you need to gather information that is likely to remain weak for several years, consider selling to before you can determine which investments might have avoid any additional losses. potential for growth.

Learning from your own past mistakes as well as from those Before making an investment decision, it’s helpful to made by others is an important step toward becoming a better evaluate it in the context of comparable opportunities. at a investor. to find out more about avoiding these and other mistakes minimum, you should find two articles (from different authors) about the company or investment product and review the often made by investors, contact your financial advisor. 

This article was written by Wells Fargo Advisors and provided courtesy of Gary T. Bezilla, managing director-investments, Bezilla Kinney Wealth Management Group on Hilton Head Island. Gary can be reached at (843) 681-1400.

Investments in securities and insurance products are not FDIC-insured/not bank-guaranteed/may lose value. Wells Fargo Advisors, LLC, Member SIPC, is a registered broker-dealer and a separate non-bank affiliate of Wells Fargo & Company.

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f you pay attention to the news, you’ve seen governments around the world struggling to balance their budget and stay afloat. ironically, the basics of balancing the income and expenses of a country are not that different from what you do with your own finances — and it can be just as much of a challenge. But a well-planned budget is an invaluable tool if you want to improve your financial position. here are five things you can do now to make setting and reaching your 2012 financial goals a lot easier.

expenses should not exceed 20%; and food should fall under 15% of your total expenses. Look online for guidelines and see where your spending exceeds recommendations.

STEP THREE: FIx WHAT yOu DON’T LIKE

to change your financial reality, set realistic and stretch goals that will improve your bottom line. When you identify a target — for example, to trim $100 from your monthly food budget — break it down. What does this mean for you on a daily or weekly basis? Maybe you need to buy items in bulk, there’s no point STEP ONE: ORGANIzE yOuR bILLS purchase off-brand, clip more coupons or Start by gathering all of your monthly, in maKing a buDget if employ some other cost-saving strategy. Be quarterly and annual financial obligations. you Don’t intenD to creative and rise to the challenge. next, look back through your check register if it’s clear you don’t have sufficient act on it. Keep your or your bank statements and collect data of all money coming in each month, consider ways the products and activities that drain money buDget in front of you to up your income. do you need to work from your wallet. then list and categorize anD Document your overtime, go after that promotion, pursue these expenses. standard categories a new career or get a second job? if you’re expenses on a include food, clothing, general household, stuck where you are, circle back to your transportation, entertainment and so on.

Daily basis. spending habits. you may need to downsize saving for various things should be on the list your house or car, stop eating out or cut up too, since it takes money out of circulation, if your credit cards. you’ll be pleasantly surprised by the ideas you only for the time being. generate when you take the time to examine the numbers with a you’ll be ahead of the game if your budget accounts for clear head and a critical eye. “unplanned” expenses such as a visit to the emergency room (now an especially costly adventure, thanks to high deductible medical plans) and car or home repairs. While you may not be able to name what financial burden will arise in the next 12 months, you can be sure something will cause you to part suddenly with some of your hard-earned money. if you have cash set aside for just those occasions, then you can pay the expense and avoid a crisis. if not, you risk defaulting on other obligations, damaging your credit and causing all too much stress in your life.

STEP TWO: SCRuTINIzE THE NuMbERS

to create a realistic budget, examine and adjust the expenses you’ve identified above against your take-home pay. highlight areas that are out of whack. one way to evaluate the numbers is to break down your budget categories by percentages. ideally, your housing costs should not exceed 30%; transportation

STEP FOuR: FOLLOW yOuR buDGET

there’s no point in making a budget if you don’t intend to act on it. Keep your budget in front of you and document your expenses on a daily basis. then adjust your spending as necessary.

Monitoring your budget this way can make your money more manageable and give you the feeling of being in control.

STEP FIvE: CHECK IN WITH A FINANCIAL ADvISOR

there are books and websites that can teach you the finer points for preparing and following a budget. But there’s nothing quite like being in the presence of someone who can share their financial knowledge. Consult a financial advisor for an honest assessment of your financial health and take advantage of insights and strategies that can help you improve your finances in 2012 and beyond. 

John Rush, CRPC®, Financial Advisor, Ameriprise Financial, Inc., 1533 Fording Island Road, Suite 328, Hilton Head, SC 29926. John Rush is licensed/registered to do business with U.S. residents only in the states of AZ, AL, FL, GA, IL, MN, NC, NJ, NV, NY, OH, PA, SC, TX, VA, and WI. Brokerage, investment and financial advisory services are made available through Ameriprise Financial Services, Inc. Member FINRA and SIPC. Some products and services may not be available in all jurisdictions or to all clients. © 2011 Ameriprise Financial, Inc. All rights reserved. File # 126758

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he $447 billion American Jobs Act proposed by President Barack Obama in September has been cut down by the Senate and criticized by the National Federation of Independent Business and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce for inadequate job creation provisions.

Nevertheless, you might watch the fate of its proposed tax provisions. They include: • Payroll tax holiday – This would eliminate the entire 6.2% payroll tax on payroll increases – for new workers or for higher wages – on any amount up to $50 million more than the previous year.

• Payroll tax trimming – The employer’s share of the payroll tax (6.2%) would be cut to 3.1% on the first $5 million in wages,

a job growth stimulant the White House says could benefit 98% of small businesses with payrolls less than $5 million.

• Extension of 100% expensing – Allowing firms to write off through 2012 the full cost of new plant and equipment. Otherwise, this provision will expire • Tax credit for certain hires – Allowing a $4,000 tax credit for hiring someone unemployed for at least six months; a credit of up to $5,600 for hiring a veteran (up to $9,600 if the veteran is disabled).

Some of these may show up as provisions in other legislation. 

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This article was provided by M. Dustin Wilder of Coastal States Wealth Management, (843)836-3320.

PROFILE

ARTICLE BY COURTNEY HAMPSON

When you sit back and think about music. Good music. Good raw music. you know, the kind that isn’t fraught with techno-beats, and club mixes, and simulated voices, you have to dig deep. deep to the 1940s and ’50s when Johnny Cash, hank Williams, and the Carter Family (June, not Jimmy) were making their mark. the fellas of Cranford & sons certainly mix it up with Carter and Cash, but they dig even deeper, almost a century deep to the 1920s when jazz was being played in dance halls, roadhouses and speakeasies all over the country; and to the 1930s when the country was in a deep depression, and the music reflected the country’s sorrow.

Grime and grit so in 2011, some may find it odd that a gang of 20-and 30-somethings are dusting off the tunes of the dust bowl. especially when, like the rest of us, they are living on “island time” where the flavor of the day at most bars is beach music, Buffet, and the requisite sweet Caroline. instead of going with the flow, Cranford & sons is swimming upstream, to the beat of an 1845 fiddle (no kidding), all in an effort to make people feel something. their generation (our generation) is suffering.

We’re in the midst of our own depression/recession—whatever the pundits call it—so it only seems apropos that Cranford & sons sing about it. this is certainly the road less taken. and, they self-admit it may be a total bust. But they forge ahead, in their vintage duds, with their vintage instruments, with a sound that is more than interesting, hoping to be “in the front of the train, not the caboose.”

Cranford & sons is just one year young, still in the honeymoon stage of their relationship, but ever-committed to making a go of it. and making that go full-time. Meaning music isn’t the hobby they pursue after they come home from the office each day. instead, they each dedicate more than 40 hours a week to making music together and creating an identity.

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PROFILE

the band name happened almost by accident. John Cranford, who has played with multiple musicians on hilton head island, gathered this crew of merry men, and as a joke, someone suggested the name, a play on sanford & son. it stuck.

But what’s in a name?

For them, it’s more about the sound, which according to Cranford is a “dirty, twangy, twist” on whatever they play.

“Lowcountry stomp, i call it,” pipes in randy rockalotta, the drummer with the pink Mohawk. “When John is playing, he stomps his foot the whole time. it creates this amazing power; he projects,” rockalotta said, “and suddenly the audience is stomping their feet and the crowd becomes a part of the music.”

Men among men Cranford got his musical start playing “say it ain’t so” with his band Weezer People, in the seventh-grade talent show back in eau Claire, Wisconsin. they didn’t win. But he forged ahead nonetheless.

For rockalotta, it was also middle school, in the Buckeye state, where he got his start. he began touring as a drummer right out of high school. “i tried other things, but nothing else really works for me,” he said. ah, an honest man. eric reid is a graduate of hilton head Prep via ohio, alabama, Florida, and Michigan. ah, a rambling man. the cowboy whose mom told him at age three, “you need a hobby.” he shrieked, “Karate!” after a quick mom-veto against three-year-old karate, reid caught someone playing fiddle on CMt, and the rest is history. including the fiddle that he got when he was 10, crafted in the mid-1800s, (which he was extremely hesitant to jump with on the photo shoot trampoline!).

Phillip sirmans is the quiet man behind the upright custommade banjo bass that he tracked down somewhere in north Florida. he’s a chef in his “spare time” and the dad to six-year-old twin girls. as if he hasn’t already mastered multi-tasking, he’s also tackled an interesting talent. While the banjo bass is his primary instrument, when he borrows someone else’s bass, he has to play upside down because he’s a southpaw. Playing upside down isn’t as simple as flipping your instrument—all of the chords (is this the right word?) are in reverse. that’s a sticky wicket.

Music and melody here’s the cool thing. i was fortunate enough to watch the crew play live and unplugged during their photo shoot, set along the May river, with spanish moss dripping from every tree limb, only furthering the mystique of their sound.

Cranford’s vocals are, in fact, gritty and gravely, with an old 45 record quality to them. and i mean that in a good, no, in a great way. Cranford was indeed stomping his foot to the beat of the song, his band mates almost taking their musical cues from that stomp. reid played his fiddle with his head tucked, while his fingers moved deftly. it was as if he was also watching his instrument for its cues. reid sings a lot too, which you’ll find as you watch them play at any venue in the area (not everyone gets a personal concert!). his voice, paired with Cranford’s, speaks to the oldfashioned sound that they are working so hard to re-invent. standing tall with his banjo bass is sirman. the two could almost be dance partners—musician and instrument both showing off their chops, shining, and then receding in deference to each other.

With a crooked grin on his face, rockalotta plays his drums, and sings along, shouting out some lyrics louder than others. he is clearly having fun; it’s almost as if he can’t believe this is what he gets to do every day. he’s just as enamored by music now as he was in middle school. his passion has never died.

Cranford & sons is producing a different sound, one you haven’t heard since your grandparents were spinning their old 45s in the basement. it’s an unexpected sound that speaks volumes about the men of the band and their mindset. as our interview wound down, and rockalotta convinced the whole band that there was no harm in playing on the trampoline, it all became clear. Work hard. Play hard. and by all means, enjoy what you do.

Find them on Facebook at www.facebook.com/ cranfordandsons.  .

Everything you wanted to know about Rockalotta’s hair yes, it changes colors. yes, he has it in his wedding pictures (sorry ladies, he is married). yes, he just shaved it for the holidays—apparently, sometimes it helps its stature to start fresh. rockalotta’s thinking platinum for the next one and wants to thank Cassie Menz Krupa, the creator of the Mohawk color. “i told her about an idea for a zebra Mohawk three years ago and we haven’t looked back,” he said.

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From Resolution to Reality

The weight loss solution that lasts.

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How to Choose the Right Personal Trainer

Tips on getting the right person to motivate YOU.

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It’s Better in Groups

Group fitness offers many more benefits than working out alone. Research shows that people are more likely to work harder and stay committed to a workout regimen when they exercise in groups.

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Metabolic Medical Magic This time let’s commit to a real lifestyle change, let our body know we’re serious and while we’re at it, let’s make it healthy.

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From Resolution to Reality The weight loss solution that lasts Article By Linda S. Hopkins

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t the stroke of midnight on December 31, over half of all Americans resolved to lose weight. While a few will succeed, statistics show that as many as 95 percent will be wearing the same pounds plus a few more this time next year. Why? Because they embark on a plan—usually a combination of diet and exercise—that is neither complete nor sustainable.

While good nutrition and regular exercise are obvious components, successful weight management is never just about the dinner table and the gym. It’s about the way we live—our actions and daily habits as they relate to work, play, stress, sleep, responsibilities, relationships and more.

Why diets fail and what to do instead Many people are attracted to the promise of quick, easy weight loss through fad diets that restrict certain kinds of foods or prescribe specific food combinations.

While you may lose weight initially on these diets, they’re not designed to be followed for a lifetime, nor are they healthy over the long term.

Most of us know what to eat. We’re not overweight because we lack information about healthy vs. unhealthy food. For a great majority of us, the problem lies in how much we eat and, more importantly, why.

If you want or need a structured eating plan, many reputable diet programs are available. And here’s a little secret: they all work. Because of our biochemical individuality, including food sensitivities and hormonal balance, you may be more successful on one plan than another. But you can and will lose weight on almost any “diet” as long as you follow the rules. And that’s where the trouble begins.

The restrictive, negative thinking of the diet mentality sets us up for struggles and virtually guarantees defeat. We get caught up in the dos and don’ts—counting, weighing, measuring and depriving ourselves—until we can’t take it anymore—or until the diet is “over” and we revert back to the old behaviors that made us fat in the first place.

According to psychologist and nutritionist, Dr. Jonny Bowden, “A weight loss program is a three-legged affair. The diet part is only one of those legs. The diet doesn’t fail because your metabolism suddenly changed. It fails because you haven’t taken care of the other legs of that stool, which are your thoughts, beliefs and feelings.”

Extra weight is a symptom, not the problem… So, if diets are not the solution, what is?

Ch-ch-ch-change Like it or not, lasting weight loss is a slow process that requires us to make sustainable lifestyle changes. It all boils down to what changes you are willing to make. If the change is too sudden or drastic, as many diets require, it’s too easy to fall back on the familiar. For changes to stick, we can’t rely on a list of rules. We must gradually adjust the way we think, react and behave.

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E ve r yo n e d e a l s w i t h f o o d differently, and we overeat for different reasons. The first step toward change is to identify what leads you down that path. Many people who struggle with their weight discover that overeating is a response to an emotion or feeling such as boredom, loneliness, sadness, frustration or exhaustion. The good news is if you are using food to feed your feelings, that is simply behavior, and behavior can be changed.

Food is neither love nor comfort.

Pleasurable? Yes, as it should be. But food isn’t the solution to any problem other than physical hunger. People, places, thoughts and feelings can all serve as triggers to eat when we’re not hungry. When we recognize the signals that are driving the behavior, we can work towards a different way of responding.

The power of choice What’s most empowering is understanding that we really do have a choice. Every day comes with a new opportunity to make decisions, small and large, that affect our health and happiness. When we stop going by someone else’s arbitrary rules and start paying attention to our true needs and desires, the matter of feeding ourselves can become more instinctive and natural. This doesn’t mean that we ignore nutrition. It means that we love ourselves enough to make appropriate choices, feeding ourselves what we really need, physically, emotionally and spiritually instead of stuffing our feelings with food.

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Get motivated…or not Most people think that losing weight requires lots of motivation, but that’s not necessarily so. Motivation is not something you get from the outside. You need a skill set and a plan. The motivation is irrelevant if you have the skills and techniques to move beyond what you are feeling in the moment. Following through, managing stress, dealing with temptation, handling frustration…these are skills that can be learned and mastered like anything else.

What if we take motivation out of the picture and make it about keeping your word? For example, when you promise someone to be at a certain place at a certain time, you are likely to show up, right? What’s so different about making a commitment and showing up for yourself? If you have one skill—the ability to keep your word— whether you are motivated or not, you can and will succeed. When it comes to exercise, meal planning, cooking or any other part of your health routine, you do it because you said so.

How coaching can help Achieving your weight-loss goal is a process that involves clarifying what you really want and why and then taking consistent actions to get there. Coaching provides the focus and structure to keep you on track. By mixing and matching available resources, including eating plans, exercise programs and other self-care regimes, your coach will help you find what works for you so that you can achieve your goals and live your healthiest and happiest life.

If you are one of those Americans who resolved to lose weight this year, why not lose it for the last time? For more information, visit Lifescapescoaching.com or call (843) 686-5958 for a free, no-obligation consultation. 

Linda S. Hopkins is the founder and owner of Lifescapes Coaching, LLC, a life coaching program focusing on women’s weight loss, fitness, body image and self-esteem. She is a former educator, professional writer, author and editor. With a deep personal interest in fitness and health, driven by her own tumultuous affair with food and exercise, she brings a unique perspective and realistic approach to weight management. She combines compassion for people with strong communication skills to deliver a powerful message of hope to her coaching clients.

Linda holds a bachelor ’s degree in education from Georgia Southern University.

She earned her life coaching certification through The Change Place, an ICF approved training program based in Boulder, Colorado.

She received additional weight-loss coaching certification at Coach Training Alliance, studying under Dr. Jonny Bowden, and is a licensed facilitator of Am I Hungry workshops based on Dr. Michelle May’s book, Eat What You Love, Love What You Eat. But it is her lifelong pursuit of higher learning through the School of Hard Knocks that resonates with truth, inspires trust and brings heart to her coaching.

In addition to her private coaching business, Linda serves as a wellness coach for Hilton Head Health Institute. Read what clients have to say at lifescapescoaching.com. For more information, call (843) 686-5958.

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How to Choose the Right Personal Trainer

With Information from the American Council on Exercise (ACE) Article By Don Foxe, M.Ed., ACSM Professional Member

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s an owner of a health club that provides personal training as a service, I have to be even more selective about hiring personal trainers as employees than the average person seeking a trainer for personal fitness. So here are some of the criteria I look for in a professional trainer. You should consider many of the same points when you decide to hire a personal trainer: A college education with emphasis in physical sciences. You can certainly find trainers who are not college degreed, but I need to know my trainers have more education than a simple certification. In fact, I will and have hired non-college degreed trainers, but rarely. They really have to impress me with their knowledge of fitness concepts and practical application. An NCCA-accredited certification is the first thing to look for. A personal trainer should hold a current NCCAaccredited certification.

The National Commission for Certifying Agencies (NCCA) has 26-years of experience accrediting allied health professions such as registered dietitians, nurses, athletic trainers, and occupational therapists.

Currently, only 10 of nearly 70 certification agencies have achieved this recognition.

For a complete list of the NCCA-accredited certification agencies, visit www.noca.org and click on the NCCA link. Never be afraid to ask to see a copy of a personal trainer’s certification to ensure that it is current.

Work experience and area of specialization. How many years of experience does the personal trainer have working with clients, particularly those with special needs or limitations? Does he/ she have expertise in a certain area of fitness or prefer to work with certain types of clients, e.g. sports conditioning, pre-natal fitness or post-rehabilitation?

If you have a medical condition or a past injury, a personal trainer should design a session that accounts for this. If you are receiving care for a medical or orthopedic condition, a personal trainer should obtain

your consent to discuss exercise guidelines and contraindications with your healthcare provider. Your personal trainer should also ask the doctor for medical clearance.

References. Ask the personal trainer for names, phone numbers and even testimonials of other clients he/she has trained.

Trainers may be more likely to empathize and understand your unique challenges and needs if they’ve worked with similar clients.

Talk to fellow members of your health club or friends who are currently working with trainers for their recommendations.

Communication. A good trainer must also be an excellent communicator. Trust your instincts. Ask yourself if you think you could get along well with the trainer and whether you think the trainer is genuinely interested in helping you. Will this person motivate you?

Professional liability insurance. Many personal trainers operate as independent contractors and are not employees of a fitness facility. Find out if the trainer you want to hire carries professional liability insurance.

Schedule, gender and style. Some people like to exercise in the morning, some in the evening. Can a personal trainer accommodate your schedule? What about the trainer’s gender? Some people do better working with a trainer of the same sex; others prefer the opposite sex. The knowledgeable and experienced personal trainer who fits your style is the one to hire, because that is the professional who will help you achieve the best results.

Rates. Personal training fees vary based on a trainer’s experience and reputation, facility prices and geographic area, but they are well worth the investment. Although you may meet with your trainer more frequently at first, your financial investment should decrease as you become more independent, knowledgeable and fit. 

Don Foxe and his wife Sarah currently own Beach City Health & Fitness on Hilton Head Island. Don has a B.Sc. degree in Exercise Science and an M.Ed. degree, both from the University of South Carolina. He has been a Professional Member of the American College of Sports Medicine since 1986, and has been certified as a personal trainer by ACSM, ACE, and NASM over the past 25 years. For more information, call (843) 681-6161 or visit info@beachcityfitness.com.

You Can Do It

Keep your New Year’s resolution at the

best health club in the Lowcountry Article By Meagan Donoghue

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t’s that time of year again—time when we take that post-holiday look in the mirror and say, “Yup, It’s time for a change!” So you set that classic New Year’s Resolution and think, “This is it. This is the year that I am sticking to it!” Good for you!

Undoubtedly, losing weight and getting in shape is one of the most common New Year’s resolutions and actually is one of the best resolutions you can make.

Shedding some pounds and getting in shape could save your life by reducing your risk of life-threatening conditions and illnesses.

Now, the tough part: “How in the world am I going to do this?” You may have played around with the idea of joining a health club…or not joining for that matter.

You may have your reasons not to. But guess what? We have five reasons for you to come in and see why LAVA 24 Fitness was voted “Best Health Club”: 5. Best place to bring a friend. There is power in numbers. One of the best ways to stick to a goal is being held accountable for it. At LAVA 24 Fitness, we offer exciting and fun group exercise classes to change up the “old routine,” group personal training sessions, and great friend referral programs. The buddy system works, is encouraged, and pays off!

4. Best location, location...locations. With four convenient locations on Hilton Head Island, in Savannah, Sea Pines (women only) and now open in Bluffton, getting to LAVA 24 Fitness has never been easier. Each facility is unique and fully equipped to help you attain all of your fitness goals.

3. Best equipment. That old treadmill you have has proven be a great coat rack and not much else. LAVA 24 Fitness prides itself on having the best and most industry equipment for members to access with no crowds or waiting.

2. Best trainers and staff. A top-notch group of professionals who genuinely care about their members’ fitness and goals is what you will find at LAVA 24 Fitness. Whether you want to lose weight for that class reunion, tone up and rock that bikini this summer, or simply challenge your current fitness level to be the best that you can possibly be, our certified trainers and knowledgeable staff are ready to help you tackle your own personal New Year’s resolution.

Best place for every body. You may be skeptical about joining a gym. Is it going to be a bunch of meatheads grunting and tossing loads of weights and making the rest of us feel a little out of place? Not a chance! Come as you are. It is a great group of everyday, ordinary people all there for one common goal: health

and fitness. LAVA 24 Fitness is the best place for you and everyone to realize their New Year’s goals.

So there you have it: five great reasons to join the LAVA 24 Fitness family. This new year, you will see a new you, and LAVA 24 Fitness will be there every step of the way. We look forward to guiding you on your path to health. Remember, you can do it!  For more information, visit lava24. com or call (843) 842-3225.

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It’s Better in Groups!

Article By Tracy Kelly

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anuary first… It’s a New Year accompanied by New Year’s resolutions. What is the best way to achieve your fitness goals this year? Have you ever considered group fitness?

Group fitness offers many more benefits than working out alone.

Research shows that people are more likely to work harder and stay committed to a workout regimen when they exercise in groups.

Top 10 Benefits of Group Exercise: 1. Motivation: Has a treadmill ever told you, “Great job!

Keep going!” In a group fitness class, not only will the instructor motivate you to work hard and accomplish your goals, the other participants encourage each other as well.

2. Healthy addiction: Experts say that group exercise unleashes feel-good endorphins that could turn fitness into a pleasant addiction. Being “addicted” to group fitness will keep you hooked on exercise!

3. Cost effective: While working with a personal trainer can be very effective, it can also be very expensive. Many clubs offer free group fitness classes and some clubs have personal trainers

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teaching these classes! Group offerings are definitely worth investigating when joining a gym.

4. Variety: Many people quit working out because they cannot find the “thing” that will keep them going. When looking at different gyms to join, you should take a close look at their group fitness schedule. Does the club offer a variety of classes? Try different classes to see what motivates you. Keep in mind it typically takes three or four classes to get the hang of it.

5. Safety: Group fitness instructors should have the training and background to provide a safe and effective class. Just like a personal trainer, the group fitness instructor should guide you on proper form during exercise.

6. Time effective: Group fitness classes tend to fly by because the class is fun and the instructor/music makes you forget you are working hard. Most classes run an hour and focus on cardio, strength, flexibility or a combination of all three.

7. Anti-aging: Trying something new and different challenges your mind and body and can help ward off the effects of aging.

8. Challenging: When you ask someone what they like about taking a group fitness class, one of the top responses is, “I work harder in a group fitness class than I do on my own.”

9. Camaraderie: Group fitness is a great way to meet others who share similar interests and goals. Forming friendships with other participants creates accountability for coming back week after week.

10. Cross training: If you continue to exercise in the same fashion all the time, you will plateau. Cross training is a great way to reduce boredom, train different muscle groups and prevent injury.

Group fitness classes provide a variety of different ways to train every day!

Now are you convinced? Try something new in 2012. It’s better in groups!

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The Black Hole of Weight Loss

Discover a new universe—HCG (human chorionic gonadotrophin)

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he current model of weight loss therapies center around calories-in and caloriesout. This requires restricted calorie intake, appetite suppressants and strenuous exercise. How is that working out for America? Recent statistics show that 56 million people start a diet four times a year. These numbers reflect that we are motivated to lose weight, but the method has not been adequate. What is the black hole? The answer is metabolism!

Metabolism is the sum total of all biochemical reactions driving physiology toward health or disease. It is a continuous and dynamic process that can be redirected to change health outcomes and quality of life. We recognize abnormal metabolism by weight gain, food cravings, fatigue and physiologic stress. The Centers for Disease Control have specific guidelines that identify risk factors for heart attacks, hypertension and diabetes related to the waist to hip ratio. This is a direct measurement of belly fat. By dividing the measurement of the waist at its most narrow point to the hips at the fullest point provides an important ratio. For example, a 30-inch waist divided by a 37-inch hip = 0.81 waist-to-hip-ratio. For Men the ratio <= 0.9 and Women the ratio <=0.8 is preferred for optimum health.

Abnormal, visceral fat can act like an organ, just like the heart or kidney. It has the ability to produce hormones and inflammatory markers that creates poor insulin response, elevated lipids, blood pressure and cancer risks. This dangerous fat is a result of an imbalance where storage exceeds utilization. However, all fats are not created equal. Structural fat is used as â&#x20AC;&#x153;packing materialâ&#x20AC;? for the organs; normal fat reserves are needed for nutrition, and these are the good fats. The abnormal, visceral fat, usually stored in the belly, thighs, or breasts is not available to the body for nutrition.

During the 1970s, a British endocrinologist, Dr. A.T. W. Simeons, began groundbreaking research on a method to mobilize dangerous, abnormal fat. For over 40 years, his studies used a naturally occurring hormone, human chorionic gonadotrophin, HCG, to create a means to target the abnormal fat. HCG is a hormone normally produced by the placenta during pregnancy. It is produced in excess of one million units per day in the urine. This hormone facilitates the movement of fat stores from the mother to the baby.

Dr. Simeons discovered that small doses of HCG (100-200 Units) effected the mobilization of abnormal fat in men and women. This mobilization can range from one to two pounds of weight loss per day. It is important to note that HCG is not a sex hormone and will not cause men to grow breasts or have decreases in virility. There is no effect on any endocrine gland.

There is a part of the human brain that controls all the automatic functions of the body, such as breathing and the heartbeat, as well as storing and issuing fuel to the body. This part of the brain is the hypothalamus. This is the unique aspect of HCG in that it acts on the hypothalamus to create a transfer of abnormal, stored fat into circulation to be used as an energy source. Along with the HCG, a very low calorie diet is used to affect the one- to two-pound-per-day weight loss over a minimum of 23 days.

A major concern expressed with the HCG protocol has been the very low calorie diet of 500 calories. In the traditional model of calories-in and calories-out, there is reason for caution. However, with the metabolic model, the HCG is actually moving stored calories (abnormal fat) into circulation. For every pound of fat mobilized, this accounts for 2000 calories available for use.

Also creating confusion is the availability of homeopathic HCG that is available without a prescription. This Homeopathic HCG is not the hormone produced in pregnancy, with the actual components not known. This is, indeed, a dangerous approach to weight loss in that this will have no effect on the hypothalamus to mobilize fat and

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Lunch: • 100 grams of veal, beef, chicken breast, fresh white fish, lobster, crab or shrimp. Must be boiled or grilled without additional fat.

• One type of vegetable only to be chosen from spinach, chard, chicory, beetgreens, green salad, tomatoes, celery, fennel, onions, red radishes, cucumbers, asparagus, cabbage.

• One breadstick (grissino) or Melba toast •An apple or a handful of strawberries or one-half grapefruit or orange Dinner: The same choices as lunch.

Phase II After 23 HCG days or before 41 HCG days: • Stop the HCG, but continue following the 500 calorie diet for 72 hours • All foods are allowed except starches and sugars, always weighing every a.m.

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Day three-21 or 40: HCG Spray and 500 calorie diet (except during menstruation—do not take HCG, but do continue 500-calorie diet).

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may cause damage to muscle tissue. It is important that HCG be prescribed by a physician and prepared by a compounding pharmacy using pharmaceutical grade chemicals that have been tested and validated for safety. This protocol has not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration and is considered an off-label use.

The traditional approach for treatment used by Dr. Simeons was an injectable form of the HCG. More advanced methods of delivery are now available with nasal sprays, sublingual drops or lozenges and topical applications. This creates an easy and convenient dosing.

The cost of the medication is in the range of $140 to $200 for one cycle, plus the office visit to the physician.

How to get started • Get the facts by attending a Skinny on Weight Loss workshop and the Lock-In and LockDown Workshop for maintaining a lean body at Stephens Compounding Pharmacy, Pineland Station, Hilton Head Island, SC or visiting www.stephenscompoudingpharmacy.com • Visit a participating physician for evaluation and prescription • Plan your schedule for success.

• Plan to start shopping for new clothes at least two sizes smaller.

The HCG program is designed to create a metabolism that is effective and allow good eating habits and exercise to provide a lean body weight. Dr. Simeons was bold in his original work to call this the “cure for obesity.” Many participants agree.

Sheila Stephens, Pharm. D. is the president and “chief problem solver” of Stephens Compounding Pharmacy, 430 William Hilton Pkwy – Pineland Station Mall, Hilton Head Island, SC. She earned her doctorate in pharmacy from University of Florida and has served as the director of pharmacy at Hilton Head Regional Medical Center, Beaufort Memorial Hospital and as a clinical pharmacist at the University of Alabama Women’s and Infants Center and Summit Cancer Care, Savannah, Ga. as an oncology pharmacist. She held an academic position of assistant professor for South University, Savannah, Ga. Her areas of expertise include specialized training in bio-identical hormone replacement, pain management and endocrine disorders. She is also a preceptor for Advanced Practice Pharm.D. students for South Carolina College of Pharmacy. For more information, call (843) 686-3040 or visit online at stephenscompoundingpharmacy.com.

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15 Minute Workout

Article By Stacey Saritelli,

Ace certified personal trainer and fitness instructor

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his program provides a quick workout that focuses on the entire body. The basis of this routine is functional, full-body exercises that build strength and intensity intervals that get the heart pumping and boost metabolism.

Intensity intervals increase the amount of calories you burn during and after your exercise session, because they increase the length of time it takes your body to recover from each exercise session.

It is widely accepted that resistance training increases the body’s metabolism, causing it to store less fat tissue, which will result in reduced body fat and increased lean muscle mass.

Strong muscles burn more calories at rest. Muscle mass is metabolically active tissue, so the more muscle mass you have, the more calories you burn even when you’re not working out.

This workout takes approximately 15 minutes to complete but can be made longer by repeating.

WARM UP (approx. 2-3 min.)

This should be anything that gets the body warm, such as marching in place or toe taps side-to-side.

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Squats: With feet hip-width apart, sit back (sitting before knees bend). Keep knees in line with shoes, behind toes. 24x Push-Ups: Palms slightly wider than shoulders, on toes (or knees), keep tailbone down and lower chest as close to floor as possible, elbows out and then back up to start. 18-25x 86

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Power Jacks: Standing feet together and hands at shoulders, jump wide, legs straight, as arms go straight up in the air, then return back to start. Repeat continuously for 30 seconds.

Segment 2 (approx. 2.5 min)

Side Plank (left side): On left elbow, balancing on left forearm, shoulder over elbow, rest on left outside foot, feet stacked, head to heel a straight line (left knee can be on floor).

Lower and raise the hips below and then above midline. 16x Alternating Forward Lunges: With feet hip distance, step one foot forward onto heel, keeping knee behind toes; push back off heel to start, then do the other leg.

16x each leg

Side Plank (right side): On right elbow, balancing on right forearm, shoulder over elbow, rest on right outside foot, feet stacked, head to heel a straight line (right knee can be on floor). Lower and raise the hips below and then above midline. 16x

Burpee: Standing feet hip-width, bend knees, place hands on floor outside feet, jump back to plank position, jump forward, feet inside hands, and stand back up. Repeat for 30 sec.

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Segment 4 (approx. 2.5 min) Curtsey Lunge: With feet hip distance, step one foot behind your body at an angle, lower back knee to floor, then step back to start.

Do the other leg.

16x each leg

Straight Leg Crunch: Lie face-up, legs straight out, hands on either side of head, keeping small of back off the floor, crunch shoulder blades off floor and hold; bring left knee to chest and back, then right knee to chest and back, then release crunch. 24x

V-Tuck: Lie face up with legs extended and hands on either side of head. Raise head a few inches, lift legs off ground then slowly sit up, drawing knees to elbows directly over hips, lower back to start. 24x

Honing Hike: Start in reverse plank, wrists under shoulders and legs extended. Bring left knee to chest, return to start and repeat other side. Repeat for 30 sec.

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Spiderman Plank: Start in plank on forearms, shoulders over elbows, hips down, in line with head. Bring left knee outside to left elbow, keeping hips down, then back to start. Do other side.

16x each side

Jump Squat: Feet hip-width, push off heels into air, straightening body arms over head, land softly in heels, knees behind toes. Repeat for 30 sec.

COOL DOWN (approx. 2-3 min.)

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s long as we’re finally past that season of excess, we may as well act like it. Let’s make good on the New Year’s resolutions for a change. Apologize like we mean it for that extra piece of pecan pie we didn’t need at Thanksgiving and for disappearing that whole box of Godiva chocolates that someone stuffed in a stocking and hung by the fire. (Not a great plan, by the way).

This time, we promise, we’re not just going to do some wacky bum-rush diet that takes a few holiday pounds off and hides them somewhere where we can find them again in a couple of months. This time let’s commit to a real lifestyle change, let our body know we’re serious and while we’re at it, let’s make it healthy.

The best way to do all that is to march on over to the Metabolic Medical Center in Bluffton and discover a program that not only accomplishes all the diet goals on the list, but does it in a way that is way more than doctor-recommended. It’s actually doctor-invented and doctoradministered.

That not only means it’s safe, it also means it comes with a few nice perks—like possibly discovering that there’s a legitimate reason those last few pounds have always refused to fall off, or learning that eating often and properly can be far more effective than a starvation diet or eating everything out of a box.

Dr. Douglas Jones, of Charleston, SC, an endocrinologist specializing in treatment of diabetes, obesity and thyroid disorders, created the metabolic medicine plan in 1996. He designed a program that focused on losing weight quickly and safely using low fat, reduced carbohydrates and moderate proteins. That same formula works, guided now by Dr. John E. Parker onsite and by Dr. Michal Baird in Charleston.

“American women,” Baird said. “We’re an interesting bunch. We think we can do it all. We

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go-go all day long. We drop off the kids, pick up the kids, work a full day-plus, we maintain a house and home and sometimes we don’t eat for 12-hour stretches at a time. Then we get home and consume the first thing that we see, regardless of what it is, most times because it’s easy to prepare or it doesn’t take much time. And we wonder why we’re not healthy.”

Both Baird and Parker describe their clientele as often entering the program with bad eating and lifestyle habits. Metabolic Medical encourages small but significant changes. The plain fact is that more than 90 percent of those who seek and enter the Metabolic program are women, and the initial visit is used to identify how the program can be customized and tweaked to allow the best chance for success. But first, an assessment.

“I think that anyone who is overweight and plans to use a weight-loss program really ought to ask themselves three questions,” said Dr. Parker. “1) Is the program designed by physicians; 2) is the program presently run by physicians and 3) most importantly, will they actually see a physician when they come to their appointments at the clinic. And the answer to all three of those questions when it comes to Metabolic Medicine is yes.”

Defining overweight is another matter that sometimes is aided by having a physician involved. Overweight, according to Dr. Parker, is a lot of times a perception by the patient. They look in the mirror and ask themselves if they’re overweight.

They assess how their clothes fit and, regardless of their weight, they feel either good or not so good about their weight.

“A lot of times patients will ask ‘what is my ideal weight?,’” said Parker. “Now, there are charts and graphs you can look at in magazines and books that will tell you exactly what you’re supposed to weigh, according to height and this sort of thing. Those things are totally unrealistic. So what I tell patients is that when you get to a certain scale weight, if you like the way you look, the way you feel and the way your clothes fit, that’s your perfect weight.”

Getting there—now there’s the challenge. Both doctors agree that a key ingredient in any weight loss program is a commitment to the mental side of things.

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}Magic I’m here to assist them and give them advice,” said Parker. “And I tell them at the onset that any weight-loss program is 85 percent mental. I can give them a lot of food plans to go buy, and since we’re all physicians, we can prescribe appetite suppressants. I can give them a boxcar of this stuff, but until they’re actually mentally convinced they want to do it, it’s not going to succeed.”

The initial technical consulting session includes a complete medical history and a physical exam, including EKG, body composition analysis, body measurement and a thorough blood profile. That allows the doctors to discover if thyroid function is normal—another element that would affect program success—and also to test for serum insulin levels, the hormone that regulates blood sugar. Once those assessments are complete, a customized program is designed.

“If you tell us you like wine,” said Baird, “we’ll figure a way to fit that into your life.

The key is to make sure that those who commit to a program stay on it—accountability, that’s critical.”

To assure accountability, most programs are designed for every other week reviews and visits to the Metabolic Medical physicians. In the case of women on the go, that’s just as much checking to make sure they’re eating a healthy breakfast and proteins often enough throughout the day to sustain them as it is to check their actual weight loss or gain. On-the-go meals can still be a part of that, according to Baird.

“I love to cook, and I’m pretty good in the kitchen,” she said. “But even I have to allow that sometimes nukin’ is cookin’. There’s a lot of stuff you can do in five minutes.

You can even scramble an egg in the microwave. I just want you happy, feeling good and working this program into your life.” 

For more information, visit www.goingmetabolic.com or call Dr. Parker at 843.706.0814.

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ometimes you have to look at young love and accept it for what it is. The gods were obviously just bored and decided to have a big time by swirling together two local optometrists with a bunch of consonants to create an upside down and backwards success that’s all about trust and eager optimism.

Drs. Robert Szypczak and Jennifer Switak are 30-something optometrists and entrepreneurs; a married and loving couple; the parents of a moderately antsy 11-month-old named Zachary; and keepers of not one, not two, but four offices, including two Wal-Mart Vision Centers, a private practice and optical at Berkeley Place on Buckwalter Pkwy, and yet another location in downtown Ridgeland.

The Szypczak-Switak story traces back to them having much in common before they ever met. They both grew up near Chicago, a mere 20 minutes apart, and later went to college towns of the same Bloomington name; Switak at Illinois State, in Bloomington, IL, and Szypczak at Indiana University in Bloomington, IN. Close,

yet not close enough, until they finally did meet at the Illinois College of Optometry in Chicago, where as fate would have it, they were placed in alphabetical order at orientation, which put them side by side, and together for the rest of their lives. Here, they saw clearly (ha) that their future together was not only as optometry teammates but something more—much more.

Love at first sight? That’s too easy.

During Optometry school, they took time away from work and vacationed together on Hilton Head Island—their first vacation together—and pretty much decided right then and there that this was going to be the place for family and an optometry practice.

“You know how hard it to find things on Hilton Head Island because it’s so dark?” said Dr. Szypczak.

“Well, fate was on our side, as it seemed we easily found everything good about Hilton Head during that trip: a beautiful beach; beautiful golf courses (and we both love to golf), and the first restaurant we found

Pictured from left to right: Cindy Silvan, Lisa Darazs, Dr. Robert Szypczak, Klaus Pritschet, Fred Catalano, Dr. Jennifer Switak, and Jennifer Blankenship.

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do was Alexander’s, where we had a great meal and a romantic walk on the beach after,” says Dr. Switak.

“We loved every minute of our three days here,” said Switak. “And we thought about it all the way back to Chicago. Once we got back, we weighed our options and compared them to what we’d seen in Hilton Head and Bluffton—not that many optometrists and a fast growing area, and a lifestyle that seemed to be a perfect match, and we decided that this was the place for us.”

That kind of foresight and the courage to act on it is what has made the partnership—both business and personal—work so well. Looking out for them both, Szypczak moved to the area in 2004 and took a part time position in a private practice with Dr. Jim Kondor, while also working the Doctor’s office centers at the Hilton Head Island Wal-Mart and the one in Hardeeville, all with an eye toward sharing those positions with Switak once she earned her license and relocated from Chicago.

Switak arrived in 2005, and from that time on, they’ve been busy, each working six days a week, to keep building the dream together.

“We were meant to be together and meant to do what we’re doing,” said Szypczak.

“We’re like two eyeballs that were trying to find each other so we can look straight ahead and see the world together.”

“Usually you get married, buy a house and then build your career,” said Switak.

“But these days you have to do whatever makes the most sense. We seemed to do everything in reverse. We did the practice first, then the house and then the marriage.

Opportunity was knocking and we kind of jumped on it” Youthful energy and enthusiasm has served the couple well. They embrace the business of eye care and relish the fact that they share it.

“The private practice in Bluffton on Buckwalter Pkwy is like the dream office; it’s our second baby,” said Switak. “But we get to see a wide range of clients by being in four different places, in four different towns. That keeps us in touch with what’s going on in this business from all perspectives. Ultimately, we want to focus on great service and creating long term relationships with our patients and their families.”

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Drs. Robert Szypczak and Jennifer Switak

Adding to that great service, they recently added the capability to craft lenses in their own in-store optical lab, providing one-day glasses service at the Bluffton office. When it is implemented in January, the Eye Site will be the only full service optical lab in Bluffton that can offer same-day/one-hour glasses service.

The Doctors want to focus their practice and their optical store management on better educating their clients about eye care and the importance of regular exams.

The old adage about the eyes being the “windows to the soul” may be a bit whimsical, but Szypczak maintains they can indeed be the “doorway to disease detection.”

“Most people take eye health for granted. When we dilate the eye, we can actually look at your arteries, nerves and veins inside the eye. Sometimes these blood vessels reveal clues to your general health and can tell us if there is a possibility of diabetes, high blood pressure or even high cholesterol. Eye care is very much a type of preventative health care,” said Dr. Szypczak. Some of his favorites lines are, “When it comes to your eyes, don’t compromise, to see clearly, check yearly!”

Cindy Silvan, office manager and administrator of the Bluffton office, says it sometimes seems other professional associations have done a better job than those in optometry at educating the public on the importance of ocular health. “Good dental health means you get your teeth cleaned and checked twice a year, and your eyes should be checked yearly,” Dr. Switak states. “This is especially important in children, as the most important eye exam in your life, is your first, preferably before the age of four to help prevent lazy eye.” Both Switak and Szypczak are making efforts to engage local schools and health care providers to understand how eye care can help prevent and detect systemic disease, january

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while also preventing developmental delays in children.

Dr. Switak and Szypczak are both p a r t i c i p at i n g I n fa n t S e e p rov i d e r s , which is a program that offers free eye screenings to infants under the age of one to help detect major eye development problems.

The seriousness of disease detection is tempered with the light-heartedness of both doctors’ and staffs’ approach to patient care. The Bluffton office even has a library for kids, with books about eyesight. There is a jar of Eye-Ball Golf Balls on the counter with a label stating “Eyeballs of those who misbehave!”

Even the doctors make fun of the all-inclusiveness of their busy schedules these days. Your work will spill over into your personal life, so they figure, why not have fun with it. Dr. Szypczak wears a pair of eyeball cufflinks, and in their spare time, the Doctors are avid bowlers, with “eyeball bowling balls” that glow in the dark. Being weekend golfers, they are sure to use their office’s promotional

eye-ball golf balls, which look just like an eyeball, only with a coupon printed on it.

Dr. Szypczak claims that this way when he loses an eye ball golf ball he doesn’t feel so bad as it is like free advertising!

Dr. Szypczak also plays on the Eagles Bluffton Baseball team and plays softball with a team of local eye doctors called the “No-See-Ums.” Dr. Switak and Dr. Szypczak, the optometry team with too many consonants, represent a literal and figurative marriage that works on all fronts. Having both husband and wife in the same profession has helped them advance quickly in their field. Dr. Szypczak states that “I couldn’t do it without my amazing wife and business partner.”

They’re enjoying their “eyes all the time” lifestyle, with a 20/20 vision of their future together.  For more information, visit theeyesiteofbluffton.com or call (843) 757-9588.

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Planning for Hilton Head Island’s Future

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hanks to the efforts of a hard working town council, we produced a focused and energetic strategic plan for 2012 and beyond at our recent Strategic Planning Workshop. We threw out the playbook and adopted a different approach to how the workshop was conducted and, as a result, we have a plan that is action-oriented, will enrich the lives of residents and visitors, and is accomplishable with your support.

We didn’t throw out the usual workshop playbook, because it wasn’t working.

Rather, council wanted to narrow its goals to items that reflected the greatest and most imminent need. Last year, you may recall, council recognized the need to preserve the Heritage golf tournament and made this its number one goal. Typically, we adopt goals without a specific prioritization other than “top, high and moderate” categories. Thanks to tournament officials, state, town, local and federal officials and interested persons, the tournament was successfully preserved for the benefit of businesses, island recognition, college students, and local non-profits. Similarly, and in recognition of the need to spur the local economy for the long-term, council devoted significant time to redevelopment in the Coligny Circle area and at the Mall at Shelter Cove. Here are the results of our workshop: TOWN OF HILTON HEAD ISLAND 2017 GOALS • Reinvigorate the local economy • Enrich lives of residents and guests • Revitalize the built environment • Preserve pre-eminence for environmental stewardship • Enhance town government service • POLICY AGENDA 2012: TARGETS FOR ACTION Top Priority • Economic development: assessment and organization • Coligny area redevelopment: economic analysis, town’s role, and approve a plan • Shelter Cove area redevelopment: determine town’s role and develop and approve a plan • Chaplin Linear Park: develop detailed plans and funding High Priority • LMO re-write: Complete draft amendments and seek review and approval • Recreation Center expansion: phase I • South Island Marina dredging: permitting and determine town’s long-term role • Aquatic center: direction, location, and funding Moderate Priority • Promotion and marketing to businesses and investors: develop program and marketing materials • Commercial recycling: evaluation and direction MANAGEMENT AGENDA 2012 • RBC Heritage golf tournament: identify town’s funding source and assist tournament with securing long-term commitment • Town local business retention and growth program: evaluation and direction • Town marketing and public information plan: evaluation, application (best practices) to town, and direction • Airport master plan: implementation • Island Recreation Memorandum of Understanding: draft renewal and seek review and approval • Fire and Rescue master plan: revise current plan and adopt revisions • Beaufort County Sheriff’s contract for police services: review for renewal and approve • Cell phone E-911 errors: reduction As you can see, our agenda is aggressive and has many moving parts that will require important and substantive decisions by council. We’ll need your active participation, so don’t be shy. Thanks for your continued support. 

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bullying in schools Over the past months, a lot of attention has been given to bullying in schools. Our governor launched an anti-bullying campaign with television and Internet advertising featuring some of our South Carolina celebrities. On a local level, our superintendent of education, Dr. Valerie Truesdale, spoke about this at a recent League of Women Voters luncheon. It was interesting to hear Dr. Truesdale’s comments regarding a meeting of high school student leaders. She asked several questions of these students about bullying amongst their peers. Their responses to her were quite interesting. They told her that “our” generation was “tripping on meanness.”

Our governor launched an antibullying campaign with television and Internet advertising featuring some of our South Carolina celebrities.

What an interesting choice of words. A group of people who are supposed to be this generation’s role models are some of the same people who are blogging, voxing and showing a lack of respect towards others.

And our students are seeing this behavior every time they turn on the television or go online to read any newspaper.

Go online to any publication and, after you read an article highlighting something positive that is happening in our area, you will see anonymous blog posts, many making negative and disrespectful comments about the article. Turn on the television and watch any one of the news or political shows and you will see the lack of respect between each other, not allowing one person to finish a sentence before another person interrupts or talks over them. These are just a couple of the many examples of bad behavior in the media that are influencing our youth.

Dr. Truesdale’s charge to us was to begin fighting this with positive actions. I left there very motivated to help in this effort, and I am asking my readers to share this with others. I think it is high time that we start teaching our young people how to behave in the public eye by becoming the role models that they deserve to have. If you see a negative vox in the paper, take a couple of minutes out of your day and reply with a positive message. If you read your news online, take time to set up a blog—log in (be brave and use your real name), and call out these naysayers on their negative messages. Let’s begin 2012 with an optimistic message about respect and responsibility for our next generation and make a difference in a positive way.  january

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